Well tonight, the title of our sermon is what do you think? What do you think? I'm going to put a question before you this evening. From the parable of the two sons in Matthew chapter 21. If you will, turn your Bibles with me. Matthew chapter 21. And we'll be looking at the parable of the two sons beginning in verse 28. What do you think? Matthew 21 beginning in verse 28. Hear from the words of Christ. The Bible says, what do you think? A man had two sons and he came to the first and said, son, go work today in my vineyard. And he answered and said, I will not. But afterward, he regretted it and went. Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir, but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to him, these Pharisees, the first. Jesus said to them, assuredly I say to you, the tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him. But tax collectors and harlots believed him. And when you sought, you did not afterward relent and believe him. Let's pray to the Lord. Father in heaven, thank you for this time tonight. Or thank you for these faithful brothers and sisters. I'm so grateful to you, God, for the body of Christ. So grateful to you, God, for your word. And thank you, Lord, for the blessed joy of studying your word together and serving you alongside these brothers and sisters and working together in your vineyard. We love you, Lord, and we thank you for the clarity of your word. Thank you, Lord, how it exhorts and commands us and how it just, the genius, the brilliance of your word here, your instruction, God. We, as they were, just astonished at your teaching. Lord, how beautiful, God, how pure it is, converting the soul.  Thank you, Lord, for this. I pray that you would, by your word, God, cause us to examine our hearts, to, Lord, see our sin, to turn from it. Lord, to turn to you, to live, Lord, in a way that we are not merely hearers of the word, but doers of the word. Lord, and in that, God, live a life that is, by the power of your spirit, pleasing in your sight. What a joy that is. So I pray, Lord, you'd strengthen us by your spirit. You'd inform our understanding through your word tonight, by your spirit, in order that you would conform us into the image of Christ for your glory. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, in the title of our sermon, what do you think, the parable of the two sons in Matthew chapter 21. We'll look at verses 28 through 32 here. So what do you think? What is the right response to the gospel? What do you think? So many churches, so many denominations often divided along this very issue. We would agree on many fundamental aspects of the gospel. When it comes to the response, it causes much disagreement. What do you think? What is the right response to the gospel? Many, many denominations across many denominational lines would agree that you were created by God, who is holy and makes demands of you. You are to be holy as he is holy. You are to glorify him and worship him. However, you have from your birth, not done either one. You've not with your life glorified him as he deserves to be glorified, as it would be right to glorify him. And you have not worshiped him or served him in a way that is right. You have revealed yourself from your birth to be a sinner, to be a rebel, a rebel in God's kingdom. And Jesus Christ, we would agree, many would agree that Jesus Christ is God, who condescended to live as a man. We would agree that he obeyed God perfectly, fulfilling all righteousness, fulfilling the just demands of God, the just demands of God's law. He fulfilled that perfectly, that Jesus Christ was crucified, that he died, that he was buried, and he rose again on the third day. That in his death and in his resurrection, he defeated death. We would agree that he paid the penalty for sin and he broke the power of sin. And he would agree that he performed the wrath-satisfying work of a substitute on behalf of sinners. We would agree that he has now ascended and seated at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for his people. And we would agree that he holds out an offer of salvation to all men. For many, that's where the agreement ends. Where the disagreement often begins, concerns the proper response to this glorious truth. The response to the gospel is not a secondary or ancillary issue. It's not second chair, second fiddle in this sense. It is an essential issue. The response to the gospel is a critical and essential issue. The gospel demands a response and it demands the biblical response. The biblical response to the gospel is part and parcel with the gospel message. So much so that to have the message right, those facts right, and the response wrong is to have a false gospel. There were those in the first century that struggled with the right response to the gospel message. They're called the Judaizers. They understood the facts about Christ. They had heard from Paul. They'd heard Paul preach on faith. They'd heard Paul certainly preach on faith alone. And these Judaizers, however, decided that the response to the gospel, the response to the grace of God in Christ must include circumcision. That was a false response and a damning doctrine that Paul writes about in response to in Galatians chapter one, verse six. Listen to Paul's words. I marvel that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel. You change the response to the gospel. You have a different gospel. You pursue a wrong response to the gospel and you are turning away from him who called you in the grace of Christ. Verse seven, he says, this different gospel is not another but there are some, these Judaizers who trouble you and want to pervert, to distort, to corrupt the gospel of Christ. But Paul says, even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you, you see, the issue was the response. We would agree on the facts of the gospel leading up to this point that Christ died, that he was buried, that he rose again. But in the way that we respond to those facts here, different on the part of the Judaizers. They introduced a corrupt response and as such they introduced a corrupted gospel. Even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you, then what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. In like manner, like manner to the Judaizers of the first century, there are those today that would add baptism as a response to the gospel required for salvation. There are those that would respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ by doing good works. They imagine that what will get them into heaven are the good works that they do, being a good person. The religious rituals that they go through and they busy themselves with being charitable. Maybe reading a proverb every night before they go to bed. They insist on being nice. They just are living an external religious ritualistic life believing that those good works will get them into heaven. There are others who believe that they get into heaven based on their decision to believe in Christ. And they may do no works at all. They simply have agreed to a set of facts about Christ. And they say, look, here I am in church on a Sunday. And they imagine that that is the entirety of the Christian life summed up. Just coming to church on a Sunday morning. They say to themselves, besides, we're all sinners, we're all sinners. Some would add, as the Judaizers did circumcision, some would add the sacraments, if there were such a thing. The pope just made a declaration that all you have to do is obey your conscience. The Catholic church would uphold many of the same facts of the gospel that we would. Yet the response to those facts is heretical and damning and wrong. And it is damning and wrong that to think that in light of those facts that all you would do is obey your conscience in order to make it into heaven, in order to be right with God. In our parable here, the parable of the two sons in Matthew chapter 21 verse 28, Jesus outlines for us two responses to the gospel. A contrast, if you will, between two different responses. And that, those responses impact the eternal destinies of those responders. It matters how you respond. It matters how you respond. As is common in the parables of Christ, we're gonna see a right response and we're going to see the Pharisees convicted of a wrong response. And as is common, he gives the hypocritical Pharisees just enough rope to hang themselves. We're gonna see that in error. They condemn themselves with their own words. And we were talking about it today. Just the beautiful economy of the words of Jesus Christ in these parables, the genius of scripture, the genius of Christ in destroying false religion on the turn of a phrase. We see here the hypocritical Pharisee condemned by their own words. This parable sets forth the glorious blessing that belongs to those who see their sin and turn from it to Christ. But it also carries a devastating warning. Devastating warning to those who do not see their sin and hypocritically falsely continue in it. God does not command the intent. God commands the action. He does not merely command the desire to turn away from sin. He commands the actual abstinence from sin, the fleeing of it and forsaking of it. And a following of him displays the fruit of saving faith, which is good works. The Christian life is characterized. It is distinguished uniquely by the fruitfulness of the Christian life as a result of genuine saving faith. In a phrase thought to have originated with St. Bernard of Clairvaux, it is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The Lord commands action. Titus chapter two, verse 11, for the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. This grace teaches us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for himself his own special people zealous for good works. A part of Christ's purchased possession is your purification. Is your sanctification? Is your turning from sin and producing fruits of righteousness? And in Christ, in this clarifying of a proper response to the gospel through his use of this parable, Christ shows three things. He shows our obligation. He shows a crushing implication. And then he shows a condemnation for those that respond wrongly. Our obligation, an implication, and a condemnation. First, let's look at the obligation together. Beginning in verse 28, the Bible says, but what do you think? A man had two sons and he came to the first and said, son, go work today in my vineyard. The first truth we need to walk away with is that God is seeking doers. God is seeking workers, workers in his vineyard. Ultimately, from work in the vineyard, God is seeking fruit. That often is the case with many of his parables, many of his statements, is that God is seeking fruitfulness from the Christian life. Listen to the preaching of John the Baptist from Matthew chapter three. But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, brood of vipers, who warns you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore, bear fruits worthy of repentance. And do not think to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now, the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. God is seeking doers.  