And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. To a transcribed story of a man who tries to lose himself. So now, starring Parley Bear and Michael M. Barrett, here is tonight's suspense play, A Case of Identity. Harry. Harry, answer me. Well, I don't know it. You don't know what? I don't know if it's such a good idea. It might not work.  You think I'd plan something that wouldn't work? You think that? No. Well, then what is it? Well, how are you so sure the insurance company will do it? You try him, Harry. You try finding one that won't jump to ensure your life for a hundred thousand dollars. That's how it started. She brought it up at dinner, not all at once, but in little pieces, just enough to make me curious. Then later, when she'd done everything she could to put me in a good mood, she told me all of it. She'd gotten the idea weeks ago, but she didn't want to mention it until I started on my vacation, just in case anyone at the office noticed I was unusually nervous. Oh yes, she'd planned it well. She made it sound easy, so I agreed to go along with it. The next morning I applied for a life insurance policy, one that would pay Edna a hundred thousand dollars in the event of my death. A week later, the manager of that insurance company called and asked me to stop by his office. Well, Mr. Burton, it's a pleasure to meet you personally. Thank you. It is an oftenware privilege to issue such a large policy. And it has cleared. Well, hasn't it? Haven't I answered enough questions, Mr. Croyd? Haven't you had enough doctors probing and poking at me? Please, Mr. Burton, it isn't me. It's just that the home office seems to have some doubt about what? The amount of the policy. After all, a hundred thousand dollars to a man of your financial...  Well, I do. Is there anything wrong with that? No, certainly not. It's just that... Just what, Mr. Croyd? Well, the premiums will be rather large. I'm prepared to pay them. You read all the clauses thoroughly? I have. Including this paragraph? Mr. Croyd, I have no intention of committing suicide. I wasn't suggesting that you had, Mr. Burton. I was merely endeavoring to acquaint you with the fact that such an eventuality would nullify our contract. Mr. Croyd, if you'd rather not issue the policy, I'm sure there are other companies... Not at all, Mr. Burton. Not at all. It's just that caution is our byword. We find it pays in the long run. Your company pays in the long run, Mr. Croyd. That's why people buy insurance. Yes, well, I believe everything's in order if you'll just sign here. Here you are. All right, Mr. Burton. That's it. Thank you. Take care of yourselves, Mr. Burton. Half an hour after leaving his office, I walked into that park in the center of town. I'd been spending a lot of time there watching, waiting, feeding the pigeons. Then I'd spotted the particular pigeon I'd been waiting for, with the same height, weight, same color eyes. We could have been brothers, except that he was a mousy gray in the color of all stumblebuns. For three days now, I'd been watching him, getting to know his habits. He showed up every morning about 11. First, he'd take a walk, looking for butts, and he'd plop on the grass and sleep. This morning, I wasn't going to let him sleep. Nice day. Ah, smoggy. Yes, it is.  It sure does. It isn't doing my head much good, neither. Bad night? Huh? We don't have to have a drink on you, do we? No. But, uh, here's a buck. Hey, how come you give me a buck, mister? I've got a job for you. Job? Oh, I'm not looking for no job.  Well, there's not much work involved. I have a cabin up in the San Bernardino Mountains. It's kind of run down. I need somebody to help me fix it up. Oh, no, no, no, that sounds like heavy work. My doctor said... I'll do the heavy work, okay? It'll mean 50 bucks to you. How about it? 50? Mm-hmm. Half now, and half when the job is finished. Well, as long as there's no heavy work, then when do we go? Right now? Now. Oh, sure, anything wrong? Do you have a business appointment? Well, now you don't have to get sassy. Okay, we go as soon as I get that 25. You are? Oh, uh, just one thing more. What's that? About that drink. I could sure use it. You'll get it. I bought him a 49-cent bottle of wine when he opened before we got to the car. Then he insisted I'll drive him around to a fluff house so he could pay a week's rent. Finally, we turned on to the freeway and headed for home. Why didn't you call? I was busy getting this. policy. Oh, Harry, I was so worried. Never mind that now. I've got him in the car. What? He's in the car. Now? Here? It's all right. The car's in the garage. He's drunk and nobody saw it. So we can't keep him here? I know. You mean do it tonight? Oh, no, Harry, not tonight. Why not? Because it's too soon. They're bound to be suspicious. They'll be just as suspicious, six weeks or six months from now. Maybe more. We do it tonight. They'll believe it. They'll figure nobody in their right minds would pull something the day after the policy was issued. I'll be on the side road. The cut-off I showed you, remember? I remember. I'll be there in the coop at one o'clock. I won't turn on the lights. Okay, I'll find you. Harry? Yeah? Who is he? What's he like? His name's Wallace.  We'll be doing him a favor. I backed the car out of the garage, careful that no one saw me. Then we started. My traveling companion wasn't feeling any pain. He polished off his bottle and passed out. No sign of anyone on that mountain highway. No houses, no cars. Not until I reached the 4,000-foot level where there was a little run-down gas station. At 12.30, we reached the cabin. We parked on the slope. Pulled the emergency brake tight. And then reached over into the back seat for the jack can. Because I switched clothes with him. My keys, watch, wallet, everything that matches. Then I saturated the upholstery with gasoline, left the can in the back seat, and got out. Right on the drunk, I fell down as the usual thing. Light me a cigarette. I didn't forget. They'll figure I was sitting there drinking, fell asleep, the brakes let me on the right. They'll ask a lot of questions, but don't move your nerve and don't. I don't know, the motor's missing.  Well, Harry, do something. Please do something, if they find us here. It's a gas station a couple of miles from here. I'm gonna try to close down to it. But if somebody sees us... They won't get in the back on the floor. Hurry up. Somebody's gotta be inside. Ten gallons of gas. Close at eleven, pump's locked. Well, then unlock it. Now, wait a minute. I've got to have some gas.  Sure, I understand, but I ain't giving you none. Now, you listen to me. You listen, mister, I don't like your order in ways.  Now, you better get it. What do you mean by that? Just what I said. Keep coasting, brother. Now, wait a minute, I... Look, I'm sorry. I've been on the road all day. I'm yummy. You know how it is. I suppose I really make it worth your while. I'll pay you double for some gas, and how'd that be?  Oh, he's a figure, and everybody's got a price.   Okay, okay. I don't want any trouble, only I... But maybe you'll be interested in twenty dollars. Huh? How much? Twenty dollars. For just ten gallons of gas? That's right. Or can you do want to get home? That's a little regular. I mean, only hurry. I stopped the car a couple of blocks from Skid Row. I got out and disappeared. The torn suit, bloodshot eyes on my beard, put me in that mousy gray color. A few hours later, I was just another stumble bump. Three days went by before they found the body. Naturally, the newspapers played it up big. Real big, with a picture of me and an obituary, half a column long. There was also a picture of Edna, the grief-stricken wife, taken right after she'd identified my body. I turned the page and kept on reading, and then I saw it. Only a small paragraph, but it said my widow would receive her hundred thousand immediately. Hello, Edna. Harry. Did I frighten you? I'm sorry. What are you doing here? How did you get in? You still leave that key under the back door mat. How many times have I told you about that? You shouldn't have come here. Why didn't you call? I did, all day, and no answer. What if they're watching the house? Why should they? The police are satisfied that I'm dead. You've got the insurance. How'd the company take it? I think they were suspicious. They asked me an awful lot of questions. Yeah, they figured, too. But they could hardly go against the peace findings of death by misadventure. I don't want to talk about it anymore, Harry. No, you're right. It's all over. We've got the money now. I've got the money. What? And I'm going to keep it. Edna, you're not making sense. I'm not? Well, let me clarify the situation for you. I've got $100,000 and you're dead. You're very, very dead. Well, you... You had this idea all along. Right from the very beginning, you never had any intention of sharing that money. And you made me kill a man. Stay right where you are, Harry. You take one more step and I'll scream, and you know how loud I can scream. Well, go ahead. Remember, you've lost your identity.  