Let's begin reading at verse 13. I'll read verses 13 through 15 and we'll get into our study. Galatians chapter 5 verses 13 through 15. Paul writes, For you brethren have been called to liberty. Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another. So I want you to notice with me even as we begin, how Paul begins here in verse 13 by saying, You brethren have been called to liberty. He's been contrasting the grace of God with the law of Moses. And he's making it very clear here in verse 13 that we have been called. And what we have been called by is we have been called by the gospel. It's a gospel message that has called us into a relationship with God because the gospel message is what has been called an invitation to freedom. When we heard the message of the gospel, Jesus said, Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. My yoke is easy. My burden is light. Jesus was teaching us and calling us to liberty in him, to freedom in him. And that comes through the grace of God. It didn't come through following the law. It didn't come through the ritual observation of the law. It didn't come through making sure that certain things were sacrificed and certain ceremonies were held fast to. That freedom doesn't come in that way. The freedom that we have comes through a relationship with God that was declared to us and clarified for us, that was made possible for us. Through what is called the gospel message. In Luke chapter 4, in verses 17 through 19, Luke writes, The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Jesus. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written. The spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. The Lord Jesus said he has come to proclaim freedom for the prisoners. And that's what we have been called to. We've been called by the gospel to the liberty that comes through grace, the liberty that comes through knowing Jesus Christ. Now false messages delivered by false teachers will never set you free. And that's because the false messages are built on false promises. When Peter was writing in 2 Peter 2 18 and 19, he said they mow the empty boastful words and by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. He said they promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. So trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ sets you free from the bondage of sin and results in spiritual liberty. Now we have been called to freedom even as he says in verse 13. You brethren have been called to liberty or to freedom in Christ. We're not free to do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it. Grace hasn't been given to us so that we might just continue in sin.  And then you hear the gospel message and you say, oh great, now I can be saved and continue doing these things? No, that's not how it works. I didn't get saved so I could continue being a drunk and doing my drugs and the other things. I got saved to be set free from the bondage to those things. Grace hasn't been given to me so that I can continue in sin. I can't claim to be a Christian and continue living in the flesh habitually. I need to know that grace has been given to me to set me free so that I can proclaim Christ who sets the one free. The captives can be set free by Jesus Christ and the newness of life can be experienced by those who just hold fast to him, who believe in him, who take him at his word. When he says that he'll forgive you, he will. When he says you can be a new creation and old things are passed away, that's true. When he says your name will be written in my book of life, that's a fact. We can take him at his word, you see. And we adhere to him. We believe in him. We trust in him. That's how it works in Christianity. It isn't some ritual or religious system. It's a relationship with God that we have through faith in Christ. And Jesus said, I came to set you free and that's what he does. But during the time of the writing of the book of Romans, the apostle Paul was emphasizing the grace of God in his ministry and some had begun to say things about Paul saying, well, what Paul is actually saying is that you can continue in sin habitually and go to heaven. And they were saying that his teaching concerning the grace of God actually undermined a holy life. They were arguing that his approach to grace amounted to giving people permission to sin. In Romans chapter three in verse eight, Paul said, why not say, let us do evil that good may come as we have slanderously reported and some affirm that we say. Just continue in sin and grace is going to abound. He said, no, that's not what we do. You see, he made it very clear that grace is intended to set you free. What is it that drove you to Christ anyway? What is it that drove you to the cross? Why did you get saved in the first place? I got saved for a lot of reasons, but one of the main reasons is I was just sick of being sick. I was just tired of being tired. I was just tired of the life I was living.  That's it. I wanted to get out. I wanted a new life. I wanted a new chance. I wanted something different. I wanted something fresh. I wanted a new start. I didn't want to claim to be a Christian and continue drinking. I didn't want to claim to be a Christian and continue doing the drugs and the things that I was doing at that time. I wanted out of that. I didn't want it anymore. I was tired of it. I hated it. I was just bored with it. I was pretty much over it, but I didn't have any alternative. And so when somebody came and shared with me that you could have life, you could have joy, you could have peace, you could have love, you could have the things that you desire, the things that you really long for and it comes through faith in Christ. Well, that's good news. That's gospel. That's good news. You mean I can be forgiven of my sins? Yes. Every one of them? Yes. Absolutely. Totally. Yes. How does that happen? The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses you from all sin. I can have a new life. How does that happen? If you're born again, if the Lord Jesus Christ comes into your life, you're a new creation. Bible promises that. And so I don't know about you, but I didn't get saved to continue in sin. I got saved because I was tired of being beaten up by sin and being in bondage to sin. Well, when Paul was out there teaching and saying, listen, the grace of God is sufficient. Abraham was saved by faith and it comes through the grace of God. There were those who were arguing at that time that he was preaching a cheap grace, giving to you permission to continue in sin. And that's why he said that's not true at all. In Romans chapter six, verses one and two, he said, what shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? God forbid, by no means. He said, we died to sin. How can we live in it any longer? How can we who have died to sin live any longer under its domination? Because when you're saved, it literally means that you have died to sin. When you die to sin, it means you have nothing to do with it, that you're separated from it. At one time, you were dead in sin, but now because of Christ, you are dead to the power of sin over you. And so what happens when we have died is, one, is we're dead to sin's dominance in our lives. We have power to resist. We can actually have victory. And then second, we're dead to the judicial guilt that results in judgment and eternal separation because we've been saved by the grace of God. So when you get saved, you don't have that excuse anymore where you say, well, the devil made me do it. Or, yeah, I do that because that's just a habit of my flesh. No. We begin to understand Philippians 4-13 where Paul says, I can do all things through Christ to strengthen me. We begin to realize that if we resist the devil, he will flee from us. And that we actually can become overcomers, that we can be what Scripture calls more than conquerors through Jesus Christ. And we can actually walk from victory to victory, from glory to glory when we trust in him. And that all comes by grace. So grace gives us freedom from sin, not freedom to sin. Again, some reinterpret grace to mean permission, but you don't find that in the New Testament. In Colossians chapter 3, verses 5 through 9, Paul said, put to death, therefore whatever belongs to your earthly nature. And then he gives a whole list of things that belong to our flesh. Sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. And then he goes on to say, you used to walk in these ways in the life you once lived, but now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these. Rid yourself of anger, rid yourself of rage, of malice, of slander, and filthy language from your lips.  He says, rid yourself of that. I've had people come up and ask for prayer, and then they cuss at me as they're asking for prayer. And I say, you've gotten me mistaken for wrong. He does that. But he goes on to say, do not lie to each other since you have taken off your old self with its practices. You see, we need to understand that. We need to see that we've been set free by the grace of God and no longer does sin have domination over us. We have to see that. We are free from the judicial guilt because we were guilty before God. Therefore, when we stand before the great judge, he would see us as guilty because we have sinned and fallen short of his glory. So you stand before a righteous judge, and he's going to judge you based on the life that you lived and how you dealt with the gospel as you've heard it. Did you receive or reject? And so when I got saved, that judicial guilty issue of being guilty before God was dealt with. He says, now you are not guilty. Jesus is my advocate. He is my defense attorney. He stands in my stead and he pleads my cause. I have received forgiveness. I stand before God. God looks at me through Christ and says, not guilty. So I don't have to continue living under the domination of sin. I can now live a life that is separated, a life that is referred to by scripture as holy. And by God's grace, we're empowered to live lives that glorify the Lord and have victory over sin. We've been given his power through the Holy Spirit. We receive his directions by his word. And the Bible tells us in 1 John 3, 6, no one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. It's not that you don't fall or fail. Of course, every day we do in one way or another. But it's not the habit of your life anymore. It's not the longing of your desire. It's not that anymore. You have changed. It's not that you don't sin again. It simply means we have victory in Christ and we have victory over its domination. And that's what Paul is speaking about here in Galatians chapter 5. And he's saying, don't use this liberty that God has given to you through the gospel of Jesus Christ, as noticed as an opportunity for the flesh. Now when he speaks concerning that word opportunity, don't use liberty as an opportunity. That word opportunity is a base of operations. It's a place from which a movement or attack is made. Don't allow the flesh, the impulses and cravings that satisfy the natural desires.  