UX stands for user experience. This is how a user, who is a person like you or me, interacts and feels about a product that you make. Every company in the world wants people to use the product that they're great, and as a UX designer, it's your job to make something that's simple to use, solve a clear problem, and put the end user at the centre of the design process. UI stands for user interface. User interfaces are what you interact with on a day to day basis. We all know them, we all use them. Everything you see on a computer screen is a user interface. It's the presentation layer to the application. I've seen a large shift over the past 10 years towards what's known as design systems or design languages. A design system is simply just a collection of components that are used to build websites. The goal is re-usability. Accessibility means what you design and develop is usable to all people, regardless of disability type or impairment. A great example of accessibility being used in real life is the London Underground. If you go on over to their website, you can download an accessible version of their tube map, and instead of colours being the different lines, there's actual textures on here so there might be some dashes or dots, and it really helps people with visual impairments tell the difference. UX design process is also known as the user-centred design process, UCD, and is essentially how you make a great digital product. The UCD is split up into four stages, and it's all about understanding the problem you're trying to solve and testing with actual users along the way. The first step in the UCD is research. This is where you really understand the problem that you're trying to solve and who you're solving the problem for. There are lots of different UX techniques that you can use to understand your users. Creating personas allows you and the team to keep the user at the centre of the design process. Personas are the answer to the question, who are we designing for? Personas are not just made up out of thin air, they're created by research and information about your audience and summarising it in the creation of one or more persona sheets. UX tasks, such as user interviews and surveys, can help with research for persona creating and give you some valuable insights you can use during the design process. Your main task during the research phase is to develop a realistic vision of your user. These insights enable you and the team to create user-friendly products based on real-life feedback. The next step in the UCD process is the design phase. This is where you're going to get down on paper an initial design for the project you're working on. The quickest way to get started is to use pen and paper. I normally have a kick-off meeting with designers and other team members to sketch out some initial ideas. The level of detail you need to go into is very low. Don't be afraid to draw boxes and scribble lines for text. The idea is to see the big picture. Small details can come later. Over the years I've found it better to get collaborating early on in the project and make others feel like they're part of the design process. When working on paper it's much easier to throw away and make changes. Once you have an idea of what you're going to create the next step is a basic prototype. The goal should be to have something usable and test it early on with potential users. Having a workable prototype early on is also a great thing to show stakeholders within the business to make sure that you're on the right track. There are a few really good tools that you can use to create prototypes and in the next section we're going to discuss them in detail. The next step is testing and this is vital. The difference between the first design of your product and what makes it into the world can sometimes be night and day and this is all down to user feedback. Just imagine your first design is a draft and then once you start showing it to people and getting feedback this will change. There are a lot of different techniques for gathering feedback on your design. If you work for a large company you may have in-house testing facilities. Normally there will be someone from the business who has a list of tasks for the user to perform. This can be quite eye-opening as you get to see how your design performs in real life and assume it becomes obvious where the problems are. If you want to do some testing online there are plenty of places to go to. I'll mention these tools in the next section. All you need to focus on is that once you have a design the goal is to keep improving based on user feedback. This feedback will be invaluable and can be a little heartbreaking too if I'm telling the truth when someone sees your design and they're shown to be unusable. The next step after you have incorporated all of this feedback into your design is the development process. Your design will be broken down into small pieces and every little detail discussed as a team and documented ready for development. A lot of people ask do you need to know code to be a UX designer? You may get a lot of different answers but from my experience you don't. Personally I know the basics of HTML and CSS and that's about it. As a junior designer you don't need to know code as this is actually a different job. In every place I've worked as part of the team there are actual front-end developers who specialize in this. A front-end developer will take your design and make it come to life. They will put it together in code for whatever type of product you're working on. If you're designing a website then this will be HTML, CSS and JavaScript. If you're designing an app then this will be different. There may also be Java developers which can be confusing because Java and JavaScript sound the same but they're actually two entirely different code languages. Many tools I've built have had multiple front-end and Java developers working together over many months to create. This is why I believe you don't need to know code. It might be nice to know but it certainly isn't necessary. Once your product has been developed and launched to the world there's still one more thing to look at and that's analytics. When you create a website for example there's a tiny bit of code that you get from Google that you can put on your website and this tracks all the interactions. This is so useful as a designer to see how things are going. You can see things like how many people visited your site, where they clicked, where they came from, how long they spent on each page and find out where they leave the site from. Now is the time to collect all of this data and package it together ready for improvement's favour on. As a designer this is really fun and interesting and it's a step not to be forgotten. The user-centered design process is a loop. All of your analytics can now go back into the research phase to discover new problems and things that can be improved on your site. You can keep making your product better and better and now have a framework to do it in. Okay now you know the basics of UX and what a designer does day to day. Next is the part you've been waiting for. Let's get you up and running with the best design tools. In this section we're going to look at some of the best tools for UX designers on the market. There are hundreds of tools out there so I'm only going to talk about the ones which I've personally used. The great thing about most of them is the free or they offer a free trial and you can get up and running quickly. Let's start with my favourite design tool, Figma. Head on over to figment.com and sign up today. The best thing is for you that it's 100% free. Figma is used mainly for UI designs, designing websites and apps. I use Figma for all of my design work and prototypes. Prototyping is built into the tool itself and is really easy to learn. If I'm designing a website I'll put together a detailed prototype of all the pages in Figma and share this with the rest of the team to get feedback. Figma produces a shareable URL for the prototype. This doesn't share any of the design assets, just the clickable prototype. When you work as a UX designer there will normally be other designers that you work with and Figma is really good for collaboration and sharing design files. With the free version up to two designers can work on the same file at the same time and for collaboration this is great. One of the great things about Figma is that it's opened up as software to extensions in the community tab and you'll find lots of great resources. The Reven fully completed design systems to get you started. One other thing I found really useful about Figma is that you can import design files from other tools. This saves you re-creating all your artwork and it normally does a great job. I've put together some tutorials where I walk through creating a website in Figma and if you're interested the link's in the description. Adobe XD is Figma's biggest rival. You can find it over at adobe.com forward slash products forward slash XD. XD again is free for personal use and for professionals and small teams it has a small monthly cost. I've used both XD and Figma and there isn't much to choose either way they're both really good. The benefit of Adobe XD is that it's created by adobe and they