You broke in. And I'll spill the whole work. Including how you killed a man? No, I don't think you will. Will you, Harry? You're smarter than that. You're smarter than I ever gave you credit for. She'd always been the strongman. The aggressor always gotten her way up to now. That evening, after making sure she'd been picked up by her cousin to go to a movie, she usually did on Wednesdays. I entered the house again. I'd attended a sales convention a month before and while I was away, I'd written her twice. Those letters were still in the desk. As quickly as I could, I lifted the old letters and their envelopes and replaced them with some I'd written that afternoon. And one of them I said, darling, I can't understand why you insist I take out such a large insurance policy. If I didn't know you better, I might think you were planning to murder me. Then I put the angels back in the desk and went into our bedroom. The keys are her coop while I'm the dresser. I put them in my pocket, picked up one of her shoes and started for the mountains. I reached the cabin about midnight, broke the heel from her shoe, tossed it into the ravine. Then I spattered mud on the shoe and put it back in the car. When I reached Pondale, I made a long-distance phone call. Hello. I've been reading about that Burton case in my newspaper. I thought maybe I should tell someone that I was driving over Crestline and the night had happened. Who's calling, please? I saw this car parked by a cabin. There was a man and a woman in it. Who is this? And they seem to be arguing. Arguing? That's right. Remember what time it was? Oh, just after midnight, maybe 12.30. I see. Could I have your name now, please? Well, I'm a family man. I wouldn't like to get involved. But, sir, it's very... It was the next afternoon before I could get back in the house. But when I did, I took that mud-spattered shoe with me. It planted it in her closet. I was about to look in her dresser where she usually kept her cash when I heard Edna come in. Well, yes. Your body, your gamut, Burton, but something has come up. Yes. You stated at the inquest that you were home the night of your husband's death. I was. Can you furnish proof to that effect? I suppose so, but I really don't know how at the moment. I told you everything before. Some additional information has come to our attention. We'd like your help in clearing it up. Well, naturally, I'm always ready to cooperate with the police. Fine. Then you'll answer my questions, won't you? Did anyone see you here that evening? Can you furnish any proof at all? I'm afraid I'll have to have you come along with us, Mr. Burton. But why? I haven't done it. I'm sorry.  It's necessary, Mrs. Burton. I'll be well, please. Oh, all right. Let's get it over with. Oh, Mr. Burton, before we leave your house, do you recognize this? What is it? The heel of a shoe. We found it at the scene of the accident. Could it possibly have broken off one of yours? No.  Quite positive. Very well. I'll leave the door open, please. My partner and the police woman are waiting outside. They have a warrant to search your house. I was looking to search the house while I was there. That was almost funny.  For a moment, I panicked. And I realized the search team hadn't entered the house. As quickly as I could, I moved back to her bedroom. I was at the window, forcing it open, and when I heard them, I was out ducking low running along the side of the house until I reached the street. It wasn't until I reached it, and it was cooped two blocks away, that I remembered I hadn't taken any money from the dresser. I was broke now. Nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep. Except in the car, I... I parked on the boulevard a couple of hours, and watched the people walking by. And later, while driving around, looking for a place to park to the night, a place where I could sleep, I turned on the car radio. The place will be called for the $100,000 insurance case of the late Harry W. Burton. Police have uncovered evidence, which they say links Mrs. Edna Burton to her husband's death. The widow, one confronted with letters written by her husband and a broken shoe identified as hers turned up in a recent search, became hysterical, heard a lot of fantastic story about her husband still being alive. Authorities discrediting the rantings of the troubled woman have requested her transfer to the psychiatric division of the General Hospital for examination. You will recall her husband's car crashed into a ruby near the Angeles-Pressed Highway. Police at the time thought the death of Mr. Burton was accidental. Meanwhile, police have issued an awful report of the car allegedly used in the murder plot. The car is described as a black Ford coupe. License number JGC150. It's police. I've got to get rid of this car. I've got to before it's spotted. But while I sleep, no money out. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I've got a key to a hotel room. Sure. Wallace's room and he paid a week's rent in advance. I've got a chance. I have much choice. I live here. You see, here's the key. Number 47. What's your name? Wallace. Don't you remember? No, I'm just a relief clerk. Oh. Well, I've been sick a few days. I haven't been in. So if I owe you any money, I'll pay it tomorrow. You don't owe nothing. I don't? No. Good night. What is this? I'm in all the way. Good for you, Wallace. My name's Johnson Homicide. This is my partner, Sergeant Barton. He's clean. Well, what do you want with me? We'll ask the questions, Wallace. Last Tuesday, you showed up here with enough money to pay your rent a month in advance. A month? Where'd you get it? Don't tell us you did some honest work, Wallace. You got a fine record. Don't ruin it by admitting you actually did some work. But I did. It was only $25. Can't a man make a little money? Sure, sure he can. Only this happened last Tuesday.  You paid a month's rent in advance and said there'd be plenty more where that came from. Your drinking buddies told some of our boys about it. They were worried when you didn't come back. Thought maybe something could happen to you on that job up in Crestland. You did this work up in Crestland last Tuesday night, didn't you? No, no. No, I didn't. Try again, Wallace. You can try all night. You're not going to beat this one. We got a description from a gas station attendant up there. It fits you to a T. But you've got the wrong man. Believe me. Oh, oh, sure, Wallace. Well, he's not satisfied, Johnny. Give him some more. Okay. Woman you don't know, a woman called Edna Burton. Today, just before she blew her stack, she was yelling your name like crazy. All about a flaming rocket or was it a fireball? Whatever it was, you were the star of it, Wallace. But I am not Wallace. I'm Burton Asker, not Asker. You can't. Please. Not till she's allowed to have visitors at the state hospital. Okay. Let's go, buddy. No, wait. Wait, wait, please. I'll tell you the truth.  I'm Burton. That's so. But you're Burton. Where's Wallace? Where's... Where's... He thinks it's funny, Johnny. Yeah. Wine sure does some crazy things to him. It is funny. It's funny. Don't you see? It doesn't matter whether it's Burton and Wallace. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all.


Because this is the lighter, the gun metal one, I said I like the gun metal. This is red and gold, which is pretty sharp. You know, it kind of looks like Iron Man to me, a little bit of the Iron Man colors. But it's golden red, and it's got, did I put fluid in this one? Open that up. Yeah, it got fluid, so it burns every time. It's triple jet. Can you see that? Yeah, triple jet, right? And then over on this side, it's got one size hole cutter. And over on this side, it's got another size hole cutter. So it's got two hole cutters, one on each side, right? That's not all, because you push this little button and that flips out, and now you got the end cutter to cut the end of your cigar right there. The guillotine cutters, right? Those things are cool, right? Pretty cool, lighter. Fits in the hand, right? I got small hands. It's really nice in the hand, right? You flip that open, open that up, burn that, turns it on, right? You gotta love that, Zaifei. Gotta love that.


