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Hello there, this is the family doctor, grocery store proprietor, and another daughter of a local justice of the peace, who are vying with each other for the attention of a young soda clerk and a local drug store. He must be the old scallywag, a fine editor he is. He knows very well that everybody in Cedarton will know that he's talking about Ella Mary Bliss and Faith Windsor and Chick Harper. What did you say, Grant? Uh-huh. Oh, nothing, honey, just reading the post-view group. Well, I have something I'd like you to read, Grant. Oh, and it's what? It's this letter from Grant, Jr.'s wife. Listen, Lou, you've known Elle for seven years. Why do you always refer to her as Grant, Jr.'s wife? Oh, I don't know. I just suppose it's because I'm Grant, Jr.'s mother. I guess I did. Well, let me see the letter. One second thought, I think I'll read it to you. You always have so much trouble trying to make out a writing. All right, honey, go ahead. Dear Mother Adam, we received the pickled watermelon and the blackberry preserves in fine shape. They arrived yesterday morning and I put them right up on the shelves, waiting for the right occasion to open them. Grant has been very busy lately. He signed another contract for another building, he says, and it's taking quite a lot of his time to get all the figuring done. Did Grant tell you in his last letter that we have a new car? It's quite a, quite snazzy and we like it a lot. Thanks so much for the pickles and the preserves. And I, as I know Grant is too, am looking forward to seeing both of you. You swell people soon. Love from us both, Elle and Grant, Jr. Grant, what are you thinking? The same thing you are, honey. It just makes me weep when I think of those two children up there in that big city. Oh, now, they're not children, Lou. Grant is 26 and Elle is 23. They're not children. Yes, they are. There are children, Grant, and they're in trouble. Trouble? Oh, now what? Yes, they are. That letter from Elle wasn't the letter of a happy young wife of a successful young architect. Like we know Grant, Jr. is. And you know it wasn't. What did she mean? She put the pickles and preserves up on the shelves, waiting for the right occasion to open them. And she keeps saying that Grant says he has to do this and that. Something's worrying, Elle, and I'd like to know what it is. All right, then we'll find out. Oh, how? We'll invite them down here for a week. Oh, Grant, I hope so much you'd say something like that. What are we going to do? I just got through telling you what we're going to do. We're going to invite them down here for a week. And you let me write the letter. I'll guarantee they'll come down. I'm just sort of nervous, Grant. Nervous? Well, why should I be nervous? Greeting my own son and his wife. Yes, but we haven't seen them for so long. It's more than a year. Never mind. I'm not nervous. Then what are you tearing up tonight's copy of the post-bucal form? Who me? Oh, well, I don't know. It didn't seem to be anything important, did it? Just thought I'd cut. There they are. Well, maybe you better go to the door and let them in, Grant, while I get this apron off. I'll just bet you left that apron on on purpose. All right, all right. I'll go let them in. Put them into the parlor and I'll put the kettle on for tea. All right, Lou. Hello, Dad. Hello, Daddy Adam. Oh, my, it's good to see you again. Well, Grant and Nerv, come on in. Mother and I have been expecting you for hours. Oh, not for hours, Dad. You know how long it takes to come down from the city on that old milk train. Well, come on in anyway. My, it's good to see you both. Hey, it's Junior Technel's thing. All right. You know where to put them.  Yeah, I'll take her in there while you're gone. All right, Dad. I'll go in and yell hello to her. Well, well, well. My, it's good to see you two youngsters again now. Is it? Oh, it's awfully swell seeing you again, too, Daddy Adam. Come on, come on in. Sit down. Mother will be in pretty soon. Thanks. Well, I think he's going with you both. Oh, just fine. Grant's doing so well and I'm so proud of him. You know, he won the national prize for the best design for a college football stadium this year. Yes, yes, I remember. He wrote Mrs. Adam something about it. What did it say? Did it mean much for Grant? Oh, I should say why it was the very thing he'd been hoping for all year, winning one of the national architectural prizes. Of course, he decided to design a stadium because he used to play football at state. And Grant says it was a new idea he had on draining a football field that won the prize for him. Well, certainly fine. Oh, here they come. Ah, mother and son. Baring tea and biscuits. They're not biscuits, Junior. They're hermits. Oh, I'm awfully glad to see you again. Good evening, Nell. I'm very glad that you and Junior could come down to visit us. Thank you.  This tea won't stay hot forever. And hermits. Gee, Mother, I haven't seen anything like this since a year ago last Christmas. Yes. Your father and I were terribly sorry. You, too, couldn't get down last Christmas. Do you take lemon and just one lump of sugar as you used to, Nell? Yes. And you take cream, don't you? Yes, Mother Bear. Well, I hope Nell's ready to leave. We have much time before training. Oh, you've got half an hour. And the seat isn't so big that we can't get you down to the depot in a shorter time than that. You're right, Dad. I guess I've forgotten a lot about the old town. Hmm. What do you mean? Huh? Oh, come on now. I know when you say, hmm, like that, you've got something on your mind. Oh, go on. I haven't anything of the sort. Get on the house with you.  Always thinking I've got something on my mind. We're in the parlor. Come on in here. We're having a cup of tea before the children leave. All right, Mother. Be right in. Come on, son. Coming, Dad.  And so you're going to leave us again, Nell. Going back to the big city. Yes. And how I hate it. Nell. You do? Why? Oh, this peace. This blissful quiet here in this lovely little town. I'd give up everything we have just to be able to live the rest of my days in a town like this. Well, you know, I've always believed that surroundings don't make a whole lot of difference. I don't think happiness depends on where you live or what kind of carpets you have on the floor or what sort of traffic you have in the streets. And it's much deeper than that. I think two youngsters like you should be able to find happiness anywhere. Oh, Dad. Well, Nell didn't mean that she wasn't. Yes, I did. We might just as well be frank about it, Grant. You and I have almost everything material that a young couple could wish for. A lovely home, a nice car, and hosts of friends. But there's something missing, something very real, something, well, intangible. I don't know what it is. But the absence of it is pulling us apart, Grant, and you know it as well as I do. Nell. Why, this is... I'm sorry, Mother Adams.  Nonsense. Of course you should. Gosh, it's a Friday if a son and daughter can't open up and blow off to their own mother and father. Who could they... Say, listen, you two kids, you haven't been scrapping, have you? Dad, of course not. Yes, we have. And you know that too, Grant. We might just as well admit it. We've been having little disagreements lately over nothing. They've been getting more frequent all the time. I just can't stand this.  Yep, just like you two youngsters are experiencing now. Grant. Oh, I know you don't want me to talk about it, Lou. But if Grant, Junior, and Nell can be helped by the telling of it, my gosh, I'm going to tell it. Oh, I see. Go on, Daddy Adams. What were you saying? Well, I was saying that when that little lady over there and I were first married, we used to fight like cats and dogs. You did. Yes. It started off as just a little bicker now and then before I'd leave in the morning for the hospital.  She had to resign because they couldn't have a married couple working in the same hospital. They didn't find it out for a couple of months, though. Well, then it got worse and worse. First, just little unimportant spats. Then when it got so sad, I just couldn't bear to go home night, always dreaded facing another session of scrapping. Oh, we never actually did bodily harm to each other, but we came mighty close to it now and then... Gee, I... I can't believe it. It's true. Yep. Not for a few months there that we'd made a mistake. Your mother was almost ready to give up, go back to the hospital, and I was almost ready to leave town and go somewhere else to start in practice. Grant, don't you think... That I've told enough? Well, maybe I have, honey. Maybe I have. But anyway, there it was. We were drifting farther and farther apart all the time until something came along that changed everything. What was that then? You. Huh? Yep, that's right. Now, when Grand Junior was born, we were so busy taking care of the little shaver that we didn't have time to worry about our own imagined troubles. Say, when I got through walking the floor with your son, I didn't have enough gumption in the morning to do anything but smile wiggly and sort of acquiesce to anything your mother wanted. Isn't that true, honey? Yes, it certainly is. Well, I don't think we've had a disagreeable word since. And that was 26 years ago. Thank you, Daddy Adam. Hmm? We both thank you, Dad. For what? All say, look at the time. Oh, we've only got 20 minutes to get started and get down to the depot. Come on, darling. We'll go upstairs and get our bags and wraps. Yes, dear. I'm ready to go. Grand Adam Senior, you big storyteller. Huh? Who? Me? Yes, you. You know very well you made that big story up out of whole cloth. Not one word of it was true. Oh, is that so? Well, what do you know about that? You know very well we've never had a harsh word between us and all the years we've been married to say nothing of a fight. Well, there was that time when you put too much sugar in my coffee and I had to speak to you about it. Oh. I'm sorry I disgraced you so, Lou. Yes, you did disgrace me, Grand Adam. Right before my own children. But I love you for it. Come on, honey. Time to get our things on to. We can't let the youngsters miss their trains. They'll have a lot to talk over on the way back to the city. Family doctor, I'll be in to see you again right soon. Goodbye.


