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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Evangelist and the Church
"At the In your outline at the top of the outline that I will read when we get there I'm going to intersperse those throughout the message those verses and in a couple other ones Christ Bible Church has been involved with over these many years that we've been in existence quite a few evangelistic opportunities in In the corporate life of the church Very early on we were involved with the Bay Area Rescue Mission going there. We still are We have had individuals who have gone street preaching Prior to the pandemic for almost 20 years we were involved with two prisons State prisons San Quentin and Jamestown prison where a couple times a month Several of us would go later once a month, but but always there for almost 20 years I see several people who helped at the Chinese New Year's Parade where we went there to hand out tracks had quite a big turnout to hand out tracks there the gospel fest of course our brother Gerard who in addition to street preaching goes over to Cal Berkeley on a regular basis of several times a week and Today we have it turns out we have another evangelistic opportunity that we're going to talk about in the subsequent business meeting and The message is really tailored to that Issue and so the message is going to kind of be narrowly focused on the idea of evangelism Obviously, there's much to say about evangelism, but I'm going to be very Narrowly focused and you can see from your outline in the bulletin That we have two points. We're going to talk about the role of the evangelist in the life of the church and then we're going to talk about the church or the role of the church in the life of the evangelist and Though the message is quite maybe narrowly focused it it has Application I believe to all of us not just to what we want to talk about at the meeting So in the first place this morning We're going to look at these four a sub points as we think about the role of the evangelist in the life of the church We're going to talk about the existence of this role or the stated role secondly the need Thirdly the example of Philip the evangelist and as we trace through the life of Philip the evangelist, we're going to see several characteristics or traits about this evangelist What makes an evangelist what do they do? How do they act? What do they think and Then fourthly under this point. We're going to look at some precepts For evangelism that we're gonna gonna kind of broaden our thinking a little bit about this and then secondly and more briefly We'll talk about the role of the church in the life of the evangelist first of all the role of the evangelist in the life of the church Before we talk about a very specific Spiritual gift or calling or role We acknowledge that the whole idea of evangelism is really broadly stated especially in the New Testament actually Throughout the Bible but but especially in the New Testament If we were to try to come up with a very simple definition of what an evangelist is We would say it is simply someone who brings the good tidings of the gospel The good news of the gospel glad tidings of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ They're a messenger with the good news of the gospel One of my favorite verses That illustrates this definition is in Luke chapter 2 where those angels appeared to the shepherds by night Remember those shepherds were very fearful and the angel said simply this fear not Behold I bring you good tidings That word in the original is almost identical to the word evangelist.
Simply Bitcoin
Fresh update on "philip" discussed on Simply Bitcoin
"Yeah, UTXO live dot Oracle, and I can get the script there. Awesome. Well, dude, I am this is incredibly cool. This is what the culture segment is all about, highlighting, you know, all the different Bitcoiners from all walks of life and what they're working on, what their experiences are. And this is absolutely incredible, man. So shout out to you and thanks for coming on the show. But ladies and gentlemen, the time that you've all been waiting for it, it is time to review some memes. The Daily Meme Review. All right, everybody, let's start reviewing some of these memes, so let's start with this one, Maxis Club. And, you know, it like refers to like back in school, if you misbehaved, it's like it's a meme and they've written they've written it on the on the chalkboard. I won't sell my Bitcoin to BlackRock. I won't sell my Bitcoin to BlackRock. I won't sell my Bitcoin to BlackRock. Absolutely hilarious. Shout out to Maxis Club, too. They dropped some really, really great memes. All right. So here is a Pablo, a Pablo Arduño. He is the CTO of Tether. And I think he's also part of Bitfinex. And it's like a horse, like kind of looking side eye. And he says, when Bitcoiners hear the word decentralized in the context of any blockchain, that is not Bitcoin. Absolutely hilarious and spot on. Remember, guys, our memes are better than theirs. They have to rely on lies, narrative and spin misrepresentations. We have truth on our side. So it's easy to make memes when when you have truth, because truth is the common denominator. Anyways, so here's a here's a godfather, just like kind of like looking in with the epic, iconic godfather face. And I think you've come from the first scene of like the first movie. And he says, you come into my house on the day of my daughter's wedding to be married and you ask me, where does the yield come from? Absolutely hilarious. If you watch the movie, you would understand that reference. But yeah, absolutely spot on. He's like petting his cat like, wow, this is happening. Like it's such an iconic movie scene. All right. Next, the Pierre. Memes are back. That definitely means that confirms that we are heading back into a bull market. This one says the best part of the next bull run is getting to choose which Bitcoin peer you'll be. And of course, this is the VP of Riot, Pierre. And this is the, you know, Pierre after. I think this is going to come back, man. I think he's going to come back strong. I couldn't grow a beard when I started simply Bitcoin. And then all of a sudden, you know, the more I got into Bitcoin, the thicker the beard got, the longer the beer became. I don't know what happened. There's the signal. Bitcoin is good for testosterone levels, is what you're saying. Just increases testosterone levels. I would agree with that. All right. Next, next meme is by the legendary rope. Baby, remember the money we saved up to buy our dream home? Sophie, how do you feel about this? What's your reaction? I feel personally attacked by this meme. I think that, you know, we don't have art on our walls right now because we because well, technically we do have a lot of art. We just haven't hung it up yet. No, we have a lot of art in your studio. We don't have the only art we have hanging in our living room is a tiny little canvas that I painted of an alien South Beach, which. Yeah, maybe it sounds like you should paint more art than Sophie. Yeah, yeah, I think it's it's a lot cheaper than buying art. So definitely going to have to get on it. It took me like five hours, though, bro. Painting is really hard. I thought I could do it in like two. Took a long time. Yeah, I would agree with. Nico's mic went out. Oh, no, no, I'm back. I'm back. I would agree with that. All right. Last meme. We have a dancing squirrel TikTok one hour party. Oh, my God. Are we supposed to explain this online right now? No, no, I'm just I'm putting you on the spot. Oh, OK. Well, squirrels are the coolest animal in the world because they plant all of your trees. But they do it on accident because they don't know where they put their nuts. So don't be a squirrel and forget where you put your your twenty four words. You don't want to do that because then you'll lose your Bitcoin. Don't misplace your nuts, guys. That's what Sophie's saying. Yeah, don't because they won't plant trees. Don't misplace your nuts and not only don't lose your twenty four word seed phrase, properly secure it. Do it on titanium. Stand with the art code. Get yourself a stamp seed titanium seed plate. Anyways, 15 percent off simply promo code. All right, guys, I'm going to give it this hotel room in Los Angeles. That's my score. Sophie, what's your score? My score is the free coffee downstairs that I didn't have to pay for. So I saved some sats and drink some delicious coffee with Delight, French vanilla and hazelnut. It was very good. That's there's still a little bit here. That's that's a good score. Mike Hobart, what would you give those memes? My meme review is going to be a book. So I've been reading a book called Driven, which was published by one of the guests that we had on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Veterans is a book about actually that goes into like the biology, physiology and psychology behind driven individuals that also have ADD. So I think a lot of Bitcoiners and a lot of viewers of this show would probably enjoy the book. So like real quick is driven if you guys want to see it. That's the title or that's at least the title of the book. And then the author was Randy Kelly. And that's K-E-L-L-E-Y. Awesome. Yeah, I mean, that's cool. I haven't I'm going to check that out. That sounds really, really interesting. Driven. OK. All right. Thanks, Mike. That's a great score. Very deep score. Very deep. I feel bad now giving it a hotel room like Sophie took it up a notch with describing her coffee. And then you're you're getting deep. And I like that. OK, Steve, what would you give those beams? Oh, what object would I give those beams off my desk? Feeling color number. This is show and tell. This is the Bitcoiner version of show and tell. Well, I want to know why you give your score. I'm going to bring back the dancing squirrel. OK. Yeah, I did all of that dancing squirrel love Pierre Richard. I kind of like the decentralized horse thing. But in terms of object I bought for my meetup today, they don't even know about this yet. But I bought just actual green candles. They're on my desk right now. So I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to like light this candle and walk into the meetup and see if I can make it like a tradition like church or something like acolyte light the green candle. So that's why I give to them. It's not a bad idea.That's that's a great score. Having some issues. I don't know why. It's the cable. It's the cable. Yeah, it's the cable. Anyway. All right, everybody. So it seems like we have a bit of some technical difficulties, but don't worry, there's a dancing squirrel squirrel on screen to have you entertained while we kind of figure it out. Anyways, drop your scores in the live chat and we'll get to them. First, that green candle. That's pretty bad. It's very it's very poetic. It's very poetic. All right. First score by rave elevator. I score the means the laptop fan repair. I did myself to save some sats. Next one by Opti says my score to SB H.R. Department for triggering my future. Next one by Philip Russo. I give Opti's mustache growing one hair after smash buying at thirty thousand feet. All right. Next one by Igor. I give the means a user data link by a third party. John pleb Opti get well soon. Hallmark card Opti's just flying. He's Opti Opti. He's fine. Opti won the poll. Like what is he bitching about? Oh, OK. Apparently. So apparently it's not a apparently I'm hearing it. I'm hearing it, guys. Apparently it's it's not my it's not this it's not this mic in particular. Something's going on with the USBC cable where I'm only coming out out of one year. I apologize. Anyways, guys. Oh, one one last score by Elaine score. Sophie's appearance on Simply Bitcoin more bring more ladies into Bitcoin. Absolutely. One hundred percent. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to an episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. We appreciate you. If you enjoyed the show, make sure to smash that like button. Consider subscribing if you feel like we provided you value. But the number one thing you could do to help push this show, help push the peaceful Bitcoin revolution to share Bitcoin content. I want to thank Mike. Thank you so much for joining us today. And our special guest, Steve, who very interesting solution to tackle the Oracle problem. Thank you so much, Mike and Steve, for joining us. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's my pleasure, fellas. And Sophie nerd heard. All right, everybody, peace out. Hope to see you guys at Pacific Bitcoin. Bye, everybody. Thank you.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from A Disciple's Call To Evangelism
"Anyway, so it's good to be here And once again as always to be in the house of the lord together special time That we get to honor the lord with the way that we listen to his word sung Sing about and listen to his word preached. We'll be in matthew chapter four tonight as we continue our study Through this great gospel. It's been a good journey So far, we're getting ready to just talking to russell before the service get into the sermon of the mount And I am looking forward to that. I can't promise you how long that that will take But uh, we'll get through it one verse at a time as always and try to give a good Exegesis of each passage we come for it too. So matthew chapter four And we will begin reading tonight in verse 18 matthew four In verse 18 God's word says in jesus walking by the sea of galilee Saw two brethren simon called peter and andrew his brother casting a net into the sea For they were fishers And he saith unto them Follow me and I will make you fishers. Amen And they straightway left their nets and followed him And going on from thence He saw two other brethren james the son of zebedee and john his brother in a ship with zebedee Their father mending their nets and he called them And they immediately left the ship and their father and followed him I think it's a familiar passage the title of the message tonight is a disciples call to evangelism a disciples call To evangelism it's it's interesting to note If you comb through the new testament alone, there's a over 50 times That different forms of the word evangelized Is used as you study through each Book 50 times in total time and time again here in the gospel gospels christ calls On his people to evangelize and he caps it off with the great commission well -known couple Verses here matthew 28 19 and 20 go ye therefore and teach all nations Baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and the holy ghost Teach them to observe all things whatsoever. I've commanded you And lo i'm with you always even to the end of the earth That is a couple verses of evangelism. It's a call for all of us to go everywhere and to evangelize The world evangelism is what people god's people Do we win others to christ? We rescue others from the flames of hell we lead others From the grip of satan into the hands of god. We carry with us the seemingly uncurable