Yes. So we have looked at verses 1, 2 and 3 of chapter 6. We are not quite finished with the whole parent-children relationships because there is just one more verse and that would be verse 4. If someone could please read out verse 4. Fathers, do not provoke your children's anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Yeah. So here, the advice that is given, of course, you know, the Greek word over there is literally fathers.  In the same way over here when it says fathers, it is true that it is specifically speaking to fathers. But then in the way we run our homes, we can think of it more as parents. So not just fathers but both parents. We need to bring up our children in the word of God, teaching them that this is what God says in his word and we need to live in obedience to the word. So we teach them that, we tell them what the word says, we inform them about it, we educate them on all that the Bible says, you know, that's something that we must do, cannot just leave it to, you know, Sunday school teachers to do that. We are expected, the parents are expected to teach the children all that the word of God says and then so that they can start living their lives in accordance with this word of God. So we teach that but how we teach it makes a big difference. If it is taught in a loving manner, then, you know, the child is more willing to accept it. On the other hand, if it is imposed on the child like a, like a kind of bitter rule to follow or there's, you know, always threat of punishment, when the child grows up hating the word of God, you know, because of the wrong attitude of the parent. So how we do the impartation, how we do this training and instruction of the Lord is very, very important because if we do it in the wrong way, the child could actually grow up hating the things of God and hating the parents and all of that. So it says over here, you know, don't provoke them to anger. So that's regarding the parent-children relationships and then it next moves on to slave and master relationships. Now, in our modern context, you know, there's not supposed to be any slavery. I mean, and in some parts of the world, you still find, you know, slavery and bonded labor and all of that going on, including in our country. So that is there. But, you know, here we will have to think in terms of, you know, employers and employees because most of us are not in that system of slavery. But over here, when he is still writing, you know, these words is talking to literal slaves who are still within the slave system. And by then slavery, of course, had become more evil. In Old Testament times, it was a respectable tradition of a man would choose voluntarily, you know, he would say from now on, I and my family will be under your covering. We will be your slaves. And, you know, you have to take full responsibility for us. And so when the man would purchase, you know, when the owner would purchase a slave and his entire household, he would literally become responsible for them, you know, to provide for them, to take care of them. And in turn, the slave and his family would serve these people in every way. It's a very, very different system by the time of, you know, the New Testament with all these Roman practices and Greek practices coming in. Yes, slavery had deteriorated.  It was more oppressive, more evil. So in that kind of a setup, this is what Paul is, you know, writing, and he says, slaves obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.  So, because things were not really as wonderful now, you know, as they had been in older times, in ancient times, and yet this is the, you know, instruction that Paul gives. So they are supposed to be respectful. They're supposed to be sincere in as if they are obeying Christ himself. That's the command that he gives.  In fact, we get paid for our services and, you know, in fact, in some of our jobs, we have, you know, additional perks and this and that. So we are not really being ill treated, you know, like the ancient day slaves or anything like that. So if they were being asked to obey as if they're obeying Christ, we also should be having that same honourable attitude, you know, in the way we serve in our workplaces. Now over here, it does not mean that you cannot go to the Lord and cry out to him if injustice is being done to you. So all of that is there. You know, the employer, the boss may not be a good person. He may be completely self-centred and only care about his own interests. And so, you know, we go to the Lord and we pray that the Lord will show us fairness. The Lord will grant us justice. We do all of that. When it comes to the actual work that we do, we do it sincerely. So yes, we can go to the Lord and ask him for recompense. We can ask him to, you know, back us up when the boss is ill-treating us. So all of that is there. You know, that aspect of justice and that aspect of fairness, all that is there, we can go to the Lord with those matters. But when it comes to the actual doing the work, getting the work done, we give a hundred percent. You know, we do that because we are doing it as if we are obeying Christ himself. And so it says in verse 7, serve wholeheartedly as if you were serving the Lord, not people. And it explains why we need to have this kind of an attitude. Verse 8 it says, because you know, you know, we are supposed to really know this, not just wish your hope, but we are supposed to know this because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do. So irrespective of what kind of a person that employer is, we choose from our side to remain faithful, to remain sincere because we know our Master's eyes, you know, our Heavenly Master's eyes are upon us and He will take care. He will, you know, reward us. He will, you know, provide the justice when the time comes. So we cannot use the excuse of a, you know, of a bad boss to shirk work or be lazy in the way we do things. We choose to continue honouring the Lord, you know, in our work. So that's regarding the attitude of the employee towards the employer. And then in verses 9, yeah, verse 9 you have Paul addressing those who are the employers, who are the bosses. And this is what he says to them. If someone could read out, Efficient 6 verse 9. And Masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is bought, he who is bought their Master and yours is in heaven. And there is no favouritism with him. So here the, just because, you know, the slaves have been informed and told that they should really serve, that they should really be respectful, that they should really, you know, do their job well. This does not mean that, you know, God is taking the side of the employers. It's not, it's not that God is taking the side of the boss.  He says over here, do not threaten them. You know, do not do anything that will harm them or hurt them.  Why? Because both of you, your employee and you, you are under the control of a higher authority. He will not show any favouritism. If the employer is the one who is doing wrong, God will take action. To the employee who is doing wrong, God will take action. So we both are under the heavenly Master. So we should be aware of that, whether we're employer or employee, we do our work carefully, knowing that the all-knowing one who can see the motives of our heart, who can see the attitude of our heart, he is watching, he is listening and so we need to be careful how we, you know, do our work. So that's regarding the employers and the employees and so having finished that section, which talks about, you know, which talks about interpersonal relationships using the way of love. In the same way Christ used the way of love in the same way he walked in the way of love, we also are supposed to walk in the way of love in all of our relationships. Having concluded that section, now Paul moves into a new section and that would be verse 10 onwards and this is the instruction, the opening line with which he begins verse 10. So if someone could read out verse 10. Finally, be strong in the Lord and he is mighty power.  