Amen. Joshua chapter 22. So we're continuing through Joshua chapter 22. This will be the second sermon. We're going to end Joshua chapter 22 this evening. We talked about the first part of Joshua chapter 22 two weeks ago. We're going to continue through and start talking about Joshua chapter 22 in verse number 10 this evening. We talked about how Gad, Reuben and the half tribe of Manasseh, they fulfilled their vow and they were going home back to the west side of the Jordan or the east side of the Jordan, I'm sorry, and to the land that they inherited right away and then they still went and they fulfilled their commitment to fight for the children of Israel. So let's start and see what happens in verse number 10. There's a very interesting thing that takes place and it's very applicable to us today what happened in the last part of Joshua chapter 22. So let's go ahead and look at it and we'll first go through it and then we'll apply it and see what we can learn from it. But let's see what's going on first. Look at Joshua chapter 22. Look at verse number 10. And when they came to the borders of Jordan that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great ulcer to see to. And the children of Israel heard say, behold the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan in the borders of Jordan at the passage of the children of Israel. So I mean lots of people build altars you know in the Bible you know whenever something important happened to Abraham you know he built an altar to the Lord you know he built you know they make a marker of something that happened there so they'll remember something at that time and the children of Gad the children of Reuben and the half tribe of Manasseh they built an altar at Jordan when they went back to their land. Now look at verse number 12 and things get really interesting. And when the children of Israel heard of it the whole congregation of children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them. You're like whoa what's the deal here? You know a bunch of crazy people they hear that they're building an altar and you know the the other temple is at the other altar is at Shiloh and they're like why you know is are they building this out there they're right away they're just like we're going to war right now. So they were offended right away is what the point is here look at verse 13. And the children of Israel sent under the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead, Phineas the son of the Eleazar the priest. So you don't want Phineas coming after you first of all in the Bible. Okay so Phineas is definitely going to be I don't want to you know blow the whole story of Phineas here but Phineas is definitely going to be one of the random characters in the Bible that I will preach at some point. Phineas is the guy that goes and makes things right. Phineas is the guy that you don't want coming to you to get you right because Phineas is a guy that gets things done and he knows how to correct wrongs all right in the Bible. And with him ten princes when each of the chief house of the prince throughout the tribes of Israel each one was ahead of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. And they came under the children of Reuben and the children of Gad the half tribe of Manasseh under the land of Gilead and they spake with them saying thus say at the whole congregation of the Lord what trespass is it that you have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following the Lord and that you have builded you an altar that you might rebel this day against the Lord. So now we see what they think that the altar meant they think that they were building their own altar their own religion they were going to start you know worshiping off by themselves and not with the nation of Israel. And then verse number 17 they bring up more concerns that they have they say is the iniquity of pure too little for us. From which we are not cleansed unto this day turn to numbers chapter 25 what is the iniquity of pure turn to numbers chapter 25 we just went through this in the Bible this was the story of Balaam this was the story of Balaam and the king of Moab who was trying to get Balaam to curse the children of Israel and he wouldn't do it. So we find out from the New Testament details that what Balaam actually did was between numbers 24 and numbers 25 verse number one he actually went back and he convinced the king of Moab to you know put just go and join yourself up amongst the children of Israel and this is what happened in numbers chapter 25. This is the iniquity of pure look at numbers 25 and verse number one. So Ilias are these 10 princes they come to the children of Israel and they come up to them and they say is this iniquity of pure too little haven't you learned your lesson is what they're saying. Now look at numbers chapter 25 verse number one to see what this lesson is. And Israel abode and shed them and the people began to commit hordom with the daughters of Moab. They were going into fornication with the children of Moab and they called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods and the people did eat and bowed down to their gods and Israel joined himself unto bale pure. That's the iniquity of pure is bale of pure. It's this God bale of pure and the God and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and the Lord said unto Moses take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the Lord against the son that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel and Moses said unto the judges of Israel slay everyone his men that were joined unto bale pure and behold one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brother and a Midianidish woman in the sight of Moses. So here's one of these people that's literally committing fornication at this time and he's just brazenly just not denying what he's doing in the sight of Moses in the sight of all the congregation of Israel who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So here's this guy. The Lord has found this out. The Lord is angry. The Lord is mad. The Lord is talking to Moses and this guy is just brazenly continuing in the sin. And he's just throwing it in the face of Moses. And look who we have in verse number seven. And when Phineas, the son of Eliezer. So this wasn't that long ago. This wasn't that long ago. Phineas is still around. This is why they said in Joshua 22. It's like hey, we're still not over this. We're still not past this whole thing. This curse, this thing that happened to us is still with us. And I'll show you what that means in a minute. Phineas, the son of Eliezer and the son of Aaron the priest, saw it. He rose up from among the congregation, took a javelin in his hand, and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through. The man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. And those that died in the plague were 24,000. 24,000 people lost their lives. That's what they're talking about in Joshua 22 when they say, hey, this thing's still with us. Because look, they're all still suffering the loss of some of these 24,000 people. This was not even a generation ago. This is this generation that it happened. That's what they're talking about. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 10 in verse number 8. Let me show you a Bible error as we're going through this. There's a Bible error. This is really a gotcha. People really like this one. Really the scholars, they love this Bible error right here. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse number 8. So we see in Numbers chapter 25 and verse number 9 that those that died in the plague were 24,000. Let me just take a little sidetrack and show you an error in the Bible. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse number 8. Look what the Bible says.  Paul is talking about fornication in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse number 8. And some of them, as some of them committed and fell in one day, 3 and 23,000. Aha! We got it. So Paul says here, he's obviously referring to the situation at Moab and with the Midianite woman and with the Moabites and committing hordoms when God slew 24,000 people. And Paul here, he quotes it as 23,000 people. Now if you go and read like explanations of this, you will hear all kinds of people that have just like, well, we think that Paul was just, you know, he was just ballparking it. He was just shooting from the hip and he probably just misquoted this, is what he did. Right? And, you know, well, Paul maybe he just, maybe it was a rounding error that Paul had here, you know, in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. But here's the thing. Here's the thing.  Because when you read 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and you look at Numbers chapter 25 and verse number 9, Numbers chapter 25 and verse number 9 says, and those that died in the plague were 24,000. And 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse number 8 says, those that died in one day were 23,000. Now I probably don't have to explain any more to you but basically Paul was saying it was so bad that in the heat of it in one day 23,000 people died. He could have stated it like the total of people that died was 24,000 people. But here's the interesting thing. Here's the beauty of it and this shows you that people that think that there's errors in the Bible like Paul made a rounding error, like Paul meant to write a three or a four and he wrote a three instead or something stupid. Here's the beauty of it is when we read the Bible in the Old Testament, what do we know about the plague? We know that 24,000 people died. What does Paul know? Paul knows that 24,000 people died but he also knows that 23,000 people died in one day. This shows you the three years that Paul spent in Arabia with Jesus Christ. Paul knew more about the Bible than we do. Paul knew more about the Word of God than we do because he had more detail. That's what 1 Corinthians chapter 10 in verse number eight shows us. Paul knew more. Paul had more revelation than you and I. Look, that's an extra detail that you and I wouldn't have if it wasn't for Paul telling us in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 in verse number eight. So he knows the detail of how many each day. I mean in a plague, do people all die at the same time? Do people just drop dead like that? No, they got a plague, they got sick, it was a pestilence, whatever it was. But anyway, it just shows you what else Jesus must have taught Paul in those three years. Go back to Joshua chapter 22.   He's like, what are you guys thinking? Look at verse 19 of Joshua 22. Back to the story. Not withstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass you over into the land of the possession of the Lord. We're in the Lord's tabernacle dwelleth and take possession among us. But rebel not against the Lord nor rebel against us in the building and altar beside the Lord of our God. They're saying, look, if the land that you're in is wicked and you're being influenced by wicked people, just, just come back over. Just come back over with us. It's like, don't do this though. Don't do this. Why? Did not aching the son of Zarah commit a trespass and the accursed thing and wrath fell upon the congregation of Israel?  We don't want to pay for it too, is what they're saying.  