Today we're pitting two products against each other that you've probably never seen. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video and these products that I speak of are deluxe editions. Check this out. Do you have any idea what set this is from? It doesn't say it anywhere except on the bottom. Like is this the original thing? The dualist alliance deluxe edition. So if you don't know what a deluxe edition is, this is like a different version of a special edition. It's like pre-special edition. I think they actually had special editions at the same time but they thought you know what? Let's do a different version. Let's do a bigger version. Inside I think there's like nine packs, some promos and stuff like it. We're gonna open them up.  So we will be putting judgment of the light deluxe edition versus what was this again? Dualist alliance. Yeah I can't even remember because it doesn't say what in the world. And every card in this video will be given away to one of you guys. Just make sure to like the video. Be subscribed and let me know in the comments. Have you heard of the deluxe edition before and do you like them? All right let's start off with this judgment of the light deluxe edition. I'm not really sure how to open this thing. Honestly this one's a little bit different than the other one. The other one is just like a box that you keep cards in. This one looks like it actually has some cardboard around it. So we're gonna figure this out. Judgment of the light deluxe edition. Nine boosters and more. So we get nine packs. You also get promos. Now I gotta figure out how to open it. There we go. This is the same thing except this one is just straight up wrapped. So I wonder if this was supposed to originally happen. No it's Konami wrapping. So they just were like you know what we don't need that anymore. All right let's go. Let's see what we get. This is a lot of packaging for not much. The good thing is these are very useful for card storage. I really like these things. They're actually really useful to have. So they're a lot like elite trainer boxes in Pokemon. So stuff like that. So there's the judgment of the light special edition beginners guide. If you're starting in judgment of the light which was forever ago. You also get some sleeves which is cool. These are nice for selling stuff. Shipping in an extra sleeve. And then you get the archfiend emperor the first load of horror. There's also another card inside. Let's see what it is. All right there we go. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh there's three cards. There's flying sea and then dragon shield. Very cool. So you get three promos in that one. That's pretty nice. Let's just open both of these at the same time and then we can like alternate packs and see which one is better. This will be. Duals Alliance is pretty fun. So I'm pretty excited about this. Let's see what we can pull. Pretty just weird pack like packaging. I don't know how I feel about this one. It's very confusing about what set you're opening. So we get our basically the same thing here. Even those are a little bit apart in terms of the years. Duals Alliance is a really nice set though. So I'm pretty excited to open these nine packs. You get your beginner guide as well if you're starting around that time. But it looks like there's no sleeves in that one. So they said no sleeves for that one. That's interesting. Okay. No sleeves in the Duals Alliance but that's cool. We get the hip hippo. We get the yang zing. The wonder balloons. The despot 02 and the hexateller knight. So is there any sort of different? Yeah the E and D. So I guess that's for the deluxe edition. Okay. The D for deluxe. All right. Let's start off with judgment of the light. This is a pretty fun video because I've not opened a lot of deluxe edition. So I'm pretty excited to check this out. Let's see if we can pull a ghost or a star reader. Not that we've done that recently. Okay. We did it. Go check out that video. It was crazy. Glee has drum dragon. The war. We got the bougie infidel. Super defensive robot. The flying sea. The star serif sword. Number 102 star serif century.  There is a super rare. We did open a ton of judgment of the light the other day because cast sent a ton in and we had some pretty good luck. Who do you guys think will win this battle between duelist alliance and judgment of the light? It's going to be interesting. I'm probably going with duelist alliance because I think it's a better set overall but it doesn't have shekelate so that's one thing. Lancia good guard. Battle guard rage. We got the metaphist armed dragon. The fishbore. Good doctor. And the monarch storm port. Another good guard. Satel and Ivega exchange of night and day. Form of power whip snake. And the shadal core. Another super rare. These are not guaranteed by the way. So we are hitting some nice stuff. It's weird that judgment of the light is actually older than duelist alliance if you think about it. It's kind of weird just because I feel like I see this pack a lot more often than duelist alliance even though we do see duelist alliance in those monster boxes a lot. So maybe maybe not. Fire. Fire. The work. Spell recycler. Super fence robot. The umbral horror uniform. The fishbork archer. Sargasso. The confronting the sea. And the umbral horror. How many chigolazzes will we pull? So far we're over two pulling them out of packs. Alright it's one foil to one foil. Both super rare. So we're pretty neck and neck right now. We've got a long way to go though. Several packs each. Let's see what duelist alliance can pull the area. The battle guard rage. Oh we wrecked some special recovery. That's the first one. We're going to keep it to that. Hymn of light. Not doing another one. Hip hippo. So it's cool you get a common and an ultra printing in the same set if you get the uh the promo. UA should all beast good card. L and an L should all wind. Man a lot of people hate this card but this card is nice in my invoked deck. So there we go. L should all wind. We pulled it ourselves. That's pretty cool actually. I didn't even realize that originally came in here but it makes sense. Alright window that's a good pull. I bet that's got some value. I know it's been reprinted a few times since then but still very nice. Got the junk blader. XC's reception. Trap tricks and nephethis. The calibrator. The fishborg archer. Intercept tomato. The XC's reversal. Brotherhood of the fire fist bore. An umbral horror ghoul. Alright the ghoul. Onto the duelist alliance pack. What shall we pull here? Will it be a ghost rare? We could pull a ghost rare out of here or ultimates out of both these sets and secrets. A lot of good stuff. Chakram. The skeet skimmer. Skeeter skimmer. Despot 001. The howling. The should all falco. And the super every samurai blue brawler. He's blue and he's brawling. Alright onto this judgment of the light with the chikolates. Will it be in here? Chikolates is the only way to win. We got the umbral horror. The sword. The monkei. We got the Czar. The bujimpadel. The calibrator. Kunjaku jaku. The number 104. And the Armageddon destroyer. So battles of legend Armageddon destroyer. Okay the 10k dragon. Also speaking of if you did not see my YouTube short, my TikTok, my Instagram, uh reel whatever it's called we are doing a live stream tomorrow opening an entire case of first edition blister packs um rising rampage. So we're looking for that apollosa most expensive starlight rare in Yu-Gi-Oh. So be there live stream two o'clock tomorrow central time.  Lancia I'm excited. I think we're gonna pull something crazy. I hope we are at least. Dijian we got the senata. The break of the dark magic warrior. And the draco sentient. So if you guys are interested in that come hang out on the live stream live on YouTube. Okay do do a uh let's see what judgment can pull so far just a super out of the first pack nothing since fencing firefare the black and white wave the bujinki wolf sargasso star seraph sword the verse glasses the bujinki carnation and the cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap cheap all right that's a little cheap okay we're trying to pull something good so far no luck no luck so far now can we get an ultimate a ghost something insane cloud castle him of light secret rare hip hip ho ua stadium white prince ua perfect ace and the hippo carnival okay three foils so far out of how many packs maybe like 10 it's not too bad actually intercept tomato very cool card oh no i did four by accident number c 39 utopia ray victory by the way this is a huge card by huge i mean first super rare it's huge it's like 10 bucks that's a very good super rare very nice i don't think they ever reprinted it so very good card we ruined the we ruined the suspense but that's okay the googly has gum drum dragon the drum dragon the drum dragon the drum dragon all right so we ruined that let's try not to do that this time residence insect very good card got a reprint though so it's probably not worth anything recover with a nine volt we got the own collide with the residence insect the swordsman the feast of the wild should all hedgehog face off and area the melodious diva no no melodious not interested stay away from me all right let's go three packs yellow dustin three packs left of each i think turtle recycler brother the firefist caribou the rainbow horror uniform the vertical ending vein betrayer archfiend eris and a sonic kaboom very nice this is the fifth the last pack third the last of duelist alliance so far duelist alliance already has well do they have lead actually victory could be more than window i'm not sure lancy out we've got the alpha we're probably pretty neck and neck swordfish they do have this pack though so they are a pack ahead let's see if they can pull anything sonata yang zing unleashed panzer dragon and ooh a super rare beyond earth of the yang zing i don't know if this is worth much i'm guessing no it's just a super but i could be wrong so still pretty close i think i think we're pretty close in this battle i think it's going to be pretty intense who's going to pull it out guys let me know in the comments super defense robot star serve sage super defense robot monkei we got the atmosphere the xz agent could you got your goo the mech fenby skull wing archfiend emperor the first lord of horror and not a super i thought it might be a super just a calm three total packs to go in this video if you guys have enjoyed it make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic videos like this because we got some more stuff coming up here we go i believe should all squamata stellar night alpha guy of the polar night perform a pal hippo him of light and summon that sephira battle guard howling the ua stadium and that's just the rare flashlight and the hippo carnival it's coming down to the last two packs guys it's very close two foils on this side three foils on this side but i think that we're pretty even in terms of value let's see what we can do can pull go shirt and it we have the boujain regalia the sword the sargasso lighthouse super defense robot leo these are orts the xz reversal star serif scout the calibrator tour bus to the forbidden realms and star serif sage oh this is going to be close it's down to the final pack the final chance for duelist alliance deluxe addition to beat judgment of the light deluxe addition let's go i believe cloud castle we got the agent of entropy at uranus okay arm dragon we got these swordsman feast of the wild level five hush out all hedgehog guy of the midnight sun i don't even remember that guy super every samurai ben chi and big ben chi i should say and the final pack what will it be will this win the battle oh it's a secret rare time space trap hole now i don't know if this is a crazy card but if it was even before this should definitely put duelist alliance ahead let me know what you think who won the battle we're gonna have a total price pop up but if you guys have a different opinion you think the price shouldn't matter as much if it's really close let me know in the comments if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to subscribe to subscribe to the channel for more epic videos shout out to cc trustee trustee cardstone for show tomato juice daily mightnance mimic echo daxter you mr jr barney an untied show jt show and david fj thank you guys for supporting the channel and i'll see you guys next time peace


