Hello everyone, I am Dr. Anur Varma, junior resident in the biology department in Dr. Ulazpatil Medical College Hospital. I am present before you a paper on the role of my imaging and evaluation of anorectal fistula. Fistula and anode is a track line, my granulation tissue which connects perianal skin superficially to anal canal anorectum, not rectum deeply. It usually occurs in pre-existing anorectal abscess, which was spontaneously. Its wall is made up of inflammatory granulation as well as fibrous tissue. Perianal fistula occurs in approximately 10 out of 10,000 people. It usually occurs in adult men with maximum incidence between 3rd and 5th decades. The most common presenting symptoms are pain and discharge. Perianal fistula sometimes lead to acute abscess formation where immediate decompression becomes necessary. However, most simple fistula can be treated electively using fistula torment. The goal of the treatment in an anal fistula is to eliminate the primary opening, any associated tracks and any secondary opening without loss of contact. The external opening is visible on inspection and internal opening can be determined by probing. However, its seldom helps and is not recommended these days. The role of imaging is to define the course of track between these openings so that the appropriate surgical option can be used. Surgical treatment of fibrous tissue is notorious for high recurrence rates. The successful surgical management of fibrous tissue depends upon accurate preoperative assessment of the course of the primary fibrous tissue track, the presence and the site of any secondary extension or abscess. Thus, the role of MR is to evaluate the fibrous tissue, define its anatomy and help in planning the management and surgeon. The aim is basically to determine the role of MR in diagnosing and discriminating characteristics of fistula in an anal preoperative assessment of perianal fistula. So, our study includes 30 patients with suspected perianal fistula having one or more external openings visiting OPD or admitted to an institute. Both men and women were included in our study. Previously operated patients with recurrent perianal disease were excluded from the study. All patients underwent MR imaging examinations on Siemens 1.5 Tesla MR machine using body surface coil. Sequences were acquired in both coronal and axial planes.  St. James University Hospital MR imaging classification of perianal fistula was used to classify fistula. Both internal and external openings were recorded as the positions on anal clock and at the correct level in anal canal rectum. Distance from a fistula will act as an anal contrast. Celine will only be injected in the cutaneous opening if it is required. So, basically this is a normal MR anatomy of male and you can see there is an anal fossa, there is anal canal, there is internal sphincter, there is external sphincter here. And when we talk about fistula, the good souls rule is a must. So, it states that an external opening anterior to the transverse anal line will drag into a straight sinus in a radial manner while an external opening posterior to the transverse anal line will follow a curve course to the posterior midline.  So, we have the Parkes classification here and we have two classification and we have the Parkes and the St. James University and the Parkes are basically four types. In this inter sphincter, there is trans sphincter, there is supra sphincter and there is external sphincter. And we while reporting use the St. James University MR classification. So, we grade it accordingly. So, grade zero is basically normal appearance, grade one is simple linear inter sphincter fistula. There is grade two inter sphincter fistula with secondary fistula and abscess. Third is trans sphincter fistula. Both is trans fistula with an abscess or secondary drag with an SUNL or SU rectal fossa. Fifth is supra-nevator and trans-nevator disease. Grade one. So, we as we can see in this image on T2 store transverse and two store coronal images, it shows a simple linear non-branching inter sphincter fistula strand in the left perianal region without crossing the midline. Or involving structure spaces. In grade two, we can see there's this high signal intensity fluid collection along the right postural lateral aspect of an alkanal. And as you can see in this contrast and as T1 path suppress T1 weighted image, you can see the abscess in the right postural lateral aspect of inter sphincter space bounded by external sphincter. This is grade two. In grade three, we have a highly enhancing trans sphincter fistula piercing through the external sphincter noted above the anal words and coarsing postural infinitely into the SU rectal fossa. And grade four is basically it shows a trans sphincter fistula with its opening at two o'clock. Okay. With its internal opening at two o'clock and go on T1 weighted image. It shows the same trans sphincter fistula and on axial contrast image and as fat suppress T1 weighted image it shows an abscess in the left is your rectal fossa in the same patient. In grade five shows a hyper intense trans sphincter fistula at five o'clock position with partial cost of application such they were super sphincter fistula. And so results with 30 patients were eligible for the study. There were six females and 24 males. The ages range between 25 to 65 with a mean of 45 years. The most common present complaint was pain in 12 patients followed by discharging five patients 16 patients had single fistula and four at multiple barrier and fistula. 10 cases had grade one fistula, four had grade two fistula, two cases had grade three fistula and three cases had grade four fistula and the rest one case had a grade five fistula. These are the statements to discussion. Basically the clinical examination got often difficult because of induration and inflammation in the patient with anal sepsis. Previous fistula surgery, the complexity of the fistula strike lack of identification of internal fistula. So opening only diagnosed primary tracks and missed secondary tracks have been identified as independent as factors associated with a poor outcome after surgery. At a more major identification and localization of the entire crypto granular fistula, including the external opening, the primary track, the secondary track, the abscesses and the internal opening are essential for fistula classification and treatment. Inadequate assessment of the fistula may result or may result in a simple fistula developing into a complex fistula and failure to recognize secondary extensions can designate decadent sepsis and unnecessary protracted clinical goals. So imaging has emerged as the imaging technique of choice. It's a gold standard basically for preoperative evaluation of perianal fistula, providing the highly accurate rapid and non-invasive means of performing pre-surgical assessment. MI imaging improves and provides precise definition of the fistula strike along with its relationship to pelvic structures and allows identification of secondary tracks or abscess. Accordingly, MI imaging provides accurate information for appropriate surgical treatment, decreasing the incidence of recurrence and allowing side effects such as fetal incontinence to be avoided. Religious should be familiar with the anatomic and pathological classification of perianal fistula and classify them using the St. James University Hospital MI imaging grades. In this way, appropriate surgical management can be planned and recurrences can be provided. These are my references. Thank you.


The arrest of five journalists in Azerbaijan is met with concern. In the past ten days, Azerbaijan has witnessed the arrest of five journalists marking a concerning trend in the country's approach to media freedom. The Turen Agency recalled that on November the 20th, Ulvi Hassanli, the director of Abzaz Media and his assistant, Mohamed Kekalov, were apprehended, followed by the detention of the editor-in-chief of Sevinj Vagivgizi on the 21st, on November the 27th, as is Orodov, the executive director of Internet Television Channel, Canal 13 became the next journalist to be detained. He faces a criminal case under article 188.2 of the criminal code related to unauthorized construction or installation work on a land plot without ownership, use or lease. A court decision sentenced him to three months of pre-trial detention. The most recent incident involves Nagiz Abzalamova, another employee of Abzaz Media, who was detained on November the 30th, reportedly charged with smuggling. Human rights activist Rufat Safarov expressed his concerns about these developments on the difficult question program of Turen Agency. According to Safarov, the ruling circles in Azerbaijan seem to have declared a war on citizens' rights and freedoms, targeting journalists, human rights defenders, civil society representatives and economists. He attributed this crackdown to the strained relationship with the West, resulting in the unjust pressure on innocent citizens, particularly those educated in Western countries, who are now portrayed as spies in the media and social networks.


