The title of our sermon this morning is a slave called and separated a slave called and separated Romans chapter 1 verses 1 through 7 What is our blessing? It's our privilege once again our joy to return to this towering letter of the Apostle Paul to the Romans Having completed last week a general introduction to the letter as well as completing a general Introduction to the man who wrote the letter we move on now this morning in our consideration of Paul's greeting contained in verses 1 through 7 now there are basically Three sections to the opening of this letter Paul's greeting Paul's purpose and Paul's premise Paul's greeting is found in verses 1 through 7 Paul's purpose we'll learn about in verses 8 through 15 and then Paul's premise is stated in verses 16 through 17 That short outline in the opening of this letter will set us up Well to then go through the body of the letter beginning at the end of the chapter now our plan With the Lord's help with the Lord's blessing Will be to work slowly through these opening three sections in order to provide a good foundation for understanding of the rest of The letter now it's gonna appear this morning as though we're going to walk exceedingly slow, but it won't always be exceedingly slow We're gonna take our time initially. We'll move along a little faster as time goes on as time permits But we're not in any big hurry. Are we this is not a sprint? This is certainly going to be a marathon and we're gonna enjoy every mile of it We're gonna work slowly through these opening sections if you can lay hold of the opening if you can grasp the opening to Paul's letter Then you'll have a solid foundation For apprehending then the book as a whole this opening becomes exceedingly important to that purpose As we work through the opening of this letter including Paul's greeting Paul's purpose and Paul's premise We're gonna learn a lot about the letter itself from start to finish. Okay, we're gonna learn about The author more we're gonna learn more about Paul will learn more about the recipients of the letter The date the occasion of the letter will learn about the purpose of the letter the structure of the letter We're gonna learn about the primary theme of the letter We're gonna learn about what moved the apostle Paul to write a letter like this We're gonna learn much about what what's on Paul's heart as he writes to the saints who are in Rome In other words this opening has much here for us to consider much for us to learn that will prepare us well For the rest of the letter the body of the letter which is to come Now in addition to that however We're gonna be learning much about ourselves From the opening of this letter not just about Paul not just about the purpose or the occasion or the theme of this letter We're also gonna learn about ourselves as you would expect and the faith that we profess This opening lays a good foundation for that theological study which comes after even the very opening of this letter Challenges what most Christians believe and think about the Christian life What most Christians professing Christians today presume or assert about the Christian life? How is it that you think about the Christian life? When you think about the Christian life, what is the character of the life that you are? Considering what's the nature of the Christian life? What do you believe about the Christian life? How does Paul in his opening here describe the Christian life? How are we to understand it? How are we to see it more importantly? How are we to live the Christian life and worship the Lord Jesus Christ in it and through it? All of that all of that is going to come in some measure through a slow and careful and methodical exposition of the opening section of this letter in other words Even the introduction is given by inspiration of God and even the introduction is Profitable for doctrine profitable for reproof for correction for instruction of in righteousness that the the man of God may be complete Thoroughly equipped for every good work This is not merely Information given at the outset. It's not a simple greeting only there's much more here than that This is information information that is necessary for transformation Now I'm going to say it again as I did last week this letter will change your life This letter will change your life more specifically God by his spirit will change your life through the means of this letter And so we don't want to rob ourselves of any blessing associated with Rushing through the introduction of this letter. We want to take our time and work through the introduction now with that said We begin learning first about the servant in this introduction and then later about his Subject first about the servant then about his subject in customary fashion Paul begins this epistle to the Romans by Introducing himself as the author of our letter in verse one Paul a bond servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle separated to the gospel of God Now we know That from the time of his conversion on the road to Damascus to this point. We know that Paul has never been to Rome Paul has never visited the church there. He knows a couple of Christians from Rome But the majority of Christians in Rome he himself has never met He doesn't know him them. They don't know him in verse 13. Paul says drop down to verse 13 Paul says I've often planned to come to you, but I've been hindered until now He hasn't yet been to Rome. We also know We also know that no other apostle has served in Rome to plant and establish the church there And that certainly includes the apostle Peter in chapter 15. If you flip over to chapter 15 in Chapter 15 verse 20 Paul says there That I've made it my aim Chapter 15 verse 20 to preach the gospel not where Christ was named Lest I should build on another man's foundation But verse 21 as it is written to whom he was not announced They shall see and to those who have not heard shall understand for this reason dropped on to verse 22 I have been much hindered from coming to you So we know that Paul has not been to Rome and we know that no other Apostle has been to Rome in other words. It was Paul's practice Not to go into areas where another apostle apostle had begun to work for the gospel and then to build on that Apostles work Paul's practice rather was to go to places where no apostle had been and To work there to establish believers in the faith So the fact here that Paul has decided has desired to go to Rome is planning to go to Rome Tells us that the apostle Paul saw the church at Rome as a place that needed to be established in the faith It was a place where no apostle had yet been right The people a people were there believers were there that still needed Apostolic preaching apostolic teaching chapter 1 look at verse 11 Paul says in chapter 1 verse 11 I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be Established right now imagine Paul says I want to come to you I want to preach teach serve among you that you may be established in the faith Much of the New Testament hasn't been written yet This is largely a gentile congregation in Rome. We'll hear more about that later There are genuine believers there those believers are genuinely converted verse 8 their faith is spoken of throughout the whole world But they've not been established in the faith by apostolic preaching apostolic teaching They need the New Testament. They need new covenant teaching and preaching. They need instruction They need to be established. They need Paul to come they need Paul to come So Paul has desired Paul is determined to go to Rome now Paul has heard of them But Paul doesn't know them They certainly the church at Rome has obviously heard of Paul But the church at Rome those people have never met Paul nor do they know Paul and so how does the apostle Paul then? choose Determine to introduce his himself to these dear people. How does Paul choose to introduce himself verse 1? Paul a bond servant of Jesus Christ called to be an apostle Separated to the gospel of God. That's Paul's introduction the notice the three Descriptions that Paul uses there for himself in verse 1. We're gonna consider each of these three descriptions individually one Paul is a bond servant of Jesus Christ to he is called to be an apostle and Three he is separated to the gospel of God a bond servant called to be an apostle separated to the gospel of God and notice first Paul chooses to describe himself He determines to describe himself to introduce himself as a bond servant of the Lord Jesus Christ The Greek word is doulas and it means slave it means slave Paul a slave of Jesus Christ so now think with me and imagine right think what Paul has already said about himself Paul Circumcised on the eighth day stock of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin a Hebrew of Hebrews Concerning the law of Pharisee concerning zeal once persecuting the church now an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ Concerning righteousness which is in the law Paul would have considered himself wants to be blameless a Roman citizen now Paul a Bond servant a slave of Jesus Christ Paul would have gotten a Greek education at Tarsus Paul would have gotten the best of Hebrew educations at the feet of Gamaliel in Jerusalem and Now Paul a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ There was much that Paul could have boasted in much that Paul could have gloried in much that Paul could have mentioned in his introduction to This dear church in Rome Much that it could have bolstered his reputation in the eyes of this church in second Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1 Paul says I've come to visions Revelations of the Lord. I was caught up into the third heaven in a paradise hurt inexpressible words words which is not not lawful for men to utter I've seen the resurrected Christ Paul could have said Signs and wonders done through my hands Paul might have said the same spirit who worked effectively in peace Later for the Apostleship to the uncircumcised or to the circumcised Paul says has also worked effectively in me Toward the Gentiles Paul could have said I planted churches all over the Mediterranean I Paul could have said I am a somebody In the eyes of this world maybe that's not where Paul begins Have you noticed that those things that this world would often commend are those very things that are despised by God He who glories let him glory in the Lord Paul says I am a slave of Jesus Christ It's not he who commends himself that is approved, but he whom the Lord commends. Amen Paul says in Philippians chapter 3 verse 7 all these things that were gained to me all these things that I once Considered gained to me these I have counted loss Rubbish for Christ yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord For whom I have suffered the loss of all these things and count them as Rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in him Paul says I am a slave It was in this way This way that Paul deliberately deliberately chose to introduce himself the notice the use of this word slave communicates both association and attitude it communicates both association and attitude first Paul uses the word to refer to an association the word slave Describes Paul's relationship to the one who had become the very center the very some the very substance of Paul's life This is how Paul thought of himself in Relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's