So our next speaker is our invited guest, and this is Dr. Maureen Knight, and she's here from the University of Washington. She got her PhD at UC Santa Barbara and made her way to Wisconsin for a number of years where she was in ophthalmology there, and now she's been at University of Washington for about the last 10 years. Her lab investigates the genetic basis of normal vision as well as vision disorders, and she's here today to talk about some work in myopia and particularly testing some eye glasses to try to slow down the progression, so very interesting. Thank you. Dr. Knight. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Okay, so the title of my talk, can everybody hear me? The title of my talk is Myopia, a major worldwide problem that can be solved, and I will start with my disclosure. So I'm a co-founder of a company called Waveshift that has the mission of putting an end to the worldwide myopia epidemic, and I'm also a co-author on patents that are assigned to the Medical College of Wisconsin and to the University of Washington that have been licensed to Waveshift, so these are my significant financial interests in the whole deal. So when I was growing up, you can see I'm nearsighted, and everybody made fun of me calling me four eyes, but since I was a child there has been a huge increase in the prevalence of myopia, and it is predicted that by 2050 there will be five billion people who are myopic, and so that's just basically one generation from now. So the wave of the future is that I will be normal and the people that don't wear glasses will be made fun of instead. But not only is there a huge increase in myopia in general, but it's predicted that a billion people will have high-grade myopia. So one of the things that's happening now is not only are more people myopic, but the agent onset is much earlier than it used to be, and the earlier you start overgrowing your eye, the greater the degree of overall myopia you can achieve by the time you're an adult, and so there are going to be one billion people that have high myopia, and these are the people you'll see in your clinics because they're at higher risk for cataracts, glaucoma, and retinal detachments. I'm a minus nine, and so every time the ophthalmologist looks into my eye they go, oh, I see the stress. So I'm going to tell you our unconventional hypothesis and our unconventional approach to trying to see if we can't stop the progression of myopia, and it all is based on the fact that cone photoreceptors are contrast detectors, and the difference between sharply focused versus blurred images, and we didn't start by being interested in myopia. We got interested in myopia when Terri Young and her colleagues published this paper in 2004 where they did genetic linkage analysis and linked the very first high myopia gene called MYP1. They linked that to XQ28, and XQ28 is the chromosomal location of the red and green cone photopigment genes, and I had spent at this point probably 25 years studying those cone photopigment genes. I'm very in tune to them, so I was really interested in this study. So this study what they showed is that the people that they were studying had this thing called Born Home Eye Disease, so it's a syndromic form of high grade myopia. These are people, by the time they're six years old, they can be minus 11, minus 16 diopters of refractive error, so it's a very aggressive myopia, but they also for the most part all have color blindness, and in this study what they were trying to do was figure out whether the cone ops and genes were the cause of the myopia as well as the color blindness, and it turned out that in this disorder, Born Home Eye Disease, the color blindness is a bit of a red herring, and they got caught in this, so they said, oh no, we ruled out the cone ops and genes as the cause of myopia because everybody that has Born Home Eye Disease, if the cone ops and genes were the problem, then everybody would have the same color vision phenotype, but they don't. So I know more about color vision genetics than anyone else on earth, I claim, I'm a self-proclaimed expert on this, and so I went and looked at the genetics that they had described in the paper, and it's very clear that the people are color blind for the standard reasons that people are color blind. You can see it in the genetics, so it did not rule out the cone ops and genes as being the cause of the myopia. So we ultimately collaborated with Terry Young, and what we did is we showed that there is a specific haplotype of one of the cone ops and gene exons that is the cause of the myopia, and this particular haplotype is in the title of some of these papers. Oops, okay, better not. I'm not good at my mouse. Is there a traditional kind of pointer, or is this just used to us? Okay, so what this, so the initial Terry Young study, we showed that those people had a particular haplotype, which I will refer to as LVAVA, and that haplotype, the average myopic or refractive error in her subjects was minus 12.5. Several other people have now gone on to show, and in her study we later show that they had this particular haplotype. These three other studies that I've listed here independently showed that this haplotype LVAVA is associated with myopia, very high myopia, and the average refractive error in the men that have this haplotype is given over here. So one study, it's minus 10.8, another minus 30.4, another minus 11.4. So it's very high grade myopia that people have. So the way that we, so we discovered that the cone ops and genes are involved in this unusual form of very high grade myopia, made us begin to think about how it might work and what the solutions to this, the cone ops and function in myopia going awry, or cone ops and function in eye growth going awry so that you get myopia. And so we, I'm going to tell it, I'm trying to get to the point where I tell you about the eyeglasses that we have developed in our clinical trials on that. So when an ametrope is accommodated, they're looking at, they're focused on things near and that's in focus, but everything in the periphery, in the peripheral retina, that's out of focus. And that's what's shown here.  But once you become ametropic, everything in the periphery becomes out of focus. I'm sorry. Yes. Okay. So, but the question is where are we looking all the time? And are we accommodated and looking at far distance or are we looking near? So there was a study done at Berkeley where they use this special device to try to figure out really where people are looking in the scene. So we can understand what people are actually looking at. And what this shows here is the dashed brown line is showing the scene points of interest. So when the person is looking around, these are a plot of where the scene points of interest are. And here it's showing the distance of those image points in diopters and up top it's showing it in centimeters. And the black curve is showing the fixation points of the person wearing that device. And what this shows is that very rarely are people ever looking at infinity. Mostly they're looking on average at some place it's about a diopter or a meter out there. So they're accommodated to one diopter. So they're very rarely looking out at infinity. So when kids are young, they're farsighted. So the distance scenery produces very high contrast in the periphery. And when the hyperrope is accommodated, the distance scenery is still relatively in focus because they have a very great depth of field. But as the eye grows and the person becomes hematropic, the distance scenery grows out of focus for the accommodated eye. And so that would be the signal for the eye to stop growing when it gets to this place where things go out of focus that knows to stop growing. So the way, theoretically, we evolved to be running in the woods listening to iPods, not sitting around looking at computer screens. And so when you're out in the world, what these two circles show is the foveal vision that you're accommodated to, for example, the face of this young lady who's running. And then this is what's happening in your peripheral vision. So where you're accommodated, it's very highly in focus because you're an hematrope. And everything in the distance is out of focus. But now, in our modern world, what we're doing is we're sitting in front of computer screens all the time. So if you map these places, the same circles of what you're looking at when you're out in the world onto your MacBook Pro, what you find is that not only is the visual stimulus that you're looking at in the center very highly in focus, but now everything in the peripheral retina is also very highly in focus. And this would be the stimulus for the eye to grow. And so because of our lifestyle in the modern world, we are stimulating our eyes to grow. And we would also argue that by constantly updating kids' prescriptions so that they're never with blurry vision, so their vision is always perfectly crisp everywhere in the lenses, that the standard care is also contributing to the progression of myopia. So what is the solution? So we think that the solution would be to blur the image in the periphery. So this is what the idea would be, is that if you could just keep the center in focus and then reduce contrast in the periphery so that you can still see it and read it if you need to. But it's now not so highly in focus that it would now not be the stimulus for the eye to grow. And so we have devised a eyeglasses approach to try and stimulate this reduced contrast in the peripheral retina. And that's illustrated here. So here would be a typical standard of care correction.  