okay welcome back okay so we are in chapter 14 the power and blessings of the cross let's look at the next point on the cross Jesus Christ broke sin's power over our lives Romans 6 and verse 6 very powerful words let's read that Romans 6 and 6 knowing this that our old man was crucified with him that the body of sin might be done away with that we should no longer be slaves of sin the body of sin should be done away with because we should no longer be slaves to sin what is a slave when the master says go here and do that he has to do it right you have to sit the whole night and clean this entire house he has to do it right because he's a slave now slave to sin means whenever the devil is telling you know you are this you are this you do this you do that if we keep doing it what happens we become a slave to sin but the Bible verse says in Romans 6 6 we were slaves to sin but now that is broken off we're no longer a slave to sin we sing that song no no longer slaves but I am a child of God identity and we were in Christ so that when Christ died our old man died with him on the cross when we say the older man especially in the book of Romans the man refers to our sinful nature right the old man our sinful nature therefore if anyone is in Christ he's a new creation all things have passed away the sinful nature the moment Jesus died on the cross and you and I believe in that okay Jesus I believe that you died on the cross for me and your blood forgives all my sins I accept you as my personal savior that moment our sin nature is crucified on the cross what is the sin nature death death came into the world because of sin that moment that sin nature that we live in is crucified on the cross then comes Romans 12 1 and 2 so be not be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind right believers not living in sin nature because it's crucified on the cross but we have to transform we must not conform ourselves to this world but be transformed in our mind right as a believer you do not have a sinful nature because this old nature sinful nature has been crucified on the cross so that the power of sin over our lives is broken and we are no longer slaves to sin now we may say to ourselves but this sin is too much it is too difficult I'm not able to come out of this you know it's a bondage it's just there I love Jesus I love going to church I listen to his word every day I pray every day but this little sin is not getting out of my life what should I do everything is alright I believe in Jesus I know that he's resurrected again God has blessed me you know I go to church I volunteer in church I get opportunity to preach also in church sometimes I'm a leader in the church everything is okay but this small area in my life not able to let go it's there it's still there that means what saying we are not standing on what Jesus did on the cross everything else is okay but this area no remember there is no sin that the blood of Jesus cannot wipe away right everything was done on the cross so we must know this we must know that hey if this is a sin that is you know keeping me in bondage I'm being a slave to sin the Bible says I'm not a slave so I must work to come out of it right it's like taking a step and saying God I don't want to do this this is not right in my life I know it's a hindrance for me for me and you so I'm going to do all I can in the natural in the spiritual as well to come out of it and when we take that step that's when we see God coming in and he will help us right second we must reckon this to know reckon means we must know it as truth right this is this is what Jesus is saying about you now we can't go to Jesus and say but no Jesus I'm a slave in one area other areas I'm a child of God but altogether it becomes a slave only right if you're a slave in one area and in 10 areas you're a blessed child of God still you're a slave it becomes like you know there's a slave but we must reckon we must know this truth that we don't have to live in that we don't have to live in that they come out of it right you know this person recently came up to me and when he was saying no pastor when I pray you know I keep praying I pray and I pray and I pray but one thing happens to me as the praying I fall asleep so then I wake up again and I don't know where I am in the prayer but then I pray I say God help me he's very genuine very sweet right he's being very true to himself I really want to pray but you know the sleep it just gets me I'm not able to control my sleep during the time other times I'm able to stay awake so he asked me what should I do why is this happening so I said see it's a natural thing right it's a natural thing it happens and he's just you know couple of years in the Lord this is a natural thing what you do is you try different things when you walk around like sing a song just praise him just use scriptures praise him right oh he still is not able to speak in tongue so I said ask God for that but you do the natural right you walk around something that helped me was when you wake up wash your face it clears up you know feel a little better and walk around and keep the phone away keep distractions away right and and see if that can help you and he came back to me and said yeah that really helped me you know initially I would pray for 15 20 minutes like you know just focusing on God 15 20 minutes now when I walk around I was able to sing songs I was able to just talk to the Lord and think of Bible scriptures and you know I didn't feel sleepy I sat for some time I said is that okay or I should only be kneeling or should only be sitting is God pleased I said it's not a you know it's not about what we are how we are walking standing kneeling all of that are postures of worship but it's the heart that matters our oneness with God our prayer our communion fellowship with God that matters and it was a simple thing but he was able to overcome practically there was no need of Holy Spirit break this bondage I think it was a practical thing sleep you gave wake up we feel how we feel sleepy just overcome it right do things practically and so he was able to one of the things that we can do is you know even drinking a lot of water in the morning will help you to stay awake and it helps you drink warm water you feel refreshed all of a sudden right and it's good right so sometimes we blame the enemy for everything and it's not and it's some things that you just need to practically do right and once we practically do it it's better like for example our bodies if we're always tired always weak break that devil's curse over my body no now sometimes it's not the devil we have to go exercise you know not eating healthy not exercising healthy bodies become weak devil I command you the spirit of infirmity devil is saying I didn't do anything you are not looking after your body what can I do right you understand what I'm saying so but then yes there are times when the enemy comes and there's unusual sicknesses which come or that we break it off and so first we must know second we must reckon that this is the truth of God's word that we are no longer slaves and three must walk in it it's not enough to know and to reckon that as truth we need to walk in it right we have to walk in it so it says there Roman 630 let's read that powerful words and do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin but present yourself to God as being alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness to God do not present your body or your instruments to the what is the first portion says to the the first portion 613 did not present your body to sin rather present them to righteousness to God for righteousness let me basically what is he saying here Paul is saying