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But now let's welcome in one of those freshmen that had a really nice game today Sarah Rorty joins us for the first time here on the Mustang Sports Network powered by SFM Sports.net Sarah let me start with this just what did it feel like to be out here at Mustang Stadium for the first time and get the Opportunity to play in front of the home crowd. It was great. You know, we've had our first two games were away So it was nice to come here and kind of feel the support of a bunch of students and you know Just a good atmosphere. I think and nice to play here when this is where we practice for use playing It's it was good today. Yeah, it does make a difference being on your home field Absolutely, you know, we could also hear the roar of the crowd. So the crowd was being pretty supportive. Yeah guys Yeah, we're on the fifth floor of Mustang Stadium. We could still hear everything. Yeah, yeah We could hear them today. They were good One of the great things today Sarah was in terms of statistics was that you guys had a better statistic of calls Turnovers than Gettysburg did much attributed to your play today. How are you feeling out there in the defense? I think we feel really good, you know Every game we've been I think we've been improving slowly with especially getting caused turnovers and You know the clears obviously weren't so great But when we get I think we're pretty good at getting the ball back this year. It's just you know converting it sometimes doesn't always Follow through but that's okay. I mean, I think our defense is really confident right now We have some really good. I mean, we're a young defense, but we have some really good leadership in Jamie Bittner and Hannah Tankersley and Lauren McDovitt. So I think um, you know, it's it's good that we're young But also we have some learning to do How is it help when you're trying to make plays and be aggressive and cause turnovers to know that you've got Mac Ferguson behind you Who just played, you know her brains out today and has been really impressive through the first three games of her career I love it. I mean You know, sometimes it'll be someone one be her and you know, she somehow comes up with a save She's she's found a way to come up with some some crazy saves and it's been three games I think she's in a really good rhythm right now I think us as a defense and coach and everyone's really confident with her back there just because she's you know She's been lights out so far and it's been three games and it didn't take her any time to get into a rhythm She was already there Salisbury make Daniel and now she's continuing it today. I think I think she's she's doing really well Well, congratulations Sarah I know it wasn't the result that you wanted But it was a great effort from you today and there's a lot to look forward to for you and for this team moving forward and You know learn a lot clearly from playing two really really tough teams in the first three games of the season I think it's gonna make you better moving forward, right? Absolutely. Absolutely. Congratulations Sarah. Thanks for coming up and chatting with us One of the many talent and freshmen on this team


So let's switch a little bit. Let me ask you this. Why do you think, so let me just say something, because I'm seeing it on the chat. Let me just say something about generalization. So when Ilhan or I say the Arabs this, the Muslims this, it does not imply that every Arab or every Muslim. It implies that the dominant trend within those cultures, particularly when we talk about Islamists, the dominant trend among Islamists, and Arabs, the dominant trends in Arab culture.   But you have to generalize. You have to talk in abstractions. And so it's what is the dominant trend within these movements or what is the dominant trend within the culture I don't know if you want to add something. So I haven't seen the questions, but I want to touch on this because I talk about it in the book in detail because one of the things I hope people will get, and I think your audience here on living objectivism might have a particular interest in it, is there are many ways in which the way we think about this conflict is colored by collectivism. And so we've used the term Arab a lot and we've even used the term Palestinian, both of which are inherently non-objective in the sense that, and even Jew has its own problems like how do you actually define it? And I talk about that, but let's take Arab. What does it really mean to be an Arab? Because my grandparents from Iraq are Arabs, and they were devout Jews. There are Arabs who are Christians. There are Arabs who are Muslims, and there are Arabs who are none of the above because they're atheists. And I know some so Arab is not objectivist. That's right. And you can get Arabs who are communist and many of the Palestinian leaders were communists. So Nasser was a nationalist and a religious leader. So these concepts are not helpful. And what I talk about in the book are positions and views and whoever subscribes to them. And I don't, it's very tricky to try to talk about Arabs or Palestinians. Now Palestinian is a sort of sub-issue under Arab and again there are many problems in how you define it. So I agree with your characterization. What we're talking about are arguments and positions and whoever is a follower of that view, whoever articulates it and supports it, it's not a way of, we're not dealing in collectives even if the people who are making these arguments and especially Palestinians want themselves, view themselves as members of a collective or want others to view them as a collective, which is definitely part of the Palestinian movement's agenda. It's like we have a collective part of it was hurt 70 years ago and we're still hurting because we're an organic being. Like you can't think in those terms. You can't evaluate and it's no way to reach moral judgments to talk about collective. So you need to talk about our individual human beings and then what are the ideas and trends in those cultures and societies? And I agree with you. I mean one of the things people don't realize is that in Israel there are Arabs who are Muslims who serve in the government, right? And so it's clear we're not talking about this as if it's you're born an Arab therefore you have these views. It's not that kind of, that's wrong. That's not at all the way to understand these issues. And there are atheists who work in Israel. There are all kinds of people. What we're talking about are movements and ideologies and the people who follow them and lead them and act on those goals and anyone who endorses them and supports them and there's gradations among this. So there's definitely Palestinians who would never become suicide bombers. But they also don't want to live under Arafat. They don't want to live under Hamas.  But what do you say about that? Because they have a view of the Jews as a collective, which again is a wrong perspective. Because you know, migrant Jews, we can go for hours on how it's so corrupting of thought to talk about collectives. And part of what I talk and I want to get to this from a different perspective, which is is my book pro-Israel. That's not at all a helpful way to think about it. My book is not pro-a-country as a whole, including all the irrational people and all the rational people in it. Because again, you can't talk in broad terms like that in the same way that your book on finance isn't pro-business. It's pro-productive achievement and anyone who lives up to that. And my view is I'm pro-freedom and anyone wherever he is, whatever background who stands for that and wants to realize it in Israel, outside Israel, and throughout the region. It just so happens and it's important that in Israel there are a lot of people who value freedom and a society built on that premise. And that's a significant part of what one has to view in this conflict. And the region and the sort of flip side of that is in the region, what you have isn't just indifference to freedom, but outright hostility to it from people who are secular, nationalist, ethnic, religious, various sects. I mean that is one of the defining themes in the region, part of why it's in such a bad state. It's hostile to human life and hostile to freedom. And that doesn't mean every last person there is that because we know there are good people in Egypt and all sorts of countries and I met them. There's just the dominant views and the people who agree with them. It's unbelievably striking how difficult it is for people to think in terms of individualistic terms. I mean I'm seeing it on the chat here. Everybody's talking about their land, the Arab land, the Jews land, the Jews did this, the Arabs did this. It's not the way to think about the conflict at all. You have to think in terms of individuals. Individuals who moved from Europe to what was then called Palestine under the Ottoman Empire bought land and established a free country for individuals. That's what matters. Whether they were Jews or not is irrelevant to this. I mean it's relevant to other discussions but it's irrelevant to this discussion and whether the land was owned by Arabs before Philistines or Romans or Ottomans or fill in the bank is irrelevant. They label, they group affiliation does not matter. That is that is collectivistic thinking that is so entrenched in in our lives. Let me just give the book a plug. Those of you who've joined the conversation we're talking to Elan Juno. We're talking about his new book. Here it is on on screen I think, not yet. There it is on screen. It's on Amazon. You can see you can pre-order it. For those of you wondering why is there no Kindle version? The Kindle version is coming. It'll be loaded up sometime before the book is published, is available in June. The book is What Justice Demands? America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts. It's very much taking an American perspective and the approach of what America's view or an American's view should be of this conflict. I encourage you all to pre-order it. You can pre-order it now. It'll be really helpful and I'd really appreciate that. It's got fantastic reviews. I mean if you look at the list you probably can't see it on the screen but if you look at the list of who has written blurbs for the book this is the who's who list of Middle East commentators from the rational perspective as I see it. People like Angelo Cotevila and Yoram Hazoni in Israel. Angelo Cotevila is a Catholic here in the United States. If I'm Koresh again in Israel, Daniel Pipes. But really the who's who list I think of a rational commentator in the Middle East. People I've admired certainly since 9-11 and we've done good work. Not everybody agrees with everything Ilan and I stand for. Not everybody. Not everything they do we agree with but these are some of the best people. I encourage you to buy the book. Go pre-order it and share it with your friends. Share the show with your friends and hopefully we can get the book up on the bestseller list.


