This is covering the spread part of the fan dual podcast network We broke down the Thursday games the men's sweet 16 on yesterday's show It is time now to shift focus and break down the Friday games And who better to do so than John a rostine of CBS sports in the college hoops day podcast We're gonna pick his brain on everything going down this weekend We saw this past weekend and get you ready for some college hoops once again This is covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire calm My name is Jim saw this I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire joined here as mentioned by John a rostine Find him on Twitter at John rostine a very busy Twitter account these past couple of days We could find John and CBS sports and the college hoops day podcast John I know it is a crazy time of year for you between Coaching news between the tournament for sure, but I appreciate the time. How you doing today? Jim great to be with you man. This is March. We sleep in May. Absolutely.  We're gonna get you on your way here in a second But I want to ask you how the opening weekend go, you know, it seems like there was a lot of fun basketball Did you take some time to actually get to enjoy things between all the madness?  Yeah That's what it's kind of like until I get on the plane on that Tuesday after the national championship game from Houston You're constant constant constant moving moving moving and it doesn't stop and it's not going to stop but the hope is that when the national championship game ends and you get on that flight to go from Houston back to New York that you feel Like all of the major stories are done. You can come home. You can get a haircut You can take your dry cleaning in maybe you can reintroduce yourself to the gym So you get a little bit better shape and then maybe you can try to hope to have a beer or two Absolutely. Well, that's the goal as always. We're gonna try to see try to prognosticate Well, we can think about that Tuesday and break down the national championship futures and also talk about these Friday games as mentioned that If you want thoughts on the Thursday games in the NCAA tournament We talked about those with Dr. Ed Feng and the power rank on yesterday's show You can find that on covering the spread but also over on the fan dual YouTube page Let's start things off John though by taking a look back at this past weekend because we saw a lot of good basketball But also I think we could have some interesting takeaways from that opening weekend So when you reflect back on what we saw across the first two rounds What was your biggest takeaway about this year's field the parody that we expected to see really Resonating in a lot of different areas and you know I think the best way to encapsulate that is that we looked at FAU as a Cinderella Possibility before the tournament and FD FAU looked like Goliath because they were playing FD you beat ace one Seat and what was you know the biggest upset in the history of the NCAA tournament I think that and also the fact that Princeton a Program again that lost the Ethan right to Colorado because there's no fifth year rule to come back for in the Ivy League They lost obviously Jalen Llewellyn to Michigan off a team that didn't win the Ivy League And then they were able to go and win multiple games in the NCAA tournament That's an incredible accomplishment and they won Princeton did in two different styles against Arizona It was a vintage Princeton game. They dragged the opponent into the mud they obviously slowed down Arizona who was a potent offensive team and then against Missouri they put up over 75 points So it was what really a tale of two games for Princeton But it goes to show you just how incredible again this tournament is and you know, Jim, we know one thing too Three years ago. We all lost the NCAA tournament because of COVID Yeah, I think it's important because everybody is so, you know, look always looking forward to the next thing Let's just take a minute to and appreciate that we have it back even if it's been back for a couple years I mean, it's easy to appreciate it too when the basketball is so good But I think that it makes it even more important to have it that we have it at all So it's the two layers the great basketball the great stories combined in fact We have it at all that makes this year. I think especially important I want to go back to the parody discussion you were having Because when we look at the futures market right now over at Fandall Sportsbook, we have Alabama plus 320 Houston at 4 to 1 and They're not like Runaway favorites John but like there is a gap between them in the field when you look at the parody We saw them at opening weekend Do you think that that discussion also applies those two schools or is it more so the parody behind them is the big thing Heading forward. I mean the parody behind them Jim. I think that's the interesting thing like Alabama is a really really good team I don't see 2015 Kentucky there I don't see towns and Booker and the Harrison twins and Tyler Euless Houston is a really really good team Houston was a team though that was pushed by northern Kentucky and losing to Auburn at the half So everybody's vulnerable in this NCAA tournament. Yeah, and I think that that's important to see here Is we again haven't seen things shortened too much Houston was five to one at the start of the tournament now four to one part of that's because Sassner looking fully fully healthy in those first couple of games. They did appear vulnerable a bit Alabama has shortened quite a bit. They've been impressive. Their path is pretty good at plus three 20 When you look at the hierarchy John, do you feel as though Alabama Houston are a full tier above the field basement? We see no no Again, I don't expect this to happen I picked Houston in Alabama to win their next games But if you and I are talking on Saturday and say hey Do you believe Miami's in the elite eight and San Diego States slowed down Alabama and won 60 to 57? I wouldn't be shocked. Sure. This is college basketball in 2023 and here's one big thing you have to look at This is not a seven-game series. This is a one-game tournament in terms of elimination San Diego State has seven seniors and two juniors That is a big thing to keep an eye on when they go toe-to-toe with the crimson tide who again I think have this highest ceiling out of anybody left in the NCAA tournament So it sounds like things are wide open even at the top here for the final couple rounds of the NCAA tournament Let's take a look here. We're gonna break down the Friday games more in-depth John But I didn't want to give you a chance to talk about the Thursday games Anything stand out to you when you look at the Thursday games across the sweet 16 Well, I think you know Yukon has a distinct advantage over Arkansas Inside with Klingon and Sonogo Arkansas is going to have to go over the top of Yukon's defense to win in this game But Arkansas and its first two NCAA tournament games Just six of 26 from three-point range I look at the matchup obviously between Michigan State and Marquette and I've said this time and time again Michigan State this year reminds me a lot of the 2015 run that they had with Travis Trice to the final four as a seven seed Tom Izzo has told me multiple times in talks We've had over the years that you know He believes that when things are really balanced in college basketball Like they are this year like they were when they got to the final four in 2010 It makes you feel the losses a little bit more and what I mean by that is he talks to me all the time about 2010 because he's like Hey, we lost Katelyn Lucas to an injury in the NCAA tournament But we still got to a final four and there wasn't a great team in that final four He goes Butler was really good. They beat us by two Duke won the national title, but it wasn't a great team We had a chance to win it and we didn't win it So I look at Michigan State now as the team to watch in this region to get to a final four Which would be Izzo's ninth trip to the final four and again to compete for a national championship Yeah, Michigan State now currently actually a favorite over Kansas States over at Fandall sportsbook Michigan State One and a half point favorite Do you think that it's fair to view Michigan State as being a hair bit better than Kansas State for this opening that that Thursday game? Would because of Tom Izzo. Yeah, and I also love the fact that they play the two-point guards together with Hogan Tyson Walker You know so much has been made Jim about Tyson Walker's offense. He doesn't have a turnover in the NCAA tournament Yeah, absolutely, and that's gonna be a fun one to watch a Michigan State slight favorite over Kansas State But John thinks they could be in play beyond just that game as well. Okay. Let's talk about these Friday games Let's start things off in the South We got Alabama against San Diego State as you mentioned before wouldn't be a huge shocker to see San Diego State playing on Into the Sunday games Creighton playing against Princeton that great story there Creighton's a team you pinpointed back in December once they got healthy as a team that could make some noise And here they are on the second weekend. So looking at these two games in the South specifically John What stands out to you? How do you see these games playing out? Well, you know the South region is an interesting region because I said of the contrast you have in the first Game and then the great underdog situation in the second game. I'm taking Alabama and Creighton I'm taking Alabama to get to the final four. Yeah, Alabama right now in that game seven and a half point favorite against San Diego State Do you think that the gap is that large? Do you think San Diego State can keep things close and push throughout the entire game? What's your view with them in terms of how big that gap is if San Diego State has a chance to win this game It's going to have to be in the 60s It's going to have to be Comparable to what Princeton did against Arizona and also looking over to the other side of the bracket what UCLA is going to have to do Against Gonzaga. I don't think UCLA can be Gonzaga. The score gets above 70 Yeah, and Gonzaga we talked about this at yesterday a team that he likes as far as betting their money line potentially They're plus two and a half right now at Fando sports book as well And if San Diego State does slow things down keep the possession numbers lower That could be beneficial in terms of the spread but does sound like John favors Alabama there Princeton Crayton spread is nine and a half And you've talked a lot about this Crayton team as being a team that That you liked a lot early on I think they have justified that enthusiasm through their first two games How do they match up in your eyes with this Princeton team? It's a mental game right because Crayton is probably looking at this and says, you know We have a path to get to the elite eight the way that Princeton is going to have to beat Crayton Is going to have to be by minimizing turnovers, which is going to be difficult because