What does it mean to be vulnerable? Google says that vulnerability is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed either physically or emotionally. I would say it's to be real, authentic, honest, transparent. But I believe we've exchanged this vulnerability, this authenticity, this transparency for a facade of togetherness and wholeness. By definition, authenticity and vulnerability leave us open to the possibility of being hurt, rejected, discouraged. So what many of us prefer, myself included, is to stay emotionally closed, to avoid the possibility of even being hurt or rejected. We often choose to be disconnected from other people because with connection comes an opportunity to be let down or hurt or rejected. And what I've seen in our hyper-individualistic society nowadays is that we have forgotten about the virtue of vulnerability. In the Bible, we are called to carry one another's burdens and to spur one another on in love and good deeds. We hear this calling and yet we're stuck asking the question, how do we actually begin to do that? First, I want to dive into what I think gets in the way, at least for me personally, what gets in the way of me being vulnerable with people and really having that lifestyle and that virtue of vulnerability in my life. And the first thing I think is an idea of self-preservation or self-protection. We understand that, and even by the definition of vulnerability, that when we are vulnerable, we leave ourselves open to being hurt. Like that's in the definition. So the idea of being able to be vulnerable with people, with friends, with family, in our communities, that's a scary thing. And I think many of us, myself included, prefer just to be like, you know what, I'm not interested in that. I'd rather just protect myself because, you know, leaving myself open to somebody saying, you know, something that might be hurtful to me or it might just not liking me as a person, that's too much for me to handle. So I'm just going to protect myself and I'm not going to be vulnerable in that way. Another thing I think is our pride. And this is definitely an issue in my life. When we think about being vulnerable and authentic, we have to be open about the areas of failure in our life, the areas of weakness in our life. We humans are weak. We are broken. We are, like, the Bible makes that clear. We're by no means perfect in any way, and yet we like to portray ourselves of having it together, of being whole, of having fulfilling, you know, lives of relationships, of not having doubts or fears. But vulnerability asks us to step out of that and be open and state, Yeah, this is my fear. This is actually what's going on. This is the area of struggle in my life. And that's a scary thing. And our pride, my pride doesn't, it doesn't want that. It wants to say, no, everything's fine. My life's great. I'm doing fantastic. But I need to, in order to really take on Jesus' words and say, carry one another's burdens and spur one another on. I need to be honest about that so other people can help me. And other people need to be vulnerable with me so then I can help them with that too. Because if we're all just closed off, we'll never actually be able to seek to fulfill this calling that we've been given. Another big thing that gets in the way is our comfort and how much we love comfort. We hate awkwardness. We hate tough conversations. We like, we hate things that make us uncomfortable. But when we are vulnerable with people, it can often be uncomfortable and awkward.   But the definition of courageous, this idea of getting out of our comfort and doing something that makes us uncomfortable. I think this is a big area where we can start looking and say, hey, I need to be courageous in this area. And as counterintuitive as it may seem, it takes courage to be vulnerable. And we need that courage as we're seeking to get past this idol of comfort. We love to be comfortable, but we know God has called us to something greater. Because of these things that get in the way, we often lose what is so core to our families, communities, friends. Those relationships that are intertwined there, we need to be able to relate. We need that authenticity. We need that vulnerability within those relationships. I truly believe that we need to be open about the stuff that really matters, the tough stuff, the awkward stuff. We need to be open about the struggles we have, the stuff that holds us down. When we're open about that stuff, that's when other people are going to be able to come into our lives and help us. God didn't design us to live this Christian life on our own. He designed us to live within community and by being vulnerable in those areas and being honest about the struggles that you have about the hurts that cut deep. When you're honest about those things and open and transparent and vulnerable and authentic and all those good scary words, I really believe that God's going to be able to use that in your life. To step into vulnerability is to say that my pride, my comfort isn't worth sacrificing the God-given community that I have around me. I want to be open to being vulnerable with people even though it's hard and it's really hard sometimes. But I want to be open to that because that's what God's called me to. And that's what glorifies God at the end of the day. Thanks for watching guys. I really appreciate it. Please like this video if you enjoyed it and subscribe to the YouTube channel because we put out new videos twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays. Super big thanks to all my patrons on Patreon. You guys are awesome. 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I just wanted to add a few improvements I've made to this circuit, I'm not assuming that I've made improvements to the original circuit at all just to the one that I built I wanted what I didn't have was that both or now we've got four transistors but I wanted that they were sharing the power equally when there was about a volt difference between the two at one stage and also that the frequency was at 50 Hertz not 47 or 53 50 but for this country a couple of the resistors I didn't have so I've had to make those up to get the values that I've got I wrote them down yeah okay I'll write one down that's two point seven okay there I know I could put a two point I think I got two point sixes I'm not sure anyway and that's a two point four made up oh let me show you and this one's a two point four in total for the frequency I ended up with thirty nine thirty three and a twenty-seven nanofarad I'd like to just check that so that works out well 80 80 83 smaller than nanofarads and that gives me just what 50 Hertz no really I should have had that in but okay just like this you know put something somewhere not to wire up somewhere so those are frequency and that's the voltage and the load so there's votes peaked peaks that the frequency down there one lot at the top there there's the hardware counter there as well 50 Hertz point one point one Hertz and so I got the voltages you know pretty close it's quite good it's just under 220 volts without the load it's 219 it's all flickers 18 18 and 19 load but the nice thing about this is before when I was running it for a minute or so with the 840s it was getting hot and also better performance most definitely with IRF 3250s no 30 205s promise I've only got a couple of these and if won't you leave it on for a while these do start getting hot yeah okay heatsink come up but these I can leave these running before and they don't really get warm I've not left them running for more than sort of three or four minutes so maybe I should do that I don't know if I want to believe that but what I did was a little while ago I bought a bunch 30 I think it's 30 for 3 pound no second time as well the majority of the second and no they're not they're different but the majority of the second and like you can see that the leads have been cropped and they've been used but they still work which is great and no not even more and the ball was over there like just point of the wave going away and it's pretty bright because in here that's the only blight that's on though unless that is quite bright I'm gonna put the overhead light on I'm looking at the information are again still pretty stable everything's still pretty much main the same means and maxes and averages pretty good the frequency when I was playing around with different pastas the minimum on the frequency there is 40 40.6 Hertz but if you look at frequency now on the average that's pretty much sticking to what it should be which is quite good that's quite good for me anyway no it's still not warm yet not even warm cold I would say cold this is a gas top table so it can be pretty cold and they're pretty good so I say this works a lot better there's