How are you all today? Excellent. Before I begin, I'd like to take a quick moment to make an announcement that the Navy's newest San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship will be named after Medal of Honor winner Captain Richard M. McCool Jr., United States Navy. Captain McCool is a unique person in that he served in the trifecta, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam. He was presented the Medal of Honor for his bravery under fire during the Battle of Okinawa. And I believe this ship serves as a real testimony and a testament to our commitment of growing the fleet and our partnership with America. We definitely look forward to laying keel and getting this ship out onto the high seas. Ladies and gentlemen, here today, and I want to thank you for coming to hear about the state of your Department of the Navy. I'm here with two people that I want to tell you over the last nine months have truly become business partners as we face the challenges and the requirements of Title X, General Neller and Admiral Richardson. A few months ago, as you all know, Congress reached a bipartisan agreement that addressed the President's budget request. We are very much aware that it stretched everyone to the limits of comfort, but it shows that we really can't accomplish goals when needed. I will tell you that we will smartly walk out on allocating those resources appropriated by Congress, and we'll focus that in alignment, as you will see with the National Defense Strategy. As we're here before you today, 94,000 sailors and marines are deployed around the globe, ensuring maritime lanes of commerce remain free and open, ensuring the access to global commons, and protecting American citizens abroad, and protecting our national interests. They're on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They depend on and appreciate the full support of Americans as they fulfill their duty. As directed by the 2018 National Defense Strategy, we're building a model of a more lethal, resilient, and agile force capable of deterring the defeating any enemy in this age of, as we know it, renewed power competition. We're determined to increase our competitive advantage over our adversaries by focusing on people, capabilities, and process. The ability to accomplish our mission relies on people. Over 800,000 sailors and marines, both active duty and reserve, our civilian teammates and their families comprise this team. We'll continue to build a more lethal, agile, talented, and innovative workforce as we go forward. We will recruit, train, and retain the best we have in our bin of where we're fishing, pardon me. Our people are the foundation of everything we do, so we're committed, absolutely committed to building the strongest foundation possible. 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My team and I are committed to continuing to deliver combat ready forces capable of meeting and defeating the challenges of today and tomorrow. We look forward to your questions. About a little over a year ago, we saw you and you were talking about the Marines United scandal that had hit the Marine Corps. Last week, we found that there has been an increase in sexual assaults in the Marine Corps. I was wondering if you could talk about the last year, what changes, what improvements, or what has the Marine Corps done to address these problems? And do you think enough has been done? What more do you think you have to do to get at this? I appreciate your reminding me about the last time I was in this room. So after the events and the hearings and all that in the article, we formed a task force because we recognized that we had some informational issues, we had some policy issues, and we had to make sure that everybody understood what the rules of the road were. So that task force remains in effect. We don't have the ability nor the legal authority to monitor social media. But from me going out and talking to thousands of Marines and telling them what had happened and what the expectation of the American people is for them as U.S. Marines to make an every Marine from myself down to every Marine who joins, sign what we call a page 11, something administrative in your record book that you acknowledge that you've read the policy and you know what the rules are. Therefore, if you violate those rules, you're potentially subject to a violation of the UCMJ to talking to different groups, to making sure the commanders understood what their responsibilities were, to change in fourth phase or recruit training, to give young Marines some time to practice being Marines before they got out there so I could go on. So when I was briefed the other day by the OSD task force on sexual assault, obviously we were aware that we had a slight increase over the previous year and you have to decide what are the metrics you're gonna measure improvement. So they were actually saying this is good that more people are reporting because to me the metric is do Marines have confidence in their chain of command and do they believe that the potential for retribution goes down? So that's what we're trying to measure. So are we where we wanna be? No. If that number continues to go up, then I have to decide, we have to decide if that's because we still can't improve our behavior and our discipline or it's because people are reporting because by all accounts everyone believes us a well under reported event. So am I happy where we are? It's been a year. I mean we're trying to change a culture that didn't start a year ago and social media is something that's across the country. I'm not responsible for the rest of the country but I think we should all be concerned with some of the negative things that happen on social media. So we continue to monitor it. We still continue to pay attention. We continue to hold people accountable no matter what their rank or status is and that's the bottom line. We're all accountable and if we're aware of an allegation we're gonna investigate it and if it's substantiated the individuals involved will be held accountable. I'm gonna add a punctuation on that because I think this is a tremendously important issue. Having been here only for nine months I can tell you that we do hold ourselves in a higher level than the American public because we are the military that represents the country going forward. But having seen the resources and the products that we have in place to battle this cancerous issue I will entertain sharing that with any college, university or company that wants to see what we're doing because I believe we have one of the best products out there. Can I just, just a quick follow up. Do you know if either the Navy or the Marine Corps has disciplined anyone under the new social media policies that were put together last year? Yes. I can get you the numbers. But I mean this isn't about, you know, counting coup or hanging scalps. I mean it's what you want to make people understand is they look, this is about respect. It's about recognition of a Marine as a Marine. You're evaluated based on your performance as a Marine. But just in the civil world, there are behaviors that are going on out there that sometimes we recruit from the American people. And we have to teach people that there's a, we have a different standard for your behavior and your conduct. And if they don't understand it, then they're gonna have to be held accountable and if necessary they're gonna leave. Yeah, I'll just jump onto that. Same thing with the Navy. It's really, the accountability part is certainly one of the aspects of this, but there is a cultural change that we're trying to create where you're gonna depend on your teammate, your shipmate for your life. That's the thing that should really drive behavior, mutual respect. We've really aimed our signature behavior program at the small unit level, small unit leaders. That's where we think there's gonna be potential for a lot of progress. And so that's just completely support the Commandant's approach there. Dude. Thanks, Captain Dix. So last week Vice Admiral O'Coyn raised some issues in a proceedings article concerning the CR and SR and some of the shortcomings that he felt weren't adequately addressed. I don't wanna raise those concerns here, but what I do wanna ask is, setting aside the concerns, what does it say about the system that your leaders seem to operate under if they feel like they have to wait until their retirement grade determination to speak out about issues like this that they care about, it feels like if there were issues that weren't addressed by the CR or the SR, that his input and perhaps input earlier on might have led something, but it doesn't seem like he did until he waited until his retirement. Let me answer your question. Then I'll also, I have the CNO way in if he desires. If you've heard my three priorities, their people, capabilities and process, and if you've heard me make any of my presentations under people, people who are facing off issues have the best solutions. They should bring them forward. That is the standard that we're operating under right now. The fact of the matter is, everyone has responsibilities to do what they can within their areas of responsibility, and we expect people to affect that. I think I see it the same way. There's nothing that I'm aware of that would have prohibited him from speaking up. He had plenty of opportunity when he was in command. We read that article, and really there wasn't a whole lot new that isn't covered by the CR and SRR, and so I think we're in a pretty good spot there. Culture somehow limits or discourages senior officers from speaking out publicly at the very least about issues like this? No, I don't think so. Not at all. Yes, thank you gentlemen very much for giving this presentation, and my question has to do with the long war that this country's been in since 9-11, and it's specifically a question for General Neller.  