Good evening. Welcome back everyone. It's good to see you. Thankful for our Sunday evening service. Thankful to be back with you and back in the word of God. Our sermon this morning, this evening, the practice of church discipline. We're in the study of the essentials. So working through part two of the essentials, dealing with the doctrine of the church, one sermon, one subject, as we say, essential to the maturity, growth, health of the Christian. And so now in our study of ecclesiology in part two, we come to the practice of church discipline. Turn with me in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter five, 1 Corinthians chapter five. What I'd like to do tonight is just give you a basic overview of this. It's probably been a little while since we've gone through an overview of this subject. This is something that we're familiar with in our church in terms of practice. But it's been a little bit since we've had an opportunity to consider an explanation or an overview of its biblical basis. And that is the practice of church discipline. Our text, 1 Corinthians chapter five, verses six through 13. So hear the word of God with me. In verse six, your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. I wrote to you in my epistle, not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or idolaters. Since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother who is sexually immoral or covetous or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? Those who are outside, God judges. Therefore put away from yourselves the evil person. This is the word of God, amen. Amen, let's pray together. Father in heaven, very grateful to you for how clear and instructive your word is with respect to these practices in your church. We're very grateful, Lord, that you've outlined this very clearly for us because apart from good, clear instruction from your word, we confess and acknowledge, Lord, we'd have difficulty. And so we need your help. We want to understand our responsibilities with respect to this practice. We want to be faithful to you in this, knowing, Lord, that you love your church far more than we do, Lord, and we love your church. We're so grateful for it, grateful for her. And Lord, we want to be faithful to you in this practice, knowing that it's for our good and for your glory. So help us, Lord, to understand. Help us to consider the seriousness of this, the weight of this, the necessity of this, our responsibilities to these things, and help us, Lord, to live faithfully as members of the household of God, living for you, doing what you've called us to do in love for the sake of your body, the church. And pray these things in Christ's name, amen. The time of our sermon this evening, the practice of church discipline, our primary text, First Corinthians, chapter five, verses six through 13. Well, tonight in our study of the essentials, we're gonna be talking about the subject of church discipline. And the practice of church discipline might be thought by some to be an antiquated relic of a bygone age, not overly popular in our day and age today, and embarrassing anachronism to most, better left in the dark corner of Christian history alongside inquisitions and witch trials. It's the way that most people would view this subject. In our day, it's seldom, if ever, that you actually hear of a church practicing any form or degree of church discipline. It's exceedingly rare. Confrontation at any level is simply not an option for most people. It's to be avoided, as they would say, avoided at all costs, despite the obvious scriptural commands to the contrary. We live in a day and age where people don't like to get invested into one another's lives. We don't like confrontation. And so most people would just choose rather to take the easy way out and avoid confrontation at all costs. And that means avoiding church discipline. A vast majority of pastors today don't make it a regular practice to have meaningful relationships with the people in their churches, meaningfully involve themselves in the lives of any church members. And so they will certainly avoid involving themselves in the lives of those who actually need correction or rebuke or reproof or instruction or exhortation or even encouragement. There's scarcely today, if you've listened to many sermons, there are scarcely today any of that kind of correction going on in the pulpit. And so as you can imagine, there'd be much less of that kind of correction going on face to face and heart to heart where the Lord intends us to start. So if someone causes trouble, for example, and they believe that some type of accountability can't be avoided, then maybe, if accountability can't be avoided, if a conversation can't be avoided, then they'll meet, they may talk about it behind their back, they may talk about it in their staff meetings, and then when it gets really bad, when they can't avoid that person, they'll send that person an email and hope they just leave the church, right? That's the way, most frankly, that is the way most church discipline today is taken care of. There's simply an email and a hope the problem will just disappear and go away. When there's so much good that the Lord intends that could be done, if you and I would be faithful to obey God's word in this practice of church discipline, there's so much good that the Lord intends, so much grace at work by His Spirit through this practice when a church is invested in one another's lives and they labor in this practice of church discipline when they endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Now there are so many examples I can think of in our own experience over the years of the neglect of this necessary practice, marriages in real peril, real peril, the elders of the church refuse to deal with the sin to save the marriage and it just gets worse, right? Ongoing fornication, these are real examples, ongoing fornication that leads to pregnancy for a baptized member of the church and no conversation takes place, much less any kind of practice of faithful accountability or church discipline. A serial predator adulterer is put out of our church under discipline, goes down the road to another Reformed Baptist church who welcomes him in. I see a picture of him with his arm around another sister in that church. I warned the pastor, they knew nothing about it, he commits adultery with her. Elders accuse a brother of division, won't talk to him, they send him an email. We put a man out of the church under discipline after a year long process of dealing with his unrepentant drug use, he's being discipled by the pastor of another Reformed church six months later. A professing Christian woman leaves her professing Christian husband, goes down the road to another Reformed Baptist church who welcomes her in, they refuse to do anything about it and the marriage ends in divorce. You can see in the wake of this neglect, in the wake of a lack of faithfulness in practicing church discipline and doing what the Lord has simply called us to do, we see destruction and division and discord and disharmony and problems left and right. The abhorrent list goes on and on and on all because of a lack of attention to, a lack of faithfulness in the practice of church discipline. And if the leadership of the church won't get to know the people, right? If the leadership won't invest in the lives of the people, won't lovingly confront, convince, correct, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and teaching, as Paul tells us to do, if they won't faithfully deal with this sin then the people certainly won't do it. We need good examples, we need faithful leaders. And listen, superficiality is easy. Meaningful, accountable relationships are hard work. And we, don't we, tend toward being easy, tend toward taking the easy road out. Taking the easy road out, being superficial in our relationships, being superficial in our interaction with one another, neglecting confrontation or neglecting church discipline is a form of man-pleasing. It's a form of the fear of man, fueled by a fear of man rather than fueled by a fear of God. And Paul says, if I still pleased men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. It reminds me in the Old Testament example of Eli, where Eli refused to restrain the sin of his sons.  Well, brothers and sisters, may it never be that we esteem one another, esteem someone else more highly than God. That God has admonished us, has commanded us in this good practice. You and I, for the sake of the Lord's church, for faithfulness of the Lord, out of love for the Lord, and out of love for the Lord's people, we need to be faithful in this practice of church discipline. The record of feckless failure in this practice has not been the history of Baptist churches. There's a record of faithfulness in this amongst the Baptist churches. It really has been in recent history that this practice has fallen out of faithfulness, fallen out of favor. That's not been the case in our history. God's people have long recognized the biblical mandate that we have in the church for accountable relationships in church discipline. Our forebears staunchly held to the necessity for discipline in the Lord's church and thought the practice of church discipline was one of the marks of a true church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Apart from a faithful practice of church discipline, you don't have a true church. Listen to this, the Belgic Confession, 1561, that's shortly after the beginning of the Reformation, in Article 29 of the Belgic Confession, of the marks of the true church, wherein she differs from the false church, listen to what the confession states. We believe that we ought diligently and circumspectly to discern from the Word of God, which is the true church? Why? Since all sects, those churches in error, which are in the world, assume to themselves the name of the church, right? So what's the situation that they're addressing? We need to diligently, circumspectly, wisely discern from the Word of God, what's a true church? Why? Because there are all kinds of groups out there, sects out there who claim for themselves the name of church that aren't true churches. How do we tell the difference? The confession goes on to say this. The marks by which the true church is known are these. If the pure doctrine of the gospel is preached therein, if she maintains the pure administration of the sacraments as instituted by Jesus Christ, and if the church practices discipline, if church discipline is exercised in the punishing of sin, in short, if all these things are managed according to the pure Word of God, all things contrary thereto are corrected, and Jesus Christ acknowledged as the only head of the church, this is the mark of a true church. You see, of those listed, of those marks listed was the practice of church discipline. Stephen Davie, in his primer on church discipline, asks this, what can the average church today claim in relation to these three distinctives? First, the preaching of doctrine, pure doctrine, has all but disappeared from pulpits. The average ministry expounds on life and illustrates occasionally with scripture rather than expounding the scriptures illustrating occasionally from life. Second, attention to the ordinances of the church is woefully lacking. They're meaningless any longer, mindless, heartless rituals. And finally, the final distinctive of a biblical church is virtually forgotten, the practice of church discipline. The average church has never practiced church discipline and the subsequent restoration process of a prodigal saint now reconciled is all but forgotten. The professing church today virtually never practices church discipline. It really is rare to come across a church that is faithful in this work, this good work, this necessary work. The absence or the neglect of this healing grace, this healing balm in the Lord's church in our day has left unchecked a spreading and a deadly malignancy. That combined with a deplorable neglect of sound doctrine, the loss of any meaningful understanding of the ordinances of the church has consigned many professing church to the stinking garbage heap of Gehenna. They're just not true churches.  