Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to another session. Let's just begin this time with the word of prayer. Could one of us please lead us in prayer? Maybe Zillatoli, can you lead us in prayer, please? Okay. For the God, we come before the presence in the name of Jesus. As we begin our class, I pray that the Holy Spirit will lead us and guide us. And bless our pastor who is going to teach the word of God. I would thank you because you have anointed him, Lord, to teach this morning. And also, Lord, you bless each and every individual students here that our hearts are receptive, Lord. We thank you, Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Zillatoli. Okay. So, before we start today's class, let's just do a quick review of what we did last week. Last week, we looked at chapter 8, Understand and Reason. And we look at how, even when we are sharing the gospel, we are to understand the person from where they are coming from and reason with them in the right way. We looked at the whole example of Apostle Paul in Acts 17 when he went into Athens. And when he went there, he saw the idols and all that was happening there and how he was able to understand their culture. But he also was able to reason with them, putting into everything that he had learned. He was able to reason and put the gospel out to them and that wonderful sermon on Mars Hill where many people accepted the Lord and finally a church was planted in Athens as well. So, we see that Paul was able to get into these kind of places, filled with intellectual people, filled with different kinds of gods, filled with immorality and sexual immorality and people living in sinful lives, idolatry. Paul was able to go in, understand and reason with them and share the gospel with them. People accepted the Lord and a church was planted in Athens and he went on from there to Corinth and we know that he also started a church in Corinth. So, it is wonderful to see how Paul ministered. We looked at a few insights. One of the things he did was he preached the work of the cross. He did not depend only on his intellectual ability. Yes, understanding, reasoning, remembering how to reason, how to speak out, that's important. But our dependency must only come from the Holy Spirit. The moment we say, okay, I know everything or I know what this person, I know I can share the gospel and we just try it on our own ability. We may not be able to touch the heart of the person because it is the work of the Holy Spirit that touches their lives. So, it's very important to depend on the Holy Spirit. And thirdly, we saw that we are to avoid meaningless arguments and debates. And so, whether we are ministering to a Muslim, Hindu, or a Jain, a Sikh, whoever we are ministering to, understand them, do not condemn them, understand them, understand their religion, understand what they've been taught, understand their way of culture, the way what they worship, what they believe system is, understand them and then you reason with them. And that's a powerful way as we depend on the Holy Spirit. We understand, reason with them. God will be able to minister to people's lives. So, let's move on to chapter 9 and then we'll also go into chapter 10. Before we move on, would any of you like to share any thoughts, anything that happened previously during the week if you were able to share the gospel or any thoughts you have about the class? Would you like to share anything? Please feel free to just unmute and ask or share anything that you have in mind. Okay, should we go ahead? Is it okay? Yes? All right. Okay, let's go to chapter 9. Now, we've been looking at all the aspects needed while we witness to people, how to share the gospel, we looked at the practical, we looked at the theory that is needed. And so we'll just look at a few more things that we must follow to help us be good evangelists. Meaning, okay, don't say I'm not an evangelist. Meaning, help us to be people who will be able to minister the gospel in the right way, right? The Lord Jesus commissioned us to witness through the Holy Spirit. So here's the thing, we have to do two things. We have to witness one and two, we have to demonstrate that, right? So how do I witness? Firstly, we witness through our life testimony, right? Remember, your life and our life speaks more than our words. We know that saying, right? Action speaks louder than words. I'm reminded of the story that I read many a years back. It's a humorous story, but it's so true. There was this pastor and he was a powerful preacher. And one Sunday, after the Sunday service, he gave a deliver a powerful sermon.  He preached so well, you know, so powerfully he preached. And after they all spoke, the wife, the pastor's wife said, I wish my house was on the pulpit. So the women were wondering why. I said, because the moment he comes out of the pulpit and we go home, he's a completely different person. At church, he's a different person. And at home, he's a completely different person, which means what? He does not practice what he preaches. Now, this is very important. When we witness, we have to show it in our life testimony, right? It's not about putting stickers of Jesus loves you on the car or on the bikes. It's not about all of that. You want to put it, you can put it. Nothing wrong about it.  It does not show a good life testimony, right? We're going to be a bad example. So even in our life, in our workplaces, in our families, maybe, you know, in the church, in our colleges, wherever we are, our life testimony will speak stronger than the words that we speak. Right? So picture this. Imagine there are, you know, in college, you've got all your friends there. All of them are saying, hey, come, we'll do this or come, we'll do that. And you're saying, hey, no, I, you know, sorry, I can't come. Right?  I follow the word of God. I want to please God. Now they may call you a fanatic, but remember, you are witnessing. Through your life testimony, it will impact people. It will touch people. Right? And so the 80% of the work is done when we already, you know, live that life. You don't have to prove anything to others. Right? You can witness, firstly, by our testimony, secondly, by what we say. That is sharing of the gospel. Right? Now what we say can also affect how we witness.  We're trying to live a good life, a holy life, pleasing to God. But imagine, we've, you know, we've got this problem of always gossiping or always talking behind people's back. Or maybe our words are not right and we speak words of anger, words of hatred. What happens? It does not become a good witness. And remember what Jesus told, you know, in the book of Matthew, he says, when you come to your, to give your offerings, if you have something against your brother, go make things right and come back and offer your sacrifice. And then I will be pleased with your offering. Right? So our witness is our life testimony and what we say, how we speak, how our words, you know, the book of Proverbs talks about how words are powerful. Words are powerful. They bring life and death. Right? I just shared this, that happened recently. That's a very sad story. There was this, there's this elderly woman in our church and very God fearing woman. Always there at church, early to church, always praying, always worshiping God went through a difficult time in her life. Because of the challenges she faced, she was, she's very close to God's heart. She would come for the prayer. She would come for Wednesday prayer, Friday prayer, wonderful woman.   You know, her husband passed away many years ago in an accident. And I don't know why God has kept me.  So she has a lot of questions, but she's very good, very close to God, right? She would, she had a very sincere heart for God. But only thing her words was, I wish I could die.  And this was because of the challenges she was facing. Recently, she went for a, you know, she went to the hospital for a checkup. And after the checkup, the doctors told her that you are on third stage cancer. It became a complete shock for her. She, it is something that she could not digest. And she began to cry. She said, no, I want to live.  And I asked her, what was, did you speak any negative words on yourself? She said, yes, I used to always say, I wish I could die. I told her, just cancel those words, cancel those words. Because what we say, the Bible teaches us that the words that we speak bring life and death. They are powerful. I'm not saying that because she, you know, said that, that, you know, she's got this sickness. What I'm saying is we are opening a door for the enemy to come into our lives and to work. Right. So we witness through our life testimony and what we say to, we demonstrate through the power that is the power of God. And we demonstrate through love. Right. And we looked at this in the previous chapters as well, where the Lord Jesus demonstrated in power and compassion. Right. Sometimes as a church, we forget the whole aspect of love because we are only looking at power, power. You know, we want God's power. We want the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the whole spirit of God to pour out his power upon us. And then we forget about love. Right. Now, we must combine both. Both the elements should be combined. We demonstrate out of love in the power of the Holy Spirit. Right. Let's read Matthew chapter five, 13 to 16. Can one of us please read that? Matthew chapter five, 13 to 16. You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lamp stand and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your father who is in