very instructive. We need to understand that from Paul. This is how Paul thought of himself in Relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ This is how Paul thought of himself and this is how Paul wanted others to think of him He uses this in the introduction to his letter to the church at Rome Paul wanted them to think of himself as holy Entirely completely possessed or owned by a master That's what Paul is wanting us to see in his use of this term Paul Belonged to Jesus Christ his life His actions his activities his conduct his speech his worship His thoughts his mind his heart shaped by the will of another namely the Lord Jesus Christ Martyn Lloyd-Jones Said that Paul's whole being Revolved around this person and he could not think of himself apart from him That is awesome That is glorious and brothers and sisters. That's how we should think of ourselves We should not contemplate anything about ourselves apart from him apart from the Lord Jesus Christ We are not our own. We've been bought at a price. I am Christ's slave Right. He is mine. I am his he has bought me. He owns me. I am a slave. Do you see? And I'm a slave to Jesus Christ Jesus Emphasizing the Lord's humanity the human being who lived on this earth a man Fully man fully God God in the flesh the human being the baby who was born in a manger The boy who grew in stature in favor with both men and God the man who was the carpenter who lived breathed slept laughed cried and died on Calvary and Christ Christ us the anointed one of God speaking of the Lord's Mediatorial office Christ the anointed one of God to be prophet Priest and king to his people the promised Messiah the very son of the living God the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world Jesus Christ Paul says My Relationship to Jesus Christ is one of a slave to his master the critical To our understanding of Paul's use of this word slave is the concept of ownership You can't escape that connection that implication Critical to our understanding of Paul's use of this word slave is the concept of ownership the grammar of the text shows possession It's a genitive of possession Paul is a slave Belonging to Jesus Christ not just Paul's labor not just Paul's work not just Paul's mission but Paul's person is owned by possessed by Jesus Christ now this ownership Associated with slavery this ownership took place in four basic ways in the first century there were four basic ways in which someone could be a slave right one You could be a slave through birth. You could be born into Slavery if your parents were in slavery you were born to your parents you were born into slavery Secondly you could sell yourself into slavery you had debts to pay you couldn't pay them you could sell yourself into slavery Third there were slaves that were captured They were taken prisoner and fourth slaves were purchased. They were purchased into slavery now first Someone may have become us may have become a slave by birth The metaphor of becoming a slave by birth is at once helpful for understanding Paul's conception of the Christian life We become slaves through new birth in him, right? All people all people are born slaves. Do you realize that you recognize that you and I were born slaves You know, I were born slaves of sin You're a slave of sin born as slaves of our father the devil All people are born in servitude to sin Romans chapter 6 verse 22 Describes the believer then the believer as one who has been set free From slavery to sin having become then a slave of God. Do you see the transfer of ownership? Born anew in Jesus Christ you become a slave of God a slave of righteousness Out of bondage out of slavery to sin you go from one form of slavery to another Form of slavery now those two things are on such opposite poles will discuss the difference in a moment One horrendous one that leads to destruction one that leads to death the other leads to glory and life everlasting So those two things are on opposite ends of the spectrum, but it is a transfer of slavery nonetheless First Corinthians chapter 7 verse 22 He who is called that word called there speaks to the new birth regeneration It's the calling of God upon the life of a new believer He who is called while free Is christ slave Shows divine action shows divine work in the life of a believer So one someone may have become a slave by birth Secondly someone may sell themselves into slavery in this case. It shows human action There's a willingness on the part of a person to give themselves voluntarily to slavery human involvement is involved here the believer is to be Active in this the believer is to present as paul would say later Present their members as slaves to righteousness. You think about that text in romans chapter 6 In verse 16 is active listen to verse 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey To whom you present yourselves slaves to obey you are that one's slaves whom you obey Whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness In other words the believers slavery to jesus christ The believers slavery to righteousness could well be described as voluntary A willful act on the part of the believer to enslave themselves to present their members as instruments of righteousness third Someone could be captured and made a slave captured This would have been very commonly understood in rom in the first century roman victories on the battlefield ensured that thousands Would have been taken captive and brought into the slave markets of rome thousands would have been taken prisoner paul Joyfully refers to himself. He revels in referring to himself to himself as a prisoner of christ jesus He does so in aphesians chapter 3 verse 1 calls himself a prisoner of jesus christ He is a prisoner of jesus christ in philemon verse 9 He's a prisoner of the lord in second timothy chapter 1 verse 8 paul rejoiced to consider himself a prisoner of the lord jesus christ that paul Describes himself as a man Who's been taken captive He's been captured Taken prisoner so to speak By jesus christ listen to flippings chapter 3 in verse 12 listen Paul says not that i have already attained Or am already perfected But paul says i press on So that i may lay hold katholambano. It's a to seize with force i Lay hold of that for which christ jesus has also Layed hold paul says of me jesus christ laid hold of him Took him captured him Is referring to paul's own conversion, isn't it like if you read acts chapter 9 and paul's testimony of his own conversion You see that's exactly Exactly what happened to paul on the road to demascus paul says that jesus christ laid hold of him seized him right jesus arrested him He took paul into his possession paul was on the road to demascus Bible says that he was continuing to breed out threats And murder against the disciples of the lord And the lord knocked paul off his horse And took possession of him right that's what the word means Seized him and then what did paul do what was paul's response paul trembling and Astonished Astonished paul said lord. What do you want me to do? That's the response of a slave to his master isn't it lord. What do you want me to do lord? What do you want me to do? jesus christ seized him paul Is now his slave. He belongs to jesus christ now. He belongs to jesus christ So a slave may become a slave by birth a slave may have sold themselves into slavery A slave may be captured But the most common way number four that someone became a slave in the first century was through the payment of a purchase price Was through the payment of a price In reference to the metaphor of slavery in the new testament for the christian life The most common word used for this payment of a price is the word redemption Agoradzo is the term it's a commercial word. It's a word Taken out of the marketplace right referring to a payment made for property A payment made in the market Those worshiping the lord in revelation chapter five saying a new song of praise to jesus christ saying this listen You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals For you jesus christ were slain and have redeemed us agoradzo purchased us to god by your blood the payment of a price Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation Do you see first chrithians chapter six verse 19 paul asks the chrithian believers. Do you not know That your body is the temple of the holy spirit who is in you whom you have from god Do you not know that you are not your own? In other words, there's been a transfer of ownership. There's been a transfer of ownership paul says for you were bought At a price you were redeemed Therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit, which are gods Which are gods it speaks of possession Speaks of ownership Critical to our understanding of paul's use of this word slave is the concept of ownership The word slave Is the word chosen by paul To communicate his association with the lord jesus christ.  You see a ransom for many He purchased paul out of the slave market of sin. He redeemed paul for himself now paul his own prized possession And what is true of paul brothers and sisters is true of you and i It's also true of you and i if you've been redeemed Purchased bought by the blood of the lamb.  You are his now. Do you see An a word that could be used to rightly describe your association to the lord jesus christ now is slave is slave Peter says first peter chapter one verse 18 We were not redeemed. We weren't bought. We weren't purchased With corruptible things like silver or gold From your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers But we were purchased with the precious blood of christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot Therefore paul says thinking of this word and using this word communicating his association to the lord jesus christ paul says i'm not free I'm not free. I have been bought By jesus christ. I am his he is my master.    