The Oakland, the Saginaw, the Detroit, the Flint.    You already know. The Texas, the Houston, the Dallas, H-Town. Come on, man. Yeah.  In my head. In your head? I'm going to start, uh... Shit, it's so cool. And it might have turned me into reality real quick.   Indeed. Now, welcome back to the 85 South Show, man. Come on, man, go. Yes, sir. Got a very special guest in the trap with us today, man. A very well-rounded actor, man.  You had to stop through the trap. It's about time.  None other. Barton Fitzpatrick. Yeah, let's go. Barton, Barton, Barton. Barton. Barton Fitzpatrick. There we go. Barton. Barton. Can we round of applause again? Yeah. Oh, yeah, let's go back around. Do it one more time. Come on, back around. Barton, Fitzpatrick. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank y'all, man.  How you doing? You got to get it right.  It happened. They're going to have to blend in. Barton. Yes, sir. That's hard. Thank you. Shit, man.  You know, tuning in, staying up to date, staying current.  Just working on that dope-ass show is that quickly became one of America's favorites from the inception, it seems like, man. Absolutely. God bless him. How did it come about for you? I had worked with the casting directors, Crystal Cards and Marissa Ross for two previous roles. Yeah. And, you know, the character Ridge originally was just supposed to be in the first episode. You know, he just had ten lines. And, you know, I did it. You worked with it? Yeah, you know, I worked it. And the producers fell in love with me. Then they just upped the character in there, you know. Come on, bro. You were supposed to be one-off or you were supposed to die? Nah, I was just supposed to be in the pilot episode. In the pilot, that's it. I had ten lines and that was it. Come on, man. Next. Thank you, man. Miracle. Go in there and get it, bro. Thank you, man. Absolutely. So, that's definitely dope, man. Just really go in there and earn your spot like that. Take something, like you said, a one-episode character and run with it. Absolutely. But that's when the epitome of when you get that shot, man.   I'm only in the pilot, man. Nah, that's big, man. I didn't ever expect it to happen like that, you know what I'm saying? I was just happy to just book another gig, you know what I'm saying? As an actor. Especially when you're between gigs. Absolutely. That's crazy. Like, give us some game on that, then.   You ain't going nowhere. It'll make you keep working for it. Absolutely. So, what were you doing in the meantime, just seeing if they were actually going to, you know what I mean? Keep you in there. It was crazy because, yeah, like you said, I was just like showing up as a day player as what it's called. So, showing up to different costume events. I remember when they brought me back for the third episode.  Shout out Stephen Williams, you know what I'm saying? He played the character Quentin. And it was like, they was just like, just the chemistry that we had in this one particular scene.  He was like, he's like, nah, we're going to do something with your character.  So it's just like, but nah, like each episode, they'd be sending me, you know, the script. But, you know, I was just going about it, just hoping that, you know, they would continue to write me in. And I didn't realize, you know, what it was. But my guy, like Jason Mitchell, he'd be telling me like, bro, you have no idea like what they're doing for your character. You know what I'm saying? Because I'll be doing it showing up to work. But I didn't understand, like, I'm really the villain of the show. I'm going to be the bad guy, quote unquote, of the show. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? No, that's crazy to be the main bad guy. Bro, that's hard. Yeah, man. So it just naturally just come about, you know.  Yeah. You feel me?  What was it like getting ready for that? You know what I'm saying? Now that you know what it is. I'm from the crib.  But of course, everybody got cousins, brothers and, you know, just from just being in that environment. So it's nothing to imitate what you've seen your whole life. So, yeah. But even still, you know, people watch the character, people who know me like my home. You know what I'm saying? Certain facial expressions and, you know, it's like, oh, no, that's part. You know what I'm saying? So it's still me, of course, portraying the character. You know what I'm saying?   Phenomenon. It's like his whole love. Man, like, I feel like in the next, like, five to 10 years for show, it'll officially be like the new Hollywood. Like, a lot of actors are already moving to Chicago because, you know, Empire came. The shy, of course. Then for Tommy to spin off the forest that came to the crib. Everybody don't know that Joseph Chacorra, his real name, he's actually from Chicago. So that was a cool thing. But of course, like, yeah, it gives me an opportunity to still remain and live in Chicago to, you know, be a local hire and be there for the opportunity for those shows.   And we don't even talk like that, you know?  Exactly. I mean, the people from the city. The people who from the city, we would be able to tell, you know what I'm saying? Right, right. Yeah, at least put some of them. But that's just on a small scale. Other people would look at it and be like, except the, you know. Yeah. What was your introduction to Agnando? Well, my father, he grew up as best friends, you know, brothers with Larry Tate, who was Lorenz Tate, his father. So naturally that was, you know, that's a big cut. So I was always inspired, you know, as Old Dog, everybody, of course. Yeah. Shout out to Lorenz. Shout out to Lorenz Tate. And of course, Lamar Tate, you know what I'm saying?  Most definitely. You know what I'm saying? So they always inspired me, of course, want to pursue it. But seeing you in high school, I entered the August Wilson Monologue Competition. And the preliminary round, I got a scholarship for acting at the AUSC, University of Illinois, at Chicago. And just did that for a year. That's mostly like theater based though, you know what I'm saying? I grew up, you know, in love with Denzel Washington. So it's like my thing was always, I want to be a film star, you know what I'm saying? But television came about, of course, like these shows coming to town and then getting my first Asian, these were the auditions that I was getting. So it's just like, you know, that's what it was.  But you was on the right path because Denzel, if I'm not mistaken, you know, he started doing, he was doing some theater stuff. Absolutely. No, I give, you know, I give it my all to theater, you know what I'm saying? But still, whenever I could, you know, afford to... What's your theater shit? Like when you're in your theater bag, like what's your, what's your play?  You know what I mean? That people in the theater world would know. Anything related to August Wilson, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's almost called the century cycle of ten plays, you know what I'm saying? From the 20s to 30s to 40s, you know? And yeah, it's just like those black characters are like, literally like you would be able to just see like us, you know what I'm saying? So that's what really beside Lorraine's tape, I want to see August Wilson play. And just seeing like those black characters, like that reminded me of my friends and my uncles and family members. That's what truly inspired me to really, really want to pursue acting. So of course, like I said, I started off on the stage and you know what I'm saying? I truly respect theater for giving me my start. But like I said, my goal and my dream was always to be a film star. That's all I'm saying. The August Wilson, all them stories that you talk about the century cycle, right? Don't they take place at the same house or something like that? Is that? Yeah. It all takes place in Pittsburgh. On the same block. On the same block. Okay, that's right. And then each play, all the characters are in a relationship. So yeah, you know what's up. I've seen the area. He done had a thousand lives, bro.  For sure. See? I think it was leaving two lives at one time. Got you.  That's hard, bro. It's just crazy how the world is just intertwined like that. Absolutely. Maybe I should go to school, study some theater. I wouldn't necessarily say that would make a difference. Like, I feel like acting is one of those things where you either have it or you don't. No, this is just to make my personal resume. I ain't never going to act. I'm just going to study it. Oh, okay. No, for sure. I'll never use it. I know how to do it. I can do that if I wanted to.  See, he told you. I declined the scholarship to Julian.  It's dope, man. J-Win, how you living over there, bro? You got some techno music playing? He ain't got none of my music playing. Oh, come on, yeah. You got some? I got some songs out. I told you that. I've been waiting to talk to you about that. They're acting going crazy. Callers left me on scene, y'all.  Don't be trying to ruin my name. I told him. I'm not going to be on here putting smud on my name. I was next to the nigga. He act like he didn't see my message. I reached out to you. I reached out to you because you know I did music though.  