The most interesting is one where kids come and meet, I love, I enjoy that because you know they come and they don't have their phones because they are young, 7, 8 years old kids and then they'll come and then they'll say hi and then they don't know what to say because they don't have phones, they don't have anything to take a selfie. So what I do is I take a selfie with them and I get their parents number and then I send the selfie to them. So I really enjoyed that because that's the most loyal kind of audience. The most loyal, the most innocent ones. Yeah, because they can't put hate comments, they are very sweet that way.


And the title of our sermon is the Good Shepherd's Love for His Sheep, and we're in part three of this sermon series as we've been working through this paragraph in John chapter 10 verses 1 through 10. And so today, now in John chapter 10, we come again, the Good Shepherd's Love for His Sheep. We've been enthralled in this passage, in this text, with the love of God for His own people as it is beautifully depicted in the rich imagery that we find here of the Good Shepherd's Love for His sheep. In this passage, the Lord Jesus Christ speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd. And that is an amazing claim. That's a staggering claim. With that statement, the Lord is making a claim. We know from the Old Testament that God himself is depicted as the shepherd of his people, Israel. In Ezekiel chapter 34 verse 31, God says of Israel, you are my flock.  You are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God. As we come to the New Testament, we see the Lord Jesus Christ making this self-same claim. The Lord Jesus Christ here depicts himself as the shepherd of his people, and in John chapter 10 verse 11, Jesus says, I am the Good Shepherd, and the Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep. As we listen here to the Lord's words, just like those who were listening here in the first century to Jesus speaking, we're expected to make that connection. Jesus Christ is God. He is the one who calls his own by name and leads them and brings them out. He is the one who goes before them. In verses 7 through 10, he is the one who saves. He is the one who comes to give abundant and eternal life. And he is the one who lays down his life for the sheep. John says, in this is love. Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. The incomparable and indescribable love of the Good Shepherd for his sheep. Now God's love for his own, so ineffable, so indescribable by words that the Lord paints a picture of it here in the relationship of a shepherd to his sheep. This love of God, the love of the Good Shepherd for his sheep is displayed here in four ways. And we've looked at some of these in weeks past. In verses one and two, he shepherds his people with a protective love. Most assuredly, verse one, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs up some other way, the same as a thief and a robber. And he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. And we saw that in the protective love of God for his people. In verses three through four, he shepherds his people with a directive or an authoritative love to him and to him alone, the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice. In the beginning in verse five, we saw that he shepherds his people with an exclusive love. Verse five, yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but they'll flee from him for they do not know the voice of strangers. And so the Good Shepherd here, he protects his sheep from the thieves and robbers that seek to kill and to destroy.  He leads and directs them and he goes on before them, bringing them out of the fold of their sin, out of the fold of false religion. He places them within his own fold and guards them from the ravenous and savage wolves that come in sheep's clothing. The sheep know them, know him. He is familiar to them and they follow him. You can almost picture as the Lord is giving this depiction here in John chapter 10, you can almost picture, can't you? The man born blind from John chapter nine standing next to him in the temple. As he's telling these false religious leaders, these false shepherd, these savage wolves, as he's giving them this depiction, the man born blind standing there next to him, having been lovingly rescued by the Good Shepherd out of the fold of false religion, out of the fold of now false Judaism, out of the fold of his sin. So it's such a, just a clear and beautiful picture of the Good Shepherd's love for his sheep. It's such a simple illustration, isn't it? Would have been very clear to them, it's very clear to us. So it's difficult to imagine anybody being so hard hearted that they can't get it. So overcome with defensive hostility against the Lord Jesus Christ that they fail to understand what he's communicating here, but that's exactly what happens. In verse six, Jesus used this illustration, but they, the religious leaders, the religious elite, these wolves did not understand the things which he spoke to them. And so the Lord here beginning in verse seven responds with another word picture to further clarify. He's going to further expand his claim. He doesn't ever back down. He doesn't ever back off. He doesn't ease off the claims that he's making. These are bold statements and in verse seven, he just further intensifies the claim.  He says, right, listen carefully to me. I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. Not only is the Lord Jesus Christ exclusively the good shepherd, the only one who enters the sheepfold by the door, the only one to whom the doorkeeper opens, the only one truly known by his own sheep, the only one who calls them by name, but the Lord Jesus Christ is the door, the singular point of entry for the sheep. Secondly, all who ever came before him are thieves and robbers. And thirdly in verse eight, the sheep will not follow anyone else. I am the door of the sheep. The Lord Jesus Christ says, all who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. The good shepherd's love for his sheep is an exclusive love. Now let's take each of those statements from verse seven and verse eight and let's unpack them one at a time. One verse seven, Jesus Christ is the door. Two, all who ever came before him are thieves and robbers. And three, the sheep will not follow anyone else. This is the good shepherd's love for his sheep seen in the exclusivity, the uniqueness of that love. It is an exclusive love. First in verse seven, Jesus Christ is exclusively the door, thura, a singular point of entry for the sheep. Not only is he the shepherd of the sheep described in verses one through six, but here in verse seven, he is the door of the sheep. Now notice first, first thing I want you to see is that this is the third of seven key I am statements made by the Lord in the Gospel of John. Ego A. Me, it's that unusual construction that we've looked at before in the Greek that references the name of God from Exodus on Isaiah in the Old Testament. In John chapter six, verse 48, the Lord said, I, I am, Ego A. Me, the bread of life. In John chapter eight, verse 12, I, I am the light of the world. And here in John chapter 10, verse seven, the same construction, I, I am the door of the sheep. So now the Lord, with this statement again, remember, he reaches back into the Old Testament, back to Exodus, back to Isaiah, back to the name for God given to Moses, the name for God given to the prophet Isaiah, and he makes a radical claim about himself. He is the Son of God, God, the Son, the second person of the Trinity. So now what does the Lord specifically mean by this statement? I am the door. To give us some clarification, we can reference the sixth of his I am statements in John chapter 14. A few pages to the right. Turn to John chapter 14 with me and look at verse one. We'll see these statements more in detail as we work through the Gospel of John. But in John chapter 14, we see the sixth of his I am statements from John's Gospel here. Look at John chapter 14, verse one, the Lord says, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me, in my father's house or many mansions.   But Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't do not know where you're going. And how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. In essence, Thomas, listen, you don't need a map. You have me, I am the way, the truth and the life. He says, I'm the way, meaning he's the only path, the only road, so to speak, that God has provided that leads to life. Do you see the exclusivity of that statement? I am the path, the only path, the only road that God has provided that leads to life. It's interesting, the early church taught this. They taught the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. And so in the early church, Christianity became known as the way. They called them people of the way. He says, I am the way. He says, I am the truth, the preeminent and sufficient revelation of God the Father. God has ordained no pathway of communication with us apart from his word. God has given, ordained no pathway of communication with people, with men and women apart from his word. And we have no pathway to God apart from that same word that became flesh and dwelt among us. Do you see? I am the way. I am the truth. Jesus says, I am the life, because he alone is the way. He alone embodies the truth of God. He alone is the exclusive source of the life of God to spiritually dead men. He exclusively is the way, the truth and the life that God may only be approach then exclusively through his monogonase, his unique son, his only begotten son. He is then the door of the sheep. Do you see? Now in addition, we talked about the sheepfold a couple of weeks ago. In addition to the village sheepfold, that sheepfold with high walls where the shepherds would bring their flocks and all the flocks would be together inside the sheepfold. In addition to that, shepherds often kept a more makeshift sheepfold out on the mountain side, usually made with a short stone wall, single gap in that wall, which the sheep through that gap would go in and out and find pasture. When the sheep were in the fold, the shepherd would often lay himself in that gap to sleep. Now think of that picture for a moment. Sheep going out or wolves coming in would have to cross over the body of the shepherd to get in or out. That's the picture. That's the picture of the shepherd's love for his sheep, guarding the sheepfold. There's only one way of entering the kingdom of God, only one way of salvation, only one source of the righteousness of God, only one way to heaven.  He is the door and no one comes to the Father except through Him. The way of salvation, the way of salvation is a difficult path, right through a narrow gate that only a few find. He is the stone which the builders rejected, which has become the chief cornerstone. For is there salvation in any other? For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. His is the name which is above every other name, do you see? It's an exclusive love. It is only through Him, it is only through the door of the sheep that we can be saved and go in and out and find pasture. Muhammad, Muhammad didn't provide a substitutionary atonement for his people, for the people of God and Muhammad is dead.  Buddha did not satisfy the wrath of God that sinners to serve and Buddha is dead and Buddha has been buried.  