Well, hello, Radiant Church. How's everybody doing? Good, welcome to Big Give Weekend. So glad that you're joining and those of you who are with us online, wherever you are, we just wanna welcome you and wish you a happy Thanksgiving weekend as well as this Big Give Weekend. We do this every year and this year, obviously, like everything else, you have to improvise and adapt. But what we've decided to do is actually lean into all of the things that have basically limited our ability to do things like normal and we've actually taken it up a step and our outreach that we are a part of for Big Give globally is something that is, it's a first for us. We've never done it. This big, this global, this large of an impact, but we're really, really excited about it and at the end of the service, we're gonna receive that Big Give offering. But one of the things that Pastor Joel Dorlag, our missions pastor brought up to me about our Big Give booklet was, don't throw this away after Big Give weekend because this is a really, really good tool for prayer because of all of our missionaries and all of our global partners, it doesn't just share with you the need in the moment, but it shares actually prayer points and what they are doing and who they are globally. This is a powerful tool. So keep it with you, keep it with your Bible and your journal and when we pray, pull that out and pray for our missionaries. It's one of the things that I do on a weekly basis, I pray for our missionaries. We have prayer, a whole prayer team that is our mission's prayer team that pray on a consistent basis, not only for, but sometimes through Skype and Zoom and all kinds of other things, they pray with our missionaries and so we would love for you to join in. Whoever you are, where you are, we're praying for our missionaries globally and then also participating in the Big Give this weekend. And we've had a couple of people say, actually ask, hey, I'm not ready this weekend. We're gonna keep the Big Give open, that offering for a couple weeks so that those who weren't prepared this weekend, maybe this week or next weekend, depending on how your pay schedule is or when things get freed up, you'll still have an opportunity to give big, because we wanna make a big impact, right? We wanna reach the world with the love of God. Can somebody say amen to that? All right, thank you very much. Take your Bibles out if you would today. Open them with me to Matthew chapter 13. This is part two of message I started last weekend called the Divine Reset. Now, I will tell you, I had planned on starting a brand new holiday or a Christmas series this weekend. And I'm gonna do that in a couple weeks because next weekend, Pastor Tim Matthews is gonna be bringing the message. It's gonna be powerful. He already told me today what he's bringing. It's kind of a standalone message and it's gonna rock your world. It's gonna be incredible. And then I'm gonna come back the weekend after that and I'm gonna start a new series called Mary's Miracle and we're gonna be taking a look at the Christmas story through the eyes of Mary. It's gonna be really powerful I think. But why I changed is because last weekend, two things, number one, typically when I write notes for messages, I always write way more than I can ever get to because I have this sense of guilt if I don't have enough content. My pastor who trained me is like leading, if you don't have anything we're saying, don't get up in the pulpit. So I always make sure I've got like tons of notes. And I can, you can give me one bullet point and I could probably go for a couple hours. So I have all these notes and you probably have noticed I don't often get to all of the points. But the other thing, the other reason I wanted to come back to this is because I believe the second part of this message that I maybe touched on last weekend is so important for the hour that we are living in. It's based on the parable that Jesus taught about the sower and the soil that the seed was sown into. So look with me here at Matthew chapter 13, beginning in verse number one, it says, that same day, Jesus went out of the house and he sat beside the sea and great crowds gathered about him so that he got into a boat. He sat down and the whole crowd stood on the beach and he told them many things and parables saying a sower went out to sow and as he sowed some seed fell along the path and the birds came and devoured them. Other seed fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil and immediately it sprang up and since they had no depth of soil but when the sun rose, they were scorched and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among the thorns and the thorns grew up, choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and it produced grain. Some a hundred fold, some 60, some 30 and then he said, he who has ears to hear, let him hear. I think we oftentimes underestimate the power of Jesus's parables. They in and of themselves are containers of kingdom of God principles but they're only applicable and they're only powerful to the ones who have ears to hear them. Jesus taught the multitudes in parables. Number one, because people learn by stories really well but number two, because you have to try, you have to focus to draw the meaning out of them. It's not obvious, you have to think through it because there's a lot of truth that is wrapped up in it. This is a parable that is more applicable in our day than almost any of the parables that Jesus taught. And I know that that's a big statement, they're all applicable. It's all the word of God, it's all good for us. But I'll tell you, when I take a look at the condition of our culture and the way that we are all bombarded, 24 hours a day with content, information, people putting a demand on us for our focus and putting a demand on our time and our resources. And we all only have 24 hours in a day. What I'm seeing is that there is an ADHD type of cloud that is kind of hovering over our culture where we can't really focus on anything because we've got 3000 things coming at us all at the same time. But yet then we also have a post-traumatic stress syndrome that is happening to our soul because in the middle of all these voices, we've got anxiety at a level that we've never had before and we're trying to figure out where we fit in, who we're supposed to be loyal to, what we can do, what decisions we can make that are gonna get us to where we feel like we're safe, we're secure, where we belong, that we're successful. And people are stressed out and we have more information, we have more resources than we've ever had in an entire generation and yet none of it has solved any of our problems. We have more money but yet we're still bankrupt. We have more information but we're still ignorant. We have more education but we're still stressed out. We still have all of the social ills that we've always had, why? It's because the issue is how we are dealing with our heart and remember what the writer of Proverbs, Proverbs says this, it says, guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flows the issues of life. Guard your heart with all diligence because out of it flows all the issues of life. The center of our existence doesn't start out there, it starts with what we do in here. In the whole series on being a disciple, this is what we focused on and it's what Jesus is talking about in this parable, the soil that he is referring to has to do with our hearts. And if we're going to be people that seize the moment that we are living in where I believe God is calling the church to reset, to reset our affections, to reset our commitments, to reset our beliefs. You know, everybody loves a reset. It's like you're playing a game, all of a sudden you mess it all up, let's start over, boom. Nothing like a reset. Oh, you know, here we go. Let's, we're three quarters of the way through a movie. It's like we took two days off, we come back to it. Oh, what are we gonna do? Start it over. We all love fresh starts. Jesus in the kingdom calls us to reset our heart. In other words, re-calibrate our hearts back to the things that are the priorities of our life, the priorities of the kingdom of God. And that's why the writer of Hosea, the prophet, when he says in Hosea chapter 10, he said, so for yourself righteousness, reap steadfast love, break up the fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord. This is what he's talking about. It's time for a divine reset.  