Dear brothers, dear sisters, we are now in the month of Ramadan and today's Qumba is about some of the lessons that we learned from Ramadan. I want to ask you, and this Qumba maybe will go over three lessons. If I were to ask you what's the most important thing in your life, if you can name one thing that you consider the most important thing in your life. Some of us might say our business, some of us might say our family, some of us might say our children, some of us might say money. Ramadan teaches us that one of the most important things in our life is time. Time is one of the most important things in our life and it goes very quickly. And if we're not in control of our time, our life will go and we won't even feel it. And control of time meaning controlling the order of time. Being in control of yourself from morning until it's late. And even obviously everything we do in order is in order. And that's one of the beauty of Islam. All acts of worship that we perform, there is order in the actual worship. There is order in how we pray, how we stand, we stand in life. Does it hurt the prayer if you don't stand in life? It doesn't, but it's more beautiful and it's more adequate and it's more hsad. Everything we do in Hajj is in order, in fasting is in order, in Zaka'a is in order, in prayer is in order. There is an order in everything. An order implies beauty. Then the next lesson for the new world is about change. It's about going back. Allah SWT in Quran says, And he put the word Siyam between two things, between Imam and Taqwa. I.e. Imam, our love for the truth, our love for what is real is manifested in our Imam.  Our love for the truth is always at the highest. We despise the truth, we despise anything that's not the truth. And through fasting, there is hopefully a goal that we're trying to achieve. Fasting facilitates for us, if we have Imam and if we love him. And if we fast out of love, not out of the robotic action. If we fast out of love for Allah SWT, the ultimate destination will be Taqwa. What we will accomplish through Ramadan and through fasting, out of love will be Taqwa. Taqwa of Allah SWT, Allah will be in our heart all the time. And that's why the Malayka, when it came to the reward of fasting, they weren't able to write it down. They weren't able to estimate what reward they would be. So Allah SWT told them, Except for fasting, it is for me. Our servants, they fast for me out of love and out of obedience. And I shall reward them. And when the generous reward, his reward is without measure. Allah SWT. Malayka were not able to estimate the reward. So Allah says, I will reward them. Don't worry about them. Through fasting, we also learn that fasting is about education. It's about disciplining. Disciplining of our soul. It's about refinement of our character. It's about purifying our heart. It's about reconnecting with what's important. Reconnecting with our Lord, glory be to Him, is about our deepest commitment and our highest aspirations. What is it that we want to achieve out of Ramadan? What is it that we want to achieve out of life? What is it that the most we are committed to? I.e. if one was to ask you, what is the most important thing in your life? What are you deeply committed to? What are we deeply committed to? We're committed to Allah SWT. We're committed to the truth. We're committed to the religion which is the manifestation of this truth. So when we educate ourselves and when we discipline ourselves and when we become and control ourselves, we get closer to the behavior of the angels. We approach the character of the angels. The angels spend all their time in worship.  They don't think badly of one another. They don't mind the business of others. They mind their own business. Unless they have a mission to accomplish. Unless they have a job to do. And Ramadan is a period where we can look at ourselves and look deeply within ourselves and say, what are we committed to? This is a time of review. What are we committed to? What is the most thing that is important to us in this life? It's time. It's love. It's the truth. It's our family. It's our children. It's our community. And mainly, it's our relationship with Allah SWT. Because only hereafter, only if we have a good heart, we will be accepted. Get in touch with our angelic side. And suppress our demonic side. Suppress our desires. To be in control of ourselves. Which is to be in control of our desires. Our desires do not control us. We control our desires. We channel our desires to what is important. We don't get angry. We channel our anger. We decide when to get angry when not to get angry. We don't let anger over come us. We don't let our emotions over come us. We don't let anything that drag us away or take us away from our goal and our destination. And over go it. Lastly, Mahfira and Al-Qalmin and Nara. And soon we will enter the last and the last Ramadan. And the last lesson that we can go over in this book is that Ramadan actually is a period of renewal. Everything needs renewal. In this life, when we look at the trees, the trees in winter time, they die away. In spring time, they come back to life again. Everything goes through this. And it is a sunnah of Allah SWT that He created in this universe. There's a cycle. And this earth, this planet, Allah SWT cut down everything in this earth and put everything in two stages. I.e. this planet is capable of fulfilling whatever we need under the day of judgment. How can a final planet satisfy the needs of infinite number of people through the process of regeneration, through the process of renewal? Every year the earth renews itself. Every year we harvest the crops and next year we have new crops. We're always e-generating ourselves. And it's a sunnah in this universe. It's a sunnah in the planet, it's a sunnah in the trees, it's a sunnah in animals and also it's a sunnah in human beings. Every once in a while we re-evaluate ourselves. We re-evaluate the way we're working. Maybe it's time to change jobs. We re-evaluate our values and values. We try to re-generate ourselves. Ramadan is about regeneration. This is the time to reset your counter. This is the time to regenerate yourself and go back to ground zero. Go back to scratch. Everything needs maintenance. Your car needs maintenance. Your house needs maintenance. The mosque needs maintenance. Our heart needs maintenance. Our life needs maintenance. And Ramadan is a maintenance time. We change the oil in our heart. We change the oil in our car. We regenerate ourselves. So if you want to benefit from Ramadan, think about what you want to reset the counter. Your sin is it. Your behavior is it your character. Think about one thing and try to accomplish this before the end of Ramadan. Allah SWT will assist us and facilitate for us to achieve our goals insha'Allah and to regenerate ourselves and to renew our commitment to the Lord of the world. Allah SWT says Allahumma fa salli wa sallim wa barit ala Sayyidina Muhammad, wa ala ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Allahumma fa salli wa sallim wa barit ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Allahumma fa salli wa sallim wa barit ala Sayyidina Muhammad, wa ala ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. So we do have a shahada, inshallah. Our Mary will be coming up here with the Basad al-Husay. So just give us a moment while I come up. I just really quickly want to put an announcement that for Juma, inshallah, make sure we know our masks before we're moving into the volunteers and keep your masks on the whole time playing here. As we enter the last 10 days of Ramadan, inshallah, we will be announcing an update this Sunday, inshallah. We'll be having special accommodations for the outside and inside, inshallah. So those that are vaccinated, it's an honor system that you'll be going inside, inshallah. And then everything is mic outside. And the tarawih prayers will be there on the odd nights, inshallah. But you still have to register, inshallah. And you can register for going inside or you can register for being here outside. The Juma will still stay outside, inshallah. It's just for the odd nights. We have a lot more people accommodating. So we're going to be opening up the inside, inshallah. So please, if you haven't been vaccinated, being vaccinated is an honor system.  The vaccinations work for your body. Please make sure that you don't want to be a super spreader. I'm glad the numbers are looking really good in Alamea County. So we don't want to have any kind of spike or be a spreader event here at MCC. So please, if you ever feel sick when you're coming here at MCC, if you have a cough, if you wake up with anything at all, make sure that you do that specific thing for the community, inshallah, and not come. The cancellation process is there as well. So we want to mention also that the fitra is due before heat day. The fitra for Hanifi is $5 and then I believe it's $10 for Shahi. So we'll start with the say if you want to come on heat day. So that will give us enough time to... So Mary has been on a long journey. My new journey, she's here with her friends. And so they're just going to take her to Shahada. It's been a long journey for her. And she's been very honored at the privilege. So I'll say it's here and I'll hand the mic over to her. Yes, please. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Dear brothers and sisters. Alhamdulillah. We are so honored to have Sister M.K. here with us today to do a version of Hada. Mashallah from what I have learned. Her story is quite secret. I was actually reminded of the story of Senbana Farsi, which hopefully you have something that we will share with Sister M.K. just in terms of the evolution and the path and the seeking and the sincerity of her journey to be here today. She is joined by her brother Azhar, who was here of Herbiyah, Mashallah, who also had a part in her being here today, Alhamdulillah, as well as... Sarah. Sarah, her friend who is here to support her. Alhamdulillah, of course, we have the community members here also who are ready to, inshallah, receive her and to make sure that she is supported on her path in this beautiful faith of ours. So now, M.K., I went briefly over with you that this is a pretty simple process. The way that one enters Islam is by testifying to their faith in an inter-public setting like this or just in front of witnesses. So Alhamdulillah, we have quite a lot of witnesses today. But the phrase that we will be saying is very simple, and I will repeat it in Arabic in a slow way so that you can repeat word by word. And then we will give the English translation of it. We'll say it three times. And as soon as that's done, you have entered officially the faith of Islam. But we, of course, believe that the moment you accepted in your own heart that God is one and the Prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of God, that is when a faith entered your heart. So you were Muslim at that point. But this is just the official example. Alhamdulillah. Again, thank you for honoring our community to do this. We are very honored whenever anyone enters the faith, but certainly when they want to do it with us as witnesses. Thank you for that. So we'll go ahead and before actually I begin, just to clarify, your previous faith was, what faith method do you have? Evangelical Christian. So you're an evangelical Christian. So I'm sure in your study of the faith of Islam, you are very clear that we do not believe in the divinity of any mortal human. God is one. We're a monotheistic Christian. And I believe in the Prophet Jesus who is the Prophet Muhammad who we see as a prophet and not the Son of God. Okay, great. Alhamdulillah. So now we will begin. So the phrase for the declaration of faith will begin out with Arabic. So the microphone next to you, if you can speak into that so that we can all hear you. Okay. So we say, and I invite all of you community members also to please renew your faith and repeat the shahada. It's always a good thing to do and opportunity, but certainly when we're witnessing someone enter the faith as well. So this is that. Ash. So is this mic on? Yeah. Go and check if that's on. It is? Her mic? Ash. Okay. Okay, good. So we'll recess. Sorry. Once again, just with that. Ash. Ash. Okay.  Ash. Ash.  I bear witness that there is no God, but God. And I bear witness that Muhammad is the last and final messenger of God. It's the last and final messenger of God. Welcome to the Fated Sister MK. I wish I could hug you because of COVID restrictions. We are giving virtual soul hugs. Insha'Allah at one point we will physically hug. But welcome to the Fated Sister MK. We are all your brothers and sisters. This is your community. You are always welcome here. We have an incredible team of community members here who are willing and ready to answer any questions you have.