you as a believer don't open doors for the enemy don't present yourself to the enemy so okay devil these are certain areas that those are open I'm presenting myself to those doors devil will say thank you very much and he will come rather present yourselves to God and say God these are my weaknesses these are places where I need to gain strength these are places where I need to walk in holiness present to God and he will work in your life don't be opening up doors for the enemy to come in he will take every small dough every small dough he will take right so you need to close the doors shut the door you know there'll be times when you don't feel like praying you don't feel like worshiping you tell the devil devil it's not about my feeling it's not about how I feel I may be angry upset sleepy there's maybe unforgiveness whatever's there in my heart you shut the door to the devil and say I am going into the presence of God through the gift of righteousness that is there given to me through the cross devil will say no you're not righteous you say I am righteous I've asked for forgiveness I am righteous and you just come in to the presence of God you don't have to fall into his trap he's a master deceiver he knows how to deceive people but praise God for the Spirit of God inside us when we know that the Spirit of God is there we who we are we don't have to fall into his trap right on the cross Jesus Christ annulled Satan's power over our lives Christ triumph on the cross when Christ triumph we triumphed we must understand that we are winners we have dominion over Satan through the cross we are delivered from the powers of darkness Satan has no authority over us look at the last part accept what we permit him to have Satan has no authority over our lives accept what we permit right this recently a grieving parent you know they came up to me and they said please pray for my child she's about 13 years old and she is addicted to Instagram and Facebook if I don't give the phone she starts breaking things at home she's not studying she's not and they said this right and it was very sad to listen to the parents say this 13 years old she's using abusive language also and but in the outside she's very good outside of home she's very good she listens obeys everything the moment she gets home she wants Facebook Instagram she's recently opened her own Facebook account 13 years old so mother was very sad weeping right and it is very sad to listen to it and she would spend hours what happened to our eyes pastor what will happen to her well she's not studying she's good in studies you know but she's been getting average marks now only on Facebook Instagram I don't know what she does I don't know if she's addicted to other things I really don't know she knows how to change settings she knows everything what must I do it's a sad it's a sad case and sometimes you know we allow things to happen as parents we may not have corrected at the right time maybe for different reasons or sometimes it just becomes an addiction over time and so the only thing I said was let her cry don't give the phone don't give the phone like let her cry but you begin to minister you have to get somebody to counsel her and talk to her or what you can also do is if she's using for three years break it down then I'll give you one hour break it down then she asked me why is the devil doing this I said see sometimes we open doors to the enemy we allow it to happen now it was a genuine case because she's working she had no other choice you know just give the phone and you know she had to work and do other things but little did she know that it'll come up to this but God is bigger than our mistakes we can't say oh this is the biggest mistake I've done in my life gone it is all because of me no Christ power is able to annul all of this that's happening it may be our mistake we have opened the door and the devil has entered the door happily and made it a tight bondage but Christ power is able to deliver us now these times these things may take time but we need to say the course right it may require counseling continuous prayer fasting and prayer just being there you know caring for the child because is he not an adult it's a 13 year old girl right but that's one thing that I mentioned to her I remember I said know that she's a child of God so when you deal with her deal with her as a child of God don't deal with her as what the enemy looks at her look at her as a child of God this is just a bondage this is something that the door is open but she's a child of God right a simple reminder of the blessings that come to us through the cross forgiveness of sins and restoration unto God healing from sickness and disease the power of sin is broken and we are sanctified by the cross what is sanctified what is the meaning of sanctified being changed set apart I'm searching for that one word come on online students sanctified cleansed okay I'm searching for one word from there righteous purified VJ was not sure okay what else I'm searching for one word like the most an important word sanctified made holy right made holy sanctified set apart and made holy why are we set apart not so that we know okay we are part of the kingdom of Israel no set apart to be made holy right we receive wholeness there's authority and dominion over the enemy the blessings of Abraham are upon us and we looked at that in the first portion the covenants we looked at Abraham's blessings which included righteousness by faith friendship with God financial and material blessings material prosperity healing and wholeness and a lot more right when God made this promise to Abraham I will bless you he was stating that all who God is and all that God does was being released to Abraham as a blessing God did not need to itemize the list of blessings that fact that he said I will was more than sufficient right when we look at the Abrahamic blessing it is a long list of blessings and when God said I will bless you he blessed Abraham the blessings came from every angle Abraham was like maybe in one point he said God what is I can't even count how many servants I have I can't even count how much of camels and herd I have it's just overflowing going on and on and on wherever he goes if he goes to the wilderness he's put up his tent wherever he goes the blessing he goes for to fight against the other the enemies this blessing look at his family there is blessing every angle there's blessings and God is saying this Abrahamic blessing will be for generations and generations and generations and it's for you and me as well right a new covenant has better promises but remember there are blessing Steelers that we must fight against and the boy you know Apostle Paul was brilliant when he spoke about all of this what did he say he said in second Corinthians he says the weapons of our warfare not carnal they are mighty in God right now what is weapons for to sit and look at it imagine a soldier he's got his weapons everything and he's seeing the enemy come oh I've got nice weapons I wish my sword was shining better than this imagine he's looking at his shield and saying is this a like a bulletproof shield he's wasting his time the enemy is coming oh the enemy is coming what do I do now common sense put on your shield and go that's all he had to do now Paul is saying hey the enemy is coming but the weapons of warfare not carnal they might even God they bring down strongholds bring down arguments and reasonings and anything that comes against the word of God and Ephesians 6 he says no put on the armor of God sorry thank you put on the armor of God why would you put on the armor of God because the devil is there right so he's trying to you know the end of the