We won't look at that story again. But he's just saying he didn't perish alone in his iniquity. It's like, Achan took other people with him. Achan's whole family was killed with him and on top of that they lost a battle. Many men lost their lives because of what Achan did. So that is what the children of Israel are saying. That's what these 10 princes and Phineas are saying. They're like, look, don't rebel against the Lord because we're all going to pay. We're all going to pay for it. Then the children, now they respond. Then the children of Reuben, children of Gad, the half tribe of Manasseh answered and said into the heads of the thousands of Israel, the Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth and Israel he shall know if it be in rebellion or if it be in transgression against the Lord, save us not this day. That we have built us an altar to turn from following the Lord or if to offer there on burnt offering or meat offering or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himself require it. They're saying, look, if we've done what you said, just we're guilty. And if we had rather not done it for fear of this thing saying in time to come your children might speak under our children saying, what have you to do with the God of Israel? Now they're explaining why they did it. For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you. You children of Reuben and children of Gad and you have no part in the Lord. So your children shall make our children cease from fearing the Lord. Therefore we said, they said, because there's this river that's going to divide us and our kids are going to grow up over here and your kids are going to grow up over there close to Shiloh, close to everybody else, said let us build an altar, they said. So we'll build an offer not for burnt offering or for sacrifice that it may be a witness between us, that it may show our children something our children can look at and say we are part of the nation of Israel. It's a symbol. They're explaining that it's just symbolic connecting them to the nation. They explain that's what it was all about. Now you know if you look at the integrity of Gad of Manasseh and Reuben and what they did in the first part of Joshua chapter 22, you know you kind of believe them. You kind of believe them. You don't think that they're really trying to get out of it by just coming up with this story. You know it seems to be their real intention. Look at verse 28, therefore said we that it shall be when they should say to us for our generations in time to come that we may say again behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices but as a witness between us and you God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord and turn this day from following the Lord to build an altar for burnt offerings for meat offerings or sacrifices because the altar of the Lord is our God that is before his tabernacle. So they're saying we agree with you. We agree with you. If we did that thing that would be wicked. God forbid that that's not what it is. Again they're saying that's not what it was. And Phineas, look at Phineas the priest and the prince of the congregation the heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him heard the words that the children of Israel and Gad and Manasseh spake and it pleased them. And Phineas the son of Eleazar. Phineas is he's the one that is leading this party. The son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Rubin and unto the children of Gad and unto the children of Manasseh. This day we perceive that the Lord is among us because you have not committed this trespass against the Lord. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. And Phineas the son of Eleazar the priest and the princes returned from the children of Rubin and from the children of Gad and out of the land of Gilead and to the land of Canaan and to the children of Israel and brought them word again. That means they went and they told them what happened. And the thing pleased the children of Israel and the children of Israel blessed God and did not intend to go up against them in battle to destroy the land wherein the children of Rubin and Gad dwelt. And the children of Rubin and the children of Gad called the altar Ed for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God. So here we see the story. We see what happened. Okay. Israel, Israel was upset. Let's just break it down. Let's break it down. Israel was upset for two reasons. Number one, they were upset because they didn't want to be punished for the sins of other people. That was the first reason that they were upset. Look, that's another thing that we also need to realize. The whole nation pays together. Nations are punished together. Unfortunately, that is something, look, that is something that we need to keep in mind because when God's judgment comes on a nation and God's judgment will come on and we will be punished together. And that's what we need to do. And that's what we need to do. And that's what we need to do. And that's what we need to do. And that's what we need to do. And that will come on a nation. If we learn anything from the Old Testament, it is that God judges nations.  Nations are judged by God on this earth. And nations are judged together. And guess what? All the people suffer. That's something to think about in this country. That's something to think about. Now look, here's the thing. There is something happening in this nation right now. I mean there's some good news happening. There's a lot of good court decisions happening with, you know, the vaccine mandates. There's a lot of, there's a lot, once again, I mean it kind of backs up the sermon that I gave on Thanksgiving. Like, I know we're messed up, but at least we have the law. Other countries don't even have the law. At least we have this law that, you know, sometimes depending on who's a judge, it gets followed every now and then. Here we got maybe a landmark, a landmark decision coming up on abortion that, you know, people like me have waited for decades for. I'm sure you have waited for decades. Look, I'm not, I'm not like resting all my faith on these men. But look, this is a good thing that could happen, but the point still remains that judgment is still deserved for what has happened even to this point. And the whole nation will pay. So knowing this, that should always motivate us. That should always motivate us as Christians to never stop fighting for what's right. Because that's really what the children of Israel were doing here is they were coming and they were fighting for what was right to protect themselves, to protect their own part of the nation. Because when the nation turns from the Lord, everybody suffers. And they knew this. So the first thing that they did was it was kind of for self-preservation. So think about that. Think about that when it comes time for the...there should be no silent majority. Look, we're not the majority. We're never going to be the majority. But we shouldn't be silent. We should be always preaching the truth, talking about the truth, telling people the truth. We should always be look, for self-preservation, for the preservation of the nation, because everyone will suffer when judgment comes. That's the first reason. The whole nation was going to be judged and they knew it. They knew it, because it just happened just recently to them. Here's the second reason. Here's the second reason. Here's some interesting thoughts that I really want to just really push these forward for the rest of the sermon. But here's the thing. Israel, Israel, Phineas, the Ten Princes, and the nation of Israel that came over to talk to Gad, Reuben, and Half-Tribe of Manasseh, they were jealous for the Lord. They were jealous for the Lord. They referenced the sin of pure. And there's two thoughts here. There's two thoughts here. First of all, what happened in pure? They started, it says in the first verse, they started committing hordom. And then the second, third, and fourth verses after that, you see, they started committing hordom, and then what did they start doing? They started worshiping their gods too. It's literally called the sin, you know, the sin of their God. It wasn't just this carnal sin that they were doing, it was they literally started worshiping false gods. Now, think about this for a minute. Here's a couple thoughts on false gods, okay? What's the big deal? Turn to Habakkuk, Chapter 2. What's the big deal on false gods? I mean, think about it. They're not real, right?  So, Habakkuk, Chapter 2, in verse number 18, Habakkuk, Chapter 2, in verse number 18, look what the Bible says. It says, What propheteth the graven image that the maker thereof have graven it?  It's like, what good does it do for you?   Look at verse 19. Wo unto him that saith to the wood, Awake to the dumb stone, arise, it shall teach, behold, it is laid over with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. So, actually, you know, being saved and being a Bible believing Christian literally this evening, it seems kind of silly that man would do this. Does it not? Does it not seem kind of silly that man would go out, especially, you know, the people from the nation of Israel, from God's people would go out and just start worshiping other gods. You say, but why is it a big deal? It's fake. It's fake. It's not real. It's just a waste of time, right? It's these people that are going and they're doing something that's just a complete thing, right? But no, it is a big deal and here's why it's a big deal. It has nothing to do with the idol. It has nothing to do with what the thing's made of or what it's not made of. It's a big deal because of the nature of God. That's why it's a big deal. Turn to Exodus chapter 34. It is not the chunk of wood or the stone or the gold plating or the silver. That has nothing to do with it. The problem with it, look, if it was just that and us, it would just be a huge waste of time. That's all it is. It would just be barking up the wrong tree is all that would be. Look at Exodus chapter 34. Exodus chapter 34. Look at verse 14. The Bible says, for thou shalt worship no other God. Small case G.  