Hi, I'm Kate Lundy, the Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship. Every year on December 5 we celebrate International Volunteer Day to acknowledge the work and accomplishments of some very special Australians who volunteer their time to make a difference in our communities. As well as giving their time and energy to help improve the lives of others, our volunteers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and reflect the diversity of our great nation. This year we are honouring the work of those who give up their time to help vulnerable people take their first steps as they build their new lives in Australia. There are wonderful unsung volunteers who work to provide support to newly arrived refugees. Here are some of their stories. I've been working with Lattice for quite a while now, a few months. I guess the main thing I've been trying to do is to help him get involved in the community because his disability means that he can't really do that for himself and his mum has day-to-day care of him and she gets tired and needs a bit of support herself. So the more we can get him out and about the better it is for him and also she benefits as well. What did you do then, did you make it, oh you made it go a little bit higher? I think people should volunteer because we all have something to offer and everyone has something that they need and we should be linking up with each other to meet each other's needs. I have a busy life but I'll always leave room in it for volunteering. Now this is the watermelon, it's a favourite in Australia in summer, it's always great fun to take the new arrivals out because one is aware that they are learning so much so rapidly and I admire them for that. Normally in Australia we have a cereal for breakfast like rice bubbles. The wonderment is magical, it's magical. I've been volunteering for three and a half years. I get a kick out of seeing people adjust to an entirely new society. There we are, there's a cinema that's worth coming to and the book store is right. And I love having an input into the lives of people who have suffered various forms of disadvantage and we in this country are able to offer that assistance but the assistance comes not only from organisations but from individuals and I hope I'm one of those individuals. Volunteering I think is good for the soul if you like. It makes one feel that you are part of humanity, that you are contributing to the betterment of humanity.


We're talking about, John, some of the innovations we're seeing at the event. This is, of course, day one. We haven't had a chance yet to walk the floor other than our way in, but there's a lot of exciting buzz around. Yeah. Well, I walked the floor last night when no one was here because we were here late setting up, and I had a good chance to preview all the booths, and literally it's all about the applications powering content, and content is king, cash is king, content equals cash. It's creating a lot of business model disruption here at NAB, and I think ultimately what's happening is we have this developer market that's emerging that's not just for the large studios, Dave, but really for every professional producer. You don't have to be super PhD in graphics and editing to do all the great stuff. And Adobe, you guys have been part of that, Dave, so talk about CS6.0 you're talking about here at NAB. Apps always take advantage of the new Moore's Law features, Zillion cores, Solid State memory, ECC memory, powerful workstations. What's your announcement? Well, at NAB this year we think we've got the biggest release in ten years of our suite of software. So Premiere Pro has been dramatically, the UI has been dramatically changed by user feedback, so we're very happy to show that After Effects has had some unbelievable advancements. Again, a lot of people are looking at After Effects and thinking it's probably the biggest advancement in ten years. So our booth is packed with people that want to see what's new. A lot of energy around Premiere Pro and After Effects now. What has the, I see Adobe has been a big staple in this market, audio and video across the board, but what is the big feedback? You said you listened to your customers and made some game changing, or ground changing announcements in the past ten years for this announcement. What's the key things you've heard from them? Well, some of the new features in the product, again, are really user feedback, so the team that I run is in front of customers talking, you know, what is it that we can do to improve the software. We take that back to our engineers, our engineers talk to Intel, and some of the features they came up with that really just play out beautiful. We have a new feature called Never Stop Play, which is our third generation 64-bit sort of environment with Premiere Pro, where you can actually be editing in Premiere Pro, watching your full screen output, jump over to Photoshop or jump into After Effects while the playback never stops. Look for files, do things that you need, because remember, you might have a client previewing that output and they just want to sit and watch what you're doing, you might need to go hunt up another file while they're doing that on another monitor, but again, the same system. So that's one. Another thing that allows us to do, that's a beautiful tie-in to Intel and our partnership that we've had for years, in this new 64-bit environment, we've got this opportunity to drag and drop effects live while that's playing. So the client might be sitting there watching what you're doing, maybe you've got a Blackmagic or AJA or Matrox card putting on the output, it's, you know, a lot of bandwidth there. We can now change effects parameters in real time, so the customer can ask you, well, can you warm that up a bit, cool it down a bit, and the playback never stops. So for the first time, we've enabled those cards to follow that mercury pipeline all the way through, and that's there because of the power and the partnership with Intel. Well, obviously, Intel's always been a leader in performance, and, you know, I was saying earlier, I was going back to Sundance and all these other, all the geeks doing graphics, no Intel's there. What did you guys do in particular? Can you be specific on how you re-architected CS4 to Xeon? So can you talk about that? Yeah, I mean, I think when you're giving us the opportunity to have, you know, dual socket currently, and say a box like the HP820, which I've been using for a while, which is outstanding, I've got 32 threads that I can now deal with. So as I'm changing those effects parameters, you know, I've got a lot more bandwidth to start stacking on even more effects. So you've just given us wider hallways and taller ceilings to do a lot more effects at the same time. It's been incredible. So you're not disrupting the workflow, you're using the existing workflow, you're just making it incredibly more productive. Absolutely. Allowing me to do many, many more things in real time and actually see the effects of the changes with a client, for example. Yeah, I agree 100%. One of the things that's interesting from a client standpoint is we never fail in each release to sort of make everything work at the same speed, but let you do so much more. So if you went back to old workflows, everything would just be like an amazingly, blazingly fast speeds, but customers need to do more. We've got to go to 4K, we've got to go to 5K, need real-time color correction on top of that. So while we come out with these amazing releases, Intel keeps coming out with these more and more threads, the customers, if they would sort of stick in the same workflows that they have now, they would just have incredible amounts of power. The problem is they're not sitting still. So they're counting on Intel and Adobe to go up that chain as resolutions get bigger and demands get bigger on content creation. It's kind of an interesting thing to see because you would think we would be doing 5K now. Right, but a real challenge for many software companies is to just not throw features and function at it that aren't utilized. How do you guys manage that? And it's because it sounds like the things that you're talking about are going to get absorbed, they're going to get adopted as opposed to having bloatware that 90% I don't even touch as a user. We already touched on it, it's customer feedback. So we don't want to put features in there that are sort of sexy looking, but don't play into their workflow. We cannot make their day faster because time is money and we always tell people, especially with these new processors, these new Xeon processors are incredible. It's like if render times are an issue, it's a slam dunk with our new Adobe Media Encoder for CS6 that you just watch all those 32 threads hit