How do you understand the enemy that we're fighting, we call it radical Islam or the global jihad? Do you see, people tend to think of it as one Islamic or a few Islamic characters and they're crazy followers, but do you see intelligence agencies involved in that, and specifically our intelligence agencies involved in radical Islam using and covertly supporting these people, and specifically in regards to ISIS. There was a very interesting article in the German magazine Der Spiegel about three years ago which argued that, which said that the core of ISIS is the former Iraqi regime with this Islamic overlay. Is that something you would agree with or you have a different perspective? I left Iraq in 2007 and clearly the ISIS Al Qaeda Iraq that we fought there did include former Saddam personnel. I can't tell you what it is now. And I don't think it's not this, I mean I think you gotta look by country by country what's going on in the Philippines, what's going on in Afghanistan, what's going on in Iraq, what's going on in Yemen, what's going on in Somalia, what's going on in Nigeria, Libya, Chad, Niger, Syria, Europe.  And that therefore you should come and help us because you're not being given the opportunity to worship or whatever, or your lands being occupied. So at the end of the day, that's very interesting. And all I know is based on the information that we see, there's people out there that wanna come to this country and hurt us. Do you think the United States did more in terms of its information operations and the way it presents this threat? Say, regarding ISIS to emphasize that there are former Iraqi regime officials involved. And if you say you live in France and you go join ISIS, you are in fact cannon fodder for these former Iraqi regime elements that that would be a good approach to the information. I think the people are already, I think, I don't know what the French information policy is, or the German information or the Italian or the Spanish or the Belgian who all have significant populations that came from this part of the world. But I believe they all use that as a say, look, these people are not telling you the truth. You're not gonna go there. And then many people that have come back have publicly stated that. And they're on the news and they're saying, hey, this is not a true story.  So I believe that's happening, but we also have to have, if you're gonna be on the information highway, you have to have something that somebody's gonna read. We've all, we as Americans, we've tried very, very hard to message the populations to tell them what we believe is to their advantage that we're not there. We don't want their land, we're not gonna stay. We're not there to take anything. We're here to give you an opportunity to live in peace. But they have to be able to believe that and there's always a counter narrative. So the information fight goes on every day and we're continuing to try to be as effective as we can in that in space. We're probably gonna have a hard time being as effective as we would like, but we're still fighting that fight. This is for Admiral Richardson and also the secretary. Admiral, back in November after the ship accidents in the Pacific, you were asked, are you worried there were too many officers out there in the fleet? We simply don't know how to drive a ship. And you said we're doing these ready-for-see assessments to determine that exactly. So six months later, what have you learned from these assessments? Are there any problems with the basics? Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what, whenever you look at something this close, you always see areas of improvement, right? And for improvement. And I think that the steps and the measures laid out in what is sort of a comprehensive plan that includes not only the results and recommendations from the individual investigations into each one of those incidents, but also the systemic investigation we did by virtue of a comprehensive review and then the strategic readiness review that the secretary did. We also rolled in all of the GAO reports and pretty much everything that we could get our arms around into a single comprehensive plan. When you look at all of that, there's always ways that you can improve. So we're looking at individual training over the course of the career of those surface warfare officers. We're looking, and that starts with their initial basic course, looking to improve that through more, I guess, challenging scenarios and simulators, give them more chance to drive. And that goes up through command, right? And with increasing levels of difficulty and also increasingly levels of the increasingly difficult assessments along the way. As well, we're also looking in the fleet concentration areas to supplement that individual training with team training, right? So you get a chance to see how that particular bridge team operates. And so you're always gonna sort of see ways you can improve, this is exactly all on those lines. We're working very closely with the fleets, with the private sector and those folks who can provide that technology, and also the Congress to make sure that we get the funding to do that through the fit-ups. Any common problems, common themes in any of these shortfalls or training? What exactly was it? Were they getting to the ship too early before they were actually well-trained? I think that we found that, yeah, I think we found that we could do a little bit more in terms of giving them some basic ship-driving skills before they report as a junior officer. Why wasn't it done then? What's that? Why wasn't that done? Well, it's, what do you mean? It's being done right now.  I mean, it's not like we hadn't looked at that and had done an assessment. At that time, we thought what we were doing was appropriate. Since then, we've learned that we could probably do a little bit more, technologies advance, those sorts of things. And so, it's really this spirit of continuing improvement and opportunity that we're looking at. Does the Secretary want to add this? Yeah, sure. If you look at what the CNO just said about what we corraled in to look at, it was 140 or so recommendations, observations, steerage, we think we boiled it down to about 110 or so. They're 111 that we wanted to actually enact. We've enacted 20 of them, 78%. These are not, a lot of them are immediate remedies, but just to make sure we manage expectations, a lot of these are cultural shifts. And one of them is the continuing learning that we really have to culturally get at. This isn't a one-time, wow, now we're going to have someone drive a ship for five hours before they show up. This is going to be, wow, let's start with five. Maybe it goes down to four. Maybe it goes up to eight. We're going to continually be in the learning process of what we can do to correct the root causes. Thank you. A question for each of the joint chiefs, if I could, please. Admiral, we've seen some pretty ugly allegations on rear Admiral Jackson over the last couple of weeks. A lot of it's not substantiated at this point. And Secretary Mattis suggested that the IG might look at what to do with this over the last couple of days. From a Navy perspective, do you see yourself referring this to Navy IG? And for the general, please. There's a new book out, and there's been a lot of discussion over the last couple of years that kind of debate whether or not the fully gender-integrate Paris Island. Where do you stand on that at this point? I mean, is there any thought of changing things up or further integrating where we are now? I guess I'll go first. The way that this happens by virtue of Admiral Jackson being a flag officer, the default organization would be DODIG to look at those, and so we're at the beginning stages of getting that done. We train our recruits by platoons, and there's a federal statute that says you live with your same gender. Our drill instructors stay with their recruits 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the entire time they're there. So I'm not considering having men and women live together in an open squad bay. And I'm not considering having recruits fall out and go from one platoon to another. We train by platoon. So if you want to come down to Paris Island, I will show you that after the first phase of training, which lasts about three weeks, male and female platoons do almost 65 to 70% of their training together, whether it be the rifle range, whether it be swim qualification, whether it be their fitness tests, whether it be going to the battle skills training at the field training division, whether it be the crucible in the last now fourth phase where they're actually