All right, well, we're going to get to the word together, and I'm going to read to you from John 6, verse 5 to 13. This is the apostle John's version of the Feeding of the Five Thousand. I like this version especially because as you'll see in a moment, John takes us behind the scenes in a way that the other gospel writers don't. And I'm fascinated as a leader and as a studier of the Bible in the behind the scenes parts of Scripture. And this is certainly that, as you'll see as we read this version of the Feeding of the Five Thousand. He said, when Jesus saw the great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, where, not that word, where shall we buy bread for these people to eat? He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. How naughty is Jesus? He asked this question only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. Philip answered, eight months wages would not buy enough bread for each to have a bite. Another disciple Andrew spoke up. Here is a boy with five small loaves and two small fish, but how far will this go among so many?  There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down about five thousand of them. So perhaps many more thousands if you include the women and the children. Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, gather the pieces that are left over, let nothing be wasted. So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five loaves left over. The title of this message is called Leftovers, the miracle of the discarded. Leftovers, the miracle of the discarded. A lot's going on in this passage as you can tell. A lot of insight that, as I mentioned, others don't give us. Because one of the things that's happening here beyond the feeding of the hungry people is that Jesus is using it as an opportunity to grow and to develop these leaders that he's chosen to invest in for a short period of time for three years. And so before he launches out with his idea, he asks them, do any of you have an idea where we can buy enough food to feed all these people? Now remember, there hasn't been a miracle of this kind before. There was no precedent set in the minds and experience of the disciples for what was coming next. This was the first miracle of its kind Jesus had ever done. In other words, there's no precedent for this. It's not like they've seen this a few times and know how this goes down. So to ask them, how do we feed all these people? Where do we buy bread for all these people? When they had no idea what was happening next seems to me to be unfair. But he said this to test them. It seems to me that you can only be tested on something you know. But he's testing on something they clearly have no knowledge of how to answer. Which tells me that if God ever asks you something obvious, something not obvious is going on. So he asked them this to test them because you always know more than you think you know and God knows that you know more than you think you know. He's not asking them because he knows they have no idea. He's probing for how solution oriented, how solution minded. What was the size of the possibility thinking? He's probing the team. He's testing them with this massive idea. It's interesting isn't it what God considers to be a test of his disciples. He's not testing them with how will you pay the rent this month. Which may be for you a huge test. But he's testing them with something so crazy, so wild, so outside of anybody's reference point. And considers that a test. I think sometimes we need to lift our game in what we think we can really call a test in our Christianity. He tests them at this high level getting them to reach inside with a thinking and a suggestion and an idea that may just get into the neighborhood of where Jesus is. Well Philip is the first one to speak up and Philip represents the logistical people in the team. They always have a place in the team. They should usually never be in charge. Philip's are the details, the logical people, the figuring it out, giving you all the reasons why a thing can't be done. So Philip says, Jesus leave it to me. I've done the math. I'm ahead of the game. Eight months wages will not fix this as if Jesus will be so proud of him coming up with an economical answer to a non-economical question. And he says, I figured it out Jesus. And Jesus listens to that. And as he's just spoken, then Andrew chips in his contribution. Now in life I think we are rather going to be Philips or Andrews. When we get around the things of God and get around how God ticks and how God works. You're going to be a Philip where you think logistically and practically and in a detailed way and whether it can be done or not, what's doable or not.  Andrews are glass half full people.  And then he says, I suppose in a tone of voice that let Jesus know, you know, I know this can't feed all these people. So he said, but how far will this go amongst so many? So he offers the idea. He knows that what he's suggesting isn't enough. So he adds that little comment at the end. But how far will so little go amongst so many? Him not knowing that his suggestion is in the neighborhood of something that's the beginning of a possibility. Because when Jesus said, where shall we buy, he had no intention of buying anything. He used the word buy to see whether or not they would answer him literally, which Philip did. So whether they would hear that as just one idea and amongst his leadership team, they would come up with other ideas. And this is what great leaders do all the time, by the way, and great parents and great fathers and great teachers and mentors. They are willing to appear stuck. They're willing to appear to not have an answer to leave room for you to come up with your answer. Jesus intentionally appeared like he didn't know what to do. We know from John's comment he knew what to do, but he allowed room for them to come up with what they wanted to do. If you're a leader or a parent or a teacher or a coach or a mentor or a pastor, if you're always the one to tell us what you think should be done, we're all going to just fall in line with your ideas all the time, which mean none of us grow. Develop the skill with your children, with those that you are growing and helping and investing in. Develop the skill of learning to say nothing just to give room for someone else to say something. That's how leaders and children and those that are being developed and mentored by us in all realms of life, that's how we grow. Leave space for them to grow is what Jesus is doing here. And so Andrew comes up with this second idea and Jesus said, let's go with that idea. And by the way, we still don't know to this day what Jesus' idea was. Because the Laws and Fishers was not his idea. It was Andrew's idea. So we still have no idea what Jesus had in mind. When John tells us he had in mind what he was going to do, we don't know what that was because Andrew came up with an idea and Jesus said, cool, let's go with that. So we don't know what he had in mind, but what we do know is he took hold of Andrew's suggestion. Andrew's weak insecure offering because he didn't know whether or not he's in the right area of thinking. Jesus said, let's go with that. What I find fascinating as well about this passage is that Jesus said, feed them all until they've had as much as they want. Then he gives them a very careful instruction. He said, make sure when they've all done, you guys go around and collect everything that's left over. I want to collect the leftovers. He said, let nothing be wasted. Isn't it strange that if Jesus can multiply bread with no limitation, if he's able to multiply anything with no limitation, why would you be concerned about leftovers? If you can just create bread through your hands, if you can multiply and increase anything, in this case bread, why would you be concerned about leftovers? Because if you can multiply bread, we'll never be short of bread. If we need more, just create more is maybe what they were thinking in their minds. Maybe they were thinking, Jesus, why are we even concerned about leftovers? You are the miracle worker. You can just produce bread from thin air as it were.  