Okay, good morning. Welcome everyone to BC 309, our course on Urban Church Planting. We have a so far journeyed through the initial section where we've been talking about, we talked about the practical aspects, how to get started, just covered a wide range of things. Then yesterday we were just looking at different models of how people have started or pioneered churches over the last several decades, different ways that people have gone about it and how God has used it in the church to bless the church. We can look at those models and we can definitely learn, understand the pros and the cons, what went well, what didn't succeed and so on. So it's a good learning. So we're going to continue from there today. May I just request somebody to pray with a glass and then we will move forward. Can somebody just pray together please and people pick up. Sir, can you breathe? Go ahead. Okay, good morning. Father, we thank you God for today. Breathe upon us the bread of life. That the Word and the work you've committed to our hands of love is your God. We thank you for Pastor Ashi, we thank you for the counsel in his heart that he will communicate it effectively and the light and the life of God will be better than us to do the prayers of God this time so God. Thank you for everyone Lord and Jesus name we pray. Amen. Okay, thank you. Thank you everyone. So let's just pick up. I was just kind of giving us a little overview of various church models, church growth models, where people are pined. I will just go through that and if there's anything that interests you, you can definitely explore that a little bit more. So we talked about the Euro-Full Gospel Church in Seoul, Korea which even to today is just a powerful testimony of what God has done. The International Charismatic Mission, Bogota, Colombia, East Uderbar in Labar, Calvary Temple that used media in a very big way. Crystal Cathedral, how Robert Shuller, you know, parked completely out of the box here and he had a theater and he had to drive in, people could drive into church and sit in the car and listen. This was back in the 1960s, 70s and then how we used television. Calvary Chapel, Chuck Smith, you know, we talked about how he reached out to the hippies and the kind of music accommodating just totally brand new style of music. He was open to it and it made a huge difference and then it still continues today. Today, you know, we sing contemporary songs but the person whom God used really in those days to make that, to welcome that kind of music into the church was Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel. Willow Creek came up with, you know, the Seeker-sensitive model. We looked at the good and the bad, what worked, what didn't work and I would say that at one point and I would think like about 10 years ago there was a big creative church. So they kind of went, took the Seeker-sensitive model into like a one step forward of more creative church where they tried to keep every message, you know, really creative and so on, bring in those aspects. It was okay but then I think the same problems where the focus became more on, you know, what creative thing would the pastor be doing today to get the message across rather than the message itself. So that kind of came out of this anyway. So then we have the Purpose Driven Church model. That's something many churches have adapted and followed. Worship music coming out of Hillsong, which was a big thing, was a big blessing to the body of Christ. We talked a little bit about how the first major use of the internet was driven from Mars Hill Church and how they kind of showed, you know, how a sermon preached on a Sunday could then be made live on the internet and accessible by hundreds of thousands of people and so on. So they kind of drove that whole thing and then lots of other churches started doing that. And then we spoke a little bit about Elevation Church and of course Mars Hill also started doing it where they were having satellite churches on live stream and so on. But remember, that was actually implemented in the early days by the full gospel church. They actually set up satellite centers and were connected through satellite. So back in the 70s, 80s, you know, they already had done it but the use of the internet and live stream and satellite campus kind of caught on here in the latter part or in the early part of the 2000s. And what we have seen a tremendous explosive growth in Africa and if you see what God has done in Africa, of course you can trace it back to, you know, it goes all the way back to David Livingston. He came in as a missionary and so on. But I think some of the major people got used, one was T.L. Osborn as an evangelist. In those days, the 60s, 70s, 80s, they would have these big open air gospel meetings all across Africa. T.L. Osborn spent quite a lot of his time in ministry across Africa and so that kind of brought in, you know, the gospel in these big crusades and preaching and healing and so on. And subsequent thereafter came Reynard Bonke. T.L. Osborn of course was from Tulsa, Oklahoma then Reynard Bonke was a German evangelist and later moved to the U.S. But Reynard Bonke took it up like, you know, many levels further through all of his gospel crusades all across Africa.  The evangelist T.L. Osborn and his wife Daisy Osborn and then Reynard Bonke through the gospel crusades all across Africa. It kind of really brought in the gospel preaching with healing and deliverance all across Africa. Then came out, then began, we began to see the emergence of strong word-based churches happening across Africa and the Spiritfield churches exploding, growing and then subsequent to that we saw, we observed the prophetic move all across Africa, God raising up men and the emphasis on the prophetic and so on happening all across Africa. But then with that also came a lot of problems which I think the church is dealing with today. The abuse of power and, you know, the extreme extent of those in authority, leadership, misuse of power and money and influence and so on. But overall, if you see it, look at it, if you look at the big picture, it's been amazing. You know, it's been amazing how the gospel has spread through so many parts of Africa. Now there are still pockets, countries, you know, on the continent there are still a lot of work to be done, the closed countries, Islamic countries that seem to be pretty closed. But for the most part, the gospel has saturated or has been spread throughout Africa. It's amazing. And the major emphasis has been the more of the spirit, science wonders, miracles and healings and so on. So it's been, it's amazing. So while technology has driven here, you know, in the West, in Africa, it's been really the God moving through science wonders, miracles and so on. So we see, you know, all of these things there. And the final thing I just want to say is that at APC, what we are trying to do is, you know, so, you know, we see all of these models and all of them are, you know, they're good things and what we can see across the different continents, what's happening, how God is moving and we can learn from all of that.  How do we, how should we build the work here? What kind of model, what should we follow? What would work in this context? You know, where we are and given the kind of people we're ministering to, what should we do and so on. And several years ago, what came into my heart was that just follow the blueprint that you see in scripture, which was very interesting. And so you would have learned it in the course on the local church. We have a book called House of God that deals with the blueprint. Basically, in the New Testament, you find 10 pictures of the church. That means God is using these different pictures, like example, house of prayer, army, family, lampstand, wine in the branches, dried, and using these different pictures to talk about the church. The church is this, the church is this. The church is a house of prayer and worship. The church is an army of God, is the army of God. The church is the family of God, the household of God. The church is in a branches on the wine. The church is the lampstand. The church is all of these things. It's the pillar of the round of truth and so on. So what we said is, hey, we will just follow this blueprint that we are seeing in scripture, a biblical blueprint and basically work on developing God's people in all these 10 aspects. So create ministries or you can use the word programs or activities, whatever. Do things that are going to develop people in these aspects, in these areas. So that's kind of what we are doing here. And overall, equip the saints, send them out to do the work of the ministry. And in the process, of course, we can learn from all these churches, all these people who have done pioneering work in their countries and in their areas and their regions. We can learn the good things from them and then we can try to adapt them to wherever, whichever region of the world we are working and then, of course, improve on it. Take those ideas and if they make sense for where you are, improve on those ideas, adapt those ideas to whichever region, part of the world you're working in and see how you can pioneer the work and build the work that God has given. So that was the intent here of just running through. And this, of course, is not a complete list of models to observe that there are other models. For example, we could add to this list the Alpha Church, the Alpha program which came out of... I'm going to look at the name of the church in the UK. I'm not getting his name. Anyway, sorry. Anyway, the Alpha Church, Alpha program which, again, was such a blessing. It went all over the world. Oh, yeah, his name is Nicky Gumbel. So Nicky Gumbel and how God inspired him to say, okay, let me create a simple way to introduce Jesus to people. So he created it in his context in the UK Alpha program that is, okay, how do I introduce Jesus to somebody? So he created these simple lessons. But, you know, that just took off. It just went to many parts of the world. So the Alpha course, as it was known, became a blessing. And in the UK, it's something very well known or very widespread. So that's, again, a model to look at. So how he was doing a work there in the church in Brompton, UK, and he was doing a work there. And then, you know, how God gave the idea and just was a blessing. So we could look at that model, learn something from it. We can look at other things that have taken place. You know, for example, the Bible study fellowship, which again has spread all over the world. You can look at that and say, you know, what are good things that I can learn from it and adapt it, take it and, you know, and improve on it for your context. Let me pause at this moment to see if there are any questions before we get into the next section. All of you are with me. Any questions? Can I ask a question? Please go ahead, please. Please go ahead, please. Okay. I hope this doesn't sidetrack us, but I just something study I've been doing and I kind of feel it falls in line when it comes to mantles and colons. I did a study, different narratives, different, some call it anointing, some call it different things. But in the line of our study, I just want to seek your counsel about mantles and colons as it fit into our study. Okay. Just give me a moment. I will, I will, I'm just going to get the link for, just very quickly. And then I will also answer your question.  