So John chapter number 12, I'm going to jump back into John 11 this Sunday evening, but for now, and we'll talk about that a little bit more on this Sunday evening, so that's a little odd, but we're in John chapter 12. We're entering the latter part of the ministry of Jesus. He's about to head into Jerusalem, and there is this story at the beginning of John chapter 12 that I want to kind of cut up a little bit. But tonight, I'm going to look at this part, a certain part of this story, and preach a very practical sermon for you tonight. So this will be a very applicable sermon. Everything in the Bible is applicable to our lives, but hopefully tonight, we can help you out a little bit. We can look at some things in the Bible. We can come out of here stronger and wiser than when we came. Look at John chapter 12 and verse number 1. The Bible says, then six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. So this just happened in John chapter 11. There they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. I'm going to cover the anointing and the oil in another separate sermon, but we're going to look at this next part that happens tonight. Look at verse number 4. It says, then say one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him. Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor? So then this he said, and not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and bear what was put therein. So what happens is Mary anoints Jesus' feet with oil, and that has some big connotations to it, and I'm going to preach a whole specific sermon on that, on the kingship, on the death, and the burial of Jesus that is coming up. But there's a lot of things that the oil signifies there. We'll talk about that at a different time. But it's interesting because Judas pipes up here as one of the disciples. Judas pipes up and says, why was this expensive ointment not sold so we could have the money and give it to the poor? And of course that's a very strange thing just on its face to see that happen because it wasn't his ointment in the first place. And why would it be his to sell? And he causes this, really what happens here is you see some strife in the room from what Mary is doing. And of course the Bible kind of gives us the answer here in verse number 6 that of course we know from other parts of the Bible who Judas is and what he's all about. But he didn't say this because he actually wanted to take the money and give it to the poor. He wanted to steal the money. It's what he wanted. He was a greedy person. He wanted to steal the money. This was kind of Judas' modus operandi in general aside from the fact that he's known for just betraying Jesus. He was known for just being greedy, being a thief and literally selling out Jesus Christ. Turn to Matthew chapter 26. So this story is in Matthew and Mark and at the end of this story in Matthew we see in verse number 14 of Matthew chapter 26. We see that it kind of calls out Judas here and it says in verse number 14 you know it gives the details of Jesus actually selling out or Judas actually selling out Jesus when he went to the Pharisees in Matthew 26 where the Bible says then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot same guy went under the chief priest and said unto them what will ye give me and I will deliver him unto you and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. So what does he get? He wants money to sell out Jesus. What did he want from the ointment? He wanted money from the ointment. So what I want to do tonight is I want to talk a little bit about covetousness of course but I want to just point out first of all that Jesus with the disciples here there was strife here. There was strife in this room, in this situation and tonight I just want to show you you know how to identify and delete all strife in your life. Now who likes strife? I mean raise your hand if you like strife in your life and I'm going to talk about strife in general. We got one in the back that likes strife and her dad's like no you don't. But anyway so strife we're going to talk about it in general from a you know a nation perspective, a global perspective but really the application tonight is personal strife and it's going to give you the Bible is going to give you the answer here using this story from Judas on where all strife comes from and how to you know basically get rid of. Look if you could master do I think any of us can master what I'm going to talk about tonight? Probably not but if you could master what we're going to talk about what I'm going to show you from the Bible tonight you could live a strife free life theoretically if you could master this because the Bible is literally going to tell you where it comes from and how to get rid of it. All right so I mean Judas wanted the money that's what caused the strife here that's the definition turn to James chapter four and let's talk a little bit about things that you should not want in your life. Look at James chapter four and look at verse number one. So the first thing that we're going to do tonight is we're just going to look at desire. All right before we go into covetousness and all these things we're going to look at desire. All right we're going to look at desire in general. Look at James chapter four and verse number one. The Bible says from when come wars and fighting among you come they not hence even of your lusts that wore in your members. Now look at the next verse it says ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not because ye ask not. So verse number one basically explains and this can be applied to nations or it can be applied to individuals. All right it's saying all conflict comes from what you don't have. That's what the Bible is saying here. Look but here's what you need to understand we all want things. Do we not? Do we not all desire things? Desire. So look desire in general is what we need to tackle first because every single person every single day has desires in their life. Man woman child whatever it is every single person is going to go through every single day every single hour and they're going to desire certain things and what we need to understand is what are the good things that can come from desire and what are the bad things that can come from that desire and how can I tell the difference. So look every person has it it's normal to desire things it's normal to desire natural things is normal all right it is normal but look bad things can come from desire that's what James chapter four is telling us so what kind of bad things well the first thing it brings up is wars I mean like literal wars where do they come from they come from desires they come from lust what does that mean people want stuff you say I don't know what causes war look all war comes from desire all of it all war comes from desire of someone some nation some group of people some leader whatever it is desiring something desiring what desiring resources desiring I mean what are resources the resource I mean gold silver mineral lithium oil whatever you want people I mean you name it throughout history every single war can be just drilled down to somebody that wanted something resources land you know land is a resource production crops drugs heroin right opium what are we doing in Afghanistan I'm just kidding I mean here power power somebody that just desires power desires desires you know what kind of power military power maybe they desire economic power maybe war is good for the economy maybe war is good for certain businesses look it's because people want something every single war is this way I mean revenge or you know justice is an excuse to just go and get what you want many times I mean so are you and I'm not going to spend this is that's not what the sermon is about is war but I'm just saying like I'm showing you the blanket statement of James chapter four that all war comes from this all war comes from people desiring things all war so you say well can I never be for war well no because if somebody comes to take those things from you then that's a that's a justifiably defensive war now that gets you know that's self-defense right but the point is war aside it's a blanket statement in James chapter four and it's not just talking about wars it's talking about just fighting among who among you among you you're not a nation you are people you are individuals it's talking about desire is causing strife desire is causing fighting amongst you so the main the main point of the sermon tonight is that desire can cause fighting and strife on an interpersonal level and that's what I really want to focus on tonight because look we can't really control what all these you know principalities and powers in this world are doing but guess what you can control what you do you can control your desires or I hope you can control your desires if you can't control your desires you're going to have a lot of strife in your life so look on an interpersonal level strife and conflict James chapter four is telling us comes from somebody wanting something somebody wants what somebody wants stuff somebody wants recognition somebody wants money like Judas he wants something somebody wants a job somebody wants influence somebody wants power people all the same things that I just went through it's this desire that can cause strife because other people don't think they have it or they should have it that's where the conflict comes in you think on a personal level that you want these things whatever those things are that I just listed somebody else thinks you shouldn't have those things and there's the conflict there is the strife and look somebody's right somebody's wrong and according to the bible we can kind of unlock this mystery but the point is this all bad comes from desire of some kind that's the main thing before we dig into this but you say well pastor isn't there good desires I mean I have desires can I have desires in my life aren't there good to sure there's good desires there's good desires and there's bad desires turn to proverbs chapter 18 let's look at some good desires let's look at some