He liberates you to Serve him now you think about that relationship in the christian life You are liberated From sin set free from bondage to sin To be slave to another You know it is this notion That is taught in so many churches today That you're saved And that you are Under the lordship of jesus christ and yet you can live however you want to live It's just an absurd ridiculous notion That you set your own agenda that you do Your own thing that you can live as you want to live and you can do as you Is an absurd idea When compared to scripture now the joy the glory of the christian life is that when jesus christ Purchases us out of the slave market of our sin. He gives us a new heart He renews our mind. He makes us a new creation and gives us new desires He puts his spirit within us and he causes us then to walk in his statutes and in his judgments and to keep his commandments And to do them right he gives us a hunger and a thirst for righteousness He gives us a fruit filled faith a wonder working grace And the very desire of our new heart in him is to obey him and to keep his commandments And the evidence of that is that his commandments are no longer burdensome right We once Walked according to the prince of the power of the air The spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience If you're in christ, you once walked as a slave of satan We now serve the lord christ being a slave or using that word slave to Communicate our association with the lord jesus christ our relationship to the lord jesus christ doesn't negate our status as sons Doesn't negate the glorious heritage that we have as airs with christ joint airs with him Doesn't negate that it's not an either or do you see it's a both and It's a both and paul Proclaims and we'll see in this letter paul gloriously proclaims our status as sons in the kingdom Right sons of our god at the same time that paul glories and revels in describing himself as a slave of jesus christ We'll talk about that more as we go I was witnessing to someone just the other day and The notion is in the conversation that Because we're all sinners we're all sinners And so no one can really live for jesus christ the issue really is just salvation and that we Go on living as best we can but we're all sinners and so we've got this excuse so to speak that all sin No, we become set free from Slavery to sin we become enslaved to service in service to the lord jesus christ Now secondly Secondly as much as paul's use of that word slave communicates something of our association to jesus christ paul's use of the word slave also communicates something of paul's attitude In serving jesus christ verse one paul a bond servant of jesus christ called to be an apostle Separated to the gospel of god the very fact That paul begins with this description Tells us that this wasn't a description that paul was ashamed of It wasn't something that he found distasteful about the christian life It wasn't something that he had to apologize for paul gloried in this truth paul reveled in it He exalted in it, right? It's the very first description that paul uses to introduce himself in the letter paul A slave and not just a slave a slave of jesus christ the metaphor that paul uses here Comes with none of that disgusting deplorable reprehensible abuse That characterizes the cruelty of slavery among men comes with none of that We serve a gracious and loving and patient and forgiving and merciful and loving master It wouldn't be the crack of a slave master's whip that would compel paul That's not the case paul's faithfulness paul's devotion would be fueled by love And not his own love mind you remember second crinthians chapter five verse 14 listen to paul's heart attitude Second crinthians chapter five verse 14 paul says the love of christ compels us It's christ's love for us that constrains me paul says Christ's love for me Compells me because we judge thus that if one died for all then all died And he died for all that those who live Should no longer live for themselves as a slave to sin as a slave to their lusts But for him as a slave to jesus christ who died for them and rose again paul isn't for a moment not one moment Begrudging his devotion to his master It's his love for me paul says that constrains me that compels me I can't paul says i can't do i can't be anything else. I can't go anywhere else I can't think any other way. I am a willing devoted Rejoicing slave his love compels me right i've been captured. He has won me I am his he is mine. I am a slave of jesus christ Turn with me to ax chapter 20 Acts chapter 20 and in ax chapter 20 paul is about to meet with the elders From emphasis from the church at emphasis In a place called miletus And paul describes his service there to the lord jesus christ And paul's joy keep in mind right paul Rejoices in this ministry paul revels in the fact that he has been given over In slavery to the lord jesus christ that he has been called to be an apostle Separated to the gospel of god look at ax chapter 20 and drop down to verse 17 From miletus verse 17 paul sent to emphasis and called for the elders of the church And when they had come to him he said to them you know from the first day that i came to asia in what manner I always lived among you now. He's going to call upon their witness Of his own life and ministry Brothers and sisters i would submit to you We need to be able to do the same thing right We need to be able to say to our brothers and sisters here. Listen, you know You know what manner i've lived among you i'm not perfect We sin in many ways we're going to offend one another there's going to be conflict to resolve There's going to be difficulties to resolve right we are human this side of eternity will always have sin to deal with but listen We need to be able to say you and i you know how i lived among you Right, we should be able to point to the testimony of our brothers and sisters and say you know what manner of life I've lived among you since the time i came here since the time i set out to serve the lord jesus christ Right, we need to live to have that kind of testimony He says verse 19 serving the lord with all humility His service to the lord jesus christ was a humble service With many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the jews His service was one that was persecuted Verse 20 how i kept back nothing that was helpful but proclaimed it to you His service was fully wholeheartedly Devoted he kept back nothing from them But he taught them publicly from house to house Verse 21 testifying to jews also to greeks repentance toward god faith toward our lord jesus christ and see Now i go bound in the spirit to jerusalem Not knowing the things that will happen to me there Except that the holy spirit testifies in every city saying That chains and tribulations await me notice how paul characterizes that in verse 22 i go bound To jerusalem bound in the spirit to jerusalem paul Was a slave of the lord jesus christ and where the lord directed paul went what the lord commanded paul to do paul did paul saw himself as a slave of jesus christ He goes bound now in the spirit to jerusalem knowing Knowing that chains that tribulations await him verse 24 But none of these things move me i'm not concerned with anything else there's nothing else that is important to me nor do i even count my own life dear to myself Even if it means my life I'm going to go why that i may finish my race with joy. What was paul's joy paul's joy Would be that he would finish his Slavery so to speak to the lord jesus christ in its fullness Obedient to the lord faithful to the lord faithful to his calling faithful to his ministry Until the very end when the lord calls him home and it would be paul's Joy to finish his race in that way to finish the race with joy in the ministry Which i receive from the lord jesus to testify to the gospel of the grace of god What was he called to do he was called to preach the gospel And paul was going to finish his race with joy and It was paul's joy To serve the lord in that way even if it meant he gave his life In jerusalem. I don't even count my own life dear to myself. Do you see? That was paul's heart attitude heart attitude I have one aim paul would say one purpose one goal one end With the life that i've been given And that is to finish the ministry that i've been given by the lord jesus christ Only one life Will soon be passed It's only what's done for christ that will last you see Paul says i've been called to testify to the gospel of the grace of god Nothing more dear to him than this mission not even his own life I know that chains and tribulations await me, but i press on in joy to finish my race. There was no begrudging attitude toward paul's Association to the lord jesus christ. There was no begrudging despairing discouraged Woe is me apathetic indifference Cold calloused hard hardiness toward the commands of the lord jesus christ. This was paul's Joy, it was paul's joy to lay hold of that For which christ jesus had laid hold of him. Do you see? We see how paul Viewed his association to jesus christ. You see paul's heart attitude About that association all of that is communicated through the word the use of this word slave do-loss Let me ask you a question if you were going to sit to write a letter Would you could you use this word to identify to introduce or to describe yourself Would you would this be the word that would come to mind what word? Would best describe you What word would best characterize The nature the experience of your christian life what word Would you choose? What word would others use to describe you? What would someone else say? Well that guy that he's a patriot loves this country It's not a bad thing If it eclipses Your devotion to the lord jesus christ it is idolatry Well, he's a great student that one very professional Yeah, he's going places that one Good businessman really smart Knows how to run a business Wonderful husband Loving devoted wife None of those things bad in and of themselves But when they eclipse Our identity who we are in jesus christ they are idolatrous Would this word do-loss with this word slave make the top of the list? In describing you what word would you use would you start with paul and say i am a slave Of jesus christ my lord If we would right if we would but lay hold Of this Truth lay hold of that for which jesus christ has laid hold of you and i if you profess to be in christ Then jesus christ has taken possession of you You were bought at a price You weren't redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold You were redeemed with the precious blood of the lord jesus christ jesus christ has taken possession of you You're not your own He has laid hold of you and if you and i would but lay hold of that For which jesus christ has laid hold of us Then it would transform the way that We think about the christian life It would transform the way that you think the way that you believe the way that you live The way that you obey the way that you worship the way that you pray the way that you read The way that you organize and structure your time The way that you spend your money The things that you do Right the people you're involved with It would impact your zeal wouldn't it?  We've been bought at a price We are so quick aren't we to enslave ourselves to the empty pleasures the empty pursuits of this world easily freely often going after them And none of those things bring lasting joy none of those things bring lasting peace this life is fleeting It is passing away And what will last is that which is done for christ that which is done Bearing fruit to eternity fruit to holiness and in the end everlasting life Lasting joy lasting hope peace glory is found In being entirely possessed by another Your entire life my entire life directed shaped controlled Compelled constrained by the one who bought me with his own blood or As you sit here this morning Would you characterize yourself as a slave to sin? Would you think of yourself as a slave to sin?  That's the question Kids listen to me Young man young girl listen to me often kids think to themselves. I can't wait to be free Be free from mom and dad free from these rules. Why can't I do and why can't I do that?  Are you in bondage to bitterness? Are you in bondage to physical lusts? What is it that most consumes your thoughts? What is it that most consumes your interests your time your energy? Whose slave are you? Are you enslaved to the cares of this world? Matthew chapter 6 verse 24 the lord says no one can serve two masters For either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other You cannot serve god and mammon And someone who says well, you know i'm enslaved to my physical lusts over here But I don't hate the lord jesus christ. No your enslavement to your physical lusts is an evidence that you hate the lord jesus christ You cannot serve two masters You'll love one and despise the other Are you enslaved to man's approval?  