27. We're going to be looking today at verses 27 through 50. We'll begin by looking at verses 27 through 31. That'll be our introduction. And so as I begin before I even read, let me say to you that this is one of those studies that to me is very sober. It's a very sober study in the sense that the subject matter is of such nature that I have a tendency of reducing any humor that I might have in the pulpit. I have a tendency of quenching that because I see the sobriety of what we're about to approach. This is the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ.  But this is so serious to me. It's one of those portions that I want to do honor to it. And I'm wanting to give as many cross references as I can develop it, give you information. Because as I was sharing today in our first service, these are the kinds of things that lay a foundation for your faith. We're Christians not because we like celebrating certain things, or because we have certain beliefs about some basic things. We're Christians because of what we're looking at today, where Jesus died on a cross for us, and the events that will transpire after obviously his crucifixion. So with that said, I will be taking you through a lot of cross references. For those of you who take notes, I'd encourage you to be ready to do so. I'll give you a lot of scripture and a lot of background, carefully some application, especially as we arrive at our conclusion. I hope to be able to bring it together and give you something to take out today, saying how good God is to us, because that's what we're going to be seeing today as we go through this passage. So let's begin together. Matthew chapter 27 at verse 27, reading to verse 31, and we'll get into our study. Matthew writes, Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, gathered the whole garrison around him. They stripped him, put a scarlet robe on him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and a reed in his right hand. They bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews. Then they spat on him, took the reed and struck him on the head. When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, put his own clothes on him and led him away to be crucified. As we enter into this particular portion of scripture at this point, Pontius Pilate, the governor, the Roman governor had released Jesus Christ to be crucified. As we've been going through the events that transpired prior to this portion of scripture, we know that Pontius Pilate was not convinced that Jesus should die. Pontius Pilate knew that Jesus was innocent. And we know that Pontius Pilate knew that Jesus had been delivered up to him because of envy. In verse 18 of chapter 27, it simply says that he knew that they had handed him over because of envy. Somebody once said envy was the low passion that influenced the chief priests. They saw that Jesus was gaining a great and increasing influence over the people by the sublime beauty of his character, by the fame of his miracles, and the constraining power of his words. And hence they concluded that unless he was arrested and put out of the way, their own influence would soon be gone. The whole world was going after him. Therefore, he must be destroyed. And so knowing this, he tried to secure Jesus' release. First, he tried to secure his release by offering a choice to the people, Barabbas or Jesus, murderer or Messiah. Which one of these two will benefit Israel the most? Now as he was offering this choice to them, in verse 19 it tells us that his wife interrupted the proceedings by bringing him a warning. She said, have nothing to do with that just man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him. And so as that was taking place, it gave the priest opportunity to stir the people. And according to verse 20, we see that they requested Barabbas. A second thing that was happening is he scourged him, hoping that this would arouse sympathy from the people. Now Jesus' scourging is something that had been prophesied over 700 years before by the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah 53 verse 5 says he was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed. And so these verses before us describe what occurred when Jesus was delivered up for scourging. Now we know that at this point he had been beaten severely. We know that he was very tired.  The officers struck him with the palms of their hands. So now Jesus is taken before a garrison of Roman soldiers. And what he is now going to endure is he's enduring scourging. Scourging has been referred to by historians as the living death. The person who was scourged would be tied to a post. Their hands would be above their head. The face, the back, the neck completely exposed. Two torturers normally would take turns striking the victim using a whip. The whip was a short wooden handle with several straps embedded with bone acorn-shaped bits of lead, sharp bones or spikes. Each stroke would cut into the flesh until veins and in trails often were laid bare. Often the scourge struck the face, knocked out the eyes and the teeth. It almost always ended in fainting and on occasion it ended in death. Scourging. This is something that again was prophesied. In Isaiah 50 verse 6 it simply says, I gave my back to those who struck me. My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard. I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. According to verse 27, the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around him. So after he was scourged they took Jesus into this praetorium. The praetorium is an open court in the governor's house. We've been there many times. You can still go to the site that this took place and it was what would be called today a common hall. It says here in verse 27 that the whole garrison was gathered around him. A garrison or a cohort is part of a Roman legion. It would have anywhere from four to six hundred individuals, six hundred men. And as this is taking place verse 28 says, they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. They put the scarlet robe on Christ to mock him. A scarlet robe is a symbol of authority. The emperors would wear a scarlet robe when they were enacting the role of a general and it spoke of their authority. This may have been the robe that Jesus had been arrayed in earlier because we know that Pilate when he heard that Jesus was from Galilee and actually wanted to wash his hands of Christ by sending him first to Herod because Herod had jurisdiction up there. And Jesus went before Herod and Herod and his men mocked him. And it says in Luke 2311 Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him dressing him in an elegant robe. They sent him back to Pilate. And so as Jesus is there with these others now, it would seem that it's more than likely that this robe that he had been, that they had put on him, it's very possible it could be the same robe, though not necessarily that it is. Now his back is an open wound. He's been scourged. And as they put this robe on him and continue mocking, notice with me there's no sympathy.  Verse 29 says they twisted a crown of thorns. They put it on his head, a reed in his right hand. And they bowed the knee before him and mocked him saying, Hail King of the Jews. A crown to mimic Caesar's wreath, mocking him as the King of the Jews. The thorns reminding us of the curse of the earth that had occurred at the fall of man and how that Jesus was paying the price. The reed was intended to mock his royalty because emperors had what was called a royal scepter. And so they're mocking him and saying, Hail King of the Jews. In verse 30 they spat on him. They took the reed and struck him on the head. His head was already wounded. It was already swollen, lacerated. Isaiah 52.14 says just as there were many who were appalled at him, his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man. His form marred beyond human likeness. He was beaten so severely and so bloodied. His head was swelling. They're spitting on him and they're striking him as he's going through all of this. In verse 31 they mocked him. They took the robe off him, put his own clothes on him and led him away to be crucified. At this point we need to remember that Pilate made one last effort to release him in John's Gospel chapter 19 verses 4 and 5. It says, Pilate came out again and said to them, Behold, I'm bringing him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in him. Jesus then came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Behold the man. It's as if Pilate asked them, Is this enough? Does this not satisfy you? But John in chapter 19 verse 6 tells us their response. It was immediate. They cried out saying, Crucify him. And so they took the robe off him. They put his own clothes on him and led him away. According to John 19 verse 17, carrying his own cross he went out to the place of the skull. Now by Jewish law death penalties had to be carried out outside of the city. Hebrews 13, 11 through 13 makes reference to that where it says, The high priest carries the blood of animals into the most holy place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burnt outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us then go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace that he bore. Verse 32, as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, him they compelled to bear his cross. Simon of Cyrene. Cyrene is a Greek settlement. It was on the North African coast. It is in what is modern Libya. And it was a Greek settlement, but Simon is a Hebrew name. So he more than likely was a Jewish man living in Cyrene. And according to Roman law, soldiers were able to force someone to this kind of labor. Remember in Matthew 541, Jesus said, if someone compels you to go with them one mile, go with them too. He would have been making reference to the fact that the Romans were able to do that if they were carrying a load they didn't want to carry any longer. They could subscribe. Some Jewish men say, carry this for me. And so Jesus himself is now carrying his own cross.  