Leftovers is for those that were not there at the first sitting. Leftovers is for those that were not amongst the 5,000 that got the meals served to them firsthand. And the moment Jesus began to break bread for those that were there, in his mind were those that were not there. In his mind, he wasn't just feeding the people that made it to the service, that made it to the miracle, that made it to that moment. In his mind, he was thinking of those that couldn't make it, those that were still at home, those that were still hungry. And so he intentionally, I think, kept producing more than they needed and made sure that what they didn't want was gathered. Because I want you to understand that there is a miracle for someone else in what you don't want. There's a miracle for someone else in what you have too much of. There's a miracle for someone else in what you don't need or what you don't like or what you can't use. There's a miracle in our leftovers. There's a miracle in the things that we discard. And I want this message to make you much more aware of waste in our lives. There's a lot of waste in Christianity. There's a lot of waste, I think, amongst us in the church. There's a lot of waste in the world. I was reading recently, statistically, just a fraction of what the world throws away in food every single year would feed something like 870 million people. I think a quarter of what the world throw away every year would feed a population larger than Europe. There's so much waste naturally in the world. When I was growing up as a kid and a family of eight, leftovers was the name of a meal in my house. In our house with six kids and mum and dad, there was no such thing as us wasting anything. What we didn't eat at that sitting was always kept and served again for the next day and the next day. In fact, my mother made the kind of meals that would last several days, and it didn't matter that we had had it the day before and the day before. We didn't be ungrateful because we were just glad we had food and leftovers was the name of a meal that we regularly had. My mother was a genius at making something out of nothing. It was like herd or miracle with the five loaves and two fishes. How far she made food go amongst so many. I remember growing up even in our home back then, when I was born and the whole island in our family were very poor.   And we were very poor, I realized looking back. We used to get bathed in a bath once a week, a bath. In a big tin bath. We had no indoor plumbing. We didn't have indoor taps in a bathroom. And so we got bathed in a big tin bath. And the bath was filled with water and all of us went in the same water. My dad went in first, not because it was Father's Day, every day. My dad went in first and my dad was a coal miner. Imagine the colour of the water when he got out. So the last child in came out dirtier than when they started. Because the last child was bathing in water that really would have been outlawed by health and safety. But it was recycling the water. Everything was used and reused because we knew that we didn't have much and so we made much out of the little that we did have. I remember once going to a friend's house from school. And all of my friends when we left the school gates turned right to go to where we lived on what are called council estates in our country. Usually where the poor, many of the poor in our country live in these council houses, these council homes. And that's where we lived on one of the worst council estates in our community. But on this particular occasion I went out of the school gates where the posh people lived. Went to my friend's house and I'd never been that part of town before, never been to his neighbourhood. And I began to notice things that I shouldn't notice but I noticed them because they were not present in my house. One of the first things I noticed was that in their house they had carpet that went all the way to the walls. In our house we had a little rug in the middle and the rest of the floor was we called it linoleum. What do you call it here? Like a sort of linoleum plastic flooring that kind of covered the rest of the floor because it was much cheaper than carpet, much more durable. So we had a bit of carpet so all my life I never knew that you could buy carpet that went to the walls. My mother never told me that. I noticed they had carpet that went to the walls. I thought this is interesting. I must tell my mother about this. She was not knowing, she knew and she had been holding out on us. Then I remember my friends, I said to my friend I need to go to the bathroom and I set out to the front door because our bathroom, our toilet was outside. We had outside toilets and we should go down the road across the path to the back garden where there were outside toilets and my friend said to me, where are you going? I said, I'm going to the bathroom. He said, no it's upstairs. Now that's gross. Why would you have a bathroom in? I'd never been to an indoor toilet in my life. And so I went upstairs and saw this bathroom. I was fascinated that people had toilets inside their homes. I thought I must tell my mother. Not knowing she knew and had never told us how the other half lived. I went into the bathroom. I know I was in there a long time. I came downstairs soaking wet and my friend said to me, why are you so wet? And I said, because I decided to have a drink from that drinking fountain. It was called a bidet. But I'd never seen one. I'd only ever seen something like that in the park where people drink from. I thought this is really, this is really, this is really a posh house because they have a drinking fountain in their bathroom. I must tell my mother about those two. I got so wet trying to get the water into my mouth from the drinking fountain. So this was a massive shock to my experience as a child, as a human being. Because in our house, none of this stuff was spoken about, seemingly known about. My experience was just, my experience was just so in shock mode. I remember looking at the house and the room and on the wall they had proper pictures. In our house, we couldn't afford pictures on the wall. In our house, we had chocolate box lids. When my mother occasionally was bought a box of chocolates by my father, she would keep the box and she would hang the box on the wall because the cabaret's milk tray boxers back then had artistic images on the box lid. So my mother would keep the box, put it on the wall like it was a painting. I thought cabaret was an artist till I was about 15.  