Galatians chapter 1 verse 10 paul says for do I now persuade men or god? Do I seek to please men for if I still pleased men? I would not be a slave a bond servant of jesus christ paul would later say in galatians chapter 5 verse 13 for you brethren brethren you've been called to liberty freedom Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh But through love serve the word is dual you oh dual you oh It means to give a slave's service to It means to serve as a slave through love Serve as a slave one another For all the laws fulfilled in one word even this you shall love your neighbor as yourself You see slavery in the christian life and the way that paul describes it is freedom from slavery And at the very time slavery in the christian life is freedom for slavery Freedom from slavery and freedom for slavery. It's a bit of a paradoxical Just like strength through weakness This is freedom for slavery We find this set side by side in romans chapter 6 turn over to romans chapter 6 with me And look there beginning in verse 15 romans chapter 6 verse 15 paul Sits these two concepts freedom from slavery freedom for slavery. He sets them side by side romans chapter 6 beginning in verse 15 What then paul asks shall we sin? Because we are not under law, but under grace May it never be certainly not right similar to verse 1 look at verse 1 What shall we say then shall we continue in sin that grace may abound similar question, isn't it certainly not by no means How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? in other words does grace does the grace of god accommodate the believer sin God's forgiven me god has saved me so i can live however i want to live now that wouldn't necessarily come out of a person's mouth But by their actions their actions speak louder than their words By their actions they're professing that very thing right they live however they want to live And it doesn't matter because god has shown me grace paul would say by no means may it never be certainly not You have ceased being a slave to sin now you are a slave to god look at verse 16 Do you not know do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey You are that one slaves whom you obey whether of sin leading to death Or of obedience leading to righteousness two camps two forms of slavery two ends in mind. It's either Sin leading to death leading to destruction leading to hell Or of obedience leading to righteousness verse 17 But god be thanked that though you were slaves of sin Yet you obeyed From the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered and having been set free from sin You became slaves to righteousness now. This isn't preaching paul is not preaching A salvation by works paul is preaching a salvation that works It's a salvation that works having been set free from sin transferred out from under slavery to sin Set free from the power of sin You've become now slaves of righteousness one of the Key indicators the key marks of conversion in the life of a christian is their Desire heart soul mind and strength to serve the lord jesus christ to be holy to put off sin and to put on Righteousness that's a genuine that's a mark of genuine conversion um as soon as a person is genuinely saved A war begins as a result of that my desire is holiness My desire is to live for him and yet i see this other principle this other we're gonna see that in roman 7 Right this other principle in my members that now wages war against the law of my mind And i Am afflicted over sin now as a result.  You don't turn away from that paul says verse 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness So now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness Transfer from one form of slavery to another form of slavery For when you were slaves of sin You were free in regard to righteousness You didn't have this compelling interest this hunger and thirst for righteousness this drive From god's spirit Driving you to obey you didn't have that you were free in regard to righteousness What fruit did you have then? In the things of which you are now ashamed the end of those things is death Verse 22 but now having been set free from sin set free from sin as a ruling power as a reigning power in your life Having been set free from sin and having become slaves of god You have your fruit to holiness and the end everlasting life The wages of sin is death, but the gift of god is eternal life in christ jesus our lord Freedom from sin does not give you the freedom to sin Freedom from sin brings an obligation to turn from sin. Do you see? The theme of the passage is a contrast between two forms of slavery You are a slave of one or you are a slave of the other The old slavery to sin from which the believers from which believers have been set free And new slavery to righteousness to which believers have been delivered To which believers are now under obligation to commit themselves With the heart attitude of paul First john chapter five verse three For this is the love of god that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome It's amazing today, right that you even reading a verse like that from the pages of scripture itself And many will rise up in objection. That's legalism You're talking about the apostle john Who said those words but as soon as you mentioned obedience in the christian life And the unconverted natural heart Bristles against it. Why because they're a slave to sin And not a slave of righteousness the christian with a new heart in christ cries out in rejoicing. Thank you lord Help me I need strength. I need help deliver me from the presence of sin lord now, please Paul's instruction in roman 6 is because believers need to be reminded of this brothers and sisters. We too often shamefully We forget we need to be reminded of these things constantly We need to be reminded of who we belong to You can't do anything you want with your body You can't do anything you want with your time with your resources there are things that We desire in the flesh that are not good that are sinful We need to Obey the lord in those things that we desire With our mind agreeing with the law of god that it's holy just and good I mean you'd obey the lord as slaves of righteousness You're no longer your own. You were bought with an unimaginably high price He paid for you with his own blood his own life Here's a man roman's chapter one verse one Who could have begun his introduction in so many different places in so many different ways saying so many different things But where did he start paul?  We need to understand who we really are amen Amen all praise honor glory and blessing to him who has bought us with his blood Let's pray Take a few moments now and pray silently to the lord And consider your own relationship with the lord jesus christ and how he might describe you And let's pray for the lord's help in being good slaves of his let's pray Father in heaven i pray that now you would you would glorify the name of our lord jesus christ in prospering your word In our hearts and minds and the hearts of minds of your saints building them up in their faith Helping us lord to understand Who we belong to and What we have been saved to And lord i would pray that you would glorify your son in the salvation of sinners Reaching Into the slave market Of sin and redeeming them purchasing them out of bondage for your own glory as slaves of god And that jesus christ would receive the full reward of his suffering And you would be honored in all things and We pray lord that we would live as rejoicing willing loving devoted worshiping slaves Not losing sight of our inheritance as sons But rejoicing that we have been called into service to preach the gospel and to serve you and the cause of the gospel For your namesake for the sake of our lord jesus christ and whose name we pray amen


podcast about how to create a key department manager resume and ten times your interview invitation. If you're live with me, come and hi in the chat. I should be live on both LinkedIn and YouTube and say hi on the chat so I know all the tech issues is working at the same time. I have new countdown music. So let's listen to this. My team had a new countdown music. Let's play. In one minute's countdown, people will get started. Okay, we're getting started in one minute. Say hi on the chat and let me know if you can see me live or not. Say hi in the chat. You can see me live on both YouTube and LinkedIn. Let me go to LinkedIn here. So it looks like all the tech is working. Hello guys. This is Docinancy Lee. Welcome welcome and quick introduction and I am Docinancy Lee, a director of product and future in Forbes. I help 100 people learn the dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as product leader today.  One sec. Sorry, I can hear multiple voice. Okay, sorry, I hear echoes and today you are my live training where I teach you guys and review libraries review where you are able to quickly improve your resume. I understand what's wrong and why you're not learning any interviews and figure out what's the best methodology to land your next dream PM job offer. And I'm also the founder of PM Exeter. You can learn more about my program, go to docinancy.com and also get all those free resources, free trainings over there. Awesome. Okay, great. So let's get started. And for people who join us, let me see who else is there. Yeah, comment on the chat and whoever join us, please come on the chat so that I know who's here with all of us. Awesome. Awesome. So we are live here. Now here's a quick call me SG. I think that's your YouTube name. Hello. Hello. This is great. Awesome. And we also have lots of people on LinkedIn as well. Welcome. Welcome. Okay, great. So now here's what to do. Let me show you the deck and send you instructions of get free resume review. And let me show you the deck right here. I believe you guys can see my screen. Come on the chat. Can you see my screen? It should be. All right. So today's free resume review. Here's what to do. We're going to directly jump into the resume review session and also quick room. Last time I shared our students Sam's success stories regarding how he became a senior AIPM. And actually this Wednesday he's going to give a talk in our alumni panel was in PMA regarding how he actually broke into AIPM and also any resources you recommend people to start utilize and break into AIPM. And now as we go through the process, make sure to use the 50 fan interview questions database to prepare for the upcoming interview. Feel free to go to darknancy.com slash 50 fan to download those interview questions and so that you're ready for those upcoming important interviews. Now important thing I want to share with you is even if you're not interviewing for fan company, but lots of companies using the same interview or questions for example, open AI, their interview questions are quite similar. They're also talking about product design, product execution, interview questions because lately I help another person prepare for the final round interview with open AI and any even like non tech company Hershey's chocolate company asked people those product design questions. So all come from those are very fundamental, typically used interview questions database. Feel free to go to 50 fan darknancy.com slash 50 fan to download those free resources. Okay. And now free resume review. Here's what to do. Hey, everybody free resume review, pay