Good morning colleagues. So today I Want to put processed food on trial for the cause of macular degeneration? And I'll play the part of the prosecuting attorney and you guys will be the jury. How does that sound that sound good and So we the defense attorney for processed food didn't show imagine that Unless Ben were you gonna do that?  So today ladies and gentlemen you will witness further evidence that age-related macular degeneration is caused by processed food consumption and that it is not caused by aging and genetics as conventional ophthalmology would currently believe what you're going to see is that Macular degeneration was an extraordinarily rare disorder just a hundred years ago and prior and today It is of epidemic proportions all around the world in developed nations And the only thing that's changed that can account for that is our diet the other thing I'm going to show you today is that The same people known to consume the most processed foods also develop the most heart disease hypertension type 2 diabetes stroke cancer obesity and Macular degeneration and that those correlations could not possibly occur by chance alone so age-related macular degeneration for those of you not aware is The leading cause of irreversible vision loss and blindness in people over the age of 65 worldwide Nearly one of three people over the age of 75 is affected with AMD today and has been since 1992 globally one of every 11 people over the age of 50 now affected 20,000 people will be diagnosed with macular degeneration today and tomorrow and the day after that 20,000 per day All right, so this is what the healthy macular looks like it is just about six millimeters across accounts for our central 10 degrees of vision and Of course, that's the most important part of your vision That's what sees faces and stop signs allows you to read and drive and and do all those things as It begins to degenerate in dry macular degeneration. It looks like this and then about 15 percent of patients will go on to develop wet macular degeneration and this is a progression of vision loss so at this stage a person would develop much more vision loss and eventually if this undergoes scarring Could result in what envision that's like this on the left these huge central blind spots But the question today is this is the difference due to diet and diet alone and In seven years of study what I will tell you is that I believe 100% That this disease is caused by diet and Diet alone now no question genetics plays a role But environment pulls the trigger and that environment is our diet. All right, so Now some of you may have heard me speak here a couple of years ago But if you didn't what do you what do you suppose the lifetime risk of developing AMD was back in the year? 1900 anybody Sorry Yes So the answer is nearly zero one in many thousands and I'll present just a little evidence of that today But the question is is if it affected one in many thousands in 1900 how did we go to nearly one in three affected by 1990 because that's what happened. That's what we need to think about as we go through this today so After studying nutrition and understanding Weston a price principles back in 2013 I developed this Hypothesis goes like this the displacing foods of modern commerce are the primary and proximate cause of AMD and the corollary to this Hypothesis is that any ancestral diet will prevent and may treat existing AMD now We're going to talk really briefly about ancestral versus westernized diets Now I know all of you here Understand this but let me just give you my perspective briefly because to me an ancestral diet is any diet that existed anywhere on the planet before 1880 the reason I picked that number is because we had virtually no processed foods Anywhere on the planet before 1880 with the exception of sugar in really small quantities 1880 is when we first got refined white flour. We've got vegetable oils the polyunsaturated vegetable oils then and then we got the Trans fats in 1911 when Procter and Gamble introduced those and of course as you know those have overtaken our food supply, right? And of course today our westernized diet looks a lot like this, right? 600,000 food items that you can put on the American plate today But if we break this down what we know is that 63% of this is made up of those for refined processed nutrient deficient foods in the form of added sugars refined white flour Primarily polyunsaturated vegetable oils and the trans fats, right? And you all know this is the recipe for Metabolic disaster and physical degeneration, right? Okay, so let's go back to Macular degeneration for a minute. Let me give you some perspective. I'm an ophthalmologist and let me tell you about what My profession believes about Macular degeneration today This is a statement from Joan Miller who's the chief and chair at mass Massachusetts, I and your infirmary in 2012 at the American Academy of Ophthalmology She made this statement quote it seems that AMD is a complex disease That results from the interaction of genetic susceptibility with aging and environmental factors Now so all about genetics and aging these are the huge two factors that Ophthalmologists believe Macular degeneration degeneration is about with environmental factors being a distant Diminutive third and of that Most of that is considered to be smoking that environmental factor. That's the big big issue Diet very little role is what is currently believed now This is a paper that came out in 2016 out of Bascom polymer I Institute major ophthalmology training institution in the US and regarding genetics of AMD and the authors wrote this currently 52 gene variants have been a significantly associated with Macular degeneration 52 and The genetic component of AMD has been estimated at 45 to 70 percent So up to 70 percent of this disease believed to be genetic Anybody know what's wrong with this thinking? Everything everything love that okay, what I would say is faulty genes don't produce epidemics of disease Right Okay, and I think it was said best in this paper that came out regarding an epi the epidemic of coronary heart disease David Grimes at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary said it well He wrote this it is obvious that an epidemic cannot be due to faulty genes Which have have a stable prevalence over a long period of time? However, genes can have an influence on susceptibility, right? Does that make sense? It's exactly the situation with Macular degeneration 52 snips right these polymorphisms associated with Macular degeneration. They set the stage for the disease Genes load the gun environment pulls the trigger, right? Okay into it last year November of last year 2017 My little group published this paper This is the beginning of the fundamentals for this hypothesis and we're going to cover a little bit of this today I'll just give you the basis of it today, but I want you know, it's there and it's available through our website So let's go back to the hypothesis proffered publicly in 2016 When I first presented it actually at this meeting in Boulder, Colorado So again goes like this the displacing foods of modern commerce are the primary and proximate cause of AMD And most of you here probably know that I borrowed the term displacing foods of modern commerce From Weston a price, right and probably most all of you here know Weston price But in case there is somebody that doesn't let me just give the really brief Review that Weston price was a highly accomplished scientist researcher and dentist who in the 1930s Spent the better part of that decade Traveling the world evaluating people on five continents 14 nations hundreds of tribes and villages and thousands upon thousands of people as they transitioned From their native traditional diets over to Westernized diets, right and what price found was first of all that that when people began to To consume what he called the displacing foods of modern commerce Which he defined as refined white flour sugars canned goods sweets confectionary and vegetable oils They began to develop first thing was dental decay, right? And then that was followed by other degenerative conditions like arthritis and cancer and they lost immunity to infectious conditions like tuberculosis, right and today We know everybody in this room probably knows that process foods now have been linked with all these diseases of Western civilization Right heart disease cancers type 2 diabetes stroke the list goes on and on right I understood this For the first time in 2013 and so when I did This is what went through my head Could macular degeneration be another one of these diseases of Western civilization? Might it be a disease that just follows processed food consumption? So let's go back in time here for a minute to 1920 There was 4.9 million Americans in the US over the age of 65 The Social Security database has this data, right? so if the problems of macular degeneration in 1920 was the same as in 1990 which was 22.8 percent then there should have been 1.1 million people with macular degeneration in 1920 if we only Considered those over the age of 65 Well, guess what between 1851 When ophthalmologists first began to see that the macula in 1920 there was no more than about 50 cases of AMD in all the world's literature Ophthalmologists had been using ophthalmoscopes since the 1850s. They had atlases They were dilate using dilating agents beginning in the 1860s used six different dilating agents in the 1880s They used up they had 200 versions of ophthalmoscope to look into the back of the eye These are different models in use around the world by 1913 and yet 50 cases of AMD in nearly 70 years of potential discovery So it wasn't like they weren't looking there's loads of evidence They were evaluating the retina and and they were astute clinicians So but today 15 million Americans affected way back in 1994 It's estimated 196 million people will be affected with macular degeneration by 2020 2 million blind worldwide both eyes as of 2002 according to the World Health Organization So I think that number is close to 3 million today blind both eyes a travesty. Yes But of course today as of 2009 63% of the American diet is made up of processed food, right? This comes from our own USDA the yellow slice of the pie there is our processed food. Why does the USDA? Published this because they know They know this is a massive problem. They list it right there processed foods added vegetable oils trans fats sugars and refined grains Not reflected in our food pyramid, right? But they know So let's look at macular degeneration because what we see in our data, and we evaluated 25 nations Is that macular degeneration follows processed foods worldwide? So we use proxy markers to track processed foods just like good nutrition researchers and we used sugar and vegetable oils Why sugar because it's in 74% of the 600,000 food items available in the United States and It's 21% of the food supply Vegetable oils because it's probably in hundreds of thousands of our processed foods and it's 24% of the US food supply We believe this would track at least 90% of processed foods So let's take a look at what happened. So I'll just review this briefly Which I presented two years ago, but this is the United States and you'll see sugar in the blue Rising from 1844 where it's total vegetable oils. We really began in 1880 But only at about two grams a day till about 1909 So you can see total vegetable oils climbing All the way up to 80 grams a day by 2010 right now these are split out in the red as This is the what we called harmful vegetable oils, which is primarily the polyunsaturated oils the tropical saturated oils are Healthy we'll see any issue with those and so are the mono unsaturated olive oil so now if we go back to this that the Macular degeneration is in the the prevalence is in the green bars now. We know back here in 1900 We had virtually no AMD right and by the 1930s if we could go through all the history There was it was on a very small scale by 1970s We are at epidemic proportions of disease and the point here is that 30 plus years of consuming these processed foods And we're at epidemic proportions of disease. That's what we see repeatedly All right, this is Japan which is the quintessential nation to illustrate this whole point so We see sugar consumption back in 1961 about 50 grams a day Didn't elevate that much 80 to 90 grams a day in succeeding decades But here's the huge problem look at the vegetable oils the harmful polyunsaturates down in red 9 grams a day 1961 elevated four and a half fold by the early 