Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with a quick pack break of 2020-2021 Panini Donneress basketball. Pack break number eight with nine opulent spots being given away. So at the end of the break, we'll re-randomize your names with a different dice roll. Top nine. Get into that opulent streak. If you're watching live, we just have to do one more of those packs, sell out a few spots straight up, and then we're in breaks along that one box break. We're gonna do the group break first. Big thanks to everyone here. There's all the teams right there. Let's roll it. We'll analyze it. Four and a six, ten times for names and teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time. Yeah, Oliver, that's the risk with going with the big dogs, the big underdogs. Get really close. Four and a six, ten times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and 10th and final time. Hawks down to clippers. Remember, no trade windows in these little filler breaks. And if you're new to the channel, welcome. Check that break schedule. That usually has updated filler information there, so you know what extra breaks we need to do to give away the final spots in a particular break. Check out that schedule. A lot of important resources there, a shipping tab there too. When does my stuff go? That'll keep you updated as well. Here's the second after the list right here. All right, and let's sort by column B, box this up, center it up, let's print and rip. Let's see if we can find anything special here. These can't be too high on this, but we can find someone cool here. These Marvel's cards are pretty nice. And a couple for the Brooklyn Nets, couple Kyrie inserts here for Robert. We've got a press proof, you can see by the gold foil right there on that, RJ Barrett, nice Tyrese Halliburton, we've got a Nakoro, we've got a James Wiseman, got some nice rated rookie cards there. All right, not too shabby. All right, there you go. All right, now let's flip back to this screen right here. Let's grab everyone's names once again from Robert down to Robert and everyone in between. Here's some new dice. Here's a new list. Let's roll it, different dice roll. It'll be 10 times again, I think we had 10 times before. So top nine, there it is, top nine after 10, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time. So after 10, from 10 on down right there, I appreciate everybody trying, thank you. But the top nine, so these people are sad. Top nine though are very happy because that's Robert, you're in the break, the opulence break, Robert, Robert, Robert, Matt, Michael, Mike, Nicholas, Matthew, and Robert again, congrats to the top nine. You're in that opulence break. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com and I'll break that with you a little bit later tonight. Bye-bye.


Hey guys, Thunder E here and welcome to my review of the Asus Zephyrus G16. This is probably one of the best gaming laptops I've seen this year. So let's talk about it. Yes, I said this is probably the best gaming laptop of this year. This is the Asus Zephyrus G16. It is a wonderful laptop and you guys are wonderful. So I wanna just first of all thank you for all the warm wishes and get wells and all that fun stuff. I'm getting better, my foot's getting better. So thank you very much guys. But I wanna spend time on this laptop because I've been using it to game while being kind of sitting around. This thing is absolutely stunning. Now Asus has built something that isn't heavy but also very comfortable to carry around. You've got that new tray back slash on the back of this device. But the chassis is pretty nice and slick overall. The overall look is just pretty good. Whatever angle you can add, this laptop looks really stunning. And that starts off with the display, 16 inch display. It's an OLED display, 2560 by 1600, 500 nits. It is super sharp. So whatever you're looking at, any different angle, the display looks great. You're looking at that Gojo wallpaper. You want Gojo to call back. You're going Gojo, where are you? Gojo, Gojo, Gojo. Please bring back Gojo. Anyway, it looks stunning. What are your gaming? It looks absolutely great with every game you play. The colors are pretty nice on this thing. I love the fact that they went with that.  There is the unknown keys, which some people might be disappointed because it's a 16 inch laptop. But that relieves rooms for some very big top firing speakers. And honestly, when you hear them while we game, these speakers are pretty awesome. And I like that. You've got, of course, your macro keys, the power button. There is no fingerprint sensor, but there is for Windows Hello with the cameras, which are pretty good. And then you've got a nice big trackpad. I do like the trackpad, though it's a bit clicky when you press it. You see what I mean? Still good though. Now, in terms of ports though, you've got your DCI in on the left hand side, HDMI port. You've got a Thunderbolt port, which is nice. Thunderbolt 4. You've got USB type 8, 10 gigabits, headphone jack. And then on the right hand side, another USB type C, USB A, and a full-size SD card slot. So everything you need on here. Now you can open this laptop up in terms of seeing the internals, but you do know that the RAM is sorted on, so that's something to take note. But you can get up to 32 gigabytes of RAM. You can get up to two terabytes of storage. Plus, that storage is expandable if you want to. But the main thing is the CPU and GPU combination on here. For the GPU, you can start from RTX 4070 to 4090. I've got a 4090 in here. And this is running the brand new Intel Core Ultra 9185H. I repeat the Core Ultra 9185H. This is the first time I'm using this chipset. This is a 16-core CPU with six performance cores, eight efficiency cores, and two low-power efficiency cores. So you've got a lot packed into it. Plus, it does have the Intel Arc chipset as well, which can be used in different scenarios. This thing is awesome in terms of what it brings to the table. So let's just take a look at the benchmarks here, right? We have