For the Lord, it's a why not? Why not? Does it say so you don't waste your time doing it? It says no. It says, for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God. Okay, so the Bible here is saying, it's like, don't worship false gods because, not because it's a waste of time, but because God is jealous. Lower case J. How jealous is he? He's so jealous, it's literally one of his names. Capital J. Literally, God is so jealous that it's literally one of the names that he's called, that he calls himself in the Bible. God is jealous. So, first of all, we see that God is jealous, but here's another interesting point. I want to point out about, let me just take a sidetrack on this worshiping false gods and fornication thing. In 1 Corinthians 6, in verse number 18, the Bible says that fornication is sinning against your own body. And if you notice in the Bible, fornication or carnal or sexual sin as the Bible would call it, is really, it's really propped up as a really big deal. And it's many times it is attached to worshiping false gods. Have you noticed that? So the question is, turn to Exodus chapter 32. Since fornication, and we see it again in Numbers chapter 25, we see that they go out and they start committing whoredom, they start committing fornication with the daughters of Moab and then what's the very next thing that they do? They start worshiping what in the world? Those seem like two completely separate things. But no, they're not separate. And that's the thing that the Bible is trying to tell us. Look at Exodus chapter 32 in verse number 19. This is where Aaron makes the calves of gold for the children of Israel. And it came to pass as soon as he came nigh into the camp that he saw the calf. This is Moses coming down and he sees them worshiping the calf. And Moses's anger waxed hot and he cast the tables. He made commandments with him out of his hands and break them beneath the mount. And he took the calf what they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and strotted upon the water and made the children of Israel drink it, drink of it. And Moses said to Aaron, what are these people unto thee that thou has brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron said, let not the anger of my Lord waxed hot. Thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief. He blames it on the people. For they said to me, make us gods, lowercase g, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man brought us up out of the land of Egypt. We want not what has become of him. He was gone not that long, 40 days. And they said unto him, whosoever hath any gold, let him break it off. So they gave it to me. I cast it into the fire and there came out this calf. He gives this lame excuse about how it became. He blames the people. He says that it was an accident that it looked like a calf. You know, it must not have been a very good, you know, carving or whatever, right? But anyway, and then Moses in verse 25, and Moses saw the people were naked, for Aaron had made them naked under their shame among their enemies. Now we don't actually know exactly what they were doing there, but look, this has something to do with carnal sin right here. Okay? So the point being is many times throughout the Bible turned to Deuteronomy chapter 17. Deuteronomy chapter 17 gives us the answer. Many times throughout the Bible, whenever we see fornication, we see this going into false gods, just worshiping false gods. Deuteronomy chapter 17 verse number 17. Here's the answer right here. Now it doesn't exactly explain why this happens, but it tells us that it's going to happen in Deuteronomy chapter 17 and verse number 17. Some things we just need to realize, this is how it works and this is why God is warning us this. Deuteronomy chapter 17 is giving kings some advice here in Deuteronomy chapter 17 verse 17. It says, neither shall he multiply wives to himself. Why? Because that's mean to his wife. It doesn't say that. It says, the biggest problem with multiplying wives to yourself that his heart turned not away. Neither shall he multiply himself silver and gold. Look, here's the bottom line that we learn from, I'll just say, carnal sin in the Bible, like fornication, like hordom, like these things. It will turn your heart from the Lord. That is what the Bible is teaching. And guess what? It works both ways. So just remember this in your life, that carnal sin, hordom, fornication, whatever other kind of adultery, you know, all these different things, all these carnal sins will turn your heart from the Lord and guess what? It works the other way too. If your heart turns from the Lord, it will lead to carnal sin like that. That's what the Bible is showing us here. That's what the Bible is showing us again and again and again. What happened to Solomon? He multiplied wives. He multiplied wives. Okay. What's the big deal? That was just his problem, right? That was just, no, the big deal is it turned his heart from the Lord. And he started building all these altars and all these idols to false gods because one thing leads to another and the other always leads to the other thing. So we must stay away from this thing. Look, they go hand in hand. It's not just a sin against your own body, as it says in 1 Corinthians. It will actually lead you will sin against the Lord. And that's where the real trouble comes in. You're like, oh man, the sin's against my own body. That sounds pretty bad. Look, you sin against the Lord, it's going to get worse. That's when the real trouble will set in in your life. Let's go back to jealousy. Back to jealousy. Look at Joel chapter 2. So God is jealous. He's so jealous that that's one of his names.  That's over. We see that he doesn't want us going after false God. So he's jealous for our attention. He's jealous for our worship. That's the first thing. Joel chapter 2, look at verse number 18. Then the Lord will be jealous for what? For his land and pity his people. So the Bible says here, he's jealous for his land. He's jealous for his people. Look at Ezekiel chapter 39. Ezekiel chapter 39. Look at verse 25. So God is jealous over a lot of things. He's jealous over us. He's jealous over our worship. He's jealous over his land that he gave the people. He's jealous over, look at Ezekiel 39 and verse number 25. Therefore, thus say at the Lord God, now it will bring again the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for what? For my holy name. God is jealous over his name. He's jealous over his name. Now go to Elijah and go to 1 Kings chapter 19. And let's look at Elijah. Now we saw God is jealous over things. Let's look at Elijah. So we see that Phineas, the ten princes they were jealous over the Lord. They were jealous over the Lord. Elijah was also jealous over the Lord. Look at 1 Kings chapter 19 and verse number 10. 1 Kings chapter 19 and verse number 10. Look at Ezekiel chapter 19 and verse number 10. We read this on Sunday morning. This is where Elijah is running away from Jezebel. He's running for his life. He's all alone. He's at the literal low point of his life. We don't see a lower point in the Bible of Elijah's life than right here. 1 Kings chapter 19. Look at verse number 10. And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts. For the children of Israel have forsaken that covenant, thrown down nine altars, slain thy prophets with the sword. And even I, only I am left and they seek my life to take it away. Because like everybody's turned from you Lord, but I've been jealous over you. Here's what jealous means. Jealous, the true meaning of the word jealous, we've messed it all up today. It basically means protective. That's what it means. He's jealous for, and you'll notice, whenever the word jealous is used, you'll see this word his. He's jealous over his people, his worship, his name, his God. Jealous is to be protective over something that is yours. Something that belongs to you. Now the people, what people mess up today is they confuse jealousy with envy. Look at Proverbs chapter 14 and verse number 30. Because people will use those words in the English language today. They will use those words interchangeably, but that is not correct when you are reading the Bible. Proverbs 14, look at verse 30. Proverbs 14 and verse number 30. The Bible says, a sound heart is the life of the flesh. But envy, the rottenness of bones. So obviously, God doesn't have any rottenness in him. He's not envious, he's jealous. So it's different. The English language is being butchered today, by the way. Okay? So you need to stick.  I'm not even going to mention some of them, but look, you shouldn't be using these words because you don't adopt this.  It means protective. In Acts 13, verse 45, I'll just read it for you. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming. So the Jews, why were they, they were envious against Paul? Why? Because he had the multitudes. The multitudes were there and they were listening to Paul. They were Paul's multitudes and they were envious against that. They were envious that they didn't have the multitudes listening to them. They were envious against attention that Paul was getting and they were not. They were envious against something that wasn't theirs that they weren't getting. So, they coveted that is what they did and that became envy. So envy, the Bible calls envy, it goes hand in hand with lust. Like, I want something that somebody else is and I'm envious of that. So I want it and that's that's that lust sort of something that isn't mine. Covetousness, same thing. I covet something. I covet something that somebody else has in the church and I'm mad that I don't have it, that they have it and I don't and that's envy. That's bad. That's bad. Envy, covetousness, lust, they all go hand in hand. That is nothing to do with jealousy. Jealousy is being protective over something that is yours and there's nothing wrong with it. As a matter of fact it's one of the names of God in the Bible. So let me ask you this. Let me ask you this this evening. Are you jealous for the Lord?  What do you mean? Are you jealous for the Lord? Think about what is the Lord? Are you jealous for His property? Are you jealous for His church?  Are you jealous? Are you jealous over that? Think about other things that are yours. Think about your material possessions. Think about your house. You know, think about your house.  I mean, what if the government came in tomorrow and said, you are no longer able to own property in the U.S.? It is all ours now.  But I mean, wouldn't that make you mad? The government came in and just confiscated everybody's property. You think, that's weird. No, that's happened many times throughout history. The theory of communism may be summed up in one sentence, abolish all private property. Karl Marx. Look, this has been done before.  There's been a coup and they just say, all private property is abolished. We now own all the farms. We all own all the factories. We now own all the property, the people, meaning the government. And this is where tens of millions of people starved throughout history. It's likely, it would likely cause a revolution here if that type of thing happened. Why? Because it's yours. That's why. Because it's your property and you have a right to be jealous over it. Your property. How about your family? What if, what if, I mean, what if somebody came in and wanted to take your family away from you? Wanted to take away your wife? Wanted to take away your children? Come in and just confiscate your family. Kidnap your family. Look, any man worth his salt would probably fight to the death or should fight to the death to stop such a thing. Why? Because they're yours. Because you have a right to be jealous over those things. But are we jealous over the Lord? Is the question. Do you allow people to trash the Lord around you? Are you jealous for the Lord's name? How many conversations are you in where you hear people just like blaspheming the Lord and you say nothing? Are you jealous for the Lord's name? Jealous is his name. How about not just the Lord but how about his church? Are you jealous for the Lord's church? This church doesn't belong to me. This church doesn't belong to you. This church belongs to Jesus Christ. Are you jealous over that? Would you allow people to feel comfortable trashing your God, trashing his church around you? I was talking with one of you the other night and we were talking about the Waco thing. How many of you remember Waco? You young people don't remember it. Waco was like in the 90s. And it was this cult and it was these people and they lived in this commune in Texas and there were a bunch of weirdos. Like the guy, the leader of the cult said he was Jesus and all that. I mean, look, it was a false prophet.  