Our sermon title is The Good Servant, The Good Servant, and we are in part three of this series as we work through 1 Timothy chapter 4, verses 6 through 16 predominantly, and here in the first three weeks of this series, verses 6 through 11. And as we've been working through this passage, we've been looking at what it means to be a good servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your Bible is there, it begins in verse 6 with, if you instruct the brethren, Paul says in these things, you will be a good minister, a good servant, a good diaconess, as the Bible says, of Jesus Christ. Nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed. Our first point in this series was that we must, in order to be a good servant, take in a healthy and robust diet, a voracious diet of God's word. We must be nourished by the word in order to be able to faithfully instruct. We must be nourished by good doctrine and we must carefully follow that. But beyond a good diet, you need exercise. You got to put those nutrients in the word of God to work, and in verse 7 we read, but reject profane and old wives' fables and exercise yourself toward godliness. For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. We've got to put that robust diet of God's word to work in exercising ourselves toward godliness. That word exercise there, gumnazo, where we get our word gymnasium. Literally means, gymnasticize yourself toward godliness. It is rigorous, arduous, and demanding work. That is counter-cultural. You don't hear that preached often, but the Christian life is work. Why? Why would we exercise ourselves and why would we work that way toward godliness? Because unlike physical fitness, godliness or Christlikeness is profitable for all things. Listen, you can have six-pack abs, you can have buns of steel, an iron core, right? You can make yourself so skinny that you have to run around in the shower to get wet, you have to stand under a clothesline to get out of the rain, and what ultimately is that good for little? But godliness is profitable for all things. If you do not have godliness and you are most to be pitied, if you do not have godliness, your body will only rot. If you do not have godliness, your body will only rot. In the same way that physical exercise, physical discipline, spiritual exercise, spiritual discipline, lead to spiritual strength. Holds a promise for the life that now is and that life which is to come. Holds a promise for the life that now is and that life which is to come. With that, this godliness with promises there. With that, Paul exercises, you've got to remember, this is an imperative command. Godliness. Exercise to the Christian life. To the life where we just need to relax. And many believe that the Christian life is a life where we just need to relax. Flowery beds of ease. Never mind our feet up. Just ease along. Flowery beds of ease. The Christian life is a life of labor. Toils. Striving. The Christian life is a life of labor. Toils. So point driving. Taking a healthy diet of God's word. Point two, we get our exercise. So point one, we're taking a healthy diet of God's word. Point two, we get our exercise. We exercise ourselves Jesus Christ. Point three is that worker. The good servant of Jesus Christ is a Lord's vineyard. Verse 10. We put those to work in the Lord's vineyard. Verse 10. And suffer to this end because we trust in the living God. And suffer to the Savior of all men, especially in the living God who is the Savior of all men. Especially of those who believe. The Paul goes further here to explain the commandment and exercise yourself toward godliness. The Paul goes further here to explain the commandment and exercise yourself toward godliness. And give reasons for our confidence in that command. And we are to get a healthy diet of God's word. And we are to exercise or work ourselves toward godliness. Why? Because one godliness is godliness for all things. Why? Because one godliness has a promise for all things. And two, a promise for that godliness has a promise for that life which is to come. That is the faithful statement that is worthy of all acceptance. Then in beginning in verse 10, we now get further clarification. Why should we respond? We now get further clarification. Why should we respond? The promises that come as a result of godliness. We both labor and strive. We exercise ourselves, right? It points back to that idea of the Christian athleticism. The Christian exercise. Why? Why do we labor and strive? Because we trust the living God from whom those promises come. Pointing back to the promises again. Because he is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. You see the flow of the argument here? The flow of the statement. For various reasons, some people want to take the faithful saying that is worthy of all acceptance in verse 9 and have that point forward to that which comes after in verse 10, right? For several reasons. Similar to, we see the argument in chapter 1 verse 15, the faithful saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. We see another faithful statement in chapter 3 verse 1. This is a faithful saying. If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good thing. But here, for several other reasons, reflecting back on the pronoun this, this is a faithful saying, what is a faithful saying? Points back to its antecedent in godliness. Exercise yourself toward godliness. The labor and striving of verse 10 pointing back to the point of exercising yourself toward godliness in verse 8. A trusting God, trusting in the living God for his promises. Pointing back to the promises that we see in verse 8 and particularly the flow of the statement here and how that harmonizes together. There's more to it than just that, but that's why we would look at verse 9. This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance as pointing back to that which was said in verse 8. That being said, you can't go wrong either way. How many statements in Scripture are you familiar with that are not faithful? There's none. They're all faithful. How many passages in Scripture are not worthy of all acceptance? There are none. They're all worthy of acceptance. So you can't go wrong here, but footnote for this. In our Bible study, we'd have to take Bible study. We have to make progress in our study of God's word. In moving on from milk to solid food, right, from milk to meat, we've got to begin making observations in the text, observing the text, interpreting the text, and applying the text.  If we're going to take in a healthy diet of God's word, we've got to move on from the milk and on to the meat. And so that takes work. That takes diligence. If you're going to do good observation of this text as you study through it, then one of those observations that's going to come up is going to be the question, what is this faithful saying referring to? Does it refer to verse 8 or does it refer to verse 10?  The purpose of that work is so that you can rightly interpret the Word of God so that you can rightly apply the Word of God to your life. It's good to read Scripture and it's good to study the Scripture, study the Bible. The right way to avoid error, the right way to avoid or to keep from falling into this false teaching, this error that is permeating the church at Ephesus, is to be precise with the text, to be careful with how you handle the Word of God. And in that we are to be a diligent worker, right? Not ashamed, rightly handling, rightly dividing the Word of God. Now Paul is explaining here in all that that there is a heavenly promise. There's a heavenly promise to godliness, promise for this life and the life to come. But there is a difficult and strenuous earthly work that must be done. And the reason that we enter into that strenuous work is because we trust God, we trust the living God. So let's break down this text. We're in 1st Timothy chapter 4, looking beginning at verse 10. He begins for to this end. In your observation of the text, you have to ask what is this pointing to? For what end? Or for what reason? For the reason of godliness. And the promise is just referenced in verse 8. He goes on to say, for to this end, we both labor and suffer reproach. That word labor there is copioman. It means hard labor. There's no way around it. Hard, diligent labor. Labor to the point of exhaustion, right? And with that sufferer approach, the manuscript evidence supports a derivative there for agonizomai. It's where we get our word agonize, strive, okay? So we have hard labor to the point of exhaustion and strive, agonize. It emphasizes here the wearisome nature of the Christian life, the wearisome nature of Christian work. That's in the present tense. It means it is ongoing. The Christian life is a life of an ongoing, present, active life of hard labor to the point of exhaustion and agonizing, striving. And Paul knew well what it meant to labor and strive for the Lord. At the end of his life, Paul said to me that I have fought the good fight. What are you talking about? Fight, Paul. Christian life is a fight? Yes. Yes, it's a fight. And he says, I have run. I have finished my race, Christian life. Again, back to that Christian athleticism. It is a race. It's a fight. Colossians 1. 29 says this. To this end, Paul says, I also labor, striving according to his working. This is the same words, right? Labor, striving, toil. Striving according to his working, which works in me, mightily. At the same time that you labor for the Lord, the Lord is laboring in you to do into will according to his good pleasure. But we are to strive and the Lord works in us. In 1 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 12, the Bible says in we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. That's the Christian life. I remember witnessing to someone in their driveway not too long ago, just could not get over the fact that the Christian life was a life of effort. And it was just this let go and let God mentality where I don't do anything. God does everything. And the fact that I don't do anything, God's grace just covers all of that. I just go to God for forgiveness. This is not a right biblical understanding of the work of God, the labor of God, the life of the Christian. 2 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 23, Paul talks about labor's more abundant. Paul talks about being beaten. 40 stripes minus one, right? Whipped. He was once stoned. Shipwrecked in constant peril, in sleeplessness, in hunger, in thirst. He says there in wearisome, in weariness, and in toil. And all of that over concern for the churches. Paul was in labor for the Lord. And doesn't Paul, you see that in Scripture throughout the Bible, that Paul in laboring was always concerned that his labor would be in vain. Sometimes compared it to childbirth, that his laboring for them would be in vain if they didn't repent and turn to Christ. If Christ wasn't rooted and grounded in them, always concerned. All that agonizing, all that exhaustion, if done in vain would be for nothing. But our labor in the Lord is not in vain, amen, amen. It is a slow, laborious work over a lifetime. This is not a sprint. The Christian life is a marathon. It is a slow, laborious work over a lifetime. Charles Spurgeon tells a story of running into a little girl working. He says this. A poor woman had a supply of coal laid at her door by a charitable neighbor.  