Hi, everybody, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com, our last break of the night. We're going over a little bit, but that's all good. Hey, will you dig deep, Phillip, a break? We'll dig deep, as well. This is as far as I'm going to dig, though. 2022 hit parade, Jasper exclusive. A Jasper exclusive curated by us, built by Hit Parade, and delivered to you. And hopefully some big hits going your way. If you don't get a hit, don't worry. We're giving away a couple of top Trevor Lawrence boxes, if you remember those. So we'll take all the Hit List names, and we'll give away, we'll randomize those names. And the top two, we'll get one of these. Our sorting department, we'll see which winner will get what. All right, very big thank you to this group right here. Big thanks to the people who bought spots. And congrats again to the people who won spots. All 32 football, it's just a football edition. All 32 teams are in. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Two and a six, names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Two and a six, eight times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Colts down to Bengals after eight times. Good luck.  Let's sort by team and we're gonna pause the video. When we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades in the break, stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back everybody, no deals are done. So the list remains the same, here it is, hot off the presses, thanks everyone for getting in, appreciate it, let's go and see what we got. We got a little poker on in the background, five, six suited versus, oh, I didn't see the other guy's hand, oh, the other guy's got ace 10 suited and there's two aces in the, oh no, don't do it, Ali, don't do it. Eric's got you, good luck. We've got triple relic and autograph, David Montgomery, eight out of 49 for the Bears. That's gonna be for Kevin Shepard Jr. There you go, K-Shep. That's also in last spot mojo team, 70% of the time, last spot mojo hits 100% of the time. Next up is, bam, Michael Pibbin Jr. From Mosaic Football Rookie Scripts autograph, who's got the blue horseshoes? That's for Jess and the blue horseshoes. Well, let me keep track of all the hit list people too. So Jess no longer hit list and Bear is no longer hit list. We've got a triple relic and autograph, Trey Lance, nice gold ink auto. It's 47 out of 49 for the 49ers. This is from 2021, nice. That's a rookie, that goes to Colin and the Niners. Colin picking up a lot of teams straight up here, appreciate that, appreciate everybody. One spot or a hundred spots, I appreciate it. They got Cadarius Tony, black and yellow rookie autograph, seven out of 10, nice low number for the New York football giants. Jose, great dog with that one. Next up is Derek Carr, 46 out of 50, rookie autograph from an old top set. This is tops, is it Valiant or something like that? But the courage autograph, thick card here, book card here. It is Kyle Pitts for the Falcons. That's 153 out of 249. This is just a hit parade sticker, so I don't mind peeling this off. It was like a dynasty ringer, so I would not be doing this, but flawless, I would not be doing this. It's a repack product, let's check it out. Got to see what's inside, right? Nice, Jersey and autograph. I think slow start for him this season. Colin with the Falcons, that he's a supremely talented footballer. I'm sure he'll be just fine. All right, so we got giants hitting, raiders hitting, and now the Falcons are hitting. Another box, got another dual case or load it up in the store, ladies and gentlemen, get in on it. It's a nice price point for a dual case break. It's hit parade, it's Jaspies, it's a collab. Everyone loves that. Damien Price, Texans. A fantasy football darling, I want to say, pre-season fantasy football darling. Daniel Smith, here's some Texans. Next up is Vested Veterans, two color patch and autograph. Tyler Lockett, eight out of 10, Seattle, what a win for them last night, Colin. The Seahawks beating the Broncos, the Geno Smith revival in full effect, maybe. Let's see if it lasts the whole season. Not sure about that, but fun to watch yesterday. Devonta Smith, rookie, jersey and auto, obsidian. Nice, that is 17 out of 100. Seattle, Colin hit and the Fly Eagles, Fly Barry Roberts with a nice Devonta Smith. And the final box of the first case, good luck. It is Davis Mills for the Texans. Texans could be a fun team to watch this year. 40 out of 50, young quarterback running around. Damien Pierce, so on and so forth. Kind of a good underdog story. Houston Texans, that'll be for Daniel Smith. Daniel with Davis. All right, let's play two, those Arnie Banks would say. All right, they got the Dodgers listed at plus 360 for the World Series as of right now. That does seem like a pretty good value. What are some of the other teams around that, just to get an idea? We should have looked at Super Bowl odds before week one and then see how wildly they changed, if at all. Does Vegas make knee-jerk reactions? Maybe not. People make knee-jerk reactions. How many people put money on their respective teams once they, how many Seattle fans rush to their betting out? I don't know, does Washington State have it? Or rush to their off-shore books to put a little money on Seattle in the division. We've got Garrett Wilson, Jersey and autograph to 199. That's for the New York Jets. That's Kevin, it's Kevin Sheppard again. Shepp winning that particular spot, getting randomized the Jets and being rewarded with the RPA. So the next three are Houston plus 425, Metz plus 500. The Yankees plus 500. Interesting, yeah, 360 is not bad. I honestly thought all those next four teams, I thought they'd be all lower. I thought the Dodgers would be at plus 200. I thought the, almost rockets. Houston Astros would be at like plus 360 or 350. I thought they'd all be about 100 points lower. We've got a graded card here, not too many graded cards in this. And it's CDLAM, 910 from Panini One. Centering is a 9-5, edges a 10, corners and surface a nine, but the autograph is a 10. And that's 50 out of 99 for the boys. For the boys, that's gonna be Daniel with the Cowboys. I got the Jets off the board, so Daniel not part of that hitless promo, thankfully. Not hitless, gotta hit, integrated card too. The only other team under 1000 is Atlanta plus 800. Now I wonder what's, I'm not very good with those Futures-E type bets, but like where is 360 value or is betting like longer shots value? Gabriel Davis tried to trade, couldn't trade Mojo for Mark Rao. That little sliver of blue right there, three color patch, on card auto, 182 out of 299, out of limited football. Buffalo! Yeah, I guess 360 is pretty great. I had a chart, I should look this up. I had a chart where I found a website where they found maybe end of regular season, odds on those Futures and who ended up winning, or maybe there were pre-season ones. Clyde Edwards-E-Lair, nice day for him, week one. Sliver of white right there, three color patch, purple ink autograph from Spectra. It's a rookie as well, one out of 35. Chiefs, Colin with the Chiefs. Travis Etienne Jr., trophy collection autograph, rookie out of 78 out of 99, out of illusions.  We have Rondale Moore from Panini One. 69 out of 125, two color patch, on card autograph, nice RPA. That's for Kenneth, who won that spot in the filler. Oh, Sameless Carnals, plus 2,200. Yeah, maybe you gotta sprinkle it around a little bit, maybe a little bit on the Dodgers, maybe a little bit on like one of those plus 400, plus 500 teams, and a plus 1,000 team. Cooper Cup, triple relic and autograph, four out of 75, nice RPA from Gold Standard. Love the way Gold, when does Gold Standard come out? Rams, that's gonna be for Colin, and the Rammelie. Three to go, and it is Jalen Hertz, rookie autograph for the Eagles. Nice, and his college gear, 109 out of 199, from 2020 Luminance Football. For the Fly Eagles Fly, they've already hit Barry with another one, could be a big year for the Eagles. You know, they gave up some garbage time points to the Lions, and Scoreline made it look closer than it really was, but they've got a pretty well-balanced team, and if Jalen Hertz takes it to the next level, that could be a great season for them. Mike Evans, 34 out of 49, from National Treasures, 2016 NT Football, nice, Buccaneers. That is for Ryan Heintz, won that spot, got randomized the Buccaneers, gets the Mike Evans. Mikey E, Mikey E. All right, final one, Rashad Bateman, 90 out of 149. I know DuVernay had the touchdowns, but I feel like Rashad Bateman had a pretty nice day. That could be a fun team to watch. Lamar Jackson, betting on himself, loved to see it. Jose with the Ravens, and there you go gang. Now, let's flip screens again. Unfortunately, this group right here, you went hitless. Sucks, don't like it, don't wanna see it, but consolation prize is possible. Let's clear out the blank lines here, and we're gonna randomize these hitless names, and the name on top, the top two names will get those Trevor Lawrence boxes after three. Now, I'm pretty sure we looked these up. I think sealed, they're selling for like 60 bucks or so, but if you choose to open it, you get a Trevor Lawrence autograph out of there, those are selling pretty well in the secondary market. One out of two, three times, top two after three. Good luck, one, one, two, and three. Chad and Colin, congrats to you. We went hitless, but we'll get a couple of these boxes going your way. The sorting team will choose which one you get. Thanks for watching everybody, I'm Joe for jazby'scasewrakes.com. Have a great night, we'll see you next time for the next one, bye bye.