Good. Good morning everyone and welcome to BT 309, our second lecture for this week on Urban Church Planting. Let's take a moment to pray together and we'll get started. Can I ask somebody please in the class to pray and then we will start. Can somebody just Can I pray Pastor? Our Heavenly Father once again, we are most grateful and thankful unto you for your grace and your mercy. We thank you for the gift of life this morning. Father we are praying, committing our class into your mighty hands O God. We pray that guide us with your spirit and lead us in the way O God. Father grant us understanding and insight. We pray that you grant Pastor Ashes the all chances to be able to explain the things for us to understand and we pray for our colleagues that you continue to sustain all of us in our various destinations. We pray for good internet connection and we pray for your calm and your peace to restore among us in Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. All right, welcome everyone. Thank you for joining the class. So we are continuing talking about the spiritual side, the spiritual aspect of funding a church, pioneering a church in the urban context. And so let me just go ahead and share the PDF. Then we'll pick up from maybe Paul yesterday. So we talk about, you know, what is the enemy doing, what is Satan doing and blinding the minds of people, holding people in bondage, hindering the proclamation of the gospel, trying to infiltrate the church and weaken the church through various means. You see some examples in Revelation too, but this is not the only thing he does. Other things he would try to weaken the church, you know, pretty disrupt the unity and peace and so on. But then the church's responsibility is we've been called to be lights to the Gentiles as we saw yesterday. And part of being light to the Gentiles is to open blind eyes, to open the prison door, to tell the people, the prisoners to come forth, to those who are in darkness, come into the light. And so the anointing is given to us, the presence of the Holy Spirit, to bind, to overcome, to subdue what the devil is doing so that we can spoil his curse. And we also saw about the kingdom authority in Matthew 16. The keys of the kingdom have been given to the church. The church advances to the gates of hell.  And through prayer, through using our authority, we advance the kingdom of God. And the gates of hell cannot stop the church. Second Corinthians chapter 10 verses three to six, we know that we are using spiritual weapons against the enemy. Paul writes, he says, though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. And then he says, the weapons of our warfare are not common, but they are mighty in God, mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing or every reasoning that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. I'm bringing into captivity every part to the obedience of Christ. So really, it's like our warfare. It's a spiritual warfare. Our warfare is divinely empowered. God gives us divinely divine weapons. And very interestingly, our warfare is dealing with what the devil is doing in the minds of people. It's talking about strongholds, it's talking about arguments and reasonings and imaginations and thoughts. So these are things in the minds of people. And we are using the weapons of our warfare to destroy these things in the minds of people. These are things that the devil is putting in their minds to prevent them from receiving the light of the gospel. Whereas the weapons we've been given addresses these things and we pull them down. So we are countering or we are going against destroying certain strongholds. And this is typically we use the term spiritual warfare in this kind of engagement. So now in the next lesson, we want to kind of get into the detail. So how do we do this? And of course, we're going to do it as a people, as a group. You know, you can do it as an individual in your personal prayer. So in your prayer time, there is time that you spend in fellowship with God. And there is also time that you spend in exercising spiritual authority. And we can do it cooperatively, collectively, that means two or more of us praying together. You know, we engage in prayer and worship, that is, as going before God, and we also exercise spiritual authority that is going against the devil. So both aspects are happening. And the prayer and worship, it's towards God, intercessions happening towards God. And then we exercise spiritual authority against the devil, against what he is doing. Now, of course, in exercising spiritual authority, praying and exercising spiritual authority, we are not controlling people's will or we're not dictating their choices. Every person has to make their own choice to receive Christ. And we are not trying to manipulate them spiritually, or we're not trying to make their decision. But through our prayer, worship, and through the exercise of spiritual authority, we are making it easier for people to respond. It's like, we can open the prison doors, but of course, the prisoner has to walk out. We can't walk out for them, prisoner has to walk out, but we can open the doors through our prayer, through the exercise of spiritual authority. We open the doors and then we call them, come forth, like we read in Isaiah 49, we tell those who are in darkness, come to the light, so we can shine the light, we can call them into the light. But of course, they have to make the choice to come out of the prison or to step into the light. We cannot make that decision. For them, we are not forcing anybody to do it, but we can make it easy for them. That is through our prayer and through the exercise of spiritual authority. So there are two parts, and just to break it down for us to understand it. And I'm sure you have learned these things. You've studied these things in the course on prayer and intercession. I think Pastor Nancy may have to offer them, I'm not sure, but you know, somebody did that course with you on prayer and intercession. So you've studied that. And so this is more of a review of that same material, same learning. So there is the prayer side. That is, we are praying to the Lord with regards to the Lord. Of course, there are a lot of things we can pray about. We can or just engage in prayer for communion. We can engage in prayer for fellowship. We can engage in prayer interceding for other believers. We can engage in prayer for so many things. But here we're talking specifically on praying for the Lord's work towards the loss, towards the unsafe. So that's what we're doing. So we're not covering everything about prayer. We are just focusing on this part. And then we will also talk about the spiritual warfare part, which is how do we, through worship, through the exercise of spiritual authority, disrupt and destroy what Satan is doing to hinder the people. So like we saw earlier, he could be blinding their minds. He could be holding them in bondage. He could be trying to create all kinds of philosophies, all in the minds of people holding them. And how do we dismantle that, disrupt that through the exercise of our spiritual authority for that people? Then, of course, we have to proclaim the gospel. But at least when we go to proclaim the gospel, when people hear the gospel, they are a little bit more free in their mind and in their spirit to receive the gospel. The things that are hindering them have been dealt with, have been removed, so that then the gospel can benefit their minds and they can receive. What can we do? So number one, first part, praying for the loss. How do we pray? Here are some, and I'm trying to approach this based on scripture. Of course, people can come up with lots of points and so on. But what do we see in scripture with regards to how we are supposed to pray for the people? So number one is the ask dot for that region or city. On what basis do we do this? Psalm 2 and verse 8. We are all familiar with it. In Psalm 2 verse 8, God says, ask of me, and I will give you the nations or your inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for your possession. We know in Psalm 2, it's like a conversation going on between God the Father, God the Friend, and in Christ we inherit this promise. This is for us as well. So what is he saying? He's saying, ask me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth which would include every city, every region, every country, utmost parts for your possession.  