Ephesians chapter two says that those who are without Christ have no hope and are without God in the world. He who has the son has life, John says. He who does not have the son of God does not have life. Many people would say, many professing Christians would say, man, that's really narrow minded. Listen, there is nothing, there is nothing that is more opposed to Christianity, nothing more opposed to Christ than the notion that there are other doors. To deny that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven is to deny Jesus Christ. Many think to themselves, I can't tell people that. I can't preach that gospel. That's so intolerant. Jesus says in Matthew chapter 10, whoever confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my father who is in heaven. Many would bristle against that idea today and they'd say, where's the grace of God in that? You know, if God were really gracious, if God were really merciful, then there'd be many paths up the mountain. See, are you really going to argue with that statement that the Lord Jesus Christ, that God has not done enough? B.B. Warfield said this, for when there was no one in the heavens or on the earth or under the earth who was able to open the book of salvation or to break its seals thereof, this man, the Lord Jesus Christ was counted worthy, worthy to endure the pangs of death for the offenses of men. Worthy to rise from the dead for their justification, worthy to be exalted to the throne of God and to receive the power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. He by whose hand has been wrought salvation, he is and remains the only Lord of salvation and beside him is no fellow. Let this good confession I beg you echo throughout all the quarters of your life and fill with its voice all the recesses of your souls. Remember as those should remember who owe to him their all. Remember the honor due to Jesus Christ, the Savior, the soul Savior of this lost world. Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ is exclusively the door of the sheep and both the good shepherds love for the sheep and the love of the sheep for the good shepherd is to be an exclusive love. It is an exclusive love. Secondly, let's unpack that second statement of the Lord in verse eight. All verse eight, whoever came before me are thieves and robbers. All whoever came before me are thieves and robbers. And once again here in verse eight, the Lord reveals himself through contrast with all the false religious leaders who are characterized here again as being thieves and robbers. All those who are opposed to Christ. Now the all of verse eight doesn't include those faithful under shepherds because those faithful under shepherds are faithful under shepherds of their chief shepherd. They are delegates of the chief shepherd. They are representatives of him. Psalm chapter 77 verse 20 says of God, you led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. So the Lord uses faithful under shepherds, not incorporated in the all here of verse eight. But again, those here characterized as thieves and robbers are those who ran when they weren't called. Those who played the shepherd, they played the shepherd while they fleeced the flock for personal gain. All these usurpers, whoever came before me are thieves and robbers. The good shepherd here is seen profiled in John chapter 10. The best place to see the contrast here with the thieves and robbers of verse eight is in the worthless shepherds of Ezekiel chapter 34. And I want you to turn there with me. Ezekiel chapter 34. The Lord again, in describing this exclusive love contrasts himself, the good shepherd, with the thieves and robbers and worthless shepherds of Ezekiel chapter 34. Now look beginning with me at verse one, and I want you to see in Ezekiel chapter 34. There are three indictments here from the Lord against these wicked false shepherds. The first of these indictments comes in verses two and three. They weren't truly concerned for the needs of the people. They merely used the people for their own personal gain, right, their own selfish purposes. So look at verse one. And the word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God to the shepherds, woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves. Do you see? They don't feed the flock. They feed themselves. Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?  You slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. So one, they weren't truly concerned with the needs of the people. They were only concerned with their own well-being, their own needs, their own selfish purposes. But secondly, I want you to see, the false shepherds weren't concerned to help those in need. Not only were they not concerned to help those in need, but they showed contempt for them and they ruled them in cruelty. Look at verse four. Verse four says, the weak you've not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost, but with force and cruelty you've ruled them. They weren't truly concerned for the needs of the people. They used the people. They weren't really concerned to help those in need. And thirdly, because of their complete lack of any godly leadership here, the people wandered from the Lord and became prey. They became prey to wolves. And we know from Ezekiel, they became prey to immorality. They became prey to idolatry. Look at verse five. Because of this failure on the part of these worthless shepherds, verse five, they were scattered because there was no shepherd and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. And the Lord here is speaking of his people, the nation of Israel. My sheep, God says, verse six, wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yes, my flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth and no one was seeking or searching for them. So what does the Lord do? What does the Lord do when these worthless shepherds fail and their responsibility to his people? He enters into judgment with them. He enters into judgment with them.  Here, the Lord enters into judgment. Look at verse seven. Therefore, you shepherds hear the word of the Lord. As I live, we serve the true and living God. As I live, says the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey and my flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed my flock. Therefore, O shepherds, verse nine, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God, behold, I am against the shepherds and I will require my flock at their hand. I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more, for I will deliver my flock from their mouths that they may no longer be food for them. These wicked false shepherds were devouring God's sheep in their neglect, in their self-indulgence, in their wickedness, in their immorality, in their leading of God's people, not to righteousness, but to immorality and to idolatry. These wicked false shepherds, these thieves and robbers were devouring the flock of God. So one, God judges the false shepherds, but two, in grace and mercy, God himself then shepherds his flock. Just like in John chapter 10, right, in the same way, we see it fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at the contrast between how the corrupt false shepherds exploited and fleeced the sheep in Ezekiel 34, and now in verse 11, how God himself cares for and delivers his own sheep. Verse 11, for thus says the Lord God, indeed I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out and listen to all the I will promises of God in this statement. Verse 12, as a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out my sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.  I will feed them on the mountains of Israel in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. God says I will feed them. Verse 14, I will feed them in good pasture and their fold shall be on the high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, God says, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God. It's a picture of safety, right? A picture of nourishing and cherishing the flock of God. Verse 16, I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away. Bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick. But I will, God also makes as a promise here of judgment, but I will destroy the fat and the strong and feed them in judgment. God rules and reigns both in compassion and in justice. A justice of God, the holiness of God will be vindicated. But look at the promises of God to his people here. I will, I will, I will. And Jesus comes along in John chapter 10 verse 11 and says, I, I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. You see the connection? It's a tremendous connection. Unmistakable and unmistakable connection. Now drop down in Ezekiel 34 to verse 23. Look at verse 23. God says, I will establish one shepherd over them, no rivals. It is an exclusive love that God has for his sheep. It's an exclusive love that God has for the son. I will establish one shepherd over them and he shall feed them. My servant David, he shall feed them and be their shepherd and I, the Lord will be their God and my servant David, a prince among them, I, the Lord have spoken and when the Lord says that I, the Lord have spoken, it is sure and steadfast, immovable, it will be done. Now the coming shepherd here in verses 23 and 24 referred to as my servant David and he's referred to as my servant David because he's from the line of David. He's a fulfillment of all God's promises to David, the Davidic covenant in 2 Samuel chapter 7. This is the Messiah, this is the Lord Jesus Christ that's being referred to here in verses 23 and the following. God says in verse 25, I will make a covenant of peace with them. This is the new covenant. Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 16, Ezekiel 36. I will cause wild beasts to cease from the land and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.  