So we did a clinical, a mini clinical trial on our reduced contrast lenses when we were at the Medical College of Wisconsin. And what we did was a, okay, so this is the results of the study, I'm going to tell you what we did. So we did within subjects control so that the kids wore a standard of care lens essentially on one eye. And on the other eye they wore a lens that reduced the contrast of the image. We had them come into the lab for two weeks before they started wearing the eyeglasses. And we only enrolled kids that were progressing at least a diopter per year in the previous year. So we measured their axial lengths and corneal curvature using the IOL master. Then we started them wearing the eyeglasses and they wore them for three months. All the IRB would give us. And they came into the lab every two weeks during the time that they were wearing the glasses. And we measured their axial lengths and corneal curvature. And so the data is shown here. So we have the normal which would be the control eyes and then the reduced contrast eyes there. Every single data point here or every individual person is a different color line. And then the solid black line shows the average of all of the treated eyes and with the standard deviations. And then the experimental lens are over here. We had 20 eyes in this study that wore the experimental lens and 20 that wore the control lens. And then this is our every two weeks measurements in months. And so you can see that the eyes that wore the standard of care continue to progress in their myopia over that short period of time. And the reason why we use the IOL master is we can make very small measurements or measure very small changes in axial length very reliably. And you can see that in the treated eyes or the eyes that wore the low contrast lens, there was a flattening out. This point here where the eye shrinks, that's real. Initially we thought that that was an artifact. And we said, boy, if we were ever to do this again, we would have the kids practice at the IOL master because that first data point is really terrible. But it turns out which we, because we have redone this study, what is happening in that first two week period is there's a corroyal thickening that gives a shorter axial length measurement. So the outcome of this study is that there was a huge reduction in the axial growth of the eyes that wore the reduced contrast lens compared the eyes that wore the normal lens with a very highly statistic significance. RP was .0019. Okay, so we used the data from this trial to justify doing a larger trial. And this was a randomized subject massed multi-center trial. And we had kids that were seven to 10 years old with the history of myopic progression. And the plan was to enroll 45 kids, kids per group. Here we had not within subjects study, we actually had a control arm and a treatment arm. There were 14 sites across the United States that enrolled kids. And the test product were lenses that reduce the contrast. And there were 40 kids that completed the experimental arm. We, five of the kids just didn't pick up their glasses. And then the control product was just standard of care glasses. The duration of this study was six months. And then they, you know, came on this time schedule to have their axial lengths and corneal caravatures measured using the IOL master at these different study points. And here is the results. So our outcome measure was a change in axial length and measured in millimeters over the days of the treatment. And as I say, it was a six-month trial. So this line is our control subjects that have wore the standard care lenses. And what you can see is that they continue to progress in the increase in axial length over the six months of the study. Whereas the kids that were wearing the reduced contrast lens, they had a very much slower progression in their myopia or the increase in axial length. So we were very encouraged by this. And so what this adds up to is a 61% reduction in the progression of myopia in the kids that were wearing the experimental lenses. So Lawrence Peter says, all science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. And each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict. Thank you. To predict the consequences of his actions and thus the ability to control future events. And so we thought, okay, based on the results that we had so far with the eyeglasses reduction of contrast, we think that maybe reducing contrast even more is going to improve the reduction in the progression of myopia. And I want to make a point here first that there's a big difference between blurring the image and reducing the contrast. And what we're doing is we're reducing the contrast with our lens design. If you blur the image, it's very hard to see what the heck is going on. But if you reduce the contrast, you can still read this very easily. It's just reduced contrast. So in trying to reduce the contrast even more, we have done smaller studies. And so this is a study where we only had six subjects. The mean age was 10.67 years. And the mean refractive error in the subjects was minus 4.33. And the test product here were lenses that reduced the contrast twofold compared to the two previous trials that I've already told you about. And the duration of this study was one year. So I'm going to give you the results of that relative to the results of our randomized multi-site trial, which is here. So this is what I just showed you here as the control eyes in our previous study in the, excuse me, experimental lens group in that previous study. And then here we're just, I'm just extrapolating this out to what we would predict their myopia would be at one year if they continued wearing this lens. And then now we had our six kids wear this double reduction in contrast compared to those for one year. And their data points are shown here. And what you see is it flattens out. And this, what I'm showing you right here, these are the 95% competence limits for this endpoint here. And it does not overlap at all the other group. And this corresponds to a 75% reduction in myopia progression. So, of course, my collaborator in all of this, of course, is J. Knights. And J. Knights is the king of if some is good, more is better. So he said, okay, let's make a four times reduction in contrast lens. So then we had three kids wear on one eye a two X reduction in contrast and the other eye a four X reduction in contrast lens. And we measured them over time. And so I've got the color coding wrong on here. I'm sorry. But I'll explain it to you. And then hopefully, you won't need the color coding. So again, the outcome measure is the change in axial length as a function of the days of wear. And so, so this blue line right here goes with this black dotted line right here. So there, this is the increase in axial length for the eye that was wearing the two X reduced contrast. And on the same person, this is the eye that was wearing the lenses that had the forex reduction. And you can see that they're progressed that I that was wearing the four X reduction and contrast progress much slower in the in myopia. This person again, this is the two X contrast lens compared to the axial growth with the forex contrast lens. And again, the forex contrast lens is reducing the growth. And then finally, this person right here goes with this, the forex contrast lens really reduced the progression of myopia. So with this forex reduction in contrast, we're achieving on a small number of people given, but 9% reduction in myopia progression. So this is just lets you see what the difference between two X and forex reduction in contrast looks like. And here you can see up close that this is the forex reduction in contrast. It's really it's you can still read it. And then our present are the original glasses that we did that we did in our Wisconsin study and in the in the randomized clinical trial, the larger study with 45 kids per group. We just had the reduction of contrast across the entire lens. And since then, what we have been doing is we create a clear spot in the center. I don't remember the diameter of that clear spot, but we have it. So there's no reduction of contrast in the very center. So kids can just use that to to see anything that they really need to see super clearly. And we're just blurring the periphery. And we've asked the kids if they have if they have problems with the lenses, because we're worried about tolerability, right? I mean, you can have the best myopia progression, reducing glasses on earth. And if nobody will wear them, it won't do you any good. So we're really concerned about whether or not the kids will wear the glasses. And so this is one of our studies subjects who agreed to let us show her picture around the world. She's wearing the forest reduction of contrast lenses on both eyes. And so you can kind of see it has a foggy appearance. And when the light shines on in a particular way. And so the kids tell us that they that they do notice it at first when they start wearing the glasses, but that they get that they get used to it. And so and they say that other people don't tend to notice that there's a problem. I guess kids walk around with 30 glasses a lot. So it looks like 30 glasses. So it seems to be pretty well tolerated. So right now we have our company that you know this one my financial disclosure that company has a pivotal trial that's underway. And the goal is to enroll a total of 220 children. There's going to be a control arm and then there are two different dose arms. One is going to be forex reduction or is forex reduction in contrast and the other is 2x reduction in contrast. It is the goal is to be fully enrolled by the end of this month. And then it's a three year trial. This is an FDA. We went and talked to the FDA about what what we need to label this as a myopia control product. And so they're requiring a three year trial. They're requiring a 75% reduction in contrast. Sorry in myopia progression. But we're going to look at the data after one year and if it looks good we can begin to market the glasses in other countries. So so now I'm going to so that's what we're doing in terms of our trying to solve the myopia problem. But other people have ideas about things that you might do to to solve the problem of myopia. And and a lot of people thought that just prescribing eyeglasses to correct the refractive error so that people could see solve the problem not realizing that the eye is continuing to grow and that that is the real problem. So the Chinese government their approach is to just ban video games because their idea is okay having kids play video games all day long and sitting at screens is is causing myopia. So now we're not going to let them do that. Here