have an amazing track history with design tools. You can guarantee that XD is going to keep getting updated regularly and there's going to get better over time. Within XD you can create designed prototypes and has really good integration with the other adobe tools. If you're familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator or Premiere this may be the best for you. There really is no industry standard UI prototyping tool and it's up to you and your colleagues which one works best. As a side note if you're keen to get started with either Figma or Adobe XD I have a full UX design course with plenty of example projects where we walk through and design websites in both tools over at AnthonyCombo.com. I'll mention more about this later but it's got everything you need to start designing today and some great example projects for you to work along with. Sketch is another UI design tool similar to Figma and XD. You can download a 30 day free trial over at sketch.com. Unlike XD and Figma, Sketch is Mac only and once the free trial over there is a one-time fee for the software. This is still great value and I know plenty of teams who still use Sketch. A couple of years back I used Sketch to design Barclays.co.uk and the tool was great. It was one of the pioneers for digital design tools specific for UI design. Sketch has prototyping built in and some great calibration features. The mirror mode is great where you can preview your mobile or tablet design right on your device. One of the best things about Sketch is the developer handoff where you can share your design with a single link. The developers can open this link and check it out in a browser. They can inspect elements and even export assets. This is extremely useful in a real world project environment. If you have time, check out all three and see which one works best for you. There is no right or wrong and they're all pretty similar to use. You won't have trouble using one over the other and you'll pretty soon get the hang of things. Now that you have your UI designs, it's time to test it out. Check out usability hub. This is one of my favourite online user testing platforms. You can sign up today and try it for free and see what different type of tests they offer. If you were designing something simple like a logo for example, you could set up a preference test. This is where you show multiple variations of the same design and ask a user to choose which one they prefer. It's a great way to get lots of quick feedback on something which is a straight up choice. If you have an email list then you can send out a link to the test and the feedback will normally come quite quickly. It's a really good way to provide evidence for any design decisions and base your choice on data. If you don't have an existing audience to send your test out to, usability hub have a panel of over 170,000 users that you can recruit for a dollar or a response.  Design surveys help you make confident decisions by collecting user feedback. You can ask multiple choice questions and even show your design when the question is displayed. This way you can ask the user about certain elements on your page. Another test you can run on usability hub is a first click test. This is where you ask the user to perform a task and then show them your design. Usability hub will then provide a heat map so you can see where users clicked. This is awesome to see if you've got the placement right for important elements and make sure your site is easy to navigate. You also get a breakdown of how long users took to make this click, so looking at the speed lets you know if this is an intuitive location. If you already have a website then CrazyEgg is an unbelievable tool that will help you understand how users interact with your site. For every new site I build I get CrazyEgg in store from day one. This way I can make sure the site is behaving like it should and any problems will be quickly discovered. CrazyEgg tracks user sessions as they browse your site and allow you to watch them back. It provides heat maps of where users viewed and clicked. Nothing beats watching a user interact with your product and it gives you a different viewpoint. By watching multiple sessions you will soon see a pattern of how users behave. Users may not view entire sections of your content that you may have put a lot of time to and they also may miss the main call to action on the page. By watching sessions and discovering these floors you can improve your site and repeat. Another amazing tool is A.B. testing. CrazyEgg can analyse your website and allow you to offer the users who visit your site to slide variations. A.B. testing is the survival of the fittest in the digital world. If you can generate more sales for your business by changing the colour of a button or an image choice then this is game changing. CrazyEgg handles all of this for you and you can make the changes via the interface pretty simply. At the end of the test you'll get a breakdown of which variation won. You need to define before you do the test what success is such as purchases or clicks to a certain page but this one is one of my favourites. I've put a link in the description and the guidebook to one of my favourite articles about A.B. testing. This is from the 2008 director of analytics at the Obama campaign entitled How Obama Raised 60 Million by Running a Single Experiment and It's a Great Read. It details the test they ran on Barack Obama's website for the US presidential campaign for sign-up rates and they tested two things. The wading on the button and an image. By creating a multivariant test they randomly combined these two factors and discovered that they actually performed quite differently. The winning combination helped boost sign-up rates by 40%. That's an extra 2.8 million emails and according to the article each email on average donated $21 to the campaign which translated into an additional 60 million in donations. This test could have changed history. When you apply for a job as a UX designer the most important thing is your portfolio. I want you to take away something from this section and that's the saying it's not personal it's business.  As a junior designer you don't have a wealth of experiences so your portfolio it's the digital representation of you. This is all a hiring manager will look at and most of the time it may only be for a few seconds. If you have 30 applicants you can't afford to read through every word in the portfolio it's more about the overall sense you get from it. It's obvious who has put the effort in and who hasn't just by viewing for a few seconds this is where you're going to stand out. Rather than leave this up until last minute we're going to get set up now so we can build towards something. To begin let's start with the basics you need an online portfolio. When I started I used to put my design files on a CV on a USB stick and handed out to the events. This is when USB sticks were expensive how I envy you. Now it's easier to have your portfolio on a website and keep it updated. Don't worry you don't need to know how to build a website you don't need to. There are plenty of ready-made templates and builders out there that are fantastic. For this process let's make things simple and stick to Adobe portfolio. If you already have a creative cloud account with Adobe then great it's free. If not you can sign up and publish your website for free within 60 days. I've used many different hosting platforms over the years, bought their maiden names and done everything myself plenty of times. Trust me it's a lot easier just to sign up for something like this with Adobe. Yes we're pressing other content management systems you have more control but at the end of the day it's the actual content within the portfolio not the flashy website itself that's the most important thing. If you head on over to portfolio.adobe.com and click get started for free you'll be able to preview and click a ready-made theme. The best thing is that you can change your theme anytime if you change your mind. Each one of these themes has been designed carefully by Adobe for the specific purpose of hosting your portfolio. They all work responsibly across desktop, tablet and mobile and are nice and simple. Choose the one you like and get started. You can even assign it a custom URL such as yourname.com. One reason I also like Adobe portfolio is that it combines well with Behance. If you check out Behance.net you'll find lots of design inspiration from amazing designers around the world. It's a place where you can showcase your work and discover new artists. If you already have a profile on here your work can be shared with Adobe portfolio and put straight into your website. Behance is free to sign up and another place where you should be building your online presence with your work. The reason we've set up our portfolio so early is that it should be the goal to make the best possible portfolio. Each project you make is a reward for all the hard work you've put in. All the learning you're doing needs to be documented. Your portfolio is not just a finished work, it's a living document that showcases your journey. Remember it's not personal it's business.  