The worthless shepherds of Ezekiel 34, these worthless shepherds led the people into captivity, led the people into judgment, into exile. But here, the Davidic shepherd king, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, a complete contrast to these wicked thieves and robbers, the Davidic king, the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ would lead the people in showers of blessing. Look at verse 27, then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their land and they shall know that I am the Lord when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them, but they shall dwell safely and no one shall make them afraid. I will raise up for them a garden of renown and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. Look at these, the glorious promises of God. Do you see? And listen, John chapter 10, these things are seen in their fulfillment in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord has fulfilled his promises to his people in the Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 30, thus they shall know that I, the Lord their God and with them and they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord God. You are my flock, the flock of my pasture. You are men and I am your God, says the Lord God. There's only one chief shepherd. Do you see? All others, all others are thieves and robbers. There is one chief shepherd. The good shepherd's love for his sheep is an exclusive love. And we've unpacked the first statement. Jesus Christ is the door. We've unpacked the second statement in verse eight. All who ever came before him are thieves and robbers. Let's unpack the third statement in verse eight. The sheep here will not follow anyone else. Verse eight, back in John chapter 10, says this, all who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. In verse five, they'll not follow a stranger. In fact, they're gonna flee from the stranger. In verse five, they don't know the voice of strangers. In verse eight, the sheep did not hear them. They, the sheep, exclusively follow the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep. In Matthew chapter 24, in verse 24, the Lord Jesus Christ says, for false Christ and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. Now praise God, it's not possible. We see that communicated here in John chapter 10. They will not follow a stranger. They don't know the voice of strangers. Here, the sheep, all those that came before were thieves and robbers, but listen, true, genuine sheep. True, genuine children of God, disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. True followers of God do not hear those wicked thieves and robbers. The sheep will only follow, will exclusively follow the good shepherd. Although large crowds will often follow after false shepherds, his true sheep will only follow him. We can see that in our day, can't we? Large crowds following, trumping off after false shepherds who are fleecing the flock, only interested in their own gain. Someone might say, what about, what about the 2.1 billion Muslims in the world? What about the 1.2 billion Catholics in the world? What about all those countless millions that even now are in easy-believism churches? Easy-believism churches right down the road. And someone might say, but they're so nice. They're so sincere. And they are sincerely wrong. You know, there are many. There are many that think that God will accept people into heaven, or that God will save people on the basis of their sincerity. You can hear that if you've been in those churches before, you've heard that statement before, the words of this prayer don't save you. But if you are sincere, if you pray this prayer and you mean it, the Lord Jesus Christ will come into your heart and save you. So the ground of their salvation, the foundation of their faith, so to speak, is their sincerity? Is the sincerity of their wicked and deceitful heart, their sincerity in saying some prayer or making some act of religion? You know, you can't get any more. If you remember 1 Kings chapter 18, when Elijah is with the prophets of Baal, you can't get any more sincere than the 400 prophets of Baal who cut themselves and their blood gushed out onto the altar, calling Baal to strike a fire on the altar.  There is a content to our faith that we've been delivered to. There is a person who is the object of our faith that we have been delivered to. There is one way and one truth that no one comes to the Father except through him, the door of the sheep. You know, it's grossly, grossly and excessively misguided to believe that you show compassion for those people while you show contempt for the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what that is. They're so sincere. They're so nice when Jesus Christ is not Lord to them. They're so sincere when they worship another Jesus Christ. But they're so sincere, they're so nice when they believe another gospel, which is really not another. And by showing compassion for that sincerity is so misguided, so excessively misguided, when at the same time doing that, you show contempt for the Lord Jesus Christ and his one way of salvation. Richard Phillips said this, people who object that God has provided only one way of salvation show that they do not recognize the reality of their need. A man dying of thirst in the desert does not complain if he stumbles upon only one watery oasis. A man dying of cancer does not object that there is only one person who donates the bone marrow that saves his life.  Such a person does not complain. Why must my soul be saved in only this way? To deny that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life is to deny Christ. It is anti-Christ, do you see? In reality, the person who says such things that shows that misguided notion, that misguided attitude, isn't really objecting to the exclusivity of Christ as much as they're objecting to God's verdict or judgment on sin. They just don't get it. John chapter three, verse 36. The Father loves the Son. Understand that. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. He who believes in the Son has everlasting life and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him. The Father's love for the Son is an exclusive love. The Good Shepherd's love for his sheep is an exclusive love. And the love of the sheep for the shepherd must be an exclusive love as well. As we think about that statement, the sheep will not follow anyone else. The sheep, they don't hear them. What other rivals for Christ do you allow? What other rivals for the Lord Jesus Christ do you listen to? What competes for your attention? Think about it now. What desires do you allow to compete with the Lord Jesus Christ? How do you spend your time? What competes for your attention? You can be sure of this, right? Be sure of this. You can't say that you don't follow anyone else when you won't follow the Lord Jesus Christ. Here, the sheep won't follow strangers. They don't know the voice of strangers. The sheep don't hear them.  The Good Shepherd's love for the sheep is an exclusive love, you see?  Some idolatrous desire. Some idolatrous indulgence. The Good Shepherd's love for his sheep is an exclusive love. And the love of the sheep for the Good Shepherd must be an exclusive love as well. Next, I want you to look at verse nine. The Good Shepherd, he shepherds his people with an exclusive love. But beginning at verse nine, I want you to see that he shepherds his people with an exhaustive love, a comprehensive love, an intensive love. Verse nine says this. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.  I have come, Jesus says, that they may have a life and that they may have it more abundantly. Now thieves and robbers, thieves and robbers have a purpose. They have a purpose among the flock and their purpose is to steal, to kill and to destroy. But the Lord Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd and he also has a purpose among the flock. He came with a purpose. He came to seek and to save to the uttermost that which is lost. Jesus says, verse nine, I am the door. Listen, if anyone enters by me, he will be saved. Now if he's the door, then who is it that may enter through him and be saved? Anyone. If he's the door, then who is it that may enter through him and be saved? Anyone, anyone who turns from their sin and puts their faith and trust in Jesus Christ alone to save them? Think about it now. While there is one exclusive way, one exclusive truth, one exclusive source of life, that life, that truth that way is wide open available to anyone who will enter by him and be saved. It is an exhaustive love, do you see?  The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is genuinely and freely, unashamedly and fully offered to all, to anyone, do you see? So what must you do to be saved? Enter by him. Enter by me, he says, and you'll be saved. Turn to Christ from your sin. Trust him, come to him and be forgiven. As someone might ask, they think to themselves, how does this gel with God's sovereignty and salvation? I mean, how do I know if I'm one of the elect? The Lord says, anyone who enters by me will be saved, but how do I know I'm one of God's elect? How do I know that I can be saved? What if the Lord won't, what if I'm a reprobate? Doesn't Jesus say, doesn't Jesus say that all that the Father gives me will come to me? Well, how do I know if I've been given to the Father? How do I know if I've been, if I'm one of those, consider with me, you can't stand there unmoved. You can't stand there preoccupied or paralyzed by thoughts of where you may or may not stand in the decrees of Almighty God on the invitation that is freely offered to you. If anyone comes, if anyone enters by me, he will be saved. That invitation is for you. If you are here this morning, you can hear the sound of my voice. That invitation is for anyone, for all, all who will come. For anyone who will enter by him, turning from their sin to put their faith in Christ, that one will be saved. It is for anyone who, so why? Why would you sit there paralyzed in your thoughts, preoccupied in your mind about the hidden decrees of God that you can know nothing about? Move on the invitation that the Lord Jesus Christ gives you this morning. Take action, respond to the invitation. It's freely given. James Montgomery Boyce tells the story of a woman who is confused about salvation, confused about these very things, confused about God's sovereignty and salvation. And so this woman, she finally comes to faith. She turns from her sin, puts her trust in Christ after hearing a sermon by Donald Gray Barnhouse. And Donald Gray Barnhouse explained this to her. He said, imagine that on the cross, there's a door. And on the front of that door, there is engraved a statement. Whoever will may enter. Whoever will, whosoever will may come. And she stands there, the woman stands there with her sin upon her under the weight of her sin, wondering whether she should enter or not. And finally she does, she enters through the door. She's forgiven the burden and weight of that sin, falls away, you're safe, you're free in Christ.  Now a child of God, she walked through the door, she entered in, entered in at the free and full offer of salvation from Christ. To anyone who would enter, they'll be saved. And once through the door, she looks back. And on the backside of that door, on the backside of that door engraved across the door where the words chosen in him from before the foundation of the world, that woman was Barnhouse's mother. So enter now, put your faith in him. Anyone, anyone, verse nine means you. Anyone means you.  If you're an adulterer, it means you.   Anyone means you. It is an exhaustive offer, do you see? The Lord Jesus Christ gave everything. The Lord Jesus Christ gave everything, including his own life to redeem sinners.  