What does it mean to be a friend of the Holy Spirit? It is the Holy Spirit who helps us to worship more sincerely, study the Word of God more deeply, pray more powerfully, live more righteously, and various other things. And I believe that today, as you hear about how to cultivate a friendship with the Holy Spirit of God, that your life is going to be transformed. It is my prayer that as you watch this program today, that as you join in for this edition of Spirit Church, that the presence of God would invade the room, the very surroundings that you have around you right now, and that you would experience the manifested presence of the Holy Spirit in a way that you've never experienced it before. I pray that this broadcast today draws you closer to the person of the Holy Spirit. And by doing so, tap into the greater level of divine power that God wants to place on your life for your call for such a time as this. Stephen Moctezuma is here with me as usual. He's going to lead you in some worship that we're going to come right back and get into this lesson on friendship with the Holy Spirit, where I'm going to be teaching you on how to cultivate that Holy Spirit friendship for your life. Well, I pray that you enjoyed that worship. And like I said, we're going to be talking today about how you can cultivate a friendship with the person of the Holy Spirit. I'll never forget what happened to me when I first discovered that the Holy Spirit is not a thing, an object, or a force, but a person. It was life transforming. And since that day, I've experienced the depths of God in ways I never thought I could. And so I pray that today, as we get into this message, that not only would you be drawn closer to the person of the Holy Spirit, not only would you be given a greater understanding of the depths of God, but that you would experience the manifested presence of the Holy Spirit in a very special way. I believe some of you while watching this are going to sense the Spirit of God around you. You know, I don't believe in accidents. I believe that you're watching this right now because God has appointed you to watch this teaching right at this very moment. My prayer for you was simple. And it was God lead everyone who needs to be led to this teaching today for such a time as this. And I really do believe this. I'll say this because this is something that's been on my heart. I believe that the church is getting ready to shift into a greater awareness of the Holy Spirit of God, such as we've never seen before. You've heard of things like the Azusa Street revival, the revival in Florida. You've heard of, you know, the outpourings of the Holy Spirit that have visited this nation and other nations of the world throughout church history. And I believe that we're coming into something that is like unto the charismatic movement, a new move of the Holy Spirit where such a time as this, there's been somewhat of a spiritual vacuum that has been created. In other words, you're not hearing much talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, about the fire of God, about the depths of prayer. We hear a lot about success and positive thinking and fulfilling your dreams. And none of those things are wrong in and of themselves. But I believe that God is bringing a greater demonstration of his supernatural aspects to the church in the coming season. And I believe that this message today could very well be pivotal, because perhaps God wants to use your life. Maybe there's someone watching me right now who God wants to use your life to help usher in this new move of the Holy Spirit. Now, when I say new move of the Holy Spirit, I simply mean fresh. Of course, God doesn't change. His word doesn't change. The gospel message doesn't change. But what we're coming into is definitely going to be fresh. It's going to renew people. And I believe it's going to result in a great harvest of souls all around the world. So having said that, I'm starting to teach things on the Holy Spirit again. You know, at the beginning of last year for the first six months or so, I was just focusing on teachings on the Holy Spirit. And today we're getting back to that focus again. So the scripture says this in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23. You've heard that man has a body, a soul, and a spirit. And the scripture actually does teach this. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, verse 23 says this. Now, may the God of peace make you holy in every way. And may your whole spirit in soul and body be blameless until the Lord Jesus Christ comes again. This scripture in Thessalonians spells out for us very clearly that man is trifold, just as God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So man is body, soul, and spirit. Your identity, however, rests not in your body or your soul. Your identity is based in the spirit. So you are a spirit who has a soul that lives in a body. Your body is very obvious what your body is. Your body is the physical connection with the world in which you live right now.  It's not really you. It's not really who you are entirely, but it's a representative of you here in this realm of the world. So you have a body which interacts with the physical world around you, and you have a soul. So your body is your physical being.  Your spirit is your divine connection with God. This is what it means to have inner fellowship. We don't have fellowship with the Holy Spirit in body, though according to 1 Corinthians 6 verse 19, that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. We don't have fellowship with God in our soul, though God does save our souls, affect our souls, impact our souls, transform our souls. We have fellowship with the Holy Spirit in the very deepest parts of who we are. It's spirit to spirit communication. In fact, the book of 1 Corinthians actually spells this out very clearly for us. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse number 10, the scripture says this, but it is to us that God revealed these things by his spirit, for his spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit. And no one can know God's thoughts except God's own spirit. And we have received God's spirit, not of the world spirit, so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. So it's talking about a very deep knowing of who God is. So the Holy Spirit knows God better than we can. The scripture asks, who can know you better than your own spirit? Who can know the innermost parts of yourself other than you? So just as your spirit knows you more deeply than anyone else, so the Holy Spirit of God knows God more deeply than anyone else, and it is this fellowship, our spirit with God's spirit, this communion that we call the inner fellowship that is constantly taking place. So even when you're going about your day, even when you're not even thinking about the Holy Spirit or God or the things of God or the scripture, even when your mind is not given to those things, there is this fellowship that takes place in another realm entirely that is ongoing 24-7. It's a very deep, it's a very real, it's a very strong connection that you have with your Creator. And it is living from this place of inner fellowship that causes true spirituality. Some people live their lives focused on what's happening in the physical realm. They look at their health, they look at the bank account, they look at their relationships, they look at their car, they look at their house, they look at everything going on around them, and they judge their standing in the world by the physical realm. Some live in their soul and they live from the place of the soul. They judge everything based upon how they're feeling, what they're thinking, what is going on inside of them, what they want to do, what their desires are, what their will is. And then there are those who are led by the Spirit, who walk with the Spirit, who cultivate a deep inner fellowship with the Holy Spirit, who live from a place of inner fellowship with God. And the one who lives from the inner place cannot be affected by what happens in the outer world. In other words, if I'm living in the Spirit, if I'm living consciously aware of the reality of the Spirit, if I'm living from a place of cultivating that inner fellowship with God, if I'm drawing my source, my sustenance, my strength, my joy, my peace, my clarity of mind, if I'm drawing guidance and direction from the inner man, there's nothing that happens on the outside that can affect what God wants to do with me. You know, the scripture talks about how we are oppressed but we're not crushed, we're persecuted but we're not abandoned, we're struck down but we're not destroyed, why is that? Because we can be pressed in this realm but we can never be crushed in the inner man. We can be persecuted in body and in soul, physical and psychological resistance from the world. But we can never really be abandoned because we are constantly in fellowship with God. And though you strike the body down, who I am, the Spirit can never be destroyed. And it is this fellowship, this inner place that the Christian is called to live from, to draw from, to be aware of, and God is calling you into this. You know, when I first began to serve the Lord, I read many books of many great men and women of God and you'll know this and I don't talk about it often because I personally don't like to be a name-dropper or anything like that. But you know, if anyone who's observed this ministry or watched our videos or watched our teachings, you'll notice that we draw some inspiration from some very key figures. I mean, I was very inspired growing up by Oral Roberts and Catherine Coleman and Benny Hinn and I watched the impact that Ms. Coleman had on Pastor Benny's life, but I'll never forget what happened when I read this book by Pastor Benny Hinn called Good Morning Holy Spirit and that was the first time that I realized that the Holy Spirit, who I had up until that point thought of as a force or an object, you know, we say Holy Spirit and we think of all of these misconceptions that are cultivated in our own minds because of maybe church lingo or culture. I had thought of the Holy Spirit as that sensation you feel during worship, as the goosebumps you get during a good sermon, as the power that would heal the sick or cast out devils or make people fall slain in the spirit under the power of God. Now, those are expressions and manifestations of the Holy Spirit. They are not in and of themselves the Holy Spirit. And I know we often say it, that the Holy Spirit is a person, not a thing. And you may amen it emphatically. You may respond in the affirmative, that's right. He's not a thing. He's a person, yet we fail on many points to cultivate that. And I read that Pastor Benny's book. I watched it in videos of Catherine Coleman, the way she talked about the Holy Spirit. She enjoyed this very nearness of God and she enjoyed being aware of his presence at all times. You could tell the Holy Spirit and Miss Coleman were very close. And I was having dinner with a couple who, a very old couple, as far as, you know, relatively speaking, way master, they've seen a lot throughout the ages of the church, you know, church history in the times that we've passed over in this century. And they knew Catherine Coleman personally. And I would sit and talk with this couple. And they told me all sorts of wonderful things about her. And one of the things he, one of the things a gentleman I was having dinner with said about Catherine Coleman, that really stood out to me. He says, he said, she wasn't, she didn't try to be spiritual. She was spiritual. It's who she was. And no one could deny that. And I looked at men and women of God like that growing up. I thought, Lord, what is it about that person where there's something very special on their being? And when they talk, there's this charisma. There's this magnetism to their expression. There's this depth to their words. And I would listen to them. I would watch them very closely. And I said, Lord, what do they have with you? I'm missing something. And it wasn't until I connected with this person, the Holy Spirit. And I realized that I could know him, not know of him, that I could know him very closely, very nearly, that I could become friends with the Holy Spirit.  