So let's pray, Father, we love you and we honor you. I thank you for the wonderful things you're doing here at Radiant. I thank you for the privilege of bringing your word. I ask you to give us ears to hear, give us a heart to respond in Jesus' name, amen. I wanna read a few passages to you, starting with the book of Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40, and you can just jot these verses down, verses six through eight. Isaiah 40 verses six through eight. I'm not gonna give you context or background. I just want you to hear these words. A voice says, cry out. And I said, what shall I cry? All people are like grass and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. Here are these words spoken over 2,500 years ago by a people that easily could have been wiped out from history saying that the words of their God were the words of the true God and these words would endure forever. And here we are 2,500 plus years later in a whole other culture, in a whole other world reading these very words. Jeremiah chapter 15, Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 16. As the prophet is speaking of his own life and his own experience, Jeremiah 15, 16. When your words came, I ate them and they were my joy and my heart's delight for I bear your name, Lord God Almighty. Your words were found and I ate them, I devoured them and they were the joy and delight of my heart. And then lastly, just as we get started, Matthew chapter 24 verse 35, Matthew 24, 35, and here Jesus tells us, heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. Striking again that Jesus telling us his words will not pass away, those words are still being read today 2,000 years later. How many other words were spoken? How many other people came and went and we don't know their words, we've forgotten their words, but to this day we read these words as God's words. Why? Why is, why have these words endured? Why is the Bible the most translated book on the planet? Why to this day is the Bible the world's best selling book? Why does that continue year in, year out with all the skepticism and all the mocking and all the science telling us that we can't take any of these antiquated stories seriously? I've seen endless memes and comments, it's just some Bronze Age book from some, about some Bronze Age gods and some ignorant shepherds, what do they care? The Bible constantly mocked and the God of the Bible mocked and yet here it is, we're gathering and several billion people around the world consider this to be God's word. Why? When I got saved, 1971, many of you know my story, I was a hero in shooting LSD using hippy rock drummer, 16 years old Jewish kid in rebellion and my friends were sharing the gospel with me. They weren't saved yet but they were going to this little Italian Pentecostal church. They liked two girls who were in the church so they were all going together and because it was Pentecostal, it was fascinating to them. They were raised in Russian Orthodox Methodist homes nominal Christian just like I was nominal Jewish so the Pentecostal stuff was really interesting to them. You know all the speaking tongues and stories about angels and demons, that was interesting and the pastor was teaching a lot about end time prophecy and teaching out of the book of Revelation. So I kid you not, they would come home from a church service, come over to my house and we would do like an acoustic quiet jam session. You know, I'd take out my drum pad and they'd have their instruments and amps really, really low because it was too late for us to be playing our normal volume and we'd be playing and hanging out and getting high because they weren't saved yet and they'd be telling me Bible stories especially from the book of Revelation. I remember it distinctly, my dear is gonna be a beast. Comes out of a bottomless pit. Now remember we're sitting around getting high just goes out of a bottomless pit with seven heads and 10 horns. It's like, that's in the Bible? Man, that's cool. I remember we'd say, what were they smoking back then? Then they get saved and God starts to convict me of my sin and I get saved and those are the first passages I'm reading, they're really interesting passages but then I start reading more. I started getting hungrier for God and hungrier for the word and by the time I was saved a year, I used to spend at least six or seven hours alone with God every day. Remember these are the days before cell phones, before cable TV, before PCs and tablets. So I mean I was undistracted. Six or seven hours alone with God about half the time in prayer, half the time in the Word and I would read the Word two hours every single day without fail, two hours and I would memorize 20 verses every single day. I could do it in an hour. My mind had been so fried from drugs now just focused and I remember the constant wonder of discovering things in Scripture. It's like wow, not just something where I thought somebody was getting high and seeing some vision. No, I couldn't believe how relevant it was. I couldn't believe how whatever I was going through in life the Word seemed to be speaking to me. It seemed to have a message for me. One of the songs that we sang, one of the hymns we sang in our church, some of you are older will remember it. Great is thy faithfulness. I remember reading through the book of Lamentations, one of the darkest, most painful books in the Bible. Jewish people in exile, Jerusalem destroyed. Five pages of agony, but right in the middle of the agony, hope rises and there's that word. Great is your faithfulness. Your mercies are new every morning. I thought, I didn't know that was in the Bible. I thought that was just a hymn. But to find great is your faithfulness in the darkest, most difficult book of the Bible full of pain and agony and suffering. Great is your faithfulness. I remember just jumping at me. And now going to college and the challenges of life and the questions that you have as a young person. I remember the words just jumping off the pages at me sometimes as God would be speaking. And what's remarkable is now 51 years later reading the same book over and over and learning the biblical languages and so on. I keep discovering new amazing things. I don't mean some insight about how the war in Ukraine is prophesied in a verse in the Bible. I'm not talking about that or how the, and by the way, I don't believe it's prophesied. That was a hypothetical. I don't mean just sensationalism. I mean relevance for everyday life. I mean the stuff you're going through. I mean the questions that you have. Okay, porn, terrible problem today. People struggle with it. It's accessible in ways it's never been accessible. What does the Bible have to say about it? The Bible doesn't know anything about distribution of pornography like we know it today. Oh, but you read the Bible about sexual issues and it's incredibly insightful. You read a chapter like Proverbs 5 or Proverbs 7 where it talks about the seduction of sin and how you're drawn in and the appeal of it but the end results of it you think this is incredibly relevant. When our daughters became teenagers, I took them one day to Proverbs 23 and I said, just check this out because some of their friends, they're hung out with kids from different backgrounds. Some believers, some not believers. Some of the kids getting drunk and things. And I said, just take a look at this in Proverbs 23 beginning in verse 29. It says this, who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine who go to sample bowls of mixed wine. Do not gaze at wine when it's red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly in the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.  You'd be like one sleeping on the high seas lying on top of the rigging. They hit me, you'll say, but I'm not hurt. They beat me, but I'm gonna feel it. When will I wake up so I can have another drink, find another drink? I just read it to say, you know, God saw this coming. The drunkenness and the behavior of drunkenness is not a surprise, it's talked about in here. Because you often get the impression that the Bible is just a book of religious rules. You can't do this, you can't do that, you can't do that. There's the old story about two farmers who were talking one day. And one farmer said to the other, I hear you're a Christian, is that true? And the other farmer said, yeah, it's true, I'm a Christian. So he said, well, what does it mean to be a Christian? And the farmer said, well, I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't run around with the ladies. And then the other farmer stopped for a minute and he said, well, I guess my mule is a Christian. Cause my mule doesn't smoke or drink or run around with the ladies. We get the impression of the Bible.   Quite the contrary, the Bible is a book of liberation and transformation. And the Bible is God's word saying, I understand human nature, I understand where you live, I understand what you're going through, I understand the struggles and here's the way out. Here's the solution to the problems of human nature. Things in our own lives, we'd be ashamed to tell anybody else God saw us coming already in the word. You say, I don't know about this. Sometimes I just feel like life is meaningless. It feels just like this endless cycle and so meaningless. Why do I want to read the Bible? How about this? The book of Ecclesiastes, chapter one, the words of the teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem, meaningless, meaningless, says the teacher, utterly meaningless. Everything is meaningless. That's in the Bible because Ecclesiastes is gonna take you through that journey.  