Eman, Ezekiel chapter 16. So keep your place there. We'll be there for the entire sermon. So tonight, we're going to look at Ezekiel chapter 16. What is Ezekiel chapter 16 talking about? So first of all, just to give you some context here, before we even begin the sermon, Ezekiel was a prophet to the lower kingdom of Judah. He was a contemporary with Jeremiah. So he was a prophet during the time of the captivity. So right up to the run-up of the end of the lower kingdom of Judah, the northern kingdom of Israel is already gone for 150 years at this point in this chapter. And Ezekiel is talking to Jerusalem, the capital city of the lower kingdom of Judah. And this is a hard-hitting chapter right here. And he is talking to the city of Jerusalem, as you can see. And just some context before we even get into the sermon tonight. He's basically saying at the beginning, the first half of the chapter here, he's saying, you were naked and bare and I gave you, I decked you out, is what he said at the beginning. I decked you out with crowns and jewels and all these things. Look down to verse number 15. And then, I made you beautiful. You had nothing. I made you beautiful.  Look at verse number 15. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty. It said, you had fame. The heathen looked at you and they thought, like, wow, look at how beautiful you are. Everybody had glory about you. And then what did you start saying? Yes, look at how beautiful I am. And you started trusting in your own beauty. It's interesting also in verse number 21. I'm not going to get too deep into this. But he says in verse number 21, it says that thou hast slain my children. That's going to kind of apply to our sermon this evening, or the sermon this evening, when God says, you've slain my children.  He's like, those were my children. You know, just take that in context. When you look at the blessings in your life, when you look at even the children in your life, those belong to the Lord, and the Lord considers those children his.  You've taken the beauty that I gave you and took credit for it. So we're going to look at Ezekiel chapter 16 and apply it to ourselves this evening. So here we are on the eve of, you know, we're a few days away from Easter. We're on the eve of taking part in the Lord's Supper. As I preached on Sunday night, the reason that we are going to partake in the Lord's Supper is so we can remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus Christ gave us this command to do what we're going to do this evening. Why? So we can remember him. What are you talking about? We talk about Jesus all the time. And that's really what I want to discuss this evening and look at, especially in Ezekiel chapter 16 and many other places in the Bible. Look, this is, I was thinking a lot about this sermon this week. This is a, you know, this is a young church. I don't feel like I'm part of the, you know, I'm young. But this is a church with a lot of young people in it. There's a lot of young families in this church which means, which means there's a lot of changes going on in people's lives in a church like this. You say, what are you talking about, Pastor? I mean, look, it's so much, it's so much changes sometimes that I find it hard to keep track of at times.   And I didn't know about it or I didn't get to say, you know, good job on that or whatever. But there's a lot of things that are changing in lives of a church like this. I mean, from jobs to families to careers are changing and growing and shifting. There's a lot of new engagements that are happening. There's a lot of new wives. There's a lot of new babies in that order, by the way. But, I mean, and one wife or one, if you're watching online, you're like, what kind of church they got going on there? One man, one woman, okay? But there's a lot of, you know, a lot of big things that are shifting around in a church like this. But what I want to talk about tonight is change can be dangerous in your Christian life. And we need to be reminded of things. And God knows this. This is the whole point of the Lord's Supper, was to be, so we can be reminded, not, I mean, we're eternally secure, we're saved, but we need to be reminded of Christ sacrifice. But tonight I want to drill down a little bit deeper and I want to talk about other things that we need to be reminded of, more detailed things in our lives that we need to be reminded of. I want to give you five things tonight that we need to not forget in our Christian lives. Because look, we forget easily. This is why God institutes an ordinance like the Lord's Supper, because we just forget things. We forget it. We'll go through our lives and we won't think. We'll get caught up and we won't think about the sacrifice that Jesus made for us if he doesn't give us ordinances and things in the Bible like Ezekiel chapter 16 to help us to remember. So on the topic, on the Christian topic of remembering things and not forgetting important things, I want to give you five things to remember tonight. I'm going to give you five points to remember, and the points are going to get a little bit more serious as we get towards the end of the sermon. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 8. You're going to keep your place in Ezekiel chapter 16 for the entire sermon, but turn to Deuteronomy chapter 8. I want to give you five things to remember tonight as we're just, we're celebrating, we're practicing remembrance this evening. All right? Five things to remember. The first one is this. You're going to Deuteronomy chapter number 8, but the first thing that you need to remember is you need to remember where you came from. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 8 and verse number 1. You say, Pastor, what are you talking about? Look at Deuteronomy chapter 8 and verse number 1. The Bible says, all the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land the Lord swear unto your fathers. Now look at this in verse number 2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord God led thee these 40 years in the wilderness to humble thee. What did he tell him to remember? He told them to remember where they came from. He said, you don't forget where ye came from.  Look at the rest of the verse, to humble thee and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldst keep us his commandments or know. You say, what's the value of that? What's the value of them remembering back where they were? Well, it was to humble them. It was to humble them and ultimately it was to remind them that you can end up back there. So that's why you need to remember in your Christian life. You need to remember where you came from. Growth is good. All of these things that are going to happen to you in your Christian life are going to be, you know, not all of them are going to be good. This isn't a prosperity message, but look, there's going to be some good things and there's going to be some, some good changes that happen to you. But you need to remember where you came from because you can end up back there. Okay. It's always good to be mindful of that. Go back to Ezekiel chapter 16. Ezekiel chapter 16, we see a very similar, a very similar concept that Ezekiel puts forth to Jerusalem. Look what he says in verse number 22. Look at verse number 22. This is what Jerusalem failed to do. Jerusalem failed to do, the southern kingdom of Judah failed to do what Deuteronomy chapter 8 was telling them to do. Look at verse 22, and it says, in all thine abominations and thy hordoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth. What were those the good days? If they didn't remember the days of the youth, what does he mean? When thou was naked and bare, he's saying you didn't remember when you had nothing. You didn't remember before I decked you out. You didn't remember where you came from when you had nothing. And then in verse 43, look down in verse 43, he says, because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth. What were those days? When they had nothing. You see, those people in Ezekiel chapter 16, they literally, they literally took all the things God gave them. And I mean, isn't it infuriating just reading it? They took all the things God gave them from the jewelry and the fine linen and the clothing and the earrings and even the oil and put it at the altar of a false God. They took all the things that God gave them and they used those very things to build the high places, to turn against God. They used the things that God gave them when they were naked and bare. Why? Because they didn't remember thy youth. They didn't remember where they came from. Don't forget where you came from is the first thing that we need to remember because we can always end up back there. And I don't care what we're talking about.  I'm old enough to know that there's a million different things that make things work out or make things not work out. Always remember where you came from and look, it will help you appreciate the blessing of where you are. I mean, I appreciate personally, I am very thankful for all of the hard times in my life. I'm very thankful for those. You say, what kind of hard times? All of the hard times, the spiritual hard times, the physical hard times, the, I mean, I'm not saying I would want to go and do those things again, but I'm thankful that those that I can remember that. This is one thing that I'm pretty good at is remembering bad times. Financial bad times, those are all very valuable memories for me, because I don't want to forget where I came from. You know what? I want to appreciate where I am. And I want God to see that, you know what? I don't need to be sent back there. I want to appreciate where I'm at. Turn to Isaiah chapter 55. So the first point, the first thing you need to remember is where you came from. The second one is this, you're turning to Isaiah chapter 55. You're turning to Isaiah chapter 55.  Isaiah chapter 55, look down at verse number 10. Here's the second thing you need to remember tonight. Second thing you need to remember tonight is remember how you got here. You need to remember where you came from, but you need to remember how you got here. Look at Isaiah chapter 55 and verse number 10. The Bible says this, I mean, we talk about verse number nine all the time. We've read that many times. But look at verse number 10 tonight. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it, what is it, the rain, may give seed to the sower, and the bread, and bread to the eater. Notice here, notice here, how you have on the earth, you have somebody sowing, you have somebody that has seed, and somebody that is sowing that seed, and what are they doing? They're growing, they're putting labor in, and they're coming out, you know, they're coming out with bread. But it didn't come from the hard work. It didn't come from the diligence. You're like, what? This is what you tell me to be all the time. Now, ultimately, none of it could have been possible if it wasn't for the rain. You see, all those things in the middle are required. The hard work, the diligence, the, all that stuff in the middle. But without the rain, there will be no bread. Without the rain, there will be no seed for the sower, to sow. Don't forget the source. Without the rain, there's no chance of bread at all. I mean, think how crazy it is to just focus on the stuff in the middle, the hard work, the diligence, all these different things that the Bible talks about, but then to forget about the rain. It'd be like fixing up a car. It'd be like fixing up a car and like going and getting a classic car and fixing up the, we saw an old Cadillac out soul winning today. I'm just like, man, that would just be such a great car. Somebody would just spend a little bit of time on that thing. Just sitting there with flat tires.   