We can see that in our own nation. We've spent time plowing iniquity and what are we reaping injustices? It says, and you have eaten from the fruit of lies. This is huge because you have trusted in your own way. What do we need to reset from? Listen to me. We need to reset from doing things our way. We need to reset, a stop, a pause and say, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We've been doing it our way. We've been doing it the way of the world. We've been eating from the tree of lies and look at where it's gotten us.   Stop digging. That's the first step. Look at where our own efforts, look at where our own intelligence, look at where doing things the way of the world, what everybody else has done. Look at where it has gotten us. What does God tell us to do? Time out, stop and do what? Seek the Lord. It's time to seek the Lord. It's time for you to allow the Lord to put the plow of the Holy Spirit in and break up the soil of our heart. What does a divine reset look like? Well, I believe it starts with number one, we have to reset our priorities. And this is what Jesus begins with in this parable, the seed and the sower, the sower is a farmer and he has seed and he's going out and he's going to sow it, he's going to plant it and he's doing it because his intention is to reap the harvest, but he recognizes that sowing the seed today is not going to produce a harvest today. What I sow today is going to go into my future as a harvest. I won't really see the effects of the decisions I make today until months and years from now. The sower goes out and he's sowing seed and he has good seed. It's probably wheat that this particular farmer has because that was common in Israel or think about our own culture around here. We have a lot of corn fields. Think about corn seed. I was reading something on seeds and it was very interesting because it was talking about the history of ancient agriculture. And it said that when they went into King Tut's tomb, when they excavated it in the early 20th century or the late 19th century and they excavated this pyramid, this vault where they had buried this Egyptian pharaoh, 3,000 plus years ago, they found all kinds of gold. They found all kinds of sculptures and architecture. They found skeletons of servants that were supposed to escort him across the river into the afterlife. Obviously, they didn't make it. And you know what else they found? They found bags of corn, bags of corn that had sat undetected for thousands of years. In fact, they said that genetically they thought that that type of corn was extinct. But they took the corn out of a 3,500 year old pyramid and they took it into the laboratory and they planted it in soil and they watered it. And guess what it did? It grew. First time in over 3,000 years, that seed, that kind of seed had actually grown. It had become extinct on the face of the earth but what nobody knew is it was hidden. And when that seed was extracted, when it was taken and it was put in the soil, it does what seed is designed to do. A seed is a container of genetic code but it will only release the genetic code on the inside of the seed when it finds the right conditions in the right soil. Listen to this. There is no expiration date on a seed. There is no expiration date on a seed. And let me tell you something about the word of God. There is no expiration date on the word of God. Somebody can say, well, it's only 2,000 years old it doesn't work anymore. It only does not work if it doesn't penetrate our hearts. It always works. The grass withers, the flowers fade but the word of God remains forever. Hebrews chapter four verse 12 says the word of God is powerful and living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword. It has no expiration date on it. The fruit out of our lives in relationship to the kingdom of God is not determined on whether the word, the Bible or God's word is true or not. It has to do with whether our heart is healthy or not to receive it. When God's word finds a healthy heart, guess what it produces? The genetic code of heaven. It will produce the fruit of the kingdom of God to the degree that the soil is prepared. What does it mean for you and I to have a reset? Well, Pastor Lee, I've been trying to live for God for all of these years or I grew up in church and now I'm kind of coming back and I'm trying to figure out how do I, how do I get my life changed? Number one, listen to me.  You can make a decision today that a decade from now is going to have massive fruit, that a year from now is gonna have massive fruit, but you're going to have to do more than try and microwave yourself into fruitfulness. We live in a microwave, minute rice society. It's like I wanna take popcorn in a bag with preset oil, put it in a microwave, beep, beep, beep, and 30 seconds to have Orville Reddenbacher in a bowl. We want minute rice. We want everything quick. We want five minute oatmeal. We want everything quick. You can microwave oatmeal, but you can't microwave maturity.  And listen, if you're looking at your life and going, well, I'm not getting the same kind of fruit out of my life that they are. Maybe God's word just doesn't work anymore. Listen, the word, it's kingdom genetics. We were not saved by a perishable seed, but by an imperishable seed. But it has everything to do with the soil. And the first thing that we're called to do, Jesus teaches it in his parables, we gotta reset our priorities. Because the first step of soil, it says the sower goes out and he sows, and some fell along the wayside. And the wayside is the path that has been packed down and the soil has become hard. Let me tell you where the wayside is. The wayside is American culture. Because when the gospel of Jesus Christ is preached in places where the people have never heard it, miracles break out, salvations occur, lives are changed, society is altered. The same gospel, but we preach it in America. And you know what, I've heard that before. Oh yeah, I watched that movie. I saw that book in a drawer at the Hampton Inn. Yeah, oh yeah, I grew up on the Bible. Yeah, Jesus loves me. This I know for the Bible tells me so. You know what we've done? We've become familiar. We've packed down the word of God. Our heart has become packed down and hardened to who Jesus is, what he has done, and even to the word of God itself. And we've actually become indifferent and we've become familiar with it. You know, there was one place, how many know Jesus did a lot of miracles? I don't know what your favorite miracle is, but my favorite miracle out of all, as if you can have a favorite miracle. You know, the favorite miracle is the one that you need that God delivers. But my favorite Bible miracle is the blind man that Jesus healed, blind Bartimaeus. I mean, because healing blind eyes, just amazing story. And there's personal reasons why that's my favorite, but here's what's interesting. Jesus performed thousands of miracles. In fact, John said at the end of his gospel, that if all that Jesus did was recorded in books, there would not be enough books in the world to contain them. There was one place that Jesus, the Son of God, could not do many mighty miracles. He still did a couple, because he's still Jesus. I mean, he goes into one of the hardest places and the Bible says he could not do many mighty miracles because of their unbelief, but he still did a few. On our best days, we get a few. On his worst days, he got a few. But listen, the place he could not do many mighty miracles was in a town called Nazareth. It's the place he grew up at because they were familiar with him. It says, isn't this Jesus? I mean, Joseph's son, and we've got his brothers and sisters running around. We were, I taught him in Sunday school. I changed his diaper and nursery. And now you're coming along, Jesus trying to tell us that you're the Messiah, that you're the Luke four. Jesus stands up in the synagogue, reads Isaiah chapter 61. So the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he is annoying me to preach the gospel to the poor and heal up the brokenhearted, recovery of sight to the blind. And then he rolls up scroll and says, this is fulfilled right now. They should have been like, yes! What would happen if Jesus rolled up in the radiant church, took the podium, read something out of it and said, I know you've been waiting for this, I'm here and it's fulfilled right now. How would we respond to that? I'll tell you what, the big give offering would rise. But do you know what they did when he did that? It's like, who does he think he is? Do you know why? They were familiar with him. Wayside. Their hearts were so hardened towards who he was and familiar with Jesus that the seed could not penetrate the surface of their heart. And the enemy came, the birds of