And so seeing how the other half lived and understanding that we conserved everything, we recycled everything, we were careful with everything. Waste was outlawed in our home. Waste was something we associated with people that didn't care about throwing things away. We had nothing disposable in our house. We were into recycling before recycling was trendy. It occurs to me, pastoring for over 30 years, and now doing what I do like I am with you guys around the world, that there is still a lot of waste in the church. What I mean by that is I was in a church recently and on the screen, what a list of prayer requests in some churches around the world, they do prayer requests and praise reports in the service and that's a good thing to do where you would send in on a piece of paper your needs of prayer and you'd send in your praise reports of where God has blessed you, if I had an answer I had a breakthrough they would be read out too. I noticed particularly this time, not that it was unusual, but I thought this time because of this message I was thinking about preparing, that the prayer request struck me as being things that really should not take the time of hundreds of people in the room. That the prayer request list it struck me was hardly worthy of being called something we should all get into praying about because the first thing on the list was somebody had toothache. I know toothache is not nice, toothache is not pleasant, but I don't think it's something I would want to ask you all to pray for me about. The next thing was someone wanted a girlfriend. I'm going to tell you prayer will not help you with that. Maybe deodorant will. Hashtag just saying. Another one on there was prayer to pass a driving test. Prayer will not help you with passing a driving test. You can either drive or you can't. Do you think that the Holy Spirit is going to do a Jedi move on the driving instructor? You have passed your test. You have passed your test. Do we think that God is going to supersede and compensate for your lack of study and you just passed the exam or suddenly you can just drive is a miracle when we know you can't drive.  We wouldn't use to pass it by yourself. No supernatural help at all. On the screen there was things like I want prayer for a job interview to go well or a good week in school or the new baby to sleep at night. I want prayer to give up cigarettes or I want prayer for a new friend or settle in a new job. Now these things I suppose matter but to put them on a screen to ask all of us to pray and in the same church service I noticed they began to pray for each other. A lady close by to me asked for prayer and when someone said to her what do you need prayer for she said I have a headache and seven people laid hands on one lady with a headache. People this is overkill. It is wasteful.  Do you know if you could take even a fraction of the banquet that is being served of the grace and the joy and the love and the faith and the encouragement and the empathy and the compassion if you could take even a cram from this banquet table and throw it in the direction of someone not here tonight if you could take the leftovers of what you don't need for you tonight and give it to someone else that was once you and once me we were once the ones that were not at the first sitting we were once the ones that hoped there'd be leftovers remember the woman that came the gentile woman she asked Jesus for prayer for her daughter and Jesus said is it right that I would take the bread of the children of the Jews that he first came to reach is it right he said that I would take the bread of God's people of the Jews and give it to you a gentile and outsider and she said I would be glad Jesus and he said would I take the children's bread and give it to a dog so he implies that she's a dog coming begging for crumbs from the table that they're feeding from as the Jews and she said to Jesus I'm being called a dog woof woof I'm happy to be a dog all I want is a crumb from the table of what you give them all I want is some leftovers if you will give me a crumb from the banquet that they have and don't need I will go away happy is what she said to him and I want you to understand city harvest that I want you to be more intentional and more aware of how much you consume on you that's beyond what you need for you how much love after all do you need how much grace after all do you need how much mercy and forgiveness and compassion and encouragement how much after all do you need because I think after you've eaten all you want Jesus said give them what they want after they've eaten what they want after you've eaten what you want what you don't want is not to be thrown away what you don't want is for someone else what you don't want is leftovers and God is the God of the leftovers God specializes in discarded things we need to get intentional about recycled blessing what you can't use recycle it don't warehouse it don't keep it that it goes off don't keep it that it goes off there's a bad smell in many churches there's a bad smell in many believers lives because we're warehousing stuff that went off rather than give it away to someone that we'd be glad for a fraction of it we warehouse it we become overfed and under exercise spiritually but if you will leave here tonight being more utterly minded than ever then I think you're going to get aware in these coming days and weeks in the second half of 2018 in the second half I wonder if one of the characterizing words of the second half of this year can be leftovers what if you will think every day I don't need another text telling me how much I'm loved I've had five or six today I think the last four texts would have made a massive difference to a friend I know at work who would think they'd died and gone to heaven for one text like that but instead we text the people that we already text because you told someone you have a problem although we are concerned and it's okay that you have a problem you know the Bible said God knows the hairs and has counted the hairs on your head which means there's a lot of things that you don't need to mention to him because God's counting he knows, he's involved he's tracking with you and I realized in our church towards the late 90s that our church had sat down to this banquet that was being poured in our church and 20 years on we were so blessed and so full and we were so living in the fullness of that and though our services were filled with language of reaching others we weren't reaching others our service, the lyrics of our songs and the language of our preaching sounded like we were reaching the world but the truth is we weren't really reaching anybody because no one knew was coming to our church and no one that came looked different to those that were there anyway and whenever a church reaches people that just are like the people already in the church when we reach people just like us it tells you the church's circle of love is driven by comfort not compassion there are many many people out there in this country in this community as there are in all our communities that are not like the people already gathered and Jesus is interested in the discarded people God is looking for the left over people and in the late 90s when I started a new church inside the old church half of the people that were the 5000 at the banquet if you like they were left and I began to reach the poor in our city and I began to bust in hundreds of these people who never believed that God let alone a church would look in their direction and I began from ground zero starting again building a church from what the world would call left over discarded people there is a miracle in what the world and society do not want there is a miracle in people just outside of your peripheral vision there is a miracle remember the teaching about the banquet and Jesus tells a story of a man that threw a banquet and then he sent out his staff to the invited guests to tell the invited guests it's now ready the party's ready the banquet's ready now's the time to come and Jesus said the invited