From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar a good morning. Mr. Dollar. This is Milo remember Oh Milo Martin the agent. Yeah, yes I've just read about that terrible affair about Jarvis pocket murdered Terrible thing. Yeah, he didn't even make it to the hospital And you mr. Dollar the killer tried to do away with you too All I got was a nice crack on the head and I'm not so nice dunking in the canal You were fortunate mr. Dollar extremely fortunate. Yeah. Yeah anything else you wanted to talk about Milo. Oh Yes, I'm sorry. I wasn't at the office when you called earlier Well, your secretary gave me part of the information. I was after she remembered a man had phoned your office yesterday Yes, she said he was a business associate of someone named Joseph Fallon Well, I was I was out of the time, but he did leave that message. What I wanted to know is did he ever call back? No, no, he didn't he probably will unless he figures he's already found his pigeon pigeon what for blackmail mr. Martin blackmail Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny dollar location, Ocean Park, California To State Unity Life Home Office Hartford, Connecticut assignment the silent Queen matter expense account final page 27 years ago somebody had hired one Joe Fallon to murder Tom Sanford the husband of silent movie star Mavis Gale But Joe had muffed the job Now that somebody had turned killer himself His first victim Tom Sanford who'd been going under the name of Barney Slade and running a penny arcade in Ocean Park The second Jarvis pocket who could have helped us spot the killer The only two others who might help us were actor Francis Trevely in an actor's agent while a Martin and Both had received phone calls from the killer the reason blackmail obviously Item 13 $1.35 cab fare to police headquarters Morning surgeon. Hello dollar. How do you feel? Oh, okay? I think you turn up anything on pockets killer only this Slug's taken from the body fired from a 38 from the same gun that killed Barney Slade the same. Oh, let's face Oh, I wish a lot more did Hey, look just what have we got anyway, maybe you better start with what we haven't got well Barney Slade gets clobbered by a killer who scrolls question marks all over Mavis Gales Photographs in his dingy apartment to draw attention to Mavis Gale all right Mavis is named as a beneficiary in slaves insurance policy claims she doesn't know the man then takes a look at his body and identifies it as husband Tom Who supposedly was killed 27 years ago on a hunting trip, right? Then Jarvis pocket one of the men who'd been on that trip fills us in with the info that Mavis Gales ex chauffeur Had tried to knock off Tom. Yeah, but he goofed the job and got knocked off himself question Had Joe Fallon been hired Answer probably question who hired him There's a beaut, huh say this Milo Martin never get in touch with you Yeah, just before I came over he got a call all right apparently from the same man who called Trevelyan Mm-hmm trying Fallon's name on for size. Oh, he's trying to get a reaction. That's for sure And when he gets the right one he'll put on the squeeze I wonder why he didn't call Mavis Gale and give her the pitch maybe he did and she Forgot to tell us about it. I think he called Jarvis pocket. No, no, I think pocket would have told us Wonder if pocket told us everything last night at Barney's place. Oh probably not. I think he suspected something or some one When he left us he probably did a little prowling of his own result got himself killed Look, it's almost noon. Yeah. Yeah now by your lunch. We'll have about an hour then what then I'm going to Tom Sanford's funeral aren't you They buried Tom Sanford alias Barney Slade that afternoon under cold gray skies that made it look like it would rain any minutes But that didn't keep the crowd away All Barney's friends from the pier were there including Frank Jessup who ran the mermaid bit and Twyla James who pushed pennies at the arcade Mavis Gale, of course was there along with Francis Trevelyan and Milo Martin And there were the usual spectators who came out of curiosity When it was all over the sergeant and I started down the dollar. Oh, hi a friend. Mr. Jessup Here was a nice ceremony wasn't he over nice here was practically closed down everybody here for the funeral We're all gonna miss old Barney Somehow I just can't bring myself around to call them Tom Won't seem to fit somehow sure well, I I Gotta get back to twilight. She's taking this kind of hard. Oh, yeah, sure. It's kind of surprised the way miss Gale stood up real brave she was No tears at all. Yeah, I noticed that Sergeant maybe she was all cried out dollar. It happens, you know It happens I went back to my room at the hotel later that afternoon and stretched out on the bed to do a little thinking Sleep something I hadn't had much of in the past 24 hours finally caught up When I awoke it was dark outside after a shower and shave I wandered on down to the amusement pier again no particular reason Then I remembered I still had the key to Barney's apartment. I flicked on the light switch in the living room and sat down Then as I reached around for an ashtray on the small table close by my sleeve brushed several metals and bottles to the floor I was picking them up when somebody came in through the back door Mr. Dollar, I happen to notice the line under the arcade door. What are you doing back here? Well, nothing in particular Twilight I'm afraid I accidentally knock these off the table. Oh, no harm I guess Poor Barney won't be needing them anymore. Well, he had quite an array here medicine pills. Yeah Viruses some kind hit him like a ton of bricks a month or so ago. Oh Did he go to the hospital? No Not Barney. He wouldn't hear of it. Well, who took care of him? Oh Frank Jessup myself Between the two of us we did the cooking and saw to it. He got his medicine and all wait a minute I thought you said you'd never been in Barney's apartment. Yeah, that's right first time was when I I Found the body. Well, look if you and Frank took care of him while he was sick It was over at Frank's place in Venice. Oh Yeah, Barney and Frank and a couple other fellas were playing cards Suddenly Barney wasn't feeling so good. So he decided to lie down for a while That's when the game broke up Frank stayed with Barney and when he saw how bad his fever was he called Doc Ferris Doc Ferris, huh? Yeah lives over in Venice Thanks, sweetheart Lock up for me Expense account item 14 1 dollar and 50 cents cab fare and tip to Doc Ferris's place in Venice Barney he told me had been a pretty sick man high fever delirious at times But Frank Jessup had stayed by his bedside during the crisis and had done a good job of nursing him through the night Expense account item 15 1 dollar and 50 cents same cab back to the amusement zone The attendant at the mermaid bit told me that Frank Jessup had gone home early Expense account item 16 75 cents cab fare to Frank's bungalow in Venice The place was dark No answer.  Good thanks, I finally caught sight of him a couple of blocks later. He was headed south along a back street. I Trailed him all the way out to 47th Avenue sand dunes oil wells a scattering of houses Then I saw him duck into some shadows. So I waited About ten minutes later a big Cadillac came along cruising slowly As it reached the corner someone inside flicked out a package and then the car disappeared into the night Frank Jessup suddenly darted out of the shadow scooped up the package and came running straight toward me Oh I said hold it What are you doing here? I don't have to ask you that question. Do I Frank and I don't have to guess what's in that package go All right Look dollar You get a good thing here. Maybe we have sure sure why not 50 50 that the deal you offered to your old friend Bonnie Slade Look, look, I didn't want to kill him only when I went there the other night and told him what I had in mind He only got sore started pushing me around How did you find out about Barney's past that time? He was sick delirious fever make him do a lot of talking That's right.    I am mr. Dollar Easy there. I'm a good shot. Well, well The actor's friend and agent Milo Martin. Thank you for holding our little friend here, mr. Dollar and makes things locked easier Hmm your little friend was running a bluff on you Martin I don't think he's got the proof that you hired Joe Fallon 27 years ago Oh really perhaps not but I couldn't risk it now. Could I so you thought you could make a little time with Maviscale if husband Tom was out of the way that it yes, but I was wrong didn't even give you a tumble Too bad Milo.  Oh mr. Martin.  Martin. You gotta trust me.   Martin. I swear it you're so right little man No one will ever know Frank pulled away from me somehow and started racing across the sand dunes, but he didn't get very far Milo Martin pumped two shots into his back that meant he took his eyes off me for just a split second and that's all I needed I belted him where he was very very soft and then followed with a heart up Milo 10% Martin full to without a sound 17th and final item on expense account $185 and 10 cents hotel and incidentals an ocean park and transportation back to Hartford Expense account total $436 and 25 cents end of accounts remarks about Frank Jessup He got his out there in the sand dunes for the murders of Tom Sanford alias Barney Slade and Jarvis pocket About Milo Martin In jail awaiting trial for murder of the above mentioned F. Jessup About Mavis Gale She's going to see to it that the good work at brother pockets rescue mission goes on We'll donate $25,000 to the cause Yeah, you guessed it that'll be the insurance money End of remarks and a report yours truly Johnny dollar Now here's our star with a special announcement Yes, I think you'll be glad to know that beginning sunday instead of five times a week will be on the air only once a week But with a complete half hour story Remember that's beginning this coming sunday So join us. Won't you? Yours truly Johnny dollar Yours truly Johnny dollar starring Bob Bailey is transcribed in Hollywood It is produced and directed by jack john sone. This week's story was written by adrian john doe Heard in the cast were paula winslow virginia greg victor perron paul dubov frank gerstle john daner laurence dubkin and chet stratton Musical supervision by amorego marino Remember will now be on the air on sunday nights The time will be listed in your newspaper with more exciting stories of yours truly johnny dollar roi roan speaking


Next, we have the hermit. This is a humanoid creature of unknown origin that lives in a shack that it carries around on its own back. That's pretty cool. The shack is made of an unknown material, but it resembles tin, as we know it. When the hermit deploys this shack, a front yard type thing appears in front of it, and this yard has sticks and pikes with heads of other entities on them, such as heads of skin stealers, hounds, a large intestine of a human, interesting. And the head of a strangler, also the eyeball of a smiler and an unknown snake entity with purple scales. Despite the hermit's appearance, he is actually very hospitable, even though he resembles what we would call a plague doctor. His accent is a manly, slightly Irish accent, and he enjoys lengthy, deep conversations, especially deep conversations about his food and the food he likes to prepare. The hermit is known to be a cunning warrior and a skilled hunter, and has been witnessed using crossbows and bone saws and bear traps. And he seems like a pretty awesome guy, just a lone wolf who hunts for sport and offers tea to random people. I mean, how can you hate him?


