study now that I think is a very important study. It's found here in Matthew chapter 7 and it is it is a study that relates to danger because there is a danger. There is a danger in having what is called said faith. You see there are those who have said faith that's also been referred to as head faith which simply means that they have an ability to communicate or to say certain things that may have certain biblical realities or truthfulness to them. They have a said faith. They're able to answer questions. So if you ask them for example, do you believe the Bible is the word of God? They're able to say well yes of course. If you say to them do you think that God has a son named Jesus Christ? They'll say to you well yes he had a son named Jesus. Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on a cross for the sins of the world? Well yes of course he did. Do you believe that he was buried? Yes. Do you believe that he rose from the dead on the third day? Yes indeed. Do you believe that he ascended into heaven? Yes I do. Did he send the Holy Spirit to to reside within those who by faith confessed and received him as Lord and Savior? They would say well yes I believe all of that. I believe in the Trinity. I believe in heaven. I believe in hell. I believe the Bible is the word of God and then if you say to them do you live for Jesus Christ? So that's a different question entirely. No isn't it? Well no I believe all these things. Well if you believe all these things well blessed are you if you do them and that's what the Lord is speaking about here. You see he's been given to us what is called the Sermon on the Mount and as we've been going through the Sermon on the Mount starting in chapter 5 now into chapter 7 we've been seeing how the Lord has come to a point where he has given an invitation. He's been speaking to the people concerning the things that relate to faith in him and he has said you need to realize that no man can serve two masters and so he gave the invitation and I'm kind of like just going over reviewing this with you how he had said that these are the things that you need to do and so he had given an invitation we saw it in verses 13 and 14 where Jesus had said enter in to the straight or the narrow gate and so he was beginning at that point to share concerning the cost of discipleship and giving an invitation for people to enter into this narrow gate so he had actually contrasted what is called the narrow gate with a broad way. The narrow gate is difficult it's tortuous it's hard to get into but the broad way anybody can go through and so he's talking concerning a decision that needs to be made related to our life's decisions. There are two paths that have been set before us you need to choose the spiritual path that you're going to travel. Again one path is narrow that means demanding it speaks of tortuous or strenuous and that's the path of salvation so Jesus was saying listen the way of the cross is difficult the way of the cross is afflicted or cramped it's demanding it's costly sacrifices necessary if you're going to enter in. The Christian life is not an easy life it is a demanding way of life he says that in Mark 8 35 through 37 when he says whoever wants to save his life will lose it whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul what can a man give an exchange for his soul so you may watch the news or you might be reading a newspaper or you might be on your on the internet and you're reading the news in that way whatever fashion you receive your news and all in and you read about a well-known Hollywood personality whether it's a young lady or a man they have everything going for him it appears and yet they're getting divorces they have multiple relationships they're unhappy people but they have everything in the back of your mind if you grew up like most Americans you're thinking if I have health and I have some finances I'll be fine I'll do okay in life if I have strong health and if I have some money in my hand I'll be okay because that's basically what every American is raised to believe health and wealth if I have my health I can have wealth but if I don't have my health it doesn't matter if I have any wealth but then again if I have wealth and I have poor health at least I can go get some hospital care so we think that way that's how we think Jesus says what good is it due to a man what is it profit a man if he gained the whole world and yes he yet he loses his soul what will a man give he said in exchange for his song you see the Lord Jesus Christ says that a soul is costly and there's nothing you can do to redeem yourself nothing and you can have tremendous experiences and I'm not knocking tremendous experiences there are certain joys that we have just by being alive it's great sometimes to be able to sit down and in your own backyard say you have a backyard and to have a cup of coffee and to hear the birds and you know and hear the children play yeah that's great I love it I am so blessed and happy that that's part of my life but is it my whole life you know and do I think the one who made that all possible and what if I gained everything what if I had whatever car it may be that I'd like to have and there are cars out there by the way I I like to look at cars like they like to look at art you know I'll look at cars and say well that's a nice car but I'm what if I had the ability what if I was like a Bill Gates or somebody like that where that I could walk in and say oh this car you know okay say I do see I can buy that say I can drive that does that really is that going to be everything is that no of course not because the moment there's a chip on the paint I've lost my joy I don't care I'll be sitting in the car and somebody will let go of the their shopping cart and it seems to weave its way through all cars until it gets the mind hits the door and then bang it's all over you know so I've learned that you've learned that if you haven't learned it you will it's just part of life you discover those things but what is a profit a man if that man is is a very handsome man what is a profit a woman if that woman is so very beautiful that all women what she walks in the room the women look at her and say oh she looks so nice it's kind of like that that commercial you know where that woman's walking on the beach and this guy's got this these women have these she this woman has a hearing aid on that she could hear all the talk that's going on around her and then she walks by these two women on the beach maybe you've seen it I've seen I laugh every time I've seen it and she goes oh doesn't this one girl turns to the other one and says oh doesn't she look so wonderful I wish I had a shape like that and she's got this sonic ear or whatever and she can hear them that's exactly what those women are saying I'm sure they're just saying I wish I had a body like that she looks wonderful no I don't think I'd want to hear the things people whisper around me but is that what it's all about I mean is that what we want well obviously not so Jesus is making it very clear to us he's saying to us we need to know what matters and what doesn't and walking with the Lord is costly and walking with the Lord can be very difficult but he never taught us that being a follower was an easy life it is a life that can be difficult and he can end in a difficult way when we're in Mexico recently I didn't know that where we were going it was well known for kidnapping I didn't know that not that I wouldn't have gone I did just make sure that I put Marie next to the door no I didn't know that and so they send me the people who are hosting us sent me a picture on my on my phone of two guys and said these are the ones who are going to pick you up I didn't put two and two together and until later and I turned to Marie and I said I think they're protecting us from being kidnapped at the airport so we these two guys come they put us in the car they drive and now they're talking to us and they say well we're going to a place where it's run by cartels but the cartel here is into kidnapping so that made some sense oh okay kidnapping he said yeah and I said oh great he said well that's how they make their money and now they're beginning to speak to us and tell us of what has happened in the church and they and then we hear this we hear that one of the members of the church a businessman who had some money was kidnapped a member of the church was kidnapped and held for ransom and what happened is the ransom was paid but they killed him anyway and they've never recovered his body only his head and I said can you take us back to the airport no but he goes they only they only recovered his head after the ransom was paid but you know what happened they're telling us we had out an outreach there was an outreach that was put on by the church and a young man 20 years of age came to that outreach and that young man answered the invitation and gave his heart to the Lord 20 years old at the end when they were interviewing and speaking to him to follow up with him he said the reason he came to that outreach is he was the one who was part of the kidnapping of the man who had been abducted from that church and he was the one who killed the man and he said you know what has driven me to have come here and they said what he said when I was threatening him about to kill him he said the man looked at me and said to me when I he said I said to him you're not afraid why aren't you afraid and the and the man said I am not afraid because I have peace with God through Jesus Christ I have peace but son you don't and he said and I shot him and I killed him I killed the man but it's haunted me because he was right I have no peace and he did and I saw him to the end when he died and when I killed him that he died with a piece that I didn't possess and that is what drove me to come to this church because I knew that he goes to this church or went to this church and I needed to have what he had now that story continues because they said you need to turn yourself in for what you've done and he did and this young man who gave his heart to Christ as a result of killing another man he himself was killed by the cartel in prison he gave his heart to Christ and he died and he wanted to die in peace the way the other one died in peace listen Christianity is not something that's lightweight it's not lightweight and Jesus is making it very clear and and I'm sad to say that here in the United States sometimes we just don't count the cost we don't understand that Jesus was insane to us listen enter in and and you'll have a great life always he said it is a difficult path it is a strenuous one it is very narrow and cramped and few there be that find it whereas on the other hand the other one is a Broadway and there'll be many who go there in and and that's because they're not willing to do what is called what you're called to do in order to enter into the kingdom of God the narrow gate is entered in through a conscious and considered decision and it's a decision of the will because you don't simply stumble in to the kingdom of God you are not automatically you are not accidentally you not ritually and you are not simply born a Christian I'm an American I must be a Christian I've been raised religious I must be a Christian I was teaching a Bible study a