Nemhardt and Alexander are so good at getting out and transition It's going to have to be by going over the top of Ryan Coughbrenner So they're gonna have to be a better offensive team than they were against Arizona and probably come more comparable to what they did offensively against Missouri and they're gonna have to stay in the game for the first 30 minutes the whole key to an Upset in the NCAA tournament is getting the favorite to be able to emotionally crack I think that happened a little bit by Arizona in the last three or four minutes of the game and we'll see what What you know goes on from there, but I think you staying in the game is obviously gonna be very important. Yeah, and I Think that with Crayton with the makeup of their team I think that that does make them pretty well suited in the situation as a nine-and-a-half point favorite against Princeton Okay, let's talk about the games in the Midwest We got Miami taking on Houston that spread is now seven and a half Texas against Xavier a four-and-a-half point spread so a little bit tighter between these two games here What do you see? Let's start things off with the Houston versus Miami game John. How do you think that one plays out? Great guard play nor Chad O'Mear has been dynamic on the offensive and defensive glass to start You know Houston is the tougher team Houston I think has you know more of an edge up front. I would give the edge to Houston now They've had some time to get healthier. Do you think that that plays into it? Do you think that they will come out of this and come into this game? I guess like as a more full team than they were in those first two rounds I think so. I think one thing we can't ever take for granted is the fact that you have a situation Where during the sweet 16 you get the extra four or five days to rest in the right rate And that's the one thing you're going to be a lot fresher for that first sweet 16 game And you work for your game in the round of 32. Yeah, absolutely You know that's one big thing to keep in mind Especially with this Houston team given all the moving pieces they have there So that's the factor there for them against Miami again that spread is seven and a half Xavier against Texas that spread is four and a half and this one seems pretty interesting of the Friday game It's probably the most competitive one. What are you seeing in that one? Well, Sean Miller is four and three in sweet 16 games in his career This is Rodney Terry's first sweet 16 game. You know, he's the coach of Texas He should be the permanent coach of Texas. Hopefully here soon He's done more than enough to receive that title depth to me Is a big key in this game that we know that Xavier's depth Disappated a bit when Jerome Hunter moved into the starting lineup for Zach Fremantle Texas is the deepest team in college basketball. Texas. I think has the best bench in college basketball So I give the nod to Texas because I picked them early in the tournament But in terms of experience in the second weekend Sean Miller has great experience from a coaching perspective, but Xavier's team does not we're talking about like modeling things out You can weigh separate things in a different way. So you can weigh offense defense, etc Etc all these factors. How much does your weight you apply to coaching shift the deeper we get into the tournament? I think you have to look at it really really closely And I think you know all these guys who are coaching right now Are league coaches. I mean you look at the West region the region of brands eric muslims eight and two In the last You know two nc double eight or less three nc double a tournament stan hurley's resume of building program speaks for itself McCronan's, you know coached in the final four Mark views coached in the final four So I think all these things You know come into play when you're talking about being in a situation to evaluate coaching at this level of the tournament So you need to look at a situation where zavier is a four and a half point underdog facing off against texas As you mentioned texas has the depth edge, but a lot of experience in that in that in that coaching staff Do you think that can bridge that four and a half point gap to make this game super? Obviously as you said you favor texas in this game Do you think that that keeps things competitive throughout the entire game? I think so. I mean look The one thing that I think you got to feel good about if you're zavier right now Suley boom has not played his best basketball in the nc double a tournament Suley boom is eight of 26 from the field in two of 12 from three and zavier is in the sweet 16 That's an incredible incredible feat when you think about the think about it And I also think You know we're still going to find out again What's going to happen with zavier defensively against dylan desu who has been one of the breakout stars of the nc double a tournament And dylan desu Again is somebody who could pose a real problem for jack nunji zavier is going to need to have jack nunji on the floor in this game Yeah, and you think about um, uh, if they have gotten to this point They have beaten quality opponents and are maybe not playing their best basketball yet That implies there is a ceiling they've not tapped into yet and that could be Beneficial as a four and a half point dog on friday. That's going to do it all for john rosting for today john Check him out on twitter at john rosting check him out on cbs sports find is College hoops day podcast wherever you get your podcast as well john I know no sleep just yet, but hopefully you could take some time to decompress across the next day or so Back in action once again tomorrow.  We sleep in mac. Thanks, jim Alrighty again find john on twitter add john rosting want to thank you once again for swinging by for today As a reminder if you want to find the full breakdown of the thursday games find that over on the covering the spread podcast feed and Over on the fandall youtube page. 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We'll have some more college basketball talk Coming up on friday austin cast will be back with us. We're gonna talk to him About the saturday games in the elite eight So we'll be breaking down uh those games there So make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast to get these as they're posted We'll also talk some nascar on friday's show as well big Thank you once again to john rostin find him on twitter at john rostin in the college hoops today podcast I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s you can also follow the fan dual podcast network At fan dual podcast want to thank you all for tuning in for today. Good luck to you With your bets across the sweet 16 in the men's side. We'll talk to you all once again soon This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


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Okay, let's do some basic JavaScript. Now you know that you can put it in different places in the browser, and now we will actually go in and write some code. So the first thing we typically want to do is some kind of printouts in the console, and this is simply done by console.log in JavaScript. And you can view the console in different ways. It's, I think, F12 in Firefox. It's differently in Chrome and so on, but all the browsers have a browser console where you can see your output. And let's start by doing that. So I have prepared a simple file here that has a heading, a tag, a button, nothing else, and empty script tags. And here I will just say console.log script is being loaded. So now I get an output whenever my code gets to this part. And if we try this, basic JavaScript, you see that here it is. And if I go into the console, you see script is being loaded. So I've managed to do an output. It also complains about the character and coding, by the way. So it sometimes has some complaints about, for example, HTML and so on. Now I've used a shortcut on Mac, it's option command K, but you can also go into tools, developer web console. So yeah, if you do F12, you end up in a different of these tabs, but you can simply switch to console then. There's also a debugger, which we get into later. For example, remember maybe the style editor from the last lecture where we could change the styling CSS. So this is a console output, pretty simple. Then of course it would like to do functions. Whenever we do programming, we want to have functions so we can reuse code. And the way this works in JavaScript is that you simply say function, you define a name, and you define parameters. You don't have a return type that's implicit. So you can just say return whatever you want. Again, we get to variables a bit later, but there are no return types in JavaScript. The other thing you notice here is that we have the curly braces. So this is not as in Python here. The curly braces define that there is a new block. You also typically have indentation, but it's optional. So this is just for styling. It's not carrying any meaning as it does in Python. So all that counts are the curly braces. And also one more thing that is important is that semicolons are actually optional. So you can leave them away. It will work. They are strongly recommended because it can happen that you write buggy code, you write something wrong, and it just continues on the next line. So for example, you start the next line with dot something and then it might become actually that you access that the return type of this is an object and then it just continues executing and so on. So even if you don't yet understand why you should have them put them there, it's good practice. But if you see anyone in the internet, in examples, skipping them, this is generally fine and you will come across that. So let's write a function. I use my alert from previous slides. So function show alert, I have a message parameter that I call message and I simply do window.alert message. And now whenever I call this here, I can do show alert, hello from the script bottom. Now as soon as the script is completely loaded, it will show the alert. Here you go. And of course, this is not so nice. Typically, you don't want to bother the user that much. So we can, for example, put it again into our event. So instead of saying window.alert, what I did earlier, I can just call a function here. Show alert, hello. And now you might notice one thing and that is I used single quotation marks here. Down here, I have double quotation marks. In JavaScript, both is fine. So double or single quotation marks are fine for strings. Here I use the single ones because otherwise my HTML gets confused. If I use double here, it thinks that the attribute is over and it starts with more HTML code. So I use single quotation marks to distinguish them from here. And that's also the way it works in JavaScript itself. If you want to have quotation marks within, you can simply use the other type. So here I use double quotation marks. If I want to have single ones here, I can just say it's being loaded and JavaScript just ignores them or it doesn't ignore them, it actually prints them as you see