Boston MIT note of the computational on blockchain best of all and What we are and so right now these are kind of mid-hat report outs from the project teams and then also the breakout discussions. So first up ball and chain great, so we are we are the ball and chain our concept is around digitizing prenuptial agreements and Simple contracts and things of that nature. So Just to kind of set the table. There are two million marriages every year 50% end in divorce and only 3% of those two million marriages actually have been up to a place So we think that happens because there's a large barrier to entry and it's a little taboo so we're going to try to simplify and eliminate both of those things by reducing the cost by using a Neutral kind of portal to where we can develop a contract and add it to a ledger in a hash form and get it signed So it could be easier to use. So for our work today. So we set up a website AWS simple storage, and then we started to kind of build out our Form and framework. So I'll kick it to my colleague to talk about kind of the contract Yeah, so basically just took a simple contract template we went through each part of it that would have different variables and Assigned the different variables to those parts Yep, so that would be we would take those variable names take this kind of generic contract and then ask a series of kind of principle oriented questions to be able to determine kind of the posture for the prenuptial agreement to make it kind of fair So yeah, that's where we're at ballonchain.com awesome the ball on chains never been so free Tax fun You guys ready? That's just gonna be fun again. Just have a lot change Hello everybody where We have yet to think of a more clever name What we are working on is an app that smart contract that verifies if a person was outside of New York City for greater than one or 83 days and they are liable for a much lower tax than if they Spend more than 100 days in New York. So we're writing a smart contract that Verifies that through a smartphone I'll hand it over to Brian to give you guys the details of what we've been up with sure, so Our idea is that your phone is always with you your phone Sends your lab long to your to this Oracle the Oracle says whether you're within a city limits or not You only have to the law says as long as you're within New York City for a minute You that counts as being a resident for that day and there's some other exemptions that we didn't deal with yet About like passing through New York to if you go to the airport and it doesn't count as a residence day but in any case that we worked through some of the issues of Verifying, you know that the phone is with you. How would you do that? Well, maybe you have sufficient biometric check-ins on your phone. That would be good enough to establish the phone was with you Then we looked into someone mentioned phone that space which is a proof of location so that The city could trust that the GPS coordinates that are being sent to you were in fact The GPS coordinates that represent where you were and so there's some you know Things to be ironed out, but in general it seems like a smart contract approach might actually be doable here and make this whole residency non-residency tracking Simpler and easier and more audible and verifiable and that's safe cities La la cities to collect the correct amount of taxes here here and not so fast though Oh, so who like the pizza today anybody like that? We're really actually kind of learning as we go along with Solidity, so if there are any Experts or non-experts, then please help us Okay, that's fun. Okay, so next we've got we the customers Can you see the hack here we go we're we the customers want to create pretty much a political platform for Regular citizens to go on the platform and write their own Proposals for bills to be passed and once they're they're doing this they do it in sort of like a github style fashion where There's a repository so that everything is tracked the history is there and things can fork And once that's done Lawmakers can look at these see which ones are getting traction And then that pressure will eventually incentivize them to sort of copy and then paste those bills into You know things that will actually get passed at their level at whatever level it may be Thank you Yeah, so one of the main things we see this is simplifying the public policy making process where If information is stored in containers or if you have policy ideas that are kind of in Then you can move around between different laws and creating a law in one state You can borrow good ideas from other states and they could be tracking the success of those provisions of the laws This way will make it a lot easier for a regular citizen to read and understand the bill You know their opinion on it whereas now nobody wants to read a 5,000-day child care law Hopefully this way they'll be not kind of bored but they was involved that it'll be easy for average person understand. I Want to read a 5,000-day child care law So that's great. We the customer using technology to To refactor make available the social compact for the digital age Thanks, thank you. Um duck duck Interesting um just sort of a cameo by a local entrepreneur Charlie Charles Well So my name is Charles And we invest in And In order to do this we have a lot of projects and these projects all pretty much sent you inventions of my And so one of the things that we isolated was to provide Crypto currency and so to get us kicked off. He started with a big coin wallet So it's a paper Address is on the outside Then you open it up It's similar to You don't have to open it until you're ready to spend it So the public address is still on the inside same one that was on the outside And then I the key is under this foil And we're gonna be doing a lot of different things to There's a lot of To open it up You take a pair of scissors and cut it And then Private keys exposed inside now. It's a hot wallet Swipe it and you're done and you don't use it again We're gonna have all kinds of different versions. We're gonna do it for all different kinds of currency There's gonna be all kinds of Other security measures You print we print the wallets right now on three different printing operations To do all the background and lots of lots of the security then we're gonna print the keys We do that in an extremely cold scenario. We're in a room that is Obviously no cameras. There's no Wi-Fi. There's no UV there's no anything and Basically everything out of the computer and Print the keys once the freezer keys are printed We take the computer the mouse the printer and we put it in the furnace So your keys are going to be very secure I could go in to the seeds and all that But it's just this one So one more time. What's your room for people want to find out more? It's Bitcoin.com or you go to CHT for that's the venture firm and Just want to also mention We're working with David Hart's band is our consulting CTO. So we might know him And On the website now we have a lot of other people involved and hopefully I won't drop it. Okay. Thank you very much. All right Okay, so utopia That was an example by the way, yes So don't forget to do Okay, um, so we can go right after So how many how many people here actually At home Great, you mean like where I'm standing right now We're not like you do you actually feel that you're happily at home I go on an open So that's that's that's the question. It's the home versus what it's it's our feeling at home Versus what we think we like and we think we might actually belong One out of every four homeowners actually experiences violence remorse So they bought a house and then they they think hey, I hate this place What if we used our digital identity to? Kind of quantify what makes that heart decision for us What makes our home at home? It can seem a bit out there It's a bit different difficult, but it's actually not that difficult if you go by muscles hierarchy or needs Your start satisfying a certain bunch of needs down there And then you go up and then you realize that things like social interactions are important the weather is important and The proximity to grocery stores and is no longer as important as you know people that you're living with What if we use the identity to be able to create attributes that constitute your heart So for example, you want to be among the like-minded people we like tech So you go to San Francisco you're in the Silicon Valley and you just happy to hang around This kind of people you don't care about over over inflated house prices because you're in the area that you feel most comfortable this is basically the core of the idea and by using the identity we would like to quantify this actors and then Help you to predict where you will be Happier where you can buy a home which will make you happy in the area and also where You could build your own kind of society around yourself with the like-minded people. So basically to create your own Here we go. It was built. Do you want to see me? It's my utopia ID my utopia dot ID sanctioned With one of the things we're going to give away the way the sanction is a copy of social physics the awesome book from Professor Sandy Penland Human Dynamics Group work Have a seat in the media lab If you look deep if you look at how they look at how I don't care the many facets of identity and the data that we can derive the insights from it One can see that there could be a path for better optimization of what people communities and places Optimized that happiness that utopia Meanwhile, there's wrong doers also right now who must be dealt with it Not utopia sanctioned. ID is gonna show us the way I Everything else is like Okay, so Went through some things starting to Coat things out which one of us will talk about a moment But I'm just gonna go through a couple start talking about some things. So once again to recap sanctioned.io is a platform for Flagging people who say and do bad things on Telegram as just as a test case about 80% of all the Talk about cryptocurrencies. I see it happened on the telegram platform and so The the like the highest level thing that we decided there's a continuum of consequences So like at the very very top level is the concept of having Like a naughty list that would lead to a class action lawsuit against an ICO that was doing that things But that there's like a very you know that that can be a very high high bar to To jump over and then there could also be It could it could be a there could be difficulty with the solvency of a defendant and things like that but Overall the concept of having the the consequence would still be a net benefit for the community So decided to keep on working on the project Um There's also the question of liability So whether or not a platform or not whether or not but rather what liability platform would have so that's actually Still an open question But there's a concept that could potentially be under the safe harbor principle by the digital copyright act and there's a couple other things where Publisher or like a digital platform is not liable for these statements of the parties that use it Here and then also there's a big question of Where would we have the jurisdiction? What's the best place to do it should? sanctioned be in the US in the European Union Maybe have it on the island man or we're in here or something We decided that the United States is the best jurisdiction because it has the the best laws for class So you have all the best You won and then got a really great suggestion from Andrew there were actually there's only a couple of us here, but there were quite a few people in the group and There's a concept of how do you prove so something with with class action It's you have to prove that you can damage So with cryptocurrency a lot of people don't want you know There's you want to keep your keys private and I had the concept of someone submitting like an api with an exchange Which is apparently a terrible idea because people can get hacked that way so um Andrew had a the concept of someone doing like a token transaction unintended a small transaction to a state bucket Where then now you would have access you can see the wallet on the chain Then you see this person had so many tokens from such and such nice So there were a lot of flat of ideas that would really need for a couple I'm gonna hit them. I'm not Andrew. That's amazing And it's being referred to I'm Alex. Um so I was the only uh Software developer in the group and I tried to create a telegram bot influence on dysfunctionality And what I can say is that this is a really important problem because it's arguable that pretty much every ICO out there except seven maybe a couple are scams and uh and you know We don't want that. We don't want people getting scammed. Um and uh Yeah, uh, I think you know, there's some there. There's some websites out there that um, David Was showing me where where they were they were you know Post lists of all these ICO scams and really call attention to them and stuff like that so we'd be kind of continuing in that vein and and just uh Yeah, I don't know. There's a lot of a ways this can go and there's a lot of things that are hard to figure out like, uh How do you prevent like a denial of service attack where everybody is just Reporting random scams and you know, how do you how do you process? They didn't make complaints. Uh, we have to have actual human moderators there and Probably at least initially to some extent Anyway, uh, I didn't get the bot working. Well, I got a bot working technically and that the bot was online, but it didn't do anything Uh, but I think it's something, you know, there's some useful functionality that could be implemented by Um, someone who either had a little more time than I did or who is uh more familiar with working on this So yeah, so it's a cool idea Here you go. Thank you. Great, thanks. Thank you, my bio Making it utopian again. All right. And so now, um, last but not least of the projects Let me check did it other Other than, um, um, live chain is it were there any other projects? Report out. Okay, great. So Live chain. Uh, where you guys at?  