young woman comes in the Bible study we're talking after the study and all and and as I'm speaking to her I say to her when were you when did you become a Christian when were you born again she says I've always been a Christian and I smile at her and the spirit of the Lord speaks my heart so remember hearing the voices he said she's lying and I remember looking at and I remember I actually said this this is true story I'm not making this up for a fact it's true I remember hearing this she's lying and I remember saying yes I know it's like a conversation so I said are you telling me you were born born again you can't be born born again you're born of water and or you're born of spirit and I spoke to this young woman and explained to her how you're born again and and this young woman believe oh no I was raised a Christian I've always been a Christian I was born a Christian and I'll give you her name her name was Marie my wife when I met her that was our first conversation we sat down after the Bible study and I asked her Marie when were you born again when did you become a Christian her first response was I've always been a Christian her second question was what's your sign because she was going to college at that time and she wanted to know my sign so I said the fish oh you're a Pisces I said ichthuse I don't believe in that garbage and that was our first conversation and so you're not born born again you enter in by faith it's not automatic it's not ritual listen when I was four months old my mama took me to a small church the plaza church right out there by Alvera Street all of you know it some of you went there too I was baptized there in December of 1950 my mama took me there four months old and I received water baptism seven or eight years of age I received First Communion 12 or 13 I received confirmation if you would have asked me are you a Christian I would have said absolutely well how do you know you're a Christian do you believe in the Bible yes I do do you believe that God has a son named Jesus yes I do do you believe in in heaven yes I do I would have answered is there a Trinity yes there is I would have answered because in catechism class I was taught all the answers for that but if they said do you live for God are you born again I would have answered what I was taught when I was an infant I received water baptism the spirit came upon me at confirmation I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit yes I'm a Christian that's what I was taught but what you're talking to me I might have been loaded or drunk that was my life I mean my cousin Carly and I had arguments I still remember arguing he was Jehovah's Witness I was rowing Catholic and we argued while smoking pot as to which faith was true so some of you understand exactly what I'm saying some of you have done exactly what I've done this is an unusual this is typical of many people not all people but many people where you know what Christmas is supposed to celebrate you know what Easter is supposed to celebrate if you get married you get married in the church then you raise your kids make sure the wife if you're a man the wife takes the kids to church because every every every family out to go to church once in a while you go for weddings you go for funerals you go for baptisms you go for the whole thing and yet you say that he is Lord but you don't do what he says and that's the difference and that's what Jesus is speaking about here concerning Christianity he says not everyone who says to me Lord Lord challenge of the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father in heaven you see the narrow gate is the opposite of the broadway because it is demanding and costly in Matthew 16 24 and 25 Jesus said to his disciples if anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself take up his cross follow me for whoever desires to save his life will lose it whoever loses his life for my sake will find it man by the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a book called the cost of discipleship and Dietrich Bonhoeffer said when Christ calls a man he bids him come and die because that is the cost you see the narrow gate isn't crowded because there are a few Jesus said who find it and you think that the road would be crowded for entrance into heaven instead there's a disinterest to entering in even a resistance in John 5 39 and 40 he said this he said you search the scripture for in them you think that you have eternal life and these are they which testify of me but you're not willing to come to me that you may have life you're not willing to come to me you search the scriptures you can get into Bible study you can understand that the word search every police officer in this room understands the word search the real word is ransack somebody comes in just recently in our neighborhood one of the homes in our neighborhood was ransacked they turned everything over they go into the bookshelves and pull things out they they find everything they go underneath the sofas they take the sofa cushions out they open up the bed take the mattress off of it they looked everywhere they ransacked that's what the word ransack means so you're reading the news and they says this house was ransacked it means everything was turned over when Jesus is speaking here he says you search the scriptures the word search as you ransacked the scriptures you're looking from A to Z you're ransacking and these are they would speak concerning me but you won't come to me you may know the Bible you may be able to quote the Bible you may be in Bible study from the time you were small to this point now but you haven't committed yourself to me in a world so populated the amount of people entering into the kingdom is very small that's why Jesus in Luke 12 32 speaks of it as being a little flock the obvious question is for us as we go through this is because this Jesus is an intent the obvious question is am I part of that little flock or am I one of those who says to him Lord Lord the other path as mentioned a moment ago as a Broadway it leads he said to destruction this path is the one that is more readily traveled because the narrow gate isn't that attractive dying to self picking up across loving your enemies serving God that's not desired by most people instead when possible they will try to choose their own path and their own path normally conforms to their own personal philosophy yet we're told in Proverbs 16 25 there's a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way of death in John 8 24 Jesus said it like this he said if you don't believe that I am he you will die in your sins so Jesus was speaking concerning the way into heaven when we got to verses 15 through 20 he then began to issue a warning concerning false prophets and false teachers and as mentioned earlier as you walk this narrow way some will attempt to mislead you and draw you off the path he had said they will come to you in sheep's clothing when he says they come to you they're on the prowl they prowl the road they deceive those who would enter into the narrow gate and some of you know this very well through experience very often false teachers are more evangelistic than the genuine believer they train their disciples they pour millions into literature they purchase buildings they have door to door evangelism the disciples are very often totally devoted and extremely sacrificial and the minute God begins to move the enemy does what he can to undermine the move of God as I mentioned you recently you get saved and within a week or two three weeks there's someone knocking on your door there's someone inviting you someplace else they want to take you down a path that actually takes you away from the Lord not towards him when God began to move in the United States in a modern revival in 1970 60 you know 67 68 1970 and all of that when when it began to be called the Jesus movement not only was God moving in a refreshing way amongst many many people my age and all you know 18 19 20 years of age and all at that time but not only was the Holy Spirit moving but the enemy did everything he could to to upset it there was a group at that time called the children of God some of you have heard of the children of God I had somebody I know somebody who was part of that it was a mind-controlling cult and it was led by a guy named Moses he called himself Moses David and one of my friends who liked to play rock and roll guitar and all was at Griffith Park and this was before I got saved he was at Griffith Park and the children of God swarmed the park and he was spoken to by some of these members of the we call them COG the children of God the family of God later on they called themselves by various names but children of God is what I knew him by and what happened is they took him and he began to live on a commune he sold all his possessions he didn't really have much but he got rid of his guitar donated it to that organization and they did everything they could to to control this young man that was very typical and that happened then and it happens to this day Jesus is leaving it up to his listeners to exercise discernment by saying to them beware of false prophets you see we're responsible to know God's word and God's word needs to be known well enough for us to be able to discern or to spot error you know in these last days and indeed we're in these last days prior to Christ's return and it's soon when Jesus was spoken of and we'll see this when we get to Matthew 24 that's only 16 chapters or so from now that's only two years when we get there to Matthew 24 Jesus is drawn Jesus's attention is drawn to the temple his disciples say isn't this beautiful look at these marvelous stones and this and that and Jesus begins to speak to them in return and says listen one of these not one of these stones are going to be left in place they're all going to be uprooted and it causes the disciples great concern because Herod had been working on that temple for over 40 years it had been beautified to such an extreme degree that the idea that this beautiful temple would be destroyed was much beyond them and so they began to speak to Jesus and they said tell us when will these things be what are the signs of your coming we all know that when you read Matthew 24 we all know about the plagues the wars the rumors of war and and a variety of things that are listed there but it's interesting because when the disciples are speaking to Jesus they did not say and and you'll see this clearly just read it yourself you'll see it but when we get to it I'll try and develop this for you but they did not say what are the signs of your coming it's not plural it's singular they said what is the sign of your coming and what was it that Jesus said three times at least three some say four at least three times he says take heed that you are not deceived the sign of the return of Christ isn't simply the plagues the wars the international wars those are all part of they're like birth pangs but the real sign is deception and that's why Jesus said take heed be careful that you are not deceived and that's why Jesus is speaking about beware false prophets listen as a pastor teacher I can do the best that I can to try and equip you I can do the best and that's my responsibility and I do the best I can to do that but the way you're equipped is