Oh yeah, we'll continue then. So we will now look at some of the main functions which the church performs as the body of Christ. In your notes, there are many many functions which the church performs. Due to lack of time, we'll just touch upon a few of them briefly. The first main function of the church, I'm sure if I were to ask anyone would be able to name it. The main role, the main function that God has given to the church is of course, you know, the great commission where we are supposed to go and, you know, evangelize. So that would be the one of the most important functions given to the church and we are all very familiar with 28 versus 18 to 20 and this is what it says in Matthew 28, 18 to 20. It says go and make disciples of all nations and then it says teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. So people generally think that evangelism means you just share the Gospel, the person gets saved and then you say it's nice to meet you and you walk away. No, the whole process just started. The first part was sharing the Gospel with them and helping them to know Christ. Now they have made that commitment. Now they have been regenerated into a new creation that has happened but that's just the beginning of the process. There is still a lot of work for you to do.  Now that person has to start becoming a follower in every sense of the word, in their finances, in their relationships, you know, in the way they manage their time. So now you are the one who has to help them to become an actual disciple of Christ. So and then what are you supposed to do? You're supposed to teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. So they will not even know a whole bunch of things that they are supposed to obey simply because nobody even told them. So you start teaching them, you start explaining the scripture to them. So gradually as they start understanding different things, they realize that oh okay, I'm a foot or I'm a hand. I have a role to play. See these are all things that someone has to teach. How will they know if they don't teach? So evangelism is not just simply sharing the gospel and you know, allowing that person to get to know Jesus. It goes much beyond that where you also disciple the person. You also teach them everything that Jesus Christ has taught in the scriptures. So even as you're doing that, then you actually start fulfilling this great commission. So the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit which we have learned in our course which we had on the Holy Spirit. So many of those gifts can be used actually even in our evangelistic work. Of course the gift of tongues is probably not something that you would use. Maybe that would not be very helpful. But many of the other gifts that you see in your 1st Corinthians 12, 7 to 11. That's basically where you have the nine gifts of the Spirit mentioned. So many of those gifts if you notice are quite useful actually in evangelism. For instance, a message of knowledge. If God tells you something about that person and you go up to that person and say, I think this is something about you. And the person will say, how did you know?  That becomes like an opening for you to start a conversation with that person. The gift of healing where someone is not well.  He can restore your health because of something that he did on the cross.  That person experiences healing and they become more interested to find out what is this whole thing on the cross which has made this healing possible. So that becomes another opening for you to share the gospel. A word of prophecy, a word of prophecy as you would have learned is mainly a word of encouragement.  You may not go to that person and say, thus says the Lord and use, you know, NKJV English.  And when you tell that to that person, maybe that particular word of God is what that person needed. You know, so the power in that word of God will work inside them and accomplish the purpose for which it was sent through you. So these are all the different gifts that you actually can use in being a better evangelist. You know, so these are all very, very useful giftings. And of course, depending on the situation that you are facing, you know, God would kind of guide you to use different giftings because, you know, you may be having a conversation with a person and that person may be having a long argument with you about certain theological things. And then God may say, you know what, there's actually a sickness in that person's family. Pray for that.  And when that gets resolved, automatically forget about that long, I know, debate that that person was having. Now that person will just set the debate aside and just trust the Lord Jesus. So the Lord knows which giftings can be best used for which particular person in which circumstances He will guide us. Even as we just simply trust Him, He will guide us. He will show us what giftings to use when, what approach to take. These are things your Heavenly Father knows how to guide you in those things. So we don't have to worry too much about that. He will help us. And with, you know, as we keep doing it, we'll gain experience. So we will become better and better at it. So the other main thing, of course, that we do is we edify the body of Christ. That's the second main function, which the, you know, which the Church performs, where we try to edify and be a blessing to all the other believers in the body of Christ. So first, we looked at our responsibility towards the world, towards the people who are not yet saved. We need to go to them, share the gospel with them, when they come into the body of Christ, we start building them up, we start educating them, and we use our nine gifts to be able to do that. The second main function, which we see is edification within the body of Christ, where, you know, in how we minister to each other. So we looked at the passage already, right? The membership gifts, Romans 12, 6 to 8. So that's just a small list. It includes many, many other giftings as well, which are not, you know, mentioned over there, because over there, you know, there's no, there's no, in that list, no, it may not talk about someone who does accounts, but you know, someone who is knowledge in accounts and is able to help Christian organizations, that's such a gifting, such a blessing, nowhere they have to deal with all kinds of government regulations and policies, and they don't even know what to do. So here is this person who is educated in that, and they are skilled at it, because God has given them a gifting in that so they go and start helping those little organizations in their accounts, what a great blessing they will be, you know, for the body of Christ in that way. So not all the giftings that we have are mentioned over there in the Romans 12 list, but we all have been given different giftings. And if we can just use it for the kingdom of God, water, great blessing and help we can be, you know, for the kingdom. So there are administrative gifts, there are mercy gifts, prophetic gifts, you know, all kinds of different giftings. And of course, we are also aware of the five-fold ministry gifts. So those would be, that would be efficient for 11 to 13. And we, you know, we don't really need to repeat all the things that you already know. So we are familiar with the idea that these five-fold ministers, their main task is to equip people for works of service. So there are basically two things that these five-fold ministers should be doing. First, obviously, they should be using their particular gifting, you know, for evangelistic work, they should be using their gifting to build up the body of Christ. So they have a responsibility outside the church, they also have a responsibility inside the church, they should be using their gifting for both of these purposes. Beyond that, they must not forget this efficiency for 12, where it says that they're supposed to equip people for the works of service. So someone who has an apostolic gifting, not only is he busy in doing his apostolic ministry work, he must also start looking at the people in the church and recognize who has that gifting. And if we see, we see people who have that gifting, it is his responsibility to go to them and start teaching them how to be apostles. Now, this does not mean that they're going to give up the work which God has given them, and they're going to become full-time ministers. No, they'll continue working in the MNC where they are working. You know, they'll continue serving in the business which God has given to them. But in those places, they will become apostols. They will bring one small group of people together. They'll say, you know, why don't we gather together? There's some interesting experiences that I'm going through in my life. I want to share those things with you. And then you guys can talk about what's going on in your lives. So they get, they start having a chai gathering, where they all get together to have chai. And out of that grows a little fellowship. Now, nobody on earth is going to call that person an apostle. But you know what? Someone took the effort to train that person and teach him how to use this apostolic gifting, and that man is using it in his business place. He's using it in his, you know, in his MNC. So nobody's ever going to call him a apostle, but he's actually using his apostolic gifting. So we have believers, the church is filled with believers with all kinds of giftings. And the five-fold ministry people are the ones who should recognize that gifting in different people and start equipping them, start training them so that they can use, you know, because you see the apostle who's in the five-fold ministry has more experience. He's been doing this for many years. He knows how to do it, how not to do it, how he can improve himself in this gifting. He has so much experience sitting in his head and is not passing it on to the people who have this gifting. And they are the ones who actually go to places where he will never be able to go. If he tries to go into one of the tech parks, the gate fellow will not even allow you inside. But that person can enter the tech park every day. So he can be an apostle over there. You will never be an apostle or a prophet over there. That person can. So if you can pass on your intelligence and your wisdom and your experience to that person and say, but this is the way to be a prophet. You know what? No, this is the way you hear from God and this is the way you speak it out.  This is the way to convey what God is telling you.  So when you're having the quiet time in your family, this is the good way to teach. If you do it like this, then all your family members will sit up and actually benefit from what is being done during the family prayer.  