here. So now I added my function. If I do click, I get my alert. So much for basic functions. Then of course, we can have variables. And I said earlier, JavaScript is weakly typed. For now, we say it's untyped. It's not quite true. We get into detail there later. But if you look at the definitions of variables, you see that all I use is var. I never say what kind of type it is. I don't say that this is a number or this is a string. So you just say var, give it a name and a value. So you have two numbers. You can of course have additions of different things. You can have floating point, string, boolean. That's what you can do. Let's do it just for completeness. Let's say we say variable. My message is hello from inside a variable. And then later on, I just do show alert, my message. And of course, this works exactly as you would expect. It writes my string into a variable and then it hands this the variable to the function which displays it. So this is fine. This is so far, so good for variables, functions and logging and we'll get back to that later. Now we do some DOM modifications. So what can we do with the document object model that we set is one of the main uses of JavaScript in the browser. One thing you can do is you can access existing elements or read elements. For example, if you do document, get element by ID, the browser will return to you the element that has the ID that you provided, a string. If it exists, of course. If you do get elements by tag name, you will get an array of all elements that have the name you specified. So if I put P in here, I would get all the paragraphs back. Same with class name. And then of course, you have some defined fields like body head, there's always only one body so there's no need to somehow filter. And as you see down there, in this case, I use first child, which simply returns the first element under another element. You can run most of these methods on any HTML element. So for example, I could get a specific element here, document, get element by ID, and then I use that element to search for all elements with a tag name. This is quite common because for example, here I would like to get a diff. And then within the diff, you want to get all the paragraphs, but you don't wanna have all the paragraphs in the document. So you can do this on any element, not for all methods. So the element by ID, for example, only works on document because ID should be unique. Let's try this. If you look into the code, I have a button here, which I'll change the functionality now. I'll add an input text field. Name, input type text. I give it an ID, name in, and that's it. Okay, let's, this is of course not very nice, but for brevity, we'll leave away the label here. You should use labels typically. And I say if I click, I would like to get the name. So I have a new function. Of course, I have to define this function. That's what I'll do here. Also let me remove the show alert. A double slash is a line comment. You can also have multi-line comments with slash star, and then you do star slash to stop it as it works in many programming languages. So I want to have my function get name. And when I call this, I would like to print this name that I put in here on the console. For that, I need to say get my field. And in this case, I can use the ID that I've assigned. So get element by ID, name in. Let's use the same naming here that it doesn't get confusing. And now I have the HTML element. That alone is not yet helpful, but I would like to have the text that was in there. And I do that using the value parameter or attribute of an element. So I can do name in dot value because as you might remember in HTML, if you have a text field, you assign the value of it what's in there basically. And what you also see here, the plus is a string concatenation. So I have one string and I add another string to it. So the output now will simply be this whole line. Let's try this whether I've forgotten anything. I have my text field, okay, I forgot the new line and I put in my name and I say click and then you see down there it actually outputs my name. So this is one example of how you access the document object model, how you access elements in your browser that are displayed. That's of course cool, but you would like to change them. And there are different ways to do that. So for example, you can say dot text content. That's the text between start and end tag. So for example, here, if we have a header, you can change the header to something else. You could change attributes. For example, the source attribute of a picture to whenever I click a button, I get a different picture. You can also change styling. For example, the color property of a header. And you can properly remove elements. So just say remove child and then you put a child element in there and it will be gone. Let's try some of those things. Usually I do the cat here. So let's do the cat. I have an image. Let's do it properly. It's a cat. And when I click on my button, I would like to change the picture. So again, new function. I have to get my picture. Document dot get element by ID. What was it? Image container. This hopefully gives me my element. And then I can say image dot source is, and I believe I have a different one. I have this hedgehog dog. So change this to dog hedge dot JPEG. Here's my cat. Okay, it's giant. When I click, it changes to the hedgehog dog. So now I've added some kind of dynamic behavior. Of course you can make this a bit more advanced. You can say, well, we only do this when you have put in a certain name. So only when it says test in my text field, then I would like to change the picture. So instead of outputting this, what I did earlier, I just return it. So now I've changed my get name function. And now I can just say var name is get name. And then I say, if my name is test, then I would like to change the picture. Otherwise I don't do anything. And now I skipped the indentation just to show you that it works. This here is actually not good practice, but for now it's good enough because you know this from Python. So this is equality that is a bit tricky in JavaScript. So let's summarize. What happens here is when I click the button, it calls change pic. Change pic checks whatever it calls the get name function. It returns the name that is, or the text that is in the input text field. And if this text happens to be test, then it changes the picture. So here's my cat again. Let's remove this. And now I have Grisha Liebel in here. If I click nothing should happen. And that's exactly what is the case. If I put test in, let's hope this works, then it changes. So now you've already done, we have already written some code that actually depends on what the user does. Depending on that does different things with the HTML document. Okay. And finally you can replace the entire HTML code, just write and you enter a string, which is just HTML text. And you can create elements. And I will probably not, or I can copy this example because it's quite substantial. The problem is this is a lot of work, right? So let's say we want to have a paragraph with an ID. You see that first I have to say create element. I have to create the ID attribute. I have to assign the value of that attribute. Then I have to add the attribute to my paragraph element. I have to add the actual text. So the text between the start and the end tags. I have to add the text to the paragraph. And finally I have to insert the paragraph into my HTML document. So here I do it under some kind of div. So this is really quite some code just for adding a paragraph. But just for completeness that this works. Now I have everything in one line. This should be fine, by the way. So let's try this. I do need an element with ID, my div. Otherwise nothing will be inserted. So let's say we have up here the div. Here I should get my new paragraph. And I call this whenever I click on my button as before. So now if I click here you see the cat moved. And that's because up here I have some new text. And if we inspect it, you will see that it indeed has ID, new paragraph and the correct text. So I needed all of these lines. Well, here's just one line because everything is here. But in my slides with proper line breaks you see that there are actually seven lines just to add a paragraph. Finally, one interesting thing maybe is to note that here I have of course my paragraph and you see it here in the inspect view. But if I say right click view page source you do not see it. And this has to do with the DOM and the source. What I look at here in the page source is the HTML that came from the server. So this is the unchanged version. While what you display and what is in the inspector is actually the DOM. So it's the document object model, the way it looks like right now. And I have inserted something so the DOM has changed. But of course the original file has not changed. So this is an important distinction. Okay, let's do the last part of this module of this small video, which is events. And of course I've shown you the on click but given that we talk about event driven we would like to have different events that trigger something. And you have seen this one. So whenever I click on something call a function these are HTML events. So on click is defined in HTML. And then of course a lot of them. So in four there's a whole reference on all of them but a bunch of them are here. For example, you have the on load which is triggered once something is loaded. So for example, when the picture is finished loading please execute some code. On click you have seen on change if something changes in the element for example, if you enter a new text in your text box then please trigger a function. On submit is for forms. So when a form is submitted call something and on context menu I'd like to skip because this is our right click madness. So whenever someone right clicks you can run a function that for example opens an alert and says this is not permitted or so on. This is the good old right click protection. And all of this is really why it's called event driven JavaScript. So we have the HTML events and those basically drive the code they trigger things in the code. This is why we call JavaScript event driven in the browser. We have done this so I don't need to do a lot but we can maybe do the on change. So just so that you see that it works. Let's go into our input text field and we say on change print text. So now I just want to print whatever is in the text field whenever I change it. And of course for this I again have to get my element and print it. Let's see whether this worked. Let's go into our console. If I do something here, it doesn't happen. Okay, it doesn't do anything until I press enter. So it realizes that it has changed once I press the enter button. There are probably I would have to consult the reference myself but there are probably ways to check that whenever you add a new letter do something. Okay, so this concludes this video on some basic JavaScript things. Next we will look a bit deeper at types and how the different things internally actually work.


