Yeah, so before the break, we were looking at Jesus' statement that verse 54 specifically.  So Jesus says, you are longing for the mana of Moses' physical bread, which can temporarily meet your needs. But he says, I am the bread of life. If you believe in the words that I am speaking and you believe in me, that I am from the Father and that I am the promised Messiah, then I can impart eternal life to you. So it's what he says. So he says, therefore, you must eat my flesh and drink my blood in the sense all that I am saying, absorb it into your innermost being. Let it become a part of how you live, what you choose to do. So let it become the very core of your being. Everything that I am saying to you and all that I am, accept it, believe it, is what he says.  But then there are others who grumble and they say, like we saw in verses 41 and 42, they say, is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, I came down from heaven? So he's just a human being. So why should we eat and drink what he's telling us and make it a part of us? Why? Because he's just a human. So why should we do that? And so, Jesus says that he is not just from the earth. He says that he is from above. Maybe we could look at verses, we already looked at verse 32. Okay, we did not read it out. But then if you look at verse 32, it says, Jesus said to them, very truly, I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. So Jesus is making the point that he is not just a human born from Joseph and Mary, but rather he has come down from heaven. So he says, if you accept this, if you believe that I am from above, then I can impart eternal life to you. So this other set of people who are not willing to accept what he says, because they are only looking at his human origin. So to them, he says in verse 61 and 62, he says, a way that his disciples were grumbling about this Jesus said to them, does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before? Okay, so here when it says the term disciples, it's not just referring to the 12 persons who generally travel along with him and spend all their time with him. It's talking about all of his disciples, all of his followers, many of whom had in fact now joined Jesus because of the spectacular miracles that he was doing and especially because he started providing them with food. So Jesus is addressing these people and he is saying, you are grumbling because I am saying that you must feed on me. You are grumbling because you're saying I'm just of human origin, but I am declaring to you that I have come down from heaven because in verse 58 he says this is the bread that came down from heaven. So he's repeating that he is from above and not just of human origin and so he says in verses, so the people grumble in verse 60 on hearing it, many of his disciples said this is a hard teaching who can accept it. So these people are finding it a hard teaching not because they have misunderstood and they are thinking that he expects them to actually eat his flesh. They have understood the metaphor that he has used. For them it is a hard teaching because he is saying believe that I am from above and accept that all that I am saying is true and submit to it. So he is saying they are saying they'd rather not submit because they still look at him as just the son of Joseph. So Jesus says to them, does this offend you? What I'm saying does it offend you? What is going to be your reaction when you literally see the Son of Man ascending to where he has come from? So who knows on that mount of olives later when Jesus is ascending literally, he rises up off the ground and moves heavenward. So at that point of time, maybe some of these people were actually there watching. So they would have remembered his words. This verse 62, they would have remembered where he says, then what if you see the Son of Man ascended to where he was before? So some of them at least might have witnessed the ascension of Jesus after the resurrection. So the main point that he brings out here is that I am not just a human being, I am from above. So this is the heavenly bread that the Father, the heavenly Father is sending all of you. He is sending you this heavenly bread so that if you feed on me, if you literally absorb everything that I am saying and make it a part of your being, then you will have eternal life because of what I have spoken. So are you willing to believe or not? And many of his disciples, it says, they say, this is a hard teaching. We can't accept this. They are willing to accept him as a prophet because he is doing miracles and they like that. They like their needs being met. So they are willing to accept him as a prophet, but they are not willing to accept him as the Son of God and to submit to him in that manner. And so it says in verse 66, from that time onwards, many of them leave him. Many of his disciples, the ones who called themselves his disciples, they abandon him and they no longer follow him. But Jesus says this in verse 63, he says, the Spirit gives life. The flesh counts for nothing.  One of the most important, helpful scriptures that you can absorb into your heart. As believers, where it says here that the words which Jesus speaks to us, they are full of the Spirit and life. So these words that we see in the Bible, because Jesus is literally the Word of God, these words that we see in the Bible, they are full of the Spirit of God himself and they are full of life. These are not just ordinary words. And so when we take our stand and place our faith on these words and hold on to them, we will see the supernatural taking place in our lives, because these are not natural words. These are words which literally have the Spirit of God himself in them. These are words which literally have eternal life in them. So when we take a stand on these words, no matter what circumstances we are facing, no matter how big the ministry challenges are, if we take our stand on these words in the Word of God and say they are full of Spirit and life, so I know that they will come to pass. Nothing can stand in their way. And in Jesus' name, we cancel whatever is standing in our way. These words will be fulfilled in our lives. It's a fact. So this is a very useful verse. If we can remember this, hold on to this and in our times of hardship during our challenges, if we can claim this and say, this is what Jesus said, the Spirit gives life. The flesh counts for nothing. It's true. In our own flesh, there's really nothing much that we will ever accomplish. But when we take our stand on the words which Jesus has spoken and those words which have the know that they are full of the Spirit of God and full of eternal life, if we stand on those words, then whatever the challenge may be that is standing in the way, it has to fall away because these words of God, they literally have the Spirit of God in them and whatever he wants shall be fulfilled. And so when many of these disciples, even after hearing this, they choose to turn away and reject him, Jesus turns to his 12 and he says to them, what about you? Do you want to leave as well? He says that in verse 67 and verse 68 Peter responds so correctly. He says, lot of whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.  So obviously, you're the one that we are going to hold on to. I mean, where else will we go? Who else can give us this eternal life? Only you. So yes, we're going to stick with you. We are not leaving. And then, you know, Jesus says there is one who is off the table. So 11 of them, they eat and drink of Jesus. I mean, they still are not aware of how he's going to give us a body on the cross and all of that. They do not know those details. But at least in whatever sense they have understood this eating and drinking of him, they actually absorb him into their being and they become part of his family. For this 12th one, he only keeps listening to these words at an intellectual level. He hears them. He sees the things that Jesus is doing, but it never becomes a part of him. He never eats and drinks of Jesus. He only observes. He only hears, but he never really takes it into his being. And so it says in verse 70, Jesus says, yet one of you is a devil. So because he does not choose to eat and drink and make what Jesus is saying a part of his being, he remains a devil, an opponent of God. So how do we avoid that by eating and drinking of him daily? We choose to absorb his words into us. We choose to stand on them. We choose to obey them. They literally become a part of us. By doing this, we abide in him and he abides in us and we bear much fruit. So these are all the learnings which come out from this passage. Now we will have to move into chapter 7. So chapter 7 we see begins with the Jewish festival of tabernacles and most of the godly people would go to Jerusalem for this feast to celebrate it over there. So Jesus' family also gets ready to go to that place and they observe that Jesus is not getting ready along with them to go. So they kind of make a sarcastic remark. They say in verse 4, no one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world. So they're all getting ready to go over there. Jesus is not getting ready. He's just continuing to wait. He's just continuing to stay there at home in Galilee. So they say to him, what happened? We thought you were very big. You're saying all this great grand things about yourself, about how you've come down from heaven and all of that. So why are you hiding over here? Why are you not coming along with us to the feast? Because over there at the feast, it's where you would have the big people, the public figures. So indirectly, what are they saying in verse 4? No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world. Indirectly, they're saying to him, in a small place like here, in this small town of Galilee where we are living, in Nazareth, it's easy to pretend to be big. But when you go over there to Jerusalem, where all the big figures are going to be there, there we will know for sure whether they really are big or not. So over there, will people accept you as someone, as this person who's come down from heaven? So those are the mocking words which they use against him. And we see that they continue this attitude right up to the time of his death. But then after he's resurrected, we learn in, I think it was in 1 Corinthians or 2 Corinthians where it says, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 7, Jesus personally comes to James and appears to him. And maybe after that, maybe he even went to the other brothers and shows himself to them. Then when they literally see him come back from the dead, then they believe that he indeed is from above, from heaven. And then they place their faith in him. So at this point of time, they still do not believe in him. And so they are saying, when we all are getting ready to go to the feast, why are you not joining us? Why are you hiding over here? Is it because you are a fake? Is it because you are a fraud? But Jesus says to them, my time is not yet here. The reason that he's holding back is not because he's afraid to go there. He's holding back because it's not yet time for him to go. So the brothers