Okay, good morning everyone. Good morning to the online students as well. Thank you for joining. It's good to see you all here. My recording has started. All right, so before we go ahead, let's just do a quick review of what we did last week. Right, last week we talked about the urgency of sharing the gospel. And we looked at some of the examples there. There's no second chance. Time is running out. And one very important point that we learned was not to be ashamed of the gospel. Right? So wherever we are, wherever we are ministering, we are not to be ashamed of the gospel. We need to understand that the gospel is power of God. And when we come and share the gospel with people, it's not about our ability. It's not about our talents. It's not about our gifts. But it's the power of God unto salvation. Right? So that should be our confidence. We've been talking about that, right? Sometimes we try to use our own strength. Say, I have to share like this. I have to do this. I have to do that. And only then I can minister to people. No. The gospel, the simple gospel, is the power of God to salvation. Right? Everyone with me? We are looking blank. Everyone okay? Yes? Everyone online are okay? Yeah, good morning everyone. Right. Okay, let's go to chapter 2. We looked at the gospel message. What is the message of the gospel? What's the gospel message? Somebody, please. Online, somebody can please share. What is the gospel message? God gave his only son? Okay. What is the main message, the main gospel that we preach? What is it? Okay, very good. That's his burial. So basically it's the message of the cross. Right? We're not giving a message that is pleasing their years. But the message of the cross is the power of salvation. Right? And we looked at this, right? The gospel is the message of the cross of Christ. Now, have we gone into this point? The message of the cross? No? Okay, we're in chapter 2. Okay, let's go to the point, right? The message of the cross. Now, the gospel, when we look at the Old Testament, it was the first time the word gospel was used. It means message, right? Abraham had a message to deliver, right? Now, what is the message that you and I are called to share? It is the cross of Jesus Christ. Right? Now, is the cross a good message? Is it something interesting? Is it nice? Does it look nice? Bloodshed, murder, right? It doesn't look nice. But in the natural, it looks like a complete failure. In the spiritual, it's victory. Right? Now, all of us are believers. When we think of the cross, what is the first thing that comes to our mind? And if you can share, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Defeat, okay? Death of Jesus, victory. Once I defeat, once I victory, okay? Okay, okay, that's fine. Right? Anybody else, boys, when, sorry? Redemption, okay? What else? When you think about the cross, love, beautiful. What else? What else? Love, only love. What's your name? Nikhil, what do you think about the cross? You know, what are the first things that comes to my mind when I say cross? Forgiveness, right? Because there's no other message where there is forgiveness of sins. In many places, in many belief systems, you pay for the sins, right? Okay, this is the sins. And then so I go, I roll on the mountain. I have to go do this. I have to do that. There are a lot of works that we have to do. Right? Many of you are from different faiths. There are a lot of works, right? But in the gospel, through the cross, we find forgiveness of sins, not by any work. Right?  Will you forgive me? I will become a good worship leader. Will you forgive me? That is, what is that? Coming by, what works? But the message of the cross is not about coming by works. It's coming by that assurance that Jesus paid the price. So first thing that comes to my mind when I say cross is forgiveness, power, right? Colossians chapter one says he defeated the enemy. Isn't that powerful? He defeated the enemy. It's the enemy has been defeated as our authority. And so there are so many things that we think of when we think about the cross. God has chosen the foolish method of preaching and sharing and communicating the gospel to save people. Right? So we want to see people saved. The method is to preach the gospel. Another place in the book of Romans, he says, how will they know if we don't tell them? How will they know the gospel? Imagine the 12 disciples after Jesus died, the 12 disciples are sitting at home and displaying or looking after themselves, looking after their family. What would have happened? The message wouldn't have gone across. I mean, know that the disciples, the apostles went out into different nations and then we look at church history. The ministry just grew. Why? Because people went out and share the gospel, right? Each one of you also. It's not that you're learning about Jesus just to equip yourself. That's good. Equipping yourself is good. For the point of equipping yourself is to what? preach the gospel. Because God has chosen that matter. To bring people into the knowledge of his love. He preached the same message to the Jews. And to the Greeks. Now when we sing Jews to the Jews and Greeks, we need to take it into context, right? Jews are people who are who look at the supernatural. Why were the disciples okay? Tell me how many disciples how many people came to hear Jesus on the mountain? Book of Luke. How many people came? Jesus is preaching. There was five loaves of bread and two fish. How many people were there? 5,000. Okay. And the second time, how many people were there? About 8,000. Right. And so all of this is all of these people believe in Jesus. But after Jesus died, how many people were in the upper room waiting at church? One. There are all the hundreds of people, thousands of people gone. Where are they gone? They were not there. Right. Why? Because we read that in the book of John, they only were after Jesus because they wanted to see miracles. Oh, this guy is doing wonderful miracles. Front of our eyes, the blind is healed. The deaf is hearing. The lepers are healed. He took five loaves of bread. He broke it. He fed thousands of people. He's a great supernatural person. But after he died, maybe he was just one teacher. God used him in a good way. Right. That's the Jewish supernatural way. They wanted only healings and miracles. And then the Greeks, remember Paul goes to many places intellectually. He had to talk to them. He had to minister to them. The Greeks believed in many things. So he had to say, hey, this is what the gospel is. Now, did apostle Paul try to defend by explaining many things? No. He says there, you know, later on in his episodes, he says, I preached the gospel and people were saved. Right. I preached the gospel and people were saved. Let's look at this example. E. A. Allen was a wonderful... Did you all do this in the supernatural time? E. A. Allen, God's generals, right? E. A. Allen was a wonderful, wonderful man of God. God used him so powerfully. He would come and God would just minister through him, bring healing to thousands of people. Right. Now, what is one thing that he says is I don't know much, but one thing I know that God is powerful. He experienced the power of God in his life and he was able to, you know, explore that and release that from his life. Right. The message of the cross is both the power of God. Everyone's the power of God. How many of us want the power of God? Others, I can do with my own power. I need the power of God. Right. Because if not the power of God, it will fail. Somebody reads Zechariah 4.6. Zechariah 4.6. Yes, I see here. Prisha Shukumar says love and praise about the cross. Nina says perfect sacrifice to reconcile man to God. Yes. Thank you for your thoughts. Let's read Zechariah 4.6. It's not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord. Right. Now, let me give you a context of this verse. There was a king named Zerubbabel. Right. And Zechariah is the prophet during that time. So God is telling Zerubbabel, you build the temple, rebuild the temple because the temple was destroyed. You rebuild the temple. But Zerubbabel as a king is the king. God, if I rebuild this temple, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, they will come and destroy it. What is the use of rebuilding this temple? By the time I start the construction, they will come and destroy it. They are not going to agree with what we are going to do. Right. But God speaks to the prophet Zechariah and says, Zechariah, you go to King Zerubbabel and tell him this. What is that? Zerubbabel, you may be the king. You may be powerful, but your power is only in the natural sense because it's not by might, not by power, but by the Holy Spirit of God who will empower you to build the temple. Right. Isn't that powerful? Sometimes we try doing things on our own, right? We may fail because we are relying on our own strength. When we have the power of God in us, people will recognize it. Yes. People will recognize. People will say, hey, something about this person. This guy has the anointing of God. There's a presence inside him. Even demons will know that. Amen. Are you excited for that? Right. You need the power of God. And that's what this is to is the wisdom of God. Right. Now, why is wisdom? What is wisdom? Somebody tell me what is wisdom? What is wisdom? What is wisdom? Sorry. We're going to practice the knowledge acquired. Okay. Wisdom. So you all sing songs without knowing the meaning. It's recording. I'll talk to you after that. What is wisdom? Knowledge. Okay. See, we read. We read many things. Okay. We understand. But wisdom is the appropriate, which means the right use of the knowledge that we have. Right use. That's what wisdom is. Did Jesus have wisdom? Did he have knowledge? Remember, they came up to him. They wanted to trap Jesus. Jesus. They're saying pay taxes. What did Jesus say? Can you see the wisdom there? Give me the coin. Whose face do you see? Caesar's. You have to see what belongs to Caesar. Give to God what belongs to God. End of story. See the wisdom. Right. Now what is speaking without wisdom? They're saying give taxes. Go give. But Jesus used that example so powerfully. He said, yes, we have to give. Because we're under Roman rule. There's a portion that you have to give God first. Right. Now in ministry, many, many, many times, we see that people fail. Not because of knowledge. Not because they don't know the Bible. They know the Bible. But they fail to use. In the right way. If you use it in the right way. That is why wisdom is very important. We can have head knowledge of Genesis to Revelation can know everything, which is good. But if we don't make a right use of it, we will fail getting what I'm saying. Right. We can't go to a church. And if somebody is saying that, you know, or invites you to a church. And you see this, this happened many times. You know, there's this one time I was, we were ministering in North India. And this, I had to preach. And then there was another guest, like guest speaker. And during worship time, suddenly there was some sound and this man came in with sunglasses and blazers and all that. And he started walking inside. I don't know why he was wearing sunglasses because it was evening. He came and he stood next to me. And everyone are taking photos and all the worship is going on. Who's this guy? And then he was talking to the people who were arranged in the meeting and he said, I'm not preaching here. I said, why? Because my banner is not there. The banner with my face is not there. Now this man is a gifted man, gifted preacher. God has used him to bring healings, miracles, everything. Right. Now is this speaking in knowledge? This is all knowledge of wisdom. He went off. I don't know. Let him go. It's not needed. Wisdom is appropriate use of the knowledge that we have. What does the Bible say? Walk in humility. Walk in humbleness. Does he, do we know it? Yes. And when we apply it, it becomes wisdom. If we only know it, it's over here. Head knowledge. You get what I'm saying, right? When you worship God during the worship time, if you're thinking, oh, when is the bridge going to come? When is the second verse? When will this worship get over? They're not singing correctly. They're not playing. Then it is head knowledge, head worship that is. It's not going to get you anywhere. It's a waste of time. Sorry to say this, but it is a waste of time. When you worship God in spirit and in truth, God opens his heart. God reveals. The wisdom of God flows in us. Right. So when we are ministering to people, very important, use wisdom. Right. It could be small things. It could be big things. Right. Many churches we go, they'll say, remove your footwear. Now, if I go in and I say, hey, that is for Moses, not for me. I may know the truth. I don't have to remove, but I don't have to explain it to them. It's their culture. It's walk in wisdom. Women should not cover their head.  