In Galatians chapter one, it's not a long chapter compared to some chapters that we've seen, but I'm going to spend two weeks in Galatians chapter one. So the first week what I'll do is I'll preach through every verse, and I'm going to focus on one very specific spot in Galatians chapter one for this first sermon. We're going to look at the birth of Paul. We're going to look at Paul's origins as a Christian, because we get some information in Galatians chapter one that's new information, that it's information that we didn't get in the story in Acts. So what I want to do is I want to put those two stories together for you this evening, and then of course we'll apply it as normal. And then next week what we'll do is we'll preach, I'll still be in Galatians chapter one, and we'll start to look at what's actually happening in the church of Galatia. So this morning, or I mean, I'm sorry, this evening we're going to look at, we're going to focus heavily on Paul. So let's start with verse number one of Galatians chapter one.  So let's figure out what's going on in Galatians chapter one. Galatians chapter one verse one, Paul and Apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and the God, and God the Father who raised him from the dead. So how did Jesus raise from the dead first of all? I mean, the Bible tells us even that detail is God the Father raised Jesus from the dead. So let's look at the origins of Paul. So Paul here, he starts to tell you a little bit about his background. He says Paul and Apostle. And we're going to get into that as well, what it means to be an Apostle. But he says, you know, there's more detail than just Paul and Apostle. You know, Paul, I'm just an Apostle. He says, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and the Father who raised him, and God the Father who raised him from the dead. So turn to Acts chapter nine. Let's look at the origins of Paul or Saul as the Bible will call him at this point. He doesn't actually begin to be named Paul and tell about Acts chapter 13, I believe. And then the Bible says, and all, you know, his name is in parentheses also Paul. And then they call him Paul from then on. So it's going to call him Saul from here on out. So remember Acts chapter seven was the death of Stephen. Saul was at the death of Stephen. Or Saul was a Pharisee. He was, you know, wasting the church. We're going to look at that. Look at verse number one of Acts chapter nine. Let's look at the origins of this man who's writing Galatians chapter one. And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord went unto the high priest and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues that if he found any of this way, meaning any of the Christians, okay, whether they be, they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutus thou me? And he said, who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, who now persecutes. It is hard for thee to kick against the prick. So here Jesus, I mean, if you have a red letter Bible, these are red words. This is Jesus talking directly to Saul. And verse six, he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will thou have me do to do? And the Lord said unto him, arise and go into the city and it shall be told thee what thou must do. Now go back to Galatians chapter one. So you see, he says, Paul says, I'm not an apostle of men or by man, but by Jesus Christ himself. So I want to show you some of the similarities this evening of Paul, who is a later apostle. I mean, Jesus is gone at this point. Jesus is already ascended to heaven in Acts chapter one. And this is Acts chapter nine, and Paul comes on the scene. But I want to point out that he came on the scene by Jesus Christ himself. Okay, Jesus Christ himself revealed himself to Paul. Now go to Galatians chapter one in verse number two. And all the brethren which are with me under the churches of Galatia, grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father. To whom be glory forever and ever, amen. I marvel, now he gets into some of the things that I'm going to talk heavily about next week, but we'll read through it. There was problems, that's why he was writing. I marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.  He's saying, look, if anybody tells you that there's a different gospel or it's not the same as we told you before, he's like, let him be accursed. As we said before, so I say now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you, then that ye received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men? For if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. So basically in verse number 10, he's saying, look, he's like, I, he's saying basically, you preach out of season in season, that's what verse number 10 is saying. He's like, I'm going to tell you the truth no matter what, whether it's what you want to hear or not. He's like, I, you know, I don't speak to please men, Paul said. He's like, for if I please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. That goes to show you, you know, as we looked at the prosperity gospel a couple of weeks ago, that all these people that speak to please men and please, you know, to get people in the pews and in the chairs and fill their churches, they're not, you know, they're not the servant of Christ. Because the message of Christ many times will not please men. Many times is not what you want to hear. It's not for the itching ears. Okay. But now look at verse number 11. So there's problems in the church. We see that somebody has come into the church and is spreading something other than what they taught them at the beginning. We'll get into that next week. But now Paul goes into a defense of the gospel. So this is a, you know, Paul is a very persuasive writer. I don't know what he was like. He says he wasn't a great speaker, but he was a very persuasive writer. And I like the way that he thinks because he goes in now into this, this defense of the gospel itself. Okay. Look at verse 11. But I certify to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. He says it didn't come from man. He's like, well, how do you know? How do you know it didn't come from man? Well, he says for I, now he's going to give you a testimony. And that's what we're going to talk about this evening is Paul's testimony. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it. What in the world? So he wasn't taught the gospel by another man. Somebody didn't, you know, Peter didn't come up to Paul with the gospel and explain everything to him. Okay. So Paul is now going to tell you how he received. Look, Paul, we're going to find out, and you will find out throughout the Bible, that Paul would go and he would debate people in the temples for hours and hours and hours and days and days. He would go and stand in the temples with the leaders and all the Jews around him. And he would, look, this is different than debating somebody at the door. He would go and he would lay out the case for Christ in the temple. And look, maybe the person he was talking to wasn't convinced, the Pharisee or whoever, but many people around were convinced. You know, even King Agrippa almost persuaded me to be a Christian. Paul was very persuasive and that means he has a lot of knowledge according to what this gospel was, but he wasn't taught it. He wasn't taught it by man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. He says, Jesus Christ showed it to me, is what he is saying. Now look at verse 13. For you have heard of my conversation in the time, in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and wasted it and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace. Now just like take a bracket around verse 13 and verse 14 and write your past right there. And I'll explain to you why you need to label that that way. Verse 15, he talks about how he was called by the grace of God. He didn't deserve whatever this choosing that God chose him to be this apostle, but God called him by his grace to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen. Immediately, I conferred not with flesh and blood. Again, he says, I was not taught by men. He said, look at verse number 17. Neither when I up to Jerusalem. Now wouldn't you think that would be a smart thing to do? So Paul just got saved in Acts chapter nine, what we just read. He just got saved. And then he goes, we're gonna read a little bit further in Acts chapter nine about what happens. Go to Acts chapter nine and look at verse 17 and we'll look at Saul's conversion a little bit more. But it says, he conferred not with flesh and blood.  Neither when I up to Jerusalem. I mean, don't you think that would be a smart thing to do? You just convert it. You know, should I go to Jerusalem and talk to the apostles, the eyewitnesses of Jesus Christ himself?  But he didn't. Neither when I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me. But I went into Arabia and returned again onto Damascus. Turn to Acts chapter nine. Now this is something, Galatians, when you put it in with Acts chapter nine, it gives you some details that you would never get if you just read through Acts chapter nine. So go to Acts chapter nine, look at verse 17. The Bible says this. It says, and Ananias went his way and entered into the house and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest me hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight. So Paul's blind now remember after this, you know, situation on the road and be filled with the holy ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes and he received sight forthwith and arose and was baptized. There Paul is saved and baptized right there. Verse number 19. And when he had received me, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples that were at Damascus. So now he's in Damascus and straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues that he is the son of God. So Paul, he gets converted on the road to Damascus. He goes in and into Damascus and he meets Ananias and he receives his sight again. He's baptized and then he goes and he preached Christ. He preaches Christ in the synagogues right away. Verse 21. But all that heard him were amazed and said, is this not he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem and came hither for that intent that he might bring them bound under the chief priests. Like he came to Damascus to gather Christians to bring them in chains back to Jerusalem. And now he's in this, I mean, just imagine. You know, this is verse 13 and verse 14 of Galatians. You know, just put a bracket around verse 21 and say Galatians 1.13, Galatians 1.14. They're looking at his past and they're saying this is the guy that was way over the top against these people, against this Christ. And now he's advocating for him. They're like, they can't make sense of it. They can't understand it. But Saul increased more in strength and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus proving that this is very Christ. He's basically going into the synagogues and saying, hey, he really was the Christ. You're saying it was the Christ. We were wrong is what he was saying. Now between verses 22 and verse 23, just write a little arrow that says Paul goes to Arabia for three years because that's what Galatians chapter one is telling us that in between verse 22 and verse 23, there's two trips to Damascus in Acts chapter nine. So after many days were fulfilled, this is three years in Arabia. After three years in Arabia, the Jews took counsel to kill him. But they're laying a weight was known of Saul and they watched the gates day and night to kill him. Then the disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in a basket. And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, now he goes to Jerusalem. So he went to Damascus. He went to Arabia for three years. Then he went back to Damascus.  