So Mark chapter 2 let's begin reading together here and Mark chapter 2 at Verse 13 I'll begin verse 13. We're gonna have a as I normally do an introduction Lay some things down remind you of a couple of things point some things out then move into our site We're gonna be looking at at really what would be two separate studies in a way We're gonna be looking first at verse 13 to verse 17 then verses 18 through 22 and there are actually two two studies I could have taken just each one for one week, but I don't want to be in mark for the next ten years and so We'll look at verse 13 at verse 13 He then he went out again by the sea and all the multitude came to him and he taught them Now as we've been going through the gospel of Mark, we've noticed that Jesus has a very solid teaching ministry I've been emphasizing the fact that he had a teaching ministry and as we've gone through the the book up to this point We've seen that Jesus took every opportunity that he had in order to proclaim his message We saw that he would preach and that he would teach all who would gather to hear him And and that has been the central theme of the gospel and I'll remind you of a few things at this point Mark tells us that after John was in prison that Jesus came to Galilee and he said he came to Galilee Preaching the gospel in mark 115. It says the time is fulfilled the kingdom of God is at hand repent and Believe in the gospel later mark tells us that What Jesus did in the city of Capernaum in in mark 121? It says immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and he taught We've seen how Peter looked for and found him and said to him Everybody is looking for you in mark 138 to this Jesus responded by saying let us go into the next towns That I may preach there also because for this purpose. I have come for it for this purpose I have come for it. You see Jesus was sent from heaven to bring a message a message That's called the message of grace and forgiveness. We speak of it as being the gospel Now why do we need a message of grace and freedom? Why do we need a gospel? Well? The Bible makes it very plain that human beings are in need of salvation We had just seen how that the paralytic brought to Jesus was in need of forgiveness of sins His greatest need was to be set free from the depth of grief that he was suffering And it wasn't that he was suffering grief because he couldn't walk it was suffering grief because of his sin and That's the consistent declaration of Scripture that man is a sinner and man needs forgiveness And the book of Romans in chapter 3 Paul was writing this in verses 9 through 12 He said all people whether Jews or Gentiles are under the power of sin as the scriptures say no one is righteous No, not even one no one is truly wise no one is seeking God all have turned away and all have become useless in Romans 3 23 he went on to say everyone has sinned we all fall short of God's glorious standard You see what many have failed to realize is that there is a consequence for sin and it's not just physical death It also includes a spiritual death Romans 6 23 says the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord and The writer of Hebrews in chapter 9 verse 27 tells us it's it is appointed and demanded I once and after this judgment And so we have offended a holy and mighty God But even though we have done so God has made a way for us Romans 5 8 tells us God demonstrates his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died For us in the most famous scripture in in the Bible I was in New Testament at least is John 3 16 God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life Why do I emphasize The importance of preaching and teaching Well in John 5 24 it says very truly I tell you whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me as Eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life Teaching and preaching is God's method of bringing his message to a lost world. That's why in Romans 10 13 and 14 everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed and how will they believe in him whom they have not heard And how will they hear? without a preacher Somebody said many churches today would not tolerate for two Sundays strong biblical preaching that confronts their doctrinal error refutes it lays conviction of sin on the people or exhorts them to holy obedience They would replace such a preacher with teachers who feed their desires and tickle their ears They want something sensational entertaining self-benefiting ego building Something that feels good and produces a pleasant sensation For the sake of such a feeling they will gladly exchange the truth for fables myths and stories And that's the condition of the church today You see Jesus has been preaching and he's been teaching and those who are hearing him are astonished He's been revealing his authority. We've seen this through works of power. He's cast out demons. He's performed healings He even cleansed the leper and When Jesus cleansed the leper we we noted what motivated him to do so it said in in mark 141 that Jesus was moved with compassion and cleansed him It was also compassion that motivated Jesus to heal a paralyzed man and in his case Jesus not only healed him, but also forgave him of his sins and I pointed this out last time in pronouncing forgiveness Jesus was actually claiming to be God in the flesh in the book of Daniel in chapter 9 verse 9 It says to the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness For we have rebelled against him to the Lord our God belongs forgiveness and Jesus went so far as to forgive this man of his sins now his forgiveness gave us insight into what our God is Really like the Bible teaches us that our God is merciful That word merciful means to to be disposed to pedio fenders unwilling to punish for injuries in Psalm 86 verse 5 it says for you Lord are good ready to forgive abundant in mercy to all those who call upon you and So his entire ministry dealt with this one basic human need to be forgiven by God There's a man that some of you may be familiar with at least his name his name is Carl Menenger He was a psychiatrist and he has what are called the manager clinics and Carl Menenger said this he said if I could convince the patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven 75% of them could walk out the next day The greatest need that we have is a sense forgiveness and Forgiveness is the result of repenting forgiveness is a result of humbling asking God to forgive us and God is ready to forgive and God is merciful and if we've received forgiveness Forgiveness is also given to others who have sinned against us Because that demonstrates that we understand what forgiveness really is So at this point People are beginning to follow this young carpenter turned preacher his message his miracles drawing people to investigate Just who he might be He wasn't simply a carpenter turned rabbi. He was God's son and he was teaching words of God in John 7 16 Jesus said my teaching is not my own it comes from him who sent me and Beginning people are now beginning to see this for themselves You see those who are genuine followers of Christ have a desire a desire to hear what he has to say For the modern follower of Christ that means that we love here in the Bible taught in John 847 It says he who belongs to God hears what God says the reason you don't hear is you don't belong to God And so that's why in the life of a Christian Personal time reading the Bible is so important. It demonstrates that we know the Lord Now some people say, you know, I'd love to be able to spend time personally in the Bible But I really don't read or don't read that well Well, thank God for modern technology because we have various ways we can hear the Bible read to us I remember a man in our fellowship many years ago now who told me he said, you know Pastor you you encourage us to read the Bible and all he says, but he says I don't read He says I never learned to he said I'm I am functionally illiterate I and this is a man who was a construction worker and all he had his own business He did very well And I asked him how was it that you're able to do the work that you do and he says well He says I simply have somebody with me driving with me all the time He says so when I get to a general area, I know I'm supposed to go because I know the directions I'll say did you notice a sign that says sunset or whatever and the guys? Oh, yeah, it was to and he says That's how I do it. He says I've never admitted to anybody that I can't read. He says, but I can't I can't read And I said well, you know what one of the things I would encourage you to do I said is to listen to it you can listen on at that time listen on tape I said you can listen to the word of God read and you can memorize Obviously have a mind that's able to do that. I said or you might want to humble yourself and have your wife read to you I said whatever Whatever you need to get the word of God into you and if you're hungry for the word of God Then you're gonna make every effort to be able to do that So what we do is to pick up our Bibles and reread it We won't always understand everything, but we should do the things that we understand That's why we go to Bible studies so we can intense services to to be taught that's why God put teachers in the body of Christ and That's what the