the voltage still with the load on now 12.5 volts point seven ounce for eight eight and a half watts I can't do that maxes in my head okay I can't hear that we can do it on account so it's all up over your 12.5 per tons point seven 8.75 watts let's just do a little feel yeah absolutely nothing there's nothing it feels like I'm just picking up one of these maybe it's got slats I once I felt that for a few seconds it's the same sort of temperature and that transformer there now that was making a noise before when it didn't have enough load on it so I'm wondering if it needs actually if it was to be happier putting more power and what I noticed as well when I was playing with them yesterday was because I was trying to simulate the battery and the lower it was going rapidly about there would be on like nearly an amp and I can see there look we're getting close to that but we are at nine volts we've gone down to a hundred volts there the frequencies stayed the same there's a bit more difference now on the the power going to them but as I turn it back up to 12.5 volts which is where you where your batteries you know they don't really want to run down very far from we go back up to that that's good and we'll start enough with a fresh battery that's a 12.89 there's still pretty good there and you'll have probably about a hundred 230 maybe volts open circuit and 196 there it's still going so let's have a little look and feel what that's like yeah nothing just nothing nothing nothing nothing they're a good bike for this because I don't know how long that's been now we've got nine minutes 35 on the camera I think I started it probably about four minutes five minutes ago there's a little bit I'll skip through just what I can figure out the capacitance that's a 13.6 pretty much on both there is a slight difference on the maximum there 15 and 14.6 frequencies still staying pretty good on both sides of the inverted non inverted then just nothing there's just no temperature change that's all it's just cold it's one of these no temperature change so I think the IRF 630 then that's pretty good so I'm quite chuffed to that I'm gonna look at building a H-Risch with that flash was it just me nothing seems to have changed anywhere that seems to be the same that's what I'm saying so I put we wouldn't probably be running at that he wants to be around about 2.5, 2.6 yeah nothing no change still cold so yeah I think that's not a bad not bad transistor to use and using four of course he's sharing the load a bit more I presume that's why the heat is just non-existent on it which would probably indicate that I could put more of a load on there we'll see what else we can get I wonder if I can get this to power up a fluorescent tube interesting all one of these are these compact lights yeah I just thought I'd show that except that seems quite good just been able to leave it running and then not get warm because that's still not warm at all no nothing certain this just running in a few watts it doesn't need really need heat sink in I'm sure it'll need heat sink in I don't know about these plastic cases there's that mean I don't need to put insulators on them and I can just bang it on the heat sink anyway I'm not sure I'll have to look that up because I don't know I've never used these before with the plastic cases like this so I've got to bag a bunch of them I'm just going second hand you know on eBay and I'm just like oh I'll grab those I wanted to play with MOSFETs this is before I even touch the MOSFET really I was just playing with the BJT the tip 35 I like MOSFETs okay it's not heat or anything to be worried about not even my temperature because it still feels a little bit cold but it feels a little bit warmer than what it was before but not enough to warrant thinking about or thinking that this needs to be turned off or anything I should probably do a temperature check on the power spline I'm just going to pour on the yeah nothing yeah nothing nothing nothing so I could just leave it running couldn't I could just leave it running and then maybe connect it to my battery but I did notice with the I think it was the IRF 840s as you were going down even just slightly the voltage the amperage was rising considerably which I don't think is such a good effect I'm not sure if that's what's wanted especially as if it was on a battery it's going to continue to deplete and then if it's taking more amperage it's going to deplete even quicker I don't think that's a very good move yeah I just thought I'd share that that is a better version of the one I did yesterday okay so I decided to add another bulb or something I tried to get this I tried to get this to work but it just blew a little bit dimly I've got better results from a single MOSFET a very much simpler design of that but it still wasn't really worth doing anything with because that design really isn't the way they go it's just a very basic thing with one MOSFET but there's there's two bulbs that's a three watt LED and that's a six watt LED there we go so I'm going to draw into the circuit anyway to have enough watts same thing I was just trying to see if these things would get warm not really it's not bad a little lightly if you're living on a boat or something there's pretty much the same a little bit of a bend on the waveform room but the voltage is the remaining stable the frequency is already stable but it is slightly down but I'm not sure whether that's worth being concerned about I gotta I gotta tear all this down now I'm a good one of these little DSO 138s for the friend anyway I should pop this in the video somewhere just so you can see the two bulbs you got this far cheers for watching I'm gonna probably just leave this on for a while still because there's still no nothing on there just nothing it's like they're not having to do any work at all and everything there is pretty much the same very small difference between the voltages but cheers guys bye


You're listening to the ECB podcast, bringing you insights into the world of economics and central banking. My name is Stefania Secola, and this is my first episode. Today is Thursday, 14th of September 2023. Our governing council has just decided on monetary policy for all of us using the euro every day. Here is President Christine Lagarde explaining those decisions in our press conference. Inflation continues to decline, but is still expected to remain too high for too long. We are determined to ensure that inflation returns to our 2% medium term target in a timely manner. In order to reinforce progress towards our target, the governing council today decided to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points. The rate increase today reflects our assessment of the inflation outlook in light of the incoming economic and financial data, the dynamics of underlying inflation, and the strength of monetary policy transmission. The September ECB staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area see average inflation at 5.6% in 2023, 3.2% in 2024, and 2.1% in 2025. This is an upward revision for 2023 and 2024, and a downward revision for 2025. The upward revision for 2023 and 2024 mainly reflects a higher path for energy prices. Underlying price pressures remain high, even though most indicators have started to ease. ECB staff have slightly revised down the projected path for inflation, excluding energy and food to an average of 5.1% in 2023, 2.9% in 2024, and 2.2% in 2025. Our past interest rate increases continue to be transmitted forcefully. Financing conditions have tightened further and are increasingly dampening demand, which is an important factor in bringing inflation back to target. With the increasing impact of our tightening on domestic demand and the weakening international trade environment, ECB staff have lowered their economic growth projections significantly. They now expect the euro area economy to expand by 0.7% in 2023, 1% in 2024, and 1.5% in 2025. Based on our current assessment, we consider that the key ECB interest rates have reached levels that maintain for a sufficiently long duration, will make a substantial contribution to the timely return of inflation to our target. Our future decisions will ensure that the key ECB interest rates will be set at sufficiently restrictive levels for as long as necessary. We will continue to follow a data-dependent approach to determining the appropriate level and duration of restrictions. In particular, our interest rate decisions will be based on our assessment of the inflation outlook in light of the incoming economic and financial data, the dynamics of underlying inflation, and the strength of monetary policy transmission. The decisions taken today are set out in a press release which is available on our website. I will now outline in more detail how we see