Hi there my friend and friends. My editor saw this site the other day and see this text scroll thing going on there as we go down and see this on other websites, but he sent it to me because he noticed it and he said, Kevin, I think this would make a pretty interesting video. And yeah, I actually, I think so too. So here we are today. And I'm doing this video as a little bit of a different one though you might have seen me do other ones like this one, because we're going to be doing it as a can I clone this that is completely unplanned to see if I can pull it off because I think I can do this with CSS only. So we're going to see if I can do it. It's we're going to share my thought process along the way trying to debug things figure things out and get to this type of solution. And see if I actually have to resort to using JavaScript, which I'd really prefer not to because these things usually you see for like third party JavaScript plugins and stuff. And so we're actually starting off. You can see I've done a little bit of work because I've recreated their website, even though I cheated a little bit at this bottom part, but I've copied their website. But you can see I don't have the scroll animation here and all that we're going to be basing this on I think this is what we need where we have a scroll reveal with a section title and the paragraph here. And the first thing we need to do is get a gradient background on there. I think that's how we're going to do it. And I have to remember how to do a gradient background. Basically, I've done it in the past, but it's not something I do on text very often. So we're going to try our best and see where we go from here. So the first thing I'm going to do is I just want to get this h2 and this paragraph and we're going to style them up. So I guess I could just I'm going to keep like this is just general styling for font sizes and other stuff and the other parts of the layout that are going on. So I'm going to leave that sort of on its own and we'll do this demo stuff that's really important for getting this to work here. So I'm going to select everything that's inside that scroll reveal so that section with these two things that we have there. And let's start by doing the color on those things as HSL. And the reason I'm doing HSL is it's easy to get white 0% 100% means white, but then I can do like a 0.2 or something. And you can see it gives us a great outlook, which is sort of what we want, right? If we look back at the original one. Before anything comes in there, it is it's pretty faded out. So we want to be faded out. We want this to have a background color to and or gradient as I said. So just to make it really obvious instead of using white for now, I am going to do a background image, which is a linear gradient. And we're going to do red to blue because by doing it this way, it's going to be more obvious sort of what's happening. So you can see the gradient is coming in on both, but we don't want it up and down. So we can that's the easy one to fix 90 degrees and it goes sideways. And the trick here is to use a background clip of text. And there we go. Kind of cool, right? And now our gradient goes inside the text and what my idea right now is what we want is to control the background position. So as we're scrolling, the background position will sort of like reveal itself slowly because if we come here, let's I'll just show you if we do a background position. No, not background position background size position wouldn't really change much. I don't think let's do a 50% 100%. And you can see the gradient is going starting like here and it's going to the 50% point. And so then the other thing we can do is a background repeat. I remembered how this works. I'm pretty proud of myself background repeat of no repeat. And then we get it stopping there. So the idea is this number, if this number is changing, right? So let's just make it so we can see it a little bit better. If that number is changing, it's going to like we can slowly reveal as it's going through. And I see a bit of a problem that right now and I don't remember how to fix it. But we're going to figure that out after because right now it's doing all the lines at the same time. But let's come and create a at animation that I do this so often. I did it the other day at any animation. Instead of an at keyframes, I do it all the time at keyframes and we're going to call it we'll call it text reveal scroll to scroll reveal scroll reveal. Just because I tend to like getting my keyframes for these things named is the same class that I have. And all we're going to do is say a two and this is the same as 100%. You're going to this point, the end of the animation is this. We want it to be a background size of 100%, 100%. And then this is where the magic comes in. And we're going to do animation is my scroll reveal. And we're just going to say linear because it's always weird if you don't say it's linear. And then we're going to say that we might want to forwards on there as well or words. Just because if you don't have the forwards on it when it gets to the end of the animation, it sort of it just disappears and it goes back to this point. So forwards make sure when you get to the last keyframe, it stays at the last keyframe animation scroll reveal linear forwards. And then we want the animation timeline to use view. We're probably going to have to change that a little bit. But now it should be. All right. It's cool. I actually kind of like it with the gradient to be honest. I don't know if we just did this as zero because then the color of the gradient will be a bit brighter. So it's kind of cool, but it's not what I want because I want it to go one line at a time, which means we need it. Actually, I have two problems. I wanted to be one line at a time, but this is two different elements. So I'm not sure how we can get it to work with two different elements and time it properly. That's going to be interesting, but I am kind of I mean, it's kind of it's interesting already what we have. Right. But it's it's not exactly what we need. I'm trying to think of how I've done this in the past. So if I wanted to go line by line, we need it to be. I wonder display in line. Oh, no, that's not good. Well, see there and see how it's that that's the reason I wanted to use in line is because the times I've done this actually. I've used it most often on links and on a link. I've used it as actually like an underlying thing that sort of grows and you can do it across multiple lines. I've done shorts on that. I've talked about it quite a bit. So the in line made sense there. That doesn't work though. Okay. So if we can't do in line, but we need it. Okay. We need them to be in line, but we can't make the age two in the paragraph in line, which means we need in line elements in here. So let's just take you and wrap with a span and then do the same thing here. We'll grab all the content inside of there and wrap with a span. If you don't know what I did there, I'm selecting control shift P if you're on a Mac command shift P opens the command palette. I'm going to put it wrap and you should see I met wrap with abbreviation. I have another custom keyboard shortcut set up for it, but I always forget what it is. Okay. So that means instead, could this just be on my spans then? Apparently not. Why not? Why does that not work on my span? I don't understand. Oh, the spans not a direct child. Cool. Okay. So that's better, but it's still busted. One of the problems is I think we need to have a separate animation for the title and for the paragraph. Just because they're starting and they're both going to finish at the same time. The other thing, let's just put in contain here, which the default is the animations going to start as soon as the element enters the viewport. It's going to be finished as soon as it exits the viewport. If I do a contain, which we're probably going to modify, but if we do a contain, what that means is it's the animation. Oh, no, I broke it. Why? Oh, no. Whoops. That doesn't, it's here. Animation range is contained. Okay. That's better. You can put numbers and stuff in here and I always mix it up with the animation range. This means that the animation starts when the element is inside the viewport and are the entire element. So the entire h2 or the entire paragraph is going to be inside that are the spans in this case. We'll start it and then it's going to be finished as soon as it reaches like this point. Right. So this one's finished here and then that one would finish as soon as that entire span is in the viewport, which I can't even get to. We'll fix that because we needed to finish probably about here. Let's just put this back to the point too so we can see the text all the time. Okay. So this we can keep the same, but I think these two will take off and I'm going to say my scroll reveal. Actually, know what we'll do. Okay. What I'm thinking, what I don't like doing is say I do my scroll reveal and then I'm going to have like h2 span. Right. This just gets annoying when you have to do selectors like this. So my thinking here and I'm wondering if I can even not this I need to all basically have there. But what I'd like to do ideally, I'm trying to think if I can do this with custom properties and make it a little bit better, but scroll reveal, we can always fix things up. Don't if you're trying to solve something like this and you're not 100% sure on the best way to approach it, don't try and optimize your code at the beginning to see if it works. And then if it does work, then you can worry about optimizing things. Right. I'm going to do my h2 span and we'll live by my own advice here. And then let's duplicate that. And then this one would be my paragraph span. Again, maybe not the cleanest code, but that's okay. Because then if we take these off of here and actually the view could probably stay up there. Yeah, the view could stay there because I don't think I'm going to change that. So actually, I'm moving this lineup, but we just don't need it. Because here what we could do is animation contain. Do I even want to do the, let's just try 100 pixels offset and I'll do a 200 pixel offset here just for fun. No. We want that one to start. I want that one to be finished. This is this one. Can I use viewports here? I've done percentages. Can I do like 80 VH and then it's finished? I know that's, oh, yeah. Okay, that's wrong. Because it's going to do the whole animation there. Is it entry range? Let's just do start 20. Okay, so it's going to start when it's 20% of the way in. And then we're going to do an animation range and range and is contain 30 viewport height. Let's just see if that works. So it starts at 20 and then it's finished when we get to 30. The reason I want to do that is because now I'm saying like, this is where it's starting. This is where it's finishing. So it's starting 20 VH from the bottom of the screen. It's finishing 38 VH from the bottom of the screen. But knowing this means I can take, let's just copy that. I want this one to start at 30 and maybe it's longer. So maybe we go up to 50. Is that actually going to work for the timing? Oh, it doesn't work. Why not? Oh, wait, I'm using contain. So contain means the entire thing has to be visible. So it's starting too late because it's waiting for like the bottom of this to be. So can I do this one as cover instead cover means as soon as you enter the viewport. Maybe I'd want both to be on cover, but let's see. It's still not working. I was really hoping this number in this number could line up for the end in the start and then it would cause it for there to be no delay. Oh, maybe it's because I need to cover. Let's just do all of them as cover and see what happens because then it's, I guess, more consistent because it's a suit. It's 20. Come on, time it. Oh, no, it's I thought the last letter there was supposed to be a G. It looked like a cutoff G. It's still not timing it, right? This just might mean we need magic numbers. Well, how's this? I know my thing is going to work here, which is encouraging. And my plan is working. And see, I find the speed of this animation is actually nicer than the one that they had because I find theirs just goes so fast. That's like filling up. I think on mobile where I first saw it because, as I said, my editor shared it to me on Discord. It looked nicer on mobile on the computer. I find it goes really fast. I find this actually looks better. Maybe it's because it has the gradient, but we're going to take the gradient off in a second just to show how we can actually make that work because that's the easy part. How do we... Okay, let's just do this.  