And women are hit particularly hard by this crisis and also by capitalism in general. One example of that in the UK, as a result of the capitalist crisis, the government has introduced austerity measures, and these fall really particularly hard on women. Since 2010, 86% of cuts to the public sector and to services are onto jobs and services which are dominated by women. Universal credit is another example of an austerity measure that hits women particularly hard. And all of these kind of things also highlight the blatant hypocrisy of the Tory MPs who claim to stand up in the interests of all women while cutting services which fall particularly hard on women and just make working class women's lives much much more difficult. In terms of capitalism in general, women also suffer from even worse pay and conditions than men. Despite equal pay legislation which has been in place since the 1970s, equal pay still is not anywhere to be seen. A report in May this year in the UK found that 75% of companies pay men significantly more than women and the average female wage is 10% less than the male wage. And actually next week in Glasgow there's a strike in the Glasgow Council over this issue of equal pay. So that's still something which has not been solved. Above all of the general conditions of capitalism and the worse and how this impacts women even more extremely in some cases, women also have to contend with things like sexual harassment both in the workplace and just in the streets, epidemic of domestic violence and as well the burden of household labour which is really essential for capitalism to function that women do unpaid work in terms of cooking and cleaning, looking after children. And recent statistics said over two thirds of household work is carried out by women. And this not only is a burden but also affects the ability of women to participate in politics and in wider society because of the time and the effort used doing this kind of labour for no kind of money. So as a result it's kind of unsurprising that millions of women all around the world are starting to stand up and fight against the discrimination and the impression that we face on a daily basis. Fiona will be talking about the recent struggle for abortion rights in Ireland but there's also been fights for abortion rights more globally happening over the past few years as well. A few months ago there was a big movement in Argentina as they were trying to pass a law through the court but the government voted against it so that was I guess unsuccessful. In Poland in 2016 there was the Black Monday movement so the government was trying to put into place an even more restrictive abortion law and over 5 million women went on strike on Black Monday and they all dressed in black and that was a really successful movement and it stopped that law being passed basically. Another really important thing that's been going on in terms of like women's struggle is in Spain and Hwana will be speaking about that later on so I won't go too much into it. In the USA as another example you've seen huge mobilisations against Trump. The women's march in 2017 was a big protest and was actually the biggest protest in US history since the Vietnam War so this is obviously an issue a lot of young people are coming into and getting radicalised through. Over one million men and women took part in the march in Washington DC on women and over 7 million took part worldwide and we've also seen when Trump came to the UK a lot of the protest against him so obviously mixed but a lot of people were attending those to try and oppose his position on women. We also have the Me Too movement which I guess started in the States and has kind of spread a lot more against sexual harassment and assault and in 2017 there was also a wave of movements against domestic violence in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Mexico. And in terms of these movements they're all mixed in terms of who's involved. There's some liberal feminists, there's some bourgeois feminists, petty bourgeois feminists but I think the important thing is there's also a lot of young men and young women who are looking for radical change in society that are involved in these movements and that's kind of one of the reasons why it's important for Marxists to be involved in them as well. And more and more as these movements and the women's struggle is forcing people to draw radical conclusions to kind of see, it's becoming more and more clear how women's oppression is upheld by the state, is upheld by the establishment and is upheld fundamentally by capitalism and that is radicalising people and making it more and more clear the need to overthrow capitalism for women to ever actually live without oppression. A few kind of examples of this, one is the Laminada court case in Spain which I guess Juana will probably speak a little bit more about, but in terms of this like forcing people to draw more radical conclusions, in this case it was an extremely light sentences for like a horrific case of gang rape and that brought to light the reactionary nature of the court and the state and the role that that plays in upholding women's oppression and it got a lot of young people to start to question the legitimacy of that institution and to see the need, well if women are actually to be free from oppression, they need to sweep institutions like that away. Another example I guess in the states would be the election of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court despite evidence and allegations of sexual assault, despite all that he still got admitted and that has made people start to question the legitimacy of the so-called democratic institutions that control our lives and is forcing people to draw radical conclusions and to see how women's oppression is not just something you know separate, it's something that's upheld by the state and upheld by capitalism. So yeah I would say it's clear over the past few years there's been a surge in the women's struggle around the world and we're going to hear about some cases of that in a second, but I think it's important as Marxists, we're obviously firmly opposed to all forms of oppression and we show this in deeds and in words and we need to be involved in the fight for you know the right to abortion, the right to equal pay, you know fights for free child care, socialised kind of domestic labour and basically against all forms that oppression takes but at the same time we need to reject and criticise you know the liberal feminists and the bourgeois feminists who you know believe in the idea that change could somehow be brought about by like measures like more female bosses or like tweaks to bore us while law and we need to criticise this and show how it does not work. It's clear really that women's liberation can only be fully achieved through the overthrow of capitalism and while it's important to fight you know for reforms and fight against the day-to-day manifestations of women's oppression everywhere we see it, we also need to highlight the role that state, the state and that capitalism play in maintaining this oppression and I would say the fight for women's liberation is the fight against capitalism and we need to push these movements to not just fight against the manifestations of women's oppression but to also fight against the root cause and to get you know young women and young men involved and wanting to put an end you know to women's oppression to get them to also join the struggle against capitalism and for revolution and get these movements to be linked in with the struggle against capitalism and truly bringing it into women's oppression and once and for all. So thanks. Okay yeah so I'm gonna speak about the recent referendum for abortion in Ireland which won by a landslide which has finally given women access to legal and safe abortions and this success although far too delayed for many women is a significant development for the class struggle in Ireland and this is because of the effects that moments like this can have on the development of class consciousness and I don't think that we can really understate how significant this referendum was and that's because the right to abortion has for a really long time been like represented as simply an ideological debate between right and wrong or sin from a religious point of view but it wasn't an abstract debate between right and wrong where the right side has just won this time but we would point out that it's a reflection of the balance of class forces in Ireland today and so up until this point in Ireland like in the UK the abortion law has been governed by the Offences Against the Persons Act in 1861 so section 58 criminalised any woman who had an abortion and section 59 criminalised anyone who helped a woman get an abortion too and the kind of strong hold of the Catholic Church within Ireland has prevented any real concessions to this act for a really long time. There has definitely characterised so much of the oppression that women in Ireland has suffered and there's a lot of cases that we could point to to talk about this but I'm not really going to go into that because I don't have the time but just to make the point that obviously Ireland's link with the church and that position on abortion unsurprisingly has meant a history of hardship and pain for women and so women who did have babies despite the fact they were denied the right to abortion. If they had children outside of marriage they were very much shunned from society and you know targeted as fallen women and they were often locked up in institutions like the Magdalene Laundries where their babies might even have been taken away from them or sometimes they were then forced to work in these institutions and the church actually made millions off the labour of these women in really horrible conditions and they were very much punished for any kind of sexual activity or anything that was you know defined as immoral by the church and women were very much kind of stripped of their possessions, their dignity, even their names and lots of cases and subjected to a lot of mental, physical and sexual torture and millions of women and lots of people died in these institutions to the point that lots of mass graves have been discovered since in 1993 for example there was a huge mass grave discovered of a couple of hundred bodies of not only just women but also children amongst that and so the point I'm trying to make here is that all of this kind of filth that really underpins the Catholic Church has been brought to light in Ireland and the church is a very powerful pillar of the establishment especially in