My lips look kind of crazy but we have a lot of lip swatching to do today. I am going to be swatching and trying on some new lip products from a new cosmetic line, Nova Beauty. Honestly I can tell you already I've been playing with these. I am absolutely shocked at the quality of these and this is not what I was expecting for Nova Beauty to come out with. I'm so excited. So first of all thank you to Nova Beauty for sponsoring today's video. As you guys know though I make sure I test out the products thoroughly before I agree to a partnership. At first I wasn't sure if this was a partnership I wanted to accept or not. I got the package and right away you know popped some colors on and I was like oh we're going through with this. This is an exciting video. So Nova Beauty is a new beauty line from Fashion Nova and their launch is this incredible incredible lip line. So let me show you my first introduction to the brand okay. This is what I received in the mail. The box was heavy and I was like what the heck. You guys aren't ready for what you are about to witness. So I opened it. We have a mirror kind of came broken no baggy. Alright this thing is too big. Hold on I gotta figure this out. Are you ready? Okay let's hold this up. She's kind of heavy all. Oh that was not the reveal I was hoping for but this is the lip line that Nova Beauty has launched. This I have been using these products and putting in the back because I just like to look at this. So we're going to go over each product, each color, everything. Let's get into it. So there are three products that are launching in this collection. The Nova Beauty Snatched Lip Liner. The Nova Beauty Cream Lipstick and the Nova Beauty High Shine Lip Gloss. We're going to test all of that out today for you. Let's get started with the lip liners. They have come out with 10 shades of this double ended diamond precision tip and blending brush and I'll show you that in a second. It's two in one though. The formula you're supposed to be able to use it as a lipstick and a lip liner. You can just carry this around. You don't need to bring a lipstick. The diamond tip never needs sharpening and can get smooth edges. You'll see the brush tip turns the liner into lipstick. We'll test that out today. Long lasting creamy doesn't transfer bleed or smudge, matte finish, lips don't feel dry and are perfectly hydrated with silk oil. For a subtle surprise, you can try it as eyeliner. That's pretty cool and it's supposed to be sensitive skin friendly. Now I've been playing with these. I know whether or not I can confirm or deny these claims but let's get into the colors here. Hold all them out. So let's just take a closer look at the packaging here. This is what it looks like and the product is made in Korea and typically from my experience Korea makes really great makeup particularly lip products. It has a soft matte component which I think is really beautiful. So here is what the tip of the lip liner looks like. This is that diamond head tip right there that they're talking about and then the other side is the lip brush which is going to help you blend it out. So I'm going to swatch all of them for you and then I will do a demo. So first we have nude 01. You can see how creamy that was. This is a great everyday color. This is pink nude 01. I should probably swatch those a little closer. Nude 02. A little deeper. That's kind of the everyday color I would typically go with. Then we have pink nude 02. This is the one that I've been wearing a lot. You can see how they're gliding. Red 02. That looks beautiful. Coral 01. Red 01. You can see how it lasts. Depending on the angle that I do I can get it thin or thick. Then we have magenta 01. Super pigment set. Brown 01. I think that was blurry because you missed it. That's brown 01. And then the deepest shade is brown 02. So these are a great line of colors. We have a lot of nudes. We have some reds, some brights, some browns. So they're just shade for everybody. Let's play around with them. Just to show you how I use them. Let's get nice and close. I use my pinky to give me some control and stability and I start off with the diamond and then I just move it across the outside of my lips. You can see how easily it's gliding. Super creamy. Really comfortable. The shape really allows you to play around with the thinness and the thickness that you want to get from the product. And if you want go in with your favorite lipstick or lip gloss at this point. But they're so creamy that I use them as a nice lipstick. Just like this. Then you can use the brush side. I kind of blend it out and use it as lipstick. Since they're so creamy before they set down it should blend out pretty easily. Now you can use the brush to get more of like a blurred natural lip look. Or you can just really fill it in to get something that's definitely more opaque. I've also mixed them a little bit. So I'm going to use some of nude 01 in the center to brighten it up just a little bit. Just to add a little bit more dimension. See how that lightened up the look added a little bit more dimension. You can even go in with a darker shade. I'm going to use brown 01 just along the outsides to give more definition. So these are great just to throw in your purse so they don't take up as much room. I'm going to use the lip brush to even blend it a little bit. Not that I need to but you have that option. And you can see I literally just layered three of these lip liners and my lips don't even look dry. It feels really really comfortable. I've been very happy with these lip liners and using them recently. So these are really really neat. I'm very very impressed. They last a long time. They're perfect for layering with other lip products. And again I love the color range that they have so they're great to be worn on their own as well. I want to show you how pretty the coral 01 is for the summer. Just gonna wipe this off real fast. I know my eye makeup is like super crazy right now but this coral 01 I wore this the other day with like a very neutral look, false lashes and this on the lips and it was so pretty. Look at that pigment. I wanted to show you how pigmented the bright shades are. I'm going to use my brush blend it out make everything nice and even. So beautiful anyways arguably I mean I like everything in this line but the lip liners are top-notch and they're only $10 which I think is a really great price for something so versatile. So those are the lip liners. Next let's move into the cream lipsticks. They are only going to be $12 each and I forgot to mention this but Nova Beauty is going to be vegan and cruelty free so it's going to be great for everybody. Get this. They've launched 26 shades which is insane in three different finishes a matte, a satin and a shimmer finish. So what they claim and a little bit about this formula is that this luxurious lipstick features soft focus pigments and a 3D polymer that locks in color. 26 shades of medium buildable full coverage moisture. So let's look at the components first and a little bit more about the product. These are also made in Korea. Again Korean lipsticks tend to be chef's kiss from my experience. It also is in a soft matte component. It says Nova Beauty right here and it has a magnetic closure which I think makes it feel and seem much more high quality. For $12 the lipsticks definitely have a very high end feel. I noticed particularly the masks but all of them do have a long wear to them and they're pretty moisturizing as well as somebody who typically has drier lips. I haven't had an issue with these especially with the satin finishes as well. Those are definitely going to be the most moisturizing but even the matte's not bad. Okay so I'm going to swatch these by the finish since there are 26 shades so let's do it. This is a task. We'll start off with the matte range which has six different shades. You'll see I couldn't get some of the lip liners off. I dread. Okay so let me show you the colors. This first one is tone. Again these are from the matte range. That is the perfect nude right? This next one is poppin which is more pinky mauve. This is the color that I've been wearing the most. It's my perfect everyday color. You can see these are the matte finish but they're swatching nice and smooth. This one is heaven. Another really great everyday color. Pleasure has a little bit more depth in there but it still is such a wearable pink. Real is a really unique color. I feel like it's almost an orangy apricotty kind of nude. And then lastly we have attached. I haven't worn this one yet but it's the deepest in the matte finish but all of the mattes super wearable. You saw how smooth and pigmented they swiped. Okay I can't help myself. I just want to show you how some of the mattes apply. I'm going to show you poppin which is my favorite shade but all of them are really great. So look these are the matte finish but you can see how creamy they're applying and they don't have full opacity but you can build it up which I actually prefer that. I think that's what gives this the smoothness and makes it more everyday friendly. So with full opacity lipsticks I feel like you need to have a lip liner but with this you don't need a lip liner. You can build it up to get that full opacity. Completely smooth application buildable to full coverage. You can define the lips even without a lip liner. I told you guys I was really impressed. So those are the matte lipsticks. Let's get into the satin finish now. So this first one is OG. Cutie is a lighter nude pink. Dream another nice wearable shade. Whoa shade vibes. I think it's so unique. It's such a pretty terracotta nude. Divine. This one's a little bit more peachy. Oh this one is fun. Deeper skin tones. This is going to look great on you. Reset. Look at that one swipe. That has a lot of pigment. Extra is exactly what the name represents. Okay this is a crazy fiery red. This is blaze. It's a little bit more magenta red. Then look at this one. This