I'm Keith Ghostland. I'm Ann Charles. And I'm Linda Quinlan. And welcome to all things LGBTQ. It is Tuesday, July 25th. And we are taping at Orca Media in Malpelia, which we acknowledge is unceded indigenous land. So the trivia, July is Mental Health Awareness Month. And as we were talking before we started taping, we know that homosexuality was removed as a psychiatric disorder in 1973. What about transgender? Stay tuned. I have a question about that. Was it ever on the list of? Hold on to that thought. All right. Because it may not have been how it was defined, but what was the meaning? Okay, now go ahead. We're feeling chatty today. Oh, we're in trouble. Okay, so we're going to start with Rainbow Umbrella. You still have the book Discussion Group. And the book you are reading is? In Thrall by Jane DeLynn. All right, Women's Discussion Group. September 13th is when we're going to reconvene. All right, because I was going to ask if there was an update on track. Okay, so unfortunately, words in the woods. When one of our favorite Wicked Women was going to read their poetry had to be delayed because of flooding. Flooding. I knew you didn't want to be in the woods alone, but I didn't realize the extent to which you would. So that is... You're going to do that. Exactly, but that is being rescheduled. Yes, it is a rule and everybody know if that happens. And I also noticed that the Humanities Council filmed you reading some of your poetry and that's going to be available on their website. Correct. Okay, but you are also involved in a project called Poetry for Perseverance. Yes. And unfortunately, the last live reading is going to be before this show tapes, but this was a fundraiser for another way in Rainbow Bridge Community Center. Correct. And Robin Joy was really the person who got this going. I'm reading, but she was basically the person who... The driving force. Yeah, the driving force for this. So, and I will give Zach the poster they can put up because I believe there's a contact where people could still make a donation to those. And I'm going to say that we all have been seeing the incredible outpouring in 1800 people one day showing up to volunteer in downtown, but Barry has had a slightly different experience, but Rainbow Bridge Community Center, they stepped up. They looked at what was being done that was needed and they took the lead in coordinating volunteers. How do we get volunteers? How do we use them effectively? What is the real need? Good going, Sean. Yeah. And I have to say, I drove through Barry and I drove through Barry, everything was off the street and here it was still piled high, so I don't know. Well, I think it was impacted in Barry in different places and we just may not be really seeing because it was out in the residential districts versus the middle of downtown. Right. So, and I'm, you know, the attorney general is already putting out, please be careful of scams. We all want to help. If we cannot physically do things, we want to give a financial donation, please be sure that you know where your donation is going. A lot of scams going on. There's an authentic site. And if somebody says they're from FEMA, make them show you your ID and going along the lines of recovery and how we can be helpful. I want to put out there again that the Samara Foundation until August 31st, they had already done this. They want to grant projects and organizations from within the LGBTQ plus communities. If you have a project that you've always wanted to do, but funding was an issue, August 31st. And if you go on to the Vermont Community Foundation site, you get a direct link into the grant application itself. And with that, I want to do that. Yeah, I'm afraid of what you're gonna come up with. I know. Well, time for me. Absolutely. All right. I have many headlines. The first involves the world involving world cycling. Once again, banning transgender women from female cycling events. This occurred in Switzerland, female transgender athletes who transitioned after male puberty will no longer be able to compete in women's races, world cycling governing body said Friday. The International Cycling Union joined the governing bodies in track and field and swimming as top tier Olympic sports addressing, in this way, the issue of transgender athletes and fairness in women's events. An American writer, Austin Phillips, became the first openly transgender woman to win an official cycling event in May. A backlash occurred. So from now on, female transgender athletes who've transitioned after male puberty will be prohibited from participating in female sports in all categories in various disciplines. The ban starting on Monday was necessary, they said, to ensure equal opportunities. Phillips is 27 years old and she adhered to the policy put in place by the UCI, the International Cycling Union, last year according to which transgender athletes need to have a special testosterone level and so forth. Despite the ban, the UCI would like to reaffirm that cycling is a competitive sport, leisure activity or means of transport and is open to everyone. Its men's category will be renamed men open at the International Masters events which are below the elite level for riders aged at least 30, adding that any athlete who does not meet the conditions for participation in women's events will be admitted without restriction. This follows the British Cycling policy and that they approved in May that include plans to split competitive races to open and female categories. The female category has to stay with cisgender women and transgender men yet to begin hormone therapy. The decision closed another competitive route to the Paris 2024 Olympics for Transgender Athletes. So, I'd like to continue. Where are we going now? We're gonna go to Jamaica. I have a bad feeling. I know, not knowing for it's so warm and fuzzy attitude toward LGBTQ folks. The US State Department is unhappy with their refusal to accredit the spouse of a gay diplomat and it's a normal procedure. A diplomat is sent to a country and the spouse gets all the benefits. But Jamaica, the subtle message here, Jamaica doesn't want to do it. And so what they've asked is to keep the three diplomats that they already have who have served for five years so it's time for them to go. So they've requested an extension because they don't want to give benefits to the same sex spouse of the diplomat who has been appointed. So the US is unhappy with that and we'll see how it plays out. I am suspicious of it all. More bad news from Africa. Ghana High Court tosses challenge to draconian anti-gay bill. The Supreme Court of Ghana unanimously tossed an application to haunt further progress on the country's anti-LGBTQ legislation currently under negotiation in the parliament. It would ban most LGBTQ activities, relationships and advocacy, including marriage equality and gender affirming care for trans people. Vice President Kamala Harris expressed her opposition to the legislation when she visited the country in March and we talked about that visit and hoped that she would advocate for us. Under the bill which was first introduced in 2021, advocates of the LGBTQ community would face up to a decade in prison. Public displays of same sex affection or cross-dressing could lead to a fine or jail time and certain types of medical support would be made illegal. The legislation would make it illegal for news outlets to distribute LGBTQ affirming content, require citizens to report suspected LGBTQ plus neighbors, force intersex people into surgery and LGBTQ plus people into conversion therapy and ban marriage equality for folks who have had gender confirmation surgery. And you know how that works, right?  You turn them in. Yeah. I was gonna say, are we sure this is in Tennessee or Florida? Is it Uganda? Yeah. Or Hungary. We'll move on to Hungary. Oh, I'm afraid. But let's first go to Asia where I have some good news. And I have a picture now of a Japanese activist who is celebrating the Supreme Court's issuing of a landmark trans rights ruling. So Japan, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled the government cannot restrict a transgender woman employee from using the women's restroom in her government job. Very good. Yeah. This person started the job and worked, edit and then transitioned. And then when the person transitioned, they were sent to another department and the other employees complained and said they didn't wanna use the same restroom. So the transgender person had to go up or down two flights of stairs to use the restroom. So the Supreme Court said, this is discrimination.  