call, please limit yourself to one question and one follow up. Please use the raise hand button to join the question queue. But before we jump into Q&A, Elon has some opening remarks. Elon? Elon! So just to do a Q3 recap recap, Q3 was another record quarter on funding levels. We had our industry leading operating margin reach 17% and our free cash flow surpassed $3 billion in Q3 and, of course, $9 billion in past 12 months. As our package ran, it was looking forward to a record breaking Q4. So it's really, you know, not an award. It looks like it will have an epic end of year. So Q4 is looking extremely good. On the production ramp, Gigabrillin, the chief of the milestone of 2,000 cost made in a week, and is ramping rapidly. Diga Austin or Gigatexas should reach this milestone price. Just yesterday, we extrapolated yesterday's full grade, it would be 2,000. The production of 4680 cells has provoked in Q3 compared to the previous quarter. We are finally gaining rapid traction on the 4680 cell. And it's output is growing rapidly and we expect it to start incorporating in the cost and having it be a significant portion of our production here in Texas in the coming months. We also have our second generation of manufacturing equipment for 4680 cells in Texas, which continues to show great progress on the original pilot line pretty much. The pre-made factory team once again reached record production in Q3. We intend to keep raising production in pre-made. At the end of September, we hosted our second AI day into the first prototype of our Oculus robot, the latest updates on our Dodo training computer and improvements of full self-driving software. Our vehicles have now driven at like 60 miles in full self-driving beta mode and December continues to grow exponentially. Our goal with that AI day was to push recruiting and we've seen a massive influx of world-class artificial intelligence, engineering, and scientist resume. So it generated tremendous knowledge from some of the best AI researchers in the world. I can't emphasize the importance of this enough because I think it finally has become clear to the most modest AI technologist in the world that Tesla is one of the best. And this quarter we expect to go to a wide release of full self-driving beta in North America. So anyone who has ordered full self-driving beta or full self-driving will have access to the FSD beta program this year, probably about a month from now. And then obviously anyone who buys a car and pushes the full self-driving option will immediately have that available to them. So the safety that we're seeing when the car is in FSD mode is actually significantly greater than the safety we're seeing when it is not, which is a key threshold for going to a wide beta. Let's see with respect to demand. We've got a lot of questions about demand in recent weeks. I can't emphasize enough we have excellent demand for Q4 and we expect to sell every car that we make for as far into the future as we can see. So the batteries are running at full speed and we're delivering every car we make and keeping operating margin strong.  So we've got a long way to go to even reach 1% of the total fleet. It's based on many things, but certainly questions that I get on Twitter about buybacks. I think everyone on our board members has gotten questions about buybacks. We've debated the buyback idea excess with board level. The board generally thinks that it makes sense to do a buyback. We want to work through the right process to do a buyback. It is so much possible for us to do a buyback on the order of $5 to $10 billion, even in the downside scenario next year, even if next year is a zero year, we still have the ability to do a $5 to $10 billion buyback. This is obviously pending. It's likely that we'll do some meaningful buyback. In conclusion, while the market means we're on the short term, it's very important to focus on the long term. That kind of says it's not with about sure it's not with us, and I think long time investors obviously recognize this, which with Tesla, we have local ups and downs, but long term trend has been extremely good. So a year ago, I said, I think on our earnings call, I thought it was possible for Tesla to do with more than Apple, which was then the highest cap company I think on the market. At the time, I think it was around $700 billion. I said it required incredible execution, at least some luck, and we didn't indeed achieve that. Tesla went back, Apple's current market cap, in fact, which has a new worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco combined. That doesn't mean it will happen, but that will be easy. In fact, I think it will be very difficult for quite a lot of work and very creative new products. For the first time, I am seeing, I see a way for Tesla to be the value of Saudi Aramco. I think that's, I haven't quite seen that yet. This is the first time I've seen that potential. So my portfolio, I think we've got the most exciting product portfolio any company on earth, some of which we've heard about, some of which we haven't. We're building a cyber truck line here at the Texas Orson, or a race and the rubber taxi platform design. I've got a cyber truck store there. With respect to what our year production capacity in the United States has to be possible without the incredible team that we have here at Tesla.  You guys rock once they can have it. Thank you. Thank you very much. And Zach is all for the remarks as well. Yeah, thanks Martin. Just to continue on Elon's theme, I just want to thank and congratulate the Tesla team for achieving record vehicle deliveries, production, and storage deployments in the third quarter. On automotive profitability, our gap operating margin was 17.2%, with automotive gross margin at 27.9%. Operating margin is one of our best yet with improvements in operating leverage. However, Austin and Berlin ramp costs weighed on our margins, particularly if you compare it to Q1. Removing regulatory credits and Austin and Berlin, our operating margins would have been our strongest yet, and auto gross margin would have been nearly 30%. But while small and growing, the car we built in Austin and Berlin is contributing positively to profitability. We also continue to experience margin headlands associated with macroeconomic conditions, as we've discussed at length on prior calls, in particular raw materials, logistics, and foreign exchange was a big part of this past quarter. On energy profitability, we achieved our strongest gross profit yet for this business, driven primarily by record volumes of our mega-packing and firewall products. Our free cash flows were also a record despite an increase in cars and transit at the end of the quarter, which has a negative impact on working capital. Specifically, on cars and transit, as noted in our press release on October 2nd, we've started to experience limits on outbound logistics capacity, which we didn't anticipate. This issue is particularly present for ships from Shanghai to Europe and local trucking within certain parts of the US and Europe. Our historical operating pattern of batch building by delivery region leads to extreme concentrations of outbound logistics needs in the final weeks of each quarter. Just to put this in perspective, roughly two-thirds of our QE deliveries occurred in September and one-third in the final two weeks. As a result, we've begun to smooth regional bills throughout the quarter to reduce our peak needs for outbound logistics. We expect this to simplify our operations, reduce costs, and improve the experience of our customers. As we look ahead, our plans show that we're on track for the 50% to annual growth in production this year, although we are tracking supply chain risks which are beyond our control. On the delivery side, we do expect to be just under 50% growth due to an increase in the cars and transit at the end of the year, as noted just above. This means that again, you should expect a gap between production and deliveries in Q4, and those cars in transit will be delivered shortly to their customers upon arrival to their destination in Q1. Austin and Berlin ramp costs will continue to lay on margins, although we expect the impact to be less than what we saw in Q3. And as Elon mentioned, we are continuing to build as many cars as possible while also maintaining strong operating margins. Thank you. Thank you very much, and let's go first through the shareholder questions. The first shareholder question is, even the stringent battery content and assembly requirements for consumer tax credit eligibility under the Inflation Reduction Act, can you speak to us about the ability to meet those thresholds in each of 2023, 2024, and 2025 with your existing and planned supply chain? Well, yeah, I mean, I think just I'll have to say we do expect to fully meet the IRA's requirements. We'll review the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act as a significant boost towards a salary and omission, while also scaling the battery supply chain at large in the United States. We expect treasure to publish detailed guidance by the end of the year, until such time as typical to pull it from the eligibility craze area, but we believe Tesla is in a very low position to capture a significant share of that sort of solar storage and also watch cables. Yeah, like I said earlier, we're going to go basically pedal to the metal as fast as we're going to get to 1000 gigawatt hours a year of production in the U.S., but it's integrated. The next question is what updates can you offer on the backlog and the recent order intake trends, especially outside of the U.S., and especially in China? China is experiencing a bit of a recession of sorts, which is probably not going to continue to occur more commercially as a recession of sorts. The U.S. actually isn't pretty good. North America is a pretty good help. A little bit bad is raising the interest rates a little initially, but I think they'll eventually realize that and bring it back down again. The bad is a little harder than it would otherwise be, but as I said earlier, I'm confident of a great fuel anticipate continuing to grow our production sales deliveries by on average 50% a year as far into the future as we can see. Thank you. Actually, one caveat I should say, growing production by 50% every year, because deliveries, we're trying to smooth out the deliveries and not have this crazy delivery wave at the end of every quarter.  