importance of the word of God is is it feeds our soul So as we're here looking at this passage We're seeing that Jesus has been preaching and teaching, but he's also calling people to himself And here we have in verse 14 that he passed by and he saw Levi And we saw Levi because he had a cool pair of pants on it's really but he passed by and he saw Levi the son of alpheus Seating at the tax office and he said to him follow me so he arose and followed him and So Jesus is leaving the city of Capernaum me and as he's doing so he encounters a man He's a tax collector here. He is referred to as Levi now as this comment during that day He actually had two names. We know him really better by Matthew You see him calling himself Matthew in chapter 9 of the gospel of Matthew But when you read your Bible, you're gonna notice that there are some of the men that you become familiar with who who actually are Known by two names at least two names. You have Simon Peter You have James and John who are called Boanergis, which means son of sons of thunder you have Thomas who's referred to as dynamos meaning the twin you have Paul who is later known as Saul He was before known as Saul so there are a number of people with different names And so Levi is also Matthew and So here here he is he's in the city of Capernaum when you're looking at a map of Israel Capernaum was the largest city in the north. It was situated on the sea and still is on the Sea of Galilee It was located on a very busy ancient highway and it was on it was a major trade route So Matthew Levi What was was what was called at that time a public in a tax collector? Now let me give you a little background so you can understand what's going to take place in just a moment The Jews could buy franchises that entitled them to impose taxes on citizens as well as travelers They would collect what are called toll taxes or import duties boat docking fees Business license fees a variety of the fees and taxes. That's what they did they would collect them and on a busy route such as the one that that Matthew was on business would be constant and very lucrative Rome had set certain quotas that she expected to receive through taxes But anything that was above the minimum fee was kept by the tax collector most likely He would assess taxes by whim which resulted him becoming very wealthy and As a tax collector Because he was wealthy and becoming wealthy on the backs of the Jewish citizen citizenry. He was deeply despised He gathered taxes and because he did they thought he was what would be called an apostate They certainly thought he was a traitor and in in society. He was classed with liars and thieves and he was barred from synagogues Now Matthew knew he would he would suffer this and yet he determined to become a tax collector anyway And he became very rich, but he was also very hated by the people But for him material wealth outweighed acceptance by people He was willing to be an outcast to achieve the goal that he desired And as I was reading that and thinking about that I thought that's interesting because that strength and determination is Self-centered and materialistic as it was that that strength and determination served him well in ministry Since he was used to being rejected. He was well prepared for what was going to happen to him You know, I've seen that in Over the years they saw it in my own case being a being a hippie kid in the society back then Really disliked as a society Disliked hippies and so people like me were willing to be rejected by the society for the thing we believed in I think it still happens to this day and Matthew was no different Matthew chose an occupation that was hated by other people He chose it because for him the goal of becoming rich was more important than having relationships with people and As a result Matthew was rejected He was rejected by the society that he lived in but though people had rejected Matthew Jesus didn't and So notice in verse 14 that Jesus stopped at his toll booth and he simply said to him follow me Now we've already seen how Jesus said the same thing to Peter James Andrew and John he now commands Matthew to become one of his men Now I can't help but wonder how Matthew felt about this command they're in front of a good amount of people Jesus speaks to him and tells him follow me and he knew who Jesus was this isn't a chance encounter. He was aware Jesus was living in ministry in the city Matthew 413 tells us that Capernaum had become his ministry headquarters We know that Jesus taught in the city and performed many miracles in Capernaum in mark 134 It said he healed many who were sick with various diseases cast out many demons He didn't allow the demons to speak because they knew him again. He had recently cleansed the leper He healed a paralytic and mark 128 says immediately as famous spread throughout all the region around Galilee The entire city was aware of him and that would include this man Matthew a tax collector Now when Matthew saw him He saw a compassionate rabbi But when Jesus looked at Matthew, he saw something else When Jesus looked at Matthew, he saw a lonely unfulfilled sin filled outcast Matthew was like that paralyzed man He was someone in need of forgiveness. He was someone in need of healing and It's very obvious that Matthew was tired of his empty life He needed something deeper than what he had and In a moment he left it all behind Luke 5 28 tells us he left all rose up and followed him and Matthew became a full-time follower of Jesus Christ He left everything behind in order to fall after him Everything that he once thought would fulfill him was immediately left behind and that reminds me of what the Apostle Paul once wrote in Philippians 3 7 and 8 Paul said whatever was to my profit. I now consider loss For the sake of Christ. What is more? I Consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose sake I have lost all things I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ Everything I have here is going to perish. I would prefer the eternal Matthew was that way Paul was that way believers are that way and In leaving his job behind he knew that he'd never return to it His sin was connected to his profession and he could no longer Extort money any longer and he's now going to trust the Lord to provide for his needs and he gives it up And he begins to follow him now in verse 15 it happened as He was dining in Levi's house That many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and his disciples for there were many and they followed him And so Matthew put together a banquet. He was going to honor Jesus. He invited the outcasts of society It must have been a large home because many showed up for the meal It says in verse 15 that there were many tax collectors and sinners and notice it says they followed him Well, this kind of thing would later become a charge against Jesus all these people following him Because in Matthew 11 19 Jesus said the son of man came eating and drinking They say look a glutton and a wine biber a friend of tax collectors and sinners It's been said show me a man's friends and I'll show you the man Well Matthew had many associates and they came to hear Jesus these outcasts of society Or the only ones who had relationship with him and as they listened to Jesus one by one They began to believe him and one by one they became followers of Christ and this dinner party became an outreach With many coming to faith in Christ They had a chance not only to see him but to hear him speak and there at the table They had a chance to to ask him questions and listen to his answers and that's taking place now as that's taking place notice Verse 16 when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eating with the tax collectors and sinners they said to his disciples How is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners and so they're watching this See not everyone was pleased that Christ would spend time with these sinners The Pharisees had seen what happened with Matthew and apparently they had followed Jesus when Jesus went to Matthew's house But notice what they did. I want to show you something very quickly here in verse 16 notice in verse 16 How it says they said to his disciples. How is it that he eats with tax collectors and sinners in? Luke 5 30 it says their scribes and the Pharisees complained against his disciples Saying why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? Well They attacked Jesus But they also attacked his men That's because a disciple becomes like his teacher in Luke 640 the students not above his teacher But everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher That's one good reason by the way to be careful Who you allow to influence your way of thinking? Their problem was with Jesus, but instead of speaking to him They spoke with his men now. Why is that? Because if you want to undermine somebody All you need to do is speak about them to the ones who respect them the most If you want to destroy your work cast doubt on the leader If you want to undermine someone's trust in their teacher and if you can You can undermine the ministry of that teacher on many occasions What is said about the teacher is not true The damage has been done You can't take back your words no matter how sorry you may be later for saying them There are so many false accusations today. It's