Yeah Oh, oh you are My sunrise on the darkest day got me feeling kind of Maybe want to say Oh, yeah, you hear that song I don't have stress of like you know I don't have a spoiler We can talk All right The vital chain it wasn't connected well with the But I connected a bunch of people here, especially my colleagues here, Mr. Kings, you put the blockchain and the vibe chain So I wouldn't let him tell you how We often put in the blockchain and the vibe chain. All right That was quite an introduction. I don't know if I can After the idea was explained yesterday and I came I think I went home And I actually thought about this idea. I thought it was rather compelling Another part that wasn't discussed that I think is really interesting that could be done in time is something that was Done way back in the ages when cryptography in 1999 was coming about and it was key sign parties So something that we're looking to do that potentially in addition to you know sitting to buy And creating a party is adding that trust element to that party And so identity is created by the relationships you make with that identity So when you go to a party, you can have a key signing party And so what the blockchain does is it allows you to lubricate which is sometimes not a fun experience Everyone's just signing each other's keys. So, you know, we haven't implemented that use case yet But I think what this provides is Um a recognition back into the past where key signing parties were very important to identity within public and private keys We don't believe done is integrated new board. So you're able to request a self sovereign identity into your decentralized application Um, so you can log in with you for it'll pull down your information And then you have a rsvp the party right now. We currently just have a smart contract deployed to the ethereum blockchain It's a it's a token contract, but we're going to change that up. So when you rsvp You submit that you're going to go to this party The person who's throwing it can either agree to let you in or not And then we're going to use ipfs to allow you to submit five songs that you want to see within Um the party so you want to Have, you know despacito or whatever else you want to play That that'll be hashed as it gets sent to ipfs So your playlist will then be stored within the smart contract and as you enter into this party We're going to see that you have entered and then we can reference your party list So if you actually show up to the party your songs will be played and then other people can vote on those So we've got a basic implementation that just disappeared That's what we have so far is logging in with decentralized identity and then rsvp to a party And then we're going to work on the rest and we're going to get by them. That's it here. Thank you So we have one other report out can I use your browser? Sure So no, okay. I'll just I'll just say um, so we we had a um a break up discussion at 330 with um Conjuring with the washington dc node of the computational on chain festival and we took a look at principles for this self sovereign identity digital identity principles for individuals generally We took a look at the sovereign identity networks principles christ for alan's principles that um christian smith Mentioned as part of his talk yesterday and some others and started to ask for truth What would a overarching set of principles be for sovereign identity that could go span across the different technologies? and would support and reflect um people's expectations about their ownership of control of the of their own Individual digital identity and some of the interesting things that that came up in the dialogue included looking at Property and personal property is one possible set of rules We also talked about what happens when people die like what happens to their property and their identity at that point We took a look at the uniform law Well, I think it's the um, if I do share access to digital assets act as one of the possible legal frameworks and um, I don't know what else do you remember Brian or pa or christian anyone What else happened I tried conversion and like trust so people were talking about um, could there be Something a situation like when you have property and other people are using it for a certain period of time Did they gain rights to it? Potentially could that happen? Um inadvertently with um attributes of identity or identity services or maybe identity functions that have been delegated to others I'm going to pass down. Um, we're looking for also what kind of remedies do people get when um aspects of their identity have been Utilized or um, maybe abused by others or their monetary damages could be equitable remedies and we were looking at some of the legal dimensions would say of um, of um Development for like a set of principles that could apply so people have um, you know expectations about um their own digital identity or sovereign identity And one of the good things that happened as a result of that was people They're participating from actually around the country and internationally and the hangout part of it Decided that they want to keep working on this um scratch pad document. We have in a wiki Which you can find in the report out So if you have ideas about that pack with us too and don't you add your ideas to the wiki Okay, so um that I think concludes the report outs at this point and what's going to happen next is um, we're keeping the space open um into the evening And so teams that would like to keep hacking on the projects Please do keep hacking and um, if you're interested in other projects that you heard and you'd like to jump in I encourage you to do that.  Well, everyone's here gathered in the uh venture cafe and um, offer to help and tomorrow at One p.m. Um will um have an opportunity at the media lab on the fifth floor for teams to make the final presentations You can kind of see what what you came up with and then we also have Another opportunity to do a discussion. So that space that time frame is pretty open right now So we can make with it. Um, what what we'd like to for of those that are out tomorrow But um for right now, I just want to thank everybody for showing up and for bringing your a games um to to this hackathon and um, we've been getting great questions and great play from venues around the world of some of which have never done a legal hackathon before and um and Kind of checking other notes to see how to do it. And so um, everyone here has been inspirational and um check back After the hackathon to see all the great projects and ideas that came out of the venues around the world for the festival so with that um happy hacking and see you um tomorrow


This question is for Brian. So when meeting new women, I am I get really nervous and I start you know start rambling on and How do I either use this energy to I guess in my advantage or how do I slow myself down? this is first off you got to own it if you keep resisting it or fighting it or trying to trying to hide it. It's It's gonna only get worse. It's never gonna change.  I am look my lip is shaking look. I'm nervous, but you turn you turn me on Versus hi kind of half saying hi half being there and the more you own it and step in there And don't play the victim to the energy even though it's running in the background and even obviously running The faster you get over it if you play victim to it and kind of half ass you got one foot in the door one foot out trying To step into the energy. It's not gonna really change. It could even I've actually seen people get worse from that So really stepping in and owning it and then not not pushing through it so that you shut off You can't go unconscious to it. You got to fully feel it and acknowledge it and step into it That's what breaks it up. The other thing you can do that. I think is really important and Several people on the panel talked about it is meditation Doing meditation learning to calm your nervous system learning to calm your mind learning to feel your body Because all that anxiety is stored in your body and most of the guys that I run into In this business or in their heads a lot and that's why the anxiety won't go away I liken it to there's a safe door and it's locked and you got to figure out that lock and get down inside the safe Which is your body before you're gonna be able to desensitize your nervous system and calm it down and get the anxiety out So learning to meditate and and feel farther and farther down into the center pillar of your body all the way down through the whole Body down to the legs is really essential for desensitization. It allows you to learn to relax It allows you to learn to let go So that when you go out later and you step into that anxiety and talk to a beautiful woman You're actually feeling it fully and then you can start learning to let go Versus trying to do it from your head I'm gonna speak to that too The first step to change is awareness.  It's really easy From like right from your iPhone You can just you know wire yourself up mic yourself up and listen to it and as you listen to it, you'll start to We'll start to you know become more aware of it and it'll be easier to change and I find that anytime I'm doing something that I want to stop if I just Don't focus on it to the point where it makes you crazy But just learn to laugh at yourself learn to not make it such a big deal then you can transform it


Stevenson gets the three-nil victory over Hood on senior day. Glen Clark with head coach, Graham Miller. Coach, pretty emphatic effort from your guys today. Really responded well after a tough loss the other night. How proud of you. Were you of this effort from your team? Yeah, I mean, we had to do that today. You know, there's a lot of pressure on us. You know, Hood was coming here, absolutely nothing to lose. Try to play the spoiler. You know, to get those goals in the first half, I think was huge, especially the second one. And then from there, you know, finishing the game off in the second half, I thought our game management, I thought everything that we needed to do today, we did. And that's pleasing, because I think you saw there. I mean, you were the game on Tuesday. You know, the guys have played a lot of minutes. There were some tired legs out there today. They were a little laggy, but you know, credit to them.  We wanted to get into the trying into the playoffs.   And then for Sebastian, did it go get a goal in the second half? How cool was that for this entire team to have the seniors have their moments like that?  Senior day can go, you know, anyway, there's a lot of emotion on it. You know, our seniors are all great. All six of them have did so much for the program on and off the field.  And to get him back on the field today for his first game, Seb's goal, you know, a little bit a little bit lucky, but hey, you got to take shots. So just great to see them. Renee Diaz, Elias, you know, Eli obviously plays a lot of minutes for us.  They've given everything and I'm really, really, really proud of them and really proud that they were able to get plenty of minutes today. And then I wanted to ask, I saw you had a special friend with your team here today. And I don't know anything about this story. Could you tell us a little bit about your special friend that was hanging out with you guys? Yeah, so we're working within a partnership with Team Impact and, you know, a national organization. They partner students with special needs disabilities with a college team for a multi-year kind of deal. And so we did a signing day for Nate last night. You can check out on our social media. He signed his letter of intent. He's a member of our roster. We got him a jersey. And so Nate's our guy. Nate's our 40th guy on the team and we're really excited to have him. And he's just a great kid, 13 years old, you know, as old as my oldest son. And it's just great to have have him be part and really show these guys, but, you know, his positive energy is just so infectious. It's special. I coach appreciate you. Thanks for spending the time. Thank you.