Show them, once you recognize that they also have that gifting which you have, it becomes your responsibility to equip the other believers in that gifting because you have now gained more experience in that particular field. So this is what the five-fold ministry people do. In this way, they also can contribute towards edifying the church. Just to look at another function, one main function of the church is basically when believers gather together for a church service. Some of us will use the term worship, worship service. Some of us will just simply call it, you know, church service. But so when we say worship service, we're not talking about just singing songs. We're talking about the overall worship experience where we are gathered in God's presence. What exactly should happen in a worship service? If we were to look at the early church, they were basically doing four things. That would be Acts chapter two verse 47. If someone can read out, Acts 247. Okay, it doesn't mention in Acts 247. I think it mentions in 45 or 46, you know, when it talks about the four things that they were doing together. This old property and positions to give to anyone who had need. Every day, they continue to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number, daily those who were being said. So you see, they basically were doing four things. They would all listen to what the apostles are teaching. So they would, you know, pay attention to the teaching. Then they would have a time of fellowship together where they are, you know, using their giftings to help each other to, you know, to encourage each other to cause each other to grow. So that's the time of fellowship that they are having. There would be a time of prayer where they're all together interceding, asking the Lord for certain things. And then, of course, they would be having the breaking of the bread. They together, they would remember this is what Jesus Christ did for us. So this is the covenant under which we all are together. So in this way, we can now actually use these covenant rights that we have. So they would, they would reflect on what Jesus Christ has done for them and they would together break bread. So these are things which they were doing, you know, that was their worship service. So maybe all of our worship services, you know, in whatever way we actually conduct it, maybe these four essential things should be part of our worship. First Corinthians 1426 talks about another aspect of worship service. Yeah, someone can read out 1 Corinthians 1426. What then shall we say, brothers and sisters, when you come together, each of you has a hymn or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may build up. Yes. So I, from the, from the, you know, many, many years have, you know, been part of cell groups. So in cell groups is basically where I see this happening. You know, in our, in our formal church services, it's not possible for everyone to participate and do something, but I've seen this happening lots of times in cell groups where each person will have a hymn or a word of instruction or a revelation or a tongue or an interpretation. So when you have a small group of believers gathering together, each person has got something to contribute and what they say, you know, such a blessing to everyone in the group. So in my early, you know, days, not early days as in age-wise or even in my Christian walk, but early days as in when I was first getting familiar with this whole idea of the Holy Spirit and all of that. And in fact, this whole idea of even cell groups. So back in those days, you know, I would go to the cell group and it was like everything was so, so new to me. There would be this group of, you know, people sitting over there and each of them would have something wonderful to say. And I was, I used to sit over there like a sponge absorbing everything that was coming out of their mouths. Some of them would have encouraging words to say. Someone would say, let's sing this particular song because I feel that God is leading us to sing this particular song. So then someone will pick up the guitar and start, you know, playing it and then everyone sings it and the words will be so meaningful to everyone who's over there.  So I used to see all these things happening in the cell groups and I was like, okay, this is the way the early church services took place. They didn't have formal buildings where, you know, 100 people could gather.  So our cell group leader, you know, she would say, she would say, next time when you come, you know, come prepared. Ask the Lord during the week, Lord, how can I be a blessing to the cell group? So I want each of you to do that. So during the week, you know, I was like very, very excited, very enthusiast. I say, Lord, I too want to be a blessing to the cell group. So Lord, this week you tell me, you tell me how I can be a blessing. So God would give me something and I would go there very excited and I would share my little bit. And that is how, in fact, I learned how to do ministry. I was not even in full-time ministry at that time, but in those beautiful places where I actually learned how to become a minister first of all, that was my training ground. So cell groups are such a blessing. Those are the places where you learn to receive from people, where you learn to adjust to people, and you also learn that you also have something to contribute to others. They are beautiful places of development. So in our current day setting, it's not possible, you know, to always have that kind of small church settings. So we have bigger churches. You know, we have where you have 400 people meeting, 500 people meeting. It can't be helped. But I think everyone should be a part of the small little church, the cell group thing, because that is where actual growth and development happens. So for the Old Testament people, in fact, that was the only kind of church which they had in those days. Another thing that we see in many of these scriptures is, like it says in Acts chapter 13 verses 2 to 3, it says, while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, so and so. So they spend times of fasting as well. So that's another important aspect of the worship service where maybe sometimes the congregation meets together to just fast, not think about food, not think about the preparation of food and all that, you know, effort it involves, but just sit over there and focus on God, make time for him and then he will speak. He will speak to the congregation. He will tell them what this Ecclesia needs to do next, because we remember, right, the Ecclesia is a very powerful body. It's meant to accomplish great things. So when they come together and they spend some time in fasting and wait upon him, he conveys information to them and then, of course, this Ephesians 519, which talks about, yeah, someone can read out Ephesians 519. Speaking to one another with Psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit, sing and make music from your heart to the Lord. Okay, so it says over here, speak to one another in Psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit and this verse was very difficult for me to understand. I used to think, how on earth are you going to talk to people and say, hey, hi, and to start singing some, that person will think there's something very wrong with you. They'll ask, what did you have in the morning, because they'd be suspicious that you probably had the wrong substances. So you see, it does not make sense, but when Paul was saying it, he meant it in a very practical way, both in the Old Testament times and in the New Testament times. They didn't have much access to written, you know, notebooks and paper and all that. So everything had to be contained in the head. So it was very easy for them to convert all spiritual teachings into either song form or poetic form, because it has a rhythm and it's easy to remember. It kind of gets stuck in your mind. So in fact, they would almost convert everything into a song or a poem and they would memorize it. So it's basically saying over here, speak to one another about these things, you know, the Psalms and hymns and all which you people as a gathering have, you know, composed and collected. So, so encourage each other by reminding each other of, you know, that.  I just share the verse with her, not in song form, who I think she wouldn't be able to bear that, but I would just, you know, speak it to her.  The Lord will tell you on what occasion, you know, to use what kind of words, what you can say to be a blessing to the other people in the group. So these are all things that we are supposed to be doing together as a worship service when we meet together to be an Ecclesia and of course it's also important, there is a social component to our, you know, to our functions as the body of Christ. We are supposed to be concerned about the world outside. We can't just keep thinking about ourselves. We also need to have a concern for the world which is there around us, so which is why Jesus also, when he's talking, you know, in Matthew 25 verses 35 to 36, he talks about some things which the followers of God will do. True followers, the ones who are really genuinely the followers of Jesus Christ, these are the things which they will do. You know, those who are hungry, they will feed them. Those who are thirsty, it says here, they will be given drink to or water to drink. It talks about how when there are strangers who come, they will invite them and show them hospitality. Those who have no clothes, they will, you know, spend the money to buy clothes for them. It talks about how when someone is sick, they will look after them. It talks about how they visit the prisons to encourage the prisoners and help them, you know, and all of that. So these are things which we need to have a social concern for the people outside. We can't always, you know, be happy talking in Psalms to one another and be content. That is important because that is how we are edified. But once we are edified, we also need to go out and show the love of Christ to other people because that's basically how we become the salt and the light. You cannot always stay inside the church and be the salt and the light. You know, there'll be too much salt in the church then. So it's better for us to go out, you know, and spread that flavor among the people who need flavor. There's no flavor in their lives.  So the social concerns are important. We have, you know, Acts chapter 6 is a very good example. What were these believers doing? They were taking care of the widows who had no support because back then, you know, women on their own had no financial independence. So either you need to have a father or you need to have a brother or at least a son. And if you don't have any men, then you are in a very, very helpless state.  So such people, the believers were actually, it looks like as if, you know, they were collecting money and buying groceries for them and making sure that everyone needs a met. So they were actually taking an effort to look after the widows. Only thing, of course, they were having problems with the admin.  So then they had to, you know, make some arrangements for that. The Holy Spirit tells them whom to choose, whom to appoint, so that thing is taken care of. So it is so important to even attend to the needs of people. Acts chapter 9, verse 36 to 39, you know, okay, verses 36 and verse 39, where it talks about this lady, Dorcas, it says that she was someone who always did good and helped the poor. And this is what it says about her in verse 39. Acts 9, 39, please. Okay, so imagine there, like she's, you know, so they're all standing over there, these widows and they are crying and it says over there, they showed him, see, this is what she actually made with her hands for us. There is a person who could have used her talent as a business venture. You know, Dorcas, you know, clothing manufacturers, she could have started a business. But what did she use her talent for? To make clothes for people who will not be able to pay her for it. They won't be able to pay her for those robes and clothes that she's making. She was doing it because of the love that she has in her heart for the people who are needy. And so you actually literally have the widows standing over there and showing these things, you know, to Peter and say, see, she actually made this for me. You know, so that was the beautiful kind of person that she was. So these are all things. So while we are very, very busy in, you know, catering to the needs of the church, within the church, you must not forget that Jesus Christ said, those who are hungry, you should be feeding them. The people in the prison, you should be visiting them. So we should, you know, kind of strike a good balance. There are churches which have become social organizations. That is going to one extreme. Never forget that your duty is for spiritual matters. So don't become a go to the extreme of, you know, turning your church into a social organization. But at the same time, don't go to the other extreme of just focusing on yourself and your church and your ministry and ignoring the people who are in need. So both the extremes have to be avoided. The well-balanced approach is to focus on spiritual things, you know, and strengthen people in that. But at the same time, also attend to those who are in need and take care of their physical needs as well. So maybe we could, you know, now get into the two sacraments of the church. That's the term that is used in your notes. And what on earth is a sacrament? It's just basically, you know, the practices, the two practices that Jesus wanted us to follow on a permanent basis. So there are many, many different things which different churches do, all of which is good. But at least two basic things every single church should be doing. And that's basically your water baptism and the Lord's Supper, simply because the scriptures are talking about these two things. Okay, so when we do these two things, it helps us to better understand what Christ has done on the cross for us. And when we actually do it, the power of Christ's work on the cross is released into our lives. So we don't do it just to obey. We also do it because when we do it in obedience, the power of God which is there in the work of the cross gets released into our lives through these two physical actions. Okay, so maybe we can first begin by looking at water baptism. Now we first get to know about water baptism in Matthew chapter 3, where you have John the Baptist, you know, he's calling people to come and get baptized. And this is the reason why they actually come to him and get baptized. Why did they do it? Why do they undergo this ceremony for a particular purpose? Matthew chapter 3 verses 5 to 6. People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of Jordan confessing their sins. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river. Okay, so back then in those days baptism was practiced by a lot of religious groups. So it is not like something which John the Baptist introduced. But he gave this whole baptism ceremony a new meaning. He told people, come and do this to show that you are feeling repentant. He's not saying that the water over there is going to clean their sins. He never ever said that. He never said that if they come and no dip themselves in that water, that water will make them spiritually clean. He never said that. He said, do it to show, to show God and to show people that you are ashamed of your sins and that you want to repent and then God will do his work in your heart. So do it as a sign that you are genuinely turning your back on all your past, on all your sinful life and you're saying from now on I'm making a commitment to follow Yahweh. So that's basically why they would come. So it says over here confessing their sins, they were baptized by him. Then Jesus comes along and Jesus Christ is also baptized by John the Baptist. Now Jesus Christ had no sins to confess He had never done any sinful thing. So why does he undergo the you know the entire ceremony? He explains that to John the Baptist in Matthew chapter 3 verses 13 to 15. If we can have someone read out please Matthew 3 13 to 15. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Zodan to be baptized by John but John tried to detail him saying I need to be baptized by you and do you come to me. Jesus replied let it be so now it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness then John consented. So Jesus Christ does not undergo the baptism ceremony because he has got anything to repent rather he does it it says over here to fulfill all righteousness. This is just something that God asked him to do and so he chooses to do it simply because the Father is directing him to do it and then later on we get to know you know that there's a kind of spiritual significance to that because in Romans 6 it talks about how we were buried with him how we rose with him. So maybe I mean some scholars they say maybe Jesus went through that as a kind of acting out of what we would be spiritually going through in Christ later on. So we don't really know in what way righteousness was fulfilled why in what way God asked him to for what purposes God asked him to undergo this ceremony but Jesus obeyed he complied and he tells John the Baptist we must fulfill all righteousness God is asking me to do this so you must baptize me and you know John the Baptist agrees and so the baptism is done. Now for us believers why do we get baptized we mainly do it because that's basically what the great commission clearly tells us to do. It talks about how when anybody absolutely anybody becomes a believer becomes a disciple of Jesus Christ automatically they are expected to be baptized because that's what it says right it says go and baptize in the name of yeah I know Jesus so we it is something that is expected it's a part of the great commission so we basically do it out of obedience and it also um maybe we can also read Acts chapter 2 verse 38 Peter replied repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Okay so over here it says every one of you okay this is basically where Peter is talking you know immediately after the Pentecost experience you know he and the other people who are in the in the room have been filled with the Holy Spirit and now he's speaking to the crowd and he says every one of you repent and be baptized because in one sense baptism is a outward declaration that from now on I have turned my back on the past I've turned my back on all the simple things and now you know I'm looking ahead so in John the Baptist times they would be looking to Yahweh but over here you know in Acts chapter 2 verse 38 he's asking them to focus on Jesus Christ whom you crucified he says because he's the saviour he's the one who can save you so he so over here he is saying in the name of Jesus Christ you know be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins because Jesus Christ will forgive you of your sins the water will not forgive your sins Jesus Christ will forgive you your sins you repent and you submit to him and show your submission by undergoing the you know the water baptism because that's the outward demonstration of your trust and submission to him so it says over here that this thing should be done in the name of Jesus Christ in the sense we do this baptism ceremony because the authority to do so has been given to us by Jesus Christ you know when he actually spoke the great commission he said go and baptized so it's something that Jesus Christ has authorized the church to do and that is why we do it in the name of Jesus and but the actual baptism is done you know in the name of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit so this is the formula which is used you know in apc when they are doing the baptism so the pastor who is doing the baptism ceremony this is what he says in Jesus name in the sense because of the authority that Jesus Christ has given in the name of Jesus I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit okay so we do it in the name of Jesus in the sense because of the authority that he has given us we are now doing this okay so so Romans chapter 6 verse 4 kind of explains to us the symbolic meaning in water baptism it's like you know symbolically you're picturing in your mind oh when I went under the water it's the same as when I was buried with Christ you know because you remember that old sinful person that old sinful spirit was crucified and the person became a new creation so when they come out of the water symbolically they are saying oh yes now I have risen up as a new creation that other person that sinful person has has stayed over there dead buried and now who has come outside a new person which is why it says you know in Romans 6 4 we too may live a new life because now you have come out as a new creation so baptism is also a symbolic acting out of what Jesus Christ did for us originally and of course you know baptism has to be you know through water because it's talking about baptism which is basically immersion something has to be literally immersed inside the water for it to be you know so if you have a piece of cloth and you know you just dip the edge of the cloth in the water you will not say I am baptism or the cloth no you're not baptism of the cloth you're just dipping it when you actually take that cloth and you put it right inside the bucket then you can proudly say I baptism of the cloth yes you definitely have baptism of the cloth because it's not fully immersed inside the bucket so that word literally is talking about immersion so you can't you know sprinkle a few drops on a person and say I baptism so you it basically means that they have not understood that word that word is just talking about actual something being under the water completely immersed in it so which is why we do it you know with through immersion and another important thing that we need to understand about water baptism acts chapter 8 36 to 38 if someone can read out acts 8 36 to 38 as they traveled along the road they came to some water and and and Enoch said look here is water what can stand in the way of my of my being baptized and he gave orders to stop chariot then both Pilip and Enoch went down into the water and Pilip baptized him okay so this is some very important official and he's on the ways to some place and he's so hungry to know the truth that he's you know reading some scroll from Isaiah and then you know so Philip is able to explain to him the meaning of what is written over there and so this person understands what Jesus Christ has done and this person is now eager to become a follower of Jesus Christ so he sees you know even as they're going by they see this body of water over there and he says look look there's some water over there I want to get baptized right now so what are the exact words he uses is what can stand in the way of my being baptized so then Philip does not open his mouth and say ah no no no you're not holy enough you need to first go attend church you need to do all these commandments you know then after you do all those things then you come back to me then I will baptize you no you don't need to be you know you don't need to go through a whole bunch of spiritual rituals to qualify yourself for baptism the minute you have placed your faith in the Lord Jesus you know it is all right once you have understood what Jesus Christ has done for you once someone explains to you you know water baptism is basically this it's talking about what Jesus Christ has done for you so they open up Romans chapter 6 they explain to you what Jesus Christ has done for you if you just understood the basics enough it's enough you don't need to be like extra holy to get baptized because this man says what can stand in the way of my being baptized nothing nothing needs to stand in this way so immediately right then and there Philip baptizes him okay so um and another thing to remember is just because you have undergone water baptism you have not become a spiritual giant automatically no you still have to read the bible you still have to pray you still have to learn how to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit these are all things which you still have to learn but because you have done this act this physical act out of obedience to him honoring what he has told you to do you know the the work of the cross which was done on the you know on the cross for you that will be released into your life and that is why many people once they undergo the baptism they feel a break from many bondages you know in case they were addicted to something in case they were unable to come out of something on their own in case they were suffering from some sickness many times because they are doing it out of faith in Jesus and they are honoring him by doing it in that moment God who honors their faith releases something into their physical body even so even at the physical level sometimes they break out of bondages which were earlier there you know by the by the simple act of obeying the Lord and doing the water baptism so so in the same way even the Lord's table when we do that in obedience when we do it meaningfully the power of the work of the cross can actually physically get released into our situations if we are doing it in a meaningful manner so why do we celebrate the Lord's table it reminds us about the death burial and resurrection of Jesus so first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 16 if someone could read out is is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks participation in the blood of Christ and is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ so the reason that we're actually partaking in the Lord's table is because it reminds us of what Jesus Christ did and we are you know in a physical way choosing to participate to act out what was done for us in the spiritual realm so we take that wafer or that you know piece of bread and we are thinking you know even as we eat it we are thinking oh yes i'm actually united with Christ he told me to eat his flesh and drink his blood so that i can be a part of him you know so in that sense i'm placing my faith in him and in him i have life because i am feeding on him i have life so we don't we don't tell ourselves that piece of bread has got anything divine in