Llywodraeth o'r llaw o'r llaw o'r Lwyddoedd yw'r pargylenni. Felly, mae'n ffordd i'r Old Ffau, Llangoflin Golf Club, yng Nghymru. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gwybod golf ac mae'r 1rhyw tŷ o Llangoflin mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gwybod. Fy, 3rhyw tŷ, 1rhyw tŷ, 1rhyw tŷ o'r ddechrau. Fy gydwch chi'n gweithio'n gweithio. Fy gydwch chi'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae fflaingoflin is, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio. Mae'n fwy gweithio'n gweithio, a eu pargylunio'n gweithio, mae'nichi'n gweithio'n gweithio, lle mae gennym jo'n gennym flawa o'r gweithio. Mae'n gweithio, ac mae'n siplayb reif ar nog yn gallu weld eich gwasanaeth scôl. Mae'nahanol yn blaenfa, rwy'n gwir mewn ddyn nhw, mae'n gweithio'n dweithio'n gweithio'n dweithio awdair. Felly mae'r gweithio gyda'r hwnwt, 8 olygu ier bod yn credu bryd ac mae'r Sreit Cymru drwy'r Cymru yn ymrydynt. Felly yn ymrydydd yn ymrydydd, mae'n teimlo gandd pag y blynedd. Rhaid i chi ddim... femen..... Felly ddim. Ymrydydd. Fe fydd yn rhywbetheth ar yw myfyrdd yw ymrydydd, yn ymrydydd yma 183 o'r wrth gweithio, a fyddo yn oed yn gobeithio 100 o'r 100 o. Felly barod hwnnw, ac i'w gwirio arno diwethaf, ac yn gwirio'n dod o'r hyn o'r llwyddof yn gweithio'r byt, ond fe fod yn gwirio'r byw yn mynd arwyr a'u gwirio'r byw yn gweithio'r llwyddof. Felly mae'n fïrch o'r hyn o'r wath, mae o'n gweithio arwyr. Tëwch, oedd y ddysgu. 7 iron down there and rely on a short game. It's always one of them.  Right, we've got 80 in, 54 wedge. The thing you'll see in a minute is there's a massive slope in this green. So we should gather on that pin, really, if you can get something. We either land it on that slope or throw it all away, I suppose. That's good. Sit down, ball. This could be good, you know. This could be good, feed off it. Oh, I didn't get the kick off the bank at all. Roll out, roll out, roll out. Oh! Be right. Oh, go ball. I just love this when that ball's flying into, oh. That seems decent from back here. Well, look at that, just look above and just how nice is that you're surrounded by it.  That beauty can be found in the town itself. I've been coming to Llangodd Lent since I was a child and not for the golf course. The picturesque Welsh town sitting adjacent to the River Dee, steam trains, ice creams, beer gardens, horse-drawn barges.  Go. I think it's worth a quick mention at this point, just congratulations to the Greens team here. There's only at the moment just two staff working because of the current restrictions in place. The course condition is fantastic and the Greens have been absolutely superb. You know, it's a great track and it's a long time since I've played here and I forgot how good it was. It's always in good condition. I have been coming here for years. I've played lots of games here. It was almost like it was a day out, a bit of a treat that we come here for. Lad's day out, all gathered and played and it's a really enjoyable place to play around the golf and I've really enjoyed it again this morning coming back. I've missed it. North Wales has got some great golf courses. Right, my favourite tee position on this whole course to be honest with you. The River Dee runs, I mentioned it earlier, runs parallel with quite a number of holes. It's all the way down this one but it's that backdrop that I've mentioned quite a few times that I think is absolutely stunning and if it's a big if when you get that ball flying down the middle into that backdrop, it's a decent feeling. Oh, that's not bad. I've just played a reload three off the tee here on 17 because it's long off things. It's got some tough holes, narrow fairways. I think you're going to know how to sort of club you around it. It's certainly not driver off every tee position and because you need to get into the right side of fairways and typical example that is on 17, tight off the tee and then yes, second ball, I managed to find middle of a fairway and leave yourself a bit of an angle in. But like I said, it's unfortunately this is three off the tee. Down the left a bit. Sit down ball. Sit down. Looks long. Sit. Oh, and that one's just bounced off the back edge. It's a great closing hole and it's a par three. It's 150 from where I'm playing today. All uphill. And once again, I've got some fond memories of this hole and some not so fond. Cut back a bit more. A bit more. A bit more. Yes. Okay. Stay there now. Happy to finish. Land off then. I should have come back a lot sooner. The clubhouse watches and waits. Conscious of the glare making the first tee shot that little more anxious. And the awaiting galleries make the 18th a walk of fame or shame. I've also forgotten it's no easy to put on the screen to finish either. Well, hearted mouth. Finish with a par. Really enjoyable day.


Vice President Jameel Shubadjo says Nigeria cannot afford another civil war because it not all go well for the country. Shubadjo said this at an interactive forum of the all-progressive Congress Annambra Governorship Aspirants organized by the state chapter of the APC Patriots in Abuja. Shubadjo said the political elite must rise up to the challenge by speaking the truth and taking action to address the situation in the country. Vice President said that the elite could make a great difference just by the words they speak.


We're going to be looking at chapters 13 through 22 tonight. There you go. You're going to say, is that possible? I don't know. I surely hope that it is. And you'll see why in just a moment, because much of the material that we find in front of us really relates to the dividing of the land into geographic areas where the 12 tribes are going to be inhabiting and various cities that are allotted to the Levites as well as cities of refuge, you know. And so you're going to be seeing that quite a bit of the information found in these chapters in front of us from chapter 13 all the way to chapter 22 really contain things that we can just look at briefly, not even touch on some things, because they really aren't something that I really felt that we should just belabor. And so there are things that we'll be looking at and I'm going to be stopping in certain portions of those chapters up to chapter 22, and then chapter 22 will cover more closely when we arrive at chapter 22. So let's begin here in chapter 13 at verse 1. I'll read verses 1 through 7, give a brief introduction and move into our study. Joshua chapter 13 verses 1 through 7. Now Joshua was old, advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, you're old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. This is the land that yet remains, all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshe-Rites from Sior, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron, northward, which is counted as Canaanite, the five Lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, Ashdodites, Ashkenalites, the Gittites, the Ekronites, and the Avites. From the south, all the land of the Canaanites and Mera, it belongs to the Sedonians, as far as effect to the border of the Amorites, the land of the Gebelites, and all Lebanon toward the sunrise from Baal, below Mount Hermon, as far as the entrance to Mahmoud. All the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon, as far as the Brook Mizrapah, and all the Sedonians, them I will drive out from before the children of Israel, only divided by a lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you, now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh. And so Joshua, as we begin here, is already declared, notice again verse one, to be old, advanced in years. Now we know that he began leading the nation of Israel when he was around 80 years old. So now he's around 95. So Joshua has been going through the land and he's divided that land up and he conquered it. As we've noted, he began by entering into the center, then he went down south, and then he began to go up to the north. He conquered the land. Now, to possess all the land, required them to continue fighting until they took all of it. So they needed to go further south. That's why the land that is referred to as the land of the Philistines is mentioned. So they have to go further south. They also have to go further to the east, to Egypt. They have to go up a little bit north to an area called Ekron, which was just west of the city of Jerusalem. And so what this is really giving to us is insight that they didn't take all of it in its entirety, but they took the majority of it. And so the Lord is making it very clear that they're to continue so that they might possess all the things. When it says in verse seven, divide this land as an inheritance, you need to remember that two and a half tribes had settled to the east of the Jordan River. And so chapter 14 is going to continue later to reveal that this land was going to be divided up and it would be divided up by lots. And so what's going to happen is the land is going to be divided and the Lord is going to begin to develop the geographic boundaries. So that's what happens in verse eight, following all the way through chapter 13. He begins to divide up the land. And if you wanted, we could see that there were boundaries for the Levite, there were boundaries for the tribe of Reuben, there were boundaries for the tribe of Gad, et cetera. You see that all in chapter 13. When you get to chapter 14, let's see how fast we went through chapter 13. That's pretty good, huh? When you get to chapter 14 verses one through five, it just tells us how they did it. They divided the land, they set the tribal boundaries through the lot, through the casting of lot. So they divided the land according to verse five. But as we get into verse six of chapter 14, we're going to spend a few moments. Because beginning at verse six, notice with me it says this, then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb, the son of Japhana, the kenozite said to him, you know the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh, Barnea. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh, Barnea to spy out the land. And I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt. But I wholly followed the Lord my God. So Moses swore on that day saying surely the land where your foot has trod and shall be your inheritance, and your children's forever. Because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. And now behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as he said these 45 years. Ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness.  