good desires so we know what bad desires are is basically somebody wanting something that's you know not theirs or well just wanting something that other people don't think that they should have and then we have conflict right but look at there's some good desires I mean for men the bible says that a desire to have a wife is is good that's a good thing look at proverbs 18 in verse number 22 the bible says this it says who so find it the wife findeth a good thing so to have a desire to have a wife is a good thing that is good but now look at this it says and obtain a favor of the lord now this is just a little side note but I used to be a digital logic circuit designer and that whenever I see the words and and or and things like that I just I really pay attention to those words and if I desired a wife and I didn't have a wife I would pay super I would pay a lot of attention to this verse because the bible is saying who so findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtain a favor of the lord meaning what favor of the lord and a wife are found together those two things go hand in hand so if I wanted a wife and I didn't have a wife I would be searching to crack open that box that had the favor of the lord in it I would be trying to figure out how to get obtain the favor of the lord and I bet you I find a wife there it's kind of like oh favor the lord there it is I figured it out and it's like oh there's a wife that's basically what this verse is saying all right so that's not really the point of the sermon but desiring a wife is a good thing that's the the first point that's a good thing to desire so search out the favor of the lord and you'll possibly find a wife in the same boat up package all right how about this how about this money you're like I I'm broke and I need to pay my electric bill I really desire money right now is that bad to desire money to pay your electric bill no it is not it is not a bad thing to desire money to desire a job to desire things that are necessary for you in your life I mean women we talked about this or maybe I talked about it at first works but women inherently desire like it's just kind of coded into them they inherently desire a family and especially children women desire that and if you don't believe that you must not know any women because women have that coded into them they want children they want a family they want all these things and that's why feminism is so wicked another little side note here feminism is so wicked and evil because it literally robs women of the things that they truly desire god has put a desire romans 215 in the conscience of young women to desire a family to desire children gives them that nurturing nature and the world tries to teach them no no no no you don't desire children you desire a cubicle many women fall for this and then they wonder why they wake up 40 50 years old and they are completely miserable in their lives feminism is robbing you know it's it's convincing women to trade in a good desire for something that is just garbage basically something that they should not desire at all but the point is there are good desires in this life okay there's good desires now turn to Deuteronomy chapter number five so there's bad desires and there's good desires all right now I don't really like blanket statements but I'm going to throw out a blanket statement this evening all strife all strife you say I want to know how to get rid of strife all strife is wanting something someone has or having something someone else wants that is where all strife comes from that statement right there and I'm going to show you tonight that without the bible let me say that again let me say that again all strife comes from wanting something someone else has or having something someone else wants all strife comes from that and the only way to decode who is right in that situation is with the bible and I'm going to show you examples tonight of if you don't have the bible how you will get it exactly wrong and how it's been pushed the opposite of what the bible says has been pushed down our throats for decades to the point where our society around us is accepting the opposite of what the bible says and then you wonder why is there so much strife because we've accepted the exact opposite of what the bible teaches the bible teaches how to get rid of strife the world is teaching exactly the opposite of what the bible says and we have all this strife and we're just going to have more and more strife look down at deuteronomy chapter 5 and look at verse number 21 this is impossible to decipher without the bible it's impossible to crack this code without the bible chew on that atheist that just thinks that we should all follow our own morality I'm going to show you where that goes look at deuteronomy chapter 5 and verse number 21 the bible says neither shall thou what desire thy neighbor's wife neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's house his field or his man servant or his maid servant his ox his ass or anything that is thy neighbor's that's pretty inclusive there pretty much covers it or anything else it says that's thy neighbor's but it says notice it says it doesn't say you should not run off with your neighbor's wife it says you should not even isn't that kind of like exactly what jesus said when he said to even to lust after another woman is adultery in your heart he said you should not even desire thy neighbor's wife neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's house I mean because look I mean jesus knows what comes from the heart then you start to go and you do those things look you should not even desire the things that are not yours and should never be yours is what the bible is teaching in deuteronomy chapter number five he hasn't taken anything deuteronomy five no one has taken anything to covet to lust after is to simply want it and that's where strife comes from that's where fighting come from that's where problems come from you say well deuteronomy five 21 that's pretty I mean that is pretty I mean who would disagree with that well like the the world around us that's who you say your pastor you're crazy what are you talking about look just look at the very first sentence thou shalt not desire thy neighbor's wife is there any is there any details there given now she'll not desire thy neighbor's wife unless her husband is a jerk unless you know there's like she finds somebody else that like is her soulmate or something hollywood has been pushing the opposite of this for decades in the movies I can't tell you how many movies I can remember from the 80s where some guy is portrayed as a jerky husband or whatever I'm pretty sure it's gone the other way to where some wife is a bad wife and then the wife meets some perfect guy or something and it's literally a romantic love story about some woman running off with some guy that is not her husband I mean these and these are these movies have been celebrated they're they're as edgy I mean they've been celebrated they've been given awards all these different things both sides of it men running off with you know husbands running off with women that they fall in love with and then wives running off with men that they fall in love with and all that look it's just two simple steps I read one time I read a book one time that said literally hollywood is five story lines just redone and it's so true because it's basically the same the same methodology every single time all they do is they they demonize the other the spouse the other spouse by making him or her a jerk or a a bad wife or whatever it is and then they just have the other spouse the the other one that you they're trying to get you to feel sorry for fall in love with someone else in love and so there they've destroyed Deuteronomy 521 they destroyed the fact that you know a man can have his wife and that you should not desire somebody else's wife or desire somebody else's husband the other way as well and then they've completely destroyed the term love and I mean you wonder like you look at what people are substituting love for today and you know they started destroying that back in the 60s and 70s they started just replacing it with lust really really they what they they did successfully in hollywood was they took this bad desire for something that you should not have something that is not yours this lust as James chapter 4 would call it and they successfully replaced it and redefined it as love and the whole country the whole western world swallowed the hook I mean look at and you're like why why is the divorce rate you know what is it 60 70 percent depending on who you talk to why is that well look what's happened turn to Proverbs chapter 5 so without the Bible the world will get it exactly wrong that's why the Bible is important look at Proverbs chapter 5 how about how about other things how about desiring not not coveting you know all these other things the house the field the land the ox all these different all the stuff all the things look at Proverbs chapter 5 in verse number 15 what's the Bible say what's the Bible say it says drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well meaning you own it drink your own stuff use your own things don't go and covet somebody else's stuff cistern water Deuteronomy 5 21 how about this go to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 the Bible is very clear on other people's things and even other people's labor look at 2nd Thessalonians chapter number 3 2nd Thessalonians chapter number 3 look at verse number 12 so we're looking at what the Bible says in a little bit more detail of Deuteronomy 5 21 just looking at what the Bible says about those things about that water cisterns land ox all the other any other thing that is thy neighbor's look at 2nd Thessalonians chapter number 3 what about your neighbor's work what about what your neighbor does what about his his accomplishments the things that he's built all these things now them look at verse number 12 now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness so there was these people that weren't