chapter says he has his fiery dance but he used the shield of faith that when quench every fiery dart of the wicked one so the devil is you know you can picture him hiding behind those pillars using those fiery darts but the moment you see the fiery dark you put the shield of faith that dart will just fall off so Paul made it very clear that there are enemies there are blessing stealers there are there you know in the last chapter in his last letter he says and second Timothy he says you fight the good fight right now most of his life Paul is writing saying you know we are blessed we are seated with him in heavenly places we are children of God we are no longer slaves you look at all his episodes so wonderful in the end the last letter he's saying you fight the good fight of faith it's not going to be easy Timothy you fight it you run the race nobody can run it for you you run it and when you run you run in the right way and there is a reward waiting for you you fight the good fight of faith right now here's another important point I'd like to make there are battles that we need to fight but we don't have to fight every battle right there are some battles you don't even have to waste time on that people come and say oh you can't do this you know you are this you are this don't fight that battle no but he said like this no how can he say this how can he say this how can she say this how did from what mindset they're talking you know who I am you know what I can do the battles you don't have to fight choose your battle wisely right to look at Saul I was teaching this yesterday for the second years you look at Saul King Saul he fought battles some of the battles were not really needed especially when David was became famous and he was running for is it needed to go pasting his time trying to kill David he knew that David is going to be the next king why is he wasting his time you know instead of that what he could have done now he killed David used this thing killed Goliath and now everyone are singing oh now Saul killed thousands David killed tens of thousands Saul is standing there and saying tens of thousands he killed one fellow I went to so many armies and I've killed I've killed so many people you were singing about him he's upset he wants to get rid of him but he knew that God had already chosen David asking what he could have done he could have said okay David I know that we're going to be the next king you're a shepherd boy come on I'll take you up come join the army I'll train you how to use this word how to you know warfare how to attack how to protect your people I'll teach you everything so that when you're 30 35 years old you can transition to being the king of Israel did he do that no he wasted his time trying to fight battles that were not when required but on the other side God made it a way of training for David what made him wait 17 years to become the king of course that became a training for him but Saul he shouldn't have fought those battles are not when required so you and I can choose our battles don't fight every battle whatever the enemy brings against you right everyone with me okay shall we go to the next one is it too much let's go to let's do as much as we can finish quickly from the cross to the throne now this is really interesting right really interesting on the cross what did Jesus say his last words second last word to say today you will be with me in paradise now we talked about this during the mentoring hour right pastor explained the whole thing of paradise but let's go over it again for our online students as well Luke 23 24 43 so Jesus is on the cross he tells the thief who repented today you will be with me in paradise and then again Jesus talking in Matthew chapter 12 he says as Jonah was in the belly of the fish the same way the son of man will be you know will be put away for and he will rise again on the third day now let's go to Abraham's bosom the old paradise right now this is really interesting and the Old Testament the word Hades was called she all right now what is Hades Hades is divided into two parts right so one part is Abraham's bosom one part is paradise right so you look at this the now the same word in Hebrew in the Old Testament and in the New Testament is different right so hell the Greek word is Hades which is revealed as the place of departed human spirits between death and resurrection right so in the New Testament when they say Hades it refers to this place where people who are dead right and their spirits before the resurrection right now this old this word hell is equivalent to the Old Testament word she all I will see the word she all in the book of in Psalms and Isaiah Jeremiah you'll see these the word she all now let's look at what is this what is this whole thing of Hades where is it now where's it gone is it still there who's there in it all of that Hades before the ascension of Christ now this passage occurs in many places of the passage in this word occurs make it makes it clear that Hades was a place with two divisions one Abraham's bosom and it's paradise both designations was separated by a Gulf meaning there was it was one place of torment and the other place was a place of rest right Abraham's bosom and then you have a place of torment right now when Jesus died on the cross what did he say today you will be with me in paradise right remember Lazarus he goes he dies he goes to Abraham's bosom it's a place of rest right and he was at peace there but where did the rich man go he went to hell and hell was a place of yeah but it was a place of torment and not exactly fire but a place of torment because later on Jesus says you know they'd be put into the lake of fire but it was a place of torment right torment torment means extreme pain right so there's going to be two kinds of pain one is the physical pain and then is the the soul the pain the separation right so when Lazarus was in hell this place of torment he could feel right he feel the burns revelation says they will seek death but they will not find it right and what is this one say the rich man says send somebody at least need a drop of water so there was this physical urge as well then he says oh the soul is there the soul is saying my brothers are there go and tell them what is happening right so the soul aspect also was there of that pain I don't want my brothers to go through what I'm going through so you see two things one was a physical pain one is the soul now the same thing in heaven like now I'm talking about after the cross right in heaven you and I well so there was Abraham's bosom it's a place of rest the soul is at rest there's no torment right there's no you know devil trying to torment there's no pain there's no physical pain nothing it's just a place of rest it's like when you wake up in the morning you have nothing to do but you're having a cup of tea and it's a place of rest on Abraham's bosom they may not be tea but it's a place of rest right no problem just the soul is at peace the body is at peace everything is peace now this rich man who is there in hell he's burning his physical pain the soul is in pain and he's looking into Abraham's bosom you say hey I know you now after the cross what happened Ephesians 4 he went down he took captivity captive right so what did Jesus do he the this whole place this paradise right he went there he took people he took those who are in this place of rest right and he ascended into heaven right so now who's there in Abraham's bosom nobody right but what happened to hell hell which was the place of torment becomes this place which is the lake of fire a place where Satan will be banished forever so you got the picture now yes you want me to explain again those