Two gigantic Uzbek kebabs right here. Ho ho ho! French dip mung bean, this is a dream come true. If you like Japanese food, if you like Thai food, this is why you gotta check out. One more. Yeah! If you're interested in rare Asian food, you do not wanna miss this one. Everything from one ton ramen to Korean Americana, to our bun-meat dip and ball-call consomme, skewers from Uzbekistan, and Japanese food with a Thai remix. Guys, this is Asian food in New York City. Hit that like button and let's go. All right everybody, the day has arrived. You can now order our menu items here at Five Spice at the Mulberry location. Here you have the loaded fries with brisket and consomme for only $9. And then for the bun-meats, these are $16 each, but you have a spicy consomme, and then you have the fish-bum-meat with the brussel sprouts, this is the David, and then you have the Andrew, which is the brisket dip with the extra spicy chipotle consomme. This is what really makes it different. This consomme dip is actually based off of the Vietnamese ball-call dish, but it's kicked up a notch with some extra chipotle. That's nice. French dip bun-meat, this is a dream come true. And right here, we got the fish bun-meat with brussel sprouts. This is the David, David loves doing this. And actually adding the brussel sprouts actually adds like a level of fragrance to it, because when they get charred up, it kind of gives it just an extra level of flavor right there, and then you have the consomme, which actually isn't as spicy as the brisket one. Let's pour a little bit of that on. The charred brussel sprouts actually give it some sweetness and some kind of fragrance, and then everything else has the sweetness and the coolness of the daikons and carrots and cucumbers, and then the fried fish aspect is not overpowered by the consomme either. Here you have the loaded fries, only for $9, super juicy brisket topped off with some pico de galle and the consomme over a bed of fries, guys. It does not get much better than this look. Sweet fried, a little spicy, juicy. Honestly, guys, I am so glad that these collab dishes turned out well. I'm not just saying that. I really think that these dishes are gonna be very popular and people are gonna order them and realize that they're just, honestly, just overall good concepts and good recipes.  They took our idea, but they really made a reality. And what I love most is having the different consomme dips. I mean, this is something different that you've never seen with bummeas before. Get one of the fungmeas, get the loaded fries, $9, $16. It's a lot of food and it's a cool experience. And check it out. Listen, we're in 2022. The word Asian fusion doesn't mean what it used to. If there was any sort of negative connotation from the past, it is done. We're here at Zuto Ramen and they make everything handmade. It's actually very Japanese, Dominican and Chinese influence. Here we have this delicious kimchi brisket ramen, beautifully done with the soft-boiled egg. We have their version of karaage. We have soy garlic wings and we have some no-frills handmade, house-made fresh gyoza. Koi garlic wings. Beautiful. Have their karaage, nice dark chicken meat. Nice. Most of the gyoza that you'll get at other restaurants, to be honest, are probably frozen. Mmm. So guys, there's a lot of kimchi ramens out there, but this one is taken with a lot of care. Even the kimchi is house-made. Mmm, look at that brisket, wide egg noodles. At this point, a lot of Japanese-style restaurants are not owned by Japanese people, but to be honest, I think the only thing that really matters is the taste and the quality and the attention to detail. And just smelling these soy garlic wings, I can tell the garlic flavor is super strong. And honestly, not to be overlooked is their cocktail list.  Oh, that's good. This is my first time ever having chicken one-ton ramen. The one-ton is made in-house, and the chicken bone broth is made over 24 hours. People out there have an obsession with super authentic, traditional ramen, but sometimes there's a beauty in knowing what's traditional and just having something brand new. That's fire. Who diving into their version of spicy miso, let's get it. Oh, that pork is coming apart real easily. Amazing char flavor on the chashu with a little bit of that black garlic oil. Wow. Here's another ramen I've never had before. This is a tonkatsu shoyu mixture. So it's like half tonkatsu broth, half shoyu, which is a soy sauce broth. And wow, look at this. We got the thin noodles here. Mm, I love shoyu broth because it's light, and a lot of people like tonkatsu broth because it's heavy, and these blend well together. Here we got their beautiful bowl of seafood ramen. And I know that most people are not used to seeing a seafood ramen, maybe unless you go to like Hokkaido or places in Japan that specialize in seafood. But look at this, man. You got these big clams here. You have a nice seafood broth. I can taste the dashi in there. It's very umami. There's big nice pieces of scallops and shrimp and clams. And honestly, man, if you've never had a seafood ramen before, I recommend you get it. Last but not least, we got Chef Jason here. All right, what are we looking at? If you're looking at 14 ounce New York strip, I did a Japanese barbecue sauce, which includes a peach, a Fuji apple. I put a pineapple, and I also put a soy sauce honey and oyster sauce on it. Yo, you heard it from Chef himself. Guys, this glaze has peach, apple, and pineapple, and oyster sauce, so all the great elements. Cook medium. Mmm. For me personally, I eat so much authentic Asian food that, man, I just have a great appreciation for Asian fusion, especially when it's done right. And the truth is, a lot of people love it too. That's why Hakasan and Budakans are so popular, and on a casual side, you got Zuto. I mean, listen, they got everything from steak and fries to ramen to gyoza to burgers. For example, let's say you come here with your coworkers, and you got a lot of non-Asian people there. I mean, they got everything here. Steak, burgers, ramen, and it's all high quality. So, man, shout out to Zuto, man. They do a great job here. What's going on, man? At Little Cairn, we do Asian-inspired sandwiches. So if you take a look at our menu, fresh from Chinese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Japanese, and we put it in with sandwiches and rice bowls, and I think that really represents New York. New York is a belt of thought of different cultures, and that's what we do at Little Cairn. All right, you guys, this is a Fuss Short Rib Sandwich Dip. Fuss Short Rib. That is incredible. You guys gotta come get this Fuss Short Rib on the ciabatta.  Had to try the Fuss Short Rib, guys, because I love any sandwich that tastes like fuh, because I love fuh. Whoa. Whoa. Been in the Ginger Scallion Aoli. This really does taste like fuh, and it's super juicy like fuh too. All right, you guys, you got the Taiwanese G Pie Sandwich. My God. It looks good. You can tell the chicken looks different too. I have the Braised Pork Sandwich, man.  And what I love about Little Cairn is that they got the Ginger Scallion Aoli, and then they have the Sesame Aoli. Those are two new Aolies in the game that are Asian-influenced, so let's try this out. Juicy Pork, nice balance with the onions and the lettuce and the cabbage. This is a must-try. This is the massive hangover cure. I recommend you sharing this with another person. It's got bacon, spam, egg, American cheese, two eggs, and then Aoli. That's a heavy sandwich, but it tastes nice with the Aoli, and that's a little Asian kick on it too. I think it's really cool about Little Cairn is to have like a group of Chinatown Rays guys, you know, come out to the East Village, open up a spot outside of Chinatown, because a lot of the time the new businesses are open up around the area that they grew up in, but these guys are really venturing off trying to deliver traditional Asian flavors in a very accessible way, not being too traditional with it, and I just love to see it. I think this is the evolution and the fact that it's a fast casual spot that's gonna have possibly a late night crowd here on this busy intersection. I'm excited for them. This is an Isan tuna larb here at 11 Tigers, very modern recipe, traditional, but obviously updated, elevated. Super refreshing. This is a rosemary, smoked. It's called even tiger white ocean sauce, and we top it with wheat flour, and also the chili oil. How is it? Oh, I don't know. Oh! All right you guys, this is the ribeye here at 11 Tigers. As you can see, it got the gold flake, got the trendy things on it. This dish right here kinda symbolizes what 11 Tigers is trying to do. It's trying to blend a Japanese izakaya with Thai flavors, and so they have the Japanese monocle, which is kind of like a, almost like a little dessert sandwich, but they have it with the uni and spicy tuna, about to try it out. Quality of the food is super high. I've never had anything that tastes like this. Okay, this is called back tender curry. This is an authentic Thai curry. It's made up of anang curry with a sea of ribeye, and you know, like, can you like pour the noodle? You will see like the black noodle inside, which is like, you know, like we make dishes like, but she's like, and refer to the tiger. This is the bag, and orange color. It's a noodle bag. Yes. This is called, 11 Tiger Tom Yum Ramen, which is a Thai spicy lamb chili with a ramen noodle inside, and we serve it with the tiger prawn, and the shiwin. All right you guys, what you are looking at is a panang curry from Thailand with the ribeye, with black fettuccine. Like we said guys, this chef is doing all types of stuff. It's a Thai chef who trained in Japanese food, obviously some European influence as well. This is crazy. Ribeye and a Thai curry pasta. If you told me that it worked before I had it, I don't know if I would have believed you, but it works. And this is the very first of its kind. This is a Tom Yum Ramen with a big old tiger prawn. Mm.   If you like Japanese food, if you like Thai food, this is the spot you gotta check out. Plus, it's on the second floor. Speak easy, Stout. Very cool vibe, man. I wanna see the spot be successful. One of the coolest things, in my opinion about New York City, is this sort of United Nations ability that Manhattan has. Listen guys, it's almost midnight, and we are about to be transported to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. That's the capital of the country in Central Asia. It's nearby Kazakhstan. We're talking a mixture of Mongolian, Arab, Russian, other types of influences, guys. Let's check it out. All right you guys, here with my man, he's from Uzbekistan. What are we looking at? This is Uzbek, traditional Samosa from Uzbekistan. This one is chicken. It's made in the tunnel, in a special way. Uzbek Samosa. All right, man, what are we looking at here? This is a manti. Uzbek manti. We got different flavors.  Yeah, it's mixed, yeah, different way. This is the Kavuma Lagman. That's the best one in our kitchen. What's the difference between regular Lagman and Kavuma Lagman? It's without the broth and soup. So if you guys know about the Central Asian region, they love eating Samosas, which is, you know, related to the Samosa, but obviously they fill it with their own things. I'm trying a bunch of different ones right here. I've never had a veggie Samosa before. All right you guys, we're talking about prime steak right here. This is one they're known for. This is a very special type of Samosa. Uzbek style. Oh man. All right you guys, this is pumpkin. It looks like curry. It's pumpkin, which is more like obviously regional too, that Central Asian zone. Last but not least guys, this is the chicken Samosa. If you guys never had this, it's almost like a fried clamshell pastry, kind of like a Shenzhen bao or a Shanghainese, fried Shalun bao on Nanjing Shilu. All right you guys, we got the Uzbek Monty right here. Oh my goodness. We got pumpkin. We got beef.  