Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher, sitting on the fence, and before we get rolling with this video I just want to real quick cover the four firearms safety rules beforehand. I just feel compelled to do that because this is an intro video, and in an intro video it's for people who are of course new to guns, and so you may or may not know the four firearms safety rules. This deserves its own video, which I will do at some point, but for right now, just so we're all on the same page, I want to give the four firearms safety rules. The first firearm safety rule is treat all guns as if they are loaded, or all guns are always loaded, which means we're never going to do anything with a unloaded gun that we wouldn't do with a loaded gun, so the word should never, never come out of your mouth. It's okay Dylan, it's not loaded, you shouldn't say that, okay? That means we're not going to point the gun at ourselves, we're not going to point at someone else, we're just going to treat that gun like it's loaded all the time. If we all just did that, no firearms accidents would ever happen. The next three rules are derivations or an explanation of, I guess, the first firearm safety rule. So the first firearm safety rule, treat all guns as if they're loaded, or all guns are always loaded. The second firearms safety rule is never point your gun at anything you're not willing to destroy, which means I'm not going to point the gun at you, I'm not going to point it at myself, I'm not going to point the gun at anything that I am not willing to destroy. I always picture that there is a laser coming out of the end of that muzzle and I don't want to laser anything that I'm not willing to destroy. So I want to be very careful where I point this muzzle. That's particularly important on hand guns because it's such a short muzzle and the slightest turn of your wrist can sweep large swaths of area with that pistol. I want to be very careful where we point that. The third rule is keep your finger straight and off the trigger. This is where your finger goes on all guns, pistol, rifle, shotgun, doesn't matter, this is where it goes. It does not go here, all right, we don't rest our finger there. We rest our finger here outside of the trigger guard. We want to keep our finger straight and off the trigger until we ready to fire. The fourth rule is be sure of your target, it's foreground and it's background. So if you pull your gun out to save your life, you want to know what's between you and the bad guy and what's beyond the bad guy. So it's important to know where else could your bullet go in the event that it doesn't go where you want it to. So those are the four final safety rules. That's very quick. Like I said, that deserves its own video, which we will do at some point. However, that is your intro. So as you watch these videos about firearms and handling firearms, I want you to keep those four rules in mind all the time and we're never going to break those. Thanks a lot. Enjoy the video. Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and this is part two of You Bought a Pistol. So now what do you do? Part one was the actual pistol and how the pistol works, which is extremely simple. There's not a lot to that. Part two is how you operate the pistol. So right now, with coronavirus going on especially, you probably can't get to a range and if you just bought a pistol, you should have some semblance of an idea of what you're doing with that. So we're going to talk about that. So the first thing we're going to talk about is grip. How do you grip this weapon? Okay? Again, make sure the gun is unloaded. Make sure there's no magazine in the gun. Make sure there's no bullet in the chamber. Okay? So grip. We want to get our grip as high up on that gun as possible. There shouldn't be no daylight between the back of your hand and the top of the beaver tail there. Get a grip up as high as possible. Finger is straight and off the trigger. Second thing is you're going to see all this dead space here. So what you want to do is God gave you two hands. Let's use them. What I want you to do is I usually lock my first row of knuckles on my second row of knuckles here. That's like a hinge. Okay?  I'm assuming you're right-handed. If not, just reverse everything I said. You can test that out if you make a fist. Again, lock those hinges and you start here and as you extend, you're going to feel your left hand naturally compress because that hinge is set. If that doesn't make sense, give it a little bit of practice or come take a class and we'll work through it.  What we want to do is we want to extend almost all that come all the way straight out and then back off just a couple inches. So I usually end up having about a 15 or 20 degree angle in my elbow. The next thing we want to talk about is sight alignment. So we want to make sure our sights are aligned, which if I can get this on camera, it should look something like that where the front sight is evenly spaced between the two rear sights and their level on top. That's called sight alignment. We want to make sure our sights are aligned and then we're going to take those aligned sights and we're going to put them on whatever it is that we're shooting. That's called sight picture, sight alignment, sight picture. So now that we understand sight alignment, we understand how to grip the gun. The last thing to cover of course is stance. We want to make sure that our stance is square to the target. So wherever your hips are naturally pointing, that's your natural point of angle.  I'll try to roll in a picture here, but in general it's pretty simple. You're just going to stand square to the target in a general athletic stance. If you've ever played a sport in your life, you have some idea of how that works. And that's it. Now I'm going to go through five different things here that you can do at home to just easily learn how to operate and move this pistol and gain yourself a little bit of confidence and a little bit of ability that will help you manage this pistol better. The first four we're going to do from an unholstered start, which means just gun in hand. When you bought your gun, you may or may not have bought a quality holster. If not, please go find a nice kydex or kydex like holster and use that to carry your pistol around.  Get a kydex custom molded holster for your pistol. So the first four we're going to do are just from, again, the weapon is already out because this way you can practice this whether or not you have a holster. So the first one we're going to do is from Sul. Sul is just Portuguese for south, and that means right here. This is Sul. Basically one of your support hand, in this case my left hand, against my chest, gun hand right over the top, and I'm pointing the gun straight down. That's Sul. I'm going to start in Sul, and we're just going to come up to on target. Like we talked about earlier, both hands are on the gun. My elbows are slightly bent, and I'm just extending the gun straight out, bringing it up level with my head, and I am concentrating on that front sight. What you want is you want the front sight to be clear, the rear sight should be blurry, and the target on the wall, like your light switch or whatever, should be blurry. That's what we're looking to do. So just start here and take five times and just come out to on target. So to start here, start in Sul, come out to on target, and after you've seen the target, deactivate the safety. If you have that, put your finger on the trigger and pull the trigger. Reset the weapon, finger off the trigger, come back to Sul. You're going to do that five times. Again, make sure your gun's unloaded.  Five times from Sul. When you pull on that trigger, when you pull the trigger, I want you to make sure that you're not disturbing the sight picture. We just need to concentrate on pulling that trigger straight into the rear without the sights moving. If as you pull the trigger you do this, or you see the gun dip, or you see it move, that's wherever your front sight was when you pulled the trigger, that's where that bullet went. So we want to be very careful to hold the gun as steady as possible while pulling the trigger to the rear. That's really the art of pistol shooting, is holding the gun steady while you pull the trigger. That's what we practice thousands and thousands and thousands of times for, is to be able to hold the gun steady while pulling the trigger. It sounds simple, however, it is one of the more difficult things in pistol shooting. So the next thing we're going to do is we are going to shoot this pistol from low ready. So low ready is, if you extend the gun out to on target, and you just drop the gun so that it is out of your view, and you can see what you need to see. In general I try to drop the gun, I pointed at someone's feet or below their belt buckle so that I could still see their hands. That's what I'm picturing here when I picture low ready. So I have the gun down and out of your field of vision so that you can see, you can turn your head, you can look, and just come from low ready, on target, go ahead and align that sight, disengage the safety, pull the trigger, reset, come back down to low ready, and again do that five times. Now we're going to go from high ready. The gun is right here.  