They'll paint it for you.  That's what that's like. You focus on the seed. You focus on the sowing. You focus on the diligence. You focus on all the stuff in the middle and you forget about the rain. You forget about the source. As you grow in your Christian life, you get the right things in. You get the right things out. You will see blessings. This is not a prosperity gospel tonight, but you will see blessings in the environment in the United States, in California that we're in right now. You will see blessings from that, especially today. You can make it today. It's possible, but you cannot afford to forget the rain. As a matter of fact, the mature Christian will realize the more bread that they get, the more they need to focus on the rain. That's really, I mean, we have it exactly backwards. The people in Ezekiel chapter 16, Isaiah chapter 55, it exactly backwards. More bread, more rain, more focus on the rain. Don't forget the rain. It's essential to it all. I mean, look, it's a common, I don't want to pick on the young men, but it's a common young man mistake. And I used to be a young man and I've made this mistake many times. You get one or two things figured out and you think you have it all figured out. That's who I was in my 20s. You should have a goal in your life to learn as few things the hard way as possible. And that's what the Bible is trying to do for you here. That's what the Bible is trying to do for you in Ezekiel chapter 16. That's why God put it there. Is it just a good history story? No. It's so we can learn as few things the hard way as possible in our Christian lives. That's why He gave us the Word of God. That's why He put it in front of us. Turn to Job chapter one. So don't forget how you got there. Don't forget where you came from. Don't forget how you got there. Go to Job chapter one. And this is where that Ezekiel chapter 16 where God says that thou hast slain my children. This is where that one kind of comes in. But the third point is this. Remember what you are owed. Remember what you are owed. Look at Job chapter one and verse number 21. Job hands down as far as men go in the Bible. He takes the award for understanding this point the best. Job chapter one and verse 21. Job after he's lost everything. And when I say everything he's lost all of his wealth. He's lost all of his family. If you read Job chapter one he loved his children very much. He loved his family very much and he lost them all in one day. He prayed for them. He did everything he could to raise them correctly and he just diligently was trying to raise them and then nurture and admonition of the Lord. And he lost them all in one day. But you know what he knew? He knew that they weren't his children. He knew that they belonged to the Lord. And look what he says in verse number 21. The third point is this. Remember what you are owed in this life. Job said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither. The Lord gave and the Lord had taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I wonder how many of us would react that way after a day like that. That right there shows how special Job was. And why there is a book of the Bible about Job. Blessed be the name of the Lord.  And it was, I mean blessed be the name of the Lord. That is why Job has a book in the Bible right there. Because he knew that in this life he was owed nothing by the Lord. You've been saved. You weren't even owed that.  And I mean we all, I hope we all, none of us ever see. I hope we all die before our children. And none of us have days like that. But the point being is we aren't owed anything. And we need to remember that. We need to not get an entitlement attitude with the Lord. We need to not get this idea that God somehow owes us extra. We don't need to get comfortable in all this clothing like they did in Ezekiel chapter 16 to the point where you know what, because if we do you know what we'll start saying? We'll start saying look at how beautiful I am. We'll start saying look at how great I am. If we start thinking that we're owed what God has blessed us with then we'll start saying look at how smart I am, how fast I am, rich I am, good I am, whatever. And we'll start relying on our own beauty. When it was, we weren't owed it in the beginning. God just gave it to us because we were naked and bare. And then we start glorying in the things that we didn't even deserve in the first place. So remember what we are owed, which is nothing. Or maybe God looks back on point number one and says you know they think they deserve all this all of a sudden. They forgot the rain. Maybe they need to go back where they came from. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter four. 2 Corinthians chapter number four. So remember that we are owed nothing.  We deserve nothing. And yet we've been saved through the broken body and blood of Jesus Christ which we are going to remember tonight and we weren't owed that. But God just gave it to us. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter four. Look at verse number five. Here's the fourth one. Here's the fourth one. Remember who it's about. What do I mean? You need to remember who this Christian life is about. Well who is it about? Well look down at 2 Corinthians chapter four and verse number five. Really I mean it's really, verse number five is really a deep verse right there. So I'm going to read it. I'm going to read four, five. I'm going to read five, six, and seven. I'm going to come back to five. But look what the Bible says here. It says, We preach not ourselves but Jesus Christ the Lord and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earth and vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God. Well here's who it, so you say who's it about pastor? Well here's who it's not about and not of us. So it's not about you. It's interesting if you go back to verse number five you say who's it about. I'm not going to let this Christian life. What's this Christian life about? What is your Christian life about? That's what I'm talking about. What's it all about? We need to remember who it's about. What is the Christian life? Who is the Christian life all about? Look at verse number five. We know from verse number seven it's not about you. But look at verse five. It says we preach not ourselves. So again it's not you but Jesus Christ the Lord. So who do we preach Jesus Christ to? We preach Jesus Christ to the unsaved, to people that are not saved. So it's about the unsaved but look at this. Just read the rest of the verse and ourselves your servants. So he's talking about yes we need to go out and preach to the unsaved but he's saying we are your servants. Who is he talking to? His brothers and sisters in Christ. So it's about the unsaved and it's about your brothers and sisters in Christ. That's what it's about. You need to remember that. You know you individually aren't in there. I mean you're like where do I come in? Well you're saved so I mean what more is there than that you need actually? The rest of your Christian life is about the unsaved and your brothers and sisters in Christ. Your Christian life is not about you. You are nowhere on the list your children. See you are saved but what this is saying is you affect others. That's what your Christian life is about. You affecting others. The unsaved and your brothers and sisters in Christ. Turn to 2nd Kings chapter 10. See the Christian life, Christian life here's you need to understand. The Christian life is contagious. Your Christian life is contagious. You say what do you mean Christian life? Well I mean soul winning. Soul winning is a big part of the Christian life. But you know what I mean it's we talk a lot about soul winning and we should talk a lot about soul winning but you know it's not all about soul winning because if it was just if the Christian life was just soul winning we wouldn't have to come to church. What would we have to have this building for? What would we you know what we have to you know we could just do like what everybody else does. We just do online church. We just phone it in but no we're not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together. It's not just about soul winning it is about church life. And you know I mean the funny thing about church life is that people will pray for a church and then I can't tell you how many times I've seen this but I mean people will literally pray for a church and then that church will come and then they won't want that church. It's crazy but it just happens over and over and what you need to realize about your Christian life is it's not about you. You affect others. The Christian life is contagious. This is why it is so hard to start a church. I've said to my wife many times in the last few months this thing's kind of moving under its own power now. I mean you know I'm not saying like you don't need a pastor that's not what I'm saying but it is so hard to start a church because it is completely just the only contagion is the pastor and the pastor's family. It's like it's like if you ever built a snowman. I've built like a million snowman before. I hope I never built another snowman in my entire life but how do you start building a snowman.  You make a little snowball and then you got to roll this tiny little snowball and then you get and it's impossible it just takes forever to get this snowball to start growing but as soon as you got a ball like this you're we're making snowmen now. It just grows so quickly. The Christian life is like that it's contagious. The Christian life is contagious but look you want to be contagious in a good way because it works both ways. Look at 2 Kings chapter 10 for a great example in the Bible of how to be contagious as a Christian in a good way. In a good way. We're talking about we're talking about remembering who your Christian life is about. Point number four here. Look at 2 Kings chapter 10 in verse number 15. And when he was departed then this is Jehu. He's clean and house.  He is just he is going after it. He's not leaving any stone unturned. He is wiping out all these wicked people. Look at verse number 15. It says when he was departed then he lighted on Jonadab the son of Raycab coming to meet him and he saluted him. Jehu and you know Jehu he drives like a madman in his chariot and he said unto him is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart and Jonadab answered it is. If it be give me thine hand and he gave him his hand and he took him up into the chariot. Jehu takes him up into the chariot and look what Jehu says here. He says come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. So they made him ride in his chariot. How did he affect Jonadab? Did he say to Jonadab let me tell you a good story. Did he say to Jonadab well let's sit down and let me tell you about all the things that we should be doing. No you know what he said? He said come and see. He grabbed Jonadab by the hand and he said come and see. That is how you are contagious as a Christian. You want to inspire other people? Be someone that people can come and see. See what?  What you want to be inspired in this Christian life?  But unfortunately this works both ways. This works both ways.  