Okay, so today we're going to be continuing with our lesson on the glory of God and the general epistles. The glory of God and the general epistles. And the general epistles in the Bible, when we speak of them, we're talking about the book of James, the book of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and 1 through 3 John. A lot of people don't include Hebrews in that list for various reasons, but we're including Hebrews in that list as well. And today, like last week, we went through James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude, I'm sorry, I forgot Jude. Jude is one of the general epistles as well. So last week we went through James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude, and today we're going to be looking at Hebrews for the most of our time this morning, and we'll also be spending some time in 1 through 3 John. So if you would turn with me to Hebrews chapter 1, Hebrews chapter 1, and Hebrews has very many references to glory, and particularly the glory of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. And the author of Hebrews, he is showing the recipients of this letter, the glory of Christ, particularly as our high priest, and he is giving them exhortation to continue in the faith, and giving them warning of what will happen if they do not continue in the faith. And all of this hinges on the greatness, the supremacy of the Son. All that is good wrapped up in him, and particularly him as the high priest. So let's read, starting in chapter 1, verses 1 through 4, says, long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets. But in these last days, he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God, and the exact imprint of his nature. And he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. Amen. That's a very explicit, explicit reference to glory here. We have very clear picture of who the Son is. And this particular group of verses 1 through 4, it hinges on this statement in the middle. It hinges on the statement in the middle in verse 3. He is the radiance in some of your Bibles, and in New King James is the brightness. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. So in this particular text, let me ask you, what is the content of this glory? Whose glory is it? How is it expressed? What can we see in this particular text about glory? What is the content of this glory? Brother Lee. The content is, this is the glory of God. Yes. And this is, like I said, where New King James expressed image of his person is showing you God himself through Christ. Yes. Yes. Very good. Very good. This glory is referring specifically to the Father. Specifically to the Father. And yeah, we're going to get into that too, how he is the expressed image or the exact imprint of the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ. Anyone else? What else can we see about glory in this text, Pastor Michael? So I'm just going to be repetitive and kind of make this same observation that I have tried to make and reemphasize, and I'm doing that for a reason, because we don't often see the association of the glory of God with Christ's humiliation and exaltation. So you see that in the text here though. He is the radiance of the glory of God, the exact imprint of his nature, but you can't separate the person of Christ from the work of Christ, which is emphasized in verse three and verse four. And so his humiliation is seen in these words after making purification for sins. So that emphasizes his humiliation, that state of condescension and suffering, incarnation. And then after that, after he made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. And that word of that figure of speech, like sitting down at the right hand, is Christ taking the place of power and authority, which really speaks to his exaltation. So the association, again, we see, like really seen throughout the Bible, is the association, speaking of the person of Christ, is the glory of God or glory associated with his humiliation and exaltation. Amen. Amen. Yeah. Thank you, brother. That purification, that humiliation, we see that in his role as high priest. And even what you mentioned about him sitting down, we're going to look at that, too, how there's a double meaning here. We see how sitting down, that understanding of sitting down is important in his understanding as having finished the work as a high priest and sitting down has meaning in the fact that he is king overall and he sits, he sits right now in session as king in heaven at the right hand, at the supreme seat of glory and honor. So he was humbled and exalted and that, yes, contributes to his glory. Anyone else? Anyone else? There's a lot in this text, Miss Pam. I know when I've been researching or studying more into Matthew and they talked about the Sermon of the Mountain, how Jesus went up and he sat to preach. That was a sign of, what's the word, respect. That's what the preachers did then where everybody else stood. Is that like the same thing when he sits at the right hand side? Is that the same thing? You're talking about when he sat to teach, like in the synagogue? I don't know. There could be some connection. If there is, I don't know of. I know that that was the pattern of, like, you know, right now, right? I'm the one standing and you guys are the one sitting. If we were in a synagogue and at the time that Jesus lived, the person teaching would be sitting and those listening, it would be a standing room only. If you guys want to do that now, that's fine, I would be happy to do that. But yeah, in this particular case, his sitting, it shows us who he is and his role right now. There's a lot of significance in that. But I'm not saying that there isn't, I just don't, I don't know in that case. Miss Betty. Okay, when it says he has appointed heir over all things in time past, he took on that role even though not yet. But he, God had appointed him to take on that role as savior. Yeah, it's neat that him being heir of all things, you can see that in two ways, right? So we see how he is heir of all things as the agent of creation. So Jesus is the eternal son of God. So he is God and he was involved in creation with the other persons of the Trinity. So in one sense, he owns everything, who he is and his nature as God. At the same time, he, as a man in his humanity, he has earned the position as king and heir of all things by his work. So yeah, there's, and later on in Hebrews 2, the author of Hebrews mentions that he's not only heir of things now, but he is the heir of all things to come, of the age to come. Right? Oh, Mike, yeah. I was thinking also about later in the chapter, you know, when he says, for if every word spoken through angels, proved steadfast, and then he says, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord, whom he's talking about in there in chapter one. So I was just thinking how if God had spoken to a people through lesser means and they should have obeyed, you know, like through angels and through Moses, how much more should they obey through Christ and what makes his word so important for us to listen to is because of the person whom he's spoken through. So that relationship from the greater to the lesser and then back to the greater reminds us to look to Christ, to see the glory of God because of his position in speaking to us. Amen, amen. Yeah. And the author of Hebrews makes that, like you mentioned angels and Moses, like he makes that argument a number of times in the book, doesn't he? He's saying, okay, if you listen to them, how much more should you listen to him? If the people died and the Israelites died in the wilderness because they refused to listen to Moses whom God has sent.  It's a consider the glory of the Father in that and consider the glory of the Son. So we talked about a number of things there, haven't we? There's a lot wrapped up into these four verses. So we see, I'm going to run through a few things, some of it's going to be repeated, what we have talked about. We see that one, God is not silent, God the Father. He clearly reveals himself. He clearly reveals himself. This glory of the Father is the Father revealing himself to us. So this glory that we're speaking of is a glory of his self revealing. When you look in the Bible and you see different references to glory, you see different aspects taken out. Sometimes it's talking about the honor or the majesty doer person. Sometimes it is talking about ascribing, like when we talk about the verb to glorify, ascribing praise, ascribing honor. Sometimes we're talking about a bright light, like the active presence of God in a particular time or a particular place. And sometimes we're talking about the revealing of God, showing who he is. And sometimes there's a mix of those things. Even in this text there's a little bit of a mix of those things. So we see God is, God is in silent. We see that he's spoken. He's spoken by his son. And in times past he spoke through the prophets, but now all things they culminate in his son. This is the height of revelation, Jesus Christ. There's no better way for God the Father to speak to people. I would dare you to find a better way for the Father to reveal himself than to send someone who has the exact same substance as he does. So you think about, you think about how merciful that is for God to reveal himself in that way.   I believe in God if he'd show himself to me. I believe in God if he would do something amazing. And all you can respond is that a foolish generation would seek for a sign like that. How could God speak any clearer? God has spoken so clearly. It's not an issue of whether he has spoken clearly. The issue is whether the person who has received the revelation has eyes to see, right? It's whether you're blind or deaf, not whether God has been clear. It's our sin that keeps us from understanding who God is. We see like what Miss Betty mentioned, that Christ is the heir of all things. He mentioned, if you go back with me and keep your hand at Hebrews and go look at Psalm chapter two. It's a little echo from Psalm chapter two here. Speaking of the Son and look at verse seven. It says, I will tell of the decree. The Lord said to me, you are my son, today I have begotten you. Ask of me and I will make the nations your heritage and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. So Christ, Christ is the heir of all things. He is the heir of all things. He will receive all of the nations and in this particular place, that is the Father speaking to the Son and so Christ, He is the owner of everything. And we also see here that He is the agent of creation. He is the agent of creation. We see it says here at the end of verse two, through whom also He created the world. So there's multiple aspects that Christ is the heir. He has created everything. He is the owner by right already of all things. And at the same time, as a man in his incarnation, He has purchased all things by His work. He doubly owns us. He is doubly king in a sense. He's a ruler of all. In Hebrews chapter two, one page over, verse five, he even mentions him as being king over the world, having everything in the world to come. He says, for it was not to angels that God subjected the world, the world to come, the