sitting in classroom where we will have them sitting next to each other, because that's what happens the rest of the time. So we do this because this is the way we believe is the most effective way to make Marines. We don't do it in any other reason. We don't do it to disadvantage women, and quite frankly, we do it to advantage women. We want them focused on learning how to be a Marine. And so they answer your question, am I considering any changes right now? No. I have another CR and SRR question for you too. One of the issues that came up was the length of time that some of the ships had spent for deployed in the FDNF fleet. I understand that about half of them have been there longer than 10 years and won as long as 23 years. So I was wondering in the aftermath of both of those reports, how you guys are looking at potentially bringing some of those ships back stateside, kind of what the readiness concerns are, and also if you could just update generally on the CR and SRR implementation. Sure, we had already decided before the CR and SRR early last year that that plan was starting to show some weaknesses already. So we had already decided to rotate on back, Megan, in terms of about every eight years. So nobody will be deployed. Now it'll take us some time to transition into that so that we get onto this eight-year cycle, but we'll do that as briskly as possible. And we're really seeing that some of the deep maintenance issues we're having trouble addressing those at the SRF and Yakuza. They're absolutely superb, working team, but just as hard to get into some of the deeper maintenance. Is there a plan in place to get those older ships back? There is, yeah. Joe, Tanya. And you're interested. Thank you. I would like to ask you, how do you assess Iran's behavior in the Persian Gulf in the recent months? Have you seen any unsafe, unprofessional actions by the Iranian Navy? We've seen generally fewer provocative actions by the Iranians in the Persian Gulf recently. The last few months, or it's in the... Yeah, the last six months or so. All right, thank you. Sir, depending on today, announced that it was going to ban mobile phones from two Chinese companies. What were your recommendations on this and why did you make those recommendations? Well, the mobile phone ban was more due to location devices than anything else, the ability to be located. I think you've probably heard the story that concerning Chinese manufacturers that we talked about during the testimony period, which was a contract that we let that we put a hold on, that addresses more Chinese manufacturers than it does the cell phone issue. But it's more a location device concern and a listening device concern. Wouldn't it be fair to extrapolate the idea that perhaps there's other devices like this? It's not necessarily Chinese companies, but devices generally... We talked about Fitbit earlier here, and depending on there hasn't been a decision on that, but generally throughout the... Would that be a fair... That would be a fair assessment. Okay, thank you. Joe's question on regards to the rain activity. What do you attribute that drop to? Is it a cause of the current debate that's going on regarding nuclear deal? Are there other issues that play here while you're seeing this sort of drop? And I have a second follow-up question for a general alarm. It'd be pure speculation, and so I just respond to the behavior that I see. General Miller, regards to Afghanistan with the annual fighting season about to start, your forces in Southern Afghanistan, there were some incidents this week. What's your take on how you see things playing out under the new strategy by the White House, and what measures can be taken on the ground to implement that more effectively? I don't like talking about the Marines in Afghanistan because I don't want to draw any more attention to them because you and I know they've been reasonably effective tactically, but that's a small part of it. I mean, at the end of the day, back to the long war discussion, there's going to have to be a political settlement, and all the efforts to reconcile with the Taliban through the Afghan government, I think we all fully support because at the end of the day, they're fighting us, they have their agenda, we're there to support the Afghan government, and they're going to have to be convinced or decide on their own that there's a better way to do this. I mean, they've been fighting, what, 40 years, and so we're hopeful that we can support the Afghan military and the governor and Helman and the local police and the national police and that we can create a secure environment so that the Afghans can have an election, and that possibly there'll be enough, there'll be a significant enough program so that those Taliban who think there might be a better way to live their lives and continue to have their young men get killed, being led by people that aren't even there in the fight, they live in other countries and that are convincing them that this is the right thing to do when really all they're doing is making money on drugs. I mean, we talk about the terrorists call themselves, they're the freedom fighters, they're the Mujahideen, they're not, they're criminals. I think the Arabic word is takfiri, they're apostates, they hide behind Islam, they sell drugs, they kill innocent people. That's not what Islam is. The Afghan army and the American, we're the Mujahideen, we're the Mujahideen. That's the message, and maybe they'll get tired of this and they'll decide that there's a better way and then we can move on to something else. The top military times. We recently did an in-depth look at the aviation accidents across the services and the Navy and the Marine Corps really bore the brunt of the biggest increases in accidents. After that, we heard from multiple families that were concerned that both the Navy and Marine Corps continued to put their aviators in the air without the proper flight training hours with aircraft that aren't fully ready. What can you say to those families that really wonder if there's, I can't say no, culture in both the Navy and the Marine Corps that continues to send aviators out even if they're not ready or their aircraft aren't ready? I'll speak for the Navy. These are controlled by strict regulations. We're not violating any of those regulations. Those aircraft that we send pilots up in are fully certified to fly. The pilots that we send in to fly them are fully certified for the missions that they conduct. And so now we have been adjusting flight hours. Those are back on the rise. I don't know what the increase readiness, but we're not sending people into the air and aircraft or pilots that are unprepared for the missions that they take. And let's look at the data. The data that you're talking about accidents include A, Bs, and Cs. As is not that, we look at five-year average. We're not out of the norm at all. Cs were up. Is that a leading indicator that we should be looking at? Most definitely. Cs being the more minor. Cs, I'm taking for granted. No, yes, exactly. It's a dollar-weighted, lower, the least amount of damage, towing accidents, things like that. I can only reverberate what the CNO said when it comes to training and requirements. We're flying more, so we can't get better if we don't fly more. The aircraft we're flying, they've been certified and they're ready to go. We're not flying aircraft that aren't safe, and if there's an issue, there's a procedure that they're trying to do to try to get to a safe place. And we've had a number of precautionary landings, and that's what I expect them to do. I'd rather have a precautionary landing than a mishap. But so that I can show you the numbers are up, the body model type series, and there was a story out there today that that's just the forward-deployed forces. It's not, I went back and checked. Actually, the home station forces are flying, in some cases, more than the forward-deployed forces. So, and why is that? Well, because for the last two years, we finally got sustained consistent funding, and we got a part stream. The number one reason aircraft are not ready is because they're short parts, and now we're starting to get the parts. And so we're in the middle of, the Marine Corps is in the middle of transitioning every model type series aircraft we have. So there's a training period and you're flying a new airplane, except the CH-53, which hopefully will transition to the K here in the next couple years. So we know we need to fly more. We know we need to have a consistent part support, and we're working through all that.   