in this country we are taking a different approach. So there was a recent study that was published by the International Pediatric Ophthalmology Strovismus Council where they asked people what they do to treat myopia if they do any sort of treatment for their myopic patients. And most 59% of the respondents say that they do something to try to stop the progression of myopia. And the most common thing people do is to use low dose atropine. There are other approaches but low dose atropine is super popular. And the reason why it is so popular is basically based on this study right here at all that came out in 2016 which is a five year clinical trial results report on atropine for the treatment of myopia. It's the low dose atropine trial. And the unfortunate thing about this particular study is that there's no control group. There's just three treatment groups. There's the low dose atropine 0.01% and then two higher doses of atropine. And what they did here their outcome measure was spherical equivalent refraction in diopters and they did it over five years. And so what they did is each of the kids had their dosage of atropine daily dose over the first two years and at the two year mark they stopped treatment. But they continued to monitor the change in refractive error and that's shown here. And you can see the two higher dose groups plummeted so their refractive error just got much worse. But the low dose atropine seems to also they have continued to progress in their myopia. Then at the end of the third year what they did is everyone who was still continuing to progress in their myopia they put all of those kids onto low dose atropine for the next two years. And so it's plotted here according to their original atropine group. But in these last two years everybody's on the low dose atropine. And you can see that first of all there's this huge rebound for the two higher dose atropine. So it just makes it worse. They just you know they just it's like having no effect at all. And it's hard to argue here that the .01% atropine is having any effect. And particularly with with the two distractor plots there. So if you just look at the low dose atropine group and you look you go really looks more like these these kids are just progressing as they would have if they had no low dose atropine. And since there's no control group you can't argue whether there's really any effect at all. And I argue that there's really no effect of that low dose atropine. More recently in 2018 there was a study published by Yamadol. And this is the lamp study or the low concentration atropine for myopia progression study. And in this study it was a one-year study. And they used change in axial length as their outcome measure. But they did do a control group. So the top line is the progression of myopia in the placebo or you know no treatment group versus low dose atropine and two higher doses of atropine. And at the end of the study there was not a statistically significant difference between the placebo and the low dose atropine group. Which is not to say there's not some difference but there's not a statistically significant difference. And it looks like these two groups are having effect. But we know from earlier studies that the higher doses of atropine actually have a bigger problem is that when you go off of the atropine your eye really begins to progress much faster. So the other things that people do, they based on this keep myopia away, go outdoors and play study. So they encourage kids to go outside and play and spend less time watching TV, reading and doing all kinds of these close work high contrast activities. And so there was a clinical trial on this. The intervention was 80 minutes of outdoor play versus a control group which weren't encouraged to go outside and play. And after one year what they found is that they could reduce the mean progression in myopia by about 1.13 diopters in the group that played outdoors more. So over the lifetime of the kids in school if you go from first to 12th grade and every day play outside for 80 minutes you can add up to a total reduction of myopia by 1.5 diopters.  There is a contact lens product that's not available through in the United States that is a myopia control product. It's a Cooper vision product. It's called MySight. And they did a 48-month trial on theirs. Again their outcome measure was change in axial length and they ran it over four years. And they say that they were able to reduce myopia progression by about 1 diopter over that four years. The problem with contact lenses you can't really put them on little kids. The kids aren't good about washing their hands. So very contact lenses are not that great. So what we argue is that going forward with our eyeglasses that you should be able to treat myopia even before it starts and then you can have a really big overall effect if the eyeglasses work. And the deal is this is that this study shows that the progression of myopia is very highly predictable. So you know if you look at the agent onset then you see that you know someone who starts when they're eight years old or here an eight year old is minus 1.15 and they achieve by the time they're 11 years old their mind is 3.21. So if you if that person right here which could be me because that's when I was diagnosed or what had my agent onset a person that onsets here by the time they're 17 years old they're going to be minus six and a half. And so if you put the contact lenses on when they're 12 years old and achieve an overall reduction of 1 diopter over every four years then when they're 17 years old instead of being minus six and a half they're going to be minus five and a half. I'm currently minus nine. We also know that one of the one of the greatest predictors of who's going to become myopic are the number of myopic parents. So our older daughter asked us when she was little you know when am I going to have to wear glasses and we said yes she said when. Well you know third grade and then our younger one same thing well am I going to have to wear glasses yes and of course it's all true they've had to wear glasses. So we as myopic parents we could have said okay you're going to start by the time you're eight years old so what we'll do is before your eye ever grows too long we'll start you wearing the eyeglasses our contrast reduction eyeglasses here and then continue it until they say look I'm tired of wearing glasses and at that point when they're 12 years old say okay you can have contacts if you really want which would reduce the overall benefit but not that much they'll still only be minus one or two minus one or two compared to just continue to wear the glasses. So we are where this is we're hoping that this will be a way of truly preventing the growth of the eye by having kids wear glasses which are fairly non-invasive and on that note I'm going to stop and take your questions. Randy. So you know fascinating and I think that your case you make is is very strong that this is important but I also point out that there's also a lot of good studies to point out that loss of contrast sensitivity is not totally benign. Contrast sensitivity is particularly important under mesopic conditions driving seeing objects and there's a lot of work showing that that that some loss of that contrast sensitivity can indeed have an impact on things you do a lot of athletics so I think it's going to be important for you to measure not just how these patients think but but some of these driving tests that they have out there they have this the virtual reality and others to see what impact because we we often fight hard in regards to counter exertion other to enhance the contrast all we can to to increase the function with some very real studies showing that it does indeed do that. Well I agree completely with that so I would argue however that the young children aren't driving so until they're driving we don't have to worry about the driving issue. Athletics though is also. Athletics but and so but a lot of times with athletics just wearing glasses in general is not necessarily a safe thing to do so what it so our protocol has the the kids are required to wear the glasses except when it would not be safe to wear the glasses such as when they're playing athletics so they are allowed to take the eyeglasses off. We don't we don't know how many hours a day is the minimum requirement to wear the glasses to have the effect that would be an important piece of information that we'd like to have but you do make a very good point that you do have to be careful that we do need the contrast. There's also a very nearsighted person I've had laser guy I was a minus eight when I had laser you need you glasses to play yeah I mean I was already by fourth grade I was like a minus three and I'm minus four there's no way I was playing baseball without having glasses couldn't see the ball. Right well yeah there is that so yeah. So they probably need two pair they need this pair.