2000s Okay, now look at the macular degeneration prevalence in the green So it's down there in the 1970s at 0.2 percent prevalence by 2007 Their prevalence was 11.4 percent That's a 57 fold increase in the prevalence of AMD in just 30 years Now we can't possibly explain that with genetics and aging, right? In fact any hypothesis you want to proffer to explain the causation of macular degeneration needs to explain data like this and This is not the only nation that looks like this But diet explains it doesn't it Processed foods the the Japanese processed third. I mean they they began to consume processed foods over the last five decades That's what's happened to them Okay, this is Nigeria in Africa this is a hundred percent African population First look at their sugar and vegetable oil consumption down there in the blue and red respectively really low, right and If you look at the first green bar on the far right the AMD prevalence in 2004 that's 3.2% prevalence of AMD now that pales in comparison to our 22.8% here in the US and it should because their processed food consumption Is in comparison dramatically less Right, okay, but that 3.2% was in Onitsha, Nigeria That's a metropolitan population of 1.1 million people So guess what they have access to their grocery stores processed foods, right? That's where they're getting the processed foods now if you look to the right of that that green bar over at 2007 You see a little tiny green blip. That's a prevalence of AMD of zero point one percent That was in southwestern rural, Nigeria Zero point one percent prevalence guess what they don't have access to their Grocery stores processed foods. They can't get them They're consuming a native traditional diet Okay, these are African people keep in mind 0.1% prevalence of AMD in Africans of southwestern rural, Nigeria who can't get processed food when we look at this next nation Barbados because the people of Barbados the indigenous people are of western African descent Okay, all right, and the in this study. This was a nearly 97 percent African population in this study Now if you don't know this nutrition researchers around the world know that Barbados is a mecca for processed food consumption Why because they import almost all of their food? Imported food is almost exclusively processed food. This is a lot like Greenland It's a recipe for disaster. You can see it look at their sugar consumption 140 plus grams a day since 1960s, which is more than four times the World Health Organization's recommendations They're polyunsaturated vegetable oils down there in red Approaching 20 grams a day since 1970s. This one was underreported. There's there are companies producing vegetable oils for them That did did not report to the FAO the food and agricultural Organization of the United Nations on this data. We know that so the the vegetable oils are underreported But so the people of Barbados have a quote world profile of metabolic disease metabolic syndrome type 2 diabetes hypertension Cancers all that right well, of course, they would consuming mostly processed food diet now look at their macular degeneration 244.3% in the green bar 243 times greater than the Africans of Southwestern rural Nigeria who can't get processed foods Does anybody want to argue that's about aging and genetics? I Didn't think so Okay, so here's the Solomon Islands down in the South Pacific These people are consuming mostly a native traditional diet look at their sugar about 20 ish grams a day since 1960s Look at their harmful vegetable oils the polyunsaturates zero. They don't get them. Why do they not get them? the big food manufacturers don't even want to sell down there these are impoverished nations and They they can't hardly sell their food down there. So these people are living off of Seafood root vegetables and coconut oil mostly now look at their macular degeneration from 2005 to 2015 the Ophthalmologists that collaborated with us down there determined their AMD prevalence about 0.2% That means we have 74 fold more AMD here in the US prevalence than they do But you can see the difference Extremely low processed food consumption as evidenced by their sugar and especially the polyunsaturated oils All right, the last nation. I'm going to show you is cure body. This is an island nation 1200 miles south of Hawaii It's out in the Central Pacific middle of nowhere 115,000 people Look at their sugar consumption pretty high since the 1960s bouncing around but 80 upwards of 120 grams a day But look at their harmful vegetable oils in red down at the bottom once again They don't get them now over at the far right the green bar at the very bottom 2015 AMD prevalence 0.2% this nation of 115,000 people has one ophthalmologist in 2015 he saw two patients with macular degeneration The entire year. I don't think I ever went a half day of practice in 24 years without seeing Three or four patients with macular degeneration That's the difference all right, so next we're going to see This link between diet chronic disease and macular degeneration these this comes from our own CDC our centers for disease control So take a look at this. This is the percent of adults consuming vegetables less than one time daily in 2015 so the darker colors just Let's call that low vegetable consumption, right So we see that the low vegetable consumption is in the south and we're just going to point out the south and I'm going to use My home state of Colorado. I hope everybody knows where Colorado is there. It's hard for me to get the pointer But my oopsie daisy that That didn't help let me go back here Here we go. Okay, so I won't point that that again. You all know where Colorado is So notice Colorado is amongst the highest consumers of vegetable oils This is the percent of adults consuming fruit less than one time daily. Notice low fruit consumption in the south highest in Colorado, right? This is soda pop consumption in teenagers notice High soda pop consumption in the south and Colorado has no data here All right, but here we see gallons of soft drink per capita high consumption in the south right and Colorado amongst the lowest consumers of soft drinks Okay Now this is food deserts as defined by the CDC which is no car and no super supermarket store within a mile Why is that important because the CDC knows that if you have no car no supermarket store within a mile You're shopping at convenience stores. That's a recipe for consuming processed foods, right? so we see again food deserts dense in the south and Really low in Colorado. So now we know where all the processed foods are being consumed, right? So let's see what happens. So here's heart disease death rates notice, it's severe in the south and lowest in Colorado This is high blood pressure highest in the south lowest in Colorado Diabetes prevalence This is type 2 diabetes. So highest in the south again Lowest in Colorado. This is stroke Highest in the south lowest in Colorado and Then finally cancer deaths Once again highest in the south Lowest in Colorado. Okay. Now we're gonna look at obesity highest in the south and Colorado is the lowest in the nation Seem like a pattern here Okay, I brought I brought you through that to show you this correlation This is the percentage of people age 18 plus with severe vision loss Why is that important because we know since 2002 54% of the severe vision loss is macular degeneration So where the darker colors are that's where we have the most macular degeneration. It's worse in the south lowest in Colorado again, right Okay, and this is the US county's in the top quartile top 25% for both both severe vision loss and poverty Worse in the south lowest in Colorado. Why is poverty an issue? Because in this nation you can you can purchase about two thousand dollar 2000 calories worth of processed food for about three dollars and fifty cents that same 2000 calories coming from whole food meats Eggs fruits vegetables grains nut seeds dairy all that costs you about 13 dollars or more the studies show it All right, that's a sad fact and I hate the fact that that's the case But but it's reality okay so here We're gonna go back to this slide. This is the same slide severe vision loss. All right, so if Macular degeneration is all about aging then what we should see Those people in the south must have the longest lives, right? So let's see if that's true So here's the US life expectancy for females Notice that average US life expectancy for females at this time 81 years and yet in the south they're living to about 74 to 77 years about four or five years shorter than on average, right and And this is US life expectancy by county for males Notice again the shortest lives in the south and the longest lives in Colorado So let's go back to this. This is severe vision loss on the left and Life expectancy for males on the right So notice again where we have the greatest vision loss in other words the most macular degeneration We have the shortest lives, right? This is not consistent with the theory that Macular degeneration is a disease of aging is it and If we're to believe that Macular degeneration is a disease of genetic predisposition Then are we also to believe that the same people who consume the fewest fruits the fewest vegetables The most sugar sweetened beverages live in the most food deserts and therefore consume the most processed foods and Who then develop the most heart disease hypertension type 2 diabetes stroke cancer obesity Just happened to have the worst genetics for Macular degeneration Does that seem likely to you I just want to show you very quickly This is my home state of Colorado notice severe vision loss on the Left and life expectancy on the right correct, so Notice the counties in white are where the severe vision loss is the lowest 2.0 less than 2.3% are the exact same counties where the life expectancy is the longest 83 years and The counties in blue where the severe vision loss is the highest greater than the 4.2% in the words more than twice as much Macular degeneration are the same counties where the average life expectancy is 74 years nine years shorter for men This is true ladies and gentlemen because Macular degeneration is not a disease of aging It's not a disease of genetics It is a disease of processed food consumption and that results in more Chronic metabolic and degenerative disease more Macular degeneration and earlier deaths, right in conclusion AMD was a medical rarity from 1851 to 1930 by the 1970s were epidemic proportions today 190 plus million people with AMD what changed what changed is the displacing foods of modern commerce The polyunsaturated vegetable oils these deserve special mention They're the greatest contributor to Macular degeneration These are biological poisons and I think the single greatest contributor to vision loss But the big picture ladies and gentlemen is this displacing foods of modern commerce lead to Macular degeneration We've indicted Processed foods. Do you think we can convict them? Today 270 people will go blind due to Macular degeneration They'll lose vision in their second eye Due to this disease. I believe it's all preventable For more information come to our website cure AMD foundation.  We give away all the information Books are available for the cost of print and I hope you all will consider this and become ambassadors in this cause I want to thank the ancestral health society and I want to thank all of you. It's been an honor and a pleasure. Thank you Thank you, doctor. I'm glad I didn't have to play devil's advocate over there All right, you guys are good. We're just gonna go to Q&A. We have like about eight minutes for that Linda for said I'm from San Francisco So I'm a kidney doc and a lot of what we do is vascular stuff Do you think this is a vascular problem? Or is it an inflammatory problem? Or is the biology of AMD not well known? I mean, I don't know anything about it. So I'm kind of asking so processed foods are are Part of the cause but if you had to talk about the biology of it, what do you think the pathophysiology is? Okay, sure great question. Do we have four hours to cover this? In a nutshell, I'll say this it's extraordinarily Complicated, but one of the first things that happens is that we lose retinal pigment epithelial cells They somehow get sick they support the photoreceptors, which is the rods and cones Sandwich down in there is Brooks membrane and Brooks membrane separates the vascular layer From the photoreceptors and that Brooks membrane thickens and becomes less permeable and it calcifies And then the Corio capillaris, which is the vascular layer that nourishes the retina undergoes Attrition it undergoes occlusion. So what we see is is we see a vascular disease in that Corio capillaris And I think that's where the vegetable oils and the trans fats play a huge role So we see all of these things together come together to result in retinal pigment epithelial loss Loss of vascular flow and ultimately the RPE cells the retinal pigment epithelial cells support the photoreceptors So when they die then the photoreceptors die and neither are regenerative So whatever you lose is gone forever in that regard.  