online you want me to explain this portion again okay okay I'll explain it for those here yeah just given the mic like that rich man he died so he's not in physically in hell he's a spirit in hell so how can a spirit be thirsty and how can a spirit be like physically burned yeah so it is like this see how in the God has made it in a way now see Jesus was in a glorified body right in the glorified body all the doors were closed but Jesus came in and he said peace be unto you then what did he tell Thomas Thomas you're doubting no come here you touch you touch and see so he touched Jesus right Jesus could feel obviously he could feel the marks and he said you touch my side also that's my side right Jesus didn't say initially what did Jesus say don't touch me I haven't yet gone remember to marry to Mary Magdalene at the tomb so don't touch me yet but here after the glorified body this thing you touch come and touch me so a glorified body just like how in heaven we can experience you know in revelations in the last chapter says that we will we will drink of the river that flows there right there'll be a river the river of life flowing now if I want to experience see Jesus also says I'm building mansions for you in heaven now if I want to experience something nice my physical thing should be there right the physical the attributes of enjoying the things so God has made the glorified body in a way that we can experience the good things in heaven he can experience it the freshness the the presence of God the fullness of God the things that he's available in heaven the same way in hell there's no point of them being in hell here put you to hell and there nothing is happening the fire is there and they're all like chewing gum and standing nothing's happening to me there's no point of that so the point of hell was it's a place of torment right so God has designed it in a way that they will get such a body that they will burn their hands the feeling of the burn will be there but it's not burn they do not need a bandage like this they will only experience the pain it's not like a natural body where you burn the body it will become ashes right it's not like that you may be in like in the fire right in the fire like the furnace is there oh it's burning not like Shadrach and Meshach in a bed me go they were not struggling right but you know they'll be in the fire they'll be burning and you're waiting for that burning sensation to stop but it's not stopping I didn't understand what you're saying use the mic no the illusion of you burning in the fire will be so real that you won't know it's illusion it'll feel it's real yeah so you'll feel it's real but it is real but the outcome is not real you know in the natural you burn something it becomes ashes it's done but in hell it's going to be a such a place of torment where you know even even that burns you'll feel it but it'll it'll not you'll not burn out it'll still be there and this is for eternity and on the other side we are with eternity with God in his presence enjoying so the choice is so open right and that is why Jesus he came on the cross because he didn't want people to go to this place right but those who will fully disobey that's the place that's the outcome right so now you've got Abraham's bosom Hades and then you've got now this Abraham's bosom will go up right it just goes and now there's heaven and that is hell right so nobody is there in Abraham's bosom now Paul says to be absent in the body is to be present with Abraham or to be present with the Lord yes to be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord right so that's going to happen and then later on we you know like we discussed there will be the the judgment seat of Christ for those who are believers we'll stand in front of the judgment seat of Christ this judgment is called the Bema seat where we will be given rewards it's not about going heaven hell it's a reward what you have done and then in the end there in revelations we see the great white throne judgment where death and Hades will give up everyone right and everyone that is for the unbelievers they will stand before the great white throne judgment and the Bible says that they will have to give an account of their lives meaning they'll have to say why you didn't believe what happened why you didn't believe that's a scary thing but it's such a joy to know that all we have to do is believe in Jesus and we have a great great kingdom ahead of us it is not to put fear in us right we are children of God and we thank God for calling us right that we are no longer part of what the enemy is doing but we are part of what God is doing right the Lord Jesus made a proclamation to the Spirit in prison first Peter 3 18 through 20 let's read that Nina you have a question please go ahead can I unmute and speak yes go ahead yeah yeah so this thing about now those who have gone ahead I mean we have died in the Lord already so we we've just looked and said that if we are absent from the body then we are present with the Lord so yeah and we I mean when we looked at the example of the rich man and Lazarus and the rich man was able to you know go through all the whether whether it was the tongue or eyes or everything so that is that a spiritual body is that kind of a spiritual body that people who have gone to be with the Lord already so is that talking about a spiritual body because we are all I mean believers now or later there is a resurrection that's going to happen right so that is different isn't it yes is that different yeah that's different right resurrection the resurrected body yes that's a good question so so what's going to happen is so let me just paraphrase Nina's question thank you Nina for asking the question now Nina's question was the the one who died and went to hell you know the rich man could feel right though the burns they could feel was feeling thirsty but now we are absent to the body present with the Lord so her question was will we be feeling the things in heaven right now the answer is during the rapture right in the book of Thessalonians it says that the Lord will come on the clouds right with this with the saints that is with the holy ones and in it and those here on earth and those spirits up in heaven that is those who are absent in the body present with the Lord their spirits they will we will all meet in the clouds in the twinkling of an eye we will be changed with a glorified body right so the to answer your question Nina right now our spirit is with the Lord right we are with the Lord but the resurrected body that body that we need will come during the time of the rapture right so when the rapture comes we will get a glorified body and those here on earth will see him just as he is we will all have a glorified body and we'll go up into heaven right so Nina I hope that answers your question yes thank you if I mean if Jesus went sorry I'll just have one more question if you don't mind yeah they see when Jesus was resurrected and he came back yes he had a meal with his disciples right yes so which means that the body is made in such a way of course he could walk through doors and all of that it had that kind of power but he made a meal and he had the meal with them so it is kind of a very different kind of body that is that the I mean that's the kind of body we're going to have right later glorified yes yes so we can do all the yeah all those things in the normal that we do is it going to be like that I mean I'm just going by the example of what Jesus did so I'm just asking that yeah so so when Jesus came back and you know so what happened was he came back he could when he was in his glorified body yes he walked through the doors but he still had that flesh