Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session. We are continuing to study on the book of Psalms. We are continuing from what baby left yesterday. Before we could begin with our class, we will start the class with a word of prayer. Dear God, we thank you, we praise you for this wonderful time that you have blessed us with. Lord, as we said this time aside, Lord, to study your word, to meditate on the book of Psalms. We pray that, Lord, you will open up our hearts, our mind towards your word, towards the revelation of your word of Father. We pray that, Lord, as of you put an impression on the psalmist's heart, Lord, to praise you despite the situation, despite what they were going through our Father, but they had the heart to worship you, to praise you, to give you thanks, Lord. In the middle of the circumstances of Father, Lord, we pray for that. As your Holy Spirit dwells in each one of us, Lord, despite our circumstances, our situation, Lord, help us too. We focused on you, set our eyes on your Father, that we will give you praise, we will honour you throughout our life of Father. As the psalmist sings of Father, it is better for me to be in your coats than to be anywhere else of Father or than to be elsewhere. Lord, we pray that you will give us an attitude, a mindset, a heart condition to be like that. To set time, to praise you, to love you, to honour you, to glory for your name, Lord. Thank you, Father. We surrender this time and each of us in your hand, in Jesus' name, we pray, amen, amen. Thank you so much and welcome again to the class. So what did we learn from this book of Psalms till now? What did we understand? Anyone? What did you understand? What was your learning from the book of Psalms till now? Jeffina said, Zellie, go ahead please.  You're there? Hello. One point that you learned from the book of Psalms or from the life of David. Psalms talk about the expression of heart. Sometimes when the psalmist is rejoicing in the Lord, he pours out his heart and then he is upset and down. Then also he pours out his heart. So it shows us an expression of heart. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much, John. Yes. Brother Loubekel. I learned that David Real was a full human being with emotions and he was always willing to show them. In other words, he was an extrovert. An extrovert is a person who would like people to understand his inner being through his way of life, whereby when he was sad, he would express his sadness. When he was wrong, he would express his wrongness. And when he was happy, he would always express his happiness. So I think he was actually the greatest king of the United Israel. Thank you so much. Thank you, Brother Loubekel. Yes, very true. Very true. He just showed himself as human. And yes, even the things that when he sinned, it's been recorded. And how did he react to his sin nature? How he asked God for repentance. Being a king, he never hid it. But then he brought it out. He brought it out in front of God. He repented. He asked for forgiveness. And we also see God didn't react today with the way he reacted with Saul. He never took away the Holy Spirit. But then when he repented all of his heart, when he was confronted by the prophet, Nathan, so beautifully he sings to the Lord, lot created me a clean heart. Psalms 51. You know, very beautifully he starts with, can we turn to Psalms 51, please? As Brother Loubekel started on that. Yeah, Psalms 51 verse 10. He says, created me a clean heart of God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence that which happened to Saul. Let not happen with me. Okay, but do not take away your Holy Spirit from me. But Lord, only you can forgive me and restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your righteous spirit. And uphold me by your generous spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed. That which he did to Uriah, Bathsheba's wife, a husband.  And then he goes further to say that, Oh Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall show forth your praise. For you do not desire sacrifice or else I will give it. You do not delight in burnt offerings because those days they had this practice of offerings. You know, giving an offering for every sin. But then, Psalmist clearly understood God. He clearly understood that God is not delighted with the offerings because everything belongs to him. But what does God delights in your heart condition? So your E says that you do not delight in the burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. These are God you will not despise. Do good in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. Then you shall be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness. When he says build the walls of Jerusalem, what happens when you build the wall? What happens when we build the wall of the city? It protects the city. There's protection, protection from the enemy. So what is the Psalmist saying in line of what he is going through? He is saying we need to have certain boundaries around us. Restoration? Yes. We need to set some boundaries, some guidelines where God is given to us. So when we follow those guidelines, we will not fall in for any kind of pleasure, any kind of sin. So he is asking us to set certain guidelines around us that we may not sin against God. We will be protected by God when we follow God's command. Then you shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness. That means the way we lead our life, the way we pray to God, he'll be pleased with our art condition and the way we lead our life with burnt offering and the whole burnt offering. Then they shall offer bulls and he talks about the sacrifice and all that. So what is important here is it's not about we sinning and then offering sacrifice. No, he's asking us keep our heart condition right in front of God. Follow the commandments of God. What pleases God? So that is very important. So here we see that Psalmist understood the heart of God. What is expected from a human and what is not an E? Yes, he repented for a sin and asked for forgiveness and we also see the minute when he asked for forgiveness. God being merciful, God as a covenant keeper, God delights in people's praises and prayers and God delighted with David's praise and his praise and God forgave him. Yes, he had to face the consequence of a sin but then God blessed him. God blessed him. God rewarded him. God's hand was upon him throughout his life and God kept up the promise that he promised David that is descended will be from the line of David and it was fulfilled in Jesus. Well, before I could move on with some, I would like to play a video which portrays like how the poets write it and what kind of meaning, what is the background, how we need to interpret the poetic form. Bear with me as I play that video before we could start with our session. Give me a minute, quickly I'll play it. Please let me know if it is audible. So we've been learning how to read biblical narrative and showing how the Bible is one. Yes, thank you. But 30% of the Bible is made up of ancient poetry. And I don't know about you, but I don't read a lot of stories with one out of three pages. Yet poetry is everywhere in the Bible. Some biblical books are entirely poetic. Most of the Hebrew prophets wrote masterful poems and the majority of God's speech in the Bible is represented as poetry. It's also very common in biblical narrative for the story pause while a character breaks out in poetic song. Like in the Exodus story, there's a narrative. Poetry has a different purpose in the story. Instead of describing the difference, let's just experience it. So one part of the story goes like this. The waters were divided and the Israelites went through on dry land with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That seems pretty clear. Right. Now the poem telling the same event. O Lord, by the blast of your nostrils, the waters piled up. Surging waters stood like a wall, deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea. Whoa. A wall of surging water like jello and divine nostrils? This is intense. Yeah, the poem ignites your imagination through the experience of biblical poetry. Biblical poets did this with a specific set of questions. And that's what we're going to look at, the art of biblical poetry. The basic unit of any poem is the line. And then many lines are designed together to make a poem. Okay, I'm used to this kind of poem. There's a meter, cadence, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And there's rhyme. But poems in the Bible don't work like this. Yeah, biblical poems are what we call free verse. They don't use meter like some traditions of what we do. And they don't use rhyme in the same way either. So biblical poems have no order to them? No, they just have a different kind of order. Finishing one, we thought. Right. So one part of the story goes like this. The poem is written by the blast of your nostrils. The water's piled up. Surging water stood like a wall. Deep waters congealed at the heart of the sea. Whoa, a wall of surging water like jello and divine nostrils? This is intense. Yeah, the poem ignites your imagination through the experience of verbal art. And biblical poets did this with a specific set of tools. And that's what we're going to look at, the art of biblical poetry. The basic unit of any poem is the line. And then many lines are designed together to make a poem. Okay, I'm used to this kind of poem. There's a meter, cadence, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And there's rhyme. But poems in the Bible don't work like this. Yeah, biblical poems are what you could call free verse. They don't use meter like some traditions of what we do. And they don't use rhyme in the same way either. So biblical poems have no order to them? No, they just have a different kind of order. Biblical poems are most basically structured by couplets, two short lines that are carefully worded and placed beside each other. The first line makes the basic statement, and then the second line develops it in some way. It can do this by completing the thought, or deepening it with different words or images, or by contrasting it in some way. So check out the opening