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It's just the halfway there. It's the trauma. Living on a prayer. That's it. Well, exactly. Exactly. Christmas special, you know, as well. Christmas special. That brings tears to you because obviously the bear for Jesus was a big special moment for you. Exactly. Oh, it's big for them, wasn't it? Yeah. Big for Baz. There you go. Yeah. Big. Big. Can't get on, though. Anything else you want? Just big for you, innit? Just me. Just for you. Just for me. No, that's because you come from a long line of people who own ins. You own it. Yeah. It's a big moment for them, though. They're gator communities as well. Yeah, gator. Yeah, of course. Of course. Bands and all that. Not John Bands. That would have been weird, but just Bands. Really weird, yeah. Yeah, because he's not... I'll be honest, though. I'm not related to him. If there was an opportunity to win some money, John Bands would have probably been there. But fair play to him. Fair play. Why not? You're not related to John Bands. Well, I don't think so. I suppose I couldn't categorically, as well, say that I'm not related to because I don't... I haven't checked. He's missed the big opportunity there, though, when he had his money, maybe, you know, in the height of football. Maybe if he'd bought some properties and rented them out as holiday homes in the future, he could have called them John's Bands. I like that. And who knows where he could have gone. That could have been very much the Airbnb of the day. Yeah, absolutely. Or he could have, like, told stories around the fireplace and he could have done Bands Yarns as well, which would have been nice as well and made them into books. Exactly. He could have told many stories of how he got round the back. He could have. He could have. A bit left, you know, off the left side. But fair play to him. Big John, he's missed an opportunity. I think so. He's missed an opportunity. This would be his time of the year. I mean, there could be some need to work opportunities in John Darns as well, you know, for mending socks as well. I mean, well, you know, you'd be a perfect foot model for that as well. He could even model his own feet with the socks. He's got nice feet. He could model his own feet. Well, he wouldn't model someone else's feet, would he? That would be weird. That would be weird. Because he might have wanted a foot model for it, might he? Would he be the perfect person? I mean, why would he be? Because they're his feet. They're his feet. Okay. No, that keeps the overheads down. He doesn't have to bring in any other kicks to do the model. Just to keep it all. I'm with you, Pat. You're thinking about the property. Keep it all in house. Balance sheet. It is proper margins, isn't it? Of course it does, you know. You know, PSR rules. You've got to be careful nowadays. You wouldn't end up in, you know, QVC in the middle of the night selling England retro tops. No. Because I've seen them do that. Well, listen. He will go where the money is. Fair play to him. No doubt. Fair play, but he has missed the big opportunity, especially just at this time of year. But he's still at the puller at the times of the year. Yeah, I think, I think, John's Barnes. Would work all three years. All six times of his adventure. Especially, of course, in the summertime. Listen. There are Virgin mothers all over the place who need somewhere to have babies at this time of the year. Oh, throughout the year. Any time of the year. I haven't seen that one. I've seen, like, Team Mom. Yeah. I've not seen, like, Virgin Mom. It's a new one. MTV Emission House. It's a new one. Or Dave or whatever channel puts it on. Well, it's a new one. Virgin Mom. Yeah, Seton St. Helens. Hey, who knows? No. It definitely wouldn't be Seton St. Helens. You know, let's not cast any aspersions there. I'm just saying, you know. But, yeah, it could be anywhere. This is a programme that... Would Andy Bush house this? Andy Bush should have a... Well... Two in the bush. No. Two in the bush. Yeah, it's worth one in the... One in the hands. One in the hands, yeah. And maybe it would be if the Virgin Moms maybe it came from the hand. Oh. Well, maybe. I believe he's got access to... I think I try believing Father. No, I was going to say, I believe Andy Bush has got access to multiple donkeys as well. Who knows? He's a man who can find a good donkey. Well, he's got... Doesn't he live close to where they do donkey rides and stuff? To where they do donkey rides. Well, I mean, in so much as he lives near the seaside. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, I think I take your point. Yeah. I would imagine in the same way that Blackpool has donkey rides. Yeah. Southend on C in Essex maybe two is a donkey hotspot. Yeah.  I didn't think we'd use that today. It's not like a BT hotspot. It's not like a BT hotspot. I don't know. Or a personal hotspot. I tell you what. Can I just say one thing? I'm so glad this show is scripted. Otherwise, I would have forgotten all this. Yeah. God, thank God you've got it on that prompt. Talking of which? Talking of which? Hang on. Which page are we on? Page three now, Dave. Page three. We've raced through. Sorry. I'm still on the end of two. Right. We've raced through to the bit where Ped says, thank God this is scripted. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very meta. It is meta. It's very meta that we did. We didn't even know. We were going to discuss Virgin Moms and the Buses Donkeys. Incredible times. Incredible times. Dave, before we hit record. No, I don't like Christmas. What? Is that the question? No, no, but we will get onto that in a minute because that is my hackles of just going on. You could have maybe spent Christmas in one of John's bands because you have a bit of a leaking roof, don't you? I do have a leaking roof, which is not what I asked for for Christmas. No. It wasn't on my list at any point. But yes, I have. I won't bore you with the whole backstory, but it was something to do with the roofing job that we had done last year, which Clinton worked on. And now, having forked out for the money last year, now I have water dripping into my upstairs bathroom, which is not a good thing. And the problem is that it's unlikely to get fixed this side of Christmas, which means that that's only going to get worse. Yeah. Therefore, meaning that my ceiling is going to be in a worse state come January than it would be if I could get the work done now. So I'm currently fielding quotes from different roofing contractors in the local area and trying to work out what price I should be paying. It's a minefield, isn't it, really? When they come around and they kick the tiles on the roof and they shake their head and they go, I'll tell you what, Gav, because that happens to me. Who knows what the going rate is for a leaky roof? The worst thing is, with that, right, we had our extension on many moons ago. This on the barn? Not on John's barns, no. And the gully in the roof with the extension, the fitted it and all that. And then you notice, like, the leak, obviously, as you've done Dave. And the problem is, because it's up on the roof, upon, as Robson and Jerome once said, you have to take people at, like, face value, don't you? So someone come out, yeah, three hundred and seventy-five. We'll strip it all back, we'll do this, but the Baba paid them to strip it all back. You get off two weeks later, it's leaking, and then you phone them.  And it takes you to a couple of goals with different roofers till you get it. And then a proper one comes and goes, what have they done? And that's the worst is when someone comes out and goes, why have they done it that way? And you're like, mate, I am not a roofer. You come out to fix it. You give me an explanation and done it and went, that's my involvement in this, this thing. It's not as if I said, like, get up there, do this. Do you know what I mean? You've no idea, have you? You've no idea. And the thing is, you have to just do your research and get a few different people around. Because one person will say, ah, you don't want to do it that way. You want to do it this way. And then the next one will kind of go, oh, well, I don't do it that way. I do it the other way. The way that that other fellow said that he wouldn't do it. You know, and so at the end of the day, you've just got to try and take a majority view point, I suppose, and just kind of go, right, well, I've seen all these people and these are my findings. And now I've decided to do this. But at the moment, I'm kind of in the batting blind stage, which is fun as the league continues and time runs out and ho, ho, ho, it's Christmas time. The most wonderful time of the year. Mm-hmm. And Santa will slip on that roof. You've got to be thinking about Santa. Well, I mean, the only thing is flat roofs are good for landing slays. Oh, of course. That's good. Especially when it's a terrace, you see, because you get a decent, you know. You've got six houses up there to hit. Yeah. Well, that's good. You've got a bit of a runway. Yeah. So that's good. That's all right. That's good, you're thinking of Santa. Again, emotional. I know. It is. It's that time of the year, Dave. Well, come back on to Christmas and your love of it, which is coming through to me and Pad in the studio. I can feel it very much. Elton John, I can feel it. Well, I can feel Dave's love coming through and I can hear Ned battling with an AI at the moment on the other side of the wall. But hey, you know, more will be revealed about that as well. Dave, since we last did this podcast, Heaven of One Again and of Drew. Had a draw. Had a draw. Had a draw. And someone decided to have a few pens, which we weren't great at, but it will come on to the latter in a minute.  A game where we're probably expected to win, but it was a tricky one. Everton, when had done the job, didn't he professionally? They did. They did. I mean, I was worried that they were, we said this, didn't we, before, you know, I was worried that they might have slipped up there. You know, obviously having had the big results, which were not shocks, but, but more unexpected for everybody in the likes of Newcastle and Chelsea. And then you kind of thought they're going to go to turf more and they'll get turned over one nil or something like that. But it didn't happen. It was a very professional performance and a very professional result. And, and our, our smiles continued, or at least they did a little while. But yeah, you know, it's, it's the things are still in a pretty positive state, I would say. This was always going to happen in terms of injuries and stuff, wasn't it? I guess. I guess. We all talked about how many games in December it would be impaired. We obviously pick, I think we have five out of the weekend and then we also lost Abdelhaid Decora, you're half-timing that barely game. It's meant going to Fulham, yes, against Fulham in the Cup. We had, it's just a kind of guy who backed him and we had obviously brand-wide back. But it is just catching up with us just a little bit due to the volume of games and all things in the squad. I think it's, I think it's, I think it's catching up with us a lot rather than a little bit. But I think they've dealt with it, they've dealt with it so far quite well. Yeah. You know, on Saturday, I thought we dealt with it brilliantly. We had it, you know, we changed the formation and that might be something that we look at more often. In fact, I think we should have played it on Tuesday night if I'm honest. And I think we should play it again on Saturday because it does give us the ability to have either two forwards on the pitch or two playing behind the centre forward. What do you, sorry to interrupt, would you go with Brand-Thwaiting, sorry, with Godfrey and instead of Keynes with the pace or do you think Michael Keynan with Tarkovsky and Brand-Thwaiting? No, I don't know. It depends who you're playing against, I think. It's not like our back line massively relies on pace anyway when it's a four. So I don't know why we'd need it, although we did see little moments in the game where they got down the side of Tarkovsky a couple of times. So you could say that, but I do think that's a good tactic if we have got the Corey out. And