Your portfolio is all they see and it's up to you to show them the work you put in by making the digital representation of you as good as the real thing. Now it's time to dive right into the fun stuff with some example projects. I've found this is the best way for beginners with no experience to get started. Having an example brief and project to work with helps you structure your work. You can put as many projects as you want in your portfolio and if you head on over to antonycomboy.com I've got a full free example project that you can get started on today. What's up guys I just wanted to jump right in here. I've made the first seven days of the UX design course for free. So if you head on over to antonycomboy.com you can get started today it's totally free. See if it's for you. Try the first project out there's 17 briefs in there you can follow along with me design websites you can design them yourself there's lots of project files in there there's loads of cool stuff and we teach how to build a portfolio how to get more design experience how to get confidence loads of tips about how to get your first job in the industry antonycomboy.com head on over there there's nothing to lose like you don't pay anything for the first seven days so if it's not for you drop out but if it is for you you're going to get a world of experience you're going to feel great at the end of it and you might even start a new career so I'll let you get back to the video but head on over there now sign up head there after the video and let's get started. In the series of videos I go through how you would research similar competition break down and have to structure a website there's an example of a user persona a flow diagram that you can also download these are both part of the UX design process and something that comes in useful when you take on a real world project when you follow along you can create your own version of this project and use it in your portfolio here's a quick preview of the website that we create together if you have a go at creating this website then feel free to drop your prototype link in the comments for others to see I've always found it harder for beginners to restart from scratch and example projects are the best way to start. In this step we're going to look at how to present your work and make sure that you stand out when applying for a job. This is where a lot of designers don't do themselves justice and being honest I'm definitely including myself in this when you apply for a job you need a portfolio that represents you to the best of your ability and it's easy to forget or just rush at the end of every project or piece of work that you do it's important to write a short case study this is why we set your portfolio before doing any work we're going to create this as we go along a lot of the time you may be tempted to just put in a picture of the finished designs into your portfolio or a link to your prototype when applying for jobs a case study done well is simply a documentation of the process you've gone through to come up with the design this includes problems that you're trying to solve sketches you've made wireframes and early initial ideas include any details of any problems you've solved along the way this is really good in the description I've dropped a link to a great medium article called six case studies done right this shows six really good examples of how to do this and structure it well don't be embarrassed to include versions of work that didn't work out this is all about telling a story your persona and user flow diagram that you created in the last step should go in here along with the design work it's really important when applying for a UX design role that you show more than just UI design skills UX as a skill set has loads of other deliverables that you could include in addition to your designs UX planet has a great article called a complete list of UX deliverables by Nick Babich that shows you all the other examples such as mood boards analytics and usability reports not every task is right for your project but it's better to show some other deliverables to make you stand out from everyone else the key thing here is to show a journey and tell a story you will have learned things along the way in every project take time in your writing to use gremlin.com to make sure that your spelling punctuation and tone are all in check this is a wonderful tool that I'm actually using free right now to do this script you certainly don't want to spoil your great work with spelling mistakes and I can't count the amount of times that I've done this personally over the years another great place to host your write-up is on behance.net this is perfect to share your work with the design community and find lots of inspiration a lot of designers write up their project on here and you will see some good examples of how to structure them it's really important to always see what other designers are doing and some of the best in the world are on behance you might even make some new friends and get some feedback on your work it's always cool to check what the community is doing as well when presenting your work you can actually use a video it's not something I've seen many designers using to the full capacity I'd rather watch a video than reading something and that's just being honest your phone probably has a decent video camera and for writing up you could always do a short video talking about the project don't worry about production quality I've spent loads of money on a fancy studio and most of my successful videos were either me filmed outside on my phone or a presentation made an eye movie like this with simple words on a screen if I were to see a video of a designer talking about the work it would make me more inclined to call you for an interview I don't know why it just feels more personable you can of course still write up your work but a short video of you talking about something goes a long way this is a step that almost all designers neglect you need to present yourself to the world so that others know you exist you are a brand and it's time the world knew about you this is something that you can work on throughout your career but let's get started right now everything you do in this step is extra and will help you stand out when applying for a job the first thing to do is sign up for a LinkedIn account this is a hundred percent free and LinkedIn is a professional networking platform although I started out as an online resume it's much more than that and has grown in the last five years it's positioned itself as a social media network for professionals and it's a great opportunity for you there's a real lack of quality content on LinkedIn and any post that you make has the opportunity to reach thousands of important people in the business world just doing a simple search for head of UX can pull up hundreds of names and add people to your network if they accept you will see future posts from them don't be shy here the goal is networking we'll talk more about this in the next step finding a job but just know for now LinkedIn is your most powerful tool for being part of this design community whenever you create a new project in your portfolio feel free to stand out a status update to LinkedIn share something you learn there's an update or write an article from time to time the key thing to remember is that nobody knows you exist until you produce something this isn't personal it's just the truth in the digital world there are other social media platforms for you to share your work but the most important ones are Behance, LinkedIn and YouTube I mention in YouTube because there's lots of potential here the key is to share something that others find useful don't make it all about yourself the best way to learn is to teach so if there's something cool that you learned in Figma or Adobe XD then make a short video and poster you can share videos on LinkedIn and YouTube and remember these are evergreen and live forever and people will be finding these in years to come so for now stop building up a body of work for each project you create remember to document it in written and video format and share it even spending half an hour a week your soon grow up a library of content that you can grow throughout your career in the next and final step we're going to see finally how you can break into the industry and get that first job this is my favorite step of all and it's the hardest if you've put in the hard work to learn the basics create a portfolio that's got some sample projects in it have an active LinkedIn account then it's time you made the next step here's the secret get your foot in the door before you even have a job my first job was with Wired magazine in the UK and there's pretty much a zero percent chance that I would have got that job by applying on the website or through a job board as a junior designer your biggest asset is you and your work ethic to compete with thousands of other designers on paper is pretty much impossible and unfortunately this is where most people give up not you not today in the UK we have work experience which is an internship in most of the world and it's where you volunteer at the company for a few weeks to get some experience before I got my first job at Wired I was lucky enough to have already interned the Vogue magazine GQ and Ferrari all in the same