With that said, 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verses 11 through 18, we can begin reading together here in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 at verse 11. I'll read verses 11 through 13 and I'll give you an introduction and develop this and then move into verse 18. And so beginning here at verse 11, reading to verse 13, Paul writes, O Corinthians, we have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. Now in return for the same, I speak to you as children. You also be open. Now as we develop this, let me give you an introduction. Let me remind you of a few things. Paul has been very busy defending his ministry throughout the letter of 2 Corinthians. Let me remind you that false teachers have crept in and they are working overtime to undermine the work of this great apostle. So in order to safeguard the church, he has had to defend himself against these false charges. I've read a number of these charges throughout the entire letter and you'll see various times and I've been pointing out to you various times that he will defend himself and there's a reason that he does that because he needs them to know of his credentials in ministry and to safeguard them. Now he's wanting to be very careful. He's wanting to make sure that he is not offensive in the things that he is saying and doing and we already saw this but remember with me what he had said in verses three and four here in chapter six, he had said, we give no offense in anything. Notice that our ministry may not be blamed but in all things he writes, we commend ourselves as ministers of God. And so he wanted to be known as a minister of the gospel and he lived in such a way and he rehearsed his credentials and experiences to them in such a way as to safeguard the ministry. Why? Because he said he did not desire the ministry to be blamed. So his greatest desire was to safeguard the purity of the message and the message he's already spoken to us about guys. You saw that in chapter five. It's called the message of reconciliation that God was in Christ reconciling himself to the world and that he has given to us the ministry of reconciliation and so he wanted to safeguard this message of reconciliation because man by nature is at war with God. Nobody who is born, who has ever been born outside of Jesus Christ, nobody who has been born has been born without that sin nature and by nature we are in rebellion. We are hostily in opposition to God. And so God in order to reconcile sinful man with himself sent his son Christ to die on a cross so that he could bear upon himself our sins as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And in doing so has given to us an opportunity to be reconciled to him by hearing the message the terms of reconciliation and that is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And because this is so important, he wanted to make sure that his ministry was not offensive to people because Paul desired to be blameless in the way he approached ministry so that he might be able to give out this priceless gospel. So in order to reinforce his credibility, he reviewed as we've seen a few of the trials that he's endured, again that's because wolves had entered the flock and the wolves were boasting of their own credentials which is pretty much the normal way that wolves interrupt the work of God is they place themselves in opposition to and in comparison to the genuine in order that they might somehow seem superior to the one who has been preaching the gospel in ministry. So they're doing that because they are wolves. They also do that because they are seeking honor not from God but honor from people. They wanted to be known as very spiritual. They had even established what we today would refer to as a pecking order in order that they might reveal how they are very spiritual and how they were more spiritual than the apostle Paul. Later on when we get to chapter 10 in 2 Corinthians verse 12 Paul said this, he said we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise. They've established a pecking order with them at the top. They were called the most eminent ones, the super apostles and Paul was being compared to them. He was concerned and so to provide a contrast to establish his ministry credibility we have seen that Paul reminded them of his own credentials. Again, this is not because he desires to boast about his accomplishments. You'll see that clearly in chapter 12 but he does this to protect them. He desires to safeguard the ministry from false accusations and so as we have seen in verses 4 following he had begun to share some things of his trials and all. He had spoken about how he had exercised patience and troubles, tribulations that he had been an example in needs which are unrelieved hardships. How he had been an example in the distress that he's gone through. He spoke of how he had suffered by the hand of man. He had been beaten, he had suffered imprisonment, he had gone through riots. He spoke of self-inflicted hardships. We saw this as we went through this passage together. Now he spoke of being in labor and sleeplessness and many fastings. He started speaking of his inward qualities that were being revealed by the trials and all that he went through. He also was revealing his motives as well as his methods of ministry. He spoke of his purity, how his knowledge of Jesus and doctrine. He spoke of his long-suffering, his kindness, the acts of love in other words that he'd performed. He spoke of the gifts of the Spirit. He spoke of the sincere love of a pure heart. He spoke of the word of truth. He spoke of the power of God, the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left because he was making it clear that all of this conflict that he went through was spiritual in nature. Paul was involved in spiritual warfare and because he's involved in spiritual warfare and we'll see this more closely and clearly in chapter 10. Because he was in a spiritual war, he used spiritual weaponry. That's why he spoke of the word of truth. That's why he speaks of the power of God. That's why he speaks of the armor of righteousness. And then he was closing in that particular portion by responding to the attacks that he had personally endured. You see, his detractors were encouraging the church to disregard him and to disregard his ministry. They used various tactics to undermine him. They gossiped about him. They lied about him. They belittled him. He spoke of the dishonor. He spoke of the evil report. He spoke of these as deceivers. He spoke of how he was unknown. That he died constantly, how he'd been chastened and sorrowful. He spoke of being poor, having nothing in this life. Those are things that he had endured. And these are some of the things that were being said of him by the infiltrators who had entered in. They said that he didn't deserve to be blessed, to be cared for, to be loved or respected, that he wasn't worthy of any of that. And so Paul has been dealing with this in second Corinthians. You see, that's what led him to respond to their constant attacks on him. I think it's important at this point, guys, to mention that there was a reason that Paul responded to these accusations. And it's a simple one. It's because he cared about the church. And he knew, and he knew that the work that he had performed in the Lord amongst the Corinthians could be undermined by these infiltrators. Today, people need to be taught as to why there are times when an answer must be given.  But we need to understand something. Sometimes a pastor may be motivated by the Spirit of God to respond because, in fact, he's not trying to safeguard his own reputation so much as to protect the church from the infiltrators who are undermining the work of God in his midst. You see, false teachers will undermine people's walk with God. And when they undermine a person's walk with God, they begin to cripple that person and stifle their faith. And sometimes they'll enter into churches and they look around for something to disagree with. And then they focus on something that they think could be corrected. And then they go and speak to other people, pointing those things out in order to get them to agree with them. We've had that happen here in this church more than once over the years that I've pastored here. As I've mentioned before, there are reasons why we have people in the parking lot who are helping people to find places to park. Part of the reason is because we've had infiltrators here.  And they're trying to influence them. We've had people come into the church building who have left their tracks, their information. We've had them come into the bookstore and try and argue with and convince those who were working in our bookstore. It was not that long ago when one of our employees in the bookstore, I didn't know this was taking place, by the way. It came to my attention after the fact. I didn't know this was taking place outside of doubt with it. But we had an employee here years ago now working in the bookstore that was being proselytized by cult members. And ultimately, I found out after the fact, he quit his job to go and follow after the lead of the cult leader. We didn't know that was taking place. And that helped me to firm things up even more because that's what they do.  And why don't you ever? And when do you? And they start planting seeds of discord and they start disrupting the flow of the spirit so that they might trap people to follow after their pernicious ways. It happens all the time. It's happened here. We've been going for a long time in this fellowship, many years now, in this fellowship. And we've had it happen more than a few times. And we've had to deal with it more than a few times. And so that's what happens. You see, over the years in my own ministry, I've had the opportunity of being exposed to false teachers and the things that they teach. And let me share some things with you about this. And I'm gonna use this as an introduction to help you to see some of the things that Paul is referring to as we get into this passage. But one of the things I'd like to point out is some of the traits, the distinguishing traits of false teachers, those who are creeping in, the types that Paul is dealing with here in 2 Corinthians. And let me share a few things. One of the things I've seen about them is that they often have very strong personalities, very strong, they're very winsome, but very strong in their personalities. And often they are good communicators. They speak in a way that entices, that actually entertains, that draws your attention to them. So they're very strong and they have a great communicating style. But the heart of what they're doing is they're drawing away disciples after themselves. So they have a strong capacity to influence, but they're not giving them the truth. Keep this in mind. The Bible does not teach that a Bible teacher needs to be a great communicator. Keep that in mind. As a matter of fact, you'll see in 2 Corinthians how that Paul is said concerning him that he's just a lousy person to listen to. He's boring.  