Now let's invite Sreeja, the next person is Sreeja, right? Sreeja. Sreeja, please. Yes, sir. Am I audible, sir? Yes, you are audible. Sreeja, go ahead. A very, a very pleasant morning to one and all. This is Sreeja Abraham from the Bapakal Agriculture College, IDBA 1800. Now, I would like to share some of the experiences and why I take this opportunity to talk in front of you. Up to now, I felt so dissatisfied that I am not getting any opportunity to talk. Some are really thinking that is it really? Not exactly. Even I am getting opportunities, I am not the one who use them properly. On the first day itself, Sar gave the opportunity to talk about whatever are primary goals and success that achieved till far. Everyone started saying that my primary goal is so and so, so and so. I am still sitting ideal and not talking anything. It's time, it's 8.50. It's about to close the discussion. I lost my opportunity. So that time I realized that time never stops for anybody. So it's better to take opportunities in time. So next, Sar also gave the opportunity about teamwork presentations on the different personalities and entrepreneurs. I lost it too. Let me explain how I lost them. Two teams ahead of me already gave their names and posted in the group. So I lost them. At that time, I came to know that nobody waits for you. You have to take your situations under your control and take the decisions at the right time. Sar also gave the opportunity about teamwork experience. At that time, I am literally scared by seeing all the presentations given by the different colleges. I thought that I didn't do that. They are excellent presenters. They have great communication skills, speaking skills and presenting skills. I thought that I can't do it. So I restricted myself from giving that presentation. Today, I take this opportunity because still opportunity is now here. If still delayed, it won't be because tomorrow is the end of the session. Tomorrow onwards, there will be no saying by the Shiva processor, jump in, jump in and grab the opportunity. So we definitely have the tight schedule that some same exams and practical way have to flow with that. So why I take this opportunity is to get self satisfaction that I'm also actually participated in this session and add a memory to my life. So I hope all other students who are still hesitated to talk, take this opportunity and come forward, we are eagerly waiting to listen to you. I would like to conclude by saying this. It's a very high time to get motivated and grab the opportunities and make better utilization of it. Thank you for giving this opportunity. I would like to thank Associate Dean Sir and also Dean of the Agricultural and thank you sir. Thank you sir. Oh my God, Sreeja.  How beautiful, how beautiful this book.  What a great talk to listen to. Let's have a big round of applause and let's pray for our dear Sreeja. How beautiful she is, how wonderful she is, what a nice thoughts, how beautifully articulated her feelings and expressions, how wonderfully presented. God bless you Sreeja. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. You're very inspiring. I'm inspired a lot and I know you inspire everyone in this room. You inspire everyone. Thank you. God bless you dear. You're awesome. You're phenomenal. You're amazing.  Oh my God, what is Sreeja there? Thank you my friends for appreciating Sreeja in such abundantly abundant manner. Everyone thank you for your praise for Sreeja. Yes, she gave a very powerful message, very powerful message. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Can we now have some of the ready? Okay sir. Okay, good morning. Good morning one and all. Good morning, sir. Good morning, friend. Here I am going to present a time table which is very useful in our daily life and will be in our future. I will start with a simple question. How many weeks in a year can somebody answer this? 52. 52 weeks exactly. In a year there are 52 weeks. What we are doing in a year there are 52 weeks and 12 months, we are our our brain thinks that there is a lot of time in the year and once we started work and we are procrastinating it to the another month and we are doing it successively but now we are getting succeeded in this. But what I am going to tell you that instead of having 52 weeks in a year, we are starting it with two weeks a year. How this will be? First of all, attention to all of the 150 students here. This will be very useful in your life and let you are a strategic inflection point that starts from today itself. You will act now. And what I am sharing here is get more than in two weeks than others doing 12 months. Here I am giving you four pictures what Arun sir denotes the people who are doing as regularly as 12 months a year. But one who is in the blue that means he is thinking differently. He is doing different things. He is doing the things which other people doing in 12 months he is doing it in 12 weeks, why don't we? Okay, this 12 week a year plan is taken from the book that 12 week a year. It means it is prepared by the others Brian P Moran and Michael Lenington. I will continue in Telugu also so everyone would clearly understand it. How this will be? And others doing 12 months. There is nothing like a deadline to get you motivated.  And what I am saying is our brain procrastinate. What is it? If it is not today, when will we do it? When will we do it again? We will do it till we remember it. That is why we will keep goals in 12 weeks a year. No matter how many goals we keep, our goals will be there. But we will keep a simple 4 to 5 major goals. Don't keep all that in mind. A 4 to 5 major goals you should definitely have. You should definitely have a vision for that goal. Why? Because you should have an answer to that question. That goal you are keeping. We always do 12 months a year. But in these 12 weeks, our motivation will be strong. All the time, our human behavior will be normal. But when it comes to deadline, our behavior will change. How will it change? Our concentration will be on our work. What time will it take? Our motivation will be on our work deadline. So, if we do our work weekly, then our goal will be bigger. In these 12 weeks, we will have a strong motivation to do our work. So, we discussed this earlier. Now, keep goals. Keep 3 or 4 goals. Keep a goal that you want to complete. Keep the goal that you want to complete. Keep the goal that you want to complete. In these goals, 4 to 5 major goals are required professionally. Now, we need to crack 3 goals from 2 to 5 major goals. If you think that you need to be strong in these goals, then write them down. There should be at least one or two or three goals in your personal life. How? You need to practice meditation. Otherwise, you need to think about relationships. You need to build a body to go to the gym. Keep the goal that you want to complete. We need to do our work in these 12 weeks. We need to progress in 2 ways. One is that we need to progress professionally as well as in our personal life. If we are not doing it professionally, then we need to develop in a personal life. If we are not doing it professionally, then we need to go to a professional life. So, we need to balance out our work. Now, we have to write a goal. We are preparing an action plan. That is, goal No. 1. What we are doing in the week 1. Now, I am trying to crack this subject in the week 1. I am gathering the information of the week 2 in the week 1. You need to start the work. You need to start the work and do nothing about it. We need to do it in the 5th. We need to keep the goal and not do anything. We cannot do anything about it. So, we have kept the goals and we have written an action plan. We should write a weekly plan in the week 1. We should write a fixed clarity plan. These are the techniques and these are the book writers. Dial-Actions are the prediction software for future life. The work we do every day is to decide how our future will be. Now, we know a destination. We need to crack this exam. Otherwise, we need to study the subject completely. There is a destination. But there is no direction for that. There is no correct direction. We have to do everything. We have to prepare our timetables. How to do it in a day. We have to do it in this band or in this band. We have to do it in a day. When we are not doing it, we have the chance to get depressed. We have to do it in a day. We need to do it at any cost. We need to get depressed. That is why, we are doing it weekly. We are setting a common goal to a week. We need to do that in this 7 days. So, we have to discuss it in a day. So, when you start a week like this, you have to set a goal and write what you want to do. After that, you have to adjust the weekly plan. Goal number one, week number one. In that goal number one, you have to do something like this. After that, you have to do score keeping. For score keeping, we should not think that we are giving 100% and not giving 100%. We should definitely be accountable here. Now, when we are doing the seven-year work, we have to do five-year work in a week. We have 80% progress. So, we are going ahead of the 80% progress. We are always going ahead of the limit. We are always going ahead of the limit. We are following this plan correctly. This is not the result-oriented but execution-oriented. So, we have principles in the week. Whenever we do the pooja, we have all these mistakes. Even in the two-week time table, we have principles. For principles, we have to be accountable to our work. And we have commitment in our work. And we have the movement of greatness. We have to see the greatness of every practice we are doing. We cannot do anything in a bad way. We should not think that we are giving too much. We should do it in a bad way. If we think that we are giving too much, we should be a mediator. If we think that we are giving too much, we should be great. We should achieve greatness in that movement in a bad way. The consistency between our future life and our future life. We should follow our consistency very well. We should follow our future life very well. And these are the things I did last night. We know the destination but we don't know the right direction. It can be solved by writing a weekly plan. Doing it with 100% clarity in our mind. That's it, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Saman. That's the phenomenal book summary. Beautifully presented and fatiguedly presented for the benefit of all the students. Amazing.   Thanks a lot. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's give a grateful appreciation. A thankful appreciation to Saman. He wants to give you. He wants to see you succeed more. He wants you to succeed more. He's a give-up. Fantastic. Beautiful. Beautiful, man. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks a lot. Now, can we move on to Lakshmi Selja? Hi, friends. Good morning, everyone. Hope you're all doing good in this pandemic section. I am Selja. Currently, Prasoon Thadia, A.G. B. Tuck from Bapatla. Today, we will have a small tour about Power of Compounding. The eighth wonder. Before getting into it, I want you to pick one of the following options. Suppose you get two job offers from your company and it is for one month. And the company offers... One is the company pays you a few lakhs in a month at once. And the offer to company paying days such as first day, one rupee. And the next day, the amount will be double. That is two rupees. And the other day, again, the amount will be double. Four rupees. And so on, it will be continued up to last day of month. I thought you have guessed the pattern. Isn't it? It's nothing that too far in. I thought many of you guys choose the first option. Am I correct? Hello, sir. This is just they are telling, they are telling compounding. Yes, in chart box. Yes, go ahead. Yes, we are hearing from you. Great job, Lakshmi Selja. Go ahead. Can I continue, sir? No, you continue. Absolutely. Okay, many of you my friends choose the first option. Why? Because the salary has 10 lakhs in a month at once. Oh, it is a big amount. Okay, one rupee means so less amount. They thought actually second option is the best. As last 30 days already, 2 power 30 is nearly more than 107 crores. That is the power of compounding. So never underestimate the power of compounding. Actually, as I mentioned earlier in the second option, you might observe that from the second option. The difference between the difference between the money we earn on the first day. Money we earn on second day is 1 rupee. And the difference between money we earn on first day and second day is 31 rupees. So the longer you stay invested, the more money you will make. That is nothing that more is the time, more is the returns. This is the moral of the system. Sorry.  If you invest a small sum every month, from your salary or pocket money, whatever it may be, your SIP, it's nothing but systematic investment plan can grow to a very impressive sum when you retire soon. So I thought this is the pandemic and you might, I thought this 2020 is the best time to invest. For example, you might observe from the second option. On the first day, start with 1 rupee and continue with 32 rupees for the 5th day. On the 30th day, 1 rupee is 1.7 crores. You can delay it for 10 years or 20 years to get a job. If you are depressed on the first day and the last day, start with small amount and start with big investment. So don't delay investment. The investment started early. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Lakshmi. Oh my God, that is financial wisdom, financial literacy. Oh, you tried giving us financial literacy. It is important to have financial literacy at a very early age. Absolutely, it's important to know, though money is not everything, money is important for lots of things. We need a lot of money for lots of things. Absolutely, investment helps, investment helps and whether it may be investing 1 rupee or 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, you know, what are you investing in and that will have a compounding effect. This is a power of comforting. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for that very inspirational advice to all of us. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Can we now go to Sagarika Reddy. Yes, sir. Good morning, sir. Thank you, sir, for giving this opportunity. So, in between the entertainment and the information, let's know even something about the current issues, what's going on in the world. So, I'm here to throw a light on floating gold. By this time, everybody, I think, started thinking like, what is this floating gold and how much it worth. So, girls, don't stress out and I'm here to tell you about those things. So, on the first June, 2021 and some freshmen, they've spotted a sperm whale carcass near the Gulf of Adam. And in this carcass, they found the valuable, most valuable raw material, which is ambergris, which worth 1.5 million dollar. So, the floating gold here is ambergris, which is usually referred as whale vomit or whale poop. So, what is ambergris generally? Ambergris, it's a rare, digestive end product in sperm whales and it is one of the most strangest natural substances found on Earth. So, ambergris is rare and it is found in a whale population of just one to five percent only. So, even like, how is it formed? Like, like Romanians, whales, two have four stomachs and food is digested while moving from one to other. So, when the digestion is not complete, the remaining partially digested substance and this substance, it forms a glittering and in any of this stomach, it could be formed. So, whales often unload the remaining substance in the open ocean, not ambergris. So, rarely this digestable material, which moves through the stomachs and transform into ambergris and it undergoes into many complex processes and even some chemicals are being added like, their cells would be and try to open alcohol compounds which is responsible for the fragrance, which is found in sperm whales only. So, what are its uses or its applications? So, these ambergris have been in the form since ancient times and in ancient Greek it was used for intoxication, the strength of wines and this substance was also used for treating epilepsy and impotency even. So, ambergris is a waxy, flame has a long lasting fragrance property and this property can be for till 3,000 years. Now, we'll see like, how why is it so expensive? So, one kg of ambergris can cost you up to 1 crore. So, this is hugely valuable, right? And it commands to the higher price than 2. So, this is all because it is highly priced as a fixative ingredient in the fine perfumes and this is why it is more valuable even than the gold. So, is it? Now, we got a thought like, is it legal in in 1970, in India it has been declared as an endangered species. The sperm whale has been declared as the endangered species. So, people were wailing exclusively for ambergris. Hence, even the sale of ambergris is strictly prohibited under the wireless protection at 1972. So, I think I added a bit of information in the knowledge portion. Thank you, sir. And thank you, guys. Sure. Thank you. Ambergris. How do you spell that word? Ambergris? A-M-B-E-R-G-R-I-S. Ambergris. Okay. Ambergris. Okay. Awesome. Awesome. I was with the number. Thank you. Thank you. Phenomenal. Wow. Wow. There's a lot of appreciation for you. Now, thanks a lot. Congratulations. Thank you, Sagarika. Now, can we move to Surekha and Surekha? Hello. Good morning to everyone. Good morning, sir. Morning. Thanks for the opportunity.  Okay. We know that disadvantage is of anger and the effects of anger. So, I am going to say two points about anger management. First one is understanding and second one is gratitude. Under understanding, I want to do an activity. I want to make an activity. For example, when we take two or three mobiles, we cannot crack them with one password. How can we impress people by only the same way of a sentence? That means we cannot crack the password of all phones exactly in the same way. We cannot impress or we cannot interact or we cannot understood by the same way of talking and same way of words to people. And this is understanding. I think you have understood this intention of mine and second one is gratitude. When we when we were born, we are not bought with a bag of food, a bag of water and a bag of friends, etc. All all have been from this nature. We have got all these from nature.  So, I conclude by saying that we have to understand people and pay some gratitude to everyone so that we can get something from everyone. Thank you, sir. My God. Powerful Sureka. Thank you very much. Thank you for giving me this very powerful message for all of us. Please, Surya, followed by Surya and Bhagavid. See, Surya. I have been for three years studying economics and engineering. Because of that, today I would like to tell you about the science and engineering of our business and of our business and of our business and of our business. There's a great talk between two and three people. We have learned a lot about the science and engineering of our business. We have been for three years studying economics and engineering. And swallow money Oh my God! Who are you? Are you the one who wrote this? Are you the inspiration? Are you the charm? Oh my God! There is so much praise and appreciation for you. Take a look at that Sree Surya. Take a look at the chat box. It's simply superb, awesome. Can we have Nithya Sree? Go ahead, Nithya Sree. Good morning, everyone. I am Nithya Sree from Bapatla Agriculture College. Today we are going to generate a small story. And here the story begins. The title of the story was A Single Strand. And the writer was Kim Sok Jin. Maybe you are quite familiar with the name. They belong to the boy band group BTS. And they are the beautiful example for the team work. And long, long ago they lived a boy with a single strand of hair. He looked at the mirror and wondered why he has no hair unlike other animals. And the boy decided to take off for a journey to find a head that looks good on him. On his way he met a wolf. Wolf, can I borrow your fur? The boy asked. Okay, young boy, the wolf replied. But the wolf fur was too rough and it didn't look good on him. And later the boy decided to find another way. On his way he met the goose. But the goose fur was not making the boy sweat and the boy gave up. On his way he met a pine tree. The boy put the pine on his head as the boy couldn't do photosynthesis. The pine on his head died. The boy was very sad. He couldn't find the right day for him. And so he came back feeling devastated. When he came back home he looked at the mirror. The boy had a single strand of hair which looked perfect on him unlike other animals. Confidence. He decided to love his single strand of hair that looks perfect for him. And the boy lived happily ever after taking this head. And what do you think the moral of the story is? Can anyone reply? Yeah, yeah, answers please. He just asked a very good question. This short ball. Satisfied with what you have instead claiming for all things. Thank you very much for the reply. And I would like to share my reply. The thing is your precious and your unique and we must not appreciate. And we must appreciate for what we have. And also we must love yourself. And no matter where we're from, what gender, what race we belong to. We have to love ourselves and we have to cherish what we have. And it doesn't stop here. The scripture also says in the mark 1231 we have to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's a beautiful story. Wonderfully narrated, beautifully depicted with a lovely moral accept yourself. Love the way you are. You are absolutely the best. You are blessed by God. You are the best. That's fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. I'm delighted. I'm proud of you. All of you. I'm proud of you. I know each and every one of you sitting here. You have phenomenal talent. You are very smart. You are fantastic.