the economy and inflation developing and will then explain our assessment of financial and monetary conditions. So turning to the economic activity. The economy is likely to remain subdued in the coming months. It broadly stagnated over the first half of the year, and recent indicators suggest it has also been weak in the third quarter. Lower demand for the euro area's exports and the impact of tight financing conditions are dampening growth, including through lower residential and business investment. The services sector, which had so far been resilient, is now also weakening. Over time, economic momentum should pick up as real income are expected to rise, supported by falling inflation, rising wages, and a strong labor market. And this will underpin consumer spending. The labor market has so far remained resilient despite the slowing economy. The unemployment rate stayed at its historical low of 6.4% in July. While employment grew by 0.2% in the second quarter, momentum is slowing. The services sector, which has been a major driver of employment growth since 2022, is now also creating fewer jobs. As the energy crisis fades, governments should continue to roll back the related support measures. This is essential to avoid driving up medium-term inflationary pressures, which would otherwise call for an even stronger monetary policy response. Fiscal policies should be designed to make our economy more productive and to gradually bring down high public debt. Policies to enhance the euro area's supply capacity, which should be supported by the full implementation of the Next Generation EU program, can help reduce price pressures in the medium term, while supporting the green transition. The reform of the EU's economic governance framework should be concluded before the end of this year and progress towards capital market union should be accelerated. Looking now at inflation, inflation declined to 5.3% in July, but remained at that level in August, according to Eurostat's flash estimate. Its decline was interrupted because energy prices rose compared with July. Food price inflation has come down from its peak in March, but was still almost 10% in August. In the coming months, the sharp price increases recorded in the autumn of 2022 will drop out of the yearly rates, thus pulling inflation down. Inflation, excluding energy and food, fell to 5.3% in August, from 5.5% in July. Goods inflation declined to 4.8% in August, from 5% in July and 5.5% in June, owing to better supply conditions, previous drops in energy prices, easing price pressures in the earlier stages of production chain and weaker demand. Services inflation edged down to 5.5%, but were still kept up by strong spending on holidays and travel and by the high growth of wages. The annual growth rate of compensation per employee remained constant at 5.5% in the second quarter of the year. The contribution of labour cost to annual domestic inflation increased in the second quarter, in part owing to weaker productivity, while the contribution of profits fell for the first time since early 2022. Most measures of underlying inflation are starting to fall as demand and supply have become more aligned and the contribution of past energy price increases is fading out. At the same time, domestic price pressures remain strong. Most measures of longer-term inflation expectations currently stand at around 2%, but some indicators have increased and need to be monitored closely. So what's our risk assessment? The risks to economic growth are tilted to the downside. Growth could be slower if the effects of monetary policy are more forceful than expected, or if the world economy weakens, for instance owing to a further slowdown in China. Conversely, growth could be higher than projected if the strong labour market, rising real incomes, and receding uncertainty mean that people and businesses become more confident and spend more. Upside risks to inflation include potential renewed upward pressures on the cost of energy and food. Adverse weather conditions and the unfolding climate crisis more broadly could push food prices up by more than expected. A lasting rise in inflation expectations above our target or higher than anticipated increases in wages or profit margins could also drive inflation higher, including over the medium term. By contrast, weaker demand, for example due to a stronger transmission of monetary policy or a worsening of the economic environment outside the euro area, would lead to lower price pressures, especially over the medium term. Turning now to the financial and monetary conditions. Our monetary policy tightening continues to be transmitted strongly to broader financing conditions. Funding has again become more expensive for banks as savers are replacing overnight deposits with time deposits that pay more interest and the ECB's targeted longer-term refinancing operations are being phased out. Average lending rates for business loans and mortgages continue to increase in July to 4.9% and 3.8% respectively. Credit dynamics have weakened further. Loans to firms grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in July, down from 3% in June. Loans to households also grew less strongly by 1.3% after 1.7% in June. In annualized terms, based on the last three months of data, households' loans declined by 0.8%, which is the strongest contraction since the start of the euro. Amid weak lending and the reduction in the euro system balance sheet, the annual growth rate of M3 fell from 0.6% in June to an all-time low of minus 0.4% in July. In annualized terms over the past three months, M3 contracted by 1.5%. So in conclusion, inflation continues to decline but is still expected to remain too high for too long. We are determined to ensure that inflation returns to our 2% medium-term target in a timely manner in order to reinforce progress towards our target. The governing council today decided to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points. Based on our current assessment, we consider that the key ECB interest rates have reached levels that maintain for a sufficiently long duration will make a substantial contribution to the timely return of inflation to our target. Our future decisions will ensure that the key ECB interest rates will be set at sufficiently restrictive levels for as long as necessary. We will continue to follow a data dependent approach to determining the appropriate level and duration of restriction. In any case, we stand ready to adjust all of our instruments within our mandate to ensure that inflation returns to our medium-term target and to preserve the smooth functioning of monetary policy transmission. That was it for today. If you want to know more, please check out the show notes for visual material about our governing council decisions, the full transcript of the discussion with journalists during the press conference and our projections on how we see inflation and the economy evolving. The next press conference will be on 26 of October 2023. In the meantime, stay tuned for new episodes. You've been listening to the ECB podcast with Stefania Secola. If you like what you've heard, please subscribe and leave us a review. Until next time, thanks for listening. And as we say in Italian, a presto!


Let me talk, brother. Let me talk. Because you spoke, you said... Get rid of your phone, and I'll listen to you about it again. Wait a second, I'm not finished. I'm not even finished. This is the worst audience ever. So you refuse to buy that phone? Why would I? I don't think it's immoral. I've told you what's happened. I don't think it's immoral. And it never fits to chop off their hand for the rubber. Are you saying all rubber is a product of pants being chopped off? Is that the claim? Oh, here we go. I don't care. If I go to the Congo, treat them right, make them all happy, raise the living standard, and chop their heads off. That will be okay with you. You change them all, James. I'll say it now. Change what? They want me to get rid of my chicken! Chilly tonight. Chilly, chilly. Hello. How are you going? Good? I filmed this footage from some farms around the UK. So, eggs? Yeah.  You're vegans already? Okay, great. Fantastic. You like it? You like tortured animals? They are actually serving body parts in there, eh? I got this footage the other night in a farm. Yeah, we filmed this.  You don't eat the animals? Just do we eat the animals? You love chicken, eating chickens? You sound like you don't like the cruelty? Yeah, no, of course not, no. Where was this, too? In the north of England. They're all factory farms over here, mate. All the chickens factory farmed over here. So, it's a parent shed. So, do you know the chickens? The chickens for people to eat, right? Yeah. They come from a mum's and dad's shed. So, those eggs have to be fertilised for people to get little chicks that they eat. So, these are their forced breeding sheds. Now, I filmed this footage the other night in England.  