You're praying for them to get saved. But no matter how much you preach, no matter how much you pray, no matter how many conversations you have with them, it seems like they just continue to resist the gospel, like they continue to just reject the Lord. In fact, sometimes it may seem that the more you preach to them, at the heart of their hearts become. Now, as I said that somebody came to your mind, maybe it's one individual in particular, maybe it's several individuals, maybe it's a group of people that you work with or that you know or that you study with, a family member, a family group, a household. Well, I want to show you from Scripture how to evangelize, the simplest way, the easiest way. Now, when I say the easiest way, I don't mean that there won't be any challenges. I simply mean that it is the biblical way, the more specifically biblical way and the simpler way. Spirituality is always simple. When we begin to complicate things, that's when we know we're crossing over into religious territory. Now, I want to share these keys with you. And then at the end of this message, I want to pray with you for your loved one. I'm going to agree in faith with you for them to come to the cross. But first, I want you to write something in the comment section and it will stretch your faith a little bit. And there may even be this hesitation in your heart that says, well, I don't know, this doesn't seem possible. I want you to comment it anyway. Make this a public declaration of faith. I want you to take the first name of the loved one for which you are praying and type their first name and say, we'll be saved. So if their name is John, write, John, we'll be saved. If their name is Carol, write Carol, we'll be saved and so forth. Maybe there are several individuals. Well, you can type several different comments, but I want you to comment that, put that out there, publicly declare it, and I want you to believe that. Now, there's nothing magical about leaving that comment, but it is a challenge for your faith because maybe even when you write that, there's something in you hesitating saying, well, I just don't know if that's possible. Today, I pray that the Holy Spirit would give you faith, faith to believe for their salvation, faith to believe for what you see as impossible, faith to believe for something that can only be accomplished by the Holy Spirit. And I know that as your faith is stretched, you'll be encouraged. My prayer is that even burdens are lifted today, that heaviness, that weight you carry because of the rejection of the gospel thus far. I pray that even be lifted today. So again, write that in the comment section and declare that by faith. Now, it's important to remember that salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit and even the individual being drawn to salvation, that's a work of the Holy Spirit. So it's not something that we do in our own effort. We do the difficult, God will do the impossible. We obey, God will do the miracle. We preach, God will convict the heart. We share the gospel, and ultimately, he's the one who saved. So we carry out the assignment we have, and then we leave the rest to God. Now, there are several different kinds of evangelism that you'll see in the Scripture. I've categorized them in four different categories. You'll see confrontational evangelism. An example of this is Acts chapter 20, verses 20 and 21. I never shrank back from telling you what you needed to hear, either publicly or in your homes. I have had one message for Jews and Greeks alike. The necessity of repenting from sin and turning to God and having faith in our Lord Jesus. This is to go out and to declare the gospel message, to declare repentance. Sometimes you'll see maybe street preachers preaching at parades or preaching on university campuses or in places of public gathering. This is what you would call confrontational evangelism. And often in the church we demonize that kind of evangelism, all the while not recognizing that definitely the Holy Spirit does work through that kind of preaching. Then there's relational evangelism. Now, in my opinion, I don't have any statistics to back this up just in my experience and my own personal observation I've seen, that number two, relational evangelism is the most effective. 1 Corinthians 7-16. The Bible says, Don't you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don't you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you? Now, this is an example of relational evangelism, but relational evangelism has more to do than just spouses. Now, the Bible here is not saying that you should marry an unbeliever as an active evangelist. Here, of course, Paul the Apostle is writing to those who are already in these situations. They're already married and then they get saved and maybe their spouse doesn't yet follow in the same footsteps. So he's saying you can be used to win your spouse over. This is not talking about evangelism through dating. That is, of course, not biblical because we are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Now, someone might say, Well, I know someone who married an unbeliever or started dating an unbeliever and they came to the cross. Well, this is not necessarily God's approval. Do not mistake God's mercy for God's approval. So here we see that it can be carried out through relationships, evangelism. Friends can win friends. Spouses can win spouses. A sibling can win sibling. And this is how it works when you share the gospel with those whom you know and love, even those who you work with and study with and are in constant communication with. That is relational evangelism. And again, I believe this is the most effective kind of evangelism. So this is not evangelism by dating again. I just want to emphasize that in case anybody tries to use my words to validate something that the scripture doesn't validate. But the point is that our relationships can be used to win souls. Then we see organizational evangelism. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11, the Bible says, Now, these are the gifts Christ gave to the church, the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists and the pastors and the teachers. So there is a structure and within that structure, we see the evangelists. Often people criticize the church because they evangelize within their four walls. Now, of course, we understand that there are times when we need to go outside of the four walls of the church. But we demonize churches often. We demonize structure. We demonize organization. And we say things like, well, I want to just win souls, you know, in a more relaxed way. I don't want to be as organized or I don't want to be as structured in my approach. And we say things like, well, I don't like organized religion. Well, what do you like? Disorganized religion? Chaotic religion? Chaotic church? Disorganized church? Name me one thing God ever did that was unorganized. Everything God does requires organization. He is a God of order. And the same is true of his church and the church, the body of Christ has a system and a structure to it. And within that system, within that structure, we have evangelists. So it can be said that one of the great ways that God wins souls, one of the greatest really arms of evangelism is the local church. In fact, more people are probably saved through the local church statistically than anywhere else. So before you criticize a local church gathering, before you criticize the idea that we can evangelize through the local church or through church events, just stop and pause and realize that's one of the ways that evangelism actually works. And finally, number four, we see supernatural evangelism, Mark chapter 16, verse 20. And the disciples went everywhere and preached and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs. So often the preaching of the gospel is accompanied by miracles. Now, this is not to say that every time you preach the gospel, you have to demonstrate a healing or a deliverance because the gospel message by itself can stand. But that doesn't mean that God cannot use on occasion miracles to help facilitate an audience or to help maybe capture the attention of a listener or maybe even to draw people to a place where they're going to hear that gospel message. It can be one of the ways that God works. So often evangelism is accompanied by supernatural demonstrations of power. Now, let's take a look at how Jesus evangelized, gleaned some points from that. And then after we take a look at that particular portion of Scripture and gleaned some points from it, I want to give you some very practical keys that you can apply to your life to help you win your loved ones to the Lord. So again, maybe there's this stubborn individual or stubborn individuals, you're praying for them. And it's created this frustration, this angst, this tension in your walk with God. And you want to be released of that. Keep listening. By the way, you will notice that as you listen to the Word of God, often your flesh will try to look for a distraction, something different than the Word of God. So I want to challenge you to listen to this message all the way through because as you are challenged, you will grow. And as you grow, you become better equipped to win your loved ones to Christ. John chapter four, we're going to begin at verse number six. Jacob's well was there and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime. Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water and Jesus said to her, please give me a drink. He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. Verse nine, the woman was surprised for Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans.  Why are you asking me for a drink? And Jesus replied, if you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me and I would give you living water. Verse 11, but sir, you don't have a rope or a bucket. She said, and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water from? Verse number 12, and besides, do you think you're greater than our ancestor, Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed? Jesus replied, anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.   I don't have a husband, the woman replied. Jesus said, you're right. You don't have a husband, for you have had five husbands and you aren't even married to the man you're living with now. I mean, this, I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself here, but this is quite confrontational.  