All right here we are we're in John chapter 6 excuse me we're gonna look at verses 60 through 71 I'm gonna be sharing today a message that that I believe is needed at this moment for some for some and for the rest of you it may be in the future needed so let's look at this together beginning at verse 60 in John chapter 6 and therefore many of his disciples when they heard this said this is a hard saying who can understand it when Jesus knew in himself that his disciples complained about this he said to them does this offend you what then if you should see the Son of man ascend where he was before it is the Spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing the words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life but there are some of you who do not believe for Jesus knew that knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe and who would betray him and he said therefore I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my father from that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more then Jesus said to the 12 do you also want to go away but Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go you have the words of eternal life also we have come to believe and know that you are the Christ the Son of the living God and Jesus answered them did I not choose you the 12 and one of you is a devil and he spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon for it was he who would betray him being one of the 12 and so in chapter 6 let me give you some information that leads up to what we'll be looking at today in verses 60 through 71 in chapter 6 John records that Jesus had performed us an incredible miracle he had fed a multitude of five thousand and he had done so with five barley loaves and two small fish the miracle had caused some to say that Jesus was that prophet spoken of by Moses and because they were saying this people wanted to take Jesus by force in order to make him a king and so that caused the Lord to to leave the area and he went to a place called Capernaum well the next day a crowd followed him to the city and he began to instruct them and as he was sharing with them he began making some incredible claims and the claims were intended to separate genuine disciples from casual admirers you see when the Lord very often would say something the person who was just a casual person who really had no spiritual hunger or desire or interest well that person would hear what he had to say and it would just cause it caused them to just walk away saying I don't need this kind of thing at all but somebody who had spiritual hunger when they would hear Jesus speak would want to pursue more they'd want to know more about him and so the sayings of Christ very often are intended to separate lazy listeners from sincere followers and so he was making some very exclusive claims and as it was teaching he was challenging people to surrender to him to fully commit themselves to him and you can see it in some of the things he was saying I'll read some of the verses in chapter 6 to show you what kinds of things he was saying for example in verse 35 of chapter chapter 6 Jesus said to them I am the bread of life he who comes to me shall never hunger he who believes in me shall never thirst in verse 40 this is the will of him who sent me that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up on the last day verse 44 no one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him I will raise him up the last day verse 47 most assuredly I say to you he who believes in me has everlasting life verse 51 I'm the living bread which came down from heaven if anyone eats of this bread he will live forever the bread that I shall give is my flesh which I shall give for the life of the world and then finally verse 54 whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood is eternal life and I will raise him up the last day when you say things like that and those are incredible things to say he's saying that you need to believe in me trust in me and you need to eat my flesh drink my blood you're gonna have life within you well that caused them to become very agitated and all he was challenging them you need to surrender to me but they were offended they were stumbled by his words and his claims the scripture here speaks concerning in verse 60 many of his disciples notice that word disciples that word disciple is used in the wider sense here speaking of those who had been listening to and were intellectually accepting his teachings that these would be regarded as followers but they were not fully committed to him and so their response in verse 60 is that they say this is a hard saying who can understand it the word hard is translated rough or intolerable it's unacceptable it's offensive the word saying speaks of the message this is an unacceptable offensive intolerable message that he's giving and when they say who can understand the word understand means to comprehend to perceive so this is hard to hear is what they're saying we don't understand this and we are rejecting what Jesus is saying they're saying who can digest this kind of teaching who can receive this kind of message now this is a message that is difficult to truly believe so who can digest this who can believe that this man is greater than Moses who can believe that he'll raise the dead who can believe that he's the bread from heaven and to have life means to partake fully in him now one of the things as I was beginning this message and introducing it we need as Christians to remember that the Jesus never watered down his message we live in a day when there are quite a number of teachers quote-unquote who water the message down who want to make it easy to digest to the point where they they actually take out from it its heart and so we want everybody to accept this and show up in churches is really for a lot of pastors the goal we want to have a lot of people in our in our pews we want the place filled with people and so I'll say say things that they want to hear I'll say the things that they'll come back to hear more often and Jesus never did that and Jesus was saying things and you need to read your Bibles and to see this but Jesus was saying things that were as they're saying difficult hard to understand these are things that were rejecting they're intolerable we can't believe this to say he's the bread of life to say that you have to believe in him and he'll raise you up to say that the father will draw you through him to say that that you have to believe to have that life because he's a living bread that doesn't make sense and so they were offended Jesus's words don't always unite people keep that in mind because when you actually go through the Bible his words divide people and Jesus made it clear in Matthew 10 34 do not think that I came to bring peace on earth I didn't come to bring peace but a sword I came to divide my words will divide and that's what Christ is saying so we shouldn't be surprised when people are offended when you actually share the truth with them you shouldn't be you know weirded out or or even you know concerned not to say that you shouldn't care about how people feel that we should all show compassion and concern for others but don't be surprised when you say but Jesus said I'm the way the truth in life like we were looking at recently don't be surprised when when people say well that's why I don't like Christianity that's why I don't like people like you because you guys are so rejecting and so hateful and don't be surprised at that very often when people would hear Christ they would become upset at what he said in Matthew 13 in verses 54 through 58 Matthew writes when he had come to his own country he taught them in their synagogue so that they were astonished and said where did this man get this wisdom in these mighty works is this not the carpenter's son is not his mother called Mary and his brothers James Joseph Simon and Judas and his sisters are they not all with us where then did this man get all these things so they were offended at him but Jesus said to them a prophet it's not without honor except in his own country and in his own house now he did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief and so Christ actually became a stumbling block to people his words were offensive you see if the message was watered down though I wouldn't have come to faith in Christ if the message was a feel-good message I wouldn't have come to faith in the Lord because if you're telling me I'm okay the way that I am I knew I wasn't if you said everything was going to turn out all right to me I knew it wasn't if you said the things that I was doing was okay with God I knew they weren't so when somebody said listen you're lost and you need of God you need to be forgiven your heart is hard you're going in the wrong direction well that's the word of the gospel I didn't want to water down message because I wouldn't have come to faith in Christ and neither would my parents my parents would not have come to Christ either neither would my my sister Becky or my sister Madeline they would not have come to faith in the Lord they needed the truth spoken to them with love and so this is what's taking place he's been teaching these things and in verse 60 once again those people were listening said this is a hard saying who can understand it verse 61 when Jesus knew in himself that his disciples complained about this he said to him does this offend you so when it says he knew in himself his disciples murmured that would speak of his spiritual awareness not that he was listening to them but he was aware of what was going on he was aware of their difficulties he knew what was going on inside of them so he says does this offend you does that offend you because I speak of myself as a bread of life are you stumbled of what I'm telling you and what you need and so that's what's taking a place there does this offend you verse 62 what then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where he was before so Jesus referred to the fact that he had come down from heaven so he's saying will my ascension prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I came down from heaven and then he says in verse 63 it's the Spirit who gives life the flesh profits nothing the words that I speak to you our spirit and they are life and so physical food will feed my flesh but it doesn't nourish my spirit Jesus's spiritual words satisfies spiritual hunger so his words need