Today we're doing a leak down test on a generator. We had oil all inside the air box here all down in there The oil level was low on the dipstick wasn't even really on it Checked compression had 195 pounds on the front cylinder 60 on the rear cylinder so we ended up putting our top dead center on the back and We went ahead and calibrated our gauge out We're using nitrogen as our compressed air set up here at a hundred pounds of pressure Our other side here. We got this unhooked. We calibrated out now. We hook up our hose to the cylinder And as you can notice right there We are leaking at about 95% You're listening now for the air is coming from I can hear the air down here in the crank case I do not really hear anything in our intake And I don't hear anything back here in our exhaust Now we'll go ahead and do a test here on the front one to show you what should have looked like And we're gonna go ahead and do this thing top dead center Extension in there something to So you see this one come up see this one go down Watching her come up Get her top dead center What I like to do is push on that because the air will actually shove the cylinder back down Get there at zero And there's what it should have looked like here. We're only losing about five 20% is the normal acceptable level our pressure coming in here is still right at 95 pounds the book says use 90 If I'm going off memory here, you're supposed to zero out your your leak leakage gauge And that's what I've done. You can hear a little bit inside there But obviously there's a tremendous difference between the leakage rate there at this point the motor can't really be repaired out in the field and Generally the cost to do that is going to be more than just replacing the motor. We ended up doing a standard compression test I had 195 pounds on the front cylinder. I had 60 on the back That's what led me to this test here along with the oil that was all up in the airbox the problem that we were called out for is over crank and that's where we were at and So now that it's failed you can look through here the results air escaping from the carburetor air intake check the intake valve Affairs escaping through the exhaust check the exhaust valve affairs escaping through the breather check the piston rings airs escaping between the cylinder head and block the head gasket should be replaced and check both Gasket surfaces, so there you go now I do want to mention right after checking the compression and seeing that it was that low I checked my valve clearance and I was Intolerance that's the front one which had good compression One that did not Today we're coming back to change out the motor and this is the motor as it comes So we're just going to haul this thing over there, which makes it a little bit easier Looks like the jug lug, but it's a $5 deal from Menards, so we'll get this thing hauled over there. We're gonna get the other motor Warmed up drain the oil out of it. This motor does not come with oil So make sure you bring oil with you when you go to change it because there's nothing in there Basically, we've got a strip all this off All over in here the end plate take the fan blade off the muffler I tend to keep me in a little dedicated toolbox for this. I Can't stress enough either use earplugs or something But after a while it doesn't seem loud at first, but this will cause your ears to end up bringing later and get tinnitus Which is untreatable That's something that I'm now dealing with don't know if it's from this or not, but I don't take a chance anymore As I said the motor screwed I don't want to get it too hot because they got to take the muffler and stuff off You can see metal shavings in that right there. This is why we don't try to fix this stuff in the field. It's not worth it So far we've got it disassembled We went ahead and put one of the bolts back in there to hold the lid so it doesn't fall down We got the oil drained out the books got everything piece by piece in there If you're not a Generac service authorized dealer, you shouldn't even be doing this So don't even attempt this if you're not one of those. I don't want any responsibility for you hurting yourselves There's my disclaimer for today You got a honking bolt there like that one right there. Don't lose that. That's where you need your polar on the end of that. I Picked up a cheap one from Harbor Freight That was easy. Got our slip rings here Make sure you pay attention to that positive and negative makes a difference Got to take these two screws out right in here if you don't you'll snap those off your brushes now speaking of slip rings When it gets super cold out on these older ones Sometimes those are freezing to place and they'll not make contact with the rotor and then next thing you know It won't produce voltage and it goes out on under voltage. Now. This is something you're definitely going to do by hand Otherwise you do it by your drill or something with your adapter. You'll possibly snap them bolts off The way I got into generators originally was I was bored with just doing old heating air conditioning And I thought hey, that's kind of cool something new without having to leave the field so We did a lot where I was at before We don't do a bunch of them here. And like I said you snooze you lose you tend to forget and although You know you got to go through the school every two years, which is kind of a crock Because they really haven't changed the design much the only thing they've changed is their electronics more than anything And they've changed the rotors just a touch But those are your brushes right there. That's how it transfers the DC voltage It spins creates a magnetic field catches the flux lines on the outside. You have voltage Basically, you got to put a bolt get a screw this in there. This is that same bolt that you had before Basically this one right here, but it's been cut off If you notice it's been cut off Well this piece right here is got a thread right there. So you're gonna thread this thing in first You've taken your hacksaw.    It's metric once again. Like I said, we just don't use this stuff enough to really justify a high dollar set and So that just goes on there like that and that right there is a 19 millimeter I'm going to put my Back up wrench here, so we'll get on to a spot here that's not going to touch anything that way any gouges don't really hurt anything This thing will pop boom, baby.  Hopefully didn't screw my thing up too badly Now you can pull that back out unthreaded or you can leave it on there and kind of use as a guide as you're pulling the motor out Just kind of got to be easy with her. I have a dead blow hammer, which is not on my truck. I see so then This is where a block of wood Comes in handy See there we go. She's coming apart But there's your motor you can see right in the center there That's your spindle and Basically that comes out so at this point here. I'm just going to pull this off to the side get it out of my way I'm not going to go Taking things apart any more than what I need to mark this with your marker pen that way everything's lined back up Makes it a little bit easier All right got our uni strut here. It's just a standard piece. That's going to help lift the weight of the rotor up and kind of Help us to maneuver it so that we can get things in and out of the way basically Got to be careful because your leads Are right there on the end Don't want to rip those completely out all we need to do is Primarily lift it up and get it off of there. You can see right there is our Spindle that helped hold it up. This has rotated a little bit So we could have probably kept that together a little better been kind of nice So I just tap that back on here in a little bit I'm going to back that bolt out of there and Then the motor kind of start coming loose the battery gas all that should be Turned off before you even get started just pull that back a little bit further. We can then thread that bolt That we originally put in there There you go, and she's still in pretty doggone good shape. Hey, we want to get our exhaust manifold here off That came with a new gasket or at least we got one for it and See this little marshal of love see how they don't fit that's engineering at its best boys and girls The almighty PB blaster So if we can get it to creep in there The juice juice got her That stuff's wicked. I love it. He used to be a WD 40 fruit loop, but now I'm a PB blaster fruit loop Now this is where a ball and socket would come in handy, but I am not a big believer in the ball and socket ones They still didn't give you enough room To get it in there at a right angle So, yeah, you'd have to chop off about that much of it proper use of your tools There we go There's that Okay, I'm gonna need to unhook all of our safety switches here. So there's that that comes out You gotta get back here to the power plug going to the starter Get your choke solenoids now we need to get the Not off the solenoid And the ground wire down there on bottom Yep, if I remember correctly, these do not come off very easy at all just trim the bad part right off Just like new again. All right. She came right out Just took that around your shoulder like a jam box and Pull it right out. Yep. So basically right there is all that's connected to the motor Two wires for the oil switch two wires for the temperature switch the number 18 wire for your magneto grounding two wires to your Slip rings to your brushes grounding wire Start solenoid and two power wires there for power to the control module in the battery I believe and then you had your that really didn't connect to the thing to the motor But that was your choke solenoid So that's bought it Basically just reverse it now to get it back together. I Was correct. It does not come with that motor bracket to mount it to the to the base So that's got to come off, which is another good reason why you want to take all the oil out of this thing Right there's chunks. You can see it those shavings right there Are gonna be your rings Yep, that's your rings right there Wow, look at all the shavings in the oil filter there They are just coming out. That's This filter was just changed in May of this year.   Let's have a tendency sometimes to fall out Popped it off there. Got her back to here. Just rotate it get lined up There you go. It's back together. Everything's connected There we go First time haven't even started yet. Here we go We've checked the battery. We've checked the battery charger. We checked the starting amps We've checked the voltage and the frequency All of them seem to be right on spec with where they should be at So the only last thing I want to do is double check my oil level Gotta give it a second let it drain down. These sometimes are very hard to read which is why they got the double notches just below the notch we get a little drink and then We'll call her happy. I just leave that there for the customer because it's an air-cooled motor. It will burn oil Just supposed to check it every 24 hours So the manual says nobody usually does you don't want to shut down on low oil because damage could have already happened by that time That's kind of a failsafe look underneath make sure no oils draining out of the bottom of it Does not appear to be I'm gonna wire tie these wires right there There's it. All right, if you liked the video, please like share and subscribe Don't forget to check down in the description area down below And I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all my subscribers I really appreciate you guys taking the time to watch the videos. I try to make them worthwhile for you to watch and If you would I love comments, so feel free to leave something down below till next time. We'll catch you on the next one


