We'll begin reading here in 2 Thessalonians chapter one at verse one. We'll read to verse four. We'll get into our study Paul, Sylvainus, and Timothy To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ We are bound to thank God always for you brethren as it is fitting Because your love grows exceedingly and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other so that We ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your Persecutions and tribulations that you endure and so we're beginning a study now in 2 Thessalonians we'll be looking at the first four verses as We go through 2nd Thessalonians first by verse so as is my normal way of beginning things Let me give to you a somewhat prolonged introduction a background Reminder if you will and then we'll look at the verses in front of us and so as a way of providing The reminder the background the second letter is believed to have been written a Few months after he had written first Thessalonians So the date of this if you're one who takes dates and all and puts them down the date of this particular letter is somewhere around AD 51 It's possible that the bearer of the first letter returned with an update and that would prompt the Apostle Paul to write this second letter so as we saw in 1st Thessalonians The the church there in Thessalonica was undergoing affliction and persecution From the beginning the church there was birthed in Affliction and from the beginning they experienced persecution and so When Paul was writing to them in chapter 1 of 1st Thessalonians in verse 5 He had said to them our gospel did not come to you in word only but also in power in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance As you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake and so he had begun his letter by reminding them That the gospel had come to them in power the spirit and assurance in other words the the gospel came to them in power That was evidenced by miracles as well as the transformation of their lives He said the gospel has come to you in the work of the spirit because it's a holy spirit who brought Conviction of their need for Jesus and then he he said it also came in much assurance because you have placed your trust in the Gospel and you have also trusted us as its messengers and so when they became Christians because of the work of the Holy Spirit and the power and all that was evidenced the result was that the Thessalonians Were afflicted this had caused Paul to become concerned about them And and as we went through 1st Thessalonians he addressed that in the first letter intending to encourage them in their faith You see both Paul and Jesus himself had been persecuted and they were to use Paul and Jesus as their models He said in 1st Thessalonians 1 6 and 7 you became followers of us and of the Lord Haven't received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit so that you became examples to all in Macedonia and Ikea who believe so persecution had arisen against them from their fellow citizens He had said in 1st Thessalonians 2 14 for you brethren became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea and Christ Jesus You also suffered the same things from your own countrymen just as they did from the Jews So the persecution was continuing and Paul wrote a second letter to encourage them now He'd already revealed his concern that they would be discouraged yet said in 1st Thessalonians 3 verse 3 No one should be shaken by these afflictions you yourselves know that we are appointed to this and so They were undergoing persecution and affliction and so he says don't be shaken by this and don't be surprised by it You're going through persecution, but you should be prepared You know that I've been persecuted and you know the Lord Jesus himself has been and therefore stay strong in Christ But not only are they undergoing persecution something more dangerous is taking place false teaching has begun to infiltrate the church and the false teachers are Influencing the members of the church and false teaching is especially dangerous Now why would false teaching be more dangerous to the church than persecution? Somebody would think that they'd say now wait a minute If if if I can suffer violent harm if I lose my job if my neighbors turn against me You know that's that's that's difficult. That's hard. Why would you say that false teaching is? More dangerous the obvious reason is persecution has a way of purifying the church Persecution actually has a way of strengthening the beliefs of the body of Christ Because persecution actually refines and tests our faith as well as strengthening it in Romans 5 and verses 3 and 4 Paul said We can rejoice too when we run into problems and trials for we know that they're good for us they help us to learn to endure and endurance Develops strength of character in us and character strengthens our confident expectation of salvation It has a positive work at us when we go through tough times in James chapter 1 verses 2 through 4 James said consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of Your faith develops perseverance Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything And so persecution affliction the various trials and all that we go through have a way of strengthening us and a Genuine Christian follows Christ through an entire lifetime Even though experiencing affliction in Hebrews 3 14 It says we have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence We had at first and so afflictions persecutions and things of that nature have a tendency of refining us They have a tendency of causing us to cast our cares on Christ and to be strengthened It has a way of purifying our lives, but on the other hand false teaching is dangerous It undermines the hope we have in the promises of God that are revealed in scripture Because bad teaching will infect a church and it will bring the church into bondage spiritually In the Old Testament in Ezekiel chapter 13 verse 22 God said with lies You have made the heart of the righteous sad whom I have not made sad You have strengthened the hands of the wicked so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life He's speaking to false teachers.  You're giving the wicked false confidence So the worst thing is false teaching causes people to reject the Lord The result is they enter into judgment in John 3 36 he who believes in the Sun has everlasting life And he who does not believe the Sun shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him false teaching is terrible it destroys and Believers who are influenced by bad teaching or are giving it receive less reward in God's kingdom That's why in second John verse 8 it says look to yourselves that we may not lose those things we worked for But that we may receive a full reward So a verse by verse said of the word of God combats false teaching acts 20 27 Paul said it like that. He said I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God So in their case false teaching was related to the return of Jesus Christ The return of Christ to planet Earth is referred many times to in Scripture. It's it's mentioned no less than 318 times in the New Testament and The return of Christ is the major theme of chapters 1 and 2 of Thessalonians You see bad teaching concerning his return has infected the church It's discouraging them some were saying that the day had already come and gone and that caused great distress Amongst the believers in the fellowship so Paul takes time to give details Concerning the conditions that will be present at that time and we'll look at that in detail when we arrive to that portion of Scripture So there's your introduction. Let's move into the study beginning at verse 1 Paul, Sylvainus and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ So Paul Sylvainus and Timothy that's the same introduction we find in first Thessalonians We note that Paul didn't need to use his title. They knew him. Well Sylvainus is also known by the name Silas He was an elder as well as a prophet according to Acts 15 verse 32 and Timothy was Paul's son in the faith and was also well known to the church and So he introduces Paul Sylvainus and Timothy and then he says who he's writing to to the church of the Thessalonians and God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ now It says to the church of the Thessalonians and once again, I'll mention this the Thessalonians were Gentiles They were Gentiles. They were not Jewish. They were Gentiles and so Paul is making it very clear that these though They're not Jews are still believers. There's no separation between the two The church is not to be broken into groups and subgroups We need to remember that in these days, especially we have a tendency of breaking the church into groups and subgroups And so we'll have a group of people that go to a particular church and and they may be heavily Hispanic there And then there'll be another church that's heavily African-American another one. That's heavily Asian and Then churches that are are heavily heavily white or whatever and what happens is we begin to have division in the church Based on the color of our skin or our ethnic heritage and every time I come to passages like this Forgive me you've heard it before but I'm gonna say it over and over again There's only one body. It's a body of Christ. There's only one color and it's the color of the blood of Jesus Christ We all belong to one another and we have to remember that it's something I'm telling you the world sees it very clearly the world is always Marching for some form of unity this and that when the church divides into groups and subgroups We can't have that listen when you get to heaven. They're not gonna have a section over here for Mexicans Okay, they're not and we're not gonna be handed lawnmowers and dish towels, okay? You can mow the lawns. No, cut it out It's not gonna happen that way. We're together We're one in Christ. We belong together We are family in Christ and that's what matters and that's really a biblical message That needs to be repeated today. We have to be careful that we don't choose churches that we attend Based on the color of the people or the language that's spoken We need to go because Jesus Christ is there He is lifted up and we are drawn closer to him and we have people there who love him who could encourage Us to do the same and so the church is not to be broken into groups or subgroups It is the one body and it's the church of the Thessalonians and God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ in verse 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I've mentioned this before I'll say briefly grace always precedes peace Always you will never have peace without God's grace and in the writings of Paul You will not see him ever say peace to you and grace. It is always grace to you and peace in the society that Existed the Greek society as well as the Jewish society they had ways of Greeting one another if I were a Greek and I was walking through the city and I ran across a Greek friend My greeting to him the typical greeting would be the word Charis So I'd see him and I'd say Charis that means grace that was the greeting But as a Jew if I were walking through a city and I saw a fellow Jew I would say so Shalom the Jews to this day You can go anywhere where there's a population of Jews and if a Jew greets another Jew They normally will say Shalom you'll see it in Jerusalem You see it all through Israel and there are places here in California that I've been at Dali's or whatever been in New York or in certain places in in LA that have a heavy Jewish population and they'll they still do it It's their greeting. It's their customary greeting grace to the Greek Shalom from the Jew So grace to you and peace was the common greeting in Paul's day now grace when we look at grace Grace is a free favor of God that's revealed in the death of Christ and his gift of life to us in Ephesians 2 verses 4 and 5 it says but God who is rich in mercy Because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses made us alive together with Christ by Grace you have been saved so the Greek would say grace but the Jews would say Shalom peace and peace is the condition that results from receiving the grace of God Peace is the tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Jesus Christ I say at 26 verse 3 says it like this You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you And so God's grace provides me with God's peace And so the peace Paul speaks of is from God from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ Now I want you to notice this again in verse 2 God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ See we're not automatically children of God I grew up in the hippie generation. And so we as hippies would say that's a child of God. There was a a song called Woodstock by Johnny Mitchell wrote it, but Crosby stills National Young sang it Woodstock. It was the anthem of my generation I came across a child of God He was walking along the road and he said tell me where you're going this he told me right some of you are old enough to Remember that others you're gonna have to Google that I came across a child of God And that's the way we spoke of one another that we were hey brother. We're sister. Yeah, that's the way we spoke It was a common thing so we call each other brother We call each other brothers and sisters and all of that that was you know, so we thought oh, yeah You know, we're all descended from from Adam and Eve and we're all related when we're another and all But to be a child of God isn't speaking of God's creation of mankind to be a child of God speaks concerning the Relationship that you have with God through the born-again experience and it's something you become it's not something you automatically are in the book of The Gospel of John chapter 1 verses 11 and 12 speaking of Jesus it says he came to that which was his own But his own did not receive him yet to all who received him to those who believed in his name He gave the right to become children of God So it's not an automatic at all. So when he's speaking here and saying peace from God our father He's speaking to a church. He's speaking to people who have a relationship with God So he says grace to you in peace from God our father But he also speaks of Jesus in this way and the Lord Jesus Christ The Lord Jesus Christ the word Lord in the Greek is courios Courios it speaks of the owner. It speaks as one who has control over a person. It speaks of a master Jesus Christ's Lord and the bottom line is Jesus is already the Lord when he speaks of him as the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus is the Lord. He doesn't become the Lord. He is the Lord and And ultimately all will acknowledge that he is Lord I've heard people giving their testimonies and they'll say well Jesus was my Savior and then I made him my Lord That's really not accurate. I understand the sentiment, but that's really not accurate You see when it comes to salvation Jesus Christ is the potential Savior of all mankind the actual Savior of those who received him Meaning that before I got saved. He was my potential Savior. He could save me, but I hadn't received salvation But when I received Christ now I see him and acknowledge him as my Savior So potentially he was my Savior when I got saved actually he became my Savior But the fact is he's a Savior of all who come to him But some refuse to do so and because they refuse to come to him. They remain unsaved On the other hand, he's the Lord of all regardless of whether I'll come to him. He may be the potential Savior of all But he is the Lord of both believer as well as the unbeliever He is the Lord regardless of somebody regards him that way regardless if somebody says you are my Lord And I bow my knee to you. No, he's the Lord whether they will willingly do it Or like we do or ultimately do it in the book of Philippians in chapter 2 verses 10 and 11 Paul said it like this He said at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of those in heaven of those on earth and Of those under the earth that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So I do that now. I do it willingly now Jesus you are my Lord But every knee will bow even those who obstinately refuse to do so All all will bow before him all who've ever lived Will stand before him and then kneel before him and say he is the Lord that includes Buddha That includes Muhammad That includes Freud That includes everybody we do it Right now willingly we say Jesus Christ you are Lord and with praise in our heart I acknowledge his lordship, but every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Our Lord and so he begins to the church of the Thessalonians in God our father the Lord Jesus Christ Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ verse 3 We are bound to thank God always for you brethren as it is fitting Because your faith grows exceedingly and the love of every one of you all Bounds toward each other So that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your Persecutions and tribulations that you endure. So I want you to notice this look at verse 3 He says we are bound to thank God always for you brethren as it is fitting Paul begins by speaking of an obligation. He has bound an Obligation he has to give thanks for them Now what has prompted this duty this obligation to thank God on their behalf?  Well, they'll abandon their confession They they they enter into a hard time a hard season Maybe people on the job side are rejecting them. Maybe their family turned their back on them Maybe people that were very close to them have no longer want to hang around with them Now the society we live in right now is is very adamantly opposed to the Christian faith When it's well known with when the Christian faith is not compromised and they hear what we actually believe The society that we're living in right now gets adamantly angry about it I saw this just just this weekend Preachers preaching at the the funeral service for a wreath of Franklin And and he says some pretty cutting things pretty direct things Perhaps some of you might have seen it was on the news and I watched part of it And I have to tell you what he said was very strong But as a Christian, I I told my wife. I said this man's very courageous He's a very courageous man. He's telling the truth.  Well, and they'll abandon. They'll just say I give up I don't need this now Jesus spoke of this in one of his parables the parable of the the sore the seed and the soils In Matthew 13 in verses 20 and 21 Jesus said he who received the seed on stony places this is he who hears the word and Immediately receives it with joy Yet he has no root in himself But endures only for a while for when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word immediately he stumbles So as long as things are going cool and people like us We're on the Jesus bandwagon When I got saved back in 1970 and there was a Jesus movement hippie revolution People like myself many were coming to professing faith in Christ and and I'm telling you You know at one time the press the time magazine had had had a question back I think was around 1966 they had a question is God dead and then a few years later they had a picture of Jesus on the magazine same magazine and and it speaks of the Jesus movement the Jesus revolution and And we were living in such odd times and all that many people were Abandoning the faith, but God began to do a work and and a lot of hippies were Professing faith in Christ and I was one of those who came to faith in Christ during that movement of the Spirit And so there were a lot of people that that were joining the way the bandwagon there were there were Musicians you you would see guys who were putting out songs about God and Christ and and and you know odd songs That didn't even make any sense like like Norman Greenbaum's spirit in the sky and garbage songs You know that I thought man, that's stupid, you know But what you ended up with with all kinds of people they were starting to sing gospel or you'd have gospel songs They started to have Jesus Christ Superstar as a play they had God's spell They were playing these songs on the radio and and and well-known people were beginning to say things about Jesus John Lennon sent Lenin Senate You may remember John Lennon from the Beatles at one point was walking around in his Apartment and it was recorded how we were saying praise Lord praise Jesus Christ and yet. He's later on writing imagine And so there was this movement that was going that that a lot of people were on it was like a giant wave in many ways And and a lot of people were standing up saying yes, I believe in Jesus. And so the day I got saved I was in a Volkswagen van it was filled So there must have been eight to nine people in that band in that band and we that band and we went to to the Maronautha concert and heard the gospel I got saved and Then one by one of those eight or nine that were in that van those other eight one by one They fell away one by one Because the Jesus movement seemed to die off It was no longer cool to call yourself Christian to walk around with your Bible to wear this huge tuna around your Your neck of fish.  They're not making songs about Jesus anymore They're not having specials on TV about Jesus anymore they're not putting out God's Bell and they're not putting out Jesus Christ superstar anymore and these rock Legends who were claiming faith in Christ are all fading away slowly But truly an affliction begins to rise up and before you know it those who are running around saying I believe in Jesus are denying that they ever knew him And that did happen Well Paul's endurance or rather their endurance gave Paul considerable joy It prompted his praise to God and what is it that he thanks God for on their behalf basically? He thanks God for three things for faith love and Patience so notice how he says in verse 3 we are bound to thank God always for you brethren as It is fitting because your faith grows Exceedingly so the first thing he thanks God for I'm bound to say thank you to God for is your Faith grows exceedingly your faith is outgrowing all boundaries Now when Paul's first letter he had mentioned a concern he had about their faith in Jesus It wasn't that they didn't have faith But it was something he desired improvement on and he made this clear in his first epistle in First Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 10 He had said night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face and perfect what is lacking in your faith So Paul rejoiced in the fact that the persecution actually was refining their faith in first Peter 4 12 and 13 Peter said beloved do not think it's strange concerning the fiery trial Which is to try you as though some strange thing happened to you but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings That when his glory is revealed you may also be glad with exceeding joy So in spite of opposition their faith is growing tremendously and this blessed him You see so many simply give up in the face of opposition, but they grew stronger They actually were living out their faith and as a result they were going Spiritually and maturing so one I thank God for your faith. It's growing second I'm obligated to thank God for your love because your love abounds to one another The hostility that they were enduring drew them closer Instead of abandoning relationships They increasingly depended upon one another when one of them suffered they all suffered along with the one who was hurting They listened to them. They prayed for them They spiritually and emotionally supported them The church was banding closer Because God's love was drawing them and through the affliction. They supported one another. I Was in India. I Spent 16 days in India. I've been there twice. I spent a month in India and This one trip that I joined in a group of pastors to go on we went from from from one Portion of India to the next we went all around the country and we were in a particular church and it was a