Go to someone where there isn't much to see and you'll be discouraged. The contagion unfortunately runs both ways. I was thinking about examples of this but I mean it works for anything. It works for anything. If you're thinking about taking a step forward in your Christian life you should go to someone that has taken that step forward where you have something where they can say come and see what I've done. You shouldn't go to someone who hasn't taken that step or has decided not to take that step and ask them because they're going to be like well you know I don't know I'm busy I don't really think that that's that important and I got a lot going on and all these different things and look they're going to discourage you. You must be affected by people that you can come and see what they've done in this Christian life. That's how the contagion will work in a positive way for you. I mean just think about men's preaching night coming up. Maybe there's somebody who's never preached at a men's preaching night and maybe they're thinking like should I preach at men's preaching night? You know what they should do? They should go up to someone who's going to preach at men's preaching night and say you know I was thinking about preaching at men's preaching night. They should never go to someone who has never preached at a men's preaching night and be like what do you think about that? And they're like I don't know I seem scarier and I don't really want you know it will just discourage you more. You have to go and go to someone that you can come and see their zeal for the Lord. Where there is actually something there. Like so many people I mean this works in every different things but so many people just take advice from the wrong people. Like that's just like a life law for some people. I mean look at like mothers. Look at mothers like homeschooling. I mean I'm sure moms have seen this with homeschooling. Like if you go up to somebody who doesn't homeschool and be like I don't know I'm kind of stressed out about homeschooling and they don't homeschool what are they going to do? They're going to be like yeah well you know it's horrible you shouldn't be doing that. Or you know I'm thinking about homeschooling. Think about a mom that's thinking about homeschooling that goes to another mom that would never homeschool. What's she going to say? Well I don't know that that is scary. That is scary. Yeah. Yeah. Who could have the time for that? It would just discourage instead of going to a mother that has homeschooled children that has done it successfully that has homeschooled multiple children and being like hey I'm thinking about homeschooling. You know what she's going to say? Come and see and we'll show you. Come and see my zeal for the Lord. And that is how a Christian life can positively be a contagion to someone and pull them up. Talking to somebody that has something to come and see. Think about that. Think about that when you're when you're thinking about you know talking to people taking advice from people look I only vouch for the advice I give you just for the record okay. But think about that when you're taking advice from people is there something to come and see there? If not maybe you should talk about something else with those people. Turn to Matthew chapter number 10. I think part of it is that people sometimes go to people for advice who they know will give them the answer they want to hear which is this is a horrible thing that you should never do. You know one thing like you know this is why people don't come to the pastor that much. Because like I'm going to hit you in between the eyes with the truth my friends. Look at Matthew chapter 10. Look at Matthew chapter 10. Look at verse number 7. So remember who it's about. It's not about you. It's about everybody else. It's about the unsaved. It's about your brothers and sisters in Christ. It's about your children. It's about the future generations. That's what it's about. Number 5. Number 5. Remember why we are here. Look at Matthew chapter 10 in verse number 7. And this is a quick point and then I'm going to kind of conclude.  But remember why we are here. Look at Matthew chapter 10 in verse number 7. The Bible says in as you go preach saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It is really about the kingdom of heaven. Who is it about? It's about the unsaved. It's about our brothers and sisters in Christ. But what is it about? It is about the kingdom of heaven. That's why we are here. You say what is the meaning of life? The meaning of life is about the kingdom of heaven. That's what it is. Free. You didn't have to give me anything for that. Why am I here? The kingdom of heaven is why you're here. Why am I saved? So you can go get other people into the kingdom of heaven. That's why you're saved. So what are you doing? That's why we are here. What's the meaning of life? It's not that complicated. We're not building a space shuttle here. It's about getting other people to come and see what you didn't deserve. And so they can have that free gift too. It's really just about the kingdom of heaven. That's what it's about. But people forget where they came from. People forget how they got there or how they got here. And they forget that you're not owed anything. They forget who and what it's all about.  Because they've forgotten all of these five things that I just showed you tonight. Go back to Ezekiel chapter 16. See, Ezekiel chapter 16, I mean, isn't the Bible brilliant? Oh yeah, the Bible was written by man. I mean, what in the world? Ezekiel chapter 16, you have a prophet preaching against Jerusalem. He's preaching a message against Jerusalem. But he's talking about the Christian life cycle. It's what he's talking about. He's talking about the Christian who gets, you know, greatly blessed by God and forgets everything as he preaches against Jerusalem. They started with nothing and they used all the things God gave them. Look at verse number 60. Look at verse number 60. They used all the things God gave them to turn against the very God that gave them those things. Look at verse 60. Now if this isn't, if this doesn't, after the sermon, if this verse doesn't pop out at you, look at this. Nevertheless, verse 60, verse 60, almost the end of the chapter. I mean, that was a brutal chapter. He's calling them whores and whoremongers and just whoredoms. I mean, he is just like every, he is just not pulling any punches at all. Talking about this city, but look at verse number 60. Nevertheless, you know what that means? Even after all that, I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. I mean, that's an eternal security verse right there.  Even after all those things, I will not, I will not forget my everlasting covenant with you. You're still sealed.  I'm glad God doesn't have the same memory problems that we do at the end of the day. In verse number 61, see there was a reason for the judgment, there was a reason for the captivity. In verse number 61, he skips right to the end of their captivity, he says that then thou shall remember thy ways and be ashamed. Go to verse number 63. That what? Why are they going to go into that captivity?  That thou mayest what? That thou mayest remember. See I started out this sermon, I kind of, I kind of tricked you. I said we're a young church and we're changing and things are changing in your lives, which is true, but here's the, here's the, here's the deeper truth. Your life is always going to be changing. There's always going to be things going on in your life. The key is this, and this is the reason for a sermon like this. The field may change, the scenery may change, but don't forget the rain and where it comes from, and what it is like without the rain. Remember, remember what it's like without the rain. I want to end with a, with a story.  Here's really what it comes down to. When I moved from North Dakota to California, I was at Verity Baptist Church, I think it was about two years, and we started thinking and praying about going into the ministry, and I was out soul winning with a friend of mine. I was out soul winning with a friend of mine and that, that friend is in the room tonight, his, his brother Jeff in the back. And I was out soul winning and, you know, just to, just to show you that we all forget.  Yeah, I'm ripping on you.  We all forget. We all forget. I told brother Jeff, I told him that we were, we were, I was praying about this, and I really was being drawn in this direction. I was just praying that I didn't want to do something, somebody that took so long to get to the right place. I didn't want to do something hasty for my own personal reasons or whatever. So I was very just, and I just, I told brother Jeff, I said, look, I said, I, I dropped everything to come here. I dropped everything to come here. And look, it's a, it's a story I can tell another time, but I dropped everything to come to California. And I didn't even have a job when I quit my job and we were moving to California. And I was, like, I had plan B and plan C and plan D, and my plan C was, I was, if I couldn't find a job, I was just going to go work at Home Depot. I always kind of wanted to work there anyway. I was just going to go work at Home Depot.  I said, but I finally got my family in, in this great, correct place. And I was like, God has great, look, I didn't, I didn't have to go work at Home Depot. God blessed me greatly. It was unbelievable. It was unbelievable. I got, I fell into so many things there. The clouds opened up when I got to Sacramento. I ended up on a, I ended up on a project, on a project that's anybody in my field would have envied a project that, there's not been a project like that in almost 50 years in this country. Because we don't build anything anymore. That's another story in itself. But it was this profound blessing. And just boom, there I was. And boom, there I was put. And just boom, this happened. And boom, this happened. And I was like, I just, I've been blessed so greatly. I told brother Jeff and, and I mean, I'm in the right place and all these blessings. And you know what he said? You know, when you have profound friends, you will have profound conversations. You know what he said to me? He said, he said, would this decision be easier or harder if you worked at Home Depot right now? You have profound friends. You have profound conversations. You want to talk about iron sharpening? We all forget. It starts raining. And it rained down on me. It rained down on me. But we have to remember where the rain comes from. And ultimately what it's all about. And who it's all about. Let's pray.


Polish President. When Russians come kneeling for peace, take them to Porayaslav. During a visit to Latvia, Polish President Andrzej Duda recalled his recent conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he suggested that after Russia's defeat, a peace treaty with Russia should be signed in Porayaslav, Kiev or Blast. It should be noted that Bodan Kamelnitsky, head of Ukrainian Cossack state, had the controversial Porayaslav convent in his city in 1654, where the Ukrainian Cossacks had voted for a military alliance with Muskovy and accepted the Treaty of Porayaslav. It has resulted in a chain of historical events, which led to dissolution and then termination of the Ukrainian state by Russian Empire. Duda emphasized that he deeply believes in Ukraine's victory over the hated enemy. I said, Volodymyr, looking at our history, at how our paths have once diverged. I would like to ask you very kindly, when you defeat Russia, when the Russians come kneeling for peace, take them to Porayaslav and let them sign a peace treaty with you there and thus cancel all those years of Soviet and Russian influence and slavery from the time of the Tsar until recently. From which you are now defending yourself again, Duda said. Earlier in January, Duda urged the West to increase its military support for Ukraine as a key moment in the war against Russia could come in the coming weeks.