So we are going to him based on that promise, his invitation, and he's saying, God, we ask and whatever city, whatever region, whatever community, you're saying, God, give me the city. So that's a prayer, ongoing, maybe extending a faith for the city. Oh, God, give me the city, give me the people, the souls of the people. You see, when we pray for the city, the region, we're not talking about the material land or buildings. We're talking about the people in the city. That's what we're crying for. And God's saying, I will give you the heathen, the people, the unsaid. I'll give them to you as an inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for your possession. The second thing, yeah, we're inviting the birth of the Holy Spirit. You see, in John 16, 7 through 11, Jesus made it very clear on what the Holy Spirit does with regard to the world. He said, when the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world. What's he going to do? He's going to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. So we are praying according to what Jesus said. They say, Lord, we invite the Holy Spirit in this place, so that place may be the city or people that you're ministering to. Holy Spirit, we invite you to convict them of sin, righteousness, and judgment. So the conviction of the Holy Spirit should come upon the people. So we are praying and inviting the Holy Spirit for a particular group of people. You see, God declares what he intends doing, but our prayer and our intercession specifically invites them for a situation. So through our prayer and intercession or the people, the Holy Spirit, we want you to convict these people in this city or people in this community, the Holy Spirit, to convict them upon them according to what Jesus said. Convict them of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Now, of what sin will he convict them of? What Jesus said, of sin because they do not believe in it. Of righteousness because man's righteousness cannot meet up to the righteousness of God. Of judgment because the prince of this world is judged, the ruler of this world is judged. Satan has been judged, that means everybody else who's part of his group is going to be judged. So people need to have a conviction coming into their hearts and minds that if I do not believe in Jesus, that's the greatest sin which cannot be forgiven. Of sin, righteousness, judgment. So the Holy Spirit convicts them. Now, we proclaim the gospel, but it's the Holy Spirit is bringing about conviction in the hearts of the unsaved. They need Jesus. The righteousness is not enough. Satan has been judged. So the Holy Spirit thinks about that conviction. Third thing we pray is for God to draw them. So Jesus said, no man can come to me unless the father draw him. No one can come unless the father draw him. So we are saying, Jesus said, father has to draw them. So we are praying, Lord, draw people to yourself. We're praying according to John 6.44. John 12.32. Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men to myself. Lord, draw people in this city. Draw people in this community because we bring according to the scriptures. Lord, draw them. Draw them too. So that means there is the pool of heaven on their heart. Now, this is something spiritual. This is something God will do. And Amos, Amos chapter 9 verse 11, 12, Amos says, the Gentiles will come seeking for the Lord. So how will they come seeking? Well, God is drawing them. That's what they're coming to say. Something in the heart saying, I need to go. I need to be here. I need to find out. I need to seek after. What is that? That's the draw of heaven, the pool of heaven on their heart. And so we are asking God to do that. We also pray. Now, we're praying all of this is according to the scriptures. Next, we are praying that God will bring them to repentance, to the knowledge of the truth. They can escape the trap of evil. This is according to 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 25 and 26, because Paul makes it very clear that those who are opposed to the gospel, what is their spiritual condition? They are taken captive by the enemy. And to come out of that, God needs to grant them. That means God needs to work in their hearts in such a way that they will come to a place of repentance, to the knowledge of the truth, and they can escape this trap of the devil. So that's a work of God. That is not the work of man. Our work is to proclaim the gospel. Our work is to pray. But God is the one who works in them to bring them to this place of repentance and knowledge of the truth. So we are praying, God, move on them to bring them to this place of repentance, knowing the truth and escaping the snare of the trap of the evil one. A few more things we see in scripture is the Holy Spirit is the one who's going to open spiritual eyes to enlighten them. So this is, of course, Paul is praying this prayer for the believers in Ephesians 1, 15 to 21, their eyes to be opened to know Him. But if the believers' eyes can be opened by the Holy Spirit, how much more that opening of the blind eyes?  Just like believers, their eyes need to be opened to know God more. The revelation of God, our eyes need to be opened. So to Him, the unscathed, they're in darkness and we saw their eyes need to be opened to know Jesus. So who's going to open their eyes? The Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom, revelation. He's the one who can open blind eyes spiritually. And so Lord, we should open their eyes so that they may see Jesus. They may know the truth. They may be able to receive the truth. Now, using our spiritual authority, we're going to pull down the curtain of blindness. We're going to deal with all the ideas, the arguments, the reasonings, the strongholds, the thoughts that enemies put in their minds. We will talk about it later. We are doing that using our spiritual authority, but also we're praying for the Holy Spirit to open their eyes so that they can see Jesus. We also need to pray for the laborers. Jesus taught us that in Matthew 9, 37 and 38. He said, pray to the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth the laborers, people who are going to share the gospel. Lord, fill this city, fill this land with laborers, the people who are sharing the gospel, who are influencing people with the gospel. And another thing we see is to pray for mighty signs and wonders, accept the form. When the early church were facing opposition, what did they do? They prayed. They said, Lord, look at their treatments and you stretch out your hand to heal and let signs and wonders and miracles be done in the name of your Son Jesus Christ. So they are praying. You want to see more of your power, your demonstration, your miracles. So that is what they pray. And then subsequently, Acts 5, Acts 6, we see powerful things taking place. There are angels, there are visions, dreams, people have encounters. There are mighty healings taking place in the city of Jerusalem. So God is moving in response to the prayer. So we know that all of this is recorded only once. This probably was an ongoing prayer for the people there. They continued praying for the Lord to work signs and wonders. So we can see the seven clear areas of prayer that we can engage in in relation to the loss. So we are fighting, or we are engaging in prayer, interceding for the loss. And these are the things we can pray for as we pray for the loss. Let me pause here and see if there are any questions anybody would like to ask. Any questions? We are all clear on this. All good? First I have a question. Yeah, go ahead. So when we are engaging in prayer for the nations, or we are engaging in prayers for the souls, should we continue to pray or should we also be concerned about the fruitfulness of it? Like thinking about how many prayers are being answered, how many souls are being saved? Or should we continue to just pray and keep thanking God for the work he is doing? Yeah. So we definitely have to continue praying because this is an ongoing thing. So the battle for souls is not a, let's say, it's not like a small thing because the enemy has people in their grip. And it is an ongoing battle. And at the same time, yes, we want to see the fruit. We want to see the results. But remember, in addition to praying, and we will see in the next chapter, in addition to praying, there has to be the proclamation of the gospel. So praying is preparing the ground or preparing the atmosphere, the spiritual atmosphere for the work of proclamation or reaching out. So we should be doing both. Jesus said, go into all the world and preach the gospel. So if you only pray, but we're not preaching and proclaiming the gospel, then we are not going to be seeing the fruit of our prayer because it's like we are praying, but then we need to put the sticker in to bring the harvest, which is that is we need to go in there. We need to proclaim the gospel. We need to help give people opportunities to hear the gospel and then experience the power of God and come to pray to Christ. So to answer your question, we must do both. We must continue to engage in prayer and continue proclaiming the gospel and then looking for the fruit. Because if we are not seeing the fruit, which is souls being saved, people coming in, then we need to find out what is happening. Otherwise we will not know what is keeping people from coming to the Lord, what is hindering people from coming to us. So we need to look for the fruit. We need to see the fruit of our prayer and we need to know how do we engage in prayer better? How do we go about bringing the gospel to the people in a better way so that we can see the fruit. So all these three aspects are connected and we need to be looking at all of these three. Any other questions? Shikama, please go ahead. Sir, I want to know, is it wrong that we pray in the Church for the nations and for the cities in our regular services? I just want to know that one thing because I recently heard that Jesus has not prayed for the nation and the apostles never prayed for the nations. So is that statement right? I just want to know that in the normal services, like a Sunday service, is it wrong to pray for the nations or the city? Or do we have another separate day to have this thing? The Church has to gather together and pray. Thank you, sir. So I think there are two questions. One part of the question is, is it right or wrong