And that's my desire today to do in this place, to share something from the heart, preferably from the heart of God, and something that will help us to live closer to Jesus and fulfill our destiny in Jesus' name. Amen. If you have your Bible, let's go to Matthew chapter 21. And it's a famous story that you probably have read many times. You might have not seen it in this light as you're going to see it today. Matthew chapter 21.  If you are posting on social media, you can hashtag VladHungryGen. I have Twitter, Instagram, except Snapchat, because I'm too old for that and stuff. But I have all of that stuff. And if you have one of those social media links, you can follow me. And we can be hashtag friends. In Jesus' name. Matthew 21. And I am going to actually read the story of Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem.  Switch from King James in Jesus' name to new King James, because it's just the harder.  And I believe the Holy Spirit is going to speak to us today in Jesus' name. Matthew 21 verse 1. Now when they drew near Jerusalem and came to bephige at the mound of olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, go into the village opposite you and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a cold with her. Loose them and bring them to me. And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, the Lord has need of them and immediately he will send them. And this was done that he might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet saying, Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming to you, a lowly and sitting on the donkey, a cold and a fall of a donkey. So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. They brought the donkey and the cold and laid their clothes on them and he and set him Jesus on them. And a very large multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes who went before and those who follow cried out, saying, Hosanna to the donkey. Blessed is the donkey that comes in the name of Jesus. That's not what your Bible says, correct? I'm just following if you're reading or not. Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying who is this? This is our goal, amen. That our city will be moved, saying not who you are, but who is this? Jesus, amen. Does anybody agree with that? Anybody wants that for Charlotte? Anybody wants that for your city? That the city will be moved, saying who is this? And verse 11. So the multitudes said, so it's not just one person that said this, means the whole city now knew that this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. To get to verse 10 and verse 11, which is what we pray for, it's our desire, it's the will of God that verse 10 and verse 11 happens in every city, that revival comes to every school, that revival comes to every family, that revival comes to every region, that people will ask not who won NBA championship yesterday, which was pretty obvious it was going to be gold estate, that people will ask who is this? And the multitude will respond, this is Jesus, the son of the living God. Come on somebody, amen. This is our passion, this is our desire, and this is our goal, this is why we fast, this is why we pray that the name of Jesus will be exalted in our streets. We may not be able to bring revival to the whole world, but at least the world we are in, we want to see revival. I might not be able to bring revival to Middle East and to Africa, India and Siberia, but I want in the world I live in, in the world I have my zip code in to have revival, can somebody say amen? I want to be the carrier of Jesus Christ in my generation and in my city, amen, amen. So before I go into preaching, I know we have people from different churches where maybe it's not okay and normal for somebody to scream on the top of their lungs, and maybe it's not okay and normal for somebody to say amen, but I want to teach you for tonight, I want you to forget the church you came from, and I want you, if I'm preaching good, I want you to help me out. I will preach faster and shorter, amen, so you just help me out. If you agree, you just say amen, if you're like, you can't just say amen, it's against the rules of how you grew up, just nod. I will see that as a confirmation you're with me in Jesus' name, amen, amen, amen. God is good and all the time, amen, amen. I want to share with you tonight, I'm breaking free. I just finished yesterday writing a book that will be released at the end of August that will actually look just like this, so I just wanted you to give a little appetizer. It's been on my heart for a very long time. It's a journey of my personal freedom, journey of the freedom we've experienced in our church, from addictions, demons, curses, and other things, and it will be released on our conference at the end of our internship, and so I'm really excited for that. But tonight, I want to share something from the story of the donkey that I pray the Holy Spirit will be able to communicate to each one of us, including myself.  I'm in the same thing together with you.  Let's just open up in prayer, precious Holy Spirit. We've gathered here today. We're not here to hear a man. We want to hear your voice. We're here to learn at your feet. We want you, Holy Spirit, to have the freedom to shatter things that need to be shattered and build things that need to be built. I come against every spirit of distraction. I come against every spirit of heaviness. I come against every spirit of slumber. In Jesus' name, and I commend you, you have to exit right now. Every distraction that has to end right now. And I pray that you will give us ears to hear and eyes to see, and a heart that's open to your move, God. A move to what you want to do next in our life today, God.  We ask all of this in the precious name of Jesus, and everybody said, amen, amen, amen, amen. Come on, let's give Jesus a round of applause. Amen.   It's part of God's plan. And you have four legs, and you have a penis-sized brain. You're not developed. You can't go to school, but sovereign God has spoken about you through prophets. Your existence here is actually was his plan, and you're just a donkey. Now, if God had a plan for a donkey's existence, don't you think he has a plan for your existence? If God had a prophecy about donkey, don't you think he had about yours? I want you to write down point number one. If I mentioned point number one, if you could be just a little bit more quicker. Okay, so yeah, if we can make it black, just the whole screen black for just the point so that it'd be easier to see. Your birth was a part of God's plan. I want you to point to yourself and say this with me. Say my birth, come on say it like you mean it, say my birth was a part of God's plan. Chant to your neighbor, say you're not an accident. Chant to your other neighbor, say you are part of God's plan. God used your parents to bring you here, but he is your original and first father. He created you. He thought of you. He just happened to use your parents and their love story or lack of the love story, whichever case you came from to bring you into this world. You didn't come from your parents. You came through your parents. Somebody say amen. Now, don't go tell your parents that tonight. It's not going to be good. You might end up sleeping on the streets. But God only used your parents to bring you into this earth and sometimes he used perfect parents. Sometimes people have no parents at all, but you have to understand your existence was God's idea before there was a sparkle in your mother and your father's eyes.  You are not just a result of a love between a man and a woman.  One mother was a Christian. The father was an atheist. The mother looks at the daughter and says, listen, honey, we came from God. The daughter's eyes shine. She says, praise God. We came from God. She goes to her father. The father says, don't listen to this garbage. We came from monkeys. You came from monkeys. The daughter's confused. She's going back to her mother, say, Mom, I don't get it. You say we come from God. The father said we come from monkeys. Where do we come from? The mama says, honey, it's simple. I told you where my family came from. He told you where his family came from. You came from God. God only used your parents to bring you here and if maybe you've never met your parents or maybe your parents, God forbid, stuff happened and they're divorced and maybe you don't have a contact with your father or with your mother, I gotta tell you this is that your destiny is not dependent on your father or your mother. God only used them to bring you here. God was the one behind this whole idea. Don't blame them. Don't look back on that. Simple. Look at the fact that you were God's plan and you were God's idea. You're not an accident. You're not just a coincidence. God didn't just say, you show up and say, oops, let's find something for her or for him. Let's create a destiny. No, before anything of that, God already had a plan. God already had a destiny. Somebody say amen. A lot of us, the way we are today is because of people who loved us or because of people who didn't.  If you found yourself on drugs, not in all cases, but in many cases, you grew up in a home where there was no father.  And I grew up in a home where I had mom and dad. They're most amazing parents in the world. I've never seen my dad fight my mom. I can't say that about my mom. He's a Ukrainian woman. And Pentecostals. Jesus, a mercy. Their marriage was great and partially because my dad knew how to submit to his wife.  I think they're watching. But they're incredible parents. I've never seen my mom or my dad raise their voice against each other through stuff with each other. They had a perfect marriage. But my dad grew up from his father where affection wasn't practiced. You know, especially in the old school traditional Slavic family, if I provide for your needs, put something on the table, take care of you and put a roof over your home. I love you. I don't say I love you. I don't hug you. That stuff is for the American families. We mean business in here. We don't talk. We do. And if I do, that means I do.  That's how love is. And I was completely fine with it. Until a little bit later, I always craved my father's approval. I craved that affection. He was present.  