Good morning and welcome everyone Trust that everyone can hear clearly both here on campus as well as online batch So today we will begin with apostolic ministry There are a couple of chapters towards the end of the understanding the prophetic book Which will be done as recordings one or two this week. I'll put it up So you can go through it But the good thing is that since there were many questions, we've kind of addressed those issues those Subjects in our discussions itself. So you may not find it hard to understand it But if you have a query, you can always leave a note on the Google classroom or even ask here in the class We'll address it. Okay. So today since we are going to start the apostolic The first thing that we would need to do is to just download the notes Could you please do that from Google classroom in the classwork section? I've posted it for the e-learning students It will be available on e-learn So once you download it, you can follow along as we talk about the apostolic. So let's Pray and Get right into the subject I'll begin with the word of prayer Above father we thank you. We worship you. We honor you God for Lord your grace upon our lives and father once again Lord, we thank you for Father the very breath in our lungs that we are able to be here Lord learning your word. We pray that Lord The power of the word Lord will be released into our hearts and lives and father as we Understand what the apostolic stands for we pray Lord for the help of the Holy Spirit Lord to to give us a clear Idea so that Lord we can function Lord in this anointing of the apostolic father. Thank you once again for this time in your presence in Jesus name We pray amen Okay So we will talk about the apostolic now we have some idea about the prophetic And as I've been saying though these are subjects that we learn It's good to keep going back to a time and again because with practice With exposure we are going to deepen our understanding we Broadly recognize what the prophetic stands for and how we're supposed to flow in it But the more we get into it the better our understanding becomes so I encourage us that Even though we finish this course keep coming back if there are weekend schools keep attending if there's you know Some seminars or lectures Conferences it's good. It's just good to learn more about the prophetic Similarly about every other subject. So today we are going to touch upon the apostolic. So in the apostolic we begin with an overview of what God is doing in the world and How the Christian church has been through a Restoration over the years right after the Early church days, which we also call as revival. So if you have done Revival visitations and moves of God there is a chapter on just the book of Acts over there because The acts of the Apostles was a time when the glory of God was so heightened There were miracles taking place ever people getting saved by the thousands Society was being impacted leaders were being raised up So amazing amazing things took place and it was it was a revival, you know in in what the Lord was doing and So we see that as a high in Christian history But right after that we noticed that the church went through a period called as the dark ages 400 to 1480 so this was a time when there was persecution there were many struggles and The people who believed in God could not really gather propagate their faith in a strong way So we call them the dark ages, but thank God that the restorative move of God began So from thousand five hundred eighty it's as if God was restoring little by little Different aspects of the church. So there are people who asked the question. There was one sermon preached I'm not wrong. It was twenty twenty one. You can try and go look it up it's about the church, you know how the church will rise up in the last days and even I think it's the book of James. Yeah, the book of James where there's a reference to the harvest okay, so When we learn about the harvest the harvest comes after the latter in falls and The latter in is the move of the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit falls on us. There is going to be a very powerful Time where God brings in a lot of people into his kingdom and that's what we're all waiting for the end-time revival and We're waiting for a big harvest that scriptures have promised us and That is going to happen now People ask the question. How can something so mighty happen? How is God going to do all this? Well, when we look at church history, we see that in about 500 years God restored many things and It's amazing that in 500 years so much was restored back to the church and even now God is continuing to you know Restored back things to us. So God is at work. God is you know in in that Place where he is ensuring that the church will rise up With knowledge and strength and you know the grace that we need to see that revival Which is going to take place. So now in those 500 years What are all some of the restorative moves of God that took place? 1500 AD we see the understanding of grace the understanding of salvation salvation by grace through faith happen 1600 Puritan movement where the revelation about baptism in water and separation of church and state was restored 1700s the holiness movement where you have people like John Wesley And all they all stood up and they spoke about how the Christian life must also have holiness It's not just about you know salvation and then we live however we want but holiness is important So there was an emphasis on holiness a thousand eight hundred 80 we see divine healing being restored to the church 1980 the Pentecostal movement and 2000s is when we are saying what is known as some people call it the saints movement and We know that in Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 and 12 The word of God promises us that God gives the church the five-fold ministry offices and And pay because of the five-fold ministry offices the people of God are going to be equipped Okay, and when people are equipped then what happens people rise up and people begin to do the work of the ministry That's why some people call this call it as the saints Movement because every saint will do the work of the ministry. So from the 2000s That's what we are seeing that many believers are understanding who they are and all believers understand You know our understanding beginning to understand that there is a call of God on their lives and they start to step out But for the equipping of the saints we need the five-fold ministry offices We need the anointing of the fire those offices like we talked about the prophetic anointing Right. So now the emphasis in this section of our courses the apostolic anointing So God is pouring out that anointing God is releasing the apostolic But we have to understand what the apostolic stands for I think I mentioned earlier that when it comes to the prophetic How do we prophesy and you know, what what is prophecy all about? We are still building our understanding of about it. So many times like turns like impartation, right? We would find that those terms don't even exist in languages certain languages because there was no understanding Nobody was preaching about it, but now we are having understanding about those matters So slowly as it's being translated and communicated to various communities We are learning those new terms because of the new understanding similarly when it comes to the apostolic Our understanding is developing You could say yes, we will teach many things in this course But we are still kind of getting more and more clarity about it So that's how we should take it because God is restoring So, you know Different sides of what this is about will become clearer and clearer as we go ahead So whatever is there in the word whatever is there in the history that we will Learn it, but we may see that God can do something new Within the apostolic also something that we have never seen because You know now we are living in the technology age just last year. I think Early last year is when chat GPT became a big deal. Not that it didn't exist before it did exist But it I mean AI existed but it was brought out more, you know to the Brought out to the public In a more accessible way early last year. So similarly, you know, there are many other areas which for the for the Kingdom of God are being explored today because as believers we are exploring all these areas. So The apostolic can be seen in all these areas also Right. So it's emerging in that sense But some of the foundations we are going to learn in our course Fine, so let's just begin with chapter one here. We I'll try to summarize the key themes and keep moving forward. So we are beginning with the understanding that the Lord Jesus is an apostle Okay. Now the Lord Jesus the Beauty of this is that he was in the he was in all five offices Five-fold ministry offices We know the scriptures tell us that Jesus had the spirit without measure So one of the understandings that it brings to us is that the anointing of God upon his life Right. There was no measure for that Just give you the reference Yeah, John 3 34 So when we study his life, you remember he was called as a prophet Isn't it? prophet is not respected in his own You know in his own place who said that Jesus said that so he was calling himself a prophet and And what is he a pastor? Yes, he is. He is a good shepherd Okay, when we study the writings the epistles of Peter will see that he's the chief good He is a chief shepherd of us all so he's in the office of the pastor. Okay. Is he a teacher? Yes, you know, he taught the word of God. He taught with authority. We know people around him recognized Him as a teacher. Was he an evangelist? Yes, he proclaimed the truth of God's word So he's in all the offices. There is no week We can't think of any one person who is in all the offices. Can people be can people have one or two? Such callings in the five-fold ministry office Yeah, so we can have someone who is a pastor Prophet we can have someone who is an apostle teacher But a person who has all five Five-fold ministry anointing is the Lord Jesus. Nobody else is like him who carries the spirit without measure John 3 34 So Jesus was an apostle. We see this in Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 1 So if someone can turn to that passage and read that will be helpful Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 1 Hebrew chapter 3 verse 1. Yes, therefore, holy brethren Particles of the heavenly calling consider the apostle and high priest of our confession Christ Jesus Yeah, that's enough. So as it clearly shows there the apostle of our salvation So the Bible we don't have to guess it anymore. It's already there in scripture that he's the apostle of our salvation So we take it As it is he was an apostle Now the question is we have to understand What is an apostle? Okay, Jesus was an apostle, but what is an apostle? Who is an apostle? So we'll try to build our understanding on that. So the simplest meaning often apostle is representative somebody who is a representative If we break up the word right the Greek word Apostolos from which the word Apostle comes We see that apo stands for from And stallos stands for I send So the understanding of the word is somebody is sent from somebody So John 3 16, what does it say for god so love the world that he gave his only begotten son He gave he sent his only begotten son so apo from Stolos I sent From is who's from in this case in the case of Jesus Yeah, Jesus came from the father He came from the father. He came to represent the father. If you have seen me, you've seen the father Okay, the express jesus the expression express image of god So in every way jesus was a representative Of god the father He came from the father Uh, and he was sent from the father Now that explains why the lord jesus is called as the apostle And high priest of our salvation because he was a sent one a sent one so We're understanding right apostle means representative apostle means somebody who sent from somewhere Apostle means we can also say Delegate who is a delegate Delegate is a representative Who is usually vested with some power and authority we delegate someone To do a work, but when we tell them hey, can you please do this? We give them the authority so if we let's say we Delegate someone to go make a purchase Of some items we give them the the authority. Yes, you can purchase you can make decisions Whether you can buy this or you can't buy that So without authority, it's very hard to delegate because that person will not have he'll have zero power And for everything they'll call you then what's the point of delegating that person? So whenever we delegate someone for any form of a task It comes along with Responsibility and authority So that is who a representative Or or a delegate is So representative is somebody who is representing another person Delegate is someone who has been sent to do the work on behalf of another person. So this word apostolos Uh is also a secular term because it was used by the greeks and the romans in those days And we know that you know back then it was all about military rule. It was all about conquering Uh communities and land and you know Establishing their own kingdom.  