Here it is. This might seem very complicated link, but anyway, if you just go to our website, apcwrg, and on the homepage, if you go scroll down, look at the sermon series, there'll be a series of messages where I talk about mentoring, anointing, impartation, and then we, as part of the sermon series, we also address about mantles and so on. So let me, let me just quickly summarize, you know, in a very concise way, what the Bible says. So in the Bible, in Scripture, we see that anointing, which is basically the presence of the Holy Spirit, can, is transferable. Anointing is transferable, you know. So we have some examples in the sense, Moses laid hands on Joshua. We have Moses and the 70 elders. We have Elijah and Elisha. And then we have John the Baptist. So we have Paul and Timothy, so on. Examples where the anointing is transferable. Now, when we talk about the mantle, we're talking about God's empowering, resting on a person to fulfill an office. The anointing is the, oh, Louie has dropped out. Okay, maybe he will join us back. Let's just wait for Louie to join us back so that he can get what I'm saying. Get what I'm saying. I'm back, sir. I'm sorry. Okay. All right. So, yeah, Louie, what am I saying? So the anointing is empowering the Holy Spirit on a person to carry out a work. Whereas the mantle is more associated with the office, with the place in the body. So that's a mantle. Whereas the anointing is for the work, the expression of the work of the Holy Spirit. Anointing can be transferred. But here's the thing.  That's the first thing. And I'm trying to just summarize it. You can listen to this message series. I'll tell you more. But first thing, we must remember, any impartation we are going to receive will only be aligned to the purpose of God, the call of God on our lives. For example. And I can use this as more in a very funny way. Suppose I go to Dalin Jack and say, please lay hands on me. I want to receive an anointing as a worship leader. Dalin Jack can lay her hands on me. She can pour buckets of oil on me. I'm not going to become a worship leader. Why? That's not the call of God in my life. So the point is this. Anointing, impartation always happens, aligned to the call of God on our lives. Now, if Dalin Jack lays hands on me, maybe to some extent, maybe I can experience a little bit more grace in personal worship or something. But it's not going to greatly affect anything I'm doing. Because it's not aligned to the call of God in my life. So impartation there is meaningless. So that's one very important thing. So people randomly go to, you know, okay, I'll have so-and-so lay hands on me and ask them to impart here. Look, the impartation is always aligned to the call of God on your life. What's God called you to do? Because the empowering of the spirit, the impartation of grace, and the operation of gifts is aligned to the call of God. Must have understand that. So it's not random. It's not arbitrary.  No. So secondly, we must understand that the impartation of mental, ultimately everything we receive from God. John chapter 3, I think it's verse 34 or 27. John says, A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. So this is John 3, 27. A man, John 3, 27. A man can receive nothing unless it's given to him from heaven. So no impartation. Nothing happens by the will of man. It has to happen from heaven. Man, God uses human agency to carry out what he has determined or he desires for that person. So I can't just go and tell somebody, I want your mental. Give me your mental. Give me your anointing. Hey, a man can receive nothing unless it's given to him from heaven. Now, God will use human agency to carry out what he has determined. But ultimately everything we receive comes from God. So even in the transfer of anointing or something that empowers the ministry. It's the Father. It's God who brings it into our lives. He may use human vessels, but he's not restricted to human vessels. You can ultimately, you can receive it from God without human agency. You're not dependent on it. Third thing I would say is this, everything that is imparted has to be developed. Otherwise it will be dying. So anyone can lay hands and say, okay, God told me to impart certain gifts or anointing or a mantle, whatever, but it's still of no use. In the sense it has to be developed. A person who's receiving it has to develop it through their own personal journey with God. And that's what Paul writes to Timothy. So Timothy stir up the gift of God. That's when he mentions it twice for Timothy 4.14. And second Timothy 1.6. Twice he writes to Timothy. It's Timothy and reminding you stir up the gift of God. What was given to you by the laying on the hands of the eldership, stir up the gift of God that's in you. So in other words, something was given to Timothy, but it will be useless if he does not work with it. Feed us and develop. So whatever is imparted, whether it's the mantle gift or an anointing or gifts has to be personally developed. Some other things we can also say is association is very important. Now God can work even without association.  Now the same man may have laid hands on maybe a hundred people or a thousand people, but the impartation took place for one person very powerfully. So we have those testimonies, but generally what we see in scripture is impartation takes place through association.  It's primarily through association. But we understand that it can also take place over generations or over time. So, you know, John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah, but there was no association, but it was the will of God. The last one I want to say is in most cases, impartation is always in part, not in full. So when Moses laid hands on Joshua, Joshua did not do all the miracles Moses did, but what characterized Joshua was wisdom. We read this in Deuteronomy chapter 30, the last chapter 34, I think. Moses laid hands on Joshua and Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom. So one aspect of what was in Moses was imparted to Joshua. Elijah and John the Baptist. John the Baptist never worked a single miracle, at least recorded for us, but he came in the spirit and power of Elijah. What was it about Elijah? He turned the heart to the fathers, turned the hearts to people and prepared the people ready for the Lord. So that aspect of Elijah was on John the Baptist. And, you know, the only example that we have of a double portion coming on Elisha was because Elijah desired it, right? And it was not something Elijah could give it, but it was John 3.27. That is, Elisha receiving from God twice as much as what Elijah carried. Right? So these are things we must keep in mind when we talk about mantles anointing and gifts, impartation. I try to address that in this message series, so you're welcome to check on it. I hope I answered your question, Louis. Thank you so much. Sorry for distracting the distractor, but thank you.  Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions? I know it is a little different, but I'm happy to answer. Any other questions on church growth models and how we can learn from others who have pioneered different works? Okay. Just to mention in passing that one model I think that we can also add to the list is the house church movement, which is work that took place and now this was, you know, I think this was more came out of necessity in the underground church in China. And then others also it worked in other places as well, where obviously because the underground church in China had to be you know, meet very quietly in very small gatherings and so on. So the they met in small, small, small groups, you know, so there was no big, like what we are talking about, big churches, big gatherings, but the gospel spread through the underground church, the which then gave the whole idea of a house church. That means you don't have to have big gatherings. Now there are advantages of big gatherings, you know, hundreds of thousands of people gathering together. There are advances, okay, but that's not the only way God can work. So, and you look at China, you look at what happened there, you know, there's a beautiful example out of necessity, but there's a learning there that we can use house churches as a way to pioneer work.  And so it's very easy, you know, you can meet in homes and just multiply like that. But there's also the other side of it, which is a lot of coordination, a lot of how do you provide spiritual oversight when people are, you know, in many, many small groups across the city. So that's the other side of a house church. Now, some other ways that you can address it, and I'm just giving you parts to think about. I'm not saying you have to do this. Some of the ways you can do it is of course, and especially today because we have technology, you know, whatever content message is developed, you know, you can share it with the house church leaders. So the same message is delivered in every house church so that everybody is kept together. There's a much more closer form of accountability because the house church leader knows that, you know, the 10, 15, 20, 25 people who are coming to the house church, he knows everybody by name, he cares for everyone. So that, you know, that's much more closer. And so the coordination can happen and people can be cared for in that manner. So that's another model to keep in mind in situation. Now, you know, at certain points in time we were forced to, for example, I'm just thinking about one of our churches in Odisha state in India. So I think it was I think it was 2010, 11, I forget the exact year, but there was a time of intense persecution in that particular state against Christians. I forget which year but I think it was somewhere around 10 and so on. And people were being killed and it was just very bad and so we had if we were renting a hall where the church was and a lot of students in the city were coming and so on but when that persecution broke out, we had to close everything. We gave up that place and so for a period of, I think for two or two and a half years the pastor there was only doing house church meaning gatherings in people's homes, you'd go pray with them very quietly, meet, come back. So we didn't start the larger gathering until we were sure that things were safe. So in that situation we were kind of forced to do this and so he was taking care of about 60, 70 people through these small groups meeting in different homes for that period of time. Then slowly when things seemed to have settled down we got back and now it's a good thriving church I think more than 200 people coming there's a nice hall and prayer hall and all of that. So we're back to the large gathering but in between when there was a lot of persecution this really worked for that period of time. Okay. So