to pray for the nations? Second is, should we do it on a Sunday service or should we keep set aside a different day and time to do it? So first, to answer using scripture, Psalm 2-8, the very first scripture we saw, the Father is saying, ask of me and I will give you nations for your inheritance. So he's telling us to pray, he's telling us to ask, ask me. Of course, the Father is speaking to the Son, this day I'm because of you, and then he says ask of me and I'll give you nations. Now we inherit it in Christ. And so in Christ, we are asking. So right there, Psalm 2-8 is the answer to that question. Father himself says ask of me and I will give you nations for your inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. So there is nothing wrong in praying. In fact, when you read through the Psalms, in the Psalms you find prayer for the nation or that the Gentiles. See, it's very interesting. The Psalms are not just speaking about the Jewish people. The Psalms, in many Psalms, they're referring, talking about the nations that the nations may know, that the Gentiles may know. It's in the Psalms. So that's again, and I think it'll be nice to compile that list. Well, maybe I'll try to do that. So it's nice to see that, hey, through the Psalms, in the Psalms of course are people praying, worshiping, praying to God. And in those in the Psalms, there is the prayer for the Gentiles, for the nation. So biblically, the other thing, let me mention this, the other thing, in Acts chapter 4, when the early churches praying, they are quoting Psalm 2 and verse 8, for not Psalm 2, verse 8, but the verse preceding that, why do the nations pray? And why do the rulers of the people imagine a vain thing? So when the early church is praying in Acts 4, they're quoting Psalm 2. That means they are praying based on Psalm 2. And only a portion of that is recorded in Acts 4, but we can assume that they would have prayed the entire Psalm or other Psalms as well in their prayers. And they're using that in relation to people who are not saved, for them to encounter the power of God in Acts chapter 4. So this is the third biblical response. So three responses. Yes, biblically we can see that it is right for us to pray for the nation, to pray for people to encounter Jesus Christ, and whether it's a community, whether you're praying for a city, whether you're praying for the leaders of the city, which we see in Psalm 2, or you're praying for a nation. Second question is when and where to do it? Now the Bible doesn't tell us, so that choice is left to the people. I mean, 1 Timothy chapter 2, Paul is saying, you know, after he says, I exalt therefore the prayers, supplications, intercessions, giving of thanks, we made for all men. You know, basically just pray for everyone. 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 1, you know, pray for all men, which means all the dental, all the unsaved, pray for all of them. Then he says specifically, for rulers and for those who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life, but where does that have to happen? We go down to verse 8, he says, I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without rock or nothing. Same chapter, 1 Timothy chapter 2, 1 and 2, and then I'm jumping to verse 8. Where should we pray? Pray everywhere. So it doesn't matter whether we pray Monday to which day of the week or where we are praying, but he says pray everywhere. So it is up to us, right? There is no rule. He just says pray everywhere, pray like this everywhere, pray for all men. So some churches prefer not to do it on a Sunday service and a morning service because there will be newcomers and, you know, visitors, people who don't understand what prayer intercession is. So they keep it to a separate circle. And it has happened, you know, I remember once, and this has happened early days, once I kind of led the church. And now and then sometimes I might just lead the congregation into prayer intercession. I don't do it all the Sundays, but I remember once, you know, I kind of just led it, led the prayer and we pray very strong and we pray for the sit-down. Then after that somebody came and said, you know, they got, they were upset because we were praying against demonic strongholds. And I think that particular Sunday we mentioned idolatry and so on.  So, you know, so the thing is in a Sunday morning service, it's good to pray because we're all together. But then they could be also, you know, visit us. They could be strangers. There could be people who don't understand these things. And it sometimes it could be, it might offend them. What is it? You know, they're praying against idolatry or they're praying against this and that. So that's one way to look at it. So that's why most times, you know, there's a separate prayer meeting where believers, those who understand what prayer intercession is about, they come to those meetings and there, there is a little bit more open and more, you know, vocal expression of prayer and taking spiritual authority, which doesn't happen in the Sunday service. So I think the answer to your second part of the question is, you know, it can vary. We will leave it to the church leadership to decide because they know what kind of people are coming. And so what would be okay? What would be not okay? We will just leave it to them. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Let's go ahead. So we said these are things we could pray for in relation to the loss and just put down something. And if there may be other things you would want to add. Then secondly, in spiritual warfare, that means now we are going to go against what Satan is doing, very important, before we start engaging in spiritual warfare, that is in just going confronting demonic powers, is that we must be really well established in truth. We must be established in truth. So as believers, right? So first of all, we must be established that Satan has been defeated. And then you can look at all these scriptures and see that Satan has been crushed, he's been expelled, he's been condemned. That means just judgment has already been pronounced on him. He's been disarmed, he's been destroyed, and he is powerless. So we, as believers, must be absolutely, you know, settled in our hearts and minds. Jesus finished the work. We are facing an enemy who's been crushed, expelled, condemned, disarmed, destroyed, powerless. So there is no fear in our hearts, Satan or any of his demonic spirits. And secondly, we have complete mastery and dominion over the devil. We need to be convinced about this. Look 10, verse 19, again, family scripted Jesus said, I give you authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will by any means hurt you. So in that conflict against the enemy, Jesus assured us nothing will by any means hurt us. So we are not expecting the enemy to harm us, hurt us, or succeed in hurting us in any way as we go. So there is no fear. Oh, if I go against the devil, he's going to come and trouble me, trouble me.  So we are confident in that. And we are confident we have seated the right kind of the Father, in Christ, in the heavenly places, far above all principality and dominion of Satan. And all these demonic parts are way beneath our feet, way beneath us. Then when we are going into spiritual warfare, we are not trying to gain victory, but we are here to enforce victory. That means the enemy is doing something that we have the authority and the power to dismantle, to destroy. And Jesus has already authorized us. So think about this in Matthew 28, 18 and 19. Jesus said, all authority in heaven and on earth is given to him. So all authority on earth belongs to Christ. We are the body of Christ. So that means the body of Christ is carrying all authority on earth. So when we are engaging in spiritual warfare, going against the enemy, we are coming from a place of having all authority on our side. Satan has no authority. We have all authority because we are the body of Christ, the one to whom all authority on earth is given. So we are not contending for victory. We are here to enforce the victory in the lives of the people for whom Jesus Christ has died. So Jesus, for the people whom we are contending for, Christ has already died for them. His shed is blood for them. The blood of Christ has been sprinkled for all nations. So we are now here to enforce that. And so, okay, devil, these people no longer belong to you. Christ's shed is blood. And so we are calling them out of the prison. We are opening up the prison door so they can come out. We are bringing in the light of the gospel so they can transition from darkness to light. So that's what we are doing. Number four, from our side, we have to keep all entry points closed. So that's our responsibility. That means while I have all authority as a believer, and I know the devil has been defeated, I need to watch over my own life. If I have entry points in my life, then basically if I have sin, ongoing sin in my life, then the enemy is going to use that to enter in. It's like a weak spot or weak point. So that's why the Bible tells us, you know, verse 5, it says, whoever is born of God keeps himself and that wicked one cannot touch him. So there is a prerequisite, so to speak. But I need to keep myself. I need to guard myself. Then the devil can't touch me. But if I'm not doing that, then, of course, the enemy is going to be able to come into some entry point. So if there is personal tribe at sin, if there is strife that is strife with other people, if there is wrong attitudes, bitterness, jealousy, or those all entry points. So we need to really guard our lives and give no place to the devil. Ephesians 4, 27, give no place to the devil as we engage. So we are protected. There's no question about it. But we need to keep all doors closed. So that's something we need to do, part of our preparation. And lastly, we understand that words is how we engage, the words of authority.  