Ireland and so that kind of authority has been severely knocked and there are lots of examples which kind of illustrate the church's waning influence for example in 1979 when John Paul II visited the Pope weekly mass attendance at that time in Ireland was kind of around 80% and he did a kind of massive mass in Dublin and 1.2 million people came out to see him today however in Ireland mass attendance is more it hovers around 35% and there have been significant changes also in 2015 obviously that same-sex marriage was legalized so it is a much different situation in Ireland now especially for the current Pope Francis who visited Ireland earlier in August and he definitely did not receive the same welcome that John Paul II had not that long ago and he spent a lot of his time actually trying to apologize if you will for the horrors that have been unveiled and the scandals that have been unveiled by the Catholic Church and he kind of he did address it as a grave scandal and try to you know make very weak statements on the church's failure in confronting it and you know owning up to the victims but this obviously doesn't mean anything for a lot of people and whilst he was doing his kind of big mass in Dublin there were thousands of people in another part of the city that were protesting that and they were protesting and you know fighting for the rights fighting for the justice of all these victims of the church historically and so these like revelations of priests molesting and raping in many cases young children have been brought to the forefront and despite the church's efforts to kind of cover up a lot of these allegations what this really represents is the complete loss of any kind of moral authority that the church might have once had in Ireland I think and consequently actually in this referendum the church was a little less prominent than it would have been previously because of this kind of abject failure to actually provide anything for people in Ireland in comparison to maybe the 2015 same sex marriage campaigns where the church was a bit more prominent although obviously the church is against abortion in this referendum they were slightly less prominent because they really just don't have the right to speak on a lot of these matters anymore and in the lead up to this referendum women you know began to share their stories and the lengths that a lot of them have gone to in order to have an abortion and not only were these you know physically harmful and dangerous and some of the stories kind of include women sitting in baths of like scorching hot water and whiskey really kind of graphic horrible things but there's also the emotional trauma that has stayed with women for a really long time there's the distress there's the guilt and the shame that was really put on them by the church and also obviously there's the financial burden it's estimated that more than 150,000 women in Ireland have had to travel outside of Ireland since about 1983 in order to gain access to abortion services and since the 8th amendment went into effect in 1983 which is what the referendum has been about and repealing and most interestingly a lot of these kind of confessions of this of all the stuff that a lot of women had to go through has come from the older generation of women and I think this is significant because the people who don't want abortion in Ireland that side of their campaign really relied on the rural vote if you will there was this idea that the older generation the rural areas might secure it for them but this is wrong these are the women that suffered the most oppression at the hands of the church and they know more than anyone the lengths that the church has gone to to kind of vilify women and put them on a kind of second class basis and so it's important to mention that the struggle for abortion is fundamentally a class question and it isn't merely a question of men controlling women but it is about the ruling class and their contempt for the working class as a whole. Richer, bourgeois women obviously will have had access to abortion in the past when necessary if they needed they could go to a private hospital and get things done quietly but working-class women obviously don't have access to this and so the legal right to abortion really is a cornerstone for the struggle to end the oppression of women in actual material terms because without that it leaves women because it gives women control over their reproductive destiny and without that they would be left to the mercy of their nature and working-class women are therefore oppressed on two levels once as workers like everyone else but also as women and we know how but also as women and so we can see the attitude that the ruling class displays towards women and the point to make as well is that many women can't afford to have children which makes abortion not really a choice at all it's more of a coercion and that women are forced to do due to their class and liberal feminism I find kind of overwhelmingly emphasizes the right for women to choose it's all about women having the right to choose what they want to do with their life but we would make the point that civil rights aren't abstract in general they're kind of freely available for everyone but they're completely connected to the material conditions of those who who access them and how they go about and live their lives so when the ruling class and the church vilify women who want to choose abortion we have to make the point that there is no true right to choose in a society where no one has the right to a job or the right to housing or the right to healthcare and if we fought for a society where there was affordable housing and fully paid maternity leave and childcare and good jobs we could eliminate the need for a lot of abortions in the first place it's not something that women are happy to go about doing but it's a coercion due to their class position and Trotsky actually commenting on the cynicism of the Stalinists in revolution portrayed he said on this subject even the optimistic Pravda is sometimes compelled to make a bitter confession that the birth of a child is for many women a serious menace to their position and it's just for this reason that the revolutionary power gave women the right to abortion which in conditions of one and family distress is one of her most important civil, political and cultural rights and this is you know a demonstration of how the fight for true choice where abortion is actually free it goes hand in hand with the fight for socialism and another point to be made here is that the Bolsheviks did this right over a hundred years ago they were the first country Russia was the first country to legalize abortion for women and this measure you know brought an end to a lot of suffering that women have to go through therefore you know the fight for the full material liberation of women is overwhelmingly linked with the overthrow of capitalism and also I just want to make the point that this vote is a manifestation this referendum is a manifestation of a wider mood around the women's question like Ellen was talking about before in society beyond just Ireland as we know that thanks again against the old order against the establishment and the status quo and it's developing internationally and last October obviously we've we've seen mass mobilizations against violence against women in Argentina and Bolivia and Mexico and lots of different places in Poland and this is something that obviously we support you know as Marxists we fight for the greatest possible unity of the working class and which is why we must support the political right for women to have control over their bodies and to free women to be a part of political activity and to be a part of the class struggle because that's the only way we're going to have we're going to actually achieve socialism in the first place and you know if the labor movement doesn't take aim at that as an immediate struggle we can't hope for the working class to change society and we also want to support all of these things in a combined way and make the point that you know just this now right to abortion isn't the end of the matter because it doesn't fundamentally change attitudes towards women in society we know that we have to fundamentally change society in order to change attitudes right and under capitalism these reforms can be taken away anyway it doesn't cost the capitalist class that much to grant the right to abortion in a kind of in a certain way it's not expensive but rather what it does cost is authority in Ireland and what it has cost them is the authority of the Catholic Church and I think this is significant because the situation in Ireland like everywhere else where these women's movements are developing goes beyond just the question of abortion as the economic crisis deepens this kind of revolutionary mood this revolt against the establishment is going to spread to wider struggles and so they've made this concession here right they've made the concession of kind of giving up the authority the moral authority of the church which is maybe okay in the short term but I think in the long term this will have a serious effect because the church is such a fundamental part of the ruling class particularly in Ireland and it could and knocking that pillar of the establishment out could be quite severe and also this referendum is important because it gives the working class confidence in their ability to change society and we have to emphasise there is the working class who've done this and who have achieved this right for women you know every right the women have has been won by struggle and not through epiphanies on the sides of judges who have suddenly kind of changed their minds or their attitudes and the huge strike in Spain earlier this year which I'm sure will be discussed you know saw millions of working class men and women fighting together against depression because we know that the state is incapable of acting on this on themselves there's a lot we could say about the hypocrisy of the Irish ruling class on this matter even now those in power who are now champion championing sorry the yes vote were themselves pro life you know not that long ago that they're happy to switch on their fundamental principles where it suits them and so the main point here is that we're not going to overcome women's oppression through changing attitudes and we can't locate the problem or the solution for all forms of gender violence in our moral values and we need to fundamentally change class society in order to change those values and these are basic democratic rights that are being presented as a moral