There's a book for you, seriously. And you read it through, it's like, that's exactly how I feel and nothing makes any sense. What do people gain from all their labors at which they tile under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets and hurries back to where it rises. It's the same thing over and over. Nothing new under, there's nothing new under the sun. You know, you just quoted the Bible when you said that. There's nothing new under the sun. That's from the Bible. But you go through the journey with Ecclesiastes and you come out to the conclusion that the only thing that makes sense in life is to fear God and keep His commandments. So go on the journey. You know, it says in the book of Jude, actually Judah, but the book of Jude, you know what it says, have mercy on those who doubt. There's a doubt that's sinful, that's wrong. It's the doubt of being double-minded. It's the doubt of when you know better and you still don't trust God. But there's the kind of doubt which the Bible says have mercy on those who doubt. It's okay to have the questions. It's okay to have the issues. You don't have to have it all together. You're not sitting when you say, God, I don't even know if this is real. We're told to have mercy and to say, hey, come with your doubts and questions. They are welcome, warmly, because we have answers. And if you don't know the answer yourself, we're gonna find that answer together. You say, yeah, it's easy for you to say that and things are going well in your life, but I feel like God's my enemy. Yeah, and the Bible's gonna help me with that. Sure, let Job articulate how you're feeling. One Old Testament scholar said, if you wanna complain, the Bible has forms already filled out for you. Just find the one that fits you. Yeah, how about, let's just see here, Job speaking his heart in the midst of some of his pain. How about this? This is how he feels about God. Job 16, starting in verse 11, God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked. All was well with me, but he shattered me. He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target. His archers surround me without pity. He pierces my kidneys and spills my gall on the ground. Again and again, he bursts upon me. He rushes at me like a warrior. This is how he feels about God. And he even makes this plea, earth, earth, do not cover my blood. May my cry never be laid to rest. Even now my witness is in heaven, my advocate is on high. Somehow he's confident that in God's universe, there has to be justice because that's who God is, but he feels like God's his worst enemy. This is in the Bible. God's not afraid to put these difficult things here because this is the world we live in. Now look, maybe you're married and whatever happens in your spouse's life, they just smile and say, praise the Lord, I know you're good. And they just look at you. You just got in the car wreck, right? You're covered in blood and everything's a mess. And you just say, isn't he wonderful? You say, honey, I'm not feeling that myself right now. I'm wondering why did God let this happen? And how did this happen? And our life is messed up right now. Not everybody responds with that beautiful faith. It's okay. It's understandable. It's in the Bible, but then God reveals himself to Job in such a way that by the end of the book, Job's realizing, I spoke in complete ignorance. I had heard of you before, but now I really see you. So I recant.  Job spoke rightly about me. What? He's just rebuked. God's just rebuked Job for accusing him falsely of being this monster. But then he says, but Job spoke rightly about me. The friends, the orthodox believers, the ones who seem to be quoting scripture, they misrepresented God because they said, only good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. So Job, you must be bad.  He rebukes the friends. The ones that are quoting the Bible, he rebukes them. Isn't that interesting? And he commends Job because Job knew somehow that there was a God who had to set things right in the midst of the pain, in the midst of the agony. So we get this impression, we have to put on this religious look and this religious outfit and this religious tone and talk and be a certain way and not be real with problems and pains and doubts. And the word of God saying, no, no, God knows that you go through those things, but he's got a solution.  The Bible is filled with relevance like that. And when you come over to the New Testament and begin to look at the life of Jesus, what's so striking is that as he begins his ministry, the biggest problem that he has is with religious people. Now, please hear me. The world tries to create a Jesus in its own image. Whatever particular sin you're into, Jesus is good with that. Whatever particular understanding you have rejecting God, Jesus is good with that. You know, there's a series of ads that were promoted with hundreds of millions of dollars to reach out even during the Super Bowl. And I deeply appreciate anyone seeking to reach out. I deeply appreciate that. That's wonderful. And putting funds into evangelism, I deeply appreciate it. But the whole message was, hey, Jesus gets us, he understands us, but in many cases there were no teeth to the message. There was nothing about us needing to change or us needing to come to him. It was almost affirming us wherever we are which really doesn't go very far. I've told people for years that Jesus did not practice affirmational inclusion, but transformational inclusion. In other words, he didn't reach out to people where they were and affirm them. He reached out to where they were and transformed them. But here's the thing, Jesus hung out with the marginalized. Jesus hung out with the outcast. Jesus hung out with the people that the sophisticated religious people ran from, separated themselves from. Jesus hung out with them and the religious people criticized him. But what did he do? He transformed the lives of the outcasts and the marginalized. He transformed the lives of the prostitutes and the hated tax collectors.  I mean, these people were known for their corruption and extortion. Jesus had meals in their homes? Yeah, and they changed. So he got his hands dirty with sinners without casts. He went to the places that others wouldn't go. See the modernized Jesus, the Jesus of the world hangs out with the sinners to encourage them in their sin. The Jesus of the Bible hangs out with the sinners to get them out of their sin and transform. But his battle was often with religious people. And I often wonder if Jesus walked into some of our services or some of our churches, if he would be saying, well done or if he'd be shaking things up in our own midst. Shaking things up in our own lives. You want a radical revolutionary leader look no further than Jesus.  Think of the parable of the good Samaritan. You know, those that are concerned about social issues, those that have a conscience of righteousness and want to bring about change. Well, Jesus is the ultimate one to follow. He does not sit in the midst of our religious and political status quo. He doesn't just come to affirm that. Jesus did not come to bring realization to the American dream. He's not a patriot of this country or that country. His kingdom is of a whole other level. And he turns things off and upside down in our world. And this is in the Bible. I'm gonna get to the parable of good Samaritan in a moment. But I remember in the late 1990s when God stirred my heart with the theme of Jesus' revolution. That when you get into the gospels, you see that Jesus is constantly talking about the kingdom of God. And these values that are very different from the values of this world, right? Revolution is out with the old, in with the new. Revolution has overthrown the status quo. Revolution is radical, dramatic, sweeping change. The world does it with hatred and bloodshed and violence or sin and corruption. Jesus comes in a far more radical way to subdue enemies with love, to change the world by dying on a cross. You know, we just think of him as this religious leader, knowing that in the highest form possible, he was a revolutionary leader. Turns things upside down. Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are those who mourn. Turns things upside down. The first shall be last in the last first. You've been outcast, you've been marginalized, you've been put out. Here's someone that can relate. Here's someone that is rejected by his own people and dies the lowest criminal's death, the most humiliating, horrific death, why so he can save the world? Turns everything upside down. This is all in the word. So I began teaching on the revolutionary nature of the ministry of Jesus. The Lord's prayer. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will. Okay, now if that's how you pray with reverence, if that's your reverent voice, so be it. But this is not just some church prayer.  That's a revolutionary prayer. What happens to all the other earthly kingdoms? Out with the kingdoms of the world, out with the kingdom of Satan, in with the kingdom of God. And what does Jesus tell his disciples? Leave everything, follow me. That's revolutionary talk. So I was always teaching on this in our ministry school in Pensacola. And one of the students, we had almost 1200 full-time students then. One of the students said, Dr. Brown, before I was a believer, I didn't pay attention to classes at all in school, except history, except history class. And when I was in history class, we had one class reading about different revolutionary leaders of the past and reading quotes of revolutionary leaders. He said, and I remember the leader whose quotes were the most radical and different from anyone, it was Jesus. It wasn't Marx or this one or that one, it was Jesus. We just put him in such traditional religious garb that we forget the degree that he comes to shake things up. You want the leader of a cause. You want someone worth living for and dying for. There he is. So Jesus is being interrogated, different religious leaders asking him questions. You know, what's the greatest commandment?  Now think of this for a minute. Would the world be better if it lived by those commandments? Forget your religious background, forget your ideological background. Would the world be better if we truly love God and express that love for God by loving our neighbor as ourselves? Go through the morality of the 10 commandments. That's just dead, that's just old people's religion. Okay, so you think the world would be better if we stole one from another because stealing is prohibited. You think the world would be better if we murdered one another because murder is prohibited. You think the world would be better if we freely committed adultery and broke our marital vows because adultery is prohibited. You think the world would be better if everybody just lied about their neighbor and bore for us wellness. You think the world would be better if we just coveted everything and everybody else else? These are all the things forbidden by the 10 commandments. If the world lived by the 10 commandments, we wouldn't have war. If the world lived by the 10 commandments, we wouldn't need prisons. It's extraordinary. The morality there stands out from all ancient moralities. Even the principle of Sabbath is life-giving in thousands of different ways. So Jesus says, love God, love your neighbor. It's yourself. So the religious leader wanted to be self-justified. Yes, but who is my neighbor? He said, well, what kind of question is that? It's actually a question that's asked in Jewish law where it says, and you love your neighbor as yourself. Well, who actually qualifies as your neighbor? It's a discussion in modern Israel today among religious Jews. Is the Palestinian my neighbor or does it speak only of fellow Jews? So this is actually a legal discussion rather than just doing what's written and living out the spirit of it, you're gonna make it into a technical religious decision. Yeah, well, who actually is my neighbor? What if I was neighbor of a Nazi? What if I was neighbor of this person? And all we're trying to do is get out of the calling. So Jesus now gives this teaching. Again, it's in the Bible. My point is that the Bible is a book that shakes the religious world. That the Bible is a book that speaks with relevance to people that don't know God. That this is not just a religious textbook filled with do's and don'ts, but it is life giving and life transforming. So Jesus gives this parable and you have to understand Samaritans were the hated outsiders. They considered themselves to be the true Israelites. The Jewish community looked at them as half breeds. So they were really despised in the community.  