I'm Samantha, and this is Jason, in case you couldn't guess. And we work together at Hopscotch. And Hopscotch makes a visual programming language on the iPad for kids. So today, we're going to talk about four lessons we've learned, building out a Hopscotch community where kids are publishing and sharing projects on our open source community, thousands of projects a week, tons of beginners getting started with this language. And we've actually, turns out, you learn a lot when something like that happens. So lesson one is to be mindful of who is a member of your community and who is not. So looking around the room at all you nice folks here, it's actually, I hate to say this, it's a little bit homogenous in this audience. If you look to your left and your right, the people next to you probably look a lot like you. And that's something that we really set out to change with Hopscotch. So programmers tend to be a very self-selecting group where programmers meet other people like them, teach them how to program, and kind of perpetuate this vicious cycle of only a certain type of person, generally a white male nerd learning to program. And when you Google Learn to Code for Kids, you get things like hakitsu, fighting robots in JavaScript, or robo-fight, fighting robots in .NET. And if you want to make a more diverse community, you actually need to create tools for beginners that a more diverse group of people will like to use. So a hint is that girls actually don't like fighting robots. So this is something we thought about a lot with Hopscotch, and something that we worked on a lot where we were very careful. Whenever we add new art, new assets to our app, we try and make sure that it doesn't skew to one gender or the other. And in our community, our featured section, we try and make sure that we feature projects like Beautiful Rainbow. And Hopscotch has got talent, but also bird bullets. And deer hunt for the boys. And this has worked really well. We've seen girls be really successful with Hopscotch, and we've seen boys be really successful with Hopscotch. So when you're starting out, trying to create a tool for people to learn with, to join your community, think about how it's themed and what audience it speaks to, and you can do a lot with just that. So I'm gonna turn it over to my colleague, Jason here. So the second lesson that we're gonna talk about today is make your community accessible for beginners and useful and powerful for the professional users as well. There's kind of a scale for most programming communities between beginners and experts, and there's a spectrum between them. We're gonna focus right now on the beginners because they're usually who our target market is, the kids who are just starting out programming for the first time. For us, it's really important in order to get to beginners to make it really accessible for them. It's really important because programming has a lot of stumbling blocks to get started with. So the first most obvious stumbling block is the programming environment.  There's a lot of configuration you have to get done before you can really start programming. So with Hopscotch, we make it kind of easy out of the box. It's useful as soon as you turn it on. Programming is very difficult when you're just getting started. If you're trying to write something on pen and paper, it's very easy. You just grab a pen and paper. But the programming equivalent to that is kind of like you get in your car, you go to Staples, you try to find a pen, you got to make sure that the pen's compatible with the paper you have at home. Then you go home and then you've already forgotten when you were trying to write down. So you've just lost your users right there. So at Hopscotch, we try to avoid that problem by making it immediately accessible as soon as you turn it on. We looked at how most coding works, most programming works, and the name is kind of right in the act. It's coding that's difficult for people. So coding is command line-based. It's textual. It's symbolic, and it's abstract. And these are very powerful ways of working, but they're also very difficult ways of working. So we looked at how that's been solved in other areas, and we looked at how the GraphQL user interface solved that problem. They solved it by changing the way that you work with a computer from being typing out and trying to remember your programs or trying to remember your commands to actually just looking for them with your eyes and then pointing at them with your fingers. It's been really successful for computer interfaces in general, so we're applying that to programming as well. So when you fire up a Hopscotch project, you're not typing in code. You're actually dragging your characters around the screen. And then you tap on a character and you program it and give it something to do. So this is really great for beginners, but the trick is to get these beginners to become our experts. We're not really trying to attract experts from other programming languages. We're trying to turn our beginners into experts, and we do that by making the environment very accessible. So lesson number three. Start with a solid mental model and also read the book Mindstorms by Seymour Papert. It's essential. So a mental model is basically how you adapt the computer to the user. Now, there are two parts that are involved in programming. There's the person's brain and then there's the computer. And we don't yet have a whole lot of control over how people's brains work, but we do have a lot of control over how the programming environment works. And that's what the mental model does. It adapts that into something that we can't normally adapt to. So it's really important to pick a strong mental model so that your users can understand what they're doing. So the book here that I'm referring to, Mindstorms, is written by Seymour Papert in the late 70s, and it's about his programming language called Logo. Now, Logo's mental model is that of the turtle. The turtle is a digital little character on the screen who moves about. And in order to get the turtle to move about and draw things, you have to think like the turtle.  Well, I might take a step and turn and take a step and turn and repeat that 360 times. Now I have a circle. And then they program that into the turtle. So suddenly you've just taught the turtle how to do something. That's a really strong connection between your program that's a lot more strong than, say, draw an ellipse at this angle with this radius of these starting points. That doesn't make any sense to most kids, but walking and turning makes a lot more sense. So that's one strong mental model. And I can't emphasize enough. Just go read Mindstorms. If you want a copy, I'll give you one. Seriously, read it. Okay, I'm going to hand it back over to Sam for a final point. So the final lesson is try making a language you actually don't need to be a whiz to do it. You don't need a PhD in computer science to write your own programming language. You don't even need a bachelor's in computer science. You actually don't even need to be that good of a programmer. When I started it out, I had been a Ruby programmer for a couple of years, had not studied computer science, and just kind of went for it. So, you know, we wrote Hopscotch in Objective C, but Ruby and JavaScript are also great candidates for just implementing your ideas and getting them out there. Swift also, I think, is going to be a really good language for writing programming languages. What I'm actually looking for is for someone to write a programming language in Hopscotch for our Hopscotch users. So, anyone here in the audience is up for the challenge. I promise you that you will be featured on the front page of the Hopscotch app store and become an eternal Hopscotch celebrity. So, the lesson here is that we need, in order to increase the diversity of our programming communities, something needs to change. In the past few years, the diversity has actually been declining, not getting better. And we need more people to be thinking about these problems. We need more people to be thinking about ways for beginners to start with programming. And we need a lot of different people to bring different perspectives, because not everyone learns in the same way. You can even bring in people who are not programmers. And I guarantee you that these people will have a very different and interesting perspective on how to write a programming language than someone who's been doing it for a while. And your language will definitely be better for it. So, go out and write your programming languages. Thank you, guys.


