One visual asset news everybody my name is Rob and today we got a lot of things to go over so again It's just one of those days where this could be a catastrophe However, there's some things that actually turned our turned everything around that is the CPI never came out And they are actually quite positive So we're gonna take a look at that Crypto pumps a little bit But don't get too excited because there's a little bit of a problem with tether and losing its peg They're gonna talk about the reason you might be here Which is a thumbnail on the title take a look at Sam Bankman Fried as he talks about What actually happened and the things he's trying to do to move things forward and also we're gonna take a look at how? Gary Gensler the SEC chair actually might be in some hot water with a congressman Especially with the things that were going on between Gary Gensler and Sam bank and freed Allegedly don't sue me and then lastly we'll do a little eye trust in Solana updates and lastly lastly just says everybody To remind everybody that tonight will be the Puerto Rico meetup And I'll tell you exactly where that is and the timeframe But first let's just jump into the big story. This just came about like three minutes before I actually came on I was just perusing Twitter like I like to do and Friend of the show Ben comes out and says hey guess what? Headline CPI is seven point seven percent. That's pretty good Inflation is actually looking like it's going down eight percent estimated core CPI six point three. It was estimated six point five percent So that's not bad And if we have those two numbers come out and remember lately We haven't seen much positivity as far as the inflation rates unemployment numbers were actually dropping instead of going up So I didn't expect this to come out This is like a gift from heaven as inflation starts to come down So maybe the Fed is doing the right thing or as much as they possibly can So we've got that and how do the markets react? Well pretty darn strongly. I mean strongly enough for what happened I mean geez I gotta tell you the resiliency of Bitcoin is unbelievable and the entire crypto market.  Maybe it's not so bad without those numbers today. We wouldn't have these numbers right now So Bitcoin's at 17-7. It's up 4% Ethereum Rushing it today 24 hours 12% and I know people are sick of hearing the by the dip I'm tired of saying it I have stopped saying it but this was that one time When you could have bought the dip and came out Looking pretty pretty nice. However, I think there's a there's more Tragedy Upcoming but right now enjoy for what it is and remember if you made some profits today If you did buy that dip, don't forget take some profits not investment advice anyhow cryptos looking relatively strong Cross the board in the last hour. I think most things are up Even Solana is up 6% amazing Sheba, you knew I mean everything is anything down. Let me ask you that He's classic, okay, but that's what's going on again I think there's some trouble on the horizon and this came to us from in front of the show Tiffany Fong and she's her and Aaron Bennett were on the show we talked about Celsius and she just Tweeted this out that USDT lost its peg this morning Amid rumors that Alameda and FTX are attempting to short the stable coin Well, there is a one way to find some liquidity Short a stable coin. Tether has become has begun freezing USDT addresses owned by FTX How is that? How is that decentralized if this is true? I'm just gonna lay that out there in in the comments Like USDC can also do this too. They can freeze accounts But he just frees accounts. All right and 46 million USDT on the Tron blockchain and there's some things going on Between Tron and FTX there's a rumor that Sam is going to come out and and spill the beans on Justin Sun for whatever deal that they had behind the scenes That's just she's me and and guesswork. I have no idea. I can only tell you what I know And Tiffany says welcome to today's dumpster fire. I got to tell you some people see a dumpster fire I see opportunity And here's what she's talking about here So in a day we went from and it's not like it went to like, you know, it didn't pull a luna where I went to like, you know Nothing it went from a dollar or 0.99 to 0.982 and then it bounced right back so There's some shenanigans afoot and that's what's going on. So that is the The first part of it now let's get into I think one of the most interesting things today besides that is One of the big things Sam Sam comes out and this is what he says. I'm just going to read it to you So sam as we know is the CEO of FTX and he put it out there Originally, he put out there nothing to see here folks. Everything's fine. This was three days ago Then they became E liquid Then they became insolvent in a way and then they reached out to binance Binance said they would like to help them out, but they hadn't need to take a look at the record books CZ said that's what's going to happen. They looked the record books and the All the financials and said look, we can't help you You guys are too much in the in the dark and they close the deal and then after that We saw a huge drop in crypto Bitcoin if you don't remember last night went into the 16th I think almost 15. I want to say 15,700. Correct me in the comments. That was quite a dip Again, if those cpi numbers didn't come out, we would have seen huge gips We would have seen bitcoin. I think down to 13 12k Just guesswork So sam now comes out and says this is what he's got. I'm sorry That's a good way to start That's the biggest thing I f'd up. I should have done better I've been I've been communicating more very recently except for the tweet that I deleted that's uh, I mean they're there Transparing my hands were tied during the duration of the possible finance deal I wasn't particularly allowed to say much publicly, but of course it's on me And that's a that's the way to do it when you screw up. You say it's on me However, it doesn't really help too much when you got people who can't uh, take their funds out Here's an update This is and he puts this in bold and I Need to make this crystal clear. This is all about ftx international the non us exchange FTX us users are fine Treat all these numbers is rough and my question is this Why is it that? FTX us is not affected, but internationally it is I think there's probably some part of this. I'm I'm sure It it has to do with with how things are moved around and how the operation worked and how the essence or The procedures went by But I got to tell you I think that one of the reasons why that ftx us is up and running and ftx international isn't Is because in the us the regulation is so stringent and of course sam was a big donor to a lot of these Uh different politicians. I know some people say well, he's all democrat donor And he was one of the biggest donors to president biden. However, he's come on today. He's unreported. It doesn't matter What really matters here is that? I think what happened here is that ftx is like we got to stay on the straight and narrow We got to you know To the line because these guys are going to help us out And I think when people talk about they say we should never have regulation. We should have regulation We should have some regulation. I've talked about this on blue and the face. I just don't get it if it's The thing about the exchanges These guys have been screwing up left and right up and down sideways There is no reason why they shouldn't have a little bit of regulation come in and go Let me see your books. Are you guys doing what you're saying? You're doing are you misappropriating funds? Are you using the funds that that shouldn't be are they intermingling? What are exactly are you doing? I'm not talking about regulation for d5 products and things like that I'm just saying a little regulation would go a long way and I can see why this would probably Behoove us as retail To get the regulators in there A little bit and say let me see your books Are you baking the books pun intended? And what exactly are you doing? How are you working these things out because I I think the reason why us is Made it is because of like we got to stand on the straight and narrow same thing with every other exchange Now if you don't want to do that, you don't want to do that. That's that that's it's Regulation is going to happen whether you want it or not Okay, so would you rather have to be the voice in there? Would you rather be the person that says, you know, we like this we don't like this We're just like them to slap it on because this is what's happening And I'll get to what brian armstrong said in coinbase in a second So moving on No, I think my blood pressure went up FTX internationally currently has a total market value of assets and collateral higher than client deposits Let me say one more time FTX international currently has a total market value of assets forward slash collateral higher than client deposits The question I have is are they including the ftt token? Because if they if they are including their token for the ftx platform, then okay I see that but that is funny money. They made that out of thin air You cannot peg it To that now if it's something else who's like, okay, we bought a bunch of bitcoin or we have US dollars or we have treasuries and it's backed and and that's what it is And we have all the crypto gotcha But if you're gonna if it's if it really is the ftt at the ftx token is what's backing most of it That's not true. That is not cutting water But that's different from liquidity for delivery as you can tell from the state of withdrawal Okay, the full story here is one i'm fleshing out But it's a very high level i f'd up twice The first time a poor internal labeling of bank-related accounts meant that I always Substantially offer my sense of users margin. I thought I was way lower My his sense was this he thought that there was no leverage But their actual average was almost 2x and liquidity use was almost 1x sunday withdrawals because of this when it rains and pours We saw roughly 5 billion withdrawals on sunday lard is by huge marten. I gotta tell you when you're up at this level This high one small mistake one error One thing that you just take your eye out for a second screws everything up And uh, it just goes to show you that the people that you surround yourself with are what is going to raise you up Or what is going to crash you down?  