There must be something I'm doing wrong here. Basically, as soon as we hit that, I want the other one to start and there's still a delay. I'm just going to put 20 on that one too. I don't... Oh, maybe 20 would be right. No, no, no, it doesn't make sense. I was like, no, I'm a magic number in my way there. These could be in pixels too. It really doesn't have to be VH, but it's just an offset. 21.  23. It's probably like a 22.5 or something here. Is that okay? That's not bad. I guess, as I said, the 22.5 could probably make the timing of it. So as soon as it gets there, that's better. It's very magic numbery though. If you change the font sizes, it would probably muck these things up. I'm wondering if there's a better way to do it. But whatever, at least it's working. The end here, I could also change, but I think the speed is okay. It means once the whole thing is about 50% of the way... Actually, it's once the top, I think, is at 50% of the viewport, because I'm using cover. Right? Yeah, so this is probably about 50%. We're getting that. I could also change that to a contain, and then it would be once the entire thing is at about 50%. If I do that though, I find the speed of that one goes faster than that one. It's probably not the end of the world, but I think it's better. You could play around with this, obviously, and change where it's set up, but I think it's better that we have the whole thing filled up sooner rather than later. Wow, it worked! Cool, so I'm really happy with that. I wasn't sure if it would be harder or easy, but it's not too bad. And then to fix this, we just say white and white. And that means... Look at that. And the nice thing with this, then, is you're just playing around. Now, the one thing I don't know, the background...  So I'm glad this actually worked like that, because I didn't remember what the other property was. So that's pretty cool. And right now, scroll timeline isn't supported in all browsers. So if you did this in Firefox, you just wouldn't have a reveal or a Safari. I think for it to work properly, it is behind a flag in Firefox, and I think you have to put the axis that you're on. So the timeline for view is my y-axis. So I think you just need to do that. And then with the flag, it would work. And there is a polyfill that you can use. So we could test this out with the polyfill too. But my main thing is I wanted to see if it was possible with CSS only.  And I think it looks pretty cool. I like it a lot. I think it looks nice. These effects are always kind of fun. And to be able to do it with just a few lines of CSS is just incredible. So if you'd actually like to learn more about how this view thing with the cover and the contain and all of that that I was doing and other options, because right now I'm looking at the view, but you can also look at scrolling through the entire viewport and not just focus on one section of the viewport. And if you want, you just want to learn more about that. As I said, I have been doing a lot with that lately. And I did a complete deep dive on how all of this works when you can see that in the video that is right here for your viewing pleasure. And with that, I would like to thank my enablers of awesome who are Web on Demand, Andrew, Simon, Tim and Johnny, as well as all of my other patrons for their monthly support. And of course, until next time, don't forget to make your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome.


Little guy my name is Jimmy his name is Jake and this is the weekly Jake how you doing? James act audience. How are you audience huge? Massive weekend a graduation weekend.  Can you tell the people what happened in the sports? James massive sports weekend?  We're known for our Rangers pod Yeah, big-time Rangers podcasters the bandwagon blue shirts three episodes in to Public and the people are loving it man, and the Rangers are just killing the hurricanes of late One and oh and the last one game Rangers up.  I can name four to five players on the Rangers easily But thank you for tuning in the bandwagon blue shirts John Budwein commented again Until people show Carolina as a team and area more respect.  Don't aim that at me Always a little high soft Draft Kings next Jim this almost a breakdown is very near and dear to your heart Yeah, a lot of things I like here eagles And it's the only thing I like an eagle. You don't like breastfeeding. Ah Pig I don't know like life as a recent dad it was kind of like, you know There's a burden on the mom and I felt like I couldn't help it all the story is a woman in I think Vancouver the island off Vancouver British Columbia British Columbia. She's got a pet goose obviously and an eagle It tries to steal their pet goose and it's dragging it by its long neck out of the driveway The eagle goes to the front porch grabs the goose dragging it the goose Pathetic the mother she's breastfeeding in her underwear. She runs out. What did she say? It was so funny. She says drop it let go give me my goose back electric I love when they're saying that couple things on the goose goose and you could tell from the driveway These are well off people the goose is either the rich person's pet or the poor person's pet If you're in the middle class, you don't get a goose.  Oh, I think the goose is being rude like it was like How many birds do you have between eagle and the the common goose in the predatory world 100 100 flat 100? Yeah, and I think I think when the goose was coming back in one bill the goose was walking back in after it got saved It's like ha ha ha ha, but you don't have a mom. It was rude Jim This may be a story people have seen before I went viral kind of last week But we got more on it because we've been digging up there is a raccoon caught at a razorback baseball game And you know that one was waiting to pop.  We got some quotes that came out of this that are must read What are you doing? I'm waiting for the must read quotes for my guy I thought you were gonna I thought you were reading the must read quotes the quotes are Poppers raccoon hunting is not an uncommon thing in my family pause It was definitely something I was roughly familiar with pause Just maybe not in that exact sense. Yeah bingo. It was definitely something I was roughly familiar with Is that just in my head that means he's seen someone hold a raccoon before I think that means he knows what animals are I think he means he's seen someone pick it up like this. Okay, which is exactly what he did So then when he says just maybe not in that exact sense now what explain what what the difference is between the raccoon hunting you've seen I don't know the whole quote kind of jogs my brain after that quote He casually mentions the raccoon did bite him Which you know, I guess when we're talking about being familiar with stuff if a raccoon bites you He's just a chance you might have rabies and he says I was about to walk back in the stadium because you know big Arkansas Baseball game and the cops said you need to go get a rabies shot like right now cop can chill out a little bit Yeah, I guess cops familiar with hunting raccoons to choppers basically. We can't let you back You gotta know you're out. It's not sports. It's a huge animal sports episode big animal episode What are you looking at me like that for why do you think what if you had to take one guess? I don't know What about this meridian man's pet squirrel going nuts on a burglar? Yeah, so this guy's got a pet squirrel and if you look at him Duh That's a guy he listens to rock music with his pet squirrel whose name is jelly So he comes home and he finds that his house is like something's miss And then his his lock there's scratches all over and he's like I think something happened here So he calls the cops the cop comes her name was officer ashley Yeah, he's looking around the house checking out the scratches and then the squirrel joey At her feet. Yeah, she goes. Whoa. What's that? And he goes. Oh, don't worry. That's just my pet squirrel joey She says what do you think the he would bite someone and he goes his exact quote was I said well Usually doesn't buy it. Oh, no, I think he's got a raccoon.   You double got now kid. Why'd you admit to that? Don't tell zack what we're talking about Let's do the rest of the show like this. It's the employee of week. It's the employee of week Is the What do you think I put it down special guy daren sammy daren sammy The person with the most followers on twitter that has ever Tweeted about us while wearing our merch. You guys probably know daren sammy all-time cricket player from my saint lusia Arguably his saint lusia.  