building the only thing I was paid for was lunch money and tube fare I stayed in a hotel until I ran out of money and then into a hostel I traveled to London every summer from Liverpool for three years and made as many connections as I could I only found out about the job in Wired because I'd arranged to actually intern there and the first day I arrived they needed a full-time junior designer I was given the role because I was already in the building this is how the business world works a lot of the time it's who you know not what you know unfortunately the great news for you is that it's never been so easy to make connections from home on LinkedIn you can send out messages to UX designers from across the world all you need to do is a quick search for UX designer filtered by people and location and then hit connect you can personalize your invitation to connect with a message and it's something I suggest you always do try searching for head of UX and send a few nice carefully written messages with a LinkedIn portfolio and ask if there are any intern programs available this is all about putting in the work not being put off by a rejection and a slice of luck along the way if you try enough people then eventually this may lead to an opening from there once you're inside the company then it's time to put in the work network and find out how to get a junior role by asking people in the company this work for me and I've seen it work for others too I also know how hard it is to get a junior role and how tough it is getting rejected by company after company looking for experience my only answer to this is make them an offer they can't refuse take all the friction out the hiring process and get your foot in the door before you even have a job if you want to become a UX designer but you're not sure where to start and you feel like this video has kind of got you in the mood to learn some more then again try it out head on over to AntonyComboy.com there's a full UX design certification on there the 17 projects which we do together we download the programs I show you where to get images I show you how to write a brief how to understand projects how to work in a team we build a portfolio together you don't even need to know HTML, CSS, we use the builders that are there already we put the projects into the portfolio actually how to write them up then I'll teach you loads of inside information about how to get a job at the end of it I'll give you lots of tips that I've learned along the way I've been in the industry for 15 years I've been on both sides of the interview table so we know what I'm looking for in a designer and I know what you want to show to a hiring manager we learn all of this in the course the first seven days are totally free so head on over there you can cancel anytime try it out and I know that the course is so good that you're not you're not going to 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NBA 2k21 next gen continues to make history some of the worst ways imaginable and at the same note There's some updates for current gen as of last week and for next gen as of today fellow so there's a lot of news to talk about and Trust me I'm about to get heated because I've been hopped back into 2k21 next gen because I'm not gonna lie I took a break and as I've been playing it's just been so frustrating this small Significant details that 2k has missed with this year's game. We're gonna jump into all of it fellas. First of all Subscribe Let's not wait any further. Let's go first things first rival date didn't start I know some y'all like Asian we talking about let me explain rival day was supposed to be like the big Park event that everyone's supposed to be excited to play because they brought it back I mean they used to have it and people loved it in 2k16 and all of that But it seems as though 2k is just doing away with a lot of the ideas that they first began 2k21 next gen with Ronnie 2k put out this post on Twitter last week saying this our mayors are getting another term after their work with Make a wish on the showdown. I felt as though they have more value to provide in their terms So we're doubling the term he didn't follow to say rival weekend goes on this weekend as usual That's important. Keep that in mind turns out. It's time for rival day. He was hopping on. They're excited to play rival day There's a lot of stakes even though we just found out the mayors is gonna keep their terms this year Well rival day. Well, it just didn't start badge plug put out a tweet saying 2k forgot to start rival day Next gen is finished dignify says heard they didn't even start rival day on next gen with a crying laughing emoji Solo put out a tweet saying nah, bro. There's no way 2k forgot to start rival day as to make matters worse I can't tell if Ronnie is just oblivious or he did this on purpose But he put out a tweet saying rival weekend is lit dignify quote tweeted it saying there is no way Power replied saying it's not working. Is this a joke? And so for hours people were just waiting for this park event that 2k has been gassing up pre-launch and post-launch and throughout the course The NBA 2k 21 next gen nothing until Ronnie decided to put out this tweet on Twitter saying per our dev team Rival weekend has been postponed until next weekend Which kind of just sounds like they forgot about the event because a moment ago It was right on schedule, but now it's being delayed and we didn't find out until it was after hours But that's besides the point at least we know for now that rival weekend is next weekend instead of this There was a little drama in the NBA 2k league verse. I want to discuss quickly I'm not gonna get too deep into it because most of you guys probably don't watch the league But this one's pretty interesting trust me So there was a NBA 2k league draft the league all the try hard 2k players they come into this league They play professionally they get paid to play 2k professionally that it was one player in draft that everyone just kind of Expected to be taken one because he's popular and he's a streamer on twitch and he mainly streams NBA 2k content But two because he was also really good at the game But they were baffled to find that even though there was 60 picks in this year's draft He didn't get chosen. It was a oh, there was a What's the word for it a fallout on Twitter?  We know you're the damn best Fanta decided to break his silence after the drafts He posted this on Twitter saying you tell people they need talent and market ability to make the league I have both at the highest level and I'm seeing people pick friends MF's don't want to win Tell me how I'm supposed to stay professional after what I just watched And this is not the first instance of players feeling like they got cheated at the draft I mean last year Dirk who was a commentator for the league and one of the best centers in the draft Did not get chosen which broke my heart because I love dirt but it's whatever dirt conveniently though replied to Fanta saying Wasn't the same position as you a year ago. It's super frustrating But look at this as an opportunity to just keep grinding your stream and growing your personal brand Always next year if you want to go at it again keep doing you man an OG in the 2k community D man said on Twitter I was upset last night from my folks that didn't get drafted But there were only 60 something spots so someone was getting left out regardless.  I make a joke about it Anyway besides the point for the next story. There's been an update So interestingly enough current gen got the spring NBA 2k update over a week before next gen got it I'm gonna get into this in a moment, but I genuinely feel as though this is my theory now NBA 2k 21 next gen released because people already bought current gen and most of the people couldn't just afford to get next gen I genuinely believe that not many people have bought the next gen version of the game and therefore a 2k Doesn't feel incentivized to continue updating the next gen version of the game I mean current gen got the update on March 10th, but next gen got it on March 17 So while it is possible that maybe Sony and Microsoft just took longer to approve the patches on next gen It also just feels like current gen is getting a lot more support because current gen has more players playing it Besides that though once you click on the patch notes and this one here is for next gen It doesn't sound like they did much of anything I mean most of the patch notes is just updates They've made to player likeness or significant facial animation updates Which probably just means that the people that do the graphics got an opportunity in all-star weekend to just like take face Scans of different players that look bad in the game and update their faces the city has received an all-new spring update to help Bring in the warmer months. This is gonna be going live starting Thursday with days of today Wednesday So it's not live yet, but aside from that It's just small updates to playbooks and dark matter cards and more my team and performance issues to the overall Experience just vague stuff So if you're a park player both the current gen and the next gen version of the game just dropped updates that are largely Insignificant to you except there's a spring update now. So