go on ahead. He goes a little later when God tells him to go. At that point of time, he goes. But he continues remaining silent for half the feast. The feast goes on for, I think, two weeks or so. So Jesus does not speak up. Only halfway through the festival, after almost half the festival is finished, that is when he actually begins to preach in public. So Jesus chooses to stay submissive to God's divine timing. Even though his brothers mocked him, he does not change his timetable. He continues to follow the timetable set for him by the Lord. And so he just ignores all the negative comments that are being passed. When he goes to the feast in secret, because that's what it says in verse 10, that he goes over there in secret. When he goes over there, he hears all these discussions which are going on. People are talking about Jesus. The in-topic of that particular feast was Jesus. Everyone wants to know where he is. When is he going to come? Is he going to say something? Is he going to do some miracle? A lot of discussion is going on. But Jesus does not speak a word. He continues to remain silent until half the feast is over. And then in verse 14, it says, not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. That is when he speaks up. And so let us look at some of the things that he says. Maybe we can look at verses, maybe verse 17 to verse 24. If someone could read out for us, John chapter 7, verses 17, up to verse 24, please. If anyone wills to do his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority. He who speaks for himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true. And no unrighteousness is in him. Did not Moses give you the law yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?  Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work and you all marvel. Moses therefore gave you circumcision, not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers, and you circumcised a man on the Sabbath. If a man received circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with me because I met a man completely well on the Sabbath? Do not judge according to their friends, but judge with righteous judgment.  They're asking each other, when is he going to come, when is he going to speak? Who do you think he is? Is he the expected Messiah? And when the leaders see how popular Jesus has become and everyone is talking about him, they start making plans to kill him and Jesus is aware of this and so Jesus says in verse 17, anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own because you see those who wish to hear from the father and genuinely do what the father is saying, they will have hearts which are open to what Jesus is saying because he says earlier in, I think probably it was in the last chapter, he says you know, whoever, I think it was in this chapter, in chapter 6, yeah, whoever accepts the father accepts me. So those who are open and whose hearts are right and who are willing to believe the truth, they will automatically be open to what Jesus is saying because they are for the truth. It's the ones who are hypocrites, the ones who are pretending to be spiritual but in reality they do not want to know the truth, they do not want to follow the truth, they do not want to obey the truth, for such people automatically what Jesus is saying will sound, it will not sound logical, their minds are blocked to these things because in their heart they really do not want to know the truth. So Jesus says, the reason that you people are finding it so difficult to believe in what I am saying is maybe because you are not even open to doing God's will, maybe your entire heart attitude is wrong, which is why the things which I am saying are not getting through to you and he in fact makes it very plain in case they have not clearly understood what he is indicating, he goes on to say in verse 19, he says, you know, you talk about the law of Moses and how you want to keep it and all of that but you people are not keeping the law of Moses because the law of Moses says you are not supposed to kill but here you are making plans to kill me. So it shows that you are not really interested in doing the will of God, you are not interested in keeping the law of Moses and yet here you are making accusations against me, immediately the crowd responds and says you must be demon possessed, who is trying to kill you, why are you saying that you are trying to kill and PC that confirmed later in verse 25, you know, at that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask isn't this the man that they are trying to kill, here he is speaking publicly and they are not saying a word to him and the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah, so it's basically public knowledge, everyone knows that now they are doing, you know, conspiring to try and kill him, it's a known fact and so Jesus just goes on to say, you know, rather than addressing the accusation which they make about him being demon possessed, he just simply says this, he says in verse 21, I did one miracle and you're all amazed and he goes on to say in, maybe we should actually read out these verses, if we can have someone read out for us, John chapter 7 verses 21 to 24 please, 21 to 24, oh, we actually had, you know, sister reading out for us, so yes, you already looked at these verses, so let me just get into the explanation, yeah, so Jesus says, so much opposition has started because I did a miracle which was a sign to show that I am from God and that I am divine and that has led to so much opposition but why are you amazed, you know, when Moses gave you the command that you should be circumcised, you have followed that commandment strictly, so according to the law of Moses on the eighth day, you know, the male baby would be circumcised and so if the eighth day happens to be a Sabbath day, even though it's a Sabbath day, they'll go ahead and do the circumcision ceremony because, you know, circumcision is basically how you kind of formally become an Israelite, you know, now you're regarded as part of the community of God, so for them it was a very, very important thing and so they were willing to do that ceremony even on the Sabbath day and Jesus says, I didn't just simply, you know, circumcise somebody, I in fact healed that entire man's body when I healed him on the Sabbath day and that has led to so much controversy and you're all so angry about it, why? When you're willing to keep something, a small commandment like the circumcision and do it on the Sabbath day, I have done gone further, I have not only healed that particular man's heart, not only circumcised his heart, I have circumcised and healed his entire body, so you should in fact be glad that I know I have followed in your footsteps in the same way you have done good on the Sabbath, I have done a greater good on the Sabbath, so why are you amazed? Why are you planning to kill me? So Jesus very directly answers them, you know, back and he says in verse 24, stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly. All the facts are before you, so he says, judge correctly, you know, rather than judging in the wrong manner. So here we see Jesus, you know, counteracting all that they are saying, the accusations which they have been making and now this is the response of the people after Jesus has spoken these things. Maybe if we can read out verses 27 to 29, yeah, if someone could read out for us, I was just 27 to 29. Person 7 to 29, but we know where this man comes from and when the Christ appears, no one we know where he comes from. So Jesus proclaims, and he stops in the temple, you know me and you know where I come from, but I have not come from my whole accord. He who sent me is true and him you do not know. I know him, why I come from him and he sent me. All right, so the words that Jesus is speaking sound very convincing, the arguments are very logical. You know, he's taking things from their own law, from the law of Moses and he's, you know, proving his case. So everything that he's saying is so convincing and now the people are very confused because they have all this half baked ideas about who the Messiah will be and how he will appear and all of that. And so when they just look at Jesus and listen to him, whatever he's saying is just kind of piercing their hearts and it's so believable. But when they start considering other factors, they're a little confused because you have some people over here, you know, who are saying, oh, they were trying to kill him.  And then there are other people who are saying, no, no, when the Messiah comes, nobody will know from where he's going to come. On the other hand, this person we know from where he is, you know, he's from Nazareth. We know him. But actually, you know, they have their facts wrong because verse 27, the statement that is made over there, very defective sentence, we know it's here, the people are saying, but we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from. That's a very wrong statement, right? Because if you remember the, you know, the Christmas story, you know, the, the wise men have come and they do not know where to find the Messiah. And so they approach the, the leaders, the chief priests, the chief priests tell Herod very clearly, this is exactly from where the Messiah will come. So here you basically have a crowd, which is saying different things. They don't have full knowledge. They have some wrong ideas about the Messiah. And they're having these discussions between them and saying, oh, but the Messiah will be from an unknown place, which is not true because very clearly the chief priests tell Herod exactly from where the Messiah will come. And in fact, later on, we see in the same passage, you know, some people say, oh, the Messiah supposed to come from, you know, from the line of David, but this man is from Nazareth. So, you know, all these different opinions are being, are being expressed by the crowd. And so to clear the air, to clear all the doubts, Jesus literally stands in the temple courts and cries out. He says, yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But you know, he's saying this more to me than that. He says, I'm not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him, but I know him because I am from him and he sent me. So Jesus is saying, yes, you're all aware that I'm from Nazareth. You're all aware that I know I live in the home of Joseph.  