heaven. Amen. Thank you, John. So we see such a powerful word Jesus is giving his disciples here that he's saying you are the salt and you are the light. If the salt loses its saltiness, it's of no use. You just throw it away. You may have about two sacks of salt, but if all of that salt has lost its saltiness, it is nothing but just white powder. It is nothing. It is of no use at all. And two, Jesus is saying we are the light of the world. You don't take a light and put it down, but you put it up so that the light falls everywhere and it brings brightness. And so everyone can see the light. So basically what Jesus is saying is your life, our life has to reflect who Jesus is. Our life has to reflect who Jesus is. It's not only about reading the Word and praying and all of it. But our life, not only on Sundays, even outside, our life has to reflect who Jesus is. What does he say in the last verse? He says, Let your light so shine that people will see that light and glorify the Father in heaven. When we walk in the light of God, people around us will notice there's something different in this person. It opens a door for us to share the gospel. Right? Remember, in chapter 1 we studied the urgency and necessity and we saw that every person needs a savior. People are living in darkness. People are living in fear, in hopelessness. Imagine you are walking as a light and they see this light and they will say, Hey, I can go and I can ask this person for help. I know that he will give me the right words. I know that he has a word of wisdom for me. Right? So we witness our life is to reflect who Jesus is. Let people see Jesus in our lives. It's easy to speak all of this, but here's what it is. It is difficult. It is hard. It is difficult in the sense that we go through challenges. We may fail. We may fall down many a times. But the Holy Spirit enables us to walk just as Jesus walked. So can we? Yes, we can. Because the Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit who was in Jesus is in us.  We try it on our own. We will fail. But when we ask the Holy Spirit, we'll be strengthened. God will enable us to do that. Then let's read 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 9. 1 Peter chapter 2 and verse 9. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Yes. Thank you, John. So we see here, again, another verse Peter is saying to the believers.  He has called you into his marvelous light. So these words, we looked at the two-minute testimony, four-minute testimony. These words that we speak over them are very important. One of the things that helped me personally and I could encourage each one of you also if you can go ahead and do it. Take a notebook. What I did was I wrote down all these verses. So I wrote down verses on love, verses on power, verses on hope. And so I keep pondering upon them, keep speaking them, keep declaring them. And so even when we minister to people, the Holy Spirit will give you the right verse at the right time. He reminds us of what we have. Now, remember, the Holy Spirit takes what is in us and uses it to bless people. So for example, if I don't know the book of Acts, for example, or I don't know the book of Romans. Now, it's very unlikely that the Holy Spirit will say, okay, Romans 3.17, why don't you tell this person as your ministering? It's very unlikely because the Holy Spirit uses what we have inside us, what we have learned, what we have taken an input in us. He uses that to minister to people. So it's important, very important to prepare in the word. Read the word. Use examples. Read the scriptures. Have verses memorized. If memorizing the scripture is difficult, then you can just take the chapter and verse, remember them. And so even as your ministry, you can probably look over it on your phone and just give them the verse. And these are powerful ways where we can demonstrate the work of God. Let's go to the next chapter. Praying for the unsaved. Now, all across the scriptures, we see that prayer is a precursor to ministry. Prayer is a real battle that we face. You may have heard this. Every battle is one on our knees first and then in the practical way. So the real battle for souls is a spiritual battle. Now, if you and I have to, God is calling us to reach out to people, but the real battle is for souls is a spiritual battle. You know, we're studying about two minute testimony, four minute testimony, eight minute testimony, all these ways of, you know, approaching the gospel and sharing the gospel, but the real battle is a spiritual battle. God is doing his work of drawing people to himself, but Satan is also doing his work from hindering people from being reached and receiving the gospel. So how does Satan hinder people? Let's look at a few points. First one, he blinds the minds of people. He just blinds them. They can't see this, that this is the truth. Now, it's not that it's happening now. It happened even from the time Jesus was there, right? Jesus himself has proclaimed that he's a Messiah. He's telling them, hey, before Abraham was, I am. He's telling them, he's pulling out the scriptures and he's showing them that he is the Messiah, but their minds were blinded. Their eyes were blinded. They didn't want to receive this. It was too much for them to take. How can we know him? He's Joseph's son. He's a carpenter's son. His brothers are here. His sister is here. We have seen them. They walk around here. Jesus was here all this while. Till he was 30 years old, he was there. He was just regular, just walking around. Now he says, he's the Messiah. It doesn't make sense, but the enemy has blinded their eyes and they could not receive that he was the Messiah. Let's read a few verses, maybe two. Let's read 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 3 and 4. 2 Corinthians 4, verses 3 and 4. Even if our gospel is wailed, it is wailed to those who are perishing, in whose case the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Amen. The God of this age has blinded their eyes. The devil has blinded people through various forms of deception. Through lies, through keeping them under a cloud of darkness. Meaning, no, this is all right. Or sometimes the deceptions could be, you have everything in life. Don't worry about it. Don't really need a savior. Or the other deceptions are, this is a generational thing that we've been worshiping. So we can't let go of this. And so the enemy has many plans and many tactics of blinding people's eyes. He's got the same tactics, but he's got plenty of them. He just improvises on that. Here's the thing. You and I, when we pray, God, the work of the Holy Spirit, is to remove that veil from their eyes. Picture this. I'm sure many of us have gone through this. We're sharing the gospel with somebody and they say, did Jesus really die on the cross? One of the most common questions that I get, did Jesus really die on the cross? Was it Jesus or was it somebody else? No, no, it's only a myth. It was not Jesus. We have proof that Jesus came to different countries and he stayed in different countries. And so, you know, the devil is able to make people believe in that lie. Sorry to say this, but there was this wonderful worship leader in Hill Songs. Maybe some of you may know this story. A Hill Song worship leader, been with Hill Songs for maybe about 15 odd years. Writing wonderful songs. I'll leave his name unnamed. But wonderful songs. Worship leader, right? Travelled all across the world with Hill Songs. And recently, maybe about two years back, he says, you know, this is, it was all just an experience. I didn't really, you know, understand this whole thing.  The times of worship was good. But it's not something true to me. And he came out saying that he doesn't believe in Jesus. Now, whose work is that? A person 15 years, probably in the worship team for great big ministry, leading the worship, writing many songs. And the end of his, you know, almost, you know, after 15 odd years, he's saying it was all just an emotion. It was a good time. And he's left the faith. So the enemy is able to deceive the enemy is able to blind our eyes. And so it's very important that we as believers, not only pray for ourselves, but also pray for the people around us.  And Ephesians chapter two and verse two, let's read that, please. Ephesians two and verse two. In which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air of the spirit that is now working in the sense of disability. Thank you, John. So Paul is writing to the Ephesians. He's saying, hey, you all were in bondage. So the second point, how the enemy, you know, hinders us from, you know, receiving the salvation is to he holds us in bondage. Paul is writing to the Ephesus church and Ephesians and he's saying, you were in bondage. You were living in sin. You were living in your life, your entire families in an entire city of Ephesus was living in sin. Why?  