our benchmarks, of course, starting with Cinebench 2024. And you can see the GPU benchmarks doing really well there. But let's go over to, of course, 3DMark, where you can look at our time spy scores. And you can see this thing blows away at the time spy scores. Absolutely stunning stuff. And then you look at each game it goes through. It is pretty solid. Doesn't matter. It's Battlefield, Apex, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, or whatever you're doing at 1080p, it's good. And then moving over to Port Royal scores against really stunning scores there. And then finally, looking at Fire Strike Ultra. The scores there are impressive. So it does well with synthetic benchmarks, which are great. But what about the gaming performance? This is where I want you guys to take a look at things. I want you guys to look at the gameplay, look at the settings, look at the performance, and listen to the audio. So let's go ahead and take a look. Okay, that was impressive. I mean, some solid performance all around for every single game. I maxed almost every game out. You can see it there all the way through, but you're going, okay, Thunder E, what about Hell Driver 2? I did see it in your game list somewhere there. Yes, yes, yes. I did try to play the game. I was waiting on the service for like 20 minutes and I got in. So take a look. Impressive performance on Hell Driver 2. Awesome to see that. It was great. But one thing I really liked about this laptop was the performance when it wasn't plugged in. Again, that is something that usually you don't see with gaming laptops on the PC side is performance with the laptops not plugged in. So I decided to go ahead and try it out with all the games. And I kept everything at the same max settings. Now the frame rates did drop for all the games. So starting with Street Fighter, that didn't drop actually. Street Fighter 68 at 60 frames per second at max settings. Same thing with Tekken. Tekken varied between 55 to 60 frames per second at max settings, moving over to Forza Motorsports. That went at roughly, I would say, between 50 to 70 frames per second. That was a fluctuating point. And then we moved over to Doom Eternal. That ran at 120 frames per second at max settings. And then finally Hell Divers 2, that came in at roughly around 36 to 47 frames per second against an online game. So I definitely understand that. But the performance without it being plugged in, nuts, absolutely nuts. This is great to see. I am impressed with what Intel has done here with Asus, with Nvidia. This is a package that I think a lot of gamers will love because it brings a lot of performance. Now speaking of temps, you're thinking, is it really hot? Is it cold? Well, I got a maximum of 105 degrees for the five hours of gameplay that I had, which was impressive, especially for the laptop that's putting this kind of performances. And that can be attributed to a bunch of things, liquid metal cooling on the CPU, which is great to see. You also have a vapor chamber built in there, as well as also the new tri-fan system technology, making it cooler all the way through. And I absolutely love the fact that this system ran cool while gaming heavily and the fans were not loud at all. Seriously, just listen to them yourself. So again, impressive stuff all the way. Do I call this the best gaming laptop? I am tempted to say yes, because right now this really handles a lot of things well. Even the battery life performance while using it, on its own, this did come under 10 hours, but it did a solid around eight or nine hours or so. So I did like the performance here. I think this is good. Honestly, as a gamer, I'm liking what I'm seeing. I'm liking new laptops like this. You can see the chassis size. You can see how thick or thin you want to call it. And also the weight is also comparably nice. So I'm impressed. I'm happy. And I think this is something that a lot of gamers will be impressed with. So if you have any questions or any comments about the Asus Zephyrus G16, let me know. Otherwise, don't forget to like, share, subscribe, and always enjoy your entertainment.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's casebricks.com coming at you with a Donner's Football Blaster Box Break number six with 10, 2018 elements football spots being given away at the end of the break. We'll re-randomize everybody's names and you'll have a chance. Chance, a chance? What is it in English now? A chance at getting a spot in that break. Big thanks to all of these folks right here. It's been a long week. All the teams are right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a two, five times for each list. We'd always do the break first. One, two, three, four, and five. After five times, we've got Adam down to Kurt. And then three and a two, five times for the teams. One, two, three, four, and five. Lakers are up by five. Bills down to Texans. All right, here's the first half of the list right there. And there's the second half of the list right here. No trades in these little filler breaks. Let's just roll. Let's sort by column B. Let's print and rip. Three, off the back of the backboard. There's the final printout right there. And we'll re-randomize that list and see who's going to win those spots. A.J. Dylan, rookie phenoms, really, for the Packers. That'll be for Greg. Rated rookie Denzel Mims. Chase Claypool. Any Herberts? No? Any Joe Burrows? Tua's? All right, so nothing too earth-shattering there. But of course, the whole point of this really is to see who's going to get those elements spot. So let's get everyone's names in here. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Three and a one, four times. One, two, three, and a one. Good luck, fourth and final time. From 11 down to 32, my apologies. We do have one more that we can do to fill that break tonight. Congrats to the top 10. Daniel, Steve, Jason, Aaron, Daniel, Steve, Robert, Kurt, Steve, and Steve. There you have it, bam. 10 spots right there. Congrats to you. You're in elements football. Jaspyscasebreaks.com, bye-bye.