disease called sin If this is the case Why? Do we not witness more? Why? Is the church not full? of those Who we have led to christ? one of the night's message We will see What evangelism? Looks like we will look at this passage and we will uncover the truths of evangelism One by one in my prayer is that it would stir up within each and every one of us a desire To do more a desire to evangelize More a disciples call To evangelism. So the first thing I want to consider In our text tonight Is the call? The call and before we get to this specific call that we see here in this passage I want to show Show you how that this call Fits into a bigger progressive call Of the disciples as we look at what we call a synoptic view of the four gospels We see that there are several different calls on the disciples in their lives Because that is how god presented it to us. It's sort of like us we receive different calls from the lord Progressive calls we were called to salvation We were called to come here to liberty we were called to evangelize some of us are called to preach Some are called to teach some are called to serve It's just a progressive call for the totality of our lives and the disciples were no Different as we grow in faith. God calls us to different levels of service according to his sovereign will So in the four gospels we see five distinct calls from christ to the disciples and this is not listed in the outline I gave you this is a free of charge Okay, so the first call we see as we look at all four of the gospels is first of all a call to salvation We see this call of the disciples in john chapter one beginning verse 35 through 51 This call came this particular passage around february the year 27 A .d and in this passage andrew peter philip and nathaniel they follow christ Submitting to him as messiah the son of god and the king of israel The disciples would occasionally accompany christ on trips after this call But they did not completely abandon their application. This was a call Their occupation this was a call to salvation the second call we see Is the call that we have here tonight the call to evangelism We see this in matthew chapter 4 the passage. We just read verses 18 through 21 and we also see this same passage in mark chapter 1 verses 16 Through 20 this call happened right at a year later from the disciples call to e salvation So tonight we will see this call played out before our eyes peter andrew james and john they will be called to more than just Fishermen as they were they will be called to be fishers of men but still yet this call Leads to a partial commitment the disciples do not made farewell to their occupation Of fishermen that's the second call we call the salvation The call to evangelism and then the third call is the call to total commitment total commitment We see this call in luke chapter 5 beginning in verse 1 through verse 11 now this call is similar to the previous call To be fishers of men, but it's different in several ways First of all in the previous call matthew and mark that they emphasize the effort But luke in luke chapter 5 emphasizes the success in the previous call a call to evangelism Jesus mentioned simon andrew james and john by name but in this call in luke chapter 5 jesus directs his words Towards peter in the previous call jesus is walking on the shore when he calls out to his disciples in this column luke chapter 5 Jesus is standing in the previous call simon and andrew They are fishing and james and john as we will see in this passage tonight They are mending their nets but in the call in luke They are all washing their nets or washing Their nets in the previous call peter and andrew leave their nets and follow jesus With james and john leaving their boats and their father and their hired servants But in this call all Leave all in a total Commitment to christ in luke chapter 5.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Guided Into Truth
"Well, as you heard announced this morning, today is a special day for our church. The air is getting a little bit cooler, a little more crisp. The rain is starting to come and fall kickoff is happening. This means many of our ministries and programs are getting kicked off, ending their summer hiatus and getting rolling for the coming year. Now in conversations I was having with the guys on our pastoral staff earlier in the summer about the different ideas for fall kickoff, themes to go with, emphases to put out there. We had a bunch of different ideas and I won't share with you the ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor, but I will restate our theme for fall kickoff this year is guided into truth, which I think is a theme that really encapsulates what we are to be all about as followers of Jesus Christ, right? I mean, when you think about it, for those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ in the room this morning, we have been guided into truth in the ultimate sense in that someone somewhere at some point in time shared the gospel with us. They shared the good news message of Jesus Christ dying and Jesus Christ rising and Jesus Christ saving sinners like you and me so that our sins could be forgiven and our hope of eternal life secured. And then we responded to that gospel with repentance and faith turning from the sin that once had its claws in us to put our trust now in Christ finished work on the cross. So we we have been guided into truth in that sense. Now. We're also called to guide others into truth. And if we're faithful to Christ and obedient to his Great Commission for his followers, we guide others into truth. That's what we do. That's what we're marked by we do so around our dinner tables as we teach our children about Christ and we do so at our family gatherings as we openly recognize that all that we have the roofs over our heads the air in our lungs the food in our tables the experiences that we get to share together. They are all because of Christ we do so at church whether we hold a formal teaching post or not. We give instruction and encouragement and exhortation from God's Word pointing other people people around us to Christ and then for a select few we guide others into truth by sharing the gospel message with the lost for some that means doing so through door -to -door evangelism for some that means at the Holmes Lake prayer tower for others. This happens more organically and the day -to -day evangelism that you've heard spoken of more recently where people are more adept at moving their conversations from more of mundane topics, you know, the weather and Husker football and the like to the gospel and getting to the hope that's found in Jesus Christ. Well today's message is going to have one aim and the bull's eye that I've been praying that this message would hit is to press in on this notion that evangelism is the territory or the realm of only that select few in the church. I'm going to throw the flag on the thought process that goes John Kerry is the deacon of evangelism and therefore John Kerry and his team. Those are the evangelists of the church. I'm going to challenge those of you who whether through fear or or laziness let's just get real here a lack of concern and love for those who are truly lost or abandoning your responsibility to do what Christ has commanded you and I both to do which is to share the gospel with the lost. I'm going to exhort you this morning to stop warming the bench and to get in the game. So last week we looked at prayer you might recall from Colossians this morning. We're looking at evangelism. I figured I could complete the trio of all topics that people like to hear about giving maybe next Sunday. No, but I'm going to say what needs to be said about being more evangelistically minded individually and as members of this body of believers to be more faithful in sharing the gospel not from a place of personal preference or desire because that really doesn't matter here. I'm going to speak to you through a text of scripture one that is very familiar to many of us and a text that is so rich in terms of the description it provides and the picture it paints of what it means to be guided into truth and what it looks like to guide another into truth turn with me if you would in your Bibles to Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 8 Matthew Mark Luke John Acts book number five of the New Testament. We're going to hit pause on our series and Colossians this week so that we as a church body in keeping with our fall kickoff theme this week can zero in on this text where we encounter someone who was guided into truth and also see someone who is guiding another into truth. We're going to look at Acts 8 25 through 40 this morning. I'm going to try to take the whole bite. We'll see how I do this morning sermon has five points. They're all alliterated. We're going to see the context first in verse 25 in leading up to verse 25. We're going to see the command in verse 26. We'll see the contact in verses 27 through 30 the conversion in verses 31 through 35 and then the consequences in verses 36 through 40 now since today's passage or today's sermon is one of these one -off sermons before we just drop ourselves into this passage. It would be important and good if we establish some of the context. So as we look at the context here first point number one, let's look at some of the background here. The Book of Acts was humanly speaking written by Luke the same Luke who gave us the Gospel of Luke and what both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts revealed to us very clearly is that Luke was a very detailed and meticulous historian. We see that over in the Gospel of Luke the very beginning verses of Luke Luke 1 3 where he says this to Theophilus who is the immediate recipient of the gospel. He says it seemed fitting for me as well having investigated everything carefully from the beginning to write it out for you in consecutive order. So we see how meticulous already Luke was and then here in the Book of Acts, which is really part 2 of Luke's writing the sequel as it were to the Gospel of Luke. He continues on and giving this very precise and detailed historical account of the early church. In fact, let's go ahead and take a few moments to do a real high -level flyover of the first seven chapters of Acts leading up to our text for today. In fact, go with me over to Acts 1 and you can do the flyover with me. In Acts 1 we see that the resurrected Christ appeared to his apostles and according to Acts 1 3 he did this over a period of 40 days and spoke of the things concerning the kingdom of God and then over the course of those 40 days and at the conclusion of those 40 days the Lord said to his apostles over in Acts 1 8 that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth file that statement away in your minds, by the way, we're going to come back to it a couple of times this morning then in Acts 1 9 we see Luke recording the Ascension of our Lord to the right hand of the Father where he is seated today says after he had said these things he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight then in Acts 2 Luke gives an account of the day of Pentecost one of the traditional Jewish feast days what was Pentecost and this is the day on which the Holy Spirit as Christ had earlier promised would happen descended and fell on that assembly there in Jerusalem. This is the day on which the Apostle Peter gave one of the most powerful sermons ever preached and according to Acts 241 about 3 ,000 souls came to Christ were converted through that preaching of Peter Acts 3 were told more about the ministry now of both Peter and John still in Jerusalem. We see that Peter heals a lame beggar in this chapter and then Peter also delivers a second sermon from the portico of Solomon and in this sermon the second sermon Peter gives in Acts 3 15 he calls out the Jews of the day as it says here in verse 3 15 for having put to death the Prince of life the one whom God raised from the dead a fact to which we are witnesses that in Acts 4 we see the arrest of Peter and John recorded and then we see their interactions with Annas and Caiaphas and other Jewish high priests and it's in front of those high priests that Peter filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 4 12 says this and there is salvation and no one else for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved then over in Acts 5 Luke gives the account of the second arrest of Peter and John and the other apostles we see that they were flawed and eventually released and after they were flawed and after they were released Acts 5 41 says they went on their way from the presence of the council rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for his name in the very next verse Acts 5 42 says while they were still there in Jerusalem every day in the temple they go from house to house and they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ in Acts 6 Luke tells us verse 7 that the Word of God kept on spreading in the number of disciples continue to increase greatly in Jerusalem and then the very next verse Acts 6 8 we are introduced to Stephen who full of grace and power was performing great wonders and signs among the people and then the remainder of Acts 6 we see that Stephen was then brought up for trial essentially before the Jewish leaders on charges of blasphemy then in Acts 7 Luke gives us this very detailed account of the the bold testimony and defense that Stephen gave which included him turning the tables and indicting the very people who were trying to indict him for having murdered their Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ and that doesn't go very well for Stephen because we see in Acts 7 54 says when they had heard this meaning Stevens testimony and indictment of them they were cut to the quick and they began gnashing their teeth at him and then the rest of Acts 7 records Stevens ultimate death by stoning Acts 8 now begins with these words in verse 1 Saul the one who would later become known as Paul was in hardy agreements with putting him meaning Stephen to death and then look at the very next words and on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria and what does that remind you of what we saw back in Acts 1 8 where Christ himself said to his followers that you shall be my witnesses from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria and then to the remotest part of the earth now take a look at Acts 8 4 we're going to work our way closer and closer to our text because Acts 8 4 here really sets up the immediate context where we'll be today says therefore those who had been scattered out of Jerusalem it means went about preaching the word Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them the crowds with one Accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing from the case of many who had unclean spirits they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 9 Evangelism