Hello dear learners, welcome to today's program. I am Dr. Pallavi Gugai of Krishnakanta Handik State Open University. Today I shall take up Unit 8, titled Chinua Archipi, a mother in a refugee camp. This is the prescribed poem for you. However, in this video we shall first start with a discussion on the life and works of the poet. The course is Journal English, Semester 1, Block 1. So, let us quickly begin. First I shall start with a table of contents where I shall be discussing the learning objectives, introduction, the life of Chinua Archipi, the literary works of Chinua Archipi, questions to check your progress and the references. Starting with the learning objectives, after going through this video, the learner will be able to gain an insight into a life of the poet Chinua Archipi and discuss the literary works of the poet. To provide you with a brief introduction, Chinua Archipi is also considered as the father of modern African literature for his outstanding literary works. Archipi was a prolific poet and a writer who received much acclaim for both his literary and intellectual contributions. Albert Chinua Moologo Archipi. Yes, that's the complete name of Chinua Archipi. He was a writer, poet and critic of Nigerian origin. He was born in a religious Christian family to Isaiah Archipi and Janet A. Illyukh Yunam and had three brothers and two sisters. His village home was situated in the Nigerian forest of Ogidi, which is home to one of the major African tribes known as Ibu, also known as a hardworking people with a rich cultural heritage. The life of Chinua Archipi. As a child, Archipi attended St. Phillips' Central School and Central School in Nikiti. He was an intelligent student and had qualified for both the Dennis Memorial Cramer School and Government College at the same time, deciding to attend the latter. His Christian upbringing, his early love for books and inclination towards exploring traditional religious cultures had left a lifelong impression on his mind. It was out of sheer compulsion that Archipi had learned to speak English at Government College where native African languages were not allowed. He pursued his high studies at the University of Ibadan, earning a financial scholarship of merit to study medicine in 1948. But later he opted to study English literature, history and theology instead. Although he had eventually completed his graduation with a second-class degree from the university, yet it was here that Archipi's talent for writing had begun to flower with the first publication of his writings. Following his graduation, he decided to take up teaching at the Merchants of Light School for a brief period and then joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Service that is the NBS at Lagos in the year 1954. He began to write and publish a series of literary works thereby experimenting with African fiction. Now coming to the works of Chinua Archipi, some of his best known novels were Things Fall Apart, No Longer Attees, Arrow of God, A Man of the People and Angels of Savannah, which is an interesting work. In fact all these works are very interesting. His best political anthologies include Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems, Don't Let Him Die, An Anthology of Memory Poems for Christopher or Kikbo, Another Africa and Collected Poems. Archipi also wrote children's literature and short stories compiled as Marriage is a Private Affair, 1952, Dead Men's Path, 1953 and Contemporary African Short Stories, 1992 to mention a few. Archipi was also the general editor of the African Writers' Series and wrote critical essays such as An Image of Africa, Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, later included in Hopes and Impediments along with other non-fiction works such as There Was a Country, a Personal History of Bifuria, published in 2012. Archipi took up two new publications, worked at the University of Massachusetts and Hurst later joined the University of Nigeria. So he also had a teaching career. He had also served at the Bard College, New York and David and Mariana Fisher University. Archipi was also the first to be honored with the Nigerian National Meritor Award in the year 1979 for his academic works and he continued to write and publish his other literary works all through the course of his eventful life. Apart from earning more than 50 honorary degrees, serial fellowships, he was also awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Man Booker International Prize in the year 2007, among others. His health had gradually declined and owing to illness, Archipi breathed his last on March 2013 in Boston and buried in Ogedi, Nigeria. Coming to questions to check your progress, question number one write a few lines on the poet Chinua Chibi. Question number two, mention some of the major novels by Chinua Chibi. Question number three, name some of the political anthologies by Chinua Chibi. Question number four, name the prestigious awards and recognitions that Chinua Chibi had received in his lifetime. I hope you'd also go through the BE English graduate self-learning material that is the SLM of general English block one unit 8 semester 1. Thank you dear learners.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industrial trading down 21, Nasdaq off 251, S&Ps down 41, Gold contract down $10.50, trading at $19.74, $20 an ounce, we have Silver down 31 cents, $25.72 an ounce, Light Sweet crude up $242, $106.67, A barrel, notes and bonds, 10-year note down a full point at $119.25, the 30-year down two full points plus, 8 ticks at $140.30, and $Kingdala up $432 ticks, over $100 once again, $100.310, Euro 108, yen $125.98, and a British pound is out here at a price point of $130 to $1 US dollar. You know, we're going to take a look at the S&Ps we're going to have out here, it's going to be a tough close folks, bottom line is that this market is going after the opening tick from yesterday, we just blew away a swing point, had monster volume on the blow away, that's only three o'clock this afternoon okay, so you can see someone just came in the S&Ps as well as the Nasdaq composite, I mean the NDX futures and just blew this swing point away, that what that sets up is the lows of yesterday when we started out at $930 inside the S&P, that's $43.84, and that's another 16 points down from where we are right now, we take a look at the end cues, you're going to see the end cues are actually clearer, because the end cues started at a lower point yesterday, you're going to see that we've already blown away, oh you know what, they're going to blow that away too, wow, this is going to be a nasty close, so the low of yesterday where we started up from was the $13,421, and right now you're at $13,938, you know, but the way this is set up man, this is tough intraday, like is it the much larger ABC, if it's the much larger ABC, it's going to be pretty intense, because you're going from 246 down to, damn, that's like 280A to B, that'll get you $13,800, and you're at $13,940 right now, so we'll see where that, I don't think an hour can go there, but guess what, we're in a downtrend folks, that's the bottom line, stay right there folks, we'll come right back.


