82 years old still going strong now as coach of Kaiser University in the Fort Lauderdale area gets on this court and he's just rolling that's me know it's just coach together together makes you good we might be the Cinderella story like coach had 32 years ago you kids got to totally believe that I got in that court so we're gonna do it he's been through so much and he's still going through so much we got to go for coach we got to when adversity strikes the true guy comes out


Ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by wishing us all gathered here today, mainly of our two federations of trade unions, the Nigerian Labour Congress, and the Trade Union Congress, a happy celebration of the May Day in solidarity with organized labour, the World Rover. I salute and pay tribute to you all, Nigerian workers and working families. It is your hard work, innovation, resilience and patriotism that has helped to build this nation to the place of greatness that it currently occupies. I must also seize this opportunity to acknowledge the historical contributions of the Nigerian working people and organized labour to the political, economic, social and cultural development of our nation. The Nigerian organized labour has always been in the forefront of the push for a better Nigeria from the struggles for independence right through to the climate for the restoration of democracy and the last 19 years for the sustenance of the freedoms guaranteed by our democracy. I must also say that the Nigerian organized labour has contributed largely and actively to what's helping Nigeria get out in record time from an economic recession, which bedevilled us especially through 2016. This administration has remained committed to improving the welfare of the Nigerian people. When we came into office, at least 22 states were owing salaries, some for a whole year. If you recall in November 2015, the president said and I quote, all my life I've always earned a salary. So I understand what it means when your salary is not paid or when it is not enough. Just last year, the president speaking to governors visiting him again went back to the issue of salaries and he said I don't know how any of you can go to sleep at night knowing that your workers have not been paid. The president's concern for workers is not theoretical or rhetorical, but one that is born out of experience and respect for the sweat of the working classes. This is why we evolve mechanisms to bail out all the 36 states of the federation to the tune of 1.91 trillion so far, including Paris Club repayments in recognition of the shortfalls in their finances arising in particular from the oil shocks of 2015 and 2016. We have extended this support regardless of party affiliation to enable the state settle the backlog of arrears and salaries and pensions of workers. At the inauguration of the National Economic Council in 2015, President Buhari publicly declared that our administration will support every state because poverty is no respect of ethnic group, party affiliation or religion. While we do recognize that the payment of salaries and pensions is essential, we are also conscious of the fact that the increasing cost of living and the recognition to ensure a fair and decent living wage has rendered the minimum wage instrument currently which is currently enforced obsolete. Accordingly, President Buhari on November 27, 2017 inaugurated a tripartite national minimum wage committee to negotiate the national minimum wage for our workers. As you are all aware, the subject of the national minimum wage for the federation is within the exclusive legislative list of the 1999 constitution, which means that it is the responsibility primarily of the federal government. Although there are arguments regarding fixing minimum wage in a federation such as ours, it is the responsibility of government to establish the necessary social protection for all Nigerian workers based on the ability of each chair of government to pay. The argument for a national minimum wage therefore cannot be falsified because the minimum wage is the minimum amount of compensation that an employee must receive for putting in these or her labor and as such it should be anchored on the principles of social justice, equity and fairness. We believe that those who can pay, we believe that those who can pay about the social protection floor are free to do so as many have been doing in many states and sectors of the economy. This administration has no intention of presiding over the dismantling of the gains of organized labor through the years especially almost four decades ago. It is our hope therefore that the tripartite committee comprising government, labor and the private sector will expedite its assignment to enable the federal government present an executive deal on a new national minimum wage to the national assembly for passage into law as soon as possible. In the meantime, the federal government and the state governments will continue to work together to improve the conditions of workers across the country. Great Nigerian workers, it will be belaboring the point to say that a viral organized labor is a vital institution for our nation at every point in its development. In our political and democratic evolution, a viral labor is a sign equivalent. In the interest of the men and women of our society who need a voice to speak loudly against economic or social injustice, labor must remain united. Let me seize this opportunity once again to reiterate this administration's commitment to the unity of the Nigerian organized labor, to serve as a bullwork against the visit forces internally and externally. Accordingly, it is my advice that the Nigerian labor movement must employ its leadership skills of conflict resolution and utilize all the internal mechanisms to resolve conflicts. Factionalization is not an option, it is not the answer. I must at this point appreciate the Nigerian labor movement for being a strong pillar of support for our anti-corruption agenda. The government recognizes the fact that indeed the first line real victims of corruption are Nigerian workers and working families along with the rural poor. They are the ones who suffer the most from the corruption of the political classes. It is regrettable that despite the enormous revenues that Nigeria has earned from oil in the recent past, we still have problems with payment of salaries and pensions of workers largely due to mismanagement and corruption. I assure you that under our administration we will ensure that we expand every cover of public funds towards securing the welfare of Nigerians. We will continue to demonstrate our commitment to the welfare of Nigerians by ensuring that we protect the socially excluded and the socially vulnerable. For the first time in the history of our country we are implementing a full social protection program through a youth employment scheme, NPAR, micro-credit to small businesses, conditional cash transfers to the poorest and a homegrown school feeding program. So far we have employed 200,000 graduates in our MPAR program and we are bracing up to do 300,000 more. Today we are feeding over 7 million children in 22 states and we employ 70,000 cooks. So far we have given 300,000, 362,000 micro-credit loans and our target is to give 1 million micro-credit loans especially to market women and artisans. We have also given over 300,000 of the poorest Nigerians our conditional cash transfers. Our target is to give this benefit to 1 million of the poorest. The issue of course is that every country of the size of Nigeria especially a developing country must have a social protection policy. We must have a safety net. The resources of the country must be used to protect those who either cannot work or are vulnerable or poor in ways that only those who experience it can imagine. It is our duty and we take it as a duty as a progressive government to ensure that we protect the poor and the vulnerable and this is the main objective of the programs that we have put in place. These programs have been targeted at the most vulnerable segments of our society. They are meant to ensure that we build a socially cohesive society in which the resources of the country work for all and will continue to apply public funds in such a way that no section of the country or segment of the population suffers socially in exclusion. This is the reason why we are prioritized agriculture in our economic planning. Our investment in the sector is paying off. Importation of rice has dropped to just 2 percent. Millions of farmers producing rice, sorghum, millet, tomatoes and other types of grain also are every day earning a decent decent returns on their investments. We will soon be self-sufficient in both rice and tomato paste. We will soon be self-sufficient in our food. As the president said we must grow what we eat. It is up to us to ensure that we are self-sufficient in food production and it's the duty of our government and we have considered it and we have considered it our historical task to ensure that we are able to provide food that is homegrown and that is available to all Nigerians for cheap. We have no choice but to reduce but we have no choice but to improve the business environment. Our business environment must make it possible for small and medium-scale businesses to work and to this end we are committed to ensuring the reduction of interest cases can have access to cheap bread. It is important for us to encourage young people in technology and innovation and in the entertainment industry and we intend shortly through the instrumentality of an advisory body to mainstream the incentives available to the rest of industry to these new businesses. Let me say also that as you are quite aware that insecurity has remained a big challenge for us all but we are determined to face this challenge and to secure this country more than ever before. To this end the president and the security council have been engaging in rigorous drug-taking with a view to re-engineering our security architecture to meet the challenges of the mindless killings in some parts of the country including the threats of murdering herdsmen, cattle rustlers and bandits. It is our duty to secure the rights of farmers and all citizens and to ensure that herders also can rear their cattle especially as we are proposed in well-resourced ranches. But there are also criminals who want to stop religious and ethnic crisis who want to divide the country using all manner of excuses including the recent attacks. How can anyone explain or what is the explanation for anyone going into a church to kill priests and worshipers? We recognise that while the protection of life and property is a primary responsibility of government, it is also incumbent on us as citizens to share in this responsibility. It is at the end of the day a collective responsibility. This country belongs to us all. Our country is great because of the talents of our people from every tribe, tongue and religion. Our diversity is our strength. We must reject every attempt to divide us. Our focus must be on developing our economy, providing opportunities in industry, in manufacturing, in technology for our young people. To borrow from D.K. Chukumariji, a young Nigerian poet, we must build bridges not walls. We must continue to have faith in our country. We must continue to express that faith in the way that we work for our country. I thank you for your continued patience, all workers of this nation and for the great sacrifices that you continue to make to move our nation forward. Nigerian workers are by any estimation the most patriotic segment of the population. You are among the most committed taxpayers. Your taxes are deducted at source so there is no question that you pay your taxes. Hence nobody can deny you the right to interrogate government and how public funds are expended at all times. You remain among the few organizations that have risen above primordial sentiments and have gone across tribe, ethnicity and religion to come together to unite in a common purpose. We believe that the worst is over for Nigeria. Accordingly we will do everything within our past to sustain the current economic recovery efforts. We will continue to reinforce our macroeconomic policies to achieve sustainable economic stability and growth. We will also continue to ensure that growth comes along with jobs and that there is a just distribution of the world. This administration has come this far always counting on the continued support and goodwill of organized labour. I am confident that together we will achieve our objective of building a united, strong and prosperous nation. Thank you all for your attention and may the almighty God bless us all and our great country. But before I sit down all over the world today we are celebrating labour and we are celebrating the nation state that provides the opportunity for all labour.  So we are also going to hear labour in our own traditional way. So we are going to say three bosa for the Nigerian labour congress. One, bosa, bosa, bosa. No we are going to do it again. One, bosa, two, bosa, three, bosa. Three more bosa for the TUC. One, bosa, two, bosa, three, bosa.