by reading the word yourself studying the word yourself having your own personal time with God yourself in your prayer having fellowship with those who love Jesus Christ and live for him learning to share your faith with other people those are all things that you do that helps you but it's especially through the reading and the practicing of the word of God that you're safeguarded God's word needs to be read it needs to be properly divided it needs to be understood spiritually and that's a foundation of all true ministry in Christ the learning of and practicing the word of God is a foundation of a blessed life as well as a productive life you might find this interesting when we um when we built this building out and began to occupy it 12 or 13 years ago now we uh told the church some of you were with us then we said on Saturday this upcoming Saturday before we lay the carpet we're going to write our favorite scriptures on this platform if if we were to uproot this carpeting here all the way to the back doors on both sides all the way to the back here everywhere if you uproot this carpet you will find hundreds and hundreds of verses hundreds and all all the way up the steps every one of these steps is covered with scripture every one every step that you take to get up here there are bible verses on every that people with the magic markers you know anyway i was gonna little savage no but there there are sad girls right there no when you when you i'm sorry but when when you look at the concrete every inch of this as bible verses every inch every time i teach right here i have the scripture that i wrote no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ right here first Corinthians 3 11 i stand on that every time i teach to remind myself it's Jesus it's a foundation of christ it's the word of god my mom and my dad scriptures right here right next to me i wrote their scripture both of them are in heaven but it reminds me this church is built on the foundation of the word of god that's what it's supposed to be built on it reminds me every time i teach you see our responsibility is to know god's word false teaching ultimately produces multitudes of lost people who mistakenly believe they're going to heaven and that's your introduction to our study verse 21 i give long introductions not everyone who says to me lord lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father in heaven i underscored says and i underscored does says verses does someone says well wait a minute i know i've been reading the bible and i know that the bible says that we confess Jesus Christ's lord in order to be saved so isn't this a contradiction because it seems to be different than what Jesus taught because in Matthew 10 32 Jesus says whoever confesses me before men him i will also confess before my father who's in heaven so isn't this a contradiction on the one hand he says not everyone who says to me lord lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven and yet later on he says you have to confess them before men to be part of the kingdom how does that work well there are those who would say that all you need to do is say Jesus is lord and if you do then you are going to be recognized as a believer in him not that long ago there was a bus that was going around in our area here where it said on the bus i'll never forget it had uh an advertisement you know how you can buy space on buses and it drives to the city and it said say Jesus is lord and you will be saved and i'll never forget seeing that bus it was driving through say Jesus is lord and you shall be saved there are whole denominations that say that uh if you're saved you're going to stand up and they'll do this they'll stand up in the platform just like this on a sunday morning and the young people will walk up and they'll say Jesus Christ is lord because they believe that no one can call Jesus lord if they're not saved they take that out of 1st Corinthians 12 3 where paul says i make known to you that no one speaking by the spirit of god calls Jesus a curse and no one can say that Jesus is lord except by the holy spirit so over the years many have been confused over this one issue of confessing christ and they wonder about that i i've talked to as some of you uh who will speak to you and say they've spoken to me and they say well i have a friend or i have a relative and this person is opposed to god and i'm concerned for them but the thing that is confusing me is they went forward at an altar call or or or they were at a crusade or or they prayed a sinner's prayer but now they have no interest in god they're living sinfully and sometimes they even mock the faith of christ and so they'll ask me i've had this many times this is one of the questions i've been asked a lot of times aren't they saved because they went forward they prayed aren't they saved now again remember earlier jesus warned them concerning false prophets who would come and deceive them he issues a warning concerning deception a deception that is worse than a deception of a false prophet and what is it that is worse than the deception of a false prophet the thing that is worse than the deception of a false prophet is self-deception you're deceiving yourself you see churches this morning and this is not something i rejoice in saying it is a true statement it is a fact but churches this morning are filled filled with self-deceived people there are many cultural christians they fill pews but they're completely unsafe they attend church they live unrepentant lives there's no spiritual hunger they have no spiritual discipline and then they get confused when things aren't going well for them they're surprised i'm a christian why is god not blessing my life some think they are christian but they've never really thought deeply about what that means they haven't done any soul searching because in reality it's not that important to them that will result in them falling short of knowing the lord we need to soberly consider if we truly have a genuine relationship with jesus christ in psalm 119 verse 59 the psalmist said i thought about my ways and turned my feet to your testimonies i thought about my ways it's something i considered and i turned my feet to your testimonies in the old testament book of lamentations chapter 3 verse 40 let us search out and examine our ways and turn back to the lord so jesus is warning against the danger of said faith the danger of casual faith and he's challenging them to consider themselves make sure where you stand with the lord second carinthians 13 5 examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith test yourselves do you not know yourselves that jesus christ is in you unless indeed you are disqualified examine test see whether you're in the faith look at your own heart does jesus christ really reside there like the psalmist said in psalm 139 23 and 24 search me oh god know my heart try me know my anxieties see if there's any wicked way in me lead me in the way everlasting am i walking with the lord or am i self deceived self deception is demonstrated by saying but not doing saying that we're christians saying that he's the lord well that's not the same as living as if he really is jesus asked the question it's one of the more powerful questions you find it in in luke's 646 why do you call me a lord lord and do not the things which i say why do you speak me in that way why do you say to me what you're saying when in reality that's not true at all and roman 617 thanks be to god that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed why do you call me a lord lord and do not the things which i say americans have basically taken a model of education that that is like this it's like if i if i am able to take a test and repeat the things that the the professor has given to me answer enough questions right then i can get a diploma and that will prove that i'm educated that's the american system basically isn't it as long as i pass enough of the test as long as i repeat the things the professor thought was important for me to know and i can answer those questions um i get a diploma and ultimately i have my bachelors or masters or whatever and and i'm an educated person i have knowledge the jews didn't think like that that's why jesus would say it's more than saying it's the doing that's what he's saying here not everyone who says to me lord lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my father because in the way of thinking of the time of christ that even to this day true true knowledge is the the accumulation of information and then the assimilation of that information so that it produces a transformation of behavior i've heard it i've taken it in and it's changed the way i live so somebody could run around saying oh i know and they can quote now i've had conversations so have you over the years of people who will quote a scripture to you and they they know what the scripture says but jesus said it like this he said blessed it are you if you not only know this blessed are you if you do these things it's not that you're able to answer it's not an exam we're not going to stand before god he's not going to hand us a multiple choice kind of quiz to enter into the kingdom of heaven it's not going to be that way at all it's going to be is he really my lord and jesus said there are multitudes of people who say he is when in reality he's not you see today what happens is we've encouraged people to to what we would call a show of faith but sometimes we have encouraged them to a false show so we say raise your hand at an invitation we say pray walk an aisle and and people do but they don't truly repent there may be something motivating them they may be regretting something they've done a lot of people come to church on a sunday because they were they did some bad things on saturday and they feel terrible you know what i'm talking about they did some bad things they regret it they were caught or they're going to deal with something i have been in the ministry a long time and i've been there myself so yeah you go to church because man i feel terrible about what i've been and what i've done i regret it but i'm not repenting it's not like i turned from it it's that i feel bad i heard somebody's feelings or i stole something or i was so drunk or i'm i got a rest or whatever i i i i got i got to get some god i need help and so please i have prayed for people and and and the thing they were concerned about is lifted then i never see him again off they go back to what they were doing because they really didn't repent they simply felt bad i remember giving an invitation in this church many years ago not in this building in another one that we occupied and three people came forward it was an older woman a younger woman and a younger man and as i was looking at him the younger man had his hands in his pocket and he was he was obviously angry and the younger woman was kind of like what am i doing here and the older woman was standing a little bit behind him just staring at both of them really angry well i thought this is interesting you know what's going on here well i found out afterwards that was the mother she was mad at her son she said you need god get yourself up there right now and she marched them up the aisle i don't think he got saved but sometimes that happens you need