He is seeking fruit producing and as it applies to us today, Christians. Fruit producing Christians. Look at Matthew chapter 21 and look down at the following parable in verse 41. You're in Matthew 21. Look down at verse 41. They said to him, he'll destroy, speaking of the parable of wicked vine dressers, he had turned over his vine, his vineyard, to a group of wicked vine dressers. And so the Pharisees said to him, what are they gonna do when Christ asked him when the owner of this vineyard comes back? What will he do with these wicked vine dressers? They said to him, he'll destroy those wicked men miserably and lease his vineyard to other vine dressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus said to them, have you never read the scriptures, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation, here it is, bearing the fruits of it. And whoever falls on this stone will be broken, but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder. When the chief priests and Pharisees heard his parable, they perceived that he was speaking of them. Look at James chapter one, let me give you another example. James chapter one, the Lord is seeking fruit. There are fruits of the kingdom. Those fruits of the kingdom are produced by God the Holy Spirit in the life of a genuinely saved brother or sister in Christ. James chapter one. And we need to be mindful of those fruits, mindful of that work. The response to the gospel, the response to new birth, faith in Christ will be the fruits of repentance, the fruits of faith. It's going to produce a radical difference in your life. In James chapter one, look at verse 22. James chapter one, verse 22. Here James says, but be doers of the word. Not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work. And this one will be blessed in what he does. Flip over to chapter two. Chapter two, and look at verse 14. And again, the emphasis on fruit, the emphasis on work, the fruits of faith. Look at verse 14. What does it profit my brethren? If someone says he has faith, but does not have works, can faith or that kind of faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked in destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead. But someone will say, you have faith and I have works, and I'll show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God you do well, even the demons believe and tremble. But do you want to know, oh foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham, our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? In other words, his work of sacrificing or offering Isaac on the altar was a work that confirmed the validity and genuineness of his faith. It was an evidence of his genuine saving faith. Do you see verse 22, that faith was working together with his works and by his works faith was made perfect or confirmed or affirmed? Verse 23, in the scripture was fulfilled which says Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Faith is what is the response of the gospel and upon faith the Lord credits the righteousness of Christ imputes the righteousness of Christ to the believer such that they are just with God. The fruits that flow from that give evidence and affirm the genuineness of the faith. Makes sense? Here he goes on to say, you see that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. Likewise was not Rahab the harlot, also justified by works. When she received the messenger and sent them out another way, for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. You cannot merely say. And here's the point. You cannot merely profess. You must show evidence, give evidence of your profession. John in Matthew chapter three preached repentance, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Go and bear fruits befitting repentance. Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter four preached repentance, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. James here produces a faith that gives evidence of its genuineness by works, preaches repentance from sin. Paul preached repentance of the Areopagus. God has overlooked these times of ignorance, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. Peter, the apostles, preached repentance. All called for repentance and the fruits of it. And the so-called gospel today only calls for, in most cases that we hear, only calls for a profession. It calls for a profession without repentance. If they use the word repentance, they're only calling for a profession of repentance and not actual fruits of repentance. And in doing that, listen, as a result of this parable, in looking at this parable, a gospel that calls for a profession only, calls for repentance in word only is calling forth the second son. What do you think? A man had two sons and he came to the first and said, son, go work today in my vineyard. There was a son that said, I will not, and he repented. The second son said, I go, sir, and he did not. The false gospel today, the primary false gospel that we see in churches today, calls forth from the gutter the second son. It is a factory producing the second son into the body of their so-called church. And then, after producing the false response of the second son, this false gospel inoculates the second son with a false assurance of salvation. Look back with me at Ezekiel chapter 18. Ezekiel chapter 18. I'll give you another example. Ezekiel chapter 18. Genuine response to the gospel will radically change your life. It will radically produce in you a hatred for the sin that you once lived in and radically producing you a hunger and a thirst for righteousness, which will eventuate in righteousness a living for God. And that's not in your own power, your own strength. That's in the strength of this Holy Spirit that indwells you. But here, it's with that understanding that the fruits of genuine faith are fruits of good works, fruits of righteousness, such that the Bible can say this in Ezekiel chapter 18, beginning in verse 20. Here the Bible says, the soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. But if a wicked man turns from all his sins, which he has committed, that's turning from those past sins, you understand?  But then it says, keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right. That's a present tense reality. Keeping the statutes of God, obeying the commandments of God, living for Christ. It says he shall surely live, he shall not die. Verse 22, none of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him. Praise the Lord, because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. That is the fruits of genuine saving faith. Verse 23, do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should turn from his ways and live. But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, those who profess today in the church profess the name of Christ, they make a profession, I'm turning from my sin. I'm following Christ, I'm trusting him alone. I'm turning from that life of sin and I'm following Christ, repenting and believing in the gospel. And they turn in profession only, in word only. They are hearers of the word, but not doers. Their faith is a dead faith that doesn't produce the righteousness of God. It doesn't produce holiness.  And it goes on to say, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed. Because of them he shall die. This is the life of the second son. This is the life of those who say, I will go, sir, and they do not go. They don't produce the fruit of a changed life. They don't produce the fruit of a new birth. Verse 25, yet you say, the way of the Lord is not fair. Here now, O house of Israel, is it not my way which is fair and your ways which are not fair? When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies. Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he has committed and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he has committed. He shall surely live, he shall not die. Yet the house of Israel says, the way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, is it not my ways which are fair and your ways which are not fair? You read text like this, James chapter one. Read a text like this in Ezekiel chapter 18. If you're not a careful student of the word or a careful discerner of truth here from the word of God, you might think to yourself, the Bible is teaching works righteousness. Does the Bible teach works righteousness? Absolutely not. It's a righteousness that works. Is this the works salvation? Salvation by works? No, it's a salvation that works. These are evidences of genuine saving faith. It is the miracle of the new birth that produces these fruits. A miracle of salvation, the Holy Spirit in dwelling the believer that produces these works and fruits of righteousness. It's the miracle of salvation in Christ. All purchased by the blood of Christ. All bought, wrought by the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer. In this verse, verse 28, the Father comes to the two sons and he says, son, go work today in my vineyard. There is an obligation of a son to do the work that the Father has called for him to do. There's an obligation on the part of these sons to go work in the vineyard of the Father. This is the call to the gospel. It is the call to salvation. It is the call to an apprenticeship, if you will, with Christ doing the will of the Father is reflective of a right response to the gospel because it's that fruit, that work that is evidence of a right response to the gospel. It is the fruit of genuine saving faith. Christ says, come and follow me. Here reflected in go work a day in my vineyard. The Father asks and the son has an obligation. To be saved is to be an apprentice of Christ, a disciple of Christ, a learning follower. To be saved is to be working and plowing in his vineyard. The day there is the amount of time you have on this earth before the Lord calls you. We're to work in his vineyard. You have two responses, two responses beginning in verse 29. Based on the translation that you're reading, these two responses may be flipped, reading from the new King James. If you're reading a different translation, simply based on a different manuscript, they may be swapped, but you'll get the idea. Two responses here, verse 29. He answered and said, this son, I will not, but afterward he regretted it and went. So then he came to the second and said likewise and he answered and said, I go, sir, but he did not. Now bear in mind here, he gives the same command to both sons, the same exact command to both. However, the responses to that command are very, very different. Here you see two responses demonstrated, two responses given. There are actually four that we could consider in thinking about this. One son said, I will not, then he repented and he went. The other said, I will go, sir, and he did not. But you also have the response of a person that would say, I will go and they do. Today, son, go work a day in my vineyard. I'll go and he actually goes. Is there anyone that does that? No. There is none righteous, no, not one. That's the ideal. The ideal response would be to say, I will, sir. And then you go and you work as the Lord has commanded. There's no one righteous, no one who does good. We have all turned aside and have become unprofitable, unprofitable, unprofitable servants. We've all gone astray from our birth. There is not a one that says I'll go and then they go. Every person from their conception is a rebel in God's creation, a rebel in the kingdom, so to speak. They're a rebel and they need to repent of their sin. There's another group that says, I will not and they do not. It's just the rebellious unbeliever. The thoughts and intents of man's heart are wicked continually and they say in their hearts, I will not have this man to rule over me and they die as unbelievers. They will not and they do not. The concern of Jesus Christ with this parable here are the two sons, if you will, those in a sense in the family, those that are among God's people, so to speak, or today in the church, so to speak. It is those that say I will not and then they repent, those genuine believers who repent of their sin and they go and then those hypocrites that say I will go, sir, and they do not. Those that say I will go, sir, and do not fall into two categories. One is the willfully disobedient. The willfully disobedient. And the next group is the deceived so-called submissives. Those that say I will go and they do not fall into those two categories. The concern of the parable are these sons. There's Jews specifically here at this time and those in the church by application. To go and work is tantamount to forsaking your sin and following the Lord by faith, serving him, working, laboring, like we talked about this morning, toiling, striving for the Lord. So first, let's look at this group that says I will not and they repented. I will not, he said, and then he repents and he goes to work. Now, it's surprising, right? Especially if you consider the background, the context of this