And yet, I am as strong this day as I was on the day that Moses sent me. Just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day. For you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. And Joshua said, you go, oh man. Now Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephonah as an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephonah, the kenozite, to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. The name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba. For Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war. Very briefly, but this is something that you really could spend a lot of time on if you wanted to. What you find here is that the Lord did a tremendous work here through a man by the name of Caleb. Caleb was one of the original 12 spies who entered to spy out the land. And he mentions because of the unbelief of the other spies, Israel had to remain in that wilderness and they did so wandering for 40 years. Now what is interesting and I think very insightful about this man Caleb is though he was also in the wilderness. There was something that sustained him as he went through that wilderness journey. And it's something that sustains every leader by the way. It was something that sustained him and the thing that sustained him is he went through the 40 years in the wilderness. So he was faithful. He did not doubt God's promises when God had stated it first when he was a younger man and said you're going to possess this land. He did not doubt it. He went in with full anticipation for both. And when the other spies had come back and had stated there's no way we can take this land. This land is too great for us. Though it produces tremendous crops and though it would be a wonderful place for us to live, the bottom line is it's filled with giants. And we remember the story. We've looked at it more than once. We've spoken of it often. They said that we are as grasshoppers in the sight of these inhabitants. There are giants there and not only are we as grasshoppers in their sight. We are grasshoppers in our own sight. And that report even as we just read had brought fear into the hearts of the children of Israel. And they were afraid to go in. They said if we go in, they were going to be slaughtered. We should have remained in Egypt with our children. It would have been better to remain there and live than to go into this land and die. And the result of that because of their unbelief is that they were left to wander in that wilderness there for 40 years. Caleb didn't say that. He said that those who had spoken poorly concerning the promises of God, he held fast to them. He said that God is able, God is able to take us through. We can do it. We can take this place. God gave it to us. But he along with Joshua who remained faithful were still there in that wilderness wandering with those who failed to enter in because of unbelief. But he didn't sour on the promises of God. He knew that that promise God had given those years before was still applicable to him then. And even though he didn't receive him the moment it was given that promise was given he knew that ultimately he would receive it and so that's something to learn from this man Caleb. Because of the unbelief of the others Israel remained wandering for 40 years. But he though he was still in that wilderness with them remained, had his mind remaining on one thing and that was the promise. And even though it was unfair and he had to pay a price for something he did not do he remained true to God. In verse 8 it makes very clear and it's repeated several times as we just read. How is it that he remained faithful to God? How is it that he remained so strong in his belief in that promise? Well he said in verse 8 I wholly followed the Lord my God. And so one we know that he remembered the promise that had been given him and that remembrance of that promise is what sustained him for all of those years. God had made a promise and he was holding fast to it. In verse 9 he said Moses swore on that day saying surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children's forever because you have wholly followed the Lord my God. So one if I'm going to remain strong in the things of God then I need to have my mind settled for Moses. God has said it then it's true then I'm going to hold fast to it even if it takes a while for that to come to pass in my life. A second thing that kept him alive we see it in verse 10 is that he stayed alive for all those years because he knew that there was something awaiting him. His destiny if you will was awaiting him. He said behold verse 10 the Lord has kept me alive as he said these 45 years Israel wandered in the wilderness and now here I am this day 85 years old. So he stayed alive all those years and battles that he went through revealed that his destiny was awaiting him and the fact that he went through successfully all the things that he went through reminded him that God was going to be faithful to his promise that he gave to him. There's a third thing that we see is found in verse 11 he says yet I am as strong this day as I was on the day that Moses sent me just as my strength was then so now is my strength for war both for going out and for coming in. Though he was aged yet he retained a warrior spirit and a willingness to fight just because you get old doesn't mean that you shouldn't be ready to fight a spiritual war. I spoke to my pastor Chuck a while back now you know pastor Chuck's 85 he'll be 86 years old in June and I've mentioned this to you before but 20 years ago I was at a pastor's conference and pastor Chuck was sharing at a pastor's conference up north and at breakfast I was sitting across from pastor Chuck and Chuck had mentioned about a year before when he was a young man of 64 Chuck had mentioned he was considering retirement and now he's 65 and he's seated across from me and he thought he was going to retire at the age of 65 so I said to him Chuck you mentioned that you're going to retire at 65 and I began to ask him some questions concerning that and then several years passed and so maybe 5-10 years ago now I was talking to him and I said Chuck you had said you were going to retire or think of retirement at 65 but you're still with us it's not like I'm hastening a retirement but I'm interested why you didn't retire and he looked at me and he said something he said every day that you walk with Jesus is a day more of experience with him that you can give to somebody else every day you walk with the Lord you know him better and you have more to give of him to somebody else so I said so then Chuck when are you going to retire so what is what is it and he said I will retire when I stop enjoying walking with Jesus which means he's not going to retire my 5-year-old granddaughter was giving me advice the other day she tells me things that I don't know how human that really is isn't it somebody who is 5 years old already knows more than grandpa how human that is and yet how typical it is for many today who perhaps fail to realize that growing old has an advantage especially in your walk with the Lord there are men like Caleb even amongst us to this day men who are filled with faith with the Spirit who have been completely true to the Lord that God can continue to use and it's of great importance for people like me and us to learn from their experience from what God has taught them so that we might not make the mistakes that we are prone to mistake to make when we don't listen to counsel and so as I was looking at this man Caleb I'm thinking that in today's society there are those who perhaps would think that he was a useless old man what do you have to offer us now you're an old man get out of the way let the youth prevail let the young lead what do we need you when Caleb is simply saying you know what I was 40 years old I was in battles I'm 85 now I'm just as strong now as I was at the age of 40 he's got more experience than ever before and he still has the courage and he still has the faith and he's saying just give me a mountain give me something to go out I want a battle I want to take something that's easy I want to take something that has a challenge involved in it and that's what he says in verse 12 give me a tough battle not something that an ordinary person can do give me something that's going to test me give me something that's going to require faith and strength give me something that's going to require stamina give me something that's going to be worth me taking the time to go out and do and I can't help but admire somebody like Caleb an older man that in many societies today would be looked at as being kind of useless why don't you just go and do something else why don't you go lawn bowling or go play bingo at church but this is a man who say no I want to be used by God I want to be used until I'm used up by God and I really believe that that's what the Lord has called every believer to is to have a spirit like Caleb to have this heart this willingness this desire to be used by God so that's what he asked for I want a challenge in verse 12 give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there and that the cities were great and fortified it may be that the Lord will be with me and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said so give me a challenge Joshua blessed him and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jefune as an inheritance and Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jefune they can exact to this day because here's that phrase again he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel so the Lord has never anywhere and I encourage you to remember this know where does the Bible ever teach me to be a part-time or half-hearted believer God has called us to be fully committed to him and when you have a full commitment to the Lord and by the way you can be fully committed today and tomorrow even more committed than you were today because when you're fully committed to the Lord today you grow the next day as you yield yourself wholly over to the Lord you've got more to offer him it's kind of like in your marriage when you got married those of you who are married let's see how many sad faces yeah those of you who are married when you first got married you know you made those promises before the minister and before the witnesses before God and everybody else that you would love and care for and all of that and everybody knows that the day of your marriage and the newlywed portion of your marital life is usually you know usually pretty good but I'll tell you and every person in this room who's been married for a while can tell you this at least it's true for me and I'm certain it's true for most that the day I got married I believed that I was fully committed to my wife Marie but all the years later I am more fully committed to our marriage today than even on the day I got married because every day of my marriage I've renewed that vow in my heart that I would be committed and love be committed and love stay and love and over the years every day that I've made that renewed vow before the Lord I'm going to love this woman my love has increased my faithfulness is stronger our relationship is deeper that's how it works with the Lord guys when you commit yourself to the Lord there's so many people who are afraid oh what happens if I fully commit myself to God he's going to send me some place I don't want to go he's going to make me leave my happy home and go some place I don't want to be he's going to send me to Chino to do something when you're in the center of the will of God fully committed to him every place you go is the most blessed place you could possibly be and God meets you in very special ways there guys don't be so afraid of yielding yourself to the Lord don't be so afraid God has wonderful surprises for you when I first got into ministry one of the first ministries that I did was back in 75 or 76 it was with Biola University Biola College then a friend of mine named Jimmy was a leader over urban ministry and Jimmy said to me Dave I'd like you to do some ministry in some projects in Ramona Gardens East LA I was born and raised in California born and raised in Norwalk and I was aware of how rough some areas were and Ramona Gardens was not my vacation choice and so when he said I'd like you to do that it kind of was to me ironic because when I had gotten saved and started saying to the Lord God I want to be used by you but Lord you know I wasn't raised in a gang life I don't understand the culture so I'm going to ask you send me anywhere but I don't think I'm cut out to go into gang ministry and I found it deeply ironic that the first opportunity that I was ever