Luke chapter 2 verses 21 through 38 I'm going to begin reading here at verse 21 I'll read to verse 24 and we'll get into our study Luke chapter 2 beginning at verse 21 reading to verse 24 Luke writes and when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the child his name was called Jesus The name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed They brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord as it is written in the law of the Lord every male who opens the womb Shall be called holy to the Lord and To offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons Beginning at verse 21 and looking at that for just a moment. It's quite obvious that Jesus Christ is born as a Jew in the Jewish nation and as a Jew being born in the Jewish nation. He followed the law of Moses Paul tells us in Galatians chapter 4 that that Jesus Christ was born under the law In order that he might redeem those who were under the law that they might receive the adoption of sons Jesus Christ as a Jew went through the normal procedures of a Jewish male And so what we find in verse 21 is that when the eight days are completed according to the law of Moses He's gonna go and he's gonna receive circumcision now Moses had given the law to the nation of Israel that That a male child was circumcised on the eighth day you find that in the Old Testament book of Leviticus chapter 12 verse 3 And so Jesus Christ is being taken in at the age of eight days in order to be circumcised now when he circumcised He is now recognized as a descendant of Abraham and a member of the Commonwealth of Israel And so normally at the circumcision on the day of circumcision as we'd already noted before with John the Baptist The name was given to the to the child And so the angel had stated to both Joseph and Mary that his name was to be Jesus And so that's what you see taking place here in verse 21 He is circumcised he's under the law because he's gonna fulfill all of its righteous requirements And he's given the name Jesus because Jesus is the savior of the world the name Jesus means Jehovah is salvation And so that's the name that he has given at the time of his circumcision circumcision now in verse 22 It speaks of the days of Mary's purification being over When a Jewish woman would give birth to a male child she would be ritually unclean for a period of 40 days And so Mary at the conclusion of her time of impurity would go and she would make an offering There were two things that she would do one is she would give an offering and you see the offering that she gives In verse 24 a pair of turtledoves are two young pigeons. She would give an offering of turtledoves or pigeons The reason she would do that is because she was poor if she had money and ability she would give a lamb But in as much as she and Joseph were financially poor They ended up giving the offering of the poor and so she would give an offering For her cleanliness and so she can be brought back into a relationship with Israel in the sense of being able to Fully participate in the various things that were necessary in order for her under the law to be able to regard it as improper Standing and so that's what she does. She makes this offering now One of the things I wanted to point out here is that she is obviously poor So this gives to us insight that this particular event in the life of Jesus predates The magi coming and seeing them and the reason that it predates that is because remember with me that the the magi brought Gold incense and myrrh So had they been already receiving the gold they'd have been able to use that to have a more costly Sacrifice so it gives to us insight that this predates the visit of the magi and what it's doing is she's basically just following The law of Moses she's being cleansed from her impurity and now presents herself and Jesus to the Lord now as this is taking place normally what would happen is The woman would make her offering After making her offering She would now do a second thing the second thing was she would have somebody normally a priest Who would she would present the baby to and the priest would say a prayer of blessing over the baby And she would also pay a five shekel What is called a redemption? Price you see in the Old Testament in chapter 13 of Exodus Moses had stated that The firstborn child Male was to be devoted to the Lord and so before the priesthood the firstborn male would be the priest And so that's how God originally was beginning to get priests to serve him But under the law of Moses ultimately a whole tribe the Levites became the priestly tribe And so when the Levites became the priestly tribe there was a cost of redemption for the firstborn males Jesus being from the tribe of Judah and not being a priest out of Levi Would therefore have a redemption price so what Mary would do is Mary would offer her purification Then she sought out a godly man normally a priest He would pronounce a blessing and then she would go on and she would pay this five shekel tax called the redemption tax And that's what's taking place here now as this has taken place notice verse 25 Behold there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon and this man was just and devout waiting for the constellation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him and It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ So he came by the Spirit into the temple and When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him according to the custom of the law He took him up in his arms and blessed God and said Lord Now you are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word For my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared before the face of all peoples a Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your people Israel and Joseph and his mother marveled at those things Which were spoken of him then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother Behold this child is destined for the fallen rising of many in Israel and for a sign which will be spoken against Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also That the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed We're introduced to two people in the following Passage one is Simeon the next we find in verse 36 a woman by the name of Anna And as we look at these people here, we're going to be seen godliness in action These are both godly people who are moved by the spirit of God Now as I mentioned a moment ago, Mary has been cleansed from her impurity. She can now present Jesus to the Lord and Now Simeon is there notice how Simeon is described Simeon is described as just devout and waiting Now when it says he's waiting for the consolation of Israel He's actually waiting for Messiah for God who is going to bring the one who consoles the nation of Israel and in verse 26 The Bible says that the holy spirit had revealed him or rather 30 yeah 26 It said the holy spirit had revealed to him that he would live to see the Savior So Mary is ready to present Jesus to the Lord and the spirit now brings Simeon into the temple This agent saint though can hardly contain himself. I want you to see that I want you to see how he responds here because as he's there Looking at this beautiful child as the holy spirit has brought him in to see him He takes him according to verse 28 in his arms and he blesses God and he begins to simply praise and prophesy Over this man over the baby and notice what he says in verse 29 You are letting your servant depart in peace according to your word as we look at this man I want you to see something about him want me to see that he's righteous I want you to see that he's devout that he is sensitive to the leading of the holy spirit And he's a man who patiently trusts in God's word These are the traits of a godly man a person who's righteous devout sensitive and patient Trusting in God's word and as he holds this baby in his hands He begins to praise God for God's faithfulness to God's promises and he's basically saying my days are over I can now come home to you. I've seen your salvation and this is a salvation I want you to notice that is not just for the nation of Israel This is the salvation that is for all mankind notice verse 31 He said to which you have prepared before the face of all peoples a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of her people Israel so he's alluding to the fact that God is bringing this light The Savior not to just the nation of Israel Jesus Christ as a Jew did not die for the nation of Israel alone Jesus Christ died for all mankind The Bible tells us God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son And so as Jesus Christ is now being held in the hands of this ancient prophet this priest who is who is blessing him and Prophecying over him. He's pointing out the fact that God has given to the world a Savior by the name of Jesus Christ Now when he speaks concerning this one who was a light notice verse 32 a light to bring revelation to the Gentiles He's actually alluding to various passages found in the Old Testament book of Isaiah He's alluding to Isaiah chapter 9 And and he's also alluding to Isaiah chapter 42 as well as Isaiah chapter 49 verse 6 Now Isaiah 49 6 says this it is to is it Indeed he says is it too smaller thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the Preserved ones of Israel I will also give you as a light to the Gentiles that you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth And so what he's seeing here through the movement of the Holy Spirit is that God fulfills his word That is a one thing that we as believers need to hold fast to is the reality of the fact that God is not a man That he should lie neither the Son of man that he should repent has he not said it will he not do it God tells us in his word that he is truth his word is truth and therefore when God speaks He always speaks truth and therefore when he makes a promise will always fulfill the promise So you can trust in the blessings and promises of God and that's exactly what Simeon is doing Simeon you by the Holy Spirit being a righteous a devout man Patiently waiting for Messiah being told by the Spirit you will not die until you see Messiah come He waited patiently until that moment came in his life, and then we ultimately seize Jesus Christ He takes him in his hands, and this is a small baby around a month or so old and as he holds Jesus in his hands there He can't help but burst out and praise and thanksgiving to God. It's now time for me to depart I can now go home and be with you because my eyes have finally seen what what people for centuries have awaited The salvation of Israel I have seen with my eyes what others have only spoken about written down in the book The men like Isaiah the men like Daniel and others like them prophets of old Who only could speak about what was could was going to take place? But never by themselves or in themselves really ever participated to the degree that Simeon did and he says in this I Rejoice God I am so grateful, and I am so thankful to you because you're letting your servant depart in peace according To your word my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared before the face of all people Now as this is taking place, can you imagine what Joseph and Mary must have been thinking? I mean you see we have hindsight We're able to look back and see the whole story as it's unfolded And we've seen the first page of the story as well as the conclusion And we know the life of Jesus through the Gospels and we're able to now piece together his life and see portions of it Very clearly But Joseph and Mary on the other hand, this is all new to them all of this is brand new to them And so as they're there listening to Simeon as he's prophesying in this way, and he's he's just in such glory I'll notice that their response in verse 33 Joseph and his mother marveled at at those things which were spoken of him as They're listening it's much beyond anything that