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This is Cochise from the Neon Temple. I'm here, DEF CON 30, 30 years of amazingness. Speaking of amazingness, I am here at the physical bypass village. Now, just so I can be clear, has this always been the physical bypass village? It has not. So we're a physical security village this year. The past few years, we were lock bypass village. So it was sort of based off of the lock pick village, which is the seminal village at DEF CON. And we decided we need something that's beyond just the lock picking. What can you do with accessing the hardware around that? And so we made lock bypass village a few years ago. And this year, we decided to expand to alarms and access control systems and enter phones and elevators and all sorts of other things in the physical realm. So we're now expanding to the physical security village. Okay. So it is a madhouse in there. Why go through the struggle? Why go through the problem of logistics? Why do this? Why give us this? Well, we thought it's an area that's been missing from DEF CON, right? They've got on the physical side, the lock picking village, which does an amazing job at teaching how you can get through the lock itself, but they're just so much around the lock, right? And so things like deviance talks, right? They're always very well received, but people can't really go and at least legally or ethically try it out themselves in many cases, right? So we're creating an environment where people can and get a feel for it and see just how easy it is and then take it back to their workplace and their homes and whatnot and try to get some of this stuff fixed. Now, how commonplace are these doors? How often do you see them? They're fairly often is the thing is, right? Cause when these are improperly installed, or as you can see when the actual dead latch is broken, then it's super easy. Just take a credit card even and just slap it open. Okay, so we got a credit card. What's this tool called? It's called a latch slip. Latch slip, and where would I find one? Well, you can get one at the village across the way over there. Okay. The store or like I said, you can make your own by just getting a hard card, cutting a little bit of a hook beneath it and then using that. All right, so you're probably familiar with shopping cart wheels that lock. So this one's locked in place. It can't actually rotate. So how this normally works is the perimeter of the parking lot has a buried wire that's sending out a signal at 7.8 kilohertz, a super low frequency radio signal. But 7.8 kilohertz is actually in the audible range. So you can broadcast at 7.8 kilohertz using an audio amplifier driving into a speaker coil. And when you do that, that speaker coil is giving off just a little bit of EMF, some radio frequencies. And that little bit of EMF is actually enough to talk to the wheels.  And hopefully this will work. But if you play the right thing and you hold it in the right place, you can control the shopping cart wheel with it. So right now this is locked and it can't open. But if I play the unlock signal, there we go. It unlocks and I can put it back into its place. Okay, so a random question. How many shopping carts do you have at home at this very instance? Legal counsel has advised me not to answer that question. Okay, so we'll go ahead and wrap this up. Real quick, tell me, so you've been doing this your entire adult career, right? Okay, so how does this change how you look at the world? How does this change how you as Bill think? How do you, like, do you look at the world as one big problem that needs to be solved, or how do you, how do I see the world through what you see? Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's the hacker mindset, right? We're all familiar with that hacker mindset. You're looking at things not just for how they're intended to operate, but what can you make it do that is not intended? And so that's extending that into the physical world. So we do a lot of focus on access control systems and actually getting into places, but it applies to just about everything else, right? So consumer electronics and how to open things up. And when you learn how to bypass locks on doors, you can bypass interlocks and whatnot on all sorts of equipment. So it really does apply that hacker mindset to the physical space. And does this affect how comfortable you are walking around in day-to-day life, knowing the fragility of physical security? You know, that's a big misconception, I think, in the hacker community, right? As people are thinking about cyber.  The most sophisticated attackers can spread out and attack everyone at once. And physical, you have to be there in person with the tools that take up space and weight. And you need to, you know, if you get caught, you're going straight to the slammer. You're not hiding behind a computer screen, right? So the threat model is very, very different in the physical world. Really, really niche, skillful attacks just aren't gonna get used on a low-cost environment. Now, is that something you think companies need to start thinking about differently is cyber threat models versus physical threat models? Absolutely, absolutely, yeah. And different companies have different levels of maturity in that understanding. But, you know, it really comes down to a business decision process at the end of the day of, like, is this cost of hardening our facility worth it compared to what we're actually protecting within it? Awesome, thank you, Bill. You've heard it here from me for as long as you've known me. You could spend $5 million on cybersecurity.  I'm Coach Ease. Bill, thank you. Thank you very much.


Look versus see versus watch, because of their many similarities, these three words are often confused. Let's take a look at their differences. We use the word look when we look at something for a reason and with an intention. For example, look at that cute cat over there. I often look at my wedding photos. When we use the word see, we speak about something that we see naturally without intention. Such as in these examples.   When we look at something carefully and often at something that is moving, we use the word watch. Take a look at these examples. I like to sit and watch people walking by. We usually watch TV in the evening. So remember, look is used when we look at something with an intention. See is used when we see something without an intention. And watch is used when we watch something carefully and often also something that's moving. That's it for today. See you next time.


As you mentioned you were already on selection for 10 years, you had a pool, you had credit company and everything, but still you know business requires a lot more. It does as I found out. So tell us about your business model, how you've been able to monetize it, how have you been able to scale it up. So you know it's been very exciting, very difficult because truthfully I'm not a numbers person, I'm not somebody who's and I've always worked all my career with legacy media. So numbers was never anything I needed to worry about, you know it was like you do your job and somebody else is selling and monetizing and business and so I never even thought about it. And also truthfully it's not that we went into this after having thought about it a lot. We just said, let's start a YouTube channel, it was as casual as that. And over the years we kind of figured out what needed to be done, the monetization model which is still very hard. So over the years like the first one or three years you did not monetize? No, no it was monetizable from the beginning because on YouTube you can monetize. So the videos were monetized but you know when you first begin that money is not paying for anything. It's maybe paying for a cup of coffee. So it was very hard to kind of, it was purely coming from a place of what we earned in the front row, we invested in film companion, taking our own personal investments and putting it in there and then kind of figuring out that we will need to do X to make sure that it's a self-sustaining business. It can't be for me, I was very clear that it's not a question of can you afford to keep it running. It's a question of it can't be a vanity project.  Yeah I mean I always laugh and say that I don't think I'm gonna find my own private jet at the end of this but you know it has to be self-sustaining because that is proof of concept. You know that allows you to think that yes people want it and they will pay something for it. So obviously for us the main monetization model has now you know after all these years obviously there is a substantial chunk coming from YouTube itself, we have more than 3,000 videos on YouTube, many of them have millions and millions of views so there is much more income coming from there, there is also the branded projects that we do which you know started I think like eight years ago was our first branded project with Microsoft. We did a show called Beneath the Surface in which you know because they're just launched or they were pushing out the Surface computer and in which I spoke with Priyanka, Shah Rukh and Karan and then at the end of it gave them a Surface computer and was called Beneath the Surface and that was the first bit of branded content we had ever done. So it shows like that plus it's commission shows you know we did a podcast for Audible. So those were you know CIDA commissions which went straight on those platforms but the branded stuff we put on our platform so it's a mix and match of these things which has sustained from companion as we've grown from like literally 4 people to over 60.