So as I extend the gun, I'm still concentrating my front sight. When I get the front sight picked up in my visual profile, and the gun is on target, I'm going to depress the trigger, reset, come back to high ready. So again, what you're doing is you're riding that front sight. I can see the front sight right here. I'm looking over the gun to see where you need to see. And as I extend, I'm picking up that front sight, pulling the trigger, reset. That's high ready. Do that five times. And the last of the four unholstered starting positions is high ready or high carry or temple index. There's a bunch of different names for it. Up is another name. Basically what we're going to do is we're going to marry that gun right here to the side of our head. I put my thumb on my ear, kind of the back of my ear lobe or on my neck. That way I kind of have it as an index point of that, that's where the gun goes. This is very useful for if you're in a crowded situation or if you need to move around your kids who are usually below you. This way you can of course not point a gun at anything that a gun doesn't need to be pointed at. Side note, if you're doing this in a basement, make sure no one's above you. So we're going to start at temple index here. We're going to come through, we're going to marry our hands right to high ready. We're going to flow through high ready to untarget, depress the trigger. We're going to do that five times. Those are the four unholstered starting positions that we're going to do for the Stryfire sequence. The last one we're going to do, if you have a quality kydex holster that's custom molded for your pistol, this is the last one you should do. You're just going to do it from the draw. As a concealed carrier or a person who wants to carry a pistol to save their life, you need to have a very, very smooth draw stroke. That is one of the most important things for any concealed carrier to have is to have a smooth draw stroke. A draw stroke is just drawing the gun. For me, I carry my, for me, I carry my pistol appendix, which means I carry it right in front of myself. So I'm just going to clear my cover garment with my support hand.  I'm going to marry our hands like we talked about, extend to untarget and then pull the trigger. It's going to look something like this. You can notice I'm not rushing through this. I'm not trying to hit a certain time. Although I do use a timer in my personal dry fire time. This is just a dry fire session for you to get used to the motion. Don't put too much pressure on yourself too soon. We're just trying to get the basics down so you have a smooth draw stroke. Then once you have a smooth draw stroke, you can start to put yourself under a buzzer and under a timer in order to get faster and better. Okay? So just do your draw stroke five times. And that's it. That is just an introductory dry fire session in your pistol. Again, this is for people who just purchased a pistol, aren't really sure what to do with it or how to handle it. This is where you can start. If you're interested in learning more about dry fire and more things you can do such as reloads and malfunction clearing, I do have a full pistol dry fire sequence on my channel. I'll put it in the description below. And you're welcome to do that as much as you like. Your heart's content. I will tell you right now, the better you want to be at pistol shooting, the more dry fire you need to do.  That is the primary way to get better at shooting is dry fire. If you'd like to know more about how to use your pistol to save your life, please come take a class with me.  Until then, do brave deeds and endure.


So, I wanted to do a video today and talk about how I handle things being an IT support company that runs Linux and why we run Linux. So, one, a lot of Linux stuff has to do for me with security and it's an environment I'm comfortable with and a lot of my staff runs this as well, because it's something they're comfortable with. But of course, we support Windows machines. We're not a Linux company supporting other Linux. We do some of that, more, I do some of that, but it's not the mainstay because we're doing small business support, which means QuickBooks and all the general programs you see in small businesses and all that runs for the most part on top of Windows machines and servers. So, how do you administer Windows machines and servers when you're running Linux on your desktop as the base OS? Well, I do that with a lot of virtualization and I'm showing you kind of the workflow here. This is KDE Neon that I'm running for this. I got a whole review on my actual OS and some of the ICANN. It comes with it. I do like that feature that I can kind of expand all screens. And I'm showing you I run this all with triple monitors. And what that means is there's different things at every section of my monitor and it's how I control my workflow. So, I'm going to start with how I lay out my screens first. I guess that's kind of important. So, on my left screen is usually all the browser tabs that I have open for our critical things like Messenger, which yes, we use Facebook Messenger. We have our Slack channel over here. I use Gmail because I'm using the whole G Suite. So, majority of my stuff runs in our browser for all of that. This is our point-of-sale system you're actually looking at now. Then we have our wiki and our screen connect that we're running so I can connect remotely to computers. And this all runs fine in Linux, including if I want to take control of a system. Easy enough for me to go in here, grab control and open up screen connect. Now, the nice thing is being all web-based and then having a Java launcher means I can just go ahead and do this. I'm going to switch back to the three screens so you can see what I'm doing. And then that gives me control of a computer. And I'll usually pull that one to the middle right now. You may have noticed it looks like I'm running Windows in the middle. I am. I run Windows all inside of virtual machines. So, this is a virtual machine running Windows, but I can also drag things right back over on top of it or switch between it. So, I don't have to have that full screen. So, I can just go back and pull over here. And if I'm working on stuff, I pull that all back over to the middle. Now, the middle screen is usually whatever project I'm working on. Like I said, this one's running Windows full screen. So, I can do all the Windows things that I need to do. And then over here on my right screen, this is going to look funny. Yeah, because I'm using OBS to record. But this is generally where all my communication stuff ends up. So, my Google Hangouts, I have IRC open. Some OBS and with some friends and things like that. I hang out usually in the Wayne State Lug channel because I have a few friends at Wayne State and we call it the lunch channel more than anything else. We go to lunch together. So, there's random Linux messages in there and things like that because it's a Linux users group that really only lives in here. We don't really get together and physically meet other than for lunch. So, I have all my communications things going on over here and I'll drag other communication things over here that I'm waiting for. Now, as far as the applications go, this is also where I keep my virtual box stuff. So, let's go to that. And then I have all my virtual machines.  Now, the nice thing about running them virtually and it's all sitting on an SSD is I'll show you in real time here. I won't pause to do anything. I'll show you how quickly we can spin up, start down. Let me switch back to all the screens. It actually shuts down slower than it starts up. But for example, right here is the machine I refer to as Windows 10 support system because it has all the tools I need for special support for clients when I can log into things. So, I double clicked it and you're watching in real time how fast it boots up. I know it's booted up before. Even when it's not cached, it boots up within this few seconds like this. The only thing to segregate in occasion if there's an update. But it's pretty quick. I love when Windows does this. There you go. It pauses randomly on any computer. I'm not familiar with that Windows 10 thing. Once in a while, I don't have an answer, but then I'm in. Now, more app to the workflow. Yesterday was a good example of a project I had to do for a client that required me to load special software to get connected to their network and then load another tool in order to get things going. The way I handle that is I've got a whole thing I do on VirtualBox, but I clone my VirtualBox. So, I'm over here. I actually jump right to the screen and show you. So, over here in VirtualBox, I just jump over here. Right-click, clone. Next, and maybe I'll usually call it the client name and I do what they call a linked clone. So, right here's my Windows 10 support clone. So, what this is for is those special occasions. So, when I handle the special software, I hurry up. I do this clone. And you can see even cloning it took only a matter of seconds to all the screens. And now I have a complete clone of that one. And I go.  And this is how I handle that.  I hate cluttering up Windows with things because it can cause so many issues.  