He goes walking, I can't get messed up with that. I touch him, I'll get unclean. He walks on, Jewish religious leader. Another Jewish religious leader, priest. To touch him on, it's defiling. So instead of showing love, he's gonna live by religious ritual. He walks on and the half breed, the hated one. This is Jesus talking to other Jews. You have to understand how extreme this is. The half breed, he comes over the hated one and he shows compassion and he shows mercy and cares for the God, brings him to a place and says, hey, just put this on my tab, I'll cover it when I come back. And then he asks the question, okay, which one was the true neighbor? Of course, they have to say the Samaritan.  Now you go do that. What you find when you read the scripture is it doesn't fit into your preconceived ideas. That the moment you think you've figured it out and mastered things and you've got God in your own nice religious box, he comes and shakes us out of it. And the thing that's amazing is that Jesus says in John six that his words are spirit and they are life. It says in Hebrews 412 that the word of God is living and active and sharp and then he double-edged sword pierced into the very division of soul and spirit of joints and marrow. It's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. It's an amazing thing as you read it that the words are actually alive. It's an amazing thing as you read it that you get built up. Deuteronomy eight, which Jesus quotes in Matthew four, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. It's not just relevant. It's life-giving. It's life-transforming. You take it in, you digest it, the words I read earlier from Jeremiah 15.  You find as you begin to do this, you don't even understand everything. You don't necessarily remember everything but you begin to get your spirit nourished. It's an amazing thing if you've never done it. And I know I'm speaking to some of you who've been deep in the word for decades and others who've just never had a habit of reading. You don't know where to start. Just starting the simplest way. I mean, there are endless Bible apps that'll take you through the Bible in a year. Read a couple of chapters from here, a couple of chapters from there or just start, okay, I'll read a chapter from the Old Testament, a chapter from the New. Whatever it is just to get through it and just say, God speak to me, God give me insight and you'll be amazed first at how you start to change. It's just like when you change your diet, you start to exercise, you start to lose weight, you start to feel better. You'll start to get nourished in your spirit. You'll start to feel stronger and then you'll have your mind illuminated. You'll begin to have understanding. You'll begin to have more wisdom, difficult life situations. You may not even remember the verse, but the wisdom of that verse is in you. The principle of that truth is in you. You start to see, well, I'm getting built up. I'm getting strengthened, Colossians 3, 16, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Joshua 1, 8, this book of teaching shall not depart from your life, but you meditate on it. I mean, recite it, repeat it day and night. Then you can obey it and then you'll succeed in what you do. Or Psalm 1, 3, that the person, the godly man or woman that's blessed, they're delighted in the teaching of the Lord. They meditate on it day and night and they're like a tree planted by streams of water that bring forth fruit and seeds and the leaf never withers and whatever they do succeeds. Why? Cause they're in harmony with God. John 15, 7, Jesus says, if you abide in me and my words, abide in you, ask what you will and it'll be given to you. How can that be? Because we're in harmony with God there for what we pray is according to his will. You begin to have these things in your heart and mind. I've been able to memorize and chapter and verse and those kind of things. My wife Nancy knows the word really well, really understands it, knows it really well and will often challenge me. What do you think that passage means? And I'll tell her, she goes, no, it's not what it means. I'll say, I've studied, she goes, no, no, no, check the commentaries. You'll see. And of course, she's almost thought, well, we know that that's a given if you're married, the wife is right, that's a given. But even with scripture, it's like, wow, it's amazing. She knows it well, but she doesn't know chapter and verse like I do. Don't compare yourself to somebody else. It's not the issue. Take it in. You don't have to remember what you had for breakfast, but if you have a healthy breakfast, it'll benefit you. Take it in, digest it, chew on it. Have the bird's eye view of just read through the Bible regularly. It takes your year to get through, read through the Bible regularly, get the bird's eye view and then the worms eye view. Take in, really study something. Maybe there's a subject you're interested in. How do you, there are endless different ways to study. And I'm not here to say it. And of course, your pastor is strong and able to help equip you in study. But just, okay, I'm gonna look up this word and see where else it occurs. I'm just gonna keep going through the same chapter over and over and over or the same theme over and over. My doctoral dissertation was on one Hebrew word, the Hebrew word for heal, restore. Did my whole doctoral dissertation on that in the Hebrew Bible and how the word occurred in the related languages. And you could study a word, you could study a concept for life. So have the bird's eye, take it in, read it through and then the worms eye, take in. So I'm about to go to college. 1973, graduate from high school and about to go to college. And I was only going to college to honor my parents. Even though God had instantly delivered me from drugs, I was instantly set free from whatever addictions I had, instantly delivered and all the sinful ideology and all that I had, that was gone. But I still had kind of a hippie mentality. I didn't even realize of who needs the system, who needs the educational system and all I wanna do is minister. And I came home from a service one Sunday morning. We had a guest speaker. We almost never had a guest in. The pastor was on vacation or away, we had a guest speaker and he spoke on Jesus being a teenager. I remember saying, think of it, Jesus was a teenager.  And I came home from service that day and my dad said, so Michael, what was the sermon on today? And I tell him, well, Jesus was a teenager, honor your father and mother.  So I was instantly convicted, those simple words, honor your father and mother, that simple sermon, boom, changed my life, right? I didn't know I didn't get a doctorate and I'd be part of my calling, et cetera. But I went to talk to the pastor starting college and I said to him, what do I do when I graduate? I was four years old, what do I do when I graduate? I had no interest in going to college, I had a good musical background as a drummer and I played organ a little so I knew music more. And so I was just gonna go as a music major. Little did I know I'd end up switching and becoming a Hebrew major. I had no clue about that. I said, brother George, that's how we call our friends. What do I do when I graduate in four years? And he just said to me Psalm 119, 105 because he memorized a lot of scripture and he knew I memorized a lot of scripture. He just said Psalm 119, 105. Your word is a light to my path, a lamp to my feet. He said, you know lamps in those days, he said they only showed you one step at a time. This is simple truth from scripture, opened up in a simple way. And this has been something I've lived with and lived by ever since. God's not gonna show you five or 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 years down the line for the most part. And if he did, often it wouldn't make any sense to us. What do you mean that I'll be doing an outreach on Mars? What does that even mean? It's so outlandish, but you don't need that. What you need is the word for today, the message for today, the message for the hour. And you'll find the wisdom, the words are here. I've had at times critical life decisions to make and pray and God will just bring me to the writings of Paul and one verse will jump out at me that has nothing to do with the situation whatsoever that totally transforms everything that gives me insight. It's a living book, it's a living word, it's forever relevant. These words will stand, all of the kingdoms will crash, the mockers will disappear, the false religions will disappear, all of that will disappear, but this word will stand forever. So let's feast on it, let's drink it in a fresh. Let's ask God for a fresh hunger, fresh thirst for the word. And as you take it in, you'll find it's not just relevant for you, it's relevant for those who don't know him. Let us be ambassadors of this word as well, amen? So let's pray, Abba Father, I ask you Lord, as we dig into your word of fresh, give us ears to hear, give us hearts to respond, give us a depth of appreciation for the treasures of your word, may we discover them afresh, and may we marvel at them and grow in them and revel in them for the rest of our lives. We ask it in Jesus' name, amen. Thanks so much, God bless.


