If you live stream on your Mac or even record videos using software like e-cam live or OBS Or even if you just have meetings for that matter, you might want to stick around to hear about these five little menu bar apps Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name is Alec and today We're going to talk about five little menu bar apps that I use all of the time specifically when I'm either streaming or Recording videos like this and I also have used them quite heavily over the past year or so as we've been all Having a lot more zoom meetings than we did before So yeah, these are basically if you're not familiar with what I'm talking about These are the little apps that sit up in the top of your menu bar on your Mac There's lots of useful little applications that you can get that are really helpful for just sort of productivity in general And I've probably got around about 30 that set tend to sit in there And that sort of brings me on to my first recommendation really which is a Little app called bartender and what bartender does is it helps you to basically Organize all of the little menu bar apps that you've got in there So if I flick back to my screen again, I'll show you what I mean You can see how many apps I've got up at the the top here showing in the menu bar And if I just click into bartender, I've actually got a lot more than that But they are in fact Sort of hidden out of the way so that they're not cluttering up the menu bar, especially if you've got a Particular app open that has lots of menu items at the top on the other side Then sometimes your menu bar items can sort of disappear off the edge, especially if you're on a smaller monitor So having them in this little secondary bar here with bartender is a really sort of useful feature Now bartender itself if I click on it and show you how it works in the preferences There is also another little thing to it which has been a an added little bonus Which was with with the last release of the Mac OS the Mac OS big sir For some reason then when they refreshed the look of the the user interface They seem to add an extra spacing between all of the menu bar items So this turned what was already a sort of lack of space in the menu bar It just really compounded the issue because now they were all spaced further apart. So one of the options that you do have in Bartender is to actually revert back to the either the default Spacing or you can actually flip to the small spacing or no spacing So you can actually change how far apart those menu bar items are space So that in itself is quite a useful feature from from my point of view certainly And then we've got some other Little features that you can have from it in here. You can change the icon for it for example You can also change the the behavior of it So at the moment I have mindset so that when I click on the little icon in the top Then there's this sort of secondary bar But you could actually also have it so that the they are still within the main menu bar But they just collapse out to the other side instead Now in terms of the layout You have some flexibility here in so in terms of which bits go where basically So which little apps you want where and you simply just drag them So this bit at the top is the sort of main menu bar and then this bit down here is the The bartender bar So here you can see if I drag something in From here And then drag it back into this part. It will change what is in the menu bar You can also change where any new items if you install any new apps you can either have them to Automatically go into the main bar or you could have them automatically go into the separate Bartender bar So I prefer to have it just going in here because if I've installed something new initially I probably want to have a look at it and check some other settings and things like that So as a default I have them all go into the first Menu bar and then I can move them into the bartender bar As and when I need to you can also have some there's some Particular apps that you might want running, but you're just never really interested to see them And so you can put that into this hidden section down here as well So there is a hotkey as well. You can sort of program to show the different items Uh, and so you can have it so that they'll just appear when you press those hotkeys I'm not actually using those myself, but there you go So that is the first one which is bartender and before you rush out and go and start looking For all of these apps I've got a little thing that you may be interested in at the end of the video Where I'll show you how you can get actually all of these apps and over 200 more as part of a Very very cost effective bundle. So I'll be talking about that at the end of the video Now the next app that I want to talk about is a Another menu bar app. They're all menu bar apps today And that is one called iStat menus and that's actually this thing that I've got along the top if I flick back to my screen You can see I've got all of these different menu items at the top And what that is giving me is it's giving me some system information So I'm monitoring my processes my cpu My disk space the amount of ram being used And the network traffic and so on And this is useful when you're streaming because it's useful to be able to see what's using up what resources Also good to be able to see, you know, if you're close to your limit, which I certainly am on a number of occasions because I'm running a late Sorry early late 2013 macbook pro So I'm probably pushing it to the limit a bit with what I'm trying to do with it with the video production and so on So it's good to see where your resources are being taken up And I've obviously as I'm just about to as I am recording I've shut down a lot of tasks so you can see that the primary task that's taking up the The resources here is my ecam live, which is the software that I'm using to make this video in And interestingly if you're or you may be interested rather in The software that I'm using to make this whole video is ecam live And that allows me to make these videos all on the fly live And record them straight to disc and with all of the sort of scene transitions and things like that And if you're interested in making these sorts of videos yourself And maybe you've tried obs and want something a little bit more user friendly Then certainly it'll be worth giving ecam live ago And if you use the link that I'll drop down in the description But also you can just go to my website take one tech dot i o slash ecam And that'll take you through to the sign up page where you can sign up for a free trial of ecam live And it certainly made my life a lot easier in making all this content But in any case, let's get back to the Video here and I'm talking about iStat menus So it's really good. It's obviously fully customizable as well So I can come down to this little button here to go into the customization And here again, we've got this Space at the top which represents what's going to show up in the menu bar And you can see you've got all of these different sort of classifications of Basically system data that you have access to I'm only accessing a fraction of it really but you can have all sorts of things like the Fan speeds the temperatures. So there's all these sensors that you may not realize are actually built into the the mac So you can monitor, you know temperatures and things like that So in the menu bar, I don't have those all displaying Although I do have a couple just to look at my my temperatures in the top there And then if we come down, we can see all of the all of the different temperatures of all of those sensors It's good just to get an idea of you know, if your machine is overheating or not mine looks like it's pretty much getting to there And then we've also got the RAM usage So once again, if you find that your system is getting slowed down or you're having issues with particular applications It is just good to be able to see exactly what is using up those system resources So yeah, I start menus. I've been using this for Think about 15 years or so now basically since I got a mac and it's been it's been really useful And yeah, just good to manage those resources and make sure you're not sort of maxing out on On anything So next we come on to number three and it's kind of timely really because since we're talking about system resources If you are Live streaming then you're going to want to make sure that you have got all the bandwidth available to you that you need And that there aren't any other little applications and things like that that are actually hogging your resources So it's a good idea to shut down any applications that you're not using In fact, I'm going to be doing a live stream tomorrow all about my whole process of how I do my video production From start to finish and in that I'll be including a checklist A sort of going live checklist if you like of all the things that you need to check before you actually click that button And it's really as applicable For recording as it is for live streaming because you don't really want your system resources to be taken up And anything to interrupt your flow And it's also just as important with meetings really so that you don't have any Little interruptions pop pop up. So all that to say I haven't actually said the name of the app yet But number three then is whoopsie daisy. There we go. I'm too trigger happy on my buttons today Number three is something called one switch and this is a really useful app If I come back to my desktop, let me just get iStat menus out of the way One switch is this little thing that sits up here And it is a series of toggles that allow you to switch on and off various things that you have in the max system So there are some things that you can do from other places such as dark mode, for example Although why you'd need a switch for that it should just always be on But then you've got keeping the computer awake So if you've got a task that you want to have and make sure the computer doesn't go to sleep for then You can make sure your computer stays awake for that You can mute the microphone from in here activate the screensaver Again, these are all things that there are other ways to do it So I tend to have my screensaver set with hot corners So that's a feature that you can do in the Mac where you just drag your mouse over to a particular corner And it activates an action So I have that for my screensaver and putting my display to sleep But then there are various other things But the reason why I specifically use this one and why it is applicable for live streaming or for recording or for meetings is first of all There's a little toggle here to hide desktop items now. I don't tend to have that much of a messy desktop I tend to have a habit of having things on my desktop whilst I'm working on them during the day And then I sort of actually have an automation to clear them all up at the end of the night and and file them But still when I'm on a call or something like that I don't really want to have all of my desktop icons visible And if I'm doing a screen share obviously Oops, excuse me And I would also not like to have that as well if I'm doing a demonstration such as this So we don't want the desktop cluttered up now as it happens my icons are on my second monitor But having this little toggle here to be able to show and hide the the desktop icons Is a really good way to just clear up all of the clutter when you're about to do a screen demonstration Similarly, I have do not disturb As I mentioned before just so that we don't get any unwanted interruptions But the other one that I use it for is this screen resolution and basically that allows you to select multiple Screen resolutions and toggle between the two or rather two and and toggle between those two resolutions And the reason why I find that useful. In fact, if I just bring up system preferences one second I should have prepared this really But you can do this anyway obviously in system preferences on a Mac.  