That probably is a very touchy subject for her. I mean, just the fact that she was alone at the well demonstrates to us that she probably lived in great shame and others definitely shunned her because of her reputation. You certainly spoke truth, Jesus says. Continuing at verse number 19. Sir, the woman said, you must be a prophet, so tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship? Well, we Samaritans claim it is here and Mount Gerizim. Where are our ancestors worshiped? Jesus replied, believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on the mountain or in Jerusalem. You Samaritans know very little about the one you worship, but we Jews know all about him for salvation comes through the Jews. The time is coming, indeed, it's now here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. Now look at verse 25, the woman said, I know the Messiah is coming, the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us. Then Jesus told her, I am the Messiah. Just then his disciples came back. I mean, just even looking at Jesus' evangelistic approach, there's a lot we can pull from this. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask, what do you want with her? Or why are you talking to her? The woman left her water jar beside the well and ran back to the village telling everyone, come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could he possibly be the Messiah? Now there's a spark of hope in here that takes place. She's beginning to believe on the Lord Jesus. So the people came streaming from the village to see him. Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus, Rabbi, eat something. I love this, but Jesus replied, have a kind of food you know nothing about. And so we'll stop it there, and then we'll begin to look at the various different portions of Scripture. But you know, Jesus was satisfied to do the will of the Father. Often when I stand on the platform after having given a call to salvation, and I see the many people coming to receive Christ, there's something in me that just begins to spring up. There's like this life, this river flowing out of me. I can feel it. And there is such joy that I sense in that moment when I see people coming to the cross. And when you come to our services, you'll see people from every background, every culture, every nation. It's just this perfect blend of everyone like the Kingdom of God. And I look over and I see not just different nations, not just different cultures, not just different backgrounds and lifestyles, but I see from young to old, little children being saved to the elderly being saved. And when I see that happen in that moment, there's just this joy that I sense. There's nothing like it. There's nothing like it. And I often tell my team guys, don't ever forget the privilege we have to see this. Don't ever let this get old. This is a joyous occasion. So Jesus is saying, the food I have, you don't know anything about this. They couldn't at that point, I suppose. And he's saying, I'm just satisfied in doing the will of my Father. But look now at verse number six, we see that Jesus was very tired. He was tired from the day. He was tired from walking. So this is key number one. Number one, he was willing. He was willing to see the opportunity. He was willing to seize the moment, even though he was tired. He was willing to overcome that physical fatigue for the joy that was set before him in that moment. And in moments like that, often we miss the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Maybe we're tired. Maybe we're hungry. Maybe we're exhausted mentally and emotionally from the day. Maybe we don't want to be stimulated by anything else in our environment. And we'd rather just go in and do nothing. And there are times to rest. Of course, I'm not condemning that. But we have to also remember to be willing to look for those moments and then seize upon those moments even when we feel exhausted and tired. So that's number one, he was willing. Number two, if you look at verse seven, he was kind. And so soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water and Jesus said to her, please give me a drink. The very fact that he's interacting with her, it's a demonstration of his kindness. Why? Because of this woman's reputation, she was there drawing alone at the well. That's a huge clue as to how she lived. She was there by herself. And Jesus begins to interact with her. Jesus begins to engage her. And I doubt that anyone had ever spoken to her with that much love and respect. I doubt that she had experienced that anytime recently before that moment. Jesus was kind to her. The woman's situation was one of shame, one of rejection, one where she was not welcome to be with the crowds. And sometimes evangelists, pastors, teachers, we in ministry we care more about crowds than we do about people. But I want to remind you that when you see crowds, congregations, that you are seeing a mass of stories and a mass of lives. This woman was approached by the Lord in kindness. This tender mercy. That's number two, be kind. Now this doesn't mean that you can't be confrontational. I'm going to cover that in point number four. But this does mean that there should be a level of respect, civility. There should be this love and compassion that you have for the people. If you lack love and compassion, that will begin to show in your evangelism. Number three, he was relatable. At verse number 14, we see that he begins to draw upon, I don't mean that to be upon, but he begins to draw upon the situation in which they found themselves. They were at a well. They were drawing water. And so what does Jesus do? He takes advantage of that opportunity to communicate to her in a way that she can understand. Jesus often shared using parables, but he was relatable to her. He began to share about this living water, drinking from that, which would cause one to never be thirsty again. So he didn't necessarily bash her, but he took the time to communicate with her in a way that she could receive it and understand it. Number four, he was confrontational. Verse number 18, I mean, this is, like I said, when I read it just a few moments ago, I said I was getting ahead of myself, but it just stands out. Again, he's engaging, he's loving, he's kind, and the woman is speaking with him. So you can imagine maybe it caught her just a little bit off guard when he says, for you have had five husbands and you aren't even married to the man you're living with now. You certainly spoke truth. I don't think he was necessarily being sarcastic, but he was emphasizing a point quite heavily, and he was calling her out on her sin. Guys, Jesus called this woman out on her sin. We have a responsibility. I know it's not popular to say, but I'm gonna tell it to you anyway. We have a responsibility to speak against sin. You can be kind, you can be willing, you can be relatable, while also being confrontational. In fact, it is your kindness and love that will help the people to better receive when you confront them. Often when we are approached by loved ones who confront us about areas in our lives that maybe are out of order, we can better receive from our loved ones than we can a stranger. I understand that often we do evangelize strangers, but the point I'm simply making here is that kindness and confrontation are not at odds with one another. Now, some might point to the Scripture in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 12, where the Bible says it isn't my responsibility to judge outsiders, but it is certainly your responsibility to judge those inside the church who are sinning. But that would be to take this particular Scripture out of context, because what he's actually addressing is discipline within the context of the gathering of the saints, within the body of Christ. So this only means that it's not our responsibility to discipline believers under church authority. In other words, there's no body to kick them out of. They're not in the body. There's no action to take within the leadership of the church, because they're not under that jurisdiction. This doesn't mean that we're to be silent on their sin. In fact, before you can present a cure, you have to give the diagnosis.  Until they know there's a problem, they're not going to embrace the solution. So confrontation and kindness are not in conflict with one another. In fact, they help to balance one another out. So we have to address the sin in the world. 2 Corinthians chapter 7 verse 10 says, For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There's no regret for that kind of sorrow, but worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death. So here we see in the scripture, it's quite clear that when someone is broken over their sin that it actually can ultimately lead to repentance, which is what we want, repentance should be preached, Luke 24, 46 and 47. And he said, yes, it is written long ago. It was written long ago.  