hello and welcome back to the craft box my name is Brenton today we're on episode 14 of the pirate of the wizard 101 death walkthrough I've said this isn't true way too many times that I think it's pirate 101 now crazy if you haven't checked out last episode go do that we managed to do lots of stuff in the Hall of Champions and this episode we're gonna start by talking to general kebab these will do nicely well done yeah level up all right now I need some spider carapace to form the hilt ice weaver shell should be perfect for it win four of them for me in the grand arena okay yeah let's go do one of these battles on camera because you know might as well not cut all of a sudden real quick so yeah we'll do one of them yeah so basically if you haven't checked out last episode go do that we're in the entrance hall at the moment we're in the grand arena no not that one the other place the Hall of Champions in order to reunite the order of the fangs basically just check out all the other crocodile videos and that'll give you a basic idea of where we are and what we're doing here I should have probably cleared my stomach a bit they've got 395 that's kind of a bit but that's fine yeah so let's let's try this that was ice okay cool blade okay you can just die music that's cool as well that that's cool I wanted you to do that obviously though I love the music just cuts out randomly without me knowing why you know highlighted my day um yeah let's see what are you waiting wait wait how much 55 how much half you got left I don't math sorry but I don't math man you know just a bit that's cool 340 well I mean we'll we'll hit you I suppose boop okay boop okay fire shield oh cheeky no fizzle which is absolutely amazing 40 but 420 nice he's dead he did he did he did he did and we just need to wait for two perps to kill the other one and then we should have two two characters and if we don't then I'll be angry really really angry so let's hope that we do we are going to pass again just fun um both of us pass that that's cute um and let us hurt I'm gonna need to check up some nice spells I don't know so but but but no fizzle yay 20 again favorite number there we go amazing look at that I'll be back once I have the other carapace okay I am back we collected the carapace yes these will do good work these gems to magnify the blades power for it is the blade of a general I will need you to collect these gems in the area can should be enough okay let us go and collect some gems um now there are 10 in this whole area so if you're if you're on a world in a realm with like a lot of other people I would highly not recommend um doing that um so like change to a different realm just so you can like get all 10 of them without changing realms technically like halfway through because if there's other people here they'll get them as well so you know just change rooms was a good idea um I don't usually play at like peak times so like I'm not worried but um because obviously it's like my time zones really shit for recording with lots of other people or playing with other people in general um unless it's like weekends like a Friday I said that I am in because it's Friday everywhere else like yeah so um yeah other otherwise I'd never able to record because I record it like ridiculous times like 5 5 p.m currently 5 30 p.m right now my time which is like a lot of time other than big places that didn't really make sense I know I'm stupid time zones man whoo time zones they fuck you up really bad um let's see we will go this way we will get this one because we can boop thank you and we will get this one thank you we will also get that stunt block because that's nice and yeah we will carry on there's another one there there's some really dangerous places sometimes and then there are four more along this bit here okay quick quick quick quick there did I get it oh I didn't get it that would have been really scared was if I did we can collect a tall popkin there that's cool didn't know that one um okay I mean yeah we're just gonna wait for this kid to flip and move okay seven eight nine chest how much gold how much gold 21 oh my god amazing and 10 is right here yep bye Manda bye team gotta get dim shrooms deep shrooms there we go and let's head back to whole of champions back to general kebab yes yes these will be good they'll fit in perfectly now I require something to wrap around the hilt for a good grip the whole servant should have some leather straps those should do well okay I'll be back once I have collected some leather straps okay I am back excellent these leather straps will go well with it or to forge the blade aji sakui guards the frozen forge we will need a key to unlock the entrance to his layer defeat his guards the sakui crushers one of them must have a key okay let us go and do that um and then we'll get the key yep you looks fresh we're going to blade um it didn't see how much health they have I think it's like three 10 or something it's kind of low um okay pass that's cool that would be great nope okay three 10 yeah pass I was really hoping he wouldn't walk that fast geez I didn't want another guy in the battle oh man well I mean we can get him out pretty easily okay one down the joints of battle instantly dies don't mess with me guys um we will blade again and then we'll wait and hurt hopefully we get the key first time and if we do that'll be great if we don't then I know that's just upsetting 176 man the music in here is actually kind of cool I used to really hate music the music in the game but I kind of appreciate it now I don't think I appreciated it fully when I was younger but like I appreciate it quite a lot now and yeah probably because I haven't listened to it for like a long ass time because I usually just listen to my own music while I'm playing and then listen to the dialogue sometimes so I mean oh we got first time that's nice um we need to talk to kebab again um so yeah that it's always nice and refreshing to actually listen to um the actual game music because some of some of it is pretty shit but some of it is really really cool I love it most excellent we are close now you have proven to be a most valiant warrior I will send some loyal troops through this passage where would you perform the boldest part of the plan defeat Ajizakui and use the frozen forge to create my new blade okay let us head off and do that real quote that was parchment that's cool um and then we have his blade basically which is great basically nearly done reconstructing his sword from the ground up because Rami lost it what an idiot don't trust manders with swords that's what we learned last episode um but yeah this episode we are getting parchment like we have no tomorrow so yeah that's cool um let's enter this chamber and defeat Ajizakui five four three two one let's go you will not evade me wizard prepare to meet your doom okay he's a boss rank three boss um we're just going to put some of these and just just in case just in case we can so then why not um we'll get the Soqui crusher up first because he's not too bad he's really easy and then we'll save up for a vampire on the boss so yeah that's basically what our plan is he did a towel shield okay then that is spicy kicking this battle off with something spicy nice sweet towel shield oh wow um we don't even have we don't even have wanderts ah we'll get something don't worry okay was expecting this to be honest bloop just expecting these shenanigans the towel shield I will admit didn't expect that didn't think these guys were good enough I mean but apparently they are so who knows maybe though he got their hands on cool spells who knows um what's next he's gonna be trying to banshee me yeah that's what I thought you fizzle yeah that's what I thought you just shield you're just useless you're just gonna die now aren't you yeah look at that I don't even fizzle a banshee but do you yeah there you go three five seven he did um that's actually the weakest banshee with the blade I've ever seen oh okay shenanigans one six seven what no get off that towel shield and then we will go through with the vampire if we get oh I was hoping for that other power but how much does this do 350 um we're gonna remove one of those sacrifices and we're gonna enchant it just in case um just because I feel like it and I have too many of these so yeah here we go and hopefully we kill hopefully we may not but hopefully we do oh evil snowman haven't seen this one for a while glossis boulevard I think was the last time who knows it's not me two two five seven cheeky let's go vampire no fizzle thank you six six seven that's good and it's three hundred and thirty three health back three three three illuminati confirmed um we got shit shit cool always remember to use a frozen forge um I've so many times I've like just walked out just like no I don't need to do anything else and you have to feed the boss let's just go then realizing oh shit I was meant to use the frozen forge and I'll say you're so stupid print why um yeah just the daily struggles of being a brunt um you know just being stupid just it's like one of the criteria for being a brunt you have to be stupid um and I'm pretty good at it I will admit I'm very very good at that one criteria not good at anything else except that one criteria excellent work wizard you made my plan a success with you on our side we are certain not to fail I must stay and rally our forces your help will not be forgotten wizard you have done much to earn the trust of the order of the fang go tell shall it the wise in the entrance hall that I am once again ready to lead our fight okay let's head back to the entrance hall then I love it how they added teleporters there like we used to have to walk all the way back and it was such a struggle but they added teleporters there it's so nice oh hello person excellent you found the great general kaba and returned him to the fold perhaps the sleep has no ill effect on any of the order we may very well defeat the tuts for good this time with general kaba the order can plan strategy but without our fearless warrior kaya mate the great who are we I don't know who are we I'm concerned that our Mander ally Akko has not yet found kaya mate please go to the grand arena and help Akko kaya mate's ferocity in battle stirs the fight in all of us he must be found okay let us quickly head on into the grand arena once again and we'll talk to Akko and then we'll end off the episode and continue with the grand arena next episode um and we will probably get halfway if not all the way through the grand arena I'm assuming it's actually quite a long area there's a lot of fighting of random things obviously from the map you can see that there's coliseum so you would expect fighting but yeah are you a warrior young wizard because a warrior is what we need kaya mate the great is fighting in the coliseum but manders aren't allowed in I've got another idea disguised as a gladiator you wouldn't raise any suspicion if you accept you should battle Sphinx gladiators to earn the mark of the gladiator the mark will gain your entry when you have it return to me to complete your disguise okay so in between episodes I will collect the mark of the gladiator your gladiator mark and I will return talking to Akko next episode so thank you for watching remember to like and subscribe and if you're very subscribed press the wee little bell ring it ring it hard for me I'm so you know exactly when I post another video go follow us on twitter links in the description below and remember craft outside the box


