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A Butterfly wants to kill the World?Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Although Love is both fire and shadow, we often forget to take comfort from the coolness of the memories when the burning flames are absentThere were precisely two things, okay, four things, keeping me alive. The fourth thing would come to her later when her 'furious was replaced by her 'curious' ~ as in how I knew her inhuman lingo ~ which would lead to my legacy with Grandpa.The top three reasons -She had poked my chest. It was a challenge, calling for one of my guardians to come out and play. The avatar knew I was the chosen heir of the Goddess Ishara and my goddess had devoted a good deal of time and effort to my survival and continued service in her cause. If Ishara made an 'appearance', it would be enough reason to not eviscerate me for my foul treatment of her august personage.Nope. It seemed Ishara was busy at the moment.Still, she most likely knew SzelAnya had shown a keen interest in me in Romania, though I'd never told Selena, or any other member of the 9 Clans, the Dragon's Daughter had killed Ajax for me. Figuring out SzelAnya, a storm deity, had helped me and Aya escape from our kidnapping in the midst of a cyclone in the Pacific Ocean wasn't much of a reach.But no bolt of lightning coalesced from my chest to singe her finger. No clap of thunder. Not even a cloud with a hint of disfavor appeared above us.Her obsidian fingernail began penetrating my shirt, touched my skin, then drew my blood, and something 'twitched'.That would be Contestant Goddess #3. She wasn't actually hanging around me. She didn't have to. She'd left me a memento of our last shindig before we parted ways. That was the nightmare-inducing episode where she, the chthonic goddess Sarrat Irkalli, had compressed one man's body into a dagger and then proceeded to suck another's soul into it to use as a power source for an Airbus 350 (a commercial airliner, if you didn't know).I still had that snaggletooth-looking thing at my back. Well who the Hell was I going to leave it with? Honestly, the only people I felt could keep it safe I loved too much to curse with it. Anyway, the second her divine claw touched my blood, the long dormant weapon whispered to me in a somewhat bored, lofty feminine voice from beyond the grave,Do you want me to discorporate this pathetic has-been for you?Quick check. Only the avatar and I, and her priestess-savant heard that. Of course, in downtown, New York City, noon Sunday, how weird would such a declaration be? The avatar's eyebrow arched. Her big bat-ears (still looking human to the normal viewing public) flicked this way and that, figuring out precisely where the threat originated from. Slowly, her once poking hand began to slide across my chest, along my ribs and around my back.She touched the dagger. Nothing.Gingerly, she drew it forth. I'd had a makeshift sheath made. As the blade made its journey around me, she took a half-step back to better observe it."Please don't kill him!" Theddy squealed. "We haven't had sex yet!"Being 'who' and 'what' she was, the avatar did what came natural. Fortunately for Theddy, I'd become accustomed to working with psychopaths.She stabbed the dagger at Theddy. I clamped my hand down on her wrist. The claws of her left hand came down on my constraining wrist. My free hand came down on that hand, trying to pry it free. It was a hopeless struggle, except.Yes, my old friend 'except'. Except the avatar was holding the dagger. As powerful as Ītzpāpālōtl was, she wasn't pushing against me. She was pushing against Sarrat Irkalli.Ītzpāpālōtl was a living, breathing terror machine who killed and received sacrifices on a regular basis.Sarrat Irkalli hadn't been actively worshipped in 3,000 years.Uneven contest? Oh yeah.See, Ītzpāpālōtl had spent the past 500 years continuously fighting against the Weave to keep her fingers on this side of reality.Meanwhile, for the most part, Sarrat Irkalli had sat upon her throne in the Sumerian Underworld with hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of souls toiling under her watchful gaze for eternity. Sure, her version of Hell wasn't getting any fresh deposits, but she knew how to milk the system well.Even the bad karma for the dagger's creation wasn't hers. She'd stolen it from the foolish Gong Tau sorcerers who had meant to enslave my soul, aka one-third of the Baraqu-Alal-Cáel deal she'd worked out millennia ago. It was the Weave giving her a 'freebie' for playing by the rules, if you considered the Weave sentient.And now Ītzpāpālōtl was touching it. Whoops. It wasn't as if Ītzpāpālōtl was stupid. It isn't like there are tons of magic weapons running around, much less soul-munchers like the one I had. Rationally, who would give a novice like me, a weapon like this? I say again, 'whoops'.Once I'd figured this out, I couldn't stop being me."Theddy, do you like girls?""What?" she squeaked. Here was this psycho trying to drive a Smilodon incisor into her bosom and I was giving her a sex quiz.Ītzpāpālōtl was really starting to struggle now."I, ah, are you okay?" she continued."Oh, I'm dandy. I'm serious. You think this chick is hot? I mean, would you do her in a three-way?" I proposed casually."Timothy?" Sovann."Bro?" Timothy to me."It's all good. Sovann, you want to know what my life is like? This lady who came to discuss business with me today is an immortal mass murderer. You give the word, I'll let go and this knife is going to cut her up like a Ginsu blade on market day because just cutting her heart out isn't going to be enough. Worse. Eventually she'll get back up.""Timothy?" Sovann repeated, this time with more concern. He thought I was nuts. I released my left hand. The blade flipped up, twisting in the avatar's grasp. That was the point her minions figured out something was wrong."El Amado?" the priestess-savant called out softly. The three goons began reaching for 'things'."Call them off, or I open my other hand," I cautioned the avatar. She spared me a swift, hostile look. My fingers tingled."Esten quietos!" she snapped. They stopped."Cáel, bad day, or not. This isn't you. Stop it. The girl's in danger," Timothy spoke up. He didn't mean Theddy. He meant the avatar."I'm being a real asshole, aren't I?" I sighed."Pretty much. You never let the bitches get to you before. Girl pops an attitude, you smile and move on. Life is too short," he reminded me. Too true."I'm going to put my hand over the blade," I told Ītzpāpālōtl. "When I do, you can let go."She didn't say anything for several seconds, even after my left hand covered the semi-serrated edge."Why should I trust you?" she sizzled."Because 'me' letting anything bad happen to you would make me a total, judgmental jerk. I don't know you. Whatever you did before you showed up today shouldn't matter to me. I acted stupidly. I should have stopped you. I didn't. I didn't even warn you and I could have. I was angry, and not even at you. Just angry and I apologize. Now, let go.""Why?""Hi. I'm Cáel Nyilas. Can I have my knife back? Please?"Blink. She released it. For a millisecond, it wanted to do something else because bitches are bitches. It didn't, so my palm wasn't sliced open. My right hand took the hilt. I carefully put the blade away."Yes," Theddy gulped."Huh?" Sovann shook his head at the sudden evaporation of the life and death tension. Welcome to my life. Theddy meant 'yes' to the 'girl-girl-guy' thing I had proposed earlier. It pays to keep things prioritized."What is this movie you were talking about?" Ītzpāpālōtl asked. Had she forgiven me for anything which had transpired? Bwahahaha, no way. She was taking the initiative and going with Option 1 from my earlier insane diatribe."Wait!" Sovann nearly shouted. "You nearly, I don't know, threatened Cáel's life and tried to stab Theddy and now you think you can go with us to a movie?""I told you," Timothy put an arm around his shoulder, "life with Cáel is rarely dull.""I thought you meant he was fun to party with, or something like that," Sovann looked up at his lover. "I thought his uncle showing up, and trying to kill him and then being blown the fuck away by those women and federal agents, and that other girl who pointed a gun at us, is this the new normal?""I love you, Sovann," Timothy grew compassionate. "Cáel is my best friend. He'd never deliberately hurt either of us and normal friends are something he has in short supply. Today being a great case in point."Ten seconds passed."The title is 'As Above, So Below'," Sovann addressed the avatar, "and what do we call you?"Since 'if you are not a worshiper and addressing me, I normally am about to kill you' would sound really cool in Olmec-ic, but I might be asked to translate,"How about we go with 'Obsidian', please?" I pleaded with her.She knew I was currying favor now ~ and behaving like a weather vane caught in the wall of a tornado ~ she gave a gracious bow of her head."Obsidian will do for now. Is the Legend of the dagger 'business'?" Translation: it had better not be."No," I smiled. "It's pillow talk." Rancor, 'how presumptuous', followed by 'but that dagger ups the count to three Goddess interested in him', and next to recalling all the trivial babble about me being a sexual dynamo (I prayed my PR was that good) having some relevance. Her chimera emotions allowed me to get a few more crucial words out, because even women who aren't sleeping with me are jealous."Esta mujer fue la primera en ofrecer bienes funerarios tras la muerte dee mi padre," I reinserted Theddy back into my close company. For some reason, Obsidian considered me unreliable thus had to verify what I'd just said."Did you make funerary offering upon his father's passing?" she asked Theddy. Let's think about this. The wacko chick questioning Theddy had tried to stab a huge freaking blade into her not a minute ago. Fleeing in terror while screaming for the cops? Nope."Yes. I baked him some walnut and caramel chip cookies," she nodded. "It is a family recipe." Sovann looked over the three of us, then back to Timothy."I told you 'that's impressive cocking like I've never seen before'," he explained."She may remain," Obsidian 'permitted'. Theddy wrapped up my right arm with her left and gave it a squeeze. She wanted attention/explanation."Obsidian is a Master Vampire, Theddy," I leaned in and whispered. "Before she was turned, she was captured in a raid by the fey, mentally, spiritually and physically raped and made into their sex-slave. Part of her spirit never healed properly. While this imperfection allows her to walk around in daylight, her heart can never hold on to any emotion for long, so she is forced to forever seek passion, no matter how dangerous, from the world around her."Revealing secrets? Ha. I had noticed Theddy had every work done by Laurel K. Hamilton in her place, including the comic book series."You are not supposed to know, so act like I didn't tell you anything, okay?"'Okay,' she mouthed back at me. I could see it in her eyes. My chaotic life suddenly 'made sense' to her because a best-selling fiction author said so.Obsidian thought the movie was; hilarious. She couldn't stop snickering, giggling and poking at me as horrible shit happened to the various actors. She thought the plot was 'insightful' and wouldn't stop whispering to me throughout the entire thing. During the closing credits, I told her I'd get her the DVD for Christmas ~ she knew the concept behind digital technology, but didn't own any ~ she kissed me.The first kiss was fierce and joyous with the added benefit of her tongue doing things no normal tongue could do, it stretched. Not sure how I felt about that. The second kiss was more sultry, longer and came with some accompanying body action which, I'm no virgin. Not even close. She was on my left side, so when she twisted in her seat, her left leg insinuated itself between mine. Her left hand cupped my jaw and held my head in place as her lips played along mine.A dance of the scorpion perhaps? Tender at first, then suddenly stabbing, dominant and brutal. My lips and tongue battled back, using my superior Kiss-fu to nullify her natural strength and agility. She liked it. By her moaning, she liked it a lot. As the kiss progressed, more and more of her flowed from her seat into my seat, body facing me. Her body rose over mine, forcing my neck back to maintain contact."So, Dot Ishara is hovering around somewhere close, isn't she?" I murmured as our lips separated barely a centimeter apart. One chick kissing you to make another one jealous. It's happened to me plenty of times. Obsidian didn't give a damn about Theddy, or any other mortal woman in close proximity so,"Yes," she purred. "Do you mate with her?""A man does not brag of such things, but no, unless heavy petting counts?""What will she do to you when I steal your seed?"'When'? Why was I not surprised? Why was I not surprised another concussion was in my immediate future either? Was it possible I was, learning?"Chastise me for not fighting harder," I breathed across her lips, "and, in case you forgot, I'm on a date with the girl beside me.""Who I care nothing for," she sent a cruelly playful look Theddy's way. Wisely, the girl shivered."Who I am indebted to and how I honor my debts might matter to you," I hazarded. My words hurt Theddy's feelings. That was on purpose. Obsidian took pleasure in me hurting Theddy because she was basically a vicious monster."Yes?" I pressed her gently."Yes," Obsidian allowed, easing up slightly both romantically and physically."And Theddy, if you believe I'm with you solely because of some sense of obligation, you clearly haven't been listening to your recordings," I shot the human girl a wink."Oh.""Am I, or am I not, a sex-obsessed little monkey?" I teased her. Theddy giggled. I paid for my diversion with four obsidian claws to my ribs outside of Theddy's view. After all, it wasn't like Theddy could possibly compete with her for my attention. Considering Obsidian's legendary ability to rip open her opponent's ribcages and feast upon their hearts, I slipped my left hand, the one next to her between her legs and stroked her cotton-slacks covered cunt.Theddy hugged my right arm and put her head against my shoulder. Not to be outdone," Qu  un centenar dee hombres se quemaron vivos como el sonido?" Obsidian inquired with sexually sadistic hunger. Ah, memories of burning 7P Commandos.Whoops. Theddy knew Spanish."No lo s . Ten an respiradores en," I replied casually. "Si lo desea, puedo describir lo que se siente al tirar de una flecha de guerra lanzar mi propio muslo.""Eep," slipped out of Theddy's lips."Why did you do that?" Obsidian looked over us both."Well, I was showing a little girl I believed in her,""And she shot you?" Theddy gulped."No. She hit the target I was standing next to. A co-worker mistook me for a cardboard cutout of a Jehovah's Witness and let fly. Seems she had issues with organized religion as well as a reaction to the oscillation effect of florescent lighting and ceiling fans.""But why did you pull the arrow out?" Theddy asked. "Couldn't you wait until you got to the hospital?""Mosquito," Obsidian menaced, insinuating Theddy was a pest."I wasn't thinking rationally at the moment, I work in an asylum, I had a hot date in a few hours, any of those three will do," I smiled at Theddy."Copil such as Cáel don't bother with petty human conventions," Obsidian turned my gaze back her way with her hand on my jaw. 'Copil's were 'god-touched' in her lingo."More than one girl?" Theddy mused."Four.""Okay," she sighed happily."Theddy, three under-age girls and the police office he was dating acting as their chaperone," Timothy intervened. "He hurried home so he could keep a promise to the children, not for sex." Bastard. He really was my best friend. He didn't mention my post-injury, pre-festivity sex with Odette giving me a few extra, urgently needed Brownie Points to suggest I might be a decent human being."You are a wonderful guy," Theddy ran a fingernail over my free hand. Clearly I was 'wonderful' enough to risk Obsidian's anger over. The screen went blank as the last credits scrolled away and the room was plunged into darkness. Five seconds later, the lights snapped on.Pain!"Fuck," I hissed. It wasn't any extra physical trauma causing me discomfort. No, a metaphysical dam had burst within and my stream of conscious thought had been turned into a white-water rapids. The competing cyclones of thoughts in my mind had stopped cooperating and my hypothalamus was letting me know I was in danger."Cáel", "Cáel", "Bro", and "Ishara" all came in rapid succession. I needed some space both tangible and social."I need to step outside," I eased Obsidian off me and stood up. My sense of my personal danger was ratcheting up. While I had been studying Obsidian, so I could screw her, I had discovered more and more Alal-badness.The light display had ignited a series of pressing implanted memories which had been clamoring for my attention. Things like not all 'divinities' were stewards of the Weave. Some even wanted its destruction, preferring risking all on a chaotic restructuring of reality over what existed now ~ things like Obsidian. They weren't attempting to do so because they thought they had no chance.But there was. A real serious chance to unravel reality existed; and it was staring her in the face. It wasn't 'me' as in 'I was the Anti-Christ'. But with the torrent of memories pouring forth, I knew where the peril lay and I was completely responsible for it. Hell, I was a prime ally of Armageddon and hadn't even known it.'Holy Shit!'I blinked. Timothy was shaking me. We were out in the lobby."Oh my God, Timothy," I nearly wept. "What am I going to do?""I have no idea what you are talking about. Is there someone you can talk to about this?" he suggested. Normal folks were around us. Obsidian was at my side. Sovann was behind Timothy with an arm around Theddy's shoulder."Theddy," I looked at her. "Can I catch up with you later? I just realized I've screwed up something fierce." I put my best 'really don't want to go but I gotta' face on. Her worried look brightened, she slipped around Timothy and gave me a tingling French kiss."I'll hold you to that, Cáel," she murmured when we parted."Timothy, go home, I got shit to deal with," I hoped my grin didn't become as feeble as I felt it to be."I," he started to say something. "Time not to ask questions?""Yeah.""Okay.""Wait." I pulled us to the side and went on to my toes, leaned in and whispered in his ear, "Tell Pamela 'he' sent Ajax to kill the Professor, his family and the sisters. They were the targets all along. It wasn't me, or the other women. Just in case,""Okay," Timothy patted my arm. It was cryptic. It was the best I could do. See, I wanted to cry so badly.{2:09 pm Sunday, September 7th ~ Last day}Where to begin:Every mythology across the globe has some creature, or creatures, which threatens Existence. Usually a God, or a Hero-God, slays the creature and everything is right with the world, except such a being, being older than Existence itself, can't really die, so they are carved up, buried ~ what have you.Illuyankamunus was one such manifestation of this underlying cancerous desire to destroy reality. He'd had a far more real child, SzelAnya, and she's never quite given up on her dad. Of far greater critical importance, she was 'part' of Illuyankamunus, somewhat in the way I was part of Alal and Baraqu. And yes, that meant all the offspring of Bolu, the guy I'd praised a few hours earlier, held the seeds of that malignant deity as well.And Alal knew it. He hadn't been killing off the descendants. He'd left that task up to a group far more capable of the task, the Egyptian Rite, who knew a fucking threat to existence when they saw it. Lest I forget, No secret society are the 'good guys'. Also lest I forget, I alone decided to go after the Arinniti sons to fulfill Vranus' quest. I had no divine mandate I was aware of nor any real world orders.Inadvertently, I had rounded up the last five mortal remains of Illuyankamunus in one place for convenient disposal in a remote Transylvanian town. The only problem was: if someone didn't get to them quickly, I was also about to whisk them into the loving (and heavy-armed) protective embrace of the Amazon Host, where the completion of centuries of culling would have suddenly become a cast-iron bitch instead of a simple disposal.Enter Ajax. Yeah, I bet the Egyptians were trying to figure out how I stopped him as well as Alal. I thought I was being clever by not telling most of the world. In fact, they most likely suspected; and the reality of SzelAnya watching over me was much more terrifying. Ishara had put a serious curse on the Amazons, yet her curse only affected her followers, the Amazons, who were fair game.SzelAnya had killed someone for me, and I hadn't been one of her followers. Thus I had committed a blasphemous act only a magician of some significant ability could have managed. I wasn't a sorcerer, but I had a cornucopia of mystic knowledge rolling around in my noggin. Trying to figure all this out was one of my major headaches.The others?I even suspected I knew who betrayed me ~ kinda. They didn't do it on purpose. At least I hope they didn't, because my odds-on favorite was my Mother by way of Captain Delilah Faircloth. Realistically, there was only one secret society who might help her against Grandpa and that was the Egyptian Rite, and they did send three people to Dad's funeral including two 'somebodies'. I'm an idiot.I'd chatted away in fluent New Kingdom Egyptian and it never occurred to me how odd it was for two of them to also be so fluent in it. Know it, sure, but as fluent as Kimberly had taught me to be? That should have been a Red Flag.The Earth & Sky had sent Iskender, who should have been the benchmark I judged the other delegations by, damn it.Three Condos? They'd killed my Dad and their guys had been flunkies.The 7 Pillars had been nobodies, which they'd proven by their inaction.Now I had to question why I had 3 actual  9-Clans  assassins at my dad's funeral too. Holy Ishara, I wasn't nearly paranoid enough.Anyway, why would the Amazons be aiding and abetting the End of All Life on Earth? Normally, they wouldn't be, but 3000 years ago, the majority of Human life did a colossal dump on the Amazons. And when they needed help, they got it in the form of SzelAnya and her dual-sex followers. I seriously doubt they told the Amazons their purpose was to resurrect SzelAnya's daddy. I imagine the Amazons didn't pry too much either.It turned out almost to be okay. During the 2nd Betrayal, the Amazons betrayed SzelAnya and almost short-circuited her plans by exterminating her lineage.Except for the Arinniti elders and Bolu. Good old 'except'.I can imagine when the Egyptians heard about the 2nd Betrayal, they figured they were 'okay'. Those wacky Amazons had inadvertently done the world a favor. Except an act of maternal love kept a slender hope of Illuyankamunus' return alive. By the time the Egyptians realized they'd been prematurely hopeful, Bolu's descendants were all over the Balkans and hunting them down had proven difficult.But, it gets worse. Much worse.When those Gods shattered Illuyankamunus, they scattered him in the relative certainty no one would ever gather the parts back together.His flesh was scattered across the land, modern day Turkey, but encompassing everything from Pakistan to Italy and Egypt to Poland. The flesh became soil, then plants, the things that eat plants, then food for humans. Get the picture.Whoops. SzelAnya had been doing just that for centuries upon centuries every time she mated with a mortal of Illuyankamunus' line and had offspring, they accumulated his energy, which made hunting down the few remaining ones easier to find, since they were 'beacons of badness', except...There were two key pieces missing which SzelAnya could never get. After all, you would think burying them on the far side of the world would matter, right?The 'breath of Illuyankamunus' ~ his cosmic fire ~ they buried in a volcano in a distant land far across the Great Sea. His spirit 'body' they imprisoned in a great river, again, across the Great Sea.But wait, it gets worse.The being standing next to me knew precisely where the 'breath of Illuyankamunus' was. Seems Mesoamerica is laced with volcanos. They'd discovered 'the breath' long ago and used it as a weapon called Xiuhcoatl. Better yet, Alal suspected she and her buddies were more than happy to reunite it with the rest if they thought the Weave itself wouldn't annihilate them for daring to do so.In their current, weakened state they were vulnerable to such a karmic backlash. In theory, a reborn Illuyankamunus would have access to power beyond the bounds of the Weave, older and more terrifying. Still, without the mortal remains to anchor the energy, giving it to the spirit would be pointless.Alal knew where the spirit body was (in general), but that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was where it was,Of all the places the Arinniti sons could have fled to, they had to choose Brazil, the burial place of the restive spirit body of Illuyankamunus. Mother-fucker.And Ildiko 'Alkonyka' aka Dusk Lovasz had sworn she'd travel to Brazil to fulfill Bolu's side of the quest in the same way I was holding up Vranus' end. If I tried to stop her, SzelAnya would know something was up. Fuck.I was processing all of this when Obsidian violently yanked me out of the way. A cabby had swerved to avoid a flurry of trash and nearly run over us. It was the third near-concussive experience in the past five minutes she'd help me avoid while she had walked by my side. I'd been mumbling like a madman."That would be my Goddess wanting to talk with me," I looked her way."I know," she gave me a clever smile."She's really not going to like that," I shook my head."I know that too," she kept smiling. "Where is your mind?""Five lives away from making the world a safer place," I sighed."Safer for who?" she purred. Where were all the bimbos? Not only was it an insightful question, it cut straight to the heart of my dilemma.What decision could I make? If I elected to help my fellow Amazons, I risked screwing with the world. In truth, I was risking everything even if I did nothing. Well Dad was always clear that things didn't change by themselves. You needed to do something that would have an effect. So, 'What are you going to do?'More to the point, I wasn't Grandad. Killing the last five of the line of Illuyankamunus wasn't 'me', so it wasn't going to be something I'd worry about.SzelAnya wanted to bring back her Dad, I could understand that. I'd have to figure out a way for her to believe this world sticking around was more important. How? Well, I had a goddess-like creature right in front of me to probe for ideas."You are an immortal," Obsidian commented. She'd been weighing her opinion for some time. I could tell by the wonderment with which she gifted each word."What? No. I can die.""No. I don't think so. Your wounds. Normally the wounds I inflict flow freely for some time. Yours have already scabbed over," her eyes flickered to the various minor scars she'd imparted to me in the few hours we'd been together.Of course, her idea was insane, Oh God No! I was in Grandad's body. Well Duh! His body was supposed to be immortal."Are you sure?" I looked deep into her eyes."You are a young immortal, the youngest I've ever met, but you are an immortal," she seemed to be convincing herself as much as me.Stupid Assumption (on my part)! I wasn't in Alal's body. I was in Cáel's. Because the Cáel soul shard was young, Alal hadn't been able to find it because it had moved through Time, to me, sonofabitch! 'I' hadn't been around for him to find. No! I was making yet another damn assumption.What did I know? When Pamela found Baraqu, it had been in an object, not a person, though she had been short on details. When the Alal-shard went to the Land of the Endless Black Sands to bring Saku back, the Cáel-shard had been in reality, so it had been allowed to create a body, 'me'. Still, the curse Sarrat Irkalli placed on Baraqu was on Alal and myself as well, which meant I might just be immortal.My Alal-mind agreed with Obsidian's assessment. In his first years, his healing had been slow, still taking days for what took mortal people weeks. I'd stupidly attributed my swift recovery to Amazon medicines, ugh. Because I got wounded more than most Security Detail trainees while concurrently entertaining two and three sex partners."Can you talk with Dot Ishara?" I asked her."Yes, but why would I?""Sex?""We are going to have sex anyway," she smiled. I'd tricked her. Set her up with the right so I could now drop her with the left."I can bring the mbo  tat  back to life," I pledged. That was not what she was expecting at all. "If you bring the Xiuhcoatl, I can bring the flesh and we can unite the three." Mbo  tat  was the Tupi name for the legendary 'fiery serpent' of the Amazon Basin. In Portuguese, it had become Boi-tat , a will-o-wisp with a confused, Christianized mythology ~ a serpent dwelling in darkness, devouring the eyes of corpses, glowing in the forests at night."Where is the flesh?" she whispered."In his mortal children," I replied."Who?""You are a monster, Ītzpāpālōtl. I'm not going to tell you and you don't have the time to drag the information out of my mind before my allies drop on you like a nuclear detonation," I drew my body tightly to her."Why would the Amazons do this?""They are not. This is a deal between you and me," I kissed her lips. I pulled back. A few seconds later she kissed me back."Why?""My grandfather had my father murdered and I would avenge him. In the end, despite my father's Amazon heritage, my 'Sisters' will let his death go unavenged for the greater good of the Host. He was a man and they will never look beyond that ~ they will never value his life as they would that of a woman.""Your mother's father?""Yes. Cáel O'Shea of the Illuminati.""We are not at war with the Illuminati," she murmured. It was a casual observation, not a protest."You are at war with Cáel O'Shea.""He was slain.""He didn't stay dead.""You know much more than you are saying," she was finally catching on."Absolutely.""I need much more than a few names to convince my kin to help," she purred, a cocktail of sexual immersion and flesh-flaying pain."I don't work for you. You are agreeing to work for me," I was hard as iron in more than one way. Why? Boundaries. She lived in a world where only the fundamentals of reality constrained her. Having a human, no matter how polished my pedigree, or how much I might appear to be 'special', tell her 'you are not the boss' in a reasonable fashion was new and very unwelcome."What would make you think that?""My mentor taught me knowledge is a curse. It is our inability to forget, and I can see into your soul, Ītzpāpālōtl. You care not one wit for the life of an assassin. But the thought of the other 'Factors' of the 9 Clans treating you as an equal galls you almost as much as the crushing reality that you need them."You have lived 500 years in chains and I'm offering you a desperate grab at freedom," I added."Your brief glimpse of immortality gives you no insight into my existence," she bristled."Oh, how many have given up? How many have decided the fight was no longer worth it and faded from the Sunlight to make their final trip into the Underworld, never to return? Do you even visit them?" I spoke with a voice tinged with compassion and loss. I pulled upon the pitiless, blank memories of a childless Alal all those centuries and imprinted on them my own fears of fatherhood and failure."How do you know so much?" she let her fa ade crack, then blow away, in the hollowness of her own sorrow. How could I pity such a monster? I could because I was me and I wouldn't surrender that to the barbaric past and most likely horrific future. I pulled her close, resting my chin on the top of her head."You are not the first, wonderful, very bright woman who has stepped into my life, Obsidian," I whispered. "You are not even the first divinity. For all the millions of differences enforced by power and time, I think love, hate and the conflict between the two wear upon us all. If anything, you face an endless parade of hope and misery. Even if you chose to ignore it, you have seen it and perhaps it leaves its marks ~ water scarring the rocks of a riverbed."We paused. I was able to peripherally scan about and realize we'd made it to Central Park ~ the Ramble and off the beaten path."Your Goddess is a fool for not keeping you closer," she murmured."She does keep me close. You have been actively keeping me from her," I reminded my guest. "She also plays by the rules, so is of limited help in my plans for vengeance."Translation: I could enlist Ītzpāpālōtl's aid while still remaining loyal to my matron Goddess. Ishara could not provide what I needed and my Amazons wouldn't agree with my scheme, so I needed her. Three hours ago, she wouldn't have considered me a worthy supplicant, much less an allied equal, yet here she was conspiring with me to shake the foundations of Creation.Personally, I was thanking Mamitu, Destiny. Had I not been having my worst Sunday ever when we first crossed paths and then acted like a total cockhead, pissed her off and led her to holding Sarrat Irkalli's dagger, thus putting her life in my hands, and not had Timothy as a best friend, I wouldn't have taken her to the movie, and my mind wouldn't have wandered down those dark corridors of Alal's memories to piece things together.Whatever itinerary Obsidian had approached me with, my abrasive behavior had forced her to it cast aside. Dagger, movie, revelations, I was now so much more in her eyes than she had envisioned."Share my need and share with me an ounce of your sorrow," I murmured to her as I gently curled my fingers in her hair and directed her head up until she faced me."The dagger," she rumbled. While she was stroking my hard-on, I knew she was using it as a double meaning."I was pinned to an onyx sacrificial table," I began my tale. We worked off pants to mid-thigh then 'got busy'. Penetration was only going to be possible by turning her around. Ground-breaking was her ready acceptance of my instruction. I leaned against a tree, then pulled her onto my lap. She guided my phallus home.One locomotion and I sunk in deep. It was warm molasses until I hit and pressed against her cervix. For a second Obsidian trembled, then her muscles clamped down tightly, gripping my manhood firmly in a vise, keeping me still."Ah," I groaned. Obsidian had her neck twisted, so we were kissing with eye contact as I described my adventures with the Gong tau sorcerers. She shot me a quick twinkle of delight, a connection. She'd relayed physical pleasure in the way I was giving her cerebral gratification, aka hope.I rolled up her shirt, and gave both nipples a brutal tweak in response. She gasped. I was applying a little 'rough' with my tender intercourse. She rolled her tush against my groin, an invitation to double-down on my nipple-play. I kept my left hand working over each tit while working my fingernails down her abdomen. As I described the terror in old Tsu's face as he shouted out 'M iyǒu! (Mandarin for 'No!') as he recognized too late the curse he was invoking. She relished the visual of the Han necromancer's terror.'Me' smacking two fingers down on her clit earned me a squeal and a small gush of fluids on my nut-sack. Her look of astonishment was something I'd always cherish. Before me, sex was something she demanded from her followers/victims and definitely orchestrated. Her partners being fearful/worshipful must have limited their initiative."A-a-a-ah, we are being observed," she groaned, her lips less than an inch from mine. It took me a second."Which direction?" I kept pumping her, strumming her clit and treating her tit like taffy on a hot Coney Island summer afternoon. Her hooded eyes flickered to our right. I gave it ten seconds. I had to get Obsidian refocused on what I was going to do to her next, in case this was innocent voyeurism. Nope. It was Chaz.Why Chaz? See, I'm an idiot. My cryptic warning to Timothy for Pamela had been good for all of one minute. He'd called her and she'd gathered what she could and come looking for me.Why was she concerned? I was babbling to Timothy then wandering off with a 'beyond-freaky' chick I had just met named 'Obsidian' who came my way courtesy of another chick with the name of Estere.Let me see, Estere was Hashashin and for Timothy to describe someone in my life as 'beyond freaky' was bad news. Timothy was seriously worried about me and Timothy was an emotional rock ~ he didn't panic. Lest we forget, I was in a federal taskforce. A quick peek into New York traffic cameras revealed me and Obsidian wandering into Central Park from the south, so in the rescue party went, splitting up and Chaz 'lucked-out'.I still had two, no, three problems. I was really enjoying my sexual excursion with Obsidian and she was seeming to truly enjoy her experience with me. Oh, and Central Park is big, Pamela had been pressed for people, so she had pressed some unlikely participants into my rescue party."He's," smooch, "my brother, by adoption," I headed off the whole idea she'd been briefed on me already."Visual, Peacekeeper Six, OS2, L-11," Chaz muttered into his headset before taking up a casual stance on the path overlooking our trysting spot. Sex with an audience didn't bother her, so, we worked out as much action from twist, turns and two inches of in-and-out motions (she liked to keep our bodies tight) as we could. Obsidian was humming along in no time. Her vaginal walls were undulating, wearing away at my self-control.Panting, not from us,"Is he o, are they, who is she?" huffed and puffed a trio of voices from Chaz's locale. Oh. Pamela had recruited my 'Hounds'.I accidently (from a timing perspective) took that moment to grind my nails into her left nipple, pinched her clit and hammered her as hard as I could. Obsidian howled. Her vocalization exited the human realm in a cataclysmic manner.The noise scared avians a mile away into terrorized flight. Cats hissed, then raced for cover. Dogs tucked tail and ran. Streetlights a hundred yards away shattered in sprays of glass. Better yet, for the entertainment of my viewing public, she lashed out with her right hand at the closest Black Cherry sapling, exploding it into a mist of sap and pulverizing the bark and wood fiber into pulp.On the downside, her cervix gave my balls an ultimatum ~ release my seed at once, or she was going to twist off my head. My cock and balls have a long history of making decisions without me. I began lavishing her. Before I finally got the feeling I was out of the danger zone. She was back to rubbing against me and purring in blissful satisfaction."Onun g zleri," whispered Belgin, one of the Turks. 'Her eyes'?"Cáel, are you aware of the alternative nature of your liaison?" Chaz coolly cautioned me. Translation: 'mate, do you know you have your cock in a demon?'"Yeah," I coughed. I had a face full of her hair. I was working on some post-coital nuzzling along with slowly helping her get her pants back up."Ininzqueoccehpa," she hummed to me, ignoring our gathering. That was 'let's do this again'."Tehuatlcochitlehua," I replied with some fondness. She studied me for a second before deciding my term was one of endearment, thus 'you are what dreams are made of', not 'nightmares'.Obsidian had another issue to deal with. Timothy would call it a righteous cocking. Whatever it was, her hold on her human mein had slipped and her inhumanity was slipping through, mainly in her glass-like, black, multi-facetted eyes and her fingers which now ended in molten obsidian talons. On the subconscious level, her predatory nature was setting everyone close-by on edge. I could also make out the high pitched, ultrasonic pipping of her chiropteran cries ~ purpose unknown.Obsidian made her way off farther into the underbrush leaving me a few precious seconds to appreciate her retreating posterior while holstering my equipment. More people were arriving. I had one more thing to take care of before, oh look, Nikita had brought her Mom along, the NYPD Sergeant."Chaz, I need to have a quick chat with Dot before I can explain things. She's been waiting and that's unwise," I looked to the Brit. He nodded."Cáel? Mr. Nyilas? Prince?" all came my way. I relaxed as best I could. Chaz went to a body blow to stagger me, then an epic upper cut to send me to Lullaby Land.Dot & the DragonessDot and SzelAnya, in dragon form, were waiting as I tumbled forward. By the state of my haziness, I knew my unconsciousness wouldn't last long."You gave her your seed," came the accusation."Yes," I staggered, "and now you should be able to track her," I pointed out the bonus part of the arrangement. No comment."I've got to make this quick, SzelAnya, I've found your father, geographically speaking," I dropped the bomb."Don't," Dot Ishara commanded. After all, she and her divine cohorts had done the killing and corpse-dividing eons ago. Undoubtedly, they'd executed their own oaths to one another to 'never reveal what they had done' as well."Too late," I shook my head. SzelAnya's attention was magnetized. "I owe you and I'm paying my debts. I'm not blind to the dangers, believe me.""You have no idea what power you are invoking," Dot's undercurrent of displeasure was the worst I'd experienced."Wrong. I've got thousands of years of Alal boiling around in my head, Plus the rest of you betrayed her 2600 years ago. It doesn't mean I have to. And now, given the chance, I'm not. Even if you kill me, she's got enough toBack in the Ramble"Really expect me to believe," Nikita's mom was growling."Man down," I waved a weak arm skyward."Mr. Nyilas, what is going on here?" the Sergeant addressed me. I was reclining in a circle of my 'Hounds'; most were kneeling. Chaz was in a tiny bit of trouble for having clocked me."Umm, thanks for coming out and looking for me. I assure you, Mr. Tomorrow did what he did as a matter of his professional duties ~ intelligence gathering." As I struggled to stand, my ladies helped me. I saw Pamela with three Hounds coming up fast from one direction and Virginia with three more coming from the other. The gang was all here.The mutterings in non-English tongues suggested a bit of explaining was already going on."You've been bleeding," Nikita pointed out with an unspoken 'again'."This?" I pulled my shirt out and looked at the first bloodstain of my encounter. "This is the just the start of the bad news." I shed my windbreaker and then t-shirt.The professionals shouldered aside the others to take a closer look."All of these are from noon and less than an hour ago," I identified the damage. Sarge was skeptical. Chaz, Nikita and Virginia less so."They look older," the senior lawman noted."I've been curious about that," Chaz frowned."I've inherited my Grandfather's curse. My soul fragment was in the 'Here and Now' twenty-three years ago while his was, 'over there', so I was allowed to come into creation. According to my recently departed guest,""You are immortal," Virginia mumbled to finish the thought. Had the speaker not been a member of the FBI, who knows how the thought would have been received."From the memories I've been gifted with," I tapped the tiny divot on my forehead, "his healing abilities started out rather slowly too. I certainly don't want to test this theory, so no worries there," I scanned the group."How do you explain seeing your Grandfather in Hungary and again in Rome?" Virginia wondered."Again, that woman who just left," I got out."Was no woman," Nuray, another one of my Turkish Hounds interrupted. "Her eyes..." she tried to explain, "and look what she did to that tree," she pointed to the greatest piece of evidence of supernatural wrongdoing. The other two witnesses nodded."We all saw the same thing. Her eyes were, bottomless, definitely not human," Belgin affirmed. The veteran players looked to Chaz."She had a collapsed nose-bridge, lacked a blink response, her dental work was carnivorous and her tongue was extremely clipped and showed prehensile qualities," he reported calmly. Pause. Chaz was a freaking intelligence operative, after all."If her hands were a type of glove weaponry, I've never seen it s like before. While I know it is possible for a human to exert the force-pounds necessary to snap a two inch diameter tree trunk in one blow, it is a rare skill and requires intense discipline. This appeared to be done spontaneously, without preparation of any kind and as a reaction to other stimuli," he added."It was also your assessment he needed to be knocked unconscious?" Nikita's mom countered."Mr. Nyilas' psychological constructs are something the whole team has to work around. At times, he seeks 'insight' from his mind in a deliberately unconscious/non-sleep state," he replied."He claims to be talking with spirit powers. I know when he returns to consciousness, he delivers useful intelligence. I'm not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychic. I don't know why his mind functions that way. I do know results. And I know I work with people who would achieve those results by other means if it were at all possible. Since we haven't found another method, we accept that from tim