parable, it's surprising that the father even tolerated this response. Father comes to his son and says, I want you to go work a day in my vineyard and the son responds, I will not. Now, this is in the context of a society that held respect to parents in extremely high esteem. It was extremely important that parental authority was respected. So the Pharisees would have been shocked by this as well. The father actually tolerated this response. Disrespect like this would have garnered the most severe of consequences, the most severe of punishments in Israel at that time. They said, I will not. The next son says, I will go, sir, and then he doesn't go. Now notice first that both sons disobey, right? Both sons are disobedient here. It's not a matter of a son being obedient, being righteous in and of himself. Both sons disobey. In other words, there is no room here for the good son. If you believe yourself to be good, you're in another category. You're not represented here. There is no room here for the good son. You must admit your wickedness. This is part and parcel with the main point behind this parable. To have a right response to the gospel, you must admit your need of a savior. Admit your guilt, conviction, blame, and shame over your sin. Come to realize your blame and allow the shame to set in over your own sin. Agree with God about your wickedness. This is the foolishness of the wicked. I will go, sir, and they do not go. To work in a family vineyard would have been a good thing, right? If you sin in this way, it hurts you. It harms you. It's not good for you. To have worked in the family vineyard would have been going to work in the family business that this son would have had a part in. That this son might have inherited a part of. And so to work in the family vineyard would have been for his good. It would have put food on his table. It would have produced income for the family. They've been good for him, but he sinfully rebels, does not go, and it hurts him. When this second son sins, then, applied to the church today, he's comforted with a peace, peace of the false gospel, and he is harmed to his eternal destruction. These are those that say I will go, sir. Notice that he uses the word, sir. Korea, I agree, it's Lord. He says I will go. He says Lord, and then he doesn't obey him. There's a false gospel that produces the second son. And the false gospel produces the second son, the second son is harmed to his eternal damnation. Look with me at 2 Peter, chapter two. 2 Peter, chapter two, by virtue of a corrupted, perverted gospel, which is based in the response to the facts about Christ. It's based in a false response, is what produces the second son today. 2 Peter, chapter two, and look down beginning in verse 18. Here you have false teachers that come along and deceive. It says in verse 18, for when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. I want you to see for a second. These are those that are enticed by, if you will, the offer of peace. They offer peace, peace, but the gospel that they preach is not giving peace. Responding incorrectly won't secure a peace. They say peace, peace when there is no peace. And so, if you will, the second son comes, comes to church, right? Listen to the so-called preaching of God's word. They are comforted in their peace, producing the effects in a person of saying, I will go, sir, but the validity of that profession is canceled out, is exposed as false because there is no fruit giving evidence to the genuineness of faith there. It merely produces a hypocrite and they're harmed to their eternal destruction. They, in coming into the church, in a sense, escape those who live in error. In other words, they're coming out of the world and they're coming into the professing church wanting to have peace with God, wanting to have forgiveness for their sin. And so these false teachers, speaking great swelling words of emptiness, alluring through this gospel of peace, and you can live in your sin, these lust of the flesh through lewdness, they allure those who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, verse 19, they themselves are slaves of corruption. These are the blind leading the blind and they both fall into the ditch. That one that says you can have peace with God and yet have a wrong response to the gospel in that you can live in your sin and call yourself a Christian. They're just alluring with empty words, great swelling empty words. Attracting, if you will, those who will live in the lusts of their flesh, in the lewdness of their flesh, thinking themselves to be right with God, thinking themselves to have escaped. And yet they're condemned with the rest, the second son. They themselves are slaves of corruption. For by whom, by this false gospel, a person is overcome. By him, by that false teacher, also he is brought into bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, a latter end is worse for them than the beginning. Does this mean that someone loses their salvation? No, we're talking about the response of the second son here. This is someone who in profession only says that they are a Christian, but they have not escaped the defilements of the flesh. They've been offered a gospel of peace, peace, and they've responded in kind with a response that says, I go, sir, and they do not go. They do not produce the fruits of righteousness, only possible in genuine salvation, only possible by the spirit of God, only possible through a right response of genuine saving faith. And they just can't produce it in and of themselves. And they become the second son. It would have been better for them, verse 21, not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the second son.  The second son, the implication here is that he intended to go. And he lied. He lied. I'm sorry, the implication is that he never intended to go, that he simply lied. He gives a false impression of obedience. He gives a false profession, sadly, despicably. This is the lot of the second son under a false gospel in many churches today. He says, Lord, and he does not go. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, he will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Let's look at Matthew seven together. Matthew chapter seven. It's a few chapters before our parable here. Certainly a teaching they would have heard him been familiar with. Matthew chapter seven and verse 13. Enter by the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, broad is the way that leads to destruction. And there are many who go in by it. There are many second sons that believe a false gospel, false response. They respond falsely. They respond in profession only. And yet do not go into the vineyard to work for the Lord. It says verse 14 because narrow is the gate. Difficult is the way which leads to life. And there are a few who find it. Beware of these false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing. Inwardly, they are ravenous wolves. You'll know them by their fruits. The same way the genuine Christian produces fruits. These ravenous wolves produce fruits. You'll know them by their fruits. Demen gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles. Even so, every good tree bears good fruit. But a bad tree bears bad fruit. Again, fruits of genuine saving faith produce fruits of righteousness, fruits of the spirit, good fruit. If you're not in Christ, you cannot maintain. You cannot produce that good fruit. You're going to produce the same fruit you've always produced. Your life will produce the same fruit it has always produced. Fruits of unrighteousness, fruits of lust of the flesh and of lewdness. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Listen, a good tree cannot, cannot persist in a habitual pattern of bad fruit. It cannot do it. Verse 19, every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits, you will know them. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, I go, Lord, and you do not go. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven. What is the will of the father? That you work a day in his vineyard. That you work in his vineyard. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? Cast out demons in your name and done many wonders in your name. And I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you second son, you who practice lawlessness. Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall for it was founded on the rock. It's that one who hears and does. That rock there, you could say that that's Christ. The rock there is obedience to God's word, basing his life on obedience to the word of God. He hears these sayings and does them, building his life on the bedrock of the fruits of genuine saving faith. Everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, that second son who built his house on the sand and the rains descended, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house and it fell and great was its fall. So it was when Jesus said into these sayings that people were astonished at his teaching for he taught them as one having authority and not as ascribes. Notice in the latter response, the second son, his words were good, the profession was good, but his actions did not follow his words. His intention, the intention wasn't even considered whether he had a right desire in his heart, a right intention in his heart or not. It wasn't even considered. There is no credit given for desire only. There's no credit given for intention only. What counts is not a promise. What counts is not a profession. What counts is the fruit of genuine saving faith, a work and labor in the vineyard, performance as a fruit of faith. Blunder of the false gospel being pedaled today is that intention is all you need. Every head bowed, every eye closed, no one looking around in the quietness of this moment.   Just whisper this little prayer and Jesus, ask Jesus into your heart. Jesus, I know I'm a sinner. Repeat this after me. Jesus, I know I'm a sinner, right? If you're too embarrassed to come down front, just squeeze the hand of the person next to you to let them know you're serious. And we laugh at that, but that false response is a false gospel. It generates in the millions the factory producing the second son. It pedals a gospel that asks for intention or profession only. It's exactly what it produces. I was witnessing to a pastor of a mega church and I said, what if someone comes down front? They walk the aisle in response to an invitation and they say, I wanna ask Jesus into my heart. I wanna be saved. I know I'm a sinner. I wanna be saved for my sin. What would you do? They said, well, leave them in the sinner's prayer.  I believe that you died on the cross to save me from my sin.  Save me today, amen. And so what if that person then walks out having made that profession and goes back to his sin? Many hardly make it out the front doors of the church before they're back in their sin, but some may go a month, may go two months, maybe go six months.   The profession is a sham. Today many may use the word, repent. Lord, I repent of my sin. I repent of my sin, I turn to Christ. I ask this pastor, so-called. I ask this pastor, what if their life doesn't match their profession? Well, it's the sincerity of their heart. If they're sincere in their heart, is it the sincerity of your heart that saves you? They'll say it's not the words of this prayer that save you. So if it's not the words of this prayer that save you, what is it? What do you believe that it is? They say, well, if they mean it. What if they mean it? With all their hearts, they cry big, great, crocodile tears of godly sorrow or worldly sorrow. They walk away from that experience, so-called, and turn back to their sin. They say, I go, Lord, and yet they do not go. They produce, it produces the second son. Leon Morris said this.  What do you think? Who does the will of the father? Who does the will of the father? One who repents and goes and works in the vineyard. My anniversary is coming up. And I say to my wife, honey, I'm gonna take you out.  We're gonna hold hands.  