world to come. So Christ is the owner, not just of all things now, but all things in the future, all things in the future, even in the new heavens and a new earth, even in a new Jerusalem. So we also see that He is the radiance of the Father's glory. What would you think? I think of that phrase, the radiance of the Father's glory or the brightness of His glory. How would you try to explain that phrase? Any takers? How would you try to explain that phrase? Would it... I saw a hand there. Was that your hand? Nancy? No, that wasn't your hand. Scratching your nose? Don't scratch your nose while I'm up here. Was that... You're scratching your nose. Don't scratch your nose. So this particular word, the word in the Greek for radiance, it can be taken as active or passive. It can be looked at as reflection. So if I had a mirror right here and you shine the light, it hit the mirror and then light will bounce off of the mirror, reflection as passive. And it can also be taken as active so that Christ wouldn't just be reflecting the glory of God, but that Christ in Himself has glory as well, emanating glory from Himself. And most people when looking at this, most when understanding this text, even most translations when translating this text, understand that this to be an active, an active radiance, mainly because of the thrust of this text, what this text is saying about Christ, how He is exalted in every way. You see His active work in this text. And I think my personal view, I believe, would be that this is speaking... This is speaking clearly of Him radiating glory, not just a passive reflection of God's glory. God's glory is active. Think of what we've been learning and when we throw a non-greater study, thinking of God being a pure act, thinking of it in that way. So we also see here that He is the exact imprint of the nature of the Father. In the Son, you see the Father. That word here for imprint is the same word that they would use in Greek to speak of a coin being stamped, a coin being stamped with the face of the ruler. So if you were, you know, let's say, I don't know who the Caesar was at this time, but let's say it was Julius Caesar because that's the only one I could muster up in my mind at the moment.  Christ is the imprint of the Father, but not like a coin where it's kind of fake. He is the imprint of the Father in every way. In fact, you can't know the Father but through the Father's imprint. You can't know the Father but through Jesus Christ. Christ makes what is invisible in the Father visible to you. So he's identical in substance to the Father. All that the Father is in substance, Christ is.  He's perfectly positioned because he's one with the Father. He's one with the Father.  And then on top of that, he humbled himself to the earth becoming a man in the incarnation. So how better, how better could you show the Father to human beings? Then for the Father to reveal himself through the Lord Jesus Christ. How beautiful is that? And think of the love and care and goodness that you see from the Father in the Son.   He was at the Council of Nicaea, and Joseph Arius, the heretic who believed that Christ, who denied Christ deity, he was giving his arguments, and good old St. Nick walked up to Arius, and he punched Arius in the face. He was very angry. And you might think, why would, I'm not saying that you should punch heretics in the face, but you might ask, why would it make someone so angry to hear such a horrible, to hear that heresy? What do you lose when you lose the deity of Christ? You lose many things. You lose the gospel, of course. But one of the things that you lose that a lot of people don't think about is you lose the disposition of the Father to you. So if Christ isn't the same substance as the Father, if he's not the exact imprint of the nature of the Father, how can you say that the Father loves you? How can you say that the Father regards your helpless estate, or that the Father pities you? It's in Christ that we see that. It's in the Lord Jesus Christ that we see that in His words, and we see that demonstrated at the cross. It's only in Jesus Christ that you can really call God the Father your Father. You lose the disposition of the Father to you if he is not the exact imprint of the Father. We also see how Christ sustains and governs the universe by the word of His power. He's not like the God of the deist. A deist believes that God has created the world. He's kind of set it in order, and then he just lets it spin, and he walks away. But that's not the way that God really operates, that Christ really operates. He actively governs the world. He actively sustains the world, and he upholds it by His power. We see what Pastor Michael mentioned, this understanding of him making purification for sins. That is the work of the high priest to make purification for sins. And he did this in a tent, as it says in the book of Hebrews, not made with hands. This is the heavenly temple. He did this in a tent not made with hands. And then it says here that he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. And one thing, turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10. The sitting and standing is important to grasp here. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 11 says, And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, we understand that that's in himself, right? He sat down, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemy should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering, he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. So you see the standing and sitting here, right? You see the Old Testament priests, they stood daily offering repeatedly the same sacrifices. They offered repeatedly a sacrifice because their sacrifice was ceremonial. It wasn't their sacrifice couldn't finally atone for sin. But Christ, he offered his sacrifice, the sacrifice of himself. He being the perfect, unblemished Lamb of God, and he sits down, he sits down because his work is finished. Those priests had to stand and they continued to stand. They stand up, they go home, they come back standing. Christ stands up, offers one sacrifice, sits down. He finished his work, he finished his work. And you see his glory here and his humility to offer himself. But you also see in his sitting, he is also exalted. He is also exalted because he doesn't just sit down on a regular chair and say that he's finished. He sits down on a throne at the right hand of the majesty on high. And he's become as much superior to angels at the time, excuse me, as much superior to angels. So he sits as king, he sits as king. And this throne is a special throne, it's a very special throne. Turn with me, on the other hand, and he was, I know we're flipping a lot, turn with me to Revelation chapter 3. And this is Christ who sits on the throne. He is speaking to the church in Laodicea, or to the angel of the church in Laodicea. And verse 20 says, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him and he with me. And look at this closely. The one who conquers, or I think in the King James says, overcomes, right? I will grant him to sit with me on my throne as I also conquered and sat down with my father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. So look at that. So Christ sits at the right hand of God on the same throne as the Father. But where will those who overcome be? The same throne, Christ's throne, which is the Father's throne. What a blessed thing, amen? But consider, consider, it's a privilege. It's a privilege at all to go to heaven and have your sins forgiven. But how much more a privilege that you will be given a seat of honor in heaven, a seat where you never ever belonged. That's a privilege.  He will share his throne with you as the Father shares his throne with him. So you see, you see here, notice what we mentioned in the beginning, right? That this is the Father's glory we're talking about. This specific reference to glory, excuse me, I'm messing something up here. In verse three is the radiance of the glory of the Father. But who have we been talking the most about as we've been talking about this glory of the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ? You see how those two persons of the Trinity share glory? You see that? And you see how the glory is displayed. The glory of the Son is the glory of the Father. And the glory of the Father is shown in the Son. And we see that in multiple ways. We see that in the way that the Father reveals himself through the Son. He has spoken through his Son. We see that in the fact that he is the agent of creation. He's the heir of all things. We see that in his position and title as king. We see that in the fact that he is the, in his substance, who he is as deity. The exact imprint of the nature of the Father. We see that in his continual governance of the universe. Both now in this world and the world to come. We also see that in his position as high priest in his suffering. His suffering giving up himself and having not just suffered but finished the work. And we also see that in his exaltation. He rose again. He ascended and he is seated as king. And we receive a benefit being in him. So consider how should you, how, how you should respond to that glory. Like wouldn't, wouldn't that inform your worship to the Father and form your worship to the Son? Wouldn't that, isn't that enough truth to make you want to put away that sin that you have been indulging? That, that benefit of knowing that all those who overcome will sit on that same throne that Christ sits on. Which, how should that affect your Monday?  