I would also like to say that I am very grateful for how our brothers lead us into worship. We were witnessing to a gentleman who visited with us not long ago, and sometimes for visitors, it's something that's unusual, maybe that you're not used to or that you don't see. But when we come into the house of the Lord to worship God, we're to worship the Lord in a way that is worthy of Him. We're to worship Him in a way that He prescribes in Scripture as being right or good or acceptable worship. And with our flesh being what it is, our hearts being what they are, often as the Bible describes this, just wicked, deceitful, above all things, we need to prepare our hearts to worship the Lord rightly. And that takes time. It takes thinking about the Lord, thinking about the ways in which we've sinned against Him. The Bible says that the sacrifices of God are broken in contrite spirit. And it's that sacrifice of worship, that offering of praise that the Lord does not despise. And so we want to take our time each week to prepare ourselves rightly to worship Him. And so now we come to John's Gospel. We're in John chapter one, and we have been working our way verse by verse through the Gospel of John. And again, important to do. We want to go verse by verse through the Bible.  I want to know what the Word of God says so that I can worship the Lord and obey Him as I should. And so we want to just know what the Bible has to say. And so we go verse by verse, sometimes clause by clause, word by word, wanting to understand the Scripture. And that's incredibly important. We're not topical on purpose. We want to know what the Lord has to say, what His Word has to say. And so we've come verse by verse through the Gospel of John. We've worked our way through chapter one. And now we come to this paragraph. We're nearing the end of chapter one. We come to this paragraph that begins in verse 35. As we unwrap this paragraph today, we're going to be discussing and defining what it is to be a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.  What do disciples do? How do they live? How do they follow the Lord? What defines a disciple? Now it's interesting that in the Bible, or today, that when we talk of one another, we're Christians or we've chosen to follow the Lord, we've turned from our sin, we've put our faith in Christ, it's common today to refer to one another as Christians. But did you realize that the name Christian, or that nomenclature, that description Christian, is only used three times in the Scripture to describe Christians? The other word that we'll sometimes use of one another is the word believer. You know, I met that guy, he was a believer. I talked to that lady, she was just a genuine believer. You know, we use that term affectionately to describe Christians. But the word believer only used twice in the Scriptures to describe those who have come to Christ by repentant faith. The word disciple is overwhelmingly used in the Scripture itself to describe those who have turned from their sin to follow Christ. And we're going to learn what that word today means, 273 times by comparison. The word disciple is used to describe those who follow the Lord, who follow Christ. We're going to see that clearly beginning here in verse 35. Disciples, number one on your notes, hear the word of the Lord and they follow. They hear and follow. We'll see that disciples point to you on your notes, seek and see. We'll explain that as we get there. Next, disciples of the Lord believe and they bear witness. And then lastly, disciples forsake all and they exercise faith. And so if you take each of those points now and make those in exhortation a command for you. If you claim the name of Christ, you're here today and you say, I want to follow the Lord. I want to be faithful to him. Hear and follow. Hear the word of the Lord and follow. Seek. Jesus himself says, come and see. And that invitation, that command is just as valid for you today as it was 2,000 years ago when the Scripture records Jesus saying that. Next, you want to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and bear witness. That's what disciples do. That's what they're called to do. And lastly, forsake all and follow Christ in faith. Forsake all and follow him in faith. Point one on your notes, disciples first, hear and follow. They hear and follow. In verse 35, the Bible says again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples and looking at Jesus as he walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God. And the two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jesus. So we open this encounter, this account now with the next day. The next day is the third day in our story of the opening week in the first, you know, earnest week of ministry in the Lord Jesus Christ's earthly ministry. It's the third day in our account. This week began with verse 19. If you'll remember when John the Baptist was out in the wilderness preaching in the wilderness of Judea, repent for the kingdom of heaven's at hand. And that's when, if you remember, that delegation came out from Jerusalem to question John the Baptist, right? That first week continued with the next day that we saw in verse 29 where John the Baptist points out the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world as Jesus was walking toward him. In that paragraph, in that account of the second day, John again amasses evidence for why Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Now why does he do that? Because the purpose of John's gospel is that believing that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, that believing you might have life in his name. And John the Baptist wants you to have life in his name. So he amasses evidence that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Now we move into verse 35 and we pick up our account with day three. And in verse 35 here we begin to see a transition. John the Baptist doesn't want disciples following after him. John the Baptist being a faithful forerunner is pointing people to Christ. And again here he's pointing people to Jesus Christ. And in this now, we see a transition. We see the torch being passed from John the Baptist now to Jesus Christ. John the Baptist fades backstage, so to speak. And now in this paragraph beginning in verse 35, Jesus Christ steps onto the stage of history, center stage for all of us to see. This is a transition. John begins to decrease, Jesus Christ begins to increase. John fades as Jesus comes on to the stage of history. And John has done his faithful work as a forerunner and now Jesus Christ takes over. So we're getting, if you will, a three day snapshot in all these verses of the life and ministry of John the Baptist as he introduces to us in John's gospel, Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory. So we begin in day three. Day three here beginning in verse 35. We're still in Bethany beyond the Jordan, Bethabara beyond the Jordan. And if you remember, the Bible said there was much water there. And so John the Baptist went out to Bethany, Bethabara beyond the Jordan to baptize. And he wasn't just baptizing, John the Baptist was preaching, preaching a baptism of repentance. Now in verse 35, he's standing there next to the river Jordan. There are multitudes that have come out to see him, but John is standing there with two of his disciples having a private conversation. It's just the three of them talking. Verse 35 says he's standing with two of his disciples, and these are the disciples of John the Baptist. Now, we know from verse 40 that one of those disciples was Andrew. Andrew is the brother of Simon Peter, and we know who Simon Peter is from Scripture. It's interesting here that the other disciple isn't named. That would ordinarily, in other circumstances, be an unusual omission. Why don't we know the name of the other disciple? Here, not so unusual. John the Evangelist, as we've already talked about, doesn't mention himself in the Gospel of John. Doesn't name himself in the Gospel of John. Anywhere you see John the Evangelist mentioned in his own Gospel is when he, in amazement, describes himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved. So here every indication is, is we've got Andrew and the unnamed disciple as John himself. So not very unusual when you consider the humility of John our author here, John the Evangelist. Very likely this person is John. Now, you've got John the Baptist, you've got Andrew, and now presumably John the Evangelist, John our author here, talking by the river Jordan. And John sees Jesus as he walks. That word for see there means to look intently. He gazed upon him, looks intently at him, and he points him out to Andrew and John our author here. Behold the Lamb of God. Now as we looked at in weeks past, that title, Lamb of God, describes the work of the Lord Jesus Christ coming into the world to save sinners. It says to take away the sin of the world. John, it's interesting, and those two disciples didn't look at Jesus Christ walking and say, behold, a get out of hell free card. Right? They didn't look at Jesus Christ and say, behold, the genie in the lamp is going to give me everything that I wish for. He didn't say, behold, looking at Jesus Christ and say, there's the way that I'm going to get all my self-indulgent desires fulfilled. They didn't look at Christ that way.  He's not one that simply forgives while you remain a drunkard, while you remain a fornicator, while you remain an adulterer, a slugger, a sodomite. He's not just teaching good things. These aren't simply words written on a page. When they looked and said, behold the Lamb of God, Andrew and John, John the Baptist, saw a real historical person, stepped out of glory, taking on the mud of our humanity, walking and dwelling among us whom they could trust to save them. They followed a real person. They were to commit all of themselves to for salvation. They were to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. They were to obey the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a real historical person. You and I don't follow cleverly devised tales. We don't follow words written on a page because they are wise words. We follow the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, all that he has done for you and for me in saving wretched, undeserving sinners to himself. We follow a real person who went to Calvary and died for sinners that praise God. John the Evangelist would later say that in following a real person, we have fellowship with him. It's interesting the disciples, Andrew and John here, asked Jesus later, where are you staying? That word for staying is a popular word in John's Gospel. It means to abide. It means to remain, to have fellowship. It was a term, if you will, of endearment to have fellowship. And here, this issue of fellowship comes up. The disciples can have fellowship with Christ, fellowship with God in the flesh. And that has serious implications for your life. If this is a real person that we trust to commit ourselves to and obey and have communion with, this is the Lord of glory. We're to have holy lives. We're to live in a way that pleases him. First John chapter one verse six says, if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. You cannot have fellowship with Christ and fellowship with your sin. You must abandon your wretched life and follow Christ. So John looks now and he looks intently at Christ and he sees the Lord of glory coming to him. But now this is Christ in his first coming. This is when Christ came in his humility, in his condescension as a sacrificial lamb come to take away the guilt and stain and punishment and penalty of sin. And John continuing in his humility, not desiring to build up disciples to himself, not desiring to build his own empire so to speak. John again points the two disciples standing with him, points them to Christ. And based on all the astounding messianic and Christological statements that we've already learned about Christ here, he points Andrew and John to their Savior, their Lord. So they begin in verse 35 as disciples of John the Baptist. And they took first steps in verse 37 now to being disciples of Christ. As we look at that transition, disciples of John to disciples of Christ, it's not that Andrew and John were abandoning John the Baptist. They weren't abandoning John the Baptist. They were adhering to his teaching. They were obeying the teaching of John the Baptist in following after Christ. It says in verse 37, the two disciples heard John the Baptist speak and they followed Jesus. That's what we're to do. That's our mission. That's our charge. We point people to