Don't use your Christian liberty and allow it to become a base of operation for sin. Instead of habitually sinning, we need to do something different. It's interesting how he contrasts this. He says, you brethren have been called to liberty only. Don't use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Interesting. Now why would he say that? As an opportunity for the flesh. Because the number one priority that every human being has is to take care of himself. Number one. You remember the book of Job. You remember the story of Job, how that the devil was talking to God. And as the devil was talking to God, God had said to him, have you considered my servant Job? He's a just man. He hates evil. Have you considered him? Have you investigated him? Have you looked for a weakness in him? Have you been scrutinizing him? God of course knows that Satan had been desiring to get his hands on Job for a long time. And so God asks the question, have you observed him? Have you seen him? Where have you been? God had said to Satan, I've been going to and fro throughout the earth. Oh, that means you've been looking for something no good to do, haven't you? Have you seen my servant Job? Have you scrutinized him? Have you looked at him closely? Have you tried to find a weakness in him? Well yeah, I've seen him. Satan says, I can't touch him. You basically have put a hedge around him. And we know what happens in the first two chapters of Job. God speaking to Satan, and Satan speaking back to God concerning Job, and that ultimately God gives him permission to sift him. But Satan had said to him, as he was speaking to the Lord, Satan had said that God had been protecting him. But he said, skin for skin. All that a man has, he will give for his life. What he was saying is, just let me touch his body, and he will curse you to your face. The point he was making is that man has a tendency of loving himself. That's what Paul says in Ephesians chapter five. No man has ever hated his own flesh, but he loves it, he cherishes, he nourishes it. He takes care of his body. We have a tendency of doing that. That's why when the Lord God gives us commands about love, it talks about loving God with all of our heart and loving our neighbor as ourselves. Because it's a love where, like Jesus said, great love has no man, then man lay down his life for his friends. Because most of us, all of us in this room, starting with me, take care of ourselves. And what we learn to do is we learn to care for others. And so grace is given to us so that we stop caring so much for ourselves that we neglect caring for other people. We were saved to serve. We were saved to serve God, and we were saved to serve one another. That's what he's saying here. You've been called to liberty. Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Instead of me being so concerned about serving myself, I need to learn to serve somebody else. You know, when you look at the apostles and unbelievable men, and you look at those men, the 11 who remained faithful, and then the apostle Paul, you see men that were unbelievably faithful to God. But were they always that way? Well, obviously they weren't. One of the things that I find repeated several times in Scripture is really an attitude of selfish ambition that was really there within the band of those men. You can look and you can see them, and they had this issue that was really something that was repeated more than once. You see it in Mark chapter 9.  And after He's killed, He will rise the third day. But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him. Then He came to Capernaum, and when He was in the house, He asked them, What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road? But they kept silent. For on the road, they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. That was a constant argument amongst them. It was, He loves me more than He loves you. It was that kind of attitude. Na, na, na, na, I'm His special one. And that's the way they were with one another. Who is the greatest? And they would argue amongst themselves, Who is the greatest? This was a dispute that continued on and on, and it's interesting how that Mark says, This happened after Jesus said, I'm gonna die. Now you would be thinking that these men would be discussing amongst themselves what Jesus had told them.  Isn't that worthy of discussion? Don't you think the men should have been speaking amongst themselves? What is he talking about? How's that gonna work? How's that gonna affect us? They were busy with something more important. I'm greater than you. And that's what they were arguing about. It's amazing, but it's true. It's amazing how many times we can have a Bible study. And after the study, we can go with our friends somewhere, and we don't even think to discuss what we heard in the Bible study. Because they're busy talking about other things. That's how these men work. And they had this great thing going on, Who is the greatest? Even after they had heard Jesus say, He's gonna die. Now later on, Matthew writes about it in chapter 20, verses 20 and 21. It says, The mother of Zebedee's sons came to him. Zebedee's sons are James and John. The mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with her sons kneeling down and asking something from him. He said to her, What do you wish? She said to him, Grant that these two sons of mine may sit one on your right hand and the other on your left in your kingdom. They're wanting positions of greatness. Any time someone would see Jesus on his throne, they would naturally have opportunity to see James and John there. They wanted positions of greatness. And in Matthew 20, 24, it says, When the 10 heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. They were greatly displeased because they had made that request. James and John had made that request prior to them. Because they would definitely have wanted those positions. Now this carried on. This didn't stop. It even went into the events of the most solemn of nights. It says in Luke 22, 24 through 27, there was rivalry among them as to which of them should be considered the greatest. He said to them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors, not so among you. On the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger. And he who governs as he who serves. For who is greater? He who sits at the table or he who serves. Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the one who serves. This attitude of wanting to be served rather than serving is human nature. It's within us and we have to die to it. In Philippians 2, 3, and 4, it says, Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit. But in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out, not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. You have to die to that. Listen, you've been set free by Jesus Christ. You have liberty in Christ, but that's not a liberty that has been given to you to enable you to do what you want, when you want, wherever you want, with no consideration for somebody else. Every married person in this room can tell you that one of the keys to having a good marriage is learning to serve one another. It's one of the keys, learning to serve one another.  That's really not a good attitude. When you get married, you serve one another. You do things for one another. You know, it's a mutual submission in many ways, where you're working together to make a home. And if I have this attitude that my wife is there to make sure all my needs are met, but I don't have to be concerned for anything for her, then that marriage isn't going to make it. It just isn't going to happen, because she's going to get tired of being pushed around. But if I have this attitude, and she has the same kind of attitude of, I want to love you, and I want to show my love by service to you, my marriage is going to be a strong marriage that continues to grow over the years. And that's what happened with Marie and with me. That's one of the keys to our marriage, is we've learned to serve one another, to care for one another, to love one another, to take the liberty that God has given to us, the grace that God has given to us, and to actually extend it to one another. And so that's what we're supposed to do. We're to follow his example. We're to learn to serve each other. And when you do that, it breaks the habit, it breaks that entitlement mentality, that heart of consumerism that we Americans are plagued by. When you actually get saved and understand that you're saved to serve God, and you take this liberty to help and serve other people, it sets you free. It sets you free. I've been mentioning lately that, you know, I've been observing our Sunday morning services, and some of you come to second service, some may come to first. And we're definitely going to be having to go three services. And I have mentioned that recently. We're going to have to. We're going to have to go three services on Sunday morning.  You know, the children's ministry is going to need to be restocked, if you will. We're going to need ushers. We're going to need people in the parking ministry and all. I'm encouraging you, even as I'm giving this message, to use your liberty for service.  And take that opportunity.  Don't be an individual who comes in entitled with this mentality of everything's for me. Have an attitude of, look at the Lord has been good to me and I want to be good to somebody else because that's what Paul's talking about here. He said, through love serve one another. In verse 14 he says, for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even this you shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another. When he's speaking concerning service, it's easy to find examples of that. This freedom that God has given to us, and this service, well when Jesus was speaking concerning himself, he said, the greatest in the kingdom is the servant of all. Jesus Christ is the one who was the servant of all. He came and on the night he was betrayed, knelt down, took a basin of water, he took a towel, girded himself, and began to wash the feet of his disciples. He did that as an example to them. He said, you call me Lord and you call me Master, and it is true because that's what I am.  So the Lord taught us to do that. And that was an example of this royal law, this law that you shall love your neighbor as yourself. You see, serving reflects a mature knowledge of salvation. It also reflects a knowledge of the body of Christ and body life. It reveals that we know what Jesus has done for us. And as we serve with one another, it's only a demonstration that we understand that we need each other. You know, have you ever seen somebody whose car is broken down on the side of the road and they're by themselves, and it's a heavy car and they're trying to push it uphill? They can't do that by themselves. But if you can take the moment to climb out and help them, well, what one person couldn't do, two people can do. And that's how it works. In Ecclesiastes 4, 9 through 11, it says two are better than one because they have a good return for their work. If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up. Also, if two lie down together, they'll keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? And so what we do is we learn to serve. And he speaks of loving our neighbors. Now notice this. He says we are to love our neighbors as ourselves. That's difficult, isn't it? Here really is. We had somebody in our fellowship who came up to me one time. It's been a few years now. And he said, you know what? You were talking about loving my neighbor. I'm having a tough time doing that. Well, why is that?  He said he's got a big dog and he keeps on throwing his dog's presence, my dad used to call them, into my backyard. He does it on purpose just to irritate me. He said my neighbor is constantly doing things to get me upset.  