of Psalm 51. You can see it in action. In the first couplets, the poet asked God to show grace and love. How? Exactly. In the second line, he requests forgiveness for his failures. Okay, so this couplet is finishing one, if we thought. Right. And then the next couplet opens with washing as a metaphor. And then the second line offers a more vivid image, that of a priest in the temple purifying things so they can be in God's presence. Okay, so taking an image and deepening. Right. And then this third couplet opens with the poet's awareness of his sin, the seed inside. And that's followed by a description of the sin being outside. It's like it's in public, visible to themselves and other people. So this couplet takes an idea and contrasts it. Exactly. So couplets by nature are a bit repetitive. But the repetitive language forces you to slow down and linger over the feeling and meaning of God, looking at each idea from more than one angle. And then groups of couplets can come together around one key idea. It's like a diamond with many facets, each line offering a different glimpse into the same core reality. So this poem is exploring what it's like to be forgiven and offered a second sheet. And that's the kind of experience that can change a person. It's worth savoring the promise. Now, biblical poets also use repetition on a larger scale. In many poems, you'll find a key line that's repeated multiple times. That's called the refrain. Or they'll open and close the poem with a similar couplet. That's called an inclusio. Now, biblical poets love design. Oh, yeah. These are works of verbal artists. These poets use repetition to create all kinds of elaborate patterns that invite the reader to make connections between different parts of the whole poem that open up even deeper layers of people. Cool. So I'm feeling at home with ancient Hebrew poetry. But remember, poetry isn't something you master and then move on. Biblical poems are a bottomless well. They're packed with a surplus of meaning for those who are willing to slow down and talk to them. I am just trying to pull my mind in corrections and discover new ideas. Exactly. And there's even one more tool that biblical poets have to do that very thing. And that's what we'll look at next week. Thank you so much. Let me stop presenting. Okay. I'll just post the link. In the chat where you all can also listen to it later. So yesterday, we just went through it. So now we understand how the poet actually writes it. And there will be an in-depth meaning in all of these sounds. Literary types. Okay. So in every poetic writing, when the poet writes, there's an in-depth meaning to it. Yesterday, we saw in the book of Isaiah. And today, we also see in Psalms, chapter 51. And not only in this chapter, but whereas the complete Psalms has a beautiful in-depth meaning when we read it with the background of the culture, of the writer's background. And we could understand the instances what each one have gone through and how they have portrayed it. We can understand that. So the literary types here, we see that there are seven. And the first one talks about the wisdom Psalms. Wisdom Psalms are the Psalms that provides the practical guidelines for godly living. And it also gives us a direction for a righteous living according to God's will. And we see that in some of the Psalms that have listed there. And next, we see the royal Psalm, where it talks about the coming messianic rule of Christ Jesus as king over heaven and earth. And that has been listed, portrayed in the listed Psalms. The third one is Lament Psalms. Lament Psalms are emotionally charged Psalms, where the writer records his heart's condition, his attitude, the situation that he's going through, the way he laments. He tries out to God for the divine help, help and for him to overcome or be delivered from the trouble or pain that he's going through. And we see that many Psalms have been recorded. And even these Psalms can be related to our situation in our life today. Today, when we go through difficult situations, when we take one of these Lament Psalms and it will so much apply to our own condition, to our own situation or circumstance, and where we can raise the Psalm as an Hallelujah to God, where we can praise God into our situation. Even though situation may be the same, it has not changed, but then we can take this Psalm and praise God through it. And we can see our situation change, our circumstance change. It will never be the same. And even we can see that relief, the change in our heart condition, the change in our mindset when we read and praise God through these Psalms. And the next one we see is Implicatory Psalms, where it is motivated by a zeal from God's glory. And these are proactively and proactively invokes God's wrath and judgment upon the psalmist's adversities, upon the enemies who come against God's children. And we see that in some of these Psalms. When we read it, we get to know like, when the psalmist approached God for his help, for him to come and defend the children of God from the enemies who are against them or are raised against them, or they may be much stronger than them.  God never led them to be the prey to their enemies, even if they have not met the standard of God. But then the minute they called on God, God being the Father, being full of compassion and love, he never led his children to become the prey. But then when they seek God with all their heart and mind, when they repented for their sins, we see God showing himself as a magnification, showing himself strong and defending his children from the enemies' hand and saving them. So the God who did that then is the same God with us now. When we see God in our time of trial or trouble, and when we repent for our sins and ask God for forgiveness with all our heart and mind, we see God rescuing us. We see God saving us from those deep waters, nor from that merry clay as how the poet portrays these situations. The next fifth point we see is Thanksgiving psalms. These psalms expresses a profound awareness of the deep gratitude for God's abundant blessing, where an individual or a nation can come together, be thankful to God in a corporate setup and how God's blessing will be in abundance. When we thank God, we also see the blessing that we receive will be in abundance and we see greater miracles happen when we thank and praise God. There are a list of psalms where the psalm is sing. Despite this condition, like one of them that is listed here is psalms 103, where we all know that is a very famous psalm. Let me take that for you. So psalms 103 is a psalm of David, where he says, bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Forget not all his benefits. Verse 3 says, who forgives all our inequities and heals all our diseases. When we come, friend of God, with this kind of heart attitude, if you see the history, if you see the background of this writing, David is not writing this when he was in peace and rest enjoying all the luxury as a king in the palace, but then he is writing this when he was running from cave to cave. He was running for his life, though he was a king, he had all the power, but then he was running from Saul, then later he was running from his own son, and later he was running from the king of the Amalekites and others. But then as he was running, he never forgotten God. One thing he had within him is the hope and trust on God. That never reduced in his life. He knew that God has blessed him, God has a promise, God has a covenant blessing over him, and he knew the power of that blessing that will never go down. He knew God's protection is on him, though he ran for his life, but then he knew within him that God is with him, God's protection is over him, that no enemy can attack him.  He knew it within him, and thus he raises a psalm from his heart, saying, Lord, I bless you. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all the benefits, all the benefits. Whatever God did, God treated David as a special son. He was so special, though among his brothers God chose David. His brothers was much stronger. They were tall, very vibrant, and valiant. They were much better than David. His own father never thought that the anointing of King will come on David. But then when Samuel came to his house of Jesse to anoint David's father, Jesse, he showed all the other brothers and never even imagined that David would be the person that God has chosen him. Man may look at the outer appearance, but God looks at the heart. Samuel thought, okay, maybe this is the one. This is the one. Each time when he prepared himself to anoint, God spoke with a still, small voice within Samuel, saying, this is not the one. This is not the one. And when Samuel looked up to Jesse and asked, who's the one that I need to anoint? And here he shows, okay, I have a younger one who's a shepherd. The least of the job that he could do is doing it there. And the other children are the army men. They are in the army. They are much strong. They have already prepared. They are fit for the master's use. But then God does not see your outer appearance, not at the building of your body or the beauty or the structure or how well you're skilled or talented. But then God looks at the heart condition and God was pleased with David. He was a shepherd boy in the field and here Samuel asked him to send a word to him. And when he came, God spoke to him. He's the man. He's the king. He's the one after my own heart anoint him. And Samuel anointed him to be the king. And David, after many years, still he says, God, I will not forget all the benefits that you have done for me.  The people praised Saul 100, but David 1,000. 1,000 to 10,000. How did that praise come? Did actually David fight that battle? No, God fought that battle. Each and every battle God fought for David. So David never forgot all the benefits that God did and he praises him.  As a man, he knew his weakness. He knew the areas that he was displeasing God, but then he brought everything. He never hid it from God because he knew that God sees everything.    