they could understand They weren't aware that Jesus was was a savior of all mankind for example Gabriel had said he's going to save his people from their sins and therefore they naturally would assume that that simply means Israel But now they're getting more insight Now as Simeon is speaking here He's actually bringing the fact out that Jesus Christ is a savior not of the simply the Jewish nation, but the world and They marvel as they listen and as this is taking place Simeon blessed them and Said to marry his mother Behold this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel and for a sign Which will be spoken against and so as he begins to speak to to marry and remember with me. She's a young gal She's maybe 16 years of age as He's speaking to this young lady He's saying basically there are going to be people Who will stumble over Jesus Christ like they stumble over a large rock in the middle of a road? And as they stumble over him, they're going to be broken by him But there are others Who are going to see him as a way to heaven Infiguratively will climb on top of that rock dig it closer to God this child is destined for some to reject him and Others to receive him It's at the name of Jesus That that that every knee should bow see but the problem we as Christians already understand this the problem is not everybody wants to receive him So from some people's perspective Jesus Christ is a stone of stumbling a rock of offense Because over Jesus they stumble and will not be humbled on other people though We recognize him as being the one who breaks us and makes it possible for us to reach heaven through him And that's what Simeon is saying here. He's saying this child is destined for the fall and Rising of many in Israel and for a sign which will be spoken against From the very beginning he's been spoken against into this day Of course, he continues being spoken against but notice verse 35 what he says to the mother there to marry He says a sword will pierce your own soul also That the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed Mary The time is going to come When you're going to see something That is going to be so painful and so sorrowful that you're going to think that you're going to die under its pressure Now can you imagine what it would have been like to be Mary and sometimes? I don't think I give myself enough opportunity to dwell or meditate on that reality But this is the woman who gave birth to this precious little one She raised him like any mother raises a child There were times that Jesus was playing outside and if he ran and played like other little boys Which I'm sure he did there are times that he fell down there are times that he heard himself There were times that he'd cry there were times that Mary would hold him in her arms and would comfort him There were times when people might be unkind to him and it would make her angry There were times when Jesus Christ was Uncertain was not treated properly and as a mother any mother She would become defensive for him and all of those small sorrows In no way could add up to the one incredible sorrow that she would have when she watched what happened to her son And that's something that's Simeon is prophesying even as he's holding this infant a sword is going to pierce your soul sometimes Over the years I have asked the Lord to please give me a deeper appreciation For the pain that Jesus Christ went through So that I might realize the depth of my sin and the cost of salvation There was a point in my life when I felt that That it was basically God's job to forgive and I never really thought in terms of what it cost So when Simeon is speaking here and he's saying a sword will pierce your soul When Mary was there at the foot of the cross watching her son Jesus watching him die When she looked at his face and saw how it was beaten when she looked at the beard That had been pulled out of his skin When she saw that his head had been crushed through that reed and that there was blood that was Was now caked on his forehead and undoubtedly had traveled to his sides When she saw the bruising that had taken place when they had hit him When she would you hurt him moaning as he was there on the cross when she saw those nails that pierced him and She heard him speaking Can you imagine The incredible Pain that this mother went through All of us who our parents have had children our children who perhaps have gone through something that That was hurtful for them that we would have we would have taken the pain ourselves if the Lord would have allowed it I can remember my daughter Anna Was when she was a baby up to the age of almost three my Anna was one of these babies that jumped She was a jumping baby if you will I mean she jumped out of her fell out of her high chair. She broke her arms three times Before she was three years old Dislocated her arms twice. So within a two-and-a-half-year period three broken arms and two dislocations And I can still remember on one occasion I was teaching a Wednesday night Bible study and we got a phone call my wife Marie called and said I have I'm taking the baby to the hospital. She fell and I can still remember doing the Bible study Just like I'm right now and then making my way to San Antonio Community Hospital up in upland And I can remember going into the hospital and and then pointing a room out to me and as I went into the room How they said no it was Pomona Valley they said Here's who your baby is I remember going into that room and They were gonna put her in traction and so Marie and I couldn't be in the room at that time So we had a sit in a waiting room and and I can still remember Anna who was about two and a half years old as she was screaming and she was screaming for me She's screaming daddy dad And you know you've heard that before the calling out to you and as I sat in that waiting room And she was only like good, you know just a room away, you know the slot in the swinging doors closed But I could hear her on the opposite side.  It'll pierce you to the very soul as you watch what happens To your son. I was an assistant pastor in another Calvary Chapel back in 1979 and some friends of mine Had adopted a baby they were a couple that were infertile and had been married for two or three years and Were unable to conceive and so what they did is they adopted and and so it was a long process and Finally one day they gave us a call and they said listen We finally got our baby and we want to dedicate Dedicator could could you do that for us and I said well, let me see if I can I was only the assistant I asked the senior pastor and he said no that would be fine So we set up an appointment and they came on a Sunday morning and I held the baby in my hand I still remember doing this in my hands as I was holding this little one in my hands I began to pray as I normally do as you see I do here in this church But I looked at the mother and I said and her name was Donna. I said Donna I Don't know why but I need to tell you this I've never done this again. It's the only time I ever did this I said a sword is going to pierce your soul As I was holding this baby now, that's not what you're supposed to say on on dedication services You're supposed to say I'm holding the first woman president of the United States Now you don't you don't say a sword is going to pierce your soul But I sensed the Holy Spirit speaking and I looked at her I said Donna a sword is going to pierce your soul, but the Lord says that you will be all right You will be all right, and she looks at me and later on you know I keep praying for the baby and later on she approaches me after the dedication David what do you I said? I don't know I don't know I just I just sensed the Spirit of the Lord told me to say that to you Well, let me tell you what happened.  They took the baby when they gave the baby back. She came home She wasn't feeling well. She went to the doctor and it turned out she was pregnant And so she ended up having more than one child You know and I remember this passage so well because I looked at her I said a sword is gonna pierce you but the Lord is gonna bless You'll be okay, and that's how I think it was with Simeon as he's holding Jesus he looks at Mary and he says a sword but he goes on to say that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed Because it's over Jesus Christ that the heart really is revealed How do you respond to him and and how do you look at him? Many hearts will be revealed by the way that they experience Jesus in their life. So that's Simeon We move on now to Anna in verse 36 now. There was one Anna a prophetess The daughter of Fanuel of the tribe of Asher She was of great age and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity And and this woman was a widow of about 84 years Who did not depart from the temple but served God with fastings and prayers night and day and coming in that Instant she gave thanks to the Lord and spoke of him to all those who look for redemption in Jerusalem Now we have an opportunity to look at another godly person a woman by the name of Anna Now notice with me. She's a wonderful Example of a woman of God as a matter of fact Anna can be used as an example of godliness and Also as an example of the rewards of a lifetime of serving the Lord Isaiah 46 for says even to your old age. I am he and even to gray hair. I will carry you I have made and I will bear even I will carry and will deliver you So she's an example of a woman who is aged but is serving the Lord as we look at this woman I want to show you a few earmarks of godliness one. I want you to notice her name Her name is Anna now the name Anna is a Greek translation of the Hebrew word Hana and that word Hana or Anna simply means grace So this is a woman who is an example of grace This name actually gives us insight into living a holy life because the the the only one Only way anyone's ever gonna be living a godly life is is to first be a partaker of the grace of God And so Anna right from the beginning gives us an earmark of a godly person because she's a person who's known by Grace the grace of God and so first and foremost if you want to be a person who has a godly trait You walk in the grace of God you live in the grace of God you serve in the grace of God You've been saved by the grace of God Anna's an example of that. She's a woman who's from a godly family and she's a prophetess Notice she's the daughter of Fanuel and she's of the tribe of Asher Fanuel is the Greek word for penuel which literally means facing God and that speaks of her father being a godly man She's from the tribe of Asher the word Asher means happy because his birth made His mother happy when Asher was born to Zilpa Leah's handmade and so she comes from a godly lineage, but notice also that she was of great age Now I find that interesting here, and maybe this is something I shouldn't bring up, but I might as well We'll see at the end of the Bible study whether I should have said this or not But I want you to notice something I want you to see here that it says and I'll read verse 36 to you again It says there was one Anna a prophetess the daughter of Fanuel of the tribe of Asher She was of great age apparently there was no shame in admitting that she was old Okay, here's a man thing ladies forgive me for it. I Just I find it interesting to note that sometimes we're afraid of growing older I know that Simeon was an older man because he was looking for the constellation Israel and it was not to die until he'd seen it And now we have an older woman here if there's anything the church needs today It's a godly example that comes through older men and older women a Godly example You know when when men begin to actually act their age and And when women don't have a problem with growing older I think that's a good thing because it makes the church healthier. I Don't think that the younger people in this church need me to be their buddy I think if they need anything from