building an effective personal ministry, building an effective personal ministry. And we've been working through this paragraph in 1 Timothy chapter four, verses 12 through 16. This is part three in our sermon series on this one text, dealing with what it means in the life of the Christian to build an effective personal ministry. And here the Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter four, beginning in verse 12, let no one despise your youth. But be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity, until I come give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things. Give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them for in doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you. Again, by way of reminder, in this passage, Paul is instructing Timothy with the building blocks, if you will, of maintaining, building and maintaining an effective personal ministry in Ephesus. However, the instruction here is valuable as that is for a man who desires the position of a bishop. This is also extremely tremendously valuable for any Christian. Every Christian, all Christians, have been called into the work of the ministry. And here in verses 12 through 16, we see the essentials of building an effective personal ministry. By way of reminder, if you've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, you have been saved into a body, the body of Christ.  You are to work in your ministry. Ephesians 4 teaches that there are those that God gifts for the equipping of the saints to do the work of the ministry. Every Christian is in ministry, and you're to build an effective personal ministry. Now, the components for doing this are basic, but they are profound. They are basic, but excruciatingly important. Everything is based on these points, taking heed to yourself and to your doctrine. The first point, you have to maintain an exemplary life, a life of holiness, a clear conscience before God, a life bent toward righteousness. You must devote yourself to the Word of God, you must cultivate your God-given gifts, and you must pursue your ministry with an uncompromising devotion. So the first point that we looked at from verse 12, you have to maintain an exemplary life. You have to be an example. Your life has to be worth exemplifying. Now, that life is consistent with the label of Christian. Anyone who calls themselves a Christian, who is claiming the name of Christ, should be living a life that is exemplary for Christ, living a life that is in accord with the Word of God. And in that, you become an example. You become an example to believers, but you certainly become an example of believers, what it means to be a Christian.  That's the first step of building an effective personal ministry.  And in that, you lead by example. But point two on your notes. Now, in verse 13, you must devote yourself to Scripture. Paul tells Timothy, till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine. If you're going to minister, if you're going to have an effective personal ministry for God, you're going to be diligent in the Word of God and you must be diligent with the Word of God, diligent in the Word of God and diligent with the Word of God. You must be devoted to Scripture and then you must be devoted to living the Scripture, living the Scripture out. Again, this is another basic, but the battle is won or lost on this basic. This is something that is a necessity and those that claim the name of Christ need to see it as a necessity, a life and death issue. Paul begins, till I come, give attention. And we saw in chapter three that Paul had every intention of returning to Ephesus. He poured his life into these people. He loved the church. He loved the people. He just never made it back. Paul spent a winter in Nicopolis and then afterward was arrested again and carted off to Rome. And so in 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, we really have here what are parting words, if you will, from Paul to Timothy to the church in Ephesus. What Paul would want Timothy in his absence to be doing. What Paul now in his absence wants all of us to be doing. We've got to, he says, get in the word. He says give attention to reading. Give attention there is a compound word. Pros, meaning to, and echo, meaning to hold or to have. In other words, when you're going to give attention to reading, you're going to turn and hold your minds toward it. It means to turn and hold your minds toward someone or toward something. It's going to occupy your mind, occupy your effort, occupy your energy. Give attention is in that sense a way of life. It's a present active imperative. It's a command of Paul. Present active means that it's ongoing. This is something that needs to be constantly, consistently, persistently ongoing in your life. Give attention to reading. And for Timothy, this is to be a way of life. It's to be a way of life for us too. Now you can in your own lives become committed or devoted to a lot of things, can't you? Some of those things are worthless. And you have to recognize them and acknowledge them as worthless, reaching the next level on super ninja, seven killer Xbox game, right? That's worthless. You take great pride at 12 o'clock in the morning having worked all day to overcome the next level. Anything that Oprah says is worthless. Don't you don't devote yourself to that stuff? You can devote yourself to things that are worthless. You can also find yourself devoted to things that are negative. As we saw back in chapter three, myths, genealogies, fables, false doctrine, false teaching, anything that comes out of the charismatic movement. You can find yourself devoted to things that are garbage, that are bad for you, that will lead you to shipwreck. But then you can choose, and that's what Paul is commanding here, you can choose to devote yourself to things that are positive. You can hear specifically the word of God. Good, healthy, clean, pure food for your soul, amen? We are to devote ourselves to the word of God. The point here is that you have to devote yourself. You have to be careful what you're devoting yourself to. Now, here, continually, consistently, by command from Paul, we are to devote ourselves to three things specifically. One, to reading. Two, to exhortation. And three, to doctrine. All of these in the Greek here are with the direct article, the. It's not just to reading, it's to the reading, to the exhortation, and to the doctrine. And these were, this phrasing here, the way this is worded, shows that these were common. They were common to congregational life in the church at that time. So the first point he makes here is that we're to give attention, to devote ourselves constantly to the reading, right? And this is the reading is referring in the first century to the Jewish custom that they had of reading the scripture allowed in the synagogue. This was the public reading of scripture. And we've got a great example of how this worked in Acts chapter 13. Turn back there with me, Acts chapter 13. And let's see this in action, okay? The reading, the exhortation, and the doctrine, Acts 13. And look beginning at verse 13. So Acts 13, 13. And this is how it worked. This is what began in the synagogue and then carried over into the New Testament church at the time. Acts chapter 13, verse 13. And here Luke says, Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Panthea. And John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch and Pisidia and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. They're going to church, so to speak, okay? Verse 15. And after the reading, there it is, right? After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them saying, Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. So they're in verse 15. We see the reading, the reading of the law and the prophets. And then we see the exhortation, the preaching of a sermon. If you will, that was in the synagogue. Now that practice again, carried over into the New Testament church. Paul intended when the church met, met for there to be the reading of the scripture, for there to be a discussion of doctrine, for there to be an exhortation. And we see that explained in many places in scripture. But Paul basically explained that all of his letters in the church were to be read, read aloud and read in church. At the end of Colossians, Paul says this. He says, now when this epistle is read among you, that was assumed, that the epistle that came to the church at Coloss would be read among the brethren. He says, see to it that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. So he expected those letters would be read aloud as scripture in the meeting of the church, right? But now listen to Paul in 1 Thessalonians. He charges in chapter 5 verse 27 that that epistle be read to all the holy brethren. Same concept, okay? So now, public reading of scripture. Let me give you a good rule to follow in biblical interpretation if you're going to study your Bible. The first thing that you need to do is take a look at what that passage of scripture, what that verse of scripture meant to that audience at that time. Scripture has a specific audience in their time, at that time. We take the principle from that and we apply it to ourselves in our time. But it's important to understand what the scripture meant to them. So put yourself in the shoes, if you will, of a first-century Jew. You don't have copies of the scripture yourself. They're very expensive. Only certain few have copies of the scripture. You, as a first-century Jew, don't have a kink goes.  There is no way to copy. There's no printing press. The society at large at this time was basically illiterate because there weren't a lot of books around to read. And so most folks couldn't read. Their access to the Word of God that is pure converting the soul that is necessary for our lives had to be publicly heard in church. And they valued it so much that the Bible says that they met daily. Many of those believers met daily on Solomon's porch, met daily with the church. And they read the scriptures. There would have been time given to reading, a significant amount of time. And there would have been, if you can imagine, right, an engagement with the reading. You'd have been sitting on the edge of your seat wanting to hear the words of God to you for the salvation of your own soul, for that of your family, for your own spiritual growth, for your Christian life. That would have been extremely valuable. They would have invested themselves in it. Can you imagine? Many of you can't imagine because you have four copies of the scripture in your house and you never read it. Can you see? Back then at that time, at that day, this was life to them. This was life and death. The Word of God being read aloud in the church was a necessity. They didn't have copies for themselves. Back then, there was a problem, if you will, of knowing the Word of God because of a lack of ready availability. What's the problem today? Apathy and indifference. We have the same problem of biblical illiteracy. But those that claim the name of Christ, those that claim to be God's people, don't read it. It sits collecting dust on a shelf. This would have been a great value to them. And let me tell you, the Word of God is of great value to everyone who is a genuine Christian. So examine yourself. If you have no value for the Word of God, consider that you're not a Christian. The Word of God is life and breath. The Word of God is necessary to the life of a Christian. And if you are going to build an effective personal ministry, if you're going to live for Christ, you've got to pour yourself into the Bible. You've got to devote yourself to the reading. It is, it's everything. We've got to learn of Christ. We have to follow the example of Christ. We've got to be able to live our Christian life and we need the Word of God. This is such a rebuke, isn't it? It's a Christianity today, professing Christianity in the sense that the Word of God is so undervalued. We have one excuse after another for why we don't do this. One excuse after another for why you won't pour yourself into the Word of God and learn it, spend time, devote yourself to it. Apathy, indifference, priorities, whatever they may be, ultimately you've got to understand that ultimately the main reason is unbelief, unbelief. If you believe that you will live into eternity and that this life is a vapor, if you believe that the Lord God will sanctify you by His Spirit through the Word, if you believe and take God at His Word, what He says in the Bible, and that if you believe, this is the very revelation of God to you, that you have the very words of God in your hands and your lap, if you believe it, then you'll spend time in it.  