I have lied to you and I absolutely feel terrible. My name's Jim and this is The Edge of Tech. As you know from a recent video, I am working on a world record 3D printed marble run. It'll be the tallest 3D printed marble run in the world. I got in a little over my head. So I started building this thing last Monday on HotMakes. If you haven't seen HotMakes, check out the channel. It's all one HotMakes live. You can find us everywhere. But we have a live stream every Monday night. And I started building this live on the show while we had the crew from IRF, the East Coast RepRap Festival on the show. I'm super pumped for this thing. I can't tell you how excited I am. I want my name to be there. I want to get the record for all of us because I think it's an awesome thing for 3D printing. Unfortunately, it's a little bit more risky than I thought to do this all and do it in Maryland. So let me explain. So these are the main structure pieces of the Out of Marbles Towers. Absolutely cool design, a ton of really cool obstacles, of which I'm only using a couple. But this is what's considered a midsection. And I need a lot of these, a lot, like 20 something of these. And how it works is you take your rear section here. I'll face it towards you. You take a side section or a rear section like this. And like that. And I've been 3D glooping everything, 3D gloop. Check it out. This stuff is absolutely amazing for putting together all your 3D printed parts, PLA, PTG. I think there's an ABS one and more. Here's the thing, I've been glooping it all. And if you watch the live stream, it's still up. You can go check it out on Hot Makes Channel. This kind of sits in here like that. All this stuff sits together. And then we have a tower piece that kind of goes on this side right here. I'm not gonna push that in because I wanna glue it first. So once this first piece is on and they're glued, another section will sit on top. Let me show you what that looks like. So once you start with the bottom and you get your first sections on, you just keep going.  And as you can see, while I'm building this, I'm gonna do three total sections. Once you're done with the frame, it looks something like this. And then you gotta put these little obstacles in here as you can see. Where I messed up is thinking that this, building this early could probably survive a trip from Wisconsin all the way out to Maryland. Even if I brought it like this in a U-Haul, I am not sure it would make it. And that's where I think I lied to you guys. You see, each one of these obstacles needs to go in and there's keyholes, there's holes in the bottom. It sits in like that. And I really, to be safe, need to glue this in. So when we are doing the world record, it doesn't move and there's no way the marble could leave the track. If it leaves the track, I don't get the record. I'm really scared. I'm really nervous about this thing bouncing around. I don't think it's gonna make it very well. If I take this off, this is literally just connected right here with a peg and some glue. If this stuff breaks, I don't have time at IRF to fix it. And that's where my head's at right now. So one of my main duties at IRF this year is the MC. I get to have the microphone and I get to go out and have so much fun with the crowd, with the event, with the people that come with other content creators. And I'm not gonna get into like Friday night into Maryland next week. And we are one week away by the way. And I just, I don't have time to unload this Saturday from the U-Haul during the event and put it all back together if it falls apart. And so I think I have to officially pull the plug on Bel Air Maryland at IRF. My first goal is to be there for the event. They're having me out as the MC. And I'm part of the death racers and the drag racers. And I don't think I'm gonna have this at the East Coast RepRap Festival next week. And that's where I lied to you guys. I said I was gonna be there. I said you could watch the record. And I really want to. But for being honest, this is so much plastic, so much time printing. Trent, a good friend of mine at Risto Designs. He used one of his printers and he printed, he printed the side, the side and the back braces for me. We're talking three kilograms of black polymaker PLA just in those pieces alone. For a quick perspective, I have to make five more of these towers. This size, so this is really four, right? With the top one, but there's three that I'm building in. Five more of them, plus the big one I made in the beginning. And I might have to make more than that depending on if we didn't make enough. I got to measure it all. I'm pretty sure I'm where I want to be with all of what we have now. But that's just for perspective. There's a lot of these towers that have to make it. If it was just one, it would be completely different. But there are several that have to make it unscathed. And there are a lot of parts that I didn't show that have to be glued in and stuff still. So that's just a little perspective on why I'm doing this. It's just a lot of time, a lot of plastic and everything has to go absolutely perfect for this thing to fully function and get this record. And I want the record to be huge. I want it to be so big that all of us win. 3D printing wins because we made this 20 to 30 foot structure and it worked. So I'm going to officially pull the plug on IRF. I'm still going to be there. I'm still going to have a ton of fun with everybody there. We're going to MC. My family's coming. Lindsay and Tristan are coming with me. I just won't have the record there. And again, I'm so sorry if anybody out there was coming specifically for this, I'm sorry. So that was a little bit about why I feel like I lied to you all, but there is good news in this video. It's not all doom and gloom because this thing is coming together absolutely awesome. While it may not make it clear across the country in the back of a U-Haul trailer, it will make it down to Milwaukee Maker Faire. It's only about 40 minutes, 45 minutes actually from my house and it is the weekend of November 4th. It's at an awesome venue called Discovery World and I have talked to them and they have a space that I can do it in along with some tools and equipment ladders and a lift that kind of thing that I can use to get this thing built. So there's some good news in this video because the world record will be attempted November 4th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Milwaukee Maker Faire at the Discovery World. And I'm super excited to work with them and get this going. If you're around, if you're near the Milwaukee area, you wanna come in for Milwaukee Maker Faire, come check it out. This is gonna happen, we're not stopping, we're gonna move forward. It just isn't gonna happen in Maryland to Chris and Vicki and the whole IRF team. I am sorry, I can't get it out there. I know you guys were excited as excited as I am because I would have loved to have been able to share this with everybody in the 3D printing world. It just needs to make sense for the magnitude of the time and money and all of that spent to make it happen that it actually has a very good chance to happen. So I apologize to you guys and I apologize to everybody watching. If you're gonna go and you were looking forward to seeing this, we'll still be there. Next weekend, East Coast Rep Rep Festival, Bel Air, Maryland, it's gonna be amazing. There's a lot of awesome people going. But if you wanna see the record, come check us out in November. Thank you guys for supporting me. You can always support the cause cause this is not a cheap endeavor. Even though Polymaker hooked us up with a filament, we have 3D glue hooking us up with all the glue. What else? The RatRig 500, thank you so much to Fabrico. Out of Marbles for your amazing files. If you guys wanna check this out, Out of Marbles, I'll put the link in below. These things are awesome and the scale is much smaller than this normally. It's such a cool set, it really is. So, check it out. We will see you guys next weekend at the East Coast Rep Rep Festival and we will see you November 4th at Milwaukee Maker Faire for the world record, tallest 3D printed marble run. It's gonna happen. We're gonna get it. We'll see you there.


Item Number – SCP-309 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures – SCP-309 is currently stored in a secure glove box in the Level 2 Research Lab at Site V. Routine physical examinations of SCP-309 as well as experiments involving small animals may only be conducted using the glove box. A pool of SCP-309 from the glove box for testing on larger animals or humans requires the approval of Dr. R- or equivalent Level 4 Command personnel. Human testing is restricted to D-class personnel. Description – SCP-309 is a small, plush, stuffed animal that looks as if it has been turned completely inside out. Golden-orange fur is present along the seams, while a small amount of cotton stuffing and two protruding eyes are visible on the head. The interior of SCP-309 is understuffed with cotton, giving it a flexible and cuddly feel. SCP-309 has no effect on inanimate objects. However, contact with living subjects is both dangerous and life-threatening. Humans and animals lightly brushing SCP-309 with a finger or a similarly small portion of the body display severe, non-localized discomfort for tens of minutes afterward. Humans also report feeling extreme nausea, despite the fact that SCP-309 does not induce vomiting. The discomfort and nausea are so overwhelming that even the most hardened subjects have proven unable to voluntarily maintain contact with SCP-309 for longer than a few seconds. If SCP-309 is pressed firmly against a subject, or the subject quickly picks up SCP-309 in attempts to hold it, the subject will be violently and painfully turned inside out over the course of 5 to 10 seconds. Skeletons are unaltered, but all soft tissues are inverted, such that muscles, tendons, ligaments, and various internal organs are resituated on the exterior of the body. Although not immediately fatal, the process is irreversible and universally considered painful. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-308, Aztec Burial Sarcophagus, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