let's move now to the spiritual side of things. We have covered all the practical things so these are things you do practice and getting ready to pioneer a church or pioneer a work in an urban setting. Now we're going to talk about the spiritual side and then in closing later on we'll talk about the personal preparation and as a person who's going to start a work how do you prepare yourself personally? So that will be the last section. We're changing gear now we are moving to talk about the spiritual dynamics. So in any work whether you're pioneering a church a local church or you are thinking of studying some other kind of ministry maybe for children maybe for youth maybe for families any kind of ministry we must understand there is a spiritual battle involved right? In the natural we can plan we can prepare we can organize all those things are there we have to take care of it because it's the practical side we have to do it well but there is a big spiritual side we are not just doing an event we are not just doing some kind of program we are actually in a spiritual battle now we have to bring this into the context of the city urban church planting now this applies whether a city or village or town doesn't matter we are going to spend a little focus on urban centers in the beginning we said God is at work in our cities but we must also understand that cities, urban centers towns, villages there are also all kinds of demonic activity now we don't tend to think about it in the cities because life is so sophisticated we we are so involved with our logic our reason our understanding to think in terms of demonic work, demonic activity many times we can forget that because we are so caught up with natural things but I just want to remind you guys about what is the devil doing in our city and we are not here to magnify the devil but we need to understand it because ultimately there is going to be a confrontation you are pioneering a church for what? to win souls, to make disciples the devil is not going to sit down there and the demons are not going to sit down just watch you or maybe you are starting some other ministry in the city it may be to help some kind of people it may be to serve some kind of people ok wonderful but at some point you are going to clash with the powers of darkness because ultimately lives are being affected souls are being affected so we need to understand this and we need to also engage in the spiritual dynamics that is what we want to talk about so in scripture we see spiritual beings who influence leaders over cities so that is something to keep in mind that the people over cities the leaders, the influencers we can look at it as politicians people in authority are being influenced we are not saying they are possessed that is not what we are saying we are saying that demonic powers can actually influence them in their minds in their thoughts and so on so once we keep in mind that is where prayer comes in, we will talk about it later but the fact is leaders over cities or over nations can be influenced we see in Isaiah and Jeremiah also in Ezekiel these things, I am not going to the scriptures you would have covered it in your course on prayer so what is Satan doing in hindering the salvation of the lost he is blinding the minds of people so through the philosophies through the ideas ideologies through we use the word group thinking through these common ideas that are commonly embraced by a big group of people whether it could be a community it could be big communities in the city or multiple communities who embrace certain ideas or ideologies the minds of the people are blinded so when we look at scripture 2 Corinthians 4 verses 3 and 4 and Paul writes could somebody read that please I could quote all these verses and go fast but I think it's nice to just turn into the Bible and look at it 2 Corinthians 4 3 and 4 somebody could read that 2 Corinthians 4 3 and 4 says and even if a gospel is veiled it is veiled only to those who are perishing in their case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God these people are perishing they have not received the gospel they are perishing but there is something in between their minds have been veiled but what is that the God of this world has put a like a curtain of blindness has put something that is trying to intercept that's trying to interfere with the light of the glorious gospel of Christ penetrating into their minds so we are pioneering a church we are pioneering some work we want to of course we want to touch lives we want to see people saved we want to see them come into the kingdom of God okay it's good but the God of this world is interfering trying to prevent the light of the gospel entering into their minds so we have to deal with that he is not more powerful than the church he is not the God of this world is not more powerful than the believers but the believers have to address what he is trying to do in order in preventing the light of the gospel from getting the minds of the Christian Matthew 416 very interesting scripture talking about Jesus Jesus begins his ministry and Matthew is quoting from the Old Testament please read go ahead thank you people with certain darkness saw great light and them picked sat in the region and shadow of death light is strung up thank you so Matthew is quoting from the prophet Isaiah it's very interesting how what Isaiah prophesied is now being related to Jesus Christ so the word of God Matthew is saying people sitting in darkness have seen a great light now obviously this is talking about spiritual things it's not talking about physical spiritually these people were in darkness Jesus has come the light is shining so spiritual they are in the region of death spiritual death and to them light is down so this was in Jesus's time and it's also relevant to our day and time that means there are people in our cities who are sitting in darkness now we are talking about spiritual things they are sitting in darkness they are in the region and shadow of death that's what they are spiritually and to them the glorious light of the gospel has to shine but there are demonic powers the God of this world okay I don't want that to happen I don't want the light of the gospel there I want to keep them in darkness I want to keep them in the shadow of death and so there is going to be clash, conflict you and I are pioneering a work starting a ministry I want to reach people but there is the God of this world who wants to keep them in darkness Acts 26 Acts 26 14 18 is a beautiful picture of a call of God on the Apostle Paul and what God commissioned him to do we are reading it in his context this is what God wanted Paul to do but keep in mind this is applicable to all of us because all of us have been sent like the Apostle Paul to bring the gospel to people and see what is involved in bringing the gospel let's read that Acts 26 14 to 18 somebody go ahead come below Acts 26 14 to 18 go ahead and when we had all fallen to the ground I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me it is hard for you to kick against the goat and I said who are you Lord and the Lord said I am Jesus whom you're persecuting I rise and stand up your feet upon your feet for I have appeared to you for this purpose to appoint you as servant and witness to the things in which you have saved me and to those in which I will appear to you delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith and name so this is a beautiful description of God's call and commission the Apostle Paul I want to focus there on verse 18 and this is applicable for all of us so the Lord Jesus has sent us to proclaim the gospel to pioneer a work whatever he's called each one of us to do but what is happening verse 18 as we go to people we have to open their eyes so that they can go from darkness to light the eyes have to be open because the God of this world is blinded the minds the eyes have to be opened and notice it says from the power of Satan to God that means Satan's got them in their power right now he's got influence on them over their minds but we are here to bring them out of that into the power of God so that they can receive forgiveness of sins so their eyes have to be open they have to come out of darkness into light they come out of the power of Satan to God so there's going to be this conflict and Revelation 12 9 talks about how Satan goes around deceiving the nations so Revelation 12 verse 9 he is he deceives the whole I'll just mention it here he deceives the whole world Revelation 12 9 the devil deceives so what's he doing is deceiving the minds putting in those wrong ideas thoughts they just embrace it, they are holding on to it so the first challenge is this whatever work we are doing in the city we are going to have to confront the blindness or the deceptions the lies of the enemy that's holding people in darkness so that's part of what we have to do how are we going to deal with it is what we want to learn in this section and I remember long long long time ago I'll just close with this and I was in college for my bachelor's degree so this was engineering so this was it was in 1986 1990 it's a long time ago that was the time I began to learn these things about the things we are looking at in scripture so there is a spiritual battle involved for us to win souls the devil is blinding the minds of people we are dealing with these things so for me that quest was how do I share the gospel out of influence fellow students with the gospel and that was a time that I began to learn these things and then I also started sharing this in a little bible study there was a bible study that was already happening in a particular church there so I got permission I thought I can get more of these friends or believers involved in this and if I can help them understand what this is all about maybe we can do this together so I started talking to them I remember the sermon series that I was on the bible study series I was doing with them I think it was called the battle for the lost or something like that and I started doing it through like maybe two or three bible studies what was on Saturday then after that everybody got scared and they said no no stop please don't talk to us anymore about this because now we were challenging believers saying look if we want to impact our student community we have to deal with what the devil is doing and they said no no you don't want to get involved so I stopped we never continued on that in that group but then about a year and a half later I found there were some believers when we started another fellowship I found some believers were willing to understand this that we had to deal with what the devil is doing in the minds of people and we took time to pray every week we would go out to a place where we would pray for about three hours as a group, as a small group less than 10 people or so we had to pray for the student community and then we saw we saw the result of that we prayed for almost a year or so like this and we began to see and a great work was established in that place more than potentially we saw more