close attention. Some of you guys should already email. I think five of you guys email my team to get free resume review and they my team should send you the zoom link to join me live right now to receive the resume review. Okay. If you didn't get a chance to send my team and to join zoom, feel free to email me right now. Okay. Email me at Nancy at darknancy.com Nancy at darknancy.com and email me a resume and the title be specific. The title of your email should be free resume review dash on the daily joined the masterclass. Okay. Because we prioritize people who joined the masterclass because we give them free resume review for people who attend masterclass and also want to build their profile photo. So they're ready to have your resume ready for your upcoming interview season. So people may ask me what is the masterclass right here. So if you go to my website darknancy.com slash masterclass, you will learn this latest the masterclass. We talked about learn how to create here a prep manager portfolio was in two weeks that will land your PM offers, even if you were laid off or you have no experience. Okay. So whoever already attended in the past, we all offer you the free resume review. So make sure to email me right now or my team. If you if you already email my team, they should send you a zoom link. Okay. If you didn't get a chance to do it, make sure to directly just email me my email and make sure to mention the name you attend masterclass because want to prioritize people who did it. And if I extra time, we can we can review other people's resume as well. Okay. Now let me do this and just show me the date you attended free resume review dash the date you attended masterclass and that's all we need. My email is this here. Let me also put in the chat. Okay. Let me exit this and put in a chat and see the RFC.com and let me also put the same link to YouTube as well. Okay. Cool. So let me pull up those resumes as we are speaking live right now. Awesome. So one sec. Let me go to the backhand. David, you're talking about PM career transition. Yes, we'll get back to you. Get back to you. Awesome. David. Yeah, everybody should directly share me your send me your resume directly so that I'm going to review it. And at the same time, we're waiting for people to send me your resume. So let me review some free resources. People can get started. The most important thing for you to get ready to think about your upcoming interview process and also what's wrong with your resume. Okay. And now feel free to also put your questions in the chat as well and that I'm going to bring it up and share with you the latest strategy. Okay. Cool. And now quick strategy everybody you must understand when you go out for your resume application, most companies are looking for the match of keywords if you apply online such as LinkedIn or Indeed or directly apply like on the career website of different companies. They are looking for the career matches. If they're looking for, let's say those AI, ML, JNAI, those kind of keywords or building models, all those examples of advanced technology or they want to see examples of you writing requirements, requirement documentation, driving roadmap, strategy. Those should be keywords on your resume based on what the skill set they're looking for. The more keywords you have, the more likely they're going to offer you and job interview. Okay. So that's the key. And also the next part is how you write your achievement on your resume. And now I'm going to use some live resume examples and show you how we did it. And let me show you my screen right here. We have Vijanda. Yes. I got your resume. Let me do this. Hold on. Let me share the next the resume session. Okay, let me put up your resume. Koko Koko. Vijanda. Did I pronounce your name correctly? Vijanda or Wahara? Free resume view. You joined on March 25. Oh, today you joined a muscle class today. Awesome. Okay, so now let me share your resume. Very sure to mention. It's a 14 years experience. And let me see. Let me see. You have 14 years experience in guiding teams with so many members, proficient in it. It's about role, math, strategy, life cycle management, leadership, pro-unit, initial launch of Invoicing and Preparing, leading a rental team of 10. I think the first one is good, except I mean, the scale level. Oh, you said 14 years experience is total years experience. Your PM, this is the latest one is only the latest PM experience. The passes are analysts, I see. I was like, why is there no pro-strategy type of work here? You're doing pro-owner, pro-design. Okay, so you have one year experience. You have a career gap. You have we recently all come on the chat. We recently all why do you have a career gap? Interesting. Okay, so now first paragraph, like, I think the top three is good. Down below looks at very operational focus. And for example, like implementing scaled agile safe framework that program can use agile in different ways. For example, you can say, let a team of 20 or 10 or five software engineers using agile development methodology to create ABCD type of technology or ABCD type of product, right? And that's more related to management. And I think this sounds, this sounds more operational. The final few resume bully points sounds very operational. On the few, the top ones is something I like because more related to PM. Okay, I want you to rewrite what you have down below and make it more PM driven. Okay, now for your PayPal, the team of eight, so many people, overhaul the rest, roof for prevention analyst, would you be able to rewrite your past experience making more PM driven? For example, analyzing others, if you can describe if you analyze in data, would you be able to write it towards creating KPI or product access metrics of ABCD risk investigation process and being able to lead the team to achieve 80% of the KPI target or ABCD things, right? This product access metrics you can write in different ways. A negotiation leadership facilitating whatever team members, if you say you negotiate with leadership facilitates those kind of teams maybe can say let a team of let's say two or five or six data analysts to do or to launch ABCD product, right? So rewrite how you write the style of your resume. And I think there's lots of great things you can like dig in later on, especially for those business analysts from master, those skillset are very similar to PM. I think is the way you write your experience wasn't very product style. But the beginning of the few actually is something what I like. Okay, so now let me go to YouTube channel and share your resources. Go to the YouTube channel and find my name search doc Nancy Lee. And you are able to do this. Coco, which one? Here, I gave you the this resume, per manager resume tips with no experience, this specific video where I gave you examples of how would I write certain kind of description of those interviews, for example, this one. And so that's how you need to really write it in different ways. And then on your resume, I like to see more impact, which you already have those kind of impact, which is good already. I think your main problem is the ones you wrote a more very operational treatment. I want to write it in a different way. For example, as examples, I gave you on this resume on this video, okay, in this video. Okay, so let me bring up the next one. Okay, so next one, people ask me, okay, what email to send a resume review here? Okay, so let me share my email again. RAM sheet, I got your resume, you're the next. Let me share people the email, people ask email again, right here. Okay, this email, you can email my team info.pmx.io when I'm not live. And he is going to invite you to join me on zoom to review all your resumes with me together. Okay, make sure to email this person. Right now, my team should already send you the zoom link to join me as we are speaking. Okay, and when I'm live right now, you can if you didn't send it to him when I'm live right now, you should direct go to Nancy at documents.ly.com. Okay, this is what you need to do Nancy at documents.ly.com right here.  Okay, this is what's going on in your email title, please follow the process, make it clear regarding Hey, this is free resume review dash the day to join the masterclass because one of prioritize people join the masterclass will give people free resume review for masterclass. Let me post here. And this is here. Okay, so my masterclass teach you how to create a portfolio in two weeks, even if you're being laid off or have zero PM experience. Okay, so after this, you know how exactly you are able to create your part of portfolio. So you're ready for job hunting and will also teach you how to use networking to learn more interviews as well. And now before you come in, we always want people to have their resume ready. That's why we review resume for free. So in your email, make sure to say the date you attended the masterclass free resume review the date you attended because one prior has people already attended. Okay, we have 45 minutes in total today. Oh, something make sure you should also download in PM interview questions database. Let me also put it here. PM interview questions database, feel free to do so. And so that you are ready for your upcoming interview, let me put in the chat. Let's say both YouTube and LinkedIn and then my next resume. Okay, cool. Okay, now let me jump to the resume review. Right here, this one, rush, rum shed. Okay, let me review resume now. archetype here. And you see junior architect. You have, you have a career gap as well. What's going on? If you have a career gap, people will ask you, did you go to school? Oh, I think I'm going to school right now. Maybe. Okay, let me review resume design development. Is your design the building design or interior design? Education. Okay, this resume need to be rewritten, because you have the keywords here and you took some part management certification, which is good. But I want you to spend more time talking about what's relevant to PM for example, your latest job as architect, I don't think it's too much relevant to PM. In this situation, I want to create a part of portfolio. Okay, then you can make it as a project or related work experience under the professional experience as most like relevant to PM because what you did in the past literally has nothing to do with PM. If you want to talk about project requirements, for example, you have some key was regarding project requirement here. If so, let's think about what exactly you did with that regarding requirement, you can write it in different ways, you can say, wrote part of requirement documentation, that's a way to do it to capture the needs and desire of customers. And so they can translate it into the engineering facing requirement, you can write it that way. Okay, so the way you write it is not very product driven. And I think most important thing is if you had down those education, I want you to create a part of portfolio so that in your portfolio, you can spend lots of time talking about what you did when you build a part of portfolio, did you interview customers part of road map or strategy, designer go to market strategy, all of those. And then you can put in resume show that you already have done something related to PM. That's more powerful than what you have in your current resume. Okay, so that's the main problem. Okay, so go to this masterclass where create a part