This is actually the plaintiff's lawyer said that the significance of that should not be reduced to the use of toilets and public baths. The pilot in this case, I'm sorry, the plaintiff was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 1999 before they got a job at Japan's Ministry of Economy. One year after she started presenting at a woman, as a woman, she was transferred to a different post. She hasn't undergone gender-affirming surgery, a prerequisite for officially changing one's gender in the country for medical reasons. The ministry in the first, when she was transferred to this new job, I just told you all that, the plaintiff was forced to go two floors up or down. The employee asked the government to remove the restriction in 2013. This is the kind of run around she's been getting. But was rejected out of concern for the potential discomfort of fellow employees. She filed suit in 2015 and the Tokyo District Court ruled in her favor in 2019. But that decision was overturned by the Tokyo High Court in 2021. So today's ruling from the Supreme Court reverses that decision. At some point, the two of you are gonna have to explain to me what happens in a women's designated bathroom that raises this kind of concern. It's like, what are y'all doing in there? Well, I'll tell you what's going on in Indonesia. Gossiping. Gossiping. After security threats, Indonesia has scrapped an LGBTQ event and it was a big deal, but it was the Southeast Asian LGBTQ event. And we need to recall at this point that homosexuality is a taboo subject in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim majority nation, even though it's not illegal, except in the Sharia ruled Ache province, which I remember reporting on a cane in there. Other LGBTQ related events have also been canceled in Indonesia due to objections from Islamic groups. In December, the United States called off a visit by its LGBT special envoy after an influential clerical body denounced the visit. Jakarta was set to host the ASEAN Queer Advocacy Week from July 17th, bringing together activists from across Southeast Asia to discuss advocacy and navigating challenges. I was jointly organized by a Philippines-based right, Caucus, an Indonesia-based group and other activists, but the Philippine Caucus said they have now moved the event outside of Indonesia to ensure the safety and security of both the participants and the organizers. They decided to relocate the venue of the program outside of Indonesia after they got a lot of threats. It also cited a wave of anti-LGBTQ sentiments on social media. The organizers didn't say where it's gonna be now because they're afraid of security reasons. For security. But they're still gonna have them? Yeah, but the event has also drawn attention as Indonesia hosts a regional meeting of the Southeast Asian Foreign Ministers this week, raising questions from some anti-LGBT groups on whether the event was linked to this festival that was canceled. Indonesia's foreign ministry said the event had nothing to do with the regional bloc. The LGBT event was condemned online in bi-Islamic groups. Now. Now we have to move on now. Oh, Linda. Yeah, sorry. I have got a huge story. Well, you'll have to wait till the next time. I can see it. Yeah, that's two articles and a clip. Well, you'll have to wait till the next time around. All right. You should hope I'm brief. Yeah. Well, Jonathan D. Lewis, and I have a picture of him, an activist and philanthropist for LGBTQ causes, died July 5th at his home in Florida after a long battle with lymphomia. He was 64. Lewis served on the board of the American Foundation of Equal Rights, which brought together attorneys 10 Olson and David Boyes to fight California's Prop 8. A voter-approved constitutional amendment that revoked marriage equality in the state. Prop 8 ended up being struck down in federal court, a decision affirmed by the US Supreme Court in 2013. So. And an Idaho family with transgender children are seeking to stop the state's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, which threatens healthcare providers with felony charges and prison from going into effect. The families had already sued to challenge the ban, but Friday they filed a motion asking a federal court to issue a preliminary injunction to keep it from going into effect while the case is being heard. How do you think that'll go? Idaho, yeah. Yeah. Well, many are questioning sexual identity of Ken in the new Barbie movie. There's one study, a studly disco-error male doll, whose sexual identity has never been in doubt.  The Gay Bob doll came out of the closet in 1977, much to the displeasure of the right wing culture warriors of the time, not just because Bob was out and proud, but also he came with a penis. The National History Museum detailed the history of Gay Bob and his girthy plastic male dollhood in a blog post and an actual Gay Bob doll is featured in the Gay is Good collection at the Museum of the City of New York. Well, well, well. I actually remember it because it was one of the first commercially produced dolls that were anatomically correct or complete. Are you gonna see the movie? I hope so. We'll talk at dinner. Far right media personality Steven Crowder who has falsely accused teachers of grooming children has been accused of sexual misconduct in the workplace and some of his employees say he is an actual gromer. According to text messages reviewed in this by the outlet Crowder sent photos of his genitals to coworkers, he would also allegedly expose his genitals to employees in person so frequently that most of them either laughed uncomfortably or showed outright disgust as a way to give him the attention he sought to as a way to get him to stop. That's creepy. I wonder if he shared them with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Yeah. She was showing pictures. Yeah, I know. Employees at the gay hookup app Grindr announced Thursday that they had launched a union. They also did so in part. They say due to the company CEO George Erisons prior backing of anti LGBTQ politicians in a press release through the labor union communication workshops of America the employees said that a super majority of workers at the company had announced the creation of Grindr United with CWA approximately 100 L's of members of the union signed representation cards at Grindr. So that's good news for them, don't you think? Yes. Unions are usually good. The leading organizers of Montana's largest LGBTQ plus pride parade in Helena have joined a lawsuit challenging the state's drag performance ban. And some right-wingers are losing it over the new inclusive Barbie movie. We're back to Barbie. She just can't let go of it. Criticizing its expansive view of gender and even calling it communist propaganda. Well, it is pink. The Greta Gerwig directed film which opens Friday depicts a land in which various Barbies and Ken's have an idealic life. But one of them played by Margot Robbie decides to see what the outside world is like. And she's in for some surprises. Another one of Barbies is played by transgender actress Harry Neff. And there's also somewhere in here pictures of Ted Cruz Barbie. I'm not going there. And I have a picture of Ted Cruz Barbie. That can't be pretty. So you're gonna show it to us? Yes, it's good. I have a picture right there of Ted Cruz Barbie. So this is another kind of disturbing story but rainbow pride flights might soon be banned at Stonewall National Monument by Republicans in the House of Representative as they continue their cut to target LGBTQ funding during an appropriations process. Republicans had early proposed additional cuts to LGBTQ programs and services in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania which you talked about. But now they are trying to put a rider that would prevent the pride flight from being flown at US National Park Service sites like the Stonewall National Museum that sits near the Stonewall Inn where the 1969 riots began. I have faith in the New York representatives. They won't put up with it. No, I hope not. In what lawmakers have called an unprecedented move, House Republicans introduced and moved a last minute amendment stripping three community projects of funding which you talked about. No, I will be talking about. Oh, okay, so I will leave that to you. All right, that was Massachusetts. Right. Okay, in response to public condemnation for his anti-LGBT Facebook status, a North Carolina school board member has defended his actions on religious and constitutional grounds. Randy Moore said he loves people in the LGBT community as a Christian. In response to the Mount Airy Board of Education's decision last week to censor him, censure him. Though he did have one caveat, but not their doings, more stated referring to homosexual behavior. While he claimed he was supported by the Bible according to him, his Facebook posting either this month expressing his love for members of the LGBT community despite their doings was not personal. No.  Jonathan Blake Newton revealed the details of the incident, including shocking photos of his injuries and the treatment he received at the local hospital in multiple posts on Facebook. Blake Newton said he was heading to the store in his motorized wheelchair on Saturday after his food stamp account had loaded. Less than two blocks from his home in an unknown assailant in a small beige four-door car opened fire on him, hitting his legs, arms and side.  