So this is my MacBook monitor. So here you can see normally I'm the sort of person that likes to have as much space as many pixels as possible So normally I would have mine on this setting the more space. So everything's really tiny That's how I like to have it. However, when I'm doing these demonstrations Then I don't want it too small on your screen Hopefully, you know, if you're watching on a computer, it should be visible And if you're watching on a mobile then I appreciate maybe a little bit tight to see some of this detail So I want to make it kind of as big as possible, but still be workable So I find that this setting is good to give me enough space on the screen to be able to show you what I'm doing Without it being too far zoomed in. Well, what this switch here does is it just allows me to toggle between those two resolutions I'm not actually going to do it now because I don't know quite what's going to happen if I do that on a live But basically that is going to just switch me back to my my preferred viewing resolution So that's a really good little app to just help me quickly Go and toggle those different things on before I start my recordings So if you are finding this useful so far and you would like to ask me any questions Then do go ahead and leave those in the comments and also while you're down there Go ahead and click that like and subscribe button and turn on notifications Incidentally, these are my five menu bar apps that I use specifically when I'm doing live streaming or recording But as I say, I use about 30 different apps in the menu bar alone And so I'll be doing a different sort of series of these videos where I focus on different use cases Some for sort of power users and productivity and things like that And so I'll try and feature all of these other ones that I'm using along the way as well So the next one still on a similar sort of topic really as we've been talking about is Number four and that is a app called an app called trip mode. So let me come back to my screen again And this is this little app up here if I can highlight it, uh, where's it gone? There we go. The one that looks like a little train and basically this one allows me to have different Sort of profiles for different tasks that I'm doing And so if I come down here at the moment I've got streaming and what that's doing is it's blocking any network connections from apps that I don't want To have access. So at the moment my adobe creative cloud Is not having any access to the internet neither is my express vpn iCloud That's a big one that runs in the background that people often don't think about But you definitely want to turn that off because the last thing you want is to be You know trying to do some streaming Or recording something and then you have a big download that kicks in or iCloud starts sinking something or dropbox starts sinking something And that takes up all of your bandwidth and gives itself priority over what you're trying to do So this allows me to basically only allow certain apps. So here I've got ecum live and my stream deck And everything else will be blocked from any network communications And it just means that I'm getting the full bandwidth over the network for my live stream Now also in here you can Whoops if I've just come back into it you can select different profiles. So I have one for when I'm on meetings So I want obviously things like zoom on microsoft teams to have a priority then I also for some of my work do some heavy data analysis. So when I'm doing that I want different applications and then also for one when I'm Tethering on the phone again I want certain applications like safari and things like that to have access to the network But I again wouldn't necessarily want my iCloud to start sinking over 4g if I'm in a foreign country especially So so yeah, it just means you can set up these different profiles and split between them So again part of my sort of going live checklist that I'll be talking about in the live stream Is is to go through and just toggle these things on and off So finally the last one that I want to talk about which is Possibly a little bit of a niche, but it's an app called present if I present if I Bit of a funny accent there on it But present if I sits in the top corner here And this allows me to basically annotate on the screen So if it's got a little hot key control a if I press control a Then it allows me I've got this little pointer You can see this little screen that comes up at the top and it basically allows me to draw on the screen I can put little arrows on there. I've got a little Drawing tool here so I can click on that one and then I can just scribble on things I can put boxes around things and we can just clear it off like that or we can type on it as well So this is good if you're on well if you're doing something like I'm doing and you want to show somebody Where it is in the menu bar for example, and we could just come over here and say yes This app is just here in the menu bar. So it's great for doing demonstrations Or if you're on a call with somebody On a you know teams meeting a zoo meeting something like that and you're talking about an app or showing some data Or whatever you happen to be doing then it's a great little way to just annotate those If you're doing something more complex then, you know, it might be a good idea to have A telestrator linked to your ecam live or your obs And I'll be doing another whole video on that because that isn't really a menu bar app But I have a method for doing that where you can use an ipad or a second Touchscreen to use as a telestrator, but that's something for another video when I've made that video I will be sure to put a link up to it in the top corner So that was the five apps that I I use regularly and I sort of recommend but The question now is how much do they all cost? Well, the thing is they are, you know individually There's a couple of them that are nine dollars five dollars twenty dollars and all different prices However, you can actually get them through something called set app Now set up is basically a an app in itself That you subscribe to and you get all of these apps and in fact over 200 apps that you can use as part of that subscription And that means that As well as these apps there are I forget the exact balance between how many are menu bar apps and full full blown apps But there are a lot of really powerful full blown apps in there as well And it's just nine 99 a month However, if you use the link below Or the link that i've linked to there take one tech.io slash set app Then you can get one month free if you go direct to the website I think you get a seven day trial But if you use that link then you get one month free and I'd advise getting the month because like I say there are 200 apps So you do want to make sure you've given them a fair go to see which ones you want to use I'm probably out of the 200 using around about 20 or 30 of them So it's not a case that they're all going to be suitable for you But if I just come and show you actually what set up looks like because as I say it is an app in itself So you do download it to your uh your system and then basically you have an interface I should share my screen. It might help you see what I'm seeing and here basically once you open the app up So this is the set up app And in here you have uh, they've sort of grouped them by different things lifestyle creativity developer tools All these sorts of things lots of these apps. I've been using actually Before for years. So there's there's lots of great quality apps better touch tool So I haven't actually got that one installed through set up because I already owned it And there's there's just loads. So I'd say probably out of all the all the 200 I've probably got about 50 or 60 of sort of staples in my workflow really So yeah, you just come down here or we can click on all apps I can say they're grouped and you can just look through all of the apps So over 200 of them and as I say if you use that link that I'll put in the description The way that works is you just get a month for free to try all of the apps out if you don't like it There's no commitment And it's also to be honest with you. It's a good way to try some apps out It may well be that you try some of the apps see which ones you like and then you don't actually use the set up subscription But you just have tried the app And so then you could just maybe go and buy the one that you want or the two that you want or whatever But as you can see, there's really quite a long long list of them. And yeah, if I just go to My explorer, I think this has got oh, sorry on this Mac. It will show you These are the ones that I've got I'm personally using so far out of those in fact this one here This sketches one That's a great app to use if you're using a Telestrator, but I'll talk more about that in that that other video But it's a sketching app and so you can use it with your Your iPad on sidecar with your apple pencil Green background telestrate over the top of your e-cam live But I'll explain that in full detail in another video. So yeah, that was set up and as I say If you go to Take one tech.io, which is my website slash set up. Then that just links you through to the set up The set up page where you can download the the free trial The way that works from an affiliate point of view just in case you're interested Is if you try it for a month and then sign up after the month You will have had the free month and then I will get an extra free month added onto my subscription So that's how it works and then you can tell all of your friends about it as well But it's not really about the affiliate link to be honest It is something that I use day in day out and it is yeah, it is really a valuable tool Incidentally, if you are interested in the things that I've been talking about I've also got my website obviously where you can go and you can find links to all of this sort of stuff My blogs on there my podcast and everything like that. So be sure to check that out as well So that's about all but I'll just remind you once again Leave any comments down in the description in the the comments box below and also click that like and subscribe button So you get notified whenever I make my next videos about my other menu bar apps because I've still got about 30 more to get through So that's all for me today. I hope you found that useful. But in the meantime Go and check out some of these other videos coming up right now


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. The question says the triangular walls of a flyover have been used for advertisements. The sides of the walls are 122 meters, 22 meters and 120 meters. C figure 12.9. This is the figure 12.9. This is the triangular side walls of a flyover. The sides of these walls are 122 meters, 22 meters and 120 meters. The advertisements yielded an earning of Rs 5000 per meter square per year. A company hired one of its walls for three months. How much rent did it pay? Let us now begin with the solution. In this question, we will first find area of triangular wall by using Hyrol's formula. C equal to 122 meters, D is equal to 22 meters and C is equal to 120 meters. Let us first calculate the semi-perimeter. We know that semi-perimeter is equal to sum of lengths of all sides divided by 2. Now substitute the values of A, B and C. A is equal to 122 meters, D is equal to 22 meters and C is equal to 120 meters divided by 2. This is equal to C4 meters by 2 and this is equal to 132 meters. If S minus A, S is equal to 132 meters, A is equal to 122 meters, so this is equal to 10 meters. S minus B is equal to 132 meters minus 22 meters and this is equal to 110 meters. Z equal to 132 meters minus 120 meters and this is equal to 12 meters. Now area of S minus A into S minus B into S minus C. Substituting the values of S, S minus A, S minus B and S minus C, we get into 10 into 12. 110 is equal to 11 into 10 into 12 meters square and this is equal to 12 into 11 meters square and this is equal to 1320 meters square. The question it is given that advertisement charges are rupees from a company for 3 years. This is rupees 5000 for whole year therefore for 3 months it will charge rupees 5000 into 3 by 12 for 20 meters square. Rupees 16,50,000. This completes the session. Bye and take care.