What's the word y'all? All right man, we are diverting away from our normal recap schedule. Yesterday I missed the entire Slater Games live because I was at the White Sox Game throwing out the first pitch. I'm dropping a video on Kenny Baseball about that amazing experience. And today I was kind of with the chill of my daughter, man. I did watch the games, but I didn't watch, watch the games enough to do your recap. And they were blowouts anyway. What is there to say? Devin Booker's a hooper and same thing with Jimmy Butler. Like you knew those things. So instead we are diverting a little bit and we're doing this Bleach Report article. Okay, y'all know we love traits. I'm a main channel, I'm a pseudo general manager. I love thinking about traits. Traits are some of the most fun things about sports in general, not just basketball. And I love reacting to Bleach Report traits because it seemed like Bleach Report articles are either a lot of hits or a lot of misses. And this was sent to me by 2KMessiah over on Twitter and he said, Kenny, you got to do a video about it. And he sent me one screenshot of a trait and it was terrible. So I'm assuming that a lot of the traits in this video are bad. But I want to say I am not attacking the Arthur over here. Shout out to Greg Schwartz. But it's hard to put together good traits. But he gave us one from every team and let's be honest.  So we're about to see. Immediately off rip, I'm a little bit concerned because this screenshot makes it seem like either these two are going to be teaming up and getting traded for each other. Either way, I got to see how you put that together. Mr. Greg. All right, shout out to Bleach Report. If you didn't know, I work with Bleach Report on occasions, but that does not stop me from tearing shreds of an article or things that go on. You got to hold people accountable. You feel me? Atlanta Hawks, Malcolm Brogdon, Buddy Hill for John Cosley, Kevin Herter. I'm pretty sure this is the trait that I saw originally that maybe you want to see do this video. I just don't understand it from the Atlanta Hawks perspective. If you're the Indiana Pacers, sure, you trade away two older players for two younger players. Boom, now you got Tari's Halliburton and the live threat in John Collins. You got some shooting and some scoring. But if I'm the Atlanta Hawks, I mean, are we just going for a secondary ball handler for Trey Young? So it's like Trey Young, Bogdanovich, Malcolm Brogdon, DeAndre Hunter, and Clickapella? I mean, I'd rather just keep this. Malcolm Brogdon doesn't increase my ceiling so much that I think we can get back to the Conference Finals. I don't think this right here puts us back in the Conference Finals, especially with Brog right here, cannot stay healthy for 70% of the season. Pass, 0 for 1. Next one, Boston Celtics. Terrence Ross for a second round pick in the trade exception. This is a nothing trait, but it says right here, the Celtics rank 26 overall in bench scoring. Terrence Ross scored at least a little bit. I'm moving on to the next one. And it's kind of juicy. Okay, I see Ben Simmons' name down here. Jeremy Grant, Kelly Olenek, Corey Joe for Ben Simmons. This is a very interesting trait. And I'm mostly saying it's interesting because I'm trying to figure out from the Boston, nope, from the Detroit Pistons perspective, would I do this deal if I was the general manager of the Pistons? If I'm not mistaken, Jeremy Grant is on the last year of his deal. Kelly Olenek, I mean, he had a, okay, season for you, but he's not a guy that you keep around because you're trying to build with him. Corey Joe, backup, poingar, who ain't been great. He had, he had his moments for sure. For Ben Simmons or a version of Ben Simmons. We don't know that version of Ben, we don't know what that Ben Simmons is, right?  When you have a lot of cap space in Detroit, this off season in, next off season, if you get Jeremy Grant off the books. I don't know how to feel about this trade, man.  I don't know, next one. Stephen Adams for James Book Knight and Mason Plum. This is a terrible trade if I'm the Charlotte Hornet. It's like, yeah, we desperately need center play, but I'm not giving up on 17 year old James Book Knight. He might be 20 at this point, honestly. To get Stephen Adams for what, a season, two seasons? And Stephen Adams, sure, of course, helps your team be better, but he's not helping your team be like a top five seed, which is probably what you're looking for. If you're the Charlotte Hornets, you're not just trying to be a playing team no more. You're trying to be top six seed is what I mean. And this don't really do it. Hell, if I'm Book Knight, I'm saying yes, because maybe I can get some PT over there with the Grizz because the Hornets decided not to play me this season. But you know, you got a new coach coming in, so who knows? I don't like this trade at all for the Hornets. And if I'm the Grizz, I mean, I guess. I mean, it's kind of a log gym over there with the guard position. Of course, you got John Tyce Jones, who's up for an extension or gonna hit free agency. You got Dylan Brooks, D'Anthony Melton. You got John Contra. There's a lot of players that he'd be fighting for minutes for, so I don't even know. Chicago Bulls, let me hear it. Rudy Gobert for Patrick Williams, Nikola Vucevich and Zavante Grave. I would do this trade if it wasn't Patrick Williams in it. If instead we were giving up Kobe White, I would do this trade.  And I'm putting a lot of money when he turns 36, 37. And maybe that's not something you wanna do. But I watched this Bulls team struggle defensively and a lot of that came from the five position. Vucevich is just not, well, I mean, we didn't trade for him to be a defensive center in the first place, obviously. But a lot of the times I felt like the offense didn't make up for the lack of defense. And Rudy Gobert, say what you want about him. I know a lot of people, hey, Rudy Gobert, I'm still a Rudy Gobert fan. And I think he would look kinda decent here in Chicago because we have other people, whether it be Caruso, Lonzo Ball, that will help him defensively and he's never really had any help defensively other than like Royce O'Neal occasionally. So if it wasn't for Patrick Williams being in the straight, I would do this. In my personal opinion, Patrick Williams should be untouchable still. Just because we have a rookie season and in like 10 games of him in the sophomore year, I still don't know what to expect from him. And because of that, I won't trade him away in year number two or I guess going into year number three. Next, Cleveland Cavaliers. Vonte Graham for Jetty Osmond, Dylan Wendler in a second round pick. Personally, I would not do this trade if I'm the Cavaliers. I'm not adding another 6-1 guard to my rotation when I already got Dearest Garden, I already got Collis Sexton coming back from his injury. I'm not adding another dude. I mean, he's a high-valued 3-point shooter that can make him occasionally and he's very good off the catch of short. Is he very good off the dribble? He's very good at either one of the two of off the dribble off catch of short. I always mix it up. But see, I'm not doing this trade to add another small guard to my rotation, especially what we just saw in this first round series against the Phoenix Suns. It's not that he's not unplayable in the playoffs, but he's probably relegated to like 12 minutes. And I know that Jetty Osmond could give me some solid minutes if we were to make a playoff push. So I don't like this trade. I add all of these trades. How many of them have I like? Zero? A question mark? A question mark? It's kind of rough out here. Next, Dallas Mavericks. Zach Hollis for Davos Bertens in two seconds. This is like dumping off Davos Bertens' contract. I completely understand it for Zach Hollins. So I think signed a two-year deal, maybe a three-year deal, but it wasn't worth a lot of money. I mean, I guess if I'm the Dallas Mavericks, I do this even though Davos Bertens be giving them somewhat decent minutes in this playoff series, in this current playoff series. But when you think about the longevity of his contract, of course you want to get rid of that if you want to build him around Luca. You got to throw in two second round picks to get it done. This is another trade. This is kind of a nothing trade. I was hoping they put together the big slim and jamming to get Luca a secondary player other than Jalen Brunson. But I guess not. I guess it's Zach Hollins to help with the salary stuff. And yeah, salary shedding and blah, blah, blah. I knew it was a big part of basketball and sports in general when you do the salary dumps and stuff like that. But it's like nine times out of ten it's a yarn fest for me and I'm not interested in it. Fort Conkorkamas. Isaiah Joe for Jamaico Green. What? What? This was like the last thing that he added to the article. He's like, what can I do for Denver? I mean, they got two people coming back. We don't really know what to expect for them. And they got a bunch of role players that like, eh, but not really. Let me just put together something. And this is what he put together. These dudes would go to Denver and play 12 minutes total. Not a trade to talk about. Next. All right. Okay, now we got something. Jeremy Gregg for Gary Trent Jr. Why would the, why would the, I'm trying to figure out why would Toronto Raptors do this? We got OG, I don't know. We got Scotty Bards. We got Pascal Siakam. We still got Thaddeus Young until further notice. We got Chris Boucher. We got a lot of six, seven and above players. And I like the catch and shoot ability of Gary Trent Jr. He's like 24 and under contract for some time, right? Trent made 41% of his catches, shoot threes this season, giving the Raptors. Yeah. So why would I trade this away if I'm the Raptors for Toronto? Grant is the perfect physical profile to fit their roster of big athletic wings. Okay. But I feel like they got to, they got enough of them personally. Grant would start in one of their forward spots along with Pascal, OG, Scotty and Fred Van Vleet running the point. I mean, that would be a cool defensive lineup. I worry about their catch and shoot ability. They're going to generate a lot of open shots with this lineup. And OG's a good catch and shoot shooter. Scotty is still working on that going into year number two. Pascal's eye there, but like I feel like you need this dude. He's 23. I don't do this trade if I'm the Toronto Raptors, especially we consider that Jeremy Grant is going to be a free agent after this season. Ew. If I'm the Pistons, sure. I would do this 23 year old to go with catch and shoot dude to go with K cutting him and generate a lot of open shots. That's a match made in heaven. But I don't think the Toronto Raptors do that deal. Warriors. Oh, I'm also talking for all 30 fan bases. So let me know in the comment section what you agree or disagree with as a fan of that organization. Christian Wood for James Weisman, Moses Moody. If this is offered, if this offer is on the table and I'm the Houston Rockets, I am saying yes before the Warriors decide to wake up and start, stop smelling the road. This is an easy deal from the Houston Rockets. Give up the last year of Christian Wood for James Weisman who was number two overall pick a season ago. And Moses Moody who was also a lottery pick that showed flashes this season. Easy. But if I'm the Warriors, I don't do this. I think we've done an okay job where we're building the young players like Jordan Poole who's a G League player last season. Now a most important player candidate. We've done a pretty solid job having Steph Curry and them be great. The older people be great and still have the younger people develop. So I wouldn't do this if I'm the Warriors but if I'm the Houston Rockets easily, don't even think twice about it. Go ahead and make that deal happen. I'm tired of talking about this trade. Russell Esper to be bought out in two seconds for John Wall. I'm not even having an opinion of that. We talked about that a million times on this channel. Nikio Alexander Walker, watcher, her and gold man is for TJ1 on the signing trade. This don't make me wanna stay if I'm Donovan Mitchell. This don't make me wanna stay if I'm Rudy Gobert. So no. I'm Clippers. Oh, speaking of Rudy Gobert, Clippers. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Rudy Gobert for Norman Powell, Zubach and Lucanard. Honestly, if I am the Jazz, I might do this deal. But if I'm the Clippers, why would I do this deal if two years ago we exposed Rudy Gobert and made him unplayable in the playoffs? What do I have to gain? Now me, as Kenny Beachum, I understand what you have to gain because now you got Rudy Gobert with good defenders around him and this guy Kawhi Leonard and the other guy, Paul George. And now you don't have to worry about, you know, Rudy Gobert being on the island, guarding the perimeter three point shooter because a lot of people are not driving past Kawhi Leonard and driving past Paul George. But still, they were laughing at Rudy Gobert after that game. I don't think a lot of people on that team respect him enough for us to trade for him. Be honest with you. Lake Show, this is the one that was in the thumbnail. John Collins, Kevin Herter, a first round pick from 2023 that's top five protector for Anthony Davis. I, this trade is, no. This trade is a no for me. This trade is a no for me on both sides. Here's why. I don't think Anthony Davis' value is at this level point. I understand bro can't say healthy. He's never been able to say healthy. But it was just two seasons, three seasons ago, they traded him away for Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, seven first round picks and picks. Like it was a ton of stuff. And if I'm flipping Anthony Davis now to John Collins, Kevin Herter, one first round pick, I know we got the championship a few years ago, but now I'm looking at that tenure of these players to get on like, damn, was that even? You know what I'm saying? No bro, and I understand like looking at the avenues to trade Anthony Davis for show. I think that's something that Lakers should be doing. But if this is the best package you could get, I'm running it back bro. I'm running it back with Anthony Davis and LeBron and just hope that they stay healthy together. Cause this package would not be enough. I think it could be cool. Like it'll be cool to see these players as role players in LA, but let's be honest. If you have blank point guard, I don't think it's gonna be Russell Westbrook, Kevin Herter, LeBron, John Collins and blank center. You think you're gonna win the championship with that? At the end of the day, that's what the Lakers are trying to do. LeBron is not getting any younger. You don't go there and try to be like, in two years, Bron, Kevin Herter might be a little, no, no. Memphis Grizzlies. Oh, this is another, not the trade. George Hill for a second. Miami Heat, Jeremy Grant for Max Shrews, Duncan Robison in a 2022 first round pick, which is what, that's, what is that? The 28th overall pick, 29th overall pick, because they were like the best team in the Easter conference this season. I mean, again, I think that you can probably get a lot more for Jeremy Grant from a different team. If I'm the Miami Heat, this is an easy trade for me. I know Max Shrews has been really good for them, you know, coming from Chicago and everything and just being a nice role-player slash startup when they need them to. But he fits everything that they would want to do for some of the things. He don't have the shooting that you might get from Shrews, but either way, it would be a nice trade for them, I think. But if I'm in Detroit Pistols, I feel like we can get a lot more. And like, look at their previous trades. We just looked at Gary Trent Jr. I'm taking Gary Trent Jr. over this package of three. Maybe this package of three is more realistic. I don't really know, but I feel like we can get more. My Milwaukee Bucks, Kim rich Williams, he's a Kenny Hussle is a Kenny for your All-Star. Love him. If you don't went to the Bucks, I'd be upset as a division rival if you want to call the Chicago Bulls that, not really, but if you want to call the Chicago Bulls a division rival, I don't really like him coming to Milwaukee because he's really good. Minnesota Timberwolves, John Isaac and two second round picks for Malik Beasley. Huh, I'm going to go out on the limb and say that the Minnesota Timberwolves are locker room and not like having John Isaac in it. So they pass on this one. Next, Grayson Matthews, Dave and Awaba for Kira Lewis Jr. I mean, I guess I could kind of understand it from both perspectives. Do I love it? Absolutely not. But here's the rastalization behind it. If I'm gonna use the rock is I'm taking a chance on a guy that basically was a lottery pick just a few years ago, 13th overall pick a few years ago. They show flashes before it towards ACL and I'm giving you basically nothing. Garrison Matthews had a seven game stretch where he was Larry Bird. And then after that, he ain't done much for the second half of the season. And then Dave and Awaba's got hustle player, but again, we're talking about a team with average age of like 22. And he's a little bit older than that. And if I'm the Pelicans, these are just good role players that can play the ninth man, eighth man on your rotation for Kira Lewis Jr. Who's coming off of ACL injury where you already have some okay guards and maybe it's Devonte Graham or maybe it's Jose Alvarado and CJ McCullum. And maybe you don't really have room for Kira Lewis to develop. I understand it. Don't love it though. Ah, the good old state of New York trade. Ben Simmons for Julius Randall Alec Burke in a second. I don't know what's going on in this article. I'm enjoying it though. If Greg, I can get you one thing. You know how to get people talking. This is a bad trade. Nothing, nothing's right. Send Derek favorites back to the Nets for a second round pick.  No, next. Ducky Robson for Terrence Ross. Next. Jackson Hayes for Bebop Hall and Forcon Corkmoss. I guess the Pelicans, I think the only reason you will probably do this is so you don't have to extend Jackson Hayes. But I'd rather just extend Jackson Hayes to take this back. It's bro. I don't know what that essentially look like, but this ain't working. But this ain't working. Next. I think that Greg is shooting like two for 24 so far. Buddy Heald for Landry Shamet. This is actually not a bad trade. It's not a bad trade. I don't actually, two thumbs up. Two thumbs up for the Phoenix Suns trade. Phoenix Suns got another like light south shooter, legitimately light south shooter. One of the greatest shooters in NBA history, believe it or not, by his value and his percentage. It's a fact. You only give up basically a second round pick at Landry Shamet, who can only play every other game. It seems like I ain't even know Dire Sergeant still on the team because he tours ACO then tour his meniscus while rehabbing his ACL. Get well soon by the way. I mean, I guess that's the okay trade for both sides. Landry Shamet is relatively young. You get a second round pick for a contract that you don't want anyway. Portland Trail, dang, the Indiana Pays in like every trade. Portland Trail Blazers. Keon Johnson. No. I feel like you could get a first round pick for Miles Turner. And don't tell me Keon Johnson is the first round pick because we ain't really seen much from him in this rookie season. I don't like this trade. Matisse Dible, four-cocked basketballs to the Kings. No. I understand that, you know, some Philly fans have turned on Matisse Dible because you can't really, his impact is not completely there night in, night out because he's a zero on offense.  Justin can shoot though. You get some shooters. Alex Lanker plays second string center. Two second round picks for it. I'm, ah, next. Oh, the Bulls are back. Vusevich for Yacopo to Josh Richardson, the second round pick. If I'm the Bulls, I pull this trigger and don't think twice. I legit, I mean, maybe Vusevich has a research this year. I think the gap between Vusevich and Yacopo to as far as impact on the court is not as big as most people think it is. I don't think it's that big, bro. So if I could get a younger Yacopo on a better deal and get Josh Richardson, who I guess can play some rotational minutes, he can't be worse than Troy Brown Jr, right? And to get a second from the Lakers, which low key is like, what was that? Like the 37th overall pick, 38th overall pick. I would do this trade low key. Yep. We get a defensive center that plays well in space. I would do this trade. Yacopo and DeBarda rose them back together. I think I would do this trade if I was the Bulls. Am I crazy? I don't know why the Spurs would do this trade. I don't think the Spurs do this trade at all. Did they watch Vusevich this season? The complete season of Vusevich?  All right, Toronto. New Orleans No Well from Kim Burch. Sure, New Orleans No Well is a good basketball player. Deal. If I'm the Raptors. Utah Jazz. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Mitchell Rob sent on a signing trade. Alec Burks back to Utah. Evan Fournier and then a first round pick top 10 protector from Dallas in 2023. Wow. Do I not hate this trade either? Mitchell Robinson, Alec Burks, Evan Fournier. Now, this is not keeping Donovan Mitchell. I'm saying that right off rip. Donovan Mitchell don't see this trade happening. Be like, yes, I'm so happy to stay here in Utah. But when you think about the value of Rudy Gobert, I don't hate this trade thinking about the value of Rudy. He might be one of the greatest defensive players of all time.  You get a young player, Mitchell Robson. If you could teach bro to stay out of foul trouble, stay on the court, he's going to be solid. Alec Burks is a good NBA player. And Evan Fournier is a good NBA player. I know they got some contracts that might not be super favorable. But Evan Fournier shot 39% from three this season if you didn't know. Alec Burks had a lot of good moments in the last two seasons if you didn't know. I don't hate this trade. I don't hate this trade at all. Rudy Gobert probably wouldn't survive in New York low key.  All right, last one. Killin' Hayes for then you'd be, oh, we didn't end it on a sneaker. We didn't end it on a sneaker, ladies and gentlemen. That was fun.  That's all we're here for, man. Let me know which trades you think were the best and which one was the worst. I'm in the comment section.


