What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreak.com. This is our last filler, guys. We needed a due to unlock the last three spots in the hip packs. This is a 2020 Panini Mosaic football hobby single pack break number two round in teams. And again, guys, first we do the break. Randomize customer names, teams distribute the hits out. Then at the end, we're randomized only the 32 names I bought in. And top three, get into the hip packs, which is coming up next. So there we go. Let's do the break first. Roll. Snake eyes, two times. One, two. Nestor, down to Russell. One, two. Bangles, down to the Texans. All right, there you go. So guys, we'll alphabetize, no trading, see what you guys got really quick, 30 seconds. So again, quick little pack filler. Got an autograph out of the last pack. Let's see if we can get a bigger rookie, maybe color. Maybe rookie color. Wow, we got another auto. This time it's Patrick Queen, two or two on autos. Baltimore Ravens with that one, that's a Jimmy. All right, let's switch scenes now. And again, top three, get in, guys. Good luck, everybody. Roll it. One out of four, five times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five. Boom, five, five, top three. Oh, Tranny, just missing out, buddy. I don't know if you can still be in the top three, though. Five times, guys. Here we go, top three. Nestor, Justin, and Kayab, congratulations. Top three. There you go, guys. Boom, five times. Top three are in. You guys are now guaranteed to hit in the hip packs. And now it is officially sold out. So coming up next in a separate video is the Jaspie's high-end hip packs. Appreciate it, guys.


Hey friends today, we are hanging out at the Magic Kingdom And today is the day before Halloween and I'm so excited I wanted to come out and take it all in one last time ride some rides eat some food and just have a spooky Magic Kingdom kind of day Anyhoo, let's go do this There is just something really special about being at the Magic Kingdom during the Halloween season I love the Mickey pumpkins. I love all the different colors and the decorations and I love just the atmosphere itself Like look, we got a little pumpkin patch right here right next to Cinderella Castle in the Adventureland sign there I Already bought an individual lightning lane for Tron and Seven Doors mine trains So we're definitely gonna ride those rides today and I was thinking about getting Genie Plus But it was $27 and I think I'd rather just spend $31 and be able to guarantee like riding Tron and Seven Doors mine train So we definitely have those on the plans You know what I really have to say I feel like Cinderella Castle has a beautiful side profile You got the water running up to it. In fact, I remember I used to watch Disney movies And it looked like there was like a stream of water that led up to the front of the castle But that doesn't exist. This is the closest that you get and I love it. Isn't she a bute Clark? Today I am actually testing out a new camera the old camera that I used to use I've used it since the beginning was the Canon G7X Mark II, but they kind of stopped making them It's hard to get them nowadays So I gotta you know mix it up and try something new so let me know what you guys think you know The sound good the quality the stabilization. I love your feedback and hopefully I can recreate the same style of Videos that I've always shot It's almost time for our Tron lightning lane So I think we're gonna head into Tomorrowland and get ready to ride and I'm so excited to ride this ride I actually love Tron. I Feel like it's been a while since the last time I rode Tron I think the last time I rode Tron was during Mickey's not so scary Halloween party And it's kind of funny that there is no party tonight the day before Halloween Kind of gives people a chance to actually enjoy the park if they don't buy a ticket, you know, I like that a Lot of people always think just because you get a virtual queue Means you won't have a wait, but that's not true at all The only way to skip out on the wait is actually getting the lightning lane the virtual queue is free But usually sometimes the line could be an hour to two hours long right now I'd say that's about an hour just about an hour, but we're gonna go straight on because we paid $20 for the lightning lane Here it comes I Can't wait it's not that I hate seven doors mind train I just like Tron better because I kind of like the launch sequence and I love going indoors and outdoors I think seven doors mind train is really good for the storyline and also the animatronics in there I love it, but as a roller coaster. I think Tron's a way better roller coaster Wow, look at Tigger running through the Magic Kingdom. That was cool or not even running. He's skipping Wow, all here comes poon out, too One of my favorite things is just walking in between the rides because of all the great things that you get to see on your Walk. Oh, look at that person dressed up as Winnie the Pooh walking what Winnie the Pooh I'm saying that because my mom really loves Winnie the Pooh Right that I got like so I didn't buy genie plus genie plus was $27 But I like the fact that I paid $31 because there's $20 for Tron $11 for seven doors mind train. I rather pay $31 to ride the two most popular attractions in the park than paid 27 to maybe, you know, ride Like Big Thunder mountain and a couple of other rides. I don't know. What do you guys think it actually looks like the standby? Wait time is 85 minutes for seven doors mind train and this is the line for the lightning lane. Oh, it's actually outside the line. Oh Well, my's will hop in this is where we're at now A nice little party in there and a very scary scary person at the end there It's so scary looking look at her This is the real reason I wanted to ride this ride the day before Halloween so I can get scared I think Tron clocks in just around 60 seconds and I think seven doors mind train is three minutes And I'm saying that because I googled it right before I said this but yeah, I mean, I still love the ride I think it's a great ride, but it's a family coaster and it's made for everyone to enjoy and I love that Tron on the other hand Tron it I feel like is just a thrill ride I mean it is like the definition of a roller coaster and I also like that too But let me know what you guys think what's a better roller coaster, but also a better overall ride When I got off seven doors mind train I came over here to record my next video and I was just sitting here realizing wow Look at how beautiful this is like look at how amazing the backside of Cinderella castle is especially when you have this area Like when you get this all in one frame right there. Isn't that gorgeous? Wow, I mean I was just sitting here admiring and I kind of wanted to show you guys Would you look at that? That's awesome. Now. I think we're actually gonna go get something to eat Maybe a little snack. I hear they got new egg rolls So maybe we'll go over there and take a gander or actually I might want to see what's inside Pinocchio's Village house because they sometimes have specials and also we can maybe sit up on the top. We can go up in the second floor I Get excited over the littlest things But I love coming up here and actually sitting down and eating because you get this amazing view look at this and Here is the buffalo chicken pizza a brand new pizza that they actually Just started serving here about a week ago So this is gonna be here for a while and I'm not too sure how I'm gonna like it It looks like it's like a regular buffalo chicken pizza But it's drizzled with ranch and then buffalo sauce and cheese They always have special pizzas over here at Pinocchio's and the last one they had the margarita one was really good They always change them out So I'm excited to give this one a go and see how it ranks up there on the Pinocchio flatbread scale, you know I Was just about to bite into my pizza when I noticed it wasn't cut like it's not like a pizza Well, it's a flatbread, but the under the look at the undercarriage.  You need it like this Actually, it's actually holding up really good. I'm actually really impressed. So cheers Honestly, I feel like we don't give Pinocchio's enough credit when it comes to this flatbread I love their flatbreads there and like look at that crust underneath there. That is really really really good You know what I mean now? I'm not too sure how I feel about this buffalo one The the hot sauce hasn't kicked in yet and I want to see how hot it is, but I do love the flatbreads there. I Think I like the meat one a lot better Like I like the meat flatbread one a little bit better and the margarita one was really good too. This one's okay I just like I said the hot sauce A little too much and there's a lot of ranch on there. Look at that when I folded it in half Like when I did it the ranch actually came through there So yeah, well now I know you know stick to the meat flatbread, but if you love buffalo chicken And especially ranch or spicy stuff. You're gonna love this. I Think we're gonna keep moving along and maybe make our way over to Adventureland to check on the spring roll cart But look at how beautiful the Sun is starting to set in the Magic Kingdom The side profile on the castle looks a little bit slimmer on this side though. Don't you think? It looks so amazing out right now. I Love it here. Seriously. It's the best time to come during a sunset or that golden hour Just hang out in Tomorrowland and just look around a little bit I'm not even sure what the Spring rolls are. I just hear that there are new ones So I'm kind of excited it could be the same one because sometimes I see they take things like they take some spring rolls away And then they replace them with ones they had in the past, but I guess we're gonna find out The last time I got spring rolls in this card. I think they were Pastrami, I think they were pastrami spring rolls. So I'm kind of excited It looks like they brought back the pepperoni pizza spring roll I've had it before and I like it a lot. Of course. They always had the cheeseburger one. Oh pepperoni pizza roll. Yeah Thanks, man. Oh Good I had to come on get the pepperoni pizza. I just had the buffalo chicken pizza over at Pinocchio's Village House They have a new one. It's a flap, right? It's all right Nothing beats the spring rolls though, you know Oh you too See you now. Have a great one Look at these little beauties My friend Isaac said try the cheeseburger sauce With the pizza one. So I grabbed them. Look at that 10 bucks two two spring rolls not too bad Not too shabby.  