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title of our sermon this morning the ministry of the spirit the ministry of the spirit and what a Massive subject we come to when we consider the person in work of the Holy Spirit It's another Everest we stand at the foot of Everest and it's just too much mountain to climb We could preach many many many many many sermons on this we could preach many many days Certainly until someone falls out of window But we have one sermon one hour one introduction to the person in work of the Holy Spirit In our series on the essentials and so we're going to endeavor to do that I pray that you'll fasten your seatbelts take notes write things down and hopefully it'll help you and bless you as you consider This topic this morning and hopefully form a good foundation for us as we move on to other aspects of the spirits work In our verse by verse exposition of scripture once this series is complete The ministry of the spirit well through our study of the essentials We've had the joy and privilege over the last several weeks to consider the person in work of our great redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ But if we broaden our scope a little right? We know that the person or the work of our redemption is a work of our triune God It's a work involving the inseparable Inseparable operations of the three persons of the Godhead God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit God the Father plans Decrees Initiates he determines from eternity past to redeem a segment of fallen humanity Through the work of the Son and for the glory of his own name with his infinite and Immeasurable love set fully upon the Son the father elects What would be a glorious bride for the Son without spot a wrinkle or any such thing? But holy and without blemish He predestines her to be conformed to the image of the Son adorned in Splendor for her husband. He writes their names in the Lamb's book of life before the worlds began He predestines them to adoption his sons by Jesus Christ to himself a glorified assembly of redeemed saints A gift of the father's love to the Son a bride Who would live throughout the ages as a testimony of the exceeding riches of his grace? Now having set his covenant love upon those whom he had chosen The father then gives them or grants them to the Son and he sends the Son to redeem them to himself The Son then Delighting in the father receives that gift which has been given and for the joy set before him The Son then determines the undertake that which would be necessary to save them to redeem them and although Coequal and although co-eternal with the Father the Lord of glory would make himself of no Reputation he would take the form of a slave of a bond servant coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man he would humble himself and become obedient to the point of death even the death of the cross his infinite and Immeasurable love set fully upon his bride. He willingly lays down his life for her Satisfies the demands of God's justice. He secures her redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins And he reconciles her to the Father having been raised for her justification The all of those who are given to the Son Will come to him and having been given by the Father. He will in no wise cast them out The Son will lose nothing of all that the Father has given him But will raise it up on the last day and having loved his own who are in the world He would love them to the uttermost. He would love them to the very end then Once ascended once having received the kingdom Being exalted seated again at the right hand of the Father always living to make intercess intercession for his own God the Son in concert with God the Father would send God the Holy Spirit the hot the Father having Planned our redemption the Son having accomplished our redemption the Spirit would then apply the benefits of that redemption To those whom the Father has given to the Son redemption decreed redemption accomplished redemption applied The Baptist catechism in question 32 ask this How are we made partakers of the redemption that is purchased by Christ? the answer We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit the spirit of the living God Coequal co-eternal with the Father and with the Son is given to us To unite us to Christ to join us to the Son to make us a partaker of Christ in all of his redeeming benefits to apply all of the blessings of his redemption purchased at Calvary To make us alive together with Christ causing us to be born again Applying regeneration to the people of God Titus chapter 3 verse 5 Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy. He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on us Abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior so that having been justified by his grace We should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life the spirit of God Applies the blessedness of our adoption as sons and daughters in the household in the kingdom of God Romans chapter 8 verse 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear But you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba father The spirit of God Baptizes us into union with Christ and into his body first Corinthians chapter 12 verse 13 For by one spirit We were all baptized into one body whether Jews or Greeks whether slaves are free and have all been made to drink into one Spirit it's a beautiful like a beautiful picture. We see that here. Don't we? All made to drink into one spirit all baptized into one body the spirit of God applies That work of redemption applies the work of our justification first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 11 But you were washed you were sanctified But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God And in him also when you heard the word of truth the gospel of our salvation and believed in him You were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit The spirit of God works in us for our Sanctification second Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you brethren beloved by the Lord because God from the beginning Chose you for salvation through sanctification by the spirit and belief in the truth to which he called you by our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and Romans chapter 8 verse 11 if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead dwells in you He that raised up Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies By his spirit who dwells in you it'll be the spirit of God at work in our Resurrection when the Lord Jesus Christ raises us up at the last day at the end of the age and all of this all of this so that God By his Holy Spirit might abide with us forever Into the ages that God would abide with us These are tremendous realities Glorious realities realities that we should be meditating on praising and worshiping God for we should be thinking about They involve the person in work of the Holy Spirit our redemption is secured Through the inseparable Operations of the three persons of our triune God to the praise of the glory of his grace His miraculous work the work of the Spirit a Full expression and an affecting if you will of all that the Father planned and all that the Son accomplished So the spirit of our God is worthy of praise Spirit of our God is worthy of worship And his work in the lives of God's people is of inestimable immeasurable incalculable value. It's great. It's glory all kinds of Crazy and wacky things are attributed to the Spirit of God these days, aren't they? The brothers and I were talking yesterday, and we were talking about this Charismaniac on TBN who was Acknowledging the spirit in a teeth whitening Revival where the spirit of God whitening people in Fulfillment of an Old Testament prophecy talking about white teeth Listen the Old Testament prophecy about teeth whitening was God was going to send a famine in Judgment and because they had no food their teeth would be white, right? It wasn't the spirit of God whitening people's teeth It the it's crazy the nonsense that goes on today with respect to the person and work of the Holy Spirit We should be anchored to God's word to know his truth and Worship the spirit of God for what he does which is far more glorious than white teeth, right? Now if we're interested in the person and work of the Holy Spirit in an introduction to his ministry among us in Particularly his ministry in the lives of believers then one of the best places to go in all of scripture is the Lord's teaching regarding the spirit throughout the gospel of John Turn with me to John 14 Through the gospel of John We see the spirit involved in the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ in John chapter 1 The spirit anoints our prophet priest and king the Lord Jesus Christ at his baptism in the River Jordan And then he empowers and enables the Lord Jesus Christ to resist temptation in the wilderness and to carry out his earthly Ministry what Jesus Christ does in his life is done in the power of the spirit We see the spirit involved in the salvation of the elect in John chapter 3 The Lord explains that apart from being born again of God's spirit in regeneration You cannot see the kingdom of heaven the wind blows where it wishes you hear the sound of it But you can't tell where it comes from and where it goes and so is everyone who is born of the spirit Jesus said most assuredly I say to you unless one is born of water and the spirit He cannot enter the kingdom of God in John chapter 6 verse 63 It's the spirit who gives a life the flesh profits nothing But also we see the spirit involved in the life and ministry of God's people John chapter 14 In this section of John's gospel it's called the upper room discourse the Lord Jesus Christ has gathered with his disciples On the eve of his crucifixion in an upper room To eat the Passover meal with them before he dies These are parting words of Jesus Christ to his disciples to these men whom he's about to leave behind So he'll spend time with them now to instruct them to warn them prepare them for the ministry that they're about to face in this Lost and dying world.  And so the Lord begins then in John chapter 14 verse 15 verse 15 If you love me the Lord says Keep my commandments Literally says you will keep on keeping my commandments Right. If you love me you will keep on keeping my commandments And I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper that he Notice that pronoun may abide with you forever and notice first Jesus does not refer to him as an impersonal force He's not a vague power. He's not a mystical power. He's a divine person He's a he the third person of the trinity, right?  He's not manipulated. He's not ginned up or worked up He's given By the father the father will literally cause you to have him It's what the verb communicates there in a present ongoing way The father will cause you to have the spirit Now follow along with me in verse 16 Jesus refers to him as another helper. It's interesting, isn't it? Another paracletos we often see the transliteration paraclete. Some of your translations say that paraclete Is derived from a verb in greek paracleto Meaning to encourage to exhort to call to one's side if you think about that word and what that means Due to that understanding, you'll see the word translated variously as comforter counselor encourager helper advocate And that word is used to describe the ministry of the holy spirit here in john 14 but it's also In addition to describing the ministry of the holy spirit. It's a word that's used of jesus christ himself jesus christ is going away via the cross And he will send to them another Helper like him Christ himself is a paracletos a helper John uses the same word to speak of jesus christ in first john chapter two verse one Where john says when we sin we have a paracletos an advocate with jesus christ or with god the father jesus christ the righteous So jesus is going away and he's going to send another helper to his disciples. Why would we need another helper? Why would we need that notice the connection between verse 15 and verse 16 look there with me Our helper the lord jesus christ knew that loving him And keeping his commandments verse 15 Would require divine help to ensure that we could verse 16.  They don't earn the prayer of jesus christ for the spirit They don't earn the giving of the spirit.  