of portfolio in two weeks, even if being laid off or zero PM experience. Okay, feel free to go here and learn what is part of portfolio and the key element needs to be included in a part of portfolio, all of this need to be changed. Okay, I think this yeah, the resume need to be rewritten completely. No, let me let me go see the next one. So that's sigh. Yes, I got an email. Freshman pursue a master in management information. In the field currently attending the live resume review. Okay, cool. Okay, so let me review this resume. Let me share my screen right here. So you're currently in school, University of Tennessee December 2004. Okay, we should speed up your job hunting process, you must land into internship this summer. Or it will impact you landing a full time job opportunities. Internship is very critical. Now you're studying some Python, software engineer, your software engineer, and put an endless intern, you're assisting in a data-driven solution. Projects, okay, cool. Alright, now here's how to rewrite your resume. First of all, for this internship experience, which I like this related to product. Okay, let's fix this one first. So review system design data-driven solution actions is good. Spare weekly eye to know you spearheaded. This is totally a consultant style. We really do not like consultant style resume. We want to just see people actually do the work instead of just saying things sounds nicer. Pricing inside cross functional teams. You said lots of impact, but you didn't tell us too much regarding what you did. And I see another spearheaded something is so weird, your intern spearheaded something. Can you be true to the interview process? You can just say let a team of maybe one or two, maybe three, software engineers to implement the agile methodology and created ABCD product, right? That's more straightforward than this. There's also fancy, like, consultant style resume, which we do not like in general. Now for your software engineer, and all of this software engineer data and this intern and all of this experience you had in the past, you must rewrite it in a way that's more matching to PM, for example, analyze, implement test scripts and test plans and all of this, right? And you can describe you work with a team of engineers and translate the business requirement into engineering-facing technical requirement so that you're able to create a test plan to do ABCD things, right? So the way you describe this is very software engineering focused, very operational. I want you to say it in the lens of prime management, okay? And actually lots of people with software engineering background became a successful prime manager. This is totally, like, advantage you should capture, but the way you describe it still sounds very software-driven, but I like you have lots of impact, which is great. Okay, so rewrite it and follow this guide and I'll show you how to write resume, right here. So this video initially gave you an example, see it right here. With example sentences, you can write on your resume to say it in a different way. You'll be able to get it. Okay, la, la, la, all right, let me go to the next one. Cool. Feel free to submit your questions on the chat as well. Yeah, the word genre is my pronunciation of your name is correct. This is great. Good to know. Awesome, okay, great. Yeah, feel free to put your questions in the chat, but looks like I've reviewed all the live submitted questions. If you request the Zoom link through my team, my team should also email you the Zoom link as well. Okay, you can join me on Zoom, but if you're not joining me on Zoom, then email me your resume directly as well. Okay, so we should be good to go. We have everything. I don't know. We got everything. Cool, okay, great. So looks like I reviewed all the live resumes. So let me share my email, not email, let me share this link again and with my email so you guys can send at the same time right here. So this one, nancy at darknancy.com and send me a resume live when I go live and when I'm not going live, you can email my team. He's going to send you a Zoom link to join me right now so that we're speaking so we can review your resume life. Okay, cool. Now this is the information you need for all of you guys for your resume review. Now let me check. Cool, okay, great. So looks like I answered or I review all the resumes pre-submitted. Okay, great. So if any questions, feel free to come on the chat regarding upcoming interviews or your resumes or maybe what's the latest progress that may come on the chat. Love to hear as well. And as now at the same time, let me share with you the latest market trend and action filming video today regarding market trend for the entire industry. So currently we have a lot of activities in the job market right now. It's crazy. Literally the second half of March, we had the one week within the second half of March is receiving way more offers than one month in February. So the entire market started warm up. Specifically, how things work is for example, companies, we have students who interview a company in January, but the company didn't have the funding or money. So the way to give the job offer in March, they waited for two months. Literally this happened. And also happened a lot of life with the NVIDIA. I have a student join NVIDIA and join Intel. They all receive offers within March. So March is roughly where the takeoff of the primary cooling system. Now for lots of companies, they also give bonuses by the end of March. Usually around March, people give bonuses of last year. So lots of people want to just collect bonuses and just leave. So that's why it's right now the market starts warming up. And actually like one week equals one month compared in February and January, which also makes lots of sense. And that's coming in. The budget wasn't allocated until March and now they start to use the budget because the budget usually getting approved in January and they allocate those budgets like in March. So once they get budget, that's why lots of activities are going on happening right now. So I want everybody to really understand the latest trend and also the stock market has been up and Bitcoin also very high right now. So when the economy is good, people start to hire more because they need to grow within the team and grow the product together. So therefore get ready for your upcoming interviews and have your resume ready as well. Okay, so that's the latest market trends and people need to understand. Awesome, awesome. Cool. Let me see. Have you received any questions? Let me go to the back end. Hold on, I have, okay, I have question. Oh, okay. So when just the Zhengdua said, is it bad to have a career gap? Yeah, it is bad. Or at least you need the justification to talk about your career gap, right? Okay, in general, we do not like career gap. If you go to school, I think it's fine. If you have a huge career gap without very obvious reasons, you need to really think about it. Well, that's why I create part of portfolio, maybe doing a career gap. Oh, I'm working on part of portfolio doing a career gap because working on part of portfolio kind of experience. Okay, and can also count as something that's related to product management, adding value to resume as well. So we can think about it, how to do it. So that's why I go to my website and this big button in the home page, you can go there and create your part of portfolio, learn how to create part of portfolio in my upcoming master class. Okay, so that's the main thing. Yes, in general, I don't like career gap. Ramshad, you said you're doing building design. I see. Yes, as I said earlier, your resume will be rewritten and something we want to see more. Will case studying a portfolio be considered as experience? Yes, it will be. Yes, good question. In early days, we didn't have much product manager role. BA, we're doing all the parts to my resume, doesn't have this designation, but I did new project women or how can get better in my resume? Oh, great question. Yes, if BA at the time, there's no PM title, but BA is doing the PM work, you just need to really put in the examples of your PM work. I know BA wrote lots of requirements and communicate with the engineering team to develop the product. That's one of the best ways for you to show off your PM experience. Right now, in your resume, I don't see regarding, hey, I'm a BA, but I wrote requirements. The way you wrote it just wasn't very well done. Okay, I gave you examples where you can do it and figure out how to write it better. Okay, so that's a reason. So now let me show you, let me show this one. By the way, we have lots of students with BA background that become a PM, 20 percent you can become PM. That's for sure by default. Okay, the same very, it's the same responsibilities.  Engineering facing and translate into engineering facing technical requirement, work with a group engineering team to create a product. So watch this video where I gave you specific examples out here. Okay, and then talk about impact. But you guys today, you guys did a good job talking about impact. So that should be fine. And just the parts, the earlier description, I don't think you have everything you need to really show off that even if I had a BA title, I have it on the PM work. That's something significant lacking on your resume. Okay, Sai, I have an interview coming up for product management internship. I'm a fresher. How can I navigate and able to crack the interview? Very good. Okay, so for this specific questions, if you have an interview coming up and as a fresher for PM internship, first of all, there's a lots of PM internships giving up right now. As when speaking, our students already receive job offer from NVIDIA. I'm very excited that NVIDIA PM internship. That's like the best of best. Very, very exciting. And I'm like, even in like startup companies giving PM internship job offers as well. It's very, very exciting for all of you guys. Okay, yes, get ready for your upcoming interviews for your internship. So number one thing, if you have an internship interview coming up to crack the interview, you must learn the best framework. You can answer this question without framework. You don't know how to get started. Okay, so number two, once you master the framework, the best way is to demonstrate you know how to do the job before you even manage up. So which means that you should study the company's product and think about how would you improve existing product and figure out what's the best methodology for you to demonstrate your skills that can do the job. For example, I always recommend our student create part of a photo because you can demonstrate, hey, I know how to do the job, see the examples of part of a photo I've done in the past. For example, if they want you to write requirement, here's the requirement I have written in the past. And all of this is the best methodology for you to get started with your upcoming like the PM internship interviews. Okay, very, very critical. Everybody, you need to capture the primary recruiting season. Okay, March, April and May by the end of May, usually all the internship offers are gone, so you must learn by immediately tap into the great resources. Okay, regarding frameworks, so let me share with you the free framework I have on my YouTube channel.  