guests one by one sent a reason why they couldn't be there and they said well I'd love to come but I'm really busy involved at work one of them said I just got married and I can't really be away right now and one of them said I'm involved in some business transaction and they sent that excuses and the staff came back and said to the master we went to all the invited people we went to all the full people we went to all the people on the invite list who are always the ones that get invited we went to them and they all said they're too busy can't be bothered too much going on tonight they're too full and instead of cancelling the party instead of cancelling the banquet the master a picture of God said to them then forget these overfed people forget these full people go to the people that never dreamed they'd be included go to the discarded people go to the left over people and so they went out and started to bring in those that never thought they'd be included and they came back and they said to the master we've spent all day including people that no one includes loving people that no one loves inviting people no church ever invites we spent all day doing it and they said to the master but they're still room and so he said then go again this time go wider fling you a circle of love wider and go and find people in the highways and byways and include people who never dreamed they'd be included he said go to the poor and go to the blind and go to the lame and go to those that have nothing and go to those that would never qualify to be on anybody's invite list that was once you and once me and he said because my house must be full God doesn't care who his house is full with he just wants it full sometimes we want to control who the house is full with sometimes and this was the problem in our church and many around the world sometimes we want to decide who it is that comes to our church because we want to keep it like a social club where we feel comfortable with people like us and that we feel comfortable with people like us nothing wrong with that unless it becomes inward and exclusive of others and if you could cut God he would bleed his blood type is all positive others God's blood type is others if you cut the church we often bleed ourselves where we have a theology of others often out about us we sang that song didn't we about we're sorry what we've made worship about we've made a lot of things by the way about us that we're never supposed to be about us because love is not about us I have a whole other message that I teach around the world now because this is where our church got stuck that love is not a gift love is a you know relay button love isn't a gift that I keep and it stays with me love is a button to be passed on love goes off when you keep it it stays fresh when you pass it on so we've made love about us we've made grace about us we've made encouragement about us we've made worship about us there are many things that we've made about us and you know what you cannot say it's all about you Jesus and not understand that if worship is all about him you can't worship him and not still worship and adore the things he cares about you can't love Jesus and not love what he loves you can't make him your personal God and say well I love him in my way but I don't include and I don't like and I don't love people like that God is our church and I wanted the reality to dawn for our church that I don't want to build a church where we where we believe that every time we gather and our Christianity and our relationships are about us getting more on top of the more we've already got some of you are so blessed you can hardly stand it and I figured something out about God God is not drawn to full things God is not drawn to full people not drawn to full churches God is drawn to emptiness if you stop finding empty people if you stop finding empty places if you stop finding empty lives God loses interest in us because though the 99 are gathered in where's Jesus he's left the 99 because he considers we gathered in he's always leaving the 99 he's always leaving the majority makes no sense a shepherd that leaves the majority for the minority makes no sense it sounds like bad shepherding to me until you understand the heart of the shepherd is always for the ones that were not there it's always for the discarded people the non-included people the unacceptable people the outsiders those that were in the highways and byways it's always about them and when any of our churches think it's about us and we think that the church exists for us we're glad you're here every church pastor and leader we're glad that you're here is glad for who's there but sometimes pastors get into a habit of leading churches and give themselves too much to the people that come and forget that we're not equipping you and growing you so that you can just get fatter that we're giving you and we're equipping you and we're growing you so that you can give stuff away the idea is to live full but die empty not live full stay full protect your fullness get fuller and fuller and fuller until you're bursting because what this breeds is people who call a thing a problem that's really not a problem to ask a church to pray for you to pass a driving test I'm thinking okay something's wrong with the church around the world do we think that's a valid prayer request because on the same screen in one church I saw pray for me I've been diagnosed with cancer that's a problem but it's right there next to toothache and I'm thinking someone needs to edit this stuff and reeducate us as to what really is a need that's worthy of all our time and attention because and I'm sorry if you've got toothache but take a painkiller is my point and let's let's fix the things we can fix let's involve in the things we can change and then the things we can't change and can't fix the big things that the world are dealing with let's get involved in the big things the world are dealing with because all the big things in the world I promise you is where the Holy Spirit is wondering when will the church show up because when our church start to reach the poor and we drove our vehicle into the red light district when we took our church vehicle into the red light district to reach the prostitutes the first thing I noticed was our vehicle was not in a queue behind other church's vehicles there's no competition from churches for those people the competition in churches is stealing each other's people but our vehicle, our church vehicle should have been in a long line shouldn't it behind every other church's vehicle but all the churches in the city none of them were reaching these people in the red light district none of them were feeding the poor and the homeless when we got there there was no other churches around every little church in the city was praying for the city every church in the city was probably crying over the lost but none of them were going to where the lost were they were all enjoying the banquet and getting fuller and fuller and we have to stop building Christianity and lives where we think that that is how God intends us to live our lives I want you to live the second half for someone else maybe the reason that the first half of this year has not been great is because you are too fat you are dying of clogged arteries because you are overfed you're too blessed you're too loved you're too encouraged you're too included you got too many messages coming every day telling you how loved you are tell the people that tell you that stop it tell me how loved I am I'm sick of hearing it it's time