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They make it uh Chick-fil-A No Orange to 199 Josh Pascal rated Rookie Lions They're like chocolate like kind of like oatmeal that's like not like Big like walnuts, but there's like small like pecan pieces or something dude. They're they're pretty fire Give me a warm to 35 mile sanders lime green eagles Simo's are are awesome too. Dang. I don't know how I'm gonna narrow this down like my top five It's like near impossible. I'm gonna go top 30 cookies. I think Top 30 cookies aqua Kenny pick it now 63 of 299 nice card Steelers Yeah, Chick-fil-A is Chick-fil-A is fire Yeah silver circles Jonathan Taylor to 125 Colts Jermaine Johnson the second All the rated Rookie Jamo Lions Travis Kelsey to 179 blue for the Chiefs and Williams You know, it's really good Randy is it like strawberry cheesecake cookies that have it um publics every now and then it's like seasonal Those are outrageous Those are outrageous I don't even know what they are. 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Alrighty, boy do I have some exciting news, some exciting announcements, and some exciting things going on at Wonderland to talk about all in one video, so this is going to be a really interesting one, so I'll get right into it, so don't bore you guys. But we are launching some new merch on our website, so definitely go check it out just in time for the holiday season of course in typical business fashion, but we're launching a handcrafted scented candles created by me, truly yours, that are inspired by some of my favorite things at Wonderland, so head on over to our website, I'll link it down below in the top comment section, for our regular classic merch that we've had out for a while, just in time for Christmas, if you or someone in your family wants it, definitely available there, and then our new scented candles that are inspired by kind of like my taste in scent notes and what I think certain things that I enjoy at Wonderland that inspire me, so these are just inspired and handcrafted by me, so I thought it would be really cool. I am definitely making them from scratch, like literally putting them together as well, like none of these are pre-built for me, I'm literally having to put the wick in, glue them, put the jar together, then the label on, and then melt the soy wax and handcraft the scents with some essential oils. So definitely a really fun project to be honest, I love it, I tried out some scents, I've definitely picked what really gets to me, but yeah, head on over to amusementinsiders.com, I'll link it down below in the top comment, so definitely check it out in the comment section, and yeah, so let's get right off the bat, so as you can see over by the Vortex Hill, you can tell that construction is well in its way, they've land cleared, nothing over on the Kingswood area quite yet, again this is probably actually going to take quite a bit, they may even wait to spring, they seem to be really far behind on a few projects. Now what's interesting is we have some weird stuff built up in the Yukon area, so in the Yukon little like maintenance bay area, Rutherford Construction is there with some bulldozers and a storage container now, so I thought that was interesting, it seemed a little far from Vortex Hill to be stored, they could have stored this literally behind the restaurant even, chicken shack, they could have stored it, like there were other areas, so it was a little weird that it stored all the way over there, it could be for Vortex Hill and mean completely nothing at all and it's just the construction, it would make sense Rutherford does like cement work, so the cement work for the restaurant, but I just thought it was a little weird that it's located there, so we're definitely going to be paying attention to that. There are also some weird metal beams being stored under Super Soaker, the water slide that weren't there literally two weeks ago when I flew the drone and are there, I can't make out what they are from the drone at all, we won't be able to make out what they are, so right now it is just metal beams stacked on top of each other in the Mindbuster kind of Super Soaker area, Mindbuster trains are sitting right down there by the maintenance bay, some are upside down, it looks like the wheel assembly and all that has been taken off, all the parts have been removed from the trains and it's literally just the wood fiberglass structure of the train remaining, Halloween Haunt things are being stored in Splashworks, Black Hole got a rebaint as you know from a previous video, there are some weird lights, not the Q-Line lights that you see through the forest of Whitewater Canyon but there are some weird lights in Whitewater Canyon's areas and two spots so I'll have to pay close attention to that as well in terms of taking apart rides maintenance wise, they seem a little bit far behind but again their focus is probably getting on Winterfest setup and that's exactly why they're behind, trying to think if I missed anything. I don't think I missed anything, okay so we have the restaurant is well on its way, they started land clearing that land now, looks like a little more outline of the building as well as where brickwork could possibly go, the sprinkler system has been removed and the electrical has been removed, Black Hole got a repaint, there's weird metal items underneath the purple Super Soaker website, waterslide and Kingswood nothing going on there, it's weird that they literally leave these Christmas lights on every day, every night, weekdays and all and just even the light show underneath vortex is always going so I thought that was a little weird, there's some new nutcrackers over by the fence that keeps you from going into the behemoth midwage in Winterfest so that's pretty cool and yeah, I think that is it, yeah and then the weird Rutherford construction things underneath Yukon, that is pretty much it, nothing else to talk about so I'm going to end the video right here, I said nothing else to talk about as like literally I didn't realize there's stuff in the parking lot over there, I'll have to stop recording this video and go look at that and I'll update you guys on Twitter if it's anything super exciting, it looks like it was potentially just golf carts and maybe some stuff, I have no idea, anyways, I'll check that out and update you on our Instagram story if it's anything exciting and don't forget to check out the website for our new merch, sent to candles, hope you guys like them, you guys really supported me with our Leviathan inspired designs, a lot of you bought it, it was like my most bought item ever, so really excited about that, I really hope these sent to candles do well especially considering the time of year, feel free to message us on Instagram or comment down below like a sent that you would maybe like for me to craft right now I'm just keeping it to a couple of my favorite things and yeah, super excited, thanks so much for supporting the channel and always being there for me and watching these updates, comment down below what you want our next roller coaster to be at Canada's Wonderland, honestly, your honest opinion, know like what you think it's going to be like what you want, what you want our next roller coaster to be, that's what I want to hear, comment down below, I'll respond to as many comments as possible, and thanks so much for supporting the channel and watching these videos, have a good one guys, bye.


One happened last night. Last night at Netta's concert, I was sitting next to Svaba, and then Svaba just, I looked into her eyes and I could see that she started to get very, very dizzy in the middle of the concert, very, very dizzy and very, very disoriented. And then she told me that after getting really dizzy, then it was like suddenly that the sounds and everything, it was like, it was just like stimulation. And she even tried to just cover her ears because she had reached a stimulation threshold that she was about to pass through. Like any sound, any was overstimulation. And she was right in the middle of the concert, so she just tried to cover her ears. And then as the concert was kind of winding down, I saw her just sitting there still, and she had this look on her face. And then she said, oh, I think I need to go in very slowly. We walked through directly through the flap of the tent and over to the car. I got her into the car, but it just went deeper and deeper as we even drove up here. And by the time we made it over to Angel's Landing, I looked over at her and she was touching the door handle on the inside of the vehicle. Like what is this? She was going into the mystical state where she did not understand. The next step was to pull the knob to go out. And she was just over there like a little child, almost like a baby touching something for the very first time in an exploratory way. She was just touching the handle. And then she slowly got out.  And then I went in to just begin to get ready for bed and everything. She was still out in the hallway that comes in and she had been touching the walls. She was just touching the walls of the hallway. And then at some point she told me that she thought, oh yeah, and she had this thing. It was a purse. But she didn't know what a purse was. And then she kept trying and trying to hang the purse up like she'd do in a natural way to find the hook. And then she told me she finally got it up there, but she didn't know what she'd done. And then she spent more minutes fishing around the hallway for the purse, but she just put the purse on the wall. It was a very faint memory of a purse and that something must be done with this purse, but it was already done, but she didn't know it. And then she came in to where the couches were and she looked at this kind of configuration of couches like she'd never seen anything like it in her life, kind of in a square. And she had it moving very, very, very slowly and then I checked on her a few times. She went off to the kitchen, but she didn't recognize anything in the kitchen. This is where it's all heading. I'm telling you all this just so when it happens you don't freak out.