And then he went to Jerusalem finally. I mean, so how long has Paul been saved, Saul been saved before he goes to Jerusalem for the first time? Over three years at this point. Look at verse 27 of Acts nine. But Barnabas took him. So many of the disciples in verse 26 believe not that he was a disciple. They're still scared of him. Okay, they're still scared of this man. He was such a terror to the church after three years they're still scared of him. But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared unto him how that he had seen the Lord in the way and that he had spoken to him and how he preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. And he was with them coming in and going out of Jerusalem. So think about this, the timeline of Acts nine. Paul, Saul, I keep calling him Paul, Saul gets saved. He gets baptized and he receives a site. He gets baptized. He goes into Arabia out of Damascus into Arabia for three years. And look, God took him into Arabia and that is where God revealed everything to him for three years. Now I believe, the Bible doesn't specifically say that but I believe, because look, turn to Luke chapter one. I believe that that's what happened with Paul because this is kind of like God's mode of operation with his greatest prophets. He kind of takes them off and just reveals to them. And he did the same with John the Baptist. Look at Luke chapter one. Look at Luke chapter one in verse 76. This is talking about John the Baptist. Look at verse 76 of Luke chapter one. And thou, child, and thou, child, shall be called the prophet of the highest, for thou shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins. So if John the Baptist was gonna go and preach the gospel and preach this knowledge, I mean, isn't that what the gospel is? Is knowledge of salvation? Don't you think John the Baptist would have to have some knowledge?  It will take you. You might become a speaker. You might get the verses down.  But to become a thorough soul winner that can pretty much handle any situation that comes at you, that takes years to become that type of soul winner where if somebody just throws things at you, you can just turn to verses in the Bible and you just have command of God's word like that. Look, the knowledge that these men have to go into synagogues and debate the Jewish leaders of the time, who knew the Bible, by the way? They were doctors of the Bible. If they knew anything, it was, you know, the Bible, I mean, they had it all wrong, but they knew, you know, what they thought they were teaching the Bible said. You had to have some knowledge. You had to have some knowledge and some command of God's word. Look at verse 77, 78, sorry. Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high have visited us, to give them light that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace and the child grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the day of his showing onto Israel. So God prepared John the Baptist in the desert for this job that he was going to have. God was revealing these things. I mean, where else did he receive the knowledge of what he preached? God took him aside and through revelation he gave it to them.  He took Moses to Mount Sinai and he just revealed the law to him, you know, for days and days and days. Paul, he took to Arabia for three years to reveal his word to him. I was talking to pastor about this and he has an interesting theory. I've heard this theory before. I think it's a good one. I mean, I subscribed to it myself but there's a lot of evidence that Paul, that Saul was supposed to be the 12th apostle to replace Judas instead of, you know, what they did in Acts chapter one. Go ahead and turn there. We'll take a look at it. Paul also, you know, he had three years with Jesus and in verse number 12 of Galatians chapter one, he says, for I neither received it, a man neither was I taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ. So Paul was revealed this word. Look at Acts chapter one, looking at this idea of the 12th apostle. So of course, Judas is dead. Now there's 11 and they need 12. So they appointed two, Joseph called in verse 23, Joseph called Barcebus who is surname justice and Matthias and they prayed and said, thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou has chosen that he may take part of the ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell that he might go to his own place. And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbered with the 11 apostles. Here you get your 12th apostle, but then Paul still comes in, in Acts chapter eight, Acts chapter seven, eight and nine, he's converted in Acts chapter nine. But look, the apostles were, it was one who has chosen, one who was sent out. These were eyewitnesses, okay? I mean, look, this is the last time you ever hear about Matthias in the Bible. You know, I'm not saying that Matthias, so it's an interesting theory that Paul was slated to become the 12th apostle. You know, it's just something to think about. Go back to Galatians chapter one. Go back to Galatians chapter one and look at verse, where were we? Look at verse 17 of Galatians chapter one.  He says, I didn't go and talk to anybody about this. Neither went I up to Jerusalem. I didn't even go talk to the main guys about this. But I went into Arabia and returned again under Damascus. That's how I know that between Acts 9, 22 and Acts 23, that that's when he went after many days to Arabia. He came back to Damascus, he fled Damascus and then he went to Jerusalem and that matches perfectly with Galatians chapter one. Now look at verse 18. Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days. It's interesting that Jesus spent three and a half years with the disciples and now Paul has spent three years with Jesus in Arabia. So look at verse 18 after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days. Now look at, I mean that's Acts 9, 26 right there. Look at verse 19. But other of the apostles I saw none. Saved James, the Lord's brother. So basically he went to Jerusalem and the only disciples that he actually saw on this first trip were Barnabas, who kind of took him around, Peter and James. So he saw three of the disciples. So think of this, think of this. Now you say, what's the point of all this? But here's the thing, Paul gets saved. Paul goes into Damascus, he receives his sight, he gets baptized, he goes to Arabia for three years and Jesus reveals himself to him, just as he revealed himself to the other disciples. And then he's never even talked. Look, there's no email. They're not texting each other, like hey, what do you think of this doctrine? Hey, what do you do with these guys doing this stuff or whatever? There's none of this. Then he goes to Jerusalem after three plus years and he meets Peter and James and Barnabas. Look, James and Peter were the head guys here. I mean, James was the man in charge pretty much in Jerusalem. Look, and he goes and he meets them and miraculously they're all preaching the same gospel. Same Jesus, that's why. Because it was revealed to them through the same person. Look, Jesus revealed this to Paul. Go back to verse number 20 of Galatians chapter one. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God I lie not. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Solicia. This, of course, again matches Acts chapter nine where after he goes to these places, after he leaves his first visit to Jerusalem and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ. But they had heard only that he which persecuted us in times past now preaches the faith which he once destroyed and they glorify God in me. So put a bracket around verse number 23 and put verses 13 and 14 there. Because again he is bringing up. He is bringing up his past once again. Why? Why does he keep bringing up his past? I mean he had a pretty good past if after several years these churches had still heard that this is who this guy was. They still knew his reputation. But look, his past, and this is the first point I wanna make tonight about Paul. His past, his horrible past became a witness. Paul's past became a witness. Look, he persecuted, go back to verse number 13 and 14. He persecuted the church of God. Like he wasn't just a regular Pharisee. He was exceedingly into this. He said, for you've heard of my conversation in times past in the Jews religion how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it and profited in it. He's like, I was the best. I was the best at this. The reason he was on his way to Damascus because he requested that he go there.  I've heard there's Christians there. He's going above and beyond. But look, his past became a witness. He's bringing up his past in the context of the glory of God. Do you see that in the last verse? Or it says, because he was so bad, they glorified God in me. Now look, you need to think about this for a second.   You know, I grew up in this bad path. You don't understand how I grew up.  You don't understand. Look, people that know your past can glorify God in you because of that past. Look at James, turn to James chapter two. Look, you know why?  They see your works and they see you now advocating for Christ just as Paul in Galatians chapter one and they can glorify God through you. You can glorify God, you know, showing the divergence from your past. Look at James chapter two and verse 23. Yet it makes no sense that people would take that past and make it a stumbling block for their Christian life. It doesn't make it, you're not reading the Bible if you're doing that. You're not following what the Bible says. Paul brings this up in the context of people constantly remembering his past. So it's not like Paul was just humbling himself. He's like, no, people kept remembering my past and they're looking at me now and they're glorifying God because of it. Because of his horrible, wicked past. Think of it. Look at James two, verse 23. And the scripture was filled with says, Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. And he was called a friend of God. Look, whenever things are said twice, pay attention. Look at verse 23 and the scripture was fulfilled with sayeth Abraham believed God and it was, oh, I just, I'm sorry. It doesn't say it twice. I pasted it twice in my notes. I'm the same verse. But look, Abraham was called a friend of God. Who was he called a friend of God by? He was called a friend of God by other men. Abraham, people were seeing Abraham's works and they were calling him the friend of God because they were seeing that his actions were towards God. It's the same thing with Paul. People were seeing who he was now.  No, he had these great works. He was debating these people, getting all these people saved, bringing the gospel to the heathen, things that Jews had never even thought was possible. And they're like, they're remembering his past and that past brought strength because they gave that glory. They're like, God can do anything with anybody. So what people will notice? I mean, when you are separated, your past can be a strength because when you're separated unto God, people will notice the difference. Yet, yet people dwell on it. Isn't that dumb? So it could be this huge.  