with my family here in Cornerstone and I apologize but my notes came in late so they're not in your your conference brochure they are printed outside the in a separate piece of paper and if you need one of those if perhaps you could raise your hand and someone could from the back could help you if you need some of those notes so we're going to cover a snapshot of Solomon and the Shulamite a snapshot of Solomon and the Shulamite and it is a biblical view or a redeemed view of romance and intimacy and marriage a redeemed understanding of romance and intimacy and marriage in this time I would want you to be able to recognize a few different points I'm going to cover okay so one is an introduction about the the lies of the world concerning romance and intimacy second we're going to focus in on the book of song of songs or the book of song of Solomon and how do we interpret or understand that book then we'll look at the what the some of the main themes in the book with in those is that's entitled in your sheet wisdom from Solomon wisdom from the Shulamite or wisdom for the men wisdom for the ladies and there'll be some overlap there and then some practical applications we'll focus on some practical applications so so introduction the lies of the world how to interpret the book wisdom from Solomon the Shulamite and then finally applications that you can refer to and speak about with your your spouse so first off let's consider the way the world views romance and intimacy the we live in a very immoral and pornographic time and we cannot pretend that our society does not have an influence on our marriages media is in all different forms and places you can have them the media in your pocket with it with a smartphone now or you can have it in TV or the internet is but it's possible to to have it in almost every place consider some of these statistics by way of introduction ten years ago in 2006 it was reported that thirteen point three three billion dollars of revenue came from pornography in the US on the internet that revenue exceeds the revenue of combined revenue of ABC CBS and NBC considering the same year twenty seven point four billion revenue of pornography in China for the same industry another statistic is the average age of the first internet pornography exposure is eleven years old eleven years old is the average age that someone's first exposed to this this is these six statistics are ten years old but listen to these twelve percent of all websites twelve percent of all websites or pornographic consider twenty five percent of all search engine results one out of every four people who searches something in Google it is in a moral nature that is an amazing statistic isn't it one out of four people that search something in Google thirty four percent of average users receive unwanted pornographic exposure and forty two point seven percent of internet users view pornography think about how common that is in our culture you know when you try and watch TV right you try and watch something pure and the commercials that come in and come into your your eyes the novellas and in Spanish or the the soap operas that come the ideas of romance that are prevalent in our culture in our society are immoral they're against God and I can speak from the man's perspective or the woman's perspective whether it's an immoral view of romance and whether there's something admirable about the the man who swoops in and the adulterous romance or whether you're thinking about the actual act we are affected we are not strangers to our culture we live in it and it affects us to a greater degree than we think it affects you to a greater degree than you realize the way you think about romance and intimacy in your marriage is affected by the fall it's affected today but like Pastor Victor was teaching in preaching there is hope there is hope in God and in the gospel God has a better way God has a better way for romance and intimacy and marriage and he has given us a book a book of wisdom a book of the gospel applied the gospel applied to romance and God is the author of such good things as romance and intimacy we saw that in our last lesson as well since since it is ordained and God is the author of it then God is the one who has the plan in redemption for what it should be and so today I want to preach to you the gospel according to the song of Solomon I want to preach to you that there is in true salvation God has a plan for how you are to live in light of this salvation it how you live in light in your marriage and how it's to be vastly different than how the culture views these things then how you used to think about these things you are to be renewed your mind is be renewed today by the wisdom that's in the song of Solomon so consider now first off the gospel by way again by way of introduction the gospel that's in the song of Solomon some of these big view understanding of the book okay Solomon remembers some of the the major signposts in the Bible the covenants the promises of God the Davidic covenant remember we went over the covenant of grace in Genesis 1 and how that influences should influence our marriages with hope the salvation that is in Christ well that promise continues to the Bible and continues in the time of Solomon's day with the Davidic covenant with the Davidic covenant and Solomon is the promised is part of that promised air for the Messiah to come through okay so understanding that the author of the song of Solomon if you're in the big picture redemptive historical picture of salvation the Bible is coming from the one where the Savior's gonna come through his line he he is a picture of that future hope and we also went from the New Testament when we look back on the song of Solomon we understand Paul's teaching from Ephesians 5 that marriage itself is a type of the relationship between Christ and the church so when you look at this book of song of Solomon you and you understand it in a big picture you understand it is a picture of what a redeemed marriage should be like a redeemed by God what it should be like in romance in relationship enjoy an intimacy and you understand it in light of the hope that comes through Jesus Christ in the very family line of the one who wrote it and with the New Testament helping you look back and see that marriage itself is to be a picture of the mercy of God the mercy and the relationship between God and his church so in that sense the type of marriage that that small pictures point to a greater reality your momentary marriage your momentary marriage is also to be a type it's also to be focused and directed a signpost pointing towards how good God is and how in this work in the church okay so considering the the lies of the world let's now consider how to interpret the book of song of Solomon or the book of song of songs if you look on your sheet I have their author genre wisdom author genre wisdom one of the difficulties in understanding the book of song of songs is looking at the author the author because the author is Solomon if you if you have your Bibles open to the song of songs or the song of Solomon you can and you read verse 1 the song of songs which is Solomon's it's why many will call it the song of songs and perhaps more appropriate title than song of Solomon because it's the book that itself gives that title and the title is has a significance of saying this is the this is the song of all songs kind of like when you say this is the king of kings Jesus Christ he's the king of roller kings well Solomon is saying here's a song to sing and this is the song of all songs love love romance intimacy here it is is he's saying that this is the song of songs and in my point here now is in verse 1 it's saying it's it's from Solomon the difficulty in reading this is we think about Solomon's life right how many wives the Solomon have how many concubines does he has he has he has Solomon when we think of Solomon we think he is hardly the example to follow in regards to marriage and what I would say is think of Ecclesiastes and think about the wisdom that Solomon gives near the end of his life about all of his his failures and all of his sins and he thinks about the gospel applied to the purpose of life and he thinks back on how do we look back now on money and how do we look back on the purpose of life and he gives us wisdom at that point it's very similar with the song of songs he looks back not as one as as the savior but as a sinner who is saved he looks back on not one who is the perfect perfect example but he points to a perfect example in that that Christ can do in our marriages in other words do you come here just to listen to the you don't come here you come here to hear the Bible you come here to hear from God you don't come here because of the perfection of pastor the pastors here you come here looking for hope from God and it's the same when we look in the book of song of Solomon we don't look to Solomon as our great hope we look to the salvation that he speaks of the application of the salvation that he speaks of and what that should be and so I want you to see even in the author even in the all who the author is God picked out someone who needed a savior to be a someone to be able to near the end of his life look back and say here's wisdom here's what it what it should have been here's what it should have been here's what the marriage and intimacy and romance should be so understanding the author we understand that the how it speaks about the gospel to us in understanding of the genre of literature there's been much difference in the church ages when you when you think about the how to interpret understand the book of song of songs and I won't spend too much time on this but I'm going I take the understanding that the book of song of songs has a literal explanation of a how marriage should be applied and not an allegorical interpretation of the book and I believe that there is big picture types of like marriage is a type of relationship between Christ and the church but in other words I don't interpret the book as when we read in song of solomons one two if you read there to give you an example it says it begins with the Shulamite saying to Solomon let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love is better than wine the way that I would interpret that is an actual poetry poetry of romance with one spouse to the other and I understand that to be somehow a picture of Jesus or relationship with Jesus Christ or picturing a that each particular point in the book is an allegory like something like Bunyan's pilgrims progress when pilgrim in pilgrimage progress when you have a story then it pictures some other reality so I take a more literal understanding and interpretation of that so in understanding that the genre of literature is poetry and the reason some of the reasons very quickly why I would believe that is that there you have to make a literary argument to say that it's allegory and I don't believe that that the text itself gives us that argument I believe that there are many other forms of ancient poetry that reflect this romance that we can we can observe and know in history there are other ancient customs such as a wasp in in Hebrew where there is a wedding poems that the bride and the husband say to each other that is very similar to what's happening in this book when you look at the genre it is it is poetry it is poetry and so there and there's also if you take an allegorical interpretation one of the difficulties of it is nobody agrees on many on and it's there's an ad hoc or a there is a something of a there's no rules to define how you interpret the pictures for example it's one of the examples of that is when Solomon refers to the the two breasts of his of the Shulamai in the song of Solomon throughout history people have said that though that represents the church and the people or the church and how the church feeds off the breasts of the the people feed off the breast of the church or others have interpreted that picture as the New Testament Old Testament or others have interpreted that picture as love of God and love of neighbor others have interpreted that as blood and water others have interpreted that as inner man outer man you see the point is if you have an allegorical interpretation of that you can't define what does that mean what is it that what is the picture of that me well I believe that it means what it literally says that it's a love poem it's a love poem and that it's actually talking about their actual body okay if that makes sense then I'm just trying to lay some groundwork to understand