Okay, Revelation chapter 3, now you're going to have to bear with me a little bit because we need to establish a little bit of history. We need to establish a bit of an understanding and a premise and a little bit of a preface as well as we get into this book. So it's always interesting. I love coming to churches where I know the people are learned and educated considerably in the Word of God. I know that David's been, Pastor David's been faithful to teach you guys the Word. So I'm already teaching you with the assumption that you understand a lot of the things that are being communicated here. And what that enables me to do as a Bible teacher is it enables me to elevate a little bit what I would from maybe speaking to a crowd who maybe doesn't know the Word real well, you know? And it's unfortunate, it's really sad.  I've gone to many churches and have spoken to many places where people were so poorly taught the Word that they had no idea of the things that were being said.  You know what I'm talking about? I mean, just really, I'm talking. So it's awesome to see that I get to come to a place where I know people are being taught the Word so that I get to take a slightly different angle in that I can raise the level of education just like your pastor does and kind of bring you into an in-depth place of understanding things a little bit more clearly. So let's take a little journey. Let's do a little bit of a history lesson here, OK? So how about we pretend that it is roughly or the setting is somewhere around zero to three, maybe four AD. You are a young Jewish boy or girl that has, let's just say boy, we'll say that, OK?  You learned about Abraham. You learned about Isaac. You learned about Jacob. You learned about the work that God did as your forefathers sojourned through the land. You heard about Joseph and what God did through him and how God made a great nation as the generations passed. You heard about the pharaoh who actually did not know Joseph. And you heard the stories of how you were enslaved by the Egyptians and from the time of slavery all the way till the time of the current day. You have a very, very, very colored and difficult history, a painful history of being abused by those that were called Gentiles. You've heard stories of how the nation of Israel was established in great glory. You've heard accounts of King David coming in and telling the Lord, hey, I want to build a temple for you. And you hear about how that dream was realized in Solomon who built a beautiful temple structure and how that temple structure was destroyed by a fellow by the name of Nebuchadnezzar at the hands of the warnings of Jeremiah and Isaiah, the great prophets. You hear about all the horrible things that led up to that point.  You hear the countless accounts of suffering and pain that took place amongst your people. And in the current day of the accounts of all the pain and all the history, you certainly take no exception to the fact that the Romans themselves are the current occupying force. So much they've occupied that even the beautiful temple that has been rebuilt and reconstructed by a fellow by the name of Herod can't even be lad or kept in peace because there are Gentile Roman guards that are overseeing the courtyards. You've also heard stories of this Messiah that would one day come. You've been told that He would be the one that would deliver you from the political oppression of the Gentiles. You've been told the stories of how He would deliver your people from the bondage and from the slavery that they regularly experience. You hear all the accounts of what everybody has to say concerning what this Messiah may do for your future and how free you may live. And you have been longing even as a young child, you have been longing for the opportunity to see this Messiah. One day, you wake up in the morning only to hear rabbis and priests and leaders walking through the streets, wearing sackcloth and ashes all over themselves, falling to the floor and wailing out at the top of their lungs, Ye Ya'ilahi, why God, why God? Why have you done this? And you stand a bit astounded and shocked on that very day because your whole life you've been used to hearing about how the Gentiles have forsaken you.  But yet the one thing that you have never been accustomed to is the God of your fathers forsaking you. But on that day, you cannot help but to feel just like the rest of the people wailing and crying that the God of your fathers has forsaken you. The reason why you feel that way is because in Genesis chapter 49, when Ya'qob Israel is literally handing out his final blessings, the Lord uses him to tell something very important to his sons, something critical that you and your people have held on to forever and he says, the scepter shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh comes. Now what does that mean to you? It simply means this. The way you've understood it is that the right to capital punishment will not be taken away from your people until the Messiah would come. Because in your mind, you don't need the right to capital punishment if the Messiah is there because he's the one that will now rule. But yet in your mind, on that day, you know that the Romans have taken away the Jews' right to capital punishment. Your people's right to capital punishment and yet in your mind, Shiloh had not yet come. As powerful and as vivid as that pain is in your heart, as sure as you are that you have been forsaken by God, you are just as mistaken in your own mind and heart. Because, yes, the scepter did depart from Judah, but in a small little town, Bethlehem, to be specific, Shiloh did come. Born literally in a cave, not the birth of a king by any stretch. He was raised up, the Bible says, as the only man on the face of the earth that fulfilled the law completely to its wholeness and its accurate interpretation and depiction, completely whether on its face implied, he fulfilled every jot and tittle. If you don't know what a jot and tittle is, a jot and tittle were literal descriptors that were being used in Hebrew grammar, almost like grammatical structures, although they weren't, but little tiny structures that would depict markers, for lack of a better term, that would depict how accurate the translators were. In other words, you didn't miss a single detail. This man, this Messiah, did miss a single detail of the law of God, and not even a dot that would be used to mark where the scribes had left off in the copies of the manuscripts. You lived the life, the Messiah, he lived the life perfectly. He healed the sick. He gave the blind sight. He took the hopeless and he gave them hope. He took those that were filled with sin and forgave them of their sin. He was truly the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world, and as a young man who was following him, you find yourself on one day in the year somewhere around 32 A.D., standing up, looking at a cross, watching the man who you thought was your Messiah, being hung on a cross, a criminal's death.  You hear him say, Ilahi, ilahi la musabahtini, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?  You were there three days later when he resurrected from the dead after being sealed in a rich man's grave, Roman guards standing so that nobody would steal the body. You watched the miraculous worm. You watch, you hear of the great things that he does in the next 40 days, and you are there on the day of Pentecost after 40 days after Christ descends. You're there when the Holy Spirit comes down in a way that is so powerful and unique and special that he overwhelms the room, fills people and causes them to speak in other tongues. You watch the church being born. You watch Peter, who used to be scared of little girls, preach the gospel with great power, and 3,000 people being added to the church that day. You stand to watch God, the creator of the universe through the power of his spirit, transform the lives of a very, very broken world. Thirty years now goes by from that day of Pentecost. Titus has already come in. Destroyed the temple. People are losing heart, they're fainting, and you even begin to realize that there is a whole generation of kids who never got to experience the Messiah, who now look at the Messiah as an abstract God, one of many gods that they worship, and so you feel so compelled and so strong that you have to grab a scroll and you have to write these words.  And from the beginning of those powerful words that you write down in the native language, the Greek language that you were so familiar with, the language of the Romans, you begin to describe with great vivid accuracy the story of what happened during the life of the Messiah that you still worship.  You see a revival even amongst the Gentile church, and you see great things begin to happen even specifically in Asia Minor, and now you find yourself somewhere around in 90 AD.  You've been persecuted.  They just tried to boil you in oil, and that didn't work.  James died by the sword. Peter was crucified upside down. You're the last one, and you find yourself wondering, what's the purpose of my existence until something powerful and unique happens yet once again to you? And the Lord Jesus Christ Himself appears to you and says, write down the things which I show you. I'm going to show you the current state of affairs. I'm going to show you what was, and I'm going to definitely show you what is to come. And I want you to write down exactly that which I tell you, because these words will be necessary for the future of the church. Then the Lord does this. He tells John, he says, look, I want you to write down the words that I have to give you to seven different churches. Every single one of these letters, by the way, that he writes to all of these churches are very valid, very powerful, very relevant to us today. But the one I want to focus on today is I believe the one that is probably the most applicable to us in the current condition we are in in the church in the West. And that is what starts in verse 14 when Jesus writes a letter to the church in Laodicea. Now, I'm reading from the King James because I like Elizabethan English, right? But some of you might not like to be tortured by that type of English, so I'll walk you through what some of this means. Look what it says in verse 14. It says, and to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans, write. So there's a command. Jesus is saying, hey, John, I want you to write this letter to the angel of the church. Now, some people will say, well, this means that there's a literal angel assigned to a church. I don't necessarily take that view because I just don't think that that's what's being depicted here. When it says to the angel of the church, literally the Greek word is angelos. Surely you're familiar with that term. David's spoken about it many, many times. And what this word can mean or actually predominantly does mean is the messenger of the church who's the messenger of the church, the messenger of the church is the pastor of the church. Why is the messenger of the church being spoken to as opposed to the church as a whole? Here's the reason why. Because when God wants the body of Christ to behave a specific way, who does he tell to behave that way first? The pastors. They're the leaders. God doesn't say, do as I say. He says, do as I say and as I do. Right? So when we consider this, he's saying, I want this message to go out to my body so as a result, give it to the messenger here. Then the messenger will take and will deal with this. He'll bring it out. So he wants to get the attention of the church. Look what he goes on to say. He says, these things sayeth the amen. Now we'll stop at that word amen for just a second. I'm gonna spend a lot of time on this word because I want you to understand it. Now, we throw this word around quite a bit, don't we? We say it in different contexts, right? Well, some of us say it. We hear it in different ways. I'll say a prayer and you've heard this many, many times. We've probably done it four times already today here at church. We'll say a prayer, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen, right? We always say that and I even noticed when I said amen many of you said amen with me, right? So we say it that way. Then there's other ways we say amen. Some of the more common ways.  And I kind of like that little bit of affirmation. You know, it's kind of cool. When I do it, I tend to, as a pastor, say amen, ha, you know, praise the Lord, ha, ha. No, not that crazy, but you know. We say it different ways, different contexts in which we say amen, right? Sometimes you can even use that word in a way that is sort of secular, if you know what I mean. Like something that doesn't necessarily relate to God, although I think food relates to God. I'll use food as an example here, okay? This is a good one. Perfect example. I went recently to a place that I love. It's called Ham Bones. In our neighborhood, it's a great, it's the best barbecue place you ever, let me tell you the kind of barbecue it is. It's a type of barbecue where they give you like hope, like wonder bread. You know what I'm talking about? Like the white wonder bread, you know what I mean? Where the food has been barbecuing for, you know, the meats have been barbecuing for like 12 hours, you know? Oh man, it's the best stuff. And we're sitting there eating away and man, it's just so good. And someone said, dude, this food is the bomb. And he wasn't even eating with me with somebody else, like on the other side of the barroom. And I turned around and went amen. I'm in church up in this place right now. Ah! You know? And we say amen in all kinds of different contexts. We use the word amen in all kinds of different places and in all kinds of different ways. But there's a way that amen, amen is being used here that some of you might not be familiar with. The way the word is being used here is it's a title to depict a particular characteristic that is so foundational and fundamental that you cannot identify with God without understanding it. And that is this. Amen also means when it says so be it, also means it is permanent. In other words, when I say it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. God doesn't play around. He doesn't say, come on into heaven.  