it no but it stands it's symbolizing something extremely powerful and true the work of the cross so we realize that this is what it's pointing towards is little piece of bread is pointing towards what Jesus did on the cross for me so we choose to believe that and we choose to participate in what Jesus did on the cross and what Jesus did on the cross actually gets released into our physical life and into our you know natural situations so in that way by faith we choose to participate as a reminder and also to actually experience you know what Jesus Christ did on the cross for us and so when we are partaking of the Lord's table because we have just four you know six minutes left you know we just kind of quick quick quicken up the pace two things very very important regarding you know the communion regarding participating in the Lord's table remember that this is a reminder of your union with Christ and it is also a reminder of your union with one another because you see in the early New Testament church they would use one single loaf of bread and that bread was broken into many many pieces and everybody would be eating it so they're all eating from one single loaf so the meaning came out more clearly today you know you can't have one loaf of bread you know for 400 people it would have to be a very huge mountain of a bread and then there will logistic reasons you know you can't bring it into the church and whatnot so it's just not practical right so which is why today you know we have these independent little wafers and all of that but look at the actual meaning even as each of each person takes that little piece they are saying oh yes I am part of God's body I'm part of one body so not only are we very very aware of our union with Christ and all the blessings that now he can release into our life because of what the cross has done even as we are taking it we also remember that we are in union with the rest of the body they are all part of our body all the part of Christ's body so sorry very very wrong doctrine okay we're all part of Christ's body I meant you know they're all part of our family I meant it in that sense so remember that these other believers sitting around you with the communion cup and the wafer those people are part of your family so how what is your attitude towards them so that is why in that moment if you can remember someone with against whom you have a grudge or something please please this is a very serious thing that you're doing your partaking of that one body of Christ please forgive that person in that very moment you know do not partake of that communion with with division in your heart with strife in your heart so it's so important that we should not only be deeply aware of our union with Christ when we are doing this we must also be very deeply aware of our union with the other believers as we do it then you know the Lord is honored if we take the partake of the Lord's table in this honorable manner so we we are careful to make sure that there is no sin you know which is which is like mocking God so we need to make sure that there's no sin between us and God we make sure of that we also make sure that we have nothing against anyone else you know so we make sure of that and then we also do it understanding what we are doing it's not something that we are doing because our parents did and our grandparents did it rather we are doing it because we have understood that this is symbolizing what Jesus Christ did for me he gave his body he his body was broken for me not just for my forgiveness of sins but for my healing you know for me to be able to have a shalom abundant life you know so he gave himself for so many things and so we remember and we do it meaningfully so when we do it meaningfully obviously what Christ has actually done on the cross for us is released into our life and our situations so you know something that I actually what the Lord told me to do I think since three or four months ago three or four months ago you know because I was going through some very difficult things you know regarding my family and all of that and the Lord you know as I was taking the communion you know elements in my hand I was holding it and the Lord said you know thank me that I am fulfilling my covenant towards you and your family because all my you know I would keep praying every day and say Lord do this do this because you're a covenant keeping God do this for my family and God was saying you're holding the elements in your hand which symbolize my covenant with you are you willing to acknowledge that I am fulfilling my covenant I'm not waiting for a hundred years and then I will fulfill my covenant even right now I am fulfilling my covenant towards you and your family and so ever since then you know when I'm holding the elements I say yes Lord this is a symbol of your covenant with me and you are being so faithful whether I can see it with my physical eyes or not I know that you are a covenant keeping God and you are fulfilling your covenant towards me towards my family and I just say thank you Lord thank you Lord and so when the time comes whatever it is they know that we are asking for as a family it will be fulfilled because he is a covenant keeping God so it's very important to remember that this is a symbol of the covenant that he has made with us and we're holding that it's a reminder that his body was broken for us his blood was shed so that we can have union with God and we are at peace with the Father so you know so we can come to his throne with confidence because of what he has done all right so these are some things that we keep in mind even as we partake of the Lord's table we're completely out of time so you know we'll just close with the word of prayer Lord we just thank you so much for all these lessons that you have taught us today O Lord regarding the Holy Spirit and regarding your church I pray O Lord that we will live with the awareness that we each of us that each of us are very very important parts of the body of Christ and we actually have a very vital role to play in the development and blessing of the entire body whether we realize it or not whether people realize it or not we are very very important each one of us so we pray that you would help us to live responsibly to take the effort to grow in you so that we can be better used by you and I pray O Lord that we would truly be a blessing to everyone around us O Lord you help us O Lord to be responsible members of your Ecclesia thank you Lord in Jesus name Amen Amen Thank you so much


Hi, I'm Den Sheehan here. My thoughts on Deepin as an open box user. First of all, let's begin with an introduction to Deepin, the desktop environment, because it is also a Linux distribution that comes with the desktop environment, but the main focus of everything Deepin is the actual desktop. So Deepin is meant to be beautiful first and foremost. If you go to the website, it will say, well, you know, this entire desktop environment is focused around just looking very, very good and sure having functionality for everyday use so it's marketed towards the average user, but not for less powerful hardware. And I'll touch upon that later. It is a large library of Deepin programs, so Deepin's music player, notes program, talk about those later as well. And they're specifically for the desktop environment. Obviously you can install them for other things, but they're really meant to be used with Deepin. So let's begin with exactly that, what I really liked. The ecosystem, so I really do enjoy when desktop environments have some kind of ecosystem. So in this case, we have the calendar program open, the file manager, the settings and the text editor all open here in the Deepin desktop environment and they look beautiful. You can set an accent color to change as well. It's part of the GTK theme. You know, they're just very well designed aesthetically and they functionally work together. Here's another example, you got the PDF viewer, got the notebook, like audio recording thing, their notes program, kind of it's called the draw or something, but it's very good. It's a vector software, which is kind of odd for a notes program, but okay. And that's their terminal emulator, running Kava. So here's another screenshot, got the calculator and the really, really good Deepin music program, it's a great program. So yeah, I really did like the Deepin ecosystem. So it's clearly a well-designed desktop environment and it's polished. The programs fit in aesthetically and functionally. However, it's a bit big. The space it takes up, so that's 646.75 megabytes to download, install Deepin and it's 174.38 to download it, which is a lot. And for some reason, if you look down on that screenshot at the bottom right, it installs a little thing in the kernel, which I don't really get the point of them. I don't really know what that does, but I wouldn't let a desktop environment install something into my kernel. It's also literally big. So the actual display scaling by default is set to 1.25, like it's just stupidly large for some reason, that kind of caught me off guard, but I just had to lower it and restart and it was basically fixed. I don't think that's such a good idea. I guess it's supposed to be marketed towards users who want a lot of beautiful and I guess high-resolution monitors come with that, like a really beautiful environment on a high-resolution monitor, but I don't think it looks any good. So I'm not a big fan of the display scaling being so high by default. Here, as you can see, I've turned it down to one, but it's still quite large. Here's another thing I disliked, performance. So Deepin literally uses around 1.7 just gigabytes idle, not doing anything at all, which is a lot. That sounds like we're getting to Windows numbers there. It's a lot for a desktop environment and sure it does look good and it has a lot of effects, but that's a lot of memory. So it is an incredibly high-resource usage, more than GNOME, and this is mostly due to a combination of using GTK 3, which is heavy, along with heavily themiate and animations. It has a lot of background processes that run to ensure certain functionality at the desktop environment. So yeah, it's got a lot of stuff running in it. And another thing I disliked is it's a little too closed. I'm not, like, like, closed. I mean, more that I'm not a big fan of them theming GTK the way they do. It does look really good, but you know, Deepin is false, so this isn't concerning freedom or just code availability. So when I say closed, I'm not talking about it being proprietary. Although some people say that it's Chinese spyware, but that's not really justified. But as I said, things like the global GTK 3 theme can mess some programs up, and it's very clear when you start Deepin that it's really meant to be used with its programs and not the programs that you wanna choose, which is normally what will happen in a window manager or a more stock desktop environment. So yeah, my conclusion is Deepin is a bit weird to me. It's very polished, a very polished desktop environment to choose. It's very well made and stuff. It's got a lot of programs, but it's got some glaring flaws, like the fact that any program which isn't really meant for it sort of clashes, and it has that GTK 3 theme, which can mess some programs up. It's resource heavy, which I don't really like. I don't like for, you know, desktop environments that are really resource heavy and bit bloated, that's not good. But there's no denying it does look beautiful. It's going back to those screenshots from before. Yeah, it looks really, really good. It's got a very nice theming when it works together and a nice icons by default as well. So I hope you enjoyed this short video on the Deepin desktop environment. I'll be doing more of these desktop environment rundowns. Goodbye.


Sabatier's principle suggests that for hydrogen evolution, a plot of rate constant versus hydrogen adsorption energy should result in a volcano, but this is not observed when oxide-covered metals are excluded. The reaction rate is determined by several factors and not just Sabatier's principle. The case of nickel is given special attention because it is a 3D metal and its orbitals are compact, making it a poor catalyst for hydrogen adsorption. This article was authored by Paula Quino, Fernanda Juarez, Elizabeth Santos, and others.