to be seen as spiritual in nature a literal interpretation will not yield spiritual insights it's like when Nicodemus as recorded in in chapter three of John's gospel this rabbi very famous teacher a premier teacher in Israel had come to Christ by night and you remember that story where Nicodemus had spoken to him and said master we know you're a teacher come from God for no man could do the works that you do unless God is with him so he began speaking first and foremost as a man who was a teacher who also was in fellowship with other great teachers and and he was speaking concerning his group and they had come to a consensus that Jesus Christ obviously was from heaven so he came and sent that to him master we my group and I know that you are a teacher come from heaven no man can do the works that you do unless God is with him in other words we we've listened to what you've said your claims but we've also seen your power and we know that this is not of earthly origin and therefore we have together decided that you are come from God and Jesus didn't say isn't that cool he didn't say well you know I got some greater things hang around Nick and you'll see more he said unless a man is born again he cannot see or enter into the kingdom of heaven what are you talking about born again what do you what do you mean Nicodemus's response was what do you mean born again how is it possible for a man to be born again you see to enter into his mother's womb a second time and be born again in that natural way so he actually as a teacher is asking a question Jesus says to him the words that he is speaking are spiritual in nature you can't take these words in a literal way you need to be born from above and that's how some people are is they they hear what he's he's saying and they just kind of take them in a literal sense and a wooden sense if you will and Jesus is saying no it's the spirit who gives life the flesh prophets nothing the words I speak to your spirit and they're alive they are spiritual in nature you'd have to have a spiritual hunger the Holy Spirit has a work through these in order for you to be able to receive those things that'll transform you there's there's there's faith and belief in reception that's all involved if you're going to have a transformed life it's like when Paul was writing to the Corinthians and he had said the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned the natural man speaking of the unregenerate man the man who hasn't been born again he says the natural man doesn't receive that word receive means to welcome accept the natural the unborn again man the non-spiritual man doesn't welcome in the things of the Spirit why because they're foolishness the word foolishness in the original language means they they make no sense it's moronic it's embecilic because a man thinking in a natural way cannot understand the things of the Spirit so it takes the Holy Spirit to convict a person of sin righteousness and judgment it takes a Holy Spirit to enter into a person's life to take God's words and when mixed with faith to transform those into things understandable by that person so that they can have a relationship with God and move on in the life of the Spirit and so Jesus is speaking to people here who can't understand and so he says this is so offend you excuse me what then if you should see the sentiment ascend where he was before and he explains it it's a spirit who gives life the flesh prophets nothing the words that I speak to you our spirit they are life and so some things can only be understood through the lens of faith and again these hard sayings eliminated the lazy fair weather disciples the fact is some people are just not hungry for the bread of life that's in church as well as the world some people just don't hunger for the word of God a lot of people know what's on TV and plots and movies and various books much better than they know their Bibles because they really don't have a hunger for the things of God in Jeremiah 15 verse 16 said it like this Jeremiah the prophet said your words were found I ate them your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart for I'm called by your name oh Lord of hosts and so Jeremiah was saying I discovered your word I found your word and I consumed it because that causes joy in my life and that's the the mark of a believer that's a mark of somebody who loves the Lord well verse 64 says there are some of you who do not believe for Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe and who would betray him this is true whenever people gather together some claiming to be disciples don't believe them they don't they can hear them they can repeat them sometimes they'll know all kinds of information and I've seen this over the years or where many who profess to be Christians have no hunger or understanding of the word of God they just don't need it they just don't want it it it doesn't appeal to them for whatever reason maybe it's not saying the things they want it to say I don't know maybe it's said in a way where they don't appreciate the way it seems to have been said I really don't know all I know is there are people who go to church just like this one who don't want to hear have no desire happen to be there we'll find some place else to go someday that's just what they do they're not hungry there's no hungry in the hunger in them they're not like Jeremiah saying your words are found and I ate them I consumed them they gave me a life they gave me joy that's not true with everybody many claim to follow Christ but only those who trust him are their disciples are his disciples and again in verse 64 he knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe he knew that they did not believe as a group but he also knew that Judas was rejecting he knew that Judas did not follow him and so in verse 65 he said therefore I've said to you that no one can come to me unless it's been granted to him by my father we cannot come to Christ unless a father draws us by his spirit if the soil is not prepared to receive the seed no effort on the part of the farmer will make that soil receptive and so with all of this that's being said notice this is taking place verse 66 from that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more now according to verse 59 he said these things as he taught in a in a synagogue in the city of Capernaum I want to now bring this to a place of application as we look at this passage together I want you to put yourself for just a moment put yourself in the synagogue you're there and the place is packed out remember the day before Jesus had fed 5,000 men not including women and children he had left and the people came looking for him and couldn't find him they got in the little boats and went up in the Sea of Galilee they went up to the north in the center to this village called Capernaum and they got off of their boats and they walked up and you can do that kind of thing to this day you can arrive at the shoreline and you can walk on up and they walked up into the city of Capernaum they walked up to the synagogue and Jesus was in their teaching so they entered in and so this small building was packed with people and as Jesus is there seeing them and ministering and giving him this message eat of my flesh drink of my blood I will raise them up at the last day and he's saying these things they're watching this rabbi and as they're watching him speak they're thinking within themselves this is a hard saying who could understand it this isn't the same as eating those fish burgers that we had yesterday this is different he's making demands on us we like the idea of somebody who could supply our physical needs whenever we're hungry he'll give us food we like that because Jesus earlier had addressed that he said you're following me not because of what I said but because I fed you and you were no longer hungry you're coming for physical food but you don't understand your spiritual need you want me to give you physical things but you don't want the spiritual things that come with me you don't want that and he challenged them he would offend them he stumbled them he said things directly to them because they needed to hear things directly some things need to be said plainly when my girls were were young girls and some boy wanted to take about if I didn't feel good about it I would say so I'm their dad I have the responsibility to reign on their parade I have the responsibility to making their lives miserable that's my job description but if I knew the guy was just not the right sort of guy for him what kind of father would I have been to not be honest with them he have to be honest with them lovingly honest do they always like hearing the truth no of course not no why because they've made up their mind that they know what they need but I have a different perspective and I would say the truth to them guess what some people don't like the truth say to us pleasant things say to us things we want to hear but don't tell us difficult things don't tell us hard things in the book of Ezekiel the prophet is given a message and God speaks to Ezekiel and he says to him might he says the people come before you and they sit before you as if they're my people but they're not my people he says you to them have become like a man with a pleasant singing voice who plays skillfully on a guitar and so they say to their friends come in here with the man of God has to say and they come and they sit before you they sit before you as if they're my people but they are not my people God told Ezekiel because they hear and they will not do and that's how it is oh yeah I love the Lord I love his word I love to worship oh I love those things but when the word goes out and cuts the heart that's when we know whether we really have a relationship with them when it's not easy to do what he's saying when it has a cost and when there are choices that are made I can't tell you listen you know I excuse me I have obviously this thing with my throat but let me tell you I've been at it for 48 years as a Christian I I've been teaching the word of God since September of 1973 45 years I have seen hundreds into the thousands as I have ministered over the years I've spoken to men 8000 9000 men at a time same message same thing this is what we need to do for years and years and years radio ministry that reached into the hundreds of thousands many people getting saved and many people rejecting and there are a lot of