right he said to Thomas come and touch me touch my side and he also had food now that is the glorified body that Jesus had and that is the same kind of body that you and I will have but the point is it's not like when we go to heaven we'll be hungry and we want to eat that's the that's not the point but the glorified body given to us for you know after the rapture the glorified body that we have is so that you and I can experience the the the presence of God right we can experience and taste and feel the goodness of God the presence of God and what is available up in heaven for us so yes it is the same kind of body right is that okay Nina all right any other questions go ahead I'm positive like relating to like before Jesus resurrection and before he took all the people who were in Abraham's bosom to heaven I mean what about those people I mean who lived before Abraham I mean what about Noah and the others who lived before Abraham Abraham yeah why is it telling Abraham's bosom and not about Noah and the atoms the others okay okay we don't know why it's not Moses's bosom or you know Noah's bosom the reason is God made a covenant with Abraham I believe that so he chose Abraham's bosom like chose the name Abraham's bosom but those who who died during the old covenant were in that place so even if it was Moses and the ones before that they were in that place the name of the place is Abraham's bosom now why is it named Abraham's bosom that I don't know right but everyone were there the place of rest it was a place of rest right so even those before Abraham would have been there okay right so we run out of time let's just quickly close in prayer and let's pray Father we thank you for this time we thank you for just giving us this opportunity to just learn together and I pray God that even as we study today about the cross and this divine exchange that you have done for us a god I pray that each one of us will know will reckon and walk this identity of who we are in you Lord we thank you we pray that you will teach us Lord and empower us by your Holy Spirit we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you everyone thank you students online have a good week


As the clock winds down before Christmas, the Bemidji JCs have tallied the votes and awarded this year's top three best downtown window displays. This year's first place award in Bemidji goes to Northwoods Baptist Church on Beltrami Avenue. This is the first time the church has entered the contest. Their bold illuminated displays depict the story of Christmas and Christ's birth. For the church it was a fun way to engage in congregation and the Christmas activities downtown. Well every year we try to decorate for for Christmas and the night we light parade and everything is it goes right here next next to the church and so we wanted to do something to just amplify that and build on that and then we saw the contest was coming up and we thought this would be perfect this would be a great opportunity for us to be able to be a part of the community in a fun way and add to the festivities downtown. The second place went to Pine Country Insurance and third place was awarded to Patterson's in downtown Bemidji. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


know about competitive Mortal Kombat 11 from this point onwards, that the course of the year and next. I mean, there's so much going on for MK11. This is still a brand new game, and it's crazy to think that way. But there are plenty of tournaments around the world, and these guys will be at most of them if they're able to attend, hopefully, as sometimes this way goes offline. But so many of these players, they need the points, right? You mentioned this yourself before the Losers finals, that Hayate and Tekken Master were both underneath Foxy in terms of points. And the fact that they are now both in the grand finals with Vianality means the two of them have jumped up in the rankings, and they needed it so bad. But the victory here is going to be a big deal, a really big deal. Tekken Master needs the points more. Hayate has been a bit more consistent. The fact he was actually able to enter combo break, it gave him a little bit of a head start. But he is on the grand finals on the winner's side. He has to win 1-3 out of 5. Tekken Master has to reset the bracket and then win a second time in a row. Wait, is this for real? Is this for real? Is Tekken Master bringing Kung Lao? Surely not.  He plays a lot of characters. Wait, no we are. Okay, Tekken Master bringing out the Hatrix Kung Lao. I am going to call a pretty gigantic question mark on this one, but we'll see what happens. I'm pretty sure Tekken Master is the last character. Hayate, Tekken Master? Sorry, Kung Lao was the last character that Hayate was expecting. Well, we did see Hayate versus Foxy as our first batch of winners top 8, and it did go down to a game 5. So maybe Tekken Master, you know, he's been here, he's been watching all the games. Maybe he saw something about how Hayate was playing the matchup. It was like, right, if I was playing here, I know what I'd do, and this is his chance to really show it why. Well, we already saw actually one of the changes that Tekken Master, that forward one string that goes into a low hat. You very rarely see players actually extend it into Z Hat, right? That there may be a gap there that may be punishable, who knows. I'm sure we'll find out soon, but it's that temporary lack of knowledge that Hayate is probably going to have. If Tekken Master does anything here that Foxy doesn't do, it's probably going to work at least once. And yeah, he's already going for these like different strings and specials that are interested to see how this one goes. Round number one actually does go to Tekken Master. How about that? That jump kick into the corner too. Okay, Paul Conmore going to be coming from this.  This is absolutely insane. It's the down one, but can't get the special on the end. Forward four again. And Paul commits. Now that may have been a way of, because obviously the end of that string does have a big gap. Maybe that's a call out expecting Hayate to try and blow it up with a false block. And he's just trying to hit with a spin. Tekken Master again. He's willing to make these like dangerous decisions, but if it's right, the payout is huge and he's willing to do it. And the win. That was actually a punish on the down one. That string with there on black is highly unsafe. It takes a long time to recover. Has the shot, so Tekken Master far away. Hayate is trying to get some breathing space. Tekken Master losing the resources on the teleport doesn't work out, but here he is. Point blank. The throw comes out again. No escape failed. I think he was just sitting there waiting for a forward four. Oh, this is a scary territory. Both fatal blow. Oh, there's the wait. Oh, the early down two Hayate. Oh, the wake up fatal blow. He's going to steal the round back. It's going to take it. It's going to cost the fatal blow for sure. Now you said before, right, about how that could be the element of, I don't want to say unfamiliarity because Hayate did look comfortable against Foxy, but certain elements, right?  