This is stock number 20J234B. We are here at Summit Automotive in Vondellac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2013 Mazda CX-5 all-wheel drive Touring. This vehicle has the two-liter four-cylinder sky-active technology, four-cylinder motor and it pumps out 155 horsepower. This car has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this vehicle is 100% ready to go. Black mica clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this Mazda in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website click that and check us out there. 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Those seats do fold down and they go almost completely flat it's it's almost perfect which I'll show you in just a second this one does have the backup camera and as you go down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side no dense or dings on the rear quarter and for full disclosure this back rim not too bad of shape couple little scuffs and stuff but nothing too bad down the rest of the side of the car looks really good no dense no dings you do get blind spot monitoring in the mirrors as well as directional signals inside the touring package gives you the black cloth interior there are no rips there are no tears on the seats you get factory floor mats throughout traction control blind spot monitoring and then your tire pressure sensor light there power windows power locks and power mirrors and as we hop inside the vehicle here I'm gonna start her up and see that this one has 97,900 miles you an average miles per gallon there outside temperature display 28 miles per gallon that's pretty good you get the leather wrapped steering wheel Bluetooth and audio controls on the left no rips or tears on that steering wheel leather cruise controls on the right you get AM FM stereo on here this is also where your backup camera shows up see that's really nice there and then do you have climate controls down there notice you get that gloss black dash trim passenger side format and seat are in excellent shape but can see any rips or tears on that seat you get side curtain airbags and the headliner is in pretty nice shape map lights up there and we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then check out under the hood back seats are in excellent condition as well no rips or tears does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have carpeting is nice and clean back here and these seats do fold down for extra storage and look how nice and flat that goes almost perfectly horizontal and then you do get child safety locks on the back doors as well we'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this CX-5 is all the way around inside note under the hood we have the 2 liter four-cylinder sky-active technology engine 155 horsepower engine base very clean runs very smooth this vehicle has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off this CX-5 is 100% ready to go you can see those projector lamp headlamps and normal fog lights right there nice and bright and to see more pictures of this monster and one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers you name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more CX-5 videos like this one on Rafe you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look for helping with this super clean 2013 Mazda CX-5 all-wheel drive touring in black mica clear coat thanks again for checking out the video


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Amen. Okay, so we're there in Exodus chapter 20. Keep your place there. We're going to be going back and forth there in Exodus chapter 20 throughout the sermon. So we're finishing up tonight the boot series. The poor boot series got booted several times over the last couple months, I think, but we started it. We're talking about 1 Corinthians 511 and the six sins that will get you booted out of church and you know that will cause for someone to actually have to be put out of the church. I'll just read it for you one last time. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 511, but now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such an one know not to eat. So tonight we're talking about the last of these sins in this list, which is idolatry. And I don't know why I picked that one to be last. I think I was kind of thinking about the sins that people might struggle with. Idolatry is probably not something that you know literal idolatry is probably not something that many Baptists struggle with, but we're talking about idolatry tonight. And in Exodus chapter 20 we see the verse about the Ten Commandments and Moses given the Ten Commandments. So what is idolatry as we begin tonight? You know what is idolatry according to the Bible? Look down at Exodus chapter 20 and verse number one. And the Bible says, And God spake all these words saying, I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage.  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the Lord God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generations of them that hate me. Turn to Leviticus chapter 26. Leviticus chapter 26. So what is idolatry? So here we see in verse number four that the Bible talks about not making a graven image, not making a graven image. And if you look at Leviticus chapter 26, the Bible defines this further for us where it says, He shall make you no idols nor graven image, equating the graven image with an idol. So making a graven image is something that is commanded against in Exodus 20 when Moses was given the Ten Commandments. So what are the idols? What are they? What do they mean? What do they signify? Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. When you're there, when you're going there, I'm going to read for you Habakkuk chapter 2 in verse number 18 where the Bible reads what propheteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath given it, the molten image, and a teacher of lies that the maker of his work trusted therein to make dumb idols.  Are you there in 1 Corinthians chapter 12?  So the Bible tells us that the idol itself is nothing.  It's nothing, it's dumb.  I mean the idol is nothing. So that's the Bible tells us that the idol itself is nothing. It doesn't have any power, it's not a God, it's just a piece of wood, the Bible says. So the question, I mean it begs the question of this nothingness. If man is just left to himself, God looks down on this earth and man's just left to himself, and he just starts carving all these idols. I mean why? You ever wonder that? What would compel men to make idols? Turn to Revelation in chapter nine. The Bible tells us, the Bible tells us what would compel men to make idols. What would compel men to make those sculptures that are a block down the street on the corner of the building? What would compel men to make that? I mean somebody made that, right? Look at Revelation chapter nine and verse number twenty. And the Bible says this, And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter ten. So they were worshiping devils and these idols of gold, silver, brass, stone and of wood. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter ten and verse number twenty. And the Bible says, But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God, and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. In other parts of the New Testament, the Bible talks about whether or not you should eat things sacrificed to not devils, it replaces that with idols. Okay, so these idols represent devils. These idols represent demons on this earth. That's where they come from. That's what compels men to make idols. It's demonic influence on men is what compels them to do so. And when you look at some of these idols, when you look at the artistic things that we'll see in this world, it's very easy to see that that is not of God. So that's where these idols come from. Have you ever looked at the Hindu gods? I was going to actually print out a picture of one, but I decided not to. If you look at Kali, the Hindu god, and any kind of artistic representation of that, it's like this demon with all these arms with men's heads around his neck, and it's just bloody and he's just murdering people. It's demonic. It's very clear to see that it's demonic. No man who is saved or has the spirit of God in him is going to create an idol like that. Some things that we can see in this world are just very clear evidence of Satan's presence here on earth. And that's what we should use those things for. Just notice that so we know what we're up against. We know what we're fighting against here, but that's where the idols come from. It's demonic influence. It's demonic influence. So you say idolatry today. Is there really idolatry today? I mean, who's going to get kicked out of church for idolatry? Hopefully nobody that we know. But idolatry in America is huge. And you know where idolatry in America is huge? This little organization called the Catholic Church is huge into idolatry. The formation of Roman Catholicism was born in idolatry. It was born in idolatry. It was this mix of Roman paganism with Christianity that mixed in. That's what Constantine created in 313 AD. If you've ever read about the religion of the Romans before they decided, they were persecuting the Christians from 60, 70 AD all the way through 313 AD.  But if you read about, not to get off on that rabbit trail, but if you read about the Roman religion before it joined with the Christian leaders of the day, before Constantine brought this weird mix together, it's confusing. It's almost so complicated. I mean, there's so many different gods. I mean, the emperors, the Caesar's were declaring themselves as God. I mean, it's really confusing. I mean, the actual story of the foundation of Rome goes something like this. It's these, Mars, the god of war, had a child with this woman, and it was these twins, and they were sent down the river, and they were raised by, this is the story of Romulus and Remus. And they were raised by a wolf. I mean, this is normal, right? This happens all the time. So they were raised by a wolf, and these two boys were rescued, and they became shepherds, and then they went to Rome, and they got in this huge fight, this power struggle over who was going to rule Rome, because they're half God, right? These men. And then Romulus kills Remus, and Romulus forms the nation of Rome, city of Rome, right? And that begins the Roman Empire.  And then you take the Greek mythology, and you twist it into it, because the Greek mythology gets twisted into the paganism of the Roman Empire as well.  