The enemy had overpowered you. The enemy has taken control over you. But now you have come out of that into the light of God. The devil works to hold people in bondage to keep them away from the truth of Christ. You know, we pray, right? We all make these prayers, Lord, we break this bondage. We break the curse, right? It is true. The enemy has these bondages to just hold on to this. You know, I remember a couple of months back, a student in our church, he came up to me and said, you know, pastor, I think I'm having suicidal tendencies. I was really surprised. Very faithful to church Christian. He says, I'm having suicidal tendencies. Please help me. And then I said, it was kind of a shock to me. But as pastors, we hear a lot of stories. So I sat with him, spoke to him for a long time. I got to know that when he was, now he's about 22 years old. This feeling was there from the time he was 10 years old. Only God has protected him. Only God, you know, his parents are wonderful believers praying for him. But from 10 years old to now, and he still has those thoughts, those thoughts still come into his mind. And I told him this, I said, that is a bondage that the enemy has in you. And so how does that, how will that break prayer and break that bondage until that bondage is broken? The enemy is going to use that day after day after day. And he will keep that bondage and make it stronger and stronger and stronger until we have, you know, completely lost the battle. I love that verse where Paul writes the Ephesians and Ephesians, the last chapter, Ephesians 6. He says, put on the armor of God. So he stole the church. Okay, this is how you lived. These are the works of the enemy. Then he says, you're blessed of Christ. He's brought you out. And then he ends that wonderful episode in Ephesians 6. He says, put on the armor of God. Put on the helmet of salvation. Put on the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shield of faith. Put it on. Don't take it off.  He's coming against us. So we must put it on. Right. And we are to fight our battles. And so the enemy, what he does is he brings these bondages into people's life, curses, generational curses, generational bondages. There are times when I've spoken to a few families where their firstborn always dies. It's been happening for the like from like five, four, five generations.   What's the question? I said, no, you break that bondage. We've got to break it by prayer and we got to break it by the power of the Holy Spirit. These are spirits of disobedience, holding strongholds, holding bondages, demonic influences in people's lives. So remember when you are sharing the gospel, you know, it's a spiritual battle. You're fighting against the work of the devil. Right. Three, the enemy hinders the proclamation of the gospel. He hinders it. He will do all he can to stop people from preaching the gospel. There's a thing. The enemy knows that the Word of God is powerful. The enemy knows that if somebody receives, if this gospel, if this person hears the gospel, and if he believes it, even a bit, he will be saved. So the enemy knows that. Right.  The devil's work is to hinder the gospel and he does that in many ways. Let's just look at Romans chapter 15 was 30 and 31. Romans 15 30 and 31. Romans 15 30 to 31. I urge you brothers and sisters by a Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the spirit to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord's people there. Thank you, Divya. So we see here Paul is writing in Romans and he's saying believers, please pray for me because I know one thing. The I am going and proclaiming the gospel to different places and we've started churches. We're doing this wonderful ministry, but the enemy is still after me. He's using the unbelievers to try and stop me from proclaiming the gospel. So one is he can use people. Two is the enemy can use situations. The enemy can use pain and sorrow. The enemy can use difficulties to stop us from sharing the gospel. He will do all that he can. Now Paul also what a wonderful minister of God. You know, he's his body is bruised. He's gone through all the challenges. Right now. Remember we when Apostle Paul started off, he's about 50 years old when he launched out into his first missionary journey.  And he's doing all these wonderful works. Right. I'm sure somewhere in between his body would have given up. He writes to the Corinthians and he says, you know, these are the things I've gone through. I've been shipwrecked. I've been beaten. I've been beaten by Rawls. I've almost died. All of these things has I have gone through, but it has not hindered me from sharing the gospel. What an amazing testimony. Sometimes we may go through these physical or emotional pains and difficulties and seasons. Let it not hinder us from sharing the gospel because the enemy wants that he wants us to stop. Then he can use persecution. We look at what's happening around us in our nation of India and also in different nations, persecution. If you believe in Jesus, you're going to die.  And so people will not believe in Jesus. So that's the work of the enemy. The enemy is instilling fear into people's minds. It's so wonderful to read about Afghanistan where the believers are so strong in the faith. And they said, we're ready to go, but we will not deny the gospel of Jesus Christ. That is so powerful. So you and I as believers, the enemy can use anything to hinder us from proclaiming the gospel. Sometimes it's family. Our own family members may say, what are you doing? I don't think this is what you're doing. It could be anything. So we are to stand firm and proclaim the gospel. Sometimes the enemy also uses this feeling of unworthiness. Hey, I myself, I'm not able to follow this word and I'm living in sin. Or I did this wrong. So how can I go and share the gospel with somebody else when I myself have not, you know, obeyed? Now, we all get that feeling. Here's what we should do. The Bible teaches us that if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us. So we ask forgiveness, confess our sins, ask for forgiveness and go about proclaiming the gospel. That would be the right thing to do. Let's look at how the enemy infiltrates the church. Revelations two. Now we're going to just look at a few churches here in the book of Revelation, the church in Smyrna. Now these are real churches that were planted by different people. And these are mostly in Asia and Europe, the seven churches, right? So let's look at how the enemy has infiltrated the church, the church in Smyrna. Revelations two 10. We see that a presence of a group of people who belong to Satan is in the church. And the devil is going to cause some of them to be put in prison. So you see here that in the church, there's a group of people who follow Satan. They just outwardly Christianized, but their minds and their spirit and their hearts are towards the work of the enemy. And it goes on to say that some of them we put in prison. Second one, the church in Pergamos, the place where Satan's throne is and Satan dwells and the doctrine of Balaam is infiltrating the church. Now this is, you know, I wonder what kind of a church is this, the church in Pergamos, the place where Satan's throne is and Satan dwells there. The doctrine of Balaam infiltrating the church. So there will be times the enemy can bring wrong doctrines into the church to hinder the work of the gospel. And when we look at church history and we look at the doctrines that have come up in the next semester, in the following semester, we'll be studying about world religions and contemporary cults. How the cults, these people were very strong Bible believing Christians had a genuine work of God somewhere in the long the line. They lost the way and, you know, other doctrines came into their mind. For example, let me give you this example of Joseph Smith, a fervent man of God, very devout. He loved the word of God.  He lost the way, founded Jehovah's Witness. These, the enemy can use anything to infiltrate and bring wrong doctrines into people's lives. Another example would be that of Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin went into the seminary as a young boy to become a preacher. He was a dictator. He went into the seminary to become a preacher. So he studied the word of God and everything. And after he came out of the seminary, he thought he is God. Now, we know what he did. He killed 15 million of his own people. Joseph Stalin. You see how the enemy can work? He can bring wrong doctrines. He can bring wrong ideas, wrong ideologies into our minds and cause destruction. Three, the church in Thyatira, false prophetess named Jezebel is at work. The works, when we say false prophet Jezebel, it's not the women Jezebel, but the attributes of the women Jezebel, sexual immorality, hatred, idolatry. That's what Jezebel was all about.  This was all happening within the church. Now, who brought this in? The enemy infiltrated the church. Fourth one, the church in Philadelphia. There's a presence of a group that belongs to Satan and will cause them to bow before the church. Again, just like the church in Porgamos, there's a presence of people who belong to Satan. So, you know, it's not that Satan is looking at the church and he's saying, oh, I can't enter this church. No, no, no. The enemy is not afraid of the building. He can come in. One thing he's afraid of is when we know the word of God and we stand on that truth. We're confirmed in that. We are settled in that word. We know that this is the truth. Then he can't do anything. It's not about the church building. It's got very little to do with that. You and I are the church. So, what should we do? We must pray that we will block off the works of the enemy, that there will be a covering within our church and our church communities, that the works of the enemy will be expelled from the church. And it's wonderful because we have wonderful promises. What did Jesus tell Peter? He said, Peter, on this rock, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So, we are assured of this. Yes, the enemy is infiltrating but it shall not prevail because God is building his church. So, we are assured of it and we do our bit. So, what is the church's responsibility now? The church's responsibility is to be light to the Gentiles. Right? Wherever we go, be