okay good so let's just read Galatians 3 and verse 3 so where when we've studied this before where Paul says are you so foolish having begun in the spirit are you now being made perfect by the flesh are you so foolish having begun in the spirit are you now being made perfect by the flesh and in the same way we saw where Paul writes further and he says about the spirit you know this only I want want to know you know how did you receive how did you receive the the work of the spirit was it by faith or by the hearing of the law right so in the same line he asks you know having begun in the spirit are you now being made perfect by the flesh so that's the question that we need to ask ourselves even today now having begun having started the work in the spirit are we now trying to accomplish things in the in the flesh you know like having started with faith having started with dependence on the spirit of God for everything you know for ministry for revelation for for winning of souls everything you know having started in the spirit are we now trying to accomplish things in the flesh like manipulate things in the flesh and yeah the bigger question today for us is what how is our dependence on the spirit of God to what extent are we depending on the spirit of God is our dependence coming down or are we truly you know depending on the spirit of God for each and everything especially in ministry okay so let's let's pray and let's ask the Lord to bring us back to depending upon him and depending upon excuse me the work of the spirit for the God we Lord even as we look at that question Lord that having begun in the spirit are we so foolish to accomplish things in the flesh master we we know that it is from you Lord by you and through you Lord all things for God and we cannot attribute any any success in the flesh Lord by ourselves Lord for you said oh God for without you we can do nothing and Lord even as we ask ourselves today reflect and see Father God in our own lives Lord how much is it self-dependence how much is it is it the Lord the strength of our Lord of our own physical ability or natural ability God rather than the work of the spirit and Father we know that you also lead us Lord to do things Lord in the natural and through all the abilities that you've given us but Lord let our dependence be on the work of your spirit for we have started purely Lord by the work of your spirit Lord yes Father God we we surrender ourselves we've yield ourselves Lord to the work of your spirit we yield ourselves to Lord the leading of your spirit or God we yield ourselves to the power of your spirit or Father God and Master we pray that Lord there will be much manifestation and display of your power of your splendor of the gifts of the spirit of the expression of the Holy Spirit Lord in our lives and through our lives Lord yes Master we pray that you will have unhindered Lord unlocked or expression or unquenched work of the Holy Spirit Lord you have the right of way Lord and I pray that it will be unhindered Lord by anything of our own flesh of anything of our own things God of our own making have your way Lord we are yielded to you Lord we thank you in Jesus name we pray amen amen okay let's continue from where we stopped we stopped with Philippians chapter 2 sorry that chapter 3 and verse 14 right where Paul says Paul talks about putting confidence in the flesh and putting confidence in you know other qualifications and so on and Paul says that you know if anyone has to put confidence in the flesh I more so and he talks about how circumcised how he you know about his lineage he was a Pharisee from you know from who came through the lineage of the tribe of Benjamin and you know according to the law blameless and all that and then he goes on to say you know whatever things were gained for me these I have counted as as laws for the sake of Christ and he says that you know everything when compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ it's I compare it when compared to the knowledge of Christ you know I've lost a lot of things like maybe power prestige privilege everything he says I count them as as rubbish I count them as done okay and and then we saw we this is the way we close right we saw verse 12 where Paul writes Paul says that not that I have already attained or I'm already perfected right I've not come to that place of you know perfection I've not come to that place of apprehended everything but I press on you know I move on um that I may lay hold of that right that I may hold have a tight grip tight hold of those things for which the Lord Jesus has laid hold of me okay so the Lord has got a you know grip on me and for the sake of that I want to hold on to those things you know those very things for which he has laid hold of me I want to have a strong grip and and I press toward the goal for the price of the upward call of God in Christ you know there for the price of the upward call of God now God has called me and it's a high calling and I press towards that goal you know I which means that there there could be certain things coming against there could be certain things prevailing trying to prevail against that against me but I press towards I press on and I press towards that goal for the upward call of Christ so that is what we saw okay let me just try and project the notes so when he says I press towards a goal for the price of the upward call so you know in Paul's words and in Paul's for Paul the the call of God itself is something to be treasured something like a price like the very call of God the upward call of God itself is something that he highly treasured okay and verse 15 okay let's start there