Chapter 23 of Matthew, we're looking at verses 13 through 33, and so what we'll do is I'll begin reading here in Matthew chapter 23 at verse 13. I'll read to verse 22 and we'll get into our study. Matthew chapter 13, or rather 23, verses 13 through 33. So let's begin reading in Matthew 23 verse 13.  Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.  Woe to you blind guides who say whoever swears by the temple it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the temple he's obliged to perform it, fools and blind, for which is greater the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold, and whoever swears by the altar it is nothing, but whoever swears by the gift that is on it he is obliged to perform it, fools and blind, for which is greater the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift. Therefore he who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it. He who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it, and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it. In chapter 23, Jesus began to preach his final public message, and as we were together last time we saw that in the first twelve verses he spoke to the multitudes as well as his disciples. Now when you look at multitudes, the multitudes speak of the people who are listening to him, but not necessarily saved. I mention to you that Jesus's popularity had grown among many people, and we need to remember that not every person who heard him actually was committed to him. Now there were some who simply appreciated that he was saying what needed to be said, and there are others who simply appreciated the way he spoke and found him attractive. Like it says in Mark 737, the common people heard him gladly. And so as is true, whenever the word goes out there will be those who are hearing it with an ear of faith saying, I want to know these things so that I can live by them, and then there are others who simply may appreciate what's being said or may have this internal recognition that the things that are being said are valuable to be said. Not necessarily that I'm going to embrace or act on those things, but I do agree with what I'm hearing. There are quite a many people like that during the time of Christ as they are the same today. Early in the history of Israel, God spoke concerning these kinds of listeners, the people who say, I appreciate what you're saying and how you say it. When you look in the Old Testament, there's a prophet by the name of Ezekiel. And in Ezekiel chapter 33, verses 31 and 32, the Lord God is speaking to this prophet, and this is what God says to him. God said to Ezekiel, they come to you as people do.  They hear your words, but they do not do them. For with their mouth, they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, for they hear your words, but they do not do them. See, there's always been people who appreciate what's being said. They even speak. He says in that same passage, they're speaking about you on the street and on the corners, and they say, come and hear the man of God.  And they're acting as if they're my people, but they're not mine because they hear and they do not do. You see, great crowds came. They heard God's word from someone who was faithfully proclaiming it. And even as God is telling Ezekiel, they took pleasure in the voice and the eloquence, the beauty of the words. They enjoyed the delivery, the words that were chosen, the manner in which he was speaking. It's interesting how in Ezekiel 33, verse 32, how it says there that Ezekiel's words were like a very lovely song. And that I find fascinating because when I was preparing the study, I was looking at various translations of that one word, lovely. And I found that the word lovely meant something that I hadn't really noticed. And so I did some research on it just to make sure that what I'm saying to you is correct. And when he says, when God says to him, indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice. The word lovely there actually has, it can be actually translated by the word sensual.  In other words, that means that it appealed to them as what would be called a lover's song. In other words, it appealed to them on a physical level, but not on the spiritual level. And there are many songs, even to this day, that are called worship songs. And some of you don't, I should say this quickly, because I make assumptions that I am probably wrong in doing. Some of you don't realize that what you know today as contemporary Christian music and what we know today as Maranatha type music or whatever contemporary Christian actually came about through Calvary Chapel Ministries. Maybe you don't know that. Maybe you don't know that. You know the dove that you see everywhere, the dove, that's called the Maranatha dove. Did you know that? The Maranatha dove was actually the trademark for Maranatha music. And that dove right there behind you that you see on all these cars and everything, that came through Calvary Chapel Ministries. You probably don't know that, but it did. And what happened, it was popularized and people started using it. That actually was the symbol for Maranatha music. Maranatha music was the first label that became well known that had Maranatha artists singing Christian contemporary songs. So Calvary Chapel actually introduced to the nation and into the world the worship that you have taken for granted for all of your spiritual life. That was something God used, Calvary Chapel. So sometimes I assume everybody knows that history. Perhaps you don't, and that's the history. And so I speak of somebody as somebody who was there when it began. I speak of somebody who experienced this firsthand as a 20-year-old young man. And so I know what I'm talking about when I say it. And sometimes people may not know that. I'm not saying that to try and pop myself up. I'm trying, why do you say I'm? No, I'm trying to just make a point. You see, to make a point. So we grew up with what was called contemporary Christian. It wasn't even called that. It was just called Christian music. And we would listen to songs that were written from the Psalms. We actually took the Psalms and put it to music. So the original songs that you would hear were actually verses. We called them praise songs. And they were verses that you found from Scripture. And we would sing Scripture songs. That's what it was. There were no such things as devil wards and number one Christian song. None of that. That's all the world creeping in. That's a world coming in and saying, oh, God likes this song more than that one because more people bought it. But that's not how it was. And so I'm saying all of that to say this. That when we began, you know, we were looked at as radicals because we actually had drums on the stage. We actually had electric guitars. And oh, you know, and I've said this recently, but it is true that the people were saying at that time they're writing against Calvary Ministries and against Pastor Chuck. And they were saying they're bringing in voodoo music into the church. And to this day, there are people who still say that about us. They're still saying that kind of thing about us. But here's the thing. When it first began, when we began to bring in the music and all of that, it was, they were praise songs that were just done in contemporary style in terms of the music we were listening to. But they were Scripture verses that we would use that were put to music. And the people were learning to memorize Scripture through that. And it's changed over the last several years so that many times, and this is not a complaint. It's an observation. It's not a criticism so much as saying, be careful. It has changed that the songs that at one time were about worship. Now, let me tell you something about the word worship. Worthy ship. That's where the worth ship. That's where the word worship comes from in English, worth ship. It speaks of intimacy. And when you speak of worship, you're not speaking just of singing a song. The literal connotation is an intimacy with God that has actually been pictured as a love that God has for you that is a very deep spiritual love. Why am I saying that? Because when God is speaking to Ezekiel, he says, you're like somebody who sings a sensual song. It appeals to the physical, but it is not changing them in their hearts.  They're enjoying your concert, but they are not kissing my face in worship. They are not worshiping me.  They come as people do, and they sit before you as if they're my people, but they are not my people, for they hear and they do not do. And that's what the Lord is saying here. And so when you speak and concerning that, he's saying these great crowds have come, they've heard the word from somebody who has faithfully declared it, and they take pleasure in that voice, the eloquence, the beauty. They love the words that are spoken. You're like a lovely song to them. It's appealing, but it appeals on a physical level, not on a spiritual level. Someone said this. Ezekiel's voice and the music of it were appreciated, but not the substance of the message. They appreciated how the song message was presented, but they did not pay as much attention to its content as they did to how the message was given. They enjoyed the harmony of his voice, the eloquence of his speech, the clearness of words, and the dynamic power of his presentation. What they did not do is obey what was said. They were not open to the teaching and the preaching of the message, and were no more moved by his speech to repent from their sins anymore than had they simply spent an evening in a concert. That's what was taking place when Ezekiel was proclaiming this message. And somebody else said, the gospel is a lovely song indeed. It reveals the love of God and the love of Jesus. Often the voice of a gospel minister is a pleasant voice to those who understand it, but to others it is a voice and nothing else. They may be delighted with his performance, but not with his subject matter for they hear the words, but they do not obey them. And one of the things that I as a pastor and as a minister of the gospel, as somebody who's walked with the Lord for a good portion of my life, one of the things I get concerned about is that I see that that is common today in many church gatherings, where