We started our study on the Sermon on the Mount and obviously, as I mentioned last night, we cannot cover the entire Sermon on the Mount even though in our next session I'm going to do my best. You'll see why in a minute when we go through the golden rule. But we are going to take a journey. We started last night with the eight blessed Beatitudes and this morning we're going to follow with the text that's right after that and that is the Christian's impact on the world by being salt and light. So if you would turn in your Bibles to Matthew 5, Matthew 5 and we are going to look only at verses 13 through 16 this morning. June 26, 2015 will go down in history as a monumental event. If you recall, the Supreme Court of the United States of America voted to allow couples of the same sex to get married. Men are now able to marry men. Women are now able to marry women. And ladies, do you realize the decision for our country was decided by two men and, lost my note here, three women. That decision for us was decided by two men and three women. And I don't know about you, but when that happened, I grieved that day. I wept. I wept. I don't agree to think that we now as kingdom citizens are living in a culture that is dishonoring the name of our Lord. And so I began to ask myself, how did we get here in our culture? What brought us to this point? And I know those of us who are reformed, we will answer that question by saying, well, you know, Susan, God is sovereign. He's still on the throne. He has a plan. He knows what he's doing. And I agree with that, but ladies, even though that is true, will we as reformed believers use that as a cloak for our lackadaisical Christianity? Have you and I failed in being effective to a lost world? Are we failing in being salt and light, living in a world that is filled with darkness and immorality? Ladies, the world is becoming more and more evil every day, but I'm up here this morning to tell you, I think that we as God's daughters are somewhat responsible for the moral decay and why? Because we have not been salty enough and we have not been shiny enough to stop some of the moral decay and the rot that is going on in our world. As we as Christians are in the world, we are not to be of the world, but that doesn't mean that we say that we stop making an impact on our world. Do you know Christ left you here to go and bring forth fruit, to make disciples, to be His representatives, to be salt and light, and yet many of us are failing to do that? So let's listen in. What Jesus has to say is He continues teaching there on the mountain, the Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5.13 to 16. Notice what Jesus says, You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will it be seasoned? It is good for nothing, but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. The city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden, neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on the lamp stand that it gives light to all that are in their house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Now you should have an outline there before you and your little brochure, your little pamphlet there. We're going to look at, first of all, the Christians' twofold impact on the world, the Christians' failure to impact the world and its results, and the Christians' faithfulness to impact the world and its results. Now for those that weren't here last night, it looks like there was just a couple of gals, we began by looking at the eight Beatitudes and we discovered that these Beatitudes are not something we seek after, it's something that we already are. And so if these Beatitudes that we looked at last night don't describe you, then you need to do some serious self-examination. We also brought out last night that each one of these Beatitudes builds on the previous one. That's why Jesus starts with the poor in spirit, those that are mourning and weeping over their sin, and then they become humble, and then they seek for all the righteousness that there is, and then that wants them to, then they desire to show mercy to others and on and on, and so we brought that out. And so ladies, can you imagine if every woman in this room this morning possessed those eight Beatitudes, they really describe who we are, can you imagine the impact that we'd make on our world if we really lived out those eight Beatitudes? We would be salt and light, wouldn't we? Because we would stand in stark contrast to a very dark world, and so that's why Jesus goes from the Beatitudes to the next section.  You are the light of the world. Now it's interesting that he uses these two examples, salt and light, because that would be something that everyone sitting on that hill would be familiar with. In fact, even in the 21st century, we're familiar with salt and light, right? In fact, the morning that I was getting ready to go into my office to study this specific portion of God's Word, I had just had some eggs, and guess what? I put salt on them, and I like salt. I don't have high blood pressure, so I have all the salt I want. But I also went into my office and turned on the light, so I could see while I studied. So salt and light is something that we are familiar with, too, right? In fact, right now, if the lights weren't on, you wouldn't be able to see. And so we are familiar with that. So let's consider the first way we as Christians impact our world from verse 13.  So ladies, the first way we as believers impact our world is by being salt. And notice Jesus says, you are. You are.  Now ladies, this forces you, it should force you to look at yourself. Don't look at the lady sitting to the right of you or the left of you or behind you or in front of you. You have, don't even look at your husband. Don't look at your neighbor. Don't look at your child. Jesus says, saying, you yourself, this forces me to look at myself. And notice it's not you will grow into being salt. You are right now salt. If you're a genuine kingdom citizen, you are right now the salt of the earth. Now what's the earth?  You should be salt. And by the way, this is not a command. Okay. This is not a command. This is a statement. This is what a genuine daughter of the king looks like. They're salt. Ladies, those who are living the Beatitudes are salt and light. Salt and light is not something the world is. Your lost friends are not salt and light, but it is something that you should be. You and I should be. Now you might think, well, this is kind of weird salt. We know in the biblical world, salt was a valuable commodity and people valued it far more than you and I do. In fact, do you know many in the biblical world were paid their wages in salt? Now how would you like that? Those of you that work outside the home, you know, comes to pay the 15th and 30th of the month and your boss says, here, here is a bag of Morton salt. I hope you have a great week. You know? And you're like, really? This is all I get. But it was a valuable commodity. Why? Well, for several reasons. They didn't have the refrigeration systems that we have last night. We got home and Debbie put some of her stuff in the refrigerator in the hotel so that it would, you know, not get spoiled and she wouldn't get food poisoning. And so in the biblical world, they would use the salt for preserving, especially meat. They did not have refrigeration systems like we do. So we can say by being salt, we preserve the world from corruption, just like salt preserves meat from being corrupted. Also, when you think about it, salt makes you thirsty, right? In fact, I've noticed that if I, on some of these trips, I can't actually eat, you know, like I would like to, but I end up eating, you know, especially in airports to junk food, you know, hamburger fries or every once in a while my husband will go out for pizza and after we go, why do we do that? It makes you just feel gross.  Salt makes you thirsty. So we could say being salt, by being salt, we make the world thirsty for the things of Christ. And also, did you know salt has healing agents? In fact, before I started oil pulling, I'm sure I'm giving you more information than you want to have, but before I started oil pulling about eight months ago, I used to break out these terrible canker sores. And I don't do it, it doesn't happen to me anymore since I started doing that. But before that, one of the things that I did that really helped my canker sores was rinsing my mouth out with salt and almost immediately or the next day they would be gone. Salt has a healing agent. So we can infer from that, we bring healing to a lost world. Now those are just some of the things that salt does, but ladies, look at the context. Jesus is using salt here as something that gives flavor by what he says next. If the salt loses its flavor, how will it be seasoned? Ladies, if we're not making an impact by preserving the world from corruption, then we've lost our flavor. If we are not standing in stark contrast to the world's values and morals, we've lost our flavor. Which means, by the way, we must speak out against those values. If you're not making an impact by your life which makes others thirsty to know why you're different, you've lost your flavor. If your words and actions don't bring healing to a lost and dark world, then my friend, you've lost your flavor.  So, and you know what happens if you're not being salty? You're no longer making an impact, but you look more like your lost neighbors. You're dull. You're foolish. And may I say to you this morning, this is the way many churches look today. They've lost their flavor. Sometimes I go to some of these conferences, Debbie and I were at one a few weeks ago. I couldn't tell the difference between the building we were in and what was going on inside the building in a movie theater. Some churches today, you know, am I in a house of worship or am I in a house of entertainment? You can't tell the difference. Ladies, our work should make others take notice and say, I want what you have. How do I get it? I want what you got. How do I get it? In fact, I've told you the illustration several years ago. I was going inside to pay for my gas and the clerk said, boy, you sure are happy. That's the key. And I use that as a bad illustration because I didn't tell him. I copped out by saying, you know, I got to get home and cook dinner for my husband. But at least that's what we should do to make a difference. What do you have? I want it. Paul says in Colossians, let your speech be always with grace, season with salt, so that you might know how to answer every man. Peter talks about that too. Every man that asks you about the hope that is within you. Let your speech be seasoned with salt. Let others thirsty to know who Christ is. Ladies, we lose our flavor when we become influenced by the world, when we fail to be disciplines in the means of grace, when we lose our passion, we lose our zeal, when we stop using our mouths for the gospel, we've lost our flavor. But Jesus says something very scary. He says, if you lose your flavor, you can't be seasoned again. You're good for nothing. Good for nothing. One man helped me to understand this better. He was talking about the fact that he went to Judea and he went to, there's a valley of salt there. And he pulled, there was a rock formation that was attached to this valley of salt. And he decided to pull a small particle of the rock away from the big rock. And he said it was really interesting. The part that was still attached to the big rock, he put it to his tongue. It was still salty. But the other part that had been exposed to the sun and the rain and the elements, he said it had lost its flavor. And he goes on to describe this very interesting, a preacher or a private Christian who's lost the life of Christ and the witness of his spirit out of his soul is likened to this salt. They may have the sparks and glitter, particles of true wisdom, but without its unction or comfort. Only that which is connected with the rock, the soul that is in union with Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit, can preserve its flavor and be instrumental of good to others." Ladies Jesus says, if you're no longer salty you've lost your flavor. You're like that rock. You can take a lick of it, but hasn't been connected to the rock, has no taste. And Jesus says, you're good for nothing. That's a very serious statement. Do you hear what he's saying? Good for nothing. Now ladies, what do you do with those things in your house that are good for nothing? Throw them out, right? In fact, every year I try to go through every closet and door of my house. And you know what? There's a lot of things I think this is good for nothing. Throw it out, you know, or put it on the street and put it on Craig's house. It was come and given.  