Amen. Joshua chapter 16 is a short chapter, but it's talking about the children or the inheritance of Joseph. So that's what we're going to look at this evening is we're going to look at some details about Joseph's family and one thing first of all, you'll notice is Joseph is a little bit of a unique situation. If you read through the Old Testament, you read through the inheritance and when the children of Israel settled the land, you hardly hear about the tribe of Joseph. Instead, you will hear about the tribe of Ephraim and the tribe of Manasseh, which we've already heard several things about. Looking down at Joshua chapter 16 and verse number one, so we'll explore that this evening and look at why exactly that is, how that came about to be and see what we can take from that. There's a lot of pictures that we can take from that situation towards our own lives and towards the situation that we find ourselves in today. Look at verse number one. And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, under the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that go up from Jericho through Mount Bethel and go up from Bethel to Luz and passed along under the borders of Archi to Adaroth and go it down westward to the coast of Jefleti, unto the coast of Bethhoran, to the nether, and to Gezer, and to the goings out there thereof at the sea. When you talk about the sea, it's talking about the sea on the west side, which would be the Mediterranean sea. So the children of Joseph, so now we get into this, the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim took their inheritance. So that's the only tribe that you'll see, Joseph, where his children actually got the inheritance. So he's a unique situation. The tribe of Joseph is not really given an inheritance. Instead, it went to these two sons of Joseph, turned to Genesis chapter 49. And let's look at that. Jacob, of course, gave a blessing to all his children in Genesis chapter 49. And in Genesis chapter 49, let's look at the blessing that Joseph received first, and then we'll go into his children. So in Genesis chapter 49, Jacob is once again, he's blessing his children. And look at verse 22, is where the beginning of Joseph's blessing becomes. Joseph, the Bible says, in verse 22 of Genesis 49, is a fruitful bow.  The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him. So this is talking about the trouble that Joseph had in his life. Joseph had a very troubled life. And of course, you know, I don't know if it's a literal, it's interesting that it brings up a well right at the beginning here in verse number 22. Because if you remember, Joseph's brothers actually threw him into a well. Look at Genesis chapter 37. He had much trouble in his life beginning with what his brothers did to him. So Joseph was the second youngest son of Jacob. The only other youngest son of Jacob was Benjamin. So basically, he was the second to last son of Jacob. And look at Genesis chapter 37 in verse number 3. The Bible says this. It says, now Israel, this is Jacob. This is Jacob's name was changed to Israel, if you remember. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. Because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors. So Israel, Jacob, he favored Joseph. He favored Joseph over all the older boys. It was the son of his old age. You know, he was kind of, I don't know if you've ever heard of this pattern, but the youngest is always spoiled. This is kind of what you're seeing here. The youngest kind of gets the easiest out of the, you know, if you're the youngest child, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about. But the youngest is usually the one that is spoiled, because parents, I don't know why they do this. I probably do it as well. But the youngest kind of gets the easiest way. And in this case, Israel, Jacob literally just favored Joseph over the others. And look what happened. Look what happened out of that. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him. So if it turns into something like favoritism, that could be a real problem. I mean, just that's just kind of a side note. Favoritism with your children is never a good thing, folks. First of all, it's a selfish thing for a parent to do, all right?  That could be one reason for it.  But look, it will affect what the Bible here is showing us is that it will actually affect their relationship with their siblings. So you could be actually hurting the relationship that your children have with each other when you're dead and gone. Think about it that way when you think about favoring your children. So don't do it. Don't do it. You must go to great lengths to not favor one over the other. And I mean, I put my wife and I, this is something that, you know, I'm not sure why my parents really stress this, that they provided everything for one that they would provide for the other. My wife also has this mind about her. But here's the thing, much thought in my family goes to not favoring one child over the other. Meaning, you know, we're not going to give an advantage to one child that we wouldn't give to the other child.  And, you know, that's not going to look the same.  My thought is this. I have, because I really don't like, I really don't like the word equality. Because it's just, it always goes bad. The word equality is just, it always ends up bad. So look, things are not going to be equal when it comes to, especially raising boys and girls. But the goals for my children are the same. The goals that I have for my children are the same. They're the same for the boys and they're the same for the girls. I'm not going to get into the details of that. But the thing is, the path for the girls may be different than the path for the boys. But the goals, I am going to support my children in those goals, whether they be girls or boys in our family. So supporting them in those goals, it's super important that you do that with the same amount of effort as you do for all your children. And, you know, so we see just kind of an example here. It's not the point that we're going to get to in this room. We see an example of favoritism gone wrong with Joseph. So his, his brothers literally hated him. And we're not saying that's the right thing to do either. His brothers hated him because their father loved him more than them. Let's go back to the story. Look at verse 18 of Genesis 37. Back to the arrows. Remember the arrows that the blessing was talking about. Verse 18. And when they saw him afar off, this is talking about Joseph, the brother saw him, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.  And they said one to another, behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit. And he will say some, and we will say some evil beast that devoured him. We shall see what would become of his dreams. And Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands and said, let us not kill him. And Reuben said unto him, shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness and lay no hand upon him that he might, they might rid him out of their hands to deliver him to his father again. And it came to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren, they stripped him out of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him. And they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty, there was no water in it. So this is kind of why I think that the well of verse 22 of the prophet or the blessing that Jacob was giving is this pit. It's a water hole of some kind. There was no water in it. And they sat down to eat bread.  And behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spice theory and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. And Judah said unto his brethren, what profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and let our hand not be upon him, for he's our brother in our flesh and his brethren were content. So Judah kind of, you know, saves him here. He kind of saves him by being clever and saying, hey, let's sell him. And at least we can get some money that way. So they basically take their brother. They were going to kill him. And instead they have mercy and they sell him into slavery.  Then of course the story goes he was sold to Potiphar, who was, you know, kind of a leader in Pharaoh's house. And then of course Potiphar's wife falsely accused Joseph of, you know, coming after her and he goes to prison for a couple of years. So Joseph's life had much trouble.  Go back to Genesis 49. Go back to Genesis 49.  He gets himself out of prison. He interprets some dreams for Pharaoh. We know how that turns out. He ends up being a great blessing to his very family that was in famine at that time and brings them to Egypt and actually ends up saving his family. So look at Genesis 49 and verse 24. But his bow abode in strength. And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel. So this is saying in verse 24, as Jacob is blessing Joseph, he's saying, but you remain strong.  And you remain strong through all of that. Look at verse 25. Even by the God of thy father who shall help thee, and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lie thundered, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be upon the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. The blessings of Joseph, literally he was separated from his brethren, but literally the blessings of Joseph saved the rest of his brethren in the story. Go back to Joshua chapter 16. So that is the story of Jacob's troubles and Jacob's strength and the blessing that, I'm sorry, Joseph's troubles and Joseph's strength in the blessing that Jacob gave him. Now look at Joshua chapter 16. Look at verse number five. And the border of the children of Ephraim. Now we're not talking about Joseph anymore. Now we're talking about Ephraim. According to their families was thus, even to the border of the inheritance on the east side, unto Athorathadar, unto Bethhoron the upper, and the border went out to the sea to MacMethah on the north side, and the border went about to the eastward, onto Tannath Shiloh and passed it by the east to Janoaha. And it went from Janoaha to Adorath to Nairath and came to Jericho and went out to Jordan. The border went out from Tapua westward onto the river Kana and the goings out thereof were at the sea, talking about that river flows into the Mediterranean Sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of children of Ephraim by their families. And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. And they draved not out the Canaanites that dwell in Giza, but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and serve under tribute. So the land of Ephraim in Manasseh looks like this. You have basically Judah in the south, and then you have just above Judah, you have a little strip of Benjamin, which is one of the reasons that Benjamin was part of the lower nation or the southern kingdom of Judah. And then right above that you have Ephraim. So Ephraim was the border city or the border nation of the northern kingdom of Israel with Judah. So if you remember and you read about in the kings, when you have the northern kings and the southern kings, and there's wars against the two, many times it would just refer to the northern kingdom of Israel as just Ephraim, because that is the nation that is directly on the border of Judah when it came to warring with the northern kingdom of Israel and Judah. So go back to Genesis chapter 48. So really there's no tribe of Joseph when it comes to the inherited land. It's only this Ephraim and Manasseh, and then right above Ephraim is Manasseh's land. So you have Ephraim and Manasseh, and then Manasseh of course had land on both sides of the Jordan. Go back to Genesis 48. So now we're in one chapter before Jacob's blessing to Joseph. So this is a unique situation where Joseph's inheritance was really given to his two sons, so he got a double inheritance. And let's look at what the Bible says in Genesis chapter 48. And Israel stretched out his right hand.  