Dear students, in this module we are going to talk about different sociological themes and topics which become important part of the subject matter of sociology. So we see that we hear and we observe around us that we use different mechanism and methods to explore the word around us and part of our stock of knowledge they become part of our stock of knowledge. However, when we talk about the sociology, we cannot say that every topic and every theme can be worth sociological investigation. So let's see that what can be the possible themes and topics which can become part of sociological observation. The first one that we're going to talk about is social stratification and inequality. Every process, every action, every interaction that social stratification produces between people creates a different level of inequality and it is an important task of sociology. Then similarly, we have race, ethnicity and social discrimination which is created from the idea that this discrimination can be based on our race, on our social position and it can also be based on our educational background. For example, if there is a race, a black person, or someone else, or there is a physical defect or disability, discrimination is created based on that. Then there are different ethnicities. Some think that ethnicity is more brave than other ethnicities. Some think that ethnicity is more honest than other ethnicities. So as we undermine each other, the discriminations that are created on their basis, then we have an economic system based on which major discriminations are created, whose economic status is higher, we consider it well, we respect it more. For example, the status of which it is lower, understanding all these aspects is also an important field of study for sociology. Then we talk about gender and sexuality, sociology because in gender, in human relationship, inherent inequality is created on the basis of a man, a woman, a transgender. And the differences between them are whether they have been created based on their birth or they are socially constructed. These are the societies that distribute them within a transgender. Then we see that there are family and kinship relationships. The definition of family on some places is different than the other places. Who do you consider family? Who considers European society family? Their definition of family can be different, their structure can be different. For example, our extended families are also present and our kinship structure is present, uncle, uncle, uncle, all relationships are interlinked in kinship structure and how they are established, how they are perpetuated. This is a very interesting field of sociology of marriage and family. Then we see sociology of education as an institutional institutionalized activity. Especially modern education is an institutionalized activity. How does your socialization process contribute? Does social education produce inherent inequality? Or does social education provide abundant opportunities to excel yourself? This is an important field of sociology of education. Similarly, sociology of religion studies religion and spirituality. We see that religious activities, norms, values, across cultures, across societies, across religions prevail. How do different religions give importance to a person to become a part of their society? They do not only tell the definition of right or wrong, they also provide the foundation of solidarity to the normative pattern. Then we see that globalization and transnationalism. Today's society, which we call a globalized society, we call a globalized world, how we are connected with each other, how modern technology is connected with each other, the use of the internet, the use of social media, the use of traditional media like TV, movies, dramas, films. All these things are also playing their role in producing a globalized culture. So transnationalism, as we see, is not just a citizen of a single nation, it can be a multinational or transnational. In a way, there are many Pakistanis who have stayed in European societies, but they are also practicing their culture there. So all these things we see in sociology of globalization, sociology of migration, and sociology of transnationalism. Similarly, sociology of medicine, or medical sociology, in which we see health, illness, it is not that health, illness, and medicine are all fields of medicine, and it has nothing to do with sociology. In fact, this is an important aspect, how can we define health? Who will we call a healthy person? Who will be unhealthy? Who will be engaged in our health process? What are the processes? What is the doctor-patient relationship? What are the different health systems, like the traditional health system, or the modern health system? How do we define the illness of an individual or define the health of an individual and set different standards for that? All these important aspects or topics ultimately convert into different sub-fields of sociology.


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Youth Edition. Today is February 4th, 2018. My name is Jules Caserta. I use they, them pronouns. I am Steve Flora. Steve is a nickname. I use she, her pronouns. And today we will be talking about a lot of things. Mainly toxic gender stereotypes. And to start that off, throughout this we will be referring to gender and sex. Two different things. Because they are. So that's just the first kind of disclaimer. And the first thing I'm going to be talking about is toxic masculinity. Where are we going to start? Where are we going to start? It's a good question. So, start it off. Why don't we define toxic masculinity? So it's the cultural ideas of manliness, right? The sort of toxic idea of what a man has to be. Same with toxic masculinity. Just switch around. Yeah. And like traits for toxic masculinity would be like really aggressive. Both like violent and like sexually aggressive. Also unemotional and like they aren't allowed to cry. They're dominant and like they can't be victims of abuse and things like that. Things like that. A lot of stereotypes. A lot of stereotypes that are just wrong and super harmful to men in general. To everyone, but men. These are traits. These are stereotypes about men that then immensely harm men. Which most stereotypes immensely harm a lot of the time. Absolutely. Absolutely. So how they harm, I'm going to talk about a little one that I can talk about a lot, is the sexually aggressive and all men want sex. It's an issue for ace and arrow men and boys. Because it leads a lot of them to feel like they're not a real man. Like they're broken or not manly enough or that they're weird and they have to want sex. But if they're ace, obviously they don't. So it leads to a lot of self-hate and like really just like direct it. Like really bad stuff. Direct at yourself coming from you to yourself. So there's a lot of self-hate and loathing and problems there. And then there are also men who take toxic masculinity to a whole new extreme. I want you to talk about that. I feel like I can't very well. So I think that some men who kind of know how, you know, kind of masculine they present themselves and how they put on a front, they are, you know, they're aware of that. But then they also kind of go along with these stereotypes and that kind of consumes them. But not all, but men who do follow those stereotypes, which is a common thing happens. I don't know. That's kind of a hard thing to talk about when you're not directly, directly experiencing it yourself. I think that to speak fully correctly on it would need another party of someone who's able to speak about that a bit better. But What do you think really extreme toxic masculinity that can be connected to like rape culture and stuff like that? It can, but I feel like that's something that is very connected to the person themselves and who they are and what they're, I don't know if I want to say what they're into, but like kind of what they're no, like in terms of what they kind of stand with and all of that. So I think that like a lot of from what I'm aware of a lot of rape crisis has come from a lot of, you know, refusal from victims and, you know, kind of them doubting their abuser of, you know, whatever. And then it kind of leads to some other things. And it's not really a choice, unfortunately, because sometimes you can't get out of it, which is a little bit unrelated. Anyways, but I think that like having that be connected is definitely a big piece that is very complicated. But because I'm not someone who has experienced that first hand, but like, I know enough about it to talk some about it. But I don't know if you have anything else about that, that you're kind of thinking about. Well, there's also the, like, idea of how that men can't be a victim of abuse, that it's not, it's just not possible for a woman to abuse a man, which is just completely false. And it also then leads to men financially can't speak out, like about what they've experienced. Right. And it's just that could also almost be like toxic masculine, and the woman abuser thinking that they aren't the abuser because they are female. Absolutely.  Yeah.  Or how it's presented. It's like, if it's a physical thing or even an emotional or verbally thing, verbally a verbal thing. It's verbally a word. Yes, but not the right context. Not the right context. You know, okay, fair enough. I mean, are we like talking about more, are we trying to get into like kind of some of that a little bit deeper? We can go wherever you want to go. So I think that, like, a lot of the stories that you hear on TV or whatever about these young girls getting abused in like, or like, yeah, like on the news, main news stream, it's like you only ever hear it from like certain perspectives, but it's also like you always only hear that the abuser is a male. And it's like, I feel like it's happening in reverse roles or whatever, whatever is happening. Like it's happening in many different ways and people just aren't talking about that because people don't care about that as much. And it's not as important because people might think it's, oh, it's not as bad.  It's like, or just another person really. It's like, it's not as bad, but it definitely is taking advantage of people is really, really not okay. Yeah.  So there's already so much like so much like negative like thoughts around when women come out of against their abuser and there's even more. Yeah, because they think they think that men can't abuse that if like that they can take it or whatever that they are that they should be strong enough to take whatever their girlfriend or boyfriend is doing. Right. It's like, there's one side of one thing that people are just expecting and like, you know, not want to hear about, but are expecting to hear about. And then there's another side of things where it's like gender roles switched. And it's like, well, that's it's just interesting that people don't look further into things, you know, kind of start to actually understand like why things are happening or if they can figure out why but see different points of things that they might not see. I think that like men should be strong enough to take the abuse can also kind of tie into men being unable to cry without not being seen as like a real man where they have to be unemotional and strong and like the stereotypical like strong dude that is just like a stone face and never feels like anything other than like anger, which again also leads to even more seriousness anyways because it doesn't have to be like anger. It's just like a whole like presentation of being serious and like there and kind of like, yeah, it's like a weird present thought at the time. And then the fact that it's perpetuated the idea that men can't cry and that boys are growing up and that idea and it leads them to again another cycle of self-hate and self-loathing, which is going to come up a lot as we talk about toxic masculinity and toxic femininity and all the toxic things. That shouldn't be there. I think that the image that's presented is not like I think it's good to know about these things and I'm glad that I'm, you know, learning more about these things as I'm going because it's very, very interesting to see, you know, different points of, you know, different people's opinions and what they're seeing in their homes or whatever the situation is, but different people just feel like pressured, you know, into being certain things that are presented to them through the media or through, you know, whatever they're learning or seeing this kind of thing. And so it's kind of, it's very unfortunate that a good amount of people are left with no choice but to feel like that.  