He's been beaten. He's lost a lot of blood and he's unable to carry the cross in that way. So here's a man by the name of Simon and they compel him to bear the cross for Jesus. Now that may have led to Simon's conversion, and the reason we say that is because in Mark 1521 it says, the certain man from Cyrene, Simon the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way from the country. They forced him to carry the cross. It may have led to Simon's conversion because later on in Romans 16, verse 13, Paul says, Greek Rufus chosen in the Lord and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too. So there are those who believe that this Rufus is the same one that is spoken of as a son of Simon of Cyrene and Simon of Cyrene may have come to faith in Christ through this. It says that in verse 33, they came to the place called Golgotha, that is to say the place of the skull, which is just located north of the city walls. In verse 34, they gave him sour wine mingled with gall to drink but when he had tasted it, he would not drink it. Then they crucified him, divided his garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet. They divided my garments among them and for my clothing, they cast lots. They gave him sour wine mingled with gall to drink, verse 34 says. Psalm 69 verse 21 says they gave me gall for my food and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Gall is a mild narcotic. It's intended to stupefy the victim to keep him from struggling. That would have dulled his senses so he refused to drink it. There are those who say this may have been an act of mercy towards Jesus because the rabbins at that time said the one who is perishing is the one condemned to die. The bitter of heart results from the fact that he's going to suffer the punishment of death and according to Proverbs 31-6 gives strong drink to him who is perishing wine to those who are bitter of heart. And so as they're trying to get him prepared to on the cross, verse 35 simply says they crucified him. This occurred at 9 a.m. according to Mark 15-25. At the cross of Christ we see man's wickedness most completely exposed. There are a lot of people who proclaim their own goodness who say that they're good in all, but the fact of the matter is, is there's none good? No, not one. We're not all as evil as we could be, but none of us as good as God would have us to be. And there's none righteous. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Some people's sins go before them. People see them and openly realize this is a sinner and others follow after them, meaning they're hidden well. But every human being sins, every one of us is wrong in one form or another. We've all sinned in word and thought in action. That's just a fact of life because we all have a sinful nature and according to Ecclesiastes 7-20 there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin. And the execution of the Savior is the greatest proof of man's wickedness. That demonstrates how far man will fall. Man will put to death his own Savior. And that's what we're seeing take place here with some simple words. They crucified him. It shows to us the evil of mankind and they placed him on a cross. I mentioned this to you before. Perhaps you remember how that I've shared with you. Assyrians had a form of of torture and death that the Romans actually bowed from as they developed crucifixion. The Assyrians would go into a grove and they would find saplings and they would cut the saplings just a little bit above man's height.  Then two soldiers would take the victim. They'd grab him by the arm and the leg. They would actually lift him and slam him on top of this spike. The spike would enter into them and it would rest. They would rest this this victim about an inch above the point of that particular torture instrument. And then he would be screaming in agony and pain as his body through gravity began to slowly descend to the earth. And then the point of that sapling, that torture device, that stake as they were impaled would eventually pierce the heart and very slowly would go through the heart until the person died in agony. And the Romans were aware of that device of torture and they they came up with the cross, crucifixion. When you look at the cross and all today there are many people that wear them. I remember when I first got saved, first saved back in 1970, 71, I would see somebody on TV and I turn and say, oh they're a Christian, they're wearing a cross. And I actually thought because they wore a cross that symbolized that they truly believed until I realized that for many people it's just an article of jewelry. It's something cool to wear right now. They'll even put it on your t-shirt or on a jacket but it doesn't mean that you're a follower of Christ. I didn't realize that and so it has been made into an article of jewelry, a symbol of some sort that many people don't understand. The cross was a device of torture utilized by the Romans to be the most painful and lengthy execution that they could they could come up with. The cross itself was made of two pieces of wood. They had what was called the post and they had the crossbeam. The cross was normally twice the height of a man. The crucified person was either nailed to the crossbeam while on the ground or raised by cords to the crossbeam and then nailed to it. The hands would be pierced at the wrist, the legs would be twisted, and the ankles would be nailed to the post without breaking bones. The victim would suffer dislocation at the shoulders, would endure suffocation as the ribs compressed on the lungs. The veins would bulge with blood. There was congestion of blood in the head, lungs, and heart. The muscles would cramp, fever and dehydration would set in as well as shock. The victim would die of blood loss, shock, and dehydration. They took Jesus and they fastened him to the cross. A lot of times if you look at pictures of Jesus on the cross, old artist's conceptions and all in various statues and things of that nature, you're going to see that they normally impale him in the palm of the hand, but that's not where the nails were fixed to the victim. You see there was a doctor who wanted to see if you could crucify somebody and them when they died, whether they would remain there on the cross and they discovered that that wasn't possible because he actually took cadavers and nailed them on a cross with the nail in the palm of the hand and every time the weight of the body pulled it and the nail just eventually just came out through the skin. What was discovered, and you see this in some of the remains that have been discovered in Israel, is that in reality what they were doing is they were nailing through the wrist because in the wrist you have a gap in your wrist bones there and they actually found the place that they could put the nail so that that body would remain after they died. When somebody was on the cross, they also had a saddle seat. The saddle seat was sharpened and it was of such nature that you could actually rest on it for a moment but not with comfort because it had a point and so every time you would draw yourself up to take a breath the point of the saddle seat would go from your lower back and it would just drive in your back from the top to the bottom and it would lacerate it. Jesus's back was already opened up through the scourging and so when he was there on the cross and the cross was wooden and it was rough it was filled with splinters and so when his body with his open back was placed on that on that beam it the sharpened saddle seat was ripping open his back. The thorns were being pressed into the different pieces of splinter were going into his open wound so when you think of the cross try to remember what it actually meant and what it actually did. Some of the prisoners who were put to death actually survived several days. Some of them survived three days and they died according to historians. Raving lunatics the pain was that intense they would normally be put near a pathway where citizens would come back and forth and walk the pathway into the city and out of the city and that's where Jesus was and as they would go by they would see this and it would be a warning to them that if they were to transgress Roman law they too could end up on a cross like that so that's what you're seeing when Jesus is on a cross and he's dying. Now as this is taking place notice verse 35 it says they they divided my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots and so they divided his garments. Jewish men normally had five articles of clothing they wore a turban an inner robe an outer robe they wore sandals as well as a belt or a girdle now the prisoners would be in the keeping of four guards each one of the guards would take one of the articles of clothing according to Psalm 22 verse 18 this was fulfilling prophecy they divide my garments among them for my clothing they cast lots one of the garments that Jesus wore was a seamless robe John 19 23 speaks of it as a tunic and it says the tunic was without seam woven from the top in one piece the high priest would wear a seamless robe and this gives us a picture that Jesus was acting as our high priest verse 36 sitting down they kept watch over him there so this is like just normal day on the job for these guys they're impassive they're they're gambling for Jesus's clothing you see to them Jesus was just another criminal he wasn't even worth the effort of killing they're without a clue they're without a care concerning what is happening they're uninterested just like many today who are still uncaring and still uninterested their people caught up with the daily grind they don't even think about the Lord Christ they don't think why he died they're too busy they're callous by life they're making a living they're trying to get ahead and that's what's going on here with these people it says in verse 37 they they put over his head the accusation written against him this is Jesus the king of the Jews a prisoner's crime would be written on a placard it was placed normally around his neck and when they were crucified the placard would be nailed to the post above his head and so it was written actually in Hebrew Greek and Latin and the full words were this is Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews according to John 19 21 and 22 the chief priest of the Jews said to Pilate do not write the king of the Jews but he said I am the king of the Jews Pilate answered what I have written I have written as this is taking place verse 38 two robbers were crucified with him one on the right another on the left now mark makes it clear that his being crucified between two thieves is significant in mark 15 27 and 28 it says with him they also crucified two robbers one on his right and the other on his left so the Scripture was fulfilled which says he was numbered with transgressors Isaiah 53 12 throughout his ministry Jesus was associated with transgressors there's an occasion where they spoke of him and they said he is a wine bibber and a glutton there was another time when people said of Jesus Christ that the question was asked of his disciples why does he eat with these kinds of people here's something for you this is something practical Jesus Christ made sure that he was around the people who needed him he was around the people who had a need for him and thus if he was invited to a Pharisee's house for a dinner or if he was invited to a publican's house for a dinner he would normally attend and as he attended he wasn't there to party he was there to minister and that's what he did he would speak to them and when they would speak about him what is he doing and why is your master spending time with these people Jesus said let me tell you something the only people who ever go to a doctor those who are sick those who are well don't need one I've come to call I haven't come to call those who perceive themselves as righteous I have called those I've come to call those who know their sinners to come to faith in me and that's what Jesus did Jesus went and he ministered and as he did so people would regard him as a transgressor even spoke of him in that way but he wasn't concerned about that because he had come to save people he came to seek and to save that