people who will come and a lot of people say oh come in here what the word of God is today but God said but that is Ezekiel they come and they sit before you as if they're my people but they're not well what do you mean they're not Lord what do you mean they're not they're not because they hear and they won't do because they listen but they don't with their heart they listen but they're not they like your voice they like the way you do oh yeah you got to hear this guy this guy here really says that the way it is but in fact they're not interested they're not they're not you know why because it's not being said the way they want to hear it they want to smile they want to laugh now that's not there's nothing wrong with either one of those two but what you got to see yourself in context here Jesus is in a synagogue these people were fed they got what they wanted they want more of it let's make him a king because he can give us things that we don't have to work for he'll just give us food and that's what Jesus said you're following not because of what I was saying but because I fed you he was clear about that he was there to feed their bellies he was there to feed their souls but because they listened and he made those claims they began to filter out every time I teach someone filters out every time every time sometimes they slam doors just let me know how much sure they are when they go they do that they do that I've been doing this for years I've seen hundreds hundreds I don't want to hear it I don't want to hear that give me pleasant words give me sweet words make me feel good about myself well sometimes you need to see what you are before you can see what you can become I needed to see myself as a lost miserable sinner because that's what I was a doper a druggy an evil man and I had to see myself for that before I could go to the physician who could make me well so truth sometimes is hard it can be difficult to hear but it sets you free and that's what Jesus said you will know the truth it'll set you free and so picture in your mind's eye these people just filtering out there was a packed hall and Jesus is watching them and his boys are with them and he's watching them as they're walking out verse 66 again from that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more they walked away and as Jesus watches the people flow out of the synagogue rejecting him he looks at his apostles and he asks them the most important question that he could ask and notice his question in verse 67 and this is where we're gonna rest for a while at the common question Jesus said to the 12 do you also want to go away do you also want to go away have I not met your expectations also now this question is asked with the anticipation of them saying of course not but still they need to look deeply within themselves they need to test themselves has Jesus stepped over a line should I stay with him or should I turn away now I am thoroughly convinced that mature believers will be asked this question and I say mature believers the Lord Jesus doesn't necessarily have to ask a backslider do you want to go away because they already have chosen to step away from him he doesn't have to ask a lukewarm person because that person's not doing anything to follow him anyway that's not a question you're gonna hear a luke warmer receive it's the one who's been serving God it's the one who's been following him it's like his disciples who had said we've given up everything to follow you we left family we left friends we left our business we left everything behind we began to follow an itinerant rabbi somebody that that is not really popular now we decided to do that to come and follow you when it when it cost it cost us everything we are people who want to serve you I'm I hope I'm speaking to some in this room right now who are of that stripe who have said my old life is gone I want to pursue the Lord with all of my heart I hope there are some people in this room right now who are saying within themselves I'm gonna be a Christian I'm gonna follow Christ no matter what the cost because that's the person who's gonna have this question asked this question is something that is asked of those who have said I've left all to follow you I'm gonna follow you with all of my heart I was I hated my life I hated what I was I hated what I did to other people I I hated the the aimlessness of my life I hated the fact that that I I just was mean and I was I was ruthless I was a liar a deceiver I hated those things about me those things that I hated I continued to do until you set me free and there's got to be people in this room like that where the Lord touched you one day and when the Lord said to you I will set you free I will make you new and you said God I'm gonna follow you no matter what and you lost your friends and you lost family members and and things became harder on the job and or in the school or whatever you became that freak that people didn't want to spend time with that's what happened to me that's what happened to me all my friends are gone it's a new life I'm starting from scratch and that's Christianity that's how it works I'm thoroughly convinced that mature believers will be asked this question do you also want to go away and so I want to speak to you today I want to share with you that spiritual depth does not come easily and spiritual depth does not come without a great price and remember that faith will always be refined in Job 23 10 through 12 Job said he knows the way that I take when he has tested me I will come forth as gold my feet have closely followed his steps I have kept to his way without turning aside I have not departed from the commands of his lips I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread and this is coming from the mouth of Job who is suffering with wounds on his body and the disrespect of his friends and the taunting of children he became the song of children taunting and ridiculing and yet what is he saying I remained faithful he tested me I'll come forth as gold my feet fall closely followed him I kept to his way I haven't departed I treasured the words of his mouth and this is what I got for it you ever been there you ever been there and this is what I got for it I lost my friends I lost my family I lost my dignity I lost everything when I was a doper and a drunk everybody that I knew kind of liked me because I was the clown I was alive for the party and when I got sober and started living a sober life and what happened to you you used to be fun look at you what happened to you and I would say how was your clown but now I'm not now I'm a servant of Christ I have dignity now I don't need your attention I need his and that's how I was that's what I became like I said I'm not going to be what I was I'm going to be brand new because Jesus makes all things new and he made me knew but that's what happens and so you decide I'm going to follow Christ I'm going to be his person well we need to remember that God demands total devotion not half-hearted curiosity and we need to remember that total vulnerability leaves you open to hurt and disappointment and you can even become hurt and disappointed with the way it seems that God is treating you remember that it's possible to love the Lord but not understand his ways because life events and circumstances can lead to the question do you want to go away believers as they grow come to understand that afflictions are part of the Christian life they're part of how God shapes us into the person he intends us to become it's part of how God conforms us into the image of his son Jesus Christ have you learned that in hard times you're more sensitive to the presence of God is it not true that when you're under pressure you pray more fervently and more often it's in the difficult times that we start searching the scriptures to find answers to our problems it's through difficult times and seasons that we are being refined like it says in Psalm 119 verse 71 it is good for me that I have been afflicted that I may learn your statutes Charles Virgin once said if we would be scholars we must be sufferers God's commands are best read by eyes wet with tears and that's true give you a brief testimony if I may please don't pass or no I'm going to I was 23 years old when I began ministering the word of God September of 1973 in September of 1974 I began a Bible study in Ontario and over time we planted our first church there as long as I can remember I've been blessed with good health I had my appendix removed I broke my wrist a broken ankle I have had hepatitis but over the years I never really went through anything that was very serious it all changed in early 2001 I experienced an episode of temporary amnesia but at that time it didn't cause that much concern in September of 2008 well in Florida I lost my memory I was hospitalized for three days I was giving a Bible study and and as I was teaching I went into a amnesia I was able to read but that was it I remember giving an invitation people came forward that should happen more often but people came forward I went down and I spoke to some people but I didn't know where I was and I was just operating you know in a way of just like the momentum was there but my wife Marie knew I had lost my memory she'd seen it happen more than once I still can remember her coming and standing next to me and I took her by the arm and I pulled her next to me and I whispered I don't know where I'm at you need to get me out of here so she did they took me to the back a paramedic came hooked me up with blood pressure it was 270 they said this man's going to have a stroke they took me to a hospital put me in a bed and I woke up at like one or two in the morning I had no idea where I was but my wife was laying in a cot next to me that's all I remember and they kept me there for three days and because they were so concerned about me they had me go through medical examinations again this is in September of 2008 I took a PET scan an EEG and EKG EKG and there was damage that was found to my front left and right temporal lobes that was caused by calcification and so they showed me the x-rays they said there's calcification your brain is dying so we have to send you to specialists to see what can be done so they sent me to a psychologist neurologist they tested my memory again this is in 2008 and as I was speaking to the doctor she said to me you have dementia the onset of dementia and I said okay I said be brutally