And well, I mean, you're saved now. So thank God for that.  Look, start going somewhere and be separated unto God and people will look at that witness and they will say glory be to God. Look what God can do. Look what God can do with people. So I mean, that's the first point I wanna make tonight is that Paul's past was something that was a great witness unto other people. A bad thing turned into glory for God is the first thing. The second thing is let's talk about this calling of God for the closing of the sermon this evening. Let's talk about the calling of God. So the 12 disciples, you have Paul. You know, you have the 12 apostles. Look, they were quite literally called by Jesus Christ.  I mean, Jesus literally said, follow me. You know, they were verbally called. They physically knew Jesus. Paul physically knew Jesus. Jesus talked to him. You know, but look, Jesus was starting his church. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter nine. Jesus was starting his church here. Jesus was making a plan to get the gospel started in the world. So look at 1 Corinthians chapter nine in verse one. Let's look at what, you know, an apostle is here. Right? So the Bible says in 1 Corinthians nine, verse one, am I not an apostle? Paul is saying this. Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Look, Paul has seen the Lord Jesus.  Are you not my work in the Lord? So look, these men, I mean, these men, that's why you hear that an apostle is a literal eyewitness of Jesus. It's someone who actually saw the Lord Jesus Christ as Paul was one of. So look, none of us have actually seen Jesus Christ.  Oh yeah, I'm an apostle. You know, it's a weird charismatic thing. They think that they're, they probably have seen, smoked something that's made them see something that they thought was Jesus.  So I mean, look, but the point is, is Jesus had a very specific plan here. These apostles were actual eyewitnesses to Jesus Christ. All right, they actually saw him. But I do want to make some points about our calling. Our calling, you say me, yes, you have a calling. If you're sitting in this church this morning, this evening and you're saved, you have a calling. First of all, turn to Mark 16, 15. Actually, you turn to Acts two. I'm sure you've heard Mark 16, 15. I'll just read it for you. He said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Look, we are all called to preach the gospel. We are all called to preach. Now you say, what about women? Women, you know, they're not supposed to teach. They're not supposed to preach. Look, the women are supposed to preach the gospel too. On the day of Pentecost, go to Acts chapter two, the women were preaching the gospel as well. Look at Acts chapter two and verse 17. This is a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. And it shall come to pass for the last days, sayeth God, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, and on my servants and on my handmaidens, I will pour out in those days of my spirit and they shall prophesy. And what were they doing? In Acts chapter two, they were preaching the gospel in all sorts of different tongues, languages. This great miracle for them to preach the gospel. And then Jesus in Mark chapter 16 tells us, go out and preach the gospel. He's telling everybody, you know, preach the gospel. That's the goal. So we're all called to that task, to go out and preach the gospel to every creature. Now, let's talk about being called into the ministry. I don't know if any of you men have ever thought about this, but what I'm talking about is becoming a pastor. Turn to 1 Timothy chapter three.  How will I know? How will I know if I should go into the ministry, if I should become a pastor or want to, you know, go in that direction? Well, first of all, in 1 Timothy chapter three, look what the Bible says. Look at verse number one. 1 Timothy chapter three gives all the qualifications of a pastor. But first, before those qualifications, you see this verse. This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desired a good work. So look, the Bible is saying here, if you desire the office of a pastor, a bishop and pastor are the same thing in the Bible, you desire a good thing. You think that's a good thing to desire that. So the first thing is, you will be given a desire. You will be given a desire to become, to go into the ministry, to become a pastor. Now look, when I first, I'll give you, as we go along here, I'll kind of give you my testimony. Now I don't know if it's the same for every person that's ever gone into the ministry before, but my personal desire, the personal desire was laid upon me years after I moved to Sacramento. Okay, it was a desire, it wasn't so much even a desire that I should become a pastor, but it was a desire, a burden, it was laid upon me that I should be doing more. That I should be doing more in my Christian life. And it led to that desire of starting, going and telling pastor that I would like to be sent out. And start a church plan. And in my prayers, but here's one thing that I did, and I prayed this for about six months. Before I went in and I told pastor that this is what I wanted, my prayers for about six months were this, that God, don't let this desire be of me personally. I don't want this desire, I wanted God to want me to go into the ministry. I didn't want it for myself, because look, it was not a personal desire for me, if that makes sense. It was something I would have been happy that if I just would have stayed in Sacramento and just served in that church, as pastor said, every Christian, every Christian should either be a pastor or be supporting a pastor. And I personally would have been fine to support a pastor and do that with all my heart for the rest of my life. But I felt like I had this desire that I should be doing more. But I just wanted to pray and make sure that my heart was clear, that I wasn't doing this for any personal reasons, for any personal gain of myself. So look, first of all, I do believe, because this happened to me, that you will be given a desire for this good thing. Should you want to, should you get that desire to go into the ministry, don't ignore that, that's something you should be praying about and be spending time with the Lord, talking about, hey, Lord, where's this coming from? Is this a good thing? My personal desire, is this your desire? Look, and God doesn't speak to me audibly, but I want to make sure that I'm doing things for the right reasons. And search your heart for that. But it's a good desire. And it's a good desire. And every good thing comes from the Lord, the Bible says. But the second point I want to make about being called is this. And not just the, I'm sorry, this is the third point. But the third point is, the first point is that you're all called to preach the gospel.  God's not gonna reveal himself to you in the mirror, in your bathroom, but you'll be given a desire to go into the ministry to become a pastor. And then of course, you have to follow. You know, you have to meet all those qualifications. So look, if you're somebody, you see a problem here, when you have to, you know, this desire has to come from the Lord, but you're not qualified.  You think that maybe that's a personal desire and not a desire from the Lord.  You know, so look, that's, you'll be given a desire. That's my second point.  But look, you will be, everybody that has a ministry in their life, and especially the men that were called into the ministry in the Bible, they were separated onto that ministry. They were separated under that, turn to Genesis chapter 12. I'll explain to you what I'm talking about. Notice, no one that was called in the Bible, and I'm talking about physically separated in one form or another. Physically moved in one form or another. No one that was called in the Bible just really stayed where they were at. Have you ever noticed that? Look at Genesis chapter 12, and I don't have time to go through all the examples of this, but look, this is just Abraham, Abraham. He's Abraham at this point. Now the Lord said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. He's like, hey, get thee out. Paul, Paul, you're going to all these different places. Paul didn't go back to Jerusalem until he was about to go on his, like 14 years later it says in Galatians chapter two, until he was about to go on all his missionary journeys. Paul was sent all over the place. Think about Moses, he was in Midian for 40 years, and God called him out of that and said, you know what, you're going on a mission for me. And then he left his comfort zone and he went on a mission. Think about, turn to Matthew chapter four. Turn to Matthew chapter four. Think of the disciples. Look at Matthew chapter four in verse number 20. Simon and Peter and Andrew. Look at verse 18, and Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee saw two brethren, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. And he said, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And straightway they left their nets and followed him. They didn't leave their nets, they left everything. They left their place, they left their family. And look, I mean, if you're going to follow Jesus, you're going to leave somewhere unless you were already following Jesus.  But if you weren't following Jesus and you're called to follow Jesus according to the Bible, you're called to go preach the gospel according to the Bible. That is probably, look, if you just got saved and you're like, I'm going to get sold out and this is going to be my ministry to get as many people saved as I possibly can, you're probably going to have to move somewhere. You're probably going to have to leave where you're at. Look, this is my personal testimony moving from North Dakota. I didn't move from North Dakota to go into the ministry. It was a zero percent on my radar to go into the ministry when we moved. I moved so I could go do something with my, so I could follow Jesus. So my family could follow Jesus. But look, we weren't following Jesus at the time. So to follow him means we have to go somewhere else. Means you have to go somewhere else. I mean, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to do something to follow Jesus in my life. And with many people, that means getting in a good church. It's starting soul winning, starting getting people saved. Now think about this again.  Peter and James or Peter and Andrew, people were probably pretty confused. They were like, what? Where'd they go? They, what? Some guy walked by and they just left. They just left their business. Look, people are still confused about me moving. They're just, they're confounded. Then, you know what? When I moved to Fresno, people were confused again. Look, saved people were confused. They're confused. They're like, why, why? Why Fresno? Look, to others, these moves are gonna be confusing. I mean, North Dakota people are gonna be confused on that move till forever. They're not gonna understand it. They're like, Sacra, California, the land of fruits and nuts. Jared went, where? I mean, they're still confused. People still ask me today, but like the thing about Fresno, people still ask me today. One guy actually literally asked me this today. It's like, how long do you plan on staying at Fresno? I'm like, forever? They're like, what? Like, it's not about, look, it was never about the place. It was never about the place. When I walked into Pastor's office and I told him, you know, hey, I'd like to go into the ministry. I'd like to be sent out by you.  