from there therefore let us as many as our mature have this mind and if in anything you think otherwise God will reveal even this to you nevertheless to the degree that we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us be of the same mind so he's talking to you know mature believers here so you're saying you know those of us who are mature let us have this mind or let us have this mindset or let us have this thinking let us have this pattern of thinking okay so or let us you know let us have this kind of mindset okay so what is he saying when he says you know he's talking to the ones who are mature which means who are come to a state of maturity okay some come to a state of perfection or completeness okay so let's have this mind let us have this understanding let us be wise okay let us have this you know this opinion or kind of thinking what is it the same thing that he's shared earlier he says that let us you know this is what I do I press on for getting those things that are behind and going on for those things that are ahead I press on for getting you know what's behind I press on for the upward for the price of the upward call of Christ upward call of God and Christ so let us be of let us let us who are mature have the same mind okay for those of us who are mature let's have this same kind of mindset that you forget those things that are behind us you know it could be regrets it could be failures it could be pain it could even be accomplishments in the flesh right he's talking about several other things right like you know these were all my qualifications and this is my background this is my experience and so even it could be even that right which are kind of slowing us down or preventing us from laying hold of Christ or laying hold of the call fully so he's saying that you know I forget those things you know or it could even be accomplishments good things accomplishments that we just holding on we're just staying there and not moving forward okay so Paul is saying that let's let's move forward okay so you have this mind you are mature you have this mind it says that nevertheless to the degree that we have already attained okay to the to the extent that we have already matured or to the extent that we have already received revelation okay so let us walk in the same mind let us walk by the same rule okay so in the same mind meaning you know let there be unity let there be one is of heart one is of mind to the to the extent that we have already become mature okay let us come we've come to that place of maturity let us walk in the same mind and he says let us walk by the same rule okay okay before that in verse 15 he says something very important if in anything you think otherwise okay meaning that if in any of these things that I have shared if in any of these things that I have you know I have taught right now if you think otherwise or if you think that I'm sorry if you think that you know you you don't seem to come to an agreement or you don't seem to come to a sense of a place of unity okay he's saying you know if in anything you think otherwise God will reveal even this to you okay so he's saying you know just relax if you think otherwise God will reveal you know as long as you're sincere you know that's what is you know if you're seeing the Lord and as long as you know your posture of the heart you know you're teachable you're humble you know that's that's not something that he mentions but he's saying you know as long as you're pressing forward you know we're having the same mind you're pressing forward you're forgetting those things that are behind you're going for the upward call of God and Christ you're considering that as your price as even if you think that okay I'm not able to understand or I'm not able to have that kind of you know mindset or kind that kind of thinking that Paul is having you know don't worry about it saying God will reveal even this to you okay so since you since you're having the other thing you know since you're having the other mindset which is to go after God which is to pursue him which is to hold tightly to those things for which he has laid hold of you and you're considering the call of God itself like you know the upward call of God itself like the price the goal so don't worry God will reveal this to you okay so that's I mean that's something which is refreshing that's something which is a relief for all of us you know sometimes you're saying God I'm not able to have I'm not able to be that mature you know I'm not able to be like that person you know don't worry as long as this is in place as long as you're pursuing God with all your heart as long as you're going after the things of God for which you know Jesus Christ came and and you know pursued you and laid hold of you God will reveal this to you you will be in a place that is teachable and God will reveal this to you okay okay verse 17 brethren join in following my example and note those who so walk as you have us for a pattern for many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame who set their mind on earthly things for our citizenship is in heaven from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior the Lord Jesus Christ who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body according to the working by which he is able to use he is able even to subdue all things to himself okay so says brethren join in following my example you've seen that he has said that several times in the past also in the you know in the other epistles we saw that he's saying you know be imitators of God as dear children imitate me as I imitate Christ right so he has he has said this so here also he's