And my heart goes out to the families that lost a Marine. In one case, we had a sailor and 15 Marines on a C-130. And those families were all brief. They were told the reason, what we believe happened in that particular mishap, just like the families were told in every other mishap we had, where we lost a life. And some, like the 53 we had at El Centro the other day, we don't know yet. We've recovered what we could of the airplane. We got an hangar, a Miramar, and we're trying to figure out what happened. And so we're trying to get better. We're trying to improve. We're trying to fly more. And right now we're doing that. And so we're being as safe as we can. As the secretary and the C&O mentioned, class C is the kind of minor stuff that doesn't cause a, normally it doesn't cause a loss of life. That's reducing the number of airplanes we have. That's the stuff we got to fix too. Cause we want to be able to fly more. Cause if we fly more, we should become more skilled. And we should have fewer class A's. But just to make sure that you all understand something here, filling up a part bin does not happen in one fiscal year cycle. We need to send the signal to industry that we need the parts on a consistent basis so they make the investments to make the parts. And that's the most important takeaway here is we have to have consistent funding to do our mission in the most effective and efficient manner. General, thank you for just following on. You mentioned the KC-130 from last year. Today there's another C-130, the crashers with an Air Force asset. In general, can we attribute this uptick in accidents to a lack of funding? We hear that a lot on Capitol Hill and I understand that some of these investigations are ongoing, especially all these helicopters that we lost in March and April. What's the correlation there and can you sort of lay it out what you guys think the lack of funding has to do with it? I'll go first here and then defer obviously to CNO and CMC but there is not enough data right now to tell you that there's an exact correlation. I will make the observation that, one, we are training people to the requirements necessary. Those additive hours that people have in the cockpit or doing their jobs are only gonna help. So now we have the funds to do that but that's kind of a brilliant flash of the obvious comment. I don't have data to give you a direct correlation. Yeah, I'm not gonna correlate. I don't know what, there's two versions of the C-130. I don't know what it was. I don't know what happened. I'm not gonna speculate. I think we have a pretty good idea of what happened to our airplane last year. In that particular case, I'm not sure funding would have changed the outcome and I'm not gonna talk about it because the family's just been informed actually we're coming up on the anniversary of that and so, but that was a mechanical issue. But in general, you see, you guys are saying that there's really no link between the, because we hear this on Capitol Hill all the time. That it's the lack of funding that's causing these accidents and you guys are saying here that there isn't the data for it. I think the funding is affecting the number of airplanes that are ready and the number of hours we can fly. So, you know, we've been at this. I mean, this just didn't happen overnight. And so when was the budget control? I'm not gonna blame anybody on this, but we went to BCA what? 23rd, 2012, 2013, 2011? So we've been on CR, eight out of the last nine years and we got a government shutdown and we didn't fund aviation readiness to the amount that we probably should have because the money was there was, we were in this kind of financial fiscal reduction. Okay, there were decisions that were made. So, you know, we've got a backlog of maintenance. We got airplanes now coming out of depot. The secretary went down there. There were some things going on at the depot where we were getting the airplane back and it wasn't in a position where it could fly. Now we've corrected that, but that costs some money. And so, we're buying new airplanes. And so, the new airplanes has a higher level of readiness. I mean, it's not a single thing. And for pilots, if you've been a pilot 20 years ago, if you were a senior captain or major, you probably had, I don't know, 1,200, 1,500 hours. People that are senior captains or majors now, they probably got 800 hours. So, there's not one single thing. There's not one single thing that's the, you can't say it's because of this. And so, we're looking at all these different things. We need more hours. We need better parts support. We need new airplanes. We got to improve our procedures. And we got to stop doing stuff on the ground that causes us to lose otherwise perfectly good airplanes. And we need to train. And it's a dangerous, it's a dangerous business. The U.S. has a significant naval presence in Mediterranean. And also, the tensions around Mediterranean is increasing. As you have seen, there's an escalating tension between Israel and Iran inside Western Syria. And there is also a tension between the Turks and Greeks around Cyprus. So, to what extent are you concerned that you might be caught up in an active conflict between Iran and Syria in Western, Iran and Israel in Western Syria. And then it's a lower effect to you. And also, to the tension between the Turks and the Greeks around Cyprus. Yeah, well, the Turks in Greek situation is nothing new, I don't think. And so, we've been, you know, even inside of NATO, it's a dynamic that always needs attention. But there is an increasing activity. And I would agree with you, some increasing tension in the Eastern Mediterranean. It's one of the new dynamics in this, the situation that the National Defense Strategy talks about in terms of a great power competition. This is one of those manifestations. And so, we're watching that very closely. By and large, the interactions between United States and foreign vessels have been safe and professional. We want to make sure that we have these operational constructs in place to keep it that way. As things, you know, get, as you get more activity and potentially more tension, I just want to make sure we're minimizing the opportunity or the risk of miscalculation. I'm really ashamed that the Navy is no longer going to announce when it fires its commanders. And I'm wondering, I don't know if you can walk us through your thinking on that. Yeah, you know, I don't think that in the practice, much is going to change. I think that's being overblown quite a bit. The thing that we value most of all is our relationship of trust and confidence, both within the ranks.  And then certainly with the American people as well. And so, we wouldn't do anything to jeopardize that relationship of trust and confidence. And so, I think there's, you know, perhaps being more made of that than you'll see in practice. My question is most to Admiral and General. It's been a year since the Maripresement Facility construction finally started. So, how do you, when do you expect the construction is going to be over? And at the same time, FY18 budget boosts the glum buildup. So, or when is it estimated to start relocation and relocating Marines from Okinawa to Guam? Okay, I'll defer to the comm down on that. Thank you. I'll let you answer the question about the Marines, but I don't have to. The Futama Replacement Facility has been delayed off and on because of a number of things because of discussions between the Japanese government and the prefecture of Okinawa and the efforts of the governor to, and I understand he's not well, Governor Onaga wishing him a speedy recovery. So, there have been environmental issues, there have been other legal issues, there have been approval of landfill permits, but I believe that those things are finally resolved. And so, when I was there earlier this year, you could see that the work was ongoing. There are still demonstrators there. So, that will go on. And now there's, we've had other issues in the Commonwealth of the Marianas and the training area because part of the understanding is Marines would go to Guam if they were able to train and there are still some pending environmental issues there. So, that said, the bottom line is the agreement that we're going to reduce the number of Marines on Okinawa, that the Futama Replacement Facility is going to be built at Schwab, that Marines are going to go to Guam, still remains the plan. And the timeline obviously has slipped to the right, but we're committed to the plan in those principles and we're finally starting to see a little bit of progress. So, as far as when the numbers will go down, it will depend on when there's facilities and training facilities for those Marines to use and occupy in Guam. The Futama Replacement Facility is going to take a while. It's a point about how do you ensure you need to use Temma until the construction is going to be done? So, how do you ensure the safety issues of Temma Air Base? Well, the Japanese government, Futama Air Base, is very old. It goes back to World War II. And if you look at pictures, Futama when it was built was, there were no people living within several kilometers. Now the cities around Futama are right up to the fence. So, it would be helpful if the people that lived around there didn't point lasers at our airplanes or fly kites or balloons into flight paths, because that way we would have a better assurance that they would be safe. But we want everybody to be safe. We're there because of a treaty with the government of Japan to assure the defense of Japan. And so, we are happy to leave Futama when we have a place to leave to go to. Until then, we'll continue to operate and be as safe as we can. And that's why if our air crews know that if they have a problem, they're instructed to land in a safe place, secure their airplane, and then we'll fix the airplane if there's a problem. And so, I would ask the Okinawan people to understand that we're doing this for the safety of our air crew and for their safety. And they should be, and I would ask, their consideration. I know I've lived on Okinawa before with my family. And I know the great majority of Okinawan people appreciate the American presence there and that the great, great majority of us are good neighbors and we're good friends, and we'll continue to do our very best to be good neighbors throughout Japan. Last question, Kevin. Thank you. Hopefully a quick one on transgender. Since the policy was changed at OSD, we've heard from, I think, all of the joint chiefs some different paraphrased version of, you know what, there were no problems with transgender troops to unicohesion or to the mission. And so there's been some commentary recently that suggests that OSD did not take the recommendations of the chiefs on that issue. I just wondered if you wanted to address those, that commentary, is that accurate? Is there no way to characterize it from your perspective? I think we've been fairly unwavering in our fact that any patriot that wants to serve and qualifies under the requirements that are at hand has a place in our services. Right now, we have a legal system in place that is entertaining all the arguments and until those arguments are concluded, really, I don't have anything else to address in that regard. Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.