We have the joy of being back in the book of Judges. We're in Judges 13. I think we're over halfway, over the halfway point in the book of Judges. So we come to Samson and one of the, again, the larger sections of text relative to the Judges in this book. And so we'll spend about four chapters here talking about Samson. And tonight in Judges chapter 13, the second half of the chapter versus 15 to 25 is our text. So if you'll find that text with me, we'll read our text and then take a look at this text together tonight in our sermon. Judges chapter 13, verses 15 through 25, we hear the word of the Lord. Then Manoa said to the angel of the Lord, please let us detain you and we will prepare a young goat for you. And the angel of the Lord said to Manoa, though you detain me, I will not eat your food. But if you offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord. For Manoa did not know he was the angel of the Lord. Then Manoa said to the angel of the Lord, what is your name? That when your words come to pass, we may honor you. And the angel of the Lord said to him, why do you ask my name? Seeing it is wonderful. So Manoa took the young goat with the grain offering and offered it upon the rock to the Lord. And he did a wondrous thing while Manoa and his wife looked on. It happened as the flame went up toward heaven from the altar. The angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoa and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. And when the angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoa and his wife, then Manoa knew that he was the angel of the Lord. And Manoa said to his wife, we shall surely die because we have seen God. But his wife said to him, if the Lord had desired to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands. Nor would he have shown us all these things. Nor would he have told us such things as these at this time. So the woman bore a son and called his name Samson and the child grew and the Lord blessed him. And the spirit of the Lord began to move upon him at Mahana Dan between Zora and Eshtao. This is the word of God. Amen. Amen. Well, let's pray together and we'll take a look, take a look at our text together. Let's pray. My father in heaven, we're very grateful to you Lord for the blessing of a Sunday evening service and being able to come back on an evening like this and consider your word together.  And we are grateful for that. We're grateful for the means that it is grateful for the work that you do through it and grateful for the work that you do in us. Lord, we want to know you and want to live for you faithfully. Help us, Lord, as we consider this text together. Help us to consider the lessons we have to learn here. And thank you, Lord, for your instruction, this admonition from the Old Testament. We're very grateful, Lord, to you for it. In Jesus' name. Amen. Well, the title of our sermon this evening is His Name is Wonderful. His name is wonderful. Judges chapter 13, verses 15 through 25. And if you remember, as we get into this text together, we were introduced to the birth narrative, as it were, of Samson. In Judges chapter 13, we find at the beginning of the chapter, the children of Israel again did evil on the side of the Lord. And so the Lord does what He said that He would do. He delivers them into the hands of their enemies under judgment by the hand of the Philistines for 40 years. And then instantaneously, with no cry of repentance, just the Lord in His grace, in His mercy, in faithfulness to His promise. The Lord intends, verse two, determines to raise up a judge, a deliverer, a savior in Israel to deliver His people. And He does that by sending the angel of the Lord to speak to the nameless and barren wife of Manoa. The angel of the Lord makes sure that she understands that we all understand that she is barren and without child, showing us that this is a work of the Lord from the very beginning. And the Lord intends to do a work here to deliver His people. And He's going to deliver His people through this Son that the wife of Manoa will give birth to. So we have the blessing now of coming back to our exposition of the book of Judges and the account of the birth of Samson, beginning in verse 15 now in this chapter. And if you were unlike me and you actually paid attention in your physics class in high school or your chemistry class, you might have remembered hearing about a law of entropy or a law of decay under the title maybe of the second law of thermodynamics. I mean, some of us have heard of that. What that law essentially says is that order always winds up in disorder. That's the way of things in this created order in which we live. Order winds up in disorder. Everything ultimately undergoes a process of death or decay or entropy. Stuff falls apart. That's what that means, right? Stuff falls apart. I am a living testimony of that reality. Stuff falls apart. I'm falling apart the older I get. That's the way things work in this fallen world in which we live. Well, what we found in going through the book of Judges is that this is just as true spiritually as it is physically. Just as true of the spiritual condition of man after the fall, as it is true of the creation after the fall, stuff falls apart. Unless the Lord brings a life out of death, unless the Lord makes of us a new creation in Christ, we will spiritually die and decay in entropy. We fall apart. Sin brings forth death, right? When it's had its way, when it's been conceived, as James would say, sin brings forth death in us. Why as we come to Judges chapter 13, Israel has fallen apart spiritually. Israel has fallen into decay and entropy and death. Spiritual rot has set in. They simply cannot, in and of themselves, they cannot maintain any spiritual fidelity whatsoever to the one with whom they are in covenant. And they continue, continue to fall further and further away, further and further into decay. If you remember, if you think back with me, there's a harbinger of this in their interaction with Joshua before Joshua dies after leading them into the Promised Land. Joshua had led them in conquest and he's essentially giving them his farewell address before he dies in Joshua chapter 24. And he tells them, choose this day whom you will serve. Do you remember that from Joshua 24? Whether the gods of your fathers or the gods of the Amorites who live in this land, as for me in my house, Joshua says, we will serve the Lord. So what does Israel do? Israel answers back to Joshua. Joshua, we will serve the Lord. He's our God. Joshua, it's an interesting, the fascinating response. I've always been fascinated by the way that Joshua responds. Joshua says to them after calling them to serve the Lord, Joshua responds, you can't serve the Lord. You can't do it. He's holy and he's not going to forgive your sin. You're going to forsake him.  That's what Joshua says to them. Israel calls back to Joshua. No, but we will serve the Lord.  The harbinger of things to come. Joshua knew what would come. And here we are, Judges chapter 13. Israel is physically in the hands of her enemies. Israel is spiritually rotting, rotting from the inside out. Joshua's words have come home to roost. And Israel is far from their God. Entropy, decay, spiritual death has taken hold. And Israel now is in a position where they have absolutely no strength to do anything about it. They're under, as Del Ralph Davis said, they're under the power of bale. They have no strength, no ability, and frankly, no desire. They're in a position where they can't muster any help from themselves. It will take a miraculous intervention from God in order to deliver them from this rotten decay in which they find themselves. In all of this, in this condition, the reality is, is that God has made a promise. God has made a promise to his people. He refers to this promise immediately after the fall of man in Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, doesn't he? The promise of a coming savior, the promise of a seed who would crush the head of the serpent, destroy the works of the devil. He is this promise. He is the promised seed of the woman. He is the promised seed of Abraham, the promised seed of Isaac, the promised seed of Jacob. Well, in Judges chapter 13, Jacob is in trouble, aren't they? Jacob is in peril, serious peril. Man's heart is evil from his youth. His days of his life are few and full of trouble. And it would appear to anyone reading through the Bible at this point that the promise itself is in peril because Jacob is in such terrible spiritual, such a terrible spiritual condition. And almost by the time you get to this point in Judges chapter 13, we might think to ourselves, you know, God's word is God's word. He's faithful to his word. He won't go back on his word. But listen, if there were any reason to ever go back on your word, certainly Israel has given reason, haven't they?   Before sundown, they're going to be drawing pistols at high noon in the city square and somebody's getting shot on that day, right? Israel has done so much to break the covenant. And one of the lessons I think we're to learn from the book of Judges in this is that as often and as frequently and as brazenly as Israel continues to break the covenant, violate God's law, sin against him, rebel against him and go off after other gods, which God has specifically warned them not to do as often as Israel has continued to do that. The Lord just simply remains inviolably faithful to his promise. If this promise of God to this people is kept, we can have every assurance in the faithfulness of God to his word that every promise that he makes to us is kept. Do you see? That's sort of the point. It's sort of from the lesser to the greater. What here would the Lord do? The promise would appear to be in peril. Jacob is in serious peril, serious trouble. Well, in great loving kindness, great faithfulness to his word, showing tremendous patience, all to the praise of his grace. God once again provides for his people in their time of need and raises up a saviour. Now, this saviour is not the promised saviour, the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of Isaac and Jacob. But as we'll see, he certainly fuels the expectation of Israel that that promised seed is coming. And frankly, it should have the same impact, the same effect for you and I. When we read through a book like this and we see God raising up a deliverer, raising up a deliverer, raising up a deliverer, and then we see the fulfillment of that promise in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amazing, right? The Lord Jesus Christ comes and he saves his people from their sin, such that if you will turn from your sin and put your faith and trust in him, you'll be forgiven of your sin and delivered from your sin, freed from the wrath of God, saved, right? Seated in heavenly places in Christ. We see that promise come to fulfillment of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it should, it should prompt us to know, to believe, to hold fast to the promise of God that he will soon come again. Amen? Jesus Christ will soon come again. And this continually, the Lord