Paul is saying that in all things right join in following my example okay so you're saying the way I live the way I teach the way I walk the way I pursue Christ join in following my example okay so which is a very quite a bold statement again and a statement of humility which means that he was careful about how he walked and uh and how he uh you know the way he walked uh in Christ so the the kind of life that he lived you know he had nothing to hide nothing that that was in secret everything was open and and so he had this great boldness to say imitate me you know my example you follow it but he also says that he talks about others who walk like me okay there are others you know he talks about Timothy to take care of Timothy or you know in other place he talks about Titus he says a fellow worker and so on so there are others whom he recommends and he says you know who walk like this who live their life like this who minister like this uh take make a note of those you know observe and make a note of those and he is the word you know observe contemplate or you know you direct your attention fix your eyes be focused look at their lives look at their life example and you have this as a pattern like you have this as a as a template right you have this as an example so you can actually follow you know you have this it's like uh you know it's like an impression let's say um you know um let's say you have a piece of clay and then you know you you press something you put your hand and press into it it forms an impression right your palm with the five fingers it forms an um it forms an impression in the clay so he's saying that that is what he's saying you know so you have us as an example you know the way we live our life and everything it's like it's like something that is visible something that you see it's like that impression a mark so you have us as an example and you have us as a pattern so join in following our example okay which is which obviously says which obviously means that living a godly life you know pursuing living a holy life living a godly life um and not pursuing the things of the flesh and so on right so he says that then he says for many walk there are many who are walking and he says you know I and um and I say weeping right so he's he's he's really not proud of their life and he's really um you know moved uh for the sake of others and for the you know for the sake of all those people who are living such a life he's saying you know um they are not living according to christ they are so-called ministers saying that you know they are many and I say weeping that they are enemies of the cross of christ okay so um again you know very harsh words but he's saying with the heart of uh it comes from a heart where it was which is broken because he's seeing their lives he's saying the way they live their lives the way they minister and he's saying I see I tell you weeping that they are enemies of the cross of christ and uh why are the enemies of the cross of christ because they are not for the purposes of christ okay they are actually living for themselves and he says that the end is destruction okay their end is destruction because um uh they are living for their own belly for their own appetite for their own selfish needs okay so um whose god is their belly so that is the thing you know whose god you know or whom they consider to be the highest one okay whom they consider worthy of worship is their own appetite is their belly is their flesh okay so so which is um which is very sad for him he's saying the enemies of the cross the enemies of the purpose of christ um and he's saying whose end is destruction okay so they think that they're going to have a glorious end but no their end is destruction because they are not mindful of the things of god and obviously they are transgressing obviously they are you know um uh sinning so he's saying you know their end is destruction their god is their belly okay so it is uh which means that something has replaced god okay something has replaced god and what is it it is uh it has become an idol what has become an idol their own fleshly appetites their own needs um excuse me so that is what has excuse me so that is what has replaced god in their lives okay so instead of pursuing god they're going after their own desires instead of pursuing god they're going after their own fleshly appetites instead of pursuing righteousness and holiness they are going you know they've replaced all that with their own um you know their own needs and their own desires excuse me sorry so um so they're saying i'm supposed to saying that you know this is what it is so they're their end is destruction their god is their belly and whose glory is in their shame okay so what is it so they are glorifying things that they should actually be ashamed of okay they are glory or you know you see how the values have twisted right how the priorities have changed everything has has changed right so they they are glory or the things that they were glorifying about was actually something that they should be ashamed of right now these were probably lusts of the flesh uh the ungodly values um so so you're saying they should be ashamed of it their glory isn't their shame so they're proud of it right they think that they were freed they are liberated but they are actually slaves to their own flesh slaves to the lusts of the flesh okay so so these are the these are their priorities and what else you know the other thing that he says is who set their mind on earthly things okay so their mind is not mindful of the things of god they are not mindful of what moves god okay what god's priorities are okay you know