People look at us, I mean, people look at that and they think that that's strange. And somebody said in this conversation, they said, you know, yeah, the branch of Indians, they were false prophets and they're all, but from the world's perspective, they probably look at us the same or similar, which is, you know, which is true because people look at us and they're like, this is odd, what we're trying to make is that this is how people see us, but understand that everything about your life that people don't understand, you should be jealous over. Everything's spiritual. Look, because guess what? It may seem strange to be in a church like this to people outside, but go to Romans chapter 12. It may seem strange to the outside world at, look, this world is changing every day. This country is changing every day in ways that I don't, I mean, I try to keep up with it all, but it's really changing very quickly. So, for the world to look at us and think that we're strange, I'm looking at them and saying, these are strange things that are happening. These are strange changes. This is strange that you are not recognizing how wrong that these things are, that the world is going towards. But look, here's all we're really doing from a biblical perspective. As we live this Christian life and try to raise our children in the proper way, try to keep them out of the wicked influences of the world around us, all we're doing is Romans 12-1, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice. I mean, that's what we're doing. As we live our life and serve the Lord and go out and try to bear fruits and go out and, you know, fulfill the Great Commission and teach all nations, baptizing them. I mean, as we do this, you know, all we're trying to do is have our bodies be a living sacrifice to God. Why? Because, you know, a living sacrifice that's wholly acceptable on to God, which is your exceptional, awesome thing, best thing ever you could do. No, which is your reasonable service. It's like, this is like, it's just, it's just, it's reasonable that you would do that. As a saved believer, it's reasonable. It's average. It's expected. It's, you know, it's not over the top. It's kind of like what you just should be doing. So other people look at it and they're like, that's really strange. That's really weird. Look, they're going to attack it. They're going to attack it. They're not going to understand it. They're like, well, 99% of all the other churches don't do all the things that you do. Why are you doing that? Why do you go to church there? They're attacking it. They're attacking something you should be jealous over it. Look, just because people think something is over the top and strange doesn't mean that that's how God sees it. God sees it as your reasonable service. Not something that's extreme and you're going way overboard. But why would we allow ourselves and ultimately our God that we represent be denigrated in our presence? Why? Everything in your life, spiritual, which if you're living a separated life is near everything. Everything that you do is different. Be jealous for your God is the lesson. Look, if more Christians stood up everywhere for everything that they should stand up for, I mean, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in today. It wouldn't seem so strange to people today. Think about this. It was just an altar. They hadn't even done anything yet. They hadn't even sacrificed anything yet. It was just perceived. Think about this, children of Israel, how jealous they were of their God. It was just perceived that they might, that they might do something. Look, if Christians would be more jealous over their God, his word, we wouldn't be where we are today. Seems simple. Turn to John chapter 10. Let me get really specific for you all now. Turn to John chapter 10. You say, well, you know what? I don't want to be. I just don't think I'm going to be jealous.  I like to go to church. I like to go soul-winning. I like to do my thing. And then I just kind of like to fit in with people. I kind of like to go to the events that I go to, go to the things that I go to. Yeah, people say stuff. People say things. I just, it's like water off a duck's back to me. Look at John 10, 28. Very well known verse in the Bible. Look what the Bible says here. And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish. Talking about eternal life, Jesus is saying this, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Jesus talking about the gift of eternal life that he gives us says no man will pluck them out of my hand, meaning this eternal life is held by me, Jesus says. So what does this have to do with being jealous? People say I just, I just don't want to cause waves. I don't want to be jealous. Look, the children of Israel cause some waves here. They literally came there and they were ready to go to war over this. Jesus here is saying your eternal life is held by me and no man will take it away from me. Yet, people that aren't jealous over the Lord, you know what they end up doing? They allow, they end up allowing man, a man to take away their spiritual life, to take it from them. Nobody can take your salvation. Jesus has that, but guess what? Somebody can take your spiritual life from you. They'll ought to just be taken from them. What kind of man? Look at John chapter 10 and verse number one. John chapter 10 coming through for us tonight. Look at John chapter 10 and verse number one. Verily, verily, who in the world would try to take away somebody's spiritual life? What kind of person would do that? And who, and how would they do it? How would they do it? Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door I can't even read. He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climeth up some other way the same as a thief and a robber.  They never go through the proper methods. They never have a problem and want to take it head on with the pastor of the church. They never say, I've got a problem with this church and I want to get so and so and so and so out of the church. I'm going to go talk to the pastor about that. No, they climb in some other way. They climb in some other way and you say, yeah, but these people that would get their spiritual life stolen from them by somebody like this, they're simple. Romans 16 says that they're simple. They deceive the hearts of the simple. All the same, they're still deceived. All the same, they don't recognize the voice that they should recognize here. All the same, they think that this guy that crawls in the window is the shepherd. All the same yet, but here's another thing about people that will get their spiritual life stolen away. You wonder if you should be jealous over the Lord. Just follow me through on this. People that get their spiritual life stolen away, they're simple but they're also many times in sin. Many times they're in sin. You see, because faithful are the wounds of a friend is what the Bible says. But you know what? It says faithful are the wounds of a friend. So if brother so-and-so is doing something that, you know, brother so-and-so knows is wrong, maybe there's a time when brother so-and-so, I won't even use names. I don't want to make somebody a sinner here, but maybe they just say, you know what, brother, if you keep doing that and I'm not going to use anything on this guy as it sits right here, but you know, brother, you should stop doing that because the Bible says this and you should do this and this could end up doing this. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. But guess what? A friend in sin doesn't necessarily like. It doesn't say that the wounds will be good. The wounds will feel nice. So you know what people in sin do? People in sin, they want to be around other people that are in sin. See, in this church, I'll just give you an example. In this church, you're going to have a real hard time with the culture and you're going to have a real hard time being a man that doesn't work in this church. Like, it will be impossible for you to be in this church and be a man that doesn't work. It will be very, very difficult for you if you are a man that can't hold down a job. You just, maybe you work but you bounce from job to job to job. That will be very difficult for you to be in a church like this. Look, that's by design. You fathers with daughters can thank me later. But that's by design. But guess what? Faithful are the wounds of a friend. And people like that are the ones that are vulnerable when people will, because they'll go to friends that are also in that sin. That are also, you know, doing that type of thing because that makes them, that makes them feel better. That makes them feel better. So you say, why in the world?  Three long months.  Look, I'm watching people who are not jealous over their spiritual life get stolen away because somebody's popping up an altar and they're not saying, what are you doing over there with that? What are you popping up that altar for?  And guess what? They're not the only ones that suffer. So watching this happen again and again and again.  It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense logically that somebody would follow a drunk. It doesn't make any sense logically that somebody would follow a drug addict. Does that make sense to anybody? This shows you the spiritual war that is going on. This is why. And you say, there's no danger for me. There's no danger for me. But let me tell you something. It may not be such a blatant, foolish thing that brings you down. Be jealous over your spiritual life. And you keep guard over your spiritual life because these dangers are very real. The spiritual war is very real. This is why pastors get up and call people out from the pulpit and dress people down from the pulpit. Because you know what? I sit there and as we prayed the prayer list tonight, I'm like, you know, we prayed. One of the prayers that somebody put on the list was, God grant us mercy. And I sit here and I go through this play book again and again into my head over the last three months. And I sit here and I say, I want to be merciful. I want to be merciful. I want to be merciful. But I'm like, was I too merciful? Was I too merciful? Should I come down harder, quicker? Why? Could I have saved some sheep? Could I have saved some of this from happening? Ultimately, I don't know.  When you have something in your life that you are doing for spiritual reasons, you're raising your kids in a definitely weird way according to the world for spiritual reasons. Are you not? Are we not trying to accomplish a goal? When somebody comes after you and even subtly says something against that, you'll be jealous for the Lord. Because there's consequences to not being jealous for the Lord. When you see people starting to build alters around you, you tear those things down. Or you call them out and you say, what is that? What are you doing? Don't you say those things? Don't you do those things? Don't you try to influence this? You'd be jealous over these spiritual things because these attacks are going to happen to every single one of you. Every single one of you. The spiritual war, look, if I've seen anything in the last three months, the spiritual war is real. It's real. And look, we're a small bunch but we're doing great things here. And that's why it's real. That's why it's real. Be jealous for the Lord. Let's bow our heads and have a word prayer.


Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, will the band please, where's the band? Thank you very much, it's a wonderful band and we're gonna call on you again in just a moment. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Congressman Bards along with Secretary Hodges, co-chairman of this train. We have aboard the face lady of our land. She has traveled through three of the great states of the South, Virginia, and North Carolina, and now the great state of South Carolina. She has appeared, I would say, now at least 25 times and everywhere in the South land, this lady who is born and reared in the South and loves it just as you and I do has been given a magnificent reception. Now, before I introduce some people whom you already know well and favorably and whom you have honored with higher public office in this great state of our country, I would like to call some names of some distinguished citizens of this great section of South Carolina who have been on the train and who will depart as I call their names. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sims, the second co-chairman of this train. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Sims, I served in the house with Hugo, a distinguished member of Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Wolfe. Julian Wolfe has been a solicitor of this district for many years, a distinguished citizen. Senator and Mrs. Marshall Williams, a very distinguished citizen of your great state, the chairman of the board of trustees of the Magnificent University of South Carolina, Rod L. Osborne in his lovely way. And Mr. and Mrs. Robert Osmond. And Mr. and Mrs. Harrod Bozard, co-chairman of the Ladybred Special. Governor and Mrs. George Bell Timberman. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Scott, Donald Russell Jr., Tom Hutto, Mr. Hendricks, Mr. Shaheen, and all of the governor's office, Ms. Ruth Moore, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Jeffries Jr., and Ms. Inaz Watson, who I understand has been in the public service of this state for a great many years. And now it's my privilege to not introduce to you but present to you one of the great governors in the United States of America, a Democrat through and through Governor Russell of South Carolina. It's a great pleasure to be here. It's a great honor to be a part of this train. And I know as this train goes through South Carolina, it's a harbinger of what's going to happen on November the 3rd when Lyndon beat, when all of us are going to combine to put South Carolina in the Lyndon beat Johnson dollar. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is not on my agenda, but this lovely lady, the wife of the governor, Virginia Russell, has been on this train since we left Washington yesterday. Not only that, she and my wife helped to put this train together. And I wish you'll just say a word, Virginia, and let these folks show their appreciation to you. Thank you so much. I'm proud to be a Democrat, to work for the Democratic cause and to have this train come through South Carolina and to bring to you the loveliest lady, the most gracious lady, the kindest lady, the first lady of the world, Ms. Lyndon Johnson. Now, let me tell you something. In South Carolina, we changed the name of this train. It was a Lady Bird Special, but now it's a Johnson Special. We got four Johnsons on this train. We got Olin Johnson. We got his wife. We got Lady Bird Johnson, and we got Lyndon Bird Johnson.  I want to present to you the wife of a senior senator from South Carolina, one of the loveliest ladies on earth, and our Magnificent Democrat, Mrs. Olin Johnson. I can. Folks, this has been the greatest day in the history of South Carolina. From the moment we came over the state line, people have rallied, have come out, and they have made us know that we believe in Lyndon Johnson and his principles, and I know that God's blessings will be upon us as we follow him in the November election. Thank you. Now, let me tell you something. You know the president, after attending the biggest rally in the South last night in Rawley, is out in the Midwest today, and all of you know what's happening in this country. The president's going to carry the West, and he's going to carry the Midwest, and he's going to carry Maine, and Vermont, and New Hampshire, and Arizona, and if anybody thinks he's not going to carry South Carolina and North Carolina, now let one of the great senators of the United States Senate, a loyal Democrat, a true side of the great state of South Carolina, tell you what's going to happen here. Here's your friend and the president of the United States, and of South Carolina, the honorable old Lyndon Johnson. Congressman Boggs, another distinguished guest, I'm glad to have this privilege to come to Orangeburg and to speak to you good people. For I am one that has been a Democrat, I intend to be a Democrat, and I'm a Democrat because of the principles that I stand for, trying to help the farmers, trying to help the working people of this state, and I can also say that if you vote for gold, water, you're not voting for progress evil. Now friends, I know what's going to happen on November the 3rd. Your people are going to step of the record of the man, and I dare anybody to step of the record, and if they don't find out that Lyndon Johnson is head and shoulders above gold, water, then you can vote for gold, water. Now then, friends, there's much at stake in this state. You farmers, look at how the votes have been in the United States Senate. You'll find that gold, water on each instance has voted against the farmers of this nation, and I'm on that committee, vice chairman of the committee. So vote then if you want to for gold, water, and see your cotton drop, six or eight percent. I would be sorry for the middle people, a place where I worked for 10 years, because I fear that they will be shut down, and that people will be thrown out of employment, because I know that they can't meet their world competition and pay eight cents a pound more for cotton. So it's between the farmers and the middle people that's going to be caught in this race. Can I be dared in my duty if I didn't come and tell my people of South Carolina what you are facing in this election?  Now ladies and gentlemen, on yesterday morning, as the sun was rising over the capital dome of the great United States of America, which we love and whose future we have faith in, a crowd gathered in Alexandria, Virginia, one of the historic cities of our country. Since that time, less than 48 hours ago, Mrs. Johnson, the face lady of our land, has spoken to almost a quarter of a million southern Americans, and they have given her a warm, friendly reception, because she is of the South. She was born and reared in the South. She understands our problems. She has compassion for our people because she knows them and loves them just as you and I do. And it's my great privilege, my high honor, to present to you a good and wonderful woman, one that the whole world admires and respects the face lady of our land, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Orangeburg wasn't on my schedule, but I wanted to come here because I heard there are a lot of good, faithful Democrats here. And I wanted to say to you that we value you, we believe in you, we appreciate you. In fact, I asked for this assignment to make this whistle stop South because this is the part of the country that I care about very much. It is the home of my ancestors, my grandmother, Emma Bates and her parents were born here in South Carolina, and throughout the 29 years in Congress and the vice presidency that my husband has spent, he has worked with your congressmen and senators to do for the state of South Carolina the things it needs most to help it secure a better chance to a better life. The Democratic Party has always been concerned with the problems of South Carolina. And I know South Carolina will remember that this fall. I thank you for this wonderful reception.  Both from, from Kaplan and State College for coming. We certainly, we certainly, we certainly do appreciate all of y'all coming. We particularly appreciate the signs even though there are a few to disagree. We know in our hearts who's right, people from South Carolina here cheering for us. Cause we know those other people are just from the state of confusion to the White House. Thank you folks. Give them all a big hand.


So in December of last year the very first Starbucks store in the company's history successfully formed a union Now it seemed as if to the chagrin of Starbucks corporation That was the beginning of what is now likely a domino effect because as Jackabins Alex Press explains more than 50 Starbucks locations across 19 different states are all opting to form unions now to say that Starbucks is unhappy about this Would be an understatement because they've gone full union buster in an effort to thwart unionization efforts but at one particular store in Tennessee they really are pulling out all the stops and They've decided to now retaliate against the workers who are leading the effort to form a union and they're pretty shameless here So as insider explains Starbucks fired several employees involved in organizing a union in Memphis on Tuesday The company confirmed to insider the coffee giant says the employees were fired for violating security policies Starbucks workers united the union that would represent the Memphis workers if they won an NLRB vote Says that the company fired workers in retaliation for organizing and speaking to the media The union said that the seven workers 35% of the stores total workforce were fired Starbucks says workers violated numerous policies including maintaining a secure work environment and safe security standards by staying in the store After hours and allowing unauthorized people in for the interview pointing to a January 18th tweet from local news outlet Wmca that appears to show a TV crew inside the store now in response to that particular Interview with local media that was cited in this article Starbucks closed that store for four days Now of course they didn't say we're closing the store because we're mad about that interview that you did with local media And we want to punish you they cited COVID as the reason a positive COVID case which That's never been a cause for them to shut down before so they're obviously Retaliating here, but now they're firing workers citing a number of different policies that were violated by the workers more than the ones that we read in that article They claim that another worker access access the safe and they were unauthorized to do that now Of course all of these reasons are completely bogus if you believe Starbucks here is firing them for justifiable reasons And they're not just retaliating against the workers who were specifically leading the cause to unionize the store Then I've got an NFT to sell you but they are very clearly Retaliating here and if these policies were so important then wouldn't the employees Hear about these policies wouldn't they have at some point heard about them? Well, they're claiming they were never told about these policies Nikki Taylor who's helping to organize the union who's also a shift supervisor Spoke about this on Twitter saying being fired for policies that I have never heard of never been talked to about before Never had a write-up about and all of a sudden it's an offense to get fired over this is an outrage They are firing the entire committee Starbucks workers United responded saying Starbucks corporate is currently firing virtually the entire union Leadership in Memphis after they spoke to the