Welcome back to another animation buffet rig review. And today I'm going to take a look at Douglas, the corgi rig. And as always, link in the description with all the information. This one can be found on gumroad.com. You got all the information here. And you got the details about the rig. It's very cute. You got the picker, you got an item school picker, and lots of options for the face. But that is it in terms of where you can get it. And it's also posted on my animation buffet site as I do when I post all those rigs. Up there now, ready to go. And as always, as you download a new rig to pass all the textures might be off. So if you're new to this, I'm going to bring this down here. You have window rendering editors, hyper shades or this icon here. And in here, you have all the shaders you can see they're all black. So I'm going to check out for instance, the body math, whatever, I'm going to open this here. And you can see that in that selection here, where it's supposed to be. And it's the Douglas body color PNG. I'm going to go in here, Douglas to Corgi, source images, Douglas. And I'm looking for a Douglas body color PNG, Douglas body color PNG. I'm going to say open. And it did it for that. And you can see now the changes in the rig. And here we are super cute. And a ton of options. It's a really, really cool rig. Also, it has an item school picker. So you can open that up here.  For some reason, I was not Douglas version one, oh, it had to be the bottom selection here. So now that I select the head, it works. So I was a bit of an interesting confusion in terms of namespace. But other than that, it all works. So if I go back just to demonstrate it quickly, this would be a bit of hassle to select all the controllers on the tail. Now you can stick it through this. And of course, everything works every now and then you'll see some enveloping issues potentially. Interesting. It snaps at one point there. All of that is there. And since we have it here, might as well start with the tail. I don't know why you have a stretch option. Also, you have a twist, which you can barely see here, but when they're going to twist option, you have a curl option again, watch out for that pop there. And you have a wag option as well. Overall, it's really super cute with a ton of options. So in here, you have your master item that moves everything around. And then you have your master one item as well. And for me, this is always the thing of I can choose this, bring it down. And then if you need a master item that's potentially here, you can also take this and move that over there so that your pivot is here. So for whatever reason, if your dog is flying around and you want the set of gravity over there, I use these controllers for that. You will also see those settings, wheels or option wheels, when you call them, you have subdivision. So if you see this here, and I'm going to change that, you can see how it gets a lot more dense. And you can see this here. If you do shading, wireframe on shaded, and I go back onto this, you can see what happens. Of course, everything gets a lot slower. So I would wait until the very end if you actually need this. You have all the controllers on or off, and you have the shape or transparency. Now, what is the shape or transparency? If I turn this off, you have these guys, which I will now leave on so I can show you where I can really shape things around. If you don't have a tool that you want to use, you have options to change this. And if you don't want to get this selected here, the geo can get referenced here. So there you go. Nothing except the controllers. Where should I start? I don't know why I started the feet. So let's go with the feet. You have a front body selection for both, which is interesting. Go up here. You can see it selects the whole front part. Then down here, you have the legs.  And it changes the orientation of that, which you can change through here as well. And then you have a lot of options through here, where you can see that for translates for readjustments, it also for rotations and kind of entanglement in your pose, or you want to kind of change just the outline. Oh, this one is not a rotation, but this one is just to change that type of thing here. And you got a ton of them. You got one here, you got one here, and you have one over here for that section as well, that you can also rotate. You can all the way up to here for the arm tweak and with an untwist. So just in terms of arms, a ton of options. And if I go back here, you have your ankle option here. That is a rotate only. That's the same one down here. You have your toes for your paws that go all the way down to the front. So you can have both of them selected if you want here like that. And of course, Anna Picker is going to help you with this. And in here, you have the front part selection. You have wiggle, and you have spread for quick selection there. And you have squash, which is very cool. You see the influences down there, which is very, very cool. I like that a lot. And in here, you have the classic roll toe lift toe straight inside toe spin toe spin. That's your your cigarette squashing thing. I know why I call this, but I guess that. And again, so, so many other options. You have stretchy options as well. And swivel. I mean, I can go through all of these, but that's something you can do as well. So as you can see, a ton, a ton of options, obviously, on both of them down here, you have the belly. So you have a belly control for the bone or whatever you want to do again for reshaping. At the same time, at the front here, you have a fluff shaper and you have a breathing control, which you can scale that type of thing, right? And I showed you all of these on the side. That's the shoulder part that you can rotate and translate continuing on. You have the backside here. Of course, as I showed before, you got your elbow controls, but you have your overall chest. So this is a spine with a stretch, which, of course, also rotate. And as you can see, we have the classic head options here. So if I do this, this is your rotation order like that. But you can change this. So if you look up here, you have your, there are two separate head controllers. It's interesting too. So one here, one here, it's not a squash, but you have one here, one here. You can change pivots and everything. But in here, you got a ton of options where you have the master, the neck, the chest, all those options here. So again, as you change this, this is going to stay put. And here you can see it doesn't influence it anymore. And as you do this, it stays put there. So lots of options as well in the head, you have your subcontroller visibility. One more there where you can do all kinds of stuff. It's really bananas. Lots of options here. Controllers on the ears and tweakers and shapers. I'm going to leave that on. I'm actually going to turn that someone off.  