almost it's it's normal. You see them all the time You see it on the news You see him you see him on Facebook social the various social media platforms where things are said that aren't true And once those words come out you can say I'm sorry for the rest of your life But the only thing a lot of people will ever remember is the lie that was said and If you can undermine a man's credibility the way you can do that best is by calling into question that man to those Who love them the most and that's what they were doing. They wanted to undermine the ministry of Christ So rather than first specifically speaking to Jesus and say why are you doing this and getting an honest answer from him? They speak to the disciples and they said why is your master doing this? Why would you do that to undermine Jesus in order to make him look bad? Why is he eating with these sinners? Why is he eating with these publicans? Why is he doing this and and so the disciples are put in the defensive? It's they're they're going to have to respond, but the Lord Jesus is there listening carefully to what's taking place you see sometimes people take an actual Joy in undermining other people Human nature being what it is loves to believe an evil report over a good report That's why you never see good news or hardly ever see good news on the news Plain took off in Los Angeles today flew across to New York landed safely next today. They don't say that They'll say a plane took off and 15 people died because people are addicted to the bad news In Proverbs 18 verse 18, it says the words of a gossip are like choice morsels. They go down to the inmost parts and often because friendships are Because of friendships, it's easy to decide with the one that you know the best If your friend tells you something it must be true, right and Proverbs 18 verse 17 It says the first one to plead his cause seems right until his neighbor comes and examines him So the first piece person who comes to you they always seem right until their cross examined But that's not how believers are to live you see the result of Casting unfair doubt will always be division and then again in Proverbs 16 verse 8 It says a perverse man so striped a whisperer separates the best of friends and that's what the Pharisees are doing the casting doubt to steal hearts and divide away from Jesus Christ now in Verse 16 again, it says how is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners? Let me point something out that perhaps you don't know or many of you do I'll say it anyway When you eat and drink with somebody especially during that day, but to this day It's the same eating and drinking was more than simply sharing a meal It was symbolic of friendship.  What does the waiter do waiters do? The server do They bring salsa, right? Isn't that great?  No not at all Why why doesn't it bother you because if you think about it the double dipping thing that's real because you bit in You got saliva you put it in there. Don't be double dipping. They get gross out But do you throw the salsa away? I don't I just kind of move it a little bit And keep dipping why is that? Because these are my friends Right.  They're not my acquaintances. See what you what you really have when you're eating is not simply Meeting a physical need, you know for for food. It's it's a fellowship. It's an acceptance and that's what the problem was here So it wasn't just that jesus is having a meal with these people And they they would have a bowl and they would have a Peter-like bread like pita bread and they would have their their excuse me They're the dip that they would have and they were dipping in the bowl And so as they were doing that the Pharisees who followed christ to this house are looking and watching and they're saying how is it that he does that because sitting down at meal and and Sharing bowl and sharing the meal with them was a high sign of acceptance and relationship And these people were highly offended by that. How could he be doing that with these kinds of people? We're Pharisees You see the Pharisees were used to rejecting these kinds of people when you look at the origin of the name Pharisee The word Pharisee means a separated one The separated ones and early in the history as they first began They were really a response to the to the hellenization or the grecianizing of the jews When i antiochus epiphanies had come in and brought in the greek kind of philosophy and all and the worldview of the greeks It began to infiltrate in the minds of the hebrus and so the Pharisees rose up in opposition They called them the separated ones and they wanted to be those who firmly held to the traditions of israel And and they they were the they were real heroic figures at one time But they had their beliefs had been kind of Hardened into a rejection And so when they saw these people doing certain things they had rules and regulations They'd get upset over it and say how can you be doing that because we follow the tradition of the elders And you should not be with these sinners. Why because we are the Pharisees. We are the separated ones We separate from these kinds of people. We don't welcome them Well in this line of questioning The hearts are exposed They considered themselves righteous better than others. They were not really sinners And so what happened is this kind of thinking had had resulted in a lack of compassion And so as this is taking place verse 17 when jesus heard it He said to them hey those who are well have no need of a physician But those who are sick i didn't come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance He heard it and he responded he wasn't eating with them Because he had sin in common with them. He was righteous He observed the law. He was undefiled by sin. He wasn't in dangerous stumbling in sin He was there to rescue the laws and that's something Pharisees had neglected And so to deal with the situation he he said two things based basically one he points out That only truly sick people will ever visit a doctor And so unless you understand your own condition he's saying i can't help you In psalm 51 5 behold i was shaped in inequity and in sin did my mother conceive me In proverbs 20 verse 9 who can say i've made my heart clean i am pure from sin I'll have sin and fall short of the glory of god John westley once said i am fallen short of the glory of god my whole heart is altogether corrupt and abominable And consequently my whole life being an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit And so everybody needs to recognize first and foremost that we're sinners and you Pharisees are sinners too he was saying And two he challenged their understanding of scripture In matthew 9 13 matthew includes the phrase go and learn this When he when he said go and learn this is a rabbinic saying it means you don't know what you should know You don't know god You're ignorant of god you're ignorant of his nature is what he was saying Because true faith is often revealed in compassion hosea 6 verse 6 says i desire mercy not sacrifice the knowledge of god more than burnt offerings So a person who is cold towards others has yet to understand Their own sinful nature And they fail to understand the depth of the grace and kindness of god And so jesus spoke to them and said you just don't understand And he said i didn't come to call the self righteous But those who know they need help That's very similar to what he said of another tax collector a man by the name of zekias He said to him in luke 19 verse 10 the son of man has come to seek and save that which was lost And so he made it very clear the reason i'm here with these people Isn't because i have sin in common with them It's because i'm willing to go wherever they are to reach them so they can go to heaven and be forgiven And the fruit was already demonstrated it said and these people had followed him And the second thing i better move into this In verse 18 This leads to a question the disciples of john And of the Pharisees were fasting they came and said to him Why do the disciples of john and of the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast Jesus said to them can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them And then they will fast in those days no one sews a piece of untrunk cloth on an old garment or else The new piece pulls away from the old And the tear is made worse And no one puts new wine into old wineskins Or else the new wine bursts the wineskins The wine is spilled and the wineskins are ruined But new wine must be put into new wineskins new wine new wineskins Now these disciples of john were those who were yet to give their allegiance to jesus not every disciple of john followed christ immediately But over time The other group that's being spoken of were the disciples of the Pharisees And they rejected christ But both groups were taught to seek righteousness and and avoid sin It and it appears that that both groups were disturbed by jesus's association with sinners So the questions asked why did the disciples of john and the Pharisees fast and yours don't Jewish ritual religion Taught that disciples were to fast twice a week They believed that fasting in this fashion would be an evidence of righteousness And so what had happened is the external religious ritual had become a badge of godliness So fasting twice a week was then a