Okay guys, so we're gonna do another experiment with these paint pens I was sent by the company Rdq article article Yeah, yeah, I know probably none of those are the way you're supposed to pronounce that and I apologize in advance Anyway, oops. Sorry. So I have these wood rainbows I got them actually a good will but they were originally from Target and I already primed it with a layer of white gesso as you can see you have some gesso I'm trying to use up and now I want to see how the pens not only work on the wood, but work over the gesso so We are going to paint a rainbow. So let's get started. I feel this morning glory. Anyway This turned out cute What do you think I love that now the stamp I used is a limited edition art foamy stamp I am a designer for art foamy's this stamp is not on their website Because you have to be a patron or supporter to get this stamp So you have to join my patreon and then I'll send you one But I do have lots of other designs on their website, so I'll link their website down below I also used a Faber-Castell pit artist pen and this one is warm gray number 274 and And Gesso the gesso I'm trying to use up Daler-Rowney acrylic gesso So we tried this by doing this we tried the pens on a bunch of different things Including cardstock and then we used the Faber-Castell Marker over the top of the the paint marker worked great by the way They work well together We also used it over the gesso now I had to do at least two layers This particular rainbow is like hard to paint like neatly in multiple colors So that is not the fault of the pens. That's user Error user abilities anyway So I did choose to distress it with some coffee medium and some other finishes as you saw and I kind of like the fact that it like looks dirty and distressed because if you're gonna like Make a mess like my printing somebody asked me once not long ago You know, how did you start writing in that way because my writing is never like perfectly neat or doesn't satisfy me So I figured if it was going to be messy, I should just go with that In the way the coffee mediums a homemade medium and the other one was distressed collage mid medium Tim Holtz All of it worked great with the paint pens and nice bright vibrant colors You could have done more layers of the paint pens on this that I did two layers They still seem I've done two decent sized product projects with them They still seem like they have a decent amount of paint in them So there's that because I'm kind of wondering how long will they last But so far so good. So anyway, I will link the pens down below I'll also link art foamy's again. You can't get this one unless you're a patron or supporter and All of that is down below and but check out some of my other designs check out The pens the links for them are down below. I am pretty satisfied with them and see see what you think I think they're a pretty affordable option if you want to get into paint pens. All right That's it for today. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it shine bright See in the next video. Bye guys


Okay, good morning and welcome to everyone. Thank you for connecting to this class where we go through the books, Hebrews 1st and 2nd Peter, Jude and James. We'll pray and begin. We had started off with Hebrews chapter three in the last class. So then we will try and pick up from where we stop. I want to request one of us to please lead with the word of prayer. So anyone? Shall I pray? Yes, yes, Sylvia. Thank you, Father. Thank you for this beautiful time. Thank you for giving us an opportunity to come once again into your presence, Father. Yes, Lord, thank you that you're teaching us through your word, especially the deep truths that are hidden in your word, Father. You help us see just like the parable of the person who bought the whole field in order to gain the treasure of the pearl. We pray, Father, let us help us, Father, to see the pearls, Father, Lord, to glean those, Father, from your word. Thank you, Father, for past and unseen, Lord. You bless her. You equip her, anoint her, Father, Lord. We pray that you fill her with your Holy Spirit, Lord, and as she, Lord, teaches us your word, upon you, give the wisdom, the grace, the right words, Lord, to speak. Father, we pray for each and every student here, Lord, everyone who is going to hear these sessions. I pray, Father, for your grace, your wisdom upon each one of us that we may be people, Father, who hear your word and we obey it, we listen to it and obey it, Father, that we may be people who are doers of the word, Lord, who can perceive what you're telling us, Father, and we can practice it further in our lives. Thank you and praise you for this wonderful time, and, Jesus Christ, as we pray. Amen, thank you, Divya. So we had started with Hebrews chapter three, and there we saw a few more titles or descriptions to help us understand who the Lord Jesus is. We had already seen that he's a high priest, but the apostle is another new thing that we saw about the Lord Jesus. Apostle is the sent one, and in Hebrews one, we saw that the Lord Jesus is the greatest message that has come to us. Though God has spoken at various times in various ways, the best message of God is the Lord Jesus. So the sent one is that message. The sent one brought that message, and that's how we understand the word apostle because it means ambassador or sent one. And we saw that the writer is trying to help the Hebrew believers have the right perspective and mindset regarding the Lord Jesus. So he spoke about the deity of Christ, and he spoke about the humanity of Christ because there were contentions and contradictions about these matters. But now there's another aspect that he addresses, and that is the fact that even a leader like Moses whom they respected is but a servant in the house of God, and the Lord Jesus being the son of God and God himself is the master. So he says, yes, Moses did a wonderful job. He was faithful in what God called him to do, but we see somebody who is much greater. As we look at the example of Moses, here there is another mention, another aspect mentioned in verse three of Hebrews chapter three for this one has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses. So he says, Moses is faithful, but Jesus Christ is even more faithful as far as the house of God is concerned. And the glory of Moses. What is the glory of Moses? We know that when Moses had an encounter with God, he came back reflecting that glory. If we recall, there was a time when his face was shining after spending time in the presence of God. This is in Exodus chapter 34, and not just about him manifesting the glory of God in this way, but God's work and God's support of favor over Moses' life is also incredible because there were times where God was in great favor regarding Moses, even his own people like Miriam and Aaron, God justified Moses when there were complaints about him or when they were, people spoke ill about him. So we've seen all these things that God considered Moses very, very faithful. And even the sons of Korah, so there's another similar incident, but in all these matters, God was on his side and God showed his glory. Now, if this is not mighty enough, the writer is saying that somebody has more glory than Moses, okay? So establishing time and again, the things that they held high, he is trying to reveal to them is that Christ is higher than all their standards, you know, all their benchmarks. So the glory of Jesus, when we talk about it, we know that he came to reveal the glory of the Father in all that he said, all that he did, his ministry, but then there were times when we saw the power of God at work in his life, moments such as transfiguration, resurrection, okay? All of these revealed a much greater glory as compared to the kind that Moses was reflecting from God. So this was to establish Lord Jesus as a greater person. So, you know, he made that comparison in these verses where he said that the house is, the builder of the house is greater than the house itself and obviously even those who are serving, which is referring to Moses. So verse six, but Christ as a son over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope form to the end. So he is pointing to the fact that the Lord Jesus is the owner or he is the prince or he is the builder of the house of God. And what is the house of God? We've talked about this in other courses, we've said that the house of God is not a building, it's not a structure, it is the people who are part of his body, the people who are part of his kingdom. So we are the house of God. So he points that out here. He says whose house we are, meaning all the believers, we are the house of God. And again, you see, these are the discouraged believers. So there is that word of exhortation where he says, please don't let go, hold on. Because all of this greatness is part of who the Lord Jesus is. So how would you give up under, you know, difficult circumstances, hold on to that confidence. And the way he puts it is, we are his house, if we hold fast the confidence, meaning it's almost like challenging them. If you don't give up, you are part of the household of God. So, you know, it's not that, you know, they would lose their salvation if they give up or anything like that, but it's a way of speaking.  