and they can look at it and say, you know what, my current machine, which might be a dual six core or maybe a quad core, isn't giving me that kind of time on the output. So it's not something, there's no smoke and mirrors. It's time and money. It's all about the productivity. Here at SiliconANGLE TV, we have theCUBE and we've been doing this for almost a year and a half and have amazing millions of people watch theCUBE. You mentioned bigger hallways to play with. Creativity around the media hackers. We call ourselves media hackers because we're always trying to hack and do new things to engage the new user experience that people are demanding, mobile, social, et cetera. So that being said, I'm sure you agree with that, that there's new experiences that need to be created. So what are you hearing from your users on the preview around the product? And can you point to any specific examples of like, wow, that's new stuff we've seen from the product? Well, so some of the features that are sort of standing out on the product, we have a brand new hover scrubbing which allows us to move massive amounts of data and thumbnails. So if I happen to have, you know, back on my server or I'm back on my local hard drive and I just wanna start previewing information, when I hover scrub or just move over those files, not even clicking your mouse, that's hitting those Intel processors. When I have to decode 5K red files and you show them hover scrubbing just directly over that, they're like, that's 5K? Yeah, let me show you a little deeper so you can dive into it. They start looking at that and will bring up, you know, the process manager and start showing them or the activity monitor on their Mac and show them how many threads they're hitting and they're just amazed that we're nailing all of those threads. So that's one thing. Another thing is we spend a lot of time on dynamic trimming.  What can you guys tell us? So we call it dynamic trimming and it is drop dead gorgeous. It's very fast, completely keyboard driven. You can almost cut your mouse cord and toss your mouse and go for the keyboard which is really what the high end user wants. So we're showing them keyboard driven effects controls where you can actually go in, start putting in parameters. You can adjust frames with your keyboard. Again, it's just something that Premier has usually in the past been very mouse driven. This release is all about customer feature set and they wanted the keyboard. And that's about precision. Absolutely. Yeah, that makes sense.  So what are you guys gonna do next?  But like, what's next for you guys? Where's the moon show? What's the next vision? Well, I mean, it's interesting for us because we really do look at partners like Intel and we look at partners say like HP with this new Z1 which is this workstation where you can put a, you know, it's a lot of high power, a lot of juice in there, whether it's on CPU or GPU or memory, whatever it is. So we're looking at technology to figure out how can we sort of carry this forward? Like what can we look at next in the future for the CS products? What is technology? How can we make sure we've timed it out? And I'll tell you, Thunderbolt for me is one of the most exciting things to happen in a long time. We're in lockstep with Intel on Thunderbolt. I do a lot of Thunderbolt blogs myself. So I'm out there really talking Thunderbolt and what it means for the workflow.  It's pretty amazing how tiny that thing is. There's a lighting bolt on it? Yeah, there it is. Yeah, that's thunderbolt. That's the new pocket drive by Promise.  Yeah, so this is amazingly fast. So we go back to looking at technology. What do customers want? They want faster backups. At the end of the day, they want to be in Premiere. They've done their edit, move it over to here because I wanted to get this thing off my computer and in my safe. So Thunderbolt that Intel's working on, this new 30 meter cable, are you kidding me? You know how exciting that is for a studio like this? I could be having Thunderbolt, you know, almost 100 feet away and have all that technology. So for us, we're looking at that technology, making sure that we are what people think of from an NLE when they think of Thunderbolt. David Helmle, Thunderbolt is part of it. Innovations in the creative minds out there, building the next products for the next user experience. Just thanks for coming inside theCUBE. Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. I'm a CUBE fan. Great to have you. Here at theCUBE alumni, officially now. Join the ranks of over 500 CUBE alums from CEOs to entrepreneurs. We'll be right back with silkenangle.tv theCUBE right after this short break with our next guest.


We're live there. We good? Yep. Awesome. Welcome back, man. Hey, when life throws you challenges, man. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna get through it? Are you gonna try to order it? You're gonna create.  Today's show is about effort. Effort is what defines you. We posted the Ray Lewis video a little bit earlier on our page. You can check that out there. It's a minute and a half, minute 45 seconds. Ray Lewis talking about effort and how effort is what made him different. It wasn't talent, but over 17 years in the lead, effort is what made him different. 15 Pro Bowls or whatever it is. He's gonna talk about effort. He's gonna talk about motivation as the conference, our conference, 8% nation in October. And I'm super excited to see that. Go check out the video that we have on our page from him. But I believe, and what he says is effort can't be judged. You can't judge effort. Effort can't be judged. And effort is just between you and you. It's not between anybody else. It's you and what they're going to do. But you normally know, right? Right? But when things go awry, you know, hey, did I freaking give it all I got? Did I give it everything that I've got? Yeah. Guys, can we move to the board? Yeah. All right, sweet man. All right, so I want to talk a little bit about where effort fits into a couple of different things. If you think about in terms of the X and Y axis and you think about this being what you're passionate about, did you have a better handwriting than me too? Not much. And this being what you're capable of. Okay? And this right here is your potential and your talent. So you got your talent. You got natural talent. You're naturally talented at something, right? Yeah. But where are you going to be on this line when these things intersect? I'm passionate about the 65 Mustangs, but I know how to build this. I'm this good at building an engine. So this is my potential in there, right? But if I learn how to build an engine, how to weld floor boards, how to paint, how to do all that, if I increase my capabilities and my passion stays the same, my passion was right here, then now I'm over here. So now my potential, my success is a little higher. Now my potential is bigger, right? Okay, so you got a couple of different things. You can increase your passion about something, find something that you're passionate about, which will help you sell more, create more revenue, whatever. You'll sell it better, you'll believe that. If you own what you're selling, you're more passionate about it. That's one way to do it, right? Or you can increase your opportunities. Opportunities, you can increase your opportunities, but an opportunity is only as good as what you're capable of. I can buy 1,000 leads, but if I'm not capable of working them, doesn't matter, right? Well, I can be passionate about eventually flying a plane at some point in my life, but if I never actually learn how to fly, then there's never any success, there's never any potential, right? Right, exactly. But here's where effort comes in. Here's where I like the effort thing, the Ray Lewis effort, it's just right here. I'm capable of this right now. Maybe as I get older, I might be capable of a little bit more, but if I push effort, if I create more effort, if I do 10 times what I was doing before, if I learn more, if I read more, if I take more sales training, if I enroll in a coaching with a mentor, then my effort will push my capabilities all the way over, and then you've got the possibility for a lot more success. Don't you guys like that? You gotta like bigger circles, bro. I like bigger circles. A lot more, a lot more, but you've got to be able to be passionate and increase your opportunities. You've got to be, you've got to put in the effort because talent is not enough. You've got to put in the effort to increase your capabilities, right? If you increase your capabilities. Now, word of the day, word of the week for our show is effort. I believe it's effort. I believe we put, I've never seen anybody put in more effort than what you put in, and I'm trying to keep up with that, but if you, those of you that are watching, if you need coaching, if you need training, if you need a script, if you need whatever it is that you need, you just need to be more capable of making more money. If you want to make more money, it is about increasing your opportunities, wherever you've got to increase them, whether it's leads, whether it's meeting with more people, whether it's- Yeah, because you're enthusiastic. Like for, even for me, I learned a really fast example at 19 years old. My enthusiasm and my passion were off with a freaking Richter scale, but I had no sales experience, no clue what I was doing. Now, I had a personality that made up for some mistakes along the way, and then I really dove in and started to learn sales.   