media They are repeating history by retaliating against unionizing efforts the arc of Starbucks Union busting is long But it bends toward losing. I sure hope so now they are shamelessly Retaliating against workers these companies who try to break up union efforts and retaliate against workers They never say that that's what they're doing. They always cite some bullshit excuse But it's very clear here that this is a violation So as Brett Wilkins of common dreams explains Starbucks workers United said it would file charges against the company at the National Labor Relations Board Last year an NLRB Administrative judge found that Starbucks had illegally retaliated against two baristas at a Philadelphia Starbucks who sought to unionize According to the NLRB the judge Andrew Golan found that Starbucks closely monitored their public social media activity attempted to gauge employee support for the employees efforts and unlawfully spied on protected conversations One of the employees initiated with co-workers the agency added that Golan concluded Starbucks retaliated against the employees and Discharged them in an attempt to quell the organizing drive now a more perfect union released a really good video where they talk about this union busting effort in particular at this store and they described this as a One of its most aggressive union busting campaigns in the country So this particular location out of all the locations that are trying to unionize they're being extremely harsh here So going back to the store closure that we cited here so after the employees spoke with media they were very angry about that they then closed the store and The employees here in this video that we're about to watch They're gonna kind of explain the situation and what Starbucks has been doing because firing them in retaliation for forming a union or trying to form A union that's just really you know the tip of the iceberg What Starbucks has been trying to do is drive these workers out by punishing them Little by little because they're trying to form a union Take a look because they knew you guys were coming today and because we were having our sit-in and we were speaking to media today They have closed our store They're saying it's because Word got back to the store manager and district manager about that so today our store was closed They said it was because of a positive COVID case, but in history has it We've never closed the store immediately in all day for COVID cases Usually the store manager and district manager tried to find a way to keep that store open for the day But today we were completely closed. It's completely anti union corporate and our district manager and store manager have been trying to Stop our pro-union protests. They've been trying to come in and intimidate us so right now we have an interim store manager and now she's bringing in all of her managers and all of her employees to our store and They're deliberately taking our hours. I went from working 35 to 39 hours a week down to 26 hours and Then I got benefits taken away. We're supposed to get a mark out. It's like a free drink a free food item Those were taken away from us So we weren't even allowed to get markouts like go to other stores and get markouts and stuff and for some people That's a whole meal that they rely on there are some people who go to Starbucks to get that lunch item That they need because they can't afford specific things They've been pulling policies out of a hat that we never heard of to try to intimidate us. It's not really stopping anything It's actually putting fuel to the fire now. It's interesting how she talks about them citing policies to punish workers that they've never heard of and Just days after this video was released They do that to justify firing the leaders conspicuously of this unionization effort now Starbucks didn't want it to come to this of course They would do whatever they need to to thwart this union effort But they would prefer to just drive out these employees because firing them in retaliation reforming a union is a really bad look So they have been trying to basically cut their hours maybe by like 15 minutes So that way they're not working long enough to qualify for a lunch break They've been cutting shifts for employees and some of them have had to get a second jobs Of course they closed the store for four days in response to the interviewer coming into the store and talking with the employees and doing a local Story or doing a story at local media because of it So they've been trying to drive them out so they don't have to fire them But since that effort has seemingly failed now they're at their last resort and they're saying okay fuck it Let's just fire them. We tried to get them to quit But now we're just gonna go ahead and fire them specifically fired the leaders of this unionization effort I mean they couldn't possibly be more brazen now in that video they referenced the interim manager That's a huge union buster But what's interesting is how they got to this point with that interim manager so the previous boss was actually somebody who was friendly with all the workers and Corporate was trying to force that boss to punish these employees specifically that woman who we heard from they were making her write her up for arbitrary Reasons and you know cut hours for employees and so she didn't want to do that So she quit and that's exactly what Starbucks wanted because then they brought in the interim manager Who is working closely with corporate to bust up this union now? I don't know if that particular manager came from corporate or if it's an outside hire Who was hired with a stipulation that they'd get high pay if they break up this union effort I mean either way what Starbucks is doing here is just it's so brazen. They don't even care They don't care about the negative press their goal is to break up this union because they see if one store unionizes Then that's going to lead to a nationwide effort So if a dozen stores unionize then I mean it's only going to continue to happen The dominoes will fall one by one by one So I'll link you to that full video from a more perfect union It was just really really informative But Starbucks here is absolutely shameless and I for one do not want to give my money to a company Who retaliates against their own workers for trying to form a union? Perhaps this is the location that they're trying to make an example out of by treating their unionized or Workers who are trying to unionize more specifically the harshest but either way this is a policy that comes from corporate They don't want these unions They've been trying to bust up these unions across the country and now unfortunately for them by going too far a Lot more people are going to take notice of their treatment of workers and their anti-union efforts And I hope that it backfires because this is absolutely unacceptable


Our uni experience at Newcastle was fun, that's actually where we met. Yeah, so we're in our second year of uni and one day we just decided let's make an Instagram account. We mainly started it to share recipes because we loved cooking, we were doing keeps of cooking at that time and we started to gain a bit more traction. We're probably being quite entrepreneurial from the start, being consistent on social media, sharing recipes and some general nutrition education. We were really able to start building a following, especially a following with Newcastle as well, because we were living in Newcastle at that time. The best thing about Nutrition and Dietetics was the final year. We loved that all of the placements were in the final year and you got to actually have a taste of what it might be like to work as a dietitian in the community or clinically in the hospitals. So clean queens to us is what we wish we had access to when we were younger and starting to get interested in things like health and nutrition. We really try to be relatable down to earth and try to make nutrition advice as simple and sustainable as it can be.


This year, we are shooting for that, that we want to have one million people across the world who will teach at least a three-minute yoga to one more person, their own family or friend or somebody else or whoever. One million people. Who we will give you the title of Yoga Vira, we will give you the tools, a simple video, three minutes. So we want to get one million people to teach the simple form of yoga at least to one more person. But once they know the joy of transforming one life, I'm very sure they won't stop there. See, whatever we do, write a book, or cook some food, build a building, do whatever, essentially you're doing all this in some way to touch another life, isn't it? For this, you must ask our teachers in three days to five days, they touch lives in a way that people who have lived with them for twenty-five years wouldn't have touched them. So this is a tremendous wound because when you offer a tool to someone which will transform their life, how deeply you touch them, you cannot imagine. We want millions of people to know this joy. Yoga for well-being. Yoga Namaskar. Yoga Namaskar is a powerful system by itself. It activates the lumbar region of the spine in a tremendous way, strengthens the muscles along the spine, giving it a reinforcement so that as one ages, the collapsing of the spine which causes pinching of the nerves does not happen. And if already there's damage is setting in, the best way to regenerate your spine would be by doing Yoga Namaskar. It has all-round benefits for the entire body. Yoga Namaskar is a very simple and complete process by itself. Anyone who is seven years or above can practice Yoga Namaskar. To practice Yoga Namaskar, you will need a light stomach condition. This is approximately one-and-a-half hours gap after having a meal. Pregnant women in the third and fourth month of pregnancy should avoid practicing Yoga Namaskar. From the fifth month onward, they can resume practicing as long as they are comfortable. Yoga Namaskar Instructions. Stand with your feet comfortably apart and parallel to each other. Keep your arms and shoulders loose and relaxed.   This is the starting position.     This is step one. Do this three times. Step two. As you exhale, make a sound from the pit of the throat. Step three.   As you lower it down, it is a full exhalation with the sound. After you do this three times, you'll squat straight down. Step four.  As you exhale, making the sound, bring it down behind the neck.    As you exhale, bring your hands towards your chest. Do this three times. Step five. Inhale, hands up. Exhale, down. Inhale, up. Exhale, down. Inhale, hands straight out, fingers pointing forward. Exhale, hands to the chest. Once more. Step six. Inhale, hands up. Exhale, down. Inhale, up.  Exhale, down. Inhale, hands straight out. Exhale, hands to the chest. Now step seven. As you inhale, push your hands straight out in Namaskar. Bring your knees to the ground. Stretch your toes behind you. Body is resting upon the heels. Place the hands together on the ground so that the thumbs and pointing fingers are touching, forming a triangle. Your elbows should be slightly bent. This is Baal Asana. Stay here until your breath stabilizes or for a minimum of two minutes. This is one cycle of Yoga Namaskar. There is a modification to the practice. Those who have hernia and also those who find it difficult to squat, you can place a support about half an inch or one inch thick below your heels and squat down, ensuring the feet are still parallel to each other. Offer Yoga Namaskar to at least one more person and become a Yogavira. Share the video and spread yoga to the world.