honest and say things to me that are real and even frightening if necessary because if you don't give me any anything that causes any concern I have to be honest with you I'll do nothing she said okay here's the brutal truth you will be in a full state of dementia in seven years if you don't change some of the things you're doing I can't say anything any better than that so I looked at her and I turned to my wife Marie was seated next to me and I say to Marie I'm gonna go to the car can you take care of the rest of this for us and I wouldn't as anybody here ever done that 10 o'clock 2 o'clock thing with your steering wheel where you kind of sit behind it and you just do this you ever do that some of us have I sat there with here I sat like this I sat there looking out the window I still remember looking out the window going what am I gonna do what am I gonna do you see a minister's whole ministry is his memory and to lose my memory I lose everything and I sat there holding on to the steering wheel and Marie came walking out and she was ashen shirt little face was and she sits next to me doesn't know what to say and I looked at her okay honey what am I gonna do what am I gonna do and so we had a scheduled trip to go to Hawaii with the church and getting ready to go the doctor who had taken the scans and all said you need to come in and I told Marie I'm not going in I'm going to Hawaii might as well so I did and I got home from Hawaii and we made our appointment and we went in and so the doctor says to me you know sometimes we make mistakes there's nothing wrong with you there's nothing wrong you're okay and I remember going that's my God God was kind to me God was kind to me and so I thought well bless the Lord thank you Lord and so Marie and I went out for dinner a couple days later and while we're at dinner I got a phone call from my doctor my general practitioner and he said he said you have stage 2 diabetes and I said what kind of foods am I not supposed to eat and he told me and that was on my plate in front of me I still remember that I go no I can't eat this and so now I've been diagnosed with stage 2 diabetes at the same time I was having trouble with my vision I had to go to an ophthalmologist and he said you're in the early stages of glaucoma and you're developing cataracts I didn't know what glaucoma was if anybody here has been told you're getting developing it deal with it quickly I didn't I didn't know what it was I've lost 30% of my vision in my right eye and I had cataracts formed in my right eye they had to remove the cataracts I have to take drops now if I'd have known that you could take drops that would have saved me I would have taken the drops I was never told that so I lost 30% of my vision it's very difficult for me to see out of my right eye now and that's why sometimes you'll see me looking like this you may notice eventually I'm trying to wander here to see the words because I can't see very well out of my right eye and so that took place so a dermatologist I have to go to see him he said you're in the early stages of skin cancer so all of this took place between September and March of 2008 without within six months I'm getting all of these diagnoses the same time people begin to leave the church they're inviting others to go with them eventually one of my longtime staff members failed in ministry crushed my heart so it began to challenge me I began to wonder if it's time to leave ministry I wondered if my time here was over should I leave maybe there's something else for me to do I began to seriously seek the Lord I asked what am I to do is it time for me to go and it was it was a it was a dark dark time even to this day let me I'll be honest with that I forgot to tell the first service because I have a bad memory you know but but I've been healed no I have to take a medicine now I've been taking it that has changed the taste of food and so Murray and I had for many years the ritual of just getting a cup of coffee together I don't drink coffee anymore because the medicine I take has taken away the taste of food so everything doesn't taste good anymore for me and so there are little things that were my life that are being taken away small things but important things little things that my life was built on my coffee time with my wife things like that what an uplifting message huh I'm trying to be real with you guys common question do you want to go away do you want to go away what am I to do Lord well I began to learn that the difficult times strip away the trivial things and exposes the eternal you get a clearer vision your will is strengthened your faith is refined as I said the day that I heard the prognosis of dementia I went in sat in my car he had she had given me seven years I began to think I was 58 I was thinking seven years I'll be 65 I had hoped to be able to do some things and continue doing things and and now I'm thinking I've got a seven year time and I told Maria I said listen honey I said if the day ever comes where where I cannot I cannot I can't recognize you put me in a home and let me be alone I don't want you to see me like that I don't want you to suffer my wife said I'll put you in a home right now no she said that was her plan all along she said of course I'll never leave you I met and married you and I'll stay with you I said I don't want you to go through this with me that's where it got the medicines I take by the way have a side effect of opening my emotions have you noticed that that's a fact I'm not playing with you I don't cry you might find that interesting I don't it's not that I can't it's just that I don't why would I but when I open up like this and the medicines are kicking in I'm being real you know it's hard to control the tears forgive me for those who are uncomfortable with it but I just it's hard to control because the medicines have a side effect and that is it breaks down what I normally would be able to do and it opens me up in a way I'm not comfortable with but it's me it's what I am and I'm living with it some of you understand others you wonder why is that guy crying I wonder to but when I open up it just does forgive me some of you are uncomfortable but that's what I was going through I began to ask myself is my wife ready for me to leave are my children prepared have I been the best father husband grandfather that I could be I began to think of my ministry I had thought I'd be here for years so I began to prepare my staff to handle the church if someday I can't but it also helped me to answer the question is it time for you to go away do you want to go away my answer then is the same as it is now no I have nowhere to go you have the words of eternal life many years ago when I was a young man in my early 20s I went through a crisis of faith and I went through a very deep pit of despair a sense of depression that I'd never experienced before to the degree that I stopped leaving the home for a while I started actually just staying in the house and and I would place my I would sit on my bed with my back to the wall and my sister Madeline would sit next to me and and I couldn't even speak to anybody I I was weeping uncontrollably for days for days the depression hit me in such a severe way that I wasn't leaving the house except for necessities and that and it got so bad and my my sister Madeline would sit there and just cry with me I couldn't speak to anybody I'd never been in such a bad place and I opened up the Bible I opened it up to this passage here and I began to read and then the question Jesus said do you also want to go away I still remember reading it and closing the Bible and I said where can I go and I spoke to the ceiling in my parents house and I said where can I go I have no friends I gave up everything I'm going to Bible college I want to be a pastor but I don't know what to do I can't take it anymore father you got to do something my heart is broken it's a lot of my testimony that you guys don't know but there's been a lot of hurt and I opened the book up again my Bible Lord to who to who would we go you have the words of eternal life and I knew that that was the Lord speaking to me in a way that was recognizable and for that moment and I started to cry and I said God forgive me I haven't understood you I've blamed you for my pain and I know that even your wounds that you bring are intended to be healing and I receive from you and that's when my healing began that's when my journey into more ministry took place so a long time ago this question was asked of me and I said you are the Christ you are the son a living God your word and the evidence of your work has caused me to believe in you you are my Messiah you are God's son I will follow you and in that decision there's no turning back I have believed your promise I will hold fast to you well Jesus in verse 70 says did I not choose you the twelve and one of you is a devil he spoke of Judas is carry at the son of Simon for it was he who would betray him being one of the twelve well Peter had spoken out of turn he had said we have come to believe and that would include Judas but Jesus corrects him huh one of you is a devil you're working on the side of Satan Psalm 41 9 even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted who ate my bread has lifted up his heel against me no Peter not every one of you has received my words of life Judas rejected him see so I came to the point where I realized that I could receive or reject the men received Judas rejected which one was I going to be I decided to land on the side of life and I followed Christ and I'm encouraging you today because listen this may not seem like a message that is upbeat because in many ways it's not but it's real a lot of you are going through tough times a lot of you have gone through pain a lot of you are right now probably hearing you want to give up and I'm here today to tell you don't it gets better God doesn't leave you God doesn't forsake you God loves you God will heal you and God will use you that's what I'm here to tell you today that's what I'm here to tell you today don't give up don't give up hold fast it all turns out great one of these days you look in the eyes of Jesus Christ and you will say it was worth it every single thing was worth it thank you Lord and so I'll close with a poem it's called the race it's about a young boy who had fallen three times during a race as his father was there watching him run and this is called