The unity that they have is the social club atmosphere they enjoy in a sunny morning, but it goes no deeper than that. A true church of the Lord Jesus Christ regularly, faithfully practices church discipline. So what is church discipline? How do we define it? Church discipline may be broadly defined, listen, as obedience to the word of God on the part of an individual Christian, the elders of a church or the congregation of a church to lovingly confront sin in the life of a professing believer among them and to take corrective biblical measures afforded them by the word of God to seek the repentance and restoration of the sinning member and to preserve our witness in the world. I wanna read that to you again. I want you to think about each of those statements and we're gonna work through each of those statements individually, listen. Church discipline may be broadly defined as obedience to the word of God on the part of an individual Christian, the elders of a church or the congregation of a church to lovingly confront sin in the life of a professing believer among them and to take corrective biblical measures afforded them by the word of God to seek the repentance and restoration of the sinning member and thereby to preserve our witness in the world. Now notice first with me from our definition that church discipline is in obedience to the word of God. A practice of church discipline is in obedience to what God's word clearly commands us. Listen to this from various texts in scripture. Matthew chapter 18, beginning in verse 15. Listen, moreover, if your brother sins against you go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you've gained your brother but if he will not hear, take with you one or two more that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. I went to a lunch with a guy one time from a church across town and he began to ask me about church discipline and how to practice church discipline. I simply explained to him read from Matthew chapter 18 verses 15 to 20 and he turns to me and said if we did that in our church we wouldn't have anybody left. We're to practice that, the Lord commands it in his word. Romans chapter 16 verse 17. Now I urge you brother and note those who cause division and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you learned and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. If you're concerned about the hearts of the simple you'll refuse to allow anyone to deceive them with false doctrine. You see, we have a responsibility to protect our beloved brothers and sisters to protect the Lord's church to protect the Lord's doctrine. First Corinthians chapter five verse 12. What have I to do with judging those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? Those who are outside God judges therefore put away from yourselves the evil person. We have a responsibility, don't we? Second Thessalonians chapter three verse six. But we command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. Verse 13 he goes on to say but as for you brethren do not grow weary in doing good. And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle note that person do not keep company with him that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother. We're commanded, commanded to admonish one another to exhort one another to correct one another to rebuke one another, right? We're admonished to, we're commanded to be faithful in this work. Titus chapter three verse nine. Avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and useless. Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition knowing that such a person is warped and sinning being self-condemned. First from our definition, church discipline is in obedience to the word of God. One text would be enough. We have multiple texts that instruct us and inform us as to how we're to faithfully practice church discipline. Notice second from our basic definition of church discipline, that church discipline involves individual Christians in the church. Church discipline may involve the elders of the church. Eventually church discipline may involve the congregation as a whole. We saw that represented in several, represented in several of those texts, didn't we? According to one example, we've come to call an outline, if you will, of church discipline, an outline of one process of church discipline. In Matthew chapter 18, the whole process begins with the individual. Turn there with me to Matthew chapter 18, where the whole process begins with the individual Christian. Listen, brothers and sisters, when there's sin in the church, the responsibility is laid upon you and I to faithfully follow the Lord's command, faithfully follow the Lord's lead here and deal with sin in our midst in a loving biblical way according to this process outlined for us in Matthew chapter 18. It all begins with you. We have to be responsible to do these things. Listen, Matthew 18 verse 15. Moreover, if your brother sins against you, go tell him his fault between you and him alone, private conversation.  Individual believers are often the first to be sinned against, right? Individual believers are often the first ones involved in this kind of a confrontation in this kind of a situation. The first to become aware of personal sin in the life of another brother or sister and the Lord then calls for a private conversation. You go to him alone.  If there is no resolution to the matter, the Lord calls for a private corroboration from a private conversation now to a private corroboration, verse 16. But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more that by the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established. If the matter is established by the involvement of impartial and unbiased witnesses to the sin, the person remains unrepentant, then the Lord calls then for a public confrontation, private conversation, private corroboration, now for a public confrontation, look at verse 17. And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. Going to the church would involve first going to the elders of the church, depending upon the circumstances, the elders may then need to announce the matter to the entire church publicly. And according to the Lord's instruction, if he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. Let him be to you like an unbeliever. You're to treat that person as an unbeliever. This whole process leads to a public condemnation. You can see how with the discipline that the Lord very patiently, very lovingly continues to ramp up the discipline, ramps up the discipline until it leads to this very public condemnation. You notice there's no timeframe on these steps. This could take a very long time to work through a process. It may not take a long time. We have discretion. We have wisdom that the Lord gives us to work through a process like this and we have that liberty to consider our circumstances. But this process leads eventually to, if unchecked, if the brother does not repent, leads to a very public condemnation. We're to treat that one as an unbeliever, one having no rights or privileges in the Lord's church and condemned in his sin. Now notice third, notice third from our basic definition then of church discipline. Church discipline may be broadly defined as obedience to the word of God on the part of an individual Christian, the elders of a church or the congregation of a church to lovingly confront sin in the life of a professing believer among them. We live in a culture that absolutely excoriates any notion of judgment, right? Don't judge me. I don't wanna be judged. And the hypocrisy with that is staggering, isn't it? Worldly wisdom dictates that we can and that we should make very broad sweeping judgments with regard to anything that offends our personal morality. But as soon as you apply an external objective morality, the external objective morality of God's word and you impose that morality on the heart and mind of a person, all of a sudden judgment is a filthy word. That's a standard that a sinful, rebellious person does not wanna be held to. And so they'll revolt against being held to that standard and judgment becomes a filthy word. Contrary to all their offense, the Bible commands that the people of God make righteous judgments. We're to judge rightly. First, the Bible says that we're to judge ourselves. First Corinthians chapter 11, verse 28. Let a man examine himself. For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord that we may not be condemned with the world. We're to judge ourselves. We're to examine our own hearts, examine our own lives. Two, we're to judge someone who is living in open sin. First Corinthians chapter five, Paul rebukes the church at Corinth for refusing to judge a person in open sin in the church, and rather rebukes the church for pride, for being arrogant, for glorying in the sin because they refuse to deal with the sin in their midst. I guess they knew better how to deal with the sin. That's what it comes down to, right? We, by default, imagine that we somehow know better how we ought to deal with that sin than God does. And so we choose in disobedience to God's word, many churches choose to neglect confronting that sin or neglect dealing with the sin because somehow they know better how it ought to go, right? They believe themselves to be, or put themselves in the position of being more loving than God by avoiding what God commands by refusing to confront sin in the church when Paul says, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. You see there, there's a hint, we'll talk about it in a moment, but a purpose of church discipline. Discipline is not to be punitive. Discipline is restorative. There is a purpose to God's plan to the Lord's instruction with respect to discipline, and it is the salvation of that one who is under discipline. And apart from a faithful process of church discipline, we don't know what the spirit of God is going to do, right? We don't know how things will turn out for that person. We need to be faithful to the word of God because their soul is being dealt with, and the Lord himself has determined that this is how their soul is to be dealt with. The spirit of God is to work through this process of church discipline. The judgment of the church is to be then a physical or a temporal display or manifestation of the impending judgment of God. When someone goes through the process of church discipline and they're unrepentant, they don't turn from their sin, they refuse to turn from their sin, they continue to live in unrepentant sin, then the increasing discipline of the church is meant to be a physical or a temporal, a circumstantial, if you will, picture of the impending future judgment of God that hangs over their head. This is to be a picture of that, and we are to turn, brothers and sisters, we are to turn from our sin to faith in Jesus Christ to flee that wrath to come. The wrath we talked about a lot this morning. Thirdly though, we are to judge someone according to the doctrine that they profess to believe. Romans chapter 16, verse 17, Paul says, I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you learned and avoid them. To obey the Lord there, you have to make a judgment, make a determination about the doctrine that they are professing to believe and the doctrine that they're teaching. It needs to be sound biblical doctrine. Davy quotes an Episcopal bishop who voted to ordain sodomites into the ministry of the Episcopal church. And this bishop said, if you have to choose between heresy and division, always choose heresy. It's a direct quotation. When exactly and precisely the opposite is taught in the Bible, if you find yourself in the position of having to choose between heresy and division, you always choose division. Lord's word, God's word, is not to be trifled with. And we don't construct and pursue a man-made false sham unity at the expense of truth. We're to labor for the truth and preserve our unity in the truth. Fourth, it's right to judge the wicked and immoral actions of our government. It is right as we see in the example of John the Baptist. It's right as we see in the example of the apostles in Jerusalem, in the early church, in the book of Acts. John the Baptist lost his head doing that very thing. Fifth, it's right to judge the wicked and immoral beliefs and actions of our culture. The church is to be salt and light to this world. And I'm afraid that with a failure to confront culture, much of the professing church has lost its savor. Notice forth with me then from our basic definition of church discipline. Church discipline may be broadly defined as obedience to the word of God on the part of an individual Christian, the elders of a church or the congregation of a church to lovingly confront sin in the life of a professing believer among them and to take corrective biblical measures afforded them by the word of God