It's horrible. And continue on the horrible theme. Our city of Montpellier, in the middle of floods, people are reporting that they had their pride flags, Black Lives Matter posters stolen. And there was one account where the person said I could see them out the window. I thought it was a friend coming to help me and they tore down my flag. And sort of following up with that, there was a report that was- Did they have surveillance cameras there? Well, no, it was a private home. I was a private home. Do you have a surveillance camera in your apartment? I'd like to. Maybe, but who knows? Sort of following up on that, there was a report recently put out by GLAD, not the attorneys in Boston, but the national group that looks at how we are represented in the media. They in the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement that during this year's Pride season, the incidence of anti-LGBTQ plus activity more than tripled. And that the majority, a 67% increase, were incidents that were classified as harassment. And, you know, taking the flag down, that's vandalism, but I was thinking of Toussaint and the poetry reading in Lindenville that would have been considered harassment, but if we don't report them, and I understand that the police are busy responding to flood relating and helping with cleanup, whatever, if it's not reported, it doesn't get counted. And this is though it never occurred. So even if it's just, I want to let you know this happened, that gets logged. And then it goes into the national database and there's a record of the level of violence that's occurring. But on a positive note. Oh, good. Yeah, I know it's like, there's got, I think we have to go through and make sure we have at least one positive story per segment. Yes, at least one. For my Human Rights Commission. Uh-huh. They've appointed a new executive director. And it is, and I am being very straightforward, Big Hartman, who is one of their staff attorneys. Big is the first openly queer, non-binary person to be the commission's executive director. And their board chair, which is Coach Christie, who we really like, said, you know, this is someone who understands, from a day to day perspective, the plight of our protected classes. And prior to being an staff attorney at the Human Rights Commission, they were a student at the Vermont Law School. So they really know Vermont. They worked for a private law firm in Stowe, and then they worked for the Vermont State Employees Association. Uh-huh. And this was the statement from Big Hartman. I have certainly always felt that there were big injustices in the world that needed to be addressed. I knew it from a very young age, and it's a driving force of everything I do in my life. Their priority as the new director is revamping the agency's website, thank you, as well as offering training opportunities to prevent discrimination in areas such as fair housing laws, unconscious bias, and workplace harassment. Welcome and good luck. Yes. So, what you were referring to, Linda, Massachusetts, they have their house committee on transportation, housing, and urban development, and it is apparently Republican dominated. They pulled out the funding for the LGBTQ plus projects, even though they met the criteria for funding, and one of the Congresswoman, Aya Presley, said, wait a minute, this isn't right. And one of the projects that was being stripped of funding was the $2 million for the Pride, which we've reported on, which is the seniors housing project. I want to move in. And this money would be essential and critical for converting the school building into the apartments for our elders. So, how did they get to, in Massachusetts get to run a committee? I wonder. Well, is there any recourse? Well, it has to be voted out of committee, and then it would go to the floor, and the floor could put the monies back in. Good.  New Hampshire did a study. It was the University of New Hampshire, and there were people from UVM that participated in this in connection with the Williams Institute, UCLA, did a study of food insecurity or insufficiently with LGBTQ plus residents, and particularly elders, and guess what? 29% of us face food insecurity. 28% of us have an annual income below $24,000. During the average week, 13% of us did not have enough food to eat. And what they were saying is, as part of the results of their study is, because LGBTQ identification has been removed from a lot of the federal reporting, we don't show up, so nobody knows. And unless somebody is taking the initiative to go out and ask, we're invisible. And part of their conclusion was, one in five transgender New Englanders experience food insecurity every week. Wow.  It stopped me, and I had to go back and read it saying, am I reading this correctly? And remember during COVID, we had conversations about, we're not showing up in any of the COVID statistics, because the federal reporting had removed us as a reporting category. So, lastly, 303 Creative, because we haven't talked about it, the US Supreme Court decision. Talking with the people at GLAAD, because there was some, okay, what do we need to do strategically? And what sort of legislative things do we need to put in place? As much as we immediately sort of held our breath, saying, oh my God, what just happened to us, the Supreme Court gave them the right to discriminate against us, GLAAD said it's not that sort of cut and dry, that the ruling is incredibly narrow, because the 303 Creative, the woman who brought the suit, they created it, they basically fabricated it, but it was based on freedom of expression. What she said as opposed to the masterpiece cake, where you could go onto a website and say, oh, I want this cake, that cake, whatever, her business would involve her meeting individually with you, and then her creating something that represented you and your relationship, so that it is her creative expression that's part of the process, and that's what they ruled on, so that, and again, the masterpiece cake was the example they used, it isn't that you're going in and he's creating something totally unique for you, he has a business open to the public, you walk in and you pick from, it's not individually class created for you using their expression. Got it. No, you were gonna say. How does, I don't know if you're gonna report on this, Linda, but there's a salon in Colorado that's refusing to take LGBTQ customers saying it's her first amendment, right? Well, my guess is that there will be more challenges. People will say, oh, this allows me to. Exactly. And then it's gonna have to go up through those individual court systems. Colorado, their office of attorney general or human rights, whatever is the regulatory, we'll have to look at, okay, what are the merits? Do you meet the standard and make a decision? So we will definitely need to continue watching that. My guess is that anybody who's involved in a business, I could think, a chef, I'm creating a meal for you. I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of suits, but what Glad was saying was that how the Supreme Court had ruled was much narrower than what people were trying to espouse. Well, let's hope that there's follow through with that. I have a big hoo-ha from Asia. And... Is this the clip? It involves a clip, but I also have a clip from Europe. So the incident occurred when Maddie Healy, who is from the lead singer of this group, 1975, which got its name from marginalia he wrote in Jack Kerowax on the Road, one June, 1975. So he goes to Malaysia with 1975, his band. And at the beginning of the second set, he slammed Malaysia's anti-LGBTQ laws, kisses the 1975 bassist on stage in Kuala Lumpur.  And let me show you a clip that represents a variety of perspectives about this incident.   A speech from the 1975's frontman, Maddie Healy in Kuala Lumpur, criticised Malaysia's anti-LGBTQ plus laws. Ridiculous to tell people what they can do with that and that. That and the kiss between the lead singer and bassist Ross McDonald, led to Malaysian authorities banning the band, describing their actions as disrespectful. And people worried that they are becoming more of a target, than because of the food. It was meant as a stand, but the LGBTQ plus community in Malaysia, where homosexuality is a crime, say they weren't consulted. It seems a bit, you know, not honest, performative activism that may actually impact it, negatively towards the community here. It's increasing the pressure and also scrutiny towards the community itself. This also may possibly push whatever work that we have done before this back. Peter Tatchell, protested in Qatar, where homosexuality is also illegal. He supports the singer. I think it was very courageous for someone, like Matt Healy, on stage, to speak out for LGBT plus human rights.  It is a very, very vicious homophobic regime. And some people in Malaysia may criticise him, but I know others who are wholly supportive. All right, we've got to go. We've just got banned from Kuala Lumpur, Brazil. Malaysian authorities cancelled the music festival. The band called off their subsequent performances in Indonesia and in Taiwan, which is largely seen as progressive. People don't really know what's going on in Asia, so probably they assume in Asia every country is like that, but the truth is not. It's important to note that Taiwan is very LGBT-friendly country and they are welcome to here. Critics suggest the band could have protested by not going, but it's undeniable this kiss on a Malaysian stage has now been elevated to a world one and a conversation started once again. Adele Robinson, Sky News. Interesting. Well, he says, I made a mistake when we were booking shows. I wasn't looking into it.  