So that was their job. They were called as apostles They were called apostolos. They were sent from the government or the authority of you know one particular Ruler and they'll go to another place They will conquer they'll conquer and What they would also do is see it's one thing to Have a piece of land or Let's take for example That nation one has conquered nation two So they've come into nation two But in nation two They have their own culture. They have their own way of living. They have everything their own So people of nation a have come in And uh, you know, they now what to do In nation two So basically what the envoy used to do is one is of course conquer second is They'll establish their dominion fully So then what they would actually do is they would They would start changing the system Of two nation two How do they change the system of nation two? They would do it by force. They would do it by instruction They would do it by you know changing leaders They would do it by all these methods because what they were actually trying to do is they were trying to um change the culture and the the entire system So that one and two look similar So that that's when they used to say yeah, we've like fully taken over So you no longer have the culture of your Earlier kingdom So they would just override it they will override it They'll say okay, we get done with this old ways All new ways. This is how you should do business. This is how you should do politics. This is how you should you know have education Old education get rid of it. We'll teach our you know our uh teachings So then what happens every generation now begins to think yeah, we're actually we belong to one We belong to nation one. So that's how they used to conquer They used to go to different places establish their own ways All throughout and then that's why you hear things like roman empire Right, so they've conquered pieces of land. They put their Leaders they have their government rule and that's how they did it. So true apostolic was that So it was not just enter one place but establish your own ways in that place so that was apostolic and You had military teams That were called as apostles who would go, you know, it's in other words. Um, we understand Ambassadors have you heard ambassadors nowadays you have ambassadors of various nations? And they are representative of their nation but ambassadors, you know in today's context they come and they dwell in another nation to coordinate and communicate But apostles was more like a powerful term Of conquering and establishing Okay, so I hope we have a better idea of what an apostle was So now in the context of uh, the bible in the context of the kingdom of god in the context of Us as believers What does the apostolic stand for the apostolic broadly stands for establishing the kingdom of god So wherever the kingdom of darkness exists same like how we saw the early apostles Uh military leaders go and take over. We are supposed to go and take over Right, uh, and taking over we are not talking about conquering land or doing things Uh, like in the natural as such but our emphasis is a very spiritual one Where the kingdom of Heaven thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven So when we go and establish the kingdom of heaven on earth, what is that? It's apostolic Because who which nation are we representing? It's it's not about any earthly thing But it's more about the kingdom of god. That's what we are Uh focusing in on over here Right, so the kingdom of god can be established in the lives of people can be established in the lives of you know any and every Community so that is the true apostolic now When we look at the bible There were Apostles named in the early church. Who are these apostles? We see a couple of categories So one is known as One set is known as apostles of the lamb apostles of the lamb Can someone please turn to revelation chapter 21 and verse 14 Revelation 21 verse 14 Now the world of the city had 12 foundations And on them were the names of the 12 apostles of the lamb Yes, so you see even there it calls the 12 apostles As the 12 apostles of the lamb So why 12 apostles of the lamb? Yeah, because jesus had 12 disciples So lamb is jesus behold the lamb of god John the baptist said jesus is the lamb of god. So these 12 people are the Apostles so then there's no doubt about it. They are apostles 12 of them Now who are these 12 People ask questions Judas is there or Judas is not there all those questions, right? But like if you look at act chapter one versus 20 to 26 Judas is not there because he betrayed christ, but they do Uh, I mean they pray yeah replacement and matias matias is taken into the 12 So our understanding is uh most likely the 12th one will be matias And not uh Judas Okay, so these 12 people are already the bible is calling them apostles So then we accept it. Yes, they are apostles and they fall under the category of apostles of the lamb And how many are there in that only 12 only 12? So that's clear Okay, great. Now are there more apostles in the bible? first of all jesus then 12 uh apostles then now the bible talks about Founding apostles. There is another category founding apostles. Who are these people? Uh, let's turn to Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 20 Ephesians 2 verse 20. Yes having been built on the foundations of the apostles And prophets jesus christ himself being the chief cornerstone So it's talking about the establishing of the church So how is the church established? How is any building established? So in those days when uh, you talked about architecture, they had this concept of the cornerstone So today we talk about you know, some beams pillars and where weight-wearing walls But those days they had a concept of the cornerstone a lot of the weight of the building would fall on that one uh structure cornerstone So uh, Paul is writing to the Ephesians and he's saying jesus is the cornerstone Everything rests on jesus, but then there is also the foundations of the apostles and the prophets So the church, how is the church built? How is the church standing? There it is standing also on the foundation of apostles and prophets Okay, so Foundation of apostles and prophets who are these founding apostles and prophets we can go back to Those who gave us the doctrines Okay, what are doctrines? What are doctrines? What is our understanding of doctrine? Yeah, correct. In a sense, it's the main teachings the core Teaching like Paul writes to Timothy he says don't ever forget the core teachings that jesus christ died for us You know, he bore our sins he He died he was resurrected These are the core teachings imagine if the church doesn't have this So it's very scary actually the times that we are living in right now people are preaching all kinds of gospels Which does not have the core doctrine and how can you even say that it is biblical? You can't so We must be very careful never to uh manipulate The core doctrine or we are just calling it doctrine Like if if there's no christ if there's no humanity of christ, uh, you know, if if there's no, um jesus dying on the cross and buying our salvation Then what we are believing today doesn't exist only So those are the doctrines These are all key things the blood of jesus like this weekend pastor, please the blood of jesus the name of jesus You know our faith is based on these things And it cannot be like there is we we cannot tolerate Any minor change in the core Right the the doctrine has to be there Who is the father the son the holy spirit? These are non negotiables. That's what the doctrine means That our faith is established on this So when we say founding apostles, there are apostles in scripture who have given us those core Um, you know writings god worked through them inspired them to put it down people like paul Right people like john people like uh, peter you can read all the things that they have written And they've established us in the doctrine of god's word Okay, uh, and that cannot be changed. Those are the founding apostles Now today We may have people who are giving us a depth of understanding Of the core doctrines For example, let's say the blood of jesus Maybe Some of us, you know, we are writing books. We are teaching on it But what exactly are we doing? We are just discovering the depths of what has been established We cannot bring anything New in a sense as in we can't add to the core that has already been given to us so If there is an apostle who is bringing in-depth revelation of god's word While they can be an apostle. They can be a teacher. They can be shedding light on the doctrine They will never be a founding apostle Because founding apostles are Already in history now, you know people like paul and peter and you know john and all already Done it's done founding apostles. We no longer have founding apostles So doctrine is already established Not it. So there's no compromise on it Okay, so this is what the apostles of the lamb the founding apostles very important because what does the bible say Bible says the church is established on apostles prophets and jesus as the cornerstone And there are founding apostles Okay, so let's move on now Does that scripture? Not include other apostles it does but we need to be clear that those who have given the doctrine Have done it already. So Today if somebody comes and says hey, I'm an apostle And I got a revelation from heaven and this teach something new or they teach something contrary To the established doctrine. We cannot accept that Okay, so that's how it works now moving on We have something. Yes Yes Is there anywhere like it was written like there is no add-ons, I mean Like to the bible or to the core doctrines. Is there any verse that says like No add-ons Yeah Which which one she rather See I can think of efficient chapter 4 and verse 13 I'll read it out for you. Okay, maybe 14 verse 14 See in efficient chapter 4 and verse 14. It says earlier it's talking about God has given apostles prophets teachers evangelists pastors For the equipping of the saints so that they can become a mature man fullness of the stature of christ and verse 14 it says That we should no longer be tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine By the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. That simply means New doctrine every wind of doctrine means Something new is being taught and Paul is saying We should every believer should become so mature That when this new doctrines come We should be able to identify it Otherwise, what will we be like? We will be like He says see like children when children hear something exciting they'll they'll go that side Then somebody else will come they'll say something new they'll go the other side So that is foolishness. That's not a sign of maturity. So don't be tossed to and fro About with every wind of doctrine. So new doctrine and then new things The context here is Paul is Talking to the leaders of the church So this actually if you go back and look at acts chapter 20 Uh, that's the place where Paul goes to meet the efficient elders And if you read what he's speaking to the elders, he says, uh, I am going away But I want to warn you there are going to be he, uh, I forget the word He says something like deceitful wolves Will rise up against you and he's referring to false teachers False prophets and the doctrines which they are going to bring. So in that context We we have to understand efficiency for where he's saying that every believer we should equip them so that they become mature When these teachings come wind of doctrine new things come They should not You know sway the side that side, but they should be strong in what we have already taught them So that's the way Um Peter talks about it in uh Second Peter if you read that book if you read the the writing of Jude Jude talks about it That in the last days, there'll be a lot of false things Going around but One should be established in the core doctrine Yeah So that that way so we are not saying, you know, when we say new Just be careful about new things We're not saying depth of revelation See depth of revelation is fine Doctrine has already established see blood of jesus for example If we go back to the old times if you listen to some of the sermons, there'll be some revelation But as you're listening, right, you'll see that hey new new things. We are this car.  