it is more of a value in terms of how it makes me feel rather than how it transforms me to be. The gospel is to transform us on the inside. And so Jesus is speaking here in Matthew and he's sharing some things to those who are listening. Notice that the multitudes need to become disciples or they're going to remain lost. You see, as Jesus was teaching his message centered on the danger of false teachers and he was specifically confronting their hypocrisy. He was warning against them. Last time we were together, we looked at, first we looked at verses two through seven. I referred to five qualities of a false teacher and I pointed out that they possess selfish ambition. They lack integrity. They lack compassion. They desire attention from man and they lack humility. When we looked at verses eight through twelve, I listed five traits of a genuine teacher. They do not yearn for special recognition. Jesus alone is their teacher and their allegiance is to him. The answer to God and not only to an earthly organization or system, they are not above others but are members of the body of Christ and they are content to simply and humbly serve the Lord and others. So as we arrive now at verse 13, Jesus is directing his comments to notice the scribes and the Pharisees and he's condemning the religious hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees. He has spoken to them as being hypocrites. These were the people who were only acting righteous but were not righteous from within. The word hypocrite is a Greek word that that was used to refer to actors. You had masks, comedy, and tragedy and the actor would put on a mask and he would play that part. And that's what is being spoken of here when he speaks of hypocrites, when he speaks of hypocrisies. And it's interesting to note that he saves his most scathing rebuke for those who are in religious authority. From verses 13 through 29, Jesus refers to them as hypocrites seven times. Somebody once said, of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst. And he's pronouncing them under God's harshest judgment. Now eight times he pronounces woes on them. When he begins he says it very clearly. He says in verse 13, woe to you. Now to me this is kind of interesting. The word woe, where did we get that from? The word woe. All of us know the Hebrew word for woe. We just don't realize it. Perhaps we don't realize it. The word in Hebrew is oy, oy. So who here has ever heard the term oy vey? Well oy is the word. That's the word that's translated for us by the single English word woe. It's a passionate cry of sorrow, grief, despair, or dismay. And that's what he's having right now. So he's saying woe unto you. So he is, one, he says you're hypocrites. Two, he pronounces a woe. And three, he actually calls them names. Now think about that for a moment.  That doesn't register with some people. But he does, he does that here in chapter 23. Listen to the flattering way in which he speaks to them. He says you're hypocrites.  You are blind guides.   You are serpents.  Love you. See you next week.  And yet he speaks in this way for a purpose. You know, there are those today who would say, man, Jesus was a hater. No, he did hate. He hated sin. And he hated what happened to those who were in bondage to it. Somebody also says, well, does this not violate his own command to love others? I mean, today we, we live in what we, we used to call it this. We used to call it sloppy agape. You know, where you just basically just make excuses for everybody's sin. You know, oh, don't judge them. Don't judge me. You know, there are guys today. I see it, you know, sometimes I see it on an MMA fighter. You have a tat and you'll say, only God can judge me as if that's something he ought to take pleasure in. You ought to think about that one for a minute. Yeah, God will judge you if you don't have a relationship with Christ. But the bottom line is that we have a lot of people who don't have discernment at all or the capacity to say, I love you enough to tell you the truth. And when Jesus was speaking, he was speaking the truth. You see, those who, who think that Jesus is violating his own command to love others simply aren't reading the Bible. They don't realize that in the Old Testament as well as the New, God very often would speak concerning the unfaithful shepherds and he would bring warnings to them. Ezekiel again in Ezekiel 34 verses 2 through 6 said, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds, the leaders of Israel. Give them this message from the sovereign Lord.  Shouldn't shepherds feed their sheep? You drink the milk, wear the wool. Butch are the best animals. But you let your flocks starve. You have not taken care of the weak.   Instead, you have ruled them with force and cruelty. So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd. They are easy prey for any wild animal. They have wandered through the mountains and hills across the face of the earth yet no one has gone to search for them. In Jeremiah chapter 12 verse 10, many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field. They will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. You see, throughout the history of redemption, the greatest threat to God's truth and God's work has been false prophets and teachers because they proposed to speak in his name. That is why the Lord's most scathing denunciations were reserved for the false teachers of Israel who claimed to speak and act for God, but were liars. And that's what Jesus is speaking about here in this passage, guys. These men were truly hypocrites. They lived for the honor and praise of people, but they didn't love them. And so he begins to speak to them and pronounce woes.  You are excluding men from God's kingdom as you yourselves also are.  You see, true Christians influence people into the kingdom and not away from the kingdom. And there are people who in the name of God turn people away from God. And that's what Jesus is speaking about here.  There was a knock on the door at my house. I opened the door. The two people standing at the door, hello, we'd like to talk to you about the kingdom of God. And I say, well wonderful, come on in.  And as they're speaking, they're seated in my front room on the couch. And one begins to speak. And they're representatives of the Jehovah's Witness Organization. And one begins to speak. So I ask a question of them. And the person next to her says, I'll answer that. So I turn to the person next to her. And I say, but I didn't ask you. I ask her. I'd like her to answer, if you don't mind. And I said, so, and I asked the question again. She goes, well, and then she turns and looks at this person next to her. And I, and so the person next to her begins to want to answer again. Some of you may or may not know this, but when Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door, what they have is a mentor and the person being mentored. And so the person being mentored is allowed to share. And then when a difficult question comes up, then the one mentoring is the one responsible to give the answer. Because in that way they're teaching them how to respond to questions that are being asked by people like myself. And I'm aware of that. And so I turn to this woman again, the second woman, and I say to her again, excuse me, I'm not speaking to you. I was asking her, what do you think about this? And then I ask a question and once again the other one interrupts. And I say to the other one, I'm really not speaking to you. I say, you see, I have to tell you something, maybe you don't realize this, this is my house. And if I asked somebody a question, I'd appreciate hearing the answer from them. Well, we can't. And now she's getting agitated. And so I said to the young woman being mentored, I said to her, is that the kind of religion you want to be part of? A religious faith that does not allow you to speak for yourself? A religious faith that gives to you replies that you parrot without even thinking about? Because what you are being is brainwashed. And you are being brainwashed by someone who doesn't know the truth themselves. And thus I warn you, flee from this, get right with Jesus Christ so you can have eternal life. Because as long as you stay with this woman here in her organization, you are lost. And somebody says, how harsh. No, that's what Jesus is speaking about. That's what he's saying. You're not going in yourself and you're hindering those who would. That's what he's speaking about. We see that in our modern day today where people are not entering in, but they are keeping others from going in also. So he says that's hypocrisy. A second thing found in verse 14, he says, What do you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites? For you devour widows houses and for a pretense, make long prayers. Therefore, you will receive greater condemnation. You devour widows houses and for a pretense, make long prayers.  They may have convinced widows to trust them to manage their funds and then defrauded them. Others say that they could have been acting as spiritual advisors. And when the widow would say, could you please pray for me? The more money you gave, the longer the prayer would be. So if you give me 50 bucks, I'll pray for 10 minutes. You give me 100 bucks, I'll pray for, you know, a half hour. You give me 500 bucks, I'll pray all day for you. It was that kind of thing. It was pain for praying. And he says this is wrong. This is hypocrisy. Somebody said they pray for as they pray on them and enrich themselves. Does this happen today? Is it possible to send somebody some money? So they will pray for you? Absolutely. I was watching, this was a while back now, I was watching a particular quote unquote Christian television program where the evangelist was saying, if you send me some money, we will send, God will answer. When you sow into our ministry, God will answer. And he said it's like a watermelon. If you take a watermelon seed and you plant it, it says, he said it produces a watermelon with many seeds. So if you plant a seed in this ministry, God will give to you watermelon seed blessings. And people still do that. To this day, in Jesus is saying, you are taking advantage of the most weak individuals in your society. You are using them in that way. And he says, you receive a greater condemnation because you're taking advantage of the most vulnerable people in our society. And therefore, you will receive greater judgment. In verse 15, he goes on, woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, one convert.  