So the opening line over here is finally be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. The word used over here, it's, you know, the Greek word is finally be endu namu. Okay, that's the Greek word that is used over there. I'm sure I killed the pronunciation, but anyway, that's the word. E-N-D-U-N-A-M-O-O. Okay, so you're supposed to be endu namu, which basically means something of extremely great power. You're supposed to be that powerful. Okay, that's the command that, you know, is being given over here to be very, very powerful. You know, we all are very familiar with this, you know, Alfred Noble. When he invented something very powerful, he wanted to give it a name which will kind of bring out the great power of this thing which he has invented. And so he hunted around for a good term for it, and then he thought this would be the perfect word for it.  That's the word that he used for his invention to show how powerful his invention is. And so du namu is basically the word which talks about great power, and Alfred Noble used that word for his dynamite which he invented. Okay, so we are supposed to be full of du namu. We are supposed to be very, very powerful.  How are we supposed to be that powerful? We are endu namu. You know, we literally have great power. How in the Lord, when we are united to him, when we are abiding in him, his power flows into us. What kind of a power is it? It says be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.   So he says, be very, very powerful. How? By being united in Christ, you know, by abiding in him, because the stronger your connection is with him, the more strongly you are abiding and connected to him, the more easily his power, his resurrection power, will flow into you and then you will really be very, very powerful. It's the advice. So the basic concept over here is that if you're in the Lord, if your connection to him is strong, if you are really abiding in him, submitting to him, walking according to his leading, then his power will keep flowing into you and you'll be very, very, greatly powerful. You'll be the most powerful. You'll be that powerful. So that is step one. You need to be powerful by maintaining your union with the Lord. But second, it's not just enough to be powerful. You must also guard and protect yourself. So he starts off by saying, be strong in the Lord, be powerful in the Lord and one way of retaining your power is guarding yourself so that Satan does not come because you see Satan is very, very scared of powerful Christians. So if you have a believer walking around with this kind of dunamos power in him, Satan is not going to be very happy with the idea because powerful believers bring down the gates of hell. So such people will automatically come under attack. Satan will try to diffuse the power. He'll try to make them powerless in some way or the other using some strategy or the other. And so to maintain our power, we need to stay on guard. We need to protect ourselves. So what Paul is saying is, you are no ordinary people. You are people who are united with the Lord.  Why? Because you are abiding in him. You're connected with him. Your connection with him is strong. So because you are that strong, there's going to be attacks against you. It's what Paul is saying over here. Therefore, he says, you need to put on the full armor of God. It's not enough to just put on one or two pieces of armor. You know, the ones which are more convenient and easy to put on. No. He says put on the full armor of God because only then you see you will be able to take your stand against the devil's schemes. So the reason that we are putting on the armor, the reason that we are guarding ourselves and protecting ourselves is because we are actually not ordinary people. We are connected to the wine. We are connected to Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is the one who has this resurrection power. And he's releasing that into our lives. And there are many amazing things that he wants to accomplish through us in partnership with us. And because we are that powerful, we need to stay on God because we can be quite dangerous to the kingdom of hell. And so we need to protect ourselves with the full armor of God. So it's rather sad, right? We see a whole bunch of believers who are going around living such defeated, helpless lives. Their own families are in a mess and they're not able to take care of their families because they are not really connected to the Lord. They're not abiding in him. They're not able to hear his instructions on how they can help their family come out of the mess that it is in. They're not able to use this resurrection power of Christ that is in them to speak life into their situations. And so you have a whole bunch of very defeated people walking around even though they are supposed to be very, very powerful. Why? Because they have not been wearing the armor. They have not been shielding and guarding themselves by putting on the full armor. And so because they are armor less, they have no covering. They are exposed to danger. The devil is taking full advantage and is attacking them and he's seeing to it that power which is in them will never be put to use. It will just stay there, dormant power. Not being utilized for the things that God had meant for that person to accomplish using that power. So this is a scheme of the devil. He will make sure that we don't put on the armor so that he can continue to attack us in all of those areas. And so we need to put on the full armor so that we can use this great power that is in us to accomplish the things of God. So here the analogy that Paul uses is of the Roman soldier and his armor. So there are entire books written on this or not just this one passage. So we are all very, very familiar already with what is discussed over here. But just for us to maybe touch upon a few details that we kind of maybe sometimes miss when we are doing our reading on the subject. So it says put on the full armor. Again, we know which we already looked at. One or two pieces of armor will not do. We need to put on all of it, put on the full armor. And then it says full armor of God. So you see this is a divine armor. It's not just something that humans have created by their own strength. This is a divine armor with divine power to actually guard us completely. Okay, so in that context if we can look at 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 if someone could read out 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4. So the weapons also are said are not cardinal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Okay, so these you know the armor and the weapons and all of that which God has given they are divine. So they actually contain the divine power to bring down the schemes of Satan. So if we actually cover ourselves in this divine armor we are protected and not only are we protected we can also attack the evil one and destroy his schemes in our own lives and in the ministry that we are trying to do the service that we are trying to offer. So we can actually even attack Satan and defeat him when we are fully clothed in this divine armor. And it says put on the full armor of God. So because it is a divine armor which is given by the Lord it only functions best when we have a right relationship with him. So if we are having the wrong attitude and if we are not properly in sync not synchronized with the Lord then the armor will not really be able to accomplish its powerful purpose which is why it says in James 4.7 that someone could read out James chapter 4 verse 7. So the first thing is we have to submit ourselves to the Lord