And that's what Jesus says, you throw them out.  In fact, the throwing out here means to be violently thrust out. To be trampled means to be trodden down to reject. In fact, in biblical times, salt was not as pure due to the fact they didn't have the purification methods that we do. So sometimes their salt was mixed with dirt and it would become useless. And what they would do, they would throw it on the road as part of the gravel they would walk on and it became trampled underfoot by men. Men would walk on it as they would walk from place to place. It had lost its effectiveness. It had lost its effectiveness for healing or flavor or preserving. So what do you do with it? You throw it out. Mix it up. In fact, Jesus even talks in Luke about mixing it with manure, dung, to be thrown out so men can trample on it. Now, ladies, it is impossible for salt to regain its saltiness after it's been lost. Have you ever thought about that? And I admit this has some very serious implications. Since Jesus says, you as a daughter of the King are now salt and light, then if you're not, what does that prove? You can take it up with the Lord, but I'll tell you what he's saying. You are never in the faith. Remember who Jesus is talking to? Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites. He's talking to a group of people, some who are genuinely saved, some who think they are saved, some who think that they can do all these outward works of righteousness, hide every week, go to church, obey the letter of the law, but they omit justice, mercy and faith. That's who he's talking to on this mountain. In fact, these men had an outward show of religion, but not the real thing. So if you're taking notes, the failure to impact our world results in a tragic result. We are good for nothing. Good for nothing. Ladies, do you know even the apostle Paul understood this, the implications of this? You know what he says in 1 Corinthians? He said, I discipline my body and bring it into subjection. Why? Least I myself, the apostle Paul, at least I myself am a castaway, at least I go apostate. In fact, Paul says in another place, it is impossible for those who are once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift, if they fall away to renew them to repentance, seeing they crucified of themselves again, the son of God, and put him to an open shame. And even our brother Peter writes, it would have been better for you to have not known the way of righteousness than after you have known it to turn away from the holy commandment. For it is written what? The dog is returned to his vomit, and the sow is wallowing in her mire again. It would have been better for you not to even know the way of righteousness than to turn away. Ladies, salt that has lost its flavor is good for nothing. Well, Jesus moves on to the second way, genuine believers impact the world in verse 14. He says, you're the light of the world, the light of the world. So the Christians twofold impact, if you're taking notes on the world is by being salt and light, salt and light. In fact, the rendering here is the same as verse 13. You yourself are the light of the world.  You yourself, that's what she's saying. In fact, I can just see him pointing, you know, to each individual.  And again, it's not something we grow into. You're either light right now or you're not. You can't have, you know, I know now that popular thing in Christianity is there's three classes of people, saved, lost and those in between. Well, I don't see that in the Word of God. I'm still waiting for someone to show me that in the Bible. I haven't seen that yet. Two roads, right? Two ways, two destinations. There's not a third one, even though we're trying to make one. And you know, it's interesting because Jesus calls himself the light of the world, doesn't he? I'm the light of the world. So it makes sense that his children would what? Be light too, right? Well, what does light mean? The word light means to make manifest or shine. In fact, we know that light dispels darkness. So we would say that Christians shine in a dark world. And by doing that, we chase away the darkness. Ladies, our lives should be in a front to the world. We shouldn't fit in with the world. We should be in a front to the world. In fact, Jesus further illustrates this by saying, a city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. It's impossible. In fact, many times in the biblical world, many of the cities were actually on hills. In fact, right now, Jesus is teaching from a hill.  He's using the birds and the lilies and the hills and all the things that the biblical world would understand. But we understand that too, right? The city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. I remember my sister who now lives in Oklahoma, lived in Monterey, California. And often I would go see her as I was on my way to the masters to see my kids or something. And I would go down the road from Salinas to Monterey. And she lived on the top of this hill. And I could see her home from way, way down in the valley, especially if it was nighttime. Because a city or houses that are set on a hill, especially in the night, cannot be hidden. What's he saying? A genuine kingdom citizen doesn't hide their faith. They don't hide their faith. It can be seen. Ladies, people shouldn't have to wonder if you're a Christian or not. They shouldn't have to wonder. It should be as obvious as a city that is set on a hill. Everyone can see it. Also, one of the things I've noticed when Debbie and I are flying and it's pitch dark, which it will be tonight by the time we get home, it'll be about 11. But sometimes I look out those windows if I'm awake and it's really pitch dark. It's kind of creepy. But then when the plane kind of passes different cities and stuff, it's comforting, isn't it? To be in a completely dark place and all of a sudden there's light and that's comforting. So ladies, we can conclude that we as God's children, as we live out the light of the gospel in a real sense, it brings comfort, right? To a dark world just like a city on a hill does. We dispel darkness and we bring comfort. In fact, over the years, I've been really noticing how even unbelievers will come to people who are Christians and ask them to pray for them. Have you noticed that? In a way, it's comforting. I know my sister that just moved to Oklahoma that's not a believer. She said, I think six surgeries in the one year she's been there. And right before one of them, she sent me an email and she said, would you please pray for me?   She's going to go to a Christless eternity. But somehow that brings comfort to them. Well, Jesus continues to illustrate the importance of being light by another illustration in verse 15. He said, neither do men light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand it gives light to all that are in the house. Now, this might be difficult for us to understand, but not so much for the audience that's listening to Jesus because the biblical world did not have electricity. And so night time would be very, very dark. They didn't have street lights and things like that. And so in fact, a member of Acts 20, when Utikas fell out of the window, when Paul was preaching past midnight, it says that there were many lights in the upper chamber. So they had to put a lot of lights in there because it was dark time. And even the Proverbs 31 woman and members says she doesn't let her lamp go out at night. And so they didn't have the type of electricity that we have. And most homes had one lampstand or a candlestick for the whole house. So you would have like one candle or something like that. So a lamp was a vessel that had a wick in the middle of it, and a bushel or a basket was what the women would use to put their grain in. So what Jesus is saying is the women don't come, they don't like that one lampstand for the night and take their bushel or basket and put it on top of it. Because what, then the light would go out and then somebody trying to get up in the night would, you know, might fall and break their neck. And ladies, neither do we turn on a nightlight or a lamp at night and then put it under our bed. Right? They'd be ludicrous. In fact, this is not in my notes, but this is really funny. A few weeks ago I was in California doing a conference and this lady came up. She was giggling and she goes, I have a little gift for you. And I said, what is this? And she said, it's a toilet night light. I'm like, okay. So, yeah, it's an interesting gift. So when I got home, my husband was out having lunch with somebody, I thought I'm going to do a little trick because he gets up a lot in the night and I put it in his toilet. So every time you walk in the bathroom, the toilet bowl lights up. And you know, I thought, well, he said, what in the world did you put in my toilet? And I said, well, it's kind of like your night, your own personal night light. So it turns colors, blue, yellow, gold, it's pretty, it was a shark tank product. And anyway, we've gotten a lot of kick out of that and so have the grandkids. They think it's pretty special. But you know, you don't turn on a night light at night and then unplug it or anything like that because then somebody might fall if they get up in the middle of the night. Ladies we as God's children, we give light to a dark world. In fact, Wiseau Solomon once wrote this, but the path of the justice like the shining light that shines ever brighter into the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble. Ladies, we also do not let our light go out. We keep it burning. I won't take the time right now, but if we looked at the illustration of the ten virgins, remember the ten virgins, five were foolish, five were wise. The foolish ones let their lamps go out.  They were the ones that he said, what? I don't know you. I don't know you. Ladies, we cannot say we know Jesus and hide the gospel from others. We cannot say we love the Lord and live foolishly. In fact, it's only the lost world that loves darkness, right? Men love darkness. Why? Because their deeds are evil. I'm always quoting that to my husband. It's the men that love darkness, but it's really mankind. In fact, in the biblical world, they say that some people would put a candle under a bushel and when all the house was asleep, that would be the time they would get up and do their evil work like murder and steal. But ladies, those who love the light want to represent the light. They want to represent the Lord Jesus. Now ladies, this should cause us to stop and think very carefully, especially when you consider. Do you know what the recent statistics are? They're alarming. Do you know only 2% of us actively share our faith? 2%, this is a recent statistic I just got, 2% of professing believers share their faith. Even though 3 out of 4 of us think we should. Ladies, we are failing. We're failing to be salt and light. Now I know God is sovereign in salvation.  Why do we share the gospel? God's going to say, well, because we're to go into all the world and preach the gospel, right? We are responsible. Man has a responsibility. And my sister, we're failing to be salt and light, and we're going to be held accountable. We're going to be held accountable on that day. So we as Christians impact our world in a twofold way by being salt and light. Failure to do so manifests really who we are. We're good for nothing. That's tragic. But being faithful to be salt and light manifests itself in something wonderful. The natural conclusion of being light in a dark world. What is the natural conclusion? Look what Jesus says, verse 16. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Notice again, it's your light. Your light must shine. You know, too often we're like Peter. Remember Peter, James, and John, or Peter and John, and Jesus walking, the end of John 21, and Jesus tells Peter how he's going to die. He said, when we're young, someone dressed you and took you where you wanted to go. But when you're old, someone's going to dress you and carry you where you don't want to go. This is said to signify how he's going to die. Peter turned around and goes, excuse me, what about him? What about John? Jesus says, what is that to you? You better follow me. And ladies, we're often like Peter. What about her? What about him? What about my husband? What about this person? Jesus would say to us, you better worry about Susan. Heck, don't be worried about them.  Ladies, each one of us individually is responsible for letting our light shine, which means to radiate brilliantly. Do you know you're not going to heaven on the coattails of another person?  Okay? You're going to be standing as an individual, each one of us individually. So Jesus says, we're to let our light shine before men. Interesting, you know that was said about John the Baptist. He was a burning and a shining light.  In fact, Paul says in Philippians, we're to do everything without murmuring and complaining, which is a great verse for you to memorize as a woman. We do a lot of murmuring and complaining, right? Paul says, do everything without murmuring and complaining. Why? So that you'll shine as a light in the dark world. Because ladies, murmuring and complaining is what the world does. You ever notice that? I mean Debbie and I see it all the time when we're waiting in line for, you know, our flight, just rah rah rah rah rah, you know? And then you get on the plane, the same thing, murmuring and complaining. In fact, we're one of the, I'm not trying to toot our own horn, but we're one of the few people when we board the plane that, you know, the attendants always say, hey, how's it going? And we say, hey, how are you? And they always thank us because nobody cares about anybody anymore, you know? But Paul says you're to do everything without murmuring and complaining wise so that you can shine as a light because the world murmurs and complains about everything. But we're to be different. Ladies, in order for us to slide, the letter light shine before men, you've got to get out of your comfort zone. You've got to be busy for the Lord. Don't isolate yourself in your home with all your technology and think you're being light by posting some poem or scripture verse on your Facebook page to your 6,000 friends that you don't have. Get out of your house, meet people, invest your time and energy into relationships. I was telling Christy on the way here, she picked Deb and I at the airport this morning. A few weeks ago when I was in Iowa, I was speaking and one of the young girls emailed me after I got back home and telling me how the Lord used her message, the messages in her life. And she said, you know, I've been taking my nursing time. I have an eight month old baby and she said, you really struck home to me on the pride of life because she said that I have to take a lot of time to nurse my baby. And she said, when I would nurse my baby, I'd get my cell phone and she said, I'd look at my Facebook account and see how many people liked my post. And she said, it was just puffing up my ego and the pride of life. But she said, after you're speaking on the word of God and being worldly or woman of the word or woman of the world. And she said, I decided to use my nursing time for memorizing God's word. And she said, do you know a three by five card is the same size as your iPhone? So she said, I put my iPhone down, got out some verses and she said, do you know the first day? I memorized 10 verses. So I emailed the young girl back and I said, you know what? Your eight month old baby girl is going to benefit far more from you memorizing God's word than getting on your phone and looking at your Facebook accounts and puff up your ego. Ladies, we got to get out and be salt and light and it's not going to be by spending four hours on Facebook.  The time is short. And if you and I are going to make a difference, we must do it now. Now you might say, well, Susan, why should I let my light shine before men? Notice what Jesus says. First of all, so that they can see your good works. And secondly, so that you will glorify your Father in heaven. Ladies, our light should be shining, especially as women. Read Titus 2. Other people should look at your life and see that you're so reminded. You love your husband.  You're good. You're keeper at home. You're submissive to your husband. That stands out in our world today. Also, read 2 Timothy 1 Timothy 5, what you should be doing as a woman or living out the fruit of the spirit. Let your light shine that they may see your good works of what? Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, faith, self-control. The world should see all that in you. In fact, as men and women see our good works, the glory doesn't go to us, right? The glory goes to the one who gave us the ability to do anything anyway. And that's our Father, right? And it puts him on display. In fact, the psalmist says, not unto us, oh Lord, but unto you be the glory. To you be the glory. Ladies, the wonderful result of a faithful follower of Christ who is living out a life of salt and light as the Father in heaven is glorified. So if you're taking notes, when we are faithful to impact our world, then the great result is this. We glorify our Father in heaven. Ladies, we put him on display. We put him on display. How? By our good works, by making the world thirsty. In fact, Peter says in 1 Peter, have your conduct honorable so that even though people speak against you, they may by your good works glorify your Father who's in heaven.  I really don't like this woman. She's really weird. She's really crazy. But there's something different about her. And it'll glorify your Father who's in heaven. In fact, in the physical sense, do you know when a light goes on or a lamp goes on? If we were to turn out all these lights right now and it'd be dark, and then I'd have somebody turn them back on, it wouldn't draw attention to all these lights, would it? What does it illuminate? It draws attention to what? All of you in here. They're the same it is with us. When we do our good works, it's not for the purpose of drawing attention to ourself, right? But to draw attention to someone else. Our Father who's in heaven. I remember when I was being discipled years ago by a lady, and I remember when I left her house, I wanted to be like her. But you know more than that, it pushed me to want to be like Jesus. And I'd leave there thinking, Man, I want to be like Christ. Why? Because I noticed those good works in her. And they glorified her Father in heaven. And I wanted to be like that. And it pushed me to Christ. It pushed me to read good books. It pushed me to memorize God's Word. It pushed me to have active devotional time. Because I wanted to be like Christ. She drew me and pushed me to Him. In fact, I remember when the Supreme Court made that decision, I was talking about my opening for same-sex marriage. I was out to lunch with five women who I thought were my friends, Christian friends. And I remember saying to them, Do you know when that decision was made that our Father in heaven, who was supposed to be the one who's glorified, it blasphemed him. It made his Word unattractive. It did not put him on display because the Supreme Court took something that God made to be beautiful. A relationship between a husband and a wife. A man and a woman. And they twisted it. And I had one woman actually snarl her teeth at me. She was angry. Another one got angry too. Neither one of them are my friends anymore. Ladies, we want to put our Father on display. Well, the Christian has a two-fold impact on the world. That is to be salt and light. Does this describe you? Are you a deterrent to the moral decay of the world? Does your life bring healing and comfort to those around you? Do you make others thirsty for God? What about being a light to the world?  What impact are you making on your world? Are you a shining light to a lost and dying world? Or are you being influenced by the world? Ladies, the world is getting worse and worse, as predicted. Evil men will become worse and worse. But our response as a Christian is not to throw up our hands and hide out in our home. We're to be faithful to the end. Ladies, if we fail to impact our world, the tragic result is clear. We're good for nothing. Ladies, wouldn't it be tragic to be sitting here this morning proclaiming the name of Christ, calling him Lord, and find out on that day that Jesus says, depart from me, I never knew you? In fact, he says that. That's from the Sermon on the Mount. If we're faithful to impact our world by our good works, by being salt and light, the wonderful result is we glorify our Father who is in heaven, the one we're going to spend eternity with. Is your life bringing glory to God? How are you putting Him on display? Interesting enough, two years before the Supreme Court made that decision, in 2013, one of the voices of our day, John MacArthur, said this in a question-and-answer session at his church, and I quote him. He said, the evangelical church has become tolerant. Tolerant of what? You name it, and I'll tell you what the next one will be, homosexuality. Now, this is two years before the Supreme Court decision. He says, we've been softened up. We've given up the fight. We've basically rolled over in the name of love, and now I pick up an article, and it says, and I'm sure Jerry Falwell would roll over in his grave, that a student at Liberty Seminary is an open homosexual. They're gay groups on Christian college campuses.  This is going to come in like a flood, he said. This is going down fast. How do I feel about it? I expect the world to act like the world. What I don't expect is the church to act like the world. What I'm concerned about is what the church does. What we do in the name of Jesus Christ, and when we so hurriedly abandon the biblical pattern, and when a Christian institution with tens of thousands of students says we want to work with the students here who have gender identity issues, the church is caving in, end of quote. Now ladies, we've come a long way since 2015. Now we have polygamy. We have stuff on the Supreme Court, but in the legislation for incest, bestiality, transgender, and the latest thing I found out last year at the National Counseling Conference was robots. That's going to be the next thing. You can marry a robot. You can have a woman not to cave in. Will you be zealous for the sake of Christ and His kingdom? Will you be one of the few faithful ones left when the Son of Man comes? Well, the end of the world will go down as a monumental event, much more monumental than the Supreme Court decision that was made June 26, 2015. It will be a much more serious decision than same-sex marriage. The decision will be that the earth will be burned up. This decision will not be made by the Supreme Court of the United States, but it will be made by one man, the supreme being of all the earth, God our Father. No longer will men marry men or women marry women, but each of those who have not repented will be cast into the lake of fire forever, along with all of those who have never repented of their sins and given their life over to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The time is short, my sister. Do not waste another day being dull in your flavor and dim in your light. Have salt within yourself and let your light shine. Let's pray. Oh, Father, we are so grieved when we consider the moral, rapid decline of our nation. And yet, Father, you in your goodness and kindness have left us here for such a time as this, even as Esther, such a time as this. So Lord, help us not to waste the time, but redeem the time. Buy up opportunities for the gospel, for showing mercy, for doing all the things that you've left us here to do to bring forth good fruit for your kingdom. Lord, I pray that if there is any here that is not connected to the vine, they've never known what it means to mourn over their sin and weep. I pray, oh God, that today would be the day of their salvation. That they would bow the knee and give themselves over to the Lordship of Christ. And then, Lord, they can be salt, and then they will be light because it is something we are already. Oh, Father, help us even this day to represent you in the real sense. Help us to put you on display, I pray. In Christ's name, amen.