I'm gonna buy you flowers. We're gonna eat a meal together. If I said all that and then didn't follow through, I'm watching football on the night of our anniversary. Where's that gonna get me? In hot water, doghouse. The profession counts for nothing. It's the follow-through. Where are the fruits of faith? Where are the fruits of the spirit in your life? There's a grave implication from this implication. Verse 41 says, which of the two did the will of his father? They said to him, the first. Jesus said to them, assuredly, I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. Having told the story, Jesus turns to the Pharisees just like Nathan and David, right? If you know that story in the Bible. He traps them in their own words by asking for an answer to a very obvious question. When he answers, he says like Nathan, you are the man, right?  Jesus turns their understanding back on themselves as a searing and convicting spotlight. You are not the son who has repented.  Who are you? Who are you? You hold yourself up to the light of scripture. The light of Jesus is teaching here. Who are you? Many, when they read a parable, relate to the first son. They relate to the first son when they are the second. Because you have not gone into the vineyard to work. Are you bringing forth fruits of genuine saving faith? When do you go evangelizing? When do you go evangelizing? Are you daily taking in God's word? Somebody said that's just legalistic. Holiness, righteousness, obedience to Christ's commands is not legalism. It's obedience to Christ's commands. We're all sinners, someone may say. Are you willfully in your sin? Are you willfully making decisions to go against the command of the Father to work in righteousness in his vineyard? Hebrew says for if we sin willfully, after we've received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who's rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How do you reject Moses' law? You disobey it. You disobey it. 29, of how much worse punishment do you suppose? Will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing and insulted the spirit of grace? I'll go, sir, and yet you sleep with your girlfriend. I go, sir, and yet you live in fornication. I go, sir, and yet you won't put away your anger. I go, sir, and yet in your heart you seek vengeance. I go, sir, and then you cheat at work, steal from your employer. I go, sir, and you sin, and you sin, and you sin, count of the blood of the covenant by which he was supposedly sanctified a common thing, insulting the spirit of grace. For we know him who said, it goes on to say, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord, and again, the Lord will judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. Both sons sinned. So who's right with God at the end of this scenario, back in Matthew chapter 21? There's only one option here, it's the first son. It's the rebellious repenter that you see as a sinner, right?  The answer of the Pharisees here to the question was right. But in answering it rightly, they condemned themselves with their own words because their response to the gospel was wrong. Here, their response is profession, without life transformation. It's intention without amending their wicked ways. Their history is one of saying, but not doing. I'll go, sir, into the promised land, and they do not go, right? I'll go, sir, I'll work a day in the vineyard.  There's a false gospel today that engenders this very thing in the professing church. Are you the latter son or the former? Most relate to the former wrongly. Say, look, I'm here in the church as if that were all the work that it was being referred to here. There's an implication here for the tax collectors and harlots. They've entered into new birth. Look quickly at Ezekiel chapter 36. Ezekiel chapter 36. There's an implication here for the tax collectors and harlots who responded rightly, turning from their sin and turning toward the Lord. And this is why the Bible can speak of the fruits of faith so connected, so joined to the faith itself as if to sound like a necessity, a requirement of salvation and fruits of faith are a necessity. They're essential to affirm genuine saving faith. Can say that because it is. Look at verse, this is chapter 36. Ezekiel 36 verse 22. Here, therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says the Lord God, I do not do this for your sake or house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went. I will sanctify my great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst and the nation shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.   I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Another way of saying that Lord is going to forgive. Cleanse from all that iniquity, all that filth. Verse 26, I'll give you a new heart, a new nature. I'll put a new spirit within you. I'll take the heart of stone out of your flesh, give you a heart of flesh. I'll put my spirit within you and here it is too and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You shall be my people, I'll be your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleanness. Look at verse 31, then is the fruit of this new birth, this fruit of a new heart, a new nature, a spirit, a new spirit dwelling within you.  How did tax collectors and harlots here respond? Certainly tax collectors and sinners. Even now with the Pharisees, he goes one step further. It's not tax collectors and sinners as has been said so often in scripture. It's now even farther down the road. Tax collectors and harlots. Pharisees would have seen them as the dregs of society. Out of reach of the hand of God's mercy, right? They would have seen them as the dregs, the scum and yet they come in repentance and faith. Loathing themselves in their own sights for their sin. And it's the self-justifying, the self-righteous Pharisee that doesn't see his own sin. These tax collectors and harlots come through the door of the sheepfold. They come through Christ in broken, contrite hearts, in humility before the Lord. They repent, produce fruits of godly sorrow over sin, fruits of repentance, fruits of genuine saving faith because they've been given a new heart. They've been given a new nature. They've been given a new spirit to dwell in them. They've been caused by God to be made alive in Christ and already producing fruits of that genuine faith. There's an implication here for the Pharisees as well. The Pharisees are the second son. They're not producing fruit. There is no fruit and in that comes the condemnation. The condemnation, our third point. Jesus said to them, these Pharisees assuredly I say to you that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but tax collectors and harlots believed him and when you saw it, you did not afterward or lent and believe him. No rebuke could have cut deeper than this one or more severely than this one. Pharisees, the tax collectors, far away from the, any possibility in the minds of the Pharisees, far away from any possibility of the grace of God beyond the reach of God's mercy. However, the Pharisees were farther than they were. The religious elite, the ritualistic conformers, following God with their lips, but not with their hearts or even farther away. Tax collectors and harlots were those who first rebelled and then genuinely repented and they would go in before you. When Christ says that they go in before you was a huge reversal of preconceived ideas and notions in the minds of these hypocritical self-righteous Pharisees. Tax collectors and harlots in that sense were nearer God, nearer the kingdom, not because of their righteousness, right? Not because of righteousness, but because of shame and blame, humility over their sin, leading to their humbling and leading to their being able to see their desperate need for grace. Pharisees were farther because they were in the opposite situation. The Pharisees were asked about this in John, about John in verse 24. If you look in Matthew 21 and look in verse 32, Jesus Christ brings up John the Baptist. He said, for John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him. Well, he had been asked just prior to this parable, question by the Pharisees and so Jesus responds with a question of his own. They wanted to test his authority. So Jesus Christ answered them and he said in verse 24, I'll also ask you one thing. Which of you tell me likewise? I will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men? They reasoned among themselves saying, if we say from heaven, they'll say to us, why then did you not believe him? But if we say from men, we fear the multitude for all count John as a prophet. So they answered Jesus and said, we do not know, politicians, right? I cannot answer a question. He said to them, neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. And then he goes right into the parable here that we're studying, the parable of the two sons. When he gets to 32, Jesus gives them the answer to the question. In verse 32, Jesus says, for John came to you in the way of righteousness. In other words, John was from God. And John was a godly man. Jesus answers that question for them. How did the Pharisees respond to that fact? They knew that. It says they did not believe him. They didn't believe the truth of his message, but that belief, mind you, that response is synonymous with, they did not repent at the message. They did not respond by amending their ways. They did not respond to the message with repentance. And without responding to the message with repentance, what does Jesus say? You did not believe him. Again, this close connection between faith and repentance. To respond to the message without repenting and turning from your sin is to fail to believe. It is a repenting belief. And then he says, when you saw it, he tells them, when you saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him. They didn't believe the power of the gospel to transform a sinner. They saw this change in the harlots and tax collectors was clearly evident. The tax collectors and harlots believed him. And so what did the tax collectors and harlots do? They repented, turned to Christ and followed him. When they saw it, this was so clearly evident to them, they saw it, they still didn't believe. They still didn't repent. They still didn't respond with repentance in a change of life. They simply didn't believe. It's a connection between repentance here and belief. There is clear evidence of what a true and godly response to the gospel is. It should be no problem for anyone to discern genuine conversion. Why? Because the Lord in saving a sinner radically transforms the life, radically produces fruits of righteousness, a change of direction. It is this fruit, this response of repentance, the consequent production of godly sorrow leading to diligence and earnestness and indignation and fear. All those fruits that give testimony of genuine saving faith. Which son are you? It's connected to the gospel and it is essential to answer that question. Do you think you have the message of the gospel right? And you respond wrongly. You're in error. The gospel includes its response and you must respond rightly, repentance and faith. Let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, thank you for this parable. I'm just, what is the word? Just in awe of you, in awe of your word, in awe of this brilliant, masterful teaching in scripture as glorious truth. And Lord, just how clearly and succinctly that you lay that out for us. Lord, thank you, thank you for your word. Help us to examine our hearts, Lord. Help us to persevere in the faith and be doers of the word, not hearers only deceiving ourselves. And we, Lord, is your people gladly. Lord, we rejoice at the command of the Father to go work a day in the vineyard. And Lord, we say we go. Lord, then strengthen us by your spirit to persist in that going, persist in that doing, and persist in that glorious work. Protect us, Lord, from falling away into that second son who says I go and yet he doesn't go. Well, love you, thank you, Lord, for this time. Thank you for your word and Jesus' name, amen.