You have incredible zeal. But you are useless in God's kingdom. You aggressively evangelize but into a worse hypocrisy than you possess yourself. Instead of setting them free, he says, you are ensnaring them into deeper bondage. And this again is a fruit of many calls. They tirelessly travel to share a tainted and ineffective message. We need to remember as Christians, and this sounds again so simplistic, but it's absolutely true. We need to remember that it's the gospel that sets the spiritual captive free. It's the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Romans 1.16, Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It's a power of God to salvation for everyone who believes for the Jew first and also for the Greek. He said in 1 Corinthians 1.18, the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. But to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.  They're doubly damned because of you.  Woe unto you.  Whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he's obliged to perform it. Fools and blind. For which is greater the gold of the temple that sanctifies the gold, and whoever swears by the altar? It's nothing whoever swears by the gift that is on it. He's obliged to perform it. Fools and blind for which is greater as the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift. Therefore, He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all things on it. He who swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it and he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it So he refers to the practice of solemnize solemnizing oaths through the temple altar in this even heaven And this is what he's saying. He's saying you have made the physical which was money and the animals for offering You have made the physical more binding than the spiritual And what that does is it displaces the integrity of the one making the vow with the material value of Gold you see when you made an oath The oath was made to God and they were to be kept as a matter of faith as well as integrity It's like what it says in numbers 30 verse 2 When a man makes a vow to the Lord it takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge You must not break his word But must do everything he said or Ecclesiastes 5 verses 4 and 5 when you make a vow to God do not delay in fulfilling it He has no pleasure in fools fulfill your vow It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it So he's speaking concerning the displacing of the spiritual with material and not valuing the one years you're making the vow to Then he says in verse 23 and 24 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites For you pay tithe of mint and anise and coming and Neglected the way dear matters of the law justice and mercy and faith These you ought to have done without leaving the others undone Blind guides who strain out a gnat and you swallow a camel I have a couple of friends that I I see on a generally on a monthly basis One's name is Bill and the other's name is Bobby Bill and I go back Well, actually we were in kindergarten together It's hard to believe 20 years have passed We were in kindergarten together and I met Bobby when we were freshmen in high school, so I've known these guys most of my life and Long story made short Bill got right with the Lord after having walked away from God for many years and Bill and I and Bobby will meet generally monthly and They live in Orange County, and they'll drive out here. I'll set apart some time for them and Bill will bring two pages normally the two pages worth of questions and He will ask me questions For an hour and a half to two hours One question after another I've been mentoring him for several years now once a month And he'll bring the question here and you'll bring the question there and we spend some time then we get some lunch We always go to the same place to eat lunch and so we were there just this last Thursday and when we went in we were seated and We're almost while we were wrapping up and it was time for us to leave when somebody came walking in and was standing at the At the cash register and apparently we're making a having a pickup for some food to go and And I was seated facing the cash register and I noticed That this this lady turned and looked in our direction And and I thought that she must be noticing how ugly Bill and Bobby are so And and it's a good thing She was getting food to go because she couldn't have sat and looked at them and eaten without getting real sick, but anyway as As she was doing that she looked another time and and I noticed and so she turns and she says hi Pastor David hi, how are you and I said well? I'm fine and she comes to our fellowship and she says may I pay for your lunch and I said no No, I already talked him into it, you know, so Bill was Bill was paying I said no, no, it's okay. Thank you for the offer. I really appreciate that and my friend Bill says you know, I've already taken care of it and She says no, I insist and it was very sweet. She kept no I really we kept on saying no no Thank you so much for your generosity and then Bill's I said to her I said this is these are my friends Bill and Bobby. She says oh, I've heard I've heard their names mentioned in church and I said yeah, these are my friends and and Bill says and you've heard this story Of how I vomited on David's face He says I'm the one who did it like he's proud of that like he's proud because when we were 16 years old we went to a Wong's market on front street in Norwalk and we stole six bottles of wine and We downed them got very drunk and I was we were arrested We were put in the Norwalk sheriff's substation there in Norwalk and I was so drunk I couldn't move and I was laying on the floor with my face directly looking at Bill as Bill was on a bench Yeah, and Bill Started to vomit and I was saying Stop it Bill and he's going I can't And a police officer a sheriff saw this taking place I still remember hearing him say guys are gonna see this And here they come So Bill has to say I'm the guy who barfed on his face. Yeah, he's so proud of that, right? I hate him so They're they're they're my friends and oh well years ago When I was 20 Bill had started going to a church called Calvary Chapel and He started inviting me to go. You all know the story. I'll make it brief. I Didn't want to go. I didn't want to go. It was the summer of 1970. I don't want to go to your church He finally he was so insistent to get him off my back. I go and I smoked some pot I drank some beer. I was barefoot. I was a hippie. I Expected to be kicked out. I walked in It was a small chapel that was built to hold about 300 There were people on the platform area all around the steps They were through the aisles. There were kids. They were all around my age And I walked in there and I sat down in that area and I sensed something that I'd never sensed before And I had been raised in a religious system. I had gone to church I was the one who used to make my mom go to church My mom didn't want to go to church. I would say to my mom take me to church when I was six seven eight nine ten years All I still have memories of sitting in a church pew with my body pressed against my mother and my head on her Shoulder because that was the only place I felt safe It's the only place I felt safe in the house of God. I Don't know why but that's a fact. I felt I Mean the house of God. I wasn't saved But I remember that It was just a secure place for me, but there was no spiritual It was just like a safe place and when I walked into this other little place and And The atmosphere Was different. I didn't know what it was that I was experiencing. I Didn't know what it was And I've shared this recently with you perhaps more than once I Didn't know until I got saved what it was and what it was was for the first time in my life in a church Anywhere really I felt love. I Experienced that this is There are hundreds of people here But there's something different. It was the love of God Listen when Jesus says you are so scrupulous and so You even go so far as to Tithe on your garden herbs But you have forgotten the way to your things the matters of the law that matters the justice the mercy the faith It's not it's not that they shouldn't be givers of course all believers ought to be givers That's not what he's saying. These are things that you do.  You don't know about mercy because you don't show it You don't know any of these things. You're not living by these things You're not walking in faith. They're walking by the law. You don't see that the law is pointing to a messiah What you do is you strain things out when they would drink very often they would they would put a Some kind of filter over the cup And because there were gnats that would fall into their drink And so they would some of them would actually put a little filter a cloth over it and drink through the cloth The cloth just to strain out the potential for them to swallow a net because according to the law In Leviticus 11 23 it says all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean And so they would sometimes strain it out sometimes they would actually wear these kinds of a mask over their face so that they would not You know swallow a flying insect.  What do you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites? You cleanse the outside of the cup and dish inside.  