In today's video, we're searching for the $2 million trading guard. What's up guys? We're back with another hopefully epic video because there is a very high ceiling for what could happen in this video. Probably won't. I mean, it's not going to. Let's be honest. I have before me the Lord of the Rings Tales of Middle Earth Magic the Gathering set. So it's been a while since we've opened Magic the Gathering, but I figured that I had to check out this set because there's been an immense amount of hype around it and these boxes are very expensive. Now looking at this box, you might not be able to tell, but this is like a very, very small box. I think inside is 12 packs worth. So we're opening 12 packs and it cost me over $400 for a brand new set. And if you're not familiar with all the stuff going on with this set, the reason that this is so expensive is this little thing right here may include serialized ring card. Now, if you're familiar with Lord of the Rings, you know, there's like the ring, you know, the ring of power. They got to destroy it. There's like the dwarf rings. There's the Elven rings, all that different stuff. They have included those rings in this set, but not just included them as like rare pulls. They actually have numbers on them, which is what the serialized thing means. If you're not in like sports cards or anything like that, they will put like a one out of 10. So there's 10 total copies and you can get a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 and that'll be like a serialized card.  Well, what they did was they did serialized cards. They had some that were like 1 in 300, 1 in 700, probably like, you know, the Elven rings are probably 1 in 300 because you know, there's three Elven rings in the movies and books and everything. And then dwarf rings, I think there's sevens, just probably 1 in 700 and then the human, whatever they call them, more than Nazgul, they're 1 in 900 is what I assume. I actually don't know that off the top of my head, but I think that's how they did it. But the one of one ring, they didn't do one out of a hundred. They did one out of one. So what that means is out of thousands, millions of packs, there's one ring. So there have been like bounties put out, which means basically people are saying, if you pull this in a certain amount of time, I will give you this amount of money. It's gone all the way up to $2 million. Literally, there is an offer out there right now. Like who knows if they'll actually follow through with it or whatever. But there is an offer right now. If I were to pull the one of one card out of this box, I could sell it right now for $2 million. If I were to get it, someone asked me on Twitter already because I posted a picture of this box. I would sell it right away. I don't have any connection to the card. A $2 million card. It's brand new.  Sure, that would be great. But I am excited to open this and see some of our work on some of these. I have seen a couple of cards from the set and they look beautiful. So hopefully we can at least get some cards like that because in reality, we are not going to pull the one of one card. Like let's be honest. It's just not going to happen. So I would advise if you are getting this product, don't buy it just for the ring because you're not going to win. In today's video, I'm giving away $50 to one of you guys. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know down below what you think of this set and where we pull a ring. Okay, that's enough chatting. I wanted you guys to be caught up if you guys are Yu-Gi-Oh people like me. So you know what is going on and let's just open this thing up. Also, it's going to be a shorter video because it's only 12 packs. So we're going to take our time. Check out some of the artwork because that's really what I'm here for and of obviously the hype of the ring, but I'm not going to be pulling anything. But I do have a slight help. You know, maybe we could pull one of the other serialized ones, but even those like one in 907 or 300 is really, really, really, really rare. So it's probably not going to happen. Okay. So it looks like 12 packs, right? 12 packs and then one box topper. Okay. Here we go. Sealed product, not for resale. Okay. Here we go. Tales of Middle Earth. Let's see what our box topper is. Our first opening year. Let's see if it's a cool looking card. So magic gathering. I do love the backs of magic cards. I think they look really, really cool. Let's see. We have a ring of bearer here. All right. We got a ring guys. Shout out to us. Yeah. This is not serialized. I think if it is serialized, it will be right here on the artwork should say like oh, whatever or you know, a hundred out of 500 or whatever it is. No, 500. No thing, but that is a cool card. We have a ring officially. Let's count the rings ring counter on the screen. Let's see how many we get. So inside we get how many, how many cards? 15 cards. You get 15 times 12. That's the total amount of cards you get magic gathering universes beyond. I do think it's really cool on magic like collabs. A lot of different like franchises and stuff. So they can do really cool things like Lord of the rings. I think it'd be cool if you can do stuff like that, but I feel like that's not their style. They're going to let other TCG's do that. But I do think it's very, very cool and it's interesting. Like I wouldn't open this probably unless they had collab with Lord of the Rings. So it's very cool. All right. I think they're all foil too. Right. I don't know. I think the bottom we can tell what kind of foil or what kind of rarity they are. These are very hard to open. Okay. We've got a human soldier. Okay. Is he a gondor row here? And what do we got here? Okay. We have a let's see. Is there what's a T? I don't know what a T is. We have a human soldier. What is the effect here? It's a one of one. Is it even is it just like a vanilla in magic? I guess that's how it works. Oh, I forgot they do this. They do this food. Okay. So it's the backup. I remember they do this now. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's a double sided one. Cool. Okay. Escape from or thank very cool. Classic car. So there's the common. Yeah. That's what I was looking for. T must be token. That's what that means. Okay. Escape from or thank very awesome. That's when Gandalf hops on the eagle. Very cool. You have nights of dole and rough. That is also a common all foils too. These foils are pretty nice. I'm not going to lie. They're like full full foil pattern. It's not just on the, you know, on like a super rare and you get casted into the fire. Destroy it. Okay. We have Elvin far side. Very cool. All right. So we're looking at all commons. So this is when they see them coming into La Florian. I think horses are ruining. It's an uncommon. We're getting into the uncommon. So we have a shadow facts lord of horses. Very cool. We have a planes. All right. So basic land, the shire planes. That's pretty cool. I'd be rocking that if I was playing magic. That's an L for land. Okay. Is it next? No. Oh rare there and back again. Hobbit stale by Bilbo Baggins. Very nice looking good. Saga after this Saga enter. Okay. I don't know. I'm not going to read. I don't know what it does. Okay. And Chairman Saga. Very cool. It's a rare. Do you get one rare? You get multiple rears. Okay. Wait. Is this a non hollow? Oh, there's a lot of hollows, but they're not all. Shagrat a classic orc. Very cool. He is not a hollow though. He's a four four man. That's pretty big. I think we have a wake of the dragon. Another rare. All right. So this is not fully either. So I guess the front half is foil Frodo. We got Frodo. Let's go Frodo Baggins. We have minds of Moria minds of Moria. My cousin Balint will give us a royal welcome. All right. Many partings. Cool. We have a golem patient plotter. I mean, we're getting a lot of classic characters and then an AON. Oh, yeah. AON. Yeah. Not not the most epic card. Oh, it's a method. Maybe that is an epic card. All right. Next pack. I got to speed it up a little bit because you know, I was getting a little bit too into the cards because I, you know, they're all Lord of the Rings, you know, big cards that you should know basically from the movie for the most part. All right. Here we go. We have tentacle. I think that this is our token. Right. Yeah. Token. There's also food on the back. Cool. So you get a token every pack. I assume we have the Shire Terrace. That is really cool. We have the Oliphones Esquire of the King. Yeah. Very nice. Surrounded by orcs. Uh-oh. Watch out. It's a common. We have an uncommon friendly rivalry. Okay. Where'd I put my uncommon pack? I got a little uncommon stack going over here. Celeborn the Wise. I didn't need the guy that, uh, is he even trying to remember? I've seen the books. I can't remember. Maybe he is. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe Galadriel's not in the books. I can't remember. It's been a while. Mountain. Okay. Very cool. Uh, we got a rare flowering of the White Tree. That's a rare. We got a mythic. Arendelle, Andrew Hill. What am I saying? Andrew Hill, Flame of the West. Awesome mythic. Uh, Fieldsy of the Realm. That's a rare. We have Gollum, Patient Plotter. We got this last time. Interesting. Uncommon. We got Galadriel. So we've got Galadriel and Celeborn. Very cool. That's another rare. We have a Lash of the Balrog. That's just a common. Watch out the Balrog. He's pretty scary. Uncommon the Gray Havens. That is a beautiful car. The artwork in the foil looks really good on these cards. And then Gendalf the Gray. He's just a rare man. Getting off the White Mythic. He's just a rare. So pretty cool. I mean, I guess rare is the second highest, but still pretty good. All right. We've got some cool characters so far. I'm not going to lie. There's been some good stuff. We have, I feel like we got Frodo. We need Sam. We don't have Sam yet. Obviously, we use Gimli. I mean, the goat Legolas we could use. We don't have any of those guys. They are like, they're not like the movie like actors or whatever, but still, even then, there's great characters that we want to pull. There's a food. Okay. Second breakfast. A classic. One of the most quoted lines probably from Lord of the Rings. Brandywine Farmer. We have the Mordor Trebuchet. Yeah, those things are very scary. We have the Olag High Crusher. I don't know this guy very well. Our Ranger Firebrand. Uncommon. We have a Golem's Bite. Uh-oh. Hey, we got a ring in there. It's hit his mouth. We got a ring or almost. I guess it was like floating down with him. We have a swamp. There's a land. A Fall of Gilgalad. All right. That's our first rare. Delighted Halfling. All right. That, that Halfling is looking a little interesting. We have a Sail Into the West. Classic. Pettigintook. Fulotook. We have an Uncommon. We have a rare Frodo Sauron's Bane. That's a rare. And then Rosie Cotton of the Southland. The Southlands. If you guys watched the show, we have an Uncommon there and then a Rising of the Day Uncommon and a Mythic. Aragorn the Uniter. Let's go. That is sick. Aragorn. He's a 5-5.  All right. Aragorn the Uniter. Heck of a pull. Gandalf and Aragorn. Not bad. Somehow we have not pulled a serialized ring yet. I don't know how this is possible. I mean, I thought we were just going to get it and have two million dollars. All right. Let's go. Let's do this. These cards do look really cool though. I'm a big fan of them so far. They are very, very solidly sealed. I solemnly seal. Okay. We have another food. We have Shelob's Ambush. The Giant Spider. Watch out. Breaking of the Fellowship. The Fellowship of the Ring. Enraged. Aragorn. Nasty End. We have Fear, Fire, Foes. That's an Uncommon. The Marr-er-kai Captain. We have an island. That's our first water island. I guess you would call it land. I'm trying to say land. I kept saying water. I don't know what I was talking about. All right. Smeagol. Helpful guys. We have Gollum and Smeagol. Both sides of them. Very nice. That's a rare. We have Glowing. Dwarf Emissary. Gimli and Glowing. Legolas. Green Leaf. We have Legolas. It's a rare, but it's not a hollow, but still cool. Samwise. Let's go. We got Samwise Gems. He's an Uncommon. That's so sad. Tom Bombadil. Let's go. Here's a guy who did not make it into the movies, but it's a huge part of the Fellowship of the Ring book. Mythic. That is cool. We have Pippin, Guard of the Citadel. He looks a little bit more intense in this than he does in the movies. We have a Lash of the Bowrock. Hollow. Very cool. Cool to see that. And then Aowyn. Fearless Knight. We've got a couple of Aowyn cards. Two different Aowyn cards. Interesting. Nalfurath. Nalfuruin. Rideforth. All right. Shower of Arrows. Cool. Shower of Scarecrow. We have Rally of the Hornburg. That's another common. Lost to the Legends. So many hollows. We got Ringsight. Uncommon. Plains. We got Basic Land. The File of Galadriel. That is a rare. Okay. We've got Flowering of the Right Tree. We got this in a Hollow earlier. That was really nice. Elvish Mariner. That's a rare. Uncommon Legolas. Counter of Kills. There's multiple of each character, it seems like. We have a Mythic. Elisar the Elstone. Awesome. Oh, that's a Ruxen special over there. Oh, we got Wizard's Rock. What's a P? Planeswalker? Maybe? I don't know. And then a Bilbo. Retired Burglar. These are both P's. Okay, cool. And a Minds of Moria. Okay, classic card right there. Very cool. All right, I'm gonna have to look up what that means because, you know, I don't know. Okay, next pack. Here we go. We are not even halfway through. So I'm taking my sweet time here. I'm just trying to enjoy it. Here we go. Let me know what you think about this product, guys. Are you interested in seeing more? I mean, it's very expensive. They're 400 bucks, so probably not gonna see more. But maybe if you really like it, maybe we will. Okay, we have Arwen's Gift. Common. We have Merkwood's Spider. So, Spider's from Merkwood, not as scary as she loved. Just saying. Birthday Escape. Oh, escaping on the birthday. Brush of the Room. We have Melmeneldor. Swift Saviour. Uncommon. Tail of Twin of the El. We got a Forest. We have a Aragorn. The Uniter. That is a Mythic. That's a good one. Okay, Mythic. Glamdram. We got the Sword. Very cool. We got a Baragon of the Guard. That is a Rare. Uncommon. Gimli. Counter of Kills. We got a Gimli. Finally. A Rare Smegal Helpful Guide. Oh, careful. We got an Aowyn Fearless Knight. Another Rare. We got a Common. Dunlun to Kreben. Dunlun! Crab on from Dunlun. We got an Elrond Master of Heal. Oh, Elrond. That's a good one. Okay, seemed like a pretty good pack there. Let's see what the next card will be. Morgal Knife Wound. We have Erebor Flamesmith. Soothing of Smegal. The Mushroom Watchdog. Mushroom. Interesting. Aowyn Lady of Rohan. That is an Uncommon. Elrond Lord of Rivendell. Also an Uncommon. We have Mountain. We got a Mountain yet? I think we've gotten everything else. Shadow of the Enemy. That's a Mythic. Very nice. Mordor Moria Marauder, I should say. We have a Gimli of the Glittering Gaves. We have Elrond Lord of Rivendell. We have Green Dragon Inn. That's another Mythic. Why is that a Mythic? Interesting. We have a Rare. Elrond Master of Healers. We got a Hall of that earlier. And Frodo Rare. Let's go. You guys look at them. They look a little bit, a little bit interesting. We have a Bowrock. Let's go. That has to be a good pack. That is insane. Bowrock and Frodo back-to-back. Both Hallows. I'll take it. All right. I was just looking at the price guide. There are prices all over the place. And most of them are like, you know, 10, 20, stuff like that. We also have to be looking for Borderless, which I'm sure we pulled a bunch of those. But that is another thing that, you know, adds into value of magic to gathering, you know, new cards. So if it has like no borders and stuff. Okay, these do not want to be open. And that means there must be something crazy inside, right? Right? That's what that means. We got a Pathfinder. We got Bewitching Leechcraft. Soldier of the Grey Hosts. We have a LaLaurian Lookout. We have Legolas. Counter of Kills. Very nice. We have Gift of the Strands. Plains. That's a land. Okay. We have Frodo Sauron's Bane. That's a rare. That's a nice card. I think we've gotten two of those. Radigas the Brown. There we go. He's in the Hobbit. We have Summons of Sauromon. That is a rare. We have Gandalf, friend of the Shire, uncommon. We have Dole Emeroth. Emeroth. That is a mythic. We have a Prince Emerhil the Fair. All right. Cool. A Faramir Field Commander. That's an uncommon and a Delighted Halfling. Let's go. Very nice. I feel like we got that earlier, but it was like a different picture. Am I right about that? I don't know. Maybe it was a different picture. I'm not sure. Maybe they have like different artworks and stuff or different. Maybe there's just different card. I don't know. I don't know. Just gonna keep going. We have I think four packs left. So we're about two thirds of the way through this. Gone on a lot longer than I thought it would, but I've gotten caught up with the artwork. It's very cool stuff. We have Wizards Rockets. Oh, yeah, classic. We have the Seeroth Uncle Patrol slip on the ring. It's a ring card just saying we got a ring. Brandywine Farmer. We got this one before the Dunedine Rangers. I wonder how big this set is. Rosie Cotton of the Southland. We have the Island. We have a Moria Marauder. That is a rare. Why is that a rare? We have Horn of Gondol. Very nice. Saradok Master of Buckland. We have Haramir Field Commander. The Weathertop. A classic moment in the show in the, I want to say show every time there's a show, but different thing as a mythic as well. We have a Legolas Master Archer. That is a rare Legolas. Cool. Rosie Cotton of the Southland. So this is like borderless. Like to see how there's no border around it. That's pretty cool looking card. And then, oh, a lost Isle Calling. A hollow rare. That is beautiful. Three packs left. No serialization has been found. No real rings actually. No, I think about it. There are other rings that are not serialized, but we have not gotten them yet. I don't think. Let's go. We have Gimli's Fury. Gimli, good to see you. We have everything or earth. He's farthing everything. He's farthing farmer. We have a Great Hall of the Citadel. The Athelian Kingfisher. Book of Marsable. Mazarbal. Gothmog. Moral Lieutenant Gothmog. Let's go land. We got a forest. We have Flame of Honor and Nor with this rare. Splay of Power rare. Banquet guess rare. We got an uncommon Samwise. Farmer Prince of Athelian. That's another rare. Oh man. It's trying to rucks especially. We got a nasty and that's just a common. Oh, a Merckwood bats. That is really, really pretty. That looks amazing with that borderless. That is going real nice. And then a Gimli. Mournful Avenger. Gimli, the rare version. I like it. Couple chances left for the two million dollar trading card. Will we get it? Oh my gosh. Let's find out. Here we go. Will we get the two million dollar card, which already told you guys are not getting it, but hey, just saying maybe we could get it. Okay, wouldn't recommend buying these if you're just trying to get that because they're $400 and you have a one in a million or more chance chance. Met elves. Dunlin, the Kribine. There we go. We have Gimli's axe. More Gimli