Look at these Precious little beauties here. I'm very excited. Here we go first bite. You can hear the crisp Wow these packs such a punch I was like I remember I had these before but I don't remember them being so flavorful Maybe the ones I had before were just uh, like pizza ones. Maybe maybe the pepperonis new I can't remember but I love these. These are so good I know everybody loves the cheeseburger ones But these pepperoni ones are probably my favorite Oh man, these are so good and there's so much pepperoni like I know I showed you before but look at that So much pepperoni in there Wow, we were just in time for the adventure cable case Max I wonder if he's gonna recognize his dad on the ground there I just want to give the character some appreciation. That was amazing As you've seen most of them notice the goofy, you know how sometimes custodial draws with uh, like their wet room and they They either draw Mickey or goofy, but goofy was in the middle there And uh, the characters all noticed it and they didn't step on it And then max noticed that it was his father Well, it was the goof and then genie came by but stitch stitch stay true to himself And he destroyed it. He's like messed it all up and that's what stitch does that is so amazing And I appreciate it so much Every time I start talking to the camera. I realized something beautiful is happening in front of me So I immediately switch over so I can show you guys. Look at this We've been catching all the good shots today and not even on purpose Look at the lights reflecting off of the water Cinderella castle in the background Wow, that was beautiful Phantom I was gonna say let's head over to big thunder mountain, but the hold on just started We gotta go see the hold on Easy to think that all those cast members actually know the dance routine You know what I mean? Like they all hop in and they don't skip a beat except for big al It's funny. He just gave up mid dance But that's big al and now I think we're gonna go ride big thunder mountain. It said it was a 35 minute wait So, uh, we'll see if it's actually 35 minutes and I don't know take it from there. I guess I definitely think this isn't a 35 minute wait. There's actually nobody coming behind me. Look at this Well, now people are starting to come in but I'm just walking through here enjoying the view.  Look at the roller coaster. Well, the the big thunder the train's about to go over the lift hill there That's one of my favorite parts. Oh the geyser just went off there Wow, look at all this happening here. This is really nifty. Oh Seriously, this is such a beautiful view of big thunder mountain. I could sit here all day and just stare at it And here comes our train Oh Love how we got the special like little like sunset ride with the golden hour and the pink skies It was amazing Now I think it's time to start making our way down main street. Go see gracey girl I've got to show you her halloween costume and also it's her birthday tomorrow We picked halloween as her birthday because we don't know her actual birthday Since we got her like at one year. She was one years old And it was just around that time frame too. So it was perfect And uh, yeah, I'll take you home and show you and check on the balloon I think we are done here today at the magic kingdom one last look down main street, usa Then we get to come over and take a gander at the twinkling Mickey pumpkins. I'm excited for the holiday season I mean, they're going to be out for a little bit longer But uh, don't you worry disney doesn't disney doesn't wait And we're going to be right into christmas probably within the week Everything will be decorated the tree will be up and I'm going to be here There's lots of new events in I got no major plans of traveling anytime soon So we're going to be covering all the new christmas, uh events here at disney and I'm like I said, I'm excited But I am going to miss halloween a little bit a little sad The balloon journey has come to an end look at that On the night of all hallows eve The balloon Has fallen You raise me up I can climb the mountains You raise me up Gracie's going as a ghost this year. Yes, you are and she's so excited Yes, I'll show you I'll put her ghost costume on she actually likes it a lot And uh, yeah, we'll go check her treating for her birthday Get a nice little pup cup probably have a nice dinner All of your favorite things She's excited. All right.  It's actually pretty funny because getting your dog's exact measurements for like Like Gracie's eyes her nose You know what I mean stuff like that was actually very Challenging we took a lot of photos. So if you guys want to see some of the pretty photos I posted them on my instagram, but uh, this was challenging. I went through I think Three sheets until I figured I got it right and this is uh, this is Gracie's face Right there. So you ready you want to show them? This is it But you could see even this one I had to try several times Let's see maybe I think there's even more over on this side Let's try to use it from every single corner. But yeah, this is how we do it. I'll show you You ready showing grace We gotta get our ears out though. She likes it when her ears are out.  Come here. Yeah Look at the spooky ghost. Look at the spooky ghost Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the video and let me know what you guys think about the camera quality Right now I am shooting on my old camera, which I can still record on the canon g7x The problem is is I'm so outdated and uh, I'm trying to catch up with the times, you know I'm finally editing on a mac after using windows movie maker for the past seven years and the canon g7x is great But now I shoot a lot with my camera and stuff and my laptop won't recognize Like my old laptop wouldn't recognize like the files So that's why I have to get a new camera and uh, this is the sony z1 I don't know how it worked out because I haven't edited like I haven't edited this video So I'm gonna probably see what it's like as I'm editing it But hopefully it comes out good some things I like so far about it is the wider angle I think the sound isn't as good I can get external mics and I'm gonna mess around with stuff like that But these are things I've never done before so I have no idea what I'm getting myself into And I don't like big cameras.   You know, I mean it's it's really easy But bigger cameras are you know, I mean you can't do that So, uh, yeah, I'm gonna kind of play around until I find the perfect like fit And uh go from there Now one thing I do want to point out and this is important are my eyes because this is the thing though The canon g7x has the oh, I'll show you the canon g7x actually has the flip screen on the top I have a bunch of dead cameras here. Look at I have tons of these canon g7x including the one that I'm filming on right now but the screen lifts up and uh The the new camera that I got it's on the side like the screen lifts up like this Well, it would but I took the screws out of this one I I guess I so a lot of people I've given my cameras too. Like, uh, there's a lot of actually I'll just say this there are multiple vloggers out there who are Vlogging with my old cameras like because you know, I run into people and whenever they say, oh, I want to get into vlogging what do you suggest and stuff like that and Because I use these cameras so much. I have to buy new ones whenever, you know I mean I I you know come across a problem or an error and if it's not something bad like a dead pixel I always say to like people that are starting like, oh, you want a camera here? It has a dead pixel But it's a good way to start and you won't have to invest a lot of money until you can figure it out So it's kind of cool that we have a lot of cameras out there with my old cameras I won't say, oh, but uh, there's a couple of them But yeah, this one's a little bit difficult because it's on the side here So my eyes keep on wandering because when I'm vlogging I usually look at the screen So I can see like how the camera is coming out everything like this now I have to look directly into the camera and I'm always like Side-eye in it and it's funny because I already side-eye all the time If you watch any of my videos when I'm recording it, you always notice I'm always looking to the left or the right Mainly because I want to make sure that I think there's nobody like you know what I mean I want to make sure like there's nothing coming You know me usually you're in your theme park or sometimes when people see me film They come up and they wait until I'm finished and then they want to say hi and stuff like that So that's why I'm always like looking like left or right, but now I'm like, uh, oh I don't know what to do. So we'll see how it comes out in the video But uh, yeah, we'll test it out and thanks for hanging with me as I'm going through The process of I don't know learning how to be a vlogger To be honest like that's literally what I'm trying to accomplish. I mean, I I'm a very basic person I'm not very intelligent when it comes to computers and you know, I mean stuff like that So it's it's a learning curve, but yeah, anyhow, I hope you enjoyed the video Let me know what you guys think of the camera. Sorry. It's a long talk and happy birthday, Gracie We'll be hanging out tomorrow having fun and who knows what so anyways, we'll see you next time Bye


Billboard gets backlash for XXXTentation nominations. Controversial rapper XXXTentation has been nominated for 10 awards at this year's Billboard Music Awards and some people are not impressed. The musician, who was shot and killed in 2018, has been nominated in categories such as Top Male Artist, Top Rap Album and Top R&B Album. According to, Pitchfork the rapper died while awaiting a domestic abuse trial from 2016. XXXTentation was charged with aggravated battery after he allegedly assaulted and strangled his pregnant ex-girlfriend. The rapper once bragged about almost beating a gay prison inmate to death. The rapper was also vocal about how he was against feminism, Miami New Times reported. The news of his nomination did not sit well with those who felt that his violent reputation should be considered.