house and it was a small home, but it was packed with believers and There's no fans or anything they had one fan and they had it in the front. That's about it and at that time the house itself probably was without Exaggeration anywhere from 110 to 150 120 degrees. That's how hot it was inside that house we were all seated on the ground and the men were seated on one side the women are seated on the other and As we were there the service goes for three to four hours So as we're seated there in 110 to 120 degrees They're doing their worship They're doing various things and then at one point they had testimony time And I'll never forget how that people would stand up and give what God has done in their life And it was testimony time By those who had been persecuted that week and I'll always remember a woman who stood up with a black eye her eye was swollen mostly shut and She stood up and she began to share how that her husband who is not a believer Was angry at her for being a Christian and had beaten her up Just a couple days before and she stood up to give her testimony and as she's giving her Testimony you can see the people there as they're giving her encouragement and saying things to her I can't help but think of that church when I think of these people here Paul is saying your faith has grown It's been refined. It's growing and abounding but your love for one another has grown also So in the midst of the persecution and affliction that you're going through you'll hear each other You'll pray for one another you'll love one another and you encourage one another and in doing so You're gonna strengthen each other the way that you ought to be stronger because of what this church is willing to do You see love for one another is the true mark of a Christian Not simply the things that we're opposed to and I think that today the church in many places is Really more known for what we stand against and I think we need to I think we need to say this is what God says We need to stand firm in those things. There's no doubt about it, but it seems to me That sometimes we are getting caught up with wanting everybody to know what we don't like and not everybody knows what we're in favor of a Lot of people know what we don't like we got mad that somebody told us not to eat in and out burgers That just happened this week some of you are aware of that a boy caught against in and out burgers And and then Christians showed those people something by standing in line to get a burger And I know it made them shake in their boots hungry Christians. I I um, I Saw pictures of People standing in line for in and out and by the way, I like getting out. I eat it all the time I think it's the best burger you're gonna get. Okay It's a great burger animal style as good, huh? So I do it I like it But I also think the human beings are funny Because I see lines of people to go get a burger. I wish I saw lines of people waiting to get to church I I would like to see that I would like to see lines of people saying let's get the word of God I mean, let's face it. I mean eat the burger. Don't eat the burger. I will I'll do it on your behalf If you won't I mean I'm good with it But I think that that that what are we saying? What are we saying?  There are so many things going on in this world that we're quiet about But when you tell me not to eat something, that's when I get mad So the world knows that we are opposed to things Maybe the world needs to also know what we're in favor of listen when a pastor stands up and tells you what to be afraid of All the time it takes your joy from you and it makes you angry This property that we're on right now. We've been here since 92 this property was sold to us By a church that was pastored by a man who sowed fear into the heart of the congregation He sowed fear into the heart of congregation when he sold this property He got up and took as many of the church who were willing to go with him to another state and He actually they got some left their houses without being paid for they just got up and left their houses and They moved to another state and when we took possession We went into the different areas and we're going through cleaning and all we found a box of tapes From his church services and during the church services. They would have testimony time And one of the testimony times that we listened to were the voices we heard the voices of older people to older ladies who were saying things like I Was asleep this morning in my neighborhood I heard I heard in my neighborhood I was asleep on a house and I heard someone trying to open the door and I looked out and I saw a Mexican guy Standing out there. We need to get out of here and then another one says I heard this another one says We were in I was in the Montclair mall and I saw gangsters walking by and we're in danger We need to get out of here now listen if you're afraid of gangsters pray for him Pray for him.  What are you so afraid of? pray for him Last week I was given a Sunday morning and a brother stopping was sharing with me. I can't give you his whole testimony But I will tell you this I was so blessed to hear and I'm gonna have him share I hope if you're here right now, I'm gonna have you share at the M to M but He was telling me how that he had basically grown many of his years of his life were here and then he had strayed And as he had strayed he was you know starting to think I got to get right with God I've got to get right with God and he's saying that I have to Lord. I have to get right with you I know I know I have to get right with you and he said I was at a mall and Somebody walks up to me and taps me on the shoulder and I turn and I look at this person I've never seen him in my life. He told me I've never seen him He taps me on the shoulder and the guy says I'm sorry But I'm a Christian and the Holy Spirit just told me to tell you something The Holy Spirit just told me to tell you you need to come back to God You need to get right with him and then the guy takes off and he's they're going whoa He says wow that's interesting. I've been praying God. I know I need to get right with you and this stranger Wow, and he says I did nothing then a short time later. He was somewhere else and Somebody another stranger. He says I feel the tap and I turn I said yeah, and the guy says I'm sorry I'm a Christian the Lord just told me to tell you you need to get right with him and he goes You know, that's interesting. You know, hmm. He says a couple weeks later I'm in a another mall. His wife drags him to mall for punishment. I guess and he goes he goes I'm in another mall and a guy walks up to me a third time Another stranger and says the Lord has placed it on my heart. You need to get right with him You need to come back to him. He said it was God Constantly sending people to speak to me that I knew I needed to get right. He serves here He goes to the sentinel of prisons to the prison to to minister to those in in chains right now God can reach Anybody and don't forget that and God will move and he will change hearts And and the Lord has a tendency of doing that and we need to be careful that we remember that that God Has given to us a love of the Spirit and and the love of God is a mark of a believer The visible identifier of a believer is Christ like love in 1st Corinthians 13 verses 4 through 8 Paul writes and defines love for us. He says love is patient love is kind It does not envy it does not boast it is not proud. It is not rude It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered It keeps no record of wrongs Love does not delight in evil But rejoices with the truth it always protects Always trusts always hopes always perseveres Love never fails and that's the testimony. That's the testimony That's what Christians are and it's even a testimony that the non-believers can say of Christians Tertullian a writer that lived 150 to 225 years before Christ wrote that the Christians deeds of love were so noble That the pagan world confessed in astonishment See how they love one another So this kind of love makes an impact on people living in a loveless world and Knowing how important love is Paul prayed that they would grow in love in 1st Thessalonians he had said in chapter 3 verse 12 may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and To all just as we do to you in chapter 4 1st Thessalonians verses 9 and 10 He said concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another and Indeed you do so toward all the brethren in Macedonia But we urge you brethren that you increase more and more So the times of pressure they were enduring produced the fruit of love they went through pain They went through persecution, but they learned to care deeply for one another and then third They were exhibiting great patience in the face of persecution He says and notice this in verse 4 We ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith and all your Persecutions and tribulations that you endure so we boast of you among the churches of God When I'm speaking to somebody I will say you know God is moving in the church of Thessalonica when I'm preaching a message from a pulpit I'll say and God is moving in the church there in Thessalonica He says I boast of you among the churches of God and I boast of you for your patience and faith and all your persecution and tribulation that you endure So that reveals what actually should matter to a minister of the gospel Paul glories in their patience and faith because they endured persecution and affliction in Spite of the opposition and affliction they endure they remain strong in the Lord and that comforted Paul's heart Because he was concerned for their spiritual state. He he wasn't bragging about the numbers of people who showed up he wasn't bragging about the the amount of influence that that that they were exerting in in some Worldly way.  I glory in your patience. I glory in your faith You have endured persecution. You have held up under affliction And I am blessed Now he had already written to them in 1st Thessalonians 3 verse 5 And he had said for this reason when I could no longer endure it I sent to know your faith lest by some means the tempter had tempted you our labor might be in vain in The phase of rejection and affliction and persecution They exhibited great patience Now in the New Testament patience does not speak of meek submissiveness. Oh, well, what can I do? Patience speaks of heroic endurance in the face of great trouble and pain This was a church that was a victim of people who were organizing Concentrated persecution against them But in spite of that they courageously and heroically were holding fast to what they were taught and that's because their faith Is grounded in God and they had hope in him In Psalm 146 verse 5 happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God Psalm 56 verse 3 whenever I am afraid I will trust in you So Paul was blessed these relatively new believers were standing strong and under trials or persecutions It is possible for believers to momentarily lose those qualities But this had not happened to them and Paul rejoices and the reason he can is because their faith is growing The love is abounding because they are deeply rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ Jesus the true vine said in John 15 verse 5 without me You can do nothing and that's the foundation of our Christian faith To be a Christian speaks of being attached to Jesus He is the source of our life and the love of the Lord is the evidence of salvation and Jesus is the center of all attention and Love sets you free to be faithful to the one you love. It's the core of our service to God So he rejoices because their faith and love is demonstrated by their patience his concern has been sued by their Continuation faith love and patience is exhibited in the face of prolonged and aggressive hate towards them And his heart is overcome with relief and gratitude and he uses them as examples.  