This goes all the way back there. Now, if you do happen to do something with a spine that's like this and you want to reshape it, you have that controller here that does that. You can, of course, move it all around if you want. And back here, you have the backside and here back into the front part to change it into a different attitude. And then we're back onto the main controller, lifting all of this. And of course, you're going to have options on the feet to change the influence as well. And then back here, we have volume as well. So if I grab my guy here and go, but I don't want that to happen, all the volume off. So you can change that as well. You have again, multiple hip controllers. It's crazy here. Same thing here. Same as with the front paws, you have all your hips and adjustments here on all this. This goes all the way back here. It's the same setup in the back as in the front. It's very cool. And same thing here on the tail, as I showed before at the beginning. So like just these two, you have FK, but also like this.  And then back here, you also have, like I showed the twist curl, a wag and stretch option, a ton of options through here. Then you have the face.  Of course, like that. And then you have your separate eye controller as well. In here, you have the shapers for your nose, but you have an overall mover here as well. This is a translate and a rotate. This goes all the way down to this one as well. Translate and rotate. Same thing here. You have all the shapers. You have your snarl. You have your quick option here for your shapes. Then you have back here. You can move these around like that for bigger controllers. But then you have smaller controllers. And let's go inside. Even smaller. Crazy town. This is where your subdivision is going to come into play. Do not have those sharper edges on the geometry. In here, looks like you got, you got separate controls, not just one big block for teeth, but if you need to reshape something like that, that's there as well. Speak of which, I think this one, upper teeth item. So you have your overall tooth here. I should probably take this. Just open this up here. Look at that. Lots of options. It's very, very flexible. What is the cheek? That is head bottom. Ooh. So you got the bottom part. Interesting. Gina would assume that this is the head top. Exactly. And then we have head top two. Then we have that. I feel like that you have bigger groups and then divided into smaller groups. This is again, just the overall selection of the teeth. You got your tongue. Of course, as you have here goes another one here. What was that? There you go. Sometimes I don't see the color. So that is your tongue tip. There's a tongue length that you can change. There's a tongue in and out and the tongue size just in case. Again, a lot of options. Then we have, what is this here? Cheek. Cheek controls the tooth. Then you have the shaper. Now I did see this here when you select this. It says manual zipper, zipper lips. Zipper lips. Interesting. So I would assume that the zipper, can you translate and close? A bit of a closing of the mouth, I guess. What is this? Tuck in and out. Pinch. Of course, I destroyed everything in my other pose here, but you got this option here. That's interesting. You also have, like I said, the jaw animation for this. But what you also have here is when you select this one is the reverse jaw. You can do this. Imagine you have your dog is maybe resting its head on the table leg. That's my awesome table. I can kitchen and there are lots of cookies here and they want it. Then you can still take this and then open it like that.  It's very, very cool. Then what do you have in here? You got more shapes. This must be all the different nose options with different nose pivots. Look at that. It's a crazy amount of options. You got your lids, but then you have your lids shaper. You have an overall shape for here. Let's see. This must be the overall eyebrow, which it is. Then you have your separate eyebrow as well. This eye-anim you have iris size. All right. Look at that with height pupil size for more dialysis or not. The width and the height and follow-anim a ton of stuff. Now, this looks like a ton of options, but don't forget you do have the picker. So on the picker you have a much easier overview of all those options here. Socket to move the whole thing around.  Overall mouth mover. Then you can select all those things here. All the stuff that I showed before is separate here. Then you can have different mouth options here. Like I said, super super detailed. You got your tongue, your teeth, the visibility. Select all, select just the face. Look at that. Very, very cool. Holy moly. And let's not forget ears. Why not? You have your overall ear and then we can go all the way down to the separate ears twisting depending on how you select this. Then you can go crazy. I'm almost surprised that there's no squash function. You can grab this and just kind of squash that face together. What do you have? Your shapers tongue. It's not there. And this is just another mover. That's the only thing I'm surprised with all those options that there is not like a head squash or something. But then again, as I do, this is the first look on this rig. I probably missed something, but I'm trying to be as thorough as possible. I also want to test the accessibility and just like how intuitive the whole thing is if you don't know anything about the rig. Man, this is just, you just want to go in there and animate something with that face. Super, super cute. And it sounds like my dog agrees as well. So there you have it, an overview of Douglas de Corky. As always, all the information is in the description below. Go check it out. It is free. It's free and it's awesome. But you can also add how many dollars you want to donate. So let's support the developer of this. Let's support the person who created and rigged and made this happen. It's very, very cool. I'm gonna leave it at that. Thank you for watching.


Amen. So, Merry Christmas. We're ending our, we're going to kind of cap off our series that we've been working on for the last few weeks on the run-up to the details of the Christmas story. Of course, we've been talking about the events that preceded the birth of Jesus Christ. We talked about Elizabeth and Zechariah. We talked about John the Baptist. We talked about Mary and her interactions with Gabriel. And then, of course, we talked about Joseph as well. In Luke chapter 2, we see, you know, the birth of Jesus and the way that it happened. We're going to focus on the first part of that verse there, mainly the birth of Jesus and the shepherds that come to his birth. It's interesting enough to know that the shepherds were there at the birth of Jesus in the manger. The wise men were not, however. So, every nativity scene that you see is wrong. Not to burst your bubble, but the wise men, there's no evidence that there was three. Maybe there was more. But everyone thinks because there's three gifts, we'll just put three wise men and we'll shove them all in the nativity scene, put a camel and a donkey in there and it all looks pretty in someone's living room, right? But that's not, of course, the truth of the Bible. Not that that is really relevant, but let's look at Luke chapter 2 and see what we can look at. We got a pair of sermons on the birth of Christ for you today and let's get right into it. The Bible says, and in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Boy, the more things change, the more things stay the same, right? And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria and all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city. And Joseph went up from Galilee out of the city of Nazareth into Judea under the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David. Turn to Micah