You pretty much chose who's around you to some degree. And that's one thing here. You climb in your car. If you came with somebody, you're together. That's no problem. But man, when you get into traffic, and I was driving home from L.A. And I think of all you who drive home from from Orange County or from L.A. or from wherever and you're coming home at three, four in the afternoon, five in the afternoon, and I pity you. I do. I pray for you. I say, oh, Lord, I tell Marie, I can't believe it. This is what they go through every day. They drive this every day. And these people in, you know, oh, it's just amazing to me. It's just amazing the rudeness that people have, you know, the speeding up and tailgating and cutting you off and all of that wonderful stuff. And that's just in your driveway. That's not even when you're on the freeway. When you get on the freeway, it's worse. It's hard. It's easy to talk about loving one another. It's easy. But God knows it takes a lot of dying to self to really learn to do that, doesn't it? It really does. It takes a lot of prayer and dying to self. It takes a lot of disciplining yourself in the Lord and saying, God help me because, I'll be honest with you, Lord. The Bible says that we can lay hands on people and I want to lay hands on this person, but not in the biblical way. They're making me so angry.  They're so mean and rude. I pray about, I have been praying, and I don't know that God has really answered this yet, but I have been praying to teach, for the Lord to teach me to love people since basically the day I got saved. It's 40 years. And I still see people sometimes and I still say, man. I get Old Testament in my prayers, though Lord break their teeth in Jesus' name. I'm amazed at how rude and how obnoxious that person can be. And so, yet, that's what we're called to do. It's called the Royal Law in the book of James chapter 2, verse 8. This particular verse here, verse 14, you shall love your neighbor as yourself is repeated several times. It's actually found originally in Luke, rather Leviticus chapter 19, verse 18. It's an Old Testament scripture. We know the situation there in the book of Matthew 2235 through 40 where the Lord Jesus Christ has someone approach him and ask the question, what is the great command in the law?  He says, there's a second like unto the first. He says, you're to love your neighbor as yourself. So, Jesus repeats out of Leviticus 1918, what is referred to in James chapter 2, verse 8, as the Royal Law. You see it also repeated in Romans chapter 13, verse 9. If the Lord says something one time, it's important. If he says it twice, it's extremely important.  He wants us to know that we're to love our neighbor as our self. And so, the only way that I'm going to learn to care for somebody else is when I'm born again and I walk in the grace of God. That's the only way I can do it. And so, I pray every morning. I pray several times throughout the day. God, would you just allow me to walk in the Spirit? We're going to see this next time we're together when we look at verses 19 for the fruit of the Spirit. God, would you produce that in me? So that I might, as a Christian man, actually love people. I want to do that. Because, you see, in verse 15, he says, if you bite and devour one another, beware, lest you be consumed by one another. When he speaks about biting and devouring, it's another way of saying, if you're wounding and destroying each other, be careful that you don't devour or consume, rather, spend or use up each other. In other words, be careful that you don't destroy instead of build up. If you're serving Jesus with a pure heart, then more than likely, you're not destroying. And what is he saying? Well, he's saying liberty is never to be used to give us freedom to destroy somebody else. Our freedom in Jesus doesn't extend to hurting each other. Our freedom in Jesus is to give us the ability to love and to serve one another. Here's something for you. When I was a young believer, I had certain things that I thought I had freedoms in, and some people didn't feel that they had the same kind of freedom, and so they'd get upset. And so my response in my early days was, well, if it bothers you, then you ought to pray and seek the Lord and get over it. Because I've got freedom in Christ. And if I want to use my freedoms in this way, who are you to judge me? And I think I speak for a lot of people. That was my mentality, and there are a lot of people who still think that way. If you don't like what I'm doing, you know, the Bible doesn't say I can't do that. If you don't like it, it's really something you have to deal with. You know, some people think they have freedom to do a variety of things, and I discovered a long time ago the freedom God gave to me is not to be used to hurt somebody else. I was trying to illustrate this one time when our church was less than a year old. I was teaching, and I was talking about, some people have freedom to drink. I said, but let me ask you a question. And the church only had 60 people at that time, and I was a little more informal than I am today. So I said, let me ask you a question. What would you do if you came to my house, and you came in and opened up the refrigerator, and you found some alcohol that was in my house? What would you do? There was a guy in the front row, and he yells so everybody could hear him, but he was really talking to me, and he said, I'd help you drink it, pastor. That wasn't the point I was making. I'd help you drink it. Let me rephrase this. But there are people who do, yeah, I'll do a good deed. I'll help you drink it. How would you feel? How would you feel if you were at Costco, and I come walking by and I've got a cart, fill with beer? How would you feel? Would it be okay? Would that be okay? Why did you just say yes? No, no, why? Why? I'm over 21 considerably, and what if it's wine? What if it's Christian Brother wine? Would that stumble you? It would, wouldn't it? Let's be honest, it would stumble you. I've had people who've encountered me in the supermarket. The first thing they do is they look in the basket. I am not kidding you. That's okay because I'm looking in there. It's the truth. It's the truth. People will come and they see and they look because they expect me to live at a certain standard. I understand that. I've often wondered why they themselves don't live by the same standards. See, is it okay to stumble somebody or not? Or is it only pastors who aren't supposed to stumble people? But people who are just sheep, they can stumble whomever they want to because it's okay? Is that what Paul is teaching? Obviously not. That's my point. My point is this. Don't use your liberty to stumble somebody else. Don't use the freedoms that you have to destroy a brother whom Christ died for. And just because you feel you have freedom to do something doesn't mean that you should do that because it can cause somebody else great pain. In Romans chapter 15 verses 1 and 2, Paul said it like this. He said, We who are strong ought to bear the infirmities or the sensitivities of the weak and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good to build them up. See, that's what love is.  Don't judge me. It's getting past that to the point where you actually care about other people. You actually care. And you restrict the perceived freedoms that you have based on how it affects other people because you want other people to walk solidly with Jesus Christ. That's what happens when you begin to grow, and that's what happens when you begin to actually love people. How can I do that? How is that made possible? Verse 16, I say then, Walk in the spirit, you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walking in the spirit.  There are various disciplines that we as Christians can develop. Disciplines of the Christian life. We read our Bible. We pray. We worship God in song. We witness to other people. We have time of fellowship. We serve one another. We live by certain biblical standards. And all of that has an outer appearance of being mature. Yet people can do those kinds of things. They can read a Bible. They can pray worship. They can do all of those things, and still be legalistic or be unsaved or carnal. They're just doing outward things. It takes the Holy Spirit to produce a life of true righteousness. It takes the Holy Spirit to transform a person's life. It's the Holy Spirit who works within, who gives me the ability to do the things that I might not want to do. Beautiful Scripture, Ezekiel 36 verses 26 and 27. God says, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. I will put my spirit in you. I will give you a new heart. That comes through the power of the Holy Spirit. See, the law cannot give you a new heart. It doesn't give you the power to please God. It's the Spirit and we need to be energized by the Holy Spirit. That's why Paul to the Ephesians said, I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.  And we begin to walk in his Spirit and we begin to follow the Lord in that way spiritually. We are walking in the Spirit. We're to be led by the Spirit. When you get saved, the Holy Spirit begins to do a work in you and after a while you begin to familiarize yourself with the way he works, the way he moves, the way the Holy Spirit operates. You begin to become familiar with that. It occurs as you read in the Word of God and God begins to enlighten you as you study and you read and you say, so that's what, oh and how am I going to... It happens through prayer. It happens through speaking to Godly people and saying, you know, I've been thinking about this and I want to get your take on this. And you begin to learn how the Holy Spirit works in your life. The Holy Spirit is that invisible person of the Trinity who dwells within you and makes your body his temple. He lives within you. And Jesus said, you would receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you would be witnesses to him and Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, unto the most parts of the earth. The Holy Spirit who dwells within us, giving to us the power and writing God's Word on our hearts is what gives us the ability to obey. In the early church, the Holy Spirit is extremely active is you see the Book of Acts and you see how the Spirit moves throughout the Book of Acts. It gives to us the blueprint of what God intends to do in the church, through the ages of the church. If the Holy Spirit is present, you see God moving tremendously. When the Holy Spirit is not present, you see a lot of man's efforts and a lot of flesh. The work of God is done through the Spirit of God. But there's a battle. Notice verse 17 and 18, the flesh lust against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you wish. There is that constant warfare that takes place where the Holy Spirit is leading you to do something and you are constantly saying no. And sometimes God wants to do something remarkable and you just quench him. You just say no. I've told you this before. It's a true story. My brother-in-law was at this time, one of my brothers-in-law was a young boy. He was about 14 or so. And Marie and I and two other couples were meeting at a location for a Christian concert and I had asked my brother-in-law if he would go with us because I wanted him to hear the message of the gospel. I'd shared with him but I wanted him to hear it from somebody else and so I said to him, would you like to go with us? And he said yes. And so we went to this concert hall. It was a theater in the round. It was not a theater in the round. It was the what do you call it? Anaheim Convention Center. So it's got this circular thing. And so we showed up there and as we showed up, our friends weren't there. They were coming from Norwalk and we were driving in from Chino. And so we said to them, we'll meet you there but we didn't set a place to meet them. And so Marie and I and her brother are there in the foyer and we don't know where our friends are and the lights are off inside the hall so there's no way that we can see them and we don't know if they've arrived. So I began to walk one way and I tell Marie, you walk the other way. And as we were walking, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and said to me, tell him that you're all going to meet together at seven. I'll never forget this. Tell him that you're going to meet you're all going to meet together at seven. And I looked at my watch. It was five minutes to seven. And I said, no. If I said to myself, boy, what am I thinking? If I tell him that we're going to all connect at seven o'clock and what if we don't? That must be me. And so I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. We just kept walking. So Marie walks away from me and I start walking. As we're walking, I'm stopping and I'm looking in. I'm trying to see my friends. I can't see if they're there walking around the whole thing. And as we go around, Marie's coming the other way and Marie connects with me. And Marie and I connect. And when we connect, we hear a knocking on a glass door. And as we hear the knocking on the door, we turn together at the same time. And there are our friends, two couples, knocking on the glass door for us to let them in. And I look down at my watch and it's seven o'clock on the dot, on the dot.  