So I said to the child, do you expect to get all that coal in with that little shovel? And she was quite confused at my question, Spurgeon said. But her answer was very striking. Yes, sir, if I work long enough. You see the point? Humble worker, Spurgeon says, make up for your want of ability by abundant continuance in well doing. And your life work will not be trivial. Sometimes we have the misconception that all our labor for the Lord needs to be some grand and glorious work. It's just faithfulness, faithfulness in little things over time, the laborious work of the Christian over the extent of the Christian life until the Lord takes you home. And it is a glorious work, and it's all that work. Humble worker, make up for your want of ability by abundant continuance and well doing. And your life work will not be trivial. The repetition of small efforts will affect more than the occasional use of great talents. Seriously, when you consider the Christian life, we consider impending death. When you consider impending death, the death of others, your death, shouldn't we cultivate an eternal perspective with respect to the diligence with which we pursue labor for the Lord? Is there any other reason but an eternal reason to labor and work and toil in this life? The Lord gives us the greatest reasons, gives us the greatest hope. Only one life will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last, right? Many, many, many labor in this life and toil for nothing more than fleeting temporary pleasures. No thought given whatsoever to their eternal destiny and laying up for themselves treasure in heaven. Those things that will not rot, that Russ will not destroy and all their labor and toil, there is no gain. But Paul says to Timothy that godliness with contentment is great gain. Amen. Word of labor for the Lord. Ecclesiastes chapter one, verse 14 says this, I've seen all the works that are done under the sun and indeed all is vanity and grasping for the wind. All the work done under the sun, vanity, grasping for the wind.  This is, it's vanity. Turn to Ecclesiastes chapter two. Let me give you another example of this. Ecclesiastes chapter two, just after Proverbs. Ecclesiastes chapter two and here Solomon wisest and richest man on the earth seeking to indulge himself in a little experiment. Many in their work, right? Many today seek to simply satisfy their earthly desires. Seek simply to indulge themselves to gain some temporary satisfaction. Here Solomon had all the resource, everything he needed to be able to indulge his every desire and he labored to that end, right? Labored to do that. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter two, the beginning in verse nine, verse nine. So here Solomon said, I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure. Solomon's wealth allowed this for himself. He didn't withhold anything from himself. He had all the wealth. Now think about it. Not many that are wealthy. Well, no one wealthy like Solomon was wealthy or all that wealth. You just provide for yourself your own indulgent. The next boat, the bigger house, the nicer car, whatever it is, you're just providing for yourself your own self indulgence. And Solomon goes on to say at the end of verse 10, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor. You can gain satisfaction, joy, if you will, from those things. And that is by the grace of God to you. God's common grace in allowing you to enjoy the fruits of your labor. But here Solomon had the sense of satisfaction of rejoicing in all that wealth and all that could supply for a temporary fleeting self indulgence. His heart rejoiced in all his labor. Now the value of that, what is the value of that? We'll go on to hear the value of that is nothing. It is worthless because it is fleeting and temporary. This was a reward from all my labor, he says in verse 10, verse 11. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor in which I had toiled. Indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun. You can have everything. You can be wealthy beyond your imagination. You can have all that Solomon had and enjoy, even rejoice in your heart over the temporary satisfaction that that gives you and there is no real gain. There's no real value. It is vanity and grasping for the wind at the end of the day because this life is fleeting. This life is a vapor. It pops up for a moment and vanishes away with time. There was no profit here under the sun. Verse 12. So I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who succeeds the king only what he has already done? In other words Solomon sets out on this experiment of his to indulge himself. He has everything. All the wealth that he can imagine all the wealth that he needs. And so who can exceed the king in this he can only be matched. This is the experiment that Solomon is running. Verse 13. Then as a result of this right thinking through it you think through it this morning. Think about what you are doing that lasts for eternity. And that what you are doing to just build bigger barns for yourself. Think about the meaning of your life the purpose for your life. That which you labor and toil and strive for. Does it have real lasting eternal value? Or with everything else in this world is it just going to be burned up in the end as wood, hay and stubble? Will it be as gold and precious stones right? Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. The wise man's eyes verse 14 are in his head. But the fool walks in darkness yet I myself perceived that the same event happens to them all. What event is that? Death.  Verse 15. So I said in my heart as it happens to the fool it also happens to me and why was I then more wise than I said in my heart this also is vanity. You see Solomon's thinking here. You see the train of the argument progression of the argument verse 16. For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come and how does a wise man die as the fool? Remember hearing in the news not long ago of Steve Jobs death. Steve Jobs had an impact on the world has he not? Everyone's account you know what he did impacts the world as we know it today and what will happen to it? It'll burn up with everything else. His work because it wasn't of eternal value will be wood, hay, and stubble like the rest and he takes place in the same place next to the fool at his death. What eternal significance are we working for? What are we doing with our lives? This is vanity. It is grasping for the wind. Look at verse 17. Therefore Solomon said I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me for all is vanity and grasping for the wind because it is temporally, temporarily minded, earthly minded of no eternal significance right? Not eternally minded. Reminds me of John 12 verse 25. He who loves his life will what? Will lose it. If you love your life you'll lose it. He who hates his life in this world will what? Will keep it, keep it to eternal life. I imagine that Jesus Christ thinking of these words and Ecclesiastes even as he said those things in John 12. He who loves his life will lose it.  Verse 18. Solomon goes on that I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun because I must leave it to the man who will come after me and who knows whether he'll be wise or a fool yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Verse 20. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun for there is a man whose labor is with wisdom and knowledge and skill yet he must leave his heritage to a man who is not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? The answer to that question is nothing, nothing. You can toile and strive and work for all those things on this side of eternity that bring you temporal joy, that bring you a fleeting self-satisfaction, a fleeting self-indulgence and in the end it is vanity and grasping for the wind. There is nothing that lasts.  We all will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Verse 23. For all his days are sorrowful and his work burdensome. Even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. Again, that is the grace of God. In this earth, as the Lord in his grace and in his mercy gives you another breath. Take a breath. It's the grace of God to you. It's the grace of God to you. And we can in this life enjoy in some temporary way the satisfaction of the labor of our hands. It's the grace of God to you. Might as well enjoy it. Listen, if that's the way you're going to live, apart from Christ, apart from laboring in the Lord's vineyard for those things that have eternal significance, then it is your best life now. You're not going to have the best life to come. Enjoy it now. It's the grace of God that you can. This also I saw was from the hand of God. Verse 25. For who can eat or who can have enjoyment more than I considering all that Solomon has? Verse 26. For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in his sight, but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and collecting that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. It all comes down, right, in Solomon's thinking and in the thinking of the Christian. The chief end of man, the purpose, Ecclesiastes 12, to fear God and to keep his commandments. Amen. That has eternal significance. Back in 1st Timothy, people live to enjoy this life only. They strive and they labor to build bigger and bigger barns. Listen to this parable that Christ preaches in Luke chapter 12. Listen to this. He spoke a parable to them saying, the ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully, and he thought within himself saying, what shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? I mean, so he said, I'll do this. I'll pull down my barns and build greater. And there I will store all my crops and all my goods and I'll say to my soul, soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease. Eat, drink and be merry. Does that describe your life? Does that describe, I mean, I've just got to grow my nest egg, got to grow my 401k, got to get to the next car, the next house, the next pleasure so that I can indulge myself, the next paycheck so that I can consume it on my lusts. Is that the direction of your life? Is that the motive of your heart? Is that how you live despite what you say? Where are you this morning?  