which was lost and so it wasn't unusual during the time of Christ for him to have people associates around him that were that were sinful it wasn't unusual at all many years ago many years ago I was in my very early 20s maybe 23 years old at the time it's hard to believe seven years ago when I was about 23 years old I'd just gotten out of the military I was home and there was a knock on the door and I opened the door I was living at my parents house at that time I opened the door and there was a guy his name was Rick who was standing at the door and I hadn't seen him since we were in high school and he was inebriated he was a little little drunk and he's standing there at the door of my parents house my parents are gone it's just me and I invite him in he's somebody I went to I went not only to high school but elementary school I'd known him since we were kids I hadn't seen him in quite some time he said can I come in I said yeah come on he sits at my parents table and he and I began to have a conversation and he asked me a few things and I see this as an opportunity to witness to him about the Lord and I said well you know Rick I said I came to faith in Christ and he says really I said yeah he says really he goes you're a Christian now and I said yeah he says I'd like to hear a little about that he says but I want to go to the store there was a liquor store that was only about 200 300 yards from where I lived on the corner and he said uh why don't you walk with me I I'm going to get something at the store and and there I am thinking man this is one of these everybody knows what I was in my neighborhood everybody knows I was a drunk everybody knows I was a doper they all know my my past and if if I walk to the store with this guy and this guy's kind of wobbling like you know he's I they're going to think I'm high too and and and this time that I've been trying to make a new face so people would know that I'm a new man it's going to be washed away because I'm walking with Rick and Rick's all high and and I'm sitting at the table and I'm looking at him he says you want to go to the store with me and and and I and I'm thinking no I don't know because if I go there I'm going to be judged by my neighbors here and how and the spirit of the Lord says are you ashamed and I said yes yeah I he said it's funny I haven't been ashamed of you so I went with him I bought myself a short dog too no I I went with it's an old phrase some of you know what that is most of you don't good so we went to this we went to the store and you know he was one of these guys that that was he was real good at hiding stuff so he put it in a brown paper bag so nobody would know what was in that for sure and he downed it he downed it before he even got 150 yards after buying it through through it through the empty and in the field came to my house and as we're talking I said Rick you need the Lord he says I don't know he said what kind of God are you talking about I said a God who forgives a God who forgives Rick God who forgives sin and you need your sins forgiven Rick you see I'd known him since we're little boys and and I loved him as a dear friend hadn't seen him for a long time he says God's a forgiving God I said yeah Rick he is does he forgive every sin I said every sin every sin I said God forgives all sin there's not a sin that he doesn't forgive Rick even murder now you need to understand something about Rick all all of you guys perhaps you remember this when you're growing up you had your pecking order and you had a guy who was the lowest one on the pecking order so he is the guy that you'd give noogies to or pinch or trip or mess with that was Rick whenever we got bored we beat him up that was Rick it was fun no it wasn't but it's true that's what we did we'd never beat him mercilessly we just beat him a little bit that was Rick so I'm looking at a guy who was the low man on the totem pole he was a guy that was not not me not vicious he was actually a very nice guy so he says to me even murder and I said even murder Rick why well he tells me his story he was a courier in the US army he was the one responsible for carrying documents in brief cases you've seen that before they would put a handcuffs on his wrist and on the police it was his job to protect the information because he was a courier he says I was in Korea David he says I was on a in a train station on the platform awaiting the arrival of a train he said when somebody came and were able to dislodge the briefcase from my hand and ran it had documents my job is to protect those documents it would give you a 45 anybody in the military knows how powerful a 45 is so he pulled his 45 and leveled on a platform in Korea and he said and I yelled halt and he wouldn't stop I yelled halt he wouldn't stop Dave I leveled on him and I fired on him and I killed him on the platform I killed a man will God forgive me for that talk about taking a sober step back and I looked at him I have to tell you that came out of his mouth I was not expecting that that was not the man I grew up with that wasn't the boy I knew when I was in elementary school it sobered me up will God forgive every sin and I looked at him and I said yes God forgives every sin rick even that sin I said God forgives every sin rick you need Jesus Christ I still remember leading him to faith in Christ there at that table at my parents house and he began to attend Bible studies that I was giving every week until he moved up north my friend rick God forgives every sin Jesus died on the cross for us every sin every sin he took upon himself the sin of the world he was numbered with transgressors he ministers to us now as he's there the bible makes it very clear that these two robbers verse 38 there's one on the right and the other on the left are listening and as this is taking place obviously they knew something of Jesus and his ministry but at that point they were not attracted to him they hadn't needed him before so these people are there and they're hearing what's going on but it says in verse 38 or rather verse 39 those who passed by blasphemed him wagging their heads and saying you just destroy the temple and build it in three days save yourself if you are the son of God come down from the cross likewise the chief priests also mocking with the scribes and elders said he saved others himself he cannot save if he is the king of Israel let him now come down from the cross we will believe him he trusted in God let him deliver him now if he'll have him for he said I am the son of God even the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him with the same thing now there are people who are taking his teachings though familiar with them and they're casting his teachings at him and they're even saying things that have been repeated about Jesus and all they were they were saying that he would destroy the temple and raise it up which of course Jesus never said he destroyed the temple he spoke of his own body and the crucifixion and all but they're mocking him misunderstanding his teaching and not only that but according to verses 41 through 43 the chief priests were mocking and the scribes as well as the elders in other words those who should know better were still taunting him Psalm 22 7 and 8 says all those who see me ridicule me they shoot out the lip they shake their heads saying he trusted in the Lord let him rescue him let him deliver him since he delights in him these religious leaders were by far by the way the most wicked Jesus speaking in this way in John 15 22 through 24 said it like this he said if I had not come and spoken to them they would not be guilty of sin now however they have no excuse for their sin he who hates me hates my father as well if I had not done among them what no one else did they would not be guilty of sin but now they have seen these miracles and yet they have hated both me and my father so the religious leaders are rejecting him verse 44 says even the robbers who were crucified with him reviled him at least at first they did that verse 45 says now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying that is my god my god why have you forsaken me some of those who stood there when they heard that said this man's calling for Elijah immediately one of them ran and took a sponge filled it with sour wine put it on a read offered it to him to drink the rest said let him alone let us see if Elijah will come to save him and Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit from noon until three in the afternoon there was darkness luke 23 44 and 45 says it was about the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour the sun stopped shining amos an old testament book in chapter eight verse nine says it will come about in that day declares the lord god that i will make the sun go down at noon make the earth dark in broad daylight in the darkness the darkness in the bible rather is is a symbol of judgment remember in the book of exodus in chapter 10 verses 21 and 22 how the lord said to moses stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over egypt darkness that can be felt moses stretched out his hand toward the sky total darkness covered all egypt for three days when jesus was speaking of judgment in matthew 25 verse 30 he said throw that worthless servant outside into the darkness where there will be weeping a nation of teeth and so this is a demonstration of divine judgment the sins of the world are poured out vicariously on the son of god and supernatural darkness is expressing god's reaction to sin in that act of judgment and as this is taking place according to verse 46 jesus cries out with a loud voice and he cries out ali ali lamasa sabah tani which is he brew because mark gives us the aramaic when he says aloui aloui lama sabah tani my god my god why have you forsaken me someone said he is suffering in anguish because of the separation he felt for the first and only time in all eternity another said spiritual death is broken communion jesus had a taste of such broken communion the first and last he ever experienced in those desolate hours when darkness lay upon the earth and upon his soul jesus was our forerunner in every kind of experience even to the feeling of god's frown of disapproval on sin that he might become our high priest understanding all our infirmities being tempted in all points like as we apart from sin he felt the way a lost sinner feels without himself having sinned you ever feel that way before he came to faith in christ you may have lived in darkness and you felt the frown of god on your life you may have attempted to pray on occasion and it felt like the heavens were brass and your words were only going as far as the word could carry and then falling to the ground you were alone and you sensed it you knew it i'm by myself i'm abandoned by god and man i don't have any sense of his presence at all and that's because sin makes separation between us sin causes us to be aware of our isolation because sin is what breaks communion with god jesus is there on the on the on the cross and he's he's in three hours of darkness he's he's agonizing intensely but as this is going on isaiah