The way you get up, go to work, what you say at work, how you act at work, what you say at home, how you act at home. This is an all-encompassing thing. This little, these four verses in Hebrews are setting the stage for the author of Hebrews argument to tell these Hebrews to continue in the faith. This is a type of truth that can make you endure suffering. That can make you say, you know what? I'm not going to quit. I'm not going to stop following Christ regardless of the persecution, regardless of the trial because look at how supreme the Son is. So you see his glory but you have a responsibility to act on his glory much like Ryan said before. Let's look a little bit further in the book of Hebrews. Let's look at Hebrews, I'm going to skip to Hebrews chapter three. He says here in chapter three, starting at verse one, Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him, who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant to testify to the things that were to be spoken later. But Christ is faithful over God's house as a son and we are his house. If indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting and our hope. So this glory, can someone tell me what is this glory here referring to? There's a little comparison here that's going on, isn't there? What is this glory in this passage referring to, any takers? Or who is this glory referring to? So we see that this glory, there's glory mentioned for both Christ and Moses. And the glory of Christ specifically is being compared with the glory of Moses. Christ's glory is being compared to Moses's glory. So unlike the last text where we're specifically talking about the glory of the Father revealed in Jesus Christ, now we're talking about the glory of the Son specifically. We're honing in on the second person of the Trinity. And we're also seeing that this glory that we're looking at is speaking more heavier on the side of the honor and the honor do his name, the honor do his person. And we can see that because he's also mentioning when Moses is glory. And we understand that Moses doesn't have glory in himself. So we're speaking here of more of honor, honor given and honor do. So considering this glory, this honor do, there's a few things I want you to consider. Look at what the titles that are given to Jesus Christ in this text. Look in verse one, he says, therefore, Holy Brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus the apostle and high priest of our confession. So Jesus is being called an apostle. Anyone know what an apostle means? Brother Lee. One who is sent. Yeah, one who is sent. So who sends Jesus? The father. The father sends Jesus. Jesus here, you see his glory in his title as apostle. We also see another title here as high priest. He is the high priest. He is the one sent from the father. And he is also the one who has provided purification for our sins. And the high priest, he offers sacrifice for the purification of the people. And this is a special high priest because unlike all other high priests, this high priest offers himself. He offers himself. And unlike all other high priests like we talked about before, this one actually finished the work. He doesn't have to keep doing it anymore. We have the benefits of a high priest who finished. So I also want you to notice, he says, he says here, consider Jesus, consider Jesus. Now, this is only the second time I believe that this word Jesus is referred to in the book of Hebrews. He also mentions it in chapter two, really referencing the same thing I want to bring out here. Why would it be significant that he would use the name Jesus here instead of the son like he mentioned in Hebrews one or Christ? Why would it be significant that he says Jesus? Either one. Oh, sorry about that. I'm just thinking since the audience is a Jewish audience primarily who are defecting in certain ways towards Judaism. Yeah. So what they need to be reminded of as believers in Christ is that their Messiah, the Messiah of the Jews is Jesus. So to turn back to Judaism at this point, which is denying their own Messiah is foolishness. Yeah. So it's reminding them to turn back to Christ just by identifying their Messiah again as the person Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. So he's been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. So there's a contrast that's going on in between Jesus and Moses, particularly as mediators, mediators of two different covenants, right? Men. Yeah. Mediators who are men of two different covenants in respect to those who were in covenant. And so I think the significance of him referring to Jesus is to set him in that context properly as to even the appointment. He was faithful. Jesus, who was faithful to him, who appointed him, that appointment has to do with the covenant of redemption. Jesus Christ being appointed as mediator to redeem a people. Those who would be in covenant with him, really the mediator of the new covenant as opposed to or contrasted with the old covenant. Yeah. Yeah. And both are right. Amen. Like his position as a mediator of the covenant, him as a Jew, him as a man. Jesus brings all of that out. It's him using even his name, the emotional effect of that. Understand it becomes personal at that point. Think through to how, lost my thought for a second. Yeah.  But yeah, think through to how he says to consider Jesus to that word, consider. Usually when we use the word consider in English, we mean something a little different. Right. So if I said, hey, Tom, Tom Rogers, you know, would you consider giving me your car? And Tom will be thinking, yeah, I'll consider it. No. Right. We think consideration is something quick. It's something it's more shallow when we use that word. But what is being communicated here in the original language is a contemplation, a meditation, a deep thinking upon consider Jesus. Have you thought about Jesus? Think on Jesus, his person, his work and look at how he compares with Moses. Look at Jesus's glory and consider how you must act. Consider Jesus, contemplate, meditate, think deeply upon the Lord Jesus Christ. So we see here also that there's these comparisons made between Moses and Jesus. Right. We see how Moses in this text, he mentioned that Moses was faithful in all God's house. He's faithful in all God's house. Now that phrase, faithful in all his house, that comes from Numbers chapter 12. Numbers chapter 12, if you remember in Numbers, there was a point in time when Aaron and Merriam, Moses's brother and sister, they became angry with Moses because of his authority, because of the authority that he had over everyone. They became jealous. They said, this Moses, he married a Kushite woman and then God, he calls all three to himself. Then he explained to Merriam and Aaron that Moses is faithful in all of his house. He told Merriam and Aaron that this is the one who might speak to mouth to mouth. This is the one I've chosen. This is the one I have sent. So usually when we think of, well, if I were to compare Jesus and Moses, I'm going to compare the fact that Moses is a sinner and Jesus is not a sinner. You know, Jesus is God, Moses is a man. Right. And those are true comparisons. But what the author isn't really bringing out that particular argument here. He's showing, he's actually showing how Moses was a good example. He's not denigrating Moses here. He's saying that Moses was faithful in all God's house. He was a faithful servant. And in fact, and that word servant is important. He was a servant in God's house. And in numbers 12, when God says that Moses is faithful in all his house, he wasn't referring to the tabernacle at the time. He was referring to the people of Israel, his people, his house. So Moses was faithful in all God's house. Moses was faithful as a servant. And the house was God's people, the Israelites. Now, but now the author tells us of Jesus too. Jesus, he says, he doesn't say faithful in God all God's house. Look here of what he says. He is faithful. I'm looking for the verse. Lost my place. Six. Thank you, brother. He was faithful over God's house. Moses is faithful in all God's house in verse two. Jesus is faithful over God's house in verse six. And Moses was faithful as a servant. Jesus is faithful as a son. Completely different positions, completely different positions. Moses was faithful in the house. And this text says that Jesus instead is the builder of the house. And the builder of the house has more glory than the house itself. And who is this house? Who is this house that Jesus is faithful over? We are that house.  Those are God's people. You see the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ in that, in the way he compares him with Moses. You see his position as head of the church. In this, in this, you even see all of his offices. You see how he's the sent one as the prophet. You see his title given as the priest. You see him, his, his position as the king being over God's house. He is prophet, priest and king and all contributing to his glory. All contributing to his glory. Praise the son. Praise the son. Let's, let's move on here. And I promise you that we're going to spend most of our time in Hebrews. And, but we're going to look at 1st John too. So let's look at 1st John real quick. And 1st through 3rd John, you know how many direct references to glory that they have? Zero, zero direct references to glory. There is no word glory in any of these books. No word glory. So does that mean that there's no glory in these books? Of course not. We're going to be all right. Right? There's glory in these books. So, because the sun is revealed. And we see that. Let's look at 1st John chapter one starting at verse one. It says, that which was from the beginning, which we have heard, is seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands concerning the word of life. The life was made manifest and we have seen it and testified to it and proclaimed to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us. That which we have seen and heard, we proclaim also to you. So that you too may have fellowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with the Father and with his son, Jesus Christ. And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. So think, think about, oh, I'm sorry. I meant to read the next two verses to listen to this in verse five. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaimed to you. That God is light and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. So there's a few things I want to bring out. There's a lot in this text too. There's a few things I want to bring out. One, consider how he is pointing to who. Jesus Christ, right? And he is proclaiming the message we see in verse five that comes from him. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaimed to you. He sang in verses one through four. We've seen him with our eyes. We've touched him with our hands. John specifically has seen more than most have seen too. John was at the Mount when Jesus was transfigured. He not only saw the glory of Christ in Christ's words and in his righteous life that was demonstrated to all. John saw a special vision of the active presence of the glory of God in the transfiguration. And John even himself, he doesn't use the word glory in first to third John, but he has no problem using the word glory in his gospel, especially in chapter one when he tells us of the word that became flesh. So John is referring to the glorious one. And in first to third John, we may not see the word glory, but we sure do see what it looks like to understand the glory of God. And we see what it looks like to live as someone who understands the glory of God. So in first to third John, you see the outworking of glory. You see the outworking of glory. Glory demands something from you. Glory demands something from you. It would be foolish right for us to do the study on the glory of God and not understand our, the requirement to live for him, to speak for him, to act according to his words, to what John likes to say, and especially in second and third John, walk in truth. In fact, what is truth, what is truth, but what God has revealed in the sun? That's how we know this echoes to write from what we, we looked at in Hebrews chapter one. How has God the Father spoken? He has spoken to us in his son. So, and so the question is here, how does someone who has seen the sun, how does someone who has seen the sun and understood the message in the sun, particularly the gospel? How does that person now live? How does that person now live? And let's take a look at chapter two verses one through six. He says, my little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this, we know that we have come to know him if we keep his commandments. Whoever says I know him, but does not keep his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word in him, truly the love of God is perfected. By this, we may know that we are in him. Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. If you understand the glorious one, you will walk and live like the glorious one. Look here at, let's flip the page to chapter four, starting at verse seven. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God. And whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. You see, those who understand the glorious one love not just the glorious one, but they love the glorious one's people. They love the glorious one's people. They walk in truth and they love the glorious one's people. Turn with me to second John. Yes, bro. Yeah, yeah, please do. Please do. It's all good, bro. It's all good. I just wanted to make a comment because I wasn't going to because you left first John chapter one. But in thinking of the glory of God and our study of the glory of God, a couple of things always come to my mind concerning the glory of God. And that is manifestation, right? The glory of God is God's self-revelation or a manifestation of his own character. It's also characterized by a bright shining light. So in first John chapter one verses one to six, the life was made manifest, right? And then he refers to God being one who is light. And in him there is no darkness at all. The reason why I bring that up is because here in chapter four, where you were reading is that the love of God has been made manifest, you know? So you have now, speaking of like glory in first John, the word glory is not there, right? Docs is not there. But it's filled with glory. Amen. Yeah, his self-revelation. Praise God. Thank you, brother. That's very helpful. And let's so yeah, consider that, right? So God has been made manifest. He has revealed himself and we have a responsibility to live according to it. We have a responsibility to live according to it. Now let's look at second John verse one to the elder, I mean the elder to the elect lady. That elect lady that could be referring to the actual, an actual church, speaking of the church as a, in the same way we would speak of a car in the feminine. The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth and not only, not only I, but also all who know the truth because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever. Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God, the father and from Jesus Christ, the father's son in truth and love. I rejoice greatly to find some of your children and look at this walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the father, walking in the truth. That's how those who understand glory live. They walk in truth. Turn with me to third John, third John, same thing. And verse four, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. So God has revealed his truth to you in the sun. God, the father like Pastor Michael was saying was made manifest in the sun. He has glorified himself in the sun. You have seen glory in the sun. And how must we respond to that vision of glory, particularly that we see in the word, the truth? We're to walk in that truth, amen. We're to practice that truth. And when we fail to do so, we must repent. We must repent. We must turn from our sins and continue following him in the truth. Let's not be lukewarm. Let's not be lukewarm. Let's not have to receive the warning that Christ gave to the church in Laodicea who were neither cold nor hot. Instead, let's be faithful and let's look forward to being with our Lord.  So let's pray. Father in heaven, may you be glorified. May we, may we see our Lord Jesus Christ in your word. May we see in the sun how you have made yourself clear, how you have manifested yourself. Father, open our eyes to see for all whose eyes are open, open our eyes wider that we may see better. Help us to consider, contemplate, meditate upon Jesus. Help us to praise him and to love him as your apostle, as our high priest. Help us to see his glory and his suffering and in his exultation, his current position as king of this world and the world to come. May your name be blessed, Father. And may the name of your son be blessed. And may our blessing from our lips be true with our actions, with our words, with our preaching of the gospel, with our faithfulness to you and our homes. When our worship together corporately as a church, may you be honored in it and glorified in it. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


what is going on everybody welcome back to chanel welcome back to the vlog is another beautiful beautiful morning here in New York City Manhattan and I'm on my way to work again it is Monday morning about 6 45 a.m. it's a little hot this morning has it's been the last few weeks so I'm a bit sweaty but that's about par for this course so far anyways I am on consults today slash all week and I'm not scheduled for any procedures this entire week so this should be fun I'll be roaming around the hospital and I have no idea where anything is because I haven't even been to like the hospital floors yet I just stayed in the basement so about the easies I can comfort shoes today and I'll let you know how this week pans out so just finished a first day of consults it was quite actually wasn't too bad to be honest with you I thought it's gonna be far worse from what everybody was saying but yeah the pager reams like every five seconds and you have to like constantly stop what you're doing answer page and work up another patient but honestly I guess I'm just used to that coming from North Carolina where consults were pretty bad we'll see how I feel at the end of this week because I had to do it for five days straight whereas North Carolina I would only do consults for maybe like one day week max they now do procedures the rest of the week so it all depends but either way I just saw a whole bunch of cool consoles today actually they weren't all interesting they were just kind of basic and a few solid consults along the way but nonetheless it was pretty good so I guess for those of you who don't know what consults are I remember I used to say consults like everybody knew what consults were and then I realized someone was like they corrected me and they're like it's consult and I was like no it's not in medicine it's consult which is weird why we pronounce it differently than it's supposed to be but only in medicine do we say consults rather than consults we are the consultants that do consults or see patients that they consult us about for procedures so they can pretty much consult us for anything they want anything they need IR services for for instance if someone has plots in their lower extremities and they need us to put an IVC filter in for someone who cannot be on blood thinners that's what we do they consult us for it we go and evaluate the patient examine the patient talks to the patient consent the patient for the procedure and make sure they are okay with it then we talked about the risks and benefits of the procedure and we go through with the same process like I said and then we bring them down to the procedure and that's it so we do that over and over and over again and we get paged about other consults that we don't end up doing because maybe the patient is not well enough for us to do them for a million other different reasons so that is a consult and I have four more days left and I'm gonna go home now get my YouTube video ready for tomorrow eat dinner and do this all over again tomorrow what is going on everybody let me mute this somehow hold on a sec I don't know how to mute it alright so I've turned down the volume a little bit now so it is 7 25 a.m. I'm currently in the fellow room right now I'm currently watching a vascular lecture that we are given we do a co-lecture with our vascular surgery residency every Tuesday and today it's on pactletaxle coated balloons and their efficacy that's what I'm doing right now we have board rounds after that where we go over interesting cases and then I'm going to start my day I already have a full list of consults ready for me to go attack and I keep getting paged which I transferred it to my phone so I keep getting all these text messages about pages so I need to answer those and that's what I'm gonna do right now what's going on everybody and I'm not gonna bore you again with more consults on but I just finished the whole day a ton of different consults I was running around all over the place and yeah what's funny to me is on my last video with the Ferrari everybody kept commenting on all the trash on the street and that's just a New York thing all the buildings are so tightly packed that the trash just gets placed on the street a couple times a week and it gets picked up at some time I don't know but it feels like there's always trash on the street somewhere trash and recycling bags piled up as high as you can see I'll try to find some that are like super piled up but it pretty much smells all the time every day on the street when there's trash out there so that's really exciting it's just kind of you know what you get living in New York City I don't know you just become used to it you're like used to seeing trash all over the street which sounds absolutely asinine as I say it but it's just a New York thing so anyways heading home catch you in the morning this is our lovely fellow room as you see over here we have the nice turn-off heater sign which I assume you would need during the winter but not so much right now because it's 95 degrees out over here we have a stock pile of chairs a bag and a random hospital chair also we have a prison-esque style it looks like a camping cot or something I don't think anybody's ever touched this ever but for some reason if we need to sleep here it's there then if you go into oh wait forget about this we have a nice room separating hospital curtain because this must have been a hospital room at some point nobody ever uses this either we have a whole bunch of cabinetry up top and then the piece de resistance is our two desk and dual monitor system which my co-fellow set up for us which was very nice of him and so we have two setups here two chairs oh there's the heater down there and everybody knows there a telephone if you will and we have a nice large fridge which is like almost as tall as me microwave printer my locker right here and my procedure shoes which you may have seen before and that's pretty much all that goes on in here alright so anyways I just found an ID of one of my I guess residents already oh it is a radiology resident who would have thought I found the idea of a radiology resident on the street outside so I'm gonna give it to them right now and then to start my full day of consults wish me luck so alright so that officially concludes this day and this week of consults I think I'm going to relax a little bit this weekend not do too much because next week is a big week because I'm on call for seven straight days for my first time on call here so it should be quite an interesting experience to say the least so if you want me to vlog my week on call let me know in the comments below I'm thinking about it but I might be too busy so if you want to see what a hardcore seven days on call is like let me know and I'll film it so otherwise as always smash