Hey friends, it's Iris here and in today's video we're going over all the details with how you can get all 107 Wisps and Spiritoom in Pokemon Legends Arceus. So if the majority of you are like myself in approaching the game, Spiritoom and its side quests are going to be one of the last things that you do when completing your Pokedex, but it is something that you're going to need to do before you can kind of finish the game completely. This side quest kicks into effect after you quell Cleaver at the Grand Tree area and you make your way back to Jubilife and report to Commedo. After this you are introduced to a brand new NPC character called Vessa who kind of explains that there's magic being unleashed in the Hizui region and there was a calamity a hundred years ago and things are looking like it's going to head in that direction with what's going on at the minute and she asks you for your help. She provides you with the odd keystone and asks you to go around the Hizui region collecting these Wisps. These Wisps look like this on the screen right now which is like a purple glowing flame and you will find them around every single location in the Hizui region. Now to be exact you're going to get 7 in Jubilife Village and then 20 around the other areas of the Hizui region. You're going to have to visit each one individually and kind of hunt them out and it is a tedious task and for good reason why I left it to one of the last tasks to do when completing my own Pokedex but that brings us to this guide and hopefully by providing you with the information where these Wisps are it's going to make it a lot easier for you to complete than it was for myself. So the next series of scenes are going to be each map an area detailing exactly where all 107 Wisps are in the entire game. I'm going to go through each map obsidian fields, the alabaster icelands, Crimson Merelands, Cold Boat Coastline and Coronet Highlands as well as Jubilife Village so you can find out exactly where each of these Wisps are in the next series of clips. What you're going to need to do is just pause the video on these ones when you're going through your game and you'll be able to kind of follow along and this should only take you between 30 to 40 minutes to collect every single Wisp from around the area. Now some precursors before going into this, some tips I would suggest doing before coming into this quest, I would make sure that you've got Braviary as your flying option it makes it a lot easier getting around each of the areas if you have Braviary where you can fly and make sure that it is night time when you are hunting for these Wisps because even though you have the markers on the maps that I'm going to provide for you it's a lot easier to identify these Wisps especially if you're higher up if you can see that purple glow from the flames. So just getting a bit further into your playthrough before you collect the Wisps is definitely a way to do it. Another way to kind of cut down getting the Wisps is actually just collecting them when you come across them in your playthroughs although one way to do this and this is how I approached it was I didn't collect a single Wisp the entire time I played through the game knowing that at some point I'm gonna just go out and do solely this. It was a bit difficult because I didn't have any direction to follow to help me get the Wisps but at the same time if you've got the maps there to help you it's gonna cut down that process completely and then you're not second-guessing if you've been to an area and you've already picked it up from there if you can't remember it just makes it a lot easier if you haven't picked a single Wisp before and you go out and dedicate a slot of time just to do this side quest knowing that you haven't picked any Wisps up already will make it a lot easier. So with that all out of the way friends I'm now going to pass you over to each of the five different areas and all the Wisp locations in sequence from Jubilife Village all the way through to the Coronet Highlands. So enjoy, pause the video as and when you need to and if you want to leave this till later and come back at least you know this resources here to help you out. Now once you have all 107 Wisps from around these five areas you then come back to Jubilife Village you'll speak to Vessa and she will ask you to meet you in Crimson Mereland at the exact time that you first spoke to her when this whole quest started so it's worth noting down or at least remembering was it morning was it was it afternoon was it evening or was it night because you're gonna need to know the time of day when it was and you're gonna have to change the time of day in camp before you head back to the Crimson Merelands and head up to the shrouded ruins. Once you get to the shrouded ruins you can go up to the ginormous odd keystone statue that's there and then you can drop in the wisps into the statue and this will initiate another cutscene with Vessa who acts kind of mysterious in this this scene and whether or not she's spirit tomb she's a wisps she's a ghost I don't know the questions are kind of there I'll let you kind of make your own mind up when you get to this point in the game but at this stage after this cutscene then spirit tomb will appear and bang you've got yourself your spirit tomb you're gonna be able to engage in a battle with it and catch it. Spirit tomb will be level 60 and it does hit pretty hard it hits a lot harder than what you expected to but it is a very rare Pokemon and something that you're gonna need to complete your deck so do come prepared for this dark and ghost type Pokemon but as I say friends I hope this guide has been useful I hope that the maps with the wisp locations on are helpful and if they are please consider dropping a like onto the video it really does help the channel out head spread help spread the word about the maps and helping others with the same quest and I hope you have a lot of fun collecting them if you got any questions drop them down below and good luck with this side quest it was definitely one of the harder ones in the game to complete but I hope you have a lot of fun doing it and getting that spirit to complete your polka decks so friends that about does it wraps up thank you so much for tuning in as always really appreciate each and every one of you have a great rest of your day and I will see you on the channel for another video very soon so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye


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Again, my name is Tim Barnes and I'd like to welcome you to meet the experts and most of you know, but if you don't, every other Thursday we meet someone who works at NCAR or one of the organizations that works with the UCAR, NCAR, to learn about what they do in their jobs and interactions from those of you who are joining us. And one really cool part about working at a place like NCAR is that there are so many different types of jobs such as being a scientist, an engineer, an electrician, a computer programmer, a safety expert, a machinist, a pilot, or an educator. And all of these different jobs and more help support our scientific research. So with no further ado, I am going to introduce our guest expert, Brian. And I would pronounce your last name, but I'm not exactly sure how to do that. Yeah, it's a common problem. And to make this more fun, what I want you to do is use that polling software that I've already linked to, pollev.com slash meet the expert. Again, I will put it in the chat window for that person who has just jumped back in. There it is. Feel free to put in your answer in that polling software to how do you pronounce my last name. I am not easily offended. So please don't worry about it. I am trying to make sure that everyone knows how to use this software more than anything else. I see that two people have already answered. There's a third person. Excellent. I see another person has joined as well. If that new person has not seen the chat window, pollev.com slash meet the expert link. It's in that chat window. And that's where you can go vote on the answer to this question. How do you pronounce my last name? You may not get the chance to do it because I'm going to show the responses that everyone has chosen so far. I've got two votes for Ger and tea. No votes for Healer and Italian. One vote for with my hands. It's Italian and none for however I want to The correct answers are all of them because I don't really have that much care how you pronounce my last name. The correctest answer is Ger and tea. It's Ger and tea. It's been poorly anglicized. No, please don't remove your answers. See, that's not what we want because they're all correct. It is Healer and Italian. And because it's Italian and I like to talk with my hands, you can just say with your hands. It's the appropriate way to say it in Italian and people butcher it all the time. So it's really not that big of a deal. Thanks for playing along and showing me that you know