I'm sorry anywhere right now My number of priorities by the users So right now we're spending the week doing everything we can to raise liquidity by shorting tether apparently and I'm just kidding I don't know if that's true. Don't sue me. I can't make any promises, but I'm going to try There are a number of players who we are on talks with letter of intense term sheets So that's good. Maybe instead of binance, which I think would have been the best option But they're still talking to some other people great. I don't know if that's going to go through every penny of that and of the existing collateral will go straight to users and Investors old and new and employees will have fought for what's right for their career and were responsible for any FFs on my part Any day I'm the CEO which meant that I was responsible. So what does this mean going forward? I'm not sure that depends on what happens over the next week But here's some things I know first and foremost Alameda research is wanting down trading That's good because there was a story by a wall street journal where it looks like ftx gave Billions of dollars to Alameda Alameda research was which is the investing arm and they blew it all They aren't doing any weird things. I see on twitter and nothing large at all Okay, and and one way or another soon. They won't be trading at ftx anymore The reason why is because they screwed up big time Second in any scenario which ftx continues operating its first priority will be radical transparency It probably always should have been giving giving as close to on-chain transparency as it can and uh yesterday That's what cz byance calls for he goes look We need to be more transparent and he put out a list of everything of the cold storage walls They haven't financed so everybody could verify it right now. So go take a look at cz by now I think I might have it coming up, but that is called transparency. So you can you can make sure it's there All the stakeholders will have a hard look at ftx But all the matters right now is we're trying to be right for customers pure their comments And this this gets pretty good in these next two This was about ftx international ftx us the us basic change that except americans was not financially impacted by this s show Again, I think it's because straight and narrow And they were the ones like we can't do any shenanigans here because the red goes Regulators will come down if regulators were already in there from everybody I don't think this would be an issue for a lot of places, especially voyager and celcius It's 100 liquid every user could withdraw update some future coming At some point I might have more to say about a particular sparring partner so to speak cz bynance But you know glass houses.  Let's make that crystal clear. They were doing some things. They should have been doing They were doing loans. They were doing whatever plays that they were doing It wasn't an entity that That says something or does something per se If you are strong and you do the right things at the right time and you are prudent in your actions These things don't happen You will have some turbulence to be sure but you do not collapse So let's make that clear. It wasn't bynance. It was the things that were going on behind the scenes and I always want to say Right now. Thank you to everybody who was listening To a lot of people not just me and you follow the rules underneath Don't invest more. You can afford to lose where I say it's all gone 100 scams means everything in the scam until proven otherwise Don't leave anything on exchanges get that s off as fast as you can You can use exchanges. That's that's the on ramp and the off ramp. That's cool I mean, that's what they're there for but you don't have to leave it there use your ledgers use your tracers Heck even use your metamask wallets. I don't care Don't use leverage 1500 x is crazy and take profits along the way. That's what I've been doing And it's working out so far so far And that's what's going on Anyhow, let me know what you think about that in the comment section and now let's get to something Probably unpopular, but this is the truth This is brian armstrong CEO of coinbase and he says this FTX was an offshore exchange not regulated by the sec The problem is that the sec failed to create regulatory clarity here in the u.s.  It can be the cftc. You're going to be at the sec or the occ Man, it's like I'm back in the military all those mnemonics, but it's the same thing So again, brine is 100 right and of course brad Has to agree which he is right to brine is right to protect consumers We need regulatory guidance for companies that ensures trust and transparency There's a reason why most crypto trading is offshore Obviously companies have no guidance on how to comply here in the u.s. That's one of the reasons why Library just lost their case against sec because they didn't have any clarity. They did their ico and now here we are So again, i'm tired of this beating around the bush And the posturing from gary genzer from the sec and the cftc going back and forth I think it is a turf word. No, they say it's not just give us some clarity Tell us the rules so we can bend the rules very simple And speaking of my man gary This is tom emmerer front of the show husband father hockey fan and congressman from minnesota's sixth district and also a big proponent of Of cryptocurrency and he says interesting because gary genzer came on says i'm i'll be joining uh andrew sorkin on squawk box At 8 a.m To discuss recent developments in the crypto markets, which he was going to go there and posture and say hey, this is why we need uh regulation And he says interesting gary genzer runs the media while reports to my office Allegedly Alleged he was helping sam bakeman freed and ftx work on legal loopholes To obtain a regulatory monopoly We're looking into this. Maybe this is what? That's uh, bit boy was talking about when he was talking about i got some dirt on you sam Who knows? But that's the truth First of all wouldn't surprise me nothing surprises me, but if that is the truth gary's out sam's gonna go to jail For other things man.  I don't know. I don't know that but sam might get a slap in the wrist You gotta understand it's it's different for rich people. It's just how it works And uh, we'll see what happens, but it's interesting that a congressman comes out and publicly announces This is what's going on. I don't think you could do that unless you have some Relevant evidence anyhow, that's what's happening. Let me know what you think about that and then I need to remind everybody about this we talked about this yesterday I need to make sure everybody knows is that there's a difference between the crappy centralized exchanges And the good crypto products that are out there, right? There was no double spend on bitcoin No reason to crash There was no hole in the actual projects or blockchain There was uh, no hiccups. There was no problems. There was no more rug pulls There was no big scams that I know of And the products themselves are just working in the background right now and they're doing the things they're doing the reason why The market is Collapsed yesterday or went I can't say collapsed it took a dip Just a just a just a wednesday Is because of the exchanges the products are quite Doing quite well actually and they're they're making some big strides and I applaud them for that And this came across as a comment. I had to I wanted to make Bring it up, which I thought was a pretty good point. This is from commander cronos And he says stop being so negative Uh Because I said well the this is what I said Well, crypto class of 2021. Here's the opportunity you wanted the mark will probably go lower So don't go all in right now which Bitcoin didn't go to 15 9 but it did bounce back up so Even if you bc8, I think you'd be okay and and commander cronos has stopped being so negative some of us think this is great We've been waiting for this moment because we didn't discover crypto until 2021 This is our first opportunity to buy and I thought about that. I go. That's true Now i'm not looking at it. I'm looking at the lens through someone who's coming in 2017 not 2021 so right now, maybe this is what everybody was waiting for and uh And this is a good thing. I mean I I think over time it's a good thing. I just wanted to bring this to your attention. So let me know what you think is this Is this your opportunity if you just got an earlier or in 2021 Is this the the thing you were waiting for or is this freak you out because if it doesn't freak you out And you're doing pretty good then you're way ahead of of my curve when I got in because in 2018 I was sharding bricks when uh when the markets Took a big dive. So interesting to see what you'll say there and then also The next part here Is two things I trust in solana because Friend of the show this thing up here. It's called open a crypto IRA People have been asking me a lot about I trust so I'll just address it right now. So The reason why LCS voyage or an FTX went down is because they got over leveraged They did some things they shouldn't have they were using the funds your funds are actually they were using our money I mean not FTX. I got everything off there a long time they were using our money to do loans to gain yield to Leveraged, I mean you name it the degenerate Happenings that were going on were rampant They were using our money, but I trust you know how I trust makes money It's very simple. They say I have a product here When you trade within that product, I'm going to charge you a fee And I'm going to be content with those fees And I'm going to build a business That's how it is the funds that you have in there and even in their terms and services You can take a look there is nothing in there that says we're going to be doing loans renew this It's all locked up in coin-based custody, which is the same place that's uh Micro strategy has all their crypto. So here's what we got I trust I trust capital software platform has no direct exposure to FTX It's named token FTT are online to research FTX not use a service provider And FTT coin is not investable asset and I trust cattle problem. That's true. They don't have that They have a lot of other things, but I mean and even they have staking for polka dot As brian Armstrong strong of coin based out of yesterday The situation appears to have been the result of business decisions leadership in the FTX Not a direct result of asset or token behavior I trust capital does not touch client funding. Let me say that again I trust capital does not touch client funding. We did not lend borrow or leverage Any client or company assets? We don't allow our partners to do so either our goal is always to help our clients and remain Committed I trust service software platform to allow for clients to ensure self-directed IRAs that contain alternate investments try to maintain and then the interim kevin maloney made a statement same things and Yeah, that's a good point Ranjanti says if my u.s. Government would let me put more than $7,000 a year in I trust capital I wouldn't have joined Celsius or Voyager. My retirement would be a much better.  