The lord knows that we're weak The lord knows that we are but dust He knows our frame. He knows that in our flesh no good thing dwells And so he gives us another helper the lord commands what he will And then he supplies the power the strength the help that we need to obey his commands the lord is gracious He does not leave us orphans. He comes to us right zechariah chapter 4 verse 6 Not by might nor by power But by my spirit says the lord of hosts In other words, it's not going to be by your strength. No matter how hard you grid it out No matter how hard you Clench your fists Simply not going to be by your might or by your power that you are victorious. It'll be by his spirit that you're victorious That's the way that it is Now we often in the battle with sin we forget that we lose sight of that And so what do we do in the battle against sin? We try to Clench our teeth grit our teeth clench our fists, right? I've got to have the will power I got to wake up put both feet on the ground and start fighting in my own strength and what happens what happens You fail Am I the only one?  You're not independence upon the spirit You're not availing yourselves of the means of grace through which the spirit works to help kill sin mortify sin in the flesh We have the spirit of god to help us in the battle the lord knows that we need help. He knows that we're weak Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the lord of hosts That means That the grace of god that brings salvation Doesn't end with what christ has done for us But that the grace of god now continues to be concerned with what he does in us by his spirit Some people treat salvation like a shot I went to the doctor. I got a shot. I'm okay now right and back to business as usual This is the work that continues we need the spirit of god to battle sin We need the spirit of god to empower us in our mission We need the spirit of god to persevere to the end and be saved We need the spirit of god to triumph in christ We need the spirit of god's ministry among us and so the lord graciously sends us another Helper This is a work that continues Now this helper Is none other verse 17 Then the spirit of truth The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive Because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him Because he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you The world verse 17 neither sees him nor knows him the world doesn't believe what it can't see Paul says the natural man doesn't receive the things of the spirit of god for they are foolishness to him Nor can he know them because they're spiritually discerned However, verse 17 those who are genuine disciples of christ Those who are christians know the holy spirit Why? Because he dwells in them And he abides with them forever. He will abide with them into the ages Right, paul would say if anyone doesn't have the spirit of christ He is none of his you don't have the spirit of god. You're not christ. You're not a christian And listen verse 17. He won't simply be with you He will dwell in you He will not physically depart from them As the lord jesus christ is about to have to do He's not going to physically depart from them. Jesus will not leave them orphans when he departs He's going to come to them by the spirit by his spirit and the spirit of god will abide with them forever Even into eternity Right, we when we go to heaven When we're on the new heavens and the new earth and we're worshiping and praising god forever In eternity with all the saints. We'll be doing that with the spirit In the power of the spirit the spirit enabling fueling motivating our worship Will be set free finally from the presence of sin completely having been set free from the power and the penalty of sin already Will be set free from its presence and now in heaven Glorified set free from the presence of sin. We will worship and praise god in the power of the spirit That is awesome Right the spirit of god fueling our worship for all of eternity Notice further. John refers to this helper as the spirit of truth in verse 17 We get a better understanding of what is meant by that in verse 25. Look at john 14 25 these things I've spoken to you while being present with you. Jesus christ says Verse 26 but the helper the holy spirit whom the father will send in my name He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you Now here if you notice the spirit Is said to be sent by the father In the name of christ We have the inseparable operations of the three persons of the godhead god the father god the son god the holy spirit You see inseparable operations in other words the spirit proceeds Both from the father and from the son the spirit testifying of the son to god's people Now here in verse 25 beginning in verse 25 his work is described As two things one teaching them all things Two reminding them of all jesus said Teaching them all things reminding them of what jesus said So the spirit's role then Is to explain or to exegete All that jesus christ had taught them Like jesus christ said of himself the spirit isn't speaking on his own authority jesus said i didn't i don't come to speak on my own authority I came to speak with the authority of the one who sent me the words that he gives me are the words that i speak The spirit comes in the same way the spirit isn't speaking on his own authority The spirit is sent to teach instruct explain all that christ had said the spirit comes to testify of him In that sense he is the spirit of truth Lord jesus christ spoke truth Now john here in beginning in verse 25 speaking specifically Of the lord's disciples the spirit would teach them The spirit would illumine their understanding the spirit would cause them to remember what jesus christ taught them during his earthly ministry And under the inspiration of the holy spirit they would go on to write the new testament until the bible canon is closed These men would write the new testament It's through though what they've written all that they've written through all that jesus christ has said to them Through all that the spirit reminded them of that we are led taught Illumined by the spirit today the spirit of truth Teaches us also today the ministry of the spirit is to teach us what christ taught That is now recorded in the completed canon recorded in your bible first chrithians chapter 2 verse 9 Paul said that i has not seen Nor ear heard nor have entered into the heart of man the things which god has prepared for those who love him It's a wondrous thought isn't it But god has revealed them to us through his spirit Well the spirit doesn't come by osmosis and whisper in your ear and plant that there in your brain What does the spirit do the spirit uses the word of god And applies the word of god to your mind to your heart renews your mind Syncs those truths down into your heart so that you have understanding god has revealed these things to us the mysteries of the gospel He's revealed them to us through his spirit for listen to the text The spirit searches all things yes the deep things of god For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him Even so no one knows the things of god except the spirit of god Now we have received not the spirit of the world But we have received the spirit who is from god So that we might know the things which have been freely given to us by god He sends us another helper that we might know you see These things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches But words which the holy spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual that last statement Comparing spiritual things with spiritual literally according to the grammar. It's combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words That's sort of the meaning of what's being said the spirit combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words He renews our minds illumines our understanding through the tangible tangible and objective word of god That's been revealed And we are taught by the spirit Foot the page and look at john chapter 15 John chapter 15 beginning in verse 26 We're talking about the spirit of truth and the import of that name verse 26 But when the helper comes whom I shall send to you from the father the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father He will testify of me Well, what about those today who say they receive special words of prophecy And they get that from the spirit as if the spirit whispers in their ear and tells them some special word Which every bit of which unless it's Too broad Every bit of it is a bunch of nonsense. It doesn't come true.  That's not the spirit of truth's role. That's not his Purpose that's not his intent That means that's at worst a deceiving spirit A demonic spirit Not the spirit of christ. It's a lying spirit or it's human inference You know people have a feeling or a sense. I think I want to wear a jacket today The spirit of god is telling me to wear a jacket. No It's just foolishness You don't get that anywhere from the bible The spirit of god is the spirit of truth Precisely because all That he testifies through his witness to believers Perfectly accords with the truth of god as revealed in the person and to the work of the lord jesus christ Jesus says he will testify of me. How did you get all that?  Sorry josh. You can't study the bible Like you're studying a schematic. It just simply isn't intended to reveal in that way. It's not merely an intellectual pursuit the spirit of truth is at work through the word of truth to teach us truth And that means that learning and understanding god's word is not just an intellectual pursuit but a spiritual pursuit Truth is a spiritual pursuit and we need the spirit of god to help us understand We won't understand apart from the spirit of god, right? And we need the spirit of god not just to understand But then to bring that understanding to bear on our hearts that are often hard Our minds that are often hard James chapter 3 verse 17. James says that the wisdom that is from above bears fruit It is first pure then peaceable gentle willing to yield full of mercy and good fruits Without partiality and without hypocrisy How do you know when the spirit of god is at work through the word of god teaching someone truth you see fruits You see fruits in their life No fruits no spirit All right, the spirit produces fruit in the life of a believer through the word of god It's first pure Then peaceable then gentle see the change in character Then peaceable then gentle then willing to yield Before and dwelt by the spirit of god you could not have described me as pure peaceable gentle willing to yield But now by the grace of god occasionally i am praise the lord entirely It bears fruit the spirit of god at work through the word of god He bears fruit in the believer's life first pure then peaceable gentle willing to yield full of mercy and good fruits Without partiality without hypocrisy Truth applied by the spirit is going to mature you in the faith So take encouragement from that brother take encouragement from that sister and sometimes that growth Is maybe difficult for you to see And that's what sometimes brothers and sisters are for I've sat across the table from many of you you've probably sat across the table from me where it's like I don't see it. I'm just you know discouraged But those around you see it They can see and sometimes it takes a long time to see it All right, it's a slow progress sometimes fruit comes quickly sometimes it comes more slowly Take encouragement that he who began a good work and you will complete it and he'll complete that work by his spirit The second important implication from us for us though in this is that means we need to pray Because it's not merely an intellectual pursuit But