Then whose will those things be what you have provided? So is he, Christ says, who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God? Only one life will soon be passed. It's only what's done for Christ that will last. So what should be the motivation, the mindset for the Christian concerning labor, concerning work, concerning toil? We're to strive, agonize, we're to work to the point of exhaustion in the Lord's vineyard. What should be our attitude toward that? Why should we labor and toil and strive and strain? To be a good worker for the Lord. To be a diligent worker. To be a faithful slave, as the Bible says. What draws out this work ethic in the Christian? What draws it out? Verse 10, back in 1 Timothy chapter 4. For to this end, we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the savior of all men, especially of those who believe. That word trust there, very interesting word. It's the word El Piso. It means I hope. It means hope. We have fixed our hope on the living God because we hope, we trust in the living God, not on a dead idol. Right? Not on the dead idol. This is the living God because he is the living God because Jesus Christ was risen from the dead and conquered death. God in Christ secures a promise for us, for the life that now is, and for that life which is to come. Because we hope in the living God, our hope, as Peter says, is a living hope. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Is your hope a living hope? Is it a vibrant, active, working, laboring, striving, toiling hope? Is it a hope that engenders in you, that draws out that Christian work ethic for the Lord? Is it a living hope? This is trusting in God. This is faith in Christ. Hope being a product of faith and hope in the promises of God. What fear cannot do? What external conformity cannot do? What hypocrisy cannot do? What fake, ascetic, mindless, ritualistic religion cannot do? Hope and faith in Christ can. If you'll put your hope and faith in him, hope in the power of the Holy Spirit is what draws out this labor, what draws out this motivation for labor and toil and striving and exercising yourself toward godliness in the Christian life. It's hope in Christ, faith in Christ that draws that out, that motivates that, motivates our labor along with love, gratefulness, thankfulness in our hearts to Christ. Hope draws out great anticipation for godliness. Hope draws out great anticipation for holiness without which no one will see the Lord. It's hope that draws out fervent service, fervent labor. Listen to this from Paul in Acts 26. Paul, the life, the service, the labor for the Lord as a result of that labor and as a result of the persecution that Paul was under goes to stand before a grippa, king of grippa. In Acts chapter 26, and listen to what Paul says. Paul stands to give testimony before king of grippa and he says, and now I stand in verse 6 and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers. To this promise, our 12 tribes earnestly serving God night and day hope to attain. Why? Why were they serving God night and day? Because they hoped in the promises of God. Why was Paul standing before king of grippa? Because he hoped in the promises of God. Why did he endure the affliction? Why did he endure the persecution? Because of hope in the promises of God. It's because of hope. Night and day they hoped to attain. For this hope's sake, king of grippa, I am accused by the Jews. Are you struggling in your service to the Lord? Where's your hope? Are you apathetic, indifferent? Are you wallowing in self-indulgence? Where is your hope? Where's the hope of his coming? Have you lost an excitement or a zeal in your service to the Lord? Have you lost that fervor, that earnestness, that diligence that is the fruit of genuine repentance? Have you lost that? Where is your hope? Have you lost a fervency in laboring for the living God? If you have, then in some way, in some manner, in some manner you have lost sight, some sense of the hope for that life which now is and that which is to come. You must inform your hope. You must hope in Christ. Romans 5 says that hope is a product of patience and character poured out in your heart by the Holy Spirit. Are you walking under the control of the Holy Spirit? If you're walking according to the flesh, you will quench your hope. How can you hope if you're in the flesh? How can you hope if you're not walking by faith in Christ, according to the Spirit? You must walk according to the Spirit. Romans 15, verse 4 says that hope comes, and listen, right along line with what we're talking about, hope comes from a healthy diet of God's Word. For whatever things were written before were written for our learning in verse 4, it says that we, through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope that comes through the patience and the comfort of the Scriptures. Are you neglecting a daily diet of God's Word? If you're neglecting a daily diet of God, a daily diet of God's Word, then your hope will be weak or non-existent. Hope in Christ is a byproduct of faith. Romans 15, verse 13 says, now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that's faith, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Hope in Christ is a byproduct of faith. Are you lacking faithfulness in evangelism? Are you weak when it comes to evangelism? Do you shy away from those opportunities in sin, disobeying the Lord, not sharing the gospel? Where is your hope in Christ? Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 12 says, therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech. Hope will inform and empower your evangelism. Are you weak in evangelism? Hope in Christ.  Are you cold toward the praise of God? Psalm 71, verse 14 says, but I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. Our worship is informed by hope. Are you struggling in your battle with sin? Are you apathetic or indifferent in the battle? Are you suffering defeat? Examine yourself, where is your hope? 1 John chapter 3, verse 3, and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. Hope will help you in the battle. Are you waiting around for God to do something? You're not going to take that step of action yourself. You're not going to step out in fervent, diligent service to the Lord and labor for the Lord. You're waiting for the Lord to do something in you. Sitting around waiting for the Lord to give you a sign, some experience, some whatever to do a work in you. The Bible would say, act in hope. Romans 8, 25 says, we are eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body, for we were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope, for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Don't wait around to see some reason for your hope. Hope, because the Lord has said it to be true. Hope in Christ, our hope in Christ even produces perseverance, patience. We eagerly wait for it. Romans 8, 25 says with perseverance, waiting for the hope that is to be revealed. This is the kind of hope that is the product of genuine saving faith. This is the hope that abides in Christ, regardless of circumstances. Going gets tough. You don't know where that next check is coming from. You don't know how the next meal is going on the table. Marriage is rocky. Difficulty with the kids. Hard time at work. Car is breaking down. Whatever it is, this is the kind of hope that perseveres despite circumstances. That's someone that you love. You're pouring your heart and soul into them to share the gospel with them. And they're just as hard-hearted as they always are, as they always have been. Hope in Christ. Hebrews 6, verse 19 says, this hope we have as an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. Think about Aaron. When Nadav and Abihu brought strange fire before the Lord. His sons and the Lord killed them. What did Aaron do? How did Aaron respond? Aaron had a job to do. Aaron worked in the temple and Aaron continued on the work. He had to. He had to. He continued working, hoping in God. Are you going to make excuses for why you don't? Paul, despite all the beatings, despite the shipwreck, despite the stoning, despite all the persecution, just continues in hope serving the Lord. What excuse do you have for not? It's too hot outside? What are you going to say? What's going to fly before God when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ? Allow hope in Christ to inform your service, your diligence for the Lord. Think about the woman with a flow of blood that just hoped that if she could stretch out and just touch the hem of his garment, that she'd be healed. Hope in Christ. Are you struggling with sin? Are you losing in the battle? Hope in Christ. Faith in Christ. To hope in anything else is idolatry. To hope in circumstances is idolatry. To hope in the next check, a relative helping out. Hope in that scratch-off thing. It's idolatry. It's idolatry.  Your hope is in any of that. You're going to be shaken. You're going to be shaken out of the tree. Where's your hope? I love this prayer. There is none all good as thou art God. With thee I can live without other things. For thou art God all sufficient. Can you say that? With thee I can live without other things. For thou art God all sufficient. And the glory, peace, rest, and joy of the world is a creaturely perishing thing in comparison with thee. Help me to know that he who hopes for nothing but thee, and for all things only for thee, hopes truly. And that I must place all my happiness in holiness and godliness, right? Place all my happiness in that godliness. If I hope to be filled with all grace, convince me, God, that I can have no peace at death nor hope that I should go to Christ unless I intend to do his will and have his fullness while I live. You can have no hope that you'll go to Christ unless your hope and faith in Christ drives you to do his will and to live wholeheartedly for him. It's interesting in 1 Timothy 4 that in the event or in the case that you may feel alone in that, you may feel like the struggle. You're all by yourself, right? And no one goes through this but me. No one's ever endured this but me. Woe is me, right? Unless you feel as though you're alone in that battle, Paul uses a very important little word. Look at verse 10. For to this end, we, we, both labor and sufferer approach, because we, we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men. A little word we, right?  It's we together. What does Ephesians 4 verse 4 say? There is one body and one spirit just as you were called in one hope, one hope. That's the hope of the Christian. The wicked have no hope. Their hope is a vain, wicked devilish hope at best. Job chapter 8 verse 13 says, the hope of the hypocrite shall perish. Job 11, the eyes of the wicked will fail and they shall not escape and their hope loss of life. Ephesians chapter 2 says that the wicked are strangers from the promise and without hope in the world. No hope for the wicked. Where is your hope this morning? Think about it for a moment. Where is your hope?  Examine your heart. Where is your hope this morning? Are you hoping that it will all work out in the end because you are a good person? That is a vain and empty hope.  That is a vain lying and deceiving hope. If you are not consumed, whole heart, whole mind, all your strength, all your soul consumed with hope in the person and work of Jesus Christ, then you have a vain, empty, lying, deceiving hope. Consumed with hope in the mercy and grace of God in Christ. That's where your hope needs to be.  You have no hope. Do you hope for heaven while harboring lust in your heart?  