And I see an attractive girl and she looks at me and looks away and I look back. This is what you should do. Very few of us do. No, this is an invited approach, it's not a cold approach. So it's your job to walk over and shake her hand. It's your job to touch on the side of the arm. It's your job to meet her friend and make a good impression on her friend. There's no way knowing she's going near you if you don't get the friend's approval. It's your job to start a good conversation. It's your job to find out what her hobbies and interests are. It's your job to find out how they know each other, how did they get there. It's your job, this is absolute goal, please write this down and do it. Touch a woman on the small of the back like I showed you before. The women feel like they're being led and again there's a very, it's just this exchange of energy. A lot of times they don't even know that you're doing it if you do it correctly. It's your job to touch on the small of the back. It's your job to find out what her week looks like. Where does she live in relation to you? Is she drinking? Is her friend drinking? How's she getting home? What are her plans for tomorrow? Is this a girl who's likely to go home with a man tonight or is she going to the church tomorrow and you'll be lucky to nail her by the fifth date after meeting her parents. You're going to know all these things. It's your job to make a good enough impression on the friend that you can maybe angle the girl away, an angle a friend away so they're back to back so you can actually build some rapport with her without the friend looking over going what's happening with him, what's happening with him, what's happening with him. It's basically your job to get on a date and it's your job to plan the date as I'll talk about later and it's your job to do all these things and it's your job to play the chess game that is trying to get a woman into bed. Do you guys see that?  So what do most English speaking men do? Back to my guy who went to primary school and was an excellent student and all this and became whatever he became an engineer or a doctor or something or business person. The guy we're talking about is now 30 and this really smoking hot girl comes into the office and she's stacked like this and she's like 10 years younger than him and man she's hot and he talks to her a bit when he's going out to lunch and then at the office Christmas party something happens and he sleeps with her and she's the hottest girl he's ever slept with and they keep dating and you know for the first two or three months it's good and then it sort of starts to go downhill she starts nagging him and annoying him but he's working really hard he's still finishing off his postgraduate studies so he just keeps dating her because you know she's hot and he wants to have someone to have sex with and this sort of drags on and on and on and on and their relationship deteriorates. I should say this in many cases isn't the girl's fault it's the guy's fault because he was never a man and went out and talked to lots of girls and met one that he really had a great rapport with.


Thrusting outward into space, we gain new perspective on ourselves. How beautiful it is, our cloud-read spaceship, planet Earth. How beautiful and how small. The view from space shows us, as never before, the strict limits for accommodating man's growing numbers and his expanding technology. The Earth's seen whole is a compelling reminder of the need to safeguard our Earthly resources. Soil and the land, food and fiber. The forests, the rivers, the seas, non-renewable treasure. We are ever more aware that man's future on Earth depends on how well he conserves his Earthly heritage. We need better ways to inventory and monitor our resources and to learn more about them. Photography from an orbiting satellite can provide the information we need at a cost we can afford. The Gemini and Apollo programs provided the first Earth images useful in studying the planet's resources. These experiments have led to the development of an unmanned satellite system for surveying Earth resources from space. The Western Test Range in California, July 23, 1972. Perhaps no new development in space is more significant than this. Earth's short for Earth Resources Technology Satellite. Earth's one, the first experimental Earth satellite circling the Earth pole to pole. It's job to send back images of the Earth's surface about which we need more information. Images obtained most readily or in their most useful form by remote sensing from outer space. Seen from far out, the forests and fields reveal the spread of disease and insect infestation. A spacecraft can provide geologists with clues to where to search for oil or metals. Space imagery can give us new knowledge of living marine resources. It offers an ideal means to monitor change and ocean chewing away at the edge of a continent. A desert's advance. A volcano's puree. A glaciers creep. The dynamics of land use and the growth and decay of cities. We can map the world from space and we can update the maps as the world changes. There is no end to the variety of ways space imagery may help us. Pioneer work in interpreting images obtained by remote sensing was carried out at the University of California at Berkeley. A leader among the pioneers, Professor Robert Caldwell. For approximately 50 years, man has been taking inventory of various Earth resources such as timber, forage, soils, water, mineral and agricultural crops through the use of conventional black and white aerial photographs that have been taken from an altitude of three to four miles above the surface of the Earth. One such photograph is shown in this view of our NASA, San Pablo Reservoir test site, only a short distance from the Berkeley campus of the University of California in which our work is headquartered. You will notice in this view that we can readily discern differences in muddiness of the water in these two reservoirs. We can see grassland differentiated from timberland and brushland and even among the tree species to tell hardwoods from conifers and something of the volume of each. In the past few years NASA has provided us with imagery taken from an altitude of 14 miles instead of three or four. On this photography it is possible to see essentially the same resource features as on the larger scale photos and we cover a tremendously increased area because of the higher altitude. Now NASA has made the great leap from 14 miles to outer space. Earth is a flying observatory orbiting the Earth about 500 miles up. It carries two independent image sensors. One is a camera system, essentially three cameras in one. Each camera is sensitive to a different color band in the electromagnetic energy spectrum. The three cameras simultaneously photograph the same area 100 nautical miles square. They take overlapping pictures as the spacecraft travels. The other sensor sensitive to four spectral bands is a line scanning device. Its optical system scans across the same 100 mile wide path. If a ground station is in sight the spacecraft transmits the data from the sensors immediately. Otherwise stores it on tape for transmission later. The satellite's orbit near polar and circular takes 103 minutes. Due to the Earth's rotation each new orbit is displaced about 1500 miles to the west at the equator. The spacecraft makes three passes over North America daily, 14 around the globe. Each new day's path overlaps a part of the previous day's track. Thus the Earth is progressively viewed at the same local time daily and is completely covered every 18 days except for small areas near the two poles. At Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland the operations control center monitors the spacecraft's flight night and day watching every element of its operation and issuing orders that control its performance. Each time the spacecraft comes over the Arctic horizon it sends its stored data to the nearest of three ground stations which records it on tape. It continues to send data to the nearest ground station in sight. All tapes produced at the Alaska and California stations are shipped by fast mail to the station at Goddard for processing. At the Goddard facility the data is first annotated as to what each image is and when it was taken. The annotated data is converted to a film negative. The film is taken to the photo lab and developed.  They can also be combined to form color pictures using contrasting colors to aid interpretation. The data is also transferred to tapes that can be processed by conventional computers. From the Goddard facility a daily stream of images and tapes shipped to more than 300 principal investigators over 100 of whom are in some 35 countries throughout the world. These investigators are using the data obtained from Perts to study numerous problems involving both the natural and social sciences. This is a satellite photo taken by Erts One from an altitude of more than 500 miles. The entire area shown on this high altitude aerial photo is encompassed in this small area of the satellite photograph. A view taken from our same vantage point looking this seemingly short distance to Mount Diablo shows that it is a tremendous distance away nevertheless. In this area we see the present boundary of the floodwaters from a recent flood and by monitoring this every 18 days with photographs from Erts we are able to monitor the rate at which the floodwaters recede. In this way we can relate the mortality of fruit trees and other crops to the length of time they are inundated which is of value in predicting damage to crops in future floods. Finally if we look in this same view to the agricultural crops in the Sacramento San Joaquin Valley we see one type of crop in this area vineyards associated with sandy soils an entirely different crop in this area sugar beets and asparagus in the peat and muck soils still a third crop in the heavy clay soils in this case rice recognizable by its very dark tone and other crops associated with soil types throughout the area. Erts imagery where a single small picture covers a vast area puts a new premium on interpretive technique. The color additive viewer is all but indispensable for many investigators. Among them NASA's senior geologist Dr. Nicholas Short. The color additive viewer is an instrument that uses color filters to enhance certain features of an image we're particularly interested in. For instance, here's a black and white picture of the Monterey Bay area in California produced by the infrared channel on the Erts multi-spectral scanner. Now if we project this image through a green filter the lighter gray tones which are vegetation such as the firm areas in the Great Valley will show up more green. By combining different spectral images and trying different filters we can get a wide variety of effects and choose the one that's best suited to our needs. The investigator uses his ability to associate small color differences in the renditions we've just seen with ground features to get the desired information. Imagery may also be analyzed by isolating individual elements. This is called thematic mapping. In this Erts image for example, the open water areas have been extracted and printed separately. Also the ice and snow areas. The U.S. Geological Survey has made thematic mapping a fine art. With the help of a computer and highly specialized equipment information is produced that enables an operator to write precise instructions to the photo laboratory. When these instructions are followed a single image may be subdivided into as many as 20 different foils. One showing only water. One for ice and snow. Others showing forests. Open fields. Crops. Bear soil. Mast works of man. And so on. Laramie Wyoming. Edists at the University of Wyoming and Erts size assignment. The state itself. Wyoming and its natural resources. The Wyoming project is multidisciplinary and includes such areas as botany, geology, zoology, plant science, and physics. Looks as though Wyoming will supply energy for a good part of the country and we hope we can do it without pollution. We hope for the use of Erts. Professor Robert Houston, head of the geology department at the State University. The study of the natural resources of the state of Wyoming. And we think in integrating all of these programs, the Erts, U2, and the multi-level viewing with low-level aircraft we will have a very suitable program for setting our natural resources. On the day of the Erts flyover, ground conditions are tested. At the same time that the satellite swings toward Wyoming 500 miles up NASA C-130 prepares to make its imagery run over the same terrain at 20,000 feet. The aircraft carries more sensors than the satellite and its images will be rich in detail. But it will not get the big picture. It will not return periodically, will not monitor. Plane and satellite complement each other. When 40, westerly. 