because it is a spiritual pursuit the people of god need to pray You need to pray as you read pray as you study pray as you memorize pray as you meditate pray for understanding Cry out for the spirit's help spirit of god help me understand help me remember help me retain Help me apply help me live by this truth Help me to take joy in it help me to heartily agree with it God put to death my flesh the members that are in me that revolt against this truth and help me live for you Right. We need the spirit's help We cannot do it on our own and our flesh in and of itself will revolt against what god reveals is true We need the spirit's help. We need the spirit sustaining power We need the spirit sustaining ministry in our life and god works through the means of our prayer Often somebody will say listen. This just doesn't seem to be working And what's not working is them. I'll ask You know, have you been spending time in your bible? Well, no, you know, I've got a lot of things going on right now. You know, I think a lot of stuff I'm really good at it. Well, have you been praying? Well, you know, I did a couple of minutes in the shower And then I'm gonna be you know, 39. They're not availing themselves of the means of grace through which the spirit works to Sanctify them and grow them and help them and mature them. Do you see? It's not right to think of this purely pragmatically, right? I'm gonna do this that works. It's like if I Put this nail here, then this thing is going to be held fast It doesn't quote unquote work that way, right? You need to depend upon god cry out to god humble yourself and pray Incidentally verse 26 Notice that jesus sins the spirit from the father verse 26 And he proceeds from the father and testifies of christ. Do you see that? In other words, the sending out and the proceeding from Are essentially synonymous. It's called a synonymous parallelism Jesus said I and my father are one And this is yet another example of that truth another example of inseparable operations the spirit of god in inspiration we talked about the Eternal relations of origin in our study on the attributes of god That god the father paternity the generation of the son as affiliation And the Spiration or the sending of the spirit the spirit proceeds from both father and son In verse 26 we see that in the synonymous way in which the lord talks about him being sent By jesus christ from the father proceeding from the father. Okay so now Consider with me the encouragement so far that the lord is giving us from this upper room discourse on the night before his death Regarding the ministry of the spirit He is god the holy spirit The third person of the trinity sent by the father and sent by the son He dwells in us Abides with us forever. He strengthens strengthens us to do that which we cannot do for ourselves He teaches us all things. He brings the truth to our remembrance. He testifies of the lord jesus christ And all of that encouragement all of that instruction This glorious promise to send another helper the spirit of god is given in a context It's given in a context and we can't miss that verse 26 When the helper comes whom I shall send to you from the father the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father He will testify of me verse 27 And you also Will bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning You're going to bear witness acts 1 8 you'll receive power when the spirit comes upon you and you will be witnesses to me, right? the spirit of god fuels motivates compels our witness for the lord jesus christ and Our witnessing for the lord jesus christ our mission to preach the gospel Fueled empowered enabled strengthened motivated by the spirit of god This is in the context of the disciples their ministry in this world This is a hostile world a world that is hostile to the truth of god and christ It's hostile to the preaching of the gospel Chapter 16 verse 1 next verse listen These things I have spoken to you that you should not be made to stumble You'll have another helper you have the spirit of god rely upon him Don't stumble verse 2 they will put you out of the synagogues.    We have promises to hope in Doctrine reproof correction instruction and righteousness.  You took them took the medicine at six At 12 when you walked the aisle and you said that prayer And now you don't need to do anything else, right? You're saved go about your life as normal No need to persevere no need for the lord to preserve us But the bible says that we must persevere in obedience to his word The life of a christian a christian is called to faithfulness called to obedience called to A mission of preaching the gospel to lost people in a hostile world We're called to battle with our sin And Most professing christians just entirely disregard all of that I got my shot. That's all I need. I'm going to heaven. What more should I do? I'm just gonna go to church every sunday We are to battle our sin. We are to put on righteousness. We're to put off the old man We are to preach the gospel to lost people We're to persevere in the faith And all of his words all of his encouragement here are given to sustain us Remembering his word is to keep us from falling away dependence upon the spirit is to keep us from falling away The grace of his word like a fetter is to bind our wandering heart to him And all of his word is taught and applied to us by the spirit. We desperately need the spirit of god Do you see? Desperately need the ministry of the spirit Verse five the lord says but now I go away to him who sent me None of you asked me where are you going? But because I've said these things to you sorrow has filled your heart Nevertheless, I tell you the truth It is to your advantage that I go away For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you But if I depart I will send him to you It's amazing that The lord jesus christ departs By means of his death on the cross He's raised from the dead There's a short time that he's with them and then he ascends to the father And it's his ascension Exaltation his session at the right hand of god the father that then ushers in the sending of the spirit Jesus christ receives the kingdom in order that the spirit is sent. It's jesus christ his sacrifice Being acceptable to god the father Jesus christ receiving the kingdom being exalted that then Ushers in the sending of the spirit And his work and believers is of immeasurable value much to our advantage in every way verse seven It's to your advantage. Jesus says that I go away. You know, that's that's a difficult thing about Because our desire as christians is to be with the lord like I Look forward to the day when I see him We'll become like him for we shall see him as he is.  It's a staggering thought Our time with him on earth would be greatly limited He would be physically confined to one place Right So the lord says it's to your advantage that I go away far better to send the spirit Who will teach you all things concerning what christ has said You can go to him whenever and you can go to him wherever you want At all times you can have access to his strength his help his aid at all times And so the lord said it's advantage It's advantageous to you for me to go away for I will send another helper to you and they're going to need him And so do you and I We often are prone to forgetting how desperately needy we are And so we don't depend upon him as we should right We forget how easily and how often we forget So the lord then intends here to reassure his disciples and all those who would believe in him through their word With two aspects of the spirit's work one the holy spirit's work in the world To the holy spirit's work in the church and look with me first regarding his work in the world verse eight When he has come The spirit of god he Will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment Of sin because they do not believe in me Of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more Of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged. Let's make sense of this text When the spirit of god comes verse eight He has a convicting ministry to the world The spirit of god has a convicting ministry to the world elenco is the word. It's usually translated convict reprove Convince or expose that word expose is really a good translation. Matthew chapter 18 verse 15 Translates the same word.  He's had a verdict rendered against him in other words the spirit of god in his ministry in the world publicly exposes Or renders a public verdict against and exposes the guilt and shame of this world and calls people in the world to repentance It's a an exposing of this world's wickedness Now in that ministry the spirit of god reproves Convinces so that many are genuinely converted And in others the spirit the ministry of the spirit hardens And results eventually in everlasting torment You have examples of that all over the bible, right? If you remember Peter preaching at pentecost and acts chapter two as peter preached Preach the word of god The people at pentecost were cut to the heart And being cut to the heart What do they do they cried out to peter men and brethren? What must we do? What must we do to be saved? They were humble the spirit of god working in them to humble them under the preaching of god Well, if you fast forward to acts chapter seven steven preaching on the temple mount Preaching to them from the word of god and the very same phrase is used the people hearing steven were cut to the heart They were cut to the heart But rather than respond with humility and what must we do to be saved? They rushed at him To stone him with stones and steven becomes the first martyr of the church Using the same phrase cut to the heart the ministry the spirit Will make you humble or hostile It'll soften or harden The convicting work of the spirit of god has three objectives to convict the world of sin Convicting the world of righteousness and convicting the world of judgment verse nine Convicting the world of sin Because they do not believe in me in the words this conviction the work of the spirit Doesn't result in mere acknowledgement. You know besides we're all sinners. I'm a sinner, but we're all sinners No This conviction that the spirit uses to save reaches into the heart and wrecks a person McShane says it is to give a person a sense of the dreadfulness of his sins And to make him feel how surely he is a lost sinner It produces a god word or a godly sorrow not to be regretted Verse 10 Convicting the world of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more Most people would profess their own righteousness. I'm a good person But there's only one who ever lived who deserved to be in the presence of god and that's the lord Jesus christ himself Only one who perfectly fulfilled the law fulfilled all Righteousness and unless you have his righteousness, you will never see god That righteousness was proven acceptable by his resurrection and ascension The spirit convicts the world of righteousness Because jesus christ ascends to the father where he is his Sacrifice is seen as acceptable where jesus christ is exalted by the father where jesus christ receives a kingdom which cannot be shaken Verse 11 convicting the world of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged And the world is under judgment judged here past tense speaking of the cross This