given to go out and do ministry was in Ramona Gardens and so my friend asks me will you take that and I said let me pray about it so I went to the Lord and said I know you're saying no but I'm going to ask you but he said yes and I went into Ramona Gardens and we went from September until June and I would roll in there and the first day we were there one of the guys who was one of the gang members who was there when we walked in we came off of our bus and we were walking down the street he came walking up and he said who's in charge here and so they pointed me out as they went running and hit into some bushes and they pointed me out they said he is and he walks up to me and I said what are you doing here and I remember my first conversation with this fellow there and I told him who we were and what we were doing there we're college students from Biola University Biola College we're here to minister to the children and bring the love of Jesus Christ to a community that needs it desperately we're here to serve this community and these people who are with me are volunteers who will love these children and we want to care for them and we're here to slice my own and he says my name is and he gave me his name and he says if anybody asks you just tell him that I said it's okay and that's kind of the Lord just opened the door from the beginning you know we never had any problems and so one day I had to go in I had a friend of my named Rick who had to go with me well actually I said I've got to go some place we want to go with me and he said yeah so I went into Ramona Gardens hiding under the dashboard this is a true story he was hiding under the dashboard and I said what are you doing down there and he said why didn't you tell me you were coming into Ramona Gardens I said does it matter he said yeah they want to kill me here I said really well I'll be back in a minute stay down there and I went in and I did some work what I had to do I came back out and the Lord was telling me where I've sent you you are safe where I have you it's the best place for you to be so don't be afraid just do what I call you to do and trust me to be able to produce the fruit and I started learning that in a very practical way back in 1976 and what was true then is true now but it isn't true just in 76 it was true back in the time of Caleb and Caleb said I want a challenge send me where you would have me to go something that's going to really require me to trust God send me to a mountain I want to take the mountain and I want to take the place that the giants dwell and that's what he did he went in he was successful and the Lord blessed and that's how the Lord works in our lives by the way he gives to us opportunities now moving into chapter 15 verses 1 through 12 basically give the boundaries of the inheritance of the tribe of Judah but in verse 13 now Caleb the son of Jefune he gave a portion among the children of Judah according to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua namely Kurgath Arba which is Hebron Arba who was the father of Anak Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there Sheshai Ahaman and Talmai the children of Anak then he went up from there to the inhabitants of Dibir the name of Dibir was Kurgath Montclair Kurgath Sefer and Caleb said he who attacks Kurgath Sefer and takes it to him I will give Dolores my daughter as wife so Othniel the son of Canaz the brother of Caleb took it and he gave him Aqsa his daughter as wife so when she came to him that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field so she dismounted from her donkey and Caleb said to her would you wish she answered give me a blessing since you have given me land in the south give me also springs of water so he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs and so basically what you have here is you have distribution of some property again just a couple of things this place Kurgath Sefer is literally the city of books it may have been a learning center it could have been a place where records were kept and some believe that it was a university city but what I wanted to point out very briefly is Othniel, Othniel takes the city and he also wins a bride you will later see Othniel though in the book of judges in chapter 3 verses 9 through 11 because Othniel later on becomes one of the judges of Israel now the daughter wisely asked for a water supply because it was so dry there but this gives to us some more insight now just touch this briefly into the kind of courage that Othniel had this is an individual who had tremendous courage and was willing to do something that he might gain this beautiful young woman as his bride now chapters 16 through 20 continue giving the boundaries of the land per tribe and the cities allotted to the Levites but in chapter 18 I'm just going to mention this briefly we're going to deal with this in a little while but in chapter 18 verse 1 it speaks of Shiloh it says the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh and set up the tabernacle of meeting there and the land was subdued before them just keep that in your mind for a moment we'll see this in a few minutes here Shiloh Shiloh was a center of worship it's around 20 miles to the west of the city of Jerusalem and this city is going to come into play in later chapters now as we continue as I mentioned in chapter 16 through 20 basically give the boundaries of the land and all of that but we get to chapter 20 and I want to point something out and this is something that has some spiritual significance so I want to spend a moment looking at this chapter 20 beginning at verse 1 the Lord also spoke to Joshua saying speak to the children of Israel saying a point for yourself cities of refuge of which I spoke to you through Moses that the slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood and when he flees to one of those cities and stands at the entrance of the gate of the city and declares this case in the hearing of the elders of that city they shall take him into the city as one of them and give him a place they may dwell among them then if the avenger of blood pursues him they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand because he struck his neighbor unintentionally but did not hate him beforehand he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days then the slayer may return and come to his own city and his own house to the city from which he fled so they appointed Kadesh and Galilee in the mountains of Naftali check him in the mountains of Ephraim Gurdjath Arba which is Hebron in the mountains of Judah and on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho eastward the assigned in the wilderness on the plane from the tribe of Reuben Ramat and Gilead from the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh these were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who so adjourned among them that whoever killed any person accidentally might flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation these are called cities of refuge cities of refuge they're called sanctuary cities they were established to protect against retaliation or what are called vengeance killings when you look in the Old Testament the Old Testament differentiates between manslaughter and murder premeditated murder required capital punishment but manslaughter would be treated differently now the cities of refuge actually provide a spiritual lesson for us because these people who would flee to the city of refuge did so because they did not intend to it wasn't something that they necessarily chose to do they didn't intend to harm someone to the point of their death as a matter of fact one of the examples is used concerning this would be if a man was with his companion in a forest and he was cutting down a tree with an axe and the axe head flies off the handle and strikes his companion and the companion dies due to the wound well that was an accidental death but the brother may be thinking well they didn't get along very well and I believe it was intentional so the individual who was guilty of the accidental manslaughter would have been put to death by the it's called the Avenger of Blood but he had to have a place to flee that's why God gave them it's found in Numbers 35 that's why God gave them 6 cities of refuge because that was for the person to flee to so that they were not put to death because of their unintentional killing now when you look at this and you begin to apply some of that to New Testament principles it's interesting how it works because the whole world is guilty before God according to the New Testament for the death of Jesus Christ the whole world even those who have not even considered what it means for the death of Jesus Christ would still stand guilty before God for that how do we know that well Paul said that in 1 Corinthians 2 verses 6 through 8 listen to what he said he said yet when I am among mature believers I do speak with words of wisdom but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world who are soon forgotten no the wisdom we speak we speak of is the mystery of God his plan that was previously hidden even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began listen but the rulers of this world have not understood it if they had not have crucified our glorious Lord the world stands guilty of the crime of manslaughter even if it was unintentional Jesus still died on their behalf so to escape vengeance meaning God's judgment we are permitted to seek a place of refuge Hebrews 6 18 speaks of us who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope that is set before us so this speaks of those who being aware of their own guilt before God have fled have fled for refuge Jesus being our city of refuge and so all who find refuge in Jesus Christ are saved from the judgment of a holy God and so these cities of refuge actually have a a picture of our fleeing to be safe because one is going to judge us for the death of somebody we are going to we would stand before God guilty even though we didn't even understand it because Jesus died for all of us but God has given us a place of refuge in him and so we seek refuge for Jesus and we seek refuge in him which saves us from the judgment of God so the cities of refuge not only were very practical but they had a spiritual kind of lesson for us to learn from them now moving on I'm going to give you a couple things and then we're going to look at chapter 22 chapter 21 give cities a sign to Levites now the Levites were scattered so they could minister to the people and so that's what this particular chapter deals with now according to let's see chapter 21 verse 43 the Lord gave to Israel all the land of which he had sworn to give to their fathers and they took possession of it and dwelt in it the Lord gave them rest all around according to all that he had sworn to their fathers not a man of their enemies stood against him the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand verse 45 not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel all came to pass now that's something to look at for a moment this sums up God's fulfillment of his promise they possessed the land of Canaan there are still areas to be taken but they possessed that land this sums up God's fulfillment of his promise Genesis 12 7 said the Lord appeared to Abraham said to your descendants I'll give this land there he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him and so after so many years and so many battles God gave them rest verse 12 10 and 11 it says when you cross over the Jordan to dwell in the land which Lord your God is giving you to inherit