And I have to tell you, I watched this and I thought, if I were 20, would I appreciate this? Because the crowd loved it. Every time he said anything, they applauded and roared. And he wandered back and forth on the stage with a bottle of wine that he took swings from occasionally and said, there was a wielding a bottle of wine. He addressed the audience directly.  And that's not fair on you because you're not representative of your government.  The singer added that 1975 considered dropping out of the show because of Malaysia's anti-gay laws. I pulled the show yesterday and we had a conversation. We said, you know what? We can't let kids down because they're not the government.   I'll take your money. You can ban me. But I've done this before and it doesn't feel good. So then the basis walks out and really they had a very long caress filled kiss I have to add that Matt Healy is straight though, Mattie Healy.  So he says, all right, I gotta go. I just got banned from Kuala Lumpur. I'll see you later. And then they canceled their shows as you heard in the clip in Jakarta and also in Taiwan, which as the speaker in the clip said was kind of blindsided because it was invoking Asian stereotypes because Taiwan is very LGBTQ plus friendly. He has a longtime record of advocating for the LGBTQ community. That's one person's interpretation, including Peter Tatchels, who you saw speaking on the clip.  I don't know what happened to this audience member. After that, he wrote on Twitter, I don't think we'll be allowed back in the UAE because of my behavior, but you know that I love you. I wouldn't have done anything differently given the chance again. So then the Malaysian government halted the festival. There will be no compromise against any party that challenges, disparages, and violates Malaysian laws, the country's communication minister said. The 1975 has also been banned from performing in Malaysia. Homosexuality is a crime in the Muslim majority. Right groups have warned of growing intolerance against lesbian, gay, and bisexual, transgender people. The episode ignited an uproar on Malaysian social media, including among some members of the LGBTQ community who accused Mr. Haley of performative activism, said his action was likely to expose the community to more stigma and discrimination, as the speaker on the clip said. So, that's that. Well, one more thing, a Malaysian drag queen, Carmen Rose, Rose said, Haley's attack on LGBTQ laws was performative and unruly, speaking to the BBC World Services News Hour, Rose said, it is giving white savior complex and he, Maddie Haley, wasn't doing it for our community. He was doing it for our community. If he was doing it for our community, she added, he would know what consequences we would have to go through. Okay, my basic question is, is the ban worth listening to to begin with? Well, it's a pop band, it's British, I can tell you that. It was trying, but you know, I'm older. I don't know if I'm older and wiser. I know about wiser. I'm not going there. All right, we need to move on to your clip now because- Let me go to Europe and this is kind of on the downer side. I have a Swedish, I have a clip of a Swedish film called Nelly and Nadine. Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve 1944 at the Ravensbrook concentration camp. For many years, the relationship was kept a secret. So let's look at a clip from Nelly and Nadine. Well, you know, I've tried several times to read the newspaper of Mamina and I never succeeded. I did. This is part of his life, which is very, very dark and the war, the camp, the... It's Christmas, Ravensbrook 1944. The language has been done, I couldn't do anything. Suddenly, a voice calls in the wood. Chant Moudon de Turfly, de bras me serres, de baiser sur ma joe, ses cheveux noirs, sa peau d'ivoire, ses yeux obliques, Nadine. It never occurred to you that these two ladies might be in love with each other. Elle a été donc transférée de Ravensbrook. C'est cette période de Nadine. Le train s'ébranle, la reverrait jamais. Pour moi, c'était... on allait chez ma grand-mère, elle habitait avec quelqu'un d'autre. Je rêve qu'un jour peut-être tu viendras frapper à ma porte. Elles ont voulu faire une histoire d'amour entre les deux. Nadine, y aurait-il jamais une vie pour nous? Intense. You can watch it on Just Watch, Amazon Prime, Voodoo and Apple TV, and let me just do my headlines. And don't watch it all on? No. And I'm reading a lot of material about the Holocaust in preparation for an interview. Let's look at a picture now on more of an upbeat note of thousands marching in Budapest pride despite Hungary's restrictive laws. So there's a picture of some marchers and the chapter inverse of these restrictive laws is that a bookstore has been fined for selling Heart Stopper. You know, the popular young adult series and there's a novelistic accompaniment and the bookstore owner put it in the regular young adult section instead of wrapping it, shrink wrapping it. So that bookstore owner was fined $3,600. A bad story from Italy. Courtesy of the Prime Minister, Giorgio Maloney. Lesbian mothers are being removed from birth certificates in Italy. Yeah, I did hear that. Yeah, you sent me that clip, in fact. And then finally, I have a picture before you of Castor Semenya who won a measured victory in the European Court of Human Rights. Castor Semenya, as we know, is not transgender. She just has all this testosterone and they've been messing around. And so the Court of Human Rights said this is discrimination, but it's sort of like some of the other issues I've been reporting on. I mean, she's South African, they praised the ruling. Her legal team praised the ruling. But she has to go through appeals before a Swedish court that has turned her down in the past. So she's gotten as modest this gesture from the European Court of Human Rights. Okay, we gotta go. She's done. There you go. Attorney General Bonta is committed to protecting the rights of all people, recognizing that discrimination is no place in our society. Attorney General Bonta is fighting to protect transgender students and adults across the nation and strictly enforcing California's law that prohibits state-funded travel to states that discriminate against LGBTQ communities. That's a good thing. And the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas and Lambda League have filed lawsuits seeking to block statewide directive that transgender rights advocates describe as an attempt to persecute trans children and their families. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday named to stopping the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from enacting Governor Greg Abbott's orders to investigate parents and doctors who provide trans children with gender-affirming care. Did anybody see what he did today? On the buoys? Yeah, on the buoys. What a lovely person. And in a sad story, Greg Bordenbach was walking home in coconut grove in Miami on the evening of July 8th when he was attacked. The popular fight attendant for American Airlines remembers being plummeted to the ground by two men yelling slurs before blacking out.  So, it's happening everywhere. The Montana State Library Commission opted to withdraw from the American Library Association on Tuesday, citing the disapproval of the ALA's new president, who previously described herself as a Marxist lesbian. I'm with her. Upon her election in April, 2022, the ALA president, Emily Jabinski, wrote in a tweet, I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for better world is the president-elect of the ALA Library. The post has since been deleted. I saw her on TV. She's really kind of a powerful person. I thought being a Marxist lesbian was a requirement for being a librarian. What the heck? That was what I always thought. That and a double master's. I'm going to skip more of the Ted Cruz, but that picture of him is really funny. We'll look forward to seeing it. As the Barbie. An arrest has been made in the stabbing murder of an Oregon man who was killed when he defended a co-worker from homophobic abuse. U.S. Mosals arrested Jackson 24 and charged him with the murder of Colin Michael Smith, 32 that took place in Buck, the neighborhood of Portland just before 2 a.m. Smith was enjoying drinks at the high dive bar after work with friends. When Jackson allegedly began hurling anti-LGBTQ slurs at a non-binary friend who was also a co-worker. When Jackson reportedly touched two members of the group inappropriately, Smith stepped to de-escalate the situation in response. Jackson reported stabbing Smith before fleeing the scene. This is like, nevermind. Dr. Sherry A. Pies who blazed the trail for lesbian mothers and became a national leader in women's health died of cancer in Berkeley, California. She was 73. In decades before same-sex marriage was legal, Pies 1985 book Considering Parenthood a workbook for lesbians with a lifeline to countless lesbians who were eager to become mothers but needed the help to navigate the legal and practical issues of adoption, the use of sperm donors, HIV, and other concerns. She was a pioneer