only when we are living in submission only when we are in right relationship with him then we will be able to resist the devil so the armor is not going to work if we are not in a right relationship with the Lord so we first have to obey we first have to trust we have to submit and out of this right standing that we have with the Lord then we will be able to resist the devil and then he has no other choice but to flee and so then in verse 11 it goes on to explain verse 12 if someone could read out verse 12 please For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principality against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this cage against spiritual pose of wickedness in the heavenly places Yeah So in the NIV it uses the word struggle our struggle is not against flesh and blood in the NKJV it says we are not wrestling with flesh and blood so the word that is used to whether the Greek word is actually a word that is related to I know ancient Greek violent sports boxing and wrestling and all of that that's the kind of struggle that's the kind of word that is used over there where you would have two opponents literally fighting it out in a struggle to the death almost there would be many occasions where that other person the weaker opponent is not good enough he could either sustain actual permanent damage or even die during the entire wrestling or boxing match so it was not a not a light hearted kind of a struggle so that's the word that Paul uses over here because to show that this is no ordinary attack that's going to come against us it's going to be very intense because we are filled with such great power because we have the potential to accomplish such great things just by through simple faith and simple submission to the Lord because of that the attack against us will be great the struggle will be intense and therefore we need to be on our guard it's not normal people that we are engaged in battle with we are in a life and death struggle it's like a struggle between evil and good and the kingdom of hell will not very easily give up so we are engaged in a battle with that kind of with those kind of forces and he goes on to describe what are the four levels of demonic forces which are at work against us so he talks about four levels of hierarchical authority that prevail in the kingdom of darkness so at the highest level the Greek word that is used over there is arkas that's the word out of which we have the English word archaic, ancient we talk about archives old records so the word arkas is talking about something very ancient so at the highest level you have this ancient ones so they are probably the top most angels that supported Satan in his rebellion against the Lord so maybe it's actually referring to those these are like the ancient ones they are the most powerful angels who chose to side with Satan and they fell, they were all thrown out of heaven so it's talking about at the highest level it's talking about this chief highest ranking demonic powers so those are your arkas next under them they delegate their power to a whole bunch of exusia the word exusia literally means authorities so these ancient ones are the ones which hold all the power they were the ones who probably were created originally with amazing giftings, great power supernatural skills, so they have it all and so they delegate their authority to a whole bunch of exusia a whole bunch of authorities, this is delegated authorities which these delegated powers hold that's the second level of authorities hold delegated power in their hands under them you have a whole bunch of what the greek word says kosmo, we are familiar with that kosmo basically means world, kosmo kratos kratos basically are rulers so kosmo kratos is basically world rulers so at the highest level you have the ancient ones the arkas, under them you have the exusia the authorities who are holding delegated power and under them you have a whole bunch of world rulers they've probably kind of been assigned different sections of the world and said you're going to have authority over this portion of the world and then you're going to have authority over that portion so you basically have all of these kosmo kratos the world rulers and under them you have a whole bunch of underlings these are just your average evil spirits they go around doing the bidding of the higher powers so you have these four stages of authority in the kingdom of darkness and they are up against you they are up against you because they recognize the damage that you can do if you realize the kind of power that you have in the lord and how you can use that power through simple trust in him through simple submission and obedience to him on a daily basis just by having that you can actually accomplish great things and so they do not want you to achieve that you need to access that power that is there in you and so they are up in battle against you and you need to guard yourself against them by putting on the full divine armor that has been provided by the lord okay so yes brother shei go ahead with your question yeah just to gain clarity ma'am so what you're saying is the highest of this group of demonics or let's say the spiritual forces in heavenly places and then so that means they exist in the spiritual realm and then you have the rulers and the powers on the earth on the terrestrial realm am I mistaken to say that is there two groups is there hierarchy here that says the first two they operate in the air and then the another two which is powers and authorities sorry rulers and authorities operate more on the terrestrial which is the earth would that be correct to say if you look at the Greek there's nothing mentioned for the first two you just simply have the word and then you have the word those are your rulers and your authorities then the third one it calls them Cosmo Kratos so you know Cosmo world rulers so are they terrestrial are they functioning here on the earth they're all in a way functioning on the earth because they got kicked out of heaven and you know they were flung down below so in a sense they're all of the air in the sense they're all functioning in the spiritual realm and we can't physically see them but at the same time they're all operating in the world because they are no longer in heaven so in that sense they're all terrestrial they're all of the air of the spiritual realm yeah I mean does it really matter whether they're physically standing on the earth or whether they're up in the air their operation their functioning is happening here in the earth because the enemy is here on the earth we believers we are the enemy and their basic battle is with us so it's all happening here on the earth in that sense but it's happening in the spiritual realm and so we can't see it with our physical eyes does that help at all yes pastor that helps yeah so yeah it just talks about the powers of this dark world this Kratos which is dark and then it just talks about all the spiritual forces of evil in the spiritual realm or it just differs I mean the translation differs from version to version in English but these are the actual basic Greek words so the last category is just called you know evil they are the evil spirits so evil spirits operating in the you know spiritual realm in the heavenly realm so these are the powers which are up against us and okay yeah we have brother Christopher yeah please go ahead oh yes thank you pastor now I was actually just referring to the James 4-7 or I'm referring to that where you know this mentioned they said therefore submit to God this is the devil and he will flee from you and I'm also trying to understand you know in another kind of scenario where you know Joseph in the Old Testament tell when he you know he flew he actually fleed away from temptation from sin from Potiphar's wife so in that sense