No, the Holy Spirit. And I was so bummed out. What an incredible testimony that would have been to my brother-in-law. God says we're going to meet at seven o'clock. So I should have told him, but I didn't. I just walked and Marie's going the opposite direction all that way. And then we connect and I look at her and I say, I don't, I don't see him. She says, I don't know where they're at. I didn't see him either. And then I hear knock, knock, knock, and we all turn in. There they are standing. They'll let us in. What a perfect moment. The Holy Spirit's power could have been shown. Over time, I've tried to learn move when he speaks. Move when he speaks.  There are times that God wants to show you he's God. He wants to do something that is beyond you, that it's beyond logic. He wants to do it. And Paul is simply saying, listen, you need to walk in the Spirit. It needs to be the habit of your life. Listen, if you want to love one another and you want to serve one another in love and you want to avoid devouring one another, you need the power of the Spirit. You need to walk in the power of the Spirit. You need to be led by the Spirit of God. Because if you're led by the Spirit of God, you're not going to fulfill the desires of the flesh. The desires of the flesh are always longing to do things for myself. But when I'm walking in the Spirit, I learn to die to those things and I learn to serve God and serve other people. And if I'm going to be somebody who doesn't bite and devour other people, then I need to be somebody who's walking in the Spirit. And so Paul is speaking concerning that and he's saying, listen, the law that these false teachers are bringing, they're trying to bring you under, having you circumcised, having you observe all the ritual and all the ceremonial laws, will not produce in you the power of the Spirit that comes through the grace of God that gives you the freedom that you have in Jesus Christ. None of that does that. So walk, he says, in the Spirit. Be led by the Spirit and watch what God will do. I just pray that we, this church, will actually open up to what God wants to do by his Spirit in our midst.


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Okay, so really I'm talking from a more of a perspective now of an observer and the value of cameras in or two observers while they at sea. So, I think, as I've said here the data requirements for fisheries observer programs are quite complex and difficulties are often associated with overloaded demands or accurate data and near real time reporting, which adds strain to the observers, especially in some of their more delicate tasks that they require to do. And the result is that the principal objective of most at sea observer programs are taking a backseat also as observers are required to monitor and report more and more on some compliance issues with respect to various conservation and management measures or So in this respect and as we've seen now in some of the presentations up to now automatic electronic monitoring and enhanced electronic sampling has the potential to save observers time and remove them from situations that are operationally unsafe and scenarios where they are pulled on to exceed their independent sampling mandate. I was going to see if this thing is going to change. So, essentially, observers are cameras are not, are not new in observers. And they've been used for many years for most programs for taking pictures of various species and under situations. And, you know, if I look at the camera observer program. So, for example, dropping tag returns has been a requirement for a long time now. And that, especially to verify against reported tag return numbers and this has proved itself over and over again, up to now. So I started looking at the more modern cameras and the and the rapid advance in new technology, which involves both around imagery and machine learning and artificial intelligence it makes it possible. Now for cameras to take over large chunks of monotonous tops. These are things like line rolling, which can be rewatched at a high speed and in more safety and comfort. And I'll come back to some of the safety aspects, but in short camera time can save on human time that can then be reinvested in tasks with cameras or less efficient. So if we look a little bit now at electronic sampling versus electronic monitoring. And just to give you an example here of what an observer is expected to spend many hours of his day, I could see, if we look at line hauling at the line hauling example machine learning can pick up a flag events and draw attention to these. I'm showing the viewers sections of the line where fish come up observer can then validate species ID confirm events that are flagged, and the view also has the power to stop rewind fast forward and zoom in save clips for second opinions. And what we've also seen now is we can get to the point where species recognition can be such that an entire line hall can be monitored electronically recording all the species coming up. So cameras via remote sensing can also be connected to vessels hydraulics linked to navigation equipment such as GPS location and record mechanical operations time position together with video imaging. So what is this route that we envisage cameras and electronic monitoring to go forward as an age to observe us. presumably we can get to the point where electronic monitoring could supplant a significant percentage of the observer's time time that can also then be reinvested reinvested in more specific biological sampling. To follow on on this electronic sampling also provides observer with assistance, for example, through an electronic measuring board or scale to automatically record fish length and weight. This saves time on data transcription and reduces human error and supports support that essentially enhances the overall data collection and the quality of data that is collected. Whereas electronic monitoring and remote sensing can independently provide images and information in settings that have more a compliance factor and safety issue. For example, for most RFMOS require, most RFMOS where long line fishing takes place. They require the vessels to fly one or two birds carrying devices, the Tori Alliance, especially in the higher latitudes. And these lines are really only effective if deployed in terms of the specifications, correct length, attachment height, tote object. Setting also often takes place at night and observers are not always or cannot always be present throughout the set to verify that Tori Alliance is deployed correctly and working effectively. It is also often a very dangerous situation in adverse conditions of sea and ice. And I'm going to be honest here, there are situations where observers have actually been in life-threatening situations, monitoring setting operations, which to a large extent is a compliance issue. In essence, a simple Tori line tension device which switches on automatically once the line is deployed records date time tension verifies the line is automatic is effective. It's automatically once once the line is deployed so basically, as soon as the line is deployed all these parameters are recorded. And from a set of known parameters, it will also record if the line is correctly deployed, correct length is out and tote device and so on and so forth. This saves observer time and also is huge a safety factor for the observer. So if we look now at electronic monitoring more in a compliance aspect. A scientific observer should not be a compliance office and I think this is always an issue that we are faced when placing observers on board. I ever they have increasingly come tools for compliance in fishies management management, she's managers need to acknowledge that observers currently play a huge role in contracts. They cannot site site step it and all of the associated risks that he creates for the options. He and can to a large extent resolve the understated reality that observers to have this compliance role as I've just mentioned monitoring setting operations result of compliance issues is that the independence of observers can be compromised. There will always be an opportunity to look away. Often it is nothing to do with the integrity of the building, or even the fishing operation, and more to do with the relationships on board, maintaining a safe and congenial living situation for observers when they are at sea sometimes on a small vessel up to six months. So essentially, the electronic monitoring can increase monitoring from zero level up to 100% or 200% in cases where human and electronic monitoring work together. It can also have a significant knowledge on smaller vessels, which are generally less safe and suitable for accommodating observers, taking away. In some cases, they need to remove a crew to crew member to accommodate the observe. And if I give an example of a fishery in South Africa to Nepal fishery where crew working pairs to try and take off one crew to accommodate. And this ever seriously impacts the operation of the vessel. And the result is that these vessels seldom if ever take observers, and there is to date little or no recorded at sea monitoring in this in this fishery. Another case study of a fishery here in South Africa, which also is extremely reluctant to take observers and that's our small scale, small, electric person fishery. And this is a fishy that is ideal, ideally situated for electronic monitoring by putting remote sensing on to the equipment hydraulics like the triplex the net stacker. And the fish pump together with cameras, it would be able to provide an indication of the catch size from the strain profile on the equipment while rolling, and then the time to actually come out the net. And just to look at this in reality, we can see that by by pulling out an AI system on to all of these equipment and then on to the pump and monitoring the volume of fish that are pumped out. The parameters used in conjunction could provide information on catch composition and even size competition. The flag would be raised if there was a deviation from the expected parameters that mark indicate fish were discarded for any reason. And this is a major compliance factor in this fishery. Okay, so that's pretty much it. I was actually hoping that this would more the scene for discussion and questions. And yeah, thanks a lot for those of you have listened so far.