the air came and devoured the seed. I wonder how many times we read the Bible, hear a sermon, have somebody share a testimony, read a devotional, but because we've become so familiar with Jesus, he's just become part of our world, part of our culture that we're not standing in awe of him anymore, that we don't have an awe and respect for the word of God like we need to, like we used to. And instead of that seed that could produce change in us, it sits on the surface of our life and it awaits for the enemy to come and devour it. Apathy, indifference. It'll steal from us, church, God's kind intentions and his promises. This is the first part of the parable. If we're gonna reset, if we're gonna have a divine reset, we have to reset our priorities. In other words, his presence, his word, this has to become life to us. This has to become the priority to us. He has to become the priority to us. Number two, Jesus teaches in this parable and he's talking about the second kind of soil, which he says in verse number five, other seed fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil and immediately it sprang up since they had no depth of soil, but when the sun rose, they were scorched and since they had no root, they withered away. Second soil that he's talking about is rocky soil. Hard, rocky soil that it's rock with a little bit of dirt on top of it that the seed got below the surface and it began to activate the seed to release what's inside of the seed. It begins to grow up, but because it was on rock, rocky soil, it could not put deep roots down and without deep roots when the noon sun of the Middle East comes out where it's 115, 120 degrees out, there was no way for that plant to access water systems that were underneath the rock that it needed to sustain life. It had no roots and so it withered away and Jesus gives us the interpretation of it. He says that this particular soil has to deal with those who when the heat of persecution says in verse number 20, as for the one who was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word, we hear it, immediately we receive it with joy, yet we have no root in ourselves. We endure for a little while and listen to this. This is the next part. When tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. So I'll paint the picture for you. Jesus is saying that there's a kind of heart condition that we can have that we're hungry for God. And we receive the word, the seed finds a place in the soil of our hearts, but there's rock, there's hardness there, there's limitation, there's a boundary marker there that keeps that word from going too deep into us so that in the hard times, in the difficult times, persecution and tribulation, the word tribulation means trouble, hard times. Let me give you the modern translation of the Greek word tribulation, 2020. Might as well write that in your margin, it's right there in the Greek, 2020. When persecution arises or tribulation arises because of the word, notice this says that not around the word, but because of the word, it says because they have no root in them, they shrivel up under the heat and they die, they fall away. So what do we gotta do? How do we experience a divine reset? Well, number one, saints of God, we have to deepen our root systems. Have to deepen our root systems. How do you deepen your root systems when you have rock underneath a shallow soil? You have to break up the rock. You gotta break it up. Jeremiah said, your word is like a hammer that breaks into pieces of the rock. We have to put our roots deep. We break up the rock. That hardness, I think so many of us, especially in the body of Christ, just in our culture, we love God, we love Jesus as savior, forgiver of our sins, but the hardest part of following Jesus is when you come into conflict with a culture that disagrees with the kingdom of God. When culture says, no, no, no, no, no, we don't believe that. And if you believe that, we're gonna cancel you.   We're not gonna make room for you at the table.  And immediately Christians who love God are like, well, maybe I don't believe that. Oh, you know what, that's old-fashioned. You're just reading the Bible through an old-fashioned lens, but it's 21st century. We've evolved, we don't believe like that anymore. We're a sophisticated culture. And listen, there's people in the church that believe like us, so you should just evolve your view. And if we don't have an understanding, if we don't have deep roots in the word of God, here's what happens. We're just like, well, maybe I'm wrong. Well, maybe they're right. Maybe all the word of God isn't for us today. Maybe only half of it is for today. Maybe Jesus didn't understand what we would be facing in the 21st century, and had he understood it, he would have written the Bible differently. Because after all, God's not quite as smart as 21st century America. And if he would just ask us, we could help him out. We could help God rewrite the Bible. Do you know that in China right now, they're rewriting the Bible because the Bible is in conflict with the Communist Party. So now they're just going back and rewriting the Bible so that it lines up with the Communist Manifesto. And we just look at that, and that's not fair. We're doing it in America. Well, I'm not sure I believe that part. And I'm not sure that that really applies anymore. Well, that's not for me. I like this, but not that part. We want salad bar, Jesus. We wanna go to the Ruby Tuesday translation of the Bible. Remember when you could go to a restaurant and actually eat at a salad bar? So we take a plate with our lesson where it's like, well, here's my Jesus, it's lettuce. And I like the Jesus that forgives my sins. That's the chickpeas. And I like the Jesus that speak words of life over me. That's the carrot shred. And I like a little bit of the bacon bits on there, but you know what I can't stand is, I don't like lima beans. And I don't like beets. Nobody likes beets. Somebody likes beets, not me.  It's like sunflower seeds. I like that part of Jesus. I like that nothing can separate you from the love of God part of Jesus. But what about this?  I don't like that. I'm skipping that part. Or if you don't forgive, you can't be forgiven. Oh, I don't like that part. So I'm not putting that on my Jesus. And we go through the whole salad bar of the Bible. We pick the parts out that we like. We say, no to the parts that we don't. And we've got our customized Jesus. And that's not what Jesus called us to. That's rocky ground. And we gotta go with the jackhammer of God's word. And we gotta put that to the things that hinder love and let God by the Holy Spirit and his word begin to break that stuff so we can actually get some deep roots. Ephesians chapter three calls us to be rooted and grounded in the faith and in love. The love of God, part of getting deep roots is encountering the love of God. Colossians two verse six talks about being rooted and built up in our faith. In other words, we gotta go deep saints. This is not time for us to have a Mickey Mouse, simple, shallow understanding of the word of God. This is a time to go deep, dig deep into the word of God. So that when the heat of persecution comes, you have been fully convinced by a study of the word and an encounter of the word. When we encounter Jesus as we study the word of God, two things happen. The word gets put into you and then it gets solidified by love. It gets fed by love and encountering personal intimacy with the Father and then it begins to develop root systems all through you. I can't tell you, I love to study the Bible because that's where I encounter Jesus the most. When I get along with him and I'm reading through it, which I've done for years and years and years, I'm not doing it from a scientific method like, oh, you know, just reading the word, oh, that's an acronym, I'll just boom, boom, boom. I get alone and Jesus meets me there. He is the living word who helps interpret the written word. And let me tell you more times than not, Jesus meets me with the Holy Spirit, Jack Hammer.  I'm just like, well, I'm doing really good in other places. And he's like, nope. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. It's like, ah, but now you can get deeper roots there. And it's not hurtful because it's not rooted in shame and condemnation. Jesus meets me there in love and I get rooted and grounded in love with Jesus. I just have a hard time reading the Bible. Read it, live it, breathe it. I can't read that good. Get it on audible. Well, the ESP is too hard. Get the new living translation. The print's too small. Get a magnifying glass. Sell your dog, hire a neighbor kid to read the Bible to you. Print it out at Kinko's, plaster it on your fridge, put it to a song, memorize it, talk about it, live it, breathe it. Well, that's pretty extreme. You don't think we're living in crazy days? We can quote every line from our favorite movie. We know all the stats of our favorite basketball players. We got all the lyrics memorized to, I love the 80s songs on Sirius XM radio. We know all the drum solos, guitar, lit, come on, we know them, we know all the, but yet we're just like, one of the Bibles is really hard. It's really tough. Trying to read it, but it's just so hard. Don't start in Leviticus. Get somebody that you read the Bible. Did you read that? Where Jesus said, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part with me? That is messing with me. Call somebody, get a text thread, get a YouTube Bible reading plan. Talk to three or four friends that you read it together and create a thread and grow together, but get deep because persecution and tribulation are gonna come for the word. You gotta have it deep on the inside. All right, I'm done messing. Number three, Matthew 13, seven. Other seeds fell among thorns and the thorns grew up and choked them. We've gotta plow up competing loyalties because that's what thorns are. Jesus said the thorny ground is the seed that was sown on the ground that had thorns and the thorns are the deceitfulness of riches and the cares of this world. So it grows up, the seed gets planted, it begins to grow up. In other words, there's fruitfulness of the kingdom. We give our lives to Jesus. We're going to church, we're serving, we're practicing generosity, we're praying, but yet there's unsubmitted motives and intentions of our heart that are being drawn towards the things of this world and being deceived by the allure of wealth. Listen, nothing will sink you faster than pursuing wealth and fame and notoriety, nothing. Rockefeller, who was one of the wealthiest men who've ever lived, owner of standard oil when it was a monopoly, was asked one time, how much money will be enough? He said this, just a little more. This is a man who would be wealthier than Steve Bezos, or is it Steve, or Jeff Bezos. He was wealthier than Amazon and Bill Gates combined, wealthier than both of them combined. And he said it still wasn't enough. Materialism, consumerism, cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, it competes with us. And what it does is it begins to choke out what the Word of God is doing in us. And it will limit our fruitfulness in the kingdom of God. It's time for a divine reset to say, God, I'm not pursuing those things, I'm pursuing you. I'm pursuing your purpose for my life. You know, the greatest place on the planet, most beautiful place on the planet, most restful place on the planet, has the best views and everything that your heart could ever want, I know where it's at. It's right in the middle of God's will for your life. That's where it is. You can be on an island in the Caribbean and have no peace in your heart and no purpose. And you can have no money in the bank and nobody knows your name, but you're serving Jesus where he's called you and you will have more joy and more peace and more rest.   But when we allow the Holy Spirit to come and to plow up, reset our hearts, it leads to number four, which is, we become good soil, prepared soil, ready soil that when the seed touches our lives, it produces 30, 60 and 100-fold return. What's this? We're talking about church, we need to reset our expectations because you were created for multiplication. You were born again, brought into the kingdom of God, not just to live a safe, risk-free life and arrive safely at death someday. You were brought into the kingdom of God with calling, with gifting, with anointing, with resources, with time, with giftings and experiences that God has invested on the inside of you and then his word illuminates the path that you should walk in and along the way from the moment Jesus saves you to the moment you see him on that day, you were created to produce 30, 60 and 100-fold return. You were created to make disciples who make disciples who make disciples. You were created to impact the world, to send the gospel, to be a witness and to demonstrate the love of Jesus. We've got to raise our expectations, church, because so many of us have a survival mentality. I just want to survive, I just want to make it to heaven. Listen, his ability to keep you is so much stronger than your ability to run from him. But this is, I'm not talking about salvation, I'm talking about what you do while you're here. Because someday, listen to me, someday all of us who love Jesus and are saved will look back from the perspective of eternity and we will see our lives. And I don't know how this is gonna work. Maybe heaven has big LED walls and I think it could something like this. I think on one screen, Jesus will show us our life as it was and say, now this is the reward because of what you've done. I'm not talking salvation, I'm talking reward. He's gonna say, this is what you did, here's your reward. Here's what you could have done on the other screen. Here's the impact you could have made if you had entrusted me more. Here's the difference you could have made if you had prioritized the kingdom more. Here's what you were created for, here's what you did. I don't believe there's gonna be regret in heaven, but I do believe that there's gonna be reward and sobriety in heaven.  I wanna invite you, if you would, to stand with me. Wherever you're at, in the presence of the Lord, just stand to your feet with me and I wanna pray over us in this moment. And what I would ask of you is, what is the Holy Spirit saying to you today? I know what he's saying to us, but what is the Holy Spirit saying to you? Is he speaking to you about indifference, familiarity with Jesus? I've heard it all, that's great, wonderful. I've heard all these type of messages. Don't allow your heart to become hardened and indifferent. Is he talking to you about the hard places of your life where you've not put your roots down deep? You've been satisfied with shallow living and he's calling you to depth. Today is he highlighting the thorns that are choking out the seeds potential in your life today. Cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches. What's the Holy Spirit saying?  Lord Jesus, today, we need you. We cannot do this on our own. Today, we echo the words of Jesus. It says that we can do nothing in our own strength. And even in our weakness, your strength is perfected when we yield. And today, Lord, we yield to you, the sower. You have sown everything for us. You've sown your word into us. Holy Spirit, what would you say to each of us today? What would you say to us? With everybody's eyes closed, no one looking around. This is a moment between you and the Lord, but I do wanna call you to a moment of recognition and reset.  And I've become indifferent towards it. If the Holy Spirit's highlighting that the soil of your heart is like the wayside, but you're asking Him to reset your heart, I just want you to raise your hand if that's you. Thank you for your honesty. You can put your hands down. Today, the Holy Spirit is highlighting to you that there's a need for you to go deeper, to break up the hard places because you know that there's not the depth, the root system, but the Holy Spirit is calling you to go deeper than you've ever gone before, to really dig into the Word, dig into His presence so that you can stand strong under the heat of tribulation and persecution. If that's what He's highlighting to you, I just want you to raise your hand. Thank you, thank you for your vulnerability. You can put your hands down. The third one is this. Is the Holy Spirit speaking to you about cares of this world that are choking out the words effect in your life or the deceitfulness, the pursuit of wealth and status. You're surrendering that today saying, Lord, reset my heart today. I surrender to you today. Have your way in me.  Thank you, thank you, thank you. Last one's this. Is the Holy Spirit speaking to you about multiplication, saying, you know what, it's time for you to make other disciples. It's time for you.  The Holy Spirit's challenging us to think 30, 60 and a hundredfold return with our lives.  Lord Jesus, you see our hands. I'm praying that you would put the plow into our hearts and break up the fallow ground. Reset us Holy Spirit. We say yes to your prompting. We say yes to your leading. Say, here we are, God. Lead us, show us, help us. Walk this out. Strengthen us as only you can do. In Jesus' name, amen.