Someone has sent me from above. So he says, I know him because I have come from him and he's the one who sent me. Now, how many of you are willing to believe this and accept this? You know, it's the statement that Jesus is making. So when Jesus clearly speaks these words and, you know, tries to clear the doubts which the people are having, the leaders try to seize him. That is what it says in verse 30. At this, they try to seize him. But no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. So I'm not sure what kind of conspiracy they tried to hatch at that particular point of time, but it did not succeed. Okay, so then Jesus goes on to say some more things. Maybe we could look at verses 33 to 36. Yeah, if someone could read out for us, verses 33 to 36. John 7, 33 to 36. Then Jesus said to them, I shall be with you a little while longer. And then I go to him, who sent me. He will seek me and not find me. And where I am, you cannot come. Then the Jews said among themselves, where does he intend to go that we shall not find him? Does he intend to go to the desperation among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? What is this thing that he said? You will seek me and not find me. And where I am, you cannot come. Okay, so when they try to arrest him, but they are unable to, whatever conspiracy they come up with at this particular point of time, it does not succeed. And so at that time, Jesus announces in public and he says, now I'm openly here. I'm openly sharing who I am. And I'm giving you a chance to place your trust in me. And this is a short time offer. You can say that for these particular people, these leaders, this chief priest and Pharisees who are actively trying to bring him down. He says to them, I'm openly among you, announcing to you who I am, offering myself to you, giving you a chance to believe in me. Take it while it's still available. Because he says, a day will come when you will look for me, but you will not find me. And where I am going, you will not be able to come there. Even if you call yourself sons of Abraham, you will not be able to come over there. Now is the time when my offer is open and available, that you should accept it. And they are confused and they say, why, where is he going to go? Is he going to go to the Egypt and Babylon and all these other places where you have some of the Jewish community living? Is he going to go over there and start preaching over there? It's what they say among themselves. But of course, Jesus was indicating that once he has finished his task over here, he will be ascending back to where he has come from and they will not be able to follow him over there unless they have placed their faith in him. So that is what Jesus is referring to. So he probably continues to go on saying these things through all the days of, the remaining days of the feast.  And so if we can look at verses 37 to 39, please, verses 37 to 39. On the last day that would be the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. But this is for concerning the spirit whom those believing in him would receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. Yeah. So a lot has happened during this festival at the beginning of the festival. People are eagerly waiting for him to appear. They're very curious to see what's going to happen next.  He starts telling, this is who I am. And that leads to a lot of discussion. And then the leaders try to arrest him. They're unable to do it. Then Jesus very plainly says, this is the time that you should be receiving me. If you don't do it, there's going to come a time when you will not be able to come where I am going. So all of this Jesus has said and he probably continues to say those things for the remaining days of the feast. And now finally we have come to the last day, which is like the finale, the greatest grandest day of the festival. And on this day, Jesus stands there, probably right there in the middle of the courtyard, you know, and everyone is very eager to see him, to hear him. So he has everyone's attention. And this is what he says in a loud voice. He says, let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. All the things that Jesus says over here are very, very significant. Because this festival, tabernacle festival, there were three main ceremonies involved.  You know, long back. So that would be one of the ceremonies, you know, where people would build small tents, small tabernacles to remind themselves that once upon a time, they didn't have a land of their own. They were wanderers living in tents, going from place to place.  So that was one main ceremony in this festival. Second, they would draw water from a well and they would pour it out on the altar. This was supposed to be a reminder to them of how God provided water to them in the wilderness when they, you know, when they had no regular sources of water. So miraculously, again and again, God provided water for them. That was the second important ceremony. The third one would be, you know, in the temple court of the women. Over there, they would light up that entire place with lots of candles, some modern words, they didn't have candles. You know, they had those, what do you call them? You know, those traditional lamps which they lit. So that they would have lots of those with which that entire temple, the temple court, which is called temple court for women, that would be decorated. So these are the three main things. So Jesus is basically actually touching upon all these three main ceremonies and he's pointing out that those, all the three are met in him. So in the same way, you know, in the earlier time of the Israelites, God dwelled among them and he brought them into the promised land. Now he has again come down to be with them. You know, he's come down from above to be among them. And now he's saying the ceremony that you do regarding the water, drawing the water from the well and pouring it onto the altar. It is a reminder to you of how you had physical water being given to you by God. But now here is somebody who can quench not just your physical thirst, but even your spiritual thirst. And then later on when we go to the next chapter we see, he also refers to the third ceremony, you know, which is the lighting of the, you know, of all these lamps and he says, I am the light of the world. So in fact, indirectly Jesus is pointing out that all these things which they are doing in this festival, they're actually fulfilled in him. They're all pointing towards him. So right now he's taking up one particular point regarding the water.  In other words, he's saying, back then Moses gave you physical water. But now if you come to me, I can quench your spiritual thirst forever because he says, whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. They will receive the Holy Spirit, you see, and that Holy Spirit who is within them will always be there to quench their spiritual thirst. So they will never have to run dry ever again and they will always have eternal life because of him. So these are the things which Jesus proclaims to them and the only requirement that they need, you know, from their side is they need to place their faith in him. If they choose to believe in him, choose to believe that he has come down from above and that he is the living bread. If they can take his words and absorb them into their being and follow him, then they will have eternal life. If they're willing to accept these things, then automatically their spiritual thirst will be quenched. Their spiritual hunger will be satisfied. So this is the proclamation that Jesus makes on the last and final day. And it says in verse 40, on hearing his words, some of the people said, surely this man is the prophet. Others said, he is the Messiah. Still others asked, how can the Messiah come from Galilee? Should he not grump? You know, it goes on to say in the next verse, you know, he should in fact be a descendant of David from Bethlehem and they are not aware of the fact that yes, Jesus was very much, you know, he was taken over there. I mean, before he was born, Joseph and Mary go over there, you know, to give their registry for the census in Bethlehem. So yes, very much Jesus is very much from Bethlehem. So they are not aware of that fact. And so they say, shouldn't the Messiah actually be from Bethlehem? So there's a lot of talk again going on and the temple guards who have been sent to arrest him, they come back to the leaders, empty handed. And then the Pharisees say, why didn't you bring him? And the people say, how could we do that? You know, everyone is supporting him. Everyone is speaking favorably about him. So we were unable to, you know, arrest him. And then it's interesting what the Pharisees say. I think we should read this portion. If we can have someone read out for us versus 47, up to verse 52. Yeah, John chapter 7, from 47 up to verse 52, please. Then the Pharisees answered them, are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers of the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that doesn't know the law is a curse. Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them, said to them, does the law judge a man before it pierces him and knows what he is doing? They answered and said to him, are you also from Galilee? Search and look for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee. And everyone went to his own house. So the crowd, a lot of them seem to be convinced that this is the true Messiah. The words which Jesus has spoken has pierced their hearts and they are willing to believe. And the the temple guards who were sent to do the arrest, in fact, felt afraid because the crowd is so much on Jesus' side that they are hesitant to make a public arrest because probably the mob would have attacked them. So they come back empty handed and they say, everyone is speaking in favor of him.  And then they say in verse 48, have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him? Look at us. None of us have believed in him. We are the rulers because most of the rulers of the synagogue were chosen from among the Pharisee community. So they say, look at us. None of the Pharisees have believed. We the rulers of the synagogue, we also have not believed. And right there sitting among them is Nicodemus, who is a ruler of the synagogue and he is a Pharisee and he actually has placed his trust in Jesus. So they are not actually aware of this pact as yet. So it looks like Nicodemus has not revealed his faith at this point of time. And so they say, you know, none of us have believed.  But Nicodemus in fact is a ruler and a Pharisee who has believed and he says, he speaks up and he says, does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing? You know, is what he says. So they are very upset when Nicodemus speaks up for Jesus and they say, oh what, you also have become a Galilean, is it? Because those Galileans, they don't have much knowledge about the things of God. So are you like that? Are you also ignorant?  