to seek the repentance and restoration of the sinning member. In other words, this is how we care for a sinning brother or sister in our midst. This is how we care for them. The extent of God's grace in the process of church discipline may involve treating them as an unbeliever as we saw in Matthew chapter 18. Withholding from them Christian fellowship, no longer close and intimate but guarded and evangelistic, as one put it. No longer close and intimate fellowship but guarded and evangelistic fellowship, civil and loving but unattached. In other words, that person becomes an object of evangelism. We're to preach the gospel to that one, calling them to repentance, calling them back to faithfulness in the Lord's church, calling them to repentance. Now that involves our church and that involves every other church. This is commanded by the Lord. We have to think about what is being communicated to us from God's word. What is most loving? What is most loving? I would submit to you, what is most loving is obeying the Lord in these things. The Lord knows what we need. The Lord does this for our good. He works all things together for our good. That includes for the Lord's church. What is unloving? What is unloving is neglecting or avoiding the commandments of God with respect to this practice and thinking somehow that we know better and avoiding what the Lord has clearly commanded us to do and letting that one trail off in their sin. We want to see them restored to the bride. We wanna see them restored to fellowship with the Lord's church and with restoration comes great rejoicing, amen. We've seen people restored here. It's a great source of rejoicing in our church. And we're gonna see them restored to the Lord's church. Notice fifth then, fifth from our basic definition of church discipline. Church discipline again may be broadly defined as obedience to the word of God on the part of an individual Christian, the elders of a church or the congregation of a church to lovingly confront sin in the life of a professing believer among them and to take corrective biblical measures afforded them by the word of God to seek the repentance and restoration of the sinning member and to preserve our witness in the world. It's through that process, brothers and sisters, that we labor by the spirit of God among us to maintain a pure testimony in this world to maintain a pure church. First Peter chapter two, verse 11, listen. Beloved, I beg you, Peter says, as sojourners and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. We need to maintain our good testimony among the lost. Biblical church discipline then is a rescue up. It's a rescue up. We're laboring for the Lord's church, we're laboring for the soul of a sinning brother or sister, laboring to restore a wayward brother or sister. It's also a valuable, valuable necessary means of God to our purity, to our peace, to our protection, to our preservation. It is a necessary practice. The commitment level expected from most church members today at most churches is so deplorably low that as long as you're a body in a chair for an hour on Sunday morning, then you've done your duty, quote, unquote, right? That can't be the case among us. Our duty goes far beyond. It's a duty of love, it's a duty of necessity, it's a duty of obedience, it's a duty of faithfulness. Our duty goes far beyond just being a body in a chair for an hour on Sunday morning. We have a responsibility to one another. We saw that in the communion of the saints and in the unity of the church. And now we follow up that we see that necessity in the practice of church discipline. Actual discipleship in the local church today is virtually non-existent. And so people are invested in one another's lives. And many times in a church, especially in churches, reform Baptist churches, typically churches inside our own camp, because there's no intimate investment in one another's lives, we don't know how we're doing spiritually. There's no meaningful way that we can hold one another accountable or look after one another. There's no meaningful way that I can be my brother's keeper if I don't know my brother and know how he's doing. If I'm not in conversation with my brother, if I'm not having an invested relationship with him, I don't know how he's doing and this doesn't get done, right? This gets done when the body of Christ acts like a body together, right? Knit together, join together by what every joint supplies, each part doing its share, then invested in one another, we know how we're doing. We can hold one another accountable. And you know what? In a practice of church discipline, most of it ends at step number one, go and tell your brother his fault between you and him alone and never goes any farther. Praise the Lord, right? It works that way in the Lord's church. Most of the time today, discipleship in churches is replaced by programs, replaced by events. Instead of meaningful relationships, it's just another class. We'll put on another class, we'll do another thing. And classes can be good, but brothers and sisters, it doesn't replace us having meaningful relationships together in the Lord's church and being faithful in this practice. Professing churches as a result, by and large fail to deal with sin anymore. And church devolves into little more than a weekly production, maybe at best a series of programs. You and I though, we have responsibility in the Lord's church to love one another, to love the Lord, to love the Lord's church and to be faithful in this practice for the sake of the Lord and for the sake of one another. We have a responsibility. And as with Matthew 18, that responsibility begins with you, amen? All right, let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, thank you for this good instruction. Apart from your word, we would be negligent to do these things, but because your word so clearly lays them out before us, Lord, we're grateful for that instruction. Grateful because we see your wisdom in it. We've seen the fruit of a faithful practice of this. We long to see sinners restored to our fellowship restored to the faith. And Lord, we see your goodness, your love, your mercy, your forgiveness, that work by your spirit through this process. And Lord, we wanna honor you, esteem you more highly than ourselves or one another. We wanna esteem you in a faithful practice of church discipline. And I pray, Lord, that you would find us faithful to this good work, that you would help us strengthen us, give us wisdom. This is a process in which we must labor with great wisdom to be faithful to you. So Lord, we ask you without doubting that you would supply us with the strength and the wisdom that we need to faithfully practice church discipline. And Lord, you would, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ and His bride, you would cause us, Lord, to be fruitful and effective in this good work. And help us to be loving, help us to be patient, help us to be kind, help us to bear long, to be long suffering with one another. Help us to act in love toward you and act in love toward one another, laboring to see a person restored rather than viewing this in any way as being punitive. And Lord, help us to honor you above all in these things, knowing, Lord, how much you love your church, how much you gave to redeem her. We're grateful for your instruction. Thank you for your word. Thank you for this time tonight. Thank you, Lord, for the peace and the unity that we enjoy here. Pray that you would preserve us in it and cause us to abound in this grace for your glory. In Jesus' name, amen.


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So this is the original balance sheet We're gonna go through a series of transactions through the reorganization process Then we'll compare this balance sheet to the balance sheet after the reorganization So let's take a look real quick at what they have so we have a good idea of what's going on They have cash of 86,000 They have a receivable minus the allowance one for 107 inventory They have property plant and equipment total of 405 net lend help for an investment Then they have a bunch of liabilities And this is where the problem lies when you have too much debt accounts payable secured by inventory accounts payable That's unsecured notes payable. That's unsecured accrued expenses with priority Then other accrued accrued interest expense and they have a bond of 450,000 total debt of 918 And this is what we're gonna be doing most of the work because to get out of bankruptcy To get out of chapter 11. You want to get out mean lean and no fat? No fat means that you want to get rid of that debt This is what we're gonna be doing. They do have common stock of half a million and the retained earnings is obviously negative deficit of 600,000 and that's why they were getting into trouble because Because they're not generating enough profit for the business Why because maybe the debt is eaten up all the profit so overall total equity is negative 98,000 So we're gonna be looking at series of transaction. That's gonna get them out of this situation So let's take a look at the first transaction and see what's happening. So what happened is this now We're gonna be negotiating with those creditors because we want to get rid of those of those of these debts So the first thing we're gonna do is creditors represented the unsecured accounts payable. So we are talking about We're talking about this group here the unsecured Accounts payable 134,000 this group Agreed to accept our account receivable in full settlement of their claim. They said guess what give me your account receivable Give up your receivable. I'll collect your money and I don't have to bill you anymore And I will call I will tell you that you are even when it comes to accounts payable Well, the fair value of the receivable Not guaranteed by the company is 100,000. What does that mean? It means we have a receivable on the books for 107, but it's really worth 100,000 Now remember what we learned about earlier when you When you give up an asset the first thing you have to do is you have to write the asset to market value Well, the asset is right now worth 107. It's supposed to be only worth a hundred thousand And since you are getting root of the receivable, there's no need for the allowance So you get rid of the allowance So what does that mean first you you adjust your receivable to the market value Therefore you debit the allowance 13,000 to get rid of the allowance You debit the loss of 7,000 Why the loss debit 7,000 because you need to reduce your receivable by 20,000 your receivable need to be reduced by 20,000 So you reduce your receivable you remove the allowance and you book the loss now you have a receivable now You're receivable your account receivable is only 100,000 100,000 your receivable is 100,000 Okay, we debit the allowance because it's a contra asset. It has a credit balance Therefore we debit it to make the allowance go down to zero. So simply put in this transaction I get rid of this and I made this 100,000 therefore my receivable is 100,000 now Okay, my receivable is 100,000. That's the first thing then once my once I adjusted my receivable They said they will take the receivable. So and they would remove my payable. Well, if they remove my payable I'm gonna debit my payable the unsecured payable 134 I'm gonna debit my receivable 100,000. So I gave them something that's worth 100,000 and they said they're gonna forgive me for 134. I like this I'm gonna have a gain on the battery structuring of 34. Therefore, I have a gain on this So simply put what happened here if we go back to this picture here Simply put after this transaction a count receivable is gone and this debt here is gone Okay, notice we are trimming down the balance sheet. Okay, and we booked again of 34,000. Okay Let's see what happened next Let's see what happened next now again. I could not change the balance sheet constantly, but imagine then this is gone and This is gone. Just kind of imagine The next thing that happened is we're gonna have to pay the accrued interest with priority. So we have accrued interest of 24,000 and those are with priority and they said we should pay them. Well, when we pay them, we're gonna debit the expense the accrued expense and credit cash simply put This is gone And we reduce our expense our cash by 24,000 so 86 is reduced by 24,000. Okay Next a creditor holding $120,000 note agreed to accept the land health as an investment in fully settlement of the note plus accrued interest of 8,000 The land has value