choice because it enables those in power to create division and pretend that it's a question of individual sin or individual choice on the sides of the women because theoretically there's no reason why women should be becoming pregnant when they don't want to be right we have the knowledge and the resources in society and to prevent this in the first place so there's another point here to be made about the scientific use of contraception and you know proper genuine sexual education for young people free of religious hypocrisy and that's the only way we'll actually begin to create a kind of civilized attitude between men and women and for the freedom and for the freedom and equality of the female sex and I just want to kind of end by talking a bit about what Lenin discusses and what is to be done and this need and this point of kind of uniting political struggles together with the need forever for revolution which Ellen's kind of also spoken about how women's liberation is obviously linked with the need for socialism because we can link democratic political struggles of women with an international movement because they're not isolated struggles and the point we made here is that uniting struggles doesn't mean eroding them into each other right it just means making them bigger and better and giving them a much more profound impact because it's hugely significant that people are confident in their ability to take on these institutions at a time when capitalism is in crisis capitalism is in crisis therefore it's it's relying on these institutions like the church even more so than it might normally need to and this is why we need to unite these struggles with the labor movement and build on this mood to strike serious blows against all pillars of the establishment and I think it's interesting that we've entered a period where feminism is kind of no longer an ugly word I think in the past feminism was perhaps associated with slightly more radical movements but now it's kind of celebrated and openly embraced by by the ruling class Justin Trudeau, Theresa May, all these people and declare themselves openly to be feminists and on the side of women yet the right to abortion is still illegal in Northern Ireland Northern Irish women don't have this right and Theresa May has completely fudged this issue and when questioned on it she simply says it's an issue for storming to deal with and it's not and it's not you know she doesn't have the power to kind of interfere and you know she's doing this to protect her interest right the Tories are in a coalition with the DUP which is an incredibly reactionary right-wing party in Northern Ireland that are against abortion and so obviously doesn't want to come out in favour of it because she doesn't actually care she cares about defending her class and her class's interests but she doesn't care about genuinely defending the rights of women and so we can have no confidence in anyone other than the working class to bring an end to all forms of women's oppression and the hypocrisy of the ruling class with the case of Theresa May is clear and this is where the importance of internationalism is you know if we want to see that this right for abortion is actually materialised for women in Northern Ireland and also throughout the world you know we have to fight our own class struggle in the UK and fight to bring down the Tory government and ultimately fight to bring about a socialist society where these rights would be much easy sorry I've just lost my trade of thought and we want to bring about a socialist society where women's liberation could actually be materialised


Thanks for your time, Jack. Coach Vrable was talking a little bit earlier about your effort, your high motor. He says you've been impressed by that. I wonder if that's helped you catch up after missing some time, being on the COVID list? And do you feel like you've kind of caught up where everybody else was at this point? No, I don't think I've caught up yet. I think that it's tough because I came into a new system with a new playbook, a new culture, everything. So to have to go into a quarantine after just arriving here, I felt like I was falling further behind than I was and just trying to catch up with everything they do here. So yeah, I felt like the past couple of days have been good for me in terms of just trying to catch up and trying to go into putting extra time, whether it be studying the playbook or walking through certain plays. And in terms of effort and high motor, that's something that's just kind of, I've brought that to football since I started playing. So it's helped me. Yeah, I guess it's helped me stay in the league. It's also helped me catch up when I have to. I understand that I'm coming from a position where I'm a little bit behind. So I think that that kind of helps me probably, I guess, catch up with the rest of the team. Good follow for you. You were a guy, obviously, that played with Vic Beasley. We'd get to see him practice. But what were your impressions of him in Atlanta, on and off the field as a player and a person? Oh, he's a great person, man. He's one of the best people I know. He's a great friend, great player. He's off the field. He's always given back to the community. One of the most generous people I know. On the field, he's just very easy to work with, I think. But coming from here, coming from Atlanta, coming here, as soon as I got here, I knew that he would fit in to the culture here because he just gets along with everybody. And I think people get along with him. And I know that here they can't wait to get him on the field. I know he's eager to come back. And I think that is on the field, off the field, he's pretty similar in a lot of ways, man. He listens, he plays hard, he gives back. He's just a team guy. Jim? Jack, what do you think about the defensive line here that you're going to be playing? And some of the guys you'll be playing with it, how do you think the fit is here in Tennessee for you? Oh, I think it's great, man. I think that it's funny coming here. I'm probably the lightest person weight-wise, just on the defensive line. Like everybody's probably got around about 10, maybe 15 pounds on me. So it was, yeah, coming here, I see the style of play here. And I've worked with Coach Terrell Williams. He was my defensive line coach, my first two years in league, coming in as a rookie. So I had history with him. Yeah, I've played with Day-Kwan. I went to the same school. I went to Penn State with Day-Kwan Jones. And meeting the rest of the guys has been good. There's a certain culture on the D line, the type of guy they have, this straight-up guy, solid people. They're not hard to work with. Everybody kind of supports each other in a certain way. And I think on the field, we all value hard work. And we all value effort, things that basically help a D line perform to the level that we need to. And we all hold each other accountable. And I think that we're going to help each other progress to where we need to be based on coming into such a hard year this year, having no pre-season games and no real measurement to kind of evaluate each other by, or to evaluate ourselves by, I think it helps having a D line that we keep each other accountable. And one more for me. Are you regarded, or you consider yourself a pretty patient person? And what was it like at the starting camp where I know you wanted to be out there and play, but you kind of had to wait until you were in the clear? How'd you handle that part of it? Yeah, it was tough, man. At first, it was just tough kind of being in that position, I guess. When you told that you have to go into quarantine, it's like a shock. And then at first, you can kind of get pretty down on yourself or just be kind of worried that I was worried at first that I was going to fall too far behind. And coming back from that, I felt like I was overwarrant. I felt like I was stressing too much. Coming back, the coaches, coach rabels, they take it in stride. And they tell you, they're glad that we're back. And it made me feel better about coming back. And being able to come back from that, I felt like I'm fairly patient. But I also worry about the normal things people do when they're at work. And that's falling behind or not being able to perform the level they need to. And it's been my third day practicing now with the team. And the first couple of days is rough coming back. I haven't played football in eight months. It's the way this year has been going. I haven't been able to kind of practice football drills. But now, on my third day, I felt a lot better today. So it was nice to be back out there with the team. Darren Bochler. Jack, given the restrictions this summer, were you able to do as much MMA training as you had hoped? And talk a little bit about what MMA does for you as a football player. Oh, man, MMA is my favorite sport. A lot of my close friends are in the sport. And I love training in that area. I think it relates to defensive line and offensive line so closely that I think everybody who plays on the trenches can benefit from it. Of course, this offseason has been a little different for everybody. I haven't been able to do any of that close contact training or anything like that along the lines of that. Everyone who I am close with, who's in the MMA world, that gym has been closed down. And friends back in California or my cousin in DC, they had to close their gyms down. So it's been tough for that community. And I'm just speaking from what they've told me. But I think that the training overall is something that I hope to pick back up soon. I don't know if I'll be able to do it this season. But in the offseason next year, for sure, I'll be back at it. Terry? Jack, what was it like, I guess, trying to stay plugged in via the Zoom meetings while you were in quarantine? And were you able to work out and condition it all to try to keep that at a respectable level? It's tough, man. I'm kind of lying. I had just moved here. So I haven't actually found a place like an apartment or a house yet that I can rent. I'm just in a hotel that the team put me on. So I was actually in a room the whole time. So it was pretty tough to kind of get much activity in. All I have is some resistance bands. So I really couldn't do much. I was just trying to do push-ups, sit-ups, and things that would just try to at least get my heart rate up a little bit while I was stuck in the room. As far as keeping up with the team meetings and stuff, they would Zoom me in. They would link me in on Zoom for some of the team meetings and defensive meetings. And it's not like being here, but I would say that it helps. It