tells us he'd actually pleased god to bruise him and isaiah 5310 it says it was the lord's good plan to crush him and fill him with grief yet when his life is made an offering for sin he will have a multitude of children many he will enjoy a long life the lord's plan will prosper in his hands 2nd corinthians 521 says god made him who had no sin to be sinned for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of god Galatians 3 13 says christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us and he suffered on that cross he experienced our separation from god he experienced separation he experienced isolation and isaiah 59 1 and 2 it says surely the arm of the lord is not too short to save nor is there too dull to hear but your iniquities have separated you from your god your sins have hidden his face from you he will not hear jesus experienced being forsaken on our behalf it wasn't a separation of nature or essence or substance it was a separation of fellowship again somebody said these words mark the conclusion of the suffering of jesus for a lost world here he drank the dregs to the dregs the the cup of sorrow grief and pain on our behalf and these hours when the sun refused to shine upon suffering deity jesus found fitting expression to his feeling of desolation in the words of the psalmist again he did not cry out when accused and crucified but when separated now according to verses 47 through 49 there was a reaction of mockery they were actually mocking what was taking place some of those who stood there when they heard that said this man's calling for elisha immediately one of them ran and took a sponge filled it with sour wine put it on a reed offered it to him to drink the rest said let him alone let us see if elisha will come and save him and jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit john gives prophetic insight into this in john 19 28 and 29 it says later knowing that all was now completed and so that the scripture would be fulfilled and jesus said i am thirsty a jar of wine vinegar was there so they soaked a sponge in it put the sponge on a stalk of the hisa plant lifted it to jesus's lips this sour wine was high in water low in alcohol content it was actually used to quench thirst and so as this is taking place verse 50 it simply says jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit he was dehydrating he moistened his lips he was able to moisten his throat so he could cry out notice with a loud voice and he cried out two things john 1930 says it like this when he had received the drink jesus said it is finished it is finished to tell us i paid in fall salvation was won on the cross paid in full i don't know if they still do this but but i think they do when you finish paying a bill you'll get a paid in full kind of receipt i remember when marie and i were in our first years of marriage and and i didn't have a credit card i i never had a credit card until i was in my 20s marie had a few but i never had a credit card and i remember that our children were growing up they were probably my oldest was probably about about five or so six maybe at the most and i got a credit card i didn't use my credit card and i had a two thousand dollar line of credit or a limit of two thousand dollars that was big money back then two grand you kidding me you can buy anything you can buy a lot of things with two thousand dollars and now i'm kind of rich i got a card i'm plastic rich even though it was an 18 interest some of you remember that still happens right 2021 percent sometimes so i don't use my cards but we we didn't have any money we there was an old saying we didn't have two nickels to rub together so it's now getting close to the christmas holidays and i've never bought presents for my my children or marie for that matter and i thought you know what i've i've got plastic i i can buy or something and and i did i went out and i bought some things for the kids and all and you know it costs us 20 a month to pay this off i didn't realize it would take the rest of my life and so i bought some things and before you know it well we have an emergency need for this and we need that before you know it we've got two thousand dollars worth of debt it's a lot of money when you're making three and a half dollars an hour and i'm thinking how am i going to pay this off how am i going to pay this off because we keep making the minimum payment and you don't even touch any of the principle you're always paying just interest this can take me forever and i'm getting now concerned because i don't want to be i don't like being in debt and so i'm thinking we've got to get rid of well marie was driving with joseph joseph was two years old at the time in karin in one of her little girlfriends and and so they were on foothill in upland right off of euclid and uh the car caught on fire my prayers were answered and the cars the car was on fire i wouldn't have given you 50 for that car my kids learned to to write on the back seats i wouldn't give you fifty dollars for the car but the insurance gave us something like thirty eight hundred dollars thirty eight hundred dollars i am a rich man and i still remember taking and saying to marie let's pay off our credit card bill i'm tired of paying on this thing and we took the two thousand dollars out of that thirty eight hundred and we paid off the credit card and we got something back from the the credit card company where it simply said and it was they had a stamp and they would actually to this day they may steal for all i know but you would and lift it up and it was in red in that interesting in red paid in full that's what jesus did for you took that stamp paid in full it's all done i paid for you not a single thing you could ever do will deserve what i just did for you and that's one of the reasons i thank my god for jesus right paid in full paid in full and i didn't keep trying to make payments to the company by the way well i've been paying them 20 now for the last couple of years you know i says i have it no i just oh boy i have 20 dollars that i can spend on other things paid in full the bible says this is in reference to redemption Ephesians 1 7 in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace then the second thing luke 2346 jesus called out with a loud voice father into thy hands i commit i entrust my spirit into thy hands i commit my spirit these words formed part of the evening prayers for centuries they may have been prayers jesus himself prayed as a child you see at night when the child would go to bed they would lay their head back they had evening prayers and they would quote this particular psalm psalm 31 verse 5 some of us were raised with evening prayers when you went to bed maybe mama was next to your daddy next to you and said okay son let's pray and then you would pray now i lay me down to sleep and i thought what a scary when you think about that prayer that's a if i die before i wake man i'd stay awake all night that's not a prayer you want to pray as a six-year-old but jesus jesus would place this head on what we would refer to as a pillow as a little boy and as he was saying his last prayers of the night father into thy hand i commit my spirit and as he was on the cross he laid his head down you see he was accustomed to pray these prayers and now he prayed this prayer for the last time someone said he died with a psalm on his lips as he gently peacefully and willingly died he cried out with a loud voice and he yielded up his spirit the fact that he could cry with a loud voice for everybody to hear shows he still had strength but he yielded which means he dismissed or he sent it away as an act of the will in other words he determined when it occurred he dismissed he sent away his spirit or he had just cried it is finished no one takes my life for me jesus said in john 10 18 i lay it down of my own accord i have authority to lay it down and authority to take it again this command i received from my father and in this dismissing of the spirit in this dine on the cross he revealed to us god's hatred for sin and love for simple humanity first john tells us in verses nine and ten of chapter four in this the love of god was manifested toward us that god sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him in this is love not that we loved god but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins he loved us first and he loves us deeply i have a i have a lot of granddaughters i've got six granddaughters a lot of estrogen six granddaughters one of them's name is stella stella will come over and when she's with me i will be on the couch and she'll make her way to me she's five years old she just turned five and she'll snuggle up next to me and we have to watch bubble guppies no that zoe i have to watch peppa pig that's a great show she calls me papa pig but she'll she'll clamber next to me and she presses herself on me sometimes she just climbs on top of me and then she'll look at me sometimes right in my face and she keeps her face like two inches from mine it's that close and then she'll say your breath stinks no she doesn't say that pop a brush your teeth she she'll look at me her face be right on my face i mean i'm telling you two inches away she'll just look at me like that and she'll go like this she sits on it she goes i love you more she'll tell me that i love you more and i'll look at her and i'll say that's impossible you can't you can't love me more you don't know how deeply i love you you will never love me more i loved you first and i will always love you more than you could possibly love me yes i tell a five-year-old that yes i do no you don't love me more you see her mama karin when she was around two we were at calpale pomona i used to go to calpale pomona and she went with me as i was getting some classes her mama and my karin and i she was a little thing and as we were there on campus i had one of these little cameras they used to have something called a camera wasn't in your phone you carried your phone and put the camera on it would have looked kind of weird no this was a little camera and i took picture of her because i had just said to her i said do you love your daddy and she said yes i said how much she said with all my heart i said how much is that she raises her arms out like this she says this much and i still remember looking at her saying that's not very much she goes this much i said that's still not very much you really don't love your daddy that much do you and then the last time she goes this much you see her straining her arms as far as she can and that's when i got the picture my mom has it had it one day my mom gave me a plaque and on the plaque it said i asked jesus how much he loves me and he said i love you this much and he stretched out his arms on a cross and he died that's how much your god loves you he loves you this much he stretched out his arm with spit dried on his face with blood coagulated on his forehead his back wounded from the stripes and the splinters that had been driven with that steak that had made his back like hamburger with a mother at the foot of the cross with some friends and with john watching and he says father into thy hands i commit my spirit and he lays down his head and he dies for you because god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life what a god we serve