It's true Because when you put it over there it goes into custody storage for With coinbase, so you don't control your keys anymore. So everybody I mean we made that pretty clear here for I trust However, I like to you know what else it is For the white paper it was supposed to be crypto Bitcoin supposed to be a currency It was supposed to help you build wealth and one of the things that is hard to build wealth Is when you get taxed up the wazoo by the government? So for me personally I am not I do not like to pay a ton of taxes And if I can put that into a retirement account Oh, and also I can only put $7,000 per year into that account because I then I max it out I won't lose my entire life savings if god forbid something happens So that's what's going on with I trust and it's true. So if you don't like those parts, don't use I trust however If you like the fact of No capital gains no taxes Then take a look at I trust and call those guys and that's what I do I haven't I still have my wrought IRA and you can take it out But there's there's tax implications. So just be aware of that and then lastly Ah Solana I don't get this Solana postpones Token unlock So we talked about yesterday how there was millions of Solana looked like they were going to be unlocked I think it was I fair the exact number, but there's a ton For the unlocked prospects, especially with Solana and the stake They were going to be able to unlock those Solana tokens and make it sell and as things were going down We thought that there would be a quite a big sell-off. However, if you look back here Uh, Solana's actually doing just fine. I mean Where'd it go? But but but 4.3 percent means down 40 for the week. Okay. You got me on that one But hey look at polygon up 30 for the week. Just just saying So Solana postpones token unlock amid double dip fears Developers unaffected. I know I don't know if this is 100 true. So you have to you have to fact check me Solana postpones taking unlock period for two days While Solana developers were still able to unlock and liquidate their sold tokens according to doctor profit crypto And he's got some on-chain data. I'm not for sure if this is 100 percent true Postponing the unlock also postpone the anticipated double dip giving time to Solana developers to unlock and liquidate their sold tokens from the current price If that's true, that's pretty bad. And if that's true, that's pretty centralized So it is what it is and that's what's going on and that's essentially what's happening today In the crypto market and lastly, I will just say this is that if you had a rough week Which I think most of us have right We're going to do if you're here in the Puerto Rico or San Juan area We're going to do a meetup tonight It's going to be I said five to eight, but I'm going to make it five thirty because the traffic's awful in that time And I said hey, who's up for drinking some beers needs some brisket. So meet me down at It's actually called taste of smoke but it's the San Juan smokehouse and What I'll do Let's see what I'll do Is I'll put this tweet if you don't Let's see Meet up tonight There's a link to the tweet so you can find the the smokehouse and you can meet up there And talk and it's this the only thing we're going to do is I just thought this would be like the perfect time because Everybody's having a pretty crappy week although If you really zoom out of it about what's going on Is it that bad? I mean, isn't this kind of like what we this is what I thought was going to happen I thought we'd see more pain moving into Uh 2023 I thought we'd have a little bit of a of a little bit of a pump after midterms And it looked like that happened a little bit, but the cpi numbers were a gift I'll be honest with you 2023. I don't see much better I think there's a recession coming and I think the market will be very choppy for a while But again as we always talk about in the four year cycles very simple I mean things are kind of lining up could be wrong, but I think that's uh Things will be just fine over time and to me. I feel like This just gives me more time to accumulate. I mean imagine another year or so two years of accumulation And getting into prices that are just Pretty nice. I'll take it anyhow That's what we have for today. Look That will conclude everything we talked about today for the news If you want to stick around we'll do a little Q&A and I'll answer all your burning questions the best my abilities, but if not get out of here Thanks for stopping by I do appreciate you and that is it for today So remember like and subscribe before on your way out. That'd be uh, that would really help out with


Right. Hi everyone. Welcome back to our session on urban church planting So let's just begin this time with a word of prayer and then we will continue from where we stopped last week Let's just pray Father we thank you for this time and we thank you Lord for giving us this opportunity to come together and learn both spiritual and practical things involved in terms of church planting a God and I pray that you will continue to minister to us continue to open our hearts to the plans and purposes that you have for us Lord and Pray God that everything that we study and learn that we'll be able to apply it and use it in our lives Lord We thank you Lord. We give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Amen All right, so we've been talking about urban church planting. We looked at our Natural dynamics. We looked at spiritual dynamics Also, we looked at how to get started when it comes to church planting, right? Building a core team starting from from a distance being financially prepared and also You know getting to understand the place Where you want to plant a church and and another important aspect was planning for you know Legal and regulatory matters administrative matters when it comes to church. It's good, you know, what we talked about this, right? It's good, you know to have all of this in place even before starting a ministry, right? I understand that nowadays, you know Early, you know churches that were planted before Many many years back would have started and then over time You know incorporated all of these legal and administrative matters But now things are very different. It's very easy to start a trust. It's very easy to have administration You know have accounts in your organization. It's very easy. You can get it done even before a church plant, right? You know, okay, these are the things that I will have These are the things I'll sit in place and and so when when your church is growing And it's maybe 50 100 people 200 people You already have the levels of leadership that is needed or the teams that are needed Everything's on paper. Everything is already set out. So you've planned well Now over time, you know, even as we plan over time There will have to be or there may be changes that will that you will have to make In terms of teams in terms of the way things have done within the church within the ministry And we be open to that, right? So for example, there'll be You know certain things that work in the church. There are a few things which don't work in the church, right? So so we be open to all of this but the point is we have a plan We prepare well Before getting started, right? So today we look at the next chapter the survey phase Right now the first thing that comes to our mind when we say the word survey at least for me is Demographics right survey will show how many people Population it will show the the demographics of the population. It will show culture religion Different transportation Economy all of this is included in a survey, right? And so when you and I are Planning to start a ministry or or a church It's very important to take a survey of the land now, which means it now Especially now right things are so much more easier. All we have to do is go to Google That's all we have to do. You will get all the information there now We do feel for those who started churches 20 25 years back Where they had to go there find out and it was hard. They learned the hard way But with the use of technology right now, it is very easy Of course, there will be times we'll have to go there physically be there You know look at the place take a survey So for example, you're planning to lease out a hall or you're planning to hire a place For the church Now don't just see the pictures online and take the place you got to go there. We got to see it Take a survey of the place. What's in and around what's close to that area all of that, right? So try a Survey is basically trying to understand the city or the town On you know through an aerial view What is the you know the feel of this place? So let's look at a few examples in The book of acts when the Apostle Paul went out to In his second missionary journey, right? Let's look at acts chapter 16 where Paul and his team at Philippi took to the city And they took time to see the place understand the place and then they were able to minister. Let's read acts chapter 16 Versus 11 through 15 any one of us can read acts 16 11 through 15. Yes Anyone like to read? Okay. I'll read acts chapter 16 11 through 15 right now. This is at Philippi. This is The second missionary journey that they they Paul and Barnabas have started off, but there was a disagreement so Paul takes Timothy joins Paul and Silas and they go into Philippi right now from pros we went out to see and sailed straight from summer trace and The next day on to Neopolis From there we traveled to Philippi a Roman colony and the leading city of the district of Macedonia And we stayed there several days On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river where we expected to find a place of prayer We sat down and began to speak to the women who gathered there, right? One of those listening was a woman named Lydia a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Tyretera who was a worshipper of God the Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message when she was the When she was she and the members of her household were baptized She invited us to her home If you consider me a believer in the Lord She said come and stay at my house and she was persuaded now. This Is the lawn of the church in Philippi? Right, so what do what do they do they go out? They go to Philippi and once they reach there they went outside of the city finding a place to pray Basically, they went out serving the land Serving where we can go and sit and probably pray and minister to people and when they went to a certain place Right by the river we sat down and they began to speak to women who are gathered there