Today, we are going to discuss the classification algorithms based on distance. At the end of the session, the student will be able to demonstrate various classification algorithms that are distance based and we will be able to compare between them. What are these distance based algorithms? They are based on the strategy that each item is mapped to the same class is more similar to other items in that class. So constring a distance, we will see that all items in this particular distance are more similar than items of some other distance in the same class. So similarity also called as a distance measure may be useful to identify a likeness of different items in your database. Using a similarity measure is simpler for classification since the classes are known well in advance. All classification problems define classes well in advance. If definition is in the form of an information retrieval query, the classification problem is to determine the similarity between each tuple and the query. So first, we will use a very simple approach where we assume that each tuple Ti in the database of consideration is defined as a vector Ti1, Ti2 up to TiK, all of enumeric values and each class Cj is defined by the tuple consisting of Cj1, Cj2 up to Cjk also of numeric values. So first we define this particular method given a database D of tuples T1 up to Tn where each tuple Ti is less than or equal to a combination of tuples Ti1, Ti2 up to TiK containing all numerical values and a set of classes C1 up to Cm where each class Cj is again consisting of numerical values of Cj1, Cj2 up to Cjk. So now the classification problem is to assign each tuple Ti to the class Cj such that TiCj combination is greater than equal to some similarity measure between Ti and Cl where for all values of Cl being element of C where Cl is not equal to Cj concentrate on the definition it's all dependent on a similarity measure. So the method for similarity method representative vector for each class must first be determined then we calculate the center for each region and try to find out the distance between the items and the center and we place each item in a class where it is more similar to the center of the class that means the distances are equal. Here is the algorithm where we calculate the centers for each class in the various probably partitions we input the tuples to be classified from your database and we output a class to which this tuple is assigned. The algorithm consists of first assigning distance to infinity and then trying to find out how much it is actually doing this for all the classes that is assigning now the distance associated and then keeping this distance to be less than a distance value Dist and then associating it to find out that particular distance. So we see here that for the class A all the distance from the center of all these particular tuples associated are the same for the class B again distances are the same for the class C again distances are the same so all those particular tuples having equal distance from the center are put into a particular class and then we have three classes class A class B and class C based on similarity or the distance measure. The next aspect that we have to consider is the nearest neighbors where we consider K nearest neighbor to a particular item. So we have certain assumptions the entire training set includes not only the data in the set but also desired classification for each item. The training data becomes now the model for classification of the new item distance of each item in the training set must be determined. So first we are doing a training creating of the model and then we are doing a classification. So the K closest entries in the training set are considered further and a new item placed in the class contains most items from the set K closest items. So which are the closest neighbors are taken into our particular class. So this is how we develop the classification using K and N okay again we see the distance to find out who are the closest neighbors and this K and N method starts with the training data calculating K as the number of neighbors calculating T input tuples to be classified and outputting the classes which T is assigned. The algorithm to classify tuples using a K and N assumes that we have to start somewhere calculate the distance calculate the tuples at that particular distance okay which is finding out all the tuples at a particular distance and assuming them to be similar then putting them into the classes for classification. So all the tuples which are closest then next closest then next closest are neighbors of each other at that particular level. So K and N technique is extremely sensitive to the value of K where the number of thumb rule is K is always less than or equal to the square root of the number of training items. For our references we have used thank you.


Being married to Britney Spears at one point in time, especially when she was at the top of the world, Kevin Federline knew what it was like to live in luxury. After their divorce, however, Kevin would live in a couple of California area rentals before eventually finding love again and moving into a new home. While Kevin and Britney have led very separate lives, aside from sharing their sons together, most recently, his famous ex-wife became his neighbor, believe it or not. So Michael and I have dropped our own house tour of our new home that we moved into this year, so go ahead and subscribe to our personal channel if you want to see where we're living and more of what we're up to. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses, and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. For a brief period of time, a large part of the world's male population would have given anything to be Kevin Federline while he was dating and then married to one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Britney Spears. These two got hitched in 2002 before proceeding to go down and pop culture infamy with the release of their reality series, Britney and Kevin, A Chaotic. I really need to watch that. Anyways, then just two months after their second son was born in 2006, Britney would file for divorce and Kevin would pack it in, seldom to be heard from again outside of conversations revolving around his ex and their two children. Following their divorce, Spears' defenders would never forgive Kevin for disrupting her life and asking for five-figure monthly child support payments. But considering Kevin had been handed over sole physical custody of their sons, Preston and Jaden, he has always insisted that the money that he asked for was to provide for their kids. After getting divorced, Kevin would wind up moving into some rentals in California where he'd spend the next few years of his life putting himself back together. Later on, Kevin would find love once again with volleyball player turned special education teacher Victoria Prince in 2008. These two would then move into a new home and start a family of their own with two daughters. But just as Kevin and his family had finally started fresh, Britney and her hubby, Sam Asgari, would move in right down the street. Hey guys, it's Kara back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment and today we're looking at where Kevin Federline calls home. Don't forget to like, subscribe and hit me up on Instagram to chat and now let's get into this video. Way back when, in December of 2006, the former Mr. Britney Spears found himself in need of a place to live after his pop star wife filed for divorce kicked him out of her Malibu home. So Kevin headed over the hill to the California neighborhood of Tarzana where he leased a newly renovated house. In fact, if you all can remember that far back in time, it was in front of this very house that Britney had herself something of a breakdown screaming at the paparazzi who had followed her there. But who could blame her? But let's circle back to Kevin's former rental instead. The actual owner of this property when Kevin lived here was a real estate agent who purchased the house in 2004 for just $750,000. A major renovation was then undertaken in 2006 and the house would eventually hit the market again after Kevin moved out for a much improved $2.5 million price point. During his time in the home, Kevin reportedly paid around $7,000 a month to lease a house that might just happen to be one of the beigest McMahon chants in the history of Los Angeles. Whether it's the oatmeal colored carpet, the brownish yellow travertine floors or the sandy colored walls with wood window trim, this 6,000 square foot home is about as boring as you can imagine a giant house like this looking on the inside. In Kevin's defense, at least it came with a few interesting bells and whistles like a home theater, a gym, five fireplaces, a steam shower, multiple walk-in closets, as well as five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, which I would imagine was more than enough space for Kevin and his two young sons. After spending a few months in that rental, Kevin would eventually upgrade to yet another Tarzana mansion, this one a Mediterranean style home that measures in at 6,826 square feet while including seven bedrooms as well as eight and a half bathrooms. I can't imagine a bachelor like Kevin was at this time cleaning one bathroom let alone eight and a half of them, but with his two sons from Brittany and two other children he had with his former partner Shar Jackson to care for, I guess Kevin just really needed that extra space. Furthermore, this new rental was located in a gated community in a small development that bordered the El Caballeros country club, which meant that there wouldn't be a repeat of that paparazzi scene that unfolded right in front of his former non-gated house. At the time he lived here, Kevin's residence was owned by a real estate agent again, who bought the property for 2.25 million dollars in May 2004. For the finer details, the house was constructed in a Tuscan style with a gourmet kitchen that included stainless steel, wolf and sub-zero branded culinary appliances, as well as an exterior fireplace and TV, a water fountain and even an infinity pool with waterfalls. At the very least, it sounds like Kevin's kids would have enjoyed this place a lot more than their former house. Eventually, however, Kevin left behind his bachelor ways when he met volleyball player Victoria Prince. Within five years, these two were married with a kid, which led to yet another move. Considering how large of a family Kevin has with six kids total from three different women and that he's generally kept himself out of the public eye for the past decade or so, the home he lives in today hasn't been as well documented. What we do know is that he lives with Victoria and their blended family in the Calabasas region of California, where it's believed that his new home is a five-bedroom, six-bathroom abode with 6,000 square feet of space. The home boasts an attached garage alongside front steps that lead up to the front entrance of the house. Inside, the foyer features travertine flooring with a winding wrought iron staircase, while the kitchen includes granite countertops, as well as custom wood cabinets. Additionally, the home is set to include a finished basement down below, one that comes fully stocked with a web bar, as well as a home theater set up, wine cellar and sauna. It's unclear for how long Kevin's called the place home, but my best guess is it's been the better part of 10 years, probably around the time that he and Victoria got hitched in 2013. Another assumption on my part is that one of the reasons we know so little about this place is that there really hasn't been any need to discuss Kevin since he's more or less retired from the spotlight. But there was that recent news that Brittany and her new hubby, Samas Garry, recently bought a new place of their own. And guess what? It's located just down the street from Kevin's. After getting married to Sam in June of 2022, Brittany would drop an epic $11.8 million for an amenity-packed mansion filled with everything from a wine cellar to a 10-seat movie theater with Dolby surround sound and a room dedicated to gift wrapping. But in fact, if you want to learn more about this incredible property, then you can check out our recent house tour that went in depth into everything that Brittany's new place has to offer. But we're going to look at how Brittany's sudden reappearance in her family's life has altered their living situation. You see, after Kevin was awarded sole custody of the couple's two children in 2007, it would take Brittany years to return to a 50-50 split in terms of custody of her sons. Then in August 2018, their arrangement was once again altered so that Brittany would only be with her sons 30% of the time, while the other 70% would be spent with Kevin. Kevin's new attorney would suggest that this new arrangement was in the best interest of their children, and considering what would happen next, he might have been right. When Brittany originally moved to Calabasas, a source would tell TMZ that Kevin was surprised that of all the neighborhoods she can afford to move to, she chose his. But as long as his peace and tranquility aren't invaded as a result, more power to her. But that tranquility must have been broken pretty fast because just recently, Kevin is given a sit-down interview to ITV News, in which he revealed that his sons, Preston and Jaden, have not seen their mother in many months, despite the fact that she lives so close to them. And according to Kevin, this decision was solely their own, and has more than a little to do with Brittany's behavior on social media. This is where she's taken to often posting nude or semi-nude pictures of herself since getting out from under her conservatorship last year. And while Kevin insists that the boys still love their mother, he would tell ITV, I try to explain to them, look maybe that's just another way she tries to express herself, but that doesn't take away from the fact of what it does to them. It's tough, I can't imagine how it feels to be a teenager having to go to high school, who knows how many people ask them about it, or talk to them about it. What do you guys think about all of this? Be sure to let me know in the comments down below, or what you think about K-Fed's properties. Thanks for tuning in, hit that subscribe button if you haven't, follow me on Instagram to chat, and I'll catch you all in another video. Bye!


