I still enjoy the outdoors. I have been running for years. I get up every morning and run before I come to work. I was born in Columbus, Georgia, raised there, graduated from high school there. I went to the University of Tennessee from Columbus, then transferred to the University of Texas Arlington. My plan was to be a field biologist and ultimately be a park ranger. And then my father was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. He had surgery and then had recurrence. My father-in-law was diagnosed with prostate cancer. You know, we kept them at home and so my wife and I spent time caring for them.  And they both died within six months of one another. It really had an impact. Sort of changed my picture of what would be an important thing to do in life.  And now I'm an immunologist. And one of the really kind of happy things for me is when I was at Washington University School of Medicine, we were working on a screening test for prostate cancer and it's our group that validated that test. And from that time forward, screening with PSA was something that many men started doing. Dr. Aleph came to Purdue in 2007. He started at Washington University, then went to the University of Iowa, and then Purdue was able to lure him over here. And in my opinion, he's absolutely elevated the reputation of the Purdue Center for Cancer Research. So there are 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers in the United States. We're one of those 70. And we have kind of a unique designation. We're called a Basic Science Cancer Center. And there are only seven of those in the country. We don't treat patients, but we discover how cancer cells become cancer cells. We develop new ways to treat the cancers. We develop new ways to image. So we make the tools that others use to treat. We have like 123 members in our center. They represent 19 departments across six colleges. So it's very diverse backgrounds. But all these people come together to do one thing and that's fight cancer. The thing I enjoy the most is getting people together to do work that otherwise they wouldn't do. This person has expertise. That person has expertise. Can we bring them together and make things happen? And our center, through very generous donors, provides money to really enable them to do the experiments they need to to validate the testing that they're pursuing. So it's working. We really have an opportunity to make a major, major impact. Tyler Trent became a symbol and an inspiration to everyone in the Purdue family and to millions elsewhere. We know there's an extra ration of grit in heaven tonight. We learned about his situation, a kind of cancer called osteosarcoma. It attacks primarily young teenagers and so we got to know Tyler. His dream was to come to the Ohio State game and our center shares a suite in the football stadium. So we invited him to come to our suite and you know the outcome of that game. That was one of the most exciting games we've had in a long time and Tyler was in heaven. I'm telling you, he was just really honored across the board. It was a great experience for him. And subsequent to that, one of our investigators, Dr. Philip Lowe, developed a really special way to take cells from your body, modify them and put them back in your body so that they attack the cancer. And the first cancer we're going to treat, osteosarcoma. In the site, the company formed around that technology. It has that planned and it looks like the trial will start in May. So it's a great opportunity to honor Tyler to do something on this particular type of cancer. It can't be soon enough. As you look into the future, we're talking about cancer research. Are you optimistic? I'm very optimistic. You know, we've been here for 40 years. We have 11 drugs in clinical trials. We have some that are ready for FDA approval. We have a building next door that's the Drug Discovery Institute. And they're my own research, of course, and working with the students working in the lab. And we have a great canine oncology group here. It's a department in the School of Veterinary Medicine here at Purdue. It's always exciting. The discoveries, you never know what the experiments are going to really yield. And when they do, you find something new and it's exciting. We're always looking for cures. But certainly over the next dozen years or so, we're going to be able to make cancer a disease that we can live with. I've been watching my PSA since we were developing it as a screening test back at Washington University. As always, you know, with age, it'll increase a little bit. But mine then took a big jump. And then I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Certainly, it goes to show that nobody is immune from it. And Dr. Aleph has kind of a special knowledge of prostate cancer, but by virtue of his history and his research. I was operated on in June of 16. I was happy that we caught it early and could really treat it effectively. And as of now, I have an undetectable PSA, so I'm in good shape. I run about three miles these days. I get up at 4 a.m. every morning. It really keeps me in good physical condition. I can play with all my grandchildren and keep up with them. His story, I think, is one that I probably tell more than he does. Within one year, he lost both his father and father in a lot of cancer. From that point, he now has is in fact one of the leading researchers in cancer research, not only in the country, but in the world. I hope he's earning the recognition that he I believe deserves. In retrospect, I wouldn't have gone down this path if that hadn't occurred. But I'm sorry for the events that caused me to do it. At least a bad thing turned out for good.


So I will give you an example. If you won the lottery, what would you do? If you won the lottery, what would you do? Anyone? How about Natalia? If you won the lottery, what would you do? Okay, good. So you would buy a boat, right? So the hypothetical or imaginary situation is if you won the lottery, right? So that's imaginary. You did not win the lottery, right? Hopefully you will one day, but you did not win the lottery, right? So if you won the lottery, that hypothetical or imaginary situation, winning the lottery, what would you do? You would buy a boat. So you have that hypothetical or imaginary situation, and then the consequence or the result, which would be buying a boat. You would buy a boat, right? So let me give you maybe one more. So you could say, you could say if I had time, I would, right, help you. So if I had time, that's the imaginary or hypothetical situation, I would help you. So that is the result or the consequence. What you would do if you had that imaginary situation, what you would do. So both of them are imaginary. If this happened, I would do this. So let's go over the form of the second conditional, okay? So it goes like this. If plus simple past. So if plus the simple past, and then we have the would or the wouldn't. You see that here, right? The would or the wouldn't. And then plus the base form of the verb, right? So if, let's look at the example we had before. If I had time, so the simple past had, right? So if I had time, okay? Now where is the base form in the consequence?


I promise you guys, I saw Chris Rock get slapped, I promise you I saw that. I promise you guys, I promise you guys I have the internet, this is not my, this is my first, not my first night on the internet. So Will Smith says something about Chris Rock wife? Oh, Chris Rock got slapped. Oh, that's where I, that's where I must, okay. You go into a gym, you go into a gym tomorrow, and you gotta win. You go into LA fitness, you gotta win to stay on the court. Are you picking in bead or are you picking yokich?  Who are you picking? Let's be honest. Ain't nobody picking yokich, dude.  All right, there's more skill in the college game. Okay, that's the end of that. It's the end of that one, boys. That's the end of my hoops talk. There's more skill in the college game. Is this like an under center guy? Are we getting under centered right now? Is this scramble for his life, huh? Look how fast his mother is. But I hate that. I'm just over the game right now. Honestly, I don't know how to stop this under center rollout. I honestly have no idea. I really have no idea. This is like, it looks like it is Chicovi, bro. This is like how Chicovi plays. Like, he's gonna like agap up the middle with this. This is Chicovi. I swear to God, it might really be Chicovi's lurk. He has seven people coming free. That's how I'm playing. Seven people running right at the quarterback and shotgun. This dude's just snapping and running the ball to anybody, bro. Running the ball with the quarterback, bro. He's running. I swear to God, I think I like my defense against this. I think I like it. No bulls***. Man, I gotta identify what play it is first, bro. That's all I gotta do. All I gotta do is identify what play he's running through. He's gonna corner out back the other way here, I think. It's like, come on. Like, there's no way we... What? Oh my God, Slay. Oh my God, there's no way. Oh, I got nano detected, of course. This is where my life is. I got nano detected, bro. There ain't no way that was a good... It's no way that was a good pass. Like, there's no way. Like, come on, Dawkins. Dawkins, Slay, everybody. If Slay has 99 speed there, that's an easy pick, dude. It's just no way in hell, man. They just start running all over the place.  Now I'm unstoppable. Come on, man. Y'all gotta get to him and block. How is 98 just shedding my life like this, bro? Let me see it.   First down, I got one time out. Gotta pass on that first. Let's go. Come on, man. I low key like the RPO against this. I do. Catch, DJ. Vante Maddox. Maddox. Yo, Jay, we talking about Chris Rock, Slat, Will Smith? Did that happen? Chris Rock, Slat, Will Smith? Y'all trolling. It's a bad play. I don't like this play, bro. I really don't. I'm gonna pitch that so bad. Oh, I wanted to pitch that so bad, man. It's 399. Oh, we gotta get in there. Devante? Now, do I go for 2 here? I don't think I go for 2 here. Almost missed that point. Oh, I have Jake Elliott. Eagles kicker. It's my fault. The dude's just blitzing. It's like Shacoby. They just blitzed 7 and 8 people. Ever like, dude, you just gotta make a read. It's not mad at a defense. It makes sense, but I got it.  I got to be on my damn. What's your Macaulay? My Mexi bronze here. Like, bro, that's dude. I had a spy and like, bro, like this cannot happen. Defense is not going for a cover three bonus. Might probably just roll out roll out corner. Right. Yep. Yep. All over it. Let's go. Come on. Come on. He might run here. I don't even know what this is, but I'm going to back up like he is. I think he actually is going to run here.  I got him here. We'll get him. Nice. Come on. This is good defense, man. My big corner out left. Free touchdown. Oh, yeah, baby. Fee, fee, fee, fee. Come on, Sue. Oh, my God. That's the game. Oh, come on, man. Oh, that's the game. My man. That's called, man. He's missing these throws. He's going to run right now. He might roll out left. I think this might be a roll out left play, dude. Oh, Slay. Oh, come on. Like on me. Slay. There's just no way Slay that you should like, I'm just heartbroken, dude. I'm just heartbroken. I'm absolutely heartbroken, dude. Slay is in a 20-yard flat and somehow he chased the quarterback. For all these dudes that just run out of, you know, under center. This is Chacobi. I swear to God, this is Chacobi. It really is. It's when this is Chacobi. He got seven Madden accounts. The worst thing is how creepy this dude is. Like, I don't even know what he's using right now, dude. Let's go Big Vic. Let's go, baby. He's that first thing, kid. Yep. He takes a time out. Like, yo, this is Chacobi. One million, like one million percent.  