So, third John, beginning at verse one, the elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers, for I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well because they went forth for his name's sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such that we may become fellow workers for the truth. I wrote to the church, but diatrophies who loves to have the preeminence among them does not receive us. Therefore if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, prading against us with malicious words and not content with that. He himself does not receive the brethren and forbids those who wish to, putting them out of the church. Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. Demetrius has a good testimony from all and from the truth itself. We also bear witness and you know that our testimony is true. I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink. But I hope to see you shortly and we shall speak face to face. Peace to you. Our friends greet you. Greet the friends by name. Third John, let's look at this. Let me give you a little background just so that for those of you who take notes and like to get that kind of information, you might have that information so that you can look at it in its context. Third John is a letter that centers on three people in a particular church. We saw them as we are going through this. Gaius, Deotrophes, and Demetrius. Now Gaius and Demetrius are mentioned in a positive light, but Deotrophes or Deotrophes, we really don't know how I don't know how to pronounce his name. We can call him Joe if you'd like, is looked at in the negative. There are parallels between second and third John and that gives us reason to believe that the date is around the same for both of those letters. It was written around 90 AD. There is a purpose in this letter and that is to encourage a man named Gaius, Gaius or Gaius to continue his Christian service to those in need. And it's also intended to expose the prideful power hunger of a pastor named Deotrophes. Now to get this context down, Gaius had welcome missionaries into his home. He cared for their various needs. He cared for them in the sense of giving them meals and lodging finances, other necessities and in doing so, what he was actually doing was simply acting as a Christian. You know, the Bible tells us in Galatians, for example, chapter six, verse 10, that as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. And so we're commanded to do good. We're to be good and do good in general, but we especially are called by God to care for those who are in the family of faith. In Hebrews 13, 1 and 2, it says, keep on loving each other as brothers. Do not forget to entertain strangers for by doing some have entertained angels without knowing it. And so there is a spiritual element to this kind of generosity and hospitality. So on the one hand, Gaius had welcome missionaries into his home. Yet on the other hand, the pastor, Diatrophes, was opposed to this. He didn't like him performing this kind of ministry. And the reason for that is given in verse nine, when it simply says that he loves to have preeminence. So he was a bully is what he was. He had what is called selfish ambition. He had a longing for power and his selfish ambition and his longing for control and power actually motivated his response. Now, the Bible tells us in Philippians chapter two, verse three, let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit. But in loneliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself. And Diatrophes should have known that better than the average person in the body of Christ. And yet for some reason, he seemed to forget that lesson. You see, if false teachers had entered in, the Bible tells us that Diatrophes would have been required to deal with them. That was established throughout John's first and second letters. False teachers could infiltrate. False teachers from the very beginning have entered in to the body of Christ with the attempt to undermine the direction that God would have the church to go and to undermine the faith of individuals. We live in a time, a day to day, that many people do not understand that there is something that is really called truth and that the church has been given the chore to the job, the ministry of safeguarding. The Bible refers to us in 1 Timothy chapter three as the church is the pillar and the ground of the truth. And so in the early days of the church, there were those who would creep in and as they crept in to the church, there were sheep that would succumb to their bad doctrine. And because they were yielding to the things that were being said, the pastor had been given the authority to wield that rod of authority in order to protect the sheep from the error that they might embrace. So Diatrophes was for false teachers called by God to make sure that they didn't have a place in the church. In second John, I'll give you an example, verses 10 and 11, it says there, if anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him, for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds. And so false teachers were not to be encouraged in any way. False teachers were not to be supported in any way by the church. They were actually supposed to reject. The church was to reject the false doctrine. Now I didn't prepare a lot of statements that are running through my mind right now as it relates to that, but I can say to you this, that because of the state of the church in the United States today, there are quite a number of people who support false ministries. And whenever I name the false ministries or whenever I've warned in the past, be careful about this, there are those who are young in their faith, perhaps weak in their faith or perhaps have not matured in their faith. There's whatever reason there may be and they get upset at me and I get the letters and the angry, you know, standing up, walking out and demonstrating how spiritual they are by walking out while I'm speaking and all of that. But the bottom line is, is there some churches out there that I as a pastor have the responsibility not to judge the man's heart, but to say this is what's being said therefore be careful because it's not lining up with scripture. I've had conversations over the years many times related to this and, you know, and I just had a conversation going on my Facebook page which, you know, the Facebook for me is a good ministry opportunity. I enjoy the dialogue and the letters that I get and the questions that will come through it and all of that. And yet at the same time because I've got like 5,000 people that are called friends, you know, it's not all of them go to this fellowship and so they go to other fellowships and so they'll bring in their whatever, you know, their point of view and that happens. And if I write something there are times and someone will message me and say, well, how about this or they want to post their ideas and all of that and that's a forum where, you know, I don't have a real problem with that as long as we don't go in the wrong direction. And recently I was mentioned by one particular teacher. I won't mention by name Joel Osteen and there was an open letter written to him and he's a winsome young man. He's got a beautiful wife. They've got, you know, great personalities and all. And I said, you know, I posted a letter that was written, you know, with an encouraging, loving warning to them to get into the word of God and teach God's word. That's what pastors are supposed to do by the way. You know, the Bible says in the latter days, some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and the doctrines of demons. And the reason they do that is he said, Paul said, having itching ears. Having itching ears. What does that mean that they're always scratching their ears? No, they're looking for somebody who will tickle their ears. They're looking for somebody who will say the things they want to hear. And that's not hard to do because there are plenty of people out there communicating things that you would love to hear. And that's why sometimes churches can explode in numbers because that man is saying things that these people want to hear. So who doesn't want to hear that today's your best day? Who wants to, who doesn't want to hear that you are the head and not the tail? You know, that's just something that we, because here we go. I wasn't preparing this. I didn't prepare this, but travel with me for a minute. Because it sounds like I'm condemning people, and that's why I have a problem. That's why I keep stopping myself because I'm not, I'm not condemning, but I am observing and commenting, and that's my responsibility. Bottom line is, is because we are in an era of self-love. Now Paul said in 2 Timothy 3, he said that in the latter days, there'll be two things. Well, he actually lists several things. First couple things he speaks about men being lovers of themselves, you know. And that's what we call narcissism. That's the self-love, the self-absorption. So everything has to meet my criteria. You know, it's kind of like when I go to a certain burger place, you know, I'm going to have it my way. And that's how people are. And it's in the church. It's in the body of Christ. I still remember in this auditorium, after a Sunday morning, a woman approaching me and saying to me, this is my first day here, and I just wanted to ask you, what does this church have to offer me? And well, that's a legitimate question. But I said the question isn't, what does this church have to offer you? The question is, what do you have to offer this church? Because we're taught here to serve the Lord. And so what this church has to offer is an encouragement to be a servant to Jesus Christ, because there's no greater thing that you can do than to serve the Lord, right? I would hope that we'd agree on that. There's nothing greater than serving Jesus Christ. I mean, if you don't want to serve the Lord, then you probably don't want to go to heaven either. I mean, that's just the way it is, right? I mean, that's what the scriptures teach, is that what we are. But see, because we don't think that way, we have a tendency of heaping into ourselves teachers, because we have itching ears, we're turned aside from the truth, we're turned unto fables. And that is a sign of the last days. And so I'm not impressed by auditoriums filled with people. What I'm impressed with is men and women who love Jesus Christ and serve them completely and