My dad is an expert in fixing things. My dad has like magic powers to fix things, microwaves, dishwashers, engines, transmissions. He's a genius. He walks in the room, stuff starts working, walks out, stops working. I've seen this many times. You can ask my cousin, I'm not making none of this stuff up. My dad is a genius. He's a smartest man I've ever met. He can quote you a poem that has 12 stanzas he learned in fourth grade today without stumbling. He can tell you things about universe. And he never went to college. This guy is a genius. And I'm not like him. I can't fix things. I break things. And I remember that I saw that in my dad that when I became a preacher, my dad was happy, but I didn't feel that he was proud. And people in the city knew already about me, but I felt that from my father. Again, it wasn't his notion to create that, but I felt that. Being at the age of 24, I remember when the straw broke the camel's back. My dad went to shop at Lowe's. It's his favorite store. And as he was getting things out, the girl there, Nicole, is her name. She knows about our ministry. And she saw my dad's card and she says, oh, are you the father of Vladimir? And my dad says, yes, yes, I'm the father of Vladimir. He comes back home and tells us the whole story. He says the girl, the cashier at the Lowe's, she recognized my last name. Now I know how the story is going to end. I know why she recognized his last name because of me.  What you're doing makes a difference. People know you and everything. I just wanted, I don't care what people say about me. I just wanted to hear that from my dad. And my dad takes the whole story and spins it at the fact that his last name is awesome. He said, and she had a great memory and I was so glad. And I'm sitting, my mouth is open. I'm waiting like a bird. Drop me a crumb dad. Tell me you're proud.  I'm not selling dope. I'm selling hope. I'm doing something good. And my dad is standing there and he just spin there. And the whole family gathering finished. Everybody went home to their rooms and I'm sitting, I'm still living at that time with my parents.  It feels like that. I'm not saying he meant it, not at all. It's not his fault. That's the way he grew up. But there was something inside of me that craved that. My dad is building a home. And so I'm hoping that, you know, I'm going to go and help him by helping him. I'm going to get more brownie points. The only problem is that he asked me to cut tile. And it's a nice tile. Every piece of tile I took, it broke in my hands.  Please leave and go do whatever the thing that you do but just don't touch the normal tile because you're going to break all of it. And I felt like anything I touch, I can't please my dad. I can't win his affection and his approval. And I'm already married 25, 26. I had rides with my dad that would last maybe an hour sometimes. And it was awkward silence for a whole hour. I can talk to everyone about anything. I can't talk to my dad. And I knew it wasn't his fault. He's the best dad I could ever ask for but something was in me. And I'm going to tell you something that happened that fixed or started to fix that. It was a Japanese restaurant. My wife's idea, it was sushi place. And sushi places have the worst kind of appetizers in the world because they don't have appetizers. It's a plate this size and has six leaves that they picked from the backyard of the restaurant and has a little syrup that they drop on those little leaves. And that's about all. I'm used to the appetizer from Olive Garden. After you eat the appetizer, you don't order anything because it's unlimited, bottomless, breadsticks and salad. I mean, it's an appetizer. You can feed your whole Ukrainian family that has 10 kids. Correct? So there I am sitting in this restaurant and I saw the guy come in with an appetizer. I looked at that and I'm mad at my wife and I said, babe, I told you we shouldn't go restaurant Olive Garden right there. You can eat actual appetizer in here. It's for pictures and nothing else.  And she told me something that later on Holy Spirit used.  They're meant to wetten your appetite for what's to come.  He says I sent your dad as an appetizer not to make you satisfied, but to make you thirsty for the real love that never ends. And that's my love. He says some parents come as the salad at Olive Garden. Huggy, smoochy kisses and I love you and many emojis and all of that little thing. And some parents, they're like that Japanese appetizers. It's just enough leaves to provoke within you a hunger. An appetizer was never meant to be the meal. God never will allow, listen to me very carefully young people, God will never let anyone in your life to take his place. He will cause people to only wetten your appetite for his reality. And if sometimes the absence of your dad or your mom only provoked the hunger, it's God's purpose so you will seek his face. I realized my dad is the seven leaves. He's supposed to only quicken that I will expect more out of God and less out of my dad.  I went to prayer, don't get me wrong, I depended on God, but I really needed things from my father and things switch. What I depended on my dad, but I really needed things from God. I went to God and I say God, I am broken man. No, I don't do drugs. No, I don't do this and that, but God, I'm a shattered. If you don't fill me with your information, I will chase it in preaching. I will chase it in comments and followers and accolades. I will chase it in money. I will chase it in other things. God, if you don't fix me, I'm a dead man. And God's presence started to fill that void. And I no longer, please forgive me or if you don't understand what I'm going to say, I no longer needed my dad to say anything. I no longer needed to impress him and I no longer needed that from him and something different happened. It was in California at the revival. One conference I was speaking and after the conference, I get a text message from my dad and now my parents are Ukrainian, so as you can imagine they're on text, they call. To get a text message is a miracle in itself. And when I read the text message, my dad, it was from my dad, not from my mom. And my dad says this, he says, me and your mother, we watched the service. And he says, we were both in tears. He said, you have no idea how much we're proud of you. That you're our son.  And they just, he just literally showered. When I read the text message, a lot of youth, maybe 300 youth and I remember I was on the stage. I broke down like a kid. People thought it was the glory of God. It wasn't, it was the glory of God, but and I remember just literally bawling my eyes out because I no longer needed that. I already received it from another father and little did I knew what was holding my dad's release of affection was the fact that I didn't get it from God. When I got it from God, something released in him. My dad built a second house, crazy part. My tile skills improved. I wouldn't break a tile. I tried to break a tile and I couldn't break the tile. Me and my dad became close friends. He would call me for advice. I would call him for advice. Our relationship repaired when I stopped looking to him as my abba, but I looked to God and received the reformation and realized my dad is an appetizer. God is my main meal.  He wanted to use them as an appetizer so he can introduce himself to you, but some of you, you're mad at your dad.  The only reason they give you six leaves, that's what their mama gave them too. Don't be mad at them. Eat the six leaves, thank them for it and expect the real meal. Don't leave the restaurant. Don't leave the church. Don't leave God. Wait for the real meal. Wait for his love. Wait for his affirmation. Somebody say amen. Somebody who knows that God loves you, give God a shout of praise right now. Come on somebody, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah. God's love is the main meal. Your parents is just the appetizer. You can just go on your phone today, change their name. My appetizer. When they call you and if your parents are amazing, put bread and sticks and salad, but my appetizer, but God is the real meal. When you're married, your wife is the appetizer. God is the real meal. Come on somebody, amen.  God only used other sources, but he had a real plan. I want you to see the second thing, if you can put a second point up, is that before, I'm going to stir it together on the count of three, one, two, three, devil binds those God plans to use. I want you to see this, not only the donkey had a prophecy, but when Jesus tells disciples to go bring the donkey, we find the donkey not in a chapel worshiping the Almighty God. We find the donkey being tied and being bound, and Jesus commissions disciples and says, I want you to go and loose that donkey. Why?  Your chains is another confirmation.  He will chain you up with insecurity.  For some people he chains them up with porn, with some people he chains them up with cigarettes, with others with weed, with some with alcohol, with others it's with lust. Satan finds whatever chain that you will be more susceptible to receive, when he chains you up, it's actually already a sign. God has a plan for your life.   See, God wanted to use David to kill Goliath. That's why the lions and the bears were attacking him.  Demons attack Jesus in the wilderness before he casts them out in a synagogue. I genuinely believe when the enemy seeks to attack you, it's because the enemy usually, devil is not the smartest, but he's also not the dumbest. He's been in the search long enough to know one thing he can smell when God wants to do something. When God was planning to raise, is this one better? Oh, okay. You know, before Moses, if we can lower it down, before Moses came in on the scene, devil was already killing babies. Why? Because devil has a good sense when God is up for something. Devil can smell it from afar when Moses is about to be born and he starts killing babies. If the devil is after you, I can give you a prophetic word from the Lord.  You know, my mother had a difficult birth when I was born. They were told that I'm not going to be born alive, but my grandma who has 16 children, she went to start praying and says, I don't take that, doctors report as reality. God gave her a prophecy, everything will be okay and the doctor says everything will be fine. But during the birth, there was a damage to optical nerve in my body and because of that, I developed a problem, a little problem with my eyes. I can see perfectly out of four siblings and both parents, I'm the only one without glasses. I can see stuff that I probably even shoot and see sometimes and stuff. I see really, really good. I don't have a problem with vision. But as I was growing up as a teenager, as a little kid, when you have, you know, like stuff like this with your eyes, as a kid, it doesn't matter because all the kids are cute.  