No, no. Look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth, right? Does he not say that? For I am God and there is no other. I have sworn by myself the word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness and shall not return that to me every knee shall bow and every tongue should take an oath. Look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth. This is a glorious and exhaustive salvation. That salvation beginning in verse nine is described for us here in three ways. This exhaustive salvation described in three ways. The first is that these are surely and eternally saved and all that entails. The Lord says in verse nine, I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved. So what is sown in corruption will be raised in incorruption. What is sown in dishonor will be raised in glory. What is sown in weakness will be raised in power. What is sown in selfishness will be raised in godliness. What has been sown in the flesh is redeemed for use by the spirit. In the same way, in the same way that every faculty of man, every facet of man was corrupted by the fall, in every way, the salvation that God provides enters into every area of man, every area of human need, every area of human depravity and proclaims that it is saved, that it is delivered, that it's been redeemed. It is an exhaustive love. Listen to BB Warfield again. No sphere of human life is left untouched by it. As on its touch, every sphere of human life is transformed, so the completeness and the profundity of its renovation of man is matched by the wideness of its extension over man. It is the renewed heavens and the renewed earth that we are bidden to contemplate. And dwelling in them is endless bliss, renewed humanity, renewed humanity, not a meager company withdrawn from the sin festering race, but the race itself cleansed and purified and gathered home to the Father's arms. It is an exhaustive love. Those, they are eternally saved in all that eternal salvation entails. Secondly, there are showers of blessing in this life. Verse nine again, I am the door, if anyone enters by me, he will be saved and listen, and he will go in and out and find pasture. That phrase there, go in and out and find pasture, simply refers to the course of this life. Just the course of your life going in and going out. In Psalm chapter 121, verse eight, the Psalmist says of a saved child of God that the Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and even forevermore. When you put your faith and trust in Christ, the Lord then preserves your going out and your coming in from that time forth and forevermore. But additionally now, think about that picture of the good shepherd laying across the gap, the opening to the sheepfold. This implies, this salvation implies not only saved, but safe. If you are in Christ, you shall never perish. It's a glorious picture. This is an exhaustive salvation. You will never perish. There are showers of blessing attached to that in this life and in the life to come. You look at John chapter 10, drop down to verse 27, 27.  And listen, they shall never perish. Neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand. My father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand. It is an exhaustive salvation, full, comprehensive, complete. If you're in Christ, you'll never perish.  You know, that's the deceptive state and condition of the depraved sinner is they love their sin. Not a lot of motivation for that one who loves their sin to turn from it, unless you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, you believe that there is a judgment coming and the Lord has died to save sinners. And many think that to come to Christ would mean to give up all the joys, all the pleasures of this life, all the indulgences that they enjoy. But Jesus said, listen, whoever drinks at that fountain is gonna thirst again. You're gonna thirst again. But if you drink from the fountain of living water, you'll never thirst again.  Those pleasures are fleeting. But if you turn to Christ and put your faith in him and he gives you a drink of fresh living water, you'll never thirst for that tripe ever again. You'll thirst only for him. He changes your thirst. Do you see? Praise God. It's an exhaust of salvation. He reaches in to your life and changes everything about you. Changes your heart, changes your mind, changes your desires. Stop desiring that filth and desire the fresh living water of Christ. There are showers of blessing in this life. Christianity has often been painted as that it's one big abstention, right? I'm not gonna do this, I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna tie some strap around my leg and tighten it till I bleed.  Listen, there are showers of blessing in this life. There's joy and peace and forgiveness and love and joy and forgiveness and peace and love. It is a glorious blessing. This life is characterized as abundant. Contrast it again with the thieves and robbers in verse 10. The thief does not come except to steal, to kill and destroy. But listen to what Jesus says. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. In Christ, in Christ you have an eternal, secure and abundant life. It is an exhaustive love, an abundance of true riches in Christ in this life and an abundance of true riches in Christ in the life to come. Romans chapter eight, verse 32. Man, I love Romans chapter eight. He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? It is an abundant life. It is an exhaustive salvation. He will freely give us all things to his sheep, to his sheep, to those that enter in by the door through repentant faith in Christ. God communicates himself. God communicates himself in the richest and fullest possible way in Christ with all the exceeding riches of his grace, with all the fullness of his grace and of his mercy. You know, it's interesting. False shepherds also believe that they'll have an abundant life. Look back with me quickly at Isaiah chapter 56. Isaiah chapter 56. False shepherds, they are often described as both deceived and deceiving. False shepherds also believe they'll have an abundant life. It's not true.  You're rebellious in your heart and mind against God, against his truth. And you say to yourself, I'm gonna be abundant in this life.  You seen my newest car? Last house I bought? Look at Isaiah chapter 56. Drop down to verse nine. All you beasts of the field come to devour. All you beasts in the forest. Listen, his watchmen are blind, these thieves and robbers, these false teachers. All his watchmen are blind. They are all ignorant.  They cannot bark. Look at the Lord's prescription or diagnosis of these, right? Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yes, they are greedy dogs, which never have enough. And they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way. Everyone for his own gain, from his own territory. They should, these verses should be a subtitle to that series, The Preachers of LA, right? This is a description of all false shepherds, but certainly we see this all over the place today. Very relevant today to our context. Verse 11, they're all greedy dogs. They never have enough. They are shepherds who cannot understand. They don't know the word of God. They all look to their own way for everyone for his own gain, from his own territory. Verse 12, come, one says, I'll bring the wine and we'll fill ourselves with intoxicated. These are the shepherds. We'll fill ourselves with intoxicating drink. Tomorrow will be as today, and what, much more abundant. They don't believe that judgment is coming. Their conscience just turns its back on the truth of God.  It has the power and the authority to give it. These worthless shepherds have no idea. In Revelation chapter seven, beginning in verse 15, John records that he who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore. The sun shall not strike them nor any heat. For the lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.  Death will be no more. There'll be no more mourning. There'll be no more crying. There'll be no more pain. That's symbolic, right? That's symbolic of the salvation that we have in Christ. That's a representative list, not even exhaustive. Salvation that is offered in Christ is an exhaustive salvation. It is an exhaustive love that the good shepherd has for his sheep. In Scripture, it's interesting that a common description for that salvation is life. That word sums it up, life. In contrast to the equally descriptive word, death. Both comprehensive terms. All that is meant by the word death, all of its possible implications, physical, temporal, spiritual, eternal, all of the terrible consequences of sin, including the eternal wrath of Almighty God, that, all of that is what we are saved from if you're in Christ. All that is meant by the word life, all of its rich implications in Scripture. In this life and in the life to come, man ultimately glorified in Christ to a perfect spiritual standing in worship of God. That is what we are saved to. All that that implies, it is an abundant life. I love this passage of Scripture. This is what we've been saved to. Listen to this. 1 John chapter four, verse 17, love, the good shepherd's love for the sheep has been perfected among us in this. That we may have boldness in the day of judgment, why? Why? Because as he is, as Christ is, so are we in this world. That is a staggering statement of truth, of the truth of God's love. That's staggering. As Christ is, as Christ is, so are we in heaven. Certainly in heaven, but he says in this world, when you've been saved, when you've entered into the door, put your faith in Christ, you've turned from your sin, you've entered into the door and you are saved, it is an abundant life, an exhaustive love that you are saved to. As he is, then so are you in this world. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. The good shepherd's love for his sheep is an exhaustive love, a comprehensive love, an intensive love. It's an exclusive love, it's a protective love, it's a directive love. Enter through the door of the sheep. Do you see? Do you see? John writes, so that you may believe that he is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you would have life, you would have this life in his name. Why? Why would you continue to rebuff this great love? Trust him alone and trust yourself to him in all things. There was a hymn written by a woman named Elizabeth Clefane in 1868, it's called the 90 and the nine. Listen to the words of this hymn. Lord, thou hast here the 90 and nine. Are they not enough for thee? But the good shepherd made answer, this of mine has wandered away from me. And although the road be rough and steep, I go to the desert to find my sheep. But none of the ransomed ever knew how deep were the waters he crossed, nor how dark was the night the Lord passed through. Air, he found his sheep that was lost.  Lord, whence are those blood drops all the way that mark out in the mountain's track? They were shed for one who had gone astray. Air, the shepherd could bring him back. Lord, whence are thy hands so rent and torn? They are pierced tonight by many a thorn. And all through the mountains, thunder-riven and upon and up from the rocky steep, there arose a glad cry to the gate of heaven. Rejoice, I have found my sheep. The angels echoed around the throne. Rejoice for the Lord brings back his own. You know, to think that for you here today, if you're not saved, if you've never turned from your sin to trust this shepherd, are you not moved by this love? For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever, anyone who enters by him would not perish. You don't have to perish. You don't have to continue to wallow in your sin. Turn to the good shepherd, drink from fountains of living water, enter in by the door and be saved. If you're here today, my brothers and sisters, and you profess the name of Christ, then doesn't this love compel you to give all to follow him? Is there any other rival in your life to this love, to what Christ has done exhaustively for you? Our time here is short. It's a pilgrimage. We are aliens and sojourners. We're just passing through. We have an inheritance waiting for us in heaven.  Will you give your all for him?  He is a good shepherd. Amen, amen. Let's pray. Take just a few moments and pray silently to yourself. Just ask the Lord that he'd be gracious and merciful to you, that he would apply his word, this beautiful picture. You would apply this to your heart. Do business before God. What rivals must you turn from? What sin, what indulgences beg for repentance? He is a good shepherd. Let's pray.