We actually have to smooth out the delivery of cars in the quarter because they were just odd enough transportation objects to move them around. Thank you. The next question is, do you still expect 50% annualized growth for the pursuit of the future? Is this also true specifically for the Chinese domestic market? Do you expect to need to cut vehicle prices or offer incentives in any market to sustain the demand? Or has demand remained stable, or is it even rising? I've got a few questions there. We want to focus on a high level on everything that's possible here. To best of our knowledge, we believe Tesla will continue to grow deliveries and revenue production for 50% for greater company and no growth rate. It appears to be a year that is a little less, and then in some years it will be a little more or a lot more. In some of our out-year planning, we see potential annual growth rates that are in excess of 50%. Thank you. The next question is, can you tell us more about the product feature road map beyond new models and FSC, and especially for interior and powertrain of existing vehicle models? Sorry guys, we can't jump the gun on future product announcements. Committed to continuous improvement? Yeah, we obviously have to continue. But also be committed to continuous improvement. But also be committed to continuous improvement. Yeah, at Tesla we've always been committed to continuous improvement. So, as friends of mine have asked me when should I buy a car now, because we just keep improving the cars. So, it's always been the latest Tesla? Yeah, it's always been the latest Tesla. Every now and again, we do have some big technology of where you'd like to buy it. That's an excellent, the best car on earth. There's nothing even close to mine. Just try one. The next question is, we keep hearing of dire energy prices in Germany this winter. Do you have Tesla's plans to combat power cuts? And will there be any delays in ramp up production for bigger Berlin vehicles? Yeah, I can take that. I think two points on this question. The first is that I'm showing you guys the Model X on the screen right now. That is the car he just said is the greatest car in the world. The Model X Tesla. We have no indication whatsoever that we will have to cut our production. And we put in place backup plans and we're working through the supply chain as well. Nearly all of our suppliers are prepared as well. We'll see how this plays out, but it's not something that we're terribly worried about. Thank you. And the next question is, how is production planning going for the Cybertruck? What is the initial phase one production target? Cybertruck? I want the Cybertruck so bad! We're still on track to enter early production in the middle of next year. We started out in a build of all of the battery, battery, and existing batteries. Where can I drop my beta? That was an interesting question. In a few weeks! That's going well. And we continue ramping up through the end of next year in 2021. That's going to be sick. That's going to be a wall of famer next level. Sorry it took longer than expected, but there were a few things that got in the way. Insane levels of supply chain shortages. I want that Cybertruck so bad! It tells a semi, of course. We'll be handing over our first production test in semis and I'll be there in person. We'll be ramping up production of the Tesla semi, which is a max load heavy truck. No sacrifice to target capacity. Exactly. Very important. No sacrifice to target capacity. 500 miles range. Just 500 miles with the cargo on level ground. Not that. The point is it gets a long range truck. Even with heavy cargo. It's impossible to make a long range, heavy duty, classic truck. What are your assumptions about what out of the ground and what out of the mile? They would look at me with a blank stare and then say hydrogen. I'm like, no, that's not the answer. I was thinking for numbers. That's not a number. It's an LRT on the VR table. You obviously don't need hydrogen for heavy trucks yet. For semi production through next year. It takes about a year to ramp up production. We expect to see significance. We're tentatively aiming for 50,000 units in 2024 for Tesla semi in North America. Obviously, we'll expand beyond North America. These would sell I don't know if they sell sacrifices, but they're much more than a passenger vehicle. The 50,000 heavy trucks of this nature would be worth several lot of lives. The next question is what is the progress of the 4680 cell ramp and what factors determine whether vehicles get 2170s versus 4680 cells and how will that change in the next year? Yeah, ramp is going well. As Elon said, Tesla output is up 3x quarter over quarter and production is 1,000 cars per week. This quarter, as we said last quarter. Our focus is now shifting from 100% ramp to cost and further expanding production capacity in North America. As Elon also mentioned, on the 2170 versus 4680 in our factories, we really attempt to minimize factory complexity and product change over. I'll still make sure we get enough new product into the field to learn how it is performing. That sort of makes this going to shift as the 4680 scales here and overall factory rank proceeds in Texas. Basically, we're not sure how 4680 ramp is growing exponentially and we're just looking at this yeah, it's going to be a very major factor in the future. They're like, how does tax upset them? Yeah, towards 1,000 people an hour a year of annualized production in the United States. We need to get 300 to 400 tower one hour systems to accomplish our goal. Yeah, this is roughly the two transition to sustainable energy. Our calculation for both stationary and vehicles is 3,000 people one hour. You're like, one tower one sounds like a lot, but it's a lot of tower one hours to go. Yeah, that's just it. On the cathode side this is the main cathode we think probably be mostly on to very, very high tonnage. The exact percentage is hard to figure out, but it's probably going to be twice as much higher cathode as the main one. And then this the manganese wild card as well, possibly not American. On the semi-track, which we already addressed, so I'm going to skip to the next one. Can you talk about how Tesla could adjust if we were to enter for long recession, including new product prioritization investment flexibility, new factory versus factory expansion, service support infrastructure, productivity cost measures and demand stimulation of alternatives. We're very pale to the metal reducing our production of the enemy for a recession on our recession. It's the 1% point you made. Yeah, exactly. I think the public at large realizes that the world is moving towards electric vehicles and that it's foolish to actually buy a new gasoline car at this point because the residual value of that gasoline car is going to be very low. So I think we're going to be in a very good spot. I would say it's recession proof, but it's certainly a recession resilient or it has made the decision to move away from gasoline cars to electric cars. We're trying to shrink the generation to sustainable. You need solar and wind with the stationary battery pack to buffer the power. We're seeing a 24-7 power because the wind doesn't blow with time. The sun doesn't shine with time. So that also says we actually push this stationary storage. Sorry, just to put before you jump in, Martin. I think where our cash balance is, what our forecasted cash generation is, where our margins are as a company, we can withstand quite a lot of downside before we would have to dig into our capital plans, supercharger expansion, product lineup. So the business has done quite well over the last handful of quarters. And this is a real opportunity I think for the company to press forward in the most aggressive way as Elon has mentioned. Yeah, we're trying to model out, let's say, 233 is a brutal recession year even then regenerate meaningful cash. Once you get out of that 234, let's go to the last investor question, which is the progression from Tesla's first platform with SNX to the second platform with 3NY led to 50% reduction in cost of goods sold. What do you see Tesla's third platform being released? And what level of cost of goods sold redaction could you achieve? We don't know exact dates, but this is worth the sport down the engineering floor. We're working on which is somehow important to that platform that we, as you've said to us many times, run up to the 50% number again. It's like, do we make two cars with the amount of effort that two cars takes us to make one massive amount of hard work and some luck to get to where Tesla is with as much as Apple and Sader and Co. Provides more than including Optimus. Go to Annalise Questions next. The first question comes from Adam Jones from Morgan Stanley. Adam, go ahead and unmute. Great, can you hear me? Yep, yep. So Elon, would you consider vertically integrating into mining? That's my first question. We'll do whatever we have to do. We do not personally concern ourselves.  If there's a great supplier who's better than us or we think practice is very good, or even whether economics is a comparative advantage suggests that we should use that supplier even if we could beat them, but we could just do something else that we won't productive, then we would in ourselves in that case. If we have to go to mine. Thanks, Elon. My follow-up is, you know, one terawatt hour of manufacturing in the United States vertically integrated. I guess my question is, what would need to change with U.S. permitting laws? What would be your message to this administration or next? And do you think you could do a terawatt hour? What's the going price of that? Can you do that for under a hundred billion bucks in the States? Thanks. The message to the government would be that there should be conversations with a number of senior government leaders and something or not. And the suggestion that we have is that there should be an expedited permitting process for anything which is critical to a sustainable energy future. So it doesn't make sense to put back a coal mine and a, you know, sustainable energy naturally like lithium mine in the same category. You know, coal is not a future of what the end does. And by the way, you can extract lithium with almost no disturbance to the local environment, ugly, nasty mine situation. It sounds abstract things that are important for the environment and communities for sure. That seems logical. The reception has been positive so we'll see if something happens. Ready to go to financial details of it as we redesign supply chain. Let's go to the next question from Colin Langham from Wells Fargo. Colin, go ahead and unmute. Can you click unmute? You hear me now? Yeah, we can hear you. Okay, sorry about that. Any update on full self-driving? I think you had said a couple quarters ago it would be available by the end of the year. Is that still possible? Is it, would it still be like a level four or a level five that you're talking about? And are there any sort of regulatory hurdles you'd have to think about? As said earlier, we're expecting to release the full self-driving software to anyone who orders the package. It won't have regular approval at that time. You mean like level four or level five kind of traditional type? Like how many nines for liability do you need? You mentioned in the prior questions about IRA.  