So we are finally to the pruning and harvesting stage, which means you're going to be getting consistent harvests from your garden now. We're gonna talk about how to go about that pruning process as well as when it is time to harvest the goods from the garden. So I was just gone for nearly two weeks from this garden and while I was gone, it did not get much maintenance. So we just did a little pruning, just to spruce it up for this time that we have together. And this is what we pulled off and some of this is wonderful stuff for eating. Some of this will go into the compost. Pruning is a natural part of it if we are gone for extended periods of time or if you had some heavy pest pressure that you were dealing with, things may get beat up to the point where you'd prefer not to eat them. At that point, you can compost it and give it back to the soil and the fertility in the garden. Not everything is going to make it to the table, but a good portion should, especially if you're out there on a regular basis. So today we are going to do a little bit of harvesting of your root veggies, your greens and your herbs. And we're going to teach you how to harvest and prune those with some basic strategies that can be used amongst those three different categories. So the root crops tend to be the easiest to identify as far as like when it's time or as they're ready. You're going to be literally just pulling it out of the ground nice and simple, not much thought process there. So you guys have in your packs the carrots, the radishes and the turnips. All three of those would fall into the root crop category. So we're not going to go over all of the days to maturity in this video. Instead, you can reference the growing guide and in that we give that range of how long it takes for most things to be maturity. So know how long you should generally wait to harvest your carrots and your turnips and your radishes and your greens and so on. The root crops, which would contain your turnips, your carrots and your radishes, tend to be the easiest or most straightforward as to when to harvest. It's going to be a simple pull it out of the ground and eat the roots. But each one is going to vary a little bit differently and it's going to depend on how much nutrition it got over the growing period, how much sunlight, et cetera. But the day still harvest is going to be a general timeframe. After that point, if you think it's ready to harvest, a great technique with root crops is to kind of dig around a little bit at the very top of the soil to unearth the root underground. And that's going to show you how big it is. Now, some of the radishes may be an inch round. The carrots are probably going to be about the size of a quarter at the top of the carrot, maybe a little bit larger. And the turnips are typically between a golf ball and a tennis ball size. If you see the root around that general size, it's probably ready to harvest. So let's go ahead and pull up a couple of our turnips. Turnips can get, you know, a good amount bigger than that.  And of course, the greens are edible as well. I like to mix the greens in with other cooked veggies. They do have little prickles on them, so some people don't love them in salads. I don't mind them picked young, but when they get big, I tend to cook them, saute them up, cook them with some collard greens, all different good recipes. But typically the root is the portion that you're going to be using this crop primarily for. When you harvest turnips, a lot of people that are new to gardening or eating turnips without them being processed is the skin. Depending on the season and how long they were left in the ground, sometimes the outside can get a little bit woody. So if you peel it, just like a potato, I suppose you could say, and take that thicker outer skin off, that will remove a lot of the bitterness and toughness of the turnip.  You can actually eat them raw in salads when they're younger. We'll talk a little bit about other ways to cook these, including roasting them. So let's go ahead and pull up a couple of carrots. So just to pull up this one, what do you think about this little one? So not full grown by any means, but it's a nice healthy carrot. And a lot of times, carrots aren't difficult, but as far as appropriate weather, appropriate spacing, all of those things, soil depth, soil quality, there's a lot that goes into those perfect carrots that you see at the farmer's market or the grocery store. So don't be surprised if they're a little under size. If you're digging around at the top of the soil and it's not quite a quarter, not quite a quarter, but it's getting to be three, four weeks past when you planted them in the suggested day of harvest. If you get to that point, go ahead and harvest them, even if they're not the right size, because at that point, they tend to change flavor profile and get a little bit more woody. So follow your days of harvest as your primary guide when you're harvesting carrots. So here's our carrot bunch, obviously pretty small carrots. These, this bed just did not get enough sun. It only had about two hours a day, three hours a day, but all of these are edible and delicious and wonderful. And even these little dinky ones are carrots that you can eat and you can cook these up or you can eat them raw in salads. And of course the greens can be used for... I love Ipesto. I do a half and half with other various herbs and then I'll take the tops. They also can be composted. If you have chickens, chickens love them. Yes. So always find a use, never the trash. Never the trash. So yeah, there's a little carrot harvest. So basil is one of those iconic herbs and they take a little bit of pruning to keep healthy. If we don't prune them on a very regular basis, they are going to quickly go to flower and seed. Now Tulsi can handle the flowering and the seeding a little bit longer than most basals, but if you were to let your Italian basil or the Reuben basil or anything like that go to seed, the whole plant basically says, I just did my job and now I'm going to die. So if we want to continue harvesting them, we need to prune on a regular basis. And the nice thing about that is it also promotes more growth. So it's like the gift that keeps on giving. Yes. People are often timid about harvesting, but harvesting makes more food. The less you harvest, the slower the plants are to produce and the more they have to support. And so it's basically expending their energy on like 50 leaves, whereas, you know, if they only have 10 to take care of, then you get bigger production, more production overall. So consistent harvesting is key. Yeah. So with basil in particular, the stems of the basil can be either green or brown. And I'm going to be talking about how to prune and that only applies to green stems. If the stem has become brown and woody, don't use these techniques, get what you can from what's left and let it be. If you prune it down when the stems are brown, it's going to die. So with basil, you have branches. It's called leaf nodes. And so if we harvest by snipping, a lot of people will come through and they'll pull individual leaves. And that's fine, but that's not promoting that pruning so that you prevent flowering and that's not producing more growth. So instead, using scissors or pruning shears, you're going to want to come above a leaf node and snip off an entire portion of the plants. And it feels counterintuitive or counterproductive, but this is growing you more food. If you do not do this step, you're going to have issues. And just to show, this is where we had done that recently. And then you saw that it put out two new branches. Mm-hmm. So this, if we were to do it again to the two new branches that just formed, that produces two more. So then you have four and if those four get pruned again, you have eight. So you see that this is a productive, healthy way to go about it. And you can see this holy basil right here has been pruned quite a few times and has turned this one basil into a nice, bushy, productive basil. Yep, so with basil, especially out of the herbs, you're going to be pruning on a very regular basis, looking for the green stem versus the brown stem and harvesting entire pieces rather than individual leaves. Cilantro and dill on the other hand are going to be ones that you would prune individual leaves from as needed so that you have a sustained harvest over time. So what did you just do and what are you doing right now? So I am taking out, I'm looking down the stem to try to find like the oldest or lowest leaf node that will still branch out. And so by doing that, I'm harvesting the most that I'm able to, but I'm still allowing the plant to continue its branching growth pattern. So we just did a heavy harvest of this holy basil and now we will be able to dry this and have it as an herb to save as tea through the winter if you're in a colder place or just year round. Absolutely. So you can see, you can harvest quite a bit off of that plant. Now we are going to harvest some greens. So today we have arugula, kale, and mustard greens to harvest. So there's two different ways when you can harvest leafy greens. There's a technique that's called cut and come again, which basically means you were giving it a buzz cut and the plant will regrow from what is left behind. So let's go ahead and do that. For cut and come again harvest, you're literally just going to be harvesting the upward growth or the top growth, mature growth from the plant just like Robin's doing. The important part about cut and come again is that you don't go below that new growth. So whenever you're working with a plant, if you kind of tuck away the mature outer leaves, you're going to see the new baby leaves starting to form at the very center. At that center is that new growth. So as long as that is left intact, it will quickly regrow itself for you to cut again. And you can see the new growth that I've left here, just these small leaves that are coming out of the center and those will turn into the nice big leaves like this. So this technique is great for large harvests. If you need a large quantity or if you're in a hurry and you just want to get out there and get it. Yes, usually the cut and come again is what I do if I'm trying to harvest a lot. When I'm moving a little slower, I'm working with bigger leaves. That's when we're going to... Yep, you're going to be harvesting individual leaves one at a time. And so things like kale and mustard, not only are you harvesting the larger leaves, but they don't have the same growth pattern. The new growth is at the top. So if we were to cut those, they're gone. They're done and that's it. Yes, so we'll head out to the front and we will show you that. So we're here with the kale and I'm seeing ladybugs walking around on here, which are wonderful eating the aphids, helping us out with that very natural insect control. And here we have some of the Russian kales. We have white Russian and red Russian. This kale here is actually not from the free seed pack. This is a curly kale, which who knows, in some years that could be in there. That could change from year to year. And then this kale here, this is the dinosaur or the lasonado kale, which is in the pack, but this also was already