Right click on the virtual machine, remove, and delete all files. Done. So, project's over. Deleted files. I still have my clean Windows 10 system with nothing added onto it. And the only thing it does is leave a snapshot in case I want to go through there. And I can just go ahead and delete the snapshot it created because I didn't like any changes. And it merges all the change dates back in and weren't really in this one. So, that kind of helps with my workflow of that. What I'm using on the desktop are going to be these apps here, like Genie. I'm going to bring that one over here and throw it over in the middle screen. Genie is a really great tool for looking at all kinds of code, whether it's HTML, PHP, or when I'm putting together like a script to get something done, to parse something. Genie's really helpful for that. It's kind of a tabbed, not really a compiler, it is an IDE, but it's not like a full one. But it does have some compiling options and things like that so you can tie it in other things. That's a really great app for that. For all my recording stuff, I'm using OBS that I have open over here, so I'm recording on right now with my Yeti mic. But it's really not a ton of apps that I have to run because I just run everything inside of the virtual machine. Now, one thing that is real important is my screen tool. I do this a lot, which is a cool tool called Shutter. And I do that because people ask me a lot of questions on your work instruction, how do I get into something, and I'll just go grab, and it lets me grab a screen shot of something real quick. It grabs that screen shot, then I can right away jump into the editor and do things like put an arrow, and then throw some text. Click here. And move it over. Save. And now I can then take this. There's options actually to upload it right to Imager or things like that, or you can just do copy, and I'll throw it in Facebook Messenger, or wherever I'm replying, or my email, and that's how I tell people where to click. This is a great little tool, and it's that quick for me to send things. People ask me, man, you did that fast. I'm like, yeah, it's really, really handy. Now, a nice thing is we are using Screen Connect for our remote support, and it has a draw on screen option. Sometimes when we'll talk into clients, we'll jump into Screen Connect, grab control of the computer, and we can draw on the screen and show them where they have to click on something, because a lot of little support things are, they just didn't realize you needed to do this or do this, so we can just share some understanding of how something works. Now, that's most of my daily use of running Linux. All my other special, as I call them, support applications, anything that's not web-based, is going to run inside of that Windows 10 box I have that I call Windows 10 support system. But there's really not much of a need to go in there, because Screen Connect runs natively in Linux for our remote sessions to support people. I load the outlook, so I never use outlook. The only time I ever use outlook is to do some testing for a client and load outlook on something for them, you know, to make sure something works or whatever. So my chat application, if I didn't say it was HexChat, that's another free one you can do for all my IRC communications. And it's not really much else, other than being in the terminal, pinging who is and looking things up all the time.  We're a part of an IT group that was working on it, and the head-ended IT group is not as competent as I'd like them to be, so they were sending me things that made no sense, and I had to show them my NS Lookups, oh, we didn't realize it looked like that outside the building, so sometimes you're, well, I'm using Dig, they're using NS Lookup on Windows, but so there's some command-line tools I use who is and dig to look things up occasionally, so I do have the terminal open a lot. But there's not a lot of other apps that I have running all the time on there. It's like we can live in a browser now more than anything, which really makes the transition to Linux so much easier. If I need to keep notes, I'm using Google Keep for all my note-taking. Nothing like Password or anything goes in there because for security reasons. All the last pass handles a lot of my password management. Once again, browser plug-in, cross-platform, so I don't have to run Windows for any of that, and it kind of makes my workflow easy. Now, I might do a separate video, and if it comes down to, because I'm talking about IT support here, when it comes to things like running a video editing suite, I really love Kaden Live, I've done a video on it, so I thought about doing a whole video on my workflow for editing videos and just kind of talk about how I do it, how I handle it, but that's all here. I do have GIMP running too, but once again, that's more related to video editing. I don't like GIMP a lot as an editor, but for making my YouTube thumbnails, it's actually really, really easy. So like when I made my little Equifax one, I can just copy and pasting. As a matter of fact, that's actually a nice feature. In there is, this works fine in Linux. Let me pull this up. You can just right-click Copy, Edit, Paste as New Layer, and I know this is available in Windows, but it works just fine in Linux too, so I can just paste things as a new layer, drop them in, and that's how I create my thumbnails and everything, so I'm going to do a separate video on my workflow for video, but I want to share kind of what's on my desktop, how we do support, and it's really that kind of boring. Kind of simple. The other program that I'm not going to pull up right now is like obscuring everything is KMyMoney, and I love that program. I've been using it for years to handle all of our ledger for end-of-month finances and things like that. I got a whole separate video you can find on how I use that program to do all of our accounting because I really don't like QuickBooks, and it does support banking inputs, but that's it. There's not a lot else to doing this. When I have to run Windows for Windows Support Tools, I'm just using VirtualBox for all of that. You know, cloning them so I don't clutter things up, and you may notice in my VirtualBox here that I actually, when I have to do some other testing with things for security reasons, I have like, if I need to do some pen testing, I have a copy of Parrot Security running right here for testing that I'm playing with right now. I'm probably going to do a whole review on Parrot. It's just so extensive. I'm trying to decide if I want to do a real long review of short videos on there, like explaining each piece of it. Whenever I'm running PF Sense, I have a copy here. PF Sense, my testing box for my demo things. PF Sense 2.4 release candidate, which once that one goes full, definitely doing a full review of PF Sense, testing with some security onion stuff, and it's a nice thing over with machines.  Occasionally clients will have some really old piece of software and they need it tested, and it's really only supported Windows XP, so I have to clean Windows XP handy just for spinning up and doing some testing when I have to test something with an XP. We have some clients in the manufacturing and they have legacy support applications. It's been a while. I know you can run some even older OSes in here, but so far I haven't had anyone that needs anything prior to XP running. It's enough stuff that does work inside of Windows XP, so we're good on that. So that's kind of it for the workflow and how I'm getting things done. Like I said, I'll do a separate one just talking about my video workflow, but it's also handy because I have a fast computer, so being able to run all these machines virtualized really makes me safe because everything is kind of container to that. Because if I wanted to do any testing on something like copy over a file and say, I don't know if I trust this, I want to know what it's doing, you can very quickly create a virtual network with PF Sense, turn on some tracing and everything so you can fully log what a virtual machine is doing, and the settings right to that network you create and keep everything kind of locked down tight and so you can do some analysis. Once again, way easier to do it in a virtual environment so I don't have to physically set anything up and having a fast enough computer to do that makes my life a whole lot easier. KDE Neon is fairly stable. I've been really happy with it. I will admit if you're going to switch to Linux, don't start with this distribution. You probably want to start with something along the lines because for me, rock's solid. I just love all the iCandy I get with the KDE Neon platform, but the crashing, if ever, is really minimal. It's a really solid operating system so I don't really have any issues with it. But like I said, do another video on my just dedicated to how my video production workflow does on Linux and go from there. But this is how I run my IT support and everything for me and my staff. We just run Windows virtually completely, but I can at least containerize it and keep it very clean and minimize the amount of update downtime that we may have because we don't really need to use Windows as our daily driver. Unless you're a gamer, then it's a whole different thing. So if you like the KDE Neon, like and subscribe. Hopefully that answers the questions. You have more questions. Leave them in the comments below and I'll try to get to them. Thank you.