for me to stop making you think I need that some of you some of you I got to finish I know I have no time for you clapping but I do like it some of you we love you you are our friend but you are high maintenance just everyone looks straight at me right now he's talking about you you're high maintenance and you're killing us you're wearing us out because we tell you more than anybody else in our world how much we love you and then you're still depressed and fed up and miserable and discouraged even though we're showering you with love and the problem isn't that you need more love the problem is you need to go on a diet you need to have a love diet you're getting too much love you don't need that much love you need to start giving love away start helping and serving someone else because because you you you are a walking leftover mountain some of you have massive stockpiles warehouses full of stuff you can use in a thousand lifetimes you got to start giving this stuff away and I promise you this the second half of this year will be completely different in a revolutionary way completely different if you will commit now here to lead this building and start to give stuff away instead of hoarding it and warehousing it I have come to be your decluttering coach declutter your life of all the stuff you don't need but you're keeping it anyway there is a miracle in the discarded things there is a miracle in what you don't need and please would you try in the second half to stop asking God for stuff you can sort out yourselves stop asking God for silly stuff Lord help me just to help me just to you know get a job or pass my test or like the things I saw or help me just to feel more loved and I'm like really, really, really do you think I think some of us think that God is the wizard of ours where the tin man and the scarecrow and the lion for courage and for a heart and for brains not knowing that to find the courage and the heart and the brains they did not need a wizard they needed a witch because the witch brought out the courage in them and the witch brought out the brains in the scarecrow and the witch brought out the courage and the lion I fight you with one hand I fight you with two forget it was wasted on you all it's a generation I don't know what I'm talking about wizard of ours go home, rent it on Netflix it will change your life seriously and that's what I think we're building churches where we give the impression that God is the wizard of ours that what we do is we're coming asking for things you already have just give me courage Lord no, you need a problem you need a problem you don't need God to give you courage you have courage, the problem is your life is too nice for you to use it so God's not going to send you courage, He's going to send you trouble and the trouble will bring out the courage in you Lord help me, Lord give me, give me Lord give me a heart give me a heart of worship a heart of love, no you already got one God's going to send you stuff that makes you more worshipful that makes you more adoring of Him God's going to send you problems and witches to get out of you the brilliance and the genius and the strength and the love and the grace that kindness and friendship often doesn't bring out of you because friends create comfort and we create movement I got so sick of the prayer meetings in our church because we had prayer meetings of our stuff we had no intention of changing we prayed for the lost we called them from north, south, east and west we banned and we bound the demons and we did all that and we did all of that and nothing changed and we did it every single week for years and I said we should stop praying about things we have no intention of doing let's start reaching the poor in trouble let's get our church in trouble let's go let's go let's go and reach people that scared us to death let's go and find people that scare the hell out of us let's go find those people and when we started reaching these people you should have heard our prayer meetings people came to prayer meetings that never came because they were so terrified of coming and sitting next to a prostitute that will make you pray they were terrified of bumping into a drug dealer in the foyer in our church so then come praying and praying and praying because the church wasn't safe anymore because I was filling our church with discarded people I was looking in our city for leftover people people nobody wants including churches, no churches wanted these people no church wanted some of you no church wants thousands of people out there in Singapore tonight no church wants them the other street needs to be about city harvest the word on the street should be you wouldn't believe who goes to that church you wouldn't believe who goes to that church meaning you accept all kinds of people other churches don't what a compliment that would be what an honor that would be to have that said about us come on time's gone let's stand together let's get the band back up here


In this part two, we're gonna talk about the squat and why it's not going up and why you're wasting time. We're gonna talk about it in this video, so check it out. What's up guys, it's Coach Johnson. I'm back and this is part two of the time wasting. Are you wasting your time on the squat? Now, here's what we're gonna talk about. Yes, you need to do squats and this is a tricky title because are you wasting your time squatting? What does that mean? Well, it goes without saying that technique is one of the first and foremost. You've got to have really good technique but just like we talked about in our, are you wasting time on the bench? Is it because you're not doing enough post-year chain development? Now remember, in that video we discussed, you want a two to one ratio. Squats are the same. We've got to strengthen the back. That big back is gonna help you load that squat position better. Whether we're hitting more of a front squat position, we're getting into a nice deep position here for a front squat or if we're just gonna be hitting a little bit more of a back squat or if we're gonna be doing more of a power, we need to be able to work the post-year and that means hamstrings back, upper back, low back and hamstrings. Okay, so when we're squatting as a rule, we're gonna be getting some good glute development but maybe not as much because if your technique's off because you're structurally out of alignment, that's gonna have an impact.  When you have shorts on, hips tilt forward and the front of your shorts kinda hit on your thighs. Do you see that? If I tilt forward, sometimes what you see is the pant does this and then you see how the pants position chase. If you've got a post-year pelvic tilt, you'll see the back of the shorts hitting the pants. If you have an anterior pelvic tilt, you see the front of the shorts kinda belling out like this. Do you see the legs hyper-extending? We have some athletes who do this.  You should not be standing with your legs like this. I can barely even do it but I've seen athletes who stand there very comfortably because their hamstrings are too weak and overstretched.  