Amen. Praise God. Isn't that beautiful? That's how Psalms sing. Sang unto God. Today, we can also take up such Psalms. Sing unto God. Sing praise. It delights. And though it has been written many years, many centuries ago, but then it has been alive. These words have life and they have inner depth of meaning. Each time when we read, each of us get a different revelation from this word because God speaks to us, you know, according to our situation in the way we can understand. So the sixth is the Pilgrimage Psalm. These festive Psalms also celebrates and praise God for Israel. And it recalls God's goodness over them as they, you know, as they travel from different places to Jerusalem to celebrate the annual feast of Passover. And next we see the enthronement psalm. Enthronement psalm. But even before we could go to the enthronement psalm from the pilgrimage psalm, I would like to turn to Psalms 43. Even that is a very beautiful psalm that we could claim and read for ourselves. Prayer to God in time of trouble. It talks about, vindicate me O God and plead my cause against an ungodly nation and deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.  Why do you cast me off? Why do I go moaning because of the oppression of the enemy or send out your light and your truth? Let them lead me, let them bring me to your holy hill and to your tabernacle. Then I will go to the altar of God to God my exceeding joy and on the harp I will praise you O God, my God. Why are you cast down O my soul and why are you disquited within me? Hope in God for I shall yet praise him. The help of my countenance and my God. Despite our situation, let's go to God the tabernacle. Let's go celebrate the joy that God is bringing. It gives an exceeding joy. So, some sings and praises God even when he is preparing to go and you know, it is an anonymous psalm when he is preparing all the people to go to the feast of the annual feast at Jerusalem. So, there are much more psalms when we read. We will understand how people sang as they prepared themselves for the feast and they headed towards Jerusalem. And next we see enthronement psalm. These are the inspirational psalm or the majestic psalm describes the majesty of God's sovereignty who rules over all his creation and also provides. He is the provider. He is the caregiver. He is the comforter. And he also sustains everything. He controls everything and everything is made by him. It gives God enthronement. It gives God's sovereign power and glory. So, when we read that, we will understand. So, yesterday we also looked at the doxology. The book has been divided in five parts and each and every five part ends with the doxology. And similar to that, we also see the last five books. That is from 146 to 150. The book concludes with five poems of praise to God. If we can turn to psalms 146. Psalm 146, 147, 48, 49, 149, 150 you see continuously from 146 to 150. It starts saying praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Actually, the original translation, it starts saying that praise the God of Israel. And it ends again in our version in NKJB. It says praise the Lord. But then in the Hebrew version, it ends with a word called hallelujah. In the Hebrew word, it starts with praise ya. It does not even say ya way. Because those days, they paid a lot of reverence to write the word of God. Even to write G-O-D. They used to leave a space G space D. They will not write G-O-D.  It has been spelled as Y-A-H-W-E-H. They used to write Y space D. There's an iPhone in between, space H. And each time the scribe writes that word, he used to go have bath and come and write that word. But so much of reverence. They need to be physically clean and spiritually as well. They have to keep themselves pure to write that word. That word carried power. That word carried so much of reverence. So in the Hebrew word, in this last five chapters of Psalm, they have not written praise ya way. They have written just praise ya, which actually means praise God. And in the end it says, hallelujah, praising God for everything. For everything. And then, do we know that Psalms has one more chapter? How many of y'all know that Psalms has another chapter? 151 Psalms. The day of his new? No ma'am, we don't know about it. It is something new. Okay, great. Psalms has one more chapter, 151. The tradition of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible only contains 150 Psalms that we all know. Besides these 150 Psalms, there is one more additional one in the Syriac Bible. It is included in the Septuagint, the Greek version. And the Ethiopic or Armenian, Arabic, they have the script. That script has 151 Psalms. Even now some of the version of the Greek Orthodox Church, they have this 151 included in their Psalms. The Hebrew version of Psalms was found in the Dead Scroll much later. Much later, it was found and, you know, all what does this 151 talks about? So before even we could see what this 151 talks about, let's read that version. Okay, it's been included in the Bible Gateway. I thought I will directly project that. Just give me a minute while I present that. I will also send the link so you all can read it directly much later. Can we see it? Yes. Okay, so this is in the Bible Gateway. I'll send this link to you all. So this is 151 Psalm. And this 151 Psalm is divided into two parts. Let's read what this says. It says, Hallelujah of David, Jesse's son. He writes, I was smallest of my brothers. The youngest of my father's son. He made me shepherd of his flock. Ruler over the young. My hands made a flute. My fingers alluring. Let me give glory to the Lord. I thought to myself, the mountain cannot witness to God. The hills cannot proclaim him. But the trees have cherished my words. The floor, my deeds. Who can proclaim? Who can announce? Who can declare the Lord's deeds? God has seen everything. God has heard everything. God has listened. God sent this prophet to anoint me. Samuel to make me great. My brothers went out to meet him. Handsome in form and appearance. They statured all. Their hair was beautiful. But the Lord God did not choose them. Verse 7. He says, Instead he sent and took me from flowing, following the flock. God anointed me with holy oil. God made me leader for his people. Ruler over the children of his covenant. And then he moves on. This is 51 part B. So at the beginning of David's power, after the prophet of God anointed him. This is after the anointing of Samuel. I went out to attack the Philistine, who cursed me by his idols.  So I removed the shame from the Israelites. This is the Hebrew version. We also see the Greek version of the same thing. It's written how we have different versions in KJV, KJV, NIV. Even this has different versions in the Hebrew and Greek. It means the same. But then 151 has two parts. 151 A as seven verses and 151 B. It's actually a continuation. But then it's been part two, which has two verses. It talks about his victory over the Philistines or victory over the Goliath. That's amazing, isn't it? Something new. So this 151 is quite autobiographical. It gives us the details of David's life, like how he made flute for playing or how he made harp. And it also speaks about, let me see, just give me a minute. He speaks about the selection of God as David, as the new king over Israel and how he sent Samuel to anoint him and how God bypassed all his brothers, though they were very beautiful, strong, handsome. But then God did not look at any of the outer nature, but then God looked at the heart and selected David, though he were much smaller than his brothers or he may not have good talent or experience in the army. But then God chose David despite his appearance. And we see David's victory over the Philistine giant in the next part B. He talks about God giving him the victory. God fought the battle and he gave him the victory over this Philistine who came with his God.   Why did David carry the head of Goliath? He could have just killed him at that point. Why do you think that David had to cut his head and carry it and go into the city of Jerusalem? Can anyone add to it? Yes, Sid, please go ahead. Ma'am, maybe because of that oath which Saul took, whosoever will defeat the Goliath, I will made him marry my daughter because of that maybe as a proof that David might have took his head to show that I am the one who did this like that of a proof of a symbol of victory. Okay, okay. Anyone else? Yes, what Sid said is yes. Saul asked him to get the head but then what did they do with that head? They actually got the Goliath. The tradition says that some of the scholars have written it saying that David carried that head and they brought that head and they went outside the city. There was a mountain. They buried this head on that hill and they named that as... I am not getting the name. Golgotha, ma'am. Yes, Golgotha, but there was another name before it could be changed to Golgotha. I am not getting that name exactly. I am very sorry about it. Place of skulls? Yes, place of skull is the meaning. Okay, so what they did is they carried Goliath's head and they buried it there in that mountain and later.  And then he buried the head there and I am not very sure what exactly was the name at that time but then later that mountain was named as Golgotha Place of Skull and that was the same mountain where Jesus was crucified. There was a symbolic connection to it where Jesus was crucified and he trampled over the enemy. He trampled over the enemy and rose from his death.  