And there are reasons, right in the flesh, that even a genuine Christian can get themselves messed up in their thinking, messed up in their priorities such that they depart the Word of God, such that they don't prioritize it. Repent of that sin. That's the Lord's Word to you and devote yourself, give attention to the reading. But often as is the case, many will profess Christ, profess to be forgiven by God and yet have absolutely no concern or care whatsoever for His Word. And it is the destruction of many a so-called Christian life. People struggle with sin. Why am I struggling over sin? I don't have any victory over sin. The Bible says how can a young man keep his way pure? How can any Christian keep themselves pure by taking heed according to your Word? And when we don't take heed according to His Word, is when you become defeated in your Christian life. You struggle with how to make decisions, how to raise your family, how to work on the job effectively and be a good testimony for Christ, how to evangelize, how to do whatever. And yet if you're not spending time, commensurate time in the Word of God to allow God by His Spirit to work in you and you're gonna be defeated and stunted and immature and at worst lost must give attention to its basic, right? Very, very basic. We've talked about this many, many times but it is profound and it is necessary. We've got to spend time in the Word of God. We know many, right, that the only reason they use scripture is to make an excuse for their sin or to defend what they're doing with their life.  They become a little convicted over their sin and they say, yeah, but what about David? You ever heard that one? Okay, wait a minute. You wanna take a man after God's own heart. The scripture itself testifies that he was blameless in everything except for that instance with Bathsheba in your right. They hit tight and you wanna use him as an excuse for your serial fornication? I'm sorry, that doesn't work that way and that argument is not gonna fly before God on Judgment Day. You can't do it. There is no excuse in scripture for your sin. I'm witnessing to someone else one time and he's like, what's the most important thing that Paul ever said? And I'm like, well, wow, Paul said a lot of really important stuff. I don't know.  And he can't even like articulate, making an excuse for sin. You'll find no excuse for sin in scripture. You'll find no excuse for apathy in scripture. You'll find no excuse for indifference in scripture. You'll find no excuse for living any other life for Christ than the sold out, wholehearted, devoted life to Christ. There is no other life that is described on the pages of God's word. We must give attention, devote ourselves to the Bible, to Christ, the God of the word. We need to be people of the book. Many people approach the scripture in a devastatingly deadly way. And let me explain by way of an analogy you're gonna have to forgive that will break down if you take it too far, okay?  A nuclear bomb, okay? And there's a little timer on it. And the timer's like, tink, tink, tink. Obviously, this thing is going off, okay? So you, like, look at this thing and by God's grace and mercy, there is a nuclear bomb defusing manual sitting right there next to the nuclear bomb. And you're like, wow, this is a nuclear bomb defusing manual. I'm going to read and learn how to defuse the nuclear bomb that is currently about to go off in my house. So you pick up the nuclear bomb defusing manual. You open to the introduction. The nuclear bomb will require the removal of certain wires. And you say, I got this.  Where are the wires? What wires is he talking about? In what order do I remove them? How do I cut, right? We need to know a little bit more about the nuclear bomb in order to defuse it. And most people approach their reading of God's word the same way, right? The same way. There is a nuclear bomb, you understand, of God's judgment. And your timer is chung, chung, chung, counting down. So someone comes along to you and they say to you, hey, buddy, I don't know if you realize this or not, but you have a nuclear bomb of God's judgment and the timer is going down. And they turn to you and say, who are you to tell me that I have a nuclear bomb? And that's your interpretation of the nuclear bomb defusing manual anyway. So why should I listen to you, right? So you go back to your house, most professing Christians, right? They do this. They go to the honey, where was that nuclear bomb defusing manual again? Where did I put that thing?  And so they open the nuclear bomb defusing manual of God's judgment and they read, for God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes, I got this. I believe in Jesus Christ. Like I believe in Abraham Lincoln or believe in Fred Astaire or whoever. So, and they go about living their life and that, wait a minute, what about belief? What is scripturally God define as genuine saving faith? What about repentance? What is biblical repentance? What about that person that comes along to you and says that your nuclear bomb is about to explode? How do you diffuse the nuclear bomb? Don't take the analogy too far, did you get my point? Most people approach the Word of God that way. How do you believe exactly? What does the Christian life look like? When God saves a person, it isn't on your terms. It's on God's terms and God has very specific way in which he saves and a very specific way in which that looks and you having a deceitful and wicked heart can be deceived. Our lifeblood is the Word of God. The spirit of God applying the Word of God to our otherwise very unrighteous, very wicked and very deceptive deceiving hearts. Not just deceiving, deceiving above all things. Deceiving above the devil himself. You have that enemy in your own chest. Listen, the battle is won or lost on these basics. What will you do? What will you do? Will you invest yourself in the Word of God? Will you pour yourself into it to learn of the truth of God that you as the Bible says can save yourself and those who hear you? It takes that kind of effort. John Owen said this, if the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us. We talk about building an effective personal ministry. The Word of God must dwell in you richly, as Paul says. But if it doesn't dwell with power in you, you can't have an effective personal ministry. You have no ministry. The Word of God must dwell with power in you such that it will pass from you with power. He goes on to say the want of this experience of the power of gospel truth on their own souls is that which gives us so many lifeless, sapless preachers. He says orations, but that's what it is. In words and dead as the power, instead of preaching the gospel in the demonstration of the Spirit, you want to have an effective personal ministry? Get yourself in the Word of God and allow the Spirit of God to apply those truths, to learn those truths. The Spirit of God will guide you into truth and then you take that power that is within you and you send it out. You push it out and the Lord will work through that. Having the knowledge of God's Word in this way is that key, if you will. You're looking for a silver bullet. You're looking for a key. Having the Word of God in you that way under the applying work of the Holy Spirit is the key to holy living, to righteous living, to having that exemplary life that will be an example to believers, certainly an example of what a believer should look like. Are you living your daily life out of the treasure of God's Word? Hosea chapter four verse six says this, my people, God says, are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. First Corinthians chapter 14 verse 20, do not be children in your thinking, yet in evil be babes, but in your thinking be mature. Do not be children in your thinking.  Ephesians chapter four verse 14, the lack of biblical understanding produces immature children that are in danger. If you have a lack of biblical understanding, there's a danger with that. They are these children tossed to and fro by waves. They're carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. There's a danger if you don't give attention to the reading, okay? Verse 18 Ephesians four goes on to say, describing unbelievers, they have their understanding darkened. You want your understanding enlightened? Get in the Word of God. They have their understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them. Ultimately, it is ignorance, right? Do you want to gain understanding? Do you want to walk in the light? Do you want to seek wisdom? Then depend on the Holy Spirit and give attention to the reading of Scripture. Give attention to study. And when you read it, live it, obey it. The Israelites many, many times failed to heed the words of the prophets, failed to heed God's word. So what did God do? What did God do? God took away his word. God took away understanding. Listen to Amos, Amos chapter 8 verse 11. Behold, God says, the days are coming that I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water. That would be better, right? But of hearing the words of the Lord. It's a famine of the word of God. He says, they shall wander from sea to sea and from north to east. They shall run to and fro seeking the word of the Lord but shall not find it. That is the judgment of God on those that did not honor his word through his prophets. People today do not honor his word. They are given over to every form of disgusting false teaching and they'll fight tooth and nail for a lie. They're given over to easy believism. Given over to, it's a lie. That is a lie. They're given over to Catholicism. Lies, lies, lies. Given over to the garbage that pours out of, the filth that pours out of the charismatic movement. More lies given over to them. Given over to the lies that come out of the mouths of those TV preachers, most of them. Given over to lies. Given over to baptismal regeneration. Given over to whatever. Because they don't honor the word of God. They don't value the word of God in their own lives. You want to be safe. You want to be saved. You want to be secure in Christ. You've got to know the word of God. These are all products of not heeding the word of God. Not valuing the word of God. The liberalism that is flooding through the church today is an abomination because people don't value and honor the word of God. They don't read it. The way to avoid error is to be precise with the word of God. But people don't value it that much. Let me give you an example. If you will turn with me to Job chapter 28. I, you know, I love hymns. I love the theology of the old hymns. I love Puritan, the Puritan prayers, some poems. I don't think I can imagine a more poetic treatment of value for the word of God than what Job does here in Job chapter 28. The value of the word of God. Even that, love to hear the flipping of pages. The word of God, right? Bring your Bibles. How many people don't take their Bible to church in churches today? I remember we were one time out of town a while back several years ago and going into a church and look around and we're the only ones with a Bible. That is a travesty. It's a tragedy. Here, Job chapter 28. Listen to this. Speaking of wisdom, wisdom that comes from God, wisdom that comes from the word of God, okay? Chapter 28 verse 1. Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth and copper is smelted from ore, valuable metals, right? Highly valuable. They would have treasured these at this time. They were extremely valuable. So verse 3. Man puts an end to darkness. He searches every recess for ore in the darkness and in the shadow of death. He breaks open a shaft away from people in places forgotten by feet. They hang far away from men and they swing to and fro. In other words, people don't even go there. In dark places that people have never been. They search for them and they pine away for them, right? They work at them to mine these precious metals. Look at verse 5. As for the earth, from it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire. It's stones are the source of sapphires and it contains gold dust. Again, look at the distance to which men will go. The paths that they will track to search out and to find this almost unreachable treasure. The path that no bird knows. Nor has the falcons eyes even seen it. The proud lions have not trodden it. Nor has the fierce lion even passed over it. But he puts his hand, man does, on the flint. He overturns the mountains at their roots to get to this. He cuts out channels in the rocks and his eyes sees every precious thing and he damns up the streams from trickling. What is hidden, he brings forth the light and by really hard, diligent work, right? Put yourself in the shoes of this. You, you know, for me and that boat. Wow, I just, you know, that next car, that next, whatever it is. I'm going to mine the depths of my effort to produce that wealth for me, to produce that possession for me to get what I want. And you'll go to any lengths to get it. I'll work an 80-hour week and I'll neglect my wife and neglect my kids and I'll do what I have to do to get to that thing, whatever that thing is, right? Just like man here with precious metals. Look at what is said in verse 12. But where can wisdom be found? That's the question you need to ask and answer. Where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man does not know its value. If man knew its value, he would search far and wide for it just like he does for precious metals, right? Nor is it found in the land of the living. The deep says it's not in me and the sea says it's not with me either. 15, it cannot be purchased for gold nor can silver be weighed for its price. It cannot be valued in the gold of offer in precious onyx or sapphire. Neither gold nor crystal can equal it. Nor can it be exchanged for jewelry of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral or quartz for the price of wisdom is above rubies. Do you believe it? Before you answer that question, you say you believe it. Does your life look like it's in a cord with what you just said you believe? Do you believe that the word of God, wisdom from God is more valuable to you than rubies? And what if I told you, listen, there's a swamp and you're going to have to trek to get there several days on, but if you go, you do what you got to do.  You got to run over some people to get there.   Would you do it? Is the word of God more precious to you than rubies? And what does your life reflect that? Your investment in scripture is going to reflect your belief in that very thing. How you view scripture, how you live your life in a cord with scripture is going to reflect your faith in the God of scripture, your faith in the Christ of scripture that has given it to you. It's going to tell you how you think. So examine yourself. How much do you value the word of God? If you're not studying it at all, you're not reading it, don't be the hypocrite and lie to your own profession. Examine yourself honestly before God. Repent of that sin and do something about it. Verse 19, he continues, the topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? It is hidden, verse 21 says, from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air. Destruction and death say, we've heard a report about it with our ears, but God understands its way and he knows its place. And praise God, he has revealed it to us in his word. Amen. For he looks to the ends of the earth and he sees unto the whole heavens to establish a weight for the wind and a portion, the waters by measure. When he made a law for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt, then he saw wisdom and declared it. Praise God. He prepared it indeed. He searched it out. And to man he said, behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. And to depart from evil is understanding. Wisdom is knowledge. Not just knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge applied.  You must learn. So to fear the Lord being wisdom means to submit to the Lord. The Lord reveals himself to you in his word. You learn the word. You apply the word, fearing God. And in that, there's wisdom. And in all that, there is understanding. That's valuing the word of God. Back in 1st Timothy chapter 4. We're to devote ourselves to give attention to the reading of Scripture, the study of Scripture. We're to live according to it. But then he says, secondly in verse 13, that we're to give attention or to devote ourselves to the exhortation. To the exhortation. We need to be diligent in the word of God and diligent with the word of God. The word here for exhortation carries a wide semantic range. Anything from comfort, to encouragement, to rebuke. And we are to give attention to the exhortation. Here, and again in context, it's the public preaching of the word of God in Scripture, in the service, in the congregation. There's a wonderful example. Remember, we won't turn there for lack of time, but we'll talk about it. The wonderful example of this in Nehemiah chapter 8. Have the word of God. Ezra the scribe comes in. He's going to read the word of God. They built a platform for Ezra to stand on. Ezra gets up on the platform and it says, he reads the word of God from morning till midday. The public reading of Scripture. People, it says, lifted their hands saying, amen, amen. There were times when the word of God read by Ezra the scribe caused the people of God to weep when Ezra was going through the law of God. And they had to remind them, don't weep. This is a time for rejoicing. But they read the word of God from morning till midday. And then it says, the men stood up and explained it and gave the sense of it. That's the exhortation. There is a meaning. There is an explanation given. And then there's an application of that. That's wrapped up in this idea of the exhortation in the congregational services of Christ's church. It's the public exhortation of Scripture. And it says in Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 8, listen to this. They read distinctly from the book in the law of God and they gave the sense and helped them to understand the reading. It's a part of the exhortation here. This word, however, doesn't stop at explanation. With that, you just get knowledge. It's just instruction. Which the instruction is to be from the word of God and that's good. But it doesn't stop at explanation. It moves on to application. It moves on to exhortation. An exhortation, basically, is to warn the people of God to obey the word of God with a view towards judgment if you don't. There's also a view towards blessing if you do. But it's to warn the people of God to obey the word of God with a view towards judgment. Listen, if there's so-called preaching that only is explanation, but it has no pressing of the word of God onto the people such that they are exhorted to obey the Lord with a view towards judgment if they don't, then it's not preaching. It's not biblical exhortation. This is an exhorting you to do something. It's not just an explanation.  It's an exhortation. Now, this has a use in the public services of the church, but also there's an intensely personal aspect to this word as well. Parakaleo, to pull along to your side has an intensely personal aspect as well. We're familiar with this passage, but listen to Hebrews chapter 10 verse 24 and 25. There, the Bible says, let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.  Basically that word means a sharp disagreement. It means a disagreement. So in other words, if you're going to consider one another to stir one another up to love and good works, that stir up means that, okay, there's a brother over here not where they need to be. And I'm concerned about them. They're not serving the way they need to serve. Maybe they don't understand something that they need to understand. They're not living the way they need to live. And so it's the responsibility of a loving brother, a loving sister to go over and, what may be a disagreement because one person's living one way, another person seeing it as needing, correcting. That's where that word comes from. It is we are to stir one another up, reminding one another to live fervently for the Lord, to obey him. And it goes on to say verse 25, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together, as is a manner of some, but exhorting. Same word, Parakaleo. It's the, in light of that circumstance, exhort. You press upon them the importance of doing what the Word of God says with a view towards judgment if we don't. It's a pressing of the Word of God upon another. It says exhort one another so much the more as you see the day approaching. We need brothers and sisters in the church who are faithful with that. Right? We all need accountability. We need, when we're in difficulty having trouble, we need a faithful brother, a faithful sister to come alongside us and say, listen, I'm concerned about you. What can I do to help? It doesn't look like things are going well over here. And the Word of God says this, what seems to be the trouble? How can I help? We need brothers and sisters faithful to do that. There's going to be a time. There's been times in my life where I've needed it. There's times in your life too when you need it. We all need that. The Word of God tells us to do it. Be devoted to. Give attention to the exhortation. If you're going to have an effective, personal ministry, you've got to be devoted to the Word of God. Be diligent with the Word of God. Then you've got to be devoted to the exhortation, to applying that Word of God, helping your brothers and sisters. Paul just got done explaining right in verse 12 that we're to be a good example. Examples in the church are there. They are gifts to the church for them to pull alongside, Parakaleo, those brothers and sisters with them. Paul says, Philippians 3 again, note those who have the same mind that he does, the same mind that Christ does who are walking according to that mind. Note those because you have them for an example. They Parakaleo you. They exhort you there to pull you along to their side. And if you're going to have an effective, personal ministry, you'll be doing that. Now, that pulling to your side, mind you, is into the work of the ministry. If all you are doing is pulling to your side someone into your pet theology, that's not biblical exhortation. This is, we're here to do the work of the ministry. Pull someone alongside you in faithfulness to the Lord, in evangelizing the lost, in edifying the saints, in exhorting a brother or sister. All you're doing is just pulling someone alongside to your view of super lapsarianism. There's a, there's a problem. Okay. But lastly, we're to give ourselves to the reading. We're to devote ourselves to the exhortation. And lastly, we're to give attention or devote ourselves to the doctrine, to the doctrine. Now here, the doctrine, this could mean teaching or that which is taught. Those two things are inseparable. It certainly means both. Okay. To the teaching to that which is taught, you must devote yourself to both of those. Devoting yourself to the doctrine, you're devoting yourself to that which is taught. But you're also as a Christian in order to have a, an effective personal ministry to devote yourself to teaching. You stand at the door and witness to someone you're teaching. You go alongside another brother and sister to exhort them from the Word of God. What are you doing? You're teaching. You want to edify, serve the body of Christ. And so you disciple someone. What are you doing? You're teaching. You're devoting yourself to that which is taught the Word of God. But you're also devoting yourself to teaching. Both are critical. You cannot separate them. All of our teaching, all of our instruction is to be representative of and controlled by the Word of God. Those things go together. And it requires very diligent, hard work. It's several brothers in this room right now that have preached many times before. Would you say amen to that? Amen. It is many of you, probably more of you in this room, have come out of churches where the sermon is 20 minutes with a joke on either end, story in the middle so God's truth is boiled down to about 12 that someone prepared two hours for on the day before, before he preached it. And that is a tragedy and a travesty. The Word of God teaching, preaching, you building an effective personal ministry for the Lord, it takes hard, diligent work.  