He doesn't do that. He doesn't.  I shared with you a passage from the Quran the last time I was here that tells us to lie because Allah is the chief of liars. How would you like to give your life as a martyr for a God that is called the chief of liars? Can you trust it? No, you can't. When they tell you on TV, oh Islam is a religion of peace. It's not a religion of hate. It's not a religion of violence.  It's a lie. There's nothing true about that. You cannot give Allah the title of Amen because what he says is not always so. He by his own words in his own holy book, the Quran, calls himself the chief of liars. By the way, who does the Bible say is the chief of liars? I'll say it in Arabic, shaitan. Satan, not on the other hand.  When he says he's going to do something, folks, he's gonna do it. He's not like, okay. He's not like the little young new age girl that you might see at the grocery store.  Like one of the rich people grocery stores. It has to be like in a really, really nice neighborhood or a grocery store that's like, you ever wonder that? If you have a Ralph's that's like somewhere in South LA, it looks like a liquor store somewhere, right? But if it's a Ralph's that's like, you know, in a really, really nice part of Orange County, dude, it looks like, man, what? I mean, it's like, they have their own department store in there, you know what I'm talking about? They got a little restaurant in the middle of the place and you know what I'm talking about? So you gotta go to a restaurant like that. I don't know why, it just happens to be there, you know?  But you know what I'm talking about? This has happened to me.  And then the mom says, okay, honey, now I'm gonna count to three. And if by the time I get to three, you don't stop. You're gonna be in trouble. Whatever, you walk away.  You come back 20 minutes later and the girl is still sitting there counting to now. I think she's at 300. You know what I mean? And the kids are like, my dad didn't do me that way. You know what I'm talking about? That's why I say you'll never see this in the ghetto.  That mom will be like, what, boom! You know what I'm talking about? That's two good parents over there, you know? You gotta be that way. My dad, I've never gone away with doing that with my dad. Do you know if my dad told me to do something, if by the time I said, oh, and no, I would say, no, my dad, my hand would see, my dad's hand would literally see my mouth. No, oh, before I could even say no, the back of his hand, right there. When my, this is why I think I have such a grasp, and listen to me, parents, especially fathers, this is why I think I have such a great grasp on my heavenly father, is because of the man of God my dad was and still is. When my dad told me something, it was gonna happen. That was the way it was. My dad, there's no way in the world that I don't care what it was. If my dad said it was gonna happen, there was no way in the world you could convince me that it was not gonna happen. When my dad said it, it was happening. I remember this one time. I don't know, 12 years old, something like that.   So he would tell me, and I decided to get bold.  I was upstairs at the top of the stairs. It was that traumatic.  So I told my dad, in the almost 41 years that my dad was married to my mom before my mom went to go be with the Lord, my dad never raised his voice on my mom, ever. Only time you would hear my dad use a loud voice with my mom is when my mom was downstairs and needed to be heard and my dad was upstairs, like when he was calling for her. And I hear my dad at the top of his lungs call out my mom and tell my mom when my mom gets to the base of the stairs, what's wrong, Sam, is everything okay? And my dad says, get the video camera right now. He says it in Arabic there, but then the accents are, and you know, when my dad gets really mad, then the accent gets really thick, you know? The Middle Eastern accent gets really thick. So as my dad is waiting, while my mom was bringing everything up, you know, my dad's getting all riled up and everything, and then it gets really scary because you know, when dad gets mad, it was okay, it was not a big deal because when dad got mad, you know he wouldn't act out in his anger because he never did, but when he started calming down, that's when I would freak out. You know what I mean? That's when I got scared.  And so he sets out the whole video camera up and he gets a videotape and he puts it in there, make sure it's pointed at me, he makes sure my mom's got the record button. Elaine, is it recording like now? Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah it is. Okay, make sure you are pointed at me and James. And then my dad manages to give me the weapon of a lifetime. I mean, wha-ba! I think there may have been a shoe involved, I don't know. I don't remember. When he's done doing it, where I'm begging him, stop, stop! He then walks up to the video camera, hits the stop, ejects the cassette, the tape and hands it to me and says, and when you call the Child Protective Services, give this to them too! I'm lying, that's true! When my dad said something, it happened. Now, it's hard for me not to get emotional when I think about this. Because when Jesus Christ calls himself the Amen, he is saying, listen to me because the words that I say are with penality. They are permanent, they are not, I take it back! When he says it, he means it, and it's gonna happen. Make no mistake about it, nothing in the world that you can possibly imagine or think of will stop what he says from happening, from happening. We can respond two ways, one of two ways. We can say, ah, whatever, and then when it does happen, be devastated. Or we can say, whoa, I believe this. And then, be blessed. I spend a lot of time expounding upon what it means to be called the Amen. Because if you do not understand the word Amen, as it's associatively valued with Christ in his character, you cannot understand the other words that are listed here. By the way, this is really cool. This is, I do this a lot in the Bible College environment, especially when I teach original language classes. This is really cool. You're gonna notice something right now. We're gonna see a couple of other words being said here that he associates himself with. And because I spent so much time describing to you the foundation of both words, both of these other words will make sense. I don't even have to explain it to you. Watch this. He calls himself the Amen. You guys now understand what Amen is. Can I get an Amen? Amen, all right. Look what he says. These things say if the Amen, the faithful and true witness. I think this through. If he is the Amen, that means whatever he says will happen, which means his word is faithful. His word doesn't lie, which means he's true. He's faithful and true. It will happen and it will happen exactly as it is said. It is completely 100% accurate and he is 100% faithful. And then he says this. He says the beginning of the creation of God. Now, let me tell you why this is heavy. He is called, Jesus Christ is called the beginning of the creation of God. Not because he had a beginning point. As a matter of fact, that passage that I quoted to you in John where he says, The beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was God. Watch this. What that implies, there is a use or a rendering of the use. I said that backwards, the use of the rendering of the imperfect in the Greek New Testament, which would imply that Jesus has always been there when the beginning came into existence. But yet over here he's called the beginning of what? The creation of God. Let me tell you what this implies. And boy, let me tell you, this is heavy. Watch this. This is gonna bless you. If Jesus is called the beginning of the creation of God, then what that would imply as you look at this in the original language and what it would apply if you just simply look at it within good context and you bring it together, is it would imply that when God created you, he already had his son in place for your benefit? Because his son is the beginning of the creation of God. If his son is the beginning of the creation of God, that means his son was already in place for your benefit. In other words, the Lord specifically in his purposes knew from the very beginning that his son would be set aside for our benefit, which is why he's called the beginning of the creation of God. Whoa, when we put all this together, why is that really important? We put it together because he's saying what I say is final. You can count on everything that I say will happen. So watch out, you're on notice. But know that I'm telling you this with the deepest and sincere, innermost depth of my love. I'm telling you because I love you. Pretty heavy verse verse here. Look what it goes on to say in the 15th. It says, I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I want that that work cold or hot, so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. This passage is probably one of the most incorrectly taught passages in the Bible. It is one of the easiestly misconstrued passages and certainly one of the most highestly inappropriate or misappropriated passages you will find. Why? Because the most common teaching of this passage is, God would rather that you love him, which of course is being represented by hot, right?  He wants to know whether or not you hate him or love him.  That is wrong. The Bible says that God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. How in the world could God, and he says I would rather, in other words, the way it's written here in the Greek, I sincerely wish that you would be cold or hot. That does not mean that God sincerely wishes that we would hate him. He does not wish that for his creation.  He loves us. What he's saying is, you ready for this? He's saying something completely different. Let's go over it for a second. How many of you like to drink coffee? Raise your hand. Or any hot drink? Raise your hand.  Ready? Okay. Man, is it good to have a nice, now I like coffee just black. Just plain Jane, nothing in it, just black. Some of y'all order coffees. I don't even know how you pronounce some of the names of it, you know? I'll have a ristretto latte, brown with sugar on this kind of soy milk and whatever, whatever, dude. No shame in your game, but man. But imagine your favorite hot drink and it's a cold day. For Southern California, that would mean like 68 degrees, you know? It's a cold day. We're all freezing. There is nothing better than to see that big hot steaming cup of coffee and you pick it up and you take a little sip and all that felt good going down. You know what I'm talking about? Or how about this? How about it's a super hot day. I had to go to an FBI class many years ago. And mind you, this is when I was 300 plus pounds heavier than I am now, okay? In St. Louis, 100 and three, no 104 degrees with 100% humidity. Yeah. I hear the pain in your voice. That stinks. That's miserable. You know the best thing I could do when I was there on those days?  Where you go in there and you fill it all the way to the top with ice and then you pour a little bit of water on top, right? And you shake it up pretty good where it gets really cold and then ah, you just drink away. Man, that feels good cold going down your throat.  There's nothing better than that. Man, does that, ooh, that's good. There's nothing that refreshes me more than that type of situation. In that kind of heat. Now, let's contrast this for a second. Go back to that same cold day that we were talking about. It's even more cold. It's 66 degrees instead of 68. And we're really freezing now.   Pretty nasty, isn't it?  