We're in chapter six of the book of Acts. If you'd like to open your Bibles, I intend to take us through the chapter. There's only 15 verses, and we'll be spending a good portion of our time looking at the qualities of a leader that we find here in this particular portion of scripture. So I'll begin reading to you here in Acts chapter six at verse one. I'll read to verse seven and get into our study. Acts chapter six, beginning at verse one, reading to verse seven. Luke writes, now in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. Then the 12 summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, it is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word. And the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit. And Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenus, Nicholas, Bobby, Joe and Bill. No, I'm sorry. And Nicholas, the proselyte from Antioch, whom they set before the apostles. And when they had prayed, they laid hands on them. Then the word of God spread and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem and a great many of their priests were obedient to the faith, obedient to the gospel. The term the faith speaks concerning the message of the gospel. And so as we begin, let's remember that the last time we were together, we had seen how the apostles had been beaten for their faith in Jesus Christ. And as we were concluding that chapter, chapter five, it was interesting to note the reaction that they had to that beating. It says in chapter five, verse 41, they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And so their attitude was that they rejoiced over the fact that they were suffering in the name of Jesus Christ. In other words, it was a real privilege to suffer for Jesus. This suffering that would be referred to here is something that we find to be the part, part of the walk of a believer.  It's interesting how in Philippians one, verse 29, how Paul says, for to you it has been granted. It has been granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake. It has been granted. You've been privileged, he's saying, to not only believe which leads to eternal life, but also to go through this life and to suffer. Now, we need to remember that before Jesus had died, he had spent three years preparing his disciples for the work of ministry and the teaching that he gave to them in preparation would have included that they would be persecuted. Remember in Matthew 10, verses 16 and 17, how he said, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, but beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the councils, they will scourge you in their synagogue. So Jesus prepared them for this, the inevitability of persecution. In John 16, he said in verses two through four, they will put you out of the synagogue.  Think about that one for a moment, because in our society right now, in our world right now, we are seeing Christians killed by those who think that they are doing their God service. That's happening right now. When a Muslim kills a Christian, they believe that they are doing God service and Jesus made it very clear that that would take place. He said, these things they will do to you because they have not known the father nor me, but these things I've told you that when the time comes, you may remember that, I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning because I was with you. And so we see that the apostles have been forewarned and they were prepared for this treatment and with this knowledge, this preparation, they endured the beating. It says in verse 40 that they had been threatened and they were commanded to cease teaching. And verse 42 tells us the reaction was that they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. So let's develop something with you because I want to spend some time here in chapter six looking at the selection of leaders and the quality of leaders. In order to do that, we need to remember they had been threatened, they were commanded to cease preaching and teaching in the name of Christ, but instead of obeying men, they obeyed God. And the church as a result of their obedience and willingness to continue in the name of Christ continues to grow. Now when you look at the pattern of growth in all, we know that the apostle Peter had preached on Pentecost and we saw the result of his preaching were 3,000 who were saved. We saw that at the healing at the beautiful gate that the number grew to over 5,000 men. We know that after the judgment on Ananias and Sapphira, the church continued to grow. Now we looked last time and noted that some didn't want to join after the hypocrisy of Ananias and Sapphira had been judged. We saw in chapter five verse 11 that great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things. And in chapter five verse 14, we went on to say believers were increasingly added to the Lord multitudes of both men and women. And so after the judgment, there was still a growth that was continuing. So there are those who estimate the size of the church or believers at that time to have been around 20,000 when we get to chapter six. And so during the season of rapid growth, many believers had become impoverished. We've already seen this again, but to minister to those in financial need, the church established what would be called today a general fund. In Acts two, 44 and 45, it said all believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. In chapter four verses 34 and 35, it says there were no needy persons among them for from time to time, those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales, put it at the apostles feet. It was distributed to anyone as he had need. And so in the early days of the church, they would sell possessions, they had what would be called a general fund and they would minister to those in need from that fund. So as is true today, the church was growing rapidly. And so when the church was growing rapidly, there was going to be some neglect that was experienced. With the church growing as fast as it was, it was inevitable that some neglect would occur. Now that is something, this neglect, this thing here that's taken place that we're looking at in chapter six, that neglect is something that Satan will use to attack the church. Now he's already begun to attack the church. He had attacked it first and foremost through religious opposition. The religious leaders had risen in opposition, they had arrested the apostles, they had beaten the apostles. So he tried to attack the church first and foremost through opposition from the outside. But when that's not effective, he now begins a second tactic and that is, if you can't destroy it from the outside, destroy it from the inside. Now didn't Jesus teach us that? Didn't he say that a house that is divided against itself cannot stand? It's a very old tactic, divide and conquer. And that's what the enemy does. If he can't destroy the work from the outside, he'll just join the church. Now he had attempted at first by provoking Ananias and Sapphira to lie to God in the sales of a possession of property. And that wasn't effective because God simply purged the evil. But he's relentless. So he begins to attack by creating dissension within the church. And what he does, and we're seeing it here in chapter six, is he pits two groups in the church against one another. What he does is he inspires dissension between the Hebrews and the Hellenists. We'll look at that in just a moment. But what you're looking at is, you're looking at a cultural kind of thing. There are cultural differences between the Hebrews and the Hellenists. And I'll look at that in some practical ways in just a moment. Now, Hellenists were Jews who were not born in Israel. Their language and their culture was Greek. So they were considered by the Hebrews as second-class Israelites. There existed a racial and cultural animosity in the hearts of the Jews who were born, raised, and were cultural and linguistic Hebrews. There was an animosity between the Hebrews who were cultural Hebrews, born, raised in Israel, and the Hellenists who were Jews, but were Greek-speaking and had been influenced by Greek culture. Many of these Hellenists had been converted during the Pentecost outpouring. And they had remained behind. They were serving in the church. They were learning from the apostles. Others were more than likely retirees from other lands living out the last days in Israel. And so there is now a division that's occurring. And we're gonna look at that for just a moment. Notice again in verse one, in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists. Why? Their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. The general fund that was used to support the people in need, there was a preferential treatment taking place for the Hebrews as opposed to carrying for the Hellenists. And so there was a neglect of their widows in what was called the daily distribution. Now, carrying for widows is part of the Jewish heritage. And to care for widows was expected by all. In the Old Testament law in chapter 24 of the book of Deuteronomy verses 19 through 21, Deuteronomy 24, 19 through 21, it says, when you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. There was a concern for the widow because in their culture she would have been the most helpless individual, widows and orphans. And so God was making sure all the way in the Old Testament when he gave the law to make sure that the nation of Israel cared for the helpless, cared for the widows. Up to this point, unity and generous concern is the norm for the body. They were united, they were pressing forth with the word of God, people were being saved, but now grumbling begins to occur within