special evidence of sincere religion It was an evidence of denying fleshly appetites and putting the kingdom of god first Jesus used this practice as an example of what became self righteousness in luke 18 versus 10 through 12 When he said two men went up to the temple to pray when a Pharisee the other tax collector The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself God, I thank you that i'm not like other men extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this tax collector I fast twice a week. I give tides of all that I possess so it became a standard of righteousness And so they're asking why do Pharisees? Why did john's disciples fast but yours don't and so the answer in verse 19 Can the friend friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom's with them Well, jesus spoke of mourning. Why would he say what can the friends of the bridegroom mourn? Well, then the bible fasting often represents humility and mourning Psalm 35 13 I humbled my soul with fasting So jesus was saying this is not a time of sorrow. It's a time of joy. It's actually like a wedding You see the friends of the bridegroom are the groom's best friends. They're in charge of all the festivities So being with christ should be joyful Being a follower of jesus isn't supposed to be depressing but joyful Of all people We christians are filled with the deep peace and joy because we're going to heaven our lives are not tied to the things of earth We're pilgrims we're moving to a new home and that came through jesus christ And if there's anything that we ought to be today it ought to be filled with joy and I understand the circumstances we're living in But this earth is not our home We're just passing through We do the best that we can to not only live not just survive but also to bring people with us. That's what we do But we have a relationship with god in in romans 5 10 and 11 It says if if if when we were enemies we were reconciled to god by the death of his son Much more being reconciled. We shall be saved by his life and not only so But we also join in god through our lord jesus christ by whom we we have now received the atonement We should have the joy of the lord. It's our strength He says in verse 20 the bridegroom will be taken that word taken is in a greek tense. That means violently taken Then they're going to have the time to mourn. He's saying i'm going to be taken. I'm going to be violently put to death That's what peter said in acts 223 when speaking of him The apostle said in him being him being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of god He said you have taken and by wicked hands have crucified in slain These disciples of john needed to understand who jesus is their loyalty To john was getting in their way of being saved through faith in christ john's disciples needed to follow christ because john's purpose in pointing christ out has been fulfilled and now he says in verse 21 No one sows a piece of untrunk cloth on an old garment Not only does it tear the old fabric, but luke tells us the color doesn't match So there comes a time when attempting to patch up something is foolish Jesus's ministry wasn't intended to somehow repair Phariseeism The gospel of grace and forgiveness Can't be blended with religious legalism in verse 22 no one puts new wine into old wineskins because The fermentation process in the old wineskin will cause the skin to burst The religious traditionalism of the Pharisee cannot contain the power of grace this weekend a couple days ago K smith pastor chucks wife died Perhaps you already know some of you already know maybe all of you for all i know k smith some of you haven't an awareness of the calvary chapel history and traditions that we hold And maybe that means nothing to you k smith died after all the jesus movement as as was um As was lived out in the calvary chapel ministries in the earlier days When god began to move here in the united states and began to To reach the youth God did it through various means of course he always does But one significant member of that Movement was a man by the name of chuck smith the pastor of calvary chapel goes to mesa My pastor for many years Chuck went home to be with the lord several years ago now, but his beloved wife k Went home to be with the lord just this week this last week k is really the one that influenced her husband chuck many of you know that perhaps some of you don't She and chuck used to go right by um pch and huntington beach on main i believe is main street And they would sit in a car when the hippie kids would walk by Huntington beach was the beach that i used to go to that was the place i'd hitchhike to and During the summer i spent a lot of time there and got skin cancer through that Used to go to the beach all the time And we would go to huntington. That's where we went by the pier and k and chuck would pull up in their car And chuck would just watch the dirty hippie surfers come walking by And under his breath or out loud to his wife He would say those stinking kids ought to take a bath and get a job They need to put shoes on He'd get all mad Then he'd turn and he'd look at his beloved wife k and she'd be crying And she'd be praying for these kids She would be praying for the kids And it's often pastor chuck's heart Towards these lost hippie Kids that were everything that his generation hated k did that And it was through k's prayers and influence that pastor chuck softened towards reaching Young people And it was his method of reaching us. He he actually broke the mold he He didn't always wear a A suit and jacket when he taught he He would sit on a on a stool. He'd hold the bible in his hand and He'd wear his turtleneck and he thought he had long hair at one time because it actually touched his collar He thought it was a hippie. I first encountered pastor chuck when I was 20 and he was 43 years old and he would just talk with that That beautiful voice of his About the love of god the goodness of god the forgiveness of god And it broke down barriers First time I went into a Calvary Chapel ministry. I went in barefooted I went in as a hippie kid I've been drinking smoking pot went to church I wasn't kicked out I was accepted my sin never was but as a person I was And it impressed me it impressed me Because the church that I would have normally attended would have gone to church Would not have allowed that had I walked in in the condition that I was in To the church I at one time attended they would have escorted me right out Or there's no way that you walk in barefooted. Are you kidding in church? No, of course not But there there were 200 kids and then more sitting in pews just like this barefoot Kind of grimy because a lot of kids would go surfing and go to the beach And then right from the beach would come to the evening bible study And so you'd be in there with all these kids And I can still remember Chuck talking about how kids were putting their toes in the Communion cup holders and I I remember my toe got stuck in that myself And I remember thinking about that because I didn't wear shoes You may find this interesting maybe not sunday mornings I I never wore shoes on sunday mornings when this church began. I didn't wear shoes I I didn't wear shoes for a long time.  That's how this church began It wasn't anything like this in terms of what we have now. It was a house a house study I'd wear a t-shirt. I'd wear jeans. I'd I was still a hippie when this when the church began Where did I get the idea that you could actually love god And not wear shoes the grace of god A pastor like chuck pastor's wife like k I still remember when My wife marie and I were in israel. It's 1983 and And marie was sitting next to k smith and pastor chuck and I was sitting across from one another Chuck and I were very much alike and marie and k were very much alike I still remember marie sitting next to k and we were in a place It's called the antonio fortress and is a it's an area that you can sit and wait for people to come After visiting and all and so going down and seeing the site and and chuck was right here He is is with our within our length arm length of me And marie's sitting with her shoulder on k And they're talking and marie's turning and she's facing k and they're You know women touch each other when they're talking they're touching each other And and chuck was very to himself chuck was a very to himself guy a lot of people don't know that about him is And so am I so I was just sitting there I wasn't even looking at him and he wasn't looking at me We weren't talking at all because neither one of us wanted to so just And marie's going And then chuck turns and looks at me so dave how's it going and so we started talking that's that was our relationship We became very close. My wife was brought on to a board the in the calvary chapels They have what they call the pastor's wives board Represents the 1800 or so calvary chapels throughout the world marie was on that board for over 30 years of k over 30 years Loved k very deeply And she went home to be with the lord It was her influence on her husband That helped chuck to become known as a man of compassion and grace The way it was my wife's influence on me To break a hard heart And make it willing to to tear up Which I never did For the longest time It's the new wine Of the holy spirit It's the grace and