how to use that software. So let's get started. Hello, I'm Brian Guarenti and I'm here because I love to teach science. I love playing with Play-Doh. I love building with Legos, augmenting reality and I dance in the classroom. I love to show things in three dimensions. And one of the best ways to do that is get a whole bunch of people moving in three dimensions. And it usually looks like weird interpretive dance. I love doing it in my classrooms. If you have any desire to email me, my email address is there. Guarenti at you car dot edu. And I will show it again at a later time in this presentation if you do have any questions that come up along the way. I hope that you have played with this toy before. I had this toy as a kid and I loved it. It was one of my favorite toys and it really isn't that special. There's not much you do with it aside from stick your hand in it, put it on your face, those kinds of things. But what if they were bigger? What if they were like human size and we could actually put an entire human in it like this? I do this but with the atmosphere. And I do it from satellite imagery. And I want to show you how to do it now. But I need to show you that satellite imagery first. Here it is. This is a picture from a satellite that is showing the water vapor in the atmosphere. Water vapor being the gaseous form of liquid water. And it's everywhere in the atmosphere. There are places where there's more, there's places where there's less. And importantly on here, the colors give you some information. So if you find a white area, that would be high. And that would be like the same as the pushed in finger in that pin toy. If it were black, like down here, it actually shows up as sort of a low area in between the fingers. And it's nice to understand that even in between, everything is sort of in between. So you can sort of see slopes. You can see different peaks. You can see ridges, valleys. It looks like the topography of Colorado that we have here. I learned best when I don't have to do anything is a quote that no one has ever said. And because of that, I need to involve you in this conversation. And so we're going to ask some polling questions at this point. We're going to do some interactives. If you aren't already there, it's pollev.com slash meet the expert or you can scan that QR code once again. Here is your question coming up right now on this one. The question is, where is the lowest point on this image based on what I have just told you about satellite images? In this case, what you will do is you will click on that image either on your phone or on that web browser page that you already have open poll ev.com slash meet the expert. Your answer will not show up on my screen until I make that available for everyone. I see that three of you have already voted. Thank you to those of you who are voting for votes. Excellent. So let me show your responses with the understanding that I know some of you may be doing this on a mobile device and your finger click may not be super accurate. So I know that there may be some responses that are slightly off of where they need to be. But it looks like all of you know what you're doing.  So I think you know what I'm going to ask you next, which is where is the highest point on the image? Go ahead and take a vote on that one. Let me hear what you think is the highest point on that image. I've got my five votes that I had before. Let's see what your responses are. Okay. So we've got two areas over the continental United States that are in white areas. We have some other votes over here that maybe aren't as white. I would like to see those on maybe some of these whiter locations that are showing up. And it may be hard to see that image on your phone, on your on a mobile device. So not holding it against anyone. The idea is that I want to make sure that you really get an idea of what this looks like in three dimensions. And we've just done the high point and the low point. What does everything in between look like? That's the question that I want you to just pause for a second and think about in this area that is on my screen right now. Think about what's high, what's low. Where is it sort of in between that and relate them all to each other? Because we're going to see this image in a minute in three dimensions. And you'll get to play with it. But I need you to take a stab at understanding what you think this looks like in three dimensions. There is no question here. It is me giving you some time to look at that image. Talk to people that may be sitting next to you if you've got multiple people there. And figure out what you think this looks like. Where's high? Where's low? What's the slope of this? That are these tiny little peaks? Are they really long ridges? Things like that. I am a patient teacher. However, I need to move on for the sake of time. What I'm going to show you next is this same exact image built with Play-Doh by forecasters that I have taught from around the world. I've done this for forecasters from Canada, from Korea, from China, from Poland and Russia. And I can't even remember all the countries that I've done this for at this point. And they have submitted their Play-Doh as answers to this question that I just asked you. So let's take a look and see what they have done. I've done this in class for many years now. And these are some of the results. Are these professional meteorologists? Absolutely, they've probably had between 10 and 15 years of experience as forecasters for the different weather services of those countries. So these are people that do this on a daily basis kind of thing. And this is what they built with Play-Doh. So the top image is just sort of a smaller sector of that area that I was talking to you about. And what they did in the bottom image is built that in three dimensions out of Play-Doh. So you get some ideas of, oh, it's pretty low down here in their heads and comes up to much higher up here. There's a really low spot back in here where it turns black either way. You want to look at it this one back here or this one back here, same image. Really low in here as well. And you can see these different pieces that sort of overlap each other. And there's different movements that look like they're happening here. This is one example. Same exact image that they're building done with arrows this time. They wanted to make sure that I knew where the flow was going in their heads, how they thought it was all wrapping together. Because this is actually a low pressure system. It's a mid-latitude cyclone. It's what produces a bunch of the precipitation that we get here in Colorado. We're somewhere in this whole entire system. And so they felt it important to signify where the flow was going. And that's correct. We have, from a higher level up here, way down into the depths down in here. From lower down here to way up high up here. And then it actually comes back down just a little bit, but is higher than the area that is in the yellow portion here. Lots of important information here that actually can help you make a meteorological forecast. But I'm not unfortunately going to have enough time to teach you how to do that today. Other examples of this same sort of water vapor image built out of Play-Doh. Again, finding high points comes way down here to the depths. And then comes maybe back up a little and pokes in underneath of this other ramp up that goes up to a pretty high level as well. They even put in little blobs of convection because there's little tiny peaks that there is little bits of convective towers that were showing up on this image. And is a convective tower a thunderstorm? Is that what we would might call it? It depends on the season and it depends on how deep it is. It might have thunder. In this case, it likely wasn't thunderstorms, but those would be considered convective storms. Yes, those taller, puffier cotton bally clouds that we get. The taller they get, the more convective they are. And that's why that's what these people are doing. They have taken, they said this one's probably the highest, this one's sort of medium, this one's even lower than that. Great question, Tim. Thank you. This is a completely different take on this whole way of looking at it. They took a big blob of Play-Doh, pushed in in certain areas, dug out. They were, I remember them using the eraser of their pencil to sort of like poke into the corners and really get this deep under. And they've actually even made a sort of cliff on the top here that actually overhangs this under portion. Again, very important information meteorologically that they can infer from this image alone, that actually helps with making a weather forecast. Same type of pattern, low to high here, high to low back here, get really low in there, really low in there. Really good job. And the last Play-Doh done by one of our experts from the, from the course, they really put a lot of detail, these fine little bands going across other lower bands of Play-Doh in this