"We are at Methods of New Testament Evangelism, number 2, page 26, and we have small letter A, Personal Evangelism, pair in one, examples, I've already given them to you before, I'll add one to it, Andrew brought Simon Peter to the Lord, and Philip brought Nathaniel to the Lord, another one is Paul led Onesimus, Philemon 10, Paul called Onesimus his son in the faith, and of course Paul called Timothy his son in the faith, and so you have those. Now the impact of these, number 2, the impact of these examples, the impact of personal evangelism is the very basic method of evangelism. That is basic, one on one, and reaching souls that way. If your church wins people to Christ, believe me, it's going to be one on one. They're going to be saved during the week and they just step forward on Sunday. Now I do believe it's important to have them step forward on Sunday, have them make a public profession, but you're not going to get very many who walk in the door and come forward and accept Christ. You get some, you're going to get them through personal witness during the week, and it's always good to get up and preach and know there are two people out there today going to come forward, because they've already been led to the Lord that week, and so the secret is getting people out there witnessing to them, getting people out there that will win them to Christ and bring them forward and see them come to know the Lord. And then we have public meetings. Right here is the, I forgot about this again, pardon me, now we're catching up. Public meetings, we'll catch you down on impact here. Public meetings, right here is the place where we make a big mistake. So often we've come to believe that unless a person comes to Christ through a public service, he'll not be saved. I don't know that that's plaguing any of you. In fact, many a believer depends on the services of the local church to do the work of the responsibility to be a witness. Now that is true. They figure we'll invite them to church, but it'll be the job of the church and the preacher to win them, and my responsibility is done with inviting them. Now they ought to invite them to church, but we need to train our people to witness and be witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ, and so very, very important to do that. And any public service, if the public service is the instrument that brought them to Christ, now I was brought that way. I got saved in a public service, but I had a mailman get out of his mail car on the farm and walk out across the field and stop me on a tractor. I pulled back the clutch on the John Deere and stopped and talked to the mailman, and I respected him, and he didn't witness to me, but he did invite me to Christ. Had anybody witnessed to me? Yes, they had. I had an uncle in Kansas City, and that uncle had gotten saved, and I saw the change in his life. My parents had put me on a train in Colorado to go down to Kansas City to see my uncle and aunt, and I think when I was 11 I went down, 12, 13, 14, right in those years. My uncle had a dime store business, and he was seeing it go forward in a tremendous way, and he was just so involved in it, and he had a series of dime stores that he sold out to TGNY, and he had a number of dime stores, had a couple of dry goods stores, and I went down there when I was 12, and he went to Lutheran Church on Sunday morning, and then Sunday afternoon I'd go to church with him, Sunday afternoon they'd have sandwiches for Sunday dinner, eat quickly, and then pull all the blinds in the house and turn on the lights, have it dark in there, and then they'd have the money bags, and they'd pour out the bags on the dining room table, and we spent Sunday afternoon, all Sunday afternoon, counting dimes and quarters and nickels and pennies and dollar bills, but primarily the small change. We'd count and count and count. I'd take an afternoon, and then he'd pack it up in bags and take it to the bank on Monday, and man, that really impressed me as a kid, wow, all that money, I thought maybe that's what I wanted to get into, was a dime store, and I was 13 and I went down, and on Sunday morning we went to the Lutheran Church, Sunday noon we had a Sunday dinner, Sunday afternoon they didn't draw the blinds, they didn't pull the shades, they didn't pour out any money, they didn't do anything like that. He said, let's go in, we're going to sit down and read the Bible, and he read the Bible to us, and then he said, now, you boys, I had two cousins there, and you can do some things outside, but we'll go to church tonight. That night, got in the car and we drove over to Central Bible Hall, Kansas City, where Walter Wilson was the preacher, and I heard Walter Wilson preach. As the first time I ever heard a sermon about the blood, he preached, tonight I'm going to speak on the blood of Jesus Christ, and I thought, blood, what an awful subject, and in church, and I decided I wasn't going to listen, I was going to go to sleep, which I can do pretty easily, I can relax and fall asleep, and so I tried to sleep, I was sitting right between my aunt and uncle, and I was about to fall asleep, and I'd nod my head this way, and she'd nudge me, and up I'd come, and then I'd need the other way, and he'd nudge me, and there I sat, the whole service, and heard the message about the blood. I didn't get saved, I never forgot it. My uncle witnessed to me, he'd take me on his, as he drove from one dime store to the other and looked him over and told him what he wanted, drove to his warehouse, he'd talked to me about the Lord. He had been genuinely converted, and changing his life, and became a right good preacher, a lay preacher, he became a very good preacher. He told me one time, he said, I held every position in the Lutheran Church except pastor. He said, I've been a member of the Synod, I've been the treasurer, I've been the chairman of the Synod board, I've had every position that's possible in the Lutheran Church except pastor, and I wasn't saved. So he witnessed to me, he would write me letters, and beg me to accept the Lord. There was another man that witnessed to me. I was about 18, 19, I was out of high school, and I wasn't able to be in World War II, I wanted to be and never got to be because I was injured on the farm in a bad accident with a runaway team of horses, and my heart was so damaged I couldn't, and my lungs, every rib in my body was broken, and so I never got to be in the service.
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A highlight from Christ-Centered Evangelism - John 4:27-42
"Alright John chapter 4 Turn to John chapter 4 tonight and We are we're bringing an end to the story of the woman at the well tonight, and we've been a John since January and We're gonna get to the nobleman's son and finish up chapter 4 and then take a break in the gospel of John We are going to preach verse by verse through the whole book, but I don't want to wear you out on it So we're gonna we're gonna take a break from there, and then we'll come back to it later on in the year but John chapter 4 we've been working through this gospel and so let's let's read our text tonight, and then we'll do a little bit of catching up to where we are and Jump into the message tonight John chapter 4 we'll start reading in verse number 1 and then read through the text We're gonna cover tonight when therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John Though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples He left Judea and departed again in the Galilee and he must needs go through Samaria Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar Near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph Now Jacob's well was there Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour There comeeth a woman of Samaria to draw water Jesus saith unto her give me to drink For his disciples were gone away to buy it to under the city to buy me And sayeth the woman of Samaria unto him How is it that thou being a Jew asked me of a drink? Which him a woman of Samaria for the Jews have no dealings with Samaritans Jesus answered and said unto her if thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink thou wouldest asked of him and he would have given thee living water The woman saith to him sir thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep From whence then has thou that living water are thou greater than our father Jacob which gave us the well and Drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle Jesus answered and said unto her Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again but Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give them Shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up in the everlasting life The woman saith unto him sir. Give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw Jesus saith unto her go Call thy husband and come hither The woman answered and said I have no husband Jesus said unto her Thou hast well said I have no husband For thou hast had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband and that just thou truly The woman saith unto him, sir I perceive that thou art a prophet our father's worshiped in this mountain and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship Jesus saith unto her woman believe me the hour cometh when you shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father You worship, you know, not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews but the hour cometh and now is When the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth the woman saith unto him I Know that messiahs cometh, which is called Christ when he is come. He'll tell us all things Jesus saith unto her I That speak unto thee am he? All right And here's our text tonight verse 27 and upon this came the disciples and marveled that he talked with the woman Yet no man said what seekest thou or why talkest thou with her? The woman then left her water pot and went on went her way into the city and saith to the men Come see a man, which told me all things I ever ever I did is Not this the Christ Then they went out of the city and came in him in the meanwhile his disciples prayed him saying master eat But he said unto them. I have meat to eat that you know not of Therefore said the disciples one to another have they even brought him ought to eat Jesus saith to them my meat is to do the will of him that sent me to finish his work Say not ye there are yet four months and then cometh the harvest Behold I say unto you lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest He that reapeth receiveth wages and gathers fruit into life eternal But are that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together and Herein is that saying true one soweth and another reapeth. I Sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor Other men labored that you are entered into their labors And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman which testified He told me of all that ever I did So when the Samaritans were coming to him they besought him that he would tarry with them, and he abode there two days and many more believed because of his own word and Said unto the woman now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him ourselves and know that This is indeed the Christ the Savior of the world We've worked through the Gospel of John we spent some time in the first 18 verses I think five messages starting off on the prologue of John which is sort of the introduction of the book where John basically says Hey, this is what the book's gonna be about it's about Jesus Christ, and he's the Son of God and by the way He is God and so he says it's sort of you look back at the 18 verses if you ever want to just Look back and read those 18 verses as we go through the book you see how he's proving Everything that he stated in the first 18 verses Chapter one ends with a sort of a thing with John the Baptist and his followers and they're saying hey, who are you? why are you baptizing he tells him Messiah's coming and Then talks about him baptizing Jesus, and then Jesus comes through at the end of chapter one John says look behold the Lamb of God and two of his followers Which we have identified as John and Andrew left and followed Jesus, and then he picks up Peter he picks up Philip and Nathaniel Then you move into chapter 2 chapter 2 they go to Cana and they go to a wedding and Jesus does the first Recorded miracle where he turns the water into wine which is an illustration of the new birth The changing from the old which is only an act of God the end of chapter 2 We have the scene of the temple where Jesus goes During the Passover and he comes along the temple and all the commerce going on in the temple and there's supposed to be the place of worship and sacrifice and they turn it into a bargaining horse race type of atmosphere where there's loud noises and people getting cheated and people haggling and all these things and so Jesus runs out the money changers in the temple then they question him about it and Then he ends the chat in chapter 2 ends with how he did many signs and people believed on him But he did not believe with what their faith was and then we broke that down and sort of basically said yeah They tried to believe in him They they believed in what they saw But they weren't Jesus did not have any faith in what they believe and I equated that to what we see around today I was talking to my wife about this we had a long we were talking I had a discussion about this last night And I said, you know, I did a study in Sunday school once last year two years ago on the church, I think And I remember when I brought in that list of all of those the 30 largest churches in the country That's just the country not the world and the number 30 had like 17 ,000 members the mode the highest the largest church in the country had like 65 ,000 people and We talked about how these are the largest churches the world has ever seen I mean going back before this big church growth movement in the 80s the largest Congregations And churches to history was like Charles Spurgeon who had like 5 ,000 members And so now you have all of these people going to these churches and I asked her I said you have more people going to church Now than ever before since the church started I said is the country better off and She said she sat there and thought a minute and she said no and I said so what does that tell you a? Lot of people going around thinking they're saved that really aren't Was that old Negro spiritual that says a lot of people talk about heaven ain't going there And so that was sort of what verse 25 was was discussing Then you transition in chapter 3 and we have the discussion where Nicodemus Approaches Jesus at night and they have a discourse and he says that in order to see the kingdom of God the kingdom of heaven In order to see heaven you must be born again So Jesus and Nicodemus have this discourse up to verse 21 and then the story sort of transitions to John the Baptist and somebody comes with their little finger and tries to stir up a little dispute between John the Baptist and Jesus and John has the famous statement.