But how are we going to bind and lose? It's not like we are tying people up and untying people with ropes. That's not it. It's our words. Through the words we speak, we are exercising our authority. And through the words we speak, we are able to bind and lose. So we are engaging in that in that manner. Through the words we speak, words of authority, we engage with the enemies. We must understand the importance of words. So I would present these five aspects as part of our preparation for us as leaders, as well as for the people. They need to be well established in this and these truths before we lead them out into battle. It's like Ephesians 4, we need to get the civilians. We need the civilians need to be trained soldiers before they are sent out into battle. We don't just send civilians straight into battle. So this training has to happen. And so we can't do this overnight. Over time, we slowly equip the people, they gear them up, we get them ready for getting into battle. And then we step into exercising spiritual authority. But before we get in the next section, are there any questions in terms of preparation for spiritual battle? Are we all together on this? Any questions on that? Preparing people to get into spiritual warfare. So initially, you have your core team and then you have people coming in to the pioneering work. Now, let's say the church has, you know, could be people, 100 people, whatever. Now, you need to get them all ready before we can say, let's get into praying for the lost and that will take time. And we need to prepare them. Any questions on that? Okay. All right. So let's just move forward. So how do we actually engage? So first, praise and worship is very, very important. So we know we are praising and worshiping God, but that is actually preparing us and is also preparing the spiritual environment for the exercise of authority. Now, praise and worship is towards God, but our praise and worship towards God has an effect on the enemy. What kind of an effect does it have? I'll just quickly highlight some of these things. Maybe we'll pick this up again next week. We know some 8 words too. Jesus said, out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, you ordain praise that you might stop the enemy or you might steal the adventure. Jesus quotes that in Matthew 21 and verse 16. So the praise that is coming out of the mouths of God's people, which is going up towards God is actually an expression of strength against the powers of darkness that stops the powers of darkness. So our praise is going up to God, but us praising God is our strength against the enemy to stop the enemy. So think about it, right? We are worshiping God, we are praising God, we ordain praise out of our mouths, God is ordain praise. It is ascribing praise and glory and magnifying God, but our praising and magnifying God is stopping, it is stopping the enemy, putting a pause to his work. A great example to look at it is in 1 Samuel chapter 5 verse 1 through 4. I'll mention this here, we'll pick this up again next week. You see this Ark of the Covenant, it was captured by the Philistines and they took it into their temple and placed it in the temple of their God, Dagon. So you don't have the Ark of the Covenant, it is a symbol of God's presence among his people. It is a box that they carried, that had everything, whatever God wanted there for it. And that was a symbol of God's presence. Now the Philistines took it into the temple of their God and put it there. Very interesting, the next day they come, they find the statue or Dagon falling to the ground. It's symbolic but very powerful. So they come, put it back up, I say they come and they find it broken. Then they realize, hey, this Ark of the Covenant, this box which we have brought in here is so powerful. It's knocking down our God, Dagon. So they took it out. So it's giving us a very powerful method, the Ark of the Covenant, symbol of God's presence among his people. What does it do? It dislocates demonic powers. Psalm 22 verse 3, that when we praise God, his throne is established among us. Our praise and our worship is, thank God we come to be enthroned. And God is enthroned, the enemy is dethroned, the enemy is displaced, is dislocated. So we pause here, we'll talk a little bit more about this next week to pick up from here. So the first step towards exercising spiritual authority is just the presence of God's praise and worship established in that. So we as the people, whether it's 2, 3, 5, 10, or 50, 100 or whatever number, through our praise and worship, we are establishing the presence of God. Okay, we'll pause here. I will pick this up next week and go forward. Christopher, your question please. Yes, Pastor, thank you. So just to give us some guidance on how you would explain this point to an unbeliever, this point number 3, you mentioned about, we're not contending for the tree by year to enforce the tree. Jesus already obtained for us and Satan and all his demons have been cast expelled of condemn, disarmed, and destroyed. And yet, he is existing, he's operating right now. In the world. So just how would we explain that? I mean, if Satan is already impressed and destroyed, then how is he still operating right now? Okay, so we can look at it this way and I'll try to be very brief in this one moment. I'm just thinking, I've done this, I explained this in one moment theory. Let me just do that up here. Just give me a minute. I am trying to look for that. And no, I will answer your question. I just, I'm looking for this. All right, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. All right, I'm sorry, I was just looking for that, but I kind of addressed it and I can't remember which part it is. So anyway, so here's the thing. So Christ finished the work on the cross. Those who have received his finished work can now walk in what he has done. But those who have not yet heard or submitted to his launch ship are, so whatever he has provided is provided for the whole world. So you can think of the people, all people in two groupings. Those who have come under the Lordship of Christ, and those who have not come under the Lordship of Christ, whatever Christ did on the cross, he did it for every human person, every person in the world. But those who come under his Lordship have the privilege of walking in what he has completed. But when they don't come under the Lordship of Christ, the provision is there, but they cannot enjoy the provision, which means that these enemy, although he's defeated, still has a right of access over their lives. And so a disarmed, defeated enemy still extends influence over them when it doesn't need to happen. It shouldn't be happening. But the enemy disarmed, they don't know it, and they have not taken the step to come out of his weak, so he's much weaker than he actually is, but they've not taken the step to come under the Lordship of Christ. The same thing with the believer. If a believer does not know what is his in Christ, the enemy is able to extend influence. Now the influence the devil exerts over us is mainly through deception, is mainly through untruth. So it's not like he's so powerful, but he uses lies and deception to gain influence. That's it. So his deceptions are what defeat people. But when we come under the Lordship of Christ, we can then expose his deceptions for the truth and walk in victory and the thought of it. That okay? It's a very quick answer, but maybe we can pick it up next week and get further into it. If you just remind me at the start of the class, we can do that. Yeah. So let's just pray together and we will wrap up for today, but we will probably start with the question from Christopher next week. I'm trying to understand this, and I'll probably also point to the sermon that we had done some time back. Oh, thank you, Karun. I think that's what I was looking for. So you have a look at that and we will pick this up as well. Okay? Thank you. Could somebody close in prayer, please? I don't know if I can pray. I'll pray, sir. Go ahead, Mange. Yeah, we're just grateful Lord for this time, Lord. We are grateful Lord for the knowledge of wisdom, Lord, and knowing that even though the kairos moment hasn't arrived yet, but you have the victory. You have won all for us, Lord, and you've commissioned us, Lord, to go and bear witness of what you've done, Lord, so that the world may know you, the people might be set free, so that your kingdom may go forward, Lord. We pray for that as we pass here today, Lord, let your Holy Spirit continue teaching us, Lord, because let's continue bringing forth new revelation, Lord, so that what we learn, Lord, may stick in our heart, bear fruit, and may be good steward and good witnesses of what you've done and what you've called us to do. In your mighty name, Lord Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. I appreciate it. We'll meet again soon. God bless. Bye now.