Christ and they follow Christ. There are many out there today who would point disciples to themselves, have disciples pulled away after themselves, disciples running along after themselves, were to point people to Christ. Now, that brings us to a very important question as we consider verses 35 to 42 here. What is a disciple? What is a disciple? What is the fullness of all that word from Scripture is supposed to communicate to us? How do we define what a disciple is? Andrew and John were described as being disciples of John the Baptist. Here, they take initial steps to becoming disciples of Christ. What does it mean to be a disciple? Now first, to answer that question, we can tell a lot from our context right here in this paragraph. If you want to know what a disciple looks like, what a disciple is, you can learn much from these few verses here from 35 to 42. They first heard the preaching. Andrew, John the Evangelist, first heard the preaching of John the Baptist and the wilderness and they became disciples or they followed John the Baptist. Now, after hearing the preaching of John the Baptist and all that John the Baptist taught, they become disciples or they follow hard after Christ. So in simple terms, at the outset, a disciple is someone who hears the words of the Lord, hears the Lord and they follow the Lord. They hear and follow. That's point one on your notes. Now think about this for a moment. Follow the progression, if you will. Matthew describes John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea saying, Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. John preached repentance. John the Baptist baptized and his baptism was a baptism of repentance. His entire ministry was a ministry of repentance. Now, he's preaching that. He's conducting his ministry with his audience being people who thought they had no need of repentance. They believe that they were Jews because of their descendancy from Abraham, believe that they were righteous before God, because of their lawkeeping, because of their good works they thought they were righteous before God. And here comes John the Baptist on the scene saying to these Jews, Listen, your lawkeeping does not make you right with God. If you believe being descendants from Abraham make you right with God, you've got another thing coming.  And so John the Baptist is saying to them, listen, you need to repent, put faith and trust in the Lord. Repent, make strength away of the Lord, prepare your heart for the coming Messiah. They didn't believe that they needed repentance. They thought they were right with God because of the right stuff that they did. We witnessed to a man yesterday out of angelizing. He believed that he was right with God because of a little sacramental religious ritual that he did in praying to receive Christ or asking Jesus into his heart. Is that the way that we're right with God? Are we right with God by the stuff that we do, the religious rituals that we perform, the sacraments that we perform? It's not what the Bible says.   They thought they were right with God. John's preaching was that they needed to repent. And then if they didn't repent, wrath was coming, judgment was coming. So Andrew and John heard this preaching of John the Baptist. And listen, Andrew and John believed the preaching of John the Baptist. They believed that they were sinners in need of a savior. They believed that the Messiah was coming. They believed what John preached about the coming Messiah. Certainly John the Baptist described who Jesus was. Certainly John the Baptist went into great detail about the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And so John, Andrew, turned from sin. They came out to the River Jordan to be baptized by John as an outward symbol of the inward cleansing they knew they needed. They came out to hear about the Messiah who would take away their sin, take away their guilt, who would be the full and final sacrifice for sin. They turned from sin. They turned from their hypocritical religion. They heard the word of the Lord through his prophet John the Baptist and they followed. They followed his teaching. They became disciples here of John the Baptist. They heard and they followed. So now, being a disciple begins with hearing. It is a preoccupation with hearing. Hearing becomes life and death to the disciple of Christ. And it's hearing specifically the word of God. It's a devotion to learning. An occupation with learning. In this case, it's an occupation with or a devotion to learning the word of God. Learning the Holy Scriptures. It's devoting yourself to the preaching and teaching of the Bible. The preaching and teaching of Jesus Christ. Studying the Bible. Praying over the Bible. Meditating over the Bible. It is an occupation with learning. A devotion to learning. But being a disciple doesn't. It cannot. It must not stop there. It's not about simply imparting information. A true mark of a disciple. The true mark of a disciple is that they follow. They learn. They're devoted to learning. Their occupation is with the Scriptures. They hear and then a disciple follows. John's concern. John the Baptist's concern. Jesus Christ's concern. The Bible's concern is not simply to impart information. It is to cause in you. And to cause in me. An unconditional commitment to Christ. To follow Him with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. The theological dictionary. The New Testament says of the master-disciple relationship. That even though it be by definite information. The disciple learns only what is ultimately to be practiced or fulfilled. James says the same thing, doesn't he? When he says don't be merely hearers of the word only. Deceiving yourselves, but be what? Doers. Be doers of the word. This isn't merely a teacher-pupil relationship. A teacher-student relationship. This is a master-apprentice relationship. The Bible describes it as a master-slave relationship. Everything here with the master-slave relationship. The master-apprentice relationship. The disciple relationship. Everything here depends upon obedience. Depends upon obedience. Does this mean, in thinking about it this way, that Andrew and John obeyed the Lord in order to be saved? No. The Bible clearly teaches you don't do works in order to be saved. This is not a works-based salvation. This is a salvation that works. You don't obey in order to get saved. Now here, in this passage, beginning in verse 35, Andrew and John are not genuine disciples yet. In verse 37, they begin to take the initial steps of becoming a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ will soon call them. And when he calls them, they will abandon all to follow him. In Mark 3, Matthew chapter 10, Jesus Christ then appoints them as apostles. So they're not apostles yet. They're only taking the initial steps at this point. And at this beginning point, although they understood much, they didn't understand everything. There was much left for them to understand. They have a lot of questions. These are just the first indications here that they're headed in the right direction. John the Baptist at this critical point, this critical juncture, points them to the Lord Jesus Christ. And then they physically walked after him, followed after him. Jesus hasn't called them here, but the narrative is emphasizing the willingness here of John and Andrew to follow Christ. There's a willingness on their part to do that. Very soon the Lord will call them to himself. He will grant them repentance and faith. And by faith, they will abandon everything to follow Christ. That brings up another important point. Every single step of faith, every indication of a willingness to follow, every step in the right direction should be encouraged. How many of you have kids?  Encourage every step of faith, every step in the right direction. How many of you are witnessing to someone at work, witnessing to someone at school, witnessing to a friend, a relative, a neighbor? Every step of faith, encourage. Every step in the right direction, encourage. They say, I want to be a Christian. Great! That's what I want for you more than anything else is for you to be a Christian and follow Christ and be saved. Encourage every step of faith. Here's how you answer. Hear what the Lord has to say and put your faith in him. Trust him alone to save you and follow him.  Encourage every step of faith. They say, I want to follow the Lord, but I keep sinning. It's because you can't turn from sin in your own strength. Hear the word of the Lord. Put your trust in Christ to save you from your sin. And by trusting Christ, by faith in Christ, you'll overcome sin. They may say, Lord, I'll follow you wherever you go. But first, let me go and bury my father.  Preach the kingdom of God.  Lord, I believe that you are Almighty God in the flesh. Praise the Lord.  I believe that you lived a perfect sinless life and then went to the cross to bear the punishment for my sin that I rightly deserve. Amen. We need to believe that. If you want to follow Christ, believe that. I believe that God raised you from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures. I believe that I have sinned against you, God. I repent. What does that mean? I'm turning now from my anger. I am forsaking my pornography. I'm abandoning alcohol. I'm leaving the drugs behind. I'm repent of my hate, repent of my despair, repent of my covetousness, repent of idolatry, repent of serving myself. I don't want to live for myself any longer. You, Christ, are my Lord. You turn from your sin. You've heard him. Now, can you do that in your own strength? Can you do that in your own power? No. You must do it by faith in Christ, trusting the Lord for help, trusting the Lord for power, trust in Christ. At the point of temptation, when the first glimpse of temptation rears its ugly head, you believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You put your trust in him to save you. You cry out to the Holy Spirit in faith for help and you turn from that sin. Jesus says, come to me. All you who are weary and heavy-laden, weary and heavy-laden over what? Over their sin. Over the weight and guilt of our sin.  Just take my yoke upon you. Learn from me. For I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest in my holes for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. It's faith in Christ. You have to trust Christ to overcome your sin. The life which a disciple lives, he lives by faith in the Son of God who loves him and gave himself for him. That's the life of a disciple. The life of a disciple. Point two on your notes. Disciples don't just hear and follow. Beyond hearing and following, disciples seek and see. Disciples seek and see. In verse 38, Jesus turned and seeing them following said to them, what do you seek? They said to him, rabbi, which is to say when translated teacher, where are you staying? And he said to them, come and see. And they came and saw where he was staying and remained with him that day. Now it was about the tenth hour. So seeing them walking after him, Jesus basically turns to Andrew and John seeing them following him and he says to them, basically what do you want? What do you want? Now Jesus isn't asking for his information, he knows what they want. This is a challenging question posed to them for them to determine for themselves what they really want. And this happens regularly in scripture. Jesus was no circus act. He was no dog in pony show. There were many who followed him because they saw some sign or some miracle that he performed. There were many who followed him for food. They followed him out of curiosity because he was a great teacher, any number of reasons. But Jesus in the scriptures regularly confronts those who make a show of beginning to follow him. He demands that they count the cost. He demands that they articulate what they really want in following him. There's a cost to following Christ. There's a cost to following Christ and a genuine disciple joyfully pays that cost. There is no comparison to the genuine disciple. I'll give all for Christ. Right? There's a cost to following him. You want to follow Christ? Jesus says foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nest but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head. You say you want to follow Christ. He says sell all give to the poor you'll have treasure and come and follow me. Your treasure will be in heaven. He says do you want to follow me? Christ asked deny yourself take up your cross daily and follow me. The Lord says here come and see. They say we want to follow you. He says basically come and see. The genuine disciple follows no matter what the cost. Jesus asked them what are you seeking? The answer they give here is very interesting. The answer they give is rabbi where are you staying? They've been listening to John the Baptist preach on repentance. Right? Preach on sin preach on judgment, preach on salvation preach on the coming Messiah. They knew what it meant that Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world. They had come to John the Baptist to repent. They had come to John the Baptist to know about the one who would come and fully and finally take away sin. So when Jesus asks them what do you seek? One, they say rabbi. They call him rabbi. Rabbi was a term of respect. It was a term of honor from a student to a teacher. A student would call a teacher rabbi. It's interesting here that they call Jesus rabbi. They're no longer students of John the Baptist. They're following Christ now. They're students of Jesus Christ and they call Jesus Christ rabbi. Then for his Greek readers, John simply translates the Aramaic word from rabbi into the Greek word didoskos or teacher. For those people who knew Greek, that's all there is to that. And they say rabbi. Basically, there's so much we have to learn. So much we have to know. So many things we need to understand. We just need to be with you for a while. We want communion with you. Where are you staying? Right? Doesn't the genuine disciple of Christ hunger and thirst for that kind of fellowship with the Lord? Hunger and thirst for that kind of knowledge, knowing the Lord Jesus Christ, being with him. Isn't the longing, isn't it the longing of your heart, disciple? For you to be in heaven one day with Christ. Sit at his feet. The difference between Martha and Mary, right? Martha worried about much serving. Concerned and distracted with much serving. But Mary, Mary sitting at the feet of the disciple learning from the Lord. Desiring that good thing, right?  