It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of His name to all the nations beginning in Jerusalem. There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent. We are to call this wicked world to repentance. Acts 319. Now repent of your sins and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped away. 2 Peter 3 9. The Lord really isn't being slow about His promise. As some people think. No, He is being patient for your sake. He doesn't want anyone to be destroyed but wants everyone to repent. Acts 1730. God overlooked people's ignorance about these things in earlier times. But now He commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to Him. So the Holy Spirit can convict through our preaching. This is something we have to be keenly aware of. The Holy Spirit uses the preaching of the gospel, the declarations against sin to pierce the stubborn hearts of the sinners. And that is something that we have to be in line with. We can't just reject that part of evangelism just because we don't want to be perceived as bigoted or narrow-minded or closed-minded or old-fashioned or rude. I'm not saying you go out of your way to be rude. In fact, you are to preach that confrontational message in love and kindness. We are calling them to repent because we love them. We're calling them to repent because we want them to experience eternal life. Imagine that there was a child playing in the middle of the street and you saw a car coming and you noticed that the driver was distracted and it was quite obvious to you that there would be a very tragic collision just about to take place. You wouldn't say, excuse me, can you consider maybe that the road isn't somewhere you should be standing right now or excuse me, maybe you might want to play somewhere else. There would be this urgency. Your heart would race. Your adrenaline would pulse through your body and you would run out into the street waving your hands out of love and concern and care and compassion and there would be this urgency to your crying. Get out of the street. A car is coming. Get out of the street. You're going to be hurt and it is with that same urgency we must declare the gospel. It's with that same urgency we must shine the light in dark places. The light in a dark place where people have been sleeping where people have been resting in that darkness that light shined in their face can often cause discomfort but that doesn't mean you let it go dark. Next we notice that the effect that Jesus had on this woman was a contagious effect meaning that after he won the woman over after he began to evangelize her in such a way that her eyes were open and she saw that Jesus was the way now her heart was turned to such a degree that she ran back into the village declaring the gospel message declaring the Messiah had come. After he won the woman over she went and told the whole town a true evangelist has a contagious nature to their communication meaning that he or she will inspire others to win their loved ones to the Lord. As an evangelist God has given you a special grace to lead people to salvation. People can spot what's genuine and catch it. From one encounter with Jesus an adulterous woman went from the shame of sin to the ecstasy of soul winning. Jesus' soul winning produced soul winners. Let me say that again. Jesus' soul winning produced soul winners. His message had a domino effect. True evangelists carry a passion for evangelism that is contagious. Now let's take a look briefly at some keys that you can begin to apply. I just talked about being confrontational and that is again a key that we want to reexamine and I want to make sure that it is affirmed. You must present the truth to them. So write this down, number one, and write it in the comments too. Number one, present the truth to them. That's your responsibility.  Luke 5-32, I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. This of course is speaking to the power of that declaration of repentance. 1 Corinthians 6-19, yet preaching the good news is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn't preach the good news. Now let me clarify something here because sometimes believers hear something that's not being said.  We imagine, and not only by the way, this is a bit of a tangent but I think it's worth saying, not only do we do this when it comes to evangelism, we do this when it comes to preaching. Why are preachers pointlessly, needlessly mean and rude? It doesn't make any sense. You can make a bold declaration. You can call out sin. You can say things that are true but that doesn't necessarily mean that you try to be mean. It's like in preaching today it's a competition. Who can say the meaner thing? Who can say the harsher thing? And we for some reason equated harshness with truth telling. And while the truth can be harsh, we mustn't add to that harshness just so that we can be celebrated as somebody who doesn't water it down or who tells it like it is. That's all ego and if that's the motive for doing so, we need to make sure that we check our hearts. So I'm saying yes, you will offend people. Yes, you should present the truth. Yes, you should call out sin but you're not doing it for the purpose of offending people. Someone who truly loves the lost doesn't avoid offending them and doesn't try to offend them. That's neither here nor there. Offending them or not offending them is not even in the picture. Your goal is to win them to the Lord. Your goal is to present the truth. In presenting the truth of the gospel, offending people is not our goal but neither should it be our deterrent. Let me say that to you again. In presenting the truth of the gospel, offending people is not our goal but neither should it be our deterrent. People, by the way, aren't turned off from the gospel because of our preaching.  My friend, Jesus told us very plainly why people are turned off to the gospel. He said, here's the verdict. Light has come into the world but people rejected the light. Why? Because they love darkness. So people aren't turned off to the gospel just because you told them the truth about their sin. People are turned off to the gospel because they love their sin and they don't like the light. So never mind with this nonsensical idea that we shouldn't preach the gospel against someone or we shouldn't call out sin because it might turn someone off to the gospel. That doesn't make any sense anyway.  That's the whole reason you have to address it in the first place because that problem was there. So we mustn't be afraid of presenting the truth of the gospel and we mustn't be afraid of calling people to repentance. Remember, diagnosis before prognosis. Afend someone into heaven then comfort them into hell.  So again, in being confrontational in presenting the truth, the goal is not to puff up ego to win an argument, to prove that we were right or to prove that we're better than other people by the way we're not. The goal is to present the truth and let it be what it is. If it offends them, it offends them. If it doesn't offend them, it doesn't offend them. Try to offend and to try not to offend. Your goal is just to present the truth. Number two and this is so key. It's very difficult. Let me just say this. It's very difficult for people to receive the gospel from hypocrites. So number two, practice purity. Write that in the comments too. Practice purity. By the way, let me know what's challenging you the most so far about this message. Luke 11, 33 through 36. Luke 11, 33 through 36. No one lights a lamp and then hides it or puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand where its light can be seen by all who enter the house. Your eye is like the lamp that provides light for your body. By the way, that scripture is often abused to mean that something else. So all Jesus is saying there is he's talking about the nature of light. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light.  Make sure that the light you think you have is actually darkness. If you are filled with light, key verse here, if you are filled with light with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant as though a flood light were filling you with light. So Jesus is talking about us being the light. And he's saying you're not supposed to hide that light, you're supposed to put it where the light can affect the darkness around it or dissipate that darkness, I think is a better way to say it. But here he says you are filled with light with no dark corners. So there's not these areas of compromise. There's not these areas of perversion. We don't compartmentalize our surrender to God. We give it all to him. Obviously, we're a work in progress. No one is perfect. But at least living in the posture of surrender is something that we should do and be committed to, submitting ourselves to the process of sanctification as the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.  Then your whole life will be radiant. So one could put it this way. The effectiveness of your evangelism is increased as purity is increased. The effectiveness of your evangelism is increased as purity is increased. Could it be, and I'm just going to say this and it's going to challenge you and I'm telling you, I'm asking you because I love you. Could it be that they're not receiving the gospel from you? Could it be that they are rejecting the gospel through your lips?  Could it be that they're rejecting the presentation of the gospel because of the way that you live? Could it be that your hypocrisy has become a stumbling block? You tell them they need Jesus, but then you act like you don't have Him. You tell them they need to be saved, but then you act just like they act. You tell them they need to be delivered, but then they see you living in bondage. Now I know this isn't easy to hear, but it's something that needs to be said and I'm telling you this because I love you and I want you to begin to walk in the light in such a way that there are no dark corners so that those who hear the gospel through your lips aren't offended by hypocrisy. Now of course God can use anyone he wishes. There are always sovereign exceptions to almost every spiritual generalization. But purity is important for evangelism. It's how you become the light. By the way, and this again is another tangent, this also means demonstrating unity. What did Jesus say in John 1723? I have it written right here. I put it in my notes last minute. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. Could it be that they're rejecting the gospel or they don't think we're really sent by God because we're constantly bickering with one another and arguing with one another? Could it be because we're constantly heresy hunting, and by the way heresy hunting isn't just from non-charismatic people. I see charismatics, heresy hunting, charismatics too. Turning on those in their own, what you would call a camp. But this should not be the case in the body of Christ. Yes, it's one thing to call out blatant heresy, but 99.9% of the time that's not what's being done. People are calling out each other for differences of doctrines that are not even foundational. They're just side doctrines. They're peripheral doctrines and their egos are so big they have to prove to themselves that they're smarter or they know the Scripture that everybody else got it wrong. And again, I'm not even just talking about non-charismatic to charismatic. I'm talking about charismatic, attacking charismatic because of some method they didn't like. Because of some way they worded something. Maybe they were offended by the terminology they use. And the world sees this immature Christians posing as leaders and they're bickering and they're fighting and they're back and forth. And the world doesn't agree among yourselves. I don't think you're sent by God. You can't even agree amongst yourselves. And so here we see that practicing purity causes us to be a light before the lost.  