It's filled with with evil my my dad had a Ritual when I grew up and that was on the weekend when he was not working. He would stay in bed and and my mom would make some coffee and Especially Sunday my my mom would make him coffee and then she would bring him his cup of coffee And they had the newspaper and they'd read the newspaper in the room and my dad would drink his coffee That was his ritual for many years and when I grew to be a certain age My dad said to me son would you get me my coffee? And I was like wow, this is a This is wow. This is really an important thing bringing dad his coffee Because it to me it was it was like wow So mom said this is how your dad takes his coffee and I said great So I went in and I got this copy had a special cup that he had He my dad was in the Navy and so he had a cup he had brought from the Navy it was his special coffee cup and I put coffee in it and then I fixed it the way my mom said and Then I carried it like was a holy chalice of some sort You know and I still remember carrying it to make sure I didn't spill a drop of this coffee And I gave it to my dad and I'm waiting for his approval I'm waiting for my dad to take his drink and say oh son. Yes, you know, this is the best thing about waking up It's Folgers in my cup. I'm expecting something, you know, and he drinks it and he spits it out What did you give me and he hands me the cup well my mom the night before had taken you know a dishcloth or something and had put all of the Coffee grounds and stuff in it wrapped it up and had put it in the cup. I didn't check the inside So I just poured Yeah It looked clean It looked clean It did it really it looked clean But it wasn't and that's what Jesus is saying You look clean on the outside and people will see you from the outside Because man judges according to outer appearance right So if you're a believer Definitely, you've never had a tattoo in your life ever you don't have piercings Believers don't have piercings right Because Jesus didn't have piercings and we're like Jesus and Jesus had real short hair and A kind of real trim beard, you know I mean we we take the 21st century and we throw it on Jesus in the first century and we say that's what Christians Looked like back then, but that's not true. I felt more comfortable as a Christian as a hippie He wore sandals so did I he had long hair. So did I I'm like him I mean if you get caught up with that, that's what you're you're gonna end up the outside, right the outer appearance the outer appearance He says no you Pharisees are perfect at looking good but your hearts aren't Your hearts are not good Your hearts are evil and that's what he's saying He says cleanse verse 25 cleanse the outside of the cup and dish But the problem is inside you're full of extortion and self-indulgence And then he says in verse 26 cleanse the inside of the cup that the outside may be clean also Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you are like whitewashed tombs During this time of the season The tombs when you came into Jerusalem would be whitewashed Because this is the Passover many pilgrims would be entering in so they cleaned the outside tombs So when you would go in they were all whitewashed But he says on the outside they're whitewashed on the inside. They're filled with corruption They're filled with the things that ought not to be there dead men's bones in all matter of decay That was really a word of warning by the way for the pilgrims who were in Jerusalem to be aware That these Pharisees that they looked up so much to were spiritually contaminating any who came into contact with them you see in Numbers 19 verse 16 It says anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death Anyone who touches a human bone or grave will be unclean for seven days Jesus is basically saying to those who are admiring Pharisees You know in reality if you are connected with them you're unclean Stay away from their doctrine and their lifestyle and then finally he says in verses 29 through 33 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous and say if we had lived in the days of our fathers We would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets therefore You are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets Fill up then the measure of your father's guilt and then he closes this portion by saying serpents Brutal vipers How can you escape the condemnation of hell all of your? outward appearance Has not affected the heart all of your religiosity all of your external religious righteousness Has not changed your heart You know God's word teaches us that he will write his law upon the tablets of our hearts So that from the inside we will live out that which he has done God Promises by the power of his spirit and his word to create a new people Who will be known For the works of righteousness that are performed It isn't by works of righteousness which we've done It's according to his mercy that he saves us by the washing of regeneration the renewing of the Holy Spirit So it isn't because we've done good works But we do good works because we've been saved these Religious leaders whom Jesus is is saying our hypocrites actors Have made the outer appearance the most important thing That's why we need to be careful as believers today That we don't make instant Judgments on people who may not look like we think a Christian ought to look Man judges on the outer But God looks at the heart and what God wants to do is transform us from the heart But you know what? Even in our tradition, even we were Calvary chapels who ought to be aware of that.  I Still remember a young man who approached me years ago now many years ago now here in this fellowship a younger man My hair some of you weren't with us then My hair was down to the middle of my back. I mean I had hair that was all the way down to about right here That's how long my hair was you guys may not know that don't care, but I'll tell you anyway. I Had I had real long hair. Hey, I just got tired of cutting it is what happened So I had I had long hair, you know here when I would pastor and My hair is real thick and so I would take me 40 minutes to dry it and I finally got tired of that I said that's pretty much a waste of my time So that's when I started cutting my hair, but this young man approached me and said to me how happy he was that I had cut My hair because apparently he thought that when I had long hair. I wasn't as annoyed it is when I have short hair You know that and you know, I didn't get mad at him or anything like that I just thought what an interesting interesting Observation to make that we have moved and this is over 20 years ago We have moved back to that rigid self-righteous.  Oh, I bet that hurt I wouldn't do that.


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Is that microphone for clipping on or is it just standing here? I'll just get some water while you're... I might send an email to Tristan. Did you? All the volunteers are supposed to tell you to use this thing because it's being recorded, anything. Is it working? Do I clip that on? The more you keep together, the more I have an idea whether people are falling asleep or not. No, I'll be right back. Okay, given that this is the last session of the day and the pub is apparently opening in about 43 minutes, I think we can just start. This session is about improving the usability of Drupal Core for site builders and administrators. If you want to follow the slides or the notes directly, that's the link there. My name is Antje, or ifrik in the issue queue. So, let's talk about usability. First of all, the question is, who's the user that we're actually talking about in this case? I like to talk about the site builders, the front-enders, and the advanced administrators of the site when it's actually up and running. Because to me, that's the kind of professional users. It's the people that use Drupal both as a tool and a product. It's the site builders, the front-enders, the administrators who really have to invest time into using Drupal, or the Drupal site project that has been built afterwards. And it's also the people that take the decision about future projects. If you like Drupal, if you like the site you're working with, you're more likely to say, let's do this again. If it doesn't work for you, you might go for, let's try something different. But I also think if we help these three types of users, we're also helping the kind of first-time users and the kind of hobby users. So a site builder to me is somebody who actually builds something that other people will use. It's the site builders using Drupal both as a tool as well as a product they're building. The front-enders quite often are preparing the site to make sure actual design. They're the kind of people that need to set up image, styles, display modes, all of those kind of things. And the advanced administrators are the people that will actually be using the site later. It's the content editors. It's the people that approve of user accounts. It's the people that make sure that the commerce sites are still running. So based on that kind of criteria, any site builders in the group? Any front-enders? Any administrators of existing sites? Any developers of modules, of core? Any people who think I'd rather be in the pub by now? Okay, so that was it. So why should we care about improving usability? First of all, I think it makes Drupal easier to use for us. It makes the sites that we build for Drupal much more easy to use. And it also contributes to much better accessibility. If we can get the usability right, then the step to have a good accessibility is also much smaller. And it's also actually freeing our time for making building more interesting things. If as a site builder I don't have to spend time to make approximately back-end more accessible, more useful, I can actually focus on the interesting stuff that I'd like to actually build for clients. So what I'm talking about in this session is not about the nice new big functionalities that we get into Drupal core now, like the Unami theme or the out-of-the-box initiative or workflows, layout builders. So I'm talking about the more small, gritty things that are still hanging around. So it's not about designing a new kitchen or developing a new fridge. It's turning about the fridge door around so that you stop banging your head because the door always opens to the wrong side. I'm really irritated because I've got two screens here. So a bit about me. I'm a biologist actually by training. So I'm a scientist, I'm a scientific editor, a political activist with lots of grassroots experience. I'm a Drupal site builder, especially for small NGOs. I've worked with the documentation working group and I'm now doing much more than X. So I've basically moved from documenting things to explain how things work and how they can use this to actually fixing the things. And I'll give you a few other people that are kind of