started for me. Abinas. Started, ma'am. Can you just see it? Good morning everyone and welcome to our weekly mentoring hour. I'm so glad that all of you could join us this morning. Thank you. This morning we're just going to have time of a round of questions that you can ask and our faculty will do our best to answer your questions before we begin. Can we just pause for a word of prayer? Can I ask one of you to lead us in prayer please? Anyone lead us in prayer? Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we just thank you once again for this hour of mentoring and we pray, Father, that as the leaders through your word, Father, that we will be able to apply whatever we're learning, Father, in our study, Father. And we pray that we will be able to apply to save our lives. We also pray for a blessing upon our entire faculty and a blessing upon all our students here, the Bible College. Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you Sanjay. So this morning time is open for each one of you to ask your questions.  It can also be questions related to life and ministry. So please feel free to post your questions in the chat section and our faculty is here and we'll do our best to answer your questions. Or you could even unmute your mics and ask your questions, which is even better. So we could do our best to answer your questions. So the time is open for all of you. Any questions anyone has while we wait for for all of you to post your questions in the chat section.  So any of you like to share your learning experiences, what you enjoyed, anything new that you learned, any new insights, how has your semester been, what is your experience been at all people's Bible College? Anyone likes to share? Yes, please go ahead, Sanjay. Yes, but just a short, I just wanted to share, like, I mean, so far, it's been, it's been an amazing experience for me as a student of the Bible College. I mean, it's almost a year now. And one thing was, it's always good to hear the word of God, you know, it's always refreshing. And not only that, it is like, as we go through the day, there's always something to take away and apply in our lives towards the end of the session. I mean, there's always some inspiring thought that we can carry through the day. And so there's not just something we get once a week is like on a daily basis for being refreshed by the word. And it kind of encourages us, you know, to stand strong in the faith. Otherwise, if I'm not mistaken, an average person who probably just goes to church once a week. I mean, throughout the week, there's so much, so many thoughts and so many things that are bombarding their mind.  It's like living waters on a daily basis for us. I mean, I just like to leave it at that. And it's been so inspiring with the discussions we had in the classroom and, you know, the kind of the oneness, the body of Christ. I just wanted to share that. Thank you, Sanjay. Thank you so much for sharing your experience, your learning experience here at Old People's Church Bible College the last few months. Anyone else would like to share? We have a question here from Jeffina. But the question was asked by Deeksha. And the question is if the devil can't read our mind, how does he take control of our minds and our thoughts? Thank you for your question, Deeksha. And thank you for posting it, Jeffina. Yes, while the devil can't read our minds in the same way that God can, he can influence our thoughts and, you know, manipulate our minds in various ways. So, you know, the devil often uses temptation just to plant thoughts or desires in our mind that can lead us away from God's will. And these temptations basically will weaken our desires and, you know, bring an instant fear and make it more challenging for us to resist those tempting thoughts and desires. The devil is also, you know, described as the father of lies in John chapter 8 verse 44. And we know that he deceives people. And how does he deceive people? Is he deceives people by distorting the truth and creating confusion in their minds? So through lies and deceptions, you know, he can lead us astray. The devil can also spiritually attack us, you know, and this spiritual attacks is aimed at basically, you know, causing us to lose our faith and our trust in God and, you know, causing doubt and fear to be instilled in us. And so he can attack us through negative thoughts, through, you know, guilt and shameful thoughts and feelings of, you know, unworthiness and also which will lead you to question God's love, God's faithfulness, God's goodness in your life. And he can also manipulate, you know, circumstances in our events in your life, in your life which can trigger those negative thoughts and emotions and can bring in a lot of doubt, can bring in a lot of hopelessness, despair and resentments. And also the devil can use our past failures, past weaknesses, traumas, you know, sinful habits and failures that we have gone through, things that have been unresolved in our lives, emotions, insecurities, you know, ties that we have that are not yet broken, you know, and he can use all of this to gain a foothold in our minds. And that's why the Bible Paul writes and tells in Romans, you know, that we need to renew our minds every day, you know, so that we will know what is God's good, pleasing and perfect will. So it's important that we renew our minds and how do we renew our minds? We renew our minds with God's word and what is God's word? God's word is the truth. So we replace the lies that he instills in our minds, he feeds in our minds with the truth of God's word.  And, you know, your word is the truth and we know that the truth will set us free. Okay. So I hope this helps, Deeksha. Nancy, if you want to add anything? Yes. So I was also thinking that, yes, the demon spirits, they can influence our minds.  But as you rightly put it, demons manipulate. So what they can also do is they can do a little bit of guesswork on the basis of their observation of us.  And then again, they can use that to really work along that and then, you know, try to influence us and tempt us and get us. So just that one additional thought that I wanted to share. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Nancy. Did that help, Deeksha? Nancy, you have to help me with the chat, if there are any questions, please. Yes, yes, just sending it across. So yes, Jeffina posted the question, does it mean that the devil uses the weaknesses of our flesh? Yes, he does. He can use our flesh and that is why, you know, we need to, like Paul writes in his letters, that we need to, you know, put to death the deeds of the flesh and we need to walk in the spirit, be led in the spirit and live in the spirit, which means basically, we need to feed our spirit man and we feed our spirit man with God's word, the truth in God's word and what God has spoken over us and what God has spoken regarding us in his word. And yes, we need to deprive our flesh, the passions and the desires, because, you know, how are we tempted? We are tempted when we are led away with our own desires. It's not, you know, Satan uses that to, you know, further the temptation, but we are tempted when we are, you know, when we are led away by our own passions and that gives way to sin. Yes, did that help? Okay, sorry, my chat is not working. It's just buffering from the time I've logged in. So we'll just move on to the next question by Joseph Williams. Joseph says, why have those who were once fervent in prayer become cold? Parson Nancy, would you like to help with this? Yes, sure Parson Selena. So there can be many reasons why somebody who is so strong in their prayer life now suddenly is finding it hard. And I can think of reasons like delay, when we are waiting on the Lord and the fulfillment has not yet come, that can be a cause of discouragement or disappointment that we expected, we stood in prayer and we trusted God for a certain result. But, you know, the outcome was not exactly how we envisioned it. So one could be facing disappointment. So that also can bring a person down and maybe they're not so fervent in prayer anymore. And I think the other thing is to just not have like a strong personal devotion. So when we don't spend time in the Word, when we don't spend time praying in the Spirit or we don't spend time in prayer in general, what also happens is, you know, the fire that we carry for the Lord can kind of become dull. So these are the three main reasons that I can think of. So if one can strengthen themselves to overcome discouragement, disappointment and even maintain a very strong, like personal strength in God, then, you know, we can continue to have a strong or a, if you want to call it like a fiery, fervent prayer life throughout. And I'm reminded of a scripture from Hebrews chapter 6, and verse 12, it says that you do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. So the writer of the Hebrews, he's saying, don't become weak, you know, in God, or in other words, you know, he's using sluggish, don't become sluggish, slow, weak, instead of that, be like those who have received God's promises, but what did they employ? Two things, we need faith and we need a lot of patience. Okay, so faith and patience, both are required. If we don't have both of these, you know, we may find ourselves, you know, fainting time to time. And as long as we keep ourselves strong in God and overcome disappointment, discouragement, our prayer life can remain, you know, powerful and fervent. I hope that helps. Thank you. I hope that helps, Joseph. Just like to thank you, Pastor Nancy. Just like to add that, you know, there are also external factors such as stress, you know, busyness in life, trials that can distract us from prayer, that can eat into our prayer time. So it can be challenging to, you know, focus on prayer to keep, you know, that time specifically for prayer, because we are so engaged with the things of the world, it can be our job, it can be our life, it can be the busyness of this life, it can also be sin and guilt, sometimes unconfessing and guilt can also create a barrier in one's relationship with God and can cause us to distance away from God and, you know, cause us to be, you know, dry in our prayer life.  So there can be even a kind of a spiritual complacency, a lethargy stagnation, also can be spiritual pride at times as well. And also if we neglect our spiritual disciplines, like, you know, reading God's word, meditating on God's word, fellowshiping with believers, because we feel that we've come to a place where we are strong spiritually in our prayer life and Satan can use that to also bring our downfall. I hope that helped, Joseph. Yes, Pastor Selena, he says thank you. Okay. Sorry about the chat section that's not working. Okay. Anyway, we'll move on. Shiv Kumar's question is, can a believer watch movies and other entertainment programs?  I have the right to do anything, but not everything is constructive. You know, or if you look at it in another version, everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. First Corinthians 10, 23. So you need to ask yourself this question. Yes, you can watch movies, but is it worth the time? You know, because of the content in the movies, or in the entertainment programs, if you're basically talking about serials, or if you're watching some entertainment program, like a quiz, which is fine, or a talent show, or you love cooking, and so you're watching, you know, the Masterchef programs, well, that's fine, because you get a lot of cooking tips from that, you're interested in quizzing, you're interested in, you know, knowing, getting more knowledge, that's fine.  There's a lot of nowadays, you know, these, these entertainment programs have also a lot of content to adultery, it's okay to marry, divorce. So what are people learning from this? You know, is it beneficial? You're permitted to watch it, but is it going to really benefit you? And also a few scripture passages that say in Romans chapter 12 verse 2 says, you know, do not conform yourself to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. You know, Ephesians 4-23 says, be made new in the attitude of your minds.   