He understands it in great grace to them. Great humility. He says, come and see. That's awesome. This would have delighted Andrew and John. They would have been over the moon. We're going to go stay with the Messiah, right? We're going to go have fellowship. We're going to have communion with Jesus Christ, the Lord. Again, this is an issue of fellowship, communion. What do you want? Do you want that promotion at work? Do you want that raise? Do you think that coming to Christ is going to make your life easier?  Or do you want fellowship with the Lord of Glory? Do you want Christ? Do you want to be with him? The disciple, the genuine disciple will seek the Lord to see him, to learn of him, to follow him. The genuine disciple will seek him in the revelation that God has provided for him in the Scriptures. He will seek him through prayer, seek communion to know the Lord in order to walk pleasing before the Lord, in order to obey him he'll seek the Lord in the fellowship of his people. He's going to seek the Lord in the hope of one day eternal fellowship with him in heaven. The genuine disciple seeks after the Lord. Not simply following in order to imitate a good example. Not simply following because of what he was saying and that these words on a page are wise. They certainly are. But following for fellowship with Christ in life. We'll have fellowship with Christ in death. We'll have fellowship with Christ in eternity. And if you're a disciple of Christ you'll have fellowship with Christ now in suffering. But fellowship with Christ and that is sweet fellowship. Jesus' answer here when he says come and see is called a conditional imperative. It's a command but it's a command that has a condition. He says basically if you come you will see. If you come you will see that command 2,000 years ago when Christ first spoke those words is just as valid and just as true right now as if they were spoken out of the words of Christ right now and they are they come out of your Bible. Come and if you come you will see seek the Lord while I may be found call upon him while he is near let the wicked man forsake his way let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts return to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. If you will turn to the Lord if you will hear his word and follow him you will see wondrous things from his law. You are going to see the wonders and glories of Christ you will be forgiven of your sin you will see the wonders and glory of the kingdom you will be sanctified, cleansed, forgiven pardoned, accepted and the beloved child of the kingdom that promise is equally valid right now today if you will turn from your sin to follow him. The response would have put Andrew and John just over the moon but can you imagine spending time with the Lord like that here it was said that it was about the 10th hour of the day their days were counted a little differently than ours it started at sunrise ended at sundown so from about 6 a.m. to about 6 p.m. that means the 10th hour of the day was about 4 o'clock nearing the end of the day evening is drawing near in their minds maybe they were thinking that time was running a little short they wanted to be with the Lord I imagine that conversation don't you right all the questions this scene here reminds me a lot of Christ in Luke 24 when he appeared on the road to Emmaus with the two disciples that were walking right it's about this same time of day Christ appears to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus and he begins to expound them that's what the scripture says there right all the things concerning himself from Moses and the prophets and what do they say come and stay they didn't want the time to end and so Christ stays with them teaches them the scriptures and what does the Bible say of those two disciples didn't their hearts burn within them as they heard what the Lord had to teach them same scene going on here just learning from the Lord fellowship with the Lord their hearts burned surely they saw more in Jesus's command to come and see they saw more as that evening went on the longer that they talked to Jesus the more they saw the more they understood they came to believe that he was the Messiah Andrew believed that he was the Messiah disciples today a genuine disciple longs for fellowship with the Lord hungers and thirsts to be with Christ but how do we abide with him now how is it that we abide with the Lord is that some mystical experience you're to sit in a dark room candle flickering is that how we do that no we can abide with the Lord now we're commanded to abide with the Lord now but turn a couple of pages to the right to John chapter 8 and let's look at this John chapter 8 how do we abide with the Lord now John chapter 8 and look down at verse 31 gives us an indication here of what it looks like to be a disciple but also what it looks like to abide with the Lord verse 31 says in Jesus said to those Jews who believed him if you abide in my what in my word if you abide in my word you are my disciples indeed and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free they answered him we are Abraham's descendants and have never been in bondage to anyone how can you say you'll be made free Jesus answered them most assuredly I say to you whoever commits a sin and is a slave of sin and a slave does not abide in the house forever but a son abides notice the use of abide frequently in scripture this is that word for staying that we see in verse 37 abide a son abides forever therefore if the son makes you free you shall be free indeed it's interesting here if you abide in his word you are his disciples indeed now abiding just doesn't mean reading abiding here as a sin abiding means to adhere to it it means to follow again it goes back to the issue of hearing and following seeking and seeing hearing and obeying seeking and seeing go a few more pages of the right to John chapter 15 John chapter 15 we see the same basic concept taught again this certainly means that we're to read that we're to study that we're to meditate on scripture that we're to pray over scripture but also we're to adhere to it living for him obeying him John chapter 15 look at verse 1 Jesus says I'm the true vine my father is the vine dresser every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away and every branch that bears fruity prunes that it may bear more fruit you are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you then he says in verse 4 abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine neither can you unless you abide in me we're to abide in Christ for the purpose that we would bear much fruit we abide in the Lord we abide in his word we obey him with the purpose that we would bear much fruit look at verse 5 I'm the vine you are the branches he who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit for without me you can do how much not one thing you can't do anything to please Christ outside of Christ even the plowing of the wicked is sin you must abide in him he goes on to say if anyone verse 6 does not abide in me he is cast out as a branch and is withered they gather them and throw them into the fire and they are burned now that is a picture of judgment you're not abiding in Christ you're not an abiding disciple someone says I was saved when I was 12 20 years you know I lived how I wanted to live live for the devil you know I went with like I heathen throughout college but Lord was always with me and I rededicated my life when I was 28 and now I'm a genuine no a genuine disciple abides in the Lord maybe if you're abiding in the Lord at 28 maybe that's when you got genuinely saved but we don't see that in scripture that whole idea of rededicating your life falling away and then coming back no the Lord preserves his own to the end that they might be saved he goes on to say verse 7 if you abide in me and my what does it mean that his words abiding us that we meditate on his word that we pray over his word that we invest ourselves in his word that we ingest and digest his word such that it transforms our lives such that we live for him we obey him we follow him through his word he says it will be done for you by this my father is glorified that you bear much fruit and in bearing much fruit so you will be my disciples that's what it looks like to be a disciple of Christ point 3 on your notes not only seeking and seeing abiding that fellowship with the Lord but disciples believe and then bear witness in verse 40 one of the two who heard John speak this is back in John chapter 1 one of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew Simon Peter's brother he first found his brother Simon and said to him we found the Messiah which is translated to Christ and he brought him to Jesus now Andrew and John in their time with the Lord believed the Lord Jesus Christ they believed in him they believed what he taught them they believed that he was the Messiah Messiah here means anointed one it's a title rather than a name the translation for Messiah is Christos in the Greek or Christ again it's a title more than it is a name it's anointed one in coming to Christ what is the very first thing that Andrew does upon believing that the Lord is the Messiah what's the very first thing that Andrew did goes out and finds his brother goes out and witnesses he evangelizes you know John had a brother as well John's brother's name was James together they were called the sons of thunder we can presume that John probably did the same thing and found his brother James the first thing that Andrew did was go out and bear witness for Christ he told his brother Simon Peter and brought him to Jesus before Jesus Christ before Jesus Christ ever made them fishers of men before Jesus Christ ever gave them the command to go out and fish for men Andrew goes out and lands a big fish in his backyard Peter to Christ he's a fisherman this is a rebuke to many people in the church today who call themselves the disciples of Christ because Andrew less than 24 hours old less than 24 hours of disciple goes out and bears witness for Christ makes a disciple many today many today if they have a good doctor they're going to tell somebody right you got a good family doctor you're going to tell somebody many today if they find a big sale tell somebody listen get down there there's a big sale going on don't play the hypocrite people are sick in their souls and they need a savior they're collecting for themselves treasures which moth and rust will destroy and you're sitting there with eternal riches in Christ tell somebody about it we're to be disciples who are zealous for the gospel Andrew demonstrates here quality of all genuine disciples of Christ he demonstrates zeal for the Lord he goes and he bears