And just I went that word in first place, I was like, that's not a real word. Second of all, I was like, what does that even mean? I haven't heard that one many times, so I don't really know exactly what, just kind of the context it's used in and like why it's used. And I was, as I was researching all this for this episode, I was going through like these comments that I was looking at, and it was just like these men who were like complaining about the fact that we were like using the term talking masculinity, and I was looking at it and I was like, this is the prime example of toxic masculinity. Because you're perpetuating this idea that it's not real, that this is just how all men are, just how their brains were. And if you're someone like watching this and thinking about, like I'm not trying to call anyone out, but like if you're watching this and just, you know, kind of feeling like, oh, like that's incorrect, it's okay to have your own opinions and thoughts, but like there's definitely a fine line of things where you need to like step back and like talk about other things too, and it may be good for you to do that as well, because you might be learning different things and like different things that you might not have known, it might help you open up and kind of break free from everything, which is very important sometimes. And discussing toxic masculinity is not saying all men are bad or evil, and the term is an assertion that all men are naturally violent. Toxic masculinity is not saying that all masculinity is toxic. Toxic is an adjective put in front of masculinity to describe a specific type of masculinity. And it's not everybody, it's just there's definitely a good amount of people who are like this and don't have any other like knowledge of how to be. Because being a masculine person as itself isn't a bad thing, whether you be male or female, being masculine isn't a bad thing, it's just when it reaches those really toxic levels where and then you can go from like there's like masculinity and there's toxic masculinity and there's insanely toxic masculinity. And then there's also, I was actually looking at something that's like it's actually, it's like homophobic masculinity, it's like very, it's very interesting, but there's like a lot of like some people tend to call other, like if a more toxic masculine person is talking to another one who isn't as like, you know, so like super toxic and toxic. Whatever, who's so a person of toxic masculinity talking to someone who is, you know, just them that are themselves and they're emotional and when they need to be and you know, whatever they're, you know, they're them. And it's very commonly used like the word gay is used so much towards like for men saying it to other men who may or may not identify as you know, a part of the queer community or not. Like it's like that's, that's like a term that people are using to just make fun of people for being emotional and like having actual emotions as like when they're just over here, you know, just sitting looking like a rock and like emotionless. It's like not, it's not something that I really understand but it's, I find it interesting.  We don't, it's the answer, we don't need these stereotypes. Just don't use them, don't believe them. Or just, just keep them to yourself if you're, if you're into them, just that's something that you need to really contain and not share with the public.  Because one, there are, you can, there are girls who aren't really emotional, it's not, it's also, that's presumably toxic femininity and it's just a cycle of perpetuating these bad stereotypes that nobody needs. Absolutely. I'm getting frustrated. But I just threw around the term toxic femininity. Should we try to move into that a little bit? What is toxic femininity? Is it real? Which is the question we have to ask about all of them apparently. Is this real? It definitely is out there. It's not, it's not something that's not present, you just don't see it quite as much as toxic masculinity. It's just, it's something that you're not faced with as much because it isn't like as present because the whole like stigma with males is that they're like big and powerful and whatever but women can be just as like powerful and like muscular or whatever as men who are stigma, stigmatized to be like that. It's like, okay. I think you do see toxic femininity a lot. I think a lot of toxic femininity is more internalized like where as you were talking about toxic masculinity is like kind of the big buff dude who's like really like kind of loud and angry and aggressive whereas toxic femininity is the idea of toxic femininity is like soft, nurturing, weak women where just because those are the like traits and ideas it's a lot quieter and kind of more internalized and and like I was saying it's, toxic femininity is a self-destructive it's self-destructive and it's something and really direct directed onto oneself based on societal standards. So is this stuff like, this is like how a lot of women develop like eating disorders or like things like slut-shaming or just social anxiety? Social anxiety. Especially talking about eating disorders it's the idea that women have to be these really like small like thin things that are just bones that are bones and have like no fat on them that then leads to be so many young girls wanting to be thinner and wanting to have a certain body type and then that leads into their future when they're like seeing something like a toddler this and leads to that being their only idea of femininity which then leads to self-destructive eating habits and self-destructive habits in general depression anxiety self-harm all of this can be traced in some way connected to toxic femininity which is also toxic masculinity you can see a lot of really unhealthy habits coming out of these horrible horrible ideas. Yeah I just just to get back to eating disorders really quickly like I feel like you won't be like there's it's just I'm real when I talk about all the stuff and like comparison is media media is doing this to everybody and it's terrible it's it's scary like everyone is changing because of other seeing other people or their thoughts or their expectations and like trying to look up to people in a way I guess but you don't like I think one like definitely a stereotype that I just kind of like compare us comparison well no I wasn't done with my sentence I just kind of put together comparison and um like I feel like you don't expect men to develop eating disorders but you it's more likely to expect a female to develop an eating disorder and that's like like there's just a good of chances it's like how men can't be abused it's just a thing that men don't do they don't get they it's not something that happens to men but a lot of men do have eating disorders because they're all also are stereotypes and ideals but placed on men's bodies so they have to be the buff kind of guy right and not everyone can achieve that and at least to um there's something called extra-diction which is an actual it's classified as an eating disorder where all you can do with your time is exercise exercise exercise that's all of your that's all your mind wants your body to ever do and and needs to eating very little because you just want to focus on exercising so much like kind of like anorexia kind of that kind of general realm things like that's kind of a similar I just I can talk so much about eating disorders on so many mental disorders because I find them horrifyingly fascinating right but that is a thing that happens and yeah like you said you don't expect it's not it's why we talked about men having eating disorders whenever we it's discussed it always is a female example which isn't necessarily always the case and although it isn't you don't it and because of this people don't see it as as common when in reality it could be as common we're just not talking about it right absolutely I think that sorry to veer off of the main topic of that um but I think it's just it's just the comparison and it's the comparison of stereotypes and the comparison of you know you and another person it's like it's really hurtful and it's like it's insane it's like no one hears about this because no one like everyone gets interested in like the mainstream things that are like you know expectations or whatever hearing about one gender as opposed to the other having this certain issue and everyone's used to it even though it's still horrifying and it's still terrible it's just it's it's insane and it's just really hard to watch happen it's not something I like to take part in but it's really hard to avoid and it's really frustrating so and the thing with a lot of these like stereotypes is that none of them are actually like really in truth because of someone who is female by sex and someone who is male by sex they have virtually the exact same like brain like all of it's all the same like it doesn't females aren't hard wired to be like weaker than men it's not how to know how it works and then the everyone's their own person it's diversity it's like it's everyone is themselves and they're not another person it's not something that there's no like cookie cutter for exactly people because that's just in like I'm not good with words there's no cookie cutter for like what the ideal female for me there's no it's metaphor it's good it's a good metaphor thank you I appreciate it I'm proud of my metaphors okay I think the veer back veer back and how I want to veer back is um toxic relationships stereotypes because I talked like men are really dominant and women are at least submissive and weak and that leads to really like toxic right home life like women have to stay home and take care of children if they have children or but the women can also go out and work and be successful while the men you know are staying home and taking care of their families like yeah it's like I don't think that like I think if we move into all of the individual stereotypes that's just going to be a lot of rambling but like it's very similar to like all of the other things that we've been talking about it's like comparisons and things like whatever like they can be switched they can be mixed they can be you know whatever it's like yeah and then and then it is for anyone who isn't in that kind of cookie cutter relationship where it's like women are they cook they clean they stay home all that stuff and when men go out and they're and they like make money for the family anyone who isn't in that is then ridiculed for it like if you're if you're a woman married to a man and he's staying home and raising children well you're out um working or even if you're two women or you're two men if you're not if you're not in that cookie cutter toxic stereotype of a relationship then you're ridiculed and for all of these if you're not in that like if you're not in that box of these toxic stereotypes you are ridiculed constantly I mean it's how it is for anything if you don't fit the norm you will be ridiculed absolutely which is stupid for lack of a better word it is stupid I think he kind of said like everything I was thinking so I think I'm out on that one yeah and there's I again like I said I was when I was doing research for this I could find so little on toxic femininity because it's just people so many people are like oh it's not real yeah it's not in the mainstream as much yeah there are people saying like oh toxic masculinity isn't real but you hear that term thrown around a lot more and it isn't in like news and it is in the media but toxic femininity isn't at all I don't personally know that much about toxic femininity because it's like not mentioned a lot it's not like so but it is something that a lot young girls do experience a lot it's just not being talked about like in school as you can see example of toxic femininity all the time absolutely of like like you see like an example of toxic femininity is like slut shaming you see that in like middle school and elementary school and it's just so strange because now they're being like it moved from just being in high school it's moved down it's slowly these ideas are slowly going out of the younger and younger generations making them kind of more and like giving them more time to themselves essentially I mean like I'm not trying to like I'm not being mean but there's a lot of people who really fucked things up like it's not something that really it's like there's I'm not like I said I'm not calling anyone out but like there's definitely certain groups of people that really really made things a lot more difficult with their opinions and you know when they could have just kept them to themselves and you know carried on like if there hadn't been as much you know slut shaming and you know just I guess insulting if that makes any sense about all of this stuff like I feel like you know because there's as the years have progressed and decreased at the same time like I feel it's a very common thing like men and women are just