And the very Uzbek touches obviously this sour cream or Russian style. David, you... I'm telling you, the Monty is a serious, serious go.  It's almost like a gigantic one ton, but the filling is definitely way different. Way more dill, way more stuff that like, you kind of view like in the mountainous, almost like Western regions. Honestly, the gigantic style of like Mongolian, Central Asian Monty is actually like one of my favorite styles of dumpling. It's probably out of like 20 top three. We have the Kovuma Lagman. This is a very, very special Uzbek style of lagman. It has less soup, it's a little bit more fried. And so that's the kind of style, man. It's kind of like, I guess it would remind you of like dry style noodles versus like soup noodles, but man, let's try it out. This is what they're really known for. Super seasoning. The noodles are short, but they're nicely fried. This is the real authentic Uzbek plov. So here, only here you can try the real authentic Uzbek plov. Authentic Uzbek pilaf right here. Getting into this special Uzbek pilaf right here. Now, obviously a lot of places have their own version of pilaf, but they do it a little bit differently. We got a mix of beef and lamb, altogether, carrots, yellow rice, and not the Caribbean yellow rice. Obviously this is Central Asian yellow rice. One of my favorite Central Asian dishes out there, and I know that a lot of different countries and cultures, they all share this one, but man, I'm really enjoying this Uzbek one. You guys gotta come here. Farida has two locations. There's one in Midtown and one in Downtown and Financial District. We're here at the Financial District one. I definitely say check it out. It's such an experience that decor is amazing. You know, for me and David, we've traveled around and we've eaten a lot of Mongolian, a lot of Xinjiang food, some Afghani food, and now having Uzbek food. It's really cool to see all the shared dishes, but man, it's also cool to see all the little differences that people have, and even each restaurant, each chef is gonna do it a little bit differently, so it's really cool. All right, you guys, you are looking at two gigantic Uzbek kebabs right here. Andrew, you know, we started almost with the smallest ones, Andrew, eating yangrochuan in Shanghai and Beijing. So to see these, probably something that's closer to the source of like where the inspiration came from is crazy. Straight up guys, you know me. I eat out two times a day, 330 days of the year, and let me tell you this. This is absolutely one of the best kebabs I've ever had in my life. Everybody, I'm pretty excited because David said this was the best skewer he had had and maybe his life. So, I don't know if it's a Uzbekistan thing, but this skewer is fire. Yo, you guys, it's midnight on a Sunday here in New York City. I've got the great lounge singer. I've got a crazy Uzbek shish kebab and some compote. All right, you guys, we're at a brand new spot called Seas for Charlie. We're here with the owners and the chefs, man. Tell us, what is the concept of Seas for Charlie? Yeah, so basically we're all friends from Atlanta, Georgia since we were 10 years old, right? So, it has a little bit of our identity. We're all from Atlanta, Georgia, but also grew up in the United States. So, we wanted to serve something that kind of represents ourself, which is Korean tapas with the Southern flair. All right, our first dishes at Seas in Charlie, which is like this Korean Southern hipster spot, man. We're the really nice at. People are very nice, service is great. Let's try the shrimp toast first. Very excited to try this one. Ooh, look at that. I know visually it looks like an egg roll, but if you look inside, it's like a shrimp roll. It kind of does taste a little Chinese for sure. It's something that you might get at dim sum except rolled into toast, deep fried, and you got this kind of spicy aioli.  The things I really like about this KFC is that they use dark meat. Here we got the Salisbury steak sitting on a bed of grits. This is the definition of South Korean South American or Southern American fusion here. Ooh, look at that.  Salisbury steak on a bed of grits. Let's see how this fusion is. This is the first time I've ever seen anybody fuse Asian flavors into the Salisbury steak. That's not usually the first dish they think of to fuse with. Peppery, sweet, buttery. No, that's the best Salisbury steak I've ever had. You got the fully mushroom bibimbap. It's a very small bowl. It doesn't come in the stone bowl, but it's the same, you know, mixing up with rice concept that the bibimbap does. That is a delicious everyday dish. I could eat that two, three times a week. Oh my goodness, guys. I'm dipping it in the honey Korean Southern ribs from Atlanta, Georgia. You know, I had a lot of bagels in my day here in New York City, but I don't know if I ever had a Monaca bagel that was, you know, like the bagel here at Charlie's. Oh my goodness, it's cutting together nicely though. Oh my goodness, guys. You got the jam pouring out. Telling you guys that's a five out of five bagel. That's one of the best bagels I have in quite some time.  I got to show you guys this soap here. I'm going to push my hand on top. And the soap comes out in the stars. Right, our next two Asian concepts in New York City are coming out of the newly redone tin building at South Seaport. Listen, they have a lot of different cuisines coming out of here like Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, but it's all done with some French tuning. We're going to go try the brand new plush Chinese restaurant called The House of the Red Pearl. And then we're also going to check out Chiku, which is their sushi concept here. So I think it's going to be a brand new experience. And you know, maybe something that's kind of hard to find in New York. All right, you guys, we're at House of the Red Pearl. This is from St. George. This is like a really famous French guy. And these are $20 spring rolls wrapped in basil leaves. But this is a apricot ginger mustard. Like we said, guys, this is not for your Chinatown crowd, but we'll check out how it is. Blast of ginger, blast of scallion, and blast of wasabi. Bro, never had a spring roll like this before. This does kind of taste like one of those cabbage egg rolls which you might find at a Midwestern, you know, Chinese restaurant, you know, serving mostly a non-Asian clientele. But honestly, this is like an elevated version. It is interesting here. My favorite types of dishes from Chinese cuisine is definitely the steamed fish. Here we have a sea bass with ginger, scallion, and tons of chili and coriander with a nice little bed of oil and soy sauce. There's no bones here, as you know. They're not going to make you pick through it, take out the bones and then flip it. None of that, guys. We are at a spot that is serving, you know, primarily, probably non-Asians. But let's take a look at this. Generous amounts of ginger and scallion. That's good. I would say that's a classic steamed sea bass on par with a lot of other Chinese restaurants. We have the garlic chili shrimp. Now this dish definitely is going to seem a little bit more like Americanized than even the other dishes here. You have some summer squash. That's definitely not very traditional, but you know, this is just the elevated version of what New York Chinese food is. Now there's so many different levels of actually New York Chinese food. It starts at the Chinese express spots, you know, that you get served through the glass and then it goes up and then there's like Philippe chow's and then I feel like this is the next iteration. So this is garlic chili shrimp. Looks very flavorful though. I'm looking forward to it. Pretty good. They use high quality stuff here, guys. They're hot stickers with fresh ginger on top. That's a little different. Let's check this out. Mm, the Mala chicken. I think this is going to be based off the dish. Lots of G from Sichuan. Let's check it out. Mm. I think these are checking tender strips. Fried to perfection, guys. I mean, look at this dish. I feel like between the aesthetics and the flavor and the quality. I mean, yeah, this spot is pricey, but again, man, hey, it is Chinese inspired and the guys back there who are cooking the food and the chefs who came up with the dishes truly do got a passion for China. So everybody's going to have their own interpretation, but definitely check it out. Listen, guys, anybody can eat Chinese food their own way at their own level. And to be honest, here at House of the Red Pearl, I totally can see foreign world leaders like having a dinner here. I know you're supposed to dip the top, but... What are you guys going to open for? All right, so overall, man, I think anybody who walks into this building and is spending that amount of money loves French culture or French vibes. Maybe you're not there to eat French food, but you like that experience. I would say, I mean, I saw a lot of proper people here today. I didn't see a lot of tattoos. I didn't see a lot of, like, I guess, crazy outfits. It is a very, like, nice, clean aesthetic. And overall, I mean, if that's what you're looking for, I think the tin building is doing it right here. Next up on New Asian Concepts, we've got Ando Andrew. This is a inventive new Chinese bakery.  I mean, here we have a lava yabbing, AKA mooncake. Bust it open, man. Bust it open. Stop talking. Stop talking. Woo! Oh! Just like the middle of a lai wang bao. Kind of thing, you know, I dim sum, the sweet egg yolk bun. Let's get it. Don't chill, Jekwila. This is one of the best mooncakes I've ever had. Super rich. Super rich. Next up, Andrew. I'm telling you, Andrew, these bakers from Fujian are thinking of some things. Dude, look, you got boba on top of a Earl Grey Dantat, AKA Dantat. Let's check it out, guys. I'm always down to try the new egg tarts. Did you, were you skeptical? That's the- Be honest, were you skeptical? That's the Earl Grey cream on top of a Portuguese egg tart with boba. You know, the Portuguese egg tart, Andrew, is from Portugal. The Earl Grey is from England. And the boba is from Taiwan. Guys, these desserts here at Ando are these pastries. They're not cheap. But I'm telling you, there's a lot of work that goes into them.  I've never had seaweed on a pastry before. Andrew, I've got a yook-sung parfait. Look at these layers. I'm about to pull it out like an archaeologist. Bop. We got taro at the bottom. We've got something fluffy. Got something else. And maybe some pork floss. Maybe some condensed milk. All the layers of the earth. Oh, and then the mochi top. Oh, that's why I was stretching. I thought that was some mozzarella for a second. Let me be corrected. Guys, check out this cream puff. Oh my gosh, there are so many layers to this food, man. Andrew, you are really seeing Asians in New York City stretch the creativity in the pastry shop and into the dessert space.  They're a little bit less expensive to start. So you can be a little bit more creative. And that's what I love to see, man. You should take risks. I mean, this is New York City. People love Instagrammable stuff. They love to be wowed. They love to be written about. So man, shout out to these. I think they came to America more as students, as international students. They stayed. They opened a business for everybody. And I think that people are more willing to accept wacky desserts rather than wacky proteins. Sometimes I see what you mean. But yeah, definitely get wacky with your desserts, guys. It's really fun. You guys, it's 2022. They are fusing Asian culture with Latino culture. These are Vietnamese bun sale tacos. That is nem nun. That is pressed Vietnamese pork. This is a lemongrass grilled chicken. This is catfish. I got some shrimp ones coming up. This is a nookchom type of sauce. I don't want to say it's 100% authentic. But listen, guys, the idea of doing a bun sale taco is not 100% authentic. However, it is duly authentic to both cultures. Nem nun taco here at Seo in Nolita. So I've actually had the bun sale taco several different ways before. What they did here was they actually took a Mexican tortilla shell and they dipped it in the turmeric powder that is making up the bun sale. So this is almost like a hybrid between a tortilla and a bun sale, not a full bun sale shell. Guys, I want to say the concept of Vietnamese Mexican fusion is really interesting because usually when you think about Asian cultures fusing with Mexican, a lot of people are familiar with the Korean taco. But this is the Vietnamese taco. And I just love that there's so many fusions out there nowadays. In 2022, 2023, people are going to try it out. We'll see what sticks. This is the shrimp one. I have a feeling this one's going to be good. It's kind of like a semi soft taco shell, but it does have the taste of bun sale. Coconutty, turmeric, lots of fresh ingredients in there. Here we have the catfish one with a little bit of dill and turmeric sauce right there.  