As promised, in this step, we're going to set about filling these holes that we created here. And I want to show you a couple of options of how you can do this. And then you can just choose your favorite. The first way that I'll show you is with a tool called bridge. And in order to use that, we need to right click on our geometry and go into edge mode. And now edges will be highlighted to show that we can select them. And we need to click on one edge. And now I'm going to shift click on one of the parallel edges. So I've now got those on both sides. So I'll just turn that move tool off. And with those selected, the first method that I'm going to show you is in edit mesh and it's something called bridge. So you can just click on it and it will work. You can see that's now bridged that gap.  If you want to, not that we do for this, but you could add some divisions to it. I don't think tapering will work without divisions or tapering won't work on the shape at all actually. You can also in some cases twist what you've done and there are different types of curves. So sometimes you can bridge. I've used a bridge tool before to create like a handle on a cup and curve type can help for that. So that's one way of doing it. The other way, which is actually the way that I tend to use more often is in mesh tools. It's called the append to polygon tool. And when you turn this on, you can see that border edges, these ones on the edge go a little bit thicker. And that's to show you that you can click on them. So you click on one and then click on the other side that you want to fill it in and press enter to complete that shape like so. And then a little tricky Maya that I'm going to tell you now because I feel like we're close is if you press G on your keyboard, that will bring back the last tool used. So I'm going to use the append to polygon tool again to fill that hole there. And then one final one here, press G for last tool used, click, click and enter. And that has filled that little window hole. Beautiful. Okay, that then we'll do it for this step. In the next step, we're going to put a little bit of a frame in the window so that it's not just a gaping hole. So I will see you in that step for some frame making. Game Dev Academy is graciously supported by these absolute legends. If you'd like to offer your support then check out our Patreon page using the link in the description below.


Hey everybody, welcome to Come Again TV where all geek things collide. This is Billy once again with your Funko Weekly Review. This week I am doing another underrated product that Funko does, and they are Dorps. And a lot of people pass on these things because they're like I said they're just like the Rock Andes. They're not the classic Funko where you have the bobblehead or the fixed vinyl. They're called Dorps because they're adorable. So stay tuned, and you will see why they are called Dorps. Hey guys, welcome back to Come Again TV where all geek culture collides. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. First up we have the flaming skullhead himself, Ghost Rider. As you see these are very adorable. They are kid-friendlier. They're not scaring, they're not intimidating. But they're called Dorps because they are adorable. And they're very, it looks like it's very easy for them to make. There's not very much work to have to go into and they can use almost the same mold for everything, everybody. And they just go in and put in the different hairstyles that each one has. Yeah, they need to be. And just repaint them. But it's just a different mold for the hair. Like, it's an adorable Ghost Rider. Like, he came up and tried to do a panister to me. I would just, I would just giggle. Next up we have the Walmart Exclusive Batman the Animated Series Two Face. Like the, like with Ghost Rider, they use the same body for the most part, repainted it, did different types of hair, molded for him. They added his coin down here in his hand, I'm not sure. You can, there you go, now you can see it. But one side's just smooth and the other side actually has a cross in it, which is pretty cool to show the different sides. But like I said, they basically, they just use the same body, same head, they just repaint them. But they're still, they're adorable. Like this two face would not scare me either. Next up we have the X-Men's Own Intellectual Genius and Blue Monkey. Ha, uh, Beast. He's not a monkey, I'm not sure exactly if he's supposed to be like a werewolf, crossover, but Beast is cool. I like Beast. With him they had to do a little bit different because of his ears. So I'm thinking they added those on with his hair and you can see what it looks like right in here. How they glue the hair on right there into different types of molds. But it's basically the same mold, they just had to do something else with his ears. So they probably have a different, probably the Trolls, the Troll Hunter ones they probably used the Dwarves. The Dwarves model to make them based off of the Beast and Nightcrawler and I'm not sure who all came with this line. So it's him the only one I could see that they could buy. No, like nobody else in the line that this one came in has pointy ears like that. So I'm not sure which they did anything else with that mold or not. And lastly we have the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney Treasure Chest Box Exclusive Wicked Winch Captain with Pirate Ship. This is not a ride, he is the Fogo, this is an accessory. But the accessory itself, it looks like it looks like Blackbeard almost. But the boat itself is super cool. It's got the port cannons, it's got the port and the starboard cannons on there which are really cool. They did a really good job, got the little Jolly Roger up here. They did a good job with the detail on this thing is really really good. They even got a runner on there which I made up keeping this one out of the box now because I did not realize how cool this thing looked. I made him taking this to work and putting it on my desk. The captain has his little, he's got his sword out. Right there he's got his little bow ties. I hope he does not have a hook cam though, so cool. He's not hooked, there is no trademark infringement there. Plus Captain Hook with a long beard like that would look really weird. But like I said these things are called Dorbs, they're not like the original Focos that they make. And obviously I kind of dig these little guys. So thanks for watching, stay tuned next week for another Foco review. But like I said these guys live up to their name of Dorbs because they are adorable. So stay cool, make sure hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, leave your comments down below and stay cool.