What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today we're looking at the difference between a data analyst and a data scientist. Now I myself have been a data analyst for many years but I've worked with a lot of data scientists and what we're going to do is break down category by category the difference between a data analyst and a data scientist and exactly what they do. So let's not waste any time let's jump right onto my screen and take a look. All right so the first thing that we're going to take a look at is the responsibilities of a data analyst versus a data scientist. Starting with a data analyst some of the responsibilities are going to include cleaning and analyzing the static data, performing statistical and exploratory analysis, creating reports and visualizations, working directly with stakeholders to make data driven decisions and conduct ad hoc analysis. So let's break this down just a little bit further. So when I say clean and analyze static data that static data refers to data that is sitting in a database you're not working with live data or a live stream of data. So a client might be sending you an excel file every night which you ingest and put into your database and that's you know yesterday's data or you could be accessing their database and you could pull something every month using something like a stored procedure but most likely that data is just going to be sitting in a database somewhere and you're going to go and clean that data to make it more usable and then analyze that data as well to find trends and patterns or whatever the client needs. Now let's skip down to reports and visualizations. Now in my mind these are two separate things although at some companies they are the exact same thing. Now in my mind a report is something like an excel file or some type of analysis that I've done that I'm sending to a client and I can kind of automate that so maybe I'm sending that every week or every month and I send that to a client. A visualization to me is something like a Power BI or a Tableau dashboard or a hundred other tools that you could do even Python or R but it's some type of visualization of the data and sometimes you're going to send that to a client but sometimes you'll just have it online in some type of web application that a client can go and just check that visualization. The last one I want to touch on is this ad hoc analysis. This refers to just one off reports or one off questions that a client might have and this is something unfortunately that data analysts do a lot. You're going to be sitting at your computer doing your work all of a sudden you get an email from a client saying hey I need this analysis really quickly can you just grab that for me and of course it's not going to be something super simple it'll take you know a couple hours to do and so you go and you do that one off reports or that one off analysis and then you send that to the client. That unfortunately is just a big part of being a data analyst where you just get lots of requests for these kind of one off reports or one off types of analysis. Now let's take a look at data scientists. So a data scientist is going to use current data to discover future opportunities. They're going to use machine learning models and statistical methods to analyze the data. They're going to fine tune these models for improved accuracy. They're going to do a lot of data cleaning and modeling and conduct A, B testing. So this first one says they're going to use current data to discover future opportunities. What that means is they're going to use the current data to predict what's going to happen in the future at least to the best of their abilities. So thinking about something like Netflix you watch all these shows they collect that data. They have machine learning models running on the back end that basically say okay we have this data what shows would they want to watch next. And so they're using that current data to predict what you'll want in the future. These next ones relate mostly to machine learning models so using machine learning models and then fine tuning those models for accuracy. There are a lot of different methods in machine learning that a data scientist can use. Now typically most data scientists aren't going to actually write any of these models. They're using pre-existing models that already exist and they're plugging in the data into these models. A lot of times a data scientist will have some idea of what model is going to work best but they might test the data with one, two, three or even up to like five or ten models depending on what they're doing and then when they find the one that is the most accurate for their use case they're going to try to fine tune that. Now the next ones are data cleaning and modeling and then A, B testing. Data cleaning and data modeling is something that both data analysts and data scientists do but data analysts tend to be more on the data cleaning side and not as much of the modeling unless you're like a senior level or a lead or just depending on the role that you're in. Almost all data scientists are going to need to know how to model the data and really what that refers to is shaping and cleaning that data for whatever model you're putting the data into. Another last thing is A, B testing. Now A, B testing is basically where you're testing to see whether one option or another is better for what you're trying to do. The simplest way that I can explain it is you have a lemonade stand and in front of it you say 50 cents per cup and you test that out for a while and then you have another lemonade stand where you say half a dollar per cup. They're saying the same thing or doing something very similar you're just testing to see which one has the best results based off some metric that you've defined. Now I know that's super, super simplified it can be very complex but you're basically comparing two different things and seeing which one reacts better. So in general a data analyst is going to work with a client they're going to get data in we're going to help clean it then we're going to analyze that data. With that data we're going to create reports and visualizations and give it back to the client or the stakeholder or whoever it's for. Data scientists can also work with stakeholders and clients but not as much as a data analyst and they're going to use a lot more machine learning a lot more technical skills in order to kind of predict what's going to happen next. Of course they need to clean and model that data and make sure it's useful for their machine learning model and then they're going to get their results and they might even visualize that data but sometimes data scientists will work with data analysts to actually help them visualize the data. Now let's move on to technical skills and let's start off with the data analyst. So some of the technical skills that a data analyst is going to work with are things like SQL, R and Python and then within Python we have a few specific things that are just really popular things like pandas, pollers, numpy and matplotlib as well as a lot of others. We'll also use data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI of course we'll be using Excel we may also use a cloud platform like AWS or Azure and then lastly some type of statistical tool like SAS or SPSS. Now these are just some of the more popular skills and tools that you're going to use as a data analyst but of course there are thousands out there. I've used a ton of other things that aren't on this list they're just not as popular for most data analysts. Now let's take a look at data scientists. They're going to use SQL, R and Python but the packages and the libraries may be a little bit different. They may use pandas, pollers, TensorFlow, scikit learn. They may also use a cloud platform like AWS or Azure, Excel, then they may use Spark, Docker and Kubernetes and then of course Git. You'll notice that with the technical skills there's quite a bit of crossover. They're both going to be using SQL, they're both going to be using Excel, some type of cloud platform, R and Python. There is a lot of crossover between these two but in general the data scientist is going to be a little bit more technical. Now let's take a look at education and let's start off with the data analyst. Now most jobs are going to require a bachelor's degree that's just pretty standard across all jobs. There are some jobs as well that do require a master's degree but typically it's just a bachelor's degree. Now you don't have to have a degree at all, it just makes it more difficult although I have worked with people who don't have a degree. If you are looking to become a data analyst here are some of the degrees that are really useful. Ones like statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, business analytics and information systems. Now let's take a look at data scientists. Now typically you're going to need a bachelor's, a master's or sometimes even a PhD. Those PhD ones are far and few between but you will see more jobs requiring a master's for this type of position but almost all of them require at least a bachelor's degree. The education for a data scientist I think is a little bit more important. If you don't have a degree I think it's a little bit tougher to break into the data science space. Some of the degrees that you might want to have to become a data scientist are things like computer science, engineering, software engineering, information systems, information technology, statistics or physics. Now just to be transparent I have a degree in recreational therapy which is not on this list at all but I use that healthcare to kind of transition into data analytics. So you don't have to have one of these degrees in order to become a data analyst or a data scientist these are just some of the more recommended degrees. Now let's take a look at some of the job titles that you might see for a data analyst and a data scientist. Let's start off with the data analyst. The first of course is just going to be a typical data analyst title. That one's really common and you'll see that almost any job board that you check. You'll also see ones like quantitative analyst and technical analyst as well as ones that are domain specific. So things like healthcare, finance, marketing analyst. So just kind of insert your domain and then put analyst behind it. Typically there are jobs that are associated with those as well. Next for a data scientist we have of course a data scientist. This could be data scientist one, two, three. Same thing for data analyst you'll see data analyst one, two, three. We also have machine learning engineer and machine learning developer. So if you're looking to become a data analyst or data scientist these are some of the job titles that I would be looking for. Lastly let's take a look at the pay for both a data analyst and a data scientist. Let's start off with data analyst. For an entry level data analyst role you're looking at anywhere from 50 to 75. Now that's where you're going to get on average sometimes it'll be a little bit lower sometimes it might be a little bit higher. As a mid-level analyst you're looking at anywhere from 70 to 90,000 and as a senior level data analyst anywhere from 80 to 120,000. Now this is for the United States so if you're in another country you might want to take a look at what your averages