action. Lash of the Balrog. We have Urkin brand Lord of the Westfold. We have friendly rivalry. Forest. The watcher in the water. Oh, so scary. He's a nine nine. Dude, he's a mythic. He is frigging huge and get that guy out. You're in trouble. We have a King of the Oathbreakers. Denthorn stone seer. All right. Gimli counter of kills. We got barren dual or classic. We have a billboard retired burglar. We have him and a Elron Lord of Rivendell and a Gandalf. The gray. Nice rare. All right. Hollow rare of Gandalf. The green. Okay. Final pack. If you guys enjoyed it, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content. Maybe not like this. I don't know because normally it's Yu-Gi-Oh, but hey, sometimes we got to open some cool stuff like this hyped magic gathering set, but Lord of the Rings. I mean, come on, man. You got to see it. We got to see what we can pull. L-O-T-R has always been awesome. So really cool to see this. Here we go. Good luck. If you guys do open some of this, maybe one of you guys will pull a ring. If you do, let me know down below. We have Haunt of the Dead Marshes. Relentless Rohirrim. Rohirrim in Spherey. We have Orcus Medicine, which probably doesn't work very well. The Bass Song, Uncommon. Shire Sheriff. The Swamp. We have a The Shire. Okay. That is somehow not a land. That is a rare. Okay. We have Horn of the Mark. All right. Frodo Adventures Hobbit. That's a mythic. All right. Frodo Mythic. That's good. Uncommon Paragon Duke. We have Mines of Moria. My cousin Balin. Lost Isle Collin. Got this in foil earlier. We got a Gothmog Morgal Lieutenant. And is this our last card? Legolas Master Archer. No, that's not a bad way to end this with a, you know, a main character. Hollow Rare card. That's pretty good. All right. This was a lot of fun. So, hope you guys enjoyed it. If you want to see more like this, make sure to let me know down below. 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What's going on guys got Kyle here with leading sports cards, and we are ripping this is 21 22 Panini mosaic basketball Hobby 4 box breaking number 58 pick your team style. We have Aaron L with the jazz Clippers Sons Kings we have Alex G with the T Wolves Anton D has bucks Clayton G has the Hawks Daniel P He's gonna have the Hornets David H has bulls Derek K has wizards Garrett C has the Pacers Harper has the pelicans Hayward H has the nuggets James F with the magic John B. Nicks Marius P has the Celtics Matthew C has Grizzlies Maurice e Spurs Richard D Raptors Russell P Blazers Scott T heat Talon H with the Nets Thomas C has Warriors Lakers Cavs Pistons Or no, so Thomas C has Warriors and Lakers. Sorry Thomas R has Cavs Pistons Thunder 76ers Victor S has maps and Yehuda B is gonna have the Rockets. Good luck guys. I appreciate y'all filling up this one for me Let's get to it. Good luck. Good luck. 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I really like these They've had swagger for a few years in the mosaic. I really like these this parallel Got Brooks, Kimmy Martin, Cam Jordan Turned up to 11. Oh I'm so I got some swag, dude You sold me Sean Holmes it did sound pretty convincing. We've got a red mosaic Jalen Suggs for the Magic rookie Damian Lillard. We got base OG and a nobie on the back There's a Mc McBride rookie Shingoon rookie base for the Rockets There's a mosaic Montes Morris and red we got Killian Hayes Moments there of Aaron Gordon double. Oh, oh, wow. That's him doing the dunk over stuff. I love man He lost that dunk contest. That's the BS got a moments there John Marant for the Grizzlies He should have won that dunk contest That was him and Levine. It was a couple years ago, but they both went crazy like insane dunks Like Aaron Gordon had some of the better dunks like anyone's ever done and he still lost got a camp Thomas there rookie national pride Nice one there for the Nets Got mosaic rookie Delano Blanton for the Raptors. We've got red Lonzo ball there There's Dwight Howard another dunk contest for the Magic is a stroll down memory lane on these We got rising stars Scotty Barnes nice rookie there for the rocket or the Raptors go no go Knowles Gary Harris There's a LeBron our silver is gonna be Luca a nice silver there for the Mavs We've got a red Pat Williams go Knowles That's safe for everybody gets tired and honestly a Kate Cunningham introductions Well, there weren't so many Knowles in the NBA, dude It would be a lot easier. We're just we're just like that There's a Jalen Green debut rookie nice one there for the Rockets There's a Kade base base there pistons silver we've got a Rudy For the jazz and blue Fred van Vleet. That is number to 99 Raptors Christian Wood base Steve. So what they put the logo where the ad is?  Well, they are yeah, there's just a little one at the top Yeah, they're a little guy got a Jalen Suggs base rookie There is Lonzo ball or sorry Lamello ball on the mosaic national pride. We've got red not numbered Trey young There is introductions Evan Mobley nice mosaic there for the Cavs rookie We go Cavs Jamal Murray Patty Mills was a swap the spots with the logo in the Yeah, I could see that actually I kind of like that actually The M does seem kind of too big right there's Albert and shingoon there bring out the brand. Yeah, it's like they were a Like Marvel or something like it's They're all on the same team Deontre Hunter there mosaic. We got red Matisse Dible Rising stars of Sadiq Bay and montage Cole Anthony there for the magic It's a month of subbonus Okay chat based on looks not value out of select mosaic prism What's your what's your favorites? Here's our auto. It's gonna be Bobby Portis for the bucks there on the base auto I think selects my favorite. I like the different I like select as well the different colors like the zebras and the tie-dye Got silver Greg Brown there for Portland and Levine on the pink there for the bulls that one is number to 49 I said for the bulls on the Levine Got Tyrese Maxie and straight fire and sir. We got LeBron for the Lakers straight fire like those portal on the back All right guys box to Say somebody here We're haunted guys. We're haunted. Oh boy What's up what spots on the next one there's Kate Cunningham national pride rookie we got a Franz debut rookie Can't do the fronds like the forest quite can I don't know the memes got Zion on the most I'll show you got a red Joel and bead For the Phillies or for the 76ers not the Phillies. There's a stair master's Rudy Lonzo Or says he's gonna show me every time he does the fronds thing and they never does It's a Like a Miss America pageant and the girl from France. She says France, but she says it like She goes wrong So the magic repost is that like every time Frans did something this year There's Taylor Horton Tucker and there's kawai all NBA insert to a 99 on the blue Got a moments and Yannis on the stained glass nice hit there for the bucks Stained glass Yannis very nice one there congrats to the bucks Not quite as short printed as the last couple years, but still about a case hit nice one there to any idea It's fast break sold out Yeah Nice, we're doing it Donnie. Did you know that we're doing it Donnie. Oh, I think you know, I thought you were like I don't know, you know Sometimes I know sometimes I don't like you're testing me. I could be Could still be maybe Nicholas Clarkson there for the Nets Mosaic we got a red mosaic PG not numbered on the reds We've gotten introductions of Jalen sucks for the magic and Chris Paul on the moments Mosaic there hard to see what's actually going on on those on the mosaic course Yeah, it's like the camera doesn't pick up them very well. They're kind of like dark on the background Yeah, you gotta hold a very certain angle. There's another shingoon base rookie Turkish Tim Duncan We've got a silver Kyle Lowry and red not numbered Carl Anthony Towns mosaic Hey appreciate the subscription there Jonathan There's a Jalen Suggs rising stars Covington There's a mosaic KD and Red not number nice one here for the Raptor Scotty Barnes debut rookie go nulls God rising stars John Merantz mosaic Terry roger Trin Murphy rookie. There is Josh Christopher Here's a silver Ant-Man for the T Wolves and red mosaic Bogdan or Bojan Bogdanovich Bogdan a Bogdanovich. I love that name. I need a jingle Solemn call you in the room the other day do it. Yeah, I know that cracked me up man There's an Evan Mobley debut that killed me.  That was a big jingle. Yeah, Jonathan coming on was that mosaic? That's about as much as anyone's been jingled Yeah, there's a red Wiccans not numbered There's a mosaic month or a montage there of a shea Shea Gilgis Marcus Aldridge There's a Josh giddy base nice one there for the thunder Josh and Jonathan Cumminga Get he's been really good, man. I really like him. There's a Jimmy Butler mosaic and red not numbered Isaac Okoro I wish I uh, I wish I invested in giddy a little bit. There's a Jalen Suggs introductions I pretty much only have France from this class That's just because on magic I collect pretty much any magic rookie I got my chronicles. I can't really afford any of the palos right now. So I don't have many palos There's a Frans base Cam Thomas base there for the Nets. Here is our auto. It's gonna be Avery Bradley. They're going to the Lakers on the auto He had a really good couple years man defensively. He was like up there for defensive play the year got some nice Contracts the Silver Lonzo a red rookie for the Grizzlies Santi Aldama Uh ink on the first off the line drops Wednesday is release day for the base next Wednesday So about a week from now. We'll have more select. There's straight fire Trey young Today was just the first off the line release. I don't think we have any of that So we'll be a Wednesday for the next one. It's pretty solid. You see let's go. You see 74 pretty good I think you did tell me that yesterday, but hey Let's go Assuming the putting was on you see he's been a He's been hustling some people in those scrambles, dude. He keeps coming back winning like every time. There's national pride Evan Mowgli There's Josh giddy debut. Oh Absolutely, you see I'd be saying it like 10 or 11 times. Honestly, there's a Terence Ross mosaic and a red rookie James Booknight. I'd be telling everyone that would listen. There is a Clay Thompson stair masters If he ever does I don't want to be near Sean if you ever choose a 72 I'd say it's gonna be right there on that wall. Oh, yeah, I already got my last to my last scorecard. It's already up there The the wall of shame is Jalen Green national pride and Jalen sucks debut There's a silver double-O Aaron Gordon red mosaic of Ben Simmons and And this one is Josh giddy on the short print overdrive insert nice one there for the thunder on the giddy overdrive insert It's a nice looking one there Yeah, hitting hitting 12 greens regulation helps For a 13 that definitely helps have 13 birdie putts.  