the church. Notice how it says there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Hellenists. The word murmuring, the word murmuring is a word that we don't use an awful lot today. It's a biblical word, it's literally translated a secret debate. It's a secret displeasure that is not openly spoken of. Murmuring is always wrong because it is divisive. And so there's a secret debate, a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Hellenists because the widows are neglected. The word neglected there in the original language means to be overlooked due to partiality. So there was a partiality taking place. The Hellenists, the widows, the culturally Greek Jews, their widows were being neglected while the Hebrew widows were being cared for. And it was a cultural thing that caused a tremendous problem. This isn't in my notes, but I'll say this very briefly. I don't even know how to say this properly, but I'll say it like this. Is it possible for people to this day to have division in churches based on cultural differences? And the answer is obvious. Yes, of course. Si, como no. No, yes, of course. That's all I know. It's the only Spanish I know. But can that happen? Yes, of course. Can there be cultural differences that lead to division? Absolutely, absolutely. What are we supposed to do as a church? What is the body of Christ supposed to do? Is the body of Christ supposed to be broken into certain demographics where you have a church that is for blacks, a church that is for Hispanics, a church that is for Asians, a church for those who are white, a church for Native Americans. Is that what we're supposed to do? Are we supposed to break the church down into cultural demographics in order so that everybody who feels a certain way about a certain thing, whether it's language or music or whatever, that they feel at home right there. So let's create a cultural church rather than a biblical church. We have to be careful. We have to be careful. Because it's interesting to me that the first division that you find in the church was over culture. It was over differences of culture, of language. It was a division that was sparked by Satan because he was provoking them to believe that they were being treated as second-class citizens because of their cultural differences. God help us as a church, even in these last days, to remember that we're one in Jesus Christ. God help us to remember who we are. Because sometimes we forget. Sometimes we will put, we will put our differences in the forefront and fail to unite at the things that are most important. And in the early church, it's interesting to note that the first division was a cultural division between the Hebrews and the Hellenists. And that continues to this day. I can tell you stories, and I won't because I didn't prepare this message to tell you these stories, but I can tell you that there have been things said that have come to my ears that are so wrong and so wrong based on, on, on cultural differences that people just don't feel comfortable when they're around people who aren't exactly like them. But he has made us all out of one blood. All of us belong together. God help us all. God help the church today. God help us all to know that that person next to you, whether they're from your same language group, your same ethnic group or whatever, that if that person is a brother or sister, if that person's a believer, they belong to you. They're your family. And we need to understand that. We need to, we need to, we need to hold fast to the things that unite us and be careful about those things that divide us. And here what we have is we have a division because the Hebrews apparently are carrying more for their own than they are for the Hellenists. And so a murmuring occurs. You see, unity is intended by God to be a living testimony of what God can do. God repairs the broken. That's what he does. And when we dwell together in unity, it is something that brings glory to God. Psalm 133 verse one says, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity. Now this problem is growing because according to verse two, the 12 summoned the multitude of the disciples and said it's not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. So the problem has reached the ears of the apostles. And what is their response while they deal with it? They deal quickly and firmly and they deal with it spiritually. They don't ignore the problem. They don't think it's gonna disappear all by itself. They actually deal with it. So they had to establish within the community an understanding of priorities. And their ministry priority was to teach and preach God's word to the church as well as reaching the world. So they needed to make sure that the needs of the people were not neglected. So to make sure that they were cared for, what they do is they delegate power to those who can help. One of the things to always remember is every growing ministry requires training, selection and delegation. Every ministry that is gonna be used by the Lord requires that. You see, it's not possible for the apostles to meet all the needs of all the people. And again, the first division was over physical and not spiritual lack. It would seem that when the Lord is increasing a work numerically, neglect can occur. It's one of those human relations problems that cannot be avoided. And people are not always understanding, concerning these kinds of things. You see, people always have needs, of course. And when you're part of a church fellowship, the needs that people have within the body, within that church family, those needs are, well, we attempt to meet those needs the best that we can. But some requests are just not reasonable. And therefore you have to be aware of that. I as a leader of this church have to be aware that some requests just aren't reasonable. I cannot meet every need. Yeah, there are gonna be problems. And yeah, there's a lot of people and all. And it's difficult to meet every need. And you would be surprised at some of the things that people expect. Many, many years ago, when we moved into this building over 20 years ago, we were having in this building here, in this room here, we were having triple services. And there were people already who were seated outside in different places. And I still remember somebody in our fellowship who was upset at me because he said, he said, I've been gone for a while and David didn't even call me or know. And I couldn't help but smile within my own heart about that. And I thought, that's, how could I know? How could I know you were gone? There's so many people in the room. There's so many people here. And then they're sitting outside. How do I know you're gone? And I developed a saying at that time and I don't use it anymore, but I'll say it right now. I said, funny thing about telephones, they not only receive, but they also dial out.  How could I know you were gone? Why didn't you call and tell me? Why didn't you let me know? Why would you expect me in the midst of so many faces to not see your ugly face? I obviously knew them real well, but it's true. I mean, that's a fact. There are just some unreasonable expectations. I'm supposed to be able to tell which sheep is hurting the most and I'm supposed to approach them. I'm supposed to send flowers and cards to every hurting person in the church. I'm supposed to tell people what to do and not tell them to read, pray, and decide for themselves. I'm supposed to receive any phone call that comes into my office anytime, anytime. It's just not possible. What can we do? What can we do to minister to so many who are hurting? What is the answer? Well, the answer is found before us because notice the response in verse two. It is not desirable to leave God's word to deal in church business. When he speaks about the tables, when he says it's not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. The word tables actually is used to speak of a stand. It could be even used as the stand that was used by money changers. He's speaking about church business. You see, the danger that the apostles was that the apostles time would be jeopardized by church business. Their ministry priority was to teach and preach God's word and to pray and that's what they're saying. They're not about to go about stamping out church brush fires because those can be distractions. You see, that is one of the typical temptations of the enemy. What the enemy does is he works to divert attention from important things. And the important thing for the pastor, for the leaders and in this context for these men, these apostles, the important thing was the word of God in prayer. So one of the greatest temptations any spiritual leader can have is the temptation to leave God's word to handle the distractions. So there's problems with buildings or with finances or operational concerns, non-emergencies and all of those things can distract you. So in order to be able to meet the needs of a growing group of people, you have to develop a leadership. You have to have people who can carry out those kinds of things. And so here's your solution, verse three. Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer in the ministry of the word. So the apostles knew what they were to do. They stay connected with God and give out God's word. But the business could be taken care of by those who had spiritual qualifications. So what they do is they delegate the people to select seven men to meet that need. What will happen is the apostles will confirm their decision, but these people are to select the qualified men. We need to remember, of course, these are jobs, but they're spiritual jobs. So spiritual jobs require spiritual men. And so these men have spiritual qualifications. Now, as we look at these things, I would say this to you. There are some in this room I know right now who have a position of or a desire for spiritual leadership. And so as we go through this together, one, I think these things that we're gonna see are not amazingly unique in one sense. I think that we all could have these qualities. But in another sense, these are the qualities that are necessary for spiritual leadership. And if you are leading right now, if you have a spiritual position that you're leading in, why don't you take personal inventory as we go through this and see the various things that qualified leaders? You see, when you look in the Old Testament, Moses had to select man to lead. And in the Old Testament, they also needed certain qualities. There's a story that goes about, it's found in the book of Exodus 18, how that Moses was judging the children of Israel. He sat in judgment. He was the judge as like an illegal judge. He would handle cases that were brought to him all day long. And he had a father-in-law who asked him, what are you doing? And Moses said, well, I'm judging the people. That's what I do. And his father-in-law, Jethro said, that thing that you're doing is not good.  