Because of the situation that Joseph was in and what Joseph had done for his family, for his brothers, for his father, when Jacob was old or Israel as he is called here. And he's giving this blessing to Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. And look what the Bible says in verse 14. And Israel stretched out his right hand, remember that, and laid it on Ephraim's head. Who was the younger?  For Manasseh was the firstborn. So he's saying he purposely, wittingly means he knew what he was doing. It means he did this on purpose. And the right hand goes on the youngest and the left hand goes on the oldest. Look at verse 15.  The angel which redeemed me from all evil blessed the lads and let my name be named on them. In the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. Why?  And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put thy right hand upon his head. And his father refused and said, I know it, my sons. He knew what he was doing. I know it. He shall also become a people and he shall also be great. But truly his younger brother shall be greater than he.  And he blessed them that day saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.  Moreover, I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren. Now he's talking to Joseph and he's saying, I'm giving you two portions, one for each of these boys, which I took out of the land of the Amorite with my sword and my bow. So Joseph got a double portion for his sons. That's number one. And the younger was given the blessing of the birthright blessing over the older. So it was kind of reversed in that way. So that's kind of the main point this evening. You say, why is it? He did that on purpose. Why is that? It's a picture for us. That's why that is. And it's a common theme throughout the Bible. What's the common theme of rejecting the firstborn? Rejecting the firstborn is a common theme throughout the Bible. Go to Genesis chapter 25. Even just one generation back, just one generation back with Esau and Jacob. We see the same thing happen, albeit it was, you know, some sneaky circumstances, but the same thing happened. It's a picture. God is trying to show us something here. And let's see if we can figure out what that is this evening. Look at Genesis chapter 25 and verse 29. The Bible says in Jacob sawed Pottage and Esau came from the field and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee, with that same red Pottage for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom. So Jacob is, he's at home and he's cooking. All right? He's cooking stew or Pottage, as the Bible says. And Esau is out in the field and we'll find out later that Esau, you know, he's a hunter and he's out in the field and he must have been out there for a while because he was faint and he must have been very hungry because in verse number 31, Jacob takes advantage of that and Jacob said, sell me this day thy birthright. See, Esau was the older child. Esau was the older child, meaning he is to get a double portion of the inheritance and he is to get the greater blessing from his father. And Jacob here says, sell me your birthright, sell me your inheritance as the oldest son. And Esau said, behold, I am at the point to die. And what profit shall this birthright do to me?  And he sold his birthright onto Jacob for a cup of soup. He sold his birthright. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and Pottage of lentils and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. Yes, Jacob did a bad thing, but Esau apparently didn't value his birthright is what the Bible is saying here. He didn't have any value to him, he just sold it for a cup of soup. So Esau, it's interesting because Esau, you know, he was a really hard worker and we'll see that, you know, as he went out and he was a hunter, we'll see that later in the Bible. But look, that may be, you know, just another side note here, that may be his downfall. We talk a lot about that in this church, you know, talking about, you know, working hard and going out and just earning a living and doing all this. But look, you know, many people, especially unsaved people, many people, the fact that they're such a hard worker and that they might be, they're a, I'm a self-made man, you know, this could actually keep people, that pride could keep people from salvation. When you think about it that way. So being a hard worker is good, but don't begin trusting in yourself. Don't begin trusting in your own hard work. I remember, I think I told you this door, but I remember I worked for a man when I was younger and this man was, was a devout Catholic and I worked for him and he was a very hard worker. And I remember he was a very devout Catholic person and it surprised me that he would say this, but he'd say, God doesn't put food on my table. I do.  That was a stumbling block to him because he was trusting in himself, in his work. So don't trust in yourself. Don't get, it can even make a saved person proud. It's good to do, but we always must trust in the Lord. So he sold his birthright for a bowl of soup. Go back to Genesis chapter 27. Genesis chapter 27, just a couple pages or a couple chapters over, and we'll see now Jacob steals the blessing from him too. He stole the, the birthright. He's going to trick the blessing out of him too. So basically Esau goes out hunting. Jacob says, you know, I'm going to, or Isaac, I'm sorry.    He's old. He's blind. So they're going to steal the blessing from Esau. Look at verse number 33 of Genesis 27. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly and said, who, where is he that had taken venison and brought it me? And I've eaten of it all before thou came us and blessed him. Yay. And he shall be blessed. This has already happened. So Jacob has already come in and he has already stolen the blessing. You know, his mom, Rebecca, dressed him up to be, to feel like a hairy man. He's already tricked him. And now Esau is finding out what's happened after he came back from hunting. And Esau heard the words of his father and he cried with a great exceeding bitter cry and said, into his father, bless me, even me also, oh my father. He says, no, no, no. He's like, give me the blessing. It was wrong. And he said, is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright and behold, now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, hest thou not reserved a blessing for me? He's like, is there nothing else for me? Esau says. And Isaac answered and said to Esau, behold, I have made him thy Lord. And all his brethren, have I given to him for servants? And with corn and wine have I sustained him? And what shall I do now unto thee, my son? So he says, look, I've given him the blessing. He's like, you're going to serve is what he says. So basically, Jacob tricks Esau again here and he tricks Isaac and him and his mom, Rebecca, they conspire to steal the blessing from Esau. Turn to Romans chapter nine. Turn to Romans chapter nine. So Jacob, here we have again, again, we have this story where the younger receives the birthright and the blessing over the older. It's kind of, it's switched just like Ephraim over Manasseh. Look at Romans chapter nine and verse number 12. Romans chapter nine and verse number 12. And it was said unto her, speaking about Esau and Jacob, it was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. Again, the story we just read in verse number 13, as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Speaking about the prophecy of these two nations that these men would, would create or this would come from. It's a prophecy of which nation God chooses to carry the people into the promised land. The nation that God chooses that, you know, which nation the Messiah will come from.  Turn to Genesis chapter four. There's another example of this in the Bible. There's another example of the younger getting blessed over the older. Look at Genesis chapter four and verse number one. We see the story of Cain and Abel. Cain and Abel. Look at verse number one of Genesis chapter four. Genesis chapter four. And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and bear Cain. So Cain was the oldest and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord and she again bear his brother Abel. Now he's the youngest and Abel was a keeper of the sheep. But Cain was a tiller of the ground. Look down at verse number three. And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of the flock and the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering. But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, why art thou wroth and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well shall thou not be accepted? If thou doest not well sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shall rule over him. So Abel brought a blood sacrifice. Turn to Leviticus chapter 17 and look at verse number 11. Abel brought a sacrifice of the animals that he was raising, the firstlings of his flock. Look at Leviticus chapter 17. Leviticus chapter 17 and look at verse number 11. This is a super important verse in the Bible. You should highlight this or put a bracket around this verse in the Bible. This is a hugely important verse that ties a lot of doctrine in the Bible together. In Leviticus chapter 17, look at verse number 11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I've given it unto you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. This is a super key verse for us right here. It is all about the blood. It must be blood. Look, it's all about, and look the blood of bulls and goats didn't take away their sins, but it was a picture of the coming sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And that shows us that it is the blood of Jesus that covers our sins and that takes away our sins. So that is the problem with turn to Genesis chapter 3. So that is the problem with Abel or with Cain's sacrifice. Go to Genesis chapter 3. Go to Genesis chapter 3 and look at verse number 17. Because what Cain did was instead of bringing an animal sacrifice, what he did in verse, look at verse number 17. On the judgment of man where the Bible says, And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and as eaten of the tree, which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake.  Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it was thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou return. He is showing them how hard it is going to be, how much work that they are going to have to put in to till the ground to grow food to eat here is what he's telling. So that is what Cain brought. Cain brought the fruit of his own labor is what he brought, symbolizing his own work, the sweat of his own face. Look, farming even today is hard. It's hard work. And God, he brought a sacrifice, symboling his own work, and God rejected that sacrifice, as he will reject that sacrifice from anybody at all time. Turn back to Romans chapter 9. He will reject the sacrifice of your own work no matter how hard you have worked. He will reject that sacrifice from anyone always. Now, let's think about this in the perspective. So we see that the youngest, there's this symbolism of the youngest getting the inheritance or the blessing or the birthright over the oldest. And we see this again and again in the Old Testament. Let's look at nations. Let's look at nations. Israel was the firstborn nation. Israel was the firstborn nation, but they are not the chosen. It is the same with Israel for the same. And guess what? It's for the same reason that Cain's sacrifice was not accepted. Look at Romans chapter 9 and look at verse number 30. Romans chapter 9 and verse number 30. The Bible says, What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, hath attained a righteousness. Even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. So that's interesting because Israel had fallen into, you know, a works-based salvation. They had fallen into, you know, following the law for their salvation. Now look, like there's two ways to heaven, right? Faith and never sin. But, you know, good luck on the second one. So they had not attained. They were following the law for righteousness. Look, if you're going to follow the law for righteousness, you better be righteous. But there's none righteous. That's the problem. So they followed the law of righteousness, but they had not attained. They had not attained. We can't attain to it. We better find a different way. But they had not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore, because they sought it not by faith, but as it were the works of the law, they stumbled at that stumbling stone. Look, if you think that you're going to work your way to heaven, you're going to stumble. You're going to stumble at that stumbling stone. So Israel had started to trust the law. They had started, they fell into works-based salvation. And the Gentiles, they received salvation by faith, not by the works of the law. And thus they will receive the birthright. Anyone that seeks Christ through faith in him will receive the birthright. We are the chosen. Anybody that seeks Christ through faith is the chosen. But we were not the firstborn. We were not the firstborn. Look at Matthew chapter 20. Go to Matthew chapter 20. Look, this works for individuals and this also is a picture for nations. It's also a picture for nations. Look at Matthew chapter 20, one of my favorite parables in the Bible. Look at Matthew chapter 20. We're going to read this parable, Matthew chapter 20. Look at verse number one. The Bible says, for the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And when they had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. So right away at the beginning of the day, he agreed that he'll pay them a penny a day. And he went about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. So the third hour, nine o'clock in the morning. So a day starts at six in the morning, by the way. Six in the morning the day starts and nine a.m. on the third hour, he goes out and he's looking for more workers. And he went out and he sent it to them. Go also into the vineyard. Whatever is right, I will give you. And they went their way. So he didn't even tell them what they're going to get, what they're going to get paid.  And he went about the sixth hour, which is noon and the ninth hour, which is three o'clock. And he didn't likewise. And about the eleventh hour, which is five o'clock, he went out and he found others standing idle. And he says unto them, why stand ye here all day idle? That's a great question, by the way, but I'm not going to get into that. So what are you just standing around for?  He said unto them, go also into the vineyard. And whatsoever is right, that ye shall receive. So when even was come, and the Lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, call the laborers and give them their hire. Beginning from the last unto the first, when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. So this is a super interesting story. So first of all, the only people he told was getting a penny a day was the first people that he hired at six o'clock in the morning.   So now they come back in, and who gets paid first? But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received, but they that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. He starts paying the guys that started working the last, he pays them first. And what does he give them? He gives them the same thing that the people that were first, that had agreed that they made the full price, the full price of a day's work, he gives the people at the eleventh hour, and he gives it to them first. And right away, what do we see happen? But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more, and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house. So it's interesting here that the worst people here, the worst actors, the people that are murmuring and causing trouble, the worst people were the ones that started and agreed for a penny a day. They were the first. The first were the worst in this story. That's interesting. And you know what? You'll see that. You'll also see that with Esau, you'll see it with Manasseh, and you definitely see it with Cain. They were the worst. They were the worst. Okay, maybe I'm being a little bit hard on Manasseh, but Joseph was pulling from Manasseh. He was saying, no, no, he deserves. Put your hand on him. Put your hand on him. Where Esau, he was, you know, he was angry and bitter over the whole thing, but he despised his own birthright. Nobody forced him to do what he did. So the worst, the worst were the first, and it's because they thought that they deserved more. That's why they were the worst, because they just thought that they deserved more. Look, the deal was fulfilled here. Nobody did anything wrong here. They were promised a penny, and they got a penny. But they were the worst out of all the groups of people. They said, these last have wrought but one hour, and now has made them equal unto us. Which have borne, see, there's equal. Equal is always like a bad word. Thou hath made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the heat of the day. But he answered one of them and said, friend, I did thee no wrong. Dis that now agree with me for a penny?  It is not lawful for me to do with what I will with my own. Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last, for many be called, but few chosen. And there's the salvation lesson right there. There's the salvation lesson. So first of all, it applies to the nations, because the first is going to be last. You know why it's really hard to get a Jew saved? Because they think they're the first. What they need to be saved, just like everybody else. But they think they're the first. They think they're the first. It's super hard to get past that. It's super hard to get past that pride. And look, here's the thing. Somebody that's 89 years old and on their dying breath that accepts Jesus Christ is going to the same heaven that you are. They're getting a penny. They're getting a penny. And you know what? God says it's mine to give. And I'll give it to who I want. Look, it's all the same. Apostate Christianity today is all the same. It's all these people saying, look at how hard we've worked. Look at all the great things that we're doing. It's all the same. It's just different forms of works-based salvation. That's all it is. I mean, all the apostate Christianity today, the Catholics. I mean, we just met one today. Who was I with? Brother Francisco. Just like, I know I'm, you know, I'm the first.  That's what he was saying to us. It's like, I'm the first.  Because I'm Catholic. Who are you? You know, that's the American Catholic right there. Super prideful. You won't see that in the Filipino Catholic and Catholics, other places in the world. You know, you see some more humility there, which is why they're so easy to give the gospel to. But boy, there's some proud apostate Christians today. And it's going to keep them. Look, they think they're the first. They think they're the first, but they're relying on the sweat of their face. They're relying on the fruit of the ground that they've harvest themselves. And look, it's going to be rejected. It's going to be rejected. The Protestants are no different. It's veiled works. It's even worse. It still works, but it's veiled works through the idea that you can lose your salvation. Working to get it or working to keep it is the same thing, folks. There's no, there's no logical difference there. The trust is still in yourself. The trust is still in your own works, but the Protestants, they're so twisted up that they'll sit there and they'll tell you, yeah, it's believe in Jesus and then get baptized and walk. We met this one today too. Get baptized and walk and walk the walk and live that life and follow the Bible and all this. And I'm like, who are you trusting in? Jesus. That's how twisted up the Protestant is today. You know, I mean, I'd rather, you know, it's much easier to get through to a Catholic with the Bible in many, many cases than it is Protestants because of that reason. They're so twisted up. They're like, you got to do right. You got to get baptized. You got to go to church. You got to do all these things. You can't turn away from God. You got to live a good life and all this. But who are you trusting in? Jesus. It's crazy. It's crazy. It's like they've been brainwashed. But look, you can see this in action. You can see this birthright in this idea that the firstborn thinks that they deserve the birthright. You can see it out in action soul winning every single time you go. But look, it's the birthright and the blessing. It only comes through faith is what the Bible is teaching us here. It doesn't come through your own works. And that is the picture that is the picture of what the Bible is showing us when the first is the last and the last is the first. When you see that every single time in the Old Testament, it's a picture of us. It's a picture of Jesus. It's a picture of salvation itself in the Bible. I thank God for that picture. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