and those of us who came later built on her work a psychologist and co-worker of the Lesbian Parenting Book published in 2003. I would recommend her book to clients. That was when lesbian couples were just starting to think about having children. Sherry stated that Conversation Pies has been many years as a clinical professor at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. You have a picture? No. Well, you can find one. I don't know. So I think... We'll find one. We'll find one, yeah. Okay, I think we need to move on to trivia now, don't you? So I can answer all of your questions from when we started. So it wasn't identified as transgender. It was identified as gender identity disorder. And in 2013 when they were compiling and ready to print the new DSM-5 that's when it became gender dysphoria. And the reason for the change is they wanted to take out the identifier disorder because that truly made it seem as though this is a mental illness. This is something that's aberrant. This is something we must change. However, they used the term gender dysphoria because there had to be something that established a set of symptoms that would then qualify the individual to go forward for gender affirmation treatment. So is this listed in medical or in psych... There is the ICD-10 and the DSM-5. The DSM-5 is specifically for psychiatric, emotional, etc. disorders, but all of those diagnoses are included in the ICD-10, which is the medical diagnostic manual. The DSM-5 is about this thick. IDC-10 is this thick because I used to have both over my shoulder in my office. Well, I have a humble opinion. I think dysphoria is also objectionable because it's a medic... it's pathologizing. I'm uncomfortable with the expression dysphoria because it's a medical problem. That's my two cents.  Getting the insurance to cover your expenses they need something to... Something to hang it on. What a system. What a country. On that note, remember to resist.


Okay. Good morning everyone and welcome to class. I'll ask Jesus. I thank you for this day Lord As we've been learned today about receiving your guidance, I pray to the Father God that we would seek and Pursue for your guidance or follow up for our lives and that we would be able to Live a life that is according to your will according to your plan. Oh, Jesus. Thank you for everything and I pray the Father God that we would learn something today and that you will speak to us. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rin. Oh I am able to hear me clearly online students Is there clarity? Is there was some problem last week in our class? Are you able to hear me? Thank you, Surya. Okay, so good to see all of you. Welcome to class Can you see some nice smiles on your faces? Yes, thank you Okay, welcome and We are in lesson 12 Okay of receiving God's guidance Lesson 12 We look at how Us he guides us through his what is the first thing that we looked at? God guides us to his To his Word, okay, then the inner witness of the Holy Spirit Then the voice of the Holy Spirit so it's the Word of God the inner witness of the Holy Spirit the voice of the Holy Spirit Then through the gifts of the Spirit to dreams and visions through prophecies angels Godly counsel, thank you and also To our minds, okay, our mind that is Renewed, okay, so today we're going to look at three more times and seasons and how God orchestrates Situations in our life and then you know, we'll just look at How we can just put all of this what we learned together. So we just look at the last three chapters In this book, okay, so we're going to look look at guide is just through times and seasons and through Equalization of this Okay, so we know that a lot when we studied We said that God works in he has a plan he's a God of order He doesn't work arbitrary doesn't work randomly, but he has a plan and a purpose that he Unfolds in the world and even in our lives. So he's a God of order design plan Purpose, okay, and God actually works in Chronos moments Chronos time or Kyros moments or Kyros time Kronos CHR O NOS Kronos, so he works in Kronos moments of Kronos time on Kronos season Oh, he can and he also works in Kyros time K-A-I-R-O-S. It's a Greek word Kyros means the fullness of time the right time The exact time when God will bring about all what he has planned and Purpose so that two times You know zones that God works in the Kronos and the Kyros, okay, so what is Kronos basically Kronos is chronology, you know chronology, right? How history works in order in time we when we study history we study it from creation down Okay, we studied from right from the beginning Okay, studying the history of of India we look at the first king and then we come down to the other things so chronology Okay, so God works in Kronos time Which means that you know there is a there's a time when God is we are we're talking about Kronos time In the framework of receiving God's guidance for our life. So, you know There's a moment where God will show you or reveal to you What is his plan and purpose for your life?  Okay, so In the fullness of time kairos moment means in the fullness of time in the right time You know God will bring about what he has planned and purpose another example is you know God tells Abraham your descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as a sand on the seashore and he says that for 400 years your The generation will be as slaves in an unknown land But I will deliver them and I will bring them back to this land that I have promised So it took, you know so many years for God to do that But after the completion of 400 years we read in Acts chapter 7, you know, we see that you know God says that you know He raises up Moses at the right time Okay, the kairos moment the fullness of time we read this in Acts chapter 7 was the 17 and was 20 that Moses was born to deliver the people so the 400 years was the And when Moses was born was the kairos time the fullness of time the fullness of time when God is going to bring about What he had planned and he had Purpose so it's very important for us to know which season that we are in Kronos time kairos time which season where what is God doing even the Kronos time? What is he doing? He's revealed his plan to us He's preparing us or he's telling us to execute the plan. What is he asking us to do? So it's very important for us to understand the times and seasons and the Bible tells us in second Chronicles 1st Chronicles chapter 12 was 32 that we have to be like the sons of The sons of Issa card they understood the times and the seasons that the Israel was going through Okay So we also need to be like the sons of Issa card that we need to understand the times and seasons that God is Taking us through. Okay. That is on if you're following. It's on in your books page number 125 I don't know in the PDF copy Anyone following the PDF copy? No, it's okay. Doesn't matter Okay, so we look at page number 126 in your book Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verses 5 and 6 Okay in verse 6 can somebody read that please Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 6. What does it say? Yeah, so in for every matter there is a Time and we need to judge the Time we need to know we need to be wise to know, you know What is the right time and the right way to do things? Okay? So suppose God says I want you to do this. This is your plan and purpose for your life You know, I wanted to be a worship leader.   Now for example, you know, we can do things You know, we can do the right things but in the wrong time Yeah, for it for example, you can finish 10 standard and say okay finish 10 standard. I finished study I want to get married. This is the right time to get married It's a right thing to do. I mean you need to get married in life, but this is the right time to get married why You get a job first Yes, what somebody was saying something here Not the right age to marry are not mature. You don't have a job. You have to take care of your family You can take care of yourself the rent the food your wife all her needs and everything. It's not the right time Okay, so it's sometimes, you know, you can be doing the wrong you can do the right The right things at the wrong time Okay So you need to know when is the right time to do the right things and when is the right time also to do the right things When is the right? When is the time to do the right things in the right order in the right way when is the right season to do the Okay, otherwise we will get into Trouble so even through life, you know, we need to seek God's guidance Sometimes what they do is we just seek God's guidance to know what is his plan and purpose for our life And then we say, okay, thank you God for revealing a plan and purpose for my life You want to become a teacher you want me to become a chef you want to become on me to become a housewife You want me to become a Doctor We need to know what God is season Okay, what is I think to do it time the right season? I am able to follow If you're not able to do the right thing the right season will become Look for what But we also should know Wants us to do what he wants us to do and we also we need to prepare ourselves and Wait for the right time and we launch out to do things now For example, you're praying after your 12th standard and you ask God what he wants you to do God says he wants to become an engineer now the next day you don't go to a Civil engineering firm or you don't go to an electrical engineering Company or software engineering company and say, you know, God told me I have to be an engineer So I'll start working as an engineer. You don't do that. What do you do? You have to join a college you have to study you have to work hard for you You want to do an MS you do an MS after that, but you basically prepare After you get your degree as an engineer, you just don't go and jump into any job, right? You look at the good possibilities, you know You think okay, I need to get myself trained into other things so that I can get a good job So you you even in those areas of your life, you need to find them for God This is the right time for me to get a job. It's the right time for me to do an MS a Master's or a further course What do you want me to stay in India? You want me to go abroad? So, you know every step of the way you need God's guidance. Are you able to understand?  