case. And they actually didn't do all of it because they ran out of Play-Doh. They didn't have any left. So these are the types of things that we end up with, because I didn't give them enough Play-Doh, unfortunately. Here's the probably best part of this presentation. What I'm going to let you do now is see this image in augmented reality. It's going to be in 3D either on your web browser or you can put it in your room where you are with a mobile device. It looks like this and I know I'm going to officially lose you at this point once I show you this QR code and once I paste the link into the chat window. So I need to talk to you first before I lose you. Understand that this is my last slide, so losing you is perfectly fine once we get to that point. I expect questions and I have plenty of answers for you. Here is the QR code that you can scan and in just a second I will have the link for you in the chat window for the web browser version of that. There it is in the chat window. I highly suggest you do this on a mobile device as doing it on a mobile device will give you that possibility to see this in your room. This is the web page that it should look like when you get there. You have control over that website to rotate this all around to zoom in and out on it with your scroll wheel on your mouse to rotate up and down to rotate around however you want to think of that. When you get to this page on a mobile device in the bottom right hand corner over here there will be a small button, a circular white button with sort of a black cube in it and then black sort of corners to it. Click on that to bring that into your room. That is going to be the best way to do this. So you can answer some of these questions that I'm about to ask of you. They are not polling questions. They are free questions for you to mess with. And those questions are, were you right? Did you understand where was going to be high, where was going to be low, what the slopes of this field was going to look like? That's question one. Question two is, what do you think this means for the surface temperature, the ground temperature underneath of those? Do you think it's warm underneath the low areas? Do you think it's warm underneath the high areas? Do you think it's cold under the lower areas, cold under the higher areas? Is there something that this is telling you if it's sloped a certain direction? Play with it. Ask questions. I know there's going to be questions about how to navigate this. So now's the best time to unmute yourself, both your video and your audio if you're willing, and ask questions because I know you're going to be playing.  So thank you for your time. The time is yours to start asking questions when you get the chance. And Brian, we do have a question already in the chat. Can you see that one? Killer. Yes. What are the pink lines? The pink lines on here are the outline of North America. So if you're looking at my screen right now, this is the west coast of the United States. This is the western portion of Mexico. The Baja Peninsula is down here. This would be California up to about there, Oregon there, Washington there. And so the Canadian U.S. border goes across like this over to the Great Lakes, which are these pink blobs in there, and then goes back up the east coast and off the edge of the map. Why is the image so pointy? Thank you for asking. The image is so pointy because this is actually the way the atmosphere sort of looks. I can't get the fine detail that you would get from looking at this satellite image as the image itself. What we've done is we've tried to make that definition. And unfortunately, we can't do that. We don't have the computing power, especially on our phones, to be able to get this to really look like what we see when we look out the window. It's not easy to understand or sorry, it's not easy to compute all of the sort of cloud shape. So we end up getting these pointy shapes because that was a high point and right next to it was a lower point. So it ends up drawing these sort of faces on it that end up sort of looking like triangles. Thank you, Leanne, assuming I'm pronouncing your name correctly. Can you explain how it is not what you expected if you're willing? Feel free to unmute yourself. It looks like not truly it's going to respond, but we do have a question that came in earlier and I was wondering if you might take a moment to respond to Carl's question about the high region. Where was Carl's question? Is a high region a high amount of water vapor or high above the earth's surface or a mixture of both? You are hitting on probably the most important question we could touch on today with some relative ease. So the high portions on here are also white and what the satellite is seeing is it is seeing radiation that is radiated by water vapor in our atmosphere. So there's radiation coming off of that and that's what the satellite's seeing. It is interpreting that radiation as a height above the ground, also known as a brightness temperature. So the temperature that it's radiating from. What that tells you is where it is in the atmosphere vertically from the ground. It also though means how much moisture is likely there. So if it's higher in the atmosphere that usually means that there's more atmosphere or more water vapor, excuse me, in that entire column. So if you think about the white being up here on that top, the more water vapor is in that, the taller that column usually is. So it means both. It also means something about the temperature, but I'm not going to tell you the answer to that because that's what I'm asking you to figure out. So Carl, if you want to jump in right now and answer the question of what you think that means about the temperature, feel free to jump in or you can leave it to others if you feel like being generous. Yeah. And it looks like Leanne responded that it looks very extreme. I thought it would be smoother. So that's why it's not what you expected. Yeah. So Leanne, thanks for typing that in because it is something that a lot of people don't quite understand about the atmosphere. When you are flying in an airplane at flight altitude of 35,000 feet, you're flying where the jet stream is. And that jet stream is on this map.  That's where we fly. But these other areas that are the lower areas like down in here where it's black, where it's darker grays in here are actually way lower in the atmosphere than that. They're down around. I'm trying to do the math to make that in feet, probably around 10,000 to 12,000 feet. So the difference in height between here and say here is probably around 20,000 feet. That's a huge distance. And it's important that we recognize that because that extremist that the extremity of that helps you understand what the atmosphere is doing, why it's cold, why it's warm, why there's more moisture in certain areas, what type of weather may be coming, because you may be expecting this low area to end up swinging through and coming to you. That tells you a lot about the atmosphere. Thank you, Leanne. I really appreciate you speaking up, putting yourself out there with a comment that we can help understand. Cool. Thank you. I think we might have a second for Carl to respond. And then we are going to need to conclude for the day. Carl, are you still there? And he responded in the chat. Yes, I have heard satellite meteorologists say that cloud tops are bright and hot. So I'll say that cloud tops are hotter. Okay. In the atmosphere as we go away from the surface, so if this is the ground, excuse me, I use surface and I probably shouldn't use that. If this is the ground, as we go up in the atmosphere, the temperature typically gets colder on average. So if you have a cloud top that's pretty high up, that's actually going to be a really cold cloud top. However, it is important to note that that cold cloud top is usually in an area where that column is really tall. When the column is really tall, I'm giving away the answer to the question that I've been asking. When the column is really tall, the temperature at the ground is usually warm. So anywhere on this map where you see tall or high, you should expect at the surface that the temperature is going to be relatively warm. You're welcome, Leanne. Carl, did I answer your question? Okay, great. And Carl says, yes, thanks. So everyone, we would really like to thank you for joining us today. It's been super fun, Brian, to find out about your work. And thanks to Leanne, and we've lost everyone else, and some for Carl. But thank you for joining us today. And remember, Meet the Experts series happens every other Thursday. So our next session will be March 4th, at 11am mountain time. And I have shared in the chat the link that will get you to more details. We'll do that one more time. I think we still have Leanne, if you didn't see it the first time, there it is, and Carl. And Brian, Ger and Tee, the John Coltrane of Atmospheric Science Education. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, everyone.


