We got Greg, versus Alexander Bublick and Alexander won the first set, Gregor won the second, tied in the third and that's a fault to open it up. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. Thank you to them. And now he gets another chance. Oh no, he did the same exact thing he gave by a point. And now return serve. Okay, oh no. See, he thought that he was gonna go to his forehand and he went to his backhand. So that's frustrating, because in the end he couldn't even fight for that shot.  You're probably gonna, oh no.  And it's been a close match and now I'm blowing it just all the way at the end. Don't go long. Oh, he goes short, he goes into the net. Now he, oh, what's he gonna do now? He's all twisted up. Same thing, another double fault. He's given away a lot of points here in his head. So what's he gonna do? He's gotta change it up. Quick serve. Oh, no, now you just look even more.  Tried for the quick serve and then goes long again. He's all frustrated. So frustrated he's talking to himself.  You had to try and get cute. What are you doing? Keep your head in. His competitor, he's like, are you all right? Am I allowed to serve? Like, should I wait for you? Sir, sir, fine, I'm sorry. Like, just serve at six love. I'm not even trying anymore. It wasn't six love, but now it is. Oh, racket smash. One, two, three, four, five. Frush that. You gotta watch this woman in front of her. Scared? Oh, come on, recording. So quick. Like, Wild Bill, Hickok, Descendant, quickness with the phone. Oh, what are you doing? I'm recording. Oh, come on, wait, do it again. Oh, you got, come on, wait. Oh, I got you. Vonex, Yonex, I don't know the tennis company, but they gotta be like upset or happy.  Oh, you're doing it again. I'll film you this way. I was just filming the racket. Oh, you're gonna pick up another one? Great, I'ma film that one too. Thank you. Oh, wow. And then he stops filming. How do you know he wasn't gonna go for a fourth one?  How could you smash rackets in front of that guy? Oh, no. So now he's walking away. He's like, oh my God, the guy in the suit saw me. I'm dead. This is not good. I just gotta lose and get on with this. Just lose and get on with it.  I just gotta lose and get on with it. And he's just gonna return it. He's just an angry as hard as I can return. And here you go, right in the middle. Do what you want with it. Oh, you hit it out. Okay. Another game point. I get to serve this time. He's all ecstatic about it. There you go.  Too little, too late. Okay, let's just not even try. Here, hit that one back. All right, you're out of position.  Now he's like, okay. Now I'm halfway back in this match.   He's cursing at himself like just ace me. Okay, great. Good, thanks. They go to review it. He's like, no, don't even, I mean, it's in. It's in. I don't even want them to review it. And it was in and that's the end of the match. And he goes to the crowd who are kind of booing. And he's like, all right, thanks guys. He's like, oh, well, shit, sorry man. It's frustrated.   I would never go open my app, open it up and just smash it three times in national television. Wouldn't do it, never would. Cause DraftKings treats me really nice. Thanks DraftKings for sponsoring the breakdown.


Amen. So here we are in Acts chapter 5, and don't worry, we're going to take several weeks to get through Acts chapter 5. There's a lot in Acts chapter 5, so we're going to take our time to get through it. As a matter of fact, tonight, we're going to go backwards a few verses, and I want to just address some of the things that were happening in Acts chapter 4 as we lead into Acts chapter 5. I left these four verses out on purpose last week. If you look back at Acts chapter 4, let's just read the four verses at the end of the chapter of Acts chapter 4. This isn't the first time that we see this happening, but I want to address a couple things here, and then we'll talk about the topic of the sermon this evening. Look at verse 34 of Acts chapter 4. Neither was there any among them that lacked, for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the apostles' feet, and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. And Joseph, who by the apostles was surname Barnabas, which is being interpreted the son of consolation, a Levite, and a country of Cyprus having land, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles' feet. So here we see the people, they're just selling everything that they own, and they're bringing it to the church, to the apostles, and they're telling them the price that they sold the land for, and they're just laying it all down at the apostles' feet. And there was none of them that lacked anything, because they kind of had, they were pooling all their resources together. And if you look back at up at verse number 32, it says, the multitude of them that were believed, that believed were of one heart and of one soul. And we'll get to that, and I'll tie that together at the end, but look down at Acts chapter 5 in verse number 1. That's another theme that we've seen so far in the book of Acts, was just how tightly knit this beginning church was. Look at verse number 1 of Acts chapter 5. But now we see something happens. It says, but a certain man named Ananias and Sapphire, his wife, sold a possession, as everybody else was, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles' feet. So they sold some property for a price that, you know, no one knows except them. And they brought only a portion of that to the apostles and laid it down. Look at verse 3. And Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whilst it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hath thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. So we're gonna stop there for this evening, and I just want to address the things that are happening, what these things mean, what they don't mean. Okay, so the title of this sermon this evening is how you need to sell all your possessions and give it to the church. Okay, everyone's leaving now. No, I'm just kidding. But, you know, I mean, you could preach that from this. It would be false, but you know, somebody could preach that from this situation. Okay, so I want to address this. It's a couple things before I give you the point of the sermon this evening. The first thing is, is that, you know, people say, okay, they had all things in common. This was communism. Okay, verse number four of Acts chapter five, you know, puts that to rest. And I'll get into, I'll get into the actual sin that Ananias and Sapphira did next Wednesday. Okay, but it was not that they didn't give all the money to the church. Okay, it's that they lied. They lied about it. And we'll talk about that next Wednesday. But look at verse number four, talking about, you know, they had all things in common. We should have all things in common and you should give all everything that you possess to the church, or you're not right with God. Well, look at what Peter says in verse number four. This is super important. He says, look at what he says to Ananias. He says, whilst it remained, he's like, while it was yours, was it not thine own? So here's the thing. Your stuff, your possessions, and we'll talk about what your possessions are and what your possessions aren't in a few minutes. That'll be the point of the sermon. But Peter is saying to Ananias, he's like, while it was yours, it's yours. It was in your control. He says, after it was sold, even, he goes even further. Okay, he says, after it was sold, was it not in thine own power?  You could have land, a house, whatever. And you could sell that house or sell that land. And then that money that you get from that, as long as it's yours, and we'll talk about that in a minute, is in your own power, is what Peter is saying. So this is not forced communism. You must sell everything and give it to the church. This is not what's happening here at all. And verse number four explains it. He says, why hast thou he continues? So he says, while it was yours before you sold it, it was yours. He's like, when you sold it, the money was yours. This is what Peter said. Okay, so you say, what's the problem? He said, why has thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.  That's what he did. That was his problem. We'll talk about that next week. But it also wasn't communism because this was voluntary. All these people are voluntarily giving these offerings to the church. They're just, they're excited. Verse number 32 of Acts chapter four says again, it's like they're of one heart and one soul. They're just excited. They want this ministry to go. They're, they're just, they're just, they're all, they're just pushing everything on the table. That's, that's what was going on. And it was of their own power. They were just committing everything to the Lord. Okay, so we'll talk about that at the end of the sermon. But look, this was not communism. This was not forced communism.    This is different than what was happening here. Okay, it's different than a government taxing you, forcing you to pay whatever it was. I mean, Ananias was simply trying to steal glory, basically, for himself. So look, Peter just explains, here's what's yours. And it was yours, but you lied. That was the problem. Okay, so this was not communism. These people were voluntarily doing this, because they had one heart of one accord. Let's talk about that this evening, because these people are giving money to, you know, the ministry to the church. So let's look at this idea of, what is yours? And what is God's this evening? Should you give money to the church?  Turn to Malachi chapter three. Well, you know, I don't preach about money like ever, because I don't really care about it. And we'll get to that at the end of the sermon. But this is in the Bible. So let's look at it. Look at Malachi chapter three, in verse number seven. This is for your benefit this evening. Look at Malachi chapter three, in verse number seven. Peter, make sure to point out, like, what is yours? And what is, you know, not yours?  