They put the roosters in with their hens and the hens can't escape them. They go raked over and over and over. Oh, it's actually a rooster. But, uh, go vegan, go vegan. How do you power in that tunnel? From my, uh, vegan powers. No, no, no, battery. Battery, brother. What's that? It's what you tell people. Well, uh, I filmed this footage in the UK just over the last couple of months. I'm just telling people to stop supporting animal agriculture. What is that? That's how they make the chickens. This is actually an egg farm. Oh. Yeah.  So, people will eat these birds as well.  Tastes nice. Yeah, I know. Do you think it's worth that? Uh, I actually grew up vegan. Really? Why? If they can make, they can taste my chicken. Well, it does, dude. You can get mad vegan chicken now, really good. The vegan butcher does a really close one. Yeah, there's vegetarian butcher, you mean, that one. Vegetarian butcher, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He does. What about squeaky bean? You had squeaky bean? Oh, what's that? It's in Tesco's. Okay. Or VFC is another one, vegan fried chicken. There's some good ones. Really good ones. Chicken, they've got, no, there's some, I think most of them are good.  But they're, squeaky bean have got jerk chicken, but it's not on the bone. No. Yeah. Yeah, but that's a- I love animals, but- You eat them. You don't love them.  I love vegetables and I eat them. Yeah, but vegetables don't feel anything. We don't care about them. How do you know that? Because they don't have a brain or nervous system, come on, mate. You know they don't feel anything. A carrot doesn't feel anything. A carrot doesn't feel anything.  A carrot definitely doesn't. Well, how does it react to the sunlight and grow? And how does it link with water? Just because it reacts doesn't mean it feels anything. You need a brain, a central nervous system, but plants can grow towards sunlight. That doesn't mean they're feeling anything. To be aware of you, that you're even here, you need a brain consciousness and- I'm not going to argue about eating animals, except- You already agreed it's wrong. You kind of did, you said, but- That's wrong. I don't know, I'm not vegan. Let me explain to you why it's wrong. For health reasons, but- Let me explain why it's wrong.  Yeah, lions do horrible things. We don't want to copy lions. They're nice things. We don't want to copy lions. Why does he eat lions? Lions will attack each other.  They eat their own cubs sometimes.  Yeah, exactly.  We shouldn't copy animals is what I'm saying. I'm trying to say, naturally, through nature- I don't care what's natural, because rape is natural, murder is natural, I don't care- No, it's not, mate. Yeah, it is. No, it's not. It happens in nature all the time. That doesn't mean it's natural. It could be a defect as well. Well, I'm just saying, killing is natural. I don't care if it's natural. I care if it's ethical. killing is natural. Yeah, it doesn't make it OK. But you don't say, oh, it's OK because it's natural, bro.  We wouldn't breed as many cows if we weren't going to eat them. Exactly. So I think it's wrong to continuously breed cows just for the sole purpose of killing them when you know that you can be vegan and it's healthier. You actually know it's healthier, which is interesting. I know it's healthier, and I know that it's better for me. But I do like the taste of meat. I do. It's a pleasure. I don't see a problem with it. Do you think we should do, like, use pleasure as the only sort of measure of what is moral, what's not? OK, pleasure overrides what's moral. I've got a lot of protein from moral. Yeah. So I'll get protein from plants, instant protein. Even though I know that the protein in the meat really originally came from the plant. Your second hand protein. No, but it's packed with protein because that's all they eat all the time. What makes you think you need all that protein anyway, starters? And what makes you think you can't get that amount of protein from plants? But I'll go back to what I said. The only reason I still eat meat is the taste. Yeah. And that's a pleasure response. It takes time. So, like, if you're going to do everything based on pleasure, you can be doing something. I'm not going to do anything. Just eating meat. Yeah. Even though it's immoral and you think it's wrong. I don't think it is immoral. OK. Why not? Why do you think it is? OK. Let me explain. You're conscious.   Which is why you have rights protecting you, yeah? Yeah. Someone, if I attack you, police will be like, no, they've got rights protecting this person. You can't do that. Right? I agree with that. Yeah. Do you agree with that premise? Like, that human should have rights protecting them from psychopaths and people trying to like, you know, humans should have rights. OK? Yeah. OK. So, animals are conscious. Yeah. They're aware of what happens to them. What happens to them matters to them. Yeah? Like, if I hurt a dog, it doesn't matter to you, necessarily. It matters to that dog. Are they that way? Well, if you kick a dog, you don't think they're aware of... I wouldn't. I wouldn't. No, no, no. I'm just asking, are they... Does that matter to that dog when you kick them? Yeah.  Yeah. OK. So, what happens to them matters to them? Yeah. To them? I wouldn't kick it. Yeah. OK. What happens to them matters to them? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Because they're an individual, they're experiencing their reality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. That's why I think they should have the right to live in peace. Just like you do, and I do, and they do. And certain animals do, like dogs and that, like in this country, pretty...  No, but in China, they eat dogs. OK. I think that's wrong too. OK. OK. But here, it's fine. I wouldn't eat a dog. There's no reason I wouldn't eat a dog. Yeah, because I know why. Because you're conditioned by society.  Yeah, because in England, they've got a very good relationship with their dogs. It would seem funny. I wouldn't eat a guinea pig. But morally, it's the same as eating a pig or a chicken. I don't know if you eat pigs.   No, I don't eat pigs. Oh, do you eat... Is that for religious reasons? OK. You're Muslim? No. No. Christians. Christians don't eat pigs. Some Christians don't. No. Some Christians don't. They think... OK. There's all clean and clean meat in Leviticus. Interesting. Adieu to what Leviticus says. OK.  It's got to chew the curds and have pie foods to eat it. So when did we start... When do you believe we started eating animals? Human beings. Are you religious? I might believe in God, but I don't subscribe to a particular religion. Adam and Eve left the garden reading. OK. We're sinning when we sinned. Yeah. OK. Wasn't it something about the fall of sin? Yeah. OK. Yeah, yeah. OK. Let's go for that. So you agree that it is a sin. It probably was a sin. But when everything became sinful, is when we started murdering all the animals? After sin, they needed blood to be a transgression of sin. A sacrifice of blood and the first sacrifice was the lamb. OK. You know, the thing is, you could take the Bible literally, but a lot of it is symbolic. Well, we're not talking about a Bible, because that's what we're going to disagree with. But Garden of Eden was vegan, just letting you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Is it vegan in the Garden of Eden? Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK. So we got that on our... It was fruit, vegetables, pulses. Yes. And if you stick to that, it's better for you, apparently. Yeah, and that's part of design. Like, people are eating too much meat, meat, dairy, they have heart attacks, and that doesn't make sense. We're not designed that way. And cancer. Yeah. And when you see this... Red meat to cancer. When you see cruelty to animals, it probably doesn't make you feel the best. I don't think it should be cruel. OK, well, wait a second. Lions are cruel to animals. Lions are cruel to animals. And you said... Oh, they're just hunting. No, no, no. They are cruel. They're not after them. They are cruel. They grab them by the throat.  No, no, no, no. They are deliberately cruel sometimes. Oh, I don't know about that. I've just seen the ones that hunt them. But they take a long time to kill them.  They'll do horrible things to the animal. Really? Yeah. Well, what about... I'm just don't know about most... Like, all I'm saying... I'm just saying... I'm just saying... I know you... I'm just saying you said...  