I did not hit her! It's not true! It's bullshit! I did not hit her! I did not! Oh, hi, Mark. How come you could be so bold? Don't talk like that. You shouldn't have any secrets from me. I'm your future husband. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan. You're lying!  You should tell me everything! Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the rebels hidden for you. It seems to me like you're the expert, Mark. What's bothering you, Mark? Enough of this. Vader, release him. Well, whatever. I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever. Hi, doggy. Hi to you, everything. I could not go on without you, Lisa. I'll never join you! Why, Lisa? Why, Lisa? Please talk to me, please! No! It's a pleasure. We're honored by your presence. You're very welcome, Danny. Keep in mind, if you have any problems, talk to me, and I will help you. I tell you, this station will be operational as planned. You must be kidding, aren't you? I need one man.   How could you do this to me?  You can love someone deep inside your heart, and there is nothing wrong with it. If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.


With action and suspense out of the old west comes the most famous hero of them all Huffleong Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the silver spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early west Huffleong Cassidy the same hoppy you cheer in motion pictures and the same California you've left at a million times Raw courage and quick shooting have built a legend around this famous hero Huffleong is a name to be feared respected and admired for this great cowboy rides the trails of adventure and excitement William Boyd as Huffleong Cassidy and and declined as California What's our story this time Bobby? Ah, this is the story that goes to show you never can tell when a trick or two you've learned make them in handy Even save a few lives including your own Well, anyway, we call this cleanup of caribou Mesa California and I were riding toward the frontier settlement of Joshua flat up in the higher range country when I noticed something up the trail away Hey California look there up the crest of the ridge Be daring must be a dozen of them. They're riding this way as if the old nikkies self was a chaser Let's pull off the trail and get out of sight behind those boulders where they're pounding that bunch of kioses down the trail They're certainly not gonna stop and pass the time of day Well, they won't be able to see us here Say that sure was a fast-frightened bunch of hombres. Yeah. No, weren't you supposed it was going in such a rush coffee? I don't know California and it's no worry of ours. So let's be on our way. We're only about a mile from Joshua flat Yeah Well, I'll be diggity diggity turned look ahead hoppy here comes another bunch of Well Now this is getting interesting. We'll have to see what it's all about Yeah, you want to pull behind them rocks again?  Why are you making a mistake? Oh, we are making a mistake. Are we? Well, let me tell you two sidewinder something did you made the mistake? Dump it out of that bunch of thieving bandits and trying to backtrack it may be ambushes Ambush you what's playing you don't know who we are now We know who you are to a trigger Tompkins Steven Russel is and that's all this year Pause he needs to know the string up the both of you All right, man.  You can't do this for me in the hop along cat city Back to hop along Cassidy and our story cleanup of caribou Mesa Hoppy in California have run into a posse which has mistaken them for members of a gang the posse was pursuing Hoppy in California have been seized and the posse is ready to hang Ranger I heard you call out a name there. Did you see hop along Cassidy? That's my name. This is my partner, California Carlson Now we sure was making a mistake. Well, we accept your apology now. You better get these many yours to stand back because I entirely cooled off yet All right, man. All right, quiet quiet Well, I hope there's no hard feelings Cassidy. No, not at all, but I minister to knowing what's going on Suppose you do some explaining sure Cassidy sure what see we all Get on have a power. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm interested myself in hearing how come I nearly got my neck stretch Well Cassidy first of all, I'm Glenn golf. I'm the deputy sheriff over the Joshiflat These year men old settlers hereabouts and you were riding as a posse chasing that bunch who passed us a while back Yeah, there was a somewhat trigger Tompkins gang. Who is this trigger Tompkins? Oh just a bad umber Moved up here with his gang about a month ago come from somewhere as south of here. We figure mm-hmm Just what have they been up to golf shooting up the town?  I've heard of a shifty that ain't no reason not to stomp him out How about that golf what's been done about this? Well? Here's how it is. You see There's been no way and no one just where and when Tompkins gang ever's going to strike that's so Cassidy They come storming down off the mesa like a bunch of Comanches just when we least figure on sure if we guard the town And they hit the Rangers and if we watch the range they raid the town What about this posse here? You must have been expecting them today. Well, I was coming to that Cassidy It weren't that we was expecting to read that we we got this bunch together on the counter The only kind of what happened to any cover any cover. What is all this? We'll build covers daughter the gang come on any riding alone till the day and they It took her off to the place. They got up on caribou Mesa. Good napping. Hey, that's mighty serious Are they demanding a ransom? No, they ain't and this shows you just how sharp that trigger Tompkins is He figures as long as he's got the gal up there We don't dare make a move to get him if we let him get away with this It's like giving him the settlement and everything in it. Yeah, is he out is Cassidy Tompkins not only got the gal He's got a lot of men up there on caribou Mesa Yeah, and they're a mean lot and trigger Tompkins himself is worse than all of them put together But what can we do? Well, we got to go up there and wipe out the whole lot of no not while they got any All right, all right, take it easy you men who can tell me something about this place the gang has well Young Bob Jeffrey here continue Cassidy. Go ahead Bob tell him. Well, mr. Cassidy. It's like this Annie covers my girl and when I heard they took her off I Well, I went up on the Mesa to scout around and see if maybe I could save any that took a lot of courage Bob Shucks mr. Cassidy didn't do any good. They caught me right off Was just by luck I managed to escape in the middle of the night and get back to town Did you see much of the place Bob? What it was like. Well, I got a good look all right There's a main cabin where they got Annie and a separate bunkhouse just in the middle of the Mesa I see and how well protected is the place? Well, the Mesa is pretty hard to get to and they got guards all around the rim They have, huh? They're not taking any chances of being surprised by anyone approaching the place. Well, it's not only the guards There's lots more men keeping herd on all the stairs and horses they got up there So it's not only a question of getting up on the Mesa without being spotted but of getting past the men watching Oh, we're all the cattle they've rustled. That's right I tried to slip in through a narrow pass where there's only one guard but Well, he caught me right off But suppose you had got past him Bob? Did you have made your way to the cabin where you say they're keeping Annie? Not a chance Mr. Cassidy Triggers men are thicker than thorns on a cactus bush. You see Cassidy? Maybe the only thing to do is to collect a real big posse right up there and shoot it out I don't think so goff not as long as they got the girl her life would certainly be in danger A mass attack won't work. Well, uh, maybe you've got a better idea, huh? I think I have tonight california now go up to caribou Mesa alone Well, what are you saying Cassidy wise? Oh, man, that'd be suicide. No, it won't now. Listen goff. Here's what we'll do California now slip in among the herd up there and stampede them We'll ride in among the stampeding horses and cattle Oh I begin to see what you mean Tomkins men will be plenty busy and then you'll be able to get to the cabin where they're holding the gulf again That's it once we get back with her and your men can take over caribou mason while the gang is still scattered Pick them off as they come back from rounding up the herd Well, it might work.  I guess you don't know how long gassy. Mr Adventures he's breath excitement. She's butter and danger Why to him that's like strawberry jam to top it all California there's a small pass to the Mesa where Bob said there was only one guard Yeah, I only hope you don't start any fast shooting before we flush him out Ah, once we get the cattle excited, he'll come out on the run I'll go up the slope on foot. There's plenty of cover for me here.  That's it. Well, I'm off Hmm, I hope this concerned idea works That's old still young rickus That's it.  Let me see this horse. I got who's that Uh, who's who me? Come on.  I got your cover No, I don't like that. You don't recognize who I am I am the best little horse, roughly to your pumpkin's gut That's who You sure took a load on a drinking whiskey.  Sure Sure you you wanted to go look at me. Well, go on and say I never saw you before Nice performance, california.  Well, let's get up on the mesa and remember ride with your body flattened out low on your horses back I'll do it hoppy, but I just hope this here stampede and trick is gonna work or we'll be a couple of uh dead hombres It's got him hoppy nothing will stop these critters now Right, let's bear off to the edge of the herd. The cabin should be over there Hoppy Hoppy, there's a light must be the cabin wonder. Yeah, that's it. All right There's a corral we can turn our horses in there with the others where they won't be noticed Good idea, then we'll know just where to find them if we need them in a hurry. Yeah, here we are All right, turn them in right Get in there get in now. Let's see how the land lies You see anyone? Nope. Everything looks clear between here in the cabin. All right. Let's get over to that window Keep in the shadows. I'll follow right behind your hoppy Keep down now. You're hoping they ain't been watching us out of that window all this time What now the girl's in there as far as I can see there's only one man guarding her What are we waiting for then let's bust on in all right get your gun out I'm going to try the door. Maybe it's unlocked ready.  