And they talk about strike when strike too. You know, he was a homely person so he wasn't pleasant to look at. And then to listen to him, they didn't like, he wasn't well trained. He was in a professional order. Just keep that in mind because very often in false teachers, when you see a false teacher, very often he's winsome. He's the person that you wanna listen to. He's got personality. Maybe a very good looking guy. And he draws people, but he draws them to himself. Again, the Bible does not teach that a Bible teacher needs to be a great communicator. The Bible does teach that the word of God must be communicated accurately. And the key is not whether or not somebody entertains you. It's whether somebody is teaching you the truth. That's the key. A second thing is these false teachers very often will accuse others that they're in disagreement with of not having a deep spiritual maturity. You see, the infiltrators in Corinth had presented themselves as super apostles and they would be little Paul. We'll see that in 2 Corinthians chapter 11 and verses five and six where Paul said, I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles, these super apostles as they were presenting themselves. I'm not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. See, they were accusing him of being an untrained speaker. He didn't have eloquence. He said, I may not be able to speak as well as some of these, but I know God in a way that they don't know. So they were saying that he was a person that doesn't have a deep spiritual knowledge, understanding and all of that. He says, no, I do. A third thing I've seen is they don't teach God's word but they select verses that they use to preach their pet doctrine and ensnare hearers. They do not teach what we refer to in scripture as the whole counsel of God. They're the ones who will find a verse here and there and then tell you all of your dreams will come true. If you follow me, you're gonna have health. You will have success, wealth. You'll have all of that. You may find this interesting to note that very early in the history of the church, infiltrators were not just in Corinth but were in various places. And the apostle Peter in second Peter chapter two verses 18 and 19 speaks of this. And the apostle Peter said concerning false teachers when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lust of the flesh through lewdness the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. They have these great swelling words he said of emptiness. So they don't teach the word of God. They give to you pipe dreams. A fourth thing about a false teacher and if you're taking notes fourth thing is they live unholy, unloving lives. In Titus chapter one verse 16, Paul said they profess to know God but in works they deny him and then he describes them in this way being abominable, disobedient and disqualified for every good work. A fifth thing about them that you'll see is they use the ministry to become rich off of the people. They use the ministry to become rich. In second Peter chapter two verse three, he says it like this, in their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. And that's so true. I've seen so many over the years who will tell you outlandish stories. I always think of the same individual who had guaranteed to those who would listen to him that they would always, always be healthy. There was a guarantee that he was preaching all you need to do is claim your healing and you will always be healthy. He died of cancer, never admitting it but this is the guy who told you you would always be healthy and it wasn't really published very widely that when this false teacher died he died of cancer but at one time he was speaking of how that he was so filled with the spirit that he stepped off the platform and hovered in the air and then was able to return without gravity pulling him to the ground. He, they exploit you with stories they've made up and people keep on sending in their cards and letters. A sixth thing is they tickle the ears of the hearer. Why, because they want the crowds to keep coming. In Galatians chapter one verse 10, Paul said it like this, do I now persuade men or God? Do I seek to please men? And then he says if I still pleased men I would not be a bondservant of Christ. So they're ticklers of the ear. They want the hearers to continue coming because it gives them fame and notoriety as well as money. A seventh thing, they change the message of the gospel. They will twist it in order to suit their opinions. In Galatians chapter one verses eight and nine, Paul said it like this. He said, let God's curse fall on anyone, including myself who preaches any other message than the one we told you about. Even if an angel comes from heaven and preaches any other message, let him be forever cursed.  Now remember in chapter four, Paul speaking of himself had said that he didn't walk in craftiness nor did he handle God's word deceitfully. And then in eighth thing, they preach a different Jesus and a different gospel. Again, we'll see this when we get into chapter 11. John in first John chapter four verse three said every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God. This, he said, is a spirit of the antichrist. And so they change who Jesus Christ is. They change the gospel of Jesus Christ. They change the Godhead. That's what they do. You see the church has been infiltrated and by the way, we'll be going through several more chapters and seeing very many different instances of this. I'm just giving you a few things for the moment, but the church has been infiltrated and Paul's love for them and his concern for them is stirred. He loves them. You know, in many organizations, you can be part of an organization but it's not required for you to actually love the people that you're part of the organization with whether it's a sports team, whether it's a union, whether it's a club of any sort, a fraternity, sorority, whatever. You are not required to love the people you're working with. If you're in law enforcement and you're part of that fraternity of brothers and sisters, it's not required of you to love one another but to be a believer it is. To be a member of the body of Christ, it is required of us to love one another, required. It's a demonstration that we actually know God. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another. That's the mark of the Christian. It's loving one another, caring about one another and Paul loved them deeply. The church is infiltrated. Paul is an apostle but he also has a heart of a shepherd and he's stirred, his heart is stirred within him. He wants to present them to Jesus as sincere and pure believers. Again in 2 Corinthians 11, verse two, he said, I'm jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. I promised you as a pure bride to one husband, to Christ. I'm jealous for you. I want to present you pure. And that's causing him to speak to them in this way. It's this love for them that provokes him to open his heart to them. Notice verse 11, O Corinthians he says, we have spoken openly to you. Our heart is wide open. His emotions are stirred. He's writing with great open-heartedness.  Listen in ministry this is often one of the most difficult things to be vulnerable and open to a church. It's one of the deepest prices any minister ever pays because when the minister opens their heart and it's real and shares their love and devotion with the church, not everybody appreciates that. Not everybody responds well to it. Not everybody sees it for what it is. Being open-hearted isn't an easy thing. I can still remember as a kid, my dad used to, on occasion he would lecture me, he would do it quite often. He'd say, David, you need to keep things to yourself. You need to keep your heart more closely guarded, son. You open up, you're too open-hearted. But I, even as a kid, I was that way and I've never changed because I really believe an open heart is an important thing to have and that's who I am and I can't hide myself. I understand what Paul is saying in a different way as a minister. My heart is open to you. I understand what he's saying ministers would. But guess what, I mean, Paul's dealing with this because one of the things that's difficult to remain vulnerable because sometimes the people will reject you. And the bottom line is we'll see this in chapter 12 by the way is those you love will often be the ones who hurt you the most. I'll read to you in chapter 12 to give you the example by a cross reference by reading to you verses 14 and 15 when he says, for the third time I'm ready to come to you and I will not be burdensome to you. I do not seek yours but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children. And he said, I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. Though the more abundantly I love you the less I'm loved. That's ministry. The more I love you the less I'm loved by you. In Zechariah 13 verse six, we read, one will say to him, what are these wounds between your arms? And he will answer those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. And so his vulnerability is genuine because his love is real. And in this open-heartedness, well, his vulnerability is going to prepare the people for his appeal. His appeal for them is to be committed to God. Recommit those of you who are beginning to fade. And he's going to now deal with some of the misconduct in the church and that's why he begins by requesting openness. Notice how he says again in verse 11, we have spoken openly to you. Our heart is wide open. We have been candid with you. We have spoken honestly, frankly, openly to you. I have completely spoken from the fullness of my heart and I'm open to you. I've become vulnerable out of love and concern for you. My heart has been opened. There's room within it for you to enter. It's wide enough for all of you and it's opened wide enough to receive all of you. He loved these people. He was telling them that he deeply cared for them. He wasn't using them. He wasn't lying to them. He wasn't abusing them and he wasn't deceiving them. He was simply loving them as an open-hearted shepherd. And that's how he ministered in general. Paul didn't hold back. Remember back in the book of Acts in chapter 20 verse 20 when he was speaking to the elders of the church of Ephesus and in a place called Miletus. Remember how he said, I kept back nothing that was profitable to you. He was open-hearted and poured into them and so he's saying to the Corinthians, I've been open with you. Now you need to be open to me. Notice how he says, you in verse 12, you are restricted. You're not restricted by us but you are restricted by your own affections. So he's saying, don't restrain yourselves from receiving what I have to say at this point. My heart has made room for you. Please make room in your heart for me. I love you. I care for you as a result of this love.  