You can't be doing this. And so what you need to do is you need to have people who share that burden, who help you. So he said, Jethro said in Exodus 18, 21 and 22, you shall select from all the people, able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covenants, and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, rulers of tens, let them judge the people at all times. Then it will be that every great matter they shall bring to you, every small matter they themselves will judge. So it will be easier for you and they will bear the burden with you. I was given a philosophy by a man who was a former leader in an organization called the Navigators many years ago now, where he said in the way that he handles difficulties in ministry, and he was the leader over a very large ministry, he says, I have a philosophy of gorillas and monkeys. Gorillas and monkeys. What does that mean? He goes ape in ministry. Now, what does that mean? Well, he said, and he was teaching pastors and he says, listen, have you ever been after a service talking and one of your staff members approaches you and says, we have a problem in the children's ministry, we'll say.  And he says, and they reach their hand and touch your shoulder and say to you, we've got a problem in the children's ministry.  He says, what you need to do is put your hand back on his shoulder and say to him, take care of it.   He says, but they may walk up to you with a large problem, that's a gorilla. He says, you take care of the gorillas but make sure you have people around you who can handle the monkeys. Where do you get that? From Exodus 18, I just read it to you. That was what Jethro was saying.  It'll be easier for you for they will bear the burden with you. That's how ministry is intended to work. You see, these people that were going to be serving alongside of Moses needed to be capable. They needed to be able. They were gifted, in other words, to perform the duties. But the qualities that made them leaders were character traits. They were to have the fear of God. They were to be men of truth. They were to hate covenants. This all speaks of character. One of the big problems in ministry today, and I can speak as somebody who knows it very well, I've been part of ministry and involved in ministry for the majority of my life. And I can tell you that the problems that we have today in church very often in ministry are character problems. The character problems. There's a covetousness or a pride. There's a selfish ambition. There's something that is a character problem that's taking place. It's not the skills because very often people love the skills of that person who has no character. They love his personality. They love his ideas. They love his vision. They love the way he speaks. They love everything about him. But he doesn't have character. And your ministry is built on your character. It is built on your character. And that's why Jethro would say these men should be able. They should be capable men. They need to have qualifications. But the thing that matters is that they have a fear of the Lord that they're not covetous. You know that these men have great character. And so that's what's taking place here. When you look at the different things that are spoken of in Acts chapter six this problem has arisen and a solution has to be found. So notice what he says concerning these people. Notice that the men that are being selected for leadership are men of character. That is the priority. Now I want you to notice. He says in verse three, and I'll look at this briefly as if I can really do that. I'm gonna try. I'll look at this briefly. He said, seek out from among you one seven men. So first for leadership, they were men. Now of course we have great women in scripture, women that are used wonderfully of the Lord. As you read your New Testament we'll be seeing some of these ourselves. There's a woman named Tabitha. There's a woman named Lydia. There's a woman named Priscilla. There are various women that you see in scripture that are amazing godly women. But in leadership, men lead. In 1st Timothy two, 11 and 12 a woman should learn in quietness full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be silent. There is male leadership. So he said, you seek out amongst you men. Men are intended by God to lead in the church. Two, they're selected from among the members of the church. So leaders should be raised up from among those in the congregation because the people will trust the ones that they know the best. Third, they're to have good reputations. Why? Because a bad reputation dishonors the work of the Lord. These are men who are to be models for the fellowship. And there are times that they're gonna be dealing with great sums of money. They'd better be men with great reputations. In 1st Timothy three, verse seven, it says he, speaking of an elder, must have a good report of those who are outside of the church, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. A bad elder will undermine the work of a church. There's no doubt about that. So you look for men with a good reputation. Somebody who is well-spoken of. Fourth, they are to be filled with the Holy Spirit, which is being totally yielded to the leading of the spirit. They're to be spirit-filled leaders. One of the worst things you can do with the church is treat it as a business. It's one of the worst things you can do with the church. It is not a business. I call it an organized organism. It is organized, but it's a living, breathing entity. And when you treat a church like a business, there's no life in it. Leaders need to be capable, but they also especially need to be filled with the spirit. The Holy Spirit needs to fill them. In Numbers 11, verses 16 and 17, the Lord said to Moses, bring me 70 of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting that they may stand there with you.  They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone. Ephesians 5.18 says, do not be drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit. Spirit-filled leaders are a necessity for the life of the church. A fifth thing, there to have godly wisdom. Wisdom is simply knowledge that is applied. That wisdom comes through the word of God. It comes by the Holy Spirit. It comes through experience and it's an earmark of spiritual maturity. There to have wisdom. A sixth thing, there to be filled with faith. Faith in Jesus and a daily trusting in him. One of the worst things that you can have in ministry is somebody in leadership who has no faith, who has no faith. There's so many stories I can tell you, I'm trying not to get loaded down with them. Trying to select one, two, or 20 that I can tell you right now. I'll go all the way back to the beginning. When our church first began, I was having a board meeting. Our church had been going for two or three months. Brand new church. And I had my board with me. I met with them on a regular basis and we were meeting at a restaurant in Ontario. We'd have coffee and breakfast and go over church business and we did that regularly. And so there we are. This will date this church for you. So my board tells me, we think we need to get, now this is back 35 years, we need to get a tape duplicator. Tape, you guys remember what tapes are? A tape duplicator. And I said, why? They said because we want to duplicate your messages and put them on tape. And I said, why? Because people want to hear them. And I said, listen, they're not listening to it the first time I say it. What makes you think they're gonna listen the second? And so they said, no, we were actually getting requests. And I said, and I was not in favor of it. I said, I don't see the reason for that. Why would we record my messages? We only have 40 people in the church. Why would I do that? Because they're asking. So I said, what's it cost? I knew how much we had in the bank. $700, that's what we had in the bank. Our offerings at that time were around $400 or $500 a week. Sometimes less, very seldom more. And I thought, see, I wasn't receiving a salary. I received a portion of a salary. And I knew that the money in the bank was gonna go towards my salary and I have bills to pay. And I'm thinking this as I'm just smiling at them, saying, oh, really? And I'm thinking, there's no way. I'm not gonna do that. So I said, convince me, because I still to this day, I'll say, convince me, convince me, convince me that that's what we should do. So they shared with me. And then I finally said, listen, do you really feel for the good of this church, do you really feel that these tapes ought to be made? That people really, do you really feel that? Do you really sense that? Is that the Lord or is that just, why you? Do you believe that? They said, we do. I said, well then, I'm gonna allow you to make that decision. I said, I don't wanna make a decision because it could give the appearance that I'm trying to promote my own ministry. But seeing that you guys as the board believe that, I'm gonna yield to your decision on that, which I did. So they said, we're gonna buy a tape duplicator.  It's a fact. The next day as the Lord is my witness, we received our regular offering and $700 more than we normally got the next day. And that's when the Lord, yeah, and that, yeah, to me that's worth clapping about. You're overwhelming exuberance just causing me. I can tell you story after story, just like that. Where the Lord said, no, where I guide, I provide. And I had to learn. I had to learn to trust the Lord.  I had to learn to do that. And if you looked at the history of this church, you would see that we have hard staff members when we didn't have the funds to pay them. We have bought, I used to use that word all the time. We have bought properties, I invent words. We have bought properties that we could not really afford. We have done ministry by first seeking the Lord, trusting him for it, and saying, let's go for it. So many times. So many times. Because that phrase that I learned from my pastor is a biblical principle where God guides, God provides. When you seek the Lord first and his kingdom, all of these things shall be added unto you. So one of the things I don't like around me as an influence is somebody with no faith.  You guys know who Eor is?  I don't need that around me. I don't need Eor's around me. My heart is already fighting with the spirit. I don't need a cheerleader on the side on my staff saying the same thing, oh no. If you do that, nobody'll show up. If you do that, they won't like it.  