Did he just one-hit me with the floor nice then? Damn! Fair play. Not gonna get mad. Not gonna get mad. But we do need to catch a B.  That was so close. I don't know how. I've caught then. He went there to left. Normally all the way up to left. Shit he wrecked me then. He absolutely destroyed me. No health. He had no health left. Now we're gonna lose. Now we're gonna lose. I should pull out my gun.   I'm trying to run. Oh my.  This guy is a beast? That's gotta be the iron banner one. Aye!  Was that the iron banner one? I remember it being a monster. That one. Just equally as a monster. Do you know how many times I do that?        These are the type of games I love and they're so close.   You're almost there. One, two, three. That boy. Beam. I'm running. That one from the seaside, ain't it? Nice work, guardians. Your efforts have been made. That one's too bad. That one's too bad. I think I'm finishing the top three easily. You can see guys, if a scrub like me can do half decent with this weapon, then you guys could do, could do, could do. You know what I'm saying?  I've come top with 21 kills, three captures. That's not bad. And I get you. But yes, guys. This has been the first episode of my back to year one weapons, using PvP, finding them year two equivalents for you guys to use right now. And like I said, the Grasp of Malak is the only other one I've got. I've just got to be honest, but I'm just not sure what they are. There's got to be some sort of gunsmith weapons that would be. Is there a Suas pulse as well? I think you could get as well. I haven't got one, but I'm sure. Actually, let's double check that. I could actually have one. I could have one. Because this is actually, this shoots faster than the Hulk. So yeah, I don't think there is. The Pdx45 is the fastest Suas pulse, I believe. So yeah, other than the Grasp of Malak, I'm not sure if there's anything else you can get, which is basically the equivalent year two to this year one. One, two, three, size two, which is an absolute beast. But guys, if you enjoyed the video and want to see more, do smash that like button. If there's a weapon you guys want to see me use, let me know what it is too. Thanks for stopping by as always, and I'll catch you guys on that next one. Peace out until next time. Peace!


preaching the gospel is the greatest form of spiritual warfare, preach the good news. We can't hide behind prayer and never tell somebody about Jesus, because the strongholds in people's minds are broken down through the preaching of the gospel. If people don't get saved and the only thing we're doing is I bind this principality, I bind that principality, we will never see results. Our goal is not to bind right now the principality over Ukraine, our goal is to go preach the gospel there. We want to pray for Ukraine, we want to pray for Russia, but what we are assigned is to preach the good news.


So, so far we have been studying stochastic contextual bandits. We just observed that this stochastic contextual bandits can be considered as a special case of stochastic linear bandits when we assume the mean rewards are linear ok. In the last class we discussed some algorithms and we just discussed the broad sketch of how the proof goes about under some assumptions and then we said using some special techniques we should be able to relax those assumption and prove the regret bounds whatever we claimed. So, we will just left it there. Now that was the part for the stochastic case and in the assignment you are going to look into some problems on that and also you are going to look into some algorithms for this stochastic banded case. So, now we are going to move to the case when my setup can be adversarial. So, far my rewards were all stochastic, but I could as well consider the case when my rewards are adversarial right. So, how does my contextual bandits work for the adversarial case. So, the setup is same as earlier except that when you have a context the reward associated with that context from an arm need not be coming down from a fixed distribution it could be chosen in an arbitrary fashion and in particular that could be selected by an adversary. So, we will consider the following setup I am going to denote C to be the set of context goes to 1 to following happens. So, this C set of context is assumed to be fixed it is some set from which the context are drawn in every round ok. So, the learner observe context from that set and then and the learner. So, let us say there are k arms. So, the learner observe observing this C T context is going to select a distribution on this k arms and let us say samples 90 from P T is going to play an arm and for that he correspondingly learner X T which is nothing, but X T I T. Maybe what should I do is here I will insert another line this is environment ok. So, let us go through this we are saying that in every round T learner observes the context and environment assigns the reward vector in that round to each of my arms and then learner select a distribution P T on this arms. So, what does learner how does he select P T he observes the context in that round T and based on that he is going to come up with a distribution, but he does not see the rewards assigned by the environment in that round and then whatever he going to sample an arm according to the desk distribution and he is going to get a reward that he actually played in that round. So, X T I T is the reward that is assigned to arm I T in round T and this is what his reward in that round T ok. Now, so this is how the interaction between the learner and the environment is happening here. Now, our goal is as usual to compare the performance of a learner against the best reward I would have got if I knew all the reward assignments ok. So, then we are going to define regret or the expected regret as of a policy whatever policy pi we have expected value of. Now, notice that so ok what we are doing here what is this quantity here this quantity says that suppose you fix a context. So, for time being assume that this C is finite. Now, take a context and look which is the arm that gives the maximum reward for that context ok and then sum it over all possible context right. So, notice that when I am saying this I am only looking at all counting adding the reward for which the context in round T is C. So, this is for a particular say this is giving me the total reward accumulated when I saw particular context C and now this is the total divided I would have accumulated over T periods and now this I am comparing against the reward I would have collected by playing my policy pi. So, how does this pi affect this x t? So, according to that policy pi that policy pi is going to tell how I am going to choose my distribution in every round and accordingly I would have drawn some arm I play that arm and for that particular arm I am going to receive the corresponding reward. So, all these x t's are governed by my policy pi and that is why this is the total reward I would have accumulated over a time period T and this is what I would have gotten. So, here we are looking. So, this is what we would have got. Now, what we are comparing is this against is a benchmark this is my benchmark in this I am saying I am looking for the best reward I would have got for each possible context right. So, I am going to take a context and I am going to see what is the best reward I would have got here. Now, I do not care it why should I write it about like you whatever you do you are seeing its c t it is may be up to you you want to use it or ignore it. Let it be in whatever way it is I am just want to this is my total reward I would have got and this is what my cumulative reward is. Where I am saying it is for single context it is you take a c, but you only look those rewards in which the context is c out of like this 100 that particular c may have occurred only 10 times only for those 10 times you would are now looking for which is the best time you would have like to pick yeah, but why you have to write specifically c t equals to exactly doing that job you are only restricting this sum to only those points in which in the tth round the context is c right, but you are not summing it different x t i for c in round t you have a context c t right. We have a vector assigned for each arm there is a vector of reward here for whatever the context that has been observed in that round right. Yeah, it is not defined at that time whatever the context happens that time for that you have this reward and if that in that context if it happens to be c then you are going to do this, some otherwise this sum is 0. Now rewriting we can do it in different ways is this fine if this is the total reward I am going to get over time purity and here I am looking at for every possible context what is the best reward I would have got is this fine or if this fine. Now suppose there is only one context okay, so there is only one context means this summation there is no this summation I do not need to worry about right in every time c t equals to c is this the standard adversarial setup I have. So there I am looking at that the best single best arm against what I would have got, but now that I have different possible context now I am looking at for every context what is the best I would have obtained. So now, so what it is saying is basically see like I as of now I know that like my optimal arm could depend on my context whenever that context I appear observe I want to see over the duration wherever I have observed this context what is the best action I would have taken in hindsight. So what is this part doing wherever I saw context c it is give me the total reward you accumulated whenever I you saw that c. Now max over ik is telling that in hindsight if you know all those x t is for that corresponding c what is the best action you should have played and what is the best corresponding reward you have got and now this is for all possible context and now you are trying to compare it with what is that cumulative reward you would have got fine. So now obviously you want to minimize this okay. Now let us start thinking about suppose for a particular context what is my regret this is over all possible context right for a for a particular context I am going to write it as and then c t equals to this particular context and then I am going to write x t I now I am going to write it inside this. So now I am only focusing on those instances where I have observed my context c I have fixed my context c now. Now I am seeing what is the regret I am going to incur for that particular context the best I could have got for that context is this sum and minus this this is the reward I would have accumulated whenever I saw that particular context okay yes. So in that case what is the RT pi is going to be simply going to be the sum of all this term as long as I assume that my context are finite okay. Okay now let us focus on this how you are going to deal with each context yes there are multiple context but if you focus only on particular context you already in a known territory right you are what is that that is the standard adversarial bandit setting you already know okay. So do you like like whenever now you can what you can do for each particular context you can run an exp3 algorithm yes like like exp3 algorithm was maybe like that is a so the standard adversarial setting was a special case of this where it is assumed there is only one context now that we have multiple context. So I could run different exp algorithms for each of this context anyway I know this context I know how many contexts are there for each context I would like to run a different exp algorithm. Now if I do that what is the recreate I am going to get for this particular context see can I write a bound on this so let us say this I am now on to write RTC where I am going to use my policies exp3 what could be the bound I am