So when Constantine married up, he decided that he was going to try to rule the world through the power of this new faith that was taking over everything that they couldn't get rid of, because they couldn't kill them all. They tried. You want to get Baptist fired up, start killing us. So he couldn't get rid of it, so he's like, you can't beat them, join them. So they just married it all up, and that's where all these Catholic idols come from that are still around today. Just a couple of examples. Rome had to find a replacement for the goddess worship. There is absolutely no history of worshiping Mary before 313 AD. Shocking. But it was perfect. Mary, the mother of Jesus, hey, we can give the pagans their goddess. It fits perfectly. You know, the pope, you know, since the formation of the Roman Empire, most emperors, including Constantine himself, by the way, declared themselves Pontifix Maximus, which is the pagan high priest. And in 337 AD, the emperor Gratian didn't want to declare himself the pagan high priest, so guess who took over? The bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. And from then on, you have your pope that everyone worships, you know, as the supreme leader. That is how a pagan priest became the pope, right there. I mean, this is really its own sermon series, but you want to read a history that is filled with murder and sodomy and rape and incest and bestiality and all the sickest, twistedest, most things you could possibly imagine in history. Read the history of the popes. It's disgusting. The things that these men did, and they're on record, they're on record saying, some of them, that they did these things. I mean, it's not historical question marks. I mean, you have to be willingly blind to not want to go out and find these things out. Okay, back to, you know, you talk about a cult. I mean, it's the biggest cult in America today. Back to idolatry. So when you look at Exodus chapter 20, the Catholics have a problem because the Bible says don't make any graven images. So they did a lot of things. They had councils and, you know, the council of Trent in 1563. They basically said it was lawful to have idols because people were questioning it. A couple of quotes I have here. The Catholic Council of Trent declared it is lawful to have images in the church and to give honor and worship to them. Images are put in churches that they may be worshiped. The images of Christ, of the Virgin Mother of God, and of other saints are to be retained, particularly in temples and churches, and that due honor and veneration are to be given to them. Veneration is like this secondary worship that Catholics, it's a word that they use so they can get away with worshiping saints and Mary and all these things. They don't say, oh, it's not the same kind of worship we give God. Yeah, whatever, right? I mean, great prophet is derived from sacred images, great prophet. So they think that they have power, that these images have power. By the images which we kiss and before which we uncover the head and prostrate ourselves, we adore Christ, we venerate the saints whose similitude they bear, and then it goes into relics.  Any of you ever been to a church, an Orthodox or Catholic church outside the United States of America? I was in Armenia about 15 years ago and I was still Lutheran at the time, but I went and I visited a lot of these churches on my spare time.  Marble everything, I mean, blocks of marble, bigger than you could even imagine, bigger than suburbans building these churches. Hundreds of feet tall, beautiful interiors of these churches and I was in the main church in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia and then the back center of the church, they have this shrine. And granted, I was Lutheran at the time. So, I mean, I was kind of Catholic light myself.   And I mean, you wouldn't even believe it.  I mean, yeah, oh yeah, we're a cult. What? I mean, it's the strangest thing ever.   He's like, I want people cutting him up and worshiping his bones.  Thank goodness.  I mean, it is the strangest thing ever. Now look, this Catholic idolatry, I mean, just think about it. I mean, in this country, we're actually probably a little too used to it, I think. But think about how strange it is. I mean, just think about, no one knows what Jesus looks like. Yet everybody's painting his picture. Think about that. Think about how weird that is. What if I told you, like, hey, I have this friend. His name is George. He's a really good friend of mine. He's a good friend of mine. They're like, what does he look like? I'm like, well, here, here, this. Here's George. What? This is George. How about if I made it like some naked picture of George? That'd be even weirder. Right? I was like, well, you know, I got this other friend and his name is Brother Ryan. Here. What? Does he look like this? I have no idea. It's weird. You see my point? I mean, I'm being funny, but it's strange. It's sickening, really. Wouldn't that be insulting to Brother Ryan? Huh? I mean, this is my friend, Brother Ryan. That's insulting to him. Brother George. It's insulting. I mean, look at his teeth. Look, it's insulting. You want to insult God?  It's not even him. I mean, to make paintings where he's holding a sheep, it's not even him. It's not even him. It's just they're making fake gods. And while they're doing it, they're insulting the Lord Jesus Christ.  Who would even make a portrait of somebody that they don't even know what they look like? It's weird. But just because it's this major Catholic church that everyone's used to, we're all desensitized to it. It should make us mad. It should make us sick. I mean, they're insulting the Lord Jesus Christ.  And everybody knows it. And all the priests today are the same. And then they just insult the Lord Jesus Christ.  So how does God feel about idolatry? All that being said. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 27. This is why we have to reach the Catholic in Fresno. And Catholics are some of the easiest people to get saved because the religion is the dumbest thing you could possibly think of when it comes to what the Bible actually says. I mean, we're just going to look at a couple of things tonight. But when you look at what the Catholic church teaches and what the Bible actually says, that's why Catholics are so easy to get saved. Because an honest Catholic will tell you that he has no idea if he's going to heaven. No idea. An honest, humble Catholic will tell you that. And when you show them what the Bible says, see, the beauty of the Catholic sitting in the pews is that in their mind they believe the Bible.  So that's why when you open the Bible and you show them and you say, do you believe these things, they say, yeah, because it's in the Bible. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 27 and verse number 15. The Bible says, verse it, be the man that maketh any graven or molten image and abomination unto the Lord and the work of the hands of the craftsmen and put it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say amen. Deuteronomy 13, verse number one through five. Go to Deuteronomy 13, verse number one through five. The Bible reads, if there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveeth thee a sign or a wonder, come to pass, where have ye spake unto thee, saying, let us go after other gods which thou hast not known and let us serve them. Now shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams.  Ye shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice. And ye shall serve him and cleave unto him. And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn away you from the Lord your God. We'll just stop reading there. God says curse would be the man that maketh any grave an image. He says if you have somebody who's telling you to turn away and worship other gods, whether those be idols or whatever, they should just be put to death. Period. Now, what qualifies today as an actual idol? I'm going to give you that from the Bible right now, okay? There's many differing opinions on this, by the way, even amongst Baptists. But we'll just do a little Bible study. What are the Ten Commandments? Look at Exodus. I'll just read Exodus 34. Go back to Exodus 20. We're going to do a quick study of the Ten Commandments. I'm not quite done with the Catholics yet, but we'll do a quick study of the Ten Commandments. Because you know what? They get that one wrong, too. The Ten Commandments.  Exodus 34, 28 says, we need the Ten Commandments. What do you mean the Ten Commandments? And there was there with the Lord 40, and he was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights. He didn't either eat bread nor drink water. He wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. So the Bible tells us there's these Ten Commandments. And Exodus 20 lists them for us, all right? Now, in order to understand what an actual idol is, let's just do a quick study of the Ten Commandments. We'll do this in five minutes. The first commandment, verse number three.  The second commandment. Thou shalt not make unto the aggraven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or as in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor serve them, for I the Lord, thy God am a jealous God, visiting the equity of the fathers unto the children of the third and fourth generation of them. They hate me. Verse number six. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandment. So verses number four, five and six talk about the second commandment. Thou shalt not make aggraven image, all right? Commandment number three, verse number seven. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Commandment number four is verse number eight. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. And then verses number nine, ten, eleven describe keeping the Sabbath day, okay? Verse number twelve, honor thy father and mother, is commandment number five. Verse number thirteen, thou shalt not kill, is commandment number six.  Thou shalt not steal, is number eight. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, is commandment number nine. And then verse number seventeen, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything as thy neighbor's, is commandment number ten. So there you have one through ten. Now, the Catholics have a problem with commandment number two, so they basically get rid of it. They just delete it. And then what they do is they just take the covetous commandment in verse number 17 and they split it into two commandments.  The Catholic 9th commandment is, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. So apparently like the house deserves its own special commandment.  Now, look, just to respect the wife a little bit more than that, I would have made her own commandment and put the property, you know, somewhere else. But they basically split this, thou shalt not covet into two commandments to make up for the one they deleted. Alright, so, I mean, back to the 10 commandments. So, look back at commandment number two, which is verses four, five, and six. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is heaven above or is an earth beneath or is in the water under the earth. Then in verse five, thou shalt not bow thyself, that bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the equity. Verses four and five are the same commandment, okay? That means that a religious image that you bow down to, that you worship, is an idol, okay? A religious image, a statue that has religious connotations is an idol. Look, if it's an image of any kind, and then you have to also say that, you know, thou shalt not worship that image, now you have 11 commandments. There's a problem with that, alright? So, what I'm trying to tell you is that statues of saints, Mary, pictures, statues of Jesus, any religious image, basically, is an idol, according to the Bible. Look, even Catholic, I mean Catholic necklaces and medallions, those are idols. I remember I was given by someone in my family, I don't remember who a necklace when I was a kid of St. Anthony, and if I ever lost anything, I was just supposed to pray to this idol on my neck, and I would find my keys or whatever.  It's real. I mean, you think all these things are funny, brother. But unfortunately, they're real, I'm just joking with you. But it's real, it has religious people are worshiping it in a way. They're giving it veneration, okay? A statue, our neighbors used to have a statue, I suppose it was Mary, in the trees in their farm. I'm just like, what is she doing? I mean, I had dogs to watch for coyotes, you know, but apparently she had a statue. But it did something for her, it was some kind of protection or something for their home, for their yard, for their farm, whatever. So, any image, look, the deer heads on my wall at home are not an idol because they have no religious connotation, they have no, you know, I don't worship them. Not anymore, I'm just kidding. But you see, they have no religious connotation.   