He's just giggling and giggling and giggling. No, he might be lean now. You're right. He's skinny now. Omaha, Omaha, Omaha. Omaha. Oh, that's Vic. Where's LaGuerre Blunt at? Where's Blunt? Where's Blunt? We should build him up with a good bit of clock. Yeah, Vic's having a good game, boys. I have Omaha, which is helping me a little bit here, boys. He's going to blitz this. I mean, that's what I learned from Omaha. Maybe not. He's putting a lot of zones out here now. Oh, he's off sides, I think. Dot. Good game.  He got rough in the passer, though. Off sides, fourth and short. Yo, that play was crazy. Ooh. That play was crazy right there. I knew he was off sides, though. I really did. I knew he was off sides. Never doubt that dubby dive. I mean, all right. This is the best play in the game, dude.  Like, are you kidding me? Is it really that good? I get a sack. I don't know why my whole team just chased. Like, why is my whole team chasing him? What is going on, Chad? That my whole team is chasing him. Somebody explain that to me. I'm getting glitched. Nice. Love to see it. Thank you.  Lost again. Can you ever beat me? Can you ever beat me in this game? Ever in your life. Ever.  Can you ever win one game? Eagles team team. No money spent. Good team. Ever. Can you ever win one game of a whole year of Madden? GGs. There he is. He's even got a fake twitch. How nasty board is this human being, bro? That's a good point. If it's not Shikobi. If it's not Shikobi, why are you playing like Shikobi? You could play like anybody in the world and you chose to play like Shikobi. Even worse. That's even worse. But if it's not, GGs, bro.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here's talking about the Jurassic world dominion in this video once again I just did a video uploaded late last night now I'm uploading another one today because they actually went ahead and released a second trailer online for everyone to enjoy and it was Amazing and pretty much was exactly what was described from the cinema con footage That was that was revealed to everyone in attendance there for that universal panel Which again was jam packed with a lot of things they had I'm still gonna do a video on Megan So if for any of you looking forward to another horror content video for me I'm gonna do Megan later But the footage that we saw highlighted a lot of things that again were talked about from the description Of the footage shown at cinema con we see Owen greeted by blue at one point and her baby But the baby is then abducted blue lets out a cry and Owen makes a promise to bring her back Ian Malcolm and shown says Genetic power has now been unleashed and then we see shots of terror like a pterodactyl flying over the city And then I think we see Henry Woo who discusses or dr. Woo who discusses a terrible mistake that's been made There are of course several shots of dinosaurs just wreaking havoc Velociraptors are indeed chasing Owen and Claire while they are on motorcycles. So I'm sure that's gonna be a very Fun sequence to watch unfold because it just looks exhilarating from the trailers alone There are a lot of explosive shots The legacy cast are shown interacting with the new cast and then the footage ends with the group being attacked by the New dino gigantic gigantic source. So As far as my thoughts on the overall trailer for this for this movie this second trailer It got me even more excited I did want to say that tickets are indeed now on sale if you want to go out and buy your tickets You can go buy them over on Fandango. I believe they should also be available on Adam tickets Maybe even some other apps like the AMC app Cinema I believe has them up and going now to that that went live earlier than I believe before they released this trailer Now for those of you who watch are watching this video right now if you want to notate anything I'm probably gonna see the movie the week it comes out on Monday or Maybe the week maybe a week early because I'm of course. I'm gonna see before for releases So then I'll have a spoiler for your review up on the channel That same week before it releases for those of you who want to watch my review But going back into the trailer the trailer itself was very fun. It got me very Emotional only because of the fact that while we had these fun shots of these humans interacting with these dinosaurs We did get to hear more of that iconic Jurassic Park theme And I just I just have a soft spot for that theme that theme really just I feel like for everyone who was lucky enough to Experience Jurassic Park as a child when you hear this theme even out into your adult years It always just takes you back to that first time you were a little girl or a little boy Or a little person just whoever you want to be And you got to watch Jurassic Park for the first time and you heard that iconic theme song. It was such a source of Like just how could he how cohesive and complete that first movie was even if we didn't get any sequels I'm glad we have the franchise that we do have because while I do see that there's some that have a lot of message problems none of them are Are boring and then again the closest one that comes to that for me is the Lost World Jurassic Park But the footage that we saw here in Jurassic World Dominion We also got a good-looking blues, baby who I guess I can say is adorable for now until she becomes blues height of The footage we see for or saw for Jurassic World Dominion. It was very fulfilling for me It got me more hyped up for the movie Do I think this movie is going to be the best thing ever? No I do think this movie is going to be a solid six out of ten right now, and I'm hoping to have my expectations Surpassed of I'm also just expecting this movie to hopefully not be as heavily retcon Heavy as I think it will be because of Biosyn's presence and me just being kind of positive that what they're gonna do with Biosyn It's try to it's try to hold them over as like this overarching villain that's been here since day one You know, they actually pulled the strings here They pulled the strings there now you're backtracking to other movies that you weren't even involved with to try to make your narrative work Which again in return makes your narrative come across weak because you had to go back and adjust things to make yours work Rather than just expanding on what was already established But it was nice to see Dr. Grant It was nice to see the legacy cast interact with the with the newer cast and this quote-on-quote supposed into the Jurassic era I mean we saw glimpses of what what we are already basically gonna Experience when we watch this movie there were shots of people eating or not people eating but dinosaurs eating people running wild through cities I'm not sure how much carnage will be going on in certain cities or how how much damage and destruction has been caused across the earth With dinosaurs and humans now coexisting but hopefully Jurassic World Dominion will share light on that And I'm curious to just see how this movie wraps up in the sense that with them saying this is supposed to be the end of The Jurassic era, but the plan is to if successful still carry on with future movies if that's what they still want to do How is this movie going to end? Does this movie set up future movies or does this movie end in a way that just lets you leave the door open to explore future movies? Just in the case of it can feel like an ending, but also leave the door wide open Allah scream 3 for those of you who watch my screen videos Doing something like that where just in case if Dominion proves to be not the success They thought it would be they'll just call it quits and that'll be the end of the franchise I know many people like myself included would love for this to be the last movie a Lot of people thought that the last one should have been the last movie But I'm all about completing your your narratives with the idea But knowing that they had this kind of mapped out and this is again Something that I can say is very similar to what we start what we've been getting with the Halloween trilogy This has been the most cohesive and coherent Structure for the Jurassic Park series In well, it's a whole entire existing because it doesn't have as many movies as the Halloween movies do Because with the original trilogy Jurassic Park 1 2 and 3 it felt like everything was being written off the fly but with this one you can see that it's slowly being built up to a Endgame there's always been this idea in mind. They've had something mapped out They've had these ideas and they've just been able to kind of bring them to life Not saying that they had everything figured out But it definitely is evident that had this figured out more so than what we were getting with those original movies when they were coming out In the 90s to early 2000s So with the Jurassic era ending and as we saw a lot of the action-packed Fun coming our way in this new trailer I'm hoping that we'll at least get glimpses as to what might be their direction they could explore going into Jurassic Because they might not even call the future movies Jurassic anything They might just rely solely on the fact that you know, this is a Jurassic movie But it's not going to be called anything regarding Jurassic Park or Jurassic world Because of the fact that it's supposed to be the end of the Jurassic era And you'll just get countless movies with humans and dinosaurs interacting in the same world So are we gonna do are we gonna dive into like walking dead type of stuff where you have you know Like an apocalyptic thing going on if that's the narrative they want to present I'm not sure how it'll work. I'm definitely curious to see how humans are adapting to living with dinosaurs Oh, and I'm sure we'll get to see glimpses of that in Jurassic world domain when it releases on June 10th later this year Let me know just thought about the second trailer down in the comment section below if you haven't already Of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post notification in this video in the description I have links my social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there Of course limit is any movies news or views like me to cover in the future. I'm glad to mine guys I will see you in the next video


The West gives Ukraine five months to win. Ukraine has five months to demonstrate some advances to the US and other Western backers to convince them of its plans for the conflict with Russia, the Financial Times reported, citing several European and American officials. Washington is entering an election cycle and has to show that the massive military support the US and its allies have been providing to Ukraine has not been in vain, the paper also said. It is important for America to sell this war as a successful one, as well as for the domestic purposes to prove that all those aid packages have been successful in terms of Ukrainian advances, a European official told the Financial Times. The polls show that public support for Ukraine is waning in the US. And President Biden's administration has to show that the tens of billions of dollars it spent on assistance for Kiev made a major difference on the front line, the media outlet said. According to newspaper sources, Washington believes the next five months are critical to the outcome of the conflict. If we get to September and Ukraine has not made significant gains, then the international pressure on the West to bring them to negotiations will be enormous. Another source told the newspaper on condition of anonymity. The Western military support for Kiev is also about to reach its limits. The sources warned. The message to Kiev is basically that this is the best you're going to get. A European official told the paper, there's no more flexibility in the US budget to keep writing checks and European arms factories are running at full capacity. We can't keep the same level of assistance forever. A European official said, adding that the current level of support might be sustained for a year or two, but no longer.