of 95. Let's look at the balance sheet We have notes of 200,000 we have loans of 200,000 one of the individuals that hold this note says Which is holds only 120 they said well if you give me this piece of land Land health as an investment. I have this land. I will I would reduce your loan I would remove your loan now the land health for investment. It's worth on the books of 80 but it's worth 95 The first thing we have to do is we have to write it up and book again Then after we book the game, we have to remove 120,000 of the liabilities and they also would we would remove also there is some accrued interest and we would remove 8,000 of this accrued interest so we're going to reduce our accrued interest by 8,000 and reduce this by 120 But as a result we're going to get rid of we're going to give up this land. So let's do this transaction So we're going to debit land credit gain. This should be the credit credit game. Okay Then we're going to have to debit the note for at 120 debit the accrued interest payable of 8,000 Credit the land at fair value because now the land had a value for 95 This should be a credit moved forward and credit the gain. This should be moved forward at 33,000 Okay, so this is the entry. This is the debit And this is the credit so simply put what happened here is now of the one of the 200,000. We still have 80,000 This is gone This is gone This is gone and we no longer have this land. So all these accounts are gone and our interest payable now is Interest accrued interest payable is only 42 because we reduced it by 8 only 42 not minus 42 It's only 42 okay All right Now we book also again. So notice as we're booking the gain those gains are going and eventually they are You know, they are they are changing retained earning They are bringing retained earning towards zero because now we're below zero because it's increasing our retained earning Okay, so just I want you to look at this because at the end you're going to see the completed balance sheet Now another creditor holding 80,000 note on which for $4,000 interest agreed to extend the maturity Date of the note for two years and reduce the interest I told you we still owe 80,000 dollar in notes the individual that holds this note Plus they also for this note, there's a $4,000 of accrued interest involved here They said what we will do we would We would not forgive we will extend the the term Basically, we would remove the old note and we'll issue a new note for the amount Okay, so basically we remove the old note We remove the accrued interest related to that note and we credit a new note called restructured that so basically we replace the note And as a result now it's going to give us more time to pay our bill now for this transaction We're not going to have no gain Because the cash flow from this note, which is you don't have to worry about it. It's going to be 92,800 and the loan is worth 84 Therefore, there is no gain So you know why I did not book again because my future cash flow for that note that include interest will be 92,800 Which is more than the book value of the note now. Therefore, there is no gain So what we did in this picture we basically this this whole note is gone But now we have a new debt new debt of 84,000 a new debt of 84,000 And accrued interest now is reduced by an additional 4,000 just kind of you know kind of keep up with this So this way when you see the last balance sheet, you are not surprised Now we still have this bond here 450 which is it's a huge Hey, guess what the bondholder agreed to accept equity interest in the company of 150,000 share in exchange for the bond and accrued interest of 38 So the bondholder says guess what you give me 150,000 shares of your stocks. I will exchange it for the bond I would get rid of the bond the market value of the stock is dollar 25. So let's take look at this. I'm going to debit the bond Credit common stock because I'm issuing common stock. How much do I credit common stock? The number of shares Times the power value times one in whatever's left Is the other contributed capital and I credit again. Why did I credit again? I only gave up Stocks that's worth one eighty seven five hundred. That's the fair market value of the stocks Which is one hundred and fifty thousand shares times dollar 25 If my math is right one eighty seven five hundred One eighty seven five hundred and I get rid of a note Of four hundred and fifty thousand Okay Therefore I have a gain of two sixty two Okay, two sixty two So I have a gain And guess what this bond now is gone But now common stock went up And retained earning went down because I booked some gain. Okay Last bankruptcy administration expense totaling sixteen thousand are paid in cash I have to pay the lawyers the accountant that paid on the bankruptcy they work on the bankruptcy So bankrupt's expense is sixteen thousand debit and expense which is with increase retained earning Reduce retained earning. Sorry reduce retained earning and credit cash with which would reduce cash And this is what we look like after all Things said and done our cash now is 46 because we had to make certain payment. We did not touch inventory It seems we wanted to keep our inventory Our property plant and equipment. I believe they stayed the same. We did not touch those. Let me see Yeah, we did not touch those. I don't remember touching those So we did not touch those Okay Notice account receivable is gone. I told you that was transaction one So now this is our assets now. We still have cash inventory and property plant and equipment You remember the land health for investment is gone too. So this is what our assets looks like now Accounts payable we did not touch this accounts payable. You remember we get rid of other payables we get rid of We get rid of This payable we did not touch this we got rid of this notes We got rid of the priority priority Accrued interest as well priority Priority accrued we still have accrued interest of 38 000. That's the only thing that's left. Those are the only current liabilities that left Now we have a new loan of 84 000 newly loan restructure. Also, we get rid of the bond The common stock was 500 000 now we issued an additional 150 Now we have other contributed capital because we issued new stocks and retained earning was 5 98 We increased it by 16 we reduced it by 8 and we increased it by 3 29 500 Those are the gains and the losses that we booked throughout the transaction So we still have a deficit of 276 500 However, the total equity now is positive Now we now we came out kind of better than what we started with right so you could compare this balance sheet To this bloated balance sheet bloated with that Okay, so basically we used to have 9 18 worth of that. Now the only that we have is Wow, not bad 182 182 so not bad at all Why I think there's something wrong restructure thing this is Yeah, 182 182 worth of that 182 worth of that, which is pretty good. Okay So remember that the net gain on the transfer of the asset will be reported as part of income and the gain on the restructuring would also be reported part of income So the gain and the losses will be reported part as for income Notice the sheer the stockholders deficiency has been eliminated, but we still have deficiency in retained earning Now we can we can basically debit retained earning for this amount and Yes, I'm sorry credit retained earning We can credit retained earning and debit capital stock and other contributed capital to make it go down to zero We do have this option so of the desired by the parties the interest the organization plan could have included a provision to decrease the power value of the common stock and eliminate the deficit You could also do that as well if you chose to okay. Hopefully this this This this example showed you how we go through a chapter 7 reorganization If you have any questions about this topic email me if you happen to visit my website for additional lectures Please consider donating if you're studying for your CPA exam as always study hard It's worth it and see you on the other side of success


Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MusicTeacher.com and in this video we're going to be learning how to dial in a classic rock style guitar tone using just the Blackstar Ampt 2. So all the tones you're hearing in this video are coming from the Ampt 2 and this Chapman guitar's ML3 Pro X. The Ampt 2 is going straight out of the cab sim output straight into my audio interface. So I'm using a built-in simulation of a 4x12 cab for this. So this classic rock inspired tone we're going to look at in today's video can be used as a template for you to tweak and develop your own classic rock style sounds. This is a generic classic rock sound that I've based off a couple of different classic rock influences. So the first thing and probably the most important thing is getting a great amp sound. So classic rock is predominantly played through 60s and 70s British voiced amps. So for this I've used the EL34 response and the UK voice on the amplifier section. Got the gain at about one o'clock. The bass I've rolled back to about 10 o'clock but you can set that to taste and I've pushed the mids and I've pushed the treble. Now typically classic rock is a very mid and treble driven genre of music when it comes to guitar tone. You don't tend to want too much clattering around in the low end because we are going to be playing a lot of big ringing open chords. So keeping that bass in check just helps us retain that clarity. So here's how the amplifier circuit sounds with just a little bit of room reverb added for good measure. With the amp set this way you get a very typical classic rock voiced overdrive sound. It's got enough gain to be considered overdriven and crunchy but there's not too much gain there that we lose definition in the chords. This also looks great with single call pickups. Classic rock predominantly is not a high gain genre of music so you don't want to push your amp into very high levels of saturation. If you need an extra kick you can use the drive circuit which I've currently got set to a boost. Now you can see I've got the drive here only a quarter of the way up. The tone is at two o'clock and the level is just between two and three o'clock for a bit of a level left. You can also use the overdrive circuit in this as well if you want a little bit of extra gain but I think those classic rock tones sound great when they're boosted. If you're playing some leads with the drive circuit giving you a little bit of a boost you could also add a very low set analog delay. So I'm using pretty much everything here set to just above nine o'clock and what that's going to do is it's going to give me a very very short slap. Very very quick though. There's not much delay going on but what that will do is inside a lead guitar part it will just thicken up what I'm playing. So here's how it sounds without and then with. In the classic rock days people often used tape machines like an echo plex to add a bit of a slap back to their lead guitar sounds. So that's a great way to get in that kind of ballpark. You can also add some modulation to your cleaner slightly overdriven sounds by using a phaser that is set with a slower speed and a high depth. This will give you some of those Henry C star clean tones. That's great when you want to add some movement to any of your single coil lines and then finally you could just put all those things together and create some really cool sounds. So you could be playing your riff with your basic amplifier channel. You could kick it up a step with a boost then add your delay for some slapback as you go into your solo and then if you really want to take off add that phaser to the mix and let things go crazy. So there you go. There are some tips on how to start dining in a classic rock tone on your Blackstar Amped 2. As I said earlier on in the video you can use this as a jumping off point to design your own classic rock voice with the Amped 2. Let me know down below in the comments how you got on with this and if there's any other genres or even artists you'd like to see us get the tones on with the Amped 2 please throw them down below in the comments as well. Don't forget to check out Blackstar Amplification on YouTube for more videos just like this. If you're looking for a music teacher in your local area please head over to MusicTeacher.com and check out the network of great music teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out. Thanks so much for watching as always and I'll see you very soon.