No, I say I Say how much I love you and I think that love should not be said just to others And not the person who's loved I think that a lot of men will say yeah, I love my wife But they say it to their friends But they need to also say it to their wife, right honey I love you and I think there are women who say yeah, I love my husband, but they never say baby I love you so what's nice when you say I love you or I love somebody to others But I think I owe it to you to tell you from my heart to yours. I love you I love this church and I boast about you God has blessed us with you We we had a woman's thing the other day 350 hamburger hungry women You know there were 350 you bought hamburgers were closer to 500 who attended the study and And I'm blessed by that because because there are people who are busy serving In there those there are those who are there arriving and they're cared for but you realize how many people are Serving you when you come to church. I do that we have hundreds of people involved in our children's ministry We have people in this church who took their vacation during VBS their week's vacation When they could be somewhere else at at the river or at a beach or just staying at home but they're here every day in a hundred plus weather caring for our children and Hundreds and hundreds of kids are coming and many are hearing the gospel claims We have somebody who drives over an hour plus to get here to serve here and does it faithfully and I love you for that I thank God for you and your service to Jesus Christ for those who are out in that parking lot when it's raining And they're saying could you please park here for those who are standing there when it's a hundred and ten degrees and they're Sweating and they're saying could you stand here for the ushers who stand and help you for the people who are in the cafe for the People who are on the bay and our worship team We have one paid employee at our worship team and the worship groups that we have are all volunteered and I thank God for your service to Jesus Christ. I thank God for that. I do and I And I'm controlling my emotions because they're that deep. I love you I love you so much and I boast about you. You guys don't know But I do I'll say I love my church. I've got some Loving people in this church and I run across you sometimes Different places and you'll walk up and you'll say hi pastor. I just want to say hi I don't want to take your time. I say this every time I mention this.  It's worth me giving you my time. You are my family I love you and I boast about you before the Lord and I'm telling you personally how deeply I'm committed to you the way Paul said I love you Thessalonians. I boast about you You need to know I boast about you too. Thank you for your service to Jesus You are an example he was saying of what a fellowship should be in the face of persecution In the face of organized opposition You have remained faithful you have become a great example to others You have been thoroughly convinced of the truth of the gospel and no persecution No trial of faith has turned you aside from it in the gospel of John in chapters chapter 6 verses 66 through 69 We have in that portion of scripture a question that I believe is asked of Every believer sometime in their life maybe more than once and in John 6 verse 66 through 69 It says from that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more and Jesus said to the 12 Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go you have the words of eternal life Also, we have come to believe and know that you are the Christ the son of the living God. I believe that Through affliction through tough times you are someday going to hear if you haven't already heard it that question Do you also want to go away?  Do you? You will hear that question You will hear that question some of you have some of you have heard it more than once. I have heard it I have heard it. I have heard the Lord speak to my heart saying do you want to go away? And I have I have been there in that place where I'm thinking and I have answered Lord to whom shall I go? You have the words of eternal life There is nothing else for me There is no other life for me. There are no other friends for me. There are no other relationships for me There is nothing left for me except for you for it. No, I don't want to go away persecution affliction tough times sorrow of heart anxiety concern There'll be a voice you will hear one form or another Are you ready to give up? Do you want to turn around? Do you want to go back? No, Lord No, Lord. I gave everything up You said Pick up my cross and follow you and I have has it been easy No No It hasn't been Have there been times when I've said There's got to be something else to do Yes many times But at the end of the day to whom shall we go? to whom Who's been better to you than him? Who has left you deeper? Than Jesus who has gone as far on your behalf as he? Who wept for you in a garden who allowed Thorns to be pressed onto his brow who allowed himself to have nails piercing his hands and feet It was Jesus and you say do you love me and he stretches out his hands and he says I love you this much and he dies Three days later he rises from the dead and he says what seems to be dead remember. There's life in me There's life in me and I give you my life because I've given you my love And I will never leave you and I will never forsake you and I am preparing a place for you And I will call you to be with me for where I am there you shall be also So you have hope hold fast to the Lord and watch God see the salvation of the Lord And he will cause you to rejoice in the end and that's why Paul could say Jesus Christ and I thank God for you That's how it works You could have turned away, but you didn't your faith your love and your patience has increased and for this I thank God and I brag about you because of what God has done in you may he Do the same work in us


They were impressed the set up here the center self the technology involved in the center They were impressed about the training Although it's the first training but I think it was organized in that way so people were very happy with it هل تأكد من المتحدة عن تأكد من المتحدة بين هنسي وكورسي؟ أعتقد أن التأكد من المتحدة يذهب إلى أصبحت 1.5 سنوات أو أكثر من هذا أنا لم أعمل في هذا أخييييييييييييييييييييييييييييييييييييييييي أعتقد أن الأساسين بطريقة صورة وإن pathways يتجموا بكم أثناء الانتصاب خطر فبي Defense Test ات beef فتسألنا المساعدة على الأفكار والذكالي وما كانت تبدأ فتبدأ في نهاية أعضة تكلمة فبالتسألنا الكامل يتكمل بالطبع ولكن التحدي was joint training for the personnel or the surgeons not only surgeons but the teams which were involved and the operation of robotic surgery فتحاولة تحاولة تالية حيث هذا المكان here خطة الربوطيس ايسا جيدة لتحاولة الناس فهذا فأنا نعم أن بالنسبة لتفاعلة المنصحة،، انا نعم أن نعمل بشكل بطريقة الربوطيس ايسا اعتقد أن هذا أفضل من خلال التحاولة لأنا لا يمكننا التحاولة ويشهد سعيداً على المساعدة ويشهد أسراجة ربوتية وليس يستطيع أن نبدأ لا يمكن أن نساعد ويساعد بشكل مهم من المحتوى يتطورهم ويكون أسراجين للتخلق للسراجة للسراجة لذا نحن نعرف الكبطية لتطور ومن المدينة التي تبدأ؟ ومن المدينة المتوجة؟ فرشانا كما قلت انا بسجاة ربوتك هذا هو ما قد تفهم بحقوق اشتراك في العالم ومن المدينة المتوجة هو لديك بسجاة ربوتك في مكان أمام مختلفة ونستطيع استخدامه ما يعني هو لا يمكنك بسجاة ربوتك لأنه مستخدم في الان لا تستطيع أن تكون لديها فقط لحد مجرد مجرد مجرد لا تستطيع أن تكون لديها فقط للمجرد مجرد نعم يمكن but the running course is very expensive then you need to have it where you have a general hospital in a place where different specialties could use it وحمد hospital of course started with the urology we as cardinal surgeons are using it general surgeons are using it we created this multidisciplinary program where everybody could use the machine I don't know if I answered your question can I ask you about the future plans as well yeah well it started as this the future plan is to develop the program to maintain the experience and even progress on that in fact yes we need to well any procedure in fact goes through a learning curve and I think we did not pass that learning curve we need to still maintain and do more cases so we pass the learning curve so we become more experienced and doing those procedures I'm more comfortable doing the procedures and in the meantime I think we should also develop a program whereby we train people so that's the aim or the vision of the program the program started and I think it's going to stay and progress so what do you think is the status of robotic surgeon in Qatar are you expecting it to increase in terms of the number of cases to be here in the future or what do you think definitely that's what in fact we felt through the probably one or one and a half years when robotic surgery started started in small number of cases at least in cardiac surgery we did 12 cases in one year from March 2009 to March 2010 we did 12 cases which is a good number in fact considering the small number of cases in general so it's a good number and even neurology and the other specialty I think we're getting more and more cases and I think we'll get more cases even although we don't have the robotic machine in the heart hospital the new heart hospital but maybe in the future we'll acquire or buy a machine and then we'll be able to do more cases because we'll have more operating time and more space to do those cases because at present the heart hospital is very busy in fact a long waiting list so that may be a limiting factor of doing more cases also so hopefully in the future when we have the new hospital open we'll have more operating time in the heart hospital and the other hospitals also so can you elaborate on the learning curve since robotic surgery is generally a new technology so how do you see the learning curve currently in Qatar nobody knows how many cases you need to do to let's say overcome the learning curve at the end you need to have cases you need to do cases more consistently on a regular basis it's not only the surgeon it's the whole team in fact robotic surgery it's not only a single-handed experience it's not the surgeon it's the assistant surgeon the nurses, the technical support the whole group in fact need to come together to mutual understanding to work together and that also probably adds to the learning curve but I think we're going through that process at least in cardiac surgery I don't think we passed that stage but we're still learning we need to do more cases that does not mean that jeopardizes the patient's safety but we carefully take care of this part in fact I mean it should not harm patients that's why we get people from outside to help us out with I mean surgeons, experienced surgeons from outside to help us out with the robotic surgery whether it's in cardiac surgery urology we get visitors, we have visitors now here with us from Belgium who's helping us out and he did in fact before and we're continuing our cooperation with him he's very helpful and I think we learned a lot from him that's how it works out you need people, experienced people to help you out so you don't jeopardize patient's safety some patients are a bit resistant when it comes to robotic surgeries what message would you tell them and why do you think they are resistant in the first place well sometimes well any new you could find any new ideas new program I would not say resistant people because the term is a little harsh you need to convince people that this works and robotic surgery the use of robotic system and surgery is relatively new so you need to convince the surgeons, patients and even the outsiders that this is useful because it implies that you change the procedure to a new type of procedure people who are used to let's say the conventional one they always argue about the outcome of the new procedure because that's already people, let's talk about cardiac surgery the conventional cardiac bypass surgery as well established in practice now for over probably 45 or 50 years so we have good results and so on so when you change to a new procedure you need to convince people that this is as