You see, some of you, he could be saying, have been influenced by mighty tractors and it's beginning to quench your love for me. You've allowed them to convince you that I don't love you. I'm not to be trusted and they have influenced you. Some of you have decided to believe their lies. Again, in ministry, that's part of every minister's heritage. That's part of just serving the Lord. I can't tell you I've been in ministry a long time. And I can't tell you over the years how my wife and I have experienced that. I can't tell you how many people who we loved had in our home ministered to, cared for, generously gave to. I had somebody in our fellowship that I paid their way to go to Israel. Just lost my reward, but it's an illustration. Paid their way to go to Israel, out of my pocket. And their thank you was leaving the church and never saying goodbye. I can tell you story after story after story of things that have been said about me and my wife, my children, my people who should have known better. But you know what? I learned a long time ago, keep your heart open wide. Keep it open. It's worth it. Because in the end, God has his ways. That's what we're like. That's what we've been called to. And Paul is saying that this is his open hearted. This is what always ministers to me. It shows what I'm teaching you. You've been influenced, he's saying, by others. You've believed their lies. And you closed your heart to us. That's what he's saying. But he's saying in verse 13, in return for the same meaning open heartedness, I speak as the children. You also be open.  You know, in chapter 4, verse 14 and 15 of 1 Corinthians, he said, I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons, I warn you, for though you might have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel. So I'm speaking to you as a father speaks to his children, keeping in mind that children love their father. And as a father loves the child, even though the child can be rebellious and reject and so many other things as I did with my own parents and can be done to every parent, there's still that bond between a father and a child that he's appealing to. And he's saying, I'm asking you as my children, be open. Make room in your heart for me. I have opened my heart to you as my children in the faith enlarge your heart. Receive what I have to say. Receive my instructions. Proverbs 4, verse 1, hear my children the instruction of a father. Give attention to no understanding. Proverbs 7, verse 1, my son, keep my words, treasure my commands within you. So he says, open your hearts to me. Receive my words of correction. You see, the church needs to be corrected and Paul is bringing a word of correction to them. And correction is often most effective when it is exercised in love. And so he's giving a correction. Verse 14, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. What fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? What part has a believer with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols for you are the temple of the living God, as God has said? I will dwell in them, walk among them. I will be their God. They shall be my people. You see, the Corinthians are compromising their faith by listening to false teachers. And Paul begins now to cite examples of inappropriate relationships, inappropriate alliances. Obviously, an alliance with a false teacher is inappropriate. And so he uses illustrations of what we have referred to as unequal yoking. He uses that term in verse 14 when he says, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. It's a way of speaking of inappropriate alliances. Now, he's not condemning contact with nonbelievers. If that's the case, then who are we going to evangelize? He's not doing that at all. What he's saying is, don't be entering into covenants or alliances of those who do not know the Lord. And so he begins here, notice, by speaking of a donkey and an ox. Do not be unequally yoked together. You say, well, what do you mean donkey and ox? Well, that's actually an Old Testament phrase. What he's using, you get it in Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, chapter 22, verse 10, where it says, do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. That's where this is coming from. That's an unequal yoking. Donkeys and oxen were not to be yoked together. They had a different pace. They had a different height. They had a different weight. And they had a different nature. And so that was the demonstration of that, that a donkey and an ox are not to work side by side and being yoked in that way. The work isn't going to be effective. They're not of the same nature as the point. You see, when you look in the Bible, an ox is clean. An ox could be offered to God as a sacrifice, but a donkey was unclean. So Christians are not to have unequal alliances and the most obvious one that we can appeal to, even as we go through this, it's something that people are very aware of. The most obvious one is in relationships that can lead to marriage. In the Old Testament, New Testament, you don't see a lot of information of any at all about dating. Do you know any commands anywhere that says, thou shalt not go to this R-rated movie on a date? You don't find anything like that related to dating because they didn't have that system of yoking. They had arranged relationships and all of that. In our days, we have a different way of courting in all, and so that's why I use the word dating in this, and it's related to here as unequal yoking in a marital relationship. We use it very often when we speak concerning that, and that's why the Bible teaches clearly that believers are to date and marry other believers. Paul said that in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 39, when he said, a woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she's free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. That's an unequal relationship if a Christian woman or a Christian man, for that matter, begins to want to go out with the court and ends up marrying an unbeliever that is forbidden. Men and women are unequally yoked when one is a believer and the other is not. In Deuteronomy chapter 7, verses 3 and 4, God in the Old Testament law said, nor shall you make marriages with them, speaking of the unbelievers. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son. They will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods.   And you have to take that before the Lord and speak to him concerning that, because if you're doing that, you're violating what God would have for you. There was a man we all know by name. His name was Solomon. And remember how that Solomon had prayed and asked God to give him wisdom. And God had granted his prayer. We see in 1 Kings chapter 3 verse 12 that God said to Solomon, I will do what you've asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart so that there will never be, so there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. He had asked for wisdom and God said, I will give you that. We know him as the wisest man. But Scripture records that this man, Solomon, entered into forbidden marriages in 1 Kings 11 verses 1 through 4. King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Cellulites, Uptites. I'm waiting to hear the sound of laughter. Sidonians, Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, you must not intermarry with them because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods. Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had, check this out, 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines. That's crazy. And his wives let him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods. His heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God as the heart of David his father had been. A man may have authority. The wife has influence. In the case of Solomon, Solomon loved many foreign women. He married those and his heart clung to them in love. And in his older age, his heart didn't remain strong attached to God the way his father's had, but it was turned away. The influence over time, he allowed them to build altars, sacrifice, and actually allowed paganism to infiltrate the nation. And so, if you're dating somebody you need to understand that person is supposed to be a believer.   