If you're the Lakers, I don't know if you want him to be a part of your big three because when they last won the championship in 2019-20, they had LeBron James, they had Anthony Davis, and then they had a bunch of really good role players. So if you have them playing the Kyle Kuzma role, where he's technically your third best player, but he can start and come off the bench, he can do a little bit of everything. That's really the role that they have him in right now. So listen, Austin, he's an amazing player, what he's doing this year. The growth that he's had, because he didn't start the year off as strong. And you look at the last eight games, there's seven in one. He's having 21 points, seven assists, four rebounds, getting in means like this. So Austin Reed is doing a lot of things right.


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Okay, good morning everyone. Welcome to class. Good to see your pics and your names and good to see Jefina in front of me. It's good to have a student in front while I'm teaching. Okay, let's begin. Can we begin with the word of prayer? So, can I ask Zalutoli to lead us in prayer, please? Yes, sure. Let us pray. For the God we come before your presence in the name of Jesus, Father, we thank you so much for this venue. As we begin the session, Lord, I pray that Holy Spirit, you will give grace to our teacher to teach the word of God according to your will and also give a heart a strength and wisdom to teach, Lord. And also, Lord, I want to thank you for all my classmates here, Father God, I pray that Lord Jesus, you will give us a teachable heart and also Holy Spirit as our teacher teaches. Help us so that we can understand Lord God. And also, Lord, I pray for good networks so that there will be no hindrances, Lord. And Lord God, help us to be focused, attentive in class, Lord. You help us Holy Spirit in Jesus' mighty name. Thank you, Zalutoli. Jefina, you can just close that door, otherwise we'll have the noise from the first years. Thank you. Okay, so last week we looked at the book, The Kingdom of God. I hope you have the PDF open before you. And we looked at chapter one. We looked at the introduction to the Kingdom of God. And in chapter one, we saw that, you know, God has planned the Kingdom and he had planned it even before the foundations of the Earth, even before he created the world he had, the Kingdom in his mind he had, he had planned to establish his Kingdom here on Earth.  Then we see how he prepared his Kingdom, how he created the world, how he created Adam and Eve, and he gave them the dominion, the authority over the Earth to establish his domain, his Kingdom rule, his Kingdom presence, his Kingdom government here on the Earth. And we also saw the important thing that, you know, the uniqueness of the Kingdom of God is that each one of us are sons and daughters in the Kingdom of God. Okay, and God has made us hairs with him and co-hairs with Jesus Christ. And that is our position and that is our authority and that is so wonderful, that is so powerful, that is so enlightening to us. And it is, it just reveals the very heart of God, his love for us, the way he looks at us, the way he thinks of us, not as his slaves, not as his subjects of his Kingdom, not somebody to do his, just do his will, but here we are, his children co-hairs with Christ's hairs of God, establishing his rule, his authority, his Kingdom here on the Earth. So we operate out of that Kingdom mindset, we operate out of that Kingdom identity and we operate out of that Kingdom perspective in everything that we do. And not only in just ministry, or when we come to church on Sunday, that we operate out of a Kingdom mindset or a Kingdom perspective, but we operate out of a Kingdom mindset and perspective every moment of our lives. You know, whether we are eating, cooking, you know, doing home chores or working in the secular field or working at church or doing ministry, whatever or doing business, we operate out of a Kingdom mindset and a Kingdom perspective. Okay, so we'll move on to lesson two, if anyone, you know, took time to read lesson one and you have any questions, do you have any questions you can ask now regarding chapter one? No questions? Okay, we'll move on to chapter two, the King and the Kingdom. Okay, you know, when we think about God, we perceive God in different ways. Okay, we perceive God as a father, we perceive God as a friend, we perceive him as savior, what else you perceive him as? What else you perceive God as? How do you look at God? How do you understand him? You look at him as a father, as a friend, as a savior? Yes, as a king, thank you Zillatoli. Yes, Lubega? As the creator of the earth and heavens. Yes, as a creator, what else? How else do we perceive God? Yes, Siddiquanu?  Okay, our representative, he intercedes on behalf of us, he's our advocate. Okay, Subash says as our guide. Okay, as our protector, yes, thank you Subash, as a healer, provider, you know, as our shield, our defender, our wisdom, our strength, our hope, our encouragement. So we perceive God in so many different ways, but it's important, you know, to know that the Bible also reveals God as king, as the eternal king, as the omnipotent king, as a powerful ruler whose kingdom is from everlasting to everlasting, from one generation to another generation. His kingdom is unending, his kingdom is unshakable. So we need to also relate to God in this perspective. We always look at God as our father, friend, savior, you know, as a provider, as a healer, you know, as one who's our wisdom, one who gives us the hope, all that is as a word, all that is good, but we also need to look at God as the eternal king, as a powerful ruler, the one whose kingdom is unshakable, eternal from generation to generation. And because when we understand God as king, then we will also be able to understand how he operates in his kingdom. And why is it important for us to understand how he operates in his kingdom is because he has entrusted his kingdom to us, okay? Of course, he created Adam and Eve and he said subdued and have dominion, but that's not just for Adam and Eve, but that's for the church in today's world that is for each one of us.  We are to establish God's kingdom here on earth in our present day, in our present generation. And so it's important for us to look at God in this perspective that he is king and how is his kingdom so that we can, when we understand this perspective, we will operate out of this perspective, then we will know who we are, that we are prince and princesses, we are rulers that, you know, and God has given us the authority and he's given us the power. Okay, David shares a few facets of God as king in Psalm 145 verses 1 and verses 10 to 13. So can somebody quickly read Psalm chapter 145 verse 1 and verses 10 to 13 please. Anyone? Psalm chapter 145 verse 1, 10 to 13.   They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and talk of your power, to make known to the Son of man his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and your dominion endures throughout all generations. Amen. Thank you, Jeffina. So here we see that, you know, the Psalmist is asking us, extolling us to praise and worship God as king. Okay, so he's saying, you know, extoll God, extoll God as king. And he also says that people will speak of the greatness of the kingdom. They shall bless, bless you, they shall speak of the glory of your kingdom. They shall talk about the power of your kingdom. They shall speak of your mighty acts, the glorious majesty of your kingdom. And then he goes on to say that God's kingdom is everlasting kingdom and his dominion endures throughout all generations.  