one is so out of my comfort zone but it's so fun. This is day trip. Hot hot Barbie pink. This is a lighter Barbie pink. It's BB girl. Insane. Okay we're still going. We have rosette which is a pretty kind of classic bright rose. 100. It's kind of like that perfect red. Then we have a deeper red in flare. Nice. Okay these last three. Deeper skin tones. You're going to love these. So we have indulgence. Look at that. So stunning. Napa. Look how deep that is. And then the final one is royalty. Look at that. This range. So beautiful. They have wearable shades. Bright shades. And what I love about the range of these lipsticks is they're going to complement all skin tones. Any kind of makeup preferences that you have they have a color for it. So these are just the satin ones. Crazy. You guys know I'm like all up over here. I want to give you a little satin lipstick demo so you can kind of see should we go crazy bright orange with reset. I just want to show you we're just going to play. I actually haven't tried this one because it's very out of my comfort zone but let's play with the pigmentation and all of that. I mean I thought it was okay ignore my application. I thought it was pretty pigmented from the start but wow you can really build it up. Ignore the application. This is embarrassing. I just wanted to try the color and you can see the satin. It has more of a glow compared to the matte. You're wondering why I'm not doing lip swatches like of every single color because my lips would literally fall off. My lips are very sensitive but if you are interested I am uploading a few tiktoks as well doing different lip combos with these. So if you want to see more of the colors and actions stay tuned for that. I think let's put on a little bit of divine. Now this is like more my speed for an everyday pink. I can't believe these are $12. I think they're so high quality. I love them. Okay so those are all the satin lipsticks. Let's finish off with the shimmer finish.  Okay so the shimmer finish ones are really really fun. I'm going to show you days first. So this one is like more of a wearable orangey peach and you can see the shimmers. I think these are really fun over a lip liner to kind of change up the finish. The next one is sequin. This one I can definitely see for clubbing purposes like that and the last one is lavish. This one I feel like is a little bit more satin. I feel like it doesn't have as much shimmer as the others but they say it is a shimmer.  So these are the three in the shimmer family. Okay I'm going to show you them because they're so cool. My lips are about to fall off but let me show you first days which is the more wearable one. Again I think these look really great over a lip liner first but you'd think sometimes with these shimmer finishes they have kind of like a gritty feeling to them. Still just a smooth of an application. This one is fun even on bare lips. I like that. That's actually quite wearable. I didn't think it was. I've used sequin before and I wasn't expecting it to be so shimmery so the first time I used this I was like whoa but it actually is really fun for like clubbing or a fun evening. Look see how metallic that is and again the smoothest application. Anyways so these lipsticks are bomb if you didn't gather that and one of my favorite things about these lipsticks is their color range and how creamy every single formula applies. So let me clean myself up and we're going to finish off with the lip glosses. Last products in the lip collection are the lip glosses. So Nova launched 14 different shades. All of them again such good colors that they picked out. Some of them have like little metallic glitters in there. Some of them are a little bit more flat. So they're going to be $14 each and let me show you the component here. So it's in a pretty classic lip gloss style packaging with the Soft Matte Nova Beauty. The one thing I will note is that these kind of do squeak some of them. This is the only product of the liners and the lipsticks that actually does this. That's just something that I noticed and you might want to look out for. But other than that I mean it's just kind of a classic dough foot applicator you can get a look right here. From what I've tried so far these are a really nice kind of classic lip gloss formula. They're not too sticky so your hair isn't going to stick to your lips or anything. They give nice moisturization to the lips. It's not too heavy so it glides on the lips nice and smooth and feels nice on the lips. Lasts a good amount of time as well. Makes anything you're wearing underneath more comfortable. I mean it's just a really great classic lip gloss formulation. I'm just going to throw on the clear right now while I'm talking. I love the clear. I'll use it instead of chapstick because I like the glow it gets. No stick. Really comfortable. Okay I'm going to swatch the colors for you so you know what we're working with. Okay so the first one that we have is thick which is the clear one that I just showed you. Obviously we're not going to get too much color from that one. Then we have if you know you know which is a lighter pink. This is what it swatches like so you see it does leave a little subtle pink color there. Then we have no cap. I'm definitely not cool enough to be saying these names out loud. But this one gives a little bit more pigment as you can see. Then we have tea which you see has a little bit more of a glimmery finish to it. So that'll add some nice dimension on the lips. Thirsty is a little bit more orange and this one has the glimmers. It's a little bit more of a sheer color. Secret is a glimmery pink. This is secret. That one has some color to it if you're into that. Then we have paloma. So we're getting into the brighter colors now. So paloma does not have any glitters and it has a lot of pigment to it. Fire. It's a fiery color with a little bit of glimmer. Look at this. Beautiful. I love this shade. So unique. Then we have sauce. Getting a little brighter here. So here is sauce. This one has a little bit more pink to it. Paradot is a purple blue duo chrome. Look at that. Last two. Moody. This one's beautiful. I used to have a lip gloss that looked like this growing up that I was obsessed with. Love the glimmers in that one. And then the last one is the deepest and brightest. This is dime. And that's what dime looks like. Full of pigment as you can see. So with the lip glosses you have a really nice range. Some are pigmented. Some are a little bit more sheer. Some have glimmers. Some have a flat finish. So they covered all of the bases here with the lip glosses. I'm going to put on one of the brighter colors so that you can see really the opacity and everything. So we're going to use dime. So these are great gloss for day or night because of the options that you have. And they're so comfortable. And they can be worn on top of any lip colors or alone. So this was the darkest scariest color. And you can see I got it to be more wearable. But we can also layer it up especially if you put red lip liner and lipstick underneath. This will be the perfect finish but it still is quite wearable. But you can also build up the pigment. And you see that it covers all of the lines on my lips. Makes my lips look nice and juicy. So oh and if you're offended by scent, these do not have a scent. That's also something to note. Let me put myself together and I'm going to put a lip on with you guys and I'll give you my final thoughts on this whole collection. I wanted to put together a whole lip for this look for you guys. So I'm going to start off by lining with the pink nude lip liner. You guys know I love a good pinky nude lip so I had to do that for my demo. So this is pretty close to my natural lip color which I really like because we have very bright eyes on. And then for lipstick I chose to go with cutie which again the perfect nude pink. It has enough depth to bring out your lips which might have disappeared with the crazy eye makeup but it still isn't too bright. For lip gloss I was stuck between these two. If you know you know. I think actually we'll go with this one because it goes with my eyeshadow. I was going to do no cap to kind of mute the lips a little bit more but let's go with if you know you know this one is a little bit more sheer but it does add a really pretty milkiness to this lip. Perfect pink nude I must say and super duper comfortable. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video of me just swatching playing around with the new nova beauty lip collection. I mean you guys know I'm all about the quality and I think these are fabulous quality I wouldn't have agreed to this partnership if that weren't the case. This is way beyond my expectations and I just think it's great all of the colors that they are launching in this range because I feel like there's a color for everybody. Every skin tone every makeup preference nova beauty really knocked it out of the park with this launch. I'm definitely looking forward to see what they have in store for their future launches. My absolute favorite product is the lip liners. I think they're just so creamy and versatile but of course the lipstick range cannot be beat and the lip glosses are quite versatile as well. The best part is they're all a really really great price so a huge thank you to nova beauty for reaching out to me for this partnership and sponsoring today's video. It truly was a pleasure to work with these products. I really enjoyed them so I will have the link down below where you guys can shop nova beauty and all of these beautiful lip products. Let me know what colors spoke to you and which ones you're interested in picking up. Thank you so much for liking this video and subscribing to my channel and I will catch you guys in the next one. I've been wearing these lip products for like the last month and haven't been able to disclose them in my description box so now I'm happy that I can. But yeah, just have a good one.