that light, bringing people out of darkness into his marvelous light. Do not be unashamed. Do not be ashamed as a gospel. Do not fear. Do not, you know, feel small about ourselves that, okay, hey, I'm just a minority in this world. No, no. Our responsibility is to bring light to the Gentiles, to open prison doors. God is with us. He's able to do it. Two, the church has kingdom or authority and spiritual power, spiritual weapons and power to overthrow the work of the devil. Right? God has, God is able to do that. Second Corinthians chapter 10 was three to six. This is a powerful verse. Let's read that. Second Corinthians 10, three to six. Yes, go ahead, somebody please. Second Corinthians 10, three to six. Although we walk the flesh, we do not want to burn in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing, raised against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of the Christ. Amen. Thank you, John. The King, I think it's a new King James Version says, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, right? Which means they are not worldly. We're not using weapons of the world, but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty in God, which brings down strongholds. And so when we pray, when we pray to God, when we are seeking God, remember the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They are mighty in God, right? So the church has the authority. The church has the power to overcome and to subdue the works of the devil, right? When I say church, it's you and me. We are the church. We have the power to overcome the devil. Plenty of stories, plenty of examples where we have gone ministering to different parts of India. And I've seen some of the most horrendous things. I've seen some of the most, I would say, the scariest things in certain villages and towns and seen such offensive things that the enemy can do. One thing I know is that the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God. They break, they are able to overcome and subdue the works of the devil, right? So no matter what the enemy is doing, he's doing his bit. Oh, there's witchcraft, there's this and there's that. Oh, the devil is doing this. It doesn't matter. The weapons of our warfare are mighty in God, mightier than the weapons of the enemy. Using our spiritual weapons, we can destroy that blindness which Satan creates in people so that people may receive the gospel. On the basis of the finish work of the cross, we can destroy Satan's stronghold, right? Again, coming to the whole point of our identity in Christ, right? And this, what we do, our identity, our authority, is the spiritual warfare that God is calling us for. Three, the church's responsibility is to bring spiritual transformation. We can engage in prayer, worship. We can exercise spiritual authority for the lost, right? Now, let me give you this example. There are plenty of examples, but just one example. In church history, there was this whole revival that happened in North America. I'll close with this example, but in North America, it was a time when there was a depression during the early 1700s. It was a time of depression. Christians were at a low. The spiritual atmosphere was completely dampened. There were no churches. The economy was down. What happened was God used a few people, a few pastors, and just a handful of people to come together and pray. They were people who knew their authority. They knew the Word of God, and they wanted to see a revival. So they began to pray, about 10 of them. They prayed for the place that they were, and they were in New York. So they began to pray. And as they began to pray, they began to declare against the works of the enemy in that locality in the place that they were in. So they specifically prayed against the work, the blindness that people are in. And all of a sudden, they saw a move of God in that place. From about 10 people, in a couple of weeks, it became 100 people. That became 300, 500. In two years, they were ministering to about 10,000 people. In five years, they had 40,000 people. So what's happening? People in the entire, you know, the whole state and the nation have come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has moved so powerfully that all of them have come under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. And what has happened? They transformed the societies. The bars were closed down. Pubs were closed down. Gambling places were closed down. The crime came to nothing. The police didn't have anything to do because there was no crime. So the police, to fill in work hours, they would go and sit in the church and be in the singing team of the church because there's no work. And this is true. This is really what happened in the North American awakening. They had thousands of people gathering together in one place. There were meetings of 20,000 people, 20,000 in the afternoon, 20,000 in the evening. Gathering together. What were they doing? Praying, seeking God. What started with a handful of people? Revival broke out. Touching North America, transforming the entire nation. Churches began to grow. Imagine, everyone are talking about newspapers came and they wrote articles. What's happening? There's something happening in the church. Churches in America. Thousands of people are coming. Nobody knows what's happening. The enemy knows what's happening, but he can't do anything because people are so strong in the word. They were committed to what God was doing in their midst. And so even this morning, all of us, as we studied all of this, let us be sure of who we are, our identity and our authority. Even as we go about doing everything that we have to do, that we will know that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but are mighty in God. Amen? Amen. So let's close. Anybody have any thoughts, any questions you have? We can just close, pray and close. Any thoughts, any questions? Yes, go ahead, John. So in one of the examples that we discussed today regarding a boy with suicidal tendencies, so these types of bondages will it be broken all of a sudden or it needs constant follow-up or anything of that sort? Yes. So John, the thing is, see, bondages are there in people for a long time, right? There are certain bondages. Like for example, there are times where, you know, sickness is a bondage, right?  It's a bondage. So we pray over them. They're healed immediately. But there are times that people who are sick, we pray for them, they're not healed. But it happens over a series of events, series of prayer. So the same thing with suicidal tendencies. Sometimes people just come out of it. They just realize, hey, this is a life which God has given me. They're just out of it. But sometimes it really takes, you know, prayer and counseling and constant follow-up. But even as we're doing that constant follow-up, we know that we are going from strength to strength. We know that we're putting the word of God and we know that, you know, God is going to work in their lives, right? The word of God is going to make effect in their lives. So yes, to answer your question, there are certain bondages which immediately just after a prayer, they go away. But there are certain bondages which are there for many, many generations or many years. And it requires constant prayers. You know, sometimes you need fasting and prayer. And sometimes it's just, you know, just spending more time for them in prayer, you know. And so yes, there will be times when you have to, you know, constantly follow-up and constantly pray for them. It's not going to be easy. It just does get overwhelming, right?  One of the things that, you know, as pastors and leaders, many people come and share many things to us. And so very important is to give them words of assurance that God is able to. He's beyond any, you know, challenge or anything that is happening. He's beyond that. He's able to make things possible. So you give them words of encouragement, but you also tell them that practically you have to do something about it. You have to read. You have to pray. And so yes, I hope that answers your question, John. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Anyone else? So we can close. All right. So let's close in prayer. Divya, can you close in prayer, please? Sure. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for this time that you've given us, Father, to help us understand, Lord, how to, Lord, be a witness for the Lord, as well as to exemplify, Lord, that in our lives for the Lord to be solved, to be a light for the Lord. We pray, Father, when we speak about you, Lord, help us be also for the live out our lives for the Lord in a manner that is worthy. Lord, of your name, help us not bring Father any disgrace to your name, Father Lord. Help us bring glory and honor to your name, Lord, as well as Father Lord. We thank you and praise you, Father, for these nuggets of truth that we learned. You help us, Father, that we be able to practice them in our lives, Father Lord. Thank you and praise you, Father, for Pastor Paul. Bless him immensely, Father Lord. And even as the encouragement and all the examples, the testimonies that has been shared, Lord, help us, Father, that we be able to, you know, Father learn from those, Father, and practice them in our lives, Father. I pray for each and every student gathered here, Father, Lord, bless them as well in all their walks of life, Father. All these things we pray in the name of our Lord and save you, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Divya. Thank you, everyone. Have a wonderful day, wonderful week ahead. God bless.