do works for Him. So the size of the church, do you think that Jesus is saying, I'm sorry, there's only a hundred people there? That's just a real waste of my time. You know, I want to go over to Houston where there's 48,000. I don't, Jesus, if Jesus walks into the room, as I see it when I read scripture, of course he liked multitudes and he liked individuals and we can develop that too. But when he'd walk into a synagogue, the first thing he did is he ministered to a demon-possessed man, he'd ministered to a person with a withered hand or he was drawn to the need, to the need. And so in ministry, what we're supposed to do is we're supposed to discover the heart of God and do that. And the pastor has the responsibility of encouraging people to follow the right path. Now we have authority, we have to exercise it and if a false teacher were to walk in, a man like Diatrophes who was put in the position of leadership had a responsibility to check out on whether or not their doctrine was proper or not and if it wasn't proper, they were not to welcome them into their house. Now, when it speaks about someone who comes to you and doesn't bring this doctrine, don't receive them into your house nor greet them, we need to remember that the early church met in houses and what they were saying, it was not like 21st century I've had people say, well, if a Jehovah's Witness talks on my door, should I keep them in the front porch? You know, don't let them into my house because doesn't it say that? And I've had to explain, that's how you can dialogue with them, invite them in, give them a glass of water, share the love of Jesus with them. That's what we do. So the house that he was speaking about is this, if somebody were to come here to this church and would say, I'm from such and so church and I have a message to bring, if their doctrine doesn't line up with scripture, I'm not to welcome them in, give them a place of prominence or allow them to teach their doctrine because in doing so, I'm actually blessing them as they're doing things that are contrary to what scripture has to say. And that's why you won't see, for example, you know, anybody who is not doctrinally solid teaching from this pulpit, teaching the word of God from this pulpit. There will be times perhaps in the future, we've had it once in the past, where I might invite somebody who has a differing view and I'll put them against somebody who espouses doctrinally what we accept and they can debate the issues in front of the church, but that person with a differing view is not being placed in a pulpit to preach his message to you as if it's true.  But would I bring in to this pulpit somebody who doesn't teach the word of God?  No, why not? You're unloving, Pastor David, that's the whole problem I have with you.  Jesus said that I am to judge righteous judgment and one of the gifts of the spirit is the gift of discerning of spirits and we are called by the word of God to become discerning or judging. The word discernment speaks of judgment so that we can hear and we can balance and test whether these things are true and embrace what is true and reject that which is false. And so the whole purpose of Bible studies and times like this is for us to be built up in our faith so that we may know the ways of God so that we're equipped for worse to service so that we can share with others the truth of Jesus Christ. Diographies as a pastor has a responsibility of doing that but he doesn't have the responsibility of telling his church not to minister to sincere believers in Christ. And that's what's taking place in this particular situation. Gaius was acting responsibly in helping the missionaries because they were the genuine article but on the other hand diatrophies was in the wrong because his motives were impure because he did those things because he wanted to have preeminence. So he wasn't acting as a shepherd he was acting as a bully. Now with that in mind John chose to use certain words repeatedly you notice when I was reading it he used the word beloved and the word love seven times in 14 verses. He used the word truth and the word true seven times love and truth. Love and truth go together don't they? Love and truth. I'm 20 years old you're looking at me saying no you're not I was born on leap year. I'm 20 years old I'm barefooted I've been drinking smoking pot my eyes are glazed my hair is not really combed nicely wearing a raggedy t-shirt and jeans and I walk into church for the first time a church called Calvary Chapel and nobody nobody looked at me and said you don't belong here look at the way you're dressed put on some shoes get your hair cut brothers and sisters in 1970 that was common in the church a lot of youngsters here you wouldn't know that but you would not have walked into a church without shoes any church you just didn't do that you see this is a different place this is a place filled with the love of God a new carpet had been put down on the floors and uh... because hippies didn't like to wear shoes the elders ushers had noticed that these hippies were walking in barefooted well anybody here knows that when you walk around barefooted the oils on your feet get rubbed into the carpet dirty up that carpet they had just laid some new carpet so they put a sign and the sign said no shoes no entrance they're trying to be good stewards that they're trying to take care of the place God gave to them they did it with a good heart pastor chuck providentially arrives early and he sees that sign and he picks it up and he starts hitting him with this my father's no i'm that that was jesus and the house of prayer we made it at dinner thieves and he drove them out i'm sorry no he just took the sign and he trashed it and he got the guys and he said if new carpets keep one kid from coming in to find jesus christ let's rip up the carpets so they could come in now that's my heritage that's my heritage and what is that what would that be called now i'd be called love and that's why i was talking to the men today in the meeting and i said the same thing to them twenty-year-old kid loaded drinking walks into a place ambushed by something i had never felt in a church in a church ambushed by love god help us god help us not to become old wine skins god help us do not look at that kid with the earrings and say the kid with the tattoos up and down their arms how can you don't you know you know what that kid with the tats maybe you don't want them and maybe you don't like them and i'm fine with that but i don't think that jesus cares about those tattoos i think jesus cares about that kid i believe that jesus cares about that kid and we gotta we we gotta be careful we gotta be careful i have staff members who are tatted all over the place how can you have somebody like that on staff because they love the lord jesus christ that's why what other person would i have on clean skin dirty heart you know i'm telling you that be careful be careful because we can stop loving i was not booted out of that place i wasn't kicked out of that place i was welcomed why because i needed the lord jesus christ and that's what i've always wanted for us as a group of people and so beloved or the word love seven times because love is so important and so is true and so that's your introduction we better get into the book right verse one the elder to the beloved guys whom i love in truth he begins with a very simple introduction he is the last surviving apostle of the original twelve he is what would be called the leading elder in the body of christ he is an elder he is not only positionally he is not only positionally an elder in the sense of in the hierarchy of the church how the church is run and is run by elders but he is also an older man an older man uh... one thing one brief thing is that in in a youth oriented society in churches becoming more youth oriented also and i understand uh... a lot about that in terms of like uh... the attractiveness attractiveness of youth and the the abilities of youth to understand the needs of other youth and all and i think that's all very valid we still need to re-respect elders in the body of christ don't we uh... you know you can go to the doctor and the doctor has forty years experience in the particular illness you have or you could go to the doctor who's got uh... a years experience in the particular illness that you have and maybe you're the sort who is pretty much an equal opportunity person you'll say well that one year you know a new guy is good with me you know me i prefer the guy who's been there forty years just because he's got a lot of experience i'm kind of kind of picky when it comes to my health if i went to somebody said you know i i i need to have an operation that guy says gee whiz that's great i just graduated i'd say well that's neat to you you have anybody else you might suggest you know i like experience and experience in the body of christ is very important and so we need to we need to respond that way because in a time when the young people are casting out the old and not one in them uh... the last pastor's conference one of the young pastors were saying uh... something about the dinosaurs who were teaching at the pastor's conference uh... from my perspective that's just youth speaking because we need elders and we need men and and and older women who walk that road for a long time to help us along the way and so he's an elder and he's writing to guys whom he loves in the truth and uh... this is obviously a personal letter to a member of the church that is passed by diatrophies but when he says whom i love in truth that's a simple affirmation he's simply saying whom i love sincerely here's something for you applicationally whom i love sincerely religious people are especially adept at pretending they love people am i right in that yeah i am amen pastor david that's true but they are religious people are especially adept of putting on that oh i love you face i've been places where they say give one another the sign of peace in a church service oh god be with you my brother and they won't speak to you in the parking lot but there they are hugging one another and greeting one another giving each other the sign of peace and this and that they can't stand each other i've seen that so have you we're really adept we're really good at hypocrisy putting on the mask oh i love you i love you so much i'm going to tell you the truth and then we rip them up and down in love right because we