They say, look into it and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee. Very, very wrong statement because Jonah was a prophet who comes out of Galilee and we see this in 2 Kings chapter 14 verse 25. He was from a place called Gath Hefair which was just three miles north of Nazareth. So just in the previous sentence, they said the crowd is ignorant. They don't know anything and they got deceived. Now we are the rulers of the synagogue. We don't get deceived. We have all our facts right. And then they go on to say, you know what, look into it. Look into the scriptures. You'll discover that no prophet ever came out of Galilee. But the point is, Jonah actually came out of Galilee. So even they actually did not know their facts. There's a lot of irony in this passage which comes out even as we are reflecting on these things. So this I think was one main occasion where Jesus very quietly waited until he got the green signal from heaven to speak out. And then he began to speak out with such power that a large amount of the crowd which heard him got to have a clear presentation of facts. Jesus was saying, this is who I am. Yes, it's true that I am from Nazareth, but it's also true that I am from above. And he placed the facts very clearly before them. Everyone got a chance to hear the entire crowd that had come. They got a chance to hear exactly what Jesus is saying about himself. So now the decision rested in their hands. So I think this was one very important occasion where Jesus got to minister to a large crowd, to very important people who would have been present and he gives them the facts very, very clearly. And he says to them, I am the bread. I am the living waters. So now it is up to the people to take their decision. So these are all the things that we could very briefly look at. These were very lengthy chapters. So I'm very sorry it was impossible to go through it verse by verse. So I just kind of picked out the main things and hope to get the main facts across. So I hope you found the class helpful. Let's just close with a word of prayer. Lord, we just thank you so much for all that we could learn today in our class.  If we choose to believe in these words, if we choose to obey them and submit just as Nicodemus did, then, oh Lord, our lives can be changed and transformed. We can be like Jesus who even though had limited resources at hand, you know, when he was with that crowd, he was able to perform a great miracle that met every need, oh Lord, of that large crowd. So we pray, oh Lord, that you would help us to stand on your words which are full of life and spirit. And I pray that you would help us to obey them and submit to them and follow your divine timetable and do everything that you're asking us to do following every word so that Lord, we can have that same authority and power which Jesus did so that it will not matter a lot whether the resources in our hands are less or large. It will be adequate. We will be able to do what we have been sent forth to do, oh Lord, in the places where you have established us. So we pray, oh Lord, whether we are in the secular field or whether we are in the full-time ministry, you would help us to be people who can walk in power because we have chosen to believe in you and submit to you. Oh Lord, help us to live in a way that honors you. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you. We'll meet again next class.


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cyclothermic disorder. So now we will discuss about the cyclothermia disorder. Cyclothermia disorder is known as the milder or chronic form of bipolar disorder. It is previously known as manic depressive disorder. Basically in cyclothermic disorder the child may experience the cycle of low and highs. Now when we say that the child is experiencing low and highs, what does it mean? It means that the child may experience some time high energy level and some time low energy level. So when we are saying that the child is experiencing a cycle of low energy level and high energy level that means that child may experience hypomanic state and the depressive state. But the hypomanic and the depressive state never fulfill the full criteria of hypomanic episode or the major depressive episode. So when the child is like switch in between these two cycles at that time we will say that the child may experience cyclothermic disorder. So if we talk about the symptoms of cyclothermic disorder, so when we are saying that the child is experiencing hypomanic phase at that time, what is the child experiencing at that time? It might be that he is experiencing extreme optimism. That is, there is a lot of positivity towards life. The reason for this is that the energy level in the child is very high. And the inflated self-esteem means that the confidence level is more than average. That is, it is so much that the over-familiarized behavior is being expressed. Along with this, the racing thoughts are experiencing it. That is, the pressure of speech will be very high due to racing thoughts. After that, his aggressive or hostile behavior can also be done. His agitation, his psychomotor agitation can also be experienced, which we can call restlessness. And all these things are occurring due to high energy level than poor judgment. That is, he cannot pass the right judgment. Like if he is spending a lot of money or going towards unprotective sexual activity or substance use, then this might be happened because of the poor judgment. Then, if we talk about the low side of psychothermia, then the symptoms in it can be sadness or hopelessness. Anxiety can also be felt, which means that the mood can feel anxious. Because we have often talked that when there is depression, certain times people become anxious. Then, they feel guilty. They feel fatigue because the energy level is low. Because right now, we are talking about the low form of psychothermia or depression. Then, there can be irritability in the mood. Societal thoughts of behavior can also be experienced. So, mainly the problem is that it has a high and low phase. But not the high phase, the entire hypomanic phase is covering the symptoms of the episode. And neither is the depression, the full features of the major depressive disorder is fulfilling. So, the children of this type, usually their experience of rapid mood cycle is very rapid. Along with this, there is a very low phase in which their mood stays stable, i.e. they experience normal mood. Usually, this is reported in disorder adolescence. But the onset of this is reported till the age of 6.5, that certain times it is onset. Thank you.


So, the next thing we'll discuss now is the topic of Agile development. And as discussed at the beginning of this course, in the late 60s we had what they called back then the software crisis, that the software systems that were built were buggy, they ran over schedule, they were too costly, so back then the vision of software engineering came up. We need software engineering and that led to the creation of a lot of the processes that we have introduced before. But the situation in the around end of the 90s was actually quite similar. We had still lots of budget overruns, for example the chaos report I've been mentioning came out during that time. There was the dot-com bubble, so lots of things went wrong and generally we were not that satisfied with the way we were building software and that's when a couple of people got together and came up with the so-called Agile manifesto. So they presented, among other things, these four statements that describe what they are doing to develop software successfully. And what they said is that we value these things on the left here over what's here on the right. So, individuals and interactions, having people and talking to each other, is more important, is valued over having processes and tools. So back then it was very common to have very strict processes, very rigid processes at the companies, for example these stages, and you cannot jump over them, but they said well individuals and interactions discussing stuff is much more important than that. Working software is more important than documenting and having comprehensive documentation. Customer collaboration and discussions with customers are more important than negotiating contracts and finally being able to respond to change is more important than following a plan. There is something that is often forgotten in this manifesto because Agile can be presented as the best thing ever. It does not mean that you should not do these things here and that's really, really important. For example, a common thing that people forget is that the Agile manifesto does not say you should not do documentation. They just say focus on getting the software right first, but there is room for documentation. It's just about balancing it in the right way. So back then the idea was about fixing the problems we had because we were very much too far on this side. It's not about throwing all of this away. That's really important to discuss. So this is the manifesto of Agile development, the Agile manifesto that has led to the creation of a number of methods like XP, Extreme Programming and Scrum, for example, to name two very influential ones. But the question is, what is Agile development really? And often enough you'll see it compared to what are called plan-driven processes. And plan-driven, as the name suggests, is very much planning something and then following that plan. And that's contrasted by Agile development where the focus is much more on smaller increments and not planning ahead too far. So there is a plan in Agile, but it's not a very central element. In plan-driven, you very much have, you plan your stages ahead. You do the entire stage and you iterate within that. For example, you do requirement specification and then that's your plan for design and implementation. And then you do the design step. And within the design step you might do increments, iterations, but then you go to the next step. Nevertheless, plan-driven development can be incremental. You can have incremental plans, but the whole focus is really on making plans, having milestones and so on. Agile development is an incremental activity, an incremental process. So specification, design and implementation are intertwined, as we discussed earlier. And what you have is typically a series of increments that are very often called sprints. So in many of the Agile processes, they are called sprints and they can take everything from a day to a couple of weeks, typically. But we're not talking about month or years. They are fairly short on purpose. We have or we should have strong stakeholder involvement. So what was mentioned here, customer collaboration. In many cases, it's not just the customers, but also users or other stakeholders. But they should be involved. They shouldn't come at the beginning and the end and nothing in between, but they should constantly be there. Ideally, sit at the office, have a customer representative, for example, that constantly gives input and feedback. There is frequent delivery. So it's not like you get a running system after a year, but the idea is, ideally, after each of these increments, get some working software product. And usually, this requires a fair bit of automation, for example, automated testing, so that you don't need month for testing, for instance. And finally, we don't like documentation as much. So try to keep the documentation minimal. And again, this does not mean no documentation. In many cases, there is documentation required. And in many cases, documentation is good to have so that you can still understand your system in a year or two from now. So this is what agile development is. But very often, we go back to the agile manifesto that describes the values, what is valuable in agile development and what should we reduce if we can to the necessity. So that's what agile development is from a bird's eye perspective. But now we go into details on a couple of common agile development processes or methods, a couple of activities.