Acts 15. We're going to go through the whole chapter. There you go. Yeah, we are. Beginning at verse 1. Certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved. Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension in dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. So being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy to all the brethren. And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. They reported all things that God had done with them. But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up saying, it is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses. And so whenever the Lord is moving, let's make this just the introductory thought, kind of foundational thought, whenever the Lord is moving, the enemy has a tendency of trying to undermine the things that God is doing. We know that by experience, but the bottom line is that's just biblically true. When God is moving, the enemy attempts to checkmate that. He attempts to stop the work of the Lord. And God is moving. God is moving through the gospel of grace, the message of grace. And so seeing that God is moving through the message of grace, it just is inevitable that there will be an opponent, somebody who has raised up, who's going to be trying to bring you into bondage. Because grace is the unmerited favor of God that releases us from the bondage that we at one time had suffered in our religious disciplines that we were raised in. And so that's what's taking place here. The enemy is starting to raise up opposition. When you look in your Bible, you'll see from the early days of the church that self-appointed teachers very often came in order to undermine the truth of the gospel. There's always been a way of knowing which was the proper message. There's always been that way because all you need to do is see what the message is to see whether it lines up with the messages that we've received in that day would have been through the apostles today, whether it lines up with Scripture. Because whenever somebody would come and would bring a message, it had to line up with the things that had been previously taught by the apostles. When we began the book of Acts, we noted that the mark of the early church was that they were taught the same message. And that was what was called the word of his grace that they had received through apostolic teaching. So it was the message of the grace of God that the early church held fast to. And it was clearly presented to them through the teaching that came through the apostles. It was the foundation, again, of all their beliefs. Remember in Acts in chapter 2 in verse 42 how it simply said they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching. And so initially you were built on the foundation of the teaching of the apostles which today is referred to in a theological way as apostolic doctrine. It's just foundational teachings that we received from those who followed Christ as the apostles. And the early church devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles. So it is proper to preserve and present the message that reveals the grace of God because it's the message of grace that enables a sinner to be set free from bondage. And Paul made sure that he remained faithful to the true presentation of this message. Later on in chapter 20 in the book of Acts in verse 24, he makes it clear that his desire is to finish his race with joy. And he said, And the ministry which he received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. So guarding the message is one of the ways that a true teacher is distinguished from the false because the true teacher values the message and endeavors to properly preserve and present it. So Paul is speaking concerning the presentation of the gospel. And when you see the writings of Paul, you'll see how he spoke concerning it. For example, in 1st Timothy 1 verse 11, he speaks of the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was, he said, committed to my trust. In 1st Timothy 6, 20, he said, Timothy, guard what was committed to your trust. Avoid the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. In 2nd Timothy 1, 13 and 14, he said, Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.  And so from the beginning, not only did they have apostolic doctrine, but the teaching of the apostles was guarded, it was preserved because it's the truth that sets a person free. But what you have here in chapter 15 is men coming from Judea who are self-appointed and they're not recognized as teachers. They didn't meet with the approval of the leaders of the church. As a matter of fact, when you look at verse 24, getting ahead of myself for a moment, it says there, since we heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words unsettling your soul, saying you must be circumcised and keep the law. Notice to whom we gave no such commandment. So these are self-appointed teachers going out trying to improve on the gospel of grace and they're going to be rebuked for doing so. We need to remember that Paul and Barnabas went out to minister under the authority of the church. Remember in Acts 13 how that the Spirit gave directions to the church leadership. It says in Acts 13, 2 and 3, separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work which I have called them. And then having fasted and prayed late hands on them, they sent them away. So there was a proper way for the message of the gospel to be communicated to people. It was the gospel that had apostolic authority and there was leadership that actually laid hands on prayed and by the Spirit's guidance would send people out to preach this message. These people who are coming in chapter 15 are not of that strike. They are not sent out. They're coming out on their own. They came without authorization and as they came they brought error. Now over the history of the church, the church eventually had to be taught to be discerning because more and more false teachers began to arise. In 2 John, verse 7, it says many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ is coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver, he says, and an anti-Christ. In 2 John 10, if someone comes to your meeting and does not teach the truth about Christ don't invite him into your house or encourage him in any way. False teachers were already entering in and undermining the gospel. So Paul spoke about this because he was concerned about the attack. That was coming upon the gospel. He didn't encourage people to tolerate error by the way. He encouraged people to avoid it. That, by the way, is a message in and of itself today because there are quite a number of very sweet and simple, very innocently naive believers who will pretty much believe anything that's said. But Paul never taught, Jesus never taught, no biblical writer ever taught that we should just accept everything because somebody says it's true. In Romans 16, 17, and 18, Paul said, I make one more appeal, my dear brothers and sisters. Watch out for people who cause divisions and upset people's faith by teaching things that are contrary to what you've been taught. Stay away from them. Such people are not serving Christ our Lord. They are serving their own personal interests. By smooth talking, glowing words, they deceive innocent people. And so early in the history of the church, there were self-appointed teachers who went out bringing a message that originated in their own opinions. So in this passage, the self-appointed legalists have arrived to correct the church. They came without authorization and they gave their own opinions. Again, this happens today. And you see this especially with internet teachers who are always out there straightening somebody's problem.  I don't know if you have Facebook, but there are quite a number of internet theologians. And I've had more than one conversation with them who were correcting me, you know. And I say, Raul, please don't do that. You got my phone number, just call me. But that happens quite often today. Now, these men are unnamed. So it's difficult to know exactly who they are. But one thing is known. They've exceeded the message of the gospel because they've added to it. They've exceeded it because they've added to it. We need to remember that God's word is to be communicated without addition or omission. In Deuteronomy 1232, whatever I command you, be careful to observe it. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it. So our responsibility is the communication of the word of God without adding and without omitting. And so from its early history, the message of the gospel began to be changed. One of the more important New Testament books that you could spend time reading is Galatians. In the book of Galatians, Paul was dealing with infiltrators. They were called Judahizers who were bringing in a mixture of law and grace. And they were creating what would be called a hybrid message. And they were taking the power from the gospel. And they were actually causing that power to be quenched because they were bringing the people into bondage. Paul was greatly concerned about that. When you read the book of Galatians, you'll notice in the introduction in chapter one how he wrote in verses six through nine. He said, I marvel that you're turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel, which is not another. But there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.  As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you, then what you have received, let him be accursed. And so these who were called the Judahizers are basically sharing the same kind of things that the Galatians had heard. And so in Galatians two in verses four and five, Paul said this occurred because a false brethren secretly brought in who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. How do you deal with error? You don't allow it to proceed. You deal with it. It has to be confronted and it has to be corrected. Now they were insisting on circumcision, that circumcision was necessary for salvation. They were also saying that you needed to be under what was called the law of Moses. Their belief was that if you don't understand the yoke of the law, then you'll never understand the depth of grace. And so what they were saying is you need to be circumcised and you need to follow the law of Moses, which was bringing people into bondage. So they were trying to improve the gospel of Jesus and destroying grace at the same time. You see, by adding to the gospel of grace, you create a different kind of message. We need to remember that it's by grace that we've been saved and it isn't by our works. In Romans 3.24 it says, we are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Somebody said the teaching that salvation is by human works is the foundation of all false religions and the longest running heresy in the history of the Christian church. That's true. Some people cannot handle how God can be so gracious to you. I've said this so many times, it always comes to mind. Forgive me for repeating myself. But it happened when I first got saved. I began to encounter legalism and all. And I was reading an article about the church. At that time, the church that was best known, it was a very large church in another state, had many thousands of people. And I've said this to you before, some of you will remember, how that was a time when hippies were getting saved. And anybody who remembers ancient history knows that hippies had long hair and didn't wear shoes and wouldn't go to church. But some began going to church and in this other state, hippies began to go into this particular church. And so the pastor was evangelistic, he would give an invitation. And then the person who wanted to receive Christ would come forward, they would pray with them.   