I don't know, something in my spirit just doesn't sit right about this. Something in my spirit is just bothered by them. You ever hear phrases like that?  Well, I wanna talk to you right now about how to discern between true discernment and your own emotions. Now, this word is gonna be very challenging for many believers. It's gonna be a major check to the ego because many of us, without even realizing it, are blaming our own personal preferences on the Holy Spirit and then calling that discernment. It's time that we begin to operate in true biblical spirit-led discernment. If you're ready for that, I want you to write in the comment section right now, open my eyes. Let that be a prayer of humility, of expectation and faith and believe that God is going to challenge you in areas that you need to be challenged. We all need correction in our discernment. We all need to recalibrate every now and then, no matter how long we've been saved, no matter how long we've been in ministry, no matter how long we've been serving the Lord, we all, every so often, need to be recalibrated, to be reconnected with true discernment because as life goes on, our feelings get involved, our thought patterns get involved, our past experiences get involved, we need to cut through all the noise, the opinions of others, our own emotions, our own thoughts come right back to the Word. So I'm gonna show you the differences between true discernment and again, your own emotions or your own thoughts, your own feelings, really the flesh is what we're trying to get rid of here when it comes to discernment. Now I challenge you to watch this message or listen to this message all the way through. Your flesh, you will notice, is going to crave entertainment, distraction, something else. The flesh always craves what's next because the flesh is always looking for distraction. So I want you to subject the flesh, say no to the flesh and yes to the Holy Spirit and commit to receiving this word in fullness because I believe there will be a progressive work that is done as you hear this message. So number one, true discernment is based on the word, not personal preferences. I don't know, something just doesn't sit right in my spirit. I don't know, something just seems off. I don't know, I just don't feel right about this. We say things like that, but remember the Holy Spirit isn't vague. He's not going to whisper in your ear, something's not right. I'm not gonna tell you what, but something's not right. There will always be something that we can measure against the scripture that the Holy Spirit will point out. My point here is simply that we have to stop judging based upon personal preferences and then blaming the Holy Spirit. Now this is difficult to admit that we even do this in the first place because many of us tie our whole spiritual identity around the idea that we hear the Lord with perfect clarity. Look, God speaks with clarity, but we don't always listen with that same level of clarity. God can speak, God can get through to us. We often think things in our own imagination, our own thoughts, our own emotions. And then when we get stuck in that place, it can be difficult to admit, hey, I missed this or I didn't hear God on that. It's better to just double down, at least it's better for the ego to just double down and not let it go. So I'll tell you a story. Years ago, my brother-in-law was in what you would call a hardcore band. Now if you don't know what hardcore is, hardcore is very loud, rambunctious music. The sounds are not even always discernible. You can't always distinguish between one sound and the next. There's screaming involved, there's fast-paced drumming. And then even at these hardcore concerts, there are people dancing in the front. They're like hitting each other and they're all having fun doing it. I never understood that myself, but my brother-in-law was in a hardcore band and it was a Christian hardcore band and they would go from place to place concert to concert. They would go to the darkest, most vile places. They themselves would live clean and pure and they would go into these places and they would preach an uncompromised gospel message. So a couple of times I went to support him. Of course, I stood way in the back. I didn't wanna get hit down in the front. And I would listen as my brother-in-law would present the uncompromised, undiluted, pure gospel truth. And I actually saw at these concerts demons beginning to manifest as they heard the gospel preach, because again, they were going to these secular places. They weren't just going from church to church. They were going into secular venues where people were getting high, where they were drinking, where they were smoking, where there was just this atmosphere of darkness and then they would take the light into that darkness and I watched people get delivered. I watched people get saved, by the way, with lasting fruit. It's not like they would get saved right then and there and then there would be no transformation. I saw many even ministries come out of that season where that Christian band was playing. Now, I went to one of the concerts in particular and I witnessed the Holy Spirit moving. They preached the gospel. They preached that you need to repent of your sins. You need to turn from sin and turn to Jesus. They talked about the judgment of God, heaven and hell, the blood of Jesus, the cross, everything. And I'm watching as people are responding to this right there in the middle of this concert. People, of course, were cussing at my brother-in-law for preaching. They were screaming at him. Demons were manifesting. People were angry that he was, as they would put it, forcing his religion upon them. But still, he preached the gospel with boldness and I watched as people went forward to get saved. I'm talking weeping before the Lord, repenting, getting right and actually turning from their sin. Now, on this particular night where we saw many get saved, I was leaving when I was told that there was a woman there who was standing in the back and she was claiming, as people were walking out, the Holy Spirit is so grieved. The Holy Spirit is grieved by this band. The Holy Spirit is not comfortable with this. And when pressed about why she was saying that, she didn't say anything about the gospel that was preached. She acknowledged that the gospel was preached. She didn't say anything about the people getting saved. Of course, those people, that was between them and the Lord. Her issue was the music was too loud. The singing was more like screaming and the electric guitar sounds were offensive to her ears. And so as the people were leaving, she would blame her own personal preferences on the person of the Holy Spirit. Now, let me ask you, do you think the Holy Spirit would be grieved by the preaching of the gospel through a Christian band? They're living clean. Yeah, the sounds maybe not the most appreciated sounds. I know I myself wasn't a fan of the sounds themselves, but they were going into these dark places preaching the pure gospel message where people getting saved, healed and delivered. Now, in that instance, it might be easy to demonize a ministry like that. And I'm not just saying this because he was my brother-in-law. In fact, I can name several instances where I've seen ministries demonized because of their methodology, because of their style, because of the personality of the person presenting. And then people will respond in that way because they personally don't like what they're singing, because they personally are bothered by what they're witnessing. They'll say the Holy Spirit is grieved or something just doesn't sit right in my spirit. Why do we try to spiritualize things like that? Why not just say, I don't like this or I'm uncomfortable with this or I don't like that person's personality? And then we can deal with those issues in our own heart instead of projecting the problems of our flesh on other people. Hebrews chapter four, verse 12 says this, for the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. So the word of God is able to help us distinguish between what is of soul and what is of spirit. It's able to help us distinguish what is spiritual, what is secular, what is satanic and what is sinful. And as you grow in your knowledge of the word, you will also begin to sharpen your discernment. Second Timothy three, 16 and 17 say this, all scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. Every good work includes discerning. Now we often base our discernment on the following. The tone of the preacher, I'll give an example. There are people who will criticize preachers with a soft tone because they're not preaching hard enough or they're leaving out key elements that they think should be included in every single sermon. And then there are people who will criticize someone for having a harsh tone.  