CW: This episode deals with character death. While we discuss these things above table and feel safe exploring them, we realize this might be difficult for some audience members. Please skip 47:15 to 49:42 if this would be triggering for you. As always, your safety and enjoyment is important to us.With the doors locked and nowhere to escape, the party hears a crackle of lightning and suddenly The Dragon stands before them in the dining hall. Implying he doesn't consider them a threat, he asks the group if they're willing to surrender and make things easy on everyone. The party, of course, turns down the opportunity so The Dragon summons four terrifying looking minions before teleporting out of the room.Eight attempts to summon a giant Eight Junior, but their magic seems ineffective and the summon fails. One of the creatures shifts into a mirror image of Eight, complete with a spoon. Unfortunately, a single attack downs Eight and knocks them unconscious. Another creature shifts into the form of a shaggy, black-furred wolf and then lunges, attacking Faerlin. Seeing that one of them landed in the soup trap, Trix takes a shot and strikes true.The other two shift into mirror images of Faerlin and Trix, complete with matching weapons, and they make their attacks on the rest of the party. Trix takes an arrow to the shoulder, Faerlin and Rou fighting as hard as they can but taking more than they're giving out. It isn't long before Faerlin falls unconscious as well, but it is Rou that suffers the greatest defeat.Follow Dax @gmdax, Kappa @TheKappaChris, Sebastian @sebastianyue and Wren @ThornyDryad EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by DaxOpening theme music, editing and mixing by WrenLogo Artwork design by JessieCharacter Artwork design by RiyuskiSegment music and sound effects licensed through Epidemic SoundLINKS:Be sure to follow and tag Roads Uncharted on Bluesky!

Up To Jerusalem - Teaching 7 Scripture - Matthew 23:1-39, Mark 12:41-42, Matthew 24:1-16, Psalm 51:10, 2 Timothy 3:11 Class opens with a teaching from Jesus on humility and His warning against hypocrisy. The Seven Woes - spoken against hypocrisy:     1.    Verse 13 - roadblocks to the kingdom of heaven for people     2.    Verse 15 - produce more hypocrites     3.    Verse 16-22 - make a show of displaying how much they give to the temple     4.    Verse 23-24 - neglect justice, mercy and faithfulness     5.    Verse 25-26 - love to display outward cleanliness     6.    Verse 27-28 - do things to look good     7.    Verse 29-32 - act like they are better than others. An outward show - as good as it may look to others - does not matter at all to God. In fact, it destroys a relationship with God. The seven woes are Jesus' call to us to make sure our hearts are right with Him. This same kind of hypocrisy is just as present today as it was then. Jesus is reminding us that what God looks at is the heart - a heart committed to Him - and one that is humble before Him and humble before others. God's work is to take the hard stony parts of our hearts and replace them with a renewed heart. King David says, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10. We are to come before God in humility and repentance through faith in Jesus and there we will find joy, peace and life. Jesus emphasizes humility with the story of the Widow's Offering in Mark 12:41-42. Jesus is observing the people as they drop off their offerings. The rich are making a show of how much they are giving and then a widow places only a few cents in the bowl - but it was all she had - unlike the “leftovers” the others had been making a show of giving. She gave the greatest gift as she displayed living by faith and trusting God to provide.   We pick up the Up to Jerusalem chronology with Matthew 24:1-16 with Jesus telling of the temple's future destruction. The disciples then ask Jesus 2 questions:     1.    When will the temple be destroyed     2.    What will be the sign of Jesus' second coming They didn't realize how separated the 2 events would be. Jesus answers by predicting deception, war and rumors of wars, earthquakes and famines and calls these the beginning of birth pains. Implying that as the end comes nearer, these things would be more frequent and greater. Jesus also shares that there will be persecution of the believers.  Jesus ends by telling that the Gospel message will be preached throughout the whole world and then the end will come. We can see the evidence of what Jesus said as we see the Gospel message into every continent today. The time of His coming is nearer and nearer and we are called to be awake and ready! Jesus goes on to talk about the “abomination that causes desolation” and that when they see this happening to flee Jerusalem.  Pastor shares several possibilities of what the abomination may have been.  He also speaks to the question of whether Jesus' words speak to the last generation as well. We end with seeing that the early believers did as Jesus said, they escaped the judgement that came on Jerusalem by leaving and fleeing as Jesus had said - and so we learn how important it is for us to hear and to heed God's Words, not fearing the future, but facing the future in faith. Our website –  https://www.awakeusnow.com Watch the video from our website! https://www.awakeusnow.com/2-year-study-of-the-gospels-upper Watch the video from our YouTube Channel!! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTaaqrC3dMOzMkhPyiNWwlJRpV6Bwpu01 Up to Jerusalem is a study of the final weeks of Jesus' ministry concluding with His resurrection and ascension, using the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John together with material from ancient sources and recent discoveries.  Up to Jerusalem is part four of our Two Year Study of the Gospels. Up To Jerusalem is the story of the plan of God to redeem the world, and the story of a Savior willing to obey the Father's plan. As we study Jesus' final days, we will be impacted as we discover the Love of God for each one of us.  This study is great for large group, small group or home group study and can be started at any time.

What's up Bros? Southern Hospitality is officially a great show. If you aren't watching, here is your sign to start. In this episode, TJ is having some second thoughts about Michols after watching him kiss someone else at his birthday party. Joe Bradley feels a type of way about Maddi being friends with TJ amidst his issues with him. TJ and Michols have a chat and Michols voices why the ghosting post kiss hurt him. TJ shares his own trials being gay in Charleston and while Michols appreciates the transparency, he puts TJ back in the friend zone. G Lily and Maddi are making music in a great scene. Brad continues to flirt with Lake. But the heart of this episode is when newbies Molly and Siobhan question whether or not Emmy pocketed their money after buying dresses for the staff at republic. Implying she used her free store credit instead. Emmy has a full blown panic attack that some may say was acting, but we truly believe that was a real reaction that had little to do with the dresses and more to do with her current situation with Will. Speaking of Will, while Emmy is having her moment inside, Will is actively avoiding her and sending Joe Bradley to calm her down instead, nice work William. That wont further the rumors that you hate your girlfriend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chapters 18, 20 and 21 - Bildad and Tzofar go at Iyov again implying not too delicately that he is to be counted among the wicked. I share an idea in the second part of the recording that I think can really transform our understanding the book as a whole. Worth a listen! Ch. 19 will follow tomorrow an extension of the idea contained in this chapter. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Job.18?lang=bi,https://www.sefaria.org/Job.20?lang=bi, https://www.sefaria.org/Job.21?lang=bi

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Comments? Questions? Send us a message!Pastor John Knapp of Calvary Chapel Green Valley in Henderson, Nevada is passionate about the Lord Jesus Christ and he and the fellowship he pastors are experiencing a wonderful time of renewal in the Holy Spirit. So, that's what we're going to speaking with him about today … we'll hear their testimony and the wisdom the Spirit has given them.John is the founding pastor of CC Green Valley and has pastored for years. I (Bill Holdridge) met John through being practically neighbors, and through the monthly senior pastor's breakfast that happens in Las Vegas. It's been said of some churches that if the Holy Spirit completely vacated the building and fellowship life, things wouldn't miss a beat. Implying, of course, that all they had been doing was energized by human effort only, and not influenced by the very One Jesus prayed about to His Father, that He (the Holy Spirit) would be our parakletos.How might a senior pastor move more into the realm and ministry of the Holy Spirit?How does a pastor or congregation become open to the person of the Holy Spirit? What has Calvary Chapel Green Valley learned about how to seek God for and be open to the Holy Spirit's direction in the life of the pastor and the church?____________________________Obviously, Poimen Ministries believes in the perpetuity of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and in the necessity of the Holy Spirit for a fruitful walk with the Lord and fruitful lives of ministry. Strength for Today's Pastor includes these helpful podcast episodes:035 - Are We Charismatic Enough? - with Pastor Paul Berry064 Acts 2 Distinctives Series- the Power and Ministry of the Holy Spirit (with Holland Davis and Jim Hesterly)096- The Holy Spirit and Speaking in Tongues- with Gayle Erwin133- Are You Holy Spirit Qualified for the Ministry? (with Paul Berry) 135- The Holy Spirit and Ministry: What Holds Us Back? (with Paul Berry)The team of Poimen Ministries love the church of Jesus, and His pastors. Our ministry is to promote church health and revitalization by strengthening pastors, to strengthen their churches.For Poimen Ministries, its staff, ministries, and focus, go to poimenministries.com. To contact Poimen Ministries, email us at strongerpastors@gmail.com. May the Lord revive His work in the midst of these years!

Series: Signs & GloryTitle: "Who is Jesus and why did he come?Scripture: John 1:1-51 John 1:1-2, Colossians 1:1:15-17, Phil 1:5-11, John 17:5, 20:31Bottom line: As God in the flesh, Jesus came to call people from death to life by faith in him.INTRODUCTIONCONTEXTSERMON OUTLINECONCLUSIONNOTESOUTLINESQUESTIONS TO CONSIDER DISCUSSION QUESTIONSMAIN REFERENCES USEDMy opening prayer: Lord God, help us grow to be and do like Jesus, while abiding in him and leading others to do the same. INTRODUCTIONLast week we started at the end where John tells us of his purpose in writing about Jesus. He said that he writes these things so that we might believe that Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God and that by believing have life in his name. We will see this purpose unfold in his first words in his gospel account. John was one of the 12 and the disciple/apostle who lived the longest. He was the only one who wasn't martyred for his faith. Word is he lived into his 90's and died in the 90's--the AD 90s.John wrote to give us the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ from another angle. The other 3 synoptic gospels are each unique but share many of the same history, miracles and teachings. John will share less well-known history, miracles (he calls them "signs"), and teachings. Many see them as most profound. I share this perspective. This series is called Signs & Glory. The first 12 chapters will show us the 7 signs of belief along with many others truths the illustrate and bring credibility to the teachings of Jesus. Chapters 13-20 will show us the glory of God on full display. We'll see the light, life and love of God through his divine AND human son, Jesus of Nazareth. CONTEXTJohn starts his gospel account with a poetic prologue. The book is broken up into 2 main parts:1--7 sections on Jesus' public ministry followed by people's reaction to it. (Signs, John 1-12)2--The Passover weekend which includes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Glory, John 13-20)John loves the number 7 as it represents completeness. As a result, he structures his gospel around this number for theological purposes. Ex. 7 signsEx. 7 "I am" statementsSERMON (lots of help from Carter)Read and comment on John 1:1-5.Then answer these questions:Who is Jesus?The Word. (1:1) To tell us the way to true life. Implying we're ignorant of the truth that sets us free from sin & death.The Life. (1:2-4) He came to call us from death to life.Implying we're dead in our sins. At physical death, our soul is separated from our body.At spiritual death, our soul is separated from our Creator, God, forever.It's all about life. He created/creates life.He sustains life.He brings new life.He brings abundant life.He brings eternal life w/ God forever.The Light. (1:4-5) To show us the way to true life.Implying we're blind and cannot see the truth.The Overcomer. (1:5)To free us from the kingdom of darkness forever.Implying we feel believe we're defeated.Darkness has not nor cannot overcome light.Therefore, death has not nor cannot overcome life.Yes, there are times when there is temporary overcoming that looks like defeat. But in light of eternity, light and life (& love) cannot be overcome forever.God (1:1) in the flesh (1:14).To show and tell us the way to true life through his divine and human son, Jesus Christ. ↘️✝️

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Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...    Recently I met a man who identified himself to me as being a Christian but then he said something very inappropriate for a Christian to say.   When I got home, God reminded me of this situation although I tried to ignore it when this man was speaking.   By being reminded, I felt God was showing me to bring proper correction to this man.   I presented the following to him.  