You don't have to go and tell them, hey, that is only for Corinthian church, not for us. You don't have to do all that. Right. You can teach them, but you don't have to, you know, put it across in the wrong way. That would be lack of wisdom. Now the gospel, the message of the cross is the power of God. Reveals the power of God too. And it's the wisdom of God. God revealed his wisdom through the cross. Can you imagine this? God is the source of all wisdom. And for him, the cross was the correct way to bring salvation. That's God's wisdom. So when we are preaching, we are not preaching our own gospel. We are preaching the wisdom of God. Can God be wrong? So people will say, hey, Jesus died 2000 years ago. You're going on with that same story. It's a wisdom of God. So it's not our own ability. It's God's ability to bring change. Are you with me? Okay. Now the Greek word for the word salvation needs sozo. The Greek word is sozo. Now sozo is, I'm sure you may have heard of it. This word is a comprehensive word. The word comprehensive means it's not just one meaning. It's got many facets to that word. Sozo. Let's look at what it is. The word sozo in the New Testament appears more than 100 times. And it's commonly used for the word salvation. What is salvation? What is salvation? You say, okay, Lord, I accepted you as my personal savior. And after accepting him as my personal savior, I receive salvation. I receive sozo. But it's not only salvation. The Greek word sozo is not only one thing. Let's look at what they are. The word sozo refers to forgiveness of sins, healing from sicknesses, deliverance from every work of the enemy, rescue or preservation from danger, total wholeness, and being rescued. So you see that word, one word, right? It's just one word, but it has so many meanings. So everyone say, I have received sozo. Online students, you have received sozo. So it's not, okay, salvation now, okay, I'm going to heaven now, thank you. That's not the story. Right? It says here, one, forgiveness of sins. It's such a wonderful feeling, no? Forgiveness of sins. Two, healing from sickness. You know, when I was in Bible college, first semester, right? I started studying. I said, I want to do well. And I wrote the faith, I think it was faith exam. Yeah, it was faith, wrote the exam. I got the answer paper. During those days, you would write and then you get the answer paper. I got 100 on 100 in faith. It's very happy. Top of the class. This is how you study. I told my classmates, you see, it's not about all, you guys don't study, you'll do all these other things. This is how you must study. 100. I'm doing one wrong. If it was 101, also the teacher was willing to give. So well, I wrote. After the first semester, me and a couple of classmates, we went, we thought we'll go visit some places and do some ministry. So we went. So everywhere they said, Paul, you preach your top or no. No, not because of that, but they said you preach, right? So I went and I said, okay, we'll prepare one 15, 20 minutes sermon and then. So I went full excitement and we went to preach all these different towns. We went to Andhra. We went to Mumbai. They went to different places. And in one of the places, I think it was the first, one of the first few places that we went after sharing the gospel, everything preached a nice message fully anointed a bird on blind man comes and stands in front of me. To be blind, there's no eyeball, right? Just just a line. He says, pastor, you pray for me. I know that God will give me eyes to see. He was born blind. That moment when I saw this, I said, how is this going to happen? How will the eyeballs come? The eyeball is just and God reminded me of my faith answer paper 100 on 100. And I said to myself, Holy Spirit, I put a zero out of 100 on myself right now. That is just on paper. But in my spirit, I felt like a failure. I said, Lord, zero, give me zero. I don't want this. I felt so miserable and I went to sleep that night. He posted so much about 100 on 100. Man came, he has faith. I don't have faith. He's saying, you pray, eyes will come. I'm saying, how will it come? I put zero. Just felt so miserable that night. But that night I remember saying, God, never will I go by just knowledge. If you want to work in me, you have to reveal yourself to me. Reveal your power that it may be seen in people's lives. Three days over, four days over. Last day, next, we were going to another city. I said, God, today is the last day. Every day he came for prayer. The moment he sees me, I return this way and try to escape. I said, God, do something. I don't want to be in ministry and just have a head knowledge. What did Paul say? He preached the gospel, followed with demonstrations. There were signs, miracles and wonders. If that is true, show it. He really looked after God. I asked God to forgive me for all my sins posting about the marks. My friends are good friends. They never reminded me of that. I said, this is the time, Lord. You have to do something. And I remember a story cut shot on the last day we were praying. I said, God, you do something now. I'm not going to do ministry ever. I don't want this. I'm not going to go back to Bible call. Just go back and work in the ID company. So we prayed. And to my surprise, the moment we finished praying, he had white eyeballs and I could just see his eyes forming and he could see. I was jumping with excitement. He was normal. He went and sat there. So aren't you happy? I said, I know God has done no on the Bible. He'll do for me. I knew it. So God has used you. Thank you for praying. And I thought to myself, if ministry is about head knowledge, it's not going to get us anywhere. It's the power of God. What does it say here? If I have received salvation, that's healing from sickness, healing from deliverance of every work of the enemy. There's wholeness. So it also means to be saved from the devil's power and be restored to the wholeness of God. The devil tries to work in our lives. He tries to put us in bondage. What is the word bondage in Hindi? Who? Banduk. Banduk I know. Bandu I Okay. That's the word I'm looking at. Yeah. He puts us in that bondage. We'll never do what we want to do. He brings distractions. He brings troubles. But salvation says, he has delivered us from the bondage of the devil. I have many stories where demons have come and really God's came but God has just showed his power. Why? Because he has delivered us from the works of the enemy. Everywhere Jesus went demons came and fell at his feet. Demons didn't say, let me think can you come back next time? No, no. Because of the power of God they can't stand it. Right? Sozo means healing from every sickness and disease. Sozo means rescue and preservation from danger. There are so many examples I've written here. There's a person named Rebecca Brown. She wrote this book called He Came to Set the Captors Free. The story is about a man who was into witchcraft. His family was into witchcraft and growing up this boy became very learned in this whole witchcraft and he was very powerful. He was able to do a lot of things very learned man and as he grew up he wanted to he began to go to church to tell people that Jesus is not the way I'll show you the real way and he did great miracles and all of that high up in the ranks in witchcraft and so he would go sit in the church right? But one day he was sitting in the church and something struck him right? It was something like God is the most powerful he said no no God is not powerful Satan is the most powerful he went home very angry that day not going to come back to church that night he had a dream in the dream he's sitting in a train which is burning and the train is going to running ditch it's going super fast speed in the dream and all of a sudden he sees a man and the man is just putting his hand out and the train stops and the fire stops now he is surprised in the dream who's this who's more powerful than Satan and he looked at around and all the people are running away and he opened his eyes his dream was over so he said who's this person I thought I'm serving the strongest person devil he's the strongest who's this person that even the demons are fleeing away then he went to church and the next Sunday was a message on the power of God God's redeeming work and he accepted Christ as his personal savior the name of the book is he came to set the captives free the enemy holds us in bondage but God came to set us free from that that is what salvation is is any of us in any kind of bondage if it is remember he came to set the captives free if you have salvation you can come out of that bondage it's your authority you have to use it picture this I give you the keys to the bible college new and old testament keys in first authority imagine I give you the key to the bible college I give Rimal the key we come early morning so Rimal is standing there standing outside the gate is locked but he's standing outside he has the key it's in his pocket and then all the students come and all are standing near the gate say hey Rimal we have to go into the bible college we have to get in Rimal says yes we have to get in so who has the key Rimal has the key why are you making us wait here outside when you have the key you have the key you have to open it you have to use that authority you get what I'm saying you understand what I'm saying you have to use the authority which God has given you nobody else can come and take it from you Rimal is saying I have the key should I open the lock see you open the lock we need to go in you have the key you have the authority come on do it if you don't do it all of them will be sitting outside and chatting wasting time right