Amen. Ezekiel chapter 33, so that's a great chapter in the Bible. I'm reminded from Friday night when I read the first few words here of the verse number one where it says, again, the word of the Lord.  It's the reason that this has power and the reason that this has truth is because the Lord said it, because it's God's word and that's what gives the Bible its power. We're going to talk about that this morning and a little bit this evening as well. Well, look at Ezekiel chapter 33 in verse number one as we're going to focus on verse number one through verse number nine where we see this interesting analogy of a watchman in the Bible. The Bible says in Ezekiel chapter 33 in verse number one, again, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man speak to the children of Israel or the children of thy people and say unto them, when I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchman, just put that in your Bible, make a little bracket there and say and put Acts chapter three right there and I'll explain that to you as we get further into the sermon, but that's a good little proof of how God wrote the whole Bible, by the way, how the Bible just matches itself everywhere it goes. Verse number three, so we see the people, they take a man of their own people and they set him up as a watchman and when he see it, the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet and warn the people. So he warns everybody, he sees an army coming, he sees danger coming and he warns everybody and the Bible says in verse four, then whosoever hear it the sound of the trumpet and take not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head. So somebody hears the trumpet, they say, ah, forget it, you know, forget about it, it's no big deal and then when he dies or he's taken away, that's his responsibility at that point. Then in verse number five it says, he heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning, his blood shall be upon him, but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. The but, if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet, now we see a different scenario between verse number five and verse number six. So up to verse number five, we see that there's danger coming and the watchman is on the wall and he sees the danger and he tells everybody, he warns everybody, some people don't listen, well that's their responsibility, the Bible says. In verse six, the watchman fails. The watchman, he sees the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take away any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So the Bible says here that if the watchman sees the danger coming and doesn't say anything, then God, look, the bad things are still going to happen, but God's going to blame the watchman for that. In verse number seven says, so thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me.   Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. That's a singular pointing a finger right at the, and this is an analogy for the prophet right here. He's pointing a finger at the prophet saying, if you tell him, he's like you've delivered your soul, you've done what you were supposed to do, is what God is saying here. So we see in Ezekiel 33, we see this nice little analogy, basically outlining the responsibility of the prophets. Turn to Isaiah chapter 58. So let's look at it in that context. Now let's look at the prophets and there's so many, I'm going to kind of just give you a pattern here, but I mean we could just go through the whole. It's kind of pretty much the same for almost every single prophet in the Bible. It's kind of the same pattern that we'll see. Look at Isaiah chapter 58. So the prophet has a responsibility is what Isaiah, or not Isaiah, Ezekiel 33 is saying, and look at Isaiah chapter 58. We see that responsibility in Isaiah 58 and verse number one where the Bible says, you know, this is what the prophet is to do.  So there's a first, there's a few things that we're going to point out here is that first of all, they're not, they're not supposed to leave anything unsaid. They're supposed to say everything, just cry aloud, don't spare anybody, you know, okay well what if I offend this, no, spare no one is what the prophet is supposed to do. And it says, show my people their transgression and the house of Jacob their sins. So I mean that's another thing to point out is that many times, I don't know why I'm making notes in my own notes right now, but I'm thinking about things while I'm reading it, but the point is, is that many times the prophets were preaching towards God's own people, and it shows my people, the house of Jacob. And you know the reaction, I mean that should surprise us a little bit because the reaction most of the time turned to Jeremiah chapter 38. The reaction when the prophets did exactly what Isaiah 58 says when they're preaching to their own people, God's own people, the reaction is mainly negative in the Bible. It's mostly not good in the Bible. Turn to Jeremiah chapter 38 and look at verse number three. We could just spend hours and hours and hours just looking at negative reactions to prophets in the Bible, but I'll just give you one example from the book of Jeremiah, look at verse number three of Jeremiah 38. The Bible says, thus sayeth the Lord. There we go again. There we go again. Why does it even have any authority? Why does it have, because God said it, because you know, this isn't Jeremiah saying it. Jeremiah is saying thus sayeth the Lord. This city shall surely be given into the hand of the King of Babylon's army, which shall take it. Now look, that's another thing about a lot of these prophets.  Look, this is some pretty specific, you know, prophecy right here. He's basically saying the city shall be given into the hand of the King of Babylon. I mean, could you get any more specific than that? He's saying, here's what's going to happen. This city is going to be given into the hand of not some certain king, not some army. He's like, the King of Babylon's coming to take over this city. That's what Jeremiah just said. And I mean, he's basically saying this is what's going to happen. I'll get verse number four. Therefore the princes said unto the King, we beseech you, let this man be put to death. For thus he hath weakened the hands of the men of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people in speaking such words unto them. For this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. Then Zedekiah the king said, behold, he is in your hand, for the king is not he that can do anything against you. Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchia, the son of Hamalek that was in the court of the prison. And they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water but mire. So Jeremiah sunk in the mire. So I mean, Jeremiah gave some very specific preaching here.   They threw him in the mire in the dungeon for it. Turn to 1 Kings chapter 22. That's a pretty negative reaction. Like immediately they just put him in prison right away. They hated what he was saying. But he said it anyway. Look at 1 Kings chapter 22. This is Jehoshaphat going to war with Ahab. And Jehoshaphat's like just begging like, can we just get like a real prophet here to tell us what the truth is?  And Jehoshaphat, you know, he might not be smart, tagging up with Ahab, but he's smart enough to know that these prophets aren't prophets of God. So he asks for a real prophet in 2 Kings chapter 22. Look at verse number 4. And this prophet is a prophet. This is what he says. And he said unto Jehoshaphat, will thou go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Ahab, says, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, inquire I pray thee at the word of the Lord today. Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together about 400 men and said unto them, shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle or shall I forbear? And they said, go up for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And Jehoshaphat said, is there not a prophet of the Lord besides that we might inquire of him? These 400 prophets just go up and just tell King Ahab what he wants to hear. And oh, you're going to do great. And Jehoshaphat is smart enough to know. He's like, do you have a real prophet anywhere? Can we get a real prophet in the building, please? So they go and they get Micaiah, or Micaiah, look at verse 23 for sake of time. Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit. This is Micaiah now talking to the kings, and he's saying, now therefore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets. And the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee. But Zedekiah, the son of Chanaena, this is the guy that made the iron horns. He was the biggest of the men pleasers of these prophets trying to impress the king. But Zedekiah, the son of Chanaena, went near and smote Micaiah on the cheek and said, which way went the spirit of the Lord for me to speak unto thee? So this guy is preaching. He's preaching to these two kings, and he literally gets punched in the face while he's preaching. I mean, let's see if he learns his lesson. Look down at verse number 25. Micaiah said, behold thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into the inner chamber to hide thyself. He's like, you're going to be afraid, you're going to be running from God. And the king of Israel said, take Micaiah and carry him back to Ammon, the governor of the city, and to Joash, the king's son, and say, thus saith the king, put this fellow in prison and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I come in peace. So basically, the king of Israel says, go throw this guy in prison. He's just been punched in the face.  