Title: The Same Story Text: Acts 10:44-48 FCF: We often struggle with assuring ourselves of our and others' faith. Prop: Because all true believers share a common conversion experience, we must observe these in all whom we give assurance and receive into fellowship. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 10. In a moment we'll be reading from the LSB starting in verse 44. You can follow along in the pew bible on page 1243 or in whatever version you prefer. Today we will conclude the episode of Cornelius, saving the epilogue of chapter 11 for next week. God's hand has been prevalent in this entire episode. Giving two visions, speaking through the Spirit directly to Peter, leading him to the home of a Gentile, finding many gathered there. And after Peter gives a focused explanation of the gospel that Jesus is Lord of all, now we'll see the dramatic conclusion. And although there are few doctrinal issues that arise here in which Christians disagree, even amid those differences we will highlight the common and uniform experience of conversion for all who are truly united to Christ by faith. So, stand with me out of respect for and to focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: O Christ, we have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in you. May your Spirit meet with us today, and guarantee our inheritance in you, to the praise of your glory. In your name we pray. Amen. Transition: [Slide 2] If something has fur, a tail and barks. You would probably call it a dog. If something has feathers, a bill, and quacks – a duck. Grey skin, very large, with a trunk… you got it - elephant. Isn't it funny that I can list out three characteristics of an animal and invariably you can guess what it was. Why is that? Well, we come to expect certain characteristics and attributes to be the same across certain animals. Even though no two elephants are exactly the same. Generally speaking they share certain characteristics. Today, Peter will conclude without doubt that the Gentiles before him are genuine members of the body of Christ. He does not conclude this on a whim. Instead, he isolates key characteristics that prove it to be true. Let's see if we can arrive where Peter does. I.) All true believers share a common conversion experience, so we must look for these commonalities for the assurance of salvation. (44-46a) a. [Slide 3] 44 – While Peter was still speaking these things, i. Peter's message was not yet concluded. ii. Most likely Peter intended to carry on preaching like he did at Pentecost to implore Cornelius and his friends and family to repent and believe in the name of Jesus. iii. However, Peter was interrupted. And he was interrupted by the Third Person of the Godhead, God the Holy Spirit. b. [Slide 4] The Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the word. i. Because we will need to gather all the evidence from this text to do so, we will not comment on the specific meaning of the words “fell upon” here. Nor will we unpack exactly what the Spirit's work is at this point. We'll reserve that for the end. ii. Let's unpack everything else though. iii. First, although we aren't looking at the specific nature of the work, we can generally conclude by context that the Spirit's activity here is indicative of the work of salvation coming to Cornelius, his family, and his friends. iv. Secondly, we should see that not everyone in Cornelius' house that day received the Spirit's work. It was only those who were listening to the Word. Implying of course that not all of them were listening. c. [Slide 5] 45 – And all the circumcised believers who came with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also, i. For us, this might seem almost insulting. ii. The Jews really didn't expect the Holy Spirit to be given to gentiles? Wow. How elitist. iii. Well, no, not really. Even in the Old Testament where God alludes to the global nature of His kingdom and where God prophesies about the coming of the New Covenant… all is shrouded in mystery. iv. Paul comments about this in II Corinthians 3. v. But even if someone were to see through those mysterious shadows and perceive that God's Spirit would dwell in those of the New Covenant, who were all these prophesies written to? vi. Were they not written to Jews? Jeremiah 31 – this covenant will I make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. No mention of the nations here. vii. So, before we get too uppity ourselves, let us stop to consider how sensical the assumption was that Gentiles must become Jews before they become Christians. And even then, it would be uncertain if they inherited the New Covenant in the same way the Jews did. viii. But here, 6 Jewish Christians, 7 if you count Peter, bore witness to the gift of the Holy Spirit being poured out on the Gentiles. ix. Of course, the question remains how these Jewish Christians knew for a fact that these Gentiles had received the gift of the Spirit being poured out… x. Verse 46 answers that question. d. [Slide 6] 46a – For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. i. Here we see two distinct evidences that they had received the gifting of the Holy Spirit that He had been poured out on them. ii. First, they spoke in tongues. 1. [Slide 7] To remind ourselves, the tongues of the scriptures are not gibberish or babble , nor are they languages unknown to humans, and the only time they appear as a private prayer to God is when they are unprofitable to public worship and edification since they are uninterpreted. 2. Every single time the bible speaks of the gift of tongues in the scriptures it is always a known human language that is supposed to be uttered publicly unless there is no one to interpret it. Tongues were never intended of as a private prayer language, nor is the gift ever linked with non-human languages. 3. [Slide 8] If we confine ourselves to the book of Acts, we can make some further observations of the gift of tongues. a. We have no record thus far of any person privately receiving salvation and the gift of tongues together. b. When tongues are given, they are given only when a large group comes to Christ. And that group is always one that has never before received the gospel of Christ. c. Meaning what? d. The gift of tongues in the book of Acts so far has been used exclusively as a sign gift. A gift used to be a sign to others. e. Meaning what? f. We have seen the gift of tongues used to authenticate the message of the apostles to unbelievers. g. And although unclear, we have also seen some kind of sign gift used, probably tongues, to authenticate to the apostles that God has saved a new group of people. h. Outside of those two examples… we have not seen tongues linked to salvation, nor have we seen tongues used for any other purpose. iii. [Slide 9] So, we must ask ourselves – what is the purpose of the gift of tongues here? 1. Here it seems like it is not the messenger that needs authentication to the hearer but rather the apostle Peter and generally Jewish Christians, need this sign to authenticate that God has saved these Gentiles. 2. They received the same salvation the Jews received. iv. But this was not the only confirming sign that they had received the gift of the Spirit. v. [Slide 10] Second, they magnified God. 1. Although certainly less flashy, this is the primary indicative experience of all those who genuinely receive the gift of the Spirit of God in conversion. They are changed inside and out. 2. These Gentiles experienced the joy of the Lord in their conversion. They knew God and praised Him for what He had done for them. 3. This again proves to us that these tongues were known languages – probably Hebrew or Aramaic – since these Jewish Christians understood what they said to be magnifying the Lord. 4. And for these 6 Jewish Christians, these two signs proved one astounding truth. God has seen fit in His wisdom and grace to offer Christ and His indwelling Spirit to Gentiles in the same way He has been offered to the Jews. That by faith in Christ they can receive forgiveness and new life in Him. 5. And they can do all this without first becoming a Jew. e. [Slide 11] Summary of the Point: All people of every nation, tribe, language, color, gender, social and economic sphere, who through the name of Jesus believe in Him will receive forgiveness of sins and be indwelled with the Holy Spirit and produce evidence of that indwelling. This is the normal indicative experience of those who are united to Christ by true faith. And it doesn't matter what your background is, it doesn't matter what your identity is, there is a uniform experience. So as the church of Jesus today, we must look for this uniform experience for assurance of our own salvation and to help others find assurance of their salvation. Transition: [Slide 12(blank)] But besides gaining assurance for ourselves and that others are truly believers, what else must we do with the fact that the conversion experience among all true believers is held in common? II.) All true believers share a common conversion experience, so we must look for these commonalities to remove all hindrances from baptism and acceptance into the church. (46b-48) a. [Slide 13] 46b – Then Peter answered, i. What exactly is Peter answering? ii. Is he answering the tongues sign or the magnifying of God by the newly converted Gentiles? iii. Is he speaking to the astonished Jewish Christians, even though they haven't actually said anything? iv. And what is the nature of his answer? Is it corrective or instructive? v. How is Peter going to react to all of this? Is Peter going to rebuke the whole thing or has Peter learned from the vision he saw? b. [Slide 14] 47 - “Can anyone refuse water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?” i. Peter's answer is full of meaning. ii. First, although it appears that he is looking for consensus or agreement from the 6 Jews who came with him, the LSB's translation is mostly to blame for that. 1. It isn't poorly translated – that is for sure. But there are two words of negation in this text that the LSB does not translate. 2. The NIV translates this much closer to what Peter is saying I think “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 3. This is not Peter asking for consensus. Even though this is a question it is actually a statement. 4. Like when I say to my daughter… If I go out and check your chores to see if you've done them and find that they are undone, can I come back in and punish you? 5. Now am I asking her for consent? No. I am giving her a statement. My statement is, you better have done your chores or you will be punished. 6. Peter in a similar way says – you should see nothing keeping these people from being baptized because they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. iii. Second, from Peter's response, we also see his affirmation that the Gentiles received the Spirit in the same way that he and the other Jewish Christians with him had received the Spirit. 1. These 6 Jewish Christians are from Joppa. Meaning that they are not apostles. Therefore, Peter is not speaking to a specific reception of the Spirit as at Pentecost, but rather to a unified reception of the Spirit among Jews who had truly become part of the church. 2. Peter is saying that these Gentiles, though not being circumcised, though not being Jews, had received the Spirit the same way they had. 3. This was all the authentication Peter needed to state that there was nothing preventing them from being baptized. iv. But another point we must consider is that this scripture seems to be a huge difficulty for those who believe in infant baptism. 1. Although many Pedobaptists have attempted to use Peter's response to defend infant baptism, it falls short. 2. They say, that Peter's remarks here highlight the peculiarity that they had received the Spirit prior to being baptized but still needed to be baptized even though what the sign anticipates has already happened. 3. However, under careful analysis of what Peter actually says, it doesn't hold up. 4. Peter is not saying that since the cart was before the horse, we might as well supply the horse. Instead, Peter sees the reception of the Holy Spirit as the irrefutable evidence that they should be baptized. Why? Because that is exactly how it happened for the Jews. 5. This is not pointing to the peculiarity of order but rather to the commonality of nationality. The Gentiles received the Spirit in the same way we have. 6. Therefore, to have received the Holy Spirit serves as the evidence we must look for to confirm without doubt that someone should be baptized. 7. Peter here does not see Baptism as an anticipatory sign but as a confirming sign. Water baptism confirms that Spirit baptism has already occurred. v. And while we are already distracted talking about these doctrinal matters, let's go ahead and insert our discussion on the work of the Holy Spirit in this text. vi. [Slide 15] We are 10 chapters into the book of Acts. In those 10 chapters we have had a fairly large sampling of the activity of the Holy Spirit, especially concerning conversion. 1. In that sampling we can see that The Holy Spirit's work at the experience of conversion is not identical. We'll not take the time to go through it all, but on the screen is a brief sampling we can go through this upcoming Wednesday night. 2. So, what is common among these examples? a. No doubt the reason there is confusion is because Luke uses several terms to speak of the Spirit's work. i. Baptism of the Spirit ii. Filling of the Spirit iii. Pouring out of the Spirit iv. The gift of the Spirit v. Receiving the Spirit vi. The Spirit falling upon b. But we are confused because sometimes multiple things happen at the same time and sometimes they don't. c. We are confused because this is probably a square rectangle situation here. d. Just like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares, so also, all who have had the Spirit fall on them, be poured out on them, or fill them have also received the gift of the Spirit and been baptized with the Spirit also. e. Thus we see the Spirit's work divide nicely into two categories. i. The indwelling of the Spirit which is referred to as the Baptism of the Spirit, the gift of the Spirit, and receiving the Spirit. ii. And then we have the empowering of the Spirit which is referred to as the filling of, falling upon, and pouring out of the Spirit. f. Analyzing the book of Acts we find that all who received the empowering had also received the indwelling. But not all who received the indwelling also received the empowering. 3. [Slide 16] In this we can draw some doctrinal teachings. a. All who are regenerated of the Spirit and given eyes and ears to receive faith in Christ, will receive the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of God. Which is being indwelled with the Spirit. b. The empowering of the Spirit is a special and sometimes repeated work of the Spirit in those who have already been indwelled with the Spirit. This empowering is to perform a special task or function for a special purpose of God. c. Pentecostal Christians insist that the sign gifts, particularly the gift of tongues, is either a necessary sign for all who are genuinely Christians, or is a sign that whoever speaks in tongues are a higher tier of Christian than those who do not. i. Many who have attended these churches have felt an inordinate amount of pressure to produce the sign of tongues, but unfortunately, they produce a completely foreign sign to that of the scriptures. For the language they speak is, in most cases, not a human language at all. Nor is it being used as a sign to authenticate anything except that they are connected to God in some unclear way. ii. Much of what occurs in Pentecostal churches is directly contrary to what Paul instructs in I Cor 14 about the priority of preaching and the need for edification to be at the center. 1. Oftentimes in Pentecostal churches the sermon is underemphasized and sign gifts overemphasized. 2. Paul commands that an interpreter be present, which is often disregarded. 3. And Paul even reveals that tongues are a sign to unbelievers, whether they are interpreted or not. But if they are left uninterpreted it will chase them away from the truth of the gospel. vii. And so, we can conclude that the work of the Spirit here in this text speaks to both the indwelling and empowering of the Spirit for these Gentiles. The indwelling accompanied their faith and the empowering produced the speaking in tongues and magnifying the Lord. c. [Slide 17] 48 – And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. i. The six men though convinced that baptism must be administered, hesitated waiting for the Apostle to perform the duty. ii. But Peter commanded them to baptize these who had received the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. iii. We are not told that it was carried out, but the context suggests that Cornelius and a large portion of his household and friends were baptized that day and became members of the growing Church of Jesus Christ. d. [Slide 18] Then they asked him to remain for a few days. i. Here we see one final proof that they had received the Spirit. ii. They were hungry for instruction and fellowship. iii. I'd wager that the same four devotions from Acts 2 were present here. iv. They desired to be taught further the apostles' teaching. v. They desired to fellowship with Peter and the other believers in a new family. vi. They desired to share the Lord's Supper with them. vii. And they desired to devote themselves to corporate prayer together. viii. What a sweet time this would have been! How earth shattering. Even the Gentiles are being saved! e. [Slide 19] Summary of the Point: Peter points to the common and uniform experience that the Jews and the Gentiles shared in the salvation of their souls. That they too received the gift of the Spirit after repenting and believing the gospel. Therefore, he saw no reason to deny the Gentiles both the sacrament of baptism and the admission into visible church as a sign of their membership in the universal church. It was the fact of the common experience among all who are united to Christ by faith that made Peter strongly conclude that these Gentiles must be baptized. And so, for us we must also look for the same common experience among those who desire to receive the sacrament of baptism and be received as members of our local body. Conclusion: So, what can we see from this CBC? What doctrinal points can we learn and apply today? Doctrinal Takeaway: [Slide 20] As the church expanded and the gospel was preached to Gentiles, the question remained, will this be a separate church? Will the gospel be received by Gentiles and if so, will it be different than how it was received by the Jews? But since there was no essential difference between the conversion experience of the Gentiles and the Jews… When they saw that they repented and believed in Jesus as the Messiah of God and Lord of all, and received the indwelling of the Spirit of God just like the Jews did… Because everything about their conversion experience was the same as the Jews… Peter concluded that they must be baptized into the community of faith with the Jews. There was nothing preventing them… Not circumcision, not becoming a Jew first… nothing. The Gentiles and Jews were no longer divided. Just like God's vision revealed to Peter before. There was no more clean and unclean because God has made the unclean… clean. People of every background so long as their experience includes repentance, faith, and the reception of the Spirit of God – are part of the body of Christ. Truly there is no partiality with God. For us then, when we look for the assurance of our own faith, or to confirm the faith of others and baptize them and receive them as members of our church – we must look for those common traits that all true believers have. The uniform experience of conversion. But let me get a little more specific here and apply this to our everyday lives. 1.) [Slide 21] Mind Transformation: “What truth must we believe from this text?” or “What might we not naturally believe that we must believe because of what this text has said?” We must believe that conversion is a uniform experience among all who are truly in Christ. a. When Jesus began His ministry, it is said that He went about preaching repentance and belief in the gospel. b. When Peter preaches in Acts, he highlights these two essentials. That they repent and believe on Jesus as Lord of all. c. As the New Testament writers penned their letters under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, They encouraged their readers to continue to turn from sin and to continue to trust on Christ, not simply for salvation but to trust Him enough to love and obey Him. d. New Testament writers affirm what Peter says here, that the indwelling of the Spirit is an incontrovertible proof that someone is of Christ and needs to be baptized. e. And if someone has the Spirit of God living within them, they will know it! They will know it by the change in their lives. They will know it by their passions being made new. They will know it by their ability to love and obey the Lord. f. Repentance from sin, faith in Christ, receipt of the Spirit which is evidenced by a changed life. g. These three are necessary components of the religious experience called conversion. This is how God converts us into Christ followers. h. He gifts us with repentance from sin, faith in Christ, and His Spirit indwelling us. i. And my friends, this is all or nothing. j. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never turned from their sin. k. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never trusted in the finished work of Christ. l. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never received the gift of the indwelling of the Spirit. m. And there is no such thing as a Christian who having received the Spirit has not gone on to love and Obey Jesus Christ. n. Every true believer… Has all of these in common as their Salvation Story. o. Even children raised in the church having never done drugs or fornicated… Even they must turn from their sin of self-righteousness and pride. Both of which are abominations to God. p. Even children raised to have always believed that Jesus died on the cross for sin and was raised the third day… must by God-gifted faith embrace and wholly depend on this Lord to save them. q. Even children raised in the church, good mannered and well versed in the scriptures, must receive the Spirit of God to truly walk in the way of Christ and to preserve them in good works until the day of judgment. r. We all have the same story my friends. It binds us together. s. We were wretched sinners. Saved by grace through faith in Christ. And He has put His Spirit in our hearts crying Abba! Father! We are not slaves we are sons and if sons then heirs. t. We all have the same story! u. Therefore, we must confess that all true believers will have the same story we have. They must. Or they are not true believers. 2.) [Slide 22] Refutation: “What lies must we cast down” or “What do we naturally believe, or have been taught to believe, that this passage shows is false?” We must deny that a uniform conversion means an identical conversion. a. Yes, these 3, repentance, faith, and the Spirit's indwelling, are all true of all believers… b. But that does not mean that every conversion will be the same. c. There may be differences in timing. i. Some may experience faith before repentance. They want Christ to save them but it takes time for them to want to leave their sin. ii. Some may wait weeks, repenting and believing before they receive the Spirit. d. There may be differences in form i. Some may pray earnestly in repentance and faith. ii. Some may keep it all in their heads and hearts. iii. Some may wake from dreams or drunken stupors with repentance on their lips and faith in their hearts. iv. Some may hear a preacher preach the Word and come to faith. Others may simply pick up a bible and read and believe. e. There may be differences in degrees i. Some may weep and wail begging for God's forgiveness. ii. Some may yell and leap for joy. iii. Others may feel a weight of sin lifted. iv. Others may make the logical and comparatively colder calculation that Jesus is Lord of all and I must abandon my life and serve Him. Not a tear shed and joy gained but only in the matter being settled and the questions answered. f. There may be differences in theological precision. i. From long winded, tear filled confession of all that the sinner has done to a simple acknowledgement of sin's curse – it is all repentance. ii. From precise declarations of all Jesus is to the simple – Jesus save me… g. Though every story is the same in that we all turn from sin, cast ourselves upon Christ and receive His Spirit… Every story is not identical. It is not one-size-fits-all. 3.) [Slide 23] De-Exhortation: “What actions should we stop doing” or “What behaviors do we naturally practice that this passage tells us to stop doing?” We must stop accepting abnormal or insufficient assurances of true conversion. a. Did you pray a prayer? b. Did you walk an aisle? c. Did you accept Jesus into your heart? d. Were you baptized? e. Do you believe in God? f. Do you affirm these doctrinal truths? g. Are your parents Christians? h. Were you raised in the church? i. Are you concerned if you are truly saved? j. Do you think you can lose your salvation? k. These are all… useless questions. They ask nothing and predictably they answer nothing. l. They neither bring assurance nor comfort to anyone. m. They are tropes that aim at targets they cannot see. And we are surprised when they miss? 4.) [Slide 24] Exhortation: “What actions should we take?” or “What is this passage specifically commanding us to do that we don't naturally do or aren't currently doing?” We must test ourselves and others to prove this uniform conversion experience is true of us. a. Though the questions before ask nothing and answer nothing… because true Christians all have a uniform conversion experience… b. We can boil down our tests to three simple yet pregnant questions. c. Have we truly turned from sin? d. Have we truly believed on Christ alone? e. Have we truly received the indwelling of the Spirit of God? f. But how would we know the answers to these? g. If we have truly turned from sin, we ought to see a fight. A battle. A war. i. We ought to see evidence of a fleeing, fighting, scrapping, brawling person fighting tooth and nail to escape sin. ii. And we ought NOT see someone holding, cherishing, nurturing, or hiding sin. iii. If we've turned from it – it means we don't want it anymore. Not that we don't sin… but we hate it. iv. Sin is described in the scripture as an incurable illness or disease. Think about an incurable disease. Let's go ahead and say it… cancer. Do you treat your sin… like cancer? v. If I could just get a little more cancer. I know its not great for me but I love cancer so much. vi. Foolishness. vii. Have you turned from sin? h. If we have truly believed on Jesus Christ alone, we ought to see a growing love and dependance on Him. i. We ought to see a resting in the Person and work of Christ. ii. We ought to see a cherishing of His Words. iii. We ought to see an emulation of His ways. iv. We ought to see a love for Him and what He's done. v. We ought to see a passion to know Him more and more. vi. We ought to see joy overwhelm us when we speak of the cleansing power of the cross. vii. We ought to see a hope burn in us that He will return and take us home. viii. We ought to see a growing dissatisfaction with the world and a longing for His Kingdom. ix. We ought to see Him be our everything and everything else by comparison become nothing. x. We ought to see a love for His church. We ought to see a desire to worship with them, serve them, love them, and help them. xi. We ought NOT be attempting to earn or keep our salvation by our performance. xii. We ought NOT be flippant toward the church, the Word of God, or sin. xiii. We ought NOT be fearful or anxious over earthly struggles, nor should they overwhelm and undo us. i. And if we have truly received the Spirit of God, we should see change. i. Not change over days or weeks. But over years. ii. We ought NOT be the same people we were. iii. We ought to see a passion and power to love and obey the Lord. iv. We ought to see a passion and power to love and serve His people. v. We ought to see a passion and power to love unbelievers and share the gospel with them. vi. We ought to bear the scars of the Holy Spirit's hostile takeover of our lives. j. If these are true and we have the same story… We can be assured of our identity in Christ. 5.) [Slide 25] Comfort: “What comfort can we find here?” or “What peace does the Lord promise us in light of this passage of scripture?” Sharing a uniform conversion binds us to one another as equal inheritors in the promises of Christ. a. Not only are we assured and comforted by sharing the same story together. b. But such a shared story necessarily binds us to one another. c. We are all unworthy and wretched inheritors of beautiful promises. d. Promises we would have no part in were it not for Jesus Christ. e. We are all paupers turned into princes. f. We are beggars made Barons. g. We have all turned from sin, so we can help each other in the fight against it. h. We have all trusted in Christ, so we can help each other cling ever tighter to Him and what He's done, the joy of what He's doing, and the hope of what He will do. i. We have all received the Spirit, so we are all the temple of the Living God. We are God bearers all of us. We walk around with His Spirit providing the passion and the power to serve Him. j. Do you not find comfort in this? k. We all have the same story. A beautiful story of wretched little street urchins doing the will of our father the devil… but then suddenly adopted and made children of the Most High God. Let me close with a prayer by the Puritan Matthew Henry Lord, our souls have told you: you are our God. Other lords have had dominion over us, but we affirm the Lord this day to be our God. We will walk in your ways, keep your commandments, honor your judgments. We will listen to your voice and give ourselves to you as your people-for your praise, and for your glory. Lord, truly we are your servants, born in your house. You have loosed our bonds. We are bought with a price, so we are not our own, but yield ourselves to you. We join ourselves to you in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten. We are yours. Save us, for we seek your ways. We give you what is yours, that which comes from your hand. It is in Jesus name we pray this… Amen. Benediction: May the God of all grace, Who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, Himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you! Until we meet again… Go in peace.