And while the federal government has threatened to revoke the contract for the rehabilitation of Yolam Mobi Road after contractor, each vision fails to return to sight within one week. The report. Handling down the threat, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Bos Mustafa, said it was sad to see that there has not been much progress on the job. The importance of this movement, for the movement of even the produce of NNPC, for the northern part of Madama, all the way to Oval, because we have a major depot here in Yolam and we need to get this done quickly. So I'm giving you the assurance that we are taking special interest to ensure that there is no need. And that's why I'm urging the contractor. They have promised that they are going to put two guns at the, I mean immediately after the Salah festivities, one started from some area, going back to Yolam and the other one starting from where? From Kala. From Kala, all the way to Kala. So we believe that we will see action. But when I return in the next one week or two, you will all be here, we will follow the road again in the same manner we do today, so that we put all the necessary pressure. It is not only for government. You, as members of the fourth room, have a responsibility to ensure accountability. Not only accountability, but when the project is on, it must be completed for the good of the people. Speaking in the same vein, the Minister of Transportation, who oversees the Ministry of Works, Moazu Sambu Aji, accused the contractor of exhibiting incompetence. This is not a mistake, we have our money and we are not going to know what's going on. This is a very old issue. You have all these statistics, you have all these statistics, you have all these statistics. So you cannot talk about self-holding. If we have worked for billions of years, then you will say there is a problem of self-holding. But here, we are only with him, we have no deliver as much as we are giving him. However, the site engineer, Francis Musa, argued that work stopped due to the salad break. By next week, let's do some form of salad. For now, it will be too thick. One will be woken from salt water and one will be woken from salt water. And we are putting pork on rice. I assure you that something is going to come out. Musa assured the federal government that the project will be completed as long as funds come in. When completed, the Yola Mubi Road would serve as a viable link group.


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Thank you, Pete. I'll put it in the book here, Joe. Okay. Here's my gun. You want to check it with your... Yeah, right. I'll put him away. Okay, Pete. Here's your check. Thank you, Pete. All set, Ben. 906351. That's it. Okay, let's go. All right. We want to talk to Monty Wilkins. He's in 103. All right. We'll get him. Hi, Monty. You better move out of the way there. He wants to lock that door, Monty. Oh, yeah. Let's go around the corner to the interview room, Monty. All right. Ma'am, this is awful. It's a matter, don't you feel good? I feel awful. Pretty sick. You look bad. I'll get the light. Okay, Ben. Sit down, Monty. Okay. Thanks. Well, it's been about a year and a half, hasn't it, Monty? About that long, yeah. We got you for possession that time, too, didn't we? Yeah, that's right. How long have you been in the stuff this time? Well, I guess I've been hooked bad about a month. How much you shooting? Well, about two caps a day. When you were picked up down in Slawson last night, you had seven caps on you. Yeah, that's right. Well, we checked with the crying lab. They've run the stuff. It's not the usual Mexican, is it? That's right. You want to tell us about it? Yeah, it's good stuff. It's not Mexican. We know that, Monty. Where'd you get it? Haven't had anything like that for a long time. Real good. Haven't been cut. Real fine. Maybe it's coming from the East Coast. Can't get nothing like that from Mexico. Now, look, Monty, we ran the stuff through the lab. We know it's high-grade heroin. We know all about it. Now, I want you to tell us where you've been getting it. Well, you know how it is. You want to ask the impossible of me? My life wouldn't be worth a penny. You know how it is. Three handles a year and a half ago, didn't we, Monty? Yeah.  Yeah, I did time, though. You knew that going in. You're going to do time this trip, too. So don't shoot us that line, huh? Well, you guys know how it is with us guys. I can't tell you anything. No, it isn't that you can't. You just don't want to.  This is the only time around. If you want to help us, you can help yourself at the same time. It's up to you. You mean you can clear me on this? You can give me a break? We didn't say that. We can't make any promises to a year or give you any kind of a break. It's entirely up to you how you want us to put it down in our reports. Cooperative or uncooperative? Well, okay. You squared with me last time. You helped us last time. We made a case. But I'm not going to be able to help you very much. Where have you been getting it? Well, I've only made a couple of buys on that good stuff. I just got it from some old mule. I just happened to meet down there. Seemed to be pretty well loaded with this stuff. Where'd you meet him? Oh, down near Fifth and Spring somewhere. What's his name? I never did know his name. I just knew that he was pushing the stuff. Some old mule, that's all. Who's he pushing it for? Now, you know they never tell us guys where they're getting it. You know how they do. Yeah. I never did talk to him very much. I did hear him say once he was getting this stuff from a new bunch of guys from the East, said they were really going to open up this town. Well, he talked. They're no small-time operators. I got enough out of it to know they're working out of the Plaza Royal Hotel. Never figured that, would you? Anything else? Any names mentioned? Yeah, I remember this old mule mentioned a couple of names. I think he talked about somebody named Kirk and another guy called Smith. And you understand this guy was just talking. I don't know how they fit in or what the connections are. Yeah, we understand. Where can we get a hold of this old mule? Well, I don't know where he's at. How do you get a hold of him when you want to make a buy? I just run into him, that's all. Down around Spring Street. You know, it's just around. Last time I was down, I couldn't find it. And is that all of it money? I know what you can tell us. Well, I don't know it too much anyway. You know how it is. I couldn't tell you anymore. That's all I know. All right, let's get out of this 5-10 if that's all you got. That's everything I got. Hope you fellas will write me up, okay? I think I helped you quite a bit, haven't I? One of the best hotels in town, Plaza Royal. Never would have figured that, would you? Maybe. I've told you quite a lot. The rest ought to be easy. No, you're wrong there, Marty. Why? You haven't told us the name of your mule. You haven't told us where we could find him. You haven't made it so easy. That's all I have. I've told you a lot. Yeah, there's a lot you didn't tell. We continued our interrogation of Marty Wilkins. He refused to divulge any further information. What he had told us, together with information already compiled, seemed to check out. For the past seven months, we'd been trying to localize the operations of what had come to be regarded as a well-running distribution center for high-grade heroin. We knew of the existence of this distribution point through the various users that had been picked up almost daily. These users would have in their possession quantities of high-grade narcotics. Unlike the cheaper, lower-grade quality common in the southwest part of the country, this type of heroin was more common to the eastern section of the United States. We had believed the local distribution point to be somewhere in our metropolitan downtown area. The information gained from Marty Wilkins had strengthened this theory. 