now. Listen Notice this. They were not people who came to hear apostle Paul Right, they were going about doing their work All and team went there they surveyed the land Right, they went there and they saw that okay. This is the place where people come So they went they sat there and began to preach and teach them So it was not like they had it planned They went out. What is worse one worse one says from Trous Sorry was 13 on the Sabbath we went outside of the city gate Where we expected to find a place of prayer, right? So All in team when they were They went out probably they didn't have in mind. Okay, I'm going to start a church. This is how the church will be now Right, but the point was they surveyed the place. They were new to Philippi They didn't know the place. They didn't know any people. They didn't have friends there They didn't have believers there. Nobody was there, right? They were new They went they surveyed the place and they were able to find a place where they could stay and reach the gospel now Out of this we see that Lydia the purple person opened her heart to the Lord and Eventually the church was planted there Right now what let's let's look at the like look at the flip side now. What could have happened if If for if Paul and team had reached Philippi and They were doing nothing like they didn't they didn't go out or they were searching. They were just Waiting for people to come to them You know, this wouldn't have happened the church plant wouldn't have happened But we see that they went out they found a place. They surveyed the land. They were able to launch Right look at to act 17 same example Paul is at Athens this time Act 17 16 to 23. I'll read this right now Remember this is the second missionary journey. He's gone to Thessalonica Then he came into Beria in Beria again people who are very interested To hear the gospel to hear this new message that is being preached on Beria They said you come back and you explain things to other to us and then it is most likely that the church Was planted in Beria as well and then from there because of you know, because people were trying to catch him Paul went into Athens and here Act 17 16 onwards while Paul was waiting for them in Athens He was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks as well as in the marketplace. Now, let's let's pick up Let's break it down here Paul was waiting for who for for the other members of the team to come He was waiting and while he was waiting. What was he doing? He was greatly Distressed to see the city full of idols So while he was waiting he was not wasting time He he reasoned with people in the synagogues with with the Jews the God-fearing Greeks Go as well as in the marketplace. So what is Paul done here? Number one first thing he was waiting for somebody his team to come to help him out But while he was waiting he surveyed the land Right, he saw he probably walked through the streets and he's saying oh man this place is full of idols Right, so what did he do? He found the synagogue there Right, he found the place and he began to teach the God-fearing Jews and the Greeks Then he said okay from here. Let me go to the marketplace. He's gone to the marketplace and in the marketplace Again there he began begins to teach and preach the word of God Verse 18 a group of Epicurean and stoic believers began to dispute with them some of them asked What is this babbler trying to say? Others remark he seems to be advocating foreign gods They said they said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection verse 19 Verse 19 then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the aeropagus Where they said to him may we know what is this new teaching that is that you are presenting You are bringing some strange ideas to our years and we want to know what they mean Right, I'm just gonna go down right verse 22 Paul stood up in the meeting of the aeropagus and said this is this is critical here men of Athens I see that in every way you are Religious very religious for I walked around and Looked carefully at your objects of worship. I even found an altar with this inscription to an unknown God now What you worship as something unknown? I'm going to proclaim to you. What a powerful Encounter right? What is the apostle Paul done? He has done a survey He's gone first. He's walked around the city. He himself is testifying He's walked around the city. He's saying I've seen that your place is full of idols He then he goes to the To the synagogue then he goes to the marketplace now through all of this. What has he done? He's done a survey Probably it's a mental survey Okay, this place has this this is a place where people meet. This is the marketplace. This is where You know believers meet and and and so when when I say believers the God-fearing Jews Right and and so what was he able to do? He's able to get a survey get a feel of the land of that city that he is in Now if you go down right down Verse 32 in the same chapter verse 32 when they heard about the resurrection of the dead some of them snared But others said we want to hear you again Right verse 34 a few men became followers of Jesus Right, you see the church plan there. It is the same Method that the apostle Paul uses He surveys He understands He reasons he tries to You know put himself in their place and he was able to minister to them Now let's look at how you and I can you know with this in mind with this as a background Right now, it's it's not necessarily that this is the only way we must do it, right? But we can take some insights from here, right? So for example, if God is saying I want you to start a church in a certain place Right, it's not necessary. You have to go into the marketplace. You have to go in You know stand near the marketplace and preach the gospel on the streets not necessarily but we can take inputs from this from these two Examples right first one when we survey the place number one point Select the launching area Select the place where you want to start your ministry Be clear about it now Why is this important in a city you may have you know different places right you have inner city you have not Southeast West and Again the feel of each Area in a city may be different Right, so not of a city may not be as the feel of a South in South of the city Right, so you have to choose though your launch area if you say, okay, I'm going to start my ministry here Right, and if you've chosen that you need to have reasons why you have that Have reasons that's for your own benefit now. No police is going to come and ask tell me the reasons for you to start a church obviously right and God also is not going to say give me the reasons. No, but this is your face. This is your preparation phase You're gonna trust God, right? So you you say, okay This is the colony or the area where I'm going to start the church. You're settled in your mind. Don't be Confused right if you're confused take time But make sure that your launching area your your confirmed you're convicted and you're confident that you're going to start there And over time you can definitely start church plans Identify the area where you want to have the church plant You may be able to identify this area before you come on site or even when you're doing the survey So God will direct you where to start And he will he will just lead your parts. He'll say, okay, you do this Right. So sometimes you can be in another city In a completely different place you may feel okay. This is what this is what I want to do. This is where I want to start That's perfectly fine, but there will be times when you have to step into that place and God will say, okay You know, this is where this is the right time. This is the exact place go ahead and start Right But again, the survey is important Right now when we go to God, especially when we want to plant a church when you plan a ministry We looked at the spiritual dynamics, right? There's so much that we must do in terms of the spiritual dynamics lot of prayer lot of surrendering lot of You know asking God for wisdom for guidance every step of the way But even as we do all of that in the natural the Lord will lead us I love that verse and problems. I keep telling it to myself The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he will delight in his ways Right when we pray when we seek God when we have spent time in God's presence, the Lord will order our steps He'll tell us Okay, go this way do this. There'll be times. He'll make us wait. He'll make us stop Right and and so we are sensitive to his leading Now the goal of course is to you know to impact the city. So the launching area Will will be like the center From where you'll be reaching out Right to impact the city and then from there you can have multiple congregations. So for example, if you look at a PC He started 2001 in It was in Bangalore, right? Now the vision was to be salt and light to the city of Bangalore. So it was started in You know, it was in another place here north of Bangalore It was started there But over time as the church grew The church grew and they took a place hired a place and then from there The the church began to grow but that became the main church But with a third launch the the mother church as they say and then in 2000 and it was 2002 2002 or 2003 We started another congregation. So the another location Right and then over time we started another one So so but the base the main one was the main vision of the city was to start And be a salt and light to be a blessing to the city Now again, we can also look at this where from From these from the mother church or from the main church you we you know, we make teams we remember we talked about it I'd have a Church planting core team in the initial phase. So you can make planting teams church planting teams build teams Crain them build them up send them out to start church plants. But then That we should not be in a hurry. We we must understand We must know when is the right time to do that We should have the right people in place the right infrastructure or the right You know, we must be financially able to Hire a place and start the church as well. So look at the the best example is in the book of acts when The church in Jerusalem, right? It was a big church. They had thousands already But they were able to you know go out and help the churches and Antioch And different places there. So Even as we do this be next point be sensitive to what God is already doing in the city Now this is very important do not Do anything that would affect other churches or other ministries that are already working in the city Right. So for example Now very important this For example, there is a church In there's a certain location that you know area that God has put