The first one goes to Erhan Jojowsky across the line, celebration style! Hey guys, Romain here. We are just ahead of the second round of the Formula E Accelerate Championship where we've got Risto Kappet and Erhan Jojowsky racing. And today I'm going to speak to you about the energy management. Formula E is an electric racing car, so in the race you need to manage your battery not to run out before the end. So this is done by Lifton Coast. Lifton Coast is basically lifting the throttle before the straight line is over, letting the car roll, and then eventually when you get to the braking zone you hit the brake. But instead of stalking, best of going on track. Okay, so here we are on the start-finish line and let's go! Full on throttle, getting into turn one, here normal braking, lift the throttle, straight away on the brake. Mr. Biddy, it begs, no big deal. Now we're going into the longest straight of the circuit. So what I'm going to do is when I reach the 200 meters board, right now I'm going to lift the throttle, let the car roll and eventually now hit the brake. That allows me to save a fair bit of energy through all the straights and to manage it. Obviously when you're fighting other drivers it's not something you can do, so really during the race the challenge here is to decide where you're going to do Lifton Coast. Here I can do a little one, so I left and I brake, oh brake too late. Here we go, got the apex, all okay. Here in this corner it's much more tricky to do Lifton Coast just because there's very little phase to slow down the car, but also people cannot overtake you through that here, Lifton Coast. Here people cannot overtake you, so you can actually do more Lifton Coast than then you know ideal. So obviously the challenge at one point is finding where to defend, a little bit of Lifton Coast here and we brake. Where to defend versus others and where not to lose too much lap time. So this is really the big challenge that the guys are facing in the formula e-Chamberchip. This is really how you manage the race, so it's very easy to be fast at the beginning and to get places, but if you burn too much energy then that means you need to do even more Lifton Coast, so it's just finding the right balance between attacking, going fast. So in a perfect world you want to create a small gap with a guy behind maybe two seconds and then you can manage your Lifton Coast exactly where you want, but that's the challenge that the guys are facing and I know I suggest that we go and watch them race.


and welcome to this session. This is Professor Farhad in which we would look at CPA questions that deal with convertible securities. Those topics are covered on the FAR exam section as well as intermediate accounting. Farhadlectures.com is a CPA supplemental tool that's going to help you prepare for your CPA exam as well as your accounting courses. Farhad lectures is different than Becker, Roger, Glyme, Wiley and Sargent. You do need those courses to pass the exam. Farhadlectures.com will supplement, will explain, will go a little bit more in depth in a slower mode than other courses. In other courses they assume you know the material, they would review it with you. Farhadlectures.com is where you would really learn the material from scratch where it becomes very easier for you to review it in your CPA course. I do cover many other courses. If you like my lectures, please like them and share them. Connect with me on LinkedIn, subscribe to my YouTube. So on my website you will find those additional resources, CPA questions, lectures, practices to help you prepare for your CPA course as well as for the exam. Let's take a look at this first question. So the question reads, on December 31st, what amount should toss, record as a discount or premium on the issuance of bonds? So we're issuing a bond and we need to know how much we need to record as a discount or premium. On December 31st the company issued $1 million, 11% bond at 109. What does that mean at 109? Well first you need to know how to read the prices for bonds. Bonds are quoted as a percentage of the par value. This is the par value, a million and 109 is the price. So what we do is we take $1 million, the face value times 109% or 109 and that's going to give us, so we received in total $1 million and $90,000. Well the best way to do this is to start to journalize the entry. We debit cash $1 million and $90,000. Now don't do that on the exam but I'm going through this step by step. First I need to know what's the premium and the discount. I do need a journal entry. Each $1,000 bond was issued with 50 detachable stock warrant, each of which entitled the bond holder to purchase one share of $5 common stock for $25. So what happened is this. First we need to know how many bonds do we have. Well bonds comes in $1,000 denomination. So here's how it happens. We have a million dollar worth of bonds. If we divide this by a thousand, well let's take out the zeros, what we are doing is we issued 1,000 bonds. That's what we are issuing in terms of number of bonds. Each $1,000 bond was issued with 50 detachable stock warrant. So each bond will give you 50 detachable stock warrant and those stock warrant. So you will have 50 options, basically 50 warrant entitled the bond holder to purchase one share that has a power value of $5 for $25. So simply put if you have one bond, you have 50 warrant, you can buy the shares at $25 and have to pay cash that much. Okay just so you know what we are doing but that's how we're doing accounting for it. I just wanted to let you know what does that mean in case they could ask you questions about that portion of the question but that's not what they're asking in this situation. Immediately after issuance the market value for each warrant was $4. Okay so remember for each bond we have 50 warrant, we have 1,000 bonds. Well if you think about it, if we have 1,000 bonds each 1,000 bond, each bond will have 50 warrant, that's 50,000 warrant and each warrant is worth $4. So we have 200,000 worth of warrant. Well guess what, here's what happened in this situation. We know how much cash we received. We know that we received 1,090,000. Now we know, well before we do the warrant, now let's do the warrant first. We know that the warrant is worth 200,000. How did we know this? The information is giving to us. They tell us the fair market value is $4 for each warrant. Therefore what we do is we credit an equity account called warrants. Now they might call it something else but something to do with warrants, 200,000. And I forgot I should have did this earlier. As soon as you debited cash 1,090,000 we should have did is credit bonds payable. I should have did that immediately of a million. Okay because bonds payable has a face value of a million. The par value is of a million so you're always going to pay the bonds payable at a million. Okay we still haven't answered the question. We're almost there but we haven't answered the question yet. So we accounted for the cash. We accounted for the bond. We accounted for the warrant. What's left is either a premium or a discount. What we're looking for we're missing a debit. A debit means we have a discount. So immediately you will take out B. You will take out A. You're down to 50-50. Well what's missing? What's missing is 110,000. It's a discount. So simply put this bond is issued at a discount. Hold on a second. It can be issued at a discount because we received 1,090,000. Yes we did receive 1,090,000 but remember this bond part of the 1,090,000 is 200,000 of warrants. So what's left is 890,000. So for the bond itself for the bond itself we received 890,000 although we have a face value of a million. We have to pay back a million and the reason is because we issued it at a discount and that's the question. How much discount or premium? It's issued at a discount and the discount is 110,000. Therefore the answer is C. So on this question they could ask you how much did equity increase? Well equity increased by 200,000 because warrants are part of your stockholders' equity. They could ask you about this. They could ask you what should have been bond spable. Always bond spable, debited and credited for the face amount or the power value. So they could have asked you many questions here but that's what happened to ask us is what is the amount of the discount or the premium? So you want to make sure you are comfortable with going through these transactions. Again I'm going to say if you go to farhatlectures.com I cover bonds in detail. So to be comfortable with this convertible bonds you have to be comfortable with regular bonds. So before you get to this point if you're not comfortable with regular bonds this will be more challenging. Let's take a look at this question. We have Vogel company has 4,088% convertible bond outstanding. It means we have in other words 4,000 bonds and they pay 8% and those bonds are convertible. Well let's read the question first. Vogel should record as a result of this conversion what they should record. So it could be a lot of things, a loss, a credit, a credit, a credit. So we just have to look at the question. Each 1,000 bond is convertible into 30 shares of $30 power value common stock. That's fine. The bond pay interest on January 31st and July 30th. They could ask a lot of questions about this. On July 31st 2018 the holders of 1,280,000 bond exercised the conversion privilege. On that date the market price of the bond was 105 and the market price of the common stock was 36. So here I'm going to make this easier for you. There was a conversion from bonds to stocks. That's what's happening here. We converted some of the bonds to stocks. Here they're giving you information that's useless for us. When you convert the market price is irrelevant. You don't use the market you don't use any market information. You're going to convert based on the book value. Therefore you could just kind of eliminate this. It's given to you to confuse