world was judged at the cross And this refers to the preaching of the gospel whenever the cross of the lord jesus christ is preached the world is judged sin righteousness and judgment along with the spirits ministry to the world And that primarily through the preaching of the gospel. We also see the spirits ministry to the church look at verse 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now However, when he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority But whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come When he comes He will guide you into all truth Now based on our understanding of inspiration The truth he's leading you into Is not whether you should Take this job or take that job the truth that he's leading you into is not whether you should marry this girl or marry that girl Get a tattoo or not to get a tattoo right those things are not that's not the truth The spirit of god is going to whisper in your ear about and lead you into The truth that the spirit of god is leading you into is the whole counsel of god revealed in his word The entirety of the revealed word of god the 66 books of your bible And then it gives the explanation for this for For one he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak The spirit of truth does Exactly as jesus christ does in this respect He says i'll always speak those things which are heard from the father the spirit of truth has the same priority I only speak what christ has revealed There is a perfect unity here in separable operations a perfect unity of both word and work in the godhead There's a perfect unity in the revelation that is given Secondly it says here that he will tell you things to come Not speaking only of end times But speaking of all future revelation until the canon is complete the spirit of god Will work to tell them things to come until the canon is complete The professing christians Are always attempting to find or discern Truth apart from the word of god or apart from the illumination or application of the spirit of god of the word of god One has said that the spirit without the word is like heat without light Oil without a lamp the word of god without the spirit Is like light with no heat. It's dead. It's lifeless It's a lamp with no oil One pastor put it this way. He said the word without the spirit and you dry up The spirit without the word and you blow up put the two together and you grow up catchy Verse 14 He will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you All things that the father has are mine. Therefore I said that he will take of what is take of mine and declare it to you The spirit of god in other words did not come to glorify or magnify himself Though he is worthy of all glory The spirit of god is given to reveal to glorify to magnify to point to The person and work of the lord jesus christ Brothers and sisters, that's the ministry of the spirit So much more that can be said the bible is full of teaching on the spirit of god You and I Having put faith in christ. We're to walk by the spirit. We're to live according to the spirit We're to do all things yielded to the spirit Be filled with the spirit paul says apart from him. We can do nothing Apart from him. We can do nothing the spirit sustains us strengthens us Helps us aids us motivates us fuels love and devotion as he plants understanding and illumines our minds illumines our heart Saints Live in the power of the spirit in the same way that jesus christ lived and operated and worked and ministered in the power of the spirit The power of the spirit is within them for their sanctification to make them holy to conform them into the image of the sun The spirit gives different gifts for ministry that we're to employ In the church to carry out god's mission among his people to wash them with water by the word Think about how the spirit Changed your life If you're in christ and have been converted How the spirit works even now in you to convict you of sin to Give you joy and hope in believing to fill your heart with the treasure that is christ That's a work of the spirit in the heart of a believer that doesn't come out of your natural flesh That's a fruit of the spirit How the spirit of god worked in the lives of believers that we see on the pages of scripture how peter peter denied the lord jesus christ three times Stood before a little slave girl at the fire and cursed Saying i've never known him. I don't know him Denied the lord jesus christ And that same peter was the one who stood at pentecost and preached in jerusalem The gospel in the same city that crucified the lord Short time before How did what happened to peter peter was empowered by the spirit of god The spirit of god came upon peter the spirit of god was at work in peter paul Formerly a blasphemer a proud arrogant insolent man Writing on the road to demascus to persecute the lord jesus christ to persecute his people to persecute the church To drag back believers to druselman be put to death And yet the lord knocks him off his high horse and acts chapter nine And the spirit of god works in paul's life And changes paul By the grace of god paul is a new creation in christ. Listen you and i are of like nature with them And we have the spirit we have the spirit If you're in christ you have the spirit And turn from your sin. This is a glorious gift. Some people say listen I want my sin Cry out To the lord jesus christ That by his spirit he would change your heart to despise your sin Now why would you want to do that because your sin is killing you You're going to go to hell for your sin Cry out to the lord He convicts the world of sin righteousness and of judgment The grace of god in christ Changes the heart of men and women He'll change your heart if you'll turn from your sin and put your faith and trust in him He'll make of you a new creation He'll fill you with his spirit. He'll take your heart of stone Out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh He'll cause you by the new spirit that he's placed within you to walk according to his statutes and judgments He'll produce fruits in you Just like he has with me and with others We are entirely undeserving of any of that grace and mercy and that lord is so gracious Grace abounding to the chief of sinners We have much to hope in amen We need to depend upon the spirit pray to god for the spirit's help as we continue to learn pray for help as we continue to live for him Let's pray Father in heaven, we are grateful to you lord for the gift of the spirit Grateful to you lord that we have your abiding presence with us To help us live heart soul mind and strength for you to love you heart soul mind and strength to Be devoted to you Lord, I pray for help for strength for a renewing of our mind And forming of our heart that we might be disciplined in the means of grace to avail ourselves of all the Help and aid that we have by the spirit Help us not to neglect those means you've commanded us lord help us to be faithful to you in them That we might be changed that we might grow in our knowledge of you and grow in our devotion to you and grow in our worship of you That we might glorify you We might praise and magnify the spirit for his work among us And thank you lord for the fruit of the spirit that we see in this church What a blessed testimony of your faithfulness and your goodness your mercy and your grace to us I pray lord that you would continue that please lord preserve us help us not to become haughty or negligent or arrogant or lack a real sense of our need But help us lord to be dependent upon the spirit's work in and among us to live for you I pray lord that your spirit that you spirit of god would be at work in those here Who are not saved that for your glory You would save them And you would do that blessed work for them That you've done for our brothers and sisters here and make them a trophy of grace And we look forward to the day lord when in the power of the spirit the spirit abiding in us We will worship you with all the saints in heaven for all eternity We love you. We thank you for this time together in jesus name. Amen


Hey friends today, we are hanging out at Epcot and club cool is set to reopen today along with the new Creation shop, so I decided to come out drink some soda ride some rides and enjoy an afternoon in Epcot Anyhoo's let's go do this And just like that everything changed the temporary mouse gears location is now closed And the creation shop along with club cool is open and it looks like there's a very long line So we better just hop right on into it If you're not sure what club cool is it's a place we can go get free samples of soda from all around the world So you'll have a chance to drink soda from Italy from Japan from China, and it's all free just little tiny sample cups So everybody's very excited to see it come back Here it is and like I said, it looks like a very long long line You have the creation shop over there, and then the club cool here, and I'm not sure which is which actually I think the creation shop has no line, and this is all just for club cool That is exactly how it is there are no lines to get in the creation shop and 45 to an hour wait to get in club cool now. I got here I think just about an hour after the park opened and I can imagine if you just got here when the park opened It was probably a race to get here But I guess it paid off because now there's an hour wait just to get some free soda, and you bet I'm gonna be waiting that hour line And I'm gonna hop right in line right now because like I said, I think it's gonna be a pretty long wait Maybe up to 45 to an hour. So I'll time and let you guys know once we get up there There it is. We've been in line for just about 25 minutes and every time that door opens I can feel the AC just coming out and hitting me And I just want to be in there so badly We have hit the 45 minute mark, and we're about another maybe 10 15 minutes away so an hour was very accurate and Yeah, I'm getting thirsty. So I'm happy that we're going into a place that has free beverages And here we are We have made it to club cool I am so excited to drink some soda and Also, just enjoy the atmosphere of being back inside club cool and listen It's not even sticky floors yet Speaking of the floors not being sticky yet. I don't know if you guys know this or not But the floor is actually a bunch of broken glasses from Coca-Cola bottles And you can actually see Coca-Cola labels inside the floor It's gonna be hard to spot out any label, but I know I've seen some of them in here, but this is all glass How awesome is that? Looks like they've got six different soda stations And you line up and get assigned to soda station And that's where you can take your mask off and try all the different flavors And I like the way they do this actually before it was kind of just a madhouse. I like this organized This is it's actually very efficient Looks like the only soda to return from the old club pool is the Beverly The Beverly is back, and it's the only one that came back And here are all the different flavors all from different areas around the world. We've got Italy with Beverly We've got Madagascar with the bonbon We got Madagascar with the bonbon bonbons gonna love this and then they got Dominican Republic with a country club And then Korea has a minute-made apple. I've actually had this apple soda before and Philippines has a royal watermelon and then China has a smart sour plum I think that one is gonna be a little bit special and then Russia has a sprite And I believe this is like a cucumber sprite and then this one is a Viva raspberry Raspberry soda, so these are all looking really really delicious, and I'm gonna try them all First things first the watermelon only because that one kind of beat my interest the most cheers royal watermelon Wow, that is so good. I missed the carrot soda. That was my old favorite one, but this is so so good Watermelon is definitely probably gonna be my favorite now.  