Hello everyone, so in this part I wanted to show you a tutorial on first thousand days. Now I know that I had taken a live session on first thousand days but since this is the concluding session I want to kind of you know show you the tutorial that we have prepared. It just came out very recently and you know it has come out really well so I thought that I will introduce that tutorial in my last session. As I mentioned to you in first thousand days which starts from conception to two years of age but please do not forget your adolescent and pre pregnancy nutrition also because you know by the time mother comes to you she's already two or three months you know away I mean she's already past two or three months post pregnancy post conception. So do remember that you know pre-conception nutrition, pregnancy nutrition, lactation nutrition, your infant nutrition, your different holes specifically my favorite cross-strel hole and there are other things that you also want to think of like you know what happens if baby falls sick, what happens when baby has diarrhea, you know other nutrients which are important for baby. Zinc is important when baby gets tired. So there are all this important aspect that we have included in first thousand days tutorial so that by two years of age baby is absolutely healthy and you know so and also baby has the full potential to grow as far as height is concerned and also as far as IQ is concerned. Also after this I will discuss few key points as concluding remark so that I will discuss in my next part. Thank you so much. Welcome to the spoken tutorial on the importance of the first thousand days of life. In this tutorial we will discuss the benefits of good nutrition during these days. Also we will learn how to nourish a baby during these days. Some key topics mentioned in this tutorial are explained in other tutorials. Please visit our website for more details. Let us first understand what are the first thousand days of life. The first thousand days of life start on the first day of pregnancy. They end on a child's second birthday. How well a child grows in these thousand days decides the future. If nourished well the child can have a healthy future. Good nutrition is necessary for a child's early development. It plays a foundational role in enabling a child to grow, learn and succeed. Let's discuss the role of nutrition at every stage in the first thousand days. The first stage is pregnancy. The brain of the fetus begins to grow from the third week of pregnancy. Thereafter it develops at a very high speed during the entire pregnancy. Most of the mothers are not even aware of their pregnancy during this time. Therefore all women in their reproductive age should consume nutritious food. It is especially important for women planning a pregnancy. Healthy lifestyle, body fat and muscle percentage before pregnancy are crucial. Adolescent and pre-pregnancy nutrition is explained in other tutorials. Please visit our website for more details.  It is called the myelin sheath. This helps in passing the messages through the brain cells quickly. By seventh month brain of a fetus takes on a form that resembles an adult's brain. In the seventh, eighth and ninth months there is a rapid growth of the fetus's brain. This rapid growth is not possible without one thing. It is the nutrition that a baby gets from the mother's diet. Mother's diet decides the baby's body fat and muscle percentage. It also decides the baby's food preferences. Mother should consume a variety of nutrient dense, local, seasonal foods. Adequate amounts of iron, folate and calcium should be present in her body. Consumption of iodine sources is necessary during pregnancy. She must eat adequate protein, good fats and essential nutrients. Sources of these nutrients are given in other tutorials of the same series. Otherwise vital brain development processes can be impaired. The baby could also have birth defects and cognitive defects. A well-known example is neural tube defects. Folate, B12 and choline are needed for early development of the brain and spine. Mother must take sufficient folate during pre-pregnancy. She should take it in the early weeks of pregnancy as well. Otherwise, the development of the neural tube can go wrong. It leads to birth defects of the brain and spine. The rate of a mother's weight gain during pregnancy decides the baby's health. High weight gain in mothers who are not underweight is not good. It increases the risk of childhood obesity. Obesity during pregnancy puts women at risk for gestational diabetes. This increases the baby's risk to be obese and diabetic later in life. A mother's lifestyle during pregnancy also plays an important role. Severe stress, depression or violence during pregnancy must be avoided. Such negative experiences can deeply affect a developing fetus. Smoking can cause low birth weight or premature delivery. It can also increase the baby's health. It can also increase the baby's risk of obesity later in life. Alcohol and tobacco should not be consumed. Diseases should be prevented or treated immediately to minimize nutrient loss. After the 270 days of pregnancy, infancy is the second stage of the first thousand days. During infancy, the child's brain develops motor functions such as balance. It also develops the ability to create new memories and remember them later. At this stage, proper newborn care is required. Newborn care is explained in detail in other tutorials in the same series. Breast milk is the best food for a newborn's brain development. It contains a variety of nutrients, growth factors and hormones. It is made up of unique components for each mother and her baby. No formula milk available in the market can be the same as mother's milk.  Mother's milk has a high level of DHA and EPA. They are important for brain development of the baby. Exclusive breastfeeding for six months has many benefits. Breastfeeding is associated with an increase in IQ. It is also associated with getting more education and earning a better income. This is true for children and adolescents across all income levels. This brain development is not just because of breast milk. The experience of breastfeeding also contributes to it. Breastfeeding involves plenty of mother-child interaction and nurturing. It helps in strengthening a baby's sensory and emotional control. These are critical for both cognitive and socio-emotional development. To get these benefits, breastfeeding must be done using the proper technique. Next, let's discuss brain development in the toddler stage. A child's brain continues to grow and develop at a rapid pace. During toddlerhood, a child's brain develops the ability to do complex tasks. A toddler's brain is busy forming new connections between the brain cells. At this time, such connections are created faster than at any other time in life. This has many benefits. It helps the child to learn new things faster. It also helps the child to adapt to changing environments and circumstances. In the second year of baby's life, parts of the brain's language areas develop. This leads to a sharp increase in a child's language abilities. It also develops language learning capacity and the ability to learn new skills. Nutrition during this period remains critically important. Protein, iron, zinc and iodine are essential to the toddler's developing brain. Other important nutrients are DHA, EPA, colon, B12, etc. Iron plays a significant role in brain development throughout the first thousand days. Damage caused due to iron deficiency in these thousand days can be irreversible. It leads to impaired learning and socio-emotional behaviour. This includes less social interaction and alertness, increased irritability, increased cautiousness, less interest in indoor and outdoor games. This can reduce the amount of attention and interaction given by caregivers. This further contributes to the poor development of the child. Iron deficiency also appears to affect the chemical substances in the brain. It is associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression later in life. It impacts consequent job potential. Toddlers need to be fed iron-rich foods. Otherwise, they are unlikely to consume enough iron. Hence, after 6 months of age, complementary feeding is necessary. Damage caused by malnutrition in the first thousand days is permanent. It causes loss of IQ. Chronic malnutrition during this critical period leads to stunting. Loss of height or stunting in the first two years of life cannot be reversed. It affects the child's future generations too. Malnourished women give birth to malnourished sons and daughters.  Therefore, they create a continuous cycle of malnourishment. It takes two to three generations to combat stunting in future generations. This is why the average height of a 19-year-old woman in India is only 5 feet. The average height of a 19-year-old man in India is only 5 feet 4 inches. All this can be prevented by improving nutrition during first thousand days. This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Thank you for joining.