the race defeat he lay there silently a tear dropped from his eye there's no sense in running more three strikes I'm out why try the will to rise it disappeared all hope had fled away so far behind so error prone a loser all the way I've lost so what's the use he thought I'll live with my disgrace but then he thought about his dad who soon would have he'd have to face get up an echo sounded low get up take your place you were not meant for failure here get up win the race with borrowed will get up it said you haven't lost at all for winning is no more than this to rise each time you fall so up he rose to run once more and with the new commit he resolved that win or lose at least he wouldn't quit so far behind the others now the most he'd ever been still he gave it all he had and ran as though to win three times he'd fallen stumbling three times he rose again too far behind to hope to win he still ran to the end they chaired the winning runner as he crossed the line first place had high and proud and happy no falling no disgrace but when the fallen youngster crossed the line last place the crowd gave him the greater cheer for finishing the race even though he came in last with bowed head low unproud you would have thought he won the race to listen to the crowd and to his dad he sadly said I didn't do so well to me you want his father said you rose each time you fell and now when things seem dark and hard and difficult to face the memory of that little boy helps me to win my race for all of life is like that race with ups and downs and all and all you have to do to win is rise each time you fall and with Jesus Christ we can rise we will love we will not fall we can rise


My name is Jimmy his name is Jake and this is the weekly dumb We missed you guys last week, but we're back Zach was very sick Tell him in the comments that you hope he's feeling better only if you do truly hope that I'm doing well We're going to Tampa this week, and I'm doing well.  It's a good name back to back From a spring training game twice which I mean which umpire would toss a guy from a spring training game You would guess Lanslin or you would guess Angel and as which pitcher got tossed from a spring training game Lanslin would be guessed because he just like motherfuckers every pitch and ump It's the third inning of his spring training debut and also Lanslin God I keep saying their names the opposite way Angel Hernandez to nine names Angel Hernandez has the effect now The secret and like the cordialness has completely dissipated over pitchers are just like if they miss a little bit They're just like come on Angel. Yeah, it's terrible He tried to go to the bullpen to finish just his throwing session Lanslin just a warm-up and Angel Hernandez walked I think it was Angel that walked from home plate all the way to the outfield to say no You can't do that either you're out of here, which that's where come on.    Yeah, it's court document that there. He's a bad ump. Oh, no No, dude, we don't care that you have a nine overall name. You're just the worst ump Jim Moses almost a breakdown you're talking about a little bit of your roots in here I yeah, I've seen kangaroos before I lived in Australia for a couple years I've never seen a stampede of kangaroos and these guys were playing golf There's actually two videos one guy posted the video and he goes at the stampede. It's a stampede. It's a good open There's another video like wait.  We'll get to some good guy communication angles But it is it's a kangaroos a group of kangaroos is called a Stampede mob a mob kangaroos I get partial credit then the guys in the Twitter They asked did they mess up the green much and then he said nah light-footed animal made me laugh I read in his accent. Yeah, that was cool. And I just wanted to share the video with everyone And that's kind of here. We are that's the whole thing. So let's get back to the sports Kind of Jim before we do that. Can I tell the people at shady rays in the more sports balls out bowling is back How do you like that in beautiful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? I don't know why I laugh We don't have a lot of video footage from it. Obviously.   Yeah, that's a hot group of bowlers Well, you're missing the one joke is that they're all gonna put their balls over the the air thing They already do that. Yeah, but they're doing it.  God? That's actually probably pretty good because there is definitely a group at this bowling alley that's been pestering the owner. Come on Let's just do this. Let's just do it. Just do it once, you know, Joe's better when he's naked, you know Come on nudity is required unless you're female. You have to wear you can wear bottoms I don't think it's gonna be a busy female You also said you like doppelgangers and you like this not sports This is an interesting not sports two men on the same flight seated right next to each other with the same name Mark Garland one two one five point one. Yeah, basic one is 58 years old and the other is a different age 62 they had never met each other before even though it turns out they live 15 miles away from each other they both have four kids and One's a bus driver and the other has been on the other dude's bus been on the bus They think it's crazy. It is somewhat crazy, but then the article takes a Turn where you now judge these guys differently. What's the turn? I'll just read the paragraph just read a word by word the pair bonded over their shared love for Thailand With the 62 year old having visited 13 times and the 58 year old a whopping 83 times both currently single You don't need to visit a lot of places 83 times. No, but if you're 62 years old and single beautiful beaches beautiful beaches Yeah, so then that kind of puts a drain on all of it.  I like paying for sex.  It was like yeah That's what they did for 11 hours and then


I've been waiting for this moment a very long time because I'm I'm ready for 2k 19 I don't know what other way to put it 2k 17 with some booty but cheeks. Okay, we know that Yo, there's no way they can make a worse product 2k 18 drop and at first I was like You're hot as in Had a neighborhood looking dope and then as a year went on it became apparent that although the gameplay was solid I've been saying it all year literally all it took was nerfing snatch backs and blowbys and the gameplay would have took a Massive leap but because they didn't do that They incentivize garbage players to get by you and drop buckets and they weren't rewarding good defense I don't even get me started. I'm tired of this game. I'm deleting it for good. I won't be returning to it All right, I haven't been playing this game seriously for months now That's why you've been seeing me if you've been following the Facebook streams link in the description I've been playing 2k 17. It's a lot more fun and that game was ass So that just that says all you need to know about NBA 2k 18 19 can't be this bad. That's all I know All right, ladies and gentlemen, yeah, I'm pretty sure this was my playmaker bill. This is the first bill I made Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking cuz after the first day of the game's launch I grinded the playmaker and I was like, yo, I don't want to grind the playmaker no more So I just cut it out and I built a sharp shooter I sat through all those cut scenes over again and I just decided to roll with that for NBA 2k 18 I just I guess maybe I just don't find satisfaction in doing all these Dribble moves. It's just too simplistic is the same moves over and over again But I did have one of my favorite videos on the channel with this player Do you guys remember it was like five or six months ago? I titled it my playmaker can shoot better than your sharp shooter and I wasn't playing when I said it It was before they patched that jump shot. I was using in that video It was when the latency was low on NBA 2k 18. Literally the game was running And I was uh, I was tearing it up Okay, they're not gonna deem me. They're not gonna deem me. They're not gonna deem me. No badges, man. Oh Yeah, I love being quick. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No mercy. No mercy Bang excellent Hold up, I'm just learning this give me a time pop set pop set. Oh It feels good Yo, nah This was definitely my sharp shooter build 91 overall I can I can upgrade him now, but I don't want to because ever since the first week of the game launch I've been a 91. This is the first year where I got sick and tired of using the pure sharp man I couldn't do it anymore.    There's so much wrong with this build And I know it's a good build, but it just wasn't fun to play after like January or February I just stopped using it in general and then things got really bad when everybody figured out the animation glitch And I was like yo if I want to keep up I got to do the glitch myself and that kind of just ruined the entire meta And it made me not even want to play with this build in general The second the animation glitch came out sharp shooters on the hierarchy of top builds Slid down and it was stretch bigs doing their hippity hops who climbed all the way to the top and at that point I was like I Don't have a stretch big anyway I got bored of the build put it to rest, but I did have some really lit videos with it though I saw my green light green light. You better guard up. Is that what the kids say these days for attacks?  Oh my some sauce Some sauce, I got all the pain Not just a t-shirt. I'm joking.   