there was also a devil or demonic power involved there and he sort of you know he fleed away from it so my point is there are times when you know he stands strong and you know the devil is fleeing from us but there are also some maybe circumstances where we need to flee away you know not out of fear but basically we just need to get out of the situation and you know just get away basically from that situation which is which is you know a demonic environment so I just wanted to you know get your get your you on that I never thought about it but I guess I would call it a flight of victory and strength and a flight of defeat you know I would say I would use those two terms so Joseph when he fled that was a flight of strength a show of power a demonstration of victory it was totally a flight of victory he is fleeing and showing look I'm going to serve my lord I'm not going to bend no matter what the pressure is no matter what the consequences are you know I mean I know that these this can have you know repercussions on my job I may in fact lose my job I may end up in prison but I'm going to serve my lord and so I'm going to flee from this temptation in victory in authority in honour you know honouring my lord and my god so that's a godly kind of flight on the other hand when Satan flees from us after being defeated nicely that's a flight of complete shame and humiliation and you know the parts who are watching him you know his underlings would think he got a bashing this time so there's a great difference this is flight of victory where you're honouring the lord and God glorifies you for that and this is very shameful and humiliating flight where you're fleeing because you got nicely batched by the believers and now you you'll have to now go and you know think of some new strategy to come back and attack so there's a great difference in the kind of fleeing that we do we can do it in the power and authority of God to honour him and or we know we can be we can flee in defeat that should never happen to us that's something that should happen to Satan again and again but not to us so yeah I guess that's that that would be my thought on that yeah yes thank you yeah so so yeah going back to that verse the I just put on the full armor of God you can take your stand against the devil's schemes so over here it's talking about taking a stand and not fleeing in shame not fleeing in defeat so over here when it says so that you may take your stand against the devil's schemes yes yes here it is saying don't you know flee in shame and defeat that's something that should happen to Satan not to us so we are supposed to take a stand in victory and sometimes taking that stand may involve fleeing from temptation something like that so so it says take your stand against the devil's schemes and the word used over here for schemes is supposed to be literally the word methods over the centuries Satan you know he has experience when it comes to this whole thing of you know crippling believers and you know undermining them and making them ineffective he's tried out a whole bunch of things I guess over the years and it's kind of you know polished his methods so he has certain methodologies you know that's the word over there that's used schemes that word schemes means certain methods has come up with certain methodologies which work really really well they are effective 99% of the time and so he basically uses those but main methods to attack believers you know which is why if we were to look at first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 it kind of touches upon that concept if someone could read out for us first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 yeah so we see over here in the first portion of first Corinthians 10 13 it says no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind so there are certain fixed methods methodologies that Satan has found effective he uses them again and again and so over here in first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 Paul is assuring the believers and saying what's happening to you right now this you know this these temptations and trials that you're undergoing it's not something new something that has never happened to anyone before these are all things which Satan has been trying out for centuries these are all very normal normal things but Jesus Christ now God also has got certain escaped plans for us he has come up with divine strategies on how to overcome each of these methods and methodologies so he says it's nothing to be worried about God is in charge God is in control he will only allow you to be attacked to the extent that you can bear at this particular you know level of your spiritual growth so the stronger you grow the more experienced you grow in the Lord you know maybe the attacks you know God would allow greater levels of attack but he knows where you are at spiritually so he will only you know give you something that you will be able to bear he will not allow any attack upon you that you will be unable to handle okay so he you know Paul gives the assurance that each of us will be attacked or only to the extent that God allows that God permits and God permits it to a certain extent to help us develop our wings to learn how to fly to learn how to deal with you know this these kind of attacks so it's like as if we are under training and God already has got it says provide a way out of it so that you can endure it so for each of these situations that come God has already you know given strategies which we can use godly divine strategies which we can use to endure that temptation and not given to endure the temptation and hold on with the right attitude and you know not give up so the Lord will give that to us but for that you know we would have to wait upon him in prayer we would have to learn how to hear from him and so even as our bond with him grows stronger even as we are more and more connected to the wine we will be able to hear his instructions on how to escape what is the best you know approach to use when you're under attack in that particular way so God will give us these things but even if the connection with God is very very weak when that attack comes we will only be able to hear the attack feel the attack we will not even be able to sense God because we are our connection is so weak so in times of peace it's better to you know keep our connection strong and develop and nurture that connection because when the time of attack comes at that time we already would have gained some experience on hearing from him you know learning how to hold on to scripture you would have had some experience in all of that then we will be able to you know apply these divine strategies that God is giving so during times of peace and calm rather than being spiritually lazy we need to nurture our bond and connection with him so that when the time of attack comes we will be ready you know to handle whatever comes to us now we could not really touch upon the armor of God you know which it talks about the belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness and all of that yes yes brother Christopher go ahead I guess fast as well you know you're touched upon an interesting point you know where the intensity of the attack is more and as we grow spiritually and mature we are we are we are given you know the strength to be able to withstand that those that attack so just to understand you know the if you have some kind of example of that you know that may have that you yourself may have gone through if that's possible or otherwise you know if you've heard of you know how that how the intensity of the attack has you know increased and you know over time you know with a believer who has you know matured and then been able to withstand that yeah I just wanted to ask if you could give us an example I mean attacks