You know, that's where you kind of, that's where you run in. And I'm not, you know, upset at anybody that takes things that far or anything, but the point is that, you know, the stance of this church anyway is that any religious image or carving or anything that has any kind of religious connotation, anything religious in general, even if you're not worshiping, I would stay away from it personally. Because, I mean, people think that these things, they put these pictures in their house and they put these statues in their house for a reason because there's a thought in their mind that this is doing something for their home, even the cross on the wall. Even the cross on the wall, there's a thought that that piece of wood is giving them some kind of religious protection or something. The cross around your neck, the same thing. You think that it's giving you some kind of protection or something. That's an idol. It's a religious carving. You need to stay away from those types of things. Okay?  And he's right to be jealous. I mean, one of the things that you will read about God's personality throughout the Bible is that God wants the credit for what he has done. He wants all the credit. And people get into a lot of trouble in the Bible when they do not give God the credit. And having an idol, even ignorantly, is taking credit from God. Is taking credit from the Lord Jesus Christ and what he has done, you know, for us. 1 Timothy 2.5, the Bible says for there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ, Jesus. That's all we need. Amen. We don't need, you know, saints or, I mean, you know, I mean, not to get back on that again, but I mean, we don't need any of that. You don't need the cross above your door to guard your house.  Why don't you just get down on your knees and pray to the Lord Jesus Christ that he protect your family? That he heal your child?  You don't need anything, you don't have to rub anything. You don't need to put anything in your yard. Just pray to the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you're saved, the Bible says God will hear you. You know, there's one mediator and it's the man Christ Jesus. That's it. Pray to him. So, I don't have a lot to say about idolatry tonight, but you may not have physical idols, you know, in your home, but there is another thing out there called, you know, idols of the heart, right? Remember 1 Kings chapter 11? Go ahead and turn there. 1 Kings chapter 11. We'll go to 1 Kings chapter 11 and then we'll go to Matthew 13 and then we'll finish up from there. But God, you know, God wants the credit for everything. That's why it's all grace, salvation. That's why it can't be, you know, even a little bit works. You know, remember Romans 11, 6? You know, if it be works, if it be of works, then it is no more of grace. So, that's why, you know, we run into these people like all the time that are just, it's believing in works and you have to get them off of that. Because that's not salvation. And you say, why isn't it salvation? They believe in Jesus, but they also just believe that, you know, they have to be good. Because God wants the credit for what he did. That's why.  I mean, he wants the credit for it. So, it can't even be a little bit of works. All right, it makes sense. If I've done something so great for you, you're going to give me all the credit for it before you get that gift. That's it. That's why it's all grace. And not even a little bit works. All right, are you in 1 Kings 11 and verse number 4? We read this this morning. For it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God and the heart of David his father. So, you see here that there are things other than physical idols. There are things in your life that can turn your heart away from God. In this case, it was Solomon's wives. It was all these women, these wives and concubines that he married. Now, look, this is a fairly big problem today. And I'm not going to get too deep into this because I believe 1 Corinthians 5.11 is talking about actual idolatry. But idolatry, the heart, is a huge problem in America. Did you turn to Matthew 13? It's a huge problem in America and I'm telling you that you are going to struggle with it in your life as a saved believer. And what do I mean? I mean anything that takes your focus off of the spiritual can be considered an idol of your heart. Anything that takes your heart away from the Lord. This is why I left my career that I was in because I didn't want this happening because I know that your heart can really only be in one place. And God knows that. I want my heart to be here. Look, chasing after riches, material possessions, houses, cars, whatever. Those are all idols that can become idols in your life. We talked about talking about dress standards. We talked about women hanging onto this idea and not wanting to completely give over to what the Bible says. Something like that that you're hung up on and you can't just read the Bible and listen to what it says and just do it. An idol in your life. It's slowing you up. It's stopping you from growing. Look at Matthew 13. This is the parable of the sower. Look down to verse number 22. And he also that received the seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word and he become unfruitful. So what's the danger in your life of these idols?  Don't be this guy, by the way. Don't be this guy that gets into church and starts doing the right things and gets it together and gets a job and works hard like he's supposed to and then God comes and he blesses that and then you let it choke you spiritually. Don't be that guy. Don't be Solomon. Don't have to write the book of Ecclesiastes at the end of your life, please. Solomon already did it for you. Let's just take that and learn it. Learn from it. So anything, you know, anything, the thorns of this world that can just turn your heart from the Lord, those are your idols. So we see that, you know, there is actual idolatry today. We've actually been desensitized to it. It should offend us way more than it does already.  Because that is our Lord and Savior that they are blaspheming and basically, you know, insulting. So that's the physical idolatry. But us ourselves, you say, I don't have any of those things. You know, if you do get rid of them, because the Bible says so, because it's stealing credit from God, but watch out for these heart idols, too. Just be careful. Be careful in your life that you don't take God's blessings and stab him in the back with them. Because that's what it is, right?  God blesses you with a family. He blesses you with promotions at work.   But we do it all the time. Men greater than any men in this room have fallen from this. Have gotten choked from this. I mean, look at men that you know, men of God that have just fallen smack on their face. I mean, don't think that you are immune to any of it. So we need to be watching. We need to watch each other. Because many times, here's another thing, many times you will not see it yourself, but maybe your brother will. I've seen this on both ways where, you know, a brother is just getting really like back slitted and just he's just caring way too much about the things of the world and he's slipping out of church and he's not going soul winning anymore. It doesn't happen overnight. It happens just a little bit at a time. Everybody else sees it, but he doesn't see it. So let's just be watching for each other. I'm not talking being nosy. Let's just be watching for each other because these things can creep in on us too. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word, Lord. We thank you for your law. We thank you for the Ten Commandments and just making your law clear to us, Lord. Lord, I pray for all those people out there that are just caught up in false religion. I pray that you humble their hearts, Lord, so when we knock on those doors, they'll be ready to hear the truth and we'll be ready to tell them, Lord. We thank you so much for the soul winning today, Lord.  I thank you for the gospel. I thank you for the power of your word and the privilege that I have and the people in this room, Lord. I mean, I just, I thank you so much for letting me be a small part of this. And I just pray that you continue to bless this ministry and the people in this city, Lord. Just help us reach them all. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


Good morning, I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm going to share with you some things that are making me happy. Some things that are working and not working. I'm going to talk a little bit about my CPAP and I'll save that toward the end because I had a lot of questions about that and then I'm just going to follow up on a few things. And I'm going to announce the winners of last times giveaway, so that always really makes me happy. And today I was planning on wearing makeup, but when I talk about the CPAP, you'll understand I did put on some blush. So I've got a mascara. I've tamed my brows with something clear. I have on a the Tarte Maracuja lip balm in Passion and then I put one dot. I'm not kidding you the tiniest dot. Milani Kiss Cheek and I put my fingers together and I put it on my cheeks and on this side of the camera it looks very, very, very pink. So I don't know how it will translate. It is interesting how I can put on a lipstick and think it's super dark and when I look on the video it is not near as dark. The first thing that really made me happy is something I got last November. My sister just sent it to me and it was from Amazon and it's a Himalayan salt lamp. And I just think this is beautiful. I've used it every day since I got it. You can maybe you can make it really bright and you can bring it down very low and turn it off. It's not near as pretty when it's off. My sister use has quite a few of these and she's loved them for years. She said the body source was a good brand and something about Windsor and I'll type it in that she really recommended those but I've really enjoyed having this. I know there are health benefits but I'm not going to get into those because it's all available online. Do you know that I have been on a quest that anything that makes my life easier I'm going to consider and this definitely fits the bill. This is a broom and a dustpan and you can just place the dustpan. You all probably have one of these already but I didn't. I'll put a picture in of how it works but what I like you only need like 5.9 inches or 6 inches little space to slip it in and it'll stay. The broom is attached there and it has this area that you can clean your broom off with. It really has made me happy and Jim was sweeping up something the other day and which is wonderful. I don't know that he would have done that had he not seen me use this because it does make it easy and when you can just dump your contents out in the trash I don't know what brand it is I just like it. I am happy to say Ulta has started using padded envelopes and they are reusable. You can use them to send something to somebody else but I received something from them I bought something and it wasn't busted up because I tell you what you could order powder and it would be in a box the powder would be in a