It's the same verse Right. It's the same uh truth But there is depth in it. You're just getting more and more and more now imagine Actually speaking each word of god is not a bucket. It's an ocean Right, so there is no end To the understanding the depth of that word actually So when we are going deeper in the lord scripture says right grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord jesus christ How to grow if there's nothing to learn But the fact is there is so much to learn we'll never we can never reach the end Right, so that's okay when we are going into the depth of the word is okay But wrong doctrine Opposite doctrine Right things that will mess up What has already been established by founding apostles like paul and you know all these other people That we cannot accept. That's what we are seeing. Yeah How to understand this the doctrine won't be changed at any time But the revelation what we are getting or some any people are getting It's from it's from the word only it won't contradict also Like one one time for one one person it'll be different understanding with So we call it new revelations. Yeah, people call it new revelation, but it's actually like depth You're going deeper into the same truth. Truth is not changing So that's fine, but revelations should not contradict the word Whatever people say the revelation we should definitely see the word exactly. Yeah. Yeah We have to Yeah, sure Okay, so I think we've Got that understanding Okay, so then what is the next category of apostles? The next category is Ephesians chapter four Where scripture says god is given to the church Right apostles prophets teachers So that also means that even today There are apostles Because how will the saints be equipped if god does not give You know these these five-fold ministry offices And we are saying that from 2000s god is Re-establishing he's restoring the five-fold ministry offices when we studied about The prophetic We said That there is the office of a prophet So even today we can have some people who are in the office of a prophet That also means that even today There is the office of the apostle And there are people who are in the office of the apostle Right, so there is no scripture that says that After the founding apostles and 12 apostles of the lamb There are no more apostles. There is no such reference Okay, so which is why we do believe that even today there are apostles Among us God calls some people to be apostles in the body of christ What is their work? Same remember we said establishing the kingdom So we'll see we'll see what the anointing carries When we studied about the prophetic we saw The anointing is about revealing the heart of the father Isn't it prophetic you hear from god What are you sensing? What are you seeing? What are you hearing? That's the anointing it brings revelation about what god is saying in the now What is the apostolic apostolic anointing is Carrying the anointing to establish the kingdom Okay, so there are people whose spearhead The establishing of the kingdom in various Areas and Yeah, various spheres around us and Yeah, that is something that we need to accept that there are still apostles just that They cannot add a book to the bible Doctrine, they can't write Okay, they cannot be part of The 12 disciples of jesus but they are apostles Because it's a ministry gift that god gives as per efficient chapter 4 verses 11 and 12 Yeah What we are telling is like of the bible so like I I have this It also long long back. I mean I've read all this but I don't have a satisfactory answer to support all my Answers what we are giving I believe So like if someone is asking what is the need for apostles like reestablishment of god's kingdom So further this five-fold ministry will come then apostles are there. Yes, so Like can we support our statements by any particular verses? That is the first thing and the second thing is if if god's doctrine is already Like there it was established and it was it was not changed It's not gonna. I mean it won't be added anything. So then what is the need of apostles like Other than this carrying gods um Kingdom or gods word other than that. What is the core? reason, I mean what we can give for them like First one is the yeah Scriptures scripture. Yeah to support us. Yeah. See like for it. I go back to efficiency after four versus 11 and 12 God gives gifts to the gifts to the church Apostles prophets teachers pastors evangelists Do we accept there are pastors today? Yes, do we accept there are evangelists today? Do we accept there are teachers today? Do we accept there are prophets today? And why is there such a problem when it comes to apostles? Same verse no same breath. He has given all and uh Like you if there is a scripture that says he is not given or he has stopped Then we can accept it that okay, you know something has changed But when all four other ministry offices, we don't have a problem When it comes to apostle, we have a problem Uh Now I do understand maybe because of again abuse of that office You got it like see when it came to prophecy also, we discussed so much saying Uh, sometimes wrong things are done wrong in a wrong way So for us to accept prophecy become so difficult It's not that god is stopped But the way it has been done is affecting people from accepting it So see this one verse itself is clear, right if all other four we we know that yes god is Having people in those offices Then how can just one office Be exempted even apostle god is sending today They are there Okay, so uh, yeah, so I'll uh, this is the one scripture I can think of if I can think of another I'll tell you the second question you asked is Uh, if they cannot establish the doctrine Right something you said Then what is it? Purpose Yeah, so we we will see uh anand when we do the next chapter We'll study about the characteristics of Apostles in the early times See they have a function What was their function just take for example paul for your understanding i'm saying when you think of paul What do you think of you think of a man who Uh, who has the grace of god to enter new territory He entered like you know, uh, greece. He entered Ephesus he entered Thessalonica, I mean he just kept going moving on near their room He went wherever he went churches were established like some 40 churches, you know he He's connected to leaders were raised up and that is the apostolic anointing We talked about establishing the kingdom So if there's no apostle like paul All this would not have happened Right, I mean god is working through the life of an apostle to Take the kingdom of god From place to place and uh make an impact So that is why we need apostles even today we have some people like that Whom who have the grace of god you you look at them and you go like how you know, how how can they Think like that. How can they move like that? But it's the grace of god on their lives. It's an apostolic grace And it conquers territory spiritual territory what we are speaking about Yeah, so that's how it is We need them we need them in the church. So i'm like like in the in the when we see prophetic So there are stages like all believers can prophesy And then that is the gift gift of prophecy grace gift of prophecy office. Yes So is there something like this in Apostles also Is is is anything is there like that and the other thing is like how we can call people as apostles Like only the only Thing that we can tell is if they establish kingdom of god in a greater way Or is there any other things also like apostles is this so there are so many pastors Who establishes kingdom who establishes a plenty of churches? Yes, okay. So good questions. You'll have to refresh the first question Uh No, there is like in profit a gift of prophecy. All believers can prophesy. Okay, correct Yeah, so see we can make the statement that all believers can be prophetic Yes or no All believers cannot be prophets, but all believers can be prophetic Saying is true for the apostolic All believers cannot be apostles all believers can be apostolic Okay, so we can conquer new new territory for god. It's possible So in our guest lectures most of the time you have people who don't like you think how do they do it In that area that community That's very apostolic something new new ministry So all believers can be apostolic. Uh, and the second question you said That Paul an apostle. Yeah, so how can we call so see we will constantly see Just because a believer is apostolic or a pastor is apostolic. They are not apostle They don't become apostle. So we will see repeated Affirmation of the apostolic characteristics in their lives Okay, then only we can say that this person is an apostle so Generally Generally, how we could says We'll we'll observe the ministry that god has done through the leg for example again going back to back to paul When you see what god did through his life. It's so clear. You can say my goodness. That's an apostle So that's how we recognize usually we have to wait For the work to happen And then we are able to tell that yeah, they are a apostle. Yeah So I mean, it's hard to Say it in the beginning before the work gets done Generally, that's how we do it By the yeah by their work which we understand now, but they were also chosen See, there are two things we'll come to it in the making of an apostle One is through our ministry. We can identify What fruit that person is bearing based on that you can say they are an apostle But also you see many times god already speaks for example Paul Already knew that he's going to be an apostle to the Gentiles I can know that I am called to be a prophet or an apostle or a teacher or whatever but How do I start getting called a prophet or an apostle when I do the work? So there's both ways One may already know that they have a call but for people to call somebody that First the ministry has to happen. No, then only they'll identify. Yeah, you are an apostle Okay, great. So we'll stop at this. I know this is a new subject So think about it read through about it and we'll discuss more in the upcoming classes. So let's pray and close I request one of us from the class to kindly pray today Yeah, honey father. Thank you lord. Thank you for the class. Oh lord. Thank you for all the understanding. Oh lord Help us to get more revelations. Oh lord help us to understand No greater way and a deeper way or lord Help us to glorify you through all these things by knowing a lot I submit the subject and ma'am into your hands in Jesus name. I pray amen Amen. Thank you Bye for now. God bless