Hi, my name is Liam Rowe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand For us and gold fundamental and technical analysis If you like the analysis that I provide every week, please don't forget to like subscribe and share the video with your fellow colleagues Don't forget to like Press that like button as it helps really to kind of support the channel three ways to support the channel when gets the Equality content out there. Anyways, let's get into The week ahead and we're getting some technicals as well. And if you're new to a trading 180 Basically our approach is really to combine fundamental analysis and technical analysis to make really the best trading Decisions so it's not, you know, you know fundamentals are better than technicals. Technicals are better than fundamentals they both play a part in trading and Yeah, like I said, we we use them to combine the best to find the best trading opportunities Anyways, looking at the week ahead And zoom in a little bit on this dispute. You can find us at trading economics comm and there's a little tab that says a week ahead So central bank meetings a very busy week this week So central bank meetings in the Euro areas Australia and Canada as well as several speeches by Fed officials would dominate the calendar next week also China We'll release inflation rate and foreign trade figures and GDP updates will be available for Australia Euro area Japan and Canada investors will also be watching closely the situation in the energy market in Europe after a crucial pipeline Pipeline bringing gas to Germany from Russia will no longer Reopen as planned. So that is definitely something you need to watch out for And again, the devil's in the details. You can have a read At trading economics comm and then there's a week ahead tab. In fact, I'll just show you exactly where it is Right here. It's it would be one of these depending on when you actually, you know watch this video It should be somewhere around One of these little boxes here. Anyways, let's get into some more technicals as well as some of the week's fundamentals starting off not on the Not on gold but on the dollar index dollar index and the dollar has been going from strength to strength to strength Bait break into I think this is new highs. In fact, I think it is new highs. Let's just go to Oh, actually, it's not new highs, but it's definitely You know multi decade high. So look the last time we were at this high was 2002 so 20 year 20 year highs Wow and You know, that's really Not really a surprise if you again understand fundamental analysis in terms of, you know The basics is really kind of comparing Currencies and seeing who is, you know, the best out of the two. That's really what currencies Forex currency pairs Really telling you which currency is the better of the two and you kind of determine that through fundamental analysis See for interest rates inflation and GDP and understanding the relationship between Those three and if you as long as you have a Strong foundational knowledge of those three and how they interact then everything else you can figure out And forecast and kind of predict where prices are likely to go in the medium to long term. So we did have on the On Friday the labor FOMC Sorry one second. Yeah, sorry. We did have jobs Data has come out so US labor force surge could ease pressure on the Fed for big rate hike and it's a close call for FOMC on hiking 50 or 75 basis points and you could flip a coin on September meeting Swank says so the strong August jobs report means the Federal Reserve will continue to aggressively raise rates Though a surge in the US labor force could give central bankers the option to back off a little if they choose a long-term payrolls in Increased to 315,000 last month and the unemployment rate unexpected the rose to a six-month high of 3.7 the first increase since January as the participation rate Climbed the Labor Department report showed on Friday. So it says You can flip a coin on how big of an increase they do in September says Diane Swank chief economist at KPMG LLP while the surge in the labor force was wonderful She said I don't think they want to show at any point in time that they have stopped in their resolve to get inflation down Now for those of you who are new who don't necessarily understand, you know, the reasons why that is I can't necessarily get into it, you know 100% in this video. I have loads of videos in my On my YouTube channel. In fact, let me just point you to that on second Right here. We are if you go to trading 180 YouTube channel loads and loads of Of of videos that I have and one of the things I would probably go to as well to really understand is if you type in the webinar Right in there in that little search area here and Click on this one here loads of different webinars. I have a fundamental analysis But the latest one I did was six months ago Free webinar and it's the three steps to generating a profitable trade for its trade ideas and this will help you get right on track with understanding inflation interest rates and GDP and their relationship and really how to determine Currencies fundamental value and currency pairs and which way they are likely to go in the medium to long term and so Getting back to the article But put it this way Since Jackson Hole the Federal Reserve have been very hawkish and hawkish bank meaning that they are looking to hike rates is usually appreciates a currency and so The economy part of things and the jobs part of things comes in to the fact that The economy can support rate hikes. Yeah, that's what they're looking at is that the jobs are a Are a leading indicator as as to what the economy is doing whether we're going into, you know potential recession or not Because you tend to have high unemployment in a recession You have low unemployment when the economy is, you know, potentially growing It's a bit of a strange situation where currently in at the moment where we have You know, the opposite is happening. We have two negative quarters of of GDP, but and we still have low unemployment And high employment high and high employment. So it's a bit of a strange one At the moment, but the market is looking past against the technical recession data and still looking to To potentially hike rates just depends on how much they are looking to hike. So With that being said, you know, that is still appreciative of the dollar and so for me Any pullbacks into, you know, demand zones are potentially or should be seen as buying opportunities now Not necessarily buying the dollar index, but as that has made new, you know, new highs high highs higher lows You can use the dollar index as I guess as confluence with your dollar, you know pairs if price if the price of the dollar the dollar index comes down to maybe the 108 and comes down to that nice Fresh bottom end of that demand zone And that ties in with maybe some sort of maybe demand zone on the dollar yen or the dollar Swiss Then you can look for, you know, any kind of positive price action looking for a dollar buys as long as obviously the fundamentals are Are in place and also as well one of the things to look towards and that's going to confirm whether I guess the whether the Fed are going to be hiking at 50 or 75 basis points, obviously if they hike at 75 basis points then that is You know a lot more positive than 50 basis points, but either way It just depends on which one they're going to do But it's going to be really determined with CPI figures, which is coming out. I think it's Is it this week or next week? So Look out for the US CPI figures if they can they dropped recently. I think it was to 8.5 percent um, and if they continue if they continue to fall then the um The fed are likely to do 50 basis points. Yeah, if CPI inflation is seen as a rising. Yeah, then they are likely to You know do 75 basis points to try and get inflation to come down to their 2 target. Yeah, so The movement of the dollar is going to be really determined over the next week or so With regards to CPI and that will determine whether the mark what the market thinks in terms of you know the likely Hike that they're likely to do whether it's going to be 75 or 50 basis points but overall for me, it's still the dollar is still a buy and You know, I've been saying that I've been buying the dollar for a very long time And you can pretty much see, you know, what's been happening over that period of time, right? It's uh, it's a no-brainer to look for just pullbacks on that dollar. Anyways, um, and again You can basically fact check that if you go to You know my videos Right and look back on all of my videos that I've done over the past year In fact, I challenge anyone out there who's watching this video to um try and find the video that I've done this year Where I've said, you know to that I'm selling the dollar if you can find one I will give you a free three month Uh, I guess trial with uh with my mentoring which I am actually opening on um on on um Monday the fifth Right enrollment starts fifth of september and it'll only be open for eight weeks. So if you are looking to join, um Then I am opening on the fifth of september and um Yeah, I know a lot of people have been waiting to uh to join and again I will probably close maybe a few maybe about by the end of the week Maybe about the 10th whatever the september and you have a chance to join If you can find for absolute free if you can go on my youtube page and find the time right where I have said To get that I am short on the US dollar over the past year So you've got a lot of videos to go through in a week. Um, and if you can find it, it won't be there But if you can then um, you know, uh, you can get basically in for free I get a free three month trial Subscription just email me at info at trading 180.com if you find the video I'm very surprised if you find anything. Anyways, um going back to uh the charts Moving on to the dollar yen right dollar yen um 140 is now the dollar yen is a very strange one. I was just saying to um The members in the group that I Might actually be a Try and get short on this pair and if it's not this pair, it probably be something like the euro yen The euro yen and the pound yen I don't cover those pairs in in this weekly video, but just to show you Just to tell you that those two pairs I will be looking to buy the potential potentially buy the yen on and the reason why is because 140 has been really the line in the stand for the bank of japan and um Recently the bank of japan came out and said that they are still looking to Uh, uh, basically say remain neutral and are dovish on interest rate hikes, but the the the uh Bank of japan has been known in the past I remember probably twice in in in the last maybe eight years nine years of trading where the um the bank of japan have actually um It's surprised the market right and they've done, you know quantitative easing And uh loosened policy and it's really kind of surprised the market now 140 