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Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the match preview Lincoln in the Cadog Bowl Cup I'm joined by Andy Elpiv of the Piv as we call him. A bit of a banana skin this one, Lincoln City away, we played them in the FA Cup last season at home, beat them 2-1. It wasn't the easiest game, they played to their strengths which at the time were very much our weakness which was set pieces. Matt Reader was the big problem wasn't he? Yeah and long balls into the box, they've started the season alright, they've just literally about 2 minutes ago lost their second game of the season against Doncaster so they've won 3, lost 2.  Yeah they're not, they're a good team Lincoln City, the manager is Danny Carly but Carly brothers who are the managers are very highly rated, West Brom offered them the job in the summer. So they are a good, they are well coached so they are going to be a tough team. They've changed the stars since last year, they've got much more smaller, quicker players. Tyler Walker on loan from Nottingham Forest who's a good striker, scored a lot of goals for Mansfield last year in the league to continue a score and a trend. I think teams in the championship will probably be looking at him. And then you've got Brian Dym, you've got Jorge Grant, Jack Payne and Harry Anderson who are these like really creative newfielders you can score. So the things that give Everton problems generally, you know what I mean? I don't know any of these players are, and that's why Andy's here. But that's the problem, instead of having Lenny from Mike Somenofront like they had last year, I think he might read, just shoot his own balls at him. They're going to decide to go through, and they could be a banana skin. At the end of the day though, we're a Premiership Qualities football team, we should beat them easily. But I can't say that with being Everton, you know what I mean? Yeah. But we're going to see some new players as well. Yeah I think that's the big thing for Wednesday night isn't it? You know, the games live on TV in the UK, it's obviously they've probably, they've looked at and gone, potential banana skin. But! Warm envelope. Yeah, what it does give us the opportunity to do is get Moise Keane into the team, get a Wobie into the team from the start. Maybe Sadeeby comes into the team as well. I don't want a raft of changes, I really don't. I want them to keep the goalkeeper, I want them to keep the two centre backs. Please. But I want them to play, the goalkeeper, he probably won't, he'll probably play later. Bless wasn't he on the bench last night? Wasn't he? Those were Stechlenbergers? I didn't check. I didn't check, no. The hologram's been linked with Real Madrid today actually. What? The hologram's been linked with Real Madrid. Yeah, exactly, that's the face that I thought you'd have. So I thought I'd drop it in now. What? Yeah, it's even in Julian Faube, I'll go down in history one day. OK, that's a completely different... That's a marvel show, that! What if?  You've got a goalkeeper change come. So you've just thrown me. So I want the goalkeeper, I want the two centre backs. I want Dean to play, I'm not asked about Leighton Banes. I want Dean to play. Maybe a change of Sadeeby comes into the side. A Wobie, yes. Moise Keane, yes. Tom Davis, yes. Absolutely yes, please. They're not a super physical team, you'd be all right against these. They've got some decent... I'd say at the back, they've got Jason Shagley used to play for Derby. Tari Tafolo at left back. I don't think you're all right because I can't remember. But they're all right. They're not like a big physical team. They're a bit more... They've changed. So I think we can play it. Tom Davis is going up against everyone's a six-footer. You know what I mean? That type of lower league team going up against. So Tom Davis I'd like to see as well. I'd like to see Andrew Gomes giving a midweek rest. I'd like to see Ruchaloson giving a rest. Possibly, yeah, Ruchaloson definitely. Maybe he needs a rest. Maybe possibly Delft. Maybe he's fit, yeah. Maybe he's back because the manager's been saying he was back and saying he went off full training. So maybe I don't know whether this game will come too quick for them. But it would be the perfect game to drop them into.  But I mean there's enough changes there. And I say with a Wobie and Moise Keane coming in to make that kind of difference. And set them both up for possibly start against Wolves the following Sunday. It is a big game. But it shouldn't be looked at that. It shouldn't be looked like oh it's a game to give get people a chance. No it's not. It's a game that everything needs to take seriously. Need to go out and do a professional performance. And just get through. Just get through. And when you say serious, Evan have never won this cup. This is the cup we need to win. Obviously I love to win the FA Cup. Love to win whatever trophy we're in. Love to win the league cup. Swindorf on the league cup. We need to win the league cup. Yeah but that's it isn't it. We always like the first two rounds are always out of Kelly's heel. They really are. It's that thing of winning the team. We're always a little bit in flux. We have gone out in the past to decent sides. But it's always getting cold cold. When we either don't want to start all our first teamers or whatever. The difference for this one, and I know it's only like the first round for us. Is that we've got players there like I won't be a moist king. They haven't been playing because of when they've come back. This is a big opportunity for them to really put themselves in there and go yeah, I should be in the first team and I'm going to show you that. So where is before that maybe we were giving squad players a chance. Now we're giving players that we hope are first teamers a chance to get that ground and that fitness to get into the first team. You don't need to rotate it too much at this point. We haven't got your to consider. So you can rotate it around Christmas. And that's why we've got all these players now because we've got trying to go too deep in positions. So when we do rotate the Premier League towards Christmas then we'll be better off. But this early stage let's get through the first round of the cup. Obviously I'd like to key in where we think because what they're doing is they're stepping up as they go into the first team aren't they really. But where is like Sadibi?  I don't want him to go six, seven weeks. He'll have games calm and get changed and then he has to go in cold. So you've got to be smart about that. But yeah, keep the partnerships that need to be working. Clicking so meaning key and stay together. That's that's the key one for me as well as obviously the goalkeeper because he's also you know there's no point in trying to risk it with the hologram or loss. Yeah goalkeepers don't need rest. They don't do enough. They don't.  We saved 27 shots but you have three to face. No I didn't get to say. And also we haven't got we haven't got too many kids to consider either. Like last year we threw Darwin there. We haven't got those kind of players either. So they're all it is a face team squad. I think the youngest in the squad's keen at 19. So yeah, but I don't think that you know we have. We're not going to as you say, we're going to be throwing the reserves during the 23s. I don't. I don't think Andy Gordon will be even on the bench. I think it will be the first team. Gibson's like the only very Gibson who's sort of on the fringes. I still wouldn't put him in this game either. Or anyway. We didn't play for the Everton. He didn't now. Under 23s on Friday night. There's a density as an error as well. So they must be considered. They must be on the veg as a squad because obviously with. Gabamans injury essentially that reels out of midfield that and a sense of hope. I'm hoping that both of them are going out on loan more likely but it probably is for Wednesday when I guess. Because I'd like to see Lewis Gibson out on loan and Dennis Adam. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean, as long as it's the right move. Yeah. Don't send Dennis Adam there into a team where he put the ball over the top of the midfield Z all the time exactly. That's honestly, I haven't really, that's a totally different subject, but I haven't made really bad decisions with loan moves. So yeah. There you go. But no, listen. Let's not compile that the misery of the Villa game. Let's see this as a positive an opportunity for to see, you know, Moise Keane getting unleashed to see. It could be exciting. It could be seeing a woby and thinking. Right. These are plays that we want in our face. These could be match winners for us. Exactly. And against a lower level of opposition, obviously pay them respect, but they should have some joy against them. You know what I mean? You should see their class showing that game. And I think we should be good enough to beat them. I'm not going to play 6-0 or anything like that. And please don't just go wide and throw it into the box. Try something different. Or centre backs for these teams. Oh, that's what they're waiting for. Yeah, they're begging you to do it. The centre backs with the crosses, they're begging it. That's what they want. So play through them. Space them out. I think we will do it. I think a woby helps that immensely. I don't know. Gilffy says they'll probably be on the bench, I guess. You can come in later in the game. Put it with Charles in the front. Do whatever. Try something different. Do whatever. Just get through the game. Yeah, I'd like to... If we win 1-0, Keane scores or a woby scores or whoever scores. As long as we get through and there's a decent performance and we've shown that we did play it slightly different than that's done well in the match. It has tweaked things. Then everyone will be happy as long as we get through. Yeah, professional performance. Get through. No injuries. Actually score some goals. Yes, it'd be nice if we scored 2-plus. That would be nice. I'm not going to say. Get through in 90 minutes. Exactly. Yeah, no, it's straight to penalties. Isn't it now? We're not asking for too much. No, and Lincoln and other side that you can just take very lightly. They are a good side, but I think we should beat them. That's to be honest. We're a Premiership team with top six ambition. I don't know how to do that then. We have top six ambition. We do. So we should be beating teams like this. I've got some good little players whether they're going to cause us trouble or not, we'll see. I hope that. There you go. 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I don't need to use my stage voice. So somehow I always get to be the second from last speaker.  That's either good for me or bad for me. So I'm going to be talking today about intuition, innovation, and decision making. I'm Susan Bond, by the way, in case you don't know who I am. A little bit more about who I am. I'm not a developer, but I work with developers. Thank you. Appreciate that. So I'm not a developer, but I work with developers. I had my first kind of experiences with technology back in 97, when I started working on the intranet way back when that was early new sorts of things, and then worked in with intranets and intranets. Nice. I'm a little nervous after my computer getting borked.  I managed a project management department. And I used to go on business trips. It was me and 11 developers on business trips. So I have a big love of developers. These days, what I do is I'm more of a marketing person in tech startups. And my background in this sort of stuff is I have a couple of degrees in psychology, sociology, coaching, and I was an executive coach for 10 years. So Marty asked me to talk about intuition.  So let's start with one of my favorite words, corpus callosum. It's one of the best words ever. So what I want to talk about the corpus callosum is how intuition is connected to really what most developers tend to use when they're developing the rational mind. So what is intuition? It's simply information that you get access to without benefit of a rational thinking process. There are going to be some of you want to debate this with me and know, really, what is it? And we can have a drink later. But let's go with that definition for now. So really today, what I want to talk about is how the corpus callosum, what that means is going from the right side of your brain to the left side of the brain, which Mike talked about earlier from that rational side of your brain to the more creative side of the brain where intuition often lives.   