Typically, the thing you see players do is they'll move out of the way and then they'll discuss. He can't change where he comes up. Only when so a lot of players don't move and then they'll just with punish. But Hayate, he was sitting there the whole time. Oh, the force block when I think from Tekken Master. I don't think he had the resources to get anything proper. Oh, he did have the escape failed locked and loaded. We can't forget about that one. Damage to bring Tekken Master straight back into the fight. He's going to confirm now. Instant jump takes some damage, but yeah, just actually cancelling a lot more buttons into the Z hat. This is one of those different pieces of flair. And when Tekken Master has so many games that he needs to win, you kind of need to enforce some of that. Unfortunately, he's going to get clipped now. Full combo. Can't throw the asset. It's already in play. Instant jump kick to anti air. He can still win if he gets a fatal blow. Oh, now. Oh, knockdown. Final play. The jump in and he calls it. Oh, Tekken Master makes a brave decision, but doesn't work out. And I guess right live and die by it. But there it is. Hayate is going to get that first game. This changes this loud pick was nobody expected this, but it came really close to winning the game. But it's the way that Tekken Master is playing as well. It looks like he's really building a lot of his offense around the forward one three, which is a string that normally is very dangerous because pretty much if Hattrex opts to go for forward one three, if he finishes the string, there's a huge gap and he can die for it. If he goes for spin to block the flawless block, he can die for it. And even there, right? We saw him go to forward one three teleport early on forward one three Z hat. I think he really is trying to keep Hayate get really guessing as to what's going to be there. But some of them are reactable and some of them aren't so much, but you really have to just choose what it's going to be and go from there. But only in my opinion, like the reason I think some of those plays where just give it from Tekken Master in game one was ultimately because there's a reason a lot of those strings actually aren't canceled into Z hat. And Tekken Master is actually kind of throw himself away, you know, spins on block Hayate just sitting there and more than content to punish. However, Tekken Master staying true to his guns, he's got a really good start here versus Hayate. Okay, I just sit there and take it. It does chip out significantly. It does add a nice little bit of a finishing touches there when it comes to chip damage. Oh, okay teleport. Poking with the full string, very brave stuff. And again, Hayate opting not to go for the slide, expecting the breakaway from Tekken Master, keeping himself as safe as possible. Throw tech. Oh, the cancel. You're so ready for Eren Black to finish that string, right? These cancels are going to be a little bit unexpected. Down three and the grab comes out late, but it still works. Hayate now. One bad decision away. And this delay teleport has been putting in work for Tekken Master. You normally don't see the temple actually really be that good. But I like how Tekken Master is saving it for when Hayate is really low as well, right? Where all he needs to do is just bridge the hit once and that's going to do it. We know, of course, this is actually is one zero to Hayate right now when you're the overlay is wrong. Don't worry, my friends. We're going to get that sorted out. Knocked down, stomped on him. I wouldn't stomp on Kung Lao's hat like that. He's like slicing his foot clean in half. And he can confirm board one nice and advancing. Oh, how about that for a jump kick up three? Stealing back a turn and yeah, that two ones are high. Hayate knows it. Now we're not seeing anyone kind of optimally punish the whiff two one yet, but I think we may as the set goes on. A lot of players are kind of just content. Take the poke, take the advantage. And I guess that's assuming Tekken Master sticks with Kung Lao all the way because if it's a two zero knowing Tekken Master, there's a high chance he might change. But maybe not right now where he's in fantastic form. Oh, no holding blow. And he tries to wake up fatal blow. Fortunately, it's only going to get me by a down three, which means that Tekken Master has another lifeline. One more. And now we're back to that one decision territory. And there it is. Tekken Master gets a game. This change to Kung Lao tying things up. And again, on the back of a point blank, Ziha as well. So again, it's really working out. It really is working out for Tekken Master, building his game around these specials. And it is again, it's a classic Tekken Master pick. It's something a little bit, it's something a bit unorthodox from him by his standards. But again, I'm not too surprised. We know Tekken Master always plays a lot of character. I think they're trying to see if Foxy's able to be Hayate's coach, but I don't think it's being allowed. I don't think it was designated beforehand. I wonder if Hayate actually has one. Not really, no. Well, we have two games done and potentially plenty more of this grand finals left. I mean, this could definitely still go either way if Tekken Master's playing that way. Again, like it's really paying off this character choice. It was, you know, we questioned it at the start, but it's definitely working out. I mean, I feel like we've reached a point where we should just stop questioning character changes for Tekken Master anyway, because how many times has he gone to what is a really odd pick, but it's made perfect sense. And he's actually done really well in tournament with it. It's what he's really known for me. Need we forget the devourer of MKX that he got second to EVO with? This is just a definitely a different taste. And I honestly think the biggest part of this is that it's just so different. It's this way of approaching the character is absolutely catching Hayate off guard that he's having no time to try and adapt to what he should do differently here. Okay. First time I've seen Hayate go to the low. You're getting a combo. Tekken Master is the breakaway. Oh, they're just a walk up grab. Right. Fatal blow territory. This could be scary. Knock down. What's the play? Oh, disrespect.  Just getting hit raw by the standing to Hayate taking the round, moving on, saves the fatal blow as well. So he hasn't lost too many resources. Now he got a early life lead to jump kick and forcing some more frames. Master probably expecting some sort of cancel tries to interrupt late. See that. So there it holds. Escape failed. And you know what that means. Now it could be party time. Oh, Max Rains jump kick. I like it. That string is definitely not optimal. But again, it's just if you throw out that one time. This is a bit of a matchup change, I think the fact that it is indeed interruptible. Hayate found the answer. But will it be the Beale Lendall? Will it make a difference? Confirm acid puddle. Tekken Master in trouble tries to wake up fatal blow, but the down three is too meaty. That leaves Hayate one game away from winning the Inality 2019. And this is kind of what I expected right? If he's one game before losing, right at the end, Hayate realized that there is a gap with that forward one string. And I think the moment that has been downloaded, this is now where Tekken Master goes right. Okay, so this is where a count of change might have to come in because he was relying heavily on unfamiliarity. And I understand it too. Because the unfamiliarity of that string was clearly there. And Tekken Master knew it. You know, we saw him go straight to Kung Lao there. I do wonder if there was a limit of Tekken Master watching the game and winners and being like, oh, mirror match, boys and girls. Here we go. He thought he saw something before the Laomach up that paid off to the point to win a game.  