Cute is baby ever. That is the fattest baby ever. That's not a cute baby. How do I know it's not a cute baby? Because if you would look like that, nobody would say you're cute. They would call you fat.  Because whatever is cute in kindergarten is no longer cute in high school. And I remember that in high school, I started to become aware of the fact that I am deformed. I'm handicapped. That I am something is wrong with my face. I'm not normal. I'm not good enough for people. In Ukraine, they gave me a nickname that had to do with my eyes. They didn't call me by my name. They called me with a nickname that described my facial expression. And I accepted that as norm. I was bullied, pushed around, and that was normal. In America, remember, I became so aware of my insecurities and my appearance that I became extremely socially awkward. I can't tell you from the age of 13 to about the age of 17, a one birthday party where I stayed at least till the half. I would show up at birthday parties even though my friends and I would leave. I felt awkward with people. People always felt awkward with me. I was the victim kind of a person. I didn't want to push myself on anybody and I couldn't relate with people. I didn't have close friends. My grades were garbage. I couldn't do good at school. And I was even skipping a class that had half of this amount of people sitting here because I was abnormally shy to stand in front of a group of people. I was scared of people. When people would meet me, the first question they would ask is not, what is your name? They would ask, what happened to you? And to me, it communicated this, everyone only sees one thing, you're messed up. So I knew killing myself probably is not going to be a good idea. I wasn't sure what I'm going to end up. So I said, but if God will kill me, it's his fault. So I secretly, I didn't plan it, but I secretly started to wish and secretly pray that God will cause an accident in which I will die. Because the world, I didn't, it's not because I was a bad person. I just did not, I knew the world would be a better place with me not in it. I was bound up like that donkey, every part of me. And I would go to church and sit in a suit. It's just like this. The preachers would get up and say things like, God has a plan for your life. And it would go in one ear and the other way. I'm like, if I would give you my face, you will never say that. I was mad at God. Why did he make me like this? Why did he allow this to happen to me? What did I do, God? Did I offend you? Did you know I'm going to do something bad to you? Why did you not let Hitler be born like that? He would have never become a Hitler if he would let him be born like that. God never answered those prayers. And physically speaking, I'm still the same person, but I cannot tell you what God did. God sent into my life a pastor, my uncle, who layer by layer started to unwrap these chains off of me and he started to speak life into me. And he started to say, God will use you. I remember I'm listening to him and I'm thinking, he's making stuff up. He has no idea. I have no desire to be in ministry. I have no desire to do this stuff. I'm not good enough in this. He would put me on purpose on this stage in a very place that's a place of my weakness. It's a place where I feel little like needles are poking me. And he would push me there.  He was loosed by his disciples. See, when God wants to set you free, not always he'll come down from heaven. He will send you a man or a woman. Sometimes he'll send you a rehab center. Sometimes he'll send you a conference.  He will send you a sermon on YouTube. He will send you a book. He will send you prayer. He will send you fasting.  Somebody say a man. And he sent in my life a pastor who started to remove those lies. I didn't believe in myself.  And he started to speak honestly. Those words fell on deaf ears. But they fell somewhere in my subconscious. And slowly and slowly one rope after another start being removed. When I look back now and I see people's lives are being impacted in every single day. I receive more than one message of people all around the world who say I wanted to commit suicide. I was going through a difficult time and I stumbled upon a sermon. And I want to tell you something. I want to say big thank you. Little did I knew that 16, 18 years ago, devil knew I'm going to be dangerous. And he wanted to tie me up. He wanted to mess my identity completely up because I did not know God's plan. He did. And tired he was squeezing me. It's because he knew something is coming and he can't control it and he can't stop it. See the devil knows more about your future than you do. And when he's tidying you like this, he's crushing you.   A point number three is that God will use disciples in your life. God will use people in your life to bring you freedom. A lot of times what we do is we want God to supernaturally deliver us. We want God to remove our insecurity. We want God to remove our drugs. We want God to remove our fear.   But usually that's not how it happens. God sends Johnny and Peter. God sends James. God sends John.  And if you become obedient to that, you will begin to see the results of freedom in your life. I wish I would tell you it was the prayer of some anointed preacher. It was my pastors.  You will speak at large conferences. You will pray for the sick. The church is going to be big. People are going to be used. You guys are going to prophesy. You guys, I remember a little, I was like pastor, you're like a broken record. I'm like, do you even believe in half the things you say? I'm like, don't you see I got caught stealing a bicycle at the age of 14 from Goodwill on Saturday. I'm no good at this stuff. I'm horrible. And you keep saying this stuff. And then pastor would do it publicly. Sometimes we would have a conference. He would get us up and we're like 13 year old standing there like, you know, like fobs, safe, afraid of the bull and stuff. So oversized stuff and just standing there and pastor would stand there 15 minutes. And he goes out and we just standing there like, when you see, we're like, we're embarrassed and everything. Little, little did we know every single those words that he spoke, God used that man to start it to bring freedom, to start it to bring change. Sometimes God will use a conference. Sometimes he will use a service like this. Sometimes he will use a sermon. Sometimes he will use a book. Sometimes he will go on seven day of fasting. He will use the fasting and things that all the men of God did. Lay their hands on your head. Nothing happened in that fast six will snap something. Listen, never put a God in the box in how he wants to bring freedom in your life. When you are desperate, when you are at the point of no return, God will find a way to bring you freedom. Somebody say, amen. Any free people we have in the house tonight. Come on, anybody who experienced that freedom, can you give God some praise right now? Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. When I was younger, I always said, this is the only way God delivers. If you do this, this, this, this, the older I grow, I realize God can set people free in the most unusual and unique ways. Some of the people in our team and some of the people even on this team, the way God bring that freedom is different in the way he did it for other people. But the most important thing is there is a God and he wants to use things to bring freedom in your life. Can somebody say amen? Amen. So number three, I want you to look at this again, is that discipleship delivers and guides. So when the disciples of Jesus brought freedom to the donkey, I want you to notice this. When they removed the ropes around the donkey's neck, when they untied it from whatever it was tied to, they dealt with the owner, calm him down, say, everything's cool, homey, relax.  It's Jesus who needs it. You heard of Jesus, that's him. He's going to use that. And next thing that happened is the Bible doesn't say that they let the donkey go where the donkey wanted to go. They took the donkey and they didn't sit on that donkey. They didn't beat the donkey like Balaam. He did it to his donkey because she was seeing more things in his spirit than he was, so much for being a prophet, quote unquote. And so they didn't simply told the donkey, hey, there's GPS. Find your way to Jesus. Good luck. If you need any problems, hit me up on WhatsApp and Viber. I'll be available. They didn't do that. The Bible says that they stood right beside the donkey, most likely, and they brought, meaning they led the donkey all the way to Jesus.   You're like, this is cool. This is awesome. And then you finally tasted a little bit of freedom only to find out now you're under control of two guys who supposedly brought you freedom. You're like, man, I went from one bondage to another. What was the difference between living there and living here now? These guys are quote unquote controlling me, not letting me do what I want to do. They're telling me what to do, bossing me around and all of this stuff. When God sets you free, he doesn't give you a ministry. He gives you mentors. Write that down. When God sets you free, he doesn't give you ministry.  It's only because you still have a lot of ego and pride that needs to die.    Amen? And when you're 35, you think they're like godly. They're the best thing in the world. What happened?  At 25, you grew up and at 30, you're mature. That's all it is. But what happens is when we get freed, God right away doesn't let us go.    Just got freed. What's anybody doing tonight? Want to chill? Want to hang out? Finally free? Want to breathe the fresh air of Jerusalem?   