He's saying, how great is your kingdom of God. And we too need to recognize and worship God as king and we need to worship him for his everlasting kingdom. Okay. And he goes on, the Psalmist goes on to say in Psalm chapter 47 verses 6 and 7. Can somebody read that please? Psalm chapter 47 verse 6 and 7. It's in your notes on the bottom of page 15 and top of page 16. Psalm 47, 6 and 7. Psalm chapter 47 verses 6 and 7. Sing praises to God, sing praises, sing praises to our king, sing praises, 7. For God is the king of all the earth, sing to him a psalm of praise. Thank you. So when we worship God, the Psalmist is saying, why don't you do it this way? Do it as you're singing praises to the king. So when we praise God, when we worship him, we need to sing and adore and praise him because he is king. And this is some, sometimes we miss out this aspect in our minds when we worship God. You know, we forget that he's king and we forget to give him the glory, the adoration, the worship, the majesty, the honor that he is due. So he's saying, when we sing, we need to sing with this heart attitude that God, you are king and I'm singing praises to the king. And you know, God, this is my tribute even as I praise and worship you. This is a tribute that I'm bringing to you. This is my offering.  So David is sharing this facet of praising and worshiping God as king. So having this heart attitude when we praise and worship God, we praise him as he is king, just saying, God, you know, I'm bringing my tribute and bringing my offering. I'm just acknowledging you as the great king whose kingdom is unshakable, whose kingdom endures to all generation.  So even as, you know, we praise and worship God, we can even, you know, even when we pray, we can acknowledge God as king. And that is what we read in Psalms chapter 44 verse 4. So can somebody read that please? Psalm 44 verse 4. It's on page number 16.  Thank you.  Okay. And when you pray, you know, ask God to issue his command, to issue his decree of victory over your life, victory over sickness, victory over bondages, victory over strongholds in your life.   And here this word victory is, the Hebrew word is Yeshua, from the word, and the same word we get the name Jesus. And Yeshua actually means salvation, which means salvation, we know is a very comprehensive holistic word, the Greek word for salvation in the New Testament, it's sozo, which means, you know, healing, wholeness, deliverance from all harm and danger, prosperity, preservation from every attack, every work of the evil ones.   I believe that it is, and yes, and I mean, I believe that even as you issue this command and decree that it is a done thing in my life. Okay, so not only can we praise and worship God as king, but also, you know, we can, when we pray, we can acknowledge him as king, and we can ask him and request him to issue commands and decrees of victory over whatever area in our lives we are struggling or we are facing challenges with. Now we look at some of the insights of God as king, which is adapted from this book, Rediscovering the Kingdom by Miles Manmore. Okay, so the first thing is here is, as king, God is the final authority. Okay, his authority is inherent in who he is, you know, no one brought God into power, no one can remove him out of power. He does not derive his authority from anyone or from others. He is the final authority, and he does not derive or receive his authority from anyone. So as king, he is the final authority. The second insight as king is that God's word is also his command. Okay, and his law is the final command in his kingdom, and nobody can debate about whether the command is right or wrong, the rule is right or wrong, or the law is right or wrong.  The third insight we can receive that as God, as king, is that his presence is also, God's presence is also the place of all kingdom, authority, and glory. So wherever his kingdom reign and rule is present, his presence is also manifested there, and his presence is manifested by his glory of who he is and what he does, and we can see God's authority and his power just manifesting in that place.  So, you know, we have this privilege as God's sons and daughters as his heirs of his kingdom, and co-heirs with Jesus Christ, we have this privilege of enjoying God's glory and his authority through his presence, okay, and asking God's name represents his authority. We know that, you know, when we say so and so has done it, so sorry, when we say that so and so has said this, then, you know, everybody has to just follow it. Like for example, at church office, when we say pastor said, you know, we need to get this done, then there is no, you know, arguing or there is no thinking about it, you know, we all need to get it done just the way it has been said because, you know, pastor's name carries his authority and he is the authority figure here in this place, and so also when you are working for your own bosses, when your boss says something, you know, you need to do it or at home, when your parents, you're under the authority of your parents, you know, when your parents tell you something or, you know, when you're communicating what your father has said to your sister, you said, you know, dad said that we need to do it, then, you know, there's no arguing, there's, you know, no saying no about it, we just have to get it done. So God's name, you know, carries his authority. So when we speak his name, you know, it carries authority, it carries power and we know that when we speak his name before demons and principalities and powers in the dark, spiritual realms, you know, they all bow their knees because God's name, the name of Jesus, which is a name about every other name carries authority, carries power, okay, and the fifth facet of insight that we see of God as king is that as king, God's kingdom is an expression of who he is, okay, through his name, through his who he is and what he does, his nature, his attributes, you know, his attributes, his name or his character is an expression of who he is and this expression can be seen in his kingdom, okay. So we'll give you an example of how as king, God's kingdom is an expression of who he is, what he does, his nature, his attributes and his name or we look at it in Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 and 7. So as king we see that, you know, what ever happens in God's kingdom is very, very important, okay, so God is very concerned about what is happening in his kingdom because he is king and what God desires that in his kingdom be a true representation of who he is, so God desires that his kingdom, you know, be a true representation of who he is, he is king and he does not want, you know, his kingdom to be treated lightly, he does not want his dominion, his authority to be treated lightly, so when things happen in his kingdom, you know, he wants to make sure that it all happens as a true expression of who he is, okay, so he wants everything that happens in his kingdom to be a true expression of who he is, so what are the facets of God as king and we look at how God would like to be represented or what is the expression of who he is and what he would like to be seen in his kingdom, we look at it in Isaiah chapter 9 verses 6 and 7 and this is a very familiar passage of scripture during Christmas time but through this we will look at how God's name, you know, the names of God can be used as, is used as an expression of who he is in his kingdom, so can somebody read Isaiah chapter 9 verses 6 and 7? Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 and 7, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace, of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment and justice, from that time forward even forever the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this, you know. Thank you Rosalind, so here we see that the government here, the word government refers to God's kingdom and here is a description of a king who's carrying on his shoulders the weight of his kingdom okay and we also see the different names of God that is mentioned here and his name actually describes his nature about who he is okay, so his government or the government of the son of God and you know and what he administers here in his kingdom is an expression of who he is okay, so therefore the government the son of God administers is an expression of who he is, so we look at some of the names of God and the meaning and what God chooses to express through this his name, what he chooses to express of who he is in his kingdom the first one is the first name is that his name is wonderful which is an expression of the miraculous, so we see here that God wants his kingdom to be saturated with the miraculous and the miraculous is a surprise gift from God and he wants his kingdom you know to be a kingdom where people enjoy his miracles it should be he wants his kingdom to be a miraculous kingdom, so through his name wonderful he's expressing the miraculous, the second name here we see in Isaiah chapter nine with six and seven is the name counselor okay so in the Hebrew it is advisor and it's an expression of the wisdom of God, so as king you know he's a counselor in his kingdom which means he's a god he's a king who is wise and he wants his kingdom to be filled with his wisdom and he wants his people to be working with the wisdom of God, so even as we're looking at these names of God it's not just something that they're just looking at it but even as we're looking at it and we are part of God's kingdom you know we need to speak this you know over the domain that