Tekken Master, he needs this. He needs to tie things up and then proceed to reset the bracket. Hayate, only one game away from winning his first Premier Pro competition event. I mean, when Tekken Master's back to the corner, he will do the most insane of hard read plays. And it's so historically worked well for him. But if there's any time to pull that out, it's going to be now. Here comes a duck into a crushing blow down two. That's going to be one of them. The down two is gone for the rest of the game, but he's already got half life in round one for it. Well worth the trade. Oh, absolutely. For the down two crushing blow also, Tekken Master. Ready? Oh, okay. Oh, and there's the return back to that fast mid. Tekken Master running away with this.  Every time one of these strings is blocked, though, it pushes Hayate closer into the puddle. Every single hit on block was one tick of the acid puddle at least. He just kept walking forward with the gumball. Moving back into it, like three times, constant ticks. Now it's going to be Hayate's turn to lay that offense on thick. Knockdown now, and the corner escape. Tekken Master. Oh, the full whip though. Hayate committed hard for that one. I really like Tekken Master's ability to actually acknowledge which stage is which on this tournament stage right now. Some players may actually have missed the interactables because they're just not really paying attention or looking for it. But if there's a corner escape or some sort of escape to be had, Tekken Master is always on the money. All right, returning offense to the low pokes trade. Tekken Master tries to take a turn, but it's not his time. Amplify the puddle. Jump kick. So much chip coming out. And now Tekken Master wants to press the advantage. He's going to take a lot of damage. Risks it on the low slide. Oh, he's buffering. Stand on. One out, one out. Oh. Wow, wow, wow. They both have one bar left. Tekken Master's. Oh, the jump. No, he whipped the whole string. He's going to die for it. That's going to be tournament point for Hayate, just like that one life bar to go. Tekken Master still has the fatal blow, but I'm pretty sure Hayate does too. This final round is going to be explosive. Get off me. You know Tekken Master's not content with this. He's playing this game really well. This switch to Aaron has been super good, but he spent all of his bullets, leaving Hayate with eight. And now the return. But hang on a minute. The amplified shot's going to blow through it. The dive kick, not ready for it. Drop kick back to back. And here we go. Hayate. He's going to press the advantage. Tekken Master expecting a cancel of some sort, but it's not today. A grab as well. 50% life gone. 50% left to go for the tournament. Oh, that's an opening. Only just goes defensive bar back. He's going to use it. Hayate goes in for the pressure. The blocks from Tekken Master. Yes, be so careful. The fatal blow is there. Oh, the whip. Again, there's a string, and he's going straight into it. Pulls the triggers on the two revolvers, and we're going to see a lot of damage here. Here's the thing. I was going to put Hayate in his fatal blow. Yes, it is. It's going to activate Hayate's fatal blow, which means that if Tekken Master eats this, he is out of the tournament at second place. Buffering. The standoff. From the time he crouches down, it still goes through. Three, four, five. He has two bullets left, and a fatal blow. The final moment. This is a standoff. If I've ever seen it, one bullet left in the rifle. Is he going to spend it? The acid to enforce neutral. The string. First one I've seen that all the time. Where did those bullets come from? Where are they coming from, Master? He's ran out of ammo. He can't do anything. This light, the blow, got the punish, and the crushing blow comes through. The clutch of this man to just hold off against the ropes and still playing out of his mind. Oh, the last 20 seconds of that game were magic. You know Hayate is sitting there right now, thinking, why did I do that? Oh, well, it's a question. He's going to have to answer another time as we go into what could be the reset game or the final game of the tournament. It's going to be one or the other.  It's either the tournament victory or it's a brand new three out of five all the way. The wake up roll. That's a whiff punish. Get a perfect start for Tekken Master. He has the defensive bar out of Hayate. He's got the life lead. He has the full screen space to work with. Oh, back in there. But that was an advantage situation for Tekken Master because Hayate was sat in acid. Look at the damage. Oh, okay. Counter hit boys. Oh, no confirm. I mean, when you're on reset points, sometimes these little smooth miniscule execution errors, they're almost unavoidable. Maybe down to trade. Both counter hits, technically zero, I guess. If you factor that in then. Taking it in turns. Check out my gun, man. Now my gun butt's better than yours. Oh, the whiff. Hayate, very low on health. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's definitely difficult with that acid. Oh, the slide. Brave stuff. Big delay. Wake up into buttons and Hayate pushed back into the acid and Tekken Master finds himself on reset point. He takes this life bar. It's going to be a reset bracket, and we're going back to square one. I know this crowd definitely favors Hayate. They really want Hayate to take this. Aside from the front row, which is pretty much all Middle East. Except for the front row, obviously, yeah. Here we are again. This is how big enough for the both of us. Acid puddle. Acid puddle again. Oh, my God. Oh, you're feeling lucky, Hayate. Was it six? Was it five? I've got to admit, in the chaos of the match, I lost count myself. Well, luckily, they have changed us. We can see the bullets in the bottom of the hotel. Oh, thanks, guys. Cheers. Oh, he blocked in time. Down three. He's now going to press Tekken Master. It's not going to overextend. Anti-air drop kick. Oh, this is the most insane round. Oh, it looks like it actually looks like quite a slow-paced full-screen game. If you're both willing to go to trade, scud shop, a rifle, still a Tekken Master, he's blowing through the magazine. There's nothing left there in the tank for him. Oh, big drop kick out of the corner, though. I agreed, man. He catches it, goes from back to back. The amplify, Hayate, not scowing out. The throw escape. Very important, but he's not out of dodge yet. He's going to return fire. Oh, my goodness. The un-saved, big blow. Shades of the last game. Obstasave, the crushing blow as well. Knows that the breakway is coming and decides it's not worth it, but the fatal blow is there. Uh-oh. Walk straight into it. The acid. And the ship, chip damage. Is that enough? Chip, chip. Okay. Didn't have the defensive bar. And tournament point for Hayate. Reset or tournament victory. We're going to see in the next 90 seconds or less. Acid. Established already. But yeah, too close for Hayate to risk it himself. The drop kick comes through, but it's going to get blocked. This is insane. The confirmed launch, breakaway. You had no choice. Knocked back now. Oh, a downfall, max range. Tekken Master is neutral. He's playing real ball. He uses the trade and the scud shot. Oh, the knockdown is a guaranteed acid cuddle, right? It is the knockdown frames that allows the acid cuddle to come through. He lies down on the acid. Only minimal damage though. It disappears at the magic time. Tekken Master not ready for that way. We're down one. He gets a jump in. He gets a grab. Escape failed. Uh-oh. Spaghetti. Oh, that doesn't mean a lot. Hayate now. He gets grabbed. But do they wake up? He's being careful into the scud shot. Big jump in the block. The environment interaction gets out of that corner immediately. Max range. Drop kick. The roll. Oh, the bar being spent. Nothing on defense for Tekken Master. Can I get opened up anymore? Oh, the drop kick again. Oh, jump in. Jump. No, wow. He has breakaway, but this is a... I think that's it. I think that's it. The damage is good. No, no. Maybe. What?