Title: The Same Story Text: Acts 10:44-48 FCF: We often struggle with assuring ourselves of our and others' faith. Prop: Because all true believers share a common conversion experience, we must observe these in all whom we give assurance and receive into fellowship. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 10. In a moment we'll be reading from the LSB starting in verse 44. You can follow along in the pew bible on page 1243 or in whatever version you prefer. Today we will conclude the episode of Cornelius, saving the epilogue of chapter 11 for next week. God's hand has been prevalent in this entire episode. Giving two visions, speaking through the Spirit directly to Peter, leading him to the home of a Gentile, finding many gathered there. And after Peter gives a focused explanation of the gospel that Jesus is Lord of all, now we'll see the dramatic conclusion. And although there are few doctrinal issues that arise here in which Christians disagree, even amid those differences we will highlight the common and uniform experience of conversion for all who are truly united to Christ by faith. So, stand with me out of respect for and to focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: O Christ, we have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in you. May your Spirit meet with us today, and guarantee our inheritance in you, to the praise of your glory. In your name we pray. Amen. Transition: [Slide 2] If something has fur, a tail and barks. You would probably call it a dog. If something has feathers, a bill, and quacks – a duck. Grey skin, very large, with a trunk… you got it - elephant. Isn't it funny that I can list out three characteristics of an animal and invariably you can guess what it was. Why is that? Well, we come to expect certain characteristics and attributes to be the same across certain animals. Even though no two elephants are exactly the same. Generally speaking they share certain characteristics. Today, Peter will conclude without doubt that the Gentiles before him are genuine members of the body of Christ. He does not conclude this on a whim. Instead, he isolates key characteristics that prove it to be true. Let's see if we can arrive where Peter does. I.) All true believers share a common conversion experience, so we must look for these commonalities for the assurance of salvation. (44-46a) a. [Slide 3] 44 – While Peter was still speaking these things, i. Peter's message was not yet concluded. ii. Most likely Peter intended to carry on preaching like he did at Pentecost to implore Cornelius and his friends and family to repent and believe in the name of Jesus. iii. However, Peter was interrupted. And he was interrupted by the Third Person of the Godhead, God the Holy Spirit. b. [Slide 4] The Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the word. i. Because we will need to gather all the evidence from this text to do so, we will not comment on the specific meaning of the words “fell upon” here. Nor will we unpack exactly what the Spirit's work is at this point. We'll reserve that for the end. ii. Let's unpack everything else though. iii. First, although we aren't looking at the specific nature of the work, we can generally conclude by context that the Spirit's activity here is indicative of the work of salvation coming to Cornelius, his family, and his friends. iv. Secondly, we should see that not everyone in Cornelius' house that day received the Spirit's work. It was only those who were listening to the Word. Implying of course that not all of them were listening. c. [Slide 5] 45 – And all the circumcised believers who came with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also, i. For us, this might seem almost insulting. ii. The Jews really didn't expect the Holy Spirit to be given to gentiles? Wow. How elitist. iii. Well, no, not really. Even in the Old Testament where God alludes to the global nature of His kingdom and where God prophesies about the coming of the New Covenant… all is shrouded in mystery. iv. Paul comments about this in II Corinthians 3. v. But even if someone were to see through those mysterious shadows and perceive that God's Spirit would dwell in those of the New Covenant, who were all these prophesies written to? vi. Were they not written to Jews? Jeremiah 31 – this covenant will I make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. No mention of the nations here. vii. So, before we get too uppity ourselves, let us stop to consider how sensical the assumption was that Gentiles must become Jews before they become Christians. And even then, it would be uncertain if they inherited the New Covenant in the same way the Jews did. viii. But here, 6 Jewish Christians, 7 if you count Peter, bore witness to the gift of the Holy Spirit being poured out on the Gentiles. ix. Of course, the question remains how these Jewish Christians knew for a fact that these Gentiles had received the gift of the Spirit being poured out… x. Verse 46 answers that question. d. [Slide 6] 46a – For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. i. Here we see two distinct evidences that they had received the gifting of the Holy Spirit that He had been poured out on them. ii. First, they spoke in tongues. 1. [Slide 7] To remind ourselves, the tongues of the scriptures are not gibberish or babble , nor are they languages unknown to humans, and the only time they appear as a private prayer to God is when they are unprofitable to public worship and edification since they are uninterpreted. 2. Every single time the bible speaks of the gift of tongues in the scriptures it is always a known human language that is supposed to be uttered publicly unless there is no one to interpret it. Tongues were never intended of as a private prayer language, nor is the gift ever linked with non-human languages. 3. [Slide 8] If we confine ourselves to the book of Acts, we can make some further observations of the gift of tongues. a. We have no record thus far of any person privately receiving salvation and the gift of tongues together. b. When tongues are given, they are given only when a large group comes to Christ. And that group is always one that has never before received the gospel of Christ. c. Meaning what? d. The gift of tongues in the book of Acts so far has been used exclusively as a sign gift. A gift used to be a sign to others. e. Meaning what? f. We have seen the gift of tongues used to authenticate the message of the apostles to unbelievers. g. And although unclear, we have also seen some kind of sign gift used, probably tongues, to authenticate to the apostles that God has saved a new group of people. h. Outside of those two examples… we have not seen tongues linked to salvation, nor have we seen tongues used for any other purpose. iii. [Slide 9] So, we must ask ourselves – what is the purpose of the gift of tongues here? 1. Here it seems like it is not the messenger that needs authentication to the hearer but rather the apostle Peter and generally Jewish Christians, need this sign to authenticate that God has saved these Gentiles. 2. They received the same salvation the Jews received. iv. But this was not the only confirming sign that they had received the gift of the Spirit. v. [Slide 10] Second, they magnified God. 1. Although certainly less flashy, this is the primary indicative experience of all those who genuinely receive the gift of the Spirit of God in conversion. They are changed inside and out. 2. These Gentiles experienced the joy of the Lord in their conversion. They knew God and praised Him for what He had done for them. 3. This again proves to us that these tongues were known languages – probably Hebrew or Aramaic – since these Jewish Christians understood what they said to be magnifying the Lord. 4. And for these 6 Jewish Christians, these two signs proved one astounding truth. God has seen fit in His wisdom and grace to offer Christ and His indwelling Spirit to Gentiles in the same way He has been offered to the Jews. That by faith in Christ they can receive forgiveness and new life in Him. 5. And they can do all this without first becoming a Jew. e. [Slide 11] Summary of the Point: All people of every nation, tribe, language, color, gender, social and economic sphere, who through the name of Jesus believe in Him will receive forgiveness of sins and be indwelled with the Holy Spirit and produce evidence of that indwelling. This is the normal indicative experience of those who are united to Christ by true faith. And it doesn't matter what your background is, it doesn't matter what your identity is, there is a uniform experience. So as the church of Jesus today, we must look for this uniform experience for assurance of our own salvation and to help others find assurance of their salvation. Transition: [Slide 12(blank)] But besides gaining assurance for ourselves and that others are truly believers, what else must we do with the fact that the conversion experience among all true believers is held in common? II.) All true believers share a common conversion experience, so we must look for these commonalities to remove all hindrances from baptism and acceptance into the church. (46b-48) a. [Slide 13] 46b – Then Peter answered, i. What exactly is Peter answering? ii. Is he answering the tongues sign or the magnifying of God by the newly converted Gentiles? iii. Is he speaking to the astonished Jewish Christians, even though they haven't actually said anything? iv. And what is the nature of his answer? Is it corrective or instructive? v. How is Peter going to react to all of this? Is Peter going to rebuke the whole thing or has Peter learned from the vision he saw? b. [Slide 14] 47 - “Can anyone refuse water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?” i. Peter's answer is full of meaning. ii. First, although it appears that he is looking for consensus or agreement from the 6 Jews who came with him, the LSB's translation is mostly to blame for that. 1. It isn't poorly translated – that is for sure. But there are two words of negation in this text that the LSB does not translate. 2. The NIV translates this much closer to what Peter is saying I think “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 3. This is not Peter asking for consensus. Even though this is a question it is actually a statement. 4. Like when I say to my daughter… If I go out and check your chores to see if you've done them and find that they are undone, can I come back in and punish you? 5. Now am I asking her for consent? No. I am giving her a statement. My statement is, you better have done your chores or you will be punished. 6. Peter in a similar way says – you should see nothing keeping these people from being baptized because they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. iii. Second, from Peter's response, we also see his affirmation that the Gentiles received the Spirit in the same way that he and the other Jewish Christians with him had received the Spirit. 1. These 6 Jewish Christians are from Joppa. Meaning that they are not apostles. Therefore, Peter is not speaking to a specific reception of the Spirit as at Pentecost, but rather to a unified reception of the Spirit among Jews who had truly become part of the church. 2. Peter is saying that these Gentiles, though not being circumcised, though not being Jews, had received the Spirit the same way they had. 3. This was all the authentication Peter needed to state that there was nothing preventing them from being baptized. iv. But another point we must consider is that this scripture seems to be a huge difficulty for those who believe in infant baptism. 1. Although many Pedobaptists have attempted to use Peter's response to defend infant baptism, it falls short. 2. They say, that Peter's remarks here highlight the peculiarity that they had received the Spirit prior to being baptized but still needed to be baptized even though what the sign anticipates has already happened. 3. However, under careful analysis of what Peter actually says, it doesn't hold up. 4. Peter is not saying that since the cart was before the horse, we might as well supply the horse. Instead, Peter sees the reception of the Holy Spirit as the irrefutable evidence that they should be baptized. Why? Because that is exactly how it happened for the Jews. 5. This is not pointing to the peculiarity of order but rather to the commonality of nationality. The Gentiles received the Spirit in the same way we have. 6. Therefore, to have received the Holy Spirit serves as the evidence we must look for to confirm without doubt that someone should be baptized. 7. Peter here does not see Baptism as an anticipatory sign but as a confirming sign. Water baptism confirms that Spirit baptism has already occurred. v. And while we are already distracted talking about these doctrinal matters, let's go ahead and insert our discussion on the work of the Holy Spirit in this text. vi. [Slide 15] We are 10 chapters into the book of Acts. In those 10 chapters we have had a fairly large sampling of the activity of the Holy Spirit, especially concerning conversion. 1. In that sampling we can see that The Holy Spirit's work at the experience of conversion is not identical. We'll not take the time to go through it all, but on the screen is a brief sampling we can go through this upcoming Wednesday night. 2. So, what is common among these examples? a. No doubt the reason there is confusion is because Luke uses several terms to speak of the Spirit's work. i. Baptism of the Spirit ii. Filling of the Spirit iii. Pouring out of the Spirit iv. The gift of the Spirit v. Receiving the Spirit vi. The Spirit falling upon b. But we are confused because sometimes multiple things happen at the same time and sometimes they don't. c. We are confused because this is probably a square rectangle situation here. d. Just like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares, so also, all who have had the Spirit fall on them, be poured out on them, or fill them have also received the gift of the Spirit and been baptized with the Spirit also. e. Thus we see the Spirit's work divide nicely into two categories. i. The indwelling of the Spirit which is referred to as the Baptism of the Spirit, the gift of the Spirit, and receiving the Spirit. ii. And then we have the empowering of the Spirit which is referred to as the filling of, falling upon, and pouring out of the Spirit. f. Analyzing the book of Acts we find that all who received the empowering had also received the indwelling. But not all who received the indwelling also received the empowering. 3. [Slide 16] In this we can draw some doctrinal teachings. a. All who are regenerated of the Spirit and given eyes and ears to receive faith in Christ, will receive the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of God. Which is being indwelled with the Spirit. b. The empowering of the Spirit is a special and sometimes repeated work of the Spirit in those who have already been indwelled with the Spirit. This empowering is to perform a special task or function for a special purpose of God. c. Pentecostal Christians insist that the sign gifts, particularly the gift of tongues, is either a necessary sign for all who are genuinely Christians, or is a sign that whoever speaks in tongues are a higher tier of Christian than those who do not. i. Many who have attended these churches have felt an inordinate amount of pressure to produce the sign of tongues, but unfortunately, they produce a completely foreign sign to that of the scriptures. For the language they speak is, in most cases, not a human language at all. Nor is it being used as a sign to authenticate anything except that they are connected to God in some unclear way. ii. Much of what occurs in Pentecostal churches is directly contrary to what Paul instructs in I Cor 14 about the priority of preaching and the need for edification to be at the center. 1. Oftentimes in Pentecostal churches the sermon is underemphasized and sign gifts overemphasized. 2. Paul commands that an interpreter be present, which is often disregarded. 3. And Paul even reveals that tongues are a sign to unbelievers, whether they are interpreted or not. But if they are left uninterpreted it will chase them away from the truth of the gospel. vii. And so, we can conclude that the work of the Spirit here in this text speaks to both the indwelling and empowering of the Spirit for these Gentiles. The indwelling accompanied their faith and the empowering produced the speaking in tongues and magnifying the Lord. c. [Slide 17] 48 – And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. i. The six men though convinced that baptism must be administered, hesitated waiting for the Apostle to perform the duty. ii. But Peter commanded them to baptize these who had received the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. iii. We are not told that it was carried out, but the context suggests that Cornelius and a large portion of his household and friends were baptized that day and became members of the growing Church of Jesus Christ. d. [Slide 18] Then they asked him to remain for a few days. i. Here we see one final proof that they had received the Spirit. ii. They were hungry for instruction and fellowship. iii. I'd wager that the same four devotions from Acts 2 were present here. iv. They desired to be taught further the apostles' teaching. v. They desired to fellowship with Peter and the other believers in a new family. vi. They desired to share the Lord's Supper with them. vii. And they desired to devote themselves to corporate prayer together. viii. What a sweet time this would have been! How earth shattering. Even the Gentiles are being saved! e. [Slide 19] Summary of the Point: Peter points to the common and uniform experience that the Jews and the Gentiles shared in the salvation of their souls. That they too received the gift of the Spirit after repenting and believing the gospel. Therefore, he saw no reason to deny the Gentiles both the sacrament of baptism and the admission into visible church as a sign of their membership in the universal church. It was the fact of the common experience among all who are united to Christ by faith that made Peter strongly conclude that these Gentiles must be baptized. And so, for us we must also look for the same common experience among those who desire to receive the sacrament of baptism and be received as members of our local body. Conclusion: So, what can we see from this CBC? What doctrinal points can we learn and apply today? Doctrinal Takeaway: [Slide 20] As the church expanded and the gospel was preached to Gentiles, the question remained, will this be a separate church? Will the gospel be received by Gentiles and if so, will it be different than how it was received by the Jews? But since there was no essential difference between the conversion experience of the Gentiles and the Jews… When they saw that they repented and believed in Jesus as the Messiah of God and Lord of all, and received the indwelling of the Spirit of God just like the Jews did… Because everything about their conversion experience was the same as the Jews… Peter concluded that they must be baptized into the community of faith with the Jews. There was nothing preventing them… Not circumcision, not becoming a Jew first… nothing. The Gentiles and Jews were no longer divided. Just like God's vision revealed to Peter before. There was no more clean and unclean because God has made the unclean… clean. People of every background so long as their experience includes repentance, faith, and the reception of the Spirit of God – are part of the body of Christ. Truly there is no partiality with God. For us then, when we look for the assurance of our own faith, or to confirm the faith of others and baptize them and receive them as members of our church – we must look for those common traits that all true believers have. The uniform experience of conversion. But let me get a little more specific here and apply this to our everyday lives. 1.) [Slide 21] Mind Transformation: “What truth must we believe from this text?” or “What might we not naturally believe that we must believe because of what this text has said?” We must believe that conversion is a uniform experience among all who are truly in Christ. a. When Jesus began His ministry, it is said that He went about preaching repentance and belief in the gospel. b. When Peter preaches in Acts, he highlights these two essentials. That they repent and believe on Jesus as Lord of all. c. As the New Testament writers penned their letters under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, They encouraged their readers to continue to turn from sin and to continue to trust on Christ, not simply for salvation but to trust Him enough to love and obey Him. d. New Testament writers affirm what Peter says here, that the indwelling of the Spirit is an incontrovertible proof that someone is of Christ and needs to be baptized. e. And if someone has the Spirit of God living within them, they will know it! They will know it by the change in their lives. They will know it by their passions being made new. They will know it by their ability to love and obey the Lord. f. Repentance from sin, faith in Christ, receipt of the Spirit which is evidenced by a changed life. g. These three are necessary components of the religious experience called conversion. This is how God converts us into Christ followers. h. He gifts us with repentance from sin, faith in Christ, and His Spirit indwelling us. i. And my friends, this is all or nothing. j. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never turned from their sin. k. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never trusted in the finished work of Christ. l. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never received the gift of the indwelling of the Spirit. m. And there is no such thing as a Christian who having received the Spirit has not gone on to love and Obey Jesus Christ. n. Every true believer… Has all of these in common as their Salvation Story. o. Even children raised in the church having never done drugs or fornicated… Even they must turn from their sin of self-righteousness and pride. Both of which are abominations to God. p. Even children raised to have always believed that Jesus died on the cross for sin and was raised the third day… must by God-gifted faith embrace and wholly depend on this Lord to save them. q. Even children raised in the church, good mannered and well versed in the scriptures, must receive the Spirit of God to truly walk in the way of Christ and to preserve them in good works until the day of judgment. r. We all have the same story my friends. It binds us together. s. We were wretched sinners. Saved by grace through faith in Christ. And He has put His Spirit in our hearts crying Abba! Father! We are not slaves we are sons and if sons then heirs. t. We all have the same story! u. Therefore, we must confess that all true believers will have the same story we have. They must. Or they are not true believers. 2.) [Slide 22] Refutation: “What lies must we cast down” or “What do we naturally believe, or have been taught to believe, that this passage shows is false?” We must deny that a uniform conversion means an identical conversion. a. Yes, these 3, repentance, faith, and the Spirit's indwelling, are all true of all believers… b. But that does not mean that every conversion will be the same. c. There may be differences in timing. i. Some may experience faith before repentance. They want Christ to save them but it takes time for them to want to leave their sin. ii. Some may wait weeks, repenting and believing before they receive the Spirit. d. There may be differences in form i. Some may pray earnestly in repentance and faith. ii. Some may keep it all in their heads and hearts. iii. Some may wake from dreams or drunken stupors with repentance on their lips and faith in their hearts. iv. Some may hear a preacher preach the Word and come to faith. Others may simply pick up a bible and read and believe. e. There may be differences in degrees i. Some may weep and wail begging for God's forgiveness. ii. Some may yell and leap for joy. iii. Others may feel a weight of sin lifted. iv. Others may make the logical and comparatively colder calculation that Jesus is Lord of all and I must abandon my life and serve Him. Not a tear shed and joy gained but only in the matter being settled and the questions answered. f. There may be differences in theological precision. i. From long winded, tear filled confession of all that the sinner has done to a simple acknowledgement of sin's curse – it is all repentance. ii. From precise declarations of all Jesus is to the simple – Jesus save me… g. Though every story is the same in that we all turn from sin, cast ourselves upon Christ and receive His Spirit… Every story is not identical. It is not one-size-fits-all. 3.) [Slide 23] De-Exhortation: “What actions should we stop doing” or “What behaviors do we naturally practice that this passage tells us to stop doing?” We must stop accepting abnormal or insufficient assurances of true conversion. a. Did you pray a prayer? b. Did you walk an aisle? c. Did you accept Jesus into your heart? d. Were you baptized? e. Do you believe in God? f. Do you affirm these doctrinal truths? g. Are your parents Christians? h. Were you raised in the church? i. Are you concerned if you are truly saved? j. Do you think you can lose your salvation? k. These are all… useless questions. They ask nothing and predictably they answer nothing. l. They neither bring assurance nor comfort to anyone. m. They are tropes that aim at targets they cannot see. And we are surprised when they miss? 4.) [Slide 24] Exhortation: “What actions should we take?” or “What is this passage specifically commanding us to do that we don't naturally do or aren't currently doing?” We must test ourselves and others to prove this uniform conversion experience is true of us. a. Though the questions before ask nothing and answer nothing… because true Christians all have a uniform conversion experience… b. We can boil down our tests to three simple yet pregnant questions. c. Have we truly turned from sin? d. Have we truly believed on Christ alone? e. Have we truly received the indwelling of the Spirit of God? f. But how would we know the answers to these? g. If we have truly turned from sin, we ought to see a fight. A battle. A war. i. We ought to see evidence of a fleeing, fighting, scrapping, brawling person fighting tooth and nail to escape sin. ii. And we ought NOT see someone holding, cherishing, nurturing, or hiding sin. iii. If we've turned from it – it means we don't want it anymore. Not that we don't sin… but we hate it. iv. Sin is described in the scripture as an incurable illness or disease. Think about an incurable disease. Let's go ahead and say it… cancer. Do you treat your sin… like cancer? v. If I could just get a little more cancer. I know its not great for me but I love cancer so much. vi. Foolishness. vii. Have you turned from sin? h. If we have truly believed on Jesus Christ alone, we ought to see a growing love and dependance on Him. i. We ought to see a resting in the Person and work of Christ. ii. We ought to see a cherishing of His Words. iii. We ought to see an emulation of His ways. iv. We ought to see a love for Him and what He's done. v. We ought to see a passion to know Him more and more. vi. We ought to see joy overwhelm us when we speak of the cleansing power of the cross. vii. We ought to see a hope burn in us that He will return and take us home. viii. We ought to see a growing dissatisfaction with the world and a longing for His Kingdom. ix. We ought to see Him be our everything and everything else by comparison become nothing. x. We ought to see a love for His church. We ought to see a desire to worship with them, serve them, love them, and help them. xi. We ought NOT be attempting to earn or keep our salvation by our performance. xii. We ought NOT be flippant toward the church, the Word of God, or sin. xiii. We ought NOT be fearful or anxious over earthly struggles, nor should they overwhelm and undo us. i. And if we have truly received the Spirit of God, we should see change. i. Not change over days or weeks. But over years. ii. We ought NOT be the same people we were. iii. We ought to see a passion and power to love and obey the Lord. iv. We ought to see a passion and power to love and serve His people. v. We ought to see a passion and power to love unbelievers and share the gospel with them. vi. We ought to bear the scars of the Holy Spirit's hostile takeover of our lives. j. If these are true and we have the same story… We can be assured of our identity in Christ. 5.) [Slide 25] Comfort: “What comfort can we find here?” or “What peace does the Lord promise us in light of this passage of scripture?” Sharing a uniform conversion binds us to one another as equal inheritors in the promises of Christ. a. Not only are we assured and comforted by sharing the same story together. b. But such a shared story necessarily binds us to one another. c. We are all unworthy and wretched inheritors of beautiful promises. d. Promises we would have no part in were it not for Jesus Christ. e. We are all paupers turned into princes. f. We are beggars made Barons. g. We have all turned from sin, so we can help each other in the fight against it. h. We have all trusted in Christ, so we can help each other cling ever tighter to Him and what He's done, the joy of what He's doing, and the hope of what He will do. i. We have all received the Spirit, so we are all the temple of the Living God. We are God bearers all of us. We walk around with His Spirit providing the passion and the power to serve Him. j. Do you not find comfort in this? k. We all have the same story. A beautiful story of wretched little street urchins doing the will of our father the devil… but then suddenly adopted and made children of the Most High God. Let me close with a prayer by the Puritan Matthew Henry Lord, our souls have told you: you are our God. Other lords have had dominion over us, but we affirm the Lord this day to be our God. We will walk in your ways, keep your commandments, honor your judgments. We will listen to your voice and give ourselves to you as your people-for your praise, and for your glory. Lord, truly we are your servants, born in your house. You have loosed our bonds. We are bought with a price, so we are not our own, but yield ourselves to you. We join ourselves to you in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten. We are yours. Save us, for we seek your ways. We give you what is yours, that which comes from your hand. It is in Jesus name we pray this… Amen. Benediction: May the God of all grace, Who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, Himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you! Until we meet again… Go in peace.

“I recently referred to myself as an "autism mom." I honestly didn't know that could be offensive to some, but apparently it is -- like really offensive. I was told that in calling myself an autism mom, I am implying that I "have" something that is not mine at all. Implying that I am trying to own something that belongs entirely to my son. I think I understand... at least, I want to understand. I never want anyone to assume that I somehow think my son's autism is about me. It's not. His life, his body, his brain, his existence includes autism at its closest possible level. It's part of his very makeup. Good and bad. Easy and difficult. Day in and day out. Autism is his, and his alone. I do, however, think that parenting a child with autism is mine. Being a momma of a child with autism has its own challenges, its own rewards, its own misunderstandings, its own joy, and its own grief. And talking about it, writing about it, being honest about it, and owning it -- that matters. It matters for the parents who are struggling, who feel lonely, who are misunderstood every single time they speak with doctors and teachers and therapists. But even more, it matters for the children with autism diagnoses themselves. Children need to have a parent, autism or not, who is trying to understand, trying to learn, and trying to help them be uniquely them. (On a much smaller level, I think it's like calling myself a "soccer mom." I may not play soccer, but if I refer to myself as such, you know I am working to support my child in it.) A neurotypical parent and a child with autism need to be on the same team. Moreover, neurotypical parents of children with autism need to be able to identify other parents in the same circumstances, with the same needs. We are trying to figure this out, together -- for our children. It's why I call myself an autism mom. I think it means I am not afraid of the word "autism." I am not ashamed of the word "autism." Nor am I trying to claim any extra entitlement to it, other than this: I think an autism momma is exactly what a child with autism needs.” -By Shawna Wingert, HuffPost Contributor Motherhood, special needs, and the beauty of everyday messes. Sep 30, 2015, 02:01 PM EDT Updated Dec 6, 2017 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support

Dorin Dickerson and Jeff Hathhorn assess these comments made by Steelers' owner Art Rooney II and wonder if we'll actually see any significant changes this offseason.