are very good at that loving people is what we're supposed to do right here's an example for you in uh... in the gospels on in more than one gospel we have a woman by the name of mary she was Lazarus's sister and mary wanted to express her love for the lord jesus christ and so what does mary do well she notes his head and she anoints his feet with a very very expensive perfume as a matter of fact the bible tells us that this particular ointment the spike now that she used was worth three hundred days wages that is obviously very expensive years wages is what that's that's saying and so when this takes place it's found in john twelve four three six one of his disciples judas is scary at simon son who would betray him said why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor and john goes on to say this he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the money box and used to take what was put and what he did is he used love as a cover up this could have been sold and the poor could have been cared for and i'm telling you a lot of times when people want to want to give you what we used to call i don't know if they still use this word i think they do a zinger when they want to kind of just give you a poke they'll say something like uh... you know that's nice that you're nice to mary but are you still beating her i mean they they twist things around this should have been sold you know it's it's just another way of selling sounding holy and loving and we could have given it to the poor see religious people are very good at hypocrisy the love in the lord is to be genuine because this is basic because he genuinely loved us and because he genuinely loved us would love one another roman's twelve nine let love be without hypocrisy first peter one twenty two since you have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren love one another fervently with a pure heart so john loved gaius sincerely and he let him know now verse two is one of those verses that's been taken out of context many times beloved i pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers this is what is called a general blessing it was a common greeting during that period he said may you prosper may you have good health and may you be spiritually mature by the way those are things that are proper to pray for in our desire to live a life that is blessed by god there's nothing wrong with saying lord i would pray that you would you would prosper my life in every way i would pray that you would work within me in every way may i grow in you and may i find success in the things that i do in your name in first chronicles four ten it says jayvis called on the god of israel saying oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory that your hand would be with me and that you would keep me from evil that i may not cause pain and god granted him that request there's there's nothing wrong with saying god would you bless my life the reality is is if you bless my lord is so that i might be a blessing to somebody else so god may bless you in every aspect of your life physically spiritually materially but this is not a guarantee of health and prosperity what this is simply a blessing in a prayer for spiritual growth he says in verse three i testified i rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you just as you walk in the truth have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth so john rejoices in the knowledge that gaius is maturing in his walk in the lord and by the way this rejoicing to hear that his spiritual children are walking in the truth is something that causes every every spiritual mentor every pastor great joy it's something that we want it it's a blessing on the occasions that i will have somebody say oh i i ran into somebody from your fellowship what a blessing they are to me that that causes my heart to rejoice when the cateenus come in and others like the cateenus and they they were here just last week but i can tell you they will say things like you know we love coming to your fellowship your church has got such sweet hearts and they're such sweet people that blesses my heart because i know as a minister that that that the people are walking in the truth they're rejoicing i rejoiced in that and so that's something every pastor every spiritual mentor rejoices in he says in verse three second portion he said when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you just as you walk in the truth and um his ministry has reached the ears of the aged apostles by those whom gaius had ministered to and that's what caused him to rejoice let's look at this in a practical way briefly know this know that your personal ministry is very often spoken of and recognized by other people know that and know this also the things that people say concerning your personal ministry are very often the very small things it's the small and simple things that you do that very often touches and blesses people's hearts never forget that sometimes you may feel that you're not really doing anything because you're not having this huge international impact you may be thinking that you're nothing and doing nothing that's absolutely not true my mama was because of physical um disabilities incapable of getting out of her bed her last year of her life mama had been bedridden off and on for many years and she would she would talk to me and she would say to me with tears quite often how difficult it was for her and i always told her the same thing i said mom i said there's one thing you can do in that bed that you do well and that is you pray your prayer warrior and you take petitions to god and you love the lord and don't let the enemy whisper into your ear that you're nothing and useless because you're not because mama you pray for my ministry you pray for your children you pray for your grandchildren you pray for your great-grandchildren you lift them to the lord in prayer never let the enemy think it make you think that you are useless because that's what he wants to do he wants to make you feel feeble and unnecessary but every person in the body of christ is necessary and it's the small things that you do keep that in mind it's not the huge things it's the small things that you do that very often impact people there's an interesting story in the book of acts it's found in chapter nine verses thirty six through forty one and there it simply says there was a believer in japa named tabitha which in greek is dorkus she was always doing kind things for others helping the poor about this time she became ill and died her friends prepared her for burial later in an upstairs room but they had heard that peter was nearby at litta so they sent two men to beg him please come as soon as possible so peter returned with them and as soon as he arrived they took him to the upstairs room the room was filled with widows who were weeping now listen and showing him the coats and other garments dorkus had made for them the thing that she did is she would actually just make garments for him that's no big deal is it but look at how it touched these people they said look what she did for us these things matter the small things keep that in mind it's not the huge things it's the small things unnoticed by some noticed by god and it changes lives and these people came and spoke to john and said we want you to know concerning guys what a great man he is they said that he was walking in the truth and that caused great joy when he says in verse four i have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth his christian faith was not simply intellectual it was practical and truth that was in him was revealed by the things that he did this is someone who showed compassion this is someone who showed love to someone who was in need and that to me is a tremendous sign of spiritual maturity he says in verse five beloved you do faithfully whatever you do for the brother and for strangers who have born witness of your love before the church if you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of god you will do well because they went forth for his namesake taking nothing from the gentiles we therefore ought to receive such that we may become fellow workers for the truth and so the things that he was doing was shown through his hospitality and his support of ministers who had visited the church hospitality in the ancient world was looked at as a sacred duty it remains so uh... even to this day during this time they had what are called ends but they were generally dirty they were flea infested in keepers were on the lowest rung of society at that time they charged people for that which should have been given freely that was the mindset of that age hospitality should have been something done generously and freely there was a uh... greek philosopher by the name of play dough and he called in keepers pirates he said they hold gas for ransom before they're allowed to escape and so he didn't have a good word for in keepers you see in the ancient world they had what was a system called a system of guest friendships so families would open up their homes family members from other countries and all the traveling family member needed was an identification in that way they would be shelter and so because that was true in the heathen world they were known for generosity and and for caring for traveling strangers the question should be should not the church be more so well in first peter four nine it says offer hospitality to one another without complaining without grumbling you know it's christmas grandma's here but when she gonna go you know without complaining notice what he says in verse six concerning the support of ministers he says if you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of god you do well the church's responsibility towards genuine ministers care for them generously shelter them feed them encourage them even provide funds for traveling but you do so for those who are worthy those who are doing the work of ministry he says in verse seven they went forth for his name's sake these are those who went forth in the name of the lord for the sake of god that's what they did they went everywhere for christ's sake everywhere for christ's sake so there was this sports writer used to write for the la times i believe he was in africa and he was on a he was driving his car on a dirt road and some path doing sightseeing years ago now when the car in front of them stopped and when the car stopped that car