Hey Psych2Goers, and welcome back to our channel. Thank you so much for all the love you've given us. Your ongoing support helps us make psychology and mental health more accessible to everyone. Now let's continue. When you think of finding the one, what type of person comes to mind?  Modern media really pushes the idea of finding that perfect person. While indulging in the rom-com fantasy can be fun and exciting, being in a relationship is not a requirement for happiness. Relationships are a personal choice, and the one you hold with yourself is the most important one of all. With that being said, do you wonder why you haven't met your other half yet? Here are 6 reasons why you haven't found the one yet. 1. You lack self-love What does self-love actually mean? In its simplest form, it means to value yourself and to make you and your needs a priority. It means acknowledging that you aren't perfect and being able to see each personal shortfall as an opportunity to become a better you. You might have heard that you can't love someone else if you don't love yourself first, and there is some truth to this. Expecting all the love from your person to come from someone else can create dependency and it isn't healthy. 2. You are not ready to date Do you find that maybe you're not ready to seriously start dating yet? Do you want to focus on your education, your career, or your family right now? Making this decision is a personal one, and it's not a bad thing. If your instincts are to prioritize your personal goals for the time being, that's okay. For one, a relationship does come along, you'll be better equipped to put all your effort into that other person. 3. You've been pursuing the wrong people Are you struggling to find any luck in your dating life? Before you start blaming yourself, consider why the relationship with those people didn't work out. Remember that the point of dating is to judge compatibility between two people, and there's no shame in stopping a relationship there. When you love and value yourself, you'll learn to say no to relationships that might not be healthy for you, so that the right one will come along. When one door closes, another always opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been open for us. 4. You haven't put yourself out there While there's nothing wrong with having a reserved or shy personality, it could be a factor in why you haven't met the one yet. Finding your perfect partner starts with social connection. If you've been holding out on going to social events with friends in exchange for more private affairs, this might be something to consider. Who knows what might happen when you step out of your comfort zone? 5. You're stuck in the past It's hard to date someone new when you're still thinking about your past relationships. It's natural to compare a new relationship to your previous one, but you might compromise your current relationship in doing so. This prevents you from getting to know your new partner and might be holding you back from them. 6. You have unrealistic expectations What is your outlook on other people? Do you have high expectations for your future partner? Maybe your vision for an ideal partner leaves little room for error. Every one of us is flawed and prone to mistakes. Just because they don't check all your boxes doesn't mean they won't be a wonderful person. Wherever you are in your romantic life, we hope you find someone who honors you for all that you are. Your special someone will come along eventually. Did you relate to any of the reasons mentioned in this video? If so, what do you plan to do differently? Tell us in the comments below. If you find this video helpful, please like and share this video with someone who might benefit from it too. The studies and references used are listed in the description below. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and notification bell icon for more Psych2Go videos. Thank you for watching. We'll see you next time.


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All right, for the first time since the early 1960s when Mao starved millions and millions of his own population, the population of China is actually showed a decline. Now let me just say that this is assuming we believe Chinese numbers because it is indeed hard to tell what is actually going on in China and they are demographers and they are commentators out there claiming that China's population, Peter Zeen in particular, that China's population has been declining for several years now, but according to official Chinese statistics, for the first time since the early 1980s, China's population fell by 850,000 people to 1.41 billion and the country had 9.56 million booths, 10.41 million deaths and population shrinking, young people 16 to 59, you could think of it as working age population has also gone down to 62% from 62.5%. I mean, these are significant numbers, the expectation is that this will continue, that this will continue significantly until in the 2021, so a tiny little increase in population. Now part of this is COVID, but COVID, you know, we'll see I think the impacts of COVID more in the 2023 numbers, China is announcing as declared the 60,000, they had 60,000 COVID deaths between December 8th and January 12th, but nobody believes that number, everybody who looks at what's happening in Chinese hospitals and what's happening in Chinese cities believes the number is much, much larger than that, maybe 10 to 20 times larger than that. Very few people, China has a foreign workforce, but they don't count those in the population because foreigners, I don't think foreigners can become Chinese, but they also have, you know, one of their big problems is where they're gonna have to allow some immigration is that they have way too many men and too few women, so as a consequence of the one child policy, not only did they gain a shrinking population, one child is not enough for a placement, but they also, there was a lot of self-selecting for boys over girls, so what happens is that there's an entire, I think two generations of Chinese, where there are way more men than women, and therefore they're not going to be able to have that many kids at all because there's just not of marriages unless they allow immigration of women into the country for the purposes of marriage, which they might do, who knows, I don't think they have done, but they might do in the future. There are foreign workers by million in southern China, and certainly in place like Shanghai, but they don't count them in these statistics, and they don't count them as immigrants, as technically immigrants. The other thing that was announced this week is that China reported its lowest GDP number in, I think the only other year was 2020, that COVID year at 3% for 2022, it's much lower than previous Chinese government targets, it's significant lower than the high growth rate of China's last 40 years. I think American investors and European investors, or generally investors, are pouring a lot of money right now into China, into Chinese markets, into Chinese companies under the assumption that now that China's opened up, and now in a sense that they're getting COVID out of their system, that what's going to happen as a consequence is the Chinese economy is going to boom, and we're going to go back to the good old days, and this is a great time to be investing in China. Let me just say I'm skeptical, I think that slower economic growth is what's installed for China in the future, at least as long as Xi maintains his commitment to central planning. I think it's probably foolhardiedly to jump in with such enthusiasm as it seems like foreign investors are. Now a lot of times the foreign investors, it's funny because a lot of the foreign investors investing in China tend to be Taiwanese, for example, or Chinese from overseas. Taiwanese should know better than anybody, and it's funny that Taiwan being under constant threat of Chinese invasion is maybe the biggest investor in mainland China, one of the biggest investors in mainland China, per capita, certainly the biggest investor in mainland China, and making it possible for them to build up the resources that would make an invasion of Taiwan possible. It's a bizarre world in which we live, in which the victims are constantly sanctioning the aggressors and constantly supporting the aggressors. So that's just a little bit more in China. I'm sure we'll be talking more in China as the year develops. There's going to be a lot of foreign policy and economic issues that China is going to be involved in, and of course it's going to be interesting to see how COVID ultimately lands up playing out in China. Chinese population shrinking, as I told you it would, and that's going to accelerate. And by the way, that is expanding population is pro-growth, economic growth, just a pure growth perspective. Shrinking population is a challenge for growth. So it's going to be interesting to see how China deals with these challenges. It's going to try to bribe people to have kids, but that doesn't seem to work and doesn't seem to work anyway in the modern world. You can do that by going to youronbrookshow.com slash support by going to Patreon, subscribe star, locals, and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those channels. 