All right, welcome everybody. It is 28th. This is the hyper letter technical oversight committee call Everybody on a call has been here before so, you know about the antitrust policy and you also know about our code of conduct So those are the two things that we have to abide by in this call For announcements today, we have the Dev Weekly developer newsletter that goes out each Friday If you do have something that you want to include in that, please do leave a comment on the Upcoming newsletter wiki page that is linked from here. I think this is the 2023 link, but we just need to create that wiki page The second one that announcement that we have is the how to create a currency management application and deploy it on hyperledger or fabric Network workshop. It's scheduled for October 12th If you are interested in attending that call or that webinar, please do click on the registration link. That's in the agenda Any other announcements that anybody has that they would like to make? So the quarterly reports I left the firefly one on here because as of yesterday I didn't think we had enough to merge that I think as of this morning. I did see a few Additional approvals come in so we can probably go ahead and merge that after the call But any questions on the firefly for those of you who've had a chance to look at it No, okay, and then the the basic report came in yesterday that one is Obviously up for review from everyone I think we've had maybe a couple people take a look at it already, but please do have a look at that one as well The caliper report was due last week. It has not come in yet. So it would be We should make sure that we go out and remind them that they have a report. That's due So we can take care of that. I'm pretty sure that we've created an issue in their repo So I'll probably just go comment on that particular issue For upcoming reports next week the cacti and the fabric reports are not much Two weeks from now the cacti and the fabric report are due So just fyi that those are coming up Any questions on the reports before we move to the discussion items So for discussion items, we do have a Whole request that's come in from steven on the security policy and template And then we also have the task force discussion on best practices for automated pipelines So steven, I don't know. Did you want to walk us through the security policy and template? We may have lost him Hey, steven. He's still with us Sure happy to do that. I didn't call it up yet. So let me just call that up and I'll And I'll go through I love how zoom changes from full screen to park screen mode It's a feature. Yeah That's not a very good feature I agree I sometimes wonder if people use the products that they create They do because that's all these things eventually get fixed All right back to zoom. Sorry about this. I'll be there in a sec Maybe this is why they wanted all the zoom employees to come back to work See my screen I assume we can Okay So I actually come back to this My goal here was to take Do not editorialize much in this but rather to separate out into a Spirit template that is What we think are the best practices And a document that describes the hyper ledger policy how it applies to projects and Indicates the places in the template document where projects are Are able to change and provide alternatives to what is in the The default best practices document. So if I come over to the I'll start with the security template Um Oh 11 minutes guys, I'm going to say I haven't seen comments. So that explains it um so basically the only change that a A uh only changes that must be made are Hyper ledger projects and capitals gets uh everywhere projects in capitals change it to the name of your project um Remove these instructions sections and fill in the names of the security team members um that basically Uh covers what's necessary to change it um It does provide Enough information for someone landing on the page for the project itself to say what is a vulnerability disclosure Immediately goes into what is who is on the security team And outlines the responsibility of the security team This is both for to make sure that the security team members know what they're signing up for when when the pr goes in to put their names in there and for Members of the public or or whoever lands on this page for the project to see that those roles And then in here Notice how short this is um these basically outline the Particular um rules that are to be followed that that we recommend as uh as a toc that every project follows um the discussion Forums exist and that they primarily be on discord Um that reports can go into either emailing the security list or opening a vulnerable vulnerability report um that uh CVE reporting begun and that github be the numbering authority um that that every project have an embargo A private embargo list And here's how it gets how you get on it And then a reference back to the main security policy That the project will publish security advisories and that it will use a private the github private deployment infrastructure, so if um barring good reasons Um, this would be the policies of all projects within win hyper ledger. So that's the security template itself it's the idea there is um, this would be copied into the um primary repository for the project would be copied into each Each other repository of the project or a pointer to this document uh to the projects would be put into Other repositories, so you you're not copying the text. So that's the template Any questions or comments at that point? Okay Here is the policy and in this case I basically took out Books That doesn't look right instructions Okay, I'm a little nervous here. This looks like a duplicate of the other one Uh, oh Yeah, that's the template still. Okay. Why is it not showing the other one? Sorry Lucas You have to uncheck that box that says viewed Because on the bottom If you scroll down the bottom, there's uh When I clicked on this I clicked the wrong one. I did it again. Okay. So what's happening here? Okay So I'm trying new software that's altering my most the most behavior. I think I'm struggling with it. Okay Sorry about that. Um, okay So this is the full security policy um, and this goes in This is in the toc governance and this is the overall policy again about the documents, um, so I tried to keep it pretty much clean, but the the biggest thing Pretty much adhering to what was already written by those that actually formed the policy I didn't form the policy. I I'm just trying to present it slightly differently. So Uh, this talks about what is it Um, what's the policies and rules that are followed what the security team has to do The fact that each, um Project must have a security team and here's the guidelines for having a security team in place um requirements for You know must have at least three maintainers on it and and established early in the project and so on Um, here's the what I wanted to highlight. So in each of these sections or where it's appropriate in each of these sections There's an alternative This section is either exactly what is in the Template or has a bunch of verbiage to give more background Then it says what is in the template and then it has the section called alternative and this is where um the items that were already in the project that Talked about what alternatives were possible um Or are permissible Provided they align with the overall policy of hyperledger So in a discussion forum, um, they may use other forums provided they Details about the other ones must be included in the security policies. So projects may Have other forums they use if they do they must Provide details about those other forms report intakes Here They may Accept security vulnerability exposures by other mechanisms and then I give the example of hacker one um The policy must document all of the alternatives the projects must accept reports from the security list from the mailing list So that's not an option to remove that one so that's basically the Approach of the overall policy. So you've got um Again in this one the github is the numbering authority and then an alternative you may list other You may have another numbering authority in listis There's a lot more detail in the embargo list um So more information is provided about what an embargo list is and so on So this is more or less the background for the project um, this is Basically a repeat of what's exactly in the template And then this is the alternatives such as they may not have a Made-toothed document that they did not have an embargo list and the reason for not having should be included So and finally the same things for the security advisories and the private patch infrastructure That covers, um, how I split it up and what I was thinking when I said we should Adjust the policy in that way in comments discussion peter peter I just wanted to say that I think it looks good Not much else. Thank you for putting it together Sorry, it took so long No problem heart Yeah, thanks, steven. Um I think, you know The modularization will help people get started. So thank you for doing that All right, any other comments or do we want to vote on Accepting this today I could submit a motion Okay, uh, jim Yeah, just one quick clarification So the the template gets Needs to be adopted by all the teams and then the advisory How does that get communicated to to the projects? Does that live somewhere? Maybe in Which the repository I'm sorry, jim. Which advisory are you talking about? I think unfortunately that word came up multiple times sorry, uh So the first document that steven presented is the is the template that All projects should include in their in in the repositories and there's the second document that tells the project team, uh, how to use it Do both get merged into to see, um Yeah, so are they less? Yeah, the template and so the the overall policy the security md in the toc Um repository is the overall policy for hyper ledger And guidance for the projects the template Is what gets copied as the security dot md file into the repositories of the projects And it links back to the toc policy. So it's got a link in there back to the toc policy paper Okay, and the toc policy thing, uh goes on Though a week you said yeah toc.hyper ledger.org Okay, yeah, that's whatever. Yeah, okay. Cool. Yeah, thanks Sorry about the delay No worries Good clarification All right, so we do have a motion. Do we have a second? I seconded All right, thanks Arun Sean did you want to take us to a vote? Happily, uh, I will call out your name. Please say whether you are for the proposal for the security policy for the security to approve the security policy and template against approving the security policy and template or abstain, uh Arun How do you vote? Yes Marcus, how do you vote? for Rama, how do you vote? for Steven, how do you vote? for David and Yarn, how do you vote? for Arno, how do you vote? for Peter, how do you vote? for Bobby, how do you vote? for And Tracy, how do you vote? for Uh, it's unanimous Tracy on the security policy and template approval Okay, great. Thank you so much. Uh, thank you Everybody who worked on the security vulnerability task force got the got us to this place. Um, thank you Steven for the template and the Alternates if you will in the policy, I think this is going to be great and we will get this merged in Uh, and then we will uh communicate this. I think if I'm not mistaken Arun, you had a blog post that was uh with the um, with the hyperledger staff to get this announced to the greater Hyperledger community. Is that uh, still correct? That's correct, Tracy. I can get that proposed. Um, get sure you look for publishing this week. Okay, great. Um, Jim, thank you for the four vote. I think we missed Jim. Is that uh, in the vote, but uh, Jim is a four as well. That was my mistake. Uh, I apologize. Okay, great. Uh, so we will close out this uh task force as an item and we'll um continue from here. One sec. Um, I should look at uh, David's comments before, uh, before we merge it. So I haven't had a chance to look at those yet. So I'll take a look. That's fine. They were nits. Um, so a little grammar and a little formatting. So I think uh, it doesn't uh, change the policy or the template in any, you know, distinctive way. But we might as well fix the typos before. For sure. For sure. Yeah, okay. Okay, great. Uh, Dave? Yeah, just right before we close out the task force, I will say fabric is still on hacker one. I think we would like to move off of it. Does anybody see any problem with that? I usually work with Ryan on this. He's not on the call, I guess. Rise on vacation, but no, I mean, it's, it's the maintainers. So it's whatever you all want to do. And do we still expect to maintain a bounty program? Because I think that was kind of documented through hacker one, if I recall correctly. It was. Yes. Um, so that is a question we have been meaning to address. Um, uh, so this is a longer discussion, I guess. I'm not sure we want to get into it right now, but, um, you know, talking about things like, uh, security audits, bug bounty programs, et cetera, is something we definitely need to do. Um, it's in some ways a board discussion because of the amount of money involved. Uh, but this is a, an excellent question, Dave. And I, um, we should have a longer discussion about it at some point. Yeah, we don't have to do it now. I just wanted to bring it up. Thank you. Yeah, it is on the radar. Okay.  