started backing up and the sports writer stops because the car is getting close to him and then makes a wide turn in order to make a turn and come back so the guy unrolls his window and yells at him and says this this is a quote he says where are you going for christ's sake and billy graham was the driver of the other car and billy graham stuck his head out of the window and he says i go everywhere for christ's sake and and that's basically what's being said here they they went forth for his name's sake they went out preaching in the name of jesus christ again remember that false teachers go out on their own authority for their own profit but these missionaries went for the name of jesus christ and so notice how he says in verse seven taking nothing of the gentiles they were missionaries not mercenaries the church has an obligation of supporting the spread of the gospel and the world doesn't have that obligation and so we as the body of christ care for our own he says in verse eight we therefore ought to receive such that we may become fellow workers for the truth this is interesting these are people who are worthy of support they should be properly cared for he's saying in our regular purchasing habits we need to remember that we support many companies that are opposed to our values many and and you know any any if i mentioned any automaker any brand of of automobile in here the cars that i've seen in the parking lot like like your bentley's in your rolls roices you know that i see out there there's so many of them and key is if you went and looked into the the charitable organizations they support you know when you buy their car many times they're giving to organizations that you would never give your money to you wouldn't if these organizations were to contact you for a donation you'd say no i'm sorry philosophically i'm opposed to how you use this money you would do that i've done this i've had people you know right me and say how about this and if you that well bottom line is almost every single thing that you buy if it's a corporation that corporation sending a portion of your money into organizations that you do not support and that's just a that's just a bottom line fact that's what happens so in our regular purchasing habits we support many companies were opposed to concerning our values so the point is we should care for ministers and their ministries because they have eternal impact and that's the reason you you give in that way you know we've had people here in our fellowship will go into our bookstore and get a lot of information about a book that they want to buy when they get all that information they go uh... and they purchase it online and so the there because they're gonna save a dollar and they don't realize that if you bought the book here that money goes into ministry but when you go online and you buy through amazon or whatever your your money's going into a corporation that is not doing ministry to save a dollar rather than to give that dollar i'd like you to think about that whenever you purchase because it's just wise to do that because in a lot of ways we support those those those were opposed everything we really believe in now what's interesting also i should point this out is when he says in verse eight that we may become fellow workers for the truth fellow workers in supporting them you are partaking in the work in the fruit as well as the rewards of the work that they're performing when i prepared the study i wasn't thinking of jess and nesty and the work in philippines i wasn't thinking of it but the gifts and offerings that go towards their support and the work that they're performing the reward from the support that we have they're getting a reward for performing those works we get a support we get a reward also for our support of that work and what's really interesting paul said it this way in philippians four seventeen is that he said not that i'm looking for a gift but i'm looking for what may be credited to your account in the gift that you give maybe you don't know this in the gift that you give to the lord when that gift is put into ministry when you see people come forward at invitations when you hear stories of you know hundreds of boxes of toys taken to mexico or charitable work that was done at one of the soup kitchens around here or there's so many things our church does i've been saying to my people i ought to be saying more about the things that you guys do your gifts when you give your gift they have eternal dividends eternal reward and ultimately one day you'll receive that reward because you supported the work that god has performed and that's what paul's saying and that's what john said now notice better hurry up i only have a few minutes i'm at verse nine already just rushing through aren't i he says i wrote to the church but diatrophes who loves to have the preeminence among them does not receive us therefore if i come i will call to mind his deeds which he does prading against us with malicious words not content with that he himself does not receive the brethren and forbids those who wish wish to putting them out of the church and he says beloved do not imitate what is evil but what is good he who does good is of a god but he who does evil has not seen god the diatrophes diatrophes did not want any teaching in the church except his own he was a tyrant he couldn't stand for his influence to be challenged and he wanted to be the most important i should say this as a confession when our fellowship was younger i i was afraid to bring in better speakers because i knew in my heart i thought well they're going to prefer that guy over my teaching and and i was jealous there i said it but that's true that's true people can be fickle i have had people say when are you going to leave again you always bring such good speakers no i'm i find that funny and i'm blessed because i want them to be blessed by these by the speakers of course but see it at the beginning i i wasn't quite like that at all because i was jealous and the lord said uh... long time ago now the best thing you can do is encourage them to have a great meal bring the best teachers you can bring so they can be the best fed and that's really whichever is supposed to do when you have a jealousy about authority and you want to be the preeminent one then you're not going to allow anybody in if they in any way are going to challenge who you think yourself to be so he could not stand for his influence to be challenged because he wanted to be the best so what does he do well notice verse ten he openly rejects the authority of john now the word preying did you use that word today that's not a word we use right he said preying against john with malicious words when it the word preying uh... is speaks concerning uttering nonsense he was bringing idle accusations making up empty charges whenever anybody makes up charges like diatrophies was there's an intent there to steal the heart of people away from somebody else and bring that heart to themselves and so he was making malicious charges against hall out rather john because he didn't want anybody to respect john the elders authority and so he put himself against john and said malicious things about him and he wanted to undermine john by these accusations a second thing he did is he would not receive the brethren well by not receiving them that was a way of showing his authority so he would not show hospitality and he would not record recognize these emissaries of the kingdom a third thing he did easy put them out of the church uh... he kicked them out and what he did is he refused to comply to that those things that were right and he ended up just bullying people and that's why he says in verse eleven do not imitate what is evil but what is good you does good is from god but he who does evil has not seen god in other words you need a better example you need to follow the lord and you need to follow john's example you see a good example is verse twelve demetrius demetrius has a good testimony from all and from the truth itself we also bear witness and you know that our testimony is true so this is a man who is blameless and he's saying the facts speak for themselves just look and see the difference between diatrophies and demetrius and you'll see the work of god in one man's life and the work of the flesh in the other and finally he said i had many things to write but i do not wish to write to you with pen and ink i hope to see you shortly we shall speak face to face peace to you our friends greet you greet the friends by name couple of closing thoughts here's something for you take me just one minute christianity this can be threatening so i'll say it hopefully in a way that makes sense christianity is relational christianity is a philosophy of life that is lived out in relationship with other human beings there are reasons why we'll ask you to hold one another's hands i know some of you feel uncomfortable with that i respect that i really do and if you don't that's between you and the lord you ogre no that's we do have hand cleaner by the way before you come in you can clean your hands up nice and dainty if you'd like but i do understand that and please never feel like you're being forced to do something if you don't feel comfortable with that you're not a bad person if you don't that's okay you need to understand two things one is when i got saved i came from a an environment where putting arms around each other singing to the music in swain that's what we did that's what we did and when we would gather together for prayer we would actually sit on carpets we were hippies we would sit on carpets and we would hold one another's hand that's what i was brought into see that's my background so i have never really thought of how uncomfortable you may be forgive me for not thinking that way i just don't because i i said well i had to get used to it and i i did i've told you this is a true story that when we would hold hands when i first got saved and a man would hold my hand i was uncomfortable at the bottom line you know we could my dad my dad didn't say i love you my dad didn't show affection my dad didn't even show outward affection to my mom in front of us that was how i was raised i i think a lot of you may have had a similar similar to me that's how i was raised no affection no my dad to show me affection would hit me in the back of the head that's a fact i'd walk by and he'd hit me and my mom i said why