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But on the last page, something happened, like there's a shock. Like I was like, oh! I'm like, go to you. And I was like, and so we're not going to have that. Okay. Welcome back to my channel. I hope you are well. You may be thinking, Megan, I swear you don't do wrap ups and you would be right. She doesn't even go here. This year I have been doing quarterly wrap up. So every three months I give my reading statistics and a few of like my favorite and least favorite books. However, I have decided to start doing monthly wrap ups. I don't typically watch them myself. Call me a bad server because I always spill the tea. But I know that a lot of people love to watch them and for a lot of people it's the only thing that they do watch on BookTube. I've always felt like almost all of the books I read are in vlogs. But like I can't expect you to watch every single vlog. So I feel like this would be a good place to just consolidate all of my reading, talk about all the books I read this month. And yeah, that doesn't mean we're missing one quarterly wrap up. But to be honest, I don't think I had any five-star books in July and August, which would be the other two months that would be in this quarterly wrap up. So like we just don't need to talk about her. It was not a good time. I'm going to give you my reading statistics for September and then we're going to talk about all the books I read. I read a total of 14 books in August, no, September. Dum dum. I read a total of 14 books in September, which is the joint highest I've ever read in a month, which is really good because I was in a reading slump in August. I think I only read seven books. So I managed to successfully get out of that this month. Three of those were under 100 pages. So there were a few short books in there that I just kind of threw in to like get the count up of it and feel a bit better about myself. I'm hoping in the last three months of the year at some point I'll read like 15 or up in a month. That would be great. In terms of star rating, I didn't have anything below a three star, which is great. Like to not have a 2.5 or a two or one, like it's just brilliant. There are a few books that were threes like maybe could be like a 2.75 but I read them as a three because I was feeling generous. He's genuine, amazing.  But I had two three stars, three 3.5, three four stars, three 4.5 and three five stars. So it was a pretty even split between like almost all of them. I read almost the same of each rating. Normally I would like to see more five stars especially because I had gone two months without but I'm getting there slowly. Oh, I read a total of 4192 pages this month and that is an average of 139 pages a day which I feel like is pretty good. Like 139 pages a day ain't something to be snipped at. There were definitely some days I read nothing and some days I read 300 pages. Like I'm not the kind of person who reads the same amount every day. I do go through ebbs and flows in the month of reading loads and reading not a lot. In terms of genre, I read three contemporary, three fantasy, three graphic novel, two magical realism, one nonfiction, one sci-fi and one thriller. I feel like contemporary is something I'm starting to get into more. You'll see some of the books I talk about in this video are contemporaries that I've loved. It's not like a genre I feel particularly drawn to but they're definitely books I read quickly after I buy them because they're not as intimidating as some of the other books I have on my shelf. All my big books. Oh, hold up the second lady. Don't get in my face. That's a pretty good split between everything I would say and three graphic novel shows I was just trying to get myself out of a slump. In terms of audience, I read six adult, one middle grade and seven young adult. I do like my reading to be a pretty much a 50-50 split between young adult and adult. And then in terms of author race, I read from five black authors, seven white authors and two Middle Eastern authors. So white authors is like 50%. I feel like that's pretty good. I would like going forward for my white authors to be 50% in under a month and black authors being a 36%. I always want to see that about 40% around that. I'm Middle Eastern. I don't tend to read from a lot of Middle Eastern authors. So I'm happy to see that that is 14%. But I would say that when I did quarterly wrap ups, that was more representative author race because I feel like in a month you can't get a really solid picture of that. I feel like quarterly wrap ups and yearly wrap ups are a better representation of that because I could be doing a themed reading vlog for a week, reading murder mystery, which is typically a very white dominated genre. And that would mean that my monthly to six are affected by that. So I feel like that is an area of statistics that quarterly wrap ups were better at. Also, I forgot to say that nine of the books I read this month were own voices and five were not. Okay, thank you. Goodbye. So let's get into the 14 books that I read this month. That's what we've been waiting for. It's what we wanted all along. I am going to go through them the order that I read them apart from. I'm going to start with the book that I read last. In my last reading vlog, which was where I wrapped up all my unread books and unwrap some and read them. I'll link that if you haven't seen it. I didn't actually finish this book and I was supposed to read it in this vlog because I want to spend a bit more time with it and read it a bit more slowly. I didn't finish it in the vlog, but I told you all to come here to hear what I had to say about it. And like, I feel like it would be a bit annoying if I left it till the end because it's the last book I finished this month. So I'm going to talk about it first and it is Heard Feminism by Mickey Kendall. Now, as you can see, I tabbed this a lot. I don't tab. I've never tabbed a book fully throughout in the way that I did with this. There's too much. I'm studying a feminism module this year at uni and I feel like this was super helpful for that. So I wanted to have like a really good resource of quotes when it comes to doing essays and stuff like that. I really enjoyed this. I ended up giving it 3.75 stars. This is all about a feminism that is inclusive for all, particularly for black women, spearheaded by black women, talking about the issues and problems that white feminism and white feminists often try to ignore. I loved the message of this. I loved what this was saying. I agreed completely with it. Like my feminism very closely aligns with this. I think that this is just so insightful. If you've never read feminist literature or feminist nonfiction before, I think this is like the perfect place to start. I love it. I love it. This is where I would send you to start reading about feminist nonfiction. However, I feel like as someone who's read quite a bit of feminist nonfiction, a lot of these were issues that I was already educated on and heard about before. For many people, it's positive was kind of my negative because it covers such a wide range of issues.  Like it covers every single topic. And I think I'm almost at the stage now where when I'm reading feminist books, I kind of want them to be on one topic in depth because I felt like we kind of covered all these topics and I wanted to read about them in more detail and I couldn't because we kind of just sped on from them really fast. But I just always felt like I wanted us to go a bit more in-depth and to like examine issues with a bit of a closer lens. And I also just felt like the writing style wasn't for me. I feel like with nonfiction, like a writing style can either just be like completely your thing and you really engage with it or you struggle to read it. And I just struggled to read this but it's not like badly written at all. I can recognize that. It just wasn't for me. I don't know. I just don't think this is like great for me. I don't want to do it. I want to go home. Like I can't take the pressure of it. I don't think any job interview... But I would really recommend this. I found it so insightful and I'm definitely going to be lending this to a lot of people I know because I think it is so, so important. Now we go back to the start. I don't have these first few books with me. They're back home. The first book I read this month was Stranger Dreamer by Laini Taylor. I gave this 4.5 stars. If you know me, you know, I love like whimsical, magical, ethereal writing. And this is that. When I read this, I thought, thank God, we've got a five star. We didn't.  The first like 100 pages were five stars. The last maybe 80 pages, five stars. Everything in between four stars. So it kind of leveled out to a 4.5 star. I feel like it had so much potential in this. We follow Laszlo Strange as he is obsessed with like the mythical Lost City of Weep. He finds out that it's not mythical and he gets to travel there and it's about children of gods and goddesses floating above the city and dreams and it's hard to describe. Like it's impossible to describe. I feel like Laini Taylor's writing is for me. Like for me, I love that kind of purple prose. I know some people hate it and I can accept that, but you're wrong. There's nothing wrong with my views or beliefs because I have freedom of speech and everything I'm saying is true. And this made me sob. Like the ending, I haven't cried in a book in a while. Like I typically cry a lot of books, but I have not cried in a book like this in a while. Like tears were streaming. Even thinking of it now makes me sad and it makes me so nervous for the next book. Next was The Wicked King by Kate Ancrem. I gave this four stars. So this is about two guy friends, friends, friends. They have a very interesting relationship and one of their mental health starts deteriorating throughout the book and he's kind of imagining that he can see things around him and interact with them and his friend is trying to help him through that. It was very short, kind of fragmented burst of information told through mixed media, which I love. I love any aspect of mixed media. Like it just gets me. If any book, if I find out a book has mixed media straight away, I'm reading it. This wasn't everything I wanted it to be. Like I've heard a lot of people say how heartbreaking it is and like totally in capturing. No one says that, but yes. Just how much they loved it. I didn't necessarily feel like that. I feel like it's the kind of book that after you've read it, you appreciate it so much more.  And so I feel like I had this whole newfound appreciation for it when it was done. This was such a quick read. Like I think I said in my vlog, I read 100 pages in 40 minutes and like I don't read fast. At my quickest, I'm a page a minute in a normal book at my quickest, but this was just like such a page term.  