me, it's an example of an older man who walks with the Lord I think what they would prefer me to be is like a father to them or a grandfather to them somebody who's got some some experience in life and When we fail to accept the fact that to grow older in Service to the Lord is actually a benefit and a blessing that God has provided us with Instead of fighting against it trying to remain young I think we'll be a great benefit to the younger people in this generation that is looking for older people to set a Tone or a model they don't need buddies what they need are godly examples They need people before them that demonstrate that God blesses over a lifetime and that's what Anna was She's an older woman that God had blessed in Proverbs 16 verse 31 It says the silver haired head is a crown of glory if it's found in the way of righteousness Psalm 71 9 this says do not cast me off in the time of old age. Do not forsake me when my strength fails He goes on in verse 18 to say now also when I am old and gray-headed Oh, God do not forsake me until I declare your strength to this generation your power to everyone who is to come See it's a great desire in the heart of those who are growing older It should be that we can be a voice of what God can do over the lifetime Growing older was not a hindrance to her whatsoever was actually a badge of honor because she had received her gray hair Serving God in other words. She had longevity in her walk with God. It wasn't an on again off again thing It was a consistent thing over a lifetime now notice how verse 36 tells us she had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity and yet She's now 84 years old the women during the time of of christ Normally we're getting married somewhere between 14 and 16 And so if she was married we'll say at 16 She had been married seven years so her husband dies when she's 23 years old She now has lived to the age of 84 But she lived in a pure life This was a woman who was a virgin when she married, but she also remained pure after he died This was a young woman who maintained her purity I have seen unfortunately Some who have been married And they're either divorced or the husband has has died who do not maintain a pure life Anna did Anna was a woman who just was pure in everything including her physical purity She got married to the man she loved she remained with him seven years. He died She never remarried in her particular case. She never remarried now Marie told me that she'd never remarried again, but I'm not quite sure if that's a compliment Maybe it's been so bad. She doesn't want to duplicate it. I don't know she said, you know the first time I got married I married for love next time it's for money.  I say that to get her very mad and she does I have to confess King David had a young woman. Why can't I well, you're not the king. Well, I can be But this is a woman who maintained sexual purity. She was pure when she married She lived with her husband seven years and maintained her purity over a lifetime Verse 37 tells us that she didn't depart from the temple but served god with fastens and prayers Now this is a woman who was widowed, but she didn't turn to a man to meet her loneliness This is a woman who turned to god Because apparently she understood isaia 54 verse 5 when it says your maker is your husband The lord of hosts is his name and your redeemer is the holy one of israel He's called the god of the whole earth So her solution for loss was faithful fellowship in the house of god This is a woman who is fully committed to fellowship in other words when the doors were open. She was there She valued going to the temple because as she went to the temple she went to worship god That's what it says here in verse 37 when it says who did not depart from the temple But served god with fastens and prayers night and day This is a woman whose whole life was worshiping god Worshiping came from the joy became the joy of her heart It's like the psalmist in psalm 122 verse 1 who said i was glad when they said to me Let us go into the house of the lord That was anna anna was a woman once once once it was Open if you will she was there she was there worshiping and praising god Notice how it says that she was devoted serving the lord of fasting and prayer day and night At 84 years of age. She's still fasting and she's still praying This is because she's caught up with the kingdom of god This is because she's caught up with israel's hope in the coming of messiah And these were the things that she would lift up in her prayers to the lord Now notice in verse 38 it says in coming in that instant. She gave thanks to the lord This gives me some more insight into a godly woman. She was thankful You see hannah had known great sorrow Yet she had not become bitter Imagine that if you were we'll say 16 years old when you married And you live seven years and you had a happy and fulfilling marriage And then you're now 23 years old And uh your husband dies Someone shot me And your husband dies There are two ways that you can Respond to laws basically let me give you them very basically one You can become rebellious towards god and resentful and become bitter You can you can have a loss in your life And you can begin to be angry at god and say to god Why lord did you take this from me? You knew that this would break my heart We've gone through loss everyone in this room has You can get angry You can become rebellious You can blame god for your pain You can turn away from the lord and turn to the world for comfort Some women go through a breakup or or or widow who widowhood and they lose their sense of virtue They wake up when they realizing what they've become because they become what they feared the most That's because they didn't find the comfort in the lord And they began to seek it somewhere else But you also Through loss instead of becoming resentful and bitter You can actually become more compassionate and kinder and even more loving One of uh one of the the girls in our church who I've known since she was a little girl who is now in her mid 20s Approached me about three years ago four years ago now And she said I hope you don't take this wrong pastor And I said well what she said She goes something happened to you She goes I've been here as you know since I was a little girl I've sat under the ministry your ministry now for many years She said something happened in your ministry and I've seen it She said I don't know how to put this she said but since your father went home to be with the lord You become kinder You become more compassionate And I smiled at her and I said you know loss can do that to you It awakens you it awakens you to a variety of things And I said it awakened me I I said and I appreciate that I appreciate your insight Because I know you're saying that with kindness towards me And it's true you can take loss and you can get angry and bitter towards god Why did you do this? You know how I needed this person? Or you can say you know lord The lord gives and the lord takes away Blessed be the name of the lord Because I do remember when my father went home to be with the lord I do remember being in that waiting room and and hearing When over the loudspeaker system the words code blue came out and I do remember my mom turning to me saying that's they're speaking about your father and I said I know And I know that as we sat there as a family and we prayed Um, I knew I knew something was was taking place that that I had no power over And so when the doctor walked through those doors and some of you been there and And he looks through the room for the family and he says rose all his family and we raised our hand And he said we did everything and then he said all the things that they say that you don't hear anymore Just they're just words that are coming out in a mouth that's moving Because you go into that instant sense of he's gone And when we walk into the room he said you can go in and for a moment And we went into that room and and I do remember standing with my father there As he's in front of me and my mom standing here and and the family around him and his his shell I mean he was with the lord that was just a shell it was to be planted That's a seed that goes into the ground and I remember looking and saying under my breath I didn't even realize I was saying it I do remember saying the lord gives And the lord takes away And my mom who was right off to my right said blessed be the name of the lord I remember that very well And as we went out into that room there was another family there that was had a child that was in In the icu unit and And they they said what are you to us? What are you? We looked at him. What do you mean? What are we? What are you What do you ask? Because of the way you're taking that announcement We want to know what you are And we said we're believers in jesus christ Christians We have loss But that's only a sense in our heart because in reality My dad isn't lost. I know exactly where he is He's with the lord But you can go through grief and you become bitter Anna could have become bitter She's 23 years old The love of her life is gone But instead of becoming bitter She drew closer to the lord because that's the answer She became thankful Because her widowhood put her in the place to see the lord's salvation In second corinthians chapter one verses three and four Paul said blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ the father of mercies god of all comfort Who comforts us in all our tribulation That we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by god When the lord allows us to go through things It's not that we are going to be isolated by them But we learn things that we can encourage others when they go through those things too And then finally after all of this is taking place Notice how it says in verse 38 Coming in that instant She gave thanks to the lord and spoke of him to all those who look for redemption in jerusalem She did the work of an evangelist. She used her tongue to proclaim to those willing to hear that god had sent his messiah She began to proclaim that the one to deliver the world from bondage has shown up So as an example A man like simian A woman like ana as an example to us they teach us to use our speech To be an encouragement to people that they might come to the lord That we might be a witness for the lord in our lifestyle and the things that we say That we can use our god given influence to be an encouragement to those we love the most And so a godly man in the home can establish a strong structure where jesus is worshiped A godly woman in the home gives a sense of the compassion and love and kindness of god the faithfulness of god And that home becomes a church a sanctuary a place where crisis worshiped That's what god has called us to and we can live that way. There's no reason why we can't You see both of these people are filled with the holy spirit And it's through the working of the spirit in their life That gives them enables them to have a ministry that brings glory to god And so why can't I why can't we as a church walk in the spirit? Be in the place that god wants us to be for those divine appointments that he gives Simeon happening to walking into the temple at that moment has the opportunity at that moment To to to give glory to god and prophesy ana who's there who comes into that moment is able to once again prophesy and say oh god how wonderful you are why can't we do that and I think we can Because I believe that god by his spirit leads us into divine appointments all the time all we need to do is be sensitive to them And be open and we can use them as an example