Like when you're out and about searching for a product at Best Buy, or you're searching for whatever, and you run into somebody that's passionate about what they're selling, it's obvious and it's hard to not buy from them. Yeah, well, we were at Elite Promotions here in Springfield, Missouri earlier. We're looking at, we're looking at thousands and thousands of polos and bags and- For the conference. Yeah, jackets, all kinds of pop sockets, all kinds of stuff for the 8% Nation Conference. This dude was so passionate about freaking apparel that I'm like, this number one, this dude's nuts, okay, it's a little weird, but I want to be business with that guy. It's not weird to him, he's passionate about it. No, he loves it. He's passionate about it. By the way, if anybody ever asks you to join a nonprofit board, they're tapping into what you're passionate about because you have a heart for the mission and they're tapping into what you're capable of. Whether you can bring more money to the table or you can bring more people to the table or whatever it is. These things, the passion and opportunities, you must figure out a way to increase those on your own. But the one thing that you can control, and that's horrible handwriting, we always will talk about control what you can control. You can control the effort to increase the capabilities. If you increase your capabilities, then this, your green marker is a big square. What if they're watching and they're lacking the passion to give the effort that they know they need? They're struggling to push through because maybe whatever career they're in, maybe it doesn't jazz them up and make them super passionate. I don't know, I'm gonna be doing something that, I mean yeah, people say you wanna do something you love.  Yeah, if you find something you're passionate about. Now, I believe, this is where we talk about self-awareness all the time. I believe the passion exponent today is where we talk about self-awareness because maybe it's that I don't enjoy selling cell phones every day, but I'm passionate about putting my kids through college. So I will find whatever I need to do to do that. Exactly. That's where you find it's self-awareness. What are you passionate about? Because there are things in your life that you're passionate about. Things you spend money on, things you spend time on, things with whatever it is. My Facebook page says spend time today on what's most important. Which is like a huge, but whether it's your kids, whether it's your whatever, spend time today on what's most important, don't let that bite. Self-awareness will get you the awareness of where your passion is. And you can apply that passion to whatever you're doing. Now I believe that if you're selling something, you should be passionate about it for one reason or another. You should believe. The client can feel it. Yeah, you should believe that you're helping the client. And if you don't believe that and if you're faking that, then that'll never work. You have to find and be passionate about it. But really what you can control is self-awareness on the passion side and opportunities. Effort is where you can push. And that's why I think the Ray Lewis story and the way he presents himself and how it really was all effort for him. He wasn't the most talented. He wasn't the biggest, strongest, fastest. It wasn't anything. But nobody outworked him to get that ball. Effort.  That's one of the biggest reasons why you need to be at this conference. Because Ray Lewis is going to tell a story that you do not want to miss. I'm getting chill bumps and goose bumps and tearing up just freaking thinking about it. That dude, that dude gives more effort than anyone you will ever meet. You're gonna love it. And you're gonna learn how to give that much effort. Yeah, and the tickets are next to nothing. Let's just get there. Just go. I mean, we are, where do the week this week is effort? We're gonna have a word of the week every week. That's basically your coupon code for what we're doing. And we're giving away coaching and sales training this week for half off. If they can use the word effort as their coupon code, give us a call A3340 agent. We are doing coaching and training for individual agents. Before yesterday. Before yesterday. We're doing coaching and training for teams. We're going on site. If you want us to come on site, we are passionate about improving and training salespeople no matter what walk of life it is or what sales program it is.  Couldn't you have a lot less stress and go make half a million bucks in the field selling insurance? Oh dude, all day. Probably seven acres, I mean honestly.  I'm passionate about when people get in front of prospects or they talk to prospects, what do they say, what do they do? I'm passionate about the conference because I know it can bring success and improve the statistics of this industry. I'm passionate about, it comes back to it. A lot of people are just passionate about helping others and I think a lot of people are. I think a lot of people in this room are. And I think a lot of people in the next room are. I mean I think that our company is based on a sense of helping others. And we're doing it in sales training, we're doing it in coaching, we're doing it in what we provide for agents, we're doing it on the phone all the time. Let me just tell you something. If you need help doing what you're doing, call one of our business consultants, they're there to help you. I mean, Don will help you through whatever it is you're going through. And he will, it's a truth. He tried been through it, man. It's the truth. He's a good dude. Well, I know we're going to. And we do it effort and we care about people even when the AC's out and it's like 85 degrees in here. Who cares? It is hot, man. The goal is to help people. The goal is to bring effort. Who cares? The ad team's over there filling leader orders like crazy because they're here to help people.  But we're here to help people. We're here to bring effort as Ray Lewis would do, right? Right, right. 100%. We always have that 5% that we're not giving. We're trying to bring 100%. Today we did role-playing. You sold me a color. If you missed that, you need to go back and watch that. I sold him a season. I sold him his frame. Crazy, right? So we also did a question with a question. We're going to have a game like that every week. We're going to have a word of the week for a coupon code every week. Pick your poison as a consistent. This is a show that I think will help you with your sales training, give you ideas on how to make you better tomorrow than you were today. And like I said, if it's a team, you want us to get involved with the team. If it's individuals, just give us a call. We want to help you. We want to help you get better on a consistent basis. So thanks for doing this show today. Thanks for working through it, guys. I know we had some issues. Thank you so much for that. Thanks for allowing me to scribble on the board. If you missed that, go back and watch that. We're going to, the 8% video is on our website. It's on our Facebook page. They can check that out. Make sure you go to the 8% Nation page. We've got a new Facebook page for the conference. I want you to go there and like that for me. That's something you can do for us. If you got value at all. And one more thing. If you're in Nashville, I want to know you. Completely. If you have friends that are in Nashville, please send their contact information to us. We're going to be there. We want to meet as many people as we can. And if you're in Nashville or in the area down there, please give us a shout. Give an email. Dave at SpearAgentMentor.com. Call us at 8-3-3-4, the agent. We want to meet you and we want to see you down there. Let's go! Deal breakers. All right, deal breakers, we have every Wednesday at two o'clock Central Center time. We do something crazy. We do something creative.  And I want those two to be off the Richter scale. Do that for me and be a part of this every Wednesday at two. Appreciate you guys. See you next time.