developing more insecurities and more you know anxiety and depressive episodes around these things and it's it's wild it's just really I don't know I kind of got carried away but I think but you were talking about a comparison how like men can't be abused or men can't get into orders you also don't really hear about men ever being slut shamed which is a thing they can be slut shamed I think it's like I think there's a different term there might be a different term but I don't know I don't I'm just going to discuss right that's all I'm just saying the same thing you're being shamed for yeah enjoying sex except for taking it or just dressing a certain way even not even you can be a virgin and still become slut shamed just for how you dress if you're wearing if you're a female you're wearing a low-cut top do you are obviously and it uh because I like you talk we're talking about okay I was like creeping into like younger generations I see this stuff I would like in my in my middle school experience I have seen this stuff any female who hangs out with guys it's obviously dating all of them and it's obviously be all with all of them and it's like what is it's expectations it's like all of the expectations are so harsh and really just everyone's just expecting you to be this perfect person it's just and then there's also the idea that men and women can't be friends they have to be they have to be in a relationship or they have to just be doing something yeah and I think that where did that even come from things have progressed they didn't have progressed because people realized that gay people exist right but like also it's like that's it's not just that like too straight people can be friends too like whatever it's like it's it's just really bothersome when like all you just get a bunch of like chatter and all this about who you're choosing to spend your time with it's like you don't have to be romantically involved with anyone to be you know friends with them it's like hang out I don't know yeah and I touched on how talks masculine already can affect arrow ace boys and men talk to community also can really affect arrow women because it's like the idea that they have to want this like romantic relationship with like hearts and pink and everything everywhere and it's just like no not everyone wants that not everyone wants a sexual relationship like if you're a guy who may be ace and you could be a female who may be arrow it could be both it could be anything right and that all of this just leads to so much internalized self-hate and the fact that we're seeing this in some in like younger generations like you meet kids in elementary school who just want to be thinner like that's their goal is to be thinner it's so sad and you're like you're like you're like first grade you shouldn't be worrying about this stuff no one should be worrying about this stuff but it's like you have a little bit of baby fat you're supposed to have that it's okay I still have baby fat I don't know I think that like there's a lot of patients who are like involved with all of this and I think that like internal patients I guess like you need to be patient with yourself for all of things it's so deeply in our society at this point that trying to like break down these ideas is going to take so long like inside yourself and with others like like I still like find myself having these toxic thoughts and I actually catch myself and be like no that's not how that works not that yeah for sure because it's just so deeply ingrained us at this point it's only ingrained in everyone because that's what we have been seeing our entire life's been told our entire lives that men are this way and women are this way and that non-binary people on a thing yeah whoof whoof is right oh my god there's so much that I'm getting so worked up about it I don't want to get working out about it because my face turns red and it's not fun anything else to get in touch John um we have there I feel like we kind of keep veering off from like yeah we do it a lot just the just toxic femininity as a whole like I think that we talked I don't know I think that if we talk more about like specifically like um you know like there's a lot of there's a lot of um opinions that are heard like maybe talk about some of those that you are aware of and like then I don't know if we don't think of anything else we can well I just like individuals opinions towards others like for example like lesbians have to be masculine or like non-binary people have to represent as men right and that is either valid or true like people can be what they want to be it's not your choice unfortunately just kidding but it's not unfortunately it's just how it is it's not anything to be sorry about or anything so and the thing that I've noticed is that with the like rise of non-binary being like the public eye you were now seeing stereotypes come up for that like they have to be mass they have to have short hair like finally all of that and I see this happening and like no stop it this whole like because ah this is non-binary is literally just you don't exist inside like male and female there shouldn't be any stereotype for that at all that's kind of the whole point like your boundaries are still your boundaries they can change they can develop they can like whatever like it's they're trying to put its identity this whole point is literally they're not in a box into a box exactly and first off it just doesn't work that well because there are always going to be these amazing people who are going to break down that box and they're going to they're going to be a non-binary person with long hair and wears makeup and they're going to be there's going to be a woman who presents his mask and has short hair and stuff like that and there's going to be a guy who likes to wear makeup and still and is straight guys can wear makeup and be straight there's an idea guys can be gay and wear makeup and just be all around gorge and it's so amazing when i see just many makeup looks so good so much the time and i'm like can you all do this because you all look amazing um just a quick thing there is a podcast i i know it's successful on like the apple podcast app but um jonathan venness has a very interesting podcast that i think is very no i'm just saying like there's actually a lot of really really cool things on there so like if you want to go deeper into that there is actually some about toxic and um masculine yeah masculinity so i just just a side note but i did kind of go on a ramble on to like try to sum up what i said is that there are always going to be people who are going to break down these boxes that are that for us because these boxes aren't actually like real they don't make sense like shouldn't be real they're figurative they're figurative boxes well obviously i'm not in a real box no i know they are figurative boxes yes right but they're always going to be people who like break that break that down and like i love seeing that is amazing and then that's like an amazing thing to see and then you like turn your head this way and it's like you see so many horrible things and it's like why can't it all just be this you know yeah for sure should we end up on a positive note i think we should that we usually don't do that we it's we're fairly negative people okay so final thoughts steve what are your wrap this up in a neat little sentence you can't do that final thoughts i think that you need to be yourself despite what other people say um your opinions are valid you're valid um just thrive you know just thrive that's all thank you yeah nine society please take all your little stereotypes wrap them up in a neat little box and check them out the window because we don't need them all right so this hasn't been all things lgbtq plus use addition thank you for watching and we'll see you next month


Good morning. We're here today to recognize some truly extraordinary heroes. Some wonderful folks I get the opportunity to work with day in and day out who walked into extraordinary circumstances that day at the shooting. It covered two subway stations, there were dozens of patients and it was still an unfolding event and incredibly no lives were lost and that's in no small part because of the people here who jumped into action. They did what our EMTs, our paramedics, our firefighters and our fire marshals do every day which is they put other people's lives ahead of their own and we've actually been reminded of that almost daily since this incident. So it's a really extraordinary thing, we're really happy to be here to honor them. We are here at City Hall, we are very grateful to the Mayor for honoring you today. Certainly he is a man who knows what it is like to wear a uniform and put his life out there for the people of the city of New York so with a no further ado, the Mayor. Thank you so much. Thank you for the FDNY, EMS, all the employees who are here, our first responders and even before we talk about that I want to just say to the family of Daniel Enriquez who was lost. We lost him on the subway system yesterday when the gunmen shot him for what appears to be an unprovoked attack on our safety. Heart goes out to the families and on behalf of 8.8 million New Yorkers, we mourn with you and you are in our prayers. We will find the person responsible for this action and it just renews our calls to deal with the overproliferation of guns on our streets. Even after the bullet takes the life of an innocent person, the emotional trauma continues to rip apart the anatomy of our city and it goes on for a long period of time. So again, we want to lift the family up with prayer. But we want to turn towards these heroes and heroes that are in the room today. I remember being at Gracie Mansion when the notification came over that we had a person who discharged 33 rounds in our subway system, striking several passengers in the morning and our first responders jumped into action doing what they do every day. As one report just came out, the number of EMS employees who are the victims of attacks of those who suffer from mental health illnesses and those who are participating in criminal behavior. But they respond. They respond and make sure that they provide the services that are needed. We looked at in the first few months some horrific fires in our city where FDNY and EMS were, they were on the scene making sure they gave the necessary care, putting their lives on the line. And I think about the days of being a member of the NYPD, seeing the amazing job that FDNY and EMS carry out, they carry out every day of dealing with the calls of services. And far too often we don't say thank you enough and that's what we're doing today. We are pausing in the day and just saying thank you. And these citations, it's our way of acknowledging the heroic action that not only took place when the gunmen unleashed a large number of bullets in our subway system, but what takes place every day. And I joined Commissioner Kavanaugh and lifting up these men and women who respond to the call of service when needed. They don't go in the other direction. They walk and run towards the danger and it takes a special New Yorker to do that. And they are representative of the special New Yorkers we have in the city. So again, thank you for what you have done and what you will continue to do. Thank you very much. So it was indeed an honor for me without any further ado to announce the names of our honorees today. Again, we thank you all for your bravery and for your continued service. Our first recipient is Firefighter Curvan Joseph, engine company number 228. Our second recipient is Firefighter James Harkin, Ladder Company 114. Our third recipient is Captain Joseph O'Curry, engine company 228. Our next recipient is Firefighter Gabrielle Mondello, Ladder 114. Our next recipient is Lieutenant Michael Kulkarulo, Ladder Company 114. Our other recipient is Lieutenant Liz Makowetski, station number 32. Our other recipient is EMT Edwin Kerasik, station 32. Our other awardee is EMT Julian Clemente, station 32. Our next awardee is EMT Brian Rodriguez-Yanez, station 13. Our other recipient is Paramedic Michael Hood, station 32. Our next awardee is Paramedic Brent Shia-Dell, station 32. Our other honoree is EMT Nadim Abdullah, citywide dispatcher. Our other awardee is EMT Julianne Morrow, Mamanides Hospital. Our other awardee is EMT James DePallo, Mamanides Hospital. Our other awardee is Fire Marshal Craig Gunderson. Our next to last awardee is Fire Marshal Joseph Shida Chimo. Our last awardee could not be here with us, but we wanted to ensure that we acknowledge him. And we thank each and every one of you for your bravery that day. Fighter Fighter, Joseph Ryan, Ladder Company 114. So, again, on behalf of all New Yorkers, we thank you very much for your service and your bravery that day. Thank you.