Goodbye snowbird Hello home. Oh, it's good to be home, and it's raining in Colorado. That's what I'm talking about All right, we're gonna keep this well Let me get under here so the camera doesn't get wet. I'm gonna keep this quick I'm gonna do something that I never do I never do this on the vlog on the daily story for you guys I'm actually gonna jump back to snowbird from my recovery session in the pool in the hot tub yesterday I'm realizing maybe I shouldn't have filmed this in the hot tub But anyway, that's I was recovering after the race and this is a recovery vlog Meaning I'm gonna jump back to yesterday's footage explain what happened in the race what I learned Maybe what I didn't learn who knows equipment failures So I'm gonna jump back to snowbird and that is going to basically be the rest of today's vlog I flew back from Utah safe trip good to be home good to see the family They're actually going to bed soon and it's raining and this is life and this is life So I'm gonna stop back to snowbird. This is what happened yesterday in the speed goat 50k Amazing I told Steve after the race Drive me to the pool Oh my gosh guys speed go 50k 2018 What happened whoa whoa before I dive into what happened? It's really important all of you know this well, maybe you don't but you're about to know this It's really important to know thyself Know thyself Be just in tune with who you are how you're created and what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are I've been harping on this for a while now with respect to my running and I struggle with hills in the last you know 10 miles of a 50k. I just my legs Look like toothpicks compared to the guys that passed me in the last 10 miles like they come by me with these tree trunk legs And it helps it helps to have ridiculous amount of muscle and today's race The website says 14,000 vert my watch said 11,000. I don't know bottom line It was a lot of vertical and I was in fourth place up until mile 20 Right about mile 20. I got past and I moved into fifth place So the first 20 miles was a hoop I was having a ball and rolling and we were rolling rolling rolling. I was rolling uphill rolling downhill I don't know if I went out too fast. I may have I may have but I wanted to stick my nose in it I didn't want to you know come out to Utah and not go for it I was honestly gunning for everyone whoever was there I was gunning for him and there were a lot of tough dudes here today So You know who knows I and I probably was you know, my legs probably Remembered last weekend at copper mountain. They probably remembered it and weren't too appreciative of what I did last weekend When it came to the hills in the last 10 miles of this race and it was such I'm serious. I don't say this.  I didn't realize 15 to 20% of the race was off trail That's my prediction that it was 15 to 20% like we just were running through tundra and over rocks and like through creeks And it was not it was not in my mind. It was it was a race, but it was like a running Speed hiking adventure like I just I just am not good at the speed hiking gig and rookie mistake I should have had poles trekking poles The leaders like first and second did not have poles But there were three or four guys in the top ten that had poles and they flew up the uphills And so I'm not coming back to this race But in future races if there's ever vertical, you know kind of like this where it's straight up the side of a mountain I will definitely have poles No doubt about it. So anyway, once I got to about mile 26 or so and I realized like top ten was kind of out of the question I basically shut her down and I didn't walk it in but I just kind of cruised it in because Today's race as I already mentioned to the GoPro was an ankle breaker. Like I could not believe how Rough it was. It probably sounds like I'm complaining, but I'm just telling you what it was like reality It was an ankle breaker.  Thank you for putting it on Carl I'm not sure what you're thinking and but it was it was it was it was a fun time and it was the bottom line I'm so excited because like I know my weakness and this this race just solidified knowing my weakness And now I can focus on strengths like Short uphill like pike speak ascent 13 miles uphill boom Let's get her done fast and I couldn't really get into a rhythm today where I can use my speed because believe it or not I have a little bit of speed left in the legs and That's why I did so well at last weekend's race because it was a climber and a speed guy So love you guys Steve is off doing something. I think trying to acquire some wine for me good vintage I'm just chilling at the pool just chilling at the pool if you have any questions gasp below.  That was the recap of the speed goat 50k 2018 learned so much more than let's say like winning a race you learn more in The moments of life when you maybe don't meet your goal, right? You can probably relate to that in fact question of the day When was the last time you didn't meet a goal and you learned from it? And what was that experience like? Oh, this is that's a good one It's a good one take a second think about it if you have time comment below I'd really appreciate it and I think we can all glean Wisdom from each other's life experiences down in the comments below So that was that was that was the race and I learned so so much about strengths weaknesses trekking poles Seek beauty work hard love each other Let it rain let it rain


Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 2019-2020 Panini Prism Retail one-pack break number 273 random team edition where we're giving away seven spots in the status team all full case 20 box random team break that's only four spots away from going right now so the way this works 30 spots we're randomized list teams customers for the one-pack break itself and then do the pack at the end of the break we'll do another dice roll another randomized roll we'll take all 30 customers names randomize them and then the top seven win a spot in the status team all break so there you go here is our list of customers from Jesse way bright first spot purchased down David boros last spot mojo times two and the teams from the wizards back up to the Atlanta Hawks dice roll to randomize both lists and pair them up a six and a four ten times tenth and final time from narc down to David you see ten times in the randomizer ten times in the dice now ten times on the teams 10th and final time from the Mavericks down to the Lakers ten times so no trade window on here I'm not gonna read through all of them but we'll stop for some of the highlights obviously you can get them all on video as well 2019-2020 prism so bulls Kobe white Jake Odom Grizzlies John Marant Ron Hollins heat Tyler hero of Martin Klaus Nicks RJ Barrett Matthew Shearer Palakins David boros John or sorry Sam Williams to print this out do our rip and then like I said separate dice roll separate randomizer after this pack to give away the seven spots there's our pack I'll even take a base Zion base Zion PSA 10 I think just sold for like six fifty seven hundred dollars base PSA 10 David last spot mojo Hawks Raptors me only for the jazz John Bender the key logs Andrew Walker for the pelicans David boros quick pack so now this important part the seven spots Jesse way bright back down to David boros dice roll top seven names after five and a three eight times good luck it was eight right three and a five eight times so that's seven one eighth and final time from spots eight down to 30 thank you guys very much for getting in on this break and hopefully I can do better for you next time maybe there's another filler hopefully not see but special thank you and congratulations to Tim Burke John Bender David boros Martin Klaus Chad Meyer Jesse way bright mark Matthew Shearer you seven now have spots in the 20 box full case break of status team all coming up hopefully later on you can see eight times on the randomizer eight times on the dice and there you go that was 2019-2020 Penini prison retail one-pack break random team number 273 from jaspyscasebreaks.com I'm Sean jaspyscasebreaks.com thanks for hanging out I'll see you next time


Welcome to The Journey. This is the first ever Halloween episode coming at you. We're bringing you three Halloween episodes this month and today we're talking about how to create a social media campaign. Fighting is you can use this for upcoming holidays and we've got a lot around the corner and I'm super excited. And it's really important when talking about how to create a social media campaign because at any given moment, when it comes to adults, yes adults, 26% of people are online all the time, like always. Are you online right now? I'm on the line. I'm a hot diggity dog. All right, so another fun fact, there are 3.7 billion users on the internet using the internet. So what are you doing on the internet as a business? What are you doing with your social media pages to really leverage the holidays? Because this is when people are ready to celebrate and spend money. Lots of money. And you want to make sure you're attracting them in the moment they're ready to do that. So it is the season for some holiday fun. All right Emma, so I'm thinking of doing a social media campaign for my business all about hot dogs. But what should I start with first? So I would definitely have some goals in place just like when you're making the perfect dog, man. Yeah. Have four goals as a business owner. Ketchup, mustard, relish, onions, got it. You've been missing one thing. What's that? Good buds. Good buds. So you want to have four goals and the four that a lot of businesses are clinging on to to make sure they are fulfilling that social media campaign. One, brand awareness. Number two, I would count with my fingers, but it's difficult. Number two, increase engagement. So that brings us to goal number three, which is about increasing clicks. So essentially you want to get people to of course engage with your posts like some that we were talking about $2 Tuesday with the pizzas. But then where do you want them to go to next? For a lot of businesses out there, they usually want the consumer to go and check out their website or go check out their review pages because after all, sure you have this cool $2 Tuesday but I want to know like what do your customers think about your pizza? Are they into it or not? Well, I'm going to want to check out your reviews as a potential new customer. So direct them to your website or your Yelp or your Google. Plus, Google's great. I need directions to get there. Right? Click that button. And with those call to actions, don't always just send them to your homepage. Send them to the page that makes the most sense for whatever it is. You have those $2 pizzas, right? Don't send them to the homepage. Send them to a page that talks all about those $2 slices of pizza. That way they get that exactly what they're looking for. All right. So that leads us to number four, which is about conversion rates. So back to the $2 pizza, $2 Tuesday. You're going to drive them to that page and then you can see, hey, how effective was this in my social media campaign? Yeah. Whether it's a coupon that you kind of track or it's emails that you're signing up, you can just measure that because you want basically that page to do justice for your business. The better those ads and those campaigns do, the more that you remember, cool. This worked with this type of customer. I'm going to do it again going forward. Hey, Nam. All pizza. What's that? Well, I did the hipster burn his mouth when he was eating pizza. Oh, my goodness. Why? Because he ate it before it was cool. So you know what I really wish more than anything? What's that? Is just have that perfect social media post for my hot dog page. What's up, though? What? What up, Jeannie? How you doing, Weenie? Cool. So now that you're here to grant my wishes, what can I do to make my posts perfect? I'm so glad you asked. So visuals. A lot of these platforms, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, they rely on the graphics. We want to catch people's attention. Like your outfit? Yes. Getting people to showcase them, enjoying your product, eating a slice of pizza, eating a hot dog, maybe a little mustard stain. Don't forget the stuffed