are there. Now all these averages are very dependent on several factors for both the data analyst and the data scientist. It can definitely depend on your years of experience your education where you live all of these things play a factor into how much money you're going to make. But now let's take a look at the data scientist. For an entry-level role you'll be looking at 65 to 100,000 dollars. For a mid-level role anywhere from 85 to 120,000 and then for a senior data scientist role anywhere from 100 to 150,000. You'll notice some overlap on both of these where it's 65 to 100 versus 85 to 120. Those are just the averages I'm giving you the data as it is based off of you know these aggregations from Google, Glassdoor and LinkedIn data but they are pretty accurate. You're also going to notice that data scientists get paid more money I think this is because of the technical nature of the work. Data scientists tend to need a little bit more education it's a little bit more technical and difficult to understand some of the things that they're doing. So if you do have the expertise to be able to do that work they're going to pay you more money to do it. It is kind of a double-edged sword though because even though they make more money it's harder to land those jobs in my opinion whereas a data analyst they're a little bit easier to land a job. So that is the breakdown between a data analyst and a data scientist. Now if you're trying to become one of those there are many things that you should take into consideration. The first thing to consider is which one do you really like and have a passion for. If you really like analyzing data and finding those trends and patterns then data analysis is a great place for you but if you want to be a little bit more technical work with machine learning and maybe even AI kind of predict what's going to happen next then trying to become a data scientist might be great for you. Now just some of my unsolicited advice if you want to become a data scientist that's your end goal for you you can still start out as a data analyst especially if you don't have the education you don't have the technical skills just yet and you kind of want to work your way up to there a data analyst might be a great place to kind of leapfrog into a data scientist position. I've seen a ton of people do that some people just stay data analysts forever like me because that's really what I have a passion for but some people will use data analysis to kind of get some experience working with data and then they'll build up their technical skills and then become a data scientist. Again just some unsolicited advice they have a lot of kind of the core skills that they use then data scientists tend to just be a little bit more technical. So I hope that this was helpful and that you understand the difference between a data analyst and a data scientist now. If you did be sure to like and subscribe below and I will see you in the next video.


God creates the water and we dig wells. The enemy seeks to stop the wells by covering it with dirt. The wells become dry and the dry wells become prisons. From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. The world you live in is dying out of thirst. The church is the well where rivers of living water flow to bring life to people. Breakthrough to finances, peace to families, healing to physical bodies and freedom to souls. Join us as we go digging. I'm gonna preach today about digging wells part six. We're gonna read the story of Samuel. I'm gonna pick and choose few verses to read from.  And it contrasted Samuel with the sons of Eli whose dad was very passive toward God, very old and very passive, very cold toward God. And from the beginning when I look at story of Samuel I see that Samuel's passion for God was birthed in his mother's prayer closet. And the sons of Eli's corrupt life resulted in their father's cold attitude toward God. Cold parents produce corrupt children. Praying parents produce prophetic children. We all know Moses. But if you read Hebrews 11, Bible is very clear that Moses' calling did not start with Moses, it started with his parents. It first highlights the faith of Moses' parents as the ground for Moses' calling. Parents never underestimate your commitment, your faithfulness to God. That even if you will not go to great places you create a platform for your children to be used by God. That's why Paul said to Timothy, he says, the faith that is in you, he says it didn't originate in you. It was in your mama. In fact, it started with your grandma. And the reason why you are Timothy today is because of somebody laid a foundation. If you are paying a price and not seeing results that means someone else will reap the benefit. But if you are, did not pay the price and reaping results that means somebody else paid the price and never saw the fruit. And you are reaping that fruit. That reminds us, those of us in here today who are parents, your children will carry your spiritual passions. What you do in moderation, they will do in excess. That's why if you do social drinking, don't be surprised if they will take it much higher. That's why if you gamble, if you watch pornography, if you engage in illicit and immorality and things that are compromising your consciousness and grieve the Holy Spirit, you're not only hurting your future. You are giving a next generation a bad example. Eli did not know that his cold attitude toward God produced a corrupt generation that God eventually removed. God wants us as parents, mentors and guardians to give an next generation the highest possible platform. Because if they have a good example, they have a good start. They have a head start. But if they have a bad example, they still are without excuse. Parents, excuse me children, if you have good parents, you have a head start in life. If you have parents who are not divorced, if you have parents that are praying, if you have parents that are saved, if you have parents that remind you to live pure and holy in this generation, you have a head start in life. Now you have a chance to run with that head start or play dumb and stand there. And when the gun goes off, just stand there. You still have a choice, but you already have an advantage. Now for those of you who say, Vlad, but my parents are not necessarily, didn't give me a good example. You still don't have an excuse. Bill Gates said, if you were born poor, that's not your fault.  Because your parents, they determine your history. Your mentors, they determine your destiny. No matter where you came from, choices are stronger than statistics. Who you surround yourself with, which experiences you choose to be engaged in, they will trump anything you came from. And how I know that? Because Samuel, though his mom gave him a good heritage of faith, Samuel took a notch higher. He was a prophet, he was a man of God. Yet his kids, contrary to his example, chose to take bribes and live corrupt life. Which tells me, you can have a bad example and still choose to do what's right. Or you can have a good example and still choose to do what's wrong. We all have our choices. Do not blame your parents for the disadvantage that maybe you're experiencing right now. It's how you were born, but it's not how you have to die. It's how you started. It's not how you're gonna finish. Why? Because you will make a choice that me and my house will serve God. What they did was their choice. What I will do is mine. And I am responsible and it is my decision. And I stand by that decision. You got some praise right now. You have the power. The ball is in your hand right now. It's in your court. You make a decision.  Stop blaming. Take responsibility. Yes, you didn't have a head start, but you still don't have an excuse. I see that in Samuel. He has something was passed on to him.  It's already in his DNA. It's in his blood to pursue God. But he still makes a choice. I want to highlight three truths from Samuel's life that I believe will help us to be people who will dig wells, people who will not only experience God, but experience abundant life. If you have a Bible, I'm gonna only read one verse. And that's gonna be first Samuel, chapter three and verse one. Now boy Samuel, historians and theologians believe that he was 12 years of age. Boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days and no widespread revelation. And I'm gonna pause on that and explain just a little bit more in just a moment. I want you to notice this. Samuel has a miraculous birth. He wasn't supposed to be born because his mom was barren. Miraculous, supernatural beginning in his life.  You were born second time supernaturally, spiritually.  You had a bad nature, God gave you and me a new nature and a new name because somebody say a man. That's why people who say, you know, I was born bad, get born again. Some people say one time person came to me and said I was born gay. I said Jesus says to be born again. All of us were born bad the first time. That's why we have a second chance to be born again. And the second birth is miraculous birth. He gets born again. Samuel doesn't get born again. He gets born first time supernaturally. His mama puts him into the temple. Now there's only one problem. Is the temple she puts him into was worse than the house she could have kept him in. Think about it. The temple that she put him into was so messed up. It was the place you don't want your kids to be in. It was supposed to be a good place. But it was so corrupt. The Bible says the sons of Eli lived sexually immoral life. They did not know God, meaning they had no appetite for God. And thirdly they despised sacrifices. They broke their priestly duties.  And Samuel did not have a good example. He did not have an older brother. Samuel did not have a great mentor. Samuel had only mom and dad visiting once a year to bring him brand new clothes. But I want you to watch this.  