I like catfish. It's very unctuous and very like thick, you know, it sticks together well. Let's go. Get the catfish one here. The little extra dill sauce. This catfish one is hinting. The tortilla is chewy, crunchy, crispy. The catfish and the extra sauce is doing a lot right now. Guys, I like this one come to sale. Check out like, you know, another fusion combination that maybe you didn't expect, especially to find in New York, Mexican Vietnamese, that's very, very LA. All right, our next new Asian spot in New York is Don Saviche. It's not really Asian, but it is kind of Asian because it's Peruvian food and I love this spot. I actually come here a lot. It's at Essex Market. Guys, this half chicken with the avocado salad was only $13 and this shrimp saltado, which is usually lomo saltado with steak. Guys, this was only 15 bucks, so I gotta try it and let you know, man. You guys are not familiar with Peruvian food. It's actually getting a lot trendier nowadays. It actually has a deep Asian influence from a lot of Japanese and Chinese influence from those immigrants that came over to Peru a long time ago. And actually, they even had a Japanese president. Oh, man. Oh, man. Guys, this chicken is marinated on an off-site secret location. Even the workers here don't know how exactly it's marinated, but let me tell you this. It is definitely marinated because it is delicious. This green sauce is called the Aegeo. Sorry if I pronounced that wrong, but... I almost don't care if I'm wrong. This is so right. Whoa. Look how juicy it is. It's just tearing apart, guys. Now guys, shout out to one other fast casual Peruvian spot I like to eat at in Midtown called Cherp. Shout them out over on 34th Street, but this is the one in Lower Manhattan. Sure, a lot of you out there have had lomo sotado. That's the one with steak and fries, but this is the shrimp sotado. All right, let's check this out. This has yellow rice. The shrimp. Guys, I think Peruvian food falls into one of the three top non-Asian cuisines that Asian people really like. I think it's Peruvian, Italian, and possibly Georgian. And actually, historically speaking, all those different cuisines could have very deep-rooted Asian influence, even dating back to the Mongolians. Maybe not the Peruvian, that's a little bit more recent, but Georgian and Italian. Guys, fresh cooked shrimp, $15. This is a steal in the Lower East Side.


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Yeah, we own boss talk TV shot at the e-heater reason you see pounds yesterday We told you how federal agents searched two of his properties as part of an investigation into alleged sex and drug Trafficking today an updated civil lawsuit makes similar allegations Chief investigative reporter Jonathan Deans joining us from the newsroom with where this investigation stands today, John Not only no criminal charges filed to date in connection with ongoing questions about alleged sex trafficking But it appears one associate of Combs was arrested yesterday on unrelated drug charges This is video of Sean Combs yesterday in Miami shortly after news broke of the raids the rapper known as Diddy Seen pacing shortly after federal agents seized his phones at an airport before a planned trip to the Bahamas At that airport Miami police say they also arrested Brendan Paul who is charged with cocaine possession A civil lawsuit names Paul as one of Cone's associates This all happening after Homeland Security investigations agents Descended on his multi-million dollar Los Angeles home yesterday They could be seen carrying out boxes and bags of evidence in Miami yesterday a similar scene HSI agents seen taking away evidence including a laptop the speed at which it appears these raids were conducted Suggests that agents were concerned that they needed to secure evidence quickly and prevent anyone From destroying evidence before they got there the searches which lasted into the night were based on search warrants filed Here by the Southern District of New York the matter related to sex trafficking drugs and other allegations Previously raised in civil lawsuits against the rapper One lawsuit updated just yesterday by a New York artist named Rodney Jones He alleges sex trafficking drugs guns and inappropriate abuse of minors We're all part of an organized enterprise with some of the activity Allegedly taking place at Cone's properties lawyers for Cone's in the past have denied any wrongdoing But have not commented since yesterday's raids Federal prosecutors in New York have interviewed numerous women who allege wrongdoing sources tell us and Former R&B singer and Cone's one-time partner Cassie has accused him of physically and sexually abusing her for years Cone settled that lawsuit a day after was filed, but Cone's lawyer says he does not admit any wrongdoing in that matter Again no criminal charges filed and the search warrant remains sealed Cone's again not yet commenting but in the past has denied wrongdoing the criminal investigation continues David Jonathan Dean star chief investigator reporter Jonathan. Thank you Victims and witnesses for the last few months Cone's was in Miami at the time of the raid and is cooperating with this investigation Homeland security agents seizing electronics from the Miami and Los Angeles homes of Sean Diddy Cone's and simultaneous cross-country raids executed Monday afternoon This chopper video shows federal agents loading up cardboard box after cardboard box into vehicles Also seen from above SWAT teams and agents with long guns So I think what's happening here is we're looking for the laptops we're looking for all that information We're also looking to try to corroborate any of the allegations that we've seen in these civil lawsuits While no criminal charges have been filed against the 54 year old a federal investigation has been underway for several months until alleged Human trafficking he's recently been the subject of several civil lawsuits the music mogul accused of sex trafficking and abuse Allegations he vehemently denies in an Instagram post pinned at the top of his ex feed He says enough is enough saying sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday Let me be absolutely clear I did not do any of the awful things being alleged in November Diddy settled a lawsuit with his ex-girlfriend of 10 years Cassie Ventura just one day after she filed an Explosive civil lawsuit under the New York Survivors Act for 30 million dollars Upon hearing the news about the federal search warrants executed Monday at both Wow. Hey, man Check it man, man. I'm just tapping back in because it's gonna come to my attention that the electronics The electronics that they took they're fishing and looking for something P. Diddy Diddy was Diddy had a lot going on over all the years man, and I said man What are they looking for on these computers? Anybody that think they know what they're looking for on the computers. They said it was sex trafficking You know, what are they looking for and I'm gonna tell you something whatever it is They're looking for it's embedded in these hard drives I thought about that because there is all type of you got to understand just because you delete something Doesn't mean it was deleted They have all type of software to come and get whatever you delete it It could be 10 years ago. It could be two years ago You could have traded a laptop in So the laptop had a phone whatever those phone document though Don't phone documents the iPhone is a little bit better, but I'm telling you Whatever they had over years the iPads all that these hard drives It just because you think you erase something doesn't necessarily mean that it was erased So I'm telling you right now If he thinking he raised something or if they thinking they it's embedded in that hard drive Unless you I mean it's hard to get away from it You can erase it delete it and in their software.  It's still embedded files, man And and that's the thing whatever is done in the dark. It'll come to the light now did he to be honest Which I feel like they're fishing because they hadn't really just said that that did he had any these are all speculated Allegations Allegiance and all type of stuff going on but they did all that search it They put all that money in buying and all this stuff and they're trying to build a case I thought you know when the when the fairs come they already got something of course They got witnesses and they got people who've been victimized But they wanted something concrete. I know that's what they were doing They had to want something that was concrete something that they felt was gonna be something they could Really really hold against some depression in it taking either making paying some money out or either taking You know putting them in a situation where they have to be cornered into some time But whatever the rate may be did he was pacing back and forth back and forth in Miami Yesterday, they said he was on a flight. He wasn't on that flight. They seized a lot of electronics That's what they're saying. They seized a lot of electronics They're trying to accuse them of sex trafficking and sex trafficking is not Extensive as you think you think it's like it's still in somebody take them over here But you could just be taking somebody from point a to point B And they say that they really wasn't even down with what you what you did and then there should be there Some dating can go on so this sex trafficking thing is something that you can play games with in these later times back in a day I wouldn't like that so things have changed man. It's not like it used to be so, you know I'm just I'm really really trying to wrap my head around What's really going down in this whole situation? Did his children was I think they just detained them they didn't they didn't They didn't arrest them, but there's this one guy they're calling them you Brandon Hall I believe it's his name allegedly, this is the guy that they Say they took and rested and and hey man this guy right here He looked like they say they might have caught him with some on it. Some of that white girl on him I don't know. They said that white girl. He might have been on that white girl I don't know what's going on how they catch him with it. You know caught him red-handed. I Don't understand what's going on with this whole case, but I do know it seems like a fishing case It doesn't seem like they have all their ducks in a row They put they're trying to get them in a row, but it's more to come out on this man. I just you know It's kids man. I know they got to be all confused. They ain't never been detained like that They ain't never had to deal with nothing like that them kids ain't never seen or like this happen It hit it hit hard yesterday, and I don't know if y'all ever been in a raid But it don't just you don't it seemed like when somebody violates your stuff. I've been in a raid When they come in and they throw stuff over chunk desk move stuff move You don't even feel the same sleeping in that house You ain't feel the same being in that house. You didn't violate it. It's all more even in even in prison They're taking they'll come in and Tell your house up trying to look for contraband and all kind of stuff Rip everything apart.  