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A highlight from Session 2 Evangelism
"Today we start with evangelism defined. We need a what is evangelism and the slide is just here to help. Everything that's up here on the screen is also on your sheet. By the way, the word evangelism itself doesn't appear in the KJV, it doesn't appear there at all. But the word euangelia, euangelixo, I think I have that down here, the word evangelist appears three times and that's Acts 21 .8 where it speaks of the house of Philip, the evangelist. And in Ephesians 4 .11 where he says he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastor teachers. And then 2 Timothy 4 verse 5 where he says, do the work of an evangelist, recommending that to Timothy the pastor. So the word evangelist appears there but the word evangelize as such is not in the King James but it appears there in various forms. Many times the word euangelixo or any of the declension of that, euangelixo, it is related to the word euangelion which is the gospel and euangelixo, I bear the good news, I bear the gospel, I bring the gospel. And I've listed some ways it's used here. Matthew 11 .15, one word, have the gospel preached. One word for those five words, a form of that word. Luke 4 .18, to preach the gospel, that appears in Acts 16 .10, Romans 1 .15, Romans 15 .20, 1 Corinthians 1 .17, 2 Corinthians 10 .20, there you have the word, one word translated to preach the gospel. Luke 7 .22 and again in 2 Peter 1 .25, the gospel is preached. One word, euangelion or euangelixo, I should say. Luke 8 .1, showing the glad tidings. Luke 9 .6, preaching the gospel, one word for all three words. Luke 20, verse 1, preached the gospel. Acts 8 .25, 14 .7, 14 .21, Romans 10 .15, preach the gospel and again in that same verse bring glad tidings. Same word, 1 Corinthians 9 .16, I preach the gospel, Galatians 4 .13, Galatians 1 .8, preach any other gospel. And so it has the word in King James, any other, but the word, preach the gospel, is one word in the Greek there, euangelixo, 1 Thessalonians 3 .6, brought good tidings, Hebrews 4 .2, 1 Peter 1 .12, those that have preached the gospel unto you. And 1 Peter 4 .6, the gospel preached. So that word appears many, many times, let's look at it some more here. I better keep the computer up to date with me here. Whoops, what am I doing wrong here? I thought I just punched here, what do I do? I'm going to have to have Chris come back and tell me what to do, something's froze up here. What did I punch that time? Alright, I'm rushing it too fast, alright, we'll catch up with that in a bit. Luke 3 .18, 4 .43, 16 .16, and all of those references there, I'll go through all of them. Every one of them I've listed down here from the above references we find 48 times the word euangelixo appears in the New Testament. Other references which I've not listed where the word is translated declared and showed. The frequent use of this word in the Greek New Testament tells us how important the Lord considers this matter of evangelism. The word preached the gospel or related phrases as a translation of the one word translated into English, evangelized. And though it doesn't appear in our King James Version, it does appear in the Greek New Testament. So, let's note that next paragraph. In addition to these 48 references involving that word, there are an additional 56 references in the New Testament that have the word gospel, a translation of euangelion. This makes a total of 114 verses in the original that speak of the gospel and the proclamation of the gospel. And so, it is an important word. I want to see where I am. Where do you find the word on this, the frequent use of this word? That's way back at the first point, isn't it? Ah, right where I am. I'm right there. Now, let me figure out what I punched a minute ago. I think I did. I've got it going now. Alright. The meaning of evangelism. The meaning of evangelism. John Stott stated, the deep Bible doesn't, wow, something happened there. Does not just contain the gospel, it is the gospel. He was commenting on Galatians 3 .8, the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. Now, of course, John Stott would not be in our camp, and I'd agree with his statement, though he might not agree with us stating that we ought to preach the whole counsel of God. And we're going to need to keep that in mind all the way through. We need to preach the whole counsel of God. Yes, sir? Some of the reading for Dr. Rice, he said that if so many or evangelism was the main business of the Christian, do you think that's an accurate statement? The question he asked was this, and the reason I'm repeating the question is so it gets on the tape. The question he asked was this, in the reading from Dr. Rice, he said that the main business is the business of evangelism. Am I giving it right? And he said, what is my appraisal of that? I would believe that statement is very true. Our preaching ought not be totally evangelism and evangelistic. In fact, our business, he asked the question, the way he phrased it, the main business is solely, I'm going down the road here a ways, I'm going to give you an article that appeared, I'm trying to remember who it was, I think it was written by Dr. Gordon, I'm not sure. Anyway, I've got one in the notes here. Keeping to the main issue, keeping to the main business, and it's quite an article. It wasn't Dr. Gordon. I can't even remember who wrote it now, but I've got it to hand out and I want you to take it. I believe the main business of all our churches is the matter of winning souls and missions, outreach, winning, evangelizing. Now that doesn't mean in doing that, that all of my preaching ought to be evangelistic and everything about my church should be evangelism. I need to be building up the Christians and we're going to come to that. I need to be building up the Christians and evangelism doesn't involve just winning the soul. The evangelism involves discipling that person after he's born again. I think we'll cover much of that, but I'm not saying that I disagree with Dr. Rice. I'm saying I may be adding to him, adding some things to what he would say, but I believe the one thing we neglect an awful lot in our churches and look for excuses to neglect is this matter of evangelism. We come along with the idea there are other things more important and we get sidetracked. Up in Marshalltown, Iowa, there is the Fellowship Baptist Church up there. The pastor at one time was Dr. Glenn Jaspers and David Jaspers pastored the church. He's now president of Maranatha. David Jaspers pastored the church for a time. And you walk in their building, in the foyer, right there in the foyer is a great big sign I've never forgotten. It says, let's keep the main business the main business. And what they're saying is the emphasis around here needs to be on evangelism, keeping the main business the main business. And fellas, that's exactly what I fail to do a lot of the time. I let other things crowd in and push me and I have to check up on myself all the time. And too often, I'm not keeping the main business the main business. And so I'm saying to you, I believe evangelism is desperately important. Alright, now when you ask a question, I'll answer your question. I will give you opportunity, now feel free to raise your hand, unless you've got a real long question, then I want you to be up here sitting, give you an opportunity to come up here and be seated so you can get right up to a microphone. They're supposed to have a microphone standing, we will have one, for long winded questions. But than other that, I'm going to answer, I'll re -state the question here. He needs a coffee, who handed these out, do you have two of them? Okay, alright, he's got one, thank you. So I believe the statement by Dr. Rice is true and however, let me go back, you'll make a mistake if you say, well it's a main business so every sermon is going to be evangelistic. I believe every sermon should contain evangelism. There should be the gospel in every message I bring, enough gospel to challenge a person to get saved. But my business, let's go to Ephesians 4 .11, he gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry. Now we'll come to this later, we might as well get to it now. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, the second word for there is E -I -S, unto. That could be translated, that we are perfecting the saints, who is that? The evangelist and the pastor teacher, to perfect or mature the saints, the word perfect there is the idea of maturing the saints, maturing the saints unto the work of the ministry. So what should it be? We should understand that it shouldn't be that we are in the pastorate and we're standing in the pulpit to develop others so they'll go out and give out the word of God. That we're maturing the believers unto the work of the ministry, unto the edifying of the body of Christ. Now I think that's an important verse to have as a key in your philosophy, Ephesians 4 .11 -13. I think it's vital that you have those and that you memorize them and keep that in mind. When we do that, it says the evangelist and the pastor teacher, for the perfecting of the saints, for the maturing of the saints, unto the work of the ministry. What am I saying? Evangelism is the main thing and I ought to be developing Christians so they can go out and be evangelists. So they can go out and do the work of evangelism. And that means that my messages, and I think this is the way I operate, my messages are primarily to Christians. And nearly every message I bring, I could probably say this wasn't a thoroughly evangelistic message. My messages are to bring a message to the Christians to help develop them so they can go out and be better soul winners. But all the time I have in mind, we need to develop soul winners around this church and evangelism is a major thrust. Did I answer your question? Yes sir. Alright, thank you. Okay, let's come on to Roman numeral II, the meaning of evangelism. And we'll come on down to a second quote by John Stott. Oh, I went a little past that, no here we go again. It went on beyond that. Second quote, through the Bible, God is Himself actually evangelizing, that is communicating the good news to the world. All scripture preaches the gospel, God evangelizes through it. However, again I'd say that all of us fellas need to remember we're called to preach the whole counsel of God. And you see guys like John Stott and those men do not believe that separation is a doctrine. That's the problem with the new evangelical crowd. They do not believe separation is a doctrine. I believe you've got a doctrine of inspiration and you've got a doctrine of the virgin birth and the resurrection and a doctrine of separation. And we should respect it as a doctrine and preach and teach it just like we do other doctrine and realize that separation is a vital issue. But the main business of a church is to evangelize and win souls. Alright, let's go on. Capital letter A, the Bible is really the best sourcebook, capital letter A, the proclamation of the gospel. Now, we see from these notes given above, it means to give the gospel the good news of salvation, to get out the message.