e ran through a number of the quotes as well which were very trenchant and telling in which I won't repeat so if we have this problem Mr Scott I think made an important point that the cabinet secretary and the Government are obliged to try and respond to this I mean for the obvious reason that they're responsible for our education system but also because Education Scotland and the SQA are both in a sense creatures of this Government Education Scotland was formed as a body by the SNP Government and although the SQA of course predates any SNP administration the exam system which has caused so much difficulty does not so it is important that the cabinet secretary listens to the evidence of the committee and acts on it his governance review yes refers to Education Scotland and the SQA but rather peripherally peripherally and in closing I just want to say to Mr McGregor who asked us to be positive in her scrutiny that the body which came out of the committee's work most positively was the Scottish funding council and yet that's a body that the Scottish Government proposes to abolish a move which is supported by nobody it's not supported by universities colleges by students or indeed by staff in those bodies it is a manifestation of a very narrow utilitarian view of what our universities and colleges are about so it is an important debate but it's important lies in the degree to which the cabinet secretary listens to the debate and changes direction in his reforms today Ross Thomson, I'd appreciate brevity please thank you deputy Presiding Officer and I would also like to extend my own thanks to the Education and Skills Committee convener for opening this debate and to recognise the contribution of all committee members who since may have worked extremely well together to scrutinise the public bodies and agencies responsible for delivering Scottish education and the thrusts of my own contribution will be in relation to SQA in Education Scotland I alongside Fulton McGregor had the opportunity to visit the SQA in Glasgow to discuss a range of issues with officials prior to our formal evidence session on the 23rd of November this was extremely helpful and from both this visit and the evidence that the committee heard from Dr Janet Brown it's quite clear that with the SQA going through an intense period of assessment redesign for diet 18 on top of their programme of transformation which is above the commercial activity that undertake and of course above business as usual that there are quite serious issues regarding resources in answering my question on this very issue Dr Brown confirmed that the SQA and I quote fully expect to require additional resources and that in developing and delivering the new qualifications it will be a challenge to engage with teachers the very people we expect to deliver qualifications now as Daniel Johnson and Ross Greer mentioned in their contributions this comes at a time when the committee has received a substantial body of evidence from teachers that effective communication from the SQA is all ready poor and that there has been a clear breakdown in trust one submission stated and I quote I'm afraid that my current experience of the SQA is almost entirely negative documentation is highly complex repetitive and difficult to access to quote my committee colleague Joanne Lamont the SQA are living in a parallel universe if they think they have any strong working relationship with teachers similarly in responding to education committee's survey a majority of teachers express the view that education Scotland does not improve schooling that either contributed not at all or a little to build a world class curriculum improving performance or promoting high quality professional learning the committee evidence has pointed to teachers being swamped in guidance and documentation one teacher cited 81 pages of guidance across five different documents across three different websites the amount of bureaucracy has caused committee members to warn the SQA is in danger of sinking any sea of jargon this is almost identical to the concerns raised in relation to education Scotland prompting action to remove 90% of 20,000 pages of examples and case studies in a move to reduce and clarify guidance further there was serious concern from teachers that some exams were the worst they had ever seen mistakes and inaccuracies plague the national five computing exams higher maths higher geography and in his evidence the committee on 2 November the cabinet secretary for education and skills stated that it is intolerable that there are errors in exam papers Dr Janet Brown stated we should not have errors in our exam papers yet these errors are happening teachers raised real concern with the committee that there have been so many mistakes from the exam to the UASP and we no longer trust anything that comes from the SQA now it has been touched in contributions particularly by Fulton McGregor in relation to that and I have to draw a slightly different conclusion with regard to exams overall because there is powerful and consistent criticism from teachers that there is actually a lack of effective scrutiny and transparency the SQA believe that these mistakes are happening because people are working extremely hard and that's a quote and that there is a need for the SQA to have and again I quote appropriate engagements and institutions in place to improve quality assurance from the evidence is quite clear that both resource issues and failings in leadership need to be addressed fundamentally the fact is that the SQA and Education Scotland have lost the trust and the confidence of teachers and this should raise the most serious of concerns for all of us if teachers don't have faith in them how on earth can we expect parents to and to have faith in education system that delivers quality education to their children I would like to make progress because I've got a tight six minutes this highlights the urgency of action and intervention which is needed to restore that trust and confidence Deputy Presiding Officer the committee's work since May has uncovered a number of serious issues which require urgent resolution if we are going to collectively meet our ambition to narrow the attainment gap and provide the best possible education to our young people then there is a lot of work to do and it's clear that the committee is playing a critical and constructive role in this on-going debate now it could not be clearer that the decisions that are going to have to be taken they must be based on a sound foundation of evidence a point that was extremely well made by Ross Greer during his own contribution on the SFC and the Scottish Government's enterprise and skills review so those of us on these benches look forward to continuing to work in a constructive manner to put forward new ideas and that is why we will be supporting the motion in the name of the convener today thank you Deputy Presiding Officer thank you I call John Swinney up to eight minutes please cabinet secretary Presiding Officer three of my colleagues have made important points in this debate about the narrative that is underpinning this debate and the importance of ensuring that that narrative is correctly and effectively ascribed because there are consequences of what members of Parliament say in parliamentary debates and implications in a wider audience Gillian Martin I think quite rightly and fairly raised the comment that Willie Rennie made at First Minister's question time that his quote was that our schools are in crisis I utterly refute that point totally refute that point and I'm glad Gillian Martin called them out for it Jenny Garuth talked about the fact that as we're having this debate looking at all of these issues others are preparing for their prelims or are setting coursework and taking forward important judgments on these points and Richard Lochhead made the point that at the same time as we're having this debate there will be local authorities in the country trying to recruit teachers to fill the vacancies that I acknowledge we have in schools around the country and does it look like an attractive profession to come into when some of the narrative is as negative as it is? And I have to say, Mr Johnson Mr Gray highlighted Mr Gray said that I had heroically mined all sorts of things to come up with data and yes, I've presented data which is representative of Scottish education today because I also to complete the picture and I said it in my speech I made two statements to Parliament before the Christmas recess about the piece of statistics and also about the performance data which I acknowledged was uncomfortable reading but Mr Johnson's characterisation of Scottish education was atrocious in what he said today and I'm all for a balanced and fair debate about it but I invite members to make a considered contribution Mr Thomson has just talked about making effective scrutiny and I'm all for effective scrutiny I can take criticism I've taken criticism in this place for nine and a half years as a minister but we've got to be conscious of the consequences and implications of what members of Parliament say about the implications in a wider audience I'll take Mr Johnson first since I've never read it Daniel Johnson On those points I mean, when the chief executive of the SQA itself is saying that the issues faced are to do with the way that the plan implement and the way the examination work it doesn't get more brutal than that it is not that I'm plucking this rule that its own chief executive is raising fundamental questions about the way her agency works and the way the exam works is that not pretty fundamental and brutal? Does that not justify the concern? John Swinney I invite Mr Johnson to go back and look at the speech