is that hit me and my mom told me as a little boy because he loves you that's the truth that's the truth and i don't say that it is just true so i was raised in a very you don't show affection environment my mom was affectionate but my dad wasn't and so men don't show affection women do that's how i was raised now i'm with these hippie freaks who are jesus freaks and we're sitting on carpeting and they want me to hold that guy's hand it just does not make sense but i would do it because i'm a new creation of christ jesus all things are passed away i can get over this but i would squeeze their hands real tight just so they didn't get any ideas that's true that's true christianity is relational it's love we learned to love one another now if you aren't comfortable god bless you i'm very serious when i say smile at the person next to you give them your elbow whatever but always remember that sometimes there are people in this room who have not had any other human being touch them until tonight until tonight they live alone they don't work in an environment that's affectionate they come to church and they feel the same way here as they do on the job to me i actually i actually i had a friend named george who brought me to help to bring me to faith in christ and george is the guy who helped me he would grab me and hug me and hold me and i'm telling you i would stiffen up and it was just because i'm not used to this you know you know man i love you brother and he put his face on my face i have a very dear friend his name is scotty he won't mind me saying this to you he cuts my hair i've known him for thirty plus years and scotty will grab me by the face sometimes just to kiss me he's a hairdresser in his shop kissing me and i'm fine with that because i love him too and every time he cuts my hair when i walk out he grabs me and he puts he holds me and he'll tell me the same thing always i love you pastor you're not just my pastor you're my friend and i say you're right scotty give me a kiss now man i'm not asking you to do that and don't worry we're not going to do that in men's small groups let's love one another love is practical and it is it is expressive and finally he says this and i'll close this he says in verse fourteen i hope to see you shortly we shall speak face to face peace to you our friends greet you greet the friends by name i'm looking forward to seeing you we will minister i will minister to you will get together and oh by the way when i get there i will i will deal with diatrophies i will deal with them and diatrophies i have no doubt in my mind i have no doubt in my mind that john came brought the word to him restored him and taught him some things about what it means to be a believer in jesus christ that's what elders do


Good morning everyone. I don't think everybody woke up yet Good morning Bit better. Okay, so I have to say I was promised a room with a view and So far everywhere. I've looked all I can see is mountains. So what's up with that? That was a joke told to me by New Zealand journalist yesterday during an interview for radio New Zealand who is a Quite a quite an interesting conversation So I'm really just amazing to be here today Really excited to be here. Thank you all for coming and thank you to Fran and his team for putting on this show It's not easy to pull a conference off. It's especially not easy to pull a conference off when everybody has to travel 6,000 miles just to get here. So just amazing job. Thank you all What I wanted to talk about today is a new topic. I've been working on about money as a content type and The idea I want to express is that Bitcoin has introduced a fundamental transformation in how money is going to be viewed in the future By making money completely independent of the underlying transport medium and Turning it into a standalone Content type. What do I mean by that? Bitcoin transaction is a signed data structure That can be executed anywhere in the world Now a lot of people think that a Bitcoin transaction has to be transmitted on the Bitcoin network and That's not true. The Bitcoin transaction has to reach the miners and Be included in a block, but it doesn't need to be transmitted over the Bitcoin network There's nothing special about the Bitcoin network. It just forwards transactions and blocks It can be transmitted over any form of communication medium and One of the magic things about Bitcoin is that because the transaction doesn't incorporate security mechanisms itself because the security is in the proof of work that the miners do and The digital signature that's on the transaction is put on there by the end user with keys they store There's nothing sensitive in a Bitcoin transaction Let me explain what I mean by that if I go to a merchant today using a point-of-sale system or credit card What I am transmitting to the merchants via a long series of intermediaries is the credit card number expiry date CCv2 code on the back of my credit card. I'm actually transmitting the secret keys I'm transmitting the access codes to my account now that information is sensitive if that information is captured My accounts can be compromised. I can be charged again and again either by the merchant or one of the intermediaries or any hacker Who's taken any of this information from any of the intermediaries? So that information needs to be very carefully protected if you think about it from the moment The credit card comes out of my pocket Until the money is in the merchants account It is transported across the network in a series of virtual armored cars There's encryption from the point of sale to the merchants back-end from the merchant back-end encryption through to visa for batch processing and from visa encryption through to the originating bank and to the destination bank Encrypting this token at every step of the way because it is the secret key if that encryption fails at any point in the chain the security of your credit card is compromised and That credit card is also stored at many of the points of transit it's stored for historical purposes which Is a terrible idea because that creates a centralized treasure trove a Stash for hackers to attack and we've seen this happen again and again in the US targets home depot to a very very large Retailers have had incidents where they had 50 to 60 million credit cards stolen JP Morgan Chase had 75 million accounts compromised recently all of these things are not happening because these companies are Delinquents in protecting credit cards There are really two types of companies out there those that have Failed to take the necessary action to secure the credit cards that you entrusted them with and Those that will soon fail to take the necessary security action to protect the credit cards You've entrusted with them You've either been hacked or you will be hacked those are the two categories Nobody is immune to this no one Can invent a way to protect millions of secure access tokens from Motivated attackers it's impossible to do we don't know how to do it There is no information security trick that can protect for all possible types of attacks Credit cards are broken by design because the token itself is the secret key and if you transmit that token you expose your entire account to risk Bitcoin is fundamentally different what I'm transmitting is not the key, but simply a signed message It is an authorization and that authorization has two external references One to where the money is coming from by referencing an unspent output on the blockchain and One reference to where I want to send the money By creating a new encumbrance and new limitation on who can spend the money usually a public key Or Bitcoin address and that transaction contains no sense of data If you steal the information in the transaction All you know is which address the money came from and which address the monies go into and how much that's it The signature reveals nothing the addresses reveal nothing. There's no identifiers You can't modify that transaction because every part of it is included in the signature You can't do anything other than replay it in which case if it didn't go through the first time You're helping the person who signed it to propagate it more effectively into the network You could take the transaction you can print it out You can post it on a billboard. You can shout it from the rooftops a Bitcoin transaction can be transmitted over a completely unsecured Wi-Fi By smoke signal by light signal with carrier pigeons Doesn't matter nothing in that message can be compromised But most people don't realize what it means to convert money into a content time We've taken the transaction, which is just 250 bytes We've separated from the transport medium, so it doesn't depend on any underlying security We've made it stand alone so that it can be independently verified by any node that has a full copy of the blockchain in independently verified as spendable authentic and Properly signed by any system that has a full copy of the blockchain in fact Even by systems that only have a partial copy of the blockchain and That transaction can be verified in seconds and all it has to do is reach one node in the network That can talk to miners. That's it once it's injected into the Bitcoin network and once it propagates You can be almost certain that that transaction will be included eventually and Will become valid if I look at a transaction I can calculate if it has sufficient fees and then I can make certain assumptions about how miners are going to treat that Transaction because I know the rules by which they operate when I could sense this network And therefore I know that once this is propagated enough This transaction will appear in a block near you soon, right? And there's nothing magical in the transaction So let's think about this for a second. How can you encode? 