I got to tell you I can't stand reality TV shows I really can't stand them And I like that it's now without commercials At least what the channel we were watching on why I was interested in 90-day fiance and and arranged is it's because about Relationships so I actually could get into those from a human behavior perspective But last night the new episode came out and she happens to be at home right now. So we put on what's that we put we put on Video chat we synced up our TVs at the same time and we started to watch the show together Why I'm bringing this up is we both got involved in this show I know people that get involved in a variety of Netflix shows and You look forward to unpacking the show with another person


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Alright, in this video I'm going to give you 5 tricks for keywording your photos for stock photography sites. Now you're not going to be able to find these tips anywhere else because I learned these by looking at my best sellers on stock sites and seeing how buyers found those photos. Let's get into the tricks. Hi, my name is James Wheeler. I made my first stock sale on Shutterstock in August of 2012 and I've been making a passive income from my photos online ever since. You know what? I actually really still like that photo. A lot of my photos from back then I don't like, but this one I really still like. I've got it actually up on my wall. Anyway, it's back to you. Alright, there's two primary ways the buyers are going to find your photos through search engines. The first is the website search engines and that's primarily going to be Google. The second is the stock photo search engines. Now I'm going to cover them both through these trips, but the first trick is really focused on Google. And the trick is that Google can't read your keywords, so you have to focus and add keywords to your caption. Now Google has said that it can read the metadata photos where the keywords are located and it reserves the right to use those for search rankings in the future, but it doesn't use them right now. I don't think they will in the future because it would be too easy to spam. So what does this mean? Well this means that Google really uses the captions. Let me show you some real-life examples of what I mean. So here I am on one of my photos on Shutterstock. And you can kind of see how the page is laid out. My caption is down here. So the Alkylon National Park with red shares before a dramatic sunrise. Now Shutterstock and all the other stock sites, they've really spent a lot of time, a lot of work optimizing their pages for search engines. And they've optimized their pages around the caption. So if you look at the title of this particular page, it is the caption to my photo. If I hover over the photo, I will see that the caption comes up as well. And I've got the caption down here. So this caption is on this page multiple times, whereas the keywords, although they are listed down here below, they are not as prominent. So the keywords really aren't going to be picked up by Google as much as the captions are. So if you go and take a look here, if I go to Google and just type in my caption with the word stock photo on the end, then I go over to the images section. You can see that the first photo there is my photo. Let's go and take a look at another example. If I was to go here and choose this one. So if I grab the caption, Toronto City Skyline Reflection, put stock photo, on the end you can see here that my photo is actually in the first spot as well as in the third spot. So dreamstime is a stock photo site and they obviously optimize their pages a bit better than the other sites. And so they've got number one. I've got I stock photo is number three. So you can see that, you know, having that caption have strong keywords or good keywords in it are definitely will lead to bringing more people to your photos directly if they're looking for them on Google. Now, the reason this is important is that for most of the micro stock sites, you'll get a higher rate when someone goes in and buys a one off photo as opposed to a subscription. For example, on Shutterstock right now, I get $2.70. If it's a photo that is purchased as a one off sale, but it's a subscription, I only get like 33 cents. So it's a significant more. So it's really important to have good keywords in your captions so that your photos rank high on the search engines, which will drive again, higher sales for your stock photos. All right, that brings us to trick number two. Only use relevant keywords and don't worry about maxing out the keywords. Now, what a lot of people think is that because Shutterstock allows 50 keywords, you should have between 40 and 50 keywords on every image. However, that's not always the best approach because of the way that the stock search engines work on Shutterstock and other sites. Let me show you what I mean with a real example. All right, so here I am again at one of my photos on Shutterstock. Now, this particular photo has done consistently well for me for a number of years. Now, what I really want to point out here is just take a look at the caption here. So in this caption, just notice I don't have the word Canada landscape or landscape, but I've got Marine Lake, which is the name of this lake and it's in Banff National Park. And then I've got my keywords down here below. So if I go up here and I type in Marine Lake and I look for that photo, I can scroll down, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. And it's quite a while before that photo comes up. There's a lot of photos of Marine Lake on Shutterstock and a lot of them are ranked higher than this particular photo. But what happens when I go in here and I type in Canada landscape? I don't have to scroll very far before I see that photo coming up. Also, if I type in Canada Lake, scroll down, there's that photo again. So I know from my stats and analytics of Shutterstock that most of the time that this photo sells is people searching for Canada Lake, Canada Landscape or Canada, some sort of other combination, including those types of keywords, not searching on Marine Lake. So why is that? Well, you kind of need to understand about how the search engine works on Shutterstock. So I'm going to massively oversimplify things here. But if you think about what Shutterstock wants to do, they really want to show the buyers the best photos that they're going to want to buy. Okay, so obviously they can use the keywords and captions, but a lot of people are going to have the same keywords and captions. There are thousands upon thousands of photos in Marine Lake that have been uploaded to Shutterstock. So what they do is they also look at other signals. And the other signals, the primarily one is how many times that photo has been sold. Okay, but they don't just look at how many times it's been sold. It's been how many times it's been sold for a particular search. So if someone searches for Marine Lake and then eventually buys a photo, they're probably more likely to buy this one in the top line of Marine Lake than they would in the ones below. Okay, however, if they're searching for Canada Lake, they're more likely to search and find these ones and purchase these ones. So what Shutterstock does is it links not just like the photo to the sale, but it's really the photo to the keyword to the sale. So when you upload a new photo and someone searches it and buys it, you're moving your photos up in the rankings. So what you'll find on stock sites is that once you get a certain number of sales, you will then start getting sales consistently because you'll be very high in the rankings. So why am I then saying you don't need to do 50 keywords? Isn't it obviously then better to have more keywords so there's more chance of you getting ranking? Well, not really because, again, if you think about it from Shutterstock's point of view, if they were only to look at sales, then when new good photos came up, they would never be seen by buyers. And buyers, their collection would start to look very stale to the buyers. They searched for things. They would only see the photos that had the most sales. So what Shutterstock will then do is build them to the algorithm. They will have ways to show other photos to the buyers that are new photos that have been uploaded. And if the Shutterstock of the algorithm sees that those photos start selling, they will move them up in the rankings. And if they see they don't sell them, then they just leave them at the bottom. So it's really important that all your keywords are very relevant. So someone searching for that keyword would potentially buy it because Shutterstock's only going to trial out your photo for so long before they say, you know what? This is not a photo that's going to sell. I'm not going to show it anymore. So as an example, for this particular photo here, if I include the keyword of trees, and this is showing for trees, well, if someone types in trees, they're probably not looking for this photo. Or if someone's even types in landscape trees, they're probably not looking for this photo. They're probably looking for something with more trees in it. So that might not be a good keyword to use. I really want to do the keywords like the name of the place and the things that are most prominent here, as well as the Longdale Keywords, which we'll talk about in a separate tip. So that's why you should really focus on only tagging your photos with the most relevant keywords. Now, if you're going to take a photo and upload it to Shutterstock, there is a very good chance that someone has already taken a photo of that subject or even used that keyword in another photo. And there's also a very good chance that they've already made a sale for that keyword. So based on the way the Shutterstock algorithm works, those photos will always be above yours in the search rankings. And if there's a lot of photos that have had sales for a particular keyword, your new photo, because it has no sales, will be very low in the rankings. And even though it might be the best photo and it might be the photo the buyer wants, they may never see it because they don't scroll down that far. So what do you do to get your initial sales to push yourself up into the initial search pages? Well, I guess you just give up, right? If you go on the internet and look at the comments on blog posts and videos about making money from stock photography, you'll see lots of people tell you that that's the thing you should do. But what I'm saying is that you don't. There is a solution to this and it brings us to trick number three. And that's using long tail keywords to get initial sales. Let me show you what I mean. So when you're coming up with long tail keywords, you really need to think like a buyer who is trying to go and find stock photos for a project.  Now, if you were to do that, you would see a bunch of photos, but you may not see anything you'd like in this initial set. So maybe you would have a more descriptive keyword. So as an example, someone might want something that looks a bit more dramatic. So type in Vancouver, British Columbia. And lo and behold, they get a different set of photos. Now, this second photo here is one of mine. And I know that this does very well for dramatic Vancouver. Okay. And because of that dramatic keyword, this photo was nowhere to be found in the Vancouver, British Columbia search results. So by going and adding that, that long tail keyword of dramatic in there has gotten me a lot more sales for that photo. Another good example here is if I type in logging industry. Okay. So you type in logging industry, if I scroll down here, fairly high up, I've got this photo of mine, of some logs, you know, on a river at sunrise. Now, when I was going through in key rooms, I thought like, what types of people might want to use this, right? And obviously this is a nice photo of logging, you know, all the logs on the river. I've looked around where this photo has been used and it does get quite a few sales. And often where it's used is, it's on actually annual reports of logging companies. So let's say you're in the logging industry and you have an annual report, you need to get a stock photo for those annual reports. And if you look at the other options here, there aren't very visually pleasing photos on the logging industry here. So when they see my photo, they think, well, that's a great one. Why don't I put it on the cover of my annual report? Right. So that's one, again, that's done very well for me. But if I type in the word logging, or if I didn't include the word industry in the keywords, I probably wouldn't get any sales for that at all. Another one here is if I go up and type in Ontario travel destination, okay? So I like to use the word travel. Destination is also a good one to add in. This first photo here is a photo of mine from Niagara Falls. Now there are so many photos of Niagara Falls on Shutterstock that this photo is nowhere to be found. But when you type in Ontario travel destination, it does show up. And this particular photo gets purchased a lot by people typically overseas or in other countries writing about traveling