helps seeing just being, I guess, involved in some way, in some form. And I would also kind of just study the playbook a little bit, just so I have an idea of what I'm coming back to. Because if I come back with no idea, then it's just going to be eventually I'm going to have to do it one way or another. Time for a couple more, Teron. Yeah, Jack, when you were in Atlanta, you were kind of in a different situation where you had a defensive head coach, but he split the play-calling duties to two other guys. How did that process work? And why do you feel, why would you say things got better defensively when that happened? That's tough to say. I can't completely answer that question, just because I'm not up there in the front office, or I'm not up there with the coaching stuff. I'm not entirely sure. And being down on the field, being especially on a defensive line, you don't always know what necessarily changes behind you, what coaches have made, what changes they've made as a coaching staff. So I couldn't really give much detail on it, just based on what they may have changed in a scheme or something like that. But I think that we had a point in the season where things weren't going well. And as a team, we managed to turn it around, defensively we turned it around, and I mean offensively too. So it was a morale boost. And it's hard to say essentially what we changed, especially being in my position, but it's just kind of like the way this game goes. And it's like playing in this league for eight years, going on nine years, it can take one thing that can change the entire season for a team. And that might be a coaching change. It might be a scheme change. It might be a responsibility for someone to pick up. But this game, one small detail can change the entire team and the culture and that can build momentum. And once you have momentum, then the sky's the limit. Thank you. Paul? Who's your football club back in London, Jack?  No, I'm an Arsenal guy. Can you tell us a little bit about your connection to the team and how much it grew up with them?  And I guess I grew up in Northwest London. I guess the closest team to me was Queens Park, but I'm not going to support them because they're not really in the Premier League. So the closest team to me was really Arsenal. I'll talk to them and then I guess most of my friends are just Arsenal fans. I kind of just caught on with them early on. And then I haven't followed it as closely of late like recently, but I mean, I just claim Arsenal, man. I've always been the Gunners fan. Gentry? Yeah, Jack, how old were you when you moved to the United States? And how did that come about? When did you pick up American football? And I think I read somewhere that you used to be in a class with Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter actor. Is that true? Yeah, yeah, it's true. Yeah, it was true. For a little bit, I was in school with him. He was always acting, so he wasn't really there the whole dinner that much. Yeah, I came over to the States when I was 16. Originally, it's played basketball. And I went to St. Augustine Prep in New Jersey. And yeah, I moved in with a host family. They took me in. Yeah, man, when I was 16, and then that was my sophomore year. And then my junior year was my first year just kind of playing American football. I had never played football before. So I just kind of went to the high school. I went to the games after school. I watched it. I grew up playing rugby a little bit. So I felt like the contact wasn't the problem for me. I just had to learn the rules, to be honest. And then so my junior year, I just went out for the team. And yeah, it took me. I probably didn't get the rules down while I was in high school. I really didn't understand all the rules until I got to college. But the coach just kind of lined me up, told me what to do. And that's kind of how I got introduced to it, to be honest. Last one, Eric. Hey, Jack, I just wanted to ask about your accent. How much is it a point of conversation with a new team? And does it sort of tend to take new teammates by surprise? A little bit. I think it's tough, you know, because my accent kind of, sometimes people will catch onto some words I say. And they'll be like, what? They'll say, what do you say? And they won't understand what I'm saying. And then I'll have to kind of almost adjust my accent. So they understand what I'm saying. So yeah, it's always been an issue for me. Even, you know, obviously, since I came to the country, my accent was a lot stronger. And then over time, it kind of faded a little bit. Now I go back to London and it's like everybody says I'm American. So my accent's kind of caught in the middle where it's, yeah, I go to London, I'm American. I go to, I come over here, people say I sound funny. And then, yeah, man, it's stuck in a weird place. And I'm just trying to hold on to what little bit of accent I got left.


Okay, so does everyone actually know what the decision was? I know it's been sprinkling around, so Meriad had taken their case to patent of human genes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court hours ago, maybe even minutes ago, returned the decision that the patents that covered the genomic DNA, that the genes themselves were not patentable, but the patents covering cDNA, and I'll explain for those of you that don't follow this, what that means in a second, were eligible. So the core of the diagnostics that are used to figure out whether someone carries a BRCA 1 or 2 breast cancer susceptibility required the patent on the genomic DNA, which is now invalid. And I said I could tell you about what it means. We just actually read the decision 30 seconds ago. On that reading, it seems to me that the field of diagnostics, specifically for breast cancer, would be much more wide open and much more competitive. Probably more important, because the BRCA 1 and 2 patents were set to expire relatively soon anyway, are the 5 to 7,000, depending upon who's doing the estimate, genes of the 22,000 human genes, a good number of them have patents that have been taken out on them. And most of those are on the genomic DNA, and again I'll mention what that is in a second. Those my reading of this, and we're trying to get some confirmation, those would also be invalidated. And this is critically important if you're going to look at the genome as a whole. You could imagine that in our labs we could sequence the entire human genome, but we'd have to figure out who owns the 7,000 different bits if we wanted to actually use that. And that shouldn't be an issue based on this patent. By way of background, as Ari said, we've been working with the Solicitor General's Office on the technical sides of their brief, do this because I used to work on the BRCA 1 gene in my lab, and I continue to work on the BRCA 1 and 2 gene from the point of view of bioinformatics and databases, and we at NIH have a database that collects all of the world's mutations in these genes that we then redistribute to all the researchers in the world on a free basis from a website that we run. There'll be a lot of buzzing about the patent, and I'm sitting with our consultant, the former dean or current dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, and we're still trying to digest exactly what the decision said, but at least by first blush it invalidates the core of the patents for using the human genomic sequence to do diagnostics or to do any kind of inventions. For those of you that don't know the molecular biology, a CDNA is a process where you take the product of a gene and you do some laboratory tricks to have a new molecule that you can then manipulate in the laboratory. Those molecules are critically important to probably 80 or 90 percent of the biotech industry, which makes new molecules. The Supreme Court upon our reading of it would say that those molecules are still valid, so many of the recombinant drugs and the antibody-based drugs that you hear about, some of which are featured in the exhibit today, are based on recombinant DNA molecules, CDNA molecules, as well as when you take two molecules and you stitch them together from different organisms under the reading of that, those are still patent eligible. But what not, what the Supreme Court ruled is that your genome and the information in your genome exist in nature and is not patent eligible under the statutes that patents are laid out. I know that was kind of very somewhat unstructured response, but I think we have time for questions. Yes. Do I have questions from the audience? Since we are webcasting, I will bring you a microphone, so your question is on Mike. Questions? Yes. Tell us who you are and ask your question. Hi. Donna Young from Scrip News. My question is for the biotech industry then that this ruling was actually then okay for them because it's the recombinant DNA or how would it negatively affect them? So it was actually discussed during oral arguments as well. We think, and I'm not an expert in the biotech field, but just at first blushed through all of the things that we think of as biotech advances, most of those do not use native genomic DNA. They use recombinant molecules in some sort or engineered molecules that add additional information that wasn't there in nature. And from the reading of this ruling, those are patent eligible. The patents will still stand and will still be issued. In fact, at the very end, the very last paragraph in the ruling even says there can be new patents about the BRCA1 and 2 gene that involve it. So if I want to make a new form of the BRCA gene and do something with it in the lab that makes it useful, that would also be patent eligible. So I think the bulk of the dollars that are invested and spent in the biotech industry, most of them are focused on recombinant molecules and new products of nature. Other questions? Please tell us who you are. Yeah, Jason Kebler with the U.S. News & World Report. Is there anything in the decision that suggests you can't patent, you know, crop DNA or other living things or does this only apply to humans? No. In fact, there's precedent and they cite in the decision several other cases where naturally occurring things are very difficult to patent or not patent eligible. In fact, one of the precedent cases is the case of the funk brothers who developed a microbial mix that they used to apply to crops. It was beneficial to crops and I believe if I'm reading correctly that that patent was disallowed because those microbes exist in nature, all the funk brothers did was come up with a cocktail of them. And so I don't see that it lets you patent naturally occurring organisms, naturally occurring