raising up deliverers to Israel, certainly a foretaste of the coming Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, in his first advent to us who sit on this side of the cross, just further evidence of God's faithfulness to his word, that Jesus Christ will be coming back. This is in keeping with his promise. It's fascinating. It's a fascinating point to consider in Judges chapter 13, that this one who has been promised the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, that the parents of Samson met him in Judges chapter 13 foretelling the birth of Samson who would point to the coming Messiah that Manoa and his wife meet this one. First, Mrs. Manoa in verse six. A man of God came to me, his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very awesome. But I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name. Well, following Mrs. Manoa, Mr. Manoa once in on that verse eight. So Manoa prayed to the Lord and said, Oh, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and teach us what we shall do for the child who will be born. And God listened. That's amazing, isn't it? God listened to the voice of Manoa, such grace. And the angel of God came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field. But Manoa, her husband was not with her. Then the woman ran in haste and told her husband and said to him, you got to see this, right? You got it. You got to come. Look, the man who came to me the other day has just now appeared to me. So in verse 11, Manoa arose, followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said to him, are you the man who spoke to this woman? And he said, I am more gracious condescension on the part of the angel of the Lord here, right? He's accommodating himself to Manoa. This is the baby talk that we talked about in our study, the attributes of God, none greater. And we talked about how God accommodates himself to us that we can understand and relate with him. He said to Manoa, I am, right? Manoa said, now, let your words come to pass. This is great news, right? What will be the boy's rule of life and his work? After all this, Manoa was certainly expecting great things of this boy. But Manoa would have to wait and see that for himself later. The angel of the Lord, verse 13, said to Manoa, of all that I said to the woman, let her be careful. She may not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor may she drink wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean. All that I commanded her, let her observe. Well, as we come to our text now in verse 15, Manoa isn't ready to let him go. And the angel of the Lord continues to accommodate Manoa. Manoa is not quite sure yet who he is, but Manoa is going to very soon find out. And we'll see that in three points from our text. First, we see a humbling rejection. Secondly, we see a humbling refusal. Third, we see a very humbling realization. A humbling rejection, a humbling refusal. And a humbling realization. First, consider with me a humbling rejection beginning in verse 15. So Manoa said to the angel of the Lord, please let us detain you and we will prepare a young goat for you. So Manoa begins in verse 15 by offering some customary, ancient, near Eastern hospitality. But certainly Manoa's intentions here go beyond just hospitality. Manoa really appears in the text to be very grateful, right? He's been given this promise they're going to have a son. He appears to be genuinely grateful and then gratitude would motivate Manoa. They're childless, his barren wife will have a son.  We'll prepare a young goat for you. But likely there's also some curiosity here. And Manoa can't help it. Who is this? Who is this? His countenance, very awesome. This one looks like the angel of the Lord. Who is this? Well, Manoa's offer, verse 15, declined. Offer declined. The angel of the Lord rejects Manoa's offer and the rejection in verse 16 is interesting for several reasons. Look at verse 16 with me. The angel of the Lord said to Manoa, though you detain me, I will not eat your food. But if you offer a burnt offering, you must offer the word offer it, literally send it up or cause it to rise. You must offer it to the Lord. For Manoa, this parenthetic statement here, Manoa did not know that he was the angel of the Lord. The sharing of a meal, if you think about the manners and customs of people of Israel at this time, the sharing of a meal would have been a joyful but a solemn act of fellowship. It was serious business sharing a meal together in the ancient Near East at this time. And frankly, Manoa and his wife, nor the nation of Israel for that matter, they're not in any position to have a fellowship meal with the angel of the Lord. You see? There are no position to have that kind of fellowship with the angel of the Lord. So this is a commentary, this rejection, verse 16, really is a commentary on the spiritual condition of the people and in particular on the spiritual condition of Manoa and his wife. So we saw the same response from the angel of the Lord in Judges chapter six when he came to Gideon. If you remember that back in Judges chapter six, the angel of the Lord with Gideon, he consumed the offering and Gideon called it a gift, called it an offering. He consumed the offering upon the rock in fire and did that before Gideon's eyes, but he didn't eat the meal, the fellowship meal with Gideon. Here we see the same thing. The other incident, if you think back in your remembrance of the Old Testament, the other incident that we see that is similar to this is found in Genesis chapter 18. If you remember in Genesis chapter 18, you have three men that come to Abraham by the Tarabinth tree and Mamre. And we know those three men, two of them were angels. One was the angel of the Lord. The angel of the Lord appears, talks with Abraham, Abraham and the angel of the Lord and the two angels with him eat with Abraham. Abraham is in covenant with the Lord. And notice Genesis 18 comes immediately after Genesis 17, Genesis 15, Genesis 12, where the Lord enters into covenant with Abraham. Well here in Judges 13, a burnt offering must come first. It's essentially what the angel of the Lord said to Manoa in verse 16, right? If you offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord. So a burnt offering must come first. The burnt offering was an offering for sin. In other words, the relationship must be restored first. The Israelites would have offered burnt offerings for sin. After burnt offerings from sin, they would have made peace offerings to restore peace or shalom with God. All that has to come first before they're going to have proper table fellowship with one another. Then, if you notice verse 16, an explanation for his ignorance in this matter is given at the end of verse 16. For, in parentheses there, for Manoa did not know he was the angel of the Lord. So already we have an inference here that the angel of the Lord is more than just an angel, he is the angel. This is the second person of the Trinity, God the Son, in his pre-incarnate state. If it was just an angel, maybe he would have eaten, maybe he would have accepted Manoa's request. This is the angel of the Lord. It becomes a humbling rejection. Notice, secondly, with me though, a humbling refusal then that follows verse 17. Then Manoa said to the angel of the Lord, what is your name? That when your words come to pass, we may honor you. And the angel of the Lord said to him, why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful? So Manoa still seems confused as to his identity. Their inference is given, but Manoa is still not sure. He most likely thinks of him as a prophet at this time, and when this prophet's words come true in nine months time, we want to know who to give the credit to. What is your name? But the angel of the Lord essentially refuses to give his name. Why do you ask my name? Literally he says, it is incomprehensible. It's what the word literally means. Why do you ask my name? It is incomprehensible. In other words, it is Manoa's beyond your understanding. It is too high for you. The only other place this adjective is used in the Old Testament is Psalm 139, in verse six, where David says such knowledge, and it's interesting that in Psalm 139, what David's speaking about is how the Lord has fearfully knit him together, fearfully and wonderfully made him in the womb of his mother. And here we are talking about a birth narrative of Samson in the womb of his mother. David says, such knowledge is too wonderful for me. That's that word, right? David says, before I speak a word, he knows it. Before I take a step, he knows it. Such knowledge, too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain it. It's transcendent, right? Transcendent. And it's there that David refers to how the Lord thoroughly knows him, right? The Lord formed his inward parts, covered him in his mother's womb, fearfully and wonderfully made him. The creation of a baby in the womb by God, even more so in the womb of a barren woman here in Judges 13, he knows my words, as David says, before they're spoken, it is too wonderful for me, I can't grasp it. We think about that, right? The knowledge of God, the wisdom of God, the work of God, the power of God, the identity of this angel of the Lord is becoming more and more clear, isn't it? More and more clear when we consider Isaiah chapter nine, verse six, for unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given. The government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called wonderful, counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, Prince of Peace. And notice in Isaiah chapter nine, verse six, it's wonderful, comma, counselor, comma, mighty God. His name is wonderful. Well, we've seen a humbling rejection, a humbling refusal. Look thirdly at a humbling realization, beginning in verse 19, a humbling realization. So Manoa then, verse 19, took the young goat. He took the young goat with the grain offering and he offered it upon the rock to the Lord. And he did a wondrous thing while Manoa and his wife looked on. Now notice something interesting with me in verse 19. In verse 19, Manoa offered it upon the rock to who? To the Lord. The word there is Yahweh. He offered the offering, the young goat with the grain offering on the rock to Yahweh and he. Who's the he in verse 19 referring to? He, the nearest antecedent, is Yahweh. So follow the train of thought with me, right? He did a wondrous thing while Manoa and his wife looked on. Manoa took the young goat with the grain offering. He offers it upon the rock to Yahweh and Yahweh did a wondrous thing while Manoa and his wife looked on. What did Yahweh do? He ascended in the fire of the offering. There's a reason for that grammatical construction in verse 19, the angel of the Lord is Yahweh. Do you see? In fact, the angel of the Lord is the second person of the Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, pre-incarnate. In other words, this is a Christophany. What was the wondrous thing that he whose name is wonderful did? What was this wondrous thing that he who is Yahweh did? Verse 20, it happened as the flame went up toward heaven from the altar. Notice