why I'm explaining the book the way I am so now consider then what if it's if we don't believe that it's allegory then what is it we believe that it's wisdom believe that it's wisdom and this is the consensus of a majority of commentary commentators nowadays that is if it's wisdom wisdom of the gospel applied wisdom of the gospel applied and that when wisdom is given like do you remember in first kings when when God came to Solomon and he said I'll give you whatever whatever you would ask and what a Solomon asked for wisdom so what a Solomon right in Proverbs Ecclesiastes and song of songs he writes that wisdom that the Lord gave him and that wisdom each of those books is the gospel applied what does the gospel look like in the life of a believer the gospel looks like wisdom not foolishness we're not to view it some the wisdom that's offered in these books we're not to view it as as as simply a moralism that here is kind of like a Muslim would view a proverb and say here's here's something that if I do it I'm a better person no we don't understand the the wisdom there so we understand the wisdom that's offered in those books as here's what the gospel looks like when God saves a sinner they look like a wise person they don't look like a fool anymore okay so now the wisdom here think about I'm laying all this foundation so that you can when I give some wisdom later from the actual book that you will understand and understand how to apply it the wisdom here wisdom doesn't work simply by do this okay wisdom is not a command now understand the difference wisdom is something that God puts forward as a beautiful thing outside of you and you have to have the eyes to see the beauty that's there you have to be able to say I see that beautiful plan I see it and I wish and I want that to be in my life I see that that beautiful God's beautiful plan and I desire that I want that I desire to apply that wisdom you see how wisdom is it's not gonna God is not gonna just push it in your face and say you must do this wisdom he sets up and says you're in to win your heart to win your desires to say look this is the better way this is the better way so this book doesn't stress covenant promise redemption forgiveness instead it shows it applied to life when the book because it's wisdom when the book uses much imagery when the book talks about jewels flowers scents oils pleasures these are general emblems of beauty and desire the imagery and the compliments are culturally sensitive so some of the brothers were joking with me they know some of the aspects of the book and they they would talk about the point can point out how Solomon we talks about how his wife found her nose is like a tower and a particular tower I can't remember the name right now we wouldn't use that that directly right to talk about your how your wife's nose is a beautiful tower because it's not culturally sensitive but we would take the wisdom that's there we would take the wisdom that's there and say how can I say the same thing but in a way that she would like in a metaphor in an imagery that that she would see and graphs for example I was talking about this with my wife and if we were to take say a figure of speech today and we say if I tell my wife she looks hot today and then I would take that to ancient Israel and write that down in a book then people in ancient Israel would be like it's hot enough here in Israel as it is what are you talking about right they would not understand the metaphor so in our understanding there when you would desire to apply this book with your spouse you understand that you're going to need to take the wisdom that's there and most of the time you won't be able to directly use it out of the book but you'll be able to get the idea the paradigm on how to apply that in your marriage okay so one other point of laying the foundation before we get into the book is consider how recently a special last 10 years there has been what one Bible teacher called the rape of the song of Solomon and what he means by that and what is that particularly in the past 10 years even some in the reform movement have used the book of song of Solomon as a as a dirty way of attracting people into the church they use the book of song song of Solomon with the song of Solomon when itself is very speaks in veiled ways they use it and and to make it a coarse thing or an immoral thing and you may have seen or heard sermons like that that's why I'm referencing it now where they talk about immorality in a very crude crass way or they talk about the song Solomon I'm sorry so Solomon a very crude and crass way one commentator speaks of people who do this it's when people do this where they see an imagery and they make it a crude they make it in their own mind they make the imagery part of the sex act or they make the imagery part of the anatomy of a man or woman that is something they are seeing into song of Solomon that's something where in the commentator I believe it's has he was saying that that speaks more about the person who's doing that than the song of Solomon and you understand what I'm saying is that speaks more about the corruption in their own hearts to twist the but we've got into something crass that it speaks more about them than it does the book the book itself speaks in a discreet veiled way it speaks plainly where it does talk undoubtedly about intimacy it does speak about the the husband and wife enjoying each other's bodies but it doesn't do it in a crass way it doesn't in a way that you could read it the book of song of songs to the church as a whole and kids wouldn't know what's going on but parents would you see but some people today preach it in such a way you could not have you should not have adults listening to the way they speak let alone that alone kids okay so I just want to speak against that and part of the foundation knowing that you will see that in our sex crazed culture you'll see that you'll see more it's growing and it's very disgusting and it's not that it's a abuse of the book of song of Solomon that's not when you see the book of song of Solomon what I don't want you to think is simply s ex I do not want you to think that don't just look at that and think it is not the book is not a section sex manual it is not a graphic description of sex no body part or no sex act is described in the book okay I want you to see it as a as the gospel applied to the gospel applied to romance and intimacy where it is hinted at it is it is shown for what a beauty the beauty that it is rightly rightly understood consider this quote from grasping God's word the song of song song of songs celebrates the wild irrational mushy and corny aspects of true love this book suggests to us that in the marketplace husbands and wives may may need to be the quiet discerning hard-working people of proverbs but that once the lights go out in the privacy of their home they need to be the crazy madly in love slightly a rational couple in the song of songs you understand that it's a beautiful picture that's a beautiful picture that is something the song of songs is wisdom the gospel applied that's something that nobody sees but your spouse something nobody the wisdom that you see will see today is something that only your spouse knows of and with a simple word discreetly said you could say that and or a look or a wink or a glance you can communicate that with your spouse in public where they know and nobody else knows how what you have enjoyed together the gospel applied in privacy and I want you to to be able to realize that this is a description of the marriage bed is undefiled but for fornicators and adulterers God will judge the gospel apply okay so after setting all that foundation after sitting all that foundation let's look in the book let's hear some wisdom from Solomon let's hear some wisdom from the Shulamai and consider some of the application in our marriages so I'm gonna run through some themes now through the book of song of Solomon let's consider in and read chapter one verses one to four the introduction the song of songs which is Solomon's let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love is better than wine because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is it is ointment poured forth therefore the versions love you draw me away remember in the book of song of songs that you can understand most of the time by not by the Hebrew words in the description of the number gender person the person you can understand who's speaking okay in many of your Bibles have that over the top they'll have the Shulamai or they have the beloved the way that I my wife and I studied this book in 2009 when we got married and the time just before and after our marriage and so I pulled out my old Bible that I have those notes in to be able to use today and I highlighted with red when the Shulamai is speaking and green when the guy is speaking okay so I'm saying as you listen to this understand and look at the headings in your book to be able to understand who's speaking so here here we have the Shulamai speaking what are some of the wisdom that you see when you see this love poem this love poetry and this collection of poetry assembled together what's some of the wisdom that you see here and can apply in this first section well you can see a gratefulness to God a gratefulness to God that the Shulamai expresses wisdom as she complements and expresses a desire for her husband what is she considered the wisdom of this if you are not grateful to God if the gospel isn't applied in other words if you you're thinking I deserve better I deserve better than what I'm getting that you won't be able to express this you see how this is a necessary application of the gospel the gospel makes it so you realize you don't deserve anything but wrath from God so then the good news that he brings the good gifts that he brings are better than you deserve that grateful heart begins to look then that your spouse with redeemed eyes and realizing you have been given something that's better than you deserve and so then you begin to see in your spouse in romance in intimacy something that you better than you deserve and here she expresses a love and wanting him to draw her away consider the wisdom of how she's taking an initiative here she's taking initiative in the romance so it's it's all right you see how the Shulamai does that it's all right for ladies to do that in times you notice guys the wisdom could be for you look at how he smells nice you see how there there's something that's very practical she likes the the cologne she likes the way he washes up she likes that he doesn't smell like the gym room consider how in verse 3 also not only she likes the way she smells but he likes his she likes his good name your name is an ointment poured forth you see that in verse 3 both the way he smells and his good name it's his good character and he prepares himself for her you see there's a connection guys between the two you can't just throw on cologne and and immediately think that you're gonna be ready for romance guys think more like a microwave ladies think more like a crock pot in regards to romance you remember that analogy so you need to realize guys that what she the wisdom here of what she loves is not only that he prepares himself in good way but he prepares his good name there's a relationship there where she admires his what he's doing for remember how in Hebrew your your name represents all that you are represents your character so you can't live on godly and look good and think that your wife is going to desire to have romance with you you need to be a godly man a combination of those very practical things and those big picture things the gospel applied the more you live godly the more a godly wife desires you you can't be so godly that you don't wash up but you have the combination of the two do you see and what godly woman can resist a clean godly man who has a good name that's wisdom that's wisdom think about when you when you see some of the things think about the practicality of God's plan and see the beauty of it here is it of I introduce this this teaching by talking about the horrors of the world and the the horrors of immorality to contrast the beauty of this here this book has a beauty that you should look at you should see the wisdom of it and desire it and say I want that to be applied in my marriage so moving on consider some other passages in read with me verses five and six where the Shulamai is speaking and she's saying I'm dark but lovely old daughters of Jerusalem like the tents of Keter like the curtains