Well, they took the laptop pick your desk up Well, you know pick your TV up and I'm gonna tell you something they might have come say some of them TV Other TV's be having information on them to them for cage These are smart items and that's the part where you got to be careful man I'm gonna tap in the reality TV and just get her insight on it man We've been following this pretty close. I felt like we've got to bring y'all something But the latest development is these electronics man. These electronics they got do they have something on those hard drives a reality TV? Are you there? Oh, so he flipped it So he's saying they going in there trying to find ways to strata if anybody else is connected to it They trying to extend my the game For the people who they might not want to be exposed Right, that's a good way to look at it. I didn't think of it like that. She'll night might be on or something You know, he lives in behind door so he knows and he definitely them been through this So he would be one that could definitely Relate to the situation, right? Wow Wow man, that's crazy Well, I can tell you right now man. He's He's seen this coming a mile away But like I said, if he didn't get rid of electronics, he had all the time in the world So that's what I say about you know, they looking and they coming Why would you hold on the stuff that you know, that's gonna put you in a situation? Much minus he got he could have bought all new electronics Within the last two months and took all that stuff and got rid of it. Yeah What you hit through the great What not Jay-Z alleged oh Man Well, I I just really you know, like I said all the guys that's getting has gotten this money You think they're just trying to do a pot this get to get this bread back Well, I tell you man, wow Wow, I just think it's it's a tough situation when you start looking at it from that perspective man Man, hey, we praying for we praying for the billionaire black guys. What about dr. Dre? Is he okay? What about Robert Smith? Is he okay? What about No, I don't what would you talk with you all? Well, I just know when you look at all these millionaire Bob Johnson Byron Byron, how many Byron Allen whatever the case may be if you got a lot of money and You got a lot of power and you and you don't look like the others Um Queen get your house in order because it's a good chance. They coming for they coming back for that number one spot Tyler Perry. What about Tyler Perry? Is Tyler Perry in the clear Oprah in the clear? What's going on? Wow Wow boy, I tell you that's that's some powerful words man, but like I said, man We just gonna wait and see as things develop man.  Let us know man did what do you think about this? What is on them computers? What do you guys think on them on them laptops the boxes of stuff that they hauled out of all the locations? They had one in Miami one in California and and they're they're looking in New York to see if they can find more. What are they looking for? What are they trying to find on these hard drives? It should like truth telling the truth Do you really think they're looking for ways to keep others out of the situation? So that they don't get them caught up so that when they do get him they want to make sure they isolate who they want to isolate to make sure they Everybody that they don't want to be in problemmatic situations clear of the situation Let us know in the comments or do you think they just looking for stuff or did he let us know? Hey, man, appreciate you. Make sure you like subscribe. Make sure you become members of boss talk on a one I'm gonna be bringing this as it develops man Just like I've always done here I just been staying on this one for some reason cuz everybody's talking about it. It's everywhere man. Hey, man. Say man check it man It's been another great segment man. Hey, one of them don't boss talk one-on-one reviews. I'll let you boy Yeah, we on boss talk TV shot at the heat of reason you see


Melissa. Hi, how are you? Okay, thank you. Green is good. You should be making a million dollars. Not quite, but I am getting there. Yeah, so what are you doing? I, at the moment, have Netflix running S-Fix on the target position. All right, let's talk about the ones that are that are in play. Okay, Netflix hasn't gotten going yet. You leave it. S-F-I-X, really, I don't know if this is going to work now. This isn't doing what I thought it would do today. This may lose. I don't know. Leave it on. The cues look amazing. The spy trades look amazing. Yes, I took profit. I took profit in the, I didn't take the spy. I took the cues. Oh my God, you didn't do the spy trade? You didn't do it. Okay. Melissa, I had several on anyway. Is that the reason you didn't do it, honestly, or you didn't do it because you didn't think it was going to work? Um, probably a little bit of both, really. Oh my, Lancia, every single solitary trade that I have called in the market this year has worked. In fact, I sent an email out last week. I said every single person on the planet in this letter should do every trade I call in the market and close the rise and take it.  Melissa, Melissa, I had one out in the cues, which was running out this week. That actually went back and made me money. I know. I know. At the same time, at the same time I had that running, you called another trade. So I took that as well. So I had to do it. I know, but that's what it is. Some days I call a couple. That's what it is. And Google, I'm thinking you didn't do even though that was amazing. Well, I mean, Google, I mean, you're talking over a thousand, I've just been putting mine. I know, but that was 100% flip around in a day. I mean, that was a look at where I called it, although I don't think you would have done it because you would have said, Oh, it's too blue. It's going to pull back. That's okay for someone with a larger account. Not for me at this moment. As you know, I mean, I have put larger figures on the table. I know. So how are you going to get back to that? The only way you're going to get back to that is you're going to start to train better and you got to get in a groove, which is what I said the other day. Anyways, you should have done this while you didn't. It's over. So then you did the cues and got out. And then, and then you're, and then why? And then you're waiting on target, which God only knows now.  I mean, I'm just like, look, so who knows? I mean, you never know when these things want to run, even if they've got a couple more days left, they'll run. I can't see your screen. Oh, sorry, I didn't have it up. I'm sorry. So you don't think targets going to pop through then? This jiggy. I don't think what? You don't think targets going to continue? Is that, is that what you meant? I'm saying it didn't look like it was going to, but now it does, is what I'm saying. That's what that is exactly what I'm saying. Like I pretty much, I was like, okay, well, whatever happens. But now look, do you know what I'm saying? I'm saying it didn't look like it was going to three days ago, although it could have. And now it is. So I'm not surprised. But you know, that's why you got to hold on. You got to give them a chance to work. That's exactly my same thoughts. I am holding it. I don't particularly want to kill any. I mean, I met in Costco. That was okay. Oh, I forgot to ask you about that one. That was fabulous. 59% at close. Did you get out of that yesterday? Because this looks like it's going to go to 240. I know. I did. I took it yesterday out. Yes. Yeah. It went over 230. I was over 230 with it. I know. And I even, people asked me about it three days ago, but honestly, this will get to the dream target. 238, 239, 240. It's a 237 now. So it's, yeah.  I mean, you know, you could say that with everyone, couldn't you? You have to take your money and run with it. You could say that with everyone. But again, once you get into a groove, which you're not and I am, you read this, you read the market, you see what's happening. The problem is you don't have conviction in anything anymore. You couldn't see. You didn't see what I saw here in the market. You didn't see it. You know, I saw it. I saw it last, I saw last Monday, but it didn't go last Monday, but I saw this would happen. It took five days. That's life. So yeah. Yeah. Well, I made 75% with that chemistry from yesterday. So but if you had added like I told you to do Melissa, I did add. Oh, you did. Oh, no, I didn't know that you did it. No, I said in the email to you that that particular evening when I spoke with you, I waited and watched how it traded. It didn't fall back quite as much as I would imagine, but I did double my position. Fabulous.  You're still in it. How much are you up in it? No, no, no, I'm not up in any cues. You got out? What? Yeah, that particular trade. Yes. I mean, I know it's not fantastic. I was I broke even, but that was a trade. If you remember, I was down anyway. Okay, I'm confused. The train from before that you added to, you didn't make any money in and you didn't hold it today or you would have. Wrong. That particular trade I doubled. Yes. I broke even basically out over $30, which is break even anyway. Yeah. Then I also took that cues trade you called yesterday and I made 75% percent. Yeah, that one's up, but I'm talking about the one from the previous one that I told you to add. You did. That's the one I made. I was just, what is it, 4% but you couldn't have held this through the gap up today. Then you got out of it yesterday. I'm guessing the same problem. It's a question of how much risk you want to lay on the table. I had two cues positions running. So I mean, I was I was nearly $2,000 in one position. So I thought I'd better take something off the table, not just that if it turned back for a day, then the time would have eroded on the price. I wouldn't have got out with the money that I've laid on the table. So I decided to hold the one, the new trade. All right.  But if you had had it today, you really would have had some nice profits here. Well, yes. But you have to look, don't you? At the possibility of running out of time, price. Your focus too much on losing. I don't know. I've seen that say that every time. It sounds like it because it is, it sounds like it. Of course, it sounds like it. The things that you are saying is exactly what your brain is thinking. And the things that your brain is thinking is exactly what you're creating. You know, you may not realize it, but honest to God, I'm telling you, that's the truth. So you've got to turn around what you're thinking.  And that's why I suggested you start to do our affirmations. Now, while there, while it is a reality that every trade that you take could lose or make money, that's true, which is why you don't risk your entire account in every single trade or whatever. But I'm just saying why you stopped today trade. But I'm saying it's at the forefront of your mind, Phillip. Do you understand the difference? And until you're ready to accept that and acknowledge it, you're not going to turn it around. I do. I do accept that. I do understand that. But at the end of the day, there was too much in one trade, too much exposure in one trade. I mean, I'm very tempted. I was very tempted earlier to buy another contract of Netflix, but I was taking that higher, a lot higher than really what I should be doing, really. But I was tempted because that was taking Netflix or you didn't. I didn't. I just have one contract. Oh, then you then you have one contract. Well, that's fine. Yes. But I mean, you are talking the price of the contract cost me over $650. I know. Then just leave it with this. So now you're thinking about taking more risk in this one, you kill the other one that what is a less risk. You see what I'm saying?  