are so varied and so wide in variety um you know something as simple as unanswered prayer I remember in the early days if then if God would not answer something then I would immediately have all these thoughts attacking me you know saying oh see God does not really care and then you start feeling angry and you feel betrayed and you know there's a lot of battle going on inside your mind where Satan is attacking you from many directions to kind of make you stop trusting in God to make you feel bitter against God and maybe to even lose hope that you know things are ever going to work for you in your life and all of that and the issues actually that were being dealt with at that time were not even that major but you know all these thoughts would come against God against the ever having you know victory over the situations of my life and all of that so gradually over time I began to know the character of God better I grew stronger in him I renewed my mind I began to be able to hear him better so now there are much bigger unanswered prayers I mean this affects not just me you know it affects my entire family these are big things that we are praying for and I do not yet see the answer to some of those but now when I look at myself there is so much peace on the inside there's so much confidence and security on the inside because now even though the attack is greater I can hear him better my goodness when you know in times of despair when things are really bad I can literally bombarded with scriptures on Feb 3rd that was some tough day for me and I literally had I think 7-8 scriptures come to me and God said see look I am for you I am going to deal with this and so you know I did not go into despair I did not allow that bitterness to rise up and say ha see look what God has I mean after all the service that I have done look what God did all that did not happen because I was able to hit those things you know which Satan was ending immediately with the scriptures and say no God is standing for me and so I can see a great difference the level of intensity of the situations will increase but you also would have now increased more in your ability to stand on scripture so you are able to have greater victory so I just used one example it can happen in all areas different areas where just Satan is trying to draw you away from God and draw you into despair draw you into failure draw you into sin all of that yeah I don't know whether that helped but I meant intensity in that sense the situations get more intense there is more to be lost but at the same time God's equipping is also greater yeah thank you for sharing to our pastor yeah yes yeah alright yeah we are out of time maybe we will touch upon the armor you know it is kind of wrong to not touch upon the armor so we will do that next class you know and we will also start off with our Philippians but you know right now let's just conclude with the word of prayer Lord we just thank you so much that you have taught us so many truths today help us a lot to imitate you to follow your example and to walk in the way of love in all of our relationships because Lord when we do that Lord because we are honouring you you will take care of all the details you will help us a lot in the situations that we face also we pray that Lord understanding who we are in you we would guard ourselves so that we can accomplish what you have you know set before us and we would experience victory rather than defeat thank you Lord in Jesus name Amen thank you so much for holding on till the end we will meet again next class


but anyway it's anime day and we watched one new show it's not that new but it's a movie actually yeah it's a movie called uh... kazeomita shonen or the boy who saw the wind i like it a lot it's alright i liked it a lot of people think it's a ghibli movie in fact on noska.net it's on the page of movies that are commonly mistaken for ghibli movies and many vcd bootlegs of this movie have the studio ghibli uh... logo on them when i first downloaded it uh... it was pretty much just i was on the anime ski and i saw a torrent for uh... the boy who saw the wind ghibli style movie and i said well i never heard of this but i'll get it and i got it and we i watched it alone a long time ago and forgot most of it but we watched it all together again just this weekend see it's alright it's really pretty like it looks like it's a really old style but the style is really well done i think it was done in two thousand it's not that old yeah but it looks a lot older than it is and it's just the typical you know there's a boy he has a power he goes on adventure to save people and it's good but it's kind of simplistic there's good guys they're perfect there's bad guys they're absolutely silly evil oh the bad guy yeah yeah the bad guy is like imagine hitler only i think they could have made that a little better if they would have uh... added some they could have shown the uh... the rebellion sometimes in a bad light like look they're killing people too yeah but they always had the bad guys with those like masks on so that you know when they do that kind of thing if they would have humanized those guys in the masks a little bit more to make the rebellion seem you know not perfecting great and if they would have had that uh... evil scientist lady not turn insane yeah they should have actually like made her someone who is nice and is like forced into evil so you kind of like feel bad for instead of going as she's not get rid of which is what they seem to start doing right away and they just like and i like all right she's crazy they make her crazier than rica goes mom from eva yeah every other anime seems to do with the way i just described this one was just like forget it's not worth the effort it was still good it was just it was really simplistic like every time they needed to move the main character somewhere else for a change of scene or to move the plot along they haven't fall from a great height the knocked unconscious and wake up in a strange land yeah they did that twice right at the beginning yeah it was great it happens a grand total of three fricking times yeah they need uh... another way to move the plot they didn't only hope for a trap it's a trap but it's definitely worth watching i mean i enjoyed it and there's a lot of good characters it's real sad at points uh... we can't ruin the end and i suggest you watch it because there's a twist that i didn't see coming yeah i mean i'd seen it before and i forgot what happened at the end and then i was like all right uh... not like the other ones where there's a twist that it was so strong you remember it that way when you see it again you're like it's gonna happen again it's just a it's a it's a twist you don't see coming that's really all i can say i did not expect the movie to end the way it did it was a good ending i don't think so i don't think there could have been a better ending for what they had already done in the show had the ending not been the way it was i probably would have written the show off because other than that it was just kind of a typical predictable see that was the worst thing it was pretty much a hundred percent predictable watch other than the twist every single thing that happens you can predict from like the previous two things that happened and as we as we're all watching the show because we watched it at the party when everyone here and it was basically just everyone's yelling out oh obviously blah blah is gonna happen and then blah blah blah happens it's like every time there's a happy scene there's a sad scene right after it that pretty much is a direct thing that ruins whatever was happy since the problem though with it's all kinds of things these days is that when you've seen enough anime or you've seen enough movies or television over the course of your life