Is that my understanding? In some permutation of things. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Um, I just didn't know if there was something I needed to add to the agenda for a future meeting for us to discuss, uh, right now, or if it was a future sort of thing for us to take a look at. No, but if anyone has feedback on this, we would love to know. So this, you know, Dave's data points on hacker one and other things are going to be great. All right, great. Anything else on this topic then? All right. So I think the next agenda item is off to Peter, um, to talk about the automated pipeline best practices and, uh, you know, either update or let's have a discussion if we need to have a discussion in the, in the group to move this forward. Okay. A bit of both. Okay. I started working on a survey and I put the link onto the Discord chat, but I also want to share my screen and go through the items very quick and then ask for opinion feedback. So I'm using Google Forms and, uh, actually, even before I get started with questions themselves, the more boring part is that I set it up so it does not collect email addresses. It does not need login. I don't know how good that's going to be, but I just prefer not to force people to have to sign in if they don't want to. Maybe it improves the level of candidness that they will provide, which is what we're looking for. And so the questions, so that's a little description, but it just sets up the context that everyone here already has. We are trying to improve things with CI for everyone. We are trying to make sure that best practices are easier to follow. And the survey here, we hope that it will help us make decisions educated or at least a little more educated decision is on what to include in the document and in what format to present it, etc. So the first question I had is which service or provider to use. I thought this is important because our assumption is that most people use GitHub Actions, but I would like to actually validate that because if it turns out that one of the other options is way more popular than we have to make sure to address that by way of collecting the best practices for that as well. And I tried to provide then other for everything or wherever possible just so that people can tap out and include whatever else they have because I'm always a little disappointed when there's a survey and they have a yes no question that I either don't understand or it doesn't apply or I'm not sure for some other reason what should be chosen. And then there's a long free forum question about what are the pain points if anything. I'm hoping that this will be the biggest value add of the survey so I put it relatively early because we could identify patterns of issues that people deal with that we might actually have an easy solution to so that I would consider that to be the biggest win if there's the majority of people putting down something here that has a problem that we actually have a good solution to then they would that would pretty much be proved that the document will be very useful to whoever uses it and it would also inform our priorities on where to put which piece of information because if something is a common issue then I think that should be front and center at the very top of the document even if our initial hierarchical organization of the points would not agree with that. And then there's a few more questions that I thought might be useful to know for us for example if they are using the CEI to do publishing of their artifacts this is this might come in handy for future other task forces as well for example the artifact signing task force and it will also inform us on whether this is something where we should push a little harder because I think automated publishing is something that it's hard to set up but once you set it up it's very very enjoyable that it actually works and it overall improves the software quality because the maintainers who are usually manually spending time issuing releases can spend time on more useful things and then on the similar kind of idea I'm asking about dependency caching and you you'll see there's an option here to say I'm not sure which it seems obvious to me whether it should be true or false but I've also put myself in other shoes and maybe they say they will want to say I'm not sure which also led me down the path of questioning if someone wants to contact us as a task force where should that be and should I leave that contact information on this survey so I'm definitely take I will be taking advice on that as well and then the last question that no the one before the last question I came up with was how often do you have to deal with your CI is it kind of set it and forget it or or is it something that needs some sort of update very regularly and this again feeds into the prioritization if you have to change your CI every day or every week there might be something going wrong in the sense that one of the best practices might be missing that could make it more stable sort of generic enough that it can deal with changing requirements and then another one is if the hardware resources are enough I'm asking this specifically because based on how I would respond to this survey one of the things that we struggle with a lot initially on cacti is the fact that the free tier virtual machines that we get with the GitHub actions only have seven gigs of RAM and we have to run multiple containers as part of the CI running different ledgers so that we can run our integration tests where the cacti connectors are talking to the ledgers and so working around this was not easy we spent a lot of time just optimizing our containers to use less memory and maybe this is very unique to the project but I figured I'll just include it to see and so these are the questions that I've written down so far and I figured we could put in there any other questions that anyone else thinks would be a good idea and we can do it that's a little live editing session you know if you have a question idea I'll just put it right in uh Peter Tracy is your hand raised oh sorry I was sharing Tracy no worries uh the there's a couple things so one we can create a discord channel for this task force I'm actually surprised we didn't have one created so I think that's probably a miss on our part we can add that the second question I have is around the package registry so you have a true false sort of question there do we want to know which package registries they use is that important or not important to me as I was thinking of the question it wasn't but your yeah it should be important because the best practices dealing with the specific registries can also differ so maybe I should refactor this question saying multiple choice and then which one do you use any of those or none and then the question captures the same thing makes sense Peter I just created the discord channel for automated pipelines under toc thank you very much there is a question from marcus in the discord uh what about asking number one the usual ci execution time options could be less than one minute between one and five minutes five to thirty greater than thirty and the second question is when is the ci usually triggered multiple answers possible nightly on push on pr I like those ideas I sorry I actually type in this but the I agree okay get hope talk robin p.m. or factory and then oops I did not use any and then other okay so new question and how long does your ci usually take one minute sorry what were the options there I just put them in chat Peter uh the usual ci execution time options could be less than one minute between one and five minutes between five and 30 minutes and greater than 30 minutes yeah see the cactus or cacti ci takes more than 30 minutes it's less than one minute not greater than one minute at the top Peter oh yep thank you and then maybe maybe uh maybe an option for I do not know or there's times or you can be not sure or you can write an essay and if you write an essay I will read it so I've got all the options for the ci question and for the registry question you're asking what they currently use we might also want to ask if they would like to move to another ci or registry okay are you happy with your current ci provider slash package registry well I was kind of getting at like do they have a preference if they want if they were going to move do they have a preference okay how do we phrase that or am I putting that built into the existing question or a separate question just asking what is I would think a separate question right after that you ask the current question okay after this you have a preferred package registry ci provider that you would like to move to well I was I was going to say for the ci question that came before this and for the registry question we ask it oh separately separately okay does it look good otherwise for what a package registry looks good also if anyone would like to add any other options I just let me know these are the ones that I came up with just by myself or I do not want to move I or I don't Robin just asked about Matt Maven in uh in the chat okay sorry I'm coming around to it so this sorry to stupidate this but then package registry become ci provider have actions or call ci Travis IWSGCP and I'm happy or the other and I move this up so that we don't confuse everyone okay so we ask you which one do you use and then do you like it or are you planning on moving away okay and now checking around with question Maven well the thing with Maven is that Maven is the build tool but behind Maven there's a tree frog there's the Maven central there's a bunch of different registries that the tool itself can connect to so I think if you said Maven people get confused because they you they would all use Maven to connect to these different registries but we could ask a separate question if they use Maven Gretel or and which are all Java built or dependency management tools tools if that's what you prefer okay I'll have the thumbs up so I'm adding a new question build and dependency management tools to new incredible of npm yarn bar go make files or make see make more else is there yeah there will be a million of these and they not use any Peter forgive me if this was already answered are we asking people what projects they use no we could yeah I think that might be good like which hyperledger foundation project that could be front and center that's I think that'd be good yeah that we that way we could uh I think that would help us much better understand the results the projects we do have people that use multiple so it should be checkboxes yep that's where I get caught that I don't know all of them by heart oh we are pop quiz fairies and and on crates uh jim you can't help him yes you can please do