It's him in a magic. I'm in magic there Jeremy grants Austin Reeves on the front. We've got a silver rookie bones Highland and Red Kevin Porter not numbered for the Rockets Bones is on the Clippers now I'll do a Scheduled us of course Can't forget my that's my main job is Was a look at Donchich the TV control there's Alex you poke a chef ski there on the red not numbered Got some bonus montage some bonus had quite a year this year man. He was on fire. You see I can already tell you why that happens it's because When you're when you're swing shorter you probably have better contact on the ball So the better contact like does more than having a long swing silver jaw red Booker I Kind of feel that way too.  You don't need a long swing at the ball far. You just need good green debut. That's it Just need good impact. There's a cave Look at John wrong perfect example finals MVP there of Kauai Leonard got red Chris Paul As the shortest swing introductions Jalen Green montage John Moran you could do a Masayama slow Slow pullback. Yeah, that's it. He does so slow. It's crazy Pauses. Yeah As far as you can do it. I kind of like that swing to Dave you Kate. I don't know that I could do it, but I'm gonna be giving you too much here. What I can give you too much here. Scotty Barnes. I'm seeing the no I'm just seeing the pop. You're good. Well, they kind of like that. So there's a silver Derek whites Yeah, I'm just trying to all the silvers and there's a 99 Jalen Brown there for the Celtics Rajon Rondo, I don't know. I don't know what's been going on with the whole lit PGA I saw a quote that didn't sound very real on ESPN today About Rory Shingoon, maybe Maybe There's an auto. It's gonna be for Cleveland throwback auto here mark price for the calves on the throwback Him and uh, who Craig Hilo are on that team I don't remember anybody else. I was like the late 90s Late 90s cast there's a reddish silver and whites nice one here for the Clippers that is to 25 Paul George You go Clippers Very nice white Paul George there to 25 We've got starting five there that is the heat They are in the Finals right now. That's pretty much that same starting five actually just hero who's hurt right now They would be they'd be doing pretty well if hero was playing I think There's a mosaic a good dollar and red rookie Isaiah Jackson not numbered for the Pacers We've got rising stars Jalen Suggs on the mosaic Jalen Brown Alrighty guys one box left of mosaic next up is prism basketball fast break five box It is sold out. So next we're working on some donors optic PYT's got um half case 43 and 44 coming up Still got spots in both of those check those out I don't know whether whether Rory stated or not. I still like a mosaic offer Yeah, I mean like I don't really care about there's a cave debut There's scotty barns rookie donals Got a silver uh chrystaps the unicorn and red rookie Delano Blanton for the uh raptors. They're not numbered Lugans darts Johnny's going to the dorsher chamber No Not there Got a silver shea guild just alexander And red rookie nice one here is Alperin shingoon for the Rock. It's not numbered Turkish Tim Duncan Beverly and brooks based on the back That's what I saw you see that's the exact quote. I saw it didn't sound very real to me That uh, the live that live would put that out. That didn't sound very real But who knows got lamella ball mosaic. That is exactly the one I saw though There's red draemon not numbered Got introductions davian mitchell For the king spider's little brother got vooch got to come back to the magic man. Come on vooch Come on back. I know you're watching right now Yeah, come on back vooch You don't think nicola vooch vich watches us dude I think maybe got evan mobly national pride. We've got a giddy debut I guess there's always a chance Mosaic rookie um charles bassie. We've got a red siacum spicy pee Yeah, it sounded very fake to me.  It's fronds Every go magic my boy on the base fronds auto Congrats their magic Yeah, I think faults can kind of step in that role randy. I know that uh Silver ontetta kumpo. We got gordon hayward red I know he's not too too old, but he is he is he's maturing man. There's a straight fire kade I think he's a good leader for the team man To be honest. I've got a lot of young guys I think false has seen a lot through the league. So I think he's uh, he's grown a lot as well There's a mosaic joe engels Don't you do it? Don't you dare do it? I There's a red rookie jared, but I won't do it. I won't do it red butler there We got a mosaic stair master step curry Donnie you just got Nine jingles. I won't do it. You just didn't get jingled. Yeah, you just got saved We've got blue this one said 99 is going to be rookie for the next quentin grimes We've got josh giddy on the swagger nice one there giddy swagger. He does have a little swagger Monta Morris. Do you think the more you grow out your mustache the more swagger you get? Is that a thing we can test? That's what I'm going for Can we test that somehow? Yeah, we can see how much swagger I got this current mustache state about zero. So I don't think it's working Bam out of pass silver. You're right. We got obama there red not numbered and you're right I turned up to 11. I forgot Dear and fox on the back Yeah, I think we need a shooter randy I think that's the magic's number one thing we need right now man We need a shooter or two Because france is about our best shooter and he's not really that great at it There's uh jalen kreen rookie evan mogley rookie So what's palo good at is everything palo is a big body. He drives. Um, he's got a defense. Yeah, like he's He's more of a driver and like a mid-range shooter. Yeah, there's uh joellen bead There's window carter red like he's really big for his like his body size. So like he drives a lot and Gets in the lane. There's a france Wagner rising stars In the month of uh, I think it was march. He went three for 33 on threes So yeah, palo doesn't need to keep shooting Let bobble shoot that rock dude. Honestly bobble might be one of the better shooters him and window carter Which is both of our centers We've got silver rookie. This is sandro mamooka shevelly for the bucks there got a davante gram mosaic Red grace and allen not numbered a moments devon booker And that will do it guys For the uh, 2021 2022 mosaic basketball four box break number 58 pick your team Do a quick um hit recap here. We had the um, paul george number to 20 on the white We had josh giddy overdrive short print and a stained glass yannis. They're a nice one for the bucks And our autos we had france vagner on the base rookie auto mark price auto um avry bradley and bobby portis All righty guys that will do it for um mosaic four box break number 58 p y t. We'll get those right out See you. Thank you. Thank you


In this video, I will give a basic overview of how optics work and answer questions such as, why does your phone camera need a lens to take an image? Why do some people need glasses? The world around us is filled with light from a spectrum of colors. When a ray of light of a certain color traveling in a straight line hits a photo detector, its position and color are registered. What I'm calling a detector could be cells in your eye or photographic paper, but for now I will talk about the kind of detector you have in your cell phone or webcam. Just as the screen you are looking at now is made up of individual pixels emitting light, the detector in a digital camera is made up of a grid of pixels which can sense light. Alice takes a detector when she goes out and then sees a strange sort of traffic light with a red light bulb at the top and a blue bulb below it. This holds the detector up to take an image of the lights. The image will be an accurate representation of the real world if the top pixels are red, then there's a gap and then the bottom pixels are blue. In reality though, light spreads out in front of both the red and blue bulbs and illuminates all of the pixels at once. Every pixel is equally red and blue, so the image appears to be all purple. This is why we need an optic to focus light. I will go into more detail on what it means to be in focus later on in the video, but for now think of it as when the red and blue light go to separate points on the detector so that an image has the two bulbs separated rather than just be completely washed out with purple.  