So if you have to think about such things, you have to watch such things, read such things. And Colossians chapter 3 verse 2 says, you know, set your minds on things above and not on earthly things. So, you know, in 2 Corinthians 10 verse 5 says, we need to take every thought captive in obedience to Christ Jesus. And so it's important what we feed our minds with because the battle is in the mind. And hence, we need to feed our minds with, feed our mind with the right things, with the pure things, with the true things and noble things and lovely and admirable, praiseworthy things, you will think about such things, you will live such things and you will, you know, walk in that truth and it will feed your spirit man and not your fleshly human nature. I hope that helped Shiv Kumar. Nancy, would you like to, Pasya Nancy, would you like to? Yeah, I think you've covered it quite thoroughly Pasya Selina. All I wanted to say is that in today's world we have the privilege of even reading up, you know, a review about the movie and actually knowing what content it brings. So, if at all, you know, you, we are thinking and I know parents who do this before the kids can watch a certain movie or a program, they read up about it and then they give permission and say, yeah, okay, you can watch, it's, it has good content or it doesn't have good content. So, since we have to be so careful about what goes in, because what goes in comes out and so being careful about the entertainment content that we are consuming is very, very important. Yeah, just that, thank you. Oh, thank you, Pasya Nancy. So, we'll move on to our next question by Siddiqui Nu Robert. Siddiqui Nu, good to hear from you after a long time. This question is, how can we, as people of God, effectively navigate the temptations and challenges present in the corporate environment while remaining steadfast in our faith and commitment to serving others? So, how can we, as people of God effectively navigate the temptations and challenges present in the corporate environment while remaining steadfast in our faith and commitment to serving others? Pasya Nancy, would you like to help in answering that? Yes, sure. So, Siddiqui Nu, what you are describing is life itself, whether we are in the corporate setting or anywhere else, because nobody is spared of temptations and challenges, but it is understandable that in the corporate environment with high work pressure, there are temptations that can, like if believers succumb to it, it can lead them away from God. So, what one could do is to, first of all, be really strong in the Lord to be really strong in the Word. And of course, if there is a possibility of being part of a fellowship or a group of believers who understand the corporate environment to maybe be a part of that so that people can strengthen one another. And with regard to specific principles, I would refer back to the book, the APC publication workplace. What is it called, Pasya Salina? Timeless principles of the workplace. Yeah. So, they address many specific issues and I am sure that can be a blessing to you. I hope that helps. Thank you. Thank you, Pasya Nancy. Just to add to Siddiqui Nu's question, it's basically knowing what the Word of God tells us how we need to live and it's just obeying that. So, for example, if you look at Daniel, you could look at Daniel in the Bible and he was somebody who worked in today's corporate world. But look at how Daniel lived his life. When he was supposed, Daniel chapter one, when he was supposed to eat from, they were served food from the King's table, Daniel knew that this was not the kind of food that he was supposed to eat because he was very young, he was about 13 or 14, he was very young, but he knew the kind of food, he knew the commandments, he was taught the laws, the Torah, the commandments and he knew that this was not the food that he was to eat because this food was not according to the standards that God had ordained for them as his people, the kind of meat, the wine, the food was offered to idols, to the Babylonian gods and so he takes a stand. A simple thing like food, but we see Daniel takes a stand and also when the prayer, the law was passed that no one should pray to any other God, a man the next 30 days, but what does Daniel do? He knows that he has to pray and how does he pray? He has to face towards Jerusalem so he opens his window and he does what he was used to doing and we see that even the officials tried to catch Daniel in some way in his work but he was a man of honesty, integrity, committed to his task, did what was honoring in God's sight so they could not find any fault in his work. So just simple basic principles and how did Daniel know all this? It was not just that he was a prophet and superly anointed by God so he was led by God unlike us. No, he just knew what God's commandments, what was the laws, what the Torah had commanded him, what he had learned and he was just following that. So I think how you can navigate temptations in the corporate world is and remains steadfast to our faith is just know what the word of God says and do that and obey that in that situations that you face. Did that help Siddiqinu? Pastor Celina's associate Kenu has responded. He says firstly that he's saying thank you and for the insight and for sharing the book and then later he says thanks Pastor Celina actually the question came now as I have logged in from my office and that point of view is very point to point. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Pastor Nancy. Thank you Siddiqinu. Good to hear from you. So we'll move on to the next question. Jeffina's question are angels anointed? Basically anointing means the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. So yes in the Bible the concept of angels being anointed with oil as humans where you know in some context is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible you know but anointing is explicitly mentioned in the Bible when it comes to individuals you know who are ordained by God to do specific roles or are called into specific offices such as prophets, priests and kings in the Old Testament. So angels being spiritual beings do not go the same undergo the same rituals or ordinations as we humans do but yes angels are ordained by God they're messengers agents of God to carry out his will and purpose and I don't think they need anointing the same way as we humans do because we need the anointing. Anointing basically means the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. So I am just sharing what I know Pastor Nancy would you like to add? Yes Pastor Senina. So anointing as you already stated we don't see angels being anointed with oil or you know any such actions but they are I mean I think we could look at them as being empowered. So in that sense we can say that they have the empowering of God to serve in a certain manner. Now I don't know if we can exactly use the term anointed for that but they are empowered by God. Yes thank you. Thank you. So I hope that helped. We'll move on to the next question by Joseph Williams. The Bible teaches that speaking in tongues edifies both the individual and the church how should we pray would you like to help Pastor Nancy? Yes I can but I think we missed a question from Komal. So Komal had a question before that however we can address Joseph's and then come back to Komal. Please let me know if you got that question. No I don't have that question. You don't have that question okay just a moment let me send it to you. Yes I just sent you a Komal's question. Thank you. Okay no no problem thank you. So Joseph says the Bible teaches that speaking in tongues edifies how should we pray? Okay so Joseph when we pray in tongues for personal edification we can pray either by ourselves or we can pray in a corporate setting or with other believers. Now since the personal prayer language of tongues you know it's for us so we could either pray you know under our breath or we can be a little louder it's up to us so that's how we can pray we can pray at any time we can pray in a scheduled manner or we can as in we can set aside time and pray in those those in that moment or we can just do it spontaneously so that's how praying individually works but when it comes to a church setting there are certain guidelines that the Bible gives us. So for us to understand the guidelines we can study the passage from 1st Corinthians chapter 14 where Paul talks about the use of tongues in a congregational setting. So he says if we are praying in a group setting then actually our neighbors or the people around will not be edified unless the speaking in tongues is a message and that message should have an interpretation and that requires another the operation of another gift called as you know the gift of interpretation of tongues. So in a congregational setting when we are practicing speaking of tongues you know the the way another person will be edified is when the message is understandable by them. Now having said this when one is praying in tongues as personal prayer language in a congregational setting that would still be okay provided all the people are you know like they're all believers and they understand what's going on so we need to keep that in mind. If we are going to pray loudly in tongues in a setting where unbelievers are going to walk in then they will be confused they won't understand unless there is interpretation. So when it comes to the corporate setting there are many guidelines which we can learn from 1st Corinthians chapter 14. I hope that helps thank you. Thank you pastor Nancy. I hope that helps answering your question Joseph. We'll move to the next question before we look at Komal's question we will just look at the Shimmy's question says is is hell created by God because we can only see in scriptures that God created the heavens and the earth. If God created hell what can what can the reference we can give or what is the reference we can give.  So yes you know while the Bible does not explicitly state that God created hell you know but we read in Matthew chapter 25 verse 41 where Jesus speaks about the final judgment when he says you know then he will say to those on the left depart for me you cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels so this was suggest that yes hell was prepared not for us humans who were created in God's image and likeness but it's basically prepared for the devil and his angels which implies that there is yes an arrangement for their punishment and for those who rebel against God and also we read in Revelation chapter 20 verse 15 where it talks about the lake of fire where it indicates you know a place of eternal punishment for the wicked and it says if anyone's name is not found in the book of life they will be thrown into the lake of fire so yes these passages of scripture suggest or imply or tell us that hell does exist and if does exist it you know it would have been created by God and you know and there is consequences for divine judgment but yes you know there's not there is no biblical reference to you know details or explanations of the of the origin or creation of hell I hope that helped answered your question Parson Nancy would you like to add anything or should we move to the next question I think I'm good for that okay thank you so we'll move on to the next question a Komal's question I think we'll take Komal's question as the last one and then I think that's the last one right and then we'll end the call because we're almost nearing time Komal's question is I know one family okay I think she has two questions yeah two questions so we'll we'll move to the the first question that she Komal has asked we say God is love and when we see that in the Old Testament there are a lot of killings of people and infants also infants cannot do any sin but why are they killed no other book has this much of killing so can you tell me about this Parson Nancy would you like to share yes I can share my thoughts yes so we do know that God is a God of love but when we whole understand his nature in whole we recognize that he's also a God of justice and which is why when sin corrupted the world there needed to be a sacrifice made for redemption to take place and so knowing that God is both a God of love and justice we notice a particularly in the Old Testament before Jesus had you know done his work that there are many divine judgments that take place and this this is also because of you know sinfulness of the people and disobedience and so because of the actions the wrong actions of people there are all these divine judgments and under which you know we see things like people being killed or infants also being killed so you know that that's how we look at it now we can definitely ask the question why didn't God stop it if he's a God of love but you know as we are saying that there are things that are there are laws that are in the world that are set right so even God had to work out a plan and we know that he's a God of love because Jesus came and he made a restitution for such things now that we have the Lord Jesus and having putting our faith in him releases grace and forgiveness on our lives that is something that you know we can preach about and yeah so that is like in a short way because we have we have only one minute left I hand it back to you Passis anyway thank you Passis Nancy just like to add two thoughts that when Adam and Eve sin sin corrupted not only them but sin passed on to the generations right up to us and will pass on to the preceding generations of the coming generations second thing also sin corrupted the entire creation that God created perfect and that's why Paul says that you know creation writes in the book of Romans that creation groans you know for its to be reinstated to its original design and a position but a white children God is a God of love he's also God of justice and mercy but Exodus chapter 20 verses five and six says that you know God says that I'm a I'm a jealous God punishing the children for the sins of their parents the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments so God is very clear in what he has stated in his commandments that he's a God who punishes the children for the sins of their parents the third and fourth generation but also shows love to a thousand generations so that is who God is but yes he's a God of love he shows mercy as well so through this people can at least learn that there is consequences of sin and the consequences of sin is death and they would not take God for granted we'll stop here we don't have time to answer Komal's question other question we have that question with us and we will answer that in the in our next mentoring hour and also Lucy's question so we'll answer these two questions the next mentoring are thank you all for joining the mentoring are and for your questions it was very interesting and I hope you all enjoy this mentoring are have a blessed day and God bless thank you