representing Drupal as it is. I think some of you might all know of them, others not, so bear with me. Roy is one of the product managers, one of the core maintainers who's, when I ask him what he's doing, he says, I'm an illustrator by education, interaction designer by trade. In my contributions, I focus on visually clarifying the problem and suggesting possible solutions. This enables people to agree on what to build next. So what he's doing as one of the core maintainers is not coding anything. Jenny, who also is here, said, well, I just figured out how Drupal works through theming. And then I taught myself Ph.P. to actually build the modules I need. She's actually giving a session on the tasty backend module tomorrow, which is quite worth going to. Or informally, she said, actually, I just got into understanding Drupal by swearing a lot. Tim Milwood, a maintainer of the node module and of the statistic module and involved in the workflow initiative, was that I haven't built a Drupal site in years. So somebody who knows a very specific part of Drupal very well but doesn't know much about building a site with what he's built. Gabo, who actually did study computer science and is now much more involved in organizing things like organizing Drupal in Europe. Or Justine, who basically is currently learning about how Drupal works by reviewing the merge requests of our colleagues as a designer. So why am I telling you all of this? Because quite often we have this traditional picture of expertise when it comes to any software project or anything else, where we have the beginners at the bottom, the intermediates and the experts. Or in terms of software, the user, then the front-ender and then developer. And that makes this magical thing at the top that really the only initiative to understand. And I think in Drupal that doesn't actually work that way. In Drupal we have much more something like this, which is we have core development, we have concrete modules, we have documentation, we have event organizing to actually share this knowledge, design and theming, usability, accessibility, mentoring, translation, and also use specific project. And all of that feeds together into making Drupal what it is. All of that brings different kinds of expertise to make each version of Drupal better and more usable. So bearing that in mind, what can we improve at the moment? There's lots of fridge doors that we can deal with. The navigation, mainly the admin menu, what's where in the admin menu, permissions, fielded fieldable entities, and UI text. So I'll give you a few examples on what are the kind of things that can improve on the small day-to-day tasks that people are interacting with. So for the admin navigation, we just give you a few examples. So where do I go to make a specific admin page visible for some user? Well, you first list all user accounts and then you can go to the permissions. Or where do I go if I want to edit or translate a specific block, like the block was the opening times that are in the footer of a page? Well, first you go to the layout of the whole page and then you can go to the content of the blocks. Or where do I go if I want to see media items? Well, you go to the content page that lists all the content and then you go to the media items. So basically, we're continuously teaching users detours. We're not providing a consistent or predictable structure. We're telling them you have to remember to go from... If you want to go from A to B, you have to remember to go to C first. As somebody who has been working with Drupal a lot, we can actually remember that. But the question is do we actually want to teach that to our clients? And do we want to teach that to new users? Is that what we want to spend our time on? So there's a couple of issues that are covering these questions. Yeah, pretty much all of the points I raise actually have issues and some of them are nine and a half years old by now. With this one, I have a specific other request because Rachel and I have been looking at a way of restructuring the admin menu. For example, not having content blocks hidden under the structure of the block layout. But instead of doing yet another card sorting exercise, we're trying to see can we have a set of maybe seven guiding questions to know where everything should live. And to move that forward, we basically build a form where you can answer these questions like you can pick a page like the Custom Block Library and say, does this belong here? Or does this have this or that on the page? And Rachel said, I should tell you to bookmark it and go there because if everybody just puts a few of these pages through this system, we'll see whether they end up on the same place. We'll see whether that works because discussing it in the issue queue is very long and tedious. I'll come back to that link later. Permissions and access. Any user who, for example, needs to edit the content of a block can also remove every single block from the page. If you want to edit the opening times of your shop at Christmas, you can remove the main content from the page. That's not something I want my user to stumble into. It's certainly not in the last day before holiday or so. Any user who needs to edit a taxonomy term, for example because you have free tagging and you want to get out a typing error or so, they can change the language of the vocabulary because that's just one permission. If you can edit a term or if you can access those terms through the admin interface, you can also change the name, you can change the language settings. You can mess up the sites like that. And if you want to access a single structure page, for example the custom block library, you get 10 configuration pages without any admin items. Any of those subsections under configuration will be there no matter whether you have anything you can access there or not. That has been hanging around for nine years and seven months now since it has been reported. It means that also if I build a site for a user and I just want to let them just see the things they need to do, they still end up with these pages that they wonder about.  There isn't anything you don't need to be concerned with. But besides it being inconvenient, I also think that the lack of these more fine-tuned permissions can actually put the integrity of our sites at risk. If a user can accidentally remove the main content or mess up the menu because they change the language, that's confusing and it's messing up the site and I mean somebody else needs to come and fix it and hopefully remember how the configuration was. Of course our permission table is already really, really long and I've been at projects where I was like, yeah, but if we need to sort that out, kind of take another day, so we just leave it. There's only three users, they're going to be fine. But remember, you're looking at this long, long table once and sort it out. The users see the result of these permissions every single time they're using the site. So again, there's a few issues for that, for example, to have more granular block permissions or hide these empty admin categories. So a bit about user interface text, because again that's something where people are interacting with the site and trying to find out what a specific page is doing. And sometimes these texts are really short and you don't really, only if you already know what it does, does the text make sense. Sometimes the text is really long and too convoluted. But we also mainly end up with the problem that, this is a quote from a developer from Dupercon in Vienna, said, I'm happy to sit down for 12 hours to write code, but I'm not going to spend 30 minutes to write a helpdecks. And the reasons for that are actually, they're quite reasonable. I don't know where to put it. Does it should go on the help page? Should that go on the admin page? Should that be the long description under the field? It's too disconnected if it's on duper.org. I don't know where to find things there. I don't know whether anybody's even going to find whatever I write there, so I just don't bother. The question is also, for whom is this documentation, this helpdecks? Are there for other developers? Are there for site builders? Are there for the end users later? We don't give any guidance to any developers on what kind of text is required where. Or also, I'm not a writer. I'm not even a native English speaker. So I don't really know how to write this. So it leaves us with the question, who should write these UI checks? And after 10 years being involved with Drupal, it's like pretty much all of us. But in a collaborative way of doing it together. Because on the one hand, I need the person and can tell me what does this module actually do? Sometimes I'm undocumented functionality because nobody has figured out that there's this tick box or that this and this happens if you do this. But on the other hand, it also needs to be people who know what Drupal can do to find out how to describe this. But not the people who already know it inside out. Quite often you find that terms are used. And the sentence makes sense except for you don't understand this first word. And therefore you are just as lost as you were before. So I think we need to put more efforts into actually looking on this text that are showing up on so many pages and find a way of dealing with that. And at the moment, I haven't got a clue how to do this best. But yes, I think it's both the developers and the users and also the feedback of users saying, I don't understand what I need to do here. It might be that they have not been paying attention but it also might be just that it's just not clear enough that this label that is so clear for you because you've been putting in the code for the last six months. It's just not clear. There is also work to just redo the whole help system. But I didn't have enough time to actually look into that. Jennifer is working on that. So I think it's in good hands. But there's more help welcome on that issue as well. And then fields. I like fields. I've started using Drupal when it was 4.7 and I've seen flexi nodes or adding fields. So Drupal agencies, wow, pretty much everything is fieldable. I can now just in the configuration make so many different things. So you end up with, you know, you have a taxonomy term which just has its name, its description, its parcelize. And then your colleague comes in or your client comes in and says, can you just add a help text in the description just to make sure people know what to put in there? And can you just always expand that relation because all the terms there in this case will either go into food or vegetable. So we need that expanded. It shouldn't be collapsed. You think, yeah, great, fields. I can do that in five minutes.  