Never forget that. And so, as he's speaking of improper relationships, I'll touch these lightly. Notice how he speaks again here in these verses. And he speaks concerning other things. He speaks of righteousness and lawlessness. What does it have in common? In other words, those who love the Lord cannot compromise their faith and accept lawlessness. He speaks of light and darkness. Light does not cohabit with darkness, but by its nature it actually exposes. In Ephesians 511, Paul said, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Rather explosive. He speaks of what in common does Christ have with belial. The word belial speaks of a false God, but the word literally is translated worthless. Believers do not accept as normal and right the worthless things of this world, as the point he's making. We are worshipers of God, and the world rejects the things of the Lord. He goes on a fifth thing. He says a believer, what in common does a believer have with an unbeliever? Any fully committed believer knows that your ethics are not compatible with that of an unbeliever. If you're looking for a business partner, you don't go into a business partnership with an unbeliever because your ethics are different and you're going to compromise. And so you're strictly warned against that. Then he speaks of the temple of God with idols. Again, every Christian knows that we are God's temple and because we are God's temple, we will not practice idolatry. There will be no false God. Notice how he says in verse 16, how he says, you are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will dwell in them, walk among them. I will be their God. They shall be my people. The living God dwells in us in contrast to the dead gods worshiped by unbelievers. In Jeremiah 10, verse 10, the Lord is the true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth will tremble and the nations will not be able to endure his indignation. In Romans chapter 8 verse 9, Paul said, you, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the spirit if the spirit of God lives in you and if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. And that's something for you who are listening to this study right now. That's something for you to think about. If you don't have the spirit of Christ, you don't belong to God. That's why you need to open your heart up and become the temple of the spirit of God. Because prior to opening your heart up to be a believer asking Christ to enter in, you are outside of the promises of God. You're not reconciled to God. But when you open your heart to God, you become the temple of the spirit of God. God comes and he literally, his spirit dwells within you. And when he dwells within you, you belong to him. And now that you belong to him, you don't follow the things of paganism anymore. The life is transformed. But if you don't have the spirit of Christ within you, you don't belong to him. So you need to open your heart up to the Lord today. You need to say, God be merciful to me, forgive me. I want to be your temple and I want to live in a way that pleases you. And then he finally closes by saying, in verses 17 and 18, therefore come out from among them, be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean. And I will receive you. I will be a father to you. And you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Be separated. Be separated from this world system, the things that he just spoke about. Be separated from this world. So you're separated from and then he says, and be separated to someone. Be separated from the world and be separated to the living God. Separate yourself from the world. From this world that has values, goals and standards that are rejecting God and tempting to us. Turn away from those things. Turn to God. Separate yourself from the world. Separate yourself unto God. Like it says in James chapter 4 verse 8, draw nigh to God. He will draw nigh unto you. So come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean. I will receive you. I will be a father to you. You shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. Separate yourself from the world.  And so Paul is telling the Corinthians that they need to be separated and these false teachers that have entered into the church are attempting to separate the heart of the church from the heart of the one who brought the gospel that revealed the heart of the Father.  And so if you need to get right with the Lord because you're not right with them right now whether you're a backslider or whether you're somebody who's just never really giving your heart a price before we close I want to give you an opportunity to get right with him. So let's pray together. Father I do ask that as this word goes forth that you would be glorified through it. And Lord if there be any that you are speaking to right now I pray that you would touch their hearts in such a way that they would yield themselves to you right now. And even as ours I close our heads about hearing the voice of the Lord speaking to you you may be trusting in your religion or trusting in your own goodness there could be a thousand and one things you're trusting in but you're not trusting in him. And if you need to get right with the Lord and you know it the Holy Spirit is speaking to your heart right now and you know it. And I ask you to open your heart to Christ and give yourself to him and you can do it by confessing you can ask God for forgiveness God cleans me and you can invite him to enter in Father fill me may I be your temple and if you desire that then pray with me I'll pray a simple prayer and if you can by with your heart sincerely agree in faith you can open your heart to Christ right now you can pray Father forgive me I'm a sinner Jesus died on the cross to save sinners Jesus died to save me forgive me of my sins cleanse me give me a new life I will follow you every day from this day forward in Jesus name Amen and if you've done that I ask you to please contact us that way we can follow up that way we can send you a Bible if you need one that way we can minister to you as effectively as is possible and so please do and let's close with the final word in Jesus I ask that as we have been in your word today may your word really find a home in us and may we love you and may we serve you with all that's within us in your name we pray


My name is Giovanni, and I'm writing this because I think I've gone mad. I want someone else to either confirm or disprove this. I'm not a writer, so I'm not gonna try any fancy writing or anything like that. I'm just gonna tell you what I think I'm going through. When I look into mirrors, I can see a demon. I first saw it three days ago on the 1st of October. I've recently discovered the horror genre in general and have been watching films like Wreck and playing through amnesia. It's more to prove my bravery than anything else. I've had amnesia for three years and I've never made it very far. I wanted to prove to myself that I was in the coward or something. After a few weeks, I decided to do something a little more real. I decided to go through the whole Bloody Mary thing. I lit a candle, placed it in front of the mirror, switched out the lights and said the name. Nothing happened. I wasn't disappointed. It was what I was expecting. However, the atmosphere in the room was bloody amazing. So I sat there a while staring into the mirror and then my face began to change. After about a minute, the face looking back at me wasn't mine. Although it resembled me, it had horns and its eyes were pure black. It took me a good 10 seconds to register what I was looking at. After that, I threw myself at the light switch. When I nerved myself to look into the mirror again, my face was my own again. I didn't sleep well that night. The next day, I decided to try again. I thought that I'd been seeing things an understandable conclusion to make. I lit a candle, turned off the lights and stared into the mirror. After a minute, I saw it again. It wasn't exactly the same as it was the first time. The face bulges in different places whenever I look at it. But it was close enough, I wasn't so scared this time. Actually, I'm surprised I didn't freak out. The face made me feel uneasy. It was looking at me as if it wished to do harm. I sat there for a good quarter of an hour studying the face. It shifted the entire time, bulging and receding. I turned on the light and left the room. I had decided to do some experiments. As I said, I'm a skeptic. I don't believe in the supernatural. So I decided that there had to be a rational explanation for what was happening. It sounded to me like schizophrenia. I know very little about this, but I know it makes you hallucinate. However, although I do not believe in ghosts and demons, God or anything like that, I like to be sure. I found under what situations the face was best seen. Turns out that a standard household lamp placed behind you with a mere half a meter from your face is best. I then asked my friend to do what I had done. He, being a fan of stuff like this, agreed wholeheartedly. He saw a face, too. It wasn't a demon this time. It was his mother. Almost. He said that she looked wrong, but that she appeared happy. He then told me he didn't want to talk about this anymore. And he left. Now I don't know what to think. Schizophrenia, as far-fetched as it seemed, was the only logical explanation I had. Now others are saying that they can see something like what I can see. I need help from others. I'm writing this so I can post it on horror sites anywhere that would make sense. I'm putting it there because people that frequent those sites are more likely to actually try something like this. I realize that half the stories you find on those sites have the whole no-really-this-actually-happened thing and I know no one believes them. But I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm just asking you to try it. Turn the lights off, place a lamp on the floor behind you and stand about three feet away from the mirror. Stare into it for a few minutes. Tell me what you see.


The award of this year's Nobel Prize for Peace to the United Nations' World Food Program recognizes the right of all people to food and our common quest to achieve zero hunger. In the world of plenty, it is a grave affront that hundreds of millions go to bed hungry each night. The COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified food insecurity to a level not seen in decades. Some 130 million people risk being pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of this year. This is on top of the 690 million people who already lack enough to eat. At the same time, more than 3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. As we mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, we need to intensify our efforts to achieve the vision of the sustainable development goals. That means a future where everyone everywhere has access to the nutrition they need. Next year I will convene a Food Systems Summit to inspire action towards this vision. We need to make food systems more resistant to volatility and climate shocks. We need to ensure sustainable and healthy diets for all and to minimize food waste. And we need food systems that provide decent, safe livelihoods for workers. We have the know-how and the capacity to create a more resilient, equitable and sustainable world. On this World Food Day, let us make a commitment to grow, nourish and sustain together.


Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in Tesco's Colour Park in Hexham up in Northumberland. The reason I've come here is because I'm taking part in the IFA's road run around Northumberland, Time Valley. As you can see we have some walk birds, some skodas, some trebants, my larder and a couple of other larders around the corner. I'm doing a separate video on the road run so if you have a look at the link on screen now you'll be able to see that where we're taking all these eastern block cars around the area. This video I'm going to explore Hexham because I've never been here before. I've passed through on a train in the past I've never actually explored the town so there's my larder river estate and there's the older style of larder. There is another larder somewhere in the car park but as I said if you want to see the cars on this road run then do look at that separate video. I'm now going to go and explore Hexham. So as I said we're in Tesco's car park and beginning my explore of Hexham and across the road just here over there is Waitrose. It's the most normally Waitrose in England, not the most normally Waitrose in Great Britain. That accolade goes to Sterling but this is the most normally Waitrose in England so I've decided I'm going to go in there and buy a sandwich just so I can say I have been to the most normally Waitrose in England and then when I've done that just behind that Waitrose is the railway station. So I'm going to go and get lunch and explore Hexham. I just bought my sandwich for lunch coming out of Waitrose now so I'm going to go and find the railway station and it doesn't look like it's that way so I've got a pretty walk all the way around there. Got to Hexham railway station. Be a winning station for me to take the station off. Might see a train. Then we're going to go up there because there's an avi up there to have a look at. So here we are, Hexham railway station on the Tyron Valley Line. It's a very scenic railway and it's worth doing. Trains today in that direction only go as far as the Holt Whistle. Normally the train would go all the way through to Carl Harbour. There's engineering work taking place and then that way we'll take you to Newcastle. I think it's a really attractive station and what we're going to do quickly is a bit windy because there's something quite interesting just up the track which I should be able to show you. We go up onto the bridge you can see Signalbox just up there. Now that Signalbox is unusual because very few Signalboxes raised above the track survive. I think there's this one. There's also one I think a crude hole on this line. There's one somewhere else but I can't think where I might think later on. But Signalboxes straddling the track on Britain's Railways today are a very rare thing. Just notice down there though. This bridge it looks as though going by that line there. It was once covered over it was an enclosed bridge. So my plan now is I'm going to head over there. That building with the Monsard roof just to station in. Walk over there, follow the path up behind the sports ground up to the town centre and we'll have a look at Hexham Abbey and see the town centre. Then I've got to go back to Cisco's car park, get in the larder and we're going to drive off in that direction with the IFA club. So Hexham Railway Station. So the railway station is over there. Just over there that majestic wine shop that is the old Goodchess. Here is the sports ground. I'm going to follow this path here. It's called Hello Orchard and it will take us along beside the sports ground. That's the station in I said about earlier. We're going to head that way to Hexham. So we're going to have a look around Hexham and we'll be able to see the old jail and we'll see the Abbey just that way. Just walking past the old jail in Hexham. You can go and visit it. So it's a museum you can go and explore. I haven't got time to do it today but maybe another day. Come back and see that. Now there's another quite interesting building just here in front of me. It's not the Abbey. It looks like possibly the gatehouse into the town. Not entirely strong because as I said I've only just arrived here and realised I had this hour to have a look around but certainly very impressive building. So we'll go through here and I'm thinking when we get through here or we come to the market place and we should yes I can see it in front of us. There this Hexham Abbey over there lives the Motel. So yes it is a it's a gatehouse so and then that's the jail but we just walked past so we've just come along there. We're just about to climb this archway here into the centre of Hexham. So this would have been the old farmers market just here. That's Hexham Abbey so we're going to go and have a closer look. There we are inside Hexham Abbey. It's a really beautiful impressive Abbey church for you know quite a small town. So you know it would have been an Abbey. It's now come to the parish church. It's all but a very large church. It's bigger than some cathedrals I've been in so I'm really impressed. You come to the crossing here just look at that. Probably hard to convey from watching videos how vast and big this space is but I think it's amazing. I haven't been to an Abbey ruling door standing this year I think so it's really nice to come to such a beautiful large Abbey. It's a very very attractive large building. I'll go around this way. That's where the choir is. And then as I said I'm going to have to run back down to the car park and get in the car. It's meant to be my lunch stop. I quickly ate the sandwich outside later and then explored Hexham. So this is where the choir sits. There you have the high altar. Very impressive building. Always enjoyed visiting a church or cathedral on Abbey with or without a roof on them and there's so many ruined Abbeys and they are impressive as they are but to find one like this with the roof on just gives you a bit of an idea what they would have been like all the other Abbeys in their heyday. So I'm going to go outside show you a few things of the Abbey from the outside and then back down to Tesco's car park. So here we are back outside this would have been the Abbey cloisters. Came out through this modern bit here where they built a cupboard in way but they've built it in the style of the Abbey since it's connected to the architecture. So imagine this this was a cloister this were the months of the exercise. There probably would have been more monastic buildings there as you can sort of tell by the little you know just like there was an arch there there was possibly but there certainly would have been various other buildings. I'm going to go through here this has shown it says it's where there's a cafe. There was also an exhibition which you can visit here so if you do come here and you've got a bit more time now I have then that exhibition is probably very much worth visiting but I haven't got time to do that today so I'm just taking you around the Abbey and go through this gate into this park. So there's quite a nice park here out the back of the Abbey in Hexham. I've had a little bit longer I'd have a walk around there but the thing I wanted to show you is just around here. There's one more part of the Abbey I'm particularly interested in and want to show you. I'll just come around the other side of the Abbey now so the Abbey Park where there was a moment ago is down there. This building down here looks like this was once the gatehouse to the Abbey so it's sort of ruined but it's preserved for us to see so we're going to go and have a look at that and then as I said I have to make my way back to Tesco's car park so the Abbey is just hiding behind those trees there. Can you have this gate then I'll switch over here. So there have probably been looking at the arches I've altered ceiling in here once and this would have been one of the main gates or if we actually look at the road side cow garf so yeah this would have been the gatehouse into the Abbey and that's the town centre so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to find my way back to the car. I hope you enjoyed this whistle stop tour of Hexham. Thank you very much for watching you know if you're up this way maybe you're in holiday Newcastle why not get the train to Hexham. Do come visit some really really nice town and hopefully you'll have a bit more time and I have to really explore so thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment and from just outside Hexham Abbey goodbye.