That's why prevention is key Kurt Smith, I'm Atlanta. I have a personal theory after watching the study of Metabolic disorder in the American Heart Association and the American Diabetics Association we still see low-fat diet brochures in their Waiting rooms and being handed out by doctors and we we know so much research that if the right information was It was put out there that the number of patients for those doctors would drop like a rock now It would be an interesting experiment and I'm wondering what your what your theory is. What will the American eye doctors association? Recommend be put out in the waiting rooms of ophthalmologist will it be The same information and we should be seeing in the heart doctors associations or will they not Disseminate information because I know it'll drop patients like a rock Great question. I really don't know the answer to that because the American ophthalmology association has not taken a stand on that really at all there's very little recommendation regarding diet other than leafy greens and Multivitamins and beyond that there hasn't really been a stance and Although there are ten studies before hours that made a link between vegetable the polyunsaturated vegetable oils and the trans fats in total that have linked those Strongly with macro degeneration and yet there still is no stance about that at all So I cannot predict at all what what they're going to do. It's Unknown Probably probably All right, this might be a little redundant from the first question But I wonder could you expound it all on a possible mechanism by which like these Polyunsaturated fats could be contributing to AMD I know like you lose the RPE layer and that's you know, that is the like the overall Symptomatic part of the disease, but do you have any idea if you were just to speculate right that might be that the that they're actually doing Yeah, absolutely another great question. I think the polyunsaturates Play a huge role in the vascular disease at the coroid vessels, which are the large larger ones and the coriocapallaris Just like they do in heart disease and vascular disease they play a massive role there and Then of course, they're displacing The animal fats where we would get the vitamin K2, right because they're displacing Butter lard beef tallow, but where we so we're missing the vitamin K2 and so then I think the second factor is that these Just speculation, but I believe the polyunsaturates play a role in the thickening of Brooks membrane that Creates a barrier between the coriocapallaris and the and ultimately the photoreceptors so That's basically it in a nutshell Okay, so would you expect to see like a worsening or AMD to be earlier on set like in diseases like that like hypercholesterolemia or any other disease that actually would affect like the Blood flow to the to the macula would you would that be expected or is that observed at all? Because it's possibly like it just like the blood flow is part of the issue right just that right the feeding the RPE layer Right. I don't think there's a good Any good studies that draw a correlation between the cholesterol levels? Like it's some some people have more like arthrosclerosis or anything I mean that you show all these all this correlation between hypertension diabetes. We know those are all You know gonna be related, but I wonder if there was any Genetic, you know diseases specifically that led to AMD that would cause like vasoconstriction or anything that would affect the RPE Being fed by the vasculature Well, there's definitely studies that are connecting heart disease you know coronary vascular disease and Disease of the carotid arteries to macular degeneration no question about that those are those are Strongly linked, but I think that's as far as it goes. Okay. Thank you sure Is it reversible now, I've seen at least nine patients result we've reversed the early stages of drusen Which is where the metabolic deposits occur? So I think when you begin really early you're you can reverse the beginning stages, but you certainly cannot reverse the fact that if you have already lost retinal pigment epithelial cells and photoreceptors the you know the rods and cones those are non regenerative and so Once you've lost vision That won't be coming back You know, I there certainly we're seeing patients anecdotal reports who are going to their out They're changing their diets based on this and going back to their ophthalmologist and they are seeing Better but and we're seeing that they are losing some of those drusen these metabolic deposits But in general, I would say you're not going to see a great recovery from somebody that has moderate or more advanced macular degeneration that won't happen I The questions about stem cells and I don't think there's any data there yet. Is there anything you can say about glaucoma? Yeah It's a bad disease You mean in relation to diet. Yeah Well, I think that oh This is very off the cuff because it's not my area of research, but in general, I think that Our diet is driving glaucoma in the same way would be my knee jerk reaction, but I have not Investigated that and that that's up and and there's many many kinds of glaucoma. So the open-angle glaucoma is Yeah, I think that it could play a very big role and the low tension or normal pressure type of glaucomas I think the vascular flow there is so critical and such a big factor that yes I think this plays a role in glaucoma, but nobody has gone down the path of you know Investigating that like we did for macular degeneration hasn't been done


Okay Good morning. Welcome to the class today. Let's pray and we'll get started Good one of us, please Leave the class and prayer anybody could pray and We'll start. Can I go ahead and pray? Yes, please Father we thank you for your wonderful grace and your mercy over our lives Lord Jesus We submit this time into your hands even as we continue to learn from the book of Romans Father Holy Spirit come and help us understand your word father Open our eyes Jesus to the hidden things of your word Lord Submit the rest of the time into your hands. You lead us and guide us father. I pray in Jesus name. Amen All right, thank you All right, so we covered Romans 9 10 11 These were or I should say these are these three chapters 9 10 11 Are somewhat difficult chapters in Paul's episode to the Romans and We went through that the understood, you know the conclusion Paul comes to Essentially at the end of chapter towards the end of chapter 11 is God has not stopped working with the Jewish people the people of Israel At this moment He has or he is working among the Gentiles like it says there and Romans 11 25 Until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in Romans 11 25 So, you know God is just working among the non Jewish world getting people in until the fullness of the Gentiles come in and Then he's going to again once again pay attention to those people the Jewish people people Israel Get them grafted in or back in to They are the main olive tree Be our branches from the wild all the way people pictures this in Romans 11 and so he's gonna, you know, bring us all back together and And ultimately Paul, you know, he sums up by saying in verse Romans 11 29 The gifts and the calling of God are unchangeable that means God doesn't change his mind about whom he chooses and whom he calls so He hasn't changed his mind about Israel or the Jewish people so his plans for them still holds good and It's just that at this point God is doing something Bitch He actually did speak to them the very beginning, you know, and he called Abraham He said through you all the families of the earth will be blessed so It's not that he didn't plan to do it. He already had it in the very beginning when he spoke saying yeah through you I'll bless all the nations. So that's what he's doing just that they didn't understand it at that time and Probably still don't understand, you know, that God has actually Worked through that nation the nation of Israel and is blessing the nations of the world and bringing the nations the world back to himself that he is going to Refocus or pay attention again to Israel and so Paul sums up Romans 11 by just saying, you know, how great is God's ways of working? His wisdom and knowledge. It's unsearchable His ways are beyond even our understanding. So he closes out Romans 11 that way now having gone on this journey to describe what God is doing with the people of Israel and the Jewish people now Paul turns his attention back to The church at Rome or the believers or of course, you could say to the church itself because whatever he's writing there is also for us So he gets back to talking to believers So it's now connecting back to Romans chapter 8 Because still Romans 8, he was dealing with the believer Talking about how you live your Christian life Walking in the spirit Crucifying the flesh Rejoicing even through tribulations that we may face now Knowing that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ. That's Romans 8 The 9 10 11 he's gone on this little excursion 12 picks up from where Romans 8 ended which is okay, let's talk to the believer and Continue talking about how to live As believers the Christian life, right? So that's Romans chapter 12. We get back to that, right? So This is, you know, a very very familiar chapter Romans 12 Many of us may have already preached sermons and messages and You know things from Romans 12 used it in our own personal lives Shared it with other people because it's it's it's really talking about things We need as believers and how to live the Christian life. So it's a very well-known passage Well-known chapter. So let's just read the whole chapter and then we will start bringing we'll focus in on on on You know individual verses So Romans 12 we're going to read the whole chapter which is pretty short just 21 verses. So maybe each each one of us could Read about four verses Romans 12 each can read four verses. Please anyone can start Great Romans 12 one to four Therefore I urge you brothers in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices Holy and pleasing to God This is your spiritual act of worship Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good pleasing imperfect will For by the grace given me I say to every one of you do not think of yourself more highly than you ought to But rather think of yourself with sober judgment in accordance with the measure of faith. God has given you Just as each of us has one body with many members and these members do not all have the same function Thanks, uh, thomas I too find what's right pastor Go ahead. Go ahead thomas. It is with christ body Christ's body we are many parts of one body and we will all belong to each other In his grace God has given us a different gifts for doing certain things well So if God has given you the ability to cross prophesy Speak out with as much faith as God has given you If your gift is serving others serve them well If you are a teacher teach well If your gift is to encourage others be encouraging If it is giving give generously if God has given you leadership ability Take the responsibility seriously and if you have a gift for showing kindness to others do it gladly Dave 9 to 12 please But keep your spiritual favor serving the lord be joyful in hope patient in affixant Patient in affixant faithful in prayer Karen 13 to 16 All right. So that 13 to 16 please Yes Share with God's people who are in need practice hospitality bless those who persecute you Bless and do not curse rejoice with those who rejoice moon with those Who moon live in harmony with with one another to not be proud but be willing to associate with people of low position to not be conceited Thank you last one 17. Oh, sorry 17 to 21 Prince or cannon whoever has So ready Repay no repay no one ever for able have triggered for good things in the sight of all men It is if it is possible as much as depends on you live peacefully With all men beloved do not embed yourself, but rather you give Place to work for it is written In my mind, I will repay say the lord therefore If your enemy is hungry feed him If he is thirsty, give him a drink. Uh, give him a drink Or in so doing you will have Colors Of higher on his head Do not be overcome by able but overcome able with good Yeah, thank you. All right, so let's start Looking at these verses we go back to verse one And we will you know try to draw some Insights from these scriptures. Although these are like we said are very familiar to many of us So Paul begins now verse 12 I beseech you Therefore brethren So now he's turning his attention to the brethren to lots people the Jews and Basically the believers there at Rome. He said, okay, I'm beseeching you that means I'm imploring you. I'm making you the solemn request or this earnest request. I beseech you Brethren and notice he says I beseech you therefore brethren, you know, so therefore means look Whatever I've told you now chapters 9 10 11 You know in view of all of that What is it? That means you've understood what God is doing.  