We thought it would be really important for us just to include this very, very short segment on sidewall compaction and how covers and small grains have helped Jesse in this situation. As a reminder, sidewall compaction happens when planting occurs in wet soils. The furrow openers can smear soil into the sidewall, compacting it and preventing the roots from growing outwards. With good soil structure, the sidewall is porous and not sealed off, allowing roots to grow in all directions.  And, you know, if you say you're in just a straight corn soybean rotation, you're in a very low carbon environment and they're very, very porous soil structure, even in no-till.  But when you have a small grain in the rotation, those roots can actually penetrate through that sidewall and it isn't as big of an issue and I've done this, I mean I've been digging roots and paying attention to this and I've seen this small grain alleviate that. What put me in a unique position was I would, we would go to these meetings but then we would come back and actually do the experiments and then we would watch these experiments progress as the summer went by. I have to admit I was a little bit of a skeptic at first, but after seeing the difference that this makes, I was just sold on and I brought it home to the farm.


Great to be here. My name's John, I am the campus pastor here at Richland and have the privilege of being one of the teaching pastors as well. And I was like, why am I so nervous? And then I was like, well, I haven't spoken a long time on this stage, so all the way since August. And since that time, we've incorporated like new crazy high tech technology.  So I brought an etch-a-sketch. And here's what's gonna happen. If I say something or I want you guys to see something, I'm just gonna be like, hold on one sec and then the camera will come in and okay, fine, never mind, it won't be quite the same. But hopefully you brought your Bibles, hopefully you brought your hearts and ears to be open to the word of God. And we're gonna share, I'm gonna share a message that's called the question of Jesus. And here's really where that came from. Originally, I didn't know if this message was gonna be part of the last days boot camp series, which it was. And then that kind of got altered. So some of it is gonna highlight that dynamic. Like what does that mean for us? But in preparation for that, the second part of the message, I wanna talk just about the question of Jesus. We need to establish who Jesus is to us as followers of Jesus in 2021 to really be able to grow in the grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. If you brought your Bibles, turn if you went to Luke, the gospel of Luke chapter two, and as you're turning there, let's just pray and ask the Holy Spirit to anoint his word. Father, we thank you for this opportunity. And I thank you for the church, the body of Christ. And God, we thank you that your word, when it goes forth, you said would not return void. The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of the Lord endures forever. So I ask Holy Spirit, speak to our hearts, speak whatever we need to hear and let us receive it by faith. In Jesus' name and everyone said, amen. Luke chapter two, I'm gonna begin in verse eight, and I'm gonna read through verse 14. It says this, and in the same region, there were shepherds out in the field keeping watch over their flocks by night and an angel of the Lord appeared to them. And the glory of the Lord shone around them and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people, for unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord? I want you to underline that in your Bible. If I had my, I just sketch, I would put like, who is Christ the Lord in highlight? And it says, and this will be a sign for you. You'll find a baby wrapped in swaddling claws and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace among those with whom he is pleased. You guys recognize this? I'm assuming as obviously one of the most common or well-known Christmas scriptures or passages. And so you might be saying, John, take it easy. It's barely November, right?  I'm into Christmas. Raise your hand. Okay, some of you are like, hey, let's give Thanksgiving a chance here. Okay, that's more of you. Okay, well, I used to be the second crowd. I used to be like, hey, hey, take it easy. And now I'm like, no, I'm into it. Any month that ends with her, I'm ready for Christmas basically. So I got Christmas music going and we're reading the Christmas passage because we're about to enter into the season. Obviously we're as followers of Jesus, we recognize that Jesus became a man, that Jesus became flesh. The word became flesh and dwelt among us. The incarnation is what we celebrate as Christians this time of year and as we enter into Christmas. And that is an important, obviously theology, it's important piece of Christian history, very important. But at the same time, it can be a way that only people recognize Jesus as. And that's the only kind of frame of reference that they have is kind of the Christmas Jesus. And again, it's an incredible, it's really a mind blowing story. If you just peel back all of kind of the marketing and all of the hustle and bustle of Christmas and think about God, eternal God, the God who always is and always has been and always will be, decides to come to earth, to the earth he created. Like the Bible tells us in Colossians one that Jesus was there. All things that we see that are, that are created were by him and through him. Principality, seen and unseen, principalities, dominions, all because of Jesus. So he was there in the beginning. And yet he says to the Father, I am going to be a sacrificial lamb. God himself is going to come to earth.  You know what I mean? I picture like coming to America, King Jeffrey Jaffer. And I don't know if you've seen that movie, maybe I'm not even recommending it. But what happens is, he's the king of Zamunda, right? And there's this whole fleet of Mercedes-Benz and he, you know, he doesn't even get out. All these other people get out and then they open the door and they're throwing like rose petals down. And then you see his like $10,000 Italian shoes and up stands this king. He's got gold all over.  I'm gonna tell Kendra, like, and he's like, my son, Archie. You know, he's got that James Earl John. And it's like this huge deal. And that's exactly how Jesus didn't come to earth. God did not come to Los Angeles or New York. He didn't go to Rome or Corinth. He went to Bethlehem. And he didn't tell the paparazzi and he didn't tell the news channels, the shepherds were the first ones to hear about it. And he didn't come adorned in gold. He didn't come wearing, you know, royal regal robes. He literally came as a baby, a baby.  Okay, that's most of us. Portage, come on. No, I'm kidding. It's incredible. Imagine that. Again, we have three children. And what you realize about babies when they're born is that they're just, obviously it's incredible and it's miraculous, but there's also just this insane vulnerability, dependency on their parents. And I want you to just think about that's how God came to the earth, is as a child, as a baby. And he grew into his identity. The Bible says, doesn't give us much about his childhood or his teenage years, but Luke 2.52 says in God, Jesus grew in stature and in wisdom and in favor with God and with man. So I want you to understand that this, that really was who he was as a baby. And then he grew into his identity. So it wasn't God, Jesus trapped in a baby's body.   It was really God and he grew into his identity and ultimately he paid the price for our sins on a cross. The Bible says that we were redeemed not with corruptible things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of a lamb without blemish and without spot. And it's this incredible part of God's plan and it's how we are introduced to Jesus on the earth. But as I said, Jesus is eternal. And so Jesus was there when creation happened. And then Jesus was born and he had disciples and his birth and death and resurrection has impacted billions of lives in the last 2000 years. But scripture is also clear that Jesus is coming again and that he's not coming as a baby and he's not coming to Bethlehem. He's coming as a conquering king and the eastern sky is going to split wide open and there'll be a white horse and the Bible in Revelation 19 says, him who sits on it is called faithful and true.  