Hey gamers, my name is Kevin and today we're playing 60 parsecs. That's S E C Algorithm before I get demonetized. I showed him so this game is all about trying to survive in space It's quite a quirky little game. I think you'll enjoy it. You can trust me. I'm a pro gamer. Look at this I got a PlayStation mug full of G fuel Just powder and all the good or anything and the headset and everything you can trust me. All right Trust me on this journey. Grab some soup. You need rations to survive over my dead body. I'm not taking soup All right, so I forced lots to pick stuff up and then they go back into my bunker I think literally my only options are soup one soup. I don't want it. I'm breaking everything I'm throwing one of my standard soup tantrums. All right fine grab the feckin soup I'm only taking one though. He's got his legs stuck in a bucket.  There might be a hole in your mug I would explain why I didn't have anything in mine either. Oh my god. We got Karen over here talking to customer support It's a good thing. I don't think there's anyone on the other end. Where's the feckin handbook that I'm looking for I'm not even a feckin read it. Does it feckin matter head back to the escape shuttle find a crewmate I'm gonna go with bucket man over there. I gotta help him down the hatch and he's wearing a bucket I don't know if he's gonna make it down incoming missile detected high risk of impact I feel like my guy already knew that was coming. Where's the Karen Karen? I need you down there Let's see who else it's 60 seconds here. You you look like you're brave Okay, maybe not all right more crafting supplies.  Oh, no. Oh, no I might be caught in this short, but there was a little trophy there, and I've never won a trophy in my life I needed it. All right hop down And there goes the earth at least I can have solace in the fact that all the rest of the soup in the world is Destroying look how smoggy feckin looks now that he got his feckin bucket off Tom Thompson Not the most creative of names, but then again my YouTube name is call me Kevin So I can't really say anything. Hey there friends. How's it going? My name is Tom Thompson And we got April Angel and Megan man should be Megan man spreading look at her come on We've limited space in here Megan soup best food in the universe. That better be sarcasm. Not very good a body language I am not reading that. I'm just gonna read the last line. Good luck. You're gonna need it. I'm sure I will wait I need to make a speech.  I'm just pulling leverage. I probably shouldn't do that We're in space In an escape pod. All right, that's the end of the first day I just flexed a bit and then was like well, I'm off to bed. I'm exhausted as far as speeches go It was the worst one in this part of the universe Congratulations captain. It's day one and you've already succeeded in bringing your people together against a common foe me All right make five successful intelligence attribute decisions That's probably impossible and find an appropriate landing spot who will perform the routine supply check Angela I faith in you fantastic work. You're doing so far over there You just look very serious. You know a lot of fate. You like my trophy. I almost died for it Wait, what are all these? I should probably have looked into this Okay, I get to eat and Tom gets to eat Megan.  What do you like to do? I would like to craft please What is this a sock puppet? Why do I need ten resources to do that? I mean just take any sock We're gonna make a communicator.    Oh, man.  I trust you I'll even give you some soup for doing the deed. I just keep eating every day and I'm like folks I know this is hard, but we all have to do our part to ration I'm just not feeding them. I took it like a champ But a terrified Megan went into shock and insistent drink the whole bottle of anesthetic to camera nerves You continue to look well fed. That's what's important I want to keep morale up and being a well-fed captain will definitely inspire the crew. I've been hacked Really the world's exploding and there's still hackers out in North Korea trying to hack my escape pod All right, what do I do? I'm intelligent apparently So let me use intelligence to solve of this conundrum and I think I deserve a reward for that I'm gonna have some soup We're running out of food like really fast. I really should have gathered more Thomas now in support net look out for this Captain he's not so keen on taking orders. Yeah, he doesn't look that great to be fair He's even using one of the soup cans as a medal. I just realized I am the soup King He says as he pins the metal on himself. Oh God Megan is more defined April is disobedient. All right I can fix this look how well-fed he looks the others are back in starving the cypher signals Who's the smartest person here? Wait, it's me. Isn't it? Yes. I am the most intelligent Shout out while the whole crew listens to me. No one eats today. We're just gonna bask in my intelligence I know we're not being fed today folks, but if you could feed my ego that would be great wait. We've got alien signals Fantastic, it's probably a feckin microwave. It's just me eating up soup. Maybe the captain is actually really really Selfless and he's eating all the soup because he knows how horrible soup is and he doesn't want the crew to suffer God I'm kind of a hero really. Oh god. There's a problem with this something something and Thomas idle. Yeah, I get Tom to save it That's that's that's fine. He looks totally sane over there with his soup metal I'll give you another soup metal if you complete this task Tom He have how did he heaved at the task rolling their eyes whenever you complained the systems automated reboot began and a jet of Uncooled steam scalded him. You know what good and as well as a scalding he should get a scalding He has not been helpful enough Thomas hurt his wounds won't heal by themselves The best course of action is treating his injuries with a first aid kit Megan is asking for some soup it right Tom Megan wants soup, so I'll deal with you after there's an uncontrolled power surge cannot do anything to stop it This is no accident.  I can only trust myself if you want something done, right? Do it yourself. All right now that that emergency solved again Megan her soup captain We are now entering a field of cosmic gas Tom Megan go get some of that gas. I trust you. You know what? I'm gonna reward myself by eat I have nothing to eat. I never mind. We can eat Tom.  We should check some of her gear and Megan seems idle. Can you check out that artifact trophy thing? I really want to know what I've done to deserve this Maybe I've milked the most cows out of all the people on board Nobody wanted to get their hands on Jude's bowl semen like guys like Asking the real questions here Tom remains wounded Tom remains disloyal Tom is hungry Tom Tom Tom It's all about Tom Thompson ain't it? Why are you all complaining? I feel grand. I'm gonna upgrade the artifact I don't even know what it is, but that's what we're gonna do today. We're approaching a planet my scanners to techno life But some structures on the surface soup structures. It's perfect. Welcome new planet. We bring you the cow artifact Mutopia. Oh my god. Thank God. We have the artifact April keeps asking for soup Well, you can keep asking for it There's none there because I ate it all up to complete it a new item available extraordinary artifact. Oh my god It is extraordinary. What's it doing? It's glowing. Who did this? Did you just stick some LEDs on it? Sticking LEDs on things doesn't make it cool. All right. It's actually kind of lame Alexa turn microphone off. It's actually kind of lame all they have to do now is stuff someone into the space suit and send Them outside. Okay. Who can I trust here? It's not giving me any options. I a canyon desert cave Swamp I really want to find Shrek, but I should really be looking for soup But maybe it's a soup Canyon. It's just filled with soup. All right. Does someone go look for Shrek? You don't ascend okay in supporting it in supporting it in supporting.  Oh my god, Tom is looking a bit worse for wear Even my guy's like hmm. It's like looking into the future. All right I thought you were just faking it before but I'm willing to heal you now. It's a bomb. What what do I do? I don't have anything. I don't have armor or a gun and hold on. Let me let me craft something real quick Craft some armor. I don't think this is gonna work.  