I just want to be able to have you use both sides of your corpus callosum for more effectiveness. So this is actually my dad from the 1970s. My dad built prototypes for GM. He worked on the Electrover2, one of the first electric cars that GM actually created. And he worked on three-wheeled cars. And I mentioned him because he was my first guy. This was a very rational guy, very, very analytical in his thinking. Yet he was the person who taught me the most about intuition in my life. He was incredibly intuitive. And he's been the person who's really taught me the most about it throughout my whole life. And he's created some really awesome stuff. He has his own Wikipedia page. Code smell. I heard about this the other night, right? Code smell. And it's really funny. I'd never heard of it before. So I was a little worried that you guys might think I was weird talking about intuition. And Jim Gay was the one who said, code smell. You need to know about code smell. And I said, OK, so how do you know when you have a code smell? And this is what I got. It's like a, you know, it's a, and I'm like, what is, I don't know what that means. Or you just a pinch of something's needed. And I thought, wow, that's, I don't know what that means.  Some people know when you find them. There are some things that you can figure out afterwards, like duplication, you know, too long of code. But I want to talk to you about how to use your intuition even more and how to describe it to other people, how to have your teamwork more effectively, and you work more effectively.  Yep, it is down. I spared you. It wasn't in action. Right? Nice like that. So the problem with intuition is that it is not always pretty.  Exactly.  I was living in San Francisco, and I'd been sick for a number of weeks. And I couldn't figure out what was wrong, but I had 102 degree fever for three weeks. And I was pretty sure that wasn't normal, despite what doctors said, you know, something wrong.  And I begged the doctor to admit me. She said, I can't find anything wrong with you. I can't admit you. And I said, I don't care, find something. You're not sending me home. There's something wrong with me.  And they did all these tests. And I was on a regular floor. And I knew that night. I'm like, I'm on the wrong floor. I am way too sick for this floor. The next day, they did necocardiogram of my heart. It's a picture of your heart. And they found a pint of fluid in my pericardium, right? A pint of fluid surrounding my heart, squeezing my heart shut. Someone's going like this. Yeah, that's a lot of fluid. And they removed it with a needle, like this big. It was huge. And within, so my parents got there, they realized finally that I might be dying. My parents got there the next day. All of a sudden I got sick to my stomach and I flatlined. Literally on the table, flatlined, had the whole vision. It wasn't really like a white tunnel though. Anyway, that's another story. But I flatlined, you know when you're dying. And I think God that I had the intuition that something was seriously wrong because I would have died that day, right? I would have absolutely collapsed on a sidewalk and no one would have known it was wrong with me. So that's an extreme one. I don't think you're gonna die from coding. Hopefully no one has.  You know, you're gonna have to say no, we need to stop production and we need to go back and we need to look.  There we go. One of the other problems and why we don't trust or use it is we don't know how to interpret it, right? We know something's wrong, but we don't always understand how to interpret what it's saying, what it's thinking like this picture, which I accidentally took with a weird filter on. You don't really kind of know what's going on. You think it's a glass, but is it a glass? Is it a drink? What is it? So there's a big problem with interpreting what your intuition tells you. And in the beginning, you don't always know. You know some things off maybe, but you don't always know what.  That's what we say. Failed me, I don't trust it, I can't trust it because it's not accurate. The problem isn't that your gut failed, it's that it was something else and you don't actually understand what your gut really is. Because there is a method to the madness. I actually took this picture at lunch. I watched this little girl try to run around and figure out where the bubbles were gonna come up next and I watched it and there was a pattern to it. It wasn't random. There was one set of pattern and then there was another set of patterns that they ran, the way that they ran. And so the problem with intuition is that we think it's like this, but the truth is it isn't. Our intuition actually has a lot of rules and logic to it if you just understand what they are. So that's what I wanna spend the rest of my time really talking with you about. So a problem, one of the problems and why we don't know what it is is we think it's wishful thinking. I really want this to work this way so I'm gonna pretend it's my intuition. I'm gonna call it my intuition. I wanna be done with the day. I wanna stop coding. I wanna be done so. It looks good, right? It's great, we're done. We did everything we thought we should do. So this is a big trap that we can get caught into is thinking that it is something when it really isn't our intuition we're just calling on something that we want. All right, here's this one. Everybody knows what this is from, right? My favorite movie ever. She looks really pretty but don't mess with him, right? So this is really about shape shifting. So in intuition, it's not intuition if it's shape shifting. If it's moving around, if the answer keeps changing I'm not certain that you've hit your intuition because intuition is concise. It's calm, it's steady, it's not freaking out.  You know, it's not, it's this, it's that, it's this, it's that. It's concise. It says it's this. It doesn't have like a novella around its language. It's got a one or two words or a phrase. It's gonna be consistent over time. And it's gonna be pretty calm. So hopefully this kind of makes sense with you but you know, this whole shape shifting piece can really get us into trouble because we think, again, we think it's this pretty, you know, blonde in a red dress when really it's something that could kill us. So maybe again, I'm using a lot of dying, dying themes apparently I didn't realize but I know you're not gonna die in code but think about business, right? It's a big deal maybe when we're coding and we're developing something we want it to be successful. So here's some other hallmarks actually of intuition is synchronicity. It's when something, I'm sure you guys know what it is. You've had an example of it. Think of an example of when you've had synchronicity. It could be a small one. For me, I know I'm really in my flow between my two brains when actually, I don't see if he's here anymore but I was just thinking about Prakash.  I was just thinking about him yesterday and all of a sudden, literally 30 seconds later he comes running up the stairs at me. And I was like, hey Prakash, how are you? You know, so it was great. It was just a moment of like, oh that synchronicity. I thought of him and poof. This person starts running up the stairs. Those are moments when you're really in flow and you have a balance between them if you can be doing that. And I was actually, in the moment that I was actually doing it, I was writing something for a client in my head. I was sort of really focused on that but all of a sudden I had this instinct in there. Synchronicity can happen within you. It can also happen within your team. So it's really important to get your teams to sort of have some synchronicity so that teams can start to go, I think that's off and they can develop that with that. I'm sure when there's paired programming, right? Paired programming, I'm sure there's some pieces where synchronicity can help or hurt that. But synchronicity is a big piece of intuition that you know you're in it when that happens. So here's a big piece. While intuition speaks and it does have a logic to it, it is a little bit different for everybody. So yours was going to have very unique things and ways that it will act that are different than mine. For example, one of mine is when I work with clients or I'm working with anyone, I get tears in my eyes when it's a moment when I need to pay attention. I really, it's like pay attention, slow down, something good is happening here. Happened just last week with my marketing client. So I tell my clients when I get tears in my eyes it means we need to slow down and pay attention because something has just struck. It's usually an insight or something we've broken through, some way to market them or think about their message. So that's one way that mine communicates with me. There are four different channels in the way that it communicates. So the first one is seeing, right? Clarivoyance, that's everything psychic or intuition is, but it's when you might see visual images. So is anyone pretty visual person and do they ever see intuitions? They'll see a picture of something in their head. Yeah, I got a saw a little hand over there. Thank you, John, for being brave. So that's one way. Another one is you might hear something. No, you're not crazy. You might hear a little voice in your ear. For example, one time I was running late for a bus when I lived in Chicago and something in this ear said, run faster, you're gonna miss the bus. And it wasn't on time schedule, I had five minutes. So I ran really fast and literally the bus appeared and I got on and got on one on my way. It's a small one. Here are the last two that I think might really resonate for you guys. There's intuitive feeling. Claricentience, when you just have that feeling. And I think this is a kind of, coats now, part of that is feeling. So a feeling is like that pit of your stomach or you just feel like something doesn't feel right. Has anybody ever used that when you're describing a problem? Let's say with a bug or an implementation that saw a couple hands in there. Yeah, right, it happens. You have this feeling in your stomach. And the fourth one that I think actually I've noticed a lot of folks who are quite analytical and do the kind of work that you do often have this channel. It's called intuitive knowing. They just know. They can't tell you why. It's like they have a piece of information and they just know it's wrong. Does anybody have that one? Right, I'm getting a lot of nod. Yep, head nods on that one. Yep. Intuitive feeling and intuitive knowing are often, can go hand in hand. My strongest channel is intuitive feeling. My next one is knowing. Knowing, you won't know where it comes from. You just have this knowing. Slightly different than feeling. So it's important to know those because that is actually how your intuition is communicating with you. Now the tricky part about it is that sometimes you're just having a bad day and you're cranky and it means nothing about the code. And other times, I know for me since I'm an intuitive feeler, I can often get emotional when something is going wrong. When I've chosen a wrong job or wrong client, emotionally things do not work for me. One time I made a bad decision and I cried for like two weeks and I never cried before that. So that was a clue to me. So those are just some quick ways. I mean, this is a deep topic. So I'm giving, like Jay, I have to give you some of the high level sorts of things. But really you want to take time to understand how your gut communicates with you. And to start to find its language and start to talk with your team about how it works with them and start to pay attention to that because it will speed things up. So let's talk a little bit. We've talked a lot today about meditation and having extra space, white space in your life. I actually want to tell you a quick story. I did a class on intuition for a graduate school and I had a woman who was