Just take him, put him in prison, just nothing but bread and water for this guy. He says he's going to go to prison. So look at verse number 28. Does he learn his lesson? Maybe he'll apologize now because he's just been threatened of being thrown in prison. And Micaiah says, if thou return it all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me.  And he was right. And he said, harken, O people, every one of you. This guy gets physically assaulted during his sermon. He gets threatened with prison and he did get thrown in prison. And at the very end, he says, you're going to die because that's what the Lord said. Look, he spared, he spared not. We can find dozens and dozens of examples of the same pattern in the Bible. It's the prophet. He's fulfilling his responsibility as Ezekiel 33 lays out. And the people, they don't want to hear it. These are God's people.  That's why you know the Bible tells us in Hebrews chapter 11, many of these men were killed in horrible ways. You know they literally blamed the messenger if you've heard about that, you know, or they heard that saying, they shot the messenger in the Bible in the Old Testament. So I mean, what can we learn from this? What can we, what's the application? I think about this, basically I think about this as having two applications. The main application is us, our ministry here. And this is the way that I've most of the time seen Ezekiel chapter 33 applied. But it applies and it fits very well this analogy of the Watchman. It applies very well to our ministry here.  That is setting us up as the Watchman is what that verse is doing. Go back to Ezekiel chapter 33. Or just look at the front of your bulletin.  That's the verse of the week. Look at Ezekiel chapter 33 and verse number six. So we have, we have Jesus setting us up as the Watchman as we have to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. In Ezekiel chapter 33, 6 the Bible says, but if the Watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but his blood why require at the Watchman's hand. So Jesus tells us that we have a responsibility to preach the gospel. And this is the big miss. I mean this is the, you know, between verses five and six is when we see, you know, that the narrative change in Ezekiel chapter 33 to where the Watchman could not do his job. And boy, is that not the Christian today. It's just, it doesn't change the fact that we still have the responsibility. It's just that the Christian today is the Watchman of verse number six. Basically, he's not blowing the trumpet. He's not doing what he's supposed to do. I mean, look, there's a reason that we're like the only church in town that goes out soul-winning and goes out preaching the gospel to people and not just, you know, handing out fliers or whatever. We're willing to warn people. We're willing to preach the gospel to people. And look, here's the thing though. And the reason I kind of gave you that quick little Bible study for seven minutes on the prophets is because you need to understand that as the Watchman as is the same as the prophet, look, it's largely going to be received in a negative way. You have to understand that. Why do I tell you that? I tell you that, you know, so you're not offended when it happens to you. Okay, look, but notice what our responsibility is.  It says, if he blows not the trumpet, if he blows not, what are the next words there? The next words are, and the people be not warned is what the Bible says. Look, the responsibility is to warn the people. That's the responsibility. Soul-winning, look, soul-winning is as much about fulfilling our responsibility as it is about getting souls saved. It's, as a matter of fact, you know, getting souls saved turned to Isaiah 55. Getting souls, winning souls is a byproduct of just doing what we're supposed to do. It's a byproduct. Look at Isaiah chapter 55. Isaiah chapter 55. So we're supposed to go out and so many things in the Christian life are that way. We're just supposed to do what we're supposed to do and everything else God will take care of from there. That's all we have to worry about. All we have to worry about are what are my actions here? What am I supposed to do here? We're supposed to go out and preach the gospel. That's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to warn the people as Ezekiel, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 33 says, and that's our responsibility. But God promises us, look at verse 11 of Isaiah 55. He says, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not, because what are the words that we're speaking? We're not speaking our words when we're out there. Once again, what gives the gospel message its authority? It's Jesus Christ that gives its message. It gives every single word in the Bible has authority because it comes from, it is actually Jesus Christ. That's why it has authority. It's not that we say something in a certain way. It has authority because it's Jesus. That's why. But look at verse number 11. It says that words that go forth out of my mouth, we're just repeating stuff. We're just parroting what God had said. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish which I please, not what we please, not what we want. Look, the word of God that we go out and we speak to people, the gospel, it will accomplish what God wants it to accomplish is what he is saying here. And it shall prosper in the thing where to I sent it. And he's like, so he kind of gives us the answer there at the end. He says, look, it's going to accomplish what I want it to accomplish. And he says, at the end he says, and I want it, you know, I want it to accomplish something. He says at the end, it'll prosper. Say, don't you worry, it'll prosper. So we go out and we warn people and we carry the word of God and God says, oh by the way, you know, accomplish what I want it to accomplish and it's going to prosper. Don't worry about that. Turn to Hebrews chapter 4. Look, the prophets, you read that. You kind of, it can be depressing reading the prophets in the Old Testament, whether it be the major or minor prophets, all the prophets, because the vast majority of the prophets, people didn't listen to them. Jeremiah, it's a depressing story. Not only did Jeremiah write, you know, have the book of Jeremiah about Jeremiah, all the things came to pass. Nobody listened to him. But if you look at it from a nation perspective, it is depressing because the nation didn't listen. But these prophets got many people saved. They got many people right. They got many people. And that's, look, that's the word of, how do I know that? Because of Isaiah 55-11. That's how I know that. Because the word of God will not come back void. And God wants it. You know, it'll do what he wants and it will prosper. If somebody is speaking the word of God, it will prosper. That's what the Bible tells us. Look at Hebrews 4 in verse number 12. The Bible says this. It says, for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. And listen to this. Piercing. Piercing even to the dividing of thunder of soul and spirit and the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. This verse right here explained to us, while people may be angry at you when you go soul-winning. People may actually get angry at you. Look, they'll be happy if they believe it. If they believe it. But many, like many, you are carrying a message that many do not want to hear. Many people don't want to hear it. But here's the thing. That message that you're carrying, even though people don't want to hear it, it's powerful because it's God's message. And people will reject it. You know, the false prophets, think of Micaiah. They punched him in the face. They threw Jeremiah in prison. These people, it cuts. It pierces. And there will be people that they feel that piercing and they hate it. And you will find those people. But the responsibility is still there. The responsibility is still there. So don't think. Don't think. Oh, you know what? We didn't get anybody saved today. We didn't get anybody saved today. Look, your responsibility is to warn. That's what your responsibility is. If for people to, look, for people to accept the gospel, that is not yours to own. That is not your responsibility. It is your responsibility to blow the trumpet. That is our responsibility as we go out. Whether or not people, that's why I always say, again and again and again, we're looking for the right fish. You can't make somebody believe. We're never going to be able to make somebody believe. We blow the trumpet. We're looking for the right fish. We're looking for that person that has that right heart that will accept God's word. That leads me to, you know, just some reflections over the last couple of years. So we see that Ezekiel chapter 33 applies to our ministry.  It applies to preaching to all nations that Jesus tells us we need to do with the gospel. That's our ministry. But the watchman is Ezekiel chapter 33. When I think about it, when I read it, and I think about the last couple of years, it really applies to the ministry as well.  Don't forget, I mean, as we go out soul winning, who are we preaching to when we're out soul winning? We're preaching to the lost. We're preaching to people who might have never even heard of Jesus. They're not saved. They're not even close to saved. I mean, a lot of these people will find false prophets. Turn to Jeremiah chapter 46. But don't forget that the prophets themselves were largely preaching towards God's own people. Yes, they preach. I'm going to show you some examples where they preached against heathen nations. They did do that. But for the most part, they preach, you know, they preach to God's people. Look at Jeremiah chapter 46. Jeremiah chapter 46. Look at verse 13. Look what the Bible says in Jeremiah 46 in verse number 13. The Bible says, the word of the Lord that spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, should come and smite the land of Egypt. Declare ye in Egypt and publish in Migdal, and publish Naph and Taphonies. Say, stand fast and prepare thee, for the sword shall devour round about thee. Why are thy valiant men swept away? They stood not, because the Lord did drive them. So here, Jeremiah 46 is preaching against Egypt. Chapter 47 is preaching against the Philistines. Chapter 48 is preaching against Moab. Chapter 49 is preaching against the Ammonites and Edom. Chapter 50 is preaching against Babylon itself. So God is pretty complete in his judgment.  