now it's not a rock, it's an altar. The angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. This is an amazing manifestation of divine power. An amazing manifestation of his divine origin, the origin who is this angel of the Lord? It is Yahweh, God the Son, pre-incarnate. The fire consumes the offering on the altar. If you can imagine, right? Just the scene of that in power as Manoa places the young goat, the grain offering on what is now an altar. It's not a rock any longer. He places it on the altar and fire just comes up from beneath and consumes the offering. And as the fire comes up, the fire leapt up from the altar toward heaven and taking the angel of the Lord with it. This was a wondrous thing. A wondrous thing just would have stunned Manoa and his wife. Well, when Manoa and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground. That is an appropriate response to such, certainly to such a display, but to who this is, an appropriate response. Their understanding is now informed, right? Manoa and his wife are overwhelmed and they would expect it to be. This would be the expected response. An encounter with a true living God will put men on their faces, will put your face in the dust. Brother was talking about Isaiah this morning and woe is me, I'm undone, right? An appropriate response, Peter in the boat. He has the catch of fish. I think it's in Luke chapter five, isn't it? And he realizes that's the Lord Jesus Christ. He realizes that this is the Messiah. There's a realization that comes upon him and suddenly Peter is swept up in conviction over his own sinfulness. Lord, depart from me. I'm a sinful man. And here they fall on their faces to the ground when the angel of the Lord is swept up in the fire leaping from the altar toward heaven. An encounter with a true living God will humble. Men will humble women. It will put what was before a haughty perspective, a worldly perspective, and will put that perspective right. Will put us in our proper frame as we consider who we are in the presence of the Almighty. Awesome in appearance, magnificent in power, one whose countenance was like the angel of God, majestic in holiness. Mano and his wife were awestruck, terrified, right? The right view of God should humble man. Well, where do you and I get a right view of God today? We get a right view of God from meeting our Bibles. We have the prophetic word made sure, more certain. We read our Bibles to learn of him. When we learn of him, it puts us in a proper frame, puts us in proper perspective and gives us an understanding of who he is. And at the root of that is a doorway, if you will, to truth and that truth applied appropriately. We need that understanding. God says, by those who come near to me, I must be regarded as holy. And before all the people, I must be glorified. And if you remember those words, those words came after the Lord consumed Nadab and Abihu in fire for presuming to bring strange fire before the Lord in presumed worship. Many, many today are guilty of what Dale Ralph Davis calls a cheap familiarity, a cheap familiarity, right? It's the thought of God as someone with whom you can relate through a t-shirt that says Jesus is my homeboy, right? A cheap familiarity.  A cheap familiarity. Don't concern themselves with the awesome realities that lie behind what they are saying and doing. A cheap familiarity. By those who come near to me, God says, I must be regarded as holy. And before all the people, I must be glorified. Well, Manoa and his wife certainly figure out the mystery of his identity. They get it. Verse 21, when the angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoa and his wife, then Manoa knew that it was the angel of the Lord. And what was Manoa's assertion coming to that realization? Verse 22, Manoa then said to his wife, they're laying in the dust, right? They're not up yet. We shall surely die. Why? Because we have seen God. You see how Manoa equates the angel of the Lord here with God. Manoa gets it. This was also, also an appropriate response on the part of Manoa. Exodus chapter 33, verse 20, no man sees my face and lives. That's what God says there. David said again, being too near God was not cozy. It was fatal. Being too near God was not cozy, but fatal. Well, Manoa here thinks he's seen too much. They've been far too close, far too cozy. But Mrs. Manoa, she's thinking here and she comes to the conclusion that they're going to live. She's thinking theologically and she gives her husband three reasons that they're going to live, beginning in verse 23. His wife said to him, if the Lord had desired to kill us, one, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands. Very good point, right? The offering was accepted because it was burnt up, consumed in the fire. He did not consume Manoa and his wife. He consumed the burnt offering from the altar, right? In the way that he consumed Nate, Abinabaihu, he did not consume Manoa and his wife. So Manoa's wife, thanks to herself, he accepted the burnt offering, the grain offering was accepted from our hands. Secondly, she says, nor would he have shown us all these things. This was done in their sight, which was a blessing to them for their benefit. Nor, number three, would he have told us such things as these at this time. In other words, one, he accepted our offering. The fire is the evidence that he has. Two, the Lord has displayed himself to us. He has come to us and then ascended in the fire. And three, he's given us a precious, a precious promise. And that promise, the Lord being true to his word, will come to pass, verse 24. So, the woman bore a son in fulfillment of the promise and called his name Samson and the child grew and the Lord blessed him. It's interesting, the name Samson combines the Hebrew word for son, S-U-N, and the diminutive on, Sam son. The Hebrew word for son is the word shemesh. So really shemesh on, shemesh on, or little son, sunny boy is what one commentator said. She named him sunny boy. After all that has happened in Israel, it's actually likely here, sadly, that son worship may have played a part in Samson's naming. There was a town nearby. Name of the town was Bet Shemesh, Bet Shemesh or house of the son. And that town, literally house of the son, was known as a place of pagan son worship. And the name of the son God that was worshiped in that town was Shemesh. She names her son Shemesh on, or little Shemesh. And associated names like that, very common in the ancient areas at the time, very common. So here it's actually likely that Mrs. Minoa, naming her child after a pagan son God in Bet Shemesh in Israel. And this is one whom the angel of the Lord came and promised to her. Just as we work through the text, right? So many reminders of just how far Israel has fallen from faithfulness to the covenant, from understanding. And listen, brothers and sisters, that's true of us if we're not careful, right? It's true of us. I don't know if this is true of you. There have been many times, many times now where someone has left the Lord, left the faith.  And then years later, to come back, wanna have a conversation, maybe wanna think, consider coming back, following the Lord again, realizing they've sinned and fallen away. And when you're having a conversation, there has been an entropy, a decay that has taken place in their mind since the time that they left, where they're no longer thinking straight. Their biblical worldview has been dismantled, thread by thread, right? They can't think in biblical parameters anymore. Those things that once were so clear and right and sound and good to them, now are lost to them and mysterious and unknown and difficult. And it's just they've lost the ability to reason according to the truth, lost the ability to see things through that lens, that filter, which is holy, just and good. And it's amazing often how quickly that decays, how much death and entropy sets in in their hearts and minds. It is absolutely amazing. And it is a testimony, isn't it, of our fallen condition that when we do not labor in God's word to continuously renew our minds by His truth and His word, His will, His way of thinking, how quickly we can fall into destructive patterns of thinking ourself, right? Have you ever been there yourself? Where you think to yourself, you know this is right. And yet, when you come to your senses, you realize it was terribly wrong. We are needy and desperate. Apart from Christ, apart from His word, we are in great peril. We need the truth of God. We need His spirit. We need understanding. We need God to give us wisdom and give us wisdom in spades, right? We need that. The only way that comes is through His word, which He has revealed to us for that end, for that purpose. If we'll just go to Him, you know, go to His word and learn from Him. Seek wisdom. Get understanding, right? Solomon says, get understanding. It's actually possible that this couple, Manoa and his wife, so far influenced by the decay and entropy and death, spiritual rot around them, that this is actually what happened and where the name Samson comes from. Well, verse 25 ends the section of text that we're in, where the verse says, and the spirit of the Lord began to move then upon Samson at Mahaneh Dan, between Zora and Eshtal. And we will see the work of the spirit upon Samson beginning next week as we come to Judges chapter 14. The angel of the Lord has visited His people a pre-incarnate visit. You will give birth to a son, that one consecrated to God from the womb, and that one, that promised son will deliver Israel, all a foretaste of a coming Messiah who would ultimately deliver God's people. We praise God for Him. God in grace brings forth a deliverer. God will keep His promise. Amen, amen. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we're so grateful to you, Lord, for your word and grateful to know, and just rejoice in faith to claim and assert that you are meticulously, inviolably faithful to every word of your promises. And Lord, we have every reason to trust entirely in you, everything that you've said, everything that you've done, everything that you've promised. Lord, it is such a testimony of our own fallenness, our own unbelief when we fail to take you at your word. Please, Lord, forgive us this great sin and help us, Lord, to trust you, to entrust ourselves to you. Help us, Lord, to take joy, respite hope in your word. And I pray, Lord, in full expectation of faith, come, come quickly, Lord Jesus. We eagerly await the appearing of our great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And thank you, Lord, for this glorious promise. Thank you, Lord, for the promise of our resurrection with Him. Thank you, Lord, for the joy of looking forward to our inheritance. I pray there's anyone here, Lord, who simply does not know Him, that they would turn from their sin and trust in you who is faithful to His word. And I pray, Lord, that they would come to the realization that you'll be faithful to your word in judgment as well. And that you would save them for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ and His worship. We thank you, we love you, in Jesus' name, amen.