than 200 students come be a part of the fellowship be filled with the spirit mighty work happening but it began with let us pray to deal with the blindness that's being put upon the minds of people so this is the truth we need to be aware of and we need to begin to address it and we'll talk about it a little later what we can do to pray and address it let me pause here and see if there are any questions I know it's already over time but are there any questions on this Sri Kumar go ahead Thank you sir I just have one question from 2nd Corinthians 434 so my question is the Paul is saying here the God of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so I just want to know that the unbelievers are only Gentiles or is it also applicable for the believers who does not want to believe on certain like for example some people does not want to believe on finances like they wanted to leave in a different way where they think that poverty is from God so is that also possible some people say that the Christians they believe on sickness is something which God permits because that is not the will of God I have to suffer because Paul have that thorn so my question is is that also possible because Paul is not defining this unbelievers so even a believer who is not ready to believe on certain deliverance can only be blind them and that also can be possible thank you sir that's my question yeah the answer is yes in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3 and 4 Paul is talking about the unbelievers the unsaved but in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verses 3 to 5 Paul is talking to believers and he is saying believers you have to cast down imaginations arguments or that's reasoning and every high thing that opposes the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every part to the obedience of Christ so 2nd Corinthians 10 3 to 5 is talking about arguments and reasonings that are contrary to the Word of God so the Word of God is teaching something but there is an argument there is a reasoning in the mind of believers it's opposing it and so many times when believers embrace an untruth something that is opposing the knowledge of God opposing the Word of God that has to be dealt with and that's also from the enemy who puts in those deceptions, those ideas those wrong thoughts those reasoning, those arguments and sometimes it becomes a stronghold meaning it just sits like a fortress in their minds and those things have to be pulled down so the answer to your question is yes these things affect believers and unbelievers but 2nd Corinthians 4 he is talking specifically about unbelievers 2nd Corinthians 10 you can see similar things in the case of believers thank you sir you're welcome any other questions okay we will pick this up next week so we are now moving into the section on the spiritual dynamics to the work we are called to do we need to understand it and then see how God is going to lead you to engage with it there are different ways that we can engage and we will talk about it let's pray and we will dismiss pray with a class and dismiss us please yes it's heavenly Father we thank you for this beautiful time Father God thank you Lord Father God that you are unveiling things Father God which we don't know Father God as we go through this system Father God Lord thank you Lord Jesus you help us too Father God all the things that you have Father God so that we will learn Father God all the hidden things Father God we can learn Father God and we will use in our life Father God Father God we pray for the past classes thank you for his life Father God and then you using him as instrument Father God thank you for all the students Lord Jesus thank you for everything Lord Jesus rest of the time we submit ourselves to your mighty hand in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you everyone enjoy the rest of your day so Thursday I'm going to be in a place near Mumbai doing a conference so I found out that the conference starts at 10 so I may not be able to do my class on Thursday morning so please excuse me this week I'm only traveling two times this two or three times this Mumbai then we have a big conference in Delhi on the third week but I won't miss class I'll go after my class I'll go for the conference and so I won't miss class that week but this week I have to miss yeah but excuse me this week okay God bless I'll see you all soon thanks bye pastor thank you chance


What I like from this meeting is that there is this particular talking of love, talking of the need to tell the truth, involvement of patients and families, and last but not least, the deep understanding that without not getting policymakers and stakeholders on board we won't be able to make a difference. And Dr. Detros rightly called it a tragedy that most of the annually 11 million of deaths are preventable. And this complies fully with the message of the Patient Safety Moon Foundation and doing zero harm and that's why I'm glad to speak here. It's poorly understood, understood what sepsis really is and what it makes the difference between a so-called uncomplicated infections. Everybody knows what HIV is, everybody knows what cancer is, but the fact that sepsis develops when the host response, the defense mechanisms of our body, is no longer able to contain an infection locally when it spreads to the blood stream, then there's an explosion of the immune system which kills the own tissues and organs. And it was again, you have heard already about Sir William Osler, there who already at this time, and this was in 1900, understood that most likely it's not sepaticen itself, but the host's response to the injury. At this time this did not make much difference. On the other hand now there are therapies and I will shortly allude to them to interfere with the immune system. And what harms is that infectious and inflammation processes go on, especially on the level of semi-gross circulation which caused this organ damage. And what is also not is not known, although it was already in the report by the WHO in 2017 when the WHO sepsis resolution was adopted, that it's not only bacteria, it's antibody gene including viruses who may cause sepsis. And this means that most of the deaths from COVID-19 are deaths from sepsis, viral sepsis due to multiple organ failure and septic shock. And just some recent data which have fostered the FDA for emergency use authorization, which is an antibody against the innate immune system. And this could be demonstrated in 360 patients only in a worldwide study that the mortality could be reduced, 60-day mortality is by 27%, and in the predefined population for European patients which has to do, and this is all ICU treated patients, their reduction was even higher. So there is care but this needs the understanding what the difference is between an infection and you need to know the science both physicians and also patients because if you do it too early you may harm. What Sir William Osler also said in 1889 is that humanity has three great enemies favor war and famine and by far the most terrible is fever. And this was long ago but if you need look at the number the actual numbers from sepsis, COVID-19, HIV, hunger, war and cancer and AMR you understand that this message is still true today and it's hard to understand what and and this is this is a number of costs which you can find on the website of the Department of Health from a recent publication from Tim Buckman who sets out some numbers of people who develop sepsis in the US and and the number of deaths and that it's around 60 million billion US dollars is spent for health care costs and yet also most Americans are not aware on on sepsis and also the fact that the WHO sepsis resolution which urges member states to integrate prevention diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in the national health systems both and address it both in the community and health care settings is poorly followed and the measures the simple low-cost measures are infection prevention by vaccination clean care and the second message is early recognition and treatment of sepsis like stroke like heart attack and of course we need to take care that also there's an F access to the health care system and also in terms of the existence of intensive care facilities the importance of the health care systems of the quality of the health care system can be depicted from this from this publication from in the charmer where you see that simply by introduction of measures we discussed about mandatory measures for all hospital critical care incidents sales here central critical incidents reporting and the rapid response teams were minded made mandatory around his times and simply without using the word sepsis this resulted in this decrease of the hospital mortality in sepsis and in many countries and except for most anglo-american countries still the alarm in the hospital goes at time of cardiac arrest whereas it has demonstrated again and again the earlier you intervene and your earlier you send then a hospital-wide service to all disciplines if there is a patient who is deteriorating so this can save obviously numerous lives and things like what is the case in in the UK said every health care worker and fish isen fish isen needs to be trained in simple things to recognize deteriorating patients otherwise they may not work especially in these settings and then this simple measure also would save millions of lives so liam denaldson liam denaldson who is present pointed out on the occasion of the adoptive adoption of the sepsis resolution double of wjo said some very important clinical issues affecting life and death has been in the backwaters and what he also said the public and the political space is a space to be to change things and this is a key message of my talk and that quality improvement efforts work has been demonstrated for example by the implementation of the so-called rory staunton regulation in the new york states where all 179 hospitals in state new york were mandated to document to which degree they comply with the so-called sepsis bundles which means antimicrobial in the first hour which means fluid therapy which means also taking blood cuts etc etc and this over several years resulted in a decrease of hospital mortality from 32 percent to 22 percent and there's an hourly decrease in the delay and survival rate by by any delay of antimicrobial and also the great work that has been supported also by Jeremy Hunt after a dramatic and use not necessary deaths of a two-year-old girl which was taken up in the media he apologized publicly he and he understood and aired it that the time of sepsis has come and jointly with the UK sepsis trust they did this campaign to empower patients to educate them to ask the physicians what has been done but which is often turned down still unfortunately also in the US and that every family who gets a child in UK gets a booklet in which there is a 227 phone number and also there's education on the early signs of sepsis in babies and elderly children so this is the way to go and also this resulted in UK that between 