I think and on crates is another one that's it uh chalem sawtooth no no no age peter yeah yeah like the inex explorers not a project I mean you could put that well we don't I guess we don't offer this to labs anyway eroa oh that's right level very hot what did you say about labs we don't usually offer uh these services to labs peter could you add so long and if oh you have so long right I think but uh get up actions also exist on the maps right that's true that's the usual do we deal with the labs as well or not questions I'm open to suggestions but I guess you could just say other and then people can specify the labs that sounds good yeah yeah I think this will let it like if we get half the people this will let us interpret data better I think I agree it gives us contacts and now I get outed for not knowing the alphabet sorry I'll check if anyone else has their hands up did you all know that if you go to hyperlegion.org and click on projects and all projects it doesn't actually do anything oh really oh I thought you were just going to tell me that I could have just went on the website and checked the list of projects well I was like we gotta make sure we got them all right oh thanks for flagging that it did work before I guess it broke somehow I'll file a ticket great thanks David okay something like this alphabetical order we could also change the order if if it should be in some other order but alphabetical is where my mind usually defaults okay so that's required as well I don't see any other hands go ahead Jim should that be multiple choices it is let's check boxes okay so you can if you want you can tick all of them cool so I'll probably wait the week or two for people to come in with more questions if anyone remembers any that they would like but then assuming that we are there at that point in the future we can talk about how to communicate this should we send this to the mailing list discord or all of the above none of the above because if we cast a two wide net then then the responses might might be hard to process but if you don't then maybe we do it layered at first we could send it to just maintainers I think we have tooling to message just maintainers and by we I mean rye has scripts to collect that information go ahead so Peter I think also if you have more boxes for qualitative feedback that might also be useful because you'll probably get some people that you know just don't care and do like a relatively low effort pass but you'll also get some people really who really do care and they'll be willing to explain things and you know written feedback is probably going to be extremely useful here right so if you ask a question right which service provider do you use right you know and then do you have a preferred CI provider you would like to move to then you could ask why right and then just have a oh good point if you answer yes to the question above and would like would like to expand on your reasoning for which we would be very great form and please do something like this yep okay something like that easy okay so we have this now for the CI provider and the package registry I guess another generic one below this one just you could just do one at the very end it's basically like if you'd like to provide any additional information on CI CD automated pipelines whatever you know give us your information here right just any other thoughts basically that you have okay yeah I guess that's the easiest way otherwise we we risk having just way too many questions and then some people will drop off just because of that then they reach question eight and then they realize that there's 15 okay yeah this is great feedback thanks everyone for the advice all right any other thoughts for this oh from my side just the question of how to send it out so it is everyone thinking that it's a good idea to send it first just the maintainers and then we can decide how and when and where to send it in addition to contributors or anyone else I think maintainers make sense um we've got the maintainers discord channel and I think we have a maintainers main list if I remember correctly oh that's yeah that makes it very easy okay then I will put this on hold or on review for further review for anyone who couldn't make it today or who will need some more time to think through it and uh we can finalize it maybe at our next session and then I'll send out the link to the maintainers main list and the discord okay so just a small suggestion maybe at the beginning of this document it would be nice if we add a paragraph of what the survey is about okay thank you sorry I missed that no no problem if if there's something missing from that paragraph I'm also very happy to add that specific thing so please do read it if you if you think something's missing I'm happy to add it and I'm also happy to add you as a collaborator if you send me an email then I can give you a great okay sounds like that's it for today then okay great thanks Peter uh other uh topics that we should discuss today um I think there is one that comes to mind uh in the basu report there is a question about um I think the the gehub actions but I think that's potentially a question for staff and not a question for the toc um let me see if I can bring that up quickly here so the question is are there remaining ask of consensus around the ci that should be spelled out am I right and assuming that's a staff question and not a toc question that sounds correct tracy that sounds like a staff question I know rye's been working with the basu team on some ci issues while he's on vacation um so we'll I'll I'll check in with rye and that when he's back on Monday okay sounds good sounds good um no rush we've got two weeks before we'll merge it so I just wanted to make sure that that was brought up as a question that was there so any other topics for discussion today okay if not then I think the uh next beatings task force discussion will be around the security artifact signing so I think that's the next topic up for discussion yeah bobby yeah and I was hoping that the documentation task course could get on the calendar for october 12th uh okay october 12th yep heart hey yeah I just wanted to say if we're discussing the artifact signing I'd encourage everyone to like read up on sickstore before next week's meeting I can post some links in the discord chat if you're interested as well that would be great rama just to remind everyone that there's a badging and life cycle task force meeting tomorrow same time uh we missed the last one because I was involved but we had it tomorrow so I'm really content that would be good thank you all right thanks trauma yeah so if it is but he's interested in joining that uh task force meeting tomorrow um you're obviously welcome to join and have a discussion on project life cycle and badging all right any other topics before we're closed for today okay so thanks everybody for joining and we will talk again next week thank you bye thank you thank you bye


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Today we're in Matthew 18. We're going to look at verses 15 through 20 and I'll read beginning at verse 15 read to verse 20 we'll get into our study what we're looking at today And you'll see this as we go through this passage is Related to dealing with conflict in a in a church between believers And so I chose to entitle this particular installment of our study of Matthew Protecting unity, but if you had a subtitle it really is relating to in terms of the the doctrine the theology that it pertains to It's really relating to what is called church discipline You'll see that as we get into this study, but let's begin reading in Matthew 18 at verse 15 I'll read to verse 20. We'll get into our study Matthew chapter 18 beginning at verse 15. Jesus says Moreover if your brother sins against you go and tell him his fault Between you and him alone if he hears you you have gained your brother But if he will not hear you hit him in the head No, but if he will not hear you 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 Now shortly I say to you whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven again. I say I Say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask it will be done for them by my father in heaven For where two or three are gathered together in my name. I am there in the midst of them Let me begin by simply pointing out something that's obvious and yet it doesn't seem to be as obvious as it would At first appear and that is this when Jesus in verses 19 and 20 speaks concerning Agreement when he says for example, I say to you that it if Two of you agree on earth concerning anything when you look at verse 20 where two or three are gathered together in my name I am there in the midst of them. Let's remember the context a Lot of times people will use these verses out of context and so they'll use them for for Encouragement to pray I see it all the time But Jesus is not speaking concerning agreeing in prayer The context of this is dealing with disorder in the church And what Jesus is saying here is when the church leadership gets together to adjudicate a problem He is the one who has overseen that elder and and remember the church kind of working together and He is the one who is present in the Bringing peace and so this is dealing with church discipline again a lot of times You'll you'll have somebody on on Facebook saying you know Well, let's pray wherever two or more agree Well, the context of that is related to dealing with conflict in the church and that's what we're going to look at today Protecting unity and I have to begin by saying to you that one of the joys of and the responsibilities of teaching the word of God from Chapter by chapter verse by verse from book to book is that you cover the entire counsel of God and What we're going to deal with today is something that I normally would not simply wake up in On a Monday and say okay Lord. What can we speak about next week? What can I say that that I really want to speak on and and then oh, yes, let's talk about church discipline What a great subject. It's a difficult subject to deal with and you'll see why in just a moment as we look at it you see This particular topic isn't one that is necessarily taught in the average church service And that is because the average church isn't teaching through the Bible verse by verse But that's how you learn the instructions of Christ That's how you learn to live lives that are pleasing to God. It's by going verse by verse You see in Matthew 28 verses 19 and 20 Jesus was giving what is called the Great Commission And he says go therefore and make disciples of all the nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and lo I am with you always Even to the end of the age so Jesus said teach them everything I commanded you And so that's what we attempt to do We attempt to go through the the Bible book by book chapter by chapter verse by verse So we get the entire counsel of God and that's what we're doing here in the gospel of Matthew as we have come to this particular portion of scripture We're going into a portion of scripture that deals with Protecting unity dealing with disorder But that is a foreign concept today What I'm going to do is I'm going to lay a foundation a prolonged introduction In order that we might be able to see the context and understand the purpose of this passage so I'll begin by saying the church is made up of People and because the church is made up of people conflict with others is inevitable So you have a church family and it is inevitable that you will the more you're involved The more you will have opportunity to have conflict with somebody else. It just happens and I've discovered that for many Christians The easiest way for them to deal with friction and disagreement is to simply leave and So rather than dealing with the problem They just leave and take the problem with them and what happens is Two basic things one is when they had a conflict with somebody and they decided just to up and leave because they're not going to resolve it It makes for very awkward moments Should you run into them