Look at verse number seven of Malachi chapter three. Let's look at what is yours and what is God's? Should you give money to church? What does the Bible say? Malachi chapter three, in verse number seven, even from the days of your fathers, you're gone away from mine ordinances. These are, he's talking about, you know, you are not this nation, you are not following my laws and have not kept them. Return unto me and I will return unto you, say, at the Lord of hosts. But you said, where in shall we return? He's, he's, he's say, what, what ordinances are you talking about? What have we done wrong? Look at verse number eight. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me, but ye say, wherein have we robbed me? And the Bible says in tithes and offerings. And then the Bible even goes further in verse number nine.  For ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. So this nation was not paying tithes or out giving offerings. Look at verse number 10, bringing all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be, there may be meat in my house and prove me now where here with, say at the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.  They said, what ordinances? He said, in tithes and offerings. And he literally, then, then the Bible literally says here, God says, he's like, because you've not paid tithes and offerings, he's like, you've robbed me.   So what is a tithe? Because we don't want to rob God. Look at Leviticus chapter 27. Look at Leviticus chapter 27. You know, he says, you know, you could either, you know, in verse number 10, you could either bring the tithes into the storehouse, and then he will give you this great blessing. He'll just pour you out blessings. Or he says in verse number nine, you're cursed with a curse. Look, this isn't a prosperity gospel. This is just what God is saying about people that rob him and people that bring tithes into the storehouse. Look at Leviticus chapter 27. Look at verse number 30. So what is a tithe? We need to know what this is. The Bible says in Leviticus chapter 27, verse number 30, it defines for us what the word tithe means. And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's. Now that's the key right there, okay, is the Lord's. It is holy unto the Lord. And if a man will all redeem out of his tithes, he shall add there unto the fifth part thereof. And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock or even whatsoever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord. So let's stop there. So the tithe, then it makes sense because the word, this is what it means, the tithe is a tenth part of the increase of what you produce of what you make. And he says, if you would redeem, if you take, and look, it says that the tenth part of what you produce, what you make, is like that belongs to the Lord. So like it's not yours. So like when I go to work or make money or whatever I do for a living, a tenth of that does not belong to me, is what the Bible here is saying, what God is saying. And then in verse 31 it says, if I redeem out of that, like I say, well, you know what, this year I'm just going to give, you know, a twentieth part to the Lord. It's like I have to now take twenty percent of what I stole from God and give that, you know, that's a fifth part, right? If we're dividing by a hundred, we're going to do some math here tonight. But I mean, he's saying ten percent is the Lord's, and if you take from that ten percent, you owe twenty percent. Kind of like the IRS penalty, right? If you ever had to pay that. But I mean, basically what God is saying is he's defining what is his and what is not. And that's what he's talking about in Malachi chapter three, is that they were robbing that ten percent in Malachi chapter three. So it's not like they weren't giving, you know, they just like, they literally were taking something that wasn't theirs, okay? So go to Matthew twenty-three. I mean, you say that's the Old Testament. This is the only argument really that I've heard against tithing, is that that's the Old Testament, which makes no sense, by the way. Because the Old Testament is just as valid as the New Testament. It is all the Word of God. Look at Matthew chapter twenty-three and look at verse number twenty-three. But I mean, tithing is in the New Testament as well. So it makes no sense that people would say, well, that's just Old Testament stuff. Look at Matthew twenty-three in verse number twenty-three. The Bible says, wool unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and come in, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith. Then he says, these ought ye to have done, and to not leave the other, and not to leave the other undone.  So these these Pharisees, they were, they were paying tithe, which is the ten percent, and they were paying it this way in these, these spices. And then it says, they've omitted the weightier matters of the law. And it says, these ought ye to have done. Meaning, you should have been paying tithe, that's okay, but you're not doing these super important things. But the Bible here is, you know, it's Jesus basically saying that they ought to have paid a tithe, which they were doing, and they were just not doing the more important things. But look, here's the thing, folks, Jesus didn't undo the Old Testament.  You know, Jesus came to fulfill the law, not destroy it. So this idea, oh, that's Old Testament. First of all, it makes no sense, because it's in the New Testament. And second of all, Jesus came to confirm, he confirmed the law. He fulfilled the law. So you say, so what I'm trying to get you to understand is the Bible clearly teaches that ten percent of what we produce of, of our fruit, of our seed, or whatever we produce in our lives, it's not that we're to give it to God, it's that it belongs to God. It's that it's, it's His.  The next question everyone's going to ask in their mind is like, well before or after taxes.  The numbers aren't even close. You look at that and you're like, so what does that mean?  How do I do the math on this? Look at Proverbs 3 in verse number 9. It's pretty easy. I mean, I don't like the answer, but it's pretty easy. Look at Proverbs 3 in verse number 9. The Bible says, honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine increase. So the Bible here is saying that God gets the first fruits. God gets the first fruits.  With what? With everything that he's increased you with.  Now personally, I round up because I don't want to rob God. You know, I round up because I, and I literally, this is something I literally look at every single year to make sure that I did get this right. Because I don't want to be $1 behind. Look, this is me. This is not you. Because look, here's the thing. It's not mine. This is what the Bible is saying. It is not mine. And look, I'm not a thief. And here's another thing. If I was a thief, the last person I'd steal from is the Lord. Okay, so the Bible is very clear about this. Go back to Malachi chapter 3. The last person I would steal from is God. Well, back to Malachi chapter 3.  In verse number 9 to Malachi 3, he says, you're cursed with a curse for you have robbed me. So he's saying, like, this is what's going to happen to you because, look, here's the thing. You're not going to get ahead by not tithing is what God is telling you as a saved believer of what he says in the Bible. Look at verse number 10. He says, bring you all the tithes into the storehouse that they may meet in my house and prove me now here with, say it to the Lord of hosts.  He's like, bring the tithes in. He's like, just do it and look what will happen. If I will not open the windows of heaven, you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 14. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 14. Now, there's a lot of verses on this, but basically God's saying, if you rob me, you're going to be cursed with a curse. I mean, this is not, I mean, this isn't something we talk about a lot here. This isn't something that I, I don't think I've ever preached a sermon just totally on this, like I am tonight, but it's in the Bible and look, God's saying that there's curses and blessings involved. So I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't tell you what the Bible says here. Look at Deuteronomy 14 in verse number 22. It says, thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year.  You see that?  You know, I can't pencil that out right now. But here's the thing. It's just I would argue that you can't afford not to because of what the Bible is saying here. I mean, the Bible is saying, look, the field will bring forth year by year if you don't rob the Lord is what he's saying. In Malachi chapter three and Deuteronomy chapter 14. So I mean, it's just it's a matter of faith. It's a matter of faith of, and it's just one of those things where we're tithing and, you know, we're so, you know, we like our money so much. You know, but it's like, it's one of those things where we're it's our it's our it's one of the outward expressions of our faith. If you think about it that way, look, everybody, I mean, lots of people, I shouldn't say everybody, not not you all. But lots of people are they talk a big faith game. But when it comes to, you know, actions and work and and all these things, you know, then that's where things are short.  Look, I mean, personally, I've never worried about money less in my life. And I'll kind of give you a little philosophy about that towards the end of the sermon. But you know, I just kind of started tithing years ago and just left it up to the Lord.  