working there's these people that weren't working I mean sounds like a problem right that with quietness they what they work and what they eat their own bread so here you see the stuff and you see the labor so the Bible here is saying that your labor should be yours your labor is your property the Bible is very clear about this and from your labor will come your own stuff that other people should not covet they shouldn't covet your labor and they shouldn't covet the things that come from your labor because why it's yours that's why the Bible is very clear on that so what would you call it if you were stealing someone's labor that's kind of a weird concept isn't it like like if I would just like steal a brother's labor I mean say I say I just took somebody and I just like I stole all their labor like like I basically took them I stole them well the Bible calls that men stealing the Bible calls that stealing a man in Exodus what is it Exodus chapter 21 and he that stealeth a man you know the Bible says should be put to death stealing a man is stealing his labor that's why they stole men they stole men so they could have their labor and the Bible saying your labor is your property it's a property that we've completely just forgotten about today we dismiss today but the the point is what is the world teaching here I'm telling you without the Bible we can't decipher this without the Bible the world will get it completely wrong you're like pastor you're crazy well the the world teaches that if one person has too much none of this applies well what do you mean too much what is what is too much well we'll decide what that is we'll tell you what too much is we'll tell you what rich is we'll define we'll define what defines too much but the point is the Bible doesn't give permission for any of that the Bible says that a person's labor is their property and you're not to covet someone's property you're not to desire you're not to even you're not to not only aren't you not to take it you're not even supposed to want it you're not even supposed to have a desire for it we're well beyond that in the society that we live in I mean so what it was this is a government that takes labor from some and it gives it to other it's not biblical at all based on some made-up metric based on some made-up number based on turn to Acts chapter 17 how about this one based on race and you get in trouble here but guess what the Bible says that there is no race look at Acts chapter 17 and verse number 26 oh pastor you really you know watch the news there's races everywhere it's race this race that the Bible says there's one race look at the Bible in verse number 26 of Acts chapter 17 the Bible says in heth made made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth and not determine the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation there's one blood on this earth and again and again and again the New Testament is telling us forget about genealogies it doesn't matter what color you are it doesn't matter who your parents were it doesn't matter any of these things you all have the same access to Jesus Christ the same access to salvation the same access to the truth and to have people try to divide people along lines that the Bible says don't exist is wicked as hell and you know what it's bad for the people that they're trying to give things to it's bad for the people that they're trying to you know but the problem is people that fall below the line where the government says you know these people don't have enough and we need to give them they're they're generally four people give they shouldn't be though because the Bible says based on any metric somebody's labor somebody's goods those belong to them and nobody should desire those things based on anything especially made up things which they all have to be made up things because none of it is truthful none of it is biblical as a matter of fact as a matter of fact we're starting to see something here where biblical values are under direct attack today they're under a direct attack by a new word today and this new word is this word called privilege and basically privilege is you know so they're trying to attack someone that comes from privilege and what is privilege privilege is things like having growing up with a mom and a dad you're privileged if you grew up with a mom and a dad you have privilege take four steps forward or whatever if you grew up with a mom and a dad who are still married you're extra privileged if you grew up this we're gonna get crazy now if you grew up with a mom who stayed home and raised you you are extremely privileged take 20 steps forward and this is being used as an attack on people who grew up in a family that followed the bible guess what they're being punished for it so we are punishing privilege in the in the the sick twisted world of socialism and trying to level the playing field what we're doing is punishing biblical values let me give you a quick study of the bible in two sentences what happens when you punish something you get less of it what happens when you reward something kids you get more of it so what is going to happen with this philosophy that we're heading into we are going to get less and less biblical families moms dads moms that stay home and what are we seeing today what's under attack the family's under attack state keepers at home are demonized today the economy is rigged against a one-income family today it's not an accident it's on purpose it's because the world is exactly the opposite is teaching exactly the opposite is that just a coincidence no it's because the god of this world is trying to undo everything that god is trying to do in the bible and guess what as more and more and more of the opposite of deuteronomy 5 21 and 2nd Thessalonians 3 and proverbs chapter 5 is more and more of that is pushed and privilege is punished biblical morality is punished and the twisted morality of satan is rewarded you're going to get more of that and less of this and guess what what's going to go up strife is going to go up strife everywhere strife in the family strife in the in the community strife in the nation strife in the world is going to go up you know what strife in your personal lives is going to go up and you find me a parent who has done everything the way the world has has done told them to do things and has lost their children and I'll show you someone that is full of strife and is full of conflict no matter what they believe or don't believe so the key to strife is managing desire and using the bible as the master key of what desire is good and what desire is bad how about this one land I probably shouldn't even went to this one lands a tough one lands a tough one because really in the bible so yeah it says don't covet your neighbor's land don't covet his property but really in the bible when it comes to land like the old testament is really the only time god actually gave people specific pieces of land so I mean we could this is probably more of a conversation after church but really all you can really go with is right of conquest on this one once a treaty signed you know that's it that's their land that's pretty much all you could do and then you go into collective defense and all those things turn to Proverbs chapter 10 that's not really the point of the sermon I'm talking about the individual tonight try how to get rid of strife in your life the main point is this all strife comes from people desiring things that aren't theirs that's the point of the sermon or having things that they shouldn't have because they desired things that weren't theirs and they followed through on those desires so you want no strife here's the answer make sure our desires are within biblical boundaries check your desires on a daily basis check the things that you want and measure them against the lens of the bible filter them through the truth of the bible and make sure you know hey is god okay with me having that is is is it mine is it mine to to have is it does it come from here's there's one does it come from my labor this thing that I'm desiring here's here's another one by the way that you could desire that's not yours information you could desire information and you could get information that you have no business having that's where gossip comes in that's where I mean you say what kind of strife you know strife can come from that gossip backbiting railing you name it it comes from wanting information that you have no business knowing if it doesn't affect you if it's not in your wheelhouse if it's not in your scope of control that god has given you your scope of authority then you shouldn't even want to know that information but the point is this unjust desire or did you turn to Proverbs chapter 10 unjust desire if followed through on again remember desire is just the beginning this is I mean this is kind of the nice thing about the Christian life if you know the bible and the better you know the bible you the better these things will pop out to you the better that oh okay this is not you know and look it's like a it's like a scale the more and more and more you learn the bible read the bible hear the bible preached these things will become more obvious to you earlier and let me tell you something one thing that you want to be very obvious to you very early is an unjust desire a want of something that you have no business wanting that you have no business having because if you're some fool that just follows the flesh and can't understand you know desires that come you you don't know the bible you just going to follow through on those desires and you're going to end up having a bunch of things that you should not have and then you are going to have nothing but strife so for the christian for the christian to follow through on unjust desires it's it's a fool's errand i'm not saying you're please understand me i'm not saying you are never going to have an unjust desire i'm not saying you're never going to have a lust but as a christian who knows the bible just like the sermon sunday morning the key to success in the christian