so uptight, she was like a stone. And I asked her just to take five minutes a day to just be quiet. And she said, no way, I can't do that, I can't do that. I finally convinced her to do it. By the end of the semester, she'd had three breakthroughs at work and she was a completely different person. What my dad calls it is taking a walk on the beach. So my dad worked for GM and the tech center is a massive building. He worked in the engineering building. And he would tell me that when he, he used to sit with his feet up on the desk and this is GM right in the 60s and he would get in trouble for goofing off when he was thinking about a problem, he'd get in trouble. So instead he would walk around the building and he always said that by the time he got halfway around, he had to come running back so that he could write down his idea because this was before computers happened and he couldn't carry a smartphone. So really taking time to get quiet with yourself, listening to what it has to say, writing it down, actually even writing it down or talking about it helps to sort of cement it in. So here's my obligatory, it's the day of cognitive science here. So what Jay was actually talking a lot about today was the prefrontal cortex. That has to do with memory and recalling. It also has to do with understanding and deciding things. The prefrontal cortex is like your CPU. It's like your processor in your brain. The problem with the prefrontal cortex is it can get tired really easily. So you wanna make sure that you're using it in really smart ways. The prefrontal cortex gets heavy use when you're trying to figure out something you haven't seen before. So something you've seen before is maybe a problem. What you haven't seen yet is the solution. So you wanna make sure that you use that prefrontal cortex really well. So a couple things, sometimes checking your email first thing in the morning may not be the wisest thing to do because it'll burn up a lot of energy. Arranging meetings burns up a lot of energy from your prefrontal cortex. And when you're doing your work, understanding and deciding are likely big things that you're doing, right? Whether you're implementing, coming up with a solution, fixing bugs. So you really wanna protect that part of your brain, making sure to schedule things, prioritize. Another piece to that is, hang on a second, none of water. So the other piece to it is breaking up your tasks, like batching your tasks, doing certain things at certain times. So breaking it up, breaking up the routine because sometimes working harder isn't actually working smarter when it comes to your prefrontal cortex. And the prefrontal cortex is really helpful, I think, in where intuition can come from as well. And it can also work along with your corpus callosum. So just a little bit of thinking about how to really use yourself and use your brain. Now, this is what my dad always says, good decisions get better and bad decisions get worse. This is my ultimate intuition advice, right? So it's one of the best things I always remember. It's like, which way am I going on this decision curve? So that's just something to sort of think about and to remember. And last thing, just Steve Jobs, just a big believer in intuition. So I just want to thank him. I also want to thank all of the developers who helped me sort of think about all of this. Sterling Olson, Neal, Jay, Jay.  Thank you so much. I don't know if I have time on where Marty went. I don't know if I have time for questions, but that's all I have for today. Does anyone have any questions? We're going to roll into a panel, but any quick questions about intuition? I did such a good job. Or too much, it's intuitive, right? Or too much beer, just kidding. Yeah, let me turn this off.


This is Anoushe. It's late, it's dark and somehow it feels appropriate for this voice note that I'm recording. I usually don't make it a practice to comment about current events but this time I thought maybe at least what I can offer is a recommended reading. I felt it's very appropriate for what's happening right now in Minneapolis. It's a powerful piece of writing by Dr. King, the letters from the Birmingham Jail. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myth and half-truth to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal. So must we see the need to non-bioless guidelines to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from dark depth of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. What I love about this letter is that it's not trying to quiet down your voice or your passion but reminding you that you cannot let yourself still blow to those destructive emotions of anger and violence. Dr. King had studied Gandhi and he knew an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind. I wish we had more leaders like Dr. King, like Gandhi, like Mandela because it's a complex world we live in. They were not perfect. They were human beings like us but they were compassionate human beings and they could help us understand the value of human life. They could teach us that no matter where we're born, no matter what's our physiology or who we worship in our heart or how we love, we have rights as human beings and those rights must be respected. Just one human race living together on our home planet, planet Earth. No one knows that better than I. When I looked at our world from space, I saw that and I felt that and it became my truth. In some ways when I look around and look at what's happening here in the United States, I'm scared and it scares me because I've been through this before. I was young. I was in Iran. It was a country known for its intellectuals and scientists. Women around me could wear whatever they wanted to and they were working on their career plans and education plans. And then I woke up the next day and we had to wear her job and it was mandatory and if we resisted or said anything that was against the belief system then you would disappear, you would be put in jail and it all happened so quickly. It was a blink of an eye and I'm scared. I'm scared when I look around and see what's happening. But I have hope. I know there are lots of people with that passion in their heart who understand violence is not the way but at the same time they're not going to stay quiet and they're going to light those small candles and they will bring light to the darkness and I will celebrate that day.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unizor Education. Equilibrium of solids, that's what we will discuss today. Now, this lecture is part of the course called Physics for Teens, presented on Unizor.com. I do suggest you to watch this lecture from the website, which is, by the way, completely free, and no advertising, because if you found it on YouTube, for instance, searching on something, well, it contains only video. The website, Unizor.com, contains not only this course, which is called Physics for Teens, but also mass for teens, which is prerequisite for this course and some other thing. And also, every lecture has a textual notes to this, which basically serves as a textbook. And there are even exams for those who would like some challenge. So, equilibrium of solids. Well, first of all, let me just remind you that before, in the previous lecture, actually, on this topic, we were talking about equilibrium of points, and this is kind of an easy thing, because it's actually a direct consequence of the first Newton's law, which says that if all the forces are balanced, then the point, the point object, if you wish, which contains, you know, it has certain mass, etc. The point object is either at rest or in the uniform motion along the straight line in some kind of inertial frame reference, frame of reference. In other words, you can say that if the frame of reference is associated with this point object, with all the forces balanced, then this frame of reference is inertial. So, if you have a point and you have certain forces which are acting on this point, where i is an index from whatever to whatever, then the vector sum of all the forces should be equal to null vector, and this is a condition of the equilibrium of a point. And that's what we were covering in the previous lecture. Now, in this lecture, I would like to talk about solids. And the first obvious consequence from the fact that this is a solid is that this is not a sufficient condition for an object to be in equilibrium. And the obvious example is if you have some kind of a disc or whatever, and you have one force in this direction and another force in this direction, then they are, if they are of the same magnitude and they are opposite in direction, this condition is satisfied, but obviously this disc will rotate and rotation is definitely not an inertial reference frame. So, this is insufficient. All right, so we have to prevent also the rotation. Now, we did study rotation separately in the rotational dynamics topic, and we were talking about a very important concept related to rotation. And this rotation and rotation is actually related to this topic in exactly the same fashion as a translational movement relates to the force. So, what is this? Well, this is torque. Torque for rotation plays exactly the same role as force for translational movement along the straight line trajectory. And whatever in a translational movement is an acceleration caused by the force. In rotation, it's the angular acceleration. So, force causes acceleration of the point object, torque causes the angular acceleration for objects which are rotating around one particular axis. Okay, now, what if we have a very complex movement in the three-dimensional space of a solid? For instance, it can move around its own axis and then around some other axis, etc. Well, you can always imagine any kind of a complex movement of the object as the separate movement around each of the three-coordinate axes. In exactly similar manner as any translational movement along a trajectory can actually be always represented as movement along the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis. So, three functions, x as a function of the time t, y as the function of the t and z as the function of the t basically describe the movement in the three-dimensional space of a point. Now, in this case of the solid, we are talking about rotation. So, we can imagine rotation along one axis and then another axis and then the third axis. And these are kind of independent rotation. And every rotation can be basically represented as these three different rotations. Like, first along one axis, then along another and then along another. And as a result, you will have exactly the same kind of rotation which you are dealing with. So, that's why I'm not going to talk about a complicated rotation of the three-dimensional solid. I will just talk about rotation of a solid around one particular axis. One, one out of three. Doesn't really matter which one. And the torque, obviously, can be explained in the terms of rotation around one particular axis. And again, if we have a very complicated movement, then we have basically three different torques, if you wish. One rotates around this axis, another torque rotates this and another this. So, every force is causing some kind of a torque. And this force can be really considered as a separate cause of rotation around each of the coagulate axes. So, let me remind you what exactly torque is if you have a force and you have basically a position of the axis. Alright, so, here it is. If you have an axis and you have some kind of an object which is... I'm talking about the point object which is rotating, but it can be actually any solid because every little piece of that solid is basically a point object. And obviously, we are talking about basically integration of the entire solid from all these individual pieces. And obviously, whenever a force is applied to this particular point, like in case of our disc for instance, we have one force applied to this point and this to another. Each one has its own torque, basically. And since we are talking about rotation around the axis which is probably perpendicular to this board, then we can talk about the torque of this one, torque of that one, and then add them together to cause the angular acceleration. So, again, talking