But then after he had done judging them with a wicked nation, he goes in and he just cleans house, judging all the nations that took advantage of that situation and that were wicked themselves. God's, I mean, God's a perfect judge. So he did judge other nations and prophets did preach against other nations. But for the vast majority of the time, and don't forget this, the vast majority of the time the prophet was preaching against God's people. Period. Enter the modern day ministry. That's, I mean, that kind of explains why preaching is, you know, directed towards what people in the church need. You know, I mean, look, yes, there's times when we're going to preach about the world and preach about those things. And, you know, I'm trying to strike a good balance there as the Bible strikes a balance, as we just saw. But look, the most of the time these people were preaching, I mean, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Amos, you name it. They're preaching against God's people and they're ripping face against God's people. They're hard on God's people. And why? Because many people, even God's people, will just not heed God's word. Ow, jammed finger. So what do the prophets do? What do the prophets do when these people, God's own people? It's not that they didn't care about these people. They're God's people. What do they do? Well, some of them turned to Lamentations chapter one. That's, I mean, just the name of the book right there tells you what some of them did. Lamentations chapter one. Lamentations chapter one, look at verse number one. I mean, how do these prophets handle it? I mean, think about it.   Look at verse number one of Lamentations one.  How would she become as a widow? She that was great amongst the nations and princes among the provinces, how would she become tributary?  Among all her lovers, she had none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwelleth among the heathen. She findeth no rest. All her persecutors overtook her between the straits. He's sitting here and he's like, nobody listened. What's he doing? He's lamenting. He's lamenting that nobody listened. I mean, Jeremiah kind of, I kind of like his heart. Jeremiah had a had a really good heart.  Like I said, if you look at it at a national level, it is futile from Jeremiah's perspective, but I guarantee he got many people right with the Lord and brought to the Lord, many individuals in his life. And then, and then we see him just lamenting. Like, look, he's not like, he's not like good, good for him. I told him they didn't listen to me. I mean, if anybody could be bitter, it'd be Jeremiah, but it wasn't. He's just lamenting for these people. So, I mean, some of them, when they, when the God's people didn't listen, some of them literally lamented. You know, you'll find some in the Old Testament, some got angry. Some got angry. And then, look, some just realized, go back to Ezekiel chapter 33. Some just realized it as reality. Some just realized it as reality. It's like, okay, that's just what was supposed to happen and that's what happened because you didn't listen. I mean, that's what a lot of them did. But go back to Ezekiel chapter 33. Look, here's the thing. Ultimately, a proper ministry is just, a proper ministry of a prophet is just to tell the truth to the people. That's the ministry. It's to tell the truth to the people. I mean, many pastors, and I'm going to show you how we've ended up with heresies and doctrines that are not right because decades and decades ago, many pastors went wrong here. They, they took, look, they, they went wrong and they took where they were just supposed to warn and they took it too far. And when the people didn't listen, they tried to make people listen. They tried to gain too much control.  From the perspective that I've been in for a couple of years, I can totally see how this happens. Look, they just tried to gain too much control.  You keep warning people. They don't listen. You warn and warn and they don't listen. And all of a sudden, you're just like, what else can I do? Well, maybe I can start threatening people. Maybe I can start threatening people with things that aren't mine to give or take. See? Maybe I can start threatening you. You're not listening to me. I can start threatening you with something that's not mine to give or take like your salvation. Maybe I can start threatening you with those things and scare, and look, I'm sure it works in certain cases. I know actually that it works in certain cases because I've met people who've been saved for 20, 30 years who you will find that doubt their salvation on a regular basis. And it's because they've been sitting under this type of influence. It's where, look, it's where repent of your sins doctrine came from. Well, you know that repent of your sins, repent of your sins doctrine, it just started as a method. It started, think of it. It just started as a method of some pastor preaching, you know what? You're not listening to me. You're not turning from the things that I'm telling you to turn from. I'm preaching the Bible to you. I'm telling you to get these things out of your life. I'm trying to tell you to get separated. Do all these things that you just don't want to do. So I'm just like, you know what? If you don't really do these things, you know, are you even saved? It's a method, see? It's a method. It's a method of getting people to do what, you know, and look, it might come from a good place. I want you to get sin out of your life. I don't want you to be sinful. I don't want you to wreck your life with sin. I don't want you to wreck your life with alcohol and fornication and whatever else. And I'm just like, you know, whatever I can do to get you to stop those things. But no, that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says not to warn you. The watchman is to warn. That's it. That's where this certain doctrine where it says, you know what? If you're, and that leads into this. If you are saved, you will do these things. If you're really saved, you will have the works. It's a method that turns into a doctrine. A doctrine of what we call now Lordship salvation. I mean, yeah, yeah. But if you're saved, you will have the works.  The Christian today, imagine if somebody, imagine if a Christian a hundred years ago could come and see Christians today. Imagine if that would be possible. Here we go with time travel again. But imagine they would look at the Christian today and they would say these people have no works. They would say these people have almost no works.  They act just like the world. You know, soul winning isn't happening. This is what somebody from a century ago would think if they came here today. Not here, but, you know, to Christianity today.  The churches that don't look like the world, they're the ones that aren't full because nobody wants to hear this message.  Nobody wants to hear that we should go out soul winning. So, I mean, worship salvation simply came from the frustrated pastor or the frustrated leader or the frustrated prophet that just said, if you're saved, you'll listen to me. That's where it all came from. It's really easy to see where all this stuff came from. And then it turns into false doctrine and pretty soon you got a church full of people that aren't even saved.   And I can see where they came from. But personally, look, I mean, I could see the origins of this, but I get where it came from because, look, personally, I don't like seeing people not heed God's word. I don't like it. It's, it's, it's especially hard when you've addressed like specific things that people ignore. You know, I think about just reflecting over the last two years. And I think about just the, the things, you know, and the things that I've preached on. And I mean, I must have preached a dozen sermons on just the family, the family unit. I must have preached a dozen sermons or more on raising children, on disciplining children, on training children, all ages. I've gone through all the ages. Look, I cannot get more specific. That's how I feel. I cannot get more specific. So when you see people not heed that stuff, it's maddening. It's maddening. I've preached over a dozen sermons on separating and the dangers of not living a separated life. Over a dozen sermons on homeschooling and teaching your children and pulling your children out of the public school system and how that is necessary for the success and the well-being of your children. But look in all these, and then I've preached on so many sermons on how serious homeschooling is and how you must take it seriously and you must be diligent in training and teaching your children. But look in all these areas I will watch people just hear and not heed in all of these areas. By the way, if you ever think like, oh man, this is his hobby horse. Not really. It's just because I feel like that's what's not being heeded. So you're like, I don't want to hear the same message again and again. Well then heed the message.  But at the end of the day, at the end of the day when I think of all these things as far as the the ministry, not our ministry, the ministry, I basically have three choices. I basically have three choices and I look at the prophets and I look at what's happened to churches over the last 50 years in this country. I basically have three choices. I can become an over-controlling zealot. That's choice number one. I can become an over-controlling. I totally get how it happens. It's absolutely maddening. It's absolutely maddening. Turn to Acts chapter 3. Turn to Acts chapter 3 and keep your place in Ezekiel chapter 33. We're going to look at verse number 2 in Acts chapter 3. But it's maddening. You feel like, look, and it's really maddening for me because you feel like you're wasting your time.  