It was the perfect versatile build This build was pure perfection. Here's what I'll do so like my pure sharp. I can still hit shots from all the way over here usually But what I like to do the most was I get the ball put it in my right hand This right here is a blow by animation 1,000% of the time I don't care if you have 1,000 strength I was getting that blow by all the time I so I so drive it literally took zero skill But I love because I had the glitched animations doing some hippity hop action hop Do the sharp shooter green light from limitless range not only could I shoot like I was a sharp shooter with this bill? I didn't feel like I was shooting any worse with this build Especially when I put on those pro amp boosts, but I was dunking on folks I had a way more exciting player and I was no longer a pylon I've been trying to tell people all year that this is the most versatile fun build If you if you wanted to only create one build and you wanted to do it all This was the bill to do it so around the time where I got incredibly bored of playing park I started playing a lot of pro amp and when I retired the sharp shooter I didn't really know if I was gonna continue playing prime But when I created this player and we start to get some games in It was super clear the wind man. Let's go for the wind. Don't cut don't cut Don't cut man. Don't cut. Don't cut take you there. Don't spread it up and spread it go go for it It all comes down to this we're running a five-out depth drives his defender drags And he finds an open shot with a late contest And easily my favorite moment of the year was playing pro amp when we made it to the finals and had to play against G size ladies And gentlemen, we were put to the test. It was probably one of the most Anticipated videos I've dropped all year and easily the one I had most fun recording who the slips Jalen still hits the shot so we continue to hold the lead Although it's clear to us that their pick and roll is deadly as legend hedges They have rebound position snazga miss another rebound and that's been the story of the game is we're just out of position So worried about that pick and roll. So as half time comes to an end Jalen to kuta reset Jalen on the slip corner kick pass. That's legend. Boom. That was a brick. I was I didn't see the brick coming at all actually I Know we lost but anyway It got me really hyped on pro am and as boring as it was to watch people run five out all the time I Would I would live for those moments where it was a game-winning shot and we hit it and everybody would go crazy On top of that two of the players on our team kuta and Jalen made it to the NBA 2k league And on top of that both of them are in the finals of the 2k league.  Anyway, this is really all there was to it the second program finished for me I really wasn't having much more fun on the game, right 2k league started up a lot of the top program players Just stopped playing and I was like, ah, I don't even want to attempt to put together a team of five and play anymore And then 2k just started to fade for me and when it faded I just started to play more 2k 17 I couldn't stand the game anymore There was too much obvious issues with the game that I don't think were hard fixes that 2k just wasn't doing and for me He made it worth not playing anymore. So I know Mike Wang is out there right now talking about all the skill gap topics He's talking about what I want to hear Mike Wong. Sorry. It's gonna take a second to get used to it I put out this tweet earlier today talking about how I missed the days where I could just play 2k for endless hours And just have fun and keep playing and have fun and challenge friends and all year long like you never really got boring for me It's facts I said facts right there. It wasn't until 17 and now 18 were like the last few months I'm like, yo, I really don't want to play this and so I started playing older versions of the game That shouldn't be happening 2k. I get it y'all some money-making machines Okay, I know the guys that take too like to make their money and then 2k just follow suit I understand but hey take this in for a little bit if you make a good product People will stay on the game. Oh, you're long and if people stay on the game the likelihood They buy your virtual currency skyrockets. All right, but when people stop playing the game The potential to buy VC goes down. Now. This is just logic. You don't need me to tell you that I'm just saying how about we just focus on making a good product next year And I'm trying to be optimistic man because I don't want another bad year But if everything goes according to plan ladies and gentlemen, I I'm gonna drop so much videos The content is gonna be so amazing but more than all of that I'm gonna have a lot of fun and uh, I want to get back to doing that If you guys enjoyed the video drop the like subscribe to the channel and I'm gonna catch you guys later Click on one of these two videos here I'm out peace Lead bro, I will stab you with a knife if you get in my house and scare me You


Let's go dunk tip Tuesday to three biggest mistakes I see people make when they're trying to jump higher and they're trying to dunk.  So leave a comment last week kind of all over the place You guys were not so thing is I figured I would make a the biggest mistakes that I see it does answer a lot Questions that I got from comments from Instagram from my podcast all these different places But I wanted to just get this out there because I really feel like if you guys avoid these mistakes You will be on the right track things I wish I knew when I started my journey and they're just huge factors that aren't even Necessarily exercises. So let's just get started number one is technique and what I mean by that is Hammering home the correct technique and by the way, we don't waste any time. We get into it We don't do anything besides grow. We just give the energy we grow We get to work and that's a huge part of it right away is get the friggin work, dude Stop waiting for this exercise this that that program that shortcut. No such thing. Okay? I'm giving you the shortcuts. This is avoiding mistakes. That's the shortcut. You do it right the first time That's technique you carve the right technique do two foot one foot do both plants do all angles And what I mean by this is you're gonna learn patterns anything you practice you repeat It's gonna cause patterns in your brain. It's gonna be great for you but You want to make sure you're doing it correctly and if you start with just one step even just a standstill jump Then work up to one step then two step then your full approach and you do that from all Angles you do that with the right left and left right and I get that question a lot How do I know which plants might be another video? Let me know if you want to see that But if you do that you do one foot you have your chest up your chin up the technique I have a lot of technique videos you can check out but if you do that from the start and take time take weeks at a time to really hammer home if you're having trouble with that Footwork hammer home that footwork so you could really carve those patterns because if you do take the time and your diligent And your patient then over a few months It's effortless now you can build on that but if you build bad technique like I have and Then you're gonna carve the wrong patterns and not only are you gonna not jump your best? But you're gonna have to unlearn those and that's really hard to do you have to take time away For example, I only have like one pattern with my right left It's really hard for me to come from other angles because I'm just not I'm not good at it And I wish I would have just practiced and I'm back I'm back to doing them now I'm back to practicing the different angles in one step at a time in my left right But if I would have done it from the start, I would have had a greater foundation and that's what I want for you So practice your technique. All right, so number two That is tracking tracking everything all aspects of your life mind body and spirit meaning where are you at? What's your energy? But what I mean by tracking as well as the tangible things your data How many jumps are you jumping in one session right left left right? Calculate that take note of that if the more data you have the better you can understand your body and the better you can train Because say you jump 70 times I've had dunk sessions where I jump 70 times and I feel great Right the next day because I worked up to that right, but then the next time I'm like, okay I wanted to get to 80 something crazy because I eventually want jump endurance You want to be able to have a lot of max jumps But if you're not tracking how many jumps you don't know another good example is sometimes I warmed up And I warm up super quick in three four jumps and I'm flying my highs and I'm measuring how high I'm jumping But other times it took me 20 jumps to get my max right But if I have this data if I was tracking it, I would know early on in the session Okay, I'm still not jumping great, but I remember that one session. I had 20 jumps before I felt like I was jumping at my peak.  You feel good You're like, okay, my body can handle that because if you don't track that how are you gonna make progress? That's the simple quote for this whole section of the video is if you're not tracking How do you make progress and then every time you're trying to increase your vert? You should be measuring whether it's just your hand on the rim your hand on the backboard your wrist on the rim You should try to have a max jump because how do you know if you're jumping higher? If you have no goal you have to have a goal to track and when it comes to energy This could be a whole video, but track your sleep track your nutrition Track your body awareness, which was the training part of it How much you're moving your body how much energy you're using in your body and with sleep? That's easy I use the band which you can get a free Free free month with the whoop. I'm a huge proponent of this thing It's really good to hold you accountable Sleep is the number one habit I have videos on that we'll get into that another time nutrition You don't need to track your calories.  Do you feel great today? Does your stomach feel weird as your energy feel off? How does it feel if it feels good? Nutrition is a big part of that. That's your fuel. That's your recovery That's how you're gonna have fuel and energy in your body to perform and recover and lastly Probably the most important is your mindset because if you're doing these two things you're tracking You're working on your technique. You're carving good patterns. You're training correctly You need to have the mindset that most days are gonna be low days and also that it's a long Process people are gonna have gains in the beginning.  You're just it's just impossible.  