this was always going to be one of those things we said that before the season, didn't we? It's like, you look at the size of the squad, it was always very risky, but I thought certainly on Saturday we patched up really well and everybody is fighting the same fight, obviously, which is fantastic, everyone's pulling in the same direction. The only issue is is when sometimes you look at it and you say, well, what if we want to play four at the back and then we want to move maybe Jack Harrison inside? You're going to need Ashley Young. And they're the ones, Andy, where you're looking at a player who you need cover, but one of the players you cover is out injured as well. So, yeah, it's been bullish. You know, we were talking a few weeks ago after the Forrest game, and I was meeting Dave with someone, you know, seven or eight points from the whole of December. So, to get nine so far, and that don't get me wrong, I'd be disappointed not to get any more now that we've got them. But certainly that was the target. I would love to get, I'd love to be like 18 and getting, sorry, 19 and getting 20 would be unbelievable by the end of the year. That would be an unbelievable, you know. Up to 20. Up to 20, yeah, I'm saying if we could get... I'm thinking 18 in December. No, sorry, 19, but if we could get 20, that would be unbelievable, I think, in real terms it would be 30. That would be unbelievable, but I think what we've got so far is good and as disappointing as Tuesday night was, ultimately we still fall back or a draw from the game. And I think what it showed was everyone's in the same boat, everyone's equally as tired, everyone's equally's got problems, suspensions and everything else. So, just out of your deal with it, and if you can plug the gaps or change the formation, at this time of year, I think... It goes back to what we were saying as well last week, in so much as ahead of the Burnley game and we're saying, you know, is there a must-win? In other words, it would have been, obviously, is it still a must-win after the Chelsea Newcastle results? Yeah. We're saying, you know, we need to do it while we can do it, while we've got those key players because we will get injuries, for sure. Everyone's going to get injuries, as you say, Ped. And it's how you cope with these and get them in the bag now and I'm pleased that we did get them at turf more because, you know, we've got a lumpy ride up ahead, in terms of... Spurs on Saturday way is going to be tough. City at home after that is going to be tough. Walls away is no walk in the park. And then, you know, after the Palace game in the Cup, we've got Villa who are flying and then our old friends fool them again. And then I think we've got Tottenham and City again. We have got Tottenham and City again. You're right, back to back. Yeah, but that's it, isn't it? But when, you know, we've looked at the last few fixes and gone, oh, God, he's looked tough and we've got through them. We're going to lose games, of course we're going to lose games. It's just about racking up those points and getting away from the teams for hours. And obviously at the moment, we're seven points away from Luton and obviously their game is called off under really horrible circumstances. But, you know, barely. It's eight points and it's just about keeping those gaps up, isn't it? Yeah, that's all it's about, keeping those, keeping that distance. Yeah, it's actually, it's actually great. It's actually such a good professional performance. And I'm not going to be like, I'm not going to be sort of pulled into the negativity of losing a Carabao Cup game on penalties, really. I just thought both teams on Tuesday looked absolutely like they didn't want to be there. It was a game too far for both of them.  And we've lost it because one of our players has had a brain malfunction at the wrong time. And that's it, isn't it? Ultimately, that's not sitting and going, oh, it's terrible and we're out of the cup here. You want to be in the cup, of course, we would have got Liverpool, big deal. But it's come down to one decision where one of our players has done something stupid, so it should still be positive. Yeah, I was just disappointed with the way we played but both teams, just knew after five minutes, sitting there, it was quiet and the game was not an accident, it was just flat and they were the same, they were crap. You know, when it was two teams, that just looked, I think, evident and put a full on as well. But the players on the pitch give everything. I just think there was just a lack of quality on both sides, really. More due to probably changes and injuries and all that. And a bit of frustrating night early, Dave. Yeah, I agree, I agree. But again, I'd rather that we had that in the caribou cup rather than we had it in what is a crucial run of league games. So, listen, we park it, we move on, it's not the end of the world. Concentrate on the side.  Going to space, at the bed, obviously, we'll find out later on if the manager's got any options back in terms of Michelinko or a Coleman or something like that. But Dave just started winning one of the last two games, so they're improving. We shouldn't be terrified to go in there because we are playing well and we have got 26 points this season. Forget about the Ducs and we've got 26 in spazer on what, 33 or something, 34. And they started off winning basically every game, didn't they, while we were losing. So, I think everything, probably after the first four or five games, the run of things are probably quite similar or actually everything might have actually done better over that period in space. Dave won their last two, obviously beating Forrest and beating Newcastle quite comfortably before that. He lost the West Arm and he'd had the draw and they had me on a particularly good run. He lost four out there. They had injuries and suspensions getting the players back, but they've got suspensions on Saturday. I don't think we should be afraid of anybody at the moment. I think that's the point, isn't it? I think as we go to these teams, I don't think we should be worried about them. We can't get something there and of course it'll be tough, but we can get something. Yeah, I mean, this is what we said and with the risk of sort of keeping harping on about Chelsea and Newcastle, but that's what those two games told us is the fact that we shouldn't be fearful of anybody. And if the performances are right, things go our way then, as you say, there's no reason why we can't get anything there. I'm just saying it's going to be tough. We know it's going to be tough, but we can get something there. We can get something out of the city as well. Who knows? All we can do is battle and give as good a performance as we possibly can do with the players that we have available, subject to injuries and what we'll be. I think the four games that we've won and we're still on that win and none, of course. We're still on four consecutive away wins. We're still on four Premier League wins on the run. We played a mix as well. We've had a team that was around us in Forrest. We beat them. We then had a team that was doing well in Newcastle and we beat them. We had Chelsea who we'd have been above in the league but around us and we beat them. And then we had a team in the bottom three and we went there and beat them. So we have played a variety of teams in them four games and we kept the clean sheet in everyone and we only conceded the goal against Fulham because it was in it Michael Key and I'm winning. It wasn't like we conceded like a three-four goal so defensively we're doing okay and I think that'll be his message on Saturday. He'll be go, sit in, don't give anything cheap away and we do have, all right, but the loss of the core will be big and we know that he's probably going to be and Martin will be missing for a couple of weeks. It'd be great if he gets back before then. We're just going to have to cope without him for now which is something that we didn't do very well when we lost them for three games last season. Yeah. Yeah, that's all we can do, isn't it? But I think the whole point about the clean sheets is really important. It's not like we've been winning games 5-4 and stuff like that in 4-3 which is great if you're absolutely flying up front. We've not been flying up front for decades. But I think the fact that we've been keeping clean sheets is good and we keep it tight at the back and then see what we can get on the break and, you know, listen, if we could come away from Spurs with a hard 4-0-0 I think we'd be pleased, wouldn't we? Yeah, because I think at this moment it's just about adding to the point, isn't it? Just taking the game dropping key back. It's just about getting going there with the plan and hoping it works and, yeah, the corey, I mean, the thing about we forget about the corey is he scores goals, he's our top goal scorer and that's obviously, that's weird. He doesn't just drive us forward. He actually bloody converts to the end as well which is really important. And that's where Dom, especially needs to step up or if Beto needs to step up and he is. But mostly Dom needs to... Not that he's been... I didn't particularly play well on Tuesday but he needs to start those chances he needs to start pumping them away because there might be somebody else who puts them away and doesn't set pieces them barely way. So you can't always rely on that tactic and that's just where the manager has to look at it and think maybe this is a day I do put Beto in and I leave Dom out because there's another game on Wednesday, isn't it? So those decisions have to be made but we hopefully, hopefully, it may be great to get something, I suppose I'm being in great form but I'm not looking at this game thinking, it's a must win or anything but it just keeps everything ticking over, doesn't it? I think that's exactly what you need this time of year. I'd like to see some more goals from Jack Harrison as well and that's not a criticism by the way because I think he's been playing really well and I think he's made a real difference to our performances of late but as I say he was unlucky actually the other night but I think I'd like to see some more from him. Yeah, definitely. He's capable of it. We know he's capable of goals as well as obviously being contributing and obviously sort of feeding. Yeah, we do. If we were to get something out of space whether that's a win or a draw I think that'd set up the city game nicely as well just confidence going but I think you said something before as well it is. It is. Whatever happens we need to not lose sight of how well we're doing so if a defeat comes then we're ready to go for the next one don't get too darned but listen to it there's no reason why we can't go to space and be organised and dogged and stay in the game West Ham went there and had about 22% possession I think and won the game too one because they got two opportunities that come their way very fortunate both goals but they got them and they put them away excuse me if we get that at the weekend then we have to we absolutely have to take them chances Dave don't we? Yeah and also as we've said before at the moment on that Friday morning when we heard about the points deduction if we thought that at this point now going into Christmas that we would be where we are we'd be absolutely over the moon to be honest with you to have actually got that return from any run of fixtures we'd have been delighted but to have actually got that return from not an easy run of fixtures I'm not saying that they were the hardest fixtures in the world but not an easy run either by any stretch to be there we should be really really happy so yeah heads up you know ho ho ho and on we go I'm in that right that's what it's about is it? drop some lines at this time is that what it's about? sounds very unchristian of you why? just because I expect more from you I expect more stories what story? are we back to John Barnes as Jan? I don't know I don't know where we are we're in the studio just you know just freestyling we've thrown the script away the script's gone now I just wanted that moment where you sat us all down in front of the fireplace and told us one of those stories what like in Johnny Mathis? yeah Johnny