You know what I'm saying? You know what can happen. Let me go look. I'm going to find it. Keep talking. My artist's name is Barton, by the way. Barton. Put the hyphen over the O so they can not mispronounce it. They can't bark. You ain't going to bark me? It's Barton.   It's not Carlos, man. It's Carliles.  You know, they really just called me K-Ralph for sure.  Hold on, bro. It ain't even. You done see it? I'll find it. Hold on, hold on. We out here. Whatever, man. I'm not going to accept it, man.  It's right here. You want to read it or not? Don't. I said most definitely. No, no, no, no. Right here. Right there. Oh, I didn't. Big Barton, any favor you tell DC? What you got to tell them today? See? I mean, it happened either way. My god. Did not make it happen either. No, you definitely made it happen. No, no, no. No, you made it happen. Sometimes, you know, your blessings come as it is.  That's real. It's going to happen now, right? That's real. Absolutely. Now it's going to happen. Come on. Gift wrap. We got the studio here, too. Right here. So guess what? That's how I'm going to make it up.   See?  What more could you ask for, man? That's why I'm me and you.  Not it's on me. I'm not bad.  I was living too fast. Ain't nothing... I've been working on this car shit, right? Most of my DMs is just me and my lady laughing at memes and the niggas trying to sell me cars. It's just, that's it. That's my life. You know you can't leave your lady on scene if she's seeing you or me. Because then next thing you know, the next message would be them three question marks.  So you never look at your message? Yeah, three question marks, man.  Mm-hmm. Oh, no. My lady black and she abusive. I had a black woman and she just... She was real abusive. Can't say that nowadays. I mean, it's not that I'm snitching. They gon' censor like a house. Do nothing about it. I'm just gonna take my abuse like a real nigga. What? Stop, girl.  You know how to deal with your emotions. I don't know how to wanna hear that. Did you know even if you have a 401K for retirement, you can still have an IRA? Robinhood has the only IRA that gives you a 3% boost on every dollar you contribute when you subscribe to Robinhood Gold. But get this, now through April 30th, Robinhood is even boosting every single dollar you transfer from the other retirement accounts with a 3% match. That's right, no cap. 3% match. Robinhood Gold gets you the most for your retirement thanks to their IRA with a 3% match. 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Where you get your inspiration from though?  You trying to Vlad the nigga? So how long you been banging? What game you in? You just grown up in Chicago.  Don't do that. Don't do that.  Big dope. So tell me what it was like in the trap house. This is the first trap I've ever been to. This is the first trap. This is not four walls. This is a set. It's a man trap. It's trapping other things. Not in trap. We selling media and content over here. That's what we trapping now. We still got VCR tapes. But not a lot of them. Not a lot. Just for the history and the nostalgia.  That's the same freak. Did you ever find the R&B? Oh yeah. You want to drop an exclusive right now and just... No, that's out. No, I'm saying it's going to be exclusive because we ain't never played it. Exclusive to us. Right. Build it up for us. Tell us what this is that we're about to get into. Okay, so this is my first single. Your voice changed. This nigga here, bro.   I've been working on it. Hey man, this is Barton. With the thing. R&B mode. Bro, let him cook. Let him cook. So it was... No, go back to Barton. With the thing. So this is... This is my first single. It was released in 2019. It's called Simplicity. Actually, I had to... I was graced with the opportunity of having the song placed on the shot. You know what I'm saying? My first single, you know what I'm saying? So I'm really trying to just diversify my portfolio and just show people another side of me. A side like these gangster roles. Because I really... I'm about to gear up to drop an album and really take over this R&B set. That's cool. Actors is... The acting line is getting blurry right now.    Just trying to be recognized for music as well as equally acting. Simplicity. Ladies and gentlemen, Barton. It's hot, right? Yeah, let's start with you.  I like eggs in the morning. Like my girl made me eggs.  Exactly. I might eat them when I go back the night. Put them in the good things. They fine. She studied how I did it. She know how to make the way you make it. She says... It's hard to find a song you agree with too.  Let a reminder, that simplicity is important. Absolutely. Appreciate it. You keep making music, man. Thank you, man. I will, man. You steady going. How many projects you got? It's a lot, man. I'm coming, I'm coming. For real. Hold on, hold on. You can do some too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Recently produced, co-produced my first film. It's called Everything is Both. It's on Tubi. Coastal Army and my boy Jason Mitchell. Okay, dope. Check that out. Tubi movies in a whole different lane, bro. Oh, yeah. It's like we talk about Tubi every episode now. Yeah, yeah. And it's more than just the bad stuff. Tubi go crazy with the... You know, it's got some... It's real legit quality. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Independence. Real movies on there, you know what I'm saying?  No, for sure. I got three films on Tubi. And I will say that they are quality films. Okay. Ain't nobody got... Ain't nobody using their hand as a gun. No, no, no, no, no. But that's the paradox of Tubi.  What is that one? Okay, what is it about? Because we do this frequently, bro.  Bro, I'm trying to tell you exactly what the movie is about. You got to guess what Tubi is. Yeah, I don't even want to spoil it for you. Sloppy seconds, man. Yes. And it ain't about even. I love it. That's the most recent movie I've seen on Tubi. I told you about the... The Girl Who Seen a Baby on the Highway. That's the name of it. Yeah. Yeah, based off the situation. It's called The Girl Who Seen a Baby on the Highway. I heard they're doing an unauthorized biography of a rapper on a Tubi platform here shortly. What rapper might that be? I just saw a trailer for it. What rapper might that be? Rap beat. I ain't gonna participate in none of this.  Yeah. He ain't got nothing to do with it. Nah. I think those are the best biographers, though.  We gonna make it what we want to. Yeah. Who you want to work with on the acting side and the music side? Like, dream? On the acting side, I want to work with, of course, Denzel really send you a jacket. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's true. I worked with Laurence Fisher before. That was, you know, them always been like the top three, you know what I'm saying? For me, you know, Laurence Sam and Denzel. But on the music side, I want to work with definitely with Usher. You got a little time now. You ended his residency. Stop breaking no relationships. He needs to go ahead, just you know. Yeah, come on, man. Absolutely.  He about to go right back out there. Yeah. Super Bowl. Oh, yeah. He performing at the Super Bowl. I would love for him to take somebody girl at the Super Bowl. Somebody extremely important, too. One of them, like, NFL owner's wife. Oh, that's cold. He walked right up to Mark Cuban's main lady. Did she risk it all? Kiss her right here on the titty cleavage. Oh, my God. Usher going to jail. No, he ain't. It's Usher. I already told you. He got Usher Bucks. He the only motherfucker that could have Usher Bucks. That's yours. Diabolical, bro. He literally walks through the crowd and be like, whose relationship is unstable? Not even about how bad she is. He just smelled like an almost broken home. Then he just braced it all the way up. Usher has found a way to make his sweat not fall off his face. Just so when he's singing to them ladies it gets skin glistening. That's how diabolical he is. The stop is sweat. So he don't sweat. Sweat just comes to the surface. It's there, but it refuses to fall off because it's important to the visual that he's creating.   Just find out that most Asian people don't even get musty. They got this gene that keeps them from having body odor and growing a whole bunch of excessive body hair. Asian people confirm this. It's a gene. Confirm this. All of our Asian 85 Souther's confirm it. That's why I put it on. I would like them to weigh in. Go to Mimi page.  What she say? She don't get musty? She get, okay. It's this gene that Asian people have. Watch this. This is going to start being real racist in a minute. I hope you ain't get this one. You ain't got to be Asian to have it. This is getting worse and worse.  It's called the ABCC 11 gene. Oh, here it is. All right, man.  You refuse to accept the information as I'm telling it to you. No, I'm accepting it.  And high speed internet. I don't want that on my search history.  I don't want that to sit down. Y'all niggas is on some selfish weed.  Explain it.  I got it. Because I told you it existed.  I didn't say it. I didn't say it. Don't be rounding them people in if you think they get musty. You'll smell somebody who won't be must. Okay, well, what is that? What is it?   That's one wet nap away from you. A gym for the Chinese people. Don't say just Chinese people. Okay, Asians of all kinds. They would never hoot together. They all in there hooping. And you telling me it's just, it's no smell. No, it's hot.  