you because you're going to be using the book value and under the book value you have no gain and no loss. Therefore we could also eliminate the simply put when you have bonds and you convert your bonds to stocks it's nothing really happened. It's a transaction between the debt and the equity section of the company. Therefore you cannot record again or a loss. Therefore you could eliminate the immediately. The total and amortized premium at the date of the conversion was 280. That's very relevant to us. So what happened is this we have 4 million bonds 4 million dollars worth of bonds which is 4,000 bonds. Of these bonds we retired 1,280 or 1,280. The first thing is we have to know is what percentage of our bond we we we retired. Why? Because when we retired a bond we have to debit bonds payable and I know I have to debit bonds payable for 1,280. That's part of the entry because if I retired if I'm I retired sorry if I converted the bond I have to retire them. I have to remove them. Therefore I have to debit bonds payable. When I have to debit bonds payable I also have to debit the amount of the premium because remember when you debit the bond you have to debit any premium that comes with the bond. Now the total premium is 280,000. If I am removing all the bonds I will debit premium I will debit premium 280 but I'm not removing all the bonds. I'm not removing all the bonds. I'm only removing 1,280,000 out of 4 million bonds worth of bonds. So I am I am retiring 32 percent therefore I have to retire 280,000 times 0.32 of the premium and that amount to 89,600. Therefore I will debit 89,600. What I just did I removed the bonds. I did part of the entry because remember I am converting the bond I will debit the bonds payable debit the premium because I need to remove those. So I remove the bond. Now I need to start to put the stocks on the books because I'm issuing stocks. I'm removing my bonds issuing stocks. When you issue stocks you have to credit common stock and how much do you credit common stock? Well if you listen to my lectures I keep telling you make sure you tattoo this on your hand. It's the number of shares you are issuing times the par value. How many new shares are you issuing times the par value? Well let's let's see how many shares are we issuing. Each bond will convert into 30 shares. Well if I have 1,280,000 of bonds I'm retiring divided by 1,000. So I'm retiring 1,280 bonds. This is the number of bonds. Each bond is issued into 30 shares. Let's see how many shares are we issuing. So 1,280 times 30 equal to 38,400 38,400. Now this is the number of shares. This is the number of shares and the par value happens to be also 30 dollars. So it's like they're making it confusing to us. This times the par value and that's going to be common stock. So let's do that. So I'm going to take 38,400 times the par value and that's going to give me 1,152,000. Therefore my common stock is 1,152,000. So now actually as I'm doing this once I got to this point I could take out C because C it says credit 89,600 to premium. I need to debit the premium. Therefore I take out C. So at least I'm down to 50-50. Now all what I have to do is anything that's left, anything that's left. So basically anything that's left when you're issuing stocks is you credit paid in capital. And how much left? Well the number that we're missing is 200. Basically this is a plug. 217,600 and the answer is A. 217,600. So this is how you will complete this question. Get rid of the bond, get rid of the premium. Okay the premium remember is an adjunct liability. Therefore you debit the premium you get rid of the bond. Then you start with issuing stocks because you know the formula for issuing stocks. How do I know the formula? The number of shares times the par value. How many shares am I issuing? I am converting 1,280 bonds each into 30 shares. I'm going to be issuing 38,400 shares times a par value of 30. I'm going to be crediting common stock. This much in what's left is paid in capital. For head lecturers.com this is where I have detailed explanation. 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Hey everybody, I'm Lance Guikey, and today I want to talk about stress and how it negatively impacts your ability to reach your training or even life goals and aspirations. So hopefully a lesson that I teach all of my clients already, but here here's more for completeness, is that all stress is just stress. Stress is very general. So if I, you know, if I stay awake for 48 hours, my back might start to hurt. And even though I didn't do deadlifts the wrong way or anything, I might still have some general manifestation of a problem, probably a problem that I've had before and that is familiar to me. I might have, you know, I have a lot of clients who are coming out of physical therapy and going back into fitness and they might have back pain, but you might have nausea in the morning or you might have headaches later in the day, something like that. All of these problems can be traced back to an accumulation of stressors. Now sometimes it's, you know, I have a disease and that disease needs to be fixed, so make sure you keep an eye out for stuff like that. But in general, if we want healthy living, we want to maximize our positive stressors, like exercise and being awake and living a fulfilled life, doing a job that we love to do. And we want to minimize our negative stressors, like worrying about things that we have no control over. Or performing workouts that aren't really well suited to your body. So today I'm going to walk you through my graph, my little storytelling thing that I try to do to explain this scenario to my clients. We're going to start by plotting stress over time. In vision, this green line is our accumulating stress and this dotted red line is what we're going to call our threshold for symptoms. So if our stress passes that threshold, then we're going to have something come up, some sort of pain problem or body malfunction. We start our graph coming off a long night of restful sleep, and so stress levels are nice and low. Then the alarm clock goes off, takes us a while to wake up, and our stress levels are climbing there, but it's fine. We're awake. We want to be awake. We got stuff to do. That's fine. Then we go do our normal morning routine, which feels great. Stress levels climb down a bit. Then we have our coffee, coffee sets in. We go for a light run, not too stressful, but still stuff to do. Then we go in the shower, plenty of time to think. Then we go cook a healthy breakfast, feels really good on the tummy. Stress levels are like all time low right now. Things are looking good. Then we drive to work and then we check our email and then we realize everything has gone down.  So we are going to nose to the grindstone for an hour, hour and a half, finish what we need to do, and hey, thankfully we were able to put out that fire. All is good. Then we check our calendar and our boss, put a meeting on your schedule at 7 p.m. last night. Oh my God, they must be upset. Do you think they're going to fire me? The panic sets in. So you can't get anything done for the next half hour until your meeting and then you go in the meeting and things are fine. You were making mountains out of molehills, right? Everything's good. So boss loves you, loves your work. Just wanted to say thank you. Perfect. All right.     It's time to go. I feel great.  And you get angry. And then you go train and it's time for an intense training session.  You think, man, I had that crick in my neck earlier, but I should have seen this coming. I shouldn't have tested one RM today. So you stop your workout, stress levels decline. Then you get home and you don't have any food. So you go to the grocery store, I've got more stuff to do. You get back and you're just exhausted. You just order pizza because you need dinner. You got to figure it out. And then after your pizza and that GI distress, you spend all night on your phone, which doesn't really promote much restfulness, just kind of keeps your stress levels pretty high.  Everything is looking up, but you can't fall asleep. And you start to get stressed about how you can't fall asleep. Now eventually you're able to go to sleep and it's not very restful. It's a very light sleep. And so you almost cross underneath that threshold line. And then you have sleep apnea waves of sleep apnea, then you have to get up because all that sleep apnea is making you get rid of all your water.  And then you have more sleep apnea. And finally, around four in the morning, you're totally resting kind of, but only for a little bit. And then you got to wake up at five to restart your day.  You still got some shoulder pain.  Now, this is just an example day, but hopefully it gives you some idea on what kinds of things raise your stress levels and what kinds of things lower your stress levels. This is why it's so important to eat really well, get a full eight hours of sleep, and train appropriately. Hopefully, training is the biggest stressor that you have during your day. And hopefully when something kind of stressful happens at your job, you understand which pieces you have control over and which pieces you shouldn't spend time worrying about. That's going to be it for me. If you learned something, hit the like button and subscribe to be notified when I release new videos. If you need something else to watch, well, I've got two things that will help lower your stress levels. One is like a mobility circuit. My limber up with Lance total body flexibility. One is a great place to start. And then the other idea is just doing some sort of cardio circuit, a variety of exercises that are good for core activation, looseness in the hips and in the shoulders and in the torso. And all of this promotes restfulness and helps you recover so that you can reach whatever other goals you have.  All of that stuff works really well when you throw in some recovery work out. So check out one of those videos.