Are you all right? No, no go away. It's a trap. What? It's a kind of up your toilet. We've got your cupboard all around and drop your guns Well, it seems like we were expected that's right Cassidy. We've been expecting you We know all about that stampede and trick of yours as you see it didn't work It sure stampeded off every clear. You didn't have corral though Sure that much of it worked because we didn't know just how you figured out getting past the god But my men will have every one of them backed by sunup lots of things can happen between now and sunup Yeah, lots of things can happen to you And I've still got five hands besides myself to handle you two you had things all figured out, didn't you? That's right. And the important thing is we've still got the girl And now we've got hop along Cassidy himself and his partner Tomkins has spies and joshua flat mr. Cassidy He's known all along you were going to try to come here So that's it spy right in the posse and this I take it is trigger Tomkins. That's right What are you staring at so hard Cassidy you Tomkins? I'm getting that face of yours clear in my mind I like to remember the bad hombres I intend to put out a circulation Well, Cassidy will see about that Lucky come out to the bunkhouse time up and lock him up in the back room We'll see you two later and make sure you're out of circulation Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story cleanup of caribou mesa Hoppy in california have stampeded trigger Tomkins herds on caribou mesa and his gang of guards are scattered around up the animals But in going into the cabin to rescue any culver hoppy in california stepped into a trap Now disarmed and tied up. They are locked in the bunkhouse I don't see how we're gonna get out of this mess hoppy. They get us hogtide hand and food. That's a mess. All right It's not over yet california not over Tomkins and his gang already so far in bed with the law They ain't gonna worry none about a couple more crimes like murder rush. I know I've been thinking about how we're gonna get out of here before Tomkins has a chance to get around to us But we're tied up hoppy the room's locked and and and there's that guard just outside the door What can we do if we can trick the guard to come rushing in here? We'll make him on tires make him on tires Oh, you ain't making sense hoppy uh you or are you I think I am listen Can you roll yourself over here to me? Come on try it sure sure i'll try I said come on. Yeah I'm getting there uh a little more Here I am. Ah, that's fine now. Listen. They took our guns, but they we still have our cartridge belts So what good does that do never mind get some cartridges out of my belt. How my hands are tied Do it with your teeth. You got them in. I have them. Yeah. Yeah Hoppy get as many as you can into your mouth. I'll go ahead. Yeah. Yeah anything you say hoppy Work fast one come on come on two Three Five that's enough. That's good. I roll over to that iron stove in the corner and spit those cartridges in the fire and duck When the bullets start exploding that guard will come rushing into the room from then on leave it to me I go on bullets in the fire hoppy good steady now Work hoppy.  I'll sit on him with my feet nice and convenient to batch. He's headed fine Now he's gonna untie me. Come on you and do it fast. Come on That's it There Good here california. I'll get you on All right there one more not that does it man alive Well, that sure feels better now. What are we're gonna do with this farm in here? Time up and put a gag in his mouth. Sure. I'll get him a hog tied right quick But hoppy, uh, you figure the here then bullets can all fair over in the cabin. No the cabin's too far away That's good. In that case. We won't be mixing up with tompkins for a while We're gonna deal with trigger tompkins as soon as you get this guard tied up But how are we gonna handle tompkins? He's got four men with him in that cabin and we ain't got no guns We got one the guard shotgun here But it's only got two shots two shots to take care of five humbries with a couple of six guns a piece I don't expect to shoot this gun at all. It's gonna help me to to get a brace of 45s and trigger tompkins. Let's go The way I tied that guard up in there. He ain't gonna move And he ain't gonna yell that much at least i'm sure of we don't have to worry about him What we may get into with tompkins and these men in the cabin is something else Yeah, and I can't see I like the idea of uh Hey, hey, hey wait a minute hoppy. What is it california? Well, well Here's a cook stove and in the pan here is a nice big ready-cooked beef steak Oh, he probably the guard cooked it for himself. Never mind it. Let's get going. Never mind it. Uh, uh, a good delicious beef steak But we haven't got time come on. Oh, all right. All right Hoppy, I'll just take it along with me and carrying a beef steak ain't gonna slow me down much All right, we'd better make a run for it. Keep close to those trees make for the end of the cabin there Let's go. I'm with you Hold it california. Look a shadow of the cabin there this side of the door. Uh-oh Oh, he looks mean and big What kind of dog is there? It's a mastiff. That's he's tort him and see what he does easy now He's mean all right And if he decides to let loose uh, uh and make a real noise everybody in the cabin will know we're out here That's a lot We can't afford to tangle with tompkins of these men out here in the open You think we can sneak back and get around to the cabin from the other side? I was too late for that I thought it was just crouching there waiting for us to make any move Looks like he's waiting to make a meal of us. That's it a meal Uh, what's so exciting about that the beef steak toss it to him No, not all at once a piece at a time. Oh, no Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, right right here here here. Now, let's go in closer.  I just hope when he eats this chunk of steak. He won't start on me Nice dog. Nice dog Hey hobby, he's licking my hand fine Now you've made yourself a friend Let's hope he doesn't raise a ruckus before we get to the cabin. He's following right behind me Team is a kitten. We'll have to take a chance. He stays that way.    They're all in there with the girl All of them are in one room. Wonderful. What's so wonderful? There's still five of them, ain't there? Never mind that Let's move playing something to you Yeah, I'd sure like to know what you figure and do well then listen You see the cabin roof on this end where the chimney comes up. Yeah, sure. I see it What of it? I want you to climb up there and the roof sure and what are you gonna be doing while I'm up there? I'm going into the cabin. No, sir. You don't leave me out of this. Well, you're going. That's what I'm going to Let me finish. I got a plan that should work if we can just time it right Now before I go in that door you get up to that chimney and once I'm inside just give me another Soon to me like such a good idea holding the girl here no longer just means more trouble than ever We ought to get rid of that so What if you had the brains of a gopher you'd know she's our best insurance against trouble No matter how big a posse they can round up nobody's gonna come up here looking for a fight as long as they know We're holding any cover That's how I figured and that's how it works Well that and hop along Cassidy fella come up here. Sure. Look what happened to him Yeah, but maybe there'll be others There'll always be others trigger Tompkins I don't care what you do to me because I know they'll finally get you. Oh, sure. Just let them try That idea worries me about as much as hop along Cassidy does right now Let's start working Tompkins because I got a lot of buckshot aimed at your middle Don't anybody move and get your hands up.  Whatever else happens. Is that so? It's different now, isn't it Cassidy now. I've got the girl in front of me You want to shoot now? All right, man get him Oh Everybody heard it. I got you covered with two revolvers now That's right now I got 12 shots instead of two miss culver come over here away from Tompkins Mr. Cassidy is the posse really here Well, see for yourself. I believe the posse is coming in now. Are she the trick work coffee trick What another shot Tompkins One that did work those shots that made you all rush to the windows were only cartridges California dropped down the chimney into your fire Well, I'll be startled you a tompkins left you flat footed just long enough for me to grab your gun Nobody can beat hoppy to the draw even when he's drawn from somebody else's holsters Well, California, suppose you demonstrate some talents of your own now to these gentlemen Show them how nice and tight you can tie their hands behind their backs sure sure thing Hoppy after that we'll put them on horses and ride them into Joshua flat The posse can round up the rest of the game. Well, uh, the posse don't need to hurry them critters. We stampeded Muster on the halfway to make Now back to hop along Cassidy Say uh hoppy. Yeah I just been thinking Suppose when they tied us and locked us in that bunkhouse they hadn't left our cartridge belts on us Yeah, what about suppose there wasn't no fire going for me to drop them bullets in And suppose that beef steak wasn't the cook stove so we could feed it to the dog What could we have done to get out of that man? California there's an old indian saying that covers that situation goes, uh Packo eat all what to knock. Huh? Yeah, uh, what does that mean in america? It means don't worry about what might have happened be happy with what you've got Huh? When hoppy gets going with a few old indian tricks a kidnapped girl is rescued a bandit gang is routed And california winds up with a dog After the cleanup of caribou mesa Don't miss another thrilling experience with hoppy in california when they meet up with six little men who were green Up along cassidy starring william poid is transcribed and produced in the west by walter white jr Cleanup of caribou mesa was written by paul adams with original music under the personal direction of albert glasser All stories are based on the characters created by clarency mulford. This is a comodore production


I grew up in South Africa in an amazing suburb called Clifton, with the ocean, beautiful beaches. And my high school sweetheart, Tako, who I'm married to, we lived there when we first got married. And I had the opportunity to come to study in the States again.  I had just had my second son, so you can imagine how I was feeling. Ocean versus PhD. Babies versus studying. It just didn't gel. But in my heart of hearts, I knew God was saying, it's time. My mentality was, well, if I'm all in, that means going the whole way, right? That's full-time ministry. Well, his thoughts for me were, no, you're going to be a professor in Kalamazoo. It's like, what? I'm so glad I didn't know that initially. Because I probably would have hid and run a mile and pretended he never said that.  The teacher in me would obviously want to bring the pure truth and the word of God. But I'm blessed by the fact that I'm a business professor and I can teach on leadership and do and change management. So many of the principles that underline most of those theories is biblical. So I definitely bring truth. I can bring what the Holy Spirit's saying without saying his name. Student lives are being changed because God loves those students and for many of them, they won't put foot in a church.  And if God can talk through a donkey, he can talk through me and he has.  It draws people from multiple states throughout this nation. It draws people from around the world. So these students that you develop relationships with from all over the world. So they come in, you bond and then they go home. And Radiant has an incredible opportunity and responsibility to spread the gospel that way by these people going back to their home nations and recreating much of what God's doing in this nation and in this city. Every time there's a major line in the sand moment where God's saying, Okay, now I need you to do this. And I'm usually having a tantrum within myself. Not that God. I know it's in those moments, just healed. Just give it to him and trust that he knows what's best. And those are the moments where a miracle has been induced. Every time that I've yielded the pattern of that, he's come through for me. And it's needed to be a miracle on so many levels. Because I am a wonder in the sense that there's no way that that beach bomb could ever become an academic. And he did it.