I mean because my interpretation is like the production credits, battery component, credits for buyers seems very likely for you guys. Is the sourcing part of it possible? That seems like a pretty tough hurdle given how much has to be sourced from the US. That's looking very closely. As you mentioned, the sourcing threshold increases by the year. So we're looking at all options and also getting some clarification from Treasury. It's important to say that's only a fraction of the other credits. We do manufacture ourselves in the US. We manufacture the modules in the US. So that's pretty yes, we feel confident that as these incentives threshold sort of increases by the year. Go ahead and unmute yourself. Should we be thinking about this level spend on a go-forth basis? Leverage has improved quite a bit. It's the lowest this quarter. OpEx has a percentage of revenue. I mean our forecast says that it will keep reducing. I mean I think the way to think about it is, you know, our total amount of operating expenses will slowly take up as the company grows. It's very hard to keep it flat with the rapid growth of the company, but it's growing much slower. So some amount of growth there, but the top line of the business is growing so quickly. So I think there continues to be enormous opportunity to improve the overhead efficiency of the business. And we're seeing it. Yeah, that is so good. It's like engineers are not generic. It's just not true. What matters is where are the most brilliant people? Where are the two companies? We don't have to spend billions of dollars to invest in the future and invent the future. Engineers are also cost-conscious. So just burn the money after wind up and we're trying to figure out how to do that. One Nikola Tesla is frankly worth it. Your production has started to come off between 17% to 20%. Like last year, the cost of a container on the spot market in Shanghai got as high as $20,000. Now it's $35,000, $3600. So there's more deflation on a lot of commodities with a few exceptions. Does there's more deflation than publicly available information? Commodity increases were the highest in Q3 that we've seen over the last two years. And so when indexes change, it does take time before they float back. There's latency. At least of what we know so far, the peak on the commodity side in Q3, I say peak, hopefully it stays peak, hopefully it starts to come down. There is a small amount of reduction that we're seeing going into our Q4 cost structure from steel and aluminum primarily. But it's less than 10% of the total increases we've seen so far. So we're optimistic here based upon what we're seeing on the indexes for some of our cost structure that this will start to come in over time. But I just want to set expectations that there's not some windfall or fast reduction in this space coming in Q4, but maybe some as we go into next year. This is for Elon with your pending acquisition of twin benefit from operating under a single superstructure, if at all. There were still a few things to get right. Is it fair to say that now you are at scale and it's just a question of logistics to get bigger? So that's question number one and then question number two on the kind of like innovation and cost reduction and efficiency improvements, battery day to deliver all the potential you. It's years and some people think isn't enough but we're getting it done. It's a hard problem but we're solving it. And I think quarter six and it will be the most competitive after selling it well. And it's the whole system around it right? It's not necessarily a specific form factor. It's the attention to detail on how to break across six steps. And all the way through the cell. Yeah, exactly. We're making money where our maths are and all the various efforts that we discussed on battery day. Technical challenges and the ramp. No ramp is ever easy even at the end when you're 80% to the end. But we've made a lot of progress reducing technical risk in many areas. Cycle times of dramatically just walking the line here and was walking it yesterday that made some comments to me. You really see the acceleration around you. We've made a ton of simplifications moving from the Fremont factory to Texas and it's coming to play in speed of ramp here. Many here in Texas so it's location of both simplicity and scale. Elon, which is your expectation for the likelihood of commercial success in each of the three major AI endeavors, FSD and sort of as imagined. We're looking to talk to you in about three months from now. That's it everybody. That's the earnings call. We are complete. So to give you an idea of some of the things that we're talked about they did talk about the Cybertruck coming. I thought that was really exciting. They talked about semi trucks coming. The stock is down right now. $211 down 4.69%. I think this is going to be a buying opportunity. He did say that the company will be growing year over year 50% a year. I think that's extremely exciting for investors that they continue to grow year over year. And he said that they're going to be launching the Cybertrucks in 2023 and I think that's going to be a top seller. I know I want one. I think it's going to be about starting around 50,000 US in that area. I think it makes it affordable. So very excited about Tesla. Very excited about the Cybertruck. Very excited about this company. If you did miss the beginning they had a mixed earnings. Missed a little bit on revenues but beat a little bit on earnings. So kind of a mixed quarter but considering we're in a market meltdown and have been all year I thought that the results were good. So as a shareholder I'm excited and I will be buying more. If and when I buy more shares of Tesla I'll definitely let you know. Maybe I'll make a video on it. Stay tuned. I'm going to be doing a lot more of these earnings streams as we are in earnings season. I think it's extremely important to see how companies are performing during these tougher times. 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But even um, but how do you even feel overall about I guess the ladies in the industry sticking together like to say um Cuz I love that I love when I see that that girls stick together I feel like that's how it should be. It should be less catty-ness and more people trying to work together That's how I feel like it should be yeah I feel like people are accepting women more Which is like a it's a great thing, but Yeah, I don't have a problem with that at all. Hey guys, it's Taylor Make sure you follow us for more exclusives at WW dot talk of the town show comm like comment and subscribe


Welcome, Melissa. Welcome. Honey, it says, she says hello, but it doesn't say anybody's in here. Welcome, everybody, to the wonderful world of what are they doing today? And today, we're gonna finish our Unity piece that we started last week. If you didn't see how we made this, make sure you check out our video, the last video we posted. So, the quick version is we did a Unity ceremony at our wedding in Mexico. We didn't have the proper materials because they got confiscated. The confiscated sounds horrible. I tried to bring 91% isopropyl alcohol into Mexico and border patrol like it. The Mexican TSA jacked it. So, yeah, now we just redid it and today we're gonna finish it with you guys. I just sealed it with some of this UV archival. Make sure it is in matte. Right here, matte. Because if it's not matte, there's gonna be alcohol properties in it that's going to basically wake up your alcoholings, smear or remove your alcoholic. It's not gonna be cute. So, make sure it's matte. So, B, now it is your turn to talk about what you're doing. Well, I just cut a sticker. I cut the sticker, the decal that we used for our tumblers. Then we gave all the guests. I thought it would be fit too. I just not want to come off on this. That is one thing I do. Sometimes you just have to rub something stiff on it. Babe, it's not dark yet. I think I just got it a little dark. I could just say rub something hard on it. It's not gonna be different. That's true. But see, sometimes you just need something a little bit stiff to make it... Alright, so if you guys ever have trouble putting decals on this stuff, especially large stuff like this, what you do, do that first. Make sure all the decal comes off first. Don't take it completely off unless you can put it back on your transfer paper. Do that. Then kind of peel it up. Take a piece. This is a small piece at the top. So it gives you a little bit of stickiness, right? So that way, you can see where your piece is at. Line it up, get it straight. Does that work? They can see that. Make sure it's all nice and even. Make sure we got it in the center. Or mostly in the center. Then what you do is you just stick that part down right here. Then peel this up. And take your paper. Hello everyone. Do you need a squeegee or anything? No. Well, did I turn this paper over? Why is it sticking to that? It's sticking back to the paper. That is... That's nail. Yes. Alright. So then peel this up a little. Then it's kind of hard to see, but you're just going to... Because the sticker is already most likely off of this, mostly off, you're just going to kind of push it. Push it along the back.  Zoop, zoop, zoop, zoop. That looks beautiful. Zoop, zoop. You're just pressing it. You're basically allowing it just to kind of fall onto the surface here. Everything made it. The thing is, I hope it sticks because I've never... Have I put stuff, sticker on, to something that's been sprayed with this? I don't know. I'm just concerned that it's going to pull everything up. Like the alcohol ink. Yep. What, what, um... Well, just down there so far. It almost looks tight, I.E. I think I just didn't dry it enough. Also, that's what she said. Hey! I can't say that she said you're on your own.  I love it. Rainbow. Rainbow, rainbow. It's beautiful. I love it. Zoop. Do we need to do anything with this before we add resin to it? No. Do I need to? I'm asking you so that people can know. Do we need to do anything else for details? Not that I know of. I mean, if you notice any bubbles, like literally any, there could be some bubbles, but the way I did that, it's rare that there are any bubbles. So, I would just... I'm going to see if I can get some of this singe off this corner. I doubt it, but... Now I feel like I need to... Hear me out. Can I just line the whole outside with black vodka? I don't know about that. Because this is visible. So, can I just... Zoop. If you want. You want to do it. Be right here, steadier. I'm not doing it. How come? I miss how that was cut. How the decal was cut? Oh, Roxy. I'm going to flip it if it was... I just cut it on my cutter. My decal cutter. You're going to flip it, what? If I cut that by hand. You could. It's good. So, this is a chisel tip Posca pen. PS, if I started carrying Posca pens, would you guys be interested in supporting my shop with Posca pens? Let me know. So, I'm just going to put the tip on the side and just edge. I'm going to just go along the edge. I did not say rim. I thought you were actually going to put it on it and do it. No, I'm just trying to... Mother of Pearl, be help me. Help me, help me. It's water based. So, if I get something with water, it should come off, right? Right out of it. Be some of that has alcohol on it. I understand that, but... When you have all of this over here, you need to hurry. That cup's going to start getting hot. No. You're getting all cocky and fast, huh? I was trying. Lesson learned. What can I do? Okay. Judy, in black? Question mark. Yeah, because the singed part was black. I mean, it's not a lot. It's just to cover up that singed that was on the edge. But now I have this... B. Hear me out. Mm-hmm. Can you just do a couple of your these? No. On there? Mm-mm. Just this? And white. I would accept white. Nothing's ever ruined, you guys. You just have to work within... Have a me. Yeah, you have to have a B, but then also work within... It's not even warm yet. Oh. You know what this guy says? Flip the tip? Well, you can, but first, like, there's... Just build up, just get alcohol and clean that off. Because that's what's doing that to that. It's just, once you start one, then it's just... A lot. Okay, I'm going back to see what you guys may have said. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for being here today. You didn't miss anything just now. Jeff Air draws before he full draws. Gold would have been pretty around the edge. Yeah, but kiss it, yeah? I could have seen that. I'm sorry, Arlene. Make sure your notifications are turned on if you are not getting the live notifications. What about cutting a thin vinyl border? I don't think my resin will last that long. Thank you, Carol. Dope kicks, Jeff says JJ. You're my fun shoes. Do you have a little gold bead? Oh, that would be cute too. Maybe we'll put that on the top layer of resin. Thank you, Brenda, for reminding people to hit the like button. It really helps us. And you guys, subscribe and like and comment and Bowie. Interacting with the channel helps us to get higher in the algorithm. Hello, everybody. Just made my first epoxy pyramid this weekend. Turned out great. Made it for my wife for her anniversary. Get married 17 years. Puff hearted. That is amazing. Congrats. Happy anniversary. I'm sure it looks amazing if you would like. Post it in our 80s poor people page. We would love to see what that looks like. See, this is why we always recommend that everybody takes time to doodle and etc. Because, for instance, is like this. You never know when you're going to need some doodles. How about that extreme close up? My grandson would love it if he carried the pens working on it. So, Jennifer, that's where my rose piece is right now. I'll show you guys what that looks like after I get some resin down on this piece. I'm still really struggling with what I want to do with the background. I don't want to just fill it with ferns. So, ultimately, I'm thinking about just pulling in more of that rustic, melty, drippy line situation. I love it. Are you done? Are you good? I'm just trying to cover up these guys. A lot of that stuff. Oh. Yeah. Looks great. Thank you, Bee. Look amazing. Look amazing. Okay. So, I have some resin mixed up. Stone coat, art coat, best in the biz for all the reasons. I'm out of it in my shop right now, but I have more on order. Especially if you're working with white in your piece. It's awesome to have. I'm also going to mix in some Milky Way. Not a lot because I don't want to make my anything cloudy. And you can always add more if you can't take it away. So, just a little something. That is so much resin. Are you going to put that on something else? Do you have anything else to put it on? Oh my gosh. Do you have something you want me to put it on? No. Maybe put it on this. Put it on Tudor's piece. Okay. That is a little bit of sparkle in there. Yeah, I definitely went over the three ounces per square foot.  Now I'm just slowly taking it all the way to the edge. While we did seal it in, I just don't want to take any risk of anything reactivating or anything of the sort. So, I mean really soft handed. And it is a kind of a lot that I put on here, but I really want to have a nice dome. Meow. Need some fuego. Nope, nope, nope. I love it. Are we going to put it up with the rest of our wedding care finalia? I'm sure.  Yeah, on its edges. I will post so that you guys can see it. It's flawless right now. Clear on the bottom. Let's put this on, we're going to put this on Tudor's piece. This is a piece that Tudor did. And we haven't put, we haven't puttin, puttin. We haven't put resin on a canvas in a while. I'm going to see how that turns out. Definitely been a little while, honey. Oh, he says hi. I can right now see why. Because you can just see it all going towards the middle. It's just a little bit heavy. I forgot she put, she put some bling in there. What? Some bling. I would move that with your hands. I don't think I got it. Oh. Might as well. It's going to sink in the middle. I don't want you to get sticky bee. Chloe. Sorry y'all. I'm yelling in your mic. So Tudor did this piece, how long ago? A couple months ago. A month ago. You heated this already? Mm-hmm. Well, you just reheated it. Remember, we're going to put resin on this. On your piece. This is what you did. Is that the one I did? Yeah. Yeah. She's like, I did a dad gum good job. I helped you. You decided on all the colors. Excuse me. Smell this. What does it smell like? Like a candy? I don't know. Did they put a scent in there? It smells like something. It smells like something. Right? ATV Fireball now smells like some candy from my childhood. It smells like Halloween. Hey, we heated it with heat just one more time because I put more resin on it. This is upside down. Okay, fine. It can be rotated. Hey, everybody. What's up, Mike Reed? What do you do, Mike Reed? How are you doing? So when people are up there at that place, tutor, when they sell something, do they sell it right away or do they say, you have to wait? In what place? What town? Visual? Yeah. When they sell it? Yeah. Does it come down? Right away or do you say, you have to wait? They're like, hey, I don't care. So we probably need to do a couple extra pieces for sizes like that. If it sells, they can take it, and then you just go to the back or I don't know how that works. They have room for something like that or we just bring stuff up there. Hi, big boy. I bet you guys were recording. We are. Both. I don't know. It smells like... At first I thought it was pepper and then it wasn't. It smells like... almost like a candle, but without something. I don't know. Smells like something from my childhood. It is. That is it. That is how you flood coat two different kinds of paintings. One's with a decal and one's on canvas. Now, that canvas one is going to dip a little bit because we did not prep it. If you're interested in figuring out how to prep a piece for resin, we have plenty of canvas prep videos because it's the nature of it. It's going to dip a little bit because resin heavy. We pick up my that, the rose piece. This is how the rose piece looks. Again, I'm not really sure where I'm going to go with it at this point. It may be a piece that I just put up and just look at and think about until it comes to me. I just... I'm not sure. I think I'm just going to do more of this. Just kind of bring it down to make a background. It's hard to add a background after you have a foreground without messing up the foreground, trying to do a background. But I have pre-recorded all of this, so I'll be doing a full video. I did some of it on Marcy Mix Media Girls channel, but a good majority of it is just going to be posted. So, yeah. What do you guys think I should do with the background? I use 91% alcohol sprayed on back of a canvas, tighten it up. It works. Still have lots to learn. Kelly, you can just do that with water and hit it with a heat gun. Save your isopropyl alcohol. If you use, like, a house paint over it, that'll tighten it and it won't relax because the paint will hold it in its spot. But that's... I have a whole video on it. Kim really says I have a resin question. If I have a fully cured resin painting on a cradle board that I want to do over, do I need to do sand it or anything before I pour over it? So, most people will say yes, sand it first with, like, a 220 grit just to give it some tooth. I have never had a piece delaminate. That's not to say that it won't, depending on the condition. So, it's always better to be safe than sorry. Bye, Shelley. So, sorry this video was so short, but that's what we were up to today. If you have any questions or suggestions on how I should do this background, again, what I'm thinking about doing is just pulling more this color down to have something in the background, but not distract from the foreground. Let me know. Comment down below. And Judy, that's an awesome suggestion. I'm definitely down for adding gold leaf to this. Maybe Arlene, I'll do stencils. Jennifer, my pleasure. And we'll be doing a video on this piece. I feel like it's like the emperor's new clothes. If you can't see it yet, then you just don't have the eyes for it, because it's basically almost done. JK. I agree, and Kate probably would. Also, my Vanna White is always tutor. So, yeah, I hope you guys have an awesome rest of your day. Especially if you're in the future in Australia. Yeah. Sue, that's not a bad idea. You guys always have the best ideas. So, yeah, y'all have an awesome day. Be kind to one another, because you never know what someone's going through. And I'll always remember we do the test. So Bowie doesn't have to, because he's so cute. Bowie, you don't have to, do you? No. I like how he shook his head, no. Anyways, we'll be back tomorrow early for our Vanna White live. Thank you, Carol, so, so much. I will show Jeff your car. Hold on. It's a portrait of Stormy Cat. You have a beautiful, beautiful, massive kitty cat Shane. Hold on, I got to show off TG's car. Can you look at so, you know how TG son unfortunately passed away? She inherited his car. Oh, wow. This one. How fun. It's a nice car. She wanted me to show you. Jennifer, I do have embossing powder. And also Shane, I would love to paint your cat. So, yeah.  Also, that's Sue for sure, for sure. And we'll see you guys tomorrow. Oh, no worries, Carol. Y'all have a great night. Bye. Bye.