good as the conventional one so it's not difficult but you need to produce good results to convince people and it's already getting better in fact we have good results with cardiac surgery and not only this and other specialties also that's why people are indulging into this program more and more the other difficulty is the cost of course especially people concerned with finance and so on why should we do this if we could do the conventional one conventional procedure with less cost that's also another area of difficulty so I guess these are some of the difficulties which probably make people think twice before getting involved in those procedures so my final question based on your experience in Qatar how did the cardiologists receive the robotic technology when they first encountered it that it can be a replacement for human surgeons or were they receptive of the technology well let's start from the end it's not a replacement to human surgery although we have the robotic surgery but it's run completely by surgeon so you need an experienced surgeon to run the machine these are only what's called master and slave system the master is the surgeon and the slave is the robotic system and does not do it at least for now does not do the procedure that's one thing the reception of the cardiologists or cardiac surgeons in fact we have a good environment here that is one department cardiology and cardiac surgery and the chairman of the department for you all know is very supportive of introducing new technologies new procedures so we have all the support from our colleagues cardiologists from the head of the department from the hospital the reception of the cardiologists of course I mean well does not take away patients from them and that's one thing we we should realize at the end is the benefit of the patient which matters in fact we have a healthy environment where we discuss all the cases well not all the cases but some of the cases which need discussion in fact we get three referral from cardiologists saying that this patient although he has a single let's say vessel which is disease but he's better off with robotic procedure although this in other places probably technically it's doable but in the long run they feel and the team which meets and discuss the case feel that this procedure is better than just this tenting and vice versa in fact we get sometimes cases referred to us for surgery and then we rediscuss the case refer them back for tenting so we have a healthy atmosphere where we interact with each other openly and without how should I put it without ego it's not that this is my patient I should do it and this is your patient we we interact and discuss cases before we decide what's the best procedure and that type of patient thank you so much for this interview


Everybody for us tier ripping 2021 selectable hobby six bucks number 34 tiered On set guys. I'll show the results. You can always find There you go. You can always find these a late in sports cards.com. There's a link in chat as well Good luck everybody. Let's get started here. This is a Albert ease first break with us. So good luck Albert Albert Broncos Packers. We pull a big Rogers big Devontae Williams to see how You're changing these rookies since we're gonna be breaking a lot of this Oh, you are so lucky. I'm not on logged in on Twitch Sean. I would time you out Dang it, I'm not logged in Silver Club level Javan Holland Dolvins and of the Sean guy Adam Thielen jersey card 42 and 99 Vikings concourse silver rookie tutu at well Gordon Harrods injury or the what was the guys ain't playful Louisville Kevin Ware. Kevin Ware. Yeah, Davis Mills A level tricolor Steelers TJ Watts 25 1 49 So real okay, well equals that's the most reposterous LMA.  Yeah, he did nicks In that sense, it was good to see Zach Wilson premier level or not premier low rookie selection silver Kellan Bond concourse over Justin Herbert Twitch twitch if you're listening, this is Sam This man is a bot club level red rookie DME Brown Washington number 27 to 49 premier level silver Frank Garvey Oh, the offense look great feel like the offense isn't the issue. It's a secondary Lamar looked amazing Yeah, I'm all like great all the receivers looked pretty good. They just need to get Dobbins back I mean, they're great offense. Yeah, they just got beat today, man Concourse Ricky blue Kylian Hill Packers 117 of 199 club level silver chase Ricky for the Bengals nice chase And to be fair to be fair our two starting corners were not healthy They were both like silver field of a rookie Derek Gore for the chiefs Fonte you got club level blue rookie again at Kenneth Gainwell Eagles One of 99 concourse over Tony Romo Smith silver premier level Antonio Gates chargers cheese Concourse tricolor Daniel Jones for the Giants 117 to 249 and Patriots auto Dante high tower 53 75 nice high tower Like that card actual that maroon nice color match going on Oh Concourse blue Cabin Ridley Falcons 127-199 premier level silver rookie Jermar Jefferson Lyons The Rose ACL was 10 years ago Got a gold It is snapshots the Andre Hopkins great looking card for the Cardinals I've had a 10 Concourse silver rookie to to at well Rams field level Rogers Zebra Rashad Bateman Premier level there you go Ravens guys tearing it up so far this year Yeah, Jonathan D Second tier Ravens some of those lower tier some of those guys are playing good tears are starting to blur a little bit Premier level silver Cardinals Ron Dale Moore Get that mad for your Ravens awesome card man Premier level like light blue and Murray Cooper Cowboys. He had a good game today 19 and I did Jersey number Cowboys Jersey number anyway Too bad the Browns think club level silver rookie Michael Carter Jets Harris is he You go white on the rookie auto dolphins Jalen waddle this box has been crazy 30 out of 30 Congrats Miami Michael B this box. I had that gold with zebra The high tower was a monster hit Silver phenomenon Patriots back Jones. There's a Tyson William silver Silver concourse doesn't her first name and cards now Joni Gonzalez Bay's card. It's Jamar Chase there club level red Calvin Redley Falcons number six of 49 silver premier level Jalen Darden waddle base silver concourse Trey Lance rookie Carter field level that's sure von Cole commit 13 of 99 on the jersey card for the Bears silver club level Aaron Jones Packers Blue premier level pats rookie Trey Nixon 107 149 silver field level rookie Anthony Schwartz Browns Amir Smith Mar set rookie Jersey auto Minnesota 33 of 99 Silver selections Ian book Silver concourse Kyler Murray. I'm not sure why it would be like that I'm not sure why that is but let's go subs thing. Yeah, so I found something out earlier Apparently you have to have your own channel to chat in YouTube Yeah, that's like you can't only have like a Google profile. I guess you have to have a Google YouTube channel Which I thought was really interesting. I didn't know I had one. Yeah, it was just like I Type strange so anyone has ever any trouble over chatting in our room. Just make sure you go to like create your own channel Anything we just have to have one apparently even like subscribers only mode is strange. There he is Silver premier level Aaron Donald premier level light blue Trey Nixon pats 61 of 99 concourse silver Lamar Jackson Your name is not green Rory Doesn't show you as a member all the members names are green on our side Like in chat they show up green and they have the badge next to it Silver club level Josh Palmer chargers. Well, I got tri-color concourse Ryan Tannehill for the Titans 93 of 249 Preston Williams auto dolphins two of two ninety nine so far tonight or just overall Silver sensations Justin Herbert that's silver field level Brandon cooks. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with YouTube then That's a YouTube thing weird. Yeah That's so weird Justin Fields got concourse purple Charles Woodson The Raiders number 48 of 75 concourse over with Kyle Trask Yeah, that's that's nothing I can do at that point. Oh, what is that? Who was that? Oh, it's Packers firestorm. It's the first LSE break mojo for Albert. It's got a Rogers, right? Yeah, it's gold to Aaron Rogers firestorm six of ten Big card congrats again Albert E That is sick. We'll get that mag for you silver premier level Jerry Judy super short Darius Tony Good stuff. Congrats, Albert Marlin Mac 48 of 75 Jersey card Colts See you on the team right now concourse Silver rookie try and shrink a bucks Yes, I forget where he is Smith concourse maroon DJ shark Jags Eight of 149 premier level silver Jim Kelly.  I don't got wave Maybe yeah, maybe that silver snapshot Steve young Niners club level silver Donna Mooney Bears in a Lance premier level Come on Bears Concourse blue rookie Garrett Gore for the Chiefs number eight of 199 concourse silver rookie to Marche's bangles Mac and the Niners, okay, that makes sense. I lost you like Mitchell Plus that free that brings the Niners down to like 12 running backs. Yeah, right? And we know that that is not acceptable not acceptable on the shana hand offense Acceptable Silver sensations Joe burrow a silver club level Trevon morrig Raiders Well, I think if you cancel rejoin, I have to pay again. I don't know man. Yeah concourse tricolor Quinn Williams jets Number 166 of 249 concourse silver to a tongue of my loa. That is just very strange You have those options, and it's not showing you as a member. I don't know you're not able to chat Yeah, it's like it doesn't recognize you at all when you go over there you have I Yeah, that sounds like a you today that we can't we can't make you not a member on our I guess we could remove you But it gives you the options from your level silver Carl Pitts Valkins to to have a field-level rookie But even when we've had to like ban members that have done something that like is banable We just ban them like they don't cancel their membership. That's on them. I don't think we can force someone to not have one 27 to 49 Ricky Jersey Jags Trevor Lawrence silver concourse Josh Allen bills concourse red Niners Joe Montana 16 of 99 club level silver AJ Brown Titans There's running at the Packers face right now, dude Khalil Herbert will a 40 yard run Maybe it's more like 30 silver snap shots chase young Washington silver field level von Miller rams von Miller and premier level Lawrence That's true. That's such a slept on duo right there Tico and DeMonte Freeman Concourse orange rookie canine one glue Vikings 47 to 49 concourse rookie Kellan Mond Vikings Ravens legend of on the Freeman Wilson concourse. We've got an X RC. It's Chris Olava a face X RC for the Saints Nice card there Jimmy Jeep silver premier level areas Boy, bro. Come on now Premier level blue tithing Campbell for the Jags 145 149 silver concourse Ian book Silver premier level Peyton Turner for the Saints Earl Campbell ice 22 at 35 on the Jersey auto Oilers go to the Titans Brady premier level Tri-color Bateman rookie premier level for the Ravens. You go 21 99 and there's that man I'm on Ross St. Brown auto 50 of 75 blue color match for the Lions Among us a mogus st. Brown Grats Lions last three rookie seasons. They have like really good Hawkinson's Swift St. Brown. Yeah. Yeah Next year they're gonna tie it together. Actually, they might be too good to get in the top five of the tree That's the only issue with the Lions is they're gonna be in like quarterback limbo with a good team They'll hit they'll put the switch like half of this is like wait hold up. We gotta get the top on the brakes We're gonna have to we're gonna have to sit St. Brown so phenomenon down and cook silver club level Mack Jones. There you go pats Jalen waddle premier level MVP contender Jared golf slow it down, buddy Oh, we think he heard his he heard his wrist or something He's got to sit out premier level tri-color ETN 169 of 199 for the Jags concourse over Tyree kill I mean they might not be too long in that he has been incredible first try Lance mills over from your level run down more cardinals rookie Maybe golf can take the lines of circle just like he did with the Rams Baker may feel Charles Woodson four of 25 tie-dye patch card rate yourators Silver Aaron Donald premier level with the Rams Snake skin field level. I'm nervous you guys. It's a rookie. Oh Man is that green? Wilson come on. Let's see Zach Wilson.  