life is identifying these things early and crushing them quickly that is the key to success and the more you know god's word the earlier the better your radar gets the farther out you can see that trouble coming but if you're some dummy it doesn't know the bible and you go out and just go out drinking with all your dummy friends what's the bible say some strange woman's going to get you you're going to get caught by this the stupidest things you're going to get caught by the simple things you want to be the one that has a hundred mile radar and now you have an unjust desire you have a lust and you're like no i'm after i'm after you know the favor of the lord here and you crush that thing like a bug and it can never hurt you it can never turn from that unjust desire to that unjust gain and the way that you have to look at is in proverbs chapter 10 here the way that you have to be like i really really want it though i really really want whatever this sin is or whatever this you know desire or lust that that is easily taking you down but what you have to tell yourself is that the bible is true that's all you have to tell yourself because you can't win there if you're saved tonight and you've trusted on the Lord Jesus Christ and he's sealed you you cannot win with unjust gain you can't win that game it's like playing a game of chess that you like it's impossible to win why who would play look at proverbs chapter 10 verse number two i mean there's so many verses about this but basically this is it right here it says treasures of wickedness profit nothing but righteousness delivereth from death you can't win the game you want to get the radars you can see a hundred miles out you want to crush it right away because following through with it you know you're going to lose you can't win anyways nothing will come from it that is good for you or anyone around you and look the fall will be worse than you could ever imagine and the damage will be worse than you ever saw coming and even to those that aren't you to people around you look at Judas how did his unjust gain work for him he went back he didn't even keep the money he got the silver he went back and he threw the silver back into the temple and they went out and they didn't know what to do with it they're like they just went they bought this field and he literally felt so he literally was so overcome and so crushed that he went out and he killed himself in that field and he wasn't even saved imagine you there is no way to win with unjust gain but the good news is if you get the radar dialed in and you can crush it early you can get rid of all the strife you don't have to have strife in your life can you imagine having a strife free life i mean at least from the things you do anyway not to say you're not going to run into wicked evil people and persecution and all these those things but at least don't bring strife in don't be a strife factory and this is how you can get strife out of the bounds of your life out of your home out of your life out of your family out of your marriage don't desire things that aren't yours and when you do get rid of it quickly let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


Have you ever wondered how to expand your service mesh for your specific business needs? Perhaps you need to add external authorization or advanced rate limiting, or maybe you want to add customer logic in your data paths to perform dynamic routing or policy enforcement. I would like to talk about service mesh extensibility patterns to help you with service mesh. Hi, my name is Lin Sa. I am the director of open source with Solar.io. I have been a long time contributor to the Israel project. I'm a maintainer and currently also serve the technical oversight committee of Israel. So before we get to service mesh extensibility, let's talk about what is a service mesh? As part of the journey to cloud native organizations, many challenges will manage microservices such as connecting, securing, and observing needs microservices. Why? Because microservices comes with a lot of challenges with one monolithic to many, many, many services. These services needs to connect to each other. You need to understand what if the network has failure, how do you do retry and timeout, do you render errors, and how do you observe what really goes on within these microservices so that you can tell which team may have a problem. And also how do you actually secure the communication among these microservices so that your security team would actually be happy with the microservice framework you have. So service mesh in the nutshell is really to help you with these problems so that you don't have to handle how do you connect to other services, how do you secure other services, how do you send the telemetry data, how do you observe your services in your application container and the service mesh provides the proxy for you that you can run alongside with your application container. And also most importantly, the service mesh provides API to allow you to declare infection on how you want to config these proxies and then the service mesh would automatically config these proxies for you so that the proxy would follow your intention but in a language that the proxy can understand. In Istio, the API you interact as a user is the Istio API which is a much higher level abstraction on top of the envoy configuration and the Istio pipeline would essentially turn that customer resource you provided following Istio API contract into the proxy configuration of envoy which easily could be tens and thousands of code of envoy configuration with just a few microservices. So there's strong reason you don't want to do that configuration yourself, you'd rather leverage a service mesh control plan to program the cycle for you. So today we're going to talk about what if the default control plan and data plan doesn't fit your business needs and you want to extend that. So let's talk about the data plan extensibility first. So at the bottom of the layer we have two applications and these applications are as possible a data plan as you can see when app one needs to talk to app two essentially the proxy is the main in the middle to mediate the traffic right each application container has its own proxy as a cycle running within the same pod namespace using Kubernetes as an example. So you might be wondering how does that happen right so how does traffic always goes in and out of the proxy. So we think Istio we have something called unique container that set up the IP table rules for the pod so that it programally config how the traffic are intercepted and redirected on their pod. In fact the first customization point we're going to talk about is the unique container in the Istio project itself we support using any container to complete the IP tables as the default configuration but some of the organization may find out it's really against their security rules to have like that admin privilege to deploy applications into the net because any container needs to config the networking IP table so it needs the net admin privilege. So in those case we provide on something called Istio CNI plugin so the organization could use Istio CNI plugin to config the IP tables it runs as a demon set on your Kubernetes worker nodes and it would allow the the demon set to config the pods as they are added to the mesh it configs the IP table rules what the any container in those case does instead of programally config the IP table rule it simply just validates the IP table rules are good and then finishes the initialization work so that the proxy and the application container can take effect. The second extension point is really the proxy image so the proxy image we in Istio you can plug in your own image so that's one way to extend the second way to extend is you change the proxy config which we provide a config map that dictates how you want the default configuration template to be and you could certainly customize that too you may want to customize a pilot agent or you may want to add some libraries onto the proxy image or you may want to trim down the proxy image to provide your own image to do that before you convince the upstream or maybe upstream doesn't have an interest because it's on your own private scenario. The third customization we're going to talk about is Envoy filter so Envoy filter it essentially allows you to customize the proxy configuration at Envoy level to the language that Envoy can understand it's a very detailed API that you have to understand exactly you know what Envoy configuration looks like and how you want to patch it so for example some of the common scenario we see all our customer do is maybe enable access log for the proxy of this a little bit so the fourth one we commonly see is using Vydom to be able to provide customizations so the reason Vydom is really interesting here is because it's running in the native speed and it's very easy to test you can use a standalone isolated VM to test your proxy and your proxy extension it can do dynamic updates without Envoy restart it really eliminates the need to recompile and maintain your own build of Envoy because you could use Vydom to simply build a extension on top of it and what I like most about Vydom is really be able to store the weather plug-ins in WebAssembly Hub and be able to consume other people's plug-in so think about Hub how many of you use Docker Hub I'm sure it's a lot right be able to reuse other people's work it's fantastic so Vydom really enables you to be able to easily catalog and share their work and reuse work for other people so these are the four extensions the fifth extension points is in this diagram one thing we haven't discussed is the ingress gateway right or egress gateway so typically you would have a ingress gateway that mediates the traffic coming into the mesh and the ingress gateway you can also customize that using any of these customer logic we mentioned so you could have any container you can know most of these you don't need a unique container for ingress gateway you could customize the proxy image you