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community Matters here. Guys, and we're back live here in Think Tech Studios. I'm your host, The Prince of Investing. Coming to you guys live all the way from Denver. I know it's kind of crazy, right? Yes, I'm in Denver, Colorado, but we're shooting live in Hollywood, Hawaii. So, guys, don't forget to hit the like, subscribe, comment, and share button. All that great stuff. Follow us on Think Tech Hawaii. Or you can follow us right here on The Prince of Investing slash The Investor Show. There's all those guys. I'm going to have a lot of time. And I definitely know you guys are going to have a lot of time. So, we're going to jump straight into it. Now, one of the things I want to mention today, which you guys have seen in the description box, we're going to be talking about, should I buy Bitcoin? Because we all know Bitcoin has been going crazy, especially last week when I thought of this topic. It was at its all-time high. It is all-time high. I'm on about $19,000, $20,000 or something like that per coin. Then, six days later, it is not an all-time low, but it had like a 40%, 50% drop, where it flashed down to $10,000. It went up to $14,000. And the last time I looked at it today, it was around about $16,000, $14,000, $15,000, $16,000. So, very volatile. And when I say volatile, I mean by it goes up and down. Now, the thing to think about that is when you are looking at a stock like that, not a stock, but a commodity or an asset class like that, that is very volatile. Now, some people say, when you look at it, that's very volatile. It may bring them a lot of opportunities. True. But another thing you may think about is Bitcoin is up 1,900% so far this year. That's why you sit all over the press. That's why you have been getting in the news and all that stuff like that. But on this topic, what I'm going to do, I'm going to discuss the question of should I buy Bitcoin? Where would I buy Bitcoin? And I'm going to talk about the pros and the cons. That's my personal opinion. Now, let me throw a disclaimer here. I'm not some Bitcoin mining expert from around the globe and things like that to where I know exactly what I want. It's kind of out of running.  They don't talk about marijuana stocks anymore, but now it seems to be the new Gold Rush. Now, six, seven months ago, marijuana was a Gold Rush. So when you invest in, you have to keep a level head and not jump off into the new hot scene and stay steady. Now, one of the things I want to speak on is I'm going to talk about what would have to happen before I would buy Bitcoin, any cryptocurrency, because as of right now, I hold no direct assets into a direct cryptocurrency. And I will discuss why. Now, the first thing is, should I buy it? I look at it and I say, hey, people, hey, should I buy this? Should I invest into these things like that? Using it as a long-term investment? No.  If you got $100, no more than $10, thrown away into a high-risk, short-term, very high-risk, because theoretically, Bitcoin today is 16,000, it could easily be 40,000 by next week or by the summer. Easy, right? Or it could be zero. Same thing. Think about it. You lose 50% that back up 30% just that fast in a week's timeframe. Very volatile. So something that is very high-risk. If you're very high-risk, money that you throwaway that you can lose, I would say, yes, I would probably look into Bitcoin. Here's why. One is, we always know new things come along with society. What I do like about cryptocurrency is in Bitcoin. The reason why I say Bitcoin, because it was the first currency in 2009. Now, when I look at myself, when I look at society, how we spend money, it has changed over time. So for prime example, the way we buy things, it could soon things have changed. First thing being is when, look at the way we use money. I could send you money right now just with your email address. You can put away your cash. You can put away your credit card. Go out. Well, not necessarily your credit card, but you can put away your cash. Take your dollars. Leave them at home.  You can go shopping, have a nice dinner. You can pretty much essentially live without cash these days. Whereas you're talking about the years ago that would probably been impossible. I'm 33 years old now. When I was younger, my parents mostly use checks. Handwritten checks. Now you guys probably don't know what it is. But a lot of people used to use checks. Now you don't see people use checks that much anymore. Now you see people use plastic. So with people using plastic, credit cards, what I mean by that, times have changed. People use credit cards. I mean, people use checks. Anyone with credit cards. Now it's to where I can send money across the globe just via an email address. Or you can send me money just with my email address. So this pay-performing money, I don't see it being around too much longer in the future. Because it's just technology. We evolve. We're humans. That's what we do. And I can see us evolve into a digital currency. That's what half of us are right now. How often do you go to the bank? Anything you can drive and go into the drive-through, you pretty much can do with the machine or at home. So most people will only go to the bank for very few rare occasions. So that's one thing. I do see us moving into a digital currency. How does that form into something being good? As we know, cryptocurrency is a digital currency. So when I look at that being a digital currency, I start to realize and say, hey, well, the world is kind of evolving into a form of digital currency. And I'm not saying that it's Bitcoin. I'm not saying it's Litecoin, Uthean or whatever, but I can see us using a digital currency. I don't see us in the future walking into some big book refrigerator, big blocky ATM drawing out cash. That's not why I see us going in the future. So that's one thing. I do see us moving into a digital currency. So hey, that is a good thing for me. Another good thing is the technology that is behind cryptocurrency. Something I hear people get confused sometimes. The difference between blockchain and Bitcoin. There is a difference. Bitcoin is the currency that utilizes blockchain. Blockchain is the technology. Now, not Bitcoin, but blockchain, I'm very convinced into blockchain that is revolutionary, that it's going to eliminate a lot of jobs. It is a world of future. What is blockchain? I give you a very elementary way of thinking of blockchain. Blockchain is like an automatic ledger. It's an automatic ledger of buying, sale, things like that. You used to have to have a group of people or entity to say, hey, this person bought this, this person sold this, and make sure that it was the right thing or whatnot. The blockchain pretty much replaces all of that. It's a good buying, sale that goes back and forth. So with that being said, I'm a firm believer in things like accounting, things like finance, things like government, small business or large business could utilize blockchain and eliminate a lot of people to document things. So I'm a big believer into blockchain. If I knew how to invest into blockchain directly, I would do it. I believe into that concept because here in a many high level companies, CEOs and executives, think about how much money they spend on having a group of people or entity that's on the same track of what we find and sell. For a prime example, when you go swipe your card, your Visa Mastercard at Starbucks, and it goes to your bank account and it takes out the money and it leaves a transaction, it takes out the money, puts the money in Starbucks, takes out your Bank of America account. Who's doing all that back and forth information? Who's doing all that back and forth information? That is not the bank. I was like, I don't want to bank hymns all that. No. Usually the bank hires out a third-party entity that takes care of that for them. So with that being said, I can see blockchain, that's a billion-dollar industry that those third-party companies, they're a billion-dollar industry that handles places, all these financial institutions backdoor work. I can see blockchain technology replacing those particular people. Those are the good things. Now, going off into Bitcoin, the reason why Bitcoin became the big thing about Bitcoin was that it removes the middleman. With our current currency, we have better reserves. The better reserves can print money. The better reserves can draw back home money. Right? They're the ones that control the interest rates of money and things like that or whatnot. Whatever the case may be, the better reserves. With blockchain, there is no middleman. I'm not with blockchain, but with cryptocurrency, there is no middleman. There's just Bitcoin. So when I go to think about that, that's one of the things that I like about it. Now, what they're positive is a negative, right? I told you guys a good thing. I'm going to tell you things I don't like about Bitcoin. And I'm going to get into what's going to need to happen for me to invest or to buy any Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, whatever. The first thing, what if Bitcoin gets hacked? What if it gets hacked? What if somebody right now, they say, oh, it's unhackable? But come on. Everybody knows that if you don't know, it is kitchen and let you know. Anything that a man creates are human. Because we're not going to create awesome stuff too. Anything that a human creates, another human can uncreate or hack it. That's just a point blank system. Now, granted, it's great technology, whatever the case may be. You know, it's using part of the bedroom and all the other big fancy terms out there. It's so far advanced, so whatever the case may be. It was the same thing that we said about computers. Computers used to be this big, bulky, expensive thing that only the government could buy. Now, computers have been reduced to this. A phone, a cell phone that can be