40 westerly, got it. Do you meditate 40? Temperature 68. 68, Chuck. Solar radiation and reading. Good. For the scientists who are evaluating Erts, the multi-level approach using ground information, aircraft information, and space information is invaluable. Ron, let's see if we can identify some of these faults you found on the aircraft's imagery on Erts. All right, Bob, on the aircraft image, we've got about three miles of a fault here. If we look at this on the Erts image, we can extend it to about 60 miles. The more exciting is one down here on the Erts image, a very major structure, cuts across the whole mountain range. We've never known about it before until we had the Erts image. I wonder if we extended that into the basin. If we could, it might be useful in petroleum exploration. Possible, possible. So this makes a target out in the field to go look out on the ground. The rugged Wyoming terrain, yielding up secrets of her natural resources. But Erts does not just help us to know nature's work better. Man's work as well. At Dartmouth College, professors Robert Simpson and David Lindgren are putting Erts to work in regional planning. We here at Dartmouth are concerned about a pressing social and economic problem, urban sprawl, and conversely, with a disappearing resource, open land. Our general area of interest is that highly urbanized section of the eastern seaboard, which extends from Boston southward to Washington, and to which has been given the name Megalopolis. Our specific area of interest is the New England section of it. Increasingly, the spreading problems of Megalopolis require a broader base treatment than that of individual metropolitan areas. This is an Erts photograph of southeastern New England. Long Island Sound, the Atlantic Ocean, the face of Cape Cod, and Boston. By enlarging this area, which corresponds to the state of Rhode Island, we can make a land use map of that area. There it is along 44, the commercial ribbon development that we're going to have to throw in with the industrial category. That's right. We find that on the Erts imagery we can recognize at least eight different land use categories, each represented on the completed map by a different color. The red represents a combination industrial commercial, the orange multifamily housing, the yellow single-family housing. We use green to represent woodland, blue for water, black for transportation, and brown for agriculture. Vacant areas are clouds on the photograph. The next step is to tabulate information from the map and input it to a computer. One commercial, one single residential, now multi, multi, two clouds. The immediate response available with the Dartmouth time-sharing system makes the database not only a display vehicle, but an invaluable research tool as well. We've learned enough now to know that Erts is a valid land use study tool for regional planning. Yes, this gives us a new capability. We can monitor change, and we can keep track of growth, and we can tell whether that growth is, in many cases, a healthy form of growth or an unhealthy one. The flow of Erts' images is but the onset of a vast volume of space imagery to come. So vast that to study it, we shall need all the aid from technology we can get. At Purdue University at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing, they are pioneering in the use of the computer to analyze images. Professor David Landgrebe and his associates start with the computer-compatible tape that contains the imagery data and the computer processes the image. In order to give the computer the information it needs to make its analysis, the investigators must know what's in the area covered by the image. They get this ground truth, as it is called, by making on-the-spot checks of what actually is there. Spectral readings taken close up support the research. Training the computer, the investigator identifies specific shades of gray as, say, corn, soybeans, water, and so on. Once the computer knows these spectral signatures, it can identify what they represent anywhere in the image, and it can print out its findings in whatever form the investigator requests. At the Earth Satellite Corporation, a privately owned company, Dr. Robin Welch and his associates use low-flying aircraft to speed up ground truth studies. In a typical agricultural investigation, the farm fields are plotted from an Earth's image. I would get it tomorrow if the weather clears, but we want to get these agricultural crops before they change much. What we're going to do is get the crop types plotted on this map as Steve and I fly it, and then we'll give those to you. Field by field, pilot and observer collaborate on the identity of each crop, doing in a few hours what would take days by car and on foot. Of course we've got the coordinate locations so that your computer people will be able to just take that and enter right off the chart to train the computer as to what these agricultural types are. And I think they're accurate. For parts of the world where ground truth is not yet accessible, where remote sensing plays a special role. One who knows this well is Mr. George Gritch, Chief of the Branch of Alaska and Geology, U.S. Geological Survey. I've been studying some of the latest Earth's imagery of Alaska. Alaska is ideally suited to remote sensing. Transportation is limited, terrain is rugged, and includes some of the highest mountains and some of the greatest snow fields in North America. As this tectonic map indicates, the geology is complex, but we believe that with the use of the satellites, we can map out the geology and help delimit some of the mineral resources. Our ERTSA investigations in Alaska started with a remarkably cloud-free picture of the state that was taken by the weather satellite, the Nimbus Weather Satellite, in 1970. Studying this photo, geologist Ernest Lathrom noted lines that seem to be hitherto undiscovered faults. Now we are using ERTSA imagery to determine the relationship between these previously unsuspected faults and the mineral resources of Alaska. If we compare the mineral deposits in Alaska to the linears shown on the Nimbus photograph, we can see a very definite relationship. For instance, at the intersection of these two linears, there has been a major copper discovery made recently. Now, on one of our first ERTSA images, we see that in this area there is indeed a fault along that strike. In Alaska, ERTS imagery is also being used to improve and refine maps of the permafrost, perennially frozen ground that comprises 85% of the state's terrain in a variety of forms and that poses engineering problems for man-made undertakings. Another way ERTS imagery is being used is to monitor geologic hazards such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, glacial surges, and other potential dangers to man and his environment. But it is not just in northern climates that ERTS imagery is being used to help deal with questions of ecology. As biologists have long known, wetlands are among our most valuable ecological assets, serving a series of life cycle and food production functions. The work of Professor Richard Anderson at American University may prove a useful aid in protecting the public interest. In coastal areas, wetlands below the mean-high tide line legally belong to the people at large, but costly, drawn-out corkfights often arise as to just where the boundary line is in the hard-to-access terrain. The upper wetland boundary is shown very clearly on this tree island. Also, the boundary between upland and wetland is very clear in this area. And I think that means we're going to be able to say a lot about the mean-high water line in wetlands, distinguishing between what is publicly owned and privately owned wetland, and avoid litigation over wetland boundaries in the future. In addition to remote sensing from space, ERTS has another important capability. It collects and forwards data from sensors on the earth. Data, for instance, about river flow and precipitation in New England, a region with a long history of flood disasters. Twenty-one died during this flood. March 1936 was a great flood. Saul Cooper, in charge of the flood control division, New England region, Army Corps of Engineers. Hurricane Diane in August 1955 caused this region its worst catastrophe. Ninety people lost their lives and damages of almost a half a billion dollars were experienced. To prevent such waste of human life and resources, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built 35 flood control reservoirs strategically splotted from Connecticut to Maine, many local protective works, and several hurricane barriers. To maximize the effectiveness of this system, we created an automatic data collection network with radio reporting. The network funnels hydrologic data, river levels, tidal elevations, rainfall and the like to the Corps' Regional Control Center at Waltham, Massachusetts. Now they are experimenting to improve the system by using ERTS. At some 25 stations, sensors are producing hydrologic data as well as water quality information, where rivers are being treated for pollution. Every three minutes, this ERTS platform transmits the data out to space. If the spacecraft is on a line of sight, it relays the data to a ground station. The data is forwarded via telephone lines to Waltham, where a computer processes to obtain information that is useful in planning and invaluable in emergencies. Of course, the big payoff will come during the next flood emergency. In this room and around these tables, we gather to coordinate the flood control activities. Through data collection and space imagery, ERTS opens a door to new understanding of the world we live in. The door is open to all. At the center of the continent, at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the U.S. Geological Survey operates a data center that receives, catalogs and stores a daily flow of ERTS and high altitude aircraft imagery. Simultaneously, orders for pictures pour in by phone and mail. The computer queried as to what is available. Would you like to buy an image of a 100-mile square piece of the earth where you live? The computer will search, tell what's available, process your order and issue instructions to the laboratory. Daily, a mounting volume of imagery going to a long list of subscribers at universities and research agencies as well as individuals around the world, providing us with a more complete view of that world than we've ever had before. With ERTS, man began the first comprehensive inventory of his earthly resources and he launched a valuable new means of obtaining information needed to manage those resources for his future well-being. Chapter in Space is in fact a new chapter in man's effort to prove himself worthy of his earthly heritage.