God is given to us so you know whatever domain that God is given to you or wherever you are establishing or is called to establish his kingdom you can say God I want your kingdom here in the place that you have established me to be an expression of the miraculous even as you want your kingdom to be saturated with the miraculous you know God I want to see mighty miracles flowing out in and through my life and then you can say God even as you are the counselor which is an expression of your wisdom God you want your kingdom to be filled with wisdom and you can say God you know I want to walk in the wisdom of God and wherever you place me I want to flow through the wisdom that you have given me that you want to be revealed in your kingdom the third name of God we see here is mighty God which is a name of God and is an expression of God's power that he is omnipotent okay so as the omnipotent ruler as the king of the kingdom you know nothing can obstruct God's plan and purpose in his kingdom and he wants his power and he wants his plan and his purpose to be established in his kingdom and whatever he plans and purposes he wants it to be fulfilled in his kingdom and no power on earth can stop it so even as you are you know you know representing God's kingdom here on earth you can say God you know even as this is your plan and your purpose that all men be saved I want everybody in the geographic area that you have placed me you know I want them to come to your saving grace I want them to receive salvation I want them to you know experience the miraculous and if God has given you some specific plan and purpose for your ministry for the area where you're working you know you can say God there's no power on earth no power the demonic forces that can stop this from you know being fulfilled in your kingdom because you are mighty God because you are omnipotent and the last name a second last name of God we see here is everlasting father you know it's an expression of of God's compassion his love his care his provision just as a father is compassionate gracious you know cares for his family provides for his family in the same way you know God the father is a father towards us he loves his children he cares for us he protects us and he provides for us so anytime you lack anything you can just declare this expression of God's of his name in you know in your in your life because you know the kingdom is within us and the kingdom is even around us and so we just say God you're a father I just believe that you would provide for this need even as you take care of your children your gracious and compassionate you care for me God you will provide for me or you will provide for the people in your geographical area whatever situations people in your geographical area are going through whatever situations they're going through you can just speak uh uh the name of the everlasting father and just believe that you know this would be a true expression of his kingdom and you will see it manifested even as you declare it and you create in your life and in your geographical area and the last name of God we see here is the Prince of Peace which is an expression of Shalom and as a king you know God wants in his kingdom to be a kingdom where there is wholeness there's health there's prosperity there's well-being there is total well-being so you can just declare this over your life over your family over the area that God has given you and saying God in your kingdom I just declare your name your name as Prince of Peace and I just believe that this true expression of who you are will be manifested in our kingdom so we see here that in in in God's kingdom he desires his kingdom to be an expression of himself so it's important to know that we don't just look at one aspect of God but when we relate to God when we pray when we worship him we need to relate to him in his entirety of who he is not just choosing you know specific aspects of course when we go through situations we speak you know different the names of God and we we want to see that be expressed manifested in God's kingdom but here we're saying that you know we need to look at God and relate to him in totality for who he is okay we need to represent God for all who he is and just representing him for certain aspects of who he is you know there can be a danger in that because when we do that we will misrepresent him and we will not represent the full facet of who God is asking so it's important for us to embrace all the aspects of his kingdom because when we just focus on one or two it prevents you know people from knowing who God really is okay so those are some of you know the different facets of God through his name which we can declare and decree it to be an expression of his kingdom because he desires that who he is to be an expression of himself in his kingdom okay and as king God is to be feared and honored we read about this in Jeremiah chapter 10 verse 7 and 10 it says you know wise men of the nations and in all of their kingdoms there is none like you okay Jeremiah chapter 10 verses 7 and 7 and 10 says who would not fear you or king of the nations but this is your rightful due for among all the wise men of the nations in all their kingdoms there is none like you so there is none like God in all the nations in all the kingdoms of the earth and hence he is to be feared and honored in the same you know line of thought we we look at King Nebuchadnezzar who brings one of the finest tributes to God and we see this in the Bible in Daniel chapter 4 verses 37 34 to 37 we know that King Nebuchadnezzar was the great and powerful king and ruler of a great and mighty powerful empire but we see that because of his pride he loses his mind and then he becomes like an animal living in the wild but when he comes back to his senses he receives his right mind he realizes his you know his smallness his his fragileness his his pride his weakness compared to you know the great king and so that's what he brings a tribute to God in Daniel chapter 4 verses 34 to 37 so can somebody read that please Daniel chapter 4 verses 34 to 37 Daniel chapter 4 verse 34 to 37 and at the end of time I Nebuchadnezzar lift my eyes to heaven and my understanding written to me and I bless the most I am praised and honored him who lives forever for his dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is from generation to generation all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing he does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth no one can restrain his hand or say to him what have you done at the same time my recent written to me and for the glory of my kingdom my honor and my and splendor written to me my counselors and nobles restored to me I was restored to my kingdom an excellent majesty was added to me now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extoll and honor the king of heaven all of whose work or truth and his wage justice and those who walk in pride he's able to put down amen thank you jeffina so here we see that you know king Nebuchadnezzar you know acknowledges god as and extols god as king and praises him for who he is he realizes there is no greater king you know than god and he says I now realize there is a king greater than me so which means that he realizes there is a god that god is greater than even him there's a king that is greater even than he and that is god and so he says you know now since I know that there is a king who's greater than me and that is god I want to worship him so the king of the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of god you know our king is to be feared and is to be honored and we read this in many places in the bible in the New Testament where it talks about god as king in 1st Timothy chapter 1 was 17 and 1st Timothy chapter 6 was 15 where Paul is writing to Timothy and he says now the king eternal immortal invisible to god who alone is wise be honored and glory forever and ever okay and then he also mentions in chapter 6 was 15 can somebody read that please 1st Timothy chapter 6 was 15 1st Timothy chapter 6 was 15 can somebody read that 1st Timothy chapter 6 was 15 which he will manifest in his own time he who is the blessed and only for both an end the king of kings and lord of lords thank you so here we see you know the king is of the kingdom is worshiped for him being eternal immortal invisible and his praise for who he is and also we need to fear and honor this king now we look at how Jesus introduced his kingdom and it's important for us to to understand this because we believe and we take the same approach just like Jesus took you know we will be able to see the establishment we will be able to see the furtherance of the spiritual kingdom of god remember in the last week in class one I said that there are two different dimensions of the kingdom there is a spiritual kingdom and there is the natural kingdom what we're experiencing now is the spiritual kingdom what we will experience when Jesus comes again the second time is his natural kingdom you know when he overthrows all the nations the kings of the world at the at the battle of the Armageddon and he will establish his kingdom reign and rule and his we will see him reigning here on the earth in Jerusalem and we will be you know a king citizens of that