And then there are some reasons why the Psalms 151 was not included in most of the Bible. One is that Psalms was not part of the traditional Hebrew text. Okay, it was later added in the Judaism considered as 151 some to be part of the Apocrypa books. And so the Septuagint included that is the Greek translation of the Old Testament included the script from the original Hebrew they translated and included as 151 Psalms in their script but then because the Hebrew has not included that may be one of the reason why the canon the canon has not included that chapter in our Bible. And the second is it could be even though 151 appears in the Septuagint the Greek version the translators you know numbered it as not of the mark not of the number not of the number that means outside the number they did not consider some as some 151 they just numbered it that way. So that's one of the reason why they have not included this in the book of the canon. Yes, I will just send you the link for this Psalms 151 I'll post it. So you get to read the Hebrew version and also the Greek version of this. I will go back so some of the unique features which we just went through yesterday it is the same then some additional features I've added here where we have Psalm was the longest term project it took about 900 to 1000 years in making or compiling this book. And then we see Psalms is the most quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament there are about 360 Old Testament quotations or in the New Testament of which 112 are from the Psalms and we see Psalms contains more Messianic prophecies than any of the other Old Testament book and we will go through it when we're going through the foreshadowing of Christ and then there are duplicate Psalms it's so similar can one of them take up Psalms 14 and the other Psalms 53 if you can compare the verses the scripts are duplicate and then Psalms 40 13 to 7 and the other can take Psalms 70 again Psalms 60 verse 5 to 12 and Psalms 108 6 to 13 you see the same scripture been repeated it's almost has the same words in some cases or it contains the same meaning we'll take anyone if any of anyone I've taken it can we just read can I read Psalms 14 yes please the fool has said in his heart there is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who does good the Lord looks down from heaven on the children of men to see if there are any who understand who seek God they have all turned aside they have together become corrupt there is none who does good no not one have all the work okay we'll stop with that just to make sure that it is the same can if anyone I've taken 53 Psalms 53 can I request all to please read read like first three chapters so sorry first three verses one two and three okay let me read Psalms 53 yes please the fool says in his heart there is no God they are corrupt and their ways are our way there is no one who does good God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand any who seek God everyone has turned away they have together become corrupt there is no one who does good not even one thank you thank you so much so you see it's the same it has been repeated so if we take time to read the other scriptures you will also find the same thing and the next is a number of Psalms are a rostic in Hebrew with the first word of each verse or the stanza begins with a successful letter of the Hebrew alphabets one such example is Psalms 119 it has a complete Hebrew alphabets throughout runs throughout the scripture in that with this we will move on to the foreshadowing of Christ which is the last one yeah we see the foreshadowing of Christ Psalm 2 chapter 1 to 12 it portrays messiah's triumph and kingdom and Psalms 16 8 to 11 it shows it talks about the death and the resurrection of Christ and Psalms 22 shows us the suffering save you on the cross and it also presents the prophecies with regards to the crucification and all of which were fulfilled perfectly and then we see the glories of messiah and his bride are on exhibit in Psalm 45 and then in Psalm 42 and 89 and 110 and 132 it presents the glory and universality of his reign so when we read through it we see it talking about the messiah okay with this we will conclude the book of Psalms and open to class if you would like to share your learning or you would like to add anything to it it would be great for us to hear so what was our learning or you would like to share something that you learned from this class and it was new if we have a recap it's always good so Rosalind what did you learn you can share one point each of you can take up one point Ma'am Psalms 151 was something new I am hearing it for the first time today so yeah this was something new for me okay I am sure it is the same with all of us okay can I request Rosalind to end this class with a word of prayer so that we can be dismissed thank you Lord Jesus wonderful father we thank you Lord we praise you for today's class Lord we want to bless your name we give you glory you've been teaching us Lord through your word Father God we believe that we got every word that we hear we learn we study is an enlightenment to our spirit to our understanding Lord we just want to pray Father God that whatever we learn and we study may be used for your glory but we want to live for your glory Father God through our lives Father God we want to bless your name we want to bring glory to your name God we thank you and we bless you for all the precious students that are in this class we bless each I pray Lord that you bless each and every one of us Father God maybe we used for your glory in your kingdom but I also pray for Pastor Nancy bless her Daddy God bless her family bless her Lord as she's been a blessing in the kingdom of God in the kingdom of God Lord I pray Lord through our lives may you be glorified in the mighty name of Jesus amen amen thank you so much thank you God bless you have a blessed day see you tomorrow thank you thank you God bless thank you


Hey guys, how are you? All right, so this is just a little bonus video I don't know right now when I'm gonna air it or or not and That noise that you hear is my grand dog Lily Because she knows I'm talking and I'm in the art room and I'm not downstairs with her and she doesn't like the art room because the floor is too hard so Yeah, anyways We are here I'm gonna make a paper clip, but I'm gonna do it a little differently So I've taken some of the wooden shapes that I use for bases and I've put a coating of gesso on them all I did five of them. I don't know how many of these I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do one for you all on camera, but Let's kind of stuck a little bit. That's okay So we're gonna pick one in a minute. I am by I trade a painter that's how I started my creative journey was actually sewing and doing needlework and painting so Mix media kind of came along later. I love paint So I'm gonna actually have I've had this idea for a while to create a little mini Paintings on some of these and then making them into paper clips, which I think would be really cute So we're gonna do that. We're gonna use our my color inspiration Journal which I've been working on if you've been following me on social media you've seen this and I collect magazine images that I'm inspired by Color and cop and or composition Maybe a single image maybe a group of images and then I create a color story to go with them and put notes and Randomly stamp this down here, which is funny. I've been asked about that a lot. I stamp Using all of the paints that I've swatched here With this piece of cardboard I Just want to see what the marks look like and what it would be like when they're sort of blended messily together And I do that on every page Like and I guess like me you guys think it's like one of your favorite parts of the journal, which I don't disagree with you So anyway, that's what that is And we'll be talking about that more in a different video because I have one more page that I'm gonna do in the back Here sneak peek and I'm gonna do it on camera But anyway, so we're gonna take inspiration from one of these color stories in here to create a little painting I just want to show you how that you would use a journal like this And I think I'm gonna try to do one that's kind of this is like more of my normal color palette This is not you'll notice. There's no yellow in here. There's no like bright pink or neons It'd be more of a challenge. I'm kind of wanting to be challenged a little bit. I Love that color story With a color I think I'm gonna go with this one So I'm gonna pull these colors out of my bins or colors that are close to it And we're gonna create a little painting on one of these wood shapes that I've just sewed I'm gonna fast forward through that process. It might have nothing to do with this It might be something completely different But I'm gonna use these two pages of color and composition to create a painting on one of the paper clips So let's see where I where I go with that Shall we and I'll also fix the lighting because you see that reflection. That's the overhead light I'm gonna turn on the LED lights so we don't have that on there because that's annoying. All right, I'll be back Okay, so that's done and the extra paint is drying on some scrap newsprint paper That's a newsprint pad from Muji the Japanese department store You get them in their stationery department. They look like this. It's really fat. I've been using it up anyway Really handy in the art room So we're gonna let this dry and then we're going to turn this into a paper clip Slash little tiny piece of art. All right, I'll be back. Okay guys So it's dry. How cute is that? Because it's a painting and it's on a what's gonna be a paper clip. It's probably gonna get Some wear and tear So you need to make sure That you give it some kind of a clear coat. Now you should do this with your paintings anyway It'll help protect the paint and give your artwork some longevity Whether it's watercolor or acrylic You do the clear protective coat in different ways for the different mediums, but you should do one So I'm gonna do one in this one that being said I don't necessarily want it shiny I kind of like the matte finish that's on it. So I'm gonna use deco art Dura clear matte varnish. I Have been putting words on All of my paper clips. I do think I want to put a word on this one So let's see what words I have I'm thinking the I was thinking these big chest stickers. They actually might be too big. Hang on Have loads of words because they're really my thing and I figured out early on I really like having words on my artwork So I've got This little folder. Let's see if we find something Smaller do this something out here might work These are some old Teresa Collins stickers Let me find something. So as I turn the camera off. I found one. I like this one down here at the bottom It says blessed life Don't know why I like that one for this, but I do I Am gonna give it a little bit of a trim So it's on there, but it's not on there. You know what I mean? I really should be doing this with my reading