He uses the soft spoken and those who preach with harshness. He uses hellfire and brimstone preachers. He also uses encouragers and we all have a different role to fulfill within the body of Christ, but we judge based on tone. We judge based on appearance and style. If you grew up in a certain culture and you're used to a certain look, a certain presentation, you're gonna be bothered by presentations and looks that are different than that. I know people who prefer a polished look to ministry. They like the high production value. They like when the preacher dresses nice. They like when the audio is nice and clean and everything looks, as I said, polished. And then there are others who just because it's polished will say that it's fake. On the other hand, there are people who prefer the more and I'm not using this in critical terms. I'm using it literal. They prefer the more amateur look. And by that, again, I don't mean a criticism. I just mean there's not as much production. Maybe they just turn on their phone and they start talking on the camera. Now to some, they might like that more, I'll call it a more of a natural look or more of a down to earth look. And they prefer that look. They prefer that production style. And because they like that style because it resonates with them, they'll use terms like, well, this is more real or this is the real deal or this is more genuine or this is more down to earth or this is more in touch. All the while, both could be preaching the same gospel but because of production style, we might like one and dislike the other. And again, instead of just saying, hey, I like one style over another we'll say things like, well, I don't know. Something just doesn't feel right. I'm uncomfortable with this. Some people who grew up, for example, with a rougher upbringing, they may prefer someone with tattoos and earrings. Others might look at them and say, well, I would never receive from anybody like that. But again, we're judging based on somebody's past from an exterior perspective. You may look at large ministries and there are some people who just have it in their minds that any ministry that is large must be fake. And then they're saying minds, they think any ministry that is small must be real. On the inverse of that, there are some people who think that every large ministry just because it's large must be favorite of God. And any ministry that's too small, they might regard as a cult. So again, size of ministry isn't a way of basing whether or not that ministry is true. We think of income, ministries with lots of money. Surely they must be fake. Others would look at that same ministry and say surely they must be blessed by God. Others would look at ministries that maybe struggle financially and say, they're the real deal because they're doing it for the right reasons. Others would look at them and say, what are they doing wrong? Why are they not stewarding the gift of God in a way that's causing increase? But again, different people will look at different ministries, different styles, different productions, different presentations, different sizes and come up with different conclusions based upon their own preferences. And it's not only appearance and style, but it's personality. Do you realize that there are some personalities that will just rub you the wrong way? There are some personalities that you'll just find abrasive.  There are some people who like those individuals who are well-spoken, who are more polished in their presentation, who are a little more direct maybe. And then there are others who prefer those who maybe speak with a more of a natural tone. And we don't realize we do this. Guys, I'm gonna tell you this right now. We do this all the time as Christians. We will look at someone and if they have a personality that resonates with us, we'll say, yeah, I like this individual. And then if they have a personality that we don't like, maybe we don't like the way they dress. Maybe we don't like the way they look. And we would never admit that shortly because then we'd be admitting that we're discerning, so-called discernment based on the flesh. And so we judge on these exterior things and then we blame the Holy Spirit and we become very stubborn in that, don't we? We hold to that and rather than saying, maybe I misjudged, we say things like, no, I know the voice of God. And again, that self-righteousness because this idea that we could never misjudge someone is just not biblical. Now I'm gonna talk about discerning and of course, filtering out those teachings and ministries that we ought not to be receiving. That'll be in my next point, of course. But first I wanna establish this very important thought that true discernment is based on the word and not personal preference. We also judge on methodology. I know of people who were demonized because they believe in the slaying power of the Holy Spirit, people being slain in the Spirit, or they say, that's too showy. Think about it, somebody demonstrates power, they fall out of the power in the Spirit, like in our meetings like you see sometimes, it looks like they're being electrocuted. Now often I'll say that's probably deliverance that's taking place first and foremost. Typically, most of the time when the power of the Holy Spirit moves, it's very gentle, like almost like a wave of water coming over somebody. But sometimes not all the time when they're shaking like that, there's deliverance happening. But some might look at that and say, well, that's too showy. And then there are people who would look at where there's no demonstrations like that, and they would say, well, that's dead and religious. And again, we're judging based on the exterior. How about just looking at whether or not those people got set free? How about just looking at whether or not those people had a life changing encounter with God that drew them closer to Jesus? So methodology is not the issue. Some people take issue with ministries using the internet or social media. Some ministries take issue with people not doing that. And again, we demonize and criticize one another just because we differ in these superficial ways. Now, in some cases, you may get it right. And here's where confirmation bias might come into play. My brother and I used to play this game. Well, I don't know if it was so much a game as it was just something that we did for fun, but we would sit in the car and whenever we would come to a red light, we would try to guess when the light was gonna turn green. And we would say something like this, it's gonna turn green now. It's gonna turn green now. It's gonna turn green now. And we would keep saying that over and over. I'm sure it drove my parents crazy, but we would say it over and over and over and over. And finally, wouldn't you know it? The light would suddenly turn green. And then we would say something like, oh, I got that one. And my brother would say, no, I said it. No, I said it. We would argue back and forth. When in reality, we just kept saying it's gonna turn green, it's gonna turn green, it's gonna turn green. And eventually it did turn green and we thought it was because we called it. And this is what we do when it comes to discernment. We judge from paranoia. And then we think we get it right because one of the 100 people that we criticized ended up making a mistake. If we are highly suspicious of everyone, we will feel validated by the mistakes of everyone and vindicated by the fall of anyone. Let me say that to you again. If we are highly suspicious of everyone, we will feel validated by the mistakes of everyone and vindicated by the fall of anyone. So again, you may say, well, I called it one time. Well, I called it. I knew something was up with that person. Well, that's the thing. If you think everybody is false and you're constantly attributing this so-called discernment and this application of that discernment to everyone and anyone that you meet or come across or that you dislike, of course, eventually somebody you criticized is going to make a mistake. Of course, eventually somebody you criticize is going to misspeak and you can use that against them if you want. Of course, eventually somebody you criticize is going to have a misstep, but this doesn't necessarily mean that we were judging from the right place in the first place. This again could just be confirmation bias. I think again of the analogy I gave, it's gonna turn green now, it's gonna turn green now. And then, oh, it turned green. See, I called it and that's what we do. Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. One person makes a mistake. We throw up our hands and say, see, I called it. And then that confirmation bias grounds us even deeper into judging from the superficial instead of based on the word of God. Now, when I talk about judging based on the word of God, I'm not talking about any old doctrinal disagreement. Are you pre-mitted or post-tribulation? Are you once saved, always saved, or do you believe we can lose our salvation? Other things like, do you believe speaking in tongues is for today or not? These are areas where the body of Christ has some disagreement doctrinally, but these are disagreements among fellow believers who are born again and are not reasons to demonize one another. But it is important to remember that number two, true discernment isn't petty. So number one, so far we have true discernment is based on the word, not on personal preferences. Number two, true discernment isn't petty. Remember this, discernment isn't hyper-critical. It's level-headed assessment based upon word and spirit. I'll say that again. Discernment isn't hyper-critical. It's level-headed assessment based upon word and spirit. Here's what Jesus told the Pharisees, found in Matthew 23. I'm gonna read verses 23 through 26.  You should tithe, yes, that's a whole different message for another day, you should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.   You blind Pharisee, first wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean too. So looking at this particular portion of scripture, we can conclude this. One of the characteristics of legalistic religious thinking is the imbalance of minors and majors. In other words, religious people major on minors and they minor on majors. Yeah, they're hyper focused on certain things, even to the point of being overly critical. And in so doing, they miss the weightier matters of the law. Think of how the Pharisees would often try to trap Jesus by twisting his words. How many times has somebody done that? And again, guys, I'm talking about life application here. I'm talking about keys that you can apply that will help you and challenge you. So how often do we do this to one another? How often do we do this to not just ministers that we watch, but your own pastor, fellow believers, your family members, they say something. And instead of actually giving them the benefit of the doubt and hearing what they're trying to communicate, we take key phrases, we take key terms, twist that up and then turn it against them in an effort to try to trap them. It's almost as if we intentionally misunderstand people. And again, this goes back to confirmation bias because once you've told yourself something doesn't sit right in my spirit, well now you got to commit to that unless you want to humble yourself and admit that it wasn't so in the first place. And so now everything that they say and do, we see it through a particular lens and we interpret those actions and communications that they carry out. And we of course see it through the perspective of what we've already claimed about them. And again, we do this to family members. We do this to fellow church members. There might be people in your church who you could have a great connection with, but because of this hyper critical spirit, you have no connection with them whatsoever. In fact, and again, as I said, this is gonna be a major ego check for many of us and this is gonna be a challenging word, but we need this. We are the clay, he is the potter and sometimes when we're being molded, there are pain points and God wants to fix those things and we have to surrender. This is why many have trouble finding a church. This is why many can't stay put in one place for too long and they go from church to church to church, blaming every single church, every single member, every single leader on the fact that they can't find somewhere to fellowship instead of taking a look inward and asking, am I too hyper