So, therefore, it's OK for us too. So, I'm just like... No, you were ready to dismiss me with that. Yeah, yeah. And I take that vote. So, you take that away? I went back to the only reason I ate me is because of taste. OK. And then you said... I said, what's wrong with eating it? OK. So, you're off the lion's thing. I was just making sure you're definitely one. I'm off the lion's. You're off the lion's, all right. But I'm still into treating the animal right. OK. Looking after it. And at the end of its life, killing it quickly, aimlessly, and having a meal. OK. So, you get all of your animals from some magical farm that treats them right the whole way through. If I could, that would be perfect for me. No, no, no. Do you? No. OK. So, you're actually against your own philosophy every day. You go against it. I'm not against it. I sit in an ideal world. I'm not saying that it's the only reason I'm going to eat me. But OK. So, you're creating a hypothetical that you don't actually adhere to and... So, right now... So, it doesn't exist?  I don't know how they've been treated. You're telling me. I really don't know. I've not looked into it. This is the first time I've looked into it. OK, that's good. I'm not telling me. I'm not even sure. So, you don't even know where your animals come from. At least you're honest. Yeah, they come from the abattoir and then they come from the farm. And what farm? What farm do you do? I don't know. OK. So, most of the chickens here, I'd say you're big on chicken. I've seen they come from beaks. Are you big on lamb or mutton? I love my lamb. Love your lamb? I cook curry goat every week. In fact, three times a week.  Yeah. OK. OK. So, the chickens open... I cook it. I've got a Jamaican food company. OK. So, I cook curry goat and rice.  So, you sell this product as well? God. God, you're deep in, mate. You're in deep, bro. I don't know if it's... You're making people feel guilty here. No, that's OK. I don't want to make you feel guilty. You feel guilty because you probably think it's cruel. So, you don't wear leather shoes? No, no, no. This is called an appeal to hypocrisy, where people go, oh, I feel bad. I want to point something out, and he's doing wrong to make yourself feel better. Oh, that's left of the phone. Yeah, yeah. The phone. Because what you're doing, it's not an appeal to hypocrisy. It is. I feel that you've put me under defensive. So, now you're going to try to take me and see what's... It happens all the time. I'm not. Not a tag of it. Pick apart. Pick apart me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm trying to see if you're perfect. It's all right, it's all right. You can join in. You can observe if you like it, yeah. I'm trying to see if you're perfect because... I'm not saying to be perfect, by the way. Right, so what I'm really trying to do is, I believe there's something that you do. That's just as bad? I enjoy, which is natural, which some people exploited. What if I came to you and I said, there's a sweatshop in Asia where these children are making no jackets? Would you not buy that jacket anymore? I would look at the sweatshop if there's full... If there's slavery in that sweatshop, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'd be right. Well, this is the first time you're doing this to me. I love my chicken. If you come to me on the TV screen and you go, hey, bro, you've got that jacket there, whatever company it is, right? Here's the footage, right? Here's the footage. Who would have phoned even? No, but there's nothing wrong with this phone. I don't think it's immoral to buy a phone. No, no, I didn't say that, but... I don't think it's immoral. I don't think it's immoral. I think it's broken by it. All right, I'll give you a clue. If this was a piece of... This phone has cold trade in it. Cold bait. Cold tan? Cold tan. Or Colbert? From... No, cold tan. Contained from the Congo. It's not necessarily from the Congo, but a lot of it's from the Congo. There's a mining company in Australia that's now started doing it. At one point, it was only from the Congo. Okay. Yet, so the average wage for the people in the Congo is $1 a month. Wait, wait, wait a second. For who? For just the miners or for everyone in the Congo? Everybody. Okay, so that's not a problem with... In fact... Well, wait a second. That's not a problem with the mining. That's a problem with the country. It's still being exploited. So, wait, wait. If you don't work in the mines, how much do you get? It's the same. Well, then what's the matter with the mines then? It's all bad over there. The people in the mines are being exploited. More than the people outside the mines? How have they been exploited? To not tell them how much they're mining. How much are they being exploited? They should be getting a fair wage. But wait a second. Forget getting the most valuable metal in the world, which every computer and every mobile phone needs. You just told me that it's the average wage for the Congo. Yeah. So why is it any worse in the mine than it is in the Congo? The gross... No, no, no, because you're looking at the wages here, even though the Congo is vastly different in its economy. I'm looking at the wages in... Let's go South Africa.  And there's still been exploited. The Congo should be as rich as Saudi Arabia. But the whole country is bad. The whole country is bad for wages. I'm just saying, how is it worse in a mine than it is any other industry in the... No, it isn't. Okay, well, there you go. They're being exploited. Then it doesn't matter. I'm still adding to it by buying the phone. Is working for a low wage the same as enslaving an animal and chopping their head off and chopping them up into pieces? You're enslaving a human being. They're not enslaved. If they're getting paid, they're not enslaved. They're too bad, though, but you're quite... Why are you even prone to mislead which ones worse than the other? They're both bad. Can't we just not do them? That's what I'm trying to say. I'm trying to say he's bad. I would say they're not the same. They're not equally bad. He's saying not to each of them. I said, all right, if you don't want to each of them, get rid of them. Do we have to pay for which ones worse than the other? Can't we just do them? They're not worse. No, because I don't think that what he's saying is analogous. And I don't think what you're saying is... Well, why does it matter which ones worse than the other? I'm just saying it's why they're better than either of them. No, because... You don't care about chickens. I'm not caring about human beings. Well, wait a second. Let's calm down a bit. Let's calm down. I want to explain to you why that matters. No, but surely... Can I explain to you what... Yeah, but you two are getting way too weighed up and poor. No, no, no, because we want to live in a world where neither of these exist. Are you going to Hallelujah? Yeah, yeah, right. We're kind of getting a little bit like... I'm trying to say he's just standing. He only brought this up. He's... When he's gone, no. Okay, this is why. No, this is why. You're saying you're going too far. No, no, no. What he's doing... See, this is why it's a problem. I'm putting him back to him. No, I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. They're both bad. Look, look, they're not bad for the same reasons. This is why I'm saying it. They're not bad for the same reasons. This is why I'm saying my problem. No, they're not very different. Because if you were taking those people in the Congo... Let me talk, let me talk, let me talk, let me talk, let me talk. No. Let me talk, brother, let me talk. Because you spoke with... Listen, listen. Okay. I'm saying... Okay, hit me, hit me, go, go, go. Get rid of your phone and I'll listen to you about it. See, this is why it matters. That's it. No, listen. This is exactly why it matters. Because what he's doing is... No, this is why it doesn't. They're surely... You're not even letting me talk. You're not even letting me talk. I'm listening. Okay, let's go. I'm trying to explain to you, but you're talking to me. I'm ready to listen. Okay, while it matters that these are not analogous, it's because he's going to go, well, you got a phone so I don't have to stop eating chickens. Wait a second, I'm not finished. I'm not even finished. This is the worst audience ever. What I'm trying to say... Is it? That's all. Wait, one sec, one sec. What I'm trying to say is, is to make it analogous, you would have to take those people in the Congo against their will, put them in a factory farm, torture them and cut their heads off and serve them to me, and that direct supply and demand chain is causing them to be chopped up into pieces, that is analogous. But you're working in a country that has a low wage across the board who are mining coltan, and if you take that coltan industry out of their country, their country goes bust and they probably get forced into real slaves. You take that industry out of their