glasses on I'm sure it's crooked, but that's okay. I'll put it down here at the bottom Perfecto and then we're gonna give it a coat of the Dura clear matte varnish and we're gonna let it dry Once that's a dry Then we're gonna attach the paperclip to the back and I'm just gonna I think I'm gonna just leave the back Plain I may take one of these scraps of painting paper From where I wipe the brushes off and use that on the back and then attach the clip I don't know at the moment, but let's put the clear coat on and then let's let that dry And we'll take it from there when we're done Okay, so the clear coat is all dry It looks like this on the back Um, I kind of want to cover the back with a piece of paper. So even though there's gonna be this white Strip on it. So Let's just do that I need my tacky glue. Let's put a Healthy-ish amount of tacky glue on the back and I'm gonna use this scrap piece of paper That I was smearing paint on I'm gonna give it a little wiggle to spread the paint out And I need a pair of scissors. Oh, there's a pair right there. Well, that's okay. So that looks better. I do Kind of do that and flick up the edges Make sure I've got glue everywhere Okay Then it's time to put this on the back now usually I glue this down and Then I use binder clips to hold the this piece of Tyvek on here while it dries But I'm worried about doing that even though this is dry having the binder clip leave a sorry I'm off camera having the binder clip leave sort of a mark on the front side, which I don't want But I do think I have a different solution So I'm gonna turn my paper clip with pieces my piece of Tyvek tucked in it upside down This is the part you want facing out so you can oops Actually use it as a paper clip So we want to glue this side down with the big part of the paper clip and then put some on the sides Center it on the back of the piece of wood Right side up. Usually this is when I would do that the binder clip but We're gonna give this a trim While it's still wet if the clip is a little crooked strain it Then I think what I'm gonna do is I think I'm gonna take up a couple of my small weights Make sure the table is clean and then just weigh it down when I shove Scissors under there so the bulk of the weight of the weight is on the Tyvek There we go, and we're gonna just leave it like prop like that and let it dry I'll be back. So it's not quite dry all the way, but you get the idea. Oh, let me fix the lighting hang on So, you know some days I'm really glad that I thought to check the camera You know, I thought it was on and I was talking to y'all and it wasn't on so you know anyway It's not quite dry all the way on the back But it's dry enough. So this is our finished paper clip Really cool. And yes, it still does work as a paper clip. This is a piece of just craft card stock So it's perfect for putting on a journal page on a journal cover maybe putting on a Ribbon or a string and getting a collection of them and hanging it on the wall of your creative space Sharing and trading with friends. They're really they're unique little pieces of art in their own right Although this is the first time I've painted on one. I don't think it's going to be the last time because that was a lot of fun and it was a lot of fun using the color inspiration book to pick the colors and Inspiration from this page in the journal to create this little work of art Which is what this journal is all about Anyway, I'm going to link Lollipalooza's paper clip art Facebook group in the description below Also, my link tree list of links is in the description below So if you want to follow me on social media and see what other paper clips I'm making This is the first time I've painted one, but it's not the first time I've made one I've been making them for almost two months now. So If you want to see what I've been up to You can click on that link tree list of links and all my social medias there along with a lot of different places You can support the free content here on Facebook and over in the fee I hear on Facebook here on YouTube and over on Facebook and the art groups and Facebook by Joining my patreon or shopping in the Amazon affiliate store or buying something in the Etsy shop There's lots of different ways you can do that. So think about Doing that and check out that link tree list of links if nothing else you can find me on Instagram and Twitter and follow me over there Yeah, and that's it I want you all to go out and have some fun Create something interesting and unique maybe a fun little work of art like this paper clip and Don't forget to like share and subscribe and go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later I'm gonna go back to making paper clips. Bye guys


My last conversation with Richard Granum provoked heated exchanges and commentary, especially with regards to a fellow Jew, Yeshua, who later came to be known as Jesus Christ. Today I would like to expound on this segment of the conversation. In the following video presentation, most of the quotes are from the Gospel of St. Matthew. I was careful to compare the quotes with the text of the other three canonical Gospels, and where the Gospels disagree, I avoided using the quote altogether. Before we start, I must say that in the wake of most scholars, I believe that Jesus Christ was a real historical figure. He is mentioned in Roman sources of the period, and there were many like him. Peripathetic prophets who roved and roamed the land of Judea and the region of Galilee, so he would have been no exception. He was a historical figure, most scholars believe, and so do I. Today I am concerned more with his psychology, or precisely his psychopathology. My name is Saint Agni, I am the author of Malignan Self-Rabbi, Narcissism Revisited, and a series of other books about personality disorders. I am also a professor of psychology in two universities. Illegitimate and adopted children, especially of humble origins, often developed narcissistic defenses to fend off persistent feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. Admittedly, it is highly unlikely that Jesus was an illegitimate child. Adulteresses in ancient Judea were stoned to death. But equally, there is little doubt that the circumstances of Jesus' birth were shrouded in mystery.  Early on, Jesus developed magical thinking, compensatory grandiose delusions and fantasies of omnipotence and omniscience. Jesus was a firstborn. He was much pampered by his doting mother. He was a prodigy, a wunderkind, highly intelligent and inquisitive, and more comfortable in the company of adults than with his peers. When he was a mere 12 years old, the Bible says they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. Doctors, meaning at the time, meant learned people. This is Luke 2.46. Even at this tender age of 12, the beginning of adolescence in today's modern world, at the time, the beginning of adulthood, he showed a marked lack of empathy and a full-fledged case of pathological grandiosity. Luke 2.48-49 says, His mother said unto him, Mary said to Jesus, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Why are you doing this to us? Behold, thy father and I have sought thee, sorry, we are looking for you, in a bad state of mind. And Jesus said unto them, How is it that he has sought me? Why are you looking for me? Wist ye not that I must be about my father's business? Don't you realize that I must be at my father's? My father in this case being no more and no less than God himself. Gurus at the center of emergent healths are inevitably narcissistic, if not outright, narcissists. The self-imputation of superiority, epiphanic knowledge, and infallibility, and the assumption that others need, and for him, the Guru's message, they're all at the heart of an elaborate construct, which often borders the psychotic. Matthew 7, 28 to 29 says, The people were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. Referring to his twelve disciples, Jesus made clear that the disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. Matthew 10, 24. So Jesus compares himself to a Lord, and his disciples are not his equals. They are his servants. He continues, Jesus, He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it, and He that loveth his life for my sake shall find it. Quite a grandiose statement, if ever there was one. The famous author and religious thinker C. S. Lewis said once that either you accept Jesus as a lunatic, or you accept Him as God. It's a bit difficult for one Jew to accept another Jew as God. And it's even more difficult to accept someone from a God for second region like Galilee and with a lowly occupation such as carpentry as the reification or embodiment of God. So I would dispense with that assumption that Jesus was God on earth. It strikes me as too psychotic. Today people are medicated or locked up in mental asylum for much less. Let us therefore safely assume that C. S. Lewis was right. If Jesus were not God, He was a rank lunatic. And let's continue along this assumption and see whether it can be substantiated. Here is how Jesus, the lowly, unmarried and itinerant son of a carpenter or at best architecton, interior designer, here is how He talks about Himself. Remember that Jesus at age 40 is an abysmal failure by the standards of His society. And this is how He views Himself. When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory and before Him shall be gathered all nations and He shall separate them one from another as a shepherd dividereth His sheep from the goats. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment by the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25, 31, 32 and 25, 46. Jesus continues just to remove any doubt. Think as thou that I cannot now pray to my Father God and He shall presently give me more than 12 regions of angels? Do you really think that? Do you find this how to put it gently, mentally ill?  