growing here. So we're going to show you how to prune the kale and how to harvest the kale, which often is going hand in hand. And I just want to note that this is another area that I was gone from for about two weeks. So these actually are really in need of a heavy pruning and harvesting, which is perfect, because we're going to be able to show you that. So when you're working with kale, we're going to be thinking about this as the bottom up or the outside in, whichever makes more sense in your head, but we're not going to be using that cut and come again technique. We're going to be harvesting an individual leaf at a time. And that's so that you have a single plant producing for you for the entire summer or potentially even years in the form of the Lassenado kale. If you're in certain areas of the country, that can literally be a short lived two to three year kale tree. Yes, I do want to mention Lassenado kale is one of my absolute favorite plants. Like Elise said, it's almost like a kale tree. And I've seen them in what Southern California, Washington, Florida, where they are multi year lived. And they can get to be three, four feet tall, just such big production. Yeah, so when you're harvesting the kale, you want to start from the soil line, depending on how mature it is, and just follow it up. And when you hit the first few branches, you're going to simply be snapping those off. They come off nice and clean. They pull off really easy. This is one that's older, not going to be necessarily edible. But if we keep going up the plants, harvesting individual leaves at a time, you get to the edible stuff. And this is the stuff we're putting into our salads or smoothies or whatever. You want to prune or you can prune as much as you'd like, as long as you always have bare minimum three to five leaves left on the plant. You would never want to take more than that because it needs to photosynthesize to continue that growth and production for you. So this one here, this one needs a really, this one really needs a big pruning. It's got a lot of aphids on it. A lot of these leaves are pretty dying after two weeks of not harvesting. And so this is getting pruned back pretty heavily. And the thing with that is we may be tempted to leave it, but when a plant has a lot of defoliation, it's heavy pest pressure, leaving it can actually cause more issues. So a heavy prune every once in a while, especially if you were gone for a while, it's going to be pretty beneficial. So speaking of beneficial, we may as well show there's all sorts of ladybug, larva on here. So I wouldn't want to toss these into the compost necessarily cause I'd want to let these come through. What would you do in this scenario? Well, I would leave it at the base of the other plant so that it can compost in place. And this more than likely we'll have the time it needs to pupate and start feeding on it. And even with the aphids wanting to get them out of here, it's worth it to leave them with the ladybugs in here. Aphids are immobile. So they're not going to transfer themselves from one plant to another. If there are ants in the area, which is quite common, that's a different story. Okay. Cause they move them around in pharma. They will move them around in pharma. So here's the, you know, you wouldn't, when I first learned that, whoa, this is what turns into a ladybug. It's so easy to assume that that would be some sort of beetle that eats your plants or something. But ladybug larvae have quite a different look from the ladybug themselves. Everybody always thinks about the adult ladybugs, but the immature larval form, actually eats more aphids than their adult counterparts. Wow. Nice to know. All right. As much as we mentioned that some of these lacinato cales can live like multiple years, that's an exception. Most of the plants in the seed pack are annuals. Now we have perennials like oregano and lemon balm and chives, but most of these are annuals and they will die. And you are going to facilitate that death.  Once you get into the perennial world, which is something that I hope to help you get into more, then we're talking about fruit trees that can last more than a lifetime. But with these annuals, most of them don't last more than three, four, sometimes five, six, seven months, depending on where you are. Seasonality and working with nature is par for the course, and there's nothing we can do to shift that. So embracing it, like you said, identifying things that are in season year round, working with eating the weeds. If your annual garden is in a lull or hasn't started producing for you, there's always going to be something in spring that pops up early or is harvestable year round. Yes, and as Elise said, don't forget to eat the weeds because they can be just as abundant as what you're growing and just as nutritious.


Failure to reach an agreement could trigger a default on U.S. debt. Rating agency Fitch put the U.S. on notice it could downgrade America's triple A credit rating. We're worried about the short term lending issues right now. So Fitch downgrading the United States is they're doing their job that makes sense but I think the market's going to react more on the short term than the long term. I think we'll get this resolved. We won't even be talking about it in two months. Many investors are staying cautious. However others are taking a more positive outlook and have adopted a wait and see mentality. I think that we need to be extremely careful at this time and quite frankly just get it together. The U.S. market's up 20 percent this year already so even a couple percentage drop is not really going to affect the long term gains for the year. We're pretty happy with the gains for the year already so I don't think it's going to have much of an effect on the short run at all in the stock market.


What your company needs to know about misinformation and disinformation Hey guys JR Fisher here. Don't forget to subscribe hit that subscribe button down there turn it from red to gray Don't forget to ring the bell Turn all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I'll go live the one thing you want to remember as your brand grows As you develop more and more business as you get more and more sales You become a target your company becomes a target for people to attack With misinformation and disinformation and if you don't get the information that's in this video That could harm your company Imagine you've built up a brand to where you're making millions of dollars a year and somebody spreads a false rumor about your company And it takes your company down. What will you do? Well, there's a lot of things you can do and if you watch this video to the very end You're gonna understand what you should do what you shouldn't do and how to do it So if you're selling online, you don't want to miss any of this because this is really important stuff to your business And it could harm your business, especially in today's social media market It's it's it's a it's tough out there guys It it is brutal what people will say and do nowadays and you've got to know how to protect yourself This video will help you with that. Does baloney have worms in it? Baloney, have you eaten baloney earthworms baloney now for those of you who don't watch this video to the very end I will tell you there's an ingredient in baloney that I was told was earthworms But so that I don't get in any trouble. There are no earthworms in baloney however, I remember being in school and My school lunch room was very crowded and the food really wasn't that good. So quite often I would bring baloney sandwiches. I love baloney sandwiches just baloney mustard and white bread. Yes healthy I know, but that's how we grew up in the 60s and 70s Okay, we ate a lot of baloney sandwiches and I remember this one kid coming up to me one day And he saw me eat my baloney sandwich and he says did you know that there's earthworms in your sandwich? And I was like earthworms now. I didn't particularly like this kid Okay, he wasn't one of my best friends and he didn't seem like a real trustworthy source But it did make me think about it. What was in baloney? So I did my research and there was a ingredient and called earthorate I think it was called I'll put the correct spelling on the screen here and basically it's a type of preservative and He looked at that and thought that was something from the earth which meant earthworms, okay? And that was my first experience with disinformation Information somebody who's making up something that's totally not true and this happens in business all the time now Obviously if a piece of information gets out, especially if it's a food product or a product that could damage you or hurt you And it's bad information. It can really hurt that product's brand So this is something that no matter what you sell whether it's a course whether it's food whether it's tools I don't care clothing no matter what you sell You need to know about misinformation and disinformation by the end of this video You're gonna know better how to protect your company so that your brand doesn't get tarnished now to this day There are articles and there's videos about earthworms in meats and sausages and Slim Jim really got hit hard Slim Jim people were believing it and it got passed around and it's just not true So what is the information that we're getting that's not true first off? Is it misinformation or is it disinformation? And by the way, what is the difference in those two now? Misinformation is generally something that somebody hears and they pass on to somebody else And they're not really trying to harm your brand not that it doesn't but it's something that they're doing without malice Now disinformation could come from one of your competitors somebody who actually wants to hurt your brand Somebody who wants to say something bad about your company That's a whole another story and that's what you got to protect yourself against Now a study that was put out as recently as september 2021 Found that more and more companies are using disinformation To discredit their competitors and to get themselves more business That's a terrible way to go about stuff right to tear somebody else down I mean, I've always heard the saying there's two ways to have the tallest building in town The first way is to build the tallest building in town and the second way is to tear down everybody else's building And that's what some businesses try to do. So how do you protect yourself? Now most of these Things are always started on social media nowadays. Why? Because everybody goes to social media. They go to Facebook they go to twitter they go to instagram and they get spread like wildfire They really do so if you're one of those business brands and you're really not on social media You need to get there because your product as it becomes more and more popular Will enter the realm of social media people will talk about it. They'll say things about it They'll say it's good or bad or whatever and if you're not out there actively listening to what's going on Then of course your brand could get hurt now The first thing you want to do is look at the type of misinformation or disinformation that's out there If it's misinformation sometimes you just need to address it. You need to say, hey, you know This was spread about our company. It's totally not true.  