Today we're in 2 Timothy chapter 3. We're going to be looking at the subject of the coming apostasy Signs of the times are actually as Paul will speak in chapter 3 here in verse 1 He'll be speaking of the last days and the conditions that relate to that that time that is referred to as the last day So let's let's begin reading together here in 2 Timothy chapter 3 I'll let you know at advance by the way that I started using This thing an iPad Because I get in confused with iPod for some reason I do But this I started using it. It's actually I've only used it Wednesday night and I've been using paper notes notice. I brought them in case Paper notes since I began teaching and I began teaching in nine 1973 so that's 40 almost 45 years of Teaching using printed notes and so for me. It's kind of a new thing. So I may stomp well It's a real new thing. I may stumble a bit As I learn how to do this Just let you know in advance That I am in the 21st century 18 years late But I'm here So anyway beginning at chapter 3 verse 1 reading to verse 9 but know this That in the last days perilous times will come For men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud last femurs disobedient to parents unthankful unholy Unloving Unforgiving so far it sounds like my family slanderers without self-control brutal despisers of good traitors headstrong haughty lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power and from such people Turn away For of this sort are those who creep into households and make Captives of gullible women loaded down with sins led away by various lusts Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Now as Janus and Jambres resisted Moses So do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds disapproved concerning the faith But they will progress no further for their folly will be manifest to all as theirs also was So let's develop an introduction. It'll be a somewhat prolonged delay the foundation and then we'll move into What Paul refers to as The last days and the conditions perilous times Now Paul is beginning to outline the conditions of the world in the last days He's already been exhorting this young man by the name of Timothy who passes a church in Ephesus He's already been exhorting Timothy not to allow the present conditions that he was finding himself in to distract him and So he is already in chapter 2 begun to outline his attitude What his attitude ought to be in the conditions that he finds himself serving the Lord in and and we already saw that when we're in Chapter 2 now that he had spoken concerning a variety of things and he had spoken concerning Timothy's attitude and what he should be like he made it clear for example that That Timothy was to be willing to endure hardship as a good soldier He also pointed out that he was to be disciplined and He would be disciplined like an athlete who was engaged in a contest who intended to win and he went on to say he's to patiently work and to wait in faith for the crops to produce like a farmer does because a farmer goes out and so seed and Wades for the early and latter rain and and knows that it requires patience For the seed that he has planted to take root and to produce a crop And so these are things that Paul was saying using metaphors that Timothy would understand to help him to See that that ministry is tough It's a tough way of life and it requires certain things that that a minister needs to possess in order to see himself successful in all that he's doing for the Lord and and he was making it clear that every servant of the Lord will encounter obstacles and especially The obstacle of impatience Because sometimes a minister will sow seed and expect that seed to produce fruit that is Identifiable very quickly and so it takes some patience and the part of somebody who is ministering It takes some patience for them to step out of the way sometimes in order that the spirit May produce the fruit that is intended by God to be produced There's a good example of this in the life of a great evangelist that the United States had at one time a man We all know as D. L. Moody D. L. Moody was an American evangelist. He lived in 1837 to 1899 and his ministry of crusade evangelism lasted some 40 years and In the 40 years that he preached back at that period He saw some Something like a million people come to faith in Jesus Christ through his preaching. He was a great man He founded three Christian schools. He launched a great Christian publishing business He established a world renowned Christian conference center and He inspired literally thousands of preachers to win souls and conduct revivals When you look at the life of D. L. Moody his father died when he was four years old And that left his mother to raise him and his eight brothers and sisters She was actually pregnant with twins when his father died He had the equivalent of a fifth-grade education and People say that if you'd have known D. L. Moody when he's growing up. He was anything but a model child At the age of 17 He moved to Boston. He worked in his uncle's shoe store One of the requirements for him to work at the store was for him to attend church And it was in that store That his sunday school teacher Edward kimble visited him and his sunday school teacher led D. L. Moody to faith in christ Later on kimble was speaking concerning moody and this is what he said kimble said I can truly say and insane it. I magnify the infinite grace of god as bestowed upon him That I have seen few persons whose minds were spiritually darker Than was his when he came into my sunday school class And I think that the committee of the mount vernin church seldom met an applicant for membership More unlikely ever to become a christian of clear and decided views of gospel truth Still less to fill any extended sphere of public usefulness Sometimes you will sow seeds and not know what the results will be And paul is making it very clear that you don't always see immediate results So timothy in order for you to see god move you need to endure hardship You need to be faithful you need to be patient And you need to trust god to produce the results In matthew chapter 4 26 through 28 Jesus said here is another illustration of what the kingdom of god is like A farmer planted seeds in a field and then he went on with his other activities As the days went by the seeds sprouted and grew without the farmer's help Because the earth produces crops on its own First a leaf blade pushes through Then the heads of wheat are formed and finally the grain ripens So you need to be faithful you need to be patient and you need to trust that god will produce results paul in first chrithians chapter 3 verse 7 said so then neither he who plants is anything Nor he who waters but god who gives the increase so timothy Serving the lord jesus christ can be difficult It requires purpose and patience It's hard and often the results are not seen immediately So you need to endure hard times in ministry The work is difficult, but the servant of the lord is not to lose heart Instead of losing heart and becoming discouraged. He used to remain faithful When paul was writing in chapter 2 verse 15. He had said be diligent to present yourself approved to god A worker who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth Be diligent present yourself to god Now that's to provide a contrast Between timothy who is a genuine pastor there at the church of Ephesus And people who are actually infiltrating that church congregation Who are bringing bad doctrine remember with me i've said this several times As we have studied first and second timothy that paul had warned the elders of Ephesus That there would be people who would one infiltrate He said they'll come in from among they'll come in amongst you And they're going to be bringing heresy, but he also said and men will rise up from amongst you So not only will you have people who are coming in bringing in their own ideas their own theology Their own beliefs concerning god Beliefs that are wrong Beliefs that are heretical beliefs that are not scriptural And yes, they will come into the church and yes, they will bring these doctrines in he says but Men will arise from amongst you will do the same So your leadership is going to also be tainted by this It was a prophetic word a word to speak to timothy and the elders in order that they would remain alert to this And and as we've gone through first and second timothy paul has actually mentioned some of these men by name Hymenas Alexander and others By name he said these are people who are leaders who have walked away And i'm bringing in bad doctrine. They're infiltrating. They've said the resurrection is over And they're overthrowing the the faith of some he said watch out for these And so we've seen that as we've gone through first and second timothy that this is taking place And so he's saying you have no reason to be discouraged But i need to outline the dangers that the church will face in the future So he's speaking here in chapter three of the last days and he says that perilous times will come Now in his first letter paul had written something similar He had said in first timothy four one and two The spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith Giving heed to deceiving spirits doctrines of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy Having their own consciences seared with a hot iron He said they're going to be bringing in doctrines that are inspired by satan himself And they're going to be infiltrating the church and they're going to be undermining the faith of some of the members And so he's speaking once again in this passage of last days conditions now To continue to lay the foundation so that we can move into the chapter we need to remember That on one hand when jesus spoke of the church he spoke of its endurance He made it clear that the church would continue And that we the church would be victorious He had said in matthew 16 verse 18 I will build my church and the gates of haiti shall not overpower it And yet though we will be victorious He also warned the church of an invasion of false prophets Satan would empower false prophets and he would empower false teachers to undermine the effectiveness of the church And many of them would be almost Indistinguishable from true prophets remember in matthew 7 15 how he had said beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing But inwardly our ravenous wolves when he said they come to you in sheep's clothing I mentioned to you when we were studying through matthew that That the prophets would wear sheep's clothing they their their clothing was made out of of the wool and that was a The clothing of a prophet during that time and so he's saying They're going to come in looking like the real deal but in fact The ravenous wolves are destructive And he had said great numbers of people will be deceived by them and great numbers will receive their messages and that will By the way include professing christians There are a lot of people today and I say this as someone who loves the church and loves the people of the church But there are many people today who have what is referred to now as a casual faith It's a casual faith. It's been said that there are many professing christians Who profess to be christians but are practical atheists They profess to be christians with their mouth But their life practically lived is as if there is no god and that is absolutely true There are many who say yes, I love the lord But don't do the things that he says They have no inclination to it. They never read the bible Reading the bible is something somebody else does for them. They never do it themselves They have a lot of excuses as to why they don't but they never do So they don't have a personal time in the word. They're not being instructed by the spirit on their own They're not spending time in