This is the Summer Creek Drive Water Extension Project. This is part of the Summer Creek Drive and Southside for Flow Transfer Station Capital Improvement Project. We did host this meeting of the Chisholm Trail Community Center on Monday, January 22nd, and we are also recording this PowerPoint so that we can put it on our website so those who could not attend a meeting can look through the PowerPoint and see what's coming across the horizon. So, we have Susie Abby as our project manager and she's going to take it away. Susie. All right, thanks, Sally. We are going to start with some introductions of the project team and then give you an overview of the project and the project area. Go through some frequently asked questions and then talk about the timeline of construction. My name is Susie Abby. I'm the project manager with the city of Fort Worth. The inspector is Ronnie Cardenas and our contact information is on the slide. Ronnie and I will be your primary points of contact during construction. So, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. You can call us or email us. My phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And you can also reach me by email at Suzanne dot Abby at Fort Worth, Texas dot GOV. Ronnie's number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And his email address is Ronald dot Cardenas at Fort Worth, Texas dot GOV. Circle H contractors will be building the project and the design consultant is reason equals. The map on this slide is a good overview of the work that's going to be happening in this project. The black lines represents the new water lines and connections that will be made in this area. Generally speaking, the work area is going to be bound by Rancho Mary Parkway to the north. Rancho Vallejo way to the east. Volgada lane to the south and Kavana drive to the rest to the west. Summer Creek middle school is more project area. Here's a little bit more detail on the water lines that will be installed during this project. We have 150 feet of 8 inch diameter water line. That starts at the end of Volgada lane. We have 350 feet of 12 inch diameter water line in the summer Creek drive right of way. Starting from Posada lane and going north. For the encore right of way. We have 650 feet of 12 inch. Water line again in the summer Creek drive right of way starting at Volgada lane. And terminating at Posada lane. 150 feet of 8 inch diameter water line. In Rancho Verde Parkway between Jameson lane and summer Creek drive. And then approximately 170 feet. Of 8 inch diameter water line at Kavana drive. Starting at the end of Kavana drive and headed north through the right of way. This Fort Worth capital improvement project is in Fort Worth councils history 6. Construction will impact traffic for customers in the panther Heights neighborhood association. And the. Look first in village addition, the area shown boxed in here on the right. Is not in the construction area, but could see an impact. In traffic if they have to access. This part of Rancho Verde Parkway between. Summer Creek drive at Jameson. On this slide, the area in orange shows the. Residents that could be impacted when water has to be temporarily turned off. When making a connection with between the new water line and existing. The contractor will notify. Residents that will be impacted by a shutout. And we can anticipate the shutout talking to range between 2 and 8. So why are we doing this project for work prioritizes replacing water and sewer lines that have a high risk of failure. In this case, the purpose is to extend water lines to transition parts of the panther Heights neighborhood association and McPherson village. Addition to the new South side for pressure plane. Areas that are transitioned to the new pressure plane will see an increase in water pressure. So what is a pressure plane pressure plane is an area of the city that operates within a certain elevation range to maintain a constant water pressure. This project includes the South side 3 pressure plane shown in yellow. And the South side for pressure playing shown in blue. Summer Creek extension. Is part of a larger project that includes the sun country booster pump station and the South side for flow transfer station. The booster pump station is located just south of an elevated water storage tank near Stewart felts road. Instruction on the pump station is good. The purpose of the South side for flow transfer station is to maintain water quality and the developing South side for pressure plane. It will also support the operation of the new booster station. Will there be lane closures during construction. One traffic lane will be closed when mines are extended and the trenches being repaired. Signs will be posted to alert motorists. Will the contractor need to access your property. This construction is in public right of way or in utility easements. If Fort Worth water needs to access your property will contact you. What happens if your property is damaged. The contractor will take pictures in video of the property before breaking ground. We also encourage property owners to take pictures and video with the dates down. Of their property prior to construction. Damage resulting from contractors activities during construction is the responsibility of the contract. Will construction affect your irrigation system. The contractor has to cap irrigation lines before construction starts. The contractor will ask property owners to turn off their irrigation systems that can be located and flagged. The contractor will replace after damaged irrigation systems. If they were damaged as a result of construction. The hours of constructions are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on day through Friday. And if requested by the contractor 9 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. Saturdays. Contractors will not work on city holidays, which include Thanksgiving. Day after Thanksgiving Christmas New Year's Day. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Memorial Day. Juneteenth Independence Day and Labor Day. Will you have access to your driveway during construction? Inspector and the contractor will work with businesses and residences that need driveway access during active construction hours. Again, those hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. And if requested by the contractor 9 to 4 p.m. Or 5 p.m. on Saturdays.   So that the trash collected. Election vehicle and pick it up. If you live in an area impacted by the construction, keep an eye on your front door for door hanger from the city of Fort Worth. You will receive 2 door hangers. The 1st 1 says construction starts in 7 days. And the 2nd door hanger says construction starts tomorrow. The inspector will include his business card and contact information on the door hanger. So, as for a project timeline, the project again is in the construction phase. The notice to proceed date is Monday, January 29, 2024, and the contractor plans on starting at banana drive. The projected end date for the project is July 2024. And that date may change as construction gets underway. If you need more information, you can go to the city's web page at www.fortworthtexas.gov and type in the project number. 103 116 dash 2. In the search bar on the home page. And summer Creek drive and Southside for flow transportation will pop up. To get project updates, you can scroll down to the bottom of the project page and click on to subscribe to this page. The project map and this PowerPoint will be linked to the project page. If you need to report an emergency or non-emergency. You can call 817 392. Or 477 and select option 1. 24 hours a day or you can talk to someone in the call center between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call center is closed on city policy. You can also download the my foot with app from the app store or Google play. And you can report sewer overflows leaks, water main breaks, missing or broken meter lens, water theft. Water violations, no water service, water pressure issues and other sewer concerns. Here's our contact information again. My name is Susie. Abby, I'm the project manager. My number is 817 392. 8209 and my email address is Suzanne dot Abby at Fort Worth, Texas dot GOV. And the inspector Ronnie Cardenas is number is 682 309. 3761 and his email address is Ronald dot Cardenas. At Fort Worth, Texas dot GOV. Again, the contractor circle H contractors. And the engineering design consultant is freezing. Sorry. Sorry.


For the past 10 years, Hillbilly Christmas in July has delivered toys to patients at Shriners Hospital for Children in Lexington. Now in its 11th year, Hillbilly Christmas in July is about to hit a milestone, in fact, one that's worth a million dollars. In its existence, the hillbillies have collected over $428,000 in monetary donations. We thought, you know, if we do $72,000, that'll put us to the half a million mark. However, Hillbilly Christmas in July also gathers toys to give to the children. We've taken over 44,000 toys also with the help of Double Quick and all that they have done. This looked like a goal that we could do with the 6,000 toys. You put a $10 value on the toys, that's a half a million dollars. That means, if you add this year's monetary donations and the toy donations with years past, Hillbilly Christmas in July has met that million dollar club. Hillbilly Christmas in July will be hosting a blood drive and Kids Day in the Park Saturday. In Sunday, the hillbillies will travel to Lexington during the Randy Jones Memorial ride for the kids, which will be the last ride to the current hospital location. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.


Overweight and obesity are increasingly common among women of reproductive age in Cambodia. Women aged 20 to 29, 30 to 39, and 40 to 49 years old have higher rates of overweight and or obesity than other age groups. Married women, those who live in urban areas, and those with more than four children are also more likely to be overweight or obese. Education level, occupation, and manual labor are all protective against overweight and or obesity. This article was authored by Sam Nang Am and Yom, Jonathan Amure, and others.


A TLDR of Horde of the Dragon Queen, episode 7, Hunting Lodge. After chasing Rasmur and Jaws through a portal, you find yourself teleported to a cold mountain.  Keeping your weapons close, you enter the lodge to find that the inhabitants are unaware of your arrival. Fighting through rooms of surprised but hostile creatures, you eventually meet a mysterious woman dressed in white. She introduces herself as Talus, and reveals that she is part of the Cult of the Dragon. Talus explains that she wishes to climb into the higher ranks of the Cult, but needs her superiors to fail spectacularly. While she is part of the same organization as Rasmur, Talus is clearly not her ally. She tells you of a large treasure horde being transferred near the city of Parnast. Rasmur is currently using a Cloud Giant's flying castle to transport these goods. Seeing as there is little option left before Rasmur gets away, you agree to help Talus. She hands you a banner to fly when reaching the castle to symbolize allied help. Lastly, she tells you the passphrase that will guarantee safe passage. With your newfound destination, you make your way out of the lodge and onto the city of Parnast.