I don't know something along those lines And make sure you address that that could be in your frequently asked questions That could be an article or a blog or it could be a video that you actually put on your site Because people are going to come to your site and say I wonder if this is true And they're going to type in that information in the search bar And if you have an article on it that dispels that then that's going to be very helpful But that is for people who are spreading misinformation somebody who had no malice intent or anything like that They were just saying bad things about your company The second thing you need to look at is is it your competitor? Now if it's your competitor, it's a whole different thing You can actually send them an email and say hey, you're saying these bad things about our company. They aren't true We want you to stop doing that now The best way to do that is to hire a lawyer and have a lawyer send them a letter of cease and desist That's the best thing to do and you can also let them know that you will proceed with legal action If this continues to happen You know, I hate to go that route and I've had people try to tear down our company over the years And it's generally some fly-by-night company And they're trying to get our business They felt like you know, we took part of their market share or whatever it is And I always feel like there's enough market share for everybody I think when you talk bad about your competitors, it actually makes you look bad And it also brings up your competitor, you know If I were to talk about another company to sell survival food They may say hey, I've never even heard of that survival food. Maybe I'll go check it out So you could actually lose sales by doing that and plus just being negative just doesn't work. Okay, so The third thing you can do is absolutely nothing. Okay If if you feel like it's it's silly and it doesn't warrant, you know, you really spending any time on it That's certainly an alternative you could have oftentimes when things are ignored, especially if they're crazy weird things Um, you know, it doesn't really pose a problem Now if if it gains traction and you see more and more of it on social media If you see more and more of it, uh, as far as your customer's calling you and asking you about it Then you're going to have to probably address it. Um, but what I've found is these crazy things usually die out after time However, with that being said, some of them can take down an entire business. We've seen it happen I don't know where AIDS diet candy is. Uh, that was very popular. Uh, I think it was in the 70s Maybe, uh, but AIDS diet candy was very popular. Now that was, um, maybe not misinformation or disinformation But it certainly did take down That candy company and I remember when there was the anthrax threat In washington dc and there was a band called anthrax. That did not do them any good But maybe, you know, they had a hard core audience. So maybe it actually brought them some more listeners. I don't know I don't know what the statistics were on that. It's important that you know about misinformation It's important that you know about disinformation because in today's social media It it's just going to be part of your life. Um, you're going to have to be in there You're going to have to be involved. You're going to have to look and see what's going on And sometimes you're going to have to react.  I know it.  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Hi there. This is a brief screencast to show you how to use the spreadsheet view in GeoGebra. GeoGebra has a built-in spreadsheet that works just like Microsoft Excel. To open it, go to View, then Spreadsheet. We can work in the spreadsheet using functions that we have entered into GeoGebra. For example, enter the function f of x equals x cubed plus x plus one in the input bar. Notice that underneath the spreadsheet is the graph of f in the graphics view. Let's make a table of values for f, f prime, and f double prime in the spreadsheet. Let's use four columns, one that holds the x values, a second one that holds the f of x values, and then two more for the first and second derivatives. First, let's make the top row, which is row one, just contain some column headings as text. In cell A1, go up and enter quote x, end quote, including the quotes, and hit Enter. This puts the letter x in that cell as a text value. Now enter in quote f of x, end quote, with the quote values, in cell B1 right next to A1. And similarly, put quote f prime of x, end quote, in cell C1, and quote f double prime of x, end quote, in cell D1. Now that we have our column headings, let's enter in several values of x, down column A, starting with x equals negative one, and going by jumps of 0.25, all the way up to x equals one. We can make geogiber calculate f of these values as follows. In cell B2, let's calculate f of negative one. Whenever I want geogiber to make a calculation in a cell, I'll first enter in the equal sign into that cell, and then tell geogiber what to do. So for example, to have geogiber calculate f of one, let's go to cell B2 and type in the equal sign, and then simply f parenthesis, A2 close parenthesis. This means I want geogiber to calculate f of whatever is currently in cell A2. Hit Enter and you'll see the result. Now you'll notice I didn't just type f of one, I typed f of A2. And the reason I did that is if I click on B2 and drag it down through the rest of the column, geogiber will apply the same formula that's in cell B2 to all the cells in column B by calculating f of whatever is in the corresponding cell in column A. This is called making a relative cell reference. Now let's go to column C and calculate the derivative values. Since geogiber understands that the symbol f prime means the derivative of f, all I have to do is type the equal sign because I want geogiber to calculate something, then f prime of A2 and hit Enter. Then I can just drag that formula down the column. To get the second derivative in column D, go to cell D2 and type the equal sign f prime prime of A2 and then hit Enter. And then drag the formula down the column to apply that formula to all the cells.  And that's the basic idea of how to use the spreadsheet view in geogiber. Thanks for watching.


So in the last session we looked at the classification of the gifts of the Spirit and as Paul writes to the believers, we saw the listing of the gifts of the Spirit and also we saw the classification about the gifts of the Spirit, the membership gifts and the ministry gifts. So we saw the places where they are listed but we also need to know that there will be an overlap and we looked at the example of the gift of prophecy which is listed in all three of these listings. So we know that there will be an overlap, they could be even though they are used in different ways but there will be an overlap or different roles or responsibilities of the believer but there will be an overlap of these gifts. Okay, so let's just go back to the notes and let me just address one question. So while we look at the gifts of the Spirit, we see this classification of course. It's actually helpful for us to study, to learn about these gifts but we also need to understand that we cannot be rigid about it and say okay now the believer is ministering through the gifts of the Spirit and now here is the membership gift and so on. So there is a growing and there is an undergrowing from the membership gift into the ministry gift as the Lord calls and so on. Now just want us to look at one question that like many people would face or ask based on this scripture which is 1 Corinthians 12 28. And then I will come back to the gift of the prophecy working through as a gift of the Spirit as a membership gift and so on. So 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 28. Now this says in this verse, I mean this portion we see Paul writing and God has appointed these in the church. First apostles, second prophets, third teachers. After that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. Verse 29.  Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? Okay so he asked this kind of rhetorical question for which the obvious answer is that no, the obvious answer is no. So let's look at each of this is saying who appoints God has appointed these in the church. So God appoints these specifically for some and not for all. That's the implication. God appoints these in the church. The word first meaning it's either first in time or it also talks about rank or place or order. So it could be rank or place or it could be first in time or first way in the first manner in which it unfolded. So God has appointed these in the body of Christ in the church. So which means that God has put some people in these places or in these roles. So let's go back to the verse again. So God has appointed these in the church. He has placed, appointed these in the church. Which means it's not all and the Old King James also translates as some, appointed some which means specific people and not all, not everyone. So it talks about the apostle, it talks about the prophet, it talks about the teacher and then lists down several other gifts, miracles, gifts of healings, helps administrations and so on. So what are these helps, helps any kind of help, any kind of service, any kind of assistance, administrations meaning the ability to govern or rule. So all these are listed here. So we see that it's a list which involves the ministry gift, what we see in Ephesians 4 and which is the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. And we also see these membership gifts like helps or administration and so on. So what is the conclusion? So there are differences we need to know. The answer is no obviously. The answer is no that not everybody is appointed for this. Not everybody is an apostle, not everybody is a prophet, not everybody is an evangelist. So which is fine but the problem happens when the problem is when we look at all the others are the listing like gifts of healings, tongues, interpretation and then we go and say we say okay I don't have this so maybe it's not I'm not the one who's appointed for this. But the issue is that the thing is in verse 28 that it's God who's appointing. He's God is appointing these in the body. He is placing this and calling some specifically for this kind of ministry being an apostle, being a pastor, or being an evangelist, being a prophet. God is calling and appointing this in the body of Christ and it could be a ministry again consistently a ministry of healing, a ministry of you know maybe intercession, praying in tongues, interpretation of tongues and so on. So the answer is no, not everybody is called for that kind or called and appointed in the church in the body for that kind of ministry, not all are called. You know if you look at verse 31 20 the same chapter, the last verse in the chapter verse 21, 31 says but earnestly desire the best gifts. Okay so again which means that we ought to desire the best gifts. Okay what is the best gift? You know we're going to look at that. It is a gift which is best suited to take care of a particular need or maybe a challenge. So if it's some sickness, the best gift there is the gift of healing or if it needs the miraculous intervention of God and that is the gifts of miracles, working of miracles. So that is the best gift which takes care of the need or which which overcomes that particular challenge. So Paul is saying earnestly desire. Okay so he's putting the responsibility on the believer and he's saying you earnestly desire. Okay verse 11 the same one of the same spirit works all things distributing to each one individually, each one which was all individually as he wills as he desires but here he's talking about something that you will you know that involves your will or involves the will of the believer saying earnestly desire. Like you go ahead and you use your choice you use your will and you earnestly desire the best gifts.  