there's gonna be no more snow in the city I'll say this it does feel good to have a form of update because the developers have been ghosts I mean Ronnie 2k is active and on the my team side. They're promoting a lot of the events and things They just dropped some like dark matter Tournament challenge on Twitter. So there's things going on in the NBA 2k verse But they don't have to do with gameplay one in the city too I'm trying to think why is 2k not putting a decent amount of support for the next gen version of the game? Considering how broken it is. I just got the chance over the last three four days I have been playing 2k 21 next-gen after taking a pretty long break and it is baffling How much small things are broken in the game that just haven't been fixed and then to think that updates are Dropping and for some reason none of the things that are broken in the game are being addressed to me Is mind-blowing that says to me there's a severe lack of support Why would you not support the most recent and updated version of the game likely because not many people are playing it? And so current gen is the one seeing a majority in the boatload of updates Which is a shame especially for the people that bought a next-gen system and then 2k 21 all over again on next-gen And the only silver lining I could think of is 2k 22 better not be asked cheeks on launch Because if you're taking everybody's attention away from current gen and it's specifically next gen to focus on the next-gen version of The game considering that the next-gen version dropped in November and they have to release another version of the game Not they have to they want to and they've kind of forced themselves to every single year That better be a perfect launch because the launch of mba 2k 21 next-gen was largely unacceptable And for a lot of big reasons that everybody knows but also for small reasons as I've been playing 2k 21 next-gen I've just been frustrated with the experience I've been on prime largely and it's everything the latency is just out of control It is some of the worst I've seen probably worse than I am remember experiencing on 2k 17 Which was brutal for some reason when you're in the prime arena and you're just shooting around you can't change Animations or badges so you have to leave and then come back But then once you leave and come back sometimes your whole team has to leave and come back or you guys just end up in Different courts. There's no person to just pass you the ball So for some reason you're just rebounding your own shots and it kind of gets in the way if you put enough buckets But when you leave the prime arena you have to wait for your name to pop up in the city before you hop back in or else It just won't let you load it'll tell you there's a server error And when you're in the city regardless of whether or not you've participated in a park event It'll still give you a graphic saying thank you for playing anti-up Thank you for playing this park event that I didn't play the list is long ladies and gentlemen of small things that just Impede my ability to smile while I'm playing because I can't do it in the prime arena I leave the prime arena to change my jump shot in the jump shot crater But even though 2k was boasting these incredibly fast load times I have to wait sometimes Minutes for my jump shot crater to load up which is worse than it was in 2k 18 Which had some of the worst loading screens in 2k history talking about loading screens There is a Zion F***ing loading screen that will never end and the solution is to delete your game in your save data And then redownload the game But when you do that if you have four or five players now when you load up my career all of those players are gonna be Unnamed so you have to spend time loading in each of those players just so it shows you the text saying that this is your play shot This is your sharp This is your two-way and even when you get in the program arena It tells you about some league night feature that they quit doing they continuously update you about a thing that no Longer exists in the video game how how are this many things in the game wrong and these are the small things I'm naming we all know about the large things I read the comments on all of these videos and I remember I dropped a video talking about some quality of life updates The NBA 2k needs to make and some guy in the comments was like there's so many issues in the game And you're focusing on these ones it's like guys you've seen me talk about the big issues time and time again You know what also helps you enjoy the quality experience of gaming online ladies and gentlemen quality of life fixes Small things the things that actually don't take too long for 2k to fix but for some reason they still haven't fixed and it's Becoming very apparent to me that 2k took no advantage of next-gen technology. It doesn't feel like it at all fellas I mean the load times for the jump shot crater and the Zion loading screen are absolutely Proposterously atrocious, but that's not the case for everybody sometimes a jump shot crater loads up quick And some people don't have the Zion issue when they're loading up the game true The whole experience just feels like largely unresponsive people still lag out of games Regularly even though it's not an internet issue the latency when you're playing I swear has to be over 300 milliseconds. It is horribly atrocious and Genuinely brutal to play on but on a positive note NBA 2k made this a point when the game launched and they had a server cap of 100 in the city when you scroll through your phone now You could see like 500 names in there and when you when you skateboard around the city and you're doing your thing You see people populate it and every time you pull up to a different affiliation area and burrow You can see people playing in that burrow that was not the case at launch So servers have improved I guess in that department But an improvement from two frames per second and a 100 server cap on a massive city and the more I've been playing pro-am the last few days the more I've realized that the changes that 2k attempted to make on the Gameplay side of things backfired. Although the gameplay does feel Better than current gen it immediately you forget how good it feels the second Someone drives in the lane and performs their 19th contact dunk of the game It almost feels like defense in the game is useless you can contest somebody But if you're on the side of them it does not count because Hall of Fame blinders is overpowered So even though blinders saw nerf and contact dunks saw nerf you still see an obsessive amount of them They still overwhelmingly Mediate the way that the game is played in a way that takes away from the enjoyment again You hear me saying it a lot in this video It's a lot of things that just take away from the enjoyment and if 2k 21 next gen didn't sell well enough for 2k to put a Priority on it then it seems like these are just issues that you're gonna have to live with and if you guys remember in 2k 18 Which in my opinion is still the worst 2k of all time when I was playing 2k 18 that year man I went to pro-am and I seek refuge with pro-am and pro-am.  So I was like, maybe I could do that with next gen 2k 21 And as I hop on it's like how did the game mode that barely sees improvements go the opposite direction? It has gotten worse the league night feature doesn't work You can't change animations and jump shots in the prime arena. The latency is genuinely worse There's just a lot of features in it like for some reason when you sit at the hash Your your release is different than when you stand at the three point line And it's like why does that exist and the whole experience is just straight contact dunks The meta in the game is dog. It's like three big man that shoot That's the meta in the game and everybody has those six foot seven power forwards So even though the build system is supposed to give us the flexibility we want So people using a lot of the same builds you don't see a lot of variation But that being said 2k 18 was just snatchbacks and blowbys and it's not that the meta in that game was all that great That's true too. So for what it's worth I am hopping back on 2k 21 next gen And I'm trying to have fun playing and I just kept getting taken away from the experience I've been playing a lot of private matches don't want prime because I heard the ranked experience was horrible And I'm not lying to you. I have more fun on prime than I have I've had in the city So I'm going to continue to stick playing with prime Although I am going to try current gen to see what that experience is like But 2k if you made it to this part of the video, please pay attention because I genuinely think this could save the game Now I have mentioned a lot of small quality of life issues here in this video I mentioned some big issues like how garbage the servers are 2k I I'm dead ass if you guys are just gonna abandon the game If that's gonna be what's gonna happen and we're just gonna have to wait till 2k 21 next gen There's gonna be zero communication. Just do this one thing and don't tell me it's not possible Plenty of developers have done it. You don't have to make no other changes if you're gonna abandon the game Just put proximity chat in there. I swear. That's