going to get. So my context particular C is appearing only at some points it is not like it is appearing in every round at some point it is appearing let us say out of 100 rounds I ran only 10 times this particular context C appeared. Now if I have that information can I write what is the regret bound I could get on this if I apply exp3 algorithm what is that so what is the general so what is the for the standard setup what is the regret bound we get by applying exp3 so we get something like a 2 times square root k t log k right what was t there number of times you have played but that t is the same t you are going to get here no right what is that t is going to be number of times you have observed the context right so in that case can I write it as can I write it like this so what is this this is basically telling you the number of times my context C has been observed right under which this is the bound. But notice that we got this bound in exp3 by assuming that we knew the time horizon right so in exp3 we needed to tune a parameter eta right that parameter eta dependent on what the time horizon but in when I am going to apply exp3 on this setup I apparently do not know how many times I am going to see this particular context C right it may appear on all the rounds or it may never appear or it may appear only on few of the instances. Now how we are going to apply exp3 yeah so we could use the case where we do not know the time horizon then what we do we usually do the doubling trick but with the doubling trick we know that we almost get the same regret bound with some constant factor loss in the regret bound right so fine we can still do this then I just keep doing the doubling trick and with that I am going to get this as my regret bound. So then my RT phi is nothing but summation C belongs to C RT phi and if I am going to use my exp3 kind of algorithm let us say I am going to get is okay so we have this regret bound if I get it so now but somehow this upper bound here appears like it depends on what is the sequence of context I observed right. So let us try to get rid of that what what is the sequence of context I observed let us try to get an bound here which is independent of the sequence of context observed so can you apply a Cauchy Schwarz inequality on this and see what is the bound you are going to get we have been doing this trick many times right. So treat this as so let us say there is a 1 here this is 1 into some quantity treat it as a product of A i into B i where A i are all 1 B i are all changing for each context. So now if you apply on this Cauchy Schwarz inequality what is the bound you are going to get so keep the constant outside if I do that so I am going to get summation A i equals to summation C belongs to C 1 square then summation C belongs to C the square of this term which is K log K tan T equals to 1 to capital T indicator C T equals to C. So what I will do now is so this is cardinality of C the first term is simply cardinality of C so is this correct if I just apply Cauchy Schwarz inequality on this so now just what is this term is going to be? This term is going to be simply capital T right so this is so what has just happened is if you are going to simply apply each context as a separate for each context you are going to think it as a separate adversarial banded problem and apply maintain an EXP algorithm for each context then this is the regret you are going to get and how this regret has scaled compared to the single contextual banded by square root of cardinality of C this much of so as long as your context size is finite that is cardinality is finite for C you could apply EXP 3 for maintaining it separately for each context and you are going to still get a sublinear regret like this it is this regret is still sublinear right but as long as fix it I mean this is about fix you are not going to vary your variables here are T other quantities you have to fix whatever C you are going to choose then that is fix for cardinality C then it is it is sublinear in T ok fine then the question is what if if this cardinality of C is large then this regret bounds can be very bad right.


Hello Virgo. Welcome to House of Virgo. This will be your love reading for the next 24 hours for Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising, or Venus. So some of the messages may or may not resonate. Just take a fit, leave the rest. You can also follow me on my other channel. Excuse me, Moon Pie Tarot. Okay, so please do like, share, and subscribe if you enjoy my channel and my videos. I greatly appreciate it. And yeah, you can follow me on Instagram at House of Virgo also. So let's take a look and see what the love messages are for you here in the next 24 hours. I'm gonna look at a past Queen of Wands, the hanged man, seven of pentacles, present King of Cups, six of pentacles, the Emperor in the future, the hermit, two of wands, the knight of wands. Okay, so we have Cancer Scorpio, Pisces, Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, and also Virgo. Okay, past position, Queen of Wands. Okay, an energy in the past of somebody presenting in a very subtle, a subtle feisty, feisty-ness, a subtle confidence, a subtle self-assuredness. It comes through as a very positive energy. You may have been connected in the past with a fire sign here. This Queen of Wands could very well be your energy as well. So we could be on the cusp of Leo Virgo and presenting more of that lion energy. But either way, there is an energy here of someone in the past being kind of not as confident as the King, so more in a feminine energy, but kind of like I get an energy of like taking a stand in something in the past. I just want to get a clarifying card here. Being bold. It's not someone who was apathetic or angry or cold or aggressive or dull.  Page of Pentacles here. I really feel like for some of you, this is someone who had some kind of idea or came to you with some kind of a plan. They had these ideas. There was like a lot of choices or decisions for this person. And I feel like you were like the biggest decision of their lives. Because of Page of Pentacles, I feel like this person might have communicated with you in some ways that you're amazing, you're great. They wanted to show you how much they value you, so they may have communicated that in a lot of ways to you. And it was a bold effort on their part that they made. I don't feel like this person, I don't really feel like that was something, it might have been a little immature, but I don't really feel like it was something that they did with other people. I feel like something about you was very special to them. So it was kind of like having, they were confident about that.  But then there was also this stagnant stalemate energy here, this waiting energy. I think this person in the past was trying to gain some kind of perspective. They were coming to understand the meaning of self-sacrifice in a relationship or on themselves. This person, perhaps in the past, came from a place of selfishness or acted as if they were a victim or they felt like every woman was betraying them or they were traitors, you know. But I see there was some kind of like knowledge that came to them. Let's get it clarified in part. Please tell us more about the hangman. Okay, the five of ones, wow. This person, they see they placed a lot of obstacles in the way of you guys being able to move forward, okay. There was a lot of defensive energy and it feels sometimes, excuse me, sometimes the hangman could be like stuck in a position and this person did not know how to get out of it. But I feel like they kept themselves there, okay. They did keep themselves as like a victim. That way they didn't have to take accountability for anything in their life or maybe even in the past or in a relationship, past relationship with you. So they deflected or they blamed. There's a awakening here about that, about their actions. They're seeing that the actions that they took in the past to sabotage the relationship. And I see them here, like now they're thinking, well, not now, but they came to a place where they've been thinking about this here, the seven of pentacles like contemplating here, right, having some inner awareness and like trying to figure out how to master something seven of pentacles like planting seeds to have growth. How do I do this? You know, it's it's not like just dropping a nut in the ground and hoping for the best. It's more like, how do I how do I drop this? Like what kind of soil do I need? How much water is this going to need? How much nourishment? Is it in the right position? Is it by the sun? Does it need shade? It's like really contemplating, you know, how to have growth in a partnership, because I don't really feel like this person, you know, knows they're thinking they were thinking in the past in your communication with them, like, I blocked the sun from shining on our relationship. They were seeing the sun in you, but they weren't seeing the sun in themselves. They weren't seeing the God in themselves. They saw the God in you, the true nourishment, Queen of Cups, Cancer Scorpio Pisces. It's mostly the nourishment. It's mostly about the water. You know, the water is the emotions, you know, it's kind of like the questioning, are you like, they were questioning, like, if I actually speak to my plants, will they grow? They question if that's really true. And it was also about if I speak to Virgo, communicate with Virgo, will this relationship grow? I feel like there was some of the Pentecost energy could be like delay. They were delaying sharing their emotions, how they truly felt because Queen of Pentecost has deep emotions. Okay, very healing, nurturing, supportive. They wanted, I feel like in the past to be able to support you and give supporting healing energy. But they see here that while that might have been great are telling you great things about yourself, they were blocking their blessings. So the present energy, King of Cups, the emperor. So whoever you're dealing with this male or female, this person, the center of the reading is the Six of Pentacles, there's reciprocity, a giving nature, the Six of Pentacles, did I say seven? Sorry, this person goes from the Seven of Pentacles into the present, which is back, backtracking this relationship, going back and seeing right now, in order to have growth, in order to have this partnership to be in harmony, there must be self sacrifice, and appreciation and giving on both sides. Okay, so the King goes to the emperor, but this emperor, it's kind of like growth. But this emperor recognizes here that the area that he was having trouble with is revealing his deepest emotions. Okay, the emperor is fine. In his leader, bold, powerful, charming, courageous area, the emperor is fine in his speech. And the way he or she communicates on very surface level, the emperor understands that, you know, he's a wise investor, or he understands that he can be very solid and practical. But the emperor is looking back here at the King of Cups, you know, like, I think, he's looking back at himself and where he was emotionally, or actually where he wasn't, because the King of Cups, even though is a very, you know, this is one element of your person, even though the King of Cups is a very supportive, tolerant, empathetic leader, he sits on the tip of the iceberg, and underneath there is a depth of emotion that he doesn't normally share. And that's where the deep partnership connections are made. And I feel like, I feel like the emperor is taking a look back at him, you know, in the present looking at himself and saying, this is an area that I have not mastered. So let's get a clarifier for the King of Cups. Okay. The master of your heart, the master of love, this person does well in all other areas, but is now kind of like, has not in the past had a wake up call but is now looking. And that's just what I was saying. The lovers represents that partnership of deep love. This person struggles with that. They struggle with that. Love, you know, the lovers is not only about harmony, and self sacrifice and loyalty. The lovers is also about vulnerability. Okay. It's also about having no shame. Being open to one another and your person struggles with that. But they see here the six appendicles that there has to be and give and take this person really wants to help you. Eight of pentacles, this person really wants to invest and try to make something work here with you. They I feel like in the present, you will start seeing like enjoyment coming from them. Like this person, it's not just about creating mass quantity or a mass amount of time, but it's the quality of time that this person look how they are like fine tuning and polishing these certain aspects of their relationship. It's not just about keeping in touch, but it's about keeping in touch in quality ways. And it's a lot to do with connecting emotionally with you. So the emperor, let's see what the emperor energy is in the present. The high priestess. Yeah, they hold a lot of secrets.   