There's no odor, bro. They been playing all day. It's different teams.  They don't even sweat. They don't sweat. They don't sweat now. Now they don't sweat. That gene is a motherfucker, man.  Asian people, please let us know.  What you mean? I checked the analytics, bro. We get very, very few views from Asia. There's always few at the show. At the live show, it's always like maybe one or two, two, three. But they live in America. What does that mean?  So you mean the American Asian people get musty? That's crazy. That's because they been over here eating. My dog's been there. They eat at McDonald's. If you're American, you're susceptible to being musty. They gene them, then burn through. They good. You're dope. Hey man, what's going on right now in the shaft? The real city. The real city. On the entertainment side. We just did a show out there, not too long ago. One thing about Chicago, they love some 85 self.  We just trying to find a way to make you look like a bad person. But nah, what you mean? Like on the entertainment side? What do the cat call you on the FaceTime? The cat? Damn, the cat been gone so long, people don't even remember. Cat from 85. Anyway, Cat is the one who told me that he was trying to get in touch with us and get on the show. He told me, he was setting up. He wanted to be here. He was excited, but he had an accident.  If he would have came next week, I think next week was supposed to be his debut back.  We ready for him. We miss him though, Keith. You can't believe you can't believe me, man. About that. I just asked. I don't want us to get canceled.   That's what I'm saying. Carlos Miller says Asian people stink. I didn't say... I said they do. But that's how they do shit, bro.   I never said that. That's what I'm saying. I've heard that it was quite the opposite. The opposite, right. That's what they say as soon as the article starts. You actually said the opposite.  That's kind of ridiculous. Is it? I don't want to confirm or deny that.  Even black iPhones is different, bro.   Because my white iPhone just worked whenever it wanted to. You know what I'm saying? Everything is running something. When I had a white one, Siri just used to pop up. What did you say?  Oh, Karen has an iPhone. I got me a black iPhone because they run faster.  Whatever, man. I don't like the judgment in this room.  Making better iPhone choices.  Here I am.  I ain't a-playing myself. Welcome back to the 85's episode. Yo. I don't know if you heard or if you've been watching the show, but the 85 South Show was recently voted the number one show amongst black people who prefer to date other black people. That's good, that's good. Yeah. Then we was voted number one by other racist people who like to date black people. So, yeah. We saw that front row. We saw that front row in New Orleans. Many a baby. Shout out to all the real 85%ers because y'all are the best fans and audience in the whole game of fans and audiences.  Comments that you didn't leave the first time you watched it.  That's longevity. That's prosperity. That's exactly what God wants from you. Bart, let us know something. Fill me in. Which mode are you in right now? Still an R&B mode? Because we just played the song and then I know your voice changed. I was like, I didn't know who, what... Because I had an R&B nigga on here with 19 different personalities. I don't know if you've ever heard of this artist called Music Soul Child. I'm sure you're familiar with him. But have you ever heard of Purple Wonder Love? No, I see you're not familiar with Purple Wonder Love. Well, apparently he's been making music for years and you've been listening to it. Whether you know it or not according to Music Soul Child who was speaking to me as Purple Wonder Love via Music Soul Child but as... You see where this is going? All right. Then he named at least nine other people that I've never heard. And he informed me that I had been listening to their music also. And these are all not the same people but they will only communicate via Music Soul Child. So you see my dilemma. Don't you do it? Here it goes.  What am I just saying? There's nine of them. That's Music Soul Children. He can't just... He's just one child or the rest are adults and he's the only child? Music is the soul child. Okay. Soul meaning one. Okay. Who's the other eight? They're like shell companies. Like them little... Pseudo personalities, if you will. Okay. Like them little dolls. I don't know if they're even really people but some of them are more like personalities and epiphanies.  That's what you were supposed to ask him. I can't. I never in the midst of him explaining all these other people to me, I forgot. So you got to ask yourself who was doing the interview. You?  I was performing as myself. As me. No, man.  No, for sure.    Some of your favorite black...  Like using an old t-shirt to wash your car. See how every black person in this room know exactly what I'm talking about.    It seemed like it shouldn't work. It seemed like it should, but it works so well. Like black people understand the importance of windex. Or using some starch on your favorite jeans. If you ain't never used starch in your life, don't ever argue with me. You're not old enough.  They're just waking up going to school now. Ain't nobody getting up early enough to wear pajamas. They're going to school.   You ain't even school clothes.   They don't even let you know that you really about to iron for real for everybody in the house. Hey, hit these for me. Hit these. Hit these. These long-ass, wide-ass jeans you're talking about. Ain't no way to just hit these. Look at these overalls. Bitch, ain't no way to just hit these.  The bottle of state float right there by itself.   Motherfucking that root, starch on the bottle. Bitch, who told black people to iron in the kitchen? I think that was just the spot that had the most room. If you had, you know if you ain't have a big old spot, you know that's the most room you're going to get in the kitchen.  Without no furniture.  Now I won't say only black people. But have you ever folded a whole basket of laundry?    When you buy drawers and you wear them, you never think about having to fold them up and put them somewhere. What? That's what I use as my gauge of success. Until I get to a point where my drawers don't have to be folded, I ain't going to feel like I made it. You don't have to fold. I got a lot of drawers. Just leave them unfolded.  But I collect them all year then at the end of the year I start over. Don't look at me like something wrong with me, bro. I just literally saw you switch personalities and go in R&B mode. You can't judge me. When are you going to drop some more music though? When's the album coming out? Most likely February. October next year. That's dope as hell how you drop one song one straight to the top though. Got picked right up on the show. Yeah, that was a blessing. That was a blessing. Y'all had Jacob on the show. Yeah, me and Jacob got a record together. Jacob came over here.  Had his mom over there with him. Still up there. Brought the family. It was lit. Kicked good shit, man. How long you been in there? Probably get up out of the mall.  Man, that's cold.  Yeah, yeah. That's what they couch do. I want some Waffle House. I'm home just here. That's what I need. Somebody order this man some Waffle House. What's your Waffle House order? I need a patty milk. Yeah, which one? The chicken one? Getting the beef. Okay.   Or you want a patty milk. That's all y'all need. I'm callin' it in for you, bro.  What do you want to drink? What do you want to drink? Monsters. You want a hash brown? What do you want? You think he's bullshittin' with you? I wasn't ready to want to drink now. She don't play with you. She gone. You can't add nothin' when she close the door. You better get on television when I'm dead right now. You can't add nothin' when she leave out there. Come on, hold on. Tell her how you want it. No, he ain't say chicken. You want it? Yeah. And a waffle. And a waffle. Nah, a pecan waffle. Pecan waffle. Just a regular waffle. Thank you. See? Man, don't never just hold that.  Get you in there.  By the time we get done, just what you gonna have. Food, nigga. Right on time. No way. You company, the least we can do is get you a waffle house order. Yeah. Hell yeah. You got some more weed?  Nah, this ain't gonna take too far. Nah, nigga.  Hey, man, I got some hoes coming through, man. Y'all got a place out there.  I'm in this room right here. Y'all ain't got nothing to drink. No, do we have something to drink? That's for me. What you need? What you want? I want liquid. What you mean? Liquid. Liquid? Trying to have some licorice, huh? Oh, okay. I completely understand. And what's your social media, man, to make up with you and keep in touch with all the new things that you've got coming up? Act like Bart. Act like Bart. ACT underscore like underscore Bart. On all platforms. That's where the hell goes on, man.  Hell yeah. You know, swag that out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What side of Chicago are you from? I was born out west, but from the south side of Chicago. Oh, okay.  Yeah, yeah. When you said west, I felt new feet. What color you wear? Nah. Nah, you just got to make sure you answer three questions in a row, right? Nah, you got to answer three questions. Hell, yeah. Yeah? Yeah, man, just a little, just, you know, just until times get better on both sides.  Hey, man. 35 self-show. We out this beer. Yeah, yeah.