that said let's begin reading here in Mark chapter 11 I'll begin reading at verse 1 read to verse 11 and we'll be looking at a portion of scripture speaking of Jesus entering Jerusalem. Mark chapter 11 beginning at verse 1 now when they drew near Jerusalem to Bethlehem and Bethany at the Mount of Olives he sent two of his disciples and he said to them go into the village opposite you and as soon as you have entered it you will find a cult tied on which no one has sat loose it and bring it and if anyone says to you why are you doing this say the Lord has need of it and immediately he will send it here so they went their way and found the cult tied by the door outside on the street and they loosed it but some of those who stood there said to them what are you doing loosing the cult they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded so they let them go then they brought the cult to Jesus and threw their clothes on it and he sat on it many spread their clothes on the road others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road then those who went before and those who followed cried out saying Hosanna blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord blessed is the kingdom of our father David that comes in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest and Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple so when he had looked around at all things as the hour was already late he went out to Bethany with the 12 now for those of you who may not be members of this fellowship perhaps this may be the first time you've ever sat in and listened to a study that I give I like to begin by reminding those who are who are with us and listening for the first time that I like to lay a foundation in order for those who perhaps haven't been with us for them to be able to see what's taking place in the order of events and all and that's what I'll do right now I'll share a few things with you remind you of a few things and then get into the study and go to the heart of it so recently as we begin two of his men had made a request of him James and John they had through their mother asked for places of honor in his kingdom and when they had made that request Jesus said that they didn't know what they were asking for you see the cost for such positions was very high and he was asking can you actually pay that kind of price oblivious to what such a request really required they said well yes we can we can do this well to this Jesus answered that the places they desired were not his to give he said his father would determine their places in the kingdom and he went on to once again inform them of his purpose in coming to planet earth he made it clear that he was about to lay down his life as an offering on behalf of all mankind we saw in chapter 10 verse 45 how he had said even the son of man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many now this is what had been prophesied of messiah seven centuries earlier isaia the prophet said messiah would lay down his life for the sin of the world in isaia 53 verse 5 it speaks of of messiah it says he was pierced for our transgressions he was crushed for our inequities the punishment that brought us peace was on him and by his wounds we are healed in verse 10 of isaia 53 he went on to say yet it was the Lord's will to crush him cause him to suffer and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin he will see his offspring and prolong his days and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand well this is the task that he is now on his way to accomplish he had just been in the city of jericho he was now leaving the city and he's traveling 15 miles to jerusalem while he was there in jericho jesus had healed two men of blindness and the result was that the the two men immediately began to follow him and the people who witnessed the miracle when they saw it gave praise to god luke 19 tells us that the healing of the blind man was not all that jesus did in jericho he told us that he also ministered to a small man by the name of zakius zakius was a chief tax collector he was very rich very hated and very short yeah anyway he also saw the crowd and he climbed up a sycamore a fig mulberry tree to see jesus and and the bible tells us that jesus saw him and said he was going to stay with him and was welcomed into the home of zakius well that got many people angry at jesus christ you see him a moment before they were glorifying god and the people were giving praise to god but now when jesus shows compassion and love to someone that they hate they turn on him that's very common by the way is a minister i've had that happen more than once when i don't do what somebody thinks i'm supposed to do on their behalf because they don't like somebody they are very quick to criticize and and turn on you well in luke chapter 19 verse 7 it says when they saw it they all complained that word complained means to murmur greatly saying he's gone to be a guest with a man who's a sinner well the complaint didn't come just from the Pharisees that complaint came from the entire crowd this man had gotten rich off the backs of his own people who was deeply hated but upon spending time with jesus zakius yielded up a great amount of his riches this is what he said he said i i give half of my goods to the poor and if i've cheated any i restore fourfold well what the rich young ruler was unwilling to do zakius showed himself willing to do and in luke 19 verses 9 and 10 jesus said to him today salvation is coming to this house because he also is the son of abraham for the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost jesus came to seek and he came to save the lost and he's on his way to jerusalem to do just that now this is the final week of his life this is the final week of his public ministry this is going to be his last trip into the city of jerusalem this is where he will lay down his life in luke 1333 jesus said it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of jerusalem so jesus is now on his way to complete the task that he had been sent on in Hebrews 10 7 it says then i said behold i have come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do your will oh god well his men are about to see how far loving obedience is really willing to go now this event that we're looking at this entrance into jerusalem is recorded in all four of the gospels it's found here in mark 11 but it's also found in matthew 21 luke 19 and the gospel of john chapter 12 it occurs as mentioned in during his last week and it is his last major public appearance before he died so with that said let's look at the passage in front of us beginning with verse one now when they drew near jerusalem to bethfaje and bethany at the mount of olives he sent two of his disciples and said to them going to the village opposite you and as soon as you have entered it you'll find a cold tide on which no one has sat loose it and bring it and if anyone says to you why are you doing this say the lord is need of it and immediately he will send it here now bethfaje is is actually literally house of figs it was a small village opposite of the city called or village called bethany bethany means house of dates and according to to john chapter 11 verse 8 bethany was located two miles outside of jerusalem we've been through this area many times you actually go into this area when you're about to descend to the garden of gethsemane and so we've been here many times and we've seen the general area that this would have taken place now there's going to be at this time a lot of excitement in the crowd there are pilgrims who've accompanied Jesus from the city of jericho they had seen the healing of the blind men they would have had an enormous high after seeing such a thing when jesus was near bethany many from that village would have also been excited because jesus had recently raised a man by the name of lazars from the dead right there in the city of bethany there would have been a great enthusiasm amongst the people jesus is on his way to jerusalem and they're entering with him and so this is an excited crowd of people who are moving and following after jesus christ they're in an area called the mount of olives they're just east of the city he's there now descending into the city and he's by the small villages again of bethany and bethany now jesus stayed in bethany at the house of a man named simon the leper according to matthew 26 verse 6 and it was at that time that he was given a dinner in his honor and that's when mary had anointed him well this is the next day it's sunday and he has sent his disciples out on an errand notice that verses two and three he tells them to go into the village opposite you as soon as you've entered it you'll find a coltide on which no one has ever sat loose it and bring it if anyone says to you why are you doing this say the lord is need of it immediately he will send it here and so he gives him a gives him a small order if you will he says go into this village now matthew 22 verse 2 adds a detail you're going to find a donkey tied in a colt with her up until this this point jesus had discouraged public honor we know that in mark 144 it records that jesus spoke to a leper that he had cleansed and he said see that you say nothing to anyone but go your way show yourself to the priest and and offer for your cleansing those things which moses commanded as a testimony to them say nothing to anyone he had said in matthew 16 20 matthew tells that that after peter declared jesus the christ the son of the living god that jesus warned the disciples that they should tell no one that he's the christ so he has been saying i don't want this to be spoken of keep this to yourself you see at this time jesus was a marked man he had healed a paralytic on shabbat on the Sabbath and the jewish authorities were determined to kill him and that was common knowledge that thought something they were they were deluded about or imagining according to john 7 verse 1 it says after these things jesus walked in galilee to the north for he did not want to walk in judea which is in the south because the jews sought to kill him well in spite of this danger jesus is about to once again enter the city of jerusalem but before he does so he gives two of his disciples an order notice verse 2 you'll find a cold tide on which known as sat lucid and bring it well he sends him on this errand because his enemies are plotting to take him prisoner again in john 11 57 both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone knew where he was he should report it that they might seize him well jesus is aware of the danger he has no fear concerning it in luke 12 verse 50 he said i have a baptism to undergo on what constraint i am under until it is completed i have a baptism to undergo and i'm under great pressure to complete it somebody said it was not that he wanted the influencing of the heart of judas to betray him the heart of pilot to condemn him or the hearts of