could also customize the gateway using envoy filter you could also use the WebAssembly module to customize the gateway so the gateway is really different from the psychoproxy because it doesn't do automatically injection on demand so you have that proxy configuration already up front and then you can just go to the kubernetes yaml file to customize the gateway configuration so let's call that the fix by reusing some of these same techniques by those but apply on the gateway so we talked about the data plane extension points let's talk about the control plane extension points typically on the control plane side the one common extension points is built the abstraction over the service mesh api for example it's your car sales force was mentioning they build the abstraction using helm so that is one way to build abstraction ebay also mentioned they have their own abstraction using their own customer resource and solo we also build abstraction these are our blue api and that api is it's a role-based api so that you can focus on roles so that's one type of extension on the control plane side the other type of extension is in the control plane you can say i don't want my control plane to serve as a ca instead i want to plug in my own ca so you could certainly do that with your own ca so that your own ca would sign and all send all the keys and certificates for all the workloads in the mesh so these are the two common control plane extension points let's go ahead see a demo um so this is my kubernetes environment running my on my laptop cluster one as you can see so i have a kind cluster and in my cluster i have a bunch of stuff installed i have is still installed first of all i have the booking fold installed the only thing with booking fold is i didn't install version three so i have review version one or two i also have a simple example called is still in action in the is still in action namespace it's the web api example and the recommendation and the history and also the sleep so a lot of the interesting stuff you can see you know these apps are already in the mesh with the two slash two that means it has psychon next to it so what i'm going to do is i'm going to walk you through each of the configuration we talk about right so let's touch the web api for example let's check out that it's configuration so we talk about the first configuration extension point is the init container right so this is the init container used by the is still as you can see it can fix a bunch of ip table rules and it captures the incoming traffic and outgoing traffic and all that configuration is done then the proxy takes place um and the application container so one thing interesting on the proxy is you can see you know the image is highly customizable um the bunch a bunch of other configuration are also customizable and what's interesting in this scenario is we actually enable the configuration uh called hold application until true so essentially this says you know you don't start the application until the proxy is ready and this is important because some of the application uh it's right here some of the application really requires um maybe get out of the network or maybe just for security purpose they don't want the application do any job before the proxy reaches running okay so we talk about one and two let's talk about this the third one which is using our void filter right what we're going to do is apply an our filter called um web api logging audit so i'll show you what that looks like um so essentially what this does is it says hey i'm not applying this because i want to apply it to the cycle of the web api and i want to change my logging format to add these configurations an interesting configuration i would say here is like the search um and also like the the x forward for the response so that's not print out by default so let's um apply this and generate some traffic to it so we're going to do is we're going to generate some traffic from the issue in action from the sleep part in the sleep container so if you look at the sleep um sleep part in the sleep namespace you can see it's one slash one so in this case if you look at the logs it would not have um anything interesting so you can see because the search is like blank because we're not doing any search because the sleep part doesn't have cycle um so let's try to generate the traffic from the sleep container within the issue in action and you can see this time we actually have two slash two in there so let's try to look at the logs and you can see in this time the logs is print out like interesting data right the search information we ask to print the ui it's all printed out for you so this you can use this technique to check you know if the traffic is indeed mutual tis and what are the sorts and the ui are using through the two microservice communication the fourth approach we're going to show is using web assembly let me bring my um thing over so i have a filter here called my filter and in this filter um it's a written in an assembly language and in this filter the only thing i changed is um on the response header side i want to add the hollow word uh through this filter web assembly filter and let's build that so build um the filter and also push the filter to my registry in web assembly hub so you can see i'm running the was and build command um and then i'm trying to build it and then i'm also trying to push it to the hub and you can see it pushed to the hub successfully and then let's quickly validate that in the hub so this is over web assembly hub it's quickly validated in the hub okay so you can see um my filter which is the was a module i just added 30 seconds ago okay so we have our was a module in the web assembly hub let's go ahead and use it on the review version one through our local selectors i can specify this is only for review version one let's take a look at the on-way filter generated as you can see review version one wasm so the corresponding on-way filter is generated for me automatically um let's check how the filter works so what i'm going to do now is form product page to call the reviews and notice we have version one version two of review on the local cluster so you're going to see um sometimes hit the hello word sometimes not so now you can see what we have done is we build a wasm plugin and we push the plug into the hub and then through the wasm deployment configuration we brought that into our cluster and then have it applied to the review version one service so what i'm going to do is as you can see this is my cluster two on the right side and at the bottom is my management cluster so cluster two is pretty much the same as cluster one the main difference is it doesn't show it doesn't have reviews for version one version two just your simple show traffic routing i shift team and if you look at the bottom cluster which is the management cluster that i installed it has um it has the management layer so essentially um that i can deploy my abstracted api which is the robust glue api we talk about so what i'm going to do is i'm going to exit out of the management layer now what i want to do is i want to apply the virtual destination crd which is the abstraction crd we build on top of the istio resources and you can see this says i'm creating a reviews that global to represent all the review services across different cluster and the other thing i just created is traffic policy so traffic policy allow me to say you know shift to the fail over um and if local fails go ahead shift the traffic to the virtual destination um that we did just defined which is go to global okay so now i'm going to go to the cluster ones to see okay now i'm visiting the booking for the cluster ones in quest gateway as you can see right now you know it's run robbing between the clusters um because you know i have both one two three in place but now if i go here and shut down my reviews uh one and two in the first cluster uh let's see if uh if istio can handle that automatically so um let's go here and now guess what i'm expecting to only see versions three because version one and version two are down in the in the first cluster okay let's check out the configuration for these because you might be wondering what's the magic rise config like two resources traffic policy and also the virtual destination and now you have a complicated an interesting fail what scenario already played so what we're going to do is looking at the UI to help you understand what's really going on one thing i like the UI is because it allows you to to look at the debug configuration of the istio so if you go here you can actually see this is cluster one and cluster two you can see actually how many virtual services and service entry that's actually behind this thing including an on-way filter so we talk about on-way filter like in this case we actually have an on-way filter that applies to the gateway to handle the intro gateway among multi cluster and to handle the sni port 15443 to say you know for the traffic that calls for class one that global change to cluster that local so that the traffic can be forwarded from the gateway to the local service so this really shows you um the power of building abstraction and your user doesn't have to create a lot of virtual service service entry and destination it let's wrap it up as you can see service mesh extensibility are super powerful we went through different ways to extend the data plan which can be applied to the cycle proxy and also be applied to the gateways we also went through building abstraction layer on top of the service mesh api and also plugging your own ca for your service mesh we would like to have you share us your extensibility stories and see if any of these extension patterns would fit your requirements thank you very much i would love to hear any questions you guys have