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A highlight from How & When We Do Evangelism
"Well, good afternoon. Thank you for being here. I was thinking this afternoon as I was looking at all the people that are here, how the Lord used obviously it was His Word, but 12 apostles, 12 apostles. There's 12. To flip the world. What a God we serve. I shared this verse with a prayer group on Wednesday. Romans 10 .1. Romans 10 .1. We'll read that verse to you and then we'll pray. Beginning in verse 1 and only verse 1, Romans 10. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. Let's pray. Oh God, let it be true by Your mighty hand that our desire, our heart's desire, our prayer, our prayer to You is that our family would be saved. That those within our church wall would be saved. Lord, let it be true that our heart's desire and our prayer to You would be that Manchester would be saved. That Tennessee would be saved. Lord, that America would be saved. Lord, we just openly confess, Lord, just repent in our hearts. God, that we have such a narrow, small view of You. God, You are mighty to save. I mean, God, forgive us, oh God, forgive us how we have tried to limit You, Lord, as if we could. Lord, forgive us if we've thought that great moves of You are impossible. Lord, oftentimes we pray for revival, Lord, and we pray for awakening, but Lord, perhaps if we were pressed on it, we would say we don't truly believe it. Oh, let it not be, Lord. Oh, we need You, God, oh, we need You. Lord, You have storehouses, treasuries in Heaven that we know nothing about. Great is Your faithfulness, Lord. Oh, would You pour out Your Spirit. Oh, Lord, would You bring great revival, great awakening, Lord, in our own hearts, Lord, in our own homes, in our own church houses, Lord, in our world, Lord, make Your glory known. Oh, give us a better understanding of who You are, Lord. Lord, You're faithful time and time again. Thank You for Your Word. Oh, strengthen me, Lord, strengthen us. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen. Well, I've been tasked with speaking on how and when we evangelize. I'm really honored and encouraged that Pastor John and this church have that desire to learn about evangelism, that they take evangelism seriously, and I know Bobby would include himself in this, but just as an evangelist, as a minister, we just want to avail ourselves to you if you have questions or if you need the encouragement, if you need resources, if you need tracts, if you want opportunities to serve alongside us, we just want to avail ourselves to you and afford that to you. I'm encouraged that John and Richard both drove down from Nashville, and that was a good drive. Richard shared with me he just needed the encouragement. There's not a lot of encouragement even in our churches. How sad, but how true, not always a lot of encouragement to evangelize. So Bobby prepared. I think he has a lot of lessons on this, and he shared with me one of his and kind of with the attitude, if my bullet fits your gun, then use it, and so he did a lot of the mining on this. I've definitely added some of my heart's desires to share with you. I trust it will be an encouragement to you. So how and when we evangelize. I'd say the greatest verse, at least for me, is, Bobby shared that with you earlier, Romans 1 .16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel. When I think of that verse, drawn to the words of Christ, that those that are ashamed of Him, He'll be ashamed of us. That's heavy on us, does it not? Are we ashamed of Christ? Are we ashamed of God? Are you? Now you may give lip service and say no, but what does your actions say? Are you ashamed of God? Romans 1 .16, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it's the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek quote that was shared with me. Moeller said this, at the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who do not share the gospel. It's not churches that don't support it or antagonistic people on the streets or lack of knowledge, but the biggest obstacle of evangelism is Christians who don't share the gospel. So for professing Christians, you know, why are we not sharing the gospel? What's the reason? So what is evangelism? This is evangelism. Speaking to others the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's evangelism. Speaking the gospel, the good news of Christ Jesus. This should include that God is the holy creator of all things, that man is a sinner deserving of God's eternal wrath, that Jesus lived a perfect life and died a substitutionary death, substitutionary, we get our word substitute, right, in our place, in the place of those that believe, that he rose from the grave and grants eternal life to all who believe. And lastly, the only way to be reconciled to God and saved from his eternal wrath in hell is to repent, to turn from your sin and turn to Christ. And trust him alone. You're turning to him in faith. And so, you know, that's, sometimes that's a hot topic or sometimes that's misunderstood at repent and believe. But brothers and sisters, it's really the same coin. If we're going to turn to Christ, well obviously turning to him, we're turning away from something else. It's that change of mind. If we are now believing in Christ, we're looking to him, then we've changed our mind on the love of our sin. So how do we evangelize? How do we evangelize? So what do you think of when you think, I need to evangelize or I'm going to evangelize or I have the desire to evangelize? How would you evangelize? There's many ways. There's only one message, but there's many ways. So one heading would be personal evangelism, right? So we would take, we would witness, we would proclaim that gospel to those that we already have a relationship with and that personal evangelism. So think of someone like your worker, your neighbor, your friend, your family. It's personal. We know them on a personal level. It's one to one. It's usually in somewhat intimate setting, personal evangelism. So think of it this way. How much, how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? So do we really believe that there's a hell to be shunned? Do we believe that? Do we believe that there's really a hell for all those who do not believe the gospel? Do we just say that or do we really believe it? And if we do believe that there is a hell to shun, that there's a hell to flee from, there's a wrathful God to flee from and come to him on his terms, then how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? And I'll take it a step further, but ultimately by not proclaiming the gospel to someone, that message of reconciliation, in effect we're damning them. We're saying, you're not good enough for me to tell you how to be reconciled with God. We leave them helpless, we leave them hopeless. So we must ask ourselves that. You know, it's awkward. It's inconvenient. Bobby talked about sometimes that fear. Brothers and sisters, I think what it boils down to is that we fear man and we don't fear God. You know, we'll try to water things down like, well, fear in God means honoring him or reverencing him or being in awe of him or respecting him. It's true. It's all those things. But we're to fear him. We don't fear him like the worldly. We don't fear him like those that do not have an advocate with the Father. But we're to fear him. One of the great things of fearing God is if we fear him, we don't have to fear man. So how much must we hate someone not to share the gospel with them? So how we evangelize personal evangelism. Who's heard of friendship evangelism, right? Let's be buddies. Let's hit it off well. Let's build a rapport. Let's build a relationship with them. And then, you know, when I've gained their confidence, I've gained their trust, when they know that I truly care for them, well, then maybe I'll slip the gospel in. Is that how we're to evangelize? So at what point do you share the gospel? Is you've it had your friend -versary on 90 days in or two years in, or when do you transition from I'm only a friend to now I want to share the gospel with you? How about this? If they're your friends and you use the excuse, well, they don't want to hear about Christ, well, what's more important now, your friendship with them or telling them how to be reconciled with the holy God? I'm not saying that we don't share our one true hope with our friends. It's not that we don't build relationships or that we don't care for people, that we don't do life with people. We don't have to become someone's friend. We don't even have to be liked by them to tell them the truth and love. You know, I think it's a wonderful scheme of the devil, right, to delay. Well, I need to really get in and know them before I share the gospel. Or is it really, I don't really want to right now, so this is my excuse. I'll just keep building this relationship and maybe one day I'll build the confidence. Bobby spoke on that as well as you oftentimes hear maybe even on t -shirts, so share the gospel at all times and if necessary use words, foolishness. All the time use words. How else are they here? And then what about strangers on how we evangelize in personal evangelism? Is it okay to impose our views on them? Bobby gave a wonderful example, right? I'm a barber. I talk to people every day, all day. I talk to people till my brain hurts and I just want to be alone in a cabin for months. But I'm not called to do that, though, how badly I want to. But they will tell me everything. Stuff I don't even care to hear. Stuff I don't want to hear. It's because it just overflows, right? They want to talk about their sports car or their hobby or their wife or their kids. It's not all bad things, but it just overflows out of them. And they're going to tell you. They're going to tell you exactly what's on their mind. And so how many times have we heard professing Christians say, well, I don't want to impose my views on others. And we would impose our views if we saw someone fixing to get run over. We would snatch them. We'd help them. We'd grab them. We'd do what it took. I don't think we fully comprehend eternity and the holiness of God. And so, yes, we impose our views. The one true view, the only view. Brother, sister, you must be reconciled to God, for if you are not, you will meet Him in that final day. Jesus and the apostles, they preached primarily to strangers. We see that all throughout the gospels and the book of Acts. They didn't have to become their friends. They didn't even have to know their name to share the gospel with them. And we see specifically the example in John 4, the woman at the well. There was no friendship there. They met there at the well and the gospel was proclaimed. So that's personal evangelism. Secondly, and how we evangelize is oftentimes an open air. I've been with Bobby and been out with John. And I know some, even a guy or two here that's been willing to go with me. And I know Richard goes out on the streets as well. So open air preaching. And that's the public reading of scripture or the proclamation of the law or preaching of the gospel in an outdoor setting. This is Charles Spurgeon who said, Bobby shared this quote with me. I've read it before. I love it. This is what Spurgeon says. He says, no sort of defense is needed for preaching out of doors. But it would need a very potent argument to prove that a man had done his duty who has never preached beyond the walls of a meeting house. So just to explain that a little bit, if you didn't grasp it, saying there's no excuse, you don't have to have a reason to go preach on the street. But you'd have to have a really good argument to say why you always stand here and preach, but you've never went on the street. So we are called beyond the four walls. Love George Whitfield. So much history there. Read an abbreviated biography on him not too long ago. Just so convicting. He said, I believe I was never more acceptable to my master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. You know, I think we have some type of romanticized thought that like a long time ago everyone loved God or a long time ago it was like more peaceful or like a long time ago it wasn't as wicked as it is now. Not true. There's nothing new under the sun. There's always been haters of God. And when you read some of the accounts of George Whitfield, you know, he had dead cats thrown on him, had blood thrown on him, had people stand beside him and just clang drums while he was preaching. We've had things thrown at us and I'm sure put on us and such, but when's the last time you had blood dumped on you or a dead animal put on you? That's not to say that we oftentimes don't go through difficulties or hard things. We do. But don't have that romanticized view that, well, a long time ago it was easier. Brothers and sisters, it was not any easier than it is today. And then a principle manner by which God spread his word throughout the scripture was through the open air. And we see that. Noah, a herald of righteousness. Solomon, Ezra, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, think of all the prophets. John the Baptist coming and preaching his message of repentance. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Jesus, the disciples, Philip, Paul, Paulus, all them outdoor open air proclaimers of the good news of Jesus Christ. And preaching ultimately is a calling from God internally that should be confirmed by and a submission to one's local church. So by no means is this a lone wolf. Is this a, well, you know what I see oftentimes in some street ministers and those that are very evangelistic in their zeal is, well, everyone on the church is not on board. And so, you know, let's just ride off the church. I'm the only holy one. You know, it's just me. No one else wants to go. Maybe everyone's not called to go on the street. I think a lot are that don't. But maybe not everyone's called. Maybe that sister in the church that doesn't go on the street, she's called to just a ministry of prayer. And so we need to be plugged into the local church and be submitted to the local church. The Lord has oversight for us for a reason. So another way, as Bobby said, we, some guys, they're kind of more drawn to apologetics. And apologetics, again, is not the I'm making an apology, but it is a defense of a certain set of beliefs. But apologetics is not evangelism unless it includes the gospel message. And so this refutation of facts or, you know, this just debating for the sake of debating. Brothers and sisters, if it doesn't, if it's not grounded on Christ, the message of Christ is not heralded in it, it's not evangelism. Though it can bolster one's faith, though it can shut up often many that want to come with an argument, but many of those that you'll meet that want to have these arguments, they don't even really know what they're saying, most of them. They just, that's their defense, their defense of the gospel. They're trying to shut you down and turn you off and soothe their conscience. And so just a practical point of advice I can say when sharing the gospel with others is they're going to come at you with all kinds of angles of, well, can we trust the Bible? Or my cousin told me this, or I knew a professor that said this, or whatever it is. And that's fine, we can have those debates, we can bring apologetics into it. What we have to remember is we always have to circle back around to this question, is what are you going to do with your sins on Judgment Day? What are you going to do with your sins on Judgment Day? For the Christian, you'll stand closer than righteousness of Christ.