country, it's no one else. It's what I'm saying, is it brings money into their country. If you refuse to buy that phone... Why would I? I don't think it's immoral. I've told you what's happened. I don't think it's immoral. And if everybody did that, they'd say, I don't think it's immoral. How much coltan is in this phone? This much? They're both bad. It's not a piece of someone. You can both free their very bad. So if you refuse to buy that, they would have to improve the standards they're working. They should improve the standards across the board in the country. I gave all my human beings and chickens. You're allowed to. You're allowed to. I've given them to their God bless you, my brother. But you don't have to torture chickens as well. People are being tortured. I'm going to come in with a video and show you what they're living like. It's disgusting. In the whole of the Congo... It's disgusting. I don't agree. They should raise the standards of the whole country. But I'm not responsible for that. Yeah, I know, but you're contributing to one of them. Get rid of it. Get rid of it. It doesn't matter. Yeah, but just because that exists doesn't mean that... You're telling me about one farm. You buy a chicken. Okay, let me say this before you leave. Before you leave, my brother. It's not a one farm. I've been caught up in that same thing. One sec. Can I... Because I want to talk to you. It's just because of all the animals and human beings. No, I don't care about you. What do you do? No, I don't. Hey, why are you set up? Now, that's a bad... That's a cop out. Because if this was happening to humans... You're using it. That's what I think. No, no, no. Get rid of the phone and I'll listen to you.  Well, why is that different?  You got a phone. No, no, no, no. My argument is... You're trying to tell me about chickens, yeah? He's trying to tell you about something. Sorry, brother? You're trying to tell him about chicken. And then he goes... He's listening, but he's trying to tell you about something. You're not listening. I'll listen to him. I know the Kongos. I know the Kongos. We all know what a dead one is. I know the Kongo cold tan thing. I don't think it's... I don't think it's that bad. And I don't think that's that bad. Shit in the world. But also, what you've got here... They're not chopping them up into pieces and serving them to people. Do you know what they did for the rubber? I've only started on one thing. We've got any rubber on you? He's just trying to say... They just chopped off their hand for the rubber. If you didn't come back with a certain amount of rubber, they could kidnap their sons, kidnap their wives, or chop off their hands. So what are you saying? So do you think... I'm going to get rid of your rubber now. Let me say... Let's see, you've got any rubber. You're going to get rid of your rubber. So you're saying... Are you saying all rubber is a product of hands being chopped off? Is that the claim? Oh, here we go. I don't care. It's all chicken. All chicken is a product of a chicken being chopped up into pieces. No, you told me there's some farms where they're organically raised, grass-fed. And they get chopped up into pieces. I'm treating right. But you don't... You don't buy from them. I'm treating right until they're endowed life. But you don't... You don't buy from them, brother. They get killed properly. But you don't buy from them, brother. Do you know? How do you know? How do you know? So, okay. Okay, let me say this. If I go to the Congo... If I go to the Congo... If I go to the Congo, treat them right, make them all happy, raise the living standard and chop their heads off. That will be okay with you. No, no, no, no, no. That will be okay. I'm not talking about... Chopping their heads off is fine. No, no, no. Oh, no, you can't... No, no, no. Raise their standards. Raise their standards. I'm not crying a chicken to a human being. No, no. How those people are treating this just as bad, whether they treat it or not, whether their heads are chopped off or not? I think it's... It shouldn't be living like that.  Chopping animals up is way worse. No. No, it's not. Billions of animals... As I said, I get more about human beings than chickens. You can't say it's worse, but you can't say... Having a... Wait a second. You can't say it's worse. Would you rather work for a low wage or be chopped up into pieces? I'm not saying murder doesn't happen. By the way, I know there's bad stuff that happens to animals. It's awful. I'm not saying it's good, by the way. I'm just saying that... This will be by an instrument. If we all said... We all said, right, get rid of my phone. And what's that he just whipped out? Is that an iPhone? I think right now is the perfect time to point out that my man's actually has an iPhone. So he really doesn't care about the ethics of buying iPhones. What his agenda really was, and I think he made that very transparent and clear, was that he wanted to avoid responsibility for what was happening to these chickens by finding something hypocritical about me and running with it. This is all about him avoiding responsibility and it has nothing to do with the ethics of iPhones. If we all said... We all said, right, get rid of my phone. It wouldn't stop anything. No, it wouldn't. If we all did, it wouldn't. No, it wouldn't. We knew the best it would. Because it would take... It would probably send them into more poverty. Bill Gates, I saw a field of poultry. Because being chopped up into pieces is way worse than working for a low wage. Why would you even say that? It is. If you were a chicken, you'd beg to differ. But you can't put yourself in the animal's... That's a chicken. Are you saying an animal has more right than we do? They have no rights at all. You have way more rights than I do. I don't know what I'm saying. I'm just saying no... Are they more... I'm not saying no. That's a chicken bite. I'm not saying if I have to choose between... I'm talking about being... Yeah, but that's not the thing. All I'm saying is choose a different meal. No, I'm talking about... I'm not saying between... I'm just saying just choose a different meal. What's your name? What you're doing here, yeah. Fine, spread it in a way. What's your name? What is your name? Joey. Joey has a chicken got the conscious level of the brain as much as us. No. Right. But there's humans. There's some humans that don't care. It allows me... There's some humans that don't care. But brother... To feel pain more and to be aware of things. Yeah, but I'm not choosing between you and a chicken. It's just it. I'm just saying...  It's worse than having people go down a mine, a mine for Coltrane, for $1 a month.  So I'm not listening to you about the chicken. God bless you. You don't want to change, that's why. You don't want to change. You change about the chicken. I'll say it now. Change what? Get rid of the phone and I will stop eating chicken. But wait, this phone's already bought. Whoa! This phone's already bought. So, bro, this phone's already bought. I've already bought this phone. All right. If I don't buy another one... Get rid of it. But all you have to do is stop. You want me to get rid of my chicken.  Get rid of my chicken, I'll get rid of my phone. But you buy one three times a day. Chicken. How often do you eat? That's how I earn my living. Go vegan. Vegan Jamaican. I do vegan food as well. You do? Send it my way, brother. It was interesting. That was appeal to hypocrisy on steroids. What happened is we had a pretty productive conversation and then he started looking at my phone. He's like, what can I pick apart here? Shoes, they're not leather. Oh, wait a second. Where the clothes made? Phone, he's got a phone. All right, the phone is morally, buying a phone is morally the same as causing a mass murder of billions and billions of sentient beings for a sandwich. So go into the store and buying animal products three times a day is the same as buying a phone, which has a small, I don't know how much coltan is in the phone, microscopic amount. I'm not saying coltan mining is like the most amazing industry on earth. There's probably some slavery that happens. We can't really pinpoint it. But mostly what he was talking about is low wages in the Congo. And then I asked him if it was like, is it just strict to Congo mines or is the whole country got low wages? Well, if the whole country's got low wages, then it's not something that's isolated to coltan mines. So I don't know if boycotting that country is even a good idea. And then you just take all their jobs away from them and then what do they have? You probably force them into worse work, worse pay, worse conditions. I don't think working for a low wage in a country that's already on low wages is morally the same as torturing and cutting the heads off of billions of beings. So you can eat their bodies. It's just not morally on par. Those two things are not analogous.  