like subscribe and follow my Instagram if you don't already I'll see you all oh wait by the way giveaway is ending soon I 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As long as armies have moved, tents have served as shelters, headquarters, home, hospital. Tents have a tradition of military service. Extreme portability, lightweight, ease of setup and takedown have been the tent's strong points for centuries. These and the plain fact that no replacement existed. But it is one thing to house and headquarter an army and quite another to hospitalize the wounded. Infantrymen in good physical condition are equal to the hardships of tent life. For a wounded man, the environment is as important as the treatment he receives. Tent hospitals have saved many lives, of course, because they have been available where the wounded were. But they have never been remotely ideal. As a typical hospital environment, this could be in any war zone of the last 150 years, while techniques and technology have advanced at an amazing rate. The only description adequate for the tent hospital is primitive. Sophistication in medical care must equal sophistication in weaponry and tactics. We are a long way from remote control warfare. Men on the ground, at the front, still carry the greatest burden. That is why in 1959, the Surgeon General of the United States Army initiated the search for a new type of mobile hospital. Government and industrial resources were challenged with developing a maximum care hospital that would be self-contained and transportable to any scene of combat or natural disaster. A modern, fully equipped operating room was of prime importance. But every support facility from central material supply to environmentally controlled wards figured in the planning too. The final design was designated must. Medical unit, self-contained, transportable. The system is made up of three basic units outfitted in various ways to provide the many different types of hospitals required. For ease of transportation, each element is its own shipping container designed as part of the package. A C-130 or a larger aircraft can airlift an entire hospital in its containers. Individual units are easily carried by helicopter. Mounted on a removable dolly set, the expandable unit can be towed behind a truck. A utility element can also be transported on a dolly set. One of the multiple shelter units fits the bed of a standard douche and a half. The utility element is the heart of the must system. Electric power, heat, refrigeration, water pressure and heating, compressed air and suction are all generated by the unit. Power and heat come from the unit's turbine engine, capable of running on any liquid fuel available in a combat zone. The expandable shelter is a rigid panel unit. By combining a variety of accessory parts, the shelter can be used as an operating room, laboratory, sterile preparation area, x-ray or similar facility. All interior furnishings can be stored in the central section along with the associated medical supplies. On arrival at a new site, the shelter is ready for use as soon as the sides have been expanded. The interior equipment moved into place and the connections to the utility element secured. The equipment in the operating room is equal to the equipment in any modern surgical suite. All of the latest tools, vital sign monitors, surgical lights, anesthesia and resuscitation equipment, the operating table itself have been developed as part of the must concept. It is now possible to perform complex, delicate surgical procedures anywhere, anytime under any conditions. The third element consists of two parts, the multipurpose shelter and the inflatable shelter. The multipurpose unit is a rigid wall box. It serves to hold the inflatable element during transportation. The multipurpose unit will also hold the specially designed interior modules and medical supplies necessary to outfit the erected inflatable unit. When empty, the container becomes a shelter. Soft insulated sections form walls between the top and bottom doors. Connectors are built in to permit hookup with the utility element. The interior space is adequate for a nurse's station, medical records office or ward supply room. A corridor unit can be used to connect the shelter to the inflatable or expandable units for controlled access. Made of dual walled coated fabric, the inflatable elements are supported by inner tubes between dual layers and reinforced with aluminum bows. Air from the utility element is used to inflate the sections and to maintain pressure. Each section can accommodate 20 beds and related equipment when set up as a ward. Set up time for an experienced crew is about 25 minutes. Must units can be put together in virtually any configuration. A 200 bed combat support hospital or a 400 bed evacuation hospital are equally possible combinations. Detailed plans are available to help commanders select the most economical layout. Entryways and corridors between individual elements maintain a constant environment within the closed loop of the hospital system. Because the environment inside is independent of the climate outside, a must hospital is efficient and effective at virtually any altitude over a wide range of temperatures and the most difficult weather conditions. Once inside a must, the practitioners and the patients are in a medical facility as complete and up to date as any permanent hospital in the military medical chain. The must makes possible a level of patient care that can continue without interruption from front line to state side convalescent ward. By design, the must is flexible, capable of infinite arrangement and rearrangement to fit the ever changing needs of military situations. Evacuation and combat support hospitals of the active army, army reserve and army national guard will soon be converted to must equipment. The first generation of must proves that an alternative to the tent is possible and practical. What lies ahead is not an alternative, but a completely new approach to combat medical care. Modern medicine on the line to serve a modern army.


Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for joining us on this celebratory morning. I know it's a little bit of a rainy morning, but it's also an historic morning. My name is Maria Torres Springer. I'm the deputy mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce, thanks to all of the partners who are here celebrating this incredible moment in the city's history. Before I get started, please join me in giving a round of applause for the Danny Mix and Trio. You are amazing. Thank you. What a great way to start the day. I also want to thank our generous hosts, the owners of this amazing building, Penn One, so much investment in this building, such a rebirth of this building, and really emblematic of the rebirth that is going on all across our city, which we will talk about. I want to thank all of the partners who are here with us today. Leaders across government, leaders in business, in labor, in the not-for-profit sectors, and so many other sectors that we are here today is because of all of you. So a round of applause, please, for all of our partners. Before I turn it over to the mayor, I wanted to take a minute to set the stage. Now, we all remember the headlines, right, during the height of the pandemic. Headlines that declared that New York City was dead, that it was doomed. And then Mayor Eric Adams took office, and he had a very different headline in mind. One headline that would say that New York City will come back stronger than ever, that we would rebuild, renew, and reinvent, and given the jobs day that we just got yesterday, that's exactly what we did. Crime is down, jobs are up, and it's a five-borrow recovery due to the investments across every neighborhood. In Queens, we are building affordable housing and a new world-class soccer stadium. In the Bronx, the Kingsbridge Armory will become an economic engine in a borough that has long been under-invested in. Just a couple of days ago, we announced a new life sciences biohub right here in Manhattan, which will strengthen our position as a global leader for life sciences. In Brooklyn's Broadway Junction, we'll bring about half a billion dollars of improvements in the public realm and in transit. Staten Island in the North Shore Action Plan, that'll include another half billion in investments to parks, jobs, and new homes. Now, have we accomplished everything we wanted? Is our job done? Of course not. And it won't be until we have created economic opportunities for every New Yorker. But we stand here today with a very clear message that the future of New York City is bright. It is bright for workers, for small businesses, and for global companies. It's bright for the student from Queens, for the tech startup founder from the Bronx. It's bright for the construction worker from Brooklyn. It's bright for every New Yorker across the five boroughs. And so, how did we get here? Now, our city has a mayor who simply refuses to quit, who pushes us to do better, who expects us to go bigger. The story of our city's economic recovery would be really different without him. And as a New Yorker, I am just so grateful that he is at the helm. And so, it is my pleasure to introduce to all of you the 110th mayor of New York City, Mayor Eric Adams. Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Real superstar and deputy mayor, Maria Torres Springer, and my entire leadership team that's here. I tell them all the time, if I were them, I would not work for me, you know? It is, you know, we are driven, our entire team. And you know what I love about the team? They're real New Yorkers. Real gritty, hardworking, take no S New Yorkers. We just, you know how we are as New Yorkers. We are resilient. People thought we were going to crumble during 9-11 when we saw the center of our trade attack and collapse before our eyes. But you know what, 9-12, we got up. And when New Yorkers got up, the country got up and realized that the invincibility of this great city with a spirit in the heart of the entire country, there is no city on the globe like New York City, nowhere else on the globe. All my colleagues across the globe, they debate about the second and third, but they all say we surrender to you, Eric. New York is the only city like it. Now, we printed this sign here. We printed this sign here saying that this was the largest private sector job. Let me change this for a moment. The city, 4.7 million. We have more jobs than cities have people. That's how well we're doing. Think about it, Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Bringer was so right. You remember January 1st, 2022? Crime was trending in the wrong direction. No one wanted to be on our subway system. We were hemorrhaging jobs and people were leaving, taking flights to Florida. Well, you know what, they want to be back now. You know, people said that we couldn't turn this around. They said it was going to take two years longer for us to turn this around. Team came in January 1st, 2022, we came into the office at the building at City Hall and sat around the table and say today starts now for New York City Recovery to put us back on the right path. Public