That's awesome, man That's awesome him and Wilson should become that dynamic duo I would think Wilson the the chase to more of the the Wiggins or the Higgins the Higgins Get that mag for a jets congrats on that rookie club level silver Anthony Schwartz Browns love the snake skins Silver selections tray Lance silver field level rookie Barmore for the Pats But that's why Barmore's Barmore's been good. So the high pitch like you disagree. No, he's good solid I always I knew he was gonna be good for my college light blue Camara 85 and 99 Saints concourse silver Niners Joe Montana That was like the only pick I was sure of last year. I was like, oh, that's that's a good pick This guy probably should not have fallen this far Do it all the alignment Zach Wilson there. We've got a Malika willis XRC for Tennessee There you go, Braden It's been a really good six-boxer. It's over for your level Jamar Jefferson Lyons Wayne Eskridge Second Purple premier level Jerome baddest for the Steelers number 16 of 75 concourse silver rookie hunter long dolphins Premier level silver Jalen Darden bucks to a concourse maroon just the pack 116 of 149 with points facing the other way behind it. That's fun 900 and it's all at the end TJ Hushman Zada on the tie-dye patch auto that's a cool hit. There you go, sincey Who's been Zada patch auto tie-dye? player warren 16 to 25 DJ house, Mozilla How should I do Squidward Squidward tortellini Silverfield level rookie Jalen Phillips Miami. Come on bears Silver club level Maund for Minnesota Palmer your lord is running on him because they don't have anyone to throw to right Yonte Johnson 32 and 99 on the jersey card for Pittsburgh Silver concourse rookie Ken and Wang Wu Vikings. I Mean if you ask me the Patriots are backing guys, they beat the team that beat the team went to the Super Bowl I mean we're back Watch out league. We have 24 points this season Trevor Lawrence Lyme green 27 of 49 Jags premiere level Nice car Jags Silver premiere level Camara Saints Michael Carter Jets 39 to 49 36 of 49 rickijer Z auto Silver fields phenomenon insert silver concourse rookie Kyle Pitts falcons Tri-color Bobby Wagner field level for the Seahawks 33 is 75 and silver premier level Bo Jackson Raiders G Bobby Wagner Rams legend Davis Mills premier level tri-color you go Texans 183 of 199 concourse silver rookie Eric Stokes Packers selection silver premier level Amir Seth Marsette rookie for the Vikings. Yeah, we're about it Rob I just worry about who we're playing those weeks He is for sure short he is definitely Tri-color concourse famous James for the Saints 196 of 249 and Alan Fanica auto 5 and 99 Steelers Silver selections 2-2 at well silver concourse Debo Samuel Mills premier level hits concourse Trask concourse maroon rookie for the Bucks 45 of 149 club level silver gasicki Dolphins and a McCaffrey premiere level give me a sec We'll do a points random and a recap and then it's a mixer time sir 900 points random to all spots six times on a random one two three four five and six Martin L is getting the points Martin L All right relics up first year Steelers Deontay Johnson got tie-dye patched at 25 Raiders Charles Woodson Bronze patched at 49 Jagstrebber Lawrence Colts Marlon Mack was white to 75 Bears Colt Comet and Vikings Adam Thielen Autos now Steelers Alan Fanica 5 of 99 Jets Michael Carter rookie Jersey auto 36 of 49 tie-dye patch auto Hushman Zata bangles that's a cool one 16 to 25 Blue rookie auto I'm gonna say brown I said lions 50 of 75 a Jersey auto this goes to the Titans via the Oilers Earl Campbell 35 Olava XRC Saints rookie Jersey auto Cowboys Michael Parsons 126 of 199 Preston Williams auto Dolphins to 299 Smith Mar set rookie Jersey auto Vikings to 99 Dante Hightower Maroon auto 5375 Pats and a Stevenson rookie Jersey auto Pats 126 of 199 Yeah, Malik Willis XRC for Tennessee lime green Premier level Trevor Lawrence Jaguars Nice card there 27 to 49 a field level rookie Elijah Moore on the green and black snakeskin one of two Big card Jets big parallel white rookie auto Dolphins 30 of 30 Jalen waddle firestorm gold Aaron Rodgers Packers Six of ten congrats Albert on the first break with LSC mojo there Premier level Zebra Rashad Bateman Ravens. That's gonna do it. Everybody the mixers up next


Hmm looks like this will be a cool breeze.  It's been a while, huh?  I'm waiting left for Atlanta. Look at first slice of happiness Yes, you didn't find it. I've always maintained.  Lock us up.  Fujioka will be taking them now. It's a waste of effort I have no time to testify or play it on investigation Suggesting we let him go sir. I suggest you toss them in the sea Cough licks broken so this trash doesn't flow You heard him.  See you haven't grown an ounce why Inspectors come on spit it out. I'm waiting left for Atlanta. Look at first slice of happiness Yes, you didn't find it I've always maintained.  Lock us up.   Fujioka. We'll be taking them now. It's a waste of effort I have no time to testify or play it on investigation Suggesting we let him go sir. I suggest you toss them in the sea Cough licks broken so this trash doesn't flow You heard him.  See you haven't grown an ounce white in a while, huh?  I'm waiting left for Atlanta Look at first slice of happiness Yes, you didn't find it. I've always maintained.  Lock us up. I just jerk off till trial and then what worse case We get some months Standing room only nowadays in a lot there. They're proud to be out early Are these the thieves father's every trash Got them in custody mr. Fujioka will be taking them now. It's a waste of effort I have no time to testify. I'll play it on investigation Suggesting we let him go sir. I suggest toss them in the sea Cough licks broken so this trash doesn't flow looks like this will be a cool breeze. What are you doing? Inspector your mugs familiar to and spit it out. I'm waiting left for Atlanta Look at first slice of happiness Yes, you didn't find it. I've always maintained.  Give us a break.   Fujioka will be taking them now. It's a waste of effort I have no time to testify. I'll play it on investigation Suggesting we let him go sir.


Alright, we got two quick topics, but some quick hits, but I definitely got to play this because we've been wanting to play this for a couple weeks. Travis Scott with the bots. His old manager. Man, he used bots, man. He's in nothing else. That's all that happened. This clip is crazy. That is about to shatter some hoax and beliefs and reinforce some of y'all conspiracy theories. Check this out. His old manager Steven Morris admitted that he hacked the SoundCloud system when Travis was coming up to- First, my name's Shane Morris, not Steven Morris. And I didn't really hack the SoundCloud system as much as deploy a lot of bots, and I'll show you how I did it right now. Turnkey cloud server of your choice. I like Ubuntu 22.04. $6 a month. Firefox doesn't depend upon Waylon, so you'll need to run Xorg. Yes to install. Run sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. As a technical note, you can also run Ubuntu inside a container. If you want to do that, I recommend Docker and then you could redeploy them with Docker swarm and you could scale this almost infinitely.  It'll install. It takes weeks. All right. I don't want people's brains to fry. I don't know what he's saying, bro. Especially for y'all who are just potting. You can't see it. He starts speaking a different language, bro. Basically, he got bots for $6 a month. Yeah. And it was for SoundCloud, which we know what happens when people figure out new tech before the rest of the industry does. Yes. It's really the true, like, ultimate cheat code. If you can figure out this big tech driver before everybody else realizes you can do it, you're going to grow like crazy because by the time everybody figures out they can do it, one is too late and then two, there are things that implement to stop it. By the time everybody else realizes they can do the bot strategy, because there are hella people in what was that 20, probably 16, 17, maybe 18, implementing bot strategies, they were too late. They were now doing it at a time where people were getting caught for it. And then you think about where SoundCloud was at the time and even to something like that, we weren't aware of it. So our first thought isn't like, oh, he's gaming this. You know what I'm saying? Because we don't even know that could be done. Right. Maybe some industry people probably thought that right. But it's like when people first started to have like, oh, 50,000, 100,000, a million followers and you don't even think that any of these could be fake. Yeah. Yeah.  Right. So I can only imagine Magnus probably looking like, oh man, some Travis Scott's growing like crazy on SoundCloud and no labels probably seeing that like, oh, let's have a conversation with him. And he made good music. Like, I feel like we have to emphasize like, you can find a finesse. If you have good music and you can find a finesse, chances are you're going to be alright, you know what I'm saying? Yep. Because the finesse has only worked for the arts with good music. If you finesse without good music, people, we just laugh at you and think you're crazy. Right. It's like, damn, why'd you do that? That shouldn't make no sense. Yeah. But the fact that he was so early to that one is crazy to change background like just being lucky enough to be connected to someone like that. That can put a system like that together for you. That is luck in itself. You know what I'm saying? All the managers are just coming across. How many of them know how to speak whatever language that was? Like, how many, you know what I'm saying? Like, I think a lot of managers, not I wouldn't say a lot of managers, but like, you think of managers having like traditional skills. Oh, they probably understand record contracts and, you know, relationships, which probably all things, I'm sure he understood the time as well. But then it's like, hey, my manager has one very unique skill set that most of y'all managers probably don't have and we bought a gas this year. Yo, that's a, that goes back to that conversation about the people on your team. Like you can find people who have these additional skills outside of music, especially for indie teams. Like you want to find value in places that the industry typically doesn't have on lock because then you'll be able to have a connect. It's like, oh man, this person has all types of sponsorships because they don't, or they understand the sponsorship arena because they work corporate and they have all these connections. So they don't need to go through labels to get you the money. They can go straight to deals even though you're not a big artist because they ran that game. All right. Or yeah, they might be from tech or they got a whole bunch of tech friends so they can code and hack to do certain things. There's all these other seemingly obscure talents that you're going to apply to you. And if you look at your team, if you can find a couple of folks who have different arenas and backgrounds to add towards the standard that's required and music. That's when you start doing stuff different, right? That's when you are early to something like NFTs because they're just in NFTs and you're able to do it right. Not like, oh, I just tried to drop something and nothing really happened or I did a little scam, but no, you did the thing right. That's what Snoop Dogg is doing so well. He knows how to keep people who understand these other categories outside of music around him. However he's doing it, right? We already know for him to discover our boy and hop on a track with, you know, can we even say that? Yeah, but to even understand and find that he exists at that level and hop on a track, right? It's crazy. You know what I mean? So that's something that's valuable at every single level. And when you, for those who are hearing this, I'll just leave it at that. Yes, even somebody at Snoop Dogg, like at that level, right? Typically to stay at that level, you are keeping your ears to the street in some way, whether that's the street on the internet and you understand that very well. Because you got to think Snoop Dogg also been doing the YouTube show for so long.  