chapter 5. So it's actually fairly significant that Jesus was actually born in Bethlehem. So this was a fulfillment of prophecy because it was prophesied. And it makes sense that God would have prophesied given evidence to where the Messiah would be born. So people could identify the evidence that was presented of Jesus being the Messiah. So God, he gave these prophecies about Jesus so people when Jesus was born or the Messiah was born would be able to identify that he was the Messiah because there's many false Christs. Many people even today say that they're Jesus, say that they're the Messiah. Look at Micah chapter 5 in verse number 2. The Bible says, but thou Bethlehem Ephrata, thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of these shall come forth unto me, unto me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been of old from everlasting. So that, of course, can only fit the Messiah right there, saying that there's going to be a ruler in Israel that comes out of Bethlehem that is from everlasting. So that has to be Jesus Christ, that has to be the Messiah. Look at Luke chapter 2 in verse number 5. So we see that that's a fulfillment. Joseph, taking his family, you know, they're taking his pregnant espoused wife to Bethlehem to pay taxes in this case, is actually fulfilling this prophecy in Micah chapter 5 in verse number 2. But look at Luke chapter 2 and look at verse number 5. It says, to be taxed with Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. So first of all, you know, we can get from this that Joseph and Mary, you know, while they were from, you know, the proper line that the Messiah was supposed to come from, the line of David, they both were. In Matthew chapter 1, we see Joseph's lineage in Luke chapter 3, we see Mary's. But the point I'm trying to make here, and it's evidence in verse number 7, you say, why? Why is that significant?  Joseph and Mary were normal people. They were not rich people. They were not super powerful people. He was not a king or a governor or some kind of ruler. They were just regular, everyday, average people. And that continues in this story. You look at verse number 8. It says, And there were in that same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. So here's some more, just normal people, just everyday working men. They're out, they're ranching, they're watching their livestock. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore, afraid.  Well, we'll see that in just a few verses here. The angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I bring to you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. That's basically the gospel right there. The gospel is called the good news. That's what the gospel means. So the angel is basically saying, Hey, you know, I'm bringing the gospel to you. You know, I'm bringing this good news to you, for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger. And suddenly there was an angel, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass as the angels were gone away from them into heaven that the shepherd said to one another, Let us go now even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.  And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. This is why they were brought there, right there. Why? You say look at verse 17, just underline those four words. They made known abroad. They were used as witnesses to the birth of the Messiah and it was their job to go out and what to tell people. The point of the shepherds in the story, in the Christmas story is the same point as us is the exact same purpose. The purpose of the shepherds is the same purpose that we have when Jesus told us, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. We are the shepherds. We're the modern day shepherds. Every Christian that has ever lived has the same purpose as these shepherds. They were just the first. They were just the first when Jesus was born to go out and tell what? The good news, the gospel to the world. So this is just showing again, showing the pattern that God does what? God uses regular people all the time. You'll see that all throughout the Old Testament. God never uses some huge powerful man. He's using regular people to accomplish great things because it's all about God's glory. It's all about God's glory, not ours. So here we see these regular people that are used to run up to this point of not only Jesus being born, but to tell about Jesus. We see Mary and Joseph and Elizabeth and Zachariah and John the Baptist. John the Baptist was poor. He had nothing. He was literally in the desert just living off of bugs and honey, the Bible says. Just regular everyday normal people used by God for the greatest things. I mean, it's a great, first of all, that's just a great message for us right there. You say, well, I'm just a regular guy. I'm just a regular gal. How could I do great things in my life for the Lord? Well, that's exactly who God wants to do great things for the Lord. It's just regular people. Because the reason God does it is because he doesn't want people looking at some big, strong person and saying, look at how great and big and strong and smart that person is. He wants God's glory to be seen through just us, just regular people. And we see that with this whole Christmas story, which is why we studied that throughout the last few weeks. But this morning, all that just for to cap off the Christmas series sermon. But this morning we see the birth of Jesus Christ. He's literally born as, I mean, he's born as a baby in a barn, in a manger, in a trough where animals are fed. And the question I have this morning, and I don't know if you've ever thought about this, but basically I want to focus this morning on Jesus the man. Tonight we'll look at Jesus, God, Jesus is God. But this morning I want to look at Jesus the man. And especially this morning, even more specific on that, why a baby? Why did Jesus, why did the Messiah have to come as a baby? Why couldn't Jesus or God have created the Messiah to come to earth as a 30-year-old grown man? I mean, God could do it however he wanted. So why a baby? I want to answer two questions for you this morning. Focusing on Jesus the man. You know, why didn't Jesus come as a grown man? Why did he have to come as a baby and grow up as a child and an adolescent and then into a young man and then into a man and then have this ministry when he was 30 years old for three and a half years and then die on the cross? Why that way? And then the second thing I want to answer for you this morning is just why didn't God just come down as a heavenly being? Why didn't God just come down as a spirit and just God himself? Why did he have to be a man, period? I'm going to answer both of those for you this morning because look, God could have done it any way he wanted. He could have redeemed the world any way he wanted. The Messiah, you know, why? The first question is why the 33 years of life? You know, why are we talking about a baby here? The first answer to this question is in Hebrews chapter 4. You know, I mean just think about all the trouble. I mean, all the trouble that they went through taking care of Jesus as a baby. I mean, he was a baby and then the wise men went to Herod and visited him as a young child. You know, they visited him somewhere between zero and probably one and a half years old, the wise men.  