Mathis that one I can't hear you singing it you're on solid ground that one we'll be getting YouTube psych if you're not careful I know because I have YouTube listening when did Johnny Mathis get onto the 1878 FM podcast? exactly absolutely let's move away from the script do we throw the script away? it's Christmas let's get rid of the script throw the script away I am a man I am not a number prisoner what a place what a place you won't let me in with the dog they'll let a big balloon chase after weird fellas but they won't let me in with the black lad he basted ok harsh but there you go there you go he doesn't even know what we're talking about no not really dogs in Wales ultimately is what I'm taking out of that you don't know prisoner no ok he had a shelter he was everywhere he said man travelling the world travelling the world in a cat on his shoulder why is that why that's why they call him dick dick witty dick wittington no holes in his no holes in his in his bag but one on his roof absolutely have you ever done this is actually a really good question Dave have you ever done panto no I haven't what is going on I tell you what you offered how I've never ever ever been offered panto some of the people I see in panto how have you not been offered I tell you what I'd bite their arm off at the moment pay the roof yeah I don't know whether there are many theatre impresarios who regularly subscribe to this if there are then effectively take this as a come and get me for next year I'm a celebrity or panto panto more so is that going to be like on the back page of the born and news the born and globe the day viti issues come and get me play to theatre impresarios what's going on the good thing about panto as far as I'm concerned it's good wedge and you don't have to travel to Australia oh yes it is and you don't have to travel to Australia and you don't have to eat testicles largely you don't as far as I'm aware although that showbiz starring Christopher Biggins anyway he's behind you he is behind you that's wrong that's a good panto boy where are we going next willow wonky I got a c and gcc drama as well I think no I think you'd be made for panto maybe we could produce our own because we've got obviously we've got lipper educated ned we've got jack who looks like well jack is always a famous name for and he looks like literally Marco in 1995 so he could be there you've done panto as one of the ugly sisters was he no it was snow white ok fair enough yeah I was only the lead I was only the lead I thought it was supposed to be women playing men's parts looks panto no no I'm just saying so I think we've got a good core group I've read at the boards mate we've got a strong foundation we just need to hire out a good theatre that has got a healthy safety record and we'll go from there I just can't believe you have never been off a panto you need a better agent at the height of your fame you were doing the wall and you were doing a coach trip I mean all the biggies they're big enough to get you a panto job absolutely listen it's never happened you never say never I am available at early 30's you've got a lot of time a lot of panto miles in me that might be the issue though he's between parts he can't play the younger whippersnapper and he can't play the old I don't know his hair still looks good no I'm just saying obviously he can't play a kid's role he could play like buttons though and like no cinders and all I think he'd be a good button I think I could be a poor man as Shane Ritchie yeah or a rich man as Shane Ritchie or just a rich man as Shane Ritchie listen Shane Ritchie is doing alright loves the caravan loves the caravan loves the caravan loves the caravan that's a big thing yeah fair play to you Jay Cartwright of Feastenders fair enough hands everywhere hands everywhere wasn't he in dyad there you go Dave we want Dave in panto we need to start a thing get Dave in panto for next year this is the time to do it isn't it it feels like a bit late now I know almost like an election campaign start a campaign in here get Dave 50 into 2024 we would be your home ground for a panto Dave listen is there pain decent wedge I'll go anywhere sorry is there a local hi wickham is the closest one to me that would be handy readying is close I think you're more of a slough man personally hi wickham is more prestigious than slough on the panto circuit it's high isn't it it's high isn't it listen I would go anywhere for a panto job that's okay that's okay they put you up in hotels travel lodge I mean Aston big place he's at the empire doing panto at the moment I think that much between what Dave's done in his career and Aston Marygold's no we performed on the same stage me and Aston there you go was that like a big weekend it was I remember so remember lamb remember what oh we've lost him we've lost Dave oh we're there hang on sorry I was taking my headphones off to come to him hang on did I just disappear then you just froze said my network connection had gone it's my internet I think yeah it was like a panto you just disappeared you disappeared but without teeth he said Aston should I go in from we performed on the same stage together yeah go on we performed on the same stage together me and Aston Marygold did you know no I had no idea it was oh no you didn't it was back in the lambuna this was at a big weekend radio one big weekend in Aston it could have been swindling or somewhere like that one of the biggings me and Dom who was my folk face and then we had JLS come on to do backing vocals to do to back us for lambuna which was quite a pinnacle moment I think in my musical career if you can call it a musical career and again why have you a panto it's incredible really isn't it okay well that is our campaign get fits into panto get David to the panto Christmas 24 totally available Christmas 24 will literally be Christmas 24 next year won't we there's Dave Bowie Dave Bowie let's get them in let's do the campaign die hard the panto that was it not Christmas we've got some questions anyway of course we have Mark Cotton Dot Slad Dot Slad says best Christmas cracker joke and Yorkshire puddings with your Christmas dinner yes or no I'm going to deal with the second part first yes Yorkshire puddings with every kind of roast dinner for me just anything I mean your Yorkshire puddings make everything better sausage and mash in a Yorkshire pudding instantly better just shout Yorkshire puddings are not we don't have them but I have put a motion forward only two days ago is that for just your house or is that for the whole community so what if I have it everybody has to have it I feel like Dave is in hoffles I feel like you're going for Gator community of the year so everything has to go through the societies you have to have approval so we have lights you can't be the only dark house on the block you have to trim your bushes anyway you can only have one car per household up the drive and all this kind of thing and I feel like that would have to get through the delegation so the motions being put in for Sheila who is head of the local group is she does she run the Facebook group as well I'd imagine you have a Facebook group I'm sure there'll be a I'm not in but you know that's because you've changed, is that why you've just changed your number because Sheila kept sending me I wondered why that was because I'd heard other rumors why you changed your number but I'm actually pleased it was more to do with Sheila than anything else I mean, Ped was saying it could be all sorts of things I feel less worried now yeah, that's what it is but what happens, because I feel like this could be like the COVID inquiry when the old saying up and go we've lost our whatsapps are you going to be similar when they find out you've had Yorkshire puddings on Christmas day but it hasn't been approved and then they go and you're like no, I haven't got any whatsapps change my number my phone dropped off beside of a boat in the North Sea I've got nothing to do with the only fans I've changed my number my phone went in the North Sea off the side of a boat absolutely, only Scrantz only Yorkshire puddings there you go there you go I'm not having Christmas dinner what are you having this year? which stuff then? I'm not getting wrecky what are you having? I'm having a big Costco buffet what did you have last year? Costco buffet is that like a Kerry Keterna prawn ring and stuff? again, that goes back to only fans that's only fans you have a prawn ring out of your hand bit of everything you know, so you don't have to just sit down you can just relax go and help yourself at the buffet that's what we do because otherwise my mum's slaving over the no, we're not we have each of you you have the chefs in though, don't you? the chefs my mum and then me and my mistress do the other stuff go and go and go and Jamie and Andre Goldman has to do something he's got plenty of time on his hands best Christmas cracker deal best Christmas cracker deal? I don't know I'm going to pass on that one you'd have to see it that's the point of Christmas cracker deals that's what you don't remember them the year after actually there was one it was sort of billed as a Christmas cracker joke that I saw yesterday that Vernon Kay put on Instagram it was a scene from Kes and you got the two lads there and you know what, shall I find it otherwise I'm going to just hold two seconds I'm going to find it now because if you're going to deliver something which is really off script why not deliver it in the right way so that you get the full impact so why are you looking for that Mark's wish was a Merry Gold at Christmas and that's the Merry Gold Christmas so Merry Christmas Mark I hope you and your family have a full year how did the ornaments get addicted to Christmas I don't know how did the ornaments get addicted to Christmas he was hooked on trees his whole life there you go very good what would you call an elf who just won the lottery I don't know what would you call an elf that just won the lottery wealthy that's not bad that's not bad so and it says and obviously it's got two speech bubbles with the two lads and it says can kestrels fly at night and then the little lad goes all kestrels maneuver in the dark not bad I mean it's very much based on the 80s 80s Merseyside music scene when I was cash out in the 60s so they've gone for the fair enough making an old joke but a good one kestrels maneuver in the dark is a good one it's a good one it's a good one apart from Kezu of course that's the end I've ruined it for everyone spoiler alert and Josh says Waste Christmas presents ever and best Christmas presents ever Merry Christmas lads the 1878 podcast is my favourite thank you very much Josh Waste Christmas presents ever you threw back at it quite literally see these are really aerodynamic if you just cat them at the right angle I did relate this story to you that you are straight talking enough to just give people a present I've got no issues with that I've done that a few times that was my story what was the reaction to that straight talking I think some sort of went well and others were like fair play no there are no bushes I won't beat around that's been said it has been said you've been a taxi driver for a long time so fair play you've given away what's your best Christmas present you've ever had could be difficult playstation 5, playstation 4, playstation 3 playstation 2 i can care with all of them super nintendo everything kids as a kid it's hard to go that was the best one I ever received just a happy, happy Christmas that's all happy and healthy Christmas Dave, best and worst for you well in many ways best and worst is the same thing because every year I get socks and pants given to me not only for Matalan some people would say are the worst present but then other people would also say you need them I've been doing underwear at any point during the year because obviously they'll normally last me at least a year so that's always a good thing to be telling them inside I suppose the Christmas present that I was most excited about goes back a long, long, long way and I was I don't know maybe 3 or 4 or something and I got one of those Fisher Price car parks but not a new one my mum found it on the dump true