Do you hope for heaven while all of your temporal enjoyments are wrapped up in the trappings of this wicked world? That is an empty vain, false hope. There's no love or delight in your heart for the Word of God, such that you actually invest in studying the Word of God. There's no burden in your heart for evangelizing the lost that leads you to actually evangelize the lost. There's no hatred in your heart for the sin that caused our Lord to suffer. There's no hunger or thirst for the righteousness that is demanded by God. Do you hope for heaven and you don't see yourself as wicked or how holy God is? You hope for heaven and you've never mourned over your sin. You've never really turned from your sin.  You plan to go back to your sin, making provision for the flesh, even though you know it offends God. Do you hope for heaven even though God has never radically changed your life? You've never been born again. Do you hope for heaven even though your hope for heaven includes all kinds of hopes except the hope that Christ will be there welcoming you? Is your heaven your idea of heaven a christless heaven? You have no hope. You have no hope. You have a wicked, baseless, devilish hope at best and the longer that you persist in that kind of hope you are treasuring up for yourself. Wrath in the day of wrath and the righteous revelation of the judgment of God. Turn to Christ and live hope only in him. He secured our hope. The promises of God in him are yes and amen in Christ when it is hopeless for you to live a life that is pleasing to God. Listen, if you're outside of Christ, it's hopeless for you. Hopeless for you to live a life that is pleasing to God. When you come to grips with the hopelessness of that, come to grips with the fact that Jesus Christ lived a perfectly sinless life fulfilling the righteous demands of God and in him there is hope that you can apply his righteousness to your own wretched, bankrupt account. That in him you can be made righteous before God so that you can stand before a holy and just God. Not a God who's going to wink at sin or sweep sin under the rug or turn a blind eye to sin. A God who is just in condemning sin, who will judge sin, who will exact payment for every sin. Will you pay for that yourself or will you have the Savior? Will you have Christ pay it for you? The only way is for you to turn from your sin to trust in Christ buried. Risen again on the third day according to the scriptures, God in the flesh who died as a substitute for those that would turn from their sin and place their faith and trust and reliance and hope in Christ. If you don't turn from your sin and you don't begin fully with all your life hoping and trusting in him now and you will one day suffer one of the greatest torments of hell.  When you've set out and you've burned for a million years you've only just begun. It's hopeless. There is no escape. There's no escape. There's two options. Heaven with hope realized in Christ or hell and it's utter and eternal hopelessness. God's offer, his offer extends to all. For to this end, verse 10, we both labor and strive because we trust, we hope in the living God who is the Savior of all men especially of those who believe. This is our God, God. Despite all of those pagan gods, those wicked false lying gods which the Bible says are all demons. God in light of all of the gods of the wicked false religions of this world is the only God and in that sense he is God the Savior of all men. There is no other Savior. This does not teach universalism that all men are saved.  Second Thessalonians chapter one verse seven says the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. In contradiction to the anti, I mean the Pope's false statement about atheists all you have to do is obey your conscience and you'll be right with God and go to heaven. Wicked lies from Satan. The lie of a wicked one. Hope in Christ.  We're to understand this God as being the Savior of all men in exactly the same way that we discussed in chapter two verse six where Jesus Christ has said to have given himself as a ransom for all. Does God actually save all?  Does Jesus Christ actually ransom all?  In chapter two verse five there is emphasis there that there is only one Savior for all men. There is one mediator, right? One mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. God here is the only Savior for all men in that sense Savior of all of them. He's the exclusive Savior as opposed to all of those other false gods who are no saviors at all.  There is no other. He is the only Savior for all men. This is further clarified by the word melista in Greek especially there. Savior of all men especially of those who believe meaning namely or particularly. Doesn't really fit if you're familiar with an all kinds of interpretation there, it really doesn't fit. God is the Savior of all kinds of men, all kinds of plumbers and CPAs and presidents and whoever and especially those who believe. No, God is the Savior. God is the only Savior but especially praise God for those who believe saying that only believers number one will be saved. That said, is it your belief that saves you or God's grace? It's God's grace that saves. God doesn't choose you based on your belief, based on your faith. He chooses you for salvation based on His grace. In other words, as opposed to Arminianism, typical in a lot of churches and chronic about producing cheap grace or easy believism because it's a false theology. God doesn't look down the quarter of time and choose you based on your belief. God writes the script of time and chooses exclusively based on His grace. In other words, it's for knowledge not foresight as the scripture plainly teaches back to being precise with the text. A theology is all mixed up because there's no precision with the text of scripture. Your belief does not accomplish your salvation. The grace of God in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ accomplishes your salvation. Faith is not the ground of your salvation, it's the means. Christ is the ground of your salvation. Ephesians chapter one verses three through six, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ just as He chose us in Him when? Before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself according to foreseen faith, according to our belief, according to a free act of our will, no. But according to the good pleasure of His will to the praise of the glory of our free will, to the praise and the glory of our decision to follow Him, to the praise and the glory of our choice, no, to the praise of the glory of His grace by which He made us accepted in the beloved so that God may be glorified in all things. In this again, back in verse 10, He applies this, He ties this labor, this grace of God, this hope, ties it directly to the gospel. This is where our labor is to be. Look in first Sunday chapter four verse 10, for to this end we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially those who believe. Tying it to the gospel really quickly. Turn with me to second Corinthians chapter five. Listen, you guys have got to listen faster. Second Corinthians chapter five. Look at verse nine. All right, we labor. We labor. The Lord calls us to labor. We're to hope in Christ to motivate that labor. We labor. Why do we labor? Look at verse nine. Therefore, we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. That's one reason we labor, to be well pleasing to Him. Why? Because we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what He has done, whether good or bad. That's a good reason to labor. We're going to stand before Him, to be pleasing to Him. Here's another reason. Verse 11. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men Paul and his labor, us in our labor. There is reward both for himself and reward eternal benefit to the lost. One to be accepted of him, to hear those words, well done, good and faithful slave, to be well pleasing in his sight, but also knowing the terror of the Lord. There's an eternal benefit to the lost. It goes back to our purpose, right? In chapter four, verse 16, that if we continue in these things, you'll save both yourself and those who hear you. To be well pleasing to God and to be of eternal benefit to the lost, we must preach the gospel. In verse 11, Paul wraps up this paragraph or this section with these words. These things command and teach. Command there, a very strong military word. It came to be known as an authoritative statement, an announcement, a command. But it's command and teach. If you instruct the brethren in these things, right, you'll be a good minister of Jesus Christ. It's command and teach. It has to be here a combination of both commands. We don't have just blind commands in scripture. The Lord is gracious. We always have reasons for commands. We always have instruction that supports the command, right? It's grace from God to have the why that motivates obedience to the commands of God. So all commands have reasoning behind them. We're to command and we're to teach with that. But it is wrong, listen now, it is wrong to teach and not command. That's what the professing church by and large does today. There are no commands from the sayeth the Lord.  We are to command and we're to teach. We're not only to teach and not command. It is wrong to sit in a church and never feel conviction. The Lord Jesus Christ commands you this way and you aren't doing it. What will you say to the Lord? You must have application, exhortation, command.   How do we speak, teach, and command with authority? You can't do that on your own. You can only do that with the authority that is derived from God himself through his word. We're to teach, instruct from the word of God. The word of God is authoritative, and from the word of God, we both can teach and command, okay? Regardless of your youth, regardless of your timidity, regardless of your weakness, we're studying Pastor Timothy a little bit here as we go through first Timothy, regardless of how inadequate you may feel, regardless of where you're at, regardless of your circumstances. If you're in Christ, listen to the law and to the testimony. We must teach and command from the word of God. You must instruct from the word of God. You must evangelize from the word of God. You must inform your own understanding from the word of God. You've got to have diet. With that diet of God's word, you have to exercise yourself toward godliness. And with diet, exercising yourself toward godliness, you'll become more godly, and you are to be at work in the Lord's vineyard. And we're to do all that in hope, right? He who plows in hope should, or he who plows, should plow in hope. Get a good diet of God's word. Exercise yourself toward godliness. Be hard at work in his vineyard. Do it all in hope. With hope in Christ, and you'll be a good servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, thank you for this time and your word. God, thank you for the instruction that we have from this beautiful passage, God. And just thank you for the exhortation. Thank you, Lord, that you both command and teach. Help us to be faithful by the strength supplied in your spirit, God, to do the same. To be faithful in your work, God, to be motivated by hope in Christ. And, God, we pray, break through the wicked concrete around our hearts sometimes, where that hope is, to one degree or another, smothered out, or corrupted, or covered up. God, please sanctify us. Cleanse us, Lord. Empower us. Strengthen us by your spirit. We believe, God. Help our unbelief. Help us, Lord. Again, by the strength supplied in your spirit, to follow you fervently. For your glory, God, for the advance of your kingdom. Knowing, as you say in verse 16, we say both ourselves and those who hear us, Lord, that to be well pleasing to you, but knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade God, both understanding the kindness and severity of God. We love you, Lord. We thank you, God, for Christ. And thank you for your spirit, Lord. And we hope and trust in you, and we know, Lord, that you are faithful to your promises. All glory, praise, and honor be to you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