Of course, God protected. So I mean, God went to a lot of trouble to protect Jesus as a baby, as a young child. Why all that trouble? And then back to Nazareth and then just grow up and then as we just read in Luke chapter 2, he's in the temple and he's learning and he's listening to all the thinkers and the people in the temple speaking. So the answer for why a baby is in Hebrews chapter 4, just remember, God, God is a, you know, the Bible says in 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse number 8, it says that God is the righteous judge. So God is the perfect judge is how I always, you know, tell people God. God's a judge that never makes mistakes. But another thing you need to realize about God is everything that God does is perfect.  It's complete. God is also, think about it this way. We think about, you know, men. We think about leading our families. We think about if you lead people in your job. You know, we think about how do I be a leader and how do I do these things the right way. I think about this a lot, you know, as the pastor of a church.  So God's a perfect leader. He's a perfect everything. And look, a good leader, a good leader would never put people up to something that he was not willing to do himself. That's the first thing that I need you to understand. Look at Hebrews chapter 4 if you're there and look at verse number 15. So he said, why a baby? Why did God send the Messiah to be not just a man, but a man that lived this life of decades on this earth? Look at verse 15. The Bible says we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin.  He's the perfect high priest. It's saying that he didn't send a Messiah here that is not going to understand what men go through in their lives, meaning our infirmities, meaning our temptations. Basically what he's talking about is just like what we go through with our flesh. You know, we talk about the flesh and the spirit all the time as we read the Bible, as we study the Bible, and the Bible here is saying is that our high priest, the Messiah, he understands all of those infirmities, those feelings, those temptations even. Yet the difference is that he is without sin. All right? Look at John chapter one in verse number 14. John chapter one in verse number 14. John chapter one in verse number 14. So I mean the point the point is is that a good leader will not expect someone to do something that he is not willing to do himself. Okay? That's the first point. That's why God sent a baby to live a life as a as a child, as a young man, as a man, and just be on this this earth for decades because he was to hear, he was here to experience our infirmities and the temptations yet he did it perfectly. He did it without all the mistakes and all the stumblings and all the sin that we do it with. Look at verse 14 of John chapter one. And the Word was made flesh, and look at these four words here, and dwelt among us, and we be held as glory. The glory is the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. Look, the Bible says he lived among us. Dwelt means he lived a life among us. He lived among us perfectly. So the first thing is that God, and this is not just with the Messiah, this is throughout the the Bible and this is just the character of God.  I'm going to read for you first Peter chapter two, verse number twenty-two. You go to Hebrews chapter nine. I'm going to read for you a few verses here, but God demonstrates things to us. That's what you need to understand, and this is why Jesus came as a baby, because God just doesn't tell us things. This is another thing that a perfect leader will do, or even a good leader will do. A good leader will demonstrate things. God demonstrates to us. In first Peter two, verse twenty-two, the Bible says, talking about Jesus who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. In second Corinthians chapter five, verse twenty-one, the Bible says, for he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, not in us, nothing in us, but he knew no sin. First John chapter three and verse five, and you know that he was manifested to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. Notice how he's taking away our sins. We're saved through his righteousness, but it's only because, and it's always coupled with the fact that he knew no sin, he did no sin, he had no sin. Jesus was sinless. So it was coupled with the fact that he did not have sin. Because look, if he had sin, it wouldn't have worked. That's why it's always coupled with that fact that he had in him is no sin. Look at Hebrews chapter nine, verse number fourteen. Hebrews chapter nine, verse number fourteen. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? So what the Bible is saying, the reason that Jesus came as a baby is because God is, I will show you how, God. That's why. God demonstrates things to us, and he came as a man as a baby to live for years and years and years before he even made that sacrifice to show that he had a life without spot, a life without sin that could be that sacrifice. Look, you think about it this way. It's the same thing as the, it's the same philosophy as the millennial reign. You ever thought about that? Like, why a millennial reign? Why is Jesus Christ going to come back on this earth and rule and reign for a thousand years? Why? I mean, this is why. Because God tells us in the Bible over and over and over and over again how to run a nation. God tells us again and again and again how to run a godly nation. I mean, that's the whole Old Testament.   Because that is who God is. Turn to Daniel chapter seven. Turn to Daniel chapter seven. God is a, is a God, I mean, I'm very thankful for this. He's a God that demonstrates. He's not just a God that just says, hey, do this, do that. He's going to show us how to actually rule a nation on this earth. Look at Daniel chapter seven in verse number thirteen. Daniel talking about this, he says in verse thirteen, he says, I saw in the night visions and behold one like unto the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him and there was given to him, and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. So look, the millennial reign is just God showing us once again how to do things that we have fallen short on even though he's been telling us for thousands of years how to do it, he's going to show us how.  In Psalm chapter two, verse nine, the Bible says, thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dap them in pieces like a potter's vessel. The same thing is repeated in Revelation chapter two that Jesus Christ will rule them with a rod of iron. This is how Jesus is going to do it. Look, there's not going to be a constitution in the millennial reign. You know, I'm sorry, you know, but look, there will be this, the Bible. And here's the thing, that's the only thing that's needed even today. Even today that's the only thing that is needed. All these different things that we come up with as far as governments of men, they're just that fall short again and again and again. They're just pragmatism. They're just stop gap measures. They're just the best thing that we can think of outside the Bible. It's all they are until the real deal shows up in the millennial reign of Christ. He's going to demonstrate to us how to do it. That's why Jesus came as a baby. Because God's like, I'm going to demonstrate to you how to do this. Right? And you say, here's another one, just to get deeper on this. Why a thousand years? Why a thousand years? Here's my opinion. Did you know that you've talked to most historians that have analyzed empires since the beginning of history itself? You know what they'll tell you? They'll tell you the average age of an empire on earth up to this point is about 250 years. Most people will agree on that. You say 250 years, that doesn't seem like that long. Yeah, it's not that long. It's not that long. As a matter of fact, if you look at the America of 1776 in 2026, we will hit our 250th year birthday in 2026. So here's the thing. We're not that old when it comes to the millennial reign that Jesus is going to rule and reign. And look, we went through this clues and milestones sermon series over the last couple of months. And look, maybe we are the Babylon of Revelation chapter 18. I mean, it certainly fits. But when you look at all the things that need to happen to get up to that point yet, I just don't think we're going to make it that long.  