Tom here from Lauren systems unifying network controller six point zero point four one has been released And the question on everyone's mind where at least what they tagged me in is should we upgrade to this short answer? Yes, I've upgraded and Riley Chase owner of hostify has upgraded many systems as well But he did halt the process because he had a few edge cases, but we haven't identified what those Problems are other than they don't upgrade So for the most part this upgrade for most people seems to have gone fine and including myself and for well Quite a few of the controllers Riley had good luck with them But a few of them didn't before we dive into all those details Let's first feel like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you like to hire short project there's a hires button right at the top If you like to help keep this channel sponsor-free and thank you to everyone who already has there is a join button here for YouTube and a patreon page your support is greatly appreciated if you're looking for deals or discounts on products and services We offer on this channel check out the affiliate links down below They're in the description of all of our videos including a link to our shirt store We have a wide variety of shirts that we sell and new designs come out well randomly So check back frequently and finally our forums forums dot Lawrence systems comm is where you can have a more in-depth Discussion about this video and other tech topics you've seen on this channel now back to our content As I stated we upgraded our system and didn't have any problems I did speak with Riley from hostify who upgraded over a hundred of them before he had a couple that the database wouldn't migrate over This is one of the reasons it's so important to have a full backup before you do this that way if everything goes wrong You can revert to the backup for me This runs as a virtual machine inside of my XTP and G server and I snapshot it and roll it back if things go wrong That's just kind of you know been my process for a while and it keeps my sanity in case There's some reason we have to roll back of note. It is running W Linux version 9 I have 8 processors assigned to it and it's has 16 gigs of RAM It's only using about 4 gigs right now. So it's not really taxing the system So got 4 gigs out of the 16 gig use and yeah generally speaking when you're not making any changes The processor sits quite idle now another thing I had a few people mention was the maps weren't working I haven't seen this problem at all since I moved to six But I don't know because I had a few people that I've seen it not work and they've asked me what to do to fix it I don't really have a solution because for people that it's completely broken where this map decides to no longer function It just doesn't work unless you reload the controller I haven't figured out what the switch you have to flip is that breaks it or how to Unbreak it other than reload the controller migrate to the other controller and sometimes just restoring from a backup is fixed as well so kind of a strange one, but I have not experienced any issues with it and for the record this device right here that shows not actually attached is Not actually attached us for a future video and it's not inside my network And you may have a guess that by his name port tap Back to the controller This is just a patch release of the 6.0 series. So the bigger release details are over here Dashboard updates combine radio According into one property panel. There's a lot of small improvements. They made Exposed advanced features checkbox in the classic settings I'm hoping they go back and forth and fix some of this because I don't like when You have to switch back and forth between the new settings and the old I know their goal is probably get things to new settings. I don't mind the way it looks I just wanted to be one or the other not have to occasionally when I look for something have to find both now from a day-to-day Basis, it's really not a big deal because the new settings are really only for when you're setting up a new client But obviously this breaks some things including me who makes videos about this I guess it's opportunities. I can make new videos But things aren't where they used to be and so someone may reference something and go Hey, what version do you want? Well the new version they move that feature here I don't mind and there is always changes in UI, but obviously this is It's not finished. So having to go back and forth between two, you know interfaces makes it a little difficult But hopefully they're gonna fix some of those things looks like they fixed some typos and misspellings and Not really anything major in here like updated minimum rssi range for when you're determining how You want the thresholds to be for when a client gets a disconnect from an AP So there's like little tuning they did and a lot of like the Wi-Fi experience showing zero occasionally I never really stare much at that. I also don't look a lot at the dashboard I mean I can go over to the dashboard, but honestly, I don't spend any time here We also pretty much universally do not use any of the dream machines or the unified gateways Deployed to our clients. So if you're having problems with those, they're just not something we use We've repeated this quite a bit in the last well handful of videos and updates I've talked about unify just because a lot of people throw while I'm having all these problems on my usg This is also why we don't use usgs and people bring a lot of problems To the usg it does I think these dashboards are really pretty and people do like to use one of the unify Devices for routing to you know help complete the dashboard But honestly, I don't look a lot at dashboards I dive deep into details and actual problems not just Kind of statistics that don't give me a ton of great detail So there are some fixes though to this and it looks like there's you know Some randomness that was in there that hopefully has been resolved as well Overall Riley did have a post and I'll leave a link to course of this And this is on page four where Riley's post is and he shows some of the things and other people He had these same problems well and these are problems with migration that people had Was specifically Riley did on some of the servers they were maintaining At hostify and uh, like I said, it's not really a clean error And it didn't still make anyone replied to the actual error itself So yeah, that's kind of interesting that it's in there But uh, I wish they had a better, you know error log that in someone replied to it So we know exactly why those ones won't upgrade So my best advice if you're going to switch this new version is make a backup first Make a full backup like I do is my uh with a whole virtual machine is obviously super ideal Because you shut it down and revert completely back to the way it was And hopefully it works for you It seems to from based on the comments quite a few people have not had any issues at all But I will admit this is one thing and someone brought this up of They're not showing things properly. I thought this one was interesting They tried the app and one app says it was working and then the on their phone Then the app on their tablet said it wasn't working I thought that was a little bit strange But I will admit to clearing your browser cache is something really important because of the way the unify controller Sends all the data into your browser You really have to make sure sometimes rebooting devices and clearing the browser Which is actually I think is probably over on page one a few people clear the browser Because if you don't you'll assume it broke and what I mean by that is if you don't force reload the browser page After you've done an update Which you end up with is a bunch of variables dumped onto the screen And I've seen people send me screenshots of that saying hey the controller update didn't work right and it's got a bunch of variables Literally dumping the browser cache fixes that open up a new browser open up a different browser And you'll find that problem kind of is because the browser wants to cache it doesn't realize there's a new version So other than that, I haven't really had any other issues. Everything seems to be working I actually been doing some lab work the last couple days with this particular version and All the settings provisioning changes internally and stuff. I pushed for remote clients. No issues so far That's my thoughts on it and thanks And thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like youtube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurancesystems.com fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com where we can Carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos. 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So, my name is Enrico Talina and for the last 25 years I've been basically doing one thing. It's trying to convince companies to adopt different technologies. 25 years is a long time and so the technologies actually change over the time but there's always like my focus in my business life is always try to improve companies and try to make them adopt something that will change fundamentally the way of doing business. So basically today I'm going to talk to you about two things. Try to explain a CEO, CFO, CIO which is like the top management of a company. Okay, what's blockchain and the second thing I'm trying to do is also explain these same kind of people what they can do with the blockchain within the company. Now, why this actually matters? Why this is important? Okay, let's think about our ecosystem, the blockchain ecosystem. On the height of our Ethereum world was like for example CryptoKitties. CryptoKitties in the top 10 was like they had like in the high days they had like 14,000 daily users. Okay, so this is like we're talking about the project that made so much impact on Ethereum. They actually blocked Ethereum for a little while for a week or so and there was like 4,000 daily users. Okay, companies usually have like millions of daily users. So it's essential for us to think about that companies can be like not only one customer but they represent millions of millions of users. So when we focus about blockchain adoption, we of course we can all talk with each other and try to do a project that goes directly to users but if you think about like going to the intermediates so you go to companies then you can like really be rich, the adoption of blockchain adoption in a very, very fast way and more easier way. But this now sounds good because you know I talk with a company, this company has 2 million users so let's boom, we have like 2 more million users to the Ethereum ecosystem or any other blockchain ecosystem. Yeah, now that's not easy. Okay, that's not easy because I've been doing this for the 25 years and honestly this is like talking with the top management, it's very, very difficult. Okay, so now I wrote a book because I couldn't, I tried to really repeat many times the same things so at the end I said okay I'll wrote a book so it's gonna be easier. And okay, so let's say like this presentation I want to, like the way I usually present to CEO and the main thing to think about like the main consideration you have to take in account when you're talking to CEO, it's just they're like 5 years old, baby. Exactly, because they have super short attention span, they absolutely do not understand anything you tell them and even if they pretend to listen they do not listen. So you really need to use the same tricks with a 5 years old and being a father, okay, I exactly use the same techniques and then starting things going on. So first of all you have to make them excited because if you like start like telling the story and you just like, it's like a story about business, you say okay, yeah, yeah, sure and they're like thinking about other things. Okay, so you have to put this into context, so you have to make it really excited for them and what is the best thing, it's called like exclusion. Okay, so I know it sounds bad but it's actually the best way to make them interested. They're like, okay, now, why are you talking about the blockchain? Why? Because the blockchain is something that happens once every 10 years. Now, just like that, you get the meta-tection, you say, what do you mean? Yeah, you know, in the 70s we had the mainframes that completely changed the way accounting was done and then we had the PC that completely disrupted the way the mainframe was used and then we have the internet that completely disrupted the way that PC and then the social and then we have the mobile. And you know what? What's going to be next for the next 10 years? It's going to be the blockchain. So, you know what? You absolutely need to take account of the blockchain. Why not? Because, you know, when this new technology comes along, you can be either the street runner or you're like going to be part of the road because other companies will going to like roll you down and make you like really flat. So, now we got the CEO's attention because they say, wow, I don't want to be like part of the road. I want to be the steamroller. I want to be the one in charge. We're talking about people that are like leaders. Okay, I want to do this. Now, once we set the correct, like just position of what the blockchain is, then we can talk what is a blockchain? So, that's probably a lot of people who knows what's a blockchain but here that's not like for a CEO it's not easy. So, we're talking about the centralized trust and we use a lot of images because the only way to explain to them is not like the words that don't make any sense to CEO. So, the thing is you have to show them absolutely a lot of pictures. So, we talk about the centralization immutable and distributed. We talk about we give them like a little bit of background so it's like this guy named Satoshi and David Bitcoin. Then there's another guy called Vitalik. It is like this 2.0 kind of like thing. Okay, and then like the blockchain 3.0 is going to be all about the interoperability. There's going to be Cosmos, Polkadot and of course Ethereum next-grade. And we don't use the 2... You see here it's blockchain 3.0. We don't put Ethereum 2.0 because it's going to confuse them. So, next generation, things like that. And we talk about like environment friendly, things like that. So, things that you don't really go never go technical, never use technical terms. If you ever use a technical term, always put a picture. Because never, never, never. So, we talk about reaching consensus. We tell like it's public, never use permission less and permission it. That's going to like scare people because like permission. So, you say public, you say private, which is basically not a blockchain. Always trying to reinforce the fact. Okay, and then like a hybrid.  And then like we go to what can a company do blockchain. Now they really get excited. This is a cool technology. Let's see what's going on. And then we say, okay, let's start with the needs. Because everywhere I see in this room, in another room, a lot of people are trying to make solutions in search of a problem. That's not the way you should build things. First find a problem first and then build a solution. That's the other way around. Otherwise, you're going to be so difficult. The best thing in marketing is not like to try to create something and try to sell it. The best rule in marketing, 25 years of experience, do something that people want. And they will just buy it. You don't have even to market because the essence of marketing is not doing marketing. It's just like doing people want and give it to them. That's it. They will buy it. They want it. It's so easy. Please, do it. Please. So let's start with the needs. I'm going to be super fast. Okay? And that's it. So, super fast means that it's over.