I mean, in my 20s, I mean, yeah, I wasn't saved. But in my 20s, I literally thought that success in my life was going to be how much money I had, or how successful my business was, or how, you know, far I could take my career and my business and all these different things. And look, it was it was a main focus in my life. I'm going to just throw that out there. But you know, I mean, it seems like I look back on it now. And when I just left things up to the Lord, I've never worried about money so little in my entire life.  It's it's the promise will come true is what I'm trying to get get that he can bless the little you have, or he can curse your abundance that you think you have is basically what God is saying. Go back to Acts chapter five. I want to point something else out here in Acts chapter five. Actually, you turn to second Corinthians chapter nine, but in Acts chapter five, and in Acts chapter four towards the end, we see that these people are at least some of them were pushing all their possessions on the table. These people were voluntarily just, and you know what that was? That was just a great outward expression that we can see of their faith and of their their unity and that that single singularity of mind that they had and what was important to them. Look at second Corinthians chapter nine. Look at verse number five. Paul here is talking to the church in second Corinthians chapter nine about he's talking about a special offering that they're they're going to take. Okay, so they're going to take a special offering in verse number five. Paul's giving some advice on how they should react to this offering. He says, therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren that they would go before unto you and make up beforehand your bounty. He's like, he's I'm sending people to take an offering from you. Whereof you had noticed before that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty and not as of covetousness. So he's saying, look, we've given you notice that we're going to take a special offering. I'm sending men to you to take a special offering and you know, I've given you and you know, I've given you notice that you can be ready.  What Paul is basically saying here in verse number five. Now look at verse number six. He says, but this I say, he would sow it sparingly shall reap also sparingly. This is exactly what Deuteronomy 14-22 was talking about.  And Paul is saying the same thing.  I want to keep my money to myself. He's like, you will reap sparingly and he would sow bountifully. Here's the opposite end of it shall reap also bountifully. Look at verse number seven. I mean, so there's that blessing again.  I once knew a guy that still goes to Varity. When we first started soul winning at, you know, this is the, this is the mentality that we need to be in here. I knew this guy and when we went soul winning at Varity, we just moved there in 2016. It was just a couple of months after we had, we had been there and this guy was super busy. Like he was working weekends all the time and he was working weekends and he worked late during the week. I mean, the guy worked his tail off, but he was always at Saturday soul winning. And I asked him one day, we were out soul winning together.  I mean, he was like literally soul winning Saturday. And he's like in the car boom, going to work. Going, I mean, he was, he was a really busy individual. And I was like, man, you always, you never miss Saturday soul winning. And the guy said to me, he's like, I can't afford to not, I, he's like, I can't afford to not go soul winning. My business can't afford to not go soul winning. That's what he said to me. And I was like, oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense. Look down at verse number seven of verse second Corinthians chapter nine. He's basically quoting Deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 22 and Malachi chapter three verse nine and 10 to me saying, look, he's like, I have to do this. I'm doing this out of service. I need God's blessing in my life. He's like, I need the hand of God with me. Look at verse and it was soul winning and not tidying, but it's the same theory. Look at second Corinthians chapter nine verse seven. He says every man according as he as he purposeth in his heart, soul, let him give. Now, this is super important in this matches why we see Acts chapter four, starting with Acts chapter four verse 32. He says, soul, let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver. That's what you had in Acts chapter four. He had these people. Look, they didn't they didn't have to do that. They didn't have to do that. They were cheerful givers. They were not grudgingly about it. They weren't like Bob did it. I guess I got to do it too.  They were just like they're all and that's why the Bible says that the beginning of what was happening there, it says they were all with one heart. They were all together and they were just like, whatever, let's go. Let's get this thing done. And he says, and God is able to make all grace a bound toward you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work. He says, as it is written, he hath disbursed abroad, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth forever. Now, he that ministereth seed to the sower, both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown. This is another just this is what God's going to do and increase the fruits of your righteousness, being enriched in everything to all bountifulness which causes causes through us thanksgiving to God.  He's like, but don't, he's not talking about tithes. I mean, that's not what he's talking about. Just special offerings, which is what we see in Acts chapter four. Just these people just willingly, voluntarily, not communism, just giving everything to the Lord. So, I mean, you say why? Why does God want 10 percent? I mean, this is pretty easy to understand.  You know, God's church on earth has needs. I mean, we have lights, we have rent. I mean, granted, we run a pretty lean operation here, but here's the thing. The philosophy of how we spend the tithes of the Lord, because look, it's not our money, it's not my money, it's the Lord's money. Just because you give it to the church doesn't make it mine, it's the Lord's. So, you know, the philosophy that we see in Acts chapter four is the philosophy that we use largely, turn to Haggai chapter two, Haggai chapter two, but it fits the philosophy of how we spend our money here. Okay? First of all, for the common needs, for the common needs of the church, the church activities. You know, we don't go and just spend a lot of money on one person, right? We spend on the common needs of the church, church activities that we all participate in, materials for soul winning, you know, the light bill, the air conditioning bill, all the things that we all participate in, and then there are those things where certain people have needs. You know, these are few and far between, but certain people might have needs. We never give cash to anyone, ever, just as a rule. But if somebody gets in trouble or somebody needs, you know, the discretion of the pastor of the church, the church may help out a certain person in a special situation. That's distributing to the necessities of certain people. But large part, it's the common needs of the church. But our main mission statement and where that tithe is used in the church is in Haggai chapter 2. Look at verse number 19. Here's our main focus here. Aside from renting the building and paying the bills and all these things and buying the materials for soul winning. Well, I mean, this is the main focus of that as well. Look at verse number 19. It says, is the seed yet in the barn? Yay, as yet the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree hath not brought forth fruit. And then he says, from this day, will I bless you? Here's the main focus of where the tithe is used and how the Bible and how God wants us. The seed, by the way, in the New Testament and all over the Bible, is the word of God. That's the seed. So focus, everything that we do and everything that we spend money on other than the light bill and, you know, but even that is getting the seed out of the barn. So everything that is spent here of the Lord's money, you know, that's always a thought that goes through my head. Does this get the seed out of the barn? Well, this get the seed out of the barn. That is the mission. That is the mission and that's what and look, here's the thing. That takes resources. That takes resources. This is why God provides his tithe, you know, to the church. And look, here's the thing, the more resources that we have, the better we can do with this. You know, and look, resources aren't isn't just money, resources. And like, here's really where, where we're lacking.  But why we can't do as much and get as much seeds out of the barn is because of man hours. That's really what is lacking.  It's resources in general. It's man hours. I mean, think about, you know, some of the larger churches that we know, they have many employees that just, they're just getting the seed out of the barn.  