I have to say open. I missed the cup completely There we go, let it fizzle down a little bit don't want to get all the foam It says it has a savory sweet tart flavor to it. So Here we go Oh That is definitely the new Beverly. That is really the new Beverly Oh, I can definitely taste the savory in there and a little bit of sweet. Did you just try that the China one?  It tastes like a barbecue potato chip. That's a good way to put it I think I need to actually wash off the taste of the China smart sour plum and I'm gonna get a Beverly I know that's so funny. Beverly isn't that bad. It is good to cleanse the palate So it's gonna do its purpose here because that literally just tastes like a bad barbecue chip Beverly for all See Cleansing the palate so delicious. This isn't like I said Now let's try some minute-made some apple. Oh, I am missing every single time here. There we go That's good not as good as the watermelon now, but it is still very good. It's a very sweet soda Now it's on to the bonbon. This is for you bonbon. Let's line this up I'm not too sure what this is. Oh, this is a blend of tropical flu Tropical fluke flavors fruit flavors Oh, wow I think I like the bonbon better than the watermelon. Wow bonbons really gonna like the bonbon. This is really really good Wow, yeah madagascar for the win Now we're gonna try the cucumber sprite from russia mother russia. There we go Don't mind if I do Oh, that's good very refreshing like that is really really refreshing Now we only got the country club and then the viva which is the raspberry. So I think we'll do the country club first This one is actually orange. So this might be the closest to the carrot soda Wow, that's really unique. I like this one. I don't know what it actually tastes like though kind of just tastes sweet and delicious Last but not least I don't know why I say last but not least. I have no idea if this is gonna be any good or not It might be the least but the raspberry soda Very raspberry-ish I like that I still think my favorite is probably the bonbon Like the bonbon was really really good and my least favorite Is the china one the barbecue chip I don't know why I keep saying if if you guys do try it Let me know what you think it tastes like but I really kind of get barbecue out of that I know that sounds so crazy, but I don't know. It's just how it is Let me know in the comments which one you think you would like the most or if you try them Which one you did like the most and now we're just gonna explore around a little bit more And there's not much in here just a lot of Coca-Cola merchandise and some frozen beverages over here They have ice cream floats that you can purchase and they used to be able to give out little samples of the frozen drinks But they don't do that anymore So if you do want one of the ice cream floats, you have to purchase them They have a different soft serve ice creams and you can pair them with whatever float that you want or whatever soda that they have So it's five dollars and forty nine cents You prepare your choice of fountain beverage and then vanilla soft serve and they also have frozen lemonade And I think they have a frozen red beverage too. I don't know what that is They don't have it on the menu, but I wish I could try some of those, but it's not like the olden days Now that we got our soda fixed it's time to head on into creation And I'm excited. Maybe there's some Epcot merchandise still left over and I can try to get one of those fancy shirts So this is going to be basically replacing mouse gears And I'm happy to see a new shop. Oh, it looks really bright and nice in here And take a look at this Paging mr. Morrow in the new shop here at Epcot. How fancy is that? You like it? I get one Oh, that is so cool And there is a lot of other amazing things and I'm going to try to show you all the new Epcot merchandise And here is a lot of the new Epcot merchandise. We've got the mugs We've got the jackets which these jackets look so so cool. I really really like these jackets I'm not too sure how I feel about this texture up here But I bet you this would be real fun to wear at night and a lot of this stuff is actually going to light up I think that's what they were showing and I'm not too sure how much this is Probably 69 99 like that's going to be my fair guess, but we'll find out The jacket is $80 and it runs super big So I'm not too sure if I'm going to get it or if I should just stick to the shirt because I really like the shirt You can kind of see the shirt reflecting right now in the light and I think that is so awesome You see it like on the sleeves. It depends on how the light hits it as you get closer It'll go away. Do you see that is really awesome These shirts reflect as well and I just like the fabric and material So I think I'm actually going to get one of these and these are 36 99 compared to the $80 price tag for the jacket Along with the shirts and jackets. They do have the first ever Rechargeable Disney ears and these are so so cool. They've got the spaceship birth actual symbol on it And these are going to be so pretty when they light up at night And then like I said before they had the puzzle the coffee mugs They've got the water bottles So many amazing things even pants the pants look good too and they match the shirts I would get one of these hats, but I'm not a big fan of these hats But they probably look really cool at night as well. There's a lot of good f-cop merchandise That's all I got to say and limit two per item It is really really big in here. It's not as big as the old mouse gears though I have to say I thought it was going to be uh like a little bit larger And I miss all of the mouse gear like decor I miss seeing all the disney characters even though I like the way that the lighting is in here and I love the murals on the wall. It's not really mouse gears though I also like this f-cott jacket. This is really really nice and a lot lighter than the other White one. Oh, I like the colors and it's super bright. I probably it's probably a lot cheaper too Yeah, the other one was $80. This one is $69.99, but this one's so much brighter Even though I do love the old mouse gears. I really love this mural though I mean it is so wonderful and also the statues up there and they added a little fitting rooms over here I didn't see that before. I don't know if they're open yet But this is really really nice in here plenty of annual pass holder ears are back in stock Along with all the other figment items and yeah, I mean it's kind of growing on me a little bit I have to say the murals doing it for me Well, I ended up making a purchase. I had to get the coat I figure maybe I will use it the one day of the year where it's really really cold in florida or Whenever I go back up to pennsylvania, I can actually wear it and I love it This coat is so cool. It has like a weird fabric in the sleeves here kind of like a raincoat But I just love the way it looks and I figured if I was going to buy The other jacket that was $69.99 then I should just get this one for $80 because I really really do like it Now, I don't think I'm going to be wearing it around. I just wanted to try it on now It is a little bit. Uh, it runs a little big actually So I went uh two sizes down from what I normally get and I like the way it fits now It feels comfortable, but I'm going to take it off put it back in the bag and we are going to explore around Epcot now We came in the other way and we're exiting out this way And I kind of like this way a little bit better because you get a little bit of a look at specia birth And everything actually coming about and also I noticed they opened up a new popcorn stand over here How fancy is that? I really really like how everything's coming together here. Oh, and they got the bud light in the engling there I just wanted to try the jacket on and take some fancy photos with it But now like I said, I'm going to put it back in the bag And we're going to break that out hopefully in a couple of weeks because it's going to get colder eventually in florida And uh now I think we're going to head into world showcase some of the 50th uh golden uh statues are actually popping up here at Epcot I wouldn't mind checking some of those out as well Like take a look at this guy right here Figment getting his own statue right before you actually head into world showcase And I love these statues like I said when I went to magic kingdom I wasn't a big fan But they've really grown on me and there's a couple more around here too. So we'll keep our eyes peeled But the Epcot one I mean the uh figment one is probably going to be my favorite in Epcot As far as I know nothing really sold out The only thing that did sell out though There is one thing that did sell out and that's the backpack and they said hopefully some will be back tomorrow But I really wasn't looking for that. I ended up getting my jacket. I'm happy with that And uh, yeah now I actually feel like I can put it back on because it's a little bit breezy But once I put it back on and probably be like, all right, I gotta take this off 20 minutes later So we're just gonna keep it in the bag As we move a little bit closer into world showcase We can see some statues from coco and look at Dante Dante actually might be my favorite other than figment figment's gonna come number one for me But Dante definitely a close second. Just look at him. Look at that face After checking out the statues over at world showcase And ultimately deciding that figment is probably my favorite one I think we're gonna actually head on over and ride figment I haven't done it in a while and it'd be nice to get out of the heat and just go for a little ride and journey into imagination Look at joy Look at her.  