Throughout my life I've increasingly found that reading scripture in public isn't just about feeding our own spirits and minds but about rehearsing the mighty acts of God for God's glory. So let's think together about Malachi chapter 1 verse 11 and first we're going to need some tea. For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations and in every place incense is offered to my name your offering for my name is great among the nations says the Lord of Hosts. This is an extraordinary statement through the prophet Malachi to the people who are in rebellion and they have come back from Babylon or some of them have at any rate they have rebuilt the temple they have restarted the sacrificial system is not this they might say what the prophets the earlier prophets had promised that this would happen but it seems that all is not yet well it seems that they don't believe that God himself has come back as he'd promised they're still waiting and as a result they are bored and they are careless they're not too bothered they're going through the motions this is the problem that Malachi addresses especially among the priests in the temple in Jerusalem they're bringing to the altar of the Lord animals that are not fit it's very clear in Leviticus and so on what sort of animals would be fit and pure as offerings and they're not following the regulations they're not getting it right and Malachi says lift up your eyes and see think who this God is you're supposed to be serving and in particular in this verse the remarkable promise that actually already the nations of the world are in some sense or other beginning to worship him of course the people of Israel knew that the nations in general were idolatrous they were following other gods and they were behaving like idolaters always do sooner or later but Malachi says nevertheless God knows that right there out among the nations are many people who are reaching out after God who are feeling for him and even the prophet says offering incense to his name this is such a puzzle that some interpreters have said we can only understand this as a prediction of what will happen through Jesus and the Holy Spirit much later after all Malachi in chapter 3 has that promise of the Lord coming to his temple the messenger of the covenant and that promise is quoted in the New Testament as being about John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus to come as the embodiment of Israel's God himself but I see here a link to those strange passages like we find for instance in Acts chapter 17 when Paul says on the Areopagus in Athens that God has made from one stock all nations of humans to dwell on the earth so that they might feel after him and find him this is the kind of generous view of the nations that we see peeping out here and there in the Old Testament and then of course reaffirmed with passages like the conversion of Cornelius again in the book of Acts when actually God knows that out there even among all the idolatry and wickedness there are many people who are feeling after him who are beginning to discern and discover that there is a great God to whom they owe allegiance I've heard missionaries say when they come back from far-flung countries and certainly this is in the literature particularly from the 19th century that when they went and preached about the one God of heaven and earth the God who is then made known in Jesus and by the Spirit some people in different locations would say we don't want anything to do with this other people would say well this is totally new we'll have to think about it and some would say we always thought there must be something like this there must be some truth of this sort and you have now brought it into sharp focus that's the sort of thing that I think is going on here in Malachi contrasting with the people who are supposed to be close to God the people who in the priesthood are supposed to know how to serve him and worship him no says Malachi you lot are getting it wrong and actually there are people who are putting you to shame people who haven't got an atom of your training and background and history but who nevertheless are worshiping are feeling after the God of heaven as in verse 14 I am a great king says the Lord of hosts my name is reverenced among the nations the nations here there is a God who is Lord of heaven and earth and he's the one we really ought to be worshiping so then within the sweep of Malachi as a whole we see those prophecies going forward to the time of the New Testament and for those who are then caught up with the whole Gentile mission in the New Testament which is most of us Christians here today we look back and say this was what God always intended and let us be careful as well lest we lapse into carelessness and casual service and not really bothering about how we worship or how we pray or how we study scripture let alone how we live in the world it's very easy for God's people to go slack on their obligations and to be therefore in need of the reminder that God is in fact honoured and glorified by many out there many who are first will be last and the last first said Jesus and therefore we should on ourselves be on our guard lest we fall into the same mistake that the priests were making then therefore we lift up our heads and say God's name is honoured people know in their bones that there is a great God of heaven and earth He is the God who calls us to His service so may God give us courage and confidence and vision to know that He is the great God and to serve Him as He deserves Amen


Welcome back to Inner Yard Reggae. If you're tuning in, trust me, you're tuning in to the most favorite show right now in 2-5-4. This is Inner Yard Reggae. Nino mazaidi apasi maze tokiwa na Michael Boondi na anyuma na kama umemha takidogo. Trust me, umekosa great show. Lakin ni bado, tu kona e kwa sababu bado, tu ta atakona tifani yama mbo, but Michael, welcome maze to show. Welcome to Inner Yard actually. The last time we heard you here, to look what's na fanya, a zoom thing.  Eliko normal. E maze tunai lewa wai. Ya, but na appreciate sana for making time to come. Yama na na una priyama social media kuzina umizu, designer power, when you make up for a show. But maze tunami e kama watundona kona sayi, kuna ajanja maybeona kona sayi. Maybe who is Michael Boondi before 2-1. Michael Boondi is Reggae artist, mostly a musical artist, defined by versatility and adaptability. Michael Boondi nimsimon yana leta lada koa songs, original by doing the baddest reggae covers in the world, and also making the world a better place with good music. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Umeske ya kizongo, versas ka na adaptability. Group of schools. Groups of schools. I will say it. But I'm feeling amazing. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling Iriya. Na guys, you'll just excuse me kido go kuna kabaridi, na jom na niskia. But Michael Boondi karibu tena. And kovilo mi zungumzi ya kusu unafanya cover songs and you're making them to be much better. Maybe at the moment kwa sababu ume perform four songs, right? And the last track ume perform ilikwa zero. One of the favorite tracks i like from Michael Boondi. Tell us, na kumbuka last time tu kizungumzi ho lini ambia kwa uli kuna fanya an album. Yeah man, I was doing an album which features a lot of artists from many parts of the world. I have artists from Nigeria, I have an artist from Nigeria, I have an artist from Jamaica. And a couple more artists, and the album is actually done. So it's going to be going live soon, yeah man. And I remember you told us kuli kuna etana, and you are doing the video. Is the video out yet? No, no the video is not out yet. Yeah. Nigeria do kituimengu jia sana, I know people have waited. Believe me I've also waited, sana. But the way it's working is that we are on an album. So songs inna fanya videos in a certain order. So songs to badui jia, figure kwa you list. But once it's time, we're going to do it. Okay, and you have some new tracks actually at the moment. And one of the new tracks which is doing so when it's Nairobi in the night. Yeah Nairobi in the night. You can just tell us briefly about Nairobi in the night. Nini ni