Hello, this is Christian. In this video, we'll look at themes and skins in ASP.net. A theme is usually the look and feel of a web page and skins are like the texture of your components on the website, like the background colors of the site, the buttons and things like that. So a theme can include one or more of the following content, like CSS, skins, JavaScripts, graphics, audios and videos, and other resources. Perhaps the most common ones you'll see are mainly the CSS skins and the graphics here. A theme can be scoped at the server level. All the sites that are on the server can have the same theme across the entire server. They can also be scoped at the site level so that each site will have its own theme. Here, I just put a yellow to show you that these are basically sites. Themes can also be scoped to the page level so that a page can have its own theme or maybe a feature on the page, for example, like sports or products page or sections can have different themes as well. Let's take a look at some examples on what theme would look like. So here is the Gateway website. You'll see the theme here is the color of dark red followed by the dark gray and some orange over here as well. If you scroll down, you're going to see the same theme color across the site. The other one is like Best Buy. You'll see the Best Buy has blue and yellow and white. That's across the entire page as well. You'll see a lot of yellow and blue here. If I go into the products page, you're going to see that it has a similar layout across the entire page. You'll notice that the button also has yellow and blue as well. Finally, the official website of the Packers team is green and gold and white. That's how themes and skins can be used. Let's go and create themes and skins in ASP.net. This is the project I created earlier in the previous video. If you missed it, you can click on the link in the upper right here just to run this so you can see what it looks like. Here is the... I'm going to just float this by itself. I have a dark gray theme here. If I go to other pages, you'll see that they have the same dark gray theme. I'm going to create two themes, one for the About page and one for the Contact page so that it has own color. Let's go back to the code here. I'm going to do one more thing. I just realized that in the Master page, in the title, I didn't have a title here. I'm going to include a title page here first. I'm going to go and add it here. Page.title. That should load the title to those places. Notice I also put a link here. That links to the style sheet and the default... the styles folder here as a default style sheet. I didn't view on the page over here, but let's go over here and go back to the home page. If I do a source view, you see that here. It's right below the title. It's the link to the style sheet. Pay attention to that and we're going to come back and compare where the links are injected after we add some theme to our page. Back in the code. I'm going to create a theme. To do that, you just go into the project folder here. Click on the project name and click add. We're going to add ASP.NET folder. Here's the theme, so click on that. It adds a theme 1 folder here. It has a little circle icon here, but really just the theme folder. Instead of the theme 1, I'm going to click on it and change it to a blue theme. A one from blue and also do one more for orange. I'm going to do this again. Add a theme. I'll call this one here orange theme. I'm going to just copy this style sheet here. Copy it and then paste it right into the blue theme first. Now open that. You can rename it if you want. You don't have to, but you can rename it. I'll just do that because I don't want to confuse with the other default. I'll call it blue for my CSS. This blue CSS theme, I'm going to change some color here. The background for navigation, instead of just this great theme, I'll use a dark blue. Copy that. Dark blue for that one. The photo area, also I'll use the dark blue for the background color. The color is white for the font, that's fine. When I hover this link, I'm going to change that to a light blue, a light blue, a light cyan. Let's do light cyan for that one. The font will be dark blue as well. I think that's pretty good. Let's save that. That's all I'm doing, just really tiny parts here. Then I'm going to go to, actually the body also, instead of light gray, I'm going to change to a light blue. This is a really light blue color for the background. Save the file. Now go to the About page. Up here in the page tag, I'm going to enter that, so have some space. Right after the code behind attribute here, I'm going to add an attribute called theme. Let me put some space in between. Theme equals, and you'll see that those two themes are already visible here. I'm going to choose the blue theme for this page. I'm going to save that, and then I will just go back to the browser and refresh my page. Notice again, refresh my page. The default page is gray. My About page, you notice is now changed to blue. In the source view, I'm in the home page. If I click on that, notice nothing changes here. Now if I go to the About page and do a source view, you see that now I have two links to the style sheet. The first one is the default up here, and then it injects this blue CSS style sheet from the themes page. According to the rules of precedence and style sheet, the one that is closer or the one that loads last will take precedence. It will overwrite everything in this style sheet. Anything that is the same will overwrite that. That is the reason why you put a theme here. It serves that purpose. How does it know that it injects here and that in the top before this line? That is a really good question. You will see that here is, I'm going to make another change in here. I applied the theme using the theme attribute. I can also apply the theme using another one called style sheet theme. That is also another way to add style sheet to the theme. The reason why you choose this is because for the following reason. Notice I changed that theme, go back to the browser, and refresh my page. Notice the order of these two sheets here. I'm going to refresh this page. Boom, you see that now the style sheet that I added using the style sheet theme has injected the style sheet up here on the right top even way above the title page here. The default style sheet is still down here. That means because this is much lower and the page here is going to take precedence. My blue page is not going to be affected. If I go and refresh it, you see that it reverts back to the gray just like the home page. That is the difference between using a theme and the attribute and also the style sheet theme attribute. Again, the style sheet theme attribute will inject the theme to the very top of the page. If you have any local style sheets like the one we added to Sidemaster here, I've added this one here manually so that this will take precedence. If you want your style sheet to take precedence, then you must use theme instead of the style sheet theme. Once you change it to a theme, then this will take precedence and any local style sheet you added here will be added to the top or actually above this theme. Again, I change it to theme. If you go back to the browser and refresh the page again, it should change back to blue and the source view, now this one here. Notice when I refresh the page, it comes back down here right after the other style sheet so that is the difference. Finally, I'm going to add the green theme. I'm going to copy this, put it into the orange theme. Orange, not green, but orange. I'm going to rename it to orange. Everything looks the same, except the background color will be different. I'm going to use it like the light coral or maybe a light blue. For the background, the navigation instead of dark blue, I'll use the orange red. It looks good here. I use that for the navigation as well as the photo area. The font will be dark. We can use the dark orange red as well. The background will be a light the same as before, the light salmon. Let's say that's my orange theme. Save my file and then go to the contact page and add the theme up here. Beam is equal to the orange theme and save and that's it. Go back to the page and refresh this page here. Here's the default, the blue and the orange. It's kind of hard to see but that's okay. I'll just leave it as is. It's kind of hard to see. Maybe just change it to black. Back to orange and then the font I'll just change it to black right here. That looks good. Now let's create a skin file. A skin file is a special file with a dot skin extension. All it is is just a way for you to control a certain group of controls or components on the web page like buttons. If you want to be in a single place a single file you can manage them easily. Any tags that you want to put in that file you can also do that. To do that just go to the themes folder. Right click on the theme here. I'm going to add to the blue theme only. I'm going to add a new item and you will see there has a new skin file here. Select that. The name will be I'll just call it blue. It's a button skin. It's for all the buttons on my page. You can remove all these comments here. To do that first let's go to the about page and let's add three buttons on my page. Let's say that I want to add three buttons so I want to click on that button I'm not going to implement that yet but here I'm going to go to the tool and add a button right here. The text will be for this one I'll just call it maybe a list of my projects I'll add another one here and then this will be button two and three. This is my resume. We'll load that and here is maybe my hobbies. By default this should be the default color if you go back to the browser and go to the about page these are default buttons. I also want to center everything here. It looks kind of far off on the left. My head hurts. I'm going to change the color so it has a blueish color maybe a blue font or something so it's unique for this particular skin. Let's go