another week, another God forsaken Monday in this city. And I was actually late for the ice delivery this morning. I got in about 7.15 in the morning and normally they don't come until like 8, 8.30. But today the guy came at 6.30. So they're waiting here for 45 minutes. I keep talking to this company but they send a different driver every week. So it's kind of hard to figure out what's actually going on. Maybe, you know, when I expand, I can get my own dry ice machine but logistically I don't know how much that costs, what the maintenance is, if it's really worth it. So it's always something crazy on the street because it's pretty busy. Thankfully people can drive around but they don't know that and the patience of these lunatics down here because their brains are getting fried by radiation all day is at nothing, to say the least. People are crazy down here. I try not to talk to anyone. I try not to get into any driving interactions because if you cut someone off down here, like I've had people get out of their car and start screaming at me like, dude, I'm not going to jail because you're going to be three seconds late for your door to softball game. We got a little bit behind on the foods orders because I had to make chocolate bars and I had to make some more water keepers. So I need to catch up on that real quick before my guys get in to help me out. So I got some orders ready to go here for the postal service. Ice just came in and these are the orders. I just got to throw some water keeper in. You guys can probably tell because I'm talking with a little bit of a list. I saw my retainers in because it's just never ending guys. I try to get as much sleep as physically possible. So I literally woke up, made the water keeper, drove down here, and still I should have got up a little bit earlier but what are you going to do? Maybe I can hopefully move somewhere closer in the next few months or ideally get the hell out of here. But we'll see. So I'm going to get to work for a couple hours and hopefully everyone shows up today that's supposed to. Then maybe I can vlog otherwise we'll speak on the lunch break. There we go, that's about everything. Don't usually have to do this many orders in a week but we got a little busy and we were backed up. So nice stack for the postal service. Now since I haven't been sleeping that well this week, my body hasn't really had that much time to recover from the physical labor. So my right hand's been really messed up like my thumb. Like I don't really want to use it that much. My lower back was hurting a little bit but that's never an issue. Usually I just get lower back pain when I have to move like 1,090 pound boxes in a day. So I do have a couple guys helping me today and I can't really afford to payroll all of them full time just because I don't make that much money with the business. Although it would be nice to just have everything run itself. I don't think it's really worth it at this point. Main issue is because most of these people want full time. Like of course I'd love to just have a couple guys down here for like two or three days a week just to get the orders out Monday through Wednesday. I'll see if I can manage to do that but that means today that I have some time to set up the computer downstairs because Verizon installed the internet last week and that's really, really important because we'll have five or six orders placed throughout the day that I can fill instead of having to print them out and come back in the next day and do them. So I'm gonna get that computer set up today. I just do a couple of things that I've been kind of pushing off and I can also get some stuff done for organ supplements, Wi-Fi shielding, all my other companies. Oh, the main issue this week and the past few weeks is the ventilation between this building and my neighbor's building is connected. So when I have like hot liver in here, when I have meat in here, when anything smells, this guy starts complaining because he's selling, I think he sells mattresses and he's like, oh, the mattresses smell.  And I was like, dude, hold on. I told him, listen, you gotta give me notice. You gotta let me know what's going on.  Now I gotta worry about that.  It's always something, always something.  Like, what am I supposed to do? I wonder how pissed off they'll be if I buy a dehydrator and start making jerky in here.  Yeah, you better, you better sell those mattresses while you can, buddy. Ridiculous. Speaking of sales, today is the last day where we're gonna have ground beef at this crazy, crazy low price online. But let me go do a little more work and I'll see you guys in a bit. So I basically have everything ready for the computer. I'm just missing some power cords that are long enough and I need some double-sided tape to get everything set up real nice. The phone, you know, we got a cheap mouse, keyboard, pro-low printer for the labels. Everything, all in, maybe, you know, four or 500 bucks just to get the whole computer and everything running. I might be able to test it today, but this is a low LED, a low blue light monitor and I was actually supposed to swap this one out for the one I have at my house and then put that one in here. So maybe we'll have this up and running this week after all the new cables come in and then Frankie can lose his mind answering emails the entire day. The main thing that kills me down here is the wifi, the radiation, the EMF and I need to eat something or something too because I'm just so fatigued and then after being down here for five, six hours it's just like my brain, my body is completely fried. So the main positive and the main thing I'm looking forward to in a new space that's hopefully far away from the city is just feeling good the entire day instead of like anxiety, stressed out, you know, brain and organ system under so much oxidative stress. And thankfully in this basement it's center blocks and the wifi I'm guessing is much lower, I have to test it but there is the power box right over here where I'm putting the office which I mean, it's the only real option. I was gonna try to get some lead paint or something and maybe even paint the whole building but I'm not sure if I can find any. I could also take some like aluminum window screening and just start putting that up but I wanna see what happens if I get this loan before I start, you know, turn this place into a metal box. That being said, I think I'm gonna stop by the hardware store just to get some more dollies so I can move stuff around easier and I'm gonna go to the bank just to have like a hundred bucks on me cause I'm out of cash which I never usually do on a Monday but since these guys are kind of doing their own thing upstairs I get to just do a few nuanced things that I would normally do later in the week.  I don't know if this desk is big enough or if I should just bring this one inside. That is a standing desk although it's not that high for a standing desk so whatever. So I stopped by the bank, got paid by my cute Spanish mommy and I definitely need a girlfriend that speaks Spanish for multiple reasons but I also went to the hardware store, picked up some dollies and I don't have to lug all this stuff around and I do have a couple of things I need to do but I've been wanting to get a haircut for like two weeks now and all this stuff that needs to be done today has been handled so I think I'll go do that and then work a couple of hours and then hopefully we get out of here early so I can go home and fall asleep. We do have pecania back in stock, three pound pecania pieces and some very nice pecania steaks. These are great guys, such a nice fat cap in their tender and someone made a mistake at one of my meat vendors and we got sent Wagyu strip steak instead of regular strip steak or maybe they just were out of strip steak so they sent us this instead but we have some very nice Tsujima grass fed Wagyu steaks for you guys available now and I would be lying if I'm saying that did not make my day last week. I was here on Friday and when that came in I was smiling like a kid in a candy shop and then I started doing some math in my head and I was like well we should have got this much strip steak so we didn't actually make any extra money but it is nice to have some Wagyu stuff available.  So, I'll see you guys with half my hair gone. Now we're just gonna get, we're just gonna get a little cleaned up on the side so that's what I want. Well we got the hair trimmed a little bit and I definitely need a Spanish girlfriend because these Dominican barbers like get the same haircut every single time. I don't like the one they mess with the hairline at all but it looks pretty good. I basically just had the size and back cleaned up so I'll be good for another two or three weeks. And I got back at like 11.30 and my guys finished almost all the orders really quickly but I forgot I had about 30 more orders to do so we got maybe three pallets of boxes here right now, a couple right here and then just maybe 30 more in here to do. So it's a pretty good week. The only issue is meat prices are sky high. New York's ship steak has actually like literally doubled in price over the past few months so I'm really banking on getting that slaughterhouse soon but you know I'm adapting, you know there's a lot of off cuts of meat that are still very, very affordable. You know not everyone wants to buy a $20 pound ribeye when I can offer you guys stuff like top round, eye round sirloin steaks for like $5, $6, $7 a pound which is kind of crazy cheap considering. I mentioned we're doing the ground beef sale earlier. Subscribe to that because I want to run out of ground beef so don't order too much of it. Unless you want to order the five pound bulk packages which I think I still have some left but you guys literally bought all of the ground beef I had for sale this week. We have the whey protein back in stock, plenty of that for you guys, most affordable, 100% grass fed whey protein online. Obviously not getting organic but I have to charge like twice as much. Best bars are all in stock for you guys. The salts, we're actually running out of the salt so I gotta make sure I don't oversell those and then that's the rest of the nature's glucose. So depending on the honey season right now I might run out of the nature's glucose for a couple months. I'm not really sure, hopefully I don't. I do have access to like a 100% glucose powder made from some type of fruit, I forgot what it was but I'd have to buy like $20,000 worth of it and I cannot afford that right now. So hopefully the nature's glucose works out. I think we might have some honeycomb available in the next few months, not really sure on that. Would you guys be interested in us selling honey? That's just another thing to add on my laundry list of stuff. I could sell honey right now. I would just have to design a label and put it in the jar but the organ grind should be back before the end of the month. We should also be getting a very lean grind and if you guys do want leaner meat we do have plenty of ground venison available. That is super, super, super affordable guys. I'm selling five pound packages of ground venison at the price that most people are selling beef for online. So definitely check that out if you're interested. And as always guys, let me know if there's ever anything wrong with your order. If I forgot something, just quick email. We'll sort everything out whether we have to give you a refund or send the item out again. You know, I'm down here pretty much trying to figure everything out by myself and I'm losing my mind a little bit. Maybe if the EMF radiation wasn't so high I'd think straight. I think that's gonna be it for today. I'm actually excited. I get to finish up early. I have to go home. I have to just catch up on all of those things I didn't get to do over the weekend. Mainly pertaining to the other businesses, sourcing new materials, following up on orders. And more importantly, I have to go on my computer and place a meat order for this week because I missed a couple of things. So as always, thank you guys for supporting me. Hopefully in the next few months here it really, really pays off and I'm in a position to get you guys even higher-quality animal products. So please check out frank-affron.com. You can see the links to all of my companies and drop a like on the video. Leave me a comment. I don't know. I might drop the subscriber and notification bell stick because I think YouTube's taking it seriously and they're actually not subscribing to you guys even more. So maybe they should put on some boxer shorts instead of some panties.