Samuel did not blend in. Samuel did not get corrupted. He was a boy. He was a little child. But he did not become what the temple was. The temple system that year after year toxic environment did not change this boy's convictions and commitment to God. And he was alone. He had no support system. There was no home group. Unlike Daniel who had three other bodies. He had nobody with him there. He was by himself. And one day Samuel, he changed the temple system. One day all of those guys were gone. And the system changed in the temple. I want to remind every person here today before God will use you to change your environment.   You will be tested not to be changed by the world you are in right now. The toxic family situation. The difficult time at work. Perhaps it's in your college school right now where everybody is doing something with the norm. It's something that is against your convictions. It's popular to do what is against the word of God. Where there is a pressure in the culture to conform to the culture. My Bible makes me to understand is that before God can transform a man a man makes a decision not to conform to his surroundings. God cannot transform. God cannot use you to transform your environment until he first tests you. That you don't get conformed to your surroundings. And that's where many of us are saying I'm going to change the world. How? If you watch what they watch. Listen what they listen. Go to where they go. Smoke what they smoke. Drink what they drink. Sleep like they sleep. How? What are you going to change if you just like them? How are you going to stand out if you are so busy fitting in? No goal is to be accepted by the popular crowd. The Bible says the flower fades and the grass withers. Meaning trends they change. Fades. Those things that are popular today they are no longer popular in five years. But the word of our God endures forever. Meaning when you decide like Daniel in the Babylonian culture I cannot change Babylon but I will be refused to be changed by the Babylon. I will not eat what they eat. I will not live like they live. I will stand out. I will stand for God. I will stand for my faith. I will stand for my purity. I will stand for my convictions. I will stand for the truth.  Guess who God used to change Babylon? The one who wasn't changed by Babylon. Guess who God used to change the temple? The one who wasn't corrupted by the temple.  Titanic did not reach its destination because the water that Titanic was on got inside.  You will become a salt that lost its flavor and the Bible says it is useless and nobody needs it and they trample on the ground.  The world doesn't need you. The world doesn't care about you because you are like it. You hurt the same. You bleed the same. Hold with them. That's why the Bible says be separate. It doesn't mean that we run away from the world. It means that we are in the temple but the temple world is not in us. That means we see the corruption we see the hypocrisy we see the popularity of the ungodly things being popular. We see the trends, we see all of that stuff and we love people but we say I am not here to blend in because this will pass. It used to be popular to kill people and that passed and this will pass. Killing babies in the womb that will pass too. Why? Because God's word will endure forever. Making fun of God that will pass too. You should ask Stalin. You should ask other dictators who make fun of God where the day end up that will pass and you will stand your ground. God will use a man to change the world who makes the decision not to be changed by the world. And Samuel because victory Samuel had is not to become the friends and influenced by the sons of Eli when he had no friends and it's hard to do when you're alone. It's hard to do when you don't have a clique to support you. When you don't have a squad to uphold you. It's hard to do when you don't have a group. It's hard to do when you don't have support but it's still possible if a boy could do it. So can you with home groups, with podcasts with travel reading plans with books so can you with Sunday morning sermon so can you with your parents cheering you on so can you with your pastor preaching to you so can you with prayers and fasting if a boy can do it you and I can do it. It's somebody same as me. I know that not conforming to the culture will cost you something. This is the biggest problem is that you lose something if you refuse to conform to the culture. But watch this if you do conform you lose everything. If you don't conform you lose something. If you do conform you lose everything. Samuel lost his childhood. He didn't spend it with kids. You know what he played with? Ark of the Covenant. How was your childhood? Well I memorized every closet in the temple. How was your childhood? I learned about show bread and the candlelight sticks. How was your childhood? Oh I read Book of Leviticus. He had no childhood. He lost his childhood. But he had his destiny. Sons of Eli had a fun life which was cut short and they not only disappointed God. The Bible says I think the only instance in the scripture what I could remember where God spoke of his people that he wanted to kill him and that was the sons of Eli. You will lose either everything or something.  You will pay now and play later or you will play now and pay later but you will pay. You will either live with the pain of discipline or with the pain of regret but there will be a pain and the best pain is the one you can control. The best pain is the one you can choose not the one that's inflicted on you. The best pain is when you hold your horses when you hold your purity the best pain is when you control yourself the best pain is when you hold your virginity the other pain is when HIV hits you and that you can't stop the other pain is when you go from broken relationship to a broken relationship and that you can't control and that doesn't stop and that keeps hurting you and hurting you the best pain is the one you control and choose and that's the pain of picking up the cross following Christ denying yourself and following him where he goes can somebody say man I know some of you came here today and you you were hoping I'm gonna pat you on the back before we get to that part we need to remind you many of us are have come too many times to the cross but God is calling you to get on it and die on that cross to your interest to your desires be separated because God cannot bless a mess God can only bless someone God can only use someone who will be separated to him in this day and in this hour and Samuel first he was pure from the pollution of his surrounding he was separated from his surrounding he didn't change it he refused to be changed by it and then God gave him the authority to clean up the temple God will give you the authority to change that toxic environment your family will be different your business will be different the way you will rule and reign in your that environment in the future will be different why because you are not corrupted in your testing period the second thing I want us to notice is not only Samuel refused to become like them but the verse we read it says Samuel ministered to the Lord so not only Samuel refused to be like them but Samuel minister to the Lord but if you'll read a little bit earlier in chapter 2 of verse 26 it says the child grew in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men somebody say growth and somebody say favor so as Samuel is separating himself from the toxic environment of the temple without running from the temple God already is granting him two things growth and what's the second one favor but I want you to see that in spite of growth and in spite of favor Samuel in chapter 3 verse 1 it says Samuel ministered to the Lord a don't settle in success that your separation has invited when you begin to separate yourself from the world it attracts God's favor for some weird reason you don't eat the food of the Babylon and you ten times smarter than the rest of the guys for some weird reason growth begins to follow your life for some weird reason your grades get better for some weird reason while the rest of the people trying to deal with their abusive boyfriends you're finishing your master's degree for some weird reason while everybody's trying to prove everybody wrong and you already got your own house for some weird reason God's favor and God's growth begins to mark people's lives who don't try to please the world and be friends with the world but be separate to God I can't explain it but maybe it says in Matthew 633 seek first the kingdom of God and everything else will be added but there is a blessing that is gonna follow you that is favor that is gonna follow you that is God's grace that is gonna follow your life that is a mark of God that's gonna last on your education and your business and your family when you follow God somebody give God some praise right now if you want that blessing give God some praise right now the challenge remains of course is when the blessing comes because of our separation when we become settled in that blessing instead of ministering to the Lord in spite of the blessing see in the first point Samuel was distracted by other people who were supposed to do good but we're bad but the second thing is when the good things that follow your life become your own distraction there was a boxing yesterday I went to get a haircut and I was watching a guy Andy who was boxing Anthony and in June 1st of this year Andy fought Anthony who is the heavy champion of the world who beat Vladimir Glitchko and they became friends after that and so this guy he's a Mexican boxer and he challenged a worldwide champion in New York on June 1st and knocked him out knocked him out and so of course he became very very confident in himself and they scheduled a rematch which was yesterday so I'm getting my haircut done and the guys kind of updated me told me the whole story and so I got very interested you know guys beating each other I mean what could be better than that and so as I'm watching and of course that my Mexican friend he got kicked out of school because of fighting so now they became his career and you can see the way his fighting skills is like street fighting and so and and the guy from London you know he's a pro he knows he knows how to dance in that thing he knows how to box and of course the guy from London who lost the championship won yesterday again and I watched the interview yesterday of