that's what authority is God is saying on the cross he has given you authority now it's up to you to use it how are you going to use it God five o'clock I can't pray five a.m. is very difficult to pray Lord sometimes a prayer is going on and you don't know when where you are in the prayer five a.m. is there authority is up to you you get what I'm saying right you can review the work of the devil or you can continue in your sleep right authority is up to you God is saying I have given you the authority right so so is for everyone say everyone everyone not only for the English speaking, Hindi speaking Kannada speaking Telugu speaking not only for the worship leaders, pastors prophets no for everyone so so is received by grace through faith that's so wonderful this salvation is received by grace through faith so if you if Vimal or Vijay says I've received salvation they can't say I've received because I spent two hours of everyday and prayer two hours reading the Bible they can't say that right and I'll say I have to do that no to receive salvation no we all receive it by grace by the grace of God and having faith in Jesus Christ this is such a assurance for us right you don't have to come in through any work so when we are presenting the gospel to people remember it's the grace of God it's the power of God that will work in their lives you and I are just a tool that God uses He uses us to bring people to the gospel presenting the gospel message so while presenting the gospel message there are key elements that we must remember we must make improvisations when we speak meaning now for example if you're speaking to a couple you should know how to minister to them you can't talk about Instagram Facebook they'll get bored so if it's an older couple you talk to them how they will understand if you're talking to a youth you talk to them how they will understand so we must be willing to make those changes but the message remains the same you understand what I'm saying everyone with me the message remains the same forgiveness, love what Jesus did on the cross that's the message but how we present it can vary from people to places remember this one time we were in college one of the colleges we had something called as campus elevate where we go to colleges and it would give us one hour and we can minister to the students like we have worship and then share a short message so once we play this video of this Ronald Derek Redmond is in the finals of olympics maybe I'll share that video later on and he falls and he has a hamstring and he can't finish the race but his father comes out from the crowd helps him and he finishes last but the whole crowd remember this man and not the winner nobody remembers who won gold on the 1991 olympics everyone remember Derek Redmond who came last because he fell so I played that video and we just shared this is what God is he's like a father when we fall down he comes he helps us simple message and we saw that the whole youth they were people crying as we are sharing the message it was just two minutes people are crying these boys and girls are crying something touched them so what am I trying to say we need to understand the audience who we are ministering to come up with ideas ask God for wisdom how do I reach out this person how do I share with this person this youth or this older person a child how do I share with them ask God for wisdom presenting can change and while they are presenting remember to give the full gospel of Jesus his death his burial his resurrection and what he did for us on the cross now key areas that we should learn one is the existence of God when we are sharing people will ask how do you know there is God to be able to share with them in your own language you can share you don't need to ok let me learn all of apologetics and then come back as much as you can be willing to share the problem of sin and its consequences so share with people no sin has its consequences we are all born in sin right so you tell them we are born in sin and everyone will relate to it nobody will say I am not a sinner whether they are Hindu Muslim whatever it is everyone knows that they are born in sin there is sin nature inside so you can start off from that point our need for the saviour and what did Jesus do on the cross why is Jesus unique why not anybody else why only Jesus so you should be able to bring out all these points what would you say why Jesus so somebody will come and ask you why only Jesus why only Jesus why not anybody else so many people have died for others anybody share share its fine what do you think why Jesus because he is God how do you know he is God the blood which cleanses you are talking to somebody who does not know anything about Jesus blood and all I do not know blood is all that is a good point so what else do you think you can talk about somebody says why Jesus why not no I do not know this word redeemed and all I am you knew the word redeemed when you were on any other faith no right only in Jerusalem okay what did you say okay okay what else see its good all good answers right but a good way to deal with this is look at the humanity of Jesus first was there a man named Jesus history says yes was there a man named Jesus who had was a carpenter history says yes forget about God all the history yes was there cross Roman crucifixion yes is there historical proof that Jesus died on the cross yes so history says there is a man named Jesus now you are not pointing and saying okay show me history whether this person lives now but what you are doing is you are opening his mind oh yeah there is really a person named Jesus so there is a person named Jesus that is point one and secondly you can start off by saying now what was he there were many people who came right but he was born of a virgin nobody in this world has been born of a virgin right so you got your right so you are building it up you are not saying oh the redemption of God Jesus blood is going to fall on you all that know right you are just coming on you understand what I am saying right you are trying to relate to the other person there was a person named Jesus so in his mind there is a person named Jesus there is nobody else who goes again from the dead there is no proof anywhere even if they rose from the dead they died again but there is no one else who is so you talk about the uniqueness of Jesus it will open their heart now remember as you are talking you also know that you are talking the Holy Spirit is ministering to them right it is not only you the Holy Spirit is going to minister to them and the Holy Spirit will make them understand right as you are doing your part the Holy Spirit is doing his part right so present Jesus why is he unique God's promise and his invitation present God's promise so this is what God promised he is promised to heal you he is promised to forgive yourself then repent and believe you ask them to repent you ask them to respond now when you say repent it does not mean that they won't understand right whether they are people from different faiths they will understand what the word repent means because there are different kinds of repentance in different faiths right if you look at Hinduism we will talk about that later on as well there are different kinds of repentance Islam, different you know repentance, Judaism, Mormonism different ways where we have to repent so when you are ministering when you tell somebody to repent right and response ask them to respond to the gospel and finally minister the power of the Holy Spirit ask the Holy Spirit to touch them and to change them ask the gifts of the Holy Spirit to manifest words of knowledge words of prophecy now how will this come words of knowledge, prophetic word how will it come through the Holy Spirit but how will he tell you he is not going to say come I will tell you through his word okay prophecy word of knowledge how is it going to come to you through his Holy Spirit correct but how do you know the Holy Spirit is talking having communion that's right unless you talk to the Holy Spirit then he will talk back come and say whatever he feels like saying to you he needs you to talk to him so he will talk back to you they also understood he needs you to talk to the Holy Spirit and then the Holy Spirit will talk to you you know many times in church you know we give out these words of knowledge many times we pray for people they will be waiting any word and they ask how is it that you are all in the pastoral team how is it that you are all it's not by paying money it's not by you know just wearing good clothes or driving a car all those things don't matter it's about your time your fellowship with the Holy Spirit right when you are ministering to people minister out of the gifts of the Holy Spirit something that's of the Holy Spirit will touch their lives and change them I will close with this example then we will pick up from this or from next class many many years ago we went for the hospital visit to pray for somebody that person one was in his last stages last stage and he was almost he was just a vegetable on the bed couldn't move about nothing and we went there and you know I felt God saying you pray for him here be healed right so it's okay if God is saying that my spirit praying and praying and praying and the nurses are coming doctors are coming nothing is happening to okay let's go I just felt the Holy Spirit saying you pray you stick around here so I went to him I was talking to him he could talk but he couldn't move he couldn't do anything so I told him see this is what you know just shared what God can do the impossible things God can do and their family was there just crying and they knew these are the last few days but all of a sudden I just felt God saying pray now pray and Jesus me and God began to speak to me and say tell him to ask for forgiveness for these things I said brother you ask for forgiveness for these things he said how do you know forget about that ask for forgiveness ask Jesus to forgive you his blood will forgive you don't keep it in your heart your family is here if they hear it it's okay if they don't hear it it's alright right I just requested them to go and I said you pray ask for forgiveness God will answer forgive your prayer then he started praying then I said he started asking for forgiveness for everything things that I didn't know everything he started pouring out his heart to God as he was pouring out the God when my hand was on him and we were just praying he was praying and praying he started sitting and he didn't realize it suddenly my hand from here has come here God Jesus all of a sudden my hand has come here I was praying and then he's standing and he said brother you're standing God has forgiven you your sins are forgiven and then he started running about and then the doctors came and said what's happening here I said he's running about let him walk he's been many years he hasn't walked the doctor said how is this possible it's not possible family came they all but it wasn't some show I'm not talking about it's not about me it's not about oh we showed the doctors who's the real God nothing but it was about the power of God I mean minister and the gifts of the spirit the doctor said we're going to do a scan we're going to do a I told the family sign do it today they did the test today evening I had to leave evening the reports came there is no sign of any kind of cancer he walked out of the hospital free from every disease how? because we're ministering through the gifts of the spirit it is not me it is the Holy Spirit that pours out the gift and he can bring deliverance right so we close now thank you online students let's just pray quickly and we close let's pray Father we thank you for this beautiful time Lord we thank you for your learning thank you for your wisdom I pray God that you will fill us all with your knowledge and wisdom that we may do what you have called us to do not by our own strength but by the power of your Holy Spirit working in our lives God we open our hearts we open our hands we open our lives to you and may your working rule and reign in our hearts Lord we thank you we give you all the praise Lord we give you all the glory for you alone deserve it in Jesus name we pray Amen Amen God bless you all have a good week ahead God bless you all online students have a good day