It's the big church Passage and I have to become a pastor here. Okay Passing say, hey, do you have some theological degrees and you preach before do you have any experience and you will say No, so, you know, from the time I got you to do you is it's a You look for a good Bible college where you can study you study to the Bible college And then maybe you know God is saying hey, this is not the right time for you to launch out This is not the kairos season. Okay, you're waiting after Bible college I'm going to become a pastor of a big church. I'm going to become a worship leader.  You're wondering what God is doing He's taking you to another church where you're working under another Pastor or you know senior pastor and you say hey, God has called me to be a senior pastor and looking under the senior pastor What am I doing here? See are you saying God has called me to be a worship leader and I'm worship? You know, I'm assisting to pass the Russian and what what is God doing in my life is did I hear right is Is is God doing things right?  I want you to be trained under another Faster or another missionary so you can learn things So you can see and learn from this man of God or this woman of God And then at the right time and God knows you're prepared You know, you've learned your lessons. You've seen things.  It will become a struggle for you God knows that and so he's actually training you So he'll take you through all these kairos Kronos moments before he brings you into the kairos moment for the fullness of time But what do we need to do? We need to be patient. We need to Understand sometimes in seasons we need to be obedient to what God is asking us to do. Okay So let's look at the life of Jesus a few examples of how Jesus, you know, walked in step and in time with the Father we're on page number 129 Okay page number 129 Um, so we can see how you know in several ways how Jesus paid attention to the father's timing And we need to understand that Jesus was not Um, you know, he was not fully God. He was fully man when he lived on the earth But he was able to discern the times and seasons which means it also shows that you know we can also Follow and understand the times and seasons God is taking us through. Okay. So please look at your books in page number 129 um, you know in john chapter 2 was spoken Sorry when When Jesus's mom, you know comes to him and says Mary says, you know, there's no way Very good. What does Jesus say? My heart has not come so he understood it was not his time to You know to you, you know to do what? Mary's are him too Okay, and in john chapter um, you know Jesus's Brothers are all going up to the Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover feast feast and they tell Jesus Also to come along with him. But what does Jesus say my time has not yet come my time has come to go to Jerusalem. Okay, another example Is when you know when last night was very sick and Mary and Martha sent word They found out that he's very close to their village or their town He sends word to them and what does Jesus say? He stayed there for two more days because he knew it was not the right time him to go and heal Lazarus, he knew that there would be a kairos moment when he has to go You know and when people will be able to see the going of God So he doesn't go right away and heal Lazarus He sees later on the kairos from in the fullness of time the god appointed time he goes And he raises Lazarus from the bed even on going to the cross in john chapter 12 versus 23 at 27 can somebody read this? Yeah, so what does Jesus say in verse 23? He said The son of man should be glorified. So you see he unlook at this is a time Now this kairos moment when I am going to be crucified, you know, I'm going to take on the sins of the whole world He was able to learn the time. Okay, uh john chapter 13 verse 1 can John chapter 13 verse 1 Okay, so he also we see that Jesus knew that his hour has come his hour has come for what? That he should leave this world and go that means he has to be crucified on the cross and do what god has sent him to Or the father has sent him to do to die for the sins of the whole world Okay, then we also see in john chapter 16, you know, uh, Jesus tells his disciples, you know I've told you all of these things, but when the time comes you will remember What I have Okay, you may remember that I told you of them and these things I did not state to you at the beginning Because I was with you so there's some things that Jesus did not reveal to them There are some things he revealed to them because he knew it was the right time for them to Know it and also in john chapter 16 verse 25 Jesus says I speak to you figuratively that means I've spoken to you in parables You know and some things you could understand some things you cannot understand But there would be a time when then, you know, you will not hear things from me in figurative lands through parables But no, you would listen or hear plainly from the father, you know, you will hear exactly correctly Simply what you need to Do okay So Jesus is also talking about the right moment when he revealed things to people when he had to say things he Told them, okay He also know that, you know, Jesus knew the right time for his crucifixion and his Glorification in in john chapter 16 verse 32. We're on page number 130 So if you're following your book, then you won't be sleepy or you won't dream So you can follow me through your in your book page number One we see in john chapter 16. Jesus says indeed the hour is coming. Yes has now come Okay, when you will be scattered each to your own and will leave me alone But he's saying that, you know, the sun has come now when I'm going to be crucified I hope you are going to be me and deserve me, but who's going to be with My father is going to be with me. Okay. I'm across, you know, Jesus knew that time for uh to go, you know, when his uh, he's going You know, the moment has come and he slipped it up his eyes to heaven and he said father The hour has come by your son that your son also may glorify you So through all of this we see that Jesus also knew the time and season And he was knew about the cross time and was operation time, you know, exactly at that time after 30 years He launched out to Ministry he knew when he had to go where he had to go which miracle he had to do, you know We had to remember when he went to the pool of Bethesda There were so many people but he knew exactly which whose time it was to receive their healing. So he He worked himself or he followed the the cross time and the chiropractor. So Jesus was human He was free man and he was able to discern it and how was he able to discern it through the Power of the holy spirit the anointing of the holy spirit the presence and the power of the holy spirit The same way we all But how can we discern the times and seasons you need to pray as God God You know, show me the time and season I am in you've given me what I need to do But what are you trying to do in my life? What do I have to? Okay, so you need to ask God, you know, God, this is the time the season for me to do this This is the correct time and season for me to do that What do you want me to do in this season? Show me guide me. Lead me and we need to wait upon God as he shows we need to be obedient and follow God works in times and seasons the chronos time and the chiro's time and how we need to be like the sons of this car Who knew the times and season that I was going through we also need to be like Jesus who knew the time and season that he was Going through, okay It's very important to don't know the time and season you can mess up your life. You can find life boring Uh, you'll be doing the wrong things at the wrong time Sometimes you'll be doing the wrong things at the right time and all of those things So you need to pray and ask God to lead you and guide you. Okay. Any question? Any questions? Yeah, it's a good question. Uh, you know, um, you know, Jesus knew that his hour had not come but you know when when he's talking about the hour has not yet come means he's talking