And here's the Stratus 3. Hi! Hello, my name is Raul. I'm the overseas digital marketing manager here at Amaze Fit Huami. And here's your Shenzhen office? Yes, in our office here in Shenzhen. And yeah, to show you our Stratus 3 watch. So what's the latest with the Stratus 3? Well, the Stratus 3 is a sports watch. It's been made specifically for sports enthusiasts. So yeah, in terms of sports, it has 19 sports modes. It includes outdoor swimming, open water for the ocean, treadmills, indoors, elliptical, rower, climbing, trail run. It has a three-ethlon mode. It has ski, tennis, soccer. So yeah, it has a lot of sports modes that you can choose from. It also comes with the first-beat technology. So we have a partnership with the first-beat and they help us with the software to better help users improve their skills and train with more insights on their own performance. So it's got some efficient algorithms in analyzing all this stuff. Yes, the first-beat algorithm, it analyzes your performance. It tells you how much was your VO2 max, how much you should rest until your next performance. Yeah, how much was the intensity of your training if next time you should train in a more intense way. So it gives you several insights for you to train better. And it's got this amazing display. Maybe we can hold it just a little right over here. It's really perfect to use outdoors. It's always on display with very, very long battery life, right? How long can it go? Yeah, the battery lasts for seven days in the smart mode, which we call it just the normal mode where you have the four GPS, you have the 19 sports and all. And then we have power saving mode. We call it ultra endurance mode where it can last up to 14 days. Where you still keep most of the features, but some features are reduced so you can have it for longer battery time. So you can switch between the different modes and also different watch faces? Yeah, these are the different watch faces. We have a lot of watch faces also in the app. You can do it from there. All right. And the different watch faces sometimes have more or less kind of stuff displayed, for example. This one might have a few more things going on. Yeah, they have different information. Some of them have display more information. Some of them are more minimalistic. So it depends on the style. It depends on what you're doing. If you're doing sports, maybe you want to have all the information available at the first sight. If you are maybe going out, you want to have something more elegant, more minimalistic. And what happens when you swipe down there? When you swipe down here, you can change the brightness. You can go to settings. This is the ultra endurance mode. So here you can activate the ultra mode. You can also have the night mode and the airplane. When you swipe up, you go to your health stats. So how many steps you've given, how many calories and floors. When you slide to the left, you'll see the notifications. And when you slide to the right... You can select the notifications, read the whole thing. You can swipe them away. Yeah, you can swipe them away or read them. And then when you swipe right, then you will go to the full menu where you can see the rest of the... So you have a nice sleep tracking going on with this also? Yeah, it has sleep tracking. It has compass. It has a barometer. It has four different GPS combinations for a better tracking of your roots. And then all the other... You know, you have timer, stopwatch. You can control the music. You also have some storage inside the watch so you can put the music inside the watch.  So they aren't always on display. You call it trans-flective, right? Yes, it's trans-flective because it's perfect for outdoors. So the brighter the sun, the more clear the screen is. I mean, you can also raise it, what's it called, to turn on the backlight so it becomes brighter or when you click the... Yeah, you can do it either way by raising or with the buttons. We added four buttons into this watch. Since it's specifically for sports, sometimes, you know, when you're out of sports, it's difficult to manipulate the screen. Maybe you're sweating. So yeah, with the four buttons, it's easier for athletes to manipulate their watch. What's happening under here? Well, this is the PPG sensor. So this is the sensor that tracks the heart rate when you sleep, when you're running. You can also have it like 24-hour heart rate and this is for the battery, for the charging. When you do 24-hour heart rate, does that mean it takes it constantly or it takes it every minute? It will take it constantly. So constantly you see the graph and you heart rate the whole day. Correct. You can monitor your heart rate constantly. How's the battery life when you do this? Well, if you use it constantly, of course, the battery life is going to decrease. So in the lab tests, when we test it, we use it only several times like that and it can last seven days in the smart mode and 14 in the ultra mode. But of course, it depends on how much you use the entire set of features that we have. And the GPS is also something where you can set how much it does it, like is it parietical or if it does it constantly? Yeah, yeah, the GPS, you can also go for 70-hour continued GPS. So with the ultra mode, yeah, you can track it. So if you're going for long routes, usually, you know, people that go hiking for very long routes, they can track with the ultra mode for up to 70 hours with a continuous GPS. And specs are pretty good. Like this is a really good, decent smartwatch battery. So it's for people who really want, it's the most advanced kind of sports smartwatch, no? Yes. For us, it's the most advanced sports watch that we have, which is definitely one of our key sections of smartwatches. So when you have the list of all the sports, you have them in here. Yes. And you have some really hardcore things, right? So people who want to hike in the huge mountain, or they want to, where is it? They can just take their smartwatch, for example, in the hike, and they can hike in the mountain and no need to bring the smartphone. It will track the whole time. Correct. With you put it in the ultra mode, it can track up to 70 hours of the GPS, so it will, you know, you can have your long route. Also for rowing, if you go rowing for several hours in a big lake, you can also... You don't like to bring your smartphone when you go rowing. Exactly. So you can have... Climbing. You have climbing, you have a triathlon, you have ski, tennis, football. Yeah, it's not good to bring smartphones for all these things, because it weighs you down. You want to do everything just with a smartwatch. Exactly. And the fact that, you know, that you have your music inside the watch also makes it easier for you to just detach from the phone, and you can go directly with your watch. There's no chance that maybe it could be smart and understand what sport you're doing without you having to select it. That'd be cool, no? It does detect, for example, when you are walking in a fast pace, or if you start kind of running, you will say, like, oh, you're running. Is there any sport you want to turn on, activate, or do you want to activate... It tells you directly, do you want to activate running mode? So it does track when you are walking faster than usual. What does it do to change different modes for all these different things? Why is it so important to select that you're running when you're running and not just... What does it track differently? Well, there are some things that are tracked equally, like your heart rate, or the time, or the distance, or the pace, but there are things that are tracked differently. So for example, when you swim, it will track your laps. So how many laps you did, how much time you took in one lap, in the other lap, so which one was the fastest lap, the slowest lap. When you go play tennis, it will tell you how many backhands you did, how many forehands you did, how many serves. So there are different things that watch measures according to the sport that you select. Can you track the score in the tennis match by saying, my point, your point, my point, your point? No, for now, this is not available. What it does is that it will tell you how many backhands, forehands, and serves. Apart from all the other things, like the distance, the speed, the heart rate, the VO2 max, the intensity of your sport, how much you have to rest. Because it would be cool if there was one of the players that was sending the life score of the tennis match while they're live streaming the match on YouTube, and people are watching all over the world, and they could use their smartwatch to send the score. Yeah, it's of course interesting, but I think also for most sports, when you're doing sports, athletes like to be fully focused on what they're doing at that moment. So it might be, maybe some people will use it, but I would guess that for the most serious athletes will be completely focused on what they're doing, and they wouldn't be typing other things. So waterproofiness is pretty good. You can definitely swim. Yeah, for sure. You can definitely swim. You can swim also in open waters, in the ocean, in the lake. So yeah, this watch has a 5ATM, so it can resist up to 50-meter pressure, water pressure. It can even dive. It's not recommended. It's not recommended. It's kind of tricky because we have the international standards of 5ATM, but for diving it's not recommended. You can snorkel. You can snorkel for sure, yes, no problem. Yeah, but it's important that every person checks specifically what are the standards and the features for a 5ATM. So yeah, you can swim in an open water, but for how long you keep it under certain water pressure, I think it's important to be fully aware of what 5ATM means. And so there's music player going on here. What does that do? Yeah, so with the music player you can control the music of your watch, I'm sorry, of your phone. So when you have music in your phone storage that you're playing, you can control it from your watch. You can change the songs, the tracks, yes. You can store some music on here? Yes, the watch also has like two gigabytes, let me double check. It has two gigabytes of music storage. You can put some bunch of MP3s right there so you can go running without your phone and listen to it using Bluetooth headphones. Exactly, exactly. That's the whole point that you can go running with your Bluetooth headphones and you don't need to take your watch, your phone. But for services like Google Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer and all that, that's maybe not quite... It's more like the music player that you have with the local files that are on the phone, right? They're on the phone, yes. Well, the 7.3 right now doesn't have the Spotify, but maybe in the future we will have it and we will update it to all our products. So you do lots of firmware updates for the watch, there's some software updates coming sometimes. Like you do, people can update it through the phone, through the app that you have maybe sometimes. Yes, yes. And here it is, so for example, those notifications that are coming through from the phone, you can read them. What can you do more? Is there any chance that you might reply or do something or just read them? It's just to read right now from the watch, you cannot reply, so it's just to read them. Every notification from every app just shows up, like the ones that you can set, you know? Yes, in the app, in the app, you can set for which apps you want to get the notifications for which ones you don't want. So this is a company named Huami, is it part of Xiaomi? No, we are different companies, separate, we're partners, we have worked together and we will for sure continue to work together, but we are separate companies, we have our own brand which is MaceFit and we have our own, you know... Xiaomi is pretty big in China, but many other countries also, and you're kind of using through there, it's an app called Mi Fit? Yes, so again, we're partners, but in the end we're separate companies. Alright, so how about the availability of this one? Some countries have it already, right? Yeah, and some countries are already available in Europe, it's available in Spain, in Italy, in UK, in some others it's still waiting to be available. The price is around 200 euros, but it varies from country to country and from different distributors, but yeah, that's...  For sure, yes. You don't need to worry so much about charging, the Apple Watch is every night, every couple days, and this one, two weeks if you want, one week. Yeah, if you have it in the smart mode, you can have it one way, if you have it in the ultra mode, you can have it two weeks, and the display is pretty much always on, but also with the backlight to see it nicely in the dark at night. Yes, and it has, you know, also these four buttons make it easy to manipulate when you're out running or doing a threat long.