when we um when we look at matthew chapter chapter five we see the lord actually um exerting teaching and he's saying seek first what the kingdom of god okay the rule and reign of god and his righteousness right i'm sorry matthew six matthew six and verse 33 seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things shall be added so this is god's priorities the lord's priorities is seek first the kingdom seek first his righteousness right so which these people were not doing okay and if you remember when the lawyer came and asked the lord lord what is the first commandment um then he said you know very clearly that you love the lord your god with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul and your strength and the second is like if you love your neighbor as yourself okay so the lord is very clear you know the first thing is about him the first priority is about his kingdom is about him so here paul is saying you know i say weeping that they are enemies of the cross so the enemies of the cross for the enemies of the cross the god is their belly for the enemies of the cross they are glorying in the things they should be ashamed of their glory is their shame for the enemies of the cross the end is destruction but they don't realize it for the enemies of the cross the their mind is set their focus and what they give importance is only the earthly things okay so saying these are enemies and i'm i weep for them now i say this weeping because i'm really disturbed i'm really sad to to even mention this right and verse 20 for our citizenship is in heaven okay so they are earthly minded they are mindful of the earthly things and it is a direct contrast to the lord's commandment okay now we need to understand so you know when we seek the lord okay when we when we seek first his kingdom now there would be certain earthly things that you need to take care of you know the lord has appointed certain things certain earthly things you know what is it like maybe family right responsibilities maybe employment right maybe god is you know to provide for the family to take care of the family all those things now these are things that that are spiritual you know but you need to interact on the earth right to work maybe god is you know god is providing for our needs through the work through the employment and and we need to interact we need to you know maybe it's a business maybe it's uh you know maybe it's someone who's uh god is called to be in the government maybe someone who's god is called to be in you know in various spheres of influence and and yeah so we can't say those are earthly things i will not do it you know it's not that in seeking god god has established certain people so we need to know the difference so when we say okay the mind is set on earthly things the mind is set on things that are not on the mind of god that are not on the heart of god right that is that is not the kingdom of god the whom which things that god is never you know that's not god is called that person to do they are doing things that that are doing things where the kingdom of god the rule and reign of god and the things of righteousness are far away right are far away so they they are carnally minded fleshly minded and things that they pursue things uh out of their own desire fleshly desire okay so so that's something that we need to make a difference you know it's not that okay i you know i don't now need to take care of family or i don't need to take care of you know work i can do second best i'm you know during the work time i'm going to do ministry no no it's not that right so we need to know the difference what is our priority okay um okay so saying our citizenship is in heaven okay we are actually look at it this way we are citizens of heaven okay we are living on the earth but we are citizens of heaven therefore uh we should be our mind you know we should be sit heaven minded we need we we are on the earth but need we need to be heavenly minded okay so so he's saying you know we eagerly wait for the savior or we are expectant of the lord's return we eagerly wait for the savior the lord jesus christ and what will he do he will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body now that's a reality sorry reality right we so he's saying you know we eagerly expect the lord's return and one of the reasons is this that he is going to transform our earthly body our lowly body into something that is glorious to something that is you know uh which is conforming to his glorious body you're going to be like him according to the working by which he is able even he's able even to subdue all things to himself according to the working of his holy spirit according to the working uh that you know his all powerful his uh creative miraculous supernatural power that is working in us and so he's according to his working that he's able to do this he's able even to subdue all things to himself okay so he will change he will transform our lowly body and uh according to his working okay the and the word used there the greek which means effective working efficient working you know uh and also this word whenever it's used it's it's referring to the supernatural power of god not the power of man right it's not the strength of man it's referring to the supernatural power of god the work of god so he's saying the effective working of his power okay according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself right because uh he is the lord he is the sovereign lord so everything else comes under his authority right everything else will come under his authority he's able to do that he's able to subdue all things uh unto himself okay so