was the line in the sand and they said that if prices go above 140 Or they indicated this anyway that they may have to step in and start to intervene to support the the the yen because the higher it goes Is the uh, obviously the more devalued that currency becomes and the more devalued the currency becomes It pushes inflation higher and if and they don't need inflation to go You know too far beyond their two percent target and if it goes beyond that two percent target It basically means that they're going to need to hike rates Hence the reason why you're seeing all these other central banks like the fed the the european central bank the bank of england All hiking rates because of the fact that their inflation is way above the uh two percent inflation target Whereas japan I think is somewhere around maybe two point eight percent But if you know the um the yen still continues to weaken pushing inflation higher Then um, they're going to have to step in and so that could be a Great opportunity trading opportunity to get short in fact and buy the uh the yen and um I was saying to the guys in the group that it's something that I am definitely looking uh to do As we obviously you know go higher and higher and um One of the things to look look towards actually i'm not going to tell you all that because that's really was uh for the um for the for the members in the group right because uh, can't give out it would be unfair when those on those Group members who are in the group for me to keep that information kind of a bit secret because um, they're obviously They're in the group for a reason can't give everything out for free So with that being said just letting you know that in fact, um, I am looking for short trades or buying the yen But in the meantime If price is obviously naturally come down and pull back Right without you know the the bank of japan actually having to uh step in which in fact when you think about the dollar If uh, see if the cpi figures come out and they come out You know lower than expected and then the fed don't have to hike as much in fact What that could do is have a bit of a I want to say negative effects, but it could devalue the dollar To a certain point where in fact it would still be a decent buy around these 137s 136 areas. So That's where I am with this at the moment But um, I do have a bit of a Short bias potentially as you know the higher This currency pair goes but um, that would all depend on You know the bank of japan and what they do and some other some other factors. So that's where my bias is Let me have a quick zoom out. Yeah, it's nothing really to the left. That's worth. Um, that's worth looking at. Anyways, looking on looking towards the uh, uh, dollar CAD The dollar CAD this week are actually, um The bank of canada we're looking to a high crates by 75 basis points. Oh, sorry. I keep saying bank uh, uh, CAD Sorry, it's the dollar swiss. I did that last week. Um, anyways dollars swiss Uh, it's obviously different. I thought this looked a bit Different than the dollar CAD. Um Again, the path of these resistances to the upside because even though both central banks are looking to high crates I think the dollar is ahead of the swiss franc In terms of how much they're hiking and uh, just where they are economically But I think with risk if risk off does start to come into the market I think the swiss franc uh, could start to strengthen not necessarily against the dollar per se But against other currencies like for example the euro and the pound But um, I think any pull backs into the 96 areas decent for a long trade any pull But any any trades right now if you believe that the swiss franc is a bargain against the dollar Don't know why you would do that but um, or think that but if it could be then this is actually a decent area to look for Any kind of short trades? Um dollar CAD coming up to this One through one run through two area. I think technically I do like this as a sell I said this last week not necessarily a pair. I'm interested in in in buying or trading at all, but there is Technically, uh, there was a reason to to try to look for um, some uh, some short trades at the top But I think again, I think the path of these resistance is to the uh, is to the upside So any pull backs into that zone the 130 is a decent buy. I think um, if you do want to be a buyer of the um of the of the canadian dollar against the uh The us dollar then now is really the time any pull backs into that area there I think a decent for a uh short trade In fact, you may probably just have missed the best opportunity Which would have been the first touch of a level second touches of levels tend to diminish The the level working out because it's no longer a bargain. It was a bargain here Bargain here, but then more, you know multiple touches it becomes less of a bargain because everybody else can see the bargain So everyone else is buying there which basically just means that it's not really a bargain anymore. So um Yeah, I'm not really a pair that I'm interested in trading though But if you are those are really your options New Zealand dollar US dollar Again really nice technically nice demand zone Technically but not something i'm interested in taking although. Um, I did say uh last week I think the path of these resistances still to the downside with the US dollar You know risk off being um something that is uh in the market and uh commodity currencies versus the dollar don't do so well So again the path of this resistance was to the downside any pull backs into that zone I think should be uh short in opportunities if you know Things do turn around from a risk sentiment perspective and risk loss to come back on Then I think this new zeland dollar is going to be a very nice potential buy But I can't see that happening anytime soon. Um Pound dollar pound dollar again, um look back on my past videos have been saying, um, you know basically that i'm my bias is to short the uh The dollar and I mean the the pound and you're seeing this Really kind of play out right a lot of traders would have would have been um, you know Long here trying to get that double bottom But if you don't understand the fundamentals and I don't understand what's going on and why you shouldn't be buying the the pound here Um against the dollar then you're just going to get slaughtered, right? And this is basically what what what has happened to those traders They just look at technical patterns and say all right then well that should work If I understand in there are forces beyond the price chart, which determine which way a currency, you know should move in And uh, it was obvious, you know, the probabilities anyway was to the downside and again check out my uh My previous weekly videos and I've been saying, you know short short short short short the the pound um and You know for again various reasons one being um, Liz trust Plan to turbo charge uk economy already alarms markets are concerned about a mix of big spending plans and upending bank of england remit so she's trying to um I think she's trying to Say to the bank of england that they should look at their monetary policy as far as inflation and stuff like that crazy What these politicians, you know should be gone in um, you know Maybe dependent on how long maybe three four five years the bank of england will still be around so Anyways, the the pound and the uk bonds are trailing most of our most other major economies and I'll just read some of the paragraphs on this And this trust is set to become the uk prime minister this week With a plan to turbo charge the economy by slashing taxes already worrying investors amid double digit inflation Um And it says that she would take office after declaring a willingness to run up the budget deficit Just as the bank of england is raising interest rates and selling its own holdings of government bonds She has also indicated that she will review the bank's central bank mandate And markets have already signaled concern about uh a trust premiership as bond traders fret that a flood of Guilts, which is basically The government bonds government treasury bonds, you know these guilts Maybe too much to absorb triggering higher debt servicing costs So since july the 7th when johnson decided to step aside and while she was forced Borrowing costs on the 10-year government bonds has risen faster than those of any of the other 22 major bond markets The pound has also trailed 132 132 sorry of the world's top 50 currencies and uh quote from Mark capelton strategist at bank of america corp. He says we have a number of concerns about the dependence On the kindness of strangers to fund the uk when the public finances are likely to deteriorate materially So that's not great. Um cost of living crisis Um Is going on as well and it says should trust we ensure it inflation at 10.1 percent and On track to breach 20 percent for the first time since 1974 according to goldman sacks group investors are betting on interest rates rise of 4.75 percent by may threatening Misery for mortgage borrowers with uh more familiar with rates below 1 percent. So again, um Not good with the bank of england expecting of a session by the end of the year Industry has also been told to prepare for orchestrated blackouts this winter A labor and labor groups talking about the first nationwide strike since 1926 So all these issues going on in the uk. Um, you know and um You could just you know see it happening, right regardless of whether the bank of england are hiking rates They're hiking into weakness and if you watch last week's um weekly, uh call or weekly video I was saying that um, you know, I read a hsbcr call which basically was saying that um, you know When central banks hike into weakness economic weakness, it's you know rarely positive for that currency. So if you don't understand this This is why you know, you watch my videos and so you can prepare and stay on the right side of the market You know more often than the wrong side of the market, right? And uh, and so for me really any pullbacks to this supply zone Buying opportunities for the uh for the dollar shorting opportunities At least for the foreseeable future anyway Um, can't see myself buying the pound for now unless there is a reversal of fortunes Which it does not look like at all also as well. I think there were some other articles here Goldman Sachs, yeah, I was just talking about inflation could top 22 percent Next year in the uk and then there was uk slips behind india to become the world's sixth biggest economy. So lots of status becomes Comes as ruling Tory party elects new premier and cost of living shot bad as the uk while indian economy surges so, you know, um we're losing our status in the uk as um as an economic, um, you know from from an economic growth perspective, which again You know is reflecting on the price chart, right?  