And on that day, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father. That's who Jesus is. So I don't want to take away from the miraculous birth. I don't want to take away from the miracles we see in the gospels, but we also have to remember that Jesus is returning again. Right now, he's at the right hand of the Father interceding on our behalf, but he's coming again. So we have to answer this question. Who is Jesus? Like, what does that mean for us? Like, there's all these facets. So how do we adopt and grasp and understand who Jesus really is? And so I want to explain hopefully something that sometimes I think we overlook. And I'm gonna give you a couple of statistics here. They're not gonna come up on the screen, but you can write them down if you want. But Jesus is referred to in your Bible in several ways. So he's called the Son of God, the Son of Man, and the Lamb of God in Scripture, all less than 10 times each. So he is referred to as that, but not very often. Jesus is referred to as Savior in Scripture 20 times. Jesus is referred to as Teacher in Scripture 60 times. And Jesus is referred to as Lord in Scripture 740 times. So there is a massive chasm between what Jesus is normally or often referred to versus what he's, or often thought of versus what he's actually referred to in Scripture. 740 times, he is called Lord. And I want to establish this morning what that means for us, what that word means and what that idea has to mean for us as Christians. Let me give you the definition of Lord in the Greek, it's what your Bible is, New Testament is written in. It's the word Creos. And it means this, master, possessor, owner, controller. That's what it means when Jesus refers to himself as Lord, that he is our authority, our master, our controller. Like we belong to him and he is Lord of our lives. And the reason that that's important to remember is because if Jesus is the controller of our lives, guess who isn't in control? Us. And as 21st century Western American Christians, we don't like not being in control. Let's just be honest. I personally don't have that problem. As long as everyone does what I say the way I want it, no control issues whatsoever. No, all of us do. And it manifests in different ways. I was in traffic on Gold Road and it's amazing how quickly you become un-Christian when somebody cuts you off in traffic. Hopefully that's probably just me.   I can tell already. They don't hate me. They do hate me and they pull right out. And it's like there's like, no, I need to be in control. Like this is my space and my area. And that's how we sometimes see our Christianity. Like you don't go to somebody's house and grab the remote control, right? Caleb Culver actually does do that, but most people know like, hey, that's someone else's responsibility. And listen, this is why I say that because I fear that many times in Christian circles, we have reduced Christianity or following Jesus to believing in God, maybe praying a prayer, and then basically we live our lives the way we want to. And we do what we're wanting to do. And we're led by our own feelings, our own desires. And we don't come under the Lordship of Jesus. Yes, we need Jesus to be our savior. Yes, he was an amazing teacher. Yes, the Bible in John 15 says he's even our friend. But more than any other reference, he is referred to as Lord of our lives as controller and master and owner. And if we're not careful, we can fool ourselves into believing that we have a real relationship with God. And instead, all we really have done have acknowledged the existence of God, but it hasn't impacted or changed our lives. And if Jesus Christ is Lord of your life, it will radically change how you live. It will radically change how you see yourself and see the world around you. I wrote this phrase, and it's my own phrase, and it's kind of harsh, but it's gonna come up on the screen because I feel this. It says this, being a Christian following Jesus is not just about believing in God. You know, people will say, I believe in God, I believe in God. The demons, James says, believe in God. And they tremble. That doesn't make you a Christian.  Listen, I believe that we have to have a born again moment, I believe in praying a prayer of salvation. But too often in our culture, yeah, I prayed a prayer back when I was eight years old in my room, but you wouldn't see any evidence of it in your life. You don't, we still live the way we want to. So that's not Christianity. What is it? Christianity is a completely new way of living where Jesus is at the center and Jesus is Lord of our lives. Jesus is at the center and Jesus is Lord, owner, master and controller of our lives. So instead of compartmentalizing, which we often do and saying, okay, Jesus, you're Lord on Sundays and I have work on Monday and this on Wednesday and sports here and friends here. No, what if Jesus is the center and every other thing comes through and is processed through? Jesus is the center and Jesus is Lord. What do my relationships look like? What do I look like when I'm at work? What about when I'm at school? Everything is affected because Jesus is not just another thing we do, he's the center of our lives and he's the Lord of our lives.   I wanna give you a couple of verses, Colossians chapter three. Paul writes this, we did a big series, preeminence and Colossians. He said, if then you have been raised with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God the Father, set your mind on things above, not on the things of the earth for you died and your life is hidden with God in Christ. And when Christ, who is your life? Underline that, where's my Etch-a-sketch? Who is your life appears? Then you also will appear with him in glory. It doesn't say when Christ, who is kind of important, when Christ, who you pray to prayer to once, when Christ, who you acknowledge on Sundays. No, when Christ, who is your life now appears, then you'll appear with him in glory. It's a radical life shift, a radical life change. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter five. Paul talks about ambassadors. He talks about how we are carriers of the glory of God, but he answers this question. And if I asked it to this church this morning, if I said, why did Jesus die? We'd get a lot of answers, but they'd probably be like for our sins, so we could be forgiven, so we could be redeemed, so we can go to heaven. Like, those are all good answers. But look what Paul says to the church, and he meaning Jesus died for all. Why?  Jesus died on the cross, not so that we could go on living our regularly scheduled programmed lives. He died on the cross for our sins, so that we who now live might no longer live for ourselves. We are not the focus. We're not the owner. We're not the controller. Jesus is following Jesus and making him Lord is a radical life change. And so now I wanna just talk about, what does that mean? How do we prepare ourselves in light of our lives being aligned with Jesus for these last days? For living in the last days, if we're part of a generation that as Pastor Lee has taught could very well see the return of Christ. What is our primary focus? What do we need to make sure we're doing and we're following? I wanna just give you three practical pragmatic things that I have been praying the Holy Spirit would highlight and help you in your own personal journey as a Christian. So three things to prepare the first is this, make knowing God a priority. Make knowing God a priority in your life. Look what Jesus said in John 17. This is his high priestly prayer. It's beautiful. Says when Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and he said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, let the son make glorify you. Since you have given him authority over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. Now look at verse three and this is eternal life. Do you wanna know what is eternal life? What is it? Is it just we go to heaven forever? Is it just whatever happens