crust. That's perfect to showcase on your social media. And in talking about the platforms, social media, yes, it's all social media, can be considered the same, but each platform is a little different. Like pizza. And hot dog. Like hot dogs. Each platform is going to have some dimension requirements for your posts. So you want to make sure you have that post fit the certain platform. A Twitter post may not look the same on Instagram. That makes sense because Instagram's square, right? And Twitter's a little bit longer. Exactly. So notice my videos and pictures get cut off. That makes perfect sense. I noticed that about your videos too. Hey, thanks for telling me. And remember your captions. You know, use your words. It's good to be able to use the text overlays and make sure that you showcase what's special about your product. And make sure people know some, you know, good things in the description that makes your items stand out. Yeah. So awesome stuff there. You also want to consider searching, right? You talked about hashtags and be able to search those hashtags to find other relevant content. But same thing goes with search engines. All those keywords and descriptions and captions that you add to your posts, especially things like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest, are indexable by Google. And being, if you use Bing or Yahoo Search, whatever you use, but those social media posts can now start popping up on search engines. So people looking for that content, that awesome specials on pizza, maybe this dope costume for genies, whatever it looks like. Talk about that in your posts, dance about pizza, and you might actually be found on search engines. Make your wish come true. So Naly, should I stuff in those keywords like I stuff this crust? No, you shouldn't do that. So not only is it bad for search engines, Google will know that you're just basically becoming spam at that point. But it also looks bad for your visitors. Have you ever gone to like an Instagram post or Twitter post or a Facebook post and there's like a million bajillion hashtags? It just doesn't look good.  You're not actually having that dope pizza. So I know what you're probably thinking. That seems like a lot of content and you might even be asking yourself, so do I need to create new content all the time? Do you need to get a little genie on your hands so you can magically get posts to appear? No, you can actually repurpose content. Repurpose it from your email newsletters. Repurpose it from your customers. I know before I bite into a slice of pizza wherever I am, I'm taking a picture and I'm mentioning the business. That user-generated content. That user-generated content. Exactly. And then so you as the business pay attention to those mentions or people tweeting about you because then you can simply retweet or repurpose on Instagram and you have some content. You also saved yourself some time because after all time is of essence here, right?  You do not have a lot of extra time on your hands. You're not a genie that lives 10,000 years. Clearly we have a ton of time on our hands. And you want to make sure that what you're doing is going to be beneficial. So you want to track your posts. It's going to be easy for you to get into that kind of mindset that, you know, set it and just forget it, but that's not what's going to give you the best result for your social media. Every platform is going to have its own analytics that you can look at your posts and see which ones are going to gravitate or cause your fans to, you know, engage with it more. Figure out what works best for you and do that on each platform. Yeah, sometimes it's as easy as just looking at maybe like your last eight posts and see which ones got the most likes, which ones got the most comments. And see why. Was it a super dope post about this pizza special or was it some behind the scenes stuff that you showed your employees working? I love behind the scenes. Right? Like whatever that looks like, see what your best posts are and then just duplicate, duplicate, duplicate and just keep creating those types of posts because that's what your followers want to see. And Twitter does it like the top tweet. I look at that even for myself sometimes. Just kind of curious like what's vibing with my audience. You should be doing the same thing as a business. Sorry I'm late guys. Traffic was smurfing ridiculous out there. You know, it's the worst. Well speaking of running, running ads. That's another great way to get your content out there.  So if you have a flexible marketing budget, consider running ads or that promoted content. And you don't have to run an ad on every single platform. You can just pick the platform where your audience is really going to see it the most. Yeah, and whatever that looks like, right? And you can also boost your post data done really well. So if you got a post that has a ton of likes, ton of comments, boost that post because people liked it. Yeah, that's great on Facebook. You know, I definitely do that for copy and kick flips where you look at like, hey, organically, which post did well. And then from there, how can I get the most out of this post, the most out of my money? Then I'm going to put a little boost into it. And it sounds like we're talking patience. It doesn't have to happen right away. So you just want to sit back, relax, wait and see what others do. Then you take the action. Absolutely. And another great point is make sure you're posting holiday content that converts. Like that perfect. You don't have to even worry about it. You know, certain holidays happen every year. So create posts around that. Good point, Sam. Because this is smurfing amazing content right here. All right. Do you all have any last minute wishes? Look, we've got the pizza. We've got the hot dogs. Really go for a really big dessert right now. Yeah. All right. Party. I can handle that. I don't even need that much dessert. That's a bit much. Right. I got it. I'm going to Seattle. Be sure to comment, like, subscribe and ring that bell. This is the journey. We'll see you next time. Small smurfs.


I'm Terran Marlar and this is a Weird Darkness bonus bite. From all that's interesting, an Oregon mother was just sentenced to 30 days in jail after waterboarding her infant son by Hannah Holtz.  A mother in Oregon was sentenced to 30 days in jail for waterboarding her 13-month-old son and putting him in the freezer. 30-year-old Sharday McDonald said she did it to test the baby's father, Kendrick Neal, to see if he gave a F at all, according to an affidavit obtained by Inside Edition. McDonald pleaded guilty to criminal mistreatment and unrelated charges of witness tampering and ID theft. Police responded to a home in Gresham, Oregon in October 2021 for a welfare check after a report of a mom putting a baby in the freezer. When officers arrived, they heard McDonald shouting on the phone through the door. I don't want him. Let me show you this little effing baby, McDonald said. When she answered the door, she was holding the baby wrapped in a blanket. At some point during the welfare check, Neal arrived and shared screen grabs from a video call with McDonald with officers. In the images, McDonald held the baby by a onesie while holding him under running water. One image showed McDonald holding the baby by his onesie at a downward angle, where his hips, legs and feet were higher than his head, with water running over his face. The only place the water could go was in the nose. The officers then placed McDonald under arrest. McDonald said that she was sorry and that she had not been trying to hurt or kill her baby. She claimed she thought putting the baby under running water would get Neal to come over to her place and she did it out of spite. McDonald will serve 30 days in the Multnomah County Detention Center. It's unclear where the child is and what condition he's in, but at least he's alive and that's the important thing. In Oregon, criminal mistreatment is a class C felony with a maximum sentence of five years or 90 days plus probation if there are no convictions. Sadly, this is not the first time a parent has been caught waterboarding their child. In 2019, 33-year-old Kaitlyn Elise Hardy was charged with child cruelty after filming herself pouring water on her sleeping baby's face and posting it to Facebook. "'Payback for waking me up all kind of times at a night,' Hardy's post read with several laughing emojis. The video showed the nine-month-old baby waking up coughing after Hardy poured a water bottle on her face. Authorities in South Carolina arrested Hardy after an arrest warrant was issued that said that her actions showed ill treatment that caused unnecessary pain and suffering for the baby. In 2018, the father and stepmother of a nine-year-old girl were arrested and charged with child abuse for tying up and waterboarding the girl. Joseph and Elaria Mitchell reportedly tied the girl's hands behind her back, held her down in a bathtub and poured water over her on at least three separate occasions. She's nine, nine years old. That's the torture of a child, the girl's biological mother, Brittany Calabrese, said, according to WKRC. And I couldn't agree more. Find the link to the original story in the show notes and find more strange, funny or disturbing news in the Weird News & Blog at WeirdDarkness.com


Right, so now we're going to move on to animating the big planet outside of the room But we're going to use a couple of attributes to do that to get it so that it actually Rotates on its own axis like the earth actually does but again before we do that Let's just make sure that everything's working as it should so if I click play I've now got all four of my planets Going around and because they're moving at different speeds the longer this animation plays for the more random It'll start to look they'll stop lining up, and it'll just look more natural more organic Lovely right, let's move on to the big planet this little chappy out here, so The first thing we're going to do is exactly the same as we did for the Previous planets is we're going to go to frame one We're going to keyframe rotate why so keys like that Move to frame 20 And then I'm going to rotate why very very slightly because I want this to be a really subtle effect So I'm just going to move that by two units and Then I will key that And you'll see that if I scrub between that it moves Ever so slightly so it's going to give a really sort of effect, which is nice. Okay, so We need to then go into the graph editor, so I've just minimized mine down there I'm going to press a to frame up the curve and it looks as you would expect so let's select it and Then we're going to change the tangent to spline get it in a nice straight line. I'm going to change the post infinity to Linear and that will keep going forever. So now let's have a little look at this if I press play Hello, I'm playing it backwards. Let's try again if I press play Beyond frame 20 that will just rotate nice and slowly and it'll look quite cool Which is what we want, but there is one more thing that we need to do to it to make it look more like our earth so What I'm going to do is rotate it slightly on the x-axis, which is the the red one on your rotate tool and I'm going to go by about minus 15 degrees. I think On x like that Now I don't need to set any keys for that because I don't want it to move on the x-axis wanted to sit there and This is a good example of why I didn't set a keyframe on any of the other channels because if I had this little change here Now would have been impossible because I would have had to set keys to keep it out 15 Rather than just being able to change it So we should now say that if I play it That's rotating on its own axis which is beautiful in the next step We'll start looking at how you add cameras and then how you animate them to get some really nice movement in your scene