And those look, those employees, by the way, started as, you know, the right hand man to the pastor, you know, the volunteers to the pastor, to the ministry to the church. But that's huge. So like, we can't really compare ourselves to those big, you know, ministries, because we just, we don't have the man hours. We don't have the resources to do all these things, to get that, you know, to create that content, to reach those people. We, we, it's a snowball effect. We start small and it's always hardest. You ever made a snowman? It's always hardest getting that snowball started. But it's a snowball effect. And as we get more resources, we get more seed out of the barn. We get more members, more resources, more seed out, it's a snowball. We'll just keep building and building and building. It's just getting the snowball started that seems harder. That's why if you talk to any pastor, you know, and you talk to them about the first few years of their ministry, they'll tell you how hard getting that snowball started was. It's normal. Okay. It's normal. But that's why God provides the tithe. That's why that doctrine is in the Bible. It's like all our mission here is is to get the word out, to get people saved, to get people discipled, to get people baptized, to help people grow their families, to help, you know, children grow up in the Lord, to serve the Lord, to grow the kingdom of God on Earth. You know that, you know that. It takes resources. It takes time. It takes money. It takes people. That's why God provides a tithe to the church. Go back to, actually, turn to Matthew, chapter 6. So here we see in Acts chapter 5, Acts chapter 4 at the end, these people were voluntarily pooling their resources. And you see again and again this phrase, one accord, one accord, one accord. It's used in Acts chapter 1, verse 14. Acts chapter 2, verse 1. Acts chapter 2, verse 46. Acts chapter 4, verse 24. Acts chapter 5, verse 12. Acts chapter 8, Acts chapter 15, verse 25. It's just one accord, one accord, one accord. That is the overarching factor of this first church is that they were all of one accord. And it really, when it comes down to this, I mean look at verse number 19 of Matthew chapter 6. Matthew chapter 6. Every pastor that I know hates preaching sermons on money.  I think every, at some point in your life you were probably in a church that was just focused on new buildings and building projects and different things. They're constantly raising money for something. But look at verse number 19 of Matthew chapter 6.  Now this is why the one accord is so fitting and let that phrase is so fitting with the church in verse number 32 of Acts chapter 4 where it says they were all with one heart in verse number 21 of Matthew chapter 6 where their heart be also. So that's why people don't like hearing sermons about money. I'm not saying that it can't be abused in a church. Don't get me wrong. But where people's treasure is their heart will be there. So what was happening in Acts chapter 4 verse 32 their treasure was the church. Their heart was in the church so their treasure went to the church is what was happening in Acts chapter 4. So many people did it. Why? Because they were all of one accord because they all had the same mentality. So being in one accord was directly related to these people giving everything to the church. That's where their heart was and we can see that. That's where their treasure went. So look I mean I'm just telling you what the Bible says. I'm just telling you what the Bible says. Their heart was completely sold out in that church. That's why I've often said that this is a hard church to be in like one foot in. I mean if you're like one foot in this church it's a difficult place to be.  You know I mean every service you're gonna be reminded of the consequences of not being sold out. This is just I mean tonight sermon is just one more example of like what every sermon has a piece of. Look it would simply if you're just gonna be one foot in and the reason that you know people that are one foot in have a hard time I mean think about it you go to a preach nothing church there's no work there's no battles there's no conviction you know maybe your life has less trouble if you go to you know preach nothing church but look I mean frankly like myself personally I would be I would be happier if people that were just one foot in like remained in the church and just you know one foot in and yeah I get that I hear that sermon but I'm just not gonna do it and just you know didn't cause problems but just remained in the church and just remained one foot in but that's not really what happens unfortunately unfortunately it's just you know their hearts not in it for whatever reason I mean some sort of sin maybe a spouse doesn't isn't on board but they get me you know and they get out of church and they damage themselves I mean that's kind of the pattern that seems to repeat itself no matter what church what pastor I talk to that's preaching the Bible but look this is just what the Bible says and that's what I do I just tell you what the Bible says and you can take it or leave it I mean this isn't you know this is I'm telling me you're stealing from God so I mean I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't tell you everything that's in the Bible I mean it's very very simple okay but look here's folks here's the trick to money okay let me just give you the trick to money in your life right here and I get there's a lot about it we've preached a free sermon series on how to be good stewards of your money how to use your money but here is the trick to money in your life right here if you worry too much about money you're going to start to care about it that's really it right there if you worry too much about money you're going to start to care about that money but if you don't care about money you're never gonna worry about it that's the trick to money right there what you have to do is do what the Bible says which part of it is what we're talking about tonight you know don't rob God but hey follow the Bible work hard work hard don't be an idiot you know I mean that phrase is not in the Bible but I mean you know be a good steward don't go into a bunch of debt don't put yourself into servitude follow what the Bible says about how you're supposed to act with your money follow what the Bible says about how you're supposed to act at work follow what the Bible says about how you're supposed to treat your coworkers follow what the Bible says I mean even last Sunday sermon follow what the Bible says about being confident follow what the Bible says about you know not being an arrogant jerk to people that you see out in the world you know so you don't get fired from everywhere you go just follow what the Bible says about not being lifted up with pride so everybody just treat them like you're working for Christ follow what the Bible says if you just don't care about money if you just don't care about money you're not going to worry about it follow what the Bible says follow what God says and look you just and I'm not saying look I'm not saying you're never going to have money problems I'm not saying hey do these things and you're going to be rich look you shouldn't want to be rich I'm saying if you don't care about money you won't worry about money that's what I'm saying you know there's going to be years where you look back and you say that was a good year there's going to be years when you look back and say a year before that was better than this one you know what that is that's life but you know what Paul says he says what's whoever state I am there with to be content God's on the throne whether you had a good year just do what he says in your life and don't care about money take the blessings that he gives you because he will and outside look outside a persecution and outside of this wicked world God would just poor blessings upon you if you were just doing everything you could to serve him and live according to the bible he would just poor blessings upon you of course we have persecution and tribulation in this world so look you're in and just and then work hard look you can still make it in this country but how messed up everything is like oh inflation you know gas is a million dollars a gallon I get it work hard work harder that's what the bible would say don't whine about it you know I know we kind of cry about it a little bit to each other that's okay but look work hard work harder if you need to be smart just don't don't care about it and then you'll never worry about it but the problem is if you start worrying about it too much you'll begin to care about it and it will become where your heart goes which is not ever where you want to be so that's money and tithing in the bible you know a lot of people think you know that church should never bring up money but I mean this is really as the pastor and you and God together this is about you and God this is about your relationship with the Lord let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a coke and now Claudia Certainly dawdle over your breakfast. What are we waiting for? Aren't you ever going to give me some sugar? I might want to put some in my coffee, and I might want to put some on a bird's tail That is salt salt's just a city child's idea birds really like sugar on their tails Or else birds don't drink coffee. How do you know the little bird told me? I didn't tell you the truth. I bet birds drink all kinds of coffee your coffee, maybe I bet if we lived in the country the birds would drink so much coffee There wouldn't be any left for us birds don't drink coffee. I tell you it keeps them awake Birds like to stay awake. They stay awake all night and sing and keep people from sleeping bird sleep at night Just like anyone else. How do you know? Did you ever see one? Everybody knows that you don't have to see one I bet when we go to the country today, we won't see a single bird sleeping. We won't see a single bird period Are there any birds in Connecticut? Not in January.  Where exactly did they go? South you said that but where south well that all depends on the bird you don't know no I don't know all I can say is if the birds don't stand Connecticut all winter long I don't see why we should our birds so much better than us so much worse They don't have a house like the one we're going to look at today if you hurry That's a bird's have houses nice houses to and trees David wouldn't it be exciting to live in a tree? Would be exciting How would you like to live in a tree with a girl who even falls off of a stepladder? Every time I'd fly out to the office I'd expect to come home to find you sitting under the tree with a nice big shiner The birds kept black eyes. You would that'd be a professor standing over you with a magnifying glass saying My my what a rare species This gentleman is the only black-eyed Claudia ever seen in Connecticut Come on finish your breakfast and quit stalling Must be nice to be a bird and live in a tree with someone you're in love with All the big green leaves around us and nobody down below could even tell where we were there You'd be all dressed up in red and blue feathers We'd have nothing to do all day long, but be together and sing That'd be all very pretty wouldn't it if you don't stop dreaming. We'll never get to the country. Oh, won't we? What happens when all the leaves begin to fall off the tree then we go into the house That's just where we're going today Into the house if you will get a move on But the house isn't a tree Or is it David you didn't say for sure. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the house I saw is not a tree Oh Has a lot more disadvantage. No, I know how do you know you haven't even seen it, but I know where it is David I've seen lots of houses that I've never seen one that could make as much difference as this one You just wait until you see it How long does it take to drive up? Mm-hmm a little over an hour That isn't bad. Is it David? You wouldn't think that so near to New York you could find a place that would be such real country. Oh David is it a very beautiful house. I'm not going to say another word till you see it I want you I want you to see the house and have the house talk for itself You make it sound as if they're we're leaving right away As soon as I get back from the garage with the car. Are you ready? I am but what about bluff? We're taking him along and if he knew we were going to the country He'd be chewing your arm off for keeping him waiting and and Shakespeare leaving Shakespeare with mother Don't you remember we arranged that last night. I did but I thought maybe you didn't I'm gonna get the car right now that I am you can't you promise me last night that today You tell me what a mortgage. I'll tell you on the way to Connecticut David That's mean the way to Connecticut you're gonna tell me all about the house And I'm never gonna know about the mortgage mortgages are the one thing the less you know about the better. Goodbye I'll be back with the car right away David Darling the garage isn't in Siberia. Oh, David.  Are you Shakespeare? Got to give you your breakfast before we take you to mama's Here Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare.  You drink your milk now. You don't want mama to think we're not feeding you do we Even his back Shakespeare. We're not going wait. I draw off my hand Good morning, Mrs. Norton Yeah, Mrs. Norton. It's Fritz come in Fritz. My you're up early. Oh, Mrs. Norton Nine o'clock is not early six o'clock for me. That is early. It's a clock Terrible to think that anybody has to get up at six o'clock when I was a boy We lived on a farm we get up at four o'clock Farm people get up at four o'clock. Yeah, Mrs. Norton the cows they are up So the people they must get up to four o'clock. I wish Mr. Norton were here to hear that Yes, so Mrs. Norton You have trouble with the radiator radiator. Oh, no, it's very hot Does it make many noises Mrs. Norton the other tenants they complain the radiators makes lots of noises in the morning Thanks people up. We never wake up. Oh, so that's nice Well, if it don't bother you Mrs. Norton, I take a look at the radiators. It's not good to make noises Oh, no, they don't bother me at all say Fritz Do you mind if I tell Mr. Norton what you said about people on farms getting up at four o'clock? Why should I mind? Well, Mr. Norton wants us to live on a farm But if he hears that maybe he'll change his mind live on a farm, but that is wonderful Mrs. Norton He should not change his mind But but I thought you said on the other side farms there one thing but but here in America there are another You should see the farm Lisa and Edward they live on up in in Bavaria. They would call it a palace Baron would live in it. What about getting up in the morning? I know we wouldn't like that Mrs. Norton That is for peasants like in Europe. Here in America it all goes by by machinery Machinery to milk the cows machinery to bring in the hay machinery for plowing everywhere Machinery, but I don't think this is the kind of farm. Mr. Norton is taking me too. No Seen it Mrs. Norton. Oh, no, we haven't seen it. Not yet. We're going to see it this morning together Mrs. Norton you wait and see it. I know mr. Norton He is an American Well, I do not say Mrs. Norton that machinery is better Where is the machinery to to bring down the rain from the heavens when you need it or or make the Sun shine? But but every other machine that mr. Norton will have I'd like to see that And you will see it Mrs. Norton and you will like living there also, but I like living here Fritz So please don't show us away Don't bang the door down. I'll be there in a second and I'm almost ready.  I thought I was only the cats of her We're gonna bring the cat over to you mama You can't expect me to sit home all morning waiting for a cat to come calling. I've got other things to do Hello Fritz. Good morning, Mrs. Braun. Well, I'm just going Fritz and I were just talking about farms mama Fritz Lived on a farm. Did you fit? Oh, but that was in Europe here farms there is a different Fritz thinks the farm is a wonderful place to live And he's sure that the one David likes I have all kinds of machinery on it and things. Well from what David said last night I'm not sure that I oh and Julia called and when I told her about it She said there's some very beautiful farms around Eastbrook. I never think of Julia is exactly a milkmaid How does she know? Oh Nancy Riddle who's a good friend of hers lives up near there Julia says she has a wonderful place. I don't doubt it. The riddles always do. I bet that's just what David's farm is like Great big place with a long drive going up to it with trees on both sides David didn't say anything about a long drive last night. Oh, you know David mommy. He's trying to surprise me It's like bluff. Hmm. David didn't sound to me as though he were doing any teasing He sounded far too excited. Oh mama now don't be silly I know just what the house is going to look like.  How do you know that? He must because I do if he knows you do mrs. Norton, of course he does Now if you excuse me, I go downstairs to see about the radiator there.  You've got to tell mom all about the machinery what machinery with the machinery on the farm Of course, there are machines for milking and plowing and bringing down rain and waking the cows up and all sorts of things But Fritz hasn't been there. Of course. He hasn't been there, but he knows all about the machinery on farm No, I do not know about it mrs. Norton. I mean I was an old-fashioned farmer I believe in the machines that that God made my hands But for the young people, it's not the same. I don't think it's going to be like living on a farm at all If Fritz is right about all the wheels going around it's going to be like living inside a what and it has window boxes with Ivy don't you like Ivy against a white wall and a fine big door with a white Ports thing over it. Don't you remember David talking about the door? I remember him talking about the door I also remember a movie called gone with the wind, but you and I saw together You mean you think that farm is gonna look like Tara. I mean that you think it is I know it is But that was the South Claudia and this is Connecticut. That was a mansion and this is a salt box What's wrong with salt boxes? Don't you remember David saying there was a valid appellation for a You you remember what he said I remember better than you do besides David likes it I know he does and it won't be polite if you're too disappointed How can I possibly be disappointed when I know what it's like? Oh mom? I'm just busting with curiosity to see it right now not a soul could guess I'm seeing your face But mama what'll I do when I see it? I don't want to leave here while you are leaving here in about two minutes and you better not keep David waiting Just say I won't I'm gonna put my coat on right now I'm gonna wear the tweed one for the country. You better wear the beaver one for the cold and don't put it on yet You'll only get overheated. David will be here any minute. Very Mrs. Norton I think I go now and I hope you like the farm. I'm gonna love it. I think That is David. I wonder what's been keeping him. David. Hello. Hello, mother. Hello, Fritz. Hello It's a convention David. You've been such a long time. I've been dying of impatience. You have a When I left you could hardly drag yourself away from the table. What's happened? Fritz and Julia and mama have been telling you what the farm is going to be like and David I can hardly wait to see it. Well, come on darling because neither can I This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney You may hear complaints from junior when you ask him to do some chores But ask him to carry a case of Coca-Cola in from the car and he'll hop out there like a flash Why not? He can pour himself a bottle of coke as reward when he's through and you'll probably find him on the phone Soon after inviting the gang over There are good times ahead for the whole family when there's plenty of coke in the refrigerator Why not pick up a case tomorrow? Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is joking saying olivar and remember Whoever you are Whatever you do Wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of Coca-Cola or ice-cold Coca-Cola makes any pause The pause that refreshes