molecules. It does not preclude patenting recombinant corn, recombinant soybeans. All of those things are not products of nature. They require the intervention of people to create a new organism. And this is consistent with the original ruling on one of the microbes that was genetically engineered was given a patent. Well, I think the first patent that was issued, the Chakavarti decision. Thank you for waiting for the mic. Hi, can you, oh, Meredith Wadman with nature, can you just review or remind us what exactly myriad did to get from genome to product? Just in the context you've been talking. Okay, so and this goes back more than 15 years. What, this is before there was a genome sequenced. In order to find a disease gene, you had to essentially build an entire map of the genomic region you're interested in and then identify all the genes in the region and then figure out which gene might be involved in your particular disease. And there was an international race to do this 15, 16 years ago and Meredith built the map first and found which of the genes at the point, the official public information was it was somewhere in this few million bases of DNA. They pinpointed which 100,000 bases the gene was located in and got the sequence of the gene first and then applied for patents on the sequence of the gene in the genome. Any other questions? Hang on. I will get my exercise this way. And just as a follow-up in the decision, they highlight the fact that you can be incredibly inventive, incredibly smart and get the Nobel Prize, but it doesn't mean what you find is patent eligible. Einstein did not get a patent on the laws of nature. This is Dan Bergano from USA Today. I was wondering if actually if you can expand on that a little bit. My understanding is that they're saying that gene sequences are products of nature whereas Meredith's argument had been somewhere along the lines of isolating these genes is not a natural thing and so they were entitled to patent protections and so the decision is very much hanging on this patent requirement about products of nature. It wasn't the things, the other patent requirements of being non-obvious and so forth that we're keeping. Correct, correct, and Meredith actually, for those of you that don't study patent law like me, there are several different flavors of patents. There can be composition of matter patents. So if you make a new alloy of something that you had to do chemically, you can get a composition of matter, some carbon fiber new thing. And then there are process patents. Meredith was issued composition of matter patents for the human genome sequence covering these genes. And the court has ruled that the human genome is naturally occurring. And the fact that Meredith was able to pluck it out of the human genome and analyze it doesn't mean that they created something new, a new composition of matter. Greg Lucir, Life Technologies. Just if you could share with us your opinion then of what the ruling means in terms of mutation analysis when you're doing sequencing on a human genome. Mutations then are free and clear in terms of being able to read across? So there are different ways to do mutation analysis on a given gene. So what the test that has been offered up until now, because it took advantage of the technology that was the one we knew the best, required knowing a little bit about the sequence of the gene you wanted to sequence. And that was protected under the Meredith patents. It no longer would be. Coincident with this ruling is the fact that as you saw in the exhibit, the technology is changing tremendously. And so now if I want to sequence your genome, I don't need to know anything about your genome. I can use these machines and the knowledge of the publicly available reference genome to assemble your genome. There's an in-between step that we're doing now where we just go in using these next generation technologies and just pull out the parts of the genome we wanted to learn about. And that may be something we were doing for a while. That does require knowing the naturally occurring sequence in order to pull the parts out to then put them on the next generation machine. In the interpretation of the patent as it stood, that would be not something you could do without infringing upon the patent. I can tell you in the briefs that Miri had issued, the next generation whole genome sequencing that we're talking about where you don't need to know anything ahead of time.  In one of their briefs they very specifically said they did not think that that would infringe upon their patents. So going forward, I mean they were looking forward to the time when they wouldn't have the patents anyway because they would expire probably. But going forward we won't need that if we can sequence whole genomes very, very cheaply. But it is interim period when you want to have a test where I'm going to use next generation sequencing to sequence the 30 most important breast cancer genes. And just them, that would require knowledge and use of the intact genomic DNA which the Supreme Court has now said is in the public domain, so to speak. So one last question perhaps or we'll let Dr. Brody go eat lunch. Anyone else have a burning issue, burning question? Dr. Brody, thank you very much for being, for doing this in such an impromptu way. Well done, sir. I would next like to introduce Dr. Eric Green, who's the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. I would like to ask him to come up here and give us sort of the state of the art of the field and give us a taste of what's coming because there's a huge amount of things going on across the field. And he knows it better than anybody, Dr. Green.


Okay good morning everyone and welcome to class last day of the week how many of you all excited it's Friday there's two hands up there is a restaurant that says thank god it's Friday you know and I know many people are so excited when it's Friday they're all they're wishing everybody happy weekend Friday morning itself okay so welcome online students as well good to have you all join class I think there is only only three of you have joined class two of them Arilla and Prabhu okay okay I think the others will join in let's begin with the word of prayer so can one of you lead us out in prayer please anyone anyone can lead us in prayer loudly no one wants to pray okay thank you amen thank you I deceived this need to record okay so last week we looked at chapter one anyone remembers what we learned in chapter one fulfilling a purpose okay what did we learn in chapter one that God has a plan and purpose for our lives God is a God of design purpose plan and objectives he doesn't do anything arbitrary and does he have a plan and purpose for your life yes what is that okay thank God at least one student remembers so God has a general plan and then he has a specific plan so what is the general plan somebody else can answer what is God's general plan for all meant to be saved okay that is his general plan what is a specific plan his specific plan some of you are still discovering it and it's different for each person but through our specific plan God fulfills his his specific plan that God has for each one of us what does he fulfill he fulfills his general plan and his purpose for our lives okay so we we saw that God wants you know God wants us to go to places he wants people he wants you to touch lives he wants you to impact things he wants you to accomplish and you know nations he wants you to shake and cities he wants you to transform okay so we saw that God's plan is always bad right God's plan is always good okay yeah God's plan is always good for our lives and we know this from which is the famous verse 29 11 thank you charisma and we we also saw that God has a plan and purpose for our lives so what do we do just sit and wait and meditate no we cooperate with him and we work along with him okay and we need to discover God's plan for our lives how do we discover God's plan for our lives we said there are how many guideposts nine guideposts okay so when we begin to fulfill God's plan for our lives can we make mistakes can there be failures yes okay so that's God leave us out of the race no what does he do when we go back to him he forgives us okay and he takes us back and he puts us back on the track and he gives us the grace and the strength okay and satan will do his best from fulfilling stop us from fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our lives but we must remain focused and run our race with endurance okay now it will be a good thing it is just um one two three four five six seven eight it's just eight pages and it would have hardly taken you 15 minutes to just read those eight pages so i'm sure all of you've come here to bible college to learn and if you're not going to go through your notes and if you're not going to spend good time in study then it's it's going to be a futile effort if you're just going to sit here in the class and learn and you know here and you're not going to go back and read then it's not going to really help you okay so it's quite disappointing to see that none of you remember anything much because obviously you haven't read okay and there's only eight pages in the first chapter which is very simple and a quick read which will hardly take you 15 to 20 minutes so i request all of you for all the subjects you know spend time reading it because you're here to learn okay we all have to learn even i prepare every day spend hours just preparing a subject sometimes three four hours even though i've thought this so many years i've thought the subject so many years but still prepare and come so it's important that each one of you please take time take the effort to spend time reading you have it all on your on the on the website the book so you can please take time to read and also request our online students to please take time to read yes fulfilling god's purpose for your life it's there on if you go to www.apcwo.org now you can open it if you have your mobiles and please follow through and i i don't know if it's in hindi also this publication is available in hindi i'm not sure but you can check in the in the publications if not please take time to read in english so next week when i come whatever portions we have completed chapter one and chapter two please read and uh uh kindly come so that it'll help you and uh i'm sure all of you we were saying when we met on Wednesday that you are discovering you're trying to know what god's plan for your life is so you need to make that effort you need to cooperate with god okay and so if the subject is really going if you want the subject to help you then you