What's happening? It's Shane here and you know what time it is. It's tierless time, baby. And it's also time for you to smash the like button because that really helps to defeat the evil YouTube algorithm and you should just automatically do that on all my videos. But yeah, let's jump right into this one. Some credit cards are much better than others. There's entire YouTube channels and websites that are dedicated to credit card churning and getting the best cash back or getting the best sign-on bonuses. But today I'm gonna save you a ton of time because I did a lot of research and I actually got a bunch of these credit cards and then the ones that I didn't, some of my friends did, so I was able to check them out that way. So these are gonna be some of the best and the worst credit cards that are available out there. All right, so let's just jump into it. First one on the list is going to be the Amazon Prime Rewards credit card. Now I'm not gonna go too deep into the details on these because that would make the video way too long and I wanna keep this video well under 20 minutes if I can.  Then this is a credit card that you absolutely should get. I use Amazon a lot in order to get stuff delivered to me, so for instance, I'll get paper towels and toothpaste delivered to me every few months and it just saves me a lot of time and a lot of hassle overall. And to me, that's worth paying a little bit extra for the delivery. So if you're already using Amazon for that reason, you are going to get 5% cash back on your purchases. That is incredibly good. Now on top of that, you also get 2% cash back at restaurants and gas stations. This is a no annual fee credit card if you don't count the amount of money that you have to pay for your Prime membership. And overall, I just think the combination of the amount of time that Amazon saves you, the value that they give, the fact that you can get stuff in two days if you need it, and the fact that it gives 5% cash back on all purchases at Amazon as well as Whole Foods means that this one is S to your status. I have this card and it's one of my favorites. Another one that I have is going to be the American Express Gold card and this one is especially good when it comes to dining out. So first of all, it offers a really good sign on bonus. I think at the time I signed on, I got I think 40,000 points as long as I spent $4,000 within the first three months. Right now I saw some of the promos that were offered were around 35,000 membership reward points, but I'm sure if you looked around enough you could find something better than that. Now on top of that, it does offer four times the amount of membership rewards points when it comes to cash back if you use it for dining out and then three times the amount of points if you use it for flights. Now this is a annual fee credit card and it does cost about $250 a year. A lot of channels out there love recommending annual fee credit cards and in my opinion, for the average person, they're not going to be worth it. There are a few exceptions in my opinion, ones that really do offer just an exceptional sign on bonus or something along those lines and I included both of those on this list and the American Express Gold card is one of those. This is also a card that doesn't have foreign transaction fees so that's kind of a nice perk. Sometimes I go across the border to Canada and I do end up using this card a lot of the time and basically without getting into too much of the details this is a really good card if you want to use it for dining and it's pretty good if you want to use it for travel as well. So if you're someone who spends a lot of money dining out or if you're someone who spends a lot of money traveling then you might want to look into getting this card. However, if you don't already spend a lot of money in one of those two categories you probably don't want to get this card because you're going to feel like you're kind of forced to spend that money that $4,000 that you have to spend within the first three months you're probably going to end up spending it on things that you wouldn't have bought otherwise. When I first got this card I was going to be buying a computer anyways and so I got the card I spent the money on the computer that I was going to buy anyways and that's how I was able to meet that $4,000 within the first three months relatively easily. A lot of people fall for the trap on these annual fee credit cards of thinking that they're not going to spend more just to meet that initial amount. So be really careful there. Overall, I'm going to go ahead and put this one in A tier. Another one that I didn't include on this list that is also really good in my opinion is going to be the American Express blue cash everyday card. So if you want to use American Express but you don't want to do the annual fee I would recommend doing that one. The only downside to using American Express cards is there's a lot of places that actually don't accept American Express and so you'll end up having to use another card anyways. Next one on the list is going to be the Apple credit card and honestly, this one has had a lot of changes since it first came out and basically the big thing about this one is if you have an iPhone and you use Apple Pay for your purchases and you use the credit card through Apple Pay, then you can get some really good cashback bonuses. For instance, you can get 3% cashback at Nike stores as well as if you buy any Apple products. You also get 2% cashback on most other purchases if you use Apple Pay but there's two big problems with this. The first one is not everybody has an iPhone and then the second big problem is not all places actually accept Apple Pay. I see this one potentially becoming a dark horse candidate though in the future as more and more places start to accept Apple Pay and more and more people start to buy iPhones. I don't personally have an iPhone, I have a Google Pixel and so I don't actually own this card myself but I do have some friends that own it and it's pretty good, they like it. Overall, I'm gonna have to go ahead and put this one in C tier just because of the fact that not everyone has an iPhone and yes, I'm probably being a little bit salty here. Next one on the list is going to be the Bank of America cash rewards card and this is one of those cards you're gonna see a lot if you go to some of the credit card channels on YouTube and the reason for that is because they offer really good cash back but there's a few little asterisks in there, okay? First of all, I have to give them credit, they offer an incredible signup fee where if you spend $1,000 within the first three months, you're going to get $200 online cash rewards back. Honestly, that's one of the best offers out there. So the big selling point here is you get to choose a category like let's say you spend a lot of money on gas or let's say you spend a lot of money dining out, you can choose that one category and you can get 3% cash back but there's all kinds of tiny little exceptions to this like you can only spend up to $2,500 on your combined choices and if you are a preferred rewards member AKA somebody who also banks with them you can get 25 to 75% more on your cash back and I think because of the fact that it has such a good sign-on bonus this is definitely a great one if you're a beginner and you wanna get your first couple credit cards and if you're smart about how you use the 3% cash back category and you read all of the little exceptions that they have you can really maximize this card. So overall, I'm gonna have to put this one in A tier. Next one on the list is going to be the Chase Sapphire Reserve and this is going to be the second annual fee credit card that I recommend. So if you're somebody who travels all the time this might be the best card for you. What I mean by that is if you're somebody who spends a lot of money traveling already you're not planning on doing it but you're doing it already getting this card can definitely pay off for you and that's because you can earn 50,000 bonus points as long as you spend $4,000 in purchases in your first three months and that equates to about $750 in travel credit. On top of that you get $300 in annual travel credit that will be reimbursed to your account as long as you're spending money on traveling in the first place and then after you hit that $300 of travel credit you will get three times the points and cash back on anything related to travel expenditures. It also has $0 foreign transaction fees which is a huge perk if you're traveling to another country. And honestly there's a ton of other little perks and benefits here and it would just take way too long to go over all of them but the big thing here the reason that it is not going to go into S tier and the reason why I have a lot of reservations about getting any type of annual fee credit card is because there is a whopping $550 annual fee. So this card and the American Express Gold card are both metal, they're very hefty and because of that they have a lot of people who really want to get them.  Overall this is a really good one. I am gonna go ahead and put this one into B tier. Next one on the list is going to be the Costco credit card and this one is especially good if you do all of your grocery shopping at Costco. For one, if you get your gas at Costco you can get 4% cash back, 3% cash back on restaurants and other eligible travel purchases. Now there's technically no annual fee here but you are going to have to pay your annual Costco membership in order to get the card and in order to redeem the points and on top of that the points only redeem once a year and you have to go to a physical Costco location in order to use them. So I guess if you are a Costco member already and you would have been paying for that service anyways this one might be worth it for you to sign up for but overall I think it is a little underrated in the grand scheme of things so this one is gonna go into C tier. Next one on the list is going to be the credit one platinum card and hmm the logo on this one looks suspiciously similar to capital one. That seems really sketchy to me and whenever you see something like this where they're trying to kind of like look like another company in order to kind of like trick you into thinking that they're another company to me that's a huge red flag. Now this one might be a decent option for you if you kind of have like a low credit score and you're trying to build it back up but it has really high interest rates and so you're gonna wanna pay off your balance every single month. You do not wanna have to pay those interest rates they're way too high. So overall you really should not get this one and the one exception to that is if you have really bad credit you can maybe go for this one just to build up your credit score then you probably would wanna cut it up after a few months and then get another credit card because the perks on it just aren't that great and just overall it's not that great of a card in general. So this one is gonna go into D tier. Next one on the list is going to be the city double cash card and basically this is exactly what it sounds like you get 2% cash back on all of your purchases as long as you pay off the balance at the end of the month. And another thing I should mention with all of these credit cards is there's pretty much no reason why you shouldn't just pay off the entire balance automatically every single month. If you're not automatically paying off the balance every single month or you think that you're not gonna be able to do that you probably should not be getting a credit card. Now I think out of all the credit cards on this list the city double cash is probably my favorite just because of how stupidly simple it is. There's no annual fee you get your 2% cash back as long as you pay off your balance know if ands or buts about it you don't have to like check to see you know oh did I put the 3% cash back on this category or is this some rotating category over here anything like that it's very simple you get the card it's 2% cash back I don't think they're ever gonna change that it's gonna be 2% cash back pretty much no matter what because it's literally the name of the card double cash. This is also a credit card that you'll have a good chance of getting if you're a beginner. Some of the credit cards on this list like the American Express gold card you might not get if you're a beginner and your credit score isn't high enough yet but this is one where you'd have a pretty good chance of getting it even if you have a normal credit score and in my opinion it's the best one on the entire list so this one is clearly S tier status another really good beginner card is going to be the Discover it credit card now first of all they offer one of the best introductory offers on the entire market Discover will match all of the cash back you earn at the end of your first year so let's say you got $300 cash back at the end of your first year they will match it and you'll end up getting $600 and there's actually no limit to how much is matched that might be the