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Speaker: Mislav Matejka, CFA, Head of Global Equity Strategy Earnings growth this year is on track for a largely flattish outcome. For next year, consensus is implying a significant pickup, at 10% EPS growth globally. Both topline and margins are expected to improve vs this year. There are risks to this, in our view, especially given that the corporate earnings are at present above historical trends, and that the starting point of profit margins is elevated. The consensus view goes against the reducing pricing power that corporates are starting to face - as PPIs have entered negative territory, there is downside risk to earnings, not upside. The headwind to margins could come from higher cost of goods sold through lagging wage increases, as well as higher cost of financing, while on the other side sales mix and volumes could deteriorate. Put together, next year corporate EPS growth could end up more flattish, rather than up, and this is without having recession as a base case. At the sector level, into next year we see downside earnings risks to Banks, Autos and Consumer Discretionary more broadly. On the other side, we believe Utilities earnings trends are likely to be very resilient, and Energy and Mining could be supported by better spot commodity prices. What do the potential EPS downgrades mean for the overall market? We believe that bond yields are set to move lower, as per our call from last month to go long duration, and we thought the knee-jerk equity reaction to peaking bond yields is a positive one, but also that this is unlikely to last. The historical correlation between bond yields and P/Es has not been consistent; it was sometimes inverse, as in the past five years, but quite often outright positive - on many occasions P/Es tended to fall, not rise, as bond yields went down. It is the EPS revisions which always displayed a consistent, and positive, correlation to P/E multiples. Over the past year, equities were resilient as EPS momentum improved. If EPS revisions roll over again, as the above drivers suggest, then P/E multiples could roll too. This podcast was recorded on 20 November 2023. This communication is provided for information purposes only. Institutional clients can view the related report at https://www.jpmm.com/research/content/GPS-4565785-0  for more information; please visit www.jpmm.com/research/disclosures for important disclosures. © 2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved.

A judge has slammed the ABC for a “death over dishonour” press release which he found incorrectly implied the Federal Court was trying to force journalists to reveal confidential sources in a defamation case against a former soldier. Qantas Loyalty boss Olivia Wirth has resigned from the embattled airline, five months after being passed over for the top job. Average prices for Uber's rideshare and delivery services could rise by up to 85 per cent as a result of the federal government's proposed shake-up to workplace rules, the company has claimed. Brisbane City Council will axe projects and slash services as part of a major $400m spending cut in the face of a budget blowout. Fire investigators are pouring over the burnt wreck of Stirling Village in Adelaide after a huge blaze swept through the shopping centre on Sunday, causing at least $15 million damage.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A judge has slammed the ABC for a “death over dishonour” press release which he found incorrectly implied the Federal Court was trying to force journalists to reveal confidential sources in a defamation case against a former soldier. Qantas Loyalty boss Olivia Wirth has resigned from the embattled airline, five months after being passed over for the top job. Average prices for Uber's rideshare and delivery services could rise by up to 85 per cent as a result of the federal government's proposed shake-up to workplace rules, the company has claimed. Brisbane City Council will axe projects and slash services as part of a major $400m spending cut in the face of a budget blowout. Fire investigators are pouring over the burnt wreck of Stirling Village in Adelaide after a huge blaze swept through the shopping centre on Sunday, causing at least $15 million damage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A judge has slammed the ABC for a “death over dishonour” press release which he found incorrectly implied the Federal Court was trying to force journalists to reveal confidential sources in a defamation case against a former soldier. Qantas Loyalty boss Olivia Wirth has resigned from the embattled airline, five months after being passed over for the top job. Average prices for Uber's rideshare and delivery services could rise by up to 85 per cent as a result of the federal government's proposed shake-up to workplace rules, the company has claimed. Brisbane City Council will axe projects and slash services as part of a major $400m spending cut in the face of a budget blowout. Fire investigators are pouring over the burnt wreck of Stirling Village in Adelaide after a huge blaze swept through the shopping centre on Sunday, causing at least $15 million damage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A judge has slammed the ABC for a “death over dishonour” press release which he found incorrectly implied the Federal Court was trying to force journalists to reveal confidential sources in a defamation case against a former soldier. Qantas Loyalty boss Olivia Wirth has resigned from the embattled airline, five months after being passed over for the top job. Average prices for Uber's rideshare and delivery services could rise by up to 85 per cent as a result of the federal government's proposed shake-up to workplace rules, the company has claimed. Brisbane City Council will axe projects and slash services as part of a major $400m spending cut in the face of a budget blowout. Fire investigators are pouring over the burnt wreck of Stirling Village in Adelaide after a huge blaze swept through the shopping centre on Sunday, causing at least $15 million damage.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emotional Intelligence in Relationships: Honoring Neurodivergent Needs and Communication Styles How do you center yourself in relationships when you're being told you're difficult to be around, or people stop communicating with you? How do you navigate ambiguous communication? I go on a rant because I was feeling frustrated. I talk about neurodivergence and my experience being autistic. I also explore the following: Is self-diagnosis for autism valid? What are misconceptions about autism? What is hurtful to say to someone who is autistic? HIGHLIGHTS Common misconceptions about autism Autism is often portrayed as a "male" condition, with diagnostic criteria based on white boys who externalize. – Girls and women with autism may not fit the stereotypical image of someone with the condition, as they may be socialized to be polite and take care of others' needs and feelings. – There is a misconception that self-diagnosis is not valid or reliable, but it is. For those who self-diagnose, it can be very empowering. Some people believe that autism is a "disease" or something that needs to be "cured," I believe I AM autistic.  It's how I'm wired.  I don't have autism—there's nothing wrong with me.– There is a stereotype that all autistic individuals lack empathy or emotional intelligence, but this is not true and is a harmful stereotype. – Many people assume that autistic individuals are not interested in socializing or making friends, but this is not always the case and is another harmful stereotype. What are harmful hurtful things one can say to someone who discloses they're autistic "You don't look autistic," or “You don't act autistic.” This statement invalidates the person's experiences and reinforces stereotypes about how autism should appear. It also indicates that the person really has no idea what autism looks like. "Just try harder to fit in." This disregards the challenges that autistic individuals face in social situations and implies that they are not making enough effort. "You're overreacting." Dismissing or minimizing the person's sensory sensitivities or emotional responses can be invalidating and hurtful. "You're being too sensitive." This statement undermines the person's experiences and feelings, disregarding their unique sensory experiences and emotional responses. "You should act more normal." Pressuring someone to conform to neurotypical standards disregards their authentic self and can lead to masking or suppressing their true identity. "You're not trying hard enough to communicate." This places blame on the autistic individual for communication difficulties, disregarding the fact that communication styles may differ for autistic individuals. Allistics (non autistics) set the “norms” for communication, which is also invalidating for how autistic brains are wired. "You're just seeking attention." Accusing someone of seeking attention can be dismissive and hurtful. Invalidating the challenges autistics experience and blaming the autistic is ableist. "You're not capable of doing that." Underestimating someone's abilities based on their autism can be demeaning and limit their opportunities for growth and success. "You need to be fixed." Implying that autism is a flaw or something that needs to be cured can be deeply hurtful and perpetuates harmful ableist attitudes. "You're not normal." Labeling someone as "abnormal" or "not normal" can be stigmatizing and contribute to feelings of isolation and low self-worth. It is important to approach conversations with empathy, respect, and understanding, focusing on acceptance and supporting the individual's unique needs and experiences. Neurodiversity Explained Neurodiversity is the concept that neurological differences are natural variations in human neurology, rather than disorders or deficits. – This perspective recognizes that every individual has unique strengths and challenges, and that these differences should be celebrated and accommodated rather than pathologized or stigmatized. – In the context of autism, the idea that autism is a "disease" or something that needs to be "cured." – It's important to understand and honor how autistic individuals are wired, rather than trying to make them conform to neurotypical standards. – There is a lack of diversity in the diagnostic criteria for autism, which are often based on white boys who externalize. - This can lead to a narrow understanding of what autism looks like and can result in many autistic individuals, particularly girls and women, being overlooked or misdiagnosed. – The paradigm needs to be changed, so we are embracing neurodiversity and celebrating differences, finding one's own community of like-minded individuals, and rejecting the notion that there is a "normal" or "correct" way to be. – By understanding and respecting neurodiversity, we can create a more inclusive and accepting society that values and accommodates all individuals, regardless of their neurological differences. PODCAST HOST Patricia was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, but is now exclusively providing coaching. She knows what it's like to feel like an outcast, misfit, and truthteller.  Learning about the trait of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), then learning she is autistic helped Patricia rewrite her history with a deeper understanding, appreciation, and a sense of self-compassion.  She created the podcast Unapologetically Sensitive to help other neurodivergent folks know that they aren't alone, and that having a brain that is wired differently comes with amazing gifts, and some challenges.  Patricia works online globally working individually with clients, therapists, and she teaches Online Courses for HSPs that focus on understanding what it means to be an HSP, self-care, self-compassion, boundaries, perfectionism, mindfulness, communication, and creating a lifestyle that honors you LINKS HSP Online Course--https://unapologeticallysensitive.com/hsp-online-groups/ Receive the top 10 most downloaded episodes of the podcast-- https://www.subscribepage.com/e6z6e6  Sign up for the Newsletter-- https://www.subscribepage.com/y0l7d4 To write a review in itunes: click on this link https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/unapologetically-sensitive/id1440433481?mt=2 select “listen on Apple Podcasts” chose “open in itunes” choose “ratings and reviews” click to rate the number of starts click “write a review” Website--www.unapologeticallysensitive.com Facebook-- https://www.facebook.com/Unapologetically-Sensitive-2296688923985657/ Closed/Private Facebook group Unapologetically Sensitive-- https://www.facebook.com/groups/2099705880047619/ Instagram-- https://www.instagram.com/unapologeticallysensitive/ Youtube-- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOE6fodj7RBdO3Iw0NrAllg/videos?view_as=subscriber Tik Tok--https://www.tiktok.com/@unapologeticallysensitiv e-mail-- unapologeticallysensitive@gmail.com Show hashtag--#unapologeticallysensitive Music-- Gravel Dance by Andy Robinson www.andyrobinson.com

Contacting the pin master. Bringing too many batteries. A backpack full of batteries. Advanced notice and warning for bowling. Not knowing if you are allowed to come down there. Knowing when it is good. The type of touching allowed during bowling. Implying hand stuff. Pin master or string master. Anything to keep busy while I am bowling. Return the shoes. Extended shoe rental. The one in charge of calling the police. Scratched bowling ball. Not allowed to take bowling balls into the bathroom. No bowling balls in the bathroom. He answers to Dad. These points do not make any sense. Getting extra grease for a more challenging approach. Wasted Links: wastedshow.com wastedmemory.com rogueserver.com/wastedmemory rss www.wastedmemory.com/feed/podcast/wastedshow Dragonmere Links: corndown.com youtube.com/dragonmere rogueserver.com/dragonmere Other Links: rogueserver.com worldofprankcalls.com/liveshows worldofprankcalls.com phonelosers.org

On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/10/23), Hank answers the following questions:Can you explain Jesus' words in Matthew 19:7-8, about giving a certificate of divorce? Does this mean that God didn't really want to give this law to Moses? (1:53)How did Judas die? There seems to be a contradiction between Matthew's account and the book of Acts. (7:01)How does God intervene in our lives if we have free will? How can God change circumstances through our prayers without violating someone's free will? (15:19)Do the passages in Scripture that describe God stretching out the heavens imply a young earth? (24:14)

In this week's Quick Fire Friday episode, Michael interviews Henry Stewart, Founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Happy. He's based in London, UK. Happy was rated the top 2 best workplaces in the UK last year and the top 15 in Europe. Happy, originally established as Happy Computers, is now focused on helping other organizations achieve what they've done; create great workplaces. Happy helps small-medium business owners with its values that equate to a happy, productive workplace; but the most important is believing in the best in your staff. People work best when they're trusted and given the creative freedom to make excellent decisions for the business, minimizing micromanagement, and focusing more on empowerment. This, paired with the implementation of the four-day workweek, Happy gained a 40% increase in sales last year and grew 25% each year. Happy workplaces are far more productive than unhappy workplaces, Henry said, “Trust your people, trust your people to step out into decision-making.” Implying that small-medium business owners should promote empowerment and autonomy, which can lead to greater creativity and innovation within their business.  This Cast Covers:   Tips on how to create a happy, productive workplace. Assisting other organizations in building a happy workplace. Gains that come from having confidence in your employees. Providing people with freedom within established guidelines. Developing a core set of values for your organization. Doing away with unnecessary levels of management. Giving your employees real accountability and responsibility. Improvements in productivity with the implementation of the 4-day work week. Becoming more productive through Happy's Productivity Blitz. The stark difference between a positive and negative work environment. Links: Henry's Linkedin Henry's Company Website Henry's Twitter  Additional Resources:  The Happy Manifesto: Make Your Organization a Great Workplace by Henry Stewart     Quotes: “People like freedom within guidelines.” — Henry Stewart. “As the owner of the business, you're not always the best person to know what to do, you need to trust your people.” — Henry Stewart. “Don't tell people what to do. Instead, build confidence, ask questions, and help people find their solutions.” — Henry Stewart. “Stop making decisions if you're the business owner.” — Henry Stewart. “Get people to play to their strengths.” — Henry Stewart.

Mark and Jeffrey open the show by discussing Adam Silver's comments about Ja Morant before Game 1 of the NBA Finals and what those comments mean. Also, Blake Toppmeyer joins the show to discuss the SEC schedule and conference re-alignment. 

In this episode, Troy interviews John Jonas, founder of OnlineJobs.PH and a pioneer in outsourcing tasks to virtual workers. He's based near Salt Lake City, United States. After quitting his day job to work online and becoming overloaded with tasks, he decided to outsource tasks to free up time. Now liberated with the idea that he could delegate tasks to keep from burning out, he and his newly hired programmer started OnlineJobs with the goal of helping small business owners all over the world find hardworking virtual assistants in the Philippines. OnlineJobs was launched in 2009 and has seen 50% growth since its inception. It now has a total of 40 FTEs in the Philippines, recently hitting eight figures last year, maintaining a truly remarkable run. Combined with the concept of arbitrage and teaching how to utilize outsourcing differently, John has helped a lot of small business owners manage costs and get more done by introducing them to hard-working VAs in the Philippines and providing Filipinos with a way to support their families.  To top it all off, John has placed an emphasis on the subject of thinking. Thinking is the number one habit that small-medium-sized business owners should develop and maintain to grow, as John said. Implying, that being able to think through the hard stuff is the catalyst for a small business owner to make things happen because consequently, it's where ingenuity and success happen. This Cast Covers:  The inner workings of John Jonas' company, OnlineJobs. Discovering the amazing work culture of Filipinos. Events that lead to John launching OnlineJobs. OnlineJobs' consistent growth since its inception. Gaining trust between your employees. Success is determined by the amount of progress made. Recognizing that success is not limited to business success. Delegating tasks that you are unfamiliar with to experts.  Solving problems through critical thinking. The significance of providing value to your business. Links:  John's Linkedin John's Personal Website John's Company Website  Additional Resources: The Outsourcing Lever: Secrets of How Successful Entrepreneurs Grow Their Businesses with Virtual Assistants by John Jonas My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy     Quotes: “You have to gain their trust, you have to do things so that they trust you.” — John Jonas. “Success is progress.” — John Jonas. “Success isn't just business success, for me, it's family life, it's a personal life, its relationships and all of that.” — John Jonas. “It's not just about money, it's about fulfillment.” — John Jonas. “Take responsibility ... when something goes wrong, you have to take the responsibility yourself.” — John Jonas.

Pierre Poilievre has never been shy about levelling a charge but did he go too far by suggesting Justin Trudeau was guilty of treason?   Bruce and I weigh in on that one, plus more on whether Trudeau himself has botched the whole issue of election interference.  We don't call this segment Smoke, Mirrors and The Truth for nothing!    

Howie Kurtz on Georgia forewoman hinting of a Trump indictment, Secretary Buttigieg taking heat for Ohio derailment response and backlash from Netflix cracking down on password sharing. Follow Howie on Twitter: @HowardKurtz For more #MediaBuzz click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Sathiya throws stones at the phrase "God loves the sinner, but hates the sin" While this statement certainly has truth to it, its usage comes with a lot of risks. Two in particular are addressed: 1) Using this to justify the continuation of sin in our lives 2) Implying the identity of a sinner, rather than that of a saint Join DeepClean Inner Circle Get a FREE copy of my bestselling book, The Last Relapse Follow Sathiya on Instagram Book A Time With Sathiya's Team

In today's episode, Sathiya throws stones at the phrase "God loves the sinner, but hates the sin" While this statement certainly has truth to it, its usage comes with a lot of risks. Two in particular are addressed: 1) Using this to justify the continuation of sin in our lives 2) Implying the identity of a sinner, rather than that of a saint Join DeepClean Inner Circle Get a FREE copy of my bestselling book, The Last Relapse Follow Sathiya on Instagram Book A Time With Sathiya's Team

Implying, of course, that there was something to remember to begin with. Some things...Many  things are better left forgotten. Is what I would say, if some of these things are real. Good news! The troubles and difficulties we face in real life are a lot less nefarious. Still really bad, but you know. At least you're better off understanding them. 

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Ronald J. Allen, John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University, joins Steve & Johnnie (filling-in for Lisa Dent) on Chicago’s Afternoon News to explain why someone would assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a civil or federal trial. Follow Your Favorite Chicago’s Afternoon News Personalities on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 […]

Ronald J. Allen, John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University, joins Steve & Johnnie (filling-in for Lisa Dent) on Chicago’s Afternoon News to explain why someone would assert their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a civil or federal trial. Follow Your Favorite Chicago’s Afternoon News Personalities on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 […]

Famous Mega Church Pastor Creflo Dollar recently did a Sermon to his congregation where he apologized for teaching them to tithe. He later explained in the message that there is no need to tithe when you are under "Grace." Implying to his members that they do not need to follow Gods Laws, because they are under Grace. Are we supposed to tithe? 'This is the share due the priests from the people. You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep, for the Lord your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the Lord 's name always (forever). ' Deuteronomy 18:3-5 (Paraphrased) It is my prayer that if I ever say anything, that you disagree with. That you go to the scriptures find the "Laws of God" and see if what I am saying aligns with "Gods Word." We've seen the money misused so many times by these Pastors that everyone is reluctant to give a tithe. Nonetheless, we forget that we are not giving the money to the "Man," but to God who sees your giving from above: 'At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.' Deuteronomy 14:28-29 There is back to back scriptures on tithing and the Lord Elohim, Yahuah says that if you tithe he would bless the work of your hands. I truly believe that many of us are not blessed because we do not tithe. Think about the so-called awaken community, we do not tithe at all. I have never seen someone who was righteous, who tithed to God, not be prosperous. I have never seen it in my entire life, tithing does work forsure and in this message above I give a personal testimony about my life and how tithing, being obedient to Gods Laws, his ideals, his principles has blessed me: 'Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father's household, then the Lord will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”' Genesis 28:20-22 Lastly, yes we are supposed to tithe our money: 'Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. Use the silver to buy whatever you like: do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own. ' Deuteronomy 14:22-27 “Don't you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.” 1 Corinthians‬ ‭9:13-14‬ ‭ “If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more? But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭9:11-12‬