the compassion of god That changes lives Not the rules and not the regulations and then you need to do this and if you do that you're bad We already know that Instinctively we already know that we're sinners Very few people would argue and say they're perfect very few Most would say well, I know I'm not perfect most will say that Well, the Pharisees were very good at And setting up rules and regulations to make sure you remembered all the time what you were Jesus on the other hand. He said I've come to bring new wine and put it into new wine skins The wine of the holy spirit A brand new work of god That will set you free from the bondage that you live in Religious traditionalism Doesn't have the power of grace Because what jesus was was teaching was that the phariseic order was not right It was built on external self-righteous and and foundational traditional Judaism to the extreme And it was pointing out that the disciples of john needed to remember What john's ministry was all about He had come to to prepare people for for the messiah to follow jesus and and he was pointing out that It's time to open to the work of god the work that god will do through jesus in you You need to accept whatever new thing god wants to do by his grace. These are the things that he does There's so many of us if we would have stayed in the traditionalism that we were taught would We'd never have been saved for one thing and never been used the way we are now It requires the power of the holy spirit and the grace of god That's what it requires And I I think that's even churches today are going back to the traditionalism and that to be concerns me greatly There's such an effort to get people to sit in church to get people in the pews That unfortunately there are some Who are willing to change the gospel message To the degree that people don't hear That there is a need To repent from your sin. There is a need to ask god for forgiveness. There is a need To receive that forgiveness because that's what makes you walk and that's what makes you sleep and praise god And that comes through the power of the holy spirit by the grace of god And these people are saying how come you guys don't fast The way that the Pharisees do and the way john taught us to do why Because I've come to bring you joy There'll be a time for mourning. I will be violently taken away jesus was saying And yes, when you see that christ is crucified that draws tears to the eyes of those who loved him But it it's sorrow is going to be overwhelmed by the joy because three days later jesus rises from the dead and the joy is unspeakable For the one that we have trusted in is alive. He's not dead And this comes through the teaching and preaching of the word of god It doesn't come through trying to convince people that everything's going to be okay without god It isn't going to be okay without god But with god all things are possible with god. I can't have joy with god. I do have forgiveness with god I do have a life that really matters with god. I have what jesus called the abundant life Why because he forgave me. He loved me. He gave himself for me. He changed me. He's blessed me Why wouldn't I have joy and that comes through jesus christ and that's how it comes That's the way it's supposed to come And so religious traditionalism never does fill you it never does satisfy you It never gives you that that sense of peace and joy and he says and that's why he says the bridegroom is here And it's a time for joy And christ is with us It's a it's a time for joy Be careful that you don't get traditionalized Be careful that you don't become an old wine skin Be careful That you don't do This where people say I just can't understand how those kids do that that tells me we're old I just can't understand.  How could he know anything? He was an old man, right? And then one day you realized that that old man knew an awful lot I just didn't respect him enough to listen to what he'd learned But we who are older now In many ways we need to just get out of the way so the spirit can work in the young But we are older now Can also show them The path that really does work The path of life that comes to christ We need to be careful that we don't try to make the younger generation A mere copy of the older because god has a fresh thing he wants to do with the young people What we need to do is help them in their joy to discover what god wants for them As long as they stay centered on god's word And on the power of his holy spirit as long as jesus remains a center That's the biggest thing I may not agree with everything god knows they don't that I see today. I think No, if they love the lord they love his word They walk in his spirit and they're reaching a generation that understands their language god bless them May they continue to do so Because when I was saved as young man The older generation said of me and people like me You guys are hopeless, but jesus christ said no I give hope And I will change you he always has and he always will Because he is the god who changes the lives of sinners. He does it by his spirit He does it by his love. He does it by his compassion. He does it Because he gave himself for us. What a savior What a blessed savior we have in jesus And our father we bless you and we thank you and we lift up the family of k And the sorrow that many are feeling at at the home going even though they all were prepared in many ways lord It still touches our hearts to know That she is no longer with us but lord She's with you and not only with you but she's with her husband Whom she loves so deeply and so faithfully for so many years I just pray for that family. I also pray for us this church Father I pray that there would be a renewed hunger in my own heart a hunger in our hearts That to just walk with you and to walk in your spirit to to know your word and and lord to to reach people with your message I pray for a revival to spring out in us and awakening within us Lord because it's easy for us in the midst of all of this that we go through to lose heart Lord, you're the one who raises up one and puts down the other we trust you And we know you're doing what is right even though we might not see it at this moment So I pray lord for for us a church. I pray for the church. I pray for this nation And I pray father that we would do that which is right in your sight I especially pray that we might have our hearts open to what the spirit wants to do in us now May we not be old wineskins father may your new wine of your spirit May he move within us And even as our eyes are closed our heads are bowed perhaps there's some right now in this room We need to get right with the lord And you know it I want to pray for you. I can't see you online. I know there are a number of countries Viewing right now. I can't see you. I can't obviously see those who are here in the overflow But I can't see those are in this room And if you have need for prayer and you need to get right with the lord I'd like to pray for you would you raise your hand and let me pray for you right where you're at Father you see these hands now that are going up throughout this room lord You know the exact reason why people would raise their hands I ask that you would reach down now and touch them lord and that by your holy spirit You would just right now just move in them And lord whatever it may be that needs to be removed that you would remove it whatever needs to be placed in there That you would place it and right now lord we open our hearts to you and we receive from you and we will live for you Father I pray that you would just do your work in them And I thank you lord and I bless you. Thank you lord You can put your hands down And one last thing the spirit of the lord put on my heart this weekend as our eyes are closed and our heads remain bowed As i'm reading through mark i'm seeing that jesus healed a lot He healed a lot And the lord spoke to my heart and said you ought to pray for the people in your church right now who are Who are ill who are there who are not feeling well and and I do believe in a god who heals The bible doesn't teach that he stopped And so if there's anybody here right now and i'm not asking for a production. We're not doing anything odd It's just what the church does do and I haven't done for a while I just want to pray for those who may be maybe sick who may be ill right now I want to pray for you and if you need prayer you're not well Would you stand up right now before I close and let me pray for you Right where you're at if you're if you're not well just stand up Father you see these people who are standing right now lord Jesus we read we're reading your gospel how you heal the sick Lord you heal I ask in jesus name lord that you would reach down to touch these that were saying god be merciful to me I ask that you you buy your spirit right now father would touch these who are standing And father heal them Heal them lord You know the condition that they're dealing with you and they know together So lord we just simply ask in in faith in prayer we ask for your word tells us you have not because you ask not Well lord we're asking I ask that you would touch them And that you would miraculously do a work in them as they stand in faith saying god be merciful to me Lord you've done it in the past why not now So I pray that you would reach and touch them now lord as they stand before you And by faith we thank you lord in advance And bless you thank you lord You can you can sit down And jesus as we're about to close now. I just ask that you continue to move in us use us for your glory in your name Amen