god you need to get up there you go up there you give him a try no you don't give god a try you surrender to god you surrender to him you're not giving him a shot i'll let you prove yourself to me show me your god make my life better that's not how it works sometimes people understand grace in a wrong way they look at god's grace as being more freedom to continue in unrepentant sin grace is understood in contrast to god's justice it isn't permission to sin it's the strength to resist being in bondage to it it's not permission to continue paul said in romans chapter six one and two what shall we say then shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase by no means we died to sin how can we live in it any longer you see true conversion produces true christianity the evidence that you actually have been converted the evidence that you know the lord it's love it's love for jesus love for god's word love for other people jesus in john 14 15 said it like this he said if you love me keep my commandments in jeremiah 15 16 it says your words were found i ate them your word was to me the join rejoicing of my heart i am called by your name oh lord god of hosts john 15 12 this is my commandment that you love one another as i have loved you so when you get saved your life changes okay is it one day you're just a rowdy monster type the next day you're billy graham no you go to bed after going forward or praying or whatever it is you wake up the next morning and god begins that process of cleaning your life as you yield to him daily every day once again lord i'm just asking you to work in my life today you know sometimes sometimes we want people's lives to be cleaned up before they're even saved they're even saving and and for me something i was taught a long time ago was this you never clean a fish until you catch it and god has a way of catching us and then cleaning us and he cleanses us by the word of god he cleanses us through prayer he cleanses us by his spirit he cleanses us through the blood of jesus christ he cleanses us through godly fellowship he cleanses our lives in that fashion and so when you're saved you begin to love christ you love his commandments you love his word and and you love one another and and here's something for you a true christian cannot practice sin with satisfaction or joy can a true christian backslide yes can a true christian do some of the things they used to do in the past as a non christian yes um now then what are you saying i'm saying that you can't do that and enjoy it anymore you just can't why well because you're a christian because god's spirit resides within you because you sense a conviction a grief a sorrow because you say this is wrong i can't do this i was in i was a young man just got out of the service i went to um i was 22 years old i went to uh in sonata on cinco de mayo 1972 for three days i was so drunk i didn't even know where i was we drank two cases of beer before we got to the border there were three of us so we killed two cases of beer before we got to the border and then for the next two days it was a lost weekend i don't even remember what we did i was that bad i decided i'm just gonna you know i'm bored i'm tired and i got home my sister madeline sat in my parents house when i arrived i walked in and i was still i had i was still a little drunk we'd been drinking for three solid days she says how'd you enjoy yourself in uh mexico i had a great time man we and i started telling her the crazy things we did and then at the kitchen table i looked her in the eye and she's just kind of looking at me because i had led her to faith in christ and i started to weep i just broke down right there i still remember just crying at the table and putting my hands on my head and i am the most miserable man i am so lost i can't do this anymore i've got to get right with god i can't take this anymore i've walked away from the lord i went to church that night the evangelist gave a message gave an invitation i stood up and i said i'm gonna follow christ i don't want to go back to that way of life can a believer go back to the to the the slop that used to live in the vomit the dog returned to the vomit can yes you can but will you stay there no why well because pigs will go back to the mire and a dog will go back to the vomit because the dog is a dog and the pig is a pig but you're not a pig and you're not a dog you're a son or a daughter of god himself and the conviction of the spirit is so huge until you come back to faith in him how do i know that well it's not just my experience it's a word of god makes it very clear in first john three nine no one who is born of god will continue in sin because god's seed remains in him he cannot go on sinning because he's been born of god this is a holy spirit that convicts you and some of you perhaps i don't know i don't want to point a finger at anybody here but perhaps there are some here today that this is resonating with that you've been trying to live on both sides at the same time and god is saying choose this day who you're going to serve you cannot do both and you're miserable you need to get right with the lord in first john two three and four we know that we've come to know him if we obey his commandments the man who says i know him and doesn't do what he commands is a liar the truth's not in him and that's why Jesus said not everyone who says to me lord lord jail enter the kingdom see these people confess Jesus with their mouths they did not honor him with their lives now in verse 22 many will say to me in that day lord lord have we not prophesied in your name cast out demons in your name done many wonders in your name and then i will declare to them i never knew you depart from me you who practice lawlessness see the fact is that just because someone says something does it mean it's true the word lord was a common word during the time of jesus it was used as a title of respect but to address jesus's lord is different you are professing faith in christ in john 2028 thomas answered and said to him my lord and my god in romans 10 9 and 10 if you confess with your mouth jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead you'll be saved for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved you see there are religious people and that's who he's referring to they will say on that day we prophesied in your name these are people that might even have what is called a spirit field or a charismatic appearance of ministry how is it possible that they will say to him we prophesied in your name cast out demons in your name we did many wonders in your name the question has to be asked did these things actually happen how is it that they will say that to him they'll say we did these things in your name we prophesied cast out demons did miracles these are religious people they're claiming to be spirit filled well there's a couple answers one if genuine works actually happen in genuine works actually were performed it may be that these were just counterfeits empowered by satan himself can satan counterfeit well according to 2nd thessalonians 2 9 and 10 the coming of the lawless one will be in accordance to the work of satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracle signs and wonders every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing they perish because they refuse the love of the truth and so be saved and so yes is it possible that the enemy could counterfeit indeed and the second thing is more obvious they're just claims false claims they thought these things were actually taking place when in fact they really weren't they thought they were doing good works for christ in reality they weren't doing any any at all but they're using them as a way to say but we did this in your name and then what is he saying verse 23 as we conclude then i will declare to them i never knew you depart from me you who practice lawlessness depart from me listen carefully and we'll close with this i'm not going to ask you to raise your hand of course i wouldn't do that there's no need to we all would raise our hand if i asked this question if i said how many of you have been rejected in any time of your life all of us would raise our hand all of us have every one of us in one form or another has been rejected from relationship by a mom by a dad by a brother a sister an aunt an uncle a grandmother a grandfather a neighbor friend girlfriend boyfriend husband wife child all of us have right i mean not a single one of us has gone through life if you have gone through life without rejection i want to be your friend so i can reject you i mean every one of us every every one of us has been rejected we weren't chosen for the team we didn't make it in the office we were running for i mean you can name it all of us has all of us not a single person in this room has ever gone through life without being rejected that's just the way it is you applied for a college they didn't take you applied for a job they didn't take you you were rejected some more severely than others some were abandoned some were hurt some have gone through emotional pain that nobody can understand other than god himself that's a fact we know that emotional pain that nobody can understand except god himself he was Jesus himself does understand by the way he was rejected by man he was rejected he understands that's one of the reasons why you can love him so much because he didn't reject you he loves you never forget that please never forget that he didn't reject you i will never never never never leave you nor forsake you that's a promise from god he loves you never forget that that's what keeps you going in the dark hour that's what keeps you going in the pain moment it's knowing though my father and my mother reject me you will lift me up you never reject me and that has kept me going for years and years and years let me tell you about rejection real rejection isn't when someone didn't want you on the team somebody didn't hire you for the job you didn't make it into the college or husband and wife didn't want you anymore real rejection is when you hear the lord jesus christ say depart from me you don't want to hear that that's rejection that's rejection that is the most serious form of rejection i never knew you wait a minute i prophesied in your name i cast out demons in your name i did wonders in your name no i never never never knew you you and i had no relationship you only said that you knew me but you didn't do what i commanded that's rejection you don't want to go through that you don't want to go through that here's something for all of us do you really know the lord really do you hunger for him do you pray do you read his word do you really love him i'm not i'm not trying to condemn you please forgive me it sounds that way even as i say it it's it's a soul searching examine your heart search your soul is he really that important if not then right now we can say oh lord forgive me i've gotten i've gotten confused in life and i've i've walked away from what i know is true forgive me and you know what forgiveness is an instant away it's a confessional way but i wonder how many in this room think that you're christian because you're like me because you were went through religious upring like i did you don't have to been raised catholic that's just my testimony you