He for a moment. He's given them up to their own blindness to their own ways But now he's extended goodness to the Gentiles. So in view of all of this, I beseech you brethren Keeping God's goodness and severity in mind Here's what I want you to do Right. So now he's it returning his attention to us to the believers And he's saying I'm doing this very compassionately by the mercies of God. So what I'm requesting you I'm doing it with the heart of compassion With the with God given mercies by the mercies of God What must we do? He says present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God Which is your reasonable service So present your bodies roman saptrate was talking a lot about the body right He's talking about look you've got to keep the body in subjection by the holy spirit You put to end the sinful deeds of your body you will live roman's 8 13 So he's talking you know, he's talking about the body now. He's continuing that same thought. He says What must we do? right, so Basically disconnects back there to roman's eight We've seen that you know, jesus finished the work on the cross. He broke the power of sin Romans 8 the holy spirit is at work in us to Help us overcome the flesh so when we walk in the spirit We will not yield to the flesh So in view of all of that, what must we do now? We must present our bodies as a living sacrifice So we present Now we make this deliberate choice in god. I am deliberately intentionally and willingly making my body as a living sacrifice and that's very interesting because um in the old testament And uh, they they brought sacrifices right to worship as part of their worship. They brought sacrifices animal sacrifices birds Uh offering grain They brought sacrifices But now he's telling you offer yourself And uh, so it's not about putting another animal there or putting another bird there or Putting some grain there offer your body As a sacrifice so in that same so they understand, you know sacrifice being part of our worship So he's saying you know you offer your body But your body It's not a one-time sacrifice It's a living sacrifice that means It's my body our our bodies Are alive And yet they are sacrificed. They are killed So it's a living sacrifice our bodies are alive Of course, we need our bodies to be alive to be on this earth and do whatever god's called us to do So our bodies are alive. It's a living thing But yet it's it's a sacrificed thing. It's a thing that has been offered on the altar So our bodies are a living sacrifice. They are already they're permanently on the altar permanent sacrifice Uh, but yet we're alive. Yeah, we've we've we've we've we've been doing all these things so He says you offer your body as a living sacrifice and this sacrifice Holy Holy acceptable to god holy pleasing to god So our bodies are presented to god how? By keeping them holy and pleasing. How do we offer our bodies? as a living sacrifice By keeping our bodies holy and pleasing to god So when we do that Constantly, it's it's an ongoing thing. Like we said every day You're keeping your body as holy as something that's been set apart for god And something that's pleasing to god That is our living sacrifice And he says this is your reasonable service or this is your Lord, you know, um, it actually means rational logical. It's your thoughtful worship so It's an act of worship presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice By keeping our bodies holy and pleasing to god It is an act of worship And it is an act of thoughtful reasonable meaning There's thought that has gone into this or you know, you can also translate as rational It's reasonable. Let me look at it here. Yeah Yeah, the passion translation says It becomes your genuine genuine expression or Some versions say it becomes your intelligent It is your intelligent the same word reasonable. It's translated as Intelligent form of worship, right? So That means It's not you know, let's contrast it to something irrational and irrational thing is You're doing it Even if it's not logical Okay, so let's think about this and I don't mean to sound demeaning But I want us to think about this suppose I just go and uh, you know, I just beat myself You know with the whips And I say that's my act of worship If you look at it logically and say well, what does beating yourself with and you know Tearing up your own skin and bleeding and What is that? You know, how is that going to help in your worship of god? Or you know that like this you can pick up many other Quote unquote acts of worship which Does not seem intelligent. It doesn't seem rational So in contrast to those Irrational forms of worship Things that you know don't don't make sense at all Paul is saying look You keep your body Holy pleasing to god and this is thoughtful intelligent worship to god And you present your body as a living sacrifice like we said earlier meaning It's alive, but yet it's on the altar It's sacrificed it's offered to god how By you and me keeping our body holy and pleasing That means The things that are done in this body The things that take place in this body have to be holy and pleasing to god And when we do that It is our act of worship to god so We know we worship god through song. We worship god through Our giving we worship god through You know other ways There we show our devotion And this is also One of the ways we worship god By just keeping our body holy and pleasing So you can imagine this Even if we are you know walking down the street And you make a choice what other choice may be to keep your body holy and pleasing That moment You have offered up worship to god You may be walking down a busy street You know and there's some billboard or something that's that's uh Has you know images and graphics on it. There are just not something that you and I should set our minds on And so you take your eyes off of it What are you doing?  Why because I've may I've that moment I have offered my body as a living sacrifice I have worshiped god right there so paul is saying In view of the mercy so in view of you know all that we've heard about god brethren Offer your body as a living sacrifice Keep it holy keep it well pleasing And every time you do that you're offering to god intelligent thought felt worship first two and So meaning plus and is a plus continuing and also and Do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your mind That you may prove What is that good and acceptable and perfect? Will of god So do not be conformed to this world.  So do not be conformed That means do not get into the same mold. Do not come into the same pattern of thinking behaving living pattern Do not be conformed to the world the ways of the world but Be transformed So we know that word transformed Is the word metamorph? which is We understand in english metamorphosis that and and and and the best example of metamorphosis is how A little wiggly caterpillar Becomes this beautiful butterfly So you look at the caterpillar Nothing impressive about its tiny little thing Wiggly like a worm And Then it undergoes metamorphosis.  In the way you think the way you behave your where you live that means Instead of getting into the pattern of this world thinking and living and behaving according to the world Have a transformation a supernatural change in the way you think The way you behave the way you live So be transformed be metamorphosized So he's saying believers I want all of you to be transformed Be metamorphosized That means don't be like the caterpillar But just how the caterpillar Has this dramatic and drastic change You have that dramatic and drastic change in the way you think and live And then he tells us how this is possible He says by the renewing of your mind By the renewing of your mind now While this is not paul's intent here necessarily maybe we don't know He just used the word metamorpho in the greek Whether he was actually thinking intently Whether the holy spirit was giving him this thought about You know this buddha caterpillar beginning butterfly I don't know that that was there Maybe it was maybe it was and we don't know but Just for our understanding You see when the caterpillar Reaches the stage where it knows Or it reaches it but it's going to start this process of metamorphosis The first thing this caterpillar does is begins to eat Eat I don't know what to use the word it just keeps eating Consuming leaves So he gets on this on this You know on whichever plant it is And it keeps eating eating eating all the green leaves It just consumes and you can you're surprised that this little little worm Starts eating so much eating the green leaves around it, you know, whichever bush or tree or plant it's on It's in eats and eats and eats and eats and eats and eats and eats and then of course it expands becomes a little bigger But it eats so much because it's preparing for A change that's going to take place and Then it disappears into this cocoon like thing And then inside that all changes are taking place And then the next thing, you know outcomes a metamorphosized creature the butterfly But I would like to compare this eating stage consuming is To you and me consuming the word of God Because it says here Be transformed by The renewing of your minds Now what is this renewing of the mind or renovating of the mind the renovation of the mind The mind we know is our Has to do with our mental faculties. It has to do with the way we think The way we reason So what Paul is saying is Of course, it's by the Holy Spirit. What God is telling us is Don't conform yourself to the world have our transformation in your way of life And this is possible if you will Renew your mind your thinking And the best way for you know for that I find to Explain what renewing of the mind is is in Isaiah 55 If you can go there to Isaiah 55 and let's please read versus seven to nine Could somebody read that for us as Isaiah 55 seven to nine, please Somebody could read that Okay Let the wickets for sexy their ways And the earth unrises Their thoughts let them turn to the Lord And he will have mercy on them And to our god for he will pray to pardon me There must be tonight eight or nine For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my way Declares the Lord as the heavens are higher than the earth So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts Than your thoughts Okay, thank you so This I feel this is like this is the best example of what renewing the mind is In verse seven god is speaking to the wicked All right, so Isaiah 55 seven through nine speaking to the wicked That means a man who was let's say the world right So we're talking about not being conformed to the world but being transformed having complete transformation To the renewing of our mind Speaking to the wicked man of the world And he says I want you to forsake your way and your thoughts For sick means let go Let go and turn away from it What Your ways your thoughts And he says verse seven let him come to the Lord So you let go of your ways and thoughts and come to God and God says I will pardon you that means I will receive you And then verse eight and nine God says I want you to know something my thoughts Are not your thoughts my ways are not your ways and my thoughts and my ways are hot much higher and then verse 10 I mean verse nine They are so high that's like as you know as heavens are above the earth.  