Because it gets stupider and stupider every day. I don't know how we'll make it another 10 years, much less, much less 50 years and try to break that average. But I mean, it might be that we just don't get honorable mention enough to even, you know, be mentioned in the Bible. That's quite possible. All right, but look, Jesus is going to literally come here and he's going to demonstrate how to run a nation on this earth for four times longer than man has been able to do. That's why a thousand years, in my opinion. God, Jesus will show how God's way works. That's what he will show. And he'll prove it by ruling and reigning the earth for an entire, for a thousand years, which is four times longer than we were able to do on average here. All right, turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. So look, our God that we serve is a God that's not just telling us stuff, he demonstrates things. All right, that's why a baby. That's why Jesus came as a baby. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. But why did Jesus have to be a man? If you look at the doctrines, the false doctrines, many false doctrines in Christianity are based on two directions. One is denying the manhood of Christ and the other is denying the deity of Christ, both with your false doctrines. Because Jesus was 100% man and also 100% God, which we'll discuss tonight. And I'll tell you why it was important that he was 100% God this evening. But Jesus had to be a man. We see that he had to be a baby, because that fits God's character of just demonstrating perfect leadership to us.  But here's another one. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Just on this idea, why didn't God come in heavenly form? Why didn't he just come as this spirit that was just God? Because ultimately, ultimately the answer to this is ultimately there had to be a sacrifice that was worthy of covering our sins. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Look at verse number 50. The Bible says this. It says, Now this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Now turn to 1 Peter chapter 1. So the only reason I read that for you is because something comes along with being a man. Something comes along with this flesh and that is this, blood. There had to be blood. Look at 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse number 19. Look at 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse number 19. We are redeemed only through blood, the Bible says. Look at verse number 19. It says, But with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish, there's that no sin, and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but has manifest in these last times for you. That means Jesus was always there. Jesus, I'll show you that tonight, Jesus was always there. He showed himself to people in the Old Testament. He was always there but now in these last times, so yes we are in the last days, we're not in the end times, but we're in the last days in these last times he's shown to you in the form of this baby being born that we just talked about in Luke chapter 2. Whom by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God. Turn to Hebrews chapter 9. The point is is that Jesus had to be a man because we are covered, we are covered by the precious blood of Christ. You say why the blood? Why is that important? Look at Hebrews chapter 9. Why did there have to be blood? Look at verse number 19. Hebrews chapter 9 verse number 19. The Bible says this. It says, For when Moses had spoken every preset to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book and all the people, saying this is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled the blood both on the tabernacle and the vessels of the ministry. Verse 22. And almost all things are by the law are purged with blood. And look at this part of this verse right here. It says, And without shedding of blood is no remission. What do we need? What do we need? For all have sinned, we need remission is what we need. And the Bible says here without the shedding of blood is no remission. So verse 23 kind of explains the whole point of what Moses and the Levites were doing in the Old Testament. It says it was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. All of those things in the Old Testament, the Bible says that, you know, the blood of calves and the blood of bulls and goats, you know, it doesn't forgive sins. It's just a pattern. It was just a mirror. It was just a shadow of the real heavenly thing to come. For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true, but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. Look, Jesus had to be a man to shed his blood. That's the mechanics of how it works. And he was the perfect sacrifice. In Hebrews chapter 10, verse number three, it says about the old sacrifices. It says in those sacrifice there is remembrance again made of sins every year. So what those people were doing in the Old Testament is they were doing those sacrifices of the bulls and of the goats to remember their sins and to be in a good standing with their heavenly father and to, you know, foreshadow how they were actually going to be redeemed. They were believing in that redemption that was yet to come is what those people were trusting in as they were looking forward as we look back. They were saved in the exact same way. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Those bulls and those goats being sacrificed did not give them remission of their sins. It was a shadow of Jesus of that perfect sacrifice. It was a picture of the real thing to come. When you look at the, you know, the the sacrifice in, you know, the day of atonement in Leviticus chapter 16 and you look at all the bulls and you look at the goats and you look at all the different things that the priest did is like Jesus encompasses all of that. You say what part is Jesus of that? Everything. Because he was the perfect sacrifice. So look, he had to be a flesh and blood man. He had to be a man. In Luke chapter 22 and verse number 20 Jesus says likewise he took the cup after supper and he said this is the cup in the New Testament in my blood which is shed for you. The New Testament, the promise that God gave us is that the blood shed by Jesus, you know, provides the remission for our sins. All right, so look in 1 Peter chapter 1 that we just read these two things come together, you know, where it says the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot. He was the perfect sacrifice but it was also the precious blood of Christ. So being the perfect sacrifice that lamb without spot mean he lived a perfect life he was without sin and he had to shed his blood. This is why Jesus had to be a man and to live that perfect life without sin. I mean there's no better there's no more complete way to do that than to be born into this world as a man, as a baby, live that life all the way up to the point when he was 33 years old and he shed his blood for mankind because if it was without if he had sinned one time if he had had one foolish thought that sacrifice would not be accepted because that lamb has to be without spot. So look Jesus as a man it really shows God's character towards us. It really shows you know how this was just a perfect gift to us. And we talk about you know Christmas gifts I mean this was the perfect gift to you know mankind. It was it was a gift without spot. He lived he went through exactly what we went through except he did it perfectly. He did it perfectly. Really what it shows really what it shows is God's this idea that Jesus was man fully man from a baby all the way up to you know someone who is 33 years old who had a ministry for you know three and a half years and then died on the cross was buried and rose again from the dead. We'll focus on that tonight but really what it shows it shows God's ownership of us. It shows I mean think about this he created man he created man it all went wrong it all went wrong not not not because of him because a man and then he came in man I mean man man rebelled man rebelled against God and it's interesting because as man rebelled against God God still took ownership of man. He still look it's easy you know this idea of ownership you know taking responsibility it's easy to take responsibility for things when they go well. You know when there's huge successes and everything's going right it's easy to be like I did that that was me. It's when things go wrong it's when things go wrong in you know our lives our families with our children that you know it's more difficult in those times to take responsibility or to take this word that I'm using to take ownership of those situations but look God demonstrate demonstrates perfect complete ownership of us. He creates us we rebel against him and yet he comes in and he provides a solution for us even though we didn't deserve it even though we are the ones that went wrong but look he just took complete ownership of us.


What is a Western if you ever heard about yourself? Like I told you Africans are negative in Jeno. Uganda is inclusive but when you apply reason like I do, you come to realize that everything comes at a cost. Why do you expect to be richer than the majority of the people in your society and you expect them to clap and love you so much? No, it is a natural thing. Hat is part of the human cycle. So instead of making me feel bad, I have learnt how to live with it and how best can I use it towards improvement of my progress and improvement of the society where I live.  So the better you adjust your reasoning capacity and you accept it, the better you move forward, the faster you move forward. I want to know why I grow processing. We export a lot of raw materials and import a lot of finished goods at 10 or 20 times the price for what we imported it at. So I was thinking if I can set up integrated agro processing plants, I can add value and look for the demand for agro produce not just domestically through import substitution, but also regionally and internationally. That way I would have improved the lives of the majority of the Ugandans because you see I'm not going for farming. No, the Ugandans would be the outgrowers. Then I'm staged at value addition. If I can aim for the market, specifically moving within the directions of demand and supply, I look for the market, I process and export and bring money back on. That way I will improve a lot of lives for a lot of households in Uganda. So that is why I moved into agro processing and value addition. Okay, it was also at my net worth here in the wrong run, but this time the difference would be it is not limited to me as an individual, but it is cutting across majority of Ugandans. And I don't expect to do this just in one central region. Uganda, I mapped Uganda into 10 zones and I plan to put integrated agro processing plants in 10 zones of Uganda if God grants me the life and the time and the reasoning capacity to pull it off. Now all these structures you see right here, okay, the warehouses, we are going to house all the activities of agro processing industries, including cold rooms, packaging, storage and everything involved. Like here where we are, this is the pilot project. Mr. Hamish Shigund has set up for others to emulate and develop our country through agro processing and value addition. On the basis of Uganda being an agro-based country. So we are going to stop exporting raw materials and importing processed goods, but rather process everything from here at value, make quality controls and only export the excess. Only export the excess, that's a good one. Because we have the market for everything right here at home. Okay, what kind of products will you be processing in here then? Right here we are going to be processing the vegetables like the fruits, we manufacture juice, the meat, chicken, the cereals. We are going to put up cereals the other place where we shall be storing over 500,000 metric tons. We export it like the way you have been saying, we have had challenges with Kenya that our cereals are low quality. Right now we are going to put everything in perfect place. We are going to import expatriates here with the existing ones who have experience and make everything world standard. When it comes to the real estate, how many builders have you built so far in Uganda? Do you have numbers? No, I have quite a lot of kumashu properties in Uganda. In various areas, from kumashu structures to now real estate housing structures for residential, I have quite a number of projects, quite a number. Apart from Uganda, what other countries are you investing in? I have quite a number of properties. I have a logistics company in the United States trading as I'm express logistics in Dallas. I also quite own property in the UK. I'm quite screwed out but I'm mainly focused and invested in Africa. I read on the internet that your self-made billionaire is that true? Yeah. I also read on the internet that you're being supported by the government or whatever you're doing. That's what I read on the internet, that whatever you're doing is backed by the government. Is that true? I am an independent individual and a private member of the society. I don't hold any public funds for clarity. And when you say government, if you mean that the government has put in place the right prevailing circumstances or platform under which a reasonable man like me has been able to exploit the prevailing circumstances like security and freedoms to make it to where I am today, it is 100% true. Government has provided the right prevailing circumstances for me and the people that can apply reason in Uganda to make it big. That is a fact. Otherwise, if it was in security here maybe I would be dead but it is government that keeps us secure and it is government that protects us without properties and it is government that gives us the right to prosper without necessarily trying to pull you down. I have zero government. I don't have any coin from government. I have never taken any money from government. What inspires you to do what you do? Me, a fact that you are living, you are not dead. Struggle is a constant factor for as long as you are. When you are dead everything is done but for as long as you are living and breathing you have to keep moving. What else is there to be? If there is life, there is everything, right? Yeah, if there is life because you see in the initial stages of prosperity a man looks for a nice house, a nice car, better ways of survival.   