critical? Is this true discernment? Or am I just bothered by something they said or did and I'm not willing to give them grace for those mistakes? Now, again, I'm not talking about, or I shouldn't say again, I didn't say this, but let me emphasize here, I'm not talking about cases of legitimate abuse, but oftentimes we're just very sensitive and then we blame that sensitivity, we blame our being easily offended on this keyword discernment. And so think of how the Pharisees also constantly questioned Jesus' character. They twisted his words, they intentionally misunderstood him and they constantly attacked his character. You know, we can question each other's doctrines, we can question each other's teachings without questioning each other's motives. We have to leave grace for one another's doctrinal disagreements and even mistakes. For example, I do not believe in cessationism. Cessationism is, and I'll put a very general definition out there, there are many variations of the definition even within cessationism, but I'll just put it out there just for the sake of communication. They believe that certain spiritual gifts have ceased in operation and in certain levels of potency. A cessationist claims, will claim usually that they still believe in miracles to some degree, but they have a very limited view of that. I'm not a cessationist. I don't believe that the gifts have ceased and there's nothing in scripture that would even come close to indicating that. Now that is a doctrinal disagreement. Now they may have a framework by which they judge the scriptures. They may have a lens through which they see the scriptures, but as long as they have a biblical framework, I'm not gonna label them as a heretic. I'm not gonna label them as false prophets. I'm not gonna say they're not saved. That's a disagreement among fellow believers. Now, if I wanna be petty, I can take that doctrinal disagreement and say I'm discerning that they're false. And this is what, guys, this is what we do. This is what we do. We take these doctrinal disagreements and if we find one area of disagreement, we'll say I knew something was off. I knew something was wrong. I knew in my spirit all along. What did you know exactly that they weren't carbon copies of you, that they don't think exactly like you? And so we have to have grace for our brothers and sisters in the error of cessationism. Yeah, they are an error, but they're still our brothers and sisters. They're not enemies. We mustn't demonize them as many have done. Again, maybe one day the Lord will help them to come to a place of the correct view and maybe the Lord will work on their hearts and humble them, but that's not someone to demonize. That's not someone that we come against. And again, we do that. Oh, I had to sermon all along. They disagreed with me on a doctrine and people will even be very hypercritical of maybe the pastor that they sit under and let's say things like, so far everything's been good and then they're just watching, waiting, waiting for maybe a certain term that they don't quite agree with the use of or maybe waiting for a phrase they can latch onto and say, well, I don't know exactly what that was or why you said it that way or maybe an outright disagreement. And once they find that area of disagreement, that's it. They throw up their hands. I'm out of here. I knew all along in my spirit, something was wrong. I knew all along in my spirit that something was off. What was off? You just disagree on something that's fundamental and not even fundamental. And by the way, these disagreements within the body of Christ, they've been going on for years. That's why we have different denominations. They're just variations on views that are the miners, not the majors, the miners, the peripheral doctrines, not the primary. Also, consider other points of doctrinal disagreement. Like for example, once saved, always saved. Once saved, always saved versus, right? We like pit these doctrines against one another as if it's like this great, like they're one another's nemesis, right? Once saved, always saved and some believe that you can lose your salvation. Well, okay. Don't we realize that there are biblical frameworks, at least that one could argue for on both sides? Don't we realize that there are biblical scholars on both sides? This doesn't mean that the Bible contradicts itself. This just means that there's room for debate. One of these sides are right. We probably won't discover until eternity who was right all along, but by then it's not gonna matter, is it? So here's what happens. And I want you to watch very closely for this because here's what happens. People will demonize one another based on something like this when it's not even something that you can label someone as a heretic over. Guys, we're getting real here. This is major stuff that's happening within the body of Christ where people who believe you can lose your salvation instead of just saying something like, well, you know, we agree to disagree and as long as we all agree that we need to live holy and as long as we all agree that Jesus is the only way then we'll let God be the judge of that. No, you can't do that. What do they do? They demonize people who believe in one's savior. And guys, that's manipulation. I'm gonna call it for what it is. It's witchcraft, it's manipulation. Instead of just saying there's a doctrine we disagree on, they have to hype and cause fear and propaganda and say things like, well, that causes people to compromise and that's a doctrine of demons and it's telling people that they can live lives of sin without repercussions. And meanwhile, I don't know anybody who believes in one's saved always saves who teaches that you can live how you wanna live. That's not at all what they say. But you know, the other side does it too. The people who believe one's saved always save, they demonize the people who believe that you can lose your salvation.  They don't believe the sacrifice of Christ Jesus was enough. I don't know anybody who believes that you can lose your salvation that believes that the sacrifice of Christ Jesus wasn't enough. So I watch both sides and they go at it, demonizing one another, claiming the other is preaching a doctrine of devils. Meanwhile, I'm thinking there's biblical framework for both sides. There's biblical scholarship on both sides.  So what is all this demonization for? It's immature. And guys, it's ego.  That is not mature Christianity. That is not of the Holy Spirit. That's of the flesh, that's manipulation, that's witchcraft, that's ego, it's pettiness, it's insecurity, and it has to stop within the body of Christ. And so again, you have something like that, even doctrines on the rapture. Guys, discernment isn't doctrinal disagreement. Discernment doesn't say, well, you disagree with me on some minor doctrinal issues and therefore I'm gonna dismiss you as a heretic or a false prophet or I'm gonna dismiss you as someone I can fellowship with. That's just not biblical, especially if you have legitimate biblical frameworks for both sides on any one topic. And I'm not just talking about this once saved always saved debate. I'm talking about doctrinal disagreement in general. I mean, just using that as one example, cessationism as another example. So both sides can find ways to demonize each other, but that's manipulation. That's trying to control the narrative. That's trying to persuade people to one side so they can say, look, I'm winning. And again, it's pettiness, it's immaturity, and it comes from the place of insecurity. So this gotcha mentality, it's not gonna work. Why? Because then there's nobody you can connect with. There's nobody you can listen to. There's no pastor. There's no YouTube preacher. There's no fellow believer. There's no family member that you're ever going to be completely connected with because you're going to find doctrinal disagreement with anyone and everyone. Somebody you love, in fact, I should say everyone you love will disagree with you on one particular issue or another. Is that a reason to therefore say, that's it, I'm no longer fallowshipping with you or to blame again, discernment. While I always knew something was off or I knew something was wrong or wow, I can't believe this was revealed and now I know, I should have known all along, we're very dramatic, you know, and that drama comes from fear-based Christianity. We're living in fear rather than by faith and love. And so we hype these things up and we live in the constant tension of paranoid Christianity, constantly battling, constantly waging war against fellow believers. And it's just not the way God intended for us to live. So if you live by this gotcha mentality, you're gonna be isolated. And eventually it turns on itself. Eventually there's so much division that there's nothing that can stand within that type of mindset. And eventually by the way, you won't have anybody that you can listen to because somebody or everyone is gonna have some way that they disagree with you. Now isn't it funny, when someone passionately preaches what we believe to be the truth, we say look how bold, yet when someone passionately preaches what we believe to be, what we don't believe to be the truth, we say look how arrogant. I'm gonna say that again for clarity's sake. When someone passionately preaches what we believe to be the truth, we say look how bold, yet when someone passionately preaches what we don't believe to be the truth, we say look how arrogant. Now again, guys, I'm not talking about the majors. We all have to agree that Jesus is God. We all have to agree that Jesus lived with sinless perfection. We all have to agree that Jesus died on the cross as the atonement for sins. We all have to agree that Jesus rose again from the dead in bodily form, that he ascended in bodily form, that he sits at the right hand of the Father, that the Bible is the inspired word of God, right? These are the fundamentals of the faith, but doctrinal disagreement on the peripherals, not that they're not important. I mean, my goodness, every doctrine is important, but not every doctrine is an issue by which we cause division or by which we label one another as false. So this is interesting to me that whenever, again, this shows how, again, we have that confirmation by us. If somebody's boldly preaching what we agree, we applaud it. Yes, that's bold, say it, that's true. Somebody boldly preaches what we disagree with. We give them a thumbs down and we say, no, that's arrogant. Why? Because we're judging their motives and their heart based upon what they're saying and believe. And that, again, is not proper judgment. Again, and I wanna emphasize this just in case while there's any confusion, I'm not talking about the majors. There's a time to call things out. There's a time to call someone false. There's a time to call out heresy, yes. And I'm gonna read some scriptures right now to emphasize that point. But disagreeing on these side doctrines, and again, I say side doctrines, not as if they're not important, but there are not reasons to divide over in a way where we disfellowship from people. First on four, one through three. Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test the spirits to see if the Spirit they have comes from God, okay? Here's a great discernment portion of scripture. For there are many false prophets in the world. Now, how do you discern it? Well, here's what the Bible says. It's right here in first John, verse two. This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God. If they agree with us on every single doctrine. No, it doesn't say that. This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God. If they carry out the method of their ministry just like we carry out the method of our ministry. No, it doesn't say that. This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God. If they believe that speaking in tongues is for today. Oh, it doesn't say that. What does it say? This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God. If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the Spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here. Now, this is interesting because we often read these scriptures, right? Test the spirits, test the spirits, test the spirits. And I found that a lot of Christians, and again, I wanna say this out of love. I'm not, I love the body of Christ. I'm not saying this to bash the body of Christ. I'm saying this to call us to higher places because we need to correct this. I often hear the term discernment used like this. Someone will be watching someone or listening to something or going to a church and they'll say it like this. They'll say, you really have to use discernment with this guy. Oh, I would use discernment with that church because shouldn't we use discernment with everyone and everything? What they actually are communicating is you should use hypercriticism with that one or you should regard that individual as fake. And that, again, is not the proper use of the term. It's to weigh properly and assess maturely with the word and spirit. So we often look at scriptures like this, test the spirits, test the spirits, test the spirits. Yes, but you don't test the spirits based upon whether or not they agree with you on every single point of doctrine. How do you test the spirits? By looking at what they do with the basic teachings about Christ, the fundamental foundational teachings of Christ. Jude 1, 3 through 4, another example. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to ride unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to ride unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith. Here's another one we use a lot, right? Contend for the faith, fight for the faith, which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unaware. What are they doing? What are they fighting against? Who were before of old ordained to this condemnation? Ungodly men, here's what they do. Turning the grace of our Lord God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Well, okay, basically saying that the grace of God allows you to go on sinning. That's what was being called out. It was a very fundamental, specific call out. It wasn't something that was vague. It wasn't something that was left to interpretation. And by the way, many people who claim that they're defending the faith often say that they're going by the context. You know, they insist on that context, context, context. Yet by this verse, they often violate the context and don't judge according to the judgment standard that's been given here. So it really is inconsistent to say that we should defend the faith but then not defend the faith based upon what the scripture is saying here, which is talking about a very fundamental perversion of the gospel message. And that's what we should call out, fundamental perversions of the gospel. Now here, someone is teaching that the grace of God enables us or allows us or permits us to go on sinning and doing whatever we want. And we of course know that no true believer actually believes that. And so if somebody's teaching that, believing that, you can label them as false. First Corinthians 12, three. So I want you to know that no one by the spirit of God will curse Jesus and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy spirit. So true discernment isn't petty. True discernment isn't, let me watch you, make sure every doctrine lines up with what I think. Oh, you believe in a mid-trib rapture. I'm sorry, you're false. Let me check the doctrines lined up here. Oh, you're once saved always. Okay, you're definitely a false teacher. Or let me check the doctrines right here. Oh, you don't believe the spiritual gifts are for today. You're definitely false. See, these are the things that we do to each other. When what the scripture lays out for us is the fact that discernment isn't petty, it's based on fundamental truth. Now we can have great debates about these things. We can have friendly conversations about these things. And there can be disagreements within the body of Christ on certain doctrines. But that is not discernment in action. That is doctrinal disagreement. So number one, true discernment is based on the word, not personal preferences. Number two, true discernment isn't petty. And Jesus said, you'll know them by their fruits. That's not, by the way, ministry success. We often say, well, look at the fruit, look at the fruit, look at the fruit. The fruit is not crowds and views and book sales. The fruit is the fruit of the spirit, the character of Christ in you. So discernment looks at those fundamental things. Now let's look at number three. True discernment is affirmed by the Holy Spirit, not other critics. True discernment is affirmed by the Holy Spirit, not other critics. Now let me make it clear where I stand. I believe speaking in tongues is for today. I believe healing is for today. I believe the gifts are for today. I believe in demonstrations of the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe in those for today. I believe fivefold ministry is for today. That's where I stand on the issue. And I have a lot of friends who stand on that same platform. But one time I was watching a live stream and I'll give you a little bit of backstory here. For several months, I was working behind the scenes to help get one of my fellow ministry friends onto a certain program. I saw the program and I saw my friend's ministry. And I said, if we can get him onto this program, that would bless the viewers of that program and it would really help his ministry. So behind the scenes, I was working backward in the background sending out texts. I was talking to producers.  I felt like I was, what do you call it? The agent for this guy. I was really trying to get him in. And so eventually, finally, they said, okay, we'll put him on the program. It worked out really well. And so now he's finally on the program and I'm able to see the live stream premiere of this interview that happened. So I'm watching with excitement. I'm looking at my screen ready to see what the Lord did through the program. And so they start live streaming this and I'm looking at the comments coming in. People saying, this is encouraging me. This is blessing me. This is helping me. And I'm like cheering my friend on saying, yes, okay, good. People need to see, more people need to see this ministry because it'll bless their lives. And wouldn't you know it in every single comment section, I saw people typing, I don't know. Something just doesn't sit right in my spirit here.  And now that we have an online community, they all find each other somehow and then create validation for one another. And so this person types, I don't know, something just doesn't sit right in my spirit. Nevermind that they don't know the man's character. I do. Nevermind that they don't know his depth of knowledge of the word of God. Nevermind that they don't know how good of a father and a husband he, none of that. All they saw was a personality saying something maybe they slightly disagreed with and then saying, I don't know, something just doesn't sit right in my spirit about this guy. And then somebody follows up with a comment and they say, I was thinking the same thing. And then the other person said, well, I must be hearing from God. And I'm looking at this going, oh my goodness. And that's how many people validate what they think is true based upon other people also. So because somebody else was critical, they think they heard from the Holy spirit. Let me say this. Others being critical of the same person you're criticizing isn't vindication, it's just mutual pettiness. I wanna say that again. Others being critical of the same person you're criticizing isn't vindication. Often it's just mutual pettiness.  Because again, it comes from a place of insecurity and ego. They wanna prove they're right. They wanna prove that they have great discernment. They wanna prove what they think is their knowledge of the word. And in getting others to agree with them, they feel validated by that. It does something for the ego. I've seen this happen in ministries where they can't just say for themselves, well, I don't think that's true or I disagree doctrine with that person. No, they gotta now try to turn everybody against that individual. And should others join in their crusade against that individual, now all of a sudden they're validated. See, I heard from the Lord because somebody else had the same criticism. See, I heard from the Lord because someone else also spoke the same thing. But again, true discernment is affirmed by the Holy Spirit, not other critics. We must discern by the Spirit. First John 2, 20 to 27. But you are not like that for the Holy One has given you His Spirit. And all of you know the truth. So I'm writing to you, not because you don't know the truth but because you know the difference between truth and lies. And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. There again, a very fundamental standard we're being given. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an anti-Christ. Anyone who denies the Son doesn't have the Father either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father. And in this fellowship, we enjoy the eternal life He promised us. Verse 26, I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. But you have received the Holy Spirit and He lives within you. So you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know and what He teaches is true. It is not a lie. So just as He has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ. Here we see that the Holy Spirit will help us to discern when somebody's off on one of these fundamentals. That's somewhat of what the context is here at first on 227. But I think we can glean that biblical principle from there that the Holy Spirit affirms these foundational truths within our lives and within our hearts and minds. And helping to guide us in true discernment once we've been shed of the flesh, the Holy Spirit will pinpoint where we should go and how we should think. Now, once you have stripped away that exterior form of judging, again, that's tone, appearance and style, personality, methodology, big ministry, little ministry, online ministry and person ministry, whatever it may be. Once we've kind of moved all that to the side, say, okay, I'm not gonna judge based on the superficial exterior measurements that people typically use. And then once we recognize that discernment isn't petty, that discernment isn't just this hyper-critical, watchful eye looking for anything that differs from what we hold to be true. And again, I'm not talking about the fundamentals and I wanna make that clear. The fundamentals, somebody violates those, they're a heretic and you can totally dismiss them as false. I'm talking about these areas where we can often demonize each other and the debate becomes heated and intense and emotional and because of that heat, that intensity and that emotion, we often resort to demonizing one another rather than just agreeing to disagree. So that's not the sermon either, it's not pettiness, it's not line by line going down and saying, okay, where do I disagree? Aha, we disagree here, that's it, I always knew you were a fake, that's not what discernment is at all. Again, it has to do with the fundamentals of the faith. Once you've set aside that pettiness and once you've set aside that external framework by which you judge certain individuals and ministries, then you can now ground yourself in the Spirit.  Well, isn't that what it means to judge by the Spirit? Galatians 5, 22 through 23, what the Holy Spirit produces is this kind of fruit in our lives, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things. So if you're judging by these metrics, those should show in what you call discernment. Now remember this, discernment, notice that I'm putting that in quotes there, discernment that lacks love and patience and kindness is not of the Holy Spirit. Yes, Jesus and the apostles were harsh when they rebuked people, but they were never unloving and unnecessarily mean-spirited. They were harsh when people violated the fundamental gospel message. Paul wrote, if anyone preaches another gospel, let him be accursed. Well, who was he writing against? He was writing against people who were teaching a works-based gospel. That's the gospel he cursed, or he prayed for curses on. So again, it's a fundamental violation that causes us to rebuke harshly. But in these other areas, there needs to be gentleness. There needs to be some self-control, some restraint. And again, this is why it's difficult because once you've jumped the gun, once you've jumped to a conclusion based on the exterior or based on the pettiness of simple doctrinal disagreement, once you've jumped the gun on that, well, forget it. You're not gonna wanna budge. And this is where we need to check the ego. Because if we have discern, and I want you to hear this, please, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you with this, if we have indeed made a judgment based upon the exterior, personality, methodology, something about them, just in general that we don't like, if we have indeed judged based upon doctrinal disagreement alone, and again, I'm not talking about the major fundamental doctrines. I'm talking about these minor areas, and I say minor, not that they're not important, like the denominational barriers and so forth. If we judge based on these things, and once we've made that decision, it's rather difficult, isn't it, to go back and say, I was wrong about that person. I was wrong about that ministry. I was wrong about that church. I was wrong about that brother or that sister in Christ. And it's difficult to admit that because now we have to admit we weren't hearing God. And some Christians think that if they admit they misheard God, then now they're calling into question their whole salvation experience. They're calling into question everything about their faith. When that's not it at all. In fact, it's a show of great character. It's a show of great spiritual maturity. When you can say, you know what, I judged on the exterior, or I judged based on doctrinal disagreement, my ego was offended that they didn't agree with me, and so I wrote them off. Well, that's difficult to do, but it is the right thing to do. But again, many don't do that because now they have to admit they got it wrong. And that is where pride becomes a barrier to repentance and reconciliation. I'll say that again. That is where pride becomes a barrier to repentance and reconciliation. We have to do this. Guys, I'll admit there are preachers that I've misjudged. I'm just gonna tell it to you plainly. There was one individual who came to preach at our home church there in Southern California. He came and he was preaching some harsh things. And I was just bothered by these harsh things. And really they were true. And really what it was, is I was convicted. And so I left that service.  And I get in my car and the Holy Spirit tells me, I wasn't grieved, you were convicted. Oh, I didn't like that. And I had to correct that thinking within my own heart and mind. Now, thankfully I didn't go too far and allow bitterness and division. It was just a quick thought that the Holy Spirit had to correct. But I said, you know what, Lord? Okay, forgive me for misjudging your servant. And what he was saying, yeah, it was convicting me. And I do receive that. And a connection developed and a ministry friendship developed and it was a great connection. And so we can often miss those because again, we're judging on the exterior or judging based on petty doctrinal disputes. And that's not what we're called to do. We are called to judge with righteous judgment. We're called to judge based on the word. And on that inner witness of the Holy Spirit you can only go by the inner witness of the Holy Spirit when you've dealt with those exterior ego-centered means by which we judge.  I want you to write in the comment section just a prayer of repentance. Just ask him right now in the comment section just to help you to judge based on the word and on the spirit and not on these means of the flesh. Lord, I pray you help us do it. Let us be lovers of your word I pray. Grounded on the inspired word of God. Holy Spirit, teach us what it is to truly discern with level-headed discernment, righteousness, truth, love and patience. 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We're here based in Austin as a ministry and we don't have regularly scheduled services in terms of every Sunday, but we do have services that we do every now and then. You can check that at davidhernandezministries.com slash events. On that note, on Friday, March 15th and Saturday, March 16th, we're coming to Orlando, Florida for a powerful move of the Holy Spirit. This is a two night event, two nights of worship, the word and demonstrations of the Holy Spirit's power. This is going to be an incredible time. The glory of God in these meetings is tremendous. There is a weight of glory that rests on these services that people testify about from all over the world. People fly in from different countries, from different states. They line up in the morning for services at night. Thousands come to these events and it is a powerful time. Jesus is glorified and the power of the Holy Spirit moves. So make sure you get down to Orlando. Now, we have about 5,000 seats available. We can expand that if need be.  It's free to enter. We don't charge a registration fee, but we do ask that you RSVP by going to davidhernandezministries.com slash events. When you RSVP, you're giving us information that we can use to determine how many seats we're going to need. And so we want to try to guess this correctly so that nobody's turned away. But as I said, we have plenty of seats for everybody. So come down. I recommend you get there at least an hour early. Some will get there two hours early and some even fewer will get there in the morning if they want really, really close seats. But if you can't come early in the morning, that's okay. Try an hour early or even two hours early, at least an hour early for parking to find your seat. Maybe you need to take a break before you get into the service, but do make sure to get down to these events, come both nights. It's going to be a powerful time. I want to show you actually the spiritual hunger that we've been seeing at the various events that we host around the world. I want to show you what the line looks like for these services. Let's take a look at that right now as I comment on it. This is Orlando, Florida last year. And this, by the way, is right around the start time for the service. Inside, the place was already just about full and people were still in line waiting to get in. As we said, this time around in Orlando, we have 5,000 seats available. We can increase that in the venue that we're at, but we just need you to RSVP. Let us know how many you're bringing. If you plan on coming so that we can determine whether or not we need to expand that. Now, what you're looking at here is a sign of spiritual hunger. These people are not there for me. They're not there to see Steve lead worship. They are there because they're hungry for the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we understand that the Holy Spirit dwells in every believer. But when we gather like this, there are manifestations of the Holy Spirit's power that are unique to corporate gatherings. Notice also there's not a big lineup of conference speakers. We don't have a long list of different preachers who are well-known or different worship bands who are well-known. I bring the word and Steve leads the worship, but the people come for the presence of the Holy Spirit. They're not there for any big names. There are no big names present, but the name of Jesus. Jesus is the deliverer. Jesus is the healer. Jesus is the savior. Jesus is the one who empowers. And that's what these people are there for. So look at the spiritual hunger. Young and old, all different cultures and backgrounds represented. That's what heaven looks like. And these people are there. Of course it goes on and on, but I wanted to give you an idea of what that looks like so that you can know what to expect when you come to the event there. Again, March 15th and 16th, Orlando, Florida. Again, we have 5,000 seats. That means we have plenty of seats for everyone. In the past, we were always worried like where are we gonna have enough? Are we gonna have to turn people away? I'm confident with those 5,000 seats we'll have plenty and we can expand that if we need to as well. So don't worry. I know some of you have hesitated saying, well, I can't line up at 10 in the morning and therefore I don't even know if I'm gonna get in. Just come to the service. You're gonna get into the building, 5,000 seats. I'm confident there will be plenty of room.