Because everybody knows that Jesus wore a flat top. Everybody knows that. And so that's what was taking place. And that by the way, brief ancient history, was why when Pastor Chuck Smith at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, why Pastor Chuck had such an impact on young people's lives. Because he didn't lay a heavy burden on our shoulders. He didn't tell us to start wearing shoes when we went to church. I didn't wear shoes to church, you know, at Calvary. I didn't wear shoes anywhere. I would wear slacks and a dress shirt and I'd still be barefooted. I to this day don't wear shoes around my house. I never, I just, I just don't. When I started this church and I was doing Sunday morning Bible studies, I would, I had my flip flops. I used to call them thongs, but I don't call them that anymore. So they're flip flops. And I would kick them off. And I would just cross my bare feet and I sat on a, on a little chair. It was my mom who told me, you've got to start wearing shoes. I don't like looking at your feet. That was my mom because I, because I have these traces of hippieism that are still in me to this day. And so I thank God for men like Pastor Chuck who didn't tell kids like me. I was 20 kids like me. You're not welcome here. You've got to do these things in order to be right with God. Everybody knows you should have short hair. Everybody knows. Listen, the church has always gone through these times of legalism because we have a tendency of wanting to make people look good on the outside. We have that tendency. We think if you look like, we think a Christian ought to look like, then you must be a good person. And that's just not true. There are guys, you know, who are tattooed from their, from the tips of their fingers through their body. And, and, and people say, you can't possibly be saved. But sometimes these guys with these tattoos and all of that and these young women with their tattoos, that, you know, it's, it's, it's something you'll think about when you're 60 and say, why do you do this? But when you're young, you know what? There are young people who will relate to them. I don't have a problem with it. The Bible doesn't forbid it. We have to be very careful with our attitudes, you know, the kids with the piercings and, and things like that.   But, you know, man looks on the outer. God looks at the heart. And we have to be very careful that we don't lay legalistic trips on people, burdens on people because you're just moving into quenching the Holy Spirit's work in that person's life. You really are. And so that's what's taking place here with them. Not that they were wearing tats and had markings of on their foreheads or anything like that. But they were beginning to get upset saying, listen, if you're going to really be saved, you need to, you know, you mail gentiles who have been brought in to the, to the faith, you need to receive circumcision and all of you are now to be under the law. And so what happens? Well, notice verse two, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, that was a heated argument. They determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. So, means sent on the way by the church. They passed through Phoenicia, Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles. They cause great joy to all the brethren. And so as is true with legalists, these false brethren dogmatically insisted that they were right. And Paul felt that they needed to simply get along and encourage them in their teaching. After all, who was he to judge their hearts, right? No, that's not how it went. As long as they mentioned Jesus in their teachings, it's still okay? No. Instead, he vehemently disagreed and would not give ground for a moment. He didn't say it's okay. You're saying Jesus? No. He said this is wrong. Why? Because he knew that this would destroy the message of the gospel. He knew it would bring people into bondage and he argued against it vehemently. So what happens? Verse three, being sent on their way by the church, they pass through Phoenicia, et cetera. As they're doing so and making their way to Jerusalem, they're given reports of the work of God and the people are hearing this and there's great joy that's being experienced. And finally in verse four, they had come to Jerusalem. They were received by the church and the apostles and the elders. They reported all things that God had done with them, but some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up saying it's necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses.  Now in verse four, I'll just point one thing out and then move on. Notice again, they came to Jerusalem and were received by the church, apostles and elders. That gives you an insight into the life of the church and the authority of the church. You had the apostles, you had elders and you had the congregation that's being spoken of here. And as this is taking place and they're sharing verse five, the Pharisees who believe said, it's necessary for these things. You need to be under the law, et cetera. Now unlike Paul, who remember was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, unlike Paul, these Pharisees had not relinquished their mosaic traditions. They believed in the resurrection. They also believe that Jesus is Messiah. But they were ingrained with traditions. And when you're ingrained with traditions, it's really not always that easy to let go of them. Some religious traditions are not easy to unlearn. Have you discovered that? Some are not easy to unlearn. It depends, of course, on your devotion and your religious background. But I've discovered that some religious traditions are not easy to unlearn. When, oh, I've shared this again, this is another old story, but it always comes to mind, religious traditions and letting them go. Marie got saved. My wife got saved in my Bible study. My sister Madeline brought Marie to faith in Christ probably within two or three weeks of her coming to her first Bible study that she'd ever really gone to. To hear the gospel preached. She came to my Bible study. My brother invited her. I was discipling my brother at that time in the city of Ontario back in 1974. And Marie showed up. Within two, three weeks or so, she gave her heart to Christ. And she needed discipling. And I started dating her. And as we were going out, just making sure she walked straight with the Lord, we'd been going out for several months, several months, several months. I wasn't somebody who told her, you need to do these things. If you don't do these things, I did want her to memorize scripture. We had our problems about that. But in terms of just, you gotta do these things or else, I was in that way, even as a boyfriend.  We were in Anaheim and we happened to drive by. We were on the five freeway driving and right off the freeway was some kind of dance club of some sort. And Marie is seated next to me and she looks at me and she goes, oh, I was there last night.   I said, oh, really? Yeah. And she said a guy really took an interest in me. Now we're driving. And she says, a guy really took an interest in me. He asked where my phone number. I said, really? She goes, yeah. I said, did you give it to him? She says, no. Why not? Well, I told him my boyfriend wouldn't like it. And I looked at her. I said, you got a boyfriend? I was serious. You got a boyfriend? She goes, yes, I do. I said, who? Who? She said, you. And I said, I'm not your boyfriend. She goes, what? I'm not your boyfriend. What do you mean by that? I said, listen, if I were your boyfriend, you wouldn't have been there last night. She never went again. I did. I'm not hinting at that. No, listen, this is so practical. It really is, if you get past the stupidity of it. It's very practical. I can't force my girlfriend to love me. She chooses to or she doesn't, based on what she wants to do. Who am I to tell her who to like and not to like? She makes choices, right? I could not make her into a saint by telling her, memorize these scriptures, pray this often, go to church this often, do these things. That just creates a very self-righteous, rigid legalist. That's what it creates. But when you fall in love with the Lord Jesus Christ, guess what you do? You read his word. You pray. You fellowship with other people who love Jesus Christ. You go to church. You serve God. Why? Because you're in love with Him. It's not that tough. So many times, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. You know what? When you begin to just enjoy the Lord in His presence and you walk in His grace, His commandments are not burdensome. They're not. They're the joy of your heart. They're the delight of your heart, as the psalmist would say. Because your delight is just being with Him and pleasing Him. It's that simple. And here come the Judaizer. Here come the legalists who are saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no. It is necessary to circumcise them and command them to keep the law of Moses. That is the legalism of it. And so they say, no, it is necessary. So there are some things, some religious traditions that aren't easy to unlearn.  