Well, just out of Shambhavi Initiation, one of the largest events of this sort in United States, over twenty-five hundred people for Shambhavi Mahamudra Initiation in Long Beach, California. A very exuberant lot of people, the important thing is, more and more people, particularly young people, are definitely becoming very intense seekers. You should see these events to believe how intense and powerful these situations become. Shambhavi Mahamudra has become a champion of transformation. After coming from Singapore to San Francisco for seventeen hour flight, and I got there and then very next day we had this event at Stanford Business School. This was a conversation with Jonathan Koslet, who is heading the Texas specific group, one of the largest investment companies. And this was a conversation with both students and faculty attending the meeting. What is wonderful about Stanford University right now is that sustainability and the significance of human consciousness being an important vehicle for sustainability is becoming very apparent and slowly that culture is gaining ground in Stanford University particularly, and I'm sure it is so in many other universities. So it was a joy to be there and I think generally there has been a very positive response because what was vaguely forming as a movement in this region, when I articulated very clearly how consciousness is the basis of sustainability without human consciousness, there is no way to craft businesses, there is no way to craft an economy which is inclusive and sustainable. So this movement is growing particularly in the west coast in California to be specific. The university students and the young people and the entrepreneurs are very much moving in this direction which is very positive and I'm sure it's not far that the entire world will be thinking and looking towards these solutions. And as a part of that, tomorrow evening we also have another event, a conversation with Ed Bagley who is a Hollywood personality very committed to environmental causes and here also the conversation, the title for the conversation that consciousness is the key for sustainability. So this idea, this movement, this awareness is definitely gaining currency. I think everybody who's concerned must put necessary force behind this because without the raising of human consciousness, without an inclusive consciousness, there will be no sustainability. When we say consciousness, today morning I was doing an interview for a local media magazine, a fashion magazine, can you beat that, called Flaunt. So they were talking about this young journalist was asking me how to expand our consciousness. So the essential thing that everybody needs to understand is there is no such thing as expanding our consciousness. We are talking this language because we are always identified with limited aspects of life. We are identified with our body which is definitely a limited boundary. We are identified with our mind and thoughts and emotions which is again a limited process. We are essentially identified. The modern education systems have made us identify with our knowledge which means a bank of memory that we carry within ourselves. Memory is a limitation. It is a possibility on one level. On another level it is also our boundary. What I know and what I do not know is a kind of boundary. What I know is the boundaries in which I live. The yogic system, always the first and foremost thing that you do is you get identified with what you do not know. The intelligence of ignorance because our knowledge is always very limited. It doesn't matter how much we think we know it's very very minuscule compared to the size of creation or cosmos. Our ignorance is boundless. In being identified with our ignorance we also become conscious, more and more conscious. So what we are referring to as consciousness is essentially that which is beyond the boundaries of our physical form and of our psychological structures. So what is beyond physicality has no boundaries. It's boundless. What is boundless cannot be expanded. Clarity has to arise that we don't have to do anything to expand our consciousness. There's no such thing. It is anyway in the lap of consciousness that the existence itself is we just have to disidentify with the limited identities that we have taken on of body, mind, society, family, education and variety of other things in terms of race, religion, nationality, gender. Our identification rises beyond the limitations with which we are identified. Consciousness is anyway all out. There is no need to expand this. Last three weeks as you know most of you are aware has been a super fast roller coaster to say the least. So the after tomorrow getting back to Triple I or our center in Tennessee and the space and the silence of the Tennessee Center is very healing and very good for recovering for a battered and bruised body. So looking forward to a couple of days being in that space and then of course we are active, we are in Philadelphia and various other things happening. So on this day I want all of you to at least think if you're not in there experientially it's all right. Today spend a little bit of time and every day spend a little bit of time to at least think thought can never be boundless but at least try to think beyond the limitations which you're normally identified with in terms of body, your likes and dislikes, your family, your race, your religion, your nation. Beyond that beyond even the human species just try to think how you relate it to everything. What is your relationship with the sun, the moon, the universe? Just at least in thought. If you're willing I can bring this experience to you as a living experience but if you're not in there at least in thought think beyond your limitations it'll be a wonderful beginning for you. Here in California Los Angeles to be specific right now weather is fantastic. I wish I had a little more time.


Would you rather pay $650 or $66 for a smart phone? Simple.  Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The long-awaited King Cole Festival has returned. Wednesday we spoke with Action and Mingo president, Jada Hunter, about festivities this week. The King Cole Festival actually began right here in Williamson 49 years ago. But this will be our 48th because everything was canceled last year. It's an event for everyone in the area to get together and also for people to kind of come back home and visit again. So it's all about heritage. We will have a heritage display set up right in the middle of town on the corner of Logan and 2nd Avenue and in addition to that we will have artisans, people, local people who make items to be sold on the street here. And we're excited this year that we're going to have apple butter stirring here on the street and being sold by Walker's Family Farms and we're very excited about that. Other activities include performances by the Lincoln County Cloggers, Kelly Roberts, Cassidy Faith Slater and more. In addition to that we're having a new feature in our King Cole Festival parade this year and we're going to have a division for little girls who want to wear their princess dresses, really girls of all ages. We're going to have a real Cinderella who they'll be following. We also are inviting boys and girls to wear their favorite superhero outfit and to walk in the parade behind a superhero that we're going to be having as a guest. For a full list of activities and events you can visit williamsonforward.com. And our applications are also available. The festival will be held from September 16th to September 19th. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Corjol.