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I'll begin reading here at verse 7, I'll read to verse 10, we'll get into our study. Cleasiastes chapter 11, verse 7, truly the light is sweet and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun. But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that is coming is vanity. Of course, oh young man in your youth, let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, walk in the ways of your heart and in the side of your eyes, but know that for all these God will bring you into judgment, and therefore remove sorrow from your heart and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity. So at this point, Solomon is emphasizing that life is a gift, and because life is a gift, he is emphasizing the fact that we should learn to simply enjoy being alive. Many of us realize that it can be a beautiful experience to wake up to a bright morning sunshine and just to be happy. It's a simple pleasure, it's simple pleasures that mean so much. There are times when my wife and I will be driving somewhere earlier in the morning and we'll just look around and just comment about how beautiful the area is, how beautiful it is just to have the sunshine and birds singing as long as they're not singing too closely to my window. It's nice. We'll speak about how beautiful the morning is, how blessed we are, and we've come to realize as many of you have that it's the little things that make up the better part of the fabric of our lives. They're the things that we don't want to take for granted because those are the things that we call blessings. Solomon had already said something similar in chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes in verse 24 where he had said there's nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw was from the hand of God. And so the simple pleasures are the things that he's pointing to. Again, it's a blessing to simply wake up and anticipate the start of a new day. And that begins by being able to place your head on your pillow in peace the night before. See the way that I've learned to be able to wake up and enjoy the day is because I concluded then the day before by serving the Lord, by having a clean conscience, by having a sense of my sins being forgiven, by being a new creation in Christ Jesus. Before you come to Christ, not very many people, some perhaps do, but not many people will go to bed at night anticipating a great day the next day because a lot of people go through stress. A lot of people are going through hardship. A lot of people are going through tough times and all of that. But when you come to faith in Christ, it changes your perspective. You begin to have what has been referred to as an eternal perspective. You begin to realize that the Lord is in control of your life, that his blessings are upon you, and that you may cry for a night, but joy comes in the morning. You know the Lord's in charge. And because of that, there's a certain thing that you have called peace. So enjoying the start of a new day begins by having peace with the Lord and having the peace of the Lord. In Psalm 4 verses 7 and 8, the Psalmist said, You have filled my heart with greater joy than when there grain and new wine abound.  I'll put my head on my pillow at night and I'll sleep in peace because you're with me. In Philippians 4 verses 6 and 7, Paul said it like this. He said, Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus, trusting the Lord, allowing him to work within you. See, for the one who has made peace with God, the light is sweet and is pleasant to enjoy, to awaken to the sound of birds singing, to feel the sun's warmth is great. The beauty of creation reminds us of the Creator of all things. And because the beauty of creation reminds us of the Creator, we worship Him. It's like what it says in Revelation 4 verse 11. You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power for you created all things and by your will they exist and were created. So you see the beauty of the morning. You see the sunshine and all. You awaken to this and you rejoice. Deuteronomy 10, 14 says, Indeed, heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord, your God, also the earth with all that is in it. And so we have reason to enjoy the world that has been created by God. But it goes on in verse 8 to say this, But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for there will be many. All that is coming is vanity. Now that's interesting. If a man lives many years and rejoices in them all, let him remember. Let him remember. And I want to look at that for a moment because I entitled this particular study, Remember, Rejoice, and Remove. And you'll see that in just a moment. But remember, remember. So what happens here as Solomon gives a somber and a sober reminder. If a person lives a long life and has enjoyed being alive, many dark days will come. In other words, life is not filled with perpetual sunshine. Over the course of a lifetime, sunny days are interrupted by storms and by darkness. Notice in verse 8 how he says, The days of darkness will be many. The longer you live, the more days of darkness you have. And you get married, there's nothing but darkness.  The days of darkness will be many. The question is, what are we to do when we encounter the days of darkness? What do we do when we have stormy days? He says in verse 8, Let him remember. Remember the days of darkness. Now when he says the days of darkness, the days of darkness could be the time of old age, but it also could speak of any time you have sorrow or any time that you might have pain. Sometimes the only thing we want to do is to forget those days of darkness. Trials and disappointments, sorrows and afflictions strike us over a lifetime. And though we enjoy the beauty of God's creation, we still endure heartaches. And the heartaches often provide the backdrop of what gives us appreciation for the blessings. These times of sorrow and affliction are not to be forgotten. The times of sorrow and affliction are to be remembered. They purify our character, they refine our faith, and they give us a deeper appreciation for blessings. Like it says in Psalm 90 verse 12, Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. You see the longer you live, the more trials you endure. And so because you're living longer and having more trials, we need an eternal framework. It says in Psalm 103 verses 15 and 16, As for man, his days are like grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, it's gone, and its place remembers it no more. In Psalm 112, 1-4, it says this, Praise the Lord, Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in his commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches will be in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. Unto the upright, there arises light in the darkness.  And so I want to look at that and develop that a little bit with you as the Psalmist is speaking concerning that because if you'd like, you can turn there and follow with me because I'm going to spend a moment in Psalm 112. So if you'd like, please turn your Bibles there because I'm going to spend a few moments there and I want to refer to the scriptures as I approach them. Psalm 112, when you look at that Psalm, even as I just read it to you in the verses, we're looking at verses 1-4 for a moment, in verses 1-3, notice how he praises the Lord because of his blessings to those who fear and obey him. He says that in verse 1, blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in his commandments. This is one who fears the Lord, and this is one who obeys the Lord. So the one who loves the Lord and is blessed by him is going to be the one who loves God's Word. It's like what it says in Proverbs 12-28, in the way of righteousness is life and in its pathway there's no death. You have the way of righteousness outlined in Scripture, and so you have a life that is blessed by God. But as he's speaking here in Psalm 112, the promise is that the righteous one will be blessed, and he'll be blessed, he says, in many ways. In verse 2, he says his descendants will be mighty on earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed. In verse 3, wealth and riches will be in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. So he says his children will be mighty. Wealth and riches will be given to him and his household. The righteous lives will place him in positions of honor and leadership. Wealth and riches will cover things like clothing and furniture as well as money, so he has all that he needs. He says in verse 3, his righteousness endures forever. Because he's righteous, the generation that follows will be blessed also. The effects will be transmitted from generation to generation. So he's pointing out that godliness has its rewards in this life and in future generations. Now it sounds like a wonderful promise and a guarantee of a painless life. You know, when you got saved, I don't know what you expected for your future, but if you got saved as I did when I got saved, I just was amazed at the sense of almost a physical sense of the burden of sin rolling off of me. I mean, I had such an incredible salvation experience that it was miraculous in so many ways and so very special to think of that I thought I would be walking on clouds forever. I thought that I, because so much weight was removed, I just had a lightness to my life and I thought that this would last forever. But the fact is my life hasn't been painless and it hasn't been moving from one continual blessing to another continual blessing without disappointments or without heartaches, without things of that nature. That hasn't been the case in my life at all. You have tough times. I've had my share we all have. You go through hard times sometimes and disappointments and the things that go along with that. So when he says his descendants will be mighty on earth, generation of the upright will be blessed, wealth and riches will be in his house, his righteousness endures forever. All of that sounds like a great promises and they are. But he gives to us a little more insight when he says in verse four, unto the upright there arises light in the darkness. So that tells me something that even if you're upright and you're living according to the word of the Lord and all of that, there's still going to be darkness in your life. Light in the darkness. When it says there'll be light in the darkness, that's an interesting picture. It's a picture of the sun rising after a long night. And there are times in our lives that we have seasons of darkness, but God is going to bless and it's going to be like the sunrise. You see, fearing the Lord and serving him doesn't produce painless living. We all know that sometimes we encounter incredible pain and suffer deep afflictions. But his promise is that when we go through adversity, light still will shine on us. We go through hard times, but the Lord is with us through them all. In Psalm 42 verse eight, the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime in the night, his song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. In the night time, his song will be with me. He teaches us, I like this phrase, it's found in the book of Job, he teaches us songs in the night. He teaches us like when Paul was in that Philippian jail, that even at midnight after being beaten and put in the stocks, it simply says that he and Silas were singing praises unto the Lord at midnight. I mean, in the midst of affliction and unjust treatment and the pain that he had suffered and being in those stocks, he still was singing praises to the Lord because God gives us the ability to do that. The deepest lessons and blessings often come through the deepest and darkest portions of our life. How many of you guys have heard the recent concern over Rudolph the red-nosed ranger? Anybody hear anything here? Did you ever hear? Yeah, it's odd, the rest of you don't, you don't read your newspapers, do you? The interesting thing is, and let me tell you the controversy for a minute if I may, you know, there are those who say that the children should not be singing Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer anymore because it has