They feel like they want to change everything I know if I've had it every dunker. I've talked to we've had low days like what's wrong with my training? What's wrong with this and that's why I go back to the data because if you go back to the data It's like look I slept well I ate well my training was on point I just had an off-day Sometimes your battery pack your central nervous systems a little off You didn't get the best sleep you possibly could or something you're stressed out from school or work and that just affected your jumping There's so many factors and that's why you need to be tracking But overall you need this mindset to never give up because that is the key to any goal You want to achieve it's going to have down times and if you have the tracking to fall back on you have your technique that you're carving The right things you're doing everything you can to a to the highest degree of Perfection that you can it's going to be easier to get through those low days That's the point of the first two and the mindset is the number one So wake up every day with a progress mindset trying to make progress not trying to get to the top today It's what can I do today? That'll be the best for my future. That's how I want you to think that's what's helped me in my Life completely and I wish I knew that from the beginning because I was chasing every fraction of an inch I was chasing inches by just throwing lobs going for that Just trying to get this done trying to get that instead of building the foundation being patient Making these patterns so carved in every direction that I could be the best dunk I could possibly be which is my goal So I got away from my own goal because I wasn't patient I didn't have this mindset. So that's it. That's dunk tip Tuesday Leave a comment with any questions you have from dunking training mindset footwork jumping Dunking actual tricks whatever the hell it is dunking on people how to get over the fact that you just murdered someone's career All right, happy dunk tip Tuesday. I'm excited to bring you these videos. It's been so much fun Let me know what you want to see and I'll see you next week Turtles


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Let's talk some more about calculating antiderivatives. We've seen already how we can use the power rule for antiderivatives. That is, if we wanna integrate a function of the form x to the n dx, we end up with x to the n plus one over n plus one plus a constant. Don't forget that constant. This of course only works when n doesn't equal negative one, otherwise use the natural log in that situation. Well, what if you have more than just a power function? What if you have like a polynomial? Well, just like derivatives, there actually is a constant multiple rule and a sum and difference rule that works just like it does for derivatives. So constant multiples, if you have a function f of x and you have a constant, like a two or three or a pi in front of it, just a constant, you can actually factor this constant out of the integral. And so you get the integral, or k times the integral of f of x. This is just like it is for derivatives and limits. Also, if you take the integral of f of x plus g of x, this will equal the integral of f plus the integral of g. So the antiderivative of sum is a sum of antiderivatives. It's also true for the subtraction as well. You can take the integral of f minus g and that is the integral of f minus integral of g. Now these properties we've seen before, these two right here, this is true for derivatives, this is true for limits and it's now true for indefinite integrals or what we call antiderivatives. When something shows up over and over and over again, it kind of deserves a name and this condition right here is known as the linearity property that integrals are linear, antiderivatives are linear. So we're derivatives and limits. And in fact, linearity shows up a lot in calculus. It shows up enough that people start paying attention to it and we actually start studying it. And the study of this linearity property is what's known as linear algebra. Turns out there's a lot of linear algebra going on inside of calculus. Linear algebra is about amongst other things, systems of linear equations, matrices, vectors, a lot of cool stuff there. You should check it out sometime, but linear algebra has huge applications to calculus because of this linear property here. Basically everything in calculus is secretly linear. Calculus is just linear algebra plus limits, but we can talk about that some other time here. Let's see some examples of how we can use this linearity property to help us calculate some integrals. So take the integral two V cubed. Well, if we, by the constant multiple rule, we can take the two out, we get V cubed DV and then by the power rule, its antiderivative will be V to the fourth over four plus a constant. Which if you distribute that two through, where you get two over four, V to the fourth plus two times a constant, that simplifies just to be one half V to the fourth plus a constant. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what just happened there? We had a moment ago, two times a constant and now we just have a constant. What happened to the two times a constant? Well, one thing to remember here is that this number C is what we call an arbitrary constant. It's a constant, it's the y intercept. Well, you don't know what it is yet. It's unspecified. And so because we don't really know what C is, multiplying it by two, since we don't know what C is, we don't know what two C is either. And it's really just a placeholder for a number that we're gonna plug in later. And this arbitrary constant, it's not any more specific saying two C as opposed to C. And so you often see this abusive notation where arithmetic operations will happen to this unknown constant. And since it's unknown, it will just kind of absorb it. And I honestly like to think of this plus C as this gelatinous blob, this monstrous creature that wants to take over the city. And you have over here, it's attacking the city, it's eating everything. We have these tanks that are trying to come from the National Guard to protect everyone. And they come shoot it, but it doesn't matter what happens, it just kind of eats it, whoop, everything's gone.  And this blob is none other than plus C. That whatever happens to this plus C, it's just gonna absorb it. And so the blob eats everything. That's what you wanna remember when it comes to this plus C right here, all right? So we don't have to worry about times in C by any constant. As another example, factor out the 12, we end up with Z to the negative fifth. Notice because it's a reciprocal, I can write this as a negative power. By the power rule, we end up with Z to negative four. We raise it by one, divide negative four plus a constant. You see, I'm not gonna distribute the 12 onto the plus C because my blob just eats it. Negative four goes into 12, negative three times. So you get negative three Z to negative four plus a constant. Since the original function was written using a reciprocal, I might write the answer that way as well. Negative three over Z to the fourth plus a constant. There's our answer right there. How about a polynomial? What do you do with a polynomial like this? Well, because of the sum rule, it's kind of like the sum pig rule right there. Because of the sum rule, you can break this up into three separate integrals. We get the integral of three Z squared, DZ, don't forget the differential, minus the integral of four Z, DZ. And then plus the integral of five DZ. So because of the sum and difference rule, you can break up into three integrals. Because of the constant multiple rule, you can pull out those multiples three times the integral of Z squared, DZ. You get minus four times the integral of Z, DZ. And then you get plus five times the integral of DZ. And then using the power rule, we end up with three Z cubed over three plus a constant. We'll call it C one. Next, we then get, I guess it's a minus, minus four times, that was a really big four, four times Z squared over two plus another constant C two. And then we're gonna add to this five Z plus another constant C three, like so. So we can do each of these integrals separately. And I'm gonna rewrite things just a little bit because after all three goes into three right here, two goes into four, that leaves two behind. That's the simplification we can get. And so then we're gonna end up with a Z cubed minus two Z squared plus five Z. And then we have these constants C one plus C two plus C three. What do we do with them? Well, these constants are, again, our gelatinous blobs. We have over here plus our C one. We have then next another blob plus C two. And then we have a final blob plus C three right here. Well, what happens when all of these blobs come together? It makes a mega blog. This is sort of like the power rangers of gelatinous blobs. They come all together because we take an unknown plus an unknown plus an unknown. Guess what you got? I don't know. It's an unknown. And so we can actually bring these all together as just a single constant plus C. And so this is how you're gonna see the answer for these type of integrals. You'll see this function Z cubed minus two Z squared plus five Z, but then you'll see this plus C at the end of it. You don't have to keep track of all of the constants. Just a single plus C at the end takes care of everything. I got a little bit crowded right here. When you see an integral like this one, this integral of X squared plus one over the square root of X, we might be tempted to be like, oh, I'll do the quotient rule here, but we don't have a quotient rule yet, right? And because we don't have a quotient rule, we have to try to simplify this thing algebraically before we can take its anti-derivative. And if we were to do that, algebraically what we can do is we can break it up as two fractions. We get X squared over X to the one half, DX. And then we get plus the integral of one over this X to the one half. Power is always more preferable in calculus than radicals. We get like this. So for the first one, X squared over X to the one half, if you subtract those powers, you will end up with X to the three halves power, DX. And then this one over here is the integral of X to the negative one half power. And so taking the anti-derivatives here by the power rule, we're gonna get X, add up one to three halves. That gives you five halves. And you're gonna divide by five halves. Then next you're gonna get plus X. Well, the negative one half power, if you add one to it, you're gonna get positive one. And so you divide by one half plus a constant. And when you divide by those fractions, multiply instead by the reciprocals, you get two fifths X to the five halves, plus two, the reciprocal of one half, X to the one half plus a constant. And this gives us our anti-derivative. All right, we'll do some more examples of this in the next video. So look for that in the links below. See you then.