that he delivered at the start of this debate and judge whether he thinks it is the type of contribution that helps us to have a constructive debate about where we're moving to progress Scottish education because that's what I'm interested in and I'm quite interested in an open debate about how we do that because I accept that all members of Parliament want Scottish education to be successful but we're going to have difficulty turning around the teacher shortage problem that Mr Lockhead quite rightly highlighted if the narrative about Scottish education is as dismally presented as by people like Mr Johnson has presented in this debate today and if we actually look at the independent survey on SQA performance which is carried out annually by an independent third party demonstrated 84 per cent of respondents believe the SQA has high credibility and 91 per cent believe the SQA can be trusted. So I'm not saying that there's not a need to improve performance because Mr Greer has properly raised issues with me about the accuracy of exam papers and I've given them honest, open answers about how that's not acceptable and that has to be addressed and that I've addressed it face to face with the chief executive of the SQA but we have to keep as I think Mr Lockhead did in the debate a sense of perspective about some of the data and the information that is presented here. Now, I want to move on to a sub... I'm very sorry that Tavish Scott isn't here I understand why he's not here but I want to move on to address some of the issues that he raised because he talked about the implementation of curriculum for excellence and curriculum for excellence has been implemented by a management board and I want to read to Parliament the members of the curriculum for excellence management board or the organisations that sit round the CFE management board the association of head teachers and deputies in Scotland the association of directors of education in Scotland the college development network COSLA the educational institute of Scotland the general teaching council for Scotland the national association for school masters and the union of women teachers the national parent forum of Scotland school leaders Scotland the Scottish council of independent schools the Scottish secondary teachers association the Scottish teacher education committee the Scottish qualifications authority skills development Scotland university Scotland education Scotland the Scottish government community learning and development manager group in Scotland now that body is responsible for advising ministers on the implementation of curriculum for excellence and if I flick through all the responses that I've got from in the governance review they are littered with people saying to me don't disturb the consensus make sure there's always a consensus and that board has operated by consensus I can only find one occasion on which ministers have overturned a recommendation of well it actually wasn't a recommendation of the board it was they took a majority view of the board where the board couldn't operate with unanimity but my point is that in the criticism that's been levelled here about the implementation of curriculum for excellence and I you know Parliament knows me well enough to know I'll take criticism on the chin I'm well enough able to do that but we've acted my predecessors have acted to work with consensus with all that whole range of bodies to make sure that we took people with us in implementing curriculum for excellence so some of the criticism levelled at our bodies is unwarranted as if they have acted unilaterally in taking forward these points Mr Gray wanted to come in if he still wants to I'll give way Ian Gray the point I was going to make is that the cabinet secretary has what 40 seconds left is he going to address the issues raised by the work of the committee or is he just going to read out another big long list to fill up the time oh well well Mr Gray was me well enough Mr Gray that's a pathetic intervention of all the pathetic interventions I've heard from Mr Gray that is at the top of the list because the point I'm making is that education involves taking a whole range of organisations with us in a cohesive fashion and that's how curriculum for excellence has actually been implemented in the process I'll give way to Liz Smith if she wants to Liz Smith thank you and as someone who has made a presentation submission to the governance review and it's maybe not quite as consensual as some of the other ones I think the point cabinet secretary is that while that board has been operating hopefully with some consensus the delivery mechanism which we have been scrutinising at committee is blurred it is not clear about the data that has been presented and the fundamental question which we are asking as a committee is in terms of the delivery of the curriculum for excellence which we cannot at this stage properly measure that's the issue you only have seconds but there are many issues in amongst all of that but what I say to Parliament is that I will carefully all of these issues as part of the governance review I hear what the committee says I've reflected on it in my opening remarks about all of these issues but I simply make the point the significant point to Parliament that we have operated by consensus in taking forward curriculum for excellence involving a whole range of bodies with an implementation group that's a subset of that group to take forward these changes and that's been the model of operation that we have taken forward now of course the Government will look at these issues carefully because what drives our determination is to improve Scottish education and to make sure that education can deliver the best for the life chances of young people in Scotland I call Johann Lamont to wind up the debate a very tight 10 minutes please Ms Lamont I'll feel a lot tighter for me than it will for you as a suspect can I say first of all thank you Deputy Presiding Officer for the opportunity to contribute to this debate in my role as deputy convener now this role provides me with a number of challenges first of all I've got 10 minutes to speak and it's been quite a while sort of the opportunity to speak at such length in the chamber and that is something of a challenge for me although I suspect a greater one for the rest of you in the chamber secondly given the importance of these issues inevitably as we have seen already it generates some partisan and robust exchanges so unusually it falls in me to be the voice of reasonableness and of consensus and I'm sure my fellow committee members will draw my attention pretty quickly if I fail in that responsibility it is my intention therefore to do a number of things I shall resist the temptation to respond in the way perhaps that I would normally do but I want particularly to highlight the important issues that need to be explored and to emphasise the degree to which there was consensus was in the committee on scrutinising the critical role of SQASTS Scottish Funding Council and Education Scotland so the purpose of this debate has been to highlight to the Parliament and Government evidence in the performance of these bodies and to bring these issues to the attention of non-committee members it is a pressure on all of us as elected members to understand what is happening in our education system and we shouldn't be operating in the silos created by our own committee membership it's an opportunity to highlight and prompt further debate on the government reviews of these bodies and how these reviews will assist rather than hamper in government policy and to inform the work of other committees if ever there was a need for joined up working it is an education and how it relates to the economy to economic and social opportunity and to equality scrutiny should not be a series of episodes it needs to be robust far-reaching and coherent and as Richard Lochhead pointed out education isn't just about the curriculum it can be the many many things that children bring in to school with them or as adults that we experience but that does not mean that we shouldn't drill down in the specifics within the education commission committee but I would urge other committees and members to look at those broader questions and how they impact on the capacity of people to learn I want particularly to put on record my thanks to James Dorn in the convener for his great good nature at nature and capacity to bring the committee together to other committee members and to the clerks and I think that we have prone to being an effective team and I would argue in drilling down on the evidence and producing compelling reflections on the challenges ahead I would also wish to emphasise as the convener did that this work remains an act in progress and our commitment to all those who have taken the trouble to respond individually all those academics and organisations who care passionately about education they have taken the time to engage fully to provide their expertise in thinking that we shall persist with this work because we do need to reaffirm the importance of education skills in the work of the Scottish Government of local authorities in the agencies we scrutinise and reflect on why all this matters A coherent approach to education skills is fundamental to any notion of a fairer society of a strong economy and shared prosperity Education matters in ensuring individuals can achieve their full potential no matter where they are The challenge in education is to provide that opportunity but if we have to be alive to the possibility that education may compound inequality rather than address it if we get these matters wrong We know that a highly skilled and educated population are important factors in the economic opportunities and that's why those bodies charged with delivery do need to rise to that challenge and we do need to reflect on the concerns that are expressed about their capacity It's essential that there is confidence in the education system much of our evidence identified the need for leadership and many concerns about the apparent lack of leadership within these agencies At a time of significant curriculum change there needs to be confidence in those delivering it if it's not to undermine the confidence in the changes themselves and that means if we believe that curriculum for excellence is the right way forward we do need to address issues which may suggest to people that this is too much hassle isn't working we should try something else and I would say to the Government, ministers and others that we ought not to shoot the messenger when people are raising concerns As a teacher of 20 years standing I understand the fear articulated