the wicked jewish leaders to accuse condemn and crucify him he desired these events for the manifestation of the glory of his father and the redemption of the world by him so his calm in the face of danger should have inspired his followers that's what happens when you keep calm in the face of danger it inspires people to confidence and calmness too i've shared this in the past but we were on a plane we were flying home from israel and as we're approaching the east coast we're up there to the northeast we're entering into the city or the state of new york well we hit some real rough conditions they were so rough that people in the plane were beginning to to cry out you could hear people raising their voices in fear crying i i turned and looked behind me and my my daughter karen who was about 15 at the time and her friend amy were right behind us and they were holding hands and they were singing praise songs and for me i thought well if it takes this to get you to sing to jesus i'm cool with it but they were really panicking you know i'm trying to encourage you to go to israel this is what you can see anyway as i think about it but that happened and as it's happening there they're if you ever go to israel you you'll know that there are there are times that there are certain groups of jewish people who are believers orthodox especially who really don't want much to do with you at all because you are you are what they call goi you're goyim you're of the nations you're you're pagans in their site so they really they really don't have much in to connect with you about they really don't want you singing with them when they sing in things like that you'll notice that when you go that's just the way they are they don't want that kind of interaction with you but here we are on the plane and they're coming up to people so our people are saying come into the back and pray with us that's how scared they were and so people our people many are going into the back of the plane in their plane and and all and all of this is take place and the masks begin to fall from the ceiling for oxygen i mean it was pretty serious but as i was there i picked up a magazine and i was reading it kind of calmly just reading and as i did so we went through i prayed you know lord whatever you know it's up to you so i might as well read this and so i was doing that well anyway we landed and everything obviously is safe here i am and we made it but my daughter korean who was 15 at the time says to me dad i have to ask you a question i said why why weren't you afraid i said baby i said because i know that the lord isn't through with our church god isn't through with our church and i know that she said did it never occur to you that he doesn't need you to finish what he wants to do in our church i said well i know not at the moment i'm glad i didn't think it was on the plane just a couple of years ago my daughter ana who was also on the flight with us said to me dad do you remember and i said yes she said i wasn't afraid either i said really baby she said no daddy i wasn't afraid either she says you know why and i said why is that she said i was watching you she said as i watched you i knew that if you got afraid there's a reason for me to be afraid but when i saw that you were calm she said that helped to keep my heart calm see leaders are intended to bring calmness into people's lives they're not intended to stir them up to anger and frustration or fear leaders are intended to bring calmness to hearts and jesus entering into the city of jerusalem in the way he was doing it should have brought confidence to the heart of those who were with him as he was about to enter in and this is what's taking place and so he gives this very simple order notice verse two again either go into the village opposite you as soon as you have entered it you'll find a cold tide and which no one is that loose it and bring it to me very simple order not too difficult to obey you see obedience to the simple commands reveals a movement towards maturity in the lord it's the small things that the lord wants us to be obedient in because like it says in luke 16 verse 10 the one who is faithful in what is least is also faithful in what is much if you can be trusted in the small things you will be trustworthy in the greater ones and so go you have a simple command go and do this is what Jesus is saying to them and then he says look at it if anyone verse three says to you why are you doing this say the lord is need of it and immediately he'll send it here so somebody asks the questions question was this prearranged and and there are those who believe yes that it was a prearranged kind of thing because of Jesus entering in wanting not to attract things attention to himself they could have very well been prearranged and all and he had made comments and this is your way to get this this done I believe that in doing so it would have safeguarded his men the owner of the animals would have been his disciple and he would have immediately released to them these beasts so he says if anyone says to you why are you doing this say the lord has need of it now I want to talk to you for just a moment about that that's an interesting phrase why are you doing this and they do ask them that they say why are you doing this why are you in losing these animals all you need to do is to tell them this the lord has need of it when he speaks of the lord the lord is a way of speaking of the one who owns all things the proprietor of all things has need of it he has need of the donkey and the cult now that that phrase the lord has need of it is interesting the word need in the original language speaks of necessity duty or business it's humbling when we realize that God actually needed something from us you see God uses what we offer him to perform his amazing works in order for his work to be done there are those who give him aid in order that it might be performed by saying the lord has need of it we get the idea that the man is one of Jesus's followers and that would have been done quickly because the man is one of his disciples now again notice how mark says the lord has need of it in scripture we see many examples of the lord needing something for example the lord needed water pots so he could turn water into wine for wedding guests the lord needed a boat so he could preach and he asked peter for the use of his boat and he turned peter's boat into a pulpit the lord needed a drink of water so he asked us a maritan woman for a drink the lord needed fish and bread so he could miraculously feed multitudes the lord needed a garden called gethsemane so he could rest and he could pray the lord needed a tomb to be buried in and it was provided for him by joseph and so there are things that the lord makes use of that we offer to him things that he needs it says that he'll send it back immediately he'll send it back this is saying that that jesus will use it but will return it after using it in the same way that he only needed to use the tomb that was lent to him for a very short time now why did he need the cult in order to fulfill a prophecy that was made in 520 before christ by a prophet named zechariah all this was done that it might be fulfilled would be spoken by the prophet saying tell the daughter of zion behold your king is coming to you lowly and sitting on a donkey a cult the full of a donkey so as in his entrance to jewsland he's fulfilling this prophecy 520 plus years before now i want to develop this with you we need to remember that jesus's life in ministry fulfilled god's word jesus came to fulfill the old testament prophecies concerning messiah and his first coming in matthew 517 do not think that i've come to abolish the law or the prophets i haven't come to abolish them but to fulfill them when zechariah is told tell the daughter of zion well zion is another way of speaking of jerusalem jerusalem is called zion in scripture psalm 48 verses 1 and 2 great is the lord greatly to be praised in the city of our god in the mountain of his holiness beautiful for situation the joy of the whole earth is mount zion on the sides of the north the city of the great king so this is a prophecy that relates to zion or jerusalem and so they go there to fulfill that prophecy now it says in verse four they went their way and found the cult tied by the door outside on the street and they loosed it but some of those who stood there said to them what are you doing loosing the cult and they spoke to them just as jesus had commanded so they let them go so they found that cult tied outside of a door by the street they unloosed it they were asked that question why are you loosing the cult they gave the answer jesus applied upon hearing the response the men let them take them he wrote on a donkey now why did he do that he wrote on a donkey because it represented his humble and gentle rule see it was a symbol at that time of peace and nobility in the book of judges in the old testament chapter five verses nine and ten it says my heart is with the princes of israel with the volunteers among the people bless the lord you who ride white donkeys who sit on saddle blankets and you who also travel the road so this was a a symbol of peace and nobility so when a king would arrive on a donkey it was a time of peace but when a king rode on a a horse well we need to remember that horses were used for war during the reign of salomon horses from egypt were imported so i'll salomon could use it for warfare and a king coming in war would normally do so on a horse that's why revelation 1911 says i saw heaven opened behold a white horse he who sat on him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war you see jesus at this time is bringing peace and he's doing so with humility the cult that he wrote on was unbroken it had never been ridden that helps us to understand that it was reserved for sacred use it it was demonstrating something of christ it was demonstrating his lordship over all creation you see an unbroken animal isn't going to yield but this one did it was reserved for sacred use and so jesus sat on it and that's why that little animal received him and when you read your bible you'll notice certain things it's interesting how an unbroken animal yielded to the lord without resistance but you also see that demons did and fevers did and blindness did leprosy did paralysis did even death itself yielded to jesus's command nature yielded to his commands in matthew 827 it tells us that even the winds in the sea obey him so demons and illness and nature yields to him but men refuse to one other thing that we can learn from the story is this if god can use even the most humble and lowly creature for his great glory how might he use you if you're willing imagine that what could god do with a willing vessel in a sense it would be almost like him saying i have need of you you see we we worship the invisible god and how are people on the face of the earth going to recognize the reality of