You still see a few cubes of ice at the top. Lots of condensation. The table is wet from the condensation and you go to pick it up and all of a sudden you taste nothing because it's the same thing just lukewarm. What are you gonna do, Google? Grotes. What hot and cold is as it's described here are both wonderful. If you're cold, you love the Lord. If you're hot, you love the Lord. Let me give you some examples of what colder hot is. Hot, that's me. I'll give you, well, you know, I am kind of hot, you know what I mean? At least my fiance tells me, I don't, I'm just. Steaming hot. I get up here and I'm, wha! My buddy Tony Clark's the same way. You ever heard Tony on the radio, you know? You hear him and he's like, praise the Lord! You know? Or maybe Tony Evans, have you heard him on K-Wave Reason? That guy's like, and I said, ah! You know? Those guys are hot. I am categorized as slightly hot. Pastor David, ooh, he's cold. And let me tell you, he's the good kind of cold. He's the man that stinks. I'm all mustied up in the steam and the, and you just drink that cup and, oh, it feels so good. That's David, that's Pastor Chuck. That's a guy like Brian Brodersen. They both represent the hot and the cold. They both represent extremes that are refreshing. In other words, God gave you all different personalities and he wants you to live in those personalities but in the extreme for him. By the way, do you know the only other time in the Greek New Testament, other than the localized context here, where you see the Greek word for cold, sucros actually being used? It actually is used in one other place and that's where Jesus says, when you give one of these cold cups of water to these children such as a kingdom. Interesting. What the Lord doesn't want is he does not want you to just show up and not really care.  He doesn't want you to try and be like somebody else.  In other words, in your relationship with God. By the way, let me tell you what doing you does not mean. Doing you does not mean, well that's the way I am. If you don't like it, then forget it. A lot of husbands do that to their wives and I'm gonna beat up on the husbands a little bit because that's really what happens. They go to their wives and they say, you're just gonna have to accept me this way. I have to have all my life, I've watched football on this day and that's the way it's gonna be. Really? It doesn't mean that. It means denying yourself in the greatest way you can think of, reflected in your personality. By the way, husband's here's a word of encouragement to you.  You know wives are pretty right or die. You know that? Women are pretty much that way. Once they're committed to a man, it takes a lot for a woman to get frustrated with their husbands and want to not be by their side. It takes a man to really, really beat up and abuse his wife for a wife to get to that point. So if you come to me, to my office, at Cabbage Apple Single Home, you have a marriage counseling appointment and you say, my wife don't respect me, she don't love me, whatever. I'm gonna say, what in the world did you do? Really? It's true. It's true. I've learned this in the 20 some odd years that I've been counseling couples as a pastor. And I've learned this from the example of my mom and my dad. And I'm learning this from the example and the ministry that God's given me now to my sweetheart, my Nicole that I'm gonna be marrying in a month. I'll tell you this right now. Here's what it is. You better learn, men, you better learn to deny yourself for your spouse.  And the reason why I would say that is because there's only three known cases in the last 100 years of mankind of what's called hematrodosis, which means sweating blood. Jesus Christ sweat blood for the church and he tells us to love our wives as Christ loved the church. Have you sweat blood for her yet? You haven't.  You think Christ wanted to go to the cross? You're out of your mind if you think Christ went to the cross willingly. You don't read the Bible. Jesus said, not my will be done, but thy will be done. Christ didn't go to the cross willingly, he went to the cross obediently. You might not wanna serve your wife a specific way willingly. Who cares? I don't care, God doesn't care. He wants you to serve your wife obediently. He did it for us to be the model, right? The way God made you, but do it in obedience, direct obedience to God. And those personalities reflected in your life will be amazing in the way people are changed. Watch this, by the way. Consider this thought. The alternative to that is to simply be lukewarm, which means you don't care. You're apathetic. By the way, that's really easy to do in the church today. You know the people who are at the most fault in this area? The people who fall most to this? Pastor, this building is beautiful.  The pastor's offices are nice. If you go to Cabbage Apple Signal Hill, you'll see all the oil wells and everything, but you come into our sanctuary, you'll see beautiful artwork. You come into my office, it's like a little oasis like Pastor David's.  I mean, everything's nice. Air conditioning, you've got the nice sound system, you've got the beautiful music, you've got great musicians. Everything is comfortable. Boy, is it easy to come up and to just do things as status quo and then to walk away and not do anything extreme because you're just cruising. Right? It's easy to be.  By the way, if you're here today and you say, well, I'm numb and I have no emotion, but I love Jesus with all my heart, I'm not talking about you.  Just keep doing you. In the name of Jesus, obediently, to God's word. Now, this is the statement that the Lord makes. He says, because you say I'm rich and increased with goods and of need of nothing and know it's not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Remember what I just told you? Because we're so comfortable in all of our materialism, we don't realize we need anything. By the way, is it bad? Is it a sin to have a nice car in a beautiful home and all kinds of fun things to play with and toys and all that stuff? It is absolutely not a sin. As a matter of fact, there are wonderful gifts from God that I believe the Lord gives us in life to enjoy, but the bottom line is, they can easily become a sin when we put them before the Lord our God. By the way, this also applies to relationships. You know the easiest way to have a successful marriage? The easiest way, it's one simple thing. Love the Lord your God more than you love your own wife or your own husband.  You're gonna love them the way God wants you to love them. More than they could ever need to be or wanna be loved. That's what it's all about. Now that he's established it, you know, hey, you're naked even though you think you're not. He says, this is what I tell you to do. This is where I want you to go. This is the exhortation and this is the verse we close in. Two verses, actually.  By the way, to get pure gold, you know what you have to do to that gold? You have to burn every single last impurity out of it, which means it has to go through a serious forging process. There's a lot of heat. You ever watch Gold Rush? I love that show, by the way, okay? But you guys watch Gold Rush. It's a great show where they dig for gold and then they put all the dirt together and they get it all out and then they take the gold and they melt it all down and then all the crud comes to the top and they got this beautiful, beautiful, like brick worth of gold. Oh, that's so cool. Guess what? God says, I need you to buy that stuff for me. Now, what does that mean? That means you are buying gold in its most pure form. The only kind of gold that can be at its purest level, that's the gold that's bought from the Lord himself. Now, the only way you get that is to burn. What does that mean? That means you've got to go through some heat. You've got to go through some trials. You've got to go through some difficulty. There is a breaking process, but there is nothing better than to go through that breaking process because the other end of that breaking process is the glory of God. Oh, yeah. That's something that you can say, amen to, you know what I mean? Because I get excited about that because life is not easy sometimes. I had some on the other day and I just laughed uncontrollably. I just started laughing. I couldn't control myself. I started laughing uncontrollably.  I think I'm gonna try to get into the ministry full time. You know where I can go to do that? I still laugh at that thought. Really? That's like saying I'm scared of heights and I don't want to step off of a curb. Can you find me the highest high rise to jump off of? It's that foolish of a question, right? God's gonna break us guys for his glory if we don't want to be breaking. So it's a good idea to break ourselves before the Lord and let God do the work he's gonna do. That's what buying gold that's refined by God's fire does. What happens when a person realizes they're naked? They do anything they can to get clothing, right? If you don't realize you're naked, you're walking around going, the emperor has clothes, the emperor has clothes. Yeah, look at me, I'm styling. No, you're not, you're offensive, you know? True, let's close here. He says, as many as I love, I rebuke and chase. Remember what we talked about? How the Lord loves us and because he loves us, he will rebuke us and he will chase in us. He will discipline us. We talked about that, right? He says, because I love you, that's what I will do. But here's the commands that he gives us. Two commands and they're very important. He says, be zealous therefore and repent. Two commands issued to us in what is the rendering of the present, active, imperative in the Greek, which means continue to be zealous and continue to repent. As you identify areas in your life that you are going that is contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ, turn away from it. And stay turned away from it. And as you identify another area that you need to turn away from, turn away from that. But then here's one that we miss. He says, be zealous continually. What does that mean? Does that mean when you preach, be as loud as you can preaching? Well, if that was the case, I'd be the godliest man on the earth. Doesn't mean that. It means put your whole heart into worshiping the Lord. I had somebody come up to me the other day at our church. Guy that I love, I love him and his family. He comes up to me and he says, you know what, James? You talked about being zealous and giving yourself to the Lord. I don't even know what that means. I didn't even respond to him except with one word.  You just lied to me. What do you mean? How could you say I'm a liar? I can't deal for direction. And you go into work every day. Six o'clock? Okay, hold on to that answer for a second. Hold on to that thought. You lied to me about that, but we'll get into that in a second. What time did you come to church this morning? 9.30? What time does church start? 8.30? You said six o'clock? You go into work, right? Well, that's what I'm supposed to come in. Yeah, you come in at 5.15. You wanna know why? Because every single day, religiously, at 5.15, I see you post a picture from your office on Facebook and you give people financial advice because you're in the financial services industry and you do that. And of course, you're willing to pack up your kids and send them the daycare there and do all that other stuff that you have to do so that you could be at work at 5.15. Yet, oh, you don't know how hard it is to get here at 9.30. Liar.  You will wake up at four o'clock in the morning so you can be at your job at 5.15 to literally preach the gospel of the almighty dollar and yet you'll tell your wife you're too tired to lay in bed with her and give her a devotion. You're zealous. You are remarkably zealous. But you're zealous in the wrong area. It's that same guy that will come to me 15 years from now and will say, my child is a disaster. Can you please talk to them? What in reality, what he needed to do was tell his child that the things of God were more important than his homework assignments because if the things of God were more important than his schoolwork, then his schoolwork would never be an issue. When I told him that, he goes, you don't understand how hard it is nowadays to pay for a kid to go to college. You're right. I'll give you a piece of advice that I gave him. It's a great piece of advice, by the way, for you parents that are getting ready to face children going to college. It's the best scholarship program in existence. And I'm a big proponent of education so I'm pretty much familiar with a lot of them. But this is the best one. You ready for this? It's the trust in the Lord with all your heart doting on your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge him. Be not wise in thine own eyes. Hear the Lord and depart from evil scholarship program. We have a guy that goes to our church right now who's one of the state of California's newest attorneys. He knows that I went to law school back in the day and he came to me and he said, hey, I think I want to be a lawyer one day. What do you think? I said, I think you'll make a great attorney, kiddo. One of the elders in our church. I think you'll make a great attorney. Yeah, but you know what, man? I just, the money that it's gonna take to pay for all this. I said, look, let me give you the best piece of advice that I can give you. Just love the Lord with all of your heart. Serve him in every way that you can and God's gonna provide for you every step of the way. This was a kid who at the time he asked me this was not even in this country legally. And the Lord not only was able to work out his immigration status, but the Lord through a series of amazing miracles paid for every last dollar of his legal education. And he graduated from LMU, one of the better law schools in this country. Passed the bar his first try and is serving the Lord with all of his heart and loved his wife and God is blessing him because he put the Lord first. Now I'm not asking you to put the Lord first so that maybe he can pay for