I've always hated wasting time. That's why I've never watched sports ever. Because it's just such a waste of time. It's ridiculous. You know, and then I mean it's all got all kinds of moral issues to it. But I mean just the fact that it was a waste of time, I never did it.   I mean four hours? I mean I couldn't even really get into golf because I would go out on a golf course for three hours and be like, man, I should be doing something. I should be doing something else right now. You know, but look, turn to Acts chapter 3. And look, this is something that I really cannot fully explain to you, but I'm trying this morning. You just can't see this perspective until you're in the ministry. It's one of those things where I heard Pastor preach on it. I never really got it until I was actually in the ministry. Look at Acts chapter 3 and verse 22. Look at Acts chapter 3 and verse 22. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up among you of what? Is he going to magically make somebody appear out of the clouds? It's like, no, he's going to raise someone up among you of your brethren. Like unto me, him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. Look, do you know that if men rise up to go into the ministry, you know what? Men will rise up from this church. They will rise up from among us. Men that will rise up to go into the ministry. That's where they come from, by the way. They come from amongst us. These men that rise up. And it shall come to pass that every soul, and look, that matches perfectly Ezekiel 33. Look at verse 2. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people and say unto them, when I bring the sword upon the land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchmen. So it says they are to take a man from amongst them and set him as the watchmen. And then he is the one that has all the responsibilities that we read about in Ezekiel 33. That matches perfectly with Acts 3. That's proof the same guy wrote the entire Bible right there. And you find that all over the Bible. Look what it says in verse 23 though. And it shall come to pass that every soul which hear not that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people. Man, is this true too? Is this true too? You know what's going to happen to people? You know what happens to people? You preach things and then people don't listen to things. And then you know what? People come and they ask you things and you tell people things? They're like, hey, what about this? You say this. And then they don't listen. It says they'll be destroyed from amongst the people. And you know what happens? Every single time somebody gets backslidden, they fall out of church. It's the first thing. They leave from amongst the people. It's crazy. But it follows the same pattern. It doesn't mean, it doesn't matter why they're backsliding. It could be, you know, it's usually sin of some kind. But it doesn't matter what sin it is. But when they backslide, like the first indicator is that they're not, they're not going to be amongst the people. It's just so repetitive. It's almost, it's such an old story. You see it again and again and again. You can see what's going to happen. The temptation, I mean, so I mean the temptation is there to just try to get people to listen in some way. And there you could become that over-controlling zealot. What's the second? What's the second thing I could do? So I don't want to do that, that one though. That one doesn't fit me. I don't want to be an over-controlling zealot. I don't want to be a cult leader. Never like, never had it aspired to that. Never thought about, you know, when I was a kid. You know, cult leader. That sounds pretty good. Fireman or cult leader.  So here's the second one I could do. I could go insane and let it destroy me personally. I've thought about this one a few times.  You know, you just get up and scream and just like, nobody's listening or things aren't going the way he wants. He's, don't you know, I'm in charge here.  You know, but you know, look, he didn't really like where things were going and I knew why. But look, no pastor feels like I'm wasting my time here.  So I don't want to like destroy myself personally either. Here's the third one though.  That's the third one. It's just realize Ezekiel chapter 33.  That's it. And then look, guess what? You bear the consequences of that. I don't. That's Ezekiel 33. That's the comfort to the profit of Ezekiel chapter 33. People will bear consequences. You know, I mean, look, there's a reason it says in Acts chapter 3 that the people will be destroyed from amongst the people. They'll be taken away. And that, like I said, that thing repeats itself again and again and again. And you know what? I mean, it just kills me. It kills me, by the way, that we will be literally a couple weeks away from, you know, the launch of the independent church. It's like we're almost to the end of the two years. And like our attendance is going down. I mean, we're literally seeing it now. We're literally seeing, but it's just Acts chapter 3. Where will people be destroyed? They'll just leave the people. They'll leave the people. It may be small at first. You know, they just stop coming every now and then. Start, you know, it starts with losing interest in spiritual things and you can fake that for a while. But eventually you will see people exit from amongst the people. It just, it kills me personally. Like this is like, you know, I want to go back to item number two and go insane personally and stuff like this. Because guess what? You know what happens in two weeks? It's not the finish line, folks. It's the start line. Did you know that? And we're starting with or without you. So, I mean, that is, I mean, it's not like, oh, we're sliding into home and we made it. No, it's the start. It's the beginning. Current of Matthew chapter 13. But you see it, you see people, they'll start losing interest in spiritual things. They'll start, you know, they'll start being more concerned about worldly things. It's so, it's so easy for me to see this. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous how easy it is to see this.  I told you. Back to number two. Let's just go back to number two. Matthew 13, look at verse 22. Jesus told you this too. He that received the seed among the thorns is like this person. It's like he that heareth the word. It's like he that heareth the preaching. He that heareth the preaching and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the world and he become unfruitful.  Greed infects everybody. I've seen just as many rich people and just as many poor people that are infected with greed.  So look, here's the thing about the watchman though. The thing about the watchman and why it's a hard job to be that watchman is that he gets full view of this, unfortunately. You know, he stands on the wall. He stands on the wall and he's like, and look, here's the thing. I'll stand on the wall and I'll keep yelling. I'll keep yelling as you exit, exit the city and you walk away from the city. I'll keep standing on the wall and I will just keep screaming and I'll keep blowing the trumpet. But here's the thing. And look, something, some people, some people, they just, they'll just keep going. They'll just keep going. They'll hear the trumpet.  And you know, the thing is, or maybe hear that one day they walked off the cliff. The nice thing, I mean, if there is a nice thing about, you know, the biblical church and a church that just preaches the Bible, it's that most times before things get really, really bad, people will get out of church because if they're into sin and they're into things that they shouldn't be into, they're just not going to want to be here hearing this, hearing this message.  But ultimately the preacher will see most of it because he sees more than you. You know, and here's the thing. One thing I've learned over the last couple of years and I've really learned this lesson is that I don't have to like this. I don't have to like watching that. But I also can't let it destroy me either. And it's not that I don't care. But the problem is this. If all I do is I stand on the wall and I scream at the people walking away from the wall and I keep blowing the trumpet and I do nothing but blow the trumpet at the people walking away. Guess what? There's a bunch of people inside the city that haven't walked away. And you know what? Those people deserve attention too. I mean, look, that's why you hear pastors say another thing I haven't fully understood until I was in the ministry in this position. That's why you'll hear pastors say people come and go. I mean, I heard the first couple sermons I heard like this. I'm just like, man, that's harsh. Man, that's rough. You hear pastors say, you know what? People come and go. This church is going to look different in a few years than it does today. Half the people here might not even be here.  And I'm just like, oh man, this guy doesn't even want me here. What's going on? You know? But I mean, the thing is, what are you going to do?  People come and go. You can tell people, you can warn people, but ultimately it's on them. And that's what the prophet has to realize. It sounds harsh. Never really understood it fully. But I can't let it destroy. Look, my wife can't let it destroy her either.  You talk about somebody who gets like no reward. People come up to me, great sermon, whether it was good or not. People, great sermon. Brother Jared, that's the greatest thing I've ever heard, you know, in all this.  