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Before we begin today's business, on behalf of all members and staff of the Parliament, I would like to express our concern and to send our very best wishes to His Majesty the King. His Majesty's openness in making this announcement regarding his health will help to raise awareness of cancer, which affects so many. We wish His Majesty a full and speedy recovery. The next item of business this afternoon is time for reflection, and our time for reflection leader today is Reverend Dorothy Wallace, the Parish Minister, Westlock Fineside Parish Church. Members of the Scottish Parliament, thank you for inviting me here today to share a few thoughts. What an honour. The book of Genesis at chapter 2 has some of the soundest advice for us in the busy 21st century. And on the seventh day God finished the work he had done. How many of us are guilty of seeing busyness as a badge of honour? That we are lesser people if we take our time off, if we take our time to rest. Business has become a national pastime, a national sport almost. We seem to have a need for constantly doing. Of course hard work is to be admired. We all have our roles to fill in making this a great nation in which to live. We each have our roles to play in making this happen. And there will always be times when we are unavoidably busy. Times when we won't always manage our day off much less too and forget about a 40-hour week. But those times should be the exception, not the rule. Winter time was traditionally for the human race at downtime. A time for resting up for the lighter, warmer months. For the busy soil digging, crop planting, harvesting. A time to take advantage of the longer nights, cosying in and making the best of it. Every autumn I promise myself that a couple of nights a week I will practice the Danish craft of Huga. A time to cosy in. Comfy pyjamas, the candles lit, devices off and a good book. A big mug of tea or whatever. Fill the hot water bottle and put it under the duvet in time for an early bed. In fact fill two hot water bottles one for your feet reclined under a cosy throw. Indulge the senses. Rest up. Alas I am as bad as the next person for failing to adhere to the Huga life as often as I would prefer. But as servants of our country, or in my case my small rural community, it is vital we do rest up. We cannot after all serve from an empty vessel. So I ask that you all take any chance you can to rest up. And working on your laptop on the sofa is not rest. Rest up when you can. Prepare your minds and bodies for the busier times. Make the most of these last few weeks of winter. May I end with words from Jesus? The Sabbath was made for humankind, not humankind for the Sabbath. May you each be blessed with Sabbath rest.


And news from other parts of Africa, two transgender women in Cameroon have opened up about the five-month experience in prison. They described it as hell, saying they were initially forced to sleep with chains around their legs. Shakiro and Patricia left to Alice and were released after a judge ordered them freed until a court called here an appeal of their five-year sentences. They were arrested on February 8th for wearing women's clothing in a restaurant, and they were then convicted of attempted homosexuality, public indecency and failing to carry identification. Human rights activists say the arrest reflect a growing criminalisation of sexual minorities in Cameroon. Their appeal will be heard in September.  Because the day we step our foot in prison, we put on chains on our legs, something that is not normal. We had chains, they had to chain our legs. Big chains with locks on our legs. That day, we slept with those chains and we paid money for them to remove the chains. Here in Duala, we continue because we keep pressing. We have a good number of them that are still in prison, close to 304. They will keep pressing on their case for them to be released and we ask the government to look on it again to say this is not necessary for police to be arrested simply because of their passive or real sexual orientation and I think in 2011, the president made a solemn comment on that, that people's privacy should not be something to be debated in public and I don't know why some police or state magistrates could not see that and respect it because this is the whole situation that we want to call a public debate on it.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question which says Find the degree measure corresponding to the following gradient measures first is 11 upon 16 So first let us learn that pi radians is equal to 180 degree since if we have a circle with center O Then it subtends at the center an angle whose radian measure is 2 pi and Degree measure is 360 so we have 2 pi radians is equal to 360 degree Which implies that pi radian is equal to 180 degree So this is the relation between radian and degree also One degree is equal to 60 minutes and One minute is equal to 60 seconds So these are not ideas with the help of which all the above problems. So these are the ideas Let us now begin with the solution and we have 11 upon 16 radian Now since pi radian is equal to 180 degrees So what radian is equal to 180 upon pi degrees therefore 11 upon 16 radian Will be equal to 11 upon 16 into 180 degrees upon pi and now since pi is equal to 22 upon 7 Therefore, we have 11 upon 16 into 180 degrees upon 22 into 7 which is further equal to 3465 upon 88 and now let us divide 3465 by 88 88 into 3 is 264 and it is the remainder when 264 is subtracted from 346 Now we have 5 88 into 9 is 792 And now the remainder is 33 Now this 33 is in degrees which is equal to 33 into 60 minutes and Multiplying 33 with 60 we get 1 9 8 0 minutes Now let us divide 1 9 8 0 by 88 88 into 2 is 176 And subtracting we have 22 so 220 and 88 into 2 is 176 And subtracting we have 44 is the remainder which is 44 minutes which is equal to 44 into 60 seconds Which is equal to 2640 seconds Now let us divide 2640 seconds by 88 And we have Fraser 264 into 0 and the remainder is 0 so 11 upon 16 degrees is equal to 39 degrees 22 minutes 30 seconds So the answer is 39 degrees 22 minutes and 30 seconds So this completes the session. Hope you enjoyed it. Take care and have a good day


Yeah, welcome back. So before the break, we were looking at the first few verses in first Thessalonians chapter 1 Paul talks about these Thessalonian believers who are producing work Which is a result of faith So these people are not just working with monetary or material benefits in mind Their work is rather being produced by the faith which they have placed in Christ So their focus is on him. They're working for him and moreover Whatever work that they are producing it is something that is That is a product of faith in the sense God is giving them the ability that they need The talents and skill that they need to be able to work for him So it's being something that is being done by his power by his enabling grace and it is being done for him So in that sense, it is a work produced by faith So when we examine ourselves, we can ask ourselves the work that I am doing for God It may be something as simple as you know as as volunteering in the mornings at church You know before before the church service so many things need to be done So many things have to be put in place. So you may be doing something as simple as that But is your work produced by faith? Is the is the focus of your work to you know earn the respect of the church members? Or are you doing that work just to honor him and please him? In the same way the work that you know that you're doing it may be as Something as simple as know ringing up people and praying for them encouraging them. Are you doing it? Depending upon the Lord for his enabling grace for his annoying thing, or are you just doing it out of your self-confidence? So work that is produced by faith where Jesus is the focus and where Jesus is the enabler Who's helping you to do it if that is the way that your work is being produced Then oh that will be a work that will have eternal fruit You will definitely get a reward for it One day because this work has not been produced through self Effort but through dependence on God and it has been produced with him as the focus to please him to honor him Not to you know earn the approval of the church people so Our work should be produced by faith the second point that he Paul makes regarding these believers. He says about the love which they have for all God's people and the wording he uses is Labor prompted by love If the labor prompted by love so that word if you look in the first portion It talks about work produced by faith then it talks about labor prompted by love that word work It's just tasks which you are doing on the other hand that other word labor It's talking about something much more strenuous than just work So the Greek word which is used for work I think is the word. Yeah word ergon On the other hand the Greek word that is being used for labor is the word corpus Corpus talks about working so hard that you actually grow tired Ergon on the other hand it's just a task that you're doing. I mean you're doing it faithfully You're doing it sincerely it honors God that is good But corpus is talking about effort where you literally get exhausted doing it So these people are laboring out of love, you know that labor which they are putting in for God is Prompted by love for God and love for people So a second thing that we can ask ourselves is in what what kind of a love am I exercising? Is it a love that is literally laboring for God, you know working to the point of exhaustion for God And is it a love that really is serving people to an extent where you know, you grow tired so The these people they worked did their tasks through faith and They labored in love for God and for God's people and the third thing which Paul points out regarding them Is the endurance which has been inspired by hope? so We get we see later on in the letter that they have gone through intense suffering and persecution and Financially they are in a very bad condition. They're dirt poor. That's the condition that they are in So what is helping them to endure? It is the hope which they have that Jesus will will come he will collect them and he will reward them That is the hope that they are holding on to and that is giving them the the Energy and the strengths that they need to continue living and not going back into the world so This is something that you know, we can really learn from when we are feeling you know Kind of drained out or when we are feeling low We need to ask ourselves, you know, how can I renew my hope? so Renewing of hope is done through the power of the Holy Spirit We have