Live from the FIA Barcelona Gran Vía Compensator in Barcelona, Spain, it's The Cube. At HP Discover Barcelona 2014, brought to you by headline sponsor HP. Back to Barcelona, we just heard the keynotes, Meg Whitman, Antonio Neary, Bill Vecti, and some other folks. We're back live with The Cube, we're here today, tomorrow, and Thursday, going wall to wall coverage. Sarwar Raza is here, he is with HP's networking group, he's a cloud, SDN, open source expert. Sarwar, thanks very much for coming on The Cube. Thank you for having me. So open networking, for decades, it's been an oxymoron. Finally, we're seeing this rush of open source and open innovation. What's happening? Why open? Why now?  So we're looking at moving away from a single vendor chokehold and vertically locked in solutions to solutions that offer interoperability across the architecture. And SDN was one of the catalysts for it, but now we're seeing projects all across the networking domain, whether it's hardware, operating systems, cloud operating systems like OpenStack, SDN controllers like Open Daylight, really this thirst for open from customers, and that's really who it's being driven by. It's a customer drive for open interoperable solutions that is pushing vendors in that direction. I mean, obviously there's been a lot of events going on in the networking business, but several in the last half a decade, obviously HP's acquisition of 3Com was a big deal. VMware's acquisition of NYSERA sort of opened up some eyes. And as you say, this whole open source movement, I would even say I would even look at movements like Hadoop as part of that catalyst, and they sort of coincided with all these other open innovations that you've talked about. So having said all that, Open is in the eyes of the beholder. I mean, it used to be Unix was open, I couldn't say. So how do you look at Open? How does HP define Open? What is Open to you? Well, so there's really three components to Openness, right? There's Open Ecosystem, there's Open Standards, and then there's Open Source. When you look at ecosystems, I think without exception, you can look around and everyone's got their NASCAR slide, right?  I think the value that an Open Ecosystem brings is really to be able to bring your partners along in your success and also offer customers best of great choices. Open Standards is an area where bodies like IETF, IEEE, ONF, I mean, they've been doing work for good work for many, many years. In fact, many of the fundamental innovations that led to the Internet came out of those bodies. Open Source has been around for decades, but has really changed from what used to be a bunch of hobbyists and people who are really passionate about putting out solutions, free solutions, into really a way of doing business. Most Open Source projects now have major corporate backers, which is not in itself a bad thing. What's actually happening is Open Source is becoming more and more mainstream because, like I said, customers are demanding that Openness and their solutions. Vendors are realizing that the benefits of interoperability and the leverage that Open Source gives them. Here we are, the collective brain trust of Linux kernel developers from Red Hat and HP and IBM called collaborating. The same goes for OpenStack, where you have the brains at HP working with our various partners and even some of our competitors. The same is coming to networking now. So the effect of that is one, accelerated development, better collaboration amongst competitors, which actually leads to customer value. What can we learn from the Linux example? That's a good one, right? You said Red Hat, IBM, HP. You remember the days of Linux versus Unix. Linux is nowhere near and all of a sudden, boom. Almost overnight. So go ahead. So I think the lesson to be learned there is Open Source by itself is fantastic. And we have a lot of very mature communities out there that are putting out absolutely fantastic product, fantastic code that can be turned into product. But Linux took some curation and it needed maturity, right? And several vendors stepped up to help it along. So HP was the first major vendor that actually indemnified its customers from all the thud around Linux back in the day. And that was a huge step in its adoption by the enterprise. Yeah, because it G-risked it for the customer. Absolutely. We'll take on that risk. Yeah. And you take a look at billion-dollar businesses that have been built around Linux distributions. And so Open Source, we get this question a lot. People say, hey, you're dabbling in Open Source at the SDN controller side, on the OpenStack Neutron side. What's in it for you, just giving away product? And I always tell people there is a lot of value to be built around Open Source solutions. The value of Open Source, like I said, is the leverage, the interoperability, the common core, and being able to leverage that brain trust and to be able to build partnerships in the community. But at the end of the day, you will see differentiated solutions built on top of Open Source course. That's what HP Helion OpenStack is about. That's what our cloud networking solution is around as well. Yeah, I was going to say you're clearly seeing that in OpenStack. Now, so how should we look at something like OpenStack? Because you've got this open standard, but you've got different distros, right? And people question the interoperability, but they're closer. How do you see that playing out over time? Is this going to be a world where we see stovepipes of clouds that maybe work a little bit better together? There's some level of interoperability, or do you envision, particularly with OpenStack, that there's going to be a lot more interoperability than in the store? Well, so I think what OpenStack has going for it really is that interoperability story, right? The ability for providers to take, you know, maybe slightly different versions of an OpenStack cloud, but as long as, you know, you have the right versions of the APIs, right, and those contracts between those clouds, those technical contracts, you should be able to burst from one to the other. And that's especially true when you're going from a private environment to a public environment, where, you know, if we're able to enable our customers to say, yes, you can go from an HP private cloud to, you know, an HP Helion cloud instance, but Mr. Customer, because of our interoperability and Open Mist promise, you can also burst to a competitor cloud, right, that uses the same standard APIs, right? That's the kind of choice that customers are, they value, but, you know, they may never get to use it, but they value that when they're making their purchasing decisions. They have some sleep at night, but at the same time, you hear things like, well, vendor A is not going to certify, you know, maybe not exactly what you just described, but we're not going to certify this R product and this configuration. So the interoperability is not as complete as the vision would have you believe. Will that change over time in your opinion? I hope so, right? I think, you know, there are always competitive forces of play, right, and there will be, you know, even an open source, there will be competing distributions of the same product. So, you know, how that plays out over time, I think remains to be seen.  Let's talk about more about HP's networking strategy in particular how it relates to Helion and your cloud strategy. I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit more. Sure, so HP networking has, you know, we're providing the underlying cloud networking infrastructure inside our HP Helion OpenStack distribution and that actually, that solution comprises, you know, a lot of value add that we put in for HP customers as well as a very, very large component of stuff that we just upstream into the community. So, one of the projects that we took on in the last year or so was really fortifying, scaling and hardening that neutron core. So, neutron is the networking subsystem inside of OpenStack and, you know, it had, it wasn't necessarily scaling or performing to the level we needed.  We're now the number one committer on that project and the result is for the community as a whole. Anyone now consuming OpenStack now gets that scalable performant hardened version of OpenStack networking. So, on the cloud side, we have, you know, we have what we call our virtual cloud networking solution, VCN, which is essentially open stack, curated open stack mix. We also have, you know, two other solutions and, you know, each solution gets us to a slightly different market. We have our distributed cloud networking solution targeted mostly at sort of service provider and large environments which uses BGP and MPLS for federation. And then we have a partnership with VMware where customers who choose to use a VMware NSX solution are able to federate with our physical tablet controller and they get unified physical, virtual visibility and management. It's such an interesting dynamic, right? Because, I mean, you're talking about neutron, it's essentially a software-defined networking for OpenStack which is what NSX is for VMware. And then in the same sentence, you're talking about the partnership with VMware. So you've got this interesting competing, cooperating, partnering, and I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit. Well, we serve a lot of different markets, right? We're the largest IT vendor in the world, the second largest networking vendor. And so, you know, we have our mix of customers who, you know, want a service provider scale solution that uses technology protocols that they're comfortable with. And then you have a set of customers, you know, especially in the enterprise, who are heavily invested in VMware virtual infrastructure. So for them, it absolutely makes sense, right? The next part in their evolution towards, you know, automation and SDN is to use their platform. So, you know, we're there to support them. And, you know, where there are gaps between some of those native solutions.  So, openness is a strategy, and it's a profitable strategy, right? For you guys, you guys have shown that, I mean, years ago, decade ago, plus the HP basically made the decision to go open and stop fighting head-to-head in all the operating system wars and you've proven that you can make money at that. So, I'll give you the last word. Thoughts on the future of the networking business, the impact of software-defined and HP's role? So, you know, software-defined isn't a point product, isn't a family of products. You know, you see some of our competitors rolling out a whole new line of switch infrastructure with controllers and a new API and a policy language and calling it SDN. And that always leads me kind of scratching my head because that's not the point. SDN washing. Yeah, the point of SDN is really to be able to offer customers openness at every layer in the stack, right? Whether it's the infrastructure, the controller, or the app layer. So, you know, I think that openness in general is a very, very strong movement in the networking industry. You know, we are taking a very leading position here. So, our leadership in open stack, well-known, right? We have nine project leads, including the lead for the networking project, who is nowadays networking. We are founding members of Open Daylight and a Platinum member there as well. And most recently, we are Platinum founding members of OP NFV, which is the open platform for network function virtualization. Again, all very, very important strategic areas for us. And, you know, we hope to do very well there. So, I want to add to your earlier definition. You talked earlier about open ecosystems, open standards, and open support. And you added to that just now, infrastructure, the controller, the application layer, also have to have open entries, exits, potentially even open source components, I guess, right? Yeah, yeah.  And provides customers, you know, the flexibility and the openness that they require. All right, Sarah, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE and sharing your open vision. Thank you so much. All right, keep right there, everybody. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE. We're live from HP Discover in Barcelona. We'll be right back.