Virgo, this is your card. The high priestess is your card. And high priestess and the emperor are two very totally different, you know, beings. The emperor is is very much like a leader, father figure kind of person, respectful. And even if your person at one point wasn't displaying, they were maybe displaying immaturity, or, you know, maybe had a bad ego, nasty ego, or just not a good planner. I feel like this person is like, you know, maybe grew up or something. And with you here, sinning as high priestess, you're like very intuitive. They see this about you, that you trust yourself, you retain a sense of mystery and these secrets that you don't like to reveal. And I feel like your person in the present is in this place of like, how do I get Virgo to reveal their inner, their innermost feelings. And this person's looking at themselves and saying, I think I've got to be the one to do that. I've got the key to unlock Virgo's heart. And there's things about Virgo that this person feels that have not been discovered. And they, they're seeing now that the only way to discover these things is to reveal these emotions, these depths of emotion and feelings about themselves. It's almost as if they've come upon some like, like I said, with that hang man, like some insight, huh, they're saying my relationship's not working out because I've been defensive, and I haven't been trying in the past. And I've just been deflecting. And yet I have these deep feelings for Virgo, but I don't know how to express them. You may have just kind of gone or you may in the present like right now be kind of like not talking this person, or hiding out or just maintaining a very quiet sense about you. And I feel like this person wants to come into union with you. And they're your person's very smart. And they're aware that really the only way to reach you is to open up and express themselves because Virgo, you are not someone who's just going to throw your feelings out there to the whole world. You're not you're just not built that way. You have very deep feelings. But you if someone is able to come in and turn that key of emotion, and you feel like you can trust them and trust yourself with them and you feel safe, then you then you open that up. And they they're seeing this now. All their blocking energy has not helped. And you presently are just kind of like, okay, well, I'm staying right where I am. I feel like this person is seeing they need to help you in order to help this relationship. They need to give you something. They hold the key to your heart. But if they don't turn it, you'll keep it locked from them. So the future energy is the hermit. So this person is really like going forward.  And I do feel like going forward, they will, right? Have there will be like an energy of maybe no communicating with them. They're in deep thoughts. I don't get a sense that there's like deep loneliness or isolation. But I do feel like what they're thinking about is their loneliness and how isolated they felt in their lives. Going forward, there will be some time out. And they will be looking at their past mistakes or how they have felt stuck in past relationships or in their life or just their emotions have been just so stuck. So let's take a look. Tell me about the hermit in the future. The emperor is here again. Okay, Aries energy. Aries and Virgo for sure. But you know, it's fine. It doesn't have to be this person is also completed. They're completing. So when I say the emperor always says the king of kings, in other words, the emperor represents all the elements of water, earth, air and fire. And as I said, in the present, this person, I feel like they were bossing up in the area of the fire, air and the earth. But I feel like because the king cups is here, that water element, that emotional aspect, the things that they've hidden, I feel like that's what they will be working on in the future. And I feel like with this clarity and getting in touch with their emotions, this little time out, they fill in that final piece of the emotions where I feel like they finally smash that last element of their ego. They see that the best way for them to have power in any relationship is to be authentic and open. Okay, to have power over themselves, mastering themselves is what I feel like is happening here. So also in the future, the two of wands is here. So this person, they're making a decision. It's definitely they're waiting for the right time. I feel with the two of wands in the night of wands, this person's coming towards you. Okay, with this passionate energy, there's travel. Or they're waiting for you to come towards them. Could be one or the other. But they're making a choice here. And they're thinking about traveling towards you. They have this passionate, lusty thing for you Virgo. I don't know. Well, I do. I think I know with that high priestess that, oh, yeah. With that high priestess, they have this thing for you like your mysteriousness and your patience.  And when they get a chance, when the time comes the right time for them in the future, to come towards you, they will that very strong, strong, passionate drive towards you. Or I feel like this person might just show up at your door. But let's get the two of wands here because I'm wondering if they're going to be communication or they just going to show up at your door, or just appear somewhere. Oh, the chariots here. This person's like, they're waiting for the right time to travel. And for those of you who are like, right next door to each other, you're real close. It's it's just to get in the car and you're just going to see them. They may just be sitting in their car.  I feel like maybe keys, they're giving you a key for some of you. There's a key. Could be a key to a new car. Okay, but this person is like, seriously taking action here. So they're clarifying card. I knew it. I was asking if there was going to be communication. Yes, this person wants to talk to you. They will talk to you going forward. They're very curious. They want to know where you've been or what you're doing. They want truth and they want to speak truth to you. Okay. And the truth is they want to come towards you. They want to, you know, it's like straight truth. Like, do you want to talk? It's all coming from the intellect. Do you want to talk? Where have you been? What are you doing? Do you want to go out? Are you dating anyone? Are you seeing anyone? Are you? Are you single? Are you free? So show me the night of wands. Why is the night of wands here? Yep. Hang man again. I'm coming towards you because I've had like, like kind of a they've had some insight, maybe even an epiphany. Okay. It kind of feels like a very spiritual awakening for this person. And the physical plays such a strong role. The physical connection is just they feel that any physical intimacy or connection you guys have had it's like on fire. It's still on fire. They are still on fire for you. Now are they coming back just for the physical?  It plays a huge role. But that inspires this person very strongly to want to connect with you and have have something with you. So there is like movement. I'm seeing a lot of movement going into the future, you know, right here is the present in the next 24 hours, but right here going forward. That's pysian energy. Page of wands.  Very enthusiastic about you. Very there's so much page energy here. The person that you know, they still have some immaturity about them. Okay, they could be young, like in age, but wising up, they still retain some of a bit of immaturity. Or they could be older in age and just have that, you know, still some of that, maybe immature in their speak, their speech, or their desires. But I'm feeling like a strong crush kind of thing like smitten. Well, yep. In fact, that's worse. It's obsessive. This person is my goodness. The shadow side is a double card.  That's that's for sure. They think about you all the time. Times that you're together, they obsess over this.  I feel like this person has tried to let you go, but they keep thinking about the fun sexy times that you had together, you know, or they imagine, if you haven't, these things with you, they want to experience and explore a little comma sutra. They want to have this, you know, lusty. It's almost addictive. Your high priestess energy Virgo is drawing this person in.   Okay, you know, you have secret knowledge. And you know what, Virgo? I priestess much like the hierophant. She holds the key to wisdom and secrets and things like that. And this person wants to come in and, you know, unlock whatever you have locked. Crazy. Alright, let's get a couple of angel wisdom cards here. Very Virgo, they see you as being extremely alluring to them. Strength, Leo energy, personal power and assertiveness portrayed with kindness, compassion that brings about forgiveness, realizing that you're stronger than you knew. You know, it's interesting because she has the ability to tame you. You this person is wild for you, but you have this way about you with your silence or you are the things you don't say, which teams them, that wild beast in them, and they're so attracted to that Virgo. You come through with this silent strength. Okay, nine of pentacles. Virgo, you're enjoying the fruits of your labor's hard work that has led to a luxurious life or is leading to that, buying yourself something special, happily and successfully self employed, and also enjoying your solitude. Some of you are just not wanting to get into any kind of relationship or go back to the past.  See what else? That's another message. You know, that nine is all about accomplishment. And you're in a place of understanding but also service. Wow, you've got the moon. Listen to your intuition. Pay attention to signs from the divine unnecessary worry, let it go, let go of your fears, revelations will make everything clear, right? Pay attention, Virgo, I don't want you to be in that hermit. Be in the high priestess. Okay. You know, every tarot card usually has two zodiacs to it like the Empress would represent Libra, but so does the justice card. Virgo represents the hermit, but also the high priestess. Okay, so if you're mal listening, your Virgo, the high priestess is a in feminine energy. It's time for you to embrace that nurturing feminine mystery side about you that you have not connected to quite yet or that you have not been able to facilitate in your life. Instead of just going deep within and not seeking clarity, go deep within and trust what you already know, male or female. Alright, Virgo, that's your reading for the next 24 hours. I hope you enjoy that. Please click like, share and subscribe to my channel. And I will be back tomorrow for the next reading. Alright, take care.