It's just, it's just give and give and give and give. There's no great sermon, Miss Heidi, after the church service. But the problems are all still there. You know what, she's on the wall too. And she gets to watch people walk away too. And you know, women actually are more emotional and maybe a little bit more caring than men. It's harder. It's harder for them. I'm very logical. I'm like, well, I told them, have a nice trip into the wall. It's a little easier for me to do that. But with women, with ladies, I mean, look, that's why they're designed that way. They're to match us. Right? But look, it's, it's, we can't spend all our time and effort on the people walking away. Not heeding the warnings because guess what? There's still people on this side of the wall. There's still 39 people in church here this morning. It's not 54, but it's 39. And there's still 39 people here. And they need attention too. And that's the saving grace, by the way. That's the saving grace. Many people will not listen, but guess what? Some will. Some will. You know what? If I came to Fresno and one person got saved in 20 years, that would be worth my life. And I feel like that from the, that is, it's honestly how I feel. If my life gets one person to heaven, well worth it. If serving the Lord in my life gets one person to not go to hell, it's worth it. Look, that's my solace. That's my solace is the people that still stay inside the walls and will continue to do so. Look down at verse number nine of Ezekiel chapter 33. Verse number nine of Ezekiel chapter 33. Verse number nine, the Bible says this, nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity. That's not fun to watch that. That's not fun to watch somebody come down. And I mean, this is the extreme case of somebody who's maybe saved and walks away from the Lord and God kills them. You see that in the Bible too. That would not be fun to watch somebody that knew. And guess what? Your beatings are going to be harder if you know. So if you're not going to follow the Lord, look, if you're not going to follow the Lord, you're not going to do what the Bible says, you'd be better off not coming to a church like this. That's why people don't come that aren't going to do it.   But guess what? My responsibility is fulfilled. I'm clear. I'm clear.  Did you know that? But whatever, I'm not having God come down on me. You know, my responsibility will be fulfilled. I did my job. That's my reasonable service. I mean, I think all the time, don't get me wrong, how can I be more persuasive when I'm out so many? How can I be more persuasive to you all? How can I say these things in a way that will get you to actually want to listen? But ultimately, my responsibility is fulfilled as long as I read you the words of the Lord. And I hope I get better at it. I hope I get better at preaching. I hope I get better at expounding God's word to you and explaining and teaching you God's word. But at the end of the day, I'm just to warn you, not live for you. I'm just to warn you. And that's all I'm going to do. I'll do anything I possibly can do within my physical power on this earth to help you. Not just preach at you. I will help you in any possible way that I can.  I have absolutely no interest in that. None. That's why there's been so many, I mean, that's why there's so many sermons on like, you know, men doing what you're supposed to do, trying to raise leaders here. But look, here's the thing. I can see negative results coming for people. That's the hardest part of the ministry. As I think about the last two years and what's been the good things, what's been the bad things, the hardest part is seeing the negative results coming to people and just, I've told you. I've told you. And you know, was there something I could have said differently? Maybe. And I'll keep saying it when I can. But that's a small taste of the ministry right there with Ezekiel chapter 33. I pray that you all heed the word of the Lord in your life. But in the end, I understand that not everyone will. And you need to know that as well. I am the watchman, not the policeman. I'm to watch and warn. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


And the Beast is back. Adiban after a disappointing start in round 1 made a comeback with a smashing win today in round 2 of the Gibraltar Masters. He joins us in our studio. Adiban back on track after a slow start yesterday you had a job but today's game was very nice. Yeah also before the round Stuart came to me and he was like the Beast is back. And I think he didn't see my law yesterday game so yeah I was like okay I should play well today just first word. The Beast really is back with this game but first tell us how did you get this nickname? Yeah this I was trying to remember the origin story of Beast but I just could not and yeah I don't know maybe it was started from Tata Steel. Tata Steel where I started to play all this very interesting lines and suddenly after that I think I gained this name. And you were very happy to keep it. Yeah I came up with the nickname of my own but that generally doesn't stay. The name which people come up with that is what stays forever. And the name is very apt as we could see with this game but what happened where did Black go very wrong in this? Was it at this moment because Rukti 6 seemed a bit shaky? Yeah I think maybe he has to give up the pawn somehow because I am getting this thread with E4 so maybe something like... So already things have gone a bit wrong for Black. Yeah yeah because I thought maybe King G's pawn was not so accurate. I thought maybe Knight D6 but still I have some pressure with Queen at 6. But here yeah I was just waiting for like whatever he does even if he goes B5 I go E4 and that point was this. So after B4 you jumped with Knight. Yeah this was the point and suddenly yeah yeah he has to take otherwise B7 is hanging. This is quite nice because everything is very happy. Everything is hanging and if you take on G5... Yeah Bishop E4 and yeah he has to go Rb8 and he is like in Zookzong that I go Rd1, Rb7. You could also get your King all the way up if you wanted because nothing can move. Like short yeah. But he went for Rd6 here which didn't seem to help. Yeah yeah I think he just missed this idea with E4 completely and so yeah after E4 I think... Had you seen this motif before of E4? No no I think I figured. Like at first I thought it was not so good for me because I didn't see how to attack actually. I thought I needed a lot of time like H4, Knight H2 or like something like that. But then when I found out E4 like I was very happy because then like everything is very fast. So can you explain to us how it went with E4 and what was your calculation like after E4? Yeah surprisingly it's like very easy after this because if he takes I go Knight G5 and suddenly it's like just lost. He has no moves. Bishop G6 is like I'll win this piece and if he takes here and bishop E4 and he just cannot save the piece. And yeah E4, yeah this is the point. I think what he did is probably the best. Yeah rook c6 because if he moves the bishop then I get E4, E5 and just crush. This is interesting I was thinking what about bishop c6 here and... Yeah E5 yeah and also lost. So again everything hangs. H7 pawn the c6 bishop just collapses. Yeah here actually I was looking at some funny line like here, here and queen here. And now Knight of Sun and like all mating patterns. Yeah Knight 8-6 is coming. Yeah Knight 8-6 is coming and yeah if he plays h5 I will probably win the queen if needed. With just queen h8 and queen a. Nice. So he can't go bishop c6 here and after rook c6 it just... Yeah actually my original plan was queen e7 and yeah the point is same. Yeah bishop e4 I always have this knight g5. But surprisingly he has this queen c8 move which suddenly goes for my queen actually. Oh this is beautiful actually. After this the point is rook c7 and your queen is trapped. Yeah something. You don't want this. Yeah but the thing is okay it's probably still winning after this and if I am still probably winning but it's not as clear as the thing I wanted. So I thought okay queen a4 is okay he has to play bishop c4 and here I was again looking at some nice lines like e5. So you always just go e5 and break open the position. No because without e5 it's not easy to break this position because somehow it's different. So here he has to take and check. Here I was thinking some queen g5 and just I'm giving everything like here check and here a knight e5. Because otherwise it's not so clear. Knight e5 knight a7 and then I take the queen. Right. You mean if king c7 you take the queen. King c7 yeah probably I just take the queen. I mean if king d6 then you take on a7 and then you take the queen. And then it was all over after this because now you've got a really nice tactic with knight e5. Yeah probably there are other moves which are also winning but once I saw that this is winning by force I just thought I'll go for it. Knight e5 yeah. And yeah after this I think yeah here's no difference. The bishop joins and okay everything is collapsing. And mainly I think the main source of problem is the knight on b sound actually. Yeah I think I've never got into the game. And also with the move like e4 and e5 the bishop on g2 suddenly became a demon in all the lines. Yeah that's true. And now after results like yesterday which probably was a slightly disappointing start feels good to come back with such a win. Yeah yeah sure and also know it was funny. I was clearly winning and then I was clearly losing yesterday. At some point I was worse but then finally it was draw. So it was like a mixed feeling not entirely bad or. Alright well still early days long tournament to go. Thank you for joining us. Yeah thanks. And nice dress. Thank you.