Hello everyone. I'm Caho. It's happened more recently doing a lot of like the jazz work and of course tonight's topic, quick one actually, the title is called What's Functional Programming in JavaScript. So I think this only slide is only just for social, nothing, a lot of things I only in the one page note. Okay, actually functional programming, right, it derives from mathematics. So you see a kind of FX, right, looks quite similar when you do programming. It's like when you call function names and so on and so forth. And then it's like, it's just a function name. Then the round brackets inside all the arguments is similar quite like two math stuff, okay. But I just want to speak a bit about differences, what happened. So JavaScript wise, we have something like arrow functions. But well, you see, if you see after the arrow, right, if you use braces, I would say that's not functional programming. It's not, okay, but right, okay, from mathematical perspective, right, many, right, it's like about one line, just one statement, it's just probably like expression. So definitely you point braces, you definitely inside put a lot of statements, each statement is like do this, do that, do this, do that, and then after just a return. But in the functional part, right, okay, it just only like one statement is implicit return. So immediately after evaluating or like you come out of final value, automatically it returns. So usually, right, if there are of course a lot of like other tricks of how to do another thing, okay. I think it's not functional programming, it's you use something like maybe it looks like do wow, and then quite a lot of braces and fork, whatever. Okay, exceptions is definitely there's a function called for each. It's different from say for something in, the kind is like followed by use space, but in functional programming, if you use for, can use for each, and then inside, right, it's a function argument, you pass it in, because actually you see it like for each generally is like decorative. Okay, so what else is not really like functional programming is that, well, you use switch, if you use all the switch cases, again, sorry, that's not functional programming, let's say flow control. Well, I mean, the only way you're going to get out of here is that there's somehow like use question mark, send me an ambulance kind of ternary operators. Now, the last thing maybe, okay, this one thing that if they say you make the data which do processing or this and all data actually is immutable. So you don't really like change the stage when you like try to add, right, you come up with new value, actually consider like a new object somehow that, okay, it's also so then I would say like functional programming. So yes, on the last thing you mentioned about like not using switch and if, right, in a functional programming language, there's usually something called pattern matching, which allows you to like define different pattern matches and then effectively have what you would do in JavaScript with a switch statement. So how do you actually, like, so you're saying don't use switch statement or a statement, then what is your proposal turned to? Well, switch, I think, yes, a bit more imperative, but another trade is somehow there's kind of like mapping use of maps of somehow, but to make for this session because quite a bit quick, you'll be a deep deep into a bit of like functional programming, especially like those flow controls on. So I think I want to cover that beyond this session, actually, okay. So I mean, well, I already talked about error functions quite commonly used, but can be easily turned into something like imperative because you just like use braces or what, okay. So what actually there are like libraries here, I got two that was basically like mentioned one, actually the functional program version of the low dash, okay. So you npm install the low dash, but you when you import right just like low dash slash fp module, then you use the fp another is actually lambda. So these two of which I use low dash quite extensively rather than like lambda, but concept is almost there. I'm okay. So now come to a very quick question because here I may want to know more about demographics about how many people really like maybe curious about okay between like a functional programming and like those object oriented imperative. So you got two spectrums, one is very supportive is and the other end of spectrum is that you are really very oppressive about the paradigm. So question is for each of the paradigms functional and object oriented imperative, okay. Where do you actually stand in the two end spectrum? You can stand in the middle but it means something else. I find OOP super oppressive and every time you mention it, I kind of like get really sad. Okay, for each right, please try to explain or give your opinion. No separate, separate please. Yeah, because like, yeah, imperative programming and object oriented programming are different. Okay. So you want to treat imperative so not talk about object oriented because I think you can still use functional in object oriented. Okay, so it's functional against imperative. How do you want to collect these votes? Like, how's this going to work? Like, I mean, I've only got a hand up and down. I've got it's like a bull. Okay, okay. Each, I think randomly select each person and explain. Yes or no? Okay. We start from functional first. Who very supportive or not? Yeah. Yeah. How about the other end of spectrum imperative? Who? Okay, how about spin oppressive about functional programming? No, no, I'm not oppressive at all. A lot of people who advocate for functional programming are not necessarily pragmatic. I think a lot of the time when people are pushing for functional programming solutions, it's more about some kind of idealized purity rather than, Hey, I just need to get some stuff done if I want to throw in an if statement here. So what, you know, like, and I think this is one thing I personally like about JavaScript is the fact that it allows you to do kind of a mix of both when you have a task when you and you want to break out of the pure functional paradigm, you can do so for either practical purposes, you need to get stuff done fast or the computer needs to get stuff done fast. Sometimes functional programming isn't the fastest approach. Unfortunately. Well, actually, it's also down to the skills of how people really learn about functional programming.  It's like this is your first time to heard about functional programming. Any first time that you heard about functional programming? Does anyone use functional programming?  I know. I mean, first of all, I remember anyone used arrow functions with all the braces. Yes, because, well, if you use arrow functions with rounded brackets, I'm going to tell you that one is really another form of functional program. This is a friendly debate. You know, it's insightful. You have your opinion and we all disagree on different ways of using it. Like, I'm fine with curly braces. Yeah, I'm going to do something. Well, okay, okay. I think for one point is that functional, there are tricks actually, right? In terms that you can actually have like multiple, we call it multiple lines of statements.  It's just that maybe because it's just literal meaning, say that if you use braces, the chances are you're just like coding like to this, to that or some other. And then, okay, actually, you see from mathematical point of view also, right? Because this fx, your x is actually your input. They always return, they always have output. It's not like saying it's a white function.  Like, say you return it, actually, inside it's really nothing. So, like examples before each function, then that's definitely you don't return anything at all. Generally, okay, when it comes to functional paradigm, okay, here's what I have a few points, but definitely what some other people say is one of which is talking about parallel and co-current programming, really. Because it's like we're just passing functions and arguments here. And then there's also like abstraction or data and abstraction or behavior, whereas impermeable may not be the same, we just try to abstract behavior. So, pattern matching, right? So, how do you propose an alternative to switch or if statements like control flow without pattern matching? Because you can't do that in JS. Before I forget about it, yes, there's one more thing that I think maybe you might need to consider is, I think performance. So, using the same code written using functional and using another paradigm, if you have a really long array to go through, like which one is actually faster, you might want to use one instead of the other. I saw some article about them comparing some JavaScript functions using filter and using the for loop. And then they found that the for loop was actually much faster. I need to go and find the article. I can't remember whether it's for loop or something, but it's yeah. Yes, but it's not the breaking thing, it was they went through the whole thing here. Any more opinions? Whatever is the fewest lines of code or whatever is easiest for other people to understand, and then I'll use whichever paradigm. I think the reason people talk about functional programming these days is because at the turn of the century we'd all been using imperative languages and everyone and not enough people were using functional. But I think in the JavaScript world we're seeing a lot of functional stuff, so we're quite lucky. And occasionally we have to pull the other one. Yeah, what you said just reminded me of the fact that let's not forget one of the main things that makes a language functional. That's not the only thing, but it's one of the most important things is that you can pass around a function as a first class like a primitive, right? It's not like I think like basic for example and many others. The function is like lexically where it is and it can never be passed somewhere else. And that's one of the great things like a lot of us are doing some aspects of functional programming without even thinking about it just by virtue of the fact that you can pass around a function. I have a question that may be dumb, but I don't mind. So assuming functional programming up to a degree of reasonable functional programming, trying to not mutate the code everywhere, any function should have a return statement in functional programming. Otherwise, if there's some stuff somewhere else that you are not controlling, just checking, making sure. Any function in functional programming does have a return statement? Yeah, actually it's an implicit return, it's not explicit. Yeah, yeah, but technically you say you can return the unit, which is actually nothing at all. Yeah, I think that's not the point of JavaScript. Starting to enforce stuff.