Not to be ashamed, but rightly handling the Word of truth. It takes hard work. It takes perseverance over the text. How many of you have taught a Sunday school class? Taught a small group? It takes perseverance over the text of scripture to be faithful to the Word of God in doing that. It takes meticulous and faithful study. It takes precision. You're going to keep yourself out of error. If you're going to, at some point, know the Word of God for yourself, you've got to be precise with the text of scripture. Not being necessarily precise with someone else told you. You have to take responsibility and be precise with the text of scripture. It takes hard work. We've got to be precise with the text to avoid error. Very important to note here that the exhortation rests on the previous command to give attention to reading. You're going to be giving your attention to exhortation. You must first be giving yourself, devoting yourself to the reading and to the doctrine. Exhortation flows from that attention. You must faithfully read and then faithfully expound the scripture. Faithfully read and then faithfully press the scripture upon the people both to believe what the Word of God says and to do what the Word of God says. We're not entitled in that sense to our own opinions, right? What the Word of God says, the Word of God says, and that's what I'm to believe and that's what I'm to do. We are doing this on God's terms, not our own. Paul says to Timothy later in this chapter and this letter in verse chapter 5 verse 17, that the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the Word and doctrine. In other words, for all of us in building an effective personal ministry, honor comes with hard work in the Word of God. You want to be effective for the Lord. You want to honor the Lord. You want to be honored in that sense. Give yourself hard work in the scripture. Labor over the Word of God. And this must be continuous. It is a present active imperative, a continuous command. Got to be continuously at this. One of the commentators mentions an analogy. It's used by Puritan, the Puritan John Flaville. This presses the importance of that issue of being continuous. Okay. He said it is not with those who labor with the Word as it is with other laborers. And that's very true. And he uses the example of a cabinet maker. He says a cabinet maker can leave his work at the end of the day and he'll come back to it the next day and find it in exactly the same condition that he left it in. Right? That's a cabinet maker. Those that labor with the Word of God. If you're going to be giving yourself to the exhortation, being diligent with the Word of God to minister to the saints and to share the gospel, it's not like being a cabinet maker. You give yourself, give the exhortation. You leave the night, leave them there and go away for the night. You come back in the next morning and the whole thing is a mess again. Because the world, the flesh and the devil have been busy while you've been gone unraveling everything that you've done. And we fight that unraveling all the time. So to be diligent with exhortation requires that you be consistent, constant in it, laboring constantly and repetitive. That's why Peter says we need to stir one another up by way of reminder. We need to be reminding ourselves constantly of these things because the enemy is at work behind us trying to unravel all of them. Oftentimes, it feels like holding in your hands a pot of cooked spaghetti. Really hard to, you know, really hard to do. We've got to be constantly at work in order to be able to hold it, okay? That takes repetition. So, building an effective personal ministry involves living an exemplary life. That exemplary life fuels your example. And then, building an effective personal ministry requires devoting yourself to scripture, both in it and with it, right? And then scripture is the fabric with which an effective ministry is pieced together. Now, third point on your notes, with all of this, to build an effective personal ministry, you need to cultivate your God-given gifts. Cultivate your God-given gifts. Verse 14, back in 1 Timothy 4, Paul says this, Do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. He begins there with a very strong, imperative command. Do not neglect. That which is not to be neglected is the spiritual gift that is within you. If you've been baptized into the body, you've been given a gifting from God. It was the gift that was given to you. That's passive. It means that God has done the giving. You have done the receiving. It's not that you went out and trumped up some gift. You know what? I want to do this. So I'm going to learn everything I can do. Works the opposite direction. It's like God has given you that gift and then as a result of you receiving that gift from the Lord in for the work of the ministry, you go out then and cultivate it and develop it and work laboriously on it. The Lord has given you a gift if you're in the body of Christ. Certainly to edify one another, to minister to the saints, to evangelize lost. Some people try to persuade you that this gift here in verse 14 is the gift of the Holy Spirit. If you come out of charismatic circles, they try to link the giving of the Spirit of God with the laying on of hands. And so certainly here this means that this is the Spirit of God that is more charismatic, misinterpretation. It's not what this passage is saying. Timothy already saved. When he got the commission of the elders to go out and use his gift. So that interpretation is wrong. We see that in Acts 16. Timothy already saved. And then he has hands laid on him commissioning him into the ministry. We also see a similar exhortation in 2 Timothy chapter 1 where Paul says to Timothy again, therefore I remind you, stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. It's a parallel example. Now it says here that this was given through the means or by prophecy. At this time this was in some way possibly in Acts 16 where Timothy received that commission, a direct revelation of God from the Holy Spirit that Timothy was going to go into this work. But then it says with the laying on of hands. In other words, accompanied by, not through the God somehow, you know, with the guy to give him gifts to the ministry, we know that doesn't happen. Those things aren't normative today. The way this works today, the Bible says here in Timothy, if men, you desire the position of a bishop, you desire a good thing. So for those of you who say, I think I'm called the pastoral ministry. First thing that comes is the desire. Desire in your heart. Now let me make the parallel application here. If you're a Christian, do you have a desire in your heart to serve the Lord?  Yes, okay. So you've been called the ministry. But now for those men that want the pastoral ministry, the office of elder, you desire the position of a bishop. That's the first thing here. Okay. But in the same way that Timothy by the laying on of hands was affirmed by the eldership. That's what that was. It wasn't a through. It wasn't a, it was an affirmation of Timothy's gift. In the same way if you're called into the ministry, you'll be affirmed by the church. If you're not affirmed by the eldership, you're not called the ministry. Right? That's a necessary component of calling. But then thirdly, you are, you have a great desire for it. Then there's affirmation by the people of God, by the church of God, by the elders. And then there is in Timothy's case and in the case of calling today, the providence of God. God works through his providence to give you opportunity to give you a point in time where you're placed into or you have the opportunity. The circumstances arranged him leading and directing such that you go into the ministry. It's often the pride and youthful immaturity of a young man to rush into these things. And they're not to be rushed. You need the unmistakable providence of God. You need the affirmation of the church. You need that desire. Often those that say they desire don't have the gifts. And so what do they do? They go into ministry. And I think the statistic is today that preachers last about three years. That's the ongoing life span of today's pastor. Means they're not gifted. And that's tragic to the church. So it's also tragic to the church now if you have gifts given by God given to you by God which every single Christian does and if you neglect that gift if you neglect it we're not to neglect it. You've got to as Paul says Kindle it up. Stir it up. The old adage goes use it or lose it. You want to avoid neglecting your gift. You want to avoid your gift going into disarray and disuse. You got to use it. You got to employ it. Now you may not know initially what your gift is. Let me exhort you again. You can't steer a parked car. If you want to know what your gift is get moving get serving get working in the church. The Lord through your work through your serving will reveal giftedness to you. That'll become evident to those around you the church or the elders you'll get employed in the use of that gift. You got to get moving. You got to get serving and when you get at the point you're using your gifts don't neglect them. You think about it. If you're neglecting your gift and someone something is being neglected.  Well you start neglecting your gift.  Picture loses some of its brilliance. You're an orchestra right and there are no third violins. The third violin is at home and violin is in the case. Can't make the same music that you'd be able to make if you have the third violinist there right. You're to employ your gifts and in this sense you're to be absorbed with your gift in the work of ministry. If you're neglecting your gift someone or something make no mistake about it is being neglected okay. Think about it this week who has been edified by your gift. Who's been edified by your gift this week. You got to get to work in the body. That's what the Lord Lord has gifted you to do that.   You've got to get work get to work in the body with your gift. Ministry is hard work amen amen. But Christian don't you take encouragement from the fact that God supplies all the power for that. All the enablement all the strength that God even supplies the opportunity all you got to do is get moving in faith. Trust Christ employ your gifts devote yourself to scripture give yourself to exhortation to reading to doctrine and the Lord in his own strength and his own power will have the victory in employing you in strengthening you in empowering you in giving you opportunity and then by God's grace giving you fruit all comes from God if you just get moving repent of that let lethargy repent of that inactivity repent of neglecting your giftedness repent of not giving yourself to scripture not giving yourself to exhortation and get moving and the Lord will bless if you're here and you're not a Christian all of this is an impossibility for you you don't have a spirit of God Romans 8 says that if he has not the spirit of God he is none of his you need to be born again but listen all that good that you think you do the Lord views it as a filthy rag you understand you may think that you do a good thing the Lord sees it as filthy turn away from the filth of your own life turn away from the filth of doing things your own way turn away from the filth of just gratifying your every lustful desire and turn to Christ in faith Christ in faith will wash you clean will forgive you of your sin will pardon you and then he'll put you to work giving you all the strength you need giving all the power you need all the tools and resources you need and every opportunity that you need he'll put you to work with a freedom to serve him to love him to work for him to glorify him which is the purpose for which you're created and wouldn't it it seems to be no decision at all I'm gonna live for myself for my filth or I'm gonna fulfill the purpose for which God created me by loving and serving working for my creator and praising and worshiping him for all eternity cleansed of your sin pardoned of all that filth right before God with a future inheritance of looking forward to the blessings of heaven forevermore it's an awesome thought, amen turn from your sin put your faith in Christ and then let's all serve the Lord let's pray Father in heaven Lord, thank you for your word God, thank you for this instruction very practical instruction I pray God you would rest in you in this Lord that from the heart this would be our desire to get working a day in your vineyard Lord serving you serving your body worshiping and loving you Lord but doing the work that you've given us to do and employing the gifts that you've given us or that we might walk worthy of the calling with which you've called us and ultimately as it says here in our passage God that we might save both ourselves and those who hear us for your eternal praise and worship in Jesus' name we pray amen