Hello everybody, welcome back to JSA TV and JSA podcast where we are covering the latest stories trends and innovations in the global digital infrastructure and connectivity markets. We're very excited today to join you from capacity Europe live from London here to chat with Dylan Carver. So you're working strategic sales with Africa's telecom. Yes. And so we chatted with you back at ITW, I believe. And so we're going to get an update about the latest with Africa's telecom now. So welcome to JSA TV. Thank you very much, I'm really happy to be here. Yeah, I'm really happy that you had the time to join us today. So let's jump right into it. So of course, fiber optic expansion in Africa is a really crucial initiative. So if you could just start off by telling us your kind of ongoing plans to work with operators to set them up with less mile access. Sure, Kines. Yeah, West Africa. It comes back to the 2010 years when ACE came into actually West Africa, a World Bank initiative that had a purpose to allow the private ISP ecosystem in each of those landings to basically have access to the World Wide Web without going through the incumbents cables. And it gave us a launchpad to basically get introduced ourselves to the ecosystem and develop the data economy. Excellent. Awesome. And so you talked a little bit about ACE already, submarine cable. So is there anything else you want to add there? Yeah, Kines. So the ACE system is a very complex system. It's starting from Europe, namely France and Portugal. And then it trickles down all the way to Cape Town in four segments. One segment, segment number one, Europe all the way to Dakar, segment three all the way to Abidjan, segment four, France Automated to Cape Town. What happens is that we realize that by playing the partners that had capacity access on that system, it allowed us to integrate a network with the network through the ACE as a backbone. And that gives us a legitimate credible purpose to introduce ourselves to the tier ones. Tell them, hang on guys, we can actually terminate solutions for your corporate national, international sites and tenors. And we can do it in all West Africa thanks to ACE. And then the externalities built on the relationship with those ACE folks. And now we are going into Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa. And we're doing a Pan-African one-stop shop. Thanks to ACE, it allowed us to create a one service provider for a unique SLA standard wherever in Africa. Excellent. It seems really fast growing. You've got a lot on the move right now with Africa Telecom. Yeah. So we came into the market with ACE and the ecosystem. Today, we went from that partnership business model that is very least orientated, buy and sell orientated to actually harnessing local footprint, ISP ownership. And right now we operate out of ten markets, namely all the landlocked West African places such as Niger, Mali, Bokina Faso, but also Cameroon, DRC, South Africa and now Kenya. So you can see that our trajectory is very, very scaling up itself based on how we see the market and echoing it with an equally dynamic, let's say, growth. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Well, thank you for sharing that with us. That's a great, really excellent update. Things are moving so quickly that even since ITW, there's been a lot of development. And so speaking of, if we could kind of, you know, look at the crystal ball a little bit over the next five to 10 years, where do you kind of see the evolution of last mile access in Africa? So one friend of mine told me the data is king, content is king con. That means looking at this analogy that is very, meaning anything and nothing at the same time is that the growth of the infrastructure ecosystem driven by the CDN is going to revamp and reshape the way operators interact to each other. We as Africa have built a business unit based on infra and data center, and we're trying to converge this under the Africa's brand. So we've got Medusa in North Africa. We've got the Barcelona landing station as a neutral open access data center, eliminating the backhoe fees in order to streamline content back and forth from a CLS terrestrial and wet submarine segment. What we see is that we need to be responding to the growth of capacity under the water with new cable such as a channel and to Africa and be able to respond adequately to our customer base that is current by following the price trend. That is more and more, let's say in the reducing line, but also scale ourselves closer to the end customer because we need to have more operations that can sustain the easiness of getting accesses on those sub segments. So yeah, following the content, that's Africa's motto today. All right, following the content. You heard it here first. Okay, so I think we could definitely chat about this many, many more hours probably. And I'm happy to do that if you want to. Hopefully this got you excited about what Africa Telecom is doing and you can go check out their website and reach out to Dylan if you have any questions. Dylan, thank you so much for joining us. It's a pleasure. And thank you to have me for a second round. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. And thank you to our viewers as well unless round of thank yous for joining us here on JFA TV. As always, happy networking. Bye bye.


Good evening and welcome to episode 354 of the Private Property Podcast. I'm your host, Rosa Mandouma, Kumalo. It's a bit of a rocky start this evening as we kickstart the Monday edition at all our new viewers who I know are not watching us on Instagram or on Facebook. You know that there's a global shutdown, if you could call it that, but that it's down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down. And so I know many of you who tend to watch us on Facebook and Instagram currently do not have access to us, but if anything, all our YouTube viewers are able to watch us. And I know some of the top 10 gang members on the other platforms are probably feeling it. They're really treating us saying that Facebook is down. How will they get at their daily dose of the Private Property Podcast? Well, we're still here. The show always must continue, even started a little late, almost as though it's just a global goal and it even comes to signal. But the show always needs to continue. And talking about the show continuing, you know, of course, you can tune into incredible programs across private properties, social media pages every single weekday at 8 p.m. As we kickstart Monday, you can catch Chad on the Home Shoppers show. And he comes to your screens every Mondays and Fridays, where he brings us exquisite twists of incredible properties that you can find on www.privateproperty.co.z. Things agriculture. And of course, on Wednesday's SD class and brings you the first time homebuyer show, which is always in conversation with people who've not only walked that first time homebuying journey, but have gone on to grow their property portfolios from strength to strength. Now, as many of you competition, particularly on our Facebook page, the pinned post on our Facebook page and every single weekday on the show right here with myself as Amandong Akumala, we've been announcing who the lucky winners were. Because we know that Facebook, because we've now reached the big bold target that we have said that we accept for ourselves, but we don't want to disadvantage anyone. So tomorrow, that's when we'll do the unveiling of who the potential lucky winner is and really hope that they're going to be watching so that they can claim their prize. So because we know that we unfortunately won't be able to have many of you being able to raise your hand if your name is called, we're going to move that over to tomorrow evening because we want to make sure that you are able to walk away with this cash prize. Well, this evening, we're looking at something that we were meant to look at, if you remember about two weeks ago, but I think, you know, things being the way that they were, we had to move things a little bit. And of course, the conversation will still continue. We're looking at the investor of the year awards, a conversation with us about this evening. I'm joined by Okaile Musahane, who's a partner entrepreneur, a shooting boy, Motibo's a co-founder at InterChain as well as Uben Malibil. He was an intern real estate agent. And I'm going to go straight to my first guest, first a good evening to all of my guests and thank you so much for joining us on the show this evening. I want to start with you, Kali, I think for people who probably don't know what investor of the year awards, perhaps take us through what the investor of the awards are, what the aim for the awards, you know, primarily is. Well, thank you very, very much. I'm super excited to be on the show, I've been looking forward to this. So investor of the year award, or rather property investor of the year award, is an initiative that was started by our CEO, which is Andrew Walker, a few years ago. And this was kind of an initiative set out to reward and award individuals in the property space. So what would happen is that a lot of people would be kind of hesitant to maybe start their property journey because they're entirely sure what they do of life can actually end up being awarded for something that is amazing and being innovative in how they go onto their property journey. For example, the assumption is that you always have to be like a big developer or you have to have like a huge property portfolio, but you could literally have purchased your first property and that something as small as a cottage or a bachelor apartment or maybe, you know, a one or two bedroom. But if you have an interesting way or an innovative way at which you acquired maybe the funds or an innovative way at which you structured it or any of those things, we are looking for people like that. And so how it happened, it just it was literally Andrew trying to give incentive and kind of motivate individuals who have came across hurdles and overcome them and been like, you did an amazing job. And for that, actually, you know, you should be awarded for that. And I think, you know, Kali, one of the realities of property is there, there are many, I will say, there are many challenges