I mean, I'm not saying one's good. Some countries have generally bad economy and they're unfortunate. A lot of these industries coming into their countries bring a lot of money in too. But if you were taking all those people rounding them up for slaughter, then you could start saying they're the same thing. But I think what he wanted to do was have a cop out that was like, okay, you got a phone, I'm not going to change. I'm going to keep three times a day buying the flesh of murdered animal slaves so I don't have to change because you got a phone. He'll keep continuously supporting that industry that chops up animals, kills them every single day, every single day and he'll never stop now because he's got that one thing that I had a phone. So I don't think that's honest. I don't think that's just he wanted a way out and he got it in his own mind. But that's it. What's up, brother? She's stuck in a farrowing shed. She's beautiful. You're eating her? I am. You're eating pigs? What's wrong? That's what we got to live. That's how you have to eat them to survive? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I don't eat them. That's what's on offer, huh? But you can get vegan stuff. That's what's on offer. We do like vegan stuff. But wait a second. Do you think this is bad? Like what happens to the pigs? If it's inhumane. Yeah, they're all factory farmed over here. If they're full, they're bad at everything. Yeah, but you just have to not... Because when you pay them money, you're sort of supporting it, aren't you? But what's the alternative? Vegan. But what if you're going to make vegetables? No, vegetables are vegan burgers, vegan sausage rolls, vegan everything. You get vegan everything, brother. Ah, it's not the same as that, man. So taste over life? Taste over life. So cruelty over taste? Taste over life. No? So this is cruelty, though? Taste over cruelty? No, I still have it every day. Yeah. Okay. Is that a real fur? Is that a real fur jacket? I don't know, it doesn't look like a real one. It's not real, is it? No, it's not real fur. No, it doesn't look like it. Sorry? Am I real? I think so. Hope I'm real. What am I doing? I'm showing people... I took this footage in the farms over here, in the UK. No, I'm just trying to show people what happens in factory farms. A lot of people haven't seen in there, have they? Okay, so... Being kind to animals is not your thing? It's not everyone's thing. You don't really care about animals? Not really. Can you do that for me from a choice, please? Sorry? No, no. Sorry. If I cared about everything, like being... I'd be in a different place. Yeah. I mean... Matter of choice, innit me? Yeah, we do have a choice to be cruel to the animals. That's true. I'm not being cruel. You don't think so? I'm not being cruel, please. I'm fighting myself. Because you're creating the demand for the cruelty, like, without you that doesn't exist. I didn't bring it. I didn't bring it. No, but you are like... So you're paying them to do this to the animals when you give them the money and you take the meat off of...


Good morning children. Good morning. Happy Sabbath. Happy day. Happy Sabbath church. We shall sing one song. Maybe I'll ask the children to stand. I've heard your word and I've eaten it. I've eaten it. I've eaten it. I've heard your word and I've eaten it. I've put it down in my heart of God. It always sounds so sweet. I want to make a vibe. I've eaten it. I've eaten it. I've eaten it. I've heard your word and I've eaten it. I've put it down. I'll ask one of us to pray. Mama Pako, please pray for us as we stand. Dear God, we thank you so much for this Sabbath. We ask that you may open up our hearts to hear from you. Please be with our teacher as she teaches us. In Jesus' name, amen. I want to welcome all of you to our sermon today. My name is Kylen Todera. And this month of February, we the Cradle A will be taking you through the fundamental believe number 18, the gift of prophecy. We started last week and we opened our first gift and really learned quite a lot. One of the things that we learned was the gift of prophecy is a gift from the Holy Spirit and also their prophets are given a special message to share the word of God to others. We also learned that the gift of prophecy is still relevant in our church today.  Can we mention just a few that we learned? Moses. So, and many others, there are also lady prophets like Deborah that we got to know about. So this week, we are today, we are going to open our second gift and we are going to learn who can get the gift of prophecy and how can we be able to know a true and a false prophet. So when you will start with who can receive the gift of prophecy. The Bible tells us in the book of Joel 2.28, in the last days, God will pour his spirit to all flesh, young men and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, young old men will dream dreams and young men will see vision. So the gift of prophecy is given to anyone in church. Two, we also look at not everybody in church can receive the gift of prophecy. When you read 1 Corinthians 12, it tells us about this, the gifts of the spirit. There are so many and it's like hands, the church, like the body. When you look at our bodies, we have our head, we have our ears, we have our hands and each of those parts of our body has a different function. Same to the church, to the gift of the spirit. We are given different gifts so that we, as a church, we can profit. So the gift of prophecy is given, the Holy Spirit chooses who to give. We also learn that the gift of prophecy is one of the identifying mark of the remnant church. Who are the remnant church? These are the people who keep all the commandments of God and who have the testimony of Jesus. The testimony of Jesus is the message, is where the message that we preach always points us to God. So that is the gift of the spirit to the church. As we saw there last week, the gift of prophecy is still active and alive in church. But do you know there is a warning for all of us that inasmuch as any of us can receive the gift of prophecy, not all of us are true prophets. Jesus, our friendly to children, warns us that we should be aware of these false prophets. Who are these false prophets? They are people who lie to us so that they can remove us away from God and slip away from our faith. If you look at our, in Matthew 7.15, going forward up to 18, it tells us that these false prophets, they are like wolves, they are wolves dressed in sheep. So you will not be able to know them very well. Have we ever encountered a counterfeit currency? Money, okay? When you go to buy something, there is real money and there is counterfeit. They look similar in everything, the shape, the way they look, but there is usually a special feature in the real money that makes it not to be a counterfeit. That is the same way with us being able to identify a true prophet. So what does the Bible tell us about how well we can be able to identify a true prophet from a false prophet so that as young children, we do not fall away from his word? So the fastest is the message of the prophet in harmony with the word of God. And we read in Isaiah 8.20, if someone comes and does not speak according to the word of God, then that is not of God. So when someone stands and says they are a prophet, we have to look, are they speaking according to the word of God? Are they glorifying God instead of self? I know as a church, we've had so many prophets out there. Some will say, do as I say, not what the Bible say, but children remember the message has to be in line with the word of God. Number two, does the prophet recognize Christ came in flesh? And here we'll read first John 4.2 verse 3. And it says by this you shall know that the spirit is from God. If a spirit confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord and came in flesh, coming in flesh meaning that we recognize that Christ was there in the beginning, that Christ was born, the virgin birth, that Christ died for our sin, the atoning sacrifice, he resurrected, and he's right now, he went, he's doing, okay, we recognize that Christ died, he ascended, and he's offering our, he's doing the intercessory work. Thank you class for reminding me. So those are the things that we look at when we recognize that Christ came in flesh. The third test, have their word come to pass? And I know this can really confuse us, even children and even the church. Most of the time there are people who prophesy and their words come to pass, but are they prophets? We need to be very careful about that. Not every person that the word come to pass is a prophet. So we also have to engage the prophets with the other tests that we have put. In