So what then? How many Africans have what I have? There are very few. So the best I can give anyone watching this show right now, the best anyone nearing us now, listening to us now is how can I kickstart your rezoning capacity regardless of where you are? You see it is never too late to reason. I will give you an example of education system. Majority of Africans have gone through education systems and now they are the old PhDs, they are professors but have you ever asked yourself why the most educated people over society the least I would say rich or wealthy in our society? Just because you see by nature and character in Africa we've been told that you should draw the difference within those over 20 meters you should draw the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Professors have acquired a lot of knowledge with ability to attitulately pass it on to others but with total inability to practically apply it towards their own progress and prosperity of their societies. Rezoning is deep critical analysis of the prevailing circumstances without necessarily fronting personal emotions and desires because you see with reason we do what is right with desires and emotions we do what we desire Africans are taken up by short term desires and emotions not progressive reasoning. I think people needs to have a copy of this book because we've been talking about reasoning so I will say that the secret behind your success is reason I've managed to make it in Africa where everyone believes conditions are very poor that means I have managed to reason out a difficult situation in Africa me if it was in America would be the richest man to be because I would apply my reasoning capacity within the prevailing circumstances then here in Africa all systems are down in America systems are up someone can wake up and become rich from something as small as you know people liking something very funny we put something up people like it and you are up because the marketing strategy is there people have access to information you know that systems present for someone to make it already but here in Africa we are still in manual analog everything there is fast it is modern you don't think that is the reason why so many Africans cannot break through that system but for us to make it as a continent it shouldn't be limited to to just individuals like we say it but reasoning must be evident within all our structures and systems including our governments if you have a chance to change one thing in Africa what will it be our reasoning capacity the reasoning capacity of Africans and you see reasoning is simple simply being open-minded is an element of reason open-minded the ability to take in information when someone is talking to that ability to take in information and analyze it before you cannot that is an element of reason believing in yourself that is an element of reason being patient yet consistent with what you want that is an element of reason never giving up once you fall that is an element of reason taking personal responsibility and you say you see I owe myself the responsibility to make myself better and decide where I live that is an element of reason you you don't wait for anyone to come and carry you forward you you don't blame government for your failures you don't blame your parents for failures you simply adjust to the fact that look if I have anyone in the world I have me then I would write better my life you know that alone is an element of reason so success or failure I am mere refliction of our reasoning capacity so if we could attack the African mind towards reason I think that's the best thing that can ever be that can ever come in Africa funding a project is very difficult I interviewed a one successful man in Ghana and then he told me that he actually got the money from his friends how I meet mamuna I'll tell you this story because I was on the street for some time yeah it toughened me up right so just imagine you being on the street for some time with guys yo yo yo yo and then getting a format employment that's easier because I have friends now yeah so in the morning oh Charlie you brought you brought a kengke I'll come and eat so when I when I joined the Valko we met Shusu Shusu and I think Shusu that you made you take all the money this month is for you all hundred percent right the next month is for this person and this month so I was the last person to take it so I think about a seventh month I took also the money that's how I get the money to be trading that that is the story and that's the money that I had to today hasn't left me and that that I had money from a little from anybody that's Shusu money that I had you know that's how I've natured it from from that time to this time that money has never left my hand what was the first money that you received for your first business the first capital to start your first ever business my family background is business so I come from a business family wow so this is from that background that I started working with small substantial capital no too much capital actually too much money is not capital then you can't make it productive capital is that little amount of money you insert in a business we own a probability of losing it or gaining more which I call a risk then it starts matplying the matplier effect is what translates into actual success and progress and prosperity in the long run so a constant engine a constant productivity engine is what makes a person work what can we get this book in Uganda you can get physical copies back to the internet you can get it from amazon amazon both books success and failure based on reason and reality and reason as the world masterpiece for I believe there is nothing above reason and if there is anyone who can successfully challenge me on this please you are most welcome I think reason is above everything when it comes to human progress or failure reason is the governing factor okay in in a language I would say it all starts and ends in the mind you're building a 40 sitar 40 000 capacity stadium yeah in right in the middle of the city of Kampala yeah and when I got there I saw only black engineers and I was amazed because I've never seen anything like that before because anytime you see any big construction going on we tend to see either the Chinese or maybe the white surveying everything no but maybe when you look at the stadium how many Africans have built a stadium like I've done maybe maybe the first one of the few what I've done in its totality as building a stadium it is an illustration to my fellow Ugandans and Africans that