best offer on the entire list like that is incredible unfortunately it only lasts for one year and so after your first year you're not gonna get that incredible offer again but the second big selling point with the Discover it credit card is the fact that you get 5% cash back on everyday purchases at different places such as grocery stores and then the last big selling point on this one is it is technically a beginner card you can apply for this one and you'll likely get it with an average credit score maybe even a low credit score so for that reason I definitely have to put this one in A tier it's one of the best on the entire list the next one on the list is going to be the Fidelity Rewards Visa Signature card now this one is very similar to the City Double Cash where you'll get that 2% cash back on pretty much all of your purchases the only catch here is that the 2% cash back has to be deposited right into your Fidelity Investment account so if you prefer to redeem the cash back in a different form it's only going to be 1% which isn't that great but if you're okay with getting the cash back deposited right into an investment account then you're good to go again it's just like the City Double Cash where there's no exceptions if ands or buts about it you just get the 2% cash back, boom on some of these you'll see they have really good cash back but then when you read the tiny print it's like there's all these different exceptions and all this different BS that you have to deal with and I really like the cards that are just straightforward you get whatever it says that you get so Fidelity has done it again here you can see that this is a company that is extremely dedicated to giving the best possible service whether it's their bank account, their investment account or any other number of services such as their savings really love Fidelity this one goes an S tier next one on the list is going to be the Mastercard Gold Card now in my opinion this one is pretty sketchy, okay I'm picking my words very carefully here because I just don't want to trash the company but now the thing about getting a metal credit card is generally you have to have a pretty good credit score in order to qualify for them so this company noticed that and they realized that there's a huge demand of people who want metal credit cards but they don't necessarily have a good credit score so what did they do? They created the Mastercard Gold Card now I'm not going to go into the details that much but the cash back that you get on this is not very good when you compare it to almost all other annual fee credit cards the annual fee for this one is $995 do I need to say anything else? F tier oh but wait, there's a different one the Mastercard Black Card it's very similar to the Mastercard Gold Card except the annual fee is only $495 F tier for both next one on the list is going to be the Target Card Red Card and this is basically for people who shop at Target any follower of my channel should not be regularly shopping at Target Target is honestly extremely expensive compared to a lot of the other brick and mortar stores and it's basically designed for carons across the US to spend 1.5 to two times as much as they should on everyday household items seriously, there's videos of people going to Target and finding something and then they go to the dollar store just down the block and they find that same thing for one third of the price look it up if you don't believe me I guess if you already shop at Target all the time this one would be worth it it does have really good perks and benefits but really you shouldn't be shopping at Target all the time and for that reason I'm going to go ahead and put it in D tier next one on the list is going to be the Reflex Card and this is another one that basically caters to people who have really bad credit scores this is very similar to the Credit One credit card but it's actually a lot worse really high fees, really high interest rates you have to make sure to pay it off every single month you cannot miss a single payment or you will be screwed maybe you should consider this one if you just have horrible credit and they're the only ones that will give you a chance but overall if you have bad credit there are better options out there the Reflex Card is going to go into F tier next one on this list is going to be the Uber Credit Card and until very recently this one was actually one of the best on the entire list they recently changed a bunch of things with the Uber Credit Card and that makes me think that they're one of those companies that offer certain things for a limited period of time and then once they've gotten a bunch of suckers I mean people to sign up for it they actually take that away from you to me this is a very sketchy marketing tactic and whenever I see a company do this it makes me lose a lot of respect for them so I guess the one exception here is if you use Uber all the time or if you use Uber Eats all the time this one could be worth it for you because they do have some really nice cashback bonuses but overall I'm gonna go ahead and put this one into C tier next one on the list is going to be the US Bank Cash Plus Credit Card now this is another one that you're gonna see a lot on all of these credit card channels where they try to optimize the different rewards that you get and if you're really strategic with how you use credit cards this one can pay off extremely well for you this is one of those credit cards where there's a ton of different rules involved in it and you have to jump through a bunch of different hoops and it's something that I personally just don't wanna have to deal with but basically you can earn $150 cashback bonus as long as you spend $500 within the first 90 days on eligible purchases on top of that the first $2,000 you spend on the card you can earn 5% cashback on the catch is that you can only spend $500 per quarter of the year so you spend exactly $500 in the first quarter $500 in the second, $500 in the third and $500 in the fourth and then overall you can get about $400 cashback that way on top of that you can choose a category to get 2% cashback in so to me out of all the cards that a beginner could get this might actually be the best one just because of the fact that $2,000 spent in your first year really isn't all that much and you could potentially earn $550 cashback just by spending it on the things that you would normally spend your money on so for that reason I'm gonna have to go ahead and put this one in S tier you honestly might not end up using it after the first year but even for just that one year if you could get $550 cashback that's probably gonna be worth it especially if you're a beginner check out my videos right here I made them just for you go ahead, smash the like button hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and then comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera that you have on the video let me know what cards you've used or what ones I should have included on this list I know there's a ton of them out there thank you so much for watching and bye for now


Alright, so let's go ahead and get started for our cornea grand rounds. So before we get to our main event, we have Mark Mifflin is going to present a couple of interesting cases. It might be interesting to us, but we had a talk by Dr. Byrd and I think one of the fellows, Brent, presented this case of a really unfortunate guy who got a canthamoeba keratitis from using well water on his contacts. I wanted to show you some follow up on him because if you look at the literature, there are actually a lot of, you know, when you kind of look at case series, many of these kinds of eyes end up getting enucleated or eviscerated. So sometimes you can get a really good outcome with visual outcome, a good visual outcome as well, so I just wanted to show that. So this was his eye before his surgery after nine months of anti-amoeba therapy and one prior failed graft. So just to remind you, we had a lot of synechia in the anterior chamber. We had a mature cataract. We had to dissect his iris away from both the angle and the lens to get at it. And then we were able, fortunately, to put a lens in the bag and clean him up, do a transplant. And fortunately, he did well and did not require any additional a canthamoeba treatment. His posterior segment turned out to be normal. And there's his eye two weeks ago. He's, whoops, it's ruining, I don't know why, it's going to have a delay here. But anyway, there it is, two weeks ago and he is just at the point where we're starting to get ready to remove sutures. So he does have about six diopters of the stigmatism, but he corrected to 2030 with that. So he's going to retain good vision, fortunately his optic nerve is okay. He does have some, he has a lot of synechia. We were able to free most of them up, but I'm worried about eventual glaucoma in him. He's taking calm again twice a day and his pressure is normal on six doses of steroid, strong steroid a day. But anyway, I thought that was good for people to see. So there can be hopeful and good outcomes with advanced a canthamoeba. The next case is a similar age gentleman about 50 years old who was very unfortunate, well first he had keratoconus, his original transplant was performed by Dr. Olson many, many years ago. He suffered a ruptured globin. It's a little bit hard to see here, but he had an anoridia IOL put in with a repeat PK and we did that about 10 years ago and his graft eventually failed. So we're doing a DSEC here, this is a couple of weeks ago, Dr. Pooley and I are working on this together and you know, his anoridia IOL has been really stable and he's had good vision prior to his graft failure. And so, yeah, yeah, and I think this is going to loop and I'll show you here. So I've obviously edited this a lot and so the graft, the donor tissue has been put into the eye here and at this stage we normally will suture the incision, which you'll see Dr. Pooley getting ready to do here. Typically put some more anesthetic on the eye, watch the graft, oops, I don't know if you can see that, we'll run it again, but it's like, okay, where'd it go? Dr. Pooley is like trying to divine it back. He's like, I'm like, where'd the graft go? Because I had looked away, he's like, I don't know, I think it folded up in the enter chamber but so I put on the indirect and sure enough it's over the optic nerve and really no visible space notable around this IOL, which has a six millimeter optic and it's about a 10 and a half or 11 millimeter, I guess it's, no, it's actually even bigger than that. About a 12 millimeter black skirt around it and so it's sutured to the sclera but I think if you watch, I actually pushed down, so it is my fault Dr. Pooley, pushed down with the, just kind of hit this cannula here and it redirected the fluid and that forced it. When I was putting the extra numbing drops in, you'll see that in just a minute. So there's the graft, there's no air in there. Had we put air in or clamped off our infusion, we wouldn't have gotten into trouble. But trying to be nice to the patient, give him an extra numbing drop here, there it went. I don't know if you could see that on the video. So anyway, we were perplexed because he has an aniridia IOL which is sutured to the sclera. There's really no way to get around that thing reliably. I talked with the retina team and we didn't have backup tissue so we kind of closed him up and prayed and cursed and then we were kind of planning on just doing a sclerotomy and removing the tissue through a sclerotomy because I didn't want to take the aniridia IOL out. But we just said, oh, desperation, why don't you sleep on your stomach because we saw him the next day and the graft was still sitting over the optic nerve. And then, why this is so slow, it's not advancing, sorry. I killed the computer, neither one's working. Okay, yeah, so thank you. This was the on day five after he was sleeping on his stomach and the interesting thing is that our dislocation was inferior through this space down here but the graft somehow resurfaced through the top so there's some dynamic openings happening there around that IOL which appears to go all the way to the sulcus but obviously doesn't. The lens is actually sutured, I just know this from memory, you can't even really see the sutures anymore but the haptics would be over here and over here. And then, we did a, sorry, why is it not working? I can't make it advance. What did you do, Amy? Oh, this one here. I was using the, what would just go, we don't need to use the slideshow, we'll just go on the regular slides, we're almost done here. So just showing, I decided to do a PK on him because of the, just the challenges of, you know, perhaps letting this happen again and we didn't really want to do any more surgery on the side, it's been through a lot so you can still see the graft kind of I think up there in the, it had stayed put for three or four days and we were able to just take it out and do a transplant and he's doing really well. So interesting case. So just thought I'd present that, thank you.