Hello friends, I am Dr. Manik Mehta, Head of Department of Cardiology at Manipal Hospital Gurgaon. It is my proud privilege to announce to you all that we at Manipal Hospital Department of Cardiac Sciences, we have done the first ever case of trans-cancer aortic valve replacement in our hospital. This is a groundbreaking procedure which provides an important alternative for patients with severe aortic stenosis. It is a minimally invasive treatment option. It provides quicker recovery times and enhanced quality of life. This procedure was done as a combined effort of our Cardiac Sciences department which was heavily supported by our Chief Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Manmohan Chauhan, our Chief Cardiac anesthetist Dr. Jitumani and our non-invasive cardiologist Dr. Parvesh.  Because of her frail stature and the treatment option of a minimally invasive procedure, she was given the option of trans-catheter aortic valve replacement procedure which we call as a short form as TAVR. This procedure was done two days ago in our center and she has done an excellent recovery. The result was excellent and today that is day two, she is on her way and all set to go home. I would now request Mrs. Anita who is sitting on my left to say a few words about our experience in the hospital and how she is feeling on our journey about to go to home. Hello, I am Anita Anand, I was admitted to the hospital two days ago and I was in a very good condition. I could walk, I could not park and I could not breathe. So I just came for treatment myself and came to Dr. Manmohan for the heart of the patient, heart of the problem and she did very well with unbelievable which is unbelievable. I can talk a lot, I can speak a lot, I can walk a lot and now she is giving me a discharge and I am happy I am going to go home and nurse of blessing to Dr. Manik. Thank you. Most welcome. Thank you. Now I will also request Mrs. Anita's son Mr. Arun to say a few words. I am Arun, she is my mom Mrs. Anita Anand, she is her age is 74 and I did not say anything about the medical condition and the procedure that was done, it was quite well explained by Dr. Manik.  So this procedure had to be non-invasive and the injection parts and all those things would have sent her into a panic attack. I really have not understood even today how Dr. Mehta, Dr. Chauhan, Dr. Jita Mani would have handled the situation, they handled it so well that my mother did not have any panic attack. She could hardly walk a few steps and now she can climb a few steps actually. As far as the Manipal Hospital experience is concerned, I have been to quite a few hospitals, the so called branded ones. There are queues and queues and queues everywhere but here in Manipal I experience that everything is quite organized. People are professional, people are, the staff is there to really look after you. Things are made quite easy over here, whether it is your admissions point or your reception or the tests or anything you have to go. Plus your treating doctor is always available to you. You have access to him and he has access to you. So that's a very, very big advantage of being in Manipal Hospital like this. I am taking back my mom today. She was fit enough to go back yesterday itself. In the last I will just thank Dr. Monik Mehta, Dr. Chauhan, Dr. Jito Mani especially for handling it. I could see that there were intense discussions half an hour before my mom was to be operated between Dr. Jito Mani and Dr. Monik and Dr. Chauhan. How much of sedation has to be given, how calculative they were because she is at a age of 74. Just a conclusion, some people are not gifted and some people are a gift of God. I think your team is one. And I wish you a speedy recovery and we would like to see you on your feet in our opening. Thank you.


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Yeah. Orange at 25. Zach Wheeler, Phillies. Nice little number for the Phillies here. One drink, one water. Mateo, Josh Redick. If only I could actually put that into practice. It would be amazing. Life would be better. Josh Harrison, Luis Castillo, Hasan Kim and Kyle Tucker. Life would be better. If only I could practice what I preach. Zach Popp, David Peralta, Golda 50, Jake Fraley for the Mariners. Anthony Bender. Rowan Zekinstras, Boston Bashers, AJ Pollock and Josh Hader. Let's do Finest now. Two 23 Finest boxes. That's true, Shane. That's true. Oh, yeah. However, the blank is same and I will not accept. Yeah. You're not looking to. I'm not saying I'm cool, but... I am. I'm saying I'm cool. Sean is saying he's cool, guys. Yeah. Do with that what you will. Alka Blue to 250 is Bieber for the Guardians. Bieber, not Justin as Jake would say right about now. Get him out of here. Right about now. Oh, so brother. It's 199 to Kunya for the Braves. Rookie Auto, White Sox, Lenny and Sosa. Oh, Warren sees in tournament games tonight. All right, let's go, let's go. Refractor Hunter Green for the Reds. Still need the magic to play their first one, I think. Rookie Refractor Gonzalez, Guardians. Blue Refractor Rookie Josh Young Rangers. Nice card. 93 of 150 for Texas. Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas. Richard B, there you go, Richard. Medvedugo as a Dodger, Lowe, that's pretty cool. Two oranges in this pack. Two oranges here. First orange is Giants Color Match Logan Webb to 25. And an orange wave is going to be an auto. Finest design variation Rookie Auto. Oh, Christopher Morrell for the Cubs. Cubs to 25. That's Wayne with the Cubs. Nice hit. Good pack there. Rookie Refractor Riley Green for the Tigers. Shane's on the list. Purple to 250 is Bobby Wood Jr. Royals. Billy, Mr. Shikodance. Refractor Freddy Freeman. What's your new name now, Mr. Shikodance? Mr. Shikodance. Oh, Mr. Shikodance. Grumpy, grumpy, grumpy. Yeah, Shane, cheer up. Be sure to like the stream, everybody. Let's go, let's go. Get those likes in. Ready for the Red Sox to sign Otani already. Then trade for Soto. And then sign that ace pitcher from Japan. Aqua Shimmer to 175. Scherzer Mets. Win it all. Become a dynasty.  I'm done with all that you just said. Refractor Soto Padre. Is Rookie Auto Michael Toglia for the Rockies? You know it, brother. I just did the Dolphins to win again. I'm also rocking it. Light Blue Rookie to 300. Marlin's Max Meyer. The chain is cool stuff. No, it's a Dolphins chain. Cool, cool, cool. I think I'm going to go with the Orlando Magic ones. They have the black chain on it. Oh, really? A black one? Yeah. That has to leave a mark on your neck. It has to. Fractor Price Heart Profilities. There's no way it doesn't, right? Definitive, the release date is like up in the air still. It's very strange. Rookie Auto Michael Grove Dodgers. I know they're supposed to put it on the site kind of recently. I don't know if that happened or not yet. They had some issues with it. Rookie Purple to 250 is Ezekiel Tovar Rockies. Nice color match. Fractor Correa. I don't think Redugo is going to be in Boston any longer. I think he's going to have to sign. I think he's going to be traded. Aqua to 199. Yorda Nalvarez Astros. Or, no, he's a free agent. I think he's unrestricted. I think he's a free agent. Rookie Refractor and the Proctor for the Royals. Moving on now. Second box was not the best on those. Two Bowman Stirlings. Okay, here we go, y'all. Speckle to 99 Rookie for the Orioles DL Hall. With a base auto for the Twins, Brooks Lee. Troy S with a nice Brooks Lee base auto here. What happened, Carl?  Rutschman Orange Auto to 75 Red Sox. Mikey Romero. Red Sox. Who's got the Red Sox? Andrew R, congrats on the Romero. Mikey R for Andrew R there. Jackson Holiday. Base Auto Pirates now to Mark Johnson. Pirates, Charlie C. There you go, Charlie. Oh, he's raging. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. Base Auto. Ellie the Crew. Cincinnati. Heck yeah, Reds, dude. We hit a lot of Ellies tonight. Sincy, Sincy. Chris and Amanda, congrats on that. Grats only. Ellie on Card Auto. Yes, pain meds. Yeah, yeah, we can tell Carl. You can tell you're having a lovely Friday evening laying low. Gold here is a Sterling Tech. Gold Tech. Rookie Michael Harris, the second for the Braves, the 50. Nine to 50, Braves. That's a cool one. And Braves again. Ambiore Stavara's Base Auto here. Joseph S. Joseph S with Atlanta. Sean's Dingin. Means the cookies are done. That was your, something dinged. Yeah, it was like you're watching something.  You know it. A few more certified spots and flux and prism spot. Nice, nice, nice. Alright guys, flux basketball at 15 to go. Halfway. Power Mars is talking about using the bathroom. Oh no. Put them on the trash list. Good Lord. Rick, you're affected to 199, Yvonne Herrera for the Cardinals. God, I don't know Jason Chorio Guardians now. We go Guardians. Trying to find Cleveland. Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland. That's Mike D. Common Arrow. Teriyaki salmon, white rice. Sounds pretty good. Sounds pretty good. Sean doesn't like fish. We'll give him chicken nuggets instead. Yup. Base Auto, Gabriel Martinez for the Blue Jays. We go Jays, Richard H. It's a 150 rookie mini diamond. Jordan Groeschans, Marlins. And then Orange Auto, Gabriel Martinez, Blue Jays again. It's Richard H. with a Jays. Orange to 75. It's a 190 Elijah Green Nationals. Autograph, Lazaro Montez going out to Seattle here. Seattle. Who dat? Who dat? Brian O.R. How do we end up here? I don't know man. We got problems. Yeah, we got big problems. It's a 99. Speckle, Yasser Mercedes Twins. And Base Auto, Kevin Perrata for the Metz. It all starts with Shane. Yeah, it's true. Lindsay H. with the Metz. Last two boxes. 23 Bumble Chrome Choice. Base First Auto, Dodgers, Jesus Galiz. Mike K. with the Dodgers. Blue Jays again. First Bumble, Base Auto, Sembra Burse. Richard H. Chilling, chilling man. And a Speckle now. First Auto, Rainer Ariost at 299. Jonathan L. with the Giants. Beautiful Rainer Ariost. Let's get this one in the mag. Nice, pretty nice. No, Yorkshire Pudding. What goes that? Mitchell, explain Yorkshire Pudding. There's no blood. There's not even meat in it. It's like a bread pastry pudding type thing. BJ Cook, first moment auto for the A's. Yeah, I'm going to make it. I'm going to make it, Mitchell. I'm going to make it. First moment auto for the White Sox is Dario Barrero. Refractor? What is this? Oh, is that who I think it is? Is that who I think it is? It is Ethan Salas. First Refractor Auto to 499 for San Diego. Last card of the break. Damn. Who had them Padres? Going home happy here. Mike D. with the Padres. Beautiful for Refractor Auto. Ethan Salas. Top what, 5 prospects now? Top 5 or 10 prospects here at 17 years old? 18 now, I think? Either way, monster hit. Dude is on the path to being a very good MLB star. Okay, let's recap now. Those are good boxes there. Is that for real? Start with our numbered cards. It is kind of like a pancake. It's like a pancake in a muffin put together, it's like a custard type center.  It's like sweeter, but not overly sweet. Okay, now we're talking. We've got Yvonne Herrera, Ezekiel Tovar, Jordyn Alvarez, Max Scherzer, Max Meyer, Bobby Whit Jr., Ronald Lacuna Jr., Shane Bieber, Elijah Green, Jordan Groeschens, Josh Young, D.L. Hall, Yassa Mercedes, Jake Fraley, Walk Off Water for the Yankees there, Kevin Smith, Gold Tech Michael Harris, Zach Wheeler, Stuart Fairchild, and Logan Webb. Autos of B.J. Cook, Dario Barrero, Sam Rubbers, Hazes Galiz, Kevin Pirata, Lazaro Montes, Gabriel Martinez, Jason Churio, Ambiores Tavares, Tamar Johnson, Brooks Lee, Michael Toglia, Michael Grove, Lenin Sosa, 275 was Martinez, 275 Romero, to 25, Christopher Morel. Refractor Auto is Ethan Salas to 499 Padres, Speckle Auto to 299, Rainer Arias Giants, Bass Auto Reds, L.E.B. La Cruz. No, I'm not cousin. What am I thinking of? What's in them? It's like something in the middle. It'd be like pour it in or something. And a Superfractor of Corey Kluber. Corey Kluber, one of one. Superfractor from 2022 Sapphire for the Yankees. That does it. Moving on to more. Baseball, everybody. Thank you.