And you need to have that in ministry. You need to have, yes, I want somebody who will tell me the truth. I'm not asking for somebody to just be like one of those dolls you used to see on the back of cars and you hit a bump in the head just bouncing. You know, those bobble heads. I don't need a bobble head staff member. What do you guys think? We ought to do it, they're all going like this. I don't need that. I want to hear the truth. I want to hear what God is saying through you. I want to know. But if God says we're going to do it, if God says he'll provide for it, we're going there and we'll see what he'll do. And I have seen God do amazing things. And so when you're looking for somebody in ministry and that's what they're saying, they need to be filled with faith, faith in Christ, faith in the possibilities of what God can do. Nothing is impossible with God. You need to have that in ministry. And so what are they looking for? They're looking for people who are filled with faith. That is an essential in leading and especially in matters that they're dealing with, the finances and provisions. There are also, verse, also number seven, they are to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit. There needs to be the work of the Spirit. There needs to be an obvious anointing of God in them. And that's what he's saying. They need to be filled with faith. They need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and wisdom. And so as they're looking for these men, they make a selection. Notice what it says. They had said in verse four, we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the minister of the word and the saying, please the whole multitude.  What's the result? Verse seven, the word of God spread and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem. A great many of the priests were obedient to the faith. God began to move once again and he moved in powerful ways. Now it gives us names. Yeah, Stephen. Stephen is mentioned first because he's soon going to be martyred. Philip is mentioned. Philip is later mentioned as Philip the evangelist. He's the only person in the Bible in the New Testament who has ever referred to as the evangelist, which is interesting. This is a man who gave the gospel to Samaria. He converted a eunuch through his preaching. Afterwards he lived and labored in Caesarea. You see him in Acts 21. Now, here's something else. This is just a practical sidelight for you. The others that you see here, you see Stephen and you see Philip, but these others, Prochorus, Nickoner, Timon, Parmenas, Nicholas, they're not mentioned again. You don't see them again. Here's something very basic. Here's something very basic. I say this to you quite often, but it's, to me, it's very important. The others are not mentioned. Nothing is really known of them, but that seems to be God's way. Much of what occurs in churches that God is blessing seems to be done by those that nobody really knows. Don't ever feel, and this is so important. Please don't ever feel that you are inconsequential, that you are not necessary. Please don't believe that. That's not true. That is not true.  You wanna know something? Please believe me when I say this. The only person that matters who knows your name is Jesus himself. Keep that in mind. He knows his sheep and he calls them by name. Sometimes you may think, nobody even knows if I'm here or not here. He knows. The one who really matters, and I mean this with all sincerity and I can't say it deeply enough, please don't get caught up thinking you're not important to God. Every person in the body of Christ is an important person. The Bible speaks of the church as being a body.  When you look at 1 Corinthians chapter 12, the church is described as body, here, eye. And there are reasons for that kind of metaphor, but on your body, what if somebody approached you and said, listen, what portion of your body do you wanna give up today? Tell me, you know, when are your fingers, when are your toes? You wanna give up a leg? What do you wanna give up today?  I'm kind of like partial to keeping the whole thing. You know, I may not think that's the most attractive hand, I may not think that's the most attractive hand, but I'd like to keep it. There's not a part of your body, really, hands, fingers, toes, that you really should give up. That means that every one of those parts are important. Everyone, everyone is important. And you are part of the body of Christ.  One of you is not necessary.  And you are important. Important, not in this self-seeking, I mean, no, you are necessary in the body of Christ.  And I see this often. I've done this, especially when I've looked at the names of the apostles, because when you look at the 12 apostles, there are very few names that you remember. You know, we all know Judas, we all know the apostle Peter, you know, James and John. There are various names that we do know, but there are a lot of names that we don't really see in scripture use very much. Simon the zealot, he was an apostle. What did he do? Nobody knows. There are names that you see as apostles that really don't have much time in scripture at all, other than their names are mentioned in the list of apostles, that's it. And yet they were apostles, they were used by God. And it seems to me that there are quite a number of people. These people are, you know, we see a couple that we recognize you'll see later on, but five of these names, they're unknown, they're mentioned here and that's it. So I always get encouraged when I see these kinds of things because I realize that God has a tendency of doing wonderful things through people who are unknowns. He does speak of Nicholas who is a proselyt of Antioch. That simply means that he was a Gentile, he lived in a city called Antioch who had been converted to Judaism and then came to faith in Christ. They said them verse six before the apostles, they prayed for them and they laid hands on them. Now the result, verse seven, the word of God spread and the number of disciples multiplied greatly. What is the result of dealing with problems? The word of God spreads. It even says in verse seven that priests were being saved. The Lord was reaching into the faith of Israel and saving priests.  And the answer is we'll see. Verse eight, Steven full of faith and power did great wonders and signs among the people. There arose some from what is called the synagogue of the freedmen, Syrenians, Alexandrians, those from Salishia in Asia, disputing with Steven. And they were not able to resist the wisdom of the spirit by which he spoke. Then they secretly induced men to say we have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God. They stirred up the people, the elders, the scribes and they came upon him, seized him and brought him to the council. They also set up false witnesses who said this man does not cease to speak blasphemous words against this holy place in the law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, change the customs which Moses delivered to us. And all who sat in the council looking steadfastly at him saw his face as the face of an angel. So Steven is introduced as a man filled with faith and power and his ministry as it states is filled with ongoing miracles. And so as this man's spirit filled ministry is exploding in verse nine it says there's some from the synagogue of the freedmen who came up in opposition to him. When it says the synagogue of the freedmen, the freedmen were ex-slaves who had been freed from various areas. They were descendants of Jews who were enslaved by Pompeii in 63 BC taken to Rome. So they're descendants of slaves who had been freed and that's why they're called the synagogue of the freedmen. It says in verse 10 they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke. In other words, they were unable to defeat him in debate. And because they were unable to defeat him, they secretly, according to verse 11, induced men to lie about him. Just say they heard him speak blasphemous things. And they also set up according to verse 13 following false witnesses and said this man doesn't cease to speak against Moses. And so what happens is they are saying that he is speaking according to verse 13, blasphemous words against his holy place and the law. And they say in verse 14, we heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the custom which Moses delivered to us. Now Jesus did not come to destroy, he came to fulfill. And that's where they're wrong. You see in Matthew 5, 17 and 18, Jesus said, think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I'm not come to destroy but to fulfill. For truly I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all is fulfilled. According to Romans 10 verse four, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. The law pointed to Jesus. It is consummated in him. So he didn't say that he was coming to destroy. He said, I have come to fulfill. So their accusation was wrong. So as they're bringing these accusations against him, it says simply in verse 15 that the council is looking at him and they see his face as the face of an angel. They see his face as one burning with an inner light. They see his face as one in the presence of God.  In closing, when I read this, I'll close with this thought. When I read this, wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't it be great if when people looked at us, when people looked at us, there would be something about us that was so amazing, the presence of God, that they could actually see it on your face.  If your heart is happy, let your face know it. Have you ever had anybody approach you and say there's something different about you and I'd like to know what it is? Have you ever? Some of you have. There's something different about you and I'd like to know what it is. I've had that happen to me. And it just always humbles you. But it also gives you a great opportunity. What is it about you? There's something about you. What is it? What do you mean? I have actually said that. I've told you this story. When my father died, I was in the hospital and the doctor had told us that he had died. And when he came in and did that speech that my heart goes out to doctors because they have to say that to people. We did our best. I let him finish his encouragement. I appreciated it very much. Then we as a family, my kids, my mom and Marie, we prayed together and we held hands there in the waiting room and went in and had our moment came out and a woman approaches me and just wanna know what you are. I said, what do you mean? What are you? I just saw what you did because her daughter, I believe her daughter had been hospitalized and she and her husband were there concerned about her little girl. It's an emergency. And I said, what do you mean? There's something different. What is it? I said, oh, we're Christians. We're Christians. You can be known. Listen, you can be known just by your countenance, just the way you respond to things, just the way you carry yourself. The inner light that can beam from within and come out. That can happen. I'm not saying, Lord, please help us to walk around like human glow sticks. I'm not saying that. Shining the dark right at night. What I'm saying is, what a blessing it is that the presence of God in Stephen was so evident that those who were judging him could not help but notice that there was a presence of something in him. He had the face of an angel. God was revealing his approval of the message Stephen was teaching and the messenger of that message.  You can have it. And they'll look at you and they'll say, there's something different about this person. And sometimes God gives us the opportunity to explain what that difference is. It's Jesus. It's Jesus.