There's a bomb and the captain's just like I choose to do Nothing Oh my god, it was a toxic gas bomb. Who is doing this? Come on. I need science. I can recycle something hold on Handbook yes recycle the handbook Okay, I've put some armor on now at least so at least if they try and shoot me or something I might be safe or if you tax me with that soup can hello world is hello. Oh my god There's a rock formation. That's actually an ancient dispenser machine covered with simple depictions of soup cans But I don't have anything to get into it. I always don't have the things that I need And then I make them but it's too late off for feck's sake It got destroyed because I didn't know but April is weak. Can you do something about it? Legit. No, I actually can't someone's gonna die soon because we have zero food and zero mid supplies I just hope that we don't all die Maybe we could eat them perhaps and it's time for the ultimate honor captain The most humble task available on the shuttle mopping the floor. Megan looks free. Yeah, she's fine. Go ahead, Megan.  See I am sensitive. I said eye not eyes I can't a soup. I can't a soup great. Please don't die in the next turn. I've got some soup Okay, I'm still alive. Oh god. I didn't get the soup Tom, you know what I said earlier about the pirate thing. You would look great as a pirate Do you mind if I just have a leg? I could just eat a leg maybe I'll give you a bite or two even Should we put their bodies outside or are we just gonna sit here scramble transmission? Great This is walmart. Would you like to buy some soup incoming transmission? But it's scrambled the signal's not strong enough. Maybe your crew make you get on top of the ship Yeah, sure. Send tom up there. I'm sure he's up for that. Well, not anymore Well, Tom had a rough day. He was unable to make a reception better by adjusting the satellite and he hurt himself He fell off the roof and landed right on some rocks and at the top of the day He died because of that starvation if you're willing to lose a can of soup You could try to find a way to improve the formula. I don't have any soup. My guy's gone mad He's getting mirages of soup cans. Oh great artifact Tell me where the soup is. Maybe I could fashion one of those sticks, you know, they find water with but I could just Modify it to work on soup. I got an achievement dust to dust which doesn't sound great. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'm dead The goal that I never completed make five successful intelligent decisions I don't think there is even one. What was the artifact? What would it have done? I need to know. All right. Well, I guess I will end the adventure there by choice Yeah, we're gonna end it there. I hope you enjoyed our adventure. This is a game I'd actually be up for playing again and actually, you know, not being me For a change try and get a bit further because the game seems pretty good But uh, yeah, I have a natural tendency to just fact things up and uh, I kind of prove that today But the most important thing is I hope you enjoyed I appreciate you watching as always folks if you want more of me You could check out my twitch channel. It's in the description I post on youtube every day, but you know what?  I stream like five times a week usually quite long sessions as well So if you want to stop by please do you're more than welcome and I guess we'll end it there So thanks very much for watching. Hope to see you next time and bye for now


Before we get to episode 2, I want to show you what happens when you speak down on what I consider one of the greatest works of fiction actually. I'm starting to believe it's nonfiction of all time and I'm only 150 episodes in but I don't give a damn because what I'm saying is the truth whether you like it or not. IGN gave this show a 6. Uh, you had no right to argue with that. You haven't finished the show yet. You want to hear something that I never told y'all? I watched a cowboy bebop live action on Netflix. Let's see what they gave that. A 7. A 7! So you know what I tweet? Stop the cat, IGN. Who reviewed this? The Death Note Netflix director? I ratioed the living f**k out of them. I didn't even have to watch episode 1 to fight back. I don't care what anybody says. Oda will never let mid out like this. Don't you ever again dare to give Oda a 6 out of 10 unless that's a 6 out of 6. Episode 2. You just found it. Oh, f**k. Gear 5 time. Come on, Jaden Smith. Punch the bottle. Yeah! Due to karate kick, crane kick! With great power comes great responsibility. Is she gonna tell him that? Come on, Spider-Man. I think you just found out about it. The deal with the devil, they have to explain this because people watching this, a lot of them have never watched One Piece before.  They thought he just bit into an apple and now he could stretch.  Tell him. Don't give him the 2023 Gen Z explanation.  Come on! Punch it! Punch shanks! Oh, God, is this gonna be episode where he loses his arm? Damn, I've seen more of this crew in episode 2 than I've seen in 150 episodes on One Piece so far. This is crazy. Are you going after the One Piece? The One Piece. Are we gonna find out how it went from the One Piece to the One Piece? I'm waiting for that. We're not coming back. Oh, sh**. He's like, I'm going to the store for milk and I ain't coming back. Did you tell him? They got LED lights on this island? There we go. Give him the truth. Don't give him the bubble gum explanation. Tell him I'm not coming back. I'm a f**king deadbeat. Come on, Nami.  Break into that sh**. Does everybody know what the devil fruit does? Like does Nami know that he's gonna drown the death if he falls in the ocean? Look at this shot. Had to have the camera at the end of this sh**. That's so sick. What's Zoro doing? He's sleeping. That's what he's doing. This is accurate. I don't see why people are complaining. And some space? Yo, he would have f**king murdered you. Look at that face. He's like... I'll hit a woman. Don't you do that again. I may be goofy, but nah. You don't f**k with that. Oh, we're gonna get a flashback now. Oh, here we go. Perfect entrance to the flashback.  I'm trying to take that. Oh, I'm sorry. We're reinterrupting your beauty. You see? Look away. I see.  You did it. Oh, there we go.  His wanted poster. His bounty. $15 million. F**k. There it is. Zoro woke up from that.  I need everything explained to me like this. Nami. Senpai Nami. Bigger cities. Bigger cities. And that's where we're gonna find the one piece. The one piece. That's where we heard it for the first time. What is it? A big diamond or something? Imagine Luffy just explaining, oh, the one piece is actually this. Nah, man, we're never gonna know. We're never gonna find it. So this show is a lie. Here we go. How did they find us? The buggies. Come on. Oh, that looks sick. I feel like I just entered a haunted house. Oh, f**k, I don't remember this. Oh, they're gonna get captured by the buggy pirates. Whoa. What the f**k? Motherf**ker just ate the map.  He swallowed it.  I saw people complaining about the logo. Get the f**k out of here. He just licked his ear. Oh, my God. Zoro. They left his hat on. That was a real treasure. I'm telling you, but we're gonna find out Luffy had the one piece all along. It was the hat. There's something in the hat. That's why it's so indestructible and he never loses it. I can't believe he swallowed the map. I'm gonna do that if I ever go to jail. Pirates are easier to kill. I love Zoro, bro. It's literally the same. Who the f**k is Shanks? There's only one kind. Oh, Nami has that connection with Arlong. That's why in the fish... Zoro's gonna start doing a handstand and spin arounis. Yes, sheep man. Where the... The reference to Richie. Hey. Where the f**k is he? That's my question too. Wait, Pandaman has to be in here. Pinky. It's Pinky the Pirate. It's Pinky. The genius jester. This guy's doing a great job. What did you just say? I was like, what? Knows who you are. Oh my god. I'm like, what the f**k? Look at Luffy's face. I love this. Oh, I get it. Under your what? Oh, he's animated. Why'd you say it like that? I love it, I love it, I love it.  He's gonna put his hat on you later. Laugh guys. This is like WWE when they tell them to start making crowd noises. Zoro's like, thank god this guy's painted white. Where's Richie?  Look at this performance by him. Oh s**t. Can't we bro? Episode 8, let's go.  