by a number of members opposite but at the concerns about raising the questions of concern about the system being seen as attack on teachers and on young people but I do think there was a consensus in the committee about the need to serve the interests of teachers, young people and educators by insisting that those who work to them are actually doing their job and if I may make a number of observations around the committee's consideration I hope that those will inform the chamber further First, the response of teachers given the opportunity to comment anonymously was profoundly thought-provoking and ought not to be underestimated Of course, might choose to explain it away but I don't think we do anyone a service in doing so In all my years serving in committees of this Parliament I have never been struck by the number and the passion and the compelling arguments made by people responding And for some I think the SQA's instinct was to say these are the usual suspects I worked with usual suspects when we introduced standard grade What comes out rises from these responses is a passionate commitment by teachers and professionals to make curriculum for excellence work rather than those who are so conservative that they don't want the trouble of it The frustration of committee members when hearing evidence from the SQA and others was evident about responsibilities about workload about advice The committee was concerned not just about who was responsible but how that responsibility was being delivered and there was a lack of clarity in that regard And of course there's a concern about the cluttered landscape and the complexity and how these things are difficult but that landscape and that cluttering was person made And I recognise the work of the Cabinet Secretary in addressing the question of workload but there has to be a rigour in addressing that cluttered landscape and make it work for people who care about education There needs to be an energy from the bodies that we were scrutinising to sort these problems out rather than using them as an alibi There are some significant themes that I would also want to highlight in particular, I think, the whole question of evidence in underpinning action by government There's an important example of the stage 1 review on skills and action on the overarching body and particularly in relation to the Scottish funding council I think it's true that the committee may have been persuaded there may not but they did not have the evidence to make that decision in relation to Crackle for Excellence We understand that there's no baseline evidence to help assess its effectiveness and that is a significant problem because the danger is that we find a conflation between the danger of falling standards may be explained by Crackle for Excellence when that may not be the problem at all We do need to know through the statistics what is actually happening and that question too relates to school governance In the remaining time I want to emphasise a strand of the committee's work in relation to equalities and want to identify a number of examples that will be worthy of further consideration by the Parliament and by the Government While we all know there was a general commitment to the Crackle for Excellence one of the questions we asked the committee was who decided there should be no external examination for national support and I think that is a question of equality I doubt I would have supported that decision if I had been asked but in all of our evidence we could not get clarity on who made that decision and why indeed I'm being asked about the advisability of such an approach we were told by Janet Brown and I quote that is one of the conversations Scotland as a whole needs to have If that's a conversation Scotland needs to have somebody needs to initiate that conversation and pretty soon too Secondly there was concerns expressed by the NUS and others about the decisions within the college sector to cut part-time places by 40 per cent were advised in evidence to the committee The issue is not whether there are successful learners coming out of colleges under this new policy but we do know that this policy chooses disproportionately to disbarwomen carers adult learners and people with disabilities the government cannot ignore that impact if they're committed to access in equal terms The issue of access is equally reflected in committee discussion on the question of modern apprenticeships it was I believe a concern to the committee that the skills development Scotland did not see itself as having a role in ensuring access to modern apprenticeships across our different groups in our communities if public money identified to improve skills is less likely to be spent on women be woes in a black minority ethnic community amongst disabled people there is a problem and it is not good enough for skills development Scotland to see is a societal problem and therefore not address the fair distribution of public funding In conclusion the committee in its work was exploring education policy and whether the policy choices make sense the committee in this debate has sought to reflect the challenge in putting policy into action and is reasonable to seek clarity on how delivery is being progressed how that is lived by teachers and students not just how theoretically we might view it and I think there is some anxiety that their agencies are not in control of that agenda our convener commented on the reflections that perhaps we had brought some credibility to politicians what I think is here is a reflection in the gap between politics and the real world and I think in this debate the committee has sought to bridge that gap I trust members here and the government will reflect on our evidence not to pick holes in it not to explain it a while but as a significant contribution to draw upon in ensuring that our commitment on education is being delivered fully by the agencies who have given that responsibility and given voice to by the Scottish Government I commend the report and the evidence of the committee to this Parliament and look forward to continuing this work in the next stage Thank you that concludes the education committee debate the next item of business is consideration of business motion 3396 in the name of Jofis Patrick on behalf of the Parliamentary Bureau setting out a revised business programme for next week I would ask any member who wishes to speak against the motion to press their request to speak but now I would call on Jofis Patrick to move motion 3396 formally moved thank you very much and no member has asked to speak against the motion I put the question to the chamber the question is that we is that motion number 3396 be agreed are we all agreed yes we are all agreed there's one question to be put as a result of today's business the question is that motion 3298 in the name of James Dornan on behalf of the education committee be agreed are we all agreed yes we are all agreed that concludes decision time and I'll now close this meeting apartment


What's good, Josh, your boy Ross back again with another video. So the real question of tonight Was night two just as good as night one or better? well to be honest with you I don't think it was man. I do not think it was. I think night one Held it down, but night two wasn't was as enjoyable. It was enjoyable But in my opinion, I think night one they they knocked it out the park and night two was It was I I guess you could say Expectations weren't met for certain matches. I'm gonna get into those particular matches But they it was still enjoyable I still had a good time and overall WrestleMania as a whole WrestleMania 38 was pretty solid this year I'm me honest with you. I think I like WrestleMania 38 better than last year's WrestleMania This was this was really really good and really enjoyable as a whole But we're gonna get all into that man. I got plenty to talk about appreciate all the love and support man Let's get right into my thoughts and opinions of WrestleMania 38 night two So they started off the show with triple h coming down to the ring got a great standing ovation It was fantastic to see triple h out there one more time And he pretty much he he hung up his boots man He placed his boots in the center of the ring And called it a day man, and it was it was it was great to see You know, he can't he's officially retired and it was just a beautiful moment, man And I'm pretty sure I could see him being inducted into the wwe hall of fame next year Triple h has provided us with some classic matches at WrestleMania So it only made sense for him to start off the show and just pretty much put symbolize that he's done He's done it all he put his boots in the center of the ring and he's out of there, man so That was a good way to start off the show And then we got into the raw tag team championships between rk bro the street profits and alpha academy This was a pretty good showing.  This match was enjoyable. I was not expecting rk bro to retain But they did I must say the the aw man that I want to say What's his name matt riddle? He hit a very Impressive. I think it was like a rko off the top top turnbuckle to Montez Ford I could be mistaken But he had a nice showing as well him and randy. They just had a nice showing and of course, uh Chad gable Coming off the top rope or what not right into a rko at the finish of the match They had a good showing everyone was able to show the strengths of their team Can we just say?  His hops is athleticism is Fantastic, man, and I was really thinking the street profits. We're gonna come with the win here But they didn't but either way, this was a great way to start off the show and At the end street profits were gonna do a toast rk bro. They had a nice little showing and then They even started looking at uh Gable stevensson in the crowd or whatnot. They introduced him last night, but he was front row. They uh wanted to get gable stevensson In the mix or what not because you know at WWE is trying to you know groom him for the uh, potentially maybe the main roster most likely I don't know if he'll go to nxt and get to the main roster, but that's that's their prospect If you want gable stevensson on the show, he's like, I guess you could say the modern day Kurt angle for wwe someone that's legitimately a legitimate wrestler uh a former uh, um Olympic champion like they they're really going with that route of believability And I'm interested to see what they do with him, but he got into the ring and then uh, chat gable Can uh kind of interrupted the segment and then we we had a nice little interaction with them too because they can actually go And I'm looking for it to them potentially at some point in the future having a match they can actually wrestle So this should be interesting I think he hit him with an overhead suplex. I could be wrong He launched them though like it was nothing and uh, they toasted up the ramp Uh, um the street profits in arcade bro with uh gable stevensson So that was a pretty cool moment great way to start off the show for sure Bobby lashley and omas This was okay. It was not bad Uh, I want to make this uh, I want to kind of put this out there.  