And God sends people who walk besides that donkey. See when the Lord in my life and until this day, he had my parents and he had my pastor who were walking beside me. I mean my pastor up to last year micromanaged my sermon and corrected every sermon that I preached. I mean I did not exaggerate one word that I just said. Corrected every sermon. As of today, I have typed sermons 800 about 80. That's 880 corrections. Some corrections lasted from five minutes, some two hours. And some were explicit, clear. And I'm talking about things like the hair, why you're talking too much, why you're laughing too much and all this stuff. And I'm thinking my pastor, I am 26 years of age, our youth group is growing. I get invited to preach at the conference. You don't get invited to preach at the conference. And young people love my sermons. I'm connecting with them. I'm not trying to please you. I'm trying to serve them. You don't know my approach. I'm thinking in my head and pastor is chopping, chopping, chopping, chopping. And it almost felt like sometimes he was trying to control my ministry. When in reality, he was trying to shape a ministry. And I had to say, sir, yes, I will get better. I will improve. I will improve. Then God gave my parents with whom I lived till 24. My American friends always made fun of me. And they said, you'd better live with your parents. I had a rental property. And I said, you live in the rented apartment. I just, I like to clown on people. Sometimes you clown on me. It's my thing. And then I said, well, it's funny part is that when you get married, you're going to move back with your parents because you broke like a joke. I'm like, I'm sitting my money living with my parents. Plus the Bible says leave your father and your mother when you have a wife to cleave. Not when you reach 18. So I'm like, I'm actually more scriptural than you are. Anyway, and if you are here and you think it's completely not cool to live with your parents, hey, God bless you and stuff as long as you're not broke. But and so I would live with my parents. And the most annoying part of living with my parents at being a youth pastor is when I walked into the house, my title will get left in the backyard. Like they didn't care I was a youth pastor. Nobody, nobody adored me in the house. There was no red carpets. My siblings didn't call me Reverend Ladd. It was always this, and my parents, I'm 24. They're expecting me to be home by nine o'clock or 10. I'm like, I got a nation's to disciple world to save. I got a nation's to shake. And my dad's like, where are you? It's 10 o'clock. I'm like, dad, I'm about my father's business. You gotta be home in 10 minutes. And I was like, my parents, what is this? So one time, I have this bad problem till this day, but God gave me my wife. So she helps me with that. I don't care about what I wear. I absolutely have no idea how to match clothes. I don't care about clothes. I just whatever I put on that just what I what I walk in. And I had this blue, extra large sweatpants. They were they were for the gym. I used them for the gym. I used them to mow the lawn and I used them to go to church. Why? Because I don't care about clothes. I just put them on and just walk it. And plus I felt like I was Gigi Jakes. Gigi Jakes in old videos had this like long, long pants where you walk and he's like, they walk with him. And I love them. So I'm a young man, live with my parents, have a camera, take your camera, have my own car. I really have like a property. So I'm like, I'm a successful young man, plus I have a ministry. And it was Thursday night. I got my Bible ready to go to church and preach.  And I put out my blue, large sweatpants and Sunday Ukrainian shiny pointy shoes. So I walk out and literally, not only doesn't match, but those pants, they're just not good.  I said, you've been in our church for so long. You don't know what I'm going to taste. There's the night I'm going to church. I'm a youth pastor. He said, not in those pants. I said, yes, in those pants. Have a little attitude. And I'm so, I walk off the house.  And in my mind, I'm like outraged against my dad, because he doesn't see as God sees, God looks at the heart. My dad's only looking at the pants. It's just the old school tradition of Pentecostal thing is not dying fast enough in him. And I'm sitting there. I'm about to put a keys into the ignition. And I hear still small words.  But, but, but it's, it's right there. Just like this quiet. So my first reaction, you know, young foolish and if you could, if you could devil in Jesus' name, get out of here. I give you a word in the scripture right here. It says, God looks at the heart. I put the key in the ignition. I start the car. And it says again, lad, just go change your pants. I realize I'm like most like, it's not the devil. It's probably high chance it's God.  The reason why I can't is because if I walk back into my house, my dad is going to see me humbling myself. And he's not going to embrace me like a father embraced the prodigal son. He will stand there and give me that, you know, that Russian look. It's about time you learn rose in this house. That kind of like proud, arrogant look, like he conquered me like that, like I'm like his victim or something.  I'm like, I'll do anything for you. I'll die in India for you. I just cannot live to see my dad, see the thinking he's better than me. He's superior. He conquered me like I am his dabicha, like I'm his victim. And I felt that God said, lad, the only reason I want you to change your parents is I want you to feel that.  That's who you are. And I felt that God wanted me to die to myself. You know, at that moment, it felt like if he would cut me into million pieces, it wouldn't hurt as much as to get up from my car, go to my parents' house and change the pants that didn't even match. Change the pants. They don't even like do, you don't even wear those pants to church because it just doesn't fit in that environment. And so I decided to do that. I said, Lord, I'm going as, as a lamb led to the slaughter.  The house and God just said, just ask you one thing. Just ask you one thing. If you could make this easier, give my dad a die, let him go to the bathroom. So he doesn't see that. I will sneak quietly in. I will get out. I will do whatever you want. I'll apologize. I just don't want him to kill me with that look. My God did not answer my prayer. My dad did not have a diarrhea.  No, my dad says, it's about time you learn. He says, what kind of a youth and my dad just going out and I'm like, Vlad, zip it.  And so I'm like, and I just walked. I changed and God moved that youth service. But honestly, you know what happened in that incident? I realized is that God puts people around us when we are young, no matter how much anointing you think you got, no matter how much degrees you got, no matter how much knowledge you got, no matter how much experience you got, no matter how much English, you know, no matter how much traditional your parents are in old school, no matter how much of that God puts that, not about your clothes. It's not about your makeup. It's not about the curfew. It's all about the shaping of your character. And when they say, don't bring that, don't date him, don't talk to her, it's not control, it's protection. Because in a place I live, when it rains, you wear an umbrella.   People that you date, people you fall in love with, they see things you don't. Six, seven months later, you will, but it will be too late. Somebody say, man, I want to tell you something.  If you are in their house, when you are out of their house, write this down. When I am in their house, I obey. When I am out of the house, I honor. Word obey means action, honor means attitude. So when you are in the house, you have to obey. Why? Because you are in their house. Even if you are 30, that means if you're 30 in their house, you say, well, I'm 30. Well, you're in their house. If you think you're old enough, then get out and move out. But if you're still living with them, if they tell 10 o'clock, if the spirit is moving tonight till 11, you better get up and go home. Why?  God didn't even say, I'll bless you if you don't worship idols.  You know, in our world today, we live in, and the big sin is like getting drunk, and it is, it's bad. But when Noah was drunk in the New Testament, God didn't see that as a super big deal compared to his son's dishonor of him. In God's world, dishonoring your father and mother is worse than getting drunk. It brings a curse on your life. When you live in your parents' house, they put a curfew, they ask you to do laundry. Listen, you want to get a blessing of God, I'll give you a key. Less fasting, more obeying. Less degrees, more respect for them. Oh, I want to find my destiny. Let me remind you, the first king of Israel wasn't looking for his destiny, Nevin took a course in the whales, or yales, and took a course, I want to be a king. You know what he did? He ran errands for his dad, and when he ran errands for his dad, his destiny found him. David wasn't looking for being a king. He simply brought cheese to the captain, and ran errands for his dad, and destiny found him. Don't look for your destiny.  Come on somebody, come on somebody, let's give God a round of applause right now. Thank you Jesus. When I live under the roof of my parents, I obey. When I am out of the roof of my parents, I honor. What does that mean? It's my attitude. It means I highly speak of them. I always honor them, even if I disagree with them. Even if they may not like certain choices that I make right now, because I go to a different church, I live with my spouse, and she or he wants maybe, you know, different kind of car, different kind of a pet, different kind of a house, different kind of a vacation, and the parents say, oh, you're wasting time, and everything. Even in then, I still have to honor them. Jesus obeyed his parents until 30, and then from 30 to 33 he honored them. How do I know that? Because when he was hanging on the cross and nails went through his feet and through his hands, and mama was standing there, he was arranging housing for his mom, because in the Jewish culture, the older son has to take care of his elderly parents. There was no retirement homes. So Jesus knew he doesn't have an older son because he's dying. He says, hey, Johnny, could you take my mama, and that she can live with you? And mama, could you go with Johnny? Jesus is arranging housing for his mama at the cross.   Come on somebody. Are you with me guys? I'm sharing real stuff today. And so I want you to see that the donkey had a purpose on the plan. I want you to see that the devil, you know, changed. They bind us before God can use us. And then Jesus puts discipleship, meaning pastors and parents and both sides to help us go further in our destiny. And I want to bring this message to the most important thing that I want to share with you, and I want to finish and bring this message toward an altar call. And if you can put up the fourth point for us.  If you are the Lord of your life, you will use him. I want you to see this. Disciples are bringing the donkey to Jesus. And Jesus sat, somebody say sat. Everybody say sat. He sat on the donkey. That means, may I use this chair? Jesus didn't walk beside it like disciples. Jesus didn't walk behind it. Jesus didn't walk in front of it. He sat on it. He became the Lord of the donkey. That means he let it where he wanted to go. He controlled the donkey.  