cared around, compact, that even my 6-year-old son can use. That's just called evolution. You evolve. We figure things out. That's what humans do. So right now, yes, it is far fetched technology, but I guarantee somebody right now is trying to figure out a way to hack it. Why would someone try to figure out a way to hack it? Because wherever there's money, there's motive. Why would somebody break into the bank? Why would somebody hack into all these different websites? Because there's money. Money there. We get the market capitalization, which is $277 billion, a million in the case we be. We don't quote me on that, but it's a large market capitalization. I think it's a billion. But we have a large market capitalization. I'm always positive that it's a billion. We have a large market capitalization like that. That's enough motive right there. So what if it is hacked? What if someone hacks into the system and figure out something, does something funky with it? What's going to happen to the value of my cryptocurrency? I'm going to lead you to the next question. That leads me to the next question. Regulation. Who's regulating this market? It's the reason why we had an SEC that regulates our U.S. stock market. Before a stock is listed, it has to go through the SEC. In order to stay listed, it has to go through the SEC stream of its process to make sure you're not taking people's money, all that great stuff like that. What happens? Will the SEC regulate it? And my belief system? I think eventually they will.  How can the IRS track it? They can't track it. They don't know what's going to happen, right? So is it regulated? It's an unregulated black market, right? So we have an unregulated black market that the SEC gets its hands involved. The federal government gets its hands involved. What's going to happen to the value of my cryptocurrency? Because wouldn't that defeat the purpose of having a cryptocurrency if the government has its hands on it? Right? If the SEC gets in, hey, you don't can do this, you can do that, and probably its regulations on it. What's going to happen to the value? That's my second concern. Another concern, looking at the competition, there's over, there are thousands of cryptocurrencies.  And I'm not even speaking that part of the hundred that was created today. I know people that are buying Bitcoin right now. So when I look at this, I want to look at people that are buying, not buying, I mean creating, creating their own cryptocurrencies. If someone can go out and mimic what I'm doing and create what I'm doing, what's the real value of what I have? Right? So there's thousands of them out there. How can I possibly pick the right one right now? It's like picking a needle out of a haystack. The only one I would trust, like the Jordan Buffett or the Whiffle Wall Street said when he came on to the show about a month or so ago, he was like, the only cryptocurrency I would trust right now is Bitcoin because it was the first. And since that is the first, it's probably the most reliable. But there are literally like thousands of cryptocurrencies out there. How can I pick the right cryptocurrency at this point? It was in between Litecoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Razzle, Dazzle, whatever the case would be. I can't even name them all. There's so many out there. So right now when you're picking out Bitcoin, you're saying that you are smart enough and you have the edge of everybody else that's in the marketplace. Do I feel like I have the edge to pick Bitcoin over other currencies? No. That's another thing. Go versus Bitcoin. When I look at gold, people say, hey, well, you know, the dollar is a fiat currency. It's correct. The dollar is not backed by anything. That's correct. The only thing that backs the dollar is the U.S. government. The U.S. government says, hey, I will arm this promissory now. And since the U.S. government has a pretty good high credit rating, people trust the U.S. government. They use the dollar. If I saw a dollar in the road today, I know I can go buy a particular thing, right? So I can go buy goods and services, essentially. But right now with Bitcoin, some people say it's supposed to be a currency.  ATMs, we got different places that are accepting Bitcoin. But the thing is, just because what makes it trade for $16,000 a day is not because that's the raw value of it. It's just that that's the price someone is willing to pay. Just because something is going up doesn't mean that it's the raw value, right? And the other piece I want to backtrack and go into the SEC, since you're an unregulated market, you can have insider trading. Market manipulation. What is insider trading? What is market manipulation? How can you do something like that? It's like this, right? I take me and my buddy, John, let's say for example, my buddy John. I sell him my cryptocurrency for $10. He buys it for $10. Now, the last price that's going across the wire is $10 sold to John. So now my currency is worth $10. I buy it back from him for $15. Now, the person who's on the outside, they look at it. They're like, wow, no, this new thing that Prince Dice created has a lot of value. Because look, he was at $10 and I was going back to $5. Now John buys it back for me for $30. Now people are like, whoa, it's going from $10 to $30. That's a 300% jump. That is crazy, right? But really, it could be two people manipulating the market. You don't think that happens. You're crazy. Everybody has regulators involved inside a US stock market and people still get away with it and do it. So in an unregulated market, what do you think they're doing? Everywhere you have money, you have some type of manipulation. Or you have some type of corruption. That's just the case. There's nothing to say of Bitcoin. That's just everywhere you go. You find money, you find some form of corruption. That's just the second thing. But I don't want to get back off. I don't want to lose track of what I was saying. I want to speak about the current state of gold, which is a commodity, that made a good point. So what's the difference between gold and what's the difference between Bitcoin? And the difference is when you say gold is a commodity, Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency. I don't see anybody buying to, you know, hey, I want to get these coins so I can go buy dinner tonight. Most people treat it like a commodity. And you want to say it's a commodity? Great. People are just getting it and then hurting it in a way. So when you look at that, if it is a commodity, the thing that makes gold a commodity is a precious metal.  So gold is a rare commodity. It's a point of gold, a metal, or whatever the case may be, that has some type of value. People use gold for a lot of things. You know, somebody just didn't pick this random stone. It was used for a lot of things back in the day before it became a currency. You have gold chips and you can melt it down and turn it into the Federal Reserve. You have a little value with it. You know, Dennis was using it for tea. The science people was using it for all type of things. But it was a rare commodity. It was a stone that we decided we could do something with. Bitcoin, what is it backed by? What is giving Bitcoin its value besides someone right now that is buying it for $15,000 a coin? Now it's going to lead me into my second part. The regulators come in while I was speaking about what the SEC, that the regulators come in, the government comes in. And the government says, hey, about this Bitcoin, man, this is what we're going to do now. We're not going to create our own Bitcoin. We're going to create our currency. At the SEC, the Fed stepped in and they regulated it. Now they regulated it. That kind of defeats the purpose of having a blockchain or if the federal government came out with a dollar coin and said, hey, this is the accepted currency of our XYZ. Let's stop by the federal government for doing that. And if they do that, what's going to happen to the value of my Bitcoin or my cryptocurrency? Those are questions I have that a lot of people can't ask. Let's stop in the SEC from creating its own cryptocurrency. Let's stop in the SEC from regulating the cryptocurrency market here in the US. If it does market here in the US, what does that mean? If the SEC markets, wouldn't it completely devalue my cryptocurrency? Right? Wouldn't it devalue my cryptocurrency? If I went ahead and just threw my money right into, you know, now that it's not needed or the government created their own, or what happened to the other thousands out there. Those are questions. Now I'm going to get into the next one. What's going to happen? What needs to happen to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies before I will buy? Right now, I look at cryptocurrencies as a haystack. Do I believe in digital currency? Yes. Do I believe in blockchain technology? Yes. But out of a thousand cryptocurrencies out right now, how can I, or you, legitimately pick the right one, two, three, wherever it keeps me? I don't know. But for me to do this, I heard it's coming around the corner. I heard it's about to come out. If there was an ETF, if there was a mutual fund, or whatever you want to call it, that went back and said, hey, you know what we're going to do? We're going to create an ETF that's going to, we're going to borrow all these currencies together, just like ETFs do. And you can purchase all the cryptocurrencies up on the one stop. Now, I've noticed one something out there like that, JVTC, there's some other cryptocurrencies out there, but they're not exactly what I'm looking for at this point. If you can borrow all the cryptocurrencies, then that's what's going to happen for me to want to buy. Because the thing about it is, when you have, why would I try to pick a needle out of a haystack when I can just pick up the whole haystack? Right? Why would I, why I'm going to do it in my portfolio is the S&P 500. The reason that it's the S&P 500 is because it gives me 500 companies. I'm not here trying to pick an individual stock that I've never heard of, that I hope that I read the news that a co-worker told me, or a friend told me, or something that I read on a media outlet that said, hey, you should go out and buy this particular company. No, I'm using companies that are, that I know is, what's it called, that I, the S&P 500, that's the top 500 companies in the U.S. I always use this analogy. 