Good morning. Good morning Lucy and good morning everyone. How are all of you? So you've been enjoying the study from this book, Playing Axe to Roots. Yes. So what have you laid the axe to so far? To self? Pride? Jealousy? Yes. Oh, Chira is online. Chira, they're saying that you will ask questions so we'll anticipate some questions from you. But good to see you Chira. Yes, good morning to you as well. And to Aruna. Thank you Aruna and Lucy. Good morning. Okay, so we are going to lay the axe to the root of lust, right? What is lust? What is lust? Sister, lust is desire of the flesh. Thank you. Lust is a desire of the flesh. Okay. Anyone else? Lust is basically something that is uncontrollable, unreasonable, excessive desire. It can be a passion, it can be earning, it can be a craving for something, okay? Something that you want, it's a yearning, a craving. Till you have it, till you have more of it, till you get it, till you want what you really are looking for or you are desiring. And that is lust, okay? If you look around our world today, we can see a lot of, you know, the way of the world is following the lust of the ice and the lust of the flesh. Okay, there's a craving to fulfill the desires of the flesh.  So that is the way of the world. So if you look at Ephesians chapter 2 verses 1, 2 and 3 and 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 4, it says that, you know, there is corruption and moral decay in the world. The world is corrupted, there is moral decay that means morality, our minds and our thinking, you know, there is a lot of moral decay. You just look at the newspaper, there is a lot of, you know, nude images of women and men poorly dressed. If you look at any advertisement, any billboard signs which shows advertisement, everything is talking, has a sexual connotation. It has something to do with the lustful, fleshly desires, even advertisements, movies, serial. You just go online to search something on the internet and here pops up all of these, you know, unwanted things, unwanted sites, which can, you know, easily entice us and can drag us away.  And sometimes it's so, you know, disturbing to keep those newspapers even in our center tables, in our hall where we entertain people because of the kind of material and images that we have, whether it's in magazines or even the newspapers. Gretude, can I ask you to please mute your mic? Thank you. Okay. So the way of the world is to follow the fleshly desires and we read this in Ephesians chapter two verses one, two and three. And second Peter chapter one was four. And it says that now since we have been, you know, we were of the world, all of us when we were living in sin. And we live like the people of the world in uncontrollable excessive lustful desires and pleasures. But now since we are part of the kingdom of God, you know, we can resist all of these things. And second Peter chapter one was four says that we have God is made of way and what is the way he has made for us to overcome this corruption and the moral decay that is in our world today is, you know, he has given us his precious promises in his word. Okay. So his word is, is our light is our guide enables us strengthens us to overcome the corruption and the moral decay in the world today. I'm on page 68 so in following your books as well. Now is desire wrong? Is it wrong to have desires? No, it's not wrong to have desire. It is good to have desire. The Bible also talks of us having, you know, how that is good to have desires. We need to have desires, you know, to desire more of his presence, his power, his word. And as we read in Psalms chapter 37 was for this as delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart and proverb chapter 10 was 24 says the desires of the righteous will be granted. Okay. And Mark chapter 11 was 24 says that whatever you ask for in prayer believing you will receive what you have asked for so the Bible does not tell us that not desire. We can desire. We can long after things. Okay. But it is important that we have good desires. It's important that we have godly desires and not have unhealthy and wrong desires or passions that as controlling us controlling our minds our emotions and our lives. Okay. So, why is it important for us to have godly clean pure good desires. Why is it important for us. Why is it important for us to have godly pure good desires. It's what God wants. Okay. Thank you. Look at what James chapter one versus 13 to 16 says, you know, it says how are we tempted or when are we tempted. Look at James chapter one 13 to 16 was chapter page number 68. Okay, 62. Okay, this is I think the new version 68. When are we, you know, why is it important for us to have godly desires. What if we don't have godly and right desires what happens. Yes, we are tempted. Yes. Right. So, when does temptation happen. We have claimed Satan for our temptations. Right. But what does the word of God says that we are tempted when we are drawn away from our own desires. It's not your neighbor's desires. It's not your parents desires. It's not your the world's desires. It's not even Satan's desires. But when are you tempted you're tempted when you are drawn away by your own desires. Okay, so how does desire come about in our lives when we desire things. It's when we watch something or when we see something. Right. So, when we just watch read the newspaper or we just watch or see a billboard sign or we watch an advertisement, a desire is stirred up in our heart, or we are reading something or we look at something.  And so what happens is we are drawn away by our own desires. Also, you know, a Satan can just put in a thought, an imagination, a longing and idea just one idea and one imagination one thought, and that kind of builds up that kind of stirs up our desire for wanting more and more, and then it becomes something that is uncontrollable something that we cannot control. And you know, those wrong desires actually weaken our will, it weakens our mind or emotions. And then we just get drawn away and we give into it, and then we are not able to resist temptation. Okay, so all Satan does is just plant a thought and idea imagination and get you to see something, and you're dwelling on it you're just thinking about it.  Until you get it, you don't stop and then it becomes more and more of that.  Now the Word of God, in one John chapter two verses 16 and 17 talks about two kinds of lust. Okay, what are the two kinds of lust in one John chapter two verses 16 and 17. The lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes. Okay, and the pride of life. Okay, so these three things that is very dangerous that we need to guard ourselves that we need to protect ourselves. So what do we mean by the lust of the flesh. The last of the flesh basically means you know gratifying our sinful desires gratifying our sinful bodily desires. What does the last of the eyes mean. What does the lust of the eyes mean.  You need not possess it but you just desire to have it you want it because you have seen it, and you just are longing for it. Okay, so we look at some of the manifestations or the expressions. So whether we have this, the last of the eyes and the last of the flesh in us. So if you have the last of the flesh in my in in us, how does it manifest or how does it express itself through us or how is it seen in us. I hope us can be seated here and say or you know wherever you are joining online and say hey I don't have the last of the flesh. I don't have the last of the eyes, maybe have a little pride but that's not going to hinder me, but we will look at various manifestations or expressions.  And if it's there that means you are being controlled by the last of the flesh. And, you know, you can just pray and ask God to help you and to overcome it. Okay, so we look at some of the manifestations of the last of the flesh, what is the root of lust. So the first one, the last of the flesh is, you know, uncontrollable desire for substances, it can be alcohol, it can be small, you know, drugs, cigarettes. It can also be chewing tobacco, some of them, you know, think that it's okay to chew tobacco, it's not, it's an uncontrollable desire for the substances which is a lust of the flesh. And the word of God also says that, you know, an uncontrollable desire for food, you know, if you have an uncontrollable desire for food, it's also the lust of the flesh. Now you might be surprised about it, but if you look at 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verses 12 to 13, it talks about, you know, food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both it and them. And it says, now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body. Okay, so it's, it's good to eat food. You know, it's good to desire to eat good healthy food. It's good to desire to eat what you long for, but you know, when food becomes a craving, a desire more than your desire, your passion to follow God to do what he has purpose and will for your life. Now let me give you an, an example, an example from, you know, the Israelites, when the Israelites when and we read this in, in