Hi joy I love it That was really fun seeing joy out there picking up trash and now it's time to head on to journey into imagination It doesn't look like there's a wait time at all. Oh my lord. I can feel the ac and it feels so amazing Oh So so good Hi friends, how are you? Oh good good life always Are you guys answering a lot of calls today? Looks like the phone lines are pretty busy Good luck I don't think I've ever seen cast members sitting behind the desk there. That was the first time for that Today's theme is how to capture your imagination with dr. Nigel Channing To our special drive through open house It's figment figment. I thought I told you not to interfere, but you've got it wrong doc. It's not about listening with your ears It's about listening with your imagination Our research shows that smells often trigger the imagination, especially when the smell is coming to play I move out too Figment this is not a good time. It's all with a good time to use your imagination. So let the good times roll Figments don't Open house upside down upside down now you're talking about the best idea you had all day I Was happy to go do a little ride on figment after getting my jacket and being in the store I was feeling a little eppkati eppkati doesn't that sound funny But I was feeling like a lot of eppkati nostalgia and even though this isn't like the original Journey into imagination. It's still a very eppkati ride Like I can't think of anybody else eppkati figment is the uh like face of eppkati I believe like he is everything eppkati And as soon as we get done with eppkati take a look at this a little monorail action I love seeing the monorail in eppkati. It's been such a long time We went without seeing it and every time I hear it coming by I just got to stop and appreciate it Oh and look at this now poo bears outside Looks like he's catching some butterflies This is actually where the butterfly tent used to be So it's funny that he has that butterfly net I love it. Look at him He's trying to catch him. Look at him. He's going in for it When is it poo? Oh He got it. He got away Oh Now I think I'm gonna hop over to the other side of world showcase or the other side of future world And I'm gonna check up on the space 220 restaurant. It's set to actually open next week Actually, september 20th. How funny it's opening on september 20th in its space 220 So I want to see if there's any progress there and maybe stop at one of the food and wine boots that are there Get ourselves a little snack We could stop here and get something from flavors from fire They do have the chimichurra up offense Which is a char chimichurra steak on a smoked corn cake with pickled vegetable slaw in cilantro aioli And I think that sounds pretty good I have had the corn beef before and the s'mores will be pie So that's going to be the only thing I haven't gotten before and I guess why not might as well I ended up actually getting the steak, but I didn't get it with the pickled vegetable. So all I have is basically steak on a corn pancake And I'm excited because they cook the steak right there and it looks like it's a really really good steak And it was seven dollars and I don't know. It's not that big.  No, I'm going to eat it just like that I don't think you can fold it. Yeah, because it's too thick like the steak is so just like that Kind of like an open-face sandwich That is surprisingly delicious like very very good and it's plain jane, but I love it I can taste the chimichurri on there and the corn cake is so so good very good Now that we got ourselves a little snack, I want to swing back and see what the line is like to get in club pool now Did it get busier or did people wait and actually now there's not too much of a line. So we're going to find out Oh, yeah, it looks like it's just about the same amount of people waiting So just about an hour probably people are going to be in line for this I think I started right here and it was an hour. So it makes sense, you know I'm happy that we actually went when we did Because it's definitely gotten a lot hotter out and there's no more wind So like earlier why we were waiting in there for some reason there's always a nice wind tunnel that actually goes through there So it keeps you kind of cool But right now it's probably so hot and just sitting there for about an hour like I did earlier I would not want to be there right now Now we're starting to make our way back out to the exit But before we go maybe we'll take a ride on spaceship earth It looks like there's no weight at all and I love it. I mean, I'm all decked out in Epcot Like I'm really feeling Epcot today. Look at all the lights. This is really oh, man I'm excited for everything to be lit up for the 50th anniversary. I hope it happens by then Can't pass up spaceship earth when it's a walk on like this Even though it is a walk on like this quite often.  I enjoyed making it I'm sorry that I wasn't able to film inside the store as much as I wanted to it was very crowded in there And I was just lucky enough to grab the things I wanted to get and get out And just kind of appreciate it a little bit But I'm happy that club cool is back because that was something I was really missing and I wish my mom and sister were here I did get my sister to try Beverly, but I would love to get my mom to try Beverly And uh, yeah, we'll definitely have to come revisit when they come back down And uh, yeah, I'm probably gonna be revisiting it myself quite often because I really do like it in there It's free soda at Epcot. You can't go wrong any hoos. Like I said, I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye


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SCP Containment Breach takes place at an unnamed site in a universe where the chaos and urgency is far more powerful than it is in the mainline continuity. Now that's a short version, but the game, which has been derided by the site's authors heavily for a lack of story, is actually much deeper than that. The story of the game is not just the story of a containment breach.  The foundation in the Containment Breach universe is under attack from without and within. The reason why all these SCPs have been moved to this unnamed site, for instance, is that the most major containment sites are under constant attack from outside forces, likely related to the chaos and urgency, the serpent's hand, and maybe even the GOC. Now this place is a last bastion of sorts to maintain the secrecy and security of these objects. And of course it fails. It all starts with Dr. Maynard and security agent Skinner. They are chaos and urgency agents working inside the Foundation. Now this is where things get a little bit thin plot-wise. To be fair, the chaos and urgency in this game is painted simply as an antagonistic force. They're trying to hurt and maybe bring down the Foundation, but that seems to be the only goal they have. Skinner and Maynard's plan is essentially just a culmination of that goal. They release SCP-106 and then give SCP-079 control over the site's computer systems during the confusion. Everything else that happens is the direct result of those actions. Part 2. Would you like to play a game? Problem with the door control system. The door isn't responding to any of our attempts to close it. So please maintain direct eye contact with SCP-173. Let's talk a little bit about this unnamed site. We know it was used to house these items because the Foundation was under attack, but why is it so bad at doing that job? Well initially this was a research facility with maybe a few safe SCPs under observation. And whole new wings of the site had to be built in quickly in order to facilitate the containment of these new SCPs. But with that rush came new problems. The site adheres to something called modular design, which is just a fancy way of justifying the labrithin layout of the procedural generation in the game. But in the backstory, Dr. Maynard came up with a modular site project, and of course giving his true motives and loyalties as a chaos insurgency agent. The idea that that would turn out poorly is sort of a given. About the only thing the Foundation does at this site to prove it's not entirely incompetent is establish the Mobile Task Force Ninetailed Fox, which show themselves to be fairly competent in the game, especially if they encounter SCP-173. But what you have here is a site that wasn't originally designed to hold dangerous SCPs with add-ons built by a double agent. The layout itself is a literal maze, oh, and a centralized computer control system when one of the SCPs you're keeping there is a malevolent AI. And that the biggest problem for the site is that AI. Once Maynard gives it control of the site, it does pretty much exactly what you'd expect and tries to bring the whole thing down on the human inhabitants.  And if you spend long enough looking at the monitors, you're also going to run into images from SCP-895's surveillance cameras, which can kill you.   If you disable the automatic door controls and go to the AI's chamber, it'll ask you to restore those door controls, and in exchange, it'll let you out through Gate B. And this is, of course, a bad deal. It will continue to use those doors to try to kill you, and trying to go through Gate B will always get you killed, regardless of what you try. And oh yeah, Gate A is open no matter what you do. And incidentally, that is how you actually get out of the facility. Part 3. Escaping. Subject demonstrates extraordinary luck and complete mastery of even the most fatal of circumstances and an uncanny ability to predict even the most unpredictable of hazards, almost as if it had performed these impossible tasks several times before. Further testing is required to determine whether the subject should receive SCP classification. To be fair, this isn't a game guide, and it's not meant to be completely comprehensive, like I said at the top of the episode. But from a story perspective, I'm going to cover basically the five endings that you can possibly achieve here. Now one is the most common you're going to get. Death. There's a whole bunch of different ways for that to happen. You can grow ears on the inside of your lungs that suffocate you. You can get your neck stabbed at the very beginning of the game before you even get started.  The list really does go on and on and on. But after that though, there are really different ways to die once you make the exit.  The site is equipped with a nuclear fail save, and if you fail to deactivate the bomb, then it's going to be used in an attempt to prevent a full breach of SCP-682. In a failed attempt, that is, but still, the bomb goes off, and you, unlike 682, are not immune to nuclear detonations. But even if you do manage to deactivate the warhead, the MTF at that gate is in a firefight with 682, and they do not have time to peaceably take you into custody, so they shoot you and move on. But gate A is where things get really interesting. If you re-contain the old man, SCP-106, during gameplay, you absolutely cannot escape, which runs slightly counter to what you might expect. The MTF units at gate A are alert and unengaged in that instance, so they simply spot you and they recapture you. But if 106 is still loose, they'll be fighting him when you get out, and that's when you can actually make a break for the exit.  I like to imagine that's probably the canon ending of the game, but it's also the point where you get kind of a hint at the grander point and motivation of the chaos and urgency, yet that's it. You never really see that potential come to fruition. The chaos and urgency are there at the gate, ready to greet you and save any D-class who escape, but was that the whole point of the death grinder they created? They lost people here. Agent Skinner got out, but Maynard almost certainly was killed by the old man. So they already lost an inside man who had a lot of knowledge of what was going on inside the site, so it's not like you know anything he wouldn't have known. So after all that, I'm still left with the question of why bother? But still, even though the plot gets a little thin near the end, it's still a fun game. If you enjoyed the video, please hit the subscribe button and definitely click the notification bell as well so you'll be alerted when I upload new videos. 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