Personal Finance PowerPoint Presentation Exemption Trust Prepare to get financially fit by practicing personal finance Support Accounting Instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category, further broken out by course Each course then organized in a logical, reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable So once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it Most of this information comes from Investopedia Exemption Trust You can find online, take a look at the references Resources continue your research from there This is by Julia Kagan, updated August 11, 2022 In prior presentations we've been taking a look at a state planning then focusing in on particular tools that could be used in it this time that being the Exemption Trust So the first question is what is an Exemption Trust? An Exemption Trust is a trust designed to drastically reduce or eliminate federal estate taxes for a married couple's estate So in prior presentations we talked about basically the timeline through the estate planning process and an overview Let's imagine that in this circumstance, so at the time before death then we want to plan out what's going to happen at the point of death so that we can allocate our assets in accordance with our wishes One of that allocation wishes probably being to reduce the amount taken by the government and then we'd also like to make it as easy as possible on our loved ones at that point in time to manage the process So the first tool we think about is a will typically but the will has some limitations because it still basically has to go through probate often times so you might be able to make that process a little bit easier by setting up some type of trust So that's one thing to basically consider Then we also have the added complication if we're married because if you're married then you're basically one legal entity for some purposes including like tax purposes for example and so on but also in some ways you could still be considered kind of two individuals So are you considered one legal entity or two legal entities? If you're one legal entity you would think that as one person dies then the assets would naturally be going to the other person or would be managed by the other person in the legal entity and then as the second person dies that legal entity has now passed away and then you would have the situation that would be similar to one person dying if they weren't in kind of a married situation but that could change a little bit from state to state such as if you're in community property states or not so you want to have some understanding of the kind of legal entity of the marriage and then the next thing that you have to consider is the fact that you have the taxes that could be applied and this usually applies for people that's income is above a certain threshold then the government's going to look at their assets or their estate at the point of death and try to assign an estate tax which is basically applied to a balance sheet as opposed to an income tax so it's a little bit unusual for us to typically think about because usually we'd say well it's already been taxed it was taxed when we earned it on the income side no it's taxed on the estate so then we of course want to limit the estate taxes and one of the issues with the estate tax is if it's similar to the like if you had one person that died that wasn't married then there's kind of like an exemption that you get so if you're below the exemption it's kind of like a standard deduction for an income tax and if your income is below that threshold then you might not be subject to the estate taxes but what if you're married and one person then gives all of their assets to the other person or by the time the second individual dies I think that you would have an exemption equivalent to the two individuals to write a married exemption is what you would kind of call it on an income tax side meaning the standard deduction is usually twice as much for a married couple as a single couple so on the estate taxes it gets a little bit complicated to make sure that you're maximizing your exemptions for the two individuals to reduce the estate taxes as much as taxes those being the death taxes, taxes at the point of death so that's the general idea okay so now we've got this trust that could be set up one just simply to make it easier for probate purposes but then two you've got the trust concept that could help you to reduce the amount of estate taxes primarily by making sure you're taking advantage of the exemptions and then of course there's a bunch of other strategies that could be taken when you get into more complex estate planning for higher income individuals okay so this type of a state plan is established as a irrevocable trust so it's irrevocable as opposed to revocable we talked about that in the past that will hold the assets of the first member of the couple to die an exemption trust does not pass the assets along to the surviving spouse okay so what's kind of like the rationale of this obviously when the second spouse dies if they have the rights to all of the assets basically then they would be subject to that being their estate and that might be over the threshold or more likely to be over the threshold for estate taxes and have the tax on it if you could say well if one person died then those assets go into a trust then although the surviving we're trying to set up a trust that's separate whereas so it's a separate legal entity so it's kind of like a corporation in a similar way as a corporation but then it's not in the name of the other spouse so that when the second spouse dies hopefully then that second spouse isn't going to have to have an estate that includes those first assets which could again lower the amount of estate taxes would generally be the basic idea so as its name suggests an irrevocable trust cannot be changed or invalidated without the permission of the trust beneficiary so a primary benefit of an irrevocable trust is that it removes assets from the grantor's taxable estate thereby diminishing the estate's tax liability assets in a revocable trust could include one or more of the following cash, investments, a house, life insurance policies a business, precious gems, fine arts or antiques for example any kind of valuables in general how an exemption trust works an exemption trust is a popular estate planning tool for affluent married couples mainly more well off wealthy people the primary goal of an exemption trust which is also known as a bypass trust or credit shelter trust is to mitigate a couple's federal estate tax liability so you're trying to minimize the tax liability of course with an exemption trust the surviving spouse does not inherit the assets of the first member of the couple to pass away so the first member passes away you would think in general that the second one would basically be in charge of all the assets they would be in their name that's what we're trying to avoid so we can get the exemption so we have to set up a separate legal entity would be the general concept and that's my interpretation of it this makes its provisions very different than that of many wills so generally you would think it would be more complex than the standard will the surviving spouse is quote bypassed and the deceased assets are held in a trust so remember that a trust kind of like a corporation is kind of like a separate legal entity which can now own things note that one of the characteristics of a corporation is that it's it's it doesn't it can theoretically not die right it can continue on and the ownership can basically be passed on similar kind of concept with the trust so when surviving spouse dies the assets are distributed to the trust beneficiaries typically their children if they had any because the surviving spouse did not inherit the assets directly the beneficiaries are not held responsible for any estate taxes when they receive the trust assets after the surviving spouse dies another benefit of an exemption trust is that before the surviving spouse passes away they still retain several access rights to the trust assets during the remainder of their lifetime so notice this is kind of like the in-between line that you're always trying to walk oftentimes when you're doing this type of estate planning because you'll note that they had to set up that kind of irrevocable trust the idea being that the person doesn't have the capacity just to kind of reverse what they did but at the same time still give some leeway to the individual to have access over the money that's in the trust because you're trying to get the best of both worlds here meaning you're trying to say I no longer have access to these assets in some way that's why it might not be included in the in the estate for example but at the same time we want to set up the trust so it's doing what that individual wants them to do so that's kind of the tightrope that ends up being walked and a lot of these kind of estate planning situations when they're setting up some kind of trust in this fashion so for example a surviving spouse and this is just one example this is one very common kind of example a common tool that's used but you can imagine other ways that you can have similar tools and have similar goals in place for estate planning using tools like trust so for example a surviving spouse can tap into both the trust's income and its principal to pay for certain medical and educational expenses 2017 federal tax law benefits exemption trusts the tax law passed by congress in late 2017 raised the exemption limit for estate taxes in fact it doubled the cash value amount that couples can transfer without being subject to estate taxes obviously as we're doing our estate planning we have to realize that there's a lot of uncertainty with regards to the estate tax law it can change drastically depending on the political environment and that uncertainty needs to be taken into place when we're doing long term strategic planning with regards to estates so the prior exemption amount was just shy of 5.5 million dollars per person as a result of the tax reform the exemption was increased for an unmarried person increased to 11.4 million for