Happy Wednesday. Trade hackers today is Wednesday, April 8th. Starting with the trade hacker question of the day. How do I stay patient when trading options? I've been going back and forth with a member about this and I think it's a critical, critical thing to master. Strategies and mechanics, that's about 20 to 30% of what makes up a successful trader. The other part is emotional, it's mental, it's controlling your emotions. When we get into trading options, when we first start trading, everyone wants to make money fast, right? And so what happens is you end up making mistakes. You end up trading too big. You end up placing trades that you don't understand. You end up doing things that are detrimental to your trading account. When we start trading, our goal should not be to make money and I know that sounds crazy because trading options, trading the markets, it's all about making money, right? Well, guess what? If that's your goal, if you have a specific income goal, if you have a specific asset goal, then you're going to make mistakes that create a situation where you do not reach that goal. I can almost promise you that when you first start trading, if that's your goal, if you have a specific monetary goal, the mechanics that it takes to get there are not gonna happen because you're gonna do things to try to reach that goal that you shouldn't be doing. And so when you first start getting trading, the goal should be to learn the strategies. The goal should be to learn the mechanics. The goal should be to control your emotions. The goal should be able to control your position size. And by doing that, and by mastering that and becoming a master at those things, that is what's ultimately gonna allow you to achieve the monetary goals that you really want. But I promise you, if you focus on the monetary goals, your trading will, it's not gonna end up being the monetary reward that you hope it will. So hopefully that helps. One last thing on that is the other thing that you gotta make sure you don't do is do not compare yourself to others. You cannot compare yourself to others. You can't compare, if we post a trade alert showing you how much money we made on a trade and you didn't get in on that trade, don't worry, the markets are gonna be open for the rest of your life. There's new opportunities every single day when the markets open, so don't try to catch up. Don't try to compare yourself to others. If you see other members in the community posting about how much money they made, do not try to compare to that. Do not try to focus on that. You've got to stick internally with your mechanics and your strategies and your emotions. So hopefully that helps somebody out there who's just getting started. Let's jump into the platform and see what's going on in the markets. Big day up, S&Ps up 93. We've got about 30 minutes left to the close. Dow up 740, Nasdaq up 190, Russell up 63. Big move in oil, oil up over 9%. So oil bouncing off those lows pretty hard. Bonds down a little bit. Gold pretty flat, Natty gas down a few percent. So that's what's going on. One point I wanna make about this market. And I've been kinda talking about this the last, well, the last couple of weeks here as the market's been cranking higher, do not get sucked in by the stimulus. The administration released a $2.2 trillion stimulus package. They're talking about doing more. Money is not gonna cure this coronavirus, right? We are at this stay at home order till the end of the month, till April 30th. If the administration comes out and says, we haven't been able to contain it as good as we thought, we're actually pushing that back, I believe the market's gonna react negatively. And so be very, very careful. Do not get sucked in by this stimulus. It's all about controlling the coronavirus right now. It's not about how much money we can pump into people. If this stay at home order gets extended, you know, the amount of devastation that it's gonna be doing to businesses even on top of the stimulus that they're going to get is going to be crazy. So keep that in mind, keep your position size small. In fact, we added some short Delta today. And then if it pops up higher, we've been talking about kind of this 2,800 level. You know, tomorrow morning, if it pops up again, we're gonna add some more short Delta to our portfolio. We are looking for this thing to roll back over and potentially hit new lows. So that is the message for the day. Don't get sucked in by the stimulus because, you know, they keep talking about with the COVID-19, with the coronavirus, they keep talking about, you know, this week could be the week that everything peaks, that is the max amount of deaths, the max amount of cases, and we start to go down. But man, I don't know, I just, I would be very, very careful because I think, part of this rally, I believe, you know, we've been hearing nothing, but I mean, if you can't turn on social media, you can't turn on any news channel, you can't read anything without it being about the coronavirus. And I think a lot of people are kind of becoming numb to that.  This is the new normal. No, it's not. This is not the new normal. You know, this is a situation that we have got to get over for our economy, for the markets to really rebound. So I do not think that this market is gonna continue to rally higher. I absolutely could be wrong and I'll eat my words if it happens, but for us, we are planning on, you know, continuing to add short delta as it goes up for the potential downside. So hopefully that helps. Don't forget, Friday is good Friday and I hope everybody has a great Friday. Last day of trading the week is tomorrow, Thursday. We'll talk to you then.