Hi all, thank you for joining this presentation, which is on the instrument cluster demo app based on Flutter for the AGL. So let me first introduce myself. My name is Akash Solanki. I am from India. I am currently a student at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi and from couple of months I am working on the project AGL, the Automotive Grid Linux and I got introduced to AGL via Google Summer of Code. I was also a software developer intern at Samsung R&D, Bangalore here at India. So the topics which we are covering in this presentation are these. So first one, I will talk about the graphic side of the instrument cluster app. Next, I will talk about the backend side like how we are getting the data. Then I will talk about how I added the app to the AGL demo platform. Let's start with the first point, the graphic side. So to develop the graphic side of the app, I use Flutter. So Flutter is an open source framework developed by Google to build multi-platform apps. And we can build apps for like any platform like using one code base, we can build apps for Android, for iOS, for macOS, for Windows, and for Linux also. So in the UI part of the app, we have few elements. So we have two gauges, one for speedometer, one for typeometer. Then we have the turn signal indicators. Then here we have some signals like for lane assist, for high beam, low beam and this is for gear selection. So we have few indicators and in the mid part, we can also get a navigation which is this. So when we give a certain signal, we can get this navigation. So this navigation is built using OpenStreetMap and OpenRouteServices. So OpenStreetMap is used for map tiles and OpenRouteService is used to get this path like between source, between the current location and the destination which can be set by user. And so let's talk about the backend part. So to get these details about this, the speed, the RPM and all the signals like what's the state of these signals. So we have to first get the data from a server, which is the CookService server. So CookService server provides us signals. So we can read these signals and get the data to a particular signal like we can get a data to the speed signal. We can get data from the typeometer signal. So it provides signals to the VSS data and we can also add custom signals to the VSS data using this CookService server. So for this application, we have also added some custom signals. So one of these is used to enable this map so that we can go from this screen to this screen. So which is the staring wheel switch. So yeah. So after that connect to the CookService server using WebSockets. Then we are connected to the CookService server. Then we listen for the data in the data stream from the WebSockets. Now whenever the data arrives, we pass the data and update, update the values and then we show the home screen, which is this one. Now I will talk about how the app is added to the Agile demo platform. So to add the app to the Agile demo platform, I first created a recipe with the Flutter app and with the CookService server. Then I created a new image. So to run the Agile version of the app, we first need an OpenRouteService account and we also need an OpenRouteService API key to get the path between source and destination. So if you do not provide that key, you will only get the tile, map tile. And if you want to try out this app, you can check out my GitHub or you can check out this detailed guide on docs.automotivelinux.org, which shows the steps to build the Agile version of the app and you can also follow the video guide, which is available on the YouTube to build the Agile version of the app and also the without Agile. Yes, thank you, that's it from my side. If you have any queries and feedbacks, I'm happy to answer them.


Hello everyone. Today I'll be talking about the interaction of science, technology and society through time. The interaction of the three, science, technology and society is actually very complex because it depends on a lot of factors. Of course there are elements of science, technology and also more complicated and extreme elements as far as society is concerned. In this context, we will be using science as, for instance, a way of knowing in addition to traditional ways of seeking knowledge. Science as a structured approach in our search for answers and explanations of nature, physical phenomena. With, of course, the utmost objective of arriving at an understanding. On the other hand, for technology, we will be referring to our ability to control, alter, modify or tamper with nature in order to suit a certain practical applications that is hopefully beneficial to society. And for society, of course, we are referring to the human society composed of people with certain values, morals, prejudices, problems and priorities. And at the end of the presentation, you shall see that the society, in addition to being the creator of science and technology, the society is also the end user and the society also poses the greatest constraint as far as science and technology interaction with society is concerned. Science interaction varies with several factors. It varies with geography and ethnology, characteristic of the society, for instance, the interaction of the three, the interaction of STS would be different in a society that is, for instance, highly religious. It would be different also for societies that are highly industrialized. It would be different for societies, for instance, in an Amish society, the interaction of science, technology and society is also glaringly different. It also varies with time because throughout our history things change, factors change, forces change. So I will be giving three case studies in this presentation to sample different time domains starting from the early days of science and then followed by the early days of technology and on to the modern times. And also the interaction of the three varies with the state of global affairs because the state of global affairs sometimes dictates the priorities of society and the priorities of society have a very huge impact as far as the appropriation of science and technology is concerned. So for the first case, let's talk about what I call the birth pains. The birth pains refer to the early days of science which we refer to as Aristotelian philosophy. Admittedly, there was no technology during this time yet and characteristic of Aristotelian philosophy if you notice from your readings is that it's a very simple science. One virtue of a scientific theory is simplicity as you know and Aristotelian science is so simple. Aristotelian chemistry enumerates only four elements that of earth, water, air and fire. And that's so simple. Maybe that's the reason why or part of the reasons why it stood for many centuries. And of course when I am talking about society during this time the major forces of society in this era is of course the church and of course another personality named Thalmas Aquinas. So we'll talk about the outcomes of the interaction of the three. As you know and up to this time there is a constant conflict between science and religion or science and the church. Well historically this conflict goes as early as when Thalmas Aquinas made the synthesis regarding Aristotelian philosophy and the teachings of the church as being in consonance with each other. So Aquinas actually laid the foundation of thinking that when you attack Aristotelian philosophy you also attack the teachings of the church. So for a very long time nobody dared question Aristotelian philosophy. Of course there was no technology yet that can be used to verify or falsify his theories during these times. And so what are the outcomes of this interaction of science and society during this time? The glaring outcome would be actually the stagnated growth of science. It took almost 2,000 years before science can develop at least in initial baby steps up to the state that it is now today. So this interaction during these times of Aristotelian philosophy and the great power that is the church would of course echo up to the modern times and it also laid the foundation of a lot of conflicts throughout the history of science and society. As a second case let's take the case of the industrial revolution or we refer to it as the first industrial revolution according to science historians. The one that happened in England or in Great Britain. So the science that is at play here includes power generation, the knowledge of generating new sources of power as a revolution or as a change or as a departure from the use of beasts or burden like the horses as the main or the primary source of power. It is also during this time that we are learning we were learning how to use new materials how to understand the properties of these new materials like steel. Also the English science as you know during these times we already have a knowledge of mechanics brought to us by Isaac Newton and the science of economics mainly by Adam Smith in his Adam Smith in his book Wealth of Nations. The technology involved during the first industrial revolution are machines. Machines that we used in mining in manufacturing. Manufacturing refers to a replacement of the putting out method the manual labor based manufacturing to a machine based manufacturing. We also use machines for construction transportation particularly in the development of the railway systems and modern communication. Of course the society that we are referring to in this particular era would be the English society its economy, its status as a superpower in the world and its art and culture. So what are the outcomes of this? Of this interaction but before we talk about the outcomes of interaction maybe it would be beneficial also for us to understand why the first industrial revolution happened in England. The short story is it happened in England and not anywhere else because of enabling environment it is a collaboration of fortunate circumstances as far as power generation is concerned England is blessed with abundance of coal because coal would soon replace the animals or the horse as the main source of power. Coal would usher in the technology of the steam engines. So resources and also capital. The English capital is enormous as you know you have lots of nobilities in there also the English colonies all over the world from Africa to Asia to South America and so in addition to their own natural resources they can also simply source resources from their colonies from as far as Canada and Australia. And finally of course all these science and technology are born out of necessity. The English society had realized that the manual form of production cannot cope up with the demands. So it started with the clothing industry actually they have lots of cotton coming from India but they cannot cope up as far as converting