um so that's uh so that's where we see the end of chapter three okay so let's begin with chapter four so chapter four says therefore my beloved and longed for brethren my joy and crown therefore my beloved and again you know we see that paul uh uh you know treats them or communicates with them with a lot of affection and with a lot of respect right so he's saying therefore my beloved and longed for brethren right so um and he says uh my joy and crown okay so not only are they uh you know he's affectionately addressing them in this manner but he's also saying that you're my joy right um i experience joy every time i think of you i interact with you you're my joy and crown okay so the he's talking about the price that is given to an athlete so those days uh when you know in the athletics in the uh you know in these kinds of competitions they used to give a wreath uh a laurel wreath uh it is typically a roman tradition uh greek or roman tradition they will give the winner you know uh uh something like that and it was of high value valued very highly and was given for you know those who achieve that so he's referring to that you know something that is given uh in winning or something that is given in accomplishing a particular goal so he's saying you're my joy and you're my crown right so it was a crown of achievement right um and um there's something that someone who has won the race someone who had run the race and someone who you know um successfully won the race so who receives that crown so so all is saying you know you're my joy you're my crown okay so saying you're my joy you're my crown so stand fast in the lord beloved stand fast since you need to be established and you need to be standing fast the opposite of standing fast is when you are shaken when you are moved okay you're not firm um you're shaken and so he's uh he's talking about the opposite of that okay which is to stand firm be unshakable it also means to persevere right keep going without falling keep going without um stopping right your persevere you know that's what perseverance is right you're not you're not stopping your journey right you're continuing your journey you're persisting you're persevering so he's saying um therefore uh my joy and crown stand fast in the lord beloved when it comes to the lord you stand fast you know persevere persist be firm be unwavering stand fast in the lord okay then he talks about uh in the in the next few verses he talks about he uh a few people and he gives some instructions okay let's look at that um chapter four verse two i implore yudia and i implore synti to be of the same mind in the lord and i urge you also true companion help these women who labored with me in the gospel with clement also and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life rejoice in the lord always again i will say rejoice let your gentleness be known to all men the lord is at hand be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to god and the peace of god which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through christ jesus so some you know some valuable instructions some deep revelations for the sharing here so he's saying i implore you know i i beg i beseech these two women you know he's talking about synti and synti again yudia is saying let them be of the same mind i implore them to be of the same mind so obviously something can happen maybe they were not of the same mind they were not agreeing with one another so he's saying i implore i beg that they would be of the same mind same mind in the lord right when it comes to the matters of the lord when it comes to things of the lord i beg i implore them to be of the same mind and then he says and i urge you also true companion right so this person who is we don't know who he's referring to as the true companions but he's saying you know i urge you also true companion and he's addressing this person obviously the reader would know who he's referring to or the church would know who he is referring to saying help these women who laboured with me laboured with me in the gospel okay so saying help them to come to that place of being of same mind help them settle their differences help them to be reconciled so he's saying i urge you right so he uses words like i implore i urge right these are you know strong words in the sense he's he's really beseeching or imploring and begging you know it's that it's that kind of a picture you know saying i'm begging you do this i'm urging you do this you know this is our utmost importance right to come to that place of unity so help these women to come to the place of unity help these women to settle their differences and he's talking about clement also and he's saying you know they laboured with me in the gospel okay so women ministers we know roman the last chapter talks about a whole lot of people who are women apostles who are women and here also he's referring to judia and syntiq who were women who laboured with him in the gospel okay so preaching teaching the in the in the work of the gospel so so that's that's another information that we have that there were people who laboured in the gospel who were women okay and so also so it's so there's there needn't be any difference today right in women women labouring for the sake of the gospel so he says and the rest of my fellow workers he mentions these two women he mentions clement and he mentions a few people whose names are not mentioned but he says you know the rest of my fellow workers which means colleagues who worked alongside my team members so let's talk about fellow workers whose names are in the book of life so well they are mentioned in the book of life