Okay, all the frameworks are here in my playlist. For example, the top 10 hardest part manager behavioral interview questions are here. Okay, which I gave you the grail framework and how would you like to put a design for a case, for metrics, different examples. Okay, so we'll watch this. I talk about the grail framework for behavioral interview questions. And then in this playlist, you should also check out our latest videos. For example, this part design framework I covered in this best part manager interview sample answers and top 20 Google interview questions database. So all of this have this sample framework you can use. Okay, I also have my latest video, which is summary of all my framework. The top 10, I believe is here in this playlist. Here, the, this one, summary of the framework. The six hardest but most common part manager interview questions and answers. Okay, it's here, which has a summary of different framework for different type of questions. And this is one of the best videos you should watch to learn those framework right away. Let me share this. Make sure to give it like, like and comment. And this is literally the best video you should watch. And I think total 15 minutes is going to save you 15% of your current insurance. It's a guy called framework. But anyway, so 15 minutes is going to save you 15 hours of study time. Okay, so let me put it in the chat. I put the video in the chat of LinkedIn and YouTube. Okay, put it in the back end. Great, cool. Okay, so now let me go to the next question. Hold on, I have so many questions coming up. Okay, the heat on past question person with seven years PM, seven years experience it, six years experience in management, five years experience in part owner, but I don't have MBA degree. Should I still get one? Is there any value fund? No, no, no, no, you really do not need the MBA. If you want, if your goal is to become a PM, please do not get an MBA. If it goes, well, let me join those Harvard club, you know, for long term reputation purposes and also for networking purposes, you're going to MBA school is made for networking. So, you know, great people in the long run, they can hire, they can help you as alumni, right? But except the networking purposes and your personal ego want to go to Harvard, you know, I don't recommend anybody to get MBA degree. In contrast, you can learn all the MBA knowledge by spending like five grand, 10 grand in any kind of courses and also the most important thing is apply what you learned in those real life examples such as through product portfolio, which I emphasize 100 times, many of our student man job offers through the product portfolio. Okay, so therefore, once you build your product portfolio, you learn those MBA knowledge, you create something and then you become PM. But at the same time, you also mentioned you already being in the industry for like how many years, seven years in IT and on many management experience, also five years in product owner experience, you are already very qualified to learn your next PM job to 100%, okay? You can directly go out to like literally learn a job offer today. Okay, so it's more about do you use the right strategy, do you package past experience, do you know how to present yourself, do you have product portfolio, do you know how to crack the product design interview, product execution interview and all of this. And lately I held one my student preparing for open AI, final round interview, he's interviewing for the provider position. Same thing, he's learning all the best framework I just shared with you earlier in my YouTube videos and you guys just use the most practical knowledge instead of wasting $200,000 per year to learn the MBA is a waste of money, seriously. Okay, I'm totally against it, crazy. Okay, cool. All right, looks like I answered all the questions. Let me confirm, looks like I answered all the questions. What about BC master degree and based on your experience, I don't think you need a degree unless personally you have a personal desire saying that, hey, I need a degree, all my friends had at least a master's degree, I want a degree so you feel better about yourself. That's a different story or you also feel like, you know what, being more educated is better or learning new knowledge is better. That's a different story than is this related to PM. If you want to become PM based on experience, you don't need a degree, you don't need additional degree based on what you have right now. Okay, unless you have personal drive, that's beyond learning a PM job or be a great PM. Yes, you can take any kind of degrees, but I'm highly against MBA because waste of money, very expensive. Okay, different kind of master degree depends on what you want to the knowledge you want to learn on a master's degree. It's not like I can't become PM with this master's degree, you don't need it, 200% you don't need it. Okay, that's the most important takeaway for everybody don't waste money. And of course, anybody who wants to speed up your job hunting process, become PM and upscale yourself, become a better PM, go to darkness.com and learn more. Okay, send you and attend my upcoming masterclass and learn how to create a product portfolio. Okay, cool. Where is my, yeah, those are free resources. Come here, you can start learning for free. I think skills are way more important than getting a degree right here. Okay, of course, I also teach people part management 101 skills and you can go there as well. Okay, and to run part of portfolio, go to darkness.com slash master class, learn more over there as well. Okay, or go to my homepage, darkness.com right here and you're able to get all the information you need. Click the button, go to the next page and register. Great, cool. Looks like I answered all the questions and finished all the resume review. Good job, everybody. All right, so I'm going to see you next time. Join I join you live. We should also next Monday at 11am EST. My team should already send you the Zoom link for you to join me for my upcoming live session or email my team. Okay, so this email again. Final email. Where is this email? Share my team. I'm going to get offline when I'm offline email info at PM Saturday. Oh, okay. This one. All right, talk to you soon. Have a good night. Have a good day. Make sure to like this video and share this and also send the video with any people who is in the breaking in the part management journey or advancing the PM career. Okay, they can get free coaching every Monday with me and share this video. Like this video and share it with anyone else out there. Okay, awesome.


Hey everyone, I am Nathaniel Rumpeljantz your editor-in-chief your everything at Nintendo Prime and Today, I'm kind of doing a little bit of an off-the-cuff video because it's been a couple days since we've had a video We've been doing a lot of live streaming this past week lots of Breath of the Wild We also had an additional stream earlier today From 5j gaming over on our twitch channel. We'll put a link down in the description to our twitch channel for those Who would like to catch all the additional streams that we do also broadcast here on YouTube? So I just want to talk about the switch and in particular just give you some of my Impressions now we do a podcast that will be hopefully recording tomorrow But we didn't have a podcast this past week because Eric and I wanted to spend a ton of time with the switch So just to prove to you that I even have the dang thing which I shouldn't have to after all the live streams Here it is. There's the switch As you can see I have the tube blue joy counter controllers Well, that's not everything obviously have the grip and the dock and all that great stuff I have the pro controller got an extensive experience playing in dock mode pro controller and I have More than you know, it says it'll play in Zelda, but I have more than just Zelda on this system Okay, day one. I bought a Zelda. I also had one to switch Got snipper clips the next day and I also have just dance 2017 Mostly because I wanted to test out more accuracy with the motion controls plus just dance is just a fun game I like dancing. It's kind of one of the ways I work out and I I'm pretty impressed to be honest. I know some people have had issues As an example, I know that some people have had the dock scratch their screen And it does appear that the screen itself is plastic With an LCD underneath it so instead of having a glass cover over the LCD panel, it's actually plastic Which means that a hardness of two or whatever it scratches, which is very easy to scratch It means you could scratch it with your fingernail It can obviously scratch with the plastic on the dock That is why I have a glass. I don't know if you can tell I have a glass screen protector on my switch And that's one reason why because it doesn't have glass. It's plastic So I wanted a piece of glass over it Besides that issue. I have not had the joycon desyncing issues I do have two sets of joycon So I want to do like a test later where I go over You know are one set of joycons better than the other like the set that came with the system I got the black joy cons or I'm sorry the gray joy cons Are they better than the separate set I got with the blue joy cons? There's their signal differences in the exact same situation whether it be in my office or on a TV in another room Or I'm away from you know in my office. I have tons of electronics, but in other rooms. I don't So just kind of gauging that and seeing if their signal interference closer to the router further away from the router, etc But I'm very impressed by this system Not just because of Breath of the Wild obviously Breath of the Wild is what it is We are working on a review of Breath of the Wild now I can't tell you when this review is actually going to come because Breath of the Wild is a game. I think is best played Without rushing your way through it, right? So even if we had gotten a review copy of the game, which we did our copy of Breath of the Wild is fully purchased Special edition right here fully purchased out of my own pocket It it's something that I want to take some time with I have an idea of what the score is going to be but Again scores are not the only way you should really judge a game Context matters and right now I want to get full context of this game full disclosure I have not even beaten the full story mode yet. I spent a ton of time exploring. I'm a couple dungeons in got some nice stuff I can also tell you that our review Isn't going to be concerning itself with spoilers So that means there might be spoilers in the review. I can't tell you for sure. I've only written part of it I'm not making a conscious effort to include spoilers But I'm not going to make a conscious effort to leave them out I know a lot of other review outlets have gone through the way to make sure there were no spoilers in it But since my review is coming much later after the game comes out might be a month after I feel like we've kind of reached a point where everything's gonna be known about the game anyways So there's no point for me to concern myself with spoilers So I will obviously put a proper warning in the literal review if that comes to pass And it's gonna be a video review and it's gonna be technically the very first video review we've ever done at Nintendo Prime one of the very first reviews we've ever done and There's gonna be also an editorial version of this review on the website at Nintendo prime net So you can obviously go read it