could have been raised in a baptist church a methodist church presbyterian church pencostal church it doesn't matter do you have a relationship with christ because i'm telling you as i read this book here jesus said one of these days he's going to say depart from me i never knew you there was never even a time when you claimed to really had a relationship with me and then then you walked away from no we never knew one another you never confessed to me you never received me you never were born again and now you are forever lost the bible tells us in revelation 20 verse five anyone not found written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire that is gospel that's a fact you don't have a chance at that point to excuse yourself you don't have a chance at that point to give the reasons why you had such a bad time no it's just you and god see so for me i take this very seriously and i want to close on a serious note with that you need to know whether or not you're right with god that's my my prayer for all of us beginning with me to walk with god to walk with god until god takes us and we see him face to face and we hear him say oh well done my good my faithful servant till we hear him say enter into the joy of your lord it's been prepared for you from the foundation of the world enter in you don't know what i went through jesus oh yes i do because i walked with you every step and i kept you every step because i loved you every step thank you jesus thank you or you can say i went to church i was in calvary chapel you said that's why you're going to hell i went to church but you weren't the church you just went and there's a difference we need to know if we are the church not just that we go to a church are you the church


Hey everybody, this is Brett and today I'm excited to show you this brand new 2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 2-Door. This is stock number 24J166. I'm here at Summit Automotive. I'm going to go all the way around in this video on this Jeep Wrangler. This has the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine. It's paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. It's going to get you 20 miles per gallon on the Highway 16 city for an average of 18 miles per gallon. It has 285 horsepower, 260 foot-pounds of torque. I'm also going to go over all the things that are new for 2020 on this particular Jeep Wrangler. So let's get right into it. If you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel. Really appreciate that. Click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having access to one of the largest Wrangler walk-around video catalogs on YouTube. So, in 2024, they made the LED headlamps, running lights, and fog lights standard on the Rubicon package as well as the Sahara. And it's an option on the Sport S and Sport package. So LED fog lamps, running lights, and headlights there. They've also redesigned this grille. It's a little bit narrower. It's actually, it used to be as big as that black piece. What they did is they added this black piece, shrunk the grille, painted part a little bit, and just gives it a little sleeker look there. This one has the granite crystal headlight bezels as well as the seven-slotted grille outlines there. You get the sport hood on this one. This one has the plastic fenders and bumpers. The red tow hooks part of that Rubicon package. You're going to get BF Goodrich all-terrain TA KO2 tires. These are LT28570R17s. And it comes with the satin black painted alloy wheels with the machine-finished lips on there. Definitely an all-terrain tread pattern on there as well. You get the Rubicon decals on the hood. If you didn't like those, you could take those off. New for 2024, there is no more metal antenna. They got rid of it. They replaced it with this trail-rated badge because the antennas are all now in the windshield. And all of these windshields on the Rubicons and Sport Ss and Saharas and Rubicon X, of course, the 392, as well are all the Gorilla Glass. The Rubicon package gives you the rock rails right there. And you get the T50 on the doors to take these doors off. We did a demo on how to take your doors off your jail. Very popular video, linked in the description below in the upper right-hand part of the screen. You get four-wheel disc brakes on all of the Wranglers. This one has the black hardtop, three-piece hardtop. The LED tail lamps as well. This one does have a towing package with the receiver hitch four-pin and seven-pin wiring. And you get the red tail hook back here as well. Matching spare tire and wheel. Take a quick look at the back here. You get the case for the front hardtop pieces. These seats fold down and then they fold up for better storage. And you can remove these. We did a demo on how to take those seats out. If you want to check that out, that's in the upper right-hand part of the screen and linked in the description below. And then it has the three-piece hardtop.  There's three bolts on the bottom. One on the top and so eight total and then two quick disconnects. We did a demo on how to take your hardtop off of your two-door Wrangler as well. This one also has the all-weather subwoofer in it. So it has the Alpine premium sound system. You lose a little bit of storage with that subwoofer. But you also have areas for door hinge, roof, and windshield bolt holders there as well. And then these seats come down like so. Grab the strap and pull it up and you're all set to go. One little Easter egg here. You get these seven slots on the rear gate. And then it does come with the JL badge. All these Wranglers have this JL badge. Two-door, four-door wheelbase and overall length. And water-forting as well is where it's developed and built in. These doors are a lot lighter than the old JKs.  You get the black fuel door cap on there. That looks really good. Let me know what you think of this color scheme in the comments below. Sarge green, really popular color from what I have seen on the Wranglers. This one has the heated power mirrors. Also has the enter and go system. You just have to have the key fob in your pocket. Put your hand in there and it'll automatically unlock. Inside the Rubicon package, it says it's black. I think it looks more charcoal. And we're going to get to that window sticker in just a second. You get the Rubicon stitched into the backrest and down the sides of the seat. Driver's seat height adjuster, lumbar, factory floor mats, auto headlamps. New for 2024 is this little badge here with the Gladiator and Wrangler back to back. Power mirrors, power locks. You get this kind of Gore-Tex material on the dash. This is new for 2024 in this red piece right there. The other thing for 2024 as we hop inside the vehicle is that the leather has changed just slightly on the steering wheels. It's more of a soft touch leather. It's a little bit stiffer, but it's very smooth and really nice leather on there. Cruise control, adaptive cruise controls, Bluetooth and information center controls. The instrument cluster is the same from 2023. 7-inch LCD display, Rubicon animation at the beginning there. You get a digital spinometer and all that good stuff. The next thing that is new for 2024 is this 12.3 Uconnect 5 touchscreen radio. This one is wireless Android Auto Apple CarPlay. This one also has the factory navigation system on it. This is the Uconnect 5 and this is supposed to be five times faster than the old Uconnect 4 system. That is new. Of course, with this new radio they had to change the layout of the dash. You get these vents on the bottom here. They used to be circle vents on the side of the 8.4 or the 7-inch radio or whichever one you had. Now they have this wide radio. This is the standard radio all the way from the Sport to the Rubicon X to the Rubicon 392. Exact same radio. The only difference is if it has nav or not. Then you get all your different apps on here. I'm not going to go through everything, but I will just show you what they are. A lot of this stuff is just linking to other parts of the radio. You get off-road pages, your backup cam, which is pretty nice. They made those HDs, so they're crystal clear. You have the front camera on this one. The trail cam, those lines are dynamic, meaning that as I turn the steering wheel, it kind of gives you an idea of where your tires are going to be in the future. So if you are doing a lot of off-roading, you want to make sure you're not going to hit that rock, or maybe you want to hit the rock at a certain angle. This would help you get lined right up with that, or whatever may be in your path. We'll check out the off-road pages in just a second.  Steering angle. You can see as I turn the steering wheel that angle changes. The wheels actually up top change as well on the display. Sway bar if it's connected, or disconnected front axle if it's locked, or unlocked, same thing with the rear axle. Latitude, longitude, altitude, on there you get your accessory gauges, pitch and roll, and then of course you can go back to that front camera. The other thing that has changed on the dash is this piece up here used to be just one kind of like holder, and now that it's two, just so it's a little bit more symmetrical I think. Another little Easter egg that we have is the seven slots right above the mirror. That's kind of neat. Everything below this is a carryover from 2023, so nothing new there. This one has heated seats, heated steering wheels, start-stop capabilities, stability control, and I did forget to mention this one has AM, FM, and Serious X7 radio capabilities on it, as well as Bluetooth and Alexa on there as well. Down here is a USB, USB-C, and AUX jack. Speed select, crawl control down here. This is what makes a Rubicon a Rubicon.  Four auxiliary up-fit switches, part of the tow package, 4x4 shifter, your 8-speed automatic transmission. It does have a Jeep on the top there. You get the same keys as before with the flipper key, remote start on there as well, nice chunky key fob. I always know which key I'd be having in your pocket. You get that Gore-Tex finish on the dash there as well. The other thing that is new for 2024, and this is a big deal. This is a safety issue. They put side curtain airbag standard on the 2024 Wranglers, so great job Jeep. There's that front hardtop pieces.  Assistant SLS buttons, Auto Demi-Mir, Home Link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, and you could get the Gorilla Glass before on the Wranglers, that's an option. Now on the Rubikons and Saharas and Sport S's it's standard, so just one thing that's new for 2024 there. And then your map lights have changed. They used to be a big square right here, and now they're kind of separated, and the speakers are in different positions. I'm sure that's all because of that, of those side curtain airbags that they put in here. So that's really all that's new on the interior of the vehicle. What I'm going to do is I'm going to turn on all the lights, and we'll do a final walk around on this Wrangler. Right after I take a look at the original Windows sticker, because I did promise that I would go through that. It's going to be linked in the description below this Windows sticker. There'll be a link to it on our website. So feel free to click that, or you can check it out right here. So for 2024 Wrangler 2-Door Rubicon V6, 8-speed automatic transmission, everything is your standard equipment on the left-hand side here, including the UConnect 5 12.3-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Google Android Auto, SiriusXM 8 speakers, and then your optional equipment starts with the Sarge Green Clear Coat 595 convenience group, which gives you the heated seats, heated steering wheel, and remote start is $19.95. Technology group is $22.95, which gives you the Alpine Premium Sound System with that subwoofer, HD Radio GPS navigation, connected travel and traffic services, UConnect 5 NAV with the 12.3-inch touchscreen integrated voice command and integrated off-road camera. 