2016 and 2018 the number of patients who got the antimicrobial within the first hour increased from around 30 percent to 70 80 and 90 percent so due to an improved screening rate so this is the way to go and there's also data and this is also published in the British Medical journals even in in the outpatient setting that urinary tract infections which are severe are treated and with antibiotics immediately or whether they are treated deferred this results in degrees in mortality so if we we talk a lot of about antimicrobial resistance and we must not forget that to understand and to educate people that those who need them need to get them in the first hour and I will say another thing also on the cost effectiveness of quality improvement you have seen this data from Australia just there's public is one publication who initiated a quality improvement campaign under the label of thinking sepsis acting fast in 10 hospitals in Victoria and they were able to reduce the mortality rate from 15 to 8.5 percent and this went along with the savings of 11 million to point million Australian dollars and the investment in this campaign was 1.8 million dollars so this return of his investment was six fold so it was been rightly said this morning but show that quality improvement providing harm in health care saves money millions billions of money in every country and this is another notion I skip this we need also and this is data from Sweden who have a system which can tell you how long it took when patients addressed for the first first time at GB in the health care system and how long it took until these patients arrived in the hospital and this clearly data show that in case that this was longer than 12 hours the risk to die or the odds to die was four times higher so this means how important education also of the public is on the early signs of sepsis and also the former minister of prime minister now former minister of health and now prime minister in Ireland after the unnecessary death of a frequent women also initiated a national campaign which resulted also in a significant decrease of mortality we are very glad that the former EU commissioner also took this up on the level of the European Union and encourage to really roll out these needs to act in the member states several years ago when we founded the European sepsis alliance I was very happy that our lobbying also and and I liked not only active at Rokessie but also activism to convince Carl Lauterbach the current minister of health and he brought it brought the need to educate and to speak about sepsis in the context also of AMR and to look for the synergies and they also G7 were dedicated to care and to support the implementation of the WHO sepsis resolution on a global level this is the way to go also you can make a difference on the hospital level and this depends on individuals this is right right as the CEO of novel health where we founded in 2010 the global sepsis alliance and they decrease their hospital mortality from around 40% of whether 5% at below 20% and this is an example from a German hospital and again things happened only after patients and family members stood up this lady handed over a puppet to Jeremy Hunt and in this puppet she was the ashes of her child so and Jeremy Hunt declared this publicly and I think this is so strong where you see how and so important that also high-ranked policy makers speak about speak about sepsis so this is basically what I wanted to let you know and to encourage you to join this vision because from my perspective given the high numbers of sepsis that we have worldwide which are higher than from cancer the potential to reduce harm is enormous thank you very much for your attention


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2020 Panini Mosaic football no huddle edition four box pick your team number eight turbo turbo set up 2020 Panini Mosaic football there's all the players in this right here thanks everyone for getting in Rhea that last team was sitting there for a while then Rhea took care of business thanks for that now I know we opened up a couple and I think yesterday maybe and then I know Sean Mark these so I just grabbed four random boxes from the back and we did by the way we did break 10 before eight and nine and after seven so nine actually are the last four boxes of that particular case now I I don't know if there's I don't know what our plans for I think Ethan was asking earlier I did see another case back there but I don't know what our plans for that case is is it going to go to personals will it end up in mixers will Nick post it later tonight I don't know I apologize for not having answers on that but just keep an eye out on Jaspy's case breaks off we got NFL action happening tomorrow folks I am excited about that week three of the NFL does anyone have any I don't know anyone expecting any crazy upsets anyone have a have a hot take who will have a big fantasy day anything like that Sean Jaspy thinks that Dwayne Haskins is going to have a huge day a monster day if you look at the Joe's picks and the break schedule link you can see that he thinks he's going to have a lot of touchdowns a lot of yards he thinks a monster breakout game his Homer pick is Justin Herbert having a over 400 total yards and like five touchdowns I think that's more of a joke though Melvin Gordon he says 170 total yards or more total yards and two total TDs he's got that I'm not really good with player props but I can tell you that those sound those sound wacky but they that's why they're Sean's red hot takes I got my Lakers on TV right here they're up 10 at the beginning of the second half but this is where Denver is the most dangerous I feel like the second half so the Lakers I think got to be really sharp they want to advance the NBA finals all right good luck everybody got Julian Edelman mosaic remember all card chip ladies and gentlemen March on Lattimore silver so you'll be getting all this stuff right here there's rookie Brandon Iick that will go to the Niners that will be for Lee and our first autograph is the chiefs is for the chiefs that's Chris Slaughter with Kansas City Kansas City here we come nice set that aside over here Logan saying Packers 42 Saints 23 that's his score line prediction there's AJ Dylan speaking of the Packers I think he does he gets any act that would be good for the hobby if AJ Dylan get some work in aren't there who's going to be scoring those touchdowns aren't they missing a key receiver or two there's Deandre Hopkins eight out of ten nice low number there for Kurt and the Cardinals but I'm with you though Logan I'm I'm on your I'm on your Packers plus three was Eddie George Kevin Bird no and a Joe Burrow base Joe Burrow that'll be for Sean Maddock and the Bengals no parallel here but maybe we can find some Danny says he thinks on Monday Monday he sees 80 total points in that Monday night game so take the over folks and he says Mahomes goes off who do you think wins it might be a square pig but I got Baltimore minus three and a half in any given weekend does anyone pick all the games correctly yes Mike tower in the Jason Jaspie's mom runs a fancy football pool not a fancy football pool a pick them pool just straight up picks guess who went 16 and 0 last week Ted Ted Jaspie did and Nick and I were like man if he had parlayed all 16 of those games just straight up on the money line he would have won a lot of money yeah me no 39 out of 50 Tom Brady I wish MVP's Tom Brady Patriots edition going to Rhea Jordan Love NFL debut rookie mosaic no just straight up Logan just just straight up there's Clyde Edward Thaler and NBA NFL debut going to Chris and the Chiefs there he is again the NFL debut Joe Burrow Sean Maddock with the Bengals boomer and we got a James Morgan parallel here rookie parallel gotta save those jets all car chip and you'll get everything here Jeremy 33 with the J ETS Jets Jets Jets hey I'm happy if I get if I get a 55 60% of my bets correct sometimes I some years I do in the long run how good of a career do you think RJ Barrett has good question what do you guys think the problem is is the organization I don't I think his individual talent is there but he's got an organization that constantly builds a bad team keeps turning over coaches and ownership that that I don't know maybe isn't doing all that it can to lure in big free agents to like KD I mean years ago Dwayne Wade and LeBron James pass on the Knicks and then LeBron James decided to go to Miami instead KD and Kyrie went to the Nets instead of the Knicks you know so there's a lot of there's lots of lots of issues there but I think that caps that caps his his potential players that played well despite a poor organization I mean that would be like that would be like big men who can control the game maybe maybe like Shaq pre-Coby post-magic you know that Orlando magic might have been really good in spite of some not good Lakers teams but but for for for a player like RJ Barrett who can't just individually dominate like that it's it's kind of tough but I'd buy lawn and there's a reason why he was drafted so high a lot of people thought he was gonna be better than Zion yeah nuggets are looking a little tired but they're so scary I don't think the Lakers out of the woods yet it's John Brown blew it 75 we got Steve Young 36 out of 50 Niners Lee Justin Herbert keep an eye on Justin Herbert has the clock run out on Markel Fultz I don't think so I feel like he could I mean next year I think would think next season will say a lot chargers that's gonna go to mark the set I think next year is gonna say a lot about Markel Fultz because I think he showed showed some signs and during bubble play that we're pretty encouraging now let's see if he takes it to the next level there's NFL debut Chase Claypole Silver Steelers Oliver but he couldn't he could have like a Victor Oladipo style revival but next year I think will be the big big sign of that all right Justin Herbert mark the set chargers just base Justin Herbert safe I know that Brady will all car chip anyway and there's a Jalen Regal or for the Eagles EA but Brady in his buccaneers jersey especially looked pretty good there's Nathaniel with the Bucks there you go looks like and Brady looks like he's just starting to knock the rust off and not the rust but just starting to figure out how to play with his new teammates starting to get a little bit better a little bit better every game brand new offense and all that there's chase young nice parallel of chase young that'll go to the Washington football team Mike Fission with that yeah Rex you heard what you read right the NFL or MLB Major League Baseball will be doing bubbles for the playoffs there's Drew Pearson I think one bubble is in Dallas and Arlington really where the new Ranger stadium is and the other bubble is in San Diego mostly I think there's a couple side bubbles too but in the World Series will be in in the new stadium in Dallas as well there's Chris Connelly to 75 and to a Tagovaiola NFL debut for Miami Takumi Abe with the Dolphins yeah I thought so I thought so too Rex I thought they they do like a