Matthew 26, 53. Contrary to His much cultivated image, Jesus, like the vast majority of cult leaders, lacked empathy and was a heartless and irresponsible and dangerous manipulator whose magical thinking ruined the lives of many around Him. Jesus instructed His followers to commit acts that must have had harshly adverse impacts on their hitherto nearest and nearest. In this sense, Jesus was an anti-social person. Jesus monopolized the lives of His disciples to the exclusion of all else and of all others. He said, For I am come to set a man a variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And men's foes shall be they of his home, of his own household. Matthew 10, 35, 36. Jesus continues, Then once said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee.  But Jesus answered. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples and said, Behold my mother and my brethren. Matthew 12, 47, 48. We continue with Matthew 4, 1822. And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea, for there were fishes. And he said unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishes of men. And they straight away left their nets and followed him. And going on from Ben's, he saw another two brethren, James, the son of Ziviti, and John, his brother in a sheep with Ziviti, their father, mending their nets. And he called them, and they immediately left the sheep and left their father and followed him. Consider the disastrous effects their actions must have had on their fathers and on their families. Now, left to starve. To Jesus evidently, these were irrelevant considerations. Jesus healed only those who visibly, volubly, clearly, publicly, and repeatedly worshipped him. In other words, he extended his gift only to his sources of narcissistic supply. There are numerous instances in the four canonical gospels where Jesus actually bargains with the afflicted and demands, sometimes angrily, their unconditional adoration in return for his healing gifts. Is Jesus his happiest when acknowledged and affirmed as Christ the Son of Men, Son of God? Those who do not recognize his landed grandeur, unbounded might and implied divinity, they are unporting dogs and swine. That's what he calls them in Matthew 7.6. His much-touted love of the poor was not a match for his malignant self-love. When his disciples braided a woman for anointing Jesus with expensive ointment because the money could have been better used to help the poor, the great humanist Jesus had this to say to them, Why trouble ye the woman, for she hath wrought a good work upon me, for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always. Matthew 26, 10, 11. In other words, she was right to take her scarce savings by expensive oil and anoint Jesus rather than give charity and alms to the poor because the poor will always be there, but Jesus is one and only. The principles espoused by Jesus were malleable and easily bent at his convenience. Jesus professed to minister only to the Hebrews, sons of Israel, and steadfastly refused to heal the Gentiles whom he called dogs. When a woman of Canaan besieged him to cast the devil out of her daughter, she cried, have mercy on me. Jesus retorted shockingly, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. It is not meat to take the children's bread and to cast it to the dogs, dogs being non-Jews, non-Hebrews, non-Israelites. Matthew 15, 24, 26. But Jesus soon forgot and retracted this lofty principle when the same woman adulated him. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith. In other words, you gave me no statistic supply. Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. OK, I'll do what you want. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. Matthew 15, 28. Here's the sequence. The woman comes to him and says, help me, please, have mercy on me.   I'm not going to help you.  Sounds like a classic grand use, no statistic, because it is. Similarly, Jesus cured the servant of a Roman centurion after his master catered to Jesus' by now, rampant megalomania. When Jesus heard it, what the centurion said, he marveled and said to them that followed, verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And Jesus said unto the centurion, go thy way, and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the self-same hour, Matthew 8, 10 and 8, 13. Again, the exact same sequence. The centurion adulates and admires Jesus, caters to his psychotic megalomania, and Jesus agrees to heal, even the non-Hebrews. Jesus' initial false modesty soon gave way to bragging and outlandish, often confabulatory claims. Whenever Jesus affected a miracle, such as restoring eyesight to the blind, cleansing lepers, reviving the crippled, and raising the ostensibly dead, Jesus besieged them to keep mum about the events, one of many examples, and their eyes were opened, and Jesus straightly charged them, saying, see that no men know it, Matthew 9, 30. But much later, Jesus was not averse to blatant self-promotion when his false modesty failed to elicit narcissistic supply. Matthew 11, 2. Go and show John again those things which he had do here in sea. In other words, forget my previous injunction, go and spread the word about the miracles I'm making. The blind received their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. I say unto you that in this place, and in one greater than the temple, that in this place is one, sorry, greater than the temple, for the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath day. Behold, a greater than the prophet Jonas is here. Behold, a greater than King Solomon is here, and no, he is not talking about anyone else, he is talking about himself. As a true narcissist, Jesus reprimanded others for his own brand of behavior. This psychological defense mechanism is known as projection. This is how Jesus described the Pharisees, the scribes, and the Sadducees, and inadvertently himself, and his own conduct. They say, and do not, for they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be born, and lay them on men's shoulders. But they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of man. To brag, they make broad their philacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feast, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi, which is precisely by the way how Jesus was called throughout the New Testament, Matthew <IP_ADDRESS>.2.6. Narcissists, especially grandiose narcissists, are destructive, counter-dependent, combative, and recent authority. They are rebellious, defined, and consummated. These aspects are common to narcissists and to psychopaths. Narcissists feel that they're above the law, or rather that they are the law, or aid law unto themselves. They hold themselves to be immune to the consequences of their actions. Listen to Jesus. Think not that I've come to send peace on earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10.34. And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all of them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold toves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. Matthew 21.12.13. Narcissists are indisposed toward disagreement and criticism. They react to the slightest hint of either with narcissistic rage and fury that knows no bounds, and no mercy. Empathy flies out the window. Listen to Jesus in one of his narcissistic rage attacks.  For if the mighty works which had been done in thee had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee. Matthew 11.23.24. He was rejected in Cappanum, and his verdict is total annihilation of the city of the town and its people. He that is not to me is against me. No, that's not George Bush or Donald Trump. That's Jesus in Matthew 12.30. For I say unto you, ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Lord being Jesus. Matthew 23.39. Narcissists react particularly badly when their co-coctored personal myth, therefore self, is directly and effectively challenged, and they are consequently discredited and humiliated in public. And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in the synagogue in so much that they were astonished and said, whence hath this man this wisdom and this mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brethren, James and Jesus, and Simon and Judas, and his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house. And he did not. Many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Matthew 13.54-58. Jesus' love was highly conditional. You adore me. You admire me. You adulate me. I help you guys. You don't. I'm going to ruin you with hail and brimstone, like sodom.  People get tired of the overbearing and overwinning presence of the narcissist in their lives, of his destructive and destabilizing influence, and of the pernicious effects he has on their nearest and nearest and on their communities. Invariably, people seek to banish the narcissist and extricate themselves from his cult. The authorities usually are forced to intervene and lock the narcissist up, or worse, curse on him if he had lived in the wrong period. Even his closest followers, his supporters, his disciples give up on the narcissist, ultimately. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled. Matthew 26, 56. Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, prophesy unto us, thou Christ. Who is he that smote the Matthew 26, 67, 68. Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, before the Cork crowd, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter indeed denied, knowing Jesus three times. Matthew 26, 75. And the fickle multitude, the common foreman, who were supposed to be the mainstay of Jesus' power and popularity, they betrayed him gleefully with the clearest sense of relief and good riddance. Matthew 27, whether of the twain will yea that I release unto you. That is Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator, asking the multitude, the crowds, who do you want me to release? And they said, Barabbas, they all say unto him, let him, let Jesus be crucified. They cried out the more, saying, be crucified. Then answered all the people and said, his blood be on us, and on our children. And they, that passed by, reviled him, wagging their heads and saying, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking him with the scribes and elders said, he saved others himself, he cannot save. The thieves also, which were crucified with him left and right, cast the same in his teeth. Not a very popular figure. This is the end, the typical end of every narcissist, reviled, mocked, or worse. Thank you for listening.