My parents had a rule when we were growing up, my siblings and I, we would never see our parents disagree in front of each other. They had a rule that their disagreements would be expressed respectfully in private. And I remember they always worked as a team. They functioned in sync. And even if maybe one wasn't aware of another rule that the other had laid down, they would just go with it until they discussed it behind closed doors. And in doing that, they displayed this beauty, this authority, this great example of marriage, but it's a good example to the body in front of the world. And it causes us to lose our witness. It dims our light. Number three, you pray for them. Romans 10.1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God is for Israel that they might be saved. Now of course here Paul the apostle is talking about his desire that Israel would turn to Christ and he's praying for that very same thing. So the only principle I'm gleaning from this scripture is that it's to pray for the lost to come to Christ. First John 5.14 says and this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. Well the Bible says God is willing that none should perish. So our prayers can include salvation for the lost. Matthew 7.7 and maybe this is you.  Lord, I'm asking save them. Lord, I'm asking redeem them. Lord, I'm asking turn your stubborn heart away from the world and toward you. If the gospel is a seed then prayer is the water and the Holy Spirit is the life giving light. The Holy Spirit is the one who draws them to salvation. Never mind with our pressure tactics. The gospel is not a product and we are not sales people. We are presenters of the gospel and as we present the gospel in truth, in light, in love, the Holy Spirit illuminates that, draws people to the cross and causes them to experience the salvation experience. And so we ought to pray for our loved ones and we ought to pray that God sends workers into the field. But we are to pray for our loved ones, plead for our loved ones before the throne room of heaven. Number four, you present power. Now, I didn't spend a lot of time on number three because if you're believing for your loved ones to be saved that's probably all you do every day. In fact, I have a prayer list. I was up here right now. I didn't plan on doing it and I don't know if this is necessarily going to make for engaging content for the live stream but I'm looking over my prayer list of people I've prayed to be saved and as I look at this prayer list, I mean, this is from years ago. My goodness, like we're talking, I want to say 2008, 2009 and looking over my prayer list, I would show it to you but I want you to see names. It's about 20 or more than half of them have since then come to the cross and so it's good write it down. I'm not saying it's because of my prayers alone. It was the work of the Holy Spirit but that's to encourage you that you know that your prayers are contributing to something. So pray pray pray and number four present power. First Corinthians chapter two verse four says, and my message and my preaching were very plain rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. Now again here this is not saying that this is the only way to evangelize. Here Paul the apostle is talking about a very specific evangelistic effort that he gave and in this specific instance he demonstrated to power. Now of course let's balance this because I'm not saying that there are instances where the power is not needed. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. What I'm saying here is simply that sometimes God will allow us or God will ask us or the occasion will call for using demonstrations of power to demonstrate the truth of the gospel message. Praying for the sick, prophesying. I know people who came to the Lord because they received a prophetic word on the street or because their child was healed or because their marriage was restored. Now I understand that some people might be offended by that. You don't come to Jesus for what he can give you in this lifetime. You come to Jesus because you need to repent of your sins and I understand that but God draws sinners to repentance in any way that he so chooses. He's sovereign and so if he wants to use the working of a miracle to do that he can do that and we must be okay with that. Not only okay with that, we should celebrate that. I love seeing demonstrations of the Holy Spirit's power draw people to the cross. That's one of the things that can capture attention and we shouldn't shy away from that. It's in the biblical model and again I want to emphasize I'm not saying that unless you prophesy or heal the sick cast out a devil that it wasn't true salvation. That's bordering heresy nor am I saying the other end. I'm not saying it's always and I'm not saying it's never. I'm saying let God sovereignly work through you as he so chooses but also make sure and this is just a caveat to add with this. Make sure that it doesn't become just about the miracle itself. As long as you use the miracle to point to Jesus that is a I want to say I don't want to use the word safe but that is a legitimate use I should say of the power of the Holy Spirit. But if you use the miracle just to point to the miracle like oh wow wasn't that cool. That doesn't necessarily result in actual repentance and in fact there's a danger that if you demonstrate power for power's sake or power for power alone that you're actually going to contribute to the likelihood that the individual is going to be falsely converted. In other words they say oh wow I saw something cool I don't want to get on board with whatever it is that you're doing there but they're not understanding that they need to repent of their sins. They're not understanding that they need to place their faith in Christ. They're not understanding their own brokenness their own humanity, Christ's perfection not that you need all of these theological components to come together to be saved but rather that the gospel message must be understood at at least a basic level and that revelation of the gospel is the power of God into salvation. So again balance even when presenting power. And finally number five you are to demonstrate love. Treat them with love. Treat them with kindness and make sure that you're not pooling too hard.  It would be to pool your arm back like David what on earth are you doing? And that's because it's a natural human reaction to pool away when we feel that others are pooling too hard. And here's what I want to challenge you now mothers, fathers, grandparents siblings, friends could it be that you are confusing nagging for persistent preaching of the gospel? We need to make sure that we're not trying to do the job of the Holy Spirit. We are to preach the gospel. Our job is not to nag. Now I'm not saying that there's ever a time where you just give up and stop preaching the gospel if the Holy Spirit's leading you to still minister to them but what I am saying is that the way we present it must be done so in love and if we're doing it out of ego, if we're doing it because we just want to prove that they're wrong and we're right or maybe we feel insecure in our own beliefs and faith and therefore the fact that they're rejecting the gospel message makes us feel invalidated in our own beliefs because we're not secure in who we are in Christ well then now we're going to cause some trouble now there's conflict, now it's personal now it's all your emotions wrapped up, it's your ego wrapped up, it's your pride wrapped up in it and you're pooling and you're nagging and you're constantly on them well they're just going to want to get away from you. I'm just going to tell you like it is so there's a difference again between faithfully presenting the gospel in love to them and nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging, nagging don't try to do the Holy Spirit's job for him. Ultimately though and I pray this releases you because I'm going to close with this point because this is important that you catch this I pray that you understand that though you have a responsibility to share the gospel, please you need to hear this though you have a responsibility to share the gospel it is not your responsibility to save let that sink in for a moment not a terribly profound point it is a simple point that you must embrace a truth you must accept because otherwise if you think you are responsible for saving them you are going to be tormented by their disobedience you are going to bear burdens of guilt, burdens of shame, you're going to lack peace, you're going to become all tangled up in your own emotions and as a result you're going to push them away because of the tension that you've created in yourself for carrying a burden that isn't yours now I know what it is to have my heart broken and continually broken over individuals who continually reject the gospel or who maybe at one point seemed like they were in the faith and then walked away proving they were not really in the faith and I know what that is to see people walk away I know what that is to see people change to see people stubbornly reject Jesus and it's tempting to out of fear try to control everything that's happening in them you'll try to play the Holy Spirit constantly and you wear this like a burden on you and it chokes out the joy in your life it chokes out the peace in your life and if you're lacking peace and joy and love because you're so upset by what they're doing or not doing then that in turn actually damages your witness because if you lack peace and joy and love and then you go try to evangelize well you're going to be evangelizing out of fear someone needs to hear this I'm telling you if this is you I'm talking to let me know in the comments you're evangelizing out of fear you're evangelizing out of frustration you're evangelizing in an attempt to control rather than just presenting speaking the truth yeah you tell them the truth be straight up tell them like it is but ultimately recognize it's not your job to save them Acts 2026 and I declare today that I have been faithful if anyone suffers eternal death it's not my fault so once you've presented the gospel it's presented once you've planted that seed you can water it but that individual has to respond and this is this by the