back and modify our skin. Let's go to the CSS first right top. Let's add the text align to center. I'll do the same for the other two files. Copy that and go to the orange add that here and one for the default too. Now back to the buttons here I'm going to go to the design view and I'll go choose one of these and just make some design here. Now the button I will just leave it as is I'm not going to change its size to a certain size I'll just give it default size but my properties as you can see here let's go and turn on the CSS property here let's go and reset it so it's in the right place. I want the four color the four color is the font the I guess we'll keep it blue like really blue like that that's the blue font the background color for the button I'm going to change it to something kind of light maybe this light blue maybe not so cool a little bit lighter maybe that one kind of matching background color already I don't know we'll see and then I want the border color as well let's say I use a really dark blue like that and I want to change the width of that to be maybe like just one pixel I don't know what it looks like let's go back and say this file and let's see what it looks like on the browser first okay so let's say I want to keep that button for all my buttons on this skin so now I can do is go ahead and then go back to the source view and refresh the page and you're going to see oops over here my buttons down here the one that I have the style sheet applied to is just the last one see all these different style sheets here so then to apply the skin you go back to your code and in the source view and you just basically copy this tag here's why copy that go to the skin file and add it right in here now there are certain attributes that you cannot add to the skin file like the ID right you cannot use the ID here because you know these are only applied to the page file you don't need that the text you don't need it it's basically just the look and feel the colors and border and things like that so at least these are the things that you need to apply to all the buttons so I you can say this file go back to the about page and remove these CSS okay so save that now that skin file should be applied to all the buttons I have on this theme so if I go back to the browser and refresh my page again right voila there it is if I go to my source view review that and you will see that all the styles are applied directly as an inline style okay this is not ideal because um you know it's okay but usually you don't do this way so instead of doing this way I'm going to copy this rule and put it into a class so instead of having you know all these attributes here you can move this into a class so in my in my blue style sheet that's I'm going to go to the very bottom down here and add a class and I'll call it the button uh the default for all my buttons and I'll use this style sheet right here I copy this from their page okay so I had this this is a default now I go back to my skin file and then instead of having all these attributes here I can delete all of them and just use a CSS um class equal is called button default and what that will do is it will just convert this to a class it will reference this in the default okay so save the file go back to the browser and refresh the page click on it and it should look the same in the source view refresh it you'll see that now use a class right as opposed to the inline style so that's the idea now let's say I want to add another one um that might have a different skin for the button how do you do that okay so first let's go add another button to the page and this time I'm going to add I'm just going to control D for add maybe add add 2 so this is number 4 and number 5 and let's say this one goes to my LinkedIn page and this one goes to um I don't know that meta like Facebook right now how do you make it so that these two are unique well you do that by going to the skin file and then duplicate this line again now you can have two buttons of the same type in here if you just do like this and run it it's going to have a problem okay just want to show you so I try to load that you see that has a problem because you are duplicating the same style sheet and you cannot do that okay so um go back here and I'm going to do what I'll do is I'll create another class for this particular one and maybe I'll call it button um social media okay I'll copy this I'll actually go back to my blue style sheet and then I'll use the same most of these things will be the same I'll just change maybe the um I don't know the background color I'll make it so that it's blue kind of like this blue color the font will be white and I'll leave everything else as is let's just say that's the only thing I want to change for my social media okay and then now in my skin file it has that different class now to make this unique either this or that one you have to include a skin ID okay so I'm going to put over here on the right for here a skin ID attribute and you give it a name for this button so I'll use BTN SSM for social media okay so if I go back to this page and if I want this to be to use that style the skin I have to go in here and add it here so let me go right the top here skin ID is equal to and it should be visible here so I'm going to use that also for the second button okay so now those two buttons and now link to that second button skin so if I go back here again refresh my page and here we go so now these two are now use that one here with the rest of the buttons use that default so that's how you create skins to a website


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Hello, from USS Fort Worth, a US Navy warship currently deployed to the US 7th Fleet and operating in the South China Sea. I am Commander Matt Kawas, the commanding officer of Fort Worth and a littoral combat ship crew 103, and I'd like you to welcome you to our ship. Thank you for joining us for this tour. You may wonder why I'm wearing these headphones. Shipboard life can be noisy sometimes, so these headphones are best for us to be able to hear each other and speak with each other. We're very excited to give you this virtual tour today. It's a first in our Navy and it's something pretty cool for our sailors to be a part of. We're also very proud of what we do and are happy to give you a glimpse of what life is like for us on deployment. So let me set the scene for you before I turn it over to my tour guide. It may be morning for those of you viewing us from the US, but right now it is 2300 onboard the ship. It's 11pm in military time. USS Fort Worth is currently on a 16 month rotational deployment to the Asia Pacific. The ship left its home port of San Diego back in November and arrived in the 7th Fleet in December. Our unique manning structure allows us to deploy nearly twice as long as other US Navy warships because we swap crews about every four months. My crew, the crew 1 and 03 Rough Riders along with Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Detachment 2 and Surface Warfare Mission Package Detachment 1 arrived on board Fort Worth in February in Singapore. We took over from the Littoral Combat Ship crew 104 Juggernauts who had sailed the ship over to Singapore and shortly after arriving spent the first half of January supporting the search for the missing Air Asia flight. Since assuming command of Fort Worth, my crew and I have had a chance to travel to northeast and southeast Asia visiting countries such as South Korea where we participated in an annual US and Republic of Korea Navy exercise and also getting a chance to visit Japan. This past week we've been in Vietnam working with our naval counterparts from the Vietnamese People's Navy. We also had a chance to enjoy some quality liberty in Denang and had a great time meeting all the people there. After several days in port, we got underway from Denang this morning and had a chance to spend a few hours operating underway with other ships from the Vietnamese People's Navy. It was a great experience and we learned so much from operating with our counterparts. We will be conducting routine operations for the next few days in this region before we return to Singapore for a routine maintenance stop. With that I'm sure you're very interested to get on with the tour so I will pass you over to Petty Officer Second Class Connor Minto, our embarked mass communication specialist who will be your tour guide tonight. Enjoy your tour. Hi, I'm MCT Connor Minto and I'll be walking you guys around the ship and we'll get this started right now. Alright, so as you can see a lot of the ship right now has the red lights on and that's what we do at night time. The lights don't go as far and we're going to peek into the bridge right now where we have three people operating as a bridge team. We have the engineering console right here where the entire ship engineering plant can be controlled and then we have two people driving the ship and keeping an eye out on the water. We'll take a little closer look in here. So underway it only takes three people to fully run the ship. With those three people they can get everything they need to get done to get us underway. Here's a memorabilia from the city of Fort Worth right here. They're really good about sending care packages during the holidays. The city of Fort Worth is really supportive of the sailors on board and the ship, their namesake. Right now we're going to go to the airborne mission zone and speak with Lieutenant Commander Hill. He is the air boss with helicopter maritime strike squad from 35. Here he is right here. I'm going to pass you over to him and he's going to speak about what's going on here in the airborne mission zone. Sir, how's it going? Here you go. Alright, thanks MC2. First off, welcome to the airborne mission zone. As MC2 said, I am Lieutenant Commander Ted Hill, in charge of all aviation related matters on board LCS. If you'll pardon me for one second, we'll go downstairs and we'll take a closer look at both aircraft that we have. Alright, in the foreground you can see that we've got the unmanned area vehicle called Firescout and out on the flight deck, and I think you can just see it, is the MH-60 Romeo. So the MH-60 Romeo is the workhorse of the Navy's fleet. It's found on numerous ships throughout the Navy. What makes us special is this here, in the front ground, the Firescout. My squadron, HSM-35, is specially designed to operate both manned and unmanned aircraft. We're the first type in the Navy that's designed to do this. That gives me, as the air boss, the flexibility to both fly the manned aircraft, the unmanned aircraft, or both aircraft simultaneously to meet the mission. And as you can see, my guys who are on board, there's 24 of us, are cross-trained in both aircraft. So the pilots fly both, the maintainers fix both, and that allows for great flexibility to do our mission. Try to give you a better shot all the way out to the flight deck.  