two or three city bubble but I don't know I guess I guess no one really got super sick I guess MLB's like a worked out base to a Tagovaiola also for Takumi and the Dolphins John Brown Silver Kaleas Campbell and Jerome Betis two more yeah I mean really the only teams that missed significant games was the Cardinals and Marlins I think there were a couple other teams that maybe had a staff member that get it and then and then maybe had a game or two postponed or moved around but I think the only major cases were Cardinals and Marlins so I guess baseball probably thinks that the way they did it was successful no vast majority or 90% of the of the players and the staff all all followed the rules and did all that stuff so well any league not be able to not do bubbles for next year well I don't think owners want a bubble situation to happen Mike Tower all the owners want their games next year whatever league they're in because they want to get that stadium revenue again arena revenue again so no I don't think they'll do a bubble although I was in my head I'm kicking around the idea of what I want the MLB World Series with the World Series and a bubble be interesting like they do with the Super Bowl right I mean obviously the whole series instead of one yeah I thought that would that would be interesting but maybe that's just way too football Adam Adam saying Payton started slow when he got to Denver and then yeah Brady just needs to build some chemistry yeah I mean week one didn't look good but week two look better than week one I'm sure week three will look better than the previous week so on and so forth Bruce Aryans is I think too good of a of an offensive coach look at this coming up Tom Brady obviously too good of a football player with a ton of weapons hey it's a Kyler Murray autograph second-year Kyler Murray Kurt disser with the Cardinals not sure if you were expecting that but there it is nice Derek yeah we'll add that to the schedule there's NFL debut Joe burrow I think we just have to all all after I finish this break I'll add another another filler break because that'll fill up elements it's Patrick Queen for the Ravens 54 out of 75 that'll be for Rhea and the Ravens got Barry Sanders 27 out of 50 Lions Sean Maddock with the Lions Hall of Fame purple parallel Will Fuller and Tiki Barber Josh Jacobs Julio Jones blue 75 Devon McCordy to 50 and a Tua base Tua Tagovaiola for Takumi and the Finns there you go yeah very Sanders a player who played well in spite of a poor organization wonder how many of those highlight plays were all of his signature highlight plays were due to the fact that offensive line breakdowns and stuff like that there's Joe burrow mosaic parallel or the disco parallel for the bangles nice Sean Maddock got the bangles straight up and you got him in his LSU gear as well very nice and a couple Clyde Edwards Hilares some CEH's Mike Tower saying as a Lions fan I'm very close to putting myself on fan waivers the Raiders will pick you up we'll pick you up Mike Tower I'll spend a good portion of my fab budget on you you know join Raider Nation go to the go to the Death Star wear goofy costumes it's kind of like Star Wars with football and it's Vegas alright last box ladies and gentlemen no yeah I have actually never been to a Raiders game in person isn't that crazy I grew up a when I was a wee lad a Los Angeles Raiders fan my family was more of a baseball family we went to a lot of baseball games but football wasn't like a like a huge thing like we want like me and my cousins we the kids would watch all the time but for the grown-ups they weren't so they really hadn't there then there was no football in LA for a long time and then when I was in college in San Diego you know I was a poor college kids so can't afford to go to football games went to a lot of baseball games so yeah and then just and then you kind of blink and you're like oh I guess you know many years later you're just like oh yes I've never been to one of these things NFL debut disco Justin Hurrow yeah that's right Arthur now I'm a baller so so wait till I get you know seats at Allegiant in Vegas when I get season tickets there 50-yard line halfway up maybe just get a jazzy suite at SoFi as well well I think the Giants were in we're in Harlem I think maybe nor maybe closer to the Bronx I do remember when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn though there's Joe Burrow there and then Yankees were in the Bronx and then the Giants were in like North Manhattan close to the Harlem area there those are the days there's Joe Burrow all there was three baseball three big baseball teams out there as Brian Edwards for my Raiders glorious who's Brian Edwards Raiders that goes to Vegas that'll be for Michael and Zima and there's KJ Hamler for EA and Denver nice rookie Otto for you you can go ham there was sports talk back then Mike Tower when I grew up in Brooklyn there's Russell Wilson it'd be called talking to your neighbors I'll be talking to old to old Frank at the at the five-and-dime five-and-dime so they have those at the soda fountain at the drug store you know maybe you maybe you would talk with some of the you know some of the wise guys on the street corner who talk about the bookies of the mob owned bookies out there you talk to those guys they're sports talk right there those are the days don't have those days anymore that's just just talking heads on the ESPN and Joe Burrow bangles Sean Maddock there's out of 50 yeah those damn Yankees wait what's what's which one's the cell sheet hit J those damn Yankees Dodgers or Den Bums until Den Bums finally won a world series after 30 years in the 50s and then soon afterwards they broke the hearts of all of us Brooklynites by moving out west was 75 it was sad I remember when they when the wrecking ball came to ebb its field and then the Giants left the New York Giants left and all of a sudden you're just only down to the Yankees terrible times thank God for the Mets whose uh whose logo I think represents the old New York Mets or the New York Giants logo is the New York Mets logo and then the colors were supposed to be closer to the Dodgers so it was a blend of the Dodgers and the Giants the New York Metropolitan so that's why the colors and their logo are the way they are there you have it some baseball history in this football break four box no huddle pick your teammate in the books 2020 Panini mosaic football I'm Joe thanks for watching thanks for breaking with us go Lakers go Raiders go Dodgers we'll see you next time jasmiescasebreaks.com


What's up trade hackers welcome to today's update happy Wednesday today is April 15th, which normally would signify tax day However due to the extreme situations of the coronavirus going on Those have been delayed until July 15th. So for all you procrastinators who don't like to get your taxes done Probably good for you, right? So hopefully that helps. Let's jump into the trade hacker question today coming today from my main man Oh Why do SPX and SPY perform slightly different? So let's go to the platform and Take a look so you'll notice SPY is at about minus one point six six percent for the day Whereas if you look at SPX, it's down about one point seven three percent So there's always going to be a slight variance between the two So why is that? Well, we know that the size difference, right? We know that SPX is ten times the size of SPY, but that doesn't really tell us a story of why there's the variance the real story is because SPY is an ETF and SPX is simply the S&P 500 index. It's an index So with an ETF you can actually buy and sell shares of SPY whereas you cannot buy and sell shares of SPX We know that we can trade options on the index We can trade options on SPX and we can trade options on SPY But SPY is the only one that you can actually buy and sell shares of because it's an ETF Whereas SPX is actually an index. So Why does that make a difference? So why you know coming back to the original question? Why is there a variance if you go to your Analyze tab and click on fundamentals in thinkorswim. We're looking at SPY Couple things that you'll notice and two of the main reasons that there's always a slight variance is ETFs have what's called an expense ratio So if you're to just buy that you're gonna pay 0.09% so basically less than one tenth of 1% as the annual expense ratio To hold that fund to hold that ETF. So that plays into it. SPX is just the index. It doesn't have an expense ratio second SPY pays a dividend and So that's gonna that's gonna factor into the pricing now if you're trading options on SPY The dividend is just the the price of those options is just Adjusted we talked about that in a couple couple videos ago But that is the main reason you've got the dividend that SPY has and you've got an expense ratio and then You know, remember, I mean SPY is an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 So there is going to be some slight ever so slight tracking error So when I you know with the arbitrageers out there who are trying to scrape portions of pennies off the top as they're providing liquidity to the markets and trading back and forth They're keeping that in line. So there's no discrepancy. And so, you know, SPY, SPX They're the most liquid underlings out there. So there's almost never barely any slight variance. However, that's part of the reason too So it is an ETF tracking the S&P 500 So there's going to be that tiny tiny bit of a slight tracking error from time to time And then we've got the expense ratio and we've got the dividend and that my friends is why you see the slight difference between the two So hopefully that helps. Let's go to the charts and take a look at what's happening in the markets today S&Ps up 57, Dow up 415, NASDAQ up 68 and Russell down. These are all down down down down down today So a big down day actually coming off of the lows. We're down quite a bit more S&Ps. We're down as much as 80 some at one point. So have shed some of those losses, but a decent down day. Nonetheless Oil is pretty flat gold down a little bit Bonds are up pretty sizable up over a percent and a half and then Natty gas down about three and a half percent. So Making some moves in the market if we look at some of the stocks and what's going on there You know, most obviously with the markets down pretty much everything is down But you do have some that are up namely Amazon. No surprise there. I mean, they're they're actually benefiting from this Corona economy that we live in today.  You've got Alibaba another online service Doing good today. You've got eBay, you know, that that kind of makes sense people are at home Bitigun stuff apparently googles up a little bit You've got Netflix up 5% Netflix. It's just been on fire too now up 31% year-to-date Lot of people Netflixing and chilling as they're at home I don't know if that was the proper way to say it But Roku another streaming service up big so that makes sense the one that just continues to be baffling is Tesla, right? I mean think about Tesla $100,000 cars, you know, that's usually for times of discretionary income. You think that Discretionary income is not necessarily What everybody's about right now, but nonetheless Tesla exploding Tesla has actually over doubled Let me go back to the price chart on a three-month, you know, it got down to as low as 350 and it's over 700 It has doubled since its bottom. So crazy move in Tesla What else is going on here? Well, we've got earnings You know, I mentioned yesterday that Goldman Sachs was going to announce this morning So they opened up down but have rallied back to up positive on the day Bank of America was the other big bank It's still down About 5% on the day so not massive moves, but but they are out So what's next on the hit list for earnings? Well, we've got UAL United Airlines comes out on the 17th We've got Delta Airlines comes out on I think the 22nd ish. Yeah 22nd So that's the main industry kind of next. We do have some tech starting to announce as well Netflix comes out with their earnings announcement on 421 so coming up here as well. So that's what's going on today. We did not enter any new positions We closed out a portion of our oil trade booked a nice profit on the on that portion of the trade Still trying to get back to profits after that huge Oil crisis slam that we got so nice to start working our way back there Other than that, no new trades. We do want to start entering some iron ducks as the market goes down I was looking at entering one today But can I give it another day see if we can get you know two days in a row back to back to the downside And then we'll start dipping our toes back in the duck hunting season So that's what we got going on everybody. Have a great evening. Talk to you tomorrow You