Next was with the far on high by Elizabeth Atavado and I gave this five stars. Success. This is my first five stars in like two months. You do not understand how happy I was. Oh my God. Elizabeth Atavado is everything. She's everything like. So I had read her two other books previous to this, The Power X and Clap When You Land. And I gave them both like 4.5 stars. They are both told in verse. It's very short. You read it really fast. And I just felt like I always wanted a bit more time with the characters and that's what I got in this one because it's told through more of a conventional novel format. This is about a character who is a young teen mum and she loves to cook. She wants to be a cook, but it's her trying to figure out how to prioritize that in her life while still taking care of her daughter and going to high school and just juggling all the things she has to juggle that a normal teenage girl doesn't have to. Elizabeth Atavado does family so well. Oh my God. The family dynamics on theirs killed me. Killed me. She's incredible. Like Elizabeth Atavado is one of my favorite writers. I just adored this. I think it's really not spoken about enough. People speak about her other two books way more in my opinion. And this is the best. This is the best. Maybe she snapped. Just all like warm inside. I loved it. This book is everything. It's just the most like heartwarming, soft, contemporary. So if you feel like you need that, it's everything. It's so, so, so, so good. I loved it. Next, I'm going to talk about two books that I read like spaced out a little bit in the month. They're so short. They're 25, 26, 27 pages each. And this is the two editions of Ghosted in LA, which I read this month. This is a graphic novel series, which is all on Scribd, so I've been reading it on there. Going forward, basically on Goodreads, you can either count each volume as a book or you can count the collection of four. So each four is a book. And I think going forward, I'm going to do that because only like 25 pages each. So that would be like 100 pages, which I feel like is a bit better than like saying I read a 25 page book. So I think going forward, I'm going to do that. But this is about a girl who moves to LA to be with her boyfriend, but he like breaks up with her as soon as she gets there. Really savage. And she stumbles upon this house of ghosts who are all trapped in this house together. It's just kind of her interacting with them and like going about her life with these ghosts with her. I'm giving them both three stars so far. I think maybe if I read the collection of four, it'll be a bit easier to write because you may have a bit more of like a roller coaster of emotions, but because they're so short and they're graphic novels, it's just kind of felt a bit like that was okay. And that was fine. You know, I enjoy reading them and it's something I definitely want to read into the future, but it's just like okay. I think the vibes of it are great, especially for October if you're looking for some like ghostly stories. It's all on script for free, which is wonderful. And it's got like a really cool like 1920s art style vibe to it. I think it reminds me of the Tower of Terror at Disney Hollywood Studios, my favorite ride ever. But I'm still waiting for an addition of it to like really hit me. That hasn't happened yet. So next is Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. I gave these three stars. I was really disappointed and this is the one I was talking about where this may even be more of a 2.75. This society have to live underground because there are aliens attacking them constantly. And so the pilots are like the most important job and Spencer's dad was a pilot. He famously ran away from the battle and so his co-pilots shot him down and so he's known as a traitor. Spencer just wants to be a pilot so bad but they don't want her to be but she managed to kind of scam her way into flight school and it's just her story of kind of training to become a pilot now. It just felt flat. I just don't think Brandon Sanderson's writing is necessarily for me. I just want my writing to be a little bit more pretty. It doesn't have to be Laney Taylor level purple pros. I want there to be something in the words that like gets me going but this just didn't. I just found it really boring. I didn't feel like the characters were particularly well developed. I didn't feel like the relationships were well developed for someone who's known for his world building. The world building was just fine. Like it was a bit boring. I don't think I'm going to be continuing on with this series. I just find it's so average. I don't know for something that was so hyped up is like one of the highest rated average ratings on Goodreads. Like how high is this? 4.52.  That is like unheard of on Goodreads. I don't understand it. I don't get it. I really had to force myself through it. If I had not have gotten the audiobook on the day that I had to finish this this would not have been finished. Next I read on the come up by Angie Thomas and I gave this 4.5 stars. So this is the story of I can never remember people's name. I don't read names. So this is the story of Brie who wants to become a rapper. It feels like I read this ages ago. How was that this month? And it's basically her story of being on the come up like starting to get successful and figuring out where her loyalty is lie and dealing with racism in society. And it was really really good. It was really good. Angie Thomas is another young adult writer who I really enjoy reading from. I think I gave the hate you give and on the come up both 4.5 stars. She's another author who does family so well. What Angie Thomas does the best better than almost any contemporary writer is making every character feel so fleshed out in such a natural way. I think it's really hard for even like minor minor minor characters to feel real in some books but everything just feels so realistic and fleshed out and like 3D in a way that I don't feel like with a lot of other contemporaries. I have read both of her books on audiobook and I would really recommend it. The narrator is brilliant. I'm hoping that concrete rose is going to have the same narrator. Just love it. Just love it on the come up is just such a beautiful story of like joy. It is brilliant American literature and I don't care what anybody it is. It's lit. It should be taught in schools. So next with a couple of books that I read in my bookopoly vlog which I will link. This is like a 48 hour reading vlog. The first book I read was The Chalkman by CJ Tudor. So this is a thriller about how I even describe this A body of a girl is found in the woods cut up into different pieces and her head is missing and there's like a few other mysterious deaths. I don't know. The plot of this kind of is very different to what I thought it was going into it. I thought that the kids were going to have been playing this game and it was gone wrong when it's not really about that at all. I enjoyed the reading experience of this. I feel like the pacing was great. There was a lot of kind of shocks that I feel like other thrillers are missing.  I gave it 3.5. The ending made me mad. Like the whole time I was thinking if it ends like that, I'm going to be pissed. I'm going to be pissed. And then it didn't end in time. The end like that. But on the last page, something happened. Like there was a shock. Like I was like, oh! I'm like, go with you. And I was like, and so we're not going to have that. Okay. There were aspects to it I really liked but the ending just kind of makes me feel a bit sour. And it's a debut. For this to be a debut is mind boggling. Like it does not feel like a debut. When you read some popular thriller authors now when you read their debut but this didn't feel like that to me. This felt like a really accomplished seasoned author. So I'm really excited to read everything that CJ Cheetah puts down in the future. But the ending still has me mad. I'm not going to lie to you. It still has me mad. Next. I'm so excited to talk about this. Next is The T-Jacking Society by Katie O'Neill. I'm really happy today. I gave it five stars. This is up there as one of my favorite graphic novels ever. Up there with Heart Stopper. I love soft, pure, joyful graphic novels. If you have recommendations for me, please let me know. So this is just about these things called T-Dragons. They're these little animals here. So like their leaves or their flowers, they can brood this tea. It's just, it's just a curious thing. The art style is so cute. And it's about friendship.  And just every, it just, I want to read this right now. I can't wait to just read this again and again. I need somehow to get my hands on the next two in this series. I just need to own them right now.  It just made me feel so warm and just, oh, it's just everything is so nice. So like if you're wanting something cozy or not humble or not scary, this is perfect. The little T-Dragons. Okay, next is another five-star and it was Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown. So this is kind of autobiographical. It's very much about Echo Brown's life, but with this kind of fabulous magical realism twist.  That is the kind of magical element of it, but the real world element of it is kind of being able to articulate all these terrible things that Echo and those around have been through. There's a lot of trigger warnings for this. I can't remember them all, so let me just find a review on Goodreads that lists some. Okay, so Fadwa has written one and they said trigger warnings for trauma, addiction, overdose, child sexual abuse, rape, disassociation, talk of suicide, suicidal ideations, racism, talk of unintentional murder and death. So there's a lot to be aware of going into this. I found this to be so hard-hitting. Like it was one of the most impactful books I've ever read. The audiobook was incredible. It was narrated by Echo herself. The way that it weaves the story together is incredible. There's a really interesting element where sometimes the chapter will be following two different scenes and it will jump back and forth between them, like in the middle of a sentence. And that was just a really interesting way of telling the story of linking different experiences together. And I just loved the story. It doesn't gloss over any of the hard topics. It really just goes straight in and I love it for that. I think it's a book that everyone should read. It's really not been read by many people, I would say. It's got 1,500 ratings, but I feel like it should be more. This is just a magical, perfect book and it's just so heavy, but also important. And I think it's something everyone should read. So I'd really recommend you pick it up. Do it! Just do it! The next book is a really quick one. It is Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh. This is a very short book. This is about a wild man who lives in the woods. A new young man buys the house that the woods live on. It's their relationship, kind of. It is, I would say it's LGBT. It's just very, like, woodish and there's woodland creatures and like it's just very dark and like wet woods. It makes me think of the smell of wet woods. I really, really love this. It's for such a short book. I thought it was really gripping and really atmospheric. Like, one of the most atmospheric books I've ever read and I don't think there's enough of, like, this woodish, dark woods. I just want more woods. I want more books about wood. I gave this four stars. I'm very excited to read the second one in the duology. The second to last book I'm going to be talking about is A Nevernight by Jay Kristoff. I gave this 4.5 stars but I think it's going to be a very long time until I get to the next one. Can you even see that? God's grave is there. It's going to be a long time. So this follows Mia, who is a assassin or wants to become an assassin. Basically, she's going to the Red Church to become an assassin. She wants to avenge her family's murders. It's a very kind of dark, high fantasy, new adult book. The first 100 pages of this, I didn't enjoy that much because we were traveling and I just think at the start of a book, I don't vibe with that. I don't vibe with traveling for 100 pages at the start of the book. How do you know what's good for me? That's my opinion! Once that was over and we got to the Red Church and we were in this school of assassins with horrible people. Oh, it was everything. It was so good. I think the high fantasy element of this is brilliant. I love the darkness and the kind of gothic vibes. Gothic, gothic vibes of this. I really loved Mia because I love protagonists that kind of start up here and descend into evil. But like Mia from the get-go, she's like, I ain't nice. I'm not a nice person necessarily. I'm gonna trick people.  