story she found it literally somebody had just kind of put it by the bins and so she got it and she realised it just needed a bit of a cleanup and she wrapped it up and it was fantastic and I loved it and it had like a little ramp that went up the side and then the cars would park on the roof of this and I think it had a little lift as well I think possibly a little lift as well as the ramp I think there was a thing but I love this and I thought it was fantastic and there you go cost no money whatsoever and was probably my favourite Christmas present of all time you know they say it's a modern thing but it's been going on for years the cycle of the best kind as long as you get it checked out by Elf and Safety then it's fine there you go full, full full Christmas top I love it Gareth Hughes says are the Lord of the Rings trilogy Christmas films as they have elves in it no they're not they're not what are you talking about he's asking you elves are not Christmasy though they've just been like putting the mix haven't they they are Christmasy they're not Christmasy they've just been manipulated to be Christmasy there's literally a film called Elf it's a Christmas film I mean don't give the bloody plot line of the film away you've already spoiled Kaz I know it's like you know it isn't like bleeding data you know data breaches where once you get past like 30, 40 years you can drop anything goes you just drop Kaz there in 60 years but still okay and Gareth also says the answer is no Gareth but there you go may as well ask the old question is Dai are the kids still? yes it is, let's move on it is we all know it is Mark Kidney says what's your ideal Christmas day and thanks for all the content this year thank you Martin Martin sorry was it? go on Dave what's your ideal Christmas day Dave are you not a big lover of Christmas are you? do you know what I think Christmas is better when you are either a child or you have young children of that age and when I say of that age I mean of that age I enjoy Christmas I'm being careful when I say obviously and then when you've got a soul key teenage 16 year old daughter like I have the magic is not quite the same not quite the same though but there's a lot of work goes into Christmas and I don't take that for granted there's a lot of people all pull together and make it a special day and for that I'm very grateful but I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a little part of me that's always quite pleased when it's done for another year without sounding too humbug but what is my perfect Christmas day I don't know I think Christmas day for everybody is only what you know it to be that makes any sense because other people have different things that they do on Christmas day for me Christmas day is always the same sort of thing we have lunch at about three or four late lunch people normally go around to whatever we're going to be mums this year but we've also been out for Christmas lunch we've been to other family for Christmas lunch normally a kind of one o'clock two o'clock kickoff food comes out about three or three four o'clock and then rolls into the evening and then involves you know just general family mayhem and party games and all that kind of stuff and that's what Christmas day is and if it was anything other than that for me then I suppose it would be weird but each to their own and you know other people do different things at Christmas don't they that sounds good I mean that mine isn't too dissimilar to that to be honest mate we have we'll have a little touch of breakfast but nothing heavy and then we'll have our Christmas dinner lunch whatever you want to call it about yeah three out of three we have the parents around you know after get you know one set of parents day passes to get in the gate of course Sheila Sheila has to sign that off if you want to leave you have to get a stamp you basically you get the little father Christmas stamp on the hand which is you know put the torch on it let them back in Alfred on the gate he let them in well you know he becomes elf for the month of December he's a jolly soul and all of that all of that yeah you know few party games and that kind of thing and just chilled really it's quite nice it's nice to see everyone and it's it's always a bit mad I find Christmas Day as well though because obviously it's quite hectic when your kids are it's like quite hectic and then in the past we've had like 15 in ours for Christmas dinner and you're trying to get everything and there's Pete you know when it's all when you sit down about half nine and everyone's gone you're a bit like you feel knackered especially when the kids 15 pre-approved well now because 8 live within the boundaries of it so it's only ever been set and Sheila's normally okay up to 8 after 8 there's an issue and then how does it work in terms of parking as well for any additional people from outside coming in in terms of sort of Sheila's system I suppose I suppose with regard to the parking no where this is going you can see this coming in a mile off right in terms of Sheila and the parking with all the different cars in I suppose all that comes under the banner of Sheila's wheels wheels yeah but obviously some people like to have a share but also so therefore the car to left the home powdered sugar that's nice mix it together what's that I think so parking's not really an issue Sheila will on occasion issue an extra car space for the day but it does become more complicated then they're not the kind of people you want to mix with if they're not from the area family we're talking but you have to disregard them at some point don't they they start getting to areas of the plate that are outside the realms of the gated community I think it's time to say goodbye to you really yeah you are very black and white aren't you what you're I no fat truth well we know mine isn't going to fat truth because I told you the story of the gully before didn't I so that's mine and Dave's ideal Christmas day so what's yours no no no because you'd be pissing through you know wouldn't it so go on what's your ideal Christmas day get up about half eleven open some pleases go to me mums have something to eat come home there you go lots of detail there drinking of non-alcoholic beverages yeah and that's it it depends if I've got any games I'm not getting any games this year but I might have a little go with jet wash and how do you know you're not because surely you don't know what Father Christmas is got in his sack for you yet there's no good games out there I see I've already played them all okay that's where my priorities lie you have other weird priorities like teaching kids how to play football I have jet wash priorities that I have to sort out I might have a go with jet wash jet wash in my later game that's the greatest game ever and I think it would get Dave into gaming okay I'm not disputing that because I can see the peel there you go it looks like you've had enough if you're checking there's no water I'm just seeing if I can hear any drips fair enough thanks Dave Stuart says what's your least favourite thing yeah this will be you Dave what do you think about Christmas personally I hate turkey so I have beef every Christmas says Stuart it's my least favourite thing the madness I think possibly my least favourite thing about Christmas is the fact that it tends to at times be quite a stressful environment yeah for family and therefore nerves can get frayed and yeah it can just be stressful so I suppose if there is to be a downside in Christmas then maybe that is it in terms of what to eat I think each to their own really I'm not a massive traditionalist really some people like to have beef some people do things like beef wellington and all sorts of stuff now don't they for Christmas dinner and if that's your bag then fine but I will be eating turkey this year because I'm still offered me as of October nice good lad I think it's just the pressure isn't it there's a pressure to enjoy yourself or an pressure to see certain people and I think as the years have gone by with the limitations on all of our time now and it was not really stopping too much about to become harder and harder there was always the classic phrase I will have to meet up over Christmas and you never really do it it sounds good but no one ever really does it I don't think because I just don't think you've got time now and you're tired that's the irony isn't it Christmas is probably the one time when you don't have time to meet up with your friends but you're right everybody says it I tell you what let's meet up over Christmas we never ever do theoretically it sounds great everyone will be happy if we've got time off we want that time to just chill out and again it's that thing of like you get all your presents some people don't of course but if you do or you've got kids you want to see them playing with them and that takes up a lot of your time and I know for as I said a lot of people this year will just be using the time to just chill out because I've outstressed for everyone's lives Josh Alfield says would you rather have hands for feet or feet for hands I thought I'd rather have hands for feet would you? more control hands for feet or feet for hands yeah hands for feet and with you as well because I think hands for feet can only be an improvement in the world of dexterity whereas feet for hands would diminish your general powers did he play for Bayern Munich hands for feet played with hands that do this as well I mean these go play hands that do this yeah that's got a good accent James we've already obviously done the dyad movie says all the best fellas keep up the great work I think that's a good way that was the questions I've got a question for you I can't remember because we probably had this scenario last year but I can't remember how does it work in terms of I mean do I need to put in an official leave form for next week do we take next week off how does it work is that how it works right so there's no podcast next week and then we return back in January yeah yeah yeah because it's a weird one isn't it where it's like everything's next week and then the following week it's all back to normal yeah that's good so this has effectively been our Christmas special then it has I mean that's special if only you were listening as I introduced it but that was fine I wasn't listening he had this bucket in his bathroom as we were doing the intro catching the drops but we hope you get the roof he's got a leaky gutter so that's the truth that he blacks he hasn't got so you can hope the born end or end born or whatever he is it's all good Dave listen have a very very happy and merry Christmas family hope you'll have a lovely a lovely time thank you very much and to both of you as well glad tidings we bring to you and your family yes thank you and yeah have a good one thank you for having me this year and I will see you in January well in 2024 it is the future it's big year for me next year it is 31 40 40 next year big one big one it's good it can be altered it can be altered by the haters absolutely people like Ned but listen to everyone who's watched and listened thank you very much for all taking the time make sure you like, subscribe give it a 5 star review and we will see you all in January have a good Christmas and happy new year see you later


Straight now to those states where the Oba of Benin Oba Awari II has called on Nigerians to be tolerant of one another's religious beliefs and ensure peaceful coexistence. Awari made the call when the chief Imam of Benin's central mosque, Alhaj Abdul Fattai, and Abu Lele led all the Muslim faithful to the palace. He said that there should not be any form of discrimination against any religious belief stating that these could result in these agreements and violence. The traditional rulers said these have become imperative in order to ensure peaceful coexistence, harmony, and good neighborliness amongst the people. Awari urged the Muslim community to always give security reports to his palace to prevent any security breach and arrest on tour of the coroners. Speaking earlier, Alhaj Abdul Fattai thanked Allah for granting Muslim faithful. The grace to witness this year's Eid al-Kabir Festival.