Okay so we see this as well.  Those that are appointed, those that are called specifically and appointed for that kind of a ministry. Okay ministry gifts you know. You know simple even before we go into that a simple thing is you know all are called to evangelize. Okay so if I've asked the question you know is everyone called to evangelize? Yes share the gospel? Yes and can everyone do that? Well the answer is again yes. Right but is everyone called to be an evangelist? Right the answer is no. Right and a simple thing would be like you know can everyone take care of hurts and aches in the body you know if there's a cut of course you know we can take care of that we can apply some medication and all that but does that make you a doctor?  Does that make me a doctor? No. Right so similarly you know we can of course share the gospel we can teach another believer you know what we have learned. We can nurture another believer in the faith but that does not make us an evangelist or a teacher or a pastor. Right though we can do these things right so what is the difference which means that there is a call specific call and specific appointing in the body of Christ at which we see in Ephesians 4 and 11 onwards for the edification of the body for equipping the saints for the work of ministry and all those things are mentioned there so um so if you look at the questions in 1 Corinthians 12 28 and say uh are you know are all apostles or all prophets and then we say okay no so you know maybe you know you or someone you know is not praying in tongues yet okay don't candle out and say the answer for this is no therefore it doesn't apply to me verse 31 don't stop with verse 30 verse 31 earnestly desire earnestly desire the best gifts you go through chapter 13 in 1 Corinthians and you come across chapter 14 and verse 1 again he says desire spiritual gifts okay so um so that's something that we need to understand okay so let's look at okay let's look at the difference between the gifts of the spirit and ministry gifts okay the gifts of the spirit are given by the spirit ministry gifts are given by the Lord Jesus you know we see that differentiation okay these are called gifts of the spirit or manifestation of the spirit um the ministry gifts efficiency talks about how the Lord is giving these gifts so we see that difference but we know that it's the triune God okay but we see that usage in scripture the gifts of the spirit are available for all believers okay available for all we need to you know we need to understand that ministry gifts are given to some okay only some are called that doesn't make uh the believer a second class believer on you know no it's just that some are called into the five fold right okay the gifts of the spirit are directed towards spiritual edification spiritual building up of God's people okay when it comes to the ministry gifts they are directed towards equipping God's people for the work of ministry okay so when we look at these uh you know the spiritual gifts um it is for the edification of all building up of all uh prophecy talks about uh how it brings edification exhortation and comfort right um and and so and so on so when we look at uh maybe we can look turn to Ephesians chapter four Ephesians chapter four and uh let's look at verses let's read from verse 11 onwards and then we'll come back to this Ephesians four verse 11 okay and he himself referring to the Lord Jesus he himself gave some to be apostles some prophets some evangelists and some pastors and teachers okay so you you see that some are apostles some are prophets verse 12 talks about why okay why are they called to be apostles prophets evangelists verse 12 says for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and so on okay so it's uh so we see one of the primary responsibilities of the uh of this of these ministry gifts okay so just guess get familiar with those terms gifts of the spirit membership gifts or ministry gifts so Ephesians four we're talking about ministry gifts right so these are appointed these are some who are called and some who are appointed in the body and we see the primary responsibility as you know a prophet of course is moves in prophecy prophesying consistently and and and so on you know evangelists and so on the primary responsibility or the primary role calling of that calling is to proclaim the gospel but we see another uh responsibility that is to equip the saints equip the saints the believers for the work of ministry right to equip the believer probably the same things right as a prophet would equip the believer in the church to in the uh in the gift of prophecy right how to move in it you know what is the gift of prophecy how does it work to equip the believer for the work of ministry so that they would do further they would serve or they would do they would minister okay so which is why you know we say every believer is a minister because saint is a believer right when we say saint yes they are the separated ones right the consecrated ones and we are the saints and every believer is called to the work of ministry okay it need not be the five-fold it need not be um you know this is you know it need not be something that you're called and commissioned and placed in the body as the five-fold but we are called to minister right we could be doing we could be having a vocation we could be working we could be running a business but we are called every believer is called to minister okay and the five-fold ministry gift operates in order to equip the believer uh in the five or in the uh in in these gifts right for the work of ministry okay so any any doubts about the spiritual gifts the gifts of the spirit the ministry gives is that classification clear right any doubts yeah yeah divya thank you pastor um my doubt is regarding uh the ministry gifts um one is uh when paul says about uh church does it uh talk about a particular you know a particular uh physical church or is it about the body of christ as a whole that's one question and the other is um these ministry gifts uh which I listed uh is it like every believer when we say that every believer is a minister so everyone falls into one of these five categories is it right to say like um okay so um okay this I'll just answer the second question so we say when we say every believer is a minister you know uh we're not saying that they are called into the five-fold ministry or we are they are called an appointed as a you know in these five ministry gifts you know when we when I'm saying that every believer is a minister um 12 verse 12 talks about equipping the saints of god for the work of ministry okay so in one conscience 12 we saw there are differences of diversities of uh you know uh let me just read that diversities of ministries by the same spirit right um activities ministries gifts right verses verse five verse four talks about gifts verse five talks about differences of ministries for the same lord and verse six talks about differences of activities but the same same god right so any form of ministry ministry just means to serve minister to serve so we see that uh Romans 12 we see that leadership compassion serving helps administrations all these things by which you serve another like for the profit of all so that it benefits help someone so we are equipped to serve uh the body equipped to serve equipped to um if you look at the second part of verse 12 for the edifying of the body of christ right so um equipping the saints for the work of ministry for the edifying so the uh when when somebody's reaching out when somebody's equipped to reach out and serve uh share the gospel then you know they are gathering in souls for the kingdom there is the edifying of the body then somebody's um you know equipped to nurture another believer in the faith and and get them grounded in the word of god then again the body of christ is is being edified built up there is spiritual progress right um so that is what we mean when we say they are equipped to all believers are ministers and they are equipped for ministry okay so it could be anyone you know it could be uh maybe it's um you know they could be uh software engineers they could be doctors they could be you know they could be teachers school in schools or whatever you know they could be home makers but they are all equipped to minister right minister to serve so that's what it means so not uh not particularly for uh you know not necessarily for five full ministry well they could be also right because but that's a call which god uh that's a decision which god takes right because he gave some to be apostles some to be evangelists and so on so we understand that the first question uh was about the body of christ you know is it church is it uh you know globally etc so when we say um the body of christ of course it talks about you know we have several uh realms of it right we see the global body of christ we see the the you know the body of christ in a nation and so on right so it is applicable but when we typically talk about um uh the the five-fold ministry well uh the pastor you know it starts uh it the local church is a wonderful place to start and yes it is the gift is encouraged and established and nurtured in the local church but the realm of ministry will go beyond the local church you know like uh the apostolic uh pioneering work um starting uh new work in areas and opening up new territories and uh and also new methods of ministry and so on you know like just like paul the apostle the sent one so we know that the realm of influence and the realm of ministry reach of ministry would go beyond the local church right so uh like the pastor as well you know like the pastor ministry could be the local church but the the realm of ministry would would be on go beyond the local church a pastor could be a pastor's pastor you know pastoring other pastors which paul also did for timothy and you know titers and so on he was pastoring these pastors mentoring them right so uh the realm uh would be uh the geographical territory the realm would be a more of a governing thing to go beyond the local church right that helps yes yes thank you so okay okay okay isak you have a question yes pastor yeah um as already established the gift of the holy spirit is bestowed and available at the will of the holy spirit is that means it's given to us believers at the will of the holy spirit yeah but uh when the ministry gives uh it's a calling how is this calling