Do you understand where I'm going with this? Like the ones that are working play them hard. I do. I do. Absolutely. But it's like that keeps trade the other day. I wasn't in the room and you advised everyone to buy. It doesn't matter even if you eat. Right. Well, that would have been an ideal situation to obviously. Well, then rejoin the room. I don't know what to tell you. Rejoin the room then. You can rejoin the room anytime. You don't want to focus on day trading. That's your choice. Yes. But that's just not possible at this moment. You need to start focusing on money. Sorry. You need to start focusing on making money and winning and all of these good trades that I'm calling and and seeing them through and seeing the possibility of them going and you need to start getting in a groove about things working out, working in your favor. Alyssa, that's why I took Costco out. I was up money. I watched it trade. I watched it play out. I was up to my minimum amount. So I took the profit. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. It's fine that you got it. And I did the same with the Q's. Yeah, that's fine. It is incredibly easy just to let everything run. I'm not saying let everything run. I'm not saying that at all. I did not say that. I did not say that and don't misinterpret what I'm saying. But the problem is that you used to read charts better than you are right now. But you did miss one trade here. So again, you're always saying, well, I'm always following you. That hasn't been true. And again, it wasn't now because you didn't get the spy trade and you didn't play the Q's out the way that I suggested either. But whatever, I'm just telling you. You always say, oh, I always do it. I am very wary of taking too big a position in the markets overall. But I'm also very aware of making sure that I take money off the table, which is what you have been instilling in me. Yes, but you weren't up money in those Q's trades. You said you got to break even. I won your app, the one you're in now. In fact, let's just quickly talk about what you're doing with this because then I got to go. What do you I have a phone call at 130. What are you doing with this right now? What are you going to do? I took the profit in that. Oh, you're out of this completely then? Yeah, I'm a shot of 300. So you're not in anything right now that's running. You got out of Costco, you out of the Q's, you didn't do the spy.  That hasn't gone yet. Right. Well, I'm still well, I'm in profit at the moment by just shot of $100. I know, but it really hasn't gone yet. What the way that I'm talking about what I saw here would happen here. I can see what you're looking at. I stands out. There's that. Oh, really? Now you can see what I'm looking at. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Yes, it does. And I can also, I mean, I have an Netflix fix, but I mean, let's face it, that death knell of a bar the other day, we'll have to see how that goes. Well, this I did not want to see this happen here today, but it could be a once off. But I mean, well, I mean, again, it's it's one trade that doesn't work. It's one trade that doesn't work. I don't think this was ideal here this morning to be gapping down, but it did. It could flip around. We'll have to see what happens here. Again, if this one loses and every other one works that I called in this week, then whatever, I know you couldn't do Google. It's fine. But, you know, you're doing better.  I'm not complaining. It's fantastic. I would have liked to have taken Google, but obviously the price point was just too much. But I mean, S fix and target, that's it. Target could go when it when it when it was looking like a bummer there. So see through the target. And then you're out of the market one. So that's that. But we'll just see what happens here. Yes. Okay. All right. Good job, Philip. You booked some money. That's positive. Lovely. Thank you. I'll see you later. Bye. Yeah, bye.


Well, I am absolutely overwhelmed at the privilege to come and share with you from God's Word. It is, I consider it a huge, huge blessing to me and a privilege to be here with you, to be in this church. I adore your pastor's wife. I would love to bring her home with me. Steal them. We have a big state, Texas. There's a lot of room. I was going to say something else, but I won't say it. Economy. Sorry. I just, I just want to represent for Texas, okay? We pray for you Christians in California. We do. I mean, we honestly do.  Because not your weather, of course today, it's kind of like my weather. I don't know what, I came in, it was 90. I left Houston and it was 56 or something. So I brought the heat. I don't know. But I, we do, we pray for you. We pray for your state, your state's government. We see the trauma that's coming and just the whole atmosphere, spiritual atmosphere that our country is facing. And if ever we needed to walk in love, if ever we needed to stand out and to learn how to love others, it's right now in our country. So would you bow with me for water prayer? Lord, I just thank you so much for this incredible time. And Lord, I just ask right now that you would take these few minutes and these notes and Lord, you would make them yours. I just confess, just like easily said, Lord, there's nothing I can do without you. And I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would take over and that you would use this time, Lord, to filter through our minds. Some that are distracted about things going on at home or things left undone. I pray that you would insulate our thinking right now so we could focus on your words. We can give you the place of priority. And Lord, again I know there is nothing that I could say and I have nothing to say, Lord, apart from you. So I pray that you would keep me focused. Help me to speak your words, Lord. Just use this time, Father, that teach us how to love, Lord. We've learned so much about what love is and the love of God teaches us how to implement that to the people around us, especially those close to us. And we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. An elderly widow decided it was too much trouble to get all of her kids and all of her grandkids Christmas presents. So she decided for the very first time this year she was going to send them a check with a card. After a few days after mailing the cards out, she picked up her checkbook and realized she forgot to insert the checks. She cringed as she thought of all those kids opening a card from grandma with a note that said, buy your own present. It pays to slow down and prepare. And the most important preparation is the preparation of the heart. In fact there is no greater expression of a prepared heart than its love. Even the world, even in the world with its limited understanding of what Christianity is, they know that Christians are to love and they tell us that all the time, don't they? That's our distinguishing mark and that's the focus of this third session, Learning to Love Others. So turn with me, if you would, to Ephesians chapter 5. And if you don't have a Bible, you can love the person next to you and get real close. Paul is talking in Ephesians 5 about the worthy walk. He is beginning the practical aspect of Christian living. And just so we have a flow of thoughts, you know where I'm going and you can realize, oh good, she's almost done. We're going to have three points today. We're going to look at first the plea for love, then the pattern of love, and then finally the practice of love. And first the plea. Look at verse 1 in Ephesians chapter 5. It says, Paul says, therefore be followers of God as dear children. That phrase, followers of God is really the crux of this whole passage. It sets the tone. That word follower in the original Greek is the word mimitai. We get our word mimic from it and we know what that means. A mimic is someone who copies specific characteristics. And what Paul is saying is as a Christian, as a believer, even if you just got saved, as a believer, we are to mimic God. Why? Because he says in verse 1, you are his dear children. When you put your faith in Jesus Christ at that very point, you became a child of God. And as his child, we're to bear his likeness. And you know what? As women, we can all understand this. All children, whether you're own or you're watching another family, all children to some degree resemble their parents. Have you noticed that? How many times do we look at our own children, sometimes in shock, at how much they are like us? And not just in appearance, more likely in mannerisms and speech.  Where did you hear that from? You said it to me just an hour ago. You know? They mimic. That's what children do. And as believers, as children of God, we are to mimic God. We're to imitate him. Paul says, therefore, be followers of God as dear children and walk in love. That's the plea. The plea is for us to live imitating God specifically his love. Our lives are to be characterized by love. But what does that mean? Well, just mentioning that word, and even though we've had two sessions to explain that to us, because of its familiarity, we can almost turn a deaf ear. Oh, I know all about love. I know what love is. The secret to Bible teaching is to keep reinforcing biblical principles in different ways. So you're hearing the same thing just in a different way. Principles we know in mind, but tend to forget in behavior.  And the reason is he wants us to start living it. So he says, verse one, therefore walk in love. That word walk in the Greek is parapeteo, and it means lifestyle. It's speaking of a lifestyle. In other words, this is not something you do sporadically. It's not something you do weekly. It's daily. In fact, it's moment by moment. And I understand this is not a suggestion like Gisela said. This is a command. Love is to be a moment by moment vital part of our Christian life. In fact, the most normal natural thing for a Christian is to live a life of love. And because of that, if you're not experiencing as a believer a total life of love, it's not because it isn't there. It's because you're not allowing it to function. But let me try and put this in an illustration just to make it clear. Think of it like this, which is easier to breathe or to hold your breath? I mean, most of us since we've been here have been breathing, right? Since you got here.  No one has an oxygen tank. I don't know. But ever since you've been here, you haven't had a problem breathing. In fact, you haven't even thought of it until I said it right now. You didn't get up this morning and say to yourself, okay, remember when I'm at that conference, breathe, breathe. Keep breathing. Don't forget to breathe. No one sitting next to you is nudging you. Are you breathing? Are you still breathing? More likely during this session, are you sleeping? You're all here right now just breathing. The pressure of the atmosphere around you exerts its pressure on your lungs and it forces you to breathe. It's natural. On the other hand, it's very difficult to hold your breath for a prolonged period of time, right? You all know that. In fact, if you do that for too long, what happens? You die, okay?  Why? Because you're fighting against what is natural. When you became a Christian beloved, the most natural thing in the world was that the love of God was shed abroad in your heart, Romans 5.5, and that love naturally flows out of you. In other words, that love should permeate so much so that it's just a way of life for you to love. That's what Paul is saying. Unfortunately, sometimes we try to hold our spiritual breath, right?  That's why they're in your life. It's not a mistake. It was planned before the foundations of the world. Love that person. And you know what we do? Oh, you know it. I'm not the only one. You know? And you know what we... I guess we come to that point where you try and lessen it in your own mind. You think, oh, I love her in the Lord. I just don't want a vacation with her, okay? I love her. And Paul is saying, if you're going to call yourself a child of God, you need to act like it. You need to walk like he walked.  