Who's this person? Eddie Murphy My question of the day is why are so many of you girls cunts? Like I thought we hated men Not each other We're inclusive here on my page women are not the only people who give birth Hey truckers Why is it now I have to flash you to get you to honk your horn when back in the day all I had to do was this The biggest joke of all time is that students who are pursuing helping professions have to become Literally poor in order to get the education that will allow them to serve their community Like why does it cost a hundred thousand dollars a year for me to get the training?  What about all those guys with washboard abs on tiktok? Where are you guys shitting on them, huh? What about general laborers they literally wake up at the crack of dawn they go to work for eight hours? They do the exact same job over and over again every single day And then they come home and then get their set paycheck at the end of their two weeks That is selling your body that is objectifying yourself. This cannot be real, okay? I'm gonna show you what happens to my lips when I use this I have like a major allergy, but yeah, I love these so much um, I Have probably about 15 of these and this is my favorite one and I have like a major allergic reaction. I can't even explain it because it's like so weird But it always gives me like this extra like plumpiness in my lips, and I just don't I just can't even It hasn't even been a minute yet.  It's impossible. I think it's time for another adult pre-k lesson What do you think?  Oh Good job. Okay. Here's the thing having a preference is something like I'm looking for a partner who likes kayaking or wakes up early in the morning or Loves pizza But when your preferences exclude an entire group of marginalized people, that's problematic. Okay, that's not nice That's not a preference if you lump all fat people in one group together as though they are not Very different individuals. That's that phobic Just like lumping all black people in one group and saying I don't like black people is racist I'm lumping all disabled people in one group and saying I don't think people in wheelchairs are hot is Abilist do you understand what I'm saying?  So blank blank mother f*** Men have it way easier with dating. Let me explain why Men pick who they pursue versus women pick through who pursued Big difference society says that the man pursues the woman This means that men get to go through an incredibly healthy exercise of looking at all their options Deciding what they want and then spending their time pursuing that Versus women are taught to sit back wait to be pursued and then from there you decide what you do and do not want From potential suitors coming up to you. This is way more time intensive And let me paint a picture of why a man who comes up to you And you decide there's some things you like some things you don't know about You go ahead and give him a chance after to get to know him for two weeks You decide it's not right for you That means you just spent two weeks on somebody that you may or may not have picked out of a crowd to begin with And a lot of us women don't even realize that this is happening because this is just the way things are So it's incredibly distracting to figure out what you want when you're in the process of this kind of dating Have you ever wondered why you're so pretty yet men are not chasing after you? Well, here's why Well, think about it. Have you ever seen a line outside a Gucci store? Outside a Chanel store. What about Louis B? See that is exactly what happens. You are a very expensive exclusive high priced Item and not everyone can afford you So they don't even bother asking for the price Okay, so this is for all of my single over 30 people Is anybody else just over this hookup culture? I mean, I get it. I'm I'm online. I'm trying all these things, but like what happened to romance What happened to, you know, a little bit of chivalry? Whatever happened to all of the nice things that men used to do instead of everyone asking us What are you doing? Can I come through? Is there any real man out there at all? I don't know help me out I am so sick of the normalization of the phrase Can't make a wife out of a hoe Funny that there's no equivalent about men. So I figured let's make some Can't make a husband out of a Save yourself till marriage your husband will thank you for that. It might be Imagine being so insecure with yourself That you need to tell other women how to treat themselves Girl you could have your bullies But why do you feel the need to push them on to everyone else that's really really we You could be a virgin that's super chill with me In reality that just means there's more to it for me I just think it's really funny that misogynist always want to talk about the 1950s housewife archetype in order to insult or like put women in their place But they never want to talk about the gender norms for men in the 1950s Housewives only existed because men were expected to be working men Which meant they got up every day at 8 a.m. Put on a suit and went off to work and didn't see their family until 5 p.m And they had to do this because they were expected to be the sole provider for five person families Which was obviously more manageable in the 1950s, but bear with me Not only that but when it came to dating the pursuit was a hundred percent the man's responsibility Which meant the guy had to initiate every day And you had to take a girl out at least four or five times before calling her your girlfriend Definitely weren't getting laid and then you had to get married before you were like 23 All financial responsibility fell on the man So unless you want to pay for every date without having sex until marriage and then buy me a house and then work Every single day of your life to pay from my lifestyle and children that you never get to see Don't tell me I belong in the kitchen I've just been yelling in my car for 30 minutes because F***ing parenting is a word It's hard It's hard Because they're little mirrors If if I want My son To be a better person or to grow up and just be a good f***ing You know when you tell your boyfriend to leave but you don't mean it Did he actually leaves


What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer? Or diabetes? Or heart disease? Or high blood pressure? This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life. Well, the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet. In other words, one centered around whole plant foods. Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today, we look at a problem that many men experience from time to time, erectile dysfunction, and we start by looking at the nuts. I'm talking about walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, here's the story. In 2013, I can't believe it's already been so long, I posted a video based on this study that found that three weeks of pistachios resulted in a significant improvement in erectile function in men. It's always nice to see a whole food intervention have clinical effects, and I was curious to revisit the topic to see what's been published since. Even if you ignore all the lab animal studies on how much hazelnuts improve the function of retesticles, you still never know what you'll find searching the medical literature for nuts and sexual function. Like this case of penile strangulation with a metal hex nut. I guess nuts can sometimes make things worse if you can't remove them. They used the Dundee technique, which involves creating 20 puncture holes to relieve the pressure, but that didn't work so well. Diamond disc cutter was used to saw through it, and they slipped a few times. Well, that got me curious. Evidently, penile entrapment is so common there's an entire grating system that emergency room docs can use. If a drill is not available, these surgeons advise a hammer and chisel may be used. A drill? Oh, a dental drill.  That's a strange way to put it. Urologists should be aware of all the available armamentarium, and if you don't know how to operate the saw, you can always call in your local blacksmith. Yeah, but how are you going to remove a barbell or steel sledgehammer head? A heavy-duty air grinder provided by the fire department requiring six hours of cutting with the patient protected from the sparks with firecoats, whatever it takes, hacksaw, cement eater, the silk winding method, but anyway, back to the task at hand. Consumption of at least one serving of vegetables a day and more than two serving of nuts a week was associated with more than a 50% decrease in the probability of erectile dysfunction in a snapshot-in-time cross-sectional study, but such observational studies can't prove cause and effect. It's like finding that men who eat more healthfully have better swimmers. Maybe men who eat nuts are just health nuts, and the improvement is due to some other factor like exercise. What we need is an interventional trial, and here we go. The effect of nut consumption on semen quality and functionality, a randomized controlled trial, a standard American diet with or without a handful of walnuts and a half-handful of each almonds and hazelnuts. And the nut group experienced significant improvements in their total sperm count, vitality, motility, and shape, perhaps because those in the nut group showed a significant reduction in SDF. Sperm DNA fragmentation. The nuts appeared to protect their sperm DNA. Too bad while they're at it, they didn't measure the guy's erectile and sexual dysfunction. Oh, but they did! The effect of nut consumption on erectile and sexual function from the same study, the researchers report that those in the nut group saw a significant increase in orgasmic function and sexual desire, but what about erectile function? Anytime you see this kind of selective glass half-full reporting, you suspect some kind of industry funding, and indeed that was the case here. Yes, there was a marginal increase in orgasmic function and sexual desire of questionable clinical significance, but no improvement in erectile function, intercourse satisfaction, or overall satisfaction. And with so many comparisons, even the so-called significant findings may not even be statistically significant. But why did the pistachios I talked about back in 2013 work while these other