kufanya wimu kwa mwa kwa undika Nairobi in the night. Kuna sku moja, miste hangu flani alini ambia 20 klub. Mi tangu kujena Nairobi sku kwa mwa kanya nga klub. Kwa kwa kwa life yung. Kwa fukta ftarez? Ligwa mwa kwa 4 years. Ligwa kwa kwa so many years jenda klub. So venin li fika kwa klub, mi ni kanzap kwa navitu si jaya ona. So ni kashitu kakuz. At one point nili teki demo li kwa kotebu flani wuko. So e ali kwa na jibamba ki dance na chaliflani. Alafun kwa na ulova sade na metu kukuyo tebo lamenda kwa tebo ingine. So unka kwa like... I'm a change wing. Kwa ni what's happening. So that's actually a little daily nika Nairobi in the night. Kwa Nairobi in the night, basically ni witu zanyazina apengu si kuna Nairobi. Basically the life ya Nairobi. But as with most of my songs, it's not just a song kwa kujibamba. It's a song that kind of tries to teach the young generation about responsibility. And guys, msi shangai DJ Dereja kia kwa sumu, kwa simu, ali kwa na Google yo kizungu yama kwa bondi. Don't you worry guys, ni kuna e apa. Ya, but in regards to Nairobi in the night, because I've listened to the lyrics and they're quite heavy. Is it about the girl child alone or also ume angalili apia? Actually, kwa Nairobi in the night kuna line ina enda So na check it. So ina angazia, every side of irresponsibility, ina happen all sides, ina happen the girl child, ina happen demanding people.  And also you have another tune, which is Kingdom Come. Ya, you've been doing a lot of tracks. Yes. Maybe if you really anticipate more kwa subabu you're doing a lot of tracks and apia Kingdom Come wa fanyana you to man mila sana. Tell us how did that happen? That's my son. So my son, I was in the studio na my son. So when I started singing, my son wanted to sing, so I just put him kwa mic. And he actually did the chorus. Okay. Then I was surprised, but he did it so well. And we're going to be premiering video ya ke so soon. Amazing, amazing, amazing. There's something I just want to ask. Uli anza kucho chalini ya di umetupigia ma Goti bro. Guys come on down, we can also get this particular interview on our YouTube channel. I'll see you. Kwa Y254. I want to be in Michael Bondi. Ya ni ume me guswaivi. Michael Bondi chini kwa ma Goti. Ya, because wisdom, wisdom ni prayer. For God. Wisdom is basically a prayer. Ya wale wasi wana kwa gana ugunjoflani na ito bad mind. Kuna ugunjio hiu ni adiagnost illness na ito bad mind. Bad mind. Wizu. Kuna wasi wana kwa gana wizu. So wisdom ni kakua ya bad mind, no na? So it's a prayer to God. Basically a prayer to God saying, ataka sijafka levo liye nyemse mungina mefika in live. Let me not end with that persona mani skia vi baya jubi yemali mefika. Ya, kus Goda mefika nyemse mungina mefika. And I'm happy for that. Kwa li, kwa li, kwa li, kwa li. Word of inspiration in regards to that. And Michael Bondi, we really, because I know about your story and your story is out here. And it's amazing to see you doing this amazing, amazing tracks, amazing performance. Umefika hapa. We really appreciate for all that. And kwa li wa tumeskia, akuna mute maze. I know na unakuna bumgal dem apa na nyemda. Is it taken? Wachani wu dize swali tu kuakuako? Kwa sabahu me- Kwa sabahu me- You have a son but let me ask you. Kwa sabahu na unakuna... Si tawa saja Jinna, but wana oli zapa. Is Michael Bondi taken? Manani, you can go on this phone. Ya?  Michael Bundy is a very responsible father and Michael Bundy is also a husband and a son. Bless site the most and respect to the husband. Jiyo story. Pianizatakamaze kwen carriage. All the men out there wajne akuna kids. That wajte kiawawa kids kwa kids are so precious. Kids change life yam say. Kids are a blessing sana. Like all of us we were kids wam say unona. So no matter what place wuma come from, how hard it is or how easy it was for you to get here. We all still had to come from someone unona. So let every father out there kwen zawa wajse eji hangu pia. Wajze tukwe responsible zahidi. Yaman. True that, narej. Yaman. Wajze kia wajze Michael Bundy wajse tukwe responsible. Nani skia tumi tandao niju zirej. Kulukwa nangangori yako. Butu wam birej. Nangangori yako. Nangangori skia waj. Nangangori skia waj. Butu wam birej. Wajze kia wam birej. Wajze kia wam birej. Wajze kia wam birej. Wajze kia wam birej. Bili. First of all, kuna nga mazaku una taja jamdan shaflaz. Are you signed into jamdan shaflaz? Second question. When he mtumansi iti yaman ni kwa chaflaz. Question number one. Siko signs to jamdan. Nivile. But jamdan dola ikuwali nisa idea kujit build when I was starting. There were the guys that came and helped me do my first videos. Your time score na doya kujili pia vida. So jamdan shaflaz helped me come up. Wanda wali fund vida kama rege tu. And basically these are my people. So sometimes ita cekiatan me dunga jamdan. It doesn't mean I'm signed but I'm just trying to give back to the people that came. So are you signed into any record label or you're just independent? No, I have my own music studio, Awesome Sounds Empire, where I produce all my music. And I'm basically signed to my music. That's a good stuff. So in regards to you have your own record label, maybe anticipating or maybe planning to have new artist maybe in the near future? Yes, we actually have a couple. We have like six now that we are working with. Really good artists. And we are looking forward to like selling them like kua promotozaidi. So that they can reach to such places. Amazing amazing amazing. And that we as we wind up because I know also Staki kuku kuku katsendio. Kuna solis ya jibu. Ya jibu. Ya jizi. Ya jizi. Ya jizi. Ya jizi. Ya jizi. Ya jizi nimbaya. Ya na kwa zanima me pimpu kwa. Abutu onee seni uma. Ya jizi nimbaya. Ya jizi nimbaya. Ya jizi nimbaya. Ya jizi nimbaya. Ya jizi nimbaya. Ya mimi na penda man city sana. Ya manda suha mimi dunga jizi. Ya man. Man. H injured me in man city. Ina fil kanissindo the best. Even ina fil. A lafumi yu rock with the best. I will see her. At Tower 2 5 4. The best. I will see you. Yes. Mami kubund maybe what can you tell to the youth who are watching you right now who enjoy your music. What can you tell? What I can say is to me, wambiyamaiu ttutu ttutu ttutu. kwa hy BTW I go and start where you are na kumbuka mimiwa was starting and I didn't have a studio I didn't have Sometimes I could do a song by recording it kuwafon and do a video kuwafon and those are some of the songs that became my biggest songs up to now So don't be afraid kama unade 50k aMA 20k aKUcha pAvi, Dakali just use what you have A lot of the internet has empowered us so much especially Iza mwa sites, you can put your stuff out there, but you have to work really hard for you too. You have to bring your A-game do pade chance ya kwa nekana. I'll see you, na watu neza kwa pata wa api mazeko ni tandao? On YouTube at Michael Bundy, Facebook everywhere Michael Bundy, Instagram contact me at real Michael Bundy. I'll see you. Nalafu pale kwa, you can go to michaelbundy.com. There is over 500 songs that Michael Bundy can just listen to for a whole day. 500 music mazae, ya ningo mazae di amia tanda na mazae sa kabla wu tuku wache, na zi mo tu performi eki tu sindi yo? Ya mani. See you DJ Regg, will you take it away? Michael Bundy at Fanyamambo? I'll see you, take it away.


Drag and drop media in Moodle 3.3. You can now add sound and video files directly to your course page by dragging and dropping in the same way you can already add images. They can display embedded in a label or as a clickable file resource. Here our teacher has the editing turned on and on the right hand side of his screen he has an MP3 file he wishes to display as part of the course introduction. He simply clicks on the file, drags it to where he wishes it to go and is then given the choice of displaying it as a file resource which will give the students a link to click on or adding it to the course page. Selecting this option means the MP3 file will display in the media player for students to access immediately. And in this section our teacher does the same with an MP4 video gained by simply dragging and dropping. To summarise, media may now be dragged and dropped onto the course page to display in a player or as a clickable file resource.