witness Paul said quoting the psalmist in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 I believed therefore I what spoke I believe therefore I spoke he was zealous with the gospel interesting Andrew is mentioned three times in the New Testament and all three times Andrew is described as bringing someone to Jesus you see you got John who's known as the Baptist right you've got Peter known as the rock you've got John the evangelist James his brother known as the sons of thunder but you got Andrew who's known as the one who brings people to Jesus Andrew is just serving the Lord in the way that he can wouldn't you like to be known like that just always bringing people to Jesus and here laboring for the Lord in the way that he can he is the first in a long line of people who perform if you will a very fundamental very effective very common form of evangelism just brother to brother friend to friend somebody know somebody you're close to right relative to relative but don't be misguided in looking at that that's the only way that we evangelize there are many many many ways that we see in scripture examples of how we are to bear witness for Christ in our own passage here there are several look at the way in this passage first the example of Andrew Andrew goes to his brother somebody knows very well somebody that's close to him relative right look at the example of Jesus Christ in this passage Jesus Christ witnesses to two complete strangers Andrew and John look at the example of John the Baptist how is John the Baptist evangelizing preaching the gospel open-air preaching he was open-air preaching so in this one short narrative we see three different ways that evangelism was going on and listen we need those three ways in abundance why pick and choose use every available means every time you have an opportunity use a means that the Lord has given you to share the gospel with somebody be zealous with the gospel don't restrict yourself to only one example only one method if you will we need to be sharing the gospel using every opportunity the Lord gives us this is by the way the mission of disciples of Christ this is the mission of the church to go and to make disciples of the church insofar as it meets their own personal needs as soon as they feel as though maybe their needs aren't being met the way they once were they don't appreciate the church anymore if you ask them what the mission of the church is they might say all kinds of things all manner of things the church is for fellowship the church is for food on Sunday afternoon the church is for fun I've got friends there the mission of the church is to preach and teach the word of God the mission of the church is to you know have good Sunday school offerings for the kids might give you all kinds of reasons all those things good yes are all good the motive of the church is the glory of God the motive of the church is the praise and worship of almighty God but where does perfect praise perfect worship take place takes place in heaven so the Lord wanted perfect praise out of you right now where would he put you if you're a Christian if perfect worship takes place in heaven and God desires perfect worship where would you be right now if perfect worship was what God was concerned about you put you in heaven but why does he leave you here all of those things are good all of those things are things that the Lord desires but God has you here for a mission God has the church here for a purpose it's the one thing you can't do in heaven that's to preach Christ to lost people what is the Bible from cover to cover what is the Bible about it is a grand narrative after the fall in the opening chapters of Genesis it is a grand story a grand narrative of God entering into humanity to redeem wretched sinners to himself for his praise for his glory God does that throughout the Old Testament then he steps into humanity into history himself taking on our dirt if you will our mud coming in the form of man preaches Christ for the years that Christ was here on the planet so that wicked wretched sinners could be redeemed to God he preaches that while he was here in his incarnation then Christ is resurrected Christ ascends to the Father and he leaves the church here to do what to preach the gospel to preach Christ to that God would redeem a lost and sinful world to himself for his own eternal praise and glory that is the mission of the disciple that is the mission of the church to glorify God through accomplishing the work that he has given us to do of making disciples one said this, this is the pattern God loved a lost world and sought to win it for himself to his own glory Christ came into the world sought to win it to himself for the Father's glory we the church disciples are sent into the world to love the lost world to seek to win the lost world for the glory of God the Father our mission is the same mission that Christ had it's the same mission God the Father had no different it is identical there's one reason that you are here that is to seek and to save that which is lost for the glory of God the Father when you sit down to evaluate your faithfulness as a disciple when you examine your level of Christian commitment in the light of the word of God in the light of your call to be a disciple of Christ you need to take a hard look at your commitment to evangelism if you're not committed to seeking to save that which is lost you need to examine yourself whether you're even in the faith is the mission of a disciple like Andrew you to make disciples to the Savior listen don't get bogged down with the vanities of this life there's so much that competes for our time that competes for our affections that competes for our desires fill up your time with the highest priority mission that the Lord gives you while you're here make disciples for the glory of God disciples fervently evangelize and they make disciples forth on your notes disciples for sake all and exercise faith in verse 42 the final version our paragraph here Jesus looked at him he looked at Simon Peter and he said you are Simon the son of Jonah you should be called Cephas which is translated as stone in the first century last names were not used like last names are used today you were given a first name and your last name either told whose son you were or where you were from this is Simon son of Jonah and then you have also Jesus or you have Simon of Cyrene either told whose son you were or where you were from here it's Simon son of Jonah some of your translations say John Jonah is an Aramaic word that's an abbreviated form of John he gives him a name Cephas Cephas was a transliteration of an Aramaic word and then he translated Peter or Petros a stone a lot of different translations going on in this one verse but the point is that Jesus here looks at him intently here again that word looks at him intently and gives him a new name that's not unusual we see God doing that in the Old Testament don't we Abraham became Abraham Jacob became Israel often times that demonstrated God's authority or demonstrated a special calling for that person both cases that constitutes ownership on the part of God authority on the part of God covenant with that person on the part of God John explains later that all disciples in Christ will receive a new name in Revelation chapter 2 verse 17 he says I'll give some of those who overcome hidden manna to eat I'll give them a white stone and I'll then stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it so personal that only the disciple in Christ will know what that name is but all of that is certainly in mind here as Jesus changes Simon Peter's name names often when they were changed also said something about the person it reflected their personality maybe their strength sometimes their weaknesses but it said something about the person think of a stone a rock did Peter what we know of him beginning his time here in the New Testament behave like a rock like a stone was he a rock we see his strength maybe stability rock solid right we use those terms that describe Peter no Peter was impetuous he was rash he was vacillating he had foot in mouth disease Peter had all kinds of problems but isn't it just a tremendous blessing to know a tremendous glorious privilege to know that Jesus so calls disciples that he makes them what he calls them to be that is awesome we're not what we want to be by the grace of God we are what we are Lord sanctify me make me what you want me to be God form Christ in me conform me to the image of your son and that's what Christ was doing with Peter Christ looked at Peter he knew he knew who he was also knew what he would become as we go through the next paragraph doesn't Christ do the same thing with Nathaniel old and Israelite in whom there's no deceit he knew Nathaniel he saw through Nathaniel he also knew what Nathaniel would end up being same as here with Peter Jesus Christ calls him a rock did Peter end up being a rock yeah stable uncompromising he had his slip ups but just a rock solid disciple of the Lord went to his death for Christ it's interesting in Luke chapter 5 I invite you to look at that passage that Jesus calls Peter demonstrates a miracle to Peter Peter sees the nets bursting with fish and what is his response to the Lord Lord depart from me I'm a sinful man sees Jesus as the Lord knows himself to be sinful what does he do he abandons all to follow Christ that's how genuine disciple lives genuine disciple gets a new life genuine disciple gets a new identity genuine disciple gets a new identity you get a new name you get a new creation in Christ it's how a genuine disciple lives they get convicted of their sin they believe they forsake all to be a disciple they follow him in faith listen maybe you're here today and you're a Christian you turn from your sin you put your faith in Christ to save you maybe you're here today and you're not you've never turned at the Lord's words and followed him but if the Lord were to name you right now what would that name be if you're here today and you think that name would be sluggard apathetic indifferent lazy faithless vacillating unstable tossed to and fro repent of your sin put your faith in the Lord of Glory who will so call you that he will make you what he wants you to be maybe you're here today and you're a Christian and you're not as steady as you once were you're not as faithful as you once were repent of that sin listen the Lord works in you right work out your salvation with fear and trembling because you know it's the Lord that works in you both to do into will according to his good pleasure get to following the Lord repent of your sin obey the Lord abide in him let him produce fruit through you follow Christ if you're here today those names don't apply and you are the sluggard you are indifferent you're the sinner maybe there's a sin that characterizes you you're a drunkard you're a fornicator you're a liar you're a cheat you're a thief Jesus Christ says Bible teaches you can clear your name of that wickedness by turning from it becoming a new creation in Christ putting your faith in him being forgiven he'll give you a new name he'll give you a new character forgive you of all your sin cleanse you forgive you there's great mercy in the Lord he is rich in mercy abounding in grace Proverbs 22 verse 1 says a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches loving favor rather than silver and gold on a side note Bible teaches there's no distinction between disciple and Christian you're saved you're a disciple and so you can't begin to think that I'm a Christian today because of some profession I made some experience I had and one day I'll commit to the Lord and become a disciple you're not a disciple you're not a Christian every genuine disciple is a genuine Christian every genuine Christian is a genuine disciple follow the Lord disciples here and they follow they seek hard after the Lord and they see all that the Lord has for them they put their faith in Christ alone to save them they believe and they bear witness will you follow him today let's pray father in heaven thank you for this time together thank you for the blessed joy of studying your word together thank you Lord for the blessed privilege of being called disciples of Christ Lord may we hear but not merely hear may we hear and do for your glory for our eternal good Lord preserve us by your spirit persevere us by your power and we might be saved for your glory God in Jesus name