What do you think of a nice number two? Pencil. You could haul a lot of mashed potatoes around with these.  Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for watching. My name is Jonathan. This is Noodle, and this is Tools of the Trade, the show where we find out exactly what everyday entrepreneurs need to get through their day. I'm really excited because this week's episode is all about Sig Morrison. And Dress New Orleans is a business that she founded based on her passion for chain stitching that she learned while visiting her grandma over the summer. So what's really amazing about her business is that whenever you commission an item, whether she's making you a sweater or she's making you a patch, the design on it is entirely handmade by her. She's really an artist with what she does. We're just about to get into this box, and before we do that, I just want to clear the air and just see if Noodle is anything he wants to bring to the table. That was quite lazy. He didn't contribute anything. But that's OK because you're adorable. I love this part. OK, so let's see what Sig curated for us. Oh, OK. OK, so the first thing we've got in here is, oh, it's called Love Kombucha. So this is a Brew Doctor Organic Kombucha. It's Jasmine Lavender in green tea. And this is cool because this is something I would put in my box. I absolutely love kombucha. This is a drink that you consume, and it has some bacteria in it. That is supposed to be very, very good for your gut health. And a lot of people who are super health conscious are kind of getting into this. So Sig, also, this is not just something that she drinks to stay healthy, but this is something that she actually drinks when she's out with her friends, when she's out with her girlfriends, instead of drinking alcohol. What do you think? Over it. So the next item we have in the Sig Morrison box is, oh, it's cold brew. I thought it was motor oil. This is super, super intense stuff. It's fresh cold brew concentrate. Oh, so this is even more lethal than just normal cold brew coffee. So this is stuff that you have to not only drink limited amounts of, but you have to dilute this with more water. So Sig is hardcore when it comes to her caffeine intake. I think it's safe to say that although she does not indulge in alcohol, she is absolutely no problem making sure that she can stay awake for those long hours. I'm having trouble even touching this because I can't drink caffeine without white knuckling it. So this is like, yeah, this is dangerous for me, but I'm gonna keep it close because danger keeps things more interesting. The next item we have in the Sig Morrison box is, this is wrapped all nice. I don't wanna ruin it, but I'm gonna. Yeah, I wish they would wrap more things. It's like Christmas for me, except I don't get any of these. Ooh. Wait, are these, these are just exercise pants. Sig loves hot yoga. She loves going to Bikram classes. These are something that I would absolutely see a high-powered business woman walking around in New York City wearing. Confidently, they're bold, they're colorful, they've got a lot to say. You got some nice stretch in them. You could really, you could haul a lot of mashed potatoes around with these. I don't know, I don't know why that's the first thing I thought of. Noodle's looking at this right now and he's like, this woman is fancy as hell. She looks amazing. How can I have this tailored into a small, maybe a bodysuit? The next item we have in the Sig Morrison box is super fine pins. Is this a death trap? What am I doing here?  As a designer of any kind who's working with many different types of materials, I have to find a way to pin those down, right? And Sig literally told us that not only does she love these pins, she says she stabs herself with them a hundred times a day. Because she also followed up by saying that if she's going to do that, it might as well be with the nicest pin. And I love that. I love it.  The next item we have in the Sig Morrison box is a rectangle plastic case. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It's the pencils. Sig tells us that she loves these pencils because she is quote unquote not a fan of mechanical nonsense. Sig, you need to teach me your ways. She also says that there is nothing better than a sharpened number two pencil. But it's something that I can imagine she just needs to sketch all the time. If she gets inspired by something, she might need to sketch it out or write something down. You seem very interested in these pencils. What do you think of a nice number two pencil? He loves a good poop whenever he has to have one. Did you just lick it?  Did you take a small bite and then did you just kind of snot all over the table? This is so sweet. I'm putting this pencil right back in here. Oh, wait, she's cool. Sorry, I just took out her two vinyls and I realized that she's much cooler than I am. What is it about vinyls that make people very cool? So Sig put two vinyls in here, Judas Priest, which is, once again, way more badass than I am. My vinyl would be like Let Go, Avril Lavigne's first album, which is the very first CD I ever purchased with my own money. And then the next one she has in here is, okay, so it's Judas Priest.   I know a couple of people with a record player and it's one thing to listen to it like on your headphones or when you're kind of running around, but to be able to just put music on, right? Whether you're in your studio or you're in your apartment or your house to just be able to have something playing must be, you know, just on a record player with that sort of vintage feel, especially with the era of this music, that must be really satisfying for her. The next item we have is, it's Dolly Parton. Got a nice little eight by 10 signed Dolly Parton photo that I think would be perfect at anyone's home on your mantle, on your, you know, shellacked to your car windshield. Zigg, it tells us that she has, Dolly Parton is all over her studio, so it's very clear that she's wildly inspired by this woman, either because she loves her music, she loves the way that she paved the way for women. She loves the way that she started her own frickin' theme park, that is successful. I think this is in here for equal parts inspiration and motivation. And Noodle, I just have to ask, like as someone who did know Dolly back in this time, what do you think? No time for Dolly. Okay, he's got plenty of time to lick a fire hydrant on the quarter of 41st and Broadway, but no time for Dolly. Okay, and the last item we have in the Zigg Morrison box is, okay, so I'm gonna open this. I don't know what this is. I think it's, I'm pretty sure this is a picture frame for Dolly. You don't just get Dolly, she gets her own frame. Of course she does. She's Dolly, goddamn parton. Zigg, you have told us so much about yourself. I am thrilled by the items that you put in here. I love them, I love them. I don't know about you guys, but I am feeling so inspired by her, by Judas Priest, by Dolly Parton, by everyone that was involved in this box. I think it was really a wonderful curation. I feel like I know this woman so much more. And I have a great understanding of the kinds of things that she needs to get through a day, whether it's a day where she's trying to be very creative or a day where she's trying to be very productive. If you liked this video, please go ahead and like and subscribe to our YouTube channel. And don't forget to ring the bell to get notifications whenever we post a new piece of content like this. So, for myself and for Noodle, oh, and for Dolly, thank you so much for watching and we will see you next week. Thank you so much for watching. 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Good morning, Cyber Traders! Welcome back on this lovely Tuesday, special day, March 10th. Walk it up almost 1,000 points. How are you doing, everybody? Good to see everyone. Good morning. Good to see you, Phil. Kathleen. Good to see you, Wayne. Barb. Everyone. Bonnie. Old Cyber Traders. All right, so let's get right into what happened yesterday. We moved down 2,000 points. Actually, I posted a picture of me standing by my TV of showing you, I don't know if you guys follow me on Instagram, but I showed a picture of it. It's pretty cool seeing that down that much. You know what? I was at the New York Traders Expo in the afternoon. I met a couple of my friends over there. They thought the same way I thought. I don't know about you guys, but I went long yesterday. There was a lot of great opportunities to buy things. I wish I could have bought a long time ago. They got so expensive. Some of these things are getting decimated. I did do some nice swing trade yesterday. Regarding about this morning, about what happened yesterday, I had Josh in my office. We were sitting there talking, and I want to just talk about this one-stop gush. This thing just got crushed, crushed yesterday. Let me just bring up, I hope you can see a little better chart. There we go, right here. There we go. Five-minute chart. This thing was down 80%. Right around here, you could see this big run-up. I bought it, I sold it, I bought it, I sold it. I lost like two cents and one cent. Then finally, the thing just found the base. I jumped in about, I think I got like $1.28. They had it, and it ran to $2.20. Now, I had several thousand shares of this thing. I'm sitting here cheering, screaming, all happy. I mean, unbelievable. Then it started dwindling down. I thought it was going to break out. If you look at the long-term trading stock, back in January, the stock was $40. I thought it was going to come back, and it really didn't. I got out, and I didn't make as much money as I was making. I actually lost half of my profit going up as high as it did, but good thing I sold it. If I didn't sell it, look what ended up happening. The thing dropped all the way in after hours, went below a dollar a trade.  This is one of the big things that you learn at Cybertrain University. It's not our job to teach you how to make money. I know everybody wants to learn how to make money. That's not a teacher's or a school's job. Our job is to teach you how to stop losing money.  The winners take care of themselves, the losers that you have to be concerned about. That's what ends up happening with some of these stocks. You just got to know how to play the game, how to get in and out of them, take the profit and move on. Now regarding, we've got a big runner right now that's moved up pretty nicely, this AYTU. I know you guys have been watching it, but I just saw a big order just get filled at a book 48 here on the level four. Look at that thing, one from $0.40 to $1.80. So regarding this whole catastrophe about the coronavirus and now we've got the oils and that, President Trump is doing everything he can to kind of sustain this. Listen, I talked to a lot of people yesterday. I'm not really concerned about it. This is not 2008. Financial crisis was a lot worse because we didn't know what to expect. I don't know if you guys remember, some of you were trading with me back then, following me, this is 25 years. This is nothing like the financial crisis. This is beyond less worse. This is going to eventually go away. We didn't know what the financial crisis was going to go away. This will go away. You've seen what's happening in China. They were having 2,000 people illed a day. Now it's down to 15 people a day. So they basically have a quarantine, Italy's on quarantine, but they shut down everything over there. It's going to eventually be taken care of.  