That's most of what we trained to do, if we actually had to go in and do that in the near future potentially.


All right. Good morning and welcome to BC 111, our class on faith. This is our third week of classes and yeah, let's pray and get started. Let's pray together. Father, we just thank you for this new week and thank you for the opportunity to come together and study your Word and learn and we invite the presence of the Holy Spirit, invite you, Spirit of God, just to move upon our hearts, upon our lives, move upon our minds, give us revelation, open our hearts, open the eyes of our understanding that we may be able to see, that we may be able to understand and God let these truths sink deep into our hearts, the way you want them to be written in our hearts of God and maybe walk in them, maybe live by them, maybe conquer through them, maybe be overcomeers of God as we learn to walk by faith and we thank you, we honor you, we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. All right. So we're continuing our study our course on faith. Last week, we covered chapter two. I'm just going to go ahead and share the course notes with all of us. We covered chapter two last week, our God's sovereignty, grace and faith. I just want to encourage all of you to take some time to go through the notes. You have the lecture notes with you. So go through it. In the class I won't be reading every line and explaining everything. I'm just going to give us the main essence of it but I want you to read the chapter. Take time to read it, underline it, study it. Any questions from last week? Any questions? Everyone's okay? So I'll just quickly make one or two statements here. What we mentioned is that God is sovereign and God is all-powerful. He can do whatever he wants. Nobody can stop him and he works as he pleases. And yet even the God is sovereign, he has invited all of us to have faith in him. Right? He has invited all of us to have faith in him and he makes his blessings available to us freely by grace to all of us. So there's no partiality with God. He's not partial to any person. He's fair to everybody. So he gives everything freely by grace but he invites us all to come and receive by faith. All of us have to come and receive by faith from him. So if you want to imagine it, you can imagine like this. Faith is the hand that reaches and takes what God is freely giving to us. Right? On the other side, God is giving freely to everyone. Same equal, no partiality. Same hand. The same hand of God is giving to all of us. Everything, same. But if we are going to receive, faith is the hand that reaches and receives what God is giving freely by grace. Okay, that's just another way to imagine it, another way to picture it. Right? And so while the norm, the normal way that God will work in each of our lives is like this. He gives freely by grace and we receive by faith. Now, because God is sovereign, there are times when He will work independently of faith. He will just move as a sovereign God and nobody, you know, can question that. He will bless so many blessings and He'll just do that sovereignly. Okay? So grace and faith does not take away from the sovereignty of God. God is still sovereign, but both work together in our lives. Right? Both are there in our lives. Now, let's go to chapter 3. Sorry. So that was just a quick summary of chapter 2. Let's go to chapter 3. And in chapter 3 and 4, I want us to focus on the ministry of Jesus Christ, the ministry of Jesus, how Jesus ministered. And this is very, very important for several reasons because first of all, Jesus is the eternal Word who became flesh. That means He's the Word of God who was embodied. That means we could see Him, you know. So the Word of God we can read, we can study, we can understand, but Jesus is the living Word whom we could see. It's the Word of God in action, the Word of God expressed for us. So Jesus, the living Word, is the perfect expression of the perfect will of God. He could never be wrong. What you see in the life of Jesus is the perfect will of God. He could never be wrong. See, if you listen to some preacher or somebody explained the Bible, okay, they could be wrong because maybe they're explaining it incorrectly and so on, but not in the life of Jesus. Because He is the expression of the perfect will of God. He could never be wrong. So if you and I see it in the life of Jesus, we can follow it. Just follow because that's what Jesus did. That's what Jesus taught us. So what we want to do now, in chapter 3 and 4, is if we look at how Jesus, what Jesus did concerning faith in His ministry, right? So in the three and a half years that Jesus was here on the earth, ministry, how did He, or what did He say and what did He do concerning faith? Okay, now there's a lot more that Jesus said and did, right? He taught about the Kingdom of God. He taught parables. He revealed the mysteries of God. The many things Jesus did, but we are going to focus in on the subject of faith because we want to learn from Jesus about faith. And also I want to just mention Jesus, the Bible says, is the author and finisher of our faith. Author means he's the beginner, the originator, author, the one who starts writing, you know, author of our faith. He's also the finisher, the perfect, or the one who brings it to fullness. He is the author and finisher of our faith. So the best person to go to to learn about faith is Jesus. You go to Jesus, see what we can learn from His life and ministry about faith. He's the author and finisher of our faith. So we don't have to, excuse me. So we don't have to, you know, doubt anything that we find in the life of Jesus concerning faith. So, you know, some people may object to teaching on faith. I said, oh, all we need is love. Just walk in love. Everything will be fine. Why are you emphasizing faith? You know, so on and so forth. But Jesus talks about faith. Of course, Jesus walked in love. Of course, He taught us about love. Of course, I'm not saying that's not important, but Jesus also talked about faith. So we must learn about faith as well. Okay. So don't let anybody tell us, you know, not to learn about faith and so on. And Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That means what He taught about faith 2,000 years ago, if He was teaching in the Bible College yesterday, and if He was doing this course on faith, He will teach the same thing. So imagine Jesus is here. Hello, good morning everybody. I want to teach you about faith. He will teach us the same thing today as He taught us 2,000 years ago. He's the same yesterday, today. He's not going to change. Oh, only for my disciples those 2,000 years ago. They were very old people. So I taught them like that. You're all modern people. I will change. No. Today, He will tell us the same thing about faith as what He taught His disciples 2,000 years ago. So we can be very confident about that. No doubts. Okay. So what do we find in the ministry of Jesus? So in this chapter and chapter 3, we'll talk about His ministry and faith in relation to that. In next chapter, we'll talk about His teaching on faith. They're both connected. I've just separated them into 2 chapters and I'll try to put them as statements so that we could just, it makes it easy for us to understand. So number 1, we see in the ministry of Jesus that Jesus recognized and responded to faith in those who came to Him. So there were great crowds of people who always came. Many, many people came. But Jesus recognized faith and He responded to the faith that was in the hearts of the people. It was like the Lord to people. And when He saw faith in the hearts, He responded to that. Example, the Roman Sancturian. So He was not a Jew. He was a Roman. And Jesus said, Jesus saw the Sancturian and the words He said. And He said, I have not found such great faith. That means, hey, here's a man who's got such great faith. He made a note of that. This man has great faith.  They brought this man, was paralyzed, they brought him on a bed and they made a way to the roof. And the Bible says here in Matthew 9 verse 2, Jesus saw their faith. These four boys, they got faith. But what they did, they went onto the roof and made a way and they lowered the bed. Wow, great faith. These boys have faith. Jesus noticed that there's a woman with an issue of blood. He told her daughter, your faith, your faith. So even this woman with an issue of blood, the Kenanite woman, again, he told her, great is your faith. So what can we take away from that? What we can say is this, that the Lord Jesus still recognizes and responds to faith in our hearts. Or you can put it like this, my faith gets the attention of God. So if God sees your faith in your heart, oh, you know, I see that. I see Francis, I see friends, I see Vijay, how faith, our faith gets the attention of the Lord. He sees, he gets us noticed. So when you have faith, you can be confident that he notices your faith. He sees that you believe. You believe is what you're trusting in his word. You're leaning on his word. He sees that. Okay. Secondly, Jesus asked people if they had faith in order to receive. So when people came to him, sometimes he asked them, do you believe? And then he asked them if they had faith. So example, there was two blind men who came. What did Jesus ask them? He asked them, do you believe that I'm able to do this? He didn't ask them, did you all read the Bible? Did you all, you know, be good? All that is nice. But what he asked them was, do you believe? Do you pay? Do you trust? All right. That's what he asked. So when people came to him, he asked them. There was a man who came on with his son who was demon possessed. What did Jesus ask him? What did Jesus tell him? He told them, if you can believe, if you can believe all things are, positive. To him who? It's very interesting. It's very interesting. In the previous verse, in verse 22, the man puts the responsibility of Jesus. He says, Lord, if you can do something, please help. Jesus turns around and says, if you can believe, all things are positive. You think about it. We go to God, oh God, if