somewhere? Because you never doubt with the conflict and a second thing that I've seen that's a result of people that don't deal with conflict Is that they have a habit of finding another place to go to and then inviting their friends out of the place that they're Presently in and bringing them over with them and saying that you know I found the promised land and it's a lot better over here than it is over there And so they invite people out decide with them because they never resolve their conflict as mature adults and as mature believers and so what happens is instead of Unity being protected disunity begins to and to occur and so Paul when Paul the Apostle was writing Paul would give commands to the church In order that we might be able to make an effort to maintain peace amongst ourselves for example in Ephesians 4 verse 3 Paul wrote that believers are to be endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace He wrote to the Romans in chapter 12 verse 18 and he said to them if it is possible as much as depends on you live peaceably with all men and So we endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and as much as lies within me I make that effort. That's what we're supposed to do So since conflict is inevitable what can believers do to promote peace in the church? Now as we've been going through Matthew remember with me We were in chapter 16 and in chapter 16 Jesus revealed to his disciples that he was the one who was building the church The Apostle Peter had made a confession of faith thou art the Christ the son of the living God and Jesus spoke to him and it said to him I say to you are Peter and Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Haiti shall not prevail against it And so I'm going to build something called the Ecclesia the church and The gates of hell will not prevail against that and so it's been pointed out that in the New Testament The word church is used 110 times to refer to believers It's a word that can be used to speak of believers throughout the world speaking of church universal But primarily the word is used to speak of local congregations or a group of local churches That's why when you're looking in 1st Corinthians chapter 16 or 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 Galatians chapter 1 or Galatians 1 22 you'll see that it speaks of churches the churches of Asia the churches of Macedonia Churches of Galatia the churches of Judea So the word can speak concerning a community of believers in geographic Area your universal if you will but it also speaks of what would be called local congregations And so it would speak concerning a group or groups of believers that are located in a community It doesn't refer to a building It refers to a congregation an assembly of people And the church another basic thing is made up of all people who have faith in Jesus Christ We become part of the church When we're born again, so attending church services We all know this but i'm laying a foundation again attending church services Does not mean that we're going to church by entering a building It simply means that the body of Christ the church is assembled in a location We by one spirit have been baptized into one body according to 1st Corinthians 12 13 So the church exists not only universally geographically but also Locally and the local church the church fellowship like we're in right now Is spoken of very often in scripture now Going a little bit further with that laying some more foundation The way that we enter into that church Life is not by anything other than faith in christ We gave ourselves to god by the holy spirit God has convicted us by the word of god. He's explained to us So as he's explained to us, this is how you become my child The holy spirit has convicted us That that is true And so we have believed in christ as our lord and savior Like it says in in romans 10 9 and 10 if you confess with your mouth Jesus is lord in believing your heart that god raised him from the dead you'll be saved For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified And it's with your mouth that you confess and are saved So jesus christ brings us into his church through faith in him The church belongs to him He purchased the church with his own blood He purchased it when he died on the cross and poured out his blood for us Acts 20 verse 28 says take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the holy spirit has made you overseers To shepherd the church of god which he purchased With his own blood In Ephesians 1 7 it says in whom speaking of jesus in whom we have redemption Through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace So obviously because he purchased the church the church belongs to him And we have been brought into his body We have been bought like paul says in first carinthian 6 20 at a price And he went on to say therefore glorify god in your body And in your spirit which are gods which belong to god So You have been redeemed by the blood of christ He purchased you out of the marketplace of slavery You the bible says you and i we were enslaved to sin But jesus christ Ransomed us. He did it by his blood. He purchased us We heard the message of freedom and forgiveness in him and we came to faith in him We believed in him that he came died on the cross was buried raised the third day We've confessed to salvation these things and now because he purchased us we belong to him Now because the church belongs to jesus we have certain responsibilities One responsibility is to accurately represent the intentions of god and the intent of god is that we be one in him You see god intends to end hostility between god and man and between man and man And that that hostility there is a declaration of peace That has been given that will cause that hostility to cease And the declaration of peace is called the gospel of jesus christ So god has given a declaration of peace and he's given to us terms of peace Terms of peace found in the gospel would be unconditional surrender That's what he calls us to It's like when the united states was at war with the sovereign nation of japan in world war two And at the conclusion of that war We were there on the missouri represented by douglas mccarthur And terms of peace were offered to the japanese and it wasn't a negotiated peace where they get this and we get that It was unconditional surrender The united states was regarding itself as the victor and japan was regarded as the vanquished And so we can understand that when we think of war and hostility the gospel is god's terms of peace He is saying i want You didn't You want a relationship with me?   He owns you now if you've done that Another thing about our god is that we know god is holy and because god is holy The children are like their parent If god is holy, we too are to be holy 1st peter 1 15 and 16 just as he called you as holy So be holy in all you do because it is written be holy for i am holy Every father in this room understands what it means to To when that baby is born if you had the ability to be in that room when the child is born Every father in this room will understand this illustration I I I did it four times When my four babies were born How that the baby is born they take the baby and Put it in that little warmer there You used to putting Tacos in Then they bring that baby to you And you look at that baby What are you looking for Does it look like me better look like me? We look for that in our kids We look for something in our children That we can identify with That's one of the things when you're raising kids That's one of the things that helps you as you're raising your kids because you will see things in your kids That you recognize from yourself You do don't you you're not always happy when you see that But you see it And that's what helps me and helped me To understand my kids When my david would act in a certain way or karin or whomever would act in a certain way Very often I would see that sinfulness and I would recognize it. I'd say oh man, you're like your mom You know and I would see that And I tell marie do better. No, you'd see yourself. You see yourself And that's how you eventually stop worrying.  Have you noticed that? Yeah, because you see yourself And and you're going about it backwards instead of arguing them out a bit What you need to do is you need to learn to flow with that knowing what would have helped you Had it been done in your you have rather than arguing with them. You understand them. So what are you looking at? You're looking at The father in the child Because there are earmarks birthmarks. There are things about you That you see in them Do you know that the lord can't in a way look at us and say I am holy Therefore you be holy be like your father Be like your father God is holy. No, that doesn't mean we go out and construct our own holiness It simply means that we fall in love with the holy god and become more like him because we're his child We allow that goodness to come out because god has that within us We simply begin to yield to the spirit and love of the word pray for obedience and pursue him and the lord works in that way It's much more simple than we make it God is holy And so as a community of redeemed sinners As much as we desire to do that we just please into him. We will all still fall short of the glory of god Yet We've been called and equipped by god to live as those who have been saved And so the quality of our lives indeed will be visibly different now One of the things we resist is the temptation to become self-righteous like a Pharisee We need to always be aware of our own failings our own shortcomings We need to guard ourselves against judgmentalism We don't want to run around removing sawdust from a brother's eye while we have a two by four in our own And yet And here's the rub We cannot ignore obvious sin Either as if it's going to go away You see if unrepentant sin is practiced in the church It infects the life of the church When paul was writing to the Corinthians the Corinthian church had a real problem. It's interesting when you look and read and study First Corinthians the first several verses of the chapter is filled with commendation And then after around the eighth or ninth verse or so in first Corinthians chapter one the rest of the book 16 chapters is correction You have commendation in the introduction and correction for the rest of the chapters Because there were so many problems that were in the Corinthian church It's a great book to read It's a great book for you to go and begin to read and then you'll see what i'm speaking about There's a lot of problems in the Corinthian church that paul had to deal with But it's interesting now paul made it very clear that it had been reported to him by the household of chloe that there were problems And so he begins to correct those problems and one of the problems that he corrects is the fact that a man Is having physical intimacy with his father's wife And paul says and instead of you dealing with it and being humbled by it You've actually begun to boast in it He said this is a sin that even the Gentiles are ashamed by but not you You think it's the grace of god to allow sin to continue. He said you can't do that He said in 1 Corinthians 5 6 and 7 your boasting is not good Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast That you may be a new batch without yeast as you really are Deal with it is what he's saying you can't allow sin to fester there. It can't be 11. It'll it'll leaven the entire lump of dough So this is what the lord jesus is actually speaking about and laying the foundation for Is something that we refer to today as church discipline In effect what it is is to protect the unity of believers And so we're going to look at a few things here in In matthew 18 and we're going to see how jesus presents five elements involved in godly disciplining of sinning members of the body We're going to see the person who is to receive church discipline The person who initiates church discipline the purpose of church discipline The process in place for it and the proper authority for it. We're going to see that in