Hello, wonderful viewers. Welcome to CubeSites, your insider look at KubeCon Cloud Natocon. I'm Katie Greenlee, and I'm super excited to be here with all of you. Thank you for joining us. A few housekeeping notes before we get started during this live stream, you are not able to talk as an attendee. There is a Q&A box at the bottom of your screen. Feel free to drop your questions in there, and we'll get to as many as possible, either throughout the stream or at the end. This is an official live stream of the CNCF. And as such, it is subject to the CNCF code of conduct. Please do not add anything to the chat or questions that would be in violation of that code of conduct. Basically, be respectful of all your fellow participants and presenters. Today's live stream is about our project pavilion at KubeCon. We'll dive into this cornerstone of the event and how you can elevate your experience. I'd like to take a moment and welcome our very own George Castro, who will be sharing all his knowledge with all of you. Welcome, George. Thanks for joining me today. Thanks for having me today. Yeah. Why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are and why you're the expert on the project pavilion here at KubeCon? Yeah. So I'm George Castro. I kind of grew up in the Ubuntu community in the early days, and migrated to Kubernetes. I was a community manager at Kubernetes for a while with Heptio and VMware. And I've been involved in many CNCF projects, like Cloud custodian and Kubeflow. And I've been working with the CNCF for about nine months now, and the kind of idea there is to take all the expertise and knowledge that I have about projects in open source and taking these best practices and applying them to as many CNCF projects as possible. So that could be anything from making recommendations for governance things for the talk, or in this case, ensuring that the projects are just maximizing the value that they get out of that booth that they get. So. Yeah, that's awesome. I know we're super thankful to have you here. And I've heard an overwhelming excitement from the projects that they get to work with you. And I'm excited to kind of learn a little bit more about the Pavilion. So why don't you give us a bit of an overview of what the Project Pavilion is and what the mission is of the Project Pavilion overall at the event? Yeah, so the Project Pavilion is a dedicated area in the expo floor that is just for CNCF projects. They're explicitly non-commercial. They're just pure open source. The idea there being, if you want to learn about these projects, you go there. And they're all in one place for you to find them. We have 184 projects in the CNCF. There's always new ones. They come in all shapes and sizes. I call it an ecosystem of dinosaurs and creatures or whatever you're into. And each of them has different requirements, different needs. They meet different audiences. So what we try to do is present them as a whole. So attendees can't say, what is the cool new stuff in the CNCF landscape actually look like? So if you take the CNCF landscape and just lay it down on the ground, that's the Project Pavilion. Yeah, I'm going to show my screen just so everyone gets context on that layout. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about that layout when I show it here. So let me go ahead and get that up for us. Ooh, all right. All right. So this page here on the website that people can access that project engagement tab on the KubeCon, CloudativeCon, Europe tab has all kinds of information. And this is kind of that overview of the Project Pavilion. I'm going to see if I can zoom out real quick. Yeah. There we go. Does it show the break area? Is that what the logo represents? I believe this is where the break area is. And then over here is kind of a lounge area. But maybe you can kind of tell us what. How we ended up here. So in the past, this is only my second KubeCon with the CNCF. But I've been to many of them. And sometimes as a project, you go to the Pavilion and it's just a row of booths. And then projects go. And then they do their shift. And in Chicago, I kind of wanted to re-energize the Project Pavilion. So I actually volunteered to help coordinate the Project Pavilion because I think the context, what we actually really want to do, let me just go ahead and say that out there, is to ensure that these projects are healthy is our long-term goal. And in order to do that, attendees need to understand how these projects work in the ecosystem and how the community works. So it's in our best interest to ensure that every single attendee, my goal is for every single attendee to step foot into this Project Pavilion. Even if they go in and say, wow, I am overwhelmed. But I'm glad this exists. When I get back to my organization, I'll ask someone who does understand what all this is, how we can leverage this. So it's an opportunity to educate our attendees and connect them with maintainers, because those relationships is what leads to getting more support for our projects and ultimately more resources for them. So in the past, one of the things that bugged me is it was just a row of booths. And we don't want to spend a ton of money, but we can do a lot of things to make it a lot smarter and more fun for everybody. So one of the things I've noticed is, especially for maintainers, is they're very busy at KubeCon. And depending on where you are, sitting down is like a luxury to them. So in order to attract maintainers, I wanted to reorganize it from a row of booths to more of a fishbowl style arrangement with a break area centralized in the middle. That's for a few reasons. A, it's close to the maintainers. So as you're doing your booth duty and you're rotating shifts with your friends or whatever, you can chill out there. And the idea is that our team there from the CNCF projects team will be there. So it will be myself. GIF, which is Jeffrey Sika, that's his nickname, will be there. Amy Scavarta-Paren will be there and she brings a ton of projects expertise, most projects, probably by now, if they've been around, have engaged with her over the years. They should have engaged with Amy. Yeah, and if they're not, yeah, and if they're not, this is the perfect time to learn at the Project Pavilion with Daniel Crook, who is our manager. We're trying to expose, the project team is trying to expose all the resources that we have available to all the projects. So maintainers told me it's really hard to find you like trying to get on your schedule, and we are running around like nobody's business. Yeah, it's like passing ships, right? Yeah, I remember, we didn't see each other for like two days at KubeCon and I had been walking the entire time and we just never ran into each other. So for us, this gave us an opportunity to revamp the layout, give people a centralized location where they can say, okay, this is where the maintainers and the projects hang out, right? So my ask for people is, if you need to meet somebody, don't do it at the registration desk, do it at the Project Pavilion. So you can at least like hang out with all the others. And then we have booths for other parts of the community that are crucial to helping these projects. So there's a booth for the CNCF ambassadors that they can work on them. So, you know, I'm trying to interface and get those many people through there as possible. And you're always really close to the break area, which is great. We've also strategically placed the caffeine, which is the crux. So, you know, we're trying to make it so that if an attendee needs caffeine or they wanna sit down, you gotta go through the Project Pavilion if you're on this side of the thing. And that gives the maintainers an opportunity to reach out to folks. Additionally, we're laying it out in a certain special way. It's like a wedding seating chart where the outside is where we're putting the sandbox projects. These are usually the newer projects that have kind of started their journey into cloud native. We put those on the outside to draw people's attention to them because they're brand new when you're walking by, you're gonna wanna see that. And then on the inside, we're putting the more graduated projects, Kubernetes, Prometheus, you know, like those projects that have been around for a while. And then in between are gonna be the incubating projects and the kind of middle ground. The idea there is you find something new on your way to a thing that you've heard of and that will help kind of make it, we're trying to optimize each path for where someone comes into the Pavilion to give them a vertical slice of the CNCF lands, as opposed to, wow, is this whole road databases? You wanna give people some variety there. Yeah, and I think one of the differences too is the schedule. So something people should probably be aware of, right? Is that some kiosks aren't going to, some projects won't be there full time throughout the week.  It doesn't mean that the maintainers won't be around and maybe hang out in the booth. It just means that they may not have a kiosk the whole time. So if you wanna kind of talk about what that looks like and how, I know you're gonna do this really great thing of taking people through like project tours. So how does that play into the timeframe of when projects will be in the booth and when can they take these tours with you? Sure, so we had overwhelming response to getting booths this year. So we kind of had to have shifts. So it's important to recognize that some projects will only be there for a limited time. So my recommendation to folks is check it often. You will wanna come in to the project pavilion early if you can, like when the show opens, the floor opens and you come in, meander on through, we're gonna have a screen that will have a schedule of the tours and things like that, which I will get to in a minute. But it will also let you see what booths and things are there that day. And if they are not there that day, that's why we have that break area to kind of act as a rallying point where it's like, oh, I missed you yesterday, but can you meet me at the break area tomorrow? And then you can go grab a spare table in the back or something or there's plenty of places for people to break out and do things like that. So we will definitely help try to facilitate that for you. That's mostly what I'm doing 90% of the time when I'm on the floors trying to connect people to projects. So you can always come see me and even if they're not there, I'll find a way to get you connected to them. The other thing I wanted to do was project tours. I found an interesting pattern is when people come to their first KubeCon or they have a coworker who kind of doesn't understand the stuff, other people in their organizations would walk them through the project pavilion and be like, okay, it's your first time here. Welcome to the team. I'm gonna walk you through some of the important projects that we built products on as an example. So we wanted to kind of explore that. It's like, hey, what if we gave people a regimented scheduled set of tours with someone who's kind of been around the block? That's me. So if you come in and you have no idea where to start because it is very overwhelming. If you don't, it is so overwhelming. And I especially want to reach out to the people who are new with their first KubeCon, bring a coworker, feel free, bring your boss because it's also important that everybody in your stack understands the values that these projects are bringing. I like to say like, this is the innovation lab, the R&D lab of open source is running out of the pavilion. So if you want a more structured approach, you can show up to one of my tours and I will start on one end of the circle and kind of make my way internally and then we'll end in the break area. And we will be walking through the pavilion, pointing out certain projects. Maintainers will be sitting there. They'll be like vying for your attention and then you'll be able to split off into things if you want to go deep or you could just stick with the tour until you get to the end and then explore the rest of the space on your own time. So what we're also hoping is in the future having volunteers that are subject experts on certain things to be able to do their own guided tours. So that's more of a future thing that I'm thinking about is one of the valleys of KubeCon is access to the experts but sometimes direct access to the experts is overwhelming. So getting that middle ground there. We're shooting for like a zoo tour, right? We're not gonna go deep on every animal but you will know that this is where the giraffes are the next time you come hang out. So that's what we're shooting for there. Will you talk about what project, like how I guess from an attendee perspective, right? If I'm a new contributor, like what projects are or like if I was an end user, will you talk about like how an end user could use these projects? Is that kind of, will that be available during these tours or is it something someone could ask you post tour of like, hey, I'm an end user and I don't know how to get involved or what projects might be the best projects for me to get involved with in my stack and here's what I'm looking for or will you kind of talk about that from each perspective of like if you're a new contributor, this is how you can engage with them or if you're an end user, this is how you use this project. Is that how those tours will be structured or is it more just a quick, here's what this project is, here's where they are, like what does that look like? Very much I wanna do the former unless you're like compressed for time because in order to understand the ecosystem you have to understand how end users consume a thing and how maintainers produce that thing. And the health of that is literally our jobs, right? The average attendee is more looking at the final product. They want the pie that they buy at the store and they just wanna know that the ingredients are all natural and good for them stuff and some will really wanna go deep and figure out what's the recipe like, I wanna modify it, I wanna do my thing and do the open source thing. So we have to accommodate both audiences which is really great because we'll also have people there from the end user community.  