But as you get into the Word of God, you discover these things are no longer going to have their hold on you. And so this is what is taking place. Verse 6, the apostles and elders came together to consider the matter. So there's a private meeting between the leaders of the church. It's the leaders and not the congregation who are to make a ruling on this divisive issue. Verse 7, when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them, men and brethren, you know that a good while ago, God chose among us that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the Word of the gospel and believe. So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us, made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we who were able to bear? We believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they. So Peter stands up and simply reminds them of how that some commentators say 10 years, others say as many as 17 years earlier at the house of Cornelius. You remember the story in Acts 10. How that Peter had spoken to these Gentiles, the Holy Spirit had fallen upon them, they were brought into the body of Christ as believers and that's what he's alluding to. He's saying God has already and done this a long while ago brought them into the knowledge of the grace of God. And remember with me, notice verse 8 how it says, God knows the heart acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit. Remember with me that it was while yet Peter spoke these words that the Spirit came upon those who were listening. So they never made a confession of faith but God knew their heart that they had faith to receive and that's why they received the regeneration and power of the Holy Spirit that had taken place. And so he's reminding them of what had taken place and then he says this in verse 10, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the neck of these disciples? Why are you doing that? Why are you putting a yoke of them? Now the word yoke speaks of what has been called the severity of the law. The severity of keeping the whole law is what he's referring to. You see in James in chapter 2 verse 10 it speaks of the severity of the law in this way, whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. That's severe. If you have 613 commandments in the Old Testament you could keep 612 though it's not possible but say you did and break one, you're guilty of them all and that's what James was saying. Matthew 23 verse 4, Jesus speaking concerning legalism and all said they tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders. They themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. The heavy loads is once again their commandments, their ordinances, their rules, their regulations. He says then they load them with these things. And in Matthew 11, 29 Jesus would say take my yoke upon you, learn from me I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your soul. You cannot carry that yoke and that's why Peter is saying why do you want to put the yoke of bondage on them, a yoke that we nor our fathers were able to bear. Why would you do that? He says in verse 11 we believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they. If we are saved by grace why are you arguing that they'll be saved by law? Now as he's speaking in verse 12 all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them among the Gentiles. So he's speaking about how God had poured out his spirit and God had done work and he'd done so amongst the Gentiles and they're listening to this as they're given their report and after all this has taken place verse 13 they became silent James answered saying men and brethren listen to me Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name and with this the words of the prophets agree just as it is written after this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen down I will rebuild its ruins and I will set it up so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord even all the Gentiles who are called by my name says the Lord who does all these things known to God from eternity all his works. So James who is the leader of the church in Jerusalem and very highly regarding tremendously respected begins to speak this James is the brother of Jesus he's the leading elder of the church there in Jerusalem and so being Jesus's half brother he naturally had tremendous respect of all who are present and he summarizes what has been said because he's about to make a judgment he speaks in verse 14 of Simon I find that interesting because he refers to Peter by his old name and that's a way of establishing his longevity his credentials if you will and he speaks concerning how God visited the Gentiles so what he does is he begins to speak of the ministry that Simon had to Cornelius and he's pointing out that God had by his grace already begun saving Gentiles to emphasize that notice he roughly quotes from the book of Amos chapter 9 verses 11 and 12 when you look at that passage there found in verses 16 and 17 here when you look at that passage in Amos it speaks of what has been called the millennial the millennial kingdom the thousand year kingdom that will be set up by Messiah but its point is that the kingdom will be populated by all who have come to God both Jew and Gentile so he's saying Gentiles will be there they don't have to become Jews and since that's true there's no need for Gentiles to become converted to Judaism today so James sees the prophecy fulfilled and he says no that took place when Jesus was resurrected and he made the two one well as he's speaking he now makes a judgment verse 19 therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the Gentiles who are turning to God but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols from sexual immorality from things strangled and from blood from Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city being read in the synagogues every Sabbath so it's interesting how he begins to bring this judgment he's making it very clear here that Jewish believers are not to trouble the Gentiles it's interesting when I saw that word in verse 19 I judged that we should not trouble those that word trouble I thought now what does that mean and I found it interesting the original language simply means to annoy he shouldn't be annoying him there's a thing he's saying that's interesting to me but he's saying don't be annoying your Gentile brethren what he's going to do here by the way is he's going to give us something very practical because this deals with both cultural and religious sensitivities sensitivity to religious traditions should produce consideration you see Gentiles will show a spirit of unity by voluntarily doing four things or some basic things one they're to reject idolatry now rejected idolatry is represented by avoiding the food that is offered to idols and they're speaking concerning this when it says abstain from things polluted by idols during that day you would go into a marketplace which we still have marketplaces open markets to this day but you'd go to a marketplace and very often there was a stand that sold meat that was basically under the ownership if you will of the local pagan temple and so I as a Gentile could walk in there and purchase the meat which would be a good cut of meat because they would sell certain meats that were being offered to idols but it would cause people who knew that that meat had been offered to idols before being sold in what were called the shambles it would cause them to be stumbled the Jews especially had a sensitivity though Gentiles did too to this and so he's saying you need to be abstaining from these things because there's a religious as well as cultural sensitivity to them because the Bible teaches from the very beginning that idolatry is forbidden there is one God in you to worship him alone and so you need to abstain from anything that in any way smells like idolatry and so to reject idolatry is represented as avoiding the food that had been offered to the idols so be sensitive you're saying to the tenderness of other people's consciences remember that idolatry in the Old Testament had led to the judgment of the Jewish nation so naturally they're very sensitive about that and thus as a Gentile you need to abstain from these kinds of things so that you don't wound the sensitive conscience of your Jewish brethren you see it is more loving to a brother or a sister when you are tender to their consciences let me say this real briefly and I'll move on Christians today sometimes we need to be reminded of that because one of the things that I have heard frequently in recent years it's been going on for many years of course but recent years has been many of you have a problem with that that's your problem not mine there are a lot of people like that you know if you say you know I have to be honest with you that stumbles me and what is the response is it like you know I'm sorry I apologize I didn't intend to do that is that what they do? No very often no that's not it what they'll say is hey get over it that's your problem not mine I'm not in bondage to you I mean there's this attitude that my freedoms override your conscience that's not the love of God keep that in mind if something you feel free to do stumbles a brother why would you stumble your brother why would you do that in first Corinthians chapter 8 verses 10 through 12 you see this is what can happen weak Christians who think it is wrong to eat this food we'll see you eating in the temple of an idol you know there's nothing wrong with it but they will be encouraged to violate their own conscience by eating food that has been dedicated to the idol so because of your superior knowledge a weak Christian for whom Christ died will be destroyed and you are sinning against Christ when you sin against other Christians by encouraging them to do something they believe is wrong they have to be sensitive to one another's other scruples and concerns so one he says be sensitive to the tenderness of other people's consciences two he speaks of sexual immorality we need to remember during that day especially but you still see it today orgies were associated with idolatry and we say well here in the United States we don't have that yeah we do in New Orleans you know you have Mardi Gras and it is sexual orgies and it to this day continues in one form or another but he says that they're to abstain from sexual immorality so in matters of sexual conduct Gentiles are to do nothing that violates God's law or Jewish moral scruples again be sensitive to your relationships he goes on speak about meat that has been strangled that speaks of dietary law now you were to avoid the blood that came even before the law was given in Genesis chapter 9 verse 4 it speaks concerning not eating the flesh with blood in it but you also see it in Leviticus chapter 3 verse 17 and other passages again Gentiles aren't under the law but they are sensitive to those who have been listen just try and be real practical if you were sharing the gospel with the person who is a Jewish background right and you share the passages that reveal that Jesus is the Messiah and that Jewish person hears the message of the gospel and comes to faith in Christ and prays with you and says you know what I need my Messiah he came for me and there's a sincere response to the gospel and you know they came to faith in Christ and this is an Orthodox Jew who all their lives have been under the law and now they're free by the grace of God you don't take them out for ham and eggs you just don't you don't hand them a pork chop you're free in Christ now you don't do that it's just so practical we just don't stumble a brother or a sister you don't have to do that be careful not to you see what this is really doing and this is really the point is it's smoothing a path for gentiles to eat and fellowship with the Jews it made them aware of the tenderness of the conscience of a Jewish person and that's the point he's making and so in verse 22 it pleased the apostles and elders with the whole church to send chosen men of their own country to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas namely Judas who is also named Barsobos and Silas leading men among the brethren and they wrote this letter by them the apostles and elders and the brethren