John chapter 16, we're going to be looking at verses 12 through 15. We're looking at a section in John's gospel that relates to the working of the Holy Spirit, and that's what we'll be seeing today as we look at these verses. And so let's begin reading together here in John 16 at verse 12. I'll read to verse 15 and we'll get into our study. Jesus said, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me, for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you. So Jesus has been speaking concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in the world. I want to refresh your memory as we've gone through this recently. Remember how he had said that the Holy Spirit, he had said it in verse 8 of chapter 16, he said that the Holy Spirit would convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.  It can be used to describe how the Spirit reveals a fault. And so the Spirit is convicting the world of sin, exposing the sin of the world. And so as I was sharing with you, the work of the Holy Spirit is to expose sin. The Spirit, in other words, awakens us to our own moral imperfections. It takes the work of the Spirit to convince us that we're wrong, that we are wrong in our relationship with God and with others that we actually have sin. It takes the Holy Spirit to expose us of that. It takes the Holy Spirit to expose us to the need of Jesus Christ as our Savior, as is declared in Scripture. And so in the ministry of the Spirit, he convicts the world of sin. Whenever the Word of God is being presented and portions of Scripture are being opened up and our eyes are beginning to see those things, the Holy Spirit is working within us or working towards us. Before we saved, he's working too, cause us to see our sinfulness. After we're saved, the Holy Spirit still brings conviction, but not in the same way that prior to coming to Christ the way he worked. Because prior to coming to Christ, I didn't know him. I needed the Holy Spirit to convict me of sin. After I'm saved, he still works to remind me of the ways of the Lord through the Word of God and still brings conviction. He still corrects me. And so the work of the Spirit is to awaken us to our own moral imperfection. He also convicts the world of righteousness. I mentioned to you that he reveals God's standards of entrance into heaven, which is perfection. He reveals to us God's perfection at the same time while revealing to us our own imperfection, because there's no one righteous. According to Romans 3, 10, there's none righteous. No, not one. And in 1 John chapter 1, verse 10, John said, if we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his Word is not in us. So the Holy Spirit awakens us to God's standard of entrance into the kingdom of God, which is righteousness. He's already exposed to us that we're sinners, and then he's proven to us, he's demonstrated to us that we can't enter into the kingdom in our own righteousness. And then he reveals us of the coming judgment or the reality of judgment. The Spirit, in other words, is the one who reveals that God is the judge. The work of redemption became the completion, if you will, of Satan's judgment. It's interesting how he said it. Notice verse 11, when he says he convicts the world of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. So when Jesus died on the cross, he was judging him. He was bringing judgment, completing his judgment. And he is finally, and he is forever condemned. Now, he's already condemned as guilty. He's already as good as judged. But the sentence will be completed in the future. All the way in the book of Revelation in chapter 20 verse 10, the Scripture says, the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever. So his judgment is sure. The Holy Spirit has convinced us of the reality of that. One of the commentators that I use in preparation for my studies is, goes by the name of Alacot. His last name is Alacot. And he said, the power of the prince of this world is overcome by the opening of the kingdom of heaven to all believers. The king of righteousness is in victory seated upon his throne and claims mankind, whose nature he has assumed and whom he has redeemed to be free from the bondage of sin and servants of righteousness. So the work of the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and judgment. Jesus defeated Satan on the cross when he completed the work of redemption. And the Spirit reveals to us who Jesus is and how to escape the approaching judgment we would experience. In the book of Acts in chapter 17, the apostle Paul was ministering. He was teaching the word of God, preaching the word of God to a group of Athenians. And he said this to them in Acts 17 31. He said, he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead. And so Satan is as good as judged, but Jesus Christ also will bring judgment on those who reject the offer of salvation. It takes the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment. So as we see, Jesus is now continuing teaching about the work of the Spirit and he's making his teaching very personal. Notice how he says in verse 12, I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear now. You cannot bear with them now. You're not able to receive it. So he has things that he wants to teach them, but they're not ready to receive what he has to say. He's prepared to teach them, but they need to be ready to receive it. So what he's about to teach them is greater revelation than they already have experienced. And that's how it works. You have to be prepared to receive. There are some people, and some of you have seen this, who seem to be very satisfied knowing very little. They don't go deeper than things that Lord, they don't have a desire to go much deeper than they already are. They'll say, well, I'm saved. That's all that matters. I don't mind if I enter into heaven smoking as long as I enter in. They don't want to really draw closer. So they remain immature in their understanding of the ways of the Lord. Paul speaks about that later on in 1 Corinthians chapter 3. Paul made it very clear that you can only feed people when they're spiritually able to receive it, and some are not. He said in 1 Corinthians chapter 3, verses 2 and 3, he said, brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly, mere infants in Christ. He goes on to say, I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. There are a lot of people who seem to love to live in spiritual infancy. They don't desire to go any deeper. I can still remember an individual I was speaking to one time. He was actually on a board I served on when I was in another Calvary Chapel. He was an older gentleman, and I at that time was about 27 years old, and he was in his 50s. And to me, he was a very ancient man. And I can remember as we were in a particular meeting how he had said, my spiritual needs are very small, and I don't really need much. I just need a little taste of the Word of God on occasion, and I'm satisfied. And I remember sharing with him and saying to him, again, I didn't realize how this could have been experienced by him. I didn't realize that he could have been insulted, which he was. But I said, you know, Jesus said that in matters of malice that were to be children, but in understanding, were to be men. And that's what actually, that's what Paul said to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians chapter 14. And I said, we're to be in understanding men. In other words, we're to mature and to grow. And you're saying that that you can just eat a little of the milk of the Word and you're fine. You're spiritually not maturing. He got very insulted, called me some super theologian, and he was a board member. And I didn't I didn't understand why he got so upset. Isn't that what we're all supposed to do grow up? Isn't that what we're supposed to do growing the knowledge and the grace of Jesus Christ, grace and knowledge of Jesus? Isn't that what it's all about guys? Grow instead of staying like this, staying immature? I thought that's what Christianity is. I thought we wanted to progress from being children to adults. I thought that's what it's supposed to be. A lot of people don't seem to be interested in that. Paul saw that very clearly.  He said you're still acting carnal. You're acting worldly. Well, Jesus is saying something to them, not in the same in the same context, but it's simply saying to them, you're not ready. I've got things that I want to teach you that you are not ready to learn. I've got things to say to you that you are not in the place yet to accept. You can't receive these things because you haven't, well, one, they hadn't received the power of the Spirit yet who helps them to understand, but two, they were still in their formation of their spirituality and understanding. So Jesus wants to teach them, but the things that he wants to share with them are beyond their ability at that time to understand. And again, that is going to emphasize their need for the help of the Spirit. And it emphasizes our need for God's help also. Now we're going to be looking at some of the things the Holy Spirit does guys. And so I chose to do this at this time. What I want to do is I want to share briefly with you some basics about the person of the Holy Spirit. You see, there are those who are in the world today who speak of the Spirit, but don't speak correctly concerning him. And there are people who have actually redefined him. And I'll share some things with you in just a moment about that. But I want to look at some of the basics about the person of the Spirit. I want you to notice something even as we begin that Jesus has made it clear that the Holy Spirit is a person. And he has a personal work that he does. You see, the person of the Holy Spirit is an essential of the Christian faith. As mentioned a moment ago, some religions and some cults do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a person. An example would be Jehovah's Witnesses. The Jehovah's Witness organization teaches that the Holy Spirit is energy. They have a booklet it's called Let God Be True. And in that booklet it says the Holy Spirit is the invisible active force of Almighty God. So the Jehovah's Witnesses deny the person of the Holy Spirit. And there are many who do. But Scripture makes it very clear that the Spirit is a person and not an energy. Scripture speaks concerning his deity. Remember with me in the book of Acts in chapter 5 verses 3 and 4 how that there was a man named Ananias and his wife Sapphira. And they had stated that they had sold a parcel of land for a certain amount and given these things to the Lord. And they had been lying. And so the Apostle Peter confronted them. It's recorded in Acts 5, 3 and 4 where Peter said Ananias. Now notice what he said. Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained was it not your own? And after it was sold was it not in your own control? Then he says this. Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God. A moment before he said you lied to the Holy Spirit. But he went on further to say you didn't lie to men. You lied to God. And in saying that is making it clear that God the Holy Spirit a person was lied to. You can't lie to a wall. You can't lie to a bench or chair or a car. But you can lie to a person. And that's what he did. He lied to God. In 2 Corinthians 3, 317 it says the Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. God the Holy Spirit. You see when you look at the Holy Spirit as God the Spirit you see the attributes of God revealed in him. For example he is omnipresent. He is all places at one time. In Psalm 139 verses 7 and 8 it reads where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven you are there.  Where can I flee from your Spirit? Flee from your presence. He is omnipresent. He is also eternal. In Hebrews 9 14 the writer says how much more than will the blood of Christ do through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death so that we may serve the living God. The Spirit is called the eternal Spirit. He is also omniscient in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 11 for what man knows the things of a man except the Spirit of the man which is in him. Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. So he has the attributes of God. He is not just a force or energy. He is a person with God's attributes. He is God the Spirit. Now as a person we see things stated about him that demonstrates that he is a person. For example he loves in Romans 15 verse 30 I beg you brethren through the Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me. The Holy Spirit loves and it's by the way it's the Holy Spirit who makes us to love one another too. Meeting together the way we're going to be doing beginning this upcoming Sunday and then when we gather together on Wednesday following week for a live service here in the sanctuary it's going to be kind of tough for some people because they're going to want to be hugging on everybody and they're going to be tears and there's going to be joy and all of this is provoked by God's Holy Spirit. You know what's interesting to me guys is that you know people that you would have normally had nothing to do with you would have hung around with them or cared about them or spent time with them people you would have never even known you came to know when you came to faith in Christ and then you came to be introduced to them here at this church and these people who at one time would not have been somebody even spoke to at the store became so important to you that you miss them and then when you see them you cry and you're going to want to hold on to them. That's the work of the Holy Spirit. That's how God works and that's because the Holy Spirit provokes us to love. He is the Holy Spirit who is personal in that way and so it's the love of the Holy Spirit. It's not just love that we have it's a deeper thing than just the love a man can have for a friend. It's a deeper thing it's the love that God's Holy Spirit places in your heart for somebody else. You see in the Bible that he's personal he sends people out. He appoints ministers. He does that personally. The Bible says that he speaks when he does that for example in Acts 8 verse 29 a passage that says the Spirit said to Philip go near and overtake this chariot. The Spirit said he speaks and he leads in that way in Acts 13 verse 2 as they minister to the Lord and fast that the Holy Spirit said now separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. The Holy Spirit will speak to your heart. Some of you are very familiar with this others are not. Some of you are young and are just becoming acquainted with the things of the Lord and how he leads. There are times in the Holy Spirit is there's a sense that you know God is saying this is what you need to do and that's what I've been waiting for by the way with the reopening of the the church for life services. I've been waiting to hear not just from men but I wanted to hear God speaking away that would cause me to have a sense of this is the Lord and and I have come to that place and it requires more than people writing writing things on on Facebook and and the internet or being reported on the news. It has to be deeper than that and it's the Holy Spirit will speak to your heart and he will lead you according to his word what to do. When you look at the Holy Spirit again thinking of how the Jehovah's Witnesses say that he's just an energy. Well the Holy Spirit expresses emotion. You can actually sadden the Holy Spirit. You cannot sadden the battery in your car. You cannot sadden the electricity that's causing the lights right now to run in this room. You can say things to the energy and it nothing happens but the Holy Spirit actually can be saddened. Ephesians 4 verse 30 says do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. You actually can sadden him, grieve him. It's a Holy Spirit according to John chapter 14 verse 26. I believe it is. It's a Holy Spirit who teaches.  The Holy Spirit works within you and he teaches you. He takes what the word of God presents to you and he actually instructs you on its meaning. It takes the Holy Spirit. It's a Holy Spirit who intercedes on your behalf. In Romans 8, 26 Paul said the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So these are all attributes. I wanted to show you these things. I didn't want to run past these things. I wanted you to see that the Holy Spirit is a person and that he leads us. He teaches us. You can grieve him. He's not simply an energy. He is an actual person, the third person of what is called a trinity. And he does all of these things. Now as we've been looking in John's Gospel, let me remind you of a few things that Jesus has already taught. John 14, 16 says that he abides with believers. John 14, 17 says he dwells with and in believers. John 14, 26 he teaches and brings to memory what Jesus said. John 15, 26 he testifies of Jesus. And John 16, 8 through 11 he convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. But here Jesus is teaching concerning the Spirit's work in the life of a believer. And so with that as a backdrop, verse 12, I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now. He desires to disclose to them things that will bless their lives. And as their friend, he wants to communicate to them on a personal level. It reminds me of Exodus 33 verse 11 where the Scripture says the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks with his friend. And so Jesus wants to speak to them. And he's telling them that. He's saying in verse 12, I still have many things to say to you. And he's speaking in a personal way face to face but you cannot bear them now. Now I want to speak to you face to face for a reason. I have chosen you to take this message to the world. And it was Jesus's desire to continue pouring into them the things of his kingdom. Remember in the Gospel of Mark chapter 4 verse 11, he told them the secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. It's not that he had nothing to say. It's just that they could not receive what he had for them. Their capacity to understand was limited by the frailty of their flesh. That's how it is by the way in a natural way of life. If you're a parent you'll understand this. There are things you want your children to know but they're not ready to receive them yet. There are things that they don't understand. And when you try to force upon them things by telling them to memorize certain things they're just memorizing information. But later on perhaps God will take that information they memorize and he will reveal to them what he intended them to know. Because we normally know more than we do and we normally know more than we understand. And very often knowledge comes through the experience of putting it into practice what we've been taught. We're not supposed to be concerned for tomorrow because tomorrow has enough concerns for itself Jesus says right? And yet what do we do? We worry about tomorrow. And when this pandemic hits what is it that people are concerned about? All kinds of interesting things but a lot of it had to do with what they're going to eat and what they're going to drink. And isn't that what Jesus said the pagans are concerned about? What will I eat? What will I drink? What will I put on? And then what do you say? He said to us your father's going to take care of you. He will. See that's where faith comes in. One of the things about faith that I was just seated there just prior to coming up to teach that I was thinking about my mind is tracking with that this moment is that we're in a place right now to exercise real faith and a lot of the church doesn't want to. We're in that place right now to exercise real faith. I've said this before. Let me repeat it.  I mean we hear stories like that don't we? David fought Goliath. Or we hear of how the apostle Peter stepped out of a boat and walked on water. We see these incredible stories and you can go on and on and on and you can read story after story after story. And we're just kind of like people watching it on TV or watching a movie or a DVD or whatever you want. We're kind of outsiders just saying yeah that's great.  But what happens when we're putting a position to actually have to exercise faith ourselves? What happens? At that point we actually understand why the 11 stayed in the boat when Peter walked on water. Jesus said come and the apostle Peter climbed out and he came. But what did the other 11 do? They stayed in a boat. And I think that that's true for the church today where God says I want to do a work. But people say oh no you shouldn't do that. Oh you don't love people.  How come you're doing these things? Oh you don't understand. No it's just you're couching your fear in spiritual words. That's all you're doing. I believe the Holy Spirit has to move us to do the right thing and yeah they're taking chances sometimes when you do it. Absolutely. That's what faith is. If I didn't need faith then I wouldn't hesitate to move. It's me. I've been waking up early every day thinking God what are we to do? God what are we to do? And somebody who never even thinks about the church is saying you shouldn't do that. How do you know what I'm supposed to do? How would you know what I'm supposed to do? How? You don't pray about it. You're not in the word. You're not seeking God.  Now I'm not knocking you and it sounds like I am. Forgive me for that sounding the way it sounds. I'm simply saying that faith requires us to take a step out of the boat. That's all I'm saying. That we need to trust the Lord. You need to be in the place that you can. Now these men could not receive. They're not being condemned. He says there are many things to say to you. You're just not ready and some of us are just not ready. That's just a fact. Some of us are just not ready. And you know what? I feel strongly about this because I really believe God is with us. I really do. And I really believe that presumption is not faith. I do not want to be presumptuous in what I'm doing. But at the same time I didn't just wake up one morning and say it's time to get back to church. And anybody would think that doesn't know me at all and doesn't know faith at all. Because that's not how it's gone down. It's been an every day seeking God. What should we do? And I believe the Holy Spirit moves us to do what we should do. And I'm going to trust him this Sunday. I'll be here this Sunday. And many will because we do believe that God is moving us right now. I really do. And it's not a presumption. God knows that because I'm concerned not for myself so much as I am for others. And that's a fact too. Believe it or not. I'm more concerned for others than I am for myself. I'm not afraid for myself. But I do have concern for others. What God wants to do requires us to step out in faith. Now if a person and right now I'm talking to you who are listening online or maybe you're not anymore. No one's forcing you to come. But pray for us and pray for those who do please. And don't judge those who are stepping out of the boat right now saying God I want to trust you. Don't judge them. And please don't judge yourself for not stepping out of that boat. You have to do what you can do. And what you trust the Lord for for yourself. I will be here because I believe the Spirit of the Lord told me climb out of the boat. It's time to walk. I believe that. And those who are here I'm going to assume are thinking the same way. But if it takes you another week, two weeks, three weeks. Don't be judging those of us who came. And be careful not to judge yourself. Just allow the Holy Spirit to do his work. And if he leads you to be here. Love to see you. But if you choose to stay home, we're online. Receive the word. And when things are ready for you, when you're ready to come, we'll welcome you back and love you for it. Don't forget that. You know, Jesus knew their limitations. He knows ours too. In Psalm 103 verse 14, it