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For Cash Money and No Limit to Come Up, did you ever see that big in New Orleans like they did every when you think of this? No. That's what you think of? No, but I saw them coming because they were following us. Of course. And it's not just, I'm not saying anything bad about them or nothing. I'm just saying that they watched us and they emulated us. And they did their albums like us. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101. It's the culture, the legacy, man. So it gotta be put down right. Can you mention New Orleans and not mention Big Boss now? Hey, man, that's it right there. It's my city, man. And I gotta ask you this and it may sound crazy, but for Cash Money and No Limit to Come Up, did you ever see that big in New Orleans like they did every when you think of this? No. That's what you think of? No, but I saw them coming because they were following us. Of course. And it's not just, I'm not saying anything bad about them or nothing. I'm just saying that they watched us and they emulated us. And they did their albums like us. They asked us. I remember me and people that penning pixel and they knew we went to penning pixel. So they came there. They was in there bathing and swimming like, man, we sorry. Can we use the same people? It's okay if we, you know, we want to make our albums like yours. That's respect though to show and ask that. Right. But it was no problem. Do whatever y'all gotta do, get yourself together. That's hard. You know, because we had made it before they did, but they saw what we did. So they just started following the blueprint. The blueprint. They made the albums like ours. A lot of people didn't know the difference. When they saw the juvenile album and all, they thought it was us. Wow. Because of the way it looked. The graphics and all that. I remember that. Because we started doing them graphic. Chris Rock called us and Chris Rock put out an album using the same people we did. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.  You had eyes on y'all from everywhere. Everywhere. So you got supposed to say it just says, man, I was running around shooting dice with Shag and saying, I'm a sailor. Man, so many people that, you know, I'm connected to that are cool and that with me. But you know, I just don't, you know, I just keep it like that. That's hard. That's hard though.


2 Corinthians chapter 5, I'm going to set my timer here on this phone so that I don't go too long. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, is a new creation, all things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the Word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us, we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God, for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. And so as we look at this as is my natural manner of teaching, let me remind you of a few things. Paul had just written, therefore, knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. He had said that in verse 11. And as I was giving that study earlier, I mentioned to you that the term, the terror of the Lord, is a term that speaks concerning Ah, it speaks of reverence of God. You see, it's a reverence that keeps a thoughtless man from desecrating that which is sacred. The biblical and proper fear of the Lord, because there are those who speak concerning it, and all in they say fear of the Lord. What do you speak about when you talk about the terror of the Lord or the fear of God? Well, the biblical and proper fear of the Lord has been described as a cleansing fear. It is a fear that provokes us to live in such a way that our lives are purified from sinning in a casual way. You see, in our day, the idea that a man should fear God, well, in our day, that's looked at as being backwards, that's looked at as being primitive. Non-Christians think that it's a superstitious way of thinking. The thought that there's a God that's all-powerful is very often ridiculed and rejected. And without knowing it, their attitude is actually something that reveals their nature. You see, there's the psalm, Psalm 36 in verse 1. It's been referred to as the psalm of David, the servant of the Lord. And the heading is an oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked. And then he writes, there is no fear of God before his eyes. That is an oracle, he said, within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked. There is no fear of God before his eyes. You see, this fear is actually one of the things that God requires from those who serve him. If you take notes Deuteronomy 10 verses 12 and 13 says, now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? But to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul. And to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes, which I command you today for your good. You see, by the fear of the Lord, man avoids being and doing that which the Lord forbids. The lack of the fear of the Lord is evidence that someone doesn't know God. In the book of Romans chapter 3 verses 16 through 18, it reads destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace they have not known. And he goes on to say, there is no fear of God before their eyes. And this is the kind of fear that we are commanded to have that results in a holy life. And it's the kind of fear that actually produces satisfaction. Proverbs 8.13 says, the fear of the Lord is the hate evil. Proverbs 19 verse 23, the fear of the Lord leads to life and he who has it will abide in satisfaction. And so Paul has been speaking of his own sincerity. And as I've been mentioning to you as we've gone through 2 Corinthians, he's responding to various accusations that have been lodged against him. Now, why would he even respond to accusations?  It just happens. People do that. Just this week, as a regional overseer, as a member of the Calvary Chapel Council, of pastors who oversee Calvary Chappals worldwide, I received a letter just this week from somebody out of state who was basically accusing a pastor, a Calvary Chapel pastor, who lives next door, accusing him of various things. And so I contacted the pastor and communicated with him and asked him, actually, I sent him the letter that was sent to me, the message that was sent to me and asked him to respond to it. And as I suspected, the charges were not true. The charges were not true. Because people have a tendency of lodging charges and very often they'll charge people who are doing well with something that's malicious and wrong. If you're a believer in Christ, if you haven't had somebody say something about you yet, you will. You just aren't old enough yet or just haven't been following the Lord for very long because all of us receive charges. All of us will have accusations. And most of the time, almost all the time, really, we just progress. We just move on. If there are false charges, why waste our time trying to address every one of them? So why is Paul addressing this? Well, in his case, as an apostle, one who is representative of the kingdom of God, an ambassador for Jesus Christ, he has to respond to these things because he's guarding something. He's guarding the purity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Remember in the book of Philippians in chapter 1, verse 17 how that Paul said that he was appointed for the defense of the gospel. In Paul's view, the gospel was on trial and he had strategically been placed in the position to defend it. And he knew that his message would be listened to in the context of his character. And for this reason, he knew that he must be a man living a life without reproach. So somebody says, well, why should he care about what people thought? Is it not more important for us to be authentic for us to be real, to be real before people? Why should he care if people misunderstood him? Why should he care if people brought charges against him? Why should we care? Why did he care? But why should we care? Isn't it more important for us to be real? Well, we do care. We care because believers should avoid not only evil but even the appearance of evil. Lest anything make others think less, not of us, but of the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. When you're appointing somebody to lead a church in 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 7, Paul was laying out certain requirements that were really character traits. And in 1 Timothy 3, 7 he had said he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, outside of the church. He must have a good testimony among those who are outside lest he fall into reproach in the snare of the devil. Because at church it will be judged by its representatives and therefore anybody who is leading needs to be without reproach. When Paul was writing in Romans 2, verse 24, he said, There are people who watch the way we live and will make their judgments on whether or not the gospel is true based on what they see in us. So why is that important? Because the gospel is the message of life.  That's a normal response from the world and is very often the response of those who profess to be Christian but are really lukewarm. I have found it odd but true that it's more acceptable to paint our faces with our team colors and go crazy at games than it is for us to be in love with Jesus Christ. Paul knew that Jesus had given us, had been given as a sacrifice for us and that knowledge caused him to love Jesus and to serve him with all of his strength. And Jesus died not only for Paul, but he died for the sin of the whole world. In 1 John 2 verse 22, John said, Jesus is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world. As mentioned, we have some 65, maybe even more now, countries watching. He died for you too. No matter what country you are in at this moment, you need to know that. Jesus died for your sins also and if you've never given your heart to Christ, today is the day of salvation. Today I encourage you to do that. You see, this understanding should motivate us to no longer live for ourselves, but to live for the Lord. As we're looking at the verses prior to the ones that we're about to address, he had closed in verse 16 by saying that he didn't make judgments using fleshly standards. At one time he did. He judged according to the flesh. He says, but he now no longer does and why is that? Well, because the world standard of value made Jesus and his message worthless. That's how Christianity is viewed today. I've said this several times because it's disturbed me that deeply that we're living in a country that you can, some places are opening up their bowling alleys, their gyms, their marijuana dispensaries. They're opening up abortion clinics, liquor stores, but they want the churches to remain closed. We're worthless. We are not essential. We don't matter. We who love the Lord, it's become even more clear than ever before that we have no value. I went to a Starbucks as I was mentioning earlier to you who are here with me right now. But Marie and I stopped at a Starbucks and you don't go in. You have to go through the line and all. And a young man asks me, what are you doing? I said, well, I'll be having my coffee and then I'll be going to the office to go to work. And he said to me, he goes, what kind of work do you do? And I told him, I'm a pastor and I'm part of those who are non-essentials because the church is really non-essential. People like you, people like me, believers, gathering together, worshiping the Lord. We are regarded as non-essential. We are not as important as an abortion clinic. Think