they believe us they are continuing strong their names are mentioned in the book of life okay so he's saying help these people rejoice in the Lord always again i will say rejoice something amazing here is paul in filipi in the prison writing to the i'm sorry writing to the church in filipi here is paul in in a roman prison and and he is you know giving this instruction rejoice in the lord rejoice in the lord you know always and again i will say rejoice okay so paul amazing you know mindset and this it is this joy which is by the holy spirit which really enabled him to continue in ministry right despite all the hardships of course he the love of the lord constrained him he says um and also the grace of god he says you know the grace was given to me and because of this grace i strived even more more than they all switched the love of god the grace of god the empowering of the holy spirit obviously right and the work of the holy spirit the gift of the holy spirit i'm sorry the fruit of the holy spirit which we see in galatians 522 which talks about love and the love of god being poured out into his heart by the holy spirit so he's saying you know love and joy and peace so this joy of the lord you know the joy of the lord strengthens us gives new life new strength to us takes away the weirdness takes away the you know takes away all the fear because perfect you know love casts out fear and this love of god this joy uh in the holy ghost gives us the ability and the strength to do things to go on despite difficulties right they're saying rejoice in the lord and he says always right not only when things are good not only when things are um you know everything is fine and everything is perfect well rejoice in the lord always which means even when things are not so fine even when things are not so good and even when things are very bad rejoice in the lord because we have always reason to rejoice in the lord because you are citizens of heaven and out of the earth we are passing through the earth but we are citizens of heaven our citizenship is secure in heaven so he's saying rejoice in the lord okay so um you know even in the same thing same the book we saw right Philippians chapter one where he said you know for me to live is Christ and to die is gain verse 21 Philippians 1 21 and then he says you know but if I live on in the flesh this would mean fruit for my labor verse 23 I'm hard pressed between the two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better right so this was his expectation this is what he you know he this is how he lived his life with the expectation of the Lord's return and the expectation to see the Lord and you know and he's saying you know for me to live is Christ yes the purposes of Christ and everything would be accomplished for me to die is gain right which is even better because I'm I'm going to be in the in the presence of God presence of the Lord right so rejoice in the Lord again I will say rejoice let your gentleness be known to all men the Lord is at hand okay so your characteristic your disposition let it be known to all men which means that this characteristic or this character just gentleness it also means moderation right equitable meaning being fair being moderate being gentle okay now this quality let it be known to all men okay what does it mean that means not going and saying okay I'm gentle but actually showing it in action right showing it through our life let it be known to all men when you interact with another person let this gentleness be shown let it be displayed displayed let your gentleness be known to all men because the Lord is at hand okay the Lord is near the Lord is at hand verse 6 be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God now we know we maybe we've read this verse many times we have we use this verse many times right and this is really a antidote or a solution for anxiety okay so he's saying be anxious so it's like a command be anxious okay so so for what should I be anxious for nothing okay so he's saying he's giving that command no so he's he's using it the language is like this be anxious so it's a command okay I will be anxious for what should I be anxious for nothing right so which means that don't be anxious for anything right and then he gives a he gives a solution be anxious for nothing but in everything which means that okay there were there will be times when you are tempted to be anxious when you're drawn to be anxious right when something is causing or knocking on the door of your heart to to bring in anxiety and anxiety is you know right there at the threshold knocking on the door of your heart so he's saying be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication okay by prayer supplication meaning request and treating God with Thanksgiving prayer supplication Thanksgiving okay um let your requests be made known to God now because of certain needs because of certain challenges there is a possibility that we might be prone to become anxious right we might be drawn to become anxious so he's saying you know in everything by prayer supplication Thanksgiving like prayer and supplication bring it to God you know pray to him request him and with Thanksgiving give thanks to him because he has heard your prayer give thanks to him because you know scripture also talks about the fact that when you pray believe that you receive okay when you pray according to God's will you know you know that you have the things that you have asked for when he has heard your prayer you know the things that he was asked for so with Thanksgiving give thanks to him by faith okay and he says that let your request be made known to God instead of being