all you have to do People will come flooding back to play this video game that you guys have abandoned It will be like super smash bros melee the community is gonna come in Drones to play this brand new experience because that's what it's gonna feel like 2k is busy creating like a city and park events And while that does add to the aesthetic and give you something new to look at very relevant, right? We don't want the same same parks and cities. We don't want that What people are asking for when they ask for something new is a new Experience 2k and if you haven't learned from me sitting here and batting it over and over and over again Proximity chat will give 2k players that have been waiting for something new because you've been rehashing a lot of the same game modes and rewards when you level up and Experiences something new I'm telling you bro. If they are gonna abandon the game Just get one developer to work on proximity chat add it into the game as a test just to see before 2k 22 Just to see let's just see, huh? And also give people a reporting feature for people who abuse it and a mute all feature Just like a button people can click on their controller when they don't want to deal with it Don't make it hard for people to mute it if they don't want to experience it That way the people that want that new experience can have it and the people that play 2k to just be by themselves In the neighborhood and be a random they could do that too. Oh in that case everybody wins 2k You get to focus on the next version of the game We get something new to deal with and at the same time this is a win-win all around fellas That's it for the news click on this video I paid celebrities to tell 2k to say the things I wanted 2k to accomplish in their game It was a funny video not many people watched it So go check it out if you missed it and i'm gonna catch you guys in the next video. I'm out peace


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Folks, I don't know about you, but I can't take this alternate reality gaslighting anymore. I cannot even believe that this is happening in America right now. Our media, as Americans, we're supposed to be able to trust it for news and information. But it's utterly corrupt and it's waging a war on the sanity of this country. As much as it pains me to sit through this segment, it's important that we address these lies. So let's just get it over with. You know, I know there's a lot that come to our viewers in the news and sometimes crazy things the president says, but I want to highlight what you just said about the president inciting domestic terrorism. In 15 days people, well, many people are already casting their votes, but Americans have to decide who the next president is going to be. If President Trump is re-elected, is the threat of domestic terrorism greater as a result of the president's response, his rhetoric, his refusal to accept your recommendations at DHS? What is this former Obama administration official talking about? What domestic terrorism? Since before the election, it's been left-wingers using violence against Trump supporters. As I like to often remind people because the media just buried the story never to be talked about again, the mayor of San Jose actually encouraged people to attack Trump supporters. And guess what? That's exactly what happened. And not only did he encourage it, but he ordered his police officers to let it happen, which is exactly why the city of San Jose got sued. Isn't that a form of domestic terrorism? It really bugs me that I have to constantly repeat myself because of the media's attempts to erase inconvenient history, but let's remember it was a Democrat voter that opened up on a Republican baseball game and almost assassinated half of the GOP Senate. What was missing from that event? Oh right, the media asking who incited that violence. And you know why? Because they're the ones who incited it. Just like they, along with Democrats, actually incited Antifa chuds to attack an ICE facility after they were told that they were concentration camps. CNN actually did several promotional segments of the group that was behind those attacks. And what about all the violence that we've seen from the left over the last five months? How many Trump supporters have been murdered within that time? What about the residential neighborhoods and the restaurant goers that have been attacked by angry mobs who are using force to get them to accept their ideology? Or how about BLM leaders who have been threatening violence if their demands aren't met?  Three, these are all pretty clear-cut examples of the last terror campaign over the last four years. And I'm sure that I'm missing things, but the point is, this is the reality of what's happening in this country. There have been no significant right-wing domestic terror threats. Sure, there are examples like Dylan Roof, but those are few and far between, and they're definitely not reflective of anything Trump has said or done. They all seem to be pointing to Trump mocking and making fun of the Michigan governor, which as we all know, is increasingly forbidden in this free country. Sure, sure, you can mock, hate, criticize, and lie about Republicans all you want, but even criticizing a Democrat is tantamount to domestic terrorism. And it needs to be repeated over and over because the media is just ignoring it, but the guys who were arrested in this supposed plot against the Michigan governor were anti-Trump anarchists who are more closely related to Antifa. I think so, yes. I think on the other side of the election, it's going to be tense no matter what, no matter who wins. I think if you have a Biden presidency, then that tension over time can tamp down a bit. Okay, I gotta stop here because she says that when Biden wins, tensions will decrease over time. What does that even mean and what is she basing that on? Could it possibly be that tensions will decrease over time because the Democrats in their media will call off their Antifa and BLM dogs? Or could it be that the media's reporting will suddenly turn rosy and propagandize in favor of Biden and Democrats while attacking and demonizing anybody who criticizes them? Is she talking about tensions on the right? Because once again, the right isn't out there burning down buildings or gathering in mobs to attack innocent people and force them to accept our ideology. That's all happening on the left. I don't know, this almost sounds like a veiled threat that if people don't vote for Joe Biden, then the powers that be will just keep covering for their Marxist Communist foot soldiers. President Trump for four more years. He is going to continue to not condemn and add fuel to the fire of white nationalism, of anti-government extremism, QAnon, you name it. If they are willing to give him support, he's willing to support them and it's just going to continue to build this tension that we're all sensing in our country. I just can't even believe what I'm watching. Here we have a DHS official purposely lying to the American public for the purposes of gaining political power. He is going to continue to not condemn and add fuel to the fire of white nationalism, of anti-government extremism. I'm not looking for it. Would you repudiate David Duke? Sure.  Do you have any words for that? Well, I disavow. David Duke endorsed me? Okay. I disavow. Okay. When we looked at it and looked at the question, I disavowed David Duke. So I disavowed David Duke all weekend long on Facebook, on Twitter. Are you prepared right now to make a clear and unequivocal statement renouncing the support of all white supremacists? Of course I am. Of course I am. Totally disavow the Klu Klux Klan. I totally disavow David Duke. Ultimately he got to the Klu Klux Klan, which obviously I'm going to disavow. I've rejected David Duke, rejected David Duke. I've rejected the KKK, the Klu Klux Klan. David Duke is saying to his supporters and followers, vote for Donald Trump. White supremacists are saying vote. Do you want those votes? No, I don't want them and I don't want him to say it. And you don't want the supporters to say it? No, I don't want anything. What do you think of white supremacists, by the way? I don't like any group of hate. Duke announced his Senate candidacy claiming your agenda. Are you ready before you ask the question? Newt Gingrich said every Republican should repudiate this guy no matter what it takes. I did, and I do. Rebuke. Is that okay? Rebuke. Done. Do you want white supremacists to vote for you? No, I don't at all. Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists.  He is going to continue to not condemn and add fuel to the fire of white nationalism. Wrong. As we all know by now, Donald Trump has condemned white nationalists in these groups over and over and over again, going back to before the election. The guys who were arrested in this alleged plot against the Michigan governor again were anti-Trump anarchists. QAnon?  Nobody did until the media decided like two weeks ago that it was going to be the new boogeyman. It's a total red herring. Why would this former DHS official not be way more concerned about the brown shirts that are roaming in the streets every night, destroying, murdering, intimidating innocent people? Or how about the Antifa groups who have launched actual attacks on actual government facilities, groups that were promoted on the very network that you're interviewing on? I'll tell ya, it's almost more than the mind can take. And it tells me that something very sinister is going on in our government and in their state media complex.  That's all for this episode. Please hit that like button, share, and subscribe. If you want to support this channel, you can do so using one of the links in the description or the pinned comment. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.