Get some swing trades and get those positions you always wanted because listen, you saw what happened just a couple of days ago when the job reports came out. We blew them out of the water, not even by like 10,000. It blew from 175 to 275. That's 100,000, like I told you earlier.  That's unheard of. Great opportunities out there. If you see anything you like, there's your opportunity to do it. But be careful of those coronavirus stocks, because once this thing gets taken care of, those things obviously are going to crash. So enjoy the ride and don't think this is going back to the old days where it's going to be. Now let's go over a couple of stocks. I'm keeping an eye on GUSH right now. I did buy it this morning. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm losing money on it. I got in right around $1.14. I didn't buy a lot of shares of it. I made so much money in it. I'm not looking to give it back. I didn't buy a lot of it, but if I start seeing anything to end all up, I'll buy more. So I'm in that trade right now. AYTU. This obviously you see what this thing did this morning. Things going up pretty nicely. Pretty volatile stock. 11 million shares already trading pre-market. YTEN. Got another nice little move in this one right here. This one you can see it's up 40%, 80,000 shares. Not a lot of iceberg orders out there though. You can see over there on the matrix. There's really no one out there. So I'm not really super excited about this one. Remember, we need to follow the money to make money. TEL tells another one. This thing got destroyed. It got crushed. Listen, you want to hold overnight positions? If you didn't learn from the night before, look what happened. Oh, you know the night before? You want to take a loss? Oh, look at that. You go from $6 less than what, a weeknight down to $0.88. So, but anyway, I love bottom fishing. My eyes on this stock right here. Only thing I'm concerned about, not really that much going on in the morning hours. Not a lot going on in pre-market. So that really makes me a little skeptical about the stock. Envax. We all know about Envax. Envax is moving again this morning. Oh, she's on a back off now. I found it from 8.30. She had a nice pop from 11 to 13. Well, she's got some support levels right here at these prices right around $12. So we'll see what happens there. But million shares, great orders, no major iceberg orders, other than you see at $12. So yeah, once again, that makes sense. Looking at the chart. ENBL. Another nice little mover right here. Another stock that got, oh yeah, destroyed. You can see that thing just literally fell off the face of the earth from $6 down to $0.80. Well, she's gapped up again. Look where she's at, back to $3.60. These things, I'm telling you, up 80%. It's all about being in the right one and being at the right place at the right time. But this thing gapped up pretty nicely right here. What else we got? SM. Another one I found that got destroyed. I love bottom fishing. I mean, look at the stock. Another one right here. Up 35%, 150,000 shares. Not really too crazy in the pre-market though. We're not getting a nice push. Not as nice as the AYTU. But it is gapped up. It looks like it could fill in the gap, which is also a positive thing. Two more I got here. MRO. It's another one I found this morning. This one looks a little bit better. Nice little push. A lot better pre-market. This is what we're looking for. Million shares. Got a lot of orders out there. Nice little trend. The stock, what did I do? This one I didn't find this morning. This one I just found a little bit earlier. It's because you just started moving right around $8.30. This one also has a pretty good move right here on the MRO. Nice little push. Looks like it's got to feel like, if it breaks this five, it's going to be a gap fill right there, which you could see I had a tough time breaking it. Now listen, a lot of the ETFs are just all over the place. I want you to be very careful. The Russia bear market. I mean, look at that thing.  I'll tell you, I personally think, actually, and it's not my even, but I was talking to some people yesterday. They all believe that the Russians are really you know how they say in the trying to fix the election? Well, I think they're trying to damage the president. One of the reasons why is they don't want him to get reelected. Remember, the whole thing about us being energy independent now, we're really hurting Russia a lot. I guess this is their way of fighting back regarding about doing what they did with the oil. I don't think they could deal with another four years with him if we're starting to be oil independent, because we are we are tapping into into their reserve and being a big seller of it. So I think from what I was talking to some people on the floor, like I said, I have a lot of friends on Wall Street. They all told me that this is done by spite, and they're really trying to like see if they can prevent a re-election of President Trump. So one of the things they're trying to do is crush the market. And that's what they're doing with the oil. And also, I don't know if another thing they were talking about is even China basically coming out with that virus, too. So I mean, obviously, they didn't like their deal, too. But but but once again, if they do come up with some type of an opportunity to kind of fix this little correction, I think it's going to be a screaming, screaming opportunity. So just kind of look for that. Look for that opportunity. And listen, if you think I'm wrong, just short the market. Just short the market. There was people yesterday I was talking to and like, oh, did you see the market going down? I'm like, okay, no problem. Listen, if you don't if you don't believe what's going on, just short it. That's what's beauty about this market. You can make money long, you can make money short. But but listen, to me, seeing with the job reports, everything, I'm sticking long. I think it's a great opportunity for everyone out there. So so anyway, you got your trades, you got your watch list. And now we're going to do is what's going to be exciting is today at less than about 30 minutes from now, you got live trading with 1,000 at 330. So all the gold students, all the platinum students, diamond students, this is that time of the month where we're going to be doing live trading. So today starts class, look forward to seeing you all in there. I don't think we can have a better phase three class than a market like this. You know, it's very unpredictable to kind of set these classes at these times and you know what kind of worked in our favor. So let's go out there and do it. All right, guys, listen, good luck. Happy trading. And I'll see the rest of you in class. If you're not a student, just stick around the room. And, you know, like I said, the instructors are there.  All right, guys, so enjoy. Enjoy your cyber group room. Just be safe.  Good luck, everyone. Happy trading.


I'm not sure how to answer this question. Okay, people just want to perceive themselves as not giving up on Christianity. Okay, so isn't it most effective to just manipulate existing pieces of art subjectively associated with Christianity by implanting objectivism into them? And the translation of that, go. How do you make Jesus an objectivist? I just don't think you can take Jesus as a story, for example, and turn it into an objective story. I think it's just got the philosophy of altruism too ingrained. I think that's true of most of Christianity. Now, you can take certain pieces of art. I love one of my favorite sculptures ever, is Michelangelo's Pietà, great in the Vatican. It's a beautiful sculpture. Beautiful piece. And it's very holding Jesus. But to me, who cares, right?  And it's such a beautiful piece. And it's so emotional. And it's so beautiful. So you can give pieces like that content. You can ignore the Christianity, because it's not made of physical. The Christianity is not made of physical to them. And I think you can use art like that. But I don't think you can change Christianity. It's something that it's not. I don't think anybody will let you get away with it. I don't particularly think it's worthwhile. I'm going to plug Jesus for a second here. I think there are some elements to his story, like you just said, that can be highlighted. But they're sort of invalidated by the final sacrifice. But I don't necessarily think, correct me if I'm wrong, that we could have come to our conception of rights without that without without this is going to sound very heretical without without Christ's sense of individualism that he was trying to bring to the world where where he was sort of fighting the bureaucracy and saying, look, it's not the bureaucracy. There's a direct relationship that you have with this being and you are the one that matters. It's the individual that matters.  And I think that lent a spiritual quality to the individual that hadn't necessarily existed to that time. So there's individualistic elements to this there's anti authoritarian elements to his preaching that we could probably use. And Rand agrees with you. So I ran certainly thought that you thought the one real value that Christianity brought to the world is a sense of individualism that is in Christ. I guess I'm not convinced. So, you know, and it's rare that I ever disagree with Iron Man. I'm not convinced that they want elements already in the culture that we're bringing that to the forefront. I'm not sure that and I think the damage Christianity has done is so immense and so profound and so deep that I just can't let them get away with it. You know, so maybe it's true. Maybe the only way that individualism, the only package it could have come in was through Jesus. But you know, I'm not convinced historically that's true. But we'll never know because there's only one history, right? There's only one past. There's no alternative universes out there to test different hypotheses. The fact is that he did transmit that. If he hadn't, would it be transmitted anyway? No, no. And I suspect yes, but because it's already in the Greeks and it's there's an extent to which it's in the Greeks. And it might even be in Judaism, which is way I think he takes it, but it's he does elevate that aspect of it to a new place.