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From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. This episode is brought to you by the audiobook True Tales of Haunted Places by G. Michael Vasey, narrated by Darren Marlar. Hear a free sample and support Marlar House by downloading the audiobook for yourself at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. Dennis Rodman flew to North Korea on Monday, hoping to meet with the big guy and talk about peace. I'm pretty sure this is the first time in the history of the world that the words I wonder if Dennis Rodman can talk some sense in him have been said out loud. Recently in Iowa, a man took several upskirt shots of a woman while she shopped. The Cedar Falls Police Department was, at last report, looking for the suspect who was seen wearing a Boston Red Sox hat and shirt. In Iowa? Alright, it is a little off the subject, but that guy's outfit is kind of weird, too. Blair Robertson is a psychic. He was in Canada having lunch with his mentor and fellow psychic when a Lexus crashed through the front window of the restaurant where they were eating and pinned Robertson against a wall. The woman driving was not injured. Admittedly, neither of the two psychics saw it coming. Need I say more? Research indicates that exercising on an empty stomach may be the secret to weight loss. Like that's going to happen. Times two. A fugitive was found and arrested last week after posting two Snapchat pictures of herself and her child at a Pennsylvania amusement park. Allegheny County Pennsylvania sheriff William Mullen says Kimberly Dolan, 19, was wanted for attempted homicide and violation of bond conditions. Upon seeing Dolan's Snapchat update taken at Kennywood Amusement Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, deputies contacted police who were already stationed in the park. Dolan was arrested without incident. Okay, note to fugitives, stay off social media! On second thought, don't. You're actually making the police's job easier. President Trump announced in a recent email that his campaign will begin selling big league boxes, a handpicked bundle of exclusive and vintage official Donald J. Trump merchandise delivered to your door every month as a recurring donor. So it's kind of like Loot Crate. Only it's lame. Forbes has named Sean Diddy Combs as the highest-earning celebrity of 2016-2017 with $130 million. How in the world does a celebrity make that kind of money without starring in at least one movie where he's wearing a cape and tights? A Russian man who caught his wife chatting online with other men decided to log her off for good by taking an ax to her laptop. I don't think he understands the definition of computer hacking. Speaking of Russia and computers, the latest evidence shows that the Russians were able to hack the election systems of 39 U.S. states. They didn't actually manipulate the votes though, as they already knew enough chaos was going to take place no matter what, regardless of whether Trump or Hillary was elected. The Santa Masticistic Swingers Club in the U.K. has been shut down over health and safety concerns. In this case, some of them may have wanted to be punished. 32 New York City mobsters have been indicted for trafficking stolen chocolate. You'd never really wanted to be a gangster, but suddenly now I'm kind of wanting a piece of that action. I want a slice. A video shoot on Detroit's west side ended after police arrived and fired shots, believing they were breaking up a real armed robbery. They responded to a 911 call of a reported robbery conducted out of a black jeep with no doors. When officers arrived, they saw a man getting out of a black jeep with no doors and running up to an Aston Martin vehicle. Said Officer Dan Donikowski, a Detroit Police Department spokesperson, the subject appeared to be armed and appeared to be robbing the Aston Martin. When officers approached, a man turned toward the cops, holding what appeared to be a weapon. An officer fired three shots, but none took effect, Donikowski said. Turns out the suspects were simply shooting a video but had not notified authorities and had not obtained proper permits or a license to do so.  Was he using a prop gun too? Just because you exercise your right to free speech doesn't mean sponsors have to pay for it. Both Delta Airlines and Bank of America have pulled six-figure sponsorships from New York's public theater over its revamped production of Julius Caesar. In the reimagined play, Caesar is a President Trump look-alike who is ultimately stabbed to death by a group of women and minorities. A press conference was immediately convened so Kathy Griffin could deny having anything to do with it. 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Johnny dollar Pat McCracken Johnny universal adjustment. Sorry Pat for the answer is no My bags and fishing tackler all packed Johnny plane ticket is just waiting for me out of Bradley field planes due to take off in a few minutes I believe me. I'm gonna be on board. Well, so don't try to stop me Because what I called you about listen Johnny, it's no use Pat. I'll see you when I get back and not until that's what you think Well, now look there's nothing so important that it can't wait a week or so No, no, I'm sorry, but it's no use Don't you see Johnny all I see is that it's time for me to get out there to the airport I'll drive you out. Oh, no, you won't Johnny. Will you listen to me so long Brad Johnny? And so help me if he tries chasing me out to the airport CBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators yours truly Johnny dollar Now act one of yours truly Johnny dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar. Yeah to the Universal Adjustment Bureau home office Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the wholly unexpected matter Well, it looked as though even my taxi out to Bradley field was conspiring against me It developed a flat tire along the way that almost made me miss the plane Oh that cabin plane fare item one on the expense account a hundred sixty three dollars even though I didn't realize it at the time it was going to be paid for by Universal Adjustment Bureau Anyhow, I got to the field in the nick of time jumped aboard the ferry plane for New York Sit right here by the door, please mr. Dollar until we get airborne. Oh and be sure to fasten your seatbelt, please sure miss Yeah For a minute, we'd have to take off without you. Oh, not a chance I wouldn't have missed this plane if I had to fly after it under my own power Johnny dollar. You're the famous private investigator, aren't you? Yeah, I'm an insurance investigator Oh, I listen to every one of the exciting cases you handle every Sunday on CVS. Yeah, good only believe me They're not as exciting as they sound. I don't believe that. No, it's just like any other job of work And is for that wild expense account of yours thousands and thousands of dollars. That's a very touchy subject miss Claire my name's clear after all Claire a man has to wangle some kind of compensation on a job like mine You mean because it's so risky and all and I don't blame you a bit Are you off on some dangerous? Investigation now, mr. Don no Surrey and no ma'am I'm heading for a place over in Western Arizona Lake Mohave resort on the Colorado River I know the place you're always going to fish. Yeah, well the place where I always try to get into fishing That's right. Something always happens and spoils your plans. Yeah, but not this time You see I do listen to your program But now we're airborne mr. Dollar so you can get rid of the seat belt and go up to seat 11 that I saved for you Oh, yeah, sure. Thanks a lot Claire pleasure Johnny, and I hope you have a wonderful trip Oh, believe me nothing nothing's gonna stop me this time from once in my life. I'm gonna I'm gonna Oh No, yeah, I arranged for the seating myself John Pat McCracken. That's right sit on store this Claire help Come on sit down and make yourself. What is it mr. Dollar? What's wrong? Give me another seat on this great Sorry, mr. Dollar, but this is the only one left and mr. McCracken insisted that I save it for you I did did he you wouldn't want to stand all the way down to new york besides the airline wouldn't like it Now pat Okay, okay, but only as far as new york. Yes. Yeah If I were you I wouldn't be too sure Yeah, all right now you listen a minute. We land in new york where I can pick up another plane pat You and I part company You want a bet on that? It's an interesting fact that many of our greatest inventions and discoveries have been hit upon Accidentally by doctors engineers or inspired tinkerers while working towards some other objective Thomas Edison had such an accident While working on an advanced telegraph instrument He noticed a faint musical sound coming from the revolving paper covered cylinder. He was using He noticed that indentations in the paper caused the needle to vibrate and the vibrations produced the sound Setting aside the telegraph instrument momentarily he experimented with the principle. He had accidentally discovered He fixed a needle to a diaphragm Mounted on the short end of a horn And arranged this apparatus so that the needle would scrape on the revolving cylinder as it turned Instead of paper on the cylinder He used a covering of tinfoil and then spoke through the horn as the cylinder turned And the vibrations of his voice caused the needle to make indentations of varying depths in the tinfoil surface After a few models had been made and tested with minor success Edison recited into the horn the nursery rhyme Mary had a little lamb Then it was played back and for the first time in history a machine spoke with a man's voice Thus the phonograph was born An invention that grew out of an ingenious inventor's attempt to produce something else The phonograph and all its various advancements and refinements up to today's tape recording have brought endless pleasure to millions throughout the world More importantly, they have been used for the advancement of science and culture to an incredible degree This is just one of many cases in which the illustrious thomas a Edison Succeeded in his efforts by following the american inventor's traditional philosophy There must be a way Let's find it now act two of yours truly a johnny dollar and the wholly unexpected matter When we got on for new york i said so long and goodbye to pat mackracken and climbed aboard one of the big jets But just before takeoff who should come barging in and take the seat next to me Well, of course johnny. This is the seat that was assigned to me. All right. All right. All right now pat How did you know what flight i was taking out of hartford? Which one out of new york easy johnny easy I simply checked with the airline back there at bradley fee Now instead of climbing up the way you did on the trip from hartford to new york Let's talk about this i'm sorry pat But i'm on a vacation and this is one time either you nor anybody else Is gonna keep me from going out to yes Uh, well go ahead and say it johnny to lake mojave resort out along the colorado. Ah, how did I mean Oh, what makes you think that well, where else in the world would you go to get away from it all for a few days? Lots of places. I not this time. How do you know? I'm just betting on it That's why I dragged along all my fishing tack After hearing you rave about the place all these years I decided it was high time. I took a crack not not now. Wait a minute.  Well, do we go fishing together or don't we all right just one condition pat Not one single word of business until we get back to hartford who said anything about business Don't you think I need a vacation now and then as much as you do. Okay, then. Okay. Now. That's that's settled that settled. Yeah now Make with some talk about those nice big fish that we're gonna. Okay, I'll What's the matter? I've been looking at that fellow sitting out there in the seat next to the emergency exit. Oh, what about it? Nothing really. It's just that he Looks very familiar and what's more i'm sure he was also aboard the plane out of hartford Oh, so were several other people remember the plane was full Yes, and I tried to tell you about the way he kept looking back at you and in a funny Oh, no, no, quit it pat. Just a fact. Oh, look, did you see that? He gave us a quick glance and then buried his face in his magazine so wise Well, almost as though he didn't want to be seen by us Are you look here?  