But I'm the one doing the fire. You're the one that has to live in. Okay, so in terms of guns, now I get carried away, I'm sorry. So in terms of guns, you are able to have a firearm in your vehicle and go from home to work and back home. You can have a firearm in your vehicle going from home to the gun store and back home. Now, my advice to gun owners in this audience is you want to keep it secure and out of sight. If you drive around, because we are intent is that people love to show their rights.  If that cop pulls you over, it gives them reasonable suspicion and almost proper cause to search your vehicle. Because it's in plain sight. It's a very great topic. Nine times out of ten, they're going to mention you about that guy. They are. It's going to happen. But that's when you be quiet, ask for your attorney, hire us, let us justify it for you. I am a licensed holder. I can walk around with a gun right here throughout the San Antonio streets. But I'm not going to do it. That's my choice. Because keep in mind, if you do, they're going to watch you. They're going to be watching you. So you can't go smoke weed. You can't go speeding. You can't drink and drive. Because of that situation, they're watching you. So that's what I'm saying. You have the right. But it comes with consequences. You have to be aware of those consequences. When I went through this class, and this is very important. Because I heard this a ton of times after the John Martin issue had occurred. Everybody wants to carry a gun and shoot somebody. It's getting out of control. While I'm sitting in this class, I don't tell anybody to return it.  I'm not trying to want anybody. I want to know as much as I can. Out of a class of 11, six people, okay, six. More than 50% were asking scenarios. So what if I see a guy beating up his girlfriend? Can't she hit the guy? Or what if I see a guy beating up on the police? Can't she hit the guy? Or what if I see a guy running and he still can't shoot the guy? And they wouldn't give advice. So I want to clear this up right now. If you pull the trigger on any individual, you are going to be arrested. You are going to jail. You are going to bond out. You're going to have to fight this case. But with Cruz, Cruz, we have the right to self-defense. You do have the right to self-defense. But self-defense is what's called an affirmative defense. Which means, okay, you can do it. But you have to justify it. And the only people, which is not followed very often here in Bear County, the only people that can claim that justified is their jury or DA's office. Not police officers. They cannot say that was a justified killing. That is not their role. It's to go to the DA and to a jury trial. But you're still going to go through the entire motion. Keep that in mind. I know we love our guns. We love ourselves. But my question to you is this. Is it worth it?  And claim self-defense. So we have to be very strategic. We have to think about these things. Before we want to jump to our rights to do certain things. I want to see everybody in this room live a long and prosperous life. I'm tired on the funeral. I go to funerals all the time. From clients, from people in our community. And I speak to young people all the time. Because you know, I know I'm going too long. I'm sorry. You know, we don't want to look into authority. We want to do certain things. But at the end of the day, is your life worth it? You have to think about these things. Like I said, it doesn't know what happened with guns. Keep it tucked away to protect yourself in case something happens. But if you're going to pull out that gun and start shooting. Be known. Or let it be known that you're going to get arrested. You aren't going to jail. You're going to prosecute you. And you're going to have to hire an attorney to fight for your rights. And that's going to be, depending on who you hire, $100,000. As you do not get back. I don't know if this is a time to question the answer or... We have another. Okay. I'll be here for a little bit for the panel discussion. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. Thank you. So the second time, I think it's, what, $135,000 right now. Okay. Please make sure I don't hold for five minutes. Okay. Because we do have another speaker coming up. And we want to give you a chance to ask some questions. And obviously get business cards from the different attorneys that are here. So you can get actual legal advice. Just a seminar. Nothing here is actual legal advice. And we have not created an attorney-client relationship. We need to get that out there. Okay. I'm here today to, I'm Natasha Sherrod. I'm a practicing attorney. I just moved down the street on East Houston Street back in August. So I'm very close by. My focus area, even though I do practice criminal law as well, and I do do wills and estates. My focus though, my passion is family law. And the reason that I'm here today to talk about family law in conjunction with these rights here is because there are areas of family law that have criminal consequences.  And people say, oh, that person's bipolar and they're always having problems in their relationships. And they may be charged with assault by the injury. Well, on my end, I will represent the individual who's taking a protective order.  And they're like, the mom is still talking to me or the, you know, the dad is the one that's coming to me. It's like, well, you know, everything's okay. You know, we've made up and, you know, she says I can come over and stuff. But I have this protective order. One of my rights. Can I still, is it okay because she gave me permission? The truth is it's not okay. The person that's protected by a protective order can never say that it's now okay for the other person to violate that protective order. If individuals have a protective order against them and they're stopped by the police, so let's say that the tradition, the most common sense is the police are called to the residence because they've gotten into an argument again. If you have a protective order, there is nothing that you can say to justify why you're there. If that protective order says you are to have no contact with that individual, you're not to be within so many yards of their residence, there is no justification you can state to say, well, it's okay for me to be there. So that's an instance where it's best to remain silent. You're going to get arrested. However, your attorney may be able to mitigate the charges against you. The best thing to do, however, is to seek legal counsel before you encounter the police because if you have a protective order, the standard length of time is two years. But if within that year, let's say it's looking like, you know, you think you guys are going to make up, because let's be truthful about it. In relationships, you have a protective order. We know those that represent survivors of domestic violence, oftentimes the survivors go back. They go back to that individual for whatever reason and we're not here to judge that. What I'm here to tell you is that for one year, you cannot request a modification to be done. If there's a protective order against you and you feel like, look, it's time for me and my significant other, my wife, we want to get back together. You have children, get an attorney first. You need to have an attorney who will go into court and request if that protective order can be shortened to just a one-year timeframe. Because if not, that protective order states you are not to have any communication with that individual for two years. The other thing I wanted to say about protective orders is that it's a two-part process. The individual is going to apply for a protective order and nine times out of ten, they request what's called an ex-partee protective order. That means that based on the victims' statement alone, they are requesting the judge to grant that protective order. It's a temporary protective order and then we're going to have you brought into court to actually do the final two-year one. It's important that you have an attorney that will defend that protective order to make sure that you don't have one that states that you've committed acts of family violence if you have not. Because again, you will be in jail for violating the protective order and there's really not much that you can say to defend that. The other thing, I don't know if I'm going to use this up but one little quick little thing is it is a custody order. It's very important that you follow that custody order because in your visitation orders, a lot of times it states you're only to have the children on the weekends, first or fifth weekends, but mom says no, it's okay. You can have them during the week because he's a teenager now and he's driving me crazy. You need to get that modified because there is a state jail felony which will put you in jail for two years, up to two years and up to a $10,000 crime for violating or interfering with child custody. And so those are just two areas where again, family law has some criminal replications to it. For further information, I do have Mrs. Carson give you at the end of our presentation today. Do you mind if I introduce to that speaker? All right. We're having to change up the agenda just a little bit. I believe that we wanted to have a few words just very briefly on civil liberties and that will be from Attorney Tessa House. And then following her, we will have a presentation by Linda Corley and Roland Eichman of DWI Scots. Thank you. I'm Attorney Tessa House. I'm pleased to come to you today. I'm a San Antonio native. So issues that touch and concern the city of San Antonio are close to my heart because I grew up here. Generally, Congress, Texas, but mostly San Antonio. And I'm also educated here because I'm a graduate of St. Mary's Law School. So I see him before you as a lawyer. Fresh out of law school two years, but it's been an exciting two years. Right after I was licensed, there was a protest at North Star Mall. And this protest was organized by local young leaders of the community in order to commemorate the deaths of unarmed men. And I went out there fresh out of law school because I really believed in what these individuals were standing up for. North Star Mall really honored the civil liberties of our citizens and allowed these protesters to stage a die-in in the middle of the mall. And so we commend North Star Mall for safeguarding the civil rights and free speech of our individuals. However, after the die-in ceased, the protesters took the protest outside of the mall. And therein lies where problems occurred. The protesters decided to, at some point, take the protest on the street and into the highway where oncoming traffic was occurring. Obviously, to law enforcement, this posed a safety risk because there was oncoming traffic and then you had pedestrians in the roadway. At that point, to arrest occurred and those gentlemen with classy misdemeanor charges. There were no lawyers on the floor except me. And I was freaked out because I didn't know what I was doing. I sent a call to my fellow colleagues and it was on a Saturday. Well, the attorneys don't work on a Saturday.  