And usually most of the people that are staffing the booths know how to make that pitch because they want, a lot of the projects in the Pavilion, they wanna be part of your IT team. They want people to consume it so that they can make it better and KubeCon is one of those conferences where you can meet someone and not even heard of their organization and they're using your product at scales that you didn't expect. And that's the kind of relationships and discussions that we like to have in the Pavilion. And that's why we do it in a Pavilion style so you can share it in front of others and it becomes a teaching area along with a fun place to hang out and geek out about nerd stuff. Yeah, I think you kind of touched on some great stuff about like that there will be a multitude of people that are kind of around to help facilitate conversations whether it's an end user or a maintainer or a new contributor. I think one of the things we haven't talked a little bit about is the mentorship program. So Nate Waddington should be in the booth as well, right? Oh yeah. There's some portion of it. Yeah, I am trying to attract as many slices of verticals, I guess you could call them of people that can kind of cover every need.  And even if we don't have the answer for you, there's enough of us in there that know how to point you in the right direction. So mentorship will be there. Christoph Sothier will be there. So we'll be talking about training programs with all of the projects that we have. And mostly, you know, the staff, we have our own booth. So that's gonna be like our home base anyway. And we designed that on purpose because it forces us to be in there with everybody else.  Are they engaged? Are they digging my stuff? You know, for a lot of them, it's just knowing, you know, I just wanna get my project on people's radar. You know, I'm not even ready to go to that another step. I'm at the exposure stage of the excitement, you know, which is where you're gonna see some of those sandbox projects. And we want them to be able to find their communities so that when they are ready in their maturity life cycle to go to incubation, that they have all the things that they need, including healthy contributor cycles. You know, the governance is nice and in place because you have enough people to help out. You know, usually projects know exactly what they need to do. Executing it, however, is sometimes a unit of work that needs multiple people to work with. So we're hoping just by the virtue of having everyone together, the sharing of these concepts. And usually you're not privy to those conversations if you're just a random attendee. But if this is open source, even if you're just standing there listening to them talking, it gives you an understanding of how the stuff is put together. And that is one of the reasons that people choose open source in the first place. So, you know, I keep saying it's like a zoo, you know, and sometimes it feels like the projects we have to put you on display. Yeah. But you know, it is trying to show the relationships between these projects and how that contributor flow goes into maintaining them so that it continues to be a place of innovation. And we want projects to graduate, you know, and move to the, yeah, over time. Absolutely. And get improvements and get all the benefits, you know, and it starts with standing in a booth next to somebody next to you who's going through the same process with people that have done it before. And then that's how we evolve our, we foster that cloud native culture that's so important. Yeah. So that's the vibe. I think you talked about a few really great points. One of the new things that came out of you kind of helping to reconfigure our project engagement was the lightning talk schedule, which is another area for projects to give a quick update about what's going on in their project. It's different from the maintainer tracks, which is a little bit more of that deeper dive or that introductory to what their project is. It's more of a quick update on recent features or recent news that came out of the project, right? So do you want to kind of go through how people can kind of navigate this portion of it and the benefits that it will bring to the project overall? Yeah. So first of all, if you're here to learn a lot about projects in a short amount of time, it's literally an entire day of just lightning talks. And they're what, seven minutes? Seven minutes? Like six minutes, depending? Yeah. So if you keep scrolling down, I mean, we're, you know, and we had, we can only fit so many on here. So we've had overwhelming response to get stuff in there. This is happening on Tuesday. And we started at 9am, I have to emcee this thing from 9.30 to the very end. Yeah. So this is going to be exciting for me because I think for a few reasons. First of all, the KubeCon is short. It's a week, right? So it goes by fast. But also when I, when attendees ask me, how do I get the most out of KubeCon? I usually tell them, you got to be efficient. Yeah, there is so much stuff out there. You know, you're going to have some people that really want to go deep in on a subject. But if you're looking for that vertical slice of like, you know what, what's the, if I go to KubeCon and I can only go for one day, you know, what, what, what can you cram into there? So this gives us an opportunity to put a diverse set of projects out there. We want to put as many different styles of projects and people out there so that they can showcase the work that they've been working on. And then we just booked a whole day to do this. And then after that, you go to dinner and then that evening are the actual KubeCon lightning talks themselves. So it is an entire day of, you know, too long didn't read, but I sat through all the lightning talks and we're going to try to make this as smooth and as efficient as possible. And then the important thing will not just be the talks themselves, but you'll be able to see that person and then follow up with that at the booth the next day because the show floor is not open when these are going.  So this is like a good precursor to that. And then you can check out the booth and engage with them at a higher, at a higher, higher level. I think it's important to note for our attendees that this is not part of the all access pass. So you do not need the all access pass to come to the project lightning talks. It's a free opportunity for people to just, if you're around and you want to learn more about projects, this is your time and that opportunity to do that outside of those co-located events that are happening on Tuesday. So it's not something that is requiring that extra pass, correct? I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I think we can note that in our stuff, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly how we have it set up. And cause it runs just like our lightning talks, like you said in the evening, that you don't need an all access pass to go to those lightning talks either.  So, you know, if you want to come in, listen to a few and kind of, you know, cap out or look at the schedule, see what lives for you and then do it later. You can consume as much or as little of it as you want. Yep. But I'm hoping to get as many people in there as possible. Yeah, and another thing that to know is that we don't have graduated projects on this project updates, not because they're going to have their updates on the keynote on Friday, March 22nd, on the videos. So those will be separate. So if you're looking at this and you're wondering why you don't see a graduated project, you really wanted to elevate the voices of the incubating in the sandbox to give them the chance to provide those updates that are so crucial, like you said, to building that cloud native culture and bringing in new contributors and having people understand how they can engage with the project and put it into their stacks overall. Yeah, yeah. And it's a great way to just see what's new. It's like the upcoming artists playlist on your music service where you're like, okay, what's the cool new stuff that's coming out? So that's really great. We do have a question asking if we can stream the event. We will not be streaming the project lightning talks, but they will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel post event. So just keep checking in on that YouTube channel throughout the week and you'll see those project lightning talks available at that time. So we've kind of talked about the pavilion. We've talked about the lightning talks. Is there anything in your project tours? Is there anything else that you think is beneficial for people to know about the project pavilion before they go? Anything that you think is important, whether they're a maintainer or an attendee to kind of get themself prepared for the week? Yeah, I think just bring the energy. Just show up, recognize what we have to do there. Wear comfortable shoes, which is something I recommend to, actually I'm up to two pairs of comfortable shoes and I swapped them out because I'm walking so much. Yeah, just come with an attitude to learn and the maintainers are gonna come with the attitude to teach. You're not gonna show up, go to a booth and learn all of the production mysteries of a thing. It's not like you're not gonna get a full training, right? So the idea here is to go in and kind of sample the menu and get a vibe for a project that you might not know existed or is adjacent to something that might be a problem for you, it might not, right? So usually a lot of QCon attendees are part of larger organizations. So the ask of you there is learn all of this stuff and you will be surprised when you go back to your organization to see that there is a lot of really great tech out there that you could be utilizing. Some might be useful for you, some might not. But we are finding that as we build all this stuff together in this kind of collaborative manner that a lot of them solve problems that people have and the entire mission of this pavilion is to expose that to you as much as possible. So even if you're only a single attendee from your organization or something like that, come and take notes, find out all the cool stuff and then take that back to work and help make your organization a better place. Yeah, and I think that alone is what the project pavilion is bringing to the community as a reason to attend, right? So that way you can bring it back to your own company and how you can utilize it within your business. So just a quick reminder to register today. We are tracking to sell out. So it would be great for people who haven't registered to get themselves registered and we look forward to seeing everyone in Paris, right? Yeah, come see me and say hi and just hang out. I'd love to, you know, there's lots of so many great people in open source to learn from. I can just help get you going in the right direction when you stop by the pavilion and then sky's the limit. Yeah, well, thank you, George, for joining me today. I really appreciate it. Thank you to our audience and we'll see everyone in Paris in a little over a week and a half right now.