okay guys it's been 15 minutes or so and i'm having a bit of a struggle but i'm going to explain to you why am i stuck i always do these without the turbo turbo's out put the engine in less issues because of one thing because of the turbo basically but i mean this thing would be in by now but because of the turbo i decided to try it again okay because it's a wrx usually i do sti's well it kind of is an sti but it's not well the engine bay i guess anyways i'll show you what's going on i'll i'll show you where the struggle is and i'll show you how you can avoid it i just realized by the way uh if your axles are out okay you can remove this stud that you know remember the two studs that stick out from the back of the block that go through the transmission bell housing so you can take one out on the turbo on the turbo side and that's gonna basically and shoot and your struggle and that's what i'm gonna i'm not i'm going to pull this out and i'm going to remove that stud but let me show you exactly what's going on by the way this is why you want to raise the transmission as high as it can go so the engine mounts where is this engine see can clear both sides will clear this front cross member okay and there is the other so although the transmission is literally touching the the tunnel you only have a quarter of an inch space between the you know the stick the sticking down studs and what did i just say cross member yeah engine cradle so you can see that the driver's side bottom stud that's in right sorry through so is the other okay let's look at the other one okay so you can see you can see it is i think you can see it it is through the problem here is this guy here the ear of the turbo the mount not the stud the actual casing of the hot side here is scraping on the transmission housing because that stud is holding it i didn't notice that right away and i couldn't lift usually what i do is because again this this thing you know tilts back and forth but not side to side so you know i mean you rarely can grab it perfectly where the engine's level so mine was tilted to the left a little and that bottom stud on the passenger side wasn't hitting its hole okay and then this ear was underneath the transmission casing the bell housing okay so i didn't see that and usually what i do is if the turbo wasn't here i would just lift i would aim for that or either or you know aim for that stud and then just lift the other keep the engine a bit lower and just lift the other side that's low or you know tilted down and just aim for the stud and then you're done so i'm going to pull this out again not fully just so i can remove that stud i don't want to be removing the turbo i'm going to remove that stud because it's going to be very easy to put it back in because the axles are not installed obviously so it's going to be just right there on the very bottom so once it's out i'm going to show you go through this it's easy once the engine is pulled out i'm just gonna put two 14 nuts on the stud together use two wrenches and just undo that stud i'm gonna do that same procedure to install it okay okay and it's in like a glove two things happened i did not remove that stud that i was talking about on the passenger side what i've done instead was i went for lunch had some chicken soup good chicken soup then i came back and gave it you know one last push and it went in without removing any studs so you got two options either remove the stud or have some chicken soup okay so once it was in i mean it's gotta be tightened obviously i have the one nut on one side and two bolts you're one up here and then one down there so you know we have space between the bolts once i had this much space could not push it in anymore it's probably next to impossible for you on your own or even with the body to push the engine in so what you want to do you want to be lined up obviously you know block to the trans and then you want to put in bolts whatever whichever one reaches at this i mean if you're even all of them should reach and slightly tighten them going going around you know back and forth like i said it's gotta be don't be tightening the two on top here okay just do one on the bottom and then one on top should be enough and went in then hopefully you saw it uh once this was in i just pushed the fork and i felt and i actually also heard i should have recorded that i heard the throat bearing pop in the pressure plate right so now it doesn't want to come back remember before it was straight now it's an angle that means that that's it it's in so i won't be able to push it out okay it's going to be impossible now you can kind of hear its slide on its on the on the lock locking mechanism whatever you want to call that uh so that's tight so yeah i'm still going to bleed the clutch because oh yeah the the slave cylinder is also different okay came with the transmission all right so now i'm gonna spend another 12 hours looking for the rest of the bolts and uh i'm gonna tighten that up curls are in i did those when the engine was still hanging on the hoist this one actually installed nice and straight sometimes for some reason they're angled ever so slightly like by a eighth of an inch or so this one is pretty straight mine is a slightly off for some reason 06 STI but this one this one seems pretty pretty straight man this would suck to do that coil now if i would forget oh man this much room between the coil and the frame this side is slightly better but you know all you got to do is remove the two nuts on the bottom from the engine mounts raise the engine slightly by the oil pan you know through a block of wood whatever and your golden you know just you really want to raise it above the frame as high as possible and you can do spark plugs who said doing spark plugs on a Subaru is difficult just all you gotta do is raise the engine guys got updates the main one is that i'm i'm done it's sunday actually i should be home watching tv all right so quickly that the cylinder for cooling mod you can see the connection right here the t connector so you want to hook up to the black line okay this line here this is your in or we're talking about the heater hoses okay so this goes in from the engine into the heater core you know through the firewall and then comes back through this hole so you want to tap into this guy here so that would be the top one coming from the tire of tire will fire will a little t remember the t this way okay so you know you know the letter t okay so the t this way so the flow goes up and then turns right in this case and goes back into the water pump okay so the hot coolant will exit faster from cylinder number four the problem problematic cylinder number four then we got the starter which is in had to find two bolts shortened one you know these things take time just little you know everything stuff is different now okay there are a lot of bypass coolant bypass these two go into the throttle body to warm it up faster and we don't want that on the track or out across okay I mean it's nice for the engine to warm up faster but once it's warmed up you know hot coolant still passes through the throttle body and you don't want that okay you want you know a cool air as possible going into the engine so that's that that's just going to loop around here like little things okay like this this boot on the starter wire the one that I had on the car was ripped but luckily the one that came with the starter was solid side to switch that which worked out bottom bolts for the motor mounts are tight axles are in okay that was easy oh yeah did replace some of these clamps guys if you have a chance get rid of these okay these are don't reuse them reuse them once when they look good once they're not looking too pretty these are garbage these are from the different snipping actions okay I did snip shortened this so would stay away from the steering shaft so now I have probably about two fingers of worth of space between the this you know the the extra hose from the cylinder for cooling mod and the steering shaft so that's that's fine even if I press on it it's not gonna go because it's attached to this ac line with two zip ties two zip ties that's two zip ties so this area here this is all connected this is done this back area is all done and underneath so this coolant line goes into that little reservoir tank here an up on top and this is part of your pcv system and these two I believe these are the five eights connections these are going to go right here into the bigger line bigger nipple and the wealth cover wealth covers on both sides and this is just to equalize the system you can see the crank is or the crankcase is already connected and it just needs another connection so that's easy and then there's going to be a another kind of like a t connector here and that's going to go into the oil separator can which is going to be right over here that's you know that's later just just letting you know guys if you're going to be interested you know what to watch out next I'm going to try and keep these these videos short as possible like I'm not going to go through it detail by detail like I did on them on my old 6 sti because then it'll be wait we don't want 20 or 30 40 episodes of this no no all right guys that's it for this one if you're interested subscribe comment you know like dislike but you know like and I'll see you soon


Welcome to the Endnotes, where I put all the fun facts I can't fit into the main videos. Today, some extra bits of information for my video about the future tense, and if you haven't seen that yet, click on the card. As I said in the main video, while King Alfred translated Augustine's soliloquies, he never translated the Confessions, which is a shame, as it would have given more insight into how old English speakers might have thought about Augustine's breakdown of time. But Alfred is involved in this story in another way. He seems to be the first clear recorded instance of a European using the candle clock, which measures time by burning a candle with time measurements marked on it. The Chinese were known to use the candle clock in the 6th century, predating King Alfred, but these were likely two independent inventions. The advantages of the candle clock are that it doesn't rely on the sun, as in the sundial, which had been used ever since around 1500 BC by the Egyptians and Babylonians, and it is simpler and requires less maintenance than the water clock, which uses the slow dripping of water to measure time. Again, the Babylonians and Egyptians seemed to be the first to use water clocks, as far back as the 16th century BC, but it was also used in the ancient world in China, India, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The Greeks called the water clock a klepsydra, literally water thief. So in many ways, we have the Babylonians to thank for kicking off the whole timekeeping endeavor. Another element we have to thank the Babylonians for is the division of the day into 12 light hours, probably to reflect the 12th part zodiac, and also because the Babylonians used a sexagesimal counting system, base 60 instead of our base 10 decimal system, hence also 60 minutes and 60 seconds. But the real obsession with time began in the Christian monasteries of Europe, and it's all because of their praying schedule. In order to hold the necessary services at the appointed times, matins at sunrise, sexed at midday, known in mid-afternoon, vespers at the end of the workday, and complying in the evening, they needed to keep track of time, but there were some problems. Sundials wouldn't work at night or on cloudy days, the water in the water clocks would tend to freeze in the northern monasteries in the colder months, and candles were expensive. Often they just appointed one monk the job of tracking natural cues, like the cock crowing at morning, but that meant he had to stay awake at night, leading to what is now a children's song, Frère Jacques. Brother John, wake up, sound the matins, ding-dang-dong! So the church were all in favour of developing better clocks for timekeeping. Now let's pause for a moment to consider the word clock itself. It's related to French cloche, meaning bell, from Latin cloca, which may have come from a Celtic word, so originally a clock was just that, a bell. In the monasteries, when it was the appointed time for prayer, someone would ring a bell to call the monks to the service. Only later, when the bell was attached to a mechanical timekeeping device, was the word clock transferred over to the timepiece itself. We don't know who first invented the mechanical clock, but they started to appear in medieval Europe in the 14th century. Initially these clocks, often contained in towers, didn't have clock faces, they just rang bells on the hour. The dial, when it was added to the clock towers, was developed from the old sundials, circular and moving in a clockwise direction, because that's the direction the shadow moves on the sundial, at least in the northern hemisphere. The word dial, by the way, comes from Latin dialis, daily, from D.A.'s day. These early mechanical clock dials had only one hand to indicate hours. They weren't accurate enough yet to measure anything smaller. But over time, technological improvements were made to these early gravity-driven clocks, like Christian Heuchen's invention of the pendulum-driven clock, Robert Hook's improvements to spring-driven clocks, and Daniel Quar's addition of the concentric minute hand, and thus, as clocks became more accurate, additional division became possible. Minute is related to minute, from Latin minutus small, and was used in the Latin phrase, pars minuta prima, first small part, or in other words, the first division of the hour into 60. Second in turn comes from the phrase pars minuta secunda, second small part, so the second division into a smaller part, Latin secundus meaning not only second, but also following, from the verb secui, to follow. Not only these hour to etymologize, it can be traced back to Greek hora, which rather vaguely referred to a period of time or season, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning year or season, through the Germanic branch also giving us English year. Greek hora also gives us the words horology, the science of time, French au loge meaning clock, and horoscope, literally period of time watcher, which brings us back to the notions of prediction and the future. And what's more, the metaphor of the clock was, particularly during the Enlightenment, used to conceptualize one idea about the universe, the clockwork universe, set in motion by God, the cosmic clockmaker, and following the laws of motion that Isaac Newton discovered, a deterministic universe that was completely predictable. As always, you can hear even more etymology and history, as well as interviews with a wide range of fascinating people on the Endless Knot podcast, available on all major podcast platforms, as well as our other YouTube channel. Thanks for watching!