made and how can we recognize that someone or i have been called for this ministry gift how can we realize or how is the call made thank you pastor yeah yeah so um so the best thing for any believer is to is to start uh not be ignorant of these gifts um uh to be um to be aware that we are equipped we are called to be equipped to minister to serve and to be faithful and start doing this right and to do it consistently to to just start walking in it first of all to start serving to walk in it and uh and as the lord would open up avenues give opportunities to be faithful and doing it right so um so the lord when he uh of course we're just digressing a bit but then the lord when he calls us uh into the fivefold uh there is the season of training there is a season of training uh equipping and then comes the commissioning okay if you look at uh how paul called timothy you know timothy traveled with him he was in i think listran derby and in on on missionary journeys he hears about he has a good reputation and so on and uh he so he starts traveling along with paul and sees and um and paul obviously taught him by also by preset and also by example of his own lives and own life and also what he saw right so and then comes a time when he is grown and uh and obviously recognizes his uh role and responsibility and probably he's walking in it you know even when the Corinthian church is planted paul is also part of the i'm sorry timothy is also part of the team that uh that you know alongside paul in the planting of the church so uh in ministering there so uh he's done that and there comes a time when paul says you know you remain in Ephesus and uh you pass to the work there you take care of the work there so we see you know he as a young man he's been learning he's been getting trained he's equipping and he's seen how things how things are done and then comes to a place where he himself is you know we're taking care of that work so that is one you know that one we see that pattern so so the best thing is for us to start doing it right and and not just sit around wait for that you know call you know well there would be a significant call sometimes you know it just happens that god sovereignly has that encounter and then you have the call of god maybe it's a supernatural encounter and it's wonderful you know or or it could be that somebody prophesies and then you have the call of god on you and but thing is we go through this path of being trained because god does not want us to be novices inexperienced in in handling the work he will equip us he will train us and come to a place of commissioning and and this equipping and training well it can happen you know it involves the body of Christ you know it involves god sending several people using you know people to mentor us and so on so we just be open to that and be faithful in serving him you know that's the main key thing then we grow in our influence then we grow in our understanding as we grow in understanding we grow in our ministering as well and we see that biblical pattern yeah hope that helps Isaac yes yes I mean I actually asked because in our setting hope I'm not using the time of the class anyway no again yeah in our setting what is happening now in our country you see the prevalence of local churches and young pastors some don't even wait to go through mentoring like you mentioned the case of Timothy and the next woman they break away from one church and they form another church the next time you do it yeah the next time you hear he has been ordained as an apostle he has been ordained as a bishop and sometimes we cry down that that's why I actually answered properly thank you very much for right right Isaac yeah okay so um any other questions before we move on okay okay so the other fourth difference that we see is is that let me just put that there is I think the question which we are asked you know is it in a local church context or is it something wider so the gift of spirit if you see usually you know like it's in a local church or local body but then ministry gifts will do this way you know the gifts of the spirits are gifts of the spirit are manifest in the ministry gifts like in the apostle like the apostle the prophet you know there is a gift of prophecy there is the evangelist the gifts of healings and miracles and flowing but it is in a wider context it is in you know across the body of Christ like maybe to a city to a nation to a entire neighborhood and so on right so we see that okay um we'll come back to some of these other questions you know apostle and prophet you can just go through um on your own and if you have doubts you can answer um it has more to do with the uh you know with the ministry gifts right so um so you will anyway you know these things will be addressed in like the future courses as well yeah so I'm just uh moving on to um understanding the gifts of the spirit so we get the understand basic understanding um but we started out looking at a few like uh firstly we saw that you know the gifts of the spirit are given for all believers okay so um you know how do we say that of course we we looked at you know how all believers are expected to desire all believers are expected to you know desire the best gifts and pursue spiritual gifts and so on first you love and desire spiritual gifts and so on some other scriptures is you know when you look at one current things 12 and verse 7 says it's given to each one by implication to each one in the fellowship each one in the gathering which means to all right holy spirit distributes gifts to each one again one current in 12 and 11 also we see that okay and all believers are expected to walk the more excellent way of love right the last verse in one current in 12 all believers it is not for some but it is for all uh because paul let's read that verse says earnestly desire the best gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way he's talking about the way of love so um it is for all right and again one current things 14 and verse one is also for all believers pursue love and desire spiritual gifts and uh if you look at last uh but one verse in one current things 14 therefore brethren earnestly desire to prophesy and do not forbid to speak with tongues you know this is again for all believers so so we understand that the gifts of the spirit are for all believers it's not for a special few right it is not for a anointed few but these are available for all believers okay so we we looked at this we won't go into it the gifts of the spirit are a supernatural manifestation so it's something not natural it's not naturally learned on how we naturally train but we are we receive it it's a supernatural gift work of the spirit of God okay and these are gifts of grace something that we don't earn something that is not based on performance okay uh we see that the gifts of the spirit are given to build up people okay edify meaning to build up um it means spiritual bring spiritual uh constructive spiritual progress in people like edify people and we know when we learned about you know the what the Holy Spirit does we know that he glorifies Christ like he lifts up Christ and Jesus the Lord Jesus himself uh you know uh describe that and explain that okay so to edify people 1 Corinthians 12 verse 7 the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the profit of all 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 12 since you are zealous for spiritual gifts let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to accept okay let this be the focus why you are zealous for spiritual gifts that it benefits people right it it's off it brings edification um so it's for the profit of all it's for the edification of all okay um the gifts of the spirit are manifested okay are expressed when we walk in love when we also personally desire and when they when we step out in faith okay we need to understand that okay um because um when whenever we look at that verse 11 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 11 it says yeah distributing each one as he individually as he wills so it's easy to come to a conclusion and say if he wants to he will if he doesn't want to he will not so I'll just stay quiet right it's easy to come to that conclusion but we when we read the next you know uh you know next few verses and the rest of scripture rest of the instructions we see that we are called to desire we are called to uh desire why so that we can manifest you know the spirit of God expects us to desire these gifts so that we he might work in us right um okay so some of the uh simple instruction is that we walk in love okay uh 1 Corinthians 13 talks about walking in love we're going to look at that we walk in love with this with the character and the nature of God himself and don't walk in hatred we don't walk in pride but we walk in love okay we desire the gifts we walk in love and we step out in faith okay so it involves faith it involves taking that step of faith taking a risk in order to uh in order to move in these gifts you know the first time I'm sure you know praying in in tongues uh it involves taking that step of faith and giving voice to those words um that are you know forming in our in your spirit they are giving voice to those sounds um because you don't know these words and you the first time it's happening and and obviously these words seem to be you know devoid of meaning because it's not an earthly language and so we hesitate sometimes you know why should I speak out these words but the thing is that it is by faith which means you you trust God you believe in him you trust God you trust his word you trust the instruction that is there in scripture and you step out in faith you you say okay God okay Lord you know logically I don't understand I'm not able to reason out but you know it is explained clearly in scripture and here's your will to bless all believers to for for all believers to receive and walk so I will step out in faith right and do this right so Paul writing to the Galatian church and you know Galatian 3 verse 2 just this only I want to learn from you did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith and he's talking about the baptism of the spirit how did it happen in faith you obeyed in faith you prayed and this is how you received right uh verse 5 therefore he who supplies the spirit to you and works miracles among you does he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith okay so the Galatian church the problem they had was that there were some people who were coming in and teaching that you need to be circumcised you know you need to obey the law of Moses you need to continue in it it's not just enough for you to receive Christ by faith or receive the salvation by you know grace you know through faith but but you need to do all this so he's addressing that and he's teaching them and he's saying you know did you receive by faith or was it by law okay so the works of the spirit we receive by faith okay the miracles how does it happen how does the supply of the spirit you know how does God do that by the hearing of faith okay so we see that Romans 12 verse 6 another instruction having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us let us use them if prophecy let us prophesy in proportion