Well, it's my pleasure now to welcome Marie Steele, who's the manager of the Women's Branch in the Australian Government's Office for Women, and also Pippa Nicholson, who's humanitarian manager with the Centre, a nurse with a public health and health science background with international experience, including with the Red Cross and UNICEF, so welcome to both of you. You're going to be part of a panel on women, peace and security. So I want to get a sense from you about where do women fit in this conference that's all about learning lessons in relation to responding to helping communities affected by conflict or by disasters. And the UN Security Council has passed a resolution called 1325 that you're going to be talking about today. What is this resolution and why does it matter? 1325 is a resolution that was adapted by the Security Council at the United Nations in 2000, and it's really about three key issues. The first one is about participation and increasing participation of women in political processes and peacekeeping processes and negotiation to ensure that women's voices are heard in those processes. It's also about prevention, and that's prevention of sexual violence and gender-based violence. And finally it's also about gender mainstreaming, or the issue of actually ensuring that women's and men's voices are equally heard and incorporated across programs and operations, both globally and at a national level for countries. Pippa, you've been on the ground in societies in trouble, so you've had that direct on the ground experience. Why does this matter? Why does it matter if women are involved in decision-making processes? How will that help communities recover from conflict or disaster? I mean, I would see it also, inversely, why would women not be equally involved in political processes of any process, either at a community level or at a government level, but often because of the power structures that exist, because of the way gender roles are perceived and in those countries and different societies, women are often part of the peace-brokering, bring people to the table, but they never actually get the sort of voice around the table and are more often than not excluded from the actual hard-line negotiations. And how does that damage the capacity of a community to have an effective transition back to stability and ordinary life? And that's exactly the key point. But how does it? Why does it? Well, unless you incorporate everybody's voices, again, you're actually going to perpetuate the stereotypes that exclude women from being involved in their own society and community. Can you give me an example of that that you've seen from Europe that proves that? Yeah, I think from really any aspect, so I can think of is my work in Africa where women's key role in this particular example as traditional birth attendants, where they were the primary source of any sort of primary health care or providers of service to both women and men, but also had that role because they were well respected in the community. They were the voice of reason, they were often the elder, they were often the one that experienced many of the sort of complex environments of war and seen their communities through a lot. And yet, as soon as it came to a political process or a transition phase where the actual power-broken was exchanged, these women who are the key role models in their society were completely excluded from their process. As part of these interviews, we've interviewed Sister Lorraine Garrissou, who's a sister of Nazareth in Bougainville, and she has given a very dynamic example of the role of 700 women in building peace in Bougainville, an example of what you're saying. Marie Stilner, you're a senior bureaucrat in the Australian government, and when the Security Council passes a resolution, governments make plans, don't they? And this is your plan, but what is this Australian National Action Plan, and how is it relevant to what we're talking about at this conference? Well, the National Action Plan is obviously linked back to the Resolution 1325, which was passed in 2000, but I think it was 2004, the UN Security Council, sort of, I think, thought to themselves, well, there's not enough action happening across the world on this resolution. We think it's really important. So they were advocating that governments across the world introduce national plans to make it more concrete, to set some sort of targets and actions that are then reported against so that we can demonstrate some actual progress in this area. Well, this conference is full of people in both the Defence Forces and non-government organisations of the world. What are some of the actions that you want them to take that are promoted by this plan? How does it affect their work in responding to disasters and conflict? Well, this is, in the Australian context, we've set up a sort of working group of relevant departments across government, so that's obviously defence, the Australian Federal Police, Foreign Affairs, AusAid and AMC, and ourselves. And each organisation has some actions that they have to sort of pursue at their detail in the plan, but it's like training Federal Police pre-deployment to go to a conflict area and how they manage to deal with the issues that women are particularly facing in these environments. So it's really saying, think about the women, involve the women and you'll get a better result. There's a display at this conference of what's been happening in the Solomon Islands, the Ramsey intervention involving many nations in the Pacific. And there are several huge panels looking at women and children, so in a way it's that sort of focus, isn't it? Think about the women, involve the women. Look, the plan and the resolution itself starts from the very basic premise that women and children are disproportionately affected in conflict and that the statistics are there, it's quite horrifying. So that's the platform in which 1325 sort of builds up, I think. One of the things I've noticed at the conference is that not everyone's heard of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, even though as you say it was passed in 2000, so that's 12 nearly, you know, going on for 13 years ago. I'm assuming that's why both of you have been involved in these two documents, side-by-side Women, Peace and Security Educational Toolkit and side-by-side Women, Peace and Security. Pipo, in a nutshell, what are these about? So these are really also getting to the point of it's not only about considering women and decisions and operations, it's also about doing something about it. So it's about an active, actual phase of ensuring that that occurs. Side-by-side, and one of the key issues that often defence forces have or peacekeepers have is that this is an area that they see they don't know how to do. And side-by-side is a documentary that looks at, gives you a background on what 1325 is, discusses what gender mainstreaming is, discusses examples of how you incorporate gender perspectives, and also why you need to. Because we are sort of getting past the why you need to phase into how to do it, which is a really important shift of the framework. So this is almost about awareness raising. And this then is about how to do it? Yeah, this is about, because the documentary gets distributed globally, there's recognition obviously that there's different languages and there's different sort of areas that will be deploying and specialities, so side-by-side the toolkit was to accompany the documentary to say this is a step through of what you need to, when you provide teaching. So kind of train the trainer approach. Who do you hope will read this book and use it? Can you give me a nitty-gritty example of how you dream it will be used? Peacekeeping forces should be seeing that documentary and reading that book and applying it to their day-to-day practice at the ground level. You're in the office for women. You're probably working even within the Australian government context to get government agencies to think about the women and children. For example, if they're planning urban infrastructure, public transport, how we design our buildings, so prams as well as people with mobility issues can get in. Even in a country like Australia, affluent with educated equal women, it can be hard. It can be very hard. So in a place like Afghanistan, Boganville, the Solomon Islands, Africa, the places we're talking about at this conference, can this little book and this little film make a difference? I think it can help. And there are now plans being developed in the Pacific on 1325. You talked to Sister Lorraine. I talked to her this morning and the amount of work she does in Boganville. Using whatever. We don't care if it's our material or somebody else's, as long as there is some training and messaging going out there. And within the Australian government context, you're right that we in the office for women are trying to gender mainstream across everything. And this exercise has been particularly helpful and it's been referred to by one of my staff as the Trojan Horse. So we've got access now into Defence and AFP and we're getting this mainstreaming message out, which is really beneficial. Where do you find hope? Because you've worked at the grassroots level. Where do you get hope? I think I find hope in a lot of places, really. Not only in the women that I've worked with on day to day, but absolutely also with the men that see that this is an issue that they can actively participate in to empower communities and to make the communities better places if there's equality. I guess, what would you say to the suggestion or allegation that you're imposing attitudes of Western democracies about the equality of women upon cultures that may not share that value? What I would probably say is what I can't say on camera, but I completely disagree. I mean, I think societies and cultures like anything change and they'll change for the better when they embrace equity across whatever specific aspect it may be, whether it's ethnicity or gender. And I also think that the status quo doesn't change unless you choose to challenge it. And I suppose, if I may add something myself, the United Nations is the forum in which all nations come together to agree on common values for the world. So the fact that the United Nations Security Council, that's the highest body in the UN, has passed a resolution advocating involve the women, think of the women and you'll get better results, gives a kind of universal value to it. I mean, I'm sure everything at the UN is debated, obviously, but this is, I guess, support for involving the women at the highest level, isn't it? Absolutely. And it's a battle, so I guess, saying, it's now a policy. It's now not a choice. It's actually what you are mandated to do as a country that belongs to the United Nations. So it's a major thing in gender rights alone, to say that, and that in itself helps governments to say, here's the National Action Plan, this is what you're supposed to do. A very quick final comment from each of you.  What's the single most important message that you hope they'll take away from your panel about women, peace and security? You first, Murray. Take action. Do something. Particularly in the Australian context, I'll be advocating that the key agencies look at the plan, take it seriously and take action. Thank you. Look at ways to increase your operational effectiveness. No country operation can afford to exclude 50% of the valuable insights and intelligent and resources of its own community. So listen to the voices of women as well as men. Thank you very much and good luck with the panel. Thank you.