this cotton into usable pieces of clothing. So the outcome of this case study the first industrial revolution will also echo until our times today. It put England as the major power militarily, economically and so on during this time. Interaction also affected not only England's economy but its art and culture. This is the rise of romanticism and of course this is also the starting point for a problem that would occupy us until today it's a global concern this is the problem of pollution. When we started burning fossil fuels during the first industrial revolution the carbon dioxide level in our atmosphere also began to shoot up. And as a third case study I will take you to the modern times the science that is involved here is the science of genetics our understanding of the genes the code that dictates everything from seeds up to the adult stages of plants and animals. The technology I will be referring to specifically for genetically modified organisms as food source. And of course what are the societal concerns as far as GMOs are involved. Well the two major concerns would be food security and health concerns or health risks. As far as food security is concerned, some experts claim that GMOs is one of the possible answers towards addressing the stability or the security as far as food supply is concerned. Why? Because GMOs GMOs are genetically modified plants as food source I'm not talking about the animals yet which are pest resistant. Okay? In other words we can minimize wastage during the growth process and this results into an increased yield during harvest time. So aside from being resistant to pests also genetically modified plants like what they did in China to be able to grow certain species of rice in salt water or in brackish water. And that's a very important step because particularly in our country we have limited times as far as rice production is concerned or rice culture is concerned because we are heavily dependent on rains but we do have a lot of salt water we are surrounded by salt water so if we can adapt this technology or if we can replicate this technology this rice the breed of rice that survives in salt water then it would mean a lot as far as food security in our country is concerned. The second societal concern with GMOs would be health risks. Some people are claiming that GMOs are hazardous to your health that why would I eat a GMO corn for instance when even the insects would refuse to eat it something like that. Of course these concerns emanate from lack of science or lack of understanding of science or lack of studies that would point towards whether or not GMO food really pose health risks to people. So and the other concern as far as society is concerned also in these GMOs would be the proprietary ownership of the genetically modified plant because farmers are not allowed to plant their own seeds after a particular harvest they are required to buy a new batch from the owners of the technology. So there is also this concern and particularly this concern is among our farmers. So what are the outcomes? Depends on the society. For science-based society of course for example the American society allow the consumption of GMOs with certain requirements according to their law such as the full disclosure that a certain food product contains GMOs. Russia doesn't allow GMOs to be part of the food supply for its population. In the Philippines of course well we all know what happened to the BT-Talong. It has been discontinued. So as you can see the response of society to science and to the emerging technology varies not only according to the natural characteristic of that society its values its morals but also it varies with time. Today is the time where in scientific results can easily be accessed by people through social media of course mostly in laymanized form. So that is both a good news and a bad news because more and more people would be educated as far as scientific results are concerned because the case is we usually are aware only of the technology but we don't care about the science behind the technology. In other words we are consumers we are not producers we are not producers of technologies we simply appropriate this technology for our benefits. So as a summary I would like to compare the interaction of science technology and society to this image here. The image of a man driving and automobile depending on the society that you are in I would like science to be the brain of this driver so the brain is science the body of the driver is society and the automobile is the technology and this analogy I believe is fairly true for the industrialized society the science based society because in other regions of the world in other society the brain is the society it's the society that dictates which science and which technology to appropriate it's the society that dictates how we utilize good or for bad and these decisions of course are based on the priorities of the society as I said at the start of this lecture the natural characteristic of the society it's geography it's priorities, it's problems it's fears and everything about it will ultimately become the constraints to science and technology I don't remember the author who said this but he said that science is a differential equation and religion or society in general is the boundary condition in other words science can give us a lot of things an infinite number of things good or bad that's what a differential equation is it has infinite number of solutions but to arrive at a particular solution you need boundary conditions and these boundary conditions are supplied by society so in other words science has to satisfy the needs the priorities the fears and everything of the society in order to yield certain results that are useful also for the society


all free. I posted it on ebay and I took a best offer on one unit for 750 and another for 350. It's a weighted plush. Huh, never seen that one. Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. All right, in this video we are going to talk about big money Bolo's items to be on the lookout for items you can buy low and sell for a profit. These items come from my Bolo Buddies Facebook group. This is what it looks like. Definitely go join. There is a link down below in my link tree. You'll see that in the description of the video. Definitely come and follow us over on Facebook, Bolo Buddies. And this is what I posted in the group. It says share your best May Bolo. Everybody in the group that wants to share and be a part of this video puts in the comments a screenshot of their item. They tell me where they got it, what they paid for it, and what it sold for. And I create this video for everyone to watch. So thank you to everyone that participated. I hope to see more Bolo's in the future from other members of the group. This is such a great way to contribute to helping others learn and to learn yourself. So let's get started. I bought this vintage frog valance for 50 cents at a yard sale and sold within minutes for $35. I wasn't sure how to price because I didn't see any others. I probably priced too low. However, I was happy with my sale. It's from Sears. It's vintage and look how cute it is. So typically what I do, if I cannot find an item, a sold comp, I do have worth point. I use that to help me. Terra Peak is free. You do have to pay for worth point. Do I recommend worth point? Yes. Depending on what you sell, I think it can be a fantastic tool. I held out a long time on getting it because it's kind of pricey, but it helps me make more money. And I do have videos on that. You can type in Bolo Buddy's worth point into the search bar and see some of those videos on how it's helped me make more money and why I think it's worth it. There is a link down below. It is a referral link. If you guys join with that link, I would greatly appreciate it. And let's move on to the next item. But what I always say is if you can't find it, start your item at an auction at what you're hoping to get. So in this case, $35, start the auction there. And you never know. You might get a bidding war. You might not. It might sell for the price that you're asking. But either way, you're going to know if it's something that's maybe extra special if you can't find any comps. So that's what I recommend. I'm not saying that's the best way, but that's what I do. All right, let's look at this next one here. Picked up this men's shirt at a yard sale for a dollar. It was missing a couple buttons. I listed for $49.99. And after about a month, I think, I sent an offer for $44.99. It was accepted. I was happy with the sale and the yard sale. This is what it looks like. Parish Nation 5XL button-up plaid shirt. Missing buttons. Missing buttons and still sold for $44.99. That's pretty cool. Bought at the Goodwill for $0.99. Sold for $45. Also bought another mug. Also, Hornzia. Hornzia? Newsprint? It was an elephant, but not in pristine condition. It was $0.99 also, but only sold for $0.25. So that must be whatever the print is on the mug. Rare 1976 Hornzia newspaper lion coffee teacup mug, England. There you go. $0.99 into $25. Oh, no way. I'm so confused. Okay, this one sold for $0.45. And it looks like she sold another one not in pristine condition that was an elephant that sold for $0.25. So still, definitely one to be on the lookout for, for sure. Purchased at Savers for $4.20 with senior discount and took a best offer. We were asking $185. It did take over a year. It did take over a year. It did take over a year to sell, however. It is Build-A-Bear Jack Pumpkin Kitty. And this is what it looks like. And if you guys have not seen my Bolo Buddies plush Build-A-Bear videos, definitely check them out. Some of them can go for crazy money. Most of them are bread and butter. So get to know which ones sell for big money. This one ended up selling for, it looks like, a best offer of $165 plus shipping. Bought four of these commonwealth Chanel, chenille plush for $1 each at my local Humane Society Thrift Store. And it sold for a full asking price of $110. Wow. $19.99. Bean bag stuffed animal. Chenille stuff does really good. That's awesome. Picked up for $2.99 at the Goodwill, flipped in seconds for $74.80 plus shipping. Many telling me I messed up, but I don't see 700% profit as a bad thing. Oh my goodness. It's a Halloween animatronic. I don't know what that word is. It's a prop. It's a head prop. And what she's saying is probably people told her she underpriced it. Vintage Halloween or discontinued Halloween can go for really, really big money. So this, depending on, I don't know, maybe some people looked it up and saw that it went for more or because there weren't many listed. This might have been another item that would have been good to auction. But like she said, she turned $3 into $75 and that is a fantastic profit. So you