everything gets predictable and you need to watch really complex or really weird stuff to find something that's not predictable the thing is even they get predictable because the the unpredictability itself becomes predictable it's like he's gonna do the opposite of what's normally gonna happen so he's gonna do this oh I got it right we started a while ago we were watching Hitchcock movies we were watching the old Hitchcock movies like early in his career like they're they're good but they're hard to watch and old and like in the first one I figured out what was gonna happen like you know right before it happened at the end but then later on I was like saying what was gonna happen like like minutes and minutes before it happened because back then like it seems like the big thing with movies back then was to put a twist at the end like every movie had a twist well no that's not the big thing back then that's Hitchcock's thing and I've seen a lot of other movies from that era of course but Hitchcock is like the twist master yeah the problem was once you like start figuring out how the twists work you always predict the twist because it's always just think what's the least likely thing to happen well that's obviously how the movies gonna end well it's not the least likely thing to happen least likely thing to happen is something crazy the least likely thing to happen that is still possible to happen it's not really something that's least likely it's actually very likely it's just unexpected it's the thing that is most unexpected to happen but still makes a whole lot of sense and is very exciting a lot of times though they didn't make sense those are the bad Hitchcock movies that no one remembers yeah like the one I don't remember which one it was where they're conflicted the bunch of characters are conflicted about killing someone and then they end up not even having to worry about it because a freaking bomb blows up the train they're on and the guy dies anyway yeah that's just something crazy but like 39 steps is very make sense you know and and me yeah yeah they're also highly predictable some of it was highly predictable but it's one of those things where you can predict it if you remember everything that happened in the movie because the twist is something that you forgot that happened way the beginning though regardless this movie is highly predictable if you've seen like three or four other anime in your life you'll probably just know exactly what's gonna happen in this whole show but it'll still be fun if you like movie movies and things then if you've seen them all and you're looking for more of that and give Lee doesn't supply frequently enough and you're bored and you want a movie to watch boy who saw the wind is great there's also a really funny he ends up wake one of the times when he gets knocked out and wakes up somewhere he wakes up in this village and apparently their sole source of food is hunting these Zabby Zabby Zabby our giant fucking man eating kill you all fish like a whale barracuda mix thing like a bunch of villagers die and they finally take down this fish and then they have a big feast and then later and then everyone in the room with us is like why don't they just hunt smaller fish or something this is kind of silly and then in the show one characters like why do we hunt these stupid Zabby all the time yeah that's great I think they were trying to make a comment about like vegetarianism or something and then whoever made the show gave the message that's not good yeah the moral of the show is really heavy-handed yeah it was like you're disrespecting the Zabby by not eating it like it's already dead you know and you know we eat it and it eats us and it's come you know they tried to make a message out of it that was pretty yeah not deep in its presentation like the evil dictator at the end when he like tried to not ruin anything basically at the end of the movie when the evil dictator whatever is happening to him he pretty much is like oh I wasn't evil I was just lonely yeah it's like they say it right right out whereas other shows are more subtle and yeah subtle is not like surely stimulating the show is definitely not subtle not subtle at all it's hard to be subtle when you have a kid flying around and you know cute little animal going oh yeah the cute little animal I totally forgot about that and then they had the cute little animal babies yeah that was really cute too cute I mean I've seen cute things but those little babies were just like where the tail was more than half the body oh my god I think they were supposed to be foxes if we're nothing else you should just watch the show to see the cute animal and that was geek nights with rim and sky special thanks to DJ pretzel for the opening music thanks for listening please remember to point your favorite podcatcher at feeds dot feed burner dot com slash geek nights to get the latest episodes as soon as they're released also please visit our website at www.frontrowcrew.com for the latest updates and forum discussion whether you love or hate our podcast we won't know unless you send your feedback to us at geek nights at gmail.com


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there's something going on here you know with this drought and this situation but at the same time you know you get to see the human side of this you know let me show you something I didn't I didn't put this in my pocket here for for me to show it to you but I just realized that I have something here in my pocket this is two separate people that came by I think it was last week this is I think his name is Sander Fuller he came on June the 13th of this year of course and he asked me if he could make a donation for me to go out to the store and buy more water and this is the envelope that he gave me okay I'm gonna I'm gonna drop the money that he donated okay there it is it's a penny this this envelope you know touch my heart he must have been probably six or seven years old I cannot really recall his face but he was just a small child you know that saw us here you know in the middle of the day sweating you know like crazy and helping family after family and he before he gave me this I noticed that he talked to his parents I don't know if he was his dad or mom that was here with them you know with him and and then after I remember they told him yeah it's okay you know just give it to him you know so he came up to me he asked me if he could make a donation I told him well you know I I normally don't take donations you know from the same people that I'm trying to help but if you want to see insisted you know he insisted and so I I'm saving the penny you know because of course you know it means it means a lot more you know than what what is worth you know but here it is you know but this came in from another lady you know that came she's been coming here often you know for water then finally last week she goes you know what I'm tired of coming here for water you know and I'm not being able to to give back you know there's no value I mean there's no price on these things you know I I I probably probably gonna keep this forever you know just