Card games have been a part of society for hundreds of years. The first reference to card games dates all the way back to the 9th century in the collection of miscellaneous the Diyang, which describes a princess playing the Leaf game. Humans have found card games to be a great way of entertainment ever since. While regular playing cards are still used often today, other such games known as trading card games really grew in popularity starting in the early 90s with the release of Magic the Gathering. Magic, the first modern trading card game, was released on August 5th, 1993. This release changed the way people appreciated cards. Now you did not just play games with the cards, but you could also collect as well. This collectability created a loyal following that kept players and collectors of each game coming back time and time again not just to play, but to relive the nostalgia of times past. One of the main ways this nostalgia can be relived is through the opening of booster packs. In collectible card games, each pack is random. Some contain desirable and therefore valuable cards, while others contain low value cards. The feel of the chase, combined with the nostalgia of times past, makes opening these old and often times expensive booster packs worth it. I'm about to show you the top 10 trading card pulls ever posted on YouTube. Let me know in the comments what you think is the best pull of all time. I hope you enjoy. Before we get started, we do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Gate Guardian and Black Lister Soldier that we pulled on the channel. All you have to do is like this video, be subscribed, and let me know what you think the top 10 orders should have been, was I right, was I wrong, is there something I missed? Let me know. A few moments later. My wallet will hurt, Terra girl. We can get you a secret rare, then you will not be hurting, my friend. Trust me. See look, when I say bent, this looks like it could be a foil. I could see that in the pack. Lucky cloud. Ancient Gear Knight. I forgot this card comes in the set, Spirit of the Six Samurai, Swift Strike Armor, guys. We've got a magic card, are you ready for a magic formula? OHHHHH MY GOOOOO! Number 10 is an absolutely insane moment because not only was a Ghost Rare pulled, which is one in 12 boxes, which at this point if you buy 12 first edition glass boxes, you're spending a ton of money. The rarest secret rare that has never been pulled in first edition was pulled on YouTube. Not only was there a Ghost Rare, but the rare secret rare magic formula was pulled. Just a crazy moment that happened very recently actually, so it was really cool to throw this in the video. I don't think it reaches the level of some of these other things we're about to see, but it was still absolutely insane, so I thought it deserved a spot on this list. Then you know what, since we're here, we're gonna say that one for last. Alright, cool. That's gonna be the fire. Alright. That's gonna be the epic pull of all pulls. Man, I'm hoping we get something good, man. We actually had great pulls, but we really, Gold Star would take it away. Yeah, I'm fee. Carvana, na na na. This is just gonna bring to it. It absolutely is. Ooh, Star-Me. Interesting pattern for the Star-Me. That's an uncommon, or uh... Is it an uncommon or what? Yeah, uncommon. Okay. Interesting. And... Oh my God! We just pulled! We requiesced a Gold Star! Woo! My gosh. Holy smokes, everybody. I can't believe this. Oh my Lanza. Oh my gosh. Holy smokes. Oh my gosh. The Gold Star Rayquaza is considered one of the rarest Gold Stars, and Gold Stars are some of the hardest pull rates in all of Pokemon. It usually takes several boxes to pull a Gold Star, and the fact that they pulled the most valuable of them all, Rayquaza, in just a couple of packs, was insane. At the time, it was like a $10,000 card, and this was before all the hype, like when everything went absolutely crazy, $10,000 back then was a ton. Actually, I'm really curious to know, when people buy packs from people like Xenji Emporium, I wanna know what other people pull, because obviously not everybody's a content creator. Everybody, for the most part, I just basically people who are just buying, and I would love to know what other people are getting. Oh, I feel like this is gonna be a hollow. I feel like this one's gonna be a hollow. It looks kind of shinier, but I might be wrong. Maybe just because how my lighting is reflecting on it, but the back looks fantastic, so I actually hope this is a hollow. I hope this is a hollow, because if it is, that's gonna be some flames, potentially. Okay, Lantern, we got another Crocodile. Actually, I don't think I pulled this Crocodile before, the one with the mouth open. Areados, Mantine again, literally in every single pack. Slowpoke, Totodile, my boy. Sunkern, Spinnerrack, DoubleGust, and then finally, Psychic Energy, and what is this? Yes! Where's the card savers? Is this Lugia? I have been hunting to get a PSA 10 of this literally for years. I bought this card probably like, I wanna say, ten times over the course of the past four years, and every single time it's come back as a nine, and to be fair, it was nine worthy, because always the centering was off, or the easy, scratchable hollow pattern which you can literally breathe on gets damaged. This card is impossible to get as a 10, and... I tried, Camus went out of focus. Are you kidding me? Number eight is one that I think the story is really important. RhymeStyle pulled the first edition Lugia from NeoGenesis. NeoGenesis often has lots of print lines, and it is very difficult to grade their hollow cards. So when RhymeStyle pulled the best card in the set and graded it a PSA 10 himself, it was just a crazy moment overall, and then a PSA 10 of the same card later sold for $129,000. Here we go. Hey, let's hope. What would... Like obviously, Blue Eyes. Blue Eyes is the number one card, then Dark Magician's my favorite. Dark Magician, Red Eyes, and Exodia Head are all very big. They're big. I've pulled Red Eyes on my channel, so we'd prefer one of those. Let's say what if we pulled any of those? I'm just gonna get really excited. If we pulled any of those, I might pass out, just saying. And of course, super heirs are great, any foil is good, and also it means that it might actually scale the packs, which is kind of good, maybe we can actually know what we're gonna pull. May or may not happen. We'll see. All right. Kumutoko. We've got some weird ones. Definitely glossy cards. Yeah, I noticed that one. Yeah, you see that. That's the difference. Glossy looks like this. Wavy looks a little different. All right. Kumutoko. This just looks really nice. I like the magic cards in the originals. They're just the nice green. I'm a big green fan. Mm-hmm. We got some green in the background as well. Skull servant. That's pretty good. The centered comments, too. These actually are worth a little bit if they're graded. Mm-hmm. Green Phantom King. Okay. This is it, guys. Please. I hit your camera. Okay. Oh my gosh. I can't believe this. This is insane, man. Here's one that I was actually in, so I could have, you know, maybe bumped it up a little bit more just because I experienced it, but this was an absolutely crazy opening. We pulled literally everything we could ask for. We pulled a nice Super Rare out of LOB. We pulled two Secret Rares out of our other packs, a couple of Ultra Rares, and then we finished it with the final pack being The Dark Magician, which is one of the best cards from the very first Yu-Gi-Oh! Set. Legendary swordsman. So this is the second fusion material for the Flame Swordsman. The M Warrior I. Mountain. And... Yes! Wow!  We just did it. Exodia, the Forbidden One. First Edition. LOB. Oh my god. That is awesome. All right. Here we go. This is the last pack. I'm really hoping to get another Ultra Rare, but as I already said, these old packs, they usually don't contain a lot of holos. And I mean, we got Exodia, so it doesn't even matter. Kurama. Terra the Terrible. Dark Grey. A Turtle Tiger. And holy s***. Oh my. This is... What is wrong with this box? A Blue Eyes White Dragon. And the last pack. After pulling Exodia and Rygeki. This is madness. Wow. I cannot even believe it. This deserved a spot on this top list because this was probably the best Yu-Gi-Oh! box you could possibly open. Literally every foil was insane and the Ultra Rares were absolutely amazing being Exodia and Blue Eyes White Dragon, two of the most expensive cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! This was one of two First Edition LOB Blue Eyes White Dragon pulls ever recorded. Which not, if I get a rare, even the rares in the set are very, very nice to get at. Okay. Queen of Autumn Leaves. Another water magician. And... Wow. Oh, it's a Jinzo... Oh my gosh. It's a Jinzo Jar. If you didn't know about this, so Morphing Jar is one of those cards where it has a rare holo misprint. If you can see very closely, it's got that Jinzo head outline. So they call him the Jinzo Jar. I was not expecting this at all.  