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What's up y'all? I'm back with another defensive video and this one's a little more basic And what we're gonna do in this one is really give you guys an idea of how to better stop the run Pillsman asked me W. How do you stop the run? Blah blah blah? What are some things you look for to try to stop and these are just kind of principles that I had that kind of tie-in to every Single run not necessarily I form big or goal line or three wire series inside zone But essentially what you want to do here is look at the formation and how we are in the iPhone big twin tight end with two tight ends on the right So they're gonna move on to the right. So essentially you need more blockers You need more people on the right side than they have that's it's a numbers game is like real football But essentially most of the time what I won't do unless they're really killing me I won't switch my line I won't move my line at all But what you have to do and what people need to realize is to use it a weak side safety You need to understand what? Side of the formation is the weak side and which one's the strong side the strong size obviously where they have the two blockers If it's I form pro is where the one tight end is you know That's the direction to run is 90% of time the runs won't go the other way So essentially what you want to do is be on the weak side Defender that way one the blockers can take up your computer guys And you can be free to roam and scrape and make the play on the running back also I mean you have less responsibility if you user want somebody on the strong side and they run to you It's easier for you to get blocked and they get a bigger play, you know, mostly it's just about You want a user that's not really There isn't a big deal if you mess up honestly And that's why a lot of times you see us will run cover for to stop to run Now you see here if I'm sitting in cover for Alshon Jeffrey can't burn me because I have a deep blue so I can take my safety and do whatever I want with them You know because I know I have somebody covering Alshon Jeffrey deep Whereas that this was covered to I couldn't do that because I would have deep responsibility Also the other side I I don't have to worry about Earth's or sell it going on the street because I have my strong safety over there and a deep blue So I'm kind of free to do whatever I want, you know, I have no responsibility No one up top can beat me the same thing I formation and that's why another reason why we like to use it a weak side safety It's always a better person to user that way to run you can come over here and scrape down cover any runs over here Also, another thing you have to realize sometimes that You might not be able to loop in real cute like, you know, it hits thick somebody in the backfield Sometimes if you're this person you have to realize when uh-oh a run is hurting me mid run You have to realize okay instead of trying to blow the run up I have to make sure he doesn't get a touchdown make sure that I instead of taking an angle sharp down here Maybe you'll take an angle and go back like this And you know make sure he doesn't get by you at the end that you might be the last line of defense But you all you don't want to be the last line of defense That's why we use it aside and have this guy over here to to help out on a run that way So whether it be a linebacker or somebody else you always want that time I made the play running over there cuz I have they blocked everybody else and I was able to make the play This is why I mean, this is a prime example. I mean, this was a computer Computer ran this play right here and you'll see right here That I'm if I'm on this safe the free safety everybody else gets blocked my strong safety gets black I'm on him if I'm on a strong safety I would have been blocked and my in my free safety would have been all the way out of the play and this would have Got a lot more yards, but because I'm on a weak side safety There's not enough players on the strong side to block me and I'm able to come clean and make a play myself You know, that's a big deal and you have to get used to doing this And I'll also show you guys another tip essentially you gotta Learn this where they want to run now a lot of people to do closer. What happens when a formation is is even You know single back ace or something like that. So we want to hear let's find one That's that's even and doesn't have a strong side a single back ace You know what I normally do now the ball is in the middle of the field right now But I would always treat the wide side like the strong side You know cuz so if they're on a left hash I would use you know this safety because I think they would run the ball to the wide side I'm more vulnerable on the wide side. They have more room to run. So I would use it a safety on other side So that's what I would do against those close ace anything That's that's even with numbers Just treat the wide side like the strong side because the short side They don't have as much leverage to run around you and that way, you know It's not as you're not as vulnerable to the wide side or to the short side of the field Now I'll show you one more tip That's a big deal for me that I've been using for a lot of time a lot of years And that's what I want to stop to run instead of keeping my user in this deep blue because if I keep my user in this deep blue What's gonna happen is when they snap the ball is my first step is always gonna be back back because I'm not I don't you never know when your opponent's gonna snap the ball back back So if I want to stop the run what I will do is I will man up my safety on the running back Now this is a great tool to use Now I don't see a lot of people use but I definitely use it and that this what happens when they snap the ball My first step will cause my first step to go right to the running back Right to the I mean you could also blitz him or something like that But that that's for me is too drastic the blitz the direction your player gets when they blitz is out of control It's hard to use them as it's way harder to control So what I'll do most of time is just go ahead and man them up on a running back and that way my first step is always down So I can go and attack Right away, you know because I don't know when they rest at the ball I can't react fast enough. I'm not good enough I need the computers help and by manning up my safety it will go ahead and help me stop the run because my first step Computer aided will be right towards the running back Look so Here we'll go again I'll give you another shotgun run to help you out better understand what I mean by my strong side and and Stuff like that because it's something you need to implement in your defense and Allow you to go ahead and take the next step because if you if you can't stop the run the rest of defense Doesn't matter anybody can run the ball. Here you go This is just a wide trips inside zone now the same premise shotguns almost a lot easier because 90% I mean more a hundred percent of time the runs gonna go to opposite side of run back He has to run to the left because he's on the right side This was actually a lot of complaints We had in Philly about Chip Kelly's offense because they always ran out of shotgun There was no counts the other side everybody knew they would run to the left So essentially you could shift your line you and use her this safety over here man up the running back You know in that way to give us See that time I had a gap I could look air blunts of beast and practice mode once again, I'll show you in here This was bad user by me, but you mean that's what it comes down to most of the time Everybody gets picked up and I have all this free range to go and get the running back Because I'm on the back side safety I got tripped up right here, but most of the time you'll come through here Smooth and you'll be able to grab the running back or you could have picked this other gap to go get it grabbed the running back That's just an example why you always use the backside safety He has less responsibility and past coverage. He won't get blocked because he's he's an extra number There's not enough numbers to block the backside safety on run plays and Man up your user on the running back so the computer helps you with the first snap the first second of the play the computer Helps you go and writes it and running back Now use all these tips to help stop the run out of every formation goal line Shotgun doos clothes whatever you want use these little tips little secrets that we use it as professional players And I use a lot when people try to run the ball on me Let me know if you like this video if you did please hit the like button Please hit the subscribe butt I'm trying to grow and I want to keep put on these defensive videos To give you all small tips and even basic stuff that you know So most of time I think people already know but I'm starting to learn that you know People need help with everything and that's what I'm here to do So go ahead like comment and please hit that sub button. 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Now I'm just going to run over my shoulder, it's always wrestling. As you can even start to correct it, a lot of times when you can't get this and this, this and this, it's just a habit. I'm going to hand over the top and barge and stuff like that, get your leg in, come into a turn together.


That means they're going to be testing that. She sounds healthy. The fact that she's running this fast in like three degrees celsius and cold rain. So essentially they blocked the last block section to test if that train at the top of the lift would be stopped by the PLC system. And now that it's cleared, the PLC system will tell the train on the top that it's good to go. You should see that start any second. Unless now they're going to test the one at the bottom of the lift. Unless they're now going to test the one at the bottom of the lift. Shouldn't do the PLC system been cleared. Block testing. That train was. She's running so slow. You can, I don't even hear the train activating. Apollo's chariot is way better. You hear that sound? It almost sounds like thunder with that clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk. And look how slow she's running after that.  It runs so much better.