The pinhole blocks out all but one of the red and one of the blue rays of light so that they fall on different parts of the detector. The bulbs are separated in the image, which is exactly what we wanted. The image has become inverted because light from the bottom blue bulb has gone to the top and vice versa. But that's okay, this actually happens with most optics. We can always use the computer to invert it back or wire up the detector to take account of this inversion.  This type of darkened box with a pinhole is one of the first optical tools to be used to actually record images. The modern word camera comes from the Latin phrase camera obscura or dark chamber. Here is an 18th century illustration of a camera obscura with a pinhole. The pinhole camera illustrates the two main properties every optic must have. If the pinhole is large, too many rays get in from each of the bulbs and eventually it is as if we are back at the start with no optic at all. If we make the pinhole smaller and smaller, the amount of light getting in decreases and the image will become darker until it fades completely. The problem with a pinhole camera, therefore, is that it is a trade-off between how much light gets to the detector to actually create the image, often referred to as the size of an optic's aperture, and the degree to which the direction of the rays is restricted. This is the resolution of the optic, which I will mention later. Ideally, we would want plenty of both. Other optics consist of mirrors which reflect the sources of light onto the detector. With a plain mirror, as you might have in your bathroom, light reflects the same way as a ball bouncing off a ball in the game of squash. How a ray of light is reflected depends on its direction. With the angle of incidence equal to the angle of reflection, relative to a line pointing out of the mirror called the normal. On its own, a plain mirror won't help us avoid the problem of the two bulbs turning the whole detector purple we saw earlier. Instead, the mirror must be curved either into a part of a sphere or into a special shape called a parabola. What this shape of mirror means is that when rays from the two bulbs come in, and they do so at different angles, they are reflected to different parts of the detector. In fact, all the blue rays go to one part and all the red ones to another. Just as with the pinhole, the image is inverted, but light from the two bulbs goes to separate parts of the detector as required. This setup solves the main problem of the pinhole, because you can make the mirror as large as you like in principle and therefore collect plenty of light while still forming a clear image. However, the main disadvantage of this type of optic is that it's cumbersome and very long, due in part to the light being reflected back on itself. For this reason, this setup is mainly used for telescopes. The telescope tube forms the dark chamber to block out stray light, and usually a second plain mirror is added just to divert away the light to the detector. The first known working mirror telescope was made by Isaac Newton, and more recently the Hubble Space Telescope used a similar, but slightly more complicated arrangement. This brings me on to lenses, a type of optic which uses refraction. Imagine that you have a truck running on a hard road, and suddenly it hits the edge of a muddy field at an angle. For a moment, only one of its tires is on the mud, so one side of the truck slows down while the other continues at speed. The truck turns. In a similar way, light bends or refracts into a dense material like glass, and refracts in the opposite direction when it transitions from glass to air. With a rectangular glass block, the light enters and leaves going in the same direction, just shifted slightly. Having the two opposite sides inclined alters the direction of the emerging ray in proportion to the slanting. By curving the shape of the glass in a similar manner to the curved mirror from before, rays of red and blue light will likewise be diverted to different parts of the detector. Just like with a mirror, a lens can be made larger to admit more light while still maintaining a crisp image. The advantage of the lens is that it allows a practical and compact optical device, such as the human eye or a cell phone camera. The lens is at the front to focus light, there is a chamber to block any stray light, and the detector is at the back. This makes the lens into the most ubiquitous and important type of optic. Maybe a high level optics textbook or a class would talk about what happens to a single point of light. They talk about things like the point spread function of an optic, the pattern of light that a point source produces on a detector. This is because we can always take objects, things in the real world which are sources of light, and break them up into a large amount of individual point sources. As long as the optic works on just one such point, it will also work for any number of others which make up a whole macroscopic object. For an optic to focus light, then, is to take in a number of the rays that diverge from a point source in all directions, and to redirect them using reflection, refraction, or other ways I haven't mentioned, to a single pixel on our detector. I will talk only about lenses from now on, but the same arguments apply to other optics like the Newtonian telescope I mentioned. Based upon their shape and other properties, every lens has a so-called focal length. When the point source you're observing is very far away, almost infinitely far away in fact, then this is the precise distance behind the lens that the rays converge and the light is focused. This is therefore the precise distance at which to place the detector behind the lens. If you put the detector too close, then the rays of light haven't yet converged on a single point. If you put the detector too far from the lens, the rays have begun to diverge again. Both cases show what it means to be out of focus. Each point of light now spills over multiple pixels, and the whole image becomes blurry as you can simulate with the blur tool in many image editing programs. The closer the point source comes to the lens, the further the focus moves behind the lens. There is a precise mathematical relationship between the focal length, the distance from the object to the lens, and the distance to the resulting focus. This shifting of the focus is a problem if you have just set up your detector exactly one focal length behind the lens to image things in the far distance, and now want to image a closer object. Cameras and eyes overcome this issue in two particular ways. When taking a photograph with a camera, once the object to be focused on has been selected, the lens will be moved by the photographer or automatically by the internal circuitry of the camera to pick the right distance between it and the detector. The size of the human eye is fixed, so instead, muscles change the shape of the lens and therefore its focal length to shift the focus backwards or forwards as required. In this way, the light sensitive cells in a layer called the retina, which is the detector in your eye, can stay where they are. Try to hold a pencil close to your face. You can either choose to focus on the pencil, in which case the background goes blurry or vice versa. Either way, your brain is automatically using muscles to stretch or compress the lens in your eye to achieve the correct focal length to focus on what you want. As I've just explained, if an object is far away, then light is focused close to the lens. For some people, no matter how much their muscles try to adjust the lens, they can never shift the focus of a distant object backwards far enough onto the retina and they are near sighted. Conversely, when objects are close, some people can never quite manage to shift the focal point far enough forward and they are far sighted. Glasses or contact lenses can correct for these problems. In the far sighted example, the problem was that rays of light were diverging too strongly from a nearby object, but an additional lens can bend the rays inwards as if they were coming from a distant object. For near sighted people, the lens makes rays diverge as if the object were closer. Other optical instruments like binoculars also bend the direction of rays using a combination of lenses to make objects appear as if they are closer and therefore more magnified. No optic is perfect and therefore rays of light are never totally focused. Pixels in digital cameras are small and getting smaller, but an infinitesimally tiny point of light will always appear to have at least the size of a pixel. Both of these effects together mean that two separate points of light, if they are close enough together, will appear to merge into a single point. The resolution of an optical instrument is a measure of how close together they can get before they can no longer be distinguished. Thinking of objects as collections of many point sources, the resolution determines how sharp features in the image will be, or how small or far away an object can be before it blends into the background. One thing to keep in mind is that most objects do not give off light themselves, but merely reflect it. All matter reflects light to some extent. What you might think of as reflection, seeing a light bulb reflected on a plain mirror for instance, is technically called specular reflection. The mirror is polished to a smooth surface, so that the rays neatly preserve their order. Whereas, reflection from a brick wall is called diffuse reflection, because the roughness of brick scatters and jumbles up rays from the bulb and from other objects in the room. Also, unlike the mirror, the brick preferentially absorbs some colors, allowing ones like brown to be reflected. Thank you for listening. If you are interested in how a computer works, stores information and displays images, there should be a link on the screen now. If you have any questions about optics or any other topics for me to cover, please leave a comment. I do not cover advanced topics such as diffractive optics like Fresnel zone plates, non-linear optics or optical fibers. I can make follow-up videos if there is enough interest.