in your heart. Okay I you want to start here in this place Now just two minutes away. There's another church. Don't start the church there Very simple Right It is a very simple thing. There's already a church there. It is two minutes away Don't start there Choose another place Right now that's one thing to Two what about at times, you know, we we we already started the church And you're new to the church. You're just maybe two three months into the You know your plant church plant And the mistake we must never make is to talk about other churches You know one day we will be better than those churches One day I will you know, we'll have 150 or 200 and 300 people and they will remain the same God will help me to become the best church in the entire what will happen The heart is not right When the heart is not right Of course, God said I will build my church I will add to the church But when the heart is not right The the the fruit is very less People will come But the fruit The fruit of the ministry Will be very less You can have 50 people Doing what a thousand people can do And you can have a thousand people doing what 50 people can do so Even as we Do a church plant Choose the right way do not affect other ministries Now over time when you have you know settled into your ministry There will be times when you find out about other churches They'd say these other churches some of them may not believe in healing Some of them may not believe in the Holy Spirit Some of them may not believe in speaking in tongues They may they have different kinds of churches different cultures different understandings Never talk about those churches You know it will only destroy or you know bring dense in our own ministry Right if God has called you to a city And he wants you to You know blessed be a blessing to the city to do a good ministry Focus on your path We focus on our path, right? This is the track that God has given me. I'm going to focus on this People will come people may go People from other churches will come people may go But this is the vision for the church the vision does not change Right There'll be churches, you know, for example Languages right for example, there's a there's a church which is Uh, uh a regional language maybe in India. I would say maybe a panada or a hindi speaking church Now if you want to plant a church It may be 10 maybe five minutes away or 10 minutes away, but yours is going to be an english church Now What you can do is go to that pastor Speak to that pastor and tell the pastor pastor. This is what God has called me to do I would like to start a church. This is not going to be it's uh in any way hindrance to you because this is going to be an english church And uh, is it okay if I start? I know we're going to be very close to each other Uh, but is it okay Since it's different languages, it would be nice to go and speak to them Right Now the reaction if they say sometimes they may say yeah, it's all right. Sometimes they say no, don't do this Uh Ask look to the lord ask the lord lord. This is what's happening and the lord will lead you he may open a bigger door for you Right, uh, so just be wise in that way, right? Again the next point meet with pastors and leaders of existing churches As many as you can and introduce yourself build friendships. Let them know your plan. Don't you know Sometimes we meet and then we don't share our plans Right, uh, you can now you you don't have to share The entire vision of the church. This is what I'm going to know You can just say your plans. He got us called me here and I believe that you know, I want to be a blessing to the city You know, I want to be a blessing to the youth. This is what happened in my life You know as a young person I was going away from god god touched my life and I believe that god's calling me for the youth So I want to start this church and I want to start reaching out to the young people Just be open with them build friendships. Let them know your plan Let them see that you are also learning. Let them know that you're also You're not in a place of competition. You're not at a place of steep stealing Which they talk about right or this You know this younger preachers come He got he's got a better accent. He speaks well. He has better stories. He speaks He knows the gospel better than me So you you can just clarify clear all of that Build good friendships now when it comes to building friendships, there will be times that You know some pastors may may have gone through previous hurts Right when it comes to, you know, probably sheep stealing or or people have spoken badly about them ministries hurting each other And so they may be weary to make friendships. It's all right. I remember that we cannot Uh, you know control other people you cannot tell them. No, you have to be my friend only then I can start ministry.  I remember this one time Uh, this was in another city. Uh, we we were very few people in in in the church and Um, and so I went to meet this pastor Uh, he was a he's a pastor of maybe about 500 600 people right in the church Big pastor and so I went to meet him And the thing was he he he We had a church, which is a regional language and we were an english-speaking church All right, but he had about 500 to 600 people in this church and we were 10 people Uh, I went to speak to him And when I went to speak to him he we get talking and uh, and then he said so how will you start? How will you what is your plan for the church? And so I told him this is what I want to do. I want to reach out. I want to know Reach out to colleges a lot of colleges a lot of youth and I know that you know, a lot of youth are struggling drug addiction alcohol and Nography so much so much is happening among the youth and also families that are breaking Now, you know, just speak the word of god minister to them reach out to them That's all I want to do and so This pastor Was very kind. He was a very good man And he said okay, but paul, you know, it's not going to be easy Especially since he was going to be an english church. It's very difficult And he he just encouraged me and he said okay But I remember after two years it is exactly two years He had called me and he said Can we meet and then I met and when we met I don't know what happened, but he said, you know, we heard about the things that are happening in the church Right and I think in two years. We were about maybe 65 60 65 people in church And they heard about you know, we heard about healings happening heard about miracles happening We heard that you've you know as a church should have gone into colleges Y'all have gone into malls and all of these places and Uh, you know, he he he would he called me and he and we were talking and And he began to ask me how you did it. How did god open the door for you this way? And I realized that you know when we are faithful When we do what god wants us to do He will place honor on us integrity in ministry People will notice that and people will honor Right. So especially in the Starting phase initial phase Don't expect a lot of honor to come Right.  God will begin to work the supernatural Then you will see people will recognize the fruit And then you will see that people want to partner So what this pastor said he said you come and preach in my church And I said, I don't know the language. He said, no, that's okay. You come and preach. We'll have translator so when All that fear of you know sheep stealing or all these other, you know things that come in between You know this whole thing He was a pastor who has been there for many many years 20 more 20 years or more I was there for two years But he invited why it is not because Of anything else because of integrity the way we do ministry is very important. God will open doors, right? Then finally survey your launch area understanding the area for you know have a When you're launching you'll see okay am I Going to be able to reach out to these places. Is it What is the radius? Is it a five kilometer radius 10 kilometer radius? Establish identify points of interest whether it is schools colleges malls. What is around? right you know, one of the things that we intentionally did was You know when we went to the city of mangrove from Bangalore Uh Intentionally, I wanted to stay in the heart of the city five minutes ten minutes away All right, why because I wanted to go out whenever I could To reach people to share the gospel to you know evangelize So intentional I wanted to stay in the house. I never got a place You know, there were many places, but they were far off. I said no I want to be in the heart right there in between Because so so I took a house which was maybe five minutes away from church So whenever had time go out minister reach Places where I could advance where I didn't have to travel for You know one hour to get to the heart of the city. It was just close by right but now Right after after covid things have changed, right? Of course. We have online. We have zoom. That's wonderful. You can also You know do online Zoom meetings online bible studies and it's also convenient. We can do that But these are things that I intentionally did And then if you're you know, of course after your church is launched, uh, you know, you can look to stay anywhere else but the point is These are a few additional efforts Is preparing when it comes to launching the church, right? Then uh, let's get into the preparation phase before that any questions anyone would like to share your thoughts any questions on this Would you like to share, uh, you know, what were some of the challenges that you faced? I know that uh, uh, john paul has recently launched, uh Uh in in mangrove. There's a there's a place called Uh dere la carte which is Which is a little away from the city John, you want to share your thoughts on how you were able to launch that church? Would you like to share a few thoughts? Anybody else can feel free to share as well I'm sure john is John, would you like to share your thoughts? Yes, yes So, um So previously there was a location in dere la carte when buzzer paul was here and due to covid we had to close that place and So after we came here, we went to that place many times and So the first thing, uh, I wanted to do and I did was So there's a stretch of many colleges in in like two to three kilometers So I used to walk up and down and pray Uh and asking the lord for a Uh an opening in this place. So So near to one and a half two kilometers. I used to walk up and down and pray couple of times and That's one thing really encouraged Myself as I was praying in the spirit walking up and down. I think god really spoke to me at that time that thing No, he has some uh, he has plans for this place And we just prayed as a church also be