Look, and where, well, Pastor had mentioned Fresno and it was close to Sacramento. So I was like, I don't know, how about Fresno? I'd never even been there. I'd not been to Fresno one time. I'd been to Clovis, not Fresno. I'd never even been to Fresno. It was never about the place. It's not about the place. You're gonna go into the ministry, by the way. You know, it's not the right attitude to be like, I'm gonna go into the ministry, I'm gonna be a pastor, but it better be in paradise. I mean, it's not about the place. It's about following Jesus. You know, it's about, I mean, God can take care of the place. The ministry is never about finding a cool place to live, folks. Fresno's fine, I like Fresno, by the way. You know, God has worked that out. But look, it was never about the city. It was never about the job that you could get in the city. It was about the ministry. And God can take care of everything else. Look, the desire is there. If the desire is there, God will take it from there. So think about that. God can take care of the place as long as the desire is there. So if you have the desire and God is giving you that desire, if you have those qualifications, you have that desire, you know, just get in a church, first of all. Get in a church and start following Jesus in a church and just go from there. Just go from there. I mean, that's this calling, this calling's for everybody. People make it this mystical, magical thing. And you know, I've even heard pastors of churches that I used to go to make the calling, this magical thing.  And everyone's like, whoa, look at that, you know? And he picked me up and slammed me into the ceiling and threw me on the ground, you know?   And if you have that desire, that's a good thing. And if you have those qualifications, you know, he puts that check in place for you.    And then, and then look, I just wanna end with this thought.  Let me give you the answer on how to get old.   But look, here's the trick. Here's the trick on getting older. You know, these midlife crises, you know, like the ministry, the ministry, I've learned a lot in the last year and I have to ministry, it's not easy. It's not easy, it's a lot of work. It has its ups and it has its downs. I will tell you that. But look, if you allow yourself to be separated unto God, and look, this doesn't have to be being a pastor for you. If you allow yourself to be separated unto God with what he wants you to do and you don't allow your physical location to stop you from following Jesus and doing what you know you're supposed to be doing, because look, everybody, I believe that most saved people, especially saved people that know the Bible, know what they're supposed to be doing. They know when that desire comes that I should be doing more. I'm not actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing. But look, if you follow that desire, you know where you will find yourself? You will find yourself at peace because you will know that you are right where God wants you to be. And you know what? That's where the middle, I'm waiting for that midlife crisis. Through all, no matter how hard the work is, no matter the ups, no matter the downs, I know where I'm at and I know God wants me to be here. I know that that desire came from him and I know that I'm where God wants me to be. And I know that I'm doing what God wants me to do. Look, and you should have that same feeling, especially being in a church like this.  Serving him, following him, doing that work, called to preach. You know, preaching the gospel. You know, supporting his church.  Look, that's incredible peace.  That's peace right there.  And that's the beauty of it. That's the beauty of it. Follow that, you know, godly desire but the most people unfortunately, they have that desire. They feel that, I think if you're saved, you know you're, look, I knew I should be preaching the gospel to people before I was even saved. You say that's weird. No, I knew it. I knew it. I moved to Texas as a Lutheran and I saw all these Baptists run around knocking on people's doors and opening Bibles to people and preaching Jesus to people. And I'm like, I even mentioned it to my pastor one time. I'm like, I feel like we should be doing this. I wasn't even saved. And I had that desire that we should be doing that. You know, I wonder if that's why God, you know, opened the door to the truth to me.    They say, you know what, I have this desire. I know I should be out preaching the gospel but I'm just not gonna do that. And that's their whole life. And then you know what?  I believed on my career.  He's like, that's what he's put his trust in in his life with his feet that he's walking. He hasn't shot his feet with the gospel. He's shot his feet with, you know, worldly desires and wrapped himself with thorns.   And he's like, man, midlife crisis time. Give me a sports car. That's sad if that ever happens to a Christian but I think it happens to most of them. But not us. Not us. Listen to that desire. And if it's a godly one, follow through on it. Move your feet towards it. You know, maybe that means if somebody's listening to this and they're not in church, that means moving your feet towards a church. But you have to do something.   I don't understand why people can't do that. But it's all about choosing to follow that desire or not. It's that simple. But once you do, no matter how hard things are, no matter how up things are at that moment, no matter how down things are at moments, because look, there's peaks and valleys and everything.  That's it, and that's all I need. That's all I need. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


Let's look at this example. The bank statement balance is 42,625, and the unadjusted cash account balance, which we get from the unadjusted trial balance, is 37,725. Because of timing differences, these balances will be different. Looking at the two, can you tell which one is correct? No, actually you can't. And in fact, that was a trick question, because it's likely that our actual cash balance is something different than either of those numbers. The focus of this video will be how to reconcile the bank statement balance. To determine if something reconciles the bank side, I often think of it in these terms. It's stuff the book knows about, but the bank does not. The three most common items are deposits and transit, outstanding checks, and bank errors. So let's start, let's enter the bank statement balance into our bank side reconciliation form. Now let's figure out if we have any deposits in transit. This slide shows the total cash receipts recorded by the company include a $36,500 deposit recorded on November 30th. However, the bank statement balance does not show this deposit. Therefore, that amount becomes a reconciling item on the bank balance called deposits and transit. And it adds to the bank balance, because it will increase the balance once the deposit clears. Another example of something the book knows about that the bank does not are checks written, but not yet cleared the bank. This slide shows an example of that. The total cash payments recorded by the company include two checks, number 207 and 208 that haven't cleared the bank. The total of these two, which is $32,000, becomes a reconciling item for the bank balance called outstanding checks. And it deducts from the bank statement balance, because it will decrease the balance once they clear. The final item that reconciles the bank statement balance are bank errors. Bank errors can either add or subtract from the bank statement balance, depending on the nature of the error. This slide shows an example of an error. Let's assume that the book amount is correct. So this is a bank error. The bank should have deducted $8,000 from our account, but instead only deducted $800. To determine the amount of error, we take the difference between the two, the amount $7,200. Then we have to think, if the bank deducted too little, we need to deduct the rest. So on the bank side, we would deduct $7,200 as a bank error, and then call the bank to inform them about this mistake. To recap how to reconcile the bank side, we take the bank statement balance, plus the deposits in transit, minus the outstanding checks, plus or minus any bank errors to arrive at the adjusted cash balance. When we compare the bank side adjusted cash balance to the book side adjusted cash balance, they should be the same. To learn how we arrived at the adjusted cash balance for the book side, I would encourage you to watch that video example.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries trading up $606, NASDAQ is up $148, S&P is up $65, Gold Contract up $12.50, trading at $18.60 an ounce, we have Silver up $14.21, $82 an ounce, Light Sweet Crew flat, $110, notes and bonds, the tenure note, down $18.60, trading $1.1918, the 30 up a full point and a half at $1406 and $Kingdollar, $Kingdollars down $1076, $102.079, that looks like we have a failure at the highs after a breakout and it's going to get really interesting now, the dollar folks has been in consolidation since 2015, so when you get basically a break off the high after you've already broken out, you have a failure, guess what, now you're talking 82, 82 is the other side of this and yeah, that'll be two or three years but the bottom line looks like it failed at that high, now you go south. The year is at $106, the yen is at $127.90, the British pound is at $125 to $1.00 US. We get over and take a look at the S&P first and we did on Friday, you get the virgins on Friday, so the S&P is in a confirmed ABC structure on the way down, the NDX100 isn't, the NDX100 broke the B but didn't have the volume and the spy had the volume, now it's going to be interesting here today, what you should get is this, you're going to have a sideways to probably hire move this week with a contraction of volume, that being said if the spy can't close over $397.03 today that is going to get really intriguing because that was the high of Friday, it should be able to close over that level, you're going to have a monster contraction of volume no matter what happens, right now the S&Ps only have 54 million versus the 131 that we had done on Friday, that was breaking the 125. We look at the NDX100, little bit different story, same bar though they can keep your eye on, so and the NDX, the bottom line is the Q's got 91 million and they needed more than 120, that being said the high of Friday is this 293.80 and we made it to 293.07 today, and guess what if you can't close over it man, it's just going to go sideways all week building cars for lower price, that's how these babies shake out, gold, gold contract caught a bit out here, bottom line inside the gold contract, you know we are trading out now at the price point of up $13 bucks at $18.61 and that's all about good old US dollar, US dollar is trading down hard man, I mean this is down you know it just broke, not only just got inside the you know lower range, it broke the lower range we just broke the 102-352, let's say in the next stop bottom line somewhere down here at 100, then the next stop is 99, come right back folks, they're right there.