Psalms chapter 78, verses 14 to 32, the Israelites when they were traveling from Egypt to the Promised Land, you know, they crave for the food that they ate in Egypt, they crave for melons and cucumbers and fish, and they were complaining and grumbling and murmuring against God that here in the desert, they're not getting anything to eat and God provided them mana. Okay, heavenly food. And we read this in the same chapter in Psalms chapter 78. And we see that, you know, when they crave for meat, it, the word of God says they were actually testing God in their heart. Look at Psalm chapter 78, verses 14 to 32, it says, and they tested God in their heart. And they asked these questions, can God prepare a table in the wilderness for us? Can he give us bread? Can he provide meat for his people? And when the Lord heard this, he was furious, he was very angry with them. Okay. And we see that God gave them what they desired. God gave them what they were longing for. He said, you want it? Take it. This, you know, you can have it. Okay. So we see that the Roth, when even as they were, God just provided meat for them. And even as they were enjoying that meat that they were craving, God's anger fell upon them. And you know, some of them were struck down dead. And look at what another chapter in Psalms chapter 106, verses 9 to 15 says, it says that they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness. They were lusting after all of these things. And what happened was they tested God in the desert, and God gave them up to their requests. So God said, you want it? You have it? You know, it is sad that these people were actually enjoying the glorious presence of God, the glorious move of God. They were right in the center of fulfilling God's glorious plan, His will, His divine purpose for their lives, even as they were journeying from Egypt through the wilderness to the Promised Land. But instead of, you know, desiring more of God, more of His presence, instead of desiring what God wanted them to do here, they were craving for food. And that is why God was so angry. And God gave them what they desired. But also there was punishment that was there. Okay. People are has raised his hand. So people is it okay if I can ask, let you ask your question during the end of the class, is that okay? Sorry. Oh, he mistakenly raised his hand. Okay, fine. Okay, we'll continue. Okay. So we see that, you know, it's important for us to desire to eat the right kind of food but not a craving where it comes to a place where it takes over our, our passion and a desire from following God following his purposes and doing what he has desired for our lives. Another second manifestation of the lust of the flesh is compulsive habits or desires. Okay. Now, for some of us, we, we, we love to sleep. You know, it's good to sleep seven hours, six to seven hours a day is good for our heart health, our wholeness. But for some of us, we desire to keep sleeping more and more for some of us it can be 12 hours, 10 hours of sleep that we want. And that is another manifestation of the lust of the flesh. For some of us, it's important or necessary that we have to watch a movie in a week, at least one movie in a week, even if you can't make it to two or three.  You have to entertain yourself, entertainment is important for the mind. But that is a lust of the flesh. For some of us shopping, you know, we have to go shopping, we have to buy something at least once in a week or twice in a week or a month. And that is also a compulsive habit or desire. And, you know, for some of us, we want our spouses or we want our parents to keep on buying us good expensive gifts we want to indulge in expensive things.   And that means we are addicted to what to that so whatever you can be addicted to some some of you say hey I'm not addicted to alcohol to wine or smoking or drugs, but you can be addicted to sleeping you can be addicted to indulging in eating all the time. You can be addicted to shopping or watching movies and that is also a manifestation of the lust of the flesh. Look at what's proverb chapter five verse 22 says he says that in his own inequities and trapped the wicked man and he's caught in the cause of his sin. Okay, so sin holds us in bondage in slavery and that becomes an addiction. Look at what Jesus says in John chapter eight was 34 he says you know, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Okay, so we need to be careful of these subtle things that can entice us that can hold us in captivity in bondage in stronghold and can get us away from the plans and the purposes of God as simple things as shopping as eating food craving for food and also watching movies. The third manifestation of the last of the flesh is sexual perversion. Okay, our sexuality is created by God. Sex is something that is holy is pure. It is something that God created. It's not something that's dirty and unclean, but it's something that's holy and pure created by God ordained by God. But in the context of marriage. Okay, so sex in marriage is holy is pure is clean is is ordained by God and will bear food because it is something that God desires for us.  Okay, so we are living in a world where homosexuality and all of this is becoming legal.  But you know, and, and all of these people say that hey, this is natural this is how God created us to be this is not something that is unnatural. This is not a perversion, but this is how God created us. But the word of God says that homosexuality is not something that is natural. It's not something that is created by God. It is totally unacceptable by God and we read this in Romans chapter one verses 18 to 32. Okay, and we see we read in verse 28 of Romans chapter one that says that you know they did not choose the men of the world. You know, the people of the world did not choose to retain God in their knowledge and because they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge. They gave them up over to a debased mind, which means a mind that is does not accept the truth. It rejects the truth, it accepts lies. It does not accept what is right, it accepts what is wrong, that is a debased mind, and a mind that you know the lies and the wrong is good, is healthy, is what God has for us. And so we read here in Romans chapter one verses 18 to 32. Since the people of this world, you know, did not accept or choose to retain the knowledge of God, what did God do? He gave them up to their own thinking and pleasures, just like he did for the Israelites when they prayed for meat, he said he wanted to take it. And so here also he does this to the people of the world. Okay, you want it, you want to indulge in it, you're refusing the knowledge of the truth that I'm revealing to you, then you take and you have what you want. And what happens when we do that is our minds become darkened. And then we are able to look at lies as though it's truth, things that are not created by God unnatural as something that is natural. And we think that it's normal for us to do it and that is the way we have been made or created. And the Bible calls this as sin. And you know, every kind of sexual perversion, immorality, premarital sex, sex, outside marriage, adultery, homosexuality, incest is all something that is unacceptable by God and it's sin and God cannot stand it. And it's not normal and it's not something that God has designed or planned for his people or for the people that he created. Okay.  It's not necessary that you are engaging with somebody else or with another partner with your spouse, but you can just be seated in a room you can be seated on the in the bus you can be seated in the train.  You are not doing it but you are engaging in that. And that is also unacceptable.   And this is not that is that's not pleasing in God. Some of us, you know, nobody can read our minds. And some of us think nobody knows what we are thinking. You know, but God sees our minds. He knows the Holy Spirit is living in us because our bodies are the temple of the living God, and the Holy Spirit is greed, you know, when we indulge in these things. And so God may be laying a finger on some of us who are engaging in this is not necessarily just men or young men, but it's also women who can, you know, sexually fantasize, have, you know, these sexual pleasures and these thoughts, just like a movie that runs through our minds. And this is something that is not pleasing in God's sight. And even as God is correcting us, or laying his finger on each one of us, we need to just, you know, come to a place where we're saying God, the sorry, you know, please help me to overcome this, because I know this is not of you. I've been enjoying this. But God, my body is the temple of the living God where you dwell. And this is something that grieves your heart, that breaks your heart. God just cleans me and wash me with your blood and fire from above. Okay, so all of these, which I just mentioned pointed out listed out are the manifestations of the flesh. Now we look at the lust of the eyes, the manifestations of the expressions of the lust of the eyes so how do you know whether you are lusting in your eyes. Some of them is, some of the manifestations is pornography. You know, some of us enjoy looking at images or movie clippings, or, you know, that's freely accessible and available in the internet or whether it's magazines or books or whatever, you know, or for pornography.  