to Ontario. And they come into Shutterstock, type in Ontario travel destination, see this photo, and buy it for their blog post. And I see that a lot. So as you're going through and keywording your photos, obviously, make sure you keep them relevant. It doesn't make any sense to have irrelevant keywords. But think about the different feelings and emotions that someone might have with a photo and add those in as keywords. If there's no people in the photo, add in no person as a keyword because a lot of photos on Shutterstock have people. So if they're looking for a photo without people, add in no person so they find it. Sometimes it's a good idea to add the lens type. If it's like an ultra wide angle shot, someone may be looking for an ultra wide angle shot. So have that as a keyword as well too. So think of those types of keywords. Keep them very relevant, but think about things that people might search on to find your photos. And that is a really good way to bump your photos up in the search rankings when there's a lot of competition for a particular subject. All right. This tip also goes against everything that I read when I first started learning about keywording your photos. And the trick is to don't spend any more time than you want to keywording your photos. Now let me tell you what I mean with this. When I first started keywording my photos and uploading to stock, I read that the keyword was the most important thing. You spent a lot of time thinking and getting the right keywords. And I did and some sales came in. But over time, I really didn't like keywording. Now some people may like keywording and if you do, you can skip this trick. But for me, I really didn't like it. And I found that because of the keywording, I was uploading less and less photos till eventually I found it as a chore and I just didn't want to upload photos anymore. So what I needed to do was take the pressure off myself by just saying, you know what? I'm only going to spend a minute or less than a minute keywording my photos. And if that's enough, it's enough. If it's not, it's not. But at least that got me back into uploading my photos regularly. And you know what I found? When I started uploading photos with keywords that I only spent a minute on, I still made more sales. A heck of a lot more than I did when I wasn't uploading photos. So don't put too much pressure on yourself to keyword photos. Right now, when I upload photos, I spend less than a minute keywording my photos per each photo. And that's enough for me to make stock sales. Now, this kind of leads into the last trick was, which is trick number five, and that's to use tools to help you with keywording. Now, there's a lot of tools out there that you can use to help you keyword your photos and do it more quickly. What I do is in Lightroom, I will keyword my entire shoot with typically the location and some other keywords that apply to the entire shoot. And then what I do is I use AI tools to add the rest of the keywords. Now, the tool that I use is called PhotoLoot, the one that I developed, obviously my favorite. But there's lots of other tools out there. Let me show you how it works. So what I'll do now is let's walk you through a couple of different ways that you can use to keyword your photos with a tool. So I want to use this photo that I took on a recent trip to Hawaii as an example. So there's two different tools that I've developed for keywording photos. The first one is a completely free tool that you don't need to sign up for. And it's called the Instagram hashtag and keyword generator. Now, I'll put a link down in the description. They'll take you directly to this. Kind of on that note, I would be able to put a link in the top right-hand corner of the video to this, but I can't because my channel is not popular enough yet. So if you're finding this video useful, it would be great if you go and give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel because that tells YouTube that people like my videos and they'll let me put things like links directly to the sites that I'm talking about. So what you can do here is come in. I'm just going to grab a photo and drag and drop it into this box. And then what happens is behind the scenes, what I do is I downsize the photo and then I send it to an AI tool that basically takes a look at it and suggests some stock keywords. So it also does hashtags on the right-hand side, which I'm not going to get into in today's video. But over on the left, we have keywords. So you can go through and choose how many keywords you want. 30 would probably be a good number. Typically what I do is I add five or six keywords in Lightroom to the entire shoot and then I'll add additional keywords in here. So the AI tool isn't perfect. You do need to go through and review it, but I typically go through and look at it and I'll see which ones I don't like. And I can click on the X to remove these. I'm like, plant. I probably don't want that. Flying, no. Bay, no. Travel, sitting. No person. That's probably a pretty good one. Man. Standing. And the rest of those are pretty good. So that was well under a minute and I just came up with 30 different keywords. So that's one you can use and I'll have a link down in the description. The other way that I typically use to do my keywords is the main Fortaloo app. So within this app, I can come here and upload the photo. I'll go through this fairly quickly. I have other videos off about how to use Fortaloo. So you can go through and look at those. I'll put some links in the description as well. So you can go here to go to the keyword section. Now this one's a bit more advanced. So I can see here down here, these are the keywords that I had already added to the photo. So what this does, it goes in and reads the keywords from the photo and I can see these ones I already had. So which is great because I have basically the location of the photo. You know, this is in Hawaii, you know, the United States. It was taken at sunrise. And now I can just go through and choose the keyword to the top. So I can go through and just accept all the keywords or I can click on them individually. What I'm going to do is I'll just go through and look at them, I'll probably X out the ones that I don't like, like coast, plant, island maybe bay, yeah. Those ones all look pretty good and I'll just accept those. Okay, so that was 20 keywords. Now I can go through and choose some more. I'll take sure. These ones I'll actually just go through and grab them individually. And that's probably good. I would probably say that's about 35 keywords. That's enough for me. So those are two ways that you can use tools to very quickly add relevant keywords to your photos to kind of help with your stock sales. And that's it. That's my five simple checks for key reading your photos for stock sites. Now, if you have any questions about anything I went over or any ideas for future videos, put them in the comments down below. If you found this useful, make sure you go ahead and like it as well as if you want to learn more about how much money I've made selling my photos online. I've got a video on that and I'll put a link to that up here somewhere. Also, if you want to learn about Forlew and my workflow and how I can upload to multiple sites really quickly, I've got a video on that as well and I'll put a link to that down here somewhere. Best of luck selling your photos online.


Though it is unclear how and when the practice of controlling the masses began, there is no doubt that even in the today and now we are a controlled society by a wealthy elite. You and I are simply the cogs and pulleys that keep everything ticking over. There are translations from ancient text that suggest that we are a civilization created for the purposes of carrying out work on the earth for the benefit of a completely different race of beings who came here to the earth for gold and other resources. The Anunnaki are no longer present here on the earth in any visible presence, but their methods of social control remains and we human beings are hardwired to follow these processes. This is why we work, rest and play. The Anunnaki gave us structure in return for these fundamental values they are worshipped as gods. But the case of a few benefiting from the many has spread into human culture. When these gods left after the great flood, faith in their return remained and this left the door open for that void to be filled from Mesopotamia into Egypt and Greece and eventually leading to the rise of the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church. People needed a purpose and efforts were put in place by the survivors of the flood to reestablish this order and this led to kingship, royalty and eventually governments. These were the practices of old repurpose when the Anunnaki left. Now at this point you guys are probably wondering where we're going with this right? The point we are making is that a more advanced society of that than our own has existed above us on this planet before and this practice is remembered as something good and when Columbus sailed for the Americas he knew this fine well. Wait till you hear this. When the king of Spain funded Columbus's expedition to India in 1492 he had no idea that what lay ahead would be considered the greatest surprise in human history. The discovery of America by European adventurers who had no idea it was there you see. There was an old myth that you could fall off the edge of the world at this time so nobody really dared go that far. We only knew about three continents just over 500 years ago Asia, Europe and Africa. But when he was stranded in Jamaica during his fourth such voyage he used his intelligence to impress the local residents. He used his foreknowledge of a lunar eclipse to fool the natives of Jamaica and to provisioning his men. Knowledge is power when dealing with a less advanced society and these people had no qualms about using advanced predictions of celestial events like eclipses to con the natives. After the American colonies had broken away Britain still fought a long regarded action trying to undermine the fledgling United States in whatever way possible. Knowledge of an impending total solar eclipse due to cross North America in 1806 provides an example. As the settlers gradually moved west the indigenous people were resentful with good reason. British agents in Canada seemed to have convinced against the Yankees by telling the Shawnee tribe of Ohio and Indiana when the eclipse would occur and their leaders used this to stir an uprising saying that a sign was due from the Great Spirit in the sky. It all ended in tears at the battle of Tipi Canoe in 1811 but the eclipse provided the focus. According to the Guardian Mark Twain seems to have known of this episode and used it as a basis for a segment of his 1889 novel, a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Reversing the Shawnee episode Twain has Hank Morgan, the Yankee in the title, hoodwinking the ignorant folk in King Arthur's England by invoking prior knowledge of a solar eclipse due in June of 528. Even stating the precise time of totality he used his imagination though there was no eclipse around that epoch. Christopher Columbus on the other hand on his fourth transatlantic voyage had been stranded with his men on the north coast of Jamaica. Their last two ships riddled with marine worms. Having sent a small party to Spanish occupied Hispaniola a hundred miles to the east paddling Canoe's hewn from local timber Columbus awaited rescue but their food had run out and the Jamaicans who had been pleased to provision them when they first arrived had tired of the trinkets the Spaniards could offer in exchange. Luckily Columbus had astronomical tables with him which indicated a lunar eclipse was due on February 29th. Calling the local chiefs together Columbus gravely told them that the god of the Christians was all powerful and very displeased with the Jamaicans refusal to keep them fed and as a sign of his wrath the moon would be darkened and turn the color of blood that evening. Many of the natives laughed although others were not so sure however all were convinced when the eclipse began as Columbus had told him it would. To add to the effect Columbus retired to his cabin to consult with God and ask him to withdraw his sign or so the Admiral told them. In fact he was timing the eclipse with his sand glass reemerging at the appropriate juncture. The outcome was as Columbus had anticipated convinced of the power of this God the Jamaicans fell to their knees begging forgiveness. The stranded Europeans did not want for anything again before their rescue six months later. This is the same as with the cargo cults of the 20th century when the mighty naval vessels of World War II gathered in the small islands with indigenous tribes. They seen these mighty things as the vessels of the gods and when cargo was dropped by plane onto the island they seen this as gifts from the gods. We will leave it at that for the moment guys and we do hope that you enjoyed this video. Sign the comments section below and let us know your thoughts on the matter and as always thank you for watching.