reads, he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. See, they had willing spirits. But they weren't able to bear what he had to say. And there are many things that the Lord wants to teach them. Many things he wants to reveal to them. But at that moment, they're not able to receive what he has. They will enter into this understanding though after the Holy Spirit is sent from heaven. Notice how he says in verse 13, when he the Spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth. Now, he's already referred to the Spirit in that way in chapter 15 verse 26. It speaks of a further unfolding of the truth, truth incarnated in Jesus, if you will, further unfolding of his words and his works. And it's the Holy Spirit who internally will guide us as we follow the Lord. As we seek God in his word and prayer, the Spirit enlightens our understanding. In Romans 8 14, Paul said, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. In 1 Corinthians 2 verse 12, now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. The psalmist said it beautifully in Psalm 25 verses 4 and 5 where he said, show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your path, lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. On you I wait all the day and the Spirit will guide you. He's not going to speak up on his own authority, notice, but whatever he hears, he will speak. His revelation is not something original or independent of God the Father or Jesus. He works in unity with what has already been revealed in Scripture and Jesus' teaching. In John 7 16, Jesus said, my doctrine isn't mine, but his who sent me. So he works in unity with what has been revealed in Old Testament Scripture as well as the doctrinal teachings of Christ. And Jesus is saying that the Spirit will speak of things to come. Now how does that happen? Well one, the guidance of the Holy Spirit is revealed as the apostles were inspired to write the New Testament. The New Testament writers were guided by the Spirit as they wrote. In 2 Peter 1 verse 21 it reads, prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the by the Holy Spirit. And within these Scriptures he gave prophecies, and these prophecies of things to come were speaking of the things that would occur in the last days. And when you read your Bible you'll see the inspired writings that give to us insight concerning last days things in Matthew chapter 24 and 25, or 1 Timothy, the whole book, or 2 Timothy, the whole book, or Titus, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, the book of Jude in Revelation. They all contain prophecy. Now he speaks also in the gifts of prophecy in the ministry of New Testament prophets. You see that taking place in the New Testament also because there's the gift of prophecy or prophesying. In Acts 11-28 it says, one of them named Agabus stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout all the world which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar. And so he speaks of those things that are coming. He will speak, not on his own authority, he says in verse 13, but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come. In verse 14, he will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you. Now this is very important. He will glorify me when the Holy Spirit is moving. Here's a very important point. He draws attention to Jesus Christ. Never forget that. That is so important. When the Holy Spirit is moving, the glory and attention goes to Christ, not the prophet, not the singer, not the teacher. The glory goes to Christ. When God is moving he draws attention to Jesus. It is not to the one who is utilizing the gifts and often these people are utilizing gifts to their own prophet. The glory goes to Jesus Christ. There are people, and I see this quite often, I've been in the church for a long time now, there are people who utilize gifts who become the heroes of the people in the congregation. They'll say, I wish I could speak like that. I wish I could do that. I wish I could go there. I wish I could have, and some people will actually feed their own egos and use their own egos, and I'm going to say this honestly. Some people again may be offended, but this is just true. They're always the heroes of their own stories. They're always the center of the attention of everything. They are. If they put pictures of themselves, that's always with a crowd of people around them or them speaking to thousands. Why? Because they want attention, and they use the things of God to draw attention to themselves. Anytime you stand up and speak in the name of God, you're in danger and you just don't know it, because you can take the glory that is given to God, and you can still it for yourself. And it's been said that the most beautiful sound in anyone's ears is the sound of their own name on somebody else's lips. People like to be spoken of. They like to boast of the things that they've done, and they like people to speak and boast of them to be very careful. When it's the work of the Holy Spirit, Jesus gets all the glory. I began to learn that as a young believer, because I would go to what were called marinata concerts, and I would listen to the singers and I'd watch the musicians play so skillfully and sing so beautifully. And I can still remember saying, oh, I wish I could sing like that or play like that. As a young believer, I was less than a year old. I can still remember this lesson. And I remember walking out one time, we were at the tent at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa back in 72. And I remember walking out. I still remember this lesson. And I was saying, boy, the group that sang was called Love Song. And I remember walking out saying, boy, I wish I could sing like them and play like that. And the Spirit of God, and I was about a year old in Christ. The Spirit of the Lord said to me that I was admiring man and not glorifying Christ.  And when it hit me there, and again, I was a year old in Christ, when I walked out, I thought I'm wanting attention. And I didn't even realize that, Lord. See, the best place you can be, if God gives you the opportunities to stand before people, the best place you can be is on your knees, even if you're standing. The best place you can be is on your knees. God may I not be seen, and may everything go to you. Everything, Lord. Everything. That's what the Spirit of God wants to do. And when you're placed in a position of being given attention, that's a dangerous place.  Not vying for a position where people can see us, but taking a lower seat. Because ultimately it doesn't matter if people said, well done. What really matters is if he says well done, right? That's how it works. Not me hearing the well done from man, because from man I get my reward. It's when I hear him say, well done, my good and faithful servant. That's the key guys. And that's the work of the Holy Spirit.  I'm speaking to you, my staff, but it's going over the air right now to others. Because that's the thing that concerns me the most in church today, is we give glory to the wrong people. We give attention to the wrong people. You know, the woman who comes early on a Sunday morning and cleans through the, goes to the pews and straightens things out and fixes the Bibles, she's never noticed. The person on the stage is noticed, or the person who's standing there with a bullet rather with a badge that says usher, they're noticed. But the woman who came and vacuumed the man who cleansed the windows on the door, like we have people who come here to this church and I'll walk through the doors when they were able to assemble with us. And they'll be washing doors and cleaning things and vacuuming. These are the people that are serving the Lord Jesus Christ. They never get a thank you. They never get noticed. Because we have too many superstars, celebrities in the body of Christ today. And we're forgetting that when Jesus' spirit is working, the one who gets the glory is Jesus himself. We need to understand that in these last days, because when the spirit is moving, people are drawn to Jesus Christ. It's the spirit who draws people to him. And it's the spirit who causes us to glorify him. In Revelation 19 verse 10, it says, I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, see that you do not do that. I am your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy. Don't worship me. I'm a fellow servant. Worship God. And finally, verse 15, all things that the Father has are mine. Therefore I said that he will take of mine and declare it to you. You see, the Father and Son work together, work in harmony with the Holy Spirit. Jesus is not excluding his Father in disclosing the Son. He's also disclosing the Father who sent him. And this tells us that the Son is the revealer of the Father. And he gives divine truth. A writer by the name of E. M. Bounds said, what the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use, men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer. The Holy Spirit is the one who draws us to Jesus Christ. And it is the Holy Spirit who causes us to say, may God be praised through Jesus. It's the Holy Spirit who will sometimes prompt your eyes to tear up at a worship song, because it isn't the beauty of the vocalists, or it isn't the beauty of the way that those instruments are being played. It's because you've got a glimpse of the glory of God, as you're saying, worshipped. That's how it works, guys. That's how it works. The Holy Spirit draws people to Christ. And not the tool, but the one who created that tool. Don't forget that. We don't give honor that belongs to Jesus. We don't give that honor to man. We give it to him, because it belongs to him. Father, we ask that that would be true in this church. We ask that that would be true in your church. May we give honor to you, Lord, and remember the work of your spirit. And even as our eyes are closed and our heads are bowed for this moment, there may be some right now who need to get right with the Lord. And your sin is ever before you. You're not able to deal with it. And you need to get right with God. You need your sin forgiven. You need to be washed. You need to be cleansed. And you need to be new. You may be a backslider or a person who at one time went to church, but never committed yourself to Christ. And you're watching tonight. And you need to get right with the Lord. I want to pray with you. And if you need to get right with Jesus Christ, get your life in order with Him. You can do so with a simple, faith-filled prayer of repentance and asking God for help. And if you need to get right with Him right now, I want to pray with you. And if your heart is open to receive Him as your Savior, not simply to rededicate, but to offer yourself to Him and that He might be your Savior, then I would ask you right now, if you need to get saved, if you need to get right with God, I would ask you right now as I pray to repeat after me and open your heart up and say, God, be merciful to me, the sinner. And after you prayed with me, I would ask you to connect with us. Let us know so we can minister personally to you. But if you need to get right with God right now, would you repeat from your heart with me right now this prayer? Father, I'm a sinner. Jesus died on the cross to save sinners. Jesus died to save me. Forgive me of my sins. Cleanse me. Give me a new life. I will follow you every day from this day forward in Jesus' name. Amen. And if you prayed that, please contact us and let us follow up, share with you and minister to you. Please do that. And now we'll just close. Father, I ask that you would take this study and help us to be able to work through it to hear the things that you would have us to know. And Lord, I ask that you would be with us this Sunday. And for those who come, Lord, may they be safe and protected. May we do the very best we can in the midst of all of this to help people and help them, Lord, to be not only at peace, but to hear from you. We ask these things now in Jesus' name.