Well, it isn't to me so forget it and relax and let's enjoy ourselves Funny little scar on his cheek when he had turned just johnny. Are you sure you didn't now? I said forget it Okay, whatever you say At los angeles we grabbed another ferry plane this one to las vegas navada Johnny look that same man aboard and don't tell me so what? It was late when we arrived at the fabulous city of chance out there in the middle of the mojave desert So we grabbed a cab into the hotel sahara That's item two a buck and a quarter item three is sixteen dollars for a suite of rooms Item four is 12 20 for a couple of drinks to good meal and we dropped into the casino Oh real excitement Yeah, watching the little ivory ball click around the little red wheel the snap of cards at the black check table a rattle of dice The click of poker chips the ring of silver dollars And over it all a constant chuck and were the slot machines Pat and I had separated and by some stroke of good luck. I did all right with the dice So I hauled my stack of chips over to the cashiers cage and collected believe it or not 200 300 350 60 365 dollars right on the nose. Thanks. Thanks very much. Yes, next please. Johnny. There you are. Yeah, sure. I am Well, how you doing pat? All right, fine. Now listen That man we saw on the plane that you saw well I saw him again a little while ago while you were at the roulette So he was watching you and when he saw me watching him He all now pat with Johnny would probably look a half a dozen people from Hartford have taken this same set of planes out here After all it's vacation time a lot of people. Okay, Johnny. I I hope you're right. Sure. I'm right Now look, let's get some sleep and first thing in the morning. We'll head down to the lake. Hi. Come on Well, whatever you say only Only stop worrying would you Will you Sure, Johnny sure Any American accused of a serious crime has the right to a jury trial But you also have the right to have your case decided by a jury in most civil cases When you're suing in the federal courts for damages or for the recovery of your property Do you know when you can exercise this right? The answer is in the constitution The seventh amendment says that you can have your case decided by a jury whenever the amount involved is greater than 20 dollars This is one of the ways in which the constitution seeks to provide every citizen with fair and impartial justice It is one of the ways in which the constitution ensures that this country of yours and mine Shall be our country under god And now act three of yours truly Johnny dollar Well, it wasn't much after the crack of dawn that pat mccracken and I rented a car That's item five on the expense account 50 bucks deposit and then we headed south Five miles short of kingman, arizona. We swung right on 68 down toward davis dan down to lake mojave resort Once over the mountain pass there were miles and miles of nothing But sun baked rocked and sand of sagebrush and joshua trees of tumbleweed and cactus And then right in the middle of it that clear blue water of lake mojave Resort itself with everything for water sports and more important for me for the fishermen Buster favors sign us in at the office and then Number eight johnny and if you and mr. mccracken don't get limits every day mr. mccrack Out here buster. It's pat. Okay pat. Wow. Shall we? Oh instantly you're not the only one who's out here from heart. All right, bussey Uh, mr. Malloy arrived late last night. Malloy. Does that name ring a bell, johnny? It certainly does not now. Will you forget about that man you saw me? Okay. I'm sorry.  Oh brother. Just try and stop me. Just forget all about business Excuse me pat. What this calls for you. Oh, oh, thanks.  Thank you Hello, mr. mccracken. This is maryon at the office now maryon.   What's that? Get this johnny. Yeah, what about it, maryon? Well, it was a job. Yes, that's right scarface. Maloney, but You hear that johnny? Yeah, I heard the man aboard the plane with a scar on his cheek and you wouldn't bother looking at All right. Now. Okay, johnny. You're on the expense account. Hey, what's this all about? Um, buster the man from heartford. Maloy isn't has he got a scar on his face buster? Well, yeah on his cheek. Where is he? And come to think of it johnny. He asked when you'd be arriving. Where is he? Oh, you went out fishing early this morning. You know where buster? Just up the lake somewhere is all I know. All right now. Did you tell him when I'd arrive? No, I wasn't sure myself then we're one up on him. Maybe Mr. Maloy looks like a mighty fine man to me. Don't be fooled buster johnny. What do we do? Buster, you're the best judge of character. I've ever known. Thanks johnny. Well johnny Pat you and I are going fishing I know Lake Mojave well Scarface Maloney couldn't possibly know much about it So pat and I put on fishing clothes took along our tackle. I took along a gun And we headed up the lake in a fast upboard We prowled into every wash and cove at the lower end of the lake slowly and methodically We saw lots of fishermen, but not the man we were looking for Finally Well, I I guess the spell of lake mojave was just too much for me So I hold two at the end of a long narrow cove with high walls of rock on every side Hey, why stop here johnny? Well, I have one cast cove pat. What? Oh, look, it's just too good to pass up Now you drop a plug there in the corner just one cast and I guarantee you are back You think of fishing at a time like this? Oh, come on. I'll just try it pat Then then we'll go back to the main body of the lake and we'll find this one Johnny look, uh, no, no careful so he won't see you Up on that rock that overhangs the end of the cove Yeah, yeah, I see him Hiding me how to bolt here. Look, I see it. I see at least the glint of the sun Blued steel johnny I can't see what it is, but I don't need to johnny because it's aimed this way Of all the heavenly bodies the moon has gained such importance that it's continually in today's news Now to land a rocket ship on the moon you must know the moon's exact orbit and rate of speed around the earth For decades scientists were sure they knew these facts, but one man felt they were wrong and proved it Simon Newcomb was born in 1835 in Wallace, Nova Scotia Throughout his childhood. He amazed his elders with his uncanny perception of mathematics While in his teens Newcomb joined his father who was teaching in the United States In 1854 they finally settled in Maryland where Newcomb also became a teacher One day on a trip to Washington he visited the smithsonian institute From then on he spent every free moment studying from its wonderful wealth of books Reading book after book he stumbled onto four volumes which kindled his enthusiasm into a brilliant flame The books told of the amazing world of astronomy Early in his new career he became especially interested in the moon He studied it intensely One evening he noticed that it seemed to be lagging a little behind its predicted schedule of motion Surrounding himself with tables and charts he painstakingly pursued the possible error After exhaustive effort he found it an error in computation had been made back in the year 1675 If Newcomb had not discovered this error a flight to the moon might never have been possible Simon Newcomb another American scientist dedicated to the principle that somehow there must be a way Let's find it now. Here's act four of yours truly Johnny dollar The end of a long cove surrounded by high walls of rock and on top a man with blued steel in his hand Aimed straight down at us Johnny with the sun in our faces. He's got the advantage of us We're like sitting ducks down here. What do we do? Listen partner. I don't like it, but it's the only way if I rock us Like this. Yeah, it'll put my hand in the bolt behind the ledge I'll tie up to it out of his sight You'll be the sitting duck So what it's you he's after you'll be in the plain sight of him So go ahead and fish if you get something and I'm sure you will make like you're talking to me like I'm still here, huh? Then you Through that crevice. Do you see it there? Yeah, maybe just maybe I can get around and up behind Well, Johnny that gun it's an early chance I look I can tie us up with only you inside. Okay, Johnny. All right start fishing and believe me brother. Good luck. Right One cast coal. Uh, well Johnny, we'll just see about that right there in the corner, huh? You mean like this Carefully, holy They edged my way up the long crevice in the rocks toward the man who'd been spying on us from above I was afraid that every step would loosen the slide of rocks and warn him All of his attention was on the boat in the coal below where pat bless his heart was dragging out his fight with the fish The man's back was to me and then Wait a minute Blewed steel Sure it was Yeah An old pair of binoculars Then I slipped on the small rock Why mr. Dollar? Yeah, that's right. Oh, you well always the name mr. Dollar Franklin jaymel. Why? That gun that's right. My good heavens. I didn't realize you were this jealous Of your fishing secrets now. What's that supposed to mean maloy maloney? Whatever your name is Please put it down, sir. Brother. You start talking Well, you see it's just that I've heard so much about your fishing over here over the years And when my lady friend who works for the airline back there in Hartford your lady friend Well, well when she told me you were coming out here again I thought maybe if I if I kind of spied on you Well, maybe I could learn to catch some of the nice big fish out here the way you do Now mr. Maloy Didn't think you'd go so far as to use a gun Down here buster Yeah Those Hartford police the years must be pretty good. What's that mean? They picked up that scarface maloney about an hour ago and he's back in the pension Oh, I see you found mr. Maloy buster, please mr. Dalla.  I know Okay, mr. Maloy bless you mr. Dalla Well, you sure can't win them all especially when there isn't anything to win And at long last I got in a full week of fishing at lake mohawk Expense account total well pat you added up after all you're paying for it Yours truly johnny dolly Believe johnny dolly starring bob bailey Originates in hollywood and is written produced and directed by jack johnstone Heard in our cast where virginia greg Shirley mitchell larry dobkin sam edwards barney phillips and edgar barion Be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly johnny dolly This is john wall speaking Johnny dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the united states armed forces radio and television service


Come on, no, that is far too big. Wait, do you think he's as small as I am? Would you please hurry up? I think I'd rather be stuck outside again than be standing here like this for hours. Hold on, Patrick. Cos he is known for having quite a long one, so... Yeah, you've got me there. Let's compromise, middle then, immediately. What? What was the point of me standing here then? Reference? Oh, I do hope you're joking, because I look nothing like that big-eared, big-nosed, side-burned twat. Oh, to be fair, I thought he was quite... Well, pick it up then. Oh, wait, you're not going to, cos... I thought cos you're at the top of the credit list out of the three of us that you... Jamie, I thought you'd understand by now. I'm the one hiding, and if that's Pertwee on the phone, and I answer it, he knows that I've been staying with you and not keeping to our arrangement. Goodness sake, answer the phone. Good point. Jamie, pick it up. Hey, you're the lady of the house. Why don't you pick it up? Oh, just someone pick it up. All right, all right. Well, great.  Any luck? Let me try again. Pick it up, quick. No, no, hold on. I just did it. It's Victoria's town. Just pick up that damn phone.  I'm going to make some tea. Oh, splendid. Could you make me one, too? Yeah, of course. Fine. Hello. Is this Victoria or Jamie? I usually prefer talking to the ladies.  Oh, you're speaking? Code. It means Victoria that we're being invaded by unconvincing aliens, and we need to get as many doctors together as possible.  What was that about? Another adventure, unfortunately. Oh, can we not, though? Forget the tea, Victoria. We're on our way out. Oh, that's good, then, because I forgot we don't have a kettle. Anyway, let's go.