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Hi again, thanks for joining us for session six of six in form based codes for Santa Rosa. This last session is all about frontage types and standards. So thank you for joining us today. As you can see on this opening slide here. The image on the left and the image on the right are completely different and that's because the image on the left did not consider frontage which we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about in depth today, and the building on the right did. The building on the right really shows the intentional entries to ground floor units there. And then you can see a lobby entrance down the street there on the right, going into the building providing access to other units in the building. On the left, just consider that sidewalk is some kind of property line that could have been the rear could have been anywhere. But it's actually on the sidewalk where people walk by and go to other buildings and other areas of this of this community. And it's neither good for the pedestrians, or for the people in the ground floors as you can see that they have the mini blinds up because the lack of privacy, just the way that building was designed so frontage is a very very important topic. And that is why we always recommend including regulations for frontage. So, here are some examples of frontage regulations from a form based code and you can see the top left example shows a porch for example here in in a cross view or section as as we say in in in a code. And you can see there are requirements for how close it can be to the sidewalk, how deep it needs to be. What the distance over all that you need to have that element work well on the front or side of buildings, how tall it needs to be, how far it should be raised from the ground to to provide that that good element of space and also a little separation for the for the occupants they might want to participate on the street and be out there on the porch but not necessarily be at eye level with the sidewalk and so that distance from and distance above the sidewalk is important. It's really important to also underscore that this element is not covered in conventional zoning. As as the as the, the topic of building types that we talked about in session five it's not covered either and so it's very important to understand what it is the community is looking for and then turn that into two standards to get those outcomes. And so, you know, from a broader perspective, what is frontage. Well it's that basically the ground, how the ground floor interacts with the public Rome, and the public Rome is that area beyond the property line out into the street, and to the other side of the street. Maybe it highlighted here in yellow, or here in this diagram, where you can see the private lot, whether that's a publicly owned city lot, or it's a, it's a privately owned property. The idea is that there's a public right of way and there's land on the other side of that public right away, which is is not not always publicly owned. So, we've tried to identify the difference here, and you can see that that that that public Rome is consisting of that private and public area together, and a big element of that is frontage and you can see here in this example there's a ground floor with three nice windows on that front room facing the street, and then an engaged porch, providing entry to the building. And, you know, again, this is super important because without the idea of frontage. You know, you might say well, yeah, this is a bad example so it would never happen in our city. If you look at your rules, then ask yourself that question. And if your rules say that this couldn't happen, then, okay, it might not apply to your town. So I challenge you to look at your rules and see if in fact this is not allowed. And I think you might be surprised. Same here. This is a combination of not recognizing frontage as a key element of a place as was done in the building on the right. And also recognizing that frontage goes along with where parking can be located so the building on the left. It's not recognized parking or frontage, let alone together. And then, you know, here is one of my favorite examples because the street. This street where the these examples are from the characters like on the right. It's a street of front yards with porches and the front yards vary in their depth, but but it's that's the character. And in the 80s, a famous architect came in and experimented on the left there with the that pattern. And so whether you like that designer not that pattern breaks the existing physical character that is more like what's on the right. And so as that happens over time, the, the, the importance of continuing the pattern goes away because the pattern becomes diluted and confused about what it actually is. And is it that important anymore because so many buildings are turning their back or side to the public room. So frontages have very much to do with the public room and making it positive, or not so positive. As in this example. So this example is very, very well done in terms of architecture and materials, but it is not very well done in terms of the ground floor and frontage you can see the building is sunken a little bit. And I'm not sure if that is to meet height requirements, or if that was some other due to some other aspect of the site, but a ground floor frontage requirement would not have allowed this situation. And again, as you saw in the opening slide, people walking by this feeling comfortable looking in those windows and the people in those in those windows in those rooms, feeling comfortable with you walking by and looking down into them. So this is not an optimal situation and it could have been avoided and ground floor furniture permits would have been key in avoiding that outcome. So as we saw with the with the building types. There's a palette of frontage types and you can see from the left there's a front yard. Sometimes the porch sometimes with another type of covered entry there's a porch. There's all kinds of residential options there from the left to the middle. And then as you get from the middle to the to the right. So those are more public more neighborhood center or Main Street type of frontages so thinking of them as there's more privacy on the left hand side of the spectrum, and less privacy, because it's intentional there, they're meant to be less less private on the middle to the right of the spectrum. So where you are where you are in that spectrum really helps you use these, these tools of frontage in your zoning standards and in infill situations in your neighborhoods here are those more private or more residential type of frontages. And you can see they all have a different purpose, some are closer to the sidewalk summer more set back so it's it's not a one size fits all thankfully and and again, where you are in the neighborhood has a lot to stay with which type or types. You will allow to make that character respond to what the character of the neighborhood wants to be. And then at the other end of the spectrum here are photos of those examples with the shop front, you know really well known type there on the right hand side and then covered walkways of two types, one arcade and the other gallery. Occupied space above and the other does not. And then a for court terrorist but they're all ways of bringing that non residential, sometimes residential ground floor to the sidewalk, and again, less privacy here, more privacy here. So another easy way to think about them. And then taking that information and coordinating with the zoning districts and the intended physical character of the zoning districts and applying that to locations on a map. And going back to the regulating plan that we talked about early on in the series so you can coordinate the intended frontage types to correspond to the physical character in the building types that you are allowing in each of these districts. And then providing regulations so here are three examples of many. You saw that that spectrum of types. It's eight to 10 different types and here just three, showing how you can provide that section diagram and standards and plan diagram and standards and then illustrative requirements for photos and then identifying which zoning districts, each of these types are allowed in and then the dimensional requirements for each of these types. So thank you very much for being with us today and, and learning about frontage types and standards and and for being through with us through all of these six sessions. And again, you know, these are these are overviews provided for your information and, and curiosity you might have a million questions and, and ideas and so we look forward to talking with you and hearing those questions and ideas, and just getting to meet you.