I think wwe made some They were spot on with the booking wise booking of the matches like who they were going to have when But the execution wasn't there That's that's i'm uh, that's how I sum up tonight But overall this match was uh, I didn't expect it to be no technical Prouless like technical masterpiece because I feel like omas. He's just He's just the great collie. He's just The black version of the great collie. That's just really what he is He doesn't have too much movement don't have really too much moves It's just his size and his stature is his offense pretty much Bobby lashley had a great showing Especially selling for omas. I want to say there was a spot where bobby lashley like got slung like he got thrown Oh over like it was in one of the ring corners He got thrown But as he got thrown onto the turnbuckles his head hit the ring post itself It looked kind of brutal, but ultimately he ended up getting the win And he beat omas and it was it was incredible bro. Like I was not expecting that and bobby lashley got the win as a face And we will see what they do with bobby lashley. I'm not sure where they take omas I don't think people really is interested in him like he's cool as just this tall imposing person, but I don't know if people really like just care too much He's giving me great colleague vibes and hopefully they're able to do something with him get them in such a better few potentially who knows but People were Like they didn't really care so much. It was more. So this was bobby lashley Moment and uh, I'm okay with the decision here. So bobby lashley gets the win It was a okay match Wasn't nothing that I would go back to watch any time soon, but it was serviceable Sammy's aim versus Johnny Knoxville anything goes this literally I I can't really grade this as a match this was just Just to have fun It's one of those type of segments. It was just a fun WrestleMania segment. Was there some cringe there? Yeah, but this was this is jackass That's literally what it was.  Enjoyed that. Um, also the the big hand the big hand slapping Sammy's aim out of nowhere. I thought that was um, that was definitely, uh, definitely pretty cool Well, just like it just it was funny like you could tell the crowd was having a good time We were having a good time watching it on stream if you guys saw us on uh live streaming uh today Thank you to everyone that showed up on intercutch page.  So I enjoyed this for what it was I definitely did enjoy this kind of just lightens up the mood and everybody's having a good time. Um, And Johnny Knoxville gets to win Of course with the help of the jackass crew. It was cool. Enjoyable It can't add nothing more than just fun silliness. You know what I'm saying So now we got the women's tag team championship camilla, uh, and queens lina versus sasha banks and Naomi versus live and um and uh, rhea rippley and natalia and shana baszler and I'm be honest with you this match was it was okay. It was it wasn't It wasn't anything that I I'll be like, oh, you definitely gotta watch I think the women perform will at least this weekend in my opinion becky and sasha They were the best women's match all weekend becky and uh, no, uh, becky and uh, Bianca Belair best women's match all weekend. This It's okay.  That's what made it funny and the fact that um They gave the win to me to the right team and Naomi and sasha banks We'll see what they do with the the tag the women's tag team championships Uh, I do see sasha turning on Naomi at some point But the right team won like I said, it wasn't bad It had some enjoyable moments Um, but it's not something that I would go back to watch but the right team won so I'm okay with that So this was pretty pretty solid solid not bad aj style versus edge I'm not gonna lie to you This match to me Should have been a lot better Uh, was it was it bad by any means? No And I think what kind of messed up our viewing experience is around this time on the live stream We were experiencing some like network issues. So our live like our stream kept Disconnecting like it kept lagging to the point where people couldn't even watch it So we were trying to fix that while this match was happening So it kind of messed up our experience I may have to go back and just actually watch it from start to finish So I can really get into it because that entire time we were trying to fix it up But there were some good things about this match that I did enjoy. I will say I enjoyed edge's entrance It was so Fantastic love edges entrance thought it was great thought it was fantastic. They killed it this year Um, they had a good showing that it seemed like they they really worked well in the ring It's just you know, I don't know if the crowd Was kind of dead I think it was a little bit too slow a little bit too methodical But at the same time it wasn't bad by any means, but I think a lot of people were expecting it to be Even better. I think a lot of people were more focused on that match Uh, I guess the hype behind it because everyone assumed this was going to be the match that stole Night two for sure if not the all of WrestleMania 38 this year And I don't think it did it did not steal the show But it was good. It was enjoyable and once again, I gotta watch it again in this entirety Without any distractions. It's like I said, we were trying to fix the connection issue So we didn't really get a chance to really get into it, but towards the end it definitely picked up and The reports were right.  So he got distracted damian priest is just sitting there He looks at him and like what you doing out here? So he goes for the phenomenal forearm and then he gets hit midair with a spear one two three and at the end of the match Damian priest hops in the ring and pretty much Bowled down to edge and now he's a part of his factions. I don't I'm interested to see what they do with this I was not expecting this but this is cool I like the ending and I like what what is setting up So I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what happens on monday night raw So like that was that was I like that that aspect of what they're doing with edge I definitely do enjoy that I wish AJ style could have got the wind there But I think they're trying to tell a bigger story with what they're trying to do with edge here So it was a match. I think we all wanted to steal the show, but it didn't live up to the hype But still it was enjoyable for the most part in my opinion Then the new day versus shameless The new day. Yeah, the new day versus shamans in rich holland. This was easily the worst match of the night um You can uh this match was supposed to originally happen in night one and then in night two They literally only gave them five minutes And they they didn't have enough time you can tell that you have enough time for this match They gave them five minutes and that was it and uh Shamans and rich holland uh end up defeating the new day I thought that we're going to give the wind to new day since kofi uh biggie did get injured I do like the fact that uh Kofi and xavier came out in my biggie attire in the singlets I thought that was pretty cool to show him love, but I was thinking they were gonna win him But they didn't they didn't win it at all. Um, and ultimately it went to the shamans shamans and rich holland This match was as soon as it started it was over. I didn't really even get a chance to get invested into it Uh, yeah easily worse match in the night. It was just like, all right Y'all shouldn't have even had this match. Honestly, y'all didn't have enough time. There's y'all shouldn't have even Uh, put this match on the card in my opinion I think they should have just probably kept this off or maybe did a pre-show of some sort But they should not have put this on the main card because it was really kind of a waste of everybody's time in my opinion So worst match of the night pat macphie austin theory Very entertaining. I called it pat macphie. He is pretty good in the goddamn ring It I saw it without him cold and I've seen it here at resummonia the crowd was Old they love pat mac if he came out there Having a great time the crowd is singing his entrance theme song He bro, he had it. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand crowd went crazy Vince McMahon was sitting that ringside for austin theory. It was fantastic. I love this entire segment This was fun. It brought the energy back up from the previous match. This was great This was great. This honestly Honestly, it may be up there As one of the better matches up tonight and be honest with you because the crowd energy for this match Was probably the loudest we had seen and heard since the opening match with the raw tag team championship match The energy from this match alone was fantastic And what led into after this match after pat macphie got the win Doing amazing things Dude is fantastic. Very athletic. I think he got the win Then he starts talking trash to Vince McMahon. Vince McMahon takes off a shirt Vince at the age of years still looking good He was ready to get in the ring got in the ring because austin theory hit him from behind They they had a match vince mcman In 2022 had a match with pat macphie Of course the help of austin theory and ultimately He pretty much end up vince mcman ends up getting a win over pat macphie I'm like, all right. It was but it was a cool little moment to see but in my back the the back of my mind I'm like They're doing this for a reason because we only have one more match. This is not it Eat stone cold is probably gonna come out.  We've marked out Stone cold came out there And it was great. It brought me back to the attitude era the vince and stone cold feud Ah, man, it was so good to see them in the ring together And it was funny they got stone cold First and foremost shot. Can somebody send me on instagram or twitter Somebody please send me the the clip of austin theory getting stunned and he sold that shit Like a million bucks one of the best selling of the stunners. I have seen Of all time. It reminds me of when scott hall resting peace god resting peace resting peace your soul, man Miss you. It reminds me of when scott hall Sold the stunner from stone cold how he hopped up Austin theory literally elevated himself.  