tax years 2018 through 2025 so for most people you're probably saying well that's still quite high for the average individual but just a couple things to note note that the estate tax as well as kind of the income tax when it was really first put into place was thought that it was only going to be applied to very well off individuals which these days you would think like the billionaires would be the equivalents of what they're thinking about when it was first put into place because those are the people that benefited most from kind of like the infrastructure and so on and so forth and then these things tend to expand also note that the primary tax we have is the income tax you get taxed when you earn the income and now if you tax the balance sheet you tax the estate your taxing basically the balance sheet that's kind of like a double taxation so it has kind of expanded to more people than you would think and that gets a little bit scary as it basically continues to expand it's also going to look like a much smaller number 11.4 even that number which is a lot different than the 5.5 that's a lot shy of like the billionaires at this point in time and it's probably going to look a lot smaller if inflation continues to eat into it at a higher pace because then the purchasing power will go down so in any case therefore if the gross value of the exemption trust grantors estate is less than 11.4 million when that individual dies no estate taxes have to be paid so that's the general idea but notice that they don't have a different exemption really for a married then an individual so this you can think of this number as being similar to the standard deduction for income taxes but you would think that they would have twice that much for a married couple right that's what they do with the income taxes but that's not quite how it works so now the question is well if you're married couple how do you get advantage of the fact that you should get twice that much you would think why don't they just put that in the well then you're going to have to do this funny trust thing or something to make sure that if you're if you're subject to the estate tax that you're trying to get the full amount of the exemption if you can so and even if the total value of the estate exceeds 11.4 million limit only the amount in gross excess of the exemption level is taxable in other words if an estate is worth 100 $100,000 more than the exemption limit only the 100,000 is taxed rather than the 11.4 million so again you can kind of think of that as kind of like the standard deduction right you're going to get for the income taxes you're going to be taxed at the amount that's above that threshold is the general idea so example of exemption trust exemption trust often use an AB trust system in which two trusts one belonging to each spouse are funded roughly with the same amount and number of assets suppose Prahya and Krishnan I probably said those completely wrong have created an exemption trust using the AB trust system when Prahya dies her assets are passed on to trust B and the excess beyond exemption limit in this case roughly 11.4 million is funded into trust A to avoid federal estate taxes because now one person died they're married instead of them instead of the money just going to the other individual you want to maximize the amount of the exemption that they would get at that at the point of death right so that you could fully grasp and that's so you're going to so you're going to give it not to the other individual you're going to give it to the trust and you're going to take the exemption so that you're under the threshold which is at 11.4 at this point in time okay so the fund and its income are available to Krishnan during his lifetime so when he dies 11.4 million is defined by the federal exemption limit from trust A is passed on tax-free to his beneficiaries utilizing Krishnan's exemption limit the remaining amount is taxed however funds from trust B are passed on tax-free to the final beneficiaries


You have eventually the, let's say, commodity certification, commodity meaning the timber certification you have from FSC or Fairtrade since about 20 years. And now, since 10 years, that's when the gold standard was created, you have the certification which goes beyond these commodities, which go into ecosystem services. And ecosystem services like biodiversity, water, and here we're talking about carbon, this is what our role is here to certify those ecosystem services and bring additional value to the forest. That's correct, but I would even argue that the entire carbon world, although the individuals understand if I'm planting a tree, it's absorbing the carbon and it's carbon neutral because of this, I would say the market is a B2B market, a business-to-business market. So it's really the companies who have to first of all reduce their emissions and second of all, if they can't reduce it fully because we're still flying, we're still using cars with fossil fuel, then they can go carbon neutral buying carbon credits, for example. I mean, there are several aspects on green growth, but one aspect is you're having growth also economically, but in a sustainable way. That's what I would define in terms of green growth and then you have to define what is sustainability and we're acting, Gold Sun is acting on behalf of 80 NGOs around the world and they're defining eventually the rules we're creating so they're defining what sustainability means today for them. This is changing over time. We can also see this in other standards like FSC, after 20 years they had to revise their thinking of sustainability and so this is what we are. We're eventually a melting pot for NGOs to be defining sustainability for the carbon sector. There are several carbon markets in this world. Well, first of all we see there's a voluntary carbon market. It's not big, but it's existing and that's where the companies using our standard are mainly selling their credits into. There has been this Kyoto market, the UN market, where also companies have been selling carbon credits into and so we also were linked to this market so there were UN credits labelled as gold standard credits into this and then you see emerging smaller markets, national markets like in Chile or like in South Africa or in China and also here we are engaging with the governments so later on they are using our standards within those smaller markets. At the moment you have this small voluntary market so you would have to look for buyers yourself. It's not a market at the moment where you could sell into right away. At the moment it's quite difficult in my opinion to get this value, which you get out of carbon credits, to really monetise this really fast. But I hope that step by step these compliance markets which we had in the UN or which are happening then in these emerging national markets is hopping back in which means then later on that you would be able, if you would be doing an afforestation project in Chile you could be selling into a national market and monetise this and then it's working again. So we are setting at the moment the rules but maybe they will only be applied in a couple of years in certain markets.


To study a particular process it's instructive to pick some sort of state that we can characterize experimentally. And an obvious such state is that when we have the equilibrium midpoint here that the helix does not want to elongate anymore. It doesn't want to shrink and it doesn't want to elongate. At that moment we have delta G for elongations equals zero because if it was positive or negative it would like to go in one of the directions. We already know that this was F8 bond minus Ts alpha. So that should be zero. So that the energy for that hydrogen bond at that point corresponds to temperature times the entropy of putting a residue in that state. We're also going to need to consider the entropy here. How many places can I put that helix? In principle that means I could put the start somewhere n and I could put the end anywhere. That's also n positions so that would be uppercase n square if I have total n uppercase n residue here. But the end has to come before it starts. In principle it's n square divided by 2. Well we're only going to be working with order of magnitude estimates here so to make life slightly easier I'm going to skip that factor of 2. It's not as bad as you might think because it will only show up inside the logarithm not outside it. So that the number of states would be n2 divided by 2 formation places. So that would mean that the entropy for the helix if I skip that factor 2 to make my life easier that would then be roughly 2 for the 2 in the exponent 2 ln uppercase n sorry Boltzmann's constant 2 k ln n. And then if I then want to look at the midpoint of this transition when I see no net change in helix I'm not initiating any more helices either and I don't see any helices disappearing. Then I also know that the total delta g should be zero. So delta g total is zero that would mean that f in it minus the entropy 2 k t ln n should be zero. And based on this I can start to draw some conclusions here right that the full mixing here I would have that maybe say half the residues or so uppercase let's say if I say n lowercase n residues are helical. If I say in the ballpark of 50 percent of them but you know 50 percent that's just another factor of 2. So I would say that that is in the same ballpark as uppercase n. And in that case I can actually solve for it there and that would means that the typical length of these residues would be roughly e raised to plus f in it divided by 2 k t. Very rough ballpark estimate and I don't care about the factors of 2. So I just solved the equation here but replaced uppercase n with lowercase n. But this number I can get from CD spectroscopy. If I have a chain and that I know that roughly 50 percent of them are helical at a particular midpoint I can solve for that. The book actually mentioned that it is possible to show that it's not 50 percent but it should be 12 percent but again ballparks. But if I know n I can calculate a finite. So from that simple CD spectroscopy experiment and a very simple say pure polyalanine helix I can estimate what the initiation free energy for an alpha helix is. And it turns out that it's going to be roughly in the ballpark of say 2 hydrogen bonds or so maybe 4k cal. So it's a relatively low energy. 4k cal remember that we should compare it to 0.6k cal which is k t. So that's ballpark maybe of e raised to the power of minus 6 is the probability of forming that. And that's the barrier that we can then use to describe how quickly things will happen in terms of kinetics. It turns out that helix is formed quickly not only for the form quickly therefore very very quickly. I'll take you through that on the next screen. The other thing we can say about elongation. The elongation if we calculate that the same way the elongation might end up being roughly half of this for a typical residues and maybe 1 or 2k cal but then negative. So helices form quickly because the free energy barriers and for that matter the free energy advantage of being helix are relatively close to delta g equals zero. And that means that they will be stable but they will also form in reasonably short times.