these verses before us So we'll begin where it says Where I where I mentioned the person who is to receive church discipline notice verse 15 That was your introduction. Let's get into the passage 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 So we begin with the person receiving church discipline your brother If your brother sins against you go and tell him his fault So who is the person? Any christian male or female Who's part of the local community of believers in christ? What he's dealing with is dealing dealing with sin in the body Of christ, I'll say this very briefly, but it's important to say at this point In today's current Church life throughout this nation In today's current church life throughout this nation church discipline is almost a forgotten subject When you study church discipline, I'll say it this way very briefly. There's basically two elements of what is called church discipline One is called preventive Preventive church discipline is simply the teaching of the word of god So if you're in a bible study and the word of god is being taught That is called preventive discipline. What that means simply is it means that you're hearing the word of god And you're through faith receiving the engrafted word of god, which is able to save your soul You're being instructed by god's word and so it's preventing you By obedience and faith It's preventing you from getting to the second aspect. The second aspect is called correction or corrective So preventive is intended to keep you from coming to corrective Corrective is what jesus is speaking about here and he's speaking concerning people in the body of christ who are professing believers And he's saying that these people are to receive correction when they've sinned again because there is a and There's an attitude and I I want to speak of it without coming off Improperly or give you the wrong impression. It's difficult to do this And to make the point as clear as I would like it We live in a time where the concept or the idea that a person actually Calls a church their home Well that home church That definition has has changed See when I first got saved and I called Coastal Mesa my home church. It's because that's where I went Yes, I did attend other studies on occasion, but my church was Calvary Chapel Coastal Mesa but today one of my friends for example who was Leading a ministry and another fellowship Was wanting to put together the worship team and he he had people come and they were filling out you know their application to be involved in And he asked the question is this your home church? And he said, Dave, you can't believe it. He said the answers I get He said it's been more than once where someone will say this is my home church on sunday morning But I have another home church on sunday night and I have another home church on a wednesday night He says they don't understand actually being rooted and grounded They don't understand having a home fellowship because what they are is they're the church on wheels. They're nomads They go to one church this day and then two weeks later They're in that church that day and then they argue by saying we're all the body of christ So they're never rooted. They're never grounded. They're never known And if they should sin And confronted they don't stay they just move and take whatever it is that they've been doing They take it someplace else And so this kind of study Is is in many people's minds today an outdated study because they have taken the concept of the church And they don't understand What the church actually is Because in their mind the church is the church universal You know I can go to this church today and that church tomorrow and nobody's saying you can't visit But where are you rooted and where are you planted? Where are you serving? Where are you giving? Where are you accountable? and many christians Many christians have no place that any of that's really taking place Because they'll stay for a certain amount of time and go someplace else Is that good for the church? No Not at all Why because you can't hope to be able to build a ministry that actually reaches the unsaved When you have people who are part time at best and not committed at all And that's just a fact and so when it comes to issues related to dealing with sin Well, people have a tendency of just walking out saying I don't need to hear this. I'm not part of that It's interesting if you look at the book of acts Jesus said you shall receive power after that the holy spirit has come upon you And you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem jadea samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth He said that in acts chapter 1 verse 8 and chapter 2 The 120 were up in an upper room They were in an upper room when the day of pentecost fully arrived And the holy spirit fell upon the 120 they began they were baptized in holy spirit The church was birthed they poured out of that upper room And they began to speak with unlearned languages magnifying and glorifying god When people who were there for the pentecost Season and festival Heard these people they began to mock them saying these people are filled with new wine The apostle peter stood up being filled with the holy spirit and said these people are not filled with new wine These people are not drunk as it seems But these are those who have spoken of concerning this event through the prophet joe who said in the last days I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh And he explains what took place He's saying the church has been birthed the prophet joe had had given word concerning this and this is what you're seeing take place No, they're not drunk with new wine as you suppose These are people who are actually baptized in the power of the holy spirit and they're glorifying and magnifying god So as you go through chapter 2 you get to verses 42 following to verse 47 And when you get to acts chapter 2 verse 42 it speaks about them continuing steadfastly Continuing steadfastly in the apostles doctrine And fellowship the breaking of bread and in prayers Which gives to us the insight into the elements that made up the early church And the first thing that is mentioned is that they remain constantly steadfast in teaching It's interesting to note. I encourage you to do this doesn't take more than three minutes You can do it when you go home Just one thing Look in the book of romans chapter 16 And start looking about third down and see how many people the apostle paul greets by name It just goes on and on and on all the way down almost to the conclusion of the book How could you do that paul because these people stuck around and we got to know them And today a lot of people don't and nobody knows them because they're not accountable They have nobody that that they could actually have an honest conversation with Where they can say pray for my soul I'm going through a tough time at the job right now They can't say there's somebody hitting on me or I'm hitting on somebody and I don't want to fall or I don't want to pursue This anymore pray for me. They don't do that What they do is they keep it to themselves. They keep it secret They don't say that when someone's gone and I've got my computer and it's on it's just me and the And the mouse there and I go to this site. I don't want to do it. They don't say that They keep it to themselves Because they're not accountable to anybody because they don't know anybody because when they're found out they move someplace else And yet in church discipline It's in order to it's in order to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and restore fallen brothers or sisters That's what it's for So there's an accountability. So somebody knows your heart And they know Your soul As far as you're willing to reveal to them. It's very important that we see that You see In this particular case, it's the lord is speaking This sin that he's speaking about Is a sin that is a continuing sin. It's a sin that is is unconfessed It's a lifestyle of sin. That's not consistent with Christian living You see for many sinful living is so normal that the idea that it is not Is almost foreign to them Much has to do with the lack of bible reading in bible teaching And just misunderstanding As I was driving here this morning I I have a christian music station that I listen to As i'm coming here i'm listening to the music and We used to call them the disc jockey. I don't know what they're called now The guy talking says um He said something like if you're going he said it's sunday. It's a day to worship and praise the lord If you're going to a church that does not say Neither do I condemn you You're going to the wrong place now. He says that And I listen to him And then he goes on to spinning some more music and all that But I turned the radio off And I started thinking because i'm one of these people who actually listens to what i'm being told So I turned it off And I started thinking about that. Is that right? Neither do I condemn you how many of you recognize that phrase raise your hand I want to know who i'm talking to neither do I let me tell you the story many of you don't know it So you'll know it once I start saying it you go. Oh, yeah, of course. I understand it Jesus is teaching Some men bring a woman Throw her down at the feet of christ master This woman was caught in adultery in the very act Moses in the law says that such should be stoned What do you say?  We all know it And what happens you know what happens all the men who are holding these stones Just let them fall to the ground From the bible says beginning from the oldest to the youngest they fade away until it's just the woman Jesus and maybe a few of his apostles and all Woman Where are your accusers? I have none lord Neither do I condemn you We all know that right? Do you remember what else he said? Go and sin no more It isn't neither do I condemn you alone Neither do I condemn you go and sin no more So yes God's grace god's mercy god's compassion.  I'm not wrong. No pastor. David. You're not wrong. Thank you That's true.  He said i'm not going to condemn you You see they they brought this woman based on moses and the law Moses in the law said such should be stoned is what they say to him Well, yes, if you want to appeal to the law, where are your accusers? It takes two or three according to the law of deuteronomy As a matter of fact, you'll see that again. It'll be repeated here in this in this passage It takes witnesses. You want to be judged according to the law? Where are your accusers? I have done Then the law in this particular case. He didn't circumvent the law. He simply applied it. They want to apply the law That's what the law says, but then he went beyond that And he said go and sin no more I'm not giving you permission to continue in sin. I'm telling you to flee it to get away from it See so what we have today is permission to sin But nobody's saying but go and sin no more And the one who says but go and sin no more all your self-righteous You're judging me. You're pointing your finger at me No, no Correction is brought in order that you might experience God That you might you might know him And that you might have fellowship with him and be used by him and that's what the lord is teaching us here So if somebody is sitting continuously, it has to be dealt with it cannot be allowed to fester You see the bible makes it very clear that when we're really saved We no longer long to sin It's not that we won't sin And it's not that we don't sin But the lifestyle that we have is not going to be airmarked by unrepentant sin People won't know us for the sin. They'll know us for the grace of god In first john chapter three verse nine John said it like this. He said no one who is born of god will continue to sin Because god seed remains in him. He cannot go on sinning because he's been born of god. Listen.  I was an alcoholic. I got saved When I get saved I You know, I don't have a taste for alcohol And one day I go through Like I used to I'd go in my ups and downs and I was a new believer and I I go through one of my downs and the only way I knew how to deal with down times was to drink So I drink And after drinking I wake up the next day And I feel bad I feel bad I don't know what I'm feeling. I'm a new believer, but it's called conviction You cannot sin.   