Welcome to Psychic Medium, Tony G. I'm here to bring you messages from above with by answering your question about life, love, career, finances or helping you connect with loved ones on the other side. I'm not gonna go that because you might, not the other side of my living room. No, not at all, the other side upstairs. Okay, but however, they are all, when you connect with me, when you call in and connect with me, they are in my living room, kind of, they come in from the light up here and they come in from the light over there.  Now, couple quick things. This is being aired on Rude Rangers TV. Thank you, Rudy. If you have content, you, yes, you have a show and you have content that you would like streamed to the masses. Contact Rudy at rudetv.com, Rude Rangers TV, and see what you guys can make happen together. Mm-hmm, yes. If you need a publicist, contact Amber at legacypr. Okay, now this, okay, this is being aired on WSCS. And if you are watching on WSCS, please keep in mind that there's a part one and a part two to this show. So if you're seeing a 30 minute segment of this show, there will be another 30 minute segment to this show. So keep that in mind. If you'd like to watch me live every Monday at noon, you can do that on YouTube or blog talk. This show is being streamed on many, many stations. Yep, TV. And like a plethora of blog talk or podcast stations. So I feel the need to say that if you are stepping out on someone or have information, you don't want the whole world to know, don't get on the line and say, hey, guess what, I'm doing this. How is this gonna turn out? Because there's a chance it's not gonna turn out so well if you're hiding something and you put it on national TV. Just saying, okay, just saying. So watch your questions that you ask. Okay, if you are watching on YouTube and you post a question, I will try to get to it. There's no guarantee. I typically take my callers first and then the YouTube chat section goes so fast. Sometimes I miss questions, so please don't be upset with me about that. Please don't. Couple quick things, another couple quick things. Here it is, my book, What If? A Transformational Guide. And this is a book designed to help you open your mind, your heart, and your soul. It was channeled as all my books are channeled from those people up there. And then one of my other books is channeled messages from above. This book is more poems and statements from angels that I channeled where this book is kind of like a workbook. I know it looks really thick. If I saw a book this thick, I probably honestly wouldn't buy it. I'm just not a strong reader, at least I'm honest about it, right? I own that, it's okay if I own that, but here's the trick of this book. As you open it, you see there's one question. It's a what if question. And then there's space for you to fill in. If you believe this philosophy or this thought or this question, what would change in your life? What would you think do differently? That's it, that's all it is. Let's see what this what if is. I hope it's a good one. Okay, when I say came back in, it means like kind of to this world. What if you came back in with these people at this time in these circumstances to heal you? So what if you came back into this world right now with all the people that you're with, the family, the friends, the relationships at this time that we're in right now to heal you? What if that's really what it's about? If that's the case, what would your answer be? Yeah, that was a good one. Okay. Now, typically I end the show every time by saying make miracles in your life. And then I say, only you can make the miracles in your life that you want.  If you're not creating your miracles, you're living out somebody else's. Now this has been said a number of different ways by a number of different people.  Every choice you make, which is daunting sometimes to think about is leading you either closer to what you want or further from what you want into maybe what you don't want, just like riding a wave that you didn't choose, right? So the message create miracles in your life is about being conscious about what you want.   Oh, I love when I channel. All choices that we make, where we are is a result of all choices that we've made. Okay? And we might say, no, no, no, you don't understand the way I grew up. Do you want me to tell you my grow up story? You don't.  It was given to you to help you literally do that grow. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, let it all sink in. Be done being angry about my statement and not having to take responsibility for your own life and choices and everything else and let's get on with the conversation. So, where you are right now, though, is not where you're going to be forever, unless you continue to make the exact same choices. And if you're making the exact same choices, nine times out of 10, that's because you have not let go of your excuses. I know, it stinks, right? Because our justifications and our excuses keep us in what we think is a comfort zone. We want to get out of that comfort zone, okay? And here's why. We say we want to make this much money. We want to have this type of relationship. We want to live in this type of house. We want a better man or a better woman. We want a better job. We want a better bank account. We want more money, but as long as we stay the same person, we're going to get the same stuff. As long as we think and behave the same way, we're going to have the same results. Another way to explain this, and I'm going to try to be very, I'm going to just try to channel all of this and hopefully it will make sense to anybody listening or re-listening, okay? Where you are today is a result of everything that has happened in your life, but more so, it's a result of the decisions that you've made because of what has happened in your life. If you've always seen things happen this way and you continue to allow them to happen this way, then you will continue to have the same life. The moment you decide and it truly, it truly is a decision. The moment that you decide, you want your life to be different. In that moment, heaven and earth will work together to give you what you want, but so many are caught up in the, this is the way it's always been, this is the way it's always going to be, and they're not reaching outside of their comfort zone, what they know, their familiarity into new circumstances to see how it can be different. So for example, if you grew up in a certain area, a certain neighborhood, a certain side of town, as they like to call it, and you've never branched out outside of that side of town, right? Then you don't see how other sides of town live. And it's important that if you want to be a certain way that you have to see that way before you can accept it fully to understand it. We are trying to keep this a very general statement and not micromanage the area that you would want a change in, okay? So if you have always been a certain way, you have to first seek out that either in your mind or in your living world, you see another way, and then you can start to allow your consciousness to guide you in that way.  It just has to, the blocks between your subconscious mind and your conscious mind have to be alleviated so that you can be receiving that information into your conscious mind and move forward in the direction you want. Now, another way to say this is if you are discontent, if you are unhappy, if you are disgruntled, if you feel like there's more out there, why can't I get it? I know there's so much more for me, but I feel stuck. That's another way of saying everything I just said. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to do healings or clearings and we're going to say, we are stuck, I get a yes. And if you're watching or re-watching this show, these clearings will work. And that's at about the 13 minute mark. The next clearing is my subconscious mind is releasing my soul's journey to my conscious mind. And I get a no. So let's do that because the greatest thing we can do in this lifetime is fulfill a journey. And that journey is something that is so extraordinary to you and you alone. Okay. Okay. I want to say hi to Heather and to, oh, Genevieve, it's so wonderful to see you. Thank you everybody for joining me. I'm going to go directly to the first caller. And the first caller is 319. 319, how can I help you today? Good. What's your name? Where are you calling from? Cherelle, Michigan. Hey, Cherelle, how can I help you today? I would just like a message, whatever that comes through, please, thank you. Okay, I appreciate that. I forgot to say at the beginning of the show, due to the length of the time of the show, I usually work with direct questions or a direct connection. But Cherelle, the message I'm getting from you and this is from a woman who is older. I feel like it's a grandma. I don't feel like it's your mom, but I do feel like it's a grandma. She was fuller and she is wanting to tell you, see, when you, this is folks, this is what I'm going to tell you. When you do not ask a direct question about something, you might not love your message that you get, but your message is needed. So I'm just going to say, remember, I don't know what she's about to say, but I feel like you're going to be like, oh, no. Okay, she is saying, and I'm not going to change the way she's saying it. She's saying, you need to get it together. No, no, no. Oh, you need to get it together. Get it together as far as what? As far as what? As far as what? Just, oh. She is saying, she like did that.  I mean, that looks scared me a little bit. Okay, I'm just saying right now. Okay, so what she's saying is that, give me a moment to take a breath here because she is one, she has a very strong, strong energy about her. So the biggest thing she wants, and I'm gonna try to say this without interrupting myself, the biggest thing she wants to say is you need to get it together.  You're not paying attention to everything you need to be paying attention to. Oh, yep, there she comes. You need to start looking at the details of your life because your life is gonna stay exactly where it is if you don't. I think a lot of the messages in the beginning might have been for everybody, but also for you. She is acknowledging that there is one area of your life. Okay, something or someone has been kind of consuming your life or your thoughts a little bit. She's like, put that on the back burner and really what she wants to say is you need to let that go because that is taking you way off course. You need to, and she points her finger a lot, by the way. You need to be in a space where you are focusing on you and your life and what you want. I don't wanna say this. Okay, I don't know if this is for you, but in case somebody else is listening that needs this message, stop playing house with a guy who ain't paying your bills. I don't know what.  And I feel like based on that message, what's really preoccupying you is the do little, the do, the do, the do. What's preoccupying you is the physical element of this relationship, if I'm gonna put it differently. It's really got you twisted. And what she is saying is, that's all good and everything, but get serious about yourself, get serious about your life, start making power moves for you. Don't let- I've been trying to. Don't let, oh my God. Don't let a dingy be the thingy that takes you down. Oh my God. You have a very strong, you have a very strong future and she wants you, the biggest message she wants to give you is get it together and focus on you, okay? Dingy's come and go, whether that means a man or a man's thing, dingy's come and go, you need to focus on you because, there's something you're missing right now. There's something, okay, okay, okay. Charelle, have you thought about having a business? Something? Yes, I am, oh my God, yes. Because she keeps saying business, business, business, business, so I'm gonna tell you- That's all I've been thinking about is- You need to- Oh my God. Okay, you need to, and I'm sorry, I'm gonna say it like the way she's, I'm not sorry, I'm saying it like she's telling me to say it. No, go ahead, she's telling me to say it.  You're never gonna get past where you are. If you stay in this, I'm not using her word, I'm saying preoccupied thoughts. Now, that doesn't mean you cannot have a man in your plan. That means any man in your plan should be building, stacking and growing with you, with you, with you for your goals. Now, whatever this business is, it's a good business idea and it's a good business plan. You need to put, stop daydreaming- But the thing is I'm gonna interrupt you. I don't even know what business or what I business ideas. I don't have no ideas. I just don't want to start a business. I'm just stuck with what I want to do. Okay, here's what we're gonna do right now because there is, here's for you. Here's the thing for you, everybody listening, everybody re-listening. We, I believe and I've been guided and channeled so many times. You know, I've had four really amazing careers in my life and each of these careers, I have been independent and owned. So we don't just have one business in us, but whatever we do as a business is something we are so passionate about. It's what we immerse our time in.  Anything that you find yourself continually looking at, researching, trying to do or fascinated with, that's a good start to where your business should be. It's something you love and you could spend all day doing. Okay? Now, whatever that is for you, and it doesn't mean you have to go to school. It doesn't mean you have to go to anything. It might be something that's deep inside of you already. There's a knowing. So there's something stopping or blocking us from knowing our purpose. I get a, yes, we're gonna start clearing that. And that's at the 23 minute mark, folks. Oh, and that's a biggie. I'm gonna double down on that. I'm not, thank you. See, did you feel that too? Thanks. Yes, it's a big release. I'm gonna double down on that. Now there's something stopping or blocking us from knowing our purpose. I get a yes, we clear that. Now I'm gonna go one more and I'm gonna say, there is something stopping or blocking us from actually living and doing our purpose. I get a yes, we're gonna clear that because you know what, there is no greater pleasure in this world than being able to live your truth, your journey, why you are here. So this is not only for you, Cheryl. This is for everybody watching and rewatching. And if anybody on YouTube felt that clearing, if you felt that breath, that heaviness, that pull, please say yes on the chat. Let me know if you felt that. Hey, Matthew, nice to see you on YouTube. Big hug going out to you. So now what I wanna say, Cheryl, is these are your messages from your grandma. Please get on this, she loves you too. Now which way do she commit? Now one more thing, how do she communicate, please. No, no, stop, Cheryl, stop, Cheryl. Everybody gets one question, one connection. You got a question and a connection. I could take the whole hour talking with you, but you can't, no, it's okay, I don't mind doing it. And I would spend the whole hour talking with you, but my phone log is completely full and I cannot do it. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put you on hold, but do not go anyplace, Cheryl, because I'm gonna be doing, I feel like I'm gonna be doing a lot of money and career clearings based on other callers coming in. So hang on for those, okay? Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the lovely message. Absolutely my pleasure, absolutely my pleasure. Okay, I'm gonna go directly to the next caller who is 917, 917, how are you? Hi, how are you? Good, what's your name, where are you calling from? I'm sorry, can you say that again? Okay, perfect. And if you have me on speaker or whatever, if you can like just not do that for you and anybody else calling in because I'm using a speakerphone and it just makes it very, I just want the clearest connection for everybody. So how can I help you today? So I just wanna make sure, cause it makes a great news day. So where you're moving to, there's a person who is preying on people for money, is what you're saying? Question. Here's what I'm gonna tell you. I'm asking questions right now, like I'm asking about this particular person and what he's doing and how he's doing it and so on and so forth. And the thing I get is the best thing for you to do if you want to help is to let him catch a case. Not a news story because they'll have to do too much background work, but once he's caught a case, so to say, meaning he has been arrested and charged with scamming or defrauding people, that's when the news story will come in. Until then, it's really not anything they might look at. Now, if you don't want to go that route, you have to just let this be and pray for the people he is scamming, but that is, that's very interesting. And thank you for sharing it.