to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria and Silicia greetings and so it pleases the apostles pleases the elders pleases the whole church and they send out these people who were chosen you see that was done because the Judaizers would have said that Paul and Barnabas were making up this judgment so they had a letter to the chosen man they had the council's approval that gave validation to what they were saying in verse 24 it says since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words unsettling your soul saying you must be circumcised and keep the law to whom we gave no such commandment so once again these were unauthorized church members bringing their own opinions the result is a removal of the peace of the spirit he goes in verse 25 it seemed good to us being assembled with one accord to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we have therefore sent Judas and Silas who will also report the same things by word of mouth for it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things that you abstain from things offered to idols from blood from things strangled from sexual immorality if you keep yourself from these you will do well farewell very simple very simple letter so it seems good to us once again it's giving credibility because these are the chosen men these are sacrificial servants of God and it seems good to us it seems good to us and the Holy Spirit so that emphasizes the importance of the leading of the spirit in the life of the church as it went and brought this particular message to their brethren so verse 30 when they were sent off they came to Antioch and when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the letter when they had read it they rejoiced over its encouragement now Judas and Silas themselves being prophets also exorted and strengthened the brethren with many words and after they had stayed there for a time they were sent back with greetings from the brethren to the apostles however it seemed good to Silas to remain there Paul and Barnabas also remained in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also and so the news that they received brought them great relief great joy and great encouragement and so as this is taking place verses 34 and 35 Silas, Paul and Barnabas remained for a time in order that they might minister and that's what they're doing and they stayed there for some time doing just that but notice verse 36 after some days Paul said to Barnabas let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord see how they're doing Barnabas was determined to take with them John called Mark but Paul insisted that they should not take they should not take with them the one who had departed from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another so Barnabas took Mark and sailed the Cyprus Paul chose Silas and departed being commended by the brethren for the grace of God and he went through Syria and Silasia strengthening the churches contention we'll talk about this for a couple minutes as we close Paul was not willing to take an immature believer out on ministry when he had originally had Mark with him the ministry proved to be too too difficult for him apparently because he departed and went home Paul didn't forget that now you need to remember that Barnabas's name literally means son of encouragement and he had a gift of encouragement Barnabas was quite obviously the kind of guy who said I believe in giving more opportunities and because he failed doesn't mean he's a failure Barnabas on the other Paul on the other hand is saying no wait a minute it's not that he's you know quote unquote a failure is that he's not mature enough ministry that we're going through and I believe that both of these men had great points and that you if you looked at each argument that they were having and it was very heavy by the way it wasn't a light conversation the word contention is a word that speaks concerning something very bitter it's a very strong contention it's not just a mild disagreement you know I think I'd like to have a Dr. Pepper I think you ought to have a root beer that's a mild disagreement I'll have both it's just a mild disagreement no this is something that is a very emotionally intense intense thing it would be very uncomfortable for you to be in the presence of it have you ever been I know you have been in a room where two people are going at it and you're kind of like in a room I don't need to be part of this these people are too angry it was like that we're going to take him with us no you're not he departed from us yeah but you've got to give him an opportunity listen Paul you forget who you are you remember how and he could remind him find of us could remind him you remember how nobody wanted to receive you and I put my arm around your shoulder and I said he's okay he's alright he's with me that was years ago I've already proved myself I appreciate it but this is a different thing you can hear the argument he abandoned us in ministry we will not bring him with us because what if we encounter difficulty again and he leaves us once more I believe you need to give him another opportunity just because he failed once doesn't mean you fail every time we all learn from our failures we all learn what it means to be a success God's grace is sufficient haven't we been arguing about grace all this time and now you are giving him what the law that's how it was going so what did they do they said you know you're right no he said I'm taking off with this guy you can go with that one and that's how it ended up they were strong in their beliefs it wasn't some carnal argument calling each other out they were strong in their beliefs somebody said it like this John Mark had been tried in trying circumstances and he failed Paul therefore would not trust him again the affection of Barnabas led him to hope the best and was therefore desirous to give him another chance Barnabas would not give up Paul would not agree they therefore agreed to depart from one another and take different parts of the work each had an attendant and companion at hand so Barnabas took John Mark sailed the Cyprus Paul took Silas he went into Syria and in verse 41 he went through Syria, Salishia strengthening the churches instead of a single team you now have two ministry teams ministry teams but let's close with grace I thank God that we have a New Testament because we could read and see how things ended up because the last letter that Paul ever wrote is 2 Timothy and in 2 Timothy chapter 4 Paul says this at verse 11 the last letter he ever wrote when he's just about to conclude his letter 2 Timothy says only Luke is with me bring Mark with you when you come for he's very helpful to me listen it isn't always how you begin it's how you finish don't forget that who in this room has lived a spotlessly perfect successful Christian life every step of the way there obviously is none of us none of us does that give an excuse for failure? no but when you fail and you learn you can mature and grow when you fail which you will and you learn you can mature and not repeat that error that sin again that's a fact I'll close with these thoughts I am so grateful for the God of the second chance but he's not just the God of the second chance he's the God of the third chance and the fourth chance and the fifth chance and the sixth chance he is the God of grace and when I have failed and I have and when I've failed miserably and I have my God has always been there to lift me up and make me stand because he washes and he cleanses you with the blood of Christ he strengthens you and he says to you in a sense have you learned your lessons and you say God be merciful to me I am a sinner indeed you are have you learned your lesson I will lord with your strength and your help I will not go back I will go forward with you and God gives you opportunities to do so many things for him there's no excuse to sin please don't ever take it as a permission it isn't but it certainly is a wonderful thing to have the grace of God extended to you it isn't by works of my righteousness it's his grace you need to remember that


All right, good afternoon cyber traders welcome on back here this Monday afternoon December 18th As I clear the frog from my throat great to see Later still with us here Grant bill and all of our students and members I like just a moment ago had Brian included with them So great to see all of them joining us right now great to have all this back Otherwise in social media Facebook live LinkedIn Twitter YouTube, etc Perhaps coming off of bookmaps YouTube channel joining us right now for the first time I got the hot tag from Fausto early this morning needed to tag in for him He was scheduled to do a nice webinar workshop on bookmaps YouTube channel So that's what I did I just came off that right now and you know It was a great webinar went through a lot of different features of book map of level four as we nickname it here But um, you know if you're just joining us there from that event welcome on a board right now So without further ado Let's dig into it So pbl a pushing up right now up like 200 God knows how many percent Obviously, we're gonna put this on our watch list to begin. I mean, why do I say obviously well? It's at the highs of the day It's got a very liquid order book the way that you're seeing level three right there on the right side So I mean that right there just kind of checks out for me It's similar to a degree not all the way it but to a degree like the C4 stock So, you know pbl a for what it's worth. We'll definitely put put on our watch list see if this can keep going 150 you would really want to see build out to be big support going into the next 20 30 minutes So that means it may dip underneath that price soon enough here shake around at a small amount Just you know hey the more can lay over that price there over time Then you need to see it move up higher and that's where you kind of go from that point So yeah pbl a I'll put that on our list here to begin But you know, I'll tell you otherwise we had our hands in a few different, you know trades earlier today I mean there wasn't too much that was really cooking right now outside of this one So what we'll just do is recap at least a couple that did move from earlier Just number two on the gainers list if I were to go from top to bottom IVVD Oh I could tell my platform is really slow right there loading that one up But you know hey the stock from shortly after the market opened up took off broke out over resistance at 230 moved up like you know nearly double in price basically at that point and You know hey from there normally 10 15 10 30 we typically see stocks begin to lose their Momentum or we just flat out reverse I mean it's easy to look back on a trade like uber from earlier today and say No, hey this ended up pulling back reversing back down pretty much right at 10 30 You can't guarantee 10 30 head on literally every time, but it's generally generally speaking around 10 15 10 30 I you know you should look to expect a lack of momentum or just a shake down