anxious do this prayer supplication Thanksgiving and then he says in verse 7 and the peace of God okay what happens when you do this what happens when instead of getting anxious you bring your anxiety and you make it known to God in the form of request you know whatever is causing a problem whatever is in need whatever is a challenge bring it to God and you place it before him as a request as a supplication and you know supplication is again a strong word right which means you seek your need you know you're going before I mean you place your needs and you you know literally beseeching you know asking God so with Thanksgiving when you do that and you make your request made known to God okay what it says it says and the peace of God okay it's a beautiful thing the peace of God the peace that comes from God okay the harmony the peace the you know it talks about it's a state of mind it's a state of you know lack of conflict or it talks about harmony and tranquility right the peace that comes from God or the peace of God the kind of peace that God has now that's what it means the quality of peace that God has you know the Lord Jesus called the prince of peace the source so this quality of peace or this this ability called peace or this characteristic called peace which comes from him and which is his possession really which passes all understanding okay so all understanding which means it goes beyond our understanding which passes which you know circumvents which rises above even my understanding you know I'm not able to understand I still have questions oh I'm not able to understand how I'm having this peace because that's the kind of peace right which goes beyond understanding what will it do it will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus right it will keep meaning it will guard it will protect and the picture is that of a security guard a military guard one who's fully weaponized one who's fully you know he's he's dressed he's armed he's dressed in the armor and he's armed with all the weapons that's the picture we have this peace which is the God kind of peace the kind of peace that God has the kind of peace that the prince of peace has and that will guard your hearts and minds because that is the attack of anxiety right in our hearts and minds that's a place where anxiety you know attacks or resides where we feel anxiety anxious this peace will guard your heart the very place that anxiety tries to get in peace of God will guard right through Christ Jesus okay okay so we'll stop here take a break and then we'll we'll come back


So would you like to introduce yourself, what's your name, your title, and what you were facilitating here during this course? My name is Bo Damon, I'm the Natural Resources Officer in the Climate Change and Resilience Module at the AFI Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Today I was here talking about our work on better environment, the work of FAO and the work of partners to drive a transformation in agri-food systems towards more sustainable, nature-positive and environmentally friendly food systems. Thank you. So would you like to tell us a takeaway message from the symposium and especially with reference to your AOP Exhibitors? I think a takeaway message from the symposium, what I heard in the session today and from other sessions at the symposium, is that we actually have a strong basis to work from when we're talking about transformation. We have a very clear understanding of what the problems are, where the challenges lie. When we're talking about our better environment, we're talking about risks associated with climate change, water scarcity, we're talking about increases in pollution, we're talking about increased emissions from our agri-food system, we're talking about the links between these issues and nutrition and food insecurity. So I think we understand the problems very well. I think we also have a good understanding of the technical solutions. So we're talking about technologies or managerial approaches on farm in landscapes across watersheds that can address these issues. What came out of the sessions today, a key takeaway is that there's another dimension here. There's a broader dimension in terms of the political economy and what we could be doing at that policy and governance level to really drive transformation. It's not just an issue of on-farm management. It's about providing opportunities for farmers and for communities around agriculture to move into other areas of work, employment, that are also driving environmental benefits and also making agricultural employment the agri-food system, working in the agri-food system, a profession that people want to get engaged with, youth marginal groups want to be involved in the transformation. So how do we drive that change? And when we're talking about these types of changes, it's much bigger than management approach. It's about systems-wide change. It is about much bigger issues beyond just the impact of a single farm on the environment. Yes, it's very interesting. So what do you think the future of this region will be if we can successfully transform the agri-food systems? It's an interesting question. One thing that came out in the session that we just organised, we heard from a colleague from ASEAN who was working on climate-resilient agriculture, and they recently went through this very exercise to come up with a long-term vision for agriculture. And the things that they were highlighting in this vision, they were looking out to 2040, was resilient, low-emission, pollution-free and sort of nature-positive agricultural sector. And they're also talking about an agricultural sector that's inclusive, and I think that this is a very important aspirational goal. What they were highlighting, I think, and there's a gap between that future and where we are now, they were talking about the steps that are required. The important milestones, whether that be action at the international conventions like the UNFCCC or the UNCVD, national policies, how these things are reflected in national policies. So we have all the pieces there. What we're now looking for is the political will and the drive to make it happen. Anything else that you would like to add? No, I think I could have done that much better. No, I think the message is very true. If you like it, you can repeat, but I think it's okay. I think it's a good question. Thank you for that.