Okay, so welcome once again, we will begin with the word of prayer Would like to request Anyone in the class to pray that to bless this time of studying God's word So anyone just feel free and meet yourself and please leave in prayer, please Okay, who is able to lead? I will pray Okay, yes Kiran Father God we just coming for you once again you're thrown father God father God thanking you for the old days father God thanking you the weekend thanking you the class thanking you the Family and everything father God thanking you father God father God best each and every student Also, man father God and whatever we are just going to learn father God help us to understand father God Give you wisdom knowledge and understanding father God that we can receive and we can apply to our You kingdom work father God for the God thanking you the moment and time for the upcoming time I'm just submitting to your hand. You just take care of every side Almighty Jesus name we pray amen Amen. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Kiran so we've been going through the the Recall it gospel. Yeah gospel of John and we are looking at the Eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus We've seen how he went about Doing his miraculous works manifesting his glory and you know, we saw how the works that he did where Received by some people but a lot of people were actually offended by his works They were offended by his words and we saw how Jesus was talking to them trying to convince them in the last chapter John chapter 7 we saw how people there are trying to Give him different names Trying to assess who he was and then know his identity But you know, Jesus was quite firm in saying that he's related to the father and that he is the son of God So we'll continue and see what goes on because still now the work of Jesus is becoming very clear The Jews are getting very angry with him and in fact, they are waiting for an opportunity to kill him And the last chapter we also saw that when the Jews Wanted to get a hold of Jesus Even though, you know, it was possible for them to Put him in trial and then proceed to killing Jesus the time was not perfect I so there are many other things that God really wanted to Release through the life of Jesus. So Jesus said my time has not yet come like even if you want to kill me This is not the Moment in which my end is going to occur. So Jesus continuously Went on doing his work and he was very bold about his identity and he was very bold about his relationship with the father And he proceeded with his work So now we are in John chapter 8 and we'll see what works. He has what You know claims about himself. He makes because so far We've seen that you know, he is revealing his identity and particularly when he talks about his Relationship with the father, you know, he is Claiming that he is God. He's dating. So even in John chapter 8 We will see one incident but that incident leading to questions and the responses of Jesus The Jesus has been claiming so far that he is the son of God. So here also boldly He's going to make some claims. Okay, when we say claim it's like saying, you know Owning up owning up to something. So if I say That I am the owner of this house or you know, I am the Air of this house. I'm making a claim, you know, and I'm staking my claim and I'm saying that this is true Okay, I believe it. This is true. I own this. So Jesus is going to make some claims some statements through which he's going to show that he is God and That you know, he is in authority. So let's go to John chapter 8 in our notes You can actually refer to and during word of David cozy, which I've already posted on our Stream page for the online students and for the learning students. There is a mention of this in our You know the document that I've posted about the syllabus So you can use that as one of the main commentaries But of course you can you're free to refer to many other commentaries on the book of John So mainly we are looking, you know, some of the insights that I've been sharing so far from that Commentary also. Okay, so you could look at that or just you know turn to the Chapter John chapter 8 in the Bible Okay, so here We saw in John chapter 7 that Jesus was in Jerusalem Okay, he attended the Feast of Tabernacles when he talked about the Holy Spirit that would be released on Holy Spirit which we poured out on the people and the Holy Spirit which you know indwells the believer After the baptism that it can also flow out like a river blessing the lives of the People around so he saw that now Where is Jesus? Jesus is in Jerusalem That's very clear because he went up for the Feast of Tabernacles now Jesus now, you know He's in that area. He's still in that area even though it was not safe because the Jews were slowly plotting to kill him so it wasn't a Very conducive environment, but he stays on in Jerusalem for some more time And you know, we know that Jesus was led by the Father And he wanted to do the works of the father So I'm sure that you know, he knew that there was something more to be done In Jerusalem before he proceeded and you know moved off to other places So let's see so we see here at the very beginning of John chapter 8 that he went to the Mount of Olives Now early in the morning He came again into the temple and all the people came to him and he sat down and taught them So we see the boldness of Jesus, you know Jesus would have Been attacked by the Jews quite a lot and yet he's continuing with his teaching He's continuing with this worker ministry. So what is he doing in the temple? He's spending time with people. He's imparting from the word of God into their lives He's strengthening them in the faith. So he's doing his work So shows his attitude of boldness in the midst of opposition now when he is continuing this We noticed that the scribes and Pharisees scribes and Pharisees are the so-called Custodians of the of the law because they they used to keep the law and They used to teach the law. They used to propagate the law So these are the people who who felt that they know so much about God's word So these people know they come and what they're doing right now is they're bringing a woman who's caught in adultery and When they bring her to Jesus They are asking him this question they said to him teacher This woman was caught in adultery in the very act Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned But what do you say? This day said testing him that they might have something of which to accuse him But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger as though he did not hear so Now what's happening is Part of the plot of catching Jesus was to You know traffic So this was a trap They bring a woman who was caught in adultery And based on the law Moses they're asking him whether they should go ahead and stone her because she is guilty now so if Jesus Says yes He is upholding the law of Moses if Jesus says no then he's not upholding the law of Moses. So then they can immediately Accused him and say oh, how can you be from God? Oh, you've claimed to be from the father, but you're not upholding the law of Moses So that was the trick they wanted to see what Jesus is going to say now Jesus also knew no and it says that a woman who is caught in our beltry in the very act so it's little funny because They brought One person who's engaged in the sin, but the other person is not there as if you know It was only the woman who was engaging in the act of adultery So it shows us right there that the way the the scribes and Pharisees planned this was also something very Unusual because they must have caught the couple and brought the couple to Jesus Maybe with a married or it was a act of fornication. We don't know whatever it was So the couple should have been brought but when they bring only the woman like Jesus also probably understood that Something fishy about this. So we don't know if that that woman was kind of I mean, obviously, you know, they're saying that she was caught in the act of adultery So that is a sin no doubt But the way the trap was made for the woman. We are not very clear who knows maybe You know one of one of the scribes or somebody set up this whole situation And then they wanted to catch only the woman and bring her and accuse her so Jesus is mindful of the dignity of the woman while he is not condoning the sin because if he were to condone the sin He could have easily said, okay, let her go It's okay. Forget it.  So If you were to say that yeah stoner Then we realize that there's no sensitivity in the way he has assessed this You know this this simple act that has taken place. So on the one hand He has to uphold the law on the other hand He has to be fair in the way he judges the situation. So what is Jesus going to do? Okay, so that was exactly the kind of scene that the Leaders wanted to set for Jesus to trap him So here is Jesus and you see that when he is told about the situation He is writing something on the ground. Okay, and a lot of Historians theologians wonder what was Jesus writing apparently some Commentaries they say that he was drawing something on the ground now we don't have clarity on what he wrote on the ground but He was meddling, you know, he was he was writing something It could have been some text that he wrote or it could have also been, you know Something that he was sketching or drawing on the ground We are not clear about that and we don't know what the implication of that would be on this particular matter But the way he Responded that is quite clear. He responded as a to say that you know As if he didn't hear they're coming So seriously to get a Judgment on the matter, but when he's carelessly, you know, when somebody's talking to us and I'm just like reading my Bible It's as if I'm not listening to them.  