about his Whenever he refers to it is he's referring it to as a time when he's going to Take on the sins of the World okay, so when he says my hour has not yet come. He's basically referring to he is not He's not the time where he's going to be the messiah when he's going to take on the sins of the world That's why we see that, you know, irrespective of his saying that he goes on To do the miracle because he's talking about his hour has not come. He's basically referring To the time has not come for him To deliver his to deliver people Or to die on the cross for their sins Good question. I anticipated that to come up Yes, his brothers Yes, still he goes secretly Uh, because yes, he goes even very good. Good question. Good observation, you know, even in john chapter seven and jesus's Uh Brothers tell him come let's go to the peace. Let's go up to jesus. Okay, jesus again tells them that You know, my hour has not yet come you go ahead, but then he secretly goes But to jesus, uh, he's not trying to be sly or anything or he's not that he does not want to go with his It's not a time for him to go to Jerusalem, you know to die on the cross to be crucified the hour has not yet come So when he says the hour has not yet come he's talking in in the fullness of time I lost moments to fulfill what god has called him to do. Okay, but he understood the clonus moment When he has to go and celebrate the feast or when he has to go and preach or teach Or when he has to do the miracles, but it's not the kairos moments. The time has not yet come He's talking about the kairos time Why he went in secret was because he knew that you know, uh, people were allowed to kill him to To you know capture him And he knew it was not the time if he had gone with his brothers Then you know, everybody would have known Because sorry, his brother told everyone here. Jesus is here. Jesus is here. My brother is here. My brother is here He's there. He's there, you know, uh, so he goes he says my time has not yet come, but he goes secretly because I don't want him to go to Jerusalem to do some things there But if you go to this brother to become unnecessary publicity See and he can be captured. He can uh, you know, which will hinder his the other work So that's why he says my time has not come So when he's saying my time has not yet come he's talking about the kairos moment When the fullness of time has not come for me to do what the father has asked me to Okay, good questions. Good observations. Thank you for being alert I knew these two questions were going to come up and I was excited that it did. Thank you Okay, any other questions? No questions Okay, uh, there's no questions any questions from our online students Okay online students are very quiet. Okay. We move on to chapter 13. Um The last way that god guides us To knowing his plan and purposes for our lives is when he orchestrates situation circumstances Divinely you already studied this in fulfilling god's purpose for our lives. This is what the nine guide for Yes, the nine guide force we're telling god's purpose Yes, okay, so this is um You know one of that where we already studied so we'll just look at it Okay, uh, we know that god orchestrates situations in our lives Uh, can somebody read second chronicles chapter 16 verse nine, please Second chronicles 16 verse nine Yes, so you see what god is saying here that you know, he's his eyes Are running through and forth throughout the whole To show himself strong on behalf of those heart is Loyal to him. Okay. So, you know, we know that um, god is waiting To reveal his plan and purpose for our lives not to just show it and you know Exit and leave and you know go and you know, uh You know, we need to figure out how to do it. No god helps us each step of the way. He orchestrates situation circumstances He orchestrates people. He gives us favor He gives us access to people. He opens the doors of opportunity. He he shuts the wrong doors He opens tight doors that we need to Step in okay, and he will do things Like it says, you know, no I has seen no here has hurt. No Mind has conceived, you know what the plans and purposes god has for you and what he can do for So we need to be excited about this because god is not just going to reveal his plan and But he's also journeying with us every step of the way and he Divinely bring about people favor Contacts, you know situations take us the right place the right moment You know, give us favor and access to people Show us the ideas the strategies You know to fulfill what he has called us to do look at what job says in Job chapter 42 was Two he says I I know that you can do Everything so job is telling god. I know that you can do everything and none of your purposes can be Tell that means whatever god's plan and purpose for our lives You know, nothing can stop that from coming into Friction nothing can come stop us from doing or executing what god has prepared for Us okay, so for example, you know if you're praying Uh to god to ask and asking god to show you you know to direct you What you know, he wants you to do in Life and then maybe you know god is saying okay. It's the right time for you now To get into a job.  The timings are good. Everything seems to be very good.  This is what you're wanting to do So it just basically shows that god has orchestrated Everything in your life. He's just opened the right dose. You stepped in and everything has just worked out Basically very very well, but maybe you need confirmation. What is the confirmation? You can you can how do you confirm? This is the place god wants you to work in You have to speak loud here You have peace about it. Okay the inner witness the holy spirit The voice of the holy spirit. What else to the word of god? Okay, you can receive confirmation Remember, I gave that example of that guy how he had these two companies and how god show them from god's word Okay, so these are basically primary ways main ways that we can You know, you can see but sometimes you go for the interview it You know, it's it's you're not happy you come back and then you apply in other places You can also wait on god to show you but you know, there are so many places applied So many places I went for interviews show me which is the right place So you can you know god will show you to the world the inner witness of the holy spirit to the voice of the holy Spirit, but sometimes it'll just happen. You know, you're just trying the first time for the job Everything just works out fine. Everything works out perfectly. You want to get into this This this college the school you apply, you know, it's the best school you get into it It's basically god, you know orchestrating situations on your behalf. It's not luck It's not chance. It's not just your hard work that you did it But it's god who's orchestrated everything is giving you a favor who's got everything to Gather but sometimes, you know, we need to be mindful of Other factors that work in our life Sometimes not everything that god does is that everything that happens in our life is not what god does Okay, so you just can't sit back and say, okay god is in control He will take care if it's god's will it'll Happen if it's god's will I'll get a job if it's god's will I'll go abroad and study if it's god's will I'll get into this college No, we need to do our part. Okay, when we need to do our part There's sometimes in life situations that you know That you know things will come like an hindrance and we also need to understand In the chronos moments of life They will come hindrances and those hindrances might not be necessarily From god it can also be through Satan okay, so what Satan can hinder the work of god you can oppose the work of god He can cause disturbances, you know, so what do we need to do? We just can't sit back and say if it's god's will I get into that college If it's not god's will I'm not getting to that workplace. I won't get that job What we need to do when we see hindrances we need to be, you know, deserving Okay, why is this happening? Okay, why is this pattern happening in my life? Maybe it's something that the devil is causing then you need to Stand up and fight your Battle, you know, uh, the word of god says the kingdom of god suffers Violence and the violence take it by force. Sometimes god has Some But there is a hindrance something even one It can be even people who are the hindrance Sometimes it can be our own sin our own Evil passions our own evil desires We need to discern that and we need to take, you know, if it is People we need to discern that people are doing this So be careful avoid them ask god to remove them from your life If it is something about your own life where it is about sin, then, you know Temptation We ask god for forgiveness if it is something that the devil is causing Then we need to step in and you know, the kingdom of god suffers violence And the violent take it by force. We have to be violent in our spirit We have to be warrior like in our Spirit we need to press in and take hold of what is Hours okay in every area of our life, whether it's Some sickness in your body or if it's some if it's poverty or if it's a You know some things that are happening to the generations. We step in we