way fast for them but that's a part of prayer and I pray Lord that you would cause them to come to the cross Father we pray that you would cause their hard hearts their stony hearts to become hearts of flesh Lord forgive us for the ways that we've tried to control out of fear and frustration forgive us for not shining our light as we should and I pray Lord that as we move into repentance in this area you would begin to use us use us as extensions of your love use us as examples of your shining light draw them unto you Lord I pray bring them to the cross touch each life of those 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My name is Sheena Robinson. I work for the Indigenous Education Wichahe'u program, and Wichahe'u is a mid-chief word for support. So it's offered through the Mid-Island Métis Nation Association to help all Indigenous students. We work with high school age students. I present to usually grade 10 through 12, and I talk to them about transitioning to university, and then I'm here once they get here, so I work with all ages once they're at university. And I also work with the Learning Alternative Programs. So the students there are anywhere from grade 8 to 12. Well, my office is based in Nanaimo here. I go to all of the high schools in this district, as well as the Learning Alternative Programs, which are through District 84. And I come to university once a week, and I also travel all around the city, like, if a student wants to meet for coffee or to get a tutor, you know, at a library, wherever they feel comfortable meeting, I go to them. The aim of our program is to just offer support to Indigenous students as they transition to university. So we do this by sharing information. I talk to them about the resources that are available to them on campus, like Aboriginal counselors, teachers, the students for Aboriginal services, the navigators, anything they need help with. And when I talk to the high school students, we tell them all about that, but we also tell them about community events, so events that'll help them get sort of in touch with their culture. We serve Métis and UIT First Nations, so there's always things for us to offer to them. Yeah, so it's a little different for everywhere I work. So when I'm working with the SAWAC Learning Center, they already have a lot of cultural activities with them. So what we offer to them is physical education activities that have a cultural base. So things like Archery and La Crosse, I get funding lined up and we do those events with them. So those count towards their PE, you know, for their certificate to get graduated. And when I work with high school students, I go to present to them. I tell them all about VIU and what they have to offer. And I do sort of healing and wellness activities with them, sort of based on the medicine wheel and circles of support, anything that they can do to stay mentally healthy. And then what I offer when I'm at VIU is I sit at the gathering place at Shkopset every day or every Wednesday. And I've got my sign on the table and I'm there to offer any kind of support anywhere from emotional support to telling people where the education advisors are or you know, how they can declare a minor or major, who they should go talk to for certain things, directing them in the right direction. Well, it's a relatively new program. So how we measure success is pretty much through student response. And it's by each student. So when a student tells us that the program has helped them either get into a program or just get through a program, you know, anytime a student says thank you for helping is basically how we're measuring it. So I do a report every week and it's called weekly measures of success. So we talk about how many students that we get involved with and, you know, we attend as many events as we can and talk to the students and we have surveys to ask them, like, after we've talked to them, if they've felt that they've been helped. So that's a lot of the way that we measure success. Seeing a difference in a student after we've had a one-on-one, you know, I'll probably have helped them figure out how to get a tutor or where to go for help. And that's helpful in that sense. But overall, we're hoping that in more in the future, we'll be able to see that there's more retention of students staying in university, staying in high school. And because this program offers support from high school through to university, we'll be able to see more in a couple of years that it's helping. But it's definitely starting to show already. So we have a lot of students that are just thankful for the support like for an extra, extra bit of support. You know, sometimes they don't know who they can ask or they're afraid to ask for help. And this is a way for me to be able to guide them in the right direction. So I don't always have the answer for them, but I always usually know someone who will. So yeah, that's been the most common feedback is thank you so much for your help, basically. Couldn't have done it without you kind of thing. The challenges that I faced are working with two different school districts and the university. So trying to juggle all of those, they all require different different ways for me. Like I said, with the learning centers, my role is a lot different. And so I really need to build trust with the students one on one before they really are able to absorb what I'm trying to like tell them about educational goals. Whereas when I go to the high schools, I more present to the class like almost like a teacher. And then when I come to VIU, I'm more of a peer because I'm sitting amongst them. And yeah, it's it's just been a challenge trying to juggle my different roles within it. But the longer I've been doing it, the more easier it's become. So I can see the program being really successful as it goes on. It's quite a new program. So I think within the next couple of years, we'll really see see the benefits of it. It started, I believe, two years ago and it started out as a just simply for Métis students, because it is the Mid-Island Métis Nation. And when they were presenting to the high schools, there was obvious need that, you know, all the Indigenous students need needed help and need these resources and knowledge as well. So they expanded it to all Indigenous students. So I believe that just started this past fall, even though this program is new, it's already really showing signs of being a benefit to students. And there's a lot of interest growing within the community. People that want to partner with it, you know, everyone want has been emailing, calling, they want to get involved and help in any way they can to support Indigenous students as they make this transition. And it's starting to become more of not just post-secondary, but just support in other ways, like helping them find careers, helping them get more involved with their culture, their communities. So it's really becoming something bigger than when it started. To me, Indigenous education is finding a way to walk into worlds, to balance the Western ways of learning with your traditional ways. So a lot of community-based, land-based, language-based learning paired with Western learning. So you can, so the students can make it in either world and both worlds when they graduate. I think it's really important to be able to find work within your community, but also anywhere in the world. So with the knowledge that you're gaining, just to be able to have a solid sense of identity when you come out. I think language revitalization is a really important part of Indigenous education. It's starting to become more common. There's schools that are ahead of others. And I think it's really important to learn the languages when you're on someone else's land, like if you're in a school like VIU, you're on Stenaimo territory. I think it's really important to learn some of the Coast Salish language and protocol to show respect. But I also think it's really important to learn your own from your own community. And I grew up away from my home and my language. And just going to school and realizing what Indigenous education is, I know now like how important it is to learn. So my hope is that we'll find a way for people to learn their own languages even when they're away from home. My vision for Indigenous education over the next 10 years is to have families and communities more involved. There's a lot of Indigenous students that are in school away from home and they really don't have that support system. And when things go wrong at home, the tendency is to go back and be with your family. And I just hope that there are ways that we can incorporate more support from the family and community supporting the student while they're away at school. And I don't know what we can do about that, but I think a lot of it's going to come up, you know, it's going to happen because we need to work on the retention of students. And a lot of the times people will drop out to go back home for various reasons. So I think that's really important. And I think the language revitalization is key. Finding ways that we can learn our own language, like even if it's through directed studies, even though we're away from home. For me, what helped me on campus being away from home and community is finding a mentorship program. Like the community cousins is what I joined when I was in school. So it's an Aboriginal mentorship program. And you kind of have your own community on campus. It's really what kept me here. You know, when I was struggling and feeling lonely, that's became my home away from home. And also the gathering place felt like a really safe space. And just the fact that they brought in traditional knowledge keepers, there's elders there, there's always someone to talk to. That's what kept me here. So for the next 10 years with this program, I think we're going to start to see a cycle of community helping, you know, we're going to I'll be talking to say the grade eight students. And then the next year will be there'll be in grade nine, 10, 11, 12. And then when they get to university, they're going to see a familiar face, you know, on campus, they'll be able to come talk to somebody and, you know, we'll be connecting them with resources that they'll have their whole time here, like the mentorship programs, elders, people they can talk to and, you know, just involving community more.