I begin by saying that I'm delighted to see that this process is taking place and I hope it develops from here. I can't remember a time when we had so much open involvement from both sides in the analysis of the Irish budgetary policy. I think it's been lacking for a long time and the European semester did nothing else but promote that kind of open debate I think it would have turned out to be very well worthwhile. I also slightly take issue with what the chairman said in his initial remarks. He said that it's an opportunity for us to discuss the Irish programme. That's true. We could of course be discussing the French programme or the German programme or the Slovakian programme because this is part not just of the post bailout surveillance of the Irish economy. It's part of the surveillance of the economies of the European Union. I think it's important to make that point, not least because it has become fashionable among the Irish media to make the point that we poor Irish are subject to all this kind of interference from that other crowd over there in Brussels or even worse over there in Berlin. They're bad enough in their own ways but we're not the only ones who are subject to that kind of surveillance. It's a common effort on the part of the European Union. In another bit of my life I do some public affairs work and whereas for the purpose of today's discussion CSR stands for country specific recommendations. In the other bit of my life it stands for corporate social responsibility. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with that. I mean there are some cynics who don't like the idea. Corporate social responsibility goes I suppose on one end of the spectrum from the Heilig and Cop in rugby to at the other end other very worthwhile events that are sponsored by people who don't seem to have ended the gain out of it and without going into the politics of any issue today I would give you the instance at the other end of the spectrum of what used to be known as the GPA piano competition. I don't think I ever met anybody at any of those concerts who was going to rush out and lease a few aircraft and GPA just because they ran a piano competition. So the spectrum is there but corporate social responsibility has a meaning and I think it is something that the commission might reflect about and I'm comfortable what I mean by that. These country specific recommendations are based for each member of state on a set of priorities set out in the annual growth survey published at the end of last year by the commission and in the end of 2013 the growth survey identified five priorities. They were pursuing differentiated growth friendly fiscal consolidation restoring lending to the economy, promoting growth and competitiveness for today and tomorrow tackling unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis and modernizing public administration. I don't think anybody could argue that these are not appropriate priorities but they're not the whole story. The first two of those priorities that is pursuing differentiated growth friendly fiscal consolidation and restoring lending to the economy they seem to me to concern areas in which the commission shows a lack of responsibility, a lack of appreciation of what I would call corporate social responsibility in the political field. The annual growth survey on which this is all based makes no reference to monetary policy. Monetary policy figures nowhere in the European semester and that suggests to me that the erroneous mindset that helps that the crisis in the eurozone is at root a fiscal crisis continues to rain and that in my view is to everybody's detriment. For as long as this continues to be the case the European semester process will I think be an elegant, internally consistent, suitably rigorous and effective recipe for stagnation. Without an appropriate monetary policy framework and the mechanisms of a properly designed monetary union the kind of policies we're talking about here, fiscal policy will not make the kind of contribution to the restoration of growth that everybody claims to be in favour of these days. Sound fiscal policy absolutely needs the underpinning of an appropriate monetary policy. And for those of you who have a bit of courage and a strong stomach and who weren't there I would recommend that you have a look at the IAEA's website and look at the address that Martin Wolfe made a couple of weeks ago and I think the points are extremely well made there. Not just about monetary policy but also about the unprecedented nature of having such a tight fiscal organisation in such a loosely defective political structure such as we have in the European Union. The Commission may argue and I'm sure it will that monetary policy is the domain of an independent European Central Bank. That indeed is the case but the European Central Bank like the rest of us has to operate in the real world there where and there are very sound reasons for setting an inflation target of an I quote close to 2% we're nowhere near that at the moment and there are no reasons to fear the danger of an overshoot in inflation in the foreseeable future. Independent actors like the ECB are not precluded by their independence from dialogue with other interested parties neither are they precluded from drawing their own conclusions from such a dialogue. Perhaps there is one little chink of light on the horizon there. Last week according to reports the European Central Bank and I think it's board of governors had a seminar to which they invited a number of outside commentators including as far as I can remember Martin Wolfe. I would really like to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting because I'm sure the debate would have been very interesting. We do need a marked change of attitude and energy on the part of the European Central Bank and I think a good many people will share with me the impression that if the present governor of the ECB Mario Draghi were given his head monetary policy might indeed make a more substantive contribution to livening up light in the eurozone. As it is he seems to be obliged to make the kind of rather obscure opaque statements that maybe something might happen at the end of this year if things are going rather well. If the history of the last seven years shows us anything at all it is that small measures that go in the right direction are pretty much a waste of time and I could say if you look back at the history of economic policy and budgetary policy in this country over the last 30 years you'll come to the same conclusion if you're going to make a change make a lot of change very quickly. That was well illustrated to me many years ago by the first Polish finance minister after independence who was talking about structural change in the economy and he said to a group of us he said I have a market that's not a market it was still a command economy, I have a currency that's not a currency it wasn't convertible and I have a political system that isn't yet a political system and he said we have to change that and he argued that all the change had to happen very quickly some of us looked at him a bit agasta the nature of what he was proposing he said if you in Ireland decided that instead of driving on the left you would drive on the right you couldn't just start with the buses and the lesson really is that if you're going to get the benefit of making a substantial change in policy it has to be a very substantial change made quickly and the kind of incremental reaction that we have seen to the fiscal crisis and to the problems we have to the eurozone crisis and indeed to others small incremental steps are very largely a waste of time they use up huge amounts of political energy and get very little result who remembers or who can forget the amount of political energy we used up in this country to pass the fiscal treaty which only now begins to have relevance to us perhaps what's in it will turn out to have been useful it will turn out to have been a lot more useful than it is today if we had real progress in resolving the monetary problems of the eurozone having said all that which is not really concerned directly with the corporate social irresponsibility but the country specific recommendations I come to the recommendations themselves this our government submitted its national reform program and stability program last April with the endorsement of the Irish fiscal advisory council another very very useful innovation in our system the commission broadly agrees with the forecast for 2014 and 2015 but it's important to point out it enters a number of caveats it says that the authorities forecast that the later years of the program are optimistic I would agree with that I would have to say that in terms of sustainability I'm very much on the minus side of official Ireland and I think if you look at even the government's own analysis of the difference between the forecast for last year and the out turn for last year you'll see that the tendency to optimism is not entirely gone the commission makes the point that the achievement of budgetary targets is not supported by sufficiently detailed targets for 2015 as a result of the commission deficit forecast for 2015 is higher than the target recommended by the council the commission believes that the program's targets are consistent with the requirements of the stability and growth pact but need to be supported by specific measures from 2015 onwards it makes the point that medium term budgetary plans are not supported by when specified adjustment measures and are subject to revisions at the time of annual budget decisions a very very prescient remark and I think the end of this year would be very interesting to see just what kinds of revisions we might see then and finally it says that the medium term expenditure ceilings are not sufficiently constrained by legally binding specific adjustments I think perhaps that point has been dealt with but I agree with the view that the forecast for the period after 2015 are optimistic not to be fair, the government's documents point out in a number of places that there are qualifications to the presentation and the stability program itself as presented by the government contains a sensitivity analysis on page 26 which I think is a very useful addition to the documentation for the rest, the commission's quibbles seem to me to be rather disingenuous because the