have to cooperate you have to read you have to learn okay so today we are looking at chapter two we're going to look at the nine guide posts okay the nine guide posts uh which we just briefly saw in chapter one which is listed in page number seven if those of you are following the pdf version page number seven okay the nine guide posts so we're going to look at the nine guide posts today which will help us uh to understand god's will okay so i would like you to spend time to um you know to write down what you are learning i also would like y'all to analyze think and examine it's very important for doing these nine guide posts which will help you to know what god's will for your life is so please take time to uh you know um to analyze to think uh to examine uh to write down what you're learning um also see how this relates to your life see how this applies to your life um and when we're going to the nine guide post if you say yeah this guide post is actually uh you know talking to me i see this in my life i see this happening in my life um and you can you and you can say okay this guide post is actually telling me this is the direction uh to go towards okay so even as we're looking at these nine guide posts please write down what you're learning please take time to analyze think and to examine and you know see how it applies to your life see how it relates and if one guide post is you know talking to you then you say yeah this guide post is actually telling me this is a direction i need to go towards and then it's um you know so at least when we complete this course you'll have at least uh you'll be or you'll be in a position where you could at least have a general idea or a sense of uh direction um you know where you can say this is where god is taking me in life or this is what i think god's plan and purpose for my um life is okay so um like i established the fact last class in our lesson one uh we said that god's will uh for us is not a mystery right uh can we know god's will yes we can know god's will some people say we can't know god's will but that's not scriptural that's not biblical uh we can know the will of god and um it says in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 15 to 17 so if you're following the pdf uh you can look at page number 10 uh Ephesians chapter 5 verses 15 and 17 it was 17 says therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of god is that means it's saying don't be unwise means don't be foolish understand what the will of god is so the bible says that we can uh know what the will of god is uh it means that we can um that the will of god can be understood okay so the bible tells us scripture tells us that we can know what the will of god is or it means that the will of god can be understood okay uh there's another reference given here in Colossians chapter 1 verses 9 to 11 uh Paul is writing to the church at Colossae and he's saying in verse 9 that he does not cease to pray for them cease means what he does not stop to pray for them he continuously uh regularly prays for them and what is he praying for them Colossians chapter 1 verses 9 to 11 what is he praying for them that they will be filled with the knowledge of his will okay so Paul is saying i'm praying that you would completely know uh and be filled with the knowledge of god's will okay and you too can pray uh this prayer say god fill me with the knowledge of your will okay you can you can also pray this prayer and you can expect this prayer to be answered because even as Paul is um you know is praying this prayer he's not just praying it but he's also expecting his prayer to be answered so you can also pray and say god i want to be filled with the knowledge of your will and expect his the prayer to be um answered and you know uh Paul is saying here you know i want you to be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding so he wants them to be filled with all wisdom and all spiritual understanding so we need wisdom and spiritual understanding to be filled with the knowledge of god's will what do we need to be filled with uh to know god's will wisdom and spiritual understanding so in this course we are going to impart to you knowledge we're going to impart to you spiritual understanding as we study god's word so that you can find or you can know god's will for your um life okay and this verse um uh in Colossians chapter 1 verses 9 to 11 also says that what will be what will happen when we are filled with the knowledge of god's will so what will happen when we are filled with the knowledge of god's will verse 10 yeah the first thing is we will walk worthy of the lord that means we will live a life that is worthy of god honoring him what is the second thing we find here yeah we will be fully pleasing or well pleasing to him okay fully pleasing to him that means when you know god's will you will walk worthy of the lord and you would also be well pleasing uh in the life that you are living your life will be well pleasing to him okay what's the third thing you will be fruitful in every good work so how will you bear fruit how will you be fruitful in your life when you know god's will okay all of us here want to be fruitful yes all of us want to bear fruit how do you how do you bear fruit when will you be fruitful when you know god's will when will you live a life worthy of god or when will you live a life pleasing to him when you know his will and what is the last thing you will increase in the knowledge of god and this is these are something that we all want in our lives right we want to increase in the knowledge of god we want to live a life that is honoring righteous that is glorifying him well pleasing to him we want to be fruitful in every way and this can be possible only when we know god's will and when will we know god's will when we are filled with wisdom and spiritual understanding where do we get wisdom and spiritual understanding yes from the word of god okay so first Corinthians 2 verses 9 and 10 can somebody read that loudly please first Corinthians chapter 2 verses 9 to 10 I hope the online students are following me yes you can type it in the chat section just one minute sorry online students are you there following me yes no okay oh nina nina john are you nina john no okay there's another nina john here okay we have a person a student here in person classes her name is also nina so thank you nina thank you very love okay so we'll look at first Corinthians chapter 2 verses 9 to 10 yes go ahead and read it yeah thank you so here it's a very beautiful wonderful verse you know verse 9 is talking about how wonderful awesome god's will is for us okay god's plan or purpose for our lives is plan and purpose for our lives is something that no i has seen no here has heard and no it's not even entered or it's not perceived in the heart of man the things that has he has prepared for those he loves so god's plan for your life is so wonderful is so amazing it's so awesome but we just don't stop there okay okay yeah god's plan is for me so amazing so awesome so wonderful we just don't stop there but you know people always read this verse and stop there but you know we need to continue to see what the word of god says more it says in verse 10 but god has revealed it to us through his spirit so how do we know god's will and plan for us the holy spirit reveals this awesome mighty wonderful amazing great big plan and purpose that god has for each one of your lives the holy spirit reveals it to each one of us okay first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16 can somebody read that please first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16 thank you you know same with this verse as well you know we can just stop at reading but who has known the mind of god that he may instruct him but paul does not stop here okay he does not just stop and says okay who can know the mind of god you know this great awesome mighty omnipotent omniscient omnipresent god you know who lives in unapproachable light who no man has seen and can see how can we even know his mind okay so we can just stop here but paul does not stop here he goes on to say that you know but we have the mind of christ now some people say i don't know what god is doing with my life now i don't know what he's doing in the season of my life you know i don't understand okay but that's not something that we can say or we need to say because this verse says that you know we have the mind of christ how do we have the mind of christ or when do we have the mind of christ when we become born again okay when we become born again our spirit man is born again but our minds we need to be transformed by the renewing of our minds and we need to do that every day in fact every minute every hour because the battle happens in the mind this year is where satan is having his battle with us okay our spirits are born again but our souls that is our mind our will and emotions are not renewed it's not born again and we need to renew our minds we'll come to that but here it says we have the mind of christ when we are able to know the thoughts the plans and the purposes of god for our lives okay and also the plans and the purpose he has for us to establish his kingdom here on earth so general plan and specific plan so when do we have the mind of christ we have the mind of christ when we are able to discern which we are able to know the plans the thoughts and the purposes of christ so can we know the plans purposes of god accurately and clearly and completely yes we can know it accurately clearly and completely because as we just heard who reveals god's mind to us it's the holy spirit who reveals god's mind to us okay so we can say boldly that i know the mind of christ why because he's revealing his plan his purpose for my life it's not just you know okay god told me to come to bible college fine and here i know god's mind no but what does god want you to do in the season even as you are here in bible college god god does not only reveal his plan for the season but you you know he will also reveal what he wants you to do the next season of life why does he want to reveal what he wants to do the next season of life is so that you can plan and prepare in this season for the next season that is coming up in your life so yes you can know the plan and purposes of god very clearly very completely you don't have to walk around like a blind person you know looking for trying to know what god's plan for your life is you can be filled with the knowledge of his will and you can walk in the mind of god okay tell your neighbor i can walk in the mind of god tell your neighbor i have the mind of christ now don't just say