Tim, Ian, Mary of Pop Culture Crisis, and Lydia host reporter and comedian Alex Stein to discuss his recent viral encounter with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, her lies about January 6th, the innocent people being held in jail for their participation in the event, Norm Macdonald's iconic appearance on 'The View' in the 1990's, and whether the moon landing really happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S3Ep86 All Doggos Go To ... , Pastor Newms [0:00] Hello and welcome, to season 3 episode 86 of the Berean Manifesto faith hope and love for the modern Christian. This is pastor newms and I'm here to deliver an interesting thought process. Interesting. Topic tonight last week's was pretty heavy and so I decided to go a little bit lighter with this week's for a question that is you know. Plagues us all sooner or later in time and my personal thoughts on it but so first thing. You're my week is good we got a lot of stuff done around the house getting ready for the next school year. And such starting to get that process going so that way we can be ready to home school the girls next year and just a lot of a lot of stuff going on in my house. Played some games not a lot of streaming games just because it was you know, kind of boring stuff I was doing and random times I didn't stream it all this week hopefully this next week I will but. Overall my work week was good and the week itself was good just real busy.  [1:30] I hope you guys all had a great week as well.  [1:35] But that's just kind of how my week went was kind of boring I didn't do anything Fantastical or anything.  [1:46] I don't think I can't remember anything I don't know alright see you, now onto the part of the show that I still don't like even though I'm continuing to do it every week because it's part of the show which is getting another pastor's the question tonight. Is what is one item you own that you really should throw away. But probably never will. So here's the problem with this question what is something that I should throw away but I probably won't. And the answer is everything. I keep way too much stuff. I collect things I treasure things very easily and I. End up.  [2:54] Having just boxes of stuff yes as Phoenix said it is a family trait she does a similar thing, I Won't Say I'm quite at hoarder status. Because I don't keep.  [3:17] Like newspapers boxes cans I've used you know things like that in piles but like.  [3:27] Anything that might be collectible I keep in the Box typically I keep.  [3:36] Things like that has Zaydiee says she's not like, me and Phoenix and we need to clean out a bunch of junk we never use which the reason we haven't is she knows if we were to start that process it would be nothing but a never-ending fight until we were done and, that'll be an interesting, time when she decides it's time to throw away a bunch of stuff because every time she does it gets to be pretty heated, nrm marriage during times when she wants to purge and I want to hoard. It was really really bad when we got married I came to the marriage with like 20 something. 24 totes of Collections and.  [4:36] Just stuff like I have two totes of t-shirts from high school never some of them are band shirts that's why and we are down to like five totes because I eliminated over time and certain things are just real important and so they're out and about if I could once I get everything set up, you know as we build out the house more and more over time some of that stuff will become.  [5:11] Integrated into the house I've got a lot of. Legos and lots of other things like that that are in boxes comic books things that are all plastic totes nothing's in boxes boxes, but hopefully soon we'll get all that put places I'll be rearranging my office soon, and when I do that it'll be time to it'll give me some time to be able to do some of that, purging an unboxing and figuring out OK is this box actually important is this thing in Port you know blah blah blah but I have a lot of stuff just stuff so yeah stuff. I think that's it for getting another pastors I think I think I think I think.  [6:16] Which then leads us to. The message for the night the conversation we want to have whatever you want to call it the part of the time of talking so. I wanted to talk about do doggos go.  [6:39] Blank now the term dog oh might be like the taco dogs are doggos dog. So it's play on that do all dogs go to heaven aspect because doggos is a is a thing and it's interesting because this is one of those situations where. Everyone has. Lots of people have opinions across all of history on what happens to pets every religion you know it gets asked because people love pets. So I thought we'd start with looking at what some religions outside of Christianity belief starting with Islam, um now this this synopsis I found so I don't know. I kind of grabbed a couple different sources and kind of pushed it all together as we all do with internet research so it's not like one place but, a bunch of stuff that I could find as I was researching so Islam doesn't and doesn't offer a clear answer in the Quran.  [7:59] But in order to go to, Heaven their version of Heaven beings must be judged by God on Judgment Day and so then there's a dissent among, Scholars on whether animals would or would not be judged but, the Quran does say that people that go people who enter Paradise can have whatever they want and then logically some people would argue that than it is. The pets. Because if you've had lots of pets over time you love all of them they've passed at some point or another of course that's what you want once you are in Paradise so that is the, Buddhism and Hinduism they both have a thought process of reincarnation in them and so over time you your, they do believe animals have a soul in are sentient and that it is part of The Reincarnation cycle and so in that they would not because.  [9:14] We are all animals are. Just part of our cycle of reincarnation so their thought processes is once you get to Nirvana you would be at a point of above that thought process, Judaism is similar to, Islam and what we're going to get to here in a few minutes with Christianity on whether it's kind of fuzzy.  [9:45] And you know there are some people who go so far as to. You know whether there is a true heaven or hell as other religions Define it other than just paradise and she'll which we've talked about in past. Broadcast and and so there's that aspect but some rabbis say that you know. Animals can go to those places some people say some Rabbi say animals can't but in Judaism there is the belief that animals do have, Souls from what I can understand and that's part of the whole kosher. In the blood because that's where the souls are you know held kind of and same with us you know life is in the blood those aspects and so in Judaism there is.  [10:45] The thought process that animals do have souls but it's unknown whether they can go to the paradise or the next phase. And then we get to Christianity where again, it's fuzzy because there are Scholars who believe yes there are scholarship believe know there are Scholars who believe no they don't have souls animals don't have souls but they do have.  [11:17] Similar to the Islamic belief of well but once you get to heaven it is Paradise and what would Paradise be without our pets and so there are all those types of, conversations so what I kind of wanted to look at quickly and this is going to be a shorter one because let's be honest this is kind of a funny. A funny topic that I just kind of want to talk about because it's a question that children ask a lot it's a question that other people ask a lot and so I just wanted to give people a thought of you know let's think about it. And there's a couple places in scripture where animals are talked about a lot. They of course were created before man. In Genesis and then I'm going to use very interesting story which. Is an odd one to use for this but.  [12:39] Thought process and balaam's donkey and so then when we look at. In 23 the story of Numbers 22 23 the story of Balaam, it said that the Lord opened the donkey's mouth so the exact thought is when the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the path of the Dawn, with a drawn sword in his hand she turned off the path and went to the field so Balaam hit her the angel of the Lord stood.  [13:15] The narrow passage between The Vineyards in the stone wall on either side of the donkey saw the angel of the Lord and pressed him herself against the wall squeezing balaam's foot against it so he hit her, once again the angel of the Lord went ahead and sit in the narrow place so there's no room to turn right or left when the donkey saw the angel of the Lord she crouched down under Balaam so he became Furious and beat the donkey with his stick, the Lord then the Lord opened the donkey's mouth, and she asked Balaam what have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times and Balaam answered which this part of the find interesting Balaam answered the donkey and wasn't freaked out about the fact that there isn't donkey, talking to him you made me look like a fool if I had my sword in my hand I'd kill you and the donkey said I'm, am I not the donkey you've written all your life have I ever treated you this way before no he replied and the Lord opened balaam's eyes and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the path with a drawn sword in his hand so. You know the reason I'm looking at this story of Balaam is this is one of the the times that. Animals have a direct Forefront.  [14:36] Part of the story where they are actually. So what are the only times they have a speaking role in the scriptures other than the serpent in the.  [14:55] In Genesis that was possessed and then the there's the. The, the prophetic aspect of the Dragon in Revelation which might or might not actually be, a physical creature or just the spiritual thought process of it which is another interesting discourse all in its own. So in that where it says the Lord opened the donkey's mouth the term for open that's used is I'm going to. I'm going to butcher this because I barely speak English properly but it's.  [15:51] Pause fuck its primary route to open literally and figuratively specifically to loosen. To plow to carve to Break Forth to draw out to let go free it's use about 143 times in the KJV. Version where Strong's has talked about so go with me on this thought process so the Lord opened the donkey's mouth so. My thought process here is if you open the mouth. That means it had to be closed it doesn't say gave the ability to speak it says open which implies that animals have that sentient aspect.  [16:50] And so replies it was closed now.  [16:55] We don't we don't have in the Bible listed a definite time that the miles were closed but. We know that it's talking about here and the serpent the serpent the only other time. And one of the main things that separates us for Animals is the stability of you know speech it's not the only thing but it's one of those big things of understanding and languages and, fought over whether or not animals have souls or if they have reasoning or if they run sheerly off of instinct more than thought, but to me this story shows the attitude of the ass and the fact that she strove to serve her master well and so in that to me, um that rejects that thought process that animals only run on, now those of us that have pets and do more of treating our pets like they are part of the family as opposed to actual pets. Like my family does this is not something that is.  [18:24] I surprised because we treat our animals like they have full attitudes all the time and so, you know we we often joke about things like that and you do notice in animals a distinct. Attitude often and so because of that I've always had that thought process of that animals had. The ability of speech and have their own personalities and have their own. Aspects of their personality just like their human counterparts which then leads us to. That thought process that day. Might have mental reasoning above.  [19:20] That of just logic now as humans we are three parts we are Body Spirit and soul, and so one could argue well maybe they have the spirit but not the soul or one could argue they have just the soul and not the spirit depending on which usage of each word that you use whether one is the connection to your your mind will and emotion and then the other is your connection to, God and you know the spirit, and so there's the always that thought process when you start to talk about souls and those types of things and we've kind of talked about Soul versus spirit before in past broadcasts, and so you have to kind of look at you know is there a true, difference which we know there is between the spirit and the Soul so is it possible that the animals just have, the mind will and emotions but do not have an actual connection to the higher power that humans have. So we're going to talk about the soul specifically now to kind of.  [20:39] Go into that the word that she translated into Soul most of the time is nephesh. And it's properly a breathing creature that is an animal, used very widely in literally mental and physical or an appetite it's used in the kjv 753.  [21:08] Examples of this is TLeviticusis 26:11 so we'll look at that real quick as one of the aspects that we have Leviticus, 26:11 no that can't be right that's going to be a typo.  [21:34] Is it how did you jump over to my parallel here sorry. 26  [21:47] Hmm.  [21:59] I'm looking for where I was actually I miss type something so let's find. Where it might be it's not into is it in six.  [22:44] We looking for.  [23:15] Okay. So here we have it is it's 26:11 sorry and I will set my Tabernacle among you and my soul, shall not a poor you and that Soul let's listed there is the 2315. Which is interesting because that is.  [23:42] You know the Lord talking to us so his soul he uses that word of a breathing creature. Then when we look at Deuteronomy 6:5 would help fight look at the right, versions so that's the video Kiss 26/11 we go to Deuteronomy 6.  [24:13] Five. We have love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all your soul and with all their strength and that word soul is the same that connection of the breathing. The breath that is in us and then if we look at Leviticus we jump back to Leviticus and we look at 27. 1:33 and say to them I have messed up my notes something terrible guys I'm very sorry.  [25:40] Do do do do do do do do do.  [26:00] There is a place where it is used for creature in Leviticus and that's what I'm trying to find and I am sorry that I have messed this up so royally.  [27:01] 5314 I'm looking at it would help if I was looking at the correct.  [27:13] Leviticus 26 11 let's go back there yeah using concordances incorrectly.  [27:44] So let's look at Genesis 1:20 so the verdict is 26 and then we had Deuteronomy I forgot to type these references and then we're going to jump to Genesis 1. And there it says. And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly and moving creatures that hath life and fowl that may fly above the Earth in the open firmament of heaven and that creatures that have life is again that, that's that aspect of the Soul, it's the same word that's translated for soul for humans as well as used for man in certain places and used for animals, creatures that liveth so what's that. Implying that that Soul or spirit that it is speaking of at that point is what defines life and so when we look at that that's what.  [29:10] That's where that conversation lies so we don't have to me we don't have biblical proof that animals don't. Have a soul in that so because of that there's no. Proof that they don't have the ability to move into the spiritual realm upon death so this is one of those situations where.  [29:49] We don't know. And that's okay some of these aspects are things that we have to have beliefs about and we have to have faith in what we have and what we believe but this is one of those situations where we don't have definitive. Proof we know humans will go through a judgment we know. Aspects like that but we don't know whether or not animals will just you know it's that, you know old school movie all All Dogs Go to Heaven well all dogs are good dogs so they go to heaven you know, there's that thought process and so this is one of those that's of course not a Salvation aspect so this is one of those just thought experiments more than anything else of what do you believe why do you believe it, situations like that and the question was posed to me one time and that's why I had even looked any of this up in the past and, have then kind of used it to to look at that but personally for me I feel that animals will. Because we know there are animals in heaven. That is talked about in scripture and I closed my.  [31:19] Bible program so I'm sorry technical difficulties just all over the place today we know that there is a time in.  [31:35] Scripture where if we look at the end.  [31:51] And that comes from I'm trying to find it again because I. Closed it after I opened it and this was not part of my.  [32:15] To do to do.  [32:18] Do do do do this wasn't part of my notes it just came to me while I was talking.  [32:36] And it is found in.  [33:00] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2.  [33:27] So  [33:48] 52 do okay the one place I decided not to look quickly is of course where it's talked about this is that whole thing about doing church together. It looks like I'm just wrong.  [34:43] So this is one of those weird. Aspects of Christianity where we talk about something over and over again but it is not accurate. In fun learning things together right guys so when Isaiah 11:6. The the passage talks about this is talking about the Thousand-Year Kingdom of Christ on Earth so this is before the final Heaven before the Ascension the final Ascension. But in Isaiah 11:6 it actually says not the lion but the wolf. The wolf it's actually talked about in a couple places Isaiah 6 11 and Isaiah 65 25 both of them say. The wolf and the lamb shall graze together which.  [35:58] Is interesting because we always hear line in the lamb the thought process.  [36:08] Possibly is when you look at you know it's just one of those things we're taught that's not actually document anywhere.  [36:24] Some people say the reason why it's gotten messed up is.  [36:32] In Revelation 5 and 6 when it's talking about the Scrolls being opened and it says and then one of the elders said to me do not weep, look the lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David has conquered so that he might be able to open the scroll and it's Seven Seals and then I saw one like a slaughtered lamb standing in the midst of the throne and four living creatures and among the elders he had seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the Earth um and then they open the scroll and so it's it's that aspect of combining, you know the Lord is talked about as The Lion and the lamb and then the wolf and the lamb slain down with each other, either that or it's yet another Mandela effect of I've jumped time streams and. You know they did turn the hydrogen the height of the.  [37:26] The collider in CERN is back on so who knows but it's actually not talked about in scripture about the line in the lamps that's one of those things that unless I cannot find it and Google has failed us all while I'm doing research on the Fly which is. Interesting. So it's supposed to be a wolf I guess it doesn't make for his good of pictures maybe of a wolf in Lamb's but. I think that's also kind of better, so we know for a fact in the Thousand Years when God recreates Earth there will be animals but actual end time Heaven you know eternity that is up in the air. But we can hope and that's that's what we do, you know we have faith we hope and we love I hope all my animals are there waiting on me because I want them all just a house full of animals from my whole life.  [38:35] So that is my. Discussion for tonight does anyone did anyone else that's listening all several of you guys know that it was wolf and not lamb am I the only one who thought lamb. I mean thought lion and lamb. I know Phoenix is out there and I know zadie is did both of you guys feel that.  [39:11] It was lying instead of wolf am I the only one has everyone left me.  [39:25] Phoenix says she knows it was wolf what what.  [39:36] What can I guess it was me. Lady says she agrees she remembers it being lying always taught lying in the lamb what zaidi why do you feel that wolf makes more sense. The verse we're talking about so well both Phoenix we are talking about you know.  [40:02] I was trying to find the scripture where it talks about the lion and the lamb which doesn't exist. And I thought the saying came from a verse. Because of what it implies but it does not.  [40:26] And so that's interesting because I always remember being taught it was lion and lamb in Revelation. It appears zaidi says wait what did you find 80 what does it imply.  [40:47] What does the verse imply well let's look at it again if we look at that was Isaiah 11. Six we can reread it 11:6. The wolf will dwell with the lamb the leopard will lie down with the goat the calf the lung Young Lion and the fatted calf will be together. And a child will lead them the cow and the bear will graze their young ones will lie together the line, eat straw like cattle an infant will play by the cobras pit and a toddler will put his hand into the snakes then they will not harm or destroy each other. On my entire Holy Mountain for the land will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is full of water, and the root of Jesse will stand as a banner and the Nations will look to him.  [41:59] Extend his hand to the remnant of people who survived this is all talk about the Thousand Years Isaiah prophesy sometimes. Interesting and and I agree Phoenix it does make sense when you think about it from the stack standpoint of the wolf is who usually fights against. Lambs other than a couple of times where it is a mountain lion.  [42:37] No no it's not a version aspect but I do agree he's 80 it has. More sense along the line of the other stories of Wolfson Lambs it does make a lot more sense and maybe it's just that whole thing about the lion is talked about later with the calf which makes more sense because let's be honest lions. Fight calf's more than sheep.  [43:06] And and yes Sadie in Narnia it is definitely a lamb and a sheep. And not a mountain lion but an actual I can't find. A verse with the line of the lamb but. Feel free to reach out to me you can find out how to contact us on EKK.House and. If I cannot find it and that would be good I'm sure someone out there would messages if possibly. You're the one who said Narnia and you're going to tell me I'm going to make you I'm sorry okay so we record this podcast every Sunday night at 6:30. And we. The live stream goes out on Twitch Facebook and YouTube and we welcome the chat.  [44:19] I'm confused someone said Narnia we welcome the chat to allow for. The fact of having the conversation doing church together this isn't just one person or two people when Pastor Bill is with us and back from sabbatical to to do this this is all of us together. And so we record it 6:30 you can go to EKK.House as I was saying earlier and there you can find out which twitch which Facebook in which YouTube, but we would love for you guys to join us in this live recording so we can, interact and have fun and hang out while we study these things together often times while we're studying and Googling and, and reading scriptures and such on the Fly sometimes because of something I have my fidget in my hand, and I'm Still rocking I'm sorry Phoenix says I'm making her dizzy because I'm rocking back and forth for those of you who want to watch live you can come join and see how much I do not sit still when I'm recording this. So please come and join us and we hope to talk as we go and I hope to see you again next week and we love you guys and be safe.

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I hear people with anxiety tell me all the time, “I just don't have the bandwidth.” Implying they don't have the energy, or the time. But where did this LACK come from? How do we already start the day ‘behind'?If this sounds like you, pause. Breathe. Take a second. As you're breathing, focus on the here and now. Stop focusing on the tasks of the week, and getting everything done all on one day. You have the bandwidth. Focus on the NEW day put in front of you, and the new capacity you were given by started the day fresh. If you operate from a “new day, new me” perspective, you'll be able to put more intention and focus into each activity of your life. You have to appreciate that and actually SEE / feel that. And when you focus on the present moment, you'll see that your capacity will open up, and you'll be able to tackle everything at 100%. You have the bandwidth. By the end of the day, the week, and the month, you'll see how much you were able to accomplish. But as long as you're operating from a place of scarcity, it'll be hard to see the forest for the trees. To summarize, the things one day at a time. Make a list. Get it out on paper. The list is just a series of things in rotation that stay there until they get done. So if it doesn't happen today, we can do them another day. You have the bandwidthCome hang in my Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/teamjaim91Or connect with me on Instagram: instagram.com/jaim91

I bet you didn't know these 19 things women find attractive! In today's video we're going to be talking about what women find attractive. What makes a man, his personality & qualities so handsome, charismatic, charming, beautiful, seductive & alluring? What do girls consider to be a good-looking man? By the end of today's video you'll have learnt about 19 things women find so lovely on a guy. Gentlemen have you ever heard the phrase that women are from Venus? Basically it means that women are from a completely different planet to men. Implying that they are completely different creatures and have different ways of thinking, which is why there are things that they find attractive in men that guys don't even know about. And you guessed it, today's video I'm going to tell you all about the 19 things that you probably didn't know that us ladies find attractive and who knows perhaps some of you already have them let's dive in deep, like and subscribe. #Joyanima #Dating #Attractive 0:00 Intro 0:32 What women find attractive 0:40 Take rejection like a gentleman 1:22 Selfless acts 1:55 Show off your geeky side 2:23 Wearing the colour red 2:42 Be a good friend 3:31 Roll up your sleeves 4:07 When men sweat 5:03 When men take risks 5:23 When a man gets broody 5:44 When men wear a uniform 6:01 Go grey 6:40 Enjoy the present moment 7:04 Being approachable 7:24 Being kind to strangers

In this episode, Jim Garrity tackles the question whether you can bluff a dishonest deponent - for the purpose of encouraging the witness to be truthful - by implying you have evidence that actually doesn't exist? This episode discusses a decision that confronted this precise question. A lawyer placed cassette tapes on a table in front of a deponent during the examination. The tapes were suggestively labeled to imply that the tapes contained recordings of the witness' conversations, although they contained nothing of the kind. Learn more by listening to the episode. As always, email us with questions, comments, or show ideas at DepositionPodcast@JimGarrityLaw.com.SHOW NOTES: Cincinnati Bar Association v. Statzer, 800 N.E.2d 1117 (Ohio 2003) (disciplinary action initiated against trial lawyer who used props at deposition to incentive potentially-dishonest witness to be truthful)Green, Bruce, Deceitful Silence, 33 No. 2 LITIG 24 (2007) (discussing the use of trickery in litigation)Disciplinary Counsel v. Brockler, 48 N.E.3d 557 (Ohio 2016) (prosecutor suspended from practice for one year, based on his creation of a bogus Facebook page, which he allegedly used to communicate with a defendant's alibi witness; the goal was to see if he could create sufficient dissension between the witness and the defendant to cause her to recant her support)

This week, Andy solves murders and questions time-traveling moats, while Penny takes our order as she goes through a classic Penny horror film, Drive-Thru. 7:45 - Murderville   10:20 - Black Knight  22:00 - Drive-thru  Welcome to The Unusual Suspects Podcast - Where three film fans talk about movies of varying quality. Some are great. Some are dreadful. Some are absolutely fine. Join us as we journey through tangents, shambles, and absolute rubbish. Listen to the podcast here ► Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5DCVar9YPPayLTL15xBjHR ► Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-unusual-suspects/id1520080657 ► Anchor - https://anchor.fm/unusual-suspects ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFtwSl3e_1NShxV0IqiaW9Q ► Google Podcasts - shorturl.at/pFLMS ► Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1520080657/the-unusual-suspects ► Pocket Casts - https://pca.st/05ndn02p ► RadioPublic - https://radiopublic.com/the-unusual-suspects-WwRk95 ► Breaker - https://www.breaker.audio/the-unusual-suspects Socials ► Twitter - https://twitter.com/unusualpodspect ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/unusualsuspectspod/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/unusualsuspectspod ► Penny - https://twitter.com/Penny_Photopit ► Andy - https://twitter.com/Joicers21 ► Dan - https://twitter.com/DanTalksALot Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get this podcast, it's much appreciated. We love you long time. Main Banner Artwork by Lisa O'Reilly - https://animonink.ie/ Music by Andrew Stanton - 'Laugh It Up Fuzzball'.

We've made it, we got through another series, and we end our look at the Texarkana Phantom Killer with looking at the suspects. And there were a few, but given when all this took place (1946), pinning anybody to the crimes was tough without a confession, even though they might have had one. The main guy we're looking at here is Youell Swinney, who when confronted by police, told them not to shoot, and that he didn't want the electric chair. This, naturally, confused the officers who in turn asked why any of those things would happen to a guy who stole cars, to which he replied, "You have me for more than that, don't you." Implying quite a bit there. Oh, also his wife confessed to him killing people. So, there's that. Of course there are a million reason why his wife might lie. He's a criminal, and maybe abusive, so if she got him locked up for life, she could start over. It didn't help that she recanted her confession later on. There was a ton of evidence against him, but most of it was classified as circumstantial.  All in all, there were over 400 suspects interviewed for the crimes, yet, none were ever charged.  Our sponsor: www.morbidlybeautiful.com Merch: www.redbubble.com/people/HorrorShots Youtube Website: www.horrorshots.com Instagram: ominousoriginspod Twitter: @horrorshotsprod Facebook: Horrorshots Patreon: www.patreon.com/horrorshots