natural kingdom but for now we are you know a part of the spiritual kingdom of God so it's important for us to understand how Jesus introduced this kingdom so that you know we will take the same approach in you know establishing or in the furtherance of the spiritual kingdom of God so we see that you know the John the Baptist was the forerunner for Jesus and you know he had the greatest honor of you know being the forerunner of the king and he also announced the kingdom of heaven has come we read this in Matthew chapter 3 verse 2 but we see that you know Jesus says in and we know also know that you know John the Baptist once is the greatest among the greatest among the Old Testament prophets okay so John the Baptist was the greatest among the Old Covenant prophets or the Old Testament prophets but it's interesting to read what Jesus says in Luke chapter 7 verse 28 Jesus declared in Luke chapter 7 verse 28 for I say to you among those born of woman there is no one there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he okay it's a very interesting thing that Jesus says here we see that you know Jesus is declaring or saying that the least person in the kingdom of God is even greater than John okay in the kingdom of God the least person in the kingdom of God is even greater than John the Baptist and what does he say about John the Baptist he says John the Baptist is one of the greatest or is the greatest prophets of all the Old Testament prophets and Jesus is also declaring that those who are least in the kingdom of God you know is they are even greater than John the Baptist who was the greatest of the Old Testament prophets and so here we see that you know even though John the Baptist had the was had the greatest honor of being the forerunner of the king and he had the great privilege of announcing or preaching about the coming of the kingdom of heaven but we see that you know he he could not be part of the kingdom though he had the honor of announcing the kingdom though he had the honor of being the forerunner of the king but we see that he couldn't be part of the kingdom why couldn't he be part of the kingdom because Jesus had died on the cross and he had not yet you know rose again from the dead so you know I wanted to just see the great privilege that you and I have as kingdom citizens that you know even as we are born again into the kingdom of God we are born again into a realm of spiritual experience of position and authority that none of them who were you know who lived before Jesus died and rose again could enjoy this privilege because they were not born again and hence they could not enjoy this privilege so you and I are very privileged to be part of God's kingdom to be part of the kingdom of his kingdom where is we experience his you know his his spiritual realm we experience our position our authority that God has given to us so you know we not only say that God let your kingdom come and let your will be done or we not only say that you know the king is coming soon and he's going to establish his natural kingdom but we say that the kingdom is in us the king is in us his rule and his reign is you know is manifested in and through me and that is a privilege that you and I have which sometimes we really don't know we are so blinded to this truth to this fact we don't even realize that we are in the kingdom and the kingdom is in us okay we need to understand this privilege we need to know our position and authority and we also need to you know we also need to understand the approach that Jesus took in establishing his kingdom so that we can you know establish and see the furtherance of his spiritual kingdom so we look at you know the threefold approach that Jesus took through introducing his kingdom it's very simple how did Jesus introduce his kingdom here on earth when he was here on when he lived here on this earth how did Jesus introduce his kingdom he preached about the kingdom okay he preached what else did he did demonstrated the power yes he demonstrated the power and he also thought okay he preached he thought and he demonstrated the power of the kingdom through mighty science miracles and wonders and we read about this in in Matthew chapter 4 verses 17 and 23 Matthew chapter 9 was 35 and Luke chapter 4 was 43 and in all of these three passages which is given to us on page number 20 it says you know Jesus began to preach and say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and he went about Galilee teaching in the synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all kinds of sickness and diseases Matthew 935 you also see that Jesus went about in all the cities teaching in the synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and disease and in Luke chapter 4 verse 43 Jesus says that you know he must preach the kingdom of God in all the cities because he says for this purpose he was sent so we see that you know the church today sometimes you know neglects or overlooks or undermines this whole aspect of the kingdom of God but we see that the kingdom of God is so important in in the plan and the purpose of God which he had even before the foundations of the world and we see that even in Jesus's life and his ministry he spent his and his three years which was all three years that he lived here on you know he did his ministry here on earth and all these three years he he preached about the kingdom he taught about the kingdom and he demonstrated the power of the kingdom and even as kingdom citizens as sons and daughters as heirs and of God and co-heirs with Christ Jesus in his kingdom where we are given the authority and the power and the dominion and his government and the authority to rule and reign here we too need to teach preach and demonstrate the power of the kingdom of God okay so look let's look at the first aspect of how we can you know approach the kingdom of God the first aspect is preaching the good news about the kingdom of God okay now if we were to herald the good news of the kingdom of God what would we have done okay you know we would have said you know the king has conquered his enemy which is Satan he is one over him he is one victory over him on the cross he's broken every power of the enemy he's taken back his authority and we can all we all can we can also preach teach them and say that you know he's a god of peace who's reconciled us back to the father he's bought peace he's bought shalom to everyone in his kingdom and we can also say that his kingdom is a kingdom where you know it is a true expression of who he is and what he does and we can you know mention all what we had we had looked at in as the facets of the king in Isaiah chapter nine versus six and seven that is wonderful his kingdom is an expression of the miraculous his kingdom is an expression of his wisdom where he wants his wisdom to see to be filling his kingdom and everyone to flow in the wisdom of God you know his kingdom is an expression of his power his kingdom is an expression of God's compassion his love his care where we see the father heart of God and his expression his kingdom is an expression of shalom of the peace of God the whole is the total well-being of of the of his people so and even as we teach this to people we could you know we can invite them and say would you like to be a part of this kingdom would you like to enter this kingdom you know how this kingdom has overcome all other kingdoms and how this king is so wonderful and just telling the people that you know you need to be part of this kingdom just to enjoy you know the blessings and the privilege the honor and the position that we receive as sons and daughters in this kingdom so you and I have a privilege and being part of this kingdom and as we have you know been as I've been saying it's also a responsibility for us that God has given us a God given responsibility to advance this kingdom to preach the kingdom to teach the the kingdom you know to preach about the king and and to teach about the king who is who has given us his kingdom okay so that is about preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and we look at teaching okay through his teaching we about the kingdom of God we see that Jesus was actually transforming the minds of the people and the hearts and minds of the people and also the way the people lived so the main purpose of why Jesus was you know teaching about the kingdom of God is yes making it known that you know he's ushering the kingdom of God and how the kingdom of God is what are the facets the different aspects of the kingdom of God but even as he was doing it he was you know trying to bring about a transformation in the hearts and the minds of people and also you know that translating into how the people lived you know being mindful of who they are the their kingdom citizens what authority the minion power they have what position that they have been given so we look at some of you know aspects of what Jesus taught about his kingdom okay in Matthew chapter 5 verse 3 the beatitudes Jesus said blessed are the poor in the spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven okay we'll stop here it's time for a break we'll go for a break and come back and then if you have any questions we will I will answer your questions and then we will continue with the honestly okay