So the way Jesus preached to the people, there are many times when he said he who, you know, he who endure still the end. So those who make it to the finish line, he will be saved. So in another way to understand this, he is saying there is need of perseverance. So in the journey of our faith, many of us we start out with great zeal and that is everyone's story. So as we, you know, talk to each other and find out, hey, how are you when you were born again? People would share all these fiery, fervent, you know, earnest experiences where we feel, wow, what fire one carried when they came to know the Lord Jesus. But you see the encouragement in God's word is, yes, that happens when we start the journey, but as we go through the journey, there are many seasons where we have to keep that fire. Or that is a difficult part. And the message that is coming to us is, don't lose that fire. Someone who can keep that fire, keep that confidence, keep the faith, till the end, is somebody who's really, you know, trusting in God, really believing in God, and that's what we all want. So hold fast the confidence. Or in other words, you know, if you look at the Greek word there, that would mean you hold down or retain, you seize, you possess, don't let go of the faith that you have and hold fast to it. Continue on with the Lord Jesus. And this is true commitment. What's the point if we are willing to throw in the towel every time things get rough, but that's not, you know, the right way to live our Christian life. The right way is to live with a sense of commitment, a long-term commitment and endurance and perseverance. And there are many reasons, you know, that we can fix our eyes on. And all of these things, the truth that we learned about Jesus, it will encourage us and establish us in the things of God. Okay. Let's move ahead. Okay. So just before we go to verse seven, verse six says, hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. So a little bit of emphasis on rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. We have incredible hope because of the gospel, because of salvation. When we did not know Jesus, when we were not part of His kingdom, we did not have hope, but now we have hope. So think about this. He's saying it's not a joyless life. It may be a difficult life, but part of the journey is the joy that comes from God. So he says, hold on and hold on to the rejoicing of the hope. We have hope and we need to be joyful about it. If we just look at another version, so the amplified version that last part, it says sense of triumph in our hope. So hold on to that as well, sense of triumph in our hope. And the ESV version puts it in another simpler way. It says boasting in our hope. So rejoicing, triumph in our hope, boasting in our hope. So you see there that it's a mindset that a believer needs to have, where we are looking at Jesus, looking at the value of who He is and that gives us strength, we persevere. We also have joy, rejoicing, boasting in the hope that God has given us. So let's move ahead to verse seven. We can read from verses seven through 11. And if one of us can volunteer, that'll be great. Seven to 11. Can I read the answer? Yes, please. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the revival. On the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and so my words have 40 years. Therefore, I was provoked with that generation and so they always go straight in their heart. They have not known my ways. As I swore in my wrath, they shall heart into my breast. Thank you. So in this passage, we have an example about the children of Israel, you know, the wrong example and how they were people who had a hard heart, okay? And that is something that God does not want for any child of His, any believers and especially in this season that the listeners are in, you know, sometimes disappointment, discouragement can make us very cold. You remember earlier he said that if you don't hold on, you know, the falling away, we discussed about that going astray, if a boat is not anchored, then what happens? There is that chance of slowly going away from the place where we should be. So disappointment and discouragement may have that impact on people. So all the more he is trying to help them know that don't let it get you. We may be going through it, but that should not, you know, make our hearts hard. So if we are not careful, that is something that can happen, our hearts can become hard. So he says therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, and he goes on to, you know, state a couple of things, why is he saying like this? You remember, even earlier, he said, if the message that has come through Moses, if people have not followed that and it had consequences, how much more, you know, now if we neglect the message that has come from the Lord Jesus. So there are greater consequences for not heeding to what God is saying. So God has sent a message through his son and, you know, we must take it seriously. That's the whole point that he is making. So he's saying through all that has been shared so far and especially with the emphasis on the Lord Jesus, therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, he moves on, today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. So it's a very beautiful way of reminding and inviting the listeners. He says, today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. Now, how many of us know that God is speaking? He's a speaking God. The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirits as Romans 8.16, you know, tells us. So God is constantly speaking and God is speaking today. It's always the case, you know. There is something that God wants to convey to us and he doesn't delay in bringing us the word that we need on time.  He says, I mean, he doesn't put it that way. There is an urgency to this message. He says, through everything that I have spoken to you, the Holy Spirit is trying to tell you something and he wants you to take heed right now. So the urgency of the message, he says, today if you will hear his voice or in other words, whatever God is speaking to you and when you're sensitive to the voice of God and you pick it up, he says, please respond. So do not harden your hearts. Simply means to hear and to respond. So when we hear and we don't respond, that's when the hardness comes. We've seen examples of people like King Saul where so many things went wrong in his life because it had become a pattern over a period of time where God is saying, but there's no response. There's no obedience and that causes hardness of hearts and that's something that he's warning the people about. So discouragement, disappointment, experiences like this, they can tempt us to go to that place where we say, oh, why should I bother? Everything is so hard. Why should I listen? Why should I obey God? We can go to that place, but the risk that we run is our hearts will eventually slowly become very hard. Hard is insensitive, where we're not able to pick up God's message in the now and he's saying, look, our God is a God who can speak into our situations and circumstances which is why he uses the term today with a sense of urgency. It's a form invitation of the Holy Spirit that is given to us and we must respond to it. So the people of Israel who had this hard heart, what are some other things that have spoken about them? As in the rebellion. So what is rebellion? Rebellion is opposite of obedience. So they were doing their own thing. They were not so much, yes, they were walking, following Moses, but their hearts were far away from God and that is something we can pick up here. So rebellion is a life which is not yielded, not aligned, not obedient to God. So their hearts were hardened as in the rebellion in the day of trial in the wilderness. So this is a time when this is in numbers 20 versus one through 13 that he's probably referring to, you know, Israel's rebellion and trial at Meriba. So, you know, they were rebelling against Moses and they wanted water and all of that. So their behavior in the wilderness displeased God because they did not express their trust in God. So in the day of trial in the wilderness, he goes on verse nine, where your father's tested me, tried me and saw my works 40 years. So what happened? He's just saying that trust, right? It's associated with, or we could say, trust and believing in God. It's associated with a soft heart, which responds to God. Now, if you look at these people, they had seen so many acts of God, they had seen works of God, okay? And for them, it should have actually been very easy to trust God in the wilderness because he had already taken them out of, you know, the Red Sea parted and they came out, they had seen the plagues in Egypt. Now, tell me, if the miracles that God has done in the past in our lives, if it produces no faith for today, then, you know, how are we understanding the greatness of God? But that's exactly what happened to these people. They had seen, in fact, God is saying, and saw my works 40 years. So these people, the condition of their hearts was, they have experienced and experienced and experienced, God's greatness is goodness, however. All that didn't help in today's experience. They have a hard heart and that is something he's not happy about.  