8-speed automatic transmissions, $4,500, and the black 3-piece hardtop is $16.95. Those wheels are $1,095 option, and your total MSRP is $60,865. To get your summit price with all the rebates and incentives and, you know, things you may qualify for, in the upper right-hand-part screen is a link to our website, also linked in the description below. Three-year 36-bumper-to-bumper, five-year 60-power train. There's the miles per gallon, and not really rated for a lot of safety ratings. Except, roll over. All right, as promised, let's do a final walk-around. I'm going to turn off all the lights in the picture studio here so you can see just how bright these lights are. Give me one second. So you can see just how bright those lights are, and this is about as dark as it's ever going to get in the picture studio. Our detail department, which is right behind here, is all the lights are completely off in there, so this is as dark as this room is going to get, and you can see just how bright those lights are. They go out very nice and wide, nice bright white color to them, really like the LED light group on the Wranglers now, especially now that they're standard. You get the LED tail lamps, they look really good as well, and very distinctive shape to those. You also get the LED license plate light. All right, so that is everything with this particular Jeep Wrangler 2-door Rubicon in Sarge Green Clearcoat. Let me know what you think of the color and options on this one in the description below. Let me know what you liked about the video, what you didn't like about the video, what was your favorite part of the video, and I can always work on making my videos better for all the viewers out there. And if you want to see more pictures of this Jeep, or one of other 550 new and used cars, trucks, SCVs, minivans, Wranglers, you name it, we got to go to the website right there, summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle, all at summitauto.com. 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So, after understanding the concept of dryness fraction, what is the dryness fraction and how to calculate? Let us now have a tutorial on dryness fraction, for which this tutorial is there on dryness fraction. The question is, find a state of a system, find a state of a closed system containing water substance of given mass as mentioned below. Apply the zone in which the point lies and properties V, U, H and S as appropriate. Also comment on its quality, which is a dryness fraction if applicable. So, basically depending on whatever has been given, for example, your question number 1 is mass 1 kg, property has been given as 0.6, while property 2 has been given as 10 bar. That means for a given pressure and given dryness fraction, find out where this state lies, at the same time find out the properties V, U, H and S at those properties, at that particular thermodynamic state. So, first problem is mass has been given, the fact that the X has been given, we know that it is wet steam and the property has been given as 10 bar. So, I know pressure therefore, what would I do? I will first go to the steam table and see table number 2, where the pressure is the base. So, let us come to this is my question, the first question is mass is given, one property has 10 bar and X has been given as 0.6. So, these two parameters have been given, we will have to find out the values of V, U, H and S. So, let us go to table number 2 and locate pressure is equal to 10 bar and find out the properties at that particular location. Can we see table number 2? So, 10 bar is 1 MPa, this is the table on this table, this is 1 MPa alright. So, at 1 MPa, write down all the values first, what has been given is X is equal to 0.6. So, we will require both the parameter Hf and Hg, Sf and Sg, Uf and Ug alright as given over here. So, Vf, Vg, Uf, Ug, Hf, Hg, Sf, Hg all these parameters are required, please note those parameters and let us go to the solving of the problem now. So, question 1, what is given to us is X is equal to 0.6 and P is equal to 10 bar or 1 MPa. So, from table 2, we could get that Vf is equal to 0.0011273 meter cube per kg and Vg is equal to 0.19436 meter cube per kg. So, simple is I know Vfg is equal to Vg minus Vf which is equal to 0.1932 meter cube per kg alright. Now, I will have a simple formula V is equal to Vf plus X time Vfg alright, I will just write the value of Vf and Vg, X is equal to 0.6, so we say Vf is equal to 0.0012723 plus 0.6 into 0.1932, this is equal to 0.117066 meter cube per kg alright. Similarly, this is the value of V that we got, similarly I can do S is equal to Sf plus X time Sfg, H is equal to Hf plus X time Hfg and U is equal to Uf plus X time Ufg, I will get all these values from table 2 for Uf and Ufg and get that S is equal to 4.8 kilo joule per kg Kelvin, H is equal to 1971.28 kilo joule per kg and U is equal to 1854.176 kilo joule per kg and the mass that was given to us was 1 kg. So, I will just multiply this parameters by 1 kg and then get the value of S as 4.8 kilo joule per Kelvin, H is equal to 1971.28 kilo joule and U is equal to 1854.176 kilo joules alright, so this will be my answer to this question. So, I can come back here now and put those properties and the results that we got alright. So, these are the results now, V is equal to so many meter cube, U is equal to 1854, H is equal to 1971 and S is equal to 4.806 alright. So, importantly is when X is given I know that the two phase and therefore, we have to go to table 1 or table 2, get Vf and Vfg, Uf and Ufg, F and Hfg, Sf and Sfg and get those values.


Amazonian biodiversity is under threat due to weakened policies against deforestation in Brazil, leading to the destruction of animal and plant species, increased risk of emerging infectious diseases, and climate change. Indigenous communities, riverine and urban populations, and the planet itself are all affected by this deforestation. The Amazon plays a key role in regulating the earth's climate, which can be further exacerbated by deforestation and its effects on emerging infectious diseases. Researchers have identified several potential solutions to mitigate deforestation and reduce the risk of emerging infectious diseases. This article was authored by Joel Enrique L. Wenger, Bruna Cullman-Leal, Valria L. Kaminsky and others.


Your teacher has gone over what it needs to include, but the topic choice is yours. What should you talk about? How do you figure this out? How do you keep from panicking and giving the worst speech of your life? Relax. We'll help. There are three common techniques for generating topic ideas – brainstorming, mind mapping, and free writing. We'll go over each one, along with some additional tips, and give you time to practice. By the end of this module, you'll find that it's easy to find good ideas so you can nail your next speech. Brainstorming is where you spontaneously think and write down every idea you have in order to answer a question. For instance, you may think, what should I do my speech on? And then for the next two minutes, you'll list every idea you have. Leave nothing out, no matter how ridiculous. You never know where inspiration may come from. Brainstorming gives you a list you can choose your topic from. A mind map is a visual diagram of one idea. It comes in handy when you've picked a topic but don't know how much you know about it. Unlike brainstorming where everything is a randomly generated idea, a mind map lets you link and categorize your ideas around a central concept or subject. For instance, if you wanted to give a speech on restaurants, your mind map may look like this. You've generated the types of restaurants you'd like to talk about and the kinds of food each one serves. A mind map shows you how everything you know is related so you can start organizing your information. Free writing is just that. Using a pen and paper or your computer, set your timer for five minutes or so and free write anything in sentence and paragraph form. You may start with something like, I think I should do my speech on dogs because I have two of them and they're far superior to cats. Cats are great and interesting but… and just keep going until your timer runs out. Free writing makes it easy for ideas to flow but also keeps them organized. Let's practice. Pick one of the three idea generators. Write down anything and everything related to the topic on dogs, even if it's a bit crazy. Ready? Press pause to stop the video and write your list. Press play when you're ready to continue on. Times up? What does your list look like? Is it full of ideas? If not, don't worry. This takes practice. Try it again and see how it goes. Once you've picked your general topic, we have a few suggestions for how to narrow it down into something that can be covered in a short speech. We recommend… Research. Find out what others have said on your topic. Journalistic questioning. Start organizing your content by asking yourself who, what, where, when, how and why. And ask a professional. Interview an expert in the field to see what they think is interesting or what people should know. If you're still stuck and don't know how to narrow down your topic, consider your audience. Who are they and what do they know about your topic? What would they find interesting? What could they learn? What kind of visuals would they appreciate? And what do you want them to walk away from your speech knowing? Say you're giving a speech on why everyone should spend the weekend outdoors. Your audience is your class. Spend the next 30 seconds writing down what they might like to know. Still wait. Press pause to stop the video and write your list. Press play when you're ready to continue on. This is our list. How does it compare to yours? It's okay if it's not the same. All audiences are different. What's important is considering their point of view as you write makes your speech stronger. Finally, as you work, make sure you've documented your sources. Writing down what you're reading while you conduct your research or interview helps you create an accurate bibliography. Not documenting a source is called plagiarism. Now that you have your topic, you can begin writing a draft of your speech. Remember, everyone has great ideas, but until they're written down, they don't exist. Ideas can quickly turn to forgotten memories. Begin writing early and make note of everything, even if it seems unimportant now. You never know where that next gem will come from. That's it for now. You're all set to generate ideas for your next speech. Keep in mind that these techniques can work just as well for a research paper or class assignment.  You've completed thinking about a topic generating an idea.