There's nobody moving like that at that size. Like he's moving in a true like indie organic grassroots way and what he's built digitally. Or you just translate it to a more traditional like I'm Jay-Z or somebody like that. And we have young people around us, right? To let us know what's going on with trends in music or kind of trends in fashion or whatever. Right? Keeping your ears to the street in some form of fashion is extremely valuable once you get up there. But it's exceedingly valuable when you're just trying to make it and get on the first place. Yeah. So I think people need to stress that a lot more. We got this other, this last thing, because we've been holding on to this. And it's just about the suicide boys. I don't know if you all know about the suicide boys. But I was checking them out pretty heavy. Probably starting three years back.  In the world. Tell us what? Pre.  That was suck. You know how I get in that back. You don't get. Yeah. Taylor came and messed the game up. I'm like, man, don't count cuz. She tells us what. That's the argument. I'm like, bro, she tells us what. We're not being hurt, bro. Right. That doesn't really count. But it's still impressive because of one, like how long they've been around. Two. Just how much they stray away from like mainstream looks. Which speaks a lot to that. They legit stay away from mainstream. Yeah. Like I don't know. I don't want to say it's scary. But that really is like, nah, we're not doing that. So to be even considered should even make it to be one of the highest. Independent stream artist with that type of reputation speaks volumes. It really shows like, hey, like you don't need the mainstream looks. Per se, if you can build like this cult fan base, which they have. They have a massive cult fan base at this point. They've been around for like a long time. It's like, bro, they'll push the needle for you in such a way that like you'll still be competing with people who get better looks than you. Because there are probably thousands of artists that we can name that've got them better looks than they have over the course of their careers. I'm not even close to touching that number. Not even close. So 1.8 billion streams lifetime. Right now they have 9.5 million monthly listeners. That number, I mean, once you start getting to nine. Once you really get to two, three monthly listeners, you're doing something special. I consider one million to be like inchy level mainstream. Like at the bottom of the top of the totem pole. Two, three is like, okay, you starting to get a little footing in it. Five and up is like, you know, I want to say like Smeno probably has like five or six million monthly listeners. To me, he's like in a weird middle space. Superstar, but he's not like smart. So it's like, yeah, but nine million to me would be the equivalent of being like a seven out of like a six or seven out of 10. You understand type of artist. All right. So what's that? Maybe five or six. Let's start at 10. What's 10? That's like the Drake title. So that's 50 million and above. Yeah. It's maybe 30 million. Nine might be 30 million. Yeah. All right. So that's like Jay-Z's at like 30 million. Yeah. Or Chris Brown. Chris Brown. Let's see what Chris is. What? How does Chris have less than Jay-Z? It's no way. 48 million. Oh, 48? Yeah. But he also got a viral TikTok on right now. Yeah. Yeah. But he's the one. He being like that. Yeah. But that was also an old song. All of it counts. All of it counts. So then, yeah, that's like, so, yeah, that 48, 50 million. You are 10, 10 off of all artists brand. I'm actually surprised Jay-Z has somewhere in the 30. I think he's at 31. You know what I mean? All right. So that's nine. Yeah. So 20s is eight. Yeah. So 10 would be like seven. Wait, what? What are you saying? No, no. 20s is eight. Yeah. Okay, 10. Yeah. The teens. Yeah. So nine is six. Right at six. You said six, seven. Yeah. I can see that. So six. Let's go all the way down the road. Let's rank them then. At level six, if you're between, let's say five and 10. Yeah, five. Yeah. Well, we said nine for that. It's maybe like five to eight somewhere in there. Five to eight point something. No, nine is six. That's what I'm saying. Nine million up is a six, right? No. Nine million is basically the cap. 10 million in up is a seven. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So that's nine, six. We're at nine, six. So five would be, yeah, I probably said like six to eight. Somewhere in there. Four. Being, you know, probably like closer to three or four, three bent. Three or four monthly lessons. Yeah. Many monthly lessons. Yeah. And then, so then two is two million. Yeah. And then one is one million. Yeah. Anything less than eight is not in the game yet. You're not. Not the mainstream entry level, man. Well, not the mainstream game, believe it. You know what? I would take that back. I would say seven hundred. Seven hundred. Seven hundred. If it's a consistent seven hundred to a million ish. That would be level one entry level mainstream to me. I don't know. Like seven thousand. Yes. I feel like seven hundred thousand. You're like standing on the doorstep of mainstream. They just ain't open door for you. Because one or once you're at seven hundred thousand, you just couple it with looks because remember looks can make you more mainstream than you are musically. Okay. That's true. That's true. That's what I'm going with seven hundred thousand. You could be mainstream. If you have certain types of looks, but if you just straight streaming, then, you know, you're doing well, but you're not technically mainstream. Just offer the straightest dreams. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like a million like the major industry starts to take you to them. You're like a new artist at the point. Oh, yeah. Oh, if to some of these folks, if you have a million streams and they come across you, they just discovered you. Yeah. Like they are the one. Oh, I remember one. I discovered such and such. You had a million streams already. They out here, Christopher Columbus and people basically discovered. But bro, was that five million months ago when you started talking about it? That's not nothing on my scale. All right. You a little itty bitty. Right. It makes me think this conference of me and Sam went to one time because I always remember this. Oh, yeah. Yeah, bro. It was like a booking conference and I just remember this lady on stage talking about discovering new talent. And she talked about how like, yeah, we got this new artist. We're excited about like she's new bubbling. Her name is Summer Walker. And like, bro, this wasn't that long ago. This is like two, three years ago. I'm like, I remember when she said it, me and Sam look at your like summer Walker and new bubbling. I was like, what are you talking about? And that was when it clicked for me, like how out the loop people at that level really are. Or like, or even put into context, like what they consider to be like underground and new and bubbling. Right. It's like, oh, yeah. Like I think she had just dropped the first song she had with Drake on it at that point. And so us that know knows about her, that's kind of like, oh, man, this is a huge moment for her. She really don't level it up. But then that was probably the point where probably like 90% of that room ever first heard her now kind of looking back on thinking about the people that were in that room, the environment and that moment. Yeah. There's just wilder here, bro. Like when she said like summer Walker, new, new artist. What? I was like, she's doing millions of streams at this point. Bro, it's like being in Rome for the billionaires. And you talk about your 100 mil. Yeah. Like, hey, good for you, bro. Yeah. You'll get that one back. Oh, man. Okay. New world for you on your path. I don't know if you remember, but it always makes me think of that first time we went to that. When we went to that Playlist Supply Conference, and we was at that YouTube thing. Playlist Supply Conference? Not Supply. What was it called? Playlist Push. What was the Playlist Push? Remember that influencer conference we went to? In Florida? Oh, not Playlist Push. That's a company. But Playlister, I think. Something like that. Something like that. Yeah, in Florida. I was with the other YouTubers and I was talking about, oh, y'all 100K million, you only get that million one day. I was like, all right. Bro, we didn't even come here as YouTubers. We came here as business people, bro. Don't be over here breaking down my back then. I ain't asking you to do that. Let me give you me words and encouragement. I didn't pause on that. I was about to ask you for your influence, but why are we talking about me right now? Right. But it clicked for me then, too. I was like, man, there's a level to this hierarchy, bro. Like, you just got in the game. You got a whole other level. You got to keep working your way into it. Status. You wonder why they keep working so hard when they are already there because they started meeting new people, bro. Yeah. And that was the same conference where I remember that woman saying that it's a brand like in the YouTube world. I didn't consider you in the game to use a million subscribers. I remember that was the first place I ever heard. And I was like, damn, a million? Nah. I bought it in a K-Plot. We got 9 million more to go. It's a different world. I remember Mario. You remember Mario? You should let me love you. So I remember hearing him talk about the actor, artist money, all that stuff, running numbers up. And he said, you start getting his access. You start being around these people who got way, way, way, way more money. And you never heard of them, not associated with music at all. He's just like, man, they just changed his whole perspective. And he's like, man, I got to figure out how to get up out of music. Yeah. But it's like, wait, you own this? Are you such and such daughter? And it's them levels, man. You got a gravel company? How much from that? Gravel company. My dad told me yesterday about a black-owned bread company. I think they were the first launched black-owned bread company. Oh. It's just sliced bread. Yeah. It's like, hey, man. People do got to eat bread. That's what my name is, but I'm making cement or something. I don't know. Find something boring and make it sexy, man. For real. And sometimes you ain't got to make it sexy. Just find something boring that nobody else want to do well. I definitely be thinking about that in my music retirement. We'll go find one of these companies, chill out, and then just pop up. Yeah.  Nobody's going to see it coming, bro. Nobody's going to ever expect the RS to be the face of a concrete company. But we could change the landscape. Let's do it. How are we going to tie the mill in with, you know, tie the mill, man? Well, every 16-year-old in the country would be asking for bricks of concrete. That's what I want to ask my dad. Hey, bro. You can use Gucci, man. Actually, that would be fine. Bricks, baby. That would be crazy. Hey. I can't believe nobody's ever tried to do that before, bro. Get your bricks from the concrete company. Hey, bro. You want to be able to sell bricks without having to get in trouble. Hey, yo. We sell our bricks, baby. Oh, man. Well, nobody better still than I do. Oh, nah, yeah. No concrete people watching this. Appreciate you watching Fun Fact. Every time you soak up one of these gems, you get a little bit smarter from these clips. So if you want to be a gym seeker, collect all the gems. Keep watching. I'll see you in the next clip.