after we die? No, this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. There is no real life until we know God and knowing God is an intentional relational decision that we make every day of our lives. That's what I want you to hear. Make knowing God a priority in your life because too often, especially in our world, we know a lot about God. We know facts, we know Bible stories. We know what Pastor Lee maybe has taught us and that's great. We are blessed with an incredibly gifted, smart, incredible communicator and it can be easy sometimes to think, well, I go to church and I even take notes and I listen so that's how I know God and I'm going to tell you there is absolutely no replacing, time spent with God in his word and in prayer when it comes to actually knowing him, knowing him, not just knowing about him, not just having some understanding about building intentionally a relationship because here's the thing, when you know someone, you can trust someone. What do we tell our children? Stranger, danger, right? If you don't know that person, then there's a level of trust you can't have and that's what we tell our kids and we should tell our kids, like you need to know. So you know, if it's this person, you can trust him and when we don't know God, that's why we don't trust him with areas of our lives. That's why we don't allow him to have Lordship over things like our finances, our family, our decisions is because we still own control because we don't trust him and the reason we don't trust him is because we don't know him. I'm a huge tennis fan. Don't at me, it's the greatest sport of all time. It's God's favorite sport because it begins with love and if you serve well, you usually win. So how about that? There's no argument. I'm sorry, if you like bass, there's just nothing you can say, that's it. So I love tennis. Every year I go to a tennis tournament with my friend Mike in Cincinnati and you see all the big name players and if you follow tennis, you know the last like 10 years we've had Roger in men's tennis but we've had Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic. So guys who are all time greats, all playing at the same time. And so one time, they practice like an hour before they take the court for their match and you don't need a ticket. You can just go down to the practice court. And so I made my way down and I was one of the first in there. So I'm literally like at the very, you know, brink of the divider that leads to the court and I'm watching Roger Federer warm up with his training partner and there's no ball kids or anything. So he hits a ball and it shanks a little bit and it comes right over to where I am. So literally like, you know, he's 10 feet away from me as he comes over to get the ball himself. And I say to him, Roger, good luck tonight. And Roger looked at me, we made eye contact. And he said, thanks. And then we hung out forever. No, we didn't. And now we're best friends. No, we're not actually. But I remember I called Mike. I was like, dude, I just talked to Roger Federer. And if I'm not at the hotel tonight, it's because we're hanging out and we're friends now and I may be preoccupied. I don't know. This could go somewhere. That's what I'm telling you, right? I didn't say all that. Oh, I did actually kind of say that, but I didn't really mean it because all I did was say one word to him. But I know a lot about Roger Federer. I've watched him. I've been in some proximity to him, but I don't know who he is. And I'm going to guess that if I see him again, hey, hey, remember 2012? I said, good luck. And you said, thank you. It's cool you haven't called. Like take your time, you know, whatever, whatever. I'm not going to do that. Why? Because I don't know him. And too often we treat God that way. Hey, I know something about him. Listen to me. Matthew 6-6 is the lifestyle that every Christian needs to lead to know God. What did Jesus say? He was just saying how not to pray. Don't babble, don't pray like the heathens do. Don't try to be noticed like the Pharisees do. He said, but when you pray, go to your room that's in secret and close the door and pray to your father. And he who sees in secret, what you're doing will reward you openly. The reward of the secret place of going and spending time with God in word and in prayer is that you begin to know him. And when you know him, you can trust him. And when you know his word, your life can literally change. I have some statistics. This is people who engage the Bible four or more times a week. This is it. This is what happens. So I'm going to engage the Bible four more times. It's 228% more likely to share their faith than people who don't read the Bible. It's 407% more likely to memorize scripture. People ask me, how do you know so many scriptures? I literally just read the Bible and then I remember.  Yeah, so we can memorize things, but how do you know they're in front of us? Like we know it. 59% less likely to view pornography. Many times when we fall into some of these sins, it's because we don't have a connection with the Lord. We're preoccupied, 30% less likely to struggle with depression and loneliness. And these are Barna stats. And again, all I'm saying is that reading the word of God matters because it's alive and it's powerful and it's sharper than any two-edged sword. That's what the Bible says. So you can go to the library and you can read any book you want, but there's only one book that reads you and discerns your heart. And that is the living word of God. And so as we navigate these last days, you have to know God, make it a priority. Number two, make sure Jesus is your source. Your source, your source of identity, your source of truth, your source of purpose and meaning and satisfaction in your life has to come from Jesus in these last days. Or it is coming from a well that's going to run dry. Jesus is, the Bible says, a fountain of life. He is a stream, a spring of living water. And when you drink from him, you'll never thirst. You'll never run dry. But if your source is anything other than Jesus, if you're looking to anything other than Jesus to validate you for your identity, for your self worth, you are running a race that you'll never win and that you'll never finish and that you'll never find true satisfaction in. And so many people, guys, in our day and age and in this generation are looking to social media, looking to money, looking to any other thing to find their source. And what happens is it will run dry. And when it does, lives crumble and people are devastated. Why? Because they're drinking from a well that runs dry.  Look at what Psalm 36 says. This is one of my favorites. It says, how precious is your steadfast love? Oh God, the children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.  For with you is the fountain of life and your light do we see light. In John chapter four, Jesus meets the woman, the Samaritan woman at the well. She's had five husbands. Her life is spiraling out of control and he talks to her about water. And what does she say? Oh, I want that water. Show me where it is. And so I don't have to keep coming to this well. And Jesus says, no, the water I'm talking about is different. This well is gonna run dry, but the water that I give you leads to eternal life and it leads to fulfillment. And I wanna just encourage you. Listen, in our culture, money is the number one substitute for God. That's our source. And so we live our lives too often thinking, well, as long as I have financial security, as long as I have enough, and do you know why Jesus said, you can't serve God and mammon, God and money? It's because it becomes your God. And you think, I don't really need God. Like I don't really need to pray. I don't really have a lot of need. I have financial resources. But then what happens when those are gone? What happens when our economy is shaken? What happens when like in the 1930s when there was a stock market crash in Black Friday, what happened? People took their own lives because they lost their money. Why? Because it was their source. It was their source. Why are so many people on just this political, like hiatus? Like this is, why? Because they've made politics, their source. If the right