and barriers, but there are also many wins for people who, you know, opts to take the property route. And I'm keen to hear from you, Intergen is one of the sponsors for the and I think the role that you see yourselves playing being one of the partners who are going to be pulling off the awards. Thank you so much, Isama. And like Kali, I'm very excited to be back on this show. I think as Intergen, we are proud to be associated with this brilliant, brilliant, innovative solution to the challenges that the countries face. I mean, we're speaking about youth unemployment, high youth unemployment and an earlier on Kali mentioned that you actually don't need to be a big shot to be playing in the property space. And I think this is where we are passionate about to say, getting into the space using other people's money, other starting and sourcing agents. So being part of the awards, we actually get to see individuals, particularly youth, which is where we are actually excited about where we see them being creative. Like Kali said, how are they structuring these deals? How creatively do they actually structure these deals and using other people's money? And how do they optimize financing structuring? And which is where, as Intergen, you will know that in text and legal planning within property space. So those are some of the things that we actually look into and actually also empower through the feedbacks that we give the guys who enter for these awards. And we give them feedback to say, listen, be on a lookout on this and this, be on a lookout on this. How do you actually resolve these challenges, particularly on structuring? How do you preserve this wealth? And I'll tell you one thing that we are also more passionate about it, that we speak a lot of financial inclusion. But what does financial inclusion means? And through this process of the awards, as people enter these awards, these are some of the things we actually aim now to say, do you understand the responsibilities as a director? For that matter, as a property investor, you might be buying using a company, but you understand the responsibility of being a director. Believe that financial inclusion, it's not going to happen if someone does not even understand the values and the responsibilities of being a director for that matter. And as an Intergen with expertise in that field, these are some of the things that we take through these guys, and of course, empower them at the end of through the process. And I think you actually, Boy, when you talk about young people, particularly those, of course, who've entered the awards and the different deals that they've structured, I want to bring Ben, Ben Malibili, who's an inter-real estate agent. Of course, one of the young people who have entered the awards and I'm sure also waiting with baited breath for later on in the year, when the awards happen to see whether he's going to walk away with the prize. But before we even get to that, Ben, I think perhaps share with us the deals that you entered for the awards. All right. Hi, Zama. Thank you for hosting me. So I actually entered two deals. So one is an Airbnb in Marshalltown. So what we did there is we did a rent-to-rent. So we rented from a landlord. And it's not like selling onions at the corner.  But now with property, there's a lot that goes into, as young people, and education about these things. It's very easy to get rent or very easy to be demotivated and not three years ago when I was 21. And I actually only got my first deal when I was 24. So it took three years to just buy one property. So that's just an example of how tough it is. And I mean, I was on it every day, like what Shiboy mentioned, structuring and asset protection and asset preservation. I was studying those things day in, day out, even without owning a single piece of property. Because I knew that I wanted to do this for the long term for a full generation and pass it on to future generations to come. So in order for me to do that, I mean, I need a wealth of knowledge and professionals like Shiboy to help us guide which entities to use, which entities not to use. I mean, I might be confusing a lot of young people talking about all of this, but yes, that's property and that's how it's done. And of course, if you're joining us this evening, I'm in conversation with Okaalim Sohania Ben Malapila and Shiboy Motiva as we look at the investor of the awards and championing the youth. I know that many of you at home typically would be watching us or whether it's on Facebook or on Instagram, don't have access to us this evening. We're only coming to you on YouTube because the other platforms are unfortunately down. I know that many of you are already having withdrawal symptoms, have been seeing the tweets that you've been sending through to us. So you're very likely going to be catching up with this conversation on the other platforms later on. But Shiboy, I want to bring you in. I think Ben touched on, of course, what he's learned along his property journey, perhaps through some of the mistakes that young people in particular tend to make when we look at their property journey and already started touching on some of them. But I think for those who are either about to get into real estate or those who are sometimes even in because I think the reality is, even when we're in real estate, there are still mistakes that we make along the way. Pepsi with us, just some common mistakes that you find particularly people making along their property journey. Yeah, look, I think rather we look at what needs to be done because reading and I like that. I must say, great work, great work, Ben. And I think every young person that is actually watching this should be learning that they need to invest in knowledge. But another thing that I want to take away and kind of say it's actually not tough to enter into a property space. And it's just a mere lack of consolidated and filtered information that is readily available for anyone who enter the space. And I think the likes of Ben and the likes of the young people that might be watching this, they're actually privileged because, I mean, if I recall in my youth when we tried to enter the space, the ecosystem like Sabin and Investor of the Year awards, the TPA, property academies, they were not there. You made these mistakes. You rushed into the things. You do not understand the legalities. And now I'm trying to answer your questions, Amma, because there's emotions involved.  You want that big deal. You want to tell people that I bought my property and you end up overpaying for that matter. And one of those things is also because you don't know that for you to actually even buy that package of property, you need to confirm these values of properties. You might be using places like TPN, Lifestone Report. And for that matter, you don't even have the coach, the likes of interest who holds your hands and show you that this is how you negotiate. This is the due diligence, the OTP for that matter, how to structure the OTP, which is where the likes of intelligence comes into place to say, okay, this is how you sign OTP. You shouldn't just take the OTP that you are given and say, listen, here's the OTP, you need to sign it. No, negotiate OTP is not a standard. Those are some of the mistakes that someone who's sort of impatient, who wants to get into the game of property, they tend to make, they tend to overlook small things like that. And they come back, they buy themselves by, they buy you by the way. So I think for me, it would be that, listen, invest in education, surround yourself in platforms like private property, webinars like this, invest in, there's so much YouTube channels these days that you can actually consume that information and empower yourself so that you don't make these mistakes. And Kelly, I want to bring you in, when we look at the awards, perhaps take us through what some of the categories are and how people at home who may want to join, whether or even attend, how they can go about doing so. Thank you very much for that. With regards to attendance, it's going to be a hybrid. So we're going to have partly live and then we're going to have partly online. So in order for you to buy your tickets online or live, we would need to go to the SAPIN website, which is www.SAPIN.com. And then with regards to entering, unfortunately the entries are closed for potential entrants or people who wanted to enter. But it's a yearly thing. So please, please, please, you can absolutely enter next year. But unfortunately the entries are closed with regards to that. Now we're just literally finalizing the finalists for the actual event that's going to be November. And in terms of the deals, so as I stated, like anybody could enter, you could have a bachelor apartment and you would genuinely, you would have been liable to enter. There wasn't a specific criteria to say, oh, only these people with X amount of properties are allowed to enter. But we do have a judging that does separate. So it's kind of like you separate the newbies, intermediate and the large scale. So I think it would be a bit disheartening if you were competing against somebody who bought a block of flats and you just bought a two bedroom apartment. So there is categories. However, in terms of entry, anybody could have entered. Unfortunately right now, the entries have closed. And before we wrap up, I'm going to do a quick round with all of my guests in terms of tips for young people who want to get into real estate. Let me start with you Kali. I mean, any tip, and it could even be one tip that you'd like to share with young people who are either looking to get into real estate or of course are really in real estate and probably looking to grow and expand their property business. The one fundamental one is that you need a network. You need a network. You need a network. I think a lot of the time, maybe