A civil society group, citizens' initiative for better Nigeria has called for the sake of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timmy Prey Silver, over a let's forgery and identity theft. The group led by Osman Sayidu, Carl Klaus, in a protest at the National Assembly called on the Assembly to institute a probe committee for public hearing on the true identity of Silver. It says the embattled minister has been unable to prove to the satisfaction of Nigerians that the forgery allegations against him were false as corruption and impunity continue to clog the world of the nation's progress. Timmy Prey Silver must be searched, arrested and prosecuted for the offenses of criminal chief of someone's identity that Mr. President must compile with Chief Silver to return all salaries and allowances. He collected Y7 as Minister of Petroleum Resources. We call on Chief Timmy Prey Silver if at all he has any atom of funnel left in him to tow the part of funnel and resign his position as Minister of Petroleum Resources. If the National Assembly also refuses to call for a public hearing on this visible anomaly over Chief Silver stolen identity case, then we have no option but to declare a daily protest until the National Assembly adds in national interest. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


One thing that's always been important is to be able to recognize any flaws, even while things are going good. And that's not to be a negative Nancy or Debbie down or anything like that, but still to be able to acknowledge things that you're doing wrong, that you could improve on, that you could get even better in areas that you can get even better in. And I think the Baltimore Ravens need to do a good job of that. But my guy Dominic, he said he's going to do an even better one. First question came from Dominic. Who is a team keeping clean patient? I appreciate you by the way. Thank you man. He said, what's up in Graven? Hope you had a great time at the tailgate and the game. I first want to say when I came up to you, I didn't mean to just barge in like that on you guys conversation. Pardon me for that. No, no, man. We all, everything's good, man. I appreciate you coming through, man. I appreciate meeting you, man, and you taking the time out of your time to stop by. So thank you for that, man. You got to apologize for nothing, man. Anyway, he said to my question, it was a great win, but I seen some issues that we still need. And those issues are on defense. We think of our linebackers as the best in the league, but one glaring thing I've seen these last two games is that they are suspect in coverage. I don't know what it is, but the Bengals had too much success exploiting the linebacker and coverage matchup. And let me know if you've seen that as well. I did, especially with Patrick Quinn, a little bit of a rough game. And Rockwell Smith sometimes too. But I think something to keep in mind with that is context, and it's not that it's an excuse at all, but context. The Baltimore Ravens played the Cincinnati Bengals two times a year, two times a year. So the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals, they started each other like crazy. They didn't know each other like crazy. They've been going at it at this thing for a long time. So and even last year, the Baltimore Ravens played the Cincinnati Bengals three times a year. Rokwon played in two out of three of those games because I don't think he played in the first one. But I know he played in the last one because I mean it was week 17, 18, and then he played in the playoff game. But so they know them like crazy. And with Rokwon Smith, Patrick Quinn, they know them especially. They played Patrick Quinn. Patrick Quinn is always playing. He's always out there. So they played him three times last year. They played Patrick Quinn three times last year. Rokwon Smith two times last year. And now they played Rokwon Smith and Patrick Quinn two times this year. So they know them. They know their tendencies. They know their event. They know what they can take advantage of. They know their weaknesses and whatnot. They know them. So the fact that they know them so well, that gives them a big advantage now.  So it's up to the Ravens to they see something they doing. Hey, you need to fix some stuff. You need to take advantage of them. Take advantage of their weaknesses. So it goes both ways. So but with Rokwon Smith and Patrick Quinn, because I noticed like the game that comes to mind for me, sorry, something was floating in there. But the game that comes to mind to me with Rokwon Smith, another game where he was just exposing coverage, was that Steelers game from last year. It gave up the game, went and touched down to Najee Harris. And I was like, Yikes, that was rough. But then, oh no, was that the first Raven Steelers game for Rokwon Smith? It might have been. So never mind. I guess I got to exit out because if that was his first Raven Steelers game, then then yeah, they wouldn't have a bunch of film on Rokwon Smith. I really know him. But anyway, so scratch that. But yeah, I think that's what it is with the Bengals. And yeah, and maybe maybe it was just an off game. Maybe it was just an off game because we have seen them look good in past cuts. We have seen them do well in past cuts. But I do know like, I remember, and we said it before, we mentioned it before, how usually in every game. And it was for a while, especially early on in the season. But usually for every game, Rokwon Smith and Patrick Quinn, they were each making big plays every game. But these past couple of weeks, we haven't been seeing it. So they've been some slip of butt. Maybe like the game is catching up to them. And they would just been tired because they've been playing a lot and they had no break. They've been doing a lot of travel. They had no break. They've been playing a lot of games. They had no break. So now they finally get a nice 10 day break. So that'll be cool. And then they play the charges Sunday night football. And then after that, they'll have the bioweek. So they'll be set up even nicer. Next questions came from my guy, Gareth, who is also a teamkeeper, clean patients. I appreciate you said, first of all, prayers to 89. My heart goes out to him. I've been thinking for a while, but scared to ask if Lamar Jackson wins the Super Bowl, do you think he is a Hall of Famer? Oh, no, he wouldn't be a Hall of Famer. He would be an amazing player, obviously. But he would have to do more to be a Hall of Famer. He did change the game. And he has had a huge impact on the game. But I do not think he would be in a Hall of Fame if he won the Super Bowl. So he would have to do a lot more, add a lot more numbers to his career and whatnot, a lot more wins and stuff. Because his career win percentage is amazing. It's like among the best. If it's the best, if it ain't no, it's among the best. It's like definitely like top two, maybe top three. But it's definitely up there. So he wins a lot more than he loses. And it's at a crazy percentage. But Hall of Famer, no, not yet, not yet. He said, Gary said, I think he is six years and still no one has an answer for him. I will love your insight. As always, hope you and your family are doing great. For Marlon Humphrey, my heart goes out to him as well. Thanks, Ed. No, thank you. And yeah, we are doing great. I appreciate you asking. But yeah, I just I don't think he's a Hall of Famer yet. He still got a ways to go. Here's another next question. He said, what a game it was against those Cincinnati Bengals. I've also had this on. Oh, hold up. I'm tripping because he asked the question, but he he just sent it twice. So he got me over here reading it twice. So it's all good. I'll get ready to read the same thing. Again, he just wrote it a different way. But it's all good. Shout out to my guy, Gareth, who been a 10 keeping clean patient for a while. But yeah, back to the question on Lamar Jackson being in the Hall of Fame. Usually with the Hall of Fame, like we know Lamar Jackson, he he's like lit the NFL world on fire. He's been an amazing player. But the Hall of Fame, it goes based off of you being one of the best of the best, but you being one of the best of the best for a long time. And Lamar Jackson, where he came in 2018. So 2018, 19, 2021, 22, 23. So yeah, he's just been in the game six years, six years. And he missed some significant time too. So but that's that that wouldn't be long enough for somebody to make it in the Hall of Fame. Six years, it wouldn't be long enough. So if he plays him playing another six years, then there's a real possibility there. And if he continues everything that he's been doing, and he has a Super Bowl, and he continues everything that he's been doing, especially with just all these these records that he keeps breaking, like it's like almost it's like every every game, every two games, every other game. It's like you see a new record broken from Lamar Jackson. But so yeah, it will take a while. Six years though, he wouldn't make it into the Hall of Fame with just a six year resume.