Wonderful to have you here. Oh, I'm so happy to share whatever spirit brings to us. And I'm excited about the event. Obviously, I've been to the monastery. I know how sacred and how special of a place it is. And any opportunity that people get to be in that energy, to share in that vortex is going to be a great time. And I'm so excited about all of it. Could you just tell me your feelings about the first four and then the ongoing work of the Foundation for Inner Peace? Well, I have such gratitude for those four who said yes, even though they didn't know what they were saying yes to. But they felt it. And I love Helen's story especially. It's so impactful because here was a woman, unlike many people today who channel or have brought through inspired books and inspired works, Helen was the strangest candidate for this of all because she didn't believe she had no background. She didn't have anything to gain. Certainly, she had a great deal to lose, being a professor at Columbia University and all of her background being an academic. And yet she said yes and she stayed with it and Bill and the others, they just kept following that yes. And they built a foundation upon which we can all stand. You mentioned the foundation and we can look at that foundation in a couple of ways. The legal foundation really was an aspect of that energetic foundation that was formed by the original four. And we today reap such benefit and we should be so grateful for them and for what the foundation has continued to do all these decades later. Because if not for that yes, if not for the way that this amazing energy was to take root in the world and in our lives, we wouldn't be here. This message from Jesus and the Course in Miracles needed to have those willing receptors, people who said yes when they didn't have anything as we have had to look back on, there was no precedent I think you said. And to know that they did their job and now it's up to us. They were kind of like the original apostles 2,000 years ago but it wasn't just about them. It was about the second and the third generation. And even I think if you wanna be really literal about it, it has nothing to do with any of that at all. It has to do with my accepting this right now. And that is a gift that I receive from the people who have said yes and are saying yes right now. But it really is about this moment, realizing that there is but one extension of the love and the loveliness of God and it's showing up right here in this moment. It's beautiful. And we're having this event and it is a two-fold function. And the first is a celebratory function of this making the commitment. And the second is a fundraising event to raise funds for the ongoing work of the foundation for inner peace. So could you just tell me about what you're expecting for the event and anything else you'd like to share? Well, when it comes to events like this, my way is simply to show up and wake up and to be present and to have fun. That's a huge part of this, the celebration. When we come together and we celebrate this awakening, it is amplified. That's the power of community, of coming together is to amplify the experience that I am in. To have 150 or 200 people all in one place celebrating this awakening. And so to be able to come to the monastery there and do the same thing, to celebrate the foundation, to celebrate this awakening that's happening right now through each one of us. And that's what I'm excited about. The opportunity to come together and just to be in the presence, whether we're singing, meditating, sharing, sitting in a hot tub, it's all really the same thing. We're sharing in the presence. And I'm just so excited to be there and to be able to support the foundation at the same time is a great gift for all of us. And it's not a traditional retreat where there is teaching. It's going to be a lot of sharing of parables from the first four students of A Course in Miracles. And I really look forward to joining with everyone. We'll have yourself. And we'll have David Hofmeister and Gary Renard. And we'll have Carol Howe. And we'll have John Mundi and Rhea Felipe. And everybody is coming to share their presence. And that's what's so exciting is that there's so many people today who have heard the call and who have said yes. And each one of us has a critical role to play. And yet the beautiful thing is that it's already been done. It's already happened. We're just remembering all of this. But we may as well remember it with joy and celebration. And that's what we're going to be doing. That's what we're doing right now. But when we come together at the monastery, that's going to be a grand opportunity. And so I just want to invite everyone to come to sing, to pray, to celebrate. And let's enter into this experience fully as one. Beautiful, thank you. Thank you so much. Yes.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Sunday! I hope the weekend has been pretty good for you. We have a video today talking about this winter Wild Cards promo inside of FIFA 22 Ultimate Team because it is really starting to affect the market. Everything content-wise that we have had over these past couple weeks after Black Friday we're used to seeing the market drop in December. But this promo right here is really accelerating that drop and we really are in a market crash scenario right now with a lot of the prices that we are seeing on this game and even the drops that we've seen in the past couple of days. But moreover the drops that we've seen in the past like two weeks. So I want to take a look at the market right now because we have some prices that have been dropping rapidly in the current times, right? Take a look at Gold Mbappe, 1.09 million coins. This guy's under 1.1 mil. He was literally just a couple weeks ago, 1.4 million coins coming out of Black Friday when so many people had coins from opening packs waiting to buy their teams. We saw big-time market inflation, a lot of really meta cards went up and now a lot of these cards are going down. I want to talk about why the market is crashing, what's caused it and is it going to continue because I honestly think with this Winter Wild Cards promo being so good with so much content rolling out every single day, so many things you can go and do whether you're doing daily players, PCs, right? We've got icons that are now in packs with prime icons. We've got the, of course, the swaps objectives for Winter Wild Cards swaps or if you're just using any of these insane cards that are out as the promo team, there's just a lot to do and a ton of great content right now in this game and that is definitely aiding in this market crashing at the moment. I want to take a look at today on Sunday with potential cards that we might, are they going to do a mini-release? Are they not? We don't really know. There's a couple cards that we thought were going to be dropped like Maudridge, Jonathan David, those cards are not out so there's potential for a mini-release since this is a two-week promo and mini-releases have happened on Sundays before. I want to talk about prime icons again that have been added into packs, the daily SPC player that is leaked for today and also the base mid-pack is expiring today and I would be very, very surprised if they did not release another icon upgrade pack today on Sunday. That seems to be like a Sunday type thing to do. So we're going to talk about all of that stuff in today's video but first let's take a look at this market crash right because again we've talked about this promo, how it's been such good content for all parts of the game. Whether you like to grind gameplay, you're running icon swaps, you're running the winter wild card swaps through objectives and SPCs and getting those tokens and stacking those up for the rewards that will be coming out soon. I mean if you do like SPCs, I mean we had the Sau SPC yesterday, 4,000 upvotes, right? This card looks absolutely cracked. I know it's kind of hard to link him but for these kind of stats on a card like this, 95,000 coins is ridiculous. That is two days straight of really good value SPCs with Zaha and now Jabril Sau as a midfielder in the Bundesliga, right? We talked about him, Babu in yesterday's video is that hey if this Sau SPC is really good value just like Zaha and Cornet, the links to Zaha, he's going to go up, right? And that's exactly what happens and Babu card absolutely banged. So I think what you're really going to start to see is over this next week people are going to start to invest in cards that link to these leaked SPC players because they're just going up in price because EA is doing everything in their power right now to kind of crash this market further with how they're running this promo. They're putting out insane SPCs that are making people sell cards to go do SPCs and that is in turn dropping their coin totals on this game and that's why this market really is crashing and that's why we're seeing these price drops in the here and now. Take a look at Mbappe, right? Again, literally just 12 days ago Mbappe was 1.39 million coins, just like literally a week and a half ago. Now this card especially in the last week has dropped from 1.3 mil down to 1.1, dipping under 1.1, 740 on the Xbox. He's gone from 1.02 mil on the Xbox down to 740k. So really, really big drops. Now again, why is this happening, right? It's mostly happening on like the meta gold cards, right? If you take a look at like Gold Christian Ronaldo, 530,000 coins. Gold Conte is 200k. Gold Messi is 320,000 coins. He was 460k just a couple weeks ago, right? Most of this market is what's headed down but there's a lot of out of packs cards and just the whole market is really struggling to keep up in price at the moment because all of these brand new items are coming out and people are selling what they used to use to try out these brand new cards and also do a lot of the SBCs that are coming out as well, right? Take a look at like Ruben Diaz. He was 350k. He's now 270. Llorente was like 650. He's now 560. Ronaldo Sanchez was 900,000 coins. He's now 700k. To go along with some of these gold card drops, it's a lot of the out of pack specials as well. This whole market is just being devalued in terms of coins because of all