So that is his attitude now When they were continuing to ask him, okay What he did is he just stood up. So he's speaking to them I to I now for a while He was not looking I to I now he's looking I to I he stood up He raised himself up and said to them So he is giving them a response on this particular matter So he says he goes without sin among you Let him throw a stone at her first Okay. Now We as God's people when we hear the words of Jesus, we are amazed What a what a wise way to deal with the situation, you know, we could go back to the way Solomon used to answer the difficult Probe, you know that the problems which would be brought to him to waste all the mood would answer And display the wisdom of God even in the life of Jesus when he is dealing with these difficult Circumstances, we are able to see the wisdom of God unfolding So look at this statement.  What is it's going to be but Jesus uses a statement and he says He was without sin among you. Let him throw a stone at her first So they are stuck now because the answer to this question is nobody is without sin Okay, so Obviously They cannot throw a stone because they are all guilty Okay Now is the woman guilty or not? Now that issue was not Undressed by this because Jesus sort of covered her up Is she guilty or not guilty? That's not the question anymore If you are sinless, you take a stone and you you throw it at her first Okay, so What happens they it's like G they are trying to trap Jesus Jesus has trapped them with this one statement and Again, he goes back to the ground and you know, he's just doing this thing as if yeah, okay Continue continue with your arguments. I told you what I need to tell and this one Statement of wisdom will take care of the situation So now what happens? Those who heard it they got convicted by their conscience because they knew that Nobody was authorized to Throw a stone at her because anybody If they did it, you know the neighbors would look at them and be like How can you be such a liar? everyone has sinned so nobody is authorized to throw a stone at her and I'm firm that she is guilty. So then what happens? One by one Okay, they are convicted in their conscience and Each one of them started going out. Okay, so they all left they all left the scene now Jesus was left alone and here is the Sinful woman standing in front of Jesus Now this is what Jesus tells her did Jesus condone her sin No, he never said you're not guilty She was caught in the act of adultery. So she's as guilty as the man involved So Jesus knew that this is sin and he cannot Try to make it better for this woman So he did not let her go scot free for sure Okay, but what did he do when all the people left the scene? No, he tells her When all the people left the scene the woman is standing Jesus is standing and Again, you know Jesus raises himself up meaning he spoke I do I to all the men They left the scene now. He's speaking to the woman I do I and he's telling her Woman Where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you So in a way, it's like him preserving her dignity Okay, so he's dealing with her in a gentle way though She's a sinner. He deals with her in a very very dignified way. So she says no one Lord And Jesus said to her Okay Neither do I condemn you go and sin no more Okay, now we might also wonder why is it that Jesus didn't take a stone and you know stoned her Okay, but then see the question was not for himself He didn't say that I will throw the stone if she's guilty But he had presented it to the to the people who are watching so it was not for him to take up a stone and throw It and accuse her But you notice he tells her Go and sin no more. It's as if to say You have sinned Okay, he didn't throw a stone at her, but he Acknowledged the sin and he said you're not you're not guilt-free. You have sinned. So this is what I want to tell you You have sinned, but I will not condemn you Go and sin no more. So Jesus understands that Everyone right we have to live our lives righteously before God What he said it convicted the people who came to trap Jesus and here he is Speaking a word to this woman was she convicted? No, we don't read that, you know She left or she said oh, yes, Jesus none of that. We don't read all that but obviously, you know His word would have committed her heart. No If this case were assessed and they would have found out that yeah, she's an adulteress or whatever whatever situation happened That simple situation happened The woman would have definitely been convicted just like the accusers Okay, so Jesus dealt very beautifully with the situation He dealt fairly with the situation and at the same time he did not approve of the sin Okay, and that reveals to us how he was moving about by the wisdom of God in his life and really, you know in a Setting now when people are doing the works of God today, you and I we are doing the works of God No, just as he is we should be in this world and as we do the works of God There will be a lot of opposition that could be people who try to trap us with words. They try to trap us with situations But look at Jesus. He was bold enough to continue his work. Well, he went back to the temple He was doing his teaching work and all that because he knew about the times so You know, he knew that these people cannot trap him and kill him right now There is more time available for him to do the ministry So he was very sensitive about the calendar of the father and at the same time to wisdom of God through his life where He knew exactly how to deal with a sticky situation So when we go through sticky situations, so he must pray must ask God Okay, God, what do we do now because if you say this then we are in trouble if you say something else We are in trouble. Okay, but just the right statement Jesus put forward and he dealt fairly in every sense So we too can flow in the wisdom of God. This wisdom comes through The practice of God's word through our lifetime. We are studying God's word applying his word That brings us into a place of wisdom. You know how to apply the word You can walk in the fear of God, you know scripture says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom So when we do that there is wisdom in our lives and at the same time we have the Anointing of the Holy Spirit so at times when we don't know what to answer, you know, the Holy Spirit can impart things into us and Suddenly, you know word comes out of our mouth and we are only surprised. Wow How did I say that you know? It could be the working of the Holy Spirit who gives us the right answer for that moment and Jesus told us right that We must not worry and when we are questioned particularly when we are questioned, so That's the manner in which Jesus is actually dealing with this situation. So now let's just continue I'll just drink a little bit of water. I don't know why I'm having a little bit of issue here So, please give me a moment. Sorry Yeah Almost regular throat issues now, but I think it's getting better. I'm sorry about that everyone Okay, so we saw how we dealt with the situation now Proceeding forward. What is the scenario that Jesus is in? Excuse me, it's one of opposition Yeah, so the Pharisees kid a day Continue to oppose him. So now they are coming back to Jesus and They're saying see you're talking all these things but Whatever witness you're bearing till now you're saying that you know the father And the father and you are one but they say that Your witness is not true Okay, you're bearing witness of yourself and your witness is not true We are not going to agree that you are from the father So here is Jesus's response to Jesus answers them and he says that Even if I bear witness of myself my witness is true But I know where I came from and where I'm going you see these are all the claims I told you know Jesus start clean that he's God that he's one with the father Okay, he does only what the father tells him to do and and things like that. So he is very clearly expressing to the Pharisees that he is the son of God that he is the Messiah But we've talked about the hardness of their hearts, right? We said when they saw the miracles instead of being amazed about the miracles that questions were more about Who is this man who healed you? Why is he doing this on the Sabbath day? So hard heartedness so they are coming with a hard heart before Jesus. So they are looking at Jesus Jesus said that If you don't believe me, it's fine believe the works I can't believe the works because they bear witness of me And now these people they are saying that what witness are you bearing? Your witness is false So Jesus, you know, he's so bold in making the claim. He says I told you to believe at least the witness of the works They're not even ready to believe that. So let me tell you I Don't even need a witness. So he says If I bear witness of myself, you think I don't need another person or I don't need anything else to help me prove to prove that I am I'm The son of God, even if I stand by myself, whoever I am the person that I am No, my witness is true So he's come to that place where he's very bold before the Jews and he says my witness is true And now he's not missing words. He's not confusing the people. He's telling them. I Know where I came from. So what is he saying? He's saying I am God I have come from heaven and he continues to add to that and he says I know where I am going. So The Jews must have understood the point Here is a man. He's claiming to be God. He's saying I came from heaven. I'm going back to heaven I'm the Messiah, but You do not know where I come from and where I'm going you judge according to the flesh and I judge no one And yet if I do judge my judgment is true for I am not alone. So he's just claiming that You know, I am Firm in myself and who I am that is Witness enough that I am from God and he says that generally it is said that you need two witnesses, okay to Prove that something is true. That's what the Old Testament says But Jesus is saying I by myself. I can give you the confirmation that I am the Messiah But if you want one more witness, okay, again, it is like We say right rocking the boat Things are very much at peace, but you say something which which makes things worse or more difficult So Jesus is saying over here That was 18. He says I am one who bears witness of myself and the father who sent me bears witness of me So you want one more witness, isn't it? Okay. Here is the other witness the father Distant how furious the the Jews would have been They are not very upset.  