that scripture Which talks about how you know, the Holy Spirit causes us to overflow with hope I put it down somewhere in my notes and I'm not able to find it Because that verse is Something that we can hold on to at times when we are feeling low I mean imagine these Thessalonian believers were in such a bad condition, you know I mean their situation was so Desperate and in spite of all of that persecution It talks about them in in second Corinthians chapter 8 Versus 1 to 7 where it talks about the Philippian believers and the Thessalonian believers there It says that in the midst of very severe trial They had overflowing joy is what it says. So how from where did this overflowing joy come? That was a result of the work of the Holy Spirit in them The Holy Spirit produced in them and overflowing hope and an overflowing joy Yeah, looks like I've not written down the reference over here But yeah later if you oh Yes, Romans 15 13 Okay, so Romans 15 13 is the reference where Paul says to the Romans May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him So that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit So when we are feeling low when we are feeling discouraged What do we do? We say Lord? Yes, right now circumstances look very very bleak and dark But I choose to trust in you so from your side all you are expected to do is to you know Stand upon those Bible verses and believe that those Bible verses are true that God does not lie And so you say Lord even though I'm feeling discouraged. I choose to trust in you And when you take that simple step the God of hope will fill you With all joy and peace. It's something that he will divinely do inside your spirit so Even though your circumstances haven't changed you will start feeling a relief and a Assurance and a peace inside because the Holy Spirit has done that inside you So because of that it says in Romans 15 13 so that you may overflow with hope By the power of the Holy Spirit these people these Thessalonians and the Philippians They had an overflowing joy in the midst of toughest Persecution by the power of the Holy Spirit They put a childlike trust in God that what Jesus has promised he will do he will come one day He will you know collect them and take them to heaven They had that simple childlike trust and because they continued to hold on with that simple trust God did a divine miracle inside them He took people who in that in that very very serious condition and he filled them with all joy and peace and Caused them to overflow with joy with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit So when we are feeling down we can compare ourselves with the Thessalonians and tell ourselves if in their Circumstances they could overflow with joy It should be much easier for us to overflow with joy in our Circumstances and the same Holy Spirit who enabled them to respond in that way Because you know the Holy Spirit does not discriminate discriminate between his believers All of them will be given the same privilege so in the same way he caused them to overflow with hope and joy He will cause even us to overflow with hope and joy So we can claim the scripture and say Lord what you did for them you do for for me as well So we don't have to continue staying down. We don't have to continue feeling discouraged when you know when things go against us So whenever we catch ourselves in that in that mode know where we are feeling very low Immediately, let us know remember scriptures like this You know like Romans 15 13 and the scriptures which talk in second Corinthians which talks about the Thessalonian and Philippian believers Let's remind ourselves of these scriptures and tell ourselves if they could overflow with joy in their circumstances The Holy Spirit will do the same for me if I ask him and if I hold on to him No, so these these scriptures can give us Strength for our own situations All right, let's look at the third point about Okay, no, yeah, yeah, yeah Versus for onwards which have already been read out to us Here Paul says we know brothers and sisters That our gospel came to you not simply with words But also with power with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction So when Paul and his team Preached to these Thessalonians. They didn't just simply regard these as human words Rather, they accepted them as a message being given directly by God to them So in those days The way you made a speech Showed that you either were talented or you were not talented In fact, no, if you if you remember There were people who criticized Paul's teaching style They said, huh, he's not as good as Apollos and we listen to Apollos It's like it's like listening to one of those Greek philosophers, you know, it's like really grand But Paul on the other hand doesn't sound that nice So in those days the Greek oratorial style that speech You know style which they used was considered something very good It's like the TED talks that we have today, you know, people admire the way the TED talks are given so Paul did not bother with those kind of Greek oratorial I know speech skills He simply in Plainest language talked about the cross talked about in what way the cross can apply to their lives and You know what they need to do to be able to benefit from the cross He just talked about this plain and simple things. He did not use the fancy Greek style of speaking and teaching and so because he used the simple words Something happened. It says the gospel came to these people with power with the Holy Spirit and Deep conviction. So you see if Paul had spent many hours Preparing some very wonderful Greek style Messages and sermons Maybe it really would not have had the impact that you know that his sermons did He chose to keep his words simple and by doing that he gave the Holy Spirit the opportunity To display his power He gave the Holy Spirit an opportunity to convict the people using the simple words, which he has used so It is good for us to Prepare, you know, when we are teaching or preaching and it is good for us to try and make it as simple and as plain as possible but Let our focus not be on Whether, you know, people are going to like it and admire it and praise us for it and whether we will you know be known as a talented speaker Let that not be the focus rather let our simple goal be How plain can I make this to my hearers so that they will understand what I'm trying to say And then the Holy Spirit can work inside their hearts and do something divine So if you know if I am trying to use all kinds of fancy language and all kinds of fancy Examples and people don't really catch the meaning of what I am saying Then the Holy Spirit will not be able to do his convicting work He'll not be able to release his power into the people So this is a very wonderful thing which Paul did by keeping things simple, you know And he in fact he talks about that in other places as well in first Corinthians Chapter 2 Versus 4 to 5. This is what he says over there He says my message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words But with a demonstration of the Spirit's power and so over there in that Corinthian passage He says so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom But on God's power if he had used impressive language and totally impressed them What would happen one week later when they're in the middle of a crisis and they're feeling very desperate and Satan is tempting them at that Time, you know all those fancy Words of the speech are not going to come to their mind All on the other hand if he had if he has used simple language to explain a few scriptures to them God will remind them of those scriptures in their time of crisis The Holy Spirit will bring to their remembrance those scriptures which were explained to them in simple language And the Holy Spirit will do his work of power Inside that believers life and that person will be able to overcome Satan in that time of crisis so let our focus always be on keeping things simple if God has given you the beautiful talent to also make your you know speech very beautiful and Meaningful at the same time excellent. I mean go ahead and and and use your gifting and may you flourish in it But if you don't have those fancy speaking skills Just let your effort be to keep it simple to keep it Plain so that the Holy Spirit can demonstrate his power through your simple teaching, you know, so Just the way Paul did that has also be simple in our teaching And as a result of that what happened it says in verse 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord for you Welcome the message in the midst of severe suffering with a joy given by the Holy Spirit So Because he kept things simple these people became imitators of the Lord They didn't just become fan followers of Paul Rather they became imitators of the Lord because nowadays what what is happening is that People are becoming fans of people who can speak well But are they becoming imitators of the Lord in the process? That is very very important.  