I'll receive you the implication here is I'm going to help you take on my ways and my thoughts And this is going to happen verse 10 and 11 By the word of God and we didn't read verse 11 But God says so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth The word of God is going to help us Take on the ways and thoughts of God So What is the renewing of the mind? The renewing of the mind is this process here that we've read in Isaiah 55 7 through 11 It is me letting go of my ways and my thoughts And taking on the ways and thoughts of God And as I take on the ways and thoughts of God I'm going to undergo a metamorphosis A transformation I will no longer be conformed to the ways of the world which is wickedness But I'm going to be You know beginning to walk on the higher levels on the higher ways At the higher level which God is in the ways and thoughts of God I will be transformed By the renewing of my mind So We renew our mind with the word of God That means we train ourselves to To leave the ways and thoughts Of the world the way we were used to And to take on the ways and thoughts of God Through the word of God And right here in chapter 12 Are some of the ways and thoughts of God given to us Right, so we Talk about forgiving we talk about showing love so on so forth But we learn To take on the ways and thoughts of God And as we do that Our minds are renewed Our minds are renewed So We go through like the caterpillar eating eating eating eating eating those leaves We have to consume consume consume consume the word of God And as we consume that word That word begins to Renew Our ways and thoughts Make them new make them different Right, we begin to Think We begin to Consider ways that are aligned to the ways of God And thoughts that are aligned to the thoughts of God Okay, so That process we call as the renewing of the mind So the renewing of the mind results in this It results in transformation of our lives So when we renew our minds Transformation takes place We're able to think differently. We're able to Uh, I'm sorry as in your mind. We're able to live differently. Maybe see we have experience of transformation in the way we live So let me pause here. Was that clear? Did you did we understand that? It's everything. Okay. Okay Yeah, I see a response on the chat right, so How can somebody experience renewing of the mind? We have to like the catapult of it.  Why is the catapult eating all these leaves? Feeding on feeding on feeding why is the caterpillar doing this? Well, it's getting ready for a transformation In the same way we keep eating the word keep eating the word keep You know feeding on the word. Why because you're learning the ways and thoughts of God We are learning we have forsaken our own ways. We have forsaken our own thoughts So now we need something. What is that the ways and thoughts of God by his word We're taking on the ways and thoughts of God and our mind is being renewed and as our mind is being renewed our life Our behavior our thinking is transformed So we are no longer conformed to the world But we are transformed to live according to the ways and thoughts of God So for example like in the same chapter in roman roman's 12 He says towards the end. He says Don't be overcome by evil But overcome evil with good Now that's that's the way and thought of God The world's way the world's ways and thoughts are I will repay evil for evil Somebody does bad to me. I will do maybe twice as much bad to them That's the way of the world So If we consider why is there so much escalation and evil because Everybody is trying to outdo or repay Twice as much evil as they received So somebody does so much evil to me.  He's done bad to you. You do good to him That is the way and thought of God now That is not our natural response meaning As conformed to the world That's not how we would respond But when we renew our mind with the word of God It's a hey What are the ways and thoughts of God the ways and thoughts of God are Don't be overcome by evil. Somebody does evil to you. Don't let that control you Instead overcome evil with good do something good in return now Initially that'll be really difficult. Oh, how am I gonna do good when that person has you know been mean to me? Well As we feed upon the word our mind is renewed Now we're able to behave differently. We have been transformed in our way of living and our way of thinking so Even when somebody does evil to us we return good, right? So that's what he's saying do not be conformed to this world We'd be transformed by the renewing of our mind now That phrase the renewing of our mind is right in the middle of this verse And he says look this renewing of our mind brings about transformation in our life But also helps us some with something else that was continues That you may prove What is good acceptable and perfect will of God It says Then you and I renew our mind We can prove The word prove is interesting because it's like we can test And determine through our testing. It's almost like You know a lab A laboratory procedure now. I'm not saying that's exactly what they they did in those days, but I'm just using An analogy today It's like in the lab they test some, you know, they get some samples they test it that is they are proving it And then they come to a conclusion. Yeah, this is genuine. This is the wrong false through whatever So he says when our mind is renewed When our mind is renewed You can prove You can test And you will know The will of God You will know the good acceptable and perfect will of God So the renewing of our mind not only helps us see transformation in our living The renewing of our mind Also helps us in the determination Of the will of God So when there are things happening around me and you know, I have this thing that all those things are happening around me I will be able to you know Test I will be able to prove I will be able to if I want to use a different word. I will be able to analyze And that's okay. This is the way this is what God wants us to do. So Here's another key Many Christians many believers They say I don't know the will of God Why you don't know the will of God? because When you and I renew our minds We'll be able to prove The will of God we'll be able to analyze And say this is the will of God Now he uses three adjectives good acceptable and perfect now Additionally, you know people have used this three adjectives to say that There are three levels in the will of God. There is what is good. There is what is acceptable and that's what's perfect But I feel that interpretation and that teaching is wrong Because he's just using three adjectives to talk about the same thing. That means God's will Is always good acceptable and perfect So he's not saying there are three categories. So the will of God He's just using three adjectives for the will of God.  The word acceptable simply means pleasing Like he in verse one we just read Holy Acceptable pleasing that same what acceptable is used once again in verse two same word No, we don't say Holy is one category Pleasing to God acceptable to God is a different level of holiness. We don't say that we just say he just means reverse one If you're holy, you're also pleasing or acceptable to God. So that's how he's using it, right? So in verse two, he says That you may prove that you can analyze and know Through your analysis through your thinking process Through your thought process you can know The will of God And what is good acceptable and perfect that means What is the best thing? There's no The will of God is good acceptable and perfect. It's not talking about three categories of the will See, this is the will of God. God's will is good God's will is pleasing God's will is perfect So what is you know, the thing that is really fitting in to the will of God Okay, the same word acceptable is used somewhere else, you know, for example, in Colossians and it's translated pleasing to the Lord to be pleasing to the Lord. So When your mind is renewed Through your own thinking You can recognize This is the will of God. This is what is good and acceptable and pleasing to God Through your own way of thinking Because your mind has been trained To know the ways and thoughts of God So Through your own thought the way you think you will you will be able to say This is good. This is acceptable. This is pleasing to God. This is the way to do it. This is the will of God So that's another benefit Of renewing the mind When we take on the ways and thoughts of God Through our own thinking You will know the will of God. This is what God wants you to do right, I don't have to wait for some those Clouds in the sky to part or I don't have to wait for an angel to appear I don't necessarily need a dream or a vision or a prophecy Why? Because when your mind is renewed you can prove The good acceptable and perfect will of God I'm not I'm not saying we shouldn't have dreams or we shouldn't have visions or We shouldn't have angels appearing I'm just saying that this is the normal way By which all of us can know the will of God just renew our minds to the To the word of God to the ways and thoughts of God And then in every situation you're able to prove that when you're putting all the information together You'll understand, you know the ways and thoughts of God So you're able to say this is good acceptable pleasing to God. This is the will of God Okay Any questions we'll pause for a break and Any questions? Okay, okay. All right. So let's just take a quick 10 minute break And we will come back together. 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we are at this time of year when I do a roundup of the very best of the year or the very best of 2022. So we're talking about Cheek products, the very best drugstore Cheek products of 2022. Stay tuned. We're going to get into that video right now. Hey there, girlfriends.  I'm excited about this video. Let's talk about what I have on. This is the third video I've worn this in. So you probably have seen it before. This is a modeled kind of a heavier t-shirt that has adorable puff sleeves with the little buttons on them, just so cute, little scoop neck, very cute, true to size, comes down about right at the bottom of the hip. I just really like it. It's very stretchy, very me, comes in a bunch of different colors. And I wore my little heart necklace that has my little rhinestone in it and then these rhinestone heart hoop earrings. All of that will be listed and linked below along with all the links to everything that I'll be talking about today. And they will all be numbered one to however many we get through. Don't worry about the exact name of these products. Just worry about remembering that you liked the number and then go down and go shopping in the description box because next to it will be the color and will be the link and you can shop that way. It seems to be really easy for everybody. Let's get into it. Let's start out with Blood. Juvia's Place released these duo blushes and I have one of them. This is Volume 4 and this is just a bright pink. It has a nice mirror in there by the way. Not bad to travel with if you decide that you want to take this to travel with. It has two blushes in here and what I loved about these were this was a hot pink and that bubblegum pink that is that Dior blush that everybody went mad for. It's in here as well. It's really close to it. If you got it on your cheeks with that one nobody would be able to tell. This way you're getting two. These are pretty bright and yeah I realize that they're not going to be everybody's cup of tea but keep in mind that you can also share them out and for somebody that has a deeper skin that fuchsia would be so pretty. I would absolutely love to see that. So pretty, easily blended and just a beautiful powder. I really love Juvia's Place powders. They're eyeshadows. They're blushes. They just do a really good job of them. Also from Pixie Beauty they came out with this quad. They probably came out with this quad year before and not this year but I happen to get it this year. This is called the Nuance Quartet Sugar Blossom and I love that it has like your bronzer over here. You have a blush and you have two highlights so pretty. This is gorgeous. This is a beautiful quad. The highlights in here are beautiful highlights. They just have a beautiful glow to them without being super high beam and then you have these two over here that are the bronzer right here color. That actually is such a pretty color that it almost could be used as a bronzer contour duo. I just think it's so pretty and then you have the blush and you could actually mix the blush together. You could actually swirl your your brush in all of these. Put it on your cheeks, be done very quickly but I also like that it is a quad that you have that you can you know strategically place everything if you want to as well. Beautiful product, very buttery, very soft. They just are really a nice quality and I love that Pixie put them into a plastic quad as well instead of just something that was cardboard or anything. Also I want to give a shout out to LA Girl. Actually this is Catrice and LA Girl but first of all what were these two companies thinking? I mean these are they're huge. They're huge pans of highlight.  