god's word at all and thus somebody will knock on the door or speak to them at work or Approach them outside when they're doing something and and speak to them and and and present to them something false And and though something within them will rise up and say I don't think this is true They're not equipped to be able to answer that simply because they don't take the time to be equipped They are casual christians And the church is filled with casual christians the church at large not only in the united states But throughout the world is filled with great numbers of people who have a casual faith And because they have a casual faith they have no spiritual discernment And so because they have no spiritual discernment False prophets will come and they will tickle their ears Looking chapter four for a moment getting ahead of myself And look at verse Three and four second timothy four three and four The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine The term sound doctrine as we'll see when we go through this simply means healthy teaching They don't endure they don't put up with healthy teaching, but according to their own desires Because they have itching ears They will heap up for themselves teachers They will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables He's saying listen in the last days what's going to happen is people will no longer want to hear teaching They don't want to know what is healthy and what's going to make them healthy What they want is something that that tickles them something that they appreciate And so they're gonna they're gonna turn their ears from the truth And they'll be turned aside to fables and that's exactly what's happened in our day This reminds me of Ancient israel how that in the book of isaia god is speaking to the people and in isaia 30 verses 9 and 10 He says this is a rebellious people Lying children Children who will not hear the law of the lord Who say to the seers do not see to the prophets do not prophesy to us right things Speak to us smooth things prophesy to see When jeremiah was speaking to the children of israel the prophets prophesy falsely said in in jeremiah 531 And the priests ruled by their own power and my people love to have it so But what will you do in the end? You see when we studied matthew We saw that the primary sign of the last days is deception remember how that Jesus's men asked him What is the sign of your return in the end of the age? And when they asked that question he made it clear that it would be spiritual deception in matthew 24 4 and 5 He said take heed that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying I am the christ And they will deceive many and what I pointed out to you as we looked at that Is how he put the personal responsibility on the ones who are hearing he said take heed that no one deceives you That's my responsibility. I have to have discernment. I have to know the word I I have to be aware of the days that I'm living in Because there will be many coming in in his name and they will be saying things and he will He said they will deceive many The apostle peter wrote prophetically of the last days. He said the same thing In second peter chapter 2 verse 1 he said there were also false prophets among the people Even as there will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies Even denying the lord who bought them Bring on themselves with destruction You know false prophets because they're preaching a false message are going to produce people who live an unholy life That's what happens Because their teachings appeal to carnal appetites And because they're carnal They can be appealing and what they'll do is they corrupt grace And when they corrupt grace they turn it into permission to sin And you can sin without any concern or conviction So people listen Second peter 2 19 says they they promise them liberty But they themselves are slaves of corruption For by whom a person is overcome by him also He is brought into bondage. So their teachings promise freedom But in fact only enhance your captive lifestyle In galatians 5 13 paul said for you brethren have been called to liberty Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh But through love serve one another Because when you're actually following the lord You no longer are going to be self-centered. You're going to be other centered So by love he says serve one another My wife and I were speaking the other day About about how the lord jesus christ had taught us That it's more blessed to give than to receive and we were just speaking I was just sharing with her and talking to her about this just this weekend How that How that when the lord says in his word in the book of genesis, it is not good that man should be alone It's interesting that he had created the animals and all adam had the The the job the responsibility if you will of naming them and he gave him opportunity to see that there was nothing like him And then the lord may had and in in that time the lord had said It isn't good that man should be alone And i'm going to make a help for him comparable Somebody who in other words is going to take the half man and make him into the whole person And marina we're talking about that because there are things in her life that That have completed me and things in my life that have challenged her i mean completed her And and we were just speaking about that we were just talking about that amongst ourselves and i said It's interesting to me how that the spirit of the lord inspired us through his word to understand how Now how i need i as a husband Need my wife to complete me because If i'd have married anybody different than marie a different woman than marie Um, i'd be an entirely different man today after all these years I'd be different because she and i have had to learn How to adjust to each other's differences and we finally have found those gears That that can mesh and make us one and it takes a while to do that. It's not instantaneous. It's not overnight We were together this weekend and and and i was in purgatory we went shopping and And as we went shopping together actually she wanted to buy me a sweatshirt But as we were we were going together We went into this place godiva chocolates. It's in the bream all some of you have Have said get the behind me satan many times going past it so We were re's part and and i think i have points there too She likes godiva chocolates and we're walking by as we walk by turned to her and i said would you like to get something I think you might have points to get a sample because they'll give you a free sample And that's the best date you can go on Place where they give you free samples and so That's why we go to cosco all the time So that's her date. I'll give her a flower and bang, you know, we went on a date But anyway, so we went into godiva And as we're in godiva chocolate, you know, i'm not noticing Marie's talking because i'm kind of looking at something else but marie's talking To the young lady. She's probably about 22 years old who's behind the counter and a young man Who's given us samples of this chocolate drink that was very good But anyway as we're kind of there, you know, marie's talking and then Then i talk and Marie had said i'm sorry I didn't hear what you said because the music was kind of loud and she couldn't hear And then the woman starts speaking to me and she says and i said, i'm sorry I really what were you saying? I didn't really hear you and so we did that for about 10 minutes and finally got the free chocolate and um But the young lady looks at us and she goes may i ask you a question And i said sure of course she goes how long have you been married? And i said oh why She says well You guys answer each other's questions She said i can see she's telling us this she says i can see that you're connected This is a young woman. We've never i can see you're connected I can see you know each other because i i wasn't noticing what was being said and then i And that's exactly what we're doing. I i've said this before it's true anybody who's been married for a while Nearly wedz won't learn this not the first week month or year You will learn this in 10 15 or 20 years But those who've been married for a while will know this and that is you have a dance that you do You just don't know it, but you're constantly in a dance move How do i know that? If you have it's in it's the morning you're getting ready And you husband and you're with your wife, right? She has to get ready at the same time for some reason you are right And what happens well she'll go in there And she'll reach in front of you Do you say what are you doing? Why are you reaching in front of me?  It's so natural You begin to know each other so well from so many years of conversing that you know each other's concluding Statements to many of the things that are being said and that's the way it is So this young woman looks at me and she says to me get may I ask you how long have you been married? I said why she says because you guys finish each other's statements I can see that you've been together for a long time and that's the truth, isn't it? And I told Maria as we were walking out. I said, you know the two shall become one flesh One flesh we learn so we've learned one of the things I'm getting ahead of myself, but this is important We have learned something Jesus said he said it is more blessed to give than to receive And one of the things you learned in relationship in marriage in church is that concept That it is a better thing. It's more christlike. It's more godlike When you learn to give of yourself because in the giving of yourself and my wife in the giving of herself to me We have become that one flesh Which has made me a better man And if you want to if you're single right now and you want to have a good relationship always remember this You ought to be the best person god can have you be Because anybody who wants to grow in the things of the lord is looking for somebody who will help them to be better than they are Not less but more And I was again marina. We're talking and I said, you know when when we first connected when marie walked into that first Bible study that she ever came to that I was teaching here in ontario When she walked into that first bible study, she knows this i'm not saying anything that would embarrass her It's just truth. I we were just talking about it this week and I said I was not attracted To marie as a woman. I was not attracted by outer beauty at that time in my early 20s My my idea of beauty was a blonde with blue eyes. That's what I like Blondies surf chicks and here comes this little brownie. So I'm not even looking at her You know, I'm not I'm not I mean just And she walked in and she sat down didn't But I spoke to her afterwards and like deep calling unto deep I climbed into my vokes wagon because I was a hippie And I was driving with my sister and I still remember turning to my sister madeline saying I just met the girl i'm gonna marry Because there was something about her that was beyond the physical There was something about her that drew me as a man and said inside said this woman This woman Is the one god has for me and the result of that has been I've become a better man Because of that better woman The two shall become one flesh This isn't a teaching on marriage But it's an application to the reality that it is more blessed to give than to receive Because the mark of the last days as as paul is about to share his self love Self-centeredness a lot of times when we think of last day's teachings we want to know about Wars in syria and iraq and iran and and how is russia may god gonna work with you know Jordan and egypt and what does the scripture say? I realize that and we do teachings like that when we when when the subject Demands yet today. We're looking at the church itself And what's going to