Thank you, sir. All right, now that we're done with the AMZ, we're going to make our way down to what on other ships is referred to as Damage Control Central. It's another location where they can control the engineering plant here on the boat. Here's our mess decks that we're going to be walking through, but we'll come back to this. We've got a menu where our cooks put all the chow that we'll be eating for the day. So a lot of these doors that you'll see here, they're referred to as watertight doors. They've got big latches on them, and that way you can open them. It helps isolate if there's an incident, if there's a fire on board or smoke or water, it helps keep that isolated. All right, here's our Damage Control Central. We have our Master Chief on board, and Master Chief, are you going to speak on this? I'm going to pass you over to Master Chief here, and he's going to tell you about what goes on in here. Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on what time zone you're in. Welcome to US's Fort Worth. This is the engineering department we call the Brains of Engineering. This is Central Control Station. This is where all the good stuff happens.  This is where you can monitor, start, stop, pretty much almost everything in engineering.  Anyway, in order to be in an under way ship, you actually have to be self sustainable.  You have to collect your own sewer. So that's something the engineering has got to take care of. So on the consoles, we can literally monitor our electrical plant status. We can go through, look at the proposal plant status. Even our fire pumps, we can start and stop fire pump from the NPC's alarms, any kind of alarms that comes up. The ship is so advanced and requires this little amount of people. There's only two engineers on watch at any time. So you have the RCO who is basically in charge of the watch and the engineering department for the watch section. And then you have one rover down here. We like to spread it out and put at least two people on watch because it's a lot of running around, go from space to space to monitor equipment even locally. As these alarms come up, as you can see, we had a fuel purifier alarm come up from the RCO, got a hold of the on watch rover to go down and they'll be reset the alarm, find it out what it's alarmed for and get it back online. And one of the other things we have to be self sufficient about is at home your little brother, little sister decides they want to make lunch. All of a sudden they catch the stove on fire. We have the luxury of calling 911 here, so we actually have fire indicators all over the ship. That's one of them. Over here. That's one of them up there. And it's multiple, all throughout the ship you're going to have at least one in every space. If it's a bigger space you're going to have multiple. So if there's smoke or if there's even a fire it will alarm give the watch standard indication and then we can get somebody down there and look at the space and if there is a fire, we go to everybody on the ship is a trained firefighter. So this is where we actually combat the fire. This is where the person in charge of the casualty control officer is going to plot. We actually have the plots behind here. We log it in there and do it the manual way. We also have the advanced way. We can log on our MPCMS and go to our decams and we can log in and we can plot everything through decams. One of the nice things about it is all of our repair lockers has the same single screen console there. So as the CCO plots what's going throughout the ship fire or flood or structural damage it comes up on the two screens so the repair locker leaders over there actually see what's going on as well. Communications is everything.  So as you can see we have all sorts of communication devices in here and for some reason at any time we lose control of the pilot house loses control of the ability to maneuver the ship. You can take control down here in CCS and you can actually control the ship using our backups and of course we have the instruments to guide us where we need to go. So in a nutshell this is where all the magic stuff and engineering happens. Thank you Master Chief. Alright now we're going to make our way to the medical department but first we're going to stop at a door unfortunately I can't take you back there but this is our mission control center. That's where everyone's on the radar they have the ability to control all of our weapons that we have on board the weapon systems. They can control our 57 millimeter gun. We have two 30 millimeter guns that they can fire and operate from there so wish I could take you in there but I'm going to have to pass on that right now so we'll get you down to medical and we'll get to speak with Doc. Over there in the mission control center they can also control the fire scout that AirBoss was talking to you about so we're making our way. So like the skipper was saying it's pretty late here a lot of the sailors are sleeping but a lot of them are up to drinking coffee. They're galley but we'll come back here and talk a little bit more about that in a second. So also as you can see as like Master Chief was saying everyone on the ship is a trained firefighter and there's firefighting equipment everywhere because fires can happen anywhere anytime so everyone has to be ready. So here we are in medical we'll say hi to Doc. How's it going Chief? It's going great how are you? I'm going good so I'm going to pass you on over to Doc and she'll tell you about what she does. Hi everyone out there. My name is Chief Hospital Foreman Sylvia Fawson. I am our medical asset here on the crew. I've been in the Navy for 16 years and I've been what's called an independent duty foreman for four. I'm not a physician but the Navy has sent me through extensive training to learn how to take care of sailors out to see independent of a physician. So our crew members train so that they can help me respond to medical emergencies and they do a great job of that. I also work with the crew prior to deployment and during deployment to make sure that they're nice and healthy. If they happen to get sick or injured during a deployment they'll come here to the medical spaces so that I can take care of them. If they happen to get really sick I actually have a word in the back which I'll quickly show you in a minute where they can stay here to recover. Under the rare circumstance that I'm unable to provide care for them I will secure them, stabilize them and we actually have the capability to medivac them to like a hospital on land. In addition to providing healthcare I'm also very active in many of our safety programs on board to include helping my culinary specialist our cooks here to ensure that the food that we get delivered to us is safe to eat, is stored properly and prepared properly. Now I don't have to help them much the cooks do a phenomenal job at that and cook some amazing meals. I also work with our engineers to ensure that the water that they make every day is safe for my sailors or my shipmates to drink and we also monitor the temperature in many of our very warm areas to ensure that it's safe for the sailors to work in. Now you are small medical space that we have on board and have a great my exam table and on the back wall there you can see where we store things where I have all of my emergency medical supplies I keep a scale here because what medical doesn't have a scale and then I keep medical records and more supplies back in the corner I'm going to move a little slowly for you here so that it doesn't get too blurry I keep a lot of my meds here and then if you see on the back I have two racks in case I have sailors that get sick and need to stay with me for 24 hour care. Hey thanks for visiting us we appreciate your time and have a great day. I'm going to pass you back over to MC2 now. Thanks Doc alright now we're going to make our way to one of the repair lockers there's two repair lockers on board and this is where the sailors will jump into action put on their other protective equipment and fight any fires that are here and make sure our ship stays safe and here we go Chief are you going to show us around here what we got going on the repair locker? Welcome to repair 3. Actually I'll give you the headphones Chief and you can talk. Here we go we got repair 3 here. Over here we have a firefighting coveralls and sombel for major class alphas and bravo fires this actually is pretty thick material it's also steam blocking which is pretty nice for the firefighters in the space keep some cool. Over here we've got the SCBA mask we're still wearing the toxic environment and this goes in conjunction with the Scott air pack down there that's a 45 minute bottle used for firefighting or toxic gas environments. In the corner over there we've got firefighting hoses and boots, personal protective gear hoses we can run throughout the ship for firefighting purposes we have all kinds of kits for different kinds of casualties on board from flooding dewatering, toxic gas, firefighting, emergency access and rescue we've also got desmoking for those toxic environments of smoke and gases that are hazardous to personnel on board and then we've got our search and rescue equipment breathable air for going into confined spaces and that's pretty much it for a repair locker. Anything that can go wrong we'll try to fix it. Alright thank you Chief. Thank you you have a good night you as well. Alright Chief we're going to make our way over to the galley where our cooks cook the phenomenal food that Doc was talking about here's some of our sailors right here saying hi to their families sorry I'm kind of leaning around where the ship's rocking it is a smaller ship and we get some waves out there and everything starts moving so this is CS1 right here he's one of the cooks on board this is his galley he says hello to all those who want to talk can you say a few words here. How's everybody doing today I want to welcome guys on board the USS Fort Worth, I'm CS1 Phillip Justik, I've been on board for over four years best job in the world. Have a good tour. So CS1 he's a cook but he's a culinary specialist but because there's so few sailors on board and that's how LCS operates everyone has multiple jobs so even though he's in here and he's in the galley cooking operations he comes out and he has a special suit he wears he's a hot suitman that way if there is an incident on our flight deck he can go out and recover any personnel that are in an aircraft that's run into a situation here's senior Cole you'll see him again he'll be answering questions for us we got a coffee machine that's probably the most important piece of equipment I think on the boat right there keeps everyone running and keeps us all happy so that's good so sailors are coming here we have a pretty good morale welfare and recreation department not really a department but it's an organization and they keep the sailors happy they provide games on the mess decks we'll have movie nights we had a movie night on the flight deck the other night we got to go on the flight deck they had a projector playing a movie out there eating popcorn they'll set up games bingo trivia nights here we go