the Mexican champion and he said this he says three months of parting cost me this fight he says I gained so much pounds and I loved his honesty because most people are not gonna be there like oh referees are the ones the judges are the ones he was very very honest he says you know what I took my victory so seriously that I thought I was invincible I didn't know I had another fight and he says I gained so much weight I party so much he says I came to this ring unprepared the other guy took his defeat and went to the gym like there was nobody's nobody's business and he came hungry and they asked him they said what is your secret he says no matter whether I am a champion or a loser two things I never lose my hunger and my humility and I just want to remind you if God graces your life with growth don't lose your hunger if God graces your life with favor don't lose your humility don't lose it don't lose it why because God wants to make you a prophet to the nations he doesn't just want to give you favor he wants to give you nations he wants to give you a new thing he wants to give you what he promised to you but if you lose your hunger and if you lose your humility you will get stuck at one level you will settle at one success level touch your neighbor say stay hungry my friend touch your under neighbors say stay humble don't settle in the success separation has invited the favor you have on your life is not final it's never meant to be final the growth you've experienced right now it's not meant to be your destination the miracle of seeing fairer drown and ten plagues is not what God promised to Abraham he promised land but flowed with milk and honey what we see today is not what God has promised this is just a step when Joseph experienced favor of the 45 it was not what he saw in the dream as a kid what he saw in the dream was the stars what he saw in the dreams was the nations he's experiencing a little favor and a little growth but Joseph refuses to give in Joseph refuses to lose his purity and his passion just because he experienced a little bit of that he says I will stay humble I will stay hungry I will minister to God whether he blesses me or not because my God my God my will supply all of my needs according to his riches and his glory my God he will do more than I imagine if you have a Samuel the Bible says he ministers to the Lord can I highlight one more thing stay fascinated with God even after you're familiar with the things of God even after you know every corner in the temple even if after you know the whole procedure of how the services go Samuel already knew about the candle lights he already knew about the tabernacle articles he already knew about everything in the temple but little boy is ministering to God because I yes I am familiar with the temple but I am interested in God I am fascinated in who he is I am a little kid in the candy store I am curious about his character I am curious in his glory see Moses saw the power he saw the palace he saw the miracles but he gets lost in the glory of God he says God show me your face but Moses you already hear God Moses you already seen more and most men will only dream of but see you don't lose your fascination with a person of God just because you got accustomed to the things of God dear leaders in our church dear pastors dear directors dear people who know how the things go who know when somebody crossed the line on the stage who know when some somebody said something they should have not said when the camera is not pointing in the right direction when the right microphone is not on when you know the flow of the service please understand you don't have God figured out God is not in the things God is above the creation and a little boy understood I know the temple but I'm hungry for him I want to know him I will minister to God I will minister stay fascinated with God even when you're familiar with ministry even when you're familiar with miracles even if you're familiar with how everything's supposed to go that's why when Jesus got baptized in water and the Bible says a dove like a dove came Holy Spirit upon him the heaven split that the voice came and two disciples they were moved they came to Jesus this is Jesus were curious where do you live master everybody else watched it and went back home but as someone had a curiosity and those were the man Jesus built that church on why because he's looking for the curious he's looking for the people who are fascinated with him who are curious about him in spite of the fact they have church figured out Samuel he served the Lord Samuel he was separated from the toxic toxic toxic toxic environment in the temple and the toward the end I want to highlight one more thing what I read today is this is the Samuel minister to the Lord and I want to highlight you these two words before Eli before Eli is Samuel submitted to the authority that happened to be flawed with bunch of mistakes and unfortunately really not good this authority was so not good that even God sharply rebuked this authority in fact Samuel's first visitation was not about his future but about the destruction of the future of his authority and he felt so bad for Eli that he couldn't sleep at night he didn't go in like oh my gosh I can't tell you I can't wait to tell you that God's gonna kill him yeah a prophetic word I was waiting no Samuel felt bad for Eli because it's the man he honored it's the man he respected yes this man had a lot of flaws this man had a lot of mistakes but it's the man that Samuel had in his life who helped him to discover God I want to share something about authority one the fear of God causes you to honor flawed authority not just the perfect one the fear of God causes you to honor authority that's not perfect I'm carrying this verse in here thank you connect church by the way they send me this it says this honor people love thy brother fear God and honor the king I believe if you don't minister to God and you don't fear God you will despise authority based on what you see in them dishonoring authority despising authority in 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 17 in says these are wells without water clouds carried by a tempest and for them is reserved the darkness of black blackness of darkness forever meaning he's speaking of people verses before people who despise authority people who make fun of authority and he says these people become wells without water and the reason why I find people in my generation feel like they have a permission to dishonor authority is because they see flaws recently I was driving with with the group of guys and the police officer is beside us and he said pigs I said what are you talking about and he pointed to the police officer I said did you know only criminals call police pigs I said you're a criminal I said the Bible doesn't call them pigs it calls them servants of God you just disrespected a servant of God and the Bible says they don't carry a sword in vain there is a bullet there for you bro I said have you noticed that people who honored the law respect the police and people who always break the law call them with names I said we're in the Bible I understand the culture disrespects the authority but remember what I said we are not part of this culture we're a part of a different kingdom and in that kingdom apostle Peter tells the church other the king who killed people for sport these kings they brought people in the middle of their parties for sport you remember King Herod he had a girl who did a salsa dance he said what do you want girl and she says I just want the head of John the Baptist you mean you want us to draw his head no I want us to cut his head off awesome no board meetings no let us think about it are you sure what did he do he sends a text message and next thing happens right in the middle of the party they bring the head chopped off from the head of a John the Baptist and this is the king Peter says honor how could you honor a man like that you don't honor him you honor the position that he occupies it breaks my heart to see our generation looks at our president and calls him moron and then they look at their parents and they call him stupid they look at pastors they call him calling out corn artists and false prophets they're proud their pastors not prophets get it right they look at their mom and they call him slow and they call him with all kinds of names next thing that happens you have to understand is that your flood authority doesn't give you right to dishonor them just because your parents are divorced it doesn't give you right to break the curfew just because your dad is in front of Netflix all the time it doesn't give you right to say you know what I'm not gonna listen to you why you're not a good example because your dishonor shows more about your character than the person you dishonor God treats this honor seriously when Ham made fun of his father who was drunk God didn't punish Noah he punished Ham when Mary and made fun of her brother for hypocrisy because Moses said do not marry women from other cultures and then Moses goes and finds a Ethiopian chick and gets married to her well Miriam has a problem she's like Moe you know you said not to do this are you the only guy what is wrong with you and she rises against him and trust me she had the right and God comes to Miriam and he says yeah Moses really crossed the line this time he says Miriam how dare you and God gives her a little gift called leprosy and says if you don't repent you're gonna die out of this now I look at that I'm like God did you approve of Moses did no no no God will deal with Moses as God did with Eli God we deal with Noah as God did with Saul when David honored him it is not in your place to begin to tell your parents and fix your parents this honor never fixed anyone it hurts the person who releases it it doesn't hurt the person and it doesn't help the person who receives it because my friend one day you will have your own children one day you will have your own grandchildren one day you will be a teacher in the classroom one day you will be the mayor in the city one day you will be a leader of a home group one day you will be a pastor of