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including the current situation at Tesla Fremont factory, Hyundai Ioniq 5, WD ID.4, and more. The Electrek Podcast is me, Fred Lambert, editor-in-chief of Electrek, and Seth Weintraub, founder and publisher of Electrek and the 9to5 network, discussing all our top stories of the week while taking questions from our readers and highlighting the most insightful comments on the site. The show is back live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek's YouTube channel. As a reminder, we'll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the video will be archived on YouTube and the audio on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcasts Spotify Overcast Pocket Casts Castro RSS We now have a Patreon if you want to help us to avoid more ads and invest more in our content. We have some awesome gifts for our Patreons and more coming. Here are a few of the articles that we will discuss during the podcast today: Tesla stops taking orders for cheapest Model Y in hard-to-follow updates Tesla Model Y Standard Range is still available ‘off menu,' but Elon Musk doesn't like the range Tesla shuts down Model 3 production line for 2 weeks amid chip shortage Elon Musk confirms ‘high demand' for updated Tesla Model S/X, factory restarts after parts shortage Elon Musk says Tesla is shifting more electric cars to LFP batteries over nickel supply concerns Hyundai unveils Ioniq 5 electric car: Out-of-the-box EV loaded with attractive specs and features USPS announces postal fleet replacement contract, doesn't even go all-electric Here's the live stream for today's episode starting at 4 p.m. ET (or the video after 5 p.m. ET): https://youtu.be/YAp3QXoNR5s var postYoutubePlayer;function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() { postYoutubePlayer = new YT.Player( "post-youtube-video" ); } Transcription Fred Lambert: We are alive for a new result of the electric podcasts. I'm Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual I'm joined by set. When job are you doing today? I'm good. All right. You've been okay. The VW ID for, for a while now, you were able to test it for a week a week. We weren't supposed to be able to talk about it. [00:00:19] We don't have a post to reference for, for, for you guys to go read because the, the, the embargo was supposed to be later this weekend or early next week, Monday. On day and, but it was broken for some reason. And then the illustrator journal screwed up. They speed it  [00:00:36] Seth Weintraub: up. I think they put it in the print. [00:00:37] So you can't take it back? No, you can't take that back.  [00:00:41]Fred Lambert: So, so we're going to be able to talk about that. We're going to do it later on in this show, even though, like I said, the post is going to be coming probably this weekend and a video and the video too. All right. And then you went on that bolt, you. [00:00:54] Just a UV or did you get the new Evie too? Well, they were  [00:00:57] Seth Weintraub: both there, but we weren't allowed to drive the bolt Evie, which is weird because you know, it's been around for five years. But we got to drive the boat EEV and it was pretty insane.  [00:01:07] Fred Lambert: All right. That is Virgo though. So it's not interesting. [00:01:11] It's just blank. You cannot say anything about it, right? On Phil Monday, right? Monday,  [00:01:16]Seth Weintraub: One o'clock I think.  Tesla stops taking cheapest Model Y orders [00:01:17] Fred Lambert: All right. So we're going to discuss that on the next episode next week, but you're going to be able to read about it on Monday. Of course, if you follow electric we got to start with our testing and use as per usual, and we going to stop with something that happened last weekend, and then we add some more information this week that that came up and that's the mobile wise standard range. [00:01:39] So last week we discussed the price changes and everything, a good $2,000 a half. The standard range. I was like, all right, this is interesting stuff. And we'll just a month into the vehicle being launched already at $2,000 price cut. Now the model Y is less than $40,000. Interesting stuff. Then it just disappeared this weekend, this weekend, they took it off. [00:02:01] They took it off the configurator and people were like, Hey, well what's happening? Is it cancel? Or they just stop to take orders. We don't know. We didn't know. But that was very surprising just a month into watching it. And then a few days into cutting the pricing effectively. And then this week Ilan commented on the, on the issue. [00:02:20] He said that it's still available, but. Of the menu. So we know what that means. We know that what happens with that generally means that it's it's, it's going away. That's what happened with them all three salmon range. And it's, it's a weird thing just to, to have an existing 3m of your vehicle. Just, we don't tell you that it's there, unless you like you're in the know if you will. [00:02:43] Seth Weintraub: Yeah. I've got some questions about that because you can't just have a battery configuration. Like, are they going to still have the battery that battery size or are they going to like software limit? The long range battery.  [00:02:59] Fred Lambert: Well, the way I see it is that the standard Mo wide standard range was really a standard Amal as the same powertrain as a model three standard range, plus really call it a standard range because there was no standard range to be a plus though. [00:03:14] The same thing is true now for them all three. So they could, you could also change that. But it, so if that's the case, then. I assume it's not that big of a deal to just use the military center drainage plus power train and build them all wire around it. Or like you said, if it's really low, I mean, I felt like there was going to be a popular vehicle. [00:03:32] So if it, if it's to be popular, if it'd been a lot of people gonna order it, I don't, I don't think they cannot. I D I just don't think the, the, the, they would stop for a lucky, with a bigger batch of bag, because then you're you deliver more value for a smaller price?  [00:03:46] Seth Weintraub: Yeah, I agree. It's weird. I don't get it. [00:03:49] Yeah. It's that AI is that AI pricing.  [00:03:53] Fred Lambert: I think it's Ian, because Ian said that you said in many driving condition as yet to meet a Tesla's standard of excellence. So it goes back to originally why we were surprised in the first place last month when this law shit, because you had said that it was canceled. [00:04:08] So, if we go back to the beginning of the history of the military standard range, it was announced all the way back at the launch of 2019 and the March doesn't 19 of them. The more why. And it was part of the configurations that this was planning to make available at last, the 250 miles of range back then. [00:04:26] And then later on like a year later, I think, you know, and said that yeah, we're not going to launch it because it's going to have less than 250 miles of range, which we, we w we find unacceptably low. And yet a few months after that, they ended up launching it with 244 miles of range, which is. I think it's good for that price. [00:04:46] Like, I think it makes sense though. He is fair when he says to be fair, he does mention in many drive conditions. So, right. Like in, in, in Canada, for example, or in places where you have a lot of snow, you have cold temperature. Yes. I mean, two 44 miles range will be a lot closer to one 50 miles range in very cold conditions. [00:05:09] So with snow tires and everything. Yeah. Yeah. So at that point, yes. It, it's not, maybe not opposite Tesla standards. Yeah. You got  [00:05:19] Seth Weintraub: to make it between superchargers.  [00:05:22] Fred Lambert: Yes, exactly. But but in, in plenty of other markets, do I think it would be, would have made a ton of sense. Like it's still up with with the incentives too and everything like it's, it is, it becomes a very attractive vehicle, but. [00:05:34] And they decided not to do  [00:05:35] Seth Weintraub: that. Yeah. I mean, like right now. So if you order one of those in, let's say a month, if they're still around in a month via phone, is that going to have a battery, like a small battery pack? I guess it's the battery pack, like you said, that goes into the model three and they have the model three standard range plus, but that battery pack isn't like normally, like most model wise, they're going to have a long range battery pack. [00:06:02] So it would, it's just a weird thing to have, like, like I'm sure the call volume isn't high. So it's just a weird thing to do.  Tesla switching to LFP batteries over nickel supply concerns [00:06:12] Fred Lambert: Yeah. Well, this is, we're speaking about that. I think it might be worth noting when Elan said yesterday about the LFP batteries. Yes. Making it to standard range vehicle at Tesla, because you just said standard range. [00:06:24] He didn't say cars, didn't say mole three. So you said that Nicole is our biggest concern for scaling leads to my onsite production. That's why we were shifting standard range car to  plenty of irony. And leads him exclamation Mark. So we know already that the Mo three standard range plus produced in, in shin guy and the operation guy in China is using an [00:06:50]And then if the chemistry  [00:06:52] Seth Weintraub: that's from cattle, right.  [00:06:54] Fred Lambert: CATL yeah, I think so. So I run phosphate is known to be to have that as much energy density as Hi, Nicole cattle. Am I on with like NCA or NCM? Nicole manganese or just very high density? Nicole. So. There wasn't as much used in, in passenger cars though in China, it was a bit more popular with, with cheaper vehicles. [00:07:18] Cause it is cheaper to, and so a lot of people were saying the white Tesla was bringing that to the standard arrangement. All three it's not necessarily because they were saying that the energy density has improved enough and it has improved, but it's also obviously a cost situation here. The standard range plus is this is cheapest vehicle and People weren't too worried about it because it's just for China, the Chinese market, it sounds like, and people already a lot more used to it than China, but then they launched it in Europe. [00:07:44] They brought that vehicle to Europe. Now this thing arranged model three is produced in Shanghai for the European market. And then in Europe, people are starting to know this, Oh, it's not as good as the version with a nickel Kitto because the, the charging speed all a bit slower. And also in winter conditions, when it's colder, not as efficient, doesn't get as much range. [00:08:07] So. People were a bit worried about that, but what was interesting? Yeah, his comment is that that's where we are shifting standard range car to an iron ghetto. So he's implying that the shift is, is ongoing, the are shifting right now. So that might be meaning that the mode three standard range plus produced in in Fremont for the U S market and North American market. [00:08:29] And then everybody, everything else. Could also be shifting to LFP battery cells, which would be interesting. Yeah. And maybe they are waiting for that shift to happen in order to launch a model Y standard range. There you go. Because again, it's not just about range, it's also margin. This shoots also cost issue, and that might make more sense for them a little while at $40,000, if it has that battery. [00:08:55] Seth Weintraub: Also, we should note that I think iron phosphate is a little bit safer. Like you know, you puncture the battery, it doesn't have the runaway. Okay. It's not as explosive.  [00:09:03] Fred Lambert: Yeah. Thermal runaway, thermal runaway. Yeah. So yeah, I thought it was interesting too. Yeah, that's a good connection in to that, that poster, but now let's let's go back to what's happening at Fremont this week. Tesla shuts downs Model 3 line for 2 weeks [00:09:15] So there was a report. Yesterday from Bloomberg stating that a bunch of employees on a mole, three production line were told not to show up to work until March 7th. Because there was they were shutting down the production line. It wasn't clear why, but we speak later that it could be because of the Industry-wide microchip shortage that the automotive sector is experiencing right now because why we speak to did that. [00:09:40] But first of all, if someone is an automaker is announcing not that this announced anything. Of course, people had to find out by looking good, but yeah. The if for the filmmakers announcing production out or, or deceleration of production, it is generally because of that microchip shortage right now. [00:09:56] I mean, GM for Nissan Toyota in Subaru. Yeah. Christ are, they all announced at least deceration of some production line and in some cases, a complete alt of the production due to the shortage. So. With that in mind and with the fact that what happened in Texas last week, and we know that Samsung is in Texas and Austin with a big factory that, that lost power and that factor is, is part of the supply chain for Tesla for Tesla is a chip that goes into the hardware 3.0 computer. [00:10:27]We just made one this morning through and it would make sense that it affected this as inventory and they would eventually have to outside their own production capacity. Now what we learn after that, Ilan commented later on yesterday that it was indeed, there was indeed the production shut down, but it wasn't exactly that it was actually a broader shut down than we expected. [00:10:50] It was just one production line. It was actually the whole factory that shut down for two days, started back up a day before yesterday. A lot of people assume all that means that the Bloomberg report was was nonsense. I w I wouldn't go as far as saying that, like, W what Elan actually said is that it was even bigger than that. Elon confirms 'high demand' for Model S/X after parts shortage [00:11:07] The whole factory was shut down. They said it's already getting back up. So it's not going to be shut down for, for two weeks. Like like Bloomberg stated, but Bloomberg was just talking about one specific production line that, that production, I might really take two weeks to bring back up. Like the factory is not just a switch. [00:11:21] You just. Go on and off. So it could, it could very well be the case. He didn't confirm it's for a microchip shortage, but did say some some parts supply issue. So I think that's very likely at this point, but in that email that we obtain You also mentioned a few other interesting things, especially regarding the model S and X to upgrade. [00:11:41] So when, when does the launch the refresh that's? The next thing was, it was really, it was saying that it was going to be deliveries in the next few weeks by the end of February. And we we haven't really seen that. So, so far it looks like it might have been pushed a little bit. And in the email you wrote Maul S and X production liner almost done with the retooling. [00:12:00] So. Implying that these two are going to be a few more days needed to start ramping up production and started deliveries. We will be aiming for max production next quarter. So that's encouraging and then he added, there is high demand. So we are going to need to go back to two shifts even ask employees to recommend France for recruiting. [00:12:20] So it's been a while since the all S the next lines of I've been on two shifts. We, we noted of course, cells have been declining a lot in the last few years as the program became sort of stale and, and the, the store was focusing of course, on all three middle Y. So, so yeah, it looks like a, the, the refresh did it. [00:12:38] Breed some, some life into the, the vehicle programs. And now they're going to have to ramp up production to society.  [00:12:46] Seth Weintraub: Yeah. So the original email March 7th, what do you think that person who got that email is that guy or woman, is he, or she. Fired now, or like what, what  [00:12:58] Fred Lambert: I mean, it was, it was a whole production line, so I assume it was a lot of people would be like track it down. [00:13:03]There was some people that were stating today that they were told to come back to work now. So, so maybe the, the ripping up faster, or maybe they're going to be used to do the maintenance, the retooling, like they said that they're going to do two on more, few more wise. So. Hyundai unveils Ioniq 5 EV [00:13:20] Yeah, I doubt anyone's called fired, but you never know. I'm sure they're looking. Yeah. All right. We're already a very, do you want with two tests news use pretty quick. So let's move on to ya. I think personally, what I think was the biggest news of the week here, the good news. It got me the most excited was the Hyundai ionic five official on dealing. [00:13:41] We sort of equal and full on the 23rd. And it hit the Mark for me. It hit the Mark. Pretty, pretty good. I  [00:13:49] Seth Weintraub: was also pretty excited  [00:13:50] Fred Lambert: about it. Yeah. Design wise. I mean, look at that car. Yeah, it's for everyone. It's definitely a step forward and not again, like it is so, so like anything like you need to change like any more like drastic design. [00:14:02]Do I, I would argue it's not that drastic. It's not like BMW high three, eight years ago drastic, but it, it is forward. But in my opinion, like a lot of automakers dropped the ball in term of design when it comes to the front hand. I don't think that's the case here. I mean, the headlights are very new, like this old square thing. [00:14:23] It's not usual, but it works very well into the design, the hood. And then, yeah, this thing here and the middle, there's a little line here. It just works for me. It works. Yeah. Let's go on no need for a fake grill or anything like that. Just, they don't  [00:14:39] Seth Weintraub: even have the charge board in the front anymore. [00:14:41] Yeah.  [00:14:43] Fred Lambert: I mean, that was the Nero. Oh  [00:14:46] Seth Weintraub: yeah. That was key and Monday. Yeah. Cause it, the solar DB had that too.  [00:14:52] Fred Lambert: Did the, yeah, the soul and. So the Cola doesn't have it is it's only the  [00:14:58] Seth Weintraub: Negro. Yeah. I think that Kona has a normal one.  [00:15:00] Yeah.  [00:15:01] Fred Lambert: Maybe not. I don't know. I mean, I know the Niro as it from Kia and that pissed me off, but yeah, I think it works like it's and here's the thing that's interesting with it. [00:15:13] That thing is basically the same size as an ID for VWR D four. It's actually a little bigger than ID for, in everything except the eyes of the car. So, because if you look at it that it looks like a hatchback, they call it a CUV, but looks like almost a hatchback, but it's actually the size of a CUV again, except from the height. [00:15:32] And of course their height also contribute to your volume cargo volumes. So technically the ID four has slightly bigger or even decently bigger cargo volume, but that's because of the height, the actual space in terms of width and the length is is slightly bigger for the ionic five, which I found really interesting. [00:15:55] And then you'll you, you look into all the interior as well as some of these, I know it's got to get in there clean. Yeah. The, they didn't over complicate things. They, they they're still buttons. Of course it didn't go full Tesla, but it it's, it's minimal. I like it. It's not a big fan while there's an extent as much, but still pretty good. [00:16:16]The seats look. Very comfortable to me. Like of course that's just like, from what I can stand  [00:16:21] Seth Weintraub: built in Ottomans. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  [00:16:23] Fred Lambert: Yeah. That's a, that's like a lazy boy. Yeah. That's luxury right there. Like, I've seen that in, in luxury car before, but I mean, I guess the, the Hyundai is going like a Honda as a Genesis for its luxury brand. [00:16:35] But I think with ionic, they're trying to like, it's going to be a higher hand too. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, the panoramic roof. Yep. Which they didn't mention in the launch an option for a solar roof? I don't know how it's going to work though. Is it, is it going to be cells embedded in the glass or is it going to be, Oh, you're going to have a full metal roof with cells on it. [00:16:55] I don't know how it's going to work, but yeah. Apparently is going to be an option. I mean, look at that. Isn't that look like comfort. Yeah, it's  [00:17:01] Seth Weintraub: crazy. I mean, Th they, they did some crazy stuff there. Not only, I mean, notice the, for the floor and the front is flat. Like, that's almost a problem. Like if your kids are, you know, put their volleyball down at their feet, like any, you know, make a sharp right. [00:17:18] Fred Lambert: Turn, look, look, look, this, this is a cool thing too. Is that it goes back and forth. Yeah. The center console, when you're driving, like, no, right now I don't know what she's doing. Like she's just thinking of having in her car for some reason, but she lives there. Yeah. Maybe very, very stylish person for being homeless, but still. [00:17:36]That that center console is much forward. I don't know if it's for both. I assume it's for both seats, but when, when you recline a Cedar or push it back, the, the whole center console goes back. So those are through the dashboard once once you're in driving position I, I don't, I don't maybe a ball of some kind could still roll from the passenger side too, though. [00:17:59] Driver's side. I do understand your concert, but I also look at that center console right there. Does that mean you want some volleyballs put them there? Yeah, exactly.  [00:18:07] Seth Weintraub: Yeah. You got your laptop case and they're your briefcase. They got room for everything right there. Yeah. I  [00:18:13] Fred Lambert: mean, it's kind of a reminiscent of like the early mole SNX when there was like two seats and everything. [00:18:20]Yeah. In terms of the powertrain. A few interesting functions. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's, that's the key word really options. You do get two wheel drive all wheel drive two battery packs, and they are both available on boats options. So unlike Tesla, like if you want all wheel drive, you have to go with long range and everything. [00:18:38] Honda that doesn't push that on you. The standard range is 58 kilowatt hour battery pack again, all wheel drive, two wheel drive which is 125 kilowatt for the two wheel drive, which is a real driver. Yeah, rear wheel drive, I think, and 173 for the all wheel drive. So it's not a big bump that you get with the front motor, but still you're going through snow. [00:19:02] Yeah. Decent enough for, for things like Hi-C conditions. No, we conditions. And then if you want to go with the long range, you get a 72.6 kilowatt hour for the European market. And th this is a trend that we're starting to see Hyundai is going, like why not? Or they want more range. They want more, not only do you want more range, the PE standard is, is more difficult to achieve a longer range. [00:19:25] So it's easier to look like you have a higher range on the w LTP. So the, the actually going to offer a 74.7 7.42 other a backpack for the North American market. So almost five. More kilowatt hour that you're going to get in North America. Yeah, that's right. And then you still get the two wheel drive option, which is going to give you the longest range option of them all. [00:19:46] When combined with the long range battery pack and an all wheel drive all wheel drive, we'll give you two 25 kilowatts. So you're starting to get like a petty level, a little car there. And that goes zero to a hundred kilometer an hour, which is 62 miles power in 5.2 seconds. Respectable. Yeah, it's not bad. [00:20:02] Like you gotta have some fun with that. Like off of a red light or something. So range wise. I mean, they didn't release the EPA, but did they? No. Okay. The w LTP is four 70 for the longest range version. Do you want me to read so two 92 miles. But then, so that's on the 72.6 gold or a pack. So I had the former kilowatt hour. [00:20:27] I mean, I know normally, like you're on the, see if you get to 92 miles on WTP, you'd be lucky to get like two 40, two 50 right off of APA, but with the fire Marshall at hour. And like we noticed, I mean, two 50, at least maybe up to two 70, I think. Yeah. Of course that's for the longest range version and everything. [00:20:48] So that's longer long range battery pack  [00:20:50] Seth Weintraub: too. It probably has to have more than the Kona. Like they have to maybe that's why they, I don't know, but like the Kona's at like two 60 or two, two 55 or something like that. So it's probably just over that.  [00:21:06] Fred Lambert: Yeah. That, that, that would make sense. Cause it's going to be probably like, like I said, that that's all we'll get to the pricing, but I'm charging. [00:21:14] 400 volt, 800 volt works on the infrastructure up to three 50 kilowatt charging.  [00:21:21] Seth Weintraub: But that doesn't mean it's an 800 volt system. It just it has the 800 volts.  [00:21:27] Fred Lambert: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you can, you can, you can take up to hit on a wall chart right here, though. I mean, it's crazy that that's good. Like, I mean,  [00:21:37] Seth Weintraub: real world is not going to be like that. [00:21:38] Fred Lambert: Yeah. Most of the time, like you're going to need to have a three 50 kilowatt charger, which are not, they're not that many, but they're getting more. But I mean, like if you want a three 50 kilowatt charging you want to tie in or something like that, or GT ADI GT. Or the Hummer and the heart Palmer, I mean, but those are all a hundred thousand dollars plus cars. [00:21:57] This thing again, I'm going to get to the pricing. We don't know yet, but we're going to speculate about Honda. They said that you're going to be able to charge from 10 to 80% in 18 minutes. So of course that's awesome. Yeah. That's crazy early.  [00:22:11] Seth Weintraub: Yeah. That's it like, that's pretty close to like gas. Yeah, I mean is, you know, 10 minutes tops, but we're getting so close. [00:22:20] It doesn't, it almost doesn't make.  [00:22:21] Fred Lambert: And again, you'd only need to do that when you're actually doing like long distance travel, right? I'm like this isn't charging is not even in your mind. We already talked about the ionic coming with the vehicle. Now they are calling a vehicle to load so that the vehicle to grid vehicle to home thing and everything. [00:22:36] That's, that's what they're called to talk about. No, you're talking, you're calling his vehicle to load.  [00:22:41] Seth Weintraub: This is the best thing for me. I think like finally, somebody is doing  [00:22:44] Fred Lambert: this. Yeah. Added that already. No compromise, like everything looks great. And then this is like a good headed value to have that through 3.6 kilowatt capacity that you can get all of it. [00:22:56]There's, there's a port that is under any the second row seats. That as a regular power off bet on it. So, so you can like plug it into your laptop if you're in the back or something and just use that as you drive or whatever which is not like unusual for cars, but there's also, you can literally use a bi-directional charger into the charge port of the vehicle and get access to that vehicle load capacity. [00:23:20] Seth Weintraub: Do you get the 3.6 kilowatts out of the, the plug, do you think, or do you have to use the bi-directional for that?  [00:23:29] Fred Lambert: They don't specify it here. They do say that the V two L board is located under the second receipt and it connects within when the vehicle is on another V2. Port is like the other charging port on the vehicle exterior. [00:23:42] Seth Weintraub: Hmm. Cause they did a little video and they had you know, it was a European plug, which is two 40 already, but to be 3.6 kilowatt, it would have to be about a 20 amp. Output, which is be a lot of power, but that'd be cool. And then they showed it like powering refrigerators and TVs and a bunch of other stuff like camping, like, but you know, 3.6 kilowatts, this is an important thing. [00:24:10] Like you can back up your house with that. Like you know, those generator ports that you know, people build into their houses and they have the separate fuse boxes and all that, that that's, that's the kind of power that, that those things need. You know, a typical house, like, you know, I probably could look at my house right now, but our typical house runs at like two kilowatts or less. [00:24:30] So, you know, as long as you're not doing like, you know, laundry and cooking at the same time, you can probably backup your house with this thing, which is a huge added incentive because you know, the cost of that you know, if you're buying a generator which is dirty or you're buying power walls, which are like 10 grand, like that's a. [00:24:49] Big value, add that nobody seems to be talking about.  [00:24:52] Fred Lambert: Yep, definitely. Yeah, we do the solar roof thing already talked about it. Didn't really mention any type of range that you can get all of it, but I wouldn't expect much to, to the surface of the vehicle  [00:25:03] Seth Weintraub: here. Mostly just the vampire drain elimination. [00:25:06] Fred Lambert: They have the latest heads up display here. I need to find a video of their, of Hyundai's ends of this Lakers. I mean, I've seen the one in the corner, which I wasn't really impressed with. Not, not really one of the best, but they said it's a new one with augmented reality capabilities. So I'm really curious to see what standard Alec is. [00:25:23] That could be good because I've seen some very good ones with augmented reality. So I'm going to look into that if I could get a video because. I'm sure people would want to see that. And then the, the smart sense, which is the driver has to suit of a Hyundai that you get, I guess, equivalent like of a autopilot, if you will. [00:25:40]Yeah. And it's coming this summer. The first app available in selected regions starting in the first half of 2021. So, so like that the regions, I would assume that South Korea, some are repairing markets. I wouldn't expect it in North America and then the second half, and now in term of the pricing. So they already released some pricing in Europe starting at like 40,000 euros, which should be expensive, but that includes the, that, so maybe a little bit cheaper. [00:26:11]In North America, I don't know. Some people were saying, Oh, the base base version could be starting at 30,000. I'd be surprised. But something around 40,000 would be, would be, would be interesting. I think. Yeah, if they  [00:26:25] Seth Weintraub: can get below 40, they still have the $7,500 tax credit, then all of a sudden that's a $30,000 car. [00:26:34] That's, that's, that's tempting, you know, that's like a. You know, I don't know, like it's hard to, it's hard to think about like a VW ID or ID for a Chevy, a Chevy bold. EEV a Mustang. Like this thing has all those little extra things that are pretty sweet. And if it's around the same price, it's going to be hard to think about those things with this thing around. [00:27:00] Yeah.  [00:27:01] Fred Lambert: I might become a Hyundai owner again. I was on the horn at some point with my super Superman. How was that? I like it to run. I mean, I mean, I was a kid when I bought it, but it was like a very cool looking sports car that you could actually afford. Like I paid, like I bought it used, but I paid like $10,000 and $10,000 for it. [00:27:21] It was a cool looking little, two doors, a sports car. So, and it worked well. I liked it.  [00:27:30] Seth Weintraub: I've never owned a Hyundai or any  [00:27:32] Fred Lambert: Korean car, Korean cars. All right. The USBs. Okay. We're going to discuss this piece of news right here. And then we'll talk a bit about said's experience with the ID four, and then we're going to take questions. USPS's new fleet no all-electric [00:27:43] So if you have any questions, put them in the comment section below especially if you have questions about the ID for, I guess. Then didn't write a post, anything yet, like you could help him like formulate some kind of thought and idea of what you guys really want to know about the core. Be fun. So USBs the announced their, their fleet renewal contract this week. [00:28:04] So they are replacing the 160 some thousand cars in their, in their fleet. And they're not even going all electric with it is kind of crazy because, I mean, if you remember just last month, One of the first thing Biden did when he came into office, it's like the old federal government fleet is going all electric. [00:28:21] Like every all vehicle in the government is going in. All the Trico were what period of time and all, no, but the made it like a priority. And then a month later, what the federal government fleet, like the most interesting one, like the biggest one, the biggest part of it, the USDS, the announced the renewal of the fleet. [00:28:42] And like, we're going to have some. Did your car, some internal combustion in general, we are working very hard to promote alternative fuels. I mean, I read the announcement that I was like, what are they talking about? And then a day later Mr. To boss of that thing, what was it called? Yeah, the joy was by the way, was elected by Trump was pointed like, huh. [00:29:05] Or under the Trump administration. I'm not sure if Trump is even know that guy is, but. It was under Trump. He was appointed committed to only 10% of those of that fleet. 160 some thousand vehicles, garbage going all electric, which is what shows a complete lack of leadership, complete lack of vision. I mean, Those those vehicles are so primed for electrification. [00:29:31] Like it makes so much sense. Although SPE stopping, starting all the time it that's all of the things that EVs are super good at as opportunity. Yeah. Super efficient at. And Nope, they're not doing it also. They gave the contract to some defense contractor for it. Yeah.   [00:29:50] Seth Weintraub: Wisconsin. We thought it was going to go to work  [00:29:53] Fred Lambert: horse. [00:29:53] Right. I mean, I wasn't like, I wasn't old, then I have any like favorite or anything like that. But I mean, a defense contractor, like these guys make pinks or whatever, maybe that thanks. But like military vehicles. Yeah.  [00:30:07] Seth Weintraub: Somebody got paid off. I'm  [00:30:09] Fred Lambert: sure. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised about that, but like this, th this, this needs to be made by a of theory, like a myth, every contractor that deliver mails, like  [00:30:18] Seth Weintraub: we've been kind of nice. [00:30:20] That thing is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. I mean, it's a post office, like thing you wouldn't expect it to look amazing, but that looks like it was drawn by like, you know, a third grader, something, it looks like Homer Simpson design.  [00:30:34] Fred Lambert: Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't have that egg at the front end. Exactly. This Elmer Simpson designed vehicle. [00:30:40] But yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't care a lot of these items just, yeah,  [00:30:45] Seth Weintraub: I'm more upset about the electrification, but like, if we're going to go back to the thing, like at least like, if, if they're going to do in current internal combustions, they should make it at least look decent and they didn't. So it's a  [00:31:00] Fred Lambert: zero. [00:31:00] Yeah. And I mean, after the announcement, the next day Biden announced that  was, it was able to appoint three more chairs of the, of the board of the ESPs. So he did that, which gave majority to the Democrats for the board. But I don't know if that's going to be able to do anything to reverse the decision and why Nike, they gave a contract already to contractors. [00:31:25] Officially cost. So like, can they do anything up? I don't know. I mean, I  [00:31:30] Seth Weintraub: guess I could tweak the 10% into 90%. Yeah. Yeah. But, and, and we should note the vehicle itself is supposed to be able to be upgraded from. Combustion to electric at some point later.  [00:31:46] Fred Lambert: Did it say that, but then why like, yeah, it's not, it's not like, Oh, we have like a battery constraint and everything. [00:31:53] 160,000 vehicles is going to be a big problem. It's over 10 years people. So the upgrade is over 10 years. Did they gave the contract now for 10 years? So that means that in eight, nine years under that contract, you could still be delivering and talk about engine vehicles. Which w can you imagine the in 20, 28 and buying a brand new and talk about an engine vehicle that you ordered 10 years ago? [00:32:21] Seth Weintraub: I got it. And knowing them and knowing that the post office and the government, they're probably like backloading the EVs. So they're, they're going to make a hundred percent internal combustion for like the first five years. And then, Oh, we'll throw in some electric vehicles in 10 years.  [00:32:36] Fred Lambert: It's just, I was very disappointed by that because you're not in the market. [00:32:41] Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, yeah, I know, I know if the us does it too, because of Biden's announcement last, but no, I agree because of the USBs actually gave contracts to a bunch of companies, including like workhorse and like a few of those, like to, to, to build like prototypes and everything, like to show that they can do it and whatnot. [00:33:00] So it's not like, not, it's not like. No one could do it. So they gave the contract to the Oscars, like make most of the internal combustion engine. It's like something weird happened in that, that the joy guys is plenty. I've never met him, but I would safely assume that easy to a moron or yeah, some vested interest in like three or three years from now. [00:33:24] He gets a cushy little job on the Oskarshamn board. For some reason. I wouldn't be shocked by that. Yeah.  [00:33:32] Seth Weintraub: 5 million a year consultant bastard.  Seth's experience in the VW ID4 [00:33:35] Fred Lambert: All right. So let's talk about something a little better. Did you find the ID for it's a great  [00:33:41] Seth Weintraub: car? You know, there's, there's trade offs, always and Volkswagen you know, they have three tiers, they have the Volkswagen Audi and Porsche inter you know, in Volkswagen's kind of the people's car. [00:33:52] And I think, you know, overall they have a saying, I guess, It's not for millionaires it's for the millions. So they, they took some, you know, it doesn't charge at 150 kilowatts. It charges at one 20 or one 10 or whatever. It's not super fast, like I got a rear wheel drive version in the snow it's sucked in the snow. [00:34:11] Like I've had, they told me it was snow tires and I was like, this is, you know, barely made it up. My driveway, I got stuck twice. I had to shovel it out a couple of times. So it's a great car.  [00:34:21] Fred Lambert: All wheel drive version is all the  [00:34:23] Seth Weintraub: all wheel drive version is coming late summer. Hopefully we'll get invited to that after the summer. [00:34:29] Yeah, just in time for the summer, they have a two wheel drive just in time for the winter. Smart. But what's cool about the all wheel drive one. We are a North American is they're making it here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. So, you know, maybe, maybe it's, if you're, if you're into that car, maybe it's a good thing to wait. [00:34:44]But this was the first edition. And we got it for three days or no, sorry, we got it for 36 hours. And that I got it for an hour. I took it, you know, did my. Waterfall pictures and whatever. Went shopping for some groceries, came back snowstorm for about 24 hours. And then the snow turned into rain and then I had another, like three or four hours. [00:35:06] So at the imagery and the videos, aren't going to be great. And I didn't get to take it to Vermont. Like I did the Mustang, which I couldn't put on  [00:35:13] Fred Lambert: knowledge on it really.  [00:35:14] Seth Weintraub: Yeah, I really couldn't drive it because, you know, in the snow, like the row, even though like, even if you can get out of my driveway, which is not that easy, the roads were just horrible. [00:35:25] So with a two wheel drive car, I just didn't trust being able to get up Hills and, and stay, you know, stay on the road. But that said like the car is really pleasant. Like it's a great drive, you know, BWS, German engineered. It feels great inside it, it it, it was like somewhere between like the Mustang level of luxury and a Tesla, like the, you know, when you hit a bump, it didn't make a loud noise. [00:35:49] Like my model, why does, but it also didn't like totally softened it like Mustang dead, which is weird because I don't think of the Mustang as like a luxury vehicle. Yeah. I mean, inside, it was really nice. It wasn't you know, we talked about like Tesla, no buttons, it wasn't, or even Mustang didn't have very many buttons and it had the screen, it was very much more like a traditional car. [00:36:11]You know, like if you want to know where the. The door handle is you don't have to like search around and try to figure out what Tesla or Ford was doing. It's just a normal door handle inside and out. They did of course make the gear shifter. I don't know why this is impossible for people to understand, but like they made the gear shift or super weird. [00:36:29]It's a, it's like it's on the dashboard. It's like, it's like the BMW thing. It's a dial on the dashboard. And of course, if you want to go into region mode or one pedal driving is everybody calls it. You got to go twice into drive, just like the Chevy bolt or everything else, which is super annoying. [00:36:46] I asked them if they're going to upgrade that, they said, you know, we're thinking about it, but it could be upgraded over, over the air where, you know, you can switch that or change. That one thing was really disappointing. I took it to a Electrify America, the same kind of thing that I took the Mustang too. [00:37:04] And the Mustang has plug-in charge. So you just plug it in. It does a thing for like 15, 20 seconds. And then you're charging kind of like a Tesla Volkswagen who owns electrify America and has the ID for took it to the station, plugged it in. Ask for my credit card. So I gave it my credit card that didn't work. [00:37:27]I did Apple pay that didn't work. I signed up for an electrify America account, which I've had, well, I had one, I just couldn't remember the password I signed up again. That didn't work. So maybe it was the station, you know, like, you know, we shouldn't know electrify America has been a great partner for electric and it works more times than it doesn't. [00:37:48] But in this particular case, it was quite frustrating that I had a Volkswagen and their charging system didn't work. And I asked them about plugging charge. Like guys, Like do that. Ford's got this, your other company you  [00:38:01] Fred Lambert: own  you own  [00:38:03] Seth Weintraub: electric. Yeah. America, you have a car, you know, on the other side of the, the company that's doing pug and charge already called those engineers, like just download that software, do whatever you have to do. [00:38:15]But they said a plugin charge is coming via software update at a later date. So that's good. That's something to look forward to, I think like from now on like, if it doesn't have in charge, Like they gotta, they gotta just go back to the drawing  [00:38:29] Fred Lambert: board. Yeah. I mean it, it, I feel like it's going to be a quick standard to be applied to the whole industry and it  [00:38:35] Seth Weintraub: just totally makes it a much better experience. [00:38:37] Fred Lambert: I mean, it's like that stuff was, was smart to do like their home thing start with their own charging, that work. Cause they were able to apply that easily if it's with their own network. It's not as easy though. It should be for Volkswagen. This would just described, but. I mean, they they're doing it like Ford is doing it. [00:38:55] So yeah. I would  [00:38:56] Seth Weintraub: assume if Ford can do it on Volkswagens chargers Volkswagen can do  [00:39:00] Fred Lambert: it. Yeah. I mean, officially there's a whole Chinese wall between the different American was Vegas, completely different company and everything, but still.  [00:39:08] Seth Weintraub: Yeah. So I don't, you know, that was one bad thing I have to say. [00:39:11] Like overall though, I was really impressed with the inside. The interior, the drive was great. You know, when you're not on snowy roads Like, you know, he kind of wonder like, all right, so am I just getting used to these electric vehicles? Like the Mustang was really good. The, you know, even the Chevy today also good. [00:39:30]And this thing, like baddie Ford, like, it was just great. Like it just flies down the road. Not, not crazy fast. I don't even think as fast as the Mustang that I had, but it gets there and, you know, You accelerate onto the freeway. You're not like wanting for any more acceleration. You're not pinning people back like a Tesla will, but I like Volkswagen says this is for the millions. [00:39:52] So I think it's a very appealing design. I think women and men who aren't necessarily electric vehicle nerds like us, they're going to be really comfortable in this kind of car. So. For me, it's a big winner. They do have some work to do, you know, all wheel drive getting the the and charge working. [00:40:12] But I think it's going to be a popular car.  [00:40:15] Fred Lambert: Yeah, let's go. Sorry. I'm supposed to get one for a while, right. For a week for a full review. Do we know when that's  [00:40:21] Seth Weintraub: gonna happen? I mean, I don't know if it's going to be all the way until. Late summer, but Oh  [00:40:27] Fred Lambert: yeah, I was  [00:40:28] Seth Weintraub: coming up. No, I hope so. I dunno when  [00:40:31] Fred Lambert: whatever we though. Q&A [00:40:32] All right. Let's, let's jump into the comments. What do you guys are saying right now? All right.  [00:40:38] Seth Weintraub: So Jonathan whirling says the boat. Evie is interesting. LOL. I think it is. I, I I've owned a boat Eby for three years. I, I loved that car. So the EVs. Kind of interesting, but I can't say why. All right. Matt, Oh, what are your predictions for model two $25,000 car price upon delivery. [00:40:59] Do you see anything below 50,000 Canadian out the door is 25 K too optimistic? Well, I don't think it's going to be called the model two.  [00:41:08] Fred Lambert: Yeah. I mean either, but I don't, I don't understand that quick. Would it be bill 50,000 Canadian? I mean, wouldn't it be? Yeah. I mean, there's no, there's no con artists ourselves right now. [00:41:21] And in Canada, that is twice the amount that it's sold in the, in the us on that's the saying that maybe it won't be $25,000 in the U S eater, which might or might not be like the Headspace glacier, because it's the, has had some issue delivering on pricing before. So yeah, mean maybe. But yeah, we'll, we'll see about that car. [00:41:40] W w we'll see when we get there. So very speculative right now, it's probably still like three or three years away. So I don't know,  [00:41:45]Seth Weintraub: In terms of the chip shortage station two 40 says Tesla also use a lot of chips from Texas instruments who are in Texas also  [00:41:53] Fred Lambert: good point. Yeah. It's Texas instrument, Texas. [00:41:56] I think  [00:41:57] Seth Weintraub: so. Green gold Tesla needs to figure out what models and prices they want and stick with it. This is in regard to the pricing. That would be nice for sure. I wonder if they're trying to create some like nervous energy with potential buyers saying it's at a good price. Now I should buy it before they raise the price or do something weird. [00:42:17] Fred Lambert: I mean, we would hell no is like test as it's so weird pod that for so long now and in the U S with the whole tax credit thing that like looms around everything too, is it's getting a bit confusing. Yeah, we didn't talk about that. I should mention this. There's a, there's a, like a competing reform for the tax credit has been introduced to we talked about the green act last week or the week before that was introduced. [00:42:41] Gives 400,000 more cars to Tesla and all the auto makers of the hidden threshold at $7,000, a dollar tax credit, the electric cars act, which was actually introduced in 2019, but of course was shut down under the Trump administration and the Republicans still have the Senate and whatnot. Now bringing that back and that one, if that one makes it instead of the. [00:43:03] Green act. That would be a big deal because first of all, it's retroactive through through the year. So it would start in 2021. So every car that was delivered in 2021 would apply to still 7,500, so $500 more. Who's going to complain about 500 or more in their pockets. Big deal here. Big, big deal. At the dealership, you can get it at the dealership on the sticker price. [00:43:28] So not a tax rate. It can be a tax fee too. And if you want it as a tax rate, it can be over five years. So if you don't have $7,500 of tax liability at the federal level you should have it over five years, especially if you're buying a new car. So. That's good, but then again, you probably, the most people won't do that. [00:43:46] If you can apply it to the, at the dealership at the sticker price. So some  [00:43:49] Seth Weintraub: people, I don't know why you would anyway,  [00:43:53] Fred Lambert: I'm not a tax lawyer, accountant. Maybe, maybe they would have a reason for it. But I I'm on the same page as you on that. And then the, of course the biggest thing of them all, they remove the cap. [00:44:04] There's no capital it's on a 10 year period. It's crazy. Yeah. Which is crazy. But I feel like that's more of a, like a negotiating standpoint, maybe like we asked for that. And then we like five years would be plenty. And then between you and me, like 10 years is a, is a long time, like by 10 years, like it's either, he's going to be way more competitive on pricing than any gas or cars. [00:44:26] I mean, I would have  [00:44:27] Seth Weintraub: to say this out loud in public, but like Tesla is already competing pretty well without a tax credit. Yeah. My thing is like, all right, take all that energy and, and all that. Stuff and carbon tax, like, or a carbon dividend. I mean, I know that's not popular and never going to be popular, but like not at the station at the well, like  [00:44:46] Fred Lambert: I dunno. [00:44:47] Yeah. But I mean, even though that the electric cars act sounds a bit crazy it's easier to do I'm sure than the car with AXA. Right.  [00:44:57] Seth Weintraub: All right. David authors, as sorry if I missed it. But did you guys ever discuss the Apple TV plus show long way up? It included reveal and truck driving up from South South of South America to LA quite a feat. [00:45:10] We did discuss it. Micah did a couple posts on it in conjunction with nine to five Mac, which covers Apple TV plus. It's pretty interesting. I only watched some highlights, but it was also with two Harley Davidson Livewire electric motorcycles. So go Google it. We're the  [00:45:26] Fred Lambert: focus on the show? [00:45:27] Really? Any does comes up a few times cause they were the support vehicle to the, but it's really just a motorcycle drive Molson.  [00:45:36] Seth Weintraub: All right. Kevin, do you have pictures of all the nine colors as being offered in? Was that in regard to the Hyundai or.  [00:45:43] Fred Lambert: Tesla. I don't know, but yeah, I mean, we, we should do that. [00:45:47] People always love those posts. Like we should probably do that with the high-end Nick in the ID for and post all the colors available.  [00:45:55] Seth Weintraub: All right. When, if do you think LFP equip Teslas will make it to North America? Well, they're not going to make it, they're going to make made in North America. But it could be, I mean, if Yuan's kind of hinting at it, now, it could be happening as we speak. [00:46:10] Fred Lambert: Could be, but I have no idea  [00:46:14] Seth Weintraub: we might not ever have it. Electric car market is finally heating up great for customers. I was just thinking the same thing. Like, you know, we're reviewing the Baldy UV, the ID for the Mustang model wise here, and they're finally catching up to demand. That's great. [00:46:29] Yeah.  [00:46:31] Fred Lambert: If there was like the standard rainbow, why competing with diet before competing with the ionic five competing with the Mustang Nike all the same year, that would be like crazy. It's pretty much what's happening though. Standard rainbow wise is kind of up in the air.  [00:46:45]Seth Weintraub: Green gold also asks is SCC investigating Ilan again. [00:46:50] Fred Lambert: That was a first Quoc, the Newswire financial news wire, which generally is pretty early on those news. So I think it was the one that they break the news to for the last ACC the station on Ilan. But yeah, probably they are, we don't know, they didn't ever come into an active investigation. So we very hard to permit by union is asking for it. [00:47:12] That for the news came out, he was, he went on Twitter and was like, I only do it will be Duke.  [00:47:17] Seth Weintraub: That's like when the the diver was like, when to Sue you, he was like, do it,  [00:47:23] Fred Lambert: but you want that one? So that's true. You didn't want the sec though, you could argue that he kind of won and we reported it like the deal that he had to buy more shares for Tesla. [00:47:32] You actually made money on that. So you could have done that anyway, though. Yeah, that's true. Like it wasn't, it  [00:47:37] Seth Weintraub: Manda whole says Ilan for president Andrew Yang would have made the mail trucks, EVs, no doubts, man, probably.  [00:47:46] Fred Lambert: Well, you know, or Andrew for, for president, he left for president, but Andrew Yang would have  [00:47:51] Seth Weintraub: made it, I guess Andrew would have been at Yuan's. [00:47:54] Fred Lambert: Yeah. I said, I wasn't, I wasn't really prefer Andrew Yang as as president than Elan. I mean, I love the guy  [00:48:02] Seth Weintraub: you on should be making cars. Yeah. How is Oshkosh qualified to offer EVs? I know they make kids overalls. How are they going to make a EVs?  [00:48:14] Fred Lambert: I mean, I think that's a different division,  [00:48:17] Seth Weintraub: different, different company, probably entirely. [00:48:19] All right. Wayno says you have to look at the quality of people working for the post office. Most drivers of Subpart. If that who cares, what does it, what does the driver have to do  [00:48:29] Fred Lambert: with it? Like morons going to drive electric vehicles right now. Yeah, it's easy to enlist a few. If you want.  [00:48:36] Seth Weintraub: We have a couple of good videos on the channel. [00:48:38] Alright, Chris, 50 fives stop. Well, Biden dropped $15 minimum wage and then bomb Syria. So that this doesn't surprise me. Yeah. I don't know. I don't want to wait too much into politics. Is giving did joy the hook news today. Oh, we got an exclusive from MDC 4runner. So I guess the joy has gone according to a YouTube commenter, Chris 55 stop. [00:49:06] That would be nice. All right, Mike Metcalf, Fred, you mentioned mining companies you're invested in. Can you share which ones, any other investments you're excited about? Disclaimer, time.  [00:49:16] Fred Lambert: Yeah, I'm not a financial advisor or a stock picker or anything like that, but I can discuss my own investment if you want. [00:49:22] I mean, I'm very high on Nicole. I mean, Elan's concerns I think are warranted. Like the diamond is coming for Nicole from the battery industry is truly immense. Like it's hard to overstate. It just all big it is. And it's starting to get reflected into the price of Nicole. But it's not just about the price of the, of the actual commodity. [00:49:48] Like it it's about having new mining projects that are sustainable. And that's why I'm looking into like, things that are not contributing to the problem, but they're just a part of the solution. And also, also The the, the, the, the, the closer to the supply chain, too. It would be nice, like not going like too far deep into the wild and whatnot. [00:50:10] So, yeah, there's a few projects that I like. Well, the, the giga metals, a Vancouver based company that has been rumored to be working with Tesla on a potential Nichole mining project and vested in that there's another company that I like that is related to giga metals. That could be an interesting exposure to, to nickel is a conic metals, but I think they're changing their name right now. [00:50:33] It's not going to be kind of mills and anymore, but that company is very interesting where the invest, the, the buy steaks and nickel projects and that's all they do. So they're there and they're not a mining company. They invest in mining companies with small stakes and a bunch of different them with a focus on nickel and so, so that gives you exposure to Nicole really, but with a wide variety of projects. [00:50:54] And so if you invest in legal metals, for example, it's, it's a riskier project because if it doesn't come to fruition, well, that's it, you lose your investment, but if you have a bunch of different projects like that, it makes more sense. So Connie metals, they are invested in, in the gold medals. For example, they have a small stake in the company. [00:51:10] So if it does succeed great for them, they have a small stake in the, in the. And another functioning mine in. I want to say Papua New Guinea. I might be mistaken, but one of those places that are big and they go producer. So they own like an 8% stake in.com that mind that's already producing. So that's revenue for a company and then they invest. [00:51:33] That revenue and to acquiring steaks in smaller like junior mining companies and that, that are looking into Nicole. And then if those projects come to fruition, then the company grows and everything. So I think that's a good exposure, I think, but look into it, like do your own due diligence. Yeah. There's plenty of opportunity for bashing materials, mining. [00:51:55] Seth Weintraub: All right. So moving back into the comments the ID for all wheel drive is the one to get, or the iconic five all wheel drive. We talked about those. When does the all wheel drive ID for arrive and the summer coming out of Chattanooga? We'll, we'll be there for the, a bunch there. Hopefully hopefully it codes over Nanda holds them back saying cyber truck is going to decimate these soft first time entries. [00:52:20] Nothing else will make sense. Good. Glad to hear from the Tesla fan club here sat in the ID for it's barely bigger than our least narrow E V. That's true. It's not huge. And it looks like an ice under the hood. It doesn't have a Frank that's also true build quality was tops true, but they missed the Mark. [00:52:39] Okay. It would be funny if one of the Elon sons will be the CEO of Tesla someday.  [00:52:44] Fred Lambert: I mean the isn't the whole, this like 13 years old or something right now. Yeah. If that would be like, you're talking about a 50,000 people company right now. It's not like you earn like 30 or something and like, ah, I can run the company  [00:52:58] Seth Weintraub: anymore. [00:52:58] That's a very South Korean like mindset. Like why would it? Yeah,  [00:53:02] Fred Lambert: well, it's like a foreign mindset to maybe also like Ian might not be the best person to run the test though right now. So why would his son be the best person to run the company? And also which  [00:53:13] Seth Weintraub: son, like they're going to all fight over it. [00:53:14] There's like, and they're all like, The same age, because  [00:53:17] Fred Lambert: we don't know any of them we'd have to toot the horn leadership or anything like that. Because like I said, I, I'm not saying that I don't like even running the company, but I'm seeing like at this stage of Tesla, I, there's definitely an argument that could be made for Elan stepping into like a chairman role and then like a product architect, role boat role, but the already older Tesla and then leaving the CEO role to somebody else. [00:53:42] I mean, It worked pretty well for companies like Apple, for example, like Tim cook is as I'm pretty good, even though people said that not as innovative as it used to be, but at the same time Apple, I didn't have a jobs to stick around cancer took him away, but if he can have you to stick around and have someone as a CEO that, that I think that would be. [00:54:05] I think the optimals iteration.  [00:54:06] Seth Weintraub: I mean, he's really not the CEO anyway, like he's, you know, in the traditional sense, he's a chief like architect or whatever, you know, whatever you want to call, like the head engineer or whatever. He's not doing a typical SEO CEO, sorry role where he's taking meetings and doing all that stuff. [00:54:23] Especially since he's got two companies going or 15 companies all right. Okay, Nana holes. Again, the only reason Tesla up the model Y price was to get some of the government cheese on one spite in GMB, $7,000 credit's head. It will be the best value at that point. I don't get that logic. You get the same 7,000 on a cheaper one. [00:54:45] Maybe we'll skip those for now. All right, Tom gearing says instead of model to what follows Elan's joke. Name convention, the sexy would have been sexy except for it on the E I'm guessing the next C six models. Okay. All all right. So sorry. Shane was Sullivan. It's a bit surprising that Ford didn't go with the heat pump in the Maki. [00:55:07] Did they reverse engineer the model three and decided to copy them? Or there is a lot of similar similarities with the Maki and Tesla's vehicles. Heat pumps. It's not a new technology it's been around for awhile. I don't, I mean, I know Tesla did like the OCHA valve, which is supposed to be interesting, but if they wanted to, they could've probably put a heat pump. [00:55:27] I think it's just a cost and size constraint. All right. Moving on, Kevin for the ionic five colors of the ionic five. Oh yeah. So I guess we'll have to dig around. Maybe we'll get one of our artists. To mock up some cool  [00:55:44] Fred Lambert: stuff. I think they released a bunch of them that might, there might be a configurator in Germany open or something. [00:55:50] Okay.  [00:55:51] Seth Weintraub: I'll look into that. All right. Jose Dela Cruz asked if the Maki had a heat pump, it would increase its real-world range and the winter for sure  [00:56:01] Fred Lambert: can argue. Yeah, I did test the Nike though in the winter and I was impressed by it. So just set that same. So yeah,  [00:56:07] Seth Weintraub: we drove to Vermont in like single digit. [00:56:10] And it was fine. All right. Our Panasonic and LG chem getting into LFP seems like NMC is on a downward trend due to nickel cobalt. Yeah.  [00:56:22]Fred Lambert: I don't know exactly the product roadmap for pass and I can in LG, but yeah, I mean, Desola is laid out. It's planned like four hour or shorter range vehicle are gonna use. [00:56:38] ILS, the mid range are going to use in an MC. I'm not getting these nickel and then high nickel for, for, for long range or demanding product, like the cyber truck and the Tesla semi and whatnot. And I think the broader industry is going to have to adapt to that. That means dish surprising if they don't. [00:56:59] Seth Weintraub: All right. Tristan ward asks any guesses on the ionic five price. So we, you know, rewind. We, we did a lot of guessing there. Some thinking it'll be between the ionic and Kona. Nope. It's going to be above the Kona looking great. 60 mile charge in five minutes, et cetera. Yeah. Kona. Kona is I mean, it's just dead in the water really. [00:57:19] I mean, I, I think  [00:57:21] Fred Lambert: it depends on if the price is still better, you might, you know, it might go with that, but. Also some people might it's too radical, maybe the design, but I feel like it hit the Mark for me. Like it's, it's, it's new potentially radical, but it still works well. It's okay.  [00:57:39] Seth Weintraub: It's the only car I'm kind of like, like really thinking about right now, but you know, obviously thinking about cyber trucks and Roadsters, but you know, ones that are going to be produced this year. [00:57:51] All right. Moving on Shannon Sullivan in Europe, ABB is providing a lot of the hardware to the identity network, which is what electrify America is called here. What is the predominant DC charge point? Electrify America is mostly ABB. They do most of the chargers, even ego, I think is. Mostly ABB  [00:58:08]