bullies in the song. And okay, some of you are saying, okay, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, you're trying to get to the point where it talks about bullies, right? All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names. They never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games. You remember that now? I'm sure you do. Those are bullies. You want to hear the story of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer? You say, yeah, okay. I read the back story on that yesterday. Interesting story and I highlighted it and let me share it with you. There's a point I'm going to make in a moment. The story of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was written by a man by the name of Bob May in 1938. He was an ad writer for Montgomery Ward and his wife was dying of cancer. And his four-year-old daughter asked him, why isn't mommy like everybody else's mommy? Well, to try and help her in medical costs and everything that had amounted to him dealing with her cancer, he exhausted all of his finances. But his wife died and he had nothing to give to his daughter for Christmas. And because he had nothing to give to his little girl, she was four years old at the time, he made up a story for her. And the story was about a reindeer named Rudolph. And he began to share this story in bits and pieces and eventually compiled it, elongated it. And what he did is, because he couldn't afford a gift for her for Christmas, he had to move out before he was living and move into what used to be referred to as a tenement, a very impoverished living. Because he couldn't afford a gift for her for Christmas, he made a homemade picture book of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Now he was invited to go to a Christmas party. His wife had died in December. He didn't want to go. But he went to it because he felt he should. And while he was there, he had a group of his friends around him and he told them the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. And when he did, everybody wanted copies of that themselves. Well, Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book. And over the next six years, six million copies of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer were given away. The head of the department store gave him back the rights to the book. And four years later, Rudolph made him a millionaire. His brother-in-law was successful at songwriting. And so he set the story to music. He originally asked Bing Crosby to sing the song. But he had, he refused. He had sung, I think, White Christmas and all. And he didn't want to. And so they eventually got a singing cowboy by the name of Jean Autry. And he recorded it. And in a few years, it became the second best-selling Christmas song ever behind White Christmas. And why am I telling you that? Because I think we all should sing Rudolph ready? No, because as I read that story, it moved me on various levels, to be honest with you. But in the midst of his hardness, in the midst of the darkness, in the midst of the sorrow, in the midst of loss, good happened. Things can happen even in the midst of that. And the second reason is the moral story to it. I think that today, because people are saying you ought not to be singing Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer because it has bullies in it. If I were to ask us all right now, anybody in here ever get bullied? All of us have, I'd assume.   I think it's part of life. Am I saying it's good? Of course not. Am I saying that everybody ought to go through bullying? Of course not. Am I saying that bullying doesn't hurt? It does. Was I bullied? Yes, more than once. Yes, we all have been. And it does hurt. And it makes you feel bad. But how did you respond to it? What came out of it? Did you learn anything? Were there any character traits in you? Did you develop anything? I'm not saying it's good. Don't misunderstand me. But I know that even in the affliction of being bullied, that there are things that have value that I've learned. I've learned how to speak to people who are oppressive. I've learned how to deal with issues that were not comfortable. I've learned a lot of lessons through it. Did I want to learn those lessons through that? No. Do I want a world where people treat each other with love, kindness, and respect? Absolutely. Shouldn't the church be that way? Yes, of course. But when we try and ban life experiences from people, life experiences that actually transform them and can actually help to create in them something other than just a wounded spirit, because I've learned some things. And I want to be careful how I'm saying this, because I never liked my children being bullied. I was the protective father. I would get upset at somebody who hurt my baby. I'm not saying that being bullied is a good thing. What I'm saying is you can learn lessons through it. Another one I'm especially saying is to try and ban a story like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer without understanding its backstory is probably not the wisest thing, because the guy who wrote it, Bob May, he wrote it from his own experience. He wasn't a reindeer, by the way, and he didn't have a red nose other than when he drank. No, he was bullied as a child. And Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is really a story about his life because he was small and nobody chose him to play on the team. He was the one who was not allowed to play in any reindeer games. It was really his story. It was a story of how you can overcome. It was a story of how even in the midst of the afflictions and the problems and the bullying and those things, you can be an overcomer if you keep pressing towards a proper mark. That was the point and that is the point of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Now I'm not going to go on radio and fight for Rudolph. I'm simply pointing out that we can go through dark seasons in our life, but if we have hope and understanding God will bring us through, we can learn lessons. And there are dark nights in every life. And if we think that we're going to grow up as Christians and never have any affliction, any persecution, any sorrow, it doesn't happen that way.  Maybe you have. I have.    I want to be like him, but I have to remember Isaiah 53. He is a wounded healer. He was wounded for me. He was rejected for me. He was rejected for us. And so there are things that I learned through being rejected. There are things that I learned through afflictions that I won't learn any other way. And one of the things I know is there is one who gives songs in the night. I know that weeping endures for a night, but joy will come in the morning. I know that God is in control. And even if it doesn't seem that he's in control at this moment, he ultimately is. And what was intended for evil very often will turn out for good. I've discovered that. So you hold on in faith to Christ and you cry out to him, you do what you need to do to survive and all of that, but you make it through.   You'll have many dark days. That's a fact. We can't hide from it. We can't pretend it's not true. The longer you live, the more opportunities you'll have to have dark days. That's the point he's making. When you encounter sorrow and disappointment and loss, and you turn those things to the Lord and you say, God, be merciful to me, help me. My faith becomes stronger. In Psalm 66 verses 10 through 12, you, oh God, have tested us. You've refined us and silver is refined. You brought us into the net. You laid affliction on our backs. You caused men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us out to rich fulfillment. We went through all of these things, but you never forsook us. You never left us.  In Job 2310, he knows the way that I take. When he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. The fact is our days of darkness are not to be forgotten. They're to be remembered. It provides us with deep life lessons. A place as we met the Lord in special ways. In times when he thought, I almost gave up, but then you rescued me. Those are the things you remember, how I thought that I was forsaken, how I felt I was abandoned, how I felt I was alone, how I felt that, you know, the heavens were brassed when I cried out to the Lord and I said, God, can't you see? Can't you see the pain I'm in? Can't you hear when I cry to you? God is listening, and God does see, and God does deliver. Those are lessons you learn that actually sharpen your faith. Psalm 119 verse 71 says, it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes. And Psalm 119 verse 75, I know, O Lord, that your judgments are right and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. I have learned the depth of your word by putting it into practice, by calling out and asking for help and then experiencing your deliverance. I've seen you rescue me over and over again, and I've determined over this long life that you are faithful. And these things that we go through are the things that deepen us in our trust for the Lord. And we come to realize that he works through all our trials to bring us to that place that we've been asking, Lord, may I know you deeply. In 2 Corinthians, Paul said it like this in chapter 1 verses 9 and 10, he said, we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us in whom we trust that he still will deliver us. And so he delivered us, he does deliver us, he will still deliver us. God is faithful. And these are the things you learn by remembering those days of darkness. These are the things that you will learn as you turn to the Lord going through those tough times. And so back in chapter 11, that's what he's speaking about. He's saying to us that we need to remember, let him remember the days of darkness. They will be many, all that come in his vanity. The longer you live, the more you experience, and there may be incredible joys, but again, the longer you live, the more sorrows you endure.  And then one day that when you love so much goes to be with the Lord. And it's for you a day of darkness, it's a day of sorrow. It's a day that really stretches into a period of time where all you can do is remember, now you can do is look back, not only at the joy, but you feel that sorrow. Those are things we'll go through. Those are things every human being goes through. We're not exempt from them, guys. There's no guarantee. I wish I, as a pastor and believer, I wish I could guarantee everyone of us a great day. The minute you get saved, all your loved ones will get saved. I wish I could guarantee that. You'll never have any financial difficulty again. You'll have nothing but perfect health forever.  But I can't promise they stand up and cheer when I leave, but not when I show up. It doesn't happen that way. It doesn't happen. There are silent moments of agony. Times that you will cry. This isn't a cheery study, it's true. Times that you'll cry yourself to sleep. Times when your heart will break in ways that you never thought possible. You'll lose somebody you love. You'll be disappointed in somebody you respected. Something will happen. And when you heal, something else does. Remember the days of darkness. Why? Because it was in the days of darkness that you began to appreciate the days of sunshine. And it's in the days of darkness that God teaches you deeper things about Him.  