about that for a minute. We're not as important as a liquor store. Think about that. We're not as important as a bowling alley. Consider that. We are non-essential. We are nothing to some, but we are everything to Jesus. We need to understand that today. And so when people use their fleshly standards to make judgments of Jesus and His message to them, it's worthless. That's because according to verse 12, they only judge according to outward appearance, which is the normal way of making an evaluation. Paul had at one time evaluated Jesus using fleshly means that he went on to tell us that he no longer did so because Jesus had spoken to him on the road to Damascus and that's how he had gotten saved. And that salvation encounter with Jesus Christ completely transformed him. And that's what he's speaking about here in verse 17. That was your introduction. Let's get into our study when he says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. And so Paul is beginning here to speak of what it means to be born again. At one time, according to verses 14 and 15, we were all spiritually dead. But Jesus died for all so that we could live. And now he's going to expand on what that means. And he makes it clear that salvation has created an entirely new person. We have not been refurbished. We are entirely new. The power of God revealed in the gospel is impossible for us to be transformed because we need to be transformed because we have what is called a sin nature. And I'm going to develop that with you for just a moment. You see, there are many who believe that human beings are basically good. Many say that it is our upbringing or its economics. It's our culture, our race, our education, or lack thereof that determines our evil or our goodness, our value. We're simply a product in many people's eyes or the product of our environment or the product of our living conditions. And so in that kind of model, and that's the model of the world, in that kind of model, good is relative. What is considered good by the majority becomes good for everybody. And we normally have a way of enshrining that goodness in what we call our laws. So what becomes legal also becomes moral. And so society is basically based on what is acceptable being good. When they make these decisions and all when these things begin to be the way things simply are, what isn't taken into consideration is human nature. For some reason, many find it hard to believe that people are not born intrinsically good. And the ones who believe that, the most are the ones who've never had children. They find it hard to believe that people aren't just born good. It doesn't answer the question related to why people do evil. It just provides an excuse for doing evil. Obviously these things contribute to the expression of evil, but don't provide its origin. Evil, iniquity, originated with Lucifer.  So he's speaking to Lucifer. Lucifer is also known as Satan. And he had entered into the garden and he tempted Eve and Adam and Eve to come to the temptation and that's how sin was introduced to mankind. When you use theological terms, Adam, the first man, is called the federal head of humanity. And the children he had had what he had, a sin nature. And in the book of Romans 5 verse 12 it says, sin entered the world through one man and death through sin. And in this way, death came to all men because all sinned. In Adam, we received his nature, all sinned. When he fell, we received his fallen nature. Remember that Adam was created perfect, but he fell through willful disobedience. So we receive a fallen nature, a nature that is in total rebellion against God. Romans 5 19 says, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners. The sin nature is the reason for evil because all human beings have sin natures. In Ephesians in chapter two, one through three, Paul said, you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of the air, the Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. They were once spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. We have physical, biological life, but spiritually we have no life in us. When we speak of physical death, if you're physically dead, that speaks of the soul when it separates from the body at death, you're physically dead. But spiritually dead speaks of the soul being separated from God.  He spoke of it again in chapter two of Ephesians and he used the word transgressions, which speaks of falling and failing to resist. That word is used some 21 times in the New Testament. He also speaks of sins. And the word sins is a very common word. It's a Greek word that means to miss the mark. It's used in the New Testament very often and it's used something like 250 times. For so we're in transgression and sin. And so by nature we're rebellion, rebellious we're constantly at war with and we're hostile to God. And the Bible makes that clear in Psalm 51.5, I was brought forth in iniquity and sin, my mother conceived me. And Paul said in Romans 8 verse 7, the sinful nature's always hostile to God. It never did obey God's law. It never will. In Ecclesiastes 7.20, there's not a just man on earth who does not sin. The Bible is very clear that we have what is called an endemic nature. It's a sin nature, a fallen nature. And we do evil because it's natural for us to do that. And Paul is addressing that in Ephesians. He says, you used to live in this way when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air. The spirit, he says, who is now at work and those who are disobedient. In other words, life was consistently lived in trespasses. Sin is always willful. Transgressions, trespasses, always willful. Sins are not always deliberate. You can sin without even knowing you're doing it. And Paul says we wandered aimlessly. We had no stability. We had no direction. Ultimately, we had no satisfaction. We wandered aimlessly. Why? Because we were spiritually blind. We didn't know why we were created. What is our purpose? And we followed the ways of the world. The ways of the world speaks of the flow. And this is a flow that is directed by Satan who is referred to again by Paul as the prince of the power of the air. When he speaks of him being the prince of the power of the air, the air is a picture of that which separates heaven from earth. And so there needs to be a connection. And so Jesus Christ came as the one who connects heaven and earth. And for Timothy chapter 2 verse 5, there's one God, one mediator between God and men. And that's the man Christ Jesus.  That's why Jesus came. He is the ladder from earth to heaven, Jacob's ladder that you find in the Old Testament. He's the one who makes that connection and that's why we go to God through him. But prior to Christ again, and I'll finalize a couple thoughts out of the Ephesians passage I quoted. We once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh as a result of that. And we fulfilled the desires of the flesh and of the mind and he said, children of wrath just as the others. So lots of the flesh is doing what feels good. It actually speaks of deliberately choosing to sin. People sin because sin for a moment brings pleasure. That's why you sin. They enjoy it because it has a momentary pleasure that's involved with it. But what happens is we begin to live a life that is just pleasing our flesh and we become kind of like animals. We satisfy our basic needs. That's what animals do. Jesus made it clear that man is concerned about what we eat, what we drink, and what we put on. Which is the stuff that all commercials that you watch on TV is based on. What you eat, what you drink, and what you wear. Your material pleasures. The world knows these things and that's why if you watch television, that's why they are constantly pushing you to eat at a certain place, to drink a certain thing, or to dress in a certain way. Because what we eat, what we drink, and what we put on are the things that are most important. But it's kind of like being an animal. And what happens is we just live for the moment. You see the sinful nature in us, craves to satisfy our own inclinations and we'll do whatever we choose to do or want to do. Because we're fulfilling, as he said in Ephesians 2-3, we're fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. By nature, we crave to satisfy our own inclinations and we do whatever we want to do. And so the result of that is we are by nature children of wrath. We're worthy of receiving just punishment for our sinful lives. And under these conditions, we were hopeless, helpless to save ourselves. But God, who is rich in mercy and because of His great love, God saved us by His grace and He made us alive together with Jesus Christ. And in Christ, we have the power to resist. And in Christ, we have the power to change. And in Christ, we have the power to please Him. And that's what He's talking about here in 2 Corinthians 5-17 when He speaks of being in Christ. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. All things have passed away behold. All things have become new. Before we were in Christ, we were children of wrath. But now in Christ, we have a new nature. In Christ is a way of saying that we're saved. It speaks of our position. It reveals the depth of a new birth and how incredible it is to be a Christian. It reveals the security that we have because Jesus bore in His own body our judgment. It communicates a participation in the family of God, what He calls the church. We're no longer members of the community of the world. We are now the body of Christ. And even though we were completely antagonistic to Him, He showed us His grace. And that's because He is intimately aware of how weak we are and how needy we truly are. There's a Psalm you might want to note. Psalm 103 verse 14 where He simply says, He knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. That's what we are. We're weak, but that's why I need a Savior. And so when I heard that message of the gospel, we'll see this more clearly in a moment. When you heard the message of the gospel, a message that offers us forgiveness, a message that reveals to us what love is, a message that promises transformation. Transformation. That's why we receive that message. So we could be new. So we could be brand new in Jesus Christ. A new creation, the old things passing away. Being in Christ fulfills God's eternal purpose in creation. As new creations, our life is completely transformed and it's all by the grace of God. This new creation has a purpose. We are to bring glory to God. Ephesians 1-12 said it like this, We who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. You see, old things, according to verse 17, have passed away. Behold, all things have become near. That word, behold, is intended to grab your attention. It's like, isn't this amazing? When I was young, and this is something not said anymore, but maybe it is, I don't know. We would say, check this out. That's what we would say. But in a paraphrase, that's what he's saying. When he says, behold, he's saying, let this grab your attention. Isn't this amazing? He's saying, if anyone's in Christ, he's a new creation. All things have passed away. And behold, like that is that word of wonder. He's brand new. You're not refurbished. You're not rebuilt. You're not redone. You're recreated. This is what is called a note of triumph. Everything is passed away.  