So you're already stuck there. And if you want to change the form display, well, you can say how many rows the description should have. But for example, you can't even change the position of this relation field, let alone say it should be expanded and not collapsed. So what you said, hi, I do that in five minutes. It's like, yeah, week later and you're like, what do I do now? Similar was the author and date field. You know, a notice by default displayed was submitted by username on date. And I think the first site I built, I tried to change that. That was the 4.7 site. I'm still stuck on this. How do I change this? But in this case, if your colleague comes and you can maybe say written by or also so-and-so date, so-and-so, and you're a bit more careful and you check, yes, there actually fields. I should be able to do that in five minutes, no problem. Just except in this case, when you come to the managed display, there's no way of actually changing this. So even so there are now fields, as far as I see that in the managed fields list, I can't change them in the display. So again, there actually is an issue for that to make sure that we can now just treat the author and the creation date as fields on our display. And then something which has become a bit of my pet project by now, fieldable menu items. If I understand it correctly, menu items are fieldable entities. Even so, some of them are created, for example, by views or so, and you can't really change the name or the path. But still you can change things like whether they're enabled or disabled. In the menu item configuration, you can still change the weight. But why can't I put an image on there? I mean, there aren't that many fields I would like to put on the menu item, but I would like to put images on menu items. And if you think that's an unreasonable request, that's too hardcore. That's hard coded images on the menu items. Which means if I, because I'm building a site for a client and I need another section in there, I need to then go into the seventh theme to put another icon in there instead of just having a field. This is this icon now. So I think there's lots of space where we can also improve on just making more accessible through the configuration to users. So who's responsible for all that usability? First of all, I think developers need to be aware of how what they're building is actually used, which is actually a step quite removed from what you're doing. The users actually need to raise issues. Users shouldn't be sitting there brumbling, saying, oh, this is really annoying. I lost two weeks because I can't actually do this. Like you need to raise the issue and say, I would like this functionality or I think this doesn't work quite. So I think it's up to all of us to actually deal with usability issues. So this is not necessary usability testing with first-time users who don't know what a block is. We need usability testing with people who haven't worked in knowledge after a pile to see how often you're actually clicking around to get to a certain page, for example, or where you're struggling, where you're actually starting to write custom code just to get that image where you want it. So it needs input from all of us. Especially because I think a better UX for site builders, for front-enders, is also a better UX for the end-users. Everything that works well for me as a site builder means I can pass on something to the end-user that is more usable. Anytime I don't need to spend on getting lost or writing custom code or trying to find things, means I can spend that on improving their specific usability needs on top of what we already have. So don't work around your grievances if you come across UX problems. Help us fix those issues in core. Make issues when you see them, review them, be clear about what the problem is. So get involved. I see some faces who are definitely involved, but even if you come across an issue, report it. As a core maintainer, you still don't know where the permissions are, which is one of the issues of CatchMate, I think, a few years ago. Make an issue. We can try to solve that. We have 10 sprints. That's a very good way even for people with these very diverse experiences that I showed in the beginning. The designers, the users, the administrators. You can all come to a sprint and help working on these issues. You can review issues. You can say, yes, this patch actually works. It now does what I like it to do. Or you can say, yeah, this patch works, but not on my multilingual side. You can join the UX meetings. There's a UX meeting at 8.30 UK time every Tuesday evening, which is always announced in the UX Select channel, where we just look at UX issues, about different initiatives, about small issues, about big issues. It's also recorded, so you can also watch it afterwards if you just want to get an idea first. And yes, give us some feedback on whether we can use these questions to sort out this admin structure. A bit faster than intended, but... APPLAUSE The question was on how much of the UX problems I think is structural. I haven't actually assessed it in that kind of... But I think there's lots of underlying small structural problems that make it more difficult to, for example, the lack of permissions on blocks is the main reason why we haven't... There's an issue to move the blocks' custom library out of blocks and under content, but that's still hanging on the fact that it needs different permissions. So the small step of moving the page, that's something that I, as a Cypher, can do. But I can't fix on the fix that permission issue. So it's more that these kind of things are inter-tangled, and that every time you think, ah, that's a quick fix, that's a quick win. We can make that happen. But you'll find yourself going on this rabbit hole. So that's why also we need really good descriptions of what is the problem, what are we trying to fix, and then finding a way of doing that step by step. How do you feel your success rate... Oh, not the UX, the people looking at it, but how do you feel your success rate is at the moment how much do you feel you're actually achieving and improving as you go along, and how much do you feel you're logging on to a lot of issues that are problematic and not necessarily getting fixed through the Zoom call? Until a few years ago, I think usability was just kind of a random tag that was showing up. And therefore, when usability issues were locked, they didn't really get noticed that much. Since we now have these regular meetings and look at usability issues, it becomes more worthwhile actually reporting them. So because we look at usability issues, those kind of issues come up, those kind of issues are raised, which means it looks like there's never growing number. Sometimes the changes are small. There was one issue in there where in the early 2008 versions, when you looked at the content table, it had three filters. The filters were in a different order than the columns underneath. I realized that some states are quite a bit and move these columns around or these filters around. That's not fixed. So that's a very small fix, but probably goes completely unnoticed unless you realize that you don't have to do this anymore. There's a few other things where I think there will go unnoticed. Other things like changing the admin structure, moving the custom library, for example, will be more disruptive. So I'm not quite sure what the success rate is. I mean, it would be great to have only a few issues with the usability text. I'd also say RTBC, but that could also mean that nobody actually bothers reporting something, so it's difficult to say what the success rate is. But having these meetings already gives that input a focus on it. Do you structure it? Is there a need to organize any feeds? On Drupal.org, you can. You can take issues with novice issues, for example. Again, that depends on what the actual expertise of the user is, whether this is really a novice issue or not. For me, as a scientific writer, editing a text is something I can do late at night without too much thinking, but that's because I have years of training with that. Changing something with PHP to me is somewhere there. But for other people, issues that for me are really... I don't even know where to start can be an easy fix. So again, it depends on what your expertise is, but we definitely have novice issues that are especially taken up with the mental sprints of telling people, this is an issue that hopefully can be done in a day, where you don't need to understand the whole legacy of Drupal and Inside Out and everything. I don't know, that's actually the only one where I haven't actually made an issue yet, but I see you're shaking the head there. Yes, it would be nice, but I think the three-year-old in menu links in the same would be nice, but they aren't the same, you know. That's why you can't add the editor here. But can't I add views to them, no matter whether they're created there or coming from somewhere else? Yeah, that's exactly the thing. If you create menu links in menu links, if you do that thing, they are confident. If they are coming from use, or if they're coming from the gamutized model, they aren't, and that's why they are different. And just the ones which are content, because content is based on views and everything, you can just add it to the menu creation. I feel more like it would be nice. So that's what I mean to me. As a user, it's a cycle that looks like a simple issue that you asked. To me, actually, getting a bit of these small, witty things is very much a long-term structure. I'm the kind of person who will fix the small things before building something big and new. I'm the kind of person who makes sure that all the wallpaper is off the wall before you start