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Alright, good morning everyone. We'll get started with our new semester. So we would be doing Galatians, Ephesians and a few of the other epistels in our course this semester. So it would be nice if we can begin with the word of prayer. Is Rosalind already logged in? If you are there, can you please pray for us? Rosalind, if you are there, if you could just say a word of prayer. Okay, maybe you are not there yet. Can we have, first John Paul, can you pray for us? And we'll start. Yes, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for this morning that you have given us as we start a new semester today. We ask for your presence to be with us. Help us to pay attention to your words and also to learn from your word together, God. Open our eyes, God, that we would be able to see the mysteries of your word. We bless this time of learning. We humble ourselves. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you. So we will begin with Galatians and we will be going all the way up to 2nd Thessalonians. Now all of these letters were written by Paul to different congregations. And so each letter that he wrote, he usually had one or two main points in mind which he wanted to cover with those specific people due to whatever issues they might have been facing at that time. So we will look at the background of each letter, you know, even as we start it and then we would go through the letters one by one. So today we are looking at the letter which Paul had written to the Galatian church. So we will start off by looking at a little bit of the background. Why did he write this letter to them? What were they going through as a congregation? What did he want to advise them about? So we will look at that background and then we will get into the actual verses. So just as in John, we will not be able to go through every single verse. We will try to cover as much as possible, you know, in our sessions. So to start off with an introduction to this epistle, the epistle is just a fancy word which basically means letter. So Paul was writing letters to these congregations because he wanted to advise them, maybe at times scold them, encourage them and build them up. So this particular letter to the Galatian believers was written quite early, just maybe around 20 years after the resurrection of Jesus. At that time, he sent this letter to the believers who have formed the church in Galatia. So when he had gone on his first missionary journey, he had visited Galatia as well. At that time, in fact, probably it was not a planned trip. The missionary journey was, of course, he covered many, many places when he went on his missionary journey. But this particular stop in Galatia was probably not a planned stop because he says, due to my illness, I came to Galatia is what he says in chapter 4. So we get to know in chapter 4 that he had some kind of eye ailment and it was probably bad enough that he could not progress in his missionary journey and he had to go to some place and rest. So God leads him to Galatia as the place where he needs to be. So the believers over there, they look after him, they take care of him, even though he has come to them with some kind of unpleasant ailment. He says, you people accepted me as though I were an angel who had come directly from God because whatever he had to convey to them, they valued what he was saying. They treated him like an angel, like a messenger directly from the Lord. They accepted his words. They never made him feel weak or small, even though he was not in a healthy condition. So they extended love and welcome towards him. So that is the kind of congregation that he is writing to. People who have loved him, people who have respected him. And so now he is giving them advice because it looks like now, certain Judaizers have come over there to Galatia and they are trying to lead the congregation into false teaching. They are saying that what Jesus did on the cross is not sufficient and you must also follow the mosaic law, you must also follow rituals, only then your salvation is complete. So these people are bringing in this kind of false teaching and so Paul is worried for them and he says, you remember the way you accepted me when I first came to you. I was not even in a healthy condition. I came to you in a weak state, but at that time, you people accepted me with so much love and you had so much respect for what I had to say as though I were an angel coming from God directly to give these words to you. So you believed in the gospel that I gave to you at that time. Now what has happened? Now why are you turning away? Now why are you listening to these Judaizers? Just because they are very powerful, influential people. So he says in his letter, don't go away from the truth which I first taught to you. So the main gist of this letter is that where he's trying to draw these Galatian believers back to the true gospel, asking them to hold on to the gospel of grace which Jesus has taught, that salvation is going to be through grace, through our dependence on him, through our dependence on the work which he did on the cross for us. Salvation is not going to be based on works which we do. We cannot earn salvation by keeping the mosaic law or by observing rituals. So he wants to remind the Galatians of this. And so this is the main crux of the entire letter that he's writing to them. Now just a little more background detail. If you were to go to Acts chapter 15, that is basically where we get to know that the early church was facing a crisis because of these Judaizers who were promoting Judaism, they were promoting the mosaic law, they were promoting all the rituals and ceremonies which had become part of the Jewish culture. So these Judaizers were promoting such things and they in fact were saying that salvation requires all of those things as well. So in Acts chapter 15, we get to know that the Gentile believers were being pressurized into adopting all of these Jewish customs and rituals. And so the Gentile believers were getting confused. They were wondering, are we truly saved through Jesus or do we need something more? Do we need even this Jewish religion as well? Only then will we go to heaven. So there was this confusion which was being caused. So in Acts chapter 15, you have the Apostles and the main leaders of that early church coming together and having a discussion. And at that time, the conclusion that they reach is that we will not pressurize the Gentile believers in any way. We will allow them to just hold on to the gospel and they don't need to observe any of the Jewish customs. Now the Jewish believers, if they want to continue following the customs, they can but they have to be aware of the fact that the salvation is not going to come from that. The salvation will be by grace alone through Jesus Christ. So this is what is decided in Acts chapter 15. So during this time is when Paul writes to the Galatian church because these false teachers in Acts chapter 15 verse 1 is where we get to know where it says that certain people went from Judea to Syrian Antioch and began to preach this wrong doctrine that the believers should also accept the Jewish rituals and you know, forsake laws. So they go to Syrian Antioch and it looks like they have already also gone to South Galatia. So this false teaching has been spreading. So keeping these things in mind, Paul writes this letter to the Galatian believers and shortly after this letter is sent to the Galatian believers, the council in Acts chapter 15 later verses 23, 24, 25, we see that the decision is taken that the Gentile believers will not be asked to follow any of the mosaic laws. So this is the background and so the Jerusalem council which is held in Acts chapter 15 that confirms what has been written by Paul in his letter to the Galatians. Whatever he has said in his letter to the Galatians, the same things are also said by the council of leaders in Acts chapter 15 confirming that yes, the gospel is just based on the work of Christ. There is no works required to earn salvation. If anyone could please read out for us Galatians chapter 1 verses 1 to 5, we can discuss them. Paul and the apostle, not from men, not through man but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead and all the brethren who are with me to the churches of Galatia grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father to whom we glory forever and ever amen. Amen. So here Paul begins this letter without a traditional greeting. He starts off with this word, with this wording where he says that he is an apostle not sent from men, not sent by a man but directly by Jesus Christ himself. So instead of beginning with the traditional greeting where he says may