his rule if they don't see the reality of his rule in his subjects and so when he's when people see us living for god the living lives that are obvious tangible they're visible and there are reasons that we live in such a way people will have an understanding that there is a god in heaven who does lord over the lives and and these people are his subjects and so in many ways the lord uses us even to this day there was a very famous statue in a small village in in the nation of paris after world war two it was seen that there was a statue of jesus that they had put in in a courtyard there in the square but the the hands of the statue were missing because when when the city had been bombed it was damaged done to everything around and the damage actually removed the hands of this this statue that was portraying jesus and and so people approached the villagers after uh had never been repaired and asked the question why have you never replaced the hands of jesus and the towns people said because we have come to realize that in many ways we are his hands and so we live as his hands and that's a good way to think about it that that the lord would use you in many ways as his hands he can use you as his mouth as you speak he can use you as his feet as you go for him to preach the gospel and so the lord jesus christ is is is giving to them this understanding and and uh that's how it's going to work in the future well it says they they brought the cult to jesus first seven and threw their clothes on it and sat on it many spread their clothes on the road others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road those who went before and those who followed cried out saying hosanna blessed it is he who comes in the name of the lord blessed it is the kingdom of our father david that comes in the name of the lord hosanna in the highest jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple so when he had looked around at all things as the hour was already late he went out to bethany with the 12 so what they do is they basically bring it back to him the cult and they make a cushion for him to sit so he's not uncomfortable and as this is taking place verse 8 tells us that many spread their clothes on the road others cut down leafy branches so they spread their outer garments as a sign of honor and submission they placed very small branches and twigs before him to form a carpet and notice it says and and those who went before and those followed cried out saying hosanna so when you combine the different accounts you can see that there are actually two crowds that are converging you have a crowd coming from Jerusalem to meet them as others are descending from the mount of olives in john 12 verses 12 and 13 it says on the next day much people that were come to the feast when they they heard that jesus was coming to Jerusalem took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried hosanna blessed is the king of israel that comes in the name of the lord luke 1937 says he was now drawing near the descent of the mount of olives the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise god with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen so the crowd is excited and their excitement i want to develop this with you seems to be really localized on his mighty works now recently jesus had healed the two blind men and many had been there when he had done so and then jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead and that had caused many to believe in him he had been in a tomb for four days and during that day there was a tradition of belief that that you would know he was certainly dead by the fourth day and that's why when jesus said remove the stone there at the at the grave of Lazarus that's why they said it has been four days by now the rot has taken place he's he's decaying he stinks and jesus wanted to make sure that they knew for an absolute fact that he was dead before he raised him to life and so when he did so the crowd that was there watching this it just blew their minds i mean of course it would if something like that took place and and they're just enthusiastic so you have a crowd from jericho and this crowd from jericho had seen jesus healing the blind men and then you have those in bethany who knew that Lazarus was an inhabitant of that village a well-known one a wealthy one on top of that and they they knew that he had raised this man from the dead so the combination of the two those those miracles had gotten their attention and and now they're saying save now the word hozana means save now and they're calling him messiah and so this large crowd is is is actually exuberant about this in john 12 verses 9 through 11 it says a large crowd of jesus found out that jesus was there in bethany and came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead so the chief priest made plans to kill Lazarus as well for an account of him many of the jews were going over to jesus and believing in him so at this point i'm going to spend a few moments with you considering what is taking place there are people who are excited at jesus's entrance and they're especially caught up with his miracles healing the blind man men and raising Lazarus impacted them and miracles do that kind of thing this is part of the reason that jesus performed miracles the miracle would draw attention miracle signs and wonders a miracle is something supernatural that only god himself can do wonder is the response to it you have wonder and all signs point you somewhere and so when you read the scriptures miracle signs and wonders that gives you insight into what that means the miracles were with were things that only god himself could do only god could raise the dead and wonder the people would be amazed at that and the sign was appointed jesus christ and so jesus never did miracles just for attention jesus did miracles to draw people to have faith in him that's why he performed these miracles it gave them a possibility of giving him his their attention and that gave to jesus the opportunity to preach the message now in the gospel of john 531 through 39 jesus gave various testimonies of who he is he spoke of john the baptist testimony he spoke of the father's testimony of him and he then he gave another testimony of who he was it's found in john 538 and 39 where jesus said you do not have his word abiding in you because whom he sent him you do not believe he went on to say you search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they which testify of me as amazing and wonderful as the signs and wonders were they could not save people miracles were intended to reveal god's presence with them to draw their attention but what saved them would be believing the message that was found in scripture that's why jesus would do miracle demonstrating the kingdom of god is present amongst them when he'd heal the sick it's because there are no sick in heaven when he raised the dead there are no dead in heaven when he healed the blind there are no blind in heaven when he touched the ears of the deaf there are no deaf in heaven you know there are no lepers in heaven there are no paralyzed people in heaven so he did that to show that the kingdom of god is present in him to draw their attention and then when he would do it and they would come with this this wonder in this awe he would tell them what life is he would tell him how to have life and so that's what the gospels intended to do before i got saved i was a typical kid in many ways one of the things as an unbeliever that i actually did believe is this i don't want to develop this with you because i'm going to show you something here in scripture in just a moment but i you know today we have people say well i can't believe that how can i believe the bible bible is just written by some man you know what there's why do you believe it well here here's here was my reasoning first as a non-believer and then i'll give you something else as a non-believer i thought no wait a minute if there's such a thing as god and i believe that there was if there's such a thing as god then god cannot be limited because it just makes sense to me that if there's one called god he would have to be all powerful he'd have to be all knowing he'd even have to be all present he'd have to be above his creation beyond his creation in such a way that creation itself couldn't reach him so god would have to reach creation why because his ways i find out later reading scripture are his ways are past finding out he has to reveal himself but as a a non-believer i said if there's a god this god could do whatever this god wants to do what's amazing thing about this god is that the god that we serve isn't the god that i would have thought would have been in existence why because we live in a system where the mightier have a tendency of hurting the lesser the stronger have a way of dominating the weaker and yet the scriptures the opposite this great god who created all things loves the weaker ones and actually Jesus served wash their feet didn't make any sense but if we have a god and if there's such a thing as god i thought as a 20 year old then why wouldn't it be possible for this god to communicate why wouldn't he and i already knew that idols didn't well it's like what the psalmist said i found later reading scripture the psalmist said eyes they have they cannot see ears they have they cannot hear mouths they have they cannot speak noses they have they cannot smile hands they have they cannot reach out legs they have feet they have they cannot walk and those who make them are like them they're dead wooden idols with no life in them and those who worship them are dead inside also that's what the bible says and it's true so i had people saying how can you believe the bible well i'm thinking well why can't you what kind of god do you worship that can't communicate what kind of god do you worship that can't make his will known what kind of god is that that's not a god that's a man that's a person but the god that we serve makes his ways known to us that made sense so i was you know i a lot of people believe in miracles i believe that there were weird things that were going on you can't explain i believe that as a non-believer things that you just kind of put into the category of wow that's weird but nothing beyond that and then i got saved and when i got saved i got saved because of the preaching of the gospel a message that unveiled my heart like the woman at the well who said come and hear a man who told me all things i've ever done can this be messiah because when the word of god is taught and god's holy spirit is working sometimes it unveils our heart before our own eyes we see ourselves we might even get mad we might even reject how dare you all you're so judgmental why because your heart is being revealed that's what happens god is opening up your heart the word of god is the discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart it's like a surgeon scalpel dividing a sun