And to this day, I'm still living from the benefits of that revelation. It has changed my entire being, my thinking, my mannerisms, my teaching, my preaching, my ministry. Everything about me has changed when I at 11 years old realized that this person, the Holy Spirit, could be known. And so I'm very passionate about helping people connect with the Holy Spirit. So this is the idea now. I want to give you just a few very practical keys that you can use to draw nearer to the Holy Spirit and how you, and if you do these things, not only will you be drawn nearer, but he'll begin to trust you with greater, greater levels of revelation. He'll be able to put his power on your life because he can trust you. You know, he only anoints the people he can trust. And the Holy Spirit, you hear it said, it's very cliche to say many theologians say, but it's true. The Holy Spirit is a gentleman. And I believe that the Holy Spirit is a classy being. And so we're going to talk a little bit about that today, but I want to give you keys here. Now, you often hear it said that to draw closer to God, and this is true. You need to read your Bible, you need to pray, and you need to worship, prayer, Bible reading and worship. Those three things are wonderful. I've taught about them often. I teach a lot about prayer. I teach a lot about devotion and what I teach sometimes on worship. And all three of those things do draw as close and all three of those things do cultivate this friendship with the Holy Spirit, but it is so much bigger than that. It is so much larger than that. It is so much more every day than that. In fact, it's very practical developing this friendship. So I'm going to give you real quickly here, five keys to drawing closer to the Holy Spirit or appreciating that friendship or making a stronger connection with that friendship than ever before. So number one, we need dependency on the Holy Spirit. Now this has to do with involving him. The scripture says that it's not by power nor by might, but it's by my spirit says the Lord. Acts chapter one, verse eight says, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. Jesus talked in John chapter 14 about a comforter who would come and who would teach us and guide us in all truth and remind us of the things that Christ has taught as well as give us revelation moving forward. And so we need to realize, first of all, that this dependency on the Holy Spirit has to come back to us. I'm telling you, too much is done based on man's intellect, man's planning, man's ideas, and this is all well and good. God wants us to get involved with planning. God wants us to be organized. God wants us to do excellent ministry. God wants us to carry out his plan, the spreading of the Gospel for the global salvation of all mankind through practical means and through orderly means and systematic efforts. Yes, but we cannot forget that if it is absent of the Holy Spirit's power, then it's mere social work. That's all it is. If you think the Gospel is all about feeding the poor, which that's part of it. If you think the Gospel is all about taking care of orphans and widows, the Gospel is all, I'm telling you, that's not it. Here's the problem. And I'm all for those actions.  So I'm all for doing things that have very practical effects. Jesus talked about giving someone water and you're receiving their reward, visiting people in prison, taking care of the widows, taking care of the orphans, taking care of your, those in need, the hungry, the naked and all those. Those are all well and good. But I'm telling you that many people trying to make the Gospel more palatable to the modern world, trying to make it seem because in their minds it's not as relevant to the world as it should be, trying to make Christianity more relevant, the focus has become meeting the needs of men here on earth. I'm all for social justice. I'm all for humanitarian projects. I'm all for the well-being of humanity and taking care of your fellow citizen. I'm all for community projects and whatnot. There's nothing wrong with that. But let me tell you something. It does you no good to feed the hungry if his soul is on its way to hell. It does you no good to clothe the naked if they put on their clothes or comforted and have no reconciliation with God. It'll do you no good if you rescued all the sex slaves and you housed all of the homeless people if they do not have a home in heaven. It does you no good to work here in the earth to better man's temporary situation if you are not giving him the power of eternal life.  What good will it be to clothe the naked today though they'll be cast into the lake of fire? The gospel is not about those humanitarian projects. Those are simply tools to help us get out the greatest message. The main priority of the gospel is the saving of souls. Why am I bringing that up? Because we cannot forget the supernatural element of our work here in the earth. Either it counts for eternity or it counts for nothing. And it is only by the Holy Spirit that you can change the destiny of man's eternity. It is only by the Holy Spirit that a heart can be turned toward Christ in repentance from sin. It is only by the Holy Spirit that when someone comes and hears the gospel message that they are convicted of their sin to the point where they turn from it and turn toward righteousness and holiness and they connect with God and they find peace with their Creator.  So we must come back to the place if we are to become friends of the Holy Spirit, not just in our ministries but also in our personal lives. We need to become dependent upon the Holy Spirit again. Let me tell you something. We this is the problem. If the Holy Spirit were to leave some of our churches, many of us would not notice because much of what we do does not rely upon his power. I'm going to say that again. Many of us would not notice the absence of the Holy Spirit in our churches because much of what we do is not reliant upon his power. And unless it relies upon the Holy Spirit's power, it is of no effect in the long term. And if it is no effect in the long term, it is no real effect or impact at all. If it doesn't count for eternity, it doesn't count at all. And so we need to become dependent on the Holy Spirit. We need to become broken and understand that without him, we are desperate. Without his presence empowering our very being, we are helpless to even live this Christian life. Here's the truth. Not only could you not pray without the Holy Spirit, not only could you not live holy without the Holy Spirit, not only could you not preach the gospel without the Holy Spirit, but you would have no desire to do any of those things.  You know something? I've realized that there have been seasons in my life where I'll just suddenly start doing good again. Not that I've ever gone back to any major center or anything like that, but if you notice, sometimes you'll start relaxing in your Christianity just a little bit. You don't pray as much as you used to. You don't read as much of the word as you used to. You don't worship as passionately as you used to. Then out of nowhere, there seems to be this breeze that comes up from under you, refreshing you, breathing life into all that you do for the glory of God. That is a move of the Holy Spirit. That is the grace. That is the mercy of God. So what my point is there is that not only could you not be spiritual without the Holy Spirit, you would have no desire to be spiritual without the Holy Spirit. When you pray and you read, you're not empowering yourself. Basically praying and reading and worshiping is throwing yourself on his power. It's throwing your helpless self on his strong being. And so we need to become dependent upon him. We need to realize and be like Moses in Exodus. When he told the Lord, Lord, if your presence doesn't go there with me, I don't want a part of it. If you don't lead me by showing me that you're in it, I don't want a part of it. Lord, unless you go with me, how are they going to be able to tell me apart from anybody else? You see, God will back his message with miracles. He'll back his faithful with favor, but he always backs his people with his presence. Anyone can preach the gospel and see miracles because the message is backed by miracles. But not everyone carries the presence of the Holy Spirit upon their lives. Only God's people carry the presence. And so we need to recognize that we are helpless without him. We can do no good without him. We cannot think to do good without him. And everything we do without the power and aid of the Holy Spirit is worth nothing in the end. That's just the truth. You say, well, what about if I make a difference in someone's life just for today? Well, it doesn't matter if the Holy Spirit's not involved. Their life's not going to be changed. If they're not changed, there's going to be no true transformation. Without true transformation, there's no true salvation. Without true salvation, eternity has not been affected. And when the eons have passed and history has been written, and ages go by where stories and accounts and all of these legends fade into forgetfulness. When all of our projects and political efforts and everything we've worked to do to make our world better are no longer even recorded in the pages of history because history itself has been erased. When we go long past those eons where things counted here upon the earth and we enter into the realm of eternity, either what we did affected eternity or what we did did not. Because if it does not impact eternity, it makes no impact at all. Even if you make history, even history itself will fade. Even if you leave a legacy here on earth, the earth itself will cease to be. Only the word of God remains and only that which has attached itself to God remains. This is why we need the power of the Holy Spirit. This is why we must become dependent upon Him. And when we recognize how dependent upon Him we are, we involve Him. That's what dependency is all about. Involving the Holy Spirit in everything that you do. Not being presumptuous, not just stepping out on a whim, not just stepping out on your own desires, your own ideas. Because God scolded the prophets in the Old Testament saying, you prophesy but you're just speaking of your own imagination. I never talked to you about that. Many times we presume instead of praying and we do instead of consulting and we act without the Holy Spirit. He's not involved because we didn't talk to Him about what we wanted to do. So we must come to the place again where we stop relying on talent, stop relying on technology. We use all of those things. I use all of those things here. We have to come to the place where we realize, Holy Spirit, I need you if anything about my Christian walk is to be authentic. So number one, dependency. Number two, understanding. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 says this, but people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. You know there have been times when I've walked out of movie theaters because what's on the screen is ungodly and sometimes I'm the only one to do it and there have been times when I've taken stands for my faith and out of my respect for the Holy Spirit and I've been mocked for it even by Christians who said, oh you're being too spiritual. Let me tell you something, you can be too weird but you can't be too spiritual. True spirituality you can never have too much of. But we have to have this understanding of Him the scripture says that those that are led by the Spirit are like the wind. No one knows where they're coming from, no one knows where they're going, they're just led by the Spirit and you may be misunderstood because of how much you value the opinion of the Holy Spirit.  Everyone wants to get rid of religion nowadays. All the preachers do too. God didn't come to give us religion, He came to give us relationship. You've heard that said but that's not true because the scripture in James tells us there's such a thing as good religion. No, what we're talking about is pure, empowered living by the Spirit. We have to understand Him. We have to understand that He's gentle and He's kind and that He's willing to help and that He's humble. Think about how humble He is that He would come back to us again and again and again despite the many times we ignore His voice and push Him away. That He would draw us to the depths of prayer even after we choose the frivolous things of this world over audience with God. And we must come to understand Him and in coming to understand Him we come to appreciate Him. Many people are suspicious of the Holy Spirit because of the bizarre acts they've seen acted out in His name. You've seen people barking like dogs, rolling on floors. I've seen some pretty weird stuff.  But the Holy Spirit is classy. He's very down to earth, quite literally. He came from heaven to earth. He's down to earth because He wants to connect with humans. He wants to connect with you and help you live the spiritual life. But we have to understand that He's been misrepresented, that His name has been abused. The Holy Spirit doesn't make you senseless and silly. He makes you sharp. He makes you spiritual. I believe that the Holy Spirit is more likely to give you wisdom and intelligence than He is to give you a drunken state. I've seen the Holy Spirit's presence abused and misused and misrepresented and there are very bizarre actions that happen in the name of the Holy Spirit. But I'm here to tell you, the Holy Spirit's not like that. The Holy Spirit doesn't want to degrade you and shame you in displays that are bizarre. The Holy Spirit is orderly. He's classy. There's a sweetness to the flow of the Holy Spirit. It's not chaotic. And so we need to come back to the place where we understand who He truly is and not judge Him based upon how man has represented Him. Some of us are rejecting the Holy Spirit because we don't like how men represented Him. But this will disregard an entire friendship that can be yours unless you can come to the place where you understand Him as a person, as a representative of God. Don't be afraid to embrace the gift of God because of the horrible displays of mankind. Don't be afraid to embrace the heavenly elegance of the Holy Spirit because you've seen shameful acts done in the Holy Spirit's name. The presence of the Holy Spirit brings about reverence. The presence of the Holy Spirit brings about order. The presence of the Holy Spirit brings about power that is focused, that is for a purpose. Yes, I believe in the slaying of the slaying power of the Holy Spirit. You've seen it at my services, but I don't believe that people should be rolling around the floor barking like dogs. I mean, you watch those videos.  No, the Holy Spirit, there has to be some principled foundation for what happens in the Scripture. So, number one, we depend on him. Number two, we have to understand him. Don't judge him based upon how other people have represented him. Understand that he's classy, he's heavenly, he's elegant, and those who embrace his power carry with them an air of heavenly elegance as ambassadors of heaven. We're royalty when the Holy Spirit moves on us. So, number one, dependency that's involving him. Number two, understanding that's embracing him. And number three is reverence, and this is obeying him. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 says, and do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption. We have to be careful to not grieve the Holy Spirit. I'll never forget one time there was a, if you like me, you get your entertainment mostly from on demand. God are the days of 24-7 channels where you have to get home by a certain time to catch a show. Now me personally, I do engage in watching certain videos and media for entertainment purposes. It doesn't take up a good majority of my life, but there are times when I do it. And when I do, I make sure the content is something that I feel comfortable that the Holy Spirit would allow in my home. So, I watched this series that had come on TV, and many of my friends called me and said, oh, you would love this show. It's really good. It's very intelligently written, a lot of good dialogue, very good story. I said, okay, I'm going to take a look at this. I was pretty excited because, you know, when you find a good series like that, you have something to do on your recreation. And so I said, okay, I'm going to watch this. So, I begin to watch the first episode, and there was nothing in this episode that was ungodly or something that grieved the Holy Spirit, anything like that, but the Holy Spirit told me to not watch it. And I thought it was odd. And so, I said, well, that's kind of odd. And then I second guessed that. I said, well, this can't be the Holy Spirit because there's nothing on this that I'm watching that's ungodly. Can't be. So, what I did is I misunderstood the voice of the Holy Spirit to be my own thoughts. So, I dismissed it. I said, well, I'm probably just overthinking it. So, the next day I get to the ministry office, and I start talking about this show, and the person who does our finance, he was there at his desk, and I said, hey, have you seen this show? And I started talking about it a little bit. And he instantly, he jumped in, he goes, oh, no, you shouldn't watch that. I go, well, why not? Trust me, you won't like it. Now, this person who works for me, he knows my standards when it comes to media. And I said, well, what do you mean I won't like it? I watched it. There was no cussing.  There was nothing like that. And he says, trust me, you won't like it because by the fourth episode it starts to become like that. And I said, ah, okay. And I was a little disappointed because I would have loved to have watched it if they just didn't include that. And so I said, okay, well, I guess that's it for me. And I turned from my conversation from him, and I began to walk toward my desk. And that's when the Holy Spirit told me, he says, you can trust the word of man, but you can't trust me. And that's when I realized that it was the Holy Spirit, indeed, who was trying to tell me not to move forward because he knew what the content of that media was in the later episodes. And I thought about that, how silly of me to have been so dismissive of the Holy Spirit and what he was trying to do. Even greater, the scripture tells us not to grieve him. What does this tell me? It tells me that the Holy Spirit has feelings. It tells me that the Holy Spirit can be grieved over my actions, that what I do affects the well-being of how the Holy Spirit feels, that my thoughts and my actions and my decisions and my choices all throughout the day impact this wonderful, loving, humble spirit of God who rests on my life, who I hold close and near and dear.  I'll do it any day of the week so long as I'm preaching truth. Of course, I preach truth in love, but if me saying something is biblical and to defend someone, oh well, they can get over it. They don't have to watch my program. But I'm going to preach the truth. So I'm not afraid of pleasing men or pleasing people. I could care less what people think. I couldn't care any less what people think. I care about what God thinks. I don't want to be politically correct. I want to be biblically correct. So I preach the truth. People don't make me afraid. I'm not afraid of people. I'm not afraid. People have threatened I won't donate this. That's fine. God will take care of me. You're not my supply. God is. People have called the office and actually threatened those things trying to get me to preach something different. I said, then don't give. Go support something else. You believe it. And then people often are afraid of demonic beings. I just had a conversation with some of the camera crew here before we started taping about some teachings I'm bringing on demonic beings in October, November. And really I used to be as a kid. I used to be afraid of demonic beings because of their how they were, you know, expressed in stories and in Hollywood depictions and all of that. But I kind of the place where I no longer fear demons.  I don't fear demons because they have no power over me. I don't fear men because they're not going to be the ones who judge me. I don't fear men because they could do something in my body, but they can't take care of my soul.  