Well, today I want to look at the topic of life in the spirit. Life in the spirit. What does it mean to be led by the spirit? We're going to be in John 15, and John 16. So if you want to turn ahead there to John 15 and 16, what does it mean? How does the Holy Spirit work through the life of the believer? Jesus talked about how the Holy Spirit would convict of sin and righteousness and all these sorts of things. But how does he work through the life of the believer? And so we're going to look at Jesus' teaching on the Holy Spirit out of two passages in John and then make some application for our lives today. And by way of introduction, John 15, Jesus is giving final instructions to his disciples. He's told them that he's going to be leaving, and they're feeling a little anxious about this. They're concerned. And so they're asking Jesus, how is this going to work when you're gone? How are you going to lead us when you're gone? How are you going to show us yourself when you're not here anymore? How are we going to know? And it's in the midst of these questions that Jesus gives us the promise of the Holy Spirit referred to as the helper in John 15. And we're going to look at John 15, verse 26. It says, but when the helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me. And you also will bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning. And then in John 16, beginning at verse 13, it says, however, when he, the spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you. So Jesus says that there are four things, four activities that the Holy Spirit will do. In John 15, 26, he says that the Holy Spirit will testify of Jesus. In John 16, 13, he says he will guide us into all truth. And in John 16, 13, he says he will tell you things to come. And then in John 16, 14, he will glorify Jesus. And so what I wanna look at is I wanna look at each of these four activities that the Holy Spirit does through the life of every believer. And first of all, he says that he will testify of Jesus. Now the word testify refers to someone who remembers, who has knowledge of something by recollection, who can thus tell about it. And Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit as the spirit of truth. And so the Holy Spirit is communicating to us that which the Holy Spirit has seen in relationship to the Father and everything he says is true about Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 2, verses 10 through 12, we read, but God has revealed them to us through his spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God, for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him. Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God that we might know the things that we have freely been given to us by God. And so the Holy Spirit knows everything about God. The Holy Spirit knows everything about Jesus. He searches the deep things of God and reveals those things to us who are in Christ, to every believer. That's what the Holy Spirit does. He reveals the truth about Jesus so that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. That's what the Holy Spirit does. Now, how does that work in real life? He said, that's a great theory, that's a great understanding, but how does that work? Well, in John 15, 26 through 27, Jesus says, but when the helper comes, whom I was saying, he'll testify of me. And then he says, and you also will bear witness. It's the same word. When Jesus says that he will testify of me, it's the same word that Jesus uses that says that you and I will bear witness. In other words, the Holy Spirit reveals to you and I who Jesus is.  That's what it means to bear witness. And so we're sharing that same truth that the Holy Spirit has simply revealed to us about Jesus and we share it with our mothers, our brothers, our neighbors, our coworkers, everyone that Jesus puts into our circle of relationships. That's how it works, it's simply like that. When I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, we would go to lunch and at school, at high school, I was in high school at the time. And I would find myself in a debate with all of these Mormons that were around us. We were Christians, they were Mormons. So we would end up debating with them. And I didn't really know what I was talking about. And so I thought, I'm gonna go get educated. So I went to this ministry, it's called Ex-Mormons for Jesus. I got all of their information, I read it all. I got educated on everything that Mormons believed. And so every week when I would, or every day when I would go and I would sit at the lunch table, I was ready now, because I knew everything they believed. And I would always start out by saying, hey, well, you guys believe this. And what I realized is that a lot of Mormons don't know what they believe. And so I was educating them. I'd show them and say, did you know that you're gonna get a planet after all of this? They said, we get a planet? That's really cool. What do you Christians get? You know, it didn't quite work. It backfired on me. And then I was trying to, and I had all the Bible verses to tell them how the Bible doesn't say you're gonna get a planet. But they were just so excited to know that they're getting a planet. And I realized that this method wasn't working. And I had to change what I was communicating with them. And so I went to the Lord and the Lord just said, why don't you just tell them about me?  And so we would get together and they would start asking me questions. Well, what do you think of this Bible verse? And it was always designed to incite some kind of a discussion. And so I would look at the Bible verse. I said, well, you know, I'm not a theologian. I said, I can tell you what I think it means. But what I know for sure is that Jesus loves you.  And he wants to spend all eternity with you. And he's forgiven all your sins. He's forgiven all my sins. And so they would ask me and the other goes, what are you thinking about this? I don't know what that means, but I know this. Jesus loves you. And the Holy spirit began to just speak to me about Jesus and about what he had done for me and what he's doing for them. And I would just simply share those simple things that the Holy spirit would put upon my heart. And after a few days of this, I noticed my friends would come up to me and they started saying things like, you know, we know you know Jesus because of the way you talk about him. And we wanna know what you know. We wanna know that Jesus, you know. Because what we're afraid, because if we believe what you believe, we'll be kicked out of our homes. We won't be able to live where we're at. It'll jeopardize our careers. And so many of them were caught in that trap, but they could recognize Jesus. And you see, that's the work of the spirit within us. The Holy spirit reveals to us who Jesus is. And then we simply share that simple truth with other people. And it might not be the most theologically profound thing, but when people are dying and they're about to meet Jesus or go to heaven and they're unsure, what they want to know is not some theological explanation about death. They want to know what you know about Jesus and will it work for them? And you have that ability and that moment to share what the Holy spirit is saying and putting on your heart to share with them about Jesus. And you find them saying like the people said to Peter at the end of his message in Acts two, what do we do to know Jesus too? How do we do that? Now, of course, if you're wanting to learn how to recognize the voice of the spirit, you need to know the word of God. Because the word of God was written by men who were under the inspiration of the Holy spirit. And so the word of God is the Holy spirit speaking to us. The word of God is God himself speaking to us, revealing to us who Jesus is. And what I often find is that the Holy spirit will bring up the word of God to me. He'll bring up a scripture that he wants me to share with someone. A scripture that's been on my heart and I think it's just on my heart for me and then I'll realize in conversation, no, it wasn't in my heart just for me, it was in my heart to share with someone else. You know, very practical. Secondly, Jesus said that the spirit will guide you into all truth. Now, the word guide refers to a teacher, a leader or an instructor. And the word truth is a noun and it refers to proven or genuine truth. It's absolute proven and genuine truth.  Jesus, right? Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. You know, truth is not some kind of objective reality outside of Jesus. Jesus says what is true and what is not true. In fact, Jesus is the only one who says what is true and what is not true. And you can say, well, how can you make that statement because Jesus made everything. Jesus is the creator of the world. You wanna know about quantum physics acts Jesus, he made it, right? You wanna talk about the physical principles of the world, talk to Jesus because he invented them all. You know, if you wanna talk about scientific truth, Jesus is the one that created everything that science studies. So Jesus is the one that says what is true and what is not true. Jesus also created you. Jesus also created me. He created who we are. He created a purpose and a plan for each and every one of our lives. And so Jesus is the only one that can tell you who you really are as a person. Not culture, not the media, not news, not your friends, not tradition. Only Jesus can say that.  