everything and bankroll everything, whatever. I'm asking you to put the Lord first because we owe him, he deserves it. And here's the thing, when we begin to get hot and cold for the Lord, we begin to see everything else fall in place. I've watched God restore marriages when people have done this. I've watched God provide for people financially. I've watched God give grace to people physically. I've watched God transform people's whole worlds. The Lord is coming back soon, guys. We don't have time. We don't have time. Have you paid attention? What's going on in the Middle East? I've talked about this. I was here New Year's talking about it. If you wanna catch up on that, you can pull the New Year's study. It's crazy. What are we doing, guys? What are we doing? Are we putting God first? Are we making him the passion of our hearts? Are we seeking him out? There's one thing I didn't share with First Service because we were running out of time. But God immediately after these commands says this, if anybody wants in, all they've gotta do is knock. He doesn't say that. He says, I'm the one that's being proactive. I'm knocking. You don't even have to knock. All you've gotta do is open the door. You don't have to get right. All you have to do is come in exactly the state you're in and the Lord will come into your heart and will change your life. Nick, right? Almost 33 years ago, my mom, after knowing she was pregnant, was told by her doctor that she would likely have a little boy with Down syndrome and that she should have an abortion because that little boy wouldn't live. My mom fired the doctor and as of yesterday, 32 years ago, little Joseph Kdeese was born into this world with Down syndrome and with what is called a ventricular shunt, which means he has a hole in his heart. He wasn't even supposed to survive that surgery that he had. We had a doctor from South Africa operate on him and he's a healthy little guy now. God uses Joseph to bring certain insights into my life all the time. One of the most significant insights that God bought into my life with Joseph was through my little brother's singing. Give me an example. We had a guy that got saved in our church who was a crazy old school long beach slot policeman. I mean, the type of guy that had killed a bunch of people in the line of duty just very hard on the outside, didn't like people, sat in the back of the room, didn't trust anybody, whatever. Heard I was a police chaplain, got saved in our ministry, but then he still was kind of this rough guy didn't want to ever sing worship. Joseph walks right up to him one day, sits right by him, and Joseph loves to lift up his hands when he sings worship. So he would grab David's hand, his name is David, wonderful man of God by the way. He'd grab David's hand and David's like, by week two, by week two, they were always looking for each other every service and they would lift up their hands to the Lord singing to the Lord. One of my favorite songs that Joseph sings, because Joseph has a massive tongue, so it affects his speech. One of my favorite songs that Joseph sings is a song, I think Joseph Sobolek wrote it, and I like Joe, he sings a song, come just as you are. You know that song, come just as you are. That's okay, great song. Joseph doesn't sing it that way.  I love it. Right? It's cute how he sings it to, come nasty as you are. Hear the spirit call, come nasty as you are. Come and see, come believe, come and live forever. It's like, God, that's the wonderful part. You don't have to get fixed up for God. He'll fix you up. Just open the door, that's it. He's knocking, let him do the work.


Thank you for, thank you for all the organizers, so Bastien, Pascal, Céline, Eileen, Xiao. And thank you for being here to listen to me. I'm going to talk about joint work with my supervisor, Stephen Sere, at Quittaye in France. The topic is about the regularity properties of some random measures. So I already talked about this at another conference for young people, so I'm glad to re-talk it to some other young people that I didn't know yet, so it's a good occasion to me. Okay, so same point of a class of macro processes of these drums. Basic problem is the following. So let us consider a continuous time run, stochastic processing, RD. So X in 01. So let us define the occupation measure of this process, which is simply the time spent by this process at any fixed marable setting, RD. So the question is, the regularity about this measure is random measure. First, the direct, the most basic question is the absolute continuity of this measure. So in some other terminology, it is also called occupation densities. In the Markovian context, it is often called local times. So when the local time does not exist, we can consider another kind of regularity properties for these measures. It is called local dimensions. So for this measure, we consider a point in the support of this measure. We search for, we want to observe some kind of power law for the occupation measure of both centered at this point, X. It is simply the positive real number H such that we have this relation, okay? It is, first of all, it's not always well defined because this limit may not exist. And another observation is that for some, for many measures, it might happen that this exponent H may depend on the position of this X. So I will give some examples. The first example, the most interesting example is the burning motion. It's studied, it's been well, it's been studied. So they reconsider the local time, the existence of local times. And in dimension one, it does exist. And in higher dimensions, a brand motion does not have low times. And we consider local dimensions as was defined in the last slide. So Perkins and Tyler have, can say have, has proved that for all the points in the support of this measure, browning motion has local dimension too. It says two things. First, the limit, the limit, log, log limit does exist. The second thing is that for all the points, the regularity exponent H is the same for all the X. So for another kind of Levy process, this is a special case of Levy process. For another class of Levy process, for example, the increasing stable Levy process also called spondenators. Alpha stable spondenators, we can also consider the question. So its occupation measure has local dimension alpha. In this case, not for all the X in the support, but for me almost every point in the support. Now this is a result by who and Tyler in the late 90s. So does there exist, expect exceptional sets, exceptional points? The quick answer is yes. I'll talk about this later. Okay, let us just mention another related question. For browning motion in higher dimension, we don't have local times, and the local dimension is a constant for all the point, but we can consider some fluctuation for the regularity of this measure with logarithmic order. So this is a work in the early of the 2000. We can see a check of paper by Dan Bove Paris. Roseanne is a 2D. Okay. So the framework that I adopt to consider this problem is a multi-fractal analysis. The basic, the goal of this framework is to distinguish different local behavior of the measure, considered measure, by a description of the set of points with a given regularity exponent. Means that with a given power law of H, this kind. So the definition that makes sense, always makes sense, is the upper local dimension. We all, instead of taking limit, we take this limb sweep for this log log quality. We can always, we can also define this lower local dimension, which is only the limb inf here. On the limb exist, we call it a local dimension. Okay. So the definition of this, of the, what we call upper multi-fractal spectrum is the mapping to associate each value of H, possible H, the power law, to the host of dimension of this level set for this regularity exponent. Okay. So the host of dimension is just, okay. It's by word, it describes the whole thing a setting in a metric space is. Okay. This is the right notion in this context and in many others. But we can also consider, for example, packing dimensions of this kind of side. Okay. So finally, what is called a same point? The same point recorded for alpha stable boundary nature for mu almost every point, we have this power law with alpha. In this case, the power law exists, the limit exists for almost every point. And, but there are many other points. We have another power law with bigger exponent H. In this case, our power to H is much smaller to that one. So we call it, in this case, we call this the point X, a same point. Who entirely in 97 proved that the host of dimension of set of points with given regularity H is this function. So if I draw a picture of this spectrum, it'll be like this. This is the host of dimension of the set. This is all the possible value of H. For the other values, larger than two alphas, smaller than alpha, it has host of the, this is only a simple empty set. And this alpha corresponds to the host of dimension of the range of the alpha stable spawn nature. Okay. So with all this in mind, let us just give a few words on the process I studied. So the goal is to describe same points of the jump diffusion, jumping SDEs, by using the notions of multi-fractal analysis. The kind of difficulty or differences that for this kind of more general model process, we don't have stationary increment. Okay. This is the difference between process I started and that of who and Tyler. So the definition of this kind of process given by Bayes Bayes introduced this in late 80s. This is a Markov process with generator of this kind. We remarked that if beta is a constant function, we recover what we call alpha stable spawn nature. Of course, here we only keep the large jumps. The large jumps does not influence the path, the sample path properties of a process. We remove it. Okay. So the SDE satisfying by this process is this kind. It's written as a stochastic integral with respect to some Poisson-Pont process, some Poisson matter generated by a Poisson-Pont process with this intensity. Okay. So let us remember that we want to study the host of dimension of this set of singularities. So we need a translation from this formulation and the way to do the computations. Okay. So the first thing that we can say is that we consider a point X in the support of this mirror. The spot of this mirror is just the range of this process with this closure. We consider a point in the support. We consider this quantity. We consider a point in the set with this property. So this limit sweep is bigger than h minus epsilon. So for if in many scales tending to zero, we have this inequality. And this describes the time spent by this process m inside the ball with radius rn. It is upper bounded by something like this. It means that the process cannot be too slow. So if we translate it to the increment of the process, it means that the two side increment of the process is larger than the increment power two, some one over h, essentially, multiplied by beta. Okay. So we need some increments, we need some increments estimates to do some further computations. So the second key estimate is the following. So if we consider the increment, this is not exactly the increment of our process m, but the increment truncated the large jumps bigger, bigger than the time increment power two, one over delta. If we truncate all the large jumps of a certain scale, then we have this uniform control for the increment of the process. And the larger jumps are much smaller to control. Once we have this, we can give good estimate for this, we can good estimate for the increment. So the observation is the following. For smaller increment, we have for smaller jumps, accumulation of smaller jumps, we have this upper bound. And for the total increment, we have this lower bound. It means that there's has some large jumps. It's a smaller jump because the smaller jump accumulation only gives this order. And I'm sorry, this is the big order. So definitely there are some large jumps. So our conclusion is that there are two large jumps beside the time t such that mt, so every mt in this set, the t should satisfy this two jumps configuration beside it. Okay. So if we highlight all this kind of double jump configuration, like what we did for the percolation, fractal percolation, we consider at each scale, the time, the increment, the intervals, with this kind of configuration. And by considering it's descendant, also consider, we also choose to keep all this double jump configuration, we get a set, a fractal set. And this will give an upper bound for this point. Remind that we do not want to compute this host of dimension. In fact, we want to consider the set of x such that we have this regularity h. So there's still some a step from time to space. In this case, we'll need a nanolog of the dimension doubling theorem for Brownian motion. Okay. The lower bound is much more involved. I'm not going to talk about it. It concerns the construction of condosets inside this all this level set of singularities. So result is the following. The upper multifractal spectrum of this matter is this, in fact, this is a random mapping, which is the superposition of all this kind of curves. It gives also a random fractal effect. So thank you for your attention. Thank you. Is there any questions? If there are no questions, thank you again. Thank you.