You don't have a choice but to work on a Saturday. So I was there and I was able to assist those protesters in getting out, negotiated an agreement as far as what their charges were. And so they're free today to protest on the street of San Antonio. However, based on that first incident they were, and our education on what we can and cannot do when it comes to civil liberties and how that clashes with the law, they were able to refine their approach as to what they do on the streets of San Antonio. So what does this mean? And I will say, and I'm just going to talk about the city of San Antonio because every protest is different. How many of you all have Facebook, right? Raise your hand if you have Facebook. So you see on social media how many of you have seen protesters blocking that you've seen those? Yes. So some cities, although you may be arrested, okay? So I will say, depending on your approach when it comes to protesting, I think it is very specific to the actual city that you are in. San Antonio, however, I will say this city has evolved over the years. They have been very supportive and per se respectful, and I say per se because it depends on what you call respectful. There have been some occurrences where protesters have gathered and they are there with video cameras taping. They are recording. This is law enforcement officers, they are taping. It's every single move of what the protesters are doing. I'm going to say protesters. I'm talking well above Black Lives Matter. I'm talking about actual citizens just coming together that are concerned about the death of unarmed men in the streets of San Antonio. Right now I've been consoling a mother who is my client. Her son was shot last year while an officer was trying to, I guess, apprehend and take him into custody. So her son was driving his white Mercedes. They pulled into their apartment complex where they lived. As soon as they entered into a parking spot, her son exited the car. An officer who had been following him pulled out his gun, told him to put your hands up and turn around. Apparently he complied very quickly. The officer shot and killed this young man and he killed him to the point where when he was shot, his shoes were in one location and his body was in another. Then we hear, all of a sudden, the new story. The next new story, and I'm watching it because I'm looking at the Facebook news feed so the news is reporting it. Then all of a sudden a cell phone appears and the officer said he had a cell phone in his hand. But that wasn't reported in the beginning and so it's interesting how these stories evolve but what I will say, back to civil liberties, here's what I will say, it's very important and I'm just going to give you like realistic approaches as to how you can protect your civil liberty. I think social media person, I think it's good when you know how to use it to your benefit. Become familiar with a lot of the tools that you have been equipped with. Facebook Live. Who's familiar with Facebook Live? I'm trying to become a little bit more comfortable with it. Facebook Live. According to the consensus, Texas happens to be a one party consensus date, as long as you are present and you are part of a party to the conversation or communication or what's going on, you can record to the point that it does not interfere with any type of law enforcement investigation. Facebook Live and the information that us as an attorney are able to use from the different feedbacks that come from Facebook video recordings or Snapchat or Instagram, you never know how integral that is. Mr. Calvert mentioned, Commissioner Calvert, excuse me, mentioned earlier about the water burger arrest. Raise your hand if you heard about the water burger arrest. Right? So there were two African American young ladies they had went to an after party, the after gathering at Water Burger after a game at Judson High School. They go and one girl's driving and the other girl is a passenger in the car. The passenger in the car goes and she buys food. So she is a customer of Water Burger. Are we cleared? Y'all following the story? As she's ordering the food, she's waiting for the food. All of a sudden, a fight breaks out between two young men outside. So what do kids do, right? Some kids, they rush outside to see the fight, right? Some stay in because they're waiting for their food. Well, Water Burger does what? They call who? They call the police. Police arrive, right? Police arrive on the scene to investigate what happened. All of a sudden, police says, everyone get the effect, right? Excuse my French, but that's what was said to all customers and patrons. Because I want to pay the visual of exactly what went on here. So, customers are still waiting for food. The drive-thru is actively going on. It's an operating restaurant. Goes one by one and starts to clear out the restaurant. Apparently, one of the girls did move fast enough. Do you see a common theme? It's not that they were complying. Maybe they were. You know, I guess it's a matter of perspective at this point. Didn't move fast enough, girl gets arrested, and then her friend gets arrested as well, because she puts, the officer during the transaction takes her hat off, throws it across the restaurant.  Her friend complies because this girl is the daughter of a very well-known hairstylist here in San Antonio, so she cares about her looks, right? Put her hat on her head and the girl gets arrested for interfering with that arrest. And as Mr. Calver said, he's absolutely right. Now, there are a lot of people that would take credit for having those charges dropped. I will say, I am the attorney for those girls. They're a criminal attorney and they're a federal civil rights attorney. When I sat down with Nikola Hood, he mentioned Mr. Calver's name and said, Tommy called me and said, we're getting pressure from the community. So, even though you say, what can I do? I don't have a law degree. I didn't always have a law degree. I was a teacher at Martin Luther King teaching sixth grade. I didn't have a law degree. But I saw in justices, so what do you do? Call Nikola Hood's office. If you see that an officer needs to be prosecuted for wrongdoing, call him. If you think that he doesn't listen, he listens because he went down to listen and told me every single person that called on behalf of those girls, it was the pressure from the community that caused those charges to be dropped. So, if you think it doesn't matter, it does. And so, from an attorney to the community, I just want to thank you because you're my community. This is where I grew up.  The charges were dropped. Sheriff Parmaloo had no clue because I talked to her and she was talking as if these girls were going to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I mean, there was no crime. He was a paying customer and I said at the end of the day, the boys that were fighting got away scot-free because they made no other arrest at night other than that paying customer and the girl that drove her there. So, when we talk about civil liberties, what it takes is community participation. If you see something's wrong, if you think your constitutional rights are violated, you'll have to remember the Constitution.  Oh, which right? Sometimes you can't say it. I know something wrong happened. So, take it to the house. Call Test House. Call your attorney and say, hey Test House, you're acting on my rights and violations. Now, we're going to have Linda Hurley and Linda Lackman come up and let's just let me have about 10 minutes for a minute.  We get to die in there. I also died in with the young people in the ocean for a while. They have helped me get back up. I died in the water. It's good for older people to support our younger people. We don't want to end that. We're still complaining about it. We're doing the right thing. I'm sorry for interrupting. I am running for district 8. One of the things I wanted to tell you is that your city council is also very, very responsive. You've got some very good people up there who are ready to take your phone calls and so just any city council person will take that phone call and take it very seriously. The other thing I give similar talks, I'm an attorney as well, I give similar talks to college students around Texas. One of the things I always make them do, Tess, and you may want to tell your clients, is who's got a phone? Anybody got a phone? Who can download an app? There's an app out there called Mobile Justice by the ACLU where it actually lets you video and the cop cannot take your phone away and erase it because we've all heard of that too, right? Take your phone and erase it. This live screen is directly to the ACLU and all you gotta do is call the ACLU afterwards and say, can I get my video? The only problem is Texas ACLU hasn't developed theirs and so Oklahoma, Washington, D.C. and Georgia have one but I recommend it. You can always call the ACLU in Georgia. Sorry for interrupting. Go ahead. I'm going to start because we've got about five minutes. I'm going to ask Pastor to let us go five minutes to pass to a cop. He's a command. We're going to run a little bit over. That's okay. But make it quick because we would like to get out of your own time. Okay. My name is Raul Aikman. I'm a licensed attorney in Texas. This is Linda Corley. She's a licensed attorney in Texas. She runs the office. She's the head of their law firm. We're going to show you a two-minute video that sort of recaps the 20-minute video that you saw at the beginning of the presentation today. It's a little simpler. What we've found is that in stressful situations maybe two or three rules. So you have to act on what the cop can do as opposed to what you think he might do. You have to quote amendments. You don't have to quote all of these things. You just have to know we all generally know what our rights are. What we have to be able to do is to translate that into our own lives when the situation is occurring. How do we make that happen? How do we really invoke our rights? And so we're trying to make it simple with different kinds of stuff. We're doing a DWI stop as an example but you can really use this for any kind of encounter with a police officer. Knowing encounter with a police officer ever makes you any money. Nothing good comes out of an encounter with a police officer. One minute, just a moment. There's been I can't remember his name. So what's your name? William Chow. He's right about he made a comment about you make decisions and there's consequences to it. But you cannot know what a cop is going to do. All you can know is what they can do. If you consent to a cop searching your vehicle in Texas the law for possession of marijuana is any useful amount. I could have five useful amounts underneath my fingernails and it could pop into the carpet of your car and it reaches it and pulls that out and that's what the class would be missing me. I've seen charged they do it all the time. I personally will never consent to a search in my car and I won't let a cop in my house unless they've got a search warrant or an arrest warrant. I won't even open the door for them. You don't have a duty to open the door to a cop without a warrant. Now this what you're going to see is a DWI stop but all the rules that are shown in this video work for an encounter, any kind of encounter in your house, anyway. You just take the DWI questions out of it and I follow these rules religiously. Don't leave it. Who chose that? Sorry, I don't have any questions. Not enough of your attitude.  I will just show you how to heal the end of DWI stop and any other chase in the house. Don't answer questions and do not consent to a search when dealing with a cop in a tub or eating by the truck Dennis the cop's just like two real Dennis in in charge call me and you just want two real Dennis in the ring only an improvement. It's not always do that. It's very intimidating when you're talking to an officer but we want to give you the strength to know that you have the right to invoke your right and how do you do that? You do that by telling them I'm sorry it's okay. You can cooperate with a police officer but that doesn't mean you have to answer any questions you have a little thing that he wants. Okay?  What are they going to do if you take these sobriety tests or design and cause you to lose your balance and they're going to say you're intoxicated because that you're going to end up under arrest, right? What's going to happen if you say no I'm not going to take those tests you're going to end up under arrest. What we're trying to make you understand is you will live through the experience it's traumatic but I hope that everybody will do is when we get stopped by a police officer it is our we want to go home alive we want to go home.  