of Solomon do not look upon me because I'm dark because the Sun is tanned me my mother's sons were angry with me they made me the keeper of the vineyards but my own vineyard I have not kept here she's concerned about because the the degree of the tan that she has while she's been working consider the wisdom of how you prepare yourself and how you look for your wife or for your husband there's something where she's conscious of that she's wanting to please him with her appearance the clothes that you dress the way that you do your hair the way that how much weight you have consider those things in view of what your spouse would want there's a practical application there that your body is not your own so you don't just eat what you want just do whatever you want you have in your mind that your body is owned by your spouse here she has some of that concern now what is the what is the inverse a how does the beloved when he first speaks is he is he speaking about what she's conscious of no no he is grateful he expresses that gospel gratefulness with her for her beauty read with me in verse eight if you do not know a fairest among women follow the footsteps of the flock and feed your little goats besides that shepherd's tents I have compared you my love to my Philly among Pharaoh's chariots your cheeks are lovely with ornaments your neck with chains of gold consider again the gospel gratefulness men how are you ready to compliment your wife continually are you ready to observe and meditate upon her beauty how much effort and time do you express meditating on the beauty of your wife look at verse 15 behold you are fair my love you are fair you have doves eyes look at chapter 2 verse 2 like a lily among thorns so is my love among the daughters do you see his gospel gratefulness he doesn't sit there thinking I wish I had a wife that yada yada yada yada I wish she looked this way I wish she had this aspect to her no he thinks meditates expresses to her repeatedly so do you compliment and work at complimenting the beauty the worth and of your wife do you use metaphors you see the use of a metaphor makes it so that you can't you don't just think it up on the spot it's like a love note that you have to prepare beforehand so it's actually a compliment you can't just pick it out and say like oh you look like one of the horses Pharaoh's horses you see how it takes Solomon takes time to express what is it that expresses beauty in the culture what is it that that that I can compare my wife with that would be able to communicate her with thoughtfulness and that she would appreciate do you take the time to pursue your wife in these ways do you delight in her and this is expressing a gospel gratefulness a gospel gratefulness consider how the the wisdom of planning trips and a way together look at how in chapter 1 verses 16 to 17 the Shulamite she says to him behold your handsome my beloved yes pleasant also our bed is green the beams of our houses are cedar and our rafters of fur I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys she's expressing how they have taken a romantic trip and that they are they're outside consider also different places of the this same this same picture here in chapter 2 where they go to beautiful places and here the beloved speaks or Solomon speaks and in chapter 2 verse 10 my beloved spoke and said to me rise up my love my fair one and come away for low the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear in the earth the time of singing has come the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land the fig tree puts forth their green figs and the vines with the tender grapes give it smell rise up my love my fair one and come away there is wisdom in making the time for romance if romance doesn't happen in like a microwave it takes time together have you become so busy have you become so busy with so many other things that you don't have time to romance your spouse that's not wisdom that's foolishness take the time to a side take the time to travel with your spouse take the time to travel and spend time alone it doesn't have to be expensive if you don't have money for it you can go to beautiful places that are free that are free you can go to them and you can enjoy the romance and time with your spouse if your life has become too busy too busy with ministry too busy with good things too busy with work too busy with kids you need to see the wisdom here and take the time take the time you are in a momentary marriage beloved your marriage won't last for all eternity you have a marriage perhaps for 50 years maybe 60 if you're if you're blessed your marriage will not go into eternity enjoy the marriage that you have now and let it be a picture of how good and loving God is to his church so take the time here look in in chapter 4 look at the wisdom of I'll begin to read in verse 1 chapter 4 behold you are fair my love here is Solomon the beloved speaking behold you are fair my love behold you you are fair you have Dove's eyes behind your veil your hair is like a flock of goats going down from Mount Gilead your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep which have come up from the washing every one of it which bears twins and none of them is bearing among them your lips are like a strand of scarlet your mouth is lovely your temples behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate your neck is like the Tower of David built for an armory on which hang a thousand bucklers all shields of mighty men your two breasts are like a two fawns twins of a gazelle which feed among the lilies you drop down to verse 9 you are have ravished my heart my sister my spouse you've ravished my heart with one look of your eyes with one link of your necklace look at the end of verse 10 and the scent of your perfumes and all spouse then all spices verse 11 your lips on my spouse and rip as the honeycomb honey and milk or under your tongue and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon consider how he meditates on the beauties of his wife he takes each part and he writes poetry he writes expressing the love and desire you see how that that takes time that takes time to meditate on it takes time and it's worth it enjoy the blessing that God has given you consider wisdom of so some of the wisdom we've talked about is gospel gratefulness that complements your spouse wisdom that we've seen is taking the man or the woman taking initiative wisdom that we've seen is taking planning trips away going away together spontaneously or planned wisdom that we've seen is that you're to work complimenting with metaphors the beauty of your spouse you need to keep your thoughts wisdom is keep your thoughts and eyes for her look at chapter 6 verses 3 and 9 chapter 6 verse 3 wisdom applied is your thoughts and your delights are to be just for your spouse and no one else chapter 3 I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine he feeds his flock among the lilies look at verse 9 now the beloved speaks my dove my perfect one is the only one the only one of her mother the favor of the one who bore her the daughter saw her and called her blessed the queens the concubines and they praised her consider how the the exclusivity of the the light in the relationship you need to daydream and lust over your spouse absence should make your heart grow fonder absence should make you grow fonder look at chapter 3 verses 1 to 5 here we have the bride the shulamite speaking in verse 1 by night on bed I sit on my bed I sought the one I love I sought him but I did not find him I will rise now and go about the city in the streets of the squares I will seek the one I love I sought him but I did not find him the watchman who go about the city found me I've said have you seen the one I love scarcely if I pass by when I found the one I love I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him into the house of my mother and to the chamber of her who conceived me I charge you o daughters of Jerusalem by the gazelles or by the doves of the field do not stir up or nor awake and love until it pleases here we see the wisdom another aspect of wisdom write these down remember these apply these in your marriage the wisdom that absence from your spouse should make your heart grow fonder you see in her absence she doesn't say well now I can work to something that I wanted to do but now that he's gone instead she uses time away from him in concern and looking for him and in daydreaming and in satisfaction when they are reunited and then she takes that initiative not only to desire the relationship but to desire the intimacy back with him and she brings him and they go together back into that intimacy except wisdom would be accepting the romantic advances of your spouse look at chapter four verse sixteen though the spot the bride says awaken of northwind and calm oh South blow upon my garden that it spices my flow out let my beloved come to his garden and eat its pleasant fruits she wants him to come and enjoy her he wants to you need to accept the romantic advances of your spouse excuse me now remember what's the theme that I've been I've been coming back to the gospel applied means that you will have gratefulness for this it means you'll have mercy in this when you think about the past history with your spouse in regards to romance and intimacy we have many of us have experiences that are not what they should be many of us have immoral experiences from our past lives many of us can dwell on those wrong experiences but when the gospel is applied it means you have humility it means that you have gratefulness it means that you work forward in with mercy as God has mercy so now to begin to close when we look over some of this wisdom from Solomon from the Shulamite to summarize for you to write down you guys wisdom personal hygiene verse chapter 1 verse 3 a good name chapter 1 verse 3 plan trip chapter 2 verses 10 to 13 keep listening guys compliment her continually chapter 1 verses 8 to 10 verse 15 chapter 2 verse 2 guys express her beauty her worth chapter 4 verses 1 to 15 delight in her pursue her guys chapter 6 verses 3 and 9 teach you to keep your eyes on your thought just for her chapter 7 verses 1 to 9 show about how you should daydream delight in enjoy lost over your spouse ladies listen wisdom from the Shulamite wisdom from the Shulamite chapter 1 verses 2 3 compliment him chapter 1 verse 4 take the initiative chapter 1 verse 6 take care of yourself physically for him chapter 1 verse 16 to 17 plan trips to beautiful places together ladies listen chapter 3 verses 1 to 5 absence should make your heart grow fonder often in a beautiful marriage the one who staying home is the one who has the opportunity to plan more whether sometimes when the when the spouse goes when the wife goes shopping then the guy can stay home and plan out something in that absence for when she comes home or vice versa ladies listen the wisdom chapter 4 verse 16 accept his romantic advances desire them chapter 5 verses 10 to 16 daydream lost of your spouse and in chapter 8 we will read this last verse from song of Solomon chapter 8 verses 6 to 7 consider the importance that romance and love are not just we're not just talking about sex here we're talking about a the whole person and verses 6 and 7 set me as a seal of this is of chapter 8 set me as a seal upon your heart is a seal upon your arm for love is as strong as death jealousy as cruel as the grave its flames are flames of fire a most of a hemmed flame many waters cannot quench love nor can the floods drown it if a man would give for love all the wealth of his house it would be utterly despised do you see do you can you warm your relationship by the flames of the of the passion of Solomon and the shulmai warm your cold relationship by the flames and the heat that you can read by reading these love poems and know that God has given these love poems as a wisdom to you for you to be applying in your marriage that's wisdom the fool the fool that's life go by so now remember our theme the gospel applied in song Solomon there once was a husband who had a who had a great love for his wife and she she went and she committed adultery on him and he was crying out to God crying out to God God why would you allow this to happen and she continued to commit adultery on him so much so that she began to work as a prostitute she began to work as a prostitute and he had to go and he had to go and purchase her in order to bring her home you remember that story from Hosea well what is that story a greater picture of you were the one committing adultery on God you were