box and it would be put in a big box and it just went everywhere and so many things were broken so I'm glad they started doing that. I get really tickled I don't watch TikTok but sometimes you'll see people making videos about what they saw on TikTok and one of the hacks that I saw was about an avocado and I will tell you how to make an avocado last three weeks and this wasn't in the hack but our avocados usually are hard when we get them so I buy a bag or mostly I buy two bags of you know the smaller avocados and I put them on my countertop and they're hard and I go by every day and I just kind of I don't squeeze it I just kind of see if it presses in at all and I'll do that for several days but once it's where I can press it gently and it gives I put them in the refrigerator. Well I made some excellent guacamole three and a half weeks after I purchased my avocados and it just works real well. If you check them every day and put them in your refrigerator I knew mine lasted three and a half weeks and there's other ways you can look at the top where it was attached but you have to take that little thing off to see it. I like romaine lettuce so I usually buy three hearts at one time and when I get it out it's put the bag in the refrigerator and then I take it out and I break off the end if you want your lettuce to last a long time don't use scissors on it or don't use a knife on it and then I wash it and I let it kind of drip place it on a paper towel and put it back in the container it came in of course I've already washed that out and my lettuce will last up to three weeks but I do have something I'm going to throw this in. I don't I don't think I'm going to ever be able to get that amulet or watchman for my heart because of the atrial fib so I went I got off cumitin and I am now on eliquus and I know it's going to it's a lot more expensive but I can eat the greens anytime I want to but for nine years I've been taking 10 milligrams of cumitin every day I get my blood checked once a month and that part's not bad but having to actually limit the amount of vitamin k foods which are the things I love Brussels sprouts spinach any leafy green I'm not wasn't willing to go higher than 10 milligrams I'm going to try eliquus at least for this year and then we'll see what happens not every time but a lot of the times I get samples for bill bars and I got some really good samples and I don't know if they're available now but if you have received these offered again then at least you will have heard of them one of them was the was the mint brownie and I would not have ordered these because I would have thought it would have had brownie chunks in it but it didn't it was as smooth as can be I'm not a mint fan both of my sisters are like the Girl Scout cookies the thin myths would be my least favorite but I loved these mint bars and these are puffs so I just wanted to share that with you I don't eat a lot of processed food but this to me I like the built puffs the best they have they're lower calorie lower in carbohydrates and they have usually anywhere like 17 grams of protein so even though it has a lot of things written there and that I'm aware of this for me works real well when I have I'm hungry for something sweet that does not make my stomach hurt and that does not make me crave more so I do always have a discount code 10 off and I want to thank you any of you who have used that discount code because that enables me to get the free samples and I do earn a little commission I probably had been eating these for a year before I got the commission so I felt good about it there was something I signed up for that I was so excited for and it did not work in my area and what it is is Walmart plus for 90 some dollars a month you got paramount plus I believe which is five dollars a month so that's 60 dollars if you were going to be getting the paramount plus plus app anyway so that brought that cost down to like 34 dollars you got free shipping and handling on anything you ordered from Walmart and the thing that kind of got me it was free grocery delivery so if you look in your area and see that they have that available and you're interested in having your groceries delivered or having free shipping and handling from Walmart it is a good deal and I will put a link to it so you can read about it but I was real happy when I found out that it did not deliver groceries in our area I canceled it I have you know you have 30 days a free trial and they just accepted my cancellation perfectly but I will get that once they do the delivery in our area what I'm going to talk about goes back to my last video and I'll put a link to it here and if you're interested in it I had a lot of questions about the Omni Lux mask and I did a 32 week review I'm going to keep using it it's comfortable it's I use it four times a week and I know I'm going to get two years use from it because that's as long as it's guaranteed if it went out I mean after two years I'm going to take those specifications I'm keeping them because I know the specifications that are on the Omni Lux mask works for my 69 year old skin so I will look at other masks but I want to make sure it is contour I want to make sure it's comfortable and I think just like I was telling some people when I bought my first first microwave it was almost $500 and the last one we purchased was $45 so I think the price will come down it's not something you have to jump on and get I'm not willing to take one and rub it all over my face I just want to put it on and sit there and let it do its magic so that's the answer to that I'm still using my first future formula I've used it four nights a week since January the 30th there were several products I didn't want you to use when you started this and one of them was vitamin c and I use vitamin c plus e plus ferulic acid and love it so I was off of it for four weeks and now I'm back I learned so much from you all I did not realize curology was still in business I'll type the website up here if you're interested in another way to get retin A that is $10 less a month I will put it up there and you can go and give the information I thought this future formula replaced what cureology did so I wanted to share that and good rx a lot of you are already using good rx to buy just your regular retin A your retretinoin because whether you have insurance or not you can check the good rx website and see what your cost would be there versus a drugstore even if you have insurance jim always gets his inhalers through good rx I do know about a good sale coming up from dermatology and it's 30% site-wide I love their tinted moisturizer I love their peptide cream they have an excellent cleanser that it burned my eyes but those are the things that I use all the time the peptide cream and it's not that I don't like a lot of the other products they're a lot more expensive than what I want to pay for it like their vitamin c plus e plus ferulic acid I don't know I'll check and see if it's 30% off is I don't know if I will or not but those are the products that I stand by it's their sixth anniversary sale it's April the first through the 10th and if you click on the link that I provide below it'll take you directly to their website and you don't have to put in any code whatsoever and you'll get 30% off of your total free shipping to anything over $40 free shipping in the United States and Canada so I thought that was good in the past I'd mentioned that Dermstore had gotten in touch with me regarding a 15% off code I have that I have it below I've ordered something and it works and skin store is 25% off so I'll put those links below a lot of times when you go to their website their percent off is better than mine so I thought I'd just tell you that but I'm always happy I buy like grande brow grande lash revitalize for my hair the foam there's several things that I buy and I noticed one of them had cover girl it had revolution I haven't really gone through all the brands they have I really thought it was just all expensive stuff so now I'm gonna talk about my CPAP and then I'm going to announce the winners you may not find this interesting but even if I didn't have a CPAP machine I want to learn I want to learn about anything I want to learn how snakes have sex you know how do snakes have babies I want to learn about little houses those little bitty homes that people live in there are some I'm just so curious I want to watch any video I can even though I don't ever want plastic surgery I love watching those things so the people that have have a CPAP you might be interested but this is what mine looks like this goes under my nose these go down my cheeks this goes in the back of my head and this is where the air goes through and it's at the top of the head and so I added these because it really hurt my cheekbones and these are those makeup wipes and I just sewed them and then when I take it apart to clean it every week you just pop this off and this comes out and I can wash these separately but it really bothered me and what has worked for me is the nasal cushion and I'm going to bring it up close and then I'm also going to put a picture to me it reminds me like of a sling with two holes and it goes up underneath your nose it doesn't go in your nose and then that's it goes to that that strap then it goes up here and goes in the back and it's I'm doing okay with it I'm still have a lot of work to do but I'm wearing it every night I really wanted to try the nasal pillows and that this is what they look like they have they actually go in your nose but what's so cool about them is you just put this behind your ear it has two sides and then you put it in your nose and that's all you wear I wore it one night semi comfortable the next night I don't know what happened but it made a sore in my mouth and I'm really chapped here that's why I couldn't wear makeup today because my nose this just runs from time to time so this still runs so I only use this two nights I might try it if we can figure out why it did that I might try it again but in the meantime I'm going to use what I have something that's been real helpful after the first night what I did I just put my hair on top of my head and I use real silk scrunchies because they won't draw moisture from your hair and they don't make a dent so I put that on top of my hair I put the strap back there and the top right there and it is so much better than having your hair down and you know messing with that I would say I am probably 65% doing well with it use it every night and sometimes I wake up feeling better and sometimes I don't and sometimes I wake up at two o'clock in the morning and I can't take it anymore but last night I wore it all night long so so that is a good thing so now I want to announce the winners of my last giveaway and what I'm going to be doing I'm going to be sending you a pack of the makeup remover claws I like I'm going to try to find the six by six inch there's several in a package the mad hippie cleansing cream that glitzy fritzy got me to buy just because she loved it and if you're not subscribed to mary I would love it if you would go check her out because because I wanted her to hit a goal we've been friends oh my gosh well since we started we've met and enjoyed each other's company so anyway she made me want to buy the mad hippie and then also the fukai oil that's what I use on my neck every other night I used random comment picker the word spring had to be in your comment first name that came up was mary meadows congratulations mary and the next name was joe d clark lumpa congratulations joe d and the last winner is ziggy's bookshop congratulations ziggy just make sure you leave a comment below and I'll let you know how to get in touch with me if you're out of if you're in a country that I can't send this to you will work it out and get something you like anyway it is all good as always I want you to know how much I appreciate you I will see you in my next video and you take care of this of and you can also tell at the top if you take that little it's attached the broom is attached and it but I but I was I did that you know