College students across India protested on July 11, demanding that the final year or terminal semester exams be scrapped in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agitation was part of a four-day-long campaign organized by over 30 student groups under the banner of the All India Forum to Save Public Education. On July 6, the University Grants Commission, that is the UGC, which is the body in charge of higher education, revised its guidelines on exams and the academic calendar for universities. The UGC made final year examinations compulsory and extended the examination period till the end of September. This decision was condemned by students and teachers. We have seen across the country people have taken in part and stated loud and clear that the guideline that the University Grants Commission has come up regarding the final year examination is completely unacceptable. The guideline says that to get the final examination certificate you have to appear for exam. You're not going to be evaluated with your previous examination, with your internal examination, but a fresh examination has to happen. Let it be online, let it be offline, not a mixture of both of this. Now the primary contention that we have been raising for so many months now that an online examination, an online mode of studying is not possible right now. We have been spoken elaborately about the digital divide that is going to create. We have been saying that how digital infrastructure is not equally accessible to the people in our country and in a situation like that, in a situation of pandemic, in a situation of distress, we're going to come up with a digital mode of learning and online examination it is going to be suicidal. The another thing that they're talking about that okay no problem if you do not want to give online examination, let us have offline examination. Now how funny is that the time when our country is actually standing on third? In the whole world we are having the third largest population of people who are affected with COVID. Our government thinks that students can go up to their colleges, their schools or their you know examination center and they can give their examination there. How insensitive a government can be about lives of students, about life of young people. So we are saying the methods, the modes that they have you know proposed whatever they're saying let it be offline online or a mixture of both of them is very insensitive, is very inhuman. It is not really taking care of the basic, you know the basic idea whether the students are going to be alive or not. They are not really thinking that student's life is going to be mattered to them. This is our sincere appeal to the government that enough has happened. So many days had passed you have not taken care of our scholarship, you have not taken care of the mediums of the students, you have not taken care of the livelihood of the students but what you are trying to do now is that we are trying to push us to death, it's completely unacceptable. The students across the country are standing against the UGC guideline, we are rejecting the UGC guideline, there is no way, there is no way you can impose these draconians inhuman guidelines on us and the students of India has proved it earlier and they're going to prove it again. The four day protest began on July 11th with students from various colleges of Delhi University gathering in front of the university grants commission office. On the second day students released video messages and held placards in the rejection of the revision. On July 13th, a Twitter storm was conducted by the forum in which more than 50,000 tweets with the hashtag boycott UGC guidelines were tweeted. Today hashtag boycott UGC guidelines is trending at number two position in India, it happened because of you, today as you know the whole country is fighting against the UGC new, this new UGC guideline, believe this is a passage fatwa, they are trying to destroy our thought process, they are trying to destroy our education system and that is why for the last couple of days we're on the streets, we're on the social media everywhere, we send lakhs of letters to MHRD against their policies because it is very clear that this Modi government doesn't care about our lives, the lives of our common student in this pandemic situation, they do not care about our scholarship, about our MA, a PhD, MQC, they don't care about our admission, our midterm meal, they don't care about us, so they only care, but they only care about their DVC politics, they're trying to buy seats in, they're trying to buy MLS in Rajasthan right now in this situation, but today all the students across the countries, they are protesting, they're protesting against this anti-student fatwa of UGC and MHRD because we believe this will promote corporatization and exclusion policy in this education system, now the whole students community that we are fighting and we believe that we will win and again and again today also you prove that the people united should always be victorious. On the final day, notices of UGC, Home Ministry and the Ministry of Human Resource Development and other concerned authorities were burnt by students along with the effigies of Home Minister Amit Shah and Ministry of Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokharyal in various parts of the country, this will be followed by a signature campaign to raise awareness about the issue and these will then be emailed to the Ministry of Human Resource Development


Good morning. Investments into clean energy have been going down in the year 2016 by 18% versus the record investments that we had in the year 2015. The record investments were 287.5 billion US dollars. Europe had a plus of 3%, but there was a lot of pressure from populist movements. The environmentalists had some pressure from those populist movements.  There has been more bang for the buck because prices have been going down for solar cells and so on. Right now we are, with regards to investments into renewable energy, into clean technologies. We are 40% below those targets that have been set in Paris. China is the big driver. They have a stagnant energy demand and the companies there get less subsidies from the government. Japan is also 43% down. Japan is a traditional country which imports LNG, liquefied natural gas and they profit from the twin-link energy prices that we had in the year 2016. So they invested less into clean energy. The big exception was offshore wind. It was up by 40% to 29.9 billion US dollars. That is one sector that is actually growing, especially in the North Sea with the big British wind energy projects there. Yesterday we had the ECB minutes being published of the last meeting and they were not really speaking with one voice there. There were a lot of different opinions about how to proceed with the QE program. There were two suggestions actually, which was also the expectations of the markets. There was a time increase in the duration by 6 months and to 80 billion euros or 9 months and to 60 billion dollars. There was even a suggestion to have only 6 months and 60 billion dollars of government bond buying. Now we know of course that has been decided somehow the common ground has been found to do 9 months and 60 billion. But it was not anonymous. There were a lot of directors in the ECB actually saying that it is not really necessary inflation expectations are going up already and so we do not really need those programs to be running until the end of this year. So prepare for hawkish commons out of the ECB, prepare for spikes in the euro dollar which has denied to go to parity and with every higher inflation data point it might be that there will be more and more hawkish statements out of the ECB which tends to follow the Federal Reserve with a time delay of one to one and a half years. So they are not going to be in the position mid-year this year to talk about any further increase in qualitative easing. That's not the way it goes or at least if inflation data is going to go up from now on it is quite sure that they will taper the QA program and go into a normalization of monetary policy mode. Of course that all depends on the elections and political headwinds that we will have. It's not to be expected that next week when the ECB will meet next that there will be any changes just because of those inflation data that came out of Germany and the eurozone for the month of December which were higher than expected but it's not that just one data point changes what the ECB is actually doing. Apple is going to Hollywood. It will do its own TV shows and in an early stage even its own movies to compensate for the flagging smartphone sales. Smartphones are thought to be actually a mature market. Everybody knows what a smartphone is, how it works. There will be no major innovations coming from that so don't expect that from the new iPhone that there will be a big leap forward. George Soros the big investor lost a billion US dollars since Trump. It was very bearish but the guy was diversified and had a plus of 5% for the year 2016 even though he lost a lot of money with Trump in the rally afterwards. The guy, George Soros, sold half of its losing position in November even though he lost a billion dollars. He did not hold to those losses so that is actually our experience that those that really lose big they hold on to losing positions and even try to increase the position size to make a new entry point closer to the market which is going in the wrong direction. No, he cut the position and it was out and he was diversified so plus 5% for Soros here. At Trockenmiller his ex-colleague, he was all right with his position, sold all gold on the election night so he decided within the press he bought equities in a big way and said he is said to have made a fortune with that Trump rally.