This is basically this is a no-brainer. This is an absolute no-brainer um anyways looking towards the euro dollar, right euro dollar and um Euro dollar again for me my bias is still to the to the short sides Any pullbacks to any kind of supply zones for now? I think are are definitely setting short in opportunities for the euro. You could get some positive data Come out the euro is looking To to high crates by 75 basis points between 50 and 75 same as the u.s But they have some issues So looking at this are called the ecb still seen playing catch up as a as rate hike path steepens A survey of economists predict 75 basis points hike next week inflation outlook also shifts higher In august to the first september poll so Again central banks trying to tackle inflation issues they have to high crates But I think it's still against the dollar It's it's it's going to be a tough one in terms of the euro really appreciating and um Again, I think golden sacks was talking about european gas prices will stay high. Yes, they came down this week I think something like about 50 but There is there is um the fear that um And I think it was in fact was it here it was in the uh In the week ahead it was talking about the german Yeah, so it talks about for example the situation will be closely watched because the pipeline to bring gas to germany from russia will no longer Reopen as plans so You can see that that's probably going to end up, you know pushing up gas prices So I think the pullback in gas prices, you know this week or what is it friday friday? was probably more temporary than anything and um You know gas prices go in higher basically cost of living, um, which um also Can push, you know, obviously the economy into a recession as well as even rate hikes As well rate hikes, um, you know can um and typically do push the economy um or contract the economy, right? So lots of um Problems going on for europe. I think even more so Europe in the uk um when you consider Who's the dog with the least fleas the dog with the least fleas for me is the is the us dollar and um dog with the most fleas would be the um Europe and the uh in the uk so with that being said for me, um, it's really about just Understanding maybe just pullbacks, uh, if you can get some into some supply zones Or if prices do break beyond that demand zone then, um You know pull back into what would be a supply zone before looking at getting Short but um, there could be a short term I'm hoping for a bit more of a pullback to be fair around that 103 area the 102s for many kind of shorting opportunities To get back in on this euro dollar Uh ozzy dollar um again looking at this commodity currency against the dollar with the us dollar was um was really bound to kind of strengthen I do think like the uh, new zealand dollar us dollar. I think that's a nice technical level to look for buy trades, but for me, um Not really a pair that i'm looking at buying at all But if I was again the path of these resistance would be to the downside I think I said this last week and uh, you can see this kind of breakthrough um Again, the reason why would we buy any australian dollar would only really be if um risk of sentiment starts to Start to dissipate and risk on starts to come into play. So, uh, that could start to happen or again if if the us uh, dollar Uh, don't maybe hike as much um as they uh expected to or there's some really bad, um, you know Economic data or inflation starts to actually come down Then the us will stop hiking as much which would then cause I think the australian dollar to actually be a very nice buy around here So there was a few things to watch for All right, if i'm gonna buy buy the um, um, if i'm gonna short the australian dollar Oh, I say short the us dollar. I think one of the currencies I would be shorting it against would be the australian dollar That would be definitely a decent choice to go. Um To look to buy against the us dollar. So yep, there's that if not you're looking at sell trades within this supply zone here ozzy yen Again looking for some decent pullbacks. Let me just clear the chart a bit um Yeah, looking for some decent pullbacks. We've just had uh, really just prices keep going higher and higher grind higher and um You know biggie. I do want to get uh, long on this but also as well. I'm very cautious about um The uh, the bank of japan looking to potentially step in and um and support their currencies So again, you start to see where we are in terms of where price, you know highs and uh, recent highs and recent lows You know the timing of of the um Of the bank of japan um stepping in, you know, we could be at decent highs to look for any kind of short trades but again That would have to also depend upon whether um The dollar yen is a you know, the one forties and beyond right before looking at potentially getting short around here establishing short positions Around uh, this uh, 96 area if you were looking to buy the japanese yen for me Though part of this resistance. Hopefully if prices can kind of pull back, especially down to you know, these 91 areas I think that's going to be a nice potential buy for the australian dollar And finally gold um gold I've been saying for um for a few weeks. I think gold is definitely a buy Not necessarily from a trading perspective because really the dollar is um, you know, I'm still appreciating but going into next year. I do think that we should see um Uh a gold start to uh pick up and I just want to show you something one second So this is from um the discord uh room Um And uh, I was just doing some analysis on gold and ruby ron Was saying that gold is edging closer to the monthly lows and um, we spoke about this probably maybe a couple weeks ago Where we were saying there's a you know, there are some setups around that low where um, where I want to be involved in now um Here I said, you know, not financial advice and this was to you know to the group But I said, but I believe that gold is a buy I covered it in the group call yesterday But as we go into a global slowdown and the central banks are likely to start cutting rates next year due to Impending recessions. Uh, I think it's the perfect opportunity to start to scared in at these prices The Fed and other central banks are coming to the end of their hiking cycle Which is currently being seen as a gold negative, right? So um their hiking cycle Yeah interest rates being hiked is seen as a gold negative But if they're coming to the end of it, right then that should be positive. So anyways, I continue reading on Right, it's been seen as a gold negative because investors are prioritizing dolly yield of risk of safe haven concerns So the logic should follow that if the Fed and other central banks Uh, will have to reverse the monetary policy next year along with recession Risk of fears then that should be positive for gold, right trading gold would be more difficult in the short term As trying to pick bottoms always are But from a biophysical gold perspective, I think these prices are near their lows technically I'd want to see a stop hunt below the major level to start to trade it Of course I could be wrong, but it's a trade investment idea. I'm willing to share with you if it makes sense Then prepare, but please don't blindly follow what I say if it does make sense If it does not make sense Sorry, if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll put a basically a chart with my analysis on there Which again is for the members and um, and so You know going back to you know this price chart Um, you know central banks have been buying gold They've been increasing their buying and they look, you know, six, 12, 18 months ahead, right? They're not looking at you know short term price movements in terms of You know looking at five minute ten minute, you know time frames. They're looking at the bigger picture and so for me I do think that gold is a is a buy and um, Yeah, uh, I'm gonna you know, uh look to start buying some gold Right now as prices start to come down to these levels and um, again not financial advice But trading wise. Yeah, I think this is um, this is a level I'm not really keen on on trading because it's been touched several times one two three four So might be a level maybe just below it that you can get involved in Probably here from a supply and demand perspective maybe something here All right, that'd be nice if prices can probably come down to that zone there But yeah, my my bias is to the to the upside and again, I don't know what's going to happen this week Nobody knows what's going to happen week to week day to day, but I know um, you know The probabilities are on my side that I think um, and my trade idea is uh, is I think is quite sound in terms of You know what's coming down the road and uh, why gold should start to uh, you know Go, uh, the price of gold should start to go higher over at least, you know Towards the end of the year into uh into next year now again the timing is obviously uh, um the difficult part Who knows right nobody knows when you know price will reverse But there are certain things again I can't share around this area that I'm looking for in order for me to trade it at least But I have to see that and then I'll look for a decent trade anyways If you are looking to buy gold, um, just know that this area here isn't necessarily the best zone to look for long trades, um Because it had been touched several times From a selling perspective if you still believe that the dollar the u.s. Dollar is the is the buy You should look for at least a sell trade Into that supply zone that's 1749 to 1765 Area to look for any kind of short trades, um to continue buying, um, you know the u.s. Dollar against Gold, but I think that trade might be coming to a bit of an end In terms of uh, the longer term fundamentals. Anyways, um, thought I'd share that with you guys again Don't forget that I do have the uh, enrollment which opens the 5th of september go to trading 180 dot com Watch this video as well. It will tell you basically All about the uh, the mentoring and the discord group If you have any questions, uh, just uh, email me at info at trading 180 dot com And I'll try and get back to you as soon as I can and uh guys take care Have a great trading week and I will speak to you soon until the next video