and it gives you rest from all your enemies round about so that you dwell in safety then there will be a place where the Lord your God chooses to make his name abide there you shall bring all that I command you your burnt offerings, your sacrifices your ties, the heave offerings of your hand and all your choice offerings which you vowed to the Lord so God has given them rest and they will remain but they don't pose an immediate threat they're still there but they have rest but they don't have a permanent rest because the only permanent rest one ever has is through Jesus Christ when he says not a word failed of any good thing here's something for you and I wish I could make this as clear as possible and I don't know if I can not a word failed of any good thing but the promise of Israel came to pass I marked that in my scriptures I have that in yellow pen when our church first began we are going through a variety of things I won't give you a full story but it is story time we're going through a variety of things and I I was very discouraged I remembered the discouragement very well and I was driving home for property, things weren't happening the way that I had hoped they would. And I began to feel that perhaps maybe I'm just not doing the job properly. Maybe the Lord isn't going to come through the way that I've trusted that He would. Maybe I bit off more than I could chew. Maybe I wasn't cut out for this. And then I was driving home. And I remember this so well. Because as I was driving home, there was such an impression in my heart that I know is the Lord. And He said something to me in my heart within myself that I heard that I've never forgotten. And this is what the Lord spoke to my heart. He said, I did not raise you up to let you fall. I did not raise you up to let you fall. Because I was saying, Lord, look at all that that needs to be done. We don't have a place to meet. We don't have so many things. There's so many things that are lacking, so many things. And it just isn't falling into place. And the Lord said to me, I did not raise you up to let you fall. I believe that with all of my heart. I believe that when God begins a work, He continues it until He completes it. I believe that God's Word is true and His promises are for sure. And when He makes a promise, you can take it to the bank that God will not turn back on what He has said. And I have a strong confidence in that, not simply because one day I heard in my heart, but the Word of God says it. Numbers 2319, God is not a man that He should lie nor a son of man that He should repent. Has He said and will He not do? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good? 1 Thessalonians 524, He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it. 1 Peter 125, the Word of the Lord endures forever. This is the Word which by the gospel was preached to you. God's Word is a sure Word. His Word does not fail. If God said, you're going to make it to the end, you're going to make it to the end. God will be with you. He'll never leave you. He won't forsake you. He'll lift you up. He's going to work through you. If God has stated, and His Word says He has, that He will be with you, He will be with you. And, you know, for me, that was, I needed to hear. And that is something that has motivated my walk with the Lord in ministry here in this church for around 30 years. That one memory that God said, I did not raise you up to let you fail.  He wants us to succeed at what He has called us to do. He doesn't want me to succeed in that which He's not in. He's not going to bless a mess. But what He will do is if He puts it in your heart to do something, He will make sure that it is done. And what happens is you will be put in a position where you know it's God who is doing that. So you don't take any of His glory. God has a tendency of delighting to build on the foundation of human impossibility. He loves to get the credit for the work that is done. And all He's looking for is somebody who is willing to say, you get all the glory when we desire to get the attention, when we desire to be known, when we desire for all of those things that really belong to Him. Well, the Lord said, I am the Lord. That is my name. And my praise will not give to graven images. My glory I'll give to no one else. So God has made it very clear that His word doesn't fail. God wants to do a work through you. And I'm telling you, not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel. And if that is true with the house of Israel, that is true for God's children today. God wants to do a work in you. Don't be afraid to let Him do it. Don't be afraid to just yield and say, God, what is it that you want to do? When I got saved, what was part of the fear that I had was to stand up in front of people. And when Arthur Blessed said, if you need the Lord, stand up, I prayed and said, God, I'm shy. I can't do that. There were 4,000 kids in this auditorium. I can't stand in front of people. I'm embarrassed. I can't. But if somebody would stand with me, I would. And that's what my friend George said. Well, after actually Arthur Blessed said, if you're afraid to stand, then perhaps if someone asked you to stand, would you stand with them? And that's when George tapped me on the shoulder and said, if you want to stand, I'll stand with you. And so from a young man who was afraid to stand in front of people, God made that my life for the last 40 plus years to stand up and speak in His name. Because when He says you can do it, you can do it. When He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you, it's a promise you can take to the bank. He will be with you.  And God will give you things to say. All you need to do is trust Him. His word is true. And there are some in this room right now that are running from what God has told you to do.  You will step back to give Him praise and say, God, you are too much. Look how good you are. Look how good you have been. And so God's word doesn't fail. Trust Him and watch what He'll do. In one of these days, David Rosales will not come to this pulpit. I will have passed into glory to be with the Lord or you'll have driven me out of the church and I'll find some other place to go. But there's somebody perhaps in our children's ministry being raised right now who may one day come and stand in this pulpit here to take this church on until Jesus comes. That's what I'm praying for. That we may be right now ministering to some little boy who's just kind of messing around perhaps in whatever grade he's in. Just messing around but God's going to grab ahold of him and one day that little guy's going to be introduced as the pastor of Calvary Chapel, Chino Valley. And I'm looking forward to that day. May he have the faith to step in the way this pastor had the faith to step in to see God move. God will move. God will move. We need to understand that. Moving on and now I'm going to give you chapter 22. You see, you do believe in miracles, don't you? I know you do. In chapter 22 beginning at verse one, Joshua called the Rubinites. As I've mentioned, that was the one Hispanic tribe in Israel. Rubinites, the Gaddites and half the tribe of Manasseh and said to them, you have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you and have obeyed my voice and all that I commanded you. You have not left your brethren these many days up to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God. And now the Lord your God is given, given rest to your brethren as he promised them. Now therefore return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan. But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. So Joshua blessed them and sent them away and they went to their tents. Now to half the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half of it, Joshua gave a possession among their brethren on this side of the Jordan westward. And indeed when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them and spoke to them saying return with much riches to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. So the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh returned and departed from the children of Israel at Shiloh, which is in land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they possessed according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. Now you have the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh. In Numbers 32 these tribes had requested Moses to remain on the east side of the Jordan. The requirement was for them to fight alongside of the other tribes until the land was completely taken and at that point they would be free to return to their families. Now that command was repeated in Joshua chapter 1 verses 12 through 18, but now the promise is fulfilled and they're going to return to their land. As they're about to return I want to point out one thing, verse 5, notice what is said. He's saying, what I am concerned about is that you remain faithful to God. You're about to go to the eastern side of the Jordan. And so I'm going to exhort you because I'm greatly concerned for the unity of the nation of Israel. And so I want to give to you what is going to keep us unified. So I'm giving you commands, I'm repeating things you've already heard and I'm telling you, I'm commanding you in the name of God, to love God, to love God with everything within you. And if you love God I'm also telling you to walk in His ways. And as you walk in His ways I command you keep His commandments, hold fast to Him and serve Him. These are the things that are required of you so that God will dwell in your midst, to love God with everything, to live the life before people by walking in His ways, but making sure that His commandments are things that you don't look at as just suggestions, but are actual commands from God and cling tightly to Him as you serve Him. You see the battles are over and now you're going to enter into a time of rest and you're going to now enter into prosperity. And it's in the times of rest and prosperity that you have the most danger. Because when you're always aware that the enemy may be upon you, you're on the alert. But when you take your leisure, when you begin to relax, is when he has a tendency of coming against you. It's like what it says in Ecclesiastes 7-3, sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. When we're going through happy times, we're not developing depth. When we go through trying times, our faith is refined. And sometimes some of you may say, when Lord, are you going to allow me to discover the times of joy? Those times of joy are seasons that do come, but much of our life is a refining process so that we can endure the things that we go through and actually discover the joy that comes through God working in our life through those seasons. So many times we want to have just jolly times all the time, happy all the time, but the fact is, the deeper you are, well, it's because you went through deeper things. Because the deeper things you go through, you become deeper in your faith and you trust the Lord in a deeper way.    