Welcome to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Katharine Norr. Today we're talking about eSports Live, returning to in-person events. With me today are Ari Fox and Ben Fox, the principals of GammaCon and the Castino eSports conference. Welcome gentlemen. Great. Thank you. Thank you for having us, Katharine. It's great to be here. We're excited to talk to you again. Right. Yeah. You know, Ari has been here. He's my, the guest that's been on my show the most. So he has that honor and, but we're happy to welcome Ben too. And first of all, Ari, tell us about GammaCon. What is GammaCon? GammaCon is a, well, it really stands for something. It stands for a game arts conference. And at the end of the day, really what it is, it's a, it's a conference about the cultural connection to video gaming. We start with indie games, which is the, which is the art and the creation of the gaming world to start with because without developers, independent developers, we wouldn't have games. We wouldn't have the games that are the popular games that we have today. So, so it really goes to connecting to that, to the cultural attachments that people have to the eSports world and then to the game, video gaming world, but overall it's everything. It's not just a creation aspect of it, but how do you express yourself as a gamer? You know, can you come in as a, as a cosplayer and dress up as like the character that's behind me from Valorant? Or can you come and, and, you know, you know, as you're, and play with your friends and connect with them? It also includes other things besides just video gaming itself. We have Magic the Gathering tournaments, eSports tournaments. We have influencers that come in and talk. We recently just had a game of con in August at Agua Caliente. We had Victoria, Victoria Taylor, Veronica Taylor. Sorry, she was the voice of Ash Ketchum. But Ash, Ash Ketchum and Pokemon are anime products. But that is also part of the culture of a video gamer. It's the connecting to everything that millennials and Gen Z's have to connect to starting with video gaming and then branching it out from there. Okay. Ben, why don't you tell us about the Casino eSports conference? Well, we started the Casino eSports conference over five years ago. We're going on our sixth year actually. And today is the, is the day actually where we're announcing the fact that we're going into one on the, I'm going to kill myself here, which is actually for our sixth one, which is going to be March 23rd and 24th in Las Vegas coming up 2022. Okay. We just finished one actually. And the purpose or the way, the reason why we created the Casino eSports conference in the first place was because of the entire kind of philosophy behind gamers and the gaming community and basically all of the new generations now. I mean, the most important thing that we learned while doing Game of Con and, you know, all the other things related to gaming was that this is a community driven entertainment, you know, offering that gaming, that video gaming, whether it's, you know, VR or any form, even if somebody plays Candy Crush as a gamer. Okay. So, you know, from that to even more competitive gaming, which we call eSports, which by the way makes up a, not the biggest portion of the video gaming culture, but yet a lot of people sort of gravitate towards that. We felt that we needed to create an event that teach, specifically it started as the Casino industry, how to sort of, you know, start working together with the video gaming industry and culture. And that was missing. And a lot of people didn't understand how to, you know, merge the two. And I heard one of your speakers before on another show that you had done. And they mentioned that at this point right in time, it's very hard to get both the corporate world to really actually understand the video gaming world and the culture and how to monetize or make some kind of connection to make it work for them. And my brother and I have spent a lot of time, energy and sort of collecting a lot of information to be able to help and people to be able to help facilitate the future of the casino in general. And we feel that without this component that it's, there will be a great detriment in, I should say, the wagering or gambling world and or just in the entertainment casino industry. So we felt it was necessary to put on a show where we could, you know, sort of help people get started in just that and approaching and getting in. And we've come very far since our first event and COVID kind of really made it difficult for us. The last one that we did, we had to do a hybrid event, but we actually pulled it off and we were very happy about that. And now we're going into our next one. Hopefully it will be packed and live for the most part. Well, you know, and that's really what we're here to talk about today is that idea of going after all this time where we've, you know, done everything on virtually.  I mean, how is that really happening now? Ari, what are your thoughts on that? Well, you know, we had, we did, as I said, we did the one inaugural client in August. It was the height of Delta in August. There were, you know, Palm Springs as it is in the summertime is like, people have cleared out because it's 120 degrees. It's pretty much an oven. But we all, we followed all the CDC guidelines. Everybody wore masks. They were six foot distancing. And then there's other ways of doing things as well. Some of the other B2B events are using an app called clear. Where you can put down your vaccinated status or a, a negative test result.  At this point though, you know, the pandemic is in my opinion, I think we're hearing less and less about it in the mainstream media and the mainstream news. Because there's only at this last I checked was, which was a week or two ago, there's only 66 million people in the United States that are remaining unvaccinated.  So, I mean, we're kind of at a point, I think we're, we're going to be okay. And I think, and I believe I know that, you know, going into the next year in 2022, these are going to be very safe. I was just at an event in Atlantic City Monday and Monday and Tuesday. So, and everyone had the risks and you have to put your QR code and they give you that wristband and everyone's been vaccinated. So, where is the virus going to go? It can't. So I think that we're sort of turning this corner and in a lot of ways it's the new normal that you would wear a mask, but we're all cognizant of the fact of not just now COVID, but also wearing flu season. So people will wear their masks for flu season. It gives us that other opportunity to realize that you're not, you know, you can always catch something, but if you want to take that extra step, you know, we've gotten used to wearing masks. It's not an unusual thing. I agree. Yeah. You know, Hawaii, we have a 71% vaccination right now. And I think we'll start having more live events than, you know, things are going to open up a lot more. And, you know, hopefully people will be more comfortable flying. But, you know, let me ask you, Ben, is there still room for hybrid events now that people have gotten used to it? You know, do you want to offer that option? Or do you want to say, Hey, you've got to come here. Otherwise you'd go get the opportunity. No, I think staying in that second half staying in that mindset where you are just strictly having bodies show up to a location is not. Will not exist in the future. I think there's nothing but this. So if anything, it's forced our hand in trying to come up with a way to have somebody in, you know, halfway around the world be able to attend event without having to get on a plane anyway. And that's important because we are a one world sort of society and we're actually moving more and more towards that. So it is important. They're both important. I mean, on the one hand, it's very important to press the flesh. You know, it always has been. And in this case, bump a fist, you know, because people just don't want any other people's terms. So I can understand that there's always that aspect, but there's also the informational side, which they do need to get. And when we ran our last event, we videotaped and live streamed everything, even, even at our own expense and cost to do it. Because it's all at the end of the day, eventually they need to show up and meet that purse. Okay. It really do. There's nothing like sitting across from somebody face to face and, you know, seeing their facial expressions or anything else like that. So you're going to have both and the people that can adapt to both are going to find that they're not only, and they not attract more attendees, but they're also going to be in a situation where, you know, the new, the new people that want to participate in these events are so used to this kind of format that they're not going to do anything else.   And they hang out together with each other, even during COVID that was happening. So, you know, the generations that are emerging, they're still going to expect this same kind of behavior. Sure. And, you know, what's really interesting is that my, me and my partner for North sports risk management, we did, we attended, well, she attended in person event, an event in Virginia and I, we gave a presentation and I was virtual and it worked out really well. I think we're going to, it allows events to have presenters from all over the world and, but also have that opportunity for people to be in person.  Right. What did you think about doing that versus doing live versus having just, you know, kind of the regular zoom type thing? Well, I think what we had there was, was, I liked it. It was very interactive. We had some issues. Our company that we were using was sort of a, only a year or two old, but there were a lot of companies that were also just forming because of the pandemic. And so we did have some people dropping out of the, out of the matrix and they're like floating in the air, things like that that happened. But I loved the ability to walk around as an avatar, to go to the fishing hole and have a conversation and meet people that way. It was very, from all the experiences that I had being on other virtual conferences, it definitely had a better impact. However, that still does not replace the human interaction that you could have because you're dealing with an avatar. You can hear the person's voice. You can see them dance. You can see them fish. You can see them do all the things, but everybody can do that same thing. So we're not individualized.  