Investing into real estate hasn't been easy for quite a while now, but it still looks like people keep buying overpriced real estate, which makes it really hard for me to get a good deal on a property. I mean, at least in certain areas of the United States. In this video, I wanna show you what you can get for a house or a mansion with a price tag of $1 million. First and foremost, I wanna say that I'm not a realtor and I have no license to help anybody sell or buy property. It's simply another income stream for me personally. I started investing into real estate when I was 23 years old and I think I learned my lessons. I know what to do and what not to do. I recently just put two of my apartments for sale just because I wanna relocate all my businesses to the United States. Enough with the boring stuff, let's get right to it. Let's see what you can get for $1 million in different areas of the United States. This is the other side of my room. You've never seen this area, but here we are. So let's get started. So first of all, I wanna show you guys what you can get in Texas for $1 million. Let's just do this, $999,999 to $1 million. Boom, let's see, wow. Just the first one, exactly $1 million. This house is close to 6,000 square feet. That's way too much for me, I don't even need that. Like I'm looking for a house that has like 1,600, 1,700 square feet, 2,000 max, because that's a lot of space. Like I don't need that. If I could live in this room, that's it. But back to this house in Texas, $1 million, 6,000 square feet, five bedrooms, six bathrooms. Take a look at it. I kinda like this style, because first of all, I have two dogs, so this is a lot of space for them. By the way, I'm watching this for the first time, so I didn't plan anything, I just wanna show you what's possible. It's not bad, like I would just paint all of this in white, but look how big this is, how massive this is.  Wow, this kitchen is beautiful. This is even like good quality, this is a good quality kitchen, at least from what I can see from here. This is a little bit outdated in my opinion, but it also reminds me a lot of Austria, a lot of wood everywhere, which is kinda cool, but you have to be a fan of that. Like it just, it brings me back home to Austria, because where I grew up, lots of wood in all the houses, especially in the Alps, it's just beautiful. Basement, spacing, not a big fan of this, but you know, you can change it, like you've told me a million dollars and you have like 6,000 square feet, so you just invest a little bit in here and you have a massive, beautiful man cave, with, I would put an office right here and then probably the gym in the corner. This is what you can get, it's still, wow. This is nice, looks like a castle. So as you guys can see, $1 million isn't the most modern one, but still, this could be a movie theater right here. Oh, maybe not. I thought it's gonna have like a white wall in front of this, but yeah, extremely outdated, but still, lots of space. Let's see, I wanna see the yard. Wow, four car garage. I'll probably put the gym in here, not in the basement. This is what I was waiting for.  You can have 15 dogs if you wanted to. Look at this, look how much space you got. That's all your property, wow. So you just get a lot for a million dollars in Texas. Let's just see what you can get in Austin, Texas. That's where a lot of my friends have been looking to buy a house in Austin, Texas. Those houses will probably be a lot smaller, but also more modern. Hello, this is the puppy I was talking about. If I bought the house in Texas, come here, say hi, come. Yeah, so this guy right here would have the best time ever. Do you wanna go to bed? Yeah, okay, I'm gonna be very fast, okay? I have four more properties to look at. I know, it's late. I'm tired too. Okay, enough, come on. You go cuddle with mommy, I'll be right there. So again, I'm just gonna click on the first one. Let's just see. This one has been on the market for, it doesn't say, but it's a million dollars straight, now 3,000 square feet in Austin, Texas. Obviously, a lot smaller, even the front yard, but look how beautiful. I mean, that's a really sweet, cozy home just from the outside. I haven't seen anything inside yet, but I gotta say, this is nice. But that's a really cozy, sweet family room. Nice, open kitchen.  The first one was 6,000 square feet. The second one, 3,000 square feet. Same price, obviously, different location, but this is a really cozy house. That's two family rooms, or two TV or living room, family room. The gym location, I'm not too sure about. But I have to say, she has a leg press. That's not bad. Usually people only have a bench. Also, high ceilings, really nice. And now I'm curious about the... That doesn't fit the house at all, but it's nice. I like the modern style, but it doesn't fit the house. Like with the other rooms, I personally, I'm not sure. Also, thinking about an investment. I don't know the area. I don't know Austin, Texas. So that's, for me, it's like already a no-go because I've never been to Austin, Texas. I've never been in Texas in general. So for me to buy something, a property that I wanna invest in, and then rent out is not a good idea. Because most important thing is location.  But let's look at the house. Nice. That's probably the gaming room, the man cave. It's not even a cave, but it's kind of cool. But I really wanna see the yard. Okay, here we go. Look how nice the yard is. For two dogs, for Falco in Vienna, that's beautiful. You have no neighbors. I mean, you do have neighbors, but you can't see them. Okay, you do see them right there. That's what I'm saying. You need to be there.  You need to go inside the property, smell it, feel it, know the area. But look, that's nice. One million dollars. Austin apparently is very active. Has a lot of bars, has a lot of cool stuff going on. Again, I've never been there. So let's go to the area where I've been and I wanna show you what I could get for a million dollars in the area I wanna buy property in. In Los Angeles, California. This is 1,275 square feet. So we went from 6,000 square feet to 3,000 square feet. Now property number three in a location where I would like to invest because I know the area, we already see the front yard, very small. I mean, it's cute.  And for Los Angeles, that's like a cute yard. That's also, I can't say anything against it. It's nice renovated a little bit so they can sell it now. During the hype, old kitchen, you see how small everything is. This is just one tiny room. I mean, on 1,300 square feet, you can't really have massive rooms. This is a tiny table. It's already crowded here, everywhere. So this is the dining area, I assume. And here we go. You have the garage in the back and you have an entire apartment complex right behind you because it's only a one-story house. It's even worse because those people from the apartment complex can actually look down on you. So whenever you're naked in the backyard, which I did do in Los Angeles in our other house, I probably wouldn't do over here. You can see the difference in like $1 million for this. This hurts. I can almost smell the house already because I've looked at houses. I've been in houses like these before and I personally would not invest $1 million into one of those houses. Let's see what else we got. Now, because we lowered the price to $900,000 to $1 million, more popped up. Next property, we are at $970,000. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, 1,500 square feet. Look at the front yard. Look at the house. Look at your driveway right here. It just looks sad. And a million dollars, if you compare that to the first house that we saw, I understand location, location, location, but that's the video I'm making. I just wanna show different locations. You can get a massive mansion and then you're in Los Angeles and you get this. It just hurts. This is the room. Obviously yellow is like not a really good color. It also has that old colored floor. But again, that's just something you can change.  You can change that up. That reminds me of my grandma's kitchen. I mean, obviously, like if you're a small family, that's perfect because you don't need a lot of space. You can just repaint those cabinets and it looks like a fresh little nook. But for my personal style, this is not what I want. I told you I love to cook and this would not be enough space for me to just be happy in my kitchen. Small bathroom, this is probably the master bathroom too. And this is the backyard. You have to redo the entire yard. A million dollars, guys. Let's do one more. Let's go a little bit west. West is like cheaper because it's not so close to downtown Los Angeles, Beverly Hills. Let's see what we can get in a really cool area. This actually looks really nice on the picture. So let's end with something nice, hopefully. Over here, we have $965,000. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, 1,699 square feet. Yeah, I have to say already, it's like a cozy area. Looks little, I don't wanna say hipster, but it looks really nice and I could see myself living there. Also these small little changes right here. The small details make me really like this first picture because you see like all those small details make a home cozy fireplace right here. The doors look brand new, at least on the picture. Kitchen is also cool. I like these for a small house. Wow, the kitchen in itself, lots of space.  This hurts me a little bit. It's just, I think it's just the color, but yeah, it's a bathroom like who cares? I mean, yeah, 1,700 square feet. It's not bigger. It is what it is. Bathroom looks a little bit outdated with the gold also reminds me of my grandma's shower. When I was a child, I clearly see that like all my cousins, we were like what, four, five, six, seven years old and then we just stayed at grandma's and all the pictures that I still have in the videos, this is exactly what it looked like. This is the master bathroom. Not too happy with the master bathroom, but this area is nice, really nice actually.  He'd be like, dad, front yard? If that's fenced in, he might take it back. That's actually not bad. I wanna show you one more thing in Studio City for $999,000. That's not it, that's it. Yeah, there's nothing there or you have to demolish everything. I'm not sure if that's the roof. Yeah, you can buy this land with a, I don't know what's on there, but you can buy that for a million dollars. All right, so as you can see, it doesn't look too good for me at the moment. So although I could afford a beautiful home in Texas, I just can't simply utilize it. I have all of my businesses and my friends in Los Angeles and that's the reason why I wanna invest in California. I mean, who doesn't love high taxes, lots of crime and earthquakes? It's not that bad. Besides the taxes, we hate those taxes. Well, I will continue my search and we'll let you guys know as soon as I sign the contract. I'm not gonna talk about it before it's signed and I have the key in my hands. I promise you guys, you'll be first to see what the new house will look like. So all you have to do is just subscribe and put the notifications on so you don't miss it. Have a great day, guys.


a Rosenberg and I am used to going to lots of meetings and doing things all over town. But since we've been homebound I still have plenty of fun things to do. At the moment I'm going to be making a chocolate zucchini cake, a bundt cake, and I've got the ingredients ready. The zucchini is from the farmers market and the cream cheese which is in the recipe is from posh bagel. So this cake will cook for an hour and when it comes out Dave and I will have a nice dessert and I will share some with a few of my neighbors. After that's in the oven then I'll walk over to my very busy table and continue my work on a new 300 piece puzzle which I love doing puzzles. This one is pomegranate and I'll do that. I also share my puzzles with 12 other people who borrow puzzles and do them. Once they're all completed all the games and puzzles that I put together the SPCA picks them up and then sells them online. And then after that I continue looking through all my boxes that I have all my collections and stuff that I've been hoarding for 15 years and going through that and distributing that and getting rid of it. So I'm pretty busy.