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Philip Bump Embarrasses Himself by Defending Biden’s Corruption
"It hurt and feel good right you've been doing this to people you and your discredited sucky garbage organization for 50 years has a feel that the tables turn have you disgraced name broadcast over 300 stations over a million people on a podcast another million audio all over Facebook showing people what a loser you are how does that feel you like you like that epic act to taste good you've doing been this to people for 50 years you and your disgraced organization doesn't feel good does it here this is more on for yourself check this out what do you take from the text message to his I old daughter have to get 50 % of my income to pop I have no idea what that means I don't I have no idea what that means what's it's it's it's I know it's circumstantial evidence and you prefer that what could I have no idea I don't know well I appreciate your eyes anybody has anybody asked her I don't know I don't know don't you think somebody should ask her okay like I'm not I just said I don't know and I don't know what to make of it so I have nothing to say about it what do you want me to say yeah but you say there's no evidence no evidence but then there's a text message where he says I give pop 50 % of my money that's evidence okay well what do you okay fine fine so evidence I appreciate you having me up it doesn't it that something like who that do you think anymore I saw that I'm saying and I let my daughter you can feel you want me to leave like just walk out in the middle of this because that way you can like you can go is this a standard really this is the way the washington post handles the people who disagree when I agree to be on for 45 minutes go go and then I get on for an hour and 15 yet that after a while thanks for having me back there is not real again
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A highlight from Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Thursday of the 20th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John chapter 1 verses 45 through 51. Come and see, replied Philip. When Jesus saw Nathanael coming, he said of him, There is an Israelite who deserves the name incapable of deceit. How do you know me, said Nathanael? Before Philip came to call you, said Jesus, I saw you under the fig tree. Nathanael answered, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel. Jesus replied, You believe that just because I said I saw you under the fig tree, you will see greater things than that. And then he added, I tell you most solemnly, you will see heaven laid open and above the Son of Man and the angels of God ascending and descending. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, the one about whom the prophets wrote. He is Jesus, Son of Joseph, from Nazareth. From Nazareth, said Nathanael, can anything good come from that place? Come and see, replied Philip. When Jesus saw Nathanael coming, he said of him, There is an Israelite who deserves the name incapable of deceit. How do you know me, said Nathanael? Before Philip came to call you, said Jesus, I saw you under the fig tree. Nathanael answered, Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the King of Israel. Jesus replied, You believe that just because I said I saw you under the fig tree, you will see greater things than that. And then he added, I tell you most solemnly, you will see heaven laid open and above the Son of Man, the angels of God ascending and descending. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, the one about whom the prophets wrote. He is Jesus, Son of Joseph, from Nazareth. From Nazareth, said Nathanael, can anything good come from that place? Come and see, replied Philip. When Jesus saw Nathanael coming, he said of him, There is an Israelite who deserves the name incapable of deceit. How do you know me, said Nathanael? Before Philip came to call you, said Jesus, I saw you under the fig tree. Nathanael answered, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel. Jesus replied, You believe that just because I said I saw you under the fig tree, you will see greater things than that. And then he added, I tell you most solemnly, you will see heaven laid open and above the Son of Man and the angels of God ascending and descending. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Amen.
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A highlight from 1379: Bitcoin Will Reach $400,000 Next Halving Epoch
"In today's show, we're going to be discussing Bitcoin analysts eyeing a V -shape Bitcoin price bounce as the RSI hits a five -year low. I'm also going to be sharing with you a new Bitcoin bull cycle metric, which bought them before 70 % gains. We'll also be discussing mysterious Bitcoin wallet becomes the third largest Bitcoin hodler in under three months, now at over $3 billion. We'll also be discussing the trader who nailed the 2018 Bitcoin price floor predicts the bear market bottom for crypto. I'll be breaking down his outlook. We'll also be discussing Guggenheim predicts a $400 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction, as well as Blockware. They share that the Bitcoin price can reach $400 ,000 during the next halving epoch. I'll be breaking this down for you. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good, crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at Cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's Cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome, everyone. Just joining us. This is podcast episode number thirteen hundred and seventy nine. I'm your host, JV. And today is August twenty second, twenty twenty three. And naturally, we have lots to cover. Unfortunately, the market is continuing on its downward spiral. We just broke that twenty six K resistance, as you can see here. And our market watch, we've got Bitcoin currently hovering just above twenty five thousand eight hundred dollars. We have Ether barely holding on to sixteen hundred. So the million dollar question becomes, how low will she go? And checking out CoinMarketCap .com, the crypto market cap barely holding on to that trillion dollar milestone, with about twenty eight billion in volume. In the past twenty four hours, we have the Bitcoin dominance at forty eight point four percent and the Ether dominance at eighteen point nine percent. And checking out the top one hundred crypto gainers for the past week, virtually nothing, and maybe just a handful, just a sea of losses, very unfortunate for the entire crypto market and checking out the crypto greed and fear index. Of course, we're still in fear today, rated to seventy eight. Last week was a fifty three neutral and last month a fifty four neutral as well. So there you have it. I mean, I've been taking advantage of this recent dip. I mean, sub twenty six thousand dollar Bitcoin seems like a bargain. If you're to ask me, let me know in that live chat. And now let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis and check out the charts and what is happening right now in the markets. Bitcoin stayed stubbornly anti trend today, August twenty second, as twenty six thousand became a magnet for the intraday Bitcoin price action. And again, we're just currently dropping right below it. And regarding the RSI readings, here's what someone had to share. At this stage, it feels like a game of chicken to see who is going to make the move to break the chop, according to material indicators. Now analyzing liquidity on the Binance order book, he also notes that a broad lack of liquidity, increasing the potential for a sharp move in either direction. Quitting the analysts here, the market is waiting to see if more bid or more ask liquidity is going to be attracted to the range. So far, we're seeing small amounts of bid liquidity ladder up from twenty thousand closer to the active trading zone, but no liquidity of any size new or moved has been stacked into the range, defending the price from the lower low. The implications were nonetheless potentially very serious for the bulls with the lower low apt to risk even a twenty thousand support going forward. Quitting the analysts again, needless to say, printing a lower low on this time frame has macro implications. Printing two lower lows would push the Bitcoin price to sub twenty thousand dollar levels. So a great question. How many of you are anticipating the Bitcoin price action dropping below twenty thousand? Let me know. Now zooming out, hope remain that Bitcoin can rescue its overall uptrend. So it's not all doom and gloom. In a dedicated video, we had crypto analyst Mikal van de Poppe shared that on the twelve hour time frames, the RSI measured less than nineteen at the time of writing near its lowest level since the twenty eighteen bear market bottom. Daily levels were similar, reaching their lowest since the March twenty twenty no vid crossmarket crash, quitting him here. Every time we see such a move, you get a sort of V shape recovery back up and it finds equilibrium on the higher floor. And he also added it was very likely that Bitcoin can stage a comeback to focus on twenty six five or more next as the outlines here in this chart. He also shared that the current Bitcoin price action reminds me of September twenty twenty absorption and slowly grind higher here for a while. And I can see this play out similarly. So there you have it. What are your thoughts? Do you feel we're likely to continue downwards, potentially sub twenty thousand or even touch in as low as twenty thousand? Or do you feel we're likely to continue climbing back up as the analysts on the ladder shared? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments. Right down below. Now let's discuss a new bull cycle amongst us right now. Shall we check this out? The Bitcoin metric that nailed the pit of the twenty twenty two bear market says this uptrend is still intact. Let's go and a new post. The creator of on chain analytics platform looking to Bitcoin shared some good news in the form of Bitcoin's realized cap huddle waves metric. Let's go. While last week's 10 percent Bitcoin price dip has up ended some of the on chain landscape, the our huddle is one of the metrics taking the longer term view of what remains a timely bull market. This metric takes existing huddle waves data, which groups the Bitcoin supply when each coin or specifically the unspent transaction outputs last moved and waits it by the realized price. An example of the price at which it last move, quoting them here, peaks in younger age bands, highlights the periods where they have a proportionally higher realized value waiting relative to the older realized value age band, said Philip Swift. And he also shares this is important to note, as it indicates that the market is prepared to pay higher values for Bitcoin today and in recent times versus historical norms. This can be a good indicator that the market is becoming overheated. What are your thoughts now? Currently, the bands of coins that last moved three to six months ago are rising, a phenomenon coming to the start of the Bitcoin's previous bull markets. And on the topic of the August drawdown on Bitcoin Swift thus concluded that the recent price dip is the context of a much bigger bull trend, quoting him again here, three to six months band trending up as new money comes back into the market equals new bull cycle. Let's go. Now, our huddle has an impressive record when it comes to Bitcoin price phases. Back in December of last year, when Bitcoin was circling its two year lows of 15 six, which is the current market bottom, Swift used this metric to call the end of the euphoria among Bitcoin's speculative investor cohort, which he labels Taurus. He stated that that time that the market is likely now at these cycle lows, which means maximum risk reward opportunity, which I discussed in great detail yesterday. I said there's way more reward than risk currently in the market. And beginning in January of this year, Bitcoin began a new uptrend that delivered 70 percent gains just in quarter one. And since then, investor composition has changed with the short term huddler entities holding Bitcoin for one hundred and fifty five days or less, reducing their overall exposure to their lowest since November of twenty twenty one. And the latest dip nonetheless increased pressure on those remaining speculators, but almost 90 percent of the short term huddler coins now held at an unrealized loss. But I also like to point out that also the smart money, which are the whales, are continuing to accumulate. So even though the short term investors are the paper hands selling their Bitcoin potentially to BlackRock or MicroStrategy, whatever big corporate interests out there, the smart money is continuing to huddle. And as you know, we like to follow the smart money with that being shared, fam. Now let's discuss this new wallet, which came out of nowhere and has now accrued over three billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in less than three months. Who do you think owns this wallet? Well, let's look into it and discuss it, shall we? A mysterious Bitcoin wallet has surged up the ranks to become the third largest huddler of Bitcoin in the world in just over three months, with the timing sparking some wild theories about its owner. According to data from crypto statistics platform Bitinfo Charts, the wallet address first received Bitcoin on March 8th, and over the course of the next three months and two weeks, the wallet had accrued a staggering one hundred and eighteen thousand BTC worth over a billion dollars at today's current prices. Now, the rapid and significant accrual of Bitcoin within a single wallet addresses has attracted its fair share of conjecture naturally on X. Some users suggest it's most likely a crypto exchange moving their funds, while some more radical members have posted and more wild theories suggesting that Black Rock is the prime suspect. As shared here, this unknown address has accumulated over three billion dollars worth of Bitcoin in the last three months. The prime suspect, my first major transaction, which was thirty four hundred Bitcoin, occurred on May 16th, 2023, almost exactly one month later, on June 15th, when Black Rock filed for spot Bitcoin ETF. Now, very interesting, right? Now, the current largest Bitcoin wallets in the world, according to Bitinfo Charts, are reportedly owned by Binance and Bitfinex and are Bitcoin cold storage wallets. The unknown Bitcoin wallet comes in third place and is then followed by another Binance cold wallet in fourth place. Now, Black Rock made waves in the crypto market, as we know, June 15th, filing an application for the spot Bitcoin ETF product that, if accepted by the SEC, will be the first of its kind in the United States and completely change the