And so he says, I want you to hold fast to what God has said. Well, in verse 10, when they came to the region of the Jordan, which is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, children of Gad, half tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great impressive altar. Now the children of Israel heard someone say, behold, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the frontier of the land of Canaan in the region of the Jordan on the side occupied by the children of Israel. When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go to war against them. What are you so uptight about? Why are you so mad? You see, what they did is they were about to cross over the Jordan, they're crossing east to go to where their land was, and they decided to build an altar. They did it with a pure heart, but it didn't set well with the rest of the tribes. And so they got ready for war. Verse 13, the children of Israel sent Phineas, the son of Eleazar, the priest to the children of Reuben, children of Gad, half tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead, and with him 10 rulers, one ruler each from the chief house of every tribe of Israel, and each one was the head of the house of his father among the divisions in Israel. Then they came to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, the tribe of Manasseh, the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them saying, thus says the whole congregation of the Lord. What treachery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following the Lord, and that you have built for yourselves an altar that you might rebel this day against the Lord? Is the iniquity of pair not enough for us, from which we were not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord, but that you must turn away this day from following the Lord? And it shall be if you rebel today against the Lord that tomorrow he'll be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. Nevertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over the land of the possession of the Lord, where the Lord's tabernacle stands, and take possession among us. But do not rebel against the Lord, nor rebel against us by building yourselves an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God. He did not ache in the Son of Zarah, commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel, and that man did not perish alone in his iniquity. So they're very, very upset. They thought they were building a competing altar in which they were going to offer blood sacrifice, and that act would bring division into the nation of Israel. You see, if that was an altar to offer sacrifice to Baal, it would even be worse because it would bring judgment from the Lord. They remind them of what had happened when Baalem had caused Israel to sin. Baalem had seduced, had actually given counsel to have the children of Israel seduced into following the gods of the Moabites. And when they married the women of Moab, they were introduced into spiritual adultery. Numbers 25, 1 and 2 says, Israel remained in acacia grove, and the people began to commit harlotry with the women of Moab. They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods. When that took place, a man by the name of Phineas was used to stop a plague that was destroying Israel. Numbers 25, 9 says, those who died in the plague were 24,000. They didn't want to repeat this. They greatly feared God's wrath, and because this had happened before, they said, we don't want this to happen again. There's no way that we're going to allow this to take place. And also, they hadn't forgotten, even as it says in verse 20, about Achan, and how he had taken the forbidden garments in silver and gold and all, and they said, we're not about to allow this to take place because God's wrath is going to fall upon us. And one of the things that we'll note very briefly, and then move on and conclude, is in verse 20, how it says, that man did not perish alone in his iniquity. And I mentioned to you then, as I remind you now, that when somebody fails, they don't fail alone. When Achan fell, his family was judged with him, and others were. My sin affects other people, and Israel was going to be affected because they thought that these tribes were actually building a competing altar. But now, verse 21, the children of Reuben, Gad, half the tribe of NASA, answered and said to the heads of the divisions of Israel, the Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knows, and let Israel itself know, if it is in rebellion or in treachery against the Lord, do not save us this day. If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer on it, burn offerings or grain offerings, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the Lord himself require an account. But in fact, we have done it for fear, for a reason saying, in time to come, your descendants may speak to our descendants saying, what have you to do with the Lord God of Israel? For the Lord has made Jordan a border between you and us, you children of Reuben and children of Gad, you have no part in the Lord. So your descendants would make our descendants cease fearing the Lord. Therefore, we said, let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generation after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, with our peace offerings, that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, you have no part in the Lord. Therefore, we said that it will be when they say this to us or our generation in time to come, that we may say, here's the replica of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, as a witness between you and us. Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn from following the Lord this day to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the Lord our God, which is before his tabernacle. So they said, no, we're united with Israel, we don't want to be outsiders, our intention is to keep the unity, not destroy it. We're concerned that the Jews on the West will not regard our children, our descendants, and that's all. Well, when Phineas, the priest, the rulers of the congregation, the heads, the divisions of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, children of Gad, children of Anasas, spoke it, pleased him. Phineas, the son of Eliezer, the priest said to the children of Reuben, children of Gad, children of Manasseh, this day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord. Now you've delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. Phineas, the son of Eliezer, the priest, the rulers returned from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought back word to them. So the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God. They spoke no more of going against them in battle to destroy the land where the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. The children of Reuben, children of Gad, called the altar witness, for it's a witness between us that the Lord is God. They had jumped into a hasty conclusion. They called into question their motives. We'll close with a couple of thoughts. One, on one hand, truth is to be held fast to, it's never to be compromised, and that's what was motivating them. They were concerned. But on the other hand, we have to be careful not to think that we're the only ones who have all of it at any given time. You see, they built an altar and their explanation was accepted. But there has to be one more thing considered. Though they built an altar, their hearts never truly settled in the land of promise. Their families did not cross over, and over time the Jordan actually did become their border. And ultimately, Gad and NASA, Reuben, those tribes over there, ultimately, their hearts were not as fully committed as they could have been. They never fully crossed over. You guys remember the story of the man of the Gadarenes? The Gadarenes is a territory that is just east of the Jordan River. We've been there many times. And in the Gospels, you see that there were actually two men, the one is pointed out in Scripture normally, but there were two men, and they were demonized. And when Jesus and his men came and settled on that side, they had crossed over the Sea of Galilee, the welcoming committee was a demonized man from the Gadarenes who dwelt in the tombs, who was in torment daily, who cut himself with stones. People would actually put chains on him, but he would break the chains and he terrorized all the occupants in that region. So no one would dare pass that way. Jesus and his men came and this man came rushing out of the tombs and frightened Jesus's men. But as Jesus was there ministering, Jesus spoke to this man of the Gadarenes and he said to him, what is your name? And the answer came Legion, for there were many. And they asked the question of him, are you going to send us now to the Abuso to be tormented and requested, pleaded that Jesus would give them permission to enter into a herd of swine that were there. And so Jesus said go. And the demons fled from the men because Jesus cast them out. They entered into a herd of 2,000 swine and they went rushing off towards the Sea of Galilee, went over a cliff and drowned in that area, which is where we got the term the Bay of Pigs. But anyway, as they did that, I'm just, I'll wait for you. Okay. And they drowned. The question has to be asked, what were pigs doing amongst Jews? There are conservative scholars who will state, well, the Jewish people were not raising the pigs. They would have been Gentiles who raised the pigs. But there are others who are equally schooled who will say, no, this is a reflection of the fact that because the people of Gad, the Gadarenes is in Gad, because the people of Gad had ceased having that loyalty to God, that when they ceased having that kind of loyalty to the Lord by not really fully entering into where God had intended them to go to take possession in the first place, they ended up failing to follow the commands of the Lord and ended up on the wrong side of the Jordan. And so on the one hand they say, we want to build an altar here as a symbol of our unity with the nation of Israel. But on the other hand, though that might have been pleasing to those who heard it, the reality is the further away they were from the promise that God had actually given, which was to take that portion, the other side of the Jordan. Well, later in their history it demonstrates that they didn't remain as fully committed to the commands of God as Joshua was so greatly desirous for the children of Israel to do. Love the Lord, fear him, keep his commandments, cling to him, serve him. Over time was forgotten, and Gad became a place of the Gadarenes. And I do hope that we follow the Lord, serve and hold fast to him because I don't want my life to go in that direction.


I'm Erin Silva. I'm an assistant professor in the UW-Madison Plant Pathology Department in the state's Extension Specialist in Organic Agriculture. Behind me is a field of cow peas, and cow peas are a legume that can be used as a cover crop that grow well in the heat of the summer and in drier conditions. So we're interested in this cover crop as a crop that could be grown after a spring vegetable crop, so planted around June, July in that window after the harvest of a spring vegetable crop, or a cover crop that could be planted after a cereal grain harvest. So after an oat harvest, a winter wheat harvest, a farmer could come in in the late part of July, the early part of August, plant this cover crop, get good growth and some nitrogen fixation and then either have that killed when the colder temperatures come in the fall or incorporate that before planting another crop that might overwinter after the cover crop incorporation. We've had good luck with this crop in Wisconsin. It indeed does thrive in the heat of the summer. We've planted it both in June as well as the end of July and had good growth, good biomass production as well as good nodulation. So I definitely see an opportunity to use this cover crop in the Wisconsin Organic Rotations and thanks, Sarah, for funding this study to allow us to evaluate these different cover crop cow pea varieties for use in Wisconsin's organic agricultural systems.