This is gonna be a great sister to sister. There's a question about when someone gives you a word from the Lord. Oh, how about this word from Jesus? Love your enemies. Oh, find out what the sisters think coming up next. Welcome to Sister to Sister. I'm here with five of my best friends. We are women of God and we take your questions and we answer them from our hearts which are filled with the Bible. So I hope that you enjoy this question and it goes like this. Well, this is really good. You wrote, I sit with my friends and they talk about God moving in their lives. I rejoice with them, but I don't see God doing much for me. What am I doing wrong? Well, what are you doing for God? That's my first thing. Okay, Amy. Well, first of all, thank God you have friends that are talking about God moving in their life and that so I would start and I would just say open your eyes to all that God is doing in your life. And I would say it out of my mouth. Today I thank you, God, you're moving in my life. Thank you, God, you're moving in my kids. Thank you, God, you're moving and doing great things with my husband. Thank you, Lord, even my house. I feel your presence in my house. I feel you moving. I thank you, Lord, I'm having dreams and visions. You're speaking to me. I thank you, Lord, I can sit in your presence and in worship and at your word. I thank you, Lord, for great friends. They hear from, like I would change the narrative of what I'm saying. I don't see God moving in my life. I don't feel it happening. I would stop that immediately. God is moving in your life. If you'll just kind of shift your perspective and open your eyes. That's so good. Shift it, shift it. What do you have, girls? Somebody? You know, I just thought of this scripture and I'm not sure where it is but when we compare ourselves amongst ourselves we become foolish. I love what Amy said. She is this cheerleader for the Lord. You've got to do those things and also you've got to remember that God showed his great love for you in that while you were a sinner, Christ died for you. If he does nothing else for you, you've got to thank him like Amy said that he died for you and you're going to live forever for him. And like Kathy said, what are you doing for him? What is he doing for you? So I agree with both of you are saying but I want to hit it from a different angle because there are definitely times that you don't see what God is doing and that's why we're not moved by what we see and that takes a great take of spiritual discipline to get us to that point. So I would encourage the person to just begin to journal. Just journal your day. Not necessarily even looking for what God has done but as you journal it, I believe that you'll begin to see it. Here's the other thing. Things happen in the timing of God. And so I don't know what this person is identifying as a blessing or what they are identifying as God moving in their life. But what I have learned is that Flo needed the expansion in her own spirit man to receive the blessing that God was pouring out so that I could be a good steward over the blessing. Why? Because he said I'll bless you and make you a blessing. And perhaps if he poured the blessing out on me too soon, I would not be in a position or have the mindset to share the blessing or to operate from the overflow.  What are they supposed to journal? Like I had scrambled eggs for breakfast or what do you mean? What do we journaling? You know, one of the things that I have found cause I complicated journaling in the beginning that's why like I have about 5,000 journals I started one here and then I picked up another one. And I just say, you know, the gospel's so simple, we complicated. Just journal what first comes to your, you know, had a good day today. God stuff. You know, no, just. Oh, other stuff. Cause if I'm in God, everything I do is God stuff. Great, that's what I'm pressing for. That's what I'm pressing for. So, you know, like I'm journaling today, you know, woke up, had a good morning, did take sister to sister. Kathy loves me, sister to sister. Kathy really loves me.  I got it. You know, but, and as you do that, it's some simple things like, you know, went to McDonald's and didn't have to pay for my coffee.  Yes, come on. The little things. I'm gonna go back to that question about God's not moving in my life. What do you girls have? Well, I spoke.  We had a sign in my house growing up on the wall. It was super simple. It said, if you don't feel close to God, guess who moved? There you go. That's good. And I like that. And that was so profound to me. And it goes along with this verse, which is one of my absolute favorite verses. It should be like a life verse. If you don't have one, this is a great one. James 4, 8, draw near to God and he will draw near to you. That's good. So good. That's so good. I am gonna move to the next question though, because I expanded upon that one. But this one is good. I like to get to the things that you wrote to us because you watching us is our greatest blessing, just so you know. Now, here's, oh, this is good. I know we're to extend grace and mercy as Christ has for us, but someone wrote, is there a limit to how much mercy and grace I need to extend, Roxy? Oh, this is a great question. Because really, flow uses the word balance a lot. And I believe it's from the heart of God. You know, Psalm, I believe it's 85 says, mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Mercy cannot be applied without truth. You must approach something from really understanding what is going on that I need to apply mercy. And the scripture says in Micah, seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly. Well, justice spiritually is just punishment for our sin. Okay, that's good. Mercy says, Christ says, he is mercy. I took that punishment. Come on. So when we balance those, we speak truth to our friend, but in love, we have mercy when we say it, but don't deny the truth that is in front of you. Right, right. Who else has mercy and grace? The first verse that came to mind for me was be wise as serpents, but innocent as doves. Because some people take it too far with the grace and mercy. And they're just like, oh, we just literally have to have grace and mercy for everything.  Or I feel like there are Christians that are just literally let anything happen. And that's not what Jesus calls for. I mean, he literally overturned the tables in the temple. You know? So, you know, we have to take that example, be angry and sin not, you know? And I just think you answered that perfectly. You have to balance that with the wisdom. And truth. Yes. Roxanne made a big thing about truth. Grace has no limit to it. So there is no limit, people that wrote to us. That don't mean that you don't have a limit. Okay.  It is our enabling power. So it's not an excuse for me to be a weak Christian or be weak spiritually. It's not an excuse for me to allow people to run over top of me. It's, you know, like, you don't get to run over top of me because I'm trying to live right. Mercy are new every morning. That's the word of God. It's not about my philosophy, my thought about it. You know, and the grace of God is more than sufficient. What happens is me, myself allowing the Holy Spirit and rolling into the school of the Holy Spirit and allowing Holy Spirit to not only be my friend, my comforter, but my teacher. And I know that there are times that I don't want to extend mercy. I want revenge and I want it now and I want it today. You know, and I wanted on the things that happened yesterday. But of course, when it's me, I want all the mercy and grace that I can tap into or somebody I love. So I just think that the, that yielding yourself to the Holy Spirit is key. Well, Amy, what do you do about extending mercy? Grace and mercy? Yeah. Because man, don't we want to be like the Lord and just have an ending limited grace and mercy? But that doesn't mean no boundaries. And it doesn't mean use me. And be abusive to me, which is what everybody's saying. And I think this idea that I'm just a grace doormat, which, you know, I felt like many times, you know, and you're like, wow, but boundaries are healthy, not just for them for you. So I would just say God's grace is unlimited and he will reach and rescue any person in any situation at any time. His mercy knows no bounds, but for us operating in a natural earth, we have boundaries. Well, the lady that wrote, I think you're a lady. I mean, it does sound like she's saying, is there a limit? Which means she's probably exhausted or something is draining her. So I hope that we answered that for you. And I think we're gonna answer this question for you too. Interesting, a quick little question. And it says, are we living or slowly dying? Ooh, hello. Is the cup half empty or is the cup half full? I mean, I really think this is about perspective and I think there's not one answer for every person. I think this is an individualized answer. Are you living or are you dying? I mean, I think each person has to answer this question for themselves. I mean, ironically, the moment we're born, we begin to die. So it's what are you doing with that life? What are you doing with that life?  That's good. Because money, you can't take with you. The house you're building can't take with you. The career you're building can't take with you. That stuff is temporal. So to answer that question, you're living a life that is slowly dying. If you are building into the lives of people, your children, if you are involved in ministry service, if you are doing things that have eternal value, you are living. That's great. So I think this is probably one of the best questions we ever had. The best question. A short question. But one of the best questions ever had, everybody should examine their life and say, am I living or slowly dying? Answer it! You know, I so agree and my answers haven't changed over the years.  It's a point once unto man to die. It's not a debate. It's not either or.  How are you, as you have well said, how am I going to live my life?  I want to be empty of every assignment he has ever given me. Well done. Well done. Well done. That's the scripture. You lived and you teach me to number my days, King Davis said, right? And I think about, well, Tim McGraw said, live like you were dying, right? But I think about my mother-in-law, Mimi, who is 80 plus years. And not ever do we talk about dying. We don't talk about when she's gone. We don't talk about all of the things that ale her on all the problems. We're talking about prayer, seeing revival, getting people connected to the church. I'm not going anywhere till revival shakes this city. I mean, it's like you're living.   