Only Jesus can say what is true. I am the truth, Jesus says. And the spirit instructs us in the truth according to Jesus and what he says. And this truth has three effects in our lives. First, it leads us to abide in Christ, to rest in Christ. First, John 2.27 says, but the anointing which you have received from him abides in you and you do not need that anyone teach you but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie and just as it has taught you, you will abide in him. The result of the truth of Jesus in our lives that the Holy Spirit reveals is it causes us to abide, to rest, to be settled in Christ. Secondly, it leads us to love one another. In 1 Thessalonians 4.9 it says, but concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. And so the fruit of teaching by the Holy Spirit is that we will love one another. It leads us to know the Lord. In Jeremiah 31.34 it says, no more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them says the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember you or I will remember no more. And so if you're listening to a teacher, if you're listening to someone and you're not learning to abide in Christ, you're not learning to love one another. You're not learning to know the Lord. It's not the spirit of God. It's not the spirit of God. It might be scholarly. It might be interesting. It might be thought provoking. It can even be motivating. But if there's no revelation of Jesus, it's not a work of the spirit. You see, I often hear people say, well, everybody's got their take on the Bible. So I just kind of listened to whoever. But you know, it really does matter who you listen to. It really does matter the teaching that you're under. The book of Galatians addresses Paul's concern over teachers that the Galatians had listened to, were listening to. You know, when he planted the church in Galatia, Paul left instructors, pastors, teachers behind to instruct them in the way of grace to teach them salvation by grace through faith. But the Judaizers then came in and they began to teach the people that grace wasn't enough. Grace isn't enough for you. Don't you understand, we're Jews. We really know what you gotta do. You've got to obey the law. You've gotta be circumcised. You've gotta honor the Sabbath. You've gotta do all these things. And they brought them under the law. They were obligated to follow the law and to become culturally Jewish. That's what the Judaizers were telling them. And so little by little, they stopped listening to the teachers that Paul had put into their life and they started to listen to the Judaizers because they had the really deep knowledge of God. They're the ones that are really gonna instruct us in the way of God. And so Paul says to them in Galatians 6, 7 through 8, he says, do not be deceived. God is not mocked for whatever a man sows that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life. And what Paul was saying to them is if you listen to the Judaizers, if that's the teaching you're sowing into your lives, then you're going to, you're sowing to the flesh. And what you are going to do is you're gonna reap into your life corruption. You know, I call the flesh, I define the flesh as man's power, man's perspective, which is legalism. And when you sow seeds of legalism in your life, it will lead to corruption. But then he says, but if you go back and listen to the teachers that I left in place, you'll sow to the spirit and that will lead you to everlasting life. One of the signs of the end times is that there's gonna be a famine of the word of God in the land. That the word of God will no longer be preached. What will be preached are great messages, great entertaining messages, feel good messages, things that make you happy, that get you excited to be alive, but that won't point you to Jesus.  It's important who we listen to. There are preachers that will stir you up to feel like you have to do something instead of abide in Christ. You know, it's free to get in, but it costs to stay. Have you heard that? There's all these membership dues, you gotta do this and you gotta do that. If you wanna stay in, if you want God's favor, it'll cost you. Gotta fast a long time. Gotta do all these, gotta serve in children's ministry. I love children's ministry, by the way. I'm a product of children's ministry. There are preachers that will stir you up against people instead of loving one another. They're more intent on being right than being loving. There are preachers that will stir you up to look at the Bible as a book of facts and knowledge instead of knowing Jesus. You know, how many of you know that it doesn't matter how marked up your Bible is, what matters is, has your Bible marked you? Are you a changed person? That's why I love the ministry here at Calvary Chapel Chino Valley, because I see the work of the Spirit through the teaching ministry of Pastor David. Every time I hear him teach, it leads me to wanna know Jesus more. He challenges me to be more loving, to love one another. He challenges me to trust the Lord. And that produces in me that solid foundation that I can build my life upon. Amen? See, that's the Spirit leading you into all truth. Thirdly, Jesus said that the Spirit will tell you things to come. Now, this is sometimes a little bit more controversial in the sense that people will often say, well, the Spirit told me this and the Spirit told me that. And it's like, well, we'll see if the Spirit told you that. Because if the Spirit told you that, then it's actually gonna happen. Now, I remember when, before I married my wife, this guy came up to me and he says, I'm a prophet. I said, oh, okay. And I said, and he says, and the Lord told me that I'm gonna marry Roxy. Her last name was Rhettling, Roxy Rhettling. And I said, no, you're not. And he says, how do you know? I didn't even know Roxy at the time. He says, how do you know? I says, because the Lord told me I was gonna marry Roxy Rhettling. And we all know who is the true prophet. You know, Jesus wasn't talking about end times prophecy either when he said that. Jesus is talking about the daily moment by moment leading of the Holy Spirit, just like he did for them while he was with them. And Jesus demonstrated this to the disciples and in Matthew 21, Jesus tells the disciples, go into the village and you'll find a donkey tied to a colt, loose them and bring them to me. And if anyone says anything, tell them the Lord has need of it.  And so they're going like, okay, we'll go. And all of a sudden they walk through the gate and it's like, whoa, there's the donkey. And there's the colt. Wow, just like Jesus said, that's a trip. I'd be tripping out right there. And then they turn and they loose it and some guy asks him and says, what are you doing with those donkeys? Oh my goodness, Jesus said you were gonna come talk to me. And he told me what to say. And then he says, the Lord has need to him. And I don't know about you, but for me, like if someone said, tell him the Lord has need of it, that I would be kind of freaking out saying like, they're gonna still jump me or something. And so the guy said, all right, no problem. And they're freaking out even more now.  But it was exactly what Jesus said would happen, how he played out. In the book of Acts, we see the spirit telling them things to come. The most dramatic example in Acts is the prophet Agavis in Acts 11, where he prophesied that a great famine would come throughout the world which did happen during the reign of Claudius Caesar. It actually did happen. And so we hear an example of, or see an example of the spirit telling them things that were going to come. Also in Acts 21, where Agavis takes Paul's belt and prophesies that Paul would be captured and given over to the Romans, which also happened. But you know, there was another guy in Acts nine by the name of Ananias, just a simple guy, just a regular guy praying one day. And the Lord came to him in a vision and said to him, go to a certain house where you're gonna find Saul of Tarsus. And the Lord tells Ananias that Paul is a chosen vessel to proclaim Jesus before Gentiles, kings and the children of Israel. And so what's interesting is while the Holy Spirit is speaking to Ananias, the Holy Spirit is also speaking to Paul saying, hey, I'm gonna send a guy to you, be waiting for him.  And then all of a sudden it happens just like the Holy Spirit said it would. Wasn't like weird, wasn't strange. It was just simply Jesus leading his people through the Holy Spirit. And the Spirit works in our lives the same way today. Now you might be in prayer. And as you're in prayer, the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart and says, today, someone's gonna come across your path. And you might write it off and say, ah, that's not a big deal. You know, that's not gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, that person comes across your path. You're like, whoa, that was God speaking to me. You need to pay attention. The Spirit might be telling you something that's going to come. I'll often run, I'm an idea person. I have a lot of ideas. My wife is exhausted by all my ideas. But oftentimes I'll say, hey, Pastor David, what do you think about this idea?  