grace be upon you and all of that instead of using any of those wordings, he directly begins this letter with this wording because he is concerned regarding the crisis that this congregation is facing. They are in danger of being led away into false doctrines and so he wants to confirm and affirm and say whatever he has taught them in the past, the Gospel which he has presented to them earlier was not sent to them by a man or by men but rather Jesus Christ himself commissioned him and sent him to Galatia to convey the true Gospel. So he wants to affirm this. So his very opening line itself in this letter begins with this wording where he says I was not sent by men. I was not sent by a man. I was sent by Christ himself with the Gospel which I gave to you. So you know what he wishes to indicate is that this is the Gospel that you should be holding on to. Do not be led away by the Judaizers. So that's the point that he is making. So when we come to verse 6, he continues this line of thought. If we could have someone read out for us verses 6, 7, 8 and 9, verses 6, 7, 8 and 9 please. I argue that you are turning away so soon from him who called you in the grave of Christ to a different Gospel which is not another but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ but even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other Gospel to you then what we have preached to you let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again if anyone preaches any other Gospel to you then what you have received let him be accursed. So the 11 disciples that Jesus had trained up he had given them the Gospel message directly. They had been trained by him personally. So probably these Judaizers were saying to the Galatian people, this Paul from whom you have received a Gospel, how do you know it is true? Because he was not trained by Jesus personally. He was not a disciple at that time. So maybe what he is teaching you is not accurate. Maybe that was the kind of thought which these Judaizers were trying to plant in the minds of these Galatian believers. So Paul therefore wants to affirm that this Gospel which he is preaching is not something which he has produced on his own which is why in his opening line he says I was not sent by men. The people in Jerusalem didn't commission me and sent me over here. I was sent directly by Christ himself is what he says. So in verse 6 these are the words that he uses. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different Gospel which is really no Gospel at all. That word Gospel means good news. So he says, I gave you the good news which was conveyed by Jesus Christ directly and that good news is the good news of grace where even though we have not been perfect even though we have been sinful we have been forgiven freely by the work of the cross and now we are entitled to be part of the family of Christ. So that is the good news that just by grace alone even though we could not earn salvation it was freely granted to us and now these false teachers are bringing in a different Gospel which is really not a Gospel at all which is not at all a good news because they are saying only if you do works only if you keep the law only then you can hope to gain salvation. So he says after I came to you and presented something to you that was directly from Christ why are you going away after a different Gospel which has not even been conveyed by Christ and which is not even good news in any way. Therefore he says in verse 8 even if an angel were to come now and start giving you a different kind of a Gospel do not listen to it. In fact he says people who give that kind of a Gospel they stand accursed is the term that he uses over here. He says let them be under God's curse he says in verse 8 he repeats that again in verse 9 he says under God's curse.  But that is wrong over here Paul is not cursing these false teachers. He is saying that they are under God's curse. God is the one who is placing a curse on them. So we as believers cannot curse someone just because they are preaching a false doctrine we cannot curse people who are opposing the church or persecuting the church we have no authority to be cursing anyone to be placing curses on anyone. Here Paul says let them be under God's curse in the NKGV it says let them be accursed. The wording used over there is talking about an act of God which God himself will do and so he says let them be under that judgment of God because of what they have done. So if you were to look at some of the passages in the Gospels where it talks about judgment and curse being placed upon people if we were to look at Matthew chapter 3 verses 7 to 10 it's John the Baptist who is speaking over there so in Matthew chapter 3 verses 7 to 10 John the Baptist he says you brood of wipers who warned you to flee from the coming broth he says to the Pharisees and the Sadducees. So over there he says that these people have been placed under the coming broth of God and therefore he says why have you bothered to come and ask for baptism because God has already placed you under his coming broth. You are already placed under judgment. So it's not John the Baptist who curses the Pharisees and the Sadducees in that passage. He is simply acknowledging what God has already done. He has already placed them under his broth. He has already placed them under judgment and so therefore John the Baptist he says I will not baptize you because you have already been placed under God's judgment and God's curse. Now when you come to other passages in which Jesus is addressing these Pharisees and Sadducees in Matthew chapter 23 verse 13 there Jesus directly declares and says woe to you that is a word of judgment which he is speaking upon them and he says woe upon you because you are under judgment the same wording is used even in Matthew 18 where Jesus says woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble and he says woe to the person through whom these things come. So when Jesus speaks woe when he speaks judgment upon the people he is doing that with the authority that has been granted to him by the heavenly Father but when we humans are trying to correct someone or trying to discipline someone we will only say that they are in danger of coming under God's curse we do not have authority to say that I am cursing you or I am placing you under a curse we are not you know we are not granted any such authority so this wrong teaching is brought out from this particular passage that we the church have an authority to curse and that is not true here in this passage Paul simply says let them be under God's curse let them be accursed and the accursing is being done by God himself. So with that kind of a serious very strict admonition you know Paul says that anyone at all who deviates from the true gospel is in danger of coming under divine judgment itself so that is the seriousness at which he takes this entire matter and then after having said that verse 11 onwards he tries to present a defense of himself he tries to present a defense of the gospel that he is you know reaching so he talks he gives details about how he got access to this gospel in what way Jesus you know revealed this to him from where did he learn all these things that he has been teaching them by what authority is he communicating all of this to them you know so he presents a defense of that verse 11 onwards we still have a couple of minutes so if we can have someone read out for us verses 11 12 13 and 14 please 11 12 13 and 14 but I make it known to you brethren that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man or I neither received it from man nor was I taught it but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ for you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and try to destroy it and I advance in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation being more exceedingly for the traditions of my father yeah so he says he is repeating what he has already said in the first opening line that you know the gospel that I preach is not of human origin I did not receive it from any man and then he says I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ he makes that opening statement in verse 11 and 12 and then he says you know you should be willing to believe what I am saying because I used to be a person who was a greater Judaizer than all these Judaizers who have come now you see when I was a Jew Judaizer at that time he says I was more zealous in holding on to the traditions of the fathers he says I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age that was the kind of Judaizer that I was so such a person today and now if I am saying that the true gospel is what Jesus is saying and not you know what I used to claim proclaim earlier as a Judaizer you should take my word seriously because someone who was that seriously into Judaism has seen the truth come out and received a revelation from Jesus Christ and now is has been sent directly by Jesus to present it to people so he says you should be willing to take my word seriously because I was so extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers he says so we will go for a break and when we come back we will see what he has to say in his defense regarding this matter so at 10 o'clock if we can all log back in thank you