So we were very very angry So they ask him the next question now. We must understand that in their community, okay? To ask a question like Where is your father? Okay, it was insulting Disrespectful because that is to kind of doubt Whether you are a legitimate child It's to say that oh, you're born out of sin or something like that So it was not a good question to ask anybody but this is what the Leaders, you know, the London men, Pharisees, scribes, the people against Jesus, they are asking him now They're very upset with him. So they are asking where is your father? Okay, so that's a very offensive question, which they are asking him and Jesus answered He he tells them, you know, neither me nor my father If you had known me, you would have known my father also. So Jesus's response is also very firm Authoritated and it's like he's giving them a rebuttal for the the offensive question, which they have asked. So They might have expected. What is he going to say? You know, he might say my father is a carpenter His name is Joseph. Okay, but also, you know, we know that there are speculations about the birth of Jesus because the Incident right when the angel comes to Mary and says you know the child and Give him the name Jesus Jesus was born of the part of the Holy Spirit. So who is the father? Earthly father. Yes, Joseph was the was the earthly caretaker of Jesus But Joseph was not the real father of Jesus. So Is Jesus giving the right answer to their question, it sounds like he's trying to offend them But this is the truth. He asked the question. So he's giving them the truth. He's saying look God the father, he is my father and you don't even know him, right? Because if you had known me or if you are accepting of who I am, you know You would also know my father, but you are not accepting of me. So Why do you even ask this question about my father? So in this way, you know Jesus spoke and he just it's like they are trying to rock Jesus's boat He is giving them, you know bang bang. He's giving them answers and for a moment. It is Taking care of the situation. They tried to trap him with that adulterous woman He took care of the situation now They asked who is your father? He took care of the situation and he is continuing with God's work. Okay? And that is his priority. He's here to do God's work. So he's he also knows the timing. This is not the time these people will try to Say a lot of things, but they won't be able to get me.  You cannot come. So he is referring to his Redemptive work on the cross which he's going to do very soon and he knows that he's going to heaven but also knows the hearts of the people we know already that Many of them many of them they didn't believe many of them who used to believe left him So that was the scene So he is looking at those who don't believe and he's saying you will die in your sin So he is kind of making a connection and saying look if you believe The sin in our lives can be dealt with the sin can be taken away the sin can be Cleansed we can be cleansed of our sin. So again the claims of Jesus I said even there are some direct claims where he says I am the but in other things what Jesus does is he basically says that you know in an indirect way or You have to understand what he's saying to recognize the claim but he is claiming that he is the Messiah again He's saying that you know I am going away Where I go you cannot come in indirect ways. He's claiming and he's the Messiah. So the Jews said What does he mean, you know that he is going away? Is it that he is planning to come in suicide? He's saying I'm going away. No, so you see they they were Listening to Jesus, but they were not understanding No Understanding believing these are the things that Jesus wants. He just does not want listening or listening also is a little more Deeper thing but hearing no hearing means It falls on your ears and it doesn't make any sense and that is the kind of audience that Jesus is dealing with here When he says I'm going away. Look at the question. They're asking you seem to come in suicide Because he says where I go you cannot come. What is this? So they are lacking understanding They're lacking that ability to listen. What what is the see listen is? when somebody is talking They are trying to make a point That is listening But what is hearing? But you said you said you're going away somewhere from beneath. I am from above You are of this world. I'm not of this world. It's a claim It's not direct, but it is indirect. So he's saying I'm the Messiah. I'm from heaven You are from earth, but I'm from heaven.  So so unfortunate, right that even today there are lots of people They know about Jesus. They hear about Jesus They hear the words of Jesus That is not enough No, superficially knowing Jesus said this Jesus. This is how he lived his life. He did the miracles But what is the need?  Actually, no, he's being very kind to them because he's trying to pull them To understand that you need salvation Stop resisting stop being hard hearted If you don't believe, you know, you need to see that I'm the Messiah You cannot save yourself from your sin.   I'm the Messiah then Still they have a hard heart. So what are they saying? After saying so much Who are you?  No, they come to the question about his Very identity. I've heard his words. They have seen his works. They know where he comes from They've heard his claims. I've heard his witness so much evidence They are questioning his very identity and you see who are you? Insult, okay. Jesus is dealing with like very very severe Condemnation and pulling down. So let's see how he deals with it. So Jesus says Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. So just because you are trying to Make me uncomfortable.  I am that same person So he's saying that I have many things to say and to judge concerning you but he who sent me is true And I speak to the world most things which I have heard from him again No, he is Connecting himself to the father and he's saying I have come from the father and you know I'm speaking what the father is telling me to speak So once again when he's talking about the father, they did not understand that He spoke to them about the father. They must have thought I Speak to the world those things which I heard from him.  Some things Joseph told him that he's coming and telling us. So it's you know, it's like the blindness The blindness which is that in the world, you know That scriptures also talk about how Satan makes the hearts of the people Unreceptive the eyes spiritual eyes are blinded. So the truth is in front of them Jesus is in front of them he's speaking his his You know truth to them, but they are not able to receive and it's very sad Sometimes I wonder if we were there When Jesus lived, you know, which category would we fall in would we be Like those disciples who believed immediately, you know, they believe Or would we be among those who are struggling? Is he a teacher? Is he a prophet? Is he a messiah? Would we be in that category or would we be among the scribes and the Pharisees? We are receiving all the information we need, but They did not understand Okay, and For for us, maybe we don't understand how people can be so hard-hearted. Now, let's move on. So Jesus sees that hard-heartedness and There's a drop in my connectivity. Anyway, I'll just continue. Let's finish that portion. So I was saying that Jesus responds and he says when you lift up the son of man, then you will know that I am he Okay, so Then you will know that I'm he and that I do nothing of myself But as my father taught me I speak these things and he who sent me is with me The father has not left me alone for I always do those things that pleased him as he spoke these words Many believed in him.  No, some people Wonder whether this is about exalting Jesus because when we praise him and we worship and we adore no We are lifting up Jesus. So Is that what he's saying when we lift up Jesus that one will come to know that he truly is the son of God? But here most specifically he's referring to his Crucifixion on the cross, you know because on the cross, what would they do? They would crucify a person and they would kind of you know Make that cross stand and also they would Make a public spectacle right of that individual so being lifted up in that sense or being Put out there Publicly on display. So Jesus is referring to his very painful death on the cross And he's saying look when I do that work that the father has called me to do Then you will know that I am he he meaning the Messiah and that I do nothing of myself Obviously, that's a very difficult Assignment, which the father has given him. So unless he is committed to the father No, why would any human being agree to go through such a painful? end But only because his life was consecrated only because his life was dedicated to God You see that he is committed to that One assignment and task which the father has mainly sent him here for so he's saying when I do that That time you will understand that I am from the father and again, you know the remaining things we can talk about every small portion here for hours together But I'm just trying to avoid that You go back and meditate on on these scriptures because there's just so much this is saying in these statements in this passage He's again trying to connect himself to the father and he's trying to reveal That he has a personal relation with Jehovah God, which again is offensive for the They must have been very very offended to listen to the way Jesus is Identifying himself because what question that latest question to Jesus? Who are you? So he's saying I'm the Messiah I'm the son of the father and you have to believe in me. Okay, so with this Let's just take a break right now. We'll stop we will come back and we will continue from here. So ten minutes Yeah, it's nine forty nine. So how about we come back at Okay, let's then let's come back at 11 o'clock. Okay. Thank you