You have a scripture for me. I do. Romans 8, I am dead to the flesh. We live and die, dead to the flesh, but alive in the spirit, as Amy is saying. Right.  Well, just like Corey said, this quick little question is a good one. And the first thing I thought of is my father, who died in 2012, used to say to us, I'm going to live till I die. I'm just going to live till I die. And it was so precious. And as he laid dying in a hospice room, surrounded by 45 of us, really, singing the song McNamara's Band and causing great chaos in the hospital, in the hospice place. And I thought about my dad saying, I'm going to live till I die. And I left that night saying, he's going to live. They have him in hospice, but he's going to live. The last thing he said to me as I walked out the door, my nickname is Shug. So I'm Aunt Shug to 45 people. He said, don't be sad, Shug.   Well, the next day he took his last breath. And we will never, ever forget the song McNamara's Band in the hospice room, which we repeat every St. Patrick's Day for my whole life and my children's whole life and through eternal detail, God takes me home. Love it. We'll be right back. Welcome back, sister-to-sister family. I thank you for sharing my life with me. It's really important that you're there. Okay, this question is good too. Oh boy. And it goes like this. What do I do when someone comes to me with a word from the Lord, right? But I don't believe it. Do I let it go or do I say something to the person? What do you have? You know, I'm one who ministers in the prophetic and you're also looking at someone who didn't believe in the prophetic. And so one, I was not able to identify a word from the Lord until I identify the word from the Lord, which means I need to know the word of God. The other thing is, as Paul told Timothy, when you get a prophetic word, you war with it. Another thing is to test and try the spirit. Have you, do you vet that person? Do you know them to perhaps be approving if you will allow me the grace prophet? You know, they all have, all ye can prophesy, so you don't have to be a prophet to give somebody a word. But I do want to reiterate that the scripture clearly tells us Jesus is the sure word of prophecy. So I have gotten many words that I didn't believe and then necessarily feel comfortable with. So thank God that he doesn't minister to me according to my feelings or even my level of faith because it's always to take me higher. And so when you get a word, and let's just say that it's something you're not too sure about, that's okay. First of all, don't condemn yourself. Don't doubt yourself. See what the word says about that word. And if that word lines up with the word of God, then you just do what we are instructed to do and just begin to pray into it. Do not try to will it to happen. Do not try to make it happen. God is God all by himself. He's a big God. He is more than capable of handling all the details that are involved in the manifestation of that word. But I, for one, have gotten words that I've given words that I went, I don't know if that's God, I hope that's God, you know.  Yeah, yes, but not all the time. And yes, have received many words. And yes, have had to work with people that have built their life around a word instead of living their life and doing what God designed them to do. So I've watched the blessing of it and really a curse of it where it's something, because I mean, we're humans, right? We can miss it. Even in the prophetic, I mean, any man, we humbly write, come and say, here's a word, take it and pray about it and challenge it. But I think a lot of times a word from the Lord will confirm something that's already stirring in you or a gift that was there, you know. But I mean, I've watched people, you know, they had a word and it was, it is so far off from this person's gifting, skill set, abilities. And I'm just thinking, and, you know, if you're not careful, you'll try to build your life towards a word instead of just get up every day, do what God's called you to do, where he's called you to do it and let it unfold and come to pass it. You don't have to force it, I guess, is a good way to do it. Let me just inject this real quick about getting words, because I know there's a lot of teachings out there about, it's gonna confirm something in you. Okay, let's just go with that, I won't debate you on that. But let's go to the Bible for a minute. I'm ministering in Abraham and Sarah sitting in that congregation. And I begin to say to Abraham and Sarah, who have had no children for how many years? Okay, you are gonna be the father of many nations. Your seed is gonna be more than the numbers of the sand. How many people in that congregation are gonna believe that word is from God? How many people, how would Abraham and Sarah laugh? But the word was still from God. So again, I wanna reiterate, it's what we do with it. God, there are things that God will speak to you that may not be something you're familiar with, but that's why you wanna plumb line it by the word of God itself. Take it to the Bible. So my scripture girl, do you have a scripture for this? Oh man, the Bible says test all prophecy. That's right. Because you know in the Old Testament, I'm not advocating this. They stone prophets when their prophecy didn't come true. When you're speaking God's word, you better be sure it is God's word. And what I feel is personal, this is personal. The church does not deal with people that are in error. What do you mean? When they get up and give a prophecy in public.  And it doesn't ever happen. Why aren't we holding people accountable? We look like fools. That's right. So we gotta hold each other accountable. If you're bold enough to say, you better be bold enough to take it back if it's not. I had a prophecy.  I love, he taught me something. Cause when he minister, Sandy goes, I have a thought for you. He won't necessarily say the say after Lord. Okay, well I just wanted to say one thing real quick that I had a prophecy given to me that I didn't like. Okay, so we're saying, what do you say to someone? Sorry, I'm not taking that. But guess what I did? I went to the word of God and I found this. First Corinthians 14-3, I'm all about scripture. It says, prophecy is to edify, exhort and comfort. So the truth is, if someone is speaking a message in your life that leaves you filled with condemnation or fear, that is not from God. And that's all I got on this one. I'm gonna go to this next question. Okay, last question, so good. How is it truly possible to love our enemies? Ooh, we're called to it, Corey. I mean, honestly, it's not possible to love your enemies without the supernatural help from the Lord. I don't think it's humanly possible to do. That's why all things are possible through the Lord's strength. That's right. It is not, like, that is not something, like it doesn't make sense in this world to love your enemies. And it's super hard to do. And I really love the psalmist's honesty, how the psalmist is like so honest, is just like throwing it out there like, you know, just Lord, put this on my enemies, like just do it. Keep it on. Like, yeah, like there's just so much honesty in the psalms. And you know, and then, you know, just the opposite of just like, thank you, Lord, just, you know, all the thanks in there too. And it's just like, I love that the Lord allows us to be honest with him, that we can just say like, Lord, like I'm feeling these feelings, you know? Like I am angry. I am filled with like, I do not love my enemy, you know? I need you. I need your help. Because this, I don't feel the love. That's good, Cory. What do you have, somebody? Love your enemies. I have difficulty also as we all do. We're human. And the scripture that says, bless them, do good. The one that gets me is pray for your enemies. I really gotta bring my enemy before you, Lord. I have such difficulty, agony. I have to go to other friends and say, I can't pray for my enemy. And they give me another perspective about that enemy. And the other thing is I have to forgive them before I can pray for them.  Well, what was the scripture? I need a scripture, somebody. Well, I just wanted to say, maybe somebody else has a scripture. I just piggybacking off of her is that I've found I've had to develop an attitude of forgiveness, you know? Then that it's a process, not an event. Right, right. And the only thing I have to say before we have to wrap is about love your enemies. There is no greater example of loving your enemies than Jesus himself. He stood in that room with all those Pharisees and Sadducees and they were spitting on him and saying, you think you're the king? Tell me, not a word. Turn the other cheek. So if he can do it, I can do it. We'll be right back right after this. We close with the scripture from the Old Testament. Micah chapter seven, verse seven. Therefore, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. You know, this passage continues. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.  First John says that God is light and in him is no darkness. And if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Christ redeems us from sin. And if we sin, we can confess our sin and God is faithful. He is just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Let's step out of that dark place. Let's step out of that sin. Let's make a choice. It may be alcohol, it may be drugs, it may be thoughts, it may be other things in your life that are holding you from the love of God. Step out of the darkness. Take that one step towards the Lord. He is light. Confess your sin and he is faithful. He is just to forgive you of your sin and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Think about today's show and all the things that we learned and all the hopes that we expressed to you. If you have darkness, like Roxanne just talked about, there is a number on the bottom of the screen. Do you know that someone answers that phone 24-7 here at Cornerstone Television Network? But as the sisters, we have a way to end the show and it's real fun and it goes like this. As iron sharpens iron, so does the countenance of a man or a woman or a sister sharpen the other.