That's good It's better than being the fan of some movie star So yes, it's good to be the fan of a preacher or an evangelist But is that evangelist causing you to become an imitator of the Lord? If that is happening then yes, you know the goal is achieved But if you're just just simply following The fancy words of people and those words are not turning you to Christ and causing you to take up your cross and follow him Then where's the point all those fancy words will just be empty sound, you know, which will accomplish nothing so So he says you know how we lived among you for your sake So first he used simple teaching second he used the teaching of a lifestyle He didn't just simply teach. He also lived it out and showed them by example How to be a Good believer So he says, you know, how we lived among you for your sake. They watched him I know because he lived among them. They didn't put him up in a hotel or an or a lodging facility He literally lived in their homes with them. So they got to see how he how he acts in different situations They got to see how he responds to, you know, tense situations By seeing and watching they learned from him. So they learned from his teaching. They also learned from his lifestyle So this is another important thing that we need to you know, adopt in our own ministries where it's not only our words Which are conveying something our lifestyle The words we use when we are interacting with people and the choices that we make and our actions also are teaching people something So that becomes very important. So because these people knew the way he lived among them They were willing to become imitators of him and imitators of the Lord, you know Whenever I read this I'm always reminded of something which one of our Family relatives, you know said they had put up some Preacher in their home. He had come for a conference for some three to four days So they invited him and he you know, he basically stayed with them in their home But the one thing that I'll always remember is that after he had gone, you know, they said what a bad tempered man He is we never knew that he's like that. I mean they were he was not very satisfied with what they could offer him So, you know, he was very irritated about their arrangements and their food preparations and this and that and So finally in the end, I mean Imagine I mean me who heard about this and that family of the family who with whom he stayed What impression are we going to have we have learned nothing from his sermons because now we know what he is actually like So sometimes more than our teaching our actions speak louder So it doesn't matter how beautifully that person spoke in the conference on those four or five days His actions showed, you know set a different standard for us, but it's okay for us to be irritable and Not be generous and not be, you know, kind That is what we walked away with those are the wrong learnings we walked away with, you know So it's very very important that we live in such a way that people would want to become imitators of us and of the Lord and So verse seven he says and so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia When he when he specifically mentions Macedonia and Achaia He's basically, you know saying the entire northern province of Greece and the entire southern province of Of Greece because Macedonia belong to the northern province and Achaia was the southern province So he is basically saying over here After watching us after listening to our simple teaching you became imitators of us and you became imitators of the Lord And by living in this very very exemplary manner You became a model to all the believers who are watching you throughout this, you know region of Greece I mean that's such a Amazing testimony that he's giving regarding these people the way they lived the work that they produced by faith The love that they showed God's people the hope that was prompted into the end of this that is prompted Yeah, the end here is it was prompted by hope all of these things Were done in such an exemplary manner that everyone wanted to imitate them So people throughout Greece all the churches throughout Greece were talking about them and their leaders were telling them Imitate those guys be like them in your faith be like them in your in your hope so look at the Teaching style of Paul and the vast, you know repercussions that it had The way he taught the simple manner in which he taught and the lifestyle that he lived among them That had such an impact on these people that they imitated him and they became models for an entire region So the simple things that we do can have you know a wave of effect Ripple effect and it can go on to accomplish much bigger things so if we are solid in our ministry and in our teaching and our personal walk People who are watching will get influenced and they will want to be like us and then they will become models For entire regions wherever they go So that little bit which I did in being faithful can have much wider Replications for the kingdom. Yes, these are all things that we these are practical lessons which we gain Even as we meditate on these scriptures So let's move into chapter 2 now in chapter 2 Paul is basically talking about two things The way he did his ministry and the way he was sincere and then he also praises these Thessalonian believers for their sincerity and for the way they lived Okay, so the basically this this chapter focuses on How ministry can be done sincerely and second how these Thessalonians really proved themselves to be excellent believers so If we could have someone read out for us maybe versus one two eight First the Thessalonians chapter two versus one two eight, please For you yourselves know brother in that our coming to you was not in vain But even after we had suffered before and the way I spent fully treated at Philippi As you know, we are bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much conflict for our Exaltation did not come from the seat or uncleanness Nor was it in guide but well But as we have been approved by God to be interested with the gospel even so we speak Not as pleasing men but God who tests our heart for neither at any time did we use fraturing words as You know, no a clock for Convicts ness God is witness now Did we seek glory from men either for you from you or From others when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ But we were gentle among you just as nothing mothers cherishes her own children amen amen So Now, you know Paul is talking about the way he ministered among them. He reminds them and he says After what we went through in Philippi we was scared to come and preach in Thessalonica, you know Like the opposition was so bad in Philippi In fact, we're only given one single example, you know right in the beginning when Paul and Silas got beaten up And then they were thrown into prison. We're only told about that one instance But it looks like they went through a lot more because he says over here We were treated outrageously in Philippi, which means they must have gone through a lot of persecution And so after that They were only able to be bold and be able to come and come to Thessalonica and preach because of the Strength which God gave he says with the help of our God We dare to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition So it was in that kind of a tense atmosphere Environment that they came into Thessalonica and preached the gospel and planted that church that church was not planted easily There's a lot of opposition. They must have felt a lot of tension at that time And so in the middle of that strong opposition, that's the wording that is used over here It says strong opposition in the face of strong opposition. This church was planted so It's only by the help of God, you know, that sometimes we can move forward in ministry There will be a position There will be comments negative comments unnecessary negative comments I mean, we may be doing our work faithfully and still, you know, people comment and people say Things which will make us feel discouraged So Paul in fact talks about that he says, you know He says the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives nor are we trying to trick you So because that's basically what the Jews must have been saying about him. No, they were they were making three allegations First they were saying that oh, what this man is preaching. It's full of error The second thing that they were saying is that the motives were impure Oh, maybe he wanted to make money from them. Maybe he wanted to get something out of them That's why he was ministering to them So, you know, they were making those kind of allegations saying that he had impure motives Thirdly, they were saying that he is using trickery to deceive them. So Paul says over here, you know, we lived among you So, you know for a fact that we did not use any of these tactics On the contrary, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel The word that is used over here approved. That's supposed to be the Greek word Dokimazo, which basically means approved by trial in the sense you test something You try it out. You have some trial rounds and then when that thing successfully Succeeds in those trial rounds, then you declare that product has approved So it's approval by trial not just simply, you know approval just like that So which means God has Tried these people these apostles tested them Examined them and after trying them and putting them through trials. Yes found them to be solid He has found them to be completely reliable and so it's it's not just an approval Which has just been given just like that It's an approval which they have gone through trials and proved Themselves to be no worthy of that kind of an approval so What kind of a trial and testing was done it says we are not trying to please people but God Who tests our hearts? So God was throughout testing their hearts to see what kind of motives they had He was testing their heart to hearts to see, you know Do they have a burden for the people that they are serving? It was testing their hearts to see Are they going to be tempted by you know? Pay or from by any kind of material benefits or will they selflessly give themselves to the people? Even if the people can't give them anything back and return so God was testing them on all these levels and he found them worthy of approval and So he entrusted them with the gospel So a question that we can ask ourselves is when God tests my heart and sees the voluntary work that I do in the church You see approving of it with more with more what motives am I doing that voluntary work? With what attitude am I doing it? Am I doing it in a very grumbly manner or am I doing it? No cheerfully? So all of these things got desks our hearts to see in what way we are serving him with what attitude we are serving him and based on that he will either declare us as approved or he will you know Encourages and urges to improve you know to catch up so that you know He can declare us