So what I hope that everybody will have the strength to do is instead of making decisions for that short term thing to try to go home tonight make long term decisions if you're praying for your long term defense what you do is going to be different than if you're trying to talk a police officer to let you go home if you and I both know you're never going to talk into it because what do they get paid to do? Arrest people I don't think it's just about whether they're doing their job you didn't make any arrests what do you have to do with it? So make your decisions not based on the moment and try to achieve a result that you're probably not going to get they've already decided if they're going to arrest you it doesn't matter what you say you're doing you're going make your decisions in a way that your longer defense is you beat this rap because you're not guilty or whatever and that's another thing that everybody talks about guilty people exercise their rights you don't do anything to hide you don't lie to search no, your rights are not tied to guilt or innocence they have nothing to do with whether you are guilty of innocence they are your constitutional rights our citizens have fought and served and died so you have these rights and I hope that we can teach everybody how to make it happen in their own personal life that you exercise these rights it will stop certain things from happening but one thing I do want to clarify on the video is it talked about the best way to exercise your right to remain silent is to remain silent and that makes such common sense doesn't it? but as you and I know the people that make all the rules up to the Supreme Court sometimes we agree with that they had come down with a rule and it says well, if I invoke your right to remain silent if you just remain silent the order to actually invoke your right and the protections that it will provide you you actually have to speak you have to say want to remain silent so I encourage you always the two things you need to say to the police officer I want an attorney and I want to remain silent and then please do remain silent please if you start talking to the police officer again you have waited your right okay? so don't answer questions tell them I want an attorney everybody say that don't say I want my attorney you're not Tony Sopran oh you don't have that I want an attorney I'll remain silent I'll remain silent and then do it these rights don't attach to you until you're under custodial arrest I don't know what you guys try to figure out when you're under custodial arrest it's a little legal twist we do okay? don't try to figure that out know your rights and I don't care that you don't have the right to invoke them yet you just keep invoking them okay? you do it because it's your right and stand strong and don't be afraid because you can call us Natasha you can call me you can call Mr. Shaw and we will help you in court and we will fight for you I'm here today because I believe that we all need to stand up for our lives until we do we will not be able to stop this over run and overreach of government and police and everybody so please don't hesitate to call us if you have questions okay? I think the last it was one of the things that I was concerned about the fact that it was my brain that look what I want you to come around with those two things don't answer their questions it's not going to get you out of trouble and you don't know what you might say that will cause trouble what they'll switch oh the last thing everybody's talked about video did you see something happening? video tape it to you please because that's going to be our saving grace because we can prove what really happened not just what somebody besides the court that has so much BS we can have an actual video so pretend there's a video on you at all times hope there's a body here hope there's a dash camera the police know it's there don't play your game you're not going to win their game on the street you play your game you behave like you want a jury to see you not where the cop was going to see you okay? and you're going to win at the end alright thank you let's do this because we practically ran out of time let me explain what I'm going to do if I ever get a trouble again I'm going to call all the lawyers that were here for a great big legal case because it sounds like we'll win that case so let me do this why don't we do some questions and answers we can still do that why don't we do that on an individual basis let's do it that way


Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to recover data from a virtual machine of Parallels Hypervisor, how to create and configure a virtual machine with a Windows operating system in macOS. Parallels Desktop for Mac is a virtualization tool for macOS operating system. This virtualization software lets you run various operating systems inside macOS, as well as specific programs designed for such operating systems. This way, you can run Windows or Linux as an app. Parallels Desktop creates a virtual disk image inside macOS operating system. During the work, these files may get damaged or so it becomes impossible to run the virtual machine. If that's the case, there is a question to answer – how to recover data from HDD and HDS files? In a moment, I'll show you how to create a virtual machine. For example, we'll create a machine with Windows operating system and then it will explore which software tool is the best to recover data from HDD and HDS virtual machine files. If you have never worked with Parallels Desktop before, you need to download it first. It is available in App Store or from the official website. After that, you need to download Windows. This can be done from the program itself or by downloading an original ISO image from the Microsoft website and creating a bootable USB drive. Start the program and choose the installation method. Get Windows from Microsoft, install the operating system from a disk or USB stick or transfer Windows from another computer. And then click Continue. Then select a corresponding image, uncheck the option for entering the license scheme, choose the addition, give the name of the virtual machine and the password to save its files. And then click Create. After that, the download will start and the operating system will be installed. Just follow the wizard directions. It's the same as if you were installing Windows on a computer. Check our channel for a detailed video tutorial about installing Windows and you can find the link in the description below. When this process is over, the computer will reboot and it's ready to use. To access advanced settings, click on the gear wheel in the Parallels Control Center. In hardware settings, you can change the hard disk size, create a new one, change its type, enable or disable the train feature. Use the Backup tab to configure snapshot settings. The snapshot is a fixed state of the guest operating system saved in a certain point of time. Snapshots can be taken manually or automatically while the virtual machine is running. To take a snapshot, open the Actions tab, take Snapshot. In the window that opens, give the snapshot a name and click OK. When the snapshot is taken, you can continue working with the virtual machine and go back to the state saved in this snapshot at any time. To go back, open the Actions tab and click Revert to Snapshot. Here you can choose if you want to take another snapshot to save the current state of the virtual machine or go back to the previous snapshot without saving. By reverting to a snapshot, you can restore your machine to the state it was in at that time when the snapshot was taken. This way, you can recover any files accidentally removed from the virtual machine or cancel the settings after which the machine refused to boot properly. These steps don't help, and the virtual machine displays errors when trying to boot, and all your data is inaccessible. You can still restore your lost files with a special tool – Hetman Partition Recovery. It supports all popular file system formats and it can help you restore data after deleting, formatting, and hardware or software errors, and in many other situations that involve loss of data. In order to recover data, you need to find where the virtual machine files are stored.  After that, upload the files to the program and scan the virtual hard disk. By default, this is the path to the virtual machine files. The virtual machine files are in the Parallels folder. If you can't find them in the default directory, right-click on the machine and select Show Finder. This is how you can locate the folder containing the virtual machine files. After that, you need to transfer the files to a Windows computer. For example, this can be done over the network. To let a Windows PC access a Mac, you should change some network settings. Click on the Apple icon and open System Preferences. Go to Sharing. Check the box next to File Sharing. Then Options. Choose the SMB option and the user. Then add the folder containing the virtual machine files to your shared folders. Click on the plus button, shoot the path to the folder, click Add, and then set permissions for the user you need. Now you can connect the Mac from a Windows computer over the network and copy the virtual machine files. Run Hetman Partition Recovery and begin recovery operations. First of all, you need to mount virtual hard disks. In the Programs window, open the Tools tab and choose Mount Disk. There are two ways to mount it. Choose a raw disk image if necessary or choose virtual machines. You can see the list of files and tools that our program supports. Check the required image type. In my case, this is Parallels files, give the path to the folder containing virtual hard disk files that you have copied from the Mac, and click Select Folder. Also, you can mount disks right over the network without copying them to the computer's hard disk. To do it, just give the network path to the files on the Mac device and then click Select Folder. The program will display all virtual machine files which exist in such folder. The disk file which is currently in use by the virtual machine will be marked as Active. Snapshot files are marked as Snapshot 1 and Snapshot 2. If the virtual machine has several disks, the second disk will have its own name and an Active Disk file and its own Snapshot files. Check the boxes for the disks from which you would like to recover data and click to continue. They will appear in the programs window. To begin searching for data, right-click on the disk and choose Open. Then choose Analysis Tag, where you command starting with Fast Scan. If the program can't find the missing files, then go for Full Analysis. The program now displays all the files it has found on its disk. The Red Cross indicates the ones which have been deleted. Click on a file to see its contents in the preview window. If you know the names of the files you are looking for, use the quick search feature to locate them in a second. Now select the files you want to restore, click Recovery, specify the disk where you'd like to save the files, and click Recovery again. With Hetman Partition Recovery, you will also be able to restore virtual hard disk files – PVM, HDD, HDS, if they were damaged or accidentally removed. Visit our channel for a detailed video tutorial on data recovery from macOS. Just check the link below. And that is all for now. Hopefully, this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck. While you are watching this video, civilians in Ukraine are dying from attacks in bombardments of the Russian Federation. Putin's insane regime has attacked a peaceful country in the very heart of the world. Support the Ukrainian army by making a contribution to the font Come Back Alive. Use the QR code or the link below the video to transfer any amount of money that will boost the Ukrainian resistance and help it counter Russia's desirable invasion.


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