game. Black Rock's applications sparked a wave of filings for similar spot products from a horde of other Wall Street heavyweights, including Fidelity, Invesco, Wisdom Tree and Valkyrie. The prospect of a spot Bitcoin ETF whipped crypto analysts into a frenzy, sharing their bullish predictions for the price of Bitcoin with Fundstrat's head of research, Tom Lee, suggesting that Bitcoin can reach a price of one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty thousand dollars per coin following the halving event scheduled to be in April 2024, which is now officially less than nine months out. What are your thoughts, though, fam? Let me know in the comments. And at the end of the show, I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud. Now let's discuss before we get into very bullish price targets, including this four hundred thousand dollar prediction, which is the main topic for the day. First, let's discuss where's the Bitcoin price likely to bottom out, according to this top analyst. Let's discuss it. The trader who accurately called Bitcoin's twenty eighteen bear market bottom is forecasting how the entire crypto market can carve a price floor for this cycle. Synonymous analyst Bluntz, what a username, love it, shared on social media X that he closely is looking at the total market cap of crypto, which is the total chart. Bluntz says he sees the total chart losing about 15 percent of its value before crypto assets can witness a significant bounce, quitting him here, looking at total paints, the clearest picture of them all and far more than looking at either ETH or BTC on their own based off the total chart. I do believe the June lows still need to be swept before calling bottoms, but it will probably be the last good buying opportunity of the next few years. So seize the moment, fam. And as you can see in this total crypto market chart, you can see we're currently sitting at just barely above one trillion. He sees us dropping before rising to one point four trillion dollars. So it appears that he expects the total market cap of all crypto to plummet to roughly eight hundred and eighty billion, wiping out one hundred and twenty billion off the current market. The analyst is a popular practitioner of the Elliott Wave theory, which we commonly cover here, an advanced technical analysis approach that attempts to predict the future price action by following crowd psychology that tends to manifest in waves. Bluntz says that his prediction is based on a model that outlines an asset's potential correction after a steep rally based, quoting him here, based off simple Elliott Wave model, viewing the rise from the lows as an impulsive move and our corrective wave from the highs being around 70 to 80 percent complete. Now, let me know if you agree or disagree with the crypto analyst. Do you think the crypto market cap needs to shed another one hundred and twenty billion before we rise back on up? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss Guggenheim's seven I'm sorry, four hundred thousand dollar price prediction. Scott Minard, who is their CIO. He originally made this prediction, I believe towards the end of twenty twenty one. Now, unfortunately, he has had a heart attack and he passed, so he's no longer with us. He literally died in December of last year. But nonetheless, he still made this prediction. So we're going to cover it and then we're going to discover the outline metrics from Blockware and their four hundred thousand prediction for the height of this cycle for the next halving reaching the epoch, which is also interesting because they're also suggesting a four hundred thousand dollar price action per coin. Then we'll dive into our live Q &A. So here we go. This was again, this article was dated, as you can see here, January 18th, twenty twenty one. So this is roughly just over two years ago. And at that time, Bitcoin was trading just above forty one thousand dollars. So here's the prediction coming from Scott Minard, from Guggenheim, a large, large asset manager. I think one thing that we are seeing is the sudden interest in retail. We are moving into a speculative frenzy and perhaps it's time to take some money off the table. Now, the debate around Minard's two opposite comments for Bitcoin sparked curiosity amongst the crypto community when he said time to take money off the table. And he also added on this tweet, it was before it became X, it was right Twitter. So he shared Bitcoin's parabolic rise is unsustainable in the near term, vulnerable to a setback. The target technical upside of thirty five thousand has been exceeded time to take some money off the table. And just at that time when he made that tweet, Bitcoin entered a strong correction. And over that time, Bitcoin tested support at thirty thousand twice before resuming back northwards and also talking about the positive side, back to the four hundred thousand price prediction. The Guggenheim CIO said that Bitcoin is becoming a favorable asset class slowly. That's right. And still remains positive on the Bitcoin price action for the long term, quitting him here. The other side of that is demonstrating that crypto is becoming much more mainstream. The four hundred thousand dollar price I talked about was based off the supply of gold in the world and crypto in a lot of ways is more attractive than gold. Let me know if you agree or disagree. I absolutely agree that Bitcoin is way more attractive than gold and comparing it to the yellow metal market. Minard said that Bitcoin comes with additional benefits like portability and ease of transactions. And note that Guggenheim Partners is already seeking five hundred million dollars worth of exposure to Bitcoin via the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which is the GBTC product, the largest HODLer Bitcoin in the world. They currently control over four hundred thousand BTC. So this will be a 10 percent exposure to Bitcoin from five billion Guggenheim's macro opportunities fund. The investment giant's proposed SEC filing shall become effective January 31st. And when asked Minard of if any of their funds have been allocated into Bitcoin, Minard hinted that they are still waiting for the SEC to approve their proposal. He added that if client demand picks up, they would possibly consider some allocations. And he also revealed that some small private Guggenheim funds have done some allocations, quoting him again, and some of our private funds, we have already purchased it. I recommended it to somebody. So if you believe what I said, that it'll go to four hundred thousand dollars per coin eventually, then two percent of your portfolio will be 20 percent before this is all over. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Scott Minard. And again, rest in peace. The dude had a heart attack at the end of last year and is no longer with us. And with that being shared now for our main story of the day, and that's the block where outline prediction of a four hundred thousand dollar Bitcoin price, along with the math to back it up. Now, this is pretty awesome. And again, shout out to everyone today in our live chat. I appreciate everyone's support. Shout out to Blockware Solutions as they shared on X how Bitcoin can reach four hundred thousand dollars per coin during the next halving epoch brought to you by Blockware Intelligence. Here we go. Twenty twenty four halving analysis, understanding the market cycles and opportunities created by the halving. Unlike other commodities, Bitcoin has a predetermined algorithmic supply schedule, which cannot be changed. There are multiple factors contributing to the cyclical nature of Bitcoin's price, including network adoption and the macroeconomic environment. But the most impactful is the mining subsidy halving. Yeah, that's right. Bitcoin's market cycles are unique due to its fully transparent block chain, providing market participants with more granular information than any other asset class. And moreover, the predictable supply schedule further impacts the psychology of market participants and example demand. So number one, halving's reduce the sell pressure. Miners are the primary force of sell pressure on the price of Bitcoin they receive, although the newly issued Bitcoin and the majority of which they must sell in order to fund operating expenses for their mining operations, the weakest miners on the network are eliminated and sell pressure is significantly reduced. The price of Bitcoin begins drifting up and a new wave of adoption then begins and assuming a thirty five thousand price action after the halving, the U .S. dollar value of Bitcoin mined per year can drop from eleven and a half billion to five point seven billion dollars. That is one hundred and sixty four thousand two hundred and fifty Bitcoin less mined every year, more than MicroStrategy's entire Bitcoin treasury. Now, after the inefficient miners capitulate, the profit margin increases for surviving miners, which further reduces the sell pressure. So based on the post capitulation hashrate estimate, this would result in a two point three billion dollar reduction in annual sell pressure from the miners. Now, number two, halving brings new demand with supply being diminished. Demand is the only remaining variable determining the market price of BTC. Many market participants understand the supply side dynamics at play due to the halvings. Historically, this has led to a surge in demand in the months following each halving, as evidenced by on chain data. We'll be checking out these charts in a little bit and do the positive sentiment market participants prepare to deploy capital at the first sign of upward momentum. Now decreased supply plus increased demand equals strong positive signal for the price appreciation. Number three, the halvings cannot be priced in. Despite their predictable nature, halvings cannot be fully priced in before they occur. A higher price today would result in more miners coming online, introducing additional sell pressure and limiting the price appreciation. And moreover, the weakest miners, those with old generation machines and or high operating costs, are the first to unplug post halving. The elimination of these miners significantly reduces the sell pressure as they were selling most of their Bitcoin to fund their operations. Lastly, there are some market participants that believe halvings are bad for the security of the Bitcoin network as the diminishing block subsidy reduces the amount of miners making Bitcoin more vulnerable to an attack. And when halving successfully occur, these doubters are proved wrong and positive sentiment increases. Now, number four, Bitcoin cycle volatility and historical performance. Bitcoin's extreme volatility is a side effect of its halving shocks and rapid global adoption, resulting in four distinct stages within each halving cycle. Stage one, the halving, stage two, the bull market, stage three, the bear market and then stage four, recovery. And while Bitcoin is often criticized for its extreme volatility on a long enough time horizon, its volatility is solely to the upside. Keep that in mind. Now, nobody who has ever bought Bitcoin and held it for more than five years is down on their purchase. That's worth repeating. Nobody who has ever bought Bitcoin and held it for more than five years is down on their purchase. So in a long term, how long is that? Holla in the live chat. And for each epoch, the price of Bitcoin has increased by the following amounts from the halving to the next bull market top from 2009 to 2011. We had a 584 X increase in price action from 2012 to 2015, 92 X from 2016 to 2019, 30 X and from 2020 to 2024, 7 .7 X. And now number five, diminishing returns may not be the case going forward. Some question the bullishness of these halvings as the stock of existing Bitcoin grows relative to the amount of new bitcoins being mine. This is a common perspective, but it may be incorrect. Less than 10 percent of the existing Bitcoin have moved in the last month. A large majority of Bitcoin is held by users unwilling to sell at today's price. Now, the small amount of bitcoins that is moving and being traded is what determines today's price. There is a baseline of demand and from Bitcoin are saving for the future. The reduction in sell pressure becomes more pronounced, each halving after Bitcoin more than doubles in price. This indicates that halving induced reductions in sell pressure could become more extreme and potentially lead to larger bull runs in the future. Now, 2024 will be the first halving where the supply of Bitcoin available for trade decreased since the previous halving. And during spring of 2020, the percentage of the outstanding Bitcoin available for trade was at an all time high, indicating the Bitcoin was over becoming more abundant. However, this trend had reversed over the last three and a half years. And as the new bull market begins, there will be less Bitcoin available than the previous cycles. The first halving this has ever occurred. And assuming the price of thirty five thousand at the date of the halving, a four hundred thousand dollar cycle top would break the trend of diminishing returns, which is a reasonable expectation due to the two billion having supply shock and increasing scarcity, a liquid BTC supply on the exchanges. Now, number six, juxtaposition with gold. Gold is an asset similar to Bitcoin and that they are both non -sovereign stores of value. However, when juxtaposed, Bitcoin poses far more desirable attributes. Facts. Number one, Bitcoin is absolutely scarce, while gold is only relatively scarce. That's true because with gold, you can continue mining a new supply, adding to the overall supply each and every year with Bitcoin. There could never be more than twenty one million Bitcoin. And number two, Bitcoin is more portable, divisible, fungible and is less vulnerable to rehypothecation by centralized custodians. Facts. So after the 2024 halving, the inflation rate of Bitcoin will fall under one percent, which is less than half that of gold. Now, four hundred thousand dollars per Bitcoin would put the market cap of Bitcoin just beneath the parity with gold. Let's go. Can't wait for a twelve trillion market cap for the king crypto personally. Now, given the bullish catalysts induced by the halving, we believe this is a fair estimate for the top of the coming Bitcoin cycle. Now let's take a look at some of these charts, which they shared. This first one shows you the Bitcoin price issuance with the 90 day moving 90 day change issuance. And you can see, you know, the different metrics here in the different colors. And then let's go to their next chart here. It shows you entities net growth with a 30 day moving average. You can see the surge in demand and just continuing to move on up like clockwork. And then in this