So it's a, it's a great opportunity to, I think it was the, it was, it was above what all the other virtual conferences that I had attended that year had done. And we needed to do that because as, as we are connected to the video gaming world, we have to have that as part of our, as part of our connection to that world. I think if anything, the pandemic moved us in a place that pushed us to a, this hybrid idea that pushed us to much more of the concept or you've probably been hearing the word metaverse in, you know, a lot. It's gotten us to this place of that ready player one movie that we saw in 2016 by Steven Spielberg. It's gotten us to more of that place. And that's part of the culture. That's part of the integration and social abilities of that cult of the video gaming culture that we're not going to see go away. That's going to stay. That's inevitable. And that's, yeah. Yeah. And you know, Ari, that, that conference was very memorable to me, probably more memorable than almost any conference I've ever attended because it was really cool for the very first time and struggling to figure it out, but to go into the virtual environment in my avatar, then to speak on a panel and then to go fishing with fatality and you, and you know, learn how to do virtual fishing and chat. And that was really fun and memorable. And, but on the other hand, I am kind of anxious to meet people in person. And I kind of envy those people that are at those conferences in person, because I know they're really having fantastic engagement. Now, then what advice would you give to event planners when they're looking about going back to in person events, whether it's an esports tournament or whether it's some kind of other event. Well, I have to say from the gaming perspective or at least from the events that we were on from Game of Con. I mean the, the current population and I'm going to have to say if gamers, which you know, the average age is like 35, right? So now they're getting older now way older. So I mean, and that being considered that general, you know, without making too many sort of, you know, just like pigeonholing them or anything else like that, that cultural concept is like already said, they're already very aware. They grew up sort of in a pandemic. So they're aware of how to behave, what to act, what to do, what to expect. And so from their perspective, when you have live events, we find it's not as difficult as it is from the business standpoint event. And I've told you this before I was speaking to you about it, the companies themselves that are sort of being very conservative about how they send their people, what they send them to, and everything else like that is what is sort of the stumbling block or the slow down in, in what we see as far as business going forward and, and you know, aggressing even more. But what I'd say event planners are people that are, you know, wanting to do what they normally do or it worked for them in the past is, you know, get with the program because it's not, this is not going away. Learn how to do it or speak to people that have already done it and try to incorporate it in some way and figure it out. It's not seamless. It has problems.  It was a three, it was a 3D environment that technically could have been VR, which is really kind of where we need to head. But you still need the live events, even with VR, you will still need them. I mean, you know, everybody speaks to their parents or their friends, their relatives on Zoom or link or Skype or something like that. We're used to that. But, but there's going to come a point, oh, what are you visiting? Oh, so you have to make that visit. There's just, it's just the way it is. But we do, but the good news is, I mean, now we have an extra tool. So now we can progress even faster because now we can communicate with each other in an okay way that's pretty close to reality, but not yet there. And it'll take years before that happens. That's where we get into the metaverse conversation is that, you know, you can then jump into a metaverse with your family and you can, you know, we'll have body suits and you'll be able to touch and feel and, you know, all that stuff. So, you know, it's kind of, you know, I, I, you know, I want to get back to the thing about live events though, Catherine, because I don't know if I've ever told you this, but we have had at the Game of Concept, we've been running since 2015, three marriages come out of three people, three different couples met at our events. There were two of them, I think were actual exhibitors and people who participated as exhibitors. And one were people who came as attendees, but we had three marriages come from the Game of Concept. So that speaks volumes as to why people will eventually need to come out and be in an in-person event. And like I said, the Agua Caliente where we did it, the peak of a delta, we did get a very, very good turnout, which is, which is, which says a lot about people.  They don't want to be stuck at home anymore. They want to go out. They want to be with people because we're social. We are social animals at the end of the day. That's part of our DNA. There's nothing you can do to get rid of that. Right. But from an operation standpoint, people are still, the people who are putting on events are still kind of in the dark a little bit. It's very hard to do. They don't really know. I mean, look, we did that, that 3D event and I have to tell you, we took two days and countless videos and tutorial time just to get people to move their joysticks and move their characters. I mean, and we're dealing with people that really don't even know how to delete an app on their phone.  You felt a little too much time to learn how to fish or something like that.  You know, so they, and I have to say that the technology itself is still infantile in the sense that there are too many movements and that was very hard to translate to, to, it needs to be more universal, more user friendly, more, all those other things have to come into play. But you know what, we've got to give it time. This is just the beginning and it's the beginning of something new and exciting. And there are a lot of people that are resisting it and they want to go back to the old ways. They want to just only do what they're, what they're used to doing because that's their model. But this is the future and they need to embrace it and figure out how to work with it. Right. And I will note that I have met lifelong friends at conferences and conventions. Some of my favorite people that I've ever met have been someone I've met at an international conference that I've, you know, only seen in that environment that we go to all these different conferences all over the world. And so it's an important environment for me because I know how important it is to meet those conference friends that are, that share that same interest. Now I understand before we wrap up, Ari, I understand you went to an event and, and actually were quoted in many newspapers. Associated press, actually. Oh, right, right. Okay. Tell us about that, Ari. You know, I, it was a conference that it's the, it's East Coast Gaming Congress, but it's about, it was a, it's a, it's a casino conference.  And really what the quote was all about was, you know, to understand or make the casinos understand that they crunch numbers all day long. They have people that crunch numbers. They're 2.7 billion gamers or 3.5 billion gamers. And there's a 10% of the esports industry. That's 10, you know, 10% is competitive gamers. It's numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers. And it's also watching and observing young people and what they do and how they interact with the products that are being placed out into the, you know, for video gaming and esports and wagering on esports. And what my, what was about, what I was sort of saying is that you know them so well, meaning the corporations know the younger generation so well. The problem is the younger generations don't know you. And that is a problem because at the end of the day, younger people want to trust the companies that they're working with.  You know, they want to know that when you started your company, you did it from the heart and that you were doing it as a way to connect with them on a cultural level. And that's why GamerCon is going to be a very big name. It is already. I mean, a lot of people on gamers know about it, but it's going to just continue to grow because that started as grassroots. It started as we're doing this for the community. We're not doing this for our own benefit. We're doing it because we want the community to thrive and to grow. Perfect. Okay. So Ben, before we wrap up, what is coming up for GamerCon and the EC? Well, you know, we are goal, the fact that R is on the East Coast and I'm on the West Coast is not a mistake. We're actually trying to develop. Sort of a incorporated universal idea of this so that whether on the West or East, you can attend to GamerCon and participate in everything like that. So we have our GamerCons are right now we're scheduling them that will be posted up soon. As far as the dates, but I would check or just go to the GamerCon website, which is just GamerCon G A M E A or R. And then C O N for conference.com and check out when the dates are or at least register either on there or on the Facebook. And then we can basically get you the information as we get it. And as far as the CC goes, we're taking a different approach this year. We're doing it a little earlier in the year. We don't want to ride alongside of the other casino events that are going on, which are traditionally in September, October. So traditionally, we were always right after Labor Day, but we're moving this year because. We feel that in, you know, if we, if we do it closer to the middle of the year or the beginning of the year, it actually will give a lot of people the ability to get something moving and done before the end of the year. Yeah, that's a great idea. Anything to add Ari. Yeah, so you can find information on the casino e-sport conference at casino e-sport. And then no, and then C O N S.com. There are some tentative dates that they may change that are up there now. We're working on a venue currently in Atlantic City for, for GamerCon to come back as that's where we started. And Ben is working on some, some, some venues for GamerCon on the West Coast in California, maybe even Las Vegas. So we may have a lot of game of cons coming up and we're really excited about it, not just that we plan on doing a lot other things with GamerCon in the very near future. Fantastic. Well, thank you very much for joining us today. Ben and Ari. Thank you for having us. Thank you very much. And so thank you to our viewers for joining us today. Next week, my guest will be Jason McIntosh of GG circuit. See you then.