Hey, Weirdos. We talk quite a bit about mental health here on Weird Darkness regarding depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide, etc. And so this particular message from The Church of the Undead this week seems to fit into that just perfectly. So for those of you who have thoughts of suicide sometimes, or maybe you know somebody who does, perhaps this particular message from Church of the Undead will bring you a little bit of hope. The month of October is National Depression Awareness Month. It's something that's pretty close to my heart since I have personally struggled with depression most of my life, as have many of my friends, with suicidal thoughts, thoughts of self-harm, anxiety. Depression is at an all-time high and we really shouldn't ignore it. Whether you know somebody who's struggled with depression or thoughts of suicide, maybe even actions related to suicide, it's important to remember a few things for this upcoming month. That's what we're going to talk about this week on Church of the Undead. Hello, Weirdos. I'm Pastor Darren. Welcome to The Church of the Undead. Here in The Church of the Undead, I can share ideas which are relevant to those who suffer with depression, need some encouragement, and for those who love or are just curious about the God of the Bible. And it doesn't matter if you are a Weirdo in Christ or just a Weirdo, everybody is welcome here at The Church of the Undead. And I use the word undead because here we are dead to sin and alive in Christ. If you want to join this Weirdo congregation, just click that subscribe or follow button and visit us online at WeirdDarkness.com slash church. Full disclosure, I might use the term pastor because I've branded this feature as a church, but I do not have a theology degree nor did I ever go to Bible college. I'm just a guy who gave his life to Christ in 1989 and has tried to walk the walk ever since and has stumbled a lot along the way, because like everybody else, I am an imperfect, heavily flawed human being. So please don't take what I say as gospel, dig into God's Word yourself for confirmation, inspiration, and revelation. That being said, welcome to The Church of the Undead. Before we get into this week's message though, a quick reminder, as I mentioned earlier, October is National Depression Month and every year I dedicate this month to raising funds to help people who suffer from depression. We all know somebody who struggles with it, whether we know it or not. It's something people suffer with and they tend to do so in silence in the shadows. But the organizations that we are supporting with our annual Overcoming the Darkness fundraiser this month are working to make it easier for those in the darkness to come into the light, to find help and to learn that they are not alone and that there are ways to overcome the darkness and live normal lives. I'm evidence of that myself. Our goal is to raise at least $5,000 this month, but the more we raise, the more people we can help to climb out of their personal darkness. So if you'd like to donate or maybe you have donated and would like to give again, maybe you'd like to grab the link and share the fundraiser on your own social media and challenge others to give, which I would greatly appreciate. Visit WeirdDarkness.com slash Overcoming. That's WeirdDarkness.com slash Overcoming. The fundraiser ends at the end of this month, so please give right now while you're thinking about it. WeirdDarkness.com slash Overcoming. This week, when it comes to depression, we're going to talk a bit more specifically about suicide. And first, it's not about attention. Many people believe the lie that those who try to attempt suicide are trying to get attention. If you're somebody who has been taught this false belief, it's time to correct this thinking. Those who struggle with suicidal thoughts or have even tried to commit suicide in the past, they're not trying to seek attention. When a person resorts to suicide, it is because they've hit rock bottom. They see no purpose in life anymore and they desire not to live anymore. Unless you've been there, it's hard to understand the pain and hurt that causes you to want to take your own life. And even as I mentioned earlier, I've struggled with depression most of my life, but I've never been so far down that I have considered suicide. I can't imagine how dark of a place someone must be at that point. Those who think about suicide or try to attempt it, they need help, support, and to know that they're loved. Don't shame someone if they've shared suicidal thoughts or actions with you because it's only going to hurt them in the long run. Choose to be compassionate and caring and show Jesus love to them. A second thing to remember is that those who struggle with suicide are not selfish.  Those who struggle with suicidal ideation or actions, they're not selfish. They're not trying to get their way, nor are they trying to manipulate other people. Those who struggle with suicide are often very depressed and they just see no way out. It's a very dark place to be in and it can feel as though things will never get better. For a few years, I knew somebody who struggled with thoughts of suicide. Although they never acted on these thoughts, the thoughts alone are enough to suffocate anybody. Since I do struggle with conditions like depression, it's not uncommon for me to also struggle with the occasional thought of suicide. Don't get me wrong, I've never seriously considered it, but I also can't say the idea hasn't popped into my head, especially when I am dealing with depression. If you have a friend or another loved one who has a mental health condition, they could be at risk for also struggling with thoughts of suicide. If they talk to you about their thoughts or feelings surrounding suicide, don't treat it as a taboo subject. Allow them to express their feelings and just listen. You don't have to know what to say, but you can be there for them. Knowing that someone's there who genuinely cares can make all the difference for a person who's struggling. Those who struggle with thoughts of suicide often think the world would be better off without them. Remind them of how much you need them and how many plans God has for their future. A third thing to remember this month is that suicide can affect anyone. There are stereotypes surrounding those who struggle with suicide, but those are incorrect stereotypes. Anybody can struggle with thoughts of suicide or self-harm or depression or anxiety. Males, females, people of any skin color, people of any age group can struggle with suicide. Even if somebody might seem happy all the time, it could be that they're also struggling with thoughts of suicide. Some of us with depression are in the creative business, the acting business or music business, and we can really put on a mask of being in a great mood and being fun to be around when we don't really feel it. Never assume somebody's okay, even if they never say that they're struggling, or even if they say, yeah, sure, I'm fine. You can't necessarily take them at their word. Dealing with suicide is never easy, because it's a complex issue. It doesn't target one specific type of person or a certain age bracket. This means all people could struggle with suicidal ideation at some point. Even though most people don't struggle with these thoughts, these thoughts don't discriminate. Moreover, just because a person doesn't have suicidal thoughts at the present doesn't mean that they won't develop them in the future. I say this not to frighten you, just to make you aware of it. Anyone can struggle with suicidal thoughts. This is why we need to spread more awareness surrounding suicide and depression and not treat it as a taboo subject. Thoughts of suicide and self-harm are a lot more common than you might think. A good way to prevent this is to remove the taboos surrounding the subject and allow people to express their feelings freely. As believers, or let's face it, just as human beings, we should want to help all people, including those who struggle with thoughts of suicide, depression, self-harm, anxiety. As somebody who's been there and is often still there, it's important to have people around in order to help you with these thoughts and impulses. A fourth thing to remember for International Depression Awareness Month is that those who struggle with suicide are not lost causes. Those who struggle with it should not be seen as a bother or as a burden. They're people, and they're created in the image of God. Genesis 1, verse 27, So God created mankind in his own image. In the image of God, he created them. Male and female, he created them. Their lives are beautiful, important, unique. We should never have to lose someone to suicide. It is a tragedy, and yet people keep ignoring this what really is an epidemic. Don't treat those who struggle with suicidal thoughts as lost causes, because they're not. Often, those who struggle with suicidal ideations or attempts are very emphatic. They're caring, they're in tune with their emotions, and this gives them the capacity to be some of the most compassionate people to walk the earth. Treat them with kindness and never shrug them off as lost causes. God has a wonderful plan for their future, and by helping them in their struggles, you're showing the Lord's love for them, not to mention the truth that you should want to help others because you love them. There's never a good reason to lose someone to suicide, and through prevention we can stop many of these hurt individuals from taking their own lives. And finally, one more thing to remember. Things will get better. If you're somebody who does struggle with thoughts of suicide or depression, maybe you've even made an attempt to take your own life in the past, please know things will get better. With proper help and proper support, you'll be able to experience healing. I know it's hard, but God has a really special purpose for your life. Your days aren't always going to be filled with self-hate, intrusive thoughts and deep darkness. There will also be days of love, support, and sunshine, believe it or not. Don't give up now because those beautiful days are ahead. And also, don't be afraid to reach out for support. Talk to somebody that you trust, or somebody you know who will be there for you. In fact, that's the reason that I set up the Hope in the Darkness page at WeirdDarkness.com to have those resources available for you at any time, 24-7, just in case you need them. And of course, don't forget to talk to God about these feelings too. Be genuine with him. Know feelings or thoughts will ever push God away. He loves you. He desires to fill your heart with his love, peace and compassion. You're never alone. Even when you feel alone, you're not alone because God is always with you. And don't be afraid to reach out to a professional, such as your primary care doctor, a therapist, a psychiatrist, on our Hope in the Darkness page. You can talk to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or just dial 988. There's also the Crisis Text Line. If you want to text somebody, just text the word HOME to 741-741. There's save.org that you can visit. Or our friends at ifred.org, the International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression. There's the Seven Cups app, which I've heard from a lot of people has been very helpful to them. There's that in a whole lot of other different resources. And of course, you can always call 9-1-1 if you're in the United States or 999 if you're in the UK, if you are in an emergency situation and you need to talk to somebody right now so you don't take those drastic actions. Any of these resources can help you on your healing journey. So please don't give up. I know things might be hard, but they are going to get better. There's light at the end of that dark tunnel. There just might be a healing journey to get there as well. If you like what you heard, share this episode with others who you think might also like it. Maybe the person you share it with will want to join this weirdo congregation too. To join this weirdo family yourself, find us on Facebook, listen to previous messages, even find out how to join me in my daily Bible studies, visit WeirdDarkness.com slash church. That's WeirdDarkness.com slash church. You can find the sources I used for this week's message in the show notes. I'm Darren Marlar. Thanks for joining me Weirdos and until next time, Jesus loves you and so do I. God bless.