And he says it so casually. And I'll say, well, why? That's a great idea. And he really doesn't have an answer. He's just, I just don't think so. And you gotta be open and ready because it could be the Holy Spirit telling you things to come. And then there's other things. Well, he'll say, you know, you should consider this. I was like, okay, well, maybe that's the Holy Spirit showing me things to come. Just as simple as you're listening to an announcement at church and you feel that tug in your heart, the Holy Spirit leading you, that could be the Holy Spirit showing you things to come. Maybe it's more dramatic for you. You know, you have a dream or you have a vision as we see in the New Testament. And you write it off and say, oh, that's nothing. That's just a dream. I had too much pizza last night. Well, it might be the Holy Spirit showing you things to come. And there's been opportunities in my life where the same thing has happened, where God has shown me things before they're happening. And as I'm going through them, I feel like I'm watching a movie because the Holy Spirit has prepared me. Why would the Lord do that? Because he's preparing you ahead of time so you won't be freaked out when you go through it. How many times do we go through things and what freaks us out is that we don't know what's going on, right? Go like this. It's true, isn't it? If you knew ahead of time what was going on, you'd be a little less freaked out. It doesn't make it easier to go through, but it does kind of keep you from, you know, from completely losing it. And sometimes the Holy Spirit will show you things ahead of time to prepare you, to warn you, to open your eyes to what God wants to do so that when it happens, you're open to what the Lord wants to do or you're not, you know, sideswiped by it. Fourthly, Jesus said that the Spirit glorifies Jesus. Now, the word glorify is interesting because it means to value, to honor, to give praise, to shine, but it also means to have or to give a share in. In other words, the purpose of Jesus being glorified is not so that we all look at Jesus and say, wow, you're really glorious. But the purpose of Jesus being glorified is that when we see Jesus glorified, we're drawn into it. It's an invitation for us to enter into the presence of Jesus so that we can share in everything that belongs to Jesus because that's what the Holy Spirit does. Jesus shines and we go and we say, I want that and we say, Jesus, can I have that? And Jesus says, yes, you can because everything I have, I'm going to give to you. That's what he says here. He says, he will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and will declare it to you. He will declare it to you. Now, the word declare refers to the proclamation or declaration of a king. Thus the Holy Spirit is the messenger who brings to you the declaration from the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.  And all of a sudden, here's the Holy Spirit bringing you the wisdom of Jesus in that moment. You might be in a place where you're saying, I need strength right now. And the Holy Spirit is bringing to you the strength of Jesus. You might be in a place where you're saying, I need comfort right now. And the Holy Spirit is coming in and bringing the comfort of Jesus, the peace that passes all understanding. You might need healing. And the Holy Spirit comes with the healing of Jesus. In Acts three, Peter and John go to the temple. They see a man who's lame from birth, laying at the gate of the temple. And he's begging for money from Peter. And as he's walking by with John, Peter fixes his eyes on the man. And he says, look at us. And we read in Acts three, six through eight. Then Peter said, silver and gold, I do not have, but what I do have, I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up. And immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he leaping, stood up and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. And then we read just a few verses later after the man was healed that Peter launched a global healing ministry with John called the Sons of Thunder Ministries. And they traveled first class everywhere, selling their best selling book, How to Stop Being Lame. No, that's not what we read. What we read in verse 12 is so Peter saw it, he responded to the people, men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us as though by our own power or godliness, we had made this man walk. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go, but you denied the holy one and the just and asked for a murderer to be granted to you and killed the prince of life, whom God raised from the dead of which we are witnesses and his name through faith in his name has made this man strong whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And Peter says it's not by our power or our godliness that made this man walk, it's only one thing Jesus made this man walk. Jesus did it. So the Holy Spirit through Peter took what belongs to Jesus and gave it to the man, that's what happened there. Now this is an important spiritual principle because if you believe that the work of the spirit depends upon you, then you will be open to legalism. You'll be open to someone telling you, oh, if you really want to have a ministry, this is what you have to do. You'll think you have to do something before God can use you. You'll think you'll have to be holy enough or righteous enough.  And I tell you what, if anyone knew Peter, Peter was not a guy that had his life totally together when God started using him.  So our part is simply to receive and to let God use us. You know, there are many here tonight and you have put yourself in a box because you believe that God can't use you for whatever reason. And the Lord is saying it's not dependent upon you. It's dependent upon me. It's the work that I have done in your life at the cross. And when Jesus declared it is finished, it was finished. Your sins are forgiven. Your sins are forgiven. You have been set free from the power of sin and death. And now the only thing that keeps you from stepping in to the promises the life that God has for you is whether you believe it or not. But to you who believe, he says, I've given you the right to become the children of God. And everything that belongs to God the Father gets passed on to his kids, amen? And you need to stop seeing yourself in light of what you've done and the mistakes you've made and you need to see yourself in light of who God says you are. And what God says is that you are much beloved. You are well loved. You are well loved. God says you are forgiven. God says you are righteous. God says you are holy because of my son Jesus Christ. And so we see the work of the spirit and the life of the believer. In John 15, 26, he'll testify of Jesus. In John 16, 13, he will guide us into all truth. In John 16, 13, he'll tell you of things to come. In John 16, 14, he'll glorify Jesus. And when I look at those things, I just think why Jesus would you give those to me? Why would you do that for me? Why would you do that through me? And there's one reason Jesus tells us a little bit further down in John 16, he says the Father loves you. That's why Jesus loves you. And he doesn't want us to live one day without his presence. He doesn't want us to be ruled by anxiety. He doesn't want us to be ruled by hopelessness. He doesn't want us to be ruled by fear. He wants us to go out with joy, to be led forth with peace.  He wants you to enter into the abundant spirit-filled life. That's what Jesus wants for us. So why don't we rely on the Holy Spirit more? What keeps us from receiving it? Well, the Bible tells us that the children of Israel could not enter into the promised land because of one thing, unbelief. Unbelief kept them from receiving the promises of God. And I believe that it's unbelief that keeps us from receiving the promises of God even in the Holy Spirit. I believe the number one reason why we don't rely on the Holy Spirit is because we don't truly believe that Jesus is alive. You see, the gospel message was not confess your sins and you'll go to heaven. The gospel message was Jesus is alive and he's here right now because when I am absolutely convinced that Jesus is alive, then it's gonna change how I live. It's gonna change how I treat my wife. It's gonna change how I love my kids. It's gonna change how I am on the job. But if I don't have that awareness that Jesus is truly alive and active in my life, then I'll be okay with doing things on my own. With doing things in my own strength, my own power, my own wisdom, my own convictions. And that's what I define as the power of the flesh. My power, my perspective. Whereas the power of the spirit is God's power, God's perspective. But when I'm convinced that Jesus is alive and I believe him, then I'm going to depend upon the Holy Spirit to lead me, to reveal truth to me, to show me what's going to come to glorify Jesus. I want to close with this. It was said of D. L. Moody. Who does he think he is? Does he think he has a monopoly on the Holy Spirit? And someone responded by saying no, but the Holy Spirit has a monopoly on him. Does the Holy Spirit have a monopoly on your life? Or does the Holy Spirit have to compete for attention? And I believe tonight, perhaps some of you need to simply say to God, okay, I'm done fighting you. I'm done fighting the work of the spirit. I'm done fighting your promptings. I'm done trying to do it my way. I'm gonna surrender to you. I'm gonna surrender to Jesus. And I'm going to be led by the spirit. I'm gonna enter into that abundant spirit filled life. If you're feeling burnout, if you're feeling tired, exhausted, worn out, it's because you're doing it in your own power, your own perspective. There's no burnout in the kingdom of God. You can't be overwhelmed with life when you're overwhelmed with the spirit of God. The Holy Spirit will lead you into those green pastures where there's rest.