Effective leadership can turn Nigeria's fortunes for good, hence the need for all to pray for the actualization of rights leaders the country deserves. Those were words of the Special Assistant to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God Delay, Oluwukere, while speaking at a stakeholders meeting in honour of the immediate past rector of the Auguste Institute of Technology, Igbesa. On her part, the immediate past rector, Ogitek Olufumi Akin Kuroleri, expressed thanks to God for the successful completion of her tenure at the institution and also urged aspiring leaders to remain humble and steadfast. Probably with Nigeria right from the beginning of leadership, Nigeria is endowed as potentiality to become greater than any other part of the world. But we have not gotten the right person who can tune Nigeria to what it should be. So she prays for good leadership, somebody who knows where is going, who can carry people along to watch the water shift of this country. I message that one, Nigerians should pray for a better day, for a better day, then they should pray for God to shoot the right person for Nigeria so that we can get out of this quackmire we are. If those people are not only can take a cue for our life, it will help Nigeria to be better than what we have now. I have a principle that there is no height to get through in this life. The only thing that can sustain you there is humility. Even in leadership, you should be humble. You should know that whatever level you get through is by the grace of God and you should be humbled, you should be able to lead people with the fear of God. I just want to appeal to all the parties that they should listen to each other. The government should listen to us too and all the stakeholders in education should also come together to ensure that our students go back to classroom. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Takes the snap and Lana trying to get there. Garnal threw it. It bounced up, fumbled around, and ultimately recovered. It was into the hands for a brief moment of James Vaughters. Hey there, Falcons fans. Welcome to the Falcons Film Review, powered by Microsoft Surface. I'm DJ Shockley, and please excuse my hotel room. Hopefully, the Braves can wrap it up tonight in game six. That is where I am in Houston. But we still have some Falcons business. Make sure we count on that and get you guys some of these X's and O's and talking about what happened in the game versus Carolina Panthers. Let's dig into some of these plays, and let's jump on the defensive side of the ball and talk about some of the intricacies of Dean Pease's defense and what it looks like pre-snap as opposed to what happens post-snap. All right, let's go to the film and look at what happens. Now, let's start at the line of scrimmage. Let's look at both of these linebackers that are in the A-gaps. You got two guys in the A-gaps looking like they're gonna have what we call a simulated blitz or a simulated pressure. Now, to the quarterback, to the offensive line, you say, okay, if these guys come, who are we going to block? But these guys are actually not going to come. They're actually gonna bail. But the other guys I want you guys to pay attention to, this is what we call a two-tamp-a-look. Right now, across the board, it looks like it's gonna be some type of man coverage on the outside. The guy I want you to pay attention to is in the slide down here at the bottom, my man, Eric Harris. He is going to be what's to be called the two-tamp-a-guy in the middle of the field. Usually, you have these linebacks. The linebackers that are in the A-gaps, yeah, he's gonna go to the middle of the field. But usually these linebackers in the A-gaps are the ones, one of them is the ones that carries through the middle of the field for what we call a two-tamp-a-coverage. Two-tamp is you got two safeties on the outside, you got zone on the inside, and you got a linebacker that run through the middle that takes away anything that goes down in the middle of the field because that's where you're most dangerous in a two-tamp-a-look. But Eric Harris is the one who goes to the middle. And then on the other side, the other slot defender is on the outside of the Avery-Williamsman. He's the guy who's gonna be the other half-field safety. Now he's gonna go towards the Falcons sideline, be that cover-two safety, and that middle-field safety here, he's gonna rotate towards the Carolina sideline and be that other cover-two safety on the outside. All right, so let's watch what happens. Also at the top of the screen, let's watch this game. The detackle at the top of the screen, he's gonna loop around, and then the end on the other side, he's gonna loop around the inside, and there's gonna be what we call an ET gang. The end and tackle they replace, and that's where the pressure comes from. All right, so at the snap of the ball, you're gonna see everything that we talk about here, what's gonna happen. Movement up front, now you see these guys bail. Now we see him bail. Now you see Eric Harris at the middle of the field. Eric Harris is at the middle of the field. He's taking away anything coming across the middle. This is where Donald wants to go with the ball. But now you see the half-field safety going here. You got your other safety down at the bottom, and you got eyes on the quarterback. And then remember that game I talked about up front? Look at the pressure now. Look at the line of scrimmage change right here from up front. This is only four guys blitzing, and you got four guys with the pressure. The pocket is pushing, and Donald had to hold on to the football because what it looked like pre-snap was not what it was post-snap, and it confused him a little bit, and now the pressure was able to get home, and as the play continues, you can see you get to Donald, and that is why this place was so successful.  All right, let's stay on the defense side of the ball and talk about something that was really a hindrance for the Falcons in this ball game was third down. This is a particular play that happened on third and sixth, and the Panthers drew up a really good play against the Falcons to try to create a first down here. Now, the first guy I want you to pay attention to is at the bottom of the screen is the running back, and we call this a running back display. So he's out of the backfield, and now you see the guy covering him? It's Dion Jones. Usually Dion is on the inside, inside the box, but now because he's outside of those numbers, that tell you automatically this is man coverage, and that's the number one thing a quarterback wants to know. Do I have man? Do I have zone? That gives him an idea of where he wants to go with the football. So now you know you have man coverage, and now this back is going to go back into the backfield. Once he goes back into the backfield, Dion would absolutely go with him. So that gives you a further notice of what coverage it is for the quarterback. Now here's the route combination that really worked and why it was so successful. Start with this, we're going to start with this running back. He's going to run an option route. So option route gives him the option to break inside or break outside depending on the leverage of the linebacker. So Dion's going to play him, and now he has the leverage. Now the other guy to pay attention to is the route combination. This tight end at the bottom, he's going to run a free release go route. By running this free release go route, it gets this corner out of here. And that's important because if that corner's gone, there's nobody on the outside for Dion Jones. He has leverage. So now this back has a really good space to run its option right on. And they have created it by formation with this tight split by this tight end. And now they got a great opportunity to create what they want, which is they first down. At the top, they also run the option route as well. The inside guy, Robbie Anderson, is going to run an option route. And the middle guy is also going to run a little option route on top of the slot defender, which is sitting on about the 29 yard line. And that's where it's going to create a nice pick and rub play for them. All right, so let's get back into the play and show you exactly what happened on this particular play. As the play is about to get started, you see the play get started and now you see Dion Jones has the outside leverage here and we pause it here. Now you see the option there, boom. We breaks inside there. And once he breaks inside, so here's what's important. Look at the bottom of the bottom of the field. There's nobody down there because look at the corner right here. They're started by that tight end. He is released on the upside. Now he has gotten that corner out of there. And now look at where you have this back. He can work inside. He can work outside. This is just a very tough matchup for any linebacker. And usually you put your best backs on this. And now it's an easy completion here for the Panthers. And as the play continues, you can see it's just tougher Dion to cover that because he has so many ways to go on this particular play. Sometimes the offense does a good job of what I call just getting it done as far as distributing the football, but also creating these ways to get the football open. So sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but this time the Panthers created a really good play and that's why they were really successful on third down. All right, well, thank you guys for joining me. Looking at the defense today. Hopefully we get some medals next week and we get the dub and also keep rooting on those brains. I want to thank you guys for joining me for Falcons Film Review, powered by Microsoft Surface. I'm DJ Shockley. We'll see you next week.