What's it like I guess for you to be here maybe with back to the team age kind of feedback for this Yeah, this is a wonderful environment to come back and reflect on some of the past memories and like Robert said and share some new memories It's always a pleasure to come back. In fact, I was here I guess in 2013 for a ceremony which they inducted me into the Ring of not Ring of Honor But congratulate me the fact that I went to the pro football fame, which is a great ceremony Adam's time has always been a real great family and supporting me and my family and I really appreciate it that this venue I'd say it's kind of Remarkable in the sense that she reached back and pull some of the love you love you do guys and So it's it's remarkable to be here and take part in this activity today Did you guys sort of feel a little bit like a little bit like a lost alumni group in some respects, you know Prior to today with the franchise moving and so well, I think I think we all connected I don't think we're lost at all. I mean the name is changed, but I think the family still the same To a great extent so I think we all loved and we appreciate that How much you pay attention to this this team here and just maybe how they play to play the game Well as far as team go I watched them periodically. I didn't watch the the last game they played But I think they're doing well and trying to develop but they last year they got into the playoffs Which is a remarkable thing and the time you in the playoffs at the end of the year is quite an accomplice for a football team So they were there and I think they're just a few inches away And I think they're gonna be remarkable this year and they got all the pieces in place You know, I think that the key is the end of the year is that you have kind of like not injury-free But to the point where everybody is productive and can contribute in that way you enhance your chances and going forward Yeah, yeah, I tell you I don't know, you know, I watched him play him first time I guess a couple of years back and remind me of a guy named Larry Zonka, you know Larry Zonka I don't know if he had the hands of Henry has but I tell you he's a powerful runner and It's remarkable how he breaks into that second level and I think those defensive backs and sometimes those linebackers Kind of shy away from him a little bit because his speed and it's natural ability to move on down the football field Well, I guess in the system from being a power runner I don't think Earl was quite as fast as Henry when he breaks into that second level But they're both very powerful runners. He might have made a little better hands than Earl But they're both productive and great athletes in their own right


Multi-element design, multi-element design, multi-element design, multi-element design, multi-element design, multi-element design, multi-element design. This is just an alternating treatment design. Bye. We have a video on that. You can go watch it. I'll probably do it before you again. You want me to do it again? Fine. I'll do it again. It's really simple, folks. It's multiple elements, right? So, in this case, we have an A-condition, a B-condition. You might even throw in a C-condition. We're not going to worry about that. We'll just work with A-B, alright? So, we're going to alternate between those two conditions. So, that's why people often call it an alternating treatment design. Anyway, so let's, you know, better example. We'll go A-B-C, alright? So, we could do a design where we have an A-condition, then a B-condition, then a C-condition. Back to a B, back to an A, back to a C, back to an A, back to a B, back to a B-A. And in an A-B, A-C, A-B, B-A, C-A, C-A, B-A, B-A, B-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A, B-A, C-A. Just make sure you compare the A's with the A's and the B's with the B's and the C's with the C's. You're going to get a lot of different conditions. You only need... Normally, we have a stability requirement before you switch conditions. With a multi-element or an alternating treatment design, you don't have that. All you want to do is change the condition and then get one picture, like one snapshot of behavior. Then you change the condition, get another snapshot. Then you look over time to see where all the A's are relative to all the B's relative to all the C's. So again, take a look at the alternating treatments design. It's got a pretty cool example in there too.


We're here at the Vail International Shoulder Summit. It's our second meeting and we have shoulder specialists and former trainees and fellows and researchers from around the country and really from around the world. They're here today to share their ideas on an open forum to talk about tough cases, new techniques and topics in shoulder surgery. Vail itself is an international destination so the Vail International Shoulder Summit reflects the best of what we do internationally to better the care of shoulder surgery. One of the great things about this meeting is we've invited all the alumni of the Stevin Clinic and Stevin Phillip on Research Institute to come back when they come here as fellows and we share with them but then they go out and gain some experience and come back and share their ideas with us so we learn from them now. I learned more from meetings in a format like this which is an open discussion format amongst colleagues and friends where we can talk about the things that we do well, the things that we struggle with and how we can improve and I think that's one of the biggest benefits of this meeting is we really learn from each other. The more I can understand about what's happening in the operating room and things that the surgeon is focused on or emphasizing maybe in the surgical approach I can then carry that over to rehab and working together with the surgeon and we can achieve an optimal outcome for the patients. It's just a great venue. Everyone here I think takes something away from it.


okay at the end of the last lecture what we did is we looked at an example problem for a rod fan and we looked at the temperature distribution in the rod fan and what we found let's just go back and take a look at that we found that when we had the case of the convecting tip or the insulated tip the solutions were really quite similar and the solution for the insulated tip that this was case three was a lot simpler than the solution for the convecting tip which is actually the more accurate and approximating the physical reality better but it's much more complex solution so what we're going to do we're going to come up with a method here that enables us to correct for the length of the fin and it approximates the solution for case two but we use the results of case three which was just the hyperbolic tan and so functionally mathematically a lot simpler so what we're going to do now and we're not looking at the rod fin we're going to look at fins and correcting the length but let me begin by saying what we're really after when we're looking at fins okay so what we can say is that the main thing that we're after we want to know how much heat is being removed from the fin and it's either cooling application or your heating space using these fins and what we do know is that all of the heat that goes through the fin flows through the base and so by applying Fourier's law at the base we can then determine the total amount of heat leaving the fin so with that we can write the following and so that's one thing now another thing that we're going to do we are going to introduce a concept or a term called the fin efficiency and this makes it a little simpler when we're solving problems efficiency for engineers it's always eta with the subscript f for fin and that is going to equal the actual heat being withdrawn by a fin or that is going through the base of a fin divided by some hypothetical theoretical maximum and and so qf is going to be in the numerator and this maximum is going to be if the entire fin was at the base temperature so if that was the case then we would have haf that would be the area of the fin multiplied by t base minus t infinity so here we're making the approximation that the entire fin is at the base temperature and that is an idealization so realize that that is an idealization so that is the fin efficiency and that is something that we'll use you can also look it up in charts if you have more complex fins that are not the type that we've been able to solve analytically in the last few segments here now the other thing we're going to do is this approximation between case one and case two by correcting the length so let me talk about that now okay so what we found when we did the example problem with the rod fin is that the case two and case three solutions were very very similar uh case two is a more accurate solution because it's modeling convection from the tip uh but what we're going to be doing is we're going to correct for the length and we're going to use the simpler case three solution in order to approximate a case two solution and so the correction depends on if we're dealing with a rectangular or a round fin but if we have a rectangular fin the corrected length and we will denote that with capital L little c for corrected is going to be the length plus the thickness divided by two and if you have a round fin again we'll correct the length and that will be corrected by taking the diameter and dividing by four and and so that is the way that we will correct for the length and then we can use the simpler case three solution which if you recall was just a hyperbolic tan and with that we can introduce the fin efficiency so this would be the fin efficiency uh if we had the insulated tip solution and then the fin efficiency if we have the corrected length and if you recall we defined m i'll give us m squared here so that is the corrected convecting tip so essentially what we're doing here let's say we have a fin and what we're doing is we are saying uh we're not going to have convection at the tip but we're going to add this small length here and that is going to be whatever the corrected amount is going to be so here we would have l and then this is going to be lc so we're adding a slight increase oops a slight increase to the surface area here but then we're saying that we're going to have insulation on the tip so what we're doing to approximate for the convection we just add a little bit of an area there and there to increase the convective heat transfer and then we use the insulated tip solution by saying that we have insulation here which was simpler and with that we can then come up with an expression for the fin efficiency and then compute the amount of heat being withdrawn by the fin and if you have a more complex fin such as an annular fin uh as we saw in the video that would be if you have a fin that is something like this where you have here it's more complex because if you were to model this what you'll find is the area the cross-sectional area is going to change as you move further and further out and so consequently it's more complex but there would be tables that you can look at tables or charts and so that would be the way to deal with more complex fins or if you have even a fin perhaps with taper or anything like that where the area is changing and it does not satisfy the simplifying assumptions that we've used thus far in order to come up with these relationships that we're using so that is the fin efficiency and what we'll do we'll close out this lecture in the next segment by solving an example problem where we will be computing the heat being withdrawn from a base by a fin