So I don't fear men. I'm not afraid of demons and I'm not afraid of people. But let me tell you my greatest fear.  Now I know people don't really believe that the Holy Spirit does that. They say, oh that's Old Testament. Well, listen, the Bible talks about grieving Him. King David said, created me a clean heart of God. I renew a right spirit with me. Cast me not away from thy presence, O Lord, and take not thine Holy Spirit from within me. You look all throughout scripture, Ananias and Sapphira. They lie to the Holy Spirit. God struck them down. Simon the sorcerer wanted to buy the Holy Spirit. He was rebuked. The thing about the Holy Spirit is that when He comes, it's boldness. It's when He comes on you, there's fire, there's the presence, you sense Him. But when He leaves, He doesn't give you a notice. The Holy Spirit doesn't tell you when He leaves. He just leaves. Now you may be saying, oh David, that makes me afraid good because nothing could be worse than living a life without the presence of the Holy Spirit on you. You could take everything from me, take my TV show, take my ministry, take my income, take my friends, take my family before you take the presence of God from me. That's all that makes me distinct.  Anything that you see in me that's magnetic or charismatic or luring or refreshing, that's the presence of the Holy Spirit. You can't fake this. You can't duplicate this. You can't manufacture it if you tried. If someone grabbed the Bible in a notepad and got in front of a camera and started teaching the same thing I'm teaching, if they don't have the presence, there's gonna be a big difference. This is why I'm afraid. I said, Lord, don't take your presence from me. There's nothing like His presence. There's nothing like praying and sensing Him on your life. There's nothing like worshiping and being raptured in His presence. There's been times I've been afraid to open my eyes because I thought I'd been raptured into somewhere else. It's so intense His presence comes. And there have been times in services where the glory of God has descended on the meeting so heavily that you almost sense the shaking about the place. And people would get up from the front rows and start running out the back door because they were terrified of the presence of God that came on the platform.  It's my all in all. I don't pray to get somewhere. I don't do ministry to get somewhere. His presence is itself my reward. God said to Abraham, I am your exceeding and great reward. He Himself, the person of the Holy Spirit, His presence is what we're after.  Now, I'm running a little short on time, so I'm going to have to move quickly to these last two points. But I really wanted to drive that point home. Are we ashamed of Him? Are you afraid to tell people that you speak in tongues? Are you afraid to tell people that you believe you're filled with God's Holy Spirit? Are you afraid to tell people that you believe in the miraculous, that you carry the presence of God? If so, why? It's the most beautiful thing about us that we, these broken vessels, could carry a divine essence within our being. Catherine Coleman said God's not looking for golden vessels. God's not looking for silver vessels. God is looking for yielded vessels. And those who reverence Him, who obey Him, who hear His voice, and who move when He says, move, and who stop when He says, stop. Those are the ones you can hold them nearest. Those are the ones who get to know them better than anyone else. And it's a privilege. It's joy. And God invites you to the same. So number one, we have to depend on Him, realize we're helpless, depend on Him, involve Him, understand Him, that's to embrace Him, reverence Him, that's to obey Him. And I'll just quickly move to these last two. We have to trust Him. Don't be afraid to follow His direction. Don't be afraid to step out when He says to step out. And number five, there has to be communication. You know, with all that goes on in our world, it's very difficult to quiet the inner man enough to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. But there has to be that open line of communication. Maybe I'll touch on these two some other time. So just real quickly, we must depend upon Him. We must understand Him. We must reverence Him. We must trust Him. We must communicate with Him. All five of these things will go to cultivate a friendship with the Holy Spirit. I really do feel the presence of God on this teaching here. And I know that you do too. I'm going to believe that today, as we pray now that God's Holy Spirit would come upon your life in a fresh way and that He too would draw you into a friendship with Him that you might carry the Spirit of God upon your life. Let's pray. Come on. I want you right now in faith. Join your hands with mine. Stretch your hands outward like you're receiving something. Lift them to the Lord.   Even if you're somewhere public, just let Him touch your life. So Father, I pray in Jesus' name, we thank you, Father, for the Holy Spirit's presence that is here so evidently, so beautifully. And I pray, Father, that as you begin to move in this moment now, I pray for that one watching. And I pray that your Holy Spirit would descend on them with fire. Father, feel their every being with divine essence overflowing. Father, I pray that you would light them afresh with the fire of the Holy Spirit. Father, I pray you would spark anew, again, a passion for their heavenly Father. God, cultivate, bring to life, fan into flame an undying love for the person of Christ as only the Holy Spirit can do. Father, let them sense you now. That's the power of God. He's moving on. Some of you feel like warmth. Some of you feel like a weight coming around you. Some of you feel like electricity moving through your body. He's touching you.  You're connecting with heaven right now. There's a divine essence happening. I want you to close your eyes, begin to pray. God's touching you. There's something very real happening for you right now. In fact, there's somebody watching me right now.   So Father, I pray that they will be flooded with your very essence. Lord, I pray for divine empowering. Lord, empower them to preach the gospel. Put your healing power in their hands in the name of Jesus.  A mouthpiece of heaven declaring the goodness, the righteousness and the truth of God.  Let them see things, people and situations the way you see them. Father, let their ears become your ears. That they might hear your voice. That they might clearly receive direction from heaven. Father, let their hands be your hands. Let your power move through it. Causing lives to be transformed all around them. Father, let their feet be your feet. Guide them and direct them wherever you need them to be. I pray for divine appointments to be set up in their very near future. And Father, let their being be your being. Let their heart beat one with yours.  Father, we surrender all. Come on. Now is the time to surrender all. Say, Lord, I surrender all. Come on. I want you to say it. You're going to declare it now. Even if you're somewhere public, don't be ashamed. Say, Lord, I surrender all. I give you my life again. And so, Father, I pray that as they're surrendering, Lord, that where they are surrendering, you would so fill them with the glory right where they are right now in Jesus' name. Let the fire of heaven consume them, transform them. I break the addiction of drugs on their life in Jesus' name. I break the addiction of sin on their life in Jesus' name. I come against guilt and condemnation and shame and fear and anxiety and depression and confusion. We break it now in Jesus' name.   Let us be drawn closer to your Holy Spirit like never before. And those who agreed said, amen. I really feel the power of God. I believe He's touching you. And this has been a joy to teach you today. And go and walk in it now. Walk in this new anointing. Walk in this refresh. You've received impartation today. Now go live it. So I want to take this moment now to welcome our new Spirit Church members. There they are up on the screen. You can see they join from different parts of the world, sometimes different states, sometimes even different countries. We're now at just about 150 members in Spirit Church worldwide. And this has just been just less than a year. So that's great growth for a church. And so this is our online church.  And then you'll have personal contact with our staff and with me, and we pray with you and we help you and we guide you with the word of God. It's a community of believers, online community of believers. We call it, we say we're gathering in spirit is really what we're doing. So if you would like to join Spirit Church, you can go ahead and do that now. If you're watching this video, you should be able to see something move overhead. And that will give you a link where you can click that. It'll take you right where you can sign up to become a member of the Spirit family. If you're watching this via a Facebook video or on our ministry app, that link won't appear.  Now for those of you who do consider this your church, now is the time to send in your support, ties and offerings. And those of you who just received from the teachings on YouTube, maybe you're not a member of the Spirit family, maybe you're not a ministry partner yet, maybe you're not a donor, but you'd like to help us in our efforts to globalize our evangelistic efforts. Really, we're doing this because we want to win souls to Jesus. And when you join us, you're joining your gift with hundreds and even thousands of believers from all over the world, united in one cause to preach the one true gospel of Jesus Christ, but miracles, signs and wonders following in demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit. Nothing gets better than that. We preach Jesus, His cross, Christ, crucified, resurrected, coming again. We preach repentance from sin. We preach empowering of the Holy Spirit and on and on and on. You're familiar with this ministry. You want to get involved. You want to help us win souls. Then help us do that as we do worldwide television, global discipleship, and international events. We're making an impact. So go ahead and do that today. Give a one-time gift or sign on to become a monthly ministry partner. Some of you can consider a gift of one time of $100, $500, even $1,000.  There's somebody watching. God challenged you to give $1,000 of this ministry. Now is the time to do that today. Others, God's challenging you to become a partner, $10, $20, $30 a month. Do that today.  Help us continue to spread the gospel all around the world. We sure do love you. Now remember until next time, because that is it for this edition of Spirit Church. Remember until next time, nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible with God.


Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to talk the final four. And while I am a bit bummed, I am so incredibly excited and grateful that we had a tournament this year and that we're going to be able to crown a true March Madness champion. So let's go ahead and talk the first game in-state rivalry, Baylor and Houston. So as I said, these two in-state rivals, it's just going to make things a little bit more interesting. I will say that Houston had a little bit easier of a road to get to this final. They had a great win over Cleveland State. They struggled against Rutgers. They absolutely stuffed Syracuse and then they almost choked against the Oregon State Beavers. Well, they were up by 17. Baylor, on the other hand, had a bit of a tougher road to get to this final four. They had to beat Arkansas, Nova, and Whiskey. And not only did they beat them, they beat them and covered against the spread, which we all know good teams win, great teams cover. Baylor is the best three-point shooting team in the nation. And on the other side of the ball, they are fantastic at forcing turnovers. I'll give it to the Cougars.  However, this Baylor team is just deeper in a step up in class and something that this Cougars team really hasn't seen this season. I'm going to go ahead and take Baylor, laying the points. Next, we're talking the Zags and UCLA and the Zags are laying, I believe it's 14. And while that might seem like a lot, have you all seen the Zags lately?  USC was supposed to be that big team, that force that was going to give them problems. And what did the Zags do? Played exactly like they have all season and absolutely rolled over USC. And look, I will be the first person to admit that I have not given the Pac-12 as much credit as they deserve in this tournament.  Obviously, UCLA has proven that they can hang with the big boys, especially with wins back to pack over Bama and Michigan. However, the Zags are a different beast. I think that the Zags team hasn't even played at their full pace and potential all year. I think they're saving that for that championship game and it's a lot of points. But at this point, how can you not lay it with Gonzaga? So I don't like to assume because we all know what assuming does, but say it is Baylor and the Zags in the final. I think that that line might be anywhere from six and a half to eight with the Zags being favored. I do like Baylor. They're a great school. They play cohesive basketball. They're wonderful at shooting the three. I think that they will give the Zags some fits. But as I said, I think that Gonzaga really is waiting until that final game to showcase the full potential and just the full strength and the full force of that team that they have. And I think it is Gonzaga's tournament to lose. All right, y'all. That's all I have for this week. And whether it's Gonzaga, Gonzaga, Gonzuga, it doesn't matter. They're taking it all and they're covering the spread. Best of luck. Make some money. And I'll be back to talk about some baseball next week.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that Sam's grandfather gives him M dollars every week and his grandmother gives him M dollars every week. Sam wants to buy his favorite board game which costs $1 million. Will he be able to buy the game after two weeks if his grandfather gives him $20 and his grandmother gives him $30 every week. Now let us start with the solution of this question. Now in the question it is given that Sam's grandfather gives him M dollars and his grandmother gives him M dollars every week. So he gets a total of $20 plus M dollars every week. Now Sam wants to buy his favorite board game after. Now he has a total sum of M plus M dollars in one week. So in two weeks he will have a total of M into M plus M the whole dollars. Now his grandfather gives him $20 and his grandmother gives him $30 every week. So now we have M is equal to $20 and N is equal to $30. Now we will push the values of M and N in this expression and from here we can find the total amount that Sam has got after two weeks. So the total money in two weeks will be equal to 2 into M which is $20 plus M which is $30 the whole which is equal to 2 into $50 which is equal to $100. Now we know that cost of board game is equal to $120 but Sam has $100 after two weeks therefore he will not be able to buy the game and this is the solution of the given question. That's all for this session. Hope you all have enjoyed the session.


Almost every single week lately I've been talking directly to my channel members letting them ask me questions and then responding in kind. So I encourage you in the comments below this video to ask away anything you want and we'll start a new round. J2K2610, that's a name. Do you watch other YouTube movie critics slash reviewers and do you enjoy watching them? Not really. I don't watch a lot of YouTube. I like Smosh a lot. I've been watching them. I've never watched them before. I just started watching their videos a few months ago. I've been down the rabbit hole. I don't know how it was even introduced to me. I really like everything they put out. I think it's very funny, very humorous. I don't know why. I guess it's because they just have like a life to their stuff and they're very lively. And that's not a movie review channel by the way. I just like their commentary on things and their every blank ever series is really funny to me. My daughter loves it too. She's 12 so we kind of bond watching that stuff and it makes me feel young again. As for movie critics, I know of a bunch of them. I communicate with some of them on a pretty regular basis. I'll give shout outs to those that I think are doing a great job. And they're not even necessarily people that I agree with on a lot of movies or even enjoy their content. But I can recognize what they're doing and how much work they're putting in and to me that's worth its weight in gold. I used to watch a lot of red letter media. I really like their Tim and Eric style humor, that adult swim approach. I haven't watched them in months and it's not because I don't like them anymore. I think they're brilliant. I think they're talented. I just don't have any time anymore between watching Smosh videos and doing other stuff. No, joking. Smosh is like in the background mostly or when I'm quickly eating lunch I'll put on like a few videos. For the most part, no, I just I want to have my own opinions and I don't want them tarnished by other critics, which can often happen. And that's why I love my audience here. They will be the first to tell me if I'm wrong on a video in a respectful way typically. And we can have a civil debate about it. That's what's so good. People have their own minds here. Instead of being sheep-like with some of these other YouTube critic channels where they just seem to follow along with whatever is being thrown at them, typically it's not even about a movie review.  The person I talk to the most is probably Jonathan Paula. He used to have a YouTube channel. He still does. He just doesn't do it anymore. But he had Jogwheel. You might know him from the Is It Okay to Microwave This series, which I've never even seen. I know it's kind of a pioneer of YouTube back in the day. But also I was familiar with him from Movie Night where he did very kind of straightforward movie reviews, which is crazy to think about nowadays. Everyone has to have a gimmick. He always put in a good amount of research. There were some good facts behind his reviews. They didn't overstay their welcome. He had a nice review system. Yeah, I really liked his approach. He was very polished. Tony from Hack the Movies. He's part of Cinemassacre, which is the Angry Video Game Nerd. Tony's awesome. He talks to me constantly. He's always got little gems to throw my way. We'll debate about movies here and there. You know, just have fun with it. He's had me on his show a couple times. I've had him on a few times. Yeah, he's great.  So I would definitely check them out if you haven't. They do long-form video discussion. I mean, we're talking hour to hour videos. And he has lots of fun cameos on, lots of fun guests. It's a it's a good time over there.  I don't have the clout to justify that yet. Someday, maybe. I recently brought up Chris Stockman in a previous video. And honestly, I was always jealous of the guy, not because I thought he was super talented at what he did or super pro at it. It was because he was so good at getting everything out there right away. He would be first to market. And he'd let you know that. He'd be a little braggadocious about it. But you know, you have to respect that game. Even if I didn't agree with a ton of what he said, and I wasn't even the biggest fan of, you know, kind of how he communicated with people. I mean, there's no you got to respect it. You got to respect the struggles. And now he's making his own movie. And that to me is just phenomenal. I would I would I envy that so much to be able to get where he's at and to put his passion on display to put his work out there for others to judge. That's the ultimate. You know, he's come full circle. His presumed buddy, John Flickinger, who I know they've been on each other's shows multiple times, I keep tabs. I keep tabs on them. I'm interested in what they're doing because they're in the same sphere as me. I've had some of them on the show. John was supposed to come on my show a long time ago, but he had family issues at the last minute. It didn't work out and we just kind of fell out of communication. John, we should do something together if you ever see this. It would be great. You're one of the last ones that I haven't really collabed with in any meaningful way, at least come on my show. You know, I rarely get invited to other people's programs. I'm just accepting of that at this point. I'm a giver, not a taker. Flickinger's got a couple channels. I don't know how often he updates both of them. Like me, I don't do anything on my second channel. It's just lying dormant for the day that I can eventually do something with it again. But he puts out a lot of great content. He's very dynamic. He's very over the top and he really likes American Psycho. He's like all in on American Psycho. It's a good movie.  It's amazing. If you're a horror slash thriller type of guy or gal, I would give Blood Bath and Beyond a shout out or check them out, subscribe, do whatever. They've been in a very similar situation as me over the years where there was the whole demonetization thing. They're not sure if they should start a new channel, which they did. I don't know how it's going yet. I have to reach out. It's been a while since I've talked to them, so yeah. But there are a great group of guys over there just putting in the work and they put out good material, very good stuff. There are some smaller YouTube critics coming in out of the woodwork as well. Sometimes they comment, so I would check out the comments on this video, see if any of them stick out to you. If you are making movies on YouTube, give yourself a shout out. That's fine.  Just don't post a link because YouTube will oftentimes remove that without me knowing and I don't want to go through my spam. That's just a nightmare. The people I would mention anyways you already know, so it's a little boring. I don't have bad blood with anybody. The ones that I've kind of shit on in the past I don't actually know or have spoken to. I just can tell when there's a grift going on or when there's some really just bad approach to movie criticism going on and I will say something about it. Jeremy Johns I've mentioned before, he's like one of the tops as well.  