Alrighty, welcome back to Operating Systems. So, this lecture yet not on the final, but comes full circle and it's kind of like review.  So, we know virtual memory now. Everyone loves virtual memory. So, virtual memory was just fooling processes and thinking it has access to all the memory when really the kernel is controlling actual physical memory. So, you can extend that to an entire machine. So, you can virtualize an entire machine and just like memory, the goal is that multiple operating systems all think they have control over the machine when really there's something else behind the scenes that is controlling access to the hardware and not the kernel itself. So, with virtual machines, there's some terminology. One is called the host and the host is the thing that has direct control over the hardware. So, the hypervisor or virtual machine manager, they mean the same thing. They control virtual machines, so they control creating virtual machines, managing them and isolating them. So, picking which hardware a virtual machine is able to access and which ones it is not able to access. So, there's two kinds of hypervisors, a type one and a type two. A type one hypervisor is also called a bare metal hypervisor and it runs directly on the host hardware and it requires special hardware support because the virtual machine, the kernel and the virtual machine is actually going to execute in kernel mode. So, turns out the kernel mode is not the most privileged instruction set, which we kind of saw at the beginning. There's something even more privileged than that if you have proper hardware support. If you have a type two hypervisor, that means it simulates what goes on with kernel mode. Your virtual machine and that kernel actually runs in user mode instead of kernel mode. So, you essentially or the hypervisor in this case has to simulate all the things that would happen in kernel mode to create the illusion that you're actually running in kernel mode when you're actually not. So, type two, generally no one uses these anymore because we have hardware support now. Everything you will have done in this course probably runs on a type one hypervisor. So, the guest is the operating system that is running on the virtual machine and it sees its own virtual copy of the host. Yep, yep, yep. Basically, if you want to know, so if you compare what CPU mode the guest kernel is running in, in type one it's actually running in kernel mode and then in type two it's running in user mode. And we will explore that, why that is today. So, on the left here is what we have in this course and it's also kind of review. So, we had hardware at the bottom and then we had the kernel as the only thing that controls hardware because, well, there's kernel mode instructions that allow it to access the hardware and while there would be also special memory locations that map to hardware as well that it can access. And then on top of kernel mode, there is user mode and that's where all the processes are implemented. So, as quick review, what is this programming interface called between the kernel and processes? Remember what that's called? It should be like that for this course. The system, the system call interface. Yeah, so the system call interface, do we remember how to monitor all the system calls?  Strace, there, there's anything you take away from this course, it should be that. If any bad thing happens, Strace it, you can figure out what it's actually doing. So, that's what we have on the left and on the right is what happens once we bring virtual machines into the picture. So, the hardware is still at the bottom, there's still a physical machine that is executing all the instructions and then on top of that is the virtual machine manager or the hypervisor and then that is the only thing that can go ahead and directly access hardware. And then on top of the hypervisor, it would create the virtual machine, so that's like a subset of the hardware and then on top of each virtual machine, there would be a kernel running on top of that, so this could be Linux, Windows and macOS and then each of those kernels would be managing their own processes. So, the hypervisor manages virtual machines, then the virtual machines manage their own processes. So, a note here too that virtual machines are not emulation, so emulation is typically when you have one instruction set architecture or some machine code and you need to translate it to another one. So, like for example, x86 to ARM or something like that is emulation or another word from emulation is just simulating. You don't actually have that instruction on your CPU, so you just have to simulate what it's doing. So, generally when we are virtualizing things, the guest operating system executes instructions directly on the same CPU using the same instruction set architecture, otherwise it would have to translate it or emulate it, which is really slow. So, that's why if you had x86, you downloaded an x86 virtual machine. If you had a newer ARM processor, like a newer M-Series MacBook or something like that, you downloaded an ARM64 virtual machine so it matched the actual hardware on your machine. So, sometimes it's okay to emulate, like for example, like an old Nintendo emulator, you don't need to actually support those instructions because it's an 8-bit CPU that runs at one megahertz and it's really simple, doesn't even have that many instructions. So, you could write a Nintendo emulator yourself, like in the summer, like I did one summer when I was bored and didn't wanna do my grad school work. So, I guess that's what I do for fun. So, virtual machine, it could use emulation to run it on a different architecture, but your performance is going to be bad and virtual machines are not emulation. So, nice thing virtual machines can do is enable like pause and play, so much like our kernel can just pause a process, a hypervisor can pause an entire virtual machine. So, the hypervisor could also contact switch between virtual machines, saves the state, restores it later. It would just have more state than we have for processes because you have to keep track of more things or keeping track of the entire machine, not just whatever a process can access in user mode. But the principles are the same, you can save it state, restore it later. Unlike with processes that you can take a process, save it state and then restore it on a different CPU core, while with virtual machines they're a bit more flexible. You can save it state and restore it on a different physical machine if you want, because, well, if you have all the information saved, it doesn't actually matter what machine it runs on. So, you can move it around exactly like a process. It could move different CPU cores on your machine. It could also move different machines if you so desire. It might be somewhat slow, but you can actually do that. So, other things they let you do is provide some protection through some isolation. So, like the guest will be isolated from each other and the host, the hypervisor can also set limits. So, it can set limits on CPU time, memory, network bandwidth, and that way if one of your operating systems gets hacked or for some, yeah, it gets hacked or something, while it can't bring down your whole physical machine because it's isolated, even if it has a fork bomb or something, while maybe it only gets like half of the CPU core, so you can use the other ones to shut it down, and maybe it doesn't even have network access. So, like, if it gets hacked, you roll it back to backup, restore it from a known good state, or you can just delete it and get rid of it and start a new one. So, with this, yeah, you could even install North Korea's operating system. So, their operating system is what's called Red Star OS, and if you want, you could install it directly on your hardware, probably not a good idea. So, you should probably install a virtual machine that probably doesn't have access to the network. So, then you can see what North Korea's up to without it actually breaking anything or sending data back to North Korea. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, penetration testers and malware people will use virtual machines all the time. They'll isolate it, install a bunch of viruses on there, just let them duke it out. Yeah, if there's no network connection, if the virtual machine's isolated, then it won't affect anything else, right? So, the hypervisor is still ultimately in control of the hardware, so you can just kill the virtual machine whenever you want. So, they'll just have a completely isolated virtual machine, no network connection, no anything, bunch of limits on it, install some viruses on it, and see what happens. Yeah, yeah, the host generally is the hypervisor. All right, so, but yeah, that depends. So, what virtual machines also help is with consolidation. So, in data centers, well, you have lots of servers running and you have multiple machines and balancing between the machines manually is pretty much impossible. So, what they do, yeah, it might not even be possible because some servers do different things. They share the same hardware, but sometimes you outscale it and then you need to move it and it's just a pain in the butt. So, what Amazon, Microsoft, Google will do is they'll have everything in a virtual machine and they will also monitor all of the physical machines. So, if one happens to get overloaded, like a bunch of virtual machines get picked to run on it and another machine is not running anything, well, all it's gonna do is move virtual machines to the unloaded and try and load balance like that. And because they're all virtual machines, it can just context switch them to different computers and it's not a problem at all. So, instead of just having a lightly used physical system, just make them virtual machines, you could just run as many of them as you want on a physical machine until it gets utilized completely and then you start moving them on different machines. Yep, yep, yep. You can run multiple virtual machines in parallel. In fact, that is a good way to start off with like a web application or something. So, you could have like a virtual machine for your database, a virtual machine for your backend, virtual machine for your front end. And then, since you have no users, you can run all those virtual machines on the same computer and then once you outgrow that physical computer, you just buy another one and then it's really easy, you just move a virtual machine over to it and then balance the load like that. You don't really have to reconfigure anything, it just moves a virtual machine and it lets you scale.  So, key abstraction for virtual machines. So, for processes, it was a process control block that acted kind of like a virtual CPU but didn't virtualize all the parts of a CPU just enough for user mode. So, once we talk about virtual machines, a virtual CPU which actually virtualizes the entire CPU is that core data structure that simulates it. So, it saves all the information about the...