And that is the lust of the eyes and it's already, it's also freely available on our, on our mobile phones.  This is going to corrupt your soul and draw you off what God has planned, and also breathe the heart of God, even as he dwells in you. One thing manifestation of the lust of the eyes is filthy thoughts and immoral fantasies. So we can, like I said, you know we can have lustful thoughts and moral fantasies. You know, when you just look at things when you look at movies that is why it's important for us not to keep watching movies, because all of these movies have so much of all of these sexual connotations. Everything that is the lust of the eyes, the lust of flesh played out for us with our very eyes and it's all stored in our subconscious mind, and when our minds are quiet that kind of replays in our minds. And so it's important for us to even, you know, just stop looking at whether it's newspapers or videos or images or even movies, you know, so that we can overcome the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the word of God tells us in Philippians chapter four verse eight, that you know, what are the kind of things that we need to think, we need to think thoughts that are true, that are noble, that are right, that are pure, that are lovely, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy and the word of God says such things you need to think about or meditate on such things. So whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy, think about such things. So how do you have a control over your thought life? If a thought comes popping up in your mind, you need to ask yourself, is this true? Is this right? Is this pure? Is this noble? Is this admirable, excellent, praiseworthy? And if it's not, you know, just dump it, chuck it out, you know, bring every thought captive under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and say, God help me with this thought, you know, I just nullify it. I just erase it in the blood of the Lamb and this thought has no control over my mind. For some of us, it's fast, you know, we have a fascination towards looking, looking at good men or women. For us men, some of us, you know, the lust of the flesh is can we are always, you know, looking at handsome men, you know, wherever we go, we are trying to spot handsome men, trying to look at them and fantasizing, thinking things in our mind.  And so if that is something that is controlling you, then it's the lust of the eyes and you need to ask God to help you overcome that. Look at what Jesus says in Matthew chapter five verse 28, he said, but I say to you over looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery in your heart.  But here the New Testament, he has grace is more freely available, but even as grace is more freely available, there's a higher standard that God is taking us to and what is that higher standard. Even if you look at a woman lustfully, you've already committed the act of adultery. It's good as adultery. Okay, and covetousness, the third manifestation of the lust of the eyes is covetousness when you desire something that somebody else has and the word of God says in Colossians chapter three was five that it is a covetousness is idolatry. What is idolatry? Worshipping idols, right? So some of you say, hey, I don't bar down to any idol, but then you can have different idols in your life. You're lusting up to women that can be idolatry or lusting after watching movies that can be an idol.  An idol is something that comes between you and God, takes the place of God, something that you desire more than God and look at what Jesus warns us in Luke chapter 12 verse 15. We said to them, take heed and beware of covetousness for one's life does not consist in the abundance of the things that he possesses. So Jesus is telling us and warning us, you know, take heed, beware of covetousness. Another manifestation of the lust of the eyes is the desire for money, power, fame, position and influence. Now, all of these things are okay in its own place. It's okay to, you know, work hard to get money to have power to have fame, position, influence. These are all tools. But, you know, once it becomes an uncontrollable affection and uncontrollable desire, then these becomes the lust of the eyes. Okay. And this is what caused the first sin. This is how sin came into the world. It was to the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. And you can ask me how, you know, in the garden when Satan just put a thought in Eve's mind, but look at what it says in Genesis chapter three. It says, you know, when Eve saw the fruit, she saw it was good for food. It was pleasant to the eyes and is desirable to make one wise. So good for food is the lust of the flesh. Okay. Pleasant to the eyes, the lust of the eyes. Okay. And desirable to make one wise is the pride of life. So these three things is what caused the first sin and can also cause us to sin. Okay. So all of these things, money, fame, position, all is good in its own place are tools, but should not become excessive and uncontrollable where it takes over our lives. Next thing is worldliness. You know, we're attracted to the things of this world. We are in the world, but we need to be off the world. We live in the world, but we live as kingdom citizens, not desiring the things of this world because James chapter one verses one to four says that those who are friends of the world are enemies of God. So if you love the world, the things of the world means you're not a friend of God, you are an enemy of God. That is what the word of God says. You know, if we are enemies of God, we cannot please God, you know, life becomes futile, we cannot express experiences, blessings is fullness, there's no joy, there's a lot of pain and sorrow. Another manifestation of the lust of the eyes is greed. Greed is an intense desire for more. We want more and more and more. Like what First Timothy chapter six verse 10 says, it says, for the love of the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil for some have strayed from the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. So is money wrong? Is earning for getting money wrong? No, we have to earn, we have to work hard. The word of God admonishes us tells us that we need to work, need to earn so that we satisfy our needs, not our greed. We satisfy our needs and we're not dependent on others, but it's not satisfying our greed. So sometimes, you know, we can come to a level where we want more and more. You have a car, but you want a bigger car. You have a house, but you want a bigger house.   I'm not saying it's not wrong to desire to have a bigger house as your family grows. Or if you want to have a bigger car so that you can take all of your friends and your neighbors to church, that is good. But you know, just being very self-centered and selfish is not, is the root of, or the love of money, which is the root of all evil. So it's good to earn money to satisfy your need and also to bless others and to extend and to give into the extension and the building of the kingdom of God. So that should be our motive for making money so that our needs are met, so that we can bless others like the early church, they sold everything, they came and gave it, and those who are in need were helped. And it also helped in the extension of the preaching of the gospel or the kingdom of God. Okay, so money and all that we do with our money should be tools for us to preach the gospel and get soul saved and to build the kingdom of God. Okay, now we look at the last thing, youthful lust. Second Timothy chapter two was 22 says, we need to flee from youthful lust, and what should we pursue? It says pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace.  You know, all of these haves is place, but some, and you know, when it becomes very excessive, it becomes dangerous. And, you know, why do we need to take a chance? Because these are things that can get us addictive can make us in bondage in slavery to it. And finally, we can become addicted to it. So, you know, flee from youthful lust, flee means what? What does flee mean? To run away. Okay, it means if I say, hey, there's a fire in this building, what will you do? You're not saying, hey, let me take my book and my Bible and my bag. What will you do? You just run, right?  You won't even bother about that.  And that is what we need to do, flee from things that you know, hold us in bondage and in slavery. Now, what are the consequences of all of these lusts that we have, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh? It chokes the word of God. Okay, you can go to church, you can say, you can worship, people can pray over you, but nothing will have an effect because these lusts are choking you. And that is what, you know, the parable of the sewer, you know, the seed that falls on among tons is worldly things is, is something that chokes you, that hinders the word of God from, you know, telling you what is the truth, and you will continue to believe the lies because you are not able to accept the truth because all of these lusts choke the word. Lust also brings bondage. We become a slave of the things that we are addicted to or in bondage. Look at what Romans chapter six verse 12 says, it says, do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies. You should not obey it. What does Romans chapter six verse 16 says, you know, do not know that to whom you present yourselves, you present yourselves as slaves to obey it. You are that one slave to whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness. So if you become slaves of, if you're yielding to sin, we become slaves of sin, and we are not obedient to righteousness. Also, lust can bring destruction to our souls and our bodies. It corrupts our minds, you know, the fleshly desires and the lusts of our flesh and eyes. It wars against our mind, our souls, our wills and our emotions. And that is why some of you can't concentrate. You see, I find it very difficult to concentrate. My mind keeps wandering.  