as approved. God doesn't disqualify anyone when he when he sees someone who has failed He will encourage them. He will correct them. He will warn them. He will give them a boost You know help them to get back on their feet. So Either he will declare us up as approved and say yes, I totally am pleased with the way You're you know serving me or he may say I'm not satisfied with the way you're serving me It's time for you to improve so he will correct us He will show us in what areas we have to make a change But he will never just disqualify us and dismiss us that we know he would never do so these are missionaries who have you know Proved themselves as being Trustworthy to be entrusted with the gospel. So they have conducted themselves in that pleasing manner So he goes on to say you know, we never used flattery and he says not Would not did we put on a mask to cover up greed? And he says we were not looking for praise from people not from you or anyone else Even though as apostles of Christ, we could have asserted our authority So in fact, he clarifies what he means by this later on What did he mean about you know the Apostles who can actually assert our authority if we want to is actually talking about the financial angle So as Apostles appointed by Christ himself They could have said, you know, you you be Deserved to be supported financially by you they could have made that claim Because after all they have been appointed by Christ to do this task But they choose not to use this privilege and they choose to support themselves on their own by doing part-time jobs Because we know right I mean Paul was a tent maker and then the other people on his team probably, you know Took up different jobs to support themselves so that the Thessalonian Believers don't have to shell out any money to look after them. So they supported themselves So he says in verse 7 instead, we were like young children among you In the sense, you know, young children are innocent So he's saying in the same way young children are innocent of any crime. We have proved ourselves innocent We have not used flattery. We have not tried to get anything You know money out of you.  You have to repay me for all the effort I put in no no Nursing mother will ever do that. I mean Mother doesn't you know hold accounts and write down Okay, I spent this many hours and so on the so-and-so day and I spent this many hours on washing the child's clothes How ridiculous that would be a mother Ministers to the child out of love So Paul says we didn't keep an account of what we did for you and when we did it and how long we did it We did it out of love the same way a nursing mother deeply cares for her child If you ask that mother, oh, how long did you stay up in the night? She'll probably not even know how long she stayed up You know she a mother just acts out of love. It's not a business like arrangement So Paul says in that manner we cared for you and He says because we loved you so much. We were delighted to share with you Not only the gospel of God, but our lives as well. I Mean this is Not something that I have not a standard. I have reached I can just very plainly say that They just didn't share the gospel. They shared their lives with those people Literally lived with them suffered with them worked along with them. I Mean it's amazing these These missionaries truly deserve to be called ministers of God Way that they just didn't give service. They didn't they didn't just give gospel They didn't just give teaching. They didn't just give ministry. They literally gave themselves their lives That is really a high calling and I think that's probably what God really wants from all of us Where you don't just give ministry to the people you also give yourself Where you literally live with them suffer with them? Share with them in their joys and their sorrows So then you know, you can imagine how open they will be to anything that you have to teach Because now you're literally with them and living with them and walking with them They'll be much more open to anything that you have to share Rather than if you're just you know standing on the stage and just talking down to them So these people were not stage personalities these missionaries Literally lived with the people that they were ministering to so he says when verse nine Surely you remember brothers and sisters our toil and hardship We worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone and that were word that is used over there We worked night and day That's the word Walk on or something of that kind MOCHTHON So this is this is not the other word, you know where it talks about the labor of love Nor is it that work produced by faith work produced by faith was Ergon, which is just the tasks Labor of love was something harder more difficult. It was corpus where you know, you're you're you're really putting in a lot of effort And you it may even lead to exhaustion. This is an even more severe word Mokhton This is the kind of work which they did night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone Because you see basically Paul would have to balance his Tent-making, you know, they didn't exactly have machines in those days It's not like as you you put the fabric into a you know into the machine and the machine produces the tent Everything was had to be done by hand, you know like literally from scratch in those days No machinery no industrial revolution back then So Paul would have to spend enough time to make those tents to be able to actually go and sell it and you know earn money And he would have to take care of ministry responsibilities And he would have to spend time with the Lord because without spending time with the Lord his ministry would be highly weak So and he only had 24 hours So he these people they he and his team literally worked night and day To be able to balance these three things ministry and earning a livelihood and You know spending enough time with it with the Lord to you know Have his backup and have his strength and have his anointing Amazing people this is truly a very high calling and this is the kind of ministry that we are all called to So whenever I come across passages like this, you know, I just plainly say to the Lord It's true Lord. I am I'm definitely not at this level But Lord in one day in the future, you may want me to be like this So even from now start preparing me or Lord, you know Fine tune my attitudes Cut away from me the wrong things which need to be cut away start preparing me from now Oh Lord so that when the time comes for me to know to give myself the way these people gave Themselves to the ministry I will be ready So it there's no harm in being Frank with the Lord the Lord already knows at what stage we are So if you have not reached this level, it's quite alright to plainly humble ourselves in front of him and say Lord I have not reached this level, but I know that one day you will probably expect this from me You know situation may be such that where I will actually have to work night and day to serve So from now onwards itself Lord if you can start removing everything from the from my life that needs to be gone The Lord will start, you know doing doing doing that work of purification He will start cutting out those things which need to be cut out and it can be quite painful But if you can cooperate with him and start changing into a more Christ-like person Then when the time comes for you to work in this mock thorn No mode night and day you will be ready You will be ready to step into those shoes and do what God wants you to do So this is something that we need to aspire towards and we can ask the Lord to help us Become like that and he will do it for us. Okay, so so Paul says you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children What are the three things that a father should do? You know a spiritual father and also maybe just a biological father three very interesting things mentioned here Encouraging comforting urging you to live life's worthy of God So this is the three things which Paul did for his Thessalonian believers he encouraged them he comforted them and he urged them Encouraging and comforting, you know, it's easy enough to understand the third word which is used over there in the Greek Is Marthuromai that literally is actually the word which you use for testifying witnessing So what does he mean when he says that I have dealt with you like, you know Like as if you were my own children encouraging you comforting you and Testifying What does he mean? Basically the third point is talking about how he took examples from his own life Testimonies, you know, witness he witnessed about things which he had experienced in his life and used those Examples to teach them how they can live in their own lives So which means he in fact had that many personal experiences and examples to share with them So we who are in ministry who are serving the Lord do we have our own collection of Testimonies which we can witness about and tell people see this is the way God helped me. I was very weak and Backslidden in this particular area and this is how God built me up. This is what I did I fasted I spent this much time on the scriptures These are the scriptures which I meditated upon and then when I went through this process God began to bring me out of this Practical testimonies like that can be highly helpful in Ministering to the children God has given you the spiritual children that God has placed under you So you speak out of your life you testify what God has done in your life How he has worked in you how he has helped you to overcome different things step by step and Then even I know as they learn from you what God has done for you. He will do even for them so These are the three things that Paul did in mentoring the people that God had placed under him Was 13 and We also thank God continually because when you receive the word of God which you had heard okay that we've already covered Yeah, it says you accepted it not as a human word But as it