to our faith so you see faith is very much integral part of us moving in these gifts right we receive by faith we express through faith right so faith is involved in this okay we looked at that right this one the point number six which is every believer can manifest all nine gifts of the spirit now why do we say that okay why do we say every believer can several scriptures we looked at that you know the spirit of God is is disputing to each one okay now in a gathering is disputing to each one which means all but how can I say that believer can manifest all nine gifts of the spirit okay well the thing firstly to understand that the gifts of the spirit belong to the Holy Spirit it is it is from him and he has come to indwell us and he is the one who manifests right so he can manifest the gifts of healing working of miracles even as I desire the best gift right so and so he he will desire he will manifest through the believer so a believer every believer can manifest all nine gifts of the spirit then when we look at the instruction right one Corinthians 12 verse 31 he says earnestly desire the best gifts so it doesn't stop with one doesn't stop with two doesn't stop you know he's saying earnestly desire the best gifts okay plural and the reason is that God wants to manifest that's the only desire that's the only reason right why should I desire the best gifts plural and you know and God saying okay I have only one for you right or you know scripture we see maybe there's only one or maybe there is none why should I desire if that is the case the only reason there is an instruction to desire is that there is the answer that God wants to express in all nine gifts of the spirit okay so so that's something for us to learn and it I'm sure it's an eye opener say okay God you know I see these gifts and Lord you move in through me right I want to minister in these in these in these ways okay because that's a you know that's a very strong instruction first you love desire special gifts so we need to ask ourselves am I desiring first of all like God desires it is his will but what about my desire am I desiring and am I putting a limit on myself or because of some wrong idea or wrong teaching right am I putting a limit am I putting the fence you know am I restricting myself where God does not restrict right so we need to change we need to change our mindset and perspective and say okay God you are not limiting you are not putting limits you are not closing the doors but so if you are not doing then no one else has a right to do that as well right I don't have a right to do that as well and as an act of humility or I humble myself and I agree with your word right so so we see that instruction right okay best gifts are the best ones which are needed for the occasion and best suited for the function or you know the challenge which is right there before us okay now yeah I think someone has a question okay yeah you can go ahead yeah I had a question so it's based on the last point that was discussed like every believer can have the nine gifts yeah all the all the nine gifts so why is it in first Corinthians 12 verse 7 onwards it says like 4 to 1 8 onwards to 4 to 1 is given the word of wisdom through the spirit to another the word of knowledge to another so it seems a little confusing yeah yeah so so the thing is it seems contradictory right he's saying you know desire the best gifts and here again 14 also desire the best gifts and then I'm sorry desire spiritual gifts and then here we seen 7 I'm sorry not 7 which is yeah for 8 right to 1 is given was word of wisdom and so so the thing is that it is in the context of their gathering together they are we need to understand that as well you know and they are corporately gathering together and you know in a church meeting or whatever meeting they're gathering together having fellowship and at that you know in that gathering yes one is having a you know maybe a tongue the other one is having interpretation one is having a gift of healing and the other one is manifesting right so it also means that at another time when they meet you know maybe the following Sunday or you know whenever they are meeting then to one is given this to one is given the other so so today I might manifest the gift of tongues and interpretation you know next day when I you know gather together and as I desire got to work through me there would be a word of knowledge right and I say okay this is what God is showing me that you have this problem maybe another time it could be something else so so that is what you know it's in the context of a gathering together and we'll understand that when we actually go to chapter 14 also you know he's talking about you know a public gathering and he's talking about the time and you all gather together and an unbeliever walks in so he's in that context okay so yeah yeah I just had a follow-up so the uh except for praying in the tongues or you know speaking in tongues except for that the other gifts are in a in the context of a gathering yeah so so we see that praying in tongues when we when we study praying in tongues it has it has a wide range of there are different kinds of tongues you know and and we see that there is praying in tongues for personal edification right so when I'm personally edified and that's what we see in 1 Corinthians 14 where he says that he who speaks he prophesies speaks edification and exhortation which versus that verse four okay he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself but he who prophesies edifies the church so we know that there is tongues for personal edification but also there is tongues for interpretation you know suppose there is a message in tongues and there is you know there is the interpretation of tongues now that happens it can happen both in a you know personal setting individually and it can happen in a corporate setting as well right so he's addressing that uh so we see that well tongues works in that way there's a sign for the unbeliever again a corporate setting you know just like just like how it happened in Acts chapter 2 um you know it it was a corporate setting as well so we see tongues you know specifically for tongues we see both um yeah okay okay buster thank you okay okay so um yeah so just so we are just kind of laying a foundation you know about tongue about the gifts of the spirit and you know how they work how they move and and so on how they function sorry okay so what are the best gifts so he's talking about the best gifts right so we see that best gifts are the gifts that are required for that particular occasion for that particular challenge for that particular um you know scenario right if somebody is if somebody needs encouragement then the best gift will be a gift of prophecy which brings edification exhortation and comfort right or it could even be a word of knowledge um and uh which you know tells the believer that god knows god knows me he's he knows my past he knows my present and therefore I can trust in him for the future right so um so it can be uh even work that way okay so point number eight right that is where we look where we stop because spiritual things can be taught okay believers can be taught and trained uh to move in the gifts to release the gifts of spirit um so um we we need to again understand that okay because uh whenever we uh you know we look at maybe training in the gifts of spirit you know there is a wrong understanding okay maybe these people are taught to pray in tongues you know they are given these words to pray in tongues no that's not the case right uh what is this teaching what is this learning it's to it's like how paul wrote to the current in church and he's actually teaching them right he's teaching them in the spiritual things right he's saying I don't want to be want you to be ignorant now these are the gifts this is what you do like he's actually teaching them like how to use it how not to use it use the gifts and so on so um so people can be taught these spiritual gifts um we see several ways by which it happened you know spiritual discipling social training uh and also timothy being trained in the spiritual things by paul right so he's writing to timothy you know especially uh second timothy chapter two verse two you know in in this verse we see that uh he's saying you know commit these to faithful men okay you have heard these things taught to you and uh you've heard me among many witnesses commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also what is he referring to spiritual matters right so these can be passed on taught to other believers same when it comes to timothy again paul says you know you don't neglect the gift stir up the gift uh you know so we we know that yes god we use people to train to uh to teach uh and to get people to move in these gifts you know encourage um to exercise and move in the give move in the gifts right so we see several examples of that okay um so yeah just moving on to like okay i think that's all we have time for okay just one one last thing um to know just to state that these gifts can flow in conjunction with one another you know there which means that uh well there could be a word of knowledge uh followed by uh let's say uh when gifts of healing right so the word of knowledge oops i think somebody's presenting something abu bhakar um i think why mistake you're presenting something okay fine so um so that's the that's the thing right so so it'll flow together like there is a word of word of knowledge probably uh about some condition somebody's struggling with some out you know some physical condition some emotional condition and then the gift of healing right uh why because god wants to set it right and so so just flowing together maybe god you know through the word of knowledge god is talking about some um some difficulty some some struggle that people are going through and then the word of wisdom um just like joseph right he said he also gave a solution for that famine he said you know let's do this for the first seven years build granaries collect the grain and so you know you can sell it when people do not have it through the years of famine so there was that wisdom which solved the problem right so so it can flow to um together right so we need to understand that okay so we'll stop here and just want to encourage us to um to you know to begin to i mean to continue praying in tongues maybe spend the extended time praying in tongues those of you who who do pray in tongues um yes we've you know we've seen that uh okay when i pray in tongues i may not understand that's fine you continue to pray pray in tongues ask god for the interpretation you know and just wait and see what is the what is the thought what is the picture what is the impression that god is putting in your hearts in your heart vocalize it right for those of us who have not yet started praying in tongues you know just want to encourage you to start doing that right pray and perceive and you know you you pray out in in faith start out in faith maybe in your quiet time uh in your you know personal time with god do that right and pray loud enough so you can hear yourself and um yeah and just continue to do that right okay so we'll meet next class thank you so much god bless you guys