But the Morphing Jar with the misprint where they actually had a Jinzo showing in the holofoil is an absolutely insanely rare card. And the fact that this guy pulled one out of a very rare pack is one in 108 to get the Morphing Jar. And then it was the misprint. And then he graded it to 10. This pull has to be one of the most iconic on YouTube. Here we go, guys. 11 tradable cards, first edition stamp, and it is a Charizard artwork. Oh my gosh. I need two. Do my best to not ruin the cards on the inside, but save this pack. Oh gosh. I'm ruining it. I'm ruining it. Oh, even the pack sailed for money. Oh! Not that I would sell it. Okay. I'm just gonna put that back over there. Okay. I will be doing the card trick today, one, two, three. Oh my gosh. I'm shaking right now. All right. We have to slow roll this because each card is worth tons of money. All right. Well, technically, the holographics are. But even these, this is what it's about, guys. Rareest pack in the world opened up. Ivy sore. Look at that print. Gosh. All right. Sorry, guys. Okay. Calm down. Calm down. Ivy sore. I will say this. If for some reason we don't get even a holographic, I will be okay because what this is about right now is us coming together as a community and taking the ultimate risk for just, for doing something we love. And that's Pokemon cards. And that's Pokemon and the community itself. Pokemon Center. Machoke. Machop. This is insane. Machop. Machop. Wait. The card trick's not different for this one, is it? No. Okay. So energy. It should be two energies then you get to the rare. And I will be doing something that I always do on my channel usually for newer packs. The guess, the energy, patinate trademark of this channel.  Radita. Oh my gosh. Okay. Hands are sweating. First energy. Okay. We did not get the first energy, but energy. Oh no. What is this? It is supposed to be another energy. No way. This one was very weird to place. Leonhart pulls a base set first edition Charizard from one heavy pack. The card was worth like 55,000 in a 10 at the time and then by the time he got it back from grading PSA 10s were like in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. So I figured one of these needed to be on here and especially since Leonhart's video went so big when he actually pulled it, everyone was talking about it. It deserved a spot. It is time for the first edition Legend of Blue Eyes Wide Dragon pack. Some of these sell for $15 to $20 on eBay. I've seen them go for that much. I was thinking about selling this one, but I thought, you know what, it's free. I'm going to open it. If anything is a hollow, this is what I would want. But if it's a rare, I would love a fusionist because I don't have one and it doesn't look like it's a hollow, but that's all right. So Hitatsu Mi Giant, Laser Cannon Armor, Petite Angel, the Furious Sea King and a Giant Soldier of Stone. It's not a fusionist. Oh well. Whoa, what the? Are you kidding me? Whoa, that's what? How is that possible? I just got a first edition Blue Eyes Wide Dragon. It's in perfect condition. You've got to be kidding me. Now this one as a Yu-Gi-Oh fan was absolutely insane. As I mentioned before, there's only been two first edition Blue Eyes pulls on YouTube and this one was the first one ever back in 2013. These packs weren't very valuable at the time. Blue Eyes Wide Dragon was only around $25. But it wasn't the value that made this crazy. First of all, it was the first Blue Eyes Wide Dragon pulled on YouTube. Secondly, it was out of a single pack and this single pack was not bought by the person who opened it. It was given to them as a gift from a seller who was throwing in an extra pack. Yeah, they didn't buy this. They didn't search this out. They were gifted this pack for free just because the seller decided to throw it in. That this was an error pack. There's only supposed to be either a foil or a rare in old school first edition Legend of Blue Eyes. Old school expert pulls a rare and thinks that the pack's over and right behind it is a Blue Eyes Wide Dragon. So he got himself an error pack with a first edition Blue Eyes Wide Dragon in it. That was free. I will never get over this story. I think it's the most crazy and awesome story in Yu-Gi-Oh opening history. And I love that it was recorded. Oh, I'm committed now. I am committed. And thus it's open. The card that you can see will be a rare. I don't think it is. No, wait, this is a rare. OK, this is a God pack. I literally got two. I'm getting a power nine right here today. Oh my gosh. A few moments later. Two-headed giant of Four East. Not from my ear. Oh, I did it. I got more to go. That is two power nine. Bendurin enchantress, one more, and a plateau. Oh my gosh, talk about worth it opening that. We finally got to Magic the Gathering. Magic the Gathering has some of the most iconic openings on YouTube. If you're not a magic fan, just sit back and listen because the stories are crazy. What you just saw is referred to by Magic the Gathering collectors as a God starter.  These starters contained random commons, uncommons, and then a couple of rares at the end. The rares are obviously the ones that you want to go for. They have the potential to be the Black Lotus, which is the biggest card in Magic the Gathering and other power nine cards. A God starter is where all of the uncommons are actually rares because they had been mispackaged. And basically, you got lucky and hit like 15 rares instead of two. Imagine if you're a Pokemon fan opening a base set first edition pack and having all hollows.  That is basically what you're getting, except you get even more cards than that because it's a starter. A God starter has been recorded three times on YouTube. The one you saw I think was the absolute best version, but I will group in all three at number two because they are absolutely crazy. Like huge airs where you pull tons of valuable cards that are just extremely rare. I mean, they're from 1993, so they're extremely old. Now let's go on to number one and see what could top that. Sarah Angel, beautiful one. She seems to be pretty centered. And last and common, soul net. Here comes the first alpha rare at eight minutes in. Will it be the Lotus? Oh wow, tropical island. Dooland, there we go. And then the other one is, holy, that's an alpha freaking Lotus, that should, holy, that shouldn't happen.  I decided to include the alpha Lotus pull and include all other Lotus pulls as well. So open booster set actually pulled three Lotuses on camera. The crazy thing about magic rares is there were only 1,100 of the alpha rares created. For the other card games, like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon, the original packs like base set and Legend of Blue Eyes were printed into oblivion. Blue Eyes and Charizard, there are thousands and thousands of copies. The fact that this was pulled on camera was absolutely insane. So I was glad to put this at number one, even over Godsutters, over First Edition Charizards, First Edition Blue Eyes. This was just the coolest pull of all time if you're a trading card game fan. Make sure to let me know your opinion in the comments. Subscribe to the channel if you guys enjoyed this video because we'll be doing more cool stuff like this in the future. 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Ukraine is re-engineering a 36-foot-long Soviet-era missile system to strike inside Russia. Ukraine appears to be using a large Soviet-era missile system to strike inside Russia, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. Along with drones, regularly hitting Moscow, there have been increasing reports of A5 Gammon missiles striking Russia. The department noted in an intelligence update insider media outlet reports. The weapon also called the S-200 surface-to-air missile system weighs 7.5 tonnes and is 36 feet long. Ukraine has retired the weapon from its air defence role and is now instead using it as a ground-attack ballistic missile, the department said. Forbes reported in July that Kyiv might be repurposing the obsolete weapons for ground attacks to replace its diminishing stockpile of Tochka ballistic missiles. Russian news agency TASS reported that Kyiv tried to strike Crimea with a re-equipped S-200. Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the attacks on Russian territory, but several officials have implied support and S-200 can hit targets as far away as 190 miles and as high as 130,000 feet in the air defence role and this range could be even further in a ground-attack role, Forbes said. Strikes inside Russian territory are strategically significant as President Vladimir Putin likely invaded Ukraine, believing it would have little effect on Russian's the UK Defence Ministry noted. Because of the rising threats, the leadership of Russia's aerospace forces is likely under intense pressure to improve air defences over western Russia, it said.