And you can live. And this, I think, is where the church has really failed to grab hold of this, frankly. You can live as a completely different person. Without going too far into this, I'm trying to be as brief as I can in my study today. But there are quite a number of people that I've encountered, including myself in my earlier walk with the Lord who did not grab hold of this. I didn't grab it. I did not see it. I didn't see it the way that I do now. It's different that I can be an entirely different person, not trapped by my own inclinations of my own flesh. That I can be brand new, not the same person. There are just too many Christians who say that's the way I was raised. That's how I was taught to do things. That's just my temperament.  This is real, real quick. It's not in my notes, but it comes to mind. You know how you change? You hate what you were. You hate what you were.  When you get to that point, the life changes. But when you make excuses for yourself constantly, it's just the way I am. People have to get used to it. If they don't like it, that's too bad. That's the most selfish thing that you can do. It's the most selfish way of thinking. It's just pure selfishness. That's what it is. It's self-centeredness. Narcissism.  How about you? I want to be that new creation. I want all things to be passed away.  And they have.  No, it's just a temper. And it's flesh. But they use, oh, you know, and we cultureize sin.  And we need to understand that Jesus died on the cross to set us free from the things that we want to remain with. They won't want to keep. It's like, I have a house, and I gave him permission to work in every room except for one closet. And he stands at the door of the closet and he says, I want entrance.  You can have every other room, the front room, the bedroom. You can have, you know, the kitchen, you have everything. But I want to keep this closet for myself. Because in that closet, I have my special sins that I want to open up for myself on occasion. Not every day, not all the time, but every once in a while. And he says, I want to go in and clean that one out too. That's what the Lord wants to do in you, by the way, and me. He wants to open up that closet of pet sins and clean it out with the blood of Jesus Christ so that you may know what it means to be a new creation in Christ Jesus. The old things really being passed away. The old way of life, the life that had its prejudice and its lust, its profanity, its sinfulness, that's gone. We haven't been rehabilitated. We haven't been refurbished. We've been recreated. You still look like the same person, but you're new from the inside. And that newness continues because it never grows old.  And that's good news. That's such great news that before Paul came to faith in Christ he tried to destroy the gospel. The mercy of God and the newness of the life he had in Jesus Christ drove him to serve the Lord. And so he speaks concerning that in verse 18, and he says all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. Those all things refers to the blessings of salvation, all things that pertain to it. God originated salvation. God is the author of it. It's his idea. He's made it possible for us to be reconciled. When it speaks of reconciliation, that speaks of a cessation of hostility. You see, sin goes deeper than missing the mark. It speaks of a rebellion at its core. It's the desire of the creature to set itself in place of the Creator. It's the desire to place man at the center, the controller of all things. It is not met with indifference. It is met with God's wrath against sin. We need to remember that God is the master and ultimate authority. And he does not tolerate rebellion. In Psalm 7 verse 11, God is a just judge.  Through mercy and grace, God unilaterally decided to deal with sin, and he did it through his son. At the cross, Jesus took the full force of God's wrath against sin and unrighteousness. The Bible says in Psalm 85 verse 10, mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed. Our war against God ended when we became reconciled with him. And through Jesus, the work of reconciliation has been accomplished once and for all. You see, the gospel is the declaration of reconciliation, guys. The gospel is God's terms of peace. And this peace that we have with God is not a negotiated peace. The peace that we have with God comes through unconditional surrender. There's a difference. When the United States became victorious in World War II and Japan surrendered there on the Missouri, we handed to the Japanese representatives terms of peace. And some of you may have studied this in school. And they were unconditional. There were no negotiated peace agreements. It was unconditional surrender where the sword representing Japan was handed to the United States. Unconditional surrender. And that's how you got saved. I don't know if you know that or realize that. You did not negotiate with God to keep certain pet sins because you enjoy them so much. You didn't say, God, I'm going to give you my whole life except for my Friday and Saturday nights because I like to go out with my friends and drink a little bit and party a bit. Or, God, I'm giving you my whole life except for my dating life because every once in a while I like to go to bed with friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, whatever.  That isn't how it works. What I did and what you did when you got saved, maybe you don't realize this, is you said I unconditionally surrender. You have my whole life. Everything. Every single thing about me. Everything. Including the secret sins that you're familiar with that I don't even admit in front of others. Even that area is yours. That's what the gospel of reconciliation is. You see, it's God ceasing the cessation of hostility between a rebellious individual and the victorious God. And Jesus died on the cross and the terms of peace are the gospel. It's unconditional surrender. Try and think for just a moment with me. Can you find a scripture in the Bible? Maybe you can. I haven't found it yet that says, Love the Lord thy God with half of your heart or some of your heart, some of your soul, some of your mind, some of it, but not all of it. Anybody know a scripture that says you can be a partial believer? I don't. I don't know when where God says commit yourself to me temporarily or part-time eight to five with the rest after five is your life. I just don't know where that comes in. Listen, I think that Christianity is weak right now in many ways because we have taken the spirit of the age and we've incorporated into our theological practices and it's become the way we live because we've adjusted our way of life with scripture to the point that we think that scripture can give us permission to continue in sin and then we cover all of that with the word grace. And so I can continue in sin. God knows that I'm weak. God knows my framing. He knows I'm dust. It comes in excuse instead of an awareness. I am aware of my own weakness and that's why I need Christ for like Paul said, I can do all things to Christ who strengthens me. But Jesus said without me, you can do nothing. So people look at this kind of preaching. I'm probably losing some people right now as being hard and legalistic. That's only because you've been taught pablum and not the word. You've been taught people's opinions and you've been given permission to keep in sin. Jesus never gave us permission to sin. It's been said and I like this illustration. It's been said that staying in sin and keeping sin in sin is like kissing the tip of the spear that was driven into the side of Jesus Christ. When you love sin more than you love Jesus your heart is being exposed. You have to be careful.  That's not legalism. That's called Christianity. That's what Jesus said when he said pick up your cross daily and follow me. It's a constant death to self and that's what we're called to in this message of the gospel is the message of reconciliation. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. Notice that in verse 19 not imputing their trespasses to them and he committed to us the word of reconciliation. So the Christian has been given a task to proclaim what is called the word of reconciliation. Our ministry of reconciliation is the ministry of proclamation. It's the announcing of good news and that's why he says in verse 20 therefore we are ambassadors for Christ as a God. We're pleading through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. So we said our ambassadors an ambassador is one who acts and speaks on behalf of the leader of another country. So in a sense when the ambassador would speak the one he represented is speaking through him and this is because they are representing them and they are invested with his authority.  It's interesting how in Matthew 10 verse 20 Jesus said it's not you who speak but the spirit of your father who speaks in you. When you quote the Scripture with the authority of Scripture it's the Lord speaking to people. That's how it works. You know it's over the years I've been teaching for a while now there have been on occasion those who well that's your opinion well if the Scripture is rightly divided then it's not my opinion. If the Scripture is rightly divided it's the voice of the Lord speaking through his word. That's what it is. That's how it works. That's what Christianity actually is. The key is is it rightly divided. And so the Corinthians were to live out the message of the Gospel that they might live in peace with God but he's also letting them think about the fact that some of them are being influenced by false teachers. And because some of you are being influenced by the false Paul would be saying recognize our authority and that it's from God because we are his ambassadors and we are invested with his authority you must obey God and you must obey him through his word and we who are his ambassadors have brought that word to you so that you might know the truth that sets you free and recognize the authority we have in God because remember the false teachers have been entering into Corinth calling into question the ministry and authority of Paul and that's why he made it clear we are ambassadors for Christ as though God repleted through us and then he speaks and we implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. You have been rejecting the authority God gave to us we are representatives of his kingdom influencers have come to try and undermine my ministry to you but you need to understand that we've been called by God to give you his true word and then he says finally in verse 21 he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him that we might become the righteousness of God in him he made him who knew no sin Jesus died for us Jesus is the one who knew no sin this is the witness of Scripture 1 Peter 2 verse 22 speaking of Jesus he committed no sin no deceit was found in his mouth 1 John 3 verse 5 you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins and in him is no sin he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us he became the sin offering he took upon himself the punishment that we deserved Isaiah 53 says it like this in verse 6 we all like sheep have gone astray each of us has turned to his own way the Lord laid on him the equity of us all he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world he takes away my sin and he gives to me his righteousness think about that that we might become the righteousness of God in him think about that that we might become the righteousness of God the righteousness of God what is the standard of entrance into heaven perfection perfection who is perfect no human being outside of Jesus Christ how do I get to heaven I recognize that I am a sinner