Oh no. Wait, is he supposed to be the lion? Is that Richie? Wait, what if I have something else to offer you? What? Something more valuable than the map. What if I give you a new freak? A new freak? Bro, my brain right now. You gotta stop. I gotta stop, I gotta stop, I gotta stop. I said I'm done being horny, bro. This is live action. This is an anime. Do it! Yeah! We're gonna join the buggies. Binky's my bad. Damn, Nami's running from everyone. Already? Yeah, go back to Arlong. Oh s**t. Oh god, we're here. Oh, this is gonna be bad, this is gonna be emotional as f**k. Why did Abraham Lincoln just tackle Nami the flow? I f**king love Buggie. I mean, it's really hard because Buggie, the Japanese voice actor is f**king iconic, like legendary. His voice, it's in my head playing right now. I can never even replicate that voice. But this guy's doing a great job as like a quirky, crazy, mentally disabled clown. Like, I love it. But also serious. I fear him a bit. He's not a joke. How about at your nose? Please make our guests uncomfortable in the green room. In the green room? The Zoro room. How about we talk about the straw hat and shanks? Ooh. Look at this design right here, man. I love it. They went all out on set designs. On location and everything. This ain't a f**king green room like Star Wars, man. There he is. Good ol' Garp. Oh, Meppo. Oh s**t. I love it. He's a badass. Imagine he speaks up. That's not what happened.   Was that before or after you let him steal him out to the Grand Lane? That was regrettable. This dude has the strongest. I think it's Irish. I could be totally wrong, bro. I'm Nicholas Racist TV, apparently. So I don't know accents. People are like, what? That's not racist. That's Scottish. I think it is Scottish, actually. Garp is a badass, man. I'm afraid of him here. He probably would have been killed. Great. I love it. There we got a new Zorro tied up to the cross. God thinks he's Zorro, bro. Come on. Y'all thought I was gonna say Jesus not, bro, like Zorro. Nami's in a bird cage! I know your type. I love birds. This guy's killing it as Zorro, man. Zorro and Nami, I love this. I love this. Oh, my God. Of course, she's a lockpick. You dumb! Where's she hide all of them?  Hey, yo, wait, bro.  You know what I... They're stretching Luffy out. I never thought I'd say that in my life. Luffy's getting stretched out. Pain leads to art. Really? If I get a knife right now and I go... UGH!  Because I'll do it and I'll say big, binky to clown taught me. Reveals truth. He's smiling. He likes me and stretched out. There's only one truth I need from this exercise. What is truth? Is this hub-cutting candy?  Luffy jokes more than me. I've already told you. I'm gonna be king of the pipes. BORING! Are you telling him that's boring? Ha ha ha! Let's see how much he can be stretched out. What makes a boy want to grow up to be king of the pirates? Shanks. Come on, tell him all about it. This is the perfect entrance into a flashback. I know one piece. Oh, here we go. That was the worst thing to do. Oh, did you? Ha ha! Yeah! Ha ha ha! No one shanks, bro. Nobody looks like him. For a time I even thought we were friends.  I love that. Are we gonna get a flashback of binky and shanks? He wanted to keep my star from shining.  Tell me not. I believe the anger and the hatred. Stretch him until he breaks. He ain't never gonna break. You can stretch him to the moon.  He's got reverence. Oh, that's a dude.  Hey, kid! Ha ha ha ha! Stretch him out. Yeah! Boogie! They're gonna break this kid's arms off. That's a laugh. Laugh, you fucks.  Crocodile reverence.  Okay, okay, you can slice me You can dice me. Oh god, we're gonna see little buggy too.   It's fun, bro.  I don't mind it. I don't mind it, bro. I've seen worse CGI This one had the same color hair.     I miss when I watched the anime But thanks to you malookis in the comments explaining everything to me in paragraphs.   I'm sure Zoro's been to Disney. Oh This is unique.  He can't even hit him bro. Can we get one in here?  I love this room.    What are you doing?  You're not his father.    What's this? He's fighting You who stops dad doing exactly what you stop would do nothing. Oh What is it who stopped do that?   Yeah, what a mellow man? I Love the action in this show. This is the best way to do it It ain't gonna be better than this closer to the anime It's never gonna be like the anime, but this is as good as it would get adapting that shit God Luffy's on the boat bro.  Oh nah. Oh god This is the episode it's gonna happen. Oh, I got a seat. It's in live action, bro That's what I'm anticipated the most What's his name the magician that tried himself in a box, bro? If he could do it you can do it Just like your father did you know I said that's on my ex She cheated on me and left me and I was like why are you leaving me like your father did? We're looking for a lion could you be one Luffy? Because we don't have Richie here. We couldn't afford a lion dancing.  We go Here we go. Here we go.  I agree with y'all now. This is definitely pre-watched. Oh Shit, here we go. Oh, here.  I'm so excited This this show is so good.  I don't like it.  I'm on episode 2 I'll have to watch every episode. This is older approved. That's all I need. That's all I need Once I heard that I didn't have to watch the show to say it's amazing. I said it.    Oh my god That's the season.   It's a piece of wood. They put all their money into that That's the last sea beast we're seeing this season. They could have put it into a lion.   I got goosebumps the bombs of these get Lost oh he threatened to see beast and it ran away, but it was something with his eyes I don't think that happened in the anime.  I love kids probably that's gonna be taking out of context.  I ain't no EEP, but but this gets killing it It's just an arm That's it. I don't need it and he's not like floating in the water. How would they describe that him going like this?  Oh two flashbacks happen between this God that felt so good. Oh, oh, please. I wish that was me. No. No, I don't know I don't I'm sorry all the girl reaction channels are like I wish I was that man. I wish I was Cabbagey It's a little racist. What if they're good? Yeah, oh God, I think we saw a smile at that that early in the anime Standing next to each other. Oh They really drown this kid.  I don't know.  Keep it in a box. No, not not me. Come on. Don't touch my crew. What's he gonna say? I felt that aggression this actor is great. He'd even call out his name. He didn't call out gumbo gumbo I love how they call out their moves, but Luffy didn't do it that time.  I love it This guy I was worried that I wouldn't take him serious when he was angry But his anger is really believable and it's like panic state really believable, man. I love it I'ma play the OSD now Yeah, oh wait that's what? Zorro Like a skewer bro. Look at that aim down.  He's Levi size.  This is great Who are you? I'm monkey D Luffy. I'm monkey. Yeah, you are Oh, you love how he exits with the smiley face in the in the thing. I love that detail. I'm Nicholas observation TV I'm a different kind of pirate Well, that's how you brought told y'all I'm best friends with Oda. I wrote this I saw the script. Oh Yeah No, he got inspired right there. Zorro said it rubbed off on him.  That was a reference They skip that.  That would have been the best episode of the series.  So y'all not that Bro doesn't shanks look like Ryan Gosling a bit It's like I have to look twice. I feel like I was watching Barbie They're probably gonna meet again next episode knowing this show and I don't mind that. I'm not complaining I think it's funny.  He's so happy to hear that problem I'm gonna do that actually gave me goose bumps and a little tear in my eye He wants him to be greater. That's a true father faker And it hits even harder not not harder, but it hits just as hard as the anime man Because you know where this character heads. You know where he's heading. I'm teary-eyed man I feel like this kid right now.   I've always had I thought that was like like plating them plutonium Nami stitching it. I thought Zoro was gonna get the pen and pen out It's not the right path That's the truth No, it ain't next up our long bark imagine yelda. Oh, I remember this is where I hated Nami Don't worry. Don't worry. I know where she's leading. I know where she ends up. It's okay. No, what happens?   We're doing that later guys We're doing that later on on stream.  So you better be there Yeah, guys episode 2. It's fun. It was great. I don't understand how anybody could complain about it It's fun. It's a fun show. I'm smiling the whole time even if you don't know one piece I feel like it's a great way to start. It's fun. It's a fun show. I love the characters I love the casting. I love the cat that not the cat. Yeah, I love the cast the set design everything Like I said in the first reaction. It was great. I love the buggy buggy's performance was great The little Easter eggs like the little mention of Richie um cabbage was cool.  