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I love your optimism, Kathy. I love you. All right, you're all set. Okay, great. Good morning, everyone. This is the convening of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. I'm sorry that I'm a little bit late. That's on me just getting organized. And before we can get started, this is a virtual meeting. So I will do our welcome. Good morning, Commissioner O'Brien. Good morning. I'm here. Good morning, Commissioner Hill. Good morning, Madam Chair. Good morning, Commissioner Maynard. Good morning, Madam Chair. Great. We'll get started today is March 21st. It's public meeting number 509. I thought my last meeting was going to be March 14th, but we had this good work that I'm happy to be able to participate in. And I'll get, um, um, I'll get, uh, turn it right over to Justin Stempeck. Um, and Todd Grossman, uh, before I do, though, I just, um, I got to say all my proper thank yous on March 14th. But I do want to just take the time, uh, to thank, um, three people who have been so instrumental to my, my work and my sanity. And that would be, um, Chris LaBoschinen who's not on, Nor should she be. Grace Robinson and most of all, shooting that. Um, I just want to, I know Jacqueline is also on and Jacqueline was instrumental during times and we all know how great Jacqueline has been. But those three women, um, have been, uh, really so, uh, very, very helpful to me. And I just thought I would give a personal thank you to them. Tom Mills has been an incredible confidant. And I'm so happy to me as, um, you know, I saw communications director, but man, she knows the stuff. Substitutively. And he has been so instrumental. And, um, I just will miss him terribly. And just want to thank, um, Mills for all that he's done help me. And then because I know once we get this business through, we're going to want to go on. Um, I want to acknowledge. Uh, the steady hand and guidance that interim executive director Todd Grossman has given us over. And I almost made a full, a full baby nine months yesterday, but you corrected me. It was eight months. And, uh, a long period of time to do that job as well as the, our general counsel, you are highly regarded in both capacities. You have, um, you know, during the last so many years, you know, during the last so many years in each public meeting showed exactly your strengths as our general counsel. And I just again want, I got a chance to thank you yesterday, Todd and our ice cream social. I just wanted to do this properly in the public sphere. So again, thank you. And now I will turn to you. Um, interim executive director. Uh, Grossman and general counsel, that's it and just a step. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, madam chair. Thank you for those kind words. A bunch of appreciate it.  So thank you. To be tremendously missed. Um, as for this morning, I just want to turn it right over to Justin. He is, uh, the expert in this particular area. So Justin, it's all yours. Thanks. Thank you, Todd. And thank you, madam chair. Um, I'm sure commissioners, they were meeting to review and finalize a number of final draft licensing decisions with respect to sports, we during operators in the Commonwealth. Notably, these decisions memorialize the results of your detailed public deliberations and discussions with respect to each of these operators who you have awarded sports, we during licenses, the decisions were carefully drafted by outside council and Adrian Krieger, upper detailed review of the relevant hearings and associated materials. Additionally, I personally reviewed and added to each of these decisions by way of the review of these operators and then nothing critical is missing. Hopefully you had the opportunity to read through them prior to today. We're addressing it when we can address each decision in turn to see if there are any substantive changes than they want to feel necessary. If there are, if there are changes by way of a typo or formatting issue, I would, I would kindly suggest that those could be handled individually. You can just email me and I'm happy to make those changes. But I know there's plenty. There's a lot to read here. So hopefully everyone's had a chance to go through the decisions and we can sort of jump in at the press. I'm here to help. And as is we have Andy for me and Kay as well. Okay. So commissioners, shall we walk? Adjusting. Should you walk us through generally each one? And then any. Good question. Could be addressed. It's not the best way to manage this. Sure. I can, I can take, we can take them one by one by one by one. Operator as, as I'm sure everyone saw going through each of these decisions that they are set up in the same format, the same order of operations, if you will, with each one of these decisions in terms of the various criteria that are being looked at. And how those criteria are being met or not met. And what the ultimate decision was and then culminating in sort of a conclusion paragraph. Indicating that. The particular operator is eligible to request the particular license. So. I believe these are alphabetical. Thanks to grace for organizing this packet so well. Bookmarked in our, in our room packet. So alphabetical. No, not alphabetical order. Exactly. But yeah, use them. I would highly suggest to use the bookmark feature, which Grace taught me, which is super valuable. What, and I would start with the American alphabet. Which is super valuable. And I would start with the American way during ink, which is a Caesar sports book. They were a tethered category three sports we during operator license. So I'll turn the floor over to any, any commissioner who has any comments with respect to this decision. And if we're going to adopt it, I think we should take your recommendation to move individually. Correct. Any questions on. On Caesar's. Just, and I just have an overall question. You and I spoke yesterday about sort of the tense. And the factual recitation where some of the stuff isn't accurate anymore. And you said you were going to put something in there that basically said facts are accurate as of. Yeah. The decision or I'll explain that for everyone. I think we, this may be in the text in certain decisions. And I know I added a footnote in these two different decisions, but I'll make universal just so it's clear. I'm going to, I plan on adding a footnote on the first page of each decision, just indicating exactly what commissioner Brian said, that the facts of this decision were accurate as of the, the date and the respective dates are found in the second paragraph of the procedural history, but I'll make that note for every single decision just because obviously situations of landscape has changed. And some of these operators are now additional jurisdictions or fewer jurisdictions or whatever may have changed, but I want to make it very clear that this is a historical document representing a snapshot of where this particular operator was at the time that you heard all this information. So we'll make sure to add that footnote to the first page of every single decision. Great. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, because you're Brian, very good point. Anything else. Commissures. I'll pass you commissioner Skinner. I'll give everybody the chance to just take a final look. And. Are we all set. If somebody. I'm all set. If you want to hear a motion. To move and then we can always that we can always. Pause the motion and people have some additional questions. Okay. Okay. So with that said. Madam chair, I move that the commission approved the written sports wagering licensing decision of American wagering Inc. Doing business as Caesar sports book has included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Second. Okay. Any further questions? Everyone else that. All right. Um. Commissioner Brown. Hi. Mr. Hill. Hi. Mr. Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Maynard. Hi. And I vote yes. So five zero. All right. Moving on then to valleys. Questions commissioners. I'm all set. Madam chair. Thank you. Anybody else. Mr. Maynard. Mr. Skinner. Questions commissioner Ryan. Mr. Maynard. Are you thinking. I, I, I'm, I can move. If that's the consensus, but I, I, I do like rereading them even though we read them before the adjustments after the adjustments and, and today it helps me to reskip them. Um, with that said, madam chair, I move that the commission adopt the decision deeming valleys interactive LLC eligible to request a temporary untethered category three sports waiting wagering operator license. As included in the commissioners packet today. Second. Any questions or edits. Commissioner Brian. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Mr. Skinner. Hi. Mr. Maynard. Hi. And I vote yes. Excellent. Hey, now we're moving on to. To get back to the agenda. Did everybody have a chance to look at that? And if you didn't, this is okay too. There's a lot of pages. Um, and I think what's best is what was outlined is the process. We really appreciate, and Kay. We appreciate Justin's review. Process been thorough. And of course our entire process that we went through. Todd and Justin and Annie, I represent Ann and Kay today. I personally really appreciate the format. Questions, commissioners? Mr. Skinner, please. Mr. Hill. Madam Chair, I move that the commission approve the written sports wagering licensing decisions of Betfair Interactive US LLC as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Second. Any questions or comments? Okay. Commissioner Bryan. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes, 5-0. Excellent. Now we're looking at the MGM. Justin, you're going to chime in if there's anything in or Annie and if there's anything in particular that we should be focused on in these matters. Yep. Happy to do so. I think they're all, as you've seen, they're all built to the straight forward, similar format. If anything, if there's something that comes up by any commissioner, happy to address that as well. And just to reference commissioners, the footnote that we contemplated that Commissioner Bryan raised, an example of that is in the Madam Jam decision. If you see that on the bottom of the first page, I put something similar in every other decision as well. Madam Chair, I'm ready to move if my fellow commissioners are ready. Thanks, Patricia Skinner. Go right ahead and we'll pause during questions. I move that the commission approved the written sports way during licensing decision of Madam GM LLC, which has included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Is that good? Someone's unsure, was that Commissioner Bryan? Got the second or Commissioner Maynard? Commissioner Maynard. Okay, thanks. Okay, Commissioner Bryan. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes, 5-0. For now on, we better, do you want to explain that, Justin, please? Sure, so better was a unique decision, I believe, for the commission and that Commissioner Bryan voted in the negative for better. So we wanted to make sure that we accurately reflected that in the decision that is reflected by way of these procedural history section, there's no, this was a four to one vote and I believe Commissioner Bryan wanted to add a separate, no concern for her signature. So Commissioner Bryan. Right, so what I had asked is, rather than my signature being in the block, like all the others, that it be taken out and moved off to the right, saying Commissioner Bryan voted in the negative, so that it's very clear where my vote was on this, rather than sort of this footnote that sort of has me in the block with everyone and then kind of footnotes my vote. I asked that me, my signature and vote be offset, so it's clear. And thank you for that. That's an important clarifier. Then the other clarifier is the current status of better. And I'm happy to add a footnote to reflect the most recent developments noting that this document itself is memorializing the work that was done to issue their original license. I can, similar to that footnote about this being the facts as active at that time, I'm also happy to add a footnote that indicates that better has withdrawn and is no longer operating within the Commonwealth. And with the respective data, the one that was finalized and I can confirm those chains would carry. If that's appropriate for this document, I'm good with that. Commissioner's, because it could be confusing a few years down the road, if someone's calling. Right. Anything else about better? And again, commissioner O'Brien, your discussion was robust, but that's all in the recording. So there's context as to why you've had that decision. Okay. Madam chair, with the changes that were just discussed. I'm sorry, commissioner, just before you do that. So I had thoughts and conversations with Justin about whether to go into more detail, given the fact that they've withdrawn and indicated they might try to come back. I thought the better thing to do was simply leave it as written and people can go back and look at the conversation in more depth should they come back and try to reapply. Okay. So you're fine with that? Correct. Okay, good. Good. All right. Commissioner Hill. Any other questions or comments? Commissioner Skinner, commissioner Maynard on better? All right, commissioner. My apologies. I realized I learned yesterday, five years later that I go like this a lot. So there, I'm so sorry. No worries. I'm just clapping my hands, right? Okay. Madam chair, I move that the commissioner approved the written sports wagering license and decision of better holdings, Inc., as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Thank you, commissioner Skinner. All right, commissioner O'Brien. Hi. Commissioner Hill. Hi. Commissioner Skinner. Hi. Commissioner Maynard. Hi. And I vote yes. DGC, this one is also a little bit different from our current operators, Justin. Well, DGC, I'm just looking at this. Well, because they're not currently operational on the wall, this is also they were also, but this is DGC is that way. So for questions, I think that way. Questions for Justin or Annie, commissioner Hill. Madam chair, sorry, before there's a motion, is there, and maybe I missed it, but is there a similar notation in terms of their status? Yeah, I think he's gonna put that right, just. Yeah, I was, yeah. Okay. The chair mentioned that. Commissioner O'Brien, I'm happy to add that. They indicated that they've never operated within the commonwealth, just so that for historic purposes, anyone looking back at this and wondering what their status was or having any confusion, that will be clear. So I just made a note to myself, I'll be adding all these post. So, and their exit was different, of course. Better ceased and interestingly enough, DGC had to come before us and withdraw. So there's a distinction in our regulations. I don't know, that's as far, that's all I've got, because there's any more details on the regulation. I just remember that I think when we learned that it was going to cease, I think we thought they were gonna have to come in front of us, but they didn't because they'd already started operating. It was in a different phase where, oh no, maybe DGC didn't have to, it was the only point that they had to, because it was in the application process. I can't remember. There's a difference. It was a little bit different and had, points spent never requested a license, so while they were going to have to, yeah, they came before us. Did DGC have to come before us or was it ceased? Do you remember? You thought, I mean, I wasn't here, so I don't have, I apologize. I don't know, so I don't know someone who was present, but you remember that. Carrie and Todd may or Andy may have a, of the exit for DGC, they never started operating, but I can't remember when they left. It was during the application processor once they resumed. Oh, sorry, Madam Chair. I think because DGC never operated, they didn't need to request withdrawal. They just essentially their license expired. That's what it was. Exposition of their license. The other two had to apply to show the cessation process. Okay, good. Thanks, Carrie. Thank you, Carrie. Okay, so that notation, I think probably it's important to note that cause that will, that actually helps on future decisions. Okay. All right, can we, now I'm forgetting the reaction. We didn't have the motion yet. Are we prepared to move with that invitation? Commissioner Hill? Oh, Commissioner Bryan, you were leaving in. Sure. I moved that the commission approved the written sportswear during licensing decision of digital gaming corporation, USA, sorry, I lost the rest of it. As included in the commissioner's packet and further discussed here today. I can. Thanks, commissioner. Okay, commissioner Bryan. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes. I've zero. All right, moving on to draft sheets. Any particular issue on this one that we need to highlight? No, nothing, nothing particularly unique in this one, Madam Chair. I'm sure there's any questions. I can move, Madam Chair. If the commission's ready. Commissioner Maynard. Madam Chair, I move that the commission adopt the written sportswear during licensing decision for Crown MA gaming, LLC doing business as draft kings as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Second. Any questions? Commissioner Bryan. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes, five zero. Okay, we're moving on to fanatics. Nothing unique about this one either, Madam Chair. There's maybe one or two more that have unique. I'll call them out and we'll get to them. Yeah. Thank you. And again, a lot of work went into these decisions and we appreciate it. And I appreciate we're wrapping it up. Madam Chair, just to cut to the chase, if we're ready, I can offer the motion. Let's cut to the chase. Commissioner Skinner. Please. Absolutely. I move that the commission approve the written sports way during license decision of FBG Enterprises, OPCO LLC doing business as fanatics or fanatics betting and gaming. Is that right, Justin? Okay. Yeah. I see others nodding, so. FBG Enterprises, OPCO LLC, FBG Enterprises, correct. Yep. As included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Second. Excellent. Thank you. Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Mayer. Aye. And I vote yes. Five, zero. Okay. MGM Springfield. The only call I ought to do on this one, Madam Chair, is that this was a category one license. So this was not a preliminary licensure. This was the full sports waiter license, just it's a slightly different posture than the others that we've come through. And the finding? The finding is where they were granted full durable suitability in the first instance. And that's recounted in the conclusion and within the document itself as well. Yeah. And they paid their full fee. And the full fee is? $5 million. I'm ready to cut to the chase as well, Madam Chair. We're chasing. Commissioner Hill. Okay, Madam Chair, I move that the commission approved the written sports wagering license category one decision of blue top redevelopment LLC as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Second.  He's on fire. I think in the reality is that we can feel at least express my feeling is that our team has come in very well prepared today for us. Thank you. Commissioner Bryan. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Mayard. Aye. And I vote yes. Five, zero. Moving on to PPC. But this may look familiar to the commissioners as we just went through durable suitability with PPC last week. This is kind of like a time machine. We're going backwards in time to before they had the durable suitability when they were considered in the first instance. So this was a warning preliminary suitability back last year when they were originally considered and for their temporary licensure which was recently renewed as well. So this is, although CAT-1 was on slightly different footing than the Jim Springfield which we just looked at. And so we just had our Judicatory hearing on this and thank you to PPC for its presentation. And then we deliberated that those deliberations are outstanding. The decision is being drafted but the decision has been made. And I, commissioners, I've spoken with, actually let's authorize Todd, Carrie and Justin to see if there's a way when the decision comes before you to acknowledge my participation in my decision which I won't go into what it was or the decision whatsoever. But I think that they thought of Commissioner O'Brien somehow structurally that it doesn't imply anything about my decision but it will be referenced even though I won't be signing. Okay. For that. Is that right? Is that fair Justin? Somehow I was there, right? I've already added language to the draft of that effect Madam Chair. So when we, it should be circulating relatively soon and when it's circulating the rest of the commissioners will see that and we can move forward acknowledging your presence of participation and your position. I appreciate that kind of, it's a closure. So it's a closure. And so in this one, do we have to acknowledge the, we don't, do we need to put any kind of a footnote here about the fact that they came back before us at this time? I think with respect to this one, can still be a separate decision on durable suitability that can stand alone. I'll conclude the footnote up front that these were the facts as of the time but we will have another written decision that will be coming out in a matter of a week or two likely that will explain the whole durable finding of suitability. And I think looking at those two in conjunction you'll see the full scope. I agree with that. And I just wanted to put it out there. Okay. And I don't see anybody disagree. Do I, do we have a motion on this? Do we need more time? Chris O'Brien. Certainly. Madam chair. I move that the commission approved the written sports, where during licensed decision of Plain Ridge, Plainville gaming redevelopment LLC also known as Plain Ridge Percocino or PPC as included in the commissioners packet and discussed here today. Second. Any further discussion? Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. And Commissioner Maynard. Aye. And I vote yes. Moving on to PSI. No particular setup on this one. Annie and Justin and Todd. This is a, I mean, although obviously connected to Pan this is a, this goes for a temporary untethered office. Oh, sorry. Actually, it's a temporary sports way during license and was approved. So this doesn't aside from the conditions that were imposed upon this particular license sort of the same as those imposed upon the PPC license that there was nothing particularly unusual or distinct for this, this licensing. Madam chair. Yeah. I move that the commission approved the written sports way during license decision of Penn Sports Interactive LLC as included in the commissioner's packet and discussed here today. Second. Great. Any questions or edits? Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. So I actually do have something to bring up. There is a footnote that's attached or a comment that I think was in editing. I saw that commissioner Maynard. I will clear. I will remove that and update it. Yeah, I see that. With that, I say aye. But yes, thank you. Moving on to points bet. Okay. So points bet is a bit un-useful madam chair. So this was a point spent had been approved and eligible to request a license but they went through their application and never actually requested the license. So this decision is memorializing the fact that they were deemed eligible. They went through the entire process, although they never actually, the license never actually obtained so they went to Drew. So I will add a footnote to that effect so the procedure posture is a little more clear on if anyone looks back historically on their involvement. If they had with John before we had engaged in the process, they went to Pat to go and get our consent if I remember correctly. I think it's a regulatory requirement that they come before the commission to do the withdrawal since they had gone through and they had to start with the regular process. We had spent time with them. All right. With that annotation, questions on the points bet. I can move madam chair. Mr. Maynard. Madam chair, I move that the commission adopt the written sports wagering licensing decision for points bet Massachusetts LLC doing business as points bet as included in the commissioners packet and discussed here today. Second. Any further questions? Aye. You read my mind. Commissioner Bryan. Sheva than aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. An aye vote. Yes. Five, zero. Okay. Now we're on to Encore Boston Harbor. A little bit similar to MGM Springfield. That's exactly right madam chair. This is another category one just to remind everyone this was a category one. They were found terribly suitable in the first instance and they paid their $5 million fees. So this is not a temporary. This is the full sports leader lessons. Any questions on this one? Of course, a little bit of a different statutory structure for the category one. Madam chair. Yeah. I move that the commission approve the written sports wagering licensing decision of Encore Boston Harbor as included in the commissioners packet and discussed here today. Second. Commissioner Maynard, are you still reading? You all set? I'm good. Okay. No further questions or edits? Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. I saw the, I saw it but didn't hear it. Aye. Thank you. And Commissioner Maynard. Aye. I vote yes. Five, zero. And now we're on to Wimbeth. A little bit different as well. The Wimbeth is a tethered category three. They were off issued a temporary sports wagering license just like, like PSI for example. So other than that, relatively straightforward is similar to the other sort of category three is something they were tethered instead of an untethered license. So they did, of course, cease operations. I know there's still that 30 day, I think the 30 day period has expired on, they were gonna check back in on us. I think we'll make a notation of that similar to. Probably, yep, to better. Better. Yes. Yeah, cause there's a footnote two on page three that sort of does a snapshot September of 23. Pointing, you know, saying they had ceased operations but we're still here. I don't know if you just wanna. Put it down. Finish that and continue and then as of whatever, you know there, they applied to cease operations in Massachusetts. Yeah, I'll catch the respective days of when their cessation was approved and everything along with both better and with that. Right. I think we have finalized all that cessation but they were just going to get back on an outstanding issue. That was it. Right. Okay. Any further questions on when there are suggestions for clarity? Do I have a motion? Madam Chair, I move that the commission approve the written sportswear during licensing decision of wind sports interactive limited DBA wind bet as included in the commissioners packet and discussed here today. Second. Commissioner Gray. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Langer. Aye. And I vote yes. Five zero. Great work to the team. Thank you, Justin. Thank you, Todd. Thank you, Annie and Kay. I know there are lots of folks involved over there, Annie. Commissioner, is there anything that you want to ask before we let them go? Just good luck to Annie. And I wanted to also just reiterate your comments about General Counsel Grossman and his, he and Dr. Lightbound's willingness to step up last summer and in particular, his, all the work that he has put in since the middle of July, since Karen Wells left, which has been invaluable to, you know, study the ship as we asked him to do. So I wanted to, I said it to him individually, I wanted to say that publicly also, that I am very grateful for his work over the last eight months. Thank you, Commissioner Furrier. Anything else that Commissioner Langer? I think Commissioner Hill was first, but I'm... I'm sorry, Commissioner Hill? No, no, no, go ahead. I just wanted to reiterate what Commissioner O'Brien said across the board. Congrats to Annie, good luck. And Todd Grossman has been invaluable to this organization. Everything that he's done has made this organization better. And I appreciate his service to the MGC and to the Commonwealth. Also, Madam Chair, I know we have told you many times over the last week or so, how grateful we are for you. But since this is your last official meeting, I did want to reiterate it and say that you left this place in great shape and thank you so much for everything you've done for the commission. Appreciate that, Commissioner Langer, all of you have been great colleagues and we don't need to reiterate any... We had such a nice... I had a nice day yesterday. Missed you, Commissioner Skinner, I know you were ill, but we had a nice ice cream social to be able, you know, really for all of us to think that pretty special team that all showed up and those who couldn't make it. I'm sure they were there in spirit. This place is very well positioned because of the people who are here day in and day out, making us able to make informed decisions on behalf of the commission and on behalf of the Commonwealth. And for that, I am forever grateful but to my fellow commissioners, I can't say enough about all that you've done to me. I'm going to, Commissioner Langer, we've known each other in all of each other for a long time. I thank you for all that you bring to the commission and all that you do to support me. Commissioner Skinner, you're lucky enough to hire you and then have you become my immediate colleague and I've watched you evolve and I've watched you grow and I just have to tell you I admire your leadership and I thank you for that. Commissioner Hill, the inspired colleague and I just want to thank you so much for that and even today, we've got us rolling in that special sense of everything to make things go smoothly and right and I am grateful. And then I'm going to interrupt again, Commissioner Hill because I don't, this is really my chance to say thank you. Commissioner O'Brien, you have been extraordinary and you always remind us to be better, you're an intellect, you're kind enough to generously praise me and I only wish I could begin to match it and that has kept me always feeling confident about our decisions and also confident about how I could do my job because I knew you would buy my side and for that I am eternally grateful. And with that, I would love a motion to a chair. And with that, I would love a motion to a chair. Move to a chair on Madam Chair. Thank you, Commissioner. And good luck, Annie. Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was public and there's my hand, I saw that. Good luck, Annie. Second on the motion. Thanks, second on the motion and second on the emotions. There we go, Commissioner O'Brien. Aye. Commissioner Hill. Aye. Commissioner Skinner. Aye. Commissioner Maynard. Aye. Thank you to the legal team. Thank you to our Interim Executive Director and General Counsel Grossman and I vote yes. Meeting is adjourned before noon. Thanks so much.


The Law and Economics course at the Barcelona International Summer School is aimed at presenting new novel approaches basically to the traditional law structures of either justice and fairness, either through the traditional structures of economics where we're talking about efficiency. So with the challenge of climate change and the sustainable development that we have right now, this course aims to present those issues to the students that are interested in the topic with the traditional tools of Law and Economics, talking about the least cost avoider, talking about incentives, talking about how we can advance new policies while being useful for the society as a whole. The important thing about this course is that we're not doing it in a traditional way, so what we're going to be doing is some ex-cathedra teaching, but also problem-based learning, meaning that the students themselves are going to be reading case law, case studies, and then presenting their points of view. So that is an important addition to the programs that the students have been seeing before. We welcome anybody with a background in law, or in economics, or political sciences in general to join us.