painting it new. There's certainly other people who like the starting from scratch doing a completely new functionality. And I think that's great as well. But I think we need to really need to deal with getting some of these legacy problems out of the way, because otherwise we're just dragging them along and we end up just kind of trying to work around and around them. So I would like to kind of clear those up and be able to work on that basis. So to me, that's a long-term goal. But I would like to have not a single issue in Drupal 8 that was raised in Drupal 6. Well, then I will still be open one and say, can we get rid of these empty admin sections? So unfortunately, or fortunately for us, so we can just make new issues. In the, what's core, I should go into the core issue here. That's under Drupal, project Drupal. Yeah, yeah. No, if you say it's usability or needs usability of review, for example, then you put that in a text. And it really had to actually describe the issue well. I don't know whether you're all aware of, when you put in an issue, you can actually put in this kind of template to say, what's the problem? How would I like this to be fixed? Because quite often when you see an issue, it might not be clear what people actually want or envision. So you try fixing it in a way that you think is fit. That's no matter whether that's total core or whether that's your client work. If you don't quite understand what the problem is, you might come up with a solution that doesn't actually fit. Or if you know what the problem is, you might actually come up with a different solution that addresses that problem. We had a situation where, in a social space with a small bar, we had a fridge. And I had lots of bottles of beer in it. And people said we had too much beer because they couldn't find the bottles when people asked for them. So instead of reducing the number of beers, we just got a different fridge. There was a glass door and light. Now we have twice as much beer. So in that case, the question was not, we have too much beer. The problem was, I can't find the beer that he's asking for. And if we can make issues that are clear on what people want to achieve, I think then we can also solve them better. And especially with, I mean, for code, we have to see whether it works or not. We have coding standards we can test on. For usability, it's much more difficult to know whether something works or works as intended, but the intention didn't fit the user's needs. Yeah. Yeah, that's the point where you also need to do the social engineering. They're actually raving the issue. Not only putting it in there, but possibly also talking to somebody or trying to get starting on it and then ask. And anything that's tagged with needs-usability review, ever so often is getting checked or looked at by the UX meeting on Tuesdays. So if you got to that point... It has a Slack channel. Unfortunately, the IRC channel got abandoned, but on the Drupal Slack, there's a channel called Usability. I think usability. And on Tuesday evenings, you will see that either GABA or Roy pops up about half an hour before. It says, is there any issues that we should talk about? And then by 8.30, there will be a group of four, five, six people who will actually say, okay, these are the issues we're going to discuss today. So yeah, being in that channel, saying a while... And if you say a while beforehand that you have an issue you want to discuss, you will also usually get pinged on saying that whether you're around for the meeting, so you will see your IRC client or your Slack client e-ping or whatever is set up for you. Yes, any other questions? Talk about passing on benefits to the administrator. Could you say something about... I think shortcuts should be something where you can get faster to something that you can actually already get to. So shortcuts... To me shortcuts should be something that I can set up for a specific site for the... Okay, these are the main tasks that needs doing, or these are the pages I go to quite often as the individual user, while my colleague might need to go to other pages quite often. So I think shortcuts are an added bonus, something that is individual. It shouldn't be... That shouldn't be holding the main, like the relevant structures. So if we can move, for example, the custom block library into content, you could still add a shortcut to that if that's something you use often, but you still should be able to get to it through the main menu. So yeah, to me shortcuts is more like the... It's your personal things of... Yeah, they're more personal, less generally, structurally to me. I know that the add content link is in under shortcuts, but we do have an issue that is quite far by now to actually add something in the menu bar to add all types of content and media directly, so that we don't need to use shortcuts for that either. Any other questions? Any other usability issues that you have or would like to enter the list? Okay, so any usability questions that cannot be discussed over here? Okay, thanks. I'll just put it back in there, so... I feel like I did your session last year, because I recognized you, and I was on your channel, but I definitely recognize that.  No, I don't think so. Why did you do your session last year? I've done this session before, I think. I've done session at other places. The last one was when I first went to the camp. I knew a lot of the content stuff, but I've never been at a club. I've been at a club for a couple years, but I want to know where is that?  I'm not big of your calling trouble. Well, they've just sent us an urgent thing that we're in for a long time. Have you got to go? Yes, I need to get mine as well then. Are you in the... are you in a club? No, no, I'm at a club. Thank you guys, I have a goal. I don't think that the humanity has actually dealt with any of the utilizations, at least not on the side of it, and they are looking at making everything really accessible, so that's something that I'm probably going to go into the other scenes, if there's anything else. I think it's really good to have this additional, but yes, we just need to make sure that we are not just kind of building something on shifting sand or anything else. I think what I would suggest is, like I said, I'm going to have my professor there on camera, so if you want to help a lot of people, so that it goes away onto their intros, and then like the work, so I had always been experienced, but it's not going to take that experience, but building a fresh interform, so I think that's a critical approach, if there's enough to call ideas here, what people can put forward ideas before they start working on things. Yeah, I think implicitly it has, because my web check is also at the weekly UX course, so ideas that I looked at by the ideas, by the web check, and Roy and Gabor are also issues, they are aware of the infinity issues, but sometimes it's also like that. I remember one issue that I was just kind of, I was catch coming by, and I said, oh, I should review it, I don't even have time, I just make a branch on this project that I'm working on and chuck it in there, which is when I realized that it completely doesn't work on a multilingual site, but when you test things usually they're more compartmentalized, you're just doing it on a fresh install, so actually having these bigger initiatives that are really trying to integrate this core from the beginning on Yes, I think that's what I think it is. I don't want it to be added through the library, I don't want it to be added. Yeah, is it, I think it's in the proper form that you run the online community, I don't know, so yeah, it's not a lot of work. Yeah, thank you. I'm sorry, I have to be... No, it's fine, showing you something that's much more... Yeah, that's what I think it is. I think it's a more... It's a bit more... It's just a bit more... ... Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if you agree with that. I don't know if you agree with that. Yeah, we should be working on the library side then. The way that I come to these situations, the way it would be better. From May, from May we're out of the bunches, from May. From Leeds.


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Marriage is a private arrangement with public and legal impacts. It is a human institution recognized in law as sufficient to warrant special legal protections, privileges, and conditions. These special applications of law occur on publication of the marriage, not upon the ceremony or issuance of a license. On publication, the family is often treated as a unit with a single purpose, and the independent purposes of the family members are considered to be merged into that family purpose. Even when obviously acting as legal individuals, there is an assumed unity and purpose. This is noted in criminal law by the rule that one spouse cannot be made to testify against the other. It is commonly noted in property law by special support for shared ownership in real property. It is noted in taxation by treating married couples differently than individuals. The family law tradition supported since feudal times is based on a man and a woman in a relationship with potential for parenting the next generation of people. In more recent times, recognizing the legal benefits of being married, there has been an effort to widen the definition of marriage to include other couplings where people would merge their interests and act as a unity. This change in defining marriage is a social challenge, not a legal one. As people are the only party in interest, the challenge will not be resolved through changes in law. The law should change to serve the people as their wants and needs change. Destructive government is noted where the government takes sides in unresolved citizen disagreements, supporting some citizens in overcoming the rest. On the positive side, the United States government only exists to support the people, not to rule over them. The granting of legal benefits to family units creates a legal complication if the marriage arrangement is later denied. There have been joint authorities and responsibilities affecting both property and any offspring of the marriage relationship. This is complicated by the emotional severing. The parties