It's called Sun Kissed Glow. That's what this color is called from LA Girl and they are pretty. This one isn't as highlighting as the sungasm from Catrice. The one I'm going to show you in a second but it is a beautiful glow to your skin and I think it's one that you would really like. The powder isn't really powdery. It's not one that's going to show up texture or anything and then the one from Catrice is one that is very beaming. This one is your beaming up from outer space type deal and that one is super glowy. So look at the difference in the two. So you get just a soft soft candle glow over here and then you get your super high beam. Now you could take that high beam and you know sheer it out quite a lot if you wanted to but really are both really nice. I don't know how in the world I will ever use either of these pans all up but yeah they're not very much money and they decided to just stick a whole ton of product in there. So I love both of those. I thought they were really good. Flower Beauty, Milani and Makeup Revolution all decided that they were going to try and dupe the Charlotte Tilbury Glow Ones and so Flower Beauty has their spotlight liquid highlighter and this one is in the color Opal. These are really pretty. They're liquid highlighters that just give you a really pretty glow to your cheeks. You can wear them under your blushes. You can wear them on top. You can use them you know to spotlight your lips a little bit if you want to. You can actually also use this across your eyelids. You'd have to almost pat it out and let it dry a little bit but they're really pretty and the Flower Beauty one is a really silky formula. So I give that one a thumbs up for you know competing with Charlotte Tilbury. I have three of the Makeup Revolution ones and I put these into a dupes video for the Charlotte Tilbury Glow Ones and these are called the Bright Lights. This one is called Beam Pink. So she does have that pink one that I'm sure that this one is trying to dupe. It might not be because this one's pretty light compared to that. So there is a pink one and then you have the Dynamic Dark Pink. I'm sure that this one is the dupe for the pink gasm that she has. These are beautiful. They're so much like Charlotte Tilbury that I truly couldn't tell the difference getting them on and I wore them one time. They're a little bit harder to get apart. I wore them one time and really truly couldn't tell the difference on my cheeks and this one is called Strobe Champagne. So they're so pretty and I love them. I love the formula of them. I would like them to not be so hard to get open but it's good because they're not going to dry out I guess. All right and then sticking with the sticks. These are the Cream Sticks from NYX and they did the Wonder Sticks and they did them in the Contour Highlight Duo and sometimes that comes out on me. This one is the lightest one I believe. I will look for you here really quickly and beautiful contour. I really like that they did the contour really well. Oh it's the highlight that came out on me. Okay I'll remember that for next time. The highlight does come out. Now that is one thing I will say that I was not happy about with these wands is that they did come out and I did say in my last video you can take a match and just you know warm up the bottom of the stick. Put it back down in there and press it a little bit and it'll stick back in there but I feel like if you spend money for something you shouldn't really have to do that. This one's the light medium one on the Contour Highlighter wand so that you know that and then this one is the blush one and this is so pretty as well. I love the formula of these. These are matte on the blushes and they just are very pretty, very pigmented blushes I felt like. So you have a pretty bright pink there and then you have a beautiful kind of a warmed up rose color there and this one is called Light Peach and Baby Pink. Okay the next couple of products I know that they didn't come out this year but I purchased them this year. So from Focal or Face products you get a contour and highlighter duo like this and you can get different colors of them. I have the really light one which is Tortilla and Groovy I believe. This is the lightest one, the lightest duo that they have and I will say that this is just a little bit more stiff of a product than I've worked with on the other things that we're talking about like the NYX one but it stays on a little bit better too. And then this one is Mocha and Blonde right here and the highlighter is just a really light light pearl. So those are the colors right there. You can tell that this second one that was the Mocha is a little bit warmer than that first one which was Tortilla. So kind of you have to just gauge off of what you like better and then also from Focal or I did discover this duo as well and this is their highlight contour duo and this is the powder and what I loved about this is first of all I did love the color of the contour in here. It's very that muddy color that I talk about all the time. This is the lightest color so you can build it up a little bit there but what I did like about the highlighter on it is not got any glow in it except for maybe just a teeny teeny bit of glow. It's got just a really light cast to it so you get that highlighting factor without there being any glow in it. So if you're somebody that does not like to highlight and put highlight on you might love having a powder like this that you can go up you know up there in the arch of your eyebrow that kind of thing and still get the beautiful glow without having to have the metallic look or the shimmer or anything. This is a really pretty product as well and I was glad that I got it and then I found these stick blushes from Palladio and I love these. These are so good. This one is called Sweetheart and these are just an easy to work with on the go. If you want to put these on your cheeks and on your lips you have a color you're out the door. This is kind of a pretty mid-tone pink and this one is called Precious. Now Precious might have just a little bit of a shimmer in it compared to the other one but I think that it's probably just that it's so much lighter that I'm seeing a little bit of a shimmer to it. So these are great. They're very pigmented. They remind me very much of all of the high-end stick products that are coming out. You're going to have these on once they set down onto your makeup. You're going to have them on. You can set them down with a little bit of powder to make them more budge-proof but really love these Palladio blushes. The trees came out with their More Than a Glow highlighter. I'm probably missing the boat when I say that these came out this year but it's so good that it doesn't matter if it came out last year. So this one is called Supreme Rose Beam and wow. No kidding. That is one of the nicest powder highlighters I've ever seen. Just so buttery and so beautiful and when I saw it on I was just really shocked by how pretty they are. They're just oh man they have another color. I think it's just a more of a gold color but this one is just so pretty and you can tell. I mean I've used this like crazy. It's been one of my favorites for the year and I can't say enough good about that one. Really love that. Also I did find this one from Rimmel and again I think this probably came out before. This is just called their highlighter and this one is in Stardust.  It does have a little bit more gold in it than I like but because of how pretty the powder is on I cannot believe the quality of this highlighter. If I had this in a drawer next to a Dior highlighter there's no way I could tell which was which because it is that pretty. I mean it is it's so soft so silky buttery doesn't show texture has just a beam in it absolutely no glitter no little sparkles in there. It is a beautiful beautiful product gorgeous. I just am really blown away with how pretty this one is. My very favorite thing that came out this year though were the ELF luminous putty blushes. These blew me away. I am so in love with these so let me get my hand cleaned here. They're all names of cities or countries I'm not sure I'm not very good at geography so don't come at me. Belize is the coral one so pretty and I'm going to try and build them up just a little bit since my hands wet anyway. So this is Belize really really pretty coral just love these they have a little bit of luminosity but they're that beautiful cream blush formula. This one's called Maui and I do know that that's an island maybe all these are islands I don't know. Somebody get me in the comments you're gonna I know you're gonna get me in the comments. This is pretty too it's a kind of a muted mauvi rose color so pretty this is probably my favorite one I really like Maui and then we have St. Bart's I think that's an island too so maybe we're talking about islands here yeah we're probably talking about islands. This is a pretty red berry color so so pretty this one is super saturated I got that with my nail this is not the way it comes out so you guys know I got that with my nail. That one is really saturated that's the darkest one that I have I don't know if there are more dark ones darker ones on their website this one is Bermuda so apparently we are talking about islands. Don't don't shoot the messenger I'm just showing you what I love alright and that one is kind of a pinky coral or a bright pinky peach color so pretty I love the luminosity of these I got the Maui one and then I went back and I got the other three because I was so impressed with how beautiful these are on your cheek they are so so pretty and this is not the brush to do this with so I'm gonna have to really dig but I do want to just pop this on my cheek a little bit and let you see oh my gosh look look how pretty that is can you guys see oh so pretty pretty pretty I love these blushes they're so beautiful oh my goodness they are so pretty that was it 2022 drugstore cheek products hope that you liked them as much as I did so much fun if you did please give it a big ol thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't because I want you here as a part of our girlfriend youtube family yeah we have all kinds of fun let me know in the description box what you bought this year from the drug store or high end I don't care which that you put on your cheeks that you're loving because your suggestions are the best and I always find fantastic products so thanks so much for being with me today love you very much I will be back around very soon in my next video and I hope you will be too take care you guys love you bye bye


Ukrainian forces have broken through certain pre-prepared Russian defensive positions in Orykiv. Ukrainian forces launched a significant mechanized counter-offensive operation in western Zaporizia Oblast on July 26 and appear to have broken through certain pre-prepared Russian defensive positions the Institute for the Study of War ISW reports. Russian sources, including the Russian Ministry of Defense and several prominent Milbloggers, claimed that Ukrainian forces launched an intense frontal assault towards Robotyn, 10km south of Orykiv, and broke through Russian defensive positions northeast of the settlement. Geo-located footage indicates that Ukrainian forces likely advanced to within 2.5km directly east of Robotyn during the attack before Russian forces employed standard doctrinal elastic defence tactics and pushed Ukrainian troops back somewhat. Although not all the way back to their starting positions, according to the Institute, Ukrainians appear to have rotated fresh forces into this area for the operation, whereas Russian forces remain pinned to the line apparently without rotation, relief or significant reinforcement in this sector. The introduction of fresh Ukrainian reserves to the effort, together with the geometry of Russian defensive lines and the likely degraded overall state of Russian forces in this area, may allow Ukraine to begin pursuing more successful advances south of Orykiv in the coming weeks. Western and Ukrainian officials suggested that the attacks towards Robotyn mark an infection in Ukraine's counter-offensive effort.