Those are things you learn as you walk with the Lord. The enemy will whisper in this ear and he'll say things like, God is forsaken you. God has rejected you. God doesn't love you. He will whisper. And then you hear the still small voice of the Lord speaking to you and the other one saying, I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I am with you, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you will fear no evil. I will be with you. And that's what you learn as you walk with the Lord over time. So Solomon's wisdom is pure. Not God for the days of sunshine, but don't forget the days of darkness because it's in the days of darkness that your faith was strengthened. It's where God became the God you wanted to worship in the midst of those. He showed you who He is. You had this idea that He was this way and God says, no, no, I'm not able to be put in the box of the God you'd like me to be. This is who I really am. And then you start loving Him in spirit and in truth because you know who He is in truth.  And it strengthens us in our faith and refines us in our character. And over time, people begin to ask you, what's the secret of the joy that you have? You've got through so much and you say, I haven't forgotten the days of darkness. I rejoice in the day of sunshine, but my character was formed in a day of darkness. And I've learned to walk with God by faith and not by sight. When I didn't see Him, I knew He was there. When I couldn't hear Him, I knew He was still speaking. When I didn't feel Him, I know He never left me. And these are the things you learn, guys, over time. And Solomon's word is so correct there, obviously it would be inspired by God. His word is so true. A man lives many years, rejoices in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness. There will be many. All that is coming is vanity. With that cherry word, let's move to verse nine. Grace, oh young man in your youth, let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, put away evil from your flesh. Rejoice in youth are vanity, interesting. Rejoice, rejoice, he had first said remember, now in verse nine he says rejoice, rejoice. With this in mind, Solomon is encouraging young people to enjoy their days of youth. Rejoice because our days of youth should be carefree. You guys remember carefree days? Some of you are young. You still have them, enjoy them. I remember them, I remember them very well. You know summer vacation, we really had a summer vacation. I mean, man school ended for us, it always ended in June and it began again in September. So we had two and a half solid months of doing absolutely nothing and those carefree days were amazing and they were. When you wake up as a teenager, I mean as a little kid, I didn't really think there were that much, but when I got to be in my teens, especially freshman into senior, it's summer man. My mom would do whatever she was going to do. My dad was at work, my mom was working also and they'd leave and there I was in the house by myself and I'd sleep as long as I wanted and I got up and I'd make myself something to eat. I'd hitchhike to the beach, spend the day there. I have friends of mine will say to me today, because we went to Hawaii, they say you didn't get any sun. You didn't get any sun. Well I can't. That's a funny thing. We go to Hawaii but I'm susceptible to cancers and stuff and the skin so I can't. So I can't lay out, but you may be surprised and who cares, but I'll tell you anyway. During the summer, I never wore a shirt. I only wore shorts and during the summer I would get almost as brown as a Hershey chocolate bar. That's a fact. People say you're so white, yeah I am, but during the summer we would actually have a contest, a friend of mine named Gippy, his name was Gippy Lentini, an Italian friend of mine and he had more melatonin but he could get a Hershey chocolate bar, put it on his stomach and it would blend. That's how dark he got. I got almost that dark. I was dark, dark, dark. And when I was a senior, I was dark, dark, dark and I decided I don't like brown hair so I dyed my hair blonde. Yeah, I did. Long before people were doing that for fashion statements. And my hair turned green. Actually it was, if you saw the senior picture, my senior picture, it was just growing out and you can see the streaks in it and I tried to dye it back to the natural color. I know nothing about dyeing hair so my hair turned green. I was a boy with the green hair in high school because I tried to dye it. But those days were crazy. They were, you know, get up, go to the park, I could tell you story after story, we all have our collection but I understand what he's speaking about here. Enjoy the days of your youth. Enjoy them. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a good time as you're young and he's saying these days are good to enjoy. Because there's a reason he's saying this, rejoice because our days of youth are carefree but these are the days we enjoy because as we grow older, we have more problems. Now he's not saying live in a way that's improper. He says walk in the ways of your heart and in the side of your eyes. When he says heart and your eyes, that speaks of our desires. He's not saying live crazy, live debauched if you will. What he is saying is that as long as our desires are proper, we should enjoy life. As long as your desires are aligned with the things that are pleasing to the Lord, why wouldn't you enjoy life? And so he's saying as you're young, enjoy those days. Don't be so stressed out. Don't be so worried about everything. I see what's interesting in the way he's putting this and I'll look at it again. When he says rejoice so young man in your youth, let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, walk in the ways of your heart, in the side of your eyes. Know this, that for all these God will bring you into judgment. Enjoy your life guys, but remember that ultimately stand before the Lord. Enjoy your life, but remember life is more than the simple things that you're finding pleasure in. There's a deeper meaning. He's going to look into that in chapter 12. We'll look at that next time we're together as we conclude Ecclesiastes. But he's saying the thing that will help you from living a crazy wrong kind of life is to remember that there is a judgment. See, one of the things that the Bible says concerning unbelievers is this. There's no fear of God in their eyes. There's no fear of God. They don't believe in a final judgment. They don't believe that there'll be a day of reckoning where they answer for their life. They don't believe that. And that's why they eat, drink and are married because tomorrow they're going to die. And so you might as well enjoy yourself with the time that you have. And so that's how a lot of people live and they call them hedonists. They're always in search of pleasure for the next thing. He's saying just be aware of it. Enjoy your life. But remember, there is a day of accounting. And this knowledge that one day we stand before the judge of the whole earth ought to cause us to live lives that are proper. So you can enjoy your life without having to be really sinful. We're going to see in chapter 12, verse 14, God will bring every work into judgment including every secret thing, whether good or evil. Every secret thing, things that you think nobody else knows, God does. The things that we thought we got away with because there were no witnesses. We looked to the left. We looked to the right, looked in front, looked behind, but we didn't look up. And there were eyes upon us who saw those things. And every work, even the secret things, he says, will be brought into judgment whether good or evil. And Psalm 96, verse 13, he's coming. He's coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his truth. Jesus in John 5, 28 and 29 said it like this, do not marvel at this. The hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth. Those who have done good to the resurrection of life. Those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. No rejoice in your youth. Let your heart share you in the days of your youth. Enjoy life. Walk in the ways of your heart, in the side of your eyes. But remember, let this balance you. Know that for all these, God will bring you into judgment. We all will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. We all will stand before the Lord to give account of ourselves. And you know, we really, I think the church really needs to wake up to that. We have taken the grace of God and have stretched it into giving us permission to live lives that are not honoring to the Lord. And a lot of Christians live in ways that, well, other people will see them in the way they're living and want to witness to them and tell them about Jesus because they don't reflect that they know Him at all in their life. I've met many people who over the years, and I've been that person over the years that actually has, you know, I have an inclination to want to share with them about the Lord. And it turns out that they are professing Christians, oh, yeah, I know Jesus. And I've been the same way in my early walk with the Lord. I had so many ups and downs in the first couple of years, I don't speak with judgment about that. I've been there. The bottom line is, is I had to get to the point where I said, it's all or nothing. I have to live for Him or walk away because I can't be in between anymore, either be hot or be cold. But Jesus said, the lukewarm, I'll spew out of my mouth. When He says the lukewarm, I spew out of my mouth. When He says spew, He's speaking concerning a gag reflex. He's literally saying, you make me want to puke with your lukewarmness. That's a pretty strong statement coming from our loving Savior. But it's because people are professing to know Christ, but acting as if He's not their Lord. It's called practical atheism.  