The guy's very frantic, he's very fun, he's very engaging. Yeah, you know him. I appreciate what he does. Let's move on. Champ asks, favorite movie slash TV reaction channels? No. Defint asks, what's a time or moment when you realized you loved movies? I may have addressed this a long time ago, but I'll never forget when I sat Jurassic Park in theaters. Still one of my favorite films.  But she took me. I think it's one of the only times just her and I went to a film in history. I always went with my dad and my brother. That was like our thing. So to go to that movie when I was in probably fourth grade or something, it was middle school. I was blown away. I was terrified of that intro where the raptor that pulls the guy. He's like, shoot. Ah, shoot. The sound effects were on point. The everything about it was so freaking good.  Steven Spielberg, he put magic on the big screen and he put magic in my heart. And after that film came out, I was never the same. It changed me both emotionally and spiritually when it comes to cinema, the craft, the effects. Everything that went into that movie was just top of the line and I'll never forget it. And I recently brought it up to my mom and she did forget it. She didn't know she saw that with me. So thanks mom. Now you're both 317, maybe? I'm not good with this stuff. Which movie disappointed you the most when you were a kid and which one in your adult life? Without doing a lot of soul searching and historical research into where I was as a child and what movie bothered me the most, first thing that comes to mind is Ninja Turtles 3. I don't, was it called Turtles in Time? I know the video game was. I think it's just Teenage Ninja Turtles 3. There might have been a, like a subheading there, I can't remember. But man, that movie sucked. Still does.  It's Shredder's Not In It. Just a all-around disappointing film. The action's horrible. The costumes are miserable. Everything about it's worse than its predecessor. So yeah, Ninja Turtles 3, what a joke. I think if anybody's been watching this channel for a while, you probably know what my most disappointing movie is in recent memory and that's The Last Jedi. I'm not gonna go into a thing about it. There are a lot of people that love the film. That's great. I've said everything I need to say multiple times over. We're not gonna do it. We're not gonna get upset again. How do you make a new Star Wars trilogy and not put Luke, Han and Leia on screen together at least one time? How?  Another's dead in the film property. And now they're all dead. They're all dead. In one way or the other, they're all dead.  Let's close out. All right, that's it for the first round of questioning. I apologize if I didn't address yours. I tried to get to them all. Thank you very much for all these questions. Like I said, we're starting over. If you have more to ask me, ask away. It can be on movies. It can be on personal life. It can be on, you know, the stock market, spoiler. I know nothing about that. There's movies that come out around the holidays. We can talk about that as well. So let me know in the comments and hopefully I'll see you soon. Take care.  You made it to the end of the video without turning away. I guess you're not sly for that.  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Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering InterConnect 2017, brought to you by IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas with Mandalay Bay for IBM InterConnect 2017. This is theCUBE's three-day coverage of IBM InterConnect. I'm John Furrier with my co-host Dave Vellante, our next guest is Seth Dobrin, Vice President and Chief Data Officer for IBM Analytics. Welcome to theCUBE, welcome back. Yeah, thanks for having me again. I love sitting down and chatting with you guys. You're a CDO Chief Data Officer and that's a really kind of a really pivotal role because you got to look at, as a chief, overall a lot of data within IBM Analytics. Also, you have customers, you're delivering a lot of solutions to it and it's cutting edge. I like the keynote on day one here. You had Chris Moody at Twitter, he's a data guy. I mean, you guys have a deal with Twitter, so he got more data. You get the weather company, you got that data set. You have IBM customer data.  We're bursting at the seams with data and that's a good thing. And so what's the strategy and what are you guys working on and what's the key points that you guys are honing in and obviously cognitive to the core is to the Rometti's team. How are you guys making data work for IBM and your customers? So if you think about IBM Analytics, right, we're really focusing on five key areas, five things that we think if we get right, we'll help our clients learn how to drive their business and data strategies right, right? One is around, you know, how do I manage data across hybrid environments, right? So what's my hybrid data management strategy? So, you know, used to be, you know, how do I get to public cloud really? But really what it is, it's a conversation about, you know, every enterprise has their business critical assets. They're what people call legacy, right? If we call them business critical and we think about these are how companies got here today. This is what they make their money on today. The real challenge is how do we help them tie those business critical assets to their future state cloud, whether it's public cloud, private cloud, or something in between or hybrid cloud. So one of the key strategies for us is hybrid data management. Another one is around unified governance, right? So if you look at governance in the past, governance in the past was an inhibitor. It was something that people want, ooh, governance, do I have to do it? Bob Weier, you know? It's, you know, when I've been at companies before and thought about building a data strategy, we spent the first six months building a data strategy, trying to figure out how to avoid data governance or the word data governance. And really, you need to embrace data governance as an enabler. If you do it right, if you do it upfront, if you wrap things that include model management, how do I make sure that my data scientists can get to the data they need upfront by classifying data ahead of time, understanding entitlements, understanding what intent when people gave consent was. You also take out of the developer hands the need to worry about governance because now in a unified governance platform, right, it's all API driven, just like our applications are all driven, how do we make our API driven, how do we make our governance platform API driven? So if I'm an application developer, by the way, I'm not, you know, I can now call an API to manage governance for me. So I don't need to worry about, am I giving away the shop? Am I going to get the company sued? Am I going to get fired, right? Now I'm calling an API. So that's only two of them, right? The third one is really around data science and machine learning, right? So how do we make machine learning pervasive across enterprises and things like data science experience, Watson, IBM machine learning, we're now bringing that machine learning capability to the private cloud, right? Because 90% of data that exists can't be Google, so it's behind firewalls. How do we bring machine learning to that? One more. One more, that's around, God, I gave you quite a list. Hybrid data management, unified governance, data science and machine learning. Oh, the other one is open source, it's our commitment to open source, right? And so our commitment to open source, like Hadoop, Spark, and as we think about unified governance, a truly unified governance platform needs to be built on top of open source. So IBM is doubling down on our commitment to Apache Spark as a framework, a backbone, a metadata framework for our unified governance platform. What's the biggest paradigm shift? Wait, did we miss one? Hybrid data management, unified governance, data science and machine learning, pervasive open source. That's four. That's four, I thought it was five. No. There's one learning in data science, or two. So technically five. If I said five, there's only four. Okay, some of the data governance thing because this unification is interesting to me because one of the things that we see in the marketplace, people hungry for data ops, like what DevOps was for cloud, there's a whole application developer mall developing where there's a new developer persona emerging where it's like, I want a code and I want to just tap data handled by brilliant people or cognitive engines that just serve me up what I need, like a routine or a procedure or a subroutine, whatever you want to call it, that's a data DevOps model kind of thing. How are you guys doing? Do you agree with that and how does that play out? So that's a combination in my mind, that's a combination of an enterprise creating data assets, right? So treating data as the asset it is and not a digital dropping of applications, right? And it's that combined with metadata, right? It gets back to the Apache Atlas conversation. If you want to understand your data and know where it is, right? It's a metadata problem, right? What's the data? What's the lineage? Where is it? Where does it live? How do I get to it? What can I, can't I do with it? And so that just reinforces the need for an open source, ubiquitous metadata catalog, a single catalog, and then a single catalog of policies associated with that all driven in a composable way through API. That's a fundamental cultural thinking shift because you're saying I don't want to just take exhaust from apps, which is just how people have been dealing with data. You're saying get holistic and say you need to create an asset class or layer or something that is designed. So I mean, if enterprise are going to be successful with data, right? Now we're getting to five things, right? So there's five things. They need to treat data as an asset, right? So it's got to be a first class citizen, not a digital dropping, and they need a strategy around it. So what are the, conceptually, what are the pieces of data that I care about? My customers, my products, right? My talent, my finances, right? What are the limited number of things, right? What is my data science strategy, right? My data science, how do I build deployable data science assets? I can't be developing machine learning models and deploying them in Excel spreadsheets, right? They have to be integrated in my processes, right? I have to have a cloud strategy. So am I going to be on-premise? Am I going to be off-premise? Am I going to be something in between? You know, I have to get back to unified governance. I have to, how to govern it, right? Governing a single place is hard enough, let alone multiple places, and then my talent is a piece of it. Could you peg a progress bar or the industry vis-a-vis what you just said, because I think- Again, we only got through four. No, talent was the last one. No, talent, sorry, I missed it. The progress bar of where the enterprises are right now, because obviously the big conversation on the cloud side is enterprise