safety, subway safety plan we put in place, going after those who needed support and mental health issues on our streets, removing the encampments on our streets. You don't see them anymore. You don't see them in the subway system. We knew we had to bring down crime, partnering with the governor to put in place a real plan to put our police officers in our system and on our street, taking 12,000 guns off our street, driving down shooters, driving down homicides, but doing something else. We've settled almost 87% of our union contracts, given our police officers a salary they deserve, our teachers a salary they deserve, our ferry boat operators a salary they deserve, working class people investing in public spaces and people and in public safety to prerequisite to our prosperity. That is how we came back and you see it every day. I was in Times Square last night at 1 a.m. in the morning. There was so many people out there taking photos and saying there's nothing like New York. 56 million tourists last year, 65 million predicted this year. You're seeing a city that's not just surviving, we're thriving, thriving. And how many of you are basketball fans? Who like basketball? You ever see someone when they're at the goal line getting ready to take a shot and the opposing team is behind the basket, waving all of this stuff to distract you and but if you are so focused and disciplined you don't see all that distraction. This is a focused team. We have to foul line. We're gonna take the shot for New Yorkers and all that distraction that's taking place around us we're not going to allow it to get in the way of the job that we must do. Yes, we're dealing with some issues that we have to face. We know that. We know that we have to deal with the migrant asylum seeker issue. We know that we have to continue to encourage people to come to the city. But this team is so focused. Everyone knows their assignment and the assignment of dealing with one thing is not going to get in the way of dealing with another. And that is how we were able to recover this city in a manner that we did. An amazing team of New Yorkers and our partners in business. Day one, I reached out to corporate America and say the days of us not having a relationship that we're all in it together is those days are over. We sat down with Kathy Wilde from the partnership who has been a constant companion. And we sat down with our restaurant associations and the leaders to say we're going to do this together. We made it easier with Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer looking at how businesses were being interrupted by the bureaucracy, the bolder bureaucracy in government. No one wanted to do business in New York because the agencies were not focused in how we could be business friendly and we changed some of the basic rules so people can navigate government in the easier way to open business here. We infused technology into our city to make sure that we can function at a better city and we found efficiencies even in the most difficult time with our teams. You are just seeing a city that is going to show other cities that cities are manageable. We can deliver. We have a lot to do every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. for the most part. I'm across the street handing out food to our everyday New Yorkers. That moment for me is the most important part of the week because it keeps me rooted. No matter how well we're doing there's still a large number of New Yorkers that believe this new city is not providing for them. When I speak with them on the line it started out as just people who were in homeless shelters. Then I started to see working class New Yorkers who knew that I was going to be there every week to talk with me about the struggles and challenges they have. They fuel me every day. That refueling that I do on Wednesday nights with my New Yorkers who are struggling tells me that we cannot take our feet off the gas. We must remain focused and disciplined. Everyone must succeed as we continue to thrive. So this is a day of celebration but it's also a day of determination. We must be focused to keep moving this city forward. We can't have high unemployment in our black and brown communities. We have to close the gap. We cannot have children growing up in homeless shelters. We cannot have New Yorkers believing our city is not affordable to live in because the rent is too darn high. We have to make sure that we encourage everyone to participate in this prosperity that we are experiencing. So I want to thank Penn One and its partners for hosting us today. This building is an amazing story as well but you think about it as 110th mayor of this great city. We started out with a discipline. I told you New Yorkers, the city that I wore a bulletproof vest for 22 years and protected you as a police officer. I told you I was going to drive down crime. I was going to rebound our economy. I was going to create an environment for working people in the city. And we're doing it. We're doing it. And today's celebration is the indicate of that. Many people questioned us. They didn't think it was possible. We did some amazing thing with this team by coming up with our economic recovery blueprint in New York plan which reimagined the future of New York City's economy. And when you look at what we did coming out of COVID-19, we knew we had to get the city back up and operating. We have recovered in a way that is really impressive for all of you. You should all be proud because you're a part of this recovery with more than 280,000 private sector jobs created. That is a total of 4,709 million jobs, over 4.7 million jobs. Not just private sector, as I stated, but total jobs in our city. Before we took office, experts were projecting the city when we gained pre-pandemic job levels until 2025. They just did not know this team. I said January 1st, this was my Aaron judge, while we're knocking this out of the park right now. We got it done in 22 months. Straightforward plan, protect public safety, invest in public spaces, support working people. Or as we have been calling it, the triangle offense. As I've said for so long, public safety will always be my prerequisite to prosperity and we're gonna continue to lean in that. It is what I campaigned on as I stated, this is why we took immediate action plan. We put $170 million in our subway safety plan to get people back on the subway. Many of you here have metro cards in your pockets and I have a metro card as well because I know we have to be safe on our subway system and we're gonna continue to drive down crime. We wanted to ensure that we get back, right as back on the systems where they are and we're making transformative changes in how we keep our city clean. Think about it for a moment.  You may not know it, but I hate rats. We're going to containerize our garbage. They said it was not possible. It's commission or t-shirt. They said it was not possible. They said it was going to take five and six years.  This is going to be the safest city and the cleanest city in America. And to support broken people, we have awarded loans to more than 600 small businesses to our small business opportunity fund. Where's our commissioner Kim? Commissioner Kim, job well done, doing an amazing job. We have expanded our summer youth employment. DYCD is here. Who's here from DYCD? Our Department of Youth Services, 100,000 summer youth jobs, 110,000 young people went into our summer rise program. Great job, Sheena Camille and the whole team around that. And real partnership, you can't help but to notice the ever presence of our amazing councilwoman who was a one-time borough president of Manhattan who's continued to thrive forward. Gail, thanks so much for being a real partner. So many people have benefited from our recovery but we know they're those who are being left behind. We're bringing them forward with real plans, real opportunity and we're going to take the message directly to New Yorkers with the kickoff of a working people's tour. We're going to highlight the hard work in New Yorkers who are powering our economy.  I'm always serving the people. We're going to announce new interventions to help boost growth and build on ramps to opportunity across the five boroughs. We will be releasing a new plan to create youth pathways to good paying jobs, so important. Chancellor Banks talks about it all the time. Our young people don't even know why they're going to school anymore. We're going to give them a clear direction on why you are in school and partner with our corporations and entities so our children are prepared and ready to fill the jobs that are available. All New Yorkers must share in our city's prosperity. No one should be left out. That's our mission. We know that. Listen, I'm a blue collar mayor and I believe that working people, they are the foundation and the cornerstone of what makes this city great. Crime is jot down, employment is up, optimism is up, the city is recovering at a rate that was unimaginable, safest big city in America, more jobs than any other city. We are doing what we committed and promise ourselves that we were going to do. I want to thank you, New York, for making this happen and entire team. I was handed this when I came in. Our trademark is clarity of message. We want to give all of you this card. This is the New York City card. On the back, it is the clear things we need to be asking from our federal government. And we want all of us to know that. One message, all of us are on one message. When we walk around, when people say what do you want, we want to be able to clearly state here are the things we need. If we have one message, we're now in a huddle. When we go to the line of scrimmage to execute the play, we're running the same play. So one message from New York is so we can continue the great job that we are doing in government. And I look forward to making sure each one of you get one of these New York City cards so you can let everyone know we're moving together in one direction. Great job, team. Thank you. Thank you all of you so much. Thank you so much, Mayor. I just want to repeat those numbers. I'm a numbers person. I like numbers. I like really big numbers. And so here we go. 4.7 million jobs. Nine. OK, good. We can clap for each of the numbers. Let's do it. 946,000 jobs added since the pandemic. 