Hello, we are the reader. Jeff submit a malicious document to the Internet Storm Center and I will analyze it here in this video We will take only dump to analyze this document and Indeed, so it is an oily file that contains Microsoft here We have these two streams eight and nine with the m indicator We'll take a look at stream eight first. So I select stream eight and I decompress the macros And let's pipe this through less okay, and This looks here like obfuscating code mean these are strings That don't actually look like something meaningful and they are also repeated. So this is probably all Obfuscated code to make analysis harder here. We see an outer open So there is definitely something that will execute automatically when the document is opened Yeah more of those strings Yeah, so so this looks for a large part to be obfuscated code and What I like to do Sometimes in those cases is to filter out all the lines and only Show the lines that contain a dot character So I can do that with grab looking for a dot and I'm using the uppercase f option Otherwise the dot will be interpreted as regular expression, but I'm not Wanting to search with a regular expression. I just want to search for a dot like this Okay, and now you see here. I have a few lines. The dot is a Operator that is used for methods of objects and it otherwise is not used a lot in VBA code So it's a trick to filter out quickly Meaningful code from obfuscated code So here a couple of interesting things and we see here a create object With a run so something will be executed and here also in the active document in the built-in document properties we access the comments Okay, so something is stored inside the comments and this is probably the code to be executed Because if you look here at the variable name This variable name here appears to reappear here with create object run So it looks like this contains code that will be executed So let's take a look The comments are in the metadata and you can dump out the metadata with the option uppercase m from olidump Here we have metadata and here this is something that looks certainly like base 64 So we have comments here and then the long string that looks to be base 64 We can analyze this with base 64 dump So let me hear yeah Dump it the metadata and then pass it into base 64 dump now because base 64 dump will react on a lot of strings on the small strings inside here the metadata and we only want Actually to look at that large string I'm going to say that the minimum length of the coded string is 10 bytes like this and Then I only have one output instead of a lot of false positives and This looks indeed to be some kind of script in Unicode probably So let's select this one select one so indeed we have 2454 bytes and 1227 of those bytes are null bytes. So exactly half of it. So this is definitely Unicode We can do an ASCII dump and yeah This looks to be a PowerShell script in Unicode so we can dump this as a string and Base 64 dump can base can base 64 dump can dump strings with uppercase S option like this And this indeed looks like a PowerShell script with some obfuscation here the back quote here in the variable name So the back quote will know have no effect. It will just be in your and then you can see here parts parts of strings Here too, and we can recognize parts of URLs ttp agronus.com artist visa.com So what's happening here here you have the f operator And the f operator is the format operator in PowerShell. It allows you to format strings like this with values that you give it so Here we want first the second string So the the second string here, that's HTTP. So we start from zero. That's zero. That's one. That's two So HTTP that's a second string then the 31 string so I have to count here 31 find the 31 string And then I can concatenate that string Now that's a bit tedious to do But this is since this is just a simple string expression we can actually Have it evaluated in PowerShell without any risk. It will not execute So let me do this here So first of all, I will cut out That expression so let's say with 200 starting from character 200 Okay, so I still have to move down a bit further and I did this before so I have to select from character 310 to characters 1771 like this and then here I have the actual format expression so I have here the string with the positional arguments The format operator and here the different strings this I can Execute in PowerShell and here on my Mac, I also have PowerShell installed because now you have PowerShell for Linux and It will run on different variants of Linux and also on the Mac on OS X And I pipe that expression into PowerShell I give it the dash filename to indicate that The input comes from standard in and then PowerShell will evaluate it like this and here I have my different URLs from which the malicious document via the PowerShell script will download and executable and execute it