250 bytes and transmit them across the network Someone recently asked me and I get this question a lot Kent tyrannical governments ban or block the transmission of Bitcoin transactions and The answer is no, but I don't think people quite understand why the answer is no So I'll give you a couple of theoretical examples to show what I mean My first ridiculous example is the encoding of Bitcoin transactions as Emoticons or smileys in skype skype has a hundred twenty eight character emoji alphabet Which allows you to send various frowny smiley faces thumbs up thumbs down sunny days beating hearts Birthday cakes, you know all of those kinds of things Now let's look at that from an information content perspective. That's a character set, right? So if I'm a computer scientist, I look at that and I think okay. I now have a base 128 encoding I Have a hundred twenty eight characters. That's a base one hundred and twenty eight encoding That's a really efficient encoding scheme, right? Bitcoin addresses a base 58 and you can fit 256 bits in just 33 characters a Base 128 encoding would allow me to send a 250 by transaction in just over 15 characters 15 smileys a Bitcoin transaction is 15 smileys I Can literally Mathematically I can write a little script. It's two lines of Python probably If you're really efficient is probably one line no libraries needed where I can take The hexadecimal representation of a Bitcoin transaction 250 bytes and encode it in 15 of one of the hundred twenty eight possible emoticons I can then type that into a Skype window anywhere in the world and as long as the recipient who receives that String of 15 smileys types it into a decoder script and then simply injects it into the Bitcoin network That transaction will go through The recipient could be a robot the recipient could be an automated listening station That is designed to take 15 characters smileys on Skype and Transmit them on to the Bitcoin network now explain to me how anyone can make that stop Other than by shutting down Skype and if they shut down Skype I'll use Facebook and if they shut down Facebook I'll use Craigslist and if they shut down Craigslist I'll put my transaction in a trip advisor review and if they shut down trip advisor I'll post it as a comment in the history of a Wikipedia article and if they shut that down I'll post it as the background of a JPEG image in my holiday snapshots Money is now Completely disconnected information content There is absolutely nothing you can do to stop information from traveling from anywhere in the world To anywhere in the world when you have an abundance of fully interconnected Multimedia communication mechanisms as we do today But let's say we didn't have the internet So I came out with an even more ridiculous hair braid scheme Which is the transmission of Bitcoin transactions over short wave Frequency hopping burst radio So this is if you want to go completely guerrilla style the second world war in occupied France the allies dropped Thousands of shortwave radios complete kits little parachutes from airplanes so that Partisans on the ground Could hide these in barns in tree hollows in abandoned building under bridges and Use them to communicate with various allied command centers around Europe From right under the nose of the occupying Nazi force and And One of the things about shortwave radio is that not only do you have enormous range? but you can also you know in certain frequencies bounce off the stratosphere and At the time they use this for voice communication or coded Numbers communication right so Morse code and various one-time pad encryption schemes So I'm going to make it really really simple Nowadays I can go out and get a kit that allows me to connect a very simplistic shortwave radio transmitter to my laptop via USB Now all I need is an antenna now the nice thing about that is that in shortwave radio An antenna consists of a sufficiently long piece of metal a Railway line a clothes line a Broken-down electricity line a fence line a Razor wire fence Which I notice in New Zealand you have lots of right? It's right around those fuzzy white things that are everywhere So now the transmission of a Bitcoin transaction involves plugging in the laptop Attaching it to a fence post pressing enter and transmitting a burst transaction for 25 seconds and As long as there's a receiving station somewhere within the surrounding thousand miles That is connected to the Bitcoin network and you can hide the receiving station anywhere you want to can it's a passive listener It can't be triangulated It can inject the transaction into the network.  You don't that's the simple answer you don't But that's just the beginning because once you realize that money has become a content type Transactions have been disconnected from the medium some really important secondary characteristics emerge You see the thing is The medium is the message as someone famous once said and the primary reason the medium is the message is because the medium constraints transforms and In many cases distorts the message When your medium is TV your message is 18 minutes long Interrupted by advertising slots that is your message There is no other format you can fit there, right? so you make a message that fits that medium and You start Assigning the value of your message Based on the mistaken assumption that it is equivalent to the cost of production so TV for example imposes a certain cost to producing video and People who are in that business make the mistaken assumption That the cost of producing TV is The same as the value of that show the more you spend on it the more valuable it is So you can imagine their horror when something like YouTube comes along and drops the cost of production to zero Now what do you think is the immediate assumption that people make in that industry if the cost is zero Then the content is worthless right and that is a fundamental misunderstanding of what happens when you separate the content from the message From the medium when you separate the message from the medium Because what it does is it shifts your perception of value from the cost of production to the value It has to the consumer when they consume it Let me go to an even older example When the cost of printing is Astronomical and the means of printing are available only to a select few the only thing you print is Gutenberg Bibles the medium defines the range of expression of the message and constrains it only to the most grandiose and Important messages that society has it limits the range of expression By imposing enormous cost of production What do you think Gutenberg would have thought of? Twitter Which takes the cost of production to zero makes it available universally ubiquitously and for free and So you go from printing the Gutenberg Bible to responding to a tweet With one of my favorite expressions, which is the three-character opinion SMH Which means shaking my head. So when professor Bitcoin says Bitcoin is going to zero I can express my entire range of opinion and thoughtful analysis as Three characters, and I have expressed my opinion to the world Now if you look at that from an ejected perspective Surely that message is worthless and So you make the mistaken assumption that if the cost of production is zero and the message appears trivial on its face Then the entire combination of medium plus messages must be worthless Must be trivial must have no value and that's a mistake that people have made at every turn in history So when Twitter first came out people assumed that it would only be used for the trivial and Yet a year ago. I was watching CNN International covering the Egyptian Revolution and They're live streaming tweets From Egyptian revolutionaries on the streets of Cairo giving live reports about what is happening minute by minute and CNN anchors are doing nothing. They're pointing at the screen Showing the tweet look. Oh, we have another tweet and and here's another tweet from someone We don't know and here's another tweet. They've been reduced to the role of a TV Show model going and this wonderful refrigerator will be yours If you win the prize behind door number one, which you know, I find extremely gratifying to watch one of these Talking heads like Anderson Cooper basically reduced to reading tweets off a screen Because they mocked it Because they made the mistaken assumption that if the cost of production is zero then the value of the message is zero They confuse the medium for the message They made the mistaken assumption that their control over the medium was the source of quality and long after quality disappeared they clung to control and thought that control was the only way to achieve quality and if you remove control You remove quality and that is stinky Unabashed elitism at its absolute worst. It assumes that the gatekeepers are the source of quality And all they are is gatekeepers They assume that the fact that they have the expensive medium means that the message is worth listening to and The moment you tear that message away from the medium and you open it up to an entire range of expression Yes, it will express the most trivial messages of your culture including SMH But it will also express the most interesting messages of your culture eventually today in US schools Children read the Federalist Papers, which are letters of correspondence exchange between Thomas Jefferson John Adams Benjamin Franklin and many of the other founding fathers In a hundred years People will be reading the Federalist tweets of the Cairo revolution That's not an insane idea That is the path of human civilization. We've seen this happen again and again So now they mock Twitter as trivial because they don't understand the distinction between message and medium But TV was much mocked as a trivial pastime Because it obscured the art of Cinematography and cinematography was a trivial pastime because it cheapened and vulgarized the art of the theater and The theater was a vulgar and cheap pastime of Victorians because it trivialized the great Dramatic plays of the Romans in the ancient Greeks and you keep going down this path and you eventually arrive at Aristotle saying That philosophy is dead Because nowadays the kids all want to watch dramatic presentations instead of reading their philosophy books He probably complained about the long hair, too every generation mistakes the medium for value and Consider the next iteration of the medium that widens access that opens availability That broadens the range of expression. They consider that medium trivial vulgar Cheapening the message what they don't understand is when you cheapen the medium You release the message and you elevate it and you are able to now express a broad range of messages And yes, the first ones will be trivial and the reason they'll be trivial is because the previous medium didn't allow that expression It didn't have within it the ability to have that expression. So yes, the you will have the smh But you'll also have live tweets from the Cairo revolution And by the time they figure that out the new medium is The quality