10.25 a.m., we met with Francis Kearney, captain of the Narcotics Division. Apply as a royal hotel, what do you think? Well, we've figured what we were looking for could be in that area, but we've never put our finger on that hotel. How do you figure I'm working it? Well, driving back from the jail, Ben and I were just kicking it around. Skipper, what do you think about putting a man in that hotel? Anything's a great deal better than we're doing now, but I don't know. Well, I'd like to give it a try. Are you sure like a crack at his giver? You know how I feel about these kind of assignments. One man working inside, one outside. Brings the element of danger up kind of high. Well, we know it's not going to be easy, but it looks like a good bet. Sometimes these things are, sometimes they're not.  Been running their racket just about as smooth as it can be run. You know the kind of a risk a man would have to take if he tried to make contact with any of them. I don't think it's about the quickest way to get to them. Well, maybe it might be worth it. You got any ideas how you'd like to work it? It's just one thing. We haven't come to any decision who's going in and who isn't. Well, I think I ought to be the one to work it from the inside of the hotel with Ben working outside as a contact. I don't know why we can't just turn that around. Last time you had to rough in. Joe, you just got back from your vacation about three weeks ago, didn't you? Yeah, that's right. Didn't you stay down in Arizona? Phoenix, wasn't it? Yeah. You know the town very well? Well, we've got some relatives down there, yeah. They started asking you any questions about Phoenix. You could fill them in, then. I think so. That's probably the best way to settle it, Romero. Friday here will be in a better position knowing a little about Phoenix. I don't see how you figured that way. I went on my vacation to Columbus, Ohio. Well, because of the type of stuff that's been coming in, don't you think it'd be a little safer bet to have our man come from somewhere out this way rather than from the east? Yeah, it makes sense. Well, you did it again, Joe. You beat me out. All right, let's figure it this way.   How about Joe Edwards? How's that sound? That sounds right to me. We'll get all the necessary cards, identification papers, and a few letters to carry around with you all under the name Joe Edwards. I think the best way to work it is for you to hop right down to Phoenix. When you get in town, check with Roberts. He's in narcotics town. Yeah, I know him. Have Roberts fill you in on what's been going on down there. Any of their current characters they've handled recently, any that have been known to pass through, you know, so you can talk about it freely. Yeah, I understand. Joe, well, when you check into the hotel down there, why don't you wire head up here to the Plaza Royal for reservation? Might be a good cover. A good thought. That's the way to handle it. You two have worked these things before. You know what to do, all the necessary precautions. Well, how long do you figure out how to lay over in Phoenix? A couple of days, maybe. Think that's long enough for you to get filled in what you need? Oh, yeah, that's fine. Well, I'll go home and get packed. I'll start on that first thing in the morning, huh? All right. Romero will stand by at all times, day and night, while you're on this thing.  Sure. As soon as you get in from Phoenix and get located at the Plaza Royal, get in touch so we'll know which way to move. Right. Anything else? Well, we want to break this thing, but we don't want to do it at the risk of a life. So if it starts getting warm, check out. Okay. I still don't like sending anybody on something like this, but it's got to be done. We don't know enough about it. We don't know how many are in the gang.  I will. If you're not and I hear about it, this will be your last assignment like this. Yeah. If I don't hear about it, well, you figure it. Yeah. Either way, I lose. I went over to the photo room at the crime lab and picked up the identification papers that had been made out in the name of Joe Edwards. I went home and removed all Los Angeles labels from the clothing that I was to take with me to Phoenix, Arizona. I removed all my personal identification in Los Angeles Police Department credentials. I left my service revolver home and borrowed a .38 automatic from Ben. I packed it in my suitcase. The crime lab also furnished me with a package or a bindle made to resemble the usual form in which a person would carry heroin. I packed this in my suitcase. Before my departure, Ben and I went over the proposed plan as best we could. I was to arrive from Phoenix under the assumed name of Joe Edwards. I would register at the Plaza Royal Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and attempt to make arrangements to participate in a narcotics buy for the purpose of gaining sufficient evidence to apprehend the narcotics ring. I was to keep Ben informed as best I could of my progress. As outlined by Captain Kearney, I arrived in Phoenix and contacted Sergeant Roberts at the detective bureau down there. He furnished me with all the necessary information and assisted me in acquiring local Phoenix clothing store labels to have sewn in my clothing. I obtained everything possible to make it appear that I was a long-time resident of Phoenix, Arizona. Several dummy hotel bills were made up for me to make it look as if I'd lived there for a period of time. I was furnished with an Arizona driver's license, a membership in the local social club and a voter's registration stub. These were all packed in my suitcase. October 9th, 10 a.m., I arrived at the Plaza Royal Hotel, the front desk. Yes, sir? My name's Edwards. I'm in from Phoenix. Get my wire. One moment, sir. Yes, sir? Joe Edwards? Yeah, that's right. Would you sign the register, please? Yeah, all right. Thank you. What? Yes, sir? Would you show this gentleman a room 211, please? Yes, sir. This way, please. All right. Thank you. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. Two, please. Not very nice weather to arrive in Los Angeles, is it, sir? No, not too good. I see by the stickers on your bag you've been through Arizona. Yeah, that's right. Must be nice weather down there, huh? Yeah, that's all right. This way, sir. Thank you. Let me open the window for you, sir. Fresh air in here. All right. Okay. Thanks. Here you go. Thank you very much, sir. Help you with your bags? Yeah, all right. Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Something dropped out on the floor here. You better let me have that. Sorry. Very sorry that happened. That's all right. Mr. Edwards, while you're in town here, if there's anything I can do for you, don't hesitate to let me know. Yeah, okay. I couldn't help but notice that little package there that I dropped. Yeah. Well, like I say, I know my way around here in this town. If you need anything, you know anything at all, sir? I'll tell you what. Now, here's five bucks. You never saw anything fall out of my bag there, right? Anything you say, sir. Okay. Thanks a lot. See you later, huh? Yes, sir. Anything else, sir? No, no, that'll be all. You'll remember what I told you, sir? Yeah, I was just gonna say the same thing to you. I couldn't be sure, but it looked like I'd been lucky right from the start. The bellboy at the Plaza Royal Hotel. I didn't know if I could consider this an opening contact or not, but he seemed to show more than a passing interest in the bindle of narcotics that he had seen fall from my suitcase. I didn't feel it was the right time to press the issue any further with the bellhop, but I figured I'd wait and leave the next move up to whoever he might have been working for. During the next three days, nothing happened. I tried without appearing to be too much. To arouse some interest, but without success. October 13th, my fifth day at the Plaza Royal Hotel, 6 p.m. I went in the bar off the main lobby. I beg your pardon? Yeah. Kirk Harding is my name. I noticed you here in the bar the last couple of nights. You appeared to buy a little, or are you selling? I'll leave a folly, Artie. Look, boy, we've had you tabs since the first day you hit town, October 9th. We haven't been out here too long. I sell, and we're in business, too, the same business you're in. Well, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm in, but you got it figured wrong, mister. You know, this entire matter'd work out much better for you in the long run if you'd level with me. You're just going to make it tough on yourself this way. Well, I'm sorry. You've lost me way back somewhere. All right, let's do it the hard way. You're up here from Phoenix. We know you've got some stuff with you. We know you're not a user. You're a member of the social club down there. You're a registered voter. 