happen in the church in last days because you need to notice something with me when it says in verse one In second timothy three know this that in the last days perilous times will come. I want you to notice verse five When he he says having a form of godliness, but denying its power The church is going to be influenced and it's going to be infiltrated With unbelief Selfishness and things that are ungodly Which is going to diminish its power and witness in the world the coming apostasy The the time when the church has been infiltrated by evil When jesus was speaking in matthew chapter 13 He gave a series of parables again those who were with me and matthew You know that we went through the series of parables found there But I'd remind you that in matthew 13 He gave parables that that spoke of this when he said for example the parable of the wheat and the tares And as we looked at the parable that jesus gave concerning the wheat and the tares and all That that he says that that that somebody had uh had the farmer had sowed seeds But an enemy came in he said while men slept And sowed tares amongst the wheat and as we looked at that I was pointing out that the church is asleep in the last days Not diligent not vigilant not awake And is allowing error to creep in And accepting it as if it's from god Jesus said that's what's going to happen and the tares are going to grow up right next to the wheat jesus continued as he was giving this Kind of uh insight into prophetic events just before his return and he said It's going to be like the parable of the of the mustard seed mustard seed being the smallest seed in israel Planted yet becomes a tree and he says and the birds of the air nest in its branches Well, he had already said in the parable of the soar in the seed That the enemy comes and is given the figure metaphor of a bird and snatches the seed so As he continues using parables parabolic consistency as he does that The bird is an image he had used earlier Representing evil and the point he was making is there's an inordinate growth Because mustard seeds don't grow into trees. They're into large plants But but this talks about branches and bird's nest in and jesus once again is pointing to the fact that in the last days There'll be great numbers of people But the church will be filled with evil and then he goes on to speak concerning leaven, which woman Put into the dough and leaven in scripture Is a picture of sin? And so as we were looking at that together and when we went through matthew 13 in the parables Those are the things that we were taken from scripture and recognizing that Were pictures of the church in the last days You have the visible church Which is just everybody showing up in the same place And you have the invisible church, which is the genuine believer And so you will always have those who are not saved Who are there amongst those who are? That's how it works and in the latter times The church is going to be influenced and infiltrated through the bad doctrine that began so early in its history And in the latter days It'll be unholy and so By love we're supposed to be serving one another See when people are enslaved by error when they get convicted They very often become argumentative. They become upset But in reality the one sharing the truth ought to be loved and thanked because they're caring for them That wasn't always true in the case of paul When writing a word of correction to the glaciens their response wasn't positive the glaciens Didn't respond positively at all in glaciens 4 verse 16 Paul had to say have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Well, we need to remember it's god's desire for us to know the truth. Why because it's the truth that frees us In first timothy chapter 2 verse 4 That verse reminds us that god desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge Of the truth and so with this in mind paul is writing concerning conditions During the last days notice what he says in verse 1 Know this that in the last days perilous times will come and he says know this that's that means keep this in mind I'm about to give a very important bit of information And this information that i'm giving to you is this in the last days perilous times will come of this you can be a hundred percent sure Now this passage is best understood as speaking of conditions before the return of christ obviously The conditions spoken of have existed throughout the history of the church But they will be more intense and extensive As the end approaches so the question is What will the conditions be just prior to the return of jesus christ paul says again in verse 1 in the last days perilous times Will come Know this of this you can be certain Of this you must be aware wickedness will be normalized And genuine christians will become targets Is that occurring today?  We actually live in hazardous days And it can be hazardous For you to share what you believe A former member of this church. They had they hadn't been with us for a while, but a former member of this church last Last year it's been several months. It's recent last year Was in a supermarket And in front of him were two lesbian women and he got in a conversation with them and he shared with them That god could set them free from From lesbianism they didn't like that so Apparently they made a phone call Because when he left the store a van pulled up dragged him into the van and they beat him to death Don't tell me perilous times are not with us Don't tell me that because they are Because they are And so paul stated this he said know this Know this in the last days dangerous times will come Dangerous times will set in When he says perilous the word perilous means literally hard to bear dangerous He's saying they will set in they will be upon us They're going to be days that are hard to endure He said the days will be a time of danger persecution even painful trials The last days will be difficult days to live in And it won't be just because there's a lack of jobs And it won't be because of cost of living Or the wars that we find ourselves in They'll be perilous because the evil will be increasing and normalized It is not perilous because of the worldly and ungodly people that that's what's interesting It is perilous because of the people who profess to believe in god Again, he said it in verse 5 having a form of godliness denying its power It's professing religious believers that are about to be described by paul not just the world And this is the external fruit of clean to false teachings that have taken a foothold as we go through this and I'll do this briefly And you say thank you jesus i'll do this briefly paul is going to list 19 characteristics that distinguish the last days obviously We can't spend that much time looking at each and each one individually i'll develop them But i'll just touch on many of them But he lists 19 characteristics that distinguish the last days verse 2 he says for men Will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy He begins with selfishness men will be lovers of themselves Self love will be dominant Men will be lovers of themselves men will make their own interests more important Than the interests of any other Selfishness is the chief sin And upon this sin all the rest of the sins he mentions are built It begins with self love with self centeredness selfishness There was a little boy And his younger sister they were riding a bicycle together And the little girl said If one of us would just get off There would be more room for me so there's selfishness is bound up in our hearts It is a self interested kind of attitude that we have and and the sin Of selfishness of self love is the great destroyer because it destroys everything it touches Families are destroyed because of self love very often because I want you to love me more and you're not loving me enough and you're not giving me enough and Families can be destroyed through divorce Because in order for a family to make it faithfulness and sacrifice are necessary but with self love they're not valued Friendships can be ruined through self centered need for attention the need to dominate It's the self love you're in a group of people you're having coffee you're enjoying yourself with them And one person dominates talks over and over and talks over you After a while you don't want to be around them anymore and then they think nobody loves me why Because they've been so interested in hearing their own voice. They couldn't hear yours relationships end Society is filled with a plague of selfishness of pushiness It's easy to see There's a growing lack in our society of civility and courtesy Society is built on the foundation of caring about others. It keeps us together But very often We just don't believe that Selfishness is in opposition to the way of the Lord There are many well-known teachers today who have emphasized putting yourself first The the idea that it is more blessed to give than to receive is lost on them They teach that the reason you give is to receive and that's rooted in selfishness And in the last days even churches will be infected with takers God's people are supposed to be self-sacrificing God's people Are of all people to be aware that God is gracious to us You see God has shown us his love and he's revealed his love by his giving God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son That whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life God said this is how I demonstrate love While you're still a sinner christ died For you And so we need to understand that God's love is revealed through giving in john 15 verses 12 and 13. Jesus said my command is this Love each other as I have loved you Greater love has no one than this That he laid down his life for his friends But in the last days Jesus said As well as paul paul in this passage said There would be selfish interest paul is saying self love will be rampant a second thing People will be lovers of money greedy materialism will dominate And in fact even the church Many will pursue more money and in doing so abandon their marriage And their family for materialism In proverbs 23 4 and 5 Do not wear yourself out to get rich have the wisdom to show restraint Cast but a glance at riches and they're gone For they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky Like an eagle So instead of yielding to greed god's people seek the things that last And they're aware that we are just passing through we are pilgrims And we are sojourners And first timothy paul had said it in chapter 6 verses 6 through 9 Godliness with contentment he says is great gain We brought nothing into this world It's certain that we can carry nothing out having food and clothing with these we shall be content But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare And into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction And perdition a third thing he speaks of is boasters A boaster is somebody who brags about their accomplishment They they brag about what they have what they are And frankly that sin is very unattractive But it's especially so in the life of a believer It's taking for yourself honors that you haven't earned And that you don't deserve In the military we call it stealing honor And that's what's going to be very very rampant not just in the world But even in the church people bragging about how much they have and who they are You see at the heart of boasting is a rejection of humility It's what has been called a deceived self-confidence In Jeremiah 9 23 and 24 Jeremiah said this is what the Lord says Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom Or the strong man boast of his strength Or the rich man boast of his riches But let him who boasts boast about this That he understands and knows me That I am the Lord who exercises kindness justice and righteousness on earth For in these