the insane SBCs that have kind of come out since Black Friday, right? We've had the base mid-pack. We've had loads of player SBCs especially this week with the promise of more and that is just draining all the coins out of this market in a market that was very inflated, right? A market that was very inflated because people opened packs during Black Friday and they got a lot of coins. They put a lot of coins on in this game and now we're seeing the other side of that effect which happens almost every single year in December. Last year the team of the group stage promo really sparked a market crash around icon swaps time again. Now this year we have the icon swaps which is pulling people away from their normal grind of rivals and week in league and week in league qualification with their main team and it's pulling them towards objectives where they can get icons and packs and icon upgrade packs, right? So that's pulling some of that gameplay demand away from people building their main squads and doing objectives which is making prices drop on the market as well alongside with everything that is insane about this Winter Wild Cards promo. I honestly think that these prices, they're going to keep dropping, right? You've seen a lot of prices drop on the market and I think it's going to continue. I do think that it is because as of right now people are still talking about what is to come with the team two of the Winter Wild Cards promo. There's leaks even started to circulate about how insane like the second week of this promo is going to be like during Christmas, right? So with that kind of hanging out there and a lot of people, you know, seeing the daily SBCs and seeing the Winter Wild Cards swaps at the moment, I mean people are just in the mood to try new cards because these brand new Winter Wild Cards items that are coming out as well, they're literally upping the power curve because these cards are so good. They have insane upgrades, skill move, weak foot. The pack weight is very high on them so they're cheap and that's really changing this game a lot. It really is and that's why you've really seen this market crash is because there's big time new alternative items that are on the game that people want to go out and use instead of the cards that they have been using for such a long time in this game already, like some of the gold cards that we were talking about. So that's really why you're seeing this market crash. Now again, a guy like Mbappe, he if you take a look at his price right now, he's 1.1 million coins dipping under 1.1 mil. That's a big undercut right there. If we take a look at his price from last year, how far did he drop off last year? How much can we realistically expect him to drop this year if we kind of base it off of last year, which is not the perfect picture, right? But it should give us some sort of general idea. Last year Mbappe was about again, or this year he's 1.38, he's dropped down about 300,000 coins, right? Last year Mbappe was also 1.3, 1.4 million in early December and he dropped all the way down to 855k right before Saturday at the start of Team of the Year, right? So he literally dropped for a whole month in price going down every single week down into the under 900,000 coin range. Now Mbappe this year in my opinion, his card is more OP and more popular and well known and used even than last year's Mbappe card. If I'm being completely honest, this card was of course a beast last year, but I think Neymar this year is like the best gold card in the game. And some people say this is the best card in the game regardless.  I mean, I definitely though could see Mbappe pre-Team of the year sometime in the next two to three to four weeks going down under a million coins. I really think that he can go under a million coins on PlayStation. I think another 10% drop on a lot of these meta cards on the market is absolutely possible. I mean you think about the increased pack weight that we have had on these cards this year as well and how the whole market generally Conte like last year would have been 500K or 400,000 coins at this point basically and he's 200K flat going down 150K. This card's almost halved in price since Black Friday. Almost halved in price since Black Friday. It's absolutely crazy. And you know, this is even after he had the flashback SBC, which so many people did and still use in their teams. I just think that with the supply this year on the market as well, these cards getting packed so more heavily than they haven't ever in years past. I do think they are going to see this market continue to fall out of packs cards and the impacts gold cards. So that's just kind of an outlook for you guys. Now some items are going to have fluctuations because if there are live cards like these numbers up items or you know, road to the knockouts, which technically should not be, they're not rising anymore based off of upgrades, right? Because these cards are not getting upgraded anymore.  Like finally, Frankie DeYoung is getting down to a price where he belongs 515K after still being way too expensive. These cards are not upgrading anymore. I saw these cards move when they released the draw for the knockout rounds a couple weeks ago, like Rodrigo went up in price after Real Madrid's initial draw and then on the redraw he went down. These cards are not affected anymore, right? These are literally just informed items, basically no more upgrades to these cards. They've gotten all their upgrades. So, but again, in general, I do think you're going to see the market continue to drop over the next two to three to four weeks until we get to that team of the year timeframe, which is again like Black Friday where people expect the market to pick up afterwards. So, as we head through this week and with the Winter Wild Cards promo, especially today on Sunday, right? Let's talk a little bit about today on Sunday. If we have another base mid icon, SBC today, I really just think that that's going to drop the market even further. You're going to see people selling cards to go out and do this SBC, because right now, SBC fodder is low. SBC fodder is still very, very cheap. If we take a look at some of the prices, 86s are still like 11,000, 12,000 coins, 88s are like six and a half, or sorry, not 88s, 85s are six and a half K, 88s are 23,000 coins a piece. If they re-release this SBC, it's going to be only 360,000 coins to do again. This could drop the market like it did last week, because that's a pretty affordable SBC and they're still releasing daily, literally daily player SBCs. We have Zaha and now Sao. Now supposedly today's SBC on Sunday is going to be this guy, Mr. Pandev, a striker in the Serie A, does not have the best links. Kind of a similar scenario to like Jabril Sao from yesterday, but like look at this card, right? Supposedly he's four star, four star. Now again, these are league stats. These are not confirmed. These stats could be incorrect, but so far the leaks for the players themselves have been spot on. So I would imagine this SBC is very cheap and that looks like a pretty interesting card. So if that's like less than honestly like 75,000 coins, that's going to be a card that some people just go on and do because it looks cracked. So if we continue to have content like this, the good value stuff, that's just going to pull this market down even lower. So that's kind of how I feel about the market at this stage. Now I feel like if you have a team, I don't necessarily think you have to panic sell everything. Like some cards like Akimi, if you bought Akimi last week for like 30,000 coins, you know, literally this past week 30,000 coins, now he's 23K. Like at what price do you say, okay, I'm just going to leave that in my team and not worry about it anymore because I can go out and make 20 or 30,000 coins trading in the next couple of days if I put my mind to it and, you know, make up that loss, you know, if you think of it that way. So I think the biggest drop offs that you could continue to see in the next two to three weeks would still be on your out of pack special cards. We're really watching the freeze ice or the versus ice cards because these guys are going to have that big compensation supply that it's going to come in. It has not dropped yet, but that's going to be soon. And once that happens, those prices I think are going to drop a decent amount. These versus fire cards are still pretty popular. Their prices are still up. But you know, Valverde 714 that is down. I think you're going to see these cards, Kunde 266 that is down. I think you still will see these kind of slide down with the rest of the market. So I guess that's just a bit of a warning. I think the market is going to drop down a little bit further next couple of weeks. So whatever that means for you, do you feel like you need to sell cards? Or if you just don't care and you want to hold them because the cards are so cheap already, that's kind of like a personal decision. But that's just kind of my mindset and how I expect things to go over the next couple of weeks in this game since we are in an SBC based and SBC focused promo at the moment. Now speaking of Winter Wild Cards, again, today on Sunday, let's talk a little bit more. We mentioned the icon upgrade SBC that could potentially be coming. There were a few cards that were leaked, right? Mulderich, Jonathan David, those were two of the big names that were a part of the initial promo drop that we did not see. Now, of course, these guys do not have cards right now at the moment for this promo, but we will be potentially seeing a mini release today. It's not guaranteed. It's not confirmed by any means. But if they were going to release a Mulderich, Jonathan David, or there's like one other card, I think they have not released yet, then it would probably be today unless those cards are not actually going to come out at all. So keep an eye out for a mini release. Again, today also keep out for that icon upgrade SBC and the pandev SBC. It's a combination of all of those things right now that make this market very interesting. Now, tonight, I'm looking at a few of these cards again. Last night, these Winter Wild Cards, they exploded, right? Pogba went from 1.55 mil all the way up to 1.7. Right now, he is chilling in the low 1.3s. 1.348 is what this Pogba was. You know, these cards are very interesting to look at because they have a very high pack weight and a lot of the cheap ones are very cheap. But also, you have a lot of cards in here that are very meta that so many people want to go out and try for their squads and try for their team.   