Hey, what's up YouTube? I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show Netflix earnings just came out and they beat their expectations But their stocks still feel 14% in this video I'm going to talk about what happened to Netflix. Why did it fall?  If I draw it out in the worst case scenario It gives me the best chance for my risk to reward ratio to be outnumbered by my reward My risk to reward ratio means that when I when I buy stock I'm willing to risk for this company to go down 5% before I sell and my reward would be that I see that this company has a 10 to 15% gain coming in its near future But enough talking, let's get straight into the video All right guys here. We are on thinkorswim. It is the platform provided by TD Ameritrade. It's completely free I have Netflix pulled up right here tick and symbol in FLX right now. We're looking at the 180 day four hour chart I mean every bar that you see on here is represented as four hours and if we zoom all the way out It is due last 180 days So as you guys can see Netflix had a major boom right here all the way up up almost 33% over the last week and a half or so So Netflix is a part of this tech bubble that everyone keeps talking about and it shows that it was super high It beat this earning report and it had a pullback the reason that Netflix had a pullback Even though that they did beat their earnings report was because the CEO said that even though doing a We got so many new users to sign up that they do not believe that they're gonna have that same kind of growth The other half of this year so they say yeah We did do good and we beat expectations for this quarter But next quarter we don't think that we're gonna see the exact same type of growth that we've seen from this Previous quarter. So that's why it was a major sell-off and also that Netflix was actually Overpriced right here. If we take a look at the RSI indicator. It's way above 90s up there to the 91s Okay, so Netflix was overbought and it was way overpriced hitting an all-time high of $575 and 37 cents So of course it was gonna have a sell-off all it needed was some news and when bad news come out They mark it overreacts and that's exactly what it did pulling back 14% over the last week since the earnings report came out. So while we have the chart set up Let's go ahead and draw some trend lines even though down here. It does say that Netflix is over so That's because bad news came out if we zoom out on the one-day one-year chart Netflix is still So far from the 180 day simple moving average This is so we're looking at the one day one year chart Netflix is still so far away from the 180 day simple moving average if we draw arrows here at the end of the simple moving average line it is pointing that it is and they uptrend but So Netflix can put all the way back to this 180 day simple moving average line all the way down here If it continues along this trend right there It can meet somewhere along the lines right here And that would be a good time to buy into Netflix if you guys don't want to buy into it now The last time that Netflix was trading sideways. It was around 450 in 405 ish for a ten ish. All right, so that's the last time Netflix was trading sideways So Netflix can pull all the way back to the $450 line trade sideways until it meets the 180 day simple moving average Because if you're taking a look at the MACD, it is about the cross and start to go back down And the RSI is pointing down So I can't so it can continue to sell off just like the last time it sold off on Netflix If Netflix ever come back down to being oversold Just like at this point right here, that would be a great time to buy back into Netflix But let's zoom in into the 180 day for our chart. There we go So we did have these lines drawn up from the one year chart We're only for our 180 day chart if we draw uptrend right here saying that it might stay true to this line right here The reason I drew this line is because it touched right here touch touch touch touch and Netflix might pull all the way back to touch again right here meeting somewhere along the 180 day simple moving average Only for our chart zooming in I see Netflix pulling back to around right here bouncing back up So around that consolidation mark and then bouncing all the way back down through the uptrend line so and Pulling back all the way around to the $450 price point, which is right here $450 Dollars consolidating somewhere in there So I can see Netflix bouncing off the uptrend line that we drew going back up and then pulling back down and breaking through That uptrend to come back down to $450. Alright, so zooming out. That is how the chart looks right now I'm no it looks confusing if you're not used to drawing some marketing analysis chart But that is going to be my play in my setups on Netflix All right, so there go the trend lines that I drew up if Netflix stick to those trend lines and pull back to $450 I'll try to get a full share of Netflix and try to hold on to it until the rise all the way back up to its Old all-time high, but $450 is looking like the price range that I'm willing to buy Netflix at right now Right now if Netflix is at $492, $493 So I got a little ways to go for it to drop a little bit more for me to get a great value on Netflix Could it go up from here? Sure it could go up from here, but I'm doing a worst-case scenario Hopefully it drops back down to $450 I'll buy a share and ride it back up and let Netflix continue to make their amazing movies on their great platform But other than that, that's all I got to say about Netflix If you guys want to follow along on what I exactly do with Netflix Make sure that you hit the thumbs up button and subscribe to this channel So you don't miss out on any future videos, but other than that, I'm Zeke bring you to dream green show and I'm out. Peace


Hello friends welcome to salespedia current tapas digital library so today we are going to see four topics three on problems just most favorite nation status silk route and foreign trade on January 2019 so this on problems perspective and India Saudi Arabia bilateral relations in mains perspective now let's see the most favorite nation status okay so on February 15 2019 so India has cancer the most favored nation status which is according to Pakistan okay so this came in the backdrop of the pulvama attack in which the Siapoyev Javans were killed okay so this is the news now let's see what is this most favored nation status okay so this most favored nation status was started in the year 1996 under WTO's general agreement on tariffs and trade okay so according to this principle the guard has stressed all the countries to get into this most favored nation status in order to have a free international trade okay so here each and every state must give this mf1 status to other nations so that is the real motive of this mf1 status now so what is here so both India as well as Pakistan are signatory for this most favored nation status okay so in this most favored nation status the recipient of this status must enjoy the same equal authority as well as same equal opportunity like the country which is granting that status so hence if India gives a status to Pakistan it has all the accessibility and opportunity like that of India okay now so India has extended this mf1 status to all the South countries including Pakistan okay as a way back all the South countries has also extended those special status to India except Pakistan okay so under this guard agreement India can withdraw this most favored nation at any time if it wishes okay so initially India has India has actually reviewed this whether to withdraw this most favored nation in during Uri attack so now they have actually withdrew this status okay so what are all the benefits of this most favored nation first it you'll have an equal treatment among all the countries so when you give the most favored nation status it is considered to be the same country which is trading with us so hence we'll have an equal treatment among the countries and that will help to have a stable predictable and reliable as well as competitive international trade so which is a very rash scenario in this present year okay now they'll have the lower tariffs so lower tariffs will make the goods cheaper and it also makes people affordable so this also a benefit of this then free trade so any countries can divert actually then you can create trades and also decreases the trade diversion so that helps to have a free flow of goods as well as services then apart from that we have equal opportunities transparency without discrimination and fair competition so these are the other benefits of this most favored nation status now so withdrawing this most favored nation to Pakistan so what are all the impacts it's going to have so we are exporting the chemicals and other raw materials which are very much important for the Pakistan industries so with this withdrawal of most favored nation status the industries in Pakistan are going to be affected more okay so this is about most favored nation status now let's move on to our next topic silk root okay so the silk root we have to see about the China's influence in China silk root the initial founding of silk root and the present scenario first silk root was formed by the Han Dynasties of China okay Han Dynasties of China so it was started from 130 BC it ended till 1453 AD okay here the trade was used from Asia to other European countries okay only silk is not transported there are many goods like chemicals the gunpowders which was introduced by China is traded the paper which was introduced by China is transmitted to these silk roots but still silk is of more demand in those areas particularly in Rome and Green so hence this root is known as silk root okay now that's the modern world present these imping in the year 2013 has stressed an economic as well as a foreign policy of silk root in order to revive the ancient silk root of China in order to connect the Pacific as well as Indian Ocean countries so this silk root actually covers more than 60 countries in this route okay now what are all they have said okay so here the Silk Road initiative is called as an economic belt initiative it is collectively known as one belt and one road concept that means oboe okay here it has two components one is one belt another one is one road so one belt means it is of the roadways and one road it is about the maritime hence Silk Road covers both land as well as the sea route okay here they have to connect the Pacific Ocean as well as the Indian Ocean so these are the benefits of this Silk Road now what are all the objective of this Silk Road first and foremost so China has to prove that it is having a bigger role in global affairs when it comes to Indian Ocean region as well as an Asian region so hence it is an ambitious project and it is considered to be the largest developmental project economic project conducted by any other countries okay so here oboe is considered to be an economically motivated according to China but apart from economic motivation it also has so many strategic motives in Indian Ocean region as well as Pacific region nearly all our neighbors are actually applauding this initiative and are all their members but India is still not a member and it has not denied its