also the frustration from people, especially young people who want to get into the space, is that you do not have an ecosystem that enables you and allows you to understand how things work. So possibly with my co-panelist, maybe it took him three years possibly because he was unfortunately doing it alone because he did not understand that there's different spheres and ecosystems that will absolutely hold your hand and walk with you on this journey. So places like Sapin, absolutely. Also like the Property Academy, which is like coaching. So those would be the networks that you need because you can have access to pretty much everybody. You can have access to people like Chili Boy in regards to finances and structuring. You can have access to prime lawyers like Bruno Samal. You can have coaches in terms of the Sapin ecosystem. So the one thing I will honestly give advice to is that you need a network. If you want to go far, you go with people. If you want to go fast, you go alone. And Chili Boy, in your end, any tip for youngsters when it comes to the property game? Look, I think Kali spots on. I mean, it's an ecosystem, ecosystem, ecosystem. And we're saying that it's also pointless for you to be belonging to ecosystem. But at the end of the day, you don't execute because if you don't execute and you've got cold feet, you actually might belong to ecosystem for the next 15 years, but you haven't achieved anything. Pull a trigger. You're going to make mistakes, but you learn from there. But by virtue of you having been within the ecosystem and having assembled a team, like Kali said, having the right to be provided within the ecosystem, you're on the right track. And Ben, I think I deliberately wanted to end off with the youngster. Any tip from you and for fellow young people when it comes to the real estate game? Well, the more you learn, the more you earn.  You go to law school for four years. Then after four years, then you start with your articles and then you get in and meet it as an attorney. I'd say that the process is also the same if you want to be a professional real estate investor. First, go to your set pin, go to your property. I can slowly graduate from there to now owning your own portfolio. Because if you jump the education phase, there's a huge possibility that you'll only be able to buy one or two properties in your lifetime. But if you invest in the education, then you know you can be the next Andrew Walker and have over 500 deals in your lifetime. So yes, that's my piece of advice. The more you learn, the more you earn. And that's actually such a great note to leave it on. I think as young people, I mean, I started property myself and I'm still young. I'm still classified as youth in this country. I can certainly attest to the different things that we can learn and something like the podcast definitely does make it easier for you to get as much knowledge. You go to privateproperty.co.z and get exposed to different kinds of facts that help you along your journey. But I will say it's not easy. Property is a very difficult game to get into. The barrier of entry is quite intense, especially depending on what exactly it is that you're trying to do. So even as you learn as much as you can, do cut yourself a bit of slack because it's a long journey. And when you take a long-term view, when it comes to property, it certainly does make it easier. And it's unfortunate that it's not like other asset classes or any kind of work where you make money easily and quickly and you kind of go to the next one. So do take a long-term view. It has a way of help down. Of course, one of the biggest tech giants experiencing an outage there, not having access to Instagram, to WhatsApp, and Facebook. So because we've been running that exciting competition on our Facebook page, we will be back with it tomorrow though and announcing who the lucky winner of that prize is. I think we're just going to roll it over, right? We're going to add that 500 grand for tomorrow and whoever's going to walk away with the cash tomorrow is going to have plus 100 grand because we unfortunately couldn't announce the winner this evening. Well, that's it for myself. I'm Antonia Kumalu here on the Private Property Podcast. I'll be back on your screens tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. You can catch Chad on the Home Shopper Show later this evening at 8 p.m. Until then, hope you're staying home and staying safe.


Now, ahead of next year's general elections, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, Governor Bala Mohamed stated that he would continue to respect the zoning of the presidential position to any zone for the interests of the party. Bala Mohamed made it known while addressing the billionaire-expanded stakeholders of the PDP in Makadi. He believes he has what it takes to put the country back on its right path. I have proved to myself that I want to be better than this program in this country. And it's not an eyesore, people of the country, Rabine Simu Samant, Rabine Sinetong, you have worked at the federal executive council and up to the local state. You have Sinetong, there's nothing that we need to do. And most importantly that we are good at this country conference. For your government, I think the reason we're lacking because of our time in the government. I want to say that I've endured the problem and endured it in the government about the security situation of the system. It's very, very important. Anybody who wants to go to the government wants to assure us of our security. And that we have done. So what do I show you as a part of the problem? I'm not a waste of time saying this or saying that. But let me know that we are your progressive party. Zoni is a party issue. We are waiting that we're not going to be mentioned by the party. I'm a party man. Every time Zoni agrees, I don't know whether it will be zoned to the north or it will be zoned to the south. In that monolithic zoning or rotation, or it will be zoned to the northeast, or it will be zoned to the north central, or it will be zoned to the southeast. It might be zoned to the north. I'm mad by the party. Thank you.


Hello, yes I'm going to talk about The pros and cons of jQuery and you really need it in your project, okay? So this is based on a personal experience at where I was working at So I just started off in college, you know looking at these cool frameworks and all of that And I didn't really have like yeah, Harry said yesterday, right? Nobody's a JavaScript developer anymore So I started looking at all these things and I was like, okay jQuery school and I started out like being you know using that dollar everywhere and To tell you okay jQuery is like at the bottom of the list from Angular developer to backbone or whatever Right, so this happened five months into a project that has already been on production So I get told like hey dude come here. Let's talk about something, okay? And the person in charge tells me that okay, I think we need to remove jQuery from the project so I was like what? That's not happening and I looked at the source code and it was like a thousand line files like ten files And now you search the dollar and it was like four thousand times So, you know I decided let's okay. Let's try this out. What's this idea about right? Because as you all know jQuery loading on a mobile device like 30 kb of your bandwidth gone there, right? So especially if it's on a landing page your attention and your acquisition is going to take a hit Obviously you can cash it you can use a Google CDN, but still you know you don't want that 30 kb of you know download so So I took a look at the you know Code so then I realized you know as I started going through the code There was only three things that I was using jQuery for one was Ajax and that covers Jason B as well And the other was you know basic select us to change the attributes of the elements that are there on the dome And the third one was events like on and off and I started coding You know started taking that off and started putting it in pure JavaScript So it all came out so well and it you know happened in the space of a week So then I realized that you don't really need jQuery sometimes you just include it because it's cool All right, so I've seen a lot of new people who go out there and you know say I know this I know that and I'll include this in my project I'll include that but nobody really cares about if they need it or not, right? So I want to talk about the pros first so jQuery is really cool as we all know and you know CDN caching gives you a lot of edge and It's easy to start off with and it's already supported in all the browsers that you can think of But you know you need to really ask yourself this that do you really need it? I mean if you're supporting let's say I8 onwards You do you can make those exact requests in about 100 lines of code, right? You can write a plug-in for yourself that everybody else can use as well, right? So that's one then about the cons about that is that you know, it's heavy Mobile usage is not like really recommended. I mean do you really want to load that file on a landing page? I guess not so that's there Then one thing I learned from this experience was you know, I started learning out like what does it do? It uses the sizzle Engine if anybody knows about that for selectors you really need it Are you really going to use my use complex selectors? No Sometimes you're just going to use class and ID selectors and if you run a JS benchmark on the get element by ID Versus the jQuery ID is like one is 200 times. I think so that also hits your performance So I think you really need to ask yourself how does it do this, right? And it's really important to know how it does this because if somebody comes and tells you we need to remove this Then you need to be ready, right? So that's what I wanted to say. Thank you