committing adultery on God in idolatry and God himself went to the slave market and bought you back a whore and he bought you back bought you by his own blood he bought you by his own blood purchased you to save you and bring you to a real pure relationship to him where you love him more than anything else this is the gospel since God has had this relationship for his people he pleads this way with Israel of all and he pleads this way in his redemption for how he purchased his bride the church by his own blood should you not apply the gospel to your spouse should you not have grace for your spouse in this way you see how the gospel is the heart now let's close with practical applications practical applications humble yourself to ask your spouse what they would like and dislike you got to shut your mouth and open your ears and you gotta not do what you think will be best you need to do what they would want what we'll be pleasing to them take the time to do that privately with your spouse and if you've done that before do it again because you'll need the reminders you slump back into your old rut you slump back into your old rut and you think it's okay now go back again go back again and perhaps you will learn something new you will learn something new that your spouse will tell you that you weren't thinking about that you'd forgotten but they would desire take the time and humble yourself to ask your spouse what they would like or dislike in romance or in intimacy the love package take time off say no to some things so you can make your your spouse a priority in this way take time off for this take the time to assess with your spouse and grade your marriage in this regard consider these grades that I could offer as a example your grade could be a to b a to b that would be like often your marriage is as hot as the Florida sand on a summer afternoon often as hot as the Florida sand on summer afternoon consider the grade c to d you regularly neglect to put effort into romancing your spouse or effort into intimacy or consider the grade of f sins of some kind have drained desire from you bitterness anger viewing immoral material thoughts of another if it thoughts letting thoughts of adultery come in your mind idolatry idolatry does this if you love something more than God it will drain your good desires out of you in other words if you're a workaholic and you and you put so much effort into work then you neglect your spouse it's because you you have lost love for God and they said you have loved for whatever work you're doing instead of God and that will drain your good desires you'll say I'm not too I'm too busy I got too many things to do and you see that's a result of now applying the gospel of not having loving God with all your heart soul and mind consider how intimacy is instituted by God romance instituted by God from the garden and now to be applied in your redeemed marriage therefore it can be pure it can be holy it can be enjoyed keep sex in perspective love is the issue the relationship is a whole issue sex is important but is not the whole it is a part of a greater picture romance intimacy should not be self-focused but it should not be self-serving please hear me on this point it you need to consider the good of your of the spouse you do not see the Solomon or the Shulamite considering only self-interest they delight in pleasing their spouse romance and intimacy are a culmination of the relationship their culmination of the relationship understand sexual excitement is most certainly different in your spouse you need to humble yourself to understand again and again understand will be pleasing to them and understand that this is this joy this blessing is to be enjoyed regularly joyfully and enthusiastically that is wisdom from God's word beloved considering closing God has given a whole book to teach you how not just to the fact that the marriage bed is under filed but he's giving you a whole book on how to romance your spouse would you neglect that wisdom would you neglect that wisdom of the gospel applied don't neglect it don't be a fool see the beauty see the beauty that God displays in this these love poems see the beauty and understand that the gospel applied there the gospel applied in this way is a reflection of Christ's love for his church it's a reflection of how God saves you in the gospel and in that way you can be the type you can be the picture love Christ in his church here's the picture that God wants you to be with your spouse please value this wisdom value this wisdom and apply it let's pray dear Lord God thank you for your word thank you for the good news of the gospel thank you for redeeming us though we were we were cheating on you we were idolaters Lord thank you for buying us out the slave market of sin dear God we pray please help us to apply the gospel by romancing and pursuing our our spouses with love not being self-focused but considering the good of others we need you Lord to apply wisdom we need you to see wisdom we need you to have this gospel grace Lord help us to love you above all else Lord God and help us to apply that love for you with with great love for our spouses amen


Everyone questioned Craig Lieberman's mental state when the food importer showed up at a major trade show in 2008 with a single line of specialty daily crackers instead of the 60-odd Australian foods he typically represented. According to Lieberman, people were approaching me asking me if I was okay. When Lieberman started his business, it was pretty much a small, important business in Denver, Colorado, called 34 degrees, supplying wine and artisan foods he had found in Australia. Although his wares were popular, Lieberman wasn't actually making profit. To him, since he wasn't making profit, it means he wasn't setting the world on fire. So it was time for something to change. Co-founder of Google and Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet Inc., Larry Page, once shared his thoughts on learning to take a risk. In this video, I'll share with you one of Larry Page's advice about learning to take a risk. This, I believe, will help you become a successful person. If you are new here, consider subscribing so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Now, according to Page, if you are not doing some things that are crazy, then you are doing the wrong things. Remember what people said about Lieberman? A lot of people, including family and friends, doubted his sanity when he said he wanted to streamline his product to just one. You see, bakeries typically produce a range of products to spread risk and satisfy broad taste preferences. For Lieberman to decide against that, I guess you now have an idea of how huge this risk was going to be. Neil Armstrong once said that, there can be no great accomplishment without risk. But it is only those who will risk going too far that can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Elliot added. Although the outcome for taking a risk could either be positive or negative, however, learning to take a calculated risk will most certainly lead to a positive outcome.  It helps you to overcome fear and pushes you out of your comfort zone. Fear of failure, disappointment, or fear of the unknown has been some of the contributing factors for not taking risk. Taking risk, however, is one of the best ways to overcome your fears, any fear whatsoever and step out of your comfort zone. And when you do, you will likely find that you care less about what people think and about what could go wrong, which is a powerful shift in thinking. 2. It Generates New Possibilities When you take risk, you are putting yourself out of your comfort zone and opening up new opportunities for yourself. Because you are taking a path you haven't taken before, you are bound to discover new things and if you keep an open mind, you will recognize several opportunities and possibilities. 3. It teaches you some vital lessons. Even if you fall flat on your face or you lose everything after taking a risk, you'd have gained valuable insight and experience from failure, which means that you are putting yourself out there and trying something new will change how you approach similar situations in the future. Also, taking a risk would lead to a boost of self-confidence and you'll be able to reflect on all of your experiences and know that there wasn't a thing you missed out on. Remember what Paige said? If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things. Doing things that are crazy in this case means doing things that make people question your sanity. However, remember that in taking risk, you need to be well informed. Do not take a risk because every other person is taking a risk or because Google co-founder Larry Page said that if you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things. No, ensure you take calculated risk. Charles Duhigg, American journalist and author, said, between calculated risk and reckless decision making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. Also, Craig Elliott, renowned illustrator and visual development artist, said, a chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk. This dictionary defines calculated risk as a chance of exposure to loss or injury that might be undertaken after its advantages and disadvantages have been carefully weighed and considered. Calculated risk make the difference between an ordinary and an extraordinary life, which is why we consider Paige's statement. If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things. Valid. How to take calculated risk 1. Do your research Georgette Mosbaca said that the difference between a calculated risk and ruling the dice can be expressed in one word, homework. Information makes a difference. Ensure that you do proper research and evaluation. As a matter of fact, gather as much valuable information as possible and identify all the causes of action. Afterwards, list the possible outcomes to weigh your options and understand every little detail and nuance of your decision. Doing this will ensure that you are not driven by emotion or held back by fear. However, if there are too many potential mistakes, it indicates that the risk is too high and you should probably move on to another. Remember, the goal of this is to ensure that you win instead of depending on luck. 2. Prepare for a worst-case scenario Once you have listed the possible outcomes, you should prepare for the worst-case scenario in order to remove any anxiety should this turn out to be the outcome. Ask questions like these. What if I end up losing this deal? What cause of action will I take? Or if this project lags behind, what will my next deadline be? Not only should you think about the worst-case scenario but you should also put plans in place to tackle this situation. 3. Take small risk Go one step at a time Start one step at a time. Conquer your fear of failure by starting with smaller risks that do not involve excessive losses. Then you can begin attempting bigger risks as you grow and learn. Remember our friend, Lieberman, the food importer who was ready to streamline production at his bakery to a single line of specialty deli crackers? Lieberman eventually managed to get $500,000 gathered together from friends and family and turned his import business into 34 degrees, a domestic manufacturer of just one product, a wafer-thin Australian-style cracker. According to him, it was an educated gamble that I took because the type of crackers we wanted to make were already selling really well in the US, he says. The cost of entry to make anything like them was so high that I believed it would keep out a lot of competition. Guess what? In 12 months, he started recording huge successes. We got the motto right, Lieberman said. To triple our business in that first year and become really profitable almost instantaneously, that validated the decision. In six years, 34 degrees distributed its crackers to grocers in all 50 states and Canada and was already generating annual revenue valued at $10 million. Dear friend, if you are aiming for success, always remember Paige's advice. If you are not doing some things that are crazy, then you are doing the wrong things. Thank you very much for watching our videos. We'd like to give you another interesting video for you to enjoy next but before then, our team will be very happy if you can like this video and share it with your friends on social media. If you are new here, don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Look at your screen now to see two other videos we handpicked for you to enjoy next. We love you.