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Yesterday we talked about how the Ravens and Lamar Jackson were in such a weird spot things were just It was weird all with all the reports not an end again I know some people gonna think that what we were talking about was just based off of this whole not showing up for the treatments thing But it wasn't it wasn't this the stuff that has been being put out about Lamar Jackson From media from even people that cover the Ravens and have been covering the Ravens for a long time It's just been very very weird And it's been seeming like they've been trying to paint a bad picture Lamar Jackson Just to try to sort of prepare the the fan base for what could possibly happen this offseason, but It took another weird turn this morning Mike Preston Mike Preston About four or five days ago He put out an article. He does this thing where he his readers of his articles from the Baltimore Sun They can send him in questions and he will answer them in article format And let's just read the question from a couple days ago. It said Mike I didn't catch the whole show But you seem to imply this morning on the radio that Lamar was not being as diligent as perhaps He should with his injury rehab. Is this correct this troubling to you and negative of something deeper consistent with skip Bareless report while back about Lamar being unhappy. I shall hope not with him engage They can make a run make the tournament and then one game at a time So this is how Mike Preston answered back again This was like four or five days ago maybe longer at this point But anyway, he said Shawn is no secret to any of the coaches or top members of the front office that Jackson is a slacker This is what Mike Preston said that Jackson is a slacker and needs to have more due diligence and getting adequate rest eating a healthy diet Being alert in meetings and workouts and getting proper rehabilitation Instructions. I don't know if Jackson is happy or unhappy about his present situation And I am not concerned about what some other media members think he needs to work harder now Here's the bottom line to borrow one of Ray Lewis's favorite phases at this time Regardless of how well any of the backups play the Ravens best chance of winning and advancing in the postseason is to get Jackson healthy and ready to play again Jackson isn't the type who is going to come out and play well as soon as he steps on the field His history shows that it's going to take a game or two to round back into form So I'll say it again. Jackson needs to get over the complex Excuse me Jackson needs to get over to the complex on a regular basis Listen to trainers rehab and prepare for the last game or games of the regular season. So that That was the part right there That had people like whoa, hold up. What did you say? Well, what are you just right really cuz I mean you could just read it over again But anyway, that was a part that had a lot of people like huh? You could you can't just slip something like that in there without it being questioned Even though yesterday was the day where it really picked up steam because I guess people when it comes to a Report versus people actually hearing somebody talk about it That's when it really starts picking up steam because this this again This article had been out for like four or five days. Maybe even see it's been out for a little while But then yesterday when they brought it up on 105 7, that's when it really start picking up steam So people had seen this already. I had actually sent it to my guy Yeah, a little less than a week ago. I sent it to my God cuz I saw it and I was like, well, that's weird And it's just that the timing of everything is just again. It continues to be weird, but It got that much weirder today And let's read Mike Preston's article from today at 5 30 in the morning bright and early Mike Preston said I'm getting up early. I'm getting this out. Let's get it So the and it when you go to Baltimore son calm it is the headline article So it's right there for the world to see but anyway The title says Mike Preston Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson working diligently on track to return this season So it says so this article from this morning is the exact opposite It like literally the exact opposite of what he wrote a couple of days ago So I'll say it again. This is from a couple days ago So I'll say it again Jackson needs to get over to the complex on a regular basis So that was implying that Jackson does not get over to the complex on a regular basis Listen to the listen to the trainers rehab and prepare for the last game of the regular seasons and again remember he also called Jackson a Slacker and said it's no secret to any of the coaches or top members of the front office that Jackson is a slacker So Slender at his finest. Hey, who knows but anyway, well, I mean y'all know cuz y'all just we just read it together Yes, it's slander, but back to the new article from this morning. So injured star injured Raven star quarterback Lamar Jackson has regularly injured Raven star quarterback Lamar Jackson has regularly attended Prescribed rehabilitation and treatment procedures for his knee and is on target to return within the four to six week recovery window As far as team trainers and physicians are concerned according to a leak source So this now is it's literally the exact opposite of what he wrote Because again, I gotta go back to the original article. He said Jackson needs to get over to the complex on a regular basis He needs to so again with everything that he wrote in that previous article It implied that Jackson was a slacker and that he was not getting to the the complex on a regular basis But now a complete 180 injured Raven star quarterback Lamar Jackson has regularly attended Prescribing habilitation and treatment procedures for his knee and is on target to return within the four to six week Recovery window as far as team and trainers and physicians are concerned according to a leak source. So That's strange That he would originally say that But then he did a remix and like literally change it to this now. I wonder one thing that I was thinking about Because you know Lamar Jackson. He'd be seeing stuff Lamar Jackson be seeing all that stuff here and he got his people they could see stuff, too. I wonder if he got pressed or Possibly maybe maybe they floated the word defamation around Defamation of character because Mike Preston be put it out. Hey, it's no secret Lamar Jackson is a slacker So I wonder if Lamar in his camp was like, excuse me, mr. Preston You may want to ease up on that article, buddy. You may want to fix this You may want to correct your tune on this on Lamar Jackson Because those things are not sure and you're painting this man in a bad light Especially to the public and they're running with it because again the article I've been out for a while But then again when it was on the radio yesterday when they were talking about this whole situation yesterday on the radio That's when it just it picked up a whole lot of steam So I wonder if that's it cuz it's just It's weird and it's funny because I've been seeing people say hey see look See Lamar Jackson hasn't been missing any rehab workouts or anything like that See it and they're like I told you so see see why why did y'all get all hyped in the first place? Why did y'all get all crazy over this in the first place? Relax, but at the same time hold it You I don't think you can relax because it's literally the same exact person that wrote the article It's the same exact person that wrote both order the same exact person This is great anyway, let's continue now another thing that was in there that just that first paragraph alone He's on target to return within the first four to six week recovery window That was different on what we were led to believe from Adam Schefter because Adam Schefter originally reported that the PCL The PCL injury was one to three weeks But now my precedent stand for the six So I remember when we did a video about the Lamar Jackson is just being concerned with the injury and whatnot And I talked about how I wonder if the injury is actually a little worse than we were led to believe And I mean hey, he ain't played yet. So I guess so but anyway What a turn of events, but let's keep going let's continue He said the source wouldn't make a prediction about when Jackson was stepped back on the playing field but said the quarterback has been perfect in his attendance and Compliant with all recovery practices as he recovers from a knee sprain He suffered in the first quarter against the Denver Broncos again complete 180 literally literal complete turnaround of everything that he said Not even a week ago complete like literally complete opposite Anyway, the Jackson hasn't practiced since the injury missing his 10th straight session on Wednesday As the Ravens prepared for Sunday night game against the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers You know what maybe I didn't I haven't noticed it with other quarterbacks or other teams or something I have never seen people like count the exact number of practices that somebody missed They are they of course count games. Oh, he ain't practiced this week or he ain't playing this week He's out this week. Okay. I but maybe I just missed it, but anyway So Jackson hasn't practiced since the injury missing his 10th straight session on Wednesday as the Ravens prepared for