280,000 jobs since the start of Mayor Adam's administration. These are all time highs in the city's 400 year history and incredible achievement for the city of New York. But also it's important to put it in context because sometimes you're like, what do these numbers mean? So for example, the jobs that we've recovered, if the near 1 million private sector jobs were added to our economy in the last few years were a city, it would be the 10th largest city in the US. It would be the size of Austin, Texas, the size of San Francisco, California. And those are just the jobs we added since the pandemic. The jobs we added since the mayor took office, those are more jobs than Buffalo has people. And then Jersey City has people. No offense to Buffalo or Jersey City. But really when you look beneath these numbers, what you see is also this really beautiful story. It's a beautiful story of industries in New York City really growing and becoming stronger. I see Julie Samuels is here. It's a story about the rise of tech in our economy. It's a story of health care, of finance, of construction, of education. So many sectors creating such a diverse ecosystem in our city. But it's also a story of how government, small business, large firms are all moving in the same direction. We are all partners on the same mission. And so we're gonna hear from a lot of our partners from some of these voices during today's program. And the first person really special that you're gonna hear from is someone who not only represents the story of a typical New Yorker, but really the story of the many sung and unsung heroes from the pandemic given what she's done. So I'm so happy to welcome our first speaker, one of those New Yorkers who'll share her story, one of hard work in the collective spirit of New York. Please join me in welcoming Hattie Becha. Dear ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hattie Becha. I am from Albania. I came to the United States in 2019. Back home, I worked as a registered nurse for nine years in the intensive care unit. When I arrived in the USA, I was looking for a job as a registered nurse. Everywhere I applied for a job, they told me I needed a US license. I started learning to pass the NCLEX test and I used many sources and spent a lot of time and money. Even though I used the programs and had a lot of experience and knowledge from back home, I failed the test two times. I was hopeless and devastated. Luckily, I heard about La Guardia Community College through a friend. I feel fortunate to have been accepted. In the beginning, I found this college very hard because I was working a full-time job while also studying. Thanks to the professional La Guardia management and their professional instructors, my English was improving and I started feeling more confident in NCLEX topics. My La Guardia Community College instructors did a very good job with every one of us. The best thing about this program is that I had to pay nothing. When it was my turn to take the NCLEX test in January 2023, I passed it on the first attempt. After I passed the test, I immediately got promoted from a patient care technician to a registered nurse. My income was, my income immediately improved. I will always be very grateful to La Guardia, welcome back center and to the sponsors. They changed my life. My dreams came true in New York City. Thank you. Thank you, Hate. What an amazing story. Now we know in government that we can't do it alone. So much of our work is propelled by partnerships. And one of the areas that we think is a real green shoot or real progress here in New York are in really building a new and modern apprenticeship system. They've done it in different parts of the world. We know we can do it here, we can do it bigger, we can do it better. And so one of the employers who's really been leading on this is the firm called Accenture. So we wanna thank them for all of their work. But you don't have to take my word for it. Our next speaker is again another special one. I would like to welcome all of you in welcoming Destiny, who is a former Accenture apprentice and now a full-time employee. Welcome, Destiny. Woo! Bear with me a moment. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Good morning. And thank you for having me here today, Mayor Adams.  So I was born and raised in the Bronx, so I know my mother and my abuela would be so proud to see me here today with you all. So my name is Destiny Parra. I am now a Marketing Associate Accenture. My journey began in 2020 as a youth apprentice during the pandemic. I was a junior at Vanguard High School. Shout out to them. When I first heard about the partnership between New York City and businesses that connected students with paid apprenticeship opportunities to get them ready to start in the workforce, I can genuinely say that it was an opportunity that completely changed my life. As a youth apprentice at the company, I was able to explore various career paths in application development, cybersecurity, and data engineering. But most importantly, it allowed me to learn more about marketing. And this was a field that I've been interested in being in since I was very young. I recently celebrated my third anniversary at Accenture. Thank you. Now with a full-time role at the company, and I want to shout out all of marketing and communications at Accenture. This one's for you. Yeah. And it made me think of all the people who made it possible for me to be here, and those are the same people that inspire me every day. Thank you, Mayor Adams, for the programs like the Youth Apprenticeship One that allow local students to learn and explore different career paths. This program allowed me to be here today, a long way from the Dominican Republic where my mother and my abuela immigrated from to allow me more better opportunities and a better life.  Thank you. And I also have New York City to thank for that as well. So thank you so much, and thank you again for having me. Thank you. Thank you, Destiny. I love your name.  So thank you. Thank you for joining us today. As I said earlier, this isn't just a story about jobs, it's also a story about our incredible small businesses across the five boroughs. So over the last four quarters, close to 30,000 new businesses have started in New York. To put that in another way, about one in seven businesses in New York City opened in the past year. And we estimate that about 40,000 new businesses have started during the mayor's administration. Our small businesses, they're mighty, they are growing, they are hiring, and they are one of the strongest forces propelling us forward. But you don't have to take my word for it. So I'd like to welcome Rudy Cazares of Cazar Logistics, a veteran-owned logistics company based in the Bronx that hired nearly 50 employees from the city's Workforce One system. Welcome, Rudy. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. First, I'd like to start by thanking Mayor Adams and his team, thank you for the opportunity to allow us to be here today. It's a huge honor. Special thanks to Queen's Workforce One Center and New York City Department of Small Business Services. And he may or may not be here, but a special shout out to a friend, Commissioner James Handen of the New York City Department of Veteran Services. Hello, everyone. My name is Rudy Cazares. I'm a former Marine-turned veteran entrepreneur. I'm a proud owner of Cazar Logistics, which is an Amazon delivery service partner. Currently employs 80-plus drivers in a fleet of over 45 vehicles. And we're looking to obviously increase that significantly now that peak season's here. A little bit about myself. I was born and raised in Elmer's, Queens. My parents are immigrants from a small town outside of Puebla, Mexico. And early on, I was able to see the sacrifices that they made to allow me and my brothers to have a shot at the American dream. So early on in my career, I made a decision to continue that tradition of sacrifice and serve our country. And I served as a Marine, participated in three combat tours, a few other tours overseas over the course of 15 years of service. But I always knew, thank you. I always knew that I was gonna come back to my hometown, New York, and build a business, build an organization in New York for New Yorkers. And little did I know that when I launched my company in January of 2020, it would be starting a business during the most difficult periods in New York during the pandemic. But what happens when New York's encounter a challenge or when Marines face adversity? We band together, we adapt, we overcome. And thanks to partners like Workforce One, the Small Business Services of New York, and Amazon, my business didn't just survive, it thrived. Workforce One helped me put New Yorkers back to work. Over 22% of my current team comes to us from Workforce One. They were key in helping us achieve staffing goals, as you all can imagine over the course of the last four years. It's been a bit crazy, right? Also, they helped me identify top talent from other industries to place them in the logistics industry. We know that the restaurant industry was hit hard with many restaurant workers being laid off, but these individuals brought transferable skills. They understood customer service, how to work in a fast-paced environment, how to think and make decisions on their feet to fix problems, problems that we encountered every single day. But more importantly, they had the will to persevere. A perfect example of this is my management team. And I want to go ahead and highlight those individuals today. David Kizaris, Vincent Herrera, and Danny Herrera. And they are just a few, but all of them came from the restaurant industry. They were servers before they started in my company. And today, there are managers overseeing one of the largest businesses within the Amazon Logistics Organization in the Bronx. And having delivered right results, we're over 10 million packages year-to-date to customers in the Bronx, Queens, and Westchester. So in closing, thank you to all the partners in supporting small businesses like mine. Thank you to Jennifer Bellow and the Queens Workforce One Career Center for all their support and Amazon Logistics. And special thanks to all my team members that have been with me for the last several years, exemplifying the spirit and grit of New York, that when challenged, we rise to the occasion. Thank you. Thank you so much, Rudy. Thank you for your service, and thank you for exemplifying the grit and the heart of New York. All right, so we have one more speaker. I mentioned earlier that so much of this work happens in partnership. We work closely with not-for-profit partners, faith institutions, community groups, tenant associations, talent developers, and of course, many, many members of the private sector to really build a stronger city and a more competitive economy. Together, small businesses and large firms are creating a more resilient city. And we have so many partners in this world. John Gray is one such partner. He and his company and through his work with the partnership for New York, which represents over a million jobs in our city, really the private sector is so committed to New York and to its future. And John also is an incredible civic leader, generous leadership and contributions for NYC Kids Rise and the partnership with DOE. And so he's wearing many hats today and we're so glad that he is with us. So please join me in welcoming John Gray. Thank you, Deputy Mayor for the kind words. I just wanna start by saying my heart goes out to the people in Israel and everyone affected by the conflict in the region. And I wanna give a huge shout out to the mayor for his leadership in this area. It's been tremendous. It is a tough world we all know and that's why it's great to celebrate the recovery of New York City today. People often, as the mayor noted, count out New York City in the 1970s after 9-11 and certainly during COVID, but once again, New York proves it always comes back. And I would just say as someone who is not from New York, not from another country, but