Jeremiah 28 verse 9, which says we shall know that this is a prophet from God if the prophecy is fulfilled. And the last test of a prophet, how are they living their lives? Are their lives godly? Do they reflect the fruit of the spirit? This is what will tell us whether there is evidence in their work. In Matthew 7, 16, we are told that we shall be able to know them by their fruit. A bad fruit cannot bear a good fruit. Neither a good tree bear a bad fruit. So those are the key tests of the true prophet. But there are many others, but these are important for us children so that we can be able to see whether the person who is saying is a prophet is a prophet. In our church, one of our founders was a prophet. And why do we believe that he was a prophet? So we hold against the tests that we have said. The first is the agreement with the Bible. When you look at Mrs. White writing, her literature always puts the scriptures at the fore. She always refers and makes reference to the Bible. Her literature are usually in accordance with the Bible. We also, she has acknowledged that Christ came in flesh. Majority of us have been able to read the desires of ages and step up to Christ and also add children to be able to take this book and read and he has been able to point us to Jesus through those books. And also when you look at accuracy in prediction, we, I'll just mention one, her ministry of health, it's most of our writing in health. We can attest to it that it has really come true. And lastly, Godly living and her influence in her ministry. When she died, one person out of the church made that testimony and he said, surely Mrs. White lived a Godly life. And when you look at her literature, it has a lot of influence pointing us to good and morality living, pointing us to Christ so that we can be able to live a right life. And also he has been able to urge us to do missionary work, to be able to do publishing through missions so that we can be able to spread the word of God to others. So as we conclude, children and church, I want to leave you with these verses. 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, 20 to 21, it tells us, do not despise prophecy. Test all things, hold fast to what is good. What does it mean not to despise? I have said in these last days, there are prophets who will rise amongst us. So when somebody says it's a prophet, we need to consider, but we need not only to consider but test and see whether there are true prophets of God. And when if there are, then we need to listen to them because 2nd Chronicles chapter 20 verse 20 tells us, believe in God your Lord. You shall be established. Believe in his prophet and you shall prosper. So that's the end of our lesson this morning. Next week we shall be able to learn more about the purpose of the gift of prophecy and how best we can use the gift. I will ask one of us to pray for us, then we can conclude. Let us pray. Our loving Father, we thank you so much for granting us our time to share your word this morning. We thank you for the children someone. We pray that you may give us the gift of prophecy that we may proclaim your word. This is our prayer in Jesus name. Amen.


first on the map and tell you who they are and what they represent and here we go right on cue Bishop secondary not many well-known players but Christian McKenney will act in goal for them they will be certainly aiming and depending on Malik Wilson and Khalil Lewis who will be charged with getting the goals for them while Richard Goddard a former national goalkeeper will be on the bench. When we look at the team formation expect Arthur to shield the back four Wilson already with two goals so far this season will be looked to towards the man to get the goals for Bishop's High School. Well the boys in green from Bugmalaches San Juan secondary top of the table 18 goals they've scored and it's primarily due to this trio JDL Joseph who is the right winger Jaheem Dancler who's netted five already for the season Nathan Kwashi the top scorer with eight with six goals this far and of course look at that number 10 and Lindell Sweene certainly one of the players of the tournament so far. When you look at their formation Kwashi has mentioned the slotting back into the middle of the park of course Lewis the captain back fit and Sweene the ever-present of course always a goal scoring threat for San Juan North secondary. Salt Bay if you will and then later on everybody was trying as confidence was high but McKenney was not about having it until this happened and you felt that Dancler should have hit the target and when you thought that the game was gonna end like that comes the magician a second Lindell Sweene and that was 4-0 to San Juan after that it was more from Sweene and that was his hat trick look at this one finish top quality stuff for Sweene taking him to eight goals and then Joseph wanted to get in on the action and he certainly did in the end goal number six for San Juan and that was what the final script would say San Juan six Bishop high school nil let's see what the numbers tell us about this match and look at that 21 shots more than half of those on target for San Juan in terms of shots are well Bishop high they've not done well with terms of that when we come down to corners a little bit more even 8 to San Juan 5 to Bishop high and possession rather even though it had the end of the match 53 to San Juan to San Juan's 47 6-0 the final score well we saw all of the scintillating action it's time to talk to our man of the match shall see Hatchick's score Lindell Sweene thank very much James I'm now joined by the NGC man of the match Lindell Sweene Linda congratulations a hat trick today your assessment on your performance well I want to thank God for my performance today I hope that I could continue getting man of the matches and I want to keep my game-causing system keep on doing what I do right now well of course three goals you must have a favorite which one is a pick of the little I think the first one is my favorite when I take it and jive it in well we had a look of the first one we also saw the other two congratulations you are the NGC man of the match thank very much Lindell Sweene of course the man of the match for this fixture here I'm now joined by the coaches of course coach got out first and foremost coach disappointed result at the end of the day your assessment of the 90 minutes plus you know there's some basic errors that you really and truly don't do you must track your players you know can't hold on to the ball too long San Juan North is is definitely one of the top teams in in the competition and you know if you if you create these errors for yourselves a team like someone not will pick you up and that's pretty much what happened today you know they played well they did exactly what they were supposed to do and we got punched for it well moving ahead of course we're close to the halfway point of the season you did say staying in this division it's important to you how do you pick the boys up well you know we have to we have to battle for four points there's no question about it you know we have to look at which opponents we have and see how best we could actually you know target those opponents and you know some more scouting you know it's a it's an entire package it's something that you know Bishop's High School is learning again at this point in time you know we're one one win more than we did the last time but one win doesn't necessarily cut it we need to be able to grind out some results and I think as this season goes on we're going to have to understand that grinding is pretty much what needs to happen thank very much coach all the best yeah thank you of course coach more good results big score line impressed I think was a game at two halves you know full south we had a lot of chance of which we didn't take and second half he scored we chanted and I was the difference in the game you know best up trying to put it all along and play so they have a philosophy which is good you know but um credit to my team we didn't let the full south get us down and we did a lot better second half what was the adjustment you made you talked about the tail of two halves what was the adjustment you made going into the second half I mean the boy doesn't need a little kick up their pants you know sometimes because you're on top of the table right now I told me after crying more and laugh less you know and stay focused on the job and be hungry still so I think full south we just thought we need to show up and we win the game and guy was a little bit too greedy and then trying to score our first goal you know but after we scored I think we sat along a little bit thank very much coach all the best to you in the rest of the season well for our next word cast of course coming up on