reversal I so this one pretty much did it a little bit beforehand hit the high of the day But then the lower high pretty much right at 10 30 It's only been down since so All right, let's keep going the BMRA stock from earlier today made a really good push But then afterwards market opened up it pulled back. That's not really too surprising I had a bounce after and it looked good for a little bit I didn't take part in this myself, but it got very choppy after like it did from pre-market here But that said it didn't make a lower low. It didn't drag back down to the low here So, you know what that said maybe we can put this on our watch list one more time Now it definitely seems like 165 is becoming that price to watch earlier today. We had our eyes on like 163 160 is like 163 here from pre-market So over time that level is still basically held But just we're now gonna move that up a couple pennies looking at how strong this has been since So, you know a BMRA, I'll add I'll add it back to our list here Hopefully can make the higher high here coming up. Let me keep it going. Oh Man another push on LQR, huh? LQR from even like Wednesday last week. I think it started to get going Wednesday, Thursday, then Friday dipped a little bit. Yep, and then now today just breaking much higher here breaking over three Now basically near four You know pretty much same deal, right? It's hard to ignore this type of trade right now I feel like I wouldn't be doing my job if I skipped over it You know just pulled back pretty hard here So if it was gonna keep dropping or if it was gonna lay near the low there Then I wouldn't be as kind to put it on our watch list, but it's bouncing back up as we're talking So if we're saying hey for the next 80 minutes 85 minutes of our day, is it possible for this to go higher? Well, it's a pretty good start nice retracement back up there after that ugly shake Zim V I think there's Zim and then there's Zim V so I don't know if they're related to one another Zim integrated shipping which we traded from Wednesday and third or from Thursday and Friday last week and then Zim V I guess they're completely different companies here This one actually popping up to make a new HOD as we're talking, but the issue on this is the liquidity not a fan of that CUEN I could tell has popped and dropped already just the daily chart loaded up there first ZVSA nice little move up actually since like 12 30 in the afternoon Just I feel like this type of trade could fall off even quicker than the others. I'll come back to it if I need to Yet IVVD from earlier. Now you got I CCT anyone suffering from traders dyslexia like myself I bet you messed that one up I say that because I did Yeah, this one's still kind of just up and down sideways a bit here not really doing too much of note All right, so that will take us to the crypto stocks the crypto Bitcoin mining You know stocks like that can ends up the most percentage wise they think today, but Mara has been a machine Mara and then obviously CLSK, which you know more of the last two weeks has really been one of the better ones popped at The open it's actually not looking as good just yet compared to the other two So Mara you had CLSK obviously riot goes with Mara more traditionally Coinbase yeah, we miss floating up pretty nicely today, too up like 3.7% But in terms of the ones that are up the most and the ones that look the best Let's keep shuffling through here a couple of the other crypto stocks for right now. You got BTB T You got Bitfarms. This is not looking good BKKT pass Got hut here from not mistaken each UT This one's looking pretty decent. Wow. I mean they had to have done a reverse stock split. No Yeah, they definitely 100% did a reverse split. Okay, so That threw me off for a moment looking at the price But yeah, hut actually is up a lot percentage wise still has a good order book So I could group that with Mara at least M. A. R. A. You got the cannon trade C. A. N It's me hard to pass up on those for now. So I'll add them You know my stance on the crypto stocks generally speaking this time of the day folks If you are Leda Kathleen Bill Grant Michael any one of our students routinely here with us, you know The deal on these crypto stocks. I'm gonna add them add them But you know the deal so What was it? It was Mara. It was cannon and then that last one. It was the hut trade right each you take Right in this down right now. Okay, cool X buyout we're not going to trade that there's hut anyway number 21 to be exact on the gainer side there Hi, all right. So, I mean there's probably a lot more that's up a percentage right a certain amount here on The day I just if there's anything looking good moving upward not looking like this There's a stock actually moving upward the last 15 30 minutes. Please let me know Have a good list already. Let's hop over to the loser side right now. S&P was breaking new highs just before so You know, I don't know. I don't know how much we're gonna find on the loser side That's like name brand, but I'm gonna do my job. All right, so just to kind of get this here Let's see what we got GPC are that is garbage Lnth down 26% at $56 stock Has a little trend lower highs lower lows up until 130 this afternoon, but just Don't have a great need for it right now order book bad and I'll tell you what I mean again It might look lazy just the way I go through it, but I could tell you there's not much that's tempting me here at this point Go to go to you from last week. I not today Maybe tomorrow if you see it up five six percent pre-market actually if there's a trend upward on it Then you call it out, but this is a dead trade here All right, so what do we got here folks we got from Bill and Larry got a bunch of us cool What do we got you go from top to bottom actually how about this from top to bottom Chuck first AFRM? Yeah, looking really nice actually just not up a whole lot percentage wise But like that doesn't really matter when you have a chart looking that good especially with the order book so Upstarts not moving as good. Don't focus on upstart just yet But if you were to you know look at these here so far like the loan lending companies AFRM definitely could call from Chuck and if I were to tag one with it so far, right? Let's just keep going through. Let's just see what else we got here first Brian with Rivian which of course Rivian from last week We were trading definitely smashing higher right now not from just today, but from obviously Friday last week So, you know, I can group Rivian with a firm and so if I Larry seconding Brian's picked there with a Rivian All right, I don't see much else which is fine which actually leads me to actually add everything that we Just spoke about on our list. Let's just check out Benzingo one last time PBLA already on our list BMRA is trying that's already on our list and Yeah, I like I like the others there so far, you know It might look a little large of a watch list right here so far this afternoon But we'll go so far Rivian and a firm and that is gonna call it You know what I'm gonna say next folks, especially with what we have on our watch list We got easily enough like four stocks from this watch list are on my personal side list There is literally no need no need to go anywhere else as I've been flapping my gums right now This BMRA trade starting to break out again. There we go Start and stick with the list gonna give you the best chance to make money at least going into 330 and then at that time You know or at least a little bit beforehand I'll be back on the mic myself and perhaps there could be a nice trade after 3 o'clock 3 15 330 that will be You know worth watching that will scan for but hey I hope that you folks were able to get in on this trade at least if you were quick enough off 165 level that thing just blew the roof off that place there Now next is two bucks So let's see the same happen off the whole number and then we'll go from there folks All right, so hey if you're joining us on YouTube Facebook live LinkedIn, etc. etc. etc. Hey Join us inside our live trading room Just scan that QR code on the top left if you're fancy with your phone with your camera If not, just go right down to the link on the green banner scrolling on the bottom below Just ct.co forward slash trial But you know otherwise hey if you're not subscribed just yet if you're new to this channel Then hey no need to dive into the deep end of the pool just yet inside our trading room But just follow us follow us hit that subscribe button bill at cyber trading you just so you know when we're going live When we're not we are here each and every day my friends So, you know, hey, I will be back on officially at 3 p.m About 15 20 minutes for students like Brian late a Sam bill Larry, etc. Look forward to seeing you folks there All right, I'll talk to everybody soon


Yeah, thanks for staying with us on this football-filled Monday edition of the Sports Mag Zone. The flames of the Issa Skopje football season continue to burn with excitement in both the digicel Manning Cup and the watered Acosta Cup, where plenty teams are feeling the heat while others have succumbed to the flames of battle. Before we dive into an eventful weekend, we welcome Skopje football analyst LeJay Williams to the set. LeJay, first of all, LeJay went to Campion College, by the way. LeJay, Campion College, were leading Kingston College by two goals to nil in the first leg of the round of 16 tie and ended up losing that tie. What happened, LeJay? Well, as unfortunate as it was, I would have loved to see that upset victory. Unfortunately, I just think that the team is so young, obviously that the legs really got to them. They couldn't outrun KC, they just couldn't compete in the end. And I think after a while, the quality eventually told and KC got their deserved win. But it was nice to see Campion competing at the quote-unquote latter stages of the tournament and hopefully if there were stages. I'm sorry, let's just keep the conversation over here for teams that got out of the group. But yeah, it was good to see Campion competing and hopefully they'll be able to hold on to a lot of those talented players that they have unlike last season and build on something and maybe push even further for next season. Yeah, that is unlikely, not because, of course, they will leave to other schools in Jamaica, but they'll likely leave to schools overseas. All right, we'll begin with the urban area competition. Firstly, and have a look at those results from the quarterfinal round on Saturday. And the result that will stand out most, of course, is Jamaica College losing to Heidel by a goal to nil. You see that they're at the bottom of your screen from group to St. George's College at a 2-0 victory over Tivoli Gardens and then in group one. Mona, I understand, dominated that game against Kingston College, missed a penalty as well when they were 1-0 up and it ended 1-1. And so Andrew Technical, the favourites for the Manicop title again this season, beating a stubborn St. Catherine High team by 2 goals to nil. So those