person's in office, then everything's gonna be okay and everything's gonna be, but if this person, if this party is in office, oh God, we're doomed, we're all doomed. Like that's not faith. And that's not a source you wanna drink from, trust me. You want Jesus to be your source. Vote, pray, pray for all of our leaders. But don't make politics your source. Don't make how you look your source. There's a whole generation of young people that are being just absolutely devastated by Instagram and by other social media that says, this is how you need to look. This is what is popular. This is what's gonna make you happy. Well, guess what? There's gonna come a day where you don't look the same. And there aren't enough plastic surgeons to make that face look the way it did on that one filter, Snapchat filter or whatever it is. Like, you know, that can't be our source. And so I'm half joking, but I'm literally vexed in my soul that I see and I don't know anything about it, which is probably one reason to not talk about it, but I'm going to anyways. Why we have 37,000 marijuana distributors in Kalamazoo? Like I don't understand it. Is the market never flooded? Like we can just always have more? I don't know a lot about it, but here's what I know. There's no way you can tell me that isn't happening because people are looking to that for their source. They're looking to alcohol. They're looking to, I need to feel better about myself. And this is the answer. And I'm telling you, that will run dry. It will not satisfy. It won't. And listen, not everything is bad. Obviously relationships aren't bad and politics, well, don't have to be bad, you know, but they can't be your source. Jesus has to be your source. And you wake up and say, I am who God says that I am. And he says I'm forgiven and he says I'm called. And he says he has plans and purposes for my life. And my life is not contingent on what other people think about me. My life is not hanging in the balance of other people's opinions. I am a child of God and I'm not a slave to fear. I'm not a slave to my past. I don't have to live as an orphan. I am adopted by God. And just begin to confess the truth over yourself. Jesus, you are my source. And my third thing as we prepare is this, is to make obedience your measuring stick. How do I know if I'm a Christian? How do I know if I'm following Jesus? Do I just say I'm a Christian? Do I just change my status on social media to Christian? Do I just pray or prayer?  What level of obedience am I walking in to what Jesus has said and to what God has declared in His word? What level of obedience? It's, listen to me, it's not how high we raise our hands on Sunday. It's how obedient we're walking to the truth on Monday that really determines what we believe and what we know about who we are as followers of Jesus. Look what John writes in 1 John. He says this, and by this we know that we have come to know him. What? We keep his commandments.  Look, I didn't call you a liar, John did, but anyway. And the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word in him, truly the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in him. Listen, I'm not talking about performance in the sense that, you know, because listen, the Pharisees, they kept the law better than anyone. So it's not just about keeping commandments because their hearts were far from God. But here's what I'm going to say. When you know God and when you love God and when he's the Lord of your life, the overflow of that is a desire to want to walk in obedience. Is a desire to want to please him with your life. And John goes on to say that when we do know him and we do love him, his commandments are not burdensome. Like God is not this like big, you know, mean guy in the sky who lives in the valley of no and wants to crush your dreams and your joy and your happiness. No, if we fall in love with Jesus, his commandments, what he wants us to do and what he lays out in his word, they're not burdensome, they're not hard, they're life giving and they're freeing. Jesus said this in John 14, if you love me, keep my commandments. If you love me, you'll keep my commandments. We switch that around and say, well, I need Jesus to know I love him, so I'm going to keep his commandments. And that's our focus. I can't do this, can't do that. Got to do this, got to do that. No, put your focus on Jesus, who he is and what he's done. Read through the Gospels, read through the passion, the price that he paid on the cross. Let your heart fall in love with Jesus. And then the overflow of that is a lifestyle of obedience. It's a lifestyle that says, look, no one's perfect. I'm not, again, please hear me. I'm not saying that we have to follow the law to the letter, but I'm saying is when we make Jesus Lord, the overflow is that we wanna please him with our lives. We wanna know him more. We wanna make sure we're saying yes to what he says yes to you and we're saying no to what he says no to you. And that happens through relationship. That God is not some cosmic being two million miles away in the atmosphere. He's near, he's with us. When you draw near to God, he draws near to you. And we look at our lives and we say, is it reflecting who God says that he is and what God has communicated in his word? And if it's not, then we have to submit to that. Listen, if you don't know what the word says, then you're gonna be moved by the streams of culture. And culture is constantly changing. And we have too many Christians in America especially that say, okay, I love God and sure I believe in God and I believe in Jesus and I'll go to church and I like it and I like the music and Pastor Lee's great.  I'm not gonna stop sleeping with my girlfriend. I'm not gonna forgive that guy. I hate him.  I'm not gonna witness. I don't, that's the pastor's job.  I come under your authority and I need you to help me bear fruit. I need you to help me walk in obedience. God's not dangling a carrot saying, you gotta get here. You know, I'll fill you with my spirit. I'll grace you with the strength that you need, but you have to have a desire to live for me. That's what it looks like to have obedience be your measuring stick. I was thinking about, my wife and I are about to leave on vacation. And I was thinking about this dynamic of, look, it's not salvation is a free gift. I want you to hear me. It's not like we earn it with our performance. It's not like we earn it by doing the right things. And then God is happy with us, but it does cost us something. Because when we say yes to Jesus, we say no to some other things. We say no to some of the desires of our flesh, some of the things that the world is saying. And it reminded me of when I gave Kendra, when I proposed to Kendra, I gave her a, I think it was like a 1 52nd of a carrot wedding ring. And it was, it was amazing. And I gave it to her and I was so nervous. I was like, I'm going to wait till Christmas. And this is going to be, and I didn't, and I was nervous. And if I could go back in time, I would change a lot of things. But one thing would be how I proposed to Kendra, because there would be like a trip to the Louvre museum, or at least a hot air balloon, or maybe like a fighter jet flying by, and it wouldn't be Applebee's. But either way, I pulled this ring out. I'm literally shaking. And I asked her a question. I said, will you marry me? I said, will you be mine?  And here's the thing is I bought that ring. It didn't cost Kendra anything. But when she said yes to it, when she received it, it did cost her something. She now belongs to me. Like she says no to other people. She says no to other things. Her allegiance and her heart is coming after me. And when she put her ring, my ring on my finger, she paid for that, but it cost me something. And that's what covenant looks like. Like she belongs to me. I belong to her and we belong to Christ. That's what a life of covenant looks like. And maybe you're like, wow, that sounds chauvinistic, John. She doesn't belong to you.  