another dunk tutorial. This time we're going with the windmill. Alright, let's get it started, jump right into it. I just have some pointers, some tips, some advice, and some things to look out for and what you should focus on. And it's pretty simple, but let's just jump into it. No pun intended with the jump. Screen recorder, let's go. Okay, start now. Alright, so let's make this full screen. Alright, so you saw the little clips right before this, and so I had a little set of clips that I wanted to show you because that is the progression from like my very first windmill and just I'm going to go through it and I'll show you instead of explaining it. This is my very first windmill on a 10-foot hoop and I snuck it in there. Can I make this better quality? I think so. So as you see here, sorry for the volume, is here's a few things I want to point out. So first thing is it's good timing.  So we're going to be going through that a lot in this video, but mainly for this one is the height of the ball is not moving up and it's not coming down. It's better if it's coming down too, but the point is it's not going up because that way when you jump you're not going for it. You're kind of catching it and having the most efficient movement possible. So as you see here the ball is almost stopping its upward momentum so that way when I jump I go to grab it and I can bring it right back down. If it's going up I have to like go get it first or like pull it against its direction and that's a little bit harder and we're just trying to maximize the efficiency of the windmill motion. And the other thing, so for this one as you see I'm catching it almost like at my face level maybe even under it and that's pretty low. And as we see as I get better at the windmill I'll be catching it a little bit higher and it's more of a real windmill when you catch it above and bring it all the way around, but it's a good starting point. And the other thing I want to point out is that the location of the ball there's a sweet spot. If it's too high or too low it's really hard and to get more into that is that if it's too low you're not going to get that arm swing. You're going to be like reaching down like this and you're not going to be able to jump. You're going to like be focused on grabbing the ball without getting a full jump. So this one even though I'm kind of low it was still a little high enough where I was able to get some of my arm swing and be able to get like a 75% rotation and then dunk it. So you really want to try to get that sweet spot a little bit above where you think you may do it and that's something I learned when I was trying to get my first windmill dunk is that sometimes when I threw it higher than I thought I could get a full rotation on I would actually get a better jump and closer than the low the low tosses even though the low tosses I did less of a rotation so let's just keep that in mind and I snuck that baby in. All right now this was soon after that another 10 foot rim but um turn this off real quick sorry about that. And same thing not the prettiest form but the timing is really good I'm jumping and the ball is almost stopping right when I grab it I'm a little higher this time but again not the fullest rotation but good timing and good placement of the ball and as you see my form is a little strange I'm not like it's not perfect but it's pretty good and I'm able to get it there and you want to be a certain distance from the rim which is where we'll see on the next video now this one's a good video to see I think I have it in slow-mo back so okay so now here's the next one this one's a little bit too close to the rim but I'm able to get it just around but as you see it's not as fluid and it's not as pretty looking or it doesn't look as efficient as it could be so as you look the timing is there but I'm having to jump and kind of like reach back so I'm it's decent catch but I'm like already you already see me like leaning it's not really going forwards with it if you can go forwards with it it makes for a much more efficient movement and I'm able to reach up and just get it in but I'm also dunking on the side of the rim which is not the most optimal not because it's harder or anything like that but you're probably not maximizing your jump and your peak and hitting your jump at your peak when you're doing the motion so just keep that in mind as well try to get the placement right with the ball when you're doing windmill now moving on to this one I wanted to throw this in here just to try to show you different styles this is a left-right approach when I used to have some versatility and same thing is the timing is there it's always about the same timing the ball bounces and then I'm getting into my gather my big penultimate and I'm jumping and it's a little bit above my head which is perfect for what I'm at the level I'm at where I can't get a full rotation where I catch it up here but it's it's up enough where I can get some of my arms right now I want to get into the reason how this left right is I want to get into left right versus right left right left might be a little easier only because it's a little more natural to bring the motion around like if you jump right left you're going like this so this is like let's see what's the best way I can do this if I'm looking at you I plant plant my left foot and then I catch it and bring it to the side of my body but there are different variations when you do right left some people stay more straight and kind of bring it back like this some people turn more sideways and bring it like this but it's not as very it as very as it is left right a lot of people have different styles on left right where they catch it over here and bring it across their body or they catch it like right in the middle and bring it back left right this one's a little bit more a little bit in between both of those so it's hard to tell from this video but I think it's a little bit on my left in my head and then I bring it right here and just if you're trying to do it left right you can kill windmills kill Gannon's great at that left right windmill so you could take a look at his form it's really great but the same thing is that you want it high and you got to find the placement left and right which is another thing that I learned about my right left windmill is that after trying it over and over again I learned exactly where to throw it and for me it was a little bit to my right because when I would jump I wanted a little bit on my right so I could just bring it here because on my left I'm gonna I'm gonna plant and jump and have to reach here and it's just not as efficient so you have to find you feel if you wanted in the middle but for me it's a little bit to my right it might not even be to the right I just throw it thinking a little bit to the right and my plant might take me right to the middle of it I don't know but the point is try to find the placement so you want to so far we want the right height of the ball and you want the right timing where it's not going up and it's not coming down you kind of run it right in that sweet spot so it's still up but it's not really moving so you could grab it and then you also want the right positioning left and right and just it takes a lot of practice with the timing I practice a lot on 98 just getting that timing down and it takes a lot of speed with the rotation that I didn't know until I started practicing so once you try it you may not be coming close but you can don't really easily it's probably that rotation speed so just try it over and over again even to get rim stuff that's really good so let's move on to the next one so this one same rim but now I'm doing right left and it's pretty good but as you see it's a little awkward again and that's because the ball is kind of close to the rim and I'm jumping more straight up and down and for my style I jump a little bit better not jumping forwards but it's hard to jump all straight up and down so this one was straight up and I go up and as you see I'm kind of reaching at the very end I'm not really going as fluid as a motion as I could be but it was pretty good the timing is really good the height was a little higher than I was this is when I was starting to get a little bit better at it so it's a little bit up there but as you see I'm still catching it like I just left the ground my arms aren't fully up next level is going to be like crazy up here then bring it all around but this is kind of next level compared to the last couple clips we've