intentionally prayed for that and So last time when it happened it all happened very quickly. So, um, I went with one of our uncles in the church to this place and We found we looked at you know, as pasapal was sharing about surveying the land and looking for locations We looked at different commercial spaces and some of them were not interested to give for churches and we found one Place, uh, which is very near to the bus stop main bus stop And this person called us back and Said what is the purpose and we said, yeah, this is for church prayer Um, you will be having some time of singing You know, so we wanted to let everything know upfront So then later there will not be any confusion So we mentioned that to him and he said, yeah, I think this place is ideal for you And he arranged everything just like that and By the grace of god all happened in like two to three days Agreement signing and all that then there was a minimal amount of work And then we could launch. Yeah Wonderful wonderful. So, uh, so when you Looked at that place, john What what were some of the thoughts in your mind? Like what did you think about did you have like a target audience? Or did you feel that? You know, this is the audience that i'm going to like focus on Yeah, so our initial, um, uh, plan was So we had had actually started a campus group at delacate Quite a few months back And we wanted to see how was the response from the students From this place. So we have a couple of people coming to manglore church from this place So we initially started with Campus group and so how the people are picking it up then we found like 15 16 of them are coming regularly So when we looked at the target audience when we took this place, we looked about 60 55 to 60, uh, people could accommodate in this place So we wanted to grow in like maybe like one year 100 people. So, uh, 50 to 60 we thought to begin with And then yeah, so that was a target audience. We said for the first season. Wonderful. So it was Students students was your target audience wonderful Right. Anybody else would like to share? Yeah, thank you john. Thank you Anybody else would like to share? Maybe even if it's a, you know, small bible study group that you thought of or a ministry Settle group feel free to share, right? Uh, even if it's not going on now somehow it has stopped. It's all right Right. We all learn from our mistakes. It's okay. It may not even be a mistake, right? So, uh But it's okay to share share your thoughts Anyone would like to share feel free guys Uh, georgia, uh, I'm not sure if uh, you are involved in any kind of uh, was it online? No online ministry that you are doing. I'm not sure All right. Yeah, okay. Oh anyone else would like to share Well, jeffina Yeah, so I I started out online ministries during covid Uh, so Kind of stopped it when I came to bible kind of so I can focus more on the word And but yeah, so I would just like to uh, share one of the things that I did during covid was uh, uh, a very small group of bible study that that was one of my very first ministry And that I literally Focused more on it prayed for it prepared some uh articles for it Uh, so I've reached some people in beehar Mumbai uh, so What I did is I prepared the articles myself. So I'm kind of good at this book editing maybe uh So I prepared the bible study articles and I actually sent them, uh Almost couriered them and packed them and sent them So I took like at least one or two weeks just to reach the people and just for the waiting for the people to receive the materials So once they once I came to know that they have received So then I set it up some dates like for at least for two to three weeks We had this bible study And it was a it was a really amazing experience from my side uh to see them Interacting with them and knowing about them And I remember still uh how god took care of the financial things because uh, I know I was not someone who was earning or working And it was covid and uh, one of the core value that I have is to never ask money to anyone So, uh, I still remember how miraculously god gave me the monies. I I gave all the materials Really and uh, I was so thankful to god I I was able to see the hand of god working When I was doing that one and uh, I still I still plan on continuing it Maybe once I complete my course. So there was an awesome experience. I fasted I played about it And I was happy uh to know that they're being touched and some of them really really got deeper in the relationship with god So that was one of the best thing that I did Thank you so much, uh, jepheba Yes, anybody else would like to share Maybe instances where you were able to rosalind. I know you're uh in the church you've been serving in the church Not sure if you're in mumbai right now, but uh, would you like to share? maybe anything that you uh did or Anybody else can share This is just so that we can you know learn together the beggar I really don't know who has you know, uh, you know Already in ministry or you're trying to start your ministry, but uh, if you'd like to share, uh, feel free uh, so that we can Learn together as well anybody else Would like to share Okay, no problem. What we'll do is uh, we'll stop here. We'll get into chapter 10 the preparation phase tomorrow and Yeah, in the meanwhile, uh, let's just uh, you know remember these points About surveying the area of god is You know put a ministry in your heart Maybe these are pointers that you can begin to pray about begin to ask god to give you wisdom And uh, i'm sure what time he will lead us right now, so we'll stop here. We'll get into next chapter tomorrow Should we pray before we close? Father we thank you for this time. We thank you for Lord the plans the purposes that you have for us god your word says what no i has seen what no year has heard What mind has not conceived that you have in store for your people of god and i pray That you will put a vision in each of our hearts To do the things that you have called us to do lord For greater purposes lord for greater things the god and lord we know that Uh, it is not by our own strength. It's not by our own wisdom or our own abilities lord But it is by the power of your holy spirit that is working in our lives We thank you for all that you've done and all that you're doing lord bless each and every student to god that Every everything that they learned or let it be let it be rooted in their hearts A god to bear fruit in their lives. We thank you. We give you all the praise and glory In jesus name we pray amen Amen, so bless you all. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good good day ahead. Good. Bless


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الشيطان اللعين الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين نحمده ونستعين به ونتوكل عليه والصلاة والسلام وعلى خير خلقه أجمعين نبينا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع ذنوبنا أبي القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيتها الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المطاهرين المكرمين ومعصومين أبي ونستعينه السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته المساعدة المساعدة of the holy prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وآليه وسلم لا دعوى today stand as exemplary and our role models for human beings to indeed follow and to seek as inspiration and to look for as far as guidance and direction is concerned in many areas and dimensions of our lives we need advice we need recommendation we are in dire requirement of motivation in order to seek how others have lived and especially those who have dedicated themselves in the path of the Almighty الله سبحانه و تعالى and have given 100% or more actually in this particular noble objective الله سبحانه و تعالى commands us to follow the Ahl al-Bait and to display and exhibit compassion and loyalty towards them بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل لا أسألكم عليه أجرا إلا المودة في القرباء I do not seek anything in return from you except to show love and loyalty towards my family the holy Quran in chapter 42 verse 23 clearly exhibits and displays the need for us to look towards the Ahl al-Bait for inspiration and one of those areas of prime importance is morality is the system of ethics, behavior, conduct today we find that in many instances we are in great need to understand what are the standards to work towards as far as our conduct and our behavior is concerned in society علم الأخلاق the study of ethics and the moral system is indeed a crucial set of teachings in the religion of Islam there are more verses in the holy Quran that detail the morality then there are when it comes to Ahkam laws highlighting its crucial significance and its importance that it plays in the life of the human being and generally for the well-being and the strength of the society and the community when we look at the Ahl al-Bait peace and blessings be upon them the inspiration is such that the holy prophet of Islam رسول العظم محمد صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم says I have been sent to perfect the morality of human beings this inama in Arabic is an exclusive tool لأتممة is emphasis and he has been sent to complete and perfect raising the bar and the standard as far as morality and ethics and conduct is concerned and the Ahl al-Bait عليهم السلام one after the other this ship of salvation the 14 glorious معصومين peace and blessings be upon them starting of course with the holy prophet and the other 13 معصومين are indeed the best role models in this regard the lady of light سيد فاطمة as well as the 12 imams exist today as the best examples of morality and role models to indeed imitate and to follow and we understand therefore why the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى has said that you and I should be loving the Ahl al-Bait because that love will bring us closer to them and this proximity will enable us to learn from them to follow in their footsteps to base our lives around them once Amir al-Mu'mineen peace and blessings be upon him and his holy progeny was walking the narration tells us that behind him was Salman al-Muhammadi رضوان الله تعالى علي this noble companion of the holy prophet and Amir al-Mu'mineen when he was walking behind the Imam he was walking and following his footsteps and the Imam turned and found that Salman was on the footsteps of the Imam and not taking his own footsteps when he asked him why Salman said because I want to follow you even by placing my feet where you walked to that extent there is that incredible association and encouragement to be with the Ahl al-Bait peace and blessings be upon them indeed when we discuss morality and when we think about أخلاق the first thing that emerges in this study or this analysis seeking the أخلاق of the Ahl