Ulaziki, kwa kansu nikani wa mwaziriko. Mwaziriko maha hafa wa hwaa maha mwenunutana, mahaa mwenunutana kwa kwa mwenunutana, mwenunutana kwa mwenunutana, mahaa mwenunutana.  And that is the minimum requirement by banks. And therefore back in the day, venture capital was good because you'd get money from angel investors, you'd get money from people of goodwill to start your business.  So right now it's tough for the youth. The venture capital market is going down tremendously. Alright, for one to start an investment project rather, one of the key concerns is the capital now. Is the government able to give young people this capital to start these particular projects? Yeah, the government is in a position to finance, to give the youth growth funds, but the various agencies that the government has trusted to oversee policy implementations in terms of disbursement of this fund, there is a gross misappropriation of this fund. You get that agencies that I do not wish to mention their names on air, the money get leaked into pockets of the officials, the money is used in financing corrupt deals, therefore the deserving youth do not get the money. So yes, the government is in a position to, but the money is misappropriated largely. Alright, there are some investment platforms whereby you are only supposed to save a minimum of 3,000 sheddings. Is this pocket friendly to the young people of this nation bearing in mind that most of them are not employed? Well, the standards of living are short, basic commodities the pricing are short, and therefore monies like 3,000 sheddings in all honesty cannot compete, and normally youth cannot use it as a growth fund, because of the standard of living, products you see that now even in the supermarkets, you can't really use that money to get something tangible for the week, and therefore the shilling is continuing to depreciate, and really there has to be a policy review on the amount the youth can really use to invest. Centronomy, the other day I was putting it at 5,000 shillings, but again it sparked debate because it has been affected by things like betting. You get somebody like me has 5,000 shillings, so instead of looking on how to buy something maybe a bail of clothes and sell it at maybe 200 shillings profit, I use it to bet and it gets lost, so that is the tragedy of the contemporary youth. Alright, for you it's we should avoid borrowing at any cost, right? Yes, I mean let's forget about borrowing because you know, let's say you give me money, you give me 100,000 to start a photography business, isn't it? And then now I get the cameras, I get the equipment, then I move into events, then one month down the line the camera breaks down, and I have to go into debt again to get money to fix it and all that, so I get that I accrue debts, I don't make profit, so who will keep on financing me, you get.  That way you can borrow from banks because you will be having the records and the paperwork to promote and breathe fresh air into your business so that it can boom, okay? So I say from 1 to 10 you are allowed to borrow, but getting from 0 to 1, don't borrow, use the little you have. All right, don't borrow, use the little you have. Are there any other options you have that will make the young people not to go for borrowing as their first option? Yeah, there's only one approach right now whereby you see, we are told to employ ourselves and that it's a narrative, how do I employ myself? So that 5% of the youth will rush to be consultants in fields they've studied at the university, okay? So the number one thing of getting some little money to start your business, go into hard employment, go and work under someone, okay? Go and do and get yourself in probably unofficial labor. Just struggle so hard to get this little money that is going to get you from 0 to 1. All right, I have this scenario where I have to like give my products to a higher demand that I have been doing before. And the only option there is borrowing. How do we deal with such? Okay, we are not completely kicking out borrowing as a growth fund measure. We are only saying that the event that you are borrowing, let's have some aspects of it very stable. Number one, make sure that you have asset, okay? So that now when you don't make profits, there's something that can act as a leverage, okay? So when you're borrowing, make sure you have a base, okay? When the suppliers bring you things, but you can no longer pay them because there's stagnation in your business. At least they can see that we can wait for six months and then pay it in a position to pay us. But borrowing when you have nothing, that is the analogy that truly doesn't make sense in our games. So how can young people or what do you think the government should do to ensure that young people are involved in investments? Well, there are a number of strategic measures, strategic interventions. One government should review its policy and really do checks and balances on some of these agencies that are mandated to give the youth growth funds. We have WESO, WESO I think is the leading one. Then we have Agpo whereby the youth come in numbers, they register in an organization, then they run left right centre and get the money. But 60% of the money that government invests in these agencies for the youth get lost through pilfereds. So by government re-analising and reviewing its policy and bringing in people who will really help the youth, we are still at a bad end. Alright, so as we wind up, this young person out there, they have the idea and they have totally nothing to start, maybe a business or an investment. What would you like to tell them being that you are advising them not to go for loans? Well, when you say this young person out there who has something, a startup if you may, I'm thinking that this startup is unique and can attract angel investors. But angel investors are also tricky because you'll tell them, give me one million, then I'll give you an equity share and I'll give you one million to start your business, 50% of that business will be mine. That is the disadvantage of angel investors. So let's learn how to pitch. Let's introduce creativity in our startups. Let's not come up with startups that are just but copy-pasted things that already exist. So if you come up with an initiative and you want to bloom it into business, let's package it strategically so that it can attract investors, attention of government directly and it can attract the attention of capitalists. But if we go the trend of coming up, I'll always use photography because even you, I know you have a friend who does photography. So if you say I want to start a photography business, I don't think, so let's package our startups so uniquely that they can attract capitalists. I am young, I want to engage myself with investments. What factors do I need to consider to know that this is the right investment for me to get involved to it? Number one research, look at the global and domestic trends or whatever you're interested in, how is it doing? The people who have been involved in it, how are they doing? What are some of the challenges they've continued to encompass? Meet them, knock these doors and tell them hey, I'm interested in your line of doing things. I want to know some of the demerits or some of the challenges you've continued to face and what are some of the unique interventions that can bring into it so that it can stand out. So research deeply into it. Once you research well and you know the dynamics, you'll be in a position to master it and strategically position yourself for investment of somebody getting attracted to what you have. So it goes down to research. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. It has been great getting this insights from you. That has been Private Socrates CEO of PSN Interact an agency that offers graphic design, branding and many more services. Thank you so much for joining us tonight on the bulletin. My name is Yvonne Anula. Meet you next time, same time, same place. Coming up next is the Forex Report. Enjoy the rest of your viewing.


What's it been like working with coach has he's he's you know been around the block a few times He's been in the league for a while. What's it been like, you know working with such an experienced coach? Oh, yeah, definitely for me. It's been a good experience, you know so far and I Definitely learned a lot from him, you know from my time being here and I'm hoping to learn a lot more Is there anything different, you know with his coaching or just you know some of the things that he points out for you guys? I mean, I wouldn't say anything It's two different guys because I've had a number of different coaches or no There's a coach style that I I've liked that I've uh You know since I've been here, I've been some I've I've been used to some of I kind of wrong with I mean we've both been able to play out of each other, you know communication That's something that we've been big on and that's something that we've been able to do very well Similar skillsets between you guys or I would say yeah similar skillset different bodies really Yeah, how does it feel? You know a couple weeks here and you guys have a chance tomorrow to our sunday to clinch the division Oh, it feels good. I'm loving How much how much of the defense that you're in right now is different from what frable and bowland had in Houston when you were there It's not too much different, you know, this verb is changed A few, you know pieces of change, but it's not too different what I've uh, what I've learned How's brable as a head coach compared to how he was as a coordinator? Pretty much the same There's my god, you know, it's pretty pretty much the same. He hasn't changed too much The swarming to the balls reached new heights the last couple weeks You've been on the field the last couple weeks. You feel like you can help raise it I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't say I would help to I mean I've seen them swarm before I got here And I I've been able to do that in my career. You know, that's something I've just brought with me Oh, yeah, I would say so that's something I try to bring to the game is something I try to Enforce while I'm out there a couple games in now, but when you come to a new team So hey, I'm gonna make a good impression on these guys play already kind of showing what I'm all about And do you think you've done that so far? Yeah, I would say I have done this before like I said That's kind of what my game has been about and that's what I've tried to bring out here