Donkey didn't say, hey, Jesus, I don't like Jerusalem. Last time I went there, didn't end up with it. Well, not going there again. The donkey didn't say, that's a long walk. My feet are hurting. You don't see the donkey complaining. You don't say, donkey, hey, Jesus, can we step by for some ice cream? Been always wanting to get that Jerusalem ice cream over there, that on that corner over there have always been heard people talking about it at ice cream. You don't see the donkey giving Jesus orders. You see Jesus leading the donkey where he wants to go. I'll give you a secret of how to be led by God. And I'll give you a secret of how to be used by God. Forget about being led by God. Forget about being used by God. Focus on one thing, that Jesus is the Lord, not a friend. See, Judas had Jesus as a friend and demons entered him. Judas called Jesus a friend, but never once Judas called Jesus a Lord.  Jesus is not your friend. If he first has not been your Lord. Many of you, you have Jesus as your savior. That's the problem. It will get you to heaven, but it will not change your life on earth. For your life on earth to change, he has to not be a savior. He has to be your God.  He has to sit on you. And what he wants, you do. You don't have a life after that. It's not what you want to do. It's not your plans. It's not your ideas. Oh, but I want to build my life. Well, that goes second.   Many Christians, this is what happens when God sets us free from our junk. He sets us free from our sin. He sets us free from things that hurt us in reality. We never wanted Jesus. We wanted to be free from pain. And when he gave us the freedom from pain, we do what we want to do. We always wanted to do what we wanted to do. It just, we got stuck in some issues that hurt us deeply.  And we used God. And we said, God, lead me. God can't lead you if you are on the throne. You got to get off of the throne. And you got to go on the cross. And he has to sit on the throne.  First settle this. Who is on the throne of your heart? I'm not asking you who is Jesus. Is he your saviour? Because I bet he is. I'm not asking if he is your healer. I bet he is. But many of us, and I'm guilty of this first and foremost, I've done this more than I can count. I actually did not want God to have more of me. I just wanted to be free from the pain and the shame and the guilt and the struggle of my sin. Not so that he could be the owner of my life as the sin used to be. Israel didn't want God. They just wanted to get rid of Pharaoh. And when God got rid of Pharaoh, they got what they wanted, which is what? To be free and worship the cow. Moses, his goal wasn't freedom. His goal was God. And he said, God, I can serve you and the Pharaoh at the same time. God gets rid of Pharaoh so God can take a place of Pharaoh. Did you know God never wanted to get rid of Pharaoh? He just wanted to replace him. God doesn't want to get rid of your sin. Only he wants to replace your sin with himself.  No, no, no, no, no, he doesn't want you to be you. He just wants to take the place of drugs, but you want to take the place of drugs now.  And that is the biggest mistake we make. It's when God sets us free. When God delivers us, when God heals us, when God encounters us, this is what we do. We get busy and listen to me very carefully, because this is a word for somebody. We are wanting to be busy, building our life from the ashes Satan destroyed it from, because we're seeing the friends who never got into that kind of a mess. They're so way ahead of us, and you got to catch up.  You got to get a car, you need to quickly go to college. Jesus, come on, speed this thing up. If you really wanted to build your life, you should have got into sin in the first place. Stop thinking about building your life. Stop that nonsense right away.  You will never, ever be normal again. Forget about normal. But I want to be like other people. You should have thought about that before you met Jesus, or before you met the devil. If you met the devil, or you met Jesus, you can never be normal again. Never normal again. Come on, somebody. You know how I know that? I look at Samson, because when Samson met Delilah, and he says, if you cut my hair, I will be like every other man. Well, the problem is every other man wasn't blind, and every other man wasn't walking in circles, treading millstone. Samson cut his hair. Did you know what happened? He never became like every other man. He became blind. He became bound. And he became dead. Why?  You will either adopt quickly and say, Lord, I am dead to my sin. I am dead to myself. And I'm alive to you.   But I'm no longer doing what I want to do. If you ever snap out of that idea, and start becoming somebody that I just want to be me, I just want to find my identity, I want to utilize now me and my gift, and you don't give Jesus the Lordship over your life. I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. You will go from one bondage of sin to something that's worse than sin. It's called selfishness.    But God is a means. If He doesn't answer one prayer at your time, you will drop Him like a hot potato, and move on to witchcraft or anything else, because your goal has never been God. Your goal has been you. And cross of Jesus kills, not only sin, it kills me. It crucifies me. No longer I. I can't use ministry to advance me. I use ministry so I can know Him. And He uses me to advance His kingdom. And if that means tomorrow He takes it away, if that means He shrinks it to zero, your will be done not mine. Because I am His servant. I am not His master. I don't give Him orders. I take orders. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'm going to live for you. Amen.  Some of you, the season that you are in will change if you will get what I'm saying right now. When Joseph, there was this revelation that came to me. When Joseph was a prince of Egypt, he was on this high chair, and people were suffering and famine. People were struggling. And they came to Joseph, and they gave him money. He gave them bread. No more money. They gave him livestock, animals. He gave them bread. They gave him land. He gave them bread. And they have said, we have nothing else to give. And I want you to see this. Joseph said, give me you. I want to own you. And the Bible says, when they sold themselves as sphero slaves, I want you to see this. Joseph no longer gave them bread. He gave them seed. See, when you stop giving God stuff, and you come and say, God, I'm giving you myself. God no longer gives you just miracles or answers to prayer. He flips your world upside down. Because now, he is in control. He pushes the pedal to the metal in your life. You're actually his uber. You're actually his taxi. He is the one that gets in a city all through you.  When your life is no longer yours, and you say with Paul, no longer I, but Christ lives in me.  And people get answers and leave God. But when you get him, because you gave him yourself, he begins to guide you. He begins to lead you. And I want you to see this. Famine ended when they gave themselves. As long as you give God stuff, there will be spiritual famine of selfishness.  You say, Lord, I got you. You got me. We're cool. Famine ends and God gives you a seed. No longer did Israelites gave ever, and excuse me, no longer did Egyptians give everything back. After they got a harvest, they didn't give him all the stuff. They only gave him 20 percent. But when they gave 20 percent, they felt that Pharaoh was generous with them, letting them keep 80. They didn't feel that they were generous with Pharaoh by giving him 20.  He lets you keep 90. When you are yourself, you give 10 percent, and you give with this, what are they doing with my money? Why? That means that you're still giving God stuff. Give him yourself, get over it, die. It's so much easier to live after you're dead. It's hard to tempt a dead person.   Same response, nothing. Why?   I'm going to tell you, it makes so much easier to be in church.  Another person fasts one meal. They walk around like they gave their whole life to God. But you walk completely different perspective, and you see different things happening in your life. You know why? Because your perspective changes when your life is genuinely not your own, in your own mind. If the Lord leads on your heart to empty your account and give it to His kingdom, now I'm not saying you, but like, yeah, it will pinch a little bit. But you will say, Lord, when I die, I'm not going to take my money with me. At least I can send it ahead of me to heaven, amen.  You will enjoy your church more, you will enjoy Christians more, you will see less hypocrisy, you will see more good in people.  Now you can plant some good seeds and actually flourish in your Christian life. When a grain seed dies, it bears much fruit. Jesus says in Revelation that if you want to overcome Satan, you have to love your life unto death.  I want to tell you something today. The hardest thing to die, to be free from is not your sin, it's not even drugs.  My goal is not to become successful. My goal is not to become famous. My goal is not even to be anointed. Jesus, my goal is to be yours, and for you to be mine. Jesus, use me as you want to use me. I promise, I will not use you. I'm not going to manipulate you, God. I'm not going to use you to get what I want, and when I get it, I leave you like a napkin in a garbage. I wish I would tell you, I've seen so many people. As of last month, I gave six cars away in the last four years. So many of those people in the beginning, they never came to church after they got a breakthrough, because they never wanted God in the first place. The God was a method, they needed to get him out of their hole. It saddens me, because in a matter of three, four, five months, they're back in the same hole as they were before, and the Bible says usually seven times more. If you get rid of your sin, but you don't surrender your life to God, and don't serve God as you served your sin, you create a vacuum for which you will invite demons, you will never know what to do with them.  Your best protection and antidote against that is to do one thing, is to surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and to do that today. Amen. I'm kidding. But seriously, what are you waiting for? Just subscribe.