She does have this soft side to her, but like she doesn't start soft and go dark.  I'm dark, but she keeps a very pragmatic head on her shoulders in situations that other people would crumble at.  I was talking about how I loved when there's things that the characters knew, keep secret for me for a while and then it's revealed and they've acted in certain ways because of what you didn't know and then it all comes together. And some people said they hated that, but I think it's genius. When like Mia surprised me with some things, I was like, Mia! Yes!  Look how she came there. However, the writing style was heavy. It did take a long time for me to read. I thought I was gonna be obsessed with the footnotes. If you don't know, there is a lot of footnotes in this that make up the world buildings. Oh, you can't even see that. But like here is a whole footnote and here is a whole footnote. I just thought I could kind of drag the pace down a little bit. I love what they stand for, but I don't love it in practice. It's like a 4.25. It's not a 4.5. It's a 4.25. It's higher than a 4, but it's not a 4.5. And then the last spec that I read this month was Loveless by Alice Oseman. This is a story of Georgia going to university and she has never been in love. She's never had a crush. She's never kissed anyone. And she wants to kind of figure that out. So it's the story of her going to uni and learning about terms such as asexuality and aromantic and her figuring out how that applies to her. Alice Oseman. Alice Oseman. Alice Oseman. She just knows how to write coming-of-age young adult stories. And I loved that this was at university in the UK because all of her other ones have been like in sixth form or secondary school in the UK. I loved seeing a character at university which is so often a time of change and like figuring oneself out. I'm so happy that there was a story with an asexual main character figuring themselves out, figuring out what the terminology means for them. I feel like this is so important for so many kids out there to see themselves represented in and to see themselves seen, to feel seen. I feel like the rep was done really well. Obviously it's not entirely for me to say because I'm not asexual myself, but I really loved so much of this and Alice Oseman's stories are just the perfect heartwarming but kind of dealing with a lot of hard topics, contemporaries. So I've now read all of her books apart from two novellas but I'm hopefully going to get to them very soon. So there we have it. That is my wrap-up, my first wrap-up back. Hopefully you enjoyed this and want to see me doing it again in the future. I enjoyed it actually. I really, really enjoyed it. So I think I am going to carry on doing them. Also, let me know if there's any more statistics you want me to count throughout the month because I'll definitely do that. I will see you very, very soon. Thank you so much for watching. Bye.


And outside Africa, Rishi Sunak has warned that the UK faces a profound economic challenge, but he vowed that he would, he vowed to bring the country together as the new prime minister. His words came during his first public address since winning the race to become leader of the conservative party and Britain's 57th prime minister after rivals Boris Johnson and Penny Modent pulled out of the contest. He will be Britain's first man of colour to be prime minister at the age of 42, the youngest since Lord Liverpool in 1812. I'd like to pay tribute to Liz Truss for her dedicated public service to the country. She has led with dignity and grace through a time of great change and under exceptionally difficult circumstances both at home and abroad. I am humbled and honoured to have the support of my parliamentary colleagues and to be elected as leader of the Conservative and Unionist party. It is the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party I love and give back to the country I owe so much to. The United Kingdom is a great country, but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge. We now need stability and unity and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together because that is the only way we will overcome the challenges we face and build a better, more prosperous future for our children and our grandchildren. I pledge that I will serve you with integrity and humility and I will work day in, day out to deliver for the British people. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm Lakers in the 2020 NBA finals just taking the 3-1 lead just a few moments ago They win 102 to 96 over the heat Jimmy Butler played a great game in 2019-2020 Neenie obsidian basketball coming at you two box random team break number 13 one spot gets you two teams in this two box break So let's copy your names right here. Let's oh double up.  There's all the teams right there in a quick little two-box break five and one six times for each list one two three four five And a one sixth and final time we got Kyle Down to Danny after six six times with the teams one two three four Five and sixth and final time after six. We got the Knicks down to the Timberwolves Right Kyle with the Knicks Christopher P with the Hornets Shawn Matic with the Bucks John with the Mavs Jarell with the Nuggets Kyle with the Warriors Chris P with the Grizz Natalie with the Sixers Chris with the Nets Robert with the Cavs Kyle with the Spurs King with the trailblazers Danny with the Wizards Natalie with the Clippers Kyle with the Celtics and the Thunder Jarell with the Pacers Natalie with the Suns King with the Jazz Danny with the Raptors John You got my Lakers Kyle Pelicans nice Natalie with the Rock It's Robert with the Kings Thomas last bottom mojo double last bottom mojo All right We doubled your names up magic and bulls for you Chris with the Hawks Shawn with the pistons Danny with the heat and the Timberwolves Let's get all this on one page. Let's sort by column B by team. Let's alphabetize by team Let's box these up real nice. We're gonna pause the video see if there's any trades and when we come back We'll have the break stick around All right, welcome back folks There's everybody right there to box random team 13 I think we this we popped open a fresh case a little bit ago and I grabbed two random boxes from the back There it is right here I go Tristan. What what are we breaking tonight? Everything? Everything on jazzy's case breaks comm except for the new releases. I guess the pre-orders See what we got here on the bottom here. We've got Andre drummin All card shipping this obviously Nice Kendrick none Miami heat heat are gonna continue to the Lakers are up 3-1 But the heat there might be a great team for for years to come. Yeah, I'm off. Of course. I'm always gonna say everything What if I was just like what are we breaking tonight? Eh, nothing Tristan We're not breaking. We're not gonna break anything tonight. That wouldn't inspire the masses 72 at 75 Donovan Mitchell for the jazz and you're like, oh Joe doesn't seem into it today. Oh, I'm always into it. Let's do it About 49 out of 99 Carleton towns die-cut Jaspie's case breaks now Sean's popping on for late night So he'll be he'll be on in just a few moments.  It's not a sticker, but still still Zion Nine out of 75. There's Jason Tatum right there. That's pretty nice. Oh, is that clutch clutch Kyle? You're welcome man. That is pretty clutch Someone look that up. What is that? What does that go for? What are recent sales? I like that obsidian design too Yeah, shaboy get indeed. I'll kind of we got SGA for okc Kyle we got back here. We've got Pascal Siakam For Toronto, they'll be for Danny. We've got Anthony Simons purple to 75 Trailblazers King with that one a couple grand for the out of 50 says C-Shap maybe just under that for the Another little die cut here, it's Pascal Siakam 70 out of 99 Toronto, that'll be for Danny Erickson And back here is Wow Lightning strike bam out of bio. That's a good time to get these he was back and very effective against my Lakers tonight Danny Erickson and The Miami Heat 20 out of 49 and then back here is Dylan Windler Jersey and Otto Franklin says you see one sold on eBay a Zion as 75 just under 900. That's pretty nice 23 out of 50 calves it's gonna go to Robert and there's Eric Bledsoe right here for the buck sub Arthur. What's going on? I Mean there right now. There's a little bit of out of sight out of mind just because You know, we're in the NBA finals the NBA season is almost over. This might be worth holding on to You know, it might be worth holding on to until closer to the beginning of the season if you if if you can Kyle I wouldn't be a bad idea Imagine if you like maybe shoot imagine the offseason news Zion Williamson sheds 15 20 pounds Looks great lean mean dunking machine. That'd be pretty nice And watch the value go up. There you go. Thanks rune. Yeah, I'm excited Lakers late. Lakers only one game away Yeah clutch definitely holding off nice good way that doesn't make it a good investment 2019-2020 Panini of City and basketball 2 box random team break number 13 in the books Thanks for watching boys and girls really appreciate it. I'll see you next time on jazzy's case breaks.com. Bye. Bye


As part of efforts to ensure free fair and credible elections in 2023, a group has trained 20,000 residents in four local government area council of Cardona State about their civic rights. The group says it seeks to enhance political participation across the country. Plus, the news corresponded Habila Derrify's file in this report. In every democratic election, voter education is necessary to ensure that the electorate understand their rights. The program officer of Seder Seed Foundation, Christopher Awey, says this 10-day awareness training is aimed at educating participants on the right way to vote and the new bimodal voter accreditation system introduced by the electoral empire. Awey says the electorate at the local communities lack the understanding of how to hold their political leaders accountable for failing to give the dividends of democracy. This is what we want to change, the voters that they have rights guaranteed by the Constitution, where they can change their elected representatives if they fail to fulfill their obligations and anybody that sells his rights for a packet of maggi or salt or 1000 era does not have the moral authority to confront any elected representative that fails to fulfill his promise. Some of the participants say if such awareness had been done in the previous elections, it would have addressed some of the challenges they had encountered. They also commended the organizers for the training lamenting that politicians have been using the voters without adding any value to them. We are going to do more than expected, but what I learned from it had it been that for the previous election had it been that there is something like this such a lot of mistakes that had been committed. We have not been happening again. What is left for us is now is to come and vote for a good candidate of our choice who will work for the benefit or for the development of this country and the state or the local government level.  Who so ever wants to go for voting don't seek for anybody's money. As a very good effort they have educated people on how to cast their votes. Votes to Nigerians is that they should look they should forget about the religion, tribe and the party at large. We should look on a credible candidate. They insist that Nigerians must get it right this time around as they are determined to get the desired change through the ballot.