Hey guys, Thundie here and here's the video we've been waiting for, the battery charge test on the Galaxy Note 10 Plus and of course you know we're going to be compared it to other devices. Now before we go ahead, don't forget to smash that subscribe button and hit the notification bell to subscribe to the channel so we can make more videos like this for you. Now the Galaxy Note 10 Plus comes with a 4300mAh battery. It's got a 25W charger so which means this thing can charge really fast, much faster than what we have with the Galaxy Note 9. But how does it compare to the competition and is it really fast right? Let's go ahead and measure it in this video. Now you guys are wondering what device is well it's not going to be the iPhone because the iPhone is just slow. Let's put it our way iPhone charging is not fast sorry iPhone fans it's got to set it aside. But what we're going to be comparing it to is the OnePlus 7 Pro with the warp charger at 30 watts and it's a 4000mAh battery as well as the Huawei P30 Pro which does have a 4200mAh battery and a 40W charger so it's really fast. And then we've got the Apple Reno 10X zoom which has a 20W charger and a 4065mAh battery. Now as I mentioned Samsung has a 25W charger with it and that's something we're going to see with its 4300mAh battery. So we'll put it up see how it works but without wasting any more time let's start charging. So everything's plugged in let's go ahead and start. So of course we turn everything on you're going to see everything start turning on and right now we're going to be roughly at 1%. Now a thing of note is the Huawei actually turns on when you start charging it so we're going to go ahead and do the same for the other devices we'll turn them on so that's a fair and balanced field here. So this is about 20 seconds in everything is now powered on fast forwarding a bit we're going to hit our first read at 10 minutes for all these devices again the galaxies are the far left with the OnePlus are the far right. Now our first device first check at 10 minutes we've got the Galaxy Note 10 plus at 21%. Please see it off they're always on display it's pretty nice for the 25 watt charger and it looks like Samsung has improved things from what they had from last year. Apple comes in pretty much the last numbers here at 14% so even though it's got a 30 watt charger with their fast charging it's lagging behind the Galaxy's 25 watt charger. Now the Huawei P30 Pro is at 26% with its 40 watt charger and you can see the advantages of it right here on this device so you can see Huawei is leading the head right now and second is the OnePlus 7 Pro with the watt charger which you've got here at 24% not 10 minute mark so we can see where things lies we'll see how things change as we do our next check I'm gonna move to 41 minutes for our next check we had a couple of checks in between just to see where they are and it was still pretty close around the same percentages if you will but the biggest change comes in around 35 minutes to 41 minutes or so this is when we see change in percentages and also big jump in battery percentages so do you not check here first the Galaxy Note 10 plus is at 84% that is really good and it's jumped ahead as you can see with the list but we're just gonna go through for a second so it's an 84% proving 25 watt charger is quite quite good so you get 84% in 40 minutes of charge while the Alpo is at 67% at 41 minutes of charge so that's what we have for Alpo right here and then the P30 Pro is at 87% so again that 40 watt charger is pushing ahead really strong for Huawei which is really nice so that's good to see that there and finally the OnePlus 7 Pro now is behind at 79% so it's got a 79% for the OnePlus 7 Pro so maybe the Galaxy will go ahead from here on so we're gonna go through some checks here and we'll go to the 60-minute market gain hour to see where we are we're gonna check in between but it's interesting to see how charging has just changed over the years and how fast you can charge your device you can see 40 minutes we're gonna about 80% or so 80 something percent which is pretty nice at least for Huawei and Samsung offer so the 60-minute mark the Galaxy Note 10 plus is at 94% that's pretty cool so in an hour you get almost full battery life 94% this is where things slow down and the Alpo 10x zoom is at 82% it's moved up a bit much better the Huawei is at 98% it's almost done again the 40 watt charger is really nice and the OnePlus is now caught up back with the Note 10 plus at 94% but you're gonna see how the end of charging differs with different devices some devices are faster some devices are slower towards the end of the charging process which is quite interesting but I think we know well that within an hour with any of these devices we can get enough juice to get our day going which is pretty cool so the first device that actually goes to 100 is the Huawei P30 Pro at an hour three minutes gets to 100% which is pretty nice and it's good to see so an hour three minutes that's that's that's awesome I mean I think that sets a mark but also remember that's a 40 watt charger there now we're gonna move forward speed through we did a couple of checks in between just to see where this is but our Galaxy has hit a hundred percent right there you can see the green icon on the Ozone display at about an hour and eight minutes that is pretty cool so now eight minutes we've got a hundred percent on the Galaxy Note 10 plus that 25 watt charger only a few minutes behind what the Huawei has done which is cool which is really good and of course you can see the OnePlus 7 Pro is at 98% so it's a trickle charge time so we're gonna see where the OnePlus lands and where of course the Apple lands at the very end to get a good idea of what we have for times but that was quite quite impressive for you know for the Galaxy device Samsung's had slow charges in the fast charging the bars but not as fast as we've seen lately and it looks like they've stepped up their game and looks like our OnePlus 7 Pro is done at an hour 12 minutes so that's also really good in our 12 minutes it's not a bad time for OnePlus solid fast effective and we're gonna see where of course our OPPO is OPPO Reno is at 92% and yeah just gonna make sure we finalize and see where the OPPO lands at and I believe it's at an hour 28 minutes so that's the kind of time we get from there so man this has been very very interesting let's go ahead and round this up and see what we we can extrapolate with those numbers so as the title says that was shocking and quite impressive I mean charging now is just faster you don't have to wait two three hours to charge your device that's just not needed and it clearly shows with this test now number one was the Huawei P30 Pro fastest at an hour three minutes it's got a 4200 mAh battery and also the fastest of what charger at 40 watts so it's quite impressive basically slightly above an hour and that was pretty cool second and the most efficient in my mind is the Galaxy Note 10 plus it came in at an hour eight minutes about just five minutes after and it does have a 4300 mAh battery so take take that it's a note it's got a bigger battery and it's got a 25 watt charger so it's more efficient and using the charge coming out of your plug you know which is which is great so Samsung has really caught up here with their new charger on the Galaxy Note 10 plus and then you have the OnePlus 7 Pro which came in third at an hour and 12 minutes with its 4,000 mAh battery and its 30 watt charger so impressive from OnePlus and finally to round up everything was of course the Oppo Reno 10 X zoom at an hour 28 minutes with its 4,065 mAh battery and it's 20 watt charger but all times have been really impressive I mean I really like it I like the speeding charger as you go back and you can see that you know at 40% all them are at least the top three where at around 80% in average and battery life so in 40 minutes you get an 8% and just bare minimum which is pretty cool but again looking at what the Galaxy has done I considered the most efficient because in an hour eight minutes it used a 25 watt charger to charge a 4,300 mAh device to 100% capacity again all devices started at zero there was no charge and it was pretty cool anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this video and let me know if you want me to correct anything if you have any questions some improvements because again it's the first time I'm doing a video like this otherwise guys leave your comments down below and also hey don't forget I am giving away a Galaxy Note 10 as well as also two speaking cases with our friends from speaking so use the link down below to enter into the giveaway we've got a few days left and before I announce the winners so go ahead enter you could win yourself a Galaxy Note device thank you very much guys and always enjoy your entertainment


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While staying with the National Assembly, the senator representing Ugun Central Ibikola Mosso is of the opinion that President Mohamed Buhari has done well for Nigeria and will leave office a hero. His message was presented by a representative at the meeting of the New York Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists in Ibaru. The representative said the six years of the APC have been better than the 16 of the opposition PDP. We appear to enjoy putting our country and our efforts down. Trust me, when we got these people from our boss and we look at the figures, the government had done so much. Why was it here? But like I said, there are internal and there are external conditions that have that appear to light these efforts. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


A president-brother Tinnabar in Maidukkari-Burn state on Monday expressed his condolences once again to the families of Nigerians who lost their lives and recent and sand-bombing mishap in Tudundbiri-Kadena state, saying that most of the victims tragically lost their lives while reciting Dishadada as they observed malued a central statement of faith for practicing Muslims. Speaking at the Palace of the Sheyhu of Baranu al-Haji Abu Bakar, Umar al-Amin al-Kanemi, the president pledged that the federal government will continue to do all within its powers to provide support and care to the families of all Nigerians affected by the remnants of insecurity in parts of Baranu state. I've listened to your request of my purpose is to condole the entire country through the and or the loss of life in Kaduna is tragic but as people of faith and the people who believe in this conflict unfortunately faith death through malued Nabi and the sand pressure for Dishadada the most in this as a tragic event decided by God otherwise it won't happen it's all about our country it's my responsibility as a commander-in-chief to encourage and motivate our military men who has been asked to be forward to give their life for the stability peace and prosperity of this country hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