They're the people who were part of the rebellion. So verse 10, what is God's response to this kind of a hard heart? Verse 10, therefore, I was angry with that generation. So do you remember, they did not have the opportunity to go into the promised land, only two people, among them Joshua, Caleb, who finally had the opportunity to lead the next generation into the promised land. But a hard heart kept them out of the promises of God. We must be warned of an insensitive, unbelieving, hard heart. When God speaks to us, let's remember the way the writer is saying here, he uses the word today. Today, if you hear his voice, today, if you understand what God is trying to tell us, please respond, respond to it immediately.  So these things start with the heart where we begin to give up and we begin to let go of God and confidence in God in our heart. And they have not known my ways. Remember, we've talked about this in Psalm 103 where we are told that the children of Israel, they were not intimate with God. They just had, you know, they knew God for the works that he did, but it is told about Moses, that Moses knew God's ways. So he was walking deeper with God when one is walking deeper with God, we also see that God was able to reveal many secret things to him or many, you know, many things which are precious to him. He revealed it to Moses and Moses knew how God's nature was and how God functioned. So in other words, Moses could understand the why or the heart of God, whereas these children of Israel, 40 years of miracles, they never understood God. How can that be? That they are observing everything God is doing, but they don't know who this God is and that's really sad. That's the warning to these discouraged believers. Please don't get into that mode and miss out on what God is doing. So verse 11. So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest. So was there a consequence to hardness of heart, rebellion, unbelief? Yes, what are the consequences? God was angry and when he was angry, he made this decision, they will not enter my rest. What is my rest? We will talk more about it later on. It's the God kind of rest. When God finished his work in creation, we know that reference to, after finishing all the work on the last day, he rested. He rested. So the God kind of rest when everything is done and you over here, you would see they shall not enter my rest. It's a way of saying that the fulfillment of promises, as far as the people were concerned, God was so angry that they did not have the opportunity to see the promises fulfilled for 40 years they walked around. How sad, how sad, experiencing the miracles of God, but a hard heart, kept them out of experiencing the promises of God. Sometimes there are all these sermons preached about the land of Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey, so possessing the land and all that. But here are a whole bunch of people, thousands of them, they could not experience the land of Canaan. Not that God did not want, in fact, God only wanted it for them. No wonder he sent a Deliverer Moses and he made a way, but there was something internal that kept them out of the land of Canaan and all the blessings of the land of Canaan. What was that? Unbelief, hardness of heart. So there is a warning to all of us. So we can move ahead. We will read from verses 12 through 19. I hope you are all doing fine. Is there anything that you wanted to talk about before we proceed? I hope Hebrews is okay because it's unlike acts that we did last semester, which is more like a story, so then it's easier to grasp. But here there are concepts. Ma'am, we are enjoying. Okay, thank you, Sister. I guess it's okay. So, keep insight, we'll learn. Okay. Shall I read from 12? Yes, please, yes, please. You can read, Sister. Go ahead. 12 through? You can read from 12 through 19. 19. Hebrews 4, 20, 19. But the word of God is living and active. Sorry to interrupt you. 3. Hebrews 3, you could please read. Okay. 3, 12 through 19. Hebrews 3, 12 through 9. Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart leading you to fall away from the living God, but exalt one another every day as long as it is called today. That none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin, but we have come to share in Christ if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, today if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, but who are those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. Thank you. Thank you, sir. So once again, it's a repetition of the same thought and a warning. So when there's repetition, it's supposed to reiterate the same concept and let us know that what is being said is very, very important. So he sums it up beautifully towards the end. He says, they did not enter in because of unbelief. In verse 19, he gave us that conclusion, unbelief, unbelief, that is what will keep us out. So what was the problem with these people? Disobedience, we looked at that, but unbelief is a major issue that has been pointed out here. So from verse 12, he says, beware, brethren, notice the terms that are used. Brethren is a term that you will find in many of the New Testament books to refer to believers. So whenever you see brethren, we can understand they're part of the body of Christ. That's why brethren. So beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart, again, of unbelief in departing from the living God. So he is doing his best to plead with the believer, brethren. Then he says, evil heart of unbelief. When we look at that, in, first of all, he's saying, a heart of unbelief is what? It is evil. So when we look at other translations, amplified, amplified uses the term, wicked, unbelieving heart. So an unbelieving heart, think about this. We are, what are we termed as? We call each other believers. So what are we supposed to do? We're supposed to believe. Now, believers, when we become unbelieving, our hearts are unbelieving, the author is, it's a rebuke. He says, evil heart of unbelief. And as I said, other words, wicked heart of unbelief, what does it do? It causes us to depart or go away from God. It brings, ultimately, if we go away from God, what will happen? It'll bring defilement into our lives. So these are the things that a believer should be warned about. Unbelief is dangerous. It can make us go away from God. It can bring defilement into our lives. So what should we do? Okay, warning is there, but also tell us what should we do? One is the opposite of unbelief is believe. We must believe. So individually, personally, we can help ourselves and say, hey, the way David encouraged himself in the Lord. So it's actually speaking. If you look at what is there in the Bible, even Jesus, when he went through the Garden of Gethsemane, he hoped that his disciples will pray with him, but he did his part. He prayed, he sought the Lord. So whatever we can do individually, personally, we must do to keep ourselves out of this heart of unbelief. But in addition to that, verse 13, it says, but exult one another daily while it is called today. Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. So he's giving us a solution. In the community of believers, he says, exult one another. So apart from personally encouraging myself, what I can do is I can receive the encouragement that others give me. And I can also encourage others. And the way he puts it, he says, exult one another daily. Daily is, you could think of it as regularly. You know, we may not meet each other every day and send out SMSs, WhatsApp messages to each other every day, but regularly to have this practice of mutual encouragement in the church is key for us. So that is something we must develop within our believing communities, where yes, this journey of life is not easy. It's not easy for anyone. If one is going through discouragement, maybe somebody is going through failure. Somebody is going through a loss. Somebody is going through a season of questions and doubts. So all of us have a rough ride in some patches. And therefore mutually doing it with encouragement is very, very important. And so the body of believers must be one where there is encouragement. That is something we must, I mean, if we have it in our local fellowships in our body, that's great. If it's not there, that's something to work on, something to pray about. So he says, and exult one another daily while it is called today. So again, it's just a way of saying opportunity is still there and there is an urgency for this. So encourage one another. And he says, lest any of you be hardened, we already saw that our heart should not be hardened because it's dangerous, we can go away from God. Now, he gives another reason for why our hearts can be hardened. What is that reason? Deceitfulness of sin, okay? So sin, who tempts us to sin? Satan, and we know one of the names we use for Satan is deceiver. Sin, what it makes us do is it, Satan will tell us that this will help you or this will give you pleasure or this will fulfill you and then we get into it from the beginning. It's deceitful because we're being told that we're gonna get something which is not the reality, we get into it and then it's always a destructive result that we gain. So even in the end, it is deceitful. So he says, the deceitfulness of sin. So even being in the path of sin is something that can harden our hearts, okay? See, think about Samson. God had a great destiny for him and God was gracious, was long-suffering. That is something we can see through God's dealings with Samson. Opportunities were given, but he was going the same sinful path, sinful path. So what happens over a period of time? I think in the book of Romans about the conscience, we read your hardened conscience, seared conscience. So what happens is our hearts can slowly become insensitive and we can come up with arguments, reasonings, as the book of Corinthian says, we can say, no, but this is okay, once I can do it. So what's happening? Slowly the hardening is happening, okay? And we don't even recognize it, but it's so dangerous. It's leading us away from God. So verse 14, for we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence and the dead first to the end. So same thing he says, let's finish this race, let's not give up. And verse 15, again, he's repeating, while it is said, today, if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. Verse 16, for who having heard, rebelled, indeed was it not all who came out of Egypt led by Moses, verse 17. Now with whom was he angry for tears? Was it not those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? So you see that the description of these people, their disobedience and the results would even died in the wilderness. Verse 18 and 19, and to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who did not obey. So the fulfillment of God's promises they were not able to see. See, why do you think they, God is calling it rest to talk about the land of Canaan or the fulfillment of his promises? So Charles will come to you. I'll just leave this question open for all of us. Again, he's saying my rest, his rest, they were kept away from rest, which means the promised land. Why rest and promised land are talked about as one thing? Anything Asha? Oh, okay. Oh, okay, fine. So Siddhanta is typed here in the chat, he says, finished work of Jesus. Okay, finished work of Jesus. All right. Okay, that's right. In the greater context, the finished work of Jesus is the rest. We understand that. In this context, I was asking, entering the promised land, why is he saying the rest? Okay, Divya, you have something to share? I feel it is like a restoration to the original, to the original plan and purpose of God, which they were kept away, maybe due to lots of reasons. And they are restored to that original plan or their position. Yeah. So that's true. And I can understand that because of course, it's when you align yourself to that original plan that there's a sense of satisfaction. So yeah, the restoration of God. Asha is raising her hand here and I can see it. So yeah, you can share. You have to unmute and. After all that slavery that came, there's a right to win. So it's like, in the process of, I think the rest position, like, resist God's and Moses to rescue them for the purpose to go to the promised land. So I'm thinking because of the slavery they went and all the things they had to say, I'm not sure, but so once it's like a normal life also when we go through all that pain and hurt and physical work and all, we need a rest at the moment. So after like Jesus, from for God's, after all this 16 years, he took rest. So now from the slavery, he wants, I think, the rest of the list. Yeah, thank you, Asha. That's very profound and deep. That's true. They had been through that journey and they finally, why did they even go through the journey to go to the promised land? So they needed that rest. Unfortunately, their disobedience kept them out. Their heart of unbelief kept them out. Yes, Charles. Okay, can you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay, thank you. First, I want to read more light on, on Vasik's skin fat A, for who having had rebelled. Had they already had, had they already had, who told them? And that rebellion, because when you read down the talking world, they tested him. So I want to read more light on that part. Yes, Charles. So I heard your question there. So in verse 16, it says, for who having heard rebelled? So the way we will understand this is, it's simply saying as a nation, okay, Israel. It had a very good beginning of faith, isn't it? Because they experienced the greatness of God firsthand. They saw how God protected them and there were judgments on Egypt. Even if you think about the Passover, how beautiful that the firstborn, firstborns of the people of Egypt were dying, whereas those of this community, they were protected. Now all this is supernatural. And they've seen how God can protect, how God can provide. And when we experience God, one of the things that a simple heart or a sensitive heart can do is, it can understand who God is and say, wow, God, you're so good, your love for me is so great. That is the kind of inference we get out of God's actions. But having seen all this, having seen God's protection through the wilderness, God's provision through the wilderness, Mount Sinai experienced so many things that they went through, they still rebelled. So what kind of a heart do they have? That's what he's saying. He's saying for who, having heard or having experienced, they still rebelled, okay? So I hope that answers your question, Charles. Oh, yes, thank you so much, first of all. Okay, sure, sure. Yes, Charles. Oh, yes, Rupa, you have something to share. Just a small thought, ma'am. You said, what is this rest and what is the promised land? I think deep within, when we have the promise of God, when a person completely trusts in the goodness and the strength of God to take you to that place, that is where first you receive the rest, that is in the heart. Those hearts, when they, that is, God has already prepared the promised land for them, which is beyond their imagination, but it is first started in our heart. There they failed. So the rest begins in the heart and we receive it in provision in the promised land, I think that's what I just wanted to share. Thank you, thank you, Rupa, very beautiful thought. And that's very true. It's the place of origin is our heart. So once we go as rate there, then experiencing it in our real life, that may not happen. And so we need to maintain that simple heart of faith towards God. And there are lots of responses here in our chat where the finished work of Jesus, entering the presence of God, under his grace, all of these are, you know, this is our understanding of the rest of God, which has been provided for us today because of what Christ has done. And Avni adds a place of peace and joy where we enjoy fellowship with him and his promises. Okay, and so Kennedy shares the rest was an accomplishment due to diligence. Okay, we'll talk about it, Kennedy. We'll talk about more about it when we move ahead from here. So let's go ahead, let's take a break. We will come back at 10 or two and, you know, start have the next session. So see you all soon. Thank you.