Sunday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers According to the source Jackson's timeframe to return isn't any different from most players who suffer knee sprains though a few have come back in three weeks the source said Ravens were hopeful Jackson will return for the Atlanta Pittsburgh games, but Team doctors were more concerned about Jackson because of the position he plays and also because he is a mobile quarterback Even after missing nearly four games Jackson still leads the Ravens and rushing on 764 yards on 112 carries. I mean, that's that's a whole nother topic right there Anyway, and we we get into the end of it now He said according to the source Jackson has been at all his mandatory rehabilitation sessions now see that Again he continues to repeat it so he continues to let people know a Jackson Bennett Lamar's been there Contrary to what I led you to believe previously Lamar has been there This is really weird And it says that was not the case last season when he missed several after he suffered a bone bruise in his ankle and Missed the Ravens final four games on their way to finishing eight and nine and missing the playoffs He had to make sure he got that in there Well, he's a he said I'm a I look I know I'm making a turnaround. I know I'm making a change But I gotta get this in there, but it's okay if it's true Okay, he said the source said Jackson will probably undergo another MRI before he's allowed to practice. Okay, that makes sense now Then it takes another turn He said because he failed to return from an injury a year ago There was speculation Jackson had adopted a similar strategy this year and missed rehabilitation sessions with the training staff There was also concerned that his failed negotiations on a long-term contract the number 230 the number 32 overall Picking the 2018 dread is playing under his fifth-year option Where's 23 mil after he and the Ravens failed to reach an agreement on an extension before Jackson's Self-imposed week one deadline was a factor. So He's saying basically he's saying he there was since last year. He didn't cut. He didn't return from the injury There was speculation that he was missing the rehabilitation sessions with the training staff And he said that there was also concerned that his failed contracts his failed contract The whole contract talks that since they failed that that was all a factor. So it seemed like he tried to sort of slip in an apology without saying I'm sorry because again, he's saying Well, there was speculation And it's like, oh, okay. Okay, but I Don't know man. This again, it's just weird like It's weird Now this Whatever's going on with this. Oh, okay. We just got a wait-and-see and I mean that that's been it's really my motto with so much We just got a wait-and-see Because I could think one thing y'all could think one thing we could think one thing other people can think one thing We could all think what we're gonna think but we we just got a wait-and-see now um Even if you remove all of this You remove all this Mike Preston stuff that that's happening this past week Things are still very interesting with the Ravens and Lamar Jackson And again, I continue to tell you continue to pay attention because even even though this article was sort of a backtrack He was like, oh, wait, wait, wait a minute. Hey, okay. What no no Lamar's been there Lamar's been there even though it was a backtrack You see he's still doing some stuff He's still doing that stuff like hey, I'm trying to look a little bit. Hey look remember what happened last year. Don't forget Just again like I said in yesterday's video pay attention Just just pay attention pay attention to these articles Pay attention to these report pay attention to this stuff Cuz again that they want they want to paint Lamar a certain way They want to paint him a certain way so We'll see how this whole thing works itself out, man We're gonna see um, I've continued to say it uh, and I'll say it again um that Because I know a lot of people have questioned. Oh, well Lamar should sit out the the rest of the season Now Lamar, he's gonna get paid regardless If if he chose to set out the rest of the season, but I don't feel like he should and I I never felt like he would want to sit out the rest of the season um Because and again the same thing I said but been saying I don't feel like he would want to sit out the rest of the season Because he would want to try to finish what he started Like again the in the right if the Ravens were out of the playoffs Then I could see Lamar considering it like oh What am I come back there for seasons over, you know what? I'm gonna just chill y'all boys. Y'all got it from here I'll get fully healthy. I'll get fully recovered but and even in that case he would probably still want to even come back and play but What the Ravens with the situation and this was even before we've been saying this before they even clinched a playoff spot But I'm saying the the fact that they were so close to get into the playoffs I just I never felt like Lamar want to sit out I never felt like he want to sit out Of course, you know, you're gonna want to get back in and get back in and play Because again, you want to try to get as far as you could possibly go And I know like a lot of us included myself. I don't feel like this is a suitable team I don't but I would I'm glad they make it. They made the playoffs. I would hey y'all Ravens prove me wrong Hey Prove prove me wrong. If you prove me wrong ain't got no problem with it do it. Prove me wrong Prove a lot of us wrong, but Okay, cool. I ain't gonna be mad trying to trust me. I ain't gonna be bad. I would love to be wrong but I just Femme to sit out, especially at this point the way the way stuff is the way the Ravens are sitting that right now Now it wouldn't make any sense to me. Femme to sit out now. I don't understand Negotiations or something, but he said he was negotiating, but if it was just a respect factor, too Like no y'all y'all need to respect me, man That's what I don't know if he had a conversation with the Ravens or something and something changed, but It just for him to sit out It will be better because again, they they know what it's like without them I know people have brought that up like oh, maybe Lamar trying to prove a point to the raven like hey, you need me They know they know that they need them. Oh, they know they know All right, because they think surely ain't the same. Ooh But shout out to Tyler Huntley though I ain't ain't nobody knocking Tyler Huntley, but they just two different quarterbacks. One's a starter. One's a backup but um Yeah, man, we'll we'll we'll we'll see how this thing shakes itself out man We'll see uh, what the next step uh, it is in the next episode of as the Lamar Jackson Ravens world turns um, because this It's just and really the only way like The only way and we said this before a long time ago too The only way that all this stuff is going to come to an end Is when a contract is signed? Or Lamar Jackson is somewhere else That's it That is it That is literally the only way the only way That's it This is going to be ongoing man. It's again. It's the game within the game the game within the game And that is the only way that anything Will possibly Well, it'll it'll be done. That's it Because those are the only two conclusions. That's it. Those are the only two conclusions Nothing else is a conclusion. Everything else is an ongoing thing They franchise tag Lamar. That's an ongoing thing. They franchise tag Lamar again That's an ongoing thing. That's not a settlement. That's not a conclusion But if they paid Lamar, all right after all the stuff they went through they paid Lamar That's it's concluded. It's done Or after all the stuff they went through they traded Lamar that'll be unfortunate, but that would be a conclusion That would be the settlement to everything so This stuff is going to continue. This is not going to be the last time something like this happens Trust me and y'all know already.  This this ain't gonna be a one and done No Because if if if something like this would have been one and done then The first time somebody did it it would have been done back there, but it's been an ongoing thing Especially this whole year Especially this whole year So I said it before and I'll continue to say it again pay attention Pay attention because one thing I appreciate so many of y'all have been seeing stuff for yourselves So many y'all have been seeing stuff so many y'all have been noticing stuff like whoa Why what but why would he oh he said hey what what kind of report is it? Oh, why they trying to do? Hmm. Oh, I see Y'all see it And I know y'all see it because especially because I hadn't had so many conversations with so many of y'all about this stuff And y'all bring stuff to my attention. I know y'all see it So just keep watching out for it man because it ain't going nowhere yet Until there's a conclusion So what a conclusion happened this off season? We'll see We'll see Well, we'll continue to get dragged out. Let's see and then one one more thing even after the conclusion After whatever it ends up being There's still going to be more of all of this because whatever happens People will have to prove that the right decision was made Whatever happens Whether it stays whether he's gone people will have to prove that the right decision was made So Yeah, y'all got it though. I love y'all team keeping clean. I appreciate y'all so much We out man