So number one, the first thing you wanna be able to do, we talked about the supine grip. Now, some people will talk about the supine grip. We're gonna be learning control. We're not trying to set records because this position can actually create stress on the bicep, right? So what we wanna do is, even when we're rowing, we're rowing correctly. We're hitting the back. Like I said in that video, we're not gonna be overloading the biceps. We're gonna be hitting the back. Now, when we do this, I like that supine grip to teach the hinging position of an RDL because when I do this and I push those elbows in, I push that chest up, I'm creating that good extension of the spine and now I'm gonna see that hip hinge position. So now you're gonna notice here, notice how I'm kinda pushing my knees out of the path of the bar so I can come down. Now I'm getting that really nice, hammy stretch. Now if I round my back, it doesn't matter because I've already loaded my hamstring. So now as I come up, I come back to that position and now I'm gonna be able to stand straight up. I personally like to teach when you're doing an RDL, we get that slight hinge. You're pushing those hips back and you're learning how to feel this good hinge position so that it's ham load, ham load. And then if I try to reach lower, and one of the easiest things you can do is a deficit. Put yourself up on a couple of weight plates to give yourself that extra three, four inches and you'll get a really monster stretch that you have to first be able to hinge. Now this is for the hamstring. We can control the range of motion. So for a lot of athletes who have a hard time finding the hinge and then coming up, so what they wind up doing is they have a hard time loading the hinge, then they come up, then they come back and they disengage again. So the hamstrings aren't engaged. So one of the things you can do is control the range of motion, start with something light like this bar and then what I can do is start at the knee so I can hinge here, slide the bar down the thigh to the knee and then what I'll do is I'll push the knees out of the way of the bar by pushing my hips back. Notice that my spine's nice and straight, the bar's coming down and I can stay here and I can go from the shin to the knee. I can work that range of motion and stay nice and engaged, right? So this is a very simple way to be working that hinge and working those hamstrings. This is an easy thing to incorporate. Now, sometimes people are doing hamstring curls and different things like that. There's benefit, it provides some general strength and that's good, but a motion like this where you're learning to hinge and where a lot of athletes have a hard time, this is good because if you have a hard time learning this, this is gonna set you up to be the fundamentals in so many of your Olympic lifts, right? Even gonna help improve your deadlift, you have to understand how that works and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna switch to a second exercise. So now what we're gonna do is a good morning. Now I like a barbell, good morning. I'm gonna slide that down and again, we have to feel that hinge. So as I'm coming here, I'm getting that motion. You're gonna see that hinge motion. Notice me from the front cam. Now watch it from the side camera. Watch as my hips slide back and you're gonna see me hit here in nice flat position. I'm gonna hold those hamstrings and then I'm coming up, okay? So good mornings are a nice good exercise. You can load these like anything else and they really force you to learn how to feel that hinge, how to keep nice extension of the back and be able to get yourself in this position. So notice how I'm coming up. I'm not pushing here, I'm not overextending. I'm staying on a nice flex bent leg. Now one of my favorite exercises is a glute ham raise and unfortunately I think in too many weight rooms this is a piece of equipment that's lacking. I think it's a fundamental piece of equipment that's gonna provide a ton of benefit and you can do a ton of variations on. The first thing that you wanna understand is as the athlete locks in and faces out, you know, horizontal to the ground, they're gonna be bending at the waist and they're going to be extending and pulling through the glutes. So what they do is why it's called a glute ham. You wanna keep the leg straight as the athlete goes down. They're gonna flex a little bit at the knee. They're gonna pull through the glute and the hamstring. You can add this when beginning athletes, usually it's down, teaching them to bring it to parallel so that they're understanding how to properly engage because these glute ham raises usually have rollers so that as you kinda lift, there's a little bit of rolling motion and sometimes athletes are just rolling down and they're not really utilizing the glute. They need to learn how to create that extension and it's a really great exercise. So it really works that lumbar spine, it works the glutes and it works the hams which are really critical for helping that squat. As your numbers go up, you need the back strong so that you can load more weight without overloading the back, right?  I wanna stay in extension and push up against that bar. So when we have ourselves in this position, we wanna see those scaps come down, typically the elbows coming down and that way as we squat, we're gonna keep those knees basically right on top, keep that nice straight spine and then we're gonna be coming straight up into our squat. Okay, so you can see right now, one of the important things that we always stress is that use a bar. So many people wanna show off and see how much they can do. Make sure your technique's right, making sure that when you're doing something like an RDL where you're learning how to hinge, or you're doing a good morning, a bar may be way too much for many of you in the beginning and a lot of younger athletes who don't have any experience at this. One of the easiest things you can do is put yourself inside a power rack, set the bar to a certain height so you could go from here and be hitting that safety bar. And just feeling the basis of getting the hinge, it stops and you're protected. So you can work the range of motion and then you can keep lowering that safety bar. Highly recommend that. Don't just go in and start doing this.  Start out with a PVC pipe. Just feel yourself working through. It's a great way to warm up.  And the pull through we're gonna do with a band and a kettlebell, okay? So here we go, let's do it. And a pull through is basically just using a kettlebell. Optimally I would take something like a band and we could use different lengths but I like the red mini band. We do this at our warmups with a lot of our athletes. So at our warmups we'll tie a band to one of the poles that's around our throwing area. You can do a fence, you could do the pole of the cage. You can do that sort of thing, okay? And if you don't, this is where in the weight room I put it on a kettlebell and you'll notice I'm gonna stand. I stretch the band and I'm gonna kind of move from here. And what I'm gonna do is feel that hinge motion and then I'm gonna be pulling. So I'm gonna try to create more tension and I'm gonna feel that stretch and I'm gonna pull. Notice how I'm pulling forward, that's the key.  So I'm feeling that hamstring. Now remember, I can also play with a sumo stance. I can get myself out nice and wide and I'm gonna see myself here and I'm gonna change the pull and I'm gonna feel that hit in those hammies and those adductors and this is it. All right guys, so if you find that you're having limited gains in your squats, oftentimes it's a lot of your necessary accessory lifts with the post to your chain. Now remember, how does this correlate to your throwing? That if I'm in this position throwing-wise and this position and I'm trying to throw, I lose all that natural locking thoracic motion, right? So I need to have my pelvis closer to neutral, my upper back here. Now my core is automatically engaged and so now when I'm throwing that disc is I'm gonna be nice and long. If I'm throwing that shot, I'm gonna be able to be more torqued up. If I'm tilted, rounded, I start to do all kinds of compensations. If I start to rotate, this is gonna affect my ability to engage my core to be able to create that upper body, lower body, left side, right side sequencing and we're gonna have a real hard time and especially if you've watched our system, we talk about pillar one. We talk about how we set up the throw and if we're all screwed up right from the beginning, it's not my opinion that it's what you start is what happens, it's what physics says.  