you can do anything, please help me. And God looks back and says, hey, if you can believe, all things are positive. So we try to put the monkey on God and God puts back on us. That's what this man did. In the previous verse, he came, it is, oh Lord, if you can do anything, please help me. So this is not about his ability. Of course, he's able. Of course, God is able. So it's not a question on God's ability. The real question is, if you can believe, all things are positive, the immobilies. It's very interesting. So Jesus would do the same thing today. And you and I go to him for a healing, whatever, the same thing. He's not, it's not a question of whether he's able. Of course, he's able. It's a question of, if you believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Number three, okay, let me see in the chat if they have any questions. Any questions in the chat? Everybody's fine? All following me? Samuel, Arilla, Jethro, Gachin, Krisha, and there are others there. Who else? Everyone's okay? Jethro, Krisha, Nina, Prabhu, Samuel, Shiv Kumar, Surya. They're good? Okay. All right, if you have any questions, feel free to type in the chat and I will look at it from time to time. Okay. All right, let's continue. All right. So the third thing we learn from the ministry of Jesus concerning faith is Jesus encouraged faith even in hopeless. Now, this is actually a little difficult for us because when things are hopeless, we say, okay, finished. Give up. Jesus didn't do that. Think about some examples in the case of Jairus. So Jairus came to Jesus, he said, my daughter is sick at home. She's sick, still alive, but very sick. Come lay your hand upon her, she'll be well. So she's okay. They're going to Jairus' house. On the way, there's another incident that happened. So this moment comes with a show of blood and so on. So things are delayed. By the time people come from Jairus' house, don't trouble the master. Your daughter is already dead. Things have become worse. I mean, it's gone. What did Jesus do in that situation? It's very interesting for us to observe. What did Jesus do in such a situation? He didn't say, hey, you should have come to me yesterday. He said, if you had come yesterday, maybe something could have been done. He didn't say that. What did he say? It says here in verse 36 of Mark 5, as soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not be afraid only, believe. Things have gone from bad to worse. Just did. It's hopeless now. But even in that situation, Jesus is saying, don't be afraid only. Think about that. Think about it. So you and I must be like Jesus. That's our call to be like Jesus. So what should you and I do in hopeless situations? We have the option, fear or faith. But he said, fear not, have faith. Do not be afraid only, believe. Do not be afraid only. So in that situation, don't be afraid, just believe. Another example is in the case of Lazarus and John 11. Again, we know that story. So Lazarus's died, is dead now for three days. And Jesus arrives on the fourth day and Martha is very frank. Lord, he's been dead four days in the grave, has been smelling now. Jesus told them, move the stone. So Martha is giving a very natural response. Of course, four days. This is what happens, natural response. Well, what does Jesus say? John 11, verse 40. Jesus said to her, did I not say to you, that means he's already told her before, right? Did I not say to you, if you would believe, you would see the glory of God. Sorry. If you would believe, you would see the glory of God. So even in that situation, Jesus is telling Martha, if you believe, you will see the glory of God. So two examples we have. In the case of J.R.S., now on the case of Lazarus. In both cases, the situations are bad. They've gone from bad to worse. They had actually sent information. Lord, one whom you love very much is very sick. But by the time Jesus comes, already four days late. But in both situations, Jesus is saying, only believe. If you believe, you will see the glory of God. So what we can take away is that even in hopeless situations, the Lord will encourage us to have faith. He'll encourage us to have faith. So nothing is beyond his reach. We have faith in God. Number four, we learned from the ministry of Jesus that he encouraged people to act their faith. What does that mean? It means that you start doing something aligned to what you believe, aligned to the Word of God. You start, you act your faith. And we see this on many occasions. You know, just give one or two examples here. There were these 10 lepers who, you know, they cried out to Jesus. And in verse 14 of Luke 17, Jesus tells them, go, show yourselves to the priests. Now try to imagine this in your mind. 10 lepers, they're all together. They see Jesus apart of the Lord have mercy on us. So maybe in their minds, expecting Jesus will come and lay hands on all of them, or he might do something. He doesn't do anything. From there, he says, go, show yourself to the priests.  Because in those days, the priests had to check and give the certificate that they are fine, those days.  So Jesus didn't even, you know, lay his hands on them. He didn't pray. He didn't say anything to them. He simply says, go, show yourself to the priests. If you were neither there, what would we have done? And you would have looked at, hey, how's your hand? Still the same. How's your hand? Still the same. He's telling us to go and show ourselves to the priests, but nothing has changed yet. Nothing has changed because the Bible says, as they went, they were pledged. That means they had to turn around and start walking to where the priest was. As they went, we don't know how many steps they took. Maybe they went one kilometer, I don't know. So for one kilometer, they're looking at their hands, still the same. They're checking with everybody else and they're still the same. Where are you going? I'm going to the priest. Why? Jesus said, go show yourself to the priest. But problems are still there. Symptoms are still there. But the Bible says, as they went, you don't know how long, how far, but as they went, they were. It's a big lesson for us that we need to act our faith and there are times when as we are acting our faith, the miracle comes. We don't wait for the miracle and then say, Hallelujah, praise the Lord. No. You act your faith. You start doing something in line with the words. His word was, go show yourself to the priest. That was the word he gave. And as they start acting that in line with that word, they start going to the priest as they went. The healing began to happen. They were cleansed. So this is how Jesus ministered and his teaching or something that many times we have to act our faith first before we see the miracle. We have to act our faith. Look at another example. We are familiar with this. In John 4, we read about a noble man. He comes to Jesus and he has a son who is not well and he invites Jesus, please come to my house and my son is almost dying. And in this case, Jesus tells him, go home, your son lives.  Now, if it was our day, we would immediately WhatsApp. You'll send a message. Hey, is John fine? Then they can reply, John is fine. But those days, nothing like that. All he had was the words of Jesus. Jesus said, go home, your son is fine. And the Bible says here, the man believed the word that Jesus spoke and went his way. He believed the word and he went. So can you imagine now, as this man is making his journey back home, the only thing he has is the words of Jesus. Jesus said, go home, your son is fine. Your son is alive. That's all he had. Just those words.  Those are the only words here. That's all. And then he's going home with the expectation that his son is well because Jesus said, that's faith in action all along the journey. Jesus said, my son lives well. Jesus said, my son lives well. Jesus said, my son lives well. In his mind, I'm sure thoughts would have come. What have you son is not with?  Go home. And so this man, he had to act his faith. So Jesus encouraged people or he actually required that people act their faith and then they experienced miracles. Same thing with the man who was born blind. Jesus put clay on his eyes. He said, go wash in the pool of Salom. So, you know, ask somebody, can you take me to the pool? Why do you want to go to the pool?  So even today, when we exercise faith or when we want to exercise our faith in God, part of that is that we must act in line with our faith, act in line with what you believe. And that is you expressing your faith and that will get God's attention and that causes faith to produce in our lives. Number five, Jesus demonstrated that faith could affect nature. So we see Jesus, he's speaking to winds and waves in Luke chapter 8 in another gospel. There is the wind and the waves and he's speaking to winds and waves, natural elements to nature. We also see and we know that, you know, Jesus spoke to a fig tree because the fig tree. So Jesus is and in both cases in Luke chapter 8, he brought about the whole subject of faith. He said, where is your faith? In other words, he's telling them, his disciples, I'm doing this by faith. So when he calmed the winds and the waves, he talked about faith. When he cursed the fig tree, he spoke about faith. In other words, he said, I'm doing what I'm doing by faith. So we must understand our faith can dominate natural elements, things around us, circumstances, situations, elements of nature, our faith can dominate those things. Jesus showed that to us. So even natural circumstances, situations, our faith can dominate. Number six, Jesus accommodated people outside of his agenda in response to faith. So what does that mean? So when Jesus was in his earthly ministry, in that three and a half years of ministry, his focus was the people of Israel. And he was ministering to the people of Israel. But there were people who were not from Israel. They were not Jewish people. When they came in faith, he still ministered to them, the Roman Sancturian, the woman from Heina. When they came in faith, he still ministered to them. They were not Jewish. They were