in rebellion against God that I have a need for becoming a new creation a cleansing that comes through the blood of Christ and I need the power of God to be within me that I might be his temple that he might work within me empower me, gift me that I might be sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise and that I might use his word to grow to become deeper to understand his ways and to live for him to no longer make up excuses for the sins but to turn from them knowing that those sins were what put Jesus on the cross and not to trust in my religious rituals that I might have gone through no matter how wonderful they may be but to trust in the one who set me free Jesus Christ to have a personal knowledge of him and the forgiveness of sins that comes through him and that's what Jesus would have spoken of as being born again so if you're listening today then I would take this scripture as an ambassador for Christ as though God replete through me I implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God get right with him today give your heart to Christ say God forgive me I'm a sinner I need you, I have been a sinner I was born in sin I sin habitually I hate it I want to be turned away I want to come to you I want freedom you can have that today and if your heart has been touched by that God has spoken to you this is your moment and I want to pray with you you need to open your heart to Christ so let's pray and if God has spoken to your heart right now and has said to you it's time to get right with him open your heart say God be merciful to me I'm a sinner and ask the Lord to come into your life you can say Father forgive me I'm a sinner Jesus died on the cross to save sinners Jesus died to save me forgive me of my sins cleanse me give me a new life and I will follow you from this day forward every day in Jesus name Amen and if you can do that you've given your heart to Christ please contact us let us know we want to follow up with you


Hi everyone, Joe for JazzBeastCaseBrace.com, coming at you with 2022 Panini Legacy Football. 4 box, pick your team member 12. The final 4 box is of that big 24 box case that we popped open. No vet commons ship, and if you follow the instructions you got a chance at some break credit as well. But first the break itself, big thanks to this group for making it happen on a Wednesday hump day for most of you. It's even Kay with quadruple last bot mojo, getting the last 4 teams to unlock this break. Thanks to him, thanks everybody for making this happen. If your week starts on a Monday, today would be hump day. My week starts on a Sunday, so my hump day was yesterday actually. I'll just depend. But for most of you, a Wednesday hump day. What do we got here? We got twins at Dodgers on in the background. After pitching across with Ryan Pepio making a start, just the second inning, scoreless in the second inning. Has there been any big football news? Looks like D'Shaun Watson to start the pre-season opener for the Browns. I think Brown's losing Grant, wide receiver, yeah, Jaquine Grant that is, Torna Killie for Jaquine Grant. Lines Rookie gets Stafford's old number 9, Tua on Dolphins Brady interest, quote I'm still here. That's all noise. Box 104, legacy football, pick your team 12. Good luck everybody. There's Derek Kenry to 150, for Solave, and our first autograph is Jameson Williams. That's the Jameson Williams that's going to get Stafford's number, we're just talking about him. Yeah, the newest number 9 for the Detroit Lines is expected to be a lot faster than the old one in Motor City. Says Eric Woodyard for ESPN, Lines Rookie Receiver, Jameson Williams has officially switched his jersey to number 9, Matthew Stafford's old number. Detroit Lines, that's going to be Austin Caruso, Caruso, nice. He's supposed to be pretty good, he can make Jared Goff look real good this season. We've got Romeo Dobbs, 299 for the Packers, that'll be for Sean Healy. We've got a Rookie Mini, that is Wendale Robinson to 75, Sean Alexander to 125 for the Seahawks, that'll be for Bill, and Christian Watson for the Packers to 149. It's another one for Sean Healy. We've got Rookie Devin Lloyd, 18 out of 50 for the Jaguars, Nestor with the Jags. Got a Mini, Danny Gray, 45 out of 50 for the Niners. Here we have Ahmaud Gardner, Red Ink Autograph, that's for Nestor and the Jets. And they actually, they actually call him Sauce, right, yeah Sauce Gardner, you can see with the S right there. Nice one Nestor, and that's box one, done. The MLS All Star game is also on, I need a second TV. And Pepio looking pretty good, I thought there was a League of their own TV series coming out. Interesting. There's Michael Vick to 199 for the Falcons, that's one of my favorite baseball movies. TV show though, I guess Amazon needs to keep creating content to the world in which we live now. There's Tyler Beatty, that is Nestor and the Ravens, Justin's saying anyone used to watch the League. Missed that show, is that about, is that about fancy football, is that that show? There's Earl Campbell to 25 for EA and the Titans. JC saying four left, four left and what, select maybe? There is Christian Watson, Sean Healy with the Packers. You know, I never, I feel like that show is right in my wheelhouse, but I never really got around to it, 007 out of 100. Well we got a deadline for that Steve Burch, so we may as well just act now. If there's only four left, if you get a couple more, that drops it down to two left and surely someone will get the other two teams and then we can get on the schedule early instead of running out of time for it. There's Tyquan Thornton to 299 and Kenny Pickett for the Steelers, that's for Taylor. And there is Devin Singletary to 125, Buffalo James with the Buffalo Bills. That's a good question. What TV shows, TV shows based on movies? There are 75 out of 149, Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, a lot of TV shows, popular TV shows end up getting a movie, but popular movies getting a TV show? The Star Wars count? I guess those are more spinoff TV shows in the Star Wars universe. But yeah, like the league of their own show on Amazon, how many times does that happen? To 150, there's Sky Moore and how many of those shows end up being successful? Bates Motel, Justin's saying, I don't remember that. Oh, but you know what? Fargo, right? Fargo movie, Fargo TV show. That turned out to be a successful example. I think Bates Motel counts if that's based off the old Hitchcock. Yeah, that counts. Max Muncie heatin' up, took one yard solo shot. Although I've never seen Fargo TV show, but I hear it's good. That's going to be scary, Bellinger's hitting the ball well too. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, Mike Tower did a search on the internet, thanks Mike. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, originally a movie, turned into a TV show after the fact. A TV show might be even more popular than the movie. Was Stargate a movie first? Stargate SG-1, Mike Tower said, I didn't realize that. Josh Allen to 25 for the bills, that would be for James. Matthew Stafford for the Rams to 299. Teen Wolf, I did not realize, turned into a TV show. What we do in The Shadows did not realize I was a movie first. It was Kurt Russell and James Spader for Stargate. There's Kurt C- oh right, Cobra, how could you forget about that? That's one of the more successful movies spun off into a TV show. There's Sky Morrigan for the Chiefs, that's the 75, Little Mini for Tanner. 12 Monkeys was a TV, turned into a TV show? See, I feel like most of the movies turn TV shows. 12 Monkeys as a movie, I enjoy very much. But I don't know if... I don't remember a TV show then. We got Nikobe Dean under the lights autograph. We pulled a few from this case already, Aaron. They were in previous breaks. Nikobe Rashad Dean, linebacker for the Eagles, for the Fly Eagles Fly. Alien Nation, I did not realize, was a movie first. I remember the TV show. The Odd Couple was a movie first? Yeah, the people did not dare to tear. Mash was a movie first? There's Dak Prescott to 150. Mini CD Lamb. And a Daxton Hill, 25 out of 25. Cracked Ice Auto for the Bengals. Patrick Davis, Ron Cincinnati. Alright, fourth and final box here in Picker Team, 12. There's a lot of shows that I did not realize had a movie first. Yeah, Mac, no, not too expensive, a great price. Just no interest. One of those, I feel like the TV show is more popular than the movie. Well, apparently everyone was waiting to see movement, Mac. No one aside from Nicholas Nappy got spots. So I always encourage everybody, hey, don't wait for movement to happen. You create the movement and the momentum in a break. Imagine if everyone was just thinking that, Mac. I'll just wait until spots start to move. Everyone's waiting for each other. And in the meantime, nothing's going to get full. Lesson learned. Pro tips for getting the group breaks to happen, ladies and gentlemen. And we got Calvin Austin, the third, 21 out of 249. Dual Relic and Autograph. That's right, Chilo, be the change you want to be. Calvin Austin, a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's going to go to Taylor.  What do we do with it? We save it. Maybe we'll post it again with the different configuration. Maybe we'll just eat the cost and go to the Jeter party ourselves. There's Justin Herbert, 299. We'll save it for a rainy day. There's Joaquin Briskert, to 125. Maybe it goes back to our distributor. Maybe we'll say, hey, no one wants that Jeter break. Our distributor may say, hey, we know someone who wants that case. There's Deontay Johnson to 199 for the Steelers. I don't think those invites get plus ones. That's to 299. Ronde Barber.  There's Chris Alave, the 35. Jeter might actually get that reference, Mike Tyler. That's kind of his wheelhouse, right? Yeah, that's not a bad price point. You'd be spending probably that amount and maybe not even getting that VIP invite randomized to in a break anyway. All right, we got TJ Watt, a little mini. And Bailey Zapp is your final autograph. That goes to Karen and her Patriots. All right, and there it is. Four boxes, another four boxes of legacy in the books. Let's give away some break credit. Let's flip back to the screen here.  You just say hi. How are you? Big fan, if you are. Big fan. Did some amazing things. What happened in Miami? So many things. All right, so if you bought at least two teams, you got one entry, four teams, two entries, so on and so forth. Let's alphabetize by your first names. Bill bought two teams. That's an entry. EA bought two teams. That's an entry. Nestor bought four teams. That's two entries. Nick got two teams. That's an entry. Patrick Davis got four teams. That's two entries. Control V, paste. There we go. Sean H, two teams, one entry. Stephen K, four teams, two entries. Tanner with four teams, two entries. And Taylor with four teams, two entries. I think the gift baskets have been confirmed. Have they not? All right, so two out of the 15 spots here are going to get an opportunity to get some break credit. Let's actually just spot check this really quick. Make sure I got everybody. So I got Taylor's two spots. Tanner's two spots. Stephen's two spots. Sean, Patrick, Nick, Nestor, not Karen, James, EA, Bill, and not Austin. All right. Good luck. Let's get some new dice right here. There we go. Dice two times. Snake eyes, top two after two. One and two. After two, Nick and Nestor. Congrats to you. $125 of break credit each going your way. I'm Joe for Jasper's Case of Breaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.