Goeddych e ti i'n awr i ddadf am bobl cyflymu. Rydyn ni'n ddweud chi meddwl i chi wedi reflectedol ei Joalu? Rydyn ni'n meddwl i reflectedol i chi wedi wedi wedi fydd yn dal i'r fan. Rydyn ni wedi ar gael ett o'r ddweud. Rydyn ni ddim i'r meddwl i'r game ac yn gallu gael i reflectedol i chi. Rydyn ni i'n meddwl i chi wedi ei weld ei ystyried i chi eisdo yn ei wneud. Ond First and foremost weíll take it upon ourselves as a group of players and staff and look to rectify it against, which was a really good team to us. Iíll be all right and weíll look over a couple of things in an opposition still, yeah. You gave your immediate thoughts after the game, from a perspective on the pitch, will they consistantly what youíve seen since as a post from different angles? Yna, mae'n grratedd am ddysgu'n gwneud hynny. Yn mynd i'r ddangos, yna'r bobl yn cerddau i fynd i ddechrau'i gwneud i gael y dysgu a naddw i ddweud dyfodolol. Yn gyflawni'r corffo현, yn cael ei galwau a'i'n brunau a ddydd gael ac mae hynny'n yn arfer. A base diogel ar gyfer hynny a gwneud ar gyfer hy adeiladau y gwaith. Felly mae wedi cydgyrchu eu bod yn gwneud, rwy'n gweithio ar bobl a gwneud. Fi wnaeth i'r reall yma i'r wych ymlaen, a dyma chi gyd i gyd yn ei ffau, mae'n dweud. Edrych i'r Bryn oeddwch chi i chi, i'r eu dda i'r peolau oedd yma i'r llwdydd neu a chyloch gyda'r ymarfer? Pwedech chi'n rhoi i fynd eu rydyn ni'n sîr i mi i'r perthag arweinydd. Fi ddim yn gwneud yn gwneud hyn nid, i ddim yn gwneud i'r llwyddi. Mae'n mynd i chi'n rhoi i ddim yn gwneud ar weinydd ar gyfer'i sîr i'r perthag i'r perthag ar gyfer y byd. I think it's one of the things we got bit about a better team on the night and that was that, they were at it and we fell short of it on our own stands that we've set and when that happened it can be a risk for disaster especially as a team like that who were buying at it. Oe ydych chi'n cerddwyd yn preparatio, fel sydd wedi'i cael ei wneud i gyffreddol i'r hyn? Yn fwy, mae'r dweud yn cyflawni gydag. Mae'n ddod yw'n gwasanaeth gwaith i'r gwahanol. Felly byddwn i'n dweud yn cael llawdd. Mae'n cyflawni'n ddweud yn cyflawni gydag. Mae'r dduffyr i ddweud â'r ddweud, a'r ddweud o'r fwy yn rhan. Mae'n gweithio i gael i'r ddweud o'r ddweud yn dweud. Mae'n dweud i'n ddechrau i gael i'r dweud i gael i'r ddweud. gobeithio ar y 뒤wyddau sy'n gweithio'r gyda'r newid. The game, they are happy with that loads of a few. Rwy'n symud, we'll look more in detail into that analysis of tomorrow and we'll be good to go cum sady. Yn gweithio y gallwn sydd yna nodion cyffreddol, ond,言odd ein waspar. Do isi'n gweithio sy'n gweithio Arnau? Fylltio'n gweithio'r anodd yn fawr? Yn credu gweld y pob lŵr a oedd e'n gweithio'r gennym Can go out there and win games and put them on the performances and try and attack and kind of excite to the extent and I think if you want to do that in a longer term thing, as every single manager, then you need to take time to do that, you need to find a way to do these things, things that aren't going to happen, these patterns and stuff you seem to name the other night. And this is not going to happen for us in a short space of time, to be honest with you. That's just not the case obviously. We've had a way of playing. It's been successful and we won't go away from that because we've lost our game of football. We want to build here. First and foremost, there's momentum. We want to build energy and we want to build a team and build a club and stuff like that where we know where we're going to be. We can go into each game thinking we're going to win this game. That's what we thought the other night. That's going to be the same again come Saturday. We're going to go in there to win the game. Mae hyn beth ydych yn y bydd yr raith ymgyrch, y bydd yn y gweithio, gan stryd o'r ymgyrch am y god,相信wn y maen nhw'n jointo y maen nhw. Rydyn ni'n tu i'r cynnwys ffrind y bydd hwnnw o'i wrth i ddweud y rhagloedd, felly y mae nhw'n rhan a'n gwrs yn gallu gyda'w mhug o'r ymwneuddiol. Yn y bydd y brwypyng y gallai'n cyfloddau chi'n gwybodaeth yn gwneud nid oherwydd brothersgol Mae'n sicrhau, mae'n acceptedio cael mwy o'n tu i rai cysylltyno yn y maen nhw. A i ddigon o'r切 wrth yma, ac mae'n bwrdd yn y planer hon, yma, nid yn y reif, gan y hyn o'r holl mwy o'r holl, at nid o'n holl a'r cyllid â'r holl, a'r holl yn y holl. A'r holl o'r holl o'r holl, a'r holl o'r holl i'n holl wnaeth hynnyddo phasig, i'r holl i'r holl i'r holl i'r holl i'r holl, and holl i'r holl i'r holl i'r holl, Mae'n credu fath yn ymddangos. Mae'r ystafell eich maesen yn ymdangos ar gyfer ymddangos. Ond mae'r ystafell yn y syniad, mae'n gweithio ganddo i'r ffwngau. Mae'n gweithio i'r ffwng, ond mae'n gweithio i'r ffwngau. A'i gael i'r ffordd o'i wneud o'r ffwng, ac mae'n gweithio i'r ffordd o'r sardau. Ddiwy'n gwed squadniad o'n ffordd o'r piolaid, du? Am ffór iawn roi'n argynwedig ymddangos yn eu chynllunio'n gweithio'r lluniau ar ffyrdd anhygoel y prif. A'r aesion ffyrdd ym mhag i siarad, rydym yn cyflwyntu'r bobl i'r rhaid. Rydyn ni'n dweud yn digwydd angen ei wneud. A'r ystafell wedi gwwysig y gallur yr adeilad, Iawn... Um... Ac mae'r bobl yn dweud am y ddechrau, ac mae'r bobl yn rhan mwy oedd yn bwynt yn fywg. Mae'n dweud am ddigon llwyaf a ch�eth i sicrhau. Mae'n dweud yn dweud yn dweud o'r ddechrau, ac mae'n dweud i ddechrau'n anodd gyfrifiadau a'r gilio'r ddaf yn y ddaf. Mae'r dweud yn dweud o ddweud o'r ddweud, ac mae hynny yn dod o'r ganydd hynny o bwysgol yma. ond chwiliaeth os gyd, dwi'n enw, ac wedi gweld i yn cael ei wneud o'i gweinol ffordd a'wn i golygu'r ddylai. Beth e'n gweithio gyd yn fod? Er rhea, mae'n rhaid i ardal i Gymdeithasianol yn gweithio'r dde�au. Mae'n gweithio arna ni, gael ei ddefnyddio ddawn i'r digon i hyffordd yn eich ddechrau a gwesto. Mae'n gweithio gweithio i'r ddechrau ac mae'na arddangos i ddawn i'r ddechrau, a we felw'r siarad, ond n profitable isn't. I still enjoyed it. It was a game of football that we fell below our standards we've set. It was unacceptable for us, we all know. If you can't look at that in the eye and say it wasn't acceptable, then you've got a problem in your own head. So on that side of things, it's one of them things that as long as you can dust yourself down as you say, can feel you're in the defeat then you can do that and look positive and look beyond that and look to Saturday then you've got your order or step ahead. Gwydwch chi'n cael ffogol yn y taeth hwnnw, mae yna'r fan hyn o wych yn gyfyniadau soi'r team? Mae feddwl chi'n gweithio gyd STARTAN? Felly, mae'n dweud i'n ystafell yn cael ei ddiwrnodau, mae'n dweud i'n ddefnyddio gychydig, mae'n dweud i ddwybu, mae'n dweud i digwyddu. Yn cymaint yma, fel yma ar wrth gwrdd, mae'n gofio'n graddau, i gyd, ac mae feddwl chi'n ddych yn i gwaith Mae'n gwneud o'r gwahanol, mae'r ystyried yng Nghymru yn yn ffaith yn gwrth bod ifanc yna. Gwch chi'n gwasanaeth yng Nghymru yn meddwl i'r ystafell a'i'r ddaic, ac mae'n i chi'n gweithio i'r gwasanaeth mwy o'r gweithio, ac rwy'n meddwl i'r stand ddientiau yn ymlaen i gael i'r gweithio. Mae o'n ffaith o'n mynd i'r yrhaffi yn eich gweithio. Mae'n rhaid i'w hi'w ddweud o'r cyflwyll yw yn llai, i'w ddaf yn ddechrau, i'w ddaf yn gweithio i'w ddweud ac mae nhw'n ddweud o'r cyflwyll. Ni'n fyddai'n cael ei chyflwyll o'r cyflwyll sy'n bywyd i'w ddechrau i'w ddweud? Yr tyn ni, mae'n gweithio i'w ddweud, fel mae'n gweithio o'r bobl. Iwn y bair winearnog diam o'r gwaith o yearlyoannu. Rwy'n gwein i'r bydd ymwyfo gan peth, o arben yn ni allan y bydd leader iawn. Felly yn Dean Snardd, ac yna bai eisiau erioedd heb hwn conquest тыntus yn everywyr f secondary. Felly tynna fi'r gofith i ngion perthyn a l Saenfa rhaid ond ar ben 죽io. Yr hyn mae gan llawer o bo classical yma. Siw rhaid o'ch teimlu a'r ignebu? Dw i seron nhw. Roe'n gallu bod pobl yn cael ei rŵw yn termen. I think we're all right, yeah I don't think there's nothing that I can think of to report, no I think we're all good maybe, I don't know if I've got anyone injured before that's coming back, but no I think we're all good, yeah I've paid two, took a step in the right direction which is the main thing, but yeah that's the main one really. And just on the longer absentee now that Harry's back obviously for Dane, just how is he progressing? If he'd trained for the first full session today he did, found it tough as you can imagine and what the decision it was so I'm not too sure on how long he'll be but he's took a step in the right direction today by training the full session and getting through it and I'm sure he'll be sore tomorrow but he done alright and he's probably frustrated at certain elements of his training but that's like there's not going to be