So you just need to extrude faces, not a problem. Extrude edge faces lets you left click drag a new face in whatever direction you click. Normally it will smooth drag out wherever your mouse is, but you can set it to snap every 15 degrees like this, or you can have a custom amount that you want it to rotate by. For example if it's set to 45 degrees you can pick that here, and it'll snap at every 45. Edge loop complete will extrude an entire loop, edge loop partial will extrude from every point that is connected to four edges. So down here it will pivot the whole loop, but if we click up here these two points only have three edges connected, so the loop will stop at these points. Poly loop island will extrude every point that belongs to the edge loop you clicked on that is also the same color. So if we click on blue you can see that all the blue edges will be extruding, but if we click on green now only the green edges will be extruded. And when we set to poly loop you will see dependent on where you click your mouse a pointer will glow up down left or right. If you left click it will extrude a new edge loop that is parallel to the direction that the arrow was glowing. So here you can see that it's pointing to the left so the extrusion will be horizontal. But if the arrow was pointing up then the extrusion will be vertical. Hope that helps and as always we have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


Coming up on DTNS, can you trust Amazon Sidewalk, AMD's new GPUs, game upscaling tech and Tesla parts? And why is Twitter getting into web? This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And from the Podfeat podcast, I'm Allison Sheridan. And I'm Roger Chang. The show is pretty ser. We were just talking a lot about Avatar and our various opinions on that movie, as well as a little bit about Waterworld. If you want that wider conversation, get our expanded show, Good Day Internet. Become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Intel announced two new 11th gen U-series processors at Computex, the core i7-1195G7 and the i5-1155G7. Both have four cores and eight threads plus Z graphics with 96 execution units for the i7 and 80 execution units for the i5. The i7 is the first U-series chip able to hit five gigahertz in a single core turbo boost with a base clock of 2.9 gigahertz. Today is June 1st. The editorial board of Daily Tech News Show regrets the error. Acer co-CEO Tiffany Wang said the company can only fulfill 50 percent of demand on average due to the chip shortage, saying the situation won't change until up to Q2 of 2022. At Computex, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said the chip shortage will quote, take a couple of years for the ecosystem to address shortages of foundry capacity, substrates and components and Gartner issued a report saying it believes this is the most serious point in the shortage and estimates it will continue until Q2 2022. Alienware announced that the X-15 gaming laptop will start at $2,000 and the X-17 gaming laptop starting at $2,100. The X-15 is a 15.9 millimeter thick in some configurations, offering up to 240 Hertz refresh rate screen, while the X-17 offers up to a 360 Hertz refresh rate, both offer a offer 11th gen Intel H core processors and support up to an RTX 3080 graphics card. Uber announced 33,000 drivers joined its U.S. platform during the week of May 17th, increasing active driver hours 4.4% over the previous week and marking a new record for drivers since the start of 2021. Uber did not say how that number compared to pre-pandemic times, my guess is because it didn't compare very well. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced that its users can use money from their new Coinbase cards through Apple Play and Google Pay. Coinbase will automatically convert all crypto to U.S. dollars when adding to a customer's Coinbase card that can then be used for purchases and then receive crypto rewards for shopping. All right, we have a basket of chip news for you today. You heard some of it already. Let's get to AMD's at Computex AMD announced the Radeon RX 6000M series of laptop GPUs. This is the equivalent to the Nvidia 300 series. You got the 6800M, the 6700M and the 6600M, the 6800M being the one comparable to the Nvidia RTX 3080. These are based on the RDNA 2 architecture. They support smart access memory or SAM that's AMD's version of resizable bar and use smart shift to shift thermal limits of the CPU and GPU for best performance. The RX 6800M and 6600M are shipping to OEMs now. They also announced the AMD Advantage program which laptop makers can use if they meet certain standards like at least 300 nits of brightness in the display, less than 40 degrees Celsius at the WASD keys, 10 hours of video playback on the battery, PCIe Express Gen 3 solid state drives, and a few other things. The ASUS ROG Strix G15 will be the first to carry the AMD Advantage label. AMD announced more details about its equivalent to Nvidia's DLSS game upscaling. AMD calls its version Fidelity FX Super Resolution, you could just call it FSR for short. It supports four levels of rendering and can reach up to twice the frame rates compared to native 4k rendering. AMD says FSR will be open source and free to developers, meaning you can use it on Nvidia, not just on AMD hardware, because it's open source. AMD's FSR will run on Nvidia chips. It won't require 10 sore or deep learning hardware and more than 10 game studios and engines are set to use FSR by the end of this year. More details on that coming at the launch of FSR on June 22nd. Finally, a couple of partnerships, the next Samsung Exynos chip for mobile phones will feature AMD's RDNA2 graphics. That means the mobile phones will support ray tracing and variable ray shading. Best bet is this will probably show up first in the Samsung Galaxy S phone in 2022, but that's interesting. And Allison, your next Tesla infotainment system, if you get a Model S or a Model X might use an AMD Ryzen processor and an AMD RDNA2 GPU. They didn't say which models, but the Model S plaid with the new AMD system starts deliveries June 10th, not trying to make it buy a new car. But this is this is important, Tom, because I have noticed some severe video lag when playing missile command and asteroids in my Tesla. So I'm really looking forward to do that a lot, do you? Oh, yeah, all the time. Well, I mean, that's I mean, all kidding aside, though, is there a time when you're looking at the, you know, impressive, you know, infotainment console that's currently in your Tesla I'm thinking, eh, the refresh rate could be better. You know, there are things that are laggy about this display, because I'm always just sort of blown away by anything you do see. Yeah, it is a beautiful display. And now it's more things going on in the in the background, I think, like the it used to be that when cars were sitting next to you, they'd get real twitchy, like they'd spin on access and stuff.  The the graphics of the satellite display is real slow. But I sort of wonder if that's not the network. But maybe it is a GPU. Maybe maybe that would be good. It's a very Tesla thing, right? Like Tesla wants to let you have a 10 teraflops gaming machine in your center console. Never mind if that's a good idea or not, or you'll ever play Call of Duty in your Tesla, you'd be able to, right? And, you know, that's that's part of the sales pitch is is the idea of things, not not always the reality necessarily. Well, it seems to the fart mode works quickly. So that's, you know, that's what's really important. What does that do? You can have the different seats fart so you can you can press a button and make your left rear passenger. Oh, so it's literally fart. Okay, it is literally. I thought it was a clever acronym for something else, but I was wrong.  So this is like this is like road trip games type thing. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, right. People waste a lot of time talking about charging efficiency and cost of ownership. And these are the real issues. We want to play asteroids and make the back rear seat smart. Okay. And video is not going to do either of those things, but it did announce its new flaming, flaming gaming flagship GPU. It's on flames. That's how good it is. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and video says it will be available whatever that means June 3rd starting at $1,200. The design and ports are similar to the 3080 but the 3080 Ti has 12 gigs of GDDR6X VRAM and 80 GPU clusters compared to 10 gigs and 64 GPU clusters on the standard RTX 3080. The 3080 Ti requires a 750 watt power supply and can draw up to 350 watts of power. The Verge notes that it's basically the same as a 3090 but with half the VRAM. There's also the RTX 3070 Ti coming June 10th for $600. Nvidia also announced that the Apple TV app is coming to the Nvidia Shield. The app supports watching in 4K with Dolby Vision HGR, Google Assistant playback control and AI upscaling to 4K. Now our resident shield owner and enthusiast Roger Chang, if you were watching Twitter, was quite enthusiastic about the idea anyway of getting the Apple TV app on his Nvidia Shield. Will you be installing it right away, Roger? Possibly. I mean, it's what I find so compelling about it is it really just whittles away the number of things you need plugged into your TV into a single device. And there's really no reason that can happen already just if not for all the competing interests involved. But it's great. I think the idea that you can have everything without necessarily switching between devices. And the great thing about the shield is I can pop between apps and they'll remember like you tapping through a browser. So if I'm watching on something on Hulu, and I kick over to YouTube or cook over Netflix, I can go back and just pick back up where I left off in Hulu or HBO Max or anything like that. And that's great. And I'm assuming it's going to work the same way with the Apple app. Yeah, that's going to be interesting. I like the idea of the it's almost like the players are starting to realize what we actually want. We don't actually want to buy 12 devices. We actually would like them like I want to buy a box and make it do everything for me. Stop making me choose stop making me have more than one. And it's I'm always curious when that happens like, hmm, there must be something in it for them if they keep doing this. What is what is what is their motivation to make us actually happy? And and would you call this uncharacteristically Apple to to make the Apple TV app as widely available as it has? I mean, you can get a Chromecast that supports Apple TV and does, you know, Dolby and 4k and all that. Roku also right? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Roku. Yeah, it tells you that their their Apple TV thing is a different kind of thing than what else have done.  And they, you know, don't forget iTunes on Windows, right? That was good. So they do have a history of having done it, whether they do it well, will probably be the question. Yeah, I feel like this is the first big pivot towards becoming a service company is to do something like this, where you're you're making your app available widely. Now they don't have the Apple TV app for Android, right? Only Android TV, I think. Yeah, I don't know how many people would watch TV on their phone. I use it on my phone. And sometimes I wish it was on my duo. Occasionally, yeah, especially at night, when I'm like, I don't want to turn on the TV. Let me let me just watch a little bit of this on my phone so I can turn it off quick and put it away. Just put a 6.7 inch screen really close to your face. And it's like having a widescreen. Yeah. I love that that turning on the TV is just too complicated these days. That's why we've got it. So no, it really is. If Steve's not around, I just don't watch TV downstairs, because it's just I don't even know how to turn it off. And I'm good at this stuff. So you just tell your voice assistant, turn it off. Make it go away. Well, the tech press is definitely interested in reporting that Twitter is testing ads and fleets. You may have forgotten that fleets are like snapchats for Twitter. But you know what? We're actually more interested in Twitter's new weather service. Twitter partnered with meteorologist Eric Holthaus to launch a local weather news service called Tomorrow across 16 cities in North America with 18 participating meteorologists. There will also be 20 to 30 climate writers and four part time editorial staff. Some of the content will be free, some behind a $10 a month membership. You can get long form content on Twitter and Q&As with meteorologists on spaces. Members can ask unlimited questions. You can check it out at tmrw.is. Twitter VP of product Mike part did told Axios that Twitter wants to build more journalism collectives like this across every topic. He also indicated video monetization on Twitter is coming. Now I read into this and I don't really think it's about weather. I think it's about climate. Because if you read about the long form stuff, they talk about helping you to have hope. They actually use that word about having hope and looking to the future and not, you know, they call it tomorrow and they're hiring 20 to 30 climate writers. So right, I mean, they call it tomorrow a weather service, but I think you're right. It's a community of people sharing resources and delivering justice, hope, connection, safety and resilience in a world in urgent need of systemic action. So this isn't going to be 72 tomorrow. Yeah, no, that's probably going to be in there somewhere. I signed up for San Francisco, which is one of the participating cities and just happens to be the closest city to me that is, you know, in the 16 city rollout. And I, you know, it's sort of signed up and I just got what can I get for free? Let's just see what the free content is. And I guess it's it's going to be rolling out in the evening. So my first edition of this newsletter has not come yet. I got a couple emails like, yeah, okay, we got you welcome. And I was like, huh, a newsletter, an email newsletter. Okay, well, not necessarily going to be bad content. It seems very separate from Twitter. I understand that some of the folks who might be participating in in what I may be reading and, you know, maybe I'll like it and I'll follow them on Twitter because of the the Twitter tie in is a little lost on me. Well, sir, you mentioned in our pre show, what about the poems? Yeah, well, that was one of the things where it's kind of like, you know, there's there's verbiage that's always used for these sorts of things like, ooh, and for, you know, subscribers for $10 a month, you know, more exclusive content, including poems, memes and call to action items. And I'm like, sort of like, like, none of that stuff is necessarily bad. But I'm like, I'm, I'm just, I need to feel more compelled to pay for that. That feels very positioned towards people who would respond to climate justice as a call, like, oh, poems to that. That's very nice. So I think I think they know who they're targeting there, I guess. I I like. Okay. So first of all, this is what they're doing with review with they they bought the newsletter service review. This is what they're doing with it. This is less about Twitter, the 280 character messaging service and more about Twitter owning review and coming up with more monetization strategies. So that makes it make a little more sense for me like, oh, this is basically a newsletter thing, but you can tie in Twitter because they they're Twitter, right? I think it will make even more sense for much more widely appealing topics. Not that climate isn't important and widely appealing, but but, you know, sports, politics, entertainment, they're they're saying they want to do all these topics food. I think they started with climate because it's a little narrower, and that gives them some runway. But it's also important and it's a good PR to be like, Yeah, we're trying to do something about the climate and that that makes them look good. And you might get more people trying it out because of that too, because they they want to look they want to look into what what Twitter is offering there. But this is this is the beginning of the evolution of Twitter away from just being a short messaging service. Yeah, and I think the way that it's being rolled out this way is very, hey, I might have heard about it on Twitter, but yeah, it does seem very separate. What how Twitter might be able to integrate these newsletter features within the timeline in a, you know, in a in a way that doesn't seem to left field or intrusive. I'm sure the company is working on that as well, especially with that one click want to donate $10 per month kind of thing type of situation. I'm I'm surprised Los Angeles isn't among these cities. At first I thought, oh, it's because our weather doesn't change. But if it's about climate, like that's a big market to leave out, they have the Dominican Republic, which I thought was kind of cool. Like it's not all it's North American cities, but it's not all US. There's Toronto, Dominican Republic, you know, it's an it's an interesting selection. I mean, I'm intrigued somebody else to change a chance, right? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We're fine over here. Folks, we have a whole other series out there that you can subscribe to if you want to get deeper dives on individual topics. If you're like, what is an NFT? Well, coming up June 10th, I'm going to take a good amount of time to explain NFTs top to bottom. It's part of know a little more. You can find all kinds of topics in there. If you haven't subscribed already, Wi-Fi 6 5G, a whole lot of stuff. Go subscribe at know a little more dot com. On June 8th, Amazon is launching a free public mesh network called Sidewalk in the United States. It pools together small amounts of bandwidth from echoes, rings, other Amazon voice powered devices to cover your neighborhood with low bandwidth connectivity. In fact, tile trackers will be enrolled in Sidewalk, which will make it easier for tile trackers to work because they'll have a connection more often. The devices using Sidewalk connect by Bluetooth low energy or if they need to go a little farther and there's enough devices that support at the 900 megahertz spectrum. Amazon also says there's a few other direct connection frequencies it might use. That's how the devices can connect like the tile tracker to an Amazon echo or an Amazon echo to another Amazon echo. Then your internet connected device like an echo can communicate on another device's behalf using the internet. So if you're like, why would I need to do this? Let's say your garage has a security light. It just needs it just needs to occasionally, you know, talk to the internet, but it's not using a lot of bandwidth. And it's in a place that's out of range of your Wi-Fi. Well, you can either spend money doing an extender, or if you're part of Sidewalk and your neighbors are cooperating, it could use the 900 megahertz network to connect to the echo in your neighbor's garage, which would forward info over their internet connection. Or let's say you drop your keys in front of an apartment complex, your tile tracker can connect to the ring doorbells in the complex to ping the tile server using those people's internet connection.  