Welcome to Docs Office Hours. It is the 4th of March 2021. So topics I had on my list included Contribute View Summit retrospective, Sheikot Africa Contributon, Google Season of Docs, Google Summer of Code, and Docs Roadmap and I think that last one we should just accept we won't touch it this, this session. Any other agenda topics that you'd like to put on the list. Okay, cool. So, survey was sent, sent for the contributor summit. Please be sure that you reply to respond to that survey, even if you didn't attend if you registered you should have received the survey and non attendance is is actually an important piece of data. Any comments that either of you wanted to offer directly here outside a survey or otherwise. Okay, great. Next topic then, Sheikot Africa Contributon. So, Zina, let's see, ideas are being collected. I'll, I'll gather them. I think I think I'm going to make this office hour session, the, the gathering place until we submit a poll request. I've got background noise that I need to fix. Sorry about that. Okay, so. All right, so we need to prepare a poll request to Jenkins.io proposing the Sheikot Africa project ideas. Any concerns there or questions or worries. No, just that I just wanted to point out that really appreciated if we could kind of like conclude this before the 19th of March, because that's when the participant application is going to end so that we can use this in selecting the participants that are going to participate in the bootcamp first be able to meet up with the first timeline. Okay, that makes sense. So I assume we'll continue discussing each week so our next checkpoint will be the 11th a week from today and and we should have it ready then invisible. Thank you. Great. All right. So, and then let's see the Jenkins project application to Sheikot Africa. Oleg has shown a very good model for us is how to do that. Mark draft answers to the survey publish them for review before we ever submit the survey for the answers to the questions. We publish them for review, then invite others to review and comment proposed application. It helps because then we use this to align with others will do the same thing with Google season of docs. Next topic on computing resources so Zina you mentioned that in the project ideas application we can describe their hey if we're if we're inviting them to do something that's documentation centered we can ask for someone with Linux, so that we don't put them through the experience you had of initially wrestling with Windows development that just wasn't really ready to do. Is it really common that the applicants would have access to Linux. That's another thing I can't really see. Okay, but I know Windows is more popular. I don't know, but I just know that most people have interact interacted with actually using Windows PC. So I can't really say but then again, even if you are to end up selecting someone to use a Windows using a Windows PC to work on documentation, I'll be happy to work with them, you know, in trying to set up their Windows PC to work documentation. Great. All right, just knowing that Windows computers are more common in Africa than Linux is already a good thing so that we we bias towards projects that can be done comfortably on on Windows like for instance the terminology cleanup because it's a Java compilation process can be done very confidently on Windows. Same with the pipeline examples. Good. Okay. All right, anything else you want to guide us on there on the contributon application. No, I think that aside information on projects, probably like a description, you really need to put in like a description of the project say if you're talking about you know, maybe like a description of what is about something like that. Probably if you have somewhere on Jenkins.Ivo that like you mentioned you're going to open a full request so you link to a page like that would be useful in the would be useful in the application form. Another usefulness of this information is at the end of the day, we plan to put everything on the program website like all the available mentoring organizations and the project. So that's where the description will be useful because we plan to put it there. Then also links to join forums that will be useful for anyone working on a particular project or working on the Jenkins project forums that you can join if you need help and things like that. Then also mentor information for projects. Then also a number of participants. Each project, see if you want one participant for each project also. Yeah. Okay, that you highlight a point for me number of participants per project. Some of these projects are in fact, they could in fact be done parallel if a team were willing to work together. And Kristen, maybe you should sanity check me just to be sure here but my thinking was, for instance, pipeline examples, or terminology cleanup might be a thing where a team of three or four contributors might gather together in a mentoring session with one or two mentors where we could actually get more contributors than mentors in the meeting and and be coaching them where they each take a different subset of plugins to work on. Do you think that have you have you seen anything like that done before do you think it could work. I haven't seen it but I think being able to kind of have a common time to do activities would be helpful. Maybe that'd be able to feel like the more the merrier. And be able to have everybody together. That way it's mentors or sorry the contributors can help each other, and it may not be as important to have so many mentors sitting on the same, the same place. Like that. Yeah, I think that might be an easier way to get people to help to. So, and I think that's, at least for me that that sounds, it sounds like it would be an interesting experience. A lot of contributors to assist one another, not just rely on, oh, I'm the lone person working on this project and my mentors are half a world away on a different continent. So, one of the reasons why another reason why we choose to have this set of things, you know, considering that we have a short timeline. So, probably my happy project that might be much for one person or one person might not be able to create that whole timeline. So having multiple people working on that project would kind of like you'll be able to accomplish more, you'll be able to support each other and you necessarily don't need to have more mentors when it's just probably one meeting or two meetings twice a week with all the mentees at the same time. And, and do you think that's I see since there's there agreeing to work full time on it. I think it's safe for us to assume that they can therefore adjust their schedules to meet. Good. Very good. Okay, super so that that is a that is an aspect that I had not considered thanks. Okay. I'm trying to check the phone. Sorry, you were, I missed that Zina we were trying to check. Yeah, I'm going through the phone. There's any additional information that I forgot to. Great. Okay. All right, anything else then on she code Africa, contribute on. Okay. All right, Google season of docs. Oh, wait a sec. I've got one more topic to add to the agenda. I'm going to take it in now I'm going to insert one site search. I have to show this plugins and dogs. In the in the contributor summit, one of the things that was listed as a roadmap item for the, the project was to support site search. So searching within the Jenkins site, and we've had plug in search for a while using a relatively complicated search interface that we've done ourselves. We've been using Algolia, and their search system makes the site the search is quick and tunable and we get all sorts of interesting metrics from them. And is really pleased with the results here. Now it gets even better is that now if I go to the Jenkins pages. There's also a search. And, and again this is offered to the to the Jenkins project by Algolia no charge. So we now have search. Now we need we need a little bit of, you can see that the layout isn't quite right and so we'd love to have additional tuning, but this only just arrived this morning. So, so we're really quite pleased it looks it looks good. It looks usable and, and now look it even fits its sizes down to 640 by 480 screen and still works. So it's, we're very, very pleased. So just FYI. If you're interested, it's, it may be a place that we might consider as a possible project idea. My guess is, it's probably not well suited to Sheikot Africa because there are a number of complications hiding in the structure of the site. But glad that site search is working, both enabled visible. There's more to tune and adjust to for for layout for content for search effectiveness, and we're working on next topic then Google season of docs. This is one where project ideas from the Jenkins project and I assume what we'll do is use the Sheikot Africa ideas process to gather ideas for larger scale projects in the in the in Jenkins. And at the mark prepare the poll request for GSOC 2021 Oleg has confirmed that we have the ability to handle the financial processing that we need. There were some relatively minor limits that he described in the governance meeting last, last day or two ago, looks good. Any questions on Google season of docs. Mentor recruiting will be the same challenge there although mentor recruiting for this one because the projects don't start for quite a while mentor recruiting is feels to me less crucial. If I remember right the writing starts in June. We've got some time to time to gather. Let me double check just to be sure. Accepted Doc Delva Oh no, I take it back to technical provider hiring deadline is May 17. So in May we'll start it so yep we're going to have to do some mentor recruiting as well. Anything else there. Nothing else. Google summer of code so the pipeline steps docs generator project idea which is a coding activity that directly helps documentation has been added Oleg's also done a nice improvement to this you fixed a number of mistakes I made in the initial submission, and it's looking much better. That's a that's a great, great result. So, Kristen you're still okay with being a potential mentor for this on the assumption that you'll only only mentor one, not we wouldn't have you mentor more than one. Sure. I think the big thing for me is like there needs to be more than one mentor for project. Yes, that's a big catch I like there needs to be more than one person responsible for helping to do all this stuff because that's not a fun experience. Absolutely absolutely well and and with the world of coven 19 I absolutely don't want us to sign up for something that has only one mentor right that's that's just too risk right right. Okay, good. We do have another one related to this the rest API when that that feels to me like almost a springboard or piggyback on this same concept. So we've got two projects that are related to Google Summer of Code 2021 and a direct impact on on documentation improvements there's this. There was it automated special the automatic specification generator for Jenkins rest API that looked like it could very much use the same techniques as. Yeah, I think it's going to come down from I think it's going to be very similar like the beginning part to generate to get the information is going to be the same it's just how it's how the information is exported or like what you're doing after you basically assemble the list of all the plugins. Right. Okay, let's see so also already includes rest API doc generator into that. Anything else on Google Summer of Code. Okay, and I don't have any progress to report on the docs roadmap inventory. I've got to do the, I've still got contributed some of things I've got to do to get the roadmap updated on Jenkins.io. It will probably be several weeks before that makes any substantial progress. Any other topics before we close for the day. None for me. All right, thanks to both of you. Recording will be posted probably within the next hour or so day or two at most. Great.