How are you doing today? I'm your host Rich and we have a Rich TV Live and I'm here with our very special guest Chris Donaldson. How are you doing today Chris? Hi Rich. I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on. Fantastic. I'm excited to have you on the show. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself and your background in exploration and mining. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I've been in the public and private capital space for about 25 years the last 10 years of with a company called Western Copper and Gold which has a very large copper gold project up in the Yukon. I was director of corporate development for them. Just as I was leaving we brought in Rio Tinto as a strategic investor. So yeah, real good success with that company and then I got a chance to join up with Craig Perry that many of your viewers may know and I joined up with him and his Invented Capital team and started Outback Goldfields. So my first gig as a CEO and I guess it's been about one year now. Congratulations on your one year and we love gold stocks here especially early-stage gold stocks. You guys can see the symbol here OZ in Canada, OZ BKF in America and they are also listed in Frankfurt, Germany for our European investors. Now can you tell us a little bit about your current assets? Sure, so we acquired four properties in and around the Fosterville mine in the historic Victorian gold fields. The Fosterville mine of course many of you may know made a discovery about six years ago and they found something called the Swan Zone and made them the the highest grade highest margin mine in the world. So and you know once that happened there's been a staking rush or and their second gold rush that's gone on. We were fortunate up to get these assets last year but from a group that had acquired them about five years ago and at the foresight to see what was happening in the staking rush there and so we were able to acquire these and now we're working them I think we've got we've done some exploration on three of the four properties and are in full swing right now. Wow and why would you say these locations are the most interesting for the company? Yeah so I mean we have said this before you know we have a bit of a criteria you know when selecting assets and you know what's the size of the prize what's the cost of the test and what's the chance of success and in this case you know the size of the prize is a Fosterville style. It's as good as you get so we're definitely elfin hunting for what we're looking for here. The cost of the test I mean it's a mining jurisdiction it goes back to the 1850s when the first gold rush occurred and and they had tremendous success and made Australia the richest company a country in the world and then the chance of success well if you if you're going to look for gold you know a good place to start is where there's already a lot of gold and we're right next to a number of historic mines and also producing mines and you know the story of the Victorian goldfields is they you know back in the 1850s they mined at or near surface and then stopped because they hit cover and they didn't have the technology to go below so they've mined 80 million ounces of gold in the district and the geologists now believe there's another 80 million ounces yet to be discovered below that cover so that's that's what sparked the the second gold rush. Now we love to understand the catalysts that are coming that's why we love to do these interviews with CEOs and our community loves to kind of understand what's happening next so what are some of the upcoming milestones for Outback Gold that will possibly get investors excited? Well you know it's it's I think it's a good time it's certainly been a tough summer and and that's put some pressure on our share price and it was tough only because in in June I was you know all ramped up and put out an announcement that we were starting our program and Victoria had a very very hard lockdown that came out about two two days later so for instance we weren't even able to get our drill that was planned to come to site because the drill wasn't allowed to cross straight state lines so you know it's been a tough summer in the in the junior equities and we also didn't have news flow but we're drilling now and kind of now doing the program that we had planned in June have cash in the bank and a lot of news flow you know to come here. Now gold prices had gone up really nicely previous to 2021 they were on a serious run and in the beginning of 2021 they were also very strong but they've kind of flattened out over the remaining part of 2021 where do you see prices going in 2022 with all the talk of inflation happening? Yeah I mean well you hit it on that head there I mean with the amount of money that's being printed around the world eventually you know it's going to have an impact on on the various currencies and historically you know people start coming into gold at that time so yeah I mean we hit 2000 I guess a year and a half or so ago and then have pulled back to kind of the 1800 range and there's been a lot of consolidation there certainly won't be a straight line but you know all signs are pointing that it's going to go up I wouldn't be surprised to see $2,000 gold here in the next in the next few months and I you know personally I think that's the hurl mark that that really gets investors interested we saw it last time when you know the generalists started pouring into the market when it hit about $2,000 gold and I think it's coming I know it's coming at some point here and I think it's sooner than most people think. I agree with you I think it's coming as well we saw 2004 we're in pretty much an everything bull market, bitcoins exploding, stocks are exploding, all-time highs all across the board and the only thing that and even oil and the only thing that's really lagging is gold so I believe that gold will have their time and it's coming and it's coming soon which really means that this is a great buying opportunity for investors at these levels and we've been talking about it with Barrett gold near 52 week lows, Kin-Roz gold near 52 week lows. We've actually been identifying great buying opportunities in the gold sector and with a small cap gold company like yourselves this might be the perfect time for investors to start really looking into this opportunity. Now in saying that what sets you guys apart from your competition in the sector? Yeah well I mean we're early stage junior mining so it I mean it's high risk but high reward and but we think we minimize you know the risks as best as we can by being in the top jurisdiction in the world right now by being surrounded by majors I mean one of our properties actually touches Fosterville and Kirkland Lake which is now Agneco Eagle on one side it touches Newmont gold on the other side they like the area and they came in as well and but probably the you know we're well-capitalized and probably our best separator is the team that we put together so our chairman Craig Perry many of your viewers might know from his successes as well so he's the chairman of Skeener Resources ISO Energy was a founder of and NextGen Vesla Silver you know several of those are billion-plus companies and they all started out you know fairly humbly you know in kind of our stage as well and he was able to grow them part of that is he's got a great following of investors behind him we're you know we were able to raise 11 million dollars last year non-brokered you know a lot of that was because of his following some of that was I hope it's kind of because of mine but we do have a great backing in infrastructure here we've put together I'm not a geologist but we put together a team both in Australia and in in Vancouver you know which is packed with the great experience in in the the gold fields and you know with our geologists and now it's just a matter of executing so we're you know our program is just starting we we have enough money to get us through the year and and beyond and we should have some steady news flow which is key for junior mining companies here and we think we have some some very high tenor targets here to go after now you touch base a little bit about your team I'd love to know a little bit more can you talk a little bit about your key individuals and what each of them brings as far as experience in mining and capital markets yeah I mean Craig Craig would be at the top of that list he's 25 years in the in the business and he was 10 years with Rio beforehand I listed all the companies that he he's now grown before and he he's the one who had you know he had people asking him to take over these projects and and list them on a Canadian or North American market and which is which is what he is his has done here so he I mean he's certainly key to to putting the deal together and helping push it forward you know one of the challenge with the COVID lockdown is I'm in base in Vancouver and I can't get down there so we were fortunate enough to retain the the geologists that that purchases properties who's been you know working them for the last five years 25 year geologists down there so he's put together a team we pulled in the the former exploration manager for the Ballarat mine which is adjacent to our property it's an active mine now he actually lives in one of the tenements and then probably key for me up up in Vancouver is is a guy named Chris Leslie who did his PhD in codes in Tasmania and has worked extensively in the Victorian Goldfields he is from Vancouver and came home a couple years ago because of COVID and he he's helping coordinate things from up here fantastic now here at Rich TV Live we really are fundamental traders we love to understand the share structure fundamentals the cash on hand debt to equity ratio debts if there's none that's even better can you talk us through your current share structure how much is held by insiders and what you will be doing to attract more institutional investment alongside more retail investors yeah so I mean we have just under 60 million shares that are out so fairly tightly held insiders have a little over 10 percent that that number is growing both but Chairman and myself we're have been in the market buying this week and of course that's all public information as well so that's that's our share structure we raised 11 million dollars last year last reported amount was about 8 million in the bank so so we're in good shape there you know at our stage it's never prudent for a junior mining company without revenues to go into debt so we have we don't have any debt on that so that's that's where we are right now so we're in good shape on that side I would say our shareholder base is we've got 40% out of Australia and the balance is in in in North America Vancouver Toronto and a little bit in the States what am I doing for you know for the retail investors as well you know it's it's a bit of a function of news flow and I'm just now starting to get out there as we have planned to you know we should have news every two three weeks or so for the next you know eight to ten months so certainly doing that and doing the various conferences and so on in terms of attracting institutions at our size you know these institutions like to write much bigger checks so you know I have certainly talked with a number of them and they they want to see some results so you know that's kind of that would be the next leg up I need to make a discovery here and then I think we'll get those those types of groups coming in a good example of that is a company called e79 resources very similar to us we came out about the same time they had one good actually extremely good intercept and they they went up about 10x and then we're able to get an investment immediately from Sprott and and then they topped up on on top of that so you know we're in good position it's just a function of us executing and and finding some gold. Chris we've got shareholders that are going to be watching this video from all over the world and investors that are going to be looking at this company specifically what would be the best way for them to get in contact with you or the company if they have any questions yeah happy for anybody to reach out info at outbackgoldfields.com we're actually quite active on on twitter as well so it's outback underscore gf or you can even call me directly I'm happy to do it the old-fashioned way and just pick up the phone and call and and the number there is 604 93450. Fantastic well thank you so much for your time today Chris and I must let everybody know that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes please do your due diligence do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about or discuss here on Rich TV Live in saying that this is a company that is well capitalized with a tight share structure that is now drilling that is still with a very baby market cap so I think this is a company that is undervalued underappreciated underexposed put on your watch list put on your radar we bring you the winners and we bring them to you first thank you so much for your time today the CEO of Outback Goldfields Chris Donaldson thanks Rich it's been a pleasure thank you so much love to have you back on the show if you have any big breaking news anything you want to talk about anything you just want to discuss love to invite you back on the show thank you so much for your time and for all of you guys that are watching at home thank you guys for watching and have a great day