are the results coming out of the weekend's matches. This is how the table looks going into tomorrow's game. Of course, just one round of matches, the stats leading group one and three points. Mona and Kingston College a point apiece, St. Catherine yet to get off the mark. And then in group two, you will see St. George's College and Heidel on three points. Jamaica College and Tivoli Gardens yet to get off the mark. And remember, only the top two teams will advance to the semifinals of this competition. Leje, let's talk about that Jamaica College defeat to Heidel. How much did that surprise you, if any at all? I think it surprised me quite a bit actually because firstly, Jamaica College, apart from their loss against Tivoli, which was the first game of the season, but it was really a loss. You mean in the boardroom? Yeah, that loss came off of the field for them. But apart from that technicality loss, that's the first time that they've lost a game in the Manning Cup in over two years, I believe. So it would have been a shock to their system, their fan base and the manner in which it happened, of course. But I think a lot of people were really high on Heidel at the start of the season and then that tended to weigh in when KC started pushing up in that group. But I think Heidel still have a lot of quality players. They have a lot of players who play professionally, a lot of players who play in a national setup, one of which was scored the winning goal in Ronaldo Bart, who I think is one of the best players in the competition period. So it's always good to see those players shining. And I think Jamaica College may have taken them for granted in the end. Yeah, just two things quickly. Bart has played at the Premier League level. Yes, he has. I see for Cavalier. So yeah, lots of quality there. But also let's not forget that Heidel were dot three points for using ineligible players in their game against Kingston College and lost those points. But not only did they lose those points, but because of the fact that they were over the quarter in terms of the number of transferred players they could use, there are some of those players that they still cannot lose. But I guess they've really put it together. And that was a brilliant performance on Saturday against Jamaica College. Can Jamaica College rebound? Can they get to the semifinals? We've seen them do it before. But based on Saturday's result, how do you see that group two panning out? Yeah, two. I think that Jamaica College will still get through because the game, the games remaining, say in Georgia, I think if it comes down to it, that game's going to be quite brilliant actually this Friday. But before that, I think that they'll have to really button down the hatches when they play actively and they'll have to come out and do a really dominant performance. I think that they'll have to go much harder than they would have wanted to after the Heidel game. I think that they would have wanted to rest going into that St. George's game to make sure that they get first part in the group. But they're going to have to pull out all the stops. They are a winning team. They know what it's like to win. So I'd be extremely surprised if they don't get out of the group. But there is still quality to trouble them in this group. OK, prediction guru, let's go. Give me your two from group two and your two from group one after one set of matches. Two from group two is still St. George's and Jamaica College from... So you don't think Heidel will get through? Even after winning? I don't think so. I'm not quite fully sold as yet, especially the manner in which that they won. I'm not quite sure that's going to translate in the other games. All right, I mean, you stop Jamaica College from scoring and you get a goal, but my analyst has a problem with the manner in which they did it. And how about the other group? Say Angiotechnical for sure. And that second spot is Up for Girls but I do think that Mona... I do think that these are currently two best teams in the competition, say Angiotechnical and Mona. So those are the teams that I'm going with, but that's a very, very tight group. OK. All right. Well, plenty on our plate now for the rural area competition. It's a watered Acosta Cup where the quarter finalists have been decided with one notable omission. Let's have a look at the fixtures. Is that what we're looking at first? Yeah, we're looking at the groups and fixtures. So group A, Clarenin College, Glenmure, Manchester and Christiana fixtures on Wednesday. Clarenin College versus Christiana and in already a massive game, Glenmure High will play Manchester High. And then group B, BB Coke, they've been on fire. The only team that qualified before their last match on Saturday. Dintil Technical got through with a 2-1 win over William Niem. Cornwall College held the defending champions, Clarenin College, 12-1 on draw and Garver-Maceo. Remember, champions a couple of seasons ago, they're going well. So BB Coke will open against Garver-Maceo and Dintil Technical will play Cornwall College. By the way, the one notable omission from the quarter final round in my estimation, Saint Elizabeth Technical, who needed to be bottom of the table, mild golly in their last game on Saturday and it ended in a nil all draw. Now, folks, let me tell you a quick story. I was at Saint Elizabeth Technical on Wednesday for their game against Clarenin College. And at the end of that game when Clarenin College won by a goal to nil, I heard a number of the stats supporters saying, don't worry, we'll catch you in the final. I wonder if it's the Ben Francis final, but I don't think Clarenin College will be in the Ben Francis final. So I'm sorry, stats, that's a tough one. Bob Leje, how do you think that Acosta Cup is shaping up? Because I think that Acosta Cup, quarter final round might end up being even more exciting than the Manning Cup. What do you think? I actually agree with you. I think a lot of these teams are on a similar level. It's a similar playing field for all of them. So I do think that we're going to do some really exciting games. I think, especially in a group with Glenmure and Manchester, we're going to be seeing that game on Sportsmax on Wednesday. One of the best commentators in the world will be on that match as well. Don't know the first team that much. I said one of, he's there. So who's the other one? You are not coming on this show and blowing your own trumpet. No, I'm one of the best analysts in the world. Who's the other commentator? Ricardo! Yes. Yes, so that's going to be a really good game. I think Glenmure were my pre-season pick to push client and college the closest. They haven't been as free-flowing as I would have expected them to be. But I do think this Manchester team with a lot of quality also, I think Dintil has a lot of quality individually also. So there are so BB Coke just pushing the barriers also. So many quality teams. I'm really looking forward to it. And this is the most exciting time in schoolboy football, probably in all of football in Jamaica. So there's nothing to really shirk at. It's something that we're all going to be looking forward to. Yeah, by the way, I think that Manchester High team has overrated my good friend, Dr. Karl Bruce, may give me a call after this. But yeah, I do think the Manchester team has overrated this season. I've seen better Manchester teams.  He's been trying to get a pair is pity. He doesn't know that calling me one of the best commentators in the world. It's not going to help you, my friend. You're not getting it, don't worry. Anyhow, stay locked into the Sports Max 2. This Tuesday, to see a rematch of the season openers defending champions, Jamaica College, take on Tavoli Gardens, a match with heightened importance for JC now. The action kicks off at 2.30 PM in Jamaica, 3.30 in the Eastern Caribbean. And that game will be followed by Red Hots and Andrew Technical High facing the purpose of North Street Kingston College. The brave may fall and they definitely didn't yield against Mona. Let's take a break. We'll be back with Interactive.


Today we're doing quad level attack and we're integrating with our weapons assets that we have so we're working with our mortars and our machine guns. We've been working our way up from individual skills through fire team through squad and it's been nice to see the progression over time as the guys become much more cohesive and work as a team. Small unit leadership, small unit tactics, that's the hands down the most important thing. Hire can pass all the stuff down but you definitely need your team leaders and squad leaders to be able to push that fight. The Marine Corps Rifle Squad are world class and what we're doing right now we're pounding and brilliant in the basics and when we share that with our allies it's really going to help so that when we go out for our deployment that we're not surprised by anything that we're ready for whatever is thrown at us.


Bemidji's Northern Elementary School has created a new area designed specifically for creating. Reporter Cheryl Moore shows us their Makerspace classroom in this week's Golden Apple. If you take a look inside Northern Elementary School's new Makerspace classroom, you'll find everything from building blocks and gears to rulers and toothpicks. The Makerspace classroom is designed to be a flexible and adaptive learning environment where students can create. This classroom has been an awesome addition to our school. We get to bring our kids down and there is a shelf full of materials that we can use and we also have like the everyday materials, the paper, the glue, paper towel tubes, cotton balls, q-tips, kind of you name it. The kids are allowed to take risks and try new things in the Makerspace classroom. In this lesson, second graders had to make a shelter that could withstand a windstorm. And in the end, their shelter was put to the test. It hold it well because the cardboard and we put a bunch of tape on there so it works. I put holes in it so like when she used her bow dryer, the wind would go through the holes. What you see today is only the beginning of the Makerspace classroom. Over the next year, the space will evolve into a complete space where kids can be creative and make whatever they want. It really allows us to let our children be creative and use their imagination and just kind of create things that we normally don't do in the classroom. And we can also tie it to stories that we're working on or something from our science or social studies curriculum. The kids are learning through play and in a lot of the lesson plans, they're also learning to work together. What did you learn today most of the time? That groups are supposed to be fun. Having a designated area just for making things has been a hit not only with the teachers but with the students as well. Some say their favorite part is just sitting down and starting to build. Just working or just making stuff. Reporting in Bemidji with this week's Golden Apple, Shromor, Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.