20 years ago, blockbuster didn't seem like a bad investment. Now, today, yeah, it doesn't look too hot, right? Why doesn't it look too hot? Because evolution, blockbuster didn't evolve with time. And when it tried to evolve with time, it was too late. But if I have the top 500 companies in America, I'll find anyway. So, I don't know, Ethereum might be the next big thing. Ethereum, Bitcoin cash could be the next big thing. Bitcoin, whatever currency that's out there and wants to be created, the next one that jumps in, or whatever. It could be the big thing. I don't know. But until that happens, I can't try to go out and pick one. So, when I go back and I look at the whole situation, I spoke about it.  Should you buy? Only if you're high risk, short term, no more than 10% of what you have in your assets. When you're high buy in particular, probably have an e-tail for mutual funds that gathers the whole industry as a whole, just like I can go by the real estate industry, or I can invest in the real estate industry, I can invest into the automobile industry, retail industry, all type of things, right? So, the next thing is, that's what I would buy. What are the good things? It's a digital currency. I believe the world is moving closer and closer to a digital currency, just so that we are evolving. While we carry back these paper dollars, and most people are accepting cars, some of them are accepting crypto currencies, so I can see it's moving to a digital currency. Another good thing, blockchain technology, the juggernaut that's going to change the way we live and a lot of aspects, it's going to kill a lot of jobs. A lot of jobs are going to have to move, right? So, blockchain technology, that's what I like about it. Now, the things I don't like about it, you have, can it be hacked? Government regulations, the thousands of coins that are out there, how do I know the government won't create its own coins? Then on top of that, another big one that I left off, and originally, looking at the stock market returns. Right now, the S&P 500 is up about 20% just in 2017 alone. And last year, I want to think it went up 16%. So, when you're getting 16%, 20%, that's not bad of an investment. Now, why would someone who's getting 16%, 15%, 20%, why would they jump off into the next hot thing just to get 1,000%? So, if your portfolio is up right now, and 15%, 16%, or something like that, why would I try to jump off into the next or the new hot thing? The reason why a lot of investors are not jumping into Bitcoin because the U.S. market is doing so well. Another thing is Bitcoin started in 2009. Bitcoin started in the bull market. How will Bitcoin act in the bear market? How would it act in the next market crash? Those are the questions that I have. We don't know. It means skyrocket in the market, yeah, crash. It may replace gold or skyrocket. Then a reverse end, it may collapse. You just never know. Those are the questions that I have with Bitcoin. So, with that, I give you guys, should you buy? When will I buy gold over Bitcoin, gold in Bitcoin? Hacking it, stock market returns, government regulations, and also the thousands of competitions out there, I give you the good things. Then there's a lot of people that are Bitcoin mining. I don't want to get too far from Bitcoin mining because I know a lot of people do that to make money. Something that's not my field, I'm out 100% on it. Maybe I'm going to get some in the future to speak more about that. But, you know, hey, that's my take on it. That's my take on it. Should I buy or when I buy the pros and the cons and what happens for me in order to buy? I hope that helps you guys out. I hope you guys take away something from that. I'm going to go ahead and close out here. Thank you guys for tuning on. This is the Prince of Investing. I'm your host, Prince Dykes. Coming to you guys each and every week here on Hawaii. Don't forget to hit the like, subscribe, comment, and share button. Check us out on YouTube, Facebook, podcast, all of the great stuff. Until you hear me do that again or say anything like that again, I kind of messed up my clothes now a little bit. But peace, be safe, I'm out and thank you.


Hey guys, welcome back to another week of what's for dinner. My name is Andrea with food and entry adventures in food in My household. There's me my husband and our adorable one-year-old little boy Okay, so all this week. I am trying to use up stuff from my freezer fridge and pantry So in my skillet here, I have let me show you the package I have this beef smoked sausage that I cut up and then I just browned it in the skillet. It's fully cooked And so I did drain out some of the fat and then to it I am just adding some barbecue sauce how it and I really like this barbecue sauce a lot And I'm just gonna let this simmer and kind of thicken up a little bit Okay, so here's our plate. Here is the sausage and it is very tasty, of course Serving it with some canned green beans and then also some macaroni and cheese I had everything of course on hand. Here is the macaroni and cheese that I'm using. It is from Aldi So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see y'all next time So we are eating from our freezer tonight. We are having an h e b Sesame chicken frozen meal. It is really good. How did I like these meals a lot? And so with it, I just made some fried rice. I've talked about this fried rice a lot on our channel Really like it and I made it according to package directions So you just need cold rice and egg Green onions bacon and then the keekoman sauce and here it is. It looks like it came from a restaurant So quick and easy dinner tonight and we'll see you guys next time Hey, so I am trying out a new recipe today. It is from one of my old cookbooks I think this is 1983 Better Homes and Gardens I think I got this like in an antique shop or something But the recipe that I'm going to be trying out is this layered meat and potato pie And so I've got everything that I need for it And I was looking for this recipe online could not find it anywhere So I'm just going to write it out for you guys or type it up for you guys I should say One thing I wanted to make mention of is that it calls for a fourth of a cup of onion soup mix Which is if you don't know this stuff right here And so it comes with two envelopes and so I open up one envelope and as you can see it's a little less than a fourth of a cup So I guess over the years they have downsized how much of this onion soup mix was in the packages So anyway, um, let's get started Okay, so I've got my oven preheating to 350 degrees and in my bowl. I have a pound of Lean ground beef to that. I'm going to add some milk And then I'm going to add the um onion seasoning mix now I will say I was a little bit hesitant about this recipe because it calls for you to Put the raw meat directly into the pie Shell I've never done that before with raw meat. So Um, I'm hoping that it turns out okay and that that bottom crust isn't soggy So I'm just mixing this up here And I saw a bunch of recipes in this old cookbook that I want to try So I will be trying those out over the next Few weeks and we try about a bunch of Bunch of different recipes Okay, so I've got one of my pie crust In the pie pan and I'm using the Pillsbury pie crust. So I've got one in there I'm just gonna take the meat and put it in the bottom of the Pan here And I'm just gonna spread it around Okay, I'm gonna set this aside and then work on the potato portion Okay, so I've got my hash browns here. These are frozen hash browns that I let completely thaw To that I'm going to add some butter And that's just potato right there in case you're wondering And I'm going to add some fresh parsley And some salt And give it a good stir And now I'm just going to add this potato mixture to the top of the pie So now I'm just taking my other crust and then I am laying it right on top And then I'm going to crimp my edges together And then I'm just going to cut some slits in the top of the pie so that it can breathe And I'm going to bake this for about an hour or until it's nice and golden brown Okay, so here is the pie. I let it cook for about an hour and 10 minutes Let me try to get closer so you can see it And so the hash browns, how did I tasted it? The hash browns kind of taste like mashed potatoes I was afraid they would be dry and they're not they're really good Serving it with some green pink green beans that I just sauteed and some olive oil and season them And then here is the entire pie right here And I really like it. I was kind of afraid of how it would turn out Because I've never cooked raw meat in a pie crust before And I just didn't know what to expect, but it's good. The bottom of the crust is completely done Flaky delicious like I said the potato portion the hash browns tastes like mashed potatoes I thought they might be dry because there was only you know, just butter in them But they are really good. I would definitely make this again So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see y'all next time Hey, so for dinner tonight, we are eating from our pantry and I had this in my pantry never tried it before It is a cooking sauce from h e b which is a grocery store. That's here in texas All you do is add chicken to it in the sauce and then you add pasta So I had this in my pantry and then I had half a package of this linguine in my pantry So I use that leftover green beans from the other day And then we are also having some garlic knots that I cooked in my air fryer. These are from Aldi and They are actually really good. My first time buying these was recently and I had these I don't know maybe a week ago. I can't remember exactly when I had them for the first time And I am surprised at how good they really are you get six knots in there and they are super tasty I would definitely buy them again So this is what we are having for dinner tonight and we'll see y'all next time So it was an absolutely beautiful day here in texas high of 82 degrees right now It's about 79 how I decided he wanted to grill So on the grill we've got some brisket hot dogs Okay, so here's our plate. I had some leftover chili in the freezer from when we had chili dogs over the summer So we're having that along with some cheese. There's cheese underneath the chili and on top of the chili We're also trying to finish off some doritos These spicy white cheddar doritos. They're okay. Not a lot of flavor I probably would not buy them again. They're the organic kind and here's a close-up of the hot dogs Here is what the packaging looks like from the hot dogs. They are from h e b A grocery store here in texas. Let me flip it over They're brisket hot dogs so you can see beef water and then brisket ends are the third ingredient So we are looking forward to giving these a try So this is what we're having for dinner tonight and we'll see y'all next time