your soul and spirit so that he can reveal what's inside of it that's what the word of god does see that's how it works and so one of the things that we as Christians need to remember is we have something no other quote unquote religious philosophy has on the face of the earth we have prophecy why because we have a god who can tell you the end from the beginning we have a god who prophesies who tells us what's going to take place and Jesus Christ in his life he literally fulfilled no less than 300 specific prophecies concerning messiah conservatively his manner of birth his place of birth his lineage his entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey his betrayal his manner of death the place of burial they weren't fulfilled by chance or by coincidence the scripture gave testimony hundreds of years before the fact and Jesus uniquely fulfilled these ancient prophecies as a professor peter w stoner i had a lot of friends who were stoners but peter w stoner he was a chairman of the department of mathematics and astronomy at pasadena city college and chairman of the science division at westmont christian college and he published a book entitled science speaks and he gave the mathematical probability of one person fulfilling just one rather just eight of the clearest messianic prophecies the mathematical probability of one person fulfilling just eight of the clearest messianic prophecies and he found that the chance of one man fulfilling just eight of the prophecies was one in ten to the 17th power i don't know what that means so i i looked it up okay what comes after a million a billion what comes after a billion a trillion i'm lost but what comes after a trillion and i looked a quadrillion okay i just used the word i don't get but this is what he did he said peter stoner pointed this out he said cover the entire state of texas think for a moment that is the largest state outside of alaska that we have some of you have driven through it and takes hours some of you have flown over it it takes hours it's huge right a huge it just sounded like trump it's huge really huge it's a huge state but anyway stoner but anyway cover the entire state of texas with silver dollars to a level to a level of two feet the entire state try to i can't imagine but try the entire the entire state to a level of two feet silver dollars take one silver dollar and mark it with an x fly over the state throw it in the air it lands somebody goes and shuffles all the coins and buries it two feet blindfold somebody send him out across the border in texas and tell him find the marked silver dollar the chances of him finding or her finding that marked silver dollar is the same chances that jesus would have fulfilled just eight of those prophecies that's what that says jesus fulfilled over 300 we have a god who tells us what's going to happen before it does and that's the god that we worship so yeah you can do that i i heard one hand this the sound of one hand clapping i heard it these people are not crying out for salvation the word hozana save now blessed as he who comes in the name of the lord blessed is the kingdom of our father david they're not crying out for salvation they're crying out for salvation from roman rule they're not asking for the messiah they're asking for deliverance because they hated the oppressive roman government how do we know that well many of those voices that are crying out save now are going to be saying in a week crucify him they were not crying out for salvation they're crying out to be pulled out the circumstances they're in and there are a lot of people like that i've known them in the past and all i need god i need god help me god help me god i need god i believe in you god i'll do whatever you say god help me i i don't want to go to jail help me god i don't want to go through this help me god and then if they get delivered yeah they go right back to what they were doing right back to it like the dog returning to the vomit why is that because they weren't sincere and that's what's going on here you know it's a festive time it's a it's a parade we're part of it you know these two blind men had been healed of blindness this dead man is is alive oh save now deliver us from roman oppression well luke records something gives us insight now close with this in luke 19 verses 41 through 44 it says as he drew near he saw the city and wept over it saying if you had known even you especially in this your day the things that make for your peace but now they are hidden from your eyes for days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you surround you close you in on every side level you and your children within you to the ground and they will not leave in you one stone upon another because you did not know the time of your visitation when jesus there and he's looking down at the city he's about to descend and enter into he stops and luke tells us and he wept one of the things about the lord jesus christ that that i've gotten into my heart is the knowledge that he was able to weep over a friend Lazarus when he was at Lazarus's grave the easiest verse in scripture and it is two words jesus wept and then luke tells us here in chapter 19 he says he wept over a city if you want to be used by the lord you need to learn to weep not only for your nation and not only for your city but you need to learn to weep for an individual too that's where real change begins to take place and that's what's happening jesus is looking at the city and he says if you'd have known if only you'd have known this your day he says but you didn't know notice the time of your visitation that word visitation is a greek word that speaks of an investigation it speaks of a close inspection the definition of this word is it is the act by which god looks into and searches out the ways deeds and character of men in order to judge them properly now wait a minute how could they have known the time of their visitation is it just because he had been there for those three years and all is that what he's speaking of well sir robert anderson wrote the coming prince another brother by the name of herald honer wrote the chronological aspects of the life of christ and they give us insight into into this when they have when they were researching the book of daniel when you read daniel 9 24 through 27 daniel have what is called daniel 70 weeks prophecy and it says 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city to finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring in everlasting righteousness to seal up vision and prophecy to anoint the most holy know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and build jerusalem until messiah the prince there shall be seven weeks and 62 weeks you add those together those are 69 weeks the street shall be built again and the wall even in troublesome times after the 62 weeks messiah shall be cut off but not for himself and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary the end of it shall be with the flood until the end of the war of desolation until the end war desolations are determined then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week but in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice an offering and on the wing of abomination shall there be one who makes desolate even until the consummation which is determined is poured out on the desolate okay i'll close with this daniel prophesied that 70 weeks were determined to accomplish specific things one was to finish the transgression to finish the transgression speaks of ending jewish apostasy for the for the jewish nation to receive messiah when he arrives also to make an end of sin to completely deal with it which is what jesus accomplished on the cross third is to make reconciliation which again was accomplished in jesus christ second carinthians 519 it says that that god was in christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses to them committed to us the word of reconciliation fourth to bring in everlasting righteousness and that occurs when jesus rules and reigns then to seal up vision and prophecy which are no longer necessary because everything's been completed and then to anoint the most holy jesus as his reign in his reign as messiah so sir robert anderson's coming prince points something out that helps us understand this is what he wrote concerning daniel's 70 weeks he treated the 70 the number 70 as weeks of years because when he looked at the weeks as literal days and weeks there were 490 days and nothing occurred so he went to the jewish method of the Sabbath rest which would be actually weeks of years in leviticus 25 3 and 4 it says six years you shall show so your field six years you shall prune your vineyard gather its fruit but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land a Sabbath to the Lord you shall neither so your field nor prune your vineyard so what he did is he went with the weeks of years the commander restore and build Jerusalem is found in the book of neomia chapter 2 verse 5 it came through a king named artxerxes and the date is in history march 14th 445 bc so the prophecy speaks of 69 weeks of years anderson took 69 multiplied it by seven representing the days of the week he then multiplied it by 360 days of the jewish calendar and included what we call leap years he ended up with 173 880 days and he began counting back from this date march 14th and he arrived at after counting 173 880 days he arrived at april 6th ad 32 which is also known as palm sunday the day that jesus entered into jerusalem and that's why jesus said if you didn't know this day your day they missed the day of visitation and that's why jesus weeps over the city they didn't know as he entered into the city what we call palm sunday they didn't know that was their surprise investigation daniel 925 spoke of seven weeks and 62 weeks combined to 69 weeks and then daniel 926 went on to say after the 62 weeks messiah will be cut off that spoke of jesus's death on our behalf they didn't recognize their day of visitation and jesus wept because of it they didn't recognize a messiah though they had been prepared to receive him and the result was the destruction of jerusalem under titus of rom the 70th week is the week that occurs in what is called the seven-year tribulation those 69 weeks were fulfilled when jesus entered in and matthew 21 10 11 it says when he had come into jerusalem all the city was moved saying who is this the multitude said this is jesus the prophet from nazareth of galilee he was not simply a prophet he was messiah but they didn't know that and what does he do verse 11 jesus went into jerusalem into the temple when he had looked around at all things as the hour was already late he went out to bethany with the 12th we'll be picking this up next time but as he looked around he saw that they were still doing the sinful things that he had cleansed that temple of three years earlier but the hour was late the hour is late in many ways father we ask