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It's really uh It's interesting landscape for college coaches and basketball little sticky from this new case. I opened Aqua this one is going to be leotards of ours to 125 It's that camping world stadium shady. It's in um, it's in Orlando. It's at a neutral site neutral site So I'm heading I'm heading there right after this man going straight there Hey, go nose Go nose. Let's go shady got two shadies in here now. Got two shadies in here Yes, sir. Go nose I'm excited man. Can't wait. There's a bobby wet chrome It's body. Hey, go nose. There we go for us There we go for us No, it's not the soccer stadium. That's um Exploria stadium or something like that. It used to be UCF's old stadium Before they built their own specific one now. It's kind of just multi-use. It used to be Orlando City too before they built their own So now it's just kind of whatever Whatever comes to town. There's always bowl games there Um But yeah, there's no like specific team that plays there all the time It's kind of just Orlando's multi multi-use stadium now Little bit everything there's a monster jam in there. I know Boris is hit monster jam Or it's the big monster jam guy. There's a JDOM paper Volpe right behind him. He's too like to travel together Yeah, cuz um the MLS when they came to uh Orlando they made it part of the stipulation was that they had to build a soccer specific stadium if they wanted to be an MLS There was no putt like there was no option They had to build a soccer specific stadium. So it was uh, that was the end of camping world as a as a soccer stadium It's a nice stadium though. It's pretty steep. Um, it's built. It was built a while ago It's pretty steep, but you can see you can see the stadium or you can see the action from anywhere, man It's not it's not bad for not bad for games not really a bad seat Unless you're really really up there gets a little bit difficult, but it's it's pretty steep so you can see from everywhere It's not bad. Yeah, that's part of the MLS's thing when they expand is they have to have the soccer specific stadiums Which makes sense for the MLS from their point of view. They want they want to make sure that they always have The rights to it everything. They don't have to worry about concerts being in town or other sports His 90s bone crusher t-shirt. Oh, yeah, man. I've seen it. I've seen his bone crusher t-shirt He's also got a still from spider-man bones on the girl. He's got one of those t-shirts as well definitely shady definitely Yeah, I know some people who've worked at Exploria Some people that do uh Will do like magic they'll work at the the amway center during the year They're in the magic season. There's a Logan Harris or Hogan Harris Hogan Harris a's their first woman base auto Yeah, they'll work at like amway for like the magic season. They'll work at Exploria, too there's definitely a good bit of a Good bit of jobs created by sports around this around town for sure We don't even have like major major teams. We only got basketball and base or a soccer really I need three more. Good luck Zach. Come on now. I won't say it. Just imagine Sam saying it there on the Robert Poisson I'm sure you guys can I'm sure you guys can't imagine Two more to go Zach two more to go. 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Now the Chief of Army Staff, Lofton and General Farouk Yahya has said that the Nigerian Army under his leadership has been repositioned to discharge their duties professionally. He made a call after taking a facility tour at the Nigerian Army School off supply and transport while on a one-day walk-in visit to Adil State. The Nigerian promotion exam for our on-direct regular officers hit at all these categories of officers do not undergo this type of examination but now having realized the need to improve training and a chain is always as strong as the Wuketh link and there is no alternative to training in all aspects of life especially for the military and that's why I will introduce this exam in addition to relevant courses the aim is to continuously improve the skill and competencies of all personnel of Nigerian Army irrespective of their type of commission and what they do. Speaking at the event Yahya reiterated the Nigerian Army's commitment to maintain in the civil military relationship while noting that the Nigerian Army under his leadership will continue to initiate quick impact projects across communities in a country. But I must draw your attention to the fact that some of these challenges will require a comprehensive approach requiring the support of the civil populace. We all have a path to play in addressing these security challenges like I always say Nigerian Army belongs to Nigerians and together as a people we should confront and deal with these challenges. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


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Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this lecture we are going to talk about radio telescopes. Previously we looked at optical telescopes and some of the different detectors used. Now we're going to start looking at different types of telescopes that can help us observe the universe at different wavelengths. What is a radio telescope? One of the advantages is that radio waves can penetrate the atmosphere so we can see them from the ground. This gives us a new view on the universe because we're now seeing things at a different wavelength than visible light and that means some objects give off radio waves but are invisible in ordinary visible light. So it allows us to sometimes see objects that we could not otherwise see. One emphasis is that radio waves are not sound waves. You cannot listen to radio waves from space. Radio waves can be used to encode sound waves and to transfer sound through radio. However, they themselves are actually electromagnetic waves just like light, just much longer wavelengths. Let's look at some of the beginnings of radio astronomy. It was the very first astronomy outside of visible light working in the 1930s with Carl Jansky who was looking at radio communications and he found radio waves emanating from an unknown source. Now the interesting thing is that they appeared four minutes earlier each day. Now if you remember back to an earlier lecture there is a four minute difference between the solar day, the cycle of the sun and the sidereal day with the stars. This was the sidereal period of Earth meaning that objects were coming up four minutes earlier each day and they must be associated with something in the sky. And in fact he was detecting the strongest radio source which is the center of our galaxy. And we see his recreation of his very early model telescope here. Now when we look at radio astronomy what can we study? Well actually radio astronomy lets us study the two edges of the spectrum. We can look at very cool objects like molecular clouds which are very cool, do not give off visible light but do give off