Hi guys, welcome back to Siano. Remember, it's mez from the next question. Trying to give you what you call the updates and what are we talking about? We are talking about Qatar. I'm going to talk about the job updates. We definitely also talk about what we call the job vacancies. Remember, some of you keep on asking me what are those job vacancies that are in Qatar. And what I can say, there are a lot of job vacancies in Qatar. Definitely, but how do you look for that vacancy? Because remember, when you are talking about job vacancies or when you are talking about those vacancies, those vacancies are not going to look for you. You have to look for them. You have to look for any way to see if that position that you have the skills for is being advertised. And what are these avenues that you have to use? You can use a friend, you can go on this social media. Tiktok, we have the LinkedIn, we have the Indian, we have the Gulf Times, we have the Gulf recruitment. All these are platforms that you can try to look up a job. Remember, this job is not going to find you where you are seated. And that's what we talk about. So, meaning them, it will be very easy. For example, people talk about the jobs. Yes, the jobs are in Qatar. We have the jobs. The jobs are there. But how do you look for? And remember, most of these employers, when they are advertising this job, they are looking for people out there with their skills. I keep on telling the people, if you feel, if you think you have a particular skill for that job, really go for that job. Try it out better than sitting outside and say, I do not have the requirements. If you definitely have it, go for the job. Try up the job. Go and try the job out. It's the better way. Remember, no one is going to take you up for yourself. If you feel you have it, you can go. So, there are a lot of job backances. But how to get those job backances? In the initiative, oh, it starts with you yourself. You go out, you try one and one. Apply one and one. Apply on any of those that you have been advertised. You never know what may come and you definitely either find yourself that you can get one for yourself. But there are a lot of job backances. You can look at job backances in hospitality sector. We look at the cleaning sector. We look at security. We look at other areas. Remember, what we are talking about, we are talking about a social number. You have to look for that job yourself. You have to go and look for that backances. And normally, for people who are in the country, for people who are in Qatar, you know what you call the look higher, you will find those opportunities. But the better way is go and look for that opportunity. Begin dropping your CV. Drop your CV.  And most of the time, most of the companies also allow, oh, also tell you apply online. Definitely look for those job backances. But the job backances are not going to look for you when you are seated wherever you have to sit on your way. Remember, you have to look for them. And when you look for them, you never know what may come out of what may come, something that's very good for you. And definitely, you know exactly and this is what definitely we get to talk about every single day. Hope I've tried to shape something for anyone that asked me. For anything that definitely I'll get and it's really very good. I'll definitely drop it and I'll let you know that something is here and we definitely can move on. Thank you so much for coming back to Siana and thank you so much for supporting me. By the way, don't forget to subscribe. We are looking at a heating of what we call 5,000 subscribers. We are huiwa. We are heating 5,000 subscribers. Please, don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to hit that notification bell. Thank you so much. See you again. It's next on Menstruation TV.


Hey traders, this is Tosh I go by T Bradley 90 in the my investing club chat a general reminder for those who do not know MIC is having a one-year anniversary event where bow is going to be trading live in front of our members It's coming up August 17th mark your calendars as an added benefit for our members The event is 100% and exclusively free for annual and lifetime members While lifetime on top of that get extra coaching before the event and guaranteed front-row seating While most charged for these events we show our support by making it again Free for annual and lifetime members if you are interested in signing up for this event DM T Bradley 90 in M. I see slack chat and or email myself at Tosh at my invest in club comm Now we have a very special video for you guys this week as Austin who goes by a loha trader does a member Webinar every single Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time This is going to be episode 9 where he talks about conviction and data tracking tutorial with our other head Moderator Joseph Kelly and while today is just a preview of the almost two and a half hour webinar If you want to watch the full-length video or any of our exclusive content that become an MIC member This one's gonna be a special one guys. We got Joe As a guest speaker this time still gonna give everyone the normal five minutes to be late And then we'll get started. Oh Yeah, I'm gonna conviction is gonna be then the theme of this webinar so A lot of people have you know questions like how do I be convicted? What's the difference between being convicted and being stubborn right like we're gonna go over all that at the end but first Let's go through the lineup All right, so today If this is your first webinar, I usually do an order of operations for all of the webinars What we're gonna do is I'm gonna go through key key traders of the week Normally socks that I've traded but every now and then I'll throw something that I didn't trade But just something that I kind of want to go over and highlight maybe key Important parts about the trade because other people trade stuff that I don't So I still think it's beneficial. I I'll go over the weekly market sentiment where I feel the market's at as far as like Bullish bearish kind of stagnating Let's do it. All right, so key traders so Fran, I'm just gonna go over this one I totally miss Fran. It was a great short opportunity and I just totally missed the move The the reason why I avoided this was because it was a real company, right? Like this is that this is an actual company with like stores out there And so I tried to be extra cautious a little bit with this thing I kept wanting it a little bit higher like we tank and I kind of wanted a push to five and we didn't get it And then we tanked here. I wanted to push the b-wap and we never got it and like just I just couldn't keep chasing, right? But I'm not really unhappy that I missed because there's so many parts of this Trade that I didn't like right. It was a real company. The volume was really high It had like I think it had investor news, right? That's stuff that I don't really like to short So I was totally okay with just missing it. It did end up being a great trader, but it's not my knee So I missed this move Anyway, GHS I this was a Trade I did a couple days ago. Um, by the way is like I have an air conditioner going on in the in the background Is it loud? Should I turn this off for everybody? Okay, just making sure All right. So yeah, GHS I was kind of the big mover of Yesterday or a couple days ago And the thing about this trade that I kind of fell in love with was that it was a it was a patent news Which historically has gotten a lot of can get a lot of hype for it patents Patent news it had high volume and it was what I like to call it It was it gave me this feeling it was casually up a hundred percent on this gap and rip over here It was casually up a hundred percent just Straight up and you'll find these a lot with stocks that cross over the one dollar market It's easy to get up to a hundred percent, but a lot of the times I noticed that like people will short the sock That's up a hundred percent and they'll just short it just because it's up a hundred percent And hundred percent is a really round number that people get attracted to short So just the fact it was casually about a hundred percent, but the volume was staying really really really high Up here on this first bounce this first dip. I was really interested in buying it The problem is is that like some crews got involved So I was kind of just playing the let me get out let me get back in game I was pretty convicted in the idea that this was going to be the play of the day So I was willing to get back in and this charts a little small, but I tried to buy it up here Kind of like anticipating like a high bid for this stock and we you know It tanked on me a little bit and I tried to add a little bit But then quickly got out and I said, you know, let me just wait for it to find it bottom I can always re-enter exactly what I did. I put the shared right back on Quick stop out got right back in and then add it as it works, right? Kaper is a stock that I did a video lesson on it should be coming out Or a video lesson a trade recap on should be coming out pretty soon. If not already But I just want to go a little bit over it. Basically, this is another example of Kind of see I think see I last week where the trend is totally the key of the trade, right? The stop and I talk and a couple webinars ago I talked about how stocks especially on the one minute can sometimes have really messy trends All I define a trend by is literally just higher lows on a slightly larger time frame than I'm trading That's the that's the time frame I kind of want to be paying attention to the trend on if I'm trading the one minute I care about the five minute trend. I'm training the five minute trend. I care about the 15 minute trend Right so base what I like my rule like my guideline for trends is when stocks respect a trend line it typically means it's going to respect the trend break because If it's working for one half of the trend, it's probably gonna work on the other half So when this was holding trend all day higher lows On the five minute chart because I trade on the one minute when it was holding fire higher lows I was waiting for a break of the higher lows and for me the big break was seven six It was the low of the afternoon and at this point. I had a range break mentality I was willing to buy it over 850 thinking that maybe if the trend holds I want to just you know follow the trend, but if the trend breaks I want to be their counter Countering the trend with the short and so the next trade is codex and this was today So to the first thing to note about codex was the daily charts history It's like huge huge wicks here He's huge huge just sell-off wicks. This really puts fear in in the hearts of longs, right? this really puts fear in the hearts of longs because You know everyone sees this and says I can't be holding on to this at the end of the day Because at the end of the day, it's always way under the opening price and it's always tank So I can't be holding on to this at the end of the day So when people have that mentality of I can't be holding it You know everyone anybody who is long is always looking for the sell Anybody who is always not shorts are always looking for the sell and be a longs always looking for the sell It's definitely the