look here even for massive projects like this one we can do it ourselves and I've made sure all the people employ all the English and everyone on the stadium is totally absolutely completely Africans so I'm trying to show them the look here we can do it if I've done it you still can you can do it let us put our hands together and make sure we build Africa for it is our obligation as Africans to build Africa if we don't take that on us or responsibility upon us that it is our obligation to build Africa then Africa shall never develop when we talk of investment or investor in Africa it's not enough to for now but that is what we are trying to change right now we are trying to show everyone that look here yes we can develop Africa as Africans this is our identity this is our we are defined by oh we are we are Africans Africa has us and we have Africa so we leave it for who will develop Africa if we don't take the responsibility upon us to build to build and develop Africa we have limited ourselves to mediocre and and and for any big projects you look at in Africa it's either done by the west by the Europeans by the Chinese yet they have the same red blood like we are flowing in our veins we are humans like like them we can actually even do better than them if we address our minds reasoning and for me I have decided to stop talking about it and illustrate maybe talking me to not be convincing enough within perimeters of reason that look it is possible for us to make it that's why I wrote a book success and failure based on reason and reality for reality is what it is as you see it not what you want it to be how many people have you employed currently employ close to 4600 employees directly under me and they are all Ugandans the stadium itself is leaving proof that I have done because you see a stadium is something communal me and my family cannot accommodate and utilize the stadium this is something communal success and failure based on reason and reality surrealistic fact that this one is present it's a realistic fact that it's going to be used by Ugandans and it is a reasonable fact that it is a communal stadium you do charity work yeah kind of charity work do you do depending on the prevailing need and circumstances like there was kovid I came through and gave 500 million to the community to buy drugs for vaccination so it depends on the prevailing circumstances we are going for Ramadan I have already bought a lot of things I'm going to give to different mosques and people communities to undo their facts when you hear the name Africa what comes into your mind Africa is blessed with a lot of natural minerals Africa is blessed with energetic people you know Africa is blessed with everything apart from inability for us to reason on how to exploit and explore the prevailing circumstances and available resources to us towards our progress and prosperity as a continent the only missing factor in Africa's reason otherwise God has blessed us is with everything we need for us to make it it will be unrealistic and and reason for any African to blame that we are not blessed by nature to blame God that we are never blessed by nature for we are fully blessed if we can only reason now to now to explore and exploit the prevailing circumstances and resources we hold at hand towards our prosperity as a continent you made it in Africa but an ordinary African is saying that it's not possible to make it in Africa but that statement from a reasonable perspective is wrong how can you say that it is wrong it is it is impossible to make it in Africa yet the Africans that have made it it is defeated by reason and reality you see that is exactly what I'm fighting inability for Africans to believe in themselves if I can do it you can do it what is the difference between me and you we all have the same time in a day we have maybe we have 24 hours I don't have any different what do I do different from you that has made me prosper and has kept you in a state you are at for me I think it is all about it's all in the mind it all starts and ends in the mind I have a lot of Africans in the diaspora that watches my videos yeah if you have a message to them what would that message be no Africans go abroad looking for better better ways of survival and majo it will tell you they go for everything which is a fact but I can give an opinion on what it is in Africa today maybe majo it have left because of the prevailing circumstances like our week education system that has made them believe you can only make it abroad not in Africa like I told you these are imported and imposed education systems that were never drafted realistically to meet the challenges and prepare the African child with the equipment to attituate analyze and understand the challenges at hand and forge corresponding solutions maybe one of the biggest problems Africa is our education system because you see we are born Africans but it prepares us into modern western slaves if I can put it attituately whereby by the time someone is leaving university all they can think of is go and look for better resources abroad and maybe that's why a majority of people living abroad so if qualified engineers, qualified doctors, qualified nurses are all living Africa how is Africa going to grow maybe we should start believing in ourselves our origin maim I think most of them are also living because the systems in Africa don't really work you are an African are you an African yes so why don't you first believe the fact that you are an African identity is an element of reason understanding your identity is an element of reason saying I'm by the names of a mischigun I'm by such and such a age I am a black man and I'm an African and what can I do to improve my life and the lives of those around me so does running away from a problem solve it now if I'm looking for modernity I should go look for it elsewhere have you solved the problem no actually you've moved to society that you're not you're foreigner in that particular society so and majority in the accounting you're not even a citizen you don't even qualify that is why I decided to do the white house in Uganda let us struggle or strive towards achieving our desires in our motherland instead of struggling and striving so much towards leaving our motherland I know majority live because of different living circumstances I don't want people to get me wrong but from a reasonable point of view that is a personal opinion which may to be a fact or not depending on the reasoning capacitor of the read and the on the reasoning capacitor of the person listening to me but that is my opinion within perimeters of reason self identity is very key and taking personal responsibility is equally key so whose responsibility is it to develop african political one is it for the westerners is it for the europeans or is it for the africans so if old africans are living africa whom are they living africa for me told my fellow africans and the world at large to everyone listening to me my message would be if you get a chance to get old of my two books success and failure based on reason and reality and reason as the odd masterpiece I would advise you to read it for I'm not trying to tell you how much I've achieved but how can we kickstart each other's reasoning capacitor to make sure we make the world we live in and the african continent a better place