This one says 335 milliliters of water is added to 75.3 mils of a 2.07 molar calcium chloride solution. What is the new molarity of the solution? Okay, so let's write down the given information so it tells us that that the original volume of the solution was 75.3 mils and it tells us the original molarity of the solution is 07 molar and it indirectly actually tells us what the new volume of the solution is too because it tells us that the volume of water that was added is 335 mils of water Okay, so what would be the how we calculate if you need a formula for everything right? It would be V2 equals V1 plus VH2O right? Everybody okay with that? 75.3 mils plus 335 410.3 and of course actually Six figs are going to cut off there. Okay, so we'll keep that in mind for later So how do we figure out well, what's the new molarity right well you guys remember the formula? What is it? Yeah So isolate that variable So Normally we would like these in liters these volume units, but since they're both in milliliters We don't have to worry about them because they'll cancel each other out So again if these units are in the same unit you can just cancel them So molarity 1 2175.3 mils divided by V2 410.3 Mills and again, that's really to three sig figs there But those two are the three sig figs so it'll work out So 2.07 times 75.3 divided by 410.3 So If we solve this to three sig figs we get 0.3 8 0 Molar is the new Concentration of calcium chloride When we add that 335 mils of water and if you want to kind of double-check yourself just to make sure right you would expect it to become more Delude when you add just your solvent right and so we went from a very concentrated solution at 2.07 mol or 2 a much more diluted solution at point three eight zero There any questions about that? Okay


Hey there, my name is Dr. David Maloney, and I'm a licensed psychotherapist and psychologist, and if you would like to work with me, you can do so by contacting me in the link below. I offer one-to-one sessions on things like depression, anxiety, life purpose, also self-sabotage, and the reasons why people are not happy in order to help people be more happy. I don't focus on happiness, I focus on removing unhappiness. But I won't get into that too much. Feel free to contact me if you would like to talk one-to-one, or you can visit my website, Dr. David Maloney.com, where I have a series of online videos for subscribers, and you can browse through them and see if you're interested. They're very very affordable. So hopefully I'll see you there, and let's dive into the video. Okay guys, question on procrastination, as you can see from the title, the thumbnail of today's video. This is a question from a viewer. If you would like to send me a question, you can visit my website, and there is a link there that you can just send me a question, and I will make a video for you based on your question. The idea behind all these videos, of course, is that your question will probably relate to a lot of people. So it'll help other people based on the issue you're having. But this one today is about procrastination, okay? Now of course, this is a person who is suffering with procrastination in their academic work, it's a student, but the principles here apply to how procrastination manifests and plays out in all the areas of life. It's the same dynamic that happens, no matter what the thing you're trying to achieve, the goal you're trying to achieve. So I've just actually recently made a video course on my website. You can check it out. It's on procrastination. You can access it for four euros and fifty cents. I like a lot of these other online courses that costs a lot more than that. It's a 14-part video, four hours of content plus I make bonus videos for subscribers. So check that out if you're interested. But let's dive into this question.  So my problem with procrastination has been getting worse for the past few years. It got way worse when I moved out from home to college. Well, yes, that's what happens because when we're at home or we're in school, we have this extrinsic motivation, right? People telling us what to do, where to be, where to go, how much to do. When we move out, we have to become all of a sudden intrinsically motivated. So we make the decisions based on what weed term is the best for us. That's very tricky because we're not taught that in school, right? We have to figure that out as we go along and that's why college students in particular have some of the biggest issues with procrastination. That was when I had the biggest problems with this issue in my life. Okay, so let's keep going. If I had some important work that's due, I literally sit around at home spending my time online or watching movies. The sense of panic gradually starts to set in and gets worse and worse with every passing hour. So at the beginning of the evening, it's not so bad, but as you continually procrastinate, this sense, these feelings of well, I know exactly what the feeling is. The feeling is guilt. Okay, that's what it is. It doesn't say it here, but that's what it is. That sense of guilt gets worse and worse as you go on through the evening. This is actually torture. Okay, this is what this is. It's a indecision that's in our mind. Will I want to? And we keep going on for hours and hours. Yes, I should, but I don't want to blah, blah, blah. It keeps going on and on and it gets worse and worse the closer you get to the deadline. If the assignment is not due the next day, so I have some time, I keep telling myself that it's fine. I'll start doing it tomorrow. Exactly. Okay, I'll start doing it tomorrow. So I'll do it later is the, you know, what's the word? The catchphrase. That's the catchphrase of the procrastinator. I can always do it later, right? What's actually happening there is that say let's, for instance, this person is a student. What is a student's biggest fear in the world? Do you know what it is? Well, it's not failing. Okay, it's not that they're not going to get great grades. Their biggest fear a student has and anyone in life who has a goal is that they will not do what is required to achieve it. They won't put in the effort. Think about it, right? Let's say you're procrastinating on something and I could wave a magic wand and that meant that from this day forward you will definitely put in the time that's required to achieve success in that goal. How would you feel? It's 100% guaranteed now that you're going to do it. You would feel 10 times better, right? That's because your big fear is that you're not going to do what's required. Because of that fear and we're not taking action, that fear starts to play up and we get anxious, right? And we use procrastination. I can do it later as a way to alleviate that building anxiety. That's what procrastination is, okay?  It's a way for us to feel good because we're not taking action towards our goals. That's part of it, right? Okay, so you might think that I get my study done by cramming at the last minute. This is only half true. Sure, I do spend some time, often well past midnight, cramming, but I only get a fraction of the work completed that I really need to do. Yeah, okay. The fact that you're still cramming past midnight is a red flag for procrastination, obviously, right? I used to do this myself. One of the things you learn in my course on procrastination is that one of the first things you have to start doing is selecting an end time for when work finishes, okay? If not, this indecision continually goes on and on and on. So what I would suggest to you is still say at 6pm, you will say to yourself, okay, by 10pm, under no circumstances am I allowed to work anymore after that point. That would be one thing you could do straight away from a practical point of view. That's one thing you could do. So you're going to get a fraction of the work completed that I really need to. This cramming is truly an awful experience. It's literally a feeling like my world is coming to an end. It feels like I'm going to face an MMA fighter the next day and have done no training. The feelings of regret and self-loathing are so intense and painful I actually feel like I could cry. Now you might think to yourself that that's overstating the problem or the experience. I guarantee you that is not overstating what this person is going through. You know, I'm a therapist and a lot of people I work with have things like depression or anxiety or even suicidal ideation or self-harm or whatever it is. And when I