TLO what's bad we are on twitch. We are not live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe Turn on your post notification bells, man. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK Um if we do go live and you happen to miss it, this is where all the highlights to be up here in this video Don't forget. We do got the patreon. This is where everything That I can't watch on YouTube We watch it over here on patreon. Don't forget. It's almost the first of the month So make sure y'all got that money to be withdrew Now I'm just playing I'll be driving dope content on here. That's crazy I don't forget. We do got the discord as well man. We can pitch over quest. This has been up here for a minute in the Up here and things of that nature. This is 10 most dangerous gangs in Europe Okay, talk to me Talk to me y'all know I'm from gangland capital Chicago.  I'm just saying that's the layout The old continent is one of the most favorite places for criminals and their activities and it has some very powerful Mafias and gangs Especially after the creation of the EU and the opening of international borders between EU member states Organized crime began to flourish the UK not a part of the EU no more though Which is being a lot real hectic it's causing a lot of problems 2007 when Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU Organized crime in Europe reached its peak. They celebrated My bad well Not only the countries of the European Union Also, other European countries have mafias and very dangerous gangs such as Russian Albanian Serbian etc. Now in 2022. We're talking about the second largest market in the world Just after the US In today's video We present you the 10 most powerful and dangerous gangs in Europe number 10 Galician clans Never even heard of them. Never heard of them. That don't mean they done the powerful and they don't exist But I just I'm in America wouldn't know Traditionally the region of Galicia made its money from the fishing industry to which the coastal geography of the region lent itself Following the crippling of the fishing industry Local fishermen began smuggling tobacco to keep their business alive The success of these tobacco smuggling activities led to the creation of clan based groups who made their entire Living off smuggling.  It makes me question stuff Like why y'all could have chose any other name with clan Nowadays the Galician clans use their Colombian and Moroccan contacts traffic cocaine and hashish Aside from illegal tobacco into the Spanish mainland While the Galician smuggling business in the beginning was very local the internationalization of the organized criminal activities have led to crime related clan feuds where murder Kidnapping and torture is occasionally committed by criminal Galician clan members or Colombian contacts and contract killers That's one thing man. When I go to Europe. I'm gonna be minding my business I know what no problem with many y'all y'all be y'all take it too far like that number nine the 36 boys Germany It is estimated that there are over three million Turks in Germany After racist violence increasing dramatically during the economic crisis in the 1980s Many of those attacks were against the Turkish community Which led teenagers of Turkish immigrants to form gangs in order to protect themselves Active from the late 90s. That's how a lot of games are formed in Chicago just to protect themselves against you know You know the community other communities the people that were set out to protect the communities, you know In 80s to the mid 1990s the 36 boys were a group of primarily Turkish immigrants From the Berlin Kreuzberg borough of Germany at the height of its power The gang is said to have had between 300 to 400 members The 36 boys took its moniker from the former Berlin postal code Zudos 36 The gang fought turf Berlin hundred to four postal code My bad, it looked like one big project Zudos 36 the gang fought turf wars with Nazis skinheads and the Warriors Number eight Serbian gangs in Scandinavia The Serbian gang in Scandinavia also known as Hugo mafia is an organized crime group in Sweden and Denmark the foundation in Sweden and Denmark did a near have anything to do with them The gang began during the mass immigration of Yugoslav guest workers to Sweden in the 1970s its power base is in the cities of Stockholm and Copenhagen The Danish government labeled the Serb mafia as having a leading role in smuggling heroin into Denmark surpassing the Albanians and Turks in the Copenhagen drug market besides heroin the Serb mafia is active in Trafficking large quantities of cocaine and marijuana through Sweden and Denmark Number seven the British Yardies Come now British Yardies A Yardy is a slang term originally given to residents of government yarn. I heard in the UK There's a yardied man walking around one arm one arm yard. What's his name? Oh my phone not even here Forgot his name, but let me know if y'all know who I'm talking about One arm yard y'all be like, you know what the the story is if you see him, you know to run Forgot his name hard housing projects in Trenchtown a neighborhood in West Kingston, Jamaica When many in the Caribbean community came to England to work in the 1950s The phrase was used to describe immigrants of lower financial status However, the term was eventually applied to gang violence that occurred in London's black community Yardy culture consists primarily of gun crime and drug trafficking Especially marijuana and cocaine the gang has no real structure Or central leadership Number six Roma gangs The Roma sometimes referred to as gypsies have been part of the Eastern European landscape for centuries However, as more Eastern European countries have joined the EU cities like Paris London and Dublin are having a So what this video is trying to tell me is the EU opening The EU let the gangs in the dough Is that what I'm here a hard time with the large influx of Roma Many of whom don't have jobs and are living in large tent camps on the outskirts of town Roma were accused of committing more than 1,000 crimes across France Belgium and Germany Number five the French connection Marseille, France Marseille has long been dubbed the Chicago of the south Marseille has long been dubbed the Chicago of the south and the heroine city. It has a That's a that's a silent start to being dubbed Chicago of the south That's your nickname the murderous history of organized crime and violent gangs the most legendary being the French connection But today Marseille is no longer the heroine processing capital of the world The city is at the center of the cannabis trade and a key point in the cocaine smuggling route from South America Ongoing gang problems have made it impossible for the Mediterranean city to shed its violent image Number four the hell Are you ready to jump start your beard growth today, then you have to check out our beard roller kid First of all sir, it pretty much turns your face into a chia pet Bro mustache was elite The shameless Albanians are thought to the heavy Albanian community in Chicago once again I know a lot of Albanians rule the East London cocaine trade with an iron fist Albanians are behind increasing gang violence as they vie to leapfrog their rivals in a bloodthirsty turf war the gang's Instagram page boasts that their gang motto is We are God of the streets Number three sons of sky if I follow you think they're following me back a bratva Russia Solent is Bratva Russia The bratva began operating out of the son Tevo district of Moscow in the 1980s Over the years son Sevskaya Bratva has been linked to criminal mastermind Semyon Mogilevich as well as esteemed thief Jamal Kachite Which enhanced its reputation amongst established criminals throughout Europe sir gay Mikhailov the founder of son Sevskaya Bratva changed tactics in the 90s and moved the gang into the banking sector This move not only allowed the bratva to launder their money, but got closer to Powerful Russian oligarchs today son Sevskaya Bratva is involved in nearly every aspect of the Russian underworld including racketeering money laundering prostitution credit card fraud arms dealing human trafficking and hacking Number two the pink panthers The pink panthers are the largest most successful gang of diamond thieves in the world With 370 heists worth over 500 million dollars The gang is composed of networks of teams Many of whom are ex-Yugoslavs with military training who fought in the Bosnian wars The loose group of thieves is known to combine expert planning and military discipline But it is their daring heists that set them apart from other thieves Which earned them the nickname the pink panthers the pink panthers are responsible for heists in 35 countries With specialists in everything from alarms to safe-cracking to stealing cars They got somebody for everything Number one the Camorra, Italy The Camorra is a crime syndicate that originated in the Campania region of Italy in the 18th century Indicate that originated in the Campania region of Italy. This is look at the pool down here in the 18th century Unlike the Sicilian mafia the Camorra doesn't have centralized leadership The organization is said to have around 111 different clans Each clan like a gang works independently of each other The organization's influence extends to Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany and Emilia Romagna And over the years the group has also gained a foothold in the United Kingdom and the US The Camorra is the most influential and violent faction of the Italian clans That was all for this video. Hey keep in mind when I visit I'm out of my business man. You know what I'm saying? Tell only if you like comment subscribe Turn on your post notification bells, man. Let's continue to go to fun in Chicago to the UK and all around the world Apparently I'm gone