Hey everybody, this is Brian and welcome to the 35th LAMP tutorial. Today we're going to be discussing the const statement and the scope resolution operator. So let's just make a class called myClass and we're going to add a function in here called test. All right, now we've seen this 100 times before. Now we're going to make an actual constant and we're going to say this is, we'll say maxUsers. Just a generic example, we're saying maxUsers equal 100. So the maximum number of users in any given thing is going to be 100. Notice how I did not use a dollar sign. I think PHP is the only programming language that actually uses a dollar sign. But when you create a constant value, much like my cat's constant now, I don't know if you can hear her begging for my attention. Cat, you totally just ruined my chain of thought here. Anyways, constant value doesn't use a dollar sign. Constant values can never be changed. So if we go to say maxUsers equal 200, notice how syntax error, unexpected equal sign. Why? Because we've already declared the value. This is different than a variable. A variable has the dollar sign in front of it and it can change. A constant can never change. Now let's see how we can access it from within our class. How would you access this? Like if we just wanted to echo it back out. Let's see here. Let's try a few things and see if they work. Do you think that you would use this? Well, then you would be wrong. It's actually called self. Now suddenly you can access maxUsers. Notice how you have the word self with double colons. Double colons. That's called a scope resolution operator. Scope resolution operator. You can find this out on the PHP tutorials and really what it does without getting into a very big, long, lengthy discussion on memory and how things are stored. I mean if you've taken any of my C++ classes, especially the cute classes, I've probably beat the scope resolution operator to death. But really what it does is it allows you to get things that are defined on the global space for that class. Now what do I mean by global space? Basically anything that is defined that exists for all the classes, not just the current instance. And what do I mean by that? Well, basically when you create a constant value, it exists for all instances of that class, not one value per class. Same thing with a static value. Now what is a static value? Well, like a constant, it exists in all instances of the class, meaning it exists before the class is even created. What we normally do is we will say, let's see here, what's called my C equal new, my class, and then we'll say my C 0.2 test. Now notice how we can access our constant. We can also access our static. But there's something special about this. Let me show you something here. Let's comment these out. See what we're doing is we've created an instance of that class, but what if we don't even have an instance of the class? Notice how we can still access those things. So we haven't even created an instance of this class yet it exists. Now what if we did something like this, public, let's call this val equal 12. Let's see if we have the same results here, echo, my class. Notice how we cannot access the val variable, val, because we need an instance of that class and that's what I'm trying to really drive home here is that constant and static live for the class, meaning they exist before the class is even created. There's only one of them that exists in memory, whereas variables, for example, this instance right here of val, one of these will be created per class. So if you have a hundred my classes, you'll have a hundred vals, but you only have one max user and one name. Note the difference between const and static. Const you do not use a dollar sign, the value can never change. Static you do use a dollar sign, the value can change. So that's really all for this tutorial. I hope you found this educational and entertaining. I know this can be a bit of a confusing one, so I kind of recommend you watch it over again if you really didn't grasp that concept, but all you really need to know is that constant static live outside of the class. Not really true, but think of it that way. They can exist without an instance of the class actually existing yet. That's it.


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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Happy Saturday, our last break of the night is gonna be 2020, 2021 Panini Revolution Basketball picker team number five from a fresh master case. Big thanks everybody here for getting in on the action. Brandon with that last spot mojo star next to his name. All right, let's pop. It's kind of an awkward case, but it's light. So we'll select a dial, select that one. One, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right side. And it's three left sides. We're gonna do that side right here. This side we will save for tomorrow. Your team number six. So let's pop this baby open. Let's see, oh, sorry. Die at the bell. All right, you can see all the boxes on the top camera right up there too. Good luck, good luck. Let's see what we got. Yeah, Robert, Robert Thacker was on a galactic hunt in this revolution stuff and he got it. That's awesome. The galactics are generally one per master case. That ultra-rare galactic parallel. So hopefully we can see one in this half. But if we don't, then it'll definitely be in the next half. I don't know if they're guaranteed. So maybe not definitely, but should see it in the next half. So a couple boxes at a time here. There's other inserts that we can chase too. I don't know if it says on the box, but there's the kaboom inserts. Can we find kaboom inserts in here? Maybe, or maybe it's just galactic. No, maybe it's just galactic. It's cosmic, astro, groove. You wanna see all of those parallels too. All-card ship in this. Oh, there you go, Jaden McDaniels. See some Anthony Edward highlights. Thoughts the, I thought the, oh, look at that dunk, Anthony Edwards, there you go. That's the highlight, boom. I really thought the Timberwolves would be better this season. They had a good game today, even though they lost with trailblazers. I thought they'd be better. But maybe, I think Carl Anthony Towns going down with scary COVID situation. I think D'Angelo Russell has been injured. I think maybe not great coaching. You know, has kind of just kind of derailed their season, but there is kind of a pattern here if you're new to this. So that's, those are the base cards. And then you'll usually see a parallel, the astro parallel, Lonzo Ball, there's Devon Vassil, rookie revolution.  There's Deandre Aten, groove. Mainly it's gonna be the rookies we're looking out for. Markel Fultz-Astro, CJ LV. And we got Onyeka Okongu. I think we got some Hawks fans. This goes to Yi Ten, who are, got some Hawks fans who are pretty fired up about Okongu and his ceiling. That's to 100, Fractal. LeBron James' are always really solid. It was bam out of bio. That should be numbered. Yeah, Cosmic to 100. No, speaking of Hawks, there's Hawks highlights right here. And these LeBron James' is obviously everything ships, but the LeBron James' Astro parallel. You know, the parallel's obviously the thing you wanna see, the Astro right there. Devin Booker. Isaac Acoro. That's Astro, Isaac Acoro. And there's Anthony Edwards right there, number one overall pick. He's got some nice dunks on his highlight reel too. Patrick Williams going to the Bulls, Adam Kelly. RJ Hampton, Fractal. Alfred Payton, currently talented at a big game today. Joel Embiid, is he healthy? He tweaked that knee. There's Dejunta Murray, Fractal. Dramon Green, Astro. Donovan Mitchell, Kylian Hayes, Astro. Oh, and a Tyrese Maxi. Not every box has an autograph, but here's Back-to-Back Autos, the first two boxes. Tyrese Maxi, Sixers, Adam Kelly. Collins, Astro. And we've got Cosmic, Zach Levine, Mico Manion, Isaac Acoro, Groove. And there he is again for the cows. Nice Zach Levine, Cosmic for Chicago, Adam Kelly with the Bulls. Pop open a few more of these or a couple more of these. Robert, do you know if we're getting any of the wild card, Matt Black? I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. Detroit got Hamid Diallo from Oakland City changed for C.V. Malhalyik in a second round pick. I gotta make my NASCAR picks tonight, folks. It's races in Phoenix tomorrow. Vegas the week after that. I gotta go to a race. Did I share my golf picks with