God's holy spirit convicts you So instead of ignoring sin It is to be dealt with and it should be dealt with quickly because if you allow it to continue It it gives it time to fester and the person in sin can harden In ecclesiastes 8 verse 11 it simply says because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily Therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil And so if your brother sins against you go and tell him his fault It's interesting. It doesn't say if your brother sins against you go and tell everybody on facebook Tell him his fault you speak to him about it You see The person who has had the problem initiates the restoration He said if he sins against you go and tell him his fault between you and him alone So you deal with it one on one You take care of it in privacy Because if you approach him lovingly and privately They're more likely to repent Galatians chapter 6 verse 1 says it like this Brothers if someone is caught in a sin You who are spiritual should restore him gently But watch yourself or you also may be tempted So the key to proper restoration is is instead of being proud boastful arrogant and harsh It is it is humility and it is a life that lives up To what you're telling somebody else. It's practicing what you preach In romans 15 verse 14 paul said like this. He said I myself am convinced my brothers That you yourselves are full of goodness Filled with all knowledge able also to admonish one another Because you're good And because you have knowledge You're able so it's living it out Now as you've come and you've spoken to this brother or sister and you've said this is something going on I need to speak to you about If he hears you he says in verse 15 you have gained your brother So the purpose of this is to restore somebody To bring them to restoration. It's not it's not to get them thrown out of the church It's to win them back to the lord But what happens if they won't listen verse 16 But if you'll not hear you Take with you one or two more that By the mouths of two or three witnesses every word may be established And so what do you do while you bring a witness what you do is you bring a witness to help them He didn't listen to you So there are others who are aware of this and more than likely have been concerned over it And if you're aware of some that are well, you bring it you bring them You bring them along with you and then that way you can say bro Gotta talk to you again. You didn't listen the first time you're thinking i'm judging you I've got another brother here another one here who who want to share the same thing with you And then they begin to share listen we're concerned for you and that's what's supposed to take place now As that is going on and they're refusing to hear and if they do refuse to hear He says in verse 17 if he refuses to hear them tell it to the church at that point you bring in leadership in the church You've already spoken personally you brought witnesses And now you let the leadership of the church know now It's interesting once again. We're living in a in an interesting time an interesting Time in the history of the church where people Feel bad about um dealing with things like this read your bibles The apostle paul in the book of philippians in chapter four verse two actually calls out two members of the church iodia and syntakii two women And he says you got to get along He says that openly in the church when you look in the book of galatians in chapter two The apostle paul speaking in that portion verses 11 through round verse 15 paul there says that the apostle peter had done something that paul himself had to confront him before witnesses And so that's what the apostle paul did and that's what he had to do When he dealt with the problem in the church of corinth as i mentioned He spoke concerning the household of cloy who have informed me So he dealt with these kinds of things and so you have to deal with it in order to preserve the holiness Of the church and its testimony And so leadership in church is is not simply there to organize the church for activities The leadership in the church actually adjudicates problems Elders are to be able to teach the word of god as well as to enforce and exercise it If you take notes he verse 13 verse 7 says Remember those who rule over you who have spoken the word of god to you whose faith follow considering the outcome of their conduct He goes on in verse 17 of the same chapter to say Obey those who rule over you be submissive for they watch out for your souls as those who must give account Let them do so with joy not with grief for that would be unprofitable for you Not many people realize that a pastor teacher in the church has the authority to say this is what the word of god says We need to enforce it because a lot of times if they don't like it.  You didn't die for this church. He did And I wrote back and I said Amen to that Amen to that Because if I were the ruler of the church, you'd be dead. No, I didn't say that But amen to that but I've been given authority here in the church to exercise When it comes to matters of Restoring those who have fallen and to bring correction You see if he refuses correction, how are you to treat them? So we'll put it like this Somebody goes to another brother. We'll keep it in from man to man Brother goes to another brother. Hey bro I gotta tell you I'm concerned for you Because this this and that the guy responds and says That's that's your opinionist So he says no, this is what god's word says it says this this and that that's what you say all right He stays in that brings a couple people bro. I have to just second what you've already been told What you're doing is wrong. He says That's what you guys say. You're all just against me. You know just piling on Now you're concerned. He's unrepentant His leaven is spreading in the church people are becoming aware of what he's doing You now bring it to the leadership the leadership approaches and says listen. I've been told this I'm concerned. Can I hear from you? Yeah, I'm doing that. So what's no big deal smoking a little pot isn't bad or whatever And you say well bro, I have to be honest with this is word god says related to our behavior and testimony and this is I don't really care at that point. You treat them as a heathen in tax. I know what is that? What's that mean? How do you treat heathens and tax collectors? Well, they're unsaved So you love them You don't you know judge them. You don't expect people who don't know god to act like christians But you don't welcome them in as members of the body of christ either because they're not They're heathens and tax gatherers And so what you do is you give them the message of reconciliation and encourage them But they're not to be back in that church in that church fellowship because they are Unrepentant and that's where people have their problems and that's when people have been confronted and in this church We have on occasion had to exercise discipline like this. That's when they normally just float out the door and go someplace else Because they don't want to be judged and you're being harsh And that's when they begin to call their friends and say they judged me you ought to come over here There's a lot of grace and mercy in this place But that's not how it's supposed to happen the reason that church discipline is enacted is to restore a fallen brother or sister It's not a self righteousness on the part of the individuals whatsoever. It's a desire to see them right with god It isn't gracious to act as if someone is saved And not to be encouraged enough to encourage them to repent and if they Refuse to be corrected you treat them as if they don't know the lord you treat them with love But they're not to be treated as if they are still walking right with the lord No christians do not self-righteously judge, but we can't give a false assurance either In 2nd Thessalonians 3 14 and 15 if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter take special note of him Do not associate with him in order that he may feel ashamed Do not regard him as an enemy warn him as a brother You see non christians And biblically immature believers don't understand discipline There was a just this happened this just happened recently. There was a a member of a christian worship band Who recently declared himself to be homosexual? And was part of a worship of a band that was at a festival up north And because he had declared himself to be rejecting what god's word says concerning that sin He still went to this particular festival expecting to sing The people who were working in the stage said to the one who organized the festival this brothers in this person's an unrepentant sin And to have him come up and sing Is to give a seal of approval on his sin But the organizer Felt bad because he didn't want to judge him. This just happened a couple weeks ago He didn't want to judge him and so There was another band playing who invited this guy an unrepentant man an unrepentant sinner to come up and sing Thus giving a a sense of Recognition and they said well that was the grace of god So let me read to you Amos 5 23 Where it says take away from me the noise of your songs For i will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments When you are mixing sin with worship god said in the book of amos I don't receive it as worship because it's compromised and tainted by sin and here we are As christians say oh let him sing he's got so much talent And the world sees that and says there's no difference between you Who profess to know the lord and me because we both accept sin Now we don't judge and we don't condemn And we don't treat with cruelty.  No, we're just teaching god's word which has been lost in this generation People do not see the holiness of god So as this is taking place in conclusion Versa 18 and closing with verse 20 i'll summarize Jesus said Assuredly i say to you whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven Again, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything That they ask it will be done for them by my father in heaven for where two or three are gathered together in my name I am there in the midst So it's not speaking of a green in prayer But a green in the enactment of discipline and jesus is revealing the proper authority to do this The authority comes from him He's saying I am there in the midst of your decision as you bring discipline When you sincerely and lovingly seek to maintain the purity of the body of christ You have my presence and my approval in your decision And so that's how church discipline is to be enacted Jesus's presence is there because his word of god is being enacted And that's his presence there in that matter God's word says this we line up with it again People say well who can line up perfectly the answer is no nobody But he's not speaking about somebody who stumbles and falls. He's speaking about somebody who continues unrepentantly And that is how church discipline is enacted You see it safeguards holiness within the church according to heber's 1214 where he says follow peace with all men and holiness Without which no man shall see the lord and it protects the unity of the church Rather than dividing we are united in truth Tied his three 10 and 11 worn a divisive person once worn him a second time And after that have nothing to do with them. You may be sure that such a man is warped and sinful He is self condemned What you do is you deal with it lovingly and firmly with the hope that the person who's being Disciplined will say I miss the fellowship. I used to have I miss my friends I miss my walk with god. They never accepted my sin though. They have always loved me I need to get right with god And when that happens you warn your brother He came back And he can be used by the lord again because they repented church discipline It's something we don't talk about But it's something that needs to be enacted