That's the plea. Now the pattern of love. There are three facets of God's love from this passage that should be seen in our lives. I mean, if we're going to define what it is to love others, these are things that need to be evident. And we're going to spend just a little bit of time developing this. First, God's love is forgiving. Look again at verse one. He says, therefore, that word, if you know, always takes you back to the previous passage. In other words, Paul says, in light of what I just said, and what does he just said? Look at verse 32 of chapter 4. And be kind, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you. Walk in love. How does God's love display? How does it display death? It's displayed in forgiveness. That's a quality of God's love. His love is literally drenched in forgiveness. In other words, if you want to know if you're a loving Christian, you can say it like this. Just measure your love through your attitude of forgiveness. You see, beloved, when God wanted to reveal the measure of his love towards us, the Bible says that God so loved the world that he took unworthy wicked sinners and he died on the cross to bear their sins so that he could bring them into an everlasting, eternal relationship with himself. That's the measure of God's love. And that's what we're to imitate so that our love is best measured in our ability to forgive the people around us and the people in the world. So today, measure your love. Do you walk in love? Paul says, we are to forgive, notice, as God for Christ's sake has forgiven me. What does that mean, just this? No matter what anybody does to me, whether it be in my personal family, the family of believers, the church, or in the world, no matter how they hurt me, harm me, slander me, offend me, whatever it is, Christ has already paid the full penalty for that sin. Jesus bore in his body all of our sins. If someone sins against me and my reaction in my humanness is to be angry and bitter and resentful and vengeful, beloved, that sin. And Jesus Christ already bore that sin in his own body on the tree. That's 1 Peter 2, 24. He already spilled his blood for that sin. If the God of the universe could take that sin, put it on a cross on his own son and forgive that person, who am I to demand blood from that person?  God for Christ's sake forgives you and, beloved, we for Christ's sake are to forgive the people around us. And again, the depth of our love, the measure of our love is seen in how willing we are to forgive and extend forgiveness.  And I know in my own heart, believe me, I'm only talking to myself, how much do you forgive?   That's your problem. Your inability to forgive reveals the measure of your love. But there's another side to this. It's not just how you forgive, it's how much you know that you have already been forgiven. You see, you can tell a person's love by how they're willing to forgive others, but you can also tell someone's love by how much they know they've been forgiven. Forgiveness is a pledge. It's a statement of undeserved, unearned love that says, no matter what you've done to me, there's no anger, there's no desire for vengeance. I feel no self-pity for myself. Instead, I extend my love to you fully. That's forgiveness. That's forgiveness the way God forgives. And listen, every one of us, as a believer, we crave God's forgiveness, especially after a failure. We saw that. Diesel has shared that. How hard it is, or how difficult when you fail, and yet you come to God and He is quick to forgive. Quick to forgive, quick to release. He never holds a grudge. He's not like us. We long to hear God say, I heard your prayer. Your sins are forgiven. Be comforted. Come back into fellowship.  But, beloved, there may be some here who are hearing this and God is reminding you that there are people in your life who need to sense love from you through forgiveness. You need to let that go. You see, the natural outcome of being forgiven is to want to forgive. And the people who have the greatest sense of forgiveness in their own lives are those who will grant them. When you realize the depth of all you've been forgiven, you'll forgive in measure to that. There's a great illustration of this in Luke chapter 7. It's a story of Simon the Pharisee and a woman with Jesus. Simon has invited Jesus to his home for a meal. He's planned this whole evening out. It was going to be great until a woman, a description in the Bible. A woman in the city who was a sinner. I just want to, I can embrace that. I think that's me. A woman in the city who was a sinner slipped into the courtyard and spoiled the whole night for Simon. She came over to Jesus. She made a whole scene. She's crying. She's wiping his feet with her hair. She pours out this ointment and Simon sees this and knows what kind of woman she was. And Jesus gives a little parable about forgiveness to Simon. And this is how it ends. He says, Simon, her sins which are many, in other words, God recognizes she was a sinner. Her sins which are many have been forgiven. So she shows much love. But a person who has been forgiven little in their mind shows little love. You see, Simon's problem in tab sin was he didn't recognize it in himself. He was so self-righteous it blinded him to his own sins and he misunderstood and misrepresented the woman at Jesus' feet. His need for forgiveness was greater than hers. And his need to extend forgiveness was so needful. One reason a person struggles with loving others through forgiveness is because when you're not experiencing the cleansing work of the Spirit of God in your own life on a daily basis, when you begin to rationalize your own sin looking at the speck in your brother's eye, not realizing you have a plank in your own you begin to develop a coldness not only towards others but certainly towards him. And rather than love you find yourself critical bitter, suspicious, unkind proud, self-righteous and self-justifying. See if you have an issue with someone ask someone close to you do I sound critical? Be careful.   Asking God to search you and know you and then be willing to extend forgiveness to someone else. Again the gauge of your spirituality is not how much charisma you have it's not how much theology you know the gauge of true spiritual life is how you love others it's kind of like a Christmas tree you know can you tell what kind of tree it is by the gifts that are underneath oh look at all those gifts I think it's a Cyprus no no you can't do that the gifts make no difference you can't tell about the tree by the gifts but by the fruit the tree produces it's the same with Christians some Christians can look so dressed up on the outside they can have all the gifts activated they're all lit up but if they have no spiritual fruit the tree is withering so love Tartarus others first if anything it's forgiving second it's unconditional literally it means without a response in other words God loves you if you never respond to him that's what unconditional means God loves you if you hate him till you die because it's the nature of God to love it's unconditional you're gonna love regardless of the response you get from your love third God's love is self sacrificing look at verse 2 he says walk in love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us biblical love at its core is an act of self sacrificial giving true biblical love says I will love you even if I never get anything out of it it is completely sacrificial it is the complete opposite of what we see in the world around us the world says I'll love you because of what I get back from it God's love says I love you if I never get anything out of it this is the love we're to imitate listen you wanna make a difference in your marriage you wanna save your marriage if it's on that last thread love like this love like this you wanna make a difference in your friendships start loving like this commit yourself to love not for anything you get out of it but simply because you wanna be like Christ because his love is in you and you want it flowing out of you think about it Jesus Christ didn't love us because of what he could get out of the relationship right? he loved us the pain the relationship would bring it's what you see in John 13 the very night of the Lord's betrayal the night before he goes to the cross the disciples his closest companions the ones that were there to the end are arguing about who's gonna have who's gonna be greatest in the kingdom and that was their big concern he is carrying the weight that's about to happen and their biggest concern is who is gonna be the top dog the son of God who is about to bear the sins of the world for every human being that ever lived and they don't even give it a thought it's the epitome of selfishness and in the midst of all of that no one would dare stoop to wash someone else's feet because listen you can't stoop when you're fighting and arguing about who's gonna be on the top you're not gonna do that so the meal began and after the meal Jesus rising from supper it says laid aside his garments took a towel poured water in a basin and began to wash their feet this is unconditional forgiving sacrificial love in action and do you notice he never asked a response from any of them he doesn't come up to Peter and say now look knock it off start showing love say that he washed their feet regardless of their response because love doesn't depend on a response John 1313 he says you call me master and lord and you say well for I am if I then your lord and master have washed your feet you also ought to wash one another's feet for I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you in other words you saw how I lived unconditional total total forgiveness complete self-sacrificing I expect you to do the same to one another not only do I expect it I equipped you to do it because I poured my love into your heart that's the pattern of love beloved if we're gonna love others we have to do it with a forgiveness that has no limit unconditionally with no dependence upon their response and we must love sacrificially with the giving of ourselves not seeking something from them when Jesus Christ loved us he did it through total forgiveness he never asked for a response and he did it sacrificially that's the kind of love we experience every day that's the kind of love we need to imitate look again at Ephesians 5 he goes on and he says in verse 2 walk in love as Christ also has loved you and given himself for you and offering sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma the ultimate act of love was at the cross and it was to God a fragrant aroma in other words it was pleasing to him it was acceptable beloved if you want to live your life pleasing God let your life to rise to him like a sweet smelling aroma then let your life be characterized by his love that's what Paul is saying I read an account that really illustrates this for us I think in our era that we live Teddy Stollert qualified as one of the least in the group disinterested in school musty wrinkled clothes hair never combed one of those kids in school with just a faceless expressionless face sort of glassy unfocused stare when miss Thompson spoke to Teddy he always answered with a one syllable word unattractive, unmotivated and distant he was just plain hard to like even though his teacher said she loved all the class the same deep down inside miss Thompson wasn't being completely truthful whenever she marked Teddy's paper she got a certain perverse pleasure out of putting X's by the wrong answers and when she put the F at the top she did it with a flare she should have known better she knew Teddy's past records she knew more about him than she wanted to admit his past records read this first grade Teddy shows promise with his work and attitude he has a poor home situation second grade Teddy could do better mother is seriously ill he receives little help at home third grade Teddy is a good boy but far too serious he is a slow learner his mother died this year fourth grade Teddy is very slow but well behaved his father shows no interest in him Christmas came and the boys and girls in miss Thompson's class all brought their Christmas presents they piled them on her desk and crowded around to watch her open them among the presents was one from Teddy Stollard she was surprised that he had even bought her a present but he had Teddy's gift was wrapped in