European semester process itself gives the commission and the council further opportunities to have an input into the process before it's finalised they get another bite of the cherry before the budget proposals in October so it seems to me that some of those caveats are there just to make us all believe that the commission is alive and well and doing the work it's supposed to do but there are not things to worry about hugely but there are some further caveats and some qualifications that they make before coming to the recommendations the commission says that there is further scope to improve the efficiency and growth friendliness system and that there is scope to improve the effectiveness of environmental tax instruments and scope for removing environmentally harmful subsidies I was amused to see a letter in the Irish Times the other day from a resident of a housing estate in Cork who said yesterday the Ischga Eirin people were here installing metres there was no protest and there were no media here to record the fact that there was no protest I wonder if that's what the commission has in mind when it talks about the effectiveness of environmental tax instruments in the health sector it says financial management and accounting systems and processes are fragmented across healthcare providers this hinders the monitoring of healthcare expenditure and efforts to achieve value for money and an appropriate allocation of resources I wonder have they reflected on the effectiveness of binding expenditure ceilings in that sector there seems to me to be a real problem there maybe the bindingness isn't big enough or maybe the ceilings aren't appropriate but there is an issue there that will certainly come up before the end of this year it makes the point that is the commission in its commentary on the recommendations it says replacement rates are relatively high for the long term unemployed with low income potential and other categories of workers depending on family circumstances I have to say that I find that remark to be crass in the extreme it speaks of replacement rates being relatively high for long term unemployed with low income potential the long term unemployed with low income potential are people who are in danger of remaining long term unemployed so the very concept of replacement rates for those people is absolutely irrelevant and I think if we're going to have a look at reordering our social support system we shouldn't start from that kind of point it makes the point that dedicated schemes and funds have been put in place to improve access to finance for SMEs but so far the take-up has been low that's actually quite true and I'm not sure if we have fully understood the reasons for that take-up being low there is of course a new provision with German provided funds specifically to be directed at SMEs and it would be interesting to see how that is organised and how it actually works out in practice and it makes the point that John has mentioned already about household and SME delivery continuing the recommendations on the hold seem to me to be rather well focused and I don't think that in terms of general direction the government will have any major problem with them but there are a couple of specific points I'd like to make about this first one the process of pursuing a structural adjustment towards the medium term objective of reducing the deficit by at least 0.5% of GDP a year and putting the general government deficit on a sustained downward path will be extremely difficult in the current monetary climate and I come back to this issue of the monetary policy underpinning if we don't have a properly active and effective monetary policy approach all of this process is going to last for much longer and it's going to continue to be extremely difficult and painful second comment I'd make is that there's a recommendation number four which includes the proposal to tackle low work intensity of households and address the poverty risk of children through tapered withdrawal of benefits and supplementary payments upon return to employment that seems to me to be absolutely essential and long overdue and it makes me very very angry to reflect that we first started talking about the need to taper benefits on return to employment over 30 years ago 30 years ago there might have been some excuse for it at that point we had information systems in the Department of Health and the Department of Social Welfare we had multiple information data retention systems in those departments that couldn't even talk to each other within those departments in the meantime we've had P parts which has been one of the great fiascos of our time but surely we should have arrived at the point today where our public expenditure system could operate a tapered system on return to employment and get rid for good and all of this business these arguments that we constantly have about whether or not there are poverty traps we know that there are and there is no great rocket science in figuring out what needs to be done to get rid of them but we're still at the point where we haven't even begun to think about how we would do this mind you if I could betray for a moment to your great surprise I would have to say that our system had been damned for generations by this nonsensical idea of universal entitlement so beloved of left-wing parties around the world but that's maybe another day's work but it does seem to me that if we could ever get some effective outside pressure on our benighted system to operate a tapering production of benefits we would do something really worthwhile for groups of people in our society who have been very badly served third comment I'd make is that recommendation number six asks the government to announce ambitious targets for the conclusion of the restructuring of mortgage loans in rears of more than 90 days again that seems to me to be long overdue I remember a time not so long ago when one of the senior people in the central bank got great thoughts for describing the banks as teenagers who hadn't yet grown up in the way they were approaching their job I think it was probably a well merited comment but it seems to me that it's time for both the central bank and our government administration to move past the points they have reached they need to be more determinadly prescriptive in telling the banks and mortgage lenders how to deal with this issue John has just said and I'm not sure that he would be too keen on being fully taken up literally on it but provision has been made in the recapitalisation of our financial institutions for what was seem to be or considered to be the risk to their balance sheets at the time of the recapitalisation that's making all the qualifications in advance but it seems to me that the prospect of capital write downs having to be made is inevitable for all of the financial institutions certainly for mortgages that are in new years whatever solution that they choose even today's most optimistic property market observers and isn't it interesting to notice how our national newspapers property supplements are getting to look more and more like the way they did in the middle of the boom but I don't think even the most optimistic guilders of the lily in that business would expect prices to get back anywhere near where they were in 2006 in the immediate future so starting out the problems of mortgage holders in new years whatever way it's done whether it's by repossession or by-to-let or split mortgages or simply that write down is going to be a costly business and I think the principle of making an effective change quickly applies here also if they're going to take a capital hit which they are they should take it rapidly but the problem is quickly as we can and finally get to the point where the fundamentals of the economy are beginning to work and to mean what they look like meaning on the surface having said all that as I said at the beginning I think this whole process is a huge improvement in the way that we can look at budgetary policy and I hope that it's taken really by all of those here that I could say that it would be taken equally seriously by the million and a half people who vote in this country but that's probably for another day thank you


Okay, folks, Larry Pesseveno with the update for TFNN, and we have guess what, folks? This is Greenpeace Day because everything is green today. You can't find anything that is red on the market today. I don't believe. Nope. It's Christmas Day. There's only one thing. And that is a little bit of Dr. Copper is the only one that's down truly an amazing event here. We had a big bottom in the Treasury bonds yesterday and it appears and there's a talk now that maybe some of these interest rates will not be going through. All I know is that yesterday when we made that bottom down there at 3923, the whole world came in and started to buy. And it was actually when we were on the air yesterday, which we'll discuss when we get to my show here in just a little bit. Our guest today will be Stan Harley. And as you know, Stan has been bullish on the shorter term. He thinks we're going to get substantially above that 40 level. And we're certainly very, very close to that 40 level right now, trading around 39, I think what, 3940 or something like that, 3939. So it's going to be very, very close to get above that today. So we'll be paying close attention to that. Also crude oil folks has had a huge swing today. We were down $3 a barrel. Now we're up almost $3 a barrel. So that swing is just an amazing swing when you stop and think it moves 5% in one day. So something big is out there, folks. So just remember that if you don't use stops, you know, you're telling mother market that you don't know what you're doing. And by golly, guess what? She doesn't like to hear that. So let's pay attention to that for sure. Stay tuned, folks. We will have Stan Harley as our guest here at the half hour break. Next Monday, I believe we're going to have Bill Meridian of Cycles Research out of Vienna, Austria will be our guest. We'll also have Jeff Hughes of Alpha Insights. And with a little bit of luck, Peter Lides will come on this coming week, hopefully on the Friday. So we'll be looking at, of course, Wednesday will be my full day of trading. I wish it would have been today, folks, with volatility like this. This is really spectacular. We'll take a break.<PHONE_NUMBER>. We'll be right back.