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He'd done some legwork for Harding and had not been able to furnish him with anything other than what had been found out and going over my room. I knew I'd found the contact that I was looking for. I told him that I was in the business of the narcotics that I was in Los Angeles for the purpose of making a pre-arranged narcotics buy with agents dealing in Mexican stuff. Harding immediately gave me a strong sales pitch saying that he could furnish me with high-grade heroin fresh from the European market in quantity. At the end of the first week, I was introduced to Kirk Harding's two associates, another man called Smith, full name Horace L. Smith, and a woman by the name of Lucille Cosgrove. Ben had been unable to find records on any of the three. For the next three weeks we became more friendly. We went places together, spent a great deal of time together. Monday, November 15th. Well, we've had a lot of fun the last few weeks, haven't we? Well, there's no doubt about that, but I gotta be getting back to Phoenix. Well, I don't get eager, Joe. You know how cagey you were, you made us wait. Preliminaries are over. This is the big buy for you or anybody else. Yeah, I know all that, but who am I? Just be patient. You'll have something you'll really set yourself up with down there. Okay. Oh, excuse me, Joe. Yeah, go ahead. Hi, Smith. Hello, Joe. Hi, Lucille. What's the matter, Smith? Don't you feel good? I don't know. It's hotel food, I guess. I think I got an ulcer. My stomach's sore all the time. Oh, it's too bad. I don't know what it could be. Baking soda don't do any good anymore. How about a drink, Joe? Yeah, fine with me. Well, sir, do you want to get some ice out of the kitchen please? Sure. Skip me. Smith, you'd better go see a doctor. You don't know for sure what's wrong with you. You might make it worse. If I don't know what it is, how could a doctor, I don't know, it works for everybody else. It might be you. Hey, I can't get this ice tray out. Joe, would you give me a hand, please? Yeah, sure. Okay, which one here? I got the ice. Keep working on that other tray there. It's something to tell you. Okay. Listen, Joe, big buys tonight. You sure? Yeah. How about it, you two? You need any help? No, that's all right, Kirk. It's coming along fine.  How do you know? Look, we don't have time to go into it. No. You won't have a chance.  What are you doing? Waiting for them to freeze? Come on. How about the ice cream? All right, here, Kirk. I'm sorry. Let's go. Yeah. Okay, what do you want? We'll see you. Joe. Coke highs, all right. Joe. I'll make mine bourbon with a little water. All right. Smith, you sure you don't want one? No, I can't do it. Joe, for a mix-up, I got something for you. Yeah? Smith tells me tonight's the night. Well, that's good, but why don't you tell me a little ahead of time? I've got a date for the night. I think you'd better break that one and keep this one, don't you? Well, yeah, I do, but just wish you'd have told me a little sooner. There's the phone. You can take care of it. Is it all right with you? You know as much about this business as we do. Go ahead and use it as long as we can hit you. Okay, fine. Just take a minute. I'll sit here, Joe. Oh, thanks, Smith. Yeah. See, I wonder if you get my drink for me over there. Sure. She's probably going to be upset. I may need it, huh? Yeah, honey, this is Joe. I'm sorry. I won't be able to make it tonight, dear. You're welcome. That's right, dear. No, I just can't get out of it. I'll do it. Yeah, well, it just came up all of a sudden. Where do you know? No, darling, I can't tell you where I'm going. You couldn't go along anyway. Okay. Well, that's the way it is, and I can't help it. That's all. Maybe we can get it later, huh? Well, it's better, honey. No, that's the way I like to hear you talk. I'm sorry. I'll see you later, huh? We'll be with you. Okay, dear. Well, she still loves you? Yeah, she loves me. Fifteen minutes after I hung up, we went downstairs and got into a green Chrysler sedan. It was parked out in front of the hotel. I looked around. I didn't see Ben or any of our cars in sight. Smith drove, and Kirk and I got in the back seat. The woman, Lucille Cosgrove, remained at the hotel. I didn't know which of the two men was planning to kill me, but I felt sure Lucille Cosgrove told me the truth. Her information on the buy was right, and maybe this other was correct as well. We drove out Figueroa Street for about 16 miles. At this point, it became evident we were heading for the Los Angeles Harbor area. You ever see a fog as thick as this, dear? No, never have. Can't see 50 feet in front of me. Yeah, well, just take it easy. Nobody's in a hurry. That's right. I don't want to pile up anywhere. Where are we going? We're almost there. Is your car here? I've never seen this one before. No, we rented it. Isn't that the way you operate? Yeah, that's right. I just wanted if you played it as safe as I do. We do. I'm going to swing in this next alley up here, Kirk. Is somebody tailing us? Kill the lights. Right. See anything at the back window? Wait a minute. How'd they go? I did look. Two guys in the front seat. Could have been somebody. What do you think, John? I'd look to you. Well, whoever it was, we lost them anyway. Yeah. Okay, let's go. Clear spot here in the fog. Don't see a soul anywhere. It's fine. We're almost there now? Yeah, just around the corner. This is a break, isn't it? Fog's clear right in here. All socked in back up there. Well, as safe as you'd want to be, huh? Yeah, that's right. This is it. Over by the storage building? Yeah, that's right. Come on, let's go. Over this way, Joe. What's over there in that building? We're not going inside just over there in that alcove. All right, this is it, Joe. I'll see the money. Oh, where do I see the stuff, huh? You don't trust anybody, do you? What are you trying to prove? Well, I didn't like what he said. You're not going to like what I got to say either. Freeze, Mr. Drop it, you! Watch it, Ben! He ducked in this alcove. Yeah. Oh, take care of that one there. All right, easy, huh? Yeah, you see him? No, it's too dark. There he is. All right, throw your gun out ahead of you. He's not going to throw that gun out, Joe. Watch it. There's his gun. Yeah, I got it. You want to shake him down? Yeah. Come on. On your feet. Where'd you get hit? I'm sure. Let me see. You all right? Just crazy.  Yeah, that's right. Now come on, let's go. Where's this stuff? One of the backseat in my car. Now you tell me something. Why'd you slug Smith? I just wanted something I knew you'd never give me. What's that? An even chance. Just heard was true. Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. On January 4th, trial was held in Superior Court, Department 81, city and county of Los Angeles, state of California. In a moment the results of that trial. And now here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you. Friends, let's compare Fatima with any other long cigarette. Now Fatimas are the same length, 85 millimeters. Fatima has the same circumference, 1-1-64 inches around. And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as other king-size cigarettes. But in Fatima, the difference is quality. You get extra mildness, a different, much better flavor and aroma. That's right.  Tomorrow, by Fatima. All three suspects, Kirk, Arthur Harding, Horace L. Smith and Lucille Marie Cosgrove were convicted for violation of the State Narcotics Act of felony. Harding and Smith were convicted on one count of attempt to commit murder. They are now serving their terms as prescribed by law in the state penitentiaries. You have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 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