edge is going to be in your favorites of shorter, right? So naturally I tried to long The first trade I had on this was kind of long I Was I was a little bit long buys in the open and this was solely on a technical level the the high of the day Here was 180 or the high of the last the high of the last Big move was 180 and so that I was what I felt was going to be the The the most important support slash resistance level that was going to matter. All right, so market segment So the market this week has been Kind of more in the middle like it's a little I think less bullish than last week I'm starting to start to head a little bit over towards more reds, right? But we did have some good movers right caper and GHS I were strong movers and the reason why I called GHS I Like kind of like a a strong mover like yes It did fade off at the end of the day, but in my opinion as far as sentiment goes Traders expect these stocks to fail at the end of the day traders expect piggy stock So the fact that the stock tanks at the end of the day like the fact is it did run it gathered momentum So in that's why I count GHS I as a net positive as a on the market sentiment as opposed to a net negative right as opposed to a red because of People expected to be read so it meets the expectation if it kind of tanks near the end of the day, right, but The fact that it sort up 200% at all was Made it I guess a positive impact on the market because maybe tomorrow people are going to be looking for the next one that go up 200% even though they did fade right and the same reason for caper right caper like did fade off But they're expected to you know, they meet the expectation But the fact is they ran and they ran strong. So I count them as positive creating good vibes, right? This is a this is one of my I guess I Want to say favorite things to talk about because I think it's the most important right the prior trade hangover is a Mentality of stocks where you're letting yesterday's trade effect today and it doesn't have to be yesterday's trade It can be five minutes ago trade it can be last month's trade whatever it means that something about a prior trade is affecting your trade today, right and And So something I like to kind of in like bring up the conversation. Do you care about a trade that you took six months ago? Probably not you're well past that why because you have hit an imaginary Reset button in your mind. You have let that trade go in one year out one other It has left your mentality. It has left your thought. It's no longer affecting your decisions today, right? So the reset button is your favorite button in this trading game, right? It's and if you want to think about it robots You know have a reset button every single second because they don't think right like I'll go do this The reset button needs to be your favorite button in trading, right? You need to be able to take each each single hand each single setup that you get with the independence that it deserves because If you you know like if you get aces cracked The next time you get aces, you can't say well my aces got cracked So I'm just gonna pull these aces like you can see it doesn't make sense with poker It doesn't make sense with trading either, but we let these emotions kind of ride over us, right? But and the reason why I think I call it yesterday's trade effect today Normally like we always seek this Psychological reinforcement every day when we come into the market. We see the dollar sign on our P&L say zero dot zero zero Right. So we're fresh, right? but What if it did that after every single trade could you psychologically think that you're on a fresh slate, right? This is what I try to do I try to pretend that I'm on a fresh slate after each and each and every single trade, right? So why do I have a picture of a stoplight?  You pump those brakes just a little bit and that is essentially like stopping out at high of day That's stopping out at high of date that is not having conviction that the high of day with wiggle room is going to hold Right, you know like you know that that that the light's gonna turn green yet You always always always pump those brakes just a little bit. That's a little bit of a stop-loss, right? That's and and every time I do that. I'm like I just got stopped out on the train Right, I just got stopped out on a train and that's that's me having a lack of conviction Even though I'm smart enough to know that it's going to turn green just because it's not there's that fear that like maybe I'm a little Off on my timing like a short or I just need to just put a little stop on and then keep going Right, so that's why I have the picture of the stoplight. So conviction is a method of approaching a trade Conviction what is conviction conviction essentially leverages a trade and so not every single trade I do is with conviction like if every trade I did with conviction if every trade I did was with panic conviction like I Conviction I say for my a plus setup. So I typically have the largest size on my conviction trade But um, I don't know like it's I would probably just be like I Probably need to install a bathroom in my in my trading room like I'd be peeing all the time But basically it's a way of approaching a trade using what I call a conviction lens when viewing price action So having conviction means having conviction in an idea right the idea of a stock and when you use conviction Right the way I define conviction lens is You are set on your opinion of the stock you are set You you are really sure already you're confident you're convicted that you know what's going to happen with the stock I'm like verifying it all looks right on my phone too. So Yeah, and you can move this too, right if you want to Yeah, yeah, no, I've got I've taken over art everybody's screen should change now. So we're going to talk about his pattern pattern and data analysis so aloha was talking about Having conviction and a setup and a lot of people Send messages all the time. They're like, okay. Yeah, dad is great And I'll I'll send stuff and aloha would be like so you're telling me there's a chance And the joke behind that is that You know data is a guide just the same as technical support and resistance, but there's nothing better that I have found that when data combined with technical support and resistance when data supports Your technical analysis you have to have conviction. That's the difference between Just slinging a gun and hoping to hit the broad side of the barn And actually having A real set risk and a real plan and a real edge In knowing that There are high odds that this works And if you're trading a setup that only works 60 of the time and only gives you like one and a half Risk reward return throw it out. Not even worth it in my opinion. It's too It's not even worth it.  So I'm going to explain to you what we're doing here So we're going to go over the purpose of Statistical analysis and probability so we're going to define Statistical probabilities of an observed market edge. So the trump hand I got the trump hand going. Sorry Um So the observed market edge first is You have to have screen time screen time is one of the biggest things but as a new trader We always struggle With screen time right because when you subscribe you're like, whoa joined in my seat. Here we go. I'm going to learn all kind of stuff And I got to watch the screens for another six months. Oh my god. What am I going to do? so it You have a veteran like val for example who's had I don't know how many years experience i'm going to throw a number out there and just be like 20 I might age him at that level, but sorry um When you have 20 years of screen time experience. Yeah, I ask questions. Yeah, that's fine Um, when we have when you have 20 years of screen time You've seen 20 years of all the same setups or you've seen new setups or you've seen pattern mutations or you've seen small changes You've seen all those observations. That's the point at m. I. C. Is it's mentorship? The key is Mentorship I can't do that on screen. Sorry. Uh, it's not legal here in texas dr. Blunt, um but uh You now after you have all this information coming into you develop a specific set of criteria to weed out The no pun intended there that was perfect timing nice To weed out the noise in the market so This is when you run your scans in the morning or at night and all of a sudden you have eight tickers that you're looking at and you're like Okay, cool. I got a 190 level or 210 level on this ticker. I got a four level over here I got a 16 20 level over here. I'm going to just put orders at all of them Not the best idea as a beginner not the best idea in general unless You just a human robot And uh, you're like bow that can short and work For 14 positions at once me. I maxed out at like three I really get stressed at three So the benefits of doing this kind of analysis is you shorten your learning curve completely Down to I would tell you 90 days to six months And you eventually grow a clear understanding of A potential outcome of a trade idea. So that's what I mean when you have conviction in this line, you know that if it hits these your technical levels and The study supports it. It has an x percent chance of working whatever that that gives you conviction It gives you faith in knowing You have an edge here without trading it for two years before you ever figure it out So now let's take this little brief concept. Let's say that we have a proven strategy Okay that We tested over X period of time and we have many samples for it But if we take a specific set of rules and we teach it to one person Who's never traded. There's nothing about the markets. We teach them how to click buttons. That's it when this number goes here You're out when this goes here. You do this you you know nothing else about the market If they followed that Set of rules and that set of criteria that person would be profitable and we have proven that Okay, and history repeats itself in the stock market. We see it every day in small caps But does this individual really need to know or understand why or how this system works Do they really need to know All the little details about it or do they just need to simply follow the rules? Should they simply just follow the rules set in place that have proven over time to be profitable or should they try to outsmart The already proven strategy This is what happens when You come in we tell you lines. We give you Really three key strategies, which is low hanging fruit death line and first bounce That's like the three every day that happen and then if you trade ipos or big caps You've got first red day first red day also works on small caps as well Excuse me. Oh, I left my drink in the other room Okay, moving on So the big difference here between pattern analysis and data analysis a pattern You have to have an observed market edge first. You have to have screen time But that's why you have mentorship, right because you're going to cut down the screen time You're going to know that this person has spent 20 years. They spent the 20 years to figure it out These are the things that work Don't try to outsmart them and create something that Isn't there you come to be a profitable trader you come to learn trading You come to learn a setup you come to learn a strategy Yet too many people try to reinvent the wheel They tell you how many questions I see about tape reading and I'm going to mention it But How many times in chat have you seen tape reading is not important? It's not crucial. It's all about the chart tape read yet Tape is the mystery it's bigfoot the one everyone wants to find It's the one thing everybody wants to learn that wants to love And it's great, but all it does is confirm a pattern that's already there Like for example ready player one, I don't even think that dude looks at level two I think he just trades from his phone And he kills it. He does a great freaking job. He murders it never looks at tape. Nothing. It's all about the chart All about the chart So when screen time is the most crucial thing the more observation the Better chance you have of observing a repeatable pattern with a predictable outcome That's why you don't really have to do this because You already have the data right there From all the videos that tell you what to do and what set of rules and what set of criteria to follow Hey traders, this is tosh. I go by t bradley 90 in the my investing club chat Just wanted to reach out and say if you have any questions about m.i.c Joining m.i.c. 