to the marriage have been in a trusting relationship that was entered into and likely practiced with the expectation of relatively permanent benefit. Dissolution or divorce defeats that expectation, leaving the parties with a sense of loss and potentials for property ownership, for social status, and for exercise of authority and responsibility as to any dependence. This creates an emotionally charged environment which can easily turn personally violent or become a challenge to public tranquility. The process of divorce or dissolution is very likely to be painful to the parties and support unreasonably hostile behaviors toward each other. The involvement of police authority is natural, with the court involvement providing the threat of interference to help the parties find nonviolent resolution of the challenges they face in the termination of their unity. The court rarely gets involved in the social challenges and then only indirectly. It is seen in issuing a protective order to keep physically at a distance, preventing one or both from attending the church where they worship together. The court is intimately involved in the division of property interests and in protection of any minor children who are often brought forth as a focal point for disagreement. The protection of legal authority is not simply required, it is a legal priority. The simple truth is that dissolution and divorce are not legal contests. In the end there are no winners. There is damage felt by all parties. By tradition since feudal times, the focus of the common law as to family matters has been on the creation of the next generation of common people. Their effort would be the source of wealth and privilege for the children of the aristocracy. Children are of human importance and the American Revolution did not in any way change this as to legal concerns. The only change was recognition of the sovereignty of different people, not the importance of children. There is also the recognition that children lack both personal and legal capacity. These are born helpless and will quickly die without adult support. Children may take years of attention, support, training, and experience before they are even permitted to take part in adult society. Both the police and court authorities take notice of the needs of children in the family and stand ready as they are able to protect children as required and to support those who have responsibility to see to the next generation. There will always be challenges to this and it is especially sharp with children during their teenage years. They are both learning to behave as independent adults and are still legal minors who do not have adult authority and responsibility. While the maturation of young into adults is an ongoing effort, the legal shift is like flipping a light switch. By legal tradition, it happens when they become of legal age. I might notice that there is also a social recognition of sorts specifically witnessed in the Jewish community with a public ceremony, bar mitzvah for boys and bat mitzvah for girls, where that change to personal responsibility is recognized. To a certain extent, U.S. citizens receive a less definitive recognition at high school graduation through a commencement ceremony. It marks a change of status, but not one based on gaining legal majority. There is no legal ceremony for passage, just the attainment of the age and majority. The shift to acceptance of responsibility is then immediate and complete. The assumption is that the parents retain responsibility for the results of their actions at the raising of the child until the child attains that age, even though the teenager continues to learn and mature and that teenager has reached the capacity for independence by that age, that is the current system as it is supported in law. On the death of a parent, illegal involvement is a combination of bankruptcy and disillusion. While the official action is not required, it is strongly indicated where the remaining wealth owned by the deceased parent is insufficient to cover the debts that have to be satisfied. The financially independent family with an elder surviving spouse and only one adult child is likely to pay off any further debts without court involvement, and the survivors decide between themselves on what to do with the remaining property or wealth. A family that is unable to pay all its existing debts, or that has many surviving children who are jealous of one another, is likely to require legal support. The greater the number of unsatisfied parties to the estate action, the greater the need. The court's involvement is to provide a path to the nonviolent resolution of the estate, and to assure that any remaining debts of the deceased are legally satisfied. The first principle of involvement is keeping the peace and seeing to the domestic tranquility even if it has to be enforced. The second principle is to assure that the obligations of the parent are not forced upon their children, a matter of personal freedom. Every legal jurisdiction has a number of principles for the distribution of property of a deceased person, and even without a written will can proceed with division. If there is a will, it will be followed as closely as legal rules allow. For bankruptcy situation, the courts will make division among the creditors of that portion which is available for paying debts, and will legally satisfy them with whatever portion can be provided. The court action closes any and all further collection actions as a matter of public policy and support for the next generation. In the United States acting as a sovereign, we have increasingly involved ourselves in who is considered to be married and who is not. Granting special privileges to married persons will inevitably lead to attempts to garner those same benefits without addressing the original purpose. That is human and is accordingly appropriate. It is appropriate to test the margins not necessarily appropriate to make decisions in one direction or the other. In this area of challenge we necessarily address areas of conflict, areas where there is a division on the issue. There is no potential for representing we the people until there is an agreement among us. One challenge is that our government units trying to act as sovereigns to direct resolution of our differences has abandoned representation of we the people in favor of specially representing some people at the expense of others. This has been most notable recently with an attempt to define marriage as the result of declaring any unity agreement to be a marriage, something akin to the recognized right of parents to direct their children that all people are required to honor. The ability of the government to serve we the people is much endowed as to such matters as there are peripheral matters that are not being addressed. Will we support a wealthy senior pedophile who pays a poor family to authorize marriage to their 12-year-old boy? Such would be potential to legalize what is now considered a criminal behavior. It is not that we cannot answer such questions but that we have not even taken a serious look at these matters. We commonly are called upon to take sides on these as political issues. Where it comes to divorce and dissolution we have the treatment of the parties to the action and separate address to the children. With teenagers we have added complication of their maturing independence. The courts sitting in equity on such matters are able to take judicial notice of the individual needs and to be reactive within the confines of the teenagers continuing to be legal minors. The law is recognized as being inadequate to do the job of the courts and so the judge is given authority and equity. Should there be greater definition? Should there be a different treatment for teenage victims of parental division? We do not have specific answers. We can only speculate on whether the answers to such questions are even possible. We are required to rely upon the very human and variable capacities of individuals judges to determine a best course of action. It is unclear if the courts have found a best direction for public interference in this personal separation action. As to children of the family we have the traditional and well tested approach of recognizing adulthood on gaining a specific age. This light switch approach to adulthood is certainly manageable and legally workable even if it does have challenges with holding parents responsible one day for what children do and the next day putting responsibility on the individual. Simplicity is not a service for we the people even if it does have obvious and recognizable value to us. The question of the best service government can provide is still with us. Do teenage students have some sliding scale of responsibility depending on their age and accomplishments? As with the Jewish ceremony we recognize as human fact that teenagers accept their personal authority and responsibility progressively as they mature and this without any consideration for legal responsibility or authority. Can we achieve a better match so that our law directly supports the maturation of teenage citizens? Judges who do family law practice receive special orientation and engage in continuing professional sharing and training as part of that practice. It is recognized as a major requirement for competence in serving as advocates. Judges are elected and have encouragement or requirement for their special training and support only after they already are in service positions with responsibility for legal processes. Could there be some sort of preparation requirement for those who are elected before they have to responsibility to address family matters? This is a well-known challenge for all law but is much greater for sitting on such matters of equity than matters in law. The challenges of family law are human more than legal. They involve not only the limitations and potentials of people who come in to have family issues but are inherent in the variability of people and the changes that people go through in living. In this we have a balanced approach with judicial involvement and equity to seek the best solution to challenges citizens encounter. There will always be questions of whether we can find a better balance.