This is JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Dean Perine and welcome to JSA TV. We are coming at you on location at Metro Connect 2019 in beautiful Miami, Florida. And I am here with Mr. Bob DeSantis. Bob is the CEO of 365 Data Centers. For our viewers that don't already know, why don't you tell them a little bit about 365 Data Centers? 365 Data Centers is an operator of co-location, network and cloud and other virtual services predominantly on the East Coast from Chicago up through Buffalo, New York all the way down here to Miami, Florida. And we offer not only co-location services, but network services including transport and IP blended products and network access products as well as cloud compute, cloud storage, disaster recovery as a service and backup as a service and try to do that in a way that is focused on the medium size and smaller businesses. So Bob, I know that you are undergoing some significant network upgrades right now. Specifically, I believe in this area of the country. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about that? Yeah, well, you know, the network world is moving up in terms of speeds and feeds and we have to keep up with that. You know, years ago we might have said a one gig network was going to be sufficient for a while but now it's a minimum of 10 gigs and moving to 100 gig. So we are very fortunate to have our network situated not only in our 10 data centers but in 20 other points of presence around the U.S. going all the way out to California. And again, even though we're primarily focused on the East Coast, we do have customers that have network needs. So we are doing a three phase upgrade of the network. We are just about complete here in our Florida market, which is about 40% of our business. Many of our customers are here and that will give us much more capacity with regard to bandwidth. It will give our customers a lot more capability to reach their customers in their various offices with lower latency and give them the opportunity as well to bring more carriers into the network that interface with the network. And our second and third phases will bring us to all of our other eight data centers throughout the U.S. And then to our 20 points of presence over the next 12 to 18 months. Okay, so you mentioned next 12 to 18 months. We know that there are network upgrades happening. What else? Is there anything that you feel like you can divulge to us today? What else isn't happening in this area? Exactly. And it's a combination of data and storage and movement of that data and storage all of which continues to exponentially grow. So we're in the right place at the right time. What I see for us going forward now that we have taken literally in less than two years a couple of businesses that had some complimentary assets and services and combined them into what we believe is a real hybrid data center operator at this point. What I see is us growing both internally and externally on the internal side now that we have a broad product set that we can offer in many geographic locations throughout the U.S. We're now building our sales force to be able to move those products into the markets. But we're also looking to grow externally. And I would suspect certainly over the next 12 months we could possibly double this business in terms of size now that we have built a very scalable platform to do that. Great answer, Bob. Thank you for giving us enough to pay attention to over the next year. We really appreciate that. Or maybe even a shorter time period in that. Even shorter. You heard it here first. Maybe even a shorter period of time. But Bob, we're hearing a lot about technology trends today. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about those trends or the trends that you are seeing in the space and specifically in the data center space? Sure. Well, you know, I don't want to keep going back to network, but I would say if you're, you know, if you're going to be a hybrid service provider as we are, you're going to be paying a lot of attention to network for the following reasons. You know, technology is changing all the time. But it's really all about the speed of the network and the capacity of the network. So, keeping up with the, you know, with the, you know, the various types of manufacturer equipment that's out in the marketplace is good. We've recently partnered with Cisco and Dell on a couple of various initiatives. And so, you know, to the extent network speeds can continue to grow and increase and, you know, move us up towards 100 gig at some point, we need to pay full attention to that. It's not only important for our network customers, for our transport, for our IP blend products and even for our network access products, but it's also important for our cloud compute, cloud storage and all of our other virtual offerings such as backup and disaster recovery as a service. Because those services are as good as the network and if the network is good, then the customer feels like all that is on-prem for them and it makes it a much better customer experience. So, I think the network is really a driver. And then keeping up with the technologies with regard to the cloud platforms, you know, how to do it cheaper, you know, more storage for less cost, you know, is key. So, I'd say those are the two areas that, you know, we see every day and deal with every day. Very good, Bob. Thank you very much for your insight today. We really appreciate it. You're really welcome. Thank you. You bet. You bet. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon.


Welcome to part two of the Habitable Zone Unplugged, a four-part conversation about exoplanet science with Dr. Robert Hertz and Dr. Johanna Teske. I'm Calico Field. So these planets in this solar system were, you know, invented for this episode and to illustrate these science points, but could planets like this exist? You know, is a system like this within the realm of possibility? Yes, I would say it's in the realm of possibility. We don't actually know the densities of many small exoplanets, but I actually did a little bit of background reading and one of the ones we do know the density of is LHS 1140B. It's in the habitable zone around its host star, so it seems to be the right temperature, but it's actually over twice as dense, we think, as the Earth. And so that's very similar to the planet that Robert envisioned in this case in the video. So Robert, you created the visuals for this episode and you've created a lot of visuals for NASA Press releases about, you know, real exoplanets, but these are things that we don't actually know a lot about that, you know, no one has really seen up close, so how do you create visuals about those things when we know so little about them? Well, this is very much art informed by science that we do it, right? When we go it trying to illustrate, say, a newly discovered exoplanet, there may be only two or three things we really know about it. Maybe it's size, how long it takes to orbit the star, maybe it's mass or not. And then there might be a handful of things that we can extrapolate from that based on theories and models, but everything else, right, that's guesswork. So when we want to illustrate something like that, we go in, we pick the core points that we know are true, maybe of the various models, one that maybe is most illustrative of what's interesting about this world, and then we make a piece of art that's consistent with that, but then, you know, fills in all the details. Audiences are very sophisticated in what they expect these days with all the beautiful sci-fi worlds. So we want to make something that still looks cool, but, you know, everything that we fill in, you can almost think of as an artistic hypothesis of a guess consistent with what we know, but, you know, may or may not hold up over time. Now, in the case of the habitable planets, you know, we got to make up which bullet points we wanted to illustrate in front because we're trying to really communicate some of these core ideas about habitability, but it's kind of the same process. So as a scientist, how do you feel about these visualizations and having to fill in those gaps and, you know, these artistic hypotheses? And be honest, I can take it. Yeah, so I'm also a sci-fi fan myself, and so I really like the idea of taking something, kind of the facts that we've measured that we think are true, but bringing an aspect of creativity to it that then is exciting for me as a scientist to look at and think about and think about how I might test those artistic hypotheses. And then also for people who aren't necessarily doing the measurements or who aren't scientists, it gets them excited about it, too. And I like getting people excited about the science I'm working on, so I'm all for it. And we do run the art past. I mean, you actually got to review some of the planet looks as we're developing this, and, you know, again, for press releases, we do the same thing. We do get the scientists' feedback before we finalize any of the looks. In our next video, we'll talk about the current state of exoplanet science and the surprising amount of information that astronomers can determine about distant worlds today.


Headline News Update. Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industrial trading up 6, Nasdaq's up 116, S&Ps are up 21, Gold contract up $13.80 trading at $17.31 an ounce, you get Silver Flat $18.68 an ounce, Light Sweet Crew down $366.9621, a barrel of notes and bonds, you get the 10-year note, up a full point plus 4 ticks at $118.19, the 30-year up 2 points at $140.13 and $King Dollar, $King Dollar is trading down $178 at $106.898, Euro is $101, yen is at $137 and the British pound is at $119 to $1.00 US Dollar. We get over and take a look at the S&P, it's going to get really intriguing coming into this close. The S&P's out here, E-minis is $39.91, now that being said, if this blows us away coming into the close, you're going to start talking about a $42.20, it's an ABC structure, it's a potential ABC structure, let's put it this way, on the way up and that would be just enough to really flip some folks out, there's no doubt about it, we'll see whether it can get done. What we did, you had one down draft during the day, that came down to about a 50% retracement, we got down to this $39.71, bottom line, you've been building cars since that point, so we'll see how this shakes out coming into the close. Gold, the gold contract, rejected lower price, bottom line, you had buyers down there, but you still don't have strength, well when I say you don't have strength, a sign of strength folks is wide price spread accelerated volume, and the bottom line is that we got out here today to get a rejection of lower price, bottom line, we'll see whether we can get the volume come into the contract, okay, at this point you're rolling contracts but we still don't have volume inside of that, and of course this is all about the good old US dollar, now the intriguing part here is that the dollar is down $177, but the dollar has rejected lower price, so this is going to be really intriguing coming into tomorrow morning because the number to keep an eye on, if we can get the dollar down 100 ticks before we close out at 4 o'clock, that would be a big number, man. Close of a 106-792 says the dollar can go higher, and right now you're 170 points over that level, stay right there folks, come right back.