So He's saying, remember, remember, there is one you give an account to. There is. Listen, don't wait until you're old to come to know that. There are people, I was this way. I thought, well, you know, when I'm getting an older, then I'll get more serious. When at first, no, no, no, there are people think, yeah, just before I die, I'll become a real saint. Now it doesn't work that way. What happens is you get this, this behavior, this pattern of life becomes who you are. And it's harder and harder and harder to step away from those things because it's imprinted now on you. You have to start out young. You have to wake up saying, as young as your salvation is, you have to wake up saying, I'm going to follow the Lord today, and I'm going to add on to what I did yesterday. And I'll do that tomorrow. And I'll do that tomorrow. And that's how you start growing in layers of maturity. But if you take two steps forward and then you backslide and then try two steps forward again, you find yourself in a rut. You just dig a hole for yourself, and it's difficult to climb out of it. So the thing that keeps me going and kept me going from fairly early in my walk was the knowledge that, that I have to go forward. I can't be continually rededicating myself and continually trying again. I have to die to myself and why? Because I will give an account of myself to the Lord. Everyone will. I will give an account of myself to God. What did you do with what I gave you? And I have to be able to say the best that I could with the faith that I had. And so that's an encouragement to all of us to be aware of that. And then he finally gets to the word remove, verse 10, therefore, remove sorrow from your heart. Put away evil from your flesh for childhood and youth are vanity. With this in mind, pursue the Lord, put away evil. You see, privileges and blessings are always balanced by responsible living. So don't allow yourself to become overcome with concern and worry. That will lead you into a life of hopelessness. You know, I say this often, often enough for you to have heard it before, but there are quite a number of people I've encountered over the years that I call E. Or Christians, you know, from Winnie the Pooh, you know, E.  I don't encourage anybody to allow yourself to get into the mindset of I don't encourage anybody to get into the mindset of everything's misery.  It's just not, that's not the way it is at all. What I've tried to learn over the years and my personality is different than others, there are some guys that I just really, I just admire so much because they have such an optimism in them, you know, they see the cup half full. And me, as I was growing up, they'd say, is the cup half full or half empty? And I'd say, I don't even see a cup.  Nothing's good, you know. Then I got saved. And when I got saved, I started seeing the good of the Lord. I started seeing God bless my life. I started seeing God save people I loved. I started seeing the Lord. He saved my dad. He saved my mom, my family. I teach a Bible study. He brings a young lady to the Bible study who gets saved through that Bible study and becomes my wife. I've seen the Lord do amazing things. And so I never want to take His blessings for granted. And I want to, I want to stay under the spout where the blessings come out like Pastor Chuck used to say. I want the Lord to pour into my life. So rather than putting a hand, we'll say over that cup to keep from being the flow of the Spirit. I want to be careful with confessing my sin and forsaking them. I want the Lord to continue to pour into me because I want Him not only to pour into me, but to pour out to you. And that's Christianity. When the Lord saves you, it's not for you alone. The most selfish person is the one who goes to heaven by themselves. The reason the Lord worked in you is one of those ways that He can reach other people. So He reaches you so He can reach perhaps your dad, perhaps your mom, your grandmother, a brother, a sister, an aunt, an uncle, the relatives, friends, neighbors. That's how it works. My first Bible study I ever did was in Norwalk. The Bible study was to my mom, my dad, my two sisters, and anybody else I could bribe to come and listen to me speak. It was only like four or five, six people, six people. And I taught that Bible study. It grew to nine people eventually. But I taught that Bible study for the joy of teaching that Bible study for years. I started that Bible study in 1973. I believe I gave up that Bible study in probably 77. And I was already an assisting pastor in another church. I couldn't continue going to Norwalk to do that kind of thing anymore. And so I had to give up that Bible study because I had my other duties now as I was pastoring. That's kind of how it worked in my life. And so when God got hold of me, God reminded me of what He had done. And He said, I've got blessings upon your life. So from my perspective, and I was a young man, from my perspective, I want to stay in a place where God can move and therefore remove sorrow from your heart, put away evil from your flesh and don't remain a child. When He says childhood and youth are vanity, one of the temptations people have today is to prolong their youth. To want to stay young forever. And a lot of people, and I understand the temptation for that. I mean, that's been for as long as man has been alive. You know, we know how old Eve, Adam was, but we don't know how old Eve was. Why? Because Eve didn't tell us, she dyed her hair. No, we want to stay young, you know, because we're in love with it. But we're to flee youthful lust, Paul said. What's that mean? Well, there are things in youth that are pretty much typical of youth. You know, there's arrogance and there can be pride and there can be pugnaciousness and being opinionated and hard to deal with and rebellious. Those are things in youth that you have to mature out of by dying to. So Paul speak into Timothy and he says, flee youthful lusts. Don't remain young and act young because people don't need an immature pastor, Timothy. They need a man of God. They don't come to hang around with the coolest man in the church. They want to be led by a man who knows God. That's what Paul was telling Timothy because the temptation in the society back in Ephesus during that day is the same that we have today. Is that temptation to always be young, to come on like you're young. But guess what? When I went for advice, when I needed direction, I didn't go to a 25 year old man. I went to my pastor who was like a father because I knew that my pastor Chuck had lived and served the Lord for so many years. There was wisdom in him. And wisdom comes to age and experience the word of God and by the spirit. And so if I want some practical wisdom, I go to the one who's been walking in a practical way. If you want to be used by the Lord to be an influence in somebody's life, don't try and be the coolest person in the Bible study. Be someone who knows Jesus and the people will look to you ultimately and will ask you questions about the Lord because God surely is with you. And I want to know, what has the Lord done in your life? I began to learn some of that when I was 23 years old. When I started teaching my father who was 47 at the time, Bible studies. A 23 year old snotty nose kid speaking to his own father, telling him how to live to please God. How do you do that? How does a 23 year old earn the respect of a 47 year old? How? By living for Christ, by having a sober mind, by being serious about the things of God, by giving up youthful lusts and walking in the word and the spirit and power and faith and love, by having a sound mind, by knowing that there's something greater than just goofing around as a kid. When I was a child, I thought I was a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  And so when he says here, childhood and youth are vanity, they're fleeting. You grow out of them, they're not long lasting. So pursue the things that last. Pursue that, which makes you a better believer. In 2 Timothy 2, verse 22, flee youthful lusts, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Righteousness, faith, love, peace in fellowship. Those are the things we need. Listen, if you wanna be used by the Lord, do you, I hope you do. If you wanna be used by the Lord, those are the things to do. Enjoy life, it's blessing from God. It's great to see the blessings pour into your life. I love it. But don't be so upset when dark days come. There will be many, but there'll be lessons you learn in those dark days. And the lesson you learn, one of the best ones I've learned is the one I've already shared with you. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. And I began to learn, I can do all things to Christ who strengthens me. I am never alone. The first Bible study, and I'll close with this, that I gave in a church service as a 27 year old was my testimony. It was a Sunday morning at Calvary Chapel of Claremont back in 1977, I believe it is, or right in that area, 78. And the pastor, no, it was 79. The pastor asked me to do a Bible study. A Sunday morning, I'd been teaching already for around six years, but they were all home studies. And my home studies never were bigger than 10 people. And now I'm gonna teach in this huge church of 100 people, and I was just, I was crying. I remember crying in prayer the night before, just God, help me. And I gave a Bible study. My first Bible study was John 1633. Now I'm alone, yet I'm not alone for you're with me. And I get my testimony, how I grew up alone, how I grew up with a mother who worked from the time I was in elementary school, that I took care of my sisters when they were little. I was their babysitter at the age of 10, and my mom was gone.  That's what I did. I got into drugs and the alcohol at the age of 15, and I lived a life that was debauched, and I shared that. And my whole thing about coming to faith in Christ is I was alone. I didn't believe I was loved by anybody. I didn't believe my mom loved me. I didn't believe my father loved me. I didn't believe anybody loved me. So I tried to find my sense of purpose in relationships, but I couldn't keep them because I was too immature to know how to love somebody else. So I demanded that they give me attention because I thought I needed it. And so I didn't have a lot of girlfriends, of course, but when I finally got older, I began to realize how messed up I was. And so at that point, that's when I said, God, something's gonna happen in my life because I'm not gonna make it, because I almost died. I had taken five reds. Some of you know what reds are. Second, I'll lily have 40s for those of you who understand that language. And I drank almost a half gallon of wine, and I almost overdosed. I almost died. I was laying in the back of a car, and I almost died. And I woke up and I said, something's gotta change or I'm gonna die. And that's when my friend Bill started going to Calvary Chapel Co. Samesa. And that's when Bill started asking me to go to church. And I went with him to church, and I walked into a church filled with Jesus freaks. And I thought, whatever this is, I don't have it. And then it was only a couple of two, three months later that I went to a Maranatha concert. And that's when I gave my heart to Christ because I realized at that time, that my life was wasted.  Because I was doing crazy things. I was doing crazy things. I lost over 30 pounds in a month because I stopped eating and I was only drinking, smoking pot, and things like that. And I went from 170 some pounds to 145 pounds. I was just slowly spiraling. My health was going and I was only 20 years old. And finally, finally the Holy Spirit broke through. And that's how I got saved. It was his love. It was his love that I needed, not the love of a woman, but the love of my God. And that's what changed my life. And that's why I'm so serious when I share with you guys every time I teach. Follow Jesus. Follow him. There's no one better and no one greater. And no one loves you more and no one forgives you more than Jesus Christ. That's why I do this.