actually is the word of God which is indeed at work in you who believe The word that is used over there in verse 13 To talk about the word of God which is at work in you, you know, that's that word Energeo it talks about how the word of God Energeo inside the believer it energizes him it activates something inside him So when a believer accepts the word of God not just as a human word But as a message directly from the Lord and Places their faith in that word and they choose to act upon that word even if it involves sacrifice when they Act upon God's word in that manner It does something inside the person that word of God it Works inside you it Energeo inside you it releases something in you it activates something inside you So there's power in the word of God When we choose to believe it not just as a human advice But as the command of the Lord as the promise of God as the Prophecy that God is speaking over you when we accept it as divine God's word Then that word of God it works inside you it activates something So we should accept the word of God as coming from him directly and no and not just dismiss the word of God and say Oh, what is that preacher? No, because sometimes we do that we listen to something from the pulpit and we say What is the preacher? No, and we dismiss God's word So the Thessalonian believers did not do that. They didn't say our what is Paul? No, they did not say that they accepted what Paul was teaching as the word of God and as a result That word of God it Energeo inside them it activated something inside them It energized and released something inside of them and know it completely changed their lives All right, we only have a few minutes left Yes, we can squeeze in one last thought because in verse 14 he says for you brothers and sisters became imitators of God's churches in Judea Which are in Christ Jesus you suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews Because one thing that we know about the church in Jerusalem They were under attack day and night from the Jewish community. I mean at least here in Thessalonica the number of Jews available would be limited But for the for the for those people those believers who are literally in Jerusalem surrounded by Jews Their family members would be Jews their relatives would be Jews They would have gone through hell Because you see the Jews were very angry when people became followers of Jesus and abandoned the mosaic covenant So they would have been thrown out of their jobs. They would have lost their jobs They would not be invited for any social event They would be treated like dirt by their own relatives and family members That Jerusalem church would have gone through a lot So Paul in fact places these Thessalonian believers on level with those Jerusalem believers and he says in the same way those Believers suffered among the Jews you guys have suffered among your own people So that's a very high compliment that he's giving to the Thessalonian believers All right, there's so much more to say but we will stop over here and of course we will continue in the next class Yeah, let's close with the word of prayer Lord even as we Read this letter to the Thessalonians. It just pricks our hearts a lot It convicts our hearts and it lays before us A model an example that you want us to follow There's so much a lot said in this letter That you would like us to imitate So we pray oh lord that even as we look to you and even as we make a choice to Co-operate with you you will begin to do your divine work in us a lot Change us a lot so that we will become like these Missionaries and we will become like these Thessalonian believers We pray oh lord that even as we look to you and trust in you and place our hope in your word You would cause us to overflow with hope and joy You would fill us with your joy and peace So that lord no matter how difficult the christian walk becomes No matter how many sacrifices we have to make We will be willing to do it because we are overflowing with joy in christ We are overflowing with the hope that is awaiting us in heaven Oh lord in the same way you worked in the lives of these people and made them into such amazing spiritual giants Do the same thing in our lives today. Oh lord that today We too in apc can be spiritual giants We will not be a weak church But we will be a church that jesus christ would look upon with approval And say that he is pleased with us And lord we pray that you would do that for all of our students in all of their churches Wherever you have placed them Lord we ask for you to work divinely in all of us. Thank you lord in jesus name amen amen. Thank you so much


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When Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong gave them about a 50-50 chance of successfully completing the lunar landing goal. But actually landing on the moon wasn't the only part of the mission that risked turning sour. One part of the mission that was completely vital was firing the Ascent Stage, the stage of the lunar module responsible for getting Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin off the lunar surface at the end of their stay. NASA did have a contingency in place in case the astronauts were stranded on the moon, but it wasn't a rescue. NASA had prepared a statement for President Nixon to read celebrating the brave men who gave their lives to fulfill President Kennedy's lunar landing goal. One core question at the beginning of the Apollo program was how safe is safe enough when you're talking about doing something like sending man a quarter of a million miles away to walk in an airless environment? None of the NASA higher ups was about to delude himself into thinking that 100% reliability was feasible. Engineers are human and they do make mistakes, so management settled on an acceptable failure rate of 0.01%, meaning 99.9% of the time every system would function perfectly. It was a safety rule known as three nines. Of all the systems onboard the spacecraft, the engines were arguably the most important. Almost everything failed on Apollo 13, but having one good engine allowed the crew to get into a free return trajectory and return home safely. But there was always that slim 0.01% chance that one of the engines would fail, and if the Ascent Engine of the lunar module failed, the crew would be stranded on the moon. As permission contingency rules, Mike Collins would return to Earth alone, leaving Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to die on the lunar surface. If this were to come to pass, President Nixon would first call the widows to be Armstrong and Aldrin's wives, and then address the crew and the nation and the world publicly by a live broadcast. Fate has ordained that these men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery, but they also know that there is hope for mankind and their sacrifice. Those two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal, the search for truth and understanding. NASA would probably have kept in touch with Armstrong and Aldrin as they ran out of oxygen in the lunar module. After the final transmission with the crew, a clergyman would have taken over the broadcast from NASA and gone through the procedures of a burial, commending the astronaut souls to the deep and concluding with the Lord's prayer. But as we know, the Ascent Engine of Apollo 11's lunar module Eagle did fire, and Armstrong and Aldrin were able to safely rejoin Mike Collins in the command module and all three astronauts splashed down on Earth on July 24th, 1969. You're not too late to jump into the live tweet that I'm doing of Apollo 11's mission. Follow me as AST Vintage Space on Twitter to get blow-by-blow updates of the mission as they happened in real time with a 45-year delay. I'll be going all the way through Splashdown on July 24th. Leave your questions and comments below and don't forget to subscribe.


Russia's attack on NATO. Expert names condition and several scenarios. Russia could potentially launch an attack on NATO countries if it has the resources for another military conflict besides the ongoing war against Ukraine. This could occur following the so-called Crimean scenario. However, such an attack could unfold through several scenarios beyond the Crimean one. According to Oleksandr Musienko, the head of the Center for Military Legal Studies, the type of war considered is crucial. While a full-scale aggression, like the one seen in the war with Ukraine, is unlikely, a conflict following the Crimean scenario is entirely feasible. If we take a war with the use of aviation, long-range missiles, cyber attacks, provoking unrest within NATO countries, with little green men who can land in a conventional Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia, then it is possible. The entire Russian military machine is preparing to wage a war against NATO. Musienko said in a commentary to RBC Ukraine, According to the analyst, there are several conflict scenarios between NATO and Russia, one of which is the previously mentioned Crimean scenario. For example, a month or two later in Latvia, where there is a Russian-speaking community, some kind of unrest begins during which helicopters from Belarus arrive, from which little green men land and begin to support the unrest. At this time, NATO will try to decide whether it was Russia that attacked or some terrorists, he explained. Another scenario, according to Musienko, is an attempted Russian landing on Gotland, the largest Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, using the Baltic Sea as a base. Alternatively, Russian ships could block Denmark's exit to the Baltic Sea to see how NATO would react, whether it would shell the Russian ships or try to force them back to the Baltic Sea. Russian aggression towards Poland is totally possible, the expert believes. Such aggression is always considered from two potential directions, Belarus and Kaliningrad and, accordingly, this Swalki corridor. This is the most threatening direction, he explained.