Good afternoon, everybody. Judges, I'm Kevin Grumbach. This is Laura Schmidt, we're the co-directors of Community Engagement and Health Policy Program. And this is our presentation. Our program's most important accomplishment has been to build trusting, sustainable relationships with community partners to improve the science of translational research. We're particularly encouraged by the great dialogue and the efforts to build better trust between community-based groups, especially grassroots groups like the food guardians in the 800-point area and researchers like some of the top researchers like Bob Lustig from UCSF and others that are doing cutting-edge research on a worldwide level. But bringing grassroots together with the top researchers is incredible. There's a lot of power there. To go out and engage the community and truly do affect the community consultation and public disclosure was actually something that was a big question nationally at all of the Rampart sites. And I think we had a leg up on them partly because of our footsie experience and partly because of our community consultation or our CTSI community engagement program. It was a physical activity and nutrition summit of major stakeholders throughout the San Francisco area where there was common ground to be able to make changes in San Francisco for the betterment of its residents. That probably couldn't have happened without the ground laying that CTSI did in reaching out to the community. Often the university came into the community looking for research subjects or looking for a place to test the theory or a study of sorts but that wasn't always being a mutually beneficial relationship so that what was happening is that you had service learners or researchers coming to the nonprofits do their work and then leave. And none of that work was coming back to the community in a way that could be applied for the benefit of the health of their clients. There's a perception that there's a lot of resources that you see that people would like to be able to tap into in a positive way, in a collaborative way, and I think it's difficult and challenging. I think Alicia is everything in the hospital that I attended when I was 18 for a medical procedure. I didn't think of it as a user-friendly campus more than in any community that I really know about. The key to success and moving efforts at the community level is trust. And to build trust, you need to work side by side with people over time. Then after we jostled back and forth, we gained trust both ways. They gained trust in the people, the tremendous people that are represented on the Community Advisory Board as well as us gaining trust for the university. It takes time to build trust because of the perception that whether it's historic or based on actual experience, it doesn't even matter. There's a perception that some researcher is going to come in and want us to help recruit patients and then they do study, they find something and then they use that to pursue the additional funding that never comes back to the community. The recruitment was scheduled to last for 36 months and it was completed in 19 months. So it was very accelerated in the sense that the study was very successful to be completed. Out of that came the faith initiative, that's what I call it, and it's working with the church community in Fort County. And the church has been highly involved in that the Community Engagement Program helped pull us together to begin talking about that in the various churches. Dr. Christine Madsen also, her and I wrote to the pediatric doctor for UCSF at a glance. She gained so much more knowledge about the capacity of the YMCA if you have a point, the vision that a lot of my staff that we have about prevention and health disparities. And so she's, I know in her workings now, in her research, she's thinking about how can I support the community, how can we begin to engage families around childhood obesity. We're bringing multiple healthcare systems within a city together to work on a single issue that clearly impacts a population differentially. The videographer was our program assistant, but ace videographic master of mind, James Rouse. And I'd like to, James, stand up, take a bow. All right, great. So, David, you want to start us up? Well, I kept waiting for the bears. So it sounds like a lot of the projects you do are in San Francisco. Does it go out further into the Bay Area? For the Community Engagement and Health Policy Program, it's a much broader reach across the Bay and even across the state or national at the policy level that Laura can talk about. We'll talk later about the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnerships, which is really focused on San Francisco, but for example, the person on the faith-based group, that's an Alameda County organization. But we do believe change starts local, right? And so I think a lot of this, we want to see change within our own communities and the ones within our immediate reach in the Bay Area, certainly. We were told by the NIH reviewers that our effort to change the health in measurable ways in San Francisco was way overly ambitious. So that's where, you know, and if we can have a video like this showing tangible changes in health outcomes in five years, we're going to be jumping in, you know, cheering. At the national level, the health policy part of CEHP has been, we have, we found that we were one of only two CTSAs nationally that even has a health policy program within it, the other being George Washington University. And over the last year or so, we've been funded through supplements to build a national consortium of health policy researchers within the community engagement infrastructure at NCRR. And so what we're doing actually in August, we are having our kickoff meeting. We have representatives from Harvard, from UC San Diego, from all over the country coming to a convening in Washington on August 31st to actually sit down and talk about, well, how could other CTSAs possibly involve health policy as part of their efforts in T2 translation? So we're trying to take what we've learned over the last year so as we've merged our programs and take that model, a lot of it being experimented on in San Francisco and take it national. I'm wondering about the health policy part of it because the video sort of focused on the community engagement part of it. So tell me more about what you're trying to accomplish with the health policy and how is it interfacing with our academic unit? Well, we were told we could only talk about one of our achievements so we thought we would focus on that. But one of my pet projects within health policy is a program called CELDAC which has linked 80 different data sets, national, state, federal, and made them available with a full panoply of resources for faculty within UCSF so far who want to do health policy, health services research. Some of these data sets are extremely expensive like the HICUP survey and we can make these available to, say, junior faculty who are on a tight shoestring for free. We have had thousands of hits on the CELDAC website. We've had a lot of individual consultations, particularly with orthopedic surgery. We've been working one-on-one doing statistical and programmer type consultations so that we can build the capacity for, say, a surgical, a surgery researcher to actually do some health services and policy relevant work. And so we've been recently actually approached by a potential funder who would like to just take that and help us run with it in a bigger, better way. Some is the idea there's some policy research will happen, you know, policy, for anything to happen in the community, it requires policy change. So I think that's partly the way we think about it too, that there's a natural connection because whether it's regulatory policy, whether it's incentives, that the health plan or health system level, that there's a natural affinity that these really are part of the arc of translating things and the meaningful, sustainable change in the community. One of the people in the video said two things that I caught my ear. One was her feeling about UCSF, which it seems we need to have some strategy to try to deal with because I have heard that in my limited forays in the community. I've heard that a lot, especially the African-American community. And it's very negative and it's not getting better. And the second thing she said was people do their research and leave. And it seems like, I guess the question is how are we going to approach those two things? And I know Kevin, you've thought about it a lot. I think it is getting better. You've defined what is one of the major objectives of our program and you have, you know, Rina Pasick's work at the Cancer Center with Arnold Perkins who is featured there. It's all of, it's what we're talking about. I mean, it makes me worried does the message not come through because you have to build sustainable relationships and trust. And it takes those individual one-by-one linkages to build, to change the historical attitudes that's out there about UCSF and most academic health centers. I think, you know, we have our program within CTSI. There's the University Community Partnership Office within the Chancellor's Office which is trying to deal with Service Lunar, Community Development, other programs. It takes, it has to be a priority of UCSF. It has to be something where there's investment in changing those interactions and culture that's as important as our industry relations, in my opinion. When we put the little thing up on our little metrics, 89 consultations and I think the Chris Madsen comments were relevant to this. We go to them or they come to us and we say, what's your problem? You know, well, we want to show outcomes for our program. We want to, you know, get rid of corner stores that are selling alcohol and violence in those communities. And we say, okay, how can we help you? Here's the evidence. You want us to show you what programs work? You want us, and that is, in my experience directly, that's a shocker. Wait, you guys want to know what our problem is and help us fix it? That's just like a new way to even approach these community groups and hopefully over time, if we can sustain that, we will build a better public image and trust. And we'll talk a little bit more about that too later this afternoon. So back to you. No, I was just thinking back to some of the earlier presentations and on this one is could you translate, since this is translational, community engagement techniques and knowledge to interprofessional education? I think that's a symposium length question you put out there, David. Wouldn't you say? Well, we'll have a symposium. The answer's got to be yes, right? Yeah, the answer's yes. Sam. I was going to ask more or less the same question that Talmich asked, because I remember it was either at this retreat last year or maybe it was the year before on a panel, the same issue of sort of research tourism came up. And just what have we done to build that into the educational training programs or our curricular for students and residents, et cetera? Have we made conscious efforts to deal with that? Yeah, probably the most fundamental is the health and society pathway. So there is a whole component of community engaged research and participatory models that Helen Goldstein teaches, some of the courses, others of us. So, yeah, I mean, we're trying to imbue this in all the educational programs across the schools. Yeah, and I also just for the, we've also teamed up with training. So we, I think six of our faculty within CEHP are teaching courses in the IBS track on everything from community engagement to the implementation of policy. Andy Beinman has a class on advocacy, political advocacy. So we're hoping to build a new generation of researchers who really get how to do translation both in the community engagement and health policy fields. Great. All right, thank you. Thank you very much. Great video.


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