So guys as I check it in and we just smashed 3,000 motherfucking subscribers on the channel Thank you everyone who subscribed and I'm gonna do a quick question and answer and I'm gonna start with my personal Facebook group Which you guys can join to if you haven't already joined I'll put a link in the description link in the comment section Or somewhere and you can be part of the action Okay, first question Josh zoo, I'm not sure if I spoke and pronounced that right What when was the turning point in your life that made you committed to self-improvement and actualization? That's a good question. Um, I started interested in it When I started university when I was around age 19 Well, I probably was in it before that but around age 19 was the turning point when my brain started Putting two and two together when I actually started seeing tangible results from the work that I was putting in to self-improvement to the results at age 19, that's when I Actually age 20 is when I started my blog say I had the mindset going in that now life was in my hands self-improvement was a vehicle to allow me to get the VR tools and Things necessary to achieve my goals So if I wanted to become incredibly successful and financially wealthy I could do that if I put the time in if I want to become a really good with women and Super confident if I put the time in if I want to be a really good tennis player or some shit I could do that all these things are what self-improvement is embodies it So when you start seeing when it starts clicking your head that Everything is in your control and that you get results depending on how much work you put in yourself That's when you start getting addicted and start getting committed to it. So age 19 Was probably the time when I started Comming ourself to self-improvement self-actualization Simland, what's your morning routine like? Okay, if I get the morning routine right, which I always do but if I do it properly my morning routine is I wake up I I cause brush my teeth I read For about an hour. So I read from my iPad or a physical book for about an hour. I then Take a cold shower Not always but when I had everything dialed in I took a cold shower Go back and then meditate for 20 minutes and Then I would start working on a YouTube video or Start writing or start doing some work that's going to contribute to the growth of the channel So that was my morning routine that I actually practice for a couple weeks. I'm gonna get back into it I'm kind of fucking up in the sense that I'm not doing the cold showers anymore and my meditation game is But we'll get back to that Philip Gezel bash Gazelle Philip Gazelle What has been your favorite part of the journey of online entrepreneurship so far when in terms of online entrepreneurship, I haven't really Been making what haven't really dived Balls deep into it, but I do have plans to make courses in the future So far been content marketing I've been putting out a lot of content in the form of these videos in the form of blogs Quora answers and stuff of that nature. So I've been helping out people in that way and I really like the effect on The impact I'm making on some people's lives, right? It makes me feel fulfilled. I also like the sense that the feeling of What's the word Independence or autonomy I like having choices No one tells me how I should go about my YouTube channel. No one tells me about how I should go about my blog It's not like a job where you get a set amount of money For semi hours and regardless of how well you work or how poorly work You don't have that much room for improvement with online entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in general you kind of Set your own pace so you can decide to work really hard one day or you can decide to chill out You decide depending on how much work you put in you can make $20 in a month or you can make $20,000 in a day. It's up to you So I like the ability to have that freedom to navigate and knowing that it's completely up to me because I've seen a lot of people lose their jobs because of perhaps the market or Politics or whatever and they lose their income because of someone else's choices not their choices I don't want to ever have to face that I want to be able to know a hundred percent that every choice I made is because of me and to stick with it Zachary Who do you? Why do you do what do you do? This is kind of similar to The answer gave to Philip it gives me a sense of fulfillment a lot of these things I teach on this channel in regards to confidence in regards to mentoring your Mental world I didn't really have anyone to teach me how to find this information So I've always wanted to have a place where I can go where someone can give me the blueprint So I'm trying to make this channel that for some people that are lost Some people have low self-esteem so that when they come to this channel They know that every video they're gonna get something that's going to help them on this path of sexual self-actualization That's something that's gonna help them level up in many ways. So that's why I make this channel. It's fulfilling and also There's a lot of room to navigate a lot of freedom. I can be creative in terms of videos I could be conservative.  I can swear.   All right, see you soon. I need to take a shower Yeah Bullshit, I'm at the front can't All right. Yeah, all right. Yeah, sorry about that guys I actually had to go to the gym and I'm back now so I can continue these motherfucking questions. All right So who asks what are your morning erections like? Well, I've got one word Glorious I'll go over to the Instagram questions now and see what people are asking over there on the gram Just do the Facebook group Okay, here we go. First question on Instagram. How do you find inspiration? I'm assuming and that's by Anas and that's Anastasia Sorry about the pronunciation. How simple how do you find inspiration? Well for my videos I draw inspiration from lessons. I've learned in life or so the things that Learning or reading about every day. I'm always inputting some new information into my mind by audiobooks via books via courses via All kinds of different mediums.  I'm excited to watch the video. Here's my question What do you think about chaos in your life? Chaos That's actually a really good question. I believe you have to embrace the chaos. I recently read a book about called anti fragile by Nassim Something or other and basically he says that there's three different things. Oh, well, there's things that fragile these are things that break under chaos perhaps You know a box Glass Your grandma these all things are fragile the things are robust things that are built to last and Sustained the chaos and then there are things that anti fragile things that get better with chaos. I try to be anti fragile So taking a historic approach whenever something bad happens I'll try find it good in it or as 50 cents says turn shit into sugar I try find how the chaotic or the chaos that's brewing Can benefit me? What can I benefit from the situation? How can this better me? So I like chaos I like it when things aren't going according to plan because it allows me to Step up it allows me to develop my faculties and become better.  Oh How can we find our motivation in us to do stuff that we must do to grow or live For example study a language for test in school, but we're just too busy. I'm over to do it. Thanks, man and Oh, where are you going to answer? How can we find motivation to do things that we know we need to do? but Don't necessarily want to do is basically questions saying Well, the thing is You don't need motivation I Said this in another video the other day motivation is cheap. It's fleeting. It goes away You don't need motivation what you need is discipline and you need to have the end in mind You need to understand why you're doing something and also you need to make that thing the utmost importance so For example, you want study a language you need to start a language for test in school Think of the end of mind. Why are you going to school in the first place? Perhaps it's to get your degree why do you want to degree perhaps is to get this particular job that you want Why do you want that job so that you have enough money coming into your life to sustain your dreams and aspirations?  It's gonna be worth of the end That's right.  I completely just butch that point. But yeah, think of that. What's next? Boy under the bridge My friend don't is lacking what to do. So you see my front dose no lacking Train it who next Deli quest sense deli deli quit deli deli Where sir if you could interview anyone for your YouTube channel, who would you choose? And what's the most important question that you would ask them? It's a really good question if I could interview anyone I probably would interview are no source there go because There's lots of people that become successful one area in life. There's people that become successful in acting There's people that become successful in politics There aren't too many people that become successful in multiple areas in life. I know Schwarzenegger has become successful in bodybuilding He became successful in acting. He became successful in politics. He's also entrepreneur So someone who is able to master four different areas of their life will be someone who I would love to interview And what question would I ask him a very simple question? I would ask him if he had to choose one thing or one key. What would he say? Was the most determining factor that led to his success. Was it a mindset? Was it something he did? Was it? You know The people you associate with I would ask him that question What is the number one thing that contributed to his success if he had to point out? So I would fire your question back on him. All right So if anyone knows Arnold, please tell him to come on the channel please and I think That's it. Those are all the questions We'll have another Q&A next time. I hope you guys enjoyed that More videos on the way soon. Thank you


This study evaluates the ability of various geospatial data products to model human settlement and population patterns, using a unique validation database and identifying advantages and shortcomings of each data type across different geographic settings in the US. This article was authored by Johannes H. Huell, Humidrisa Zorogine, Stefan Lake, and others.


This is a three hundred and twenty plus million dollar project for the province. The government is supporting about half of this brand new rebuilt Penticton hospital which is going to do so much in this community. Thanks to the community for helping make it happen. It was a big commitment on their part and it's part of our commitment to make sure we are delivering the health care, the modern health care that people in the regions of the province really deserve. Two years ago Dan Ashton and I promised we would make this happen. Lots of people said we wouldn't be able to and here we are today turning the dirt to get the construction going.