If I can set up the throw more correctly, I'm gonna throw further and this is what makes some athletes more natural than others. Who are some of those more natural athletes? Kids that you tend to see, younger especially, that are strong and well structured for their age. They tend to pick up the event faster and throw better and this is why you start to see things even out as kids become teenagers because everybody's starting to get on a little closer footing as more physically mature as they get older. So, any rate, this is what we're talking about. This is how you get your numbers up in the squat by hitting that post to your chain and this is also gonna help you improve your technical patterns that you're trying to develop as you learn the throw and apply it. And that's what our six pillar training system does and that's what our ultimate throw training program addresses and we tie the strength training to the six pillar system and that's how you unlock your potential. Okay guys, so hopefully you liked today's video. If you did, and this was part two, if you'd like to see more stuff like this, let us know, hit that in the comments. Be sure to hit that like button, subscribe. 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In this video, I will describe the steps involved in translation, including the enzymes involved where in the cell the process occurs and the roles of messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA, and transfer RNA, and I will describe the post-translational modification of polypeptides. The genetic code is a specific amino acid that will be incorporated into a polypeptide during the process of translation corresponding to each three-letter nucleotide sequence or each codon. I wouldn't expect you to memorize which amino acid is incorporated for each codon, but the basic idea that a three nucleotide sequence codes for one amino acid is what I want you to understand here. There's also a start codon and a stop codon. The start codon, AUG, also codes for the first amino acid incorporated during translation, methionine. Then the stop codons, UAA, UAG, and UGA do not accode for any amino acid when the ribosome reaches the stop codon, translation is terminated, and the polypeptide is released from the ribosome. Here we can see the structure of a transfer RNA or tRNA molecule. This tRNA is charged, meaning that this tRNA has an amino acid bound. Amino acids are covalently bound at the amino acid attachment site of the tRNA, and on the opposite end of the tRNA molecule is an anticodon, a three nucleotide sequence that is complementary to three nucleotide codon sequence of a messenger RNA. This anticodon will recognize the codon in the messenger RNA by forming complementary base pairing and hydrogen bonding to hold the tRNA to the codon of the mRNA. As the complementary base pairing will stabilize the association of the tRNA with the mRNA, the amino acid will be held into the ribosome, enabling the ribosome to catalyze the formation of a peptide bond attaching the amino acid from the tRNA onto the free end of the growing polypeptide. Translation has three steps, similar to DNA replication and transcription. The first step is initiation, the second step is elongation, and termination is the third and final step. During initiation, mRNA binds to the small ribosomal subunit, and a charged tRNA binds to the stark codon, the region within the ribosome where the first tRNA binds is known as the P site of the ribosome. The P site stands for the peptidal binding site, and this is where the growing polypeptide will be found inside of the ribosome. Then the large ribosomal subunit will bind to the messenger RNA and tRNA to complete the initiator complex. The elongation step of translation occurs when a tRNA enters the ribosome, bringing in the second amino acid. This tRNA will enter a site of the ribosome known as the A site. A stands for aminoacyl binding site, so the amino acid will enter the A site, and then the ribosome will catalyze the formation of a peptide bond between the amino acids found in the P site and the A site. As this occurs, the ribosome will move over so that the tRNA that was in the A site is now in the P site, and that tRNA will have the growing polypeptide chain attached to it. Then the tRNA that was in the P site is moved into another site of the ribosome known as the E site. The E stands for exit, so the E site is where the uncharged tRNA will exit the ribosome. A new charged tRNA will enter the A site, and then the process of elongation will continue in a cycle, transferring the polypeptide onto the tRNA at the A site as the ribosome moves over, so that the tRNA and the A site moves into the P site, and the uncharged tRNA that was in the P site moves into the E site to exit the ribosome. This mechanism of elongation will continue adding amino acids corresponding to the codons in the messenger RNA until the stop codon is reached. Once a stop codon is reached, the ribosome will release the newly formed polypeptide. Following translation, post-translational modifications include protein folding, where interactions between neighboring amino acids will cause the polypeptide to fold into its secondary structure, where hydrogen bonding between adjacent polar amino acid side chains will stabilize secondary structure formation into alpha helices and beta pleated sheets. Hydrophobic interactions of nonpolar amino acid side chains will push deep within the polypeptide structure, moving away from the watery environment surrounding the polypeptide, whereas polar side chains will push out to dissolve into the water, when two charged side chains have the same charge they will repel one another, whereas opposite charges can help to stabilize the folding structure as positive and negative charges are attracted to one another. Some amino acid side chains are capable of forming covalent bonds to further stabilize the folding of a polypeptide into its tertiary structure. The amino acids cysteine and methionine contain sulfur, and these sulfur atoms can bond together through a covalent bond, forming a disulfide linkage that stabilizes the tertiary structure of forming proteins. Multiple polypeptides can be joined together to give a protein quaternary structure. This quaternary structure can also be stabilized by disulfide bonds, covalent bonds between sulfur containing amino acids like cysteine. Another post-translational modification is the addition of a carbohydrate to a protein. This is known as glycosylation, and these carbohydrate tags make a protein into a glycoprotein, a protein that has carbohydrate attached. Glycoproteins are often signals on the surface of cells that function to help our immune system recognize the cells that belong in our body and distinguish those from pathogens. Glycosylation is also an important label that's added to proteins following translation as they're being sorted through the Golgi apparatus. Glycosylation will enable the packaging of multiple