the church and you will realize things look different from this point what looks like control is care what looks like they're taking my father away is protection what looks like hypocrisy is something you just don't understand yet because things look different when you switch places I want to challenge a generation here today honor authority even if they're flawed even if they're fake why because God will protect your heart he will use that to change them and God will deal with authority now I do want to say if you are in a relationship where the husband is physically abusing you you do have to report you have to call police you have to get somebody to come and help if you are in the if you are at home and your one of the relatives is taking sexual advantages you have to report honor is not performing to those things if you are in the company and there is dubious illegal things you have to report either to HR or somebody or walk away from it we're not talking about closing a blind eye to a new moral and the criminal activity what I am talking about is character flaws little control there and there things that we use as excuses to say I will never honor that man will never honor that woman David honored Saul and Jesus honored his mom and dad he came to the temple and his mom and dad says son we're going back home and Jesus says excuse me I am Yahweh you know beginning and the end and everything in between that's who you're talking to I made you in your mother's womb I know I came out of yours but I made you and Mary looked at him says snap out son let's go back home and Jesus the Bible says humble himself he had a world to save but he also had a mom to honor and then when he did his ministry and he got so crazy and big his mom and the rest of the family came and they said we're gonna take our son home because he's crazy he is out of his mind guess who created that story his mama and Jesus kindly rebuked her more continue to do his ministry yet when he was dying and his mom stood there because most likely his story and say that Jesus's dad already passed away that's why you don't see any mention of Joseph but Mary Jesus who was the job of the older brother to take care of the housing of his parents arranging housing for his mom while paying for my salvation says John can you take her to your home mom can you go to John he's figuring out housing if Jesus did the for his mom how are you gonna answer the call of God if you don't even answer the call of your parents if you can honor your parents I don't care if they left you at five or six what they did was wrong your attitude is worse in the in Ephesians it says this I'm gonna reach you this verse and we're gonna bring this to the end and I know this is where all the parents have let go deeper go deeper please go deeper praise God my child is in this room horrible Shandaya Ephesians chapter 6 verse 1 it says the following children obey your parents in the Lord for it is right meaning you don't get brownie points you don't get any money for that it's because it's right meaning it's it's because you don't get kicked out of the house and then it says this honor your father and your mother which is the first commandment it's not the first commandment it's the fourth commandment but it says it's the first in fact it's the only commandment with a promise and I want you to see the promise what it says it says the promise it says that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth isn't that the reason why we go to college isn't that the reason why we try to eat broccoli and stay away from donuts live long and have a good well life well God says the key the key to your assignment is not in how great your parents are it's in how great your attitude is toward the parents you have the key is in your hands they are the door camera people I'm sorry the key that your destiny what's behind this is your assignment little boy Samuel doesn't realize that behind this door is Samuel being a prophet not just a priest but a prophet behind this door is Samuel being an author do you remember two books of Samuel written by Samuel so behind that so here he is a little boy just serving in the temple but there is an author inside of him there is a prophet inside of him it's behind that door and the door is that authority is Eli it's a wooden door it's not a perfect door it has stains all over but it doesn't change the fact that if you got the key the wooden broken not so decorated and nice doors will open if you have the key and the key is your honor and the Bible says he served the Lord under Eli in fact he served under Eli so much that when flawed in perfect Eli he felt the Eli was calling him at night Samuel got up and says did you call me he says no I didn't call you son go back home go go back to sleep it goes in three times he answers that call and he may say you know passive lot if my authority my parents my coach my my boss and my manager there's so mean the Bible says in the New Testament that will honor your bosses even when they're mean but what can I learn from them the calling on my life is so much greater did you know that Samuel was not mentored by a prophet he was mentored by an old overweight flawed horrible priest who was a terrible father terrible father he unlocked in him a prophet you may say how can my parents I want to have a degree my parents never finished high school if you listen to your parents you'll have a degree because you will watch less TV and do what they say you say how can my pastor I'm called to be a businessman and my home group leader he's not a businessman but if but the things that they will teach you all Eli did it says when you go back to sleep and you hear the voice again this is what you say I'm not a prophet but I don't need to be a prophet to tell you how to activate the prophet and then Samuel activated a king never being a king he activated one king he activated another king please understand every boxer listens to a guy who's not boxing every football player is listening to a guy who's standing there screaming at him in sports they do that but in life many of us are so slow we're looking at them and say but I'm the one fighting I'm the one praying I'm the one going to school what are you gonna tell me to do what they're gonna tell you to do can save your life and Eli spoke something to Samuel it opened his door it opened something in his spirit he started to hear God and God used that many people come to me and as a passive lad it is very shocking and surprising to see how you're under the covering of your uncle and I said what do you mean I said I don't see any other life than that they said well nobody a lot of people don't know him he didn't write a book he doesn't travel all around the world I said you don't understand that stuff doesn't matter all of those things my pastor doesn't have to be an author to activate an author what activates an author in me it's not whether he's an author it's whether I have the honor in my heart for his grace upon his life he doesn't have to be all around the world preaching why because if God placed it in me I don't have to find a mentor who preaches around the world I need to find a mentor God placed in my life right now and some of you you have a mentor in your life it's your mom and it's your dad it's your spiritual leader it's your parents it's your spiritual elder and some of you you threw the key out and he's saying God I want a better door and God says this one will do your assignment is waiting on the other side of you changing your attitude toward the authority you already have you don't need to face big twenty thousand people of all the people who have a million followers it can you be my mentor you got one across the room you got one in your apartment it's called your dad the one you're ignoring it's your mom who you despising it's your pastor whose text messages you don't respond to it's your police officer who you keep calling pig oh because I don't like this and I don't like that God says your assignment is laying locked because the key is in your hands and it's called your attitude honor your father and your mother honor the king please guys you don't have to agree with our president I didn't agree with the with with the previous president that we had because of him I had to pay a penalty of $2,000 every year for not having insurance but it didn't change the fact that he's my president I pray for him and I honor him I didn't agree with some of his policies you might not agree with some of the things that Donald Trump does he's your president and you're in in this country you got to honor the king that's what the Bible said you might not agree with some of the things that are happening in the police and everything but it's your job to drive according to speed limit and if they pull you over there in your knees better be trembling and your voice better be stuttering with fear and reverence and if he gives you a ticket you better say no no no you say sir I am so sorry that I broke the law please forgive me and I thank you for reinforcing it you pray for your pastors because if you gossip about your pastors in front of your kids I'm gonna tell you one thing don't be surprised if your kids don't want to go to church later on don't be surprised if your kids don't want to know God because you trash every church that you go to our church is perfect of course they're not your house is not perfect how do you expect this one to be we are in the perfect church because we have people in this room and as long as there's people there's gonna be flaws and that's why we learn like two other boys of Noah we cover the flaws we pray and we say God we want to work we want to have the elders the patients to come in and help our leaders but criticizing gossiping backbiting backstabbing it destroys your future and it doesn't help the church it doesn't help your family and it doesn't help our hey this is Pastor Vlad and thank you for watching this sermon please click on the subscribe so that you can be a part of our hungry generation YouTube community and click on the bell as well so that you can be notified when we upload the new sermon thank you for watching and God bless you