And so, you know, we need to be careful. 1 Corinthians 6 verse 18 says, every sin that a man does, he does outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality, immorality sins against his own body.  So, we need to know that these lustful pleasures that come into our mind can be demonically energized. Okay. It can also be because they are wounded in our spirit.   So, and it can also yield to addictions like smoking, drinking or drugs. So, we need to ask God to, you know, heal us in our spirits and in our minds and, you know, if you're grieving, if you're broken, ask God to heal us in the areas of our heart and mind. Some of the lusts can also be demonically energized. You know, there are unclean spirits that can produce immoral lifestyles. There are perversive spirits that can lead us into all perversions, sexual perversions. We read this in Isaiah chapter 19, verse 14, where God says, you know, he releases the perversive spirit and that gets the people of Egypt into more sins. So, they're perversive spirits. It's not that God sends out the perversive spirit. It's God removes his hand of protection. And when he removes his hand of protection, these demonic perversive spirits take control over us. Okay, there can also be a spirit of bondage that, you know, keep us in bondage to sin and addictions. There are also spirits of disobedience. We did this in Ephesians chapter two, verse two, which caused us to disobey God and rebel against the truth. There are also spirits that conform us to worldliness. First Corinthians chapter two, verse 12, so all of these spirits are spirits of impurity, seducing spirits, are all demonically energized. And when we open the door a little, these demonic spirits come in control, be in control and, you know, make us slaves and we are in bondage. So, can believers be in stronghold and in bondage? Yes, believers can be in stronghold and in bondage, but believers cannot be possessed demonically because the Holy Spirit dwells in us, a body is a temple of the living God. But yes, we can, you know, have strongholds in the areas of our mind and our emotions, and that darkens our understanding from the truth, from the light, and we begin to embrace the lies and we begin to live the lies, which can be very, very dangerous. Okay, and that is when all of these sinful lustful pleasures take control of us. So how do we break free from the power of lust? We need to receive the truth, believe the truth. What is the truth that our bodies are the temple of the living God, and God is holy. He wants us to come to a standard of holiness. Okay, and also be holy in everything that we do, what we watch, what we say, what we think, where we are going, what we are looking at. Sometimes, you know, we were walking on the street and we look at an advertisement, it has something dirty. We can choose to look at it or we can choose to turn away. So we can ask God to give us the grace and the strength. We can also confess and repent and renounce our sins. We also make no provision for the flesh.   If you want news, you can just listen to the news on TV, or you can just hear news on the radio, whatever. Don't give excuses. You know, say, because of news, I got into all of these sites, you know, I got into television, I got into watching wrong things. Don't make excuses.  It's not like literally doing it, but it says whatever causes you to sin, sever yourself from it. Cut yourself away from it. Get yourself away from it. Okay. And so you need to do some practical things. Refuse to lust after women and men.  First Timothy chapter six was success. Godliness with contentment is great. Again, be happy with what you have. Be satisfied because God is going to bless you. You're not going to live in poverty or lack. He will give you what you desire, what you need, what is best for you. You know, deny ungodliness and worldly lust. Like it says in Timothy, Titus chapter two was 12 live soberly, righteous and godly. And the last thing is Psalms chapter 19 verse 36 where it says, you know, incline your heart to your testimonies, which means incline your heart to the word of God and get rid of all covetousness. You know, get rid of all covetousness. You know, incline your heart to suppose you're listening to music, which is worthy, you can tune in to listening to worship songs. You know, if you are caught up in reading books or watching movies, you can listen to the word of God, you know, audio, or you can read the word of God. You can, you know, make a change in your lifestyle, a lifestyle that is honoring God and pleasing in his sight. Okay. Sorry, I had to rush through it because there's a lot of content and I didn't want to miss out on anything. Anyone has any questions before we pray? Any questions? Online students, any questions? Okay, if there are no questions, let's just bring you have a question. Okay, there's no questions. Let's just pause for a word of prayer. Okay, this is the time between you and God. Maybe you are at the right time, the right place listening to this. The Holy Spirit is turning our hearts up, pointing fingers, placing the finger at things in your life that is not pleasing and honorable to God. Whether it's a lust of the flesh or the lust of the eyes, you know what you have been watching, you know, your lifestyle, you know what you've been indulging in. Maybe this time you just want to say, God, I've been living an immortal life, a double standard life. I've been going to church, part of the Bible college, but there are areas in my life that I know is not pleasing, is sinful.  Say, God, I come to this place where I just want to repent. Say, God, please forgive me. Plants me, God. Plants me and wash me. I know I've grieved your heart. I've broken your heart. Holy Spirit, I know that I have grieved you. And say, God, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Say, God, I make you the Lord of my life over every area, over my eyes, my desires, my passions, my mind. Come take control. Be Lord over it. Help me, God, not to go back to my old ways. Help me to live a life that is honoring and pleasing and worthy in your sight. Help me not to nail you back then on the cross. But when you look at me, God, may you be pleased with my life and everything that I watch say, do you think, may you be pleased? We thank you for hearing our prayer. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you everyone for joining class. See you all tomorrow.


Hello everybody To those you know who don't know my name is Jeff. I'm core module on IRC been with Fedora QA for about three years now and I Thought that this talk would be good To kind of jumpstart anybody who hasn't messed with testing anything I Know you're at flocks, so you probably have a good idea about what Fedora is what composes so a lot of this we will gloss over and if we get to the end I Think we could just have a question and answer maybe So yeah, hello all So my name is Suprit and I'm not a full-time QB for Fedora. I work for Red Hat since last five years and Fedora, I just participate. I'm just working on it since last I think 27 and So my contribution to this was to I mean contribution as in my association with Fedora is like I Participate in test days. I mean upload the results file bugs Talk to people Get the base to test update the wikis and follow the process So so before we start How many in the room are QE? Who work with testing fantastic and who are not I mean I there are two to three people anyone who Wants to do the QA and has not done anything yet in Fedora We are not done Okay, okay, good. I mean So so to get started. Yeah Got a general outline of what we're going to talk about There'll be fairly high-level There will be some ticks and tips and tricks That that I found valuable and that Suprit has found valuable The technical side human side and then like I said if we get through it quick, we'll just jump to some questions So as far as actually testing goes you need two things a Fedora account and a bugzilla account Does anybody here not have a bugzilla account? Or a Fedora account for that matter, but you're at flock so Okay So this this is why we test ultimately to make a better end product This this is from the Fedora 29 release these blurbs I found on reddit Good great job Fedora you guys amazing keep up good work Okay, great things have really come around a bug that was affecting like damn was fixed last week And so the laptop I upgraded isn't having issues anymore. So Helps somebody there through testing Upgraded today, and it seems very solid. This is my