seen but again this is like a 9-10 rim and bring it around and then finish it pretty good now the next one is the same day and I really like this one because it was my best one for a long time and it goes to show you that there's a lot to do with the efficiency of the dunk and the timing and the positioning and there's a lot to that that you can practice to get really a lot a much better dunk out of the same vertical because I don't think I jumped any higher I just think I jumped a lot better with this dunk so if I run it real quick let me put the quality down a little bit because I don't know if you could play that full speed but okay so now if we break this down again it's it's good distance from the rim it's probably the perfect distance so I can take off and get my peak right as I finish I'm at my peak of my jump it's a perfect height it's a perfect timing the ball kind of stopped right there it's a perfect high where I get almost a full arms arm reach but also I get my full arm swing so my arms are above my head but I'm not reaching too high and then I'm catching it right as I leave the ground getting a perfect rotation perfect timing as you see it looks like Dwayne Wade off maybe I'll put that little picture of him that it looks just like him on this anyway the point is it looks like a real windmill get the full rotation and then I flush it perfectly hits the back of the room and shoots down and even though I didn't hit maybe like my forearm I hit maybe even just the middle of my palm the timing and the cleanliness of the dunk makes for a really good impactful dunk and so all those things add up to make a much better looking dunk than the one before it and all those factors come into play that you could practice and learn about what you're doing differently to get your windmill on point so one more time just run this back this was nice bang that thing but anyway the point is also even though I pretty much crushed that one it could be my palm could be my wrist but the point is it's not like down here which is now or I didn't get like my whole hand in the rim so there's levels to it that you might not be able to notice unless someone breaks it down like this but you can get that efficient bang of a dunk if you have the timing right and you have the positioning right so look for that and also try to get your efficiency good with all these dunks by doing low rams and your speed good and just your timing and positioning are so important that you could get a lot of dunks down that's why I'm able to windmill so well compared to like dribble dunks or some dunks that I'm I stink at because I've practiced this the I practiced all the lobs and all these technique for so long it was the first trick I really wanted to get so I practiced it over and over and over again and I learned exactly where to throw the ball so now it's like second nature I just throw it and it's like the perfect timing I just got it down and I got that sweet spot so many times that I know I can go get it anyway that's pretty much it so now we're on to my best one yet that I like the most this is a 10 foot rim I hope that's playing pretty smoothly but watch it real quick and slow mo so what's great about this one 10 foot rim is that play it come on so this one good timing again I throw it it's really good positioning from the rim it's a good amount of distance where I can count I'm not reaching forwards either that's another thing I'm realizing you don't want to jump and reach forwards you want to reach up but not too far where you're like like you have to reach for the rim there's a whole spacing issue with the front how close you are to the rim so definitely try to get that down this is about the most perfect you can get perfect height where I'm pretty much reaching almost full arms and it's pretty close to the rim it's almost let's see it's like maybe a foot and a half under the rim but anyway I have to go get it a little bit still reaching for it's really high up there my arms are almost straight up I get a really good jump I bring it all the way around and then the finish even though it looks like it rattles in I think that's just because my hand hits the rim as the ball does so it brings the rim down a little bit so it kind of rattles in but I think if it was a stiffer rim and my hand didn't affect the rim it would have shot down like the last one because I could feel my whole hand in the rim and the ball went down and I felt like I got the ball in a downward motion as well that's why I was it stayed in there and that's pretty big on a dunk like that so I was able to on 10 feet get a full rotation high toss get a full rotation and dunk it with room to spare and that's kind of how you know you're getting to the next level of the windmill and that's kind of the progression of how you want your windmill to go just to run it back really quick you want to make sure your spacing is good make sure whatever plant you are you you get comfortable which what with the left and right aspect of where you want to place the ball if you're right left for me it's a little bit to the right of like the middle of the rim so I jump and I catch it and it's kind of on my right side I think that's why it is it's not really reaching to the right but when I mentally throw it a little bit to the right I jump and it's over here instead of like a little bit to my left so I don't know if it's actually to my right but I just I don't throw it right at the middle of the room as if I'm going for a one-hander and if you're left right you really have to play with it but I remember when I was doing left right a lot of it was making sure it was high enough because a lot of times it's too low and low tosses I might might be harder left right just because you have to kind of bring it across your body and you're jumping but like this but either way one thing I really noticed I think my biggest tip was the sweet spot which is I was trying to throw it low so I can get like a half a windmill just to get the motion faster but when I would throw a higher toss and have to go get it I would you can feel a difference in your jump because you have to go get it a little bit and you can get a better jump with a more full of a rotation than if you were to get a lower less rotation it seems like you might already notice that already but to me it would seem like you can get closer to a windmill if you do less of a rotation but the fact is if you hit that sweet spot with the ball you get a better jump and then everything's more efficient you might get a better chance of landing that windmill. Okay so I hope that really helps I could do this again if you missed some tips you have some questions ask all your questions in the comments in the feedback whatever you want to see next I have a lot of other dunks we can do I'll probably do maybe an East Bay next I was thinking just because I'm trying to analyze it myself I see a lot of flaws in my own technique that I can point out I'm a lot better at seeing what's wrong with my form than actually fixing it I'm trying to fix it but it's just hard that's what's great about this windmill is that it's not as difficult for me I was able to learn the technique pretty quick and just wrap it out with the East Bay it seems like my technique breaks down very easily and I think that's because of my inflexibility with my legs and my hips anyway that's not the point I hope you enjoyed this let me know what you think ask your questions if it was too fast let me know if I spoke 100 miles an hour let me know but placement timing of when you catch the ball timing of when you jump what else make sure it's the right height and just practice that motion over and over again and practice the placement I think I said that eight times but the motion is really important as well and that's your windmill tutorial I'll frickin see ya