nuts didn't? Well, if you remember, the original study was done on men in their 40s and 50s, who already had chronic erectile dysfunction, whereas the average age in the new study was 24 years old. So they may have started out with near-maximum circulation, but not leaving much room for the nuts. In our next story, we'll look at how men eating pistachio nuts experienced a significant improvement in blood flow through the penis, accompanied by significantly firmer erections. Here's the story. Erectile dysfunction is considered an important cause of decreased quality of life in men. In fact, so much so that one early theory suggested they explained the link between impotence and heart attacks. Depression is a risk factor for coronary heart disease, and the thought was that men who couldn't get it up became so depressed that they liked to die of a broken heart. But now we know that erectile dysfunction and heart disease can be two different manifestations of the exact same root problem— diseased arteries. Inflamed oxidized cholesterol clogged blood vessels. So no wonder a diet chock full of anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol-lowering plant foods would improve sexual functioning in both men and women, as well as reduce risk of heart disease. But why go low risk when you can shoot for no risk? A totally plant-based diet can even stop and reverse our number one killer. Of all the plant foods individually examined so far, nuts are among those most tied to longevity. Just two handfuls and nuts a week may extend a woman's life as much as jogging four hours a week. So if nuts reduce the risk of heart disease, might they also help with sexual function? Well, men, eating three to four handfuls of pistachios a day for just three weeks, experienced a significant improvement in blood flow through the penis, accompanied by significantly firmer erections. This may not be surprising. Remember how antioxidant-rich foods have a viagra-like effect of boosting nitric oxide production? Well, pistachios are certainly rich sources of antioxidants. And remember how the citrulline and watermelons helped with erection firmness by boosting arginine, which is what our body makes nitric oxide out of? Well, pistachios have a bunch of arginine, which may help explain the improvement in blood flow. And we know that cholesterol is an important predictor of sexual dysfunction in both men and women. And after just three weeks on all those pistachios, there were significant improvements in cholesterol. And like other studies that piled on hundreds of calories of nuts a day, there was no weight gain. Conclusion, just three weeks of pistachios resulted in a significant improvement in erectile function with additional improvement in cholesterol without any side effects. Note the two important differences between diet and drugs, just taking drugs like viagra to poison this enzyme and artificially boost nitric oxide signaling is just covering up the symptoms of the underlying problem on healthy arteries. Whereas eating whole healthy plant foods like nuts actually helps attack the root cause, cholesterol, oxidation, and inflammation, and only has good side effects. This enzyme that viagra-like drugs muck with is primarily found in two places in the body, the erectile tissue of the penis, and the retina of the eye. That's why the FDA encourages people to stop taking drugs like viagra and call a doctor right away if you experienced sudden loss of vision. Of course you can still find your phone. Though the harms tend to be self-limited and reversible, such as cyanopsia, in which your vision suddenly becomes tinted blue, why risk side effects at all when the problem can be reversed, cured in the first place, improving the quality and quantity of our lives. Improvement of sexual function in men and women should be added to the growing list of clinical benefits brought about by healthy lifestyles in human beings. Did you know that dioxins, endocrine disrupting pollutants, heavy metals, saturated fat, and steroids in the meat supply may be affecting sperm counts, semen quality, and the ability of men to conceive? Infertility affects 10 to 15% of couples attempting to conceive, and about half the cases a problem is found in the man.  But why? I've talked about the role of xenoestrogens, endocrine disrupting industrial pollutants that build up in animal fat, particularly fish. But male fertility is not just about sperm count, the number of sperm, but about how well the sperms themselves work. A recent study found that successful pregnancy and fertilized egg implantation outcomes are decreased in patients reporting a more frequent intake of meat. This finding is consistent with poor semen quality associated with a higher intake of products that may incorporate these chemicals and steroids. The use of these compounds in the food industry results in an increased total level of xenoestrogens and sex steroids in processed foods, such as meat or milk, whose intake contributes significantly to daily exposures. Xenoestrogens are highly lipophilic substances that can accumulate in fat-rich foods, such as meat, and may be suspected as partially responsible for the decline in semen quality. Conclusion. Couples having trouble conceiving must be advised about the drastic effect of both the male and female lifestyles on infertility treatment success. This is consistent with previous findings that frequent intake of fat-laden foods, like meat products and milk, may negatively affect semen quality in humans, whereas some fruits or vegetables may maintain or improve semen quality. Vegetable consumption was also found protective of a new study, which may be because of the antioxidant and nutrient content of these plant foods. The adverse effects of meat could be from other pollutants as well. Exposure, even as an infant, to low levels of dioxin can permanently reduce sperm quality. The general consensus is that human sperm quality has declined over time in different areas. We're still not sure why, but dioxins may be playing a causal role. The reason why maternal beef consumption may alter a man's testicular development and adversely affect his future reproductive capacity is thought to be due to the anabolic steroids implanted into the animals. But as the accompanying editorial points out, the steroids could also be interacting with other xenobiotic, meaning industrial chemicals present in meat, such as pesticides and dioxin-like pollutants and even chemicals that may be present in the plastic wrap. Heavy metals may also play a role. Lead and cadmium exposure, as measured in the bloodstream, was associated with significantly longer time to conceive. Where might exposure be coming from? Well, common types of seafood, right? Out of fish markets and supermarkets, were sampled. The highest cadmium levels were found in tuna, highest lead levels found in scalps and shrimp. The greatest risk from different metals resided in different fish, some of which got really high. Thus, the risk information given to the public, and mainly about mercury, does not present a complete picture. There are other toxic metals in fish as well. The largest and oldest fish had some of the highest levels, and we see that with other animals as well. For example, contamination of beef by cadmium and lead, clearly dependent on the age of the animal. The only beverage associated with infertility in women was soft drinks, though this may be from an indirect route, with soda linked to obesity, and then obesity then linked to reduced fertilization rates. Though there has been a study on one really direct route, the effectiveness of Coca-Cola as a spermacidal agent in vaginal douching. Diet Coke apparently had the strongest effect. Harvard researchers publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine. What about Coke versus Pepsi? Taxpayer money-hearted work for this head-to-head test, and neither of them really worked. Coke nor Pepsi. Though they explained their methods for preparing the sperm-Cola mixtures differed from the Harvard group, bottom line, soda probably isn't good for you going into any more of this. We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials. We may share it on our social media to help inspire others. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, or studies mentioned here, please go to the Nutrition Facts podcast landing page. There you'll find all the detailed information you need, plus links to all the sources we cite to each of these topics. My latest two books are How to Survive a Pandemic, Available on e-book, audio book, or actual book, and the How Not to Diet cookbook with more than 100 recipes for delicious and nutritious meals. All proceeds I receive from the sales of my books go to charity. NutritionFacts.org is a non-profit science-based public service where you can sign up for free daily updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos and articles. Everything on the website is free. There's no ads, no corporate sponsorship. It's strictly non-commercial. I'm not selling anything. I just put it up as a public service as a labor of love as a tribute to my grandmother, whose own life was saved with evidence-based nutrition.


nice bright LEDs and this plastic liner, nice, easy clean. You can brush it out, you can hose it out, see it's got the upturned edges to keep the hodl. It's looking so tidy because it's all there at the moment. Well that's just for the sake of a video.  Back to work tomorrow as it's going to be 11 degrees. It's currently 5, I feel like minus 5 with this wind. Yeah so I bought this off me mate Neil. He's left all the seat covers in. Got your cracking seat covers. And the rest of it is pretty much your bog standard transit custom. Only nice and clean. It's very rarity for us. And there's the mileage. I don't think you can see that. But I can't pick that up on the camera or zoom in on the edit. Lovely van. It's got bluetooth and cruise control and parking sensors which is very handy, front and back parking sensors. It stops you bouncing off things I suppose. Yeah it's pretty much like a big car. Lovely to drive. Prestige vehicle detailing. I've just come for a quick run. The big reveal. There it is. It's just been waxed. Cleaned and waxed. Absolutely made up with it. It's going a bit.