favorite I want to switch from Ubuntu 18.04 to Fedora 29 Go in places So what is a compose I imagine we all have an idea but it's the compilation of packages that are Pushed together into a bootable image Ideally happens each day its raw hide until it is branched into the next numbered Fedora release and with each compose Comes an opportunity for testing testing that compose testing those packages that have been rolled together And That that's where validation testing comes in So four key things Validation testing the testing each compose Reporting bugs using bugzilla updates testing testing individual updates and Test days so validation testing Like I said is testing a certain compose whether it be raw hide an individual compose that happens each day or a numbered compose on a milestone like beta or final And we test each compose to meet the release criteria, which are a set of guidelines that are preset up That's a for the beta release There must not be these kind of bugs or these kind of errors and for the final release there shouldn't be these kinds and so That is how we determine if something is Bug worth blocking the release on is whether or not it violates the release criteria, which makes it a lot easier when you get towards the end or towards The the hard dates to pick whether or not we can continue with this release because you have the criteria to go on and You can so the test matrices is where we store all the data. It's a wiki page For now and When you test you You can't you go to the test matrix matrix and you can Fill out what you tested. I kind of want to Would like to show you that has anybody not seen it the fedora test matrix Yeah, okay, let's see Let me see if I can do this. Does anyone else had trouble with the network or is it just me? Okay Yeah, we will put this on to I think we could do that. Oh, here we go. Okay So for example, this is the the latest test matrix page the last Compose was the August second. Yeah, so it's a little old but Here you can find what needs to be tested and On which release the base the server the cloud the desktop and so Here's links to all of those images You can find the x86 64-bit image here for all of these on the left as well as armed 64 32 Power PC and s390 x But it this is a good example of What a past test looks like What a failed test looks like what a warning looks like The robot means it's an automated test and then each of these links will link you to a bug or a comment So you can see here that Coconut the bot Had a failure here the size of the workstation live image, which that's what this test is here was Larger than Yes, yes, and it's generated with each release Each compose yeah, yeah, yeah from from the the template that's probably I don't know where it's hosted But so say you want to test something you'd come here and Oh, yeah, let's let's pick this one. So This these are test cases under the storage devices category The milestone that this test must pass Is final so in order for us to ship final somebody has to test this and say that it passed ideally on Final but for some things specifically this fcoe case If it has been tested fairly recently that's good enough So that that does lead me to something else if anybody here has fiber channel over ethernet hardware And you'd like to donate some time testing that would be great because I Think that gets tested once or twice each release so but anyway, so you'd pick what you'd want to do and You can load it it gives you a description of what the test is How to set up for the test how to actually test it and the expected results that you should see and Assuming that that all Passes then you can Mark the test as Passed or failed or or whatever Anyone with a fedora account actually yeah Actually, I think anybody can try. I'm not logged in I'm gonna try it here without being logged in. Yeah, so I guess anybody can Which might be something to think about in the future, I don't know Right you would Just keep I So then another way of testing is by reporting bugs that you find has anyone not seen bugzilla get out So you've all seen bugzilla you all know that that's where we track bugs I won't go into it Want to see it Does anyone want to see it Another way to help contribute it's not testing but Is by attending the blocker bugs meeting so come maybe a month before The branch point we will start to have Blocker bug meetings where we discuss bugs that have been Marked as blockers or violating the release criteria from the first slide and we will all vote on whether we think that it violates the criteria or not and That is where we determine if it actually is a blocker Or if it's a freeze exception and That's a good way to contribute and a good way to Initially get started because all it takes is a knowledge of of the individual bug which you can find on bugzilla and you just read through it and you read the release criteria and You make a judgment call whether or not you think that it violates the criteria or not and be prepared to back it up because sometimes it gets passionate and if you can do that then That's a good way to contribute another way to contribute is to act as the secretary in those meetings where afterwards there could be anywhere from one to Tim how long was that meeting that you had that set the precedent for? If you if you have How many bugs what were did you guys go over but a lot a lot or yeah So you can have a lot of bugs or a few bugs but the secretary will go through all the bugs afterwards and mark whether they were accepted or denied and And a brief blurb and that's another good way to just Contribute if you want to get involved and get your name out there. That'd be a good way to go The third way to really contribute is through updates testing Which is testing individual packages that are in the updates testing repository you Can permanently enable the updates testing repo and when you're full-time QE That's that's what I do personally is I permanently enable it DNF update and then I run through Fedora easy karma. Whoops Here's how you can enable it, but fedora easy karma is a tool that we have that can tell which packages you have installed versus What is in the? updates testing repo and So you update you test it and then you can report using this fedora easy karma and Yeah, that's just a config Is anybody not seen fedora easy karma, let me show you that just so you have an idea Yes Okay Looks like it might work. It's a lot easier than going to Bodhi and Yeah, okay, well don't look at that cuz Okay, yeah, it's an old version is it did Python did we update It's got a little you want the last seven minutes, I think We'll come back to this we'll let it do its thing of course it disconnects So regarding test days, I think we have the official pages We usually get the announcements for upcoming test days you test for the kernel you test for updates upgrades and So if it won't open, I don't know I think it is it's just Originally Supra Wanted to do talk like this that was 50 minutes long and I had said I will do this talk And it's 25 minutes long and then when it came around to it Supra's talk was not selected, but mine was so we decided to collaborate and each take half of you know The 25 minutes, so we had a lot more than we had to cram What So yeah, so we have Fedora 31 upcoming and so the kernel test day was announced recently We just go to the wiki page follow the steps and do the testing. I've already started and So we have Sumantro here who does the announcement usually so Apart from test days, I think So do you want to speak? Do we go to the end? Thank you. And this is the checklist for you to be getting started with your Fedora QV make sure you have all these things and We have this IRC list channels for Fedora Q wave Fedora you just join and search for people you can Search core module or super it over the channels. We are there to help. We have Sumantro here and For the mailing list you can join test at the red peddler project rg For any questions you can put over there We know we're on time Any questions we can take we have we could show you that Here if you're interested if it's just a question vote is the selection of Platforms for testing because for example several times in past half a year I Launched an EC2 machine from the latest Fedora Compose and it simply didn't include so I was let's say I Concerned how this is working that There are a my images for easy to instances like provided by federally and this images like not so Rarely are even not EC2 is a blocking It's not So that's why It's a scene for example, it's there you can test it. It's good. It would be nice if someone would But it's not there is blocking so it's not as important for Because It takes a lot of time to test all the stuff which is blocking So there is a lot of things I think that I'm not sure If that one you mentioned is blocking I don't think so Yeah, that's what I thought Was it a rawhide Compose It's it's testing So For us Most important one Say that again Yeah These these these are You understand This is right where you reported If you weren't able to It seems like everybody should we should we Yeah tomorrow and Saturday That's Saturday Oh Karaoke right Why don't you talk about it Okay Any other questions or do we want to see the bugzilla page? Yeah All right, well then let's call it call it a day