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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are extremely fortunate to have one of the world's most important journalists P. Sainath used to be with the Hindu author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought and the founder of the People's Archive of Rural India Pari. Sainath, welcome to NewsClick. Hi Vijay. Good to see you. Well, today we're going to talk about the state of India months into both the coronavirus pandemic and into the haphazard lockdown as organized by the government of Narendra Modi. What is the pulse now as we enter July in India regarding the coronavirus recession, the pandemic and the lockdown? For one thing, there's an extraordinary rush towards privatizing what public resources remain in public hands. Now they're going to let out 5% of the railways of trains, 5% of trains for private trains. Now had you had private trains, would you have been able to transport 10 million migrants back to their homes? You wouldn't have had a chance of doing it. In fact, they're doing the opposite of everything. They're going against the lessons that every other nation seems to be drawing. Take Spain, Ireland, which immediately after COVID broke out, they actually nationalized all the medical facilities. Maybe they'll reprioritize them or denationalize them later, but they immediately nationalized. We took two months to start saying, okay, 80% of private hospital beds are commanded for COVID, whatever. And just before this, the previous budget of this government put up district level government hospitals on the block for private management. And you'd think that after COVID, they would rethink that process. No, they're moving towards it even faster. In the control room for their war room on COVID, you have Boston Consulting Group sitting there. So you're actually allowing privateers, profit seeking, representing hundreds of extremely rapacious clients to be sitting in the control room of the fight against the pandemic. That's one set. Another area where gigantic monies are already being made, you just have to look at the stocks and shares of companies like Baiju and others. This is online education. This is simply incredible the way it's playing out. The amount of, if you look at all the websites of the business newspapers, the business magazines or business websites, you can see them salivating. I mean, they're just salivating saying, hey, this is where the money is. This is where it is. We can do fantastic things now. Because anyway, you had no intention of worrying about the tens of millions of children in government schools, tens of millions, over 10, 15, 20 million in just Uttar Pradesh alone. What's happening with the online education? First, consider that from preschool to primary and even upper primary, how many kids own a smart phone? That's one. Second, the parents are saying, even if the parents manage to get a phone, they're saying, we don't know how to use this stuff. How are we going to teach the child? And that's even for older children up to the age of 15, 16. So take a place like Palgar, what used to be part of Thane district. It's a heavily Adivasi area. The National Sample Survey organization's 2018 report tells us that only one in six people in rural Maharashtra, one in six, had the ability to use the internet. Not about ownership of products and gadgets. Only one in six people and for women, that was one in 11. And even more recent, the same, they also did a survey who actually used the 30 days preceding and that was one in seven overall and for women, one in 12. Now then, if you have a phone, you don't have goddamn network. You don't have power supply, so sometimes you can go days without recharging your phone. In fact, in Bengal, it's created a little profession in the last three, four years. There's a guy who comes to the village in the morning, collects in the night, collects everybody's phones and goes and charges them somewhere where there's electricity and comes back in the morning and distributes the phones, things like that. So you don't have electricity, you don't have the thing. These smartphones are extremely expensive and by the way, they would now have a ban on the cheapest apps which are all Chinese. Now, how do you download on that kind of limited bandwidth that people have? You pay 200 rupees a month for two GB a day. If you go into a higher bracket, it becomes much more expensive. Two kids in a school, older brother, younger sister. First, that older brother has to be persuaded to share his phone with the kid. Second, downloading PDFs, you can't print them out, you don't have access of that kind. This is the kind of stuff that's going on. So you're having entirely the basic issue of India is and has been for a very long time, extreme inequality. Now, what COVID did and what COVID continues to do, what COVID-19 continues to do, it's given you an incredible, complete and thorough autopsy of neoliberalism and our path of development in the last 28-30 years. So you really are now looking at the corpse of neoliberal ideology and it gives you an incredible, COVID has also given, say, to someone like me, an incredible brain scan of our media and elite. These are the two things. The next thing, so online education is a racket, is becoming a racket. Incidentally, at Pari in the People's Archive of Rural India, in a few days, we are launching Pari education because there is a serious class differentiation even within those who have access. Now in Mumbai, many kids have broadband. In Vidarbha, many kids don't have any back. So what happens, you'll find year after year, the topper in the school board exams might be from Latour, Marathwada, Vidarbha, but the past person pages in Mumbai will be excellent, not because the students here are more brilliant, but because they have access to broadband 24 hours network in Vidarbha, around exam time, they are having 12 to 15 hour power cuts each year, every year. So there has not been a bulb in the panchayat bubble. Where does that village kids study? So the thing, the online education thing is, I think it's the way I see it, it's moving from digital divide to what Bhav Chaskar has called digital partition. From digital divide to digital partition. Absolute separation of two words, a dividing line that you cannot, it's a border which you cannot cross. So that is going to, Karnataka in fact has put a ban on online classes up to class 5 and the beautiful people are outraged. But the fact is that thousands of families of government school children are saying, how the heck will we do our exams? We can't teach the children, we don't know how to use these instruments and we can't afford them. So that's one area. The second is the gigantic racketeering that's happening in the health sector. Now I live in close proximity of, well very close proximity of one, but in decent proximity of three 5 star hospitals. These guys are charging 6,500 rupees and more for COVID testing. 6,500 rupees and more. And at the very time that you need to be thinking, heck we lost an opportunity to build a national health system, which by the way was recommended in the first commission of one of the first commissions India made as going towards independence, the Bore commission. They said this, build something on the lines of what was coming up in Britain, which served Britain very well until Thatcher came along and picked its bones out. But we don't have a national health system and health racketeering is getting, let me tell you from Mumbai. I said this, if you go back to the piece of March 26th, which I published in the wire, you're going to have a lot more deaths from non COVID diseases than from COVID, because we have come up, we have focused the every bit of the limited medical resources India has on COVID. Heck of a lot of people are dying of other diseases. The migrants on those 800 kilometer walks, 800 mile walks too, they were dying of dehydration. They were dying of diarrhea. They were dying of all the old usual suspects in Indian morbidity. So that that was another thing. The hospitals now to get a someone dies, a person dies of another disease. You can't get a medical certificate without paying 10,000 rupees or more in mobile. Without paying 10,000 or more. So because the government hospitals cannot give you a death certificate until they conduct an autopsy. They are in no position. They're cracking at the seams. They are in no position to do autopsy. So you go around a classmate of mine in Chennai. Madan Kumar died. It was not at all, it's not at all clear what he died of. It's not at all clear. There were no COVID like symptoms or anything. And my literally my classmate from MCC school. The family was forced to dispose of the body fast by the rest of the society, buildings, etc. saying, do this because you know it's problematic for everyone. So they ran around for a death certificate. And he has been cremated without the without any examination of what went wrong with it. So people suffering from diseases other than COVID, heart patients, diabetes patients are in a very bad way. That's so that's the health sector. Third, in the education sector, all the private universities are recalibrating. They all built huge infrastructure, giant buildings, conference centers, etc. Now they are racing to, and this has a lot to do with labor, they are racing to seize the online world where they know that they are a thousand miles ahead of government schools and colleges. You're going to watch the dismantling of teachers' unions. You're going to watch, it's already begun, you're going to watch the dismantling of the entire, you know, you're going to see a lot of faculty members laid off. Yeah, because by the way, this situation favors guys like us because what the universities are going to do is to try getting a lot of freelance lecturers.  