just take your profits and move on. And that's how we learn. But she may be right. Maybe it was only worth $75. Maybe the people commenting on her post were wrong. And you will find that there are a lot of opinions in the Facebook group. So you guys, if you join the Facebook group, just please be kind. You know, just be kind. Treat everybody nice. This was listed for about three days. So a quick flip. It is a Fisher Price slumber babies plush. Can't remember where I got it, but sold it for $73.55. And this is what it looks like. This one comes from the Rebel reseller. If you're not following the Rebel reseller, oh my goodness, what are you doing? She's fantastic. And she is a Bolo Finder, but she specializes in plush. And I have learned so much from her channel. So I will link her down below. She is a Bolo Buddies member, which means that she has joined Bolo Buddies memberships for perks at level two or higher. And she gets a shout out with a screenshot of her YouTube channel. And then I link her down below in the description. So you guys can join membership for perks. If you would like no pressure, the channel is completely free. Memberships are for perks. I didn't realize this was Avon until I was processing it and was very surprised with the comps. It is a Count on Andy Monkey plush from 1988. I have, I may have gotten it from the Goodwill Benz. It's sold for $51.29. Wow, there are Avon items that are still a Bolo for sure. Avon Count on Andy Monkey. That's what it looks like. It's weighted. It's a weighted plush. Huh, never seen that one. I picked this up recently at a churchyard sale. I paid a dollar. I contemplated putting it on my Fisher Price wall, but decided to list it. It is a Fisher Price Cozy's Rabbit plush sold for $55.15. Ooh, it's thermal weave. Thermal weave. Definitely be on the lookout. This is so cute. So at the beginning of Rebel's video, she has a Fisher Price wall. So that's what she's talking about. Definitely go check out her videos. I get up every morning and look on Facebook at various free pages and groups. This one was posted for a bunch of amateur radio equipment in my town. I quickly messaged the person and she told me to come this morning and get it. When I showed up, she was boxing up a bunch of equipment for me. She was glad to get rid of it and it was all free. I posted it on eBay and I took a best offer on one unit for $750 and another for $350. I sold everything rather quickly including manuals, cables, testing equipment, and other H.A.M. ham radio stuff for a total of $1,625 and it was all free. By far my best flip in my 13 years of reselling. Wow, that's awesome. Found the calculator in a catch all box at an estate sale for $1. Took a few weeks to sell but buyer paid full asking price. It is a vintage Hewlett Packard HP 11C scientific calculator with case working $109.89 plus shipping. That's a great return on the money. Paid $6.99, 20% military discount, so $5.60ish, sold via promoted listing on eBay in two weeks for full price of $125. I just got started and have learned a lot from this channel. Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that. It is a golf guard hard sided travel bag shell carry case black wheels rolling locks and this is what it looks like and the buyer paid shipping because that's kind of probably an oversized item for sure. Pick this up at a yard sale for $1. I knew that Crabtree and Evelyn was a good brand to resell but I didn't know this was a discontinued and hard to find scent until I got home and researched it. Sold two days after listing for $49.99 and the buyer paid shipping and it is new in the box. So just so you know perfumes and stuff like that have to be new. Hi Courtney, thank you for allowing me to share a Bolo. I found this vase on the bottom shelf at a Portland Goodwill. It looks scuffed and stained but I could tell it was something special. I used Google Lens to look it up and saw that they sell well. I paid $15 for it, cleaned it up a little bit and put it up for auction at $149. It sold for $247.50. I was very happy with that sale. I got great feedback as well. This line of Neloc N-I-L-O-A-K Pottery has over 100% sell-through on eBay so it was a great Bolo. Check that out. That is fantastic. Found at a garage sale for $0.50. Usually on lipsticks if they are intact and a good brand I will take the risk. New Estee Lauder Pure Color Long Lasting Lipstick Sugar Honey Shimmer sold for $35 plus shipping so it was new without the box. Like you can definitely tell when lipstick has been used. I bought this sound isolation screen at the bins for $5 and sold it for $15. This one comes from Cora's Corner and this is her eBay store. She is Cora's Cool Corner on what not and it looks like she sold this for $15. So I wonder why it was $5. Maybe it was not like the Goodwill Bins but it was, what do you call that, like the Amazon or not Amazon, the Pallet Bins maybe? I don't know. I'm not sure. Okay, here's another one from her.  Each took a best offer of $40 plus shipping sold in less than two weeks. Buyer was all in for $57.10 and this is what the coach zip looks like. Bought for $5 at an estate sale and sold for best offer of $80.65 in two months. It is a vintage fat is beautiful cocktail plates and cups set of four fits in Floyd. There you have it. We found this vintage LL bean boat and tote bag at our small town thrift store for $2. Thought we had a $30 or $40 bag. Turns out it was a Bolo sold for best offer of $300 plus shipping to Japan. Buyer was all in for $405. Side note, all offers were from Japan. That's good information to know. Certain countries, it seems like they collect certain items. I know when I post the vintage baby dresses, the full circle type, I get a lot of offers. I can't remember which country it is, but I'll get tons of offers and they're all from the same country. So they must be collectible in that country. This sale was made on Kittizen and Kittizen is more I believe kids clothing. I've never sold on that site. Let me know your feedback down in the comments if you sell on that platform how you like it. I know that if you use List Perfectly, you can cross post to Kittizen. List Perfectly is a cross posting service where you can cross post. I start my items on eBay and then cross post to Poshmark and Mercari, but there are I think 10 different platforms you can cross post to. You can use the catalog or you can cross post directly. I do have a video down below that shows you exactly how to use it like it's a demo video. I personally like to see how things work before I invest in them, but do invest in your business. Get more eyes on your items by being on more platforms and check that video out. If you like what you see, you can get 30% off your first month of List Perfectly with coupon referral code BOLOBUDDIESALLONEWORD and that video is down below. So it is a vintage bills wallpaper border. Picked up these three LA Rams rolls in a box at Goodwill for $3.99. I have not listed the others. I had them listed on eBay, Mercari, and Posh. I added to Kittizen just for fun after a few months. Very surprised that is where they sold. Wow, $71.25 plus shipping. So Kittizen is, I was thinking it was just clothing, but it looks like it is hard goods also. Anybody want to, you guys can let me know in the comments. I saw a BOLO post for antique embroidery hoops and thought I'd see if I could find any found in a craft grab bag of four embroidery hoops at Goodwill for $1.99. Making this 50 cents started bids at 32 and sold for 55 via eBay, I'm sorry, via buy it now before anyone else could bid. Oh, okay, I see what, I see what she did. So she had it up for auction starting at 32, but somebody offered her 55 and she took it. It says antique princess five inch embroidery hoop Gibbs wooden metal adjusting bow spring. So if you look here, it says that it sold for $32. When you take an offer or a buy it now, okay, so when you take an offer and it becomes a buy it now, they show you the starting price on eBay. So that information is not always accurate there, just FYI. This one comes from Cat Feeling Thrifty and she has a YouTube channel and her eBay store. They are both called Cat Feeling Thrifty. She said I purchased a large jewelry lot at a local online auction for 45 and this is one of the items in the lot. I have about 80 cents into this. It's an antique Victorian Egyptian Greek, I think it says scarab 1880s, revival brooch, Sphinx, lions, large sold for 169 plus shipping. That is fantastic. Great keywords. Oh my goodness. So go follow her, you guys. I'll link her down below. Hi everybody, I'm Cat Feeling Thrifty and I'm a full-time reseller out here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I sell on eBay, Poshmark, and McCarrie and I go as Cat Feeling Thrifty on all three platforms. And yes, I'm eventually going to come to what not. I keep telling Courtney I'm going to do it, but I have the EPGBs, but I will get it done. So my bola this month is a painted pony called Dashing Through the Snow and I picked it up at an online local auction for $15. I was excited because I knew it could sell for over a hundred.  I was so sad. I called them up and they right away credited me and told me to keep the item. And I was about to stick it in my yard sale box and I thought, you know, I'm going to see if it'll sell. So I stuck it on eBay and of course I disclosed the broken ear and I put it up for $50 and sure enough someone bought it within two weeks. So the moral of my story is don't just throw out your broken things, put it on eBay, see what happens. Can't hurt anything. As always Courtney, thank you for everything you do for us and all of you that put out videos to help us grow our business and to learn. Thank you to you all as well. I hope everybody has a great and prosperous week. Purchase two boxes, I'm sorry, two big boxes of baby items that in a state for 16 have sold many items out of it, including these cards. So just a few cents cost in these. Vintage lot of 68 greeting cards, baby Christmas, Valentine's birthday, 70s used for crafting. And this is what it looks like. $38 is what she got for it in the buyer paid shipping. This one comes from Bolo Buddy's member, the Bulldog Shop. And this is her eBay store. An international sale to the Netherlands. I paid a dollar for this at an estate sale, was in my profit pile for six months sold on eBay within a month for 52 plus shipping. UFO and alien books have always done well for me. All right, you guys, we are going to stop there.  Definitely check them all out because you are going to learn so much. I know I have. Thank you to everyone that shared. There's going to be some videos popping up here and here a subscribe and another video down below. I'd love for you guys to check out another video and subscribe. Thanks for watching. Oh, and go join the Facebook group. Thanks for watching.