membership to this Silk Road initiative now it also helps to address the domestic needs of the Chinese people okay where the routes covers most of the underdeveloped areas so with this route that underdeveloped areas can also be developed and China is known for its hard power by developing nuclear technologies and other military technologies but with this they are trying to prove that China is also formulating the soft power mechanisms so hence it is also known as China's Marshall Plan okay China's Marshall Plan and they also want to impart a synocentric economic and security region so Indian Ocean must be controlled by China so that is their objectives and moreover they also want to convince that rising of Chinese power is not a threat according to Western concept USA has said that the rising of China is actually a threat to Asia at the region but they need to make it as a negative point so they are proving that we are not up of threatening okay next they also have the People's Liberation Army's movement they can deploy anywhere in Indian Ocean as well as beyond Indian Oceans okay so here first they were focusing on Asia and Europe okay that is the main objectives and it covers more than 60 countries okay here we also have another concern called CPEC which was signed with Pakistan so that actually surpasses the Indian area okay so that will have a strategic access for China in the Arabian Sea okay so these are the objectives of this Silk Route okay now what are all the initiatives taken by India to counter this Silk Route measureship the first one is project Mausam so project Mausam is an initiative of Indian government which wanted to revive the ancient route of ancient trade route of India so it is actually a counter measure for the Silk Route okay the next one Sagar Mala project is nothing but port led development model so port led development model helps to develop our port and also helps to make our defense more applicable to the present scenario and Chabahar port it is a deal between Iran and India surpassing Pakistan so that will have a strategic influence in Arabian Sea surpassing this Guadar port so Guadar port is in Pakistan which has an influence of China but Chabahar port will have influence of India and many other naval ports in Indian Ocean regions like Maldives, Seychilles so that will also have a strongest presence of India in the Indian Ocean regions and also alliances with other member countries like Japan South Korea which are like-minded countries which are facing the same threat of China so these are the initiatives taken by India to counter the Silk Route initiative of China okay so with this I can do this Silk Route topic now we'll move on to our next topic foreign trade on January 2019 so this was a step this is released by Reserve Bank of India on a periodic basis okay now we are going to see the export and import scenario as well as the trade balance of India in the foreign trade okay so it's completely about fashion information so first we'll see an overall export of this Indian trade so here we can see the US dollar has increased from 439.98 billion which is an increase of 9.07 percentage compared to the previous year so export has grown a bit larger as well as the import has also seen a growth of 10.74 percentage okay so overall mercantile as well as the service sector has shown a positive growth in export as well as a positive growth in import sectors okay now this are the picture representation of this export and import areas now we'll move this mercantile so when mercantile we can see an export growth of 3.74 percentage whereas in service sector we can see an increase of just 0.01 percentage compared to the previous year so mercantiles we have lesser amount okay then these are the pictorographic information where some of the export sectors which has shown the positive growth which means engineering goods, gem jewelry, organic inorganic chemicals drugs pharmaceuticals and RMG of all textile so these have shown some positive development in export sector now other goods which shows negative growth in import sectors are petroleum products, transports, pearls, precious stones, vegetable oil and metaphors ore and other minerals that has shown a negative trend in import sector okay so this is about the mercantile as well as some of the export and import goods now we'll move to the service so service has also seen a positive growth of 7.5 percentage in export sector and 12.53 percentage growth in import sector okay so hence now the overall trade balance is we are facing a trade deficit overall like from 75.73 billion dollars to 90.58 billion dollars so hence the trade deficit has increased compared to the previous year so this is about the foreign trade on January 2019 released by RBA so it is completely about the factory information okay so now we'll complete this plums topic and we'll move to our main topic India and Saudi Arabia so why does it news so Saudi Arabian Queen Prince Queen Prince Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is actually visiting India in February 19 and 20 so he had planned for a five Asian nation visits starting from Pakistan China India and then Maldives and Indonesia which was actually postponed now okay so he has planned for a five Asian nation theory so this tour has planned in the backdrop of two intentional incidents happened recently so one is an ambassador called Jamal Khashoggi which was killed in Turkey Embassy of Saudi Arabia so that was a serious issue in international arena where he was brutally murdered where the hands of Mohammed Bin Salman is actually included and other tension one is the Pulverma attack of India it was actually we claim it to be the attack of Pakistan so this two tension areas are there apart from this the Prince is actually visiting Pakistan and then to India okay so this is about the presence scenario now let's see how India and Saudi Arabia are actually integrated bilaterally the first one so India imports more than 80% of oil from outer country okay it actually imports from that the major portion comes from Saudi Arabia so because of this oil import so we are the fourth largest trading partner for Saudi Arabia so this is about the status of India and Saudi Arabia while the Prince coming to India what are the things which are going to be discussed first one India is likely to ask for the cheaper oil prices that is the first one because the opaque countries by which Saudi Arabia is the head is actually charging extra livy on Asian countries it is actually Asian premium we call this Asian premium so for that Asian premium we are paying two to three dollars extra for each barrel of imports okay so now we are going to ask for a cheaper oil prices and we are also want to showcase that opaque is having a preferential terms for US and other European countries so hence India is planning to form a bias forum including China Japan as well as South Korea so this bias forum is also on the cards of India and now they wanted to have a stable energy price mechanism so these are the problems you're going to be discussed during this India Saudi Arabia meeting okay now what are all they have asked now we need an energy cooperation which must be very strong with Saudi Arabia because US has sanctioned against Iran as well as Venezuela okay so Iran and Venezuela so we have to have a strong relationship with Saudi Arabia because we have only six month waiver to trade with Iran and Venezuela okay now Saudi Arabia is also so much interested in investing our India's national investment infrastructure fund which funds for most of the infrastructure projects like engineering's then buildings as well as port like development so India is also stressing Saudi Arabia to invest in India's national investment infrastructure fund okay and they are also focusing on technology agriculture and energies also securities that is defense including counter terrorism okay so these are some of the areas which they are going to discuss in this scenario now even Saudi Arabia is also going to invest in refineries which is a Maharashtra Shatnagiri area along with UAE's investments okay so these are some of the sectors they are going to discuss in these present meeting okay now let's see what all the other things Indian diaspora is actually the largest in the Gulf Cooperation Council so we have a stronger reason to stress for this oil supplies okay then we also have the largest hutch quota to annually to revive the pilgrimage one okay so we have a strongest relationship with Saudi Arabia now what are the things about Saudi Arabia so Saudi Arabia is actually shaping this world with this energy market so this is considered to be the world's third largest energy producing country so hence it has the strongest power and also it is a unique place of the Muslim world headquarters where Mecca and Medina is present in Saudi Arabia and also it also has an influence in all the Middle East activities even in the wars as well as determining its defense positions so Saudi Arabia has the strongest position in Middle East okay now what are all the things we can do okay the first one is initially the Gulf States were mostly focused on America as well as British but now the America as well as the British are moving away from this Gulf States so hence the Gulf States are taking the greater responsibility of managing their regional peacefulness and stability so now what India needs to do so India needs to move away from its bilateral approach in case of Gulf Nations because we have the largest number of the but diaspora living in there and we also have some major stake in Indian Ocean region in where the Yemen attack has also happened in Indian Ocean region so in order to have a regional security as well as peace so India needs to move away from bilateral approach and it also need to have an integrated regional approach so that the ever-rising problems of Middle East can be solved as well as in the Indian Ocean regions so hence what we need to do is we need to move from a bilateral approach towards an integrated regional strategy in order to secure India's positions so these are the way forward for India's and Saudi Arabia's relationship okay so with this I conclude today's topic so thank you so please subscribe like and share our comment okay thank you


Hedder start packing lemon like what what according to the Daily Beast new incoming CNN boss Chris licked is looking for a ceasefire on his networks quote aggressive and forceful coverage of Fox News imagine that an alleged news network actually reporting the news and not trying to get their business opponents arrested by the government its traders this is out this is ridiculous you are gaslighting people you are giving people misinformation what are you doing now the best part apparently they've already begun plans to tone down the opinionated emotional hacks like Jim Acosta Breonna Keeler and Don LeMond it's right out saying it right out loud saying it right out loud let's hope Helter Stelter is on that list basically it's gonna stay left wing but tone down and less focused on attacking their dominant business opponent who have destroyed CNN in the ratings for decades now it seems that CNN is very worried about more zucker dirt dropping like their schemes to manipulate the news in favor of Democrats what no way