The program that I think I'm going to kind of speak to at this time is building capacity and community through construction trades. And so our partners here at TIRU are to ChemLoops as well as the MISKONLIFT band and this is the first time they've also partnered as well. So we submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Advanced Education and we were successful in receiving over a million dollars into the delivery of a program that incorporates essential skills, that incorporates people that have the skills in the communities without having their recognized government credentials. How do we get them to that place? As well as additional training within trades training that leads to industry training authority credentials, which do happen to ladder into degree programs as well. And so this program is just rolling out right now. We are looking at a target of over 80 students from each of those communities and the programs are being delivered in community. And so that has demonstrated that to us we've delivered many programs in communities our greatest success is when we can at least bring the beginning of the programs into communities and then our hopes are that those students will continue their education path here at TIRU or wherever they choose to go. And so in the case of this program we have significant supports built in. We have supports for elders. We have supports for ongoing tutors as well as instructors and then we're going to be incorporating cultural tradition and beliefs into trades training. So that's something that's kind of new for us as well too. So we're really excited we're at the forefront of this program and we see that over probably the last seven or eight years we've been delivering multiple programs in communities and seeing excellent success rates and seeing students coming to TIRU as well as finding success within their own communities as well and help with the economic development of their own communities as well as entrepreneurship opportunities as well. So that's a little bit about the program that we have going on right now and it's over three years. So for the past 12 years Compton Rivers University and School of Trades and Technology has been delivering a two-year diploma program in water and wastewater technology. So we were contacted by Indigenous Services Canada where they wanted water and wastewater operators that are operating their water systems in their first nation communities to have the education. So they liked our program, they liked all the courses, they liked the fact that they want to build this technological capacity within the communities and within the systems right because it's all about protection of human health and protection of the environment. So we have 198 first nation communities in British Columbia and we have students coming from every one of those communities in the last 12 years taking our education programs and training programs and basically what we have done in order, the reason we have had success is that we have built capacity within these each individual student to kind of come together and provide support for their fellow students. Then they go on and they come together to provide support and knowledge and capacity within their communities. So all I am doing and our school is doing is delivering the education and then we're building this capacity and this knowledge base and this technical knowledge with them that they can do this and then do things for themselves. So I've just created a fit, everything else is done by them and that is just the best. And it's so when we first came in most of the operate so there's a industry certification so most of the water operators were small water system operators because of our program and I don't know I can't I don't have data on it but because of our programs now we have operators that go up to the highest level which is level four and and because of our program the operators came together and formed this association called First Nation Operators Water Network and they therefore advocate for water systems, they advocate for community, they advocate for human health protection of the environment as well as their living conditions, their water system conditions, wages everything it's a huge advocacy organization that is arose and most of the people that started it are graduates for the program. So it has had like a huge benefit and then the other day we were told so we've had three intakes of these students so we deliver the diploma program on a part-time basis it takes four years to complete the diploma because these individuals our students are also operators in their community so they come on a part-time basis and finish the diploma in four years and then we were just recently asked to look at doing another intake so that would take us to six working with these communities for 16, 16 years it's called water and wastewater technology. And because of that you the communities end up with water this can be used. So what happens is that the money for the infrastructure or the system development is provided by Indian Northern Affairs or Indigenous Services Canada and we provide the training for the operators to run those systems effectively and then because there's a lot of boil water issues most of the boil water issues are in the communities because the water is not safe to drink because of the microbiological hazards. So right now in British Columbia there are 200 I don't have my data with me about 200 and so water systems and there are only 39 bowl water advisories and I can't say that's because of our program but it's slowly we're part of that reduction strategy and then in non-freshnation systems we have 4,800 small water systems where about 600 are bowl water advisory right. So the freshnation communities are doing excellent work on getting their bowl water notice, notice is reduced and the training and the education is all part of this this huge strategy. And is that wonder just reminded me of something as well with this program and the building of capacity and community through construction trades and the premise of that program was so first stations communities could build their own housing and so that's key we're seeing you know the greatest growth within the Indigenous communities here in the in the area and they need to be able to address their own housing issues and lack of funding has caused people living in squalor and they've been taken advantage of by some construction companies and this way it puts the power back into their hands again to be able to address their own needs within community as well as entrepreneurship opportunities. So maybe a comment before I maybe describe my take on that and that is that too often we provide the infrastructure of that investment to think that we solve the problem but we haven't solved the problem because there's no way to operate no we're trained to operate that equipment so it's not to unlike a technology solution comes into the institution but nobody can use this technology until they're trained and then that's an ongoing process to do that so here we're building capacity in terms of operators to be able to operate the equipment and keep it safe keep it maintained and so on the path that I wanted to focus on was what I'm approached on is not a specific program but an array of our trades programs by the industry in our area the industry have resource sharing agreements with the first nations and under those agreements there is a requirement for the diversification of their workforce and so they wish to diversify their workforce to have more indigenous peoples and more women indigenous people in their industries and they don't they don't have the skills to be able to do even some of the entry level positions to do that so we are putting on for example programs of women in trades and technology start getting them started in terms of the trades area to be able to make an enrol into some of those companies now when they do programs like that and others like heavy equipment operators operator these are short programs that a lot of the community and youth that have got the motivation that want to succeed they can do that these are weeks in terms of programs they get results within a few months not that you do something that is a you know much longer educational journey before you get there and so the good thing about being employed in those industries is that when an individual gets in then they get indentured as something called an apprentice and then when they become an apprentice they can become a carpenter many of the trades and become what's called red seal certified where they can now work anywhere across Canada across all the jurisdictions and take the credential with them and then further as had indicated earlier we actually have a degree here probably bachelor's in trades and technology leadership and so they get two years credit with that trades qualification towards that four-year degree so it is about I think working some of the programs are shorter in duration but skilled in terms of equipment operations and so on and getting people started in the industries the industries need those people in order to fulfill their resource sharing agreement so it's a win-win situation and furthermore of course is there is the community building as well in terms of the prosperity for the indigenous communities as well so it's a broader thing and it's a broader kind of initiative it applies to many of the trades programs it's not like a cohort of indigenous learners in just one area and by doing what we're doing we're basically helping multiple stakeholders you know achieve their success in their ranks and you know how we were talking about learning being both ways so in indigenous communities they have a model so what we have done when we create that center of excellence for BC small water system we are adapting that model to help other small water systems in British Columbia that are non-indigenous so that's and we are working and we're in progress of doing that right now well data of course completion rates exam results those are you know the obvious ones the ones that I think they get overlooked quite often maybe a student complete at that time but then they came back and they continued on with their education I think our vision for success sometimes is is quite short-term we need to look a little bit farther out to see what the impact of their experience in their education actually had on their lives and maybe those around them so it's that ripple out effect that you know that we speak about so often and it's all about systems as well too that small change that leave her here where did it affect who else did it affect it affect children did it affect parents other community members in many of our programs that are indigenous focus or specific and women entries we bring in others that have walked before them and that's when we hear about the true stories about success and so I think that narrative is is very very very important and