Good morning everyone. Sorry for the noise. Thank you for having me again and I'm a little bit emotional because I just left a few months ago and I'm back here and this time from Leipzig so the layout of my slides has changed but a lot of the contents and it's actually come from all I've learned and done here in Toronto and so I want to congratulate Jacobo for putting together the course. He thanked me but I haven't really done much. He said I have this idea and I just said yeah that's a good idea. You should do it and and it's done all of the work so I shouldn't take much of a credit. So the idea of this talk was just to go over the so you've heard about the basic 3d technology and the image acquisition model from Dr. Tsieng. So I'd like to talk about what can be done to make our 3d images a little bit better and what can we done with the 3d images so I don't have any disclosure on this topic and as you heard already so one of the main one of the things that make echo in general sometimes a little bit confusing and 3d even more so is the proprietary strings that go through the different vendors why because when some vendors comes up with a new technology or a new mode they give it a name and they trademark it so now that name cannot be used by anybody else so when something similar another company makes something similar then they have to use a different name so often when you go across platforms you will notice that there are so many different names but at the end of the day they do something that's a little different but it's not so different so that is one of the things and one of the things that I always find funny and a bit confusing is that actually when you go we are talking about 3d we all agree 3d 3d but then if you go to some of the platform you look for a 3d button there's not 3d button so the only button that you find it has 4d so some of the vendors call it 4d as they mean that it's a 3d image that moves over time what it's what it's what it eventually comes down to as we heard and I think Wendy did a wonderful job at trying to keep everything as vendor independent as possible is that there's three steps to the image acquisition so one is the data acquisition then there's a processing and then that's how we display that's how we summarized it in a paper I wrote many years ago with Annette and that's when you display what happened with 2d images where all were used to is that once you have a 2d image then there's not much you can do so you have a 2d image you can play you can look at it you can save it store it put in your presentation but then you can pause it and you can freeze you can take measurements both for 2d images as well as the but that's it if this is a bad image it's a bad image too bad so you can't go really back to the patient and do anything when for 3d it's different because what we do is we actually now scan a 3d space and of that 3d space we know all the characteristics of the tissue as Wendy mentioned the resolution is not exactly the same in all planes and there's one of the three planes where the resolution is not as good but we know the characteristics of the tissue so we now have voxels and what we can do is we can then once we know that we have a data set so we have a block we know everything that's inside the block then we can still do a lot of stuff with the block and normally what we do is we try to display this block in a way that looks like something that three-dimensional and to do that like the machines as we saw before use technology that's sort of being taken from many many years ago this is a painting Italian painting from the 17th century and what they did is they used shining lights on this block and used different shades of different colors to keep the the filling of depth of this block so I developed thanks to the support of the Peter MacCardic Foundation and the help of some of the people here one of them was Wendy these a few little videos that are posted online and on on the echo website which I'd like to use here to just go over some of the things that we can do with our 3d data sets once they are acquired so I obviously I have two videos for two separate vendors and now there's no point of hiding names and one is phillips so we're starting with the phillips with the phillips system and this what you see here right now is something that you can go home and actually watch on on on your own if it's again what I did is here you see your data set which we have acquired it's in the machine and now here is the the screen with the with the with the all the buttons that we can touch and here we have something that moves and looks like it's a three-dimensional object so and one of the first thing that you can do once you have something now this is the image that we don't only have a picture like a playing 2d image now we have something that we can play with we can still do stuff so and one of the very basic first thing that we can do and we sort of saw it at the top is we can actually rotate whenever we have something new in our hands or something that's three-dimensional or we can do that's good we can just take it and move it around and see what's inside so that's simple I know all you figure it out so and with a trackball usually you can move this box into different into different orientation and and so we can sort of see what's inside see what from different orientations we can understand things a little bit better this is the mitral valve we looked at it from the our side now we flipped it we looked from the ventricular side now we put it again unfast so we have the structure we're interested in this is the mitral valve it's looking at us and also something that's kind of useful is the rotation like a clock so in that's what we call dead plane so that allow us to keep the object parallel to the screen and rotate it clockwise and counterclockwise also there's an option where here now you can see we're looking at the subject from the top so we look at the mitral valve from the atrial side of the mitral valve but there is a feature that allow us to actually every time we get lost to go back to where the block started or to where the block was presented to us that's the the actually the home so what else can we do so again instead we can look at this block from the top we have the possibility to look at this same block from two perspectives at the same time and this is called dual volume layout so here we see the mitral valve from the off from the atrial side and at the same time we can look at the same structure from the ventricular side we just take the block and flip it and we can display it simultaneously sometimes gives us the opportunity to sort of store more data at the same time but we can just take it and flip it as we want without this feature but it's a cool feature that actually it's especially nice for the when we save this image and put it in our record we sort of save one step and one image something that I find that it's uh it's been very useful to me is uh the fact that sometimes especially when we go we have acquired the 3d block we store it and now maybe a couple of days later or later in the day we go back and we look at this 3d block and we're wondering and say what is this and you look at outside from this block and you really have not much of an idea so and one of the features that I find useful is that when we look at the 3d block we can look at it as a rendered picture as you can see here that is like this pyramid that like some feature tries to make it as full as possible or as realistic as possible but also we can look at the same block with two perpendicular planes that are cut into the block in 2d so for example so this is the plane where the image acquisition started comes in the center and it's playing near perpendicular so we can display the 3d block as a 3d block or a 3d block plus 2d images what I personally find is that especially for all of us who have done we've learned 3d they haven't started we haven't started with 3d when we look at these blocks sometimes we say no idea but then we look at 2d images that cut through it oh that's the micro block so we're actually used to it so that's one of the feature and depending on the system we can display there's two perpendicular images at the top or three perpendicular images that's the plane of origin the perpendicular plane and the plane that cuts through it or now there's also something that's got in the different vendors have different ways of this was from a previous version of the software where these planes are perpendicular to each other they're cutting in the center you can change the angle now you can actually change the angle so finally as I said for 2d images there's not much we can do but for 3d images there's still a lot we can do once we have the image and one of the things that we can do that I initially thought it was very cool is that you can actually change some of the settings even though the patient is gone and the image was taken time before when you do this so the first thing that we can change and we are all encouraged to do is is the game so normally for 2d images once the image is acquired it's over game it's over game so there's not much we can do but with 3d images we can still change the game and here at the top of the screen here you can see that this was the original game at which the image was acquired and this is the new game you can see that as we increase the game the tissue becomes less transparent but we also then when we over game in 3d we have this fog that prevents us from seeing anything and actually as we practice on on the models later normally what we need to do is not increase the game but actually decrease the game when we go from 2d to 3d the other thing is when we decrease the game with 3d you can see it's very easy to make things transparent so what is the optimal game and is this the real gap or is it under game so what we are looking for and it's part of the exam that has 2d images so what we see that has to make sense in 2d as well as in 3d depending on what we're interested in for example as who came for the earlier talk we were talking about a perpendicular procedure when we do microclips and the clip is over the valve we want to see the clip and the leaflet when the clips goes under the valve we want to see the clip and we can make the leaflet transparent so in that case we decrease the game to purposely make the clip transparent as you saw here one of the things that we could do we can also change the compression so similarly to what you do you can actually change the compression and the compression would allow you to sort of increase the contrast of the different colors that are used and the shape that are using this image and it's something that can further be done to optimize your image so finally um we can this is sort of we can change the we can change the the the the combination of colors that are used to display this image and this is sort of the standard combination of colors that most of us use and find useful and we need to interpret this image but can be changed so here we've just changed the different settings so using just one color and different shades so and as you saw from Dr. Ten the presentation now with the philip system you also have the option to make it look like a real tissue which