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More than twenty years ago, the late Father Richard John Neuhaus penned one of his most memorable sayings. When you come across an article titled ‘Whither Incest?', he said, it's safe to assume it won't be a “vigorous defense of traditional morality.” To paraphrase Father Neuhaus, whenever the American Psychological Association (APA) addresses an aspect of human sexuality, you can bet it won't be a vigorous defense of traditional morality. Recently, the APA announced the creation of a special task force  “to address the needs of people who practice consensual non-monogamy, including their intersecting marginalized identities.” Isn't that a lot of words that need to be unpacked? So here it goes. First, “Consensual non-monogamy” is a euphemism for polyamory. Polyamory “is the practice of, or desire for, emotionally intimate relationships with more than one partner.” And “intersecting marginalized identities” means the task force will look into how the desire to have more than one partner is, in fact, a deep-seated identity, and anyone who thinks otherwise is discriminating against people who were “born that way.” Or as the APA put it in their announcement, “…the ability to engage in desired intimacy without social and medical stigmatization is not a liberty for all.” Many of us predicted polyamory would, in fact, be the next cause of the sexual revolution. Polyamorous marriage seems, for now, inevitable. That would mean marriage between more than two people, and why not? If marriage is officially severed from procreation, as so-called “same-sex marriage” has now legislated, then there is no reason to keep it to two people, instead of three, four, or more. Or, as a member of the task force wrote on Medium, “Monogamy is privileged . . .” Implying, of course, that it shouldn't be. The task force will study all kinds of polyamorous relationships with the stated goal, according to the same task-force member, of helping “mental health professionals  . . . examine [their] biases and take a nonjudgmental posture toward clients engaged in consensual non-monogamy—just as [they] would with LGBTQ clients.” Notice the assumption here: As long as the behavior in question is “consensual,” whatever that means, “mental health professionals” should “take a nonjudgmental posture.” The real goal of the task force, however, goes beyond helping to remove the bias of mental health professionals. Remember that phrase from the announcement that I quoted earlier about “medical and social stigmatization”? As has been the case time after time with the APA, the goal is to promote an ideology by giving it a scientific veneer. This ideology reduces all sexual morality to “consent,” and assumes that there is no good or bad way to define or engage in “desired intimacy.” Any discomfort that anyone has must be the result of “stigmatization.” As Andre Van Mol, a physician who has studied adolescent sexuality, told the Christian Post "this is the entirely expected and predicted consequence of what happens when ideology replaces science. The APA is yet again showing us that they are a professional guild and not a scientific organization.” It's also the “entirely and predicted consequence” of our cultural trajectory regarding human sexuality. Four years ago, Robbie George wrote an article in “The American Interest” entitled “Is Polyamory Next?” Everything he pointed to there has happened: sympathetic depictions of polyamory in the media, opinion pieces by legal scholars, and call after call for us “to keep our minds open towards polygamy and other multiple-partner sexual relationships.” He made it clear that the same logic that justified same-sex marriage would eventually be applied to polyamory, which many same-sex advocates, even then, freely admitted. Given the changes in the Supreme Court, we may not get an Obergefell-type decision for polyamory. But this move by the APA suggests it may not be necessary. If enough people are convinced that disapproving of polyamory is bigotry, the politics and law, especially in some jurisdictions, will quickly follow suit.