I don't even know bro. Um, they show chow chow at the end that's shoo shoo That's all that matters I would have loved to see that episode live action, but um It's whatever. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. They can't adapt everything man. It's it's a thousand episodes They have to like condense it you know what I mean? And that's fine if you want it uncondensed if you want everything explained Wash the anime read the manga you have other outlets. This is an adaptation. It doesn't have to follow it Step by step it could do its own thing and that's what it's doing Vice but still remaining faithful to the anime and manga not changing up like too much It's all to approve man. So I approve in anyways guys Would you think of the episode um stay tuned for episode three should be out tomorrow or the next day whenever I Decide to edit it, but I'm going to paris this weekend going to disney for my girl's birthday for three days So I might be m.i.a for a bit, but I'm planning on having a bunch of things scheduled for out the weekend and that's it one piece live action I'm on board. I'm still on board and I'm here to sail with y'all.  Sayonara


Goten to take over running of trains from Persa. Boxburg, Goten Premier David Makuras said on Tuesday that the provincial government would soon take over the running of trains from the passenger rail agency of South Africa, Persa. Provincial government is now going to operate not just the buses, it's also going to operate the metro rails system. The provincial government of Goten is now empowered and there was also a law passed in parliament to urban regions to operate integrated public transport systems, Makuras said. Persa is going to be devolved to the provincial government. We are now going to be responsible for integrating Persa and the Gotrain. The new public transport system will just be like the Gotrain by standard, look and feel and efficiency. Speaking at the unveiling of TMH Africa's recently acquired rolling stock manufacturing plant, Makuras said that the provincial legislature had passed a law that would give the province powers to run the passenger rail system. In the last sitting of the Goten legislature, we passed the Transport Authority Bill, basically to create a single transport authority in Goten. The single transport authority that will be created out of the bill has been something that is part of our vision for a long time, Makuras said. It is going to integrate the rail system, the buses, the taxi industry into a single, more efficient and reliable transport system in Goten. The Transport Authority Bill, 2018, was introduced by Goten Mekpo Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, in August last year before the portfolio committee on roads and transport in the provincial legislature. Vadi had then said that a legally constituted transport authority will be a juristic entity and will transform the current fragmentation of public transport governance and better coordinate public transport operations in the province. The responsibility for planning, coordination, optimization, rationalization, and facilitation of public transport functions, authorities, systems and resources within the province will rest with the body once up and running. Last month, Makura and President Cyril Ramaphosa were stuck for three hours in a metro rail train during a 45 km ride from Mavapan to Boston in Pretoria during the election campaign of the African National Congress, ANC. Makura detailed the experience as a harrowing one. He said that modernization of the whole rail network system was critical as rail was the backbone of the South African public transport system in the national development plan. Persa, that is the commuter rail, is in big trouble. It needs to overhaul its rolling stock. In this country, many people use the rail system and at the moment it's not so much by choice. They use the rail system because it's the cheapest mode, but it's in terrible shape, Makura said. The big challenge is that in our rail, the rolling stock is old but also the infrastructure of the signalling system is old, maintenance is poor, the service itself is very poor. Trains must be the travel mode of choice, especially long distances.


It's the great American pastime. Passed down from generation to generation. That's right, the time-honored tradition of mounting your friends. And it's such a great time that it was made into its own video game. Today, Brittany reviews the game, Mount Your Friends. I need to start off by saying that this video might be classified as mildly inappropriate and probably not safe for work. It might be a PG-13. We don't need to explain to youngins why we got banana hammocks swinging in the wind. That being said, in peaking your curiosity, hello and welcome. Today we're talking about mounting your friends. It's a game. The goal of Mount Your Friends is to climb up the giant mountain of your friends' bodies and cross the finish line in time. If you don't climb the mountain and make it to the line in time, then you're going to be eliminated. In order to end each round, you have to get any inch of your body up across the line. But if you want to make it really tough on your friends, you can cross the line and end up in the most craziest, stretched out form you can create with your body. You're battling after all. Make it tough on them. To play this game, you have to use the wants to keys and your mouse, or you can use a gamepad controller to guide your character up the mountain. And boy, can it be complicated. When I play this game, it's like my brain forgets where the keys are just to mess with me. You have to click the key that you want to release from holding on, then swing your body up with the mouse and onto the other bodies of your friends. I feel like using a controller would probably be a much easier option, but I have yet to try it. Next time, I will be queen of the mountain. If the basic concept and, you know, body parts of the game weren't awkward and weird enough, you can import your face and different skins for your character to make it even wackier. Literally just make the goofiest faces that you can, because it just adds to the hilariousness and will hopefully distract your friends and mess them up. There's a few different map types that you can choose from as you play also, which increases the difficulty and the excitement. If you want obstacles or to mount in space with zero gravity, you can do it. We aren't that skilled yet, so we usually just stick to the basic map that doesn't limit your mounting ability. You can set your time limit, but it doesn't go up as the mountain gets higher. So once you have a lot of friends stacked up, it gets really hard to make it in time. Starting out, I thought, wow, this game is sooo bad. Didn't you see that? I can't show that. How can they show that? But then I started playing and it's so ridiculous and hilarious that it just makes it okay. Not to mention, it's just some nice bonding time between you and your friends. You don't have to be into wacky gymnastics to enjoy this game. If you're into mounting your friends, then I urge you to play this game with a couple of your friends. It's a ton of fun and so ridiculous. Just make sure that no judging eyes are around to see what you're up to. If you're interested in seeing me mount my friends, you can head on over to my Channel Brits Games where I have the full gameplay. The link is also in the description below. I hope that you guys really enjoyed this review. It's a little different from the rest. But anyways, I will see you guys next week. Bye! Hey everyone, so today we are going to be playing Mount Your Friends and I and we will be mounting Zesty Mike, Scott, and me! You know I once had a friend that wouldn't stop mounting me, but I found spraying him with a water bottle highly effective. Impulse is produced by the Freedom Network. Ever wanted to earn revenue from your videos? Freedom offers a great partnership program which includes access to hundreds of thousands of audio tracks, sponsorships with great partners, and most importantly a no lock-in contract. You can leave at any time for any reason. We accept everyone, both big and small. For more information, click here or visit the link in the video description.