message and we can turn around and call the next one vulgar and cheap Money is a content type and we just wrenched it free from the medium and the medium Has been a series of interconnected networks that segregate money by size and recipient We have payment networks for small money. We have payment networks for large money We have payment networks for fast money We have payment networks for slow money payment networks for businesses to pay businesses Payment networks for governments the big governments payment networks for consumers to pay businesses and payment networks for consumers to pay consumers Oh wait, we don't have those we don't have payment networks for consumers to pay consumers We don't have payment networks to do small payments Because the medium does not allow that range of expression because I cannot send you 20 cents across the world from one individual to another individual Because the medium constrains the message because the cost of production Does not allow me to express that range of transactional expression But now we have separated the message from the medium We have created money as a content type and that money is now able at zero cost With zero production cost to express the entire range of transactional expression from the tiny to the enormous From the consumer to consumer to the government for government What happens next? The gatekeepers Tell you that this network is not serious the gatekeepers confuse their payment network cost for the value of their service The gatekeepers of the old payment networks will tell you that this new form of payment is vulgar and cheap And it is something that is only used for trivialities and all of the very very serious people Will remain on the solid quality payment networks of the past Because if they can control and restrict the range of expression They think that means it's quality and it's not it's just an inflated cost of production It's bare naked elitism at its worst They clung to the content to the they they cling to them Medium and failed to see that now the message can be transported over any medium at zero cost instantaneously So what is the first use of this new? Model, what is the first new use of this new messaging medium now? We can send trivial payments I get tips on Twitter Great, I mean that's a demonstration. I can make which clearly shows people the difference I can do something I could not do before But to most people that's trivial to most people The fact that I'm showing them the bottom of the range of expression Simply reinforces the idea that this is a cheap and vulgar medium Because what they fail to grasp is that this medium is not just for the trivial It spans the entire range of transactional expression from the trivial to the enormous So one day a country will pay its oil bill on the blockchain One day you might buy a multinational company on the blockchain One day you might sell an aircraft carrier Hopefully for scrap metal on the blockchain Because the blockchain can encompass the entire range from the 10 cent tweet to the hundred billion dollar debt settlement We just haven't noticed yet and it can do so without any constraint imposed by the underlying medium This isn't just a matter of the fact that the transaction as a content type can be transported over skype smiley's That's simply a symptom of the fact that we have released all of the constraints of the underlying transport medium We have made content king What happens is That when content starts off as the domain only of exclusivity and elitism and limited access It is used by grandmasters to create masterpieces The Gutenberg Bible the first photographs The landing on the moon televised for the first time The great movies of the past Masterpieces made by grandmasters and then the medium changes because the technology becomes more available and People start using it for a broader range of expression But the gatekeepers cling to the old ideas so they still try to do the grandiose with their medium They print hardback heavy cover leather-bound books Principia Mathematica and then the medium opens up again and things become soft cover and Photographs become available to the everyday person in 24 exposures and the gatekeepers of the past still cling to the past But now they can't really pretend it's grandiose. So they just do grandstanding They just say well, there is a certain je ne sais quoi to film There's a certain quality to vinyl that CDs will never capture a TV anchor really has authority Don't you remember Walter Cronkite a Newspaper is the source of Authoritative opinion and it really is worth the paper. It's printed on now. They're grandstanding the grandiosity is gone The quality is gone. Now. It's just a matter of clinging to the control and pretending that control is still quality and Finally in this grand arc of technology The technology reaches the final stage and in that final stage the only people who still believe its grand are grandparents and the grand arc of technology what started out as a Masterpiece is now only consumed by those in the last stages of their lives the first checks Written out We're used by Royalty to funds great ventures like the East India Company to open the spice roads and trade routes to the East and in those days Only Royals had checkbooks and today if you go into a supermarket and The grandmother bless her heart in front of you in the line opens up her purse and pulls out a checkbook 15 people in line are going to groan Audibly as they realize it's gonna take 15 minutes To write out that transaction and there's nothing left of the grandiosity of funding the East India Company When you're buying beans and toast with a checkbook in a supermarket It's the final stage and the only people watching Fox News now Our grandparents because we all get our news on the internet What was once trivial is now our source of Authoritative news and information and you can't explain that to the old guard And we read our books electronically While some people say well, there's something about the feel of paper Yes It's too heavy to carry 20 books in your bag, and I read 20 books in four or five weeks And so I need to carry that many there's nothing about the feel of paper You're clinging to the past So as We move into this world where money is a content type the gatekeepers of the old payment systems Will cling to the illusion The traditional banking is quality that the gatekeepers are the quality and the quality is inherent in the gatekeeping in The control in the censorship in the limitations, but that's not where the quality is and we're going to move on and Open up the range of expression that's possible with money to Unimaginable levels that have never happened before and they'll still cling to their ideas of grandiosity the great old banks with the vaulted ceilings and the chromed vaults that are empty Where you can get guided tours on Sundays to look at what banks once used to be like and You go into cities around the world and the great vaults of the great old banks are now bars Where you can get a cocktail mixed in the vault Because banks can't even afford to have those buildings anymore because they serve no purpose other than grandiosity and They'll still try to persuade you That through their control They protect you from evil from terrorists from money launderers What all they're doing is protecting their own incumbency from competition We have now separated The message from the medium money is now a content type and We're never going to go back. Thank you


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back already to FNAF AR. It seems like the bug issues that Illumix had recently with Little Red Riding Hood Chica, or I guess her name is Little Red Chica skin, I don't know why they left out the hood, did not delay Illumix any longer because we are here on our normal time, Thursday 8pm Eastern Standard, 5pm PDT, with a brand new skin. I've already talked about it, you already know my feelings on it. Unless they've changed it, my feelings still stand, but let's see what's in store. Yup, and there it is, the big bad foxy lure. Let's have a look in the shop, okay, yeah, so, so they didn't change it, so yeah, um, no, it's a bad skin. Okay, luckily the skin is 2-in-1, kinda like with the Orkin Mayhem skins with Orkin Mayhem, where they had their attack mode where you fought them in, you know, the actual AR, and then they also had their appearance when they were in the workshop. I'm happy about that, I'm happy that it's one singular skin, I'm also happy that the price is actually pretty low, because while the skins are very basic, they're almost completely identical to foxy just with a bit of fur and clothing, you know, it's still two skins, so I'm happy that it's really not that much more expensive than, you know, a traditional skin. I will say the lure is an extra 100, which is strange, I don't see why, oh, yeah, you see what I mean? There's two profile icons, and also I think these are a bit more expensive, so I don't know, because you got two skins, but the two skins are kind of not good, in fact, they're bad. Yeah, it's more expensive, wouldn't you think those things like, you know, balance themselves out? I don't know, I, it's whatever. I'm gonna buy the lures anyways, of course, my FAZ tokens are quickly and rapidly going down, is that one, and I think there's a green one, yep, here we go, I still don't know what that is, fern, I don't know. As per usual, we got four fights, one from the basket, and also I bought three in the shop, as you just saw.  