If we can turn to Matthew chapter 26, the reason why this passage is heavy on my heart is because recently, a few of us, and there's some people here tonight that we went to Israel, as our church went to Israel this last, this last March, and there was a few places that really spoke to me. This is the second time I've been there. So the first year I went, there was things that really stood out to me that really impacted my trip. Last year, it was when Pastor David shared at Caesarea Philippi where Jesus asked his disciples, who the man would say that I, the Son of Man, am. That year, that was kind of like the key verse to my life, that whole entire year, as I just kept thinking about who does Jesus, who do I say that Jesus is and what does my life represent as Jesus Christ in my life? Does he represent the Son of God? So through the whole year, that was kind of my personal theme. Then we go this year, and once again, Pastor David gave this amazing teaching in the Garden of Gethsemane. And that was the time that impacted my entire trip. That was the time that was my spiritual awakening in my heart. That was the time where it seemed like my eyes were opened, being in the place where Jesus suffered tremendously for you and I. And I took that passage and I've been replaying it over and over and over in my mind, as I'm reminded of what Jesus went through that night before his crucifixion. But how does that apply to our lives tonight? How does that make sense for us who live in the 21st century to an event that took place over 2,000 years ago? What I'm hoping to do tonight is looking over this passage and looking back on what Jesus experienced the night before his brutal crucifixion. We did an amazing job here a couple of weeks ago celebrating Good Friday. We had an amazing service that was Good Friday afternoon and Good Friday evening. It was just a reminder of what Jesus did for you and I, that amazing Friday, and then the victory that Sunday morning. It was an amazing time that we were able to share here and celebrate and worship such a significant time as Christian brothers and sisters that is probably one of the most significant times as a believer. The most impactful, most meaningful event was a resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's what gives us life. That's what gives us hope. And tonight what I wanna do is I wanna reflect on a few things and give some thought into what Jesus went through the night before his crucifixion. So what I wanna do is I wanna read the entire passage and I wanna cover it's just 10 verses. And then I wanna go into a few things I wanna point out. And hopefully it makes sense and hopefully as brothers and sisters and the Lord, this is something we can always remember not just on Good Friday services, but every single day because a lot of times we get so busy caught up in our daily living that oftentimes we fail to reflect on a daily basis what Jesus done for us. And how we were on his mind the night before his brutal crucifixion. So let's read starting with verse 36. This is Matthew chapter 36, starting with verse 36. Then Jesus came with him into a place called Gethsemane and said to his disciples, sit here while I go and pray over there. And he took with him Peter and two sons of Zebedee and he began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then he said to him, to them, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to death. Stay here and watch with me. And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed saying, oh my father, if it is possible, let this cup pass for me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, what? Could you not watch with me one hour? Verse 41, watch and pray. Lest you enter temptation, the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Again a second time he went away and prayed saying, oh my father, if this cup cannot pass away from me, unless I drink it, you will be done. And he came and found them asleep again for their eyes were heavy. So he left them one away again and prayed a third time, saying the same words. Then he came to his disciples and said to them, are you still sleeping and resting, excuse me, behold the hour is at hand and the son of man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go be going, see my betrayer is at hand. The picture is clear. Jesus goes into a place with some of the disciples. In verse 36 that is indicated by Gethsemane. Now the word Gethsemane is an interesting word. It's two Hebrew words that is gat. And then the other word, what means, what gat means a place for pressing and shamanim is oil. So we get the word oil press from the garden. I have some pictures here but I wanna take a look at, this is, now when you go to Israel, your tour guide will tell you there's an A site, a B site and a C site. The A site according to the tour guide is that this is the place where it happened. A B site is, it's in the local region and we can expect it to be somewhere here. And then a C site is somewhere, it's in the area, it's in the vicinity. This is considered an A site. This is the garden behind the garden. You can see like little, like stones, that's where the temple would have been. So Jesus would have had a clear view of the temple, the next picture. You see that these olive trees are, these are considered young but there were some other ones if you can go to the next picture that are getting wider. And the wider, I identify myself as an olive tree because another tree, as you get older, you grow this way instead of this way. And I find myself connecting with the olive tree but you see some of them here that can be thousands of years old and the other picture, please. You see that as the trunk is big, this is where they believe Jesus prayed the night before his crucifixion. I think there's one more, look at this one. That tree is over 2,000 years old. Imagine, this is the potential place where Jesus went and bared his soul, begging the Father to take this cup from him. I think that's it, is there any more? I think that's it, right? Okay, that's it. We see that Jesus takes three of his disciples to this place of oil pressing. By all the olive trees that are there, you can see that this is where they would gather their olives and make olive oil. You know what's interesting about olive oil? I keep referring to our tour guide but he brought us some olive oil and went to an olive oil factory where they would use every part of the olive. They use it now for face and for skin and for olive oil. And the amazing thing about the pit of the olive, to get the best part of the oil, the pit has to be crushed. And I think it's interesting to point out that in order for us to receive what Jesus gave us his best, it was in the garden when he felt the pressure of being crushed. Because the next day, he would be brutally crucified. And the book of Isaiah tells us that he was so marred that his visage, he'd even look like a human. And on the eve of that night, he is begging the Father to take this cup from him. And so I wanna take a look at this is that we see in verse 36 that he's in Gethsemane, but also in verse 36, he says, "'Sit here while I go and pray over there.'" So we see that Jesus takes three of his disciples and they go and pray. And one thing that we can see from going from this passage is that when we go through difficult times, we're to pray. The model that we learn here tonight is that when Jesus was going through the suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane, he didn't go on Snapchat. He didn't go on Facebook. He didn't go and tell his friends he went to the Father. He didn't go to Oprah or Dr. Phil. He went to the Father. And that's something we can learn while going through a difficult time is that we can turn to the Father who is in heaven above who hears our prayers. The Bible tells us in James that the effective fervent prayer of the righteous avails much. So when we're going through a difficult time as Jesus was here, we see that he prayed. There's a tendency for us to go this way with our problems instead of going this way. A lot of times we want to tell our friends. We want to tell social media. And the next thing you know, we're out there spreading our laundry everywhere. And that's not what we're to do when we're going through difficult times. We're to take it to the Father. You know, I was listening to an old song that reminds me of my dad. And it's a song called, What a Friend We Have in Jesus. It's an old school, oldy but goody. And he says, in one of the verses, he says, taking everything to the Lord in prayer. That's a good model for us to understand that when we're going through a difficult time that we're to go through the Father. And in verse 38, it tells us that Jesus' soul was exceedingly sorrowful unto death. Now I think a lot of times we think that we know what that means. But if you really think about what this means, we have no clue of what exceedingly sorrowful truly means. I'm sure many of us have gone through very difficult times and have experienced deep grief and sorrow. Have experienced a pain that nobody else has ever experienced before. We've experienced anguish and we felt like where if we're going to die and we feel like we're not going to make it sometimes and we're like, Lord, where are you? I can't feel you. I'm not gonna be able to get through this difficult time. But just multiply that by three or 4,000.  And this is what it's explaining here that Jesus was so sorrowful that he was grieving so intensely that it felt like literally he was going to die, which he was the next morning. It's interesting if you look at the word exceedingly. For any of you English buffs in here, it's considered an adverb, which really what it does, an adverb really, and this is not a history, I mean the English lesson, but what this word is designed to do is to qualify the next word. It's to, it really described the next word intensely. So the word exceedingly sorrowful, it's really to express that sorrow that Jesus is expressing. Mark 14, 34 tells us the same thing. It says that what he said to them, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to death. Stay here and watch. You know what's interesting to point out, the word soul here in the original language is psyche. It's the same Greek word that James uses.  