But either way, I'm just kidding. But that's what it looks like. It's not, it wasn't like, hey, now you gotta do this, this and this because we're married. No, it's an overflow of I belong to you now and I wanna love you and there's bumps in the road and it's not always easy, but we walk in the truth of the promises we made to each other. And that's what it looks like in many ways to follow Jesus. We're the bride of Christ. We belong to him and our lives need to be surrendered to him in these last days to fully walk in his plans and in his purposes. Will you stand up with me this morning?  I wanna pray for us, for you, for the church. I just want you to ask the Holy Spirit, what do you want to speak to me right now? Just no moving around if you can. I just really ask the Lord like how, how are we gonna end this service? And here's what I felt I needed to be obedient to. It's first, there may be those in here or even online that need to ask Jesus to be their savior. He wants to be that.  Jesus will come, one prayer, one acknowledgement, draw near to him and he draws near to you. He's there in a moment and he wants to forgive you and he wants to make you a new creation in Christ Jesus. That's what he does because he's always faithful. And there is gonna be a day, as I said, where Jesus returns or when we stand before him and we will give an account for our lives. And what none of us wanna do in that moment is say, there was an offer for Jesus to take my sin and my shame and my brokenness but I didn't say yes to that. I kept it for myself and now we're accountable for our sins and our shortcomings instead of Jesus. And I wanna give you an opportunity to put your cares, your burdens and your lives into the hands of Jesus. And if you're here and you just say, hey, pray with me. All I'm gonna ask you to do is raise your hand.  And if you say, John, just include me in the prayer. We're gonna pray. I need Jesus to save my soul and set me free. I just want you to raise your hand right now and just acknowledge that. It's between you and the Lord. Thank you, thank you. Awesome. Keep your hand up. This is between you and God. Thank you. Anyone else? Awesome. I wanna ask one more question.  Maybe it's your children. Maybe it's your finances. Maybe it's the worry of work. The fear of your future. And God's not mad. He's not demanding anything but I'm just gonna tell you when you cast your burdens on the Lord, he cares for you. He carries those. And when you make him Lord, here's the beauty of the kingdom of God. The more you surrender, the more you give away, the more freedom you actually experience. It's not like the world where if I surrender to you, now you're in control and I'm in a bad spot. Now, the more you give to Jesus, the more freedom you actually experience. And so there's areas of your life where you need to ask God to forgive you for taking control and you need to surrender the Lordship of those areas to Jesus. I just want you to raise your hand right now. Just raise your hand and say, that's me. Awesome, there's hands all over. You can put your hands down. We're just gonna pray together. Father, we thank you for these opportunities where we're just reminded that God you're for us and you're with us. And you're our savior and redeemer and friend and teacher and Lord and lamb of God. You're all those things, but you're also Lord of our lives. And so we surrender and submit to that reality today. And we say, God, you alone are worthy.  You alone can speak direction to me, God. We don't wanna go our way. We don't wanna do what we want, Father. We wanna hear the voice of God behind us like Jeremiah did saying, this is the way. Walk in it, God. Thank you that you lead us. You don't yank us around, God. You don't push us. You lead us beside still waters. And into green pastures, God. Your ways are always higher. Your ways are always better. I pray for every hand that was lifted and surrender to you, God. That when we leave here, our Monday through Saturday lives, God, the trajectory of our heart would be to know you, to make you our source and to walk in obedience to who you are and what you said in Jesus' name. Amen.


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Good morning friends I am Pooja and today we will work out the following question. A box of oranges is inspected by examining three randomly selected oranges drawn without replacement. If all the three oranges are good, the box is approved for sale otherwise it is rejected. Find the probability that a box containing 15 oranges out of which 12 are good and three are bad ones will be approved for sale. Now the multiplication rule for three events E, F and G is given by probability of E intersection F, intersection G is equal to probability of E into probability of F given E into probability of G given E intersection F. So this is the key idea behind our question. Let us begin with the solution now. Now let A be the event of selecting first good orange, B be the event of selecting second good orange and C be the event of selecting third good orange. Now we are given that total number of oranges is 15 out of which 12 are good and 3 are bad ones. We are also given that if all the three oranges are good the box is approved for sale otherwise it is rejected. And we have to find the probability that a box containing 15 oranges out of which 12 are good and 3 are bad ones will be approved for sale. Now probability of A that is probability of selecting first good orange is equal to 12 upon 15. Because we are given that total number of oranges is 15 out of which 12 are good ones so probability of selecting first good orange out of these 15 oranges will be 12 upon 15. Now we are given that second orange is drawn without replacement so we have to find probability of B given that A has occurred that is to find probability of B given A. Now B is the event of selecting second good orange and we are given that the second orange is drawn without replacement. So we have to find the probability of selecting second good orange given that the first good orange is already selected. That is we have to find probability of B given A. Now probability of B given A is equal to 11 upon 14. Now since the second orange is selected without replacement so the total number of oranges left out in the box will be 14 out of which number of good oranges will be 11. Because out of 12 good oranges one good orange has already been selected so we get probability of B given that A has already occurred is equal to 11 upon 14. Now again the third orange is drawn without replacement so we have to find probability of C given that A and B have already occurred that is to find probability of C given A intersection B. Now C is the event of selecting third good orange and we are given that this third good orange is selected without replacement. So we have to find the probability of selecting third good orange given that the first and second good oranges have already been selected. That is we have to find probability of C given A intersection B. Now this probability of C given A intersection B is equal to 10 upon 13. Now since this third orange is selected without replacement so the total number of left out oranges in the box will be 13. And since out of 12 good oranges two good oranges have already been selected so the total number of good oranges will be 10. So the probability of selecting this third good orange given that the first and second good oranges have already been selected is equal to 10 upon 13. Now by key idea we know that the multiplication rule for three events E, F and G is given by probability of E intersection F intersection G is equal to probability of E into probability of F given that E has already occurred into probability of G given that E and F have already occurred. So here probability of selecting all the three good oranges without replacement will be given by probability of A intersection B intersection C is equal to probability of A into probability of B given that A has occurred into probability of C given that A and B have already occurred. Now this is equal to probability of A is equal to 12 upon 15 so we have 12 upon 15 into probability of B given A is equal to 11 upon 14 so we have 11 upon 14 into probability of C given A and B have already occurred is equal to 10 upon 13 so we get 10 upon 13. And we get this is equal to 44 upon 91 so we have got our answer as 44 upon 91 hope you have understood the solution by and take care.