Like I said, I'm still me because I'm just a different version of myself, like one of my biggest films that I'm still working on is a TV series, a B.T. series called Sacrifice. I need to know why they're dead. My boss tells no one ever. What's the first movie you've ever done? Is this the first movie? No, no, no. Oh, okay. No, I know you guys. Yeah, I did a movie called Big Dog with JT the bigger figure. JT the bigger figure? Yeah, man, that's the homie. He came to New Orleans and he was one of those ones. Like, it's my partner though, but he came now shooting a movie and he called me for a part. And I'm like, what you doing? And he just coming in our project with other people and it's like, nah, nah, we don't do this. He don't do that. Nah, we could be partners. Let's link up and do something together. So he gave me a number. I gave it to him and we got it done. Oh, that's good. Bigger figure, respect to the move. Yeah, he had to. Man, that's hard, man.  But it take hard to do what you're doing because some dudes would be, you really, like, I ain't never act. So you got to think about it. You got hard to do that. You know what I'm saying? You probably got more hard. Certain niggas in the hood, probably some niggas hiding from that camera. When that camera come, niggas, nah, I will be. No, put them cameras up. Yeah, that's the fact though. But you wrote this movie though? Yeah, I wrote it. Yeah, but this is your first movie you've written? Yeah, that's the first movie I've written. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's how I got it. First one was a running gun. It's just like we just pulled up on every block, every project in the city. Like I expanded my reach. You know, it's like it ain't too many people that could do what I could do in New Orleans that could go through every hood and tap in with every big dog. Wow, that's a major. Ace Man, I know you done been in several films, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I started in 2008. I started in 2008 on an HBO series, Tremade. Okay, I started on the second season playing as a rapper. So that was my first ever acting experience. I ain't never went to school for it, but I still never went to school. You didn't take no acting classes at all? Mm-mm. So what helped me was music. So I played as a rapper, so I was like, I'm being myself. I can remember the lines because I can remember lyrics. I could get into the mood because I could get into the mood when I hear instrumental, then it pulls you into, you know what I'm saying? So I put the two together. So when I film, I feel like I'm shooting a music video. Oh, facts. So that's what helped me with music, so I could get into it.  So I'm about to just be myself. I'm about to just be a different version of myself. But the difference is to me, when you do a music video, music videos are so short compared to a movie. Right. In a movie, you have to stand that character for a much longer time than if you do in a... Well, not facts, but when it's film time, that's not really a long time. Like you'll wait all day before you film. You just there. You know what I'm saying? But like I said, I'm still me because I'm just a different version of myself. Like one of my biggest films that I'm still working on is a TV series, a BT series called Sacrifice. My boss tells no one. So we just finished the second season. That's going to be coming out pretty soon. But and I play as a hacker. So they wanted me to be from LA. Nirty? Yeah. Glasses. They ain't no one near me, but I just, I got a professional side. So it's like, I'm about to figure it out. Like I'll be on there.  And I had to hook up with a dialect coach. Because when they first met me, I just, I just was in my natural accent. Right. So they like, look, you, we need you to sound like you from Cali. So I'm like, I don't know how I'm going to do that. Like it don't matter how much I clear my words up. You're going to still hear it. And so people, so they made me like, I would, you from Louisiana then on the show. Oh. Because I tried, I went, said with the dialect coach. Really? And people saw it and it was like, you from Louisiana. And I was like, man, I tried hard too. I tried hard. My boss tells no one. I'm more thinking of my pronunciation, how I'm saying it. You got to keep trying. You got to keep trying because it blows my mind when I see some of these actors like Idris. You know, and that he's from England. And, you know, I didn't even know all the time I've been watching his movies. I did not know that. A lot of them. Till I heard him doing an interview and I heard his natural dialect. Right. Yeah. They're killing it. Over there. They're killing it. They never knew. The why? Yeah. They never knew he was that. It'll do, it'll do from a B.M.F. Which one? The, the crazy one. Lamar. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. It's a lot of a movie. I was trying. I didn't know that. Yeah, man. Wow. And I was like, why is it that a lot of English actors, like they take over the whole, like acting like Hollywood. Yeah. They take over a lot of movies. Right. Because you don't ever, you don't ever notice till they're doing the interviews. Right. And you're like, how many of these actors are from, or do they move over there after they get big? Yeah, they don't do. From Snowfall. Oh, all right. I know that for sure. But I guess, I would, English is the most spoken language. So it's easier to learn that than us learning French. But then actually, you speak English right now. You're from New Orleans. You should be able to still pick up the accent of California. Right, right. I don't think I'll try. But y'all dialect is so strong. Right. You know what I mean? So, but I'm sure you, let's take, do more practice. Yeah. No, I practice. I definitely practice. You know what I'm saying? When I'm on the show, like, I go with it. You know what I'm saying? So let me ask y'all a question. Soldier Slim always asks a lot of people this, because especially being from New Orleans, I know a lot of people who talk very highly of him. You knew him, of course. Yeah, I know him for sure, for sure. So tell me about him growing up and so forth. Slim used to cut my hair. Him and my cousin was best friends. My cousin, like, who he used to run under. His name was Reds. They called him Slugged Up Nigga. So under KLC and on Parkway Palmer Records, that's where my cousin used to rap for. He was supposed to sign a masterpiece before, so the Slim, he got killed. So I know Slim, like, Slim had it since young. Like, as young Magnolia Slim, he was that dude with rapping and everything. Like, for sure, for sure. Wow. And for you? With Slim, man. Slim was always my, that's my favorite rapper. You know what I'm saying? What's your favorite song? Since he your favorite rapper. You know what I'm saying? Favorite song? I don't know if I got a favorite, favorite song. One that stands out. Give me one. Well, I'll pay for it. You know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? So it's like, all right, bet. But he got classy and you know he was telling the truth. Like, so it's always, it always drew me to him. I like his rap style. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. But nah, Slim was a legend. No, because a lot of people, because since we've been going back and forth to New Orleans, a lot of people always talk about him and talk about him very highly. But I've met some people who say that, you know, it's just now that he's gone, everybody's talking so good about him. But when he was around, people wasn't really just, you know, dealing with him like that. Nah, that's cap. That's cap. Like, one thing for sure, Slim was love.  And he a leader, ain't going to St. Bernard and go in that opera field. Like, he was one of the ones that could go in every project too. And I tell everybody, like, Slim got killed before he could, he was going through that transition and make that change. I heard that. Like, he said in one of his songs, I'm coming closer with God, asking him to forgive me. You feel me? Like, we, he died in the middle. Like, the ex pills hit New Orleans and it went crazy. It took the scariest person on there and made him real on drugs.  You might shoot up a whole crowd. And that ain't what Slim was rapping about. It was murder with a purpose. Like, it was always get the money first.