It's what makes you up as a human being. It's your thought process. It's who you are inside. It's your total psyche. And when Jesus says my soul is exceedingly sorrowful, he's telling that every part of me is going through an intense grief that I can't even explain, but it feels like I'm gonna die.  We can equate the psyche with a soul, mind, and spirit of a person.  It's perian lipos. Peri comes from the word encompassing or engulfed or surrounded. Lipos is intense sorrow or grief. So if you can picture in your mind's eye the intensity of the grief that Jesus went through the night before his crucifixion. He went through a sorrow and a grief that was so intense and I don't know if any of us has really truly experienced something like this or this type of sorrow. It's being grieved so intensely that it's gonna bring about death. You know what's interesting? To really measure what Jesus was going through for you and I that night in the Garden of Gethsemane, Luke chapter 22 verse 44 points something very interesting out. It shares that Jesus was in such tense and anguished that he began to sweat drops of blood and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly than his sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground. As you can tell, I'm not a very gym person. I try to go, but it doesn't look like it, I know. And when I'm on that treadmill, I start sweating. And every time I sweat, I'm reminded of this passage. I see it sometimes, I'm sweating more than usual and I have these drops of blood just dropping profusely and sometimes it's kinda sick because it's on the treadmill and I make sure I wipe it up, but I'm reminded that at the night when Jesus, before he died, he was in the Garden of Prane and he had drops like sweat that were sweat and blood mixed falling to the ground. I don't know if you guys ever experienced such a deep intense emotion such as Jesus did that night. It's a condition called hematidrosis. It's a real medical condition. It's a condition which capillary blood vessels that feed the sweat glands, they rupture because of intense pressure. Causing them to exude blood, occurring under conditions of extreme physical or emotional stress. This is our Jesus. And we look at verse 39. It says, he went a little farther and he fell on his face and prayed, saying, oh my father, if it is possible, let this cup pass for me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, what? Could you not watch and pray with me one hour? Watch and pray, let's you enter temptation. The spirit is indeed, I'm sorry, the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. And again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, oh my father, if this cup cannot pass for me unless I drink it, your will be done. Jesus was surrounded by sorrow and he knew when and how he was going to die. Three times, Jesus asked the father, if it was possible, if there's any other way, if there's any other way that this can happen, please take this cup for me. He didn't do it once, he didn't plead and ask twice, he pleaded and asked the father three times. I don't think we understand what that cup is. But it's interesting, we point out, did Jesus fear those he knew were coming to lead him to the cross? Did he fear the whips that were going to rip open his back and allow so much blood to be lost and where his organs were hanging out and his back was shredded like paper? Do you think he wasn't fearful of that? Or do you think they were fearful of him plucking out his beard that literally pulled out skin? Do you think he was fearful of the nails being driven through his wrist? Do you think he was fearful of the crown of thorns he was gonna have to wear? As sometimes the pictures that we see of Jesus look so nicely and nestled on his head when we don't have a clue to what really went on. Do you think he feared going to the cross? Perhaps his humanity recoiled at the thought of having that spike driven through his wrists or beaten with ruthless brutality? And in the midst of anguish, it's interesting to point out that Jesus still cares for the spiritual well-being of his disciples. If you look at verses 36 and 38, it says in verse 36, sit here while I go and pray over there. And in verse 38, he says, stay here and watch with me. So what Jesus is really telling his disciples is to be spiritually vigilant, be aware, be sober minded. I think a lot of times as Christians that we do is we walk aimlessly instead of walking with vigilance, walking with a spiritual sobriety that we know what's going on around us. I think a lot of times that we have this idea that we are to walk in a certain way and say, okay, Lord, I've given my life to you, now you do the hard work. Or we live in such a way that we couldn't be convicted in the court of law of having enough evidence against us to convict us of being a Christian. I think one of the things that we need to be mindful as Christians is that we need to walk with the spiritual vigilance of being aware of what's going on around us and being separate from the world. But it's interesting to point out that Jesus here instructs his disciples to sit and pray and watch. I think a lot of times we get so busy in our lives that we fail to sit, pray, and watch. I've brought this up before. A lot of times we, at least in my life, I can say is that I get so busy sometimes is that I have this drive through mentality of, okay, Lord, I got five minutes to do my devotions and I open up my Bible and I'm saying, okay, Lord, I'm gonna pick a verse and I look and it says, by what means how he now sees and we do not know and he opened his eyes and we do not know. Lord, thank you for this morning devotion. Thank you, be with me, and we're off. And it's no wonder that our spiritual vigilance is so low and it's no wonder that we go through the wilderness at the same time like Lord, where are you? Because we have this drive through mentality when it comes to our devotions. And Jesus is instructing his disciples to sit, watch, and pray. We are two. We're to sit and we're to watch and we're to pray. And in verse 40, it says, then he came to his disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, what? Could you not watch with me one hour? Jesus asks a profound question, couldn't you? Couldn't you? I think about this in my life. Can you not just watch with me? I think about the things that Jesus has asked me to do in my life and I've suddenly fallen to sleep. The world can suddenly put us to sleep with things that Jesus has asked us to do. The world can suddenly put us to sleep where we're no longer active from the things that Jesus is wanting us to do. What are the things tonight that Jesus has asked you to do, whether it's in your marriage, whether it's in your relationship, whether it's with your finances, whether it's with your colleagues at work, whether it's with your spiritual walk, what is it that Jesus has asked you to do? Can you just sit here and pray? Have you allowed the world, the cares of the world to come and suddenly put you to sleep as we see the disciples here?  Or have you been lulled into this nice restful sleep? Couldn't you? Couldn't you just watch with me one hour? Is that the question Jesus is presenting to us? I think sometimes he's presenting that to the church because the church has suddenly allowed the world to lull us to sleep and Jesus is saying, couldn't you? You know what's amazing is that Jesus, this is, thank goodness I'm not Jesus because I wouldn't care about anybody that night if I'm facing the cross, but here he was telling his disciples, be spiritually vigilant, be aware, sit, watch, and pray. I think a lot of times we're so, we gotta get through this, gotta get through this, gotta get through this, and the Lord's like, no, sit, watch, and pray. And the world can be suddenly putting us to sleep to the thing that Jesus has asked us to do or even command, and we must be spiritually vigilant and we are to watch and pray because the Bible, Jesus says, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Our flesh is weak. And if we're not spiritually vigilant to what Jesus has asked us to do, and if we've allowed the world to come and put us to sleep, we're sitting ducks. Look at verse 42. And again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, oh, my father, this cup cannot pass away from me, unless I drink it, you will be done.  And then he left them and went away again and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then he came to his disciples and said to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour's at hand. The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going. See, my betrayer is at hand. One of the things that really stood out to me in this passage is that cup that Jesus refers to three times. He says, well, he says it twice, and then it says, the Bible says that he went the third time and said the same things. Jesus is asking the Father to please take this cup from me. And that really stood out to me because I started thinking about cup. And I started thinking about what Jesus is referring to when he's referring to asking that this cup is taken from him. But to understand what Jesus, what he's referring to, what he means, we must look to some of the Old Testament passages that gives us a clear understanding of what this cup symbolizes. It symbolizes God's judgment. There are three verses I wanna point out that, I mean, we can be here all night looking at this, but there are three verses that really point out what Jesus is referring to when he's talking about this specific cup. In Habakkuk, chapter two, verse 16, it says, you are filled with shame instead of glory. You also drink and be exposed as uncircumcised. The cup of the Lord's right hand will be turned against you and utter shame will be your glory. Ezekiel 23, excuse me, 21 to 24, I made a mistake, it's 21 to 24. It says, you have walked in the way of your sister, therefore I will put her cup in your hand. Thus says the Lord God, you shall drink of your sister's cup, the deep and wide one. You shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision. It contains