tell people one of the areas I'm most interested in is procrastination. They think that's interesting. They don't quite realize why I'm so focused on procrastination. Well, the reason is this. The amount of emotional pain people are going through because of this procrastination problem is huge. It is happening to so many people in their lives and the solution to this is very, very easily fixed. I used to be the worst procrastinator in the world until I figured out why am I doing this to myself? It took me a while. It took me doing some research. Now, this is all I focus on now. It's one of the main issues that I focus on now because I'm so passionate about it. And I know what it feels like to be an ex-procrastinator, but it is a very intense feeling when it's happening. A lot of guilt, a lot of self-loathing, as you say there, and intense feelings of guilt. It's actually torture. That's what's going on, right? You're torturing yourself with this goal of academic work. Why? That's the question. So let's just finish the question here. It says, as you can imagine, my marks are not good. Even if I do scrape by, that is all it is. I know it's not what I'm capable of achieving. I have no idea why I keep doing this, but it needs to stop. I need to know how to stop procrastinating. Okay, so why do people procrastinate? My whole theory on it is a little bit different. My theory about procrastination fundamentally is that it's down to guilt. It's not a guilt because you fail to follow through with your goal, and then you feel guilty. That's not it. Although that's how it seems to be. The truth is that you feel guilty about yourself to begin with. Sorry if I touched my mic. You feel guilty to begin with. And because you don't feel good about yourself, you start to disrespect yourself. You start to use the things in your life, any goal you have, academic goal or anything else, as a way to prove to yourself how unworthy you are or how lazy you are or how terrible you are. It's a way to perpetuate that sense of guilt that was there to begin with. The solution to the problem is basically doing some inner work on yourself, looking at your beliefs, and changing your story, changing how you talk to yourself.  I can do it later. Well, let's see. That's indecision, and it's an indecision between two parts of your mind. One of them is called the lazy mind, I call it, which is, I don't want to do it. I can do it later. Don't feel like doing it. The other part of your mind is the posse mind. So that's do it now. What are you thinking? We don't have time for this, etc. And you're stuck in the middle of those two voices. Neither of those two voices, believe it or not, are helpful. Most people think the posse voice is more helpful, but it isn't. Trust me, it isn't. So you're in the middle of that. And what you need to do is start using things like mindfulness techniques and changing your story, cognitive therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, just to change your story is simply all I'm saying, right? Change your language. And what you're going to do is, because you're no longer listening to these two voices, you get in touch with a part of your mind that I call your compassionate mind, which transcends both of those two lower voices. So you start to talk to yourself in an encouraging way, giving yourself support, giving yourself what you need. Procrastinators have no fun in life. Even if you're sitting there doing fun things, you're watching TV, you're watching movies, you're not actually enjoying them. They're ruined by a sense of guilt that's always in the back of your mind as you're doing it, right? What I would suggest is, take my course. It's €4.50 online. It's 14 videos. I outline exactly how to solve this. But if you don't want to do that, this is what you do. Start to change your language. Start to change your story about yourself. And start to put in place, practically speaking, limits on the amount of work you're allowed to do every day.  You will start to procrastinate because you will feel that your fun is being threatened in life. I'm giving you very brief advice here on this. But you need to start sitting aside consciously, time for when you will relax, and under no circumstances are you allowed to do any work in that time. And then you will realise there's a window of opportunity left for me in which I can do my academic work. Take out all the guesswork. Now, there's one other piece of advice in the course. It's quite a big piece of advice, and I'm not going to get into it here. Not because I don't want to give it to you, but because there's too much to do with it. I might talk about it in another video. It's about what happens if you don't follow through. There has to be consequences to that. But for now, just change the story. You talk a lot about these feelings of self-loathing. Even if you do become productive, those feelings of self-loathing are still going to be there. Go to work on those. Go to work on those right now. Start to forgive yourself for procrastinating.  It happens to a lot of people. Change your story. That's the first thing you can do. I'll leave it there for now. Great question. I have a few other questions on procrastination. I'm going to get to it soon. I'm not going to procrastinate. I hope you enjoyed this video. Maybe like it and subscribe. Do all those things. It helps me reach more people. I hope you enjoyed it. I'll see you in the next one.


Hi, I'm Michelle Muchet, regional director of UNDP for Latin America and the Caribbean. And I'm glad to be here at the US Peace Institute to explore possibilities of working together in the region to foster that development peace nexus as a key prerecondition to advance sustainable development in the region. I would start by saying that Latin America is a region of great contrast in any single topic you would like to address it and governance is not an exception. In Latin America and the Caribbean was the region in which the gains in democracy were the highest in the world in the last 40 years reaching to a point where the level of electoral participation is also one of the highest where the trust in democracy and institutions has been solidified and only surpassed by North America and Europe. But at the same time, Latin America and the Caribbean is going currently through a crisis of governance. There is a diminishment in the trust of those institutions. There's an unprecedented level of polarization being the second least polarized region in the world and moving to be the third more polarized region in the world in only 20 years. But I must say that at the same time, Latin America presents great opportunities for governance and democracy. And if we revisit the message and the call made in our last human development report at UNDP for the year 2021 and 2022, there's an invitation to move from these social unrest, from these high levels of uncertainty in the region to a position where we use this as an opportunity to revisit our narrative based on what unite us on the future we want to see and as an opportunity also to restructure and adjust our institutions to our current needs. So I would say we have been in an important progress towards democracy experiences, experiencing an important crisis in governance, but with huge opportunities to turn this crisis into an opportunity for growth in the region. Well, I would start by inviting them to participate, to actively participate not just through civic organization, but also inviting them to participate in politics. Latin America and the Caribbean is home of more than 180 million of youth. That means that youth are not the future, youth are present as well. And at UNDP, we work to strengthen youth institutions to make sure that young people are not just the beneficiaries of social policies, but an active participator and in the design of the future and a player for sustainable development in the region. In fact, in a recent report that we have about the state of the youth in Iberia, America, we can see a deeper analysis of the importance of having these strong institutional spaces formalized to ensure that youth can be an active player in the development of our region. Development is the best investment we can do to avoid conflict and to foster peace. But at the same time, we need to continue working on spaces where we bring different parts of society to dialogue, to exchange views, to ensure that we build that peace that all of us advance sustainable development in the region.