is called TrueView and I'm sure the software is loaded on the new machine and you'll be able to do it with the system that we have here then the last sort of setting that I found I find useful to optimize the image is something that's called smoothing so smoothing is is a feature that basically allows us to make the surface of this block that we have a little bit as as it says as the word says smoother or less smooth this was sorry we were changing the brightness so we can make it brighter or less bright and then finally this is the smoothing which is this feature as you can see with increasing the smoothing you see how the surface of our tissue becomes sort of more homogeneous as you can see here it's more homogeneous which sometimes depends on what we're looking for sometimes it helps to present to the surgeon or our colleagues a better image but also when we increase the smoothing too much then we lose the sum of the tissue characteristics that are seen in the original clip. So I've used this as an example and this was using the one of the two system and so similarly to what you saw for the philip system this is something that can also be done with the with the g-system and although the names of the bottom side are a little bit different because what is for one vendor called gain for gg is called active model 2d but again this was just an example how we have a big pyramid with a big data set with a whole ventricle and the lentatrio for looking inside the mitral valve and then again we have this block we can try to make it nicer and this will decrease the gain and we've made this valve tissue transparent or we can increase the gain to make it just right and while for 2d images what's the right game this is something that I couldn't really find in any books but it's something I learned from a net that there's blood is black so we need to we see the blood is back if we see the 2d image together with a 3d image then we can use that to help us but otherwise we have to use our sort of cleaning talent common sense and judgment in order to set the right gain so we can see the structures the way they are supposed to be one of the features of all of the vendors have tried different ways of actually making the blocks as three-dimensional as possible and one of them that sort of unique feature about GE is the fact that we can use something that actually no one else has that's called stereo vision and stereo vision gives us this kind of block that with like naked eye it looks a bit weird but if we had 3d got 3d glasses with red and blue then we would see this structure popping out of the screen so and that applies that word for 3d images so for the 3d block the tissue itself as well as with the color so I think I'll probably stop here you can obviously review this video and other videos that we've created and they are posted on the website I'd like to thank Hakobo again for inviting me and I'd like to congratulate him and all of the team here in Toronto who put together this course I hope you'll enjoy and we'll spend more time together here and we always take the opportunity to invite you to visit us in Leipzig and this would be a good opportunity is the AACTA ECO conference that's coming up next June


Oh hey, it's me! This is weird. So for a long time I've been wanting to do these like face to face videos because it looks like that's what people want to watch on YouTube these days. They want like this emotional connection with the person they're watching or some kind of like seeing the personality behind the channel. So I know this isn't like my usual screen capture on the keyboard real tech stuff so maybe some people won't like it but that's okay. If you don't like it, just don't watch it. But I am trying to be closer with the community that is like slowly building and I hope this is just a cool way to do it. Let me know in the comments below. So I get the question sometimes like how did you get into programming? How did you get into CTFs? So I'm gonna go way back like way back like a kid and it's gonna be a lot of backstory but it's all gonna come together at the end I promise. When I was in elementary school I played a lot of Pokemon and I went to some event I think it was like Pokemon Rocks America like 2005 and I met this guy there who told me about this cool thing on the internet that was like a website, serabi.net and it had a forum that people could go online and chat and talk about stuff. Pokemon. It was Pokemon in this case and I thought that this was super cool. So I used the forum for a while and I got to visiting like all the website pages and then at one point I was like just a kid kind of curious and I asked my dad like how does this work? What is this made out of? How do you make a website? And he taught me HTML. So as a nine-year-old I'm like this is the coolest thing in the world like I have superpowers I can make whatever I want. I have this like vivid memory of me playing Breaking the Habit by Lincoln Park like over and over again just on repeat and I would be asking my dad like how do I make a link and I had to explain to me like this the a tag you know the anchor tag with the href attribute like over and over again. I don't know why that sticks with me.  So I found this thing called Proboards which at the time was just like okay the cool easy way to make a website forum and I wanted to design this site called chatwood.com. I didn't realize that this was some Lord of the Rings reference at the time. I didn't know. I wanted a community to just like ring people together I guess.  So my dad showed me how to buy domain on GoDaddy set up like DNS name servers and get a website hosted. I linked to the Proboards forum and it was fun like it just sit on the internet and a couple of my friends and I would use it. And at some point the Proboards forum got like completely overrun with like hackers and like the bad kind like not the good kind. They would like purposely defraud it and just post a bunch of like pornography like gross and weird stuff. I remember there were a lot of horses and those are things that I like probably shouldn't have seen as a preteen but I mean whatever kids have the internet these days. So that thing like died like crashed and burned hard and I was like well Proboards sucks can I just make my own forum technology and that blew open the doors for better web development stuff like CSS, JavaScript, PHP, my SQL. So I would look these things up online and you know like W3 schools like the first result on Google whatever like second to stack overflow. And while I was reading about these languages I would see stuff that people would try to advise against like the bad design that may lead to like cross-site scripting or SQL injection stuff that would let hackers in. And I was like whoa that's kind of cool. I want to be a hacker but not like the bad ones that put porn on my website like the good ones the people that would like make things better or understand flaws so they could fix them. So I would research like cheesy stuff on Google you know like how to be a hacker and somehow I stumbled upon Eric S. Raymond's website and that was like accidentally finding the holy grail because it told me if I wanted to be a hacker then I needed to run Linux and that started the snowball. I read all about like Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, the origin of Linux, the classic VI versus Emacs War and I got to installing Ubuntu with like Wooby the Windows Ubuntu installer. Is that thing even around anymore? So I got Linux installed and I learned all about Bash from Crystal Capinti or Metal X 1000 on YouTube and I would just watch YouTube videos and try and self-learn. I saw that Python was like practically installed on every version of Linux ever and it was like the cool new programming thing to learn. So I remember being in sixth grade and I had just moved into my new stepfather's house because my parents were getting divorced and it was just kind of a neat escape for me like I'd go on YouTube and I'd watch The New Boston. Now that is a channel that I am very jealous of.  When I was learning Python, I felt like time would move slower. Like I was just engrossed and awe inspired by this cool programming language, like this new thing. And again, right, I'm just a middle school kid. I remember being in my mom's car, we were just driving somewhere and I had this weird random thought like out of the blue and I guess I was thinking back to the programming videos or something. And I remember I said out loud to my mom like, Oh, it all makes sense. Like programming makes sense because you can tell the difference between a function and a variable because a function has like parentheses and variables don't. That was my middle school epiphany. So I went into high school and I would try and learn more. Like I'd dabble with Java and C and C++. I remember I would just pick up a programming language or any programming language just because I wanted to know more like XML, Ruby, Pearl. I just wanted to be like in the culture. My high school didn't have any programming courses or really any technology classes at all. So it was totally something I did just on my own because it was my passion. I signed up to take the AP computer science exam without ever taking the AP course. And I got a five, like I aced it, but I'd never taken a computer science course like in my life. When I got to college, the school that I went to didn't really have a good outlet for programming at all either. There was no computer science major. There was no programming classes, at least until you got into like your second year here. And then they teach you MATLAB. But luckily, when I was a freshman, there was some weird advertisement going around for something called the cyber stakes competition. And it was an online game where you were presented with puzzles and you would try to solve them for points with some kind of programming or computer skill. It was like a qualifier thing where my school would just send the best people to the live competition later on in the year. And I played. I think I finished like fourth, but there were only like 20 people playing from my school. It really wasn't that big of a thing. So I got invited to go to the live competition. So I went to cyber stakes live and I met some of the guys from Platt Parliament opponent, Tyler Nicewander, David Bromley, who just now goes on to do Pico CTF, like big people in the capture the flag scene. And this was the first time that my school had came to this event or ever even heard of it. So we didn't really do that good, but it piqued my interest. So after the competition, I went up to them and asked, like, what is all this stuff? Like, how do I get good at this? And Tyler Nicewander himself just told me about CTF time, told me about Over the Wire and all these different war games and how to get better. And that opened the floodgates, man. I would try CTF, fail at it, read write ups, do it again. And this, like four years ago, is the first time I'm ever doing stuff with like git or virtual machines. So I'm drinking from a fire hose, but it was so cool. And now I'm on YouTube just looking at stuff from Live Overflow, Ginvale, Ipsak. So I've got one foot in the computer science scene and one foot in the cybersecurity scene. And those two things are like practically the same. Information technology, information assurance, they're all a slice of the same pie. They're all part of, like, doing something cool with computers. And the passion for that just comes from, like, the raw, genuine curiosity. Just being inquisitive to how does this work? Wanting to understand, like, why does it work that way? How can I make something do what it's meant to do? But at the same time, how can I make it do something it's not meant to do? So that's my story. I left out some of the parts of, like, me trying to make a bunch of video games, like using Adventure Maker with Visual Basic Script or Yo-Yo Games Game Maker.  Now I try and do a little bit of all that stuff. A lot of Python, a lot of Catch the Flag and a lot of fun. All right, the video's over. So hey, thanks for watching. I hope you guys like this style. Please do like, comment, subscribe, all the YouTube algorithm stuff. If you want to hang out with me and join a cool community of hackers and programmers, check out our Discord server link in the description. 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