radio waves. However we can also study highly energetic objects because the accelerated electrons will also give off radio waves and we see that here with the crab nebula. And when I talk about being able to see things in different get different views the big image here is the main view of the crab nebula in visible light. However it's different if we look at it in the radio. In fact we see a concentration source at the center there. If we look at it in the infrared structure looks somewhat similar. Ultraviolet is a little different and X-ray really shows something interesting going on at the center here. And those are things that we miss in the visible light image not because we don't want to see them but simply because that area is not giving off visible light in the same way that it is giving off radio waves. Now why use radio astronomy? Here's one good reason is getting another view on the universe but let's look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of radio telescopes. One great advantage is observing 24-7. Daylight does not matter for radio waves while the sky is bright invisible light during the day. It does not give off radio waves so you can pretty much observe as long as you don't get too close to the sun which is a radio source. Weather is not an issue unless you have either an incredibly dense blizzard or a thunderstorm. So the electrical discharges in a thunderstorm would cause interference in the radio equipment but overall light rain, light snow you can observe right through that you can observe through clouds you don't need to worry about any of that. As we mentioned previously it is a different view of the universe which is important. Also radio waves can penetrate dust giving us a view of different parts of our galaxy so we can see the galactic center in radio waves but not invisible light. And that cool hydrogen gas which is much of the universe is something else that we can see in radio waves that we do not see in visible light. Now some of the disadvantages are poor resolution. If you remember the resolution depended on the size of the telescope so you'd think very big telescopes would give you good resolution. Well that wasn't the full picture. In reality the resolution depends on the wavelength of the light you're observing and the size of the telescope so a big telescope helps but a long wavelength like radio waves hurts so you need to make very large radio telescopes in order to be able to get decent resolution. You also get interference from radio signals on Earth just as we have light pollution with visible light and we have pollution with radio signals. So how can we get around some of this? Well there are some ways and we can use what is called interferometry. This increases the resolution of radio telescopes. What do you do? Well instead of observing with just one telescope or making an extremely large telescope you can use the same object observed with multiple telescopes to combine the signals together. This increases the effective size of telescopes to the distance between them. So here we're looking at the very large array or VLA out in the desert of New Mexico and it is a set of 27 of these telescopes which are spread out so instead of making one telescope kilometers in size which would be very difficult multiple telescopes that can look at the same object and give you the effective resolution of one telescope with the greatest distance between any two telescopes. And now we can match or exceed the resolution of optical telescopes. Now let's look at some famous radio telescopes. Here's one that doesn't look to in too good condition. This is the 300 foot Green Bank telescope which actually collapsed in 1988 and here we see the collapsed image. The replacement was completed in 2000 about 12 years later and that is the 100 meter Robert C. Byrd radio telescope. It is the largest fully steerable telescope radio telescope that exists and here is the updated new radio telescope that was built to replace the collapsed Green Bank. And again it's the largest one that is fully steerable. Now that doesn't mean it's the largest radio telescope but this can actually be pointed at different directions in the sky. Note 100 meters is about the size of a football field that you are steering here. So that takes an incredible amount of engineering to be able to get something this massive and be able to point it across different positions in the sky. Now there are some other telescopes. There was the 300 meter 3 times larger than the Green Bank telescope and that is the Arecibo telescope that was completed in 1963. Until 2016 it was the largest single dish 300 meters across and we now have another larger telescope which is the fast telescope in China which is even larger similar structure but much much larger not quite twice as big. Now what happened though with the Arecibo telescope is it did start a collapse in 2020 and that eventually led to it's decommissioning. So here we see the video from one of the drones as to that collapse and as to what happened. It had started before this but eventually everything just gave and you'll see the whole piece here that will actually collapse down as the last piece gives and the major detectors there collapsing in and actually destroying part of the dish. It was deemed to be unreparable so was therefore decommissioned and not going to continue not going to be rebuilt at least as that telescope that whole telescope was gone over 50 years was one of the very large telescopes in radio astronomy. Now let's look at what about the future of radio telescopes. Well there are a couple things that are being work done. There is the SKA Square Kilometer Array and that is projected to be completed in 2027 and what it is going to be is going to be a square kilometer of collecting area so the telescopes actually spread over much larger areas but overall when you add the amount of collecting area it will be one square kilometer and this is currently scheduled for completion in 2027. Also being worked on is the NGVLA the next generation VLA and that is in planning so it is very early stages currently projected to be completed in 2035 but it is an updated version of that very large array with again much more updated technology and better telescopes to be able to give us a better understanding of the radio emitting objects in the universe. So let's go ahead and finish up here with our summary and what we looked at was radio waves are easy to observe from the surface of the earth because they do penetrate the atmosphere and we can study them from the ground. They give us a different view of the universe. We see objects that emit radio waves that do not emit other types of electromagnetic radiation and we talked a little bit about interferometry being used to increase the resolution of the radio telescopes. So that concludes this lecture on radio telescopes. We'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy. So until then have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.