If I leave this on, well, the speed is limited to 80 kilobytes per second. So very low bandwidth. It's not it's not going to congest your network. And Sidewalk says that it won't use more than 500 megabytes of data per month per account. So for most people, that's not a lot depends on your plan, though. The encryption is strong and so far, no security professionals have found cause for concern. There's white paper out using Diffie Helman, elliptic curve, three layers, all this stuff, trying to explain that. If you are interested, you can't use this to stream video.  I'll put my outdoor camera on Sidewalk and use my neighbor's bandwidth. It's just for low bandwidth communications, but you might be able to keep motion alerts on if your internet goes out. It's also potentially useful for device setup before you connect it to your Wi-Fi or for troubleshooting if you've lost your internet connection. The downside is you are already opted in if you own one of these devices. And even that 500 megabytes could affect people with very low data caps. You can turn it off at any time. But if you never want to be a part of it, you've got until June 8th to turn it off. Look for Amazon Sidewalk in the account settings of your Alexa app, unless you're Allison, who didn't have it in hers. Sarah and I had it in mind, but it hadn't showed up for you yet. Yeah, so I immediately went in to turn it off. And I've tried to come up with a rational reason why. And I think there's there's a lot of pieces to this. Number one, how dare you opt me in? That's probably the first thing. The second thing is it's also Amazon opting me in. I mean, maybe not as bad as if it was Google opting me in, but it's you know, it's right up there in the players we're starting to trust less and less. I also really wish that they'd used open source encryption tools for this networking technology. They may be doing it right, but it's always better if more eyes are on it. You know, the tools are open source. The fourth thing being not being able to opt out, I find really interesting. And I don't feel like any of this is a problem I have that I need them to solve because I've got a ring video doorbell that's really close to my hero, which is also sold to me by Amazon.  I don't have no. Oh, there I am. You know, it's already slow when it's right next to a really powerful router. So I'm not sure having the echo in my neighbor's garage is going to help me with that. I mean, the range extension thing is not going to be useful for everybody. The tile trackers, the easiest one to get your head around. But I bet I bet if people are using this and the neighborhood is cooperating, you'll see more people come up with use cases. Yeah. When when when both of you mentioned wanting to, you know, turn it off in your settings if you ever find it all of a sudden, you know, before the show, I'm kind of like, well, OK, if you if if the security part of this just gives you the willies because it's Amazon that we're talking about, then of course, you know, that's something that you have that you have the power to do and you should do opting in also it's just annoying, right? You know, it's it's it's assuming a lot on the company's part. The company also just wants it to be widely adopted so that people are like, oh, yeah, it works really well because, you know, a lot of people are already using it without even trying. I'm I'm not going to turn it off for now. I feel like, you know, maybe I'll be sorry later, but more likely I'll just feel like, hey, hopefully my Echo device upstairs helped somebody at some point. Yeah, there's a lot of details on how this works. The people looking at it haven't raised any red flags. The people who know this sort of thing yet. I feel like this is a very good implementation of an idea that could be very beneficial for people. I also turned it right off. And I think it was just me being contrarian like you opted me in. No, no, I'll decide if I want to be in when I get to the point that I decide I want to be part of sidewalk. I'll turn it back on. But don't you tell me Amazon? I don't think that's contrarian that's slapped them for misbehaving. Yeah, maybe. Right. It's a tomato. Yeah, I just I don't know. I don't think it I don't know. Doesn't doesn't make me happy. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What does this next story make you happy? Let's see. Sorry about that. Jumping down. Where am I here? The technical system of an EU wide digital pass to verify your vaccination status is live now in a test status with a full launch expected July 1st, though some member states may take longer to adopt it. It uses QR codes and public key cryptography to secure vaccination status and test results. Reference software for apps to issue, store and verify certificates has been published on GitHub. This system is only meant to be in place for a year. After then, EU citizens may be able to get an EU wide digital ID, which is being developed. EU citizens would be able to use it to store payment details, passwords and official documents like IDs and driver's licenses. Most member states have their own digital IDs, but they're not all compatible with each other. The financial team sources, time sources say the app may be secured with fingerprint or retina scan, though that hasn't been finalized. Yeah, this is to me, this is a sign of the coming digital money, not so much the vaccine part of this, but the digital ID is like, let's make you a wallet. Let's make you a wallet where you can store all your payment info. Let's make you a wallet that it will eventually be able to put digital coins in once the EU has created digital coins a few years down the road. But that was the first thing that popped him to my mind when I saw this. Obviously, the upside is better compatibility. If I'm in Germany and I'm traveling to France, all my stuff still works, whether it's the vaccine or the forthcoming digital wallet. And and that's that's handy. Downside is government administered. They have a lot of privacy protections built into this from the get go because they're EU and they are very privacy focused. But still the government run in it. I think the more exciting part probably is the future of having an interoperable ID across all the member states to be able to not have to carry your driver's license with you. One more thing, one more reason.  That's it. That's the only thing left. I think you can do and this is the thing in the United States that varies from state to state. And right now in the EU, it does to where it's like, well, I can I can do my insurance in California on my phone. But if I'm in Arizona driving, I don't know if they'll take that. Maybe they do. Maybe they don't. I just don't know. And this is the kind of thing that be like, yeah, no, everybody's going to take it. If you're driving anywhere in Europe, they're going to take it, which is not. Yeah. I mean, even there have been times where if I'm getting on a plane and I don't have to rent a car wherever I'm going, yeah, I won't take my driver's license, but I take my passport because it's like passport. It's, you know, it's international. It's it's the ID, right? But it doesn't actually work for just just everything. In fact, I was in Vegas once with only my passport and had a very interesting car rental situation. But that is a story for another time. I would love it if it was just this just feels to me like and yes, it varies by country. And certainly I don't live in any part of the EU. But to have a place where everything is and is verified and accepted, the more of that, the better. Indeed, indeed. I'm with you. I'll I'll let the European citizens in the audience weigh in if they're concerned about the centralization of this or if they're like, no, no, no, this this is a good thing. Yeah. This gets back to what we were talking about not trusting Amazon in the case of the EU. You're kind of like, well, wait a minute, they understand this privacy stuff of the of the groups that I would try. I would trust my personal information to the EU.  Is that make it easier to trust them? I don't know. Grass is always greener on the other side of the image. I don't know. Maybe. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Mike from Ottawa, Canada wrote in and is actually in response to a conversation we had on GDI where I was saying my echo show when I when I call up the weather speaking of weather. Or even when it's just displayed kind of, you know, in my carousel will say Forestville, Ontario. I live in Forestville, California. Forestville, Ontario is a real place, but definitely different than the one that I were. Yeah, totally. And Tom had said, gosh, maybe it has something to do with the C.A. of California, somehow tricking the system somewhere into thinking Canada. Mike says I loved hearing that Sarah's address was taken for a Canadian location because of that C.A. I work for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority or C.I.R.A. We manage the dot C.A. country code domain and we run into people from California trying to register dot C.A. domains all the time. The issue is that you need to have a Canadian presence to own a dot C.A. Not that strange to the domain space as most country level domains try to reserve them for citizens. So we have an entire legal section for dealing with this type of issue. Just made me laugh that a regular part of my day was a nuisance when you're just trying to get the weather. I love that. There is always somebody in the DTNS audience who knows exactly the one thing you guys are talking about. Exactly. And thank you, Mike, for sharing your expertise with us. That was awesome. And the best part is that the weather is accurate. It's just the location that is. It's just saying the location wrong. Oh, that's. Yeah. Because at first I was like, that's what the weather is in Ontario.  I'm like, no, this is all local. Like it's a little glitch somewhere, somewhere behind A curtain, you know, you'll find it, Mike. But yes, thank you for the feedback. 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