it i have the mind of christ come on believe that imagine you know it's don't you think it's so wonderful that you know this great mighty awesome god is actually revealing his mind to us how many of us would like to reveal our minds to somebody else well no you know some things yes but not everything but god is not a selfish god can't you just uh fandom this great uh truth that this great awesome mighty god is actually wanting to reveal his mind to me you know just a infinite god is trying to reveal his will and plan to somebody who can't even comprehend somebody whose mind is so small compared to his great big mind can we say an amen to that and can you look at your neighbor and say you know i have the mind of christ excitedly and you know with confidence with that assurance in hey man i have the mind of christ i'm so excited come on tell your neighbor that francis you don't want to tell your neighbor yeah okay so um um so we all have the mind of christ and we can also know the mind of christ i mean i don't know if that excites you that rarely excites me that this god is willing to reveal his mind to me you know somebody who's so fallen somebody who's not and who's unfaithful to him so many times somebody who disappoints him somebody who breaks his heart but yet he's willing to reveal his mind to each one of us now the unfolding of god's plan for our life is very progressive what does it mean you're progressive it gives us everything it's like a book you know this is here this is your blueprint take and read everything and follow it is that the progressive means step by step okay he will tell you his plan and purpose for this season and what is coming up in the next season of your life okay so let's look at proverb chapter 4 verse 18 which talks about something about you know the progressive plan of god okay for our lives now you don't have to worry if you miss out on some things of the lecture you know the lecture will be on the google classroom i think all of you have access to google classroom no okay i'll tell dina so you will have access to to the google classroom and by five o'clock each day the videos will be put on every video will be put on the google classroom for each class so you can go back and listen to the videos and i i i want you to spend more time studying you know when we were in bible college we had study time which was mandate three from two to five two to five thirty and then we had study time from eight to ten thirty okay mandatory all of us had to go to library tonight i think that was a good exercise because we got time to read and you know because once you get into ministry let me tell you time is so your time just runs like this you don't even have time to read a book you won't even have time to you know read these books that you want to you'll have so many ministry assignments so many commitments so please utilize this time now you know to learn okay to learn to read you know spend time because you will never get time once you're in the ministry because it is really it gets really hectic and busy and you'll never be able to read and then you will say oh my gosh i wish in bible college you know i'd spend more time studying and reading okay so just to encourage all of you probably chapter four was 18 can somebody read that please thank you so it says a part of the righteous or the just you know just justify righteous righteousness justification all comes from the same root word in greek and all means the same thing making you know a right standing with god so you know um the part of the just or the part of the righteous is like a shining sun okay it gets even right under the perfect day what does this mean what does it mean in relationship to what we are studying about god's plan and purpose for our life that god's plan is progressive see here we're not saying that the just is like the sun okay it's a it's a simile simile means same we're comparing it so just person or a righteous person is like the sun which means you know the sun comes up at around four you know 4 30 in the morning and is it very bright in the morning at 4 4 30 no you can see very very faintly very uh little but as the sun keeps coming up and up and up and up and up then things get more uh brighter we can able to see things more clearer there is more clarity so the same way with gods will for our lives okay gods will for our lives uh you know when we when he says do this okay uh things might not be very very clear everything is not given to us we don't see the uh end from the beginning we don't see the end of our journey we don't see each step but we just see we just take that first step and then god reveals the next and then god reveals the next so let's look at um uh some examples where you know when we are we're fulfilling god's plan for our lives he does not give us the complete picture or the complete details but he reveals things to us progressively step by step okay um there times god will give you a little more instructions there will be sometimes he will just say go to that place i wanted to go as a missionary i want you to be as a youth pastor i want you to be a worship pastor i want you to uh you know do children's ministry but he will not tell you where okay then you need to ask god where do you want me to go you know then the church you want me to join uh you know what do you want me to do here so you know um you know as you take each step then god keeps revealing the next uh step to you so once you you know step into the place that where god is portion for you there is your inheritance there you will experience god's blessing uh you will experience um uh you know the fullness of god the power of god which is the grace of god will be revealed so uh will be manifested in your life so uh uh powerfully okay uh so that's very important in the bible if you look you know the positioning is very very important you know when men and women of god position themselves at the right time in the right place in the right season of their life experience god's blessing i'll give you an example now when god tells elijah uh you know go to king ahab and tell him that there's not going to be rain in the land because they're worshiping idols uh elijah obeyed okay he goes and tells the king you know uh uh there's not going to be rain and you know in those days you can't give a bad news bring a bad news to king if you bring a bad news to king you know the king can even take your life but um he obeyed god rather than looking at his own life he he goes he takes that first step when he finishes that first step you know he's running away for his life because he knows the king is going to uh catch him and put him you know uh going to kill him he's running and god tells him gives him the next step he says go to the brook of charit or go charit you know go to the go to the stream of charit and stay there okay so he runs the stream of charit and then god tells him i will send the ravens to bring you foods the ravens are bringing him food but when the water dried up god tells him the next plan go to zaraphith okay when he goes to zaraphith he tells him that you will see your widow and you know gives him all the instructions so you see that every time elijah obeyed god and he positioned himself in the right place in the right time he received god's grace received god's blessing received god's favor and he was able to take the next step so god reveals his plan and purpose very progressively we look at two examples one is in hebrus chapter 11 verse eight and it talks about abraham okay um hebrus chapter 11 verse eight can somebody read that please yes so god you know the next morning when abraham wakes up he's packing and so his wife tells him darling what's up what are you packing why are you telling all the servants to leave he says we are moving he says moving she says moving yes we are going he says we are going to leave my father's household and we are moving from this place oh where are we going to yes i don't know what you don't know but why are you moving god told me to who is this god you know in those days they didn't have an idea of who god is they tried to make their own images you know they tried to understand and perceive god but we see abraham you know he could have doubted if that was god's voice or not but he was so clear and he says god spoke to me his wife would have doubted but he was so sure and he leaves did he know where he was going no when he went did god show him where he was going yes he took him to canon and he said this is your promised land this is your inheritance which i'm going to give to your generations okay so once you start doing what god wants you to you reach that place that is going to be your inheritance let's look at another example in genesis chapter 24 verse 27 which is talking about abraham's you know servant or like more like his manager eliezer eliezer abraham says go back to my father's house you know and find a wife for my son isek okay and now this great response for these come on eliezer and he prays and asks god and look at what he says you know he says in verse 27 the latter half he says ask for me eliezer saying ask for him being on the way the lord led me to the house of my master's brethren so you know he's he's very unsure he wants to do the right thing the right way he prays he asks god and he's saying when he was on his way you know god led him so his you know when he was on his way he's testifying he's giving a testimony that god has led him so we need to be on the way that god is preparing for us we need to start moving you know some people say tell god you know god i want you to tell me everything where i'm going who i have to meet what is going to happen tell me everything and then i will move but god says please move and then i will tell you or then i will show you what you need to do okay so how do we understand god's plan and purpose for our lives how do we understand god's leading and how do we find out his will for our lives is through the nine guide posts okay we looked at the nine guide post we just read it out in class one but we will look at each one of them in detail in in in this lecture and the next one as well okay so which is the first guide post okay it says we need to recognize the general teaching and instruction of god's word okay now everything that god wants us to know is revealed in his word okay is there any more revelation god has to give us no there's no more revelation god has to give us everything is complete everything that god wants mankind to know is already revealed in his word yes to get an understanding of that revelation we need revelation from god to understand what is revealed in his