not of the nation of Israel. But he still ministered to them. So here's the thing that today, suppose you have to pray for somebody who's not from a Christian faith. They have not heard about Jesus. But if they come, some of you shared your testimonies, but if they come, can we pray for them? Yeah, we don't say, oh, we can't pray for you. Of course we can. I believe that God will touch them, minister to them, work miracles for them. If they come and ask for prayer, if they come saying, I believe Jesus will do this for me, of course we can pray. We don't say no. He has never turned them away, even in ministry. He didn't turn them away. They came in faith, he prayed, or he ministered to them. Number seven, you all with me so far? Yes? Okay. Number seven, Jesus helped people when they struggled in faith. That means when people were finding it difficult to believe. They had doubts in their head, and they were confused and all of that. He helped them. Example is this man who in Mark 9, we also read it in Matthew 17. He had brought his son, who was even possessed. First he brought them to the nine disciples. You imagine the story. Jesus and three of his disciples were away. They were up on the mount of transfiguration. So other nine disciples were there. So this man brings his son, who was troubled by demons. He brings him to the nine disciples, or nine of them are there. Surely they can help my son. And they have done it before. But on that day and that moment, they were not able to help. So his faith must have been really shaken, right? Because, hey, I brought my son to the disciples of Jesus. Nine of them, they couldn't help myself. What to do? And then Jesus comes. So this man is struggling in his faith because he's already had one experience where nothing has happened. And that's why he looks at Jesus. He says, Lord, if you can do something, nine of your disciples couldn't do it. If you can do something, please help me. And Jesus says, if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. This man is very honest. He says, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. That means I believe, but I'm also struggling with doubts now. I'm also discouraged because just maybe five, ten minutes back, the disciples ministered, nothing happened. So Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. So he's honest. I believe, but I'm also having doubts. There's also unbelief. I'm struggling. Jesus didn't shout at him. Go sit in the class, learn about faith. He didn't shout at him. He's still ministered. He still helped the boy. So like that sometimes when people come and we are ministering to people, we believe there may be struggles, there may be doubts in our mind, there may be discouragement, there may be situations that have happened that have discouraged us. Don't think that the Lord will discard or disregard. He will still work. Just continue to encourage the faith and eliminate the doubts. Same thing in the case of Peter, as he walked on the water, Peter started walking on the water, he got out of his boat and he was walking on the water, but then he saw the waves, he saw the winds and he became afraid. He got scared and then he began to sink. So he started out in faith, but he ended in doubt. So you can imagine, he took a lot of faith to get out of the boat and start walking on the water, but he started out in faith. Then he saw the winds and the waves, he began to doubt, but then Jesus caught him and pulled him up. He said, Oh, you have little faith. I mean, why did you doubt? He said, Oh, you have little faith. Why did you doubt? He didn't give up on him. He helped him even though he was struggling in his faith. Just one more. I know I've given you a lot of points. We want one more. We'll take a break after that. So number eight, there are times when Jesus healed and worked miracles independent of the individual's faith. Remember, this is a sovereign sovereignty of God. We see many examples. At the pool of Bethesda, there was a man who was there for 38 years. He didn't even know who Jesus was, but he called Jesus. The blind man didn't know who Jesus was, but Jesus ministered healing to him. And of course, in the widow's son, the name, her son was raised back to life. So there are times when Jesus worked miracles, even when people did not have faith. So that's why, you know, when we minister to people, the ideal is that we should encourage them to believe. But sometimes, even if they don't believe, it's okay. Just pray, just minister, because God can move sovereignly and work a miracle. And that will bring them into faith. You all with me? Okay, so let's take a break. Now, I know it's a few minutes early. Any questions? I can tell. Let me see here. Okay. A lot of questions here in the chat. Okay, Jetshin, Jetshin Joel question. I understood faith works within me and not on God's ability because he's the author and finished my question. When it comes to my healing, I'm able to continue excess faith and God has healed me just according to his word. But when it comes to praying for others, especially my family, our loved ones, how does this work? Okay, so that's Jetshin's question is he's able to have faith for himself for his own healing. But when it comes to others, so Jetshin, the norm is that we help them also have faith because remember, faith is the hand that receives from God. So if at all possible, you share the promises of God with them and sending healing and then encourage them so that together you have faith in God. So that's the norm. But like we were just saying, there are times when God will work, but that's based on the sovereignty of God and God will work independent of faith. So there's nothing wrong in beginning to pray. But the norm is to share the word, encourage them to have faith, and then believe God together. Nina's question, while Jesus healed in response to faith, he was not limited by a person's lack of it. As in the case of the penalty, the penalty of the pull up at this up, it is a rare occurrence. What do we take away from this? Yeah, I think Nina, maybe towards the end we kind of addressed that that the norm is that he healed in response to faith. But then there are examples like the man by the pull up at this to where he healed independent of faith. And that's where we mentioned it's, you know, it's a sovereign work of God because he healed one while there were so many others who are around the pool at that time. All right, get chained again. At times I keep praying for specific people continually, but see not change to them. Is this lack of my faith? How do I go about praying consistent faith without being discouraged? Yeah, just and so if it all possible, try to get them to come into a place of faith. And we will see, and I think we mentioned this earlier also, are sometimes there are hindrances to the exercise of faith. For example, we said faith works through love. So if the people are, you know, holding unforgiveness, that could become an hindrance to the release of their faith. And so, you know, we may need to deal with that. And there are some situations where, you know, when you help somebody to release forgiveness, then they're able to then exercise their faith. So things like that, but most very basic, you know, just encourage them with the word of God, and they will be able to exercise their faith. Jat Shin, Jat Shin is a lady past. Okay. Thank you, Nina. Sorry, Jat Shin. I am, please forgive me. Okay. Krisha, should we take big, take big risks and steps in faith, thinking we're aligned with God's will? As we discussed earlier, God is sovereign. What if we are not aligned with his will and he does not answer? What should we do about his fear? So Krisha, what I would say is for all of us, as we learn how to exercise faith in God, first important thing is, see faith grows, faith grows. So we grow in status. So we would always encourage us to learn how to, learn how to exercise faith, even in small, in small things, in certain situations in our lives, you know, and then we grow in faith and they're able to believe God for greater things and bigger things. So we would, they would always encourage, you know, people, all of us to grow in our faith, you know, learn how to exercise faith, do it in small things, things that are not risky, things that are not, you know, that don't have great cons, damage in case, you know, we fail. So learn how to access faith in small things and then we go on to believe God for greater things. Okay, so that's, so that's how I'd encourage us to do that. So then we can, we can always look back and say, you know, God has helped me. Now it's like David, David killed the lion and the bear before he went out and faced the lion. So, you know, we learn how to deal with the lions and the bears before we go out to face our giants. So if we do that, that'll really help us in our journey. Any questions? Yes, Charisma. You can sit down. Okay, so Charisma's question here is, Jesus taught us if we have faith as a mustard seed, we can tell the mountain to move.  Why did you do it? I would understand it like this. So when Jesus taught about faith as a grain of mustard seed that can move the mountain, what he was teaching us is that faith is to, he was teaching us about the power of faith, that faith as small as a mustard seed can move a big mountain. So that's how powerful faith is. That does not mean we should be people of little faith. He's telling us that this is how powerful faith is. In comparison, a mustard seed can move a big mountain. That's how powerful faith in God is. So that's one side. But when he rebukes Peter, oh, you are little faith, the real issue is we need to come, we need to be people of absolute confidence in God, full faith in God. That's the thing he wants to teach us. So our goal should be to be in a place of full faith in God and we should understand that faith in God is very powerful, that it can move mountains. So that's the two questions. Okay, those of you online, hopefully you understood Charisma's question and answer. Okay, fine. Let's go for our break, 10 minutes, and we'll be back. Thank you.