Hey everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Arte Throws Nation. In today's video, we are going to talk about power in the discus, specifically what do we need to do and how do we need to move to create that monster whip. We're gonna do a comparison against one of the greats all time and a developing thrower and show you exactly what's missing, so check it out. Okay everybody, so what we talked about today is creating power in the throw and what we wanna do is we wanna look at, we have a young athlete here on our right and this athlete is always working hard and trying to do some things, but there's a couple of key things that are really cutting off her power. Remember, the ability to generate power is really what makes these amazing world-class throwers world-class, so it's what every young thrower aspires to be. You wanna develop that monster finish, that just big slam and then the discus, it's that big stretch. So what we're gonna look at is we're gonna take a look at Keeley here and I'm gonna kinda show it in slow-mo and you're gonna notice we can see we've got a little bit of an angle, right? Whereas this throw, we're looking at a direct shot cameras essentially at 12 o'clock and this camera's sitting over here probably like 10, 30, 11 o'clock and so you're gonna see the athlete and how the athlete comes into the throw and we're gonna pay attention to a couple of things that are gonna be really important. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at Perkovich as she comes through, you're gonna notice as she's moving, you're gonna see her come in. Now, here's the big key, you see this foot kinda crank, you see the position of the arm, so if we were looking from this angle like we're looking over here, we wouldn't see this portion of her collarbone and her hips, right? We would see the hips facing more this way still and the shoulders facing more this way and so that's one of the things you wanna understand, that's one of the reasons why we created our throwing chain reaction system, right? We're trying to teach you specifically what you're doing at each phase of throw, how do you train that one and a half seconds? So this is a perfect example, we would say our pillar two is two rotational and so we wanna see that movement around the axis, right? So you're gonna notice that Perkovich, the thing that she does, and we've talked about this in other videos, she moves around this axis, right? She's coming here. Well, we have our athlete here and she is moving basically into and over rotating the axis. So we're gonna see two big things here that are gonna be eliminating power. One is turning down and one is turning in. So which one is doing which? What direction is she going? Boom, you see the load? Look at the drop and look at the angle. This is really key. I've heard some other coaches talk about knee drop. We teach always to push the knee into the throw. It is a down motion, but we don't teach to load the knee because trying to come out of that's impossible, but there's a couple of reasons why some athletes go too far down and what we're gonna show you here is what, why? So here we look at Perkovich again. Look at that left arm as she comes in. See where it's at right there. Let me fix this right there. You see her, you can still see the left arm. She comes in right here as I'm at 12. We're barely gonna see her arm right there and now she's loaded and now we see the long sweep leg and the counterbalance of the entry arm. Now watch our thrower over here. When we get to that same position, we don't see, right? We never see that leg extending out and we don't see where's the arm. At this point, we should see the arm here. If we were looking at the side angle and we took it back to this point, you could see right there, we're starting to see, but look at where her chest is facing. If we had the camera in this same position over here, we would see that her chest would be back and our young athlete here is too rotational. So this is part of the reason why you're seeing this position. Look at the load in the leg right here and look at the load in the leg with our two-time world champion, two-time Olympic champion, Sandra Perkovich. So what you're gonna see is this athlete is turning around. See how the arm's opening? Now watch Perkovich's arm there. It doesn't keep opening. She turns the hips around. The hips are gonna be eventually facing here. That's what's getting the arm to the high point. So what we're talking about, the first stage what we call in our system, setting up maximum power. It's pillar two.  So here's what is happening. She's opening around. So look where the arm and the shoulder is. Look at how the left leg is dragging. Why is that kind of right and kind of not right? Well, if you look carefully here, what you're gonna see is that Perkovich, right, she's gonna crank the lower body around. And here's where we have lower body is ahead, right? The lower body is starting to crank ahead. You see how the hips basically are facing kind of this way. Upper body's facing that way. Look at our thrower over here. The hips and the shoulders are turning together. So by the time she gets around, the chest is open. So if you looked at the same position and we looked at the knee, right? The knee's facing 12, where are the shoulders? Her shoulders are facing back at 12. Her shoulders are facing almost three o'clock. That's your answer. Hey guys, okay, so I just showed you on the video analysis what's going on. You can kind of see it, looking at Sandra, looking at our young athlete, Keely. And you can see, again, she's really close and there's a lot of good movement going on the throw. But like I just explained, when the arm is coming in, right, and we're setting up. So here we, when we see the athlete and we see the foot coming in and everything's here, everything's gotta be longer. You're gonna notice this athlete kind of goes here. Notice when I show you guys that.  You see that? So now the chest is too far around. So when she gets here, we haven't even really broke down the finish. And in this video we're not going to. We're just gonna save that one for another one because that's the next phase of creating big power in your throw. But hopefully you guys can see that. What you see with Perkovich is she comes here, it stays long, now it starts to open. She's got this big wide sweep and then she holds here. You see the difference versus the athlete who's sitting, opening, and then it never really closes. So as she goes, she tries to pull around. She does a really good job, but by that time the upper body's ahead and it's never gonna get more ahead, right? It's never gonna stay back. So I'm gonna resume the video analysis, check it out, and then hopefully this helps you guys. That's the first phase of what you need to do. This is again, a chain reaction. Once that's happened to our thrower here on the right, she's upper body's ahead and she's trying to get that discus to the high point, but you can see in that process that she loses all the stretch and loses all the part. Now there's a ton more. We could go through this and we would break down a lot more key things. But the first thing that we wanna do is for you guys that are out there, you kinda see how do you get that big time power in the throw? You can't turn the upper body with the lower body. It's as simple as that. Remember, and it doesn't mean necessarily hold it back. It means there's a tension point and a sequence and what we refer to all the time are windows that enable the athlete to create power where you hold the body the right amount of time, otherwise too much is holding it, just trying to turn with it held back. That's not right either. What you wanna do is allow the lower body to be sprinting ahead so that it's creating that whipping motion of the upper body and that's what you see when you go here. So if we look and we take it back and we play it in full speed, you're gonna notice she comes through and we're gonna watch our athlete over here, watch as she comes through and we'll talk about other things in an upcoming video but watch this tour, she's really close, but you can kinda see how she loses that tension. She's losing that power in the throw and that's what you guys all wanna do. You wanna get that big time power development in the throw and it starts in the beginning of the throw. So if you'd like more information about how the throw works step by step, how do you train one and a half to two seconds to develop better technique, check out our link below and check out the Throwing Chain Reaction System and hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and we'll see you in the next one. Thanks.