Hey there, and welcome to Learn WordPress. Today you're going to learn all about templates in WordPress themes and why they're important for your WordPress site to function. In this video we will cover what WordPress theme templates are and what templates look like in block themes vs classic themes. First you will look at templates in block themes, learn about common block template features followed by a tour of the page.html template in the 2023 theme. Then you will learn about templates in classic themes, common classic template features followed by a tour of the page.php template in the 2021 theme. In WordPress, a template is a file that controls how your website's content will be displayed in a web browser. Templates draw information like page or post title, content, or custom fields from the database, or from other WordPress files, and generate the HTML code to be rendered in the browser. A single template usually controls an entire page, but it can also include one or more template parts that control just a section for that page. Template parts are reusable sections of code that achieve the same result when used in multiple templates. Templates and template parts can be of a high level of customization, or be extremely simple. Templates are the building blocks of a WordPress theme. Every theme has one or more templates, created to display specific content on your WordPress site. Depending on the theme you are using or developing, you can define as many or as few templates as you need. Getting acquainted with templates is an important step in learning to build themes from WordPress. There are two types of themes available in the WordPress theme repository, block themes and classic themes. Ever since WordPress included support for themes in version 1.5, theme templates have been PHP files that typically contain either PHP code or a mix of PHP code and HTML markup. Since WordPress 5.9, a new type of theme has become available. This type of theme makes extensive use of the block editor. The theme templates are HTML files and contain a mix of block markup and HTML markup. Differentiate between the two types of themes, the WordPress community has named themes that use the original PHP method for creating templates classic themes and themes that use the new block editor markup block themes. Regardless of whether the theme is a block theme or a classic theme, all template files follow the naming convention in the WordPress template hierarchy. Let's take a look at the template structure in block themes by viewing the template directory of the 2023 theme in a file browser. The first thing you'll notice is that block theme templates are located in a specific directory called templates. This new directory structure not only makes your theme folder more organized, but it's so easier to determine whether you're working with a template, template part, pattern or any other theme-related file. In the templates directory, you'll find the template files, which are all HTML files. Let's take a look at the markup in the page.html template of this theme in a code editor. Block templates only contain block markup and HTML markup. Block markup is identified by a specific HTML comments notation and tells the page being rendered to render the output for that block. Additional information about the block, like attributes or styling, is passed to the block markup in a JSON format. The HTML markup for a block exists inside the block markup and is used primarily for block structure. At the top of this template file is a template part block. In this instance, the template part being included is the header template part. When this page template is rendered, the block markup will find the header.html template part in the parts directory and include that part's block code. Next up is the start of a group block. Group blocks are used to group multiple blocks together. In this case, the group block has a tag name of main and has a custom margin set. It also opens an HTML main tag with a class of wp-block-group and applies the margin style to the tag. Next is another group block, which includes an HTML div tag. Inside the second group block is the post-featured-image block and the post-title block. Because a page in WordPress is a custom post type, these blocks will get the page featured image and title from the database respectively. Each of these blocks includes its own custom attributes and styling in the template code. Then the second block group is closed. After the second block group is the post-content block. This will get the content of the page from the database. Next is another template part block, which will include the comments.html template part. Then the main group block is closed. And finally another template part block, which includes the footer.html template part. Now let's take a look at the template structure in classic themes by viewing the template directory in the 2021 theme in a file browser. Here the templates are PHP files and are stored in the root of the theme directory. For example, you can see the index, page and single.php templates. You'll also notice that there are other files stored here, for example the header and footer PHP template parts. Let's take a look at the code inside the page.php template of this theme. In classic templates, you will typically see the use of template tags, which are PHP functions that instruct WordPress to do or get something. You will generally also see the use of the WordPress loop, which will gather information from the database. Let's break down the parts of the page.php template. It starts with an opening PHP tag, which identifies this as a PHP file so the server knows how to process it. Next there is a block of comments. Template comments are usually included at the top of the template file and describe its specific function. Right after the comments is the first template tag. This tells WordPress to insert all the information required for the header, including the code from the header.php template part, as well as any other relevant information. Next we have the implementation of the loop. The WordPress loop is another topic in itself, but can be described as using PHP code that displays WordPress database information for the current data being queried. It basically says, while there are posts available, then use these posts for whatever the code does next. After the loop, the template calls the get template part function, which gets the template part located at template parts slash content slash content hyphen page dot PHP. This template part contains the HTML and template tags to get the data for the page. Let's look at that template part. The template part starts with an HTML article tag. Article tag specifies independent self-contained content. In this case, the template tags the ID and post class set up the ID and class attributes of the article tag. Next up, there is a conditional check if this template is being rendered on the homepage or not. If it's not the front page, the HTML header tag is rendered, includes the template part slash header slash entry header template part, and calls the 2021 post thumbnail function, which generates a thumbnail for the page. If it is the front page and has a thumbnail, then just the HTML header tag is rendered and only the 2021 post thumbnail function is called to generate the thumbnail. After that is the main content container div for the page. Here, the the content function gets the page content and renders it. After that, the wp link pages function will render any page links for paginated content. This is in case the page content is using the next page quick tags in one or more places. Next is a section that renders a link to edit the page, which is only visible if an administrator is logged in. Last but not least, the article tag is closed. Back to the page template, after the content page.php template part has been included, the comments template function is called to include any comments on the page, but it will only include those comments if they are enabled and if there are comments for this page. The loop ends and finally the get footer function calls any footer template parts or footer information. And that wraps up this tutorial on templates in WordPress themes. For more information on developing WordPress themes, visit the WordPress developer hub at developer.wordpress.org and click on the develop themes link to visit the theme developer handbook. Happy coding!