Maybe it's different in-game, I guess maybe I should, I don't know, I don't like it. Here we go, big bad foxy, let's activate all four of these at the same time, and here is our first fight, I've already seen his animation, how he like does that, yeah, I think the animation's alright, I guess it's just like a roar, you know, a little roar XD. Alright, here we go, I do have some emotional support, I got my foxy plushie and pop figure, he's not making any sound, okay there he goes, that was a bit concerning, he's over this way, you know the foxy merchandise, which makes sense, or maybe he's near Roxanne, kind of sussy foxy and love question mark, so I'm guessing his animation, yeah, because of his animation, he was the wolf counterpart, in attack mode he's Granny, Jesus, which I feel bad about because now I'm shocking Granny, hello, I like Granny, Granny's so sweet though, Granny's so sweet, she gives me cookies and milk, okay there's that glitch again, happens every time, let's get it, now wait a second, wait, what, I'm gonna have to look back on that footage, I'm gonna do that right now because I swear to God, foxy was there, I was looking out this way, what the hell was that, oh well there's the pop up, watch this, ready, they're in front of my monitor and they teleport over there, dude that better be like a bug, a one time bug, because that's actually so dumb, I'm so annoyed, alright round two, I guess I'll just pay extra close attention to him, but I don't know, also how perfect would it have been if they got Chris back into the studio and made him say like some lines that a grandma would say, I feel like that would have been funny, you're heard, come here and get your cookies, you know, my oh my how big you've grown, or just some basic ones like hi, the better to hunt you with, okay, you know, I feel like Chris would have been up for it, I think he loves the rule of foxy, let's watch for the haywire again, because that, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, because that was some real BS, I'll keep it up, I don't know what that was, he didn't teleport that time, must have been like a one off bug, which I'm happy about, that it was just a bug that I got, you know, unlucky me, I'm happy that I got unlucky, and that it was just a one time thing, it's still annoying, don't get me wrong, Illumix definitely needs to get on that, yeah see like I stood still there, didn't teleport, I don't know, it's dumb, I'm happy it's a bug though, for once I'm happy about a bug, look at your outfit, damn, that drip go hard as shit, no cap, alright what do we get, anything, nope cool, yeah I mean the skin's alright I guess, it's not good, it's really not good, it's definitely one of the worst ones, just because it's foxy, but with a bit of fur and like a grandma outfit and glasses, they didn't even bother to make them like gray to match the fur, they just kept them the color he always is, wow I've always teleported you over there, you were over out this way, I teleported you like a 180 bar, I also feel like they definitely could have done some voice acting, I'm not gonna push them to do that too much, like I'm not gonna complain about it because I realize they never do that with skins, but I feel like it would have been cool, I feel like I feel like they should do that you know, like how awesome would it be to have foxy go like you know the better to hunt you down with my dear or something like that, I feel like that'd be cool, I think they should do that, but again I'm not gonna like say why didn't you add more voice acting because I know they never do that with skins, so many Twitter notifications, hello again you're over this way dude, I know you are, or dudeette, it's foxy, hi does this canonically make foxy a cross dresser, if so congratulations, I would know homie, oh god, where, okay hanging out with Rooks and again a moment, hi okay, start this way, still hanging out with Freddy Blanket, that's the imposter though, oh god that's the real Freddy Blanket right there, nightmare foxy plus good job man, awesome, now we just got one more fight to do, ooh we got a mod, a gear regulator, does anybody use mods, I think in the very early days I used to customize my, I wonder if I still have them, yeah look I've got like good mods on some of them, but I just, I don't do it anymore, you could still see my hand that was funny, alright foxy, last time bro, last time, through all the marbles, look at all your counterparts over there, you make such a good marketable plushie, I'll say that you know, some people want Illumix to make, or want Funko to make merchandise of like, hi, like the Orca and Mayhem characters or you know, Toxic Springtrap, I don't know man, I think Granny Foxy plushie all the way, I wonder if they, I wonder if they will keep doing merch of FNAF Hero things, because really it's like, it's endless, there are so many skins, Funko can make like a bajillion bucks, hi, okay he's chilling out, he's chilling, last, last one dude, come on, gimme you, gimme you foxy, okay he likes this area, I've noticed, oh hello, hey, got him, I would have gotten him all four times if it weren't for those meddling bugs, anything good, another mod, adduct tape what the hell, I don't know what that means, this is a big word, alright well that is Big Bad Wolf Foxy, again I think it's not a good skin, I mean it's fine, it's a skin but like, I think Illumix did a good job with red-redding her chica, but this skin, I don't know man, it just, it's not good, it's foxy with a bit of fur and like a granny outfit, which is funny, don't get me wrong, it's hilarious, but like, it doesn't work as a skin, I would say I'm glad that they kept things kind of cheap when it came to the skin, but at the same time it's like, I'm glad they went back to doing a workshop appearance and also fighting appearance because I did like that about the Orc and Mayhem people, I feel like it was a very unique thing to do and I actually kind of hope they keep doing it because I think it's amazing, I do hope in the future you're able to like choose which appearance you want to have featured in the workshop which would defeat the whole purpose but at the same time it's like, what if I want to see Granny Foxy, you know, in the workshop, in the photo booth gallery, yeah in the end I think they missed with this one, it just, it's not good, I feel like they, I don't know if it was because of the delay with Chica, I would assume not, but hopefully next week is good because we got the gameplay update, hopefully as long as they don't delay it, it is coming out next week which is very exciting, brand new gameplay update, brand new UI changes, it seems like hopefully brand new mechanics and also fingers crossed brand new character, but I have my doubts. So that's it, thanks for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side, goodbye.


Let's send it back out to our play-by-play team, Ryan Rugo and Richard Jefferson, and their post-game thoughts. Well, thanks a lot, Nancy. What an incredible game. Wild second half. The Nets in this game, they were down 24 at one point towards the end of the second quarter. But at the half, they're down 75-54. They end up putting up 40 in the fourth. They outscore Phoenix, 40 to 24 in the fourth, 74 to 49 in the second half. And Richard, we talked about it at the beginning of the third quarter. This looked like one of those games where, you know, second half of back-to-back. You don't have to rant. You don't have Kyrie. You're playing a team that's one-six straight. Okay, maybe it's just not going to be your night. Look that way early. But the Nets turned it on defensively in the second half, and that really gave them an opportunity to come back in this game. Ryan, and we know the exact play. It was that transition play that led to a timeout. Players were talking about it was a lack of effort. We actually broke it down. Steve Nash calls a timeout, gets the guide there. There were some conversations amongst coaches and players and players to players, and then they stepped up their defense. I stand by this statement. If the Brooklyn Nets are 100% healthy and they play quality defense, they are going to be a finals team. Whether it's a conference finals or an NBA finals, they're going to make it to one of those finals. And so tonight was one of those examples. They played great defense against a great team and make no mistake. This wasn't some 18-0 run. It wasn't one of those. Chris Paul hit huge shots down the stretch. Three, pull-up, making plays. So it was a battle back and forth. This just wasn't the wheels falling off for the Phoenix Suns, but the defense for the Brooklyn Nets was really and truly the difference maker. I think that's probably the most interesting part of the comeback, Richard, that the Nets had made up so much ground, had cut it to two, and then had to watch Chris Paul go on this ridiculous streak. And yet they were able to answer as Paul is scoring 11 points in three minutes. The Nets are scoring as well. And it was James Harden who was orchestrating it. Harden tonight, 38 points, 11 assists, 14 of 22 from the floor. Richard, what did you like most about Harden's performance this evening? What I liked about it is that he kept his calm, right? He was a leader out on the floor. I love seeing Kevin Durant. I love seeing Kyrie out there encouraging their teammates, talking to guys, communicating future Hall of Famers, these type of guys, that's what they are. They see the game differently. So to have them out on the floor contributing and James Harden staying calm, he was the leader. We talked about it. Is he going to score and spoon feed guys while other guys contributed? Jeff Green, Tyler Johnson, Landry Shamit. We can't talk enough about the defense that Landry Shamit played at the end of the game on Devon Booker. It was literally textbook, perfect defense. No doubt about it, Richard. We saw that from Shamit who made massive contributions. Tyler Johnson in his first start ends up with 17 points. Joe Harris with 22. And I think that's, you know, it's sort of a combination of encouraging factors, right, Richard, because we know how good the nets are at the top with their big three. But now seeing some of the other rotation pieces start to come into form and seeing that when there is a focus and an effort on the defensive. And that can be enough for this team to win games like this, where once again, they're beating a plus 500 team. One of the teams with the best, one of the best records in the NBA. And understand the Brooklyn Nets know exactly what they need to become a better team. And you want to know how they know you can see by the people that they're bringing in. You bring in Andre Roberson. You bring in Amon Shumpert. These are guys that are defensive minded players. They're trying to show up their defense. And it is a great place to be. And when you know that if you can just up your defense from mid 20s, you know, kind of range to get to that 15, 12, 13 spot, if they can get to that type of defense efficiency, I don't see many teams being able to stop them, especially with this bench starting to get their rhythm. Well, an incredibly memorable game in Phoenix tonight. The Nets overcome a 24 point deficit. They put up 40 in the fourth quarter and they went at 128 to a 124, a fourth straight victory for Brooklyn. As we send it back to you in the studio, Nancy.