a brown paper bag held together with scotch tape and on the bag was written for miss Thompson from Teddy when she opened Teddy's gift out fell a gaudy rhinestone bracelet with half the stones missing and a bottle of cheap perfume the other children began to giggle and smirk over Teddy's gift but miss Thompson had enough sense to silence them by immediately putting on the perfume and the bracelet holding her wrist up for the children to smell she said doesn't it smell great the children took their cues from the teacher and agreed ooh at the end of the day when school was over and the other children had left Teddy lingered behind he came slowly over to her desk and said softly miss Thompson you smell just like my mother and her bracelet looks really pretty on you too I'm glad you like my presents when Teddy left miss Thompson got on her knees and asked God to forgive her the next day when the children came to school they were welcomed by a new teacher miss Thompson had become a different teacher a different person she no longer was just a teacher she had become an agent of God she was now a person committed to loving her children and doing things for them that would live on after her she helped all her children but especially the slow ones and especially Teddy Stollard by the end of that year Teddy showed dramatic improvement he had caught up with most of the other children in the class and even passed some she didn't hear from Teddy for a long time and one day she received a note that read dear miss Thompson I wanted you to be the first to know I will be graduating high school second in my class love teddy stollard four years later another note came dear miss Thompson they just told me I will be graduating first in my class I wanted you to be the first to know the university has not been easy but I like it and as of today I am Theodore Stollard MD how about that I wanted you to be the first to know I'm getting married next month on the 27th and I want you to come and sit where my mother would have sat if she were alive you are the only family I have now dad died last year love teddy stollard miss Thompson went to the wedding sat where Teddy's mother would have sat she deserved to sit there she had done something for him that he could never forget she loved him beloved that's loving others let me ask you what is the measure of your love do you have a teddy stollard in your life someone God is asking you to love as he loves are you willing to look beyond the outward and just love and maybe that teddy stollard is someone in your home first the plea then the pattern finally is the practice because we all know it's not enough to just hear we need to do how do we do that again like you said the fruit of the spirit is love so if you walk Galatians 516 if you're walking in the spirit you won't fulfill the lusts of your flesh but the fruit of the spirit we need to walk in the spirit but along with that there are some practical things that we can do first realize beloved to walk in love towards others you have to recognize that love is a choice a God they love God's love is not built around feelings it's not a feeling you can't control it's a choice you can control in other words that excuse I just don't feel that love for them yeah that's not going to work with God that's not going to work sorry it can be very freeing though to know that it is a choice because sometimes we hear people say I don't feel that love or I struggle feeling love it's not about feelings it's about choosing I love what CS Lewis said do not waste your time bothering whether you feel love for your neighbor act as if and as soon as you act it out as soon as you start walking in love you'll find one of the great secrets of the Christian life when you're behaving as if you love someone you will find yourself loving them if you injure someone you injure someone you dislike you'll find yourself disliking them more in other words your choice makes the difference your choice is like the engine of a train your feelings are supposed to be the caboose that's the way God designed it feelings follow the engine like a caboose follows like a caboose follows the engine if you make your emotions your feelings the engine you're going to struggle your whole life until eventually you derail yourself and everyone around you but if you step out and choose to love your feelings will follow and let me say this the choice you have to make over and over again it's just not a one time thing in other words you don't love someone and say shh that's over let's get on to the important things you know I don't have to think about that anymore I've been waiting a long time to love that person and now it's off the list just like Gisela said I finally did it I can move on that's not how love works in fact it's the complete opposite the more you love the more you should love the more it's exercised the less it's satisfied in other words you have a reservoir of love that is unlimited and immeasurable and your responsibility is to distribute that to people your whole life long everyone you meet so first recognize it's a choice second remember it's a command Ephesians 5 1 is a command he says it like this in Matthew 22 you're God with all your heart soul mind and strength verse 38 and you shall love your neighbor as yourself that's a command the law and the prophets hang on that if you want to narrow down to those two things that's what it is and like Gisela said John 14 15 if you love me keep my commandments in other words it's a command and if you want to show love to God keep his commandments I love that word keep it literally means to watch her to guard that precious thing like a priceless diamond you treasure it in other words it's not the kind of obedience that's forced a forced pressured obedience it's not a crushing legalism it's not the idea okay I heard this went to this conference and now I have to do this you know God is bringing that person to mind and you're oh no if I don't do this I'm going to get in trouble with God he's going to be mad at me and I'm in time out for the rest of the week I have to submit to this as painful as it is that's not what it means it's not a pressure to obey it's a desire to please God can I put it in an illustration my husband I adore him among other athletic abilities he was a sprinter he got all kinds of trophies we have them all in the garage somewhere but he was a good sprinter I mean he was like top well I have come to find out after about 30 years that sprinting is really in his blood because when he drives he sprints very fast, very short and he had a little car fast little car a few years ago and he sprinted himself right into a ticket and you know they come home he had left for work 30 minutes later he's back they come in with that look on their face and you're like what's wrong something happened he goes well it's that car and he goes it's that car I got a ticket and he goes it's that car it's an evil demon car I'm trading cars with you today beer keys I go leave the demon car with me and I wasn't thinking I wasn't going to do anything that day and he said I'm taking your car this is ridiculous I can't believe it I got a ticket so he goes to work and I was thinking I wasn't doing anything that day and about 2 hours went by and I remembered I got to go to the bank I have this one thing to do I'm just going to do it and I go outside with my keys and there it was the little demon car I'm just going to go and come back it's all I'm doing so I get in the car and I'm going out and you know cute little car we don't have it anymore but it was a cute little car and we have you don't have this in California but in Texas we have stretches of land where there's just land you know just land and cows and I was going to take a shortcut to the bank and miss all the traffic lights and go down this one road and I don't know if it was like in cattle buggy carriage days when they made the speed limit for that street that don't let the horse go over 30 but it was 30 miles an hour well I wasn't even thinking I just wanted to get to the bank and come home and do what I was doing and I'm in the car and I'm going down I didn't even look down the speedometer and all I saw was a flash going by me and it looked like a police car and of course it was and you know what you do when you know it's a police car okay some of you don't know but let me explain what you do you immediately take your foot off the gas okay and you resume the position 10 and 2 10 and 2 and you are looking in the rear-view mirror he made a U-turn he got right on me and I'm 10 and 2 and he's passing me you know was that a raccoon and I'm just I'm sweating I'm thinking I'm praying you know Lord please if there's any mercy left in you for me you know but of course we know that there is mercy new every day but it was the afternoons maybe I used all mine up and I was just thinking I cannot get a ticket he just got a ticket a few hours ago I'm waiting I'm panicking and waiting where's the registration I hope it's in his car do I have my license oh my goodness and he just kept following me I couldn't handle it I just couldn't handle it I pulled over and do you know he pulled over with me and he comes up you know like they do I mean I think they purposely wait they come up really slow I have my thing I'm ready to give my here it is and he goes I wrote my window he's like do you know why I pulled you over I went no your lights aren't on and he looks back and he goes you're right he goes why did you pull over I couldn't handle the pressure it was so much pressure and then I looked at him and I know because I said can you get a ticket if your lights don't work he was like give me your license and he went back and he came and he said slow down no ticket because his lights didn't work but you know what that is not what Jesus is talking about sometimes we obey out of pressure oh this is so hard but I'm going to do it and God is saying that's not what I want it's not some legalistic you have to do this when he says keep my commandments it's much more than some outward pressure it's a desire not because I'm afraid to mess up because God is watching me and he's following me my heart's greatest desire is to obey him because of what he's done for me because how much I love him it isn't oh I have to do this the idea is I can't wait to do this after all he's done for me I can't wait to do this you see when you love someone anything they desire becomes a longing to fulfill certainly with our precious Lord for a Christian obedience is a sweet encouraging word and obedience to love is an expression of my own love towards him it's a choice and it's a command and finally you need to challenge yourself every day challenge yourself to love the people around you challenge yourself to love the people you come across how mend a quarrel that you're in take the blame for it that's loving let an old bitterness die let it go no time for that forget a wrong that was done to you tell someone you love them someone who would be surprised to hear it from you dismiss a suspicion in your mind that you are holding against someone and ask the Spirit of God to give you trust for that person encourage someone you know who's discouraged keep a promise you made the promise keep it that's loving train yourself to say thank you thank you Lord for everything in your life all the time pray for an enemy send a check to someone you know has a need love as Christ loved us forgiving self-sacrificing unconditional love it's a choice it's a command and it's a challenge that's the plea the pattern and the practice would you pray with me Lord I just thank you so much for your word I thank you Lord for just these precious women who've been so patient and Father I pray that you would even now even right now Lord put that person in our mind make it clear to us right now what we need to do to show love maybe it's forgiveness maybe it's sacrificing for them give us the ability to choose and to love to choose because it's what pleases you thank you Lord we ask these things in Jesus name Amen