if you don't have time to watch it But that's not all we're gonna be reviewing As I said, I have snipper clips. I want to get a video review in for that The only reason that hasn't happened yet is because my fine primary focus is breath of the wild now getting back to the switch itself You see Obviously, I played a lot of breath of the wild place. I'm just dance played one two switch played snipper clips played it in a variety of situations All right, I've done live streams. I've done just it docked playing on my TV I have taken it to my other job where I'm an after-school teacher and played one two switch and just dance And snipper clips with a whole group of people so I kind of can I get the idea of what it's like in a party situation? I got an idea what it's like to play with children be that my own children or children at my work And obviously I've gotten you know snipper clips I actually got to play for the first time with my girlfriend and Got to see what it's like in a couple situation You know is it a kind of game that as couples you want to play Is one to switch a kind of game that you really want to have at a party or is it something that you just kind of Want to do casually on the side We'll have a review of all four of those games be a just dance 2017 Want to switch snipper clips and breath of the wild those are what what we have coming up in the next month or two for reviews But the switch itself is a very impressive system in that It doesn't really over promise what it's supposed to do. It just does it and does it well from my perspective now I will say that If you buy the switch and you do not buy a pro controller, you're gonna think the controls are just fine You know, I personally get a little small for my hands, but overall I've had no problem if I take off this joycon I have had no problems playing in sideways. Well, you know using the shoulder buttons up here when I slide on I'll do it right now When I slide on one of these bad boys I Have had Not that much of an issue and some people made a big issue about taking these off Now I'm having an issue putting it out. Just gotta line it up right all right So some people have had issues with taking these off. I haven't such to give you an example unlock it Hold it like this against my body press the button pull It really wasn't that hard And I don't want and I don't want to be like oh over time. It's gotten easier It actually has just been that easy for me the whole time I think the reason that taking these off has become like this issue is because they're small and Unlike when you take it off the switch which does feel smoother The difference taking it off the switch is that you have this giant unit you're holding on to That's a lot more sturdy when you pull it off Okay, when you put it on To these It's hard when you unlock it and you go to pull it's hard because there's not a lot of heft here There's not a lot of in like angles like when you notice when you pull it off the switch. Where am I holding? I'm holding over here. I'm not holding right up next to the joy con So I think that's where the difficulty came from. That's why I have found put it against the body Well and pull up that I mean, it's not that difficult So you just kind of know that leverage that you have when you have it with the system that you don't otherwise So I don't actually think there's a design flaw with these at all I will say putting these on does make the controller more comfortable What be it in one-two switch? With the milking game be it playing sideways like I actually thought that this was gonna be a cramped kind of setup And it looks cramped, but after doing it for several hours at a time It's not bad I'm actually surprised at how playable this setup really is. I have had literally no issue playing this way for hours at a time So it might look weird. It might feel weird even without you know, even if you take this off Oh, that's locked. See you gotta make sure it's unlocked first Drop the joy con All right, so Even in even like this which I made sure I also did especially with snipper clips played for a few hours this way Never had my hand hurt never felt cramped. It was surprisingly. It's just it's just so awkward It feels awkward holding it, but it never actually Like felt weird over time if that makes sense Um Switch isn't perfect. I'll never pretend that any system is perfect no matter how big a fan of it I am I can safely tell you that Nintendo switch is probably my favorite Nintendo system Probably since maybe the GameCube Arguably since the Super Nintendo and I say that because it's simple. It just works You put in a game cartridge and you get to play the game. There's no installs. There's no downloading There's no wait time load times are really really fast I have two games digitally two games physically physically. I breathed a while physical and want you to switch physical I'll add snipper clips and just dance Both digital. No, I do not have an SD card. So You know, I'm probably have to look into an SD card if I want to do some more digital games but overall I've been really really impressed with the system the UI is very slick and I don't really have a lot of complaints outside of the fact that the I Online's functionality isn't fully there. It's also really weird that the The play activity log is really really weird So I had some people tell me that the play activity log I'll like we even reported it unlocks after a week. Well on my system I first played Breath of the Wild eight days ago as of this recording and there's no play time So I don't really know what you have to do to unlock that play time and several people have said it just showed up They didn't do anything. There's no setting for it. So I'm a little confused I also that like it is supposed to have your last 20 games I think that's even what it says here and the information says. Yes, it'll display up to 20 titles Okay, notice how on my list. I don't know how well this shows up in camera I have Breath of the Wild just dance snipper clips. Where's one to switch? I just played it yesterday so There's little issues like that all throughout the system or like the play activity log doesn't seem to be perfect Which is why you might notice I still have the parental thing on because I'm tracking my play hours through that So it's just a lot of a lot of little things but in general everything is really snappy I know some people are disappointed that it doesn't have like the cool menu music like on Wii and Wii U and DS and 3DS I don't really care. I don't think I ever bought those systems thinking man I should have some sick menu music. It's not really my cup of tea I just want to get the games as fast as I can right now. This is probably the fastest I've gotten the games Maybe since the Super Nintendo era. I say that because the NES era you always had a blow in the cartridge Everyone knows the pain of that if you grew up in the 80s So yeah, it's I'm I'm pretty thrilled overall with this system I don't have a lot a lot of negatives to say about it It has been fantastic playing in all figure configurations be it in table mode You know with the kickstand out. I will say the kickstand is a little bit You kind of have a little bit of a fingernail to get it out But I popped it off a couple times it snaps right back on super easy I had no issue playing a tabletop mode no issue playing the joycon sideways the screen quality Seems for up to snuff like if you didn't tell me it was a 720p screen I probably wouldn't know that it's 720p over here. I have an iPhone 6s plus This is what I do a lot of my recording with and it's like I think it's a 1080p screen Maybe it's a 4k screen because it records in 4k. I don't know off the top my head But I know it's higher than 720 and honestly like when I put them side by side. I couldn't tell you the difference to be honest That's what's so amazing about the screen. It's definitely a high-quality screen even with it being a plastic Plastic film they put over the top instead of glass obviously that was a cost-saving measure And maybe that's why people are experiencing scratches in the dock Then obviously I've been experienced because I've had to cover on it since day one first was I first I had a plastic film screen from Hori, which even the they're cheap one and the professional one They're both terrible. Just just go on Amazon get an unofficial Glass tempered glass one.  I can't remember Feels fantastic feels just like my phone. I'm pretty happy with it. So What I want to know is your guys's reaction to the switch Do you own one if you do do you have any concerns other if you run into issues? Have you has your left joycon, you know, I haven't taken that off here yet Is that left joycon desynced for you? And what have you bought?  I'm curious, you know, what are your guys's reaction to the switch because? I've had a wholly positive experience and I'm actually curious for anyone who's had a negative experience Because I want to have a conversation I want to open the floor up come back to this in a new video where I go over some of the concerns some people have Or some issues or maybe you have some testing you guys want me to do with the switch Maybe you want me to do distance testing with the left joycon. Uh, just let me know in the comments below What you would like to know about the switch if I didn't go over it or what concerns you have or what issues you've had With your own switch Otherwise, thanks for tuning in to the Nintendo Prime. Hope you enjoyed this quick video. Have a good day


I took the first overview of the photographs to look what is here, what can I maybe find out or what will come for the next weeks or you never know it before. That's the important thing to look on original artworks and then I saw things I never expected. Robert Tumble McPherson was a Scottish photographer. In an obituary in the newspaper The Scotsman he was called the father of photography of the eternal city and that means something to name someone like this. Robert McPherson started as a support painter and he was moving to Rome in 1840 and working still as a painter until 1845. Then he worked as an art dealer. How to understand the technique Robert McPherson used when he took his photographs? It is important to be in Rome, look on the places, look which point of views did he use. Can I see or can I find the point of view he used? Today it is more difficult to find this because it is 170 years later. But that's the thing when you are standing there then you can look when you take a picture today up. It isn't possible from this point of view so he must be standing somewhere else. So it is important to go on the side, to look there, to be there, to try to think how Robert McPherson did his picture, to come in his mind. And that's also the reason why I'll use for this an old, old large camera. The reason why I'm here in the British School of Rome is that they have here in the archive one of the best collections of photographs of Robert McPherson. I found that there are pencil traces, marks of some clamps and so the most astonishing thing was that I found a fingerprint of Robert McPherson. When you enlarge this part of the photograph you can see that it's not only in the print. The fingerprint is on the glass negative and was printed then on the print and now you can see it very clearly. So that's important to look at originally.


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