proteins into the same transport vesicle. Phosphorylation is another type of post-translational modification where the side chain of an amino acid is then covalently bound to a phosphate group. The amino acids cyrene, threonine, and tyrosine all have a hydroxyl group that can become phosphorylated. Phosphorylation is often a way of regulating the activity of proteins such as enzymes within cells. An enzyme known as a kinase is an enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of another molecule. So a kinase is an enzyme that could activate another enzyme by phosphorylating it. And then a phosphatase is an enzyme that removes the phosphate group from a phosphorylated molecule. So a phosphatase could inactivate an enzyme that was turned on by phosphorylation. While it is common for phosphorylation to activate enzymes, some enzymes are instead inhibited by phosphorylation. Here's an example that we will study as we get further into cell signaling of how phosphorylation functions to regulate a cell signaling pathway controlling a metabolic function of a cell. This example is a hormone known as epinephrine, which is also commonly referred to as adrenaline. Epinephrine will stimulate a cascade of enzymes inside of a cell where one enzyme will then phosphorylate and activate another enzyme. Protein kinase A is named protein kinase A because it was the first kinase discovered that phosphorylates another protein. Protein kinase A phosphorylates GPK, which is known as an abbreviation for glycogen phosphorylase kinase. Glycogen phosphorylase kinase becomes activated when it's phosphorylated by protein kinase A. And then glycogen phosphorylase kinase will go on to function as a kinase phosphorylating another protein, the protein known as glycogen phosphorylase. Phosphorylation will then activate glycogen phosphorylase, which is an enzyme that will break down glycogen. Glycogen is a polysaccharide found in animal cells as a way of storing carbohydrate. When glycogen is broken down by glycogen phosphorylase, glucose molecules are released and that glucose can then be used as an energy source that can be broken down by a catabolic pathway.


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Hey what's up everybody? So in the last space pod that I did, which was about India's human spaceflight program, Jason Warren asked me to talk about space planes. So I've decided to talk about the early projects on rocket-powered space planes and lifting body studies. This is your space pod for April 23, 2015. So I guess the best place to start would be in the late 1930s and early 1940s in Nazi Germany. A man named Eugene Sanger and a woman named Irene Breddit, I think that's how you say their names, designed a suborbital rocket-propelled bomber named the Silver Vogel, which means Silverbird. The Silver Vogel design was significant in that it incorporated rocket technology and lifting body principles. It actually was a two-stage rocket as well. The first stage would have been a rocket-propelled sled that would have accelerated the aircraft to around 500 miles per hour or 800 kilometers per hour. Before it would detach from the sled, go airborne and ascend to about 145 kilometers. After gradually descending into the stratosphere, theoretically the increasing air density would generate lift against the underside of the aircraft and it would bounce off the atmosphere. This would be repeated several times until the bomber could reach targets in the United States. Post World War II analysis of the design of the Silver Vogel revealed that the actual heat upon reentry would have destroyed the aircraft had it actually been built and flown. It never actually got past the mock-up and wind tunnel testing phase. After the war when German rocket technology and scientists were being collected by the Americans and Soviets, the Silver Vogel and more notably the V-1 inspired lots of cruise missile and ramjet technology projects. Notably the Soviets designed a ramjet-propelled version of the Silver Vogel called the Keldish Bomber. The Keldish Bomber II was never actually built but it did inspire lots of future Soviet projects. The legacy of the Silver Vogel was actually its engine or rather its regeneratively cooled engine. Regeneratively cooled engines are where you run the fuel or oxidizer through tubes around the bell or nozzle of a rocket engine to both cool down the nozzle and pressurize the fluid. Almost all liquid-fueled rocket engines today use this design. Sanger and Bredet, who actually married in 1954, would later work for the West German aircraft company Junkers in the 1960s and they designed a similar but more advanced version of the Silver Vogel simply called the RT-8. And this version also would start on a rocket-propelled sled but also consisted of a rocket-powered carrier plane and a smaller manned orbital spaceplane called Horus, which is an acronym for the hypersonic orbital upper stage. This spaceplane would have been able to have two astronauts on board and it also featured a cargo bay for deploying satellites. When Sangers died in 1964 the project was reevaluated and they failed to get the economic support that they needed to make the project a reality. And it's doubtful that West Germany was serious about investing money into a massive space project at the time anyway. I find it really interesting and maybe not a coincidence that shortly thereafter some of the early concept studies for NASA's space shuttle had the shuttle flying on top of some sort of carrier airplane. In the 1980s the Mascher-Smith aircraft company who had previously absorbed Junkers decided to make a new concept idea of the RT-8 spaceplane. This version was called the Sanger II. This version did not start off on a rocket-powered sled and instead the carrier aircraft used a ramjet engine. It also could launch an unmanned upper stage called Cargas to deliver a larger payload than the Horus spaceplane. This project was eventually cancelled since the huge cost of development would have produced a vehicle that was only slightly cheaper than the Ariane 5 once it was operational. Germany hasn't given up on the idea however and the German Aerospace Center is currently investigating ideas for having a suborbital passenger transport that's rocket powered. They're calling this the space liner. Many other nations and private companies have looked at developing a similar design as well. Someone who may have worked on Sanger's original silver vocal or at least was aware of it was Walter Dornberger. He was one of the leaders in charge of the original V2 and V1 rocket programs in Germany and was brought to America under operation paperclip. Later on he was very influential in bringing about the X-15 and X-20 dinosaur programs and for now I would like to leave it at that but I want to talk about those space planes in the next space pod that I do. Thank you for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed talking about some of these early space planes even though none of them actually flew into space. Let me know what you think about these particular programs and especially the follow on space planes after this especially some of the lesser known ones. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and if you're interested in finding out more information about how you can help us to make these space pods since this is a crowdfunded show please visit patreon.com slash space pod to find out more information about how you can become a citizen of tomorrow. Thank you again for watching this video. My name is Michael Clark and I will see you guys next time.