You're not giving the students a full-time teacher. So you're going to find actually a reduction in the number of students. Those students completely excluded, Swetha and I is free software movement, Andhra chapter. We are trying to see how to reach non-students excluded from that whole process. Then you come to the sector of labor. It's astonishing, we have reversed the 100-year gold standard of labor law, taking the 8-hour day and making it a 12-hour day, and the BJP states have made it 12 hours without over-type payment. Okay, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat have extended the working hours to 12 without overtime. I'm sorry, I'm saying Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. Rajasthan has also extended to 12 hours but is paying overtime for those 4 hours with a limit of 20 hours a week overtime, which means 6 days in a week people are going to be working like, what the heck, they'll be working. And the kind of, you know, another thing is, it's common to the US, the complete bankruptcy of the ruling elite in terms of people who can think, who can actually think, you see, no one in this generation is aware, for instance, that after the 8, when the 8-hour day came up, Henry Ford was one of the first to accept the 8-hour day, not because of his love for the working class, but because they had done studies that showed that after 8 hours, productivity sharply fell off and you would be paying more for less. Ford actually embraced that and he was roundly criticized by his contemporaries all of them went into it 2 years later when they saw that the year he adopted the 8-hour day, Ford's profits doubled from 34 to 60 million. Okay, so at least you had some self-enlightened capitalist interest, a self-interested enlightenment, if you might want to call it that. Here, the Uttar Pradesh government, apart from an ordinance which it claims to have withdrawn, suspended 38 laws, labor laws. All the basic labor laws of the country are now in limbo. Some are saying it openly, some are not, but you are just unable. The first, of course, was Mr. Modi's Gujarat Chamber of Commerce. The moment the migrant laborer problem started, they made an appeal for a ban on trade union activity for a year, no formation of trade unions. So this is on the labor sector. You are in every extent moving to a neoliberal nightmare and you have people, every newspaper magazine is having something saying, don't waste a good crisis. You know, paraphrasing Winston Churchill's absurd speech. One of the senior most of Indian editors, Shekhar Gupta, says on his online TV, without attributing it to Churchill where it came from, never waste a good crisis. You see, in other words, this is the time you've got the working class on its knees, rammed through what you have to ram through on labor. That's happening on the labor front. On the food front, at a time we are witnessing unprecedented levels of hunger. You know, really unprecedented levels of hunger. Vijay the so-called surplus or buffer stock with the government of India crossed 104 million tonnes on June 1st. Can you believe that? 104 million tonnes. Yesterday the Prime Minister makes a speech to say, wow, you know what we are going to do? We are going to extend that 5 kgs per person free for another three months. Incredible generosity considering that it's going to, it's limited to those coming under the National Food Security Act, which excludes 30% of the country's population. So you're having that hunger situation. And you are having states encouraging their farmers to repeat the crops of Rabi, which this is my personal biggest nightmare. You know, to try growing cash crops again. Vijay 80 lakh quintals of cotton are lying unsold and all the cotton growing states are repeating cotton. And Punjab and Haryana are giving up paddy to grow cotton on the splee that paddy is water-gussling. BT cotton is no less water-gussling. But the problem is, by all means give up paddy. Go to millets. You'll be safe, you know, in one acre, the water you use for one acre of paddy, you can grow, cultivate 12 to 15 acres of jowar. You're going for another cotton water-gussling crop. We are going, now here's another terrible situation.  Yes, China. Okay, now you're sitting with 80 lakh tons, 80 lakh quintals of unsold cotton, more piling up, some with the cotton corporation of India, some with the state governments and many 30 lakhs with the farmers in Maharashtra along 30 lakh quintals with the farmers. State governments have no more money to buy. Perishable cash crops are dying in the fields. Watermelons, okay, those things are dying. Sugarcane, lakhs of tons and quintals and tons are lying with the sugar mills and the farmer.  Who's going to buy your stuff? I have been begging, begging from the Kisan Sabha downwards to every farmer.  You've got a government in power that is not distributing, it's piling up. It was 60 million tons when the crisis stood, it's now 104 million tons. And what do you think they announced? Not a single editorial, not a single condemnation on April 12 or April 15. They announced that the cabinet had given permission for the conversion of an unspecified amount, no cap, unspecified amount of rice to be converted into ethanol.  I mean, where are we living? So you very rightly characterised the situation saying that this is an autopsy of the economic and political model that India has been following for the last four decades. You said it quite directly, the cops is on the table, an overworked doctor is now looking inside it and what they see is a digital partition, what they see is education hemorrhaging, they see employment hemorrhaging, they see health hemorrhaging, they see basically hunger increasing, a hunger pandemic if you can put this sharply. I mean, let me ask you a question and you can say the answer in just a few sentences but is this government a malevolent government? Is it an incompetent government? How would you characterise this government? Because everything you say is so logical. So just characterise the government for us. You know, even before Covid, I was making this point that say the emergency marked the consolidation of the authoritarian state and I say this every, I say two things every June 25th, that on June 25th, we ritualise our remembrance of the emergency and institutionalise our embrace of it every day of the year. We ritualise our remembrance of the emergency on one day in a year. We institutionalise our emergency every day of the year for the last 30 years. It's not just this government. A hell of a lot happened with the previous UPA government as well but this government is, I think Arun Shauri described it very well when he said the BJP is the Congress plus cow. I think that's a wonderful description of the Congress plus cow. However, I would also say this, whatever the Congress did on the damage that they did in economics, in the economy, these guys do that on steroids. They do it on steroids. So I was saying that the emergency saw the consolidation of an authoritarian state but when I look at the last six years and I look at the outsourcing of terror to mob violence, see the emergency, all of us, everybody in the so-called civil society, everybody developed the next 20 years of their activity in terms of fighting the state, in terms of combating state oppression. But from 2014, it wasn't any longer just the state. The state was outsourcing terror. You had the VHP, the Bajrang Dal. None of us were prepared for this. I'm saying Indian society was not prepared for this, this outsourcing of terror. So you're looking at and the kind of attacks on minorities, the kind of violence, the kind of bloodshed. It's almost like you're moving from the consolidation of the authoritarian state to the state as sociopath. You have never seen governments, I mean all governments have been vindictive, nasty. It's not true. I will not pin one government. I will not say the government of Mr. Modi is vindictive and nasty and the government of Manmohan Singh was. So that would be untrue. I know in the countryside what was the criminalization of dissent had been going on for two decades, two, three decades, no less under the U.P. But these guys have taken that to an entirely different level. It's an entirely different level that makes a lot of the previous stuff look rather benign. There is somehow what I can never understand is it is not enough in the current Indian elite and society. It is not enough to defeat your adversary. It is imperative to smash him, humiliate him, trample on him, assassinate character, then the person, everything, everything. That is what is telling me about, are we seeing the state as sociopath? Because an authoritarian state locked people up here. The police came and dealt with you. And you ran away from the police or whatever you could do. Here you are attacked in communication terms. You have the largest army of paid trolls in the planet. Going after anyone, everyone. And how do we say that they are paid and they don't know a damn thing?  Now, for instance, I write something on farmer's suicides. And there will be 200 guys that are saying, did he ever say one word about farmer's suicides when the Congress was in power? I was the guy who broke the damn story and stayed with it for 20 years. So, it's pre-formatted responses that they're going to put out without knowing a damn thing. And by the way, you'll find that the attacks are usually between 9 and 5 because these are 9 to 5 jobs and on weekdays. Okay, so it's a fact. So you have this huge thing and then you have the Indian media at its worst in 200 years. I've been shouting for 20 years about what corporatization will do to the media. It's done it to the Hindu. I mean, the times and age thing, over a thousand journalists in my estimate have been laid off in the last two months. Many of these journalists were going to be laid off anyway. The pandemic gave these guys an excuse to throw them out. The times and many other groups did this after the 2008 Wall Street collapse. In 2009, before the elections, at the same newspapers were saying, India unaffected by the times of India had a thing. One headline said, what recession? The economy is soaring and they were laying off people. It again happened after demonetization. Again, there was another round. Thousands and thousands of jobs have been lost in journalism since 2008. This year, journalists and non-journalist employees also. Must be about a 1500 in the last few months. Look at this fact. At the time, you need journalism and journalists the most. You are responding to the pandemic by laying off a thousand journalists and restricting the coverage of what you need to cover so clearly. There's so desperately need to cover. And therefore, you have a situation where much of the coverage was on the edge of the cities as the migrants marched out, you did your TV stuff and one or two went around. Again, it's the problem of journalism of covering the event versus covering the process. The media have simply been unable to ask the right questions because they never had beats on this. The media has never been able to ask the right questions. They've never had beats on this. But you have, after all, spent a lifetime asking exactly these questions. This interview will run on news click. We'll receive real assault from that barrage of trolls that you talked about. Looking forward to that. This was a very insightful conversation. Thank you very much for joining us.


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