take what is rightfully us because god has given it to us But sometimes there's a hindrance from the evil and sometimes we need to speak to our storm to see it Still sometimes we need to speak to our mountain to see it Moved, you know, god cannot do that for us But god has given us the authorities given us everything we need for life and godliness But we need to use the Strategies that he has to give us we just can't stand and say okay, you take everything from the devil You live a hopeless life you live a defeated life every door That god seems to open suddenly shuts you say, okay, maybe it's not god's will No, you need to fight and know why this is happening understand the times and Seasons sometimes it can be our own wrong choices And we're facing the we're reading the consequences for our own wrong choices or decisions that we make We can't blame that on god or the devil or other people we need to take you know We need to take a You know Stand up for our own choices that we make ask god for forgiveness Align our will to gods will set things right and then we can see those opened And we can see god working in our life. So sometimes when you see, you know, nothing is happening in your life there's failure there's You know cycles or things that are happening continuously Then you know there's something wrong you check what is going wrong whether it's in your own life People causing it or satan and then you take what is yours. Okay How do you also know that? You know If it is if it's god's will to do this at the right moment, this is the right time to do this, you know Um, uh, like we see in judges chapter six, you know, god has chosen Gideon as a As a judge, okay, and he's and god is telling you I want you to go and Deliver the people the midnight's Okay, and gideon is very scared because he's not a warrior Okay, he wants to make sure if god is really telling him to do what he's telling him to do so He's He puts You know a wool piece of wool there and he tells god god the next morning, you know The the will should be soaked with water not a dew that falls Okay, it should be soaked with water the place surrounding it should be totally Dry the next morning when he comes, you know, he sees he he squeezes that wool and there's full water But the around the area is Dry, so he is one way he's conforming that it is god's will for him to Lead is trial into battle. Okay, then he's still not very sure. So he says god, please excuse me one more time Uh, this time let the ground around the wool be wet and let the wool be Dry so the next day when he wakes up the wool is Dry and the place around it is wet and it's a confirmation. Now. Can we do this in our own lives when we want guidance from god? Can we place a Wool or a blanket say god. I'm going to place it outside my house in the night You know, I I will this your will if I should join this church. I should go here. I should go as a missionary I please like this You can ask where you can ask for confirmation by the same manner. Why you know, we need to understand in the old testament you know, the holy spirit did not dwell in the People like the holy spirit dwells in a believer all the time In in the old testament the holy spirit came upon certain people Certain plan and then the holy spirit left them after the plan was Fulfilled so the holy spirit will come upon a person when god gives them a plan or purpose To do the holy spirit will empower them when that is completed Holy spirit will just leave them will not live in them forever like, you know, we are privileged people as new testament People we have the holy spirit living in us, you know always the holy spirit does not leave us In this context for Gideon was the right thing to do and also, you know, Gideon did not have the word of God, right? But is it the right thing for us to do in the new covenant in this season of life? In in this point in the history. No, why because we have the word of god It's the primary way that god leads us is a confirmation. We have the holy spirit We have the inner witness the holy spirit. We have the voice of the holy spirit We have the gifts of the holy spirit People can conform with true prophecies God can orchestrate situations. So this is not a thing that we should be doing, okay The next one is about casting lots. So can we cast lots and pick up like they picked up and found out the Jonah was the Was a troublemaker So when you want to find out who's a troublemaker in the hostel, you put lots and pick up the tips Do we do that? No, we don't do that, right? But we see that, you know After Jesus You know the apostles after Jesus's ascension. They wanted to know who would take Judas Iscariot's place Right, so what did they do? They put lots and it fell on Matthias Okay But you know, this was not something that the apostles followed later on This was before they before the Pentecost before they were baptized in the holy spirit They did this so don't say because your apostles did they can also do it But we need to remember this was before the Because before they were baptized in the holy spirit, but look at what happens After they were baptized in the holy spirit. We looked at these two incidents Last week last Friday and also the previous week In in angst chapter 13 when all of these apostles and ministers were praying and fasting What does the holy spirit say separate for me? Barnabas and Saul for the work of the lord Did they put lots and pick up? No, it was a holy spirit who gave them it might be to the voice of the holy spirit The inner voice of holy spirit or the inner witness of the holy spirit. All of you following me Okay angst chapter 15 which we I also mentioned this last week When Paul goes to the council at Jerusalem, you know, they were all arguing whether the gentile You know actually Confirms it to all of them. That's why it says here and it seemed good to the holy spirit And to us that means the whole spirit is confirmed it to all of them who was in the Jerusalem council Okay, and also the people the the apostles and the leaders of the early church Felt that, you know, they should not burden the gentiles with the ritual or circumcision. Did they put lots? Did they say, okay, let's take a word all those who circumcision hands up all those not for circumcision for the gentiles hands down No, they didn't do that What how do they make the decision based on what seemed good to the holy spirit and what, you know, uh, Seem good to them as well. Okay, so we're not supposed to cast lots and also, you know, do these to find out You know, this is my bible. I'm just hoping the worst whichever worse your my eye falls on We don't do all of those things and also we need to remember That every close door is does not mean it's a no from god Some close those when we, you know, god wants us to do something they can be a close though But some close those are, you know, is something that we need to forcefully knock and Pursue and open it for allies because it can be a hindrance on the Evil one for example, we read in matthew chapter seven versus seven and eight. What does it say ask? And it will be given to do seek and you shall find knock and the door shall be Opened, okay So doesn't mean that every close door is Saying hey everywhere i'm going every church i'm going. I want to become a worship leader. There's close doors That means I didn't hear right god does not want me to be a worship leader. Let me go back and ask god. No, you know Look at the example of mary and joseph now mary What was conceived of her what she was carrying the son of god in a womb was conceived throughout to the holy Spirit and the angel reveals it to her that it's the son of god was going to be born But when they go to a betel him Every in is door is shut So mary and joseph could have wondered is this really the son of god if this is son of god, that means god should have opened a five star accommodation for us, you know Right was an angel Here's something to shed Okay, they landed up in a cattle shed So they might be putting cattle shed son of god You know messiah of the world is supposed to be the king of the universe So, you know sometimes god, you know closes the doors that he does not want us to You know enter in because he wants us to go right place The right time where he's going to open the right doors and it might not be grand and significant It might be something very small but in small humble beginnings god can begin birth a great And that will establish a great big plan in your life all Big people in life who became big in life You know did not start big. They all started from something very very Small, okay.  He was not a petrol bank owner also a gas station owner See, but he was just an ordinary worker putting petrol into your car One of the greatest big businessmen. So we see that, you know, god begins things with humble beginnings So because things are not going the way we are thinking it does not mean it's not god's plan and purpose for us Like we still have to pursue it. Okay Okay, there are some questions here. We'll come back after the break and And ask and answer those questions. So we'll go for our break and then we come back. Thank you everyone


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