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's Case Breaks.com and another wax party promo break just sold out 2022 Panini Select Football which is a brand new release today guys. Six box hobby, half case break, pick and choose number three and my printer looks like it's out of ink, we'll change it up in a little bit so here is the customers that are in the break. Adam Cover made a double last ball mojo again, Cardinals and Broncos and then here's everybody else in the break there for PYT3. So there you go guys. Here is the fresh case solo. So one, two, three for the left, four, five, six for the right. Here we go, roll it to six. So one, two, three, four, five, six, we're going to go with the right side. So this left side here would be for page number four which will be coming up next after this. We'll rip two boxes at a time guys, first two boxes. You got a Der Car for the rightest, 10.99, let me actually just have the checklist, or not the checklist, but the sheet right here and Raiders that'll be Ryan. You got a Justin Jefferson and there's an XRC with the Danny Greatest 75, 49ers going to Shawn Matic. We'll use this, we'll show that a little after these two boxes. Isaiah Spiller out of 199 and then a JC Horne to 2.99. Oh did we skip over a pretty rookie? Sorry. Let me see what we're going to see about that. Well first of all I skipped over a Ritter rookie. Oh yeah, there it is, field level, alright let's continue on. Whoa, one of one, Breeze Hall. Look at that, kind of hard to see the one on one. I wish I would have put it over here to the side. The neon icons, Breeze Hall, one of one, nice one there and that's going to go to Wayne and the Jets Jets Jets. There you go, we got a Mike Evans Relic, that's for the Buccaneers, who's the one working right now Rex, me or you, Mike White to 149. We got Zay Jones, Cameron Jordan and then Coralyn Sutton to 30, nice one there for the Denver Broncos, Broncos that is Adam Coverman, last ball Mojo, Dave Montgomery to 49, means I am off for the day Rex, doesn't apply to you because you're an actual bum, Brian Robinson to B-John, Brian Robinson Jr. to 249, scary term, McLauren to 75, 75 Rashad White, Burbs, Tideye, Roquan Smith and try on Davis Price, 49ers, well two XRCs in this, all right here we go, two XRCs, XRC card number 511 and I do have the checklist pulled up, 511 and it's wide receiver two which is Quinton Johnston, card number 511, he's a big big receiver out of a TCU I believe, all right nice and that's gonna go to the Chargers and Ed, let's go to the next XRC, card number 519, defense two which 519 looks like it's Devon Witherspoon which was the second defensive player cornerback out of Illinois, so Seattle Seahawks with that one, all right so Seahawks with that one, where's the Seahawks at, that's Aliyah, let's continue on guys, next two, we have a Derek Carr for the Radis at a 99 and how about a little Teddy Brusky, Teddy Brusky for the Patriots that's going to Tran, little Patty Mahomes at a 199, Nick Bolton and Chris O'Lavitt, nice little RPA, Saints going to Matt Smith, 34 out of 199, we have a Derek Stingley out of 49, Peter with the Texans and Chase Young spark plugs, it looks like little acetates kind of coming off of the top right there, oh did I, what is this, sweet level, I do have a top load sleeveless though, I don't know if Aiden Hutchinson was on it, let me check, but I'll at least sleeve him up though, he was not for at least like silver bases but I'll sleeve him up though, all right let's continue on, Nick Bonito, we got a Derek Forrest Jr. out of 49, Patty Mahomes, we got a little Kenneth Walker neon signs and Sauce Gardner of five, how about that, color matched two, what a break for the Jets, good lot, Wayne, not only did you get a 101 Breeze Hall earlier, now you got out of five Sauce Gardner, three out of five, I'll always be hitting Jets on release day honestly, Colby Bryant to 249, Kenan Allen sorry to 99, yeah it's a die cut, yeah Reggie you also see that they filled up their arena, their stands yesterday, the last one here and then we'll continue, what was that another green I think it is, JC Horn, two out of five, that's our second green of the case and that's not a rookie technically, but there you go, yeah that's like almost sold out Rex because they don't actually have it, well they do have a huge arena but they put like this huge tarp at the top so no one really sits there, not even for the Raider games honestly, but that's a lot better than their like 6,000 people attendance daily, nightly, James Harrison patch autograph, they're trying to reverse boycott there, nice pickings there, Boy Mave out of 149, Kara Wilson, we got a Justin Fields tonight, I mean it's Rex to be honest, it's not always on the fans man it's just more like the ownership doesn't want to spend any money, it always comes down to money when it's stuff like that, there's another reason why the Vegas do hasn't happened either because they're trying to use taxpayer money to help pay for the stadium, so again they're trying to show you that the fans aren't the problem in the city of Oakland, it's the city of Oakland and ownership, that's what it always comes down to, plus when your team's not good, you're not gonna sell out stadiums, especially if you haven't been good for this long, vice versa, but it always comes down to money man, people don't want to pay money out of their pocket to renovate things, they rather use taxpayer money, they're rather good, you know, ownership doesn't want to spend money, yeah for sure, I mean look I would go to a game in Vegas rather than going to Oakland man, that place is a dump, but at the same time again, it's not like there isn't money between ownership slash city vice versa, you know, or that to help renovate, get a new stadium, it's just I think now they might be just probably wants to be in Vegas now, better opportunity, again it always comes down to just greedy owners and them just wanting to bail when the city can't really help, now this could be funny, I don't know how it works when they move to Vegas, but is the owner still gonna be greedy or does he have to change because he's gonna make more money probably there, because to my knowledge baseball does not have a salary cap right, there's no salary cap in baseball, Cooper Cup, Elijah Moore to $2.99, Bailey Zappie to $1.49, so Jeff's just having a monster break, Jalen Waldo, yeah I mean look it's it's like the Yankees and Dodgers and Red Sox, all these big organizations that have money, spend money on big players, maybe they don't win, right, obviously that's the ultimate goal, but guess what, I don't think the Dodgers, Yankees and any of those owners are hurting for any month, Aiden Hutchinson patch autograph, there you go, you know, like so regardless even though they're not winning, building these crazy teams with all the money they have, they're not losing any money either probably, you know, so yeah why spend little when look what that's pretty much got you, Ryan Burns, but yeah I believe I don't think baseball is a salary cap so I don't know how that structure works, I don't know if like they're required to spend X amount at least minimum or they do it what they want with their money and plus honestly even though they don't get fans to the arena they still got TV deals, they got sponsorships, they got all this shit so even if the stands are empty they're probably still making money honestly, but yeah I mean you can grow your organization and and obviously support of your team more if you did a little bit more probably and Christian Kirk for the Jaguars, Tristan by the way I think the whole support yesterday for the Oakland Athletics fans is trying to show that the fans are not the problem, it's really the ownership when it comes down to it, the ownership is not trying hard enough and again I don't blame him if he wants to go to Vegas but he's gonna have to spend money in Vegas if he wants it to work, nice Alec Pierce color match, white that's going to the Colt Zach, Trent McDuffie to 75, AJ Brown to 75, David Aldo 199, yeah autograph wise it's been good for the Jets, we did get a couple XRCs I think we're still missing one and we haven't seen a zebra yet so if we don't get anything else in the second half of this stack here that second half could be pretty darn low, so let's check it out let's check it out here good luck guys, Brady Silver, we got a Jameson Williams to 149, Garrett Wilson and actually there's our third XRC, nice Defon Diggs that is a tie-dye to 25, Gino Smith, let's check this out guys last hit right here, XRC card number 505, QB5 and that's Hendon Hooker, nice for the Detroit Lions and there you go folks so second half is coming up next right now, got a Sauce Green, Aiden Hutchinson, a lot of nice stuff here, couple XRCs and then a one-on-one there so I appreciate you guys now let's switch scenes and let's do the wax party giveaway spot, roll one out of five six times one two three four five six six times one out of five, Tristan nice congrats buddy, you are the winner for select number three so thanks guys, number four is coming up next


I am sick and tired of hearing from large corporations who have outsourced millions of jobs, who have cut the wages and health care benefits of their workers, come into Washington, D.C., and then lecture the Congress about how we have to cut Social Security, cut Medicare, cut Medicaid. Well, maybe it's just time that they cut the compensation packages that they get.