about one particular point, this is an axis and this is the trajectory around this axis. So, you can always have a vector which is r, which basically is from the axis to the point. And you have the force which is also the vector. And torque, by definition, is a vector product of the radius to this particular point which is rotating around this axis and the force. So, if you don't really remember this, I would suggest you to go to rotational dynamics where I explain at length what exactly the torque is and why we are multiplying our force by the radius vector and why this is a vector product. Now, being a vector product, in a simple case like this one, so you have an axis which is perpendicular to the board. These are two forces and these are two radiuses, right? This is one and this is another. Radius, radius, this is force and this is force. That's all vectors. So, the vector product is perpendicular to the components in this particular case, right? So, the vector product of r times f would be along this axis in this case and along this axis in this case. And if I'm using the right-hand rule, then it would be either towards the board or outside of the board. And obviously, in this particular case from r to r, so I think it's this way. I think it's this way. But it doesn't really matter. What does matter is it's along the axis. So, the vector product of the force which is applied to this point and the radius vector of this is supposed to be perpendicular to both of them and it's within, it's along the axis of rotation, right? So, it's also a vector. This is tau. Now, after we have basically recalled what's the definition of torque and we have also recalled that the torque is the cause of angular acceleration, well, that means that the necessary condition for a solid object not to rotate is basically that sum of all torques which are acting on this solid must be equal to zero null vector. These are all vectors. They're all directed along the axis so we can basically add them. Some of them will be with plus, some of them will be with minus. Now, in this particular case, both are in one direction. But if I will change the direction of this force to this, then if I will calculate the vector product of these two, it will have certain magnitude which is the product of magnitude of r and magnitude of f and it will be directed into one direction. The product of these two vector product would be with an opposite sign because this r, well, if this is r, this is minus r actually, right? Because it's supposed to have some direction and so the product will be negative and it will be towards another end of this axis which is perpendicular to the board. So this is a necessary condition, sum of all torques to be equal to zero for a solid to be in equilibrium. So we have basically two different things. We have to prohibit translational movement along some kind of a trajectory and this is the condition. These are the multiple forces which are acting, must be equal to zero and we have to prevent the rotation to be in equilibrium, right? To have this particular solid in equilibrium in some kind of a system. So that's another necessary condition. Now, one more very interesting point and to tell you the truth, I don't know how to really very rigorously prove it but it feels right and I would like actually to refer it to you for a judgment. So if all the forces are equal to zero, forget about the torques, then there must be a point inside the solid which is actually not moving. Well, we are talking about some kind of inertial system and we are considering our solid within this inertial system and again, if sum of all forces equals to zero, it can rotate because I'm not talking about the torques which these forces have but if they just equal in magnitude and direction in such a way that their sum is equal to zero, null vector, then there must be one particular point, well at least one particular point, maybe many points if it's just rotating, the whole axis will be at one particular position in the space, not moving, right? So again, if the forces are summarized and give you null vector, then there must be at least one point in the solid object which is not moving. That's an interesting kind of a concept. I didn't really think thoroughly about how to prove it but it seems right, right? So only the torques basically are causing some rotation but whenever you have a real rotation, you always have some kind of a point which is not moving at all, right? In the center of rotation or on the axis of rotation. Okay, now back to forces and torques. So three forces along three dimensions and three torques, sum of all the torques along every one of the three dimensions, co-ordinate dimensions, x, y and z. These represent, as I mentioned in the previous lecture, six degrees of freedom. So you have, for a solid, you have six degrees of freedom. It can move along either of the three co-ordinate axes and it can rotate around either of the three co-ordinate axes and that constitutes basically six degrees of freedom which means that some of the projections of the forces to each axis should be equal to zero and some of the torques along each of the axes, if you represent the rotation as a combination of rotation around one axis and another axis and the third axis. So on each axis it should be equal to zero. So we have basically like six equations which must be satisfied to have the system, to have the solid in the state of equilibrium. Okay, now we are talking about a couple of examples. So let me just represent whatever I'm just talking about in pictures and you will see what I mean. So I have two very simple examples. One is the following. So consider you have a thread, a rod and the distance is r here and here and you have the same weight w here and w here. So let's just examine the equilibrium of this system. Now obviously it must be an equilibrium, right? Just intuitive without this. But let's just think about it how exactly it works. So what kind of forces we are acting on this rod? Well the first one obviously is tension of the thread and it's directed upwards. Now obviously it's fixed somehow. Now then this gives you one vector which is w and this gives you one vector which is w. These are equal in magnitude and direction. This one is opposite. So all the vectors must be, some of all the vectors must be equal to zero if we are talking about equilibrium. So if this point is not moving then obviously t plus w plus w is supposed to be equal to zero, null vector which means t is equal to minus 2w. Well obviously minus is here because if this is the positive direction of the, well let's say z-axis or whatever the axis we are choosing, then this is a negative for vice versa. So that's why we have this negative. It's obvious solution to this vector equation. Now let's talk about torques. Well this force does not create any torques because it's in the center. We are talking about equilibrium of rotation relative to this center. Why? Well because again radius is equal to zero, tau is equal to radius vector product force, right? So the force is the tension but the radius is zero in this particular case. Now in this case the force is w and the radius is r. So if we consider this direction as a positive and this is x whatever, then obviously this is minus r times w in absolute terms, right? We are talking about absolute terms and this is vectors. Now this is tau 1. Now tau 2 which is this one is equal to plus r, not w. And obviously sum of these three, this, this and this. Now this is equal to zero, zero times t. So this is zero, this is the torque of this force of the tension. This is the torque which weight creates, radius times w. And this is the torque which this weight creates, this radius times w. And these two vectors obviously are opposite to each other. That's why I put minus in one case and plus in another case. So this is 1 and this is tau 2. And sum as you see is zero so that's what actually makes this system to be in equilibrium. Now the next example is very similar except that I will do it with different radiuses. Let's consider this is 2w and this is 2r and w. So this length is twice as big as this one but this weight is twice as big as this one, right? So again this is zero. So tau is equal to zero times t is zero vector. And tau 1 which is this one is minus r times 2w. And tau 2 is equal to positive 2r times w. And from the properties of the vector product this coefficient can be actually taken outside of the vector product as well as this one. And in both cases we will have minus 2r times w. And in this case we will have 2r times w. And the sum will be equal to zero. So we have increased the radius of rotation by the factor of 2 in one case leaving the weight as it is. But in another case we increased the weight. And the system will still be in equilibrium. And obviously this is the way how people are pulling with a lever a heavy stone or something. If you have some kind of a stone here, very heavy. And you would like to, this is the person. And this person is pushing down this part. So this part will go up. And if this length r and this length let's say 10r then the effort to lift should be one tenth of the weight of this stone. Exactly the same thing as this one. Well, is that the way how Egyptians build the pyramids? Maybe, I don't know. But in any case, this is basically an illustration. Two examples which illustrate how solids are in equilibrium as far as translational motion. And which is much more important for solids as far as their rotation. In one case we need all the forces to sum up to zero along each axis. And in another case for the solids we need not only the forces but for rotation to be in equilibrium, not to rotate basically. That means we have to have all torques not to be in balance along each axis of rotation. Okay, that's it. I can refer you back to Unisor.com and read the comments to this lecture. It can serve you as a textbook. And I also recommend you to be relatively fluent in the course called mass proteins. Because everything, whichever we are discussing in physics depends very much on the mass. Especially the vector algebra calculus. So you have to be really comfortable in these areas. That's it. Thank you very much and good luck.


Well, it may be January, but the cold and the snow does not stop racing enthusiasts from enjoying their sport. In tonight's Northwood's adventure, our Josh Peterson introduces us to the Garfield Lake Ice Racers. It's January and what sounds like the rumbling of thunder is actually the rumbling of engines. Each Sunday on Garfield Lake in La Port, around 30 cars race for top honors and points. The Garfield Lake Ice Racers Association has put on these race day events for years. A lot of these guys are dirt track racers from Bemidji and St. Cloud and Grand Fork, so. And it's a, once you got racing in your blood it's something they just can't get away from it. For the drivers, it's not only a hobby, it's a labor of love to race among friends. I'm gonna say one of the best things I think I've about ice racing is the people I've met. You know, and everybody here, if you have a problem, they'll bend over backwards to keep you or anybody running. Unlike dirt track racing, ice racing requires studded tires, passengers can ride along and no helmets are required. In dirt, everybody works on the car, one drives it. Here we all work on the car and we all get in. One of the unique aspects about the Garfield Lake Ice Racers Association is the fact that all the money raised and generated through the ice racing event is put directly back into the community. This is more than just ice racing, it's giving back to the community. And last year with our gambling license, we donated $30,000 to different charities last year, so it's more than just that. For the racers, it's knowing that they're racing not only promotes their community, but that they're making a difference in so many lives. You know, we got money that we have to donate and we do that and we're thinking of more things we can do to keep everybody happy. If you wanna give it a try or take in some of the racing action, the green flag drops each Sunday at noon. With this week's Northwoods Adventure in La Porte, I'm Josh Peterson, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.