Welcome back, last class we were seeing about the gastrointestinal tract disorders beginning from the constipation. So constipation becomes a very big problem at the same time the opposite diarrhea also becomes a very big problem. So let us see what is diarrhea there are different types of diarrhea and what type of diet we have to take. So diarrhea is a condition which involves frequent passing of loose and watery stools. You see it is just opposite to the constipation. It has come from the word diarrhea means, diarrhea means flow and diarrhea means through. So continuous I mean watery stools of more than 3 to 4 times is diarrhea. Now the factors are it may be because of infection any bacterial infection can cause diarrhea or sometimes when we get antibiotics the excess of antibiotics also leads to diarrhea and some of the foods when they are not I mean some of if they are stale or some foods which we have the gastrointestinal tract is not able to tolerate such foods also cause diarrhea and it is associated symptom along with some of the diseases. Sometimes fever, sometimes any other diseases may accompany with diarrhea. So the factor can lead to passage of unformed stools that means the transit time in the intestine is very low the food passes very fast through the intestinal tract and it is thrown out. Now people of all ages can get diarrhea but it is most common in children of below 5 years of age. Now children with poor nutritional status and over all health which is poor they are exposed to poor environmental conditions and are more susceptible to severe diarrhea and it leads to dehydration. So poor environmental condition, poor sanitation, poor hygiene is the main cause for diarrhea which leads to infectious diarrhea. Now there are 3 clinical syndromes of diarrhea one is acute watery diarrhea where the passage of loose and watery stools without any visible blood. So vomiting and fever also may occur and if it occurs for more than 14 days it is called as persistent diarrhea. Then the person has to be hospitalized and given intravenous fluids. Now dysentery is another type of diarrhea where blood is visible along with this stool. It is a symptom of the shigella, entomibia, histolica and salmonella. These 3 organisms generally cause dysentery. The chronic diarrhea this is a recurrent and long lasting diarrhea and it is mostly non-infectious. Now the causes of diarrhea these diarrhea are inflammatory disease if the intestines are inflamed then also there is no proper assimilation and breakdown of the food therefore it goes out. Then fungal bacterial or viral medications over consumption of sugars also causes the diarrhea because when you consume over amount of sugars this because of the osmotic conditions it pulls out all the water from the cells and diarrhea occurs. Then whenever there is damaged mucosal surface in the intestine this also causes diarrhea. Now osmotic diarrhea is poorly absorbed osmotically active solutions in the intestinal tract. So this occurs when too much of water is drawn into the intestinal lumen and diarrhea will result with 1 or 2 situations. Malabsorption so when there is some difficulty in the mucous membrane of the intestines there is the nutrients will not be absorbed. So the especially malabsorption of carbohydrates it is the most common deficit in category of diarrhea. So it can result in malabsorption of carbohydrates then ingestion of poorly absorbed substrate. So usually a carbohydrate or a divalent ion it is that is the mannitol, sorbitol, salt and some antacids when they are poorly absorbed also they attract more water into the lumen and cause diarrhea. Then there is another diarrhea called secretory diarrhea this results from the active chloride secretion into the bowel. So this chloride secretion it again it draws out more water and leading to a net loss of fluid. This generally happens in the disease which is called cholera. So when the toxins of cholera are produced it pulls out all the waters from the cell and then it clears off from the intestines. So it continues even if there is no food intake during cholera whatever water is present in the body cells is just drawn out and then evacuated from the body. So cholera leads to fast dehydration. Mucous diarrhea is another type of diarrhea it is caused because of intestinal mucosal damage. So there is release of mucous blood, fluid and plasma proteins from the cells of the lining of the mucosa and results in inflammation or injury. So this increases the content of feces because you have mucous blood, fluid and plasma proteins and leads to ulcerative colitis whenever there is a disease called Crohn's disease. So this Crohn's disease is again the inflammation of the entire intestinal wall. So ulcerative colitis is wherever the intestines some places there is ulcers. So all these are lost through the feces. So infections such as E coli or whenever there is food poisoning all these type causes exutative diarrhea. Then infectious diarrhea is generally caused either by virus bacteria or sometimes parasites and there is a norovirus cause for diarrhea which is a viral diarrhea. Then rotavirus, rotavirus is generally caused in children below 5 years of age then there is astro virus which is caused because of a number of viruses and other infections. Motility related diarrhea this is related to the peristaltic movement of the intestines. So and this is caused by the rapid movement of food through the intestines whenever the contractions are very fast the food moves very fast through the intestines. So this cause because of hyper motility of the intestines. So the food does not have enough time for breaking down or absorbing sufficient nutrients into the intestine. This generally occurs in conditions where vagotomy occurs. Vagotomy is the surgery whenever there is some surgery in the industrial tract the vagus nerve is sometimes cut off. So this vagotomy leads to the changes in the motility of the intestinal valve or during diabetic neuropathy. Neuropathy is a complication of diabetic therefore whenever they have neuropathy again it disturbs the motility of the intestinal valves. Then hyperthyroidism also can produce hyper motility and lead to pseudo diarrhea and occasionally real diarrhea. So this type of motility related diarrhea can be treated by anti motility agents like simple medicine like low permite that means decreasing the motility of the intestines. Then inflammatory diarrhea is damaged to the mucosal lining or the brush border. Last few classes I was telling about the villi. So these villi they cause like a brush border in the intestines. So when this brush border is disturbed then the mucosal lining is disturbed and the inflammation occurs. So passive loss of protein rich fluids and decreased ability of absorption of these lost fluids. So caused by bacterial infection, viral infection, parasitic infection and some autoimmune problems. Now when should you see a doctor when you have a diarrhea whenever there is high fever and it is not subsiding then see a doctor then severe abdominal pain, then bloody diarrhea and prolonged vomiting, acute diarrhea in pregnant women because pregnant women cannot afford to have a long duration of diarrhea because their nutritional status will come down and affect the fetus. So diarrhea occurs during or immediately after completing a course of antibiotics. So the first episode of diarrhea or second episode of diarrhea we should not take any medicines because there are some toxins or bacteria that are present in the stools. They have to be pushed out from the body. So body's natural mechanism of pushing out should not be obstructed. So after 1 or 2 days or 10 episodes of diarrhea then you can see the doctor. Then treatment diarrhea in adults you identify and treat the underlying problem what is we have seen the different types of diarrhea. So we have to identify which type of diarrhea and treat it properly. Then replacement of fluids and electrolytes is very important because during diarrhea a lot of fluid from the body is evacuated and there may be a disturbance in the fluid balance electrolyte balance therefore which has to be met. Then broths and electrolyte solutions which are high in sodium and potassium need to be given because the electrolytes which are so the main electrolyte sodium and potassium also are excreted along with the diarrhea. Then you can give fruits like apples and bananas which are rich in pectin because this pectin it tries to bind the residue and makes the stool I mean solid. Then avoid caffeine because caffeine will again stimulate the motility of the intestines therefore it is better to avoid caffeine. Then when diarrhea stops you can give starchy fruit foods like rice, potato and plain cereals. And slowly then you can start protein foods then but initially we should give the minimum residue diet because the intestine cannot tolerate the solid foods. Then modest amount of fats can be given because you have to supply sufficient energy and sugar alcohols like lactose, fructose and large amount of sucrose should be better avoided because it worsens the situation of the diarrhea because again it helps in attraction of more water or drawing out more water into the lumen and excrete. Now chronic diarrhea the nutrient should be replaced parentry or entirely because when the person is not able to swallow then it is better to give the nutrients directly into the veins intravenous administration of nutrient should be given so that the patient recovers very fast. Then short chain fatty acids should be given and it also facilitates the absorption of fluid and salts and also regulates the gastrointestinal motility. Then the best thing is you give probiotics. Probiotics is just the opposite of antibiotics. Antibiotics means we are removing the bacteria so it sometimes what happens is it kills the good bacteria also. So probiotics it initiates the bacterial growth in the intestine. And prebiotics these favor the growth of the probiotics that is lactobacillus and bipidus and they help in slowing the gastric emptying and also hold water. So you should restore very fast in the gastrointestinal tract disorders because the stool output and shortening of illness should be decreased that is the main aim and you have to replace the micronutrients. So even when you have diarrhea many of the people do not eat any food but whenever there is diarrhea also the gut has the capacity to absorb 60% of the food that is eaten. So when you rest the gut it is more dangerous because the body is not getting any nutrients then there is a diarrhea called weanling diarrhea that is when the child is weaned from the breast to the normal food under such conditions also there is weaning diarrhea and so encourage breast feeding before and follow the good food hygiene then improvement of nutritional status is should be our aim and good environmental sanitation will prevent the weanling diarrhea. In fluid management you have to replace the fluid losses very early as the diarrhea is episodes are going on you have to keep on replacing the fluid and electrolyte into the body then plenty of fluid should be given to prevent dehydration then initial management should be with fluids so you have to keep everything ready. Now coconut water, buttermilk, rice kanji with salt and lemon can reduce the dehydration and these fluids can be given in unlimited quantity so that dehydration can be prevented. Now there is a solution called you can make a oral rehydration solution at home by giving boiling 1 liter of water and adding a pinch of salt and a handful of sugar in it and giving the patient frequently as possible. Now there is a WHO recommended oral rehydration salt solution where it contains 20 grams of glucose, sodium chloride is 3.5, sodium carbonate 2.5 and trisodium citrate 2.9 and potassium chloride 1.5 grams per liter that is per liter of boiled and cooled water. This can be frequently fed to the patient with diarrhea so that dehydration does not occur. So therefore whenever there is diarrhea, diarrhea is very dangerous and if it is neglected it can become fatal and since the individual loses lot of water and the body undergoes dehydration the cells also become dehydrated and they lose their functions and lead to death. So proper care, initial care and fluid management in diarrhea is very important. Thank you.