Tom here from Lauren systems. It is July of 2020. That is relevant because I'm gonna talk about a project.  So the project works and all that's wonderful. That's um, there you go Now you don't have to watch for it's a video or you could anyways We installed this project and I wanted to do a follow up because I think follow up is important because After you install almost 300 access points. Did they work? What does it look like? Is the client still happy or is the client hate you because you installed a product that doesn't work? Well, and he's had a million problems, etc, etc, and what does it look like? How does 2,000 users? Are they happy? Those are all important questions and we're gonna jump into them right after this feel like to learn more about me or my company Head over to Lawrence systems.com. 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Well randomly So check back frequently and finally our forums forums.laurancesystems.com is where you can have a more in-depth discussion about this video And other tech topics you've seen on this channel now back to our content Now we're gonna start here And I know a lot of people gonna be immediately disappointed the fact that I can't live show all their controllers screen shots Etc and the reason why is the same reason we can't film there. We do have permission to mention All this and I got permission to log into the dashboard and show this But this is how hosted all at the client the client can't be named because of compliance and their IT department loves us But they're people that sit in a C suite said, you know, we don't like talking about our hardware We don't like pictures. We don't like anyone mentioning our name and things That would make us happy if you never mentioned it and we said that's fine We actually deal with this quite a bit with clients They hire us for projects that they found us on YouTube, which is exactly how we got this job But they also then go back and say, you know, we'd like to not be mentioned because we don't like people knowing our any of Our infrastructure it makes our legal team nervous and we don't want to deal with it fair enough We're completely complying but I can't share that we have 304 devices 292 wireless wired 12 long-term support 9 now because we replaced a bunch of these unifies that were sold to them as hardware as a service and When we did the swap some didn't get swapped because they didn't the hardware as a service company that sold them This didn't want them back. So that's how we left a few in place So this was a complete swap and replace now a little quick background How we got this job was they were searching YouTube videos looking at the unified product line because they happen to have it But it was sold to them as hardware as a service If you're not familiar with that type of business model basically you pay forever for the hardware So as an IT company they come in and they charge you a monthly yearly contract fee to install everything And then you keep infinitely leasing it and they give you full service and support and blah blah blah for a fee But then they changed their internal IT team They got a new leader who's got a calculator and said it only takes six months to pay for the entire hardware as a service We can we've been paying this for years or a couple years because of the older AP equipment And in six months time is the return on investment of putting and swapping it and self-hosting and owning it all internally So that's how this project came to be and that's how we end up with a few of them That are long-term because they didn't swap them, but they still perfectly work fine Now they are using unify 48 port POE switches. So that's what's installed for there and then There are varying degrees so different IDF rooms and overall if you can't tell from this picture here. There's a technically 12 different rooms that these were installed in this goes across several buildings each building is multi-floor the backhaul between Each device is fiber. So they have fiber because of the distance of the buildings with a little, you know The standard little SFP fiber converter. So but how does it work and how the install go? So obviously like I said, we can't film there. So there's no photos or anything like that But because this was a swap in place from hardware as a service. We didn't have to replan their Wi-Fi network We just had to basically go in there and Swap and replace so they already had the ceiling mounts and things like that, but they were the really old Access points. They actually they were the old 2.4 gigahertz not even five So we installed the UAP HD So they decided that if they were gonna go with something wanted to go with something pretty solid with really, you know These support high density a much higher density than they actually needed But they said hey if we're gonna do all this and the ROI even with these ones was still that six months because we could have Went with a cheaper access point that saved a little bit more money But they said even at six months are able to sell it to the management And why not go if you're gonna go through the trouble replacing because obviously there's a reasonable labor cost in this Now the switch is the previous hardware as a service company had were not unified They had kind of a mixed match of different switches that they did want back So our project was to come in there Get the controller set up They didn't have an onsite controllers a hardware as a service company managed everything off-site They want to do internally manage it not pay license fees and pay us to do the labor because their team wasn't big enough to Knock out a running network because by the way Downtime had to be at a minimum this place operates essentially 24-7 so the swap and replace was kind of all done in parallel with the Other company stuff as we were swapping and replacing so it's kind of tricky to do it required a lot of coordination with my team But that project it went really well the client was really happy We actually accomplished this in all the three days We swapped out all the equipment all the infrastructure and got it all up and running all right What happened so out of and they actually the client themselves bought the hardware and we did we provided the design engineering and labor for this project and We did but they did have us buy the switches They wanted us to take care of that part and but they bought all of these which was actually the bigger ticket item buying 300 UAP HDs Out of the box one single UAP HD had failed like it just didn't work We plugged it in no lights no nothing just one one that was it are made it to unify and we've are made things in the past and No problem. They shipped it back to them at a later date But we didn't need all 300 that we purposely bought a couple extra case there was any issues And recently one had an issue next part is what did it look like? So this was December of 2018 what it looked like in July of 2020 have they survived firmware updates controller updates, etc A couple things that I'm going to talk about first one Here is a video that'll leave a link to an inscription below large unify installs How to tune the controller for a high number of devices? Important aspect is that you have the controller tuned for a high number of devices I made sure I had all the settings in there So that was an important first step second make sure you have enough RAM the only thing they've had to do is add more memory because at the Subsequent versions of the controller update and their internal IT team has been pretty good about keeping up to date In updating to new versions of the controller software the newer controller seems to use a little bit more memory than the previous one Once you have this number of devices They bumped it up recently the 16 gigs RAM and it solves some little quirkiness that they were experiencing with the dashboard But these the users are thrilled they work they haven't had any hang ups They haven't had any hiccups they've all well We haven't been out to even swap a single one every one of these is still working and as they should be I think this is important. I've seen people tell me that they've seen high failure rates I have not when it comes to the access points It is extremely rare and we've done quite a few projects with these access points We're not just these ones the whole lineup of access points Even some outdoor ones which I plan to do a follow-up on that we installed like four years ago that are still outside and Are still working perfectly fine and don't have any issues So the overall no problems on a access points. What about the switches? The only problem we've run into the switches is we had one SFP module go bad and it wasn't on the switch It was the module itself for the fiber connector We had to swap it. It just was flaky It would randomly maybe once a week just decide to down the switch and But restarting the switch would do it We weren't sure where the problem was and we've tracked it down to being that was like first We thought it may be a slip bad switch, but turned out doesn't so all the switches still installed still where they are from December of 2018 to July of 2020 all working fine and as you've seen from the screenshot over here Some of these switches have quite a few access points plugged into them now We did get them the larger a higher wattage 48 port switch, which is important because you want to make sure that you always want to overspec rather than under spec when you have these on there but The whole project as a as I'm doing this follow-up like I said has not had issues I just want to you know drill this home a little bit because it seems like a lot of people mentioned what it won't work and One of the projects we did at the beginning of the year that I had Brought up was this one I can leave a link to this project installing 52 unified wireless access points for a warehouse And there's a lot of people that says oh, I've had so many failures it doesn't work at et cetera et cetera problems haters haters all caps on and That's fine. I don't know necessarily if these YouTube commenters are really people who installed unify or didn't do any RTFM and just threw it up there and didn't actually tune it and see if it worked now I will mention they do have just cause someone's gonna ask it is a head ended by a XG 7100 Which is a neck gate PF sense box is the head end of this particular network We did not go with the unify for the head end of the network when in terms of firewall router I've got a video where I talked about some of the shortcomings and one of them is the fact that they do have a block of IP addresses Lots of port for there's a lot of rules that are in place for VPN and part of the network access and a lot of complexities They have for the remote access the PF sense handles that perfectly fine I will be doing some follow-up videos on an outdoor project and one on this Project here because not only this project that I Published on February of 2020 this project went so well for the client This was actually the first one we did for them. They were so happy with this one We did several more. We've done a number of buildings. We're working on a few more buildings for them Unfortunately, that was the only one I can film and the other buildings are actively in use and well They prefer if I probably didn't film there and wandered around which is too bad So we've been pretty cool to do But either way that project works pretty well and so do the other ones But these are important to me that we do some of these follow-ups because you know you want to know What does it look like so many some period of time later is the client happy and their IT team? I asked permission they let me take these screenshots and they said Tom We're happy with it We you know we'd like to see you get more business even though you can't use our name in it because well You know people in the C-suite said we don't like talking about things publicly or having your name Tied to some YouTube guy even though they admit that's also how they found us was on YouTube, but hey, I'm cool with that so that's my story and There you go. Hopefully that's helpful to you if you want to know a little bit more about the longevity of the unified ecosystem We're happy with it And this is why we continue to sell it and are continuing to do project after project with these devices The access points and switches by them to me are just they nailed it They do a great job for the use cases that we have in here Thanks, and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems calm fill out Our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Or we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time


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