when we start measuring success we need to start incorporating that qualitative you know data as well as the students going into trades technology education wonder asked why are you here and what's your success they're here for the number one reason they're here is is that they're after a career and create a success in their field so when an individual becomes employed that success for us there's success in other ways that we can measure as well but if I take the biggest overarching kind of success factor that's it and when I take that further to the indigenous communities I mentioned earlier that in those resource sharing agreements it's about the those industries being able to get the right people it's about having the right people in the right jobs at the right time is is that and so success for me is when somebody says I came to program I succeeded in the program and I'm now employed I'm personally satisfied in my career and and the fact that they have the opportunity can you continue to advance their their career the life journey and through the career so since we have social scientists in this this definitely quantitative data which is so easy to do but the qualitative data it's it tells incredible stories incredible incredible stories if we could sit here all day and talk about them and they'll make you cry we have the reports that we have to send to the ministry of advanced education on our programs you know that includes both the qualitative and the quantitative data and um some of the framework of the program etc where the successes were and I'd be happy to share those as well great because remember we're collecting our the narratives for the mining programs yeah I have to do it for all of my reporting for all the funds I get from the ministry of advanced ed so


In the Ed Sheeran-Jonathan Ross interview, Ed Sheeran opens up about substance abuse, but is Ed Sheeran a drug addict? In this video, I'm going to answer that question as well as educate you a little bit about how the disease of addiction works. So stay tuned. What's up everybody? It's Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And yes, recently Ed Sheeran went on the Jonathan Ross show and as he was doing this interview he was discussing his life, his tours, and he opened up a little bit about how the stress of stardom led him to abusing alcohol. Ed Sheeran said, you need to, when you get into the industry, adjust to it. And I didn't adjust because I was constantly on tour and all the pitfalls that people read about, I just found myself slipping into all of them, mostly like substance abuse. This is something that I talked about in another video about rock bottom and how we've had celebrities die from overdoses and what we need to realize is that no matter who you are, how successful you are, or that idea that happiness comes from money and success is not true.  So as a way to cope with all this stress, Ed Sheeran turned to alcohol and he said this, I didn't really notice it was happening. It just started gradually happening and then some people took me to one side and were like, calm yourself down. It's all fun to begin with. It starts off as a party and then you're doing it on your own and it's not. So that was a wake up call and taking a year off. He then goes on to say what he recognized about his drinking problem. I can't work under the influence. I can't write songs under the influence. I can't perform under the influence. So the more I worked, the less that happened. I've worked my whole life to get where I am and you can't lose it over something that you do in your spare time. Bravo, Mr. Sheeran. Bravo for catching this when it was in its early stages. So what I'm going to educate you about is how addiction actually forms. And no, I don't think Ed Sheeran is a drug addict or an alcoholic. In other videos that I will link up in the info card, I have discussed how turning to drugs or alcohol based on a specific trigger turns into a dependency, which turns into an addiction. So what I am here to teach you about is that addiction is actually on a spectrum. Okay, we have people who are abusing substances. We have people who become mentally or physically dependent. And then we have addiction where the entire power of choice is completely lost. So when people look at addicts and don't understand how it happened, just like Ed Sheeran said, it gradually happened over time. And luckily, some people pointed it out to him. Most people don't have that luxury. Most people have friends, family members who just think that this person likes to party. That's what happened to me. I was just known as party guy Chris. So as it continued to progress, it was very hard for people to spot because they're like, okay, Chris likes to party, but he also likes to party when he's by himself. Those of us who are addicts or alcoholics, we talk about how we cross this invisible line. And when we catch it at the beginning of that spectrum, it's a lot easier to stop that problem. You may have seen my other video where I talked about how I was making a submission to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, also known as ASAM. And ASAM has a criteria. And what that does is is that they look at people and they gauge where on the spectrum of addiction they are. And I will do another video diving into that. And if we're looking at that spectrum, Ed Sheeran was in the beginning stages, which means does he need to go to rehab? Probably not. Should he go to 12 step meetings? He probably doesn't need to. Can Ed Sheeran continue drinking and not have it be a problem? Most likely. He has not turned his brain into something that cannot live without drugs or alcohol. That has not happened to him yet. For the rest of us, we cross this line, we get an excess flood of dopamine, which is sometimes a genetic predisposition. And we can no longer safely drink or use drugs. Luckily Ed Sheeran stopped that before that happened. So if I were to see Ed Sheeran in a video or in a picture, having a beer or a cocktail, I wouldn't be all that worried because he was able to stop that addiction cycle in the very early stages. So if you are somebody out there who sees that you're getting into a habit of drinking or using drugs based on stress, based on depression, based on happiness, based on anger, any of those things, that is when it starts to spiral out of control. Because every time you have that emotion, you turn to that substance. So your brain is automatically turning you to that without you even noticing it. When I teach my clients about this at the rehab center I work at, I ask them, I say, how many of you in this room have been using for one to two years? And you have a few hands go up. I say, how many of you between two to five years, some more hands go up? I'm like, okay, how many of you five plus years? And when I'm explaining this spectrum, I say all of you who are in that one to two year range, you have a much easier path towards recovery. And then you immediately see these heads drop down. And what I explained is I am somebody who used for nearly a decade. And here I am with over five years sober. Yes, it is a harder path to go down. But I'm here to let you know that recovery is possible.  And this is what I teach people to give them hope. And if you want to learn more about how the disease of addiction works, how it forms and paths to recovery, make sure you head over to the rewiredsoul.com where I have an entire course on addiction that you can check out. And if you use the coupon code ASAM 50, you will get 50% off. So now for the question of the day, have you or someone you've known been in the early stages of addiction, but they were able to stop? I want to hear about your experience in the comments down below. So if you liked this video, be sure to give it a thumbs up. Let me know if you want me to cover any other news or celebrities and substance abuse, or even mental illness right below this box. If you're new here, don't forget to subscribe because I'm always making videos about addiction, substance abuse, mental illness, and how you can overcome them. Also make sure that you check out over to the left, click or tap on one of the other videos related to this topic, because I have a whole bunch of them. 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There is an engineer from Sternorder and has been working in Singapore and has been over there actually for the past 11 years. Her name is Nula McGlynn and she's part of a new initiative. It's called Visible Women. It's a new series. It's an initiative by the Irish Embassy, highlighting the contribution of women working in often male-dominated fields. So I'm glad to say that Nula now is joining us and we're streaming online as well. Nula, good afternoon. Well, it's good evening now. What time is it over there? So it's 9 p.m. John, we're seven hours ahead at the moment. Okay, that's Singapore, but not too late. We didn't get you too late or too early, so that's the main thing. Before I had children, it would have been a good afternoon, but that's getting out as night time. Oh yeah, it's a different routine altogether. And you're married over there, you've got three kids, so busy busy. Busy busy, yeah. So like you're saying, I came over to Singapore 11 years ago and met my husband here who's from the Malaysia part of Borneo. And we got married actually about seven years ago and now we have three children and I just had my third child seven weeks ago. So we're still on different times, the ones anyhow, I'm awake all night. Oh, I can imagine. I can imagine. But everything's going well. Oh, going perfect. Yeah, really good. Luckily, I had my parents out a while before she arrived, so they got to meet her. A lot of people would know your parents, especially in the Balbuffet, Stremortar area, Celine and Bartley. Yeah, but I would have known Bartley through the football and Celine through the Finvali post. The Finvali voice. The Finvali voice, I should say. Now, tell us your story because we want to talk to you and in particular about your career because engineering, it's often a male-dominated career. And you've sort of bucked the trend somewhat, but you started out at, well, first of all, at school, you were going to study art, is that right? So yeah, when I was at St Columbus in Balbuffet, in Stremortar, I mostly was interested in art. And when I was, you know, 17, 18 trying to decide what I would go on to study at third level education, I could not make up my mind. I couldn't decide properly on a specific art course. And my career guidance councillor at the time, Jimmy Gleason, suggested why don't you try civil engineering. It's a bit like drawing on the ground. And I was like, oh yeah, that could work. You know, I could give that a go. You know, and went to letter Kenny IT to do a two year certificate and then the year diploma. So at that time, it was just to diploma level that they done civil engineering. And I thought, well, you know, I can do it. And if it doesn't work out, it's not an entire waste of my time. I'll have a certificate at the end of it. But yeah, went on for the diploma, went on for the degree then in the University of Abertey in Dundee, Scotland. And then carried on working from then. It is drawing on the ground civil engineering. And, you know, my first job as an engineer with a theodolite out on the building site, making the points on the ground so that the machinery, the excavators and the workers could put this all in the right place. And that is exactly what it has been like. So go ahead. Not carry on. So you became a chartered