Welcome back to our lecture series Math 42-20, Abstract Literature of 1 for students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'll be your professor today, Dr. Andrew Misseldine. We're still going to be talking about groups with some definitions and examples. But in lecture 9 here, we're going to focus on group properties. We're going to prove, we'll introduce some definitions of notation, but we're actually going to prove some properties that are universally true for every single group. That is, the things we're going to prove right now are not about individual groups, but about every single group ever conceived, because what we will prove will be properties derived from the three axioms of groups, associativity, identity, and inverses. So before we get to that, let me introduce some vocabulary here. When we talk about a group, we often talk about the order of the group, right? Because when you talk about a group, there's actually two things involved. There's a set, and then there's the binary operation on that set. Now, because groups have, you know, it's a set and operation, it gets a little bit tedious to list them all the time. And oftentimes when one describes a group, you just describe the set. You're like, oh, you say G is a group, where then the operation is somewhat implied by the context. And if there were multiple operations in play and there's any ambiguity, the author would be, it would be duty called to specify the operation. But oftentimes you'll often see things like G is a group without the operation mentioned because it's implied. When one talks about the order of a group, we are talking about the cardinality of the underlying set, how big is the group. And so one important dichotomy when it comes to groups is the idea of finite groups and infinite groups. If the set is finite, we call it a finite group. If the set is infinite, we call it an infinite group. And with infinite, I mean, we can talk about countable, uncountable, lots of different stuff going on there. But there's this important dichotomy because there are some things true about finite groups that are very different about infinite groups and vice versa. We have seen examples of both types so far. For example, the group Zn with respect to addition is example of a finite group because Zn will have order n. The symmetric group Sn is also an example of a finite group because Sn, the set of permutations, will have order n factorial. The group is itself not order n. Some other examples we saw, there was the dihedral group. This is the set of symmetries of the regular n-gon. We will prove in the future that this group always has order two to the n. There was also the quaternion group, which was a set of eight matrices we introduced in a previous video. This, of course, is a group of order eight. These are all examples of finite groups. We also had the group Zn star. We will show in the future that this, well, this is a finite group, but its order is going to be the totient of n where this is Euler's totion function, which is just the number of relatively prime numbers to n. I mean, this doesn't really need much of a proof there, but we'll talk some more about this in the future right here. These are some examples of finite groups we've introduced already in this series. Some examples of infinite groups, well, I shouldn't say the natural numbers because under addition that's not a group because there's no inverses, but Zqrc under addition, these are all examples of infinite groups. If we look at q star and r star and c star with respect to multiplication, these are still infinite groups even though we threw zero out of the set there. So that's the notion of order. We'll talk a lot about order all the time. Some other conventions we should make mention when we talk about groups. When we're working with a generic group, like it's not a specific group like the ones we just listed. It's just sort of speaking generically. We kind of assume that the group is a multiplicative group. That is, we write the operation as multiplication. So instead of using some general symbol like G circle h or G sharp h are you like G square h or you can see lots of different symbols people use for operations, binary operations. Don't worry about any of those. When it comes to groups, we typically denote them as multiplication in which case with typical multiplication we actually don't use a symbol whatsoever just juxtapositioning the elements next to each other. G h is actually interpreted as the product and that's then the binary operation in our group. Well, if we write our group multiplicatively then that means that the inverse we typically write as G superscript negative one because that's how we can write the inverse multiplicatively.  If you take, so like that would make sense if you have a positive integer if you have a negative integer this just means you take the inverse G inverse G inverse G inverse N times. In groups it's common to use the symbol E to represent the identity of a generic group. This is borrowed from the German where the word there starts with an E but also since we're writing multiplicatively it makes sense to just use the number one as the group identity. So you'll often see these conventions that the one or E will represent the identity of the group. I should also mention that if you take an element G to the zero power this is then understood to be the group identity. So these are some, this is some bit of notation we take when we study the general group theories not necessarily specific groups but for general groups we use multiplicative notation to describe them and you'll see that in the forthcoming proofs.


Hi, it's Dante Jones here with Kyle Lowry, my little brother. I'm his mentor here, I'm lying. But I've got a chance to watch this kid grow, man. And I'm super proud of him. What is his five All-Stars on the road for you? Yeah, yeah, like we just had, what I said, we just had, I tricked him into giving five. Yeah, you tricked him into giving five All-Stars. But you leading away for your Toronto team, and you've done a great job in providing the winning atmosphere and the winning culture out there in Toronto. Please tell us what we're here for right now and why we're here in this beautiful space. You know, we're here representing the brand of Adidas. You know, talk about the shoes, give an opportunity to be here, talk to you, and show things about the brand that we have upcoming. And talk about the future of the brand, and talk about what the brand has done for me, which is a lot. So what was it about the Adidas brand that made you sign with them and develop a home where they take care of you and do such a great job? I think when I first came out, when I was in high school, they supported me. And everyone wanted to be Nike this, Nike that. But Adidas is just like, listen, we believe in what you could do.  And they always supported me, gave me plethora of gear, took care of my family, took care of my friends. And it was big. That was an important thing about family. It's always about keeping them close. And they always make sure that everyone's taking care of, not just you. Tell us about the shoe that you're playing. The Marquis Booth, this year is the new tech. Let's back to the Booth technology. We had bounce at the beginning of the season, but we went back to the Booth technology.  Doesn't, it gives a little bit, so you ain't, you know, I don't, I don't. You don't get to jump in that. I don't jump anymore, so I ain't got to wear like that. It's a shooter shoe, huh? It's a shooter shoe, yeah. Mine is, mine is definitely a shooter shoe. So what are some of your favorite shoes of all time? Of all time, man, it's too many to name because it's a lot of them. Shelltoes. Oh, definitely Shelltoes. I think, like right now I got on some night joggers. They're pretty cool. The D-Rups are the ones that just came, they are awesome. I can wear those all day, all night. Shelltoes, white and white, of course. I've always been like a big T-Mac shoe guy. And T-Mac shoes have always been great. You know, there's a lot of different shoes. It's too many to name. Now we both grew up loving this game of basketball and where we come from. Like, was this ever your dream to be an All-Star? Did you ever see yourself put on an All-Star uniform and really being a part of this?  But did you ever see yourself being an All-Star? I think it was just kind of a thing that was tough to see it when you come for them, you know, not knowing if you're gonna play to getting this guy drafted and traded and this and that. And you know, as you know, there's the opportunity. Once you get the opportunity to take advantage of it and that's what you do. And I've had some good support. I have a great support system. Toronto's been home for me. They've done so much for me. They've let me become who I am today. And like I said, five times All-Star, five in a row. And just being able to be able to grow and be a player with growth in this league and just continuously get better at the older ages. If people would say, oh, he's going down for all, he's going down for all. It's always a good thing to be able to prove everyone wrong. Now I've had a chance to share your journey with you and I'm proud to be a part of it. But share with the young kids out there who want to do what you're doing. Share what got you through the rough moments and what was your reason for playing? Well, a lot of things to get through the rough moments. Good people, you know, yourself. I had some good veterans, man. Chelsea, Ty, D Jones, Dante Jones. Y'all got some good people around me that really kind of made sure that, listen, it's not going to be easy. It's going to be tough. And for the kids out there, it's not easy. It's how many jobs? 450 of us? And it takes some luck, but it takes a lot of hard work. It takes a lot of dedication. It takes a lot of hours of unseen camera time, a lot of support from your family because people don't know, you don't see your family as much.  Who is your top five, no, no, no, not top five ever, top five guys that you look up to and would put on your Mount Rushmore? A.I. would be one. You feel it? You got to watch it, let's get it. Yeah, A.I. is definitely on there. Chauncey Billups is definitely on there. Chauncey, R.O.G. Chauncey. Big shot. Jordan is definitely on there. Let's see. Guys that kinda, I missed the error of the magic and the bird. You can always say, but that wasn't my error. I didn't get to see those guys. True professionals, you got guys like, maybe Kevin Garnett, just his intensity is on there. Man, I don't know, I need one more. I don't know, I can't think of... I'll give you one. Dante Jones is his last one. Dante Jones, sorry. Thank you, Five Sports. We appreciate you hanging in with Kyle Lowry, man, I'm so proud of him, but celebrating your all-star status, man. Appreciate it, brother. We wish you nothing but love. Thank you, brother.


ClickUp 3.0 has arrived and it's now out in the wild. We're going to be doing an overview of what's new with ClickUp 3.0. Let's dive into some of those features. The first of those is home. It's getting much more tailored to streamline your workflow with new recent cards, lineup, which is a place to prioritize your day, agenda, which allows you to see your daily events and switch between the calendar to rearrange your task due dates, assigned to me, reminders and assigned comments, which all consolidate the most important information across your workspace so that you can see it at a glance. Task view has been much more refined, allowing you to get a redesigned cover image as well as expandable sections for full screen optimization. You can also collapse subtasks in the sidebar, which means it's great for quick navigation through an entire subtasks tree for your large tasks and great for task creation and deletion of functionality.