If I could snag one of these like close to 1.3, I might try to flip it into tomorrow on Sunday because or today on Sunday because that's just, that's a really low price. Fabinho yesterday went from 500,000 coins all the way up to like 600, almost 700,000 coins. I believe right now he is again in that low 500 range. We've got squad battle rewards today, which I do think is going to bring some supply to the market. So I'd be very careful if you're trying to trade with these cards, you're going to have a bit of supply through squad battles because a lot of people did play that game mode this last week with the icon swap objectives out there. So there's going to be a little bit extra supply than normal in my opinion on some of these cards. But again, you think about a guy like Paul Pogba. I mean, how many people are actually going to pack a Paul Pogba from squad battle rewards, right? Probably not that many. So that's why we're keeping a close eye on a few of these cards for a potential rise into today on Sunday. And they're they're just that popular that the people want to try them out and people want to put them into their team. So we're going to keep an eye on that. Also, we had some the first batch technically the first batch of the prime icons added to the game. Now I've been watching a few of these prices that haven't bought any or sold any. But as you can see, these guys move a ton, right? Stoich cob was 2 million coins. Now it's got a bid at 1.5. This Baggio, right? You have a million coins open bid there. I saw him so for 1.1. So trading with these cards right now, like, man, Javi 1.28. I thought that was pretty cheap. I thought that this Balak at like 1.35, I feel like this is even kind of cheap for a day one price. These cards are going to be, you know, kind of crazy fluctuators on the market since they're very, very rare. Rooney, I watched Rooney sell at 2.5 mil right now. He's sitting at 2 mil. These cards are going to be very expensive early on.  But that does not mean that if you want to take some risk and trade with a few of these cards, you're going to be able to make some good flips on them. You really are going to be able to flip them and make profits because they're just very rare and people want to get their hands on them and try them out, right? This Roberto Carlos selling at 2.35 mil for the prime Carlos card. This is a Don selling at 11.4 mil for his new prime item. So again, if you did not see it, it's on a loading screen right now too. But these are some of the icons right now that have primes out and available in the game. It's definitely not every single one. As you can see, it says it's batch one, right? We don't have Ronaldinho in here. We don't have Rude Hullet. We don't have Maradona. So there's definitely some cards in here that are not included as prime icons that will drop later on. But if you're on like companion app and the web app as well, I believe you can't search for them. So what I've been doing is going icons, chemistry style, basic, minimum by now like 400,000 coins. So if you're having trouble like searching these from your app, since there's a lot of lightning rounds and a lot of people are packing these icons for the first time, you can search them under the basic filter. And you can see here, right, we have an Essian 3.4 mil for Essian. Nah, he's actually 2.8, right? Or Eusebio. Eusebio prime 9.5 million coins. Over Mars prime 650k. He's an icon swap. So that's kind of interesting. Rui cost us prime card, bird camps prime card. So if you're having some issues searching for these items, Maldini 6 mil, 5.9. Wow, that's kind of crazy. Zambrata. So that's kind of how you can do that. But these cards, honestly, if you want to risk it, it's a big time risk with these, since they're very rare. But people are probably going to wake up today on Sunday and try a few of these cards out, right? That's why I'm at least tempted to maybe try to flip one of these as, you know, there is going to be some lightning rounds, most likely, but you'll probably, if you find the right card and you find the ones that are the most hyped, the ones that are the most popular that people want to try out, like this Javi card looks so much better than his other versions. So this one's sitting here at like 1.32. If somebody were listening at 1.2 mil, I'm pretty sure I've seen Javi sell at 1.28. I would get very interested, you know, at like a 1.2 mil on that card. Stoichkopf, I believe, he's like a bit at 1.5, 1.9 flat on that listing. So if I saw like a 1.6 on Stoichkopf, I'd get interested. You know, it's all about finding an undercut on somebody who packs a card and is like, man, how much is this worth right now on the market? How much can I undercut to actually get the sale? So that's kind of influencing icons a lot. The market's moving a lot on those. But if you're not really wanting to get really risky, just be careful with that. Now some of your baby icons did rise up. I think some of these rises on these base icons, though, were a bit premature. I do think they're a bit premature because some people just saw that the cards went out of packs. So they literally just went to the market and bought some of those icons right away. And I just don't think that's a smart move because there's a lot of stuff to happen on the market still like this week and to next week before I would really, you know, say, okay, maybe it's a good time to buy some base icons for your team. I really don't think that's going to be a specific buy time on those cards until we get more towards the team of the year timeframe, which we are still about a month away from team of the year. It seems right. So that's kind of my thoughts and my opinion on the base icons at the moment that have gone out of packs. So just some added thoughts in there. But yeah, today's going to be a very interesting Sunday. These Winter Wild card items, whether we get a mini release today or not, since there is continual insane SPC content planned for later on this week, I would be very careful with these cards. I would not be holding them long term. If you're going to try to flip, try to trade with any of these items, make sure it's a quick flip, make sure it's a short trade. And if you have any of them in your team for this weekend as well, make sure you're not holding on to them for too long, because I do think that these cards, since they do have a high pack weight, they're going to get packed throughout this week. We're going to have more SPCs and stuff like that. And it sounds like we're going to have an insane team two of this promo as well. So I would just be very careful holding on to these cards, especially since they're so early into their time being in packs. I feel like there's more supply coming later on this week in this game. So that's kind of the video for today, boys. Again, I know we talked about like the market, the market crash and stuff at the beginning. It's a legit market crash. It just hasn't got the publicity of a legit market crash right away, because the crash wasn't like an insane one day drop. It's kind of just been the past couple of days, stuff has really started to down drop down in price, just due to people focusing on other areas than just their team. And there's icon swaps and all the other avenues of gameplay and things in this game right now that can take your attention. People are focusing on that sort of stuff, and not necessarily buying the best team possible that they could buy for a weekend league type of thing. Wow, this Campbell was 700k and now he's listed at one mil, right? Crazy. That's how these icons fluctuate. They go up and down crazy amounts in price, and that can create potential for some big time flips. So I do think the market's going to continue to drop down, though I really do think that it will. And that's just honestly, because a lot of people are excited about all these SBCs that are coming out and the content is so good on this game. And if people are losing coins, they got to sell some cards to go get involved with SBC. So that's my thoughts on the current market. I'm hoping we get a mini release today. I want to see that Marjorich. I really do. And hopefully the Panda at SBC. And I do think that we might get another icon upgrade today. So keep an eye out for that. That could be a big day of Sunday content if you have a 22. So if you enjoyed this video, smash thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions, and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan with Accountant. I'll catch you guys later. Peace.


We started with breakfast at Ohakea Air Base this morning. We didn't have to travel far, we hitched a ride with the Fishpot Cafe truck and we ended up at Clifton Street School and we met a very special young lady, Ella. Now, Ella, you're receiving one of our checks today, what are you receiving it for? Swimming lessons.  It's not the only thing that happened this morning, there was enough wind and enough time for a little flyer kite. Let's go fly a kite. But we can't hang around here, we've got places to go and people to see, we're off to Ohakuni. But guys, what's in Ohakuni?


Funeral services were held at Pikeville High School for Hall of Famer and Pikeville Panthers number one fan, Ronnie Ford. Many came to attend the funeral in remembrance of Ford and out of respect for his family. Various Pikeville High School sports teams attended in their uniforms and their Letterman jackets to honor the Panthers fan. According to his obituary, he was a good man with a pure heart. He certainly knew no stranger and was a friend to all, caring and loving to all around him. The obituary goes on to say, Ford is at peace in Heaven's end zone forever in our hearts. The community is certainly facing a heavy loss and Pikeville High School football will not be the same without him. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Fidell.