readiness, enterprise grade, that's kind of an ongoing conversation. But now, if you take your premise, which I think is accurate, is that I got to have a centralized data strategy and platform, instead of not a data leg, more than that, software, et cetera. Where's the progress bar? Where are people? Peg and inning or? Boy, you know, I think, I think they're all over the map. I mean, I've only been with IBM for four months and I've been spending much of that time literally traveling around the world talking to clients. And clients are all over the map, right? I was, last week, I spent the week in South America with a media company, a cable company down there, that when I went first setting up the meeting, the guy's like, well, you know, we're not that far along down this journey. And I was like, oh my God, you guys are like so far ahead of everyone else, that's not even funny, right? And then I'm sitting down with big banks that think they're like way out there and they haven't even started on the journey, right? And so it's literally all over the place and it's even within industry, right? There's financial companies that are like also way out there. I mean, there's another bank in Brazil that uses biometrics to access ATMs. You don't need a pin anymore, right? And they have analytics that drive all that, right? That's crazy. We don't have anything like that here. Are you meeting with CDOs? Yeah, mostly CDOs or kind of the facto, like we talked about before the show, but mostly CDOs. So you may be unique in the sense that you're working for a technology company, so a lot of your time is outward focused, but when you travel around and meet with the CDOs, how much of their time is inward focused versus outward focused? Well, so my time actually is split between inward and outward focused. 50 to 50, roughly. Because part of my time is transforming our own business using data and analytics, right? Because IBM is a company and we got to figure out how to do that. Is it correct that yours is probably a higher percentage outward than... Mine's probably a higher percentage outward than most CDOs, yeah. So I think most CDOs are 75, 80% inward focused and 20% outward focused. And a lot of that outward focus is just trying to understand what other people are doing. And I guess it's okay for now, but will that change over time? I think that's about right. I think it gets back to the other conversation we had before the show about your monetization strategy. I think if a company progresses where it's no longer about how do I change my process as in use data to monetize my internal process, if I'm going to start figuring out how I sell data, then CDOs need to get a more external thing. But you're supporting the business in that role and that's largely going to be an internal function, data quality, governance, and like you say, the data science strategy. Yeah, and I think it's important when I talk about data governance, I think things that we used to talk about as data management is all part of data governance, right? Data governance is not just controlling who, it's all of that. How do I understand my data? How do I provide access to my data? It's all those things you need to enable your business to thrive on data. My question for you is a personal one. How did you get to be a CDO?  I'm just being a CDO school. I stayed in the Holiday Inn at Tress last night. You know, tongue and cheek aside, I mean, people are getting into CDO roles from interesting vectors, right? Anthropology, science, art. I mean, it's really interesting if you math geek certainly love that they thrive there, but there's not one, I haven't yet seen one sweet spot. So take us through how you got into it and what. So I'm not going to fit any preconceived notion of what a CDO is, right? I mean, especially in a technology company. My background is in molecular and statistical genetics, right? So I'm a geneticist, right? Data has properties that could be kind of biological. And actually, if you think about the roots of big data and data science, or big data at least, right? The two of the probably fundamental drivers of the concept of big data were genetics and astrophysics, right? So 20 years ago when I was getting my PhD, we were dealing with, you know, tens and hundreds of gigabyte-sized files, right? We were trying to figure out how do we get stuff out of 15 Excel files because they weren't big enough into a single CSV file, right? So, you know, millions of rows, millions of... Crude by today's standards. Yeah, crude by today's standards. But it was still, how do we do this? And so, you know, 20 years ago, I was learning to be a data scientist. I didn't know it. I stopped doing that field and I started managing labs for a while. And then in my last role, you know, we kind of transformed how the research group within that company in the agricultural space handled and managed data. And I was simultaneously the biggest critic and biggest advocate for IT. And they said, hey, come over and help us figure out how to transform the company the way we've transformed this group. It's like, we're talking about your PhD experience. It's almost like you are so stuck in the mud with not having the compute power or some of the tooling.  Oh, I love what's going on. So you almost get gravitated, pulled into that, right? Yeah, and it's funny, I was doing a demo upstairs today with one of the sales guys was doing a demo with some clients. In one line of code, they had expressed what was part of my dissertation, right? It was, you know, a single line of code in a script.  That's great story. And I think that's consistent with just people who just attracted to it and they're going to end up being captains of industry. This is a hot field. You guys have a CDO event happening in San Francisco. We'll be doing some live streaming there. What's the agenda? Because this is a very accelerating field. You mentioned now dealing practically with compliance and governance, which was, you run the other direction in the old days. Now, it's embracing that. This got to get processed in discipline management. What's going to go on at CDO summit? Are you doing it? Yeah, at the CDO summit next week, I think we're going to focus on three key areas, right? What does a cloud journey look like? Or maybe four key areas, right? So a cloud journey. How do you monetize data and what does that even mean? Right? And talent. So at all these CDO summits, the IBM CDO summits have been going on for three or four years now. Every one of them is a talent conversation. And then governance, right? I think those are four key concepts. And not surprising, they were four of my five on my list, right? So I think that's what really we're going to talk about. The unified governance. Talk about how that happens in your vision because that's something that you hear. Unificate unified identity. We hear blockchain looking at a whole new disruptive way of dealing with value digitally. How do you see the data governance thing unifying? Well, I think again, it's around, you know, IBM did a great job of figuring out how to take an open source product that was Spark, right? And make it the heart of our products, right? It's going to be the same thing with governance where you're going to see, you know, Apache Atlas is at its infancy right now. Having that open backbone so that people can get in and out of it easy, right? If you're going to have a unified governance platform it's got to be open, right? By definition, because I need to get other people's products on there. I can't go to an enterprise and say, we're going to sell you a unified governance platform but you've got to buy all IBM. Or you've got to spend two years doing development work to get it on there, right? So open is the framework and composable, API driven and proactive are really, I think that's kind of the key pieces for it. So we all remember the sort of client server days where it took like a decade and a half to realize, oh my gosh, this is out of control. We need to bring it back in. And the wild west days of big data, it feels like enterprises have nipped that governance issue in the bottom. At least maybe they don't have it under control yet but they understand the need to get it under control. Is that a fair statement? I think they understand the need but data is so big and grows so fast that another component that I didn't mention that maybe is implied a little bit maybe isn't is automation, right? You need to be able to capture metadata in an automated fashion. We were talking to a client earlier who 400 terabytes a day of data changes. Not even talking about what new data they're ingesting. How do they keep track of that? It's got to be automated, right? And so this unified governance needs to capture this metadata and as automated a fashion as possible. Master data needs to be automated. We need to think about applying. And make it available in real time, low latency because otherwise it becomes a data swamp. Right, it's got to be proactive, real time on demand. The other thing I wanted to ask you Seth to get your opinion on is sort of the mid 2000s when the federal rules of civil procedure changed and electronic documents and records became admissible. It was always about how do I get rid of data? And that's changed. Everybody wants to keep data now and analyze it and so forth. So what about that balance? And one of the challenges back then was data classification. I can't scale my governance. I can't eliminate and defensively delete data unless I can classify it. Is the analog true where with data as an opportunity I can't do a good job, a good enough job analyzing my data and keeping my data under control without some kind of automated classification. And has the industry solved that? Well, I don't think the industry has completely solved it yet. But I think with cognitive tools, there's tools out there that we have that other people have that can automatically, if you give it parameters and train it can classify the data for you. And I think classification is one of the keys. You need to understand how the data is classified so you understand who can access it, how long you should keep it, right? And so it's key and that's got to be automated also. I think we've done a fair job as an industry of doing that. There's still a whole lot of work, especially as you get in the kind of specialized sectors. And so I think that's a key and we've got to do a better job of helping companies train those things so that they work. And I'm a big proponent of don't give your data away to IT companies, right? It's your asset. Don't let them train their models with your data and sell it to other people. But there are some caveats up. There are some core areas where industries need to get that together and let IT companies, whether it's IBM or someone else train models for things just like that, for classifications because if someone gets it wrong, it can bring the whole industry down. It's almost, it takes the open source paradigm almost. It's like open source software, share some data, but I, you know. Right, and there's some key things that aren't differentiating that as an industry, you should get together and share. But you guys are making, IBM's making a big deal out of this and I think it's super important. I think it's probably the top thing that CDOs and CIOs need to think about right now is if I really own my data and that data is needed to train my big data models, who owns the models and how do I protect my IP? And are you selling it to my competitors? Well, that's really. Right, you're going down the street and taking away my IP, my differentiating IP and giving it to my competitor. So do I own the models? Because the data and the models are coming together, right? And that's what IBM's telling me. Because I own the data and the models that it informs. Is that correct? Yeah, that's absolutely correct. And I mean, you guys made the point earlier about IBM bursting at the seams on data, right? That's really the driver for it. We need to do a key set of training. We need to train our models with content for industries, bring those trained models to companies and let them train specified specific versions for their company with their data that unless there's a reason they tell us to do it is never going to leave their company. I think one of the things, that's a great point, that you being full of data because a lot of people who are building solutions and scaffolding for data, aka software solution, never weren't data full. They're typical, I'm going to be in a software company and they build something that they don't have a problem for.  