This is a simple card system that I use for my layout. The key to this system is we do not look for card numbers at all. We treat a box car pretty much as a box car and a flat pretty much as a flat as a tank and so on. So let's show you how this works. This is what I call a starting card. As you see on it, it says S1. That's for scenario one. Every operating session is set up as a scenario and a scenario consists of about ten cards and of those cards, three will be for yard work and seven will be for road work. In this particular card, if you look at it, it has businesses down the center that my layout serves and the first row says start of S1 and that is a list of all the cars that need to be at those businesses in order to start this scenario. Now, my scenarios follow one another so where S1 stops, S2 would begin and you don't have to choose to set yours up that way but that's what I've chosen to do on mine. Each scenario takes about three hours to operate which is just about right for a group of guys. This is a typical yard card. If you look down it says S1, Y1. So that's just a scenario one yard card one and so if we go up to the top, it just states that it's yard work. You can pick any engine. You do not need a caboose and the yard work that it's in is west yard. Then if you take a look, this is a typical one for building trains. It says build train O3 down then O4 and then O5. It tells you the list of the cars that are needed to build that train and then notify the dispatcher whenever it's finished. Once the dispatcher is notified then it transfers to a road card. The road crew would then come and pick it up and head out to deliver the cars. So we are going to build train O3 or at least part of it. Some of it's already done as you'll see. As you look at it, it needs two flats of lumber, one box of lumber, one gondola steel, two small tanks and seven grains. We're not concerned with any numbers. We're just concerned with the two flats need to have lumber on them, one box car needs to say something on the side related to lumber and the gondola needs to have steel in it.  On the back side, we see that all it is is it says yard work. There is no delivery destinations and there are no deliveries done with this particular card. So let's go ahead and finish building train O3 so it's ready for the road. This is the TJ&H main yard. We have an inbound and outbound side. The inbound side is close to us. Here we see train O3, the two flats of lumber and a caboose. We're going to finish building that as you watch. One gun of steel, two small tank cars and one box car of lumber being added to the train. The yard crew is heading to the inbound side of the yard to pick up seven grain cars and add them to train O3. When that task is done, the train will be ready to leave the yard. Build up a little air and let's go. The yard crew will get out of the way and allow the road crew to come pick up the train and they'll be off. Here's train O3 ready for the road crew. Seven grain hoppers, one gondola steel, two small tanks, one box car of lumber, two flats of lumber and a caboose. Ready to go. And here's the road crew getting ready to hook up to the train. They will pump up some air and get ready to go. This is the card that they'll be using to do their road work. This is S1C3 and all it says on the orders is switch cars to the destinations noted on the other side of this card. If we look at the back, the very first destination is Paws Lumber. That's where we're headed. Here we are at Paws Lumber, the second destination on our list. Here we will deliver one box car of lumber and two flats of lumber and we will pick up two empty flat cars. These will be delivered to West Yard. At Paws Lumber the empties have been pulled and the full cars have been set in the yard. We're now ready to hook back up to the train and head to our next destination. We're at Three Mile Co-op the second destination on our card. Here we will deliver seven empty grain hoppers and we will pick up eight full grain hoppers. The full grain hoppers will be delivered to West Yard. First on the agenda, pull out all the full hoppers. With the full cars pulled from the yard we can now back in the empties. With the work done at Three Mile Co-op we can now hook the train back together and move to our next destination. Here we are at BD Fire Systems our third destination on the card. Here we will deliver one gondola of steel and two small tanks. We will pick up two empty small tanks and one empty gondola. Those will be taken to West Yard. This concludes all the switching that's on this card. The only thing left is to take this train down to West Yard so it can be made up into other trains. Here we are at West Yard. We will be pulling into the inbound side of West Yard and there on the outbound side we see train 04 ready for us. This concludes this card as written.


I think there are two transformations underway. One, there is a realization that nations are changing position on a global economic scale. We're heading towards a great rebalancing as the E7 emerging economies continue to gain greater economic power and could be bigger than the G7 by 2020. This economic power will translate into more geopolitical clout for the E7. And while there will be some adjustment as this transition takes place, the leaders I speak with are embracing that change. As a result, companies around the world have their sights set on millions of new consumers, particularly in China and for that matter throughout all of Asia. We think China is likely to overtake the U.S. as the world's largest economy by 2020, while India would be the third largest ahead of Japan. This significant shift in economic growth along with the dramatic rise in the middle class consumers will have been a transforming effect on all of the world. Second, there's a great transformation underway in terms of employee demographics starting with the retirement of the baby boomer generation over the next decade. There are also distinct challenges presented by the employees born after 1980, commonly known as Gen Y employees. The expectations of this generation around technology, flexibility and transparency will transform the way we all work. In the past following a downturn, we could look forward to returning to a fairly manageable economy where we could study the trends and the competition and carefully plan how to run our businesses while those days are long gone. Going forward, instability and volatility driven by technology and growth in the emerging markets will be the new normal. A key question is where growth is coming from. China was most often named by CEOs we interviewed as one of the three foreign countries most important to their company's growth. But the range of countries that were named from all over the world was startling. As the world economy continues to rebalance towards emerging markets, the typical model for conducting business may not be applicable. Organizations will need to have the right talent and the right place at the right time. And as a result, talent management strategies are high up on CEOs' agendas. And there are serious risks to be considered. Geopolitical, currency, economic, regulatory. So again, the business model will need to be flexible to seize the full potential. Innovative organizations continually look to build businesses of tomorrow while running the businesses of today. They understand they can't afford not to innovate. In the past, innovation has been the prerogative of the developed countries. An innovative product introduced in the U.K. could simply be repackaged, maybe slightly modified, and then sold to the rest of the world. But that won't work anymore. Consumers in developing countries won't settle for products that don't meet their own unique needs. In response, multinationals are building fully fledged operations in their most important markets to get closer to consumers, take advantage of local talent, and in fact, reduce risk. Others are working with customers or suppliers to open up their innovative processes to more partners, thinking more in terms of collaborations and co-creations where people come together with various areas of expertise to solve complex problems. What successful innovators have in common is that they not only have the structure and processes in place to innovate effectively, but the leadership and culture that is required. The challenge for leaders is to unleash innovative thinking. Making it easier for investment in trade is the key to growth in all economies. Rules and laws governing investment, trade, and commerce, which were developed for a bygone area would no longer work. To further complicate matters, governments and all major economies are implementing very different and sometimes contradictory policies to tackle the threats of sovereign defaults, acid bubbles, and currency instability. Companies and investors at attempt to enter these markets must align with separate and quite frankly often conflicting rules and business practices. Neither the private nor the public sector can tackle these inconsistencies in isolation. No one organization has enough of the right people and the right amount of funding to tackle these issues. Collaboration is key for success. Most CEOs in our 2011 global CEO survey say that they actively support government policies that promote good growth that is financially, socially, and environmentally sustainable at global, national, and local levels. At PWC, we are working in support of collaborative strategies based on realizing mutual goals for business and society.