I'm actually from the state of Texas myself so I'm a big fan I like to eat at this table look at my state every day so it's nice let's see here we got we got our mailbox just like anyone else you know everyone has to get their mail somehow so a lot of these countries we hit a lot of cool ports that we get to go to everyone that I like to firstly get some postcards that a lot of other people do and we just pop them in that box and it'll take them off the ship so how we do that when we're underway we need to you know we need food we need to refuel just like a car would need to do so another ship will come up to us and we call it a replenishment at sea and another ship drives along they pull alongside of us and then we have these special rifles that shoot over these these lines and then we start pulling lines from one ship to another ship and fuel lines and then we start pumping let's see here we got a we got our CO our EXO couple other people on the ship and they're gonna we got some questions via social media and they're gonna help us answer them so we're gonna go through these right now and we'll get started so I'm gonna pass you on we're gonna switch this camera I'm so sorry I'm terrible with this technology so let's see if we can get this I think I'm I think I'm on the front camera now so I'm gonna pass this on and we'll get our questions answered so here we go sir all right good evening everyone I'm Vincent Lamerson I'm the electro onboard the ship and so we're just gonna answer a few social media questions first question from racer ex robbers the twitter user he asked are you capable of using anti-submarine warfare onboard the ship so with lcs we have three mission packages we have anti-submarine warfare mine counter mission warfare and also surface warfare right now we have the surface warfare mission package attached and anti-submarine warfare mine counter measure warfare still the testing and development phases so with a surface warfare we we have a two mark 50 30 millimeter gun we have a visit visit board search and seizure team on board and two 11 meter red boats as well as an air department with an MH 60 Romeo helicopter and the fire scout which is the drone helicopter so I'm gonna pass on the tablet to senior Cole who's gonna answer some more questions hello world I'm a command senior chief Craig Cole been on board for a couple years now I got a question from a facebook user Justin B he asked with so few sailors crew 50 originally most maintenance duties were shifted to civilian maintenance crews on shore how does that impact everyday condition of the ship the crew and their ability to perform their job well basically the maintenance schedule in general terms is sailors still do maintenance on board we share responsibility with the civilian community which allows us the opportunity to maintain ownership as well as get the job done on board with our ability to perform our jobs and the maintenance the equipment itself the equipment operates great we've had great continuity with the civilian maintenance counterparts which allows us to be out here in the seven fleet area of operation and perform our deployment duties as assigned for our sailors with 50 core crew members we actually have 55 core crew 24 mission package or 24 aviation detachment in 19 mission package that gives us around 100 sailors to keep the ship clean do our maintenance and conduct the mission whatever we're assigned by our operational commanders we love what we do we have the best crew in the Navy and appreciate you guys being able to have this opportunity so thank you and I'm gonna pass it off to the executive officer commander Mike Desmond good morning or afternoon or evening as the case may be it's nearly midnight here my name is commander Mike Desmond I'm the executive officer on board the mighty Fort Worth and I'm gonna answer a couple of the questions that came to us the social media recently the first is from Twitter Twitter user named Ford Gal 15 Ford Gal 15 asked how long is your deployment for coming home but this deployment as the captain mentioned initially in his opening remarks the deployment this ship is actually about 16 months long which is about twice as long as notional surface warfare ship deployment schedules which is have been up to nine months long so ours is about 16 months for the ship that's broken up between crews which is why we're able to have such a lengthy deployment for this ship have it overseas for so long so the crews serve approximately four months overseas and this follows the new 321 manning initiative that the LCS squadron implemented recently and that stands for three crews two ships and one ship always deployed so we have three crews for instance we're one of them crew 103 the two ships we're currently using are USS which is back in San Diego and USS Fort Worth which is deployed here to the 7th Fleet area of responsibility that allows obviously a greater turnover but it permits many more crews to have experience operational experience overseas so we have served about half of our deployment now we deployed as the captain mentioned in February we'll be returning back to San Diego or to our families in late May at which time crew 102 will relieve us we'll have an exchange of command on board and they will follow with the rest of Fort Worth's deployment and remainder of their ship's mission for the deployment we also have a question that came via Facebook from Facebook user Jim Y he asked what tactical advantages does this ship have on the Latoral Combat Ship a relatively new type of ship very different in many regards than traditional ships such as cruisers, fast frigates, or destroyers the main tactical advantages though that the Latoral Combat Ship has first is as you can tell by the name Latoral that is that the ship has a very shallow draft about 5 meters or 15 feet which is less than what the destroyers or cruisers have meaning we can operate relatively close to the shore in the Latoral regions of the world one of the other tactical advantages we have is speed the ship is faster than just about every other ship in the Navy we have speeds over 40 knots added to that great speed and shallow draft is our maneuverability we have water jet propulsion here we don't have rudders or propellers like most other ships do we actually have durable water jet and boost propulsion systems basically like a jet ski that's right so that maneuverability and then add to those the mission package electrical officer mentioned the surface warfare mission package that we have on board now but in span of just a few days we could actually change out that mission package based on the operational commander's requirements and the mission what the mission calls for and change out to either the anti submarine warfare or mine mission areas provided that logistical support was readily available so speed, maneuverability, shallow draft, mission package change out and flexibility and also we have as you heard the air boss talk about our helicopter the first composite kilo detachment to deploy on an LCS brings unmanned aerial vehicle and unmanned helicopter as well I think probably the most important tactical advantage that we've seen recently out here in the 7th fleet is the size of the LCS we're about half about half the size of most of the other ships out here destroyers for instance and that means that we're we work much better with some of the partner nations we have improved interoperability I think that a lot of the nations that we work with over here are more comfortable working with us very fast ship great new ship and I think that's probably our greatest tactical advantage we're just learning right now what the ship can do and what the capabilities for the embarked detachments are as well with that I'll pass back to the commanding officer for some closing remarks but thanks for joining us good to see everybody goodnight so hi I'm Commander Matt Kawas again I just want to thank everybody for joining us tonight I hope you enjoyed the tour of the ship and had a chance enjoyed talking with some of the incredible sailors that manned this ship I recommend continuing to catch our adventures on our USS Fort Worth Facebook page have a great day


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com with a quick little mosaic basketball salopak break number 694. This one doesn't sell at the mixer, but you can see that the next one will. This is break 694, 695 sells it out. At the end of the break, we're gonna give away the four spots in that big basketball mixer, which we should be able to get to tonight. Now, as always, we're gonna do the break itself first. Remember, we were discussing this off-camera. We have to use psychicscience.org tonight. For now, temporarily, hopefully not too much longer, because ram.org is down, but we'll work with this. So we'll do the break itself first, we'll randomize your names, and then we'll randomize and assign you a team. So we're gonna use live dice for the dice roll here, and it's gonna be five and a four, nine times. And this doesn't keep track of how nine times I do it, so we'll just have to do this kind of slowly and carefully here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ninth and final time. All right, so let's grab everyone's names here, and then once again, five and a four, nine times for the teams and a different dice roll for the giveaway part. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. The Pacers down to the Pistons. All right, so here's the first half of the list right here, and there's the second half of the list right there. And now let's do the break before we do a different dice roll for the giveaway. It's alphabetized by team. Let's print and rip. I know it's not the ideal alternative, Aaron, but we'll make do. The show must go on. So here's the final print out for the pack break itself, and then we'll re-randomize that list. Oh, I got an autograph here. Oh, no, not an autograph. Why was it flipped around? Totally got me. Spurs, that'll be for Michael. Maybe it's a variation, maybe something, a speciale there. Nicola Batumas on the white side, and an NBA debut, Zion Williamson, not bad. Pelicans, Gale, and the pink camos that are exclusive to these Salo Packs. We have Kyrie, Malik Monk, and Nicola Melly, Zion's teammate. Now, let's see who's gonna win those spots. All right, we got Sean down to Sean, and everybody in between. Here's a new list right here, and new dice roll, and it's gonna be three and a five, eight times. So top four after eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth in final time after eight. It's gonna be the top four, so from five on down, right, Keith on down, my apologies. We'll get him next time. Happy time for the top four though. You're in that big basketball mixer. Aaron, Danny, Steve, and Burke. So congrats to the top four. You're in that mixer. Now, we got to do one more of these, and that sells out the mixer. So if you missed out, if you feel like trying again, head over to jaskiescasebreaks.com. Thank you. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one.