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So there's been four groups. You all know that. This is three of them. You're going to hear what the groups have come up with. In my class today, what's going to happen is the students have been in groups working on different tasks, scale difficulty in each group. They're going to hear what all the others have been doing. This all comes together for where the students will go next. Now what you're going to see early on is a couple of our seniors are what I've been called the system engineers. They're going to actually drive the vendor software that was installed in these 11 high schools. And we're the only ones that have access to this. They've given us a window into the system. So they're being informed on other pieces of a common problem that they'll be solving. The problem deals specifically with solar power as an application to programming. And they're programming in a brand new programming language. At the very end, we've got a couple of students that are going to take a program and show you what you're going to have for starter code. They're going to show you code that works. Language they're programming into something called SWIFT. All of your iPhone apps are written in SWIFT. The newest Mac operating system is written in SWIFT. These kids are learning how to program in SWIFT. Because it's new. We haven't done file operations yet. We will. But you'll see it. So I want that to happen too. Now the way we're going to do this is I'm going to have Keith Sean or Jacob drive the software, the vendor, the industrial software. They're going to create a couple of files and then you'll take the monthly file and open it up. And that's where the environmental information is. And your PowerPoints up here, all of you, their PowerPoints are up here. By design, this course has students of scaled competence in programming already. Some have programmed before. Some are going to learn to program now. Some have never programmed. All right. So as you guys know, we've been working on the Draker software. It's a system where we can look at throughout a variety of high schools and their solar panels and what they're outputting, what kind of power output they're getting versus the potential they have to get, so on and so forth. So as you see here. I tend to give them all the same problem initially. Give them some, for instance, starter code. But the main thing to do once they all have their individual tasks is let them go into that area of struggle. They have to go in there. And so don't leave them in there to drown. But bring them in there and explain to them, okay, we're debugging a program right now. That's going to be a little bit hectic. It's something you got to get a little skill at. But let me work with you on it, especially in a scenario where some kids know more than others. They're even reluctant to tell you, I don't know how to do this. And so that's where how you ask the question can make a difference. What do y'all think had happened on that spike there? See that spike on that trailing edge? What was going on the first? What was going on there, do you think? Why did the power of production go down in there? What was going on there? Some environmental probably, okay. What about that gap in between the two? What's going on there? You don't get any solar power at night. Not everybody knows that. For instance, don't make them feel challenged for not knowing something. I would say, for instance, I'm not sure I was clear about that. I'm not sure I got that across. So what can I do here? What can we do here? You'll see in here three environmental, the last three columns. That's environmental stuff, okay. Nitrous oxides, and you're going to hear about that. Silicon dioxide, and I think we've got CO2, column D. So Jacob's taken AP environmental science and was particularly interested in this. So he's going to talk about that. How do I help the students recognize the difference between effort challenge and higher levels of achievement? As they showed you guys, you can see in the last three columns of that file that they generated are the nitrous oxides, the sulfur dioxide, and the carbon dioxide. Modeling it certainly helps a lot. Not doing it all at once helps a lot. For instance, in programming, I'll give them a code, a program that largely works and have them operated, but then in the front of it, I will have a series of explorations they're called where they'll start adding content. They wanted a unit at a time debugging it, figuring out what didn't work or what did work as the school year progresses. I do less and less starter code for them, and more and more, they're writing from scratch. So giving something that largely works, and then let them add to it and even explain it to each other. That's where a lot of good education happens, where the kids are explaining something to each other. How do I recognize when the kids are emotionally challenged and where do we go from here? We've got AC versus DC power. Obviously, like it says on the slide, everything that you normally use like white bulbs uses AC power, but the power that's coming out of the solar panels is DC power. So you need something called an inverter to convert between that. First of all, in programming, you can see it happen. There's all sorts of body language. It may be shutting down. It may be nobody throws a computer across. You can see it happening. So what do we do there? Well, you try and draw them along. Get them started. Say, we'll try this. For instance, this might be the cause. Let them ask the student next to them for help. And also recognize where it's now at a point where I just need to tell them what to do. They're stuck. They're not getting passes. Let me say we'll do this and then move on. But I can't create a dependency relationship either there. There's going to be a certain amount of academic tension naturally when we're trying to challenge kids. And so let them know that that happens. It's okay. A safe environment, I would say is the best way to get to where we're all trying to go. To help set up a safe environment for the kids to learn. One of the things is let them know that learning doesn't have to have a cost to it. But let them know along the way that this is the time where it's okay to be wrong. My group was the chemistry group. The reason solar power creates heat and how it works. That's how we learn. That's some of the best engineering happens when you're trying to fix something that you thought would work and didn't. And so it is with programs. So it is with academia too. So let the kids know it's okay. Laugh about it a little bit, not to trivialize it, but let the kids know it's okay. It's okay to make mistakes. To generate energy from sunlight.


Welcome to Capriva Angus. I'm Jim Capriva. This is Karen Capriva, Angela Capriva, and Lee Capriva. We're the recipients of the 2012 Leopold Award. Very honored to receive that recognition. And we'd like to take you on a little tour of the place. Generation. We're really lucky to be the fourth and fifth generation to be living here. Coming home to a family operation is really a challenge in today's agriculture world. Having an operation is big enough to provide several families income. And so one of the most difficult things is finding more land to expand or to expand from within the operation. The land has to be taken care of to be given on to future generations. We're constantly looking for methods that we can utilize our resources wisely, more wisely. And optimize what that resource can give us. It's very humbling to know that our work is being looked at as one of the best and something to pattern other operations after. Lake Creek Refuge pulled in Alan Savry to talk about rotational grazing. Well, Alan Savry didn't show up, but his team did. And taught a one-day course on rotational grazing. And the theory of that was the United States is over-grazed but understocked. That we could graze more cattle and improve our grassland and instead of less cattle and abuse our grassland. They started them in the brome grass because it came on first. When the brome grass was all used up, they opened the gate, let them into the next chunk. And when that was all used up, they opened the gate and let them into the next chunk. Really, all we've done in that rotation is we close the gates behind them. We start them on the brome grass, we let them into the next chunk, we close the gate behind them. So the brome grass gets a chance to recover. When that next chunk is utilized fairly well, we let them into the next one, close the gate behind them. So we're always resting and keeping them off. So the regrowth gets a chance to build the root reserves. We appreciate the wildlife and we try and protect it. The main problem around here is habitat. It's all farmed up, fences are removed, trees are bulldozed down and there literally is no place for the wildlife. And with the grazing as opposed to crop production, the grazing land is still suitable for habitat for wildlife. The grazing cattle will walk right around a pheasant nest. With the rotational grazing, the cattle are in there for relatively short time and then they're moved on. So the conflict, the moment of conflict is fairly short. Notelling is a far superior method for dryland farming. The problem with conventional tillages is it exposes the soil to wind and water erosion. Also, the no-tilling preserves moisture so that that crop, those seeds actually get to moisture and actually have some moisture to start with. You still need rain, but every time you stir the dirt up, more moisture is lost. So it's counterproductive to stir it up and dry it out real good before you put the seed in. That's something you can't buy, it's that moisture. I'm here to tell you that it's doable. The information's out there. If you're interested and you'd like to learn, there's people that are very willing to teach you and oftentimes help cover the expense that you're going to run into. You got to do what you think is right and if people see that it's working, maybe they'll try it. The most impressive thing I think on Capriva's ranch is how they've designed some of their pasture systems and they've talked a lot about rotational grazing and I've had the opportunity to be out on their land looking at the different cross fences and water developments and those types of things that they have implemented and they've really worked well for them. The strength of a country is based on its food source. I just got back from a South Dakota agro-ship foreign travel experience where we went to China and Vietnam and when you see how fragile their food source is, it makes you really appreciate our food source. They count heavily on imports to feed their people. The moment the imports would break down any political or worldwide shortage of food, their people would be out of food within days, maybe the same day. We look at it as a strength, we're the food basket of the world and farmers are the true conservationists. We have the job of feeding not only our people but the whole world. Thank you.