You're living it every day. It's opportunity. And that's why when a startup comes to you and says, hey, we have this great AI algorithm, give us your data, they want to resell that model, right? And because they don't have access to the content. And if you look at what IBM's done with Watson, right? That's why there are specialized verticals that we're focusing on Watson, Watson Health, Watson Financial, right? Because we're investing in data in those areas, you can look at the acquisitions we've done, right? We're investing in data to train those models. We should follow up on this because this brings up the whole scale point. If you look at all the innovators of the past decade, even two decades, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, these are companies that were web scalers before there was anything that they could buy. They built their own. Because they had their own problem at scale. At scale. And data at scale, it's a whole nother mind-blowing issue. Absolutely. You agree, right? Okay, so we're going to put that on the agenda for the CDO summit in San Francisco next week. Seth, thanks so much for joining us in the queue. Appreciate it. Thank you, data officer. This is going to be a hot field. The CDO is going to be a very important opportunity for anyone watching in the data field. This is going to be new opportunities. They get that data, get it in control, taming the data, making it valuable. This is theCUBE, taming all the content here at Interconnect. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. More content coming. Stay with us. Day two coverage continues.


There are two names out there in the free agent market that fans are salivating over Garrett Cole Steven Strasberg How actively and how aggressively will you pursue those guys?  You look at where you guys are at With salary right now at about two hundred and twelve million dollars that already puts you over the first luxury tax threshold The second one sits at two twenty-eight. There's a third one past that if it meant getting a top-of-the-line starting picture Would you go over that third tax threshold? It's a big deal It's something we would certainly prefer not to do because they're draft there, you know, they're June draft ramifications There's a there's numerous ramifications But that is something I would consider All right So part two of that conversation coming up on Thursday's Yankees hot stove guys in the meantime He says all options are open and you know their Yankees fans out there saying well Look what the nationals did last year look what the Astros did it was about starting pitching Do you think based on that that's changed the philosophy of the Yankees at all or they more about starting pitching? But that monster bullpen well baseball is a copycat sport, right Bob So you look at what the nationals and the Astros were able to do in getting to the world series They had those strong rotations and then you listen to what house Steinbrenner said right there He said you can never have enough starting pitching So I think the Yankees are always going to have an eye on their rotation and try and make it as powerful as Possible, but they're not going to ignore their bullpen. Their bullpen was one of their biggest strengths last season I don't think that has changed if that's what you're asking me But I also know that they're absolutely trying to improve that rotation That's something that cashmen has been talking about since the middle of last season Yeah, a few things jumped out to me from that interview with Hal Blaming it on the hitters and you're saying we're a couple of hits away Is the hitting philosophy going to change next year is Situational hitting going to be more of an emphasis trying to put the ball and play a little bit more because we saw During the postseason that maybe some of those swings and misses came back to bite the Yankees But I'm a big believer that you got to go out and get a big-time starter I think the postseason has shown us with the nationals and what the Astros did I think the Yankee philosophy is always going to be bullpen first But you can argue during the postseason some of those relievers were overexposed I think you can protect them a little bit more during the regular season and the postseason some of those guys Maybe a little fatigue may be a little tired and he gave Meredith a short answer at the end But when he was asked about specific players, he said all options are open Remember if you flash back to last year with Harper and Machado There was always a little bit of a chill between the Yankees and those two free agents to hear Hal Steinburner saying all options are open That has to be something that Yankee fans are excited to hear because I am with you John I absolutely believe that the Yankees need to inject a top end of the rotation guy ahead of the Severino or Tanaka or a Paxton I'm really disappointed you haven't used the word disciplined yet. Yankees are disciplined, right? That's what you talk about when it comes to free agency There's going to be a number that they have in mind if it doesn't work out they move on


Using Express middleware functions. Let's take a look at what middleware functions are in Express. There are a couple of types of middleware functions. One of these is the application level. Here it has the router, have an error handling, built-in, and third-party. So there are many types of third-party middleware functions. You can actually download and install and use it, and then load in your app at the application or the router level. There are three built-in functions in Express. These are the static JSON and URL encoded. And for application, router, and error handling, you have the ability to create your own custom functions to handle any of these middleware. So let's take a look at the anatomy of a middleware function. So middleware functions are typically just callback functions that act on one of the HTTP methods or on a route if applicable. So they can execute any code, make changes to the request and the response objects. They can also end the request-response cycle by issuing the .ender command. Or they can call the next middleware in the stack if, for example, this function does not end the cycle. And usually you want to do that. So let's take a look at an example of how middleware functions work. So middleware functions have access to the request object, the response object, and the next function in the application's request-response cycle. Now if the current middleware function does not end the request-response cycle, it must call the next function to pass control to the next middleware function. Otherwise the request will be left hanging. And you always want to avoid that from happening by terminating the request-response cycle like you see here. That's really important. Now these two functions can be combined together forming what's called a sub-stack. And this is a very common feature used in node applications, especially in error handling. I quite often enthralled the program and in other express application as well. So let's take a look at the application-level middleware. So these are functions that are bound to an instance of the app object by using the app.use and app.method functions, such as get, put, pose, and so on. So this first example here shows an application-level middleware that is bound... I'm set again. The first example here shows an application-level middleware that is not bounded to any path and it will execute for each request. The second example here is mounted on the course-slash-id path and it will execute only if the matching path is triggered. And the third one you see here uses the get method and a middleware sub-stack that handles a get request to the course-id path. As you can see, the first one did not end the cycle, so you must pass that to the next function to end the cycle there. That's really important. The next one is the router-level middleware. This one works exactly or almost the same way as the app-level middleware using the use and the HTTP methods as well, except it is bound to the instance of express.router and not the express app. So the code is very similar. The only difference is just we switch from app to router. That's all. So you might have a question like, why do you use router-level middleware if it's identical to the application-level middleware? And that's a great question. So there are two group reasons why. One is if you remember when we instantiated the express application, we used the express constructor to create the HTTP server that listens to requests, right? So we can also instantiate a router object using the router constructor. However, only the app listener, app object can listen to requests and the router does not and cannot do that. So the router can act very similar to the app object but only responds to requests that is sent by the app or the object that listens to requests. The second reason is because it's primarily for code restructuring. So when your app gets really large, it's always better to combine related features into their own folders or modules so that they don't clutter up the main application. And by doing it this way, it will not only help you manage your project more easily but also help you troubleshoot and debug your code tremendously. So this is a very good feature. We'll actually do this in our app in the next couple of videos. And so here is the error handling middleware. They are defined in the same way as the other middleware functions except there are four arguments instead of three. So specifically with the signature of the ER for error, request, response, and next. Now you define error handling middleware usually at the end after the app that use or the routes call as you see here. The application level, router level, and error handling middleware functions are three common types that you use quite often in your app's express application. So now that you know how middleware functions work, in the next video we'll create a template, a data model, and a controller to display a list of service providers using these middleware functions.