Then they uh vince and um The stone cold do a little beer toast vince is sipping on it and he finally drinks it And then he goes for the stunner On vince but vince vince has never really been good at selling the stunner So he kind of failed back. He's slipping and falling as after he uh, get kicked in the gut But then A stone cold is able to grab ahold of him and finally hit him with it. It it was great It was great I enjoyed that so much man That was that whole little sacred that whole little moment just brought me back to To my to my childhood man And it just if this honestly this whole segment pat macrophy versus austin theory and pat macrophy versus vince And then vince getting stunned by stone cold. Steve austin best segment of the night. There's no doubt in this segment once again Involving stone cold. Steve austin best segment of the night this whole situation best segment of the night Definitely brought the crowd alive Definitely brought some life to this uh To wrestle mania for sure. Um, and then of course Pat macrophy gets stunned for his trouble. I thought it was entertaining and it was great to see Pat macrophy after being stunned. He's on the ground still drinking beer. This all this whole segment was great Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. This was this was fun This is what wrestle mania is all about like legitimately This is what wrestle mania is all about. So I I definitely I definitely enjoyed that once again, granted vince Couldn't really do much like he used to back when he would get in a ring sometimes But it was enjoyable just to see it. It was cool and it was a great setup for For what we got in stone cold coming back and stunning everybody one more time at wrestle mania and of course Right here the main event Winner take all championship unification match roman rames versus brock lesnar This probably for me Is actually the most disappointing of the matches Probably in my opinion. I think it was it was the most disappointing in the sense of not the outcome the outcome was correct I'm glad they went with the outcome But it was most disappointing because the few the build up itself for this match was actually quite entertaining I love the build up for this match. This match was the build up was better than the actual match itself. It was I think people were expecting like total chaos The way they've been building it up The fact that brock has been trying to kill roman for the past few weeks The fact that roman bloodied up brock lesnar at madison square garden. You would think This is about to be total carnage and it was kind of tame Hell their previous wrestle mania matches had blood This one had not an ounce of blood. No color. I'm thinking this gotta have color I'm thinking brock when he's taking off the gloves At the beginning of match. Oh, oh, it's about to go down And it's pretty much a brock and roman rames match that we have seen plenty times over There wasn't new there wasn't anything new they added to this match it was It was actually it was okay I enjoyed it watching it with my homies on stream and because dub You know dub is not a big fan of brock lesnar the character not the person himself But he did not care for brock. So he was just happy by any means of roman winning I was kind of disappointed once they went with the traditional referee spot I was kind of disappointed that roman cheated. I get it. He's a heel But this is a moment. It's a moment for roman only because roman has never beaten brock lesnar at wrestle mania and now roman can't beat brock clean I remember a time when roman was at the beginning of his heel turn Of last year. He was beating a lot of these opponents clean. Was he cheating in some of them? Yes, but he could get the job done clean and I respected that I like that when a heel can win without cheating I love that I also like it when a heel does have to cheat it makes sense But in this sense, I think he I would have preferred him to win clean But I guess I get it. He's a heel. So I understand but it comes off as well brock Well, roman can't get the job done no matter what it is. He can roman can't beat him clean. He can't do it He has to cheat and It kind of sucks. That's that's my only disappointment. But once again, I'm gonna keep saying this I understand he's a heel. You're not supposed to he's supposed to cheat He's supposed to do heel light things. So I get it Cool, what else? Now towards the end of the match Brock Lesnar has roman in the kimura And it looks like he's putting a lot He's putting a lot of torque on like he's not Bullshitting him with the submission. He's putting it in or whatnot roman's trying to edge towards the ropes and you can see Paul Heyman at the corner Push the ropes just a little bit Some roman can get it get it and he grabs it But after he releases the hold you can hear roman visibly say it's out. It's out. It's out He was talking about the shoulder I thought it was like a k-fabe injury, but no, I believe his shoulder was legitimately Knocked out of socket like I believe his shoulder was knocked out of place or whatnot So he's saying that over and over and over in the match. So of course, I'm not sure but it's seen I don't know if y'all didn't feel that way But it seemed like this match in it way too quick like I feel like they had to call an audible So after that all he does he gets back up and he hits the spear on brock lesnar One two three the match is done and he becomes the unified champion Um, but it was just one of those things because you can see his his arm like his shoulder was kind of like It was bruised up or whatnot. So I don't know Uh, if that was the case Um, I saw one of you guys comment on the live stream that His shoulder was was uh Was dislocated and then he popped it back in place after the match or whatnot So I'm not sure if that's what it was and they had to call the audible because To me hit the way the match ended So abruptly it seemed like they had to call an audible because he's yelling out It's out. It's out. It's out. His shoulder's out of its socket So It's like I'm sure they probably had to call an audible to end the match quicker than they originally planned on Because I just feel like the matches ended a little bit quicker in my opinion But kudos to roman to still continuing the match still hitting the spear with his shoulder out of out of socket That's a testament to how tough he is. So kudos to that man. That that was pretty cool. But ultimately That that meant this match was pretty disappointing Uh for this to be the biggest match of wrestle mania history has they've been Coining it this was disappointing And I do not I'm stand by this. I don't want to see this no more. I'm done All right, roman got the win. Well, he didn't get it clean. He finally beat Brock Lesnar at wrestle mania. I do not want to see this no more No more. I don't want to see this match no more. That's it. No more Don't want to see it This was their last opportunity to really give us probably one of their better matches And I'm gonna be honest with you. Was it better than their pat? There, uh, I want to say the last match I had there at wrestle mania I forgot which wrestle mania was was it 34 when they were in new orleans. I think, uh, Yes, it was better than that match for sure But this match right here, um The build up was better than the match itself. Was it okay? Yeah, it was okay. Did the right person win? Yes, the right person did win. Did we see a lot of the things that we've seen in all their matches pretty much? Yes, we have, um But honestly It was hard for them to follow the segment of stone cold that stone cold segment I that was a tough position for them But if there was any match that could have followed that with the how hyped the crowd was it should have been this one And they didn't really deliver They didn't it was it was pretty much what we've all seen even to the barricades bottle How many times have we seen that with these two guys alone? It was just kind of like we've been here done this You know I'm saying the only difference is Roman Reigns shoulder got knocked out of socket That was the only difference maker here The outside of that right person won and it'll be interesting to see what happens what is said on monday night raw um, so best believe I will be streaming monday night raw Tomorrow so be on the lookout. I'm filming this. Um, the night of russomanian night too. Um, so I will be dropping I will be doing uh The live streaming reaction for monday night raw the the raw after mania see how that goes Hopefully it's a good show and it should be it should be pretty interesting But overall for me if I had to give a number score for russomanian night too I'm gonna I'm gonna give this a solid seven. This is a solid seven It's not I gave you a night one or eight I'm gonna give this one some seven that stone cold segment was pretty fantastic Pat McAfee had a great showing as well The tag the wall tag team championship match was a good opener um I really was wishing the edge and uh, aj styles match could have been a little bit better Granted once again, I was kind of busy trying to fix the stream So I wasn't able to pay attention But uh, that's something I I still want to go back and really just Focus in on but it was still still a solid match still You know in my opinion worthy enough to at least be on russomania alone and then new day and uh Versus shamish and rich holland. That was that was a waste of everybody's time in my opinion and the women's Uh tag team championship match was okay. It was serviceable nothing to really just go back and watch But the right team won so oh and we can't forget Johnny Knoxville versus same museum. It was just a whole bunch a whole bunch of fun Bobby Lashley. Oh my it was it was enjoyable for what it was It was it was cool. Not too bad overall seven out of ten for night two still think night one They knocked it out the park night two uh A slight it was slight bump in the road few parts Um, it's just I think the main event if the main event was better I probably would give it an eight out of ten, but since the main event did not live up to The hype of the build I gotta give it a seven out of ten. But comment down below. Let me know. Did you guys enjoy night two? Did you guys? Uh, enjoy the main event. What did you think of brock versus roman? Uh, roman reigns. Did you guys enjoy the main event? Did you guys feel like it was kind of lackluster? Also, let me know. Which night did you like uh more? Did you like night one over night two man? Let me know all of these things and all you guys excited to see what's gonna happen on monday night raw But I appreciate all the love and support row two 80k appreciate y'all. I'll kick you with me. See y'all next one. Peace