al-Bait looking at the morality of the glorious household is the idea surrounding intention and the purpose of action of the human being in our day-to-day lives we may conduct many affairs we may speak to people we may organize something we may purchase we may interact the concept here is with regards to why we do what we do and ultimately within the religion of Islam there is a foundation for every action and that is إخلاص sincerity it is the cornerstone to make sure that the action itself is not feeble but rather quite strong and remains a factor that enables the human being to excel and to achieve righteousness and virtue الله سبحانه وتعالى قراء الكثير من الوقت يتعلق about the importance of sincerity the correct intention for the deed for the action it is the real spirit of the action itself as opposed to when you see other denominations or perhaps other beliefs that they may not necessarily focus much upon it if the action itself is good as long as that is viewed as a positive step then it is considered as righteous whereas the religion of Islam says no the beginning of the action is the intention which exists in the heart why am I doing something the action itself needs to be also authentically good, virtuous and of course the result or the aftermath that the human being in terms of how they speak about what they did is also deemed to be fairly important and whether they boast whether they practice ostentation رياء showing off is another factor for the acceptance of the deed by الله سبحانه وتعالى in chapter 39 verse 11 الله سبحانه وتعالى قل إني أمرتوا أن أعبد الله مخلصا للهدين the command is that I should worship Allah sincerely 100% everything should be with him and for him and the practice or the concept of sincerity إخلاص is one that has been demonstrated in the conduct and in the life of the أهل البيت عليهم السلام on numerous occasions الله سبحانه وتعالى details in Surah Al-Insan the famous story of The Holy Amir Al-Mu'mineen سيدة النساء فاطمة الزهراء إمام الحسن الحسين بيسة بلاسنس بيأبونهم all when the Holy Imams الحسن الحسين fell ill and the Holy Imam سيدة فاطمة made a vow that they shall fast for three days if they became better when they did become better they observed this of course and indeed after the first day had gone and it's they are about to break their fast we are told that the door knocks and a poor person a miskiin comes and seeks help they all lift for example the food that they had which is some loaf of bread and they present it to their destitute to the poor man they fast the second day just by breaking their fast with water the second day I often also comes and they repeat the same thing they give the orphan all that they have in terms of their food likewise the similar incident or similar occurrence is viewed on the third day so the second and the third as well as the first all had a similar trend and on the third day somebody who was captive and just released in other words not one who has much food perhaps lacking any support was given the entire food of the Ahl al-Bayt by all of them on the fourth day when the Prophet of Islam visited them he saw that they were quite weak or whenever he visited them after that even at night on the third or on the fourth day he saw that they were visibly weakened because for three days they had not eaten anything and Allah SWT revealed these holy verses in سورة الإنسان و يطعمون الطعام على حبه مسكينا و يتيما و أسيرة إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله لا نريد منكم جزاءا ولا شكورا و the Quran says they gave their food due to the love of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى to the poor person to the orphan and to the captive they then said according to the Quran we are giving the food because of God because of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى we are not expecting from you any renumeration or reward neither are we looking for thankfulness or gratitude from you and indeed this story which has been fairly popular and very much known by many people around the world especially the Muslim community highlights the power and the significance of purity of intention purity of thought the purity that's associated with the Niyah and that it was not adulterated it was not tainted it was not done for the sake of others but rather entirely for the sake of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى now the key feature of this story is that they themselves the Ahl al-Bayt have said نقيمكم لواجه الله we are giving you this food for the sake of Allah and I point to reflect unfortunately some people have translated the first part ويطعمون الطعام على حبه they give the food due to his love or due to the love it is not because of the love of the food as some have translated that they are giving the food even though they love the food No على حبه he refers to the love of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى ، لسب to the love of the Almighty جل وعلى. And it is emphasized on the next verse إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله that we are giving you this for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى. Highlighting how the Ahl al-Bait want us to learn the importance of inculcating and developing the need to do things for the sake of God and for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى alone. The Almighty says Imagine that when we buy a product we want this product to be 100% for example a particular brand we wanted to you know not be mixed with other brands if we're looking for a well-known brand of some clothing or technology computers or phone then we expect it to be from the company that we purchase it from or that which has been produced and if it is a fake model where other companies have taken part or certain parts have been taken from this and that we don't normally want it and that's why you know we want the original product. The Qur'an tells us of course that that is what الله سبحانه وتعالى expects from us work and deeds which are not adulterated but rather sincere and pure. The Holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم يجب أن يكون لك في كل شيء نية صالحة. يجب أن يكون لك في كل شيء نيية صالحة. يجب أن يكون لك في كل شيء يجب أن تفعله حقاً في الوصول. حتى فنومي والأكل even when it comes to sleep as well as eating so even when it comes to normal day-to-day life how people conduct themselves and what they do to engage in a day-to-day activity even that should be for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى. How beautiful is this narration from our six Imam Imam جعفر ابن محمدنا الصادق صلى الله عليه وسلمه عليه إذا كان يوم القيامة يوم القيامة. نظر رضوان خازن والجنة. رضوان who is the keeper or the angel in charge of paradise looks at a few people إلا قومن لم يمروبه. Some people who are in paradise but he has not seen that they have walked past him. In other words he has is quite surprised that they are in paradise already. فيقول من أنتم أين دخلتم. How did you get into paradise? Who are you? They will respond. They will say إياك عننا. Don't worry about us. فإن قومن عبدنا الله سررا فأدخلنا الله سررا that we are people who worshiped Allah in secret and he انتدنا into paradise in secret. في البحار. This narration is from Imam الصادر عليه السلام that this worship of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى that is not for showing off. That is not for seeking the approval of others. That is not for somehow having a tap on the back is one that is looked for. Hence the prayers at the night صلاة الليل is highly recommended because often there are no people to kind of congratulate the individual. There are no people around the human being. They are normally at home or in a place of worship and not many rise at night to perform this great act of obedience devotion and commitment to the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى. The holy prophet peace and blessings be upon him and his holy progeny states that there are everything is just according to the intention and that's the basis of the actions. But of course ostentation رياء showing off or seeking the approval of others are you doing things for the sake of others and not for the sake of Allah has many many repercussions. It is certainly one that could lead to sins. It is known as الشرق الأصغر minor polytheism. The prophet of Islam peace and blessings be upon him and his family says إن المراقي يناد يوم القيامة that the person who shows off is is called on the day of judgment يا فاجر يا غادر يا مراقي or the one who is showing off or the one who is a transgressor ظل عملك وبطل أجرك that your work is nullified.  Now أمير المؤمنين peace and blessings be upon him and his holy progeny and the Ahl al-Bait says that you know gives us barometers as to how we should be seeking and improving our sins in terms of our sincerity to please Allah سبحانه و تعالى. He says للمراقي أربع علامات that the person shows off has four signs. Number one يكسلوا إذا كان وحدة يكسلوا إذا كان وحدة means that they are by themselves they're very lazy in terms of إبادة in terms of good deeds ينشطوا إذا كان في الناس when they are with people they sometimes get a bit more energy not energy that sometimes one motivates the other but more so for the sake of pleasing others that they will do it so that others say well done that's very very good. Third و يزيدوا في العملي إذا أثنية عليه if somebody says to them well done you're doing well they do more because they somehow want that particular praise to continue و ينقص منه إذا لم يثنع عليه if somebody doesn't thank them they say oh why am i doing it so they start reducing the good deeds or good work because they say people are not appreciating they're not saying they're not seeing the worth of my deeds they of course fail to recognize that it's الله سبحانه وتعالى who is the ultimate rewarder of the actions in other words it doesn't matter if people are giving the thanks or not it doesn't matter if the people are saying well you know well done or not if we are doing it for Allah then we should continue because nothing is missed by the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى and on that note if somebody gets praise is that acceptable or not إمام البقر عليه السلام says yes it's acceptable provided that we did not do the deeds and the work so that we get the praise and without that praise we won't do it so there's no problem in somebody coming and congratulating someone for example when they have done a positive step in their lives but it is of the utmost importance that it's not fulfilled or it's not done for that purpose indeed we pray to الله سبحانه وتعالى to help us strengthen خلاص and serity in our hearts in our actions to learn from the glorious أهل البيت عليهم السلام every step every speech every action of theirs was done for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى القرآن praises them and commands us to follow them so that indeed we also attain success and victory in this world and the after and the after دعوانا أن الحمد لله رب العالمين وصل لهم على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهل


Hi, I'm Amanda Richards, the preservation technician with the UT Libraries in the Betsy B Creekmore and Special Collections and University Archives Department. And today I'm here with Becky Hunn and she's joining us to show us how to do a little simple stab binding technique. So let's get to the point in library preservation. Hey everyone! I'm going to demonstrate a simple Japanese stab binding technique. It's called the four-hole pattern and guess what? It has four holes. You'll also need four things for this. If you can see a pattern, we're going to roll a lot with four today. Here's what you'll need. Paper with four holes punched in it, a binder clip, and your needle and thread. All right, so we have our four holes punched in here and they are each three quarters of an inch from the end of the spine. So you should be three quarters of an inch in and three quarters of an inch up from the bottom and down from the top. And then the other two holes are just equidistant between those. So we have hole one, two, three, and four. Kind of self-explanatory. But we're going to keep hole four down with the UT Library symbol. So I'm going to flip the book this way so that we can follow the edge of the spine as we're working. Okay, so to start out with we're going to jog our paper. You should be able to see through your holes to the person or camera in front of you. And then we're going to take our binder clip and clip the pages together on the opposite side from the spine. So this will hold our book in place as we are threading it. So to start out with you're going to open your book about halfway through on the spine side. Give or take a couple pages and you're going to take your needle and thread and starting from the middle go down through the bottom of the third hole. And we'll pull this through until we have about two inches of thread left, which we will then tuck down into the book. We're going to hide them down there for a little while and close the book on top. For now we'll want to pinch the thread with our fingers so that we don't lose it as we are binding the spine. But we'll be able to let go of it in a few minutes. So we're going to come back through hole three. So from the bottom where we came out we're going to come around the spine and go back down through hole three. This will create our first beautiful spine loop.  This will create our first line on the back. And at this point we've been pinching our thread. He's pretty solidly in there now. So one of the important things as we are binding this is to keep the thread nice and tight or else your binding is loose and it's going to fall apart and what was the point. So I like to on top of pulling the thread tight as we go place my finger where I've just made a stitch and that way I can hold it in place as I'm continuing to go. And that helps to keep some of the tightness in. Paper is a lot harder to sew than fabric so it's going to be a little bit looser but this helps. So like the spine loop that we created at hole three we're going to do the same thing for hole four. So this time we're going to go around and down and come back up through hole four just like that. And then before we move away from hole four we want to close off the end. So repeating the same motion we just did we're going to go down and come back up through hole four and create this fun little corner that'll help hold our pages in place. Okay so now we're going to go down through hole three. Hole three gets to have a lot of fun in this pattern and now we've got our top two lines as well as our bottom two lines and then we'll come up through hole two just like that and we want to make another spine loop like what we did with three and four.  So we'll come up and go down and around. Now at this point your thread might be getting a little bit short and we want to be careful not to lose it. You really don't want to have to keep rethreading your needle as you're going. It's very annoying. So you might want to pinch the end of your needle where your thread is in the eye of the needle and if you just hold it there it'll help keep your thread from coming out as we're finishing up these last couple of stitches. So like we did with hole four we need to close off the corner. So we're going to come up and around and go back down through hole one on the corner. So we're making another fun little box. Yay the boxes are a fun shape to make and then we're going to come up through hole two. So if you look at the back of your book we've got all of our lines, all of our spine is made and the fun and really cool thing about Japanese stab binding, it's whole aesthetic, is that there are no overlapping threads. So each of our threads and each of our stitches only has one line. That's what makes it that pretty geometric shape that we're getting. So I'm sure you all can see where we're going with this. We're going to have to go down through hole three in order to close off our binding. However, first we're going to take off our binder clip and still holding your thread and needle you really don't want to lose it now. We're going to flip through the book until we find that thread that we left behind. So this time when we go down through hole three you're going to go down and come out at kind of a funny angle right in the middle of the book. We want to join the thread that we left behind so that he has a friend and so that our knot that we're about to tie is going to be hidden in the middle of the book. So still pulling the threads nice and tight we're going to just do a simple double knot just like you're knotting your shoelaces and you'll want to pull it tight and as close down to the spine as possible. So we'll do that twice and then you've got it bound and then we're going to cut off the thread with the scissors that we don't have. Thanks Amanda I already found some. Once you have your thread double knotted you can cut off all this excess that we have leaving a little bit of space so you don't accidentally cut your knot off and then you can take the back end of your needle where the eye is and use it to kind of shove the thread down in the spine so it doesn't peek out while you're using your book. We don't really want to see him again. Get in there. There we go. And now you've got your Japanese stab binding. Hi I'm Amanda Richards with UT Libraries in the Betsy B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives.


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The truth of the matter is that the patriotic front injected $3.2 billion in the energy sector. Before PF came into government We were producing less than 1000 MW of power. By the time the patriotic front left government we left 3458 MW of power agarista wa demandu wa 2300 megawatts. This is the wake that the PF did. From 1700 megawatts of power to 3456 megawatts of power with 3.2 billion dollars injected in the next sector. Today, Zambia should not be talking about lodging. I thought I'm told it's a load management. No. Zambia should not be talking about lodg management. Zambia should not be talking about lodg shading. They should stop playing with people's lives by using semantics. Whether it's lodg shading, it's lodg management. The issue is that Zambia is starting from today will not be having electricity for a period of not less than 6 hours as a minimum bear, minimum per day. Okay. Now, I always want to deal with the funds. First of all, I want to make it very clear to the Zambian people that it's not the issue. I saw the president again when I was addressing the council on foreign relations in the United States, in Washington. He confessed that the patriotic fight worked. For the first time we had president, Pakamua power president and among them, Maroti. And among them, Hospital. Pakamua power president. That was in Washington. And for me, I was saying, okay, thank you. We now have a convent. He has convented. He is now admitting that the patriotic front injected the money that we got from China into infrastructure. But again, he lied. Be clear, the president lied. A president and an armor. When he said the patriotic front ignored the energy sector. That was a lie, Mr. President. The patriotic front injected 3.2 billion dollars of money into the energy sector. And like I've said, today Zambia is producing 3456 megawatts of power. Our total demand at peak is 2300 megawatts. PF wekt and PF injected billions in the energy sector. So the president should stop blaming PF. I want to say the ground rules. One, he lied. Two, he should stop blaming PF. Number two, number three. Zesco and the government must stop lying to the Zambian people that we have load shedding or load management, whatever they call it, as a result of low water levels. They should stop lying to the Zambian people. Zesco itself, and I want to pick this from the Zesco Managing Director, Zesco. Mr. Joseph, the Managing Director for Zesco. And this is what he said. And this is just in July, Mr. Victor Mapani. I want Zambia to listen to this. He said Zesco has excess power of 1000 megawatts. Excess power. This is the Managing Director for Zesco, Mr. Victor Mapani. He was speaking during a high level panel discussion at the Association of Power Utilities of Africa in Dakaseneko. That was in July this year. And Victor Mapani says currently the installed natural generation capacity stands at 3456 megawatts compared to a peak national demand of 2300. So Zesco Managing Director has told us that we have a surplus of 1000 megawatts coming from the Managing Director of Zesco. Let's move on. I want to quote again the chairperson, the board chairperson for Zesco, Mr. Vixon Ntuwe. This is what Mr. Vixon Ntuwe said. That Zesco is not concerned or worried about the situation of low water levels at Karipa because Zesco no longer depends on Karipa alone for generation of electricity. It depends on the 750 megawatts, the God Lower Power Station, which I think should be named the Edigachagualungu Lower Power Station because it's the one that was constructed. It depends on the Kafue Lower God Power Station which is bringing on stream 750 megawatts. That is the board chairperson of Zesco. So it is very clear. There is no shortage of power. There is no shortage of power. We have surplus of 1000 megawatts but this government must do is to tell the Zambian the truth the Zambian people the truth that they are selling power to Namibia, they are selling power to Zimbabwe, they are selling power to South Africa. Let them come out and tell the Zambian people the truth.