civil engineer. So yeah, so I got my degree in the University of Abertey. And then I got my charter ship through the Institute of Civil Engineers London, the UK. I just went with that because I was working in the UK as well. We've got the similar in Ireland as well. And yeah, that took me about five years to get that. That's also, you know, very much, you know, when I found when I was doing that very male dominated as well. But it's a you have to when you're through your your universe through your work, you know, you have to put a CV together of all the different aspects of the work that you that you meet different entities that the charter ship, you know, want you to achieve, you know, such as health and safety or planning and quantity and project management, you know, and people skills that you have to show in order to display to become a chartered engineer. It's an important thing as well to do specifically in engineering. For me it was I felt it was important because I felt it could really show that that I knew what I would know to show my future employers. It's a it's although I have a degree. I thought this really cements the fact of my future employers. I'm respected in my field and I do know the different parts of my field and I'm able to able to meet the expectations of the Institute. So, you know, I'd be able to display that. Well, well able as as it has turned out because you you worked for a while in London and if I come big projects who are involved in the Olympic Stadium. Is that right? And the athletes village. Yes. Yeah. So at the down in Stratford worked along my company was PJ carries that are based in Wembley, an Irish company that originated from Tipperary Brothers that set it up in London. And there was working on the athletes village to do the underground to do all the ground works for the the the the flats that were made for the athletes that then got handed over to the people of Stratford as accommodation and then working and brilliant, brilliant project to be involved in and a huge monumental project and brilliant site Lendlis where the big company in charge of that at the time. And it was a delight working there.  It was sort of it was sort of after the I suppose it was after the downfall things were starting to pick up again and sit in some ways. But you decided just so it wasn't enough of the sort of projects you're interested in and you moved to Singapore. Yeah. We're going to. Yeah, John. That's it. I could I know I was getting magazines, you know, through the then could see that all the big projects were happening out East industry magazines and big projects were happening out East and and I could see the projects that our company that you know was working in and it wasn't you know this this the Olympics was kind of done then and there's not much. It was just an exciting time. Plus I was at an age where I was this is a good time to travel. It's good to get away and see something new before I don't get to get too late to do. And then yeah, working over in Singapore was the Olympic the National Stadium. So when I had arrived at the Singapore had a National Stadium and when I had arrived it had actually been demolished for the project. It was also put in hold because of the credit crunch and it had a delayed start for funding and just how it was funded. And so then it started in line with me coming over and so then I was able to work on that there. And that and that's where it came up in the visible woman visible woman was because it now I wasn't the only female engineer on the project. You know there was there was other female engineers, but it was a project where we've done a lot of firsts. There was a lot of firsts in engineering that was done on it and I was involved quite heavily involved with all that on the execution of it on the on the site. So it's a pioneering work in a way. Yeah, in a way, in a way there was great and you know it's one of the open air stadiums, you know, the largest span for that and then the art of the piece that they talk about in the embassy was the air conditioning off it. The design of the air conditioning was one of the pioneering design. Well, tell us just a little bit about that in that there's it's a retractable roof. Is that right on the stadium? Yeah, so it's a retractable roof. So it's it opens up like in the closes in about two hours. So you know, like if it's a bad weather, you can close the roof and then of course the capacity 58,000 so it's a big stadium. Yeah, it's a national stadium. And and it was built, you know, with in mind for doing soccer, but also doing rugby, doing athletics. So it's got like a retractable seats so that the capacity does reduce when the seats retract as well to make the inside larger. Okay. Given the warm weather over there, air conditioning would be important. And this is this is where some new technology came in. Yeah, well, but you know, like for me when I came over and I'm brand new to Singapore and I get no seated air conditioning is like you say it's very important. But at a stadium and it's open stadium as well, like for the sunshine. And when I heard there was air conditioning, I was like, well, this is crazy. Why would you put on air conditioning and a place where all the cold air is going to escape.   And base, but what they've done is they've done a really unique design of air conditioning was water tanks that have a what I kind of refer to it as a as a like a golf ball but it's about this size with the dimples out rather than in.  The chemical that's inside against the cold, the water creates the cold air. This cold air is pushed out through a system through every fourth seat in the stadium. So it's, you know, it's, it's, you know, it's in a proper layout. But then that's that's the system but then the cool, the even cooler part of it is when you go through the ticketing system, and you scan your ticket that tells the system which seat to cool. And then outside there's two solar panel farms creating enough power to create enough energy for this operation to happen. So it's total renewable energy that's there for the powers there sitting waiting to be harnessed. They're picking that up and they're pushing that through and putting out cold air for all the patrons that come to watch the game. And I've been to quite a few games and events at it now. And it is such a pleasurable experience being added because you don't feel cold air but it's a nice, you know, cool temperature. It makes it comfortable. It makes it comfortable. Yeah. So you know it works. So you know it works. And now, and I also noticed that in the right seat, don't, don't try and steal someone else's seat. But the system knows whether that seat is occupied. So don't be trying to go down a few rows into an empty seat. Yeah. Because you might be as cool down there. But it's amazing. So if the capacity is reduced, it'll only be cooling the seats that are occupied. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. So it's only and so the, and then the extra power that's being made from the solar panel farm is being pushed into other systems that need electricity. But the actual kilowatt peak that's created is being used for this function. I was very impressed with that as it was coming over and, you know, it was like, wow, you know, this, this is brilliant. This is something that should be done. You know, it's a great way to harness an energy reusing. And along the way, I mean, over the period of time, which happened about here from qualifying to now, have you noticed more women popping up in roles like your own and more women around the table at meetings? Yes, I have indeed. I mean, when I went to university and to Dundee, there was two girls in the class out of 36. Now, in letter Kenny, there was about six of us in the class of 50 originally. You know, now I'm hearing that it's, you know, like through chatting with, I still talk to mentors, some students and all through the IC and speaking with people in Singapore. There's a lot more girls going to class now going to university. And then when I'm now working, I've got other project managers coming in to work with me on my building sites. Yeah, like you say, women are also, you know, looking after the high end part of the projects as well. There's more women are CEOs of companies now. They're more financial women in charge. You know, there's, you can see the difference now. Even in my own company that I'm working with now, there's a lot more women taking up, you know, the director's roles. Whereas when I would have started, you would have seen only male, it was male dominated like in the roles. Okay. So there's, I see the, I see the change, I see the change in Singapore, but I see the change worldwide, you know, as well. I see it in Ireland as well. There seems to be a lot more interest. I think there's a lot more known about it as well. Like when I chose civil engineering, I was given the advice by my career guidance counselor, but then I looked into it, but maybe it wasn't as made aware to me that I could do it. But now I can see that there's more information out there for young girls when they're choosing what they want to do. They can see that this is something that's available to them. So more, more young women are realizing that there's, there's more to it. They're just drawing on the ground. There's more to it than drawing on the ground. There's some, there's some cool tricks in it too. Yeah. And what's, what's life flag in general in Singapore? Well, you're off work at the moment. You'll be alone, alone as maternity leave. Yeah. So maternity leave is four months, but shorter now than Ireland. And you can take, you can take more time off with your, you know, with your, you did decide with your company, but the official is four months, which is what I'll be taking. It's, it's an enjoyable place like over here. I enjoy it. There's a good Irish community. The Irish embassy have done a really good job as well of bringing that community together and making sure that we support the other Irish group, you know, Irish people and Irish groups that are here. There's, you know, there's a lot happening just after COVID. You know, there's a few more events have been happening again now with people being able to meet up again. So there's a, so there's a good, good that, but I, but I also, there's a good community in Singapore. It's a, it's a very multicultural city. There's a lot of different nationalities living here, but it's quite a lot of, a lot of religions are respected here. There's a, for example, each, each religion has two public holidays per year. So as Christians, we celebrate Good Friday and Christmas, you know, but I don't get the other public holidays off. I don't get Easter Monday off for, you know, yeah. Once are nominated. Yeah. So there are nominated but then I'll celebrate Vsac day or higher. Yeah. And you know, it's always different. Yeah. It's really exciting that part of being here to get to learn a bit more about the different cultures. Well, listen, congratulations again, your rival and continued success to you. And it's a, it's a, it's been a great, great, it's been great. continued success to you and it's a great story and you know all the way over there in Singapore and then leading the way and in particular leading the way for women who are considering maybe engineering as a career. And you haven't lost your accent, you might be over there every year, lost none of your accent. All right, thanks Mila. You can't get stood all over. Cheers, thank you, cheers Mila, thank you very much. Have a good day, bye bye.