disappointed but he trained really well for the full session back so I'm not too sure in terms of timeframes but he'll be back soon enough and that can only be a positive. And just fine obviously a boost for you from a selection perspective that Richie comes back into the fray as does Jamie? Yeah I think Richie and Jamie bring a bit of experience in that again and I think again to be honest with you I think the other night it would have been tough for everyone involved the way we were at it so it would have been tough for everyone but Richie who has been spot on since I've kind of came in and put him there and he's done exactly what I would expect and Jamie's obviously done well. And they'll come back into the picture and will be good to get them back in the team because obviously they've been part of what's been successful and I'm not saying they're the catalyst to it but they've been a big part of it and they've been playing to see. In a way have you used what happened the other night going into the supplement game with that this is what can happen if you don't take it seriously enough they might not have won for a long time but we've still got to be as you said really on the game. Yeah I think I wouldn't take it seriously enough I think in terms of if you're not prepared I wouldn't say prepared the one either I'm not sure exactly what the word is but you've got to be at it you've got to earn the right you've got to especially in a league too you've got to grind first you've got to work hard you've got to keep chopping away until you get chances and stuff like that and you know we fell short of it in numerous different areas of the picture there tonight but I think you know them losing excellent at games whatever it was like I mean that was a team that will go on to win a lot of football games so they play like that but at the same time we're going to show you they'll also lose a lot of football games because like we tried to plan and like where we got our goal from will happen like a lot of times against them but no it's one of them it's one of them it's one of them ones like it's one of them ones where like we're like just going back to early just this point from our own point of view from from the game that night like and it isn't you can see it you can see it in the players after the game and stuff because we've set such a high especially after the rexham game to then go to that it's one of them one so we know if you're not at it and bang right at it then you could be on in the end of a heavy one which we were obviously the fans have an expectation that City are going to win for every game but particularly for Saturday do you feel that as players and as country staff or is that out of your mind it's just a concentration of what you've got to do I think if you want to be successful you've got to go into every game thinking you're going to win football matches like that's that's how the best teams in the world do and that's we're no different you want you need to go there and don't expect to win like this you're kind of putting them a little bit down but we need to go in there with the players we've got in there we should go there and we should dominate and yeah we want to go win football matches that's exactly what our aim is as soon as you go on that pitch want in every game and if you've not got a belief in you're not going to do that then there's a problem straight away so we're trying to get a belief into the lads which they should already have that when we're at it we're really good when we're off it we're not so good so we know we need to be at it and if we are at it in every aspect like we have been previous then we'll have a good chance of winning the game that's for sure The reaction you've seen from the players obviously after Saturday everyone's bouncing from Saturday and then after Tuesday it's all a bit flat I mean have you still been encouraged by the way you've sort of seen the response Yeah again everyone's flat after any sort of defeat but especially in the manner that we got beat was the hardest thing to kind of take but like me and I hope these lads are going to take example from me as such but at the end of the day we're falling short on that and I gave my football and it was 90 minutes where we were off it Ultimately that is what's happened it's not a cry there's no crisis meeting on that we played poor in a game of football we played good previous four games and that's what they got to take confidence from because we all know individually and collectively me as a player me as a coach we fell below that's it So I think as long as the players confront that and they can see individually they don't try and pass play and they accept it like myself as a player first and then me as a coach I'll confront being below par or slosing no problem like no problem whatsoever But I know on the flip side of things I've then got a positive mentality to move forward and come Saturday and playing I'm not playing myself on as a team then you've got to move forward because at the end of the day that's gone now you can only move forward and keep moving forward and if we win on Saturdays the same we lose on Saturdays the same we keep moving forward because at the end of the day it's a long season and it's not just one or two games that define your season So was that sense of perspective important as you say in the progress that the team has made in the previous games shouldn't be sort of forgotten about just because of one bad night? Yeah it's hugely disappointing that's the one thing I don't want people to get away from that it is disappointing there's no hiding from that we're not trying to hide from that we were disappointed individually and collectively we were disappointed But on the grand scheme of things since we've kind of came in it's been successful that's that it has been successful playing to see but you can't go away from that you've got to look at the positives but players reaction again today and training was spot on and we go Saturday we dust ourselves down we prepare properly again tomorrow like we did the other day and if we do things right we buy into all the things we've done previously and I say we won't be far away on Saturday And obviously being up to the first defeat you've been sort of involved with I mean in terms of the conversations where is it slightly more awkward within the dressing room because obviously I'm not sort of saying criticising individual people but obviously there's got to be sort of a bit of straight talking after a disappointment like that I mean there is like at the same time there is but I don't think I don't need to go in there and shout in bowl for people to understand we were below par as I said you have to confront that yourself you have to understand individual and collectively we were poor that's it like you need to look yourself in the mirror and say could I done this could I done that yeah did I do certain things well like everyone did yeah they did but I'm not really wanting to go in and shout in bowl to an extent like that after one kind of poor performance you know there's pointers to be made there's things that have to be said but I would never go in to this group of lads any group of lads at this moment in time and start kicking up a fuss because everyone's bought into what we've been trying to do we fell short probably from our side the other night that's it from coaches and as a manager we've probably maybe set them up wrong at times and could be a change and stuff like yeah absolutely so the blame's with us and we're doing no problem taking that blame. Alex Patterson is he getting closer? He is yeah he is but I think he's still part of us still a few weeks away and of course I'm not sure I don't think it was a re-injury of it but it was similar to similar areas or so I think so I think you just got to be a little bit more careful with that one maybe take a little bit extra time because part was crucial for us at the start of the season and yeah we have missed him but I think it's just ones like the physios in fitness coaches would be careful with him yeah. As you said he was a player who was flowing only? Yeah he was and it's disappointing for him first and foremost you know he's done really well at the start of the season and potentially no one part of the way he is we were potentially but eager to get back on the pitch which everyone is and ultimately it's kind of it's probably cost him and obviously us kind of dearly as such but that's not on him that's just him as a person who wants to play football no one wants to be in the treatment room and Pat will be back soon enough and hopefully continues in the same form as he did.