much. You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister's samaria. You shall drink it and drain it. You shall break its shards and tear it at your own breast for I have spoken, says the Lord God. And in Psalm 11, four, it says, upon the wicked he will reign coals. Fire and brimstone, a burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. Time and time again, the Bible speaks of a cup of God's wrath, which will be poured against and poured out against all sinners. It's a cup of disgust, of desolation and shame. It's a cup of destruction. It is a cup filled to the brim with the perfect wrath of a perfectly just God. So what Jesus is asking the Father is that he would take this cup that is being described here, the cup of wrath of a perfectly just God, a cup of what? A cup of all the wrath that comes against the sin that we've committed in our lives. I heard this interesting story and it's, I don't know how true it really is, but I just heard it and I thought it would be interesting to share of a man who was praying one day, Lord, I want to feel what it was like that you felt in the garden when the sin of the world was upon you or when you were on the cross, Lord, I'm begging you, let me feel what it was like to feel the sin of the world on your shoulders. And all of a sudden this person got a horrific, sick feeling and he's like begging the Lord, Lord, take the sin of the world off my shoulders. Please, Lord, take the sin of the world. I can't bear this any longer. And he heard a small voice that says, son, this isn't the sin of the world. These are your sin. And I imagine that the wrath that God had intended for you and I was now taken upon Jesus Christ. He took that cup and he fully drank it. Why? Because he loves you. Because he took what was intended for you and I and not only took a sip, but he drank it until the cup was empty. What an amazing Jesus that we serve. An amazing God who came and took a cup filled to the brim with a perfect wrath of God and he took it. Before the world was even created, Jesus agreed to drink this cup, to save the ones that he loves. He would not just take a sip of this cup, but would drink it to the bottom until there was nothing left. And just a few short hours later, from this passage that we read in the Garden of Gethsemane, his battered body was nailed to a wooden cross. As he hung there alone naked before God, he began to drink the cup that was supposed to be drank by you and I. He faced God's judgment. He drank in the horror and desolation, shame and destruction that was rightfully designated for you and I. It was rightfully ours, but he drank it. Imagine how the father must have felt having to punish his own son with every bit of wrath of his righteous anger against sin. At the time of his son, at the time Jesus needed him the most, he was unable to comfort him. The father poured out punishment against his son that our human minds can never, ever comprehend. Hour after hour, God's wrath poured in, on and through Jesus.  Drinking it down to the last drops of God's wrath until there was no more. The wrath that was deserved to be poured out against me, a wrath that was designed to be poured out against you and that was consumed by the one who loves us more than we can ever know. I don't know if you've ever taken the time to think about this cup that Jesus pleaded three times for the father to take. The father poured out punishment against his son that the human minds can never comprehend. Having drank in the last drops, Jesus shout out in triumph, it is finished. The work had been done knowing that his task was complete. Jesus turned his gaze to heaven and said, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. And at that moment, he yielded up his spirit and returned to fellowship with his father. There are those who would say, having seen the events of Jesus's life portrayed in a movie that they were better equipped to understand what Jesus really went through. Make no mistake about this, you guys. This can never be. Though we may have a greater appreciation for the physical abuse and torture that Jesus endured by watching a movie, we can never ever understand the depths of his sacrifice. See in the drama of a spike driven through the arms and the nails of Riz tells, you know more about the sacrifice than Jesus seeing the thimble full of water that helps the child understand the power, the depths and the vastness of oceans. We can't ever presume to understand what Jesus ever went through us because we can never comprehend what he's done for us. A thousand songs, a thousand books, a thousand words can never express adequate thanks for the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. But what we can do is that we can turn to him who drank the cup on our behalf and acknowledge that this wrath was meant for you and I, turn to Jesus, praise him for the completeness of the sacrifice that is too great for us to comprehend. This is something I would think about over and over and over again. Lord, what is this cup? What was it that I watched the Passion of Christ? That was hard to watch. That was toned down because I don't know if we would ever truly fully comprehend the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. This is what's so important for me that I remember this on a daily basis, not just on Good Friday, not on just Easter morning on Resurrection Sunday, but every day. We're to rejoice and be thankful that Christ drank this cup to the bottom. Be thankful knowing that in all of eternity would not be enough time for you and I to drink that cup.  Look not to the time of his suffering, but look to the intensity of what he suffered, a suffering Jesus. We can rest. We can rest in him in his infinite, complete, awesome love. We can rejoice that this cup that our cup is emptied, consumed in the greatest act of love that the world will ever know. Did you know what's so amazing about Jesus? Is that he came to save him? He came to save us from himself. Think about that. Jesus came to save us from himself. You know what's so amazing? You know on Wednesday, we're gonna be taking communion. Pastor David will be given his message and then afterwards we'll have communion. For me, this has opened my eyes to communion because now I'm able to drink. Oh, if we look at the word communion, you guys ever looked up the definition it's sharing or exchanging intimacy with Jesus. We take communion and a lot of times for me it was just something, a piece of bread and some grape juice and we drink it and sometimes it seemed like it became like just a habit. But if we truly understand that communion means exchanging intimacy with Jesus. We eat the bread, we drink the cup and then we have communion with Jesus but we don't deserve communion with Jesus. We deserve the cup of wrath but once again, Jesus took that for you and I. And what I'm wanting to really drive home tonight is to always remember what Jesus has done for us even in the garden, a suffering Jesus. You know, it's interesting as we take communion we're sharing something with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And if Jesus has come to save us from himself and he has come and he has taken the cup of wrath from us that we deserve because of our sin but yet he wants that intimacy with you and I. See, when we celebrate communion this Wednesday may it not be a regular tradition that we've had but remember what the wrath that Jesus really took for us when he drank the cup. When we take that little drink, we're reminded that we have communion exchanging intimacy with our Lord and Savior when we should have been receiving the wrath. And our intimacy with Jesus is so amazing but I don't think we understand his intimacy towards us. Isaiah 21 4 says that he will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Can I ask you guys a question? What is one of the most appropriately, what is one of the most intimate places on your body? Your face. I've been sharing this with some of my friends. Your face. If I go up to Dave Bustamante tonight, start rubbing his face, he'd probably knock me out. The face. That's how much intimacy Jesus has with you. I don't let anybody touch my face.   My wife touches my face.  That's intimacy. Jesus says he will wipe away every tear. That means he's so intimate with us that he literally, it's part of touching our face. I don't know if you ever thought about that. Jesus who suffered and pleaded, take this cup from me. That was designed for you and me.  Jesus says, I will take it because I love you. And I will take it. And not only will I take this cup, but I will have intimacy with you because my love for you is so great. I don't think our minds can comprehend that. I don't think we can fully understand what Jesus truly has done for us. You know what hit me the hardest? So let me back up. So this is what was so significant me for me while in the Garden of Gethsemane. One of the things that really impacted me in that trip was when Pastor David shared on in the Garden that after the third time that Jesus asked, let this cup pass from me. I wonder if he got a glimpse of each and every one of us. I wonder, as he said, Father, let this cup pass. I'm wondering if he got a glimpse of all of our faces. He says, but not my will, your will. I wonder if he knew that we would be going through difficult times tonight. If he knew that we'd be going through a tough place. And he says, you know, it's not my will, Lord, because I love them so much. I wonder if he got a glimpse of you and I. I wonder about stuff like that. And then he responded, but not my will, your will.  Because for Jesus to take a cup that was deserved for me, how wretched that I am, how often I fall short, how often I go through the difficult times, how often I just messed up. And Jesus still says, I love you. That blows me away. That's what hit me the hardest this time in our last trip. Next year, it's gonna be something else and I'll be here sharing it with you guys next year. But the Garden of Gethsemane.  But not only that, but remembering on a daily basis, what Jesus has done for you and I. Remembering every day what Jesus suffered for you and I, but not just on Good Friday, but every single day.