I delight declares the Lord Paul said it like this in Galatians 6 verse 14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Through which the world has been crucified to me And I to the world A fourth thing he speaks of is Pride or being proud The word speaks of showing yourself to be above others It speaks of showing contempt for others. It's treating them as if they're inferior And that destroys the unity of the church You see true bible teaching produces people who seek to be humble who resist Arrogant pride In romans 12 verse 3 paul said I say through the grace given to me To everyone who's among you Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think But to think soberly as god is dealt to each one a measure of faith He said in romans 12 16 live in harmony with one another. Don't be proud But be willing to associate with people of low position. Don't be conceited Fifth he said blasphemers A blasphemer uses what is called scornful language They're insulting they insult god and they insult men When in reference to god they they they they're insolent they're disrespectful You know to be honest with you it's it's the flippant kind of like that big guy upstairs It's a kind of a it's an improper way to speak of the lord And they don't reverence him. There's no sense of the fear of god in them When they're speaking to people they they injure them They they don't exercise their speech with love. They they don't have consideration and and that will ruin marriages and destroy kids In proverbs 12 18 reckless words appears like a sword But the tongue of the wise brings healing Christians are to be otherwise According to Ephesians 4 29 paul said do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth But only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs That it may benefit those who listen a sixth thing disobedient to parents They are rebellious and they don't want to hear anything mom or dad has to say Today speaking in the last days in these days that we live There are through so many reasons many children alone in home all day And the only thing that is babysitting them sometimes Is going to be the games that they play online Or some disinterested caretaker And so what happens is the children grow up With the disobedience with a sense of resentment They feel like they many times they feel like they've been neglected And they don't listen And sometimes I've seen it where A parent will say don't do that and then turn around and continue talking To somebody and not even notice that the kid went immediately back To what they were just told not to do that happens all the time And they develop a way to get around it. I've had kids tell me Yeah, my mom got mad and she took things from me, but tomorrow I'll get it back Because mama gives it back and the children have learned How to take advantage of what the parents very often are wanting to show grace in I can remember one of my kids who uh When they were young younger Less than five six years old Had done something that was wrong And I approached them and I said, you know what you did really is spanking You really ought to get a spanking Now I was doing studies on grace and love and all and I'm thinking I want to learn what that means and so I said, you know, I really ought to Spank you but what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you grace And so I didn't spank them well A little while later not the same day They did something And I said you really deserve a spanking and they started yelling grace Grace daddy grace And I said no, it's time for a law. Wow, you know, so You know after It's it's difficult. I guess I'm trying to say it's difficult to To raise them right. It's difficult, isn't it? But if we neglect them, they learn to be rebellious They learn to be disobedient to parents They learn to rebel against parental authority and in doing so are also rebelling against god given authority And these are those who are In rebellion against authority and in contrast according to Ephesians 6 1 and 2 Paul said children obey your parents and the lord for this is right Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise Seventh thing unthankful, they're not appreciative of the acts of kindness They never get enough when raised in an ungodly home They become expecting to be entitled to everything They can be Unthankful they they don't show appreciation for kindness is given And the gifts that are given they don't understand that you have to teach Children to be thankful. Don't you you have to Again, Marie and I were in the mall and as we were walking She turns to me as we went by shoes for children. There were kids shoes as we were walking by she says, you know I have a grandson. His name is david baby. Dave.  I said really she goes. Yeah, he outgrew his shoes She says I saw he has some shoes and and it has a zipper She says that you zip up. She says and the zipper was down. So I asked his daddy my son david Those those shoes and you know, they don't they fit them anymore and little david my son said No, no, no, no, we're gonna have to get him some shoes And so as we're standing there, I'm looking at these shoes and I said, well, we ought to buy him some shoes We had to buy him some shoes. So marie goes Yeah, that'd be a good idea. So we get some shoes And then we think well, we've got my bella His older sister He's gonna need some shoes. So we ended up buying shoes.  So that was on friday on Saturday I get a phone call and it's my bella Papa, I just want to tell you thank you so much for those shoes I said, do you like your shoes mama? Oh, I love those shoes. Thank you so much. I said, you're welcome Then baby david gets on the little one. He's three and he's saying, you know, papa Thank you so much. You know, I appreciate any and he didn't say I appreciate I like them I see you like your shoes daddy. Oh, I like my shoes. Papa. Thank you. You know where that came from It isn't natural. It came from the parents Where the dad and the mama say you give a call to your grandmother and your grandfather and you tell them Thank you see thankfulness is something that you're trained to express and when you don't Train people to say thank you. I appreciate send the card saying I'm glad you came We we loved having you when you don't train them to do that They grow up expecting that everything should be handed to you and even in the church I have to tell you that can be found You have to train them to be thankful Colossians 3 15 Says let the peace of God rule in your hearts To the which also you are called in one body be thankful and a thing unholy They're raised without God They don't respect the sacredness of religion the things that are holy They don't value or understand devotion They don't know reasons for worship. They don't understand the need for fellowship They end up living lives that are impure Well, that's in the church But in contrast Christians are to reverence the Lord and live holy lives In verse 3 he speaks about being unloving that speaks of without natural affection There's a callousness towards everybody It's this attitude. I'm more important than you And who cares about you? So ultimately they don't care for parents.  It's never left behind They continually blame everybody else for their lack of joy or personal problems They refuse to forgive and they've refused to move on. I was reading in facebook yesterday Somebody posted something about the question. Some of you perhaps read the question You may be on get in the same That I get on facebook and and there was a question Can somebody who committed adultery Change and then there are people and there were a lot I didn't read all of them, but a lot of responses And the overwhelming amount Was were responses that said no they can't Once a cheater always a cheater And I saw over and a lot of posts no no once they do it they're going to do it again There are a lot of people who believe that it was posted So many of them arguing that no once you're a cheater you're always a cheater That's the way it's going to be forever.  They're extremely self Important so he's returned to his initial concept. They're self centered and they care less of others Then he says an 18th thing. They're lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god. Here's the thing. I'll say this quickly, but They don't see the value of moderation They want instantaneous gratification These are people who see pleasure as more important than anything else They'll stay in line for two or three days to get tickets to watch a movie Or go to a concert You've seen it. I've said maybe you've done it Will you get a a tent For days in line right why because I got to see you know the Whatever, you know see the movie. It's just like that's a great movie. It'll change my life forever, you know But these are the people who would never think of even being on time for church if they come Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god. It's there.  We see it in the newspaper All the time people who live for themselves And then in verse five having a form of godliness 19th A form they outwardly appeared to love the lord. They claimed to be spiritual But they don't have the spirit They only have an appearance what it's timothy to do verse five From such people he said turn away Don't fellowship with these hypocrites though They influence you to go in the wrong direction timothy And they are the ones that are making the last days so perilous in roman 16 17 Paul said I beseech you brother and mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you've learned avoid them But here we are in a time when people are actually learning the habits and behaviors of those who are lukewarm And then he goes on to say for of this sort verse six are those who creep into households and Make captives of the gullible women loaded down with sins led away by various lusts always learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Now as janis and jambra's Resisted moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds disapproved concerning the faith But they will progress no further further folly will be manifest to all as there's also was They worm their way into homes and gain control. He's saying over weak willed undeserving women laden with sins Their their consciences he is saying are in need of cleansing because they're loaded down with sin But they take advantage of these women who need cleansing from sin They worm their way in Then they lead them astray and he goes on in verses eight and nine to identify The two sorcerers who opposed moses in egypt janis and jambra's And these two sorcerers had performed counter miracles in in a contest against moses He said they were exposed for what they are and so will these in the last days They failed And these false teachers will also Because god's truth Will always prevail What are the signs of the last days? Pertaining to what's going on within the walls of a church These things will be found These sins and so as we've gone through these let me close by saying this I go through scripture And what I do As I say god help me Help me Not be Self-centered god help me Not to be a lover of money God help me not to be a boaster God help me Not to be proud may I not be insolent in the way I speak of you or others May I not be a a man who doesn't respect my own parents? May I be thankful may I have a pure life because you read the word of god Not for other people, but you read the word of god so that god can form you into the image of christ Look at your own heart and ask yourself Does any of this apply to you? And if you're a believer in christ, then you say god Forgive me Thank you for the strength that you've given to me I can be different and I will be by your grace because I want to be genuine I want to be the real deal. I want to live for jesus christ


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