Hey everyone, welcome to Alchemy Star. So we have here Azur, we're going to be going over a gameplay of her, going over her kit and kind of confused with her. Is she a sniper? Is she a detonator? As for the game, she's a detonator but definitely she has kills of a sniper. As you can see there, she has a big gun so definitely she's going to use it during gameplay. So let's start off with her breakthrough first. So I have her at level 40, a century and three. So don't have much to level her up probably in the next few days or weeks. Not sure. So as for her breakthrough, I did only get one copy of her. So she is at breakthrough two. Okay, so definitely she's going to increase her value at breakthrough three. So equipment skill, no, no, this is at, yeah, breakthrough three. She's going to increase her value with this breakthrough. Equipment skill enhancement, Azur attacks increases when two surrounding clusters, when within two surrounding clusters of a mirage. So this is where she excels well as a detonator because that mirage should be near her to increase her attack. Okay, so next you're going to have great value with her also when you max breakthrough her but this will take a while. So definitely we're going to be contented with breakthrough three for this one. Okay, so breakthrough, the last one is active skill enhancement increases mirage strike. Range the two surrounding clusters if the mirage is in a blue tile. So this just increases its range. Going back to her equipment, we are now at level three. So the one stat here that only increases is Azur's attack from 8 to 20 at level 10. So definitely if you increase her equipment level, definitely you'll get more power or damage or attack from her. So those are the key inputs on her equipment then for breakthrough. So both basically will just increase her attack, make her a tremendous DPS, especially for water. Water needs 3D DPS aside from Regal. I think she could be your go-to if you don't have Regal like me. If you have Regal, she could be your secondary detonator. So definitely it must have guys just by her kit alone. Speaking of her kit, let's take a look at her kit. And let's try to dissect whether she's leaning towards being a sniper or detonator. She's a mix of both for me. She has a very versatile kit being able to do detonator style of attack or sniper style of attack. So let's start off with her active skill cooldown is going to be one round. It already has pre-emptive strike. Choose any of the traversable tile to project a Cerulean Mirage. So the Mirage, no more than one Cerulean Mirage can exist on the battlefield at any given time. The Mirage cannot cast skills when it's covered. So definitely don't step on it. Definitely your enemy should not step on it because it cannot really mirror your skill. So placement of the Mirage is actually crucial. Next is which can be used to cast Mirage Strike. The Mirage Strike deals 200 damage to enemies within 12 tiles in a diamond shape. So this one is tremendous damage in itself. So this skill can be used like a sniper.  Then you can actually trigger this from far away. So not only does she does a job of a sniper, but that attack is an AOE attack. So definitely a combination between Detonator and Sniper. So I'll show this later in the gameplay on how to employ this. And this one, putting your Mirage, I'm not going to say Cerulean anymore. It's a tongue twister. If you put it away, it also has other bonuses in terms of your chain combo, which we'll discuss later. Next are Mirage Transformation each round. So converts the tile, it is onto blue. So it has, she has, she's a converter. She is a sniper and she's a Detonator all rolled into one. So this one is kind of a bonus actually for her. So each round immediately triggers a Mirage Strike that deals 2.5 damage. If there is already a Mirage on the selected tile. So shooting that Mirage, if there's an existing Mirage, shooting it triggers a massive AOE damage. That is her active skill, so placement, then shooting it. Next is going to be her chain combo. So you have skill range is going to be from 2, 9 and 12. So definitely at 9, you'll be getting a lot of value from her and also 12.2 is just the diamond shape for her. And this deals 165 damage to tiles and this is what I mean about Cerulean Mirage casts a Tier 1 chain combo once. So even if this Mirage is in a different area in a map. It will also trigger one chain combo once you do a chain combo yourself. So basically you can lump, when you do a chain combo, when you do it in a specific area, you can also put that Mirage right near you so that you could lump up all of those AOE or you could put it further where it can hit a group of mobs probably in some area of the map where you're not in. So again, there's a lot of play within her kit, I'll show you guys later. She's very versatile. And again for her equipment, you really need to put her up to probably 6 or 10 just to give her a bit more of value to you. Now at level, I think I have her, let's take a look at her equipment. Now I have her at 6, so definitely I'm happy with her damage already but the goal is to bring her up to 10. Okay so that is where she comes in, definitely you need one copy of her. Let's do gameplay and showcase her skills, probably some strategy on how to play her. Okay so we're going to proceed to my secret tutorial. I've been using water since I got her, been enjoying playing water right now. I do have a reliable DPS already and let's just change my team up. So let's, right now I was using lightning earlier but I do have a water team here. So this is what I've been using so far. So I've finished here for healing, Barton for cross-converter, Sariel for conversion as well. Lure here is here for additional damage and Azur is going to be your main DPS for that team. So I'm going to showcase you guys on if the Mirage is near, definitely there will be more buffs once she attacks, so increase attacks. If the Mirage is so far, you can use that Mirage for triggering a chain combo or shooting it with your active skill which releases a big, big amount of damage. So I can't wait to showcase you that, she's very versatile and probably one top two in my favorite right now apart from no top three. So you have, I have her then I have, I forgot her name, Hero and the other one is going to be the red guy from Fire but let's go back to her gameplay. So let's try to do a sample which we can do this from afar later. So let's do some tile conversions first. So tile conversions here, okay. Then we'll do Sariel, the Kidoki, then let's try to put, let's do differentiate this one. The AOE of this one from, let's put it here, no no here. So obviously if you do a combo, it's going to put a chain combo here, I'm just going to do a chain combo near here and no no, I'm going to be putting this one here because I'm going to leaving this area.  So let's initiate this.  So let's see how this goes. So take a look at the chain combo, you have two sets of chain combos triggering in this area and in this area in the mirage. So if you want to widen the scope of your chain combo, definitely this is one of the strategies that you can do. So as you can see there, if there's a wide range of chain combo, you can occupy basically the whole screen with that chain combo. So that is one way of using her. The other one is shooting this one. So I don't have enough, so I'm going to just run away first and make this guy. As you can see there, another chain combo because I'm so far, it triggered here. So not yet. Let's do, let's do another, not that one, let's just stay in place, okay. So let's do shoot this.  So it reaches this guy. So it's really a lot of damage, especially if you level her up equipment, breakthroughs, very, very good. Let's just try this out. Okay, so if you want, we could do another showcase. I am not contented with that one. Let's do another showcase wherein we use her more as a detonator while that showcase was more for kind of a sniper usage of Azure. So let's do more detonator type of attacks here. More near to her in terms of damage dealing because she really benefits if that Mirage is near her as well, dealing more damage. She really has a lot of, you know, if you really think about it, she can be your sole DPS. You have converters with her healer, probably three converters and one healer or teleporter. That's it. She can really wreak havoc if you build her well. Okay, let's do some conversions here. So, okay, let's do... One play for her is also to lure all your enemies right beside you. So let's put it there and let's do some chain combos here. Okay, so if you are near that Mirage, it also enhances your attack, a great deal, more damage for Azure and also once there, if you're going to lure every, you know, every opponent towards your area, you can actually shoot that Mirage so that it can explode and deal damage as well. So both, as you can see there as well, chain combos triggered both for you and for the Mirage. So right now, I'm just going to wait for them to come to me and see how this goes. I just hope that they don't step on that Mirage. I'm just going to wait for her cooldown to, or for her skill to be able to give me...  So let's do a go around here. Okay, so I have two more enemies here. So chain combo kills, kills her obviously. So again, if a bunch of enemies are beside you, you can actually activate this one by shooting it.  Okay, so let's just finish this off. So those are the tips that how you can use her. You can act as a lure, lure them, the Mirage acts as a bomb. The other one is you could shoot that Mirage for some more sniper damage so that you could maximize your coverage as well as chain combo damage as well. So those are two versions of a Zure. Basically you can really have different play styles with the Zure, which are you comfortable or depends on the situation you're in or in the stage you're in. So anyway guys, thank you very much for staying this far. So hopefully you can, for those who are here, hopefully you could help my channel by subscribing and thank you guys. Stay safe, take care, this is The Warden and I'm out of here.