word but no more new revelation so if anyone tells you or is preaching no this is a new revelation god gave to me you know we don't agree to that because you know there's nothing more that god wants us he wants to give mankind but everything is already revealed in this word but if they are saying something which god is revealing to them it should be in line which is already revealed in god's word so god's word is our standard god's word is something that we go back to and check whether anyone is giving us a word of knowledge wisdom prophecy you know anyone's teaching something new we go back to god's word if we hear and we think it's god's voice and what he's telling us we go back and test it in god's word okay so god will never lead us contrary to his word he will never tell us to do anything which is contradicting his word that means god would have not written something in his word and he will not tell us to do something else we look at some examples later on okay so 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 can somebody read that please 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 amen so thank you and we see that in all scripture every scripture so even genealogy genealogy as well all the names sometimes we don't read no those verses which has all the names it's like a tongue twister for us even genealogy because it says all scripture okay Ecclesiastes song of Solomon you know everything all scripture is given by inspiration what's the meaning of inspiration rosahed okay to motivate it's god breath that means the holy spirit spoke to the men and women and that is what they wrote in scripture okay so it's it's a holy spirit who inspired them who spoke to them who let them um and they wrote it so all scripture is profitable for doctrine what is doctrine our beliefs yes your beliefs doctrine is basically teaching okay so anything that is talking about teaching which the bible teaches us various things so it's a doctrine uh it's good for reproof for correction and instructing in righteousness it instructs a righteous man so that the man of god may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work so how do you equip yourself for ministry read all of scripture read all of scripture meditate on scripture keep thinking about it memorize scripture when can you be complete when can you be complete when you read all of scripture because it says that the man of god may be complete thoroughly equipped in every good work so when you equip that means when you thoroughly read god's word you know uh you meditate on it you understand the revelations you're complete you're thoroughly equipped for every good work okay so you know the scripture instructs us in the way of righteousness uh roman's chapter 12 verse 2 can somebody read that please roman's chapter 12 verse 2 thank you evangeline so here we see that you know we need to be transformed by the renewing of our mind when our minds are renewed that means renewed means what re renew make new okay just renew make new so you have to make your mind new every day every moments that means what when you think a negative thoughts you need to renew that or make it new with a positive thought when you're believing a lie of the enemy you have to make your mind new with the truth of gods word for example you can you can say i i can't understand these english lectures you know well that is uh that may be a difficulty but you need to renew your mind and say through i can do all things to christ to strengthen me or god gives me the wisdom or he will enable me to speak in english to understand the lectures in english to write in english okay so that is what you need to work towards and you need to also replace your mind i remember when i was in bible college there was this this professor who came from who was from up north you know when he came to the bible college he did not know a word of english to that extent when the you know in the office they asked him what is your name he said you know which place he came from you know he's instead of saying his name he's saying the place of the name that he came from so that doesn't even know the basic what is your name but it's amazing that the same person you know finished his uh uh theological degree um six maybe if i think six years he studied he did his mth he did his phd came back to the same college started teaching us he taught me and now he presently uh you know he was the principal he was principal of the same bible college so you know anything is possible with god's strength but you have to cooperate with god you have to work with god okay so you need to renew your mind you need to replace the truth the lies with the truth you know we have always a lot of false thinking okay okay this person is not good or that person is like that or oh you know look at the weather you know look at this or we have to study this always negative but you need to renew your mind with thinking positively okay thinking positive thoughts so we need to renew our mind daily why is it important to renew our mind daily what else is worth saying what happens when you renew your mind daily please look at Romans chapter 12 verse 2 what will happen when you renew your mind when your mind is renewed that's when you will be able to know god's good pleasing and acceptable will for your life how do you know god's will for your life one way is when you renew your mind with god's word okay so we must renew our mind so that we can prove um and know what is god's good acceptable and pleasing will that what's the meaning of proof proof means the greek word here is test we need to test just like metals you know metal uh copper and all of those things you know that they put these into different machines or the heat to test the material how good it is how much it can withstand it also means that we need to explore investigate and make certain or know for certain what god's will for your life is okay so god reveals his plan and will for your life but you need to test it you need to explore it you need to investigate you need to ascertain if that is god's will for your life so what do i need to uh test uh explore investigate and ascertain if this is god's will for our life you need a renewed mind okay tell your neighbor renew your mind okay so you need to renew our mind okay what is a renewed mind a renewed mind is one that is learning to take the higher ways and the higher thoughts of thought okay what is a renewed mind a renewed mind is a mind that is uh learning to take the higher ways and the higher thoughts of god okay tell your neighbor you know learn to take the higher ways and the higher thoughts of god why don't he come and sit here with the frances uh he Come and sit here in Francis so that you can be his good neighbor. Oh, you can't hear. Okay. Okay, Francis, you need to learn to take the higher ways and thoughts of God. Okay. Okay, so some people say that God has three categories for his will. Okay, they say God's will is good, acceptable, and perfect. Well, that is wrong. There are no three categories of God's will. God's will is good. God's will is acceptable. God's will is perfect. There are no three different categories. So doesn't God does not give a good will to somebody perfect for somebody acceptable to somebody? No, when God gives you or reveals his plan and purpose for your life, it is good, acceptable, and it is perfect. Okay, so this is actually the adjectives, three adjectives that he's trying to tell us about God's will. So what is the meaning of good? Good means God's will is excellent. It's upright. It's honorable. Okay, what is the meaning of acceptable? It means that it's fully agreeable that which is pleasing to God and which he will approve. Okay, and what is perfect? God's will is perfect means it is complete. It is without any flaw or defect. Okay, so how do I get there? How do I get to have a renewed mind? How do I am able to test, approve, investigate a certain God's good, pleasing, and acceptable will for my life? It's given in Ephesians chapter five verse 10. The answer is in Ephesians five verse 10. What does it say in Ephesians five verse 10? Find out what is acceptable to God. Tell your neighbour, find out what is acceptable to God. Okay, now finding out is the same root word as to test, proof, the same word proof, the same word for also to test the same Greek word. Okay, so how do we find out what is acceptable to God? How do we test it? It is, you know, if it agrees with God's word. So God's word is what helps us to test whether this is good, pleasing, perfect will. You know, how do we know God's good, pleasing, perfect will? We test it how from the Bible. We look, we go back to the Bible. So it's as a believer, it our responsibility to prove, you know, to find out, to test what is acceptable to God. Look at Hebrews chapter five verse 14. Hebrews chapter five verse 14 says, thank you. So your full age means mature, somebody who's mature, and it says here by reason of use, that means constant use. When do you become mature and know what God's will is? And when you have a renewed mind, when you're constantly using God's word, okay, when you're speaking God's word in your situation, you're going back to God's word, you're seeing what God's word is telling you, okay. So you need to use God's word constantly, okay. So you and I can come to a place where our senses, where our soulish man, that means our will, our mind, our emotions, we can discern, we can prove, we can test, we can examine, we can analyze what is God's will for our life, what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is evil, and how can we get there by the constant use of God's word. So you can have your senses trained to discern what is good and what is evil. And that is why we need to train ourselves in God's word. So let God's word get into your life and let the word of God, you know, you know, get into God's word and let the word of God get into your life. When can the word of God get into your life? When you get into God's word and when you get into God's word and you let God's word to get into your life, that's when your senses, that means your soulish man, your mind, will, and emotions will be able to be trained or will be able to analyze, think, examine, prove what is God's will, pleasing will for your life, and also what is right, what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. So there are a few examples we will look at about how we can, from God's word, how we can know God's will for certain aspects of our life. We'll stop here, it's 9.50, we'll go for a break, we'll come back at 10 and we'll begin and then we'll we'll move on with some examples. Okay, thank you.