you guys? No, I was on Dallas tonight and I was also on Indianapolis plus seven and a half that I get that. Oh, Pacer went outright. I went all, did I get all my picks today? Oh, if it's, yeah, probably not. Some sort of maybe repack product maybe or limited. We'll get 99% of tops, upper deck and panini product of the major sports, but all the other stuff we probably won't. To be honest with you, some of those newer companies trying to do like repack products or something like that could be really hit or miss. So we kind of stick with the companies that we know. 94 out of 100, Mike Connelly for Rhea and the Jazz. Devin Booker, there's a base LeBron James right there. Astro, Paul George, Skyler Mays, Astro and a Lamello ball, nice. Charlotte picked up straight up by Jason Lieberman. There you go, Jason. Nice one. Yeah, Gilo, I'd say it's only a, I think we're only gonna be an hour over when I usually go off air. That's a worthy cause, a nice break fill. Nikola Jokic, 35 out of 50. I don't know if I'd be staying late for like some other breaks, but this one, I like revolution, so I'm down. Daniel quickly had a, he's having a nice whole season. Supernova Jokic, by the way, John Ryder, Denver. We've got Udoka. Is Anthony Edwards again? Anthony Edwards looking good. Making an impact already. Tyrese Halliburton, that's just a base. Trey Jones, Astro, Rookie Astro and second year Zion and Isaac Acoro. Cleveland, this is for you. Adam Kelly and another Lamello ball base. It's a nice one for Charlotte, another one for Jason. Or no, that's a parallel. Whoa, impact parallel to 149. I kind of didn't notice it at first. What does that go for? Cause I know his base cards are going for like a lot. Lamello ball base cards I think are going for raw are going for anywhere from 130 to $200 maybe. Somewhere around there, give or take. A groove, Lamello, that's not numbered, went for 300. Yeah, the grooves seem to be selling consistently for 300. All right, so I'm just looking at base right now. Impact, see if there are any sold items on impact. Lamello ball impact, wow. We got two Lamello ball impacts, 61 out of 149 sold for $825. 148 out of 149 sold for $875, all within the last day or so. So $800 card basically, maybe $900 card. Right there, there you go. Jason, congrats. That, I think both of those Lamello cards easily pay for the spot. You're in profitsville now and we're only halfway through this break. Jason got that spot straight up, scared money, don't make money. Oh, there's Lamello ball highlights right now. Nice, fall down three, nice steal by Lamello. Great assist. All right, another two boxes right here. You know, Lamello ball, someone mentioned this the other night, I'm sure this is not a new statement by me. But Lamello is, I think, what we thought Lonzo would be. I think it was Magic Johnson and that group that drafted Lamello, or Lonzo ball, I'm gonna do that all year long, that drafted Lonzo. And I think they were expecting what Lamello's doing now. I think a lot of Lakers fans did. He knew that he wasn't, I think people knew that Lamello was a better scorer shooter, you know what I mean? So maybe the expectations of Lonzo scoring wasn't too, almost lost that, wasn't too huge, but they expected points out of them. And I think they expected more consistent scoring out of them. I think that's what, I'm sure that's what New Orleans is hoping for, too, pretty difficult to top load here.  Don't press down on the card too much. Just kind of let it naturally fall into the top loader. Right, otherwise you might damage the points there. All right. We got Desmond Bain to 100. Burn. That'll be for Memphis. That's gonna be for John Samuelson. Nice cosmic Desmond Bain. Fractal Supernova, Devon Booker, not Lamello. Easy second year, John Moranson's ions should be sleeved and top loaded. Those are kind of like the Lucas from last year's products. Chris Middleton Astro, we've got C.J. Elaby Astro and Luca Donchich back there. Next little stack. That is Andre Drummond Fractal. Xavier Tillman, Colin Sexton Astro, Nikola Jokic, Sadiq Bay Astro, Aaron Gordon Astro, and we've got A. Killian Hayes to 100, Cosmic. Nice James Weissman, not Lamello. Valenciunas Groove, Nikola Jokic, Supernova. Detroit, Adam Kelly with the Killian Hayes. Last two boxes here. Pick your team number five. Pick your team six in the store now. Go and get it. I'm sure that'll go off at some point tomorrow. So since Jason and Nick Jaspy are still at the card show tomorrow, they're coming back at night, Sunday night. Jason usually does Sundays, but Sean Jaspy will be here filling in. And then, so Sean will be filling in for Jason tomorrow on Sunday and Teddy Jaspy, who's live right now on Instagram, live at Jaspy's Breaks, he'll be filling in for Sean on Instagram tomorrow. Five triple doubles. Players are triple doubles today, which is apparently an NBA record. March 13th, Saturday, March 13th, 2021, NBA record. Who are the five? James Harden got a triple double. I think Westbrook got a triple double. Giannis got a triple double, two more. A lot of players I feel like were maybe one or two assists away from triple doubles. Lamello didn't get a triple double. Luca did a triple double. Luca Dodge is just amazing. It's scary to see how well Luca Dodge is just playing, knowing that, like he's still developing as a kid, he's still developing his body, he's just still developing like just getting used to NBA defenses and a new league and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just, it's crazy to think that he can improve. Whoa, Lamello ball cubic. What a break. That's out of 50. Wow. 15 out of 50. And I love that cubic parallel, looks real sharp. Lamello ball cubic, has any sold yet? No, I don't think any has been, there may be some that are, I'm looking at sold auctions. There may be some that are live. Let's see if anyone has any posted. Someone's asking, someone has one posted. Someone's asking $4,450. Another person offering $3,000. Another person offering $4,000. Another person offering $4,500. So none, I don't think anything has sold yet, but a lot of people asking between $3,000 and $4,500. There's his brother right there. And it's crazy. Jason with the Charlotte Hornets bought the Hornets straight up, scared money don't make money. What a break. Will be top in the Astro. Are you not entertained? That is amazing. And an autograph for the nuggets coming up. It's RJ Hampton, John Ryder with Denver. Yeah, I'll show you that card. Hang on a second. Denver, John Ryder, nice. RJ Hampton. So we pulled the cubic to 50 and then we pulled that impact to 149. Crazy, right? And we got an impact, Peyton Prichard and another Lamello ball, just a base. We'll still go for like one, 150, maybe even 200 bucks. Probably plateauing around 100, 150. What a break for Charlotte. When it rains, it pours. Peyton Prichard impact going to Nelson and the Celtics.  What is, I mean, I don't know what that, Lamello can go for thousands. And in case you're wondering, like so what does a Peyton Prichard impact go for? I think one sold for 50 bucks. I think his base cards can go for like $15, $20. So that's why there's such great value in just all of this revolution stuff. There's Groove for the Kings. Robert Woodard, Astro for the Kings and Emmanuel Quickly for the Knicks. Kings is Logan Smith, Knicks EA with all of those toppings and quicklies and whatnot. There you go ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. What an incredible break. Thanks for this worth staying late for. Thanks for watching the show. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye bye.


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I would like to thank amend to Ccamp 1776 United ammunition depot and thorn and fire for sponsoring this contest something tells me As this week progresses more companies will be offering products and if so, I will definitely be giving those away as well All right, so here is how you enter first thing be a subscriber second thing write a comment first your Channel name next to that your favorite YouTube gun channel I don't expect it to be me if I was entering this contest I wouldn't choose me but if it is by all means put me if not put somebody else I think this will be interesting for everybody to see the viewers favorite YouTube gun channel and I will run this for one Week so next Saturday right around now.  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