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Hello everyone quick accompanying video to explain this week's topic which is multiple activities and intense Intents are the mechanism that Android uses to start different screens or different activities in your app So if you haven't finished chapter 2 lab from headfirst Android development, please do that before you move on here and before we get into this stuff of with multiple activities intense and Intense I want to raise something that Some question that some of you may have had from chapter 2 I so in chapter 2 labs where you were just learning how to build interactive apps the headfirst authors had you create the beer expert and A question I get quite a bit is what is the point of having this beer expert class that they have you make? Why not just have everything you need and find beer activity dot Java right seems like the beer expert is just Out there. It's just extra work Yes, you could have everything in find beer activity. You you could do that. Maybe you did do it even though they asked you not to but having this the code in the beer expert that you put there with the different flavor types and That's having to do with the colors What that's good design and but the question is why it seems like extra work? Well, you are going to find out in this chapter, but let's give you the answer. Okay, so Android Recommends that you follow a design pattern now design patterns have been around in software engineering Probably since about the mid to late 80s early 90s when object orientation really really took off so did design patterns, but and and I Kind of misspeak here because the model view controller Design pattern that we briefly touched on last time has been around since GUIs were first realized on the Xerox Alto But design patterns are just a fancy way of organizing your code or code modules or Objects around one another in a sensible way and there are very specific design patterns that you can use to solve Problems that come up over and over and over again in software engineering And one of those is the model view view model pattern and it's called that because of the its constituent parts Okay, so the view Just like in model view controller is the Part of your code that shows something to the user. It is the display. So in Android apps. This is the layout in The second component is the view Model the view model in Android is your activity class Okay, so you have the view which is the layout XML file that sets the stage and then you have a view model And between the two is some sort of data binding, right? So data binding like the text fields in your app The data is shared tightly between these two button presses the the data that is Transmitted between when a button is clicked is tight between these two and they can go in either direction Right. The other thing here is that views and view models are inseparable. They are tightly coupled They do not exist without one another in this case Okay, so you've got a view that displays things and you've got a view model that is responsible for updating the view And then the final thing is the model and that's what the beer expert is Okay, the model is data It's business logic. It's stuff. That's not directly attached to the user interface Okay, so this is model view view model and it's a pattern and it's not particular to Android You can find stuff that's very similar and iOS development in native Windows development native Mac OS development It's just a term right but the idea is you got the presentation layer the layer that kind of controls and interacts with that responds to user Input and then all the other business logic that can kind of live separately So in the beer advisor right the view is your fine beer activity dot XML And the view model is your fine beer activity dot Java right these control the user interaction the model is The beer expert Okay, so if you look at the beer expert right like the view model kind of depends on it But it does not depend on the view model in any way. It is not tightly coupled to the view model It's there more of a reference the view model uses it and it's got some good information So but why split this good information out from the view model? Well, the answer will become apparent in this chapter, but the reason is You can share this business logic with different Views and view models or different activities in the case of Android right so in chapter 3 You're going to create an app with multiple activities in it But you want to share between all those activities the concept of you know beer colors and descriptions and names Right well isn't it so much better to just maintain that list of beer colors and names and things like that in one place? Which is the model? Instead of keeping a list here and here and making sure that you keep them Updated you know your list of colors is the same in here as it is in here, right?  That's the idea so this is kind of Falls under the general heading of separation of concerns, which is very prevalent in computer science You probably heard this term in your 331 your object oriented programming class in conjunction with information and encapsulation But in general software systems should strive to separate the Presentation logic the presentation layer whatever that user interface is and it's not not just in Android But in say like web development or if you're making ATM machines or point-of-sale systems separate the presentation layer and dealing with displaying and interacting with the user from Business logic right the sort of general processing general data handling that all computing systems have All right, so going back to the issue of having multiple activities and intents most applications have Multiple activities they have multiple screens here screenshot from the canvas app that we use at UNCW Different screens each one of these screens is a different activity So but the question that we have now is well, okay how do I create different activities multiple activities and how do I tie them together because in Your code that you've seen so far you have never seen this right you have never seen a call to new and That kind of like opens up the new activity you just defined that just does not happen Okay, so how do you get a new activity kind of know how to define them already? That's that's not the hard part, but how do you launch a different activity? Well, the answer is in the concept called an intent the Android class and intents are Android classes for starting activities and Sharing data between activities Okay, so for example if you're in the canvas app and you tap on this button here Which is for CSE 315 mobile application development? And you want it to start a new screen that perhaps shows you some details like this one You're here, and you want to get here. How do you do that? First you create an intent. It's a built-in class You Create a new one the and its constructor takes two parameters This which is referring to the calling context the calling activity Because when an activity is started it needs to know who who started me was was it some other activity? What started me and then course menu activity dot class So this is an activity class. It is a dot class Type here, and this is what we call an explicit intent, which sounds like the name of an awesome like Bruce Willis movie, right? Or Steven Seagal This what makes this as explicit is that you the programmer are saying when you press this button I want a very specific activity to start next. I want a new screen to come up you next and that's course menu activity Okay, you can also Send data to that new activity so intent dot put extra a String course ID and then a value. This is some variable value Think of this as a dictionary. Okay, or a map the intent has a built-in map or a dictionary called an extra It's called the extras. Okay, so this is a key a Key as in a key value pair from a dictionary a key You can name it whatever you want and then the value that goes along and what happens is it gets packaged up in this intent? object and it kind of goes through the nether Because you will then call start activity with this intent start activity is a baked in inherited function for our inherited method Excuse me in the activity class and what it does and this is a really important point for you to understand It basically asks Android the operating system Hey, can you go look for this activity that was specified up here and start it up for me? Kind of like when the user on the home screen of their app pushed a button to launch your app Then pushing that button kind of said hey Go find the explicit that go find this activity Associated with this button and start it up and you got your home screen, right? Same thing here. You are asking Android. Hey, go find this guy and start it for me, please. Okay, and Android will try and comply with you. Okay, but this is very different from like Instantiating the the new activity directly. There's no calls to new here All right, so just a word about design here It's pause here for a second You know what we'll skip that we'll come back to that. Sorry don't want to confuse you We'll come back to that at a later time. All right. That does not look good. Let me Crunch this up. There you go So another kind of intent is what is called an action. Okay, and you you have used actions on your phone Actions are when you let the user choose which activity handles something, right? So this is cool. Your app doesn't have to do everything Sometimes it's nice to give the user a choice in which app they use and then maybe you can use the result So for example sharing right everybody's got the sharing button in their app And when you click sharing you get a list of things a List of different apps that can handle the concept of sharing like a text messaging app an email app might come up Snapchat Instagram might come up if you click this icon So what you're doing with an action? This is a term you need to know as you're saying hey user Please pick the one of these things you want to start up to handle this You may also like start up a camera so you don't have to code your own camera start up a calendar app Etc etc Okay, so You also use Intents to realize these activities, okay So say you've got a picture here, and you want to share it so you click on the share button Okay, in your code the user has clicked the share button. What are you going to do? You are going to instantiate a new intent, but instead of it being explicit and having a target class It's going to start You are going to use this constant intent dot action send Okay, this is there's a whole bunch of these action send action camera action call action SMS short message service and These things are called implicit Intents the other ones were explicit because you're explicitly defining which class you want to start these are implicit You say hey, I kind of want to send this picture to somebody else go ask and Here in the case of excuse me in the case of images in our intent we can set some information about it This is a JPEG image Okay, and then we make a call Let's go inside out first intent dot create chooser with our intent our share it's a variable with an intent and Just a label So what happens here intent dot create chooser you can see this is a static call Android looks at the type of thing you want to share and it sees oh this person wants to send it What type it is and then it pulls up a list of other apps who are registered with the Android operating system to handle the sharing of JPEG images Okay So then the user picks one of these things It comes back so this whole intent dot create chooser has evaluated and it's got a class in it And then you start that activity. Okay pretty cool Pretty cool stuff All right, so you will learn all about that in chapter 3 in the lab for chapter 3 Before you get into that make sure that you have set up the lab on setting up get and get hub for your homework for your project and setting up Things for how to commit those projects on your computer work on the lab for chapter 3 and once you finish chapter 3 you can do 90% of assignment number one so get into it. Let me know what questions you have and good luck