from Chicago, I am so proud to have made New York home for 30 plus years. As it relates to my firm Blackstone, we are totally committed to New York City. Our firm was founded by Steve Schwarzman and Pete Peterson nearly 40 years ago and have always been headquartered here. Our business has grown a ton, but particularly since 2019, our headcount is up 60%. We have 3,000 workers now, employees at Blackstone in New York City. Over that same period, I'll take the shout out. Over that same period, our physical footprint has doubled and we are big believers in being together is better, physically together in the office. That's how we build culture, that's how we build a firm. I would say the key thing when we think about our firm is talent and there is no place in the world where you can attract talent like New York City. The energy, the dynamism, the mix of cultures, the food, all of it makes this city an incredible beacon for people all around the country to come here and all around the world to come here and work and seek opportunity. I see it in my own family, I have four daughters, as they and their friends graduate from college, they wanna come to New York City. So I would just say a couple of things. First, as it relates to the partnership for New York, Kathy and her team do an incredible job. Shout out to her. And as I said, back on our firm, it's not just our employees, we are big investors in New York City. We have major investments in 16 companies that are headquartered here. We own more than $15 billion of real estate. We're super excited that next week, we're gonna be at a groundbreaking ceremony for Manhattan's first ever film and TV studio campus at Pier 94. We are very fortunate to be doing that in partnership with the owner of this building, Vornado Steve Roth, shout out to you, a great partner. That project's gonna create 1,300 construction jobs and 400 permanent jobs. Last month, we started construction on a 340 mile renewable transmission line, which is bringing hydro power from Quebec to Queens. It's gonna power a million homes. The mayor, the governor, all have been super helpful making this happen. And I would just say it is definitely worth noting that we and so many people, despite headlines you may read at time, have a super positive outlook on New York City and a ton of credit belongs to this mayor. He fully understands that a great city looks out for all of its citizens. A great city understands the importance of a thriving business community to create jobs and create opportunity. He understands the importance of the next generation. He helped my wife and I expand our program, New York City Kids Rise, to help all New York City kindergartners start with a college savings program. Having the mayor in this seat as our number one cheerleader as you see today and our leader is inspiring. It also gives my firm Blackstone the confidence to grow our firm here, to expand our headcount and to invest more dollars here. So thank you very much mayor. I just want to say thanks again for everyone here. Congrats on this huge milestone. We love New York City as investors. We love it as a home for our firm and we love it. I personally love it as a home for my family. Thank you all so much. Thank you, John. I just want to make two other points and then we will wrap up. So much of the work that we're seeing today is because many different colleagues, amazing team members across agencies are really heeding the mayor's call that we have to keep moving the ball forward. We literally have to run through walls for New Yorkers and so I want to give a particular shout out to my colleagues at the Economic Development Corporation led by Andrew Kimball. All of the work across so many different industries. I want to shout out the chair of city planning, Dan Garodnik, who's helping us build for the future. And I'm not sure Commissioner Cumbo is here, Commissioner Kaufman, but also so much of what makes New York City unique aside from amazing buildings, aside from great transit, aside from being a concentration and hub of jobs is that we have an unmatched ecosystem of culture and of arts and creativity. And so we can't forget that. We can clap for that as we think about what's important for the future of New York. Okay, I want to thank everyone for coming and closing. I just have two messages. Number one, for New Yorkers who are watching, please check out jobready.nyc.gov. Here on this site, you will have access to a whole array of training opportunities and job opportunities. So please check it out, jobready.nyc.gov. And then finally, as you see here today, and this is a message you will be caring because we really believe it, the future of our city is bright. It is bright because of the leadership of Mayor Eric Adams. It is bright because of the partnership of everyone in this room and most importantly, it is bright because of the unparalleled medal of New Yorkers. Congratulations to everyone.


Bad boys, bad boys. What you gonna do? Especially when you run into a wicked woman. What's anybody gonna do? Keep watching to find out what book we're talking about today. It's Kyla Denigno and you're watching Kyla's Reading Day. Today we are talking about the book Bad Men and Wicked Women. This book was written by Eric Drumdicky. This is another installment of Vlogmas 2022 where I am covering an Eric Drumdicky novel for 12 consecutive days. For one, he's written about 22 books. But also this is one of my favorite authors and I jumped at the chance to cover his books for 12 days. So the genre of this book is fiction. The theme of the book is Literature African American Literature. Let me tell you. This was the first book of the installment of Ken Swift. Now if you're watching this playlist in order you will see that I covered before they were wicked before I covered Bad Men and Wicked Women. But this one actually was written first and then he wrote this one. And I kind of love that because I'm assuming that Eric Drumdicky came up with the story for Ken Swift and Jimmy Lee. And then because he references so much of their past he was like let me go on and write the other one right. So before they were wicked brilliant absolutely brilliant but Bad Men and Wicked Women let me tell you my favorite quote from the book is whatever he wants he makes legal whatever he doesn't want he makes illegal. So Ken Swift is an enforcer right. He goes after people he enforces debts he enforces grudges he enforces revenge that's what he does he goes after people and Bad Men and Wicked Women is all set around 24 hours okay. This entire book this is one day in Ken Swift's life you get a couple of flashbacks one day this man is living okay he is absolutely living. So that quote is so important because the people who write laws the people who are in charge of writing things and deciding what's allowed and what's not allowed they get to tell you whether you can do something or you can't. Of course you can still do it right Ken Swift is still enforcing against people but that's not something that we would readily say is legal it's not something that we would say is okay but why they gotta be Bad Men just because someone said that's not how we are supposed to conduct ourselves right. So you really get the juxtaposition of how Ken Swift is making a living doing what he needs to do is to pay his bills and take care of his family and then the person who's supposed to do it the right way is still doing illegal stuff but because they don't consider it illegal they it's fine right and so you get to a point in the book where they say one of my least favorite words over and over and I'm telling you the word is written at least 300 times and I say no exaggeration but I didn't count them but it's it's so hard to read but at the same time it's a really important part of the book because you know people say it and Ken Swift and Jake Ellis are considered to be bad dudes because this is how other people see them right so you'll know what I mean when you read the book but the fact that whatever man wants is considered legal whatever he doesn't want it's illegal it's so important because it lets you see how arbitrary everything is not to say that laws don't matter and rules don't matter but it's like you jumped out walking across the street when I was trying to drive I don't want to see that anymore so now it's illegal right jay walking is illegal and it's like someone took the time to write that to put on the books they did because whatever man considers that they want they can make legal whatever they don't want they can make it illegal one of my favorite things about Erdram Dickie is the levels of storytelling okay bad men and wicked women you know that Ken Swift and Jake Ellis are enforcing for Sam Bernardino you don't find out who Sam Bernardino is until towards the end of the book before they were wicked if you read this before you read this one you hear about Sam Bernardino all the time in here let me tell you Sam Bernardino is the child of one of the people in this book Thieves Paradise was written 2002 2018 the continuity of storytelling and characters and how you see one character in another book and about Erdram Dickie because if you own all the books like I do and you read them in order there are so many little easter eggs and so many tales and you're just like really cool if you are a true fan of Erdram Dickie's writing and you have read multiple books of his you will see characters show up all the time he has a lot of themes that show up in every book and I absolutely love it so whenever you read this book yes this was my second time reading this one I've read before they were wicked about three times because I really like to see the characters back in the day when they were first meeting bad men and wicked women is about 18 years after we saw Ken Swift and Jimmy Lee and it is very very compelling okay so you've been watching this far thank you jump in the comments let me know do you like books that give you little easter eggs or hints to prior books do you like to see characters from prior books show up in later books okay because I think that's pretty cool and I love that Erdram Dickie does that so thank you for hanging out with me today on Kyla's reading day and I will see you tomorrow for another installment of Vlogmas 2022 bye


A Sneed Rover's ex-company Bharatpe has made a record posting more than 2x growth compared to last year. Now all this is happening of course amidst a lot of controversies which keep getting updated literally every 72 hours. The most recent one being when an ex-employee of Bharatpe posted on LinkedIn took to social media to talk about the fact of non-payment of views, non-payment of salaries. This was addressed to the CEO. The CEO while he did comment on the post did not comment directly to the employee. He commented towards a Sneed Rover's sister's comment saying that basically it is because of your brother that we cannot pay the salaries and the dues and we are facing so many issues. A Sneed Rover has in turn written to the board members saying that this is completely unacceptable behavior. He wants an apology in the form of a letter. It seems like this is the only thing making news apart from Ranbir and Alia's wedding.