final chart here, we can see the Bitcoin price all time highs for each cycle, which is separated, which you can see here. Yes. So, I mean, if history doesn't repeat, oftentimes it shall rhyme. So I cannot wait. And I'd personally love to see a four hundred thousand dollar price action. And this shows you the hash rate, which just continues to climb, reaching all time highs, making the Bitcoin network more secure than it's ever been before. And they also shared an interesting update, which I might as well read that as well right here. Part two. Let's read a touch of this and then we'll dive into our live Q &A. What machine and electricity rate will Bitcoin miners need to survive this twenty twenty four halving? Check it out. There are three distinct phases in the time before, during and after the twenty twenty four Bitcoin halving. We've got number one, the pre halving, number two, the post halving and number three, post capitulation. Number one, the pre halving before the twenty twenty four halving, all miners will be operating at a profit but are likely selling at least enough Bitcoin to cover their operation expenses. Miners with the most efficient machines and the lowest energy rates have the lowest Bitcoin breakeven prices. And the miners with higher breakeven prices are either unprofitable or forced to sell at a higher percentage of the Bitcoin that they mine in order to cover their operating expenses. And also it includes what's minor and Avalon equivalents, which are size adjusted for the percentage of the total network hash rate. Now let's discuss the post halving after the twenty twenty four halving. Many miners will become unprofitable since miners have already made significant capital expenditures for mining Bitcoin infrastructure and are locked into energy contracts. They are unlikely to turn off immediately. So instead, they will try to continue operating for as long as possible, hoping the Bitcoin increases enough to make them profitable again. Now, unless Bitcoin price appreciates quickly, the extreme margin compression will begin to force inefficient miners offline. And number three, the post capitulation following the capitulation of inefficient miners difficulty will adjust down, lowering the breakeven prices for surviving miners who will become even more profitable. So there you have it. I mean, shout out again to Blockware. Awesome analysis on their outline of the Bitcoin price going to four hundred thousand dollars per coin at the epoch of the next halving, which again is right around the corner next year. Let me know if you agree or disagree in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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"I haven't finished the message or done it in two parts. This is one I'm just like, all of these parts feel essential to this and we need to be able to deal with this. Acts 1 and verse 8, because this really is the rest of the book of Acts is expressing this, we'll read this verse, we'll have a brief word of prayer, then we'll dive back into where we left off this morning. This is Jesus speaking to the apostles before he ascended to heaven, and they've asked about when's the, you know, when's the kingdom be restored? He's going to say, that's not for you to know, the Father's put those times in his hand. But verse 8, in contrast to that, you shall receive power, this ability, this divine power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. So that happens at Pentecost, that the Holy Spirit comes upon them, empowers them, and ye shall be witnesses unto me. Okay, you're going to go tell everyone what you have seen and heard, particularly the resurrection. Witnesses tell what they have seen, both in Jerusalem, that's where it starts with Peter's sermon on Pentecost we looked at a few weeks ago, and in all Judea, their witness spills over from that city into the surrounding countryside. And in Samaria, we looked at that a little bit briefly this morning in Acts chapter 8, and under the uttermost part of the earth, and that is still going on today. One of the things we touched on when we looked at this text a few weeks ago is that the task is unfinished. Jesus is very much implying that I'm ascending to heaven and this task begins and it continues until I return. In fact, the angel says, you know, they're standing there gazing up into heaven, the same Jesus who you've seen ascend is going to come back that same way. He's going to return visibly and physically. And the implication is, until that happens, you've got a job to do, which is to be a witness to Christ, it is to evangelize. Now, so this morning, we talked about the fact that God has defined the task for us. What is evangelism? It's very simply telling people the good news of Jesus and calling them to accept it. It's not just information, but it's information and persuasion. It's not just here's the facts, but it's facts that demand a response. It's both of those two things together. We also noted that God has defined the message and we spent a significant amount of time today just carefully laying out what is the gospel, what is the evangel, what is the message that we as Christians are to declare. If we get the message wrong, we might be very, very passionate. We might be very bold, but we're not giving the message of life. Both boldness and accuracy are essential when it comes to giving the gospel. And so you might have a beautiful scene, but no light. You might be very accurate, but it's not visible. That's a message that's correct, but not declared. Or you might have a message that is declared, but not accurate. We want to have a message that's both accurate and made known to the world around us. So where I want to go this evening is how do we go about doing that? And we're going to look at the book of Acts and just look at some examples of the different ways to do that. But before we do, let's just go to the Lord in a word of prayer before we dive in. Father, you have called us to make disciples of the nations. You have called us to preach the gospel to every creature. And Father, we recognize that we are not capable of doing this on our own. We desperately need your spirit. And Father, we also confess this evening that we are often silent when we should speak. We are often fearful when we ought to be bold. We are often hesitant when we need to be direct. So God, I pray that you would fill us with courage. You would fill us with confidence that comes from your spirit's indwelling presence. Would you help us as a church to be a church that is marked by personal passionate evangelism? And Father, not just speaking to the issues of the day, but pointing people to Christ. We ask these things for your glory in Jesus' name. Amen. According to various studies that have been done, there are approximately 7 ,500 news anchors in the United States. That number was actually surprisingly low to me. I thought that like every town had a bunch of them. But 7 ,500. And the job of a news anchor is to simply get the news out. These are the people on the evening news that are like, this evening there was another traffic jam in the bank head tunnel, or the weather tomorrow is going to be insanely hot once again. They're the familiar faces on local TV who give us these updates. They might be the less familiar faces on sort of the national stage. And frankly, as much as many people dislike and distrust the media, and sometimes for good reason, I think we would all admit that people who give us the news are filling a vital and important role to let us know what is going on in the world. They're supposed to get the news out. And sure, sometimes they get the news wrong, and sometimes they leave out important aspects, but the basic description is to get the news out. That in a sense is our job as Christians is to get the news out without changing the facts, without tweaking things. Our job is to get the good news of the gospel out to a needy world, and we've got to get the message right. We saw that this morning. We've also got to embrace that calling. Our job is not to editorialize, but to announce. We're not to be opinion journalists, but more news anchors of here's the message and we're going to declare it and call people to respond to it. That is what it means to be an evangelist, is to declare the good news, to declare the gospel to the world around us. So I want to just pick up with these final two building blocks for a biblical vision of evangelism. Not only the fact that God has defined the task, not only the fact that God has determined the message, but I want to pick up thirdly this evening with the fact that God uses Christians to evangelize. I know this is a really obvious point, but God doesn't send angels to come and proclaim the gospel to the world around us. He doesn't strike people with lightning while they're walking down the street and all of a sudden they're saved. But as Romans 10 tells us that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ and that it is absolutely necessary for preachers to be sent out to make the gospel known. The book of Acts, it's called at the title at the top of my page the Acts of the Apostles. And we've noted the fact it could be the Acts of the Risen Christ through the spirit empowered apostles. It's really Jesus who's working. But we get example after example in this book of the first generation of Christians doing precisely that, telling people about Christ. And here's what is striking is the variety of ways, the variety of methods that God uses. There is not just here's the one approved method for giving the gospel. You know, God calls all Christians everywhere to only knock on doors and use the Romans road or only to have conversations at work. There's kind of an above all, all of the above kind of strategy when it comes to getting the gospel out. So one of the first ways we see the gospel going out is in Acts chapter two. So just turn over there with me. We looked at this in some detail a few weeks back. So we're not going to rehash this, but it's the day of Pentecost and the spirit comes upon the Christians and they begin to speak in other languages and a big crowd gathers. And Peter verse 14, Acts two verse 14, Peter standing up with the 11 lifted up his voice and said unto them, ye men of Judea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words. And from there, he begins to give them a recounting of the fact, hey, what you're seeing is not drunkenness, but the spirit of God has fallen in fulfillment of prophecy. He then adds to that, that Jesus is the promised Messiah who's risen from the dead and David predicted him. And this can't be about David because David is dead, but Jesus has risen from the dead. So verse 36, therefore, here's sort of the summary, the call to action, let all the house of Israel know assuredly, and by the way, this is imperative in the Greek. It's not just, hey, allow this to be, but that all the house of Israel must know this, must know assuredly, must accept this by faith, that God hath made the same Jesus whom ye crucified both Lord and Christ. So he declares the gospel to them through preaching. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission or the forgiveness of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. So he preaches and we find out in verse 41, 3 ,000 people respond in faith and signify that by stepping into the waters of baptism. We could give example after example, we have a number of examples in the book of Acts of public preaching. God uses Christians to evangelize and one of the ways he does that is through public preaching, maybe in a church gathering or out on a street or you think of through church history, men like George Whitfield and John Wesley who did open air preaching and thousands came to hear them. Preaching, this authoritative heralding to large groups of people. It might be a specially organized crusade like what Billy Graham did back in the day. It might be preaching that goes out over the airwaves or over the internet to bring sinners to faith in Christ. And Peter is preaching, he is expounding scripture. He is keeping scripture central. Now, what is interesting when you look at the apostles proclamation of the gospel, we do not see elaborate schemes. We don't see slick methods being cooked up to try to pad their numbers or to manipulate people. We don't see high pressure sales techniques to guilt people into making a decision. Rather, we see the simple and powerful declaration of the word of God laid onto the consciences of their hearers. It's the honest declaration of the good news of Jesus. Turn over with me to 2 Corinthians 4 to hear what Paul has to say about gospel ministry. 2 Corinthians 4, verses one and two. So seeing therefore, we have this ministry, the gospel ministry, this responsibility to make the gospel of Jesus known. As we have received mercy, we faint not. Okay, we've got such an awesome ministry. We don't give up, we don't quit. But we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. I love this. He's saying, we're not resorting to trickery. We're not taking the scriptures and twisting them to make them say what we want, but we are plainly exposing to view what the Bible says and what Christ has done and making an appeal to people's consciences to respond. He's likely describing the individuals in his day who would go around from town to town and would sort of do philosophical lectures for money and some would do the same thing, would basically try to monetize the gospel. One way we could render this is we don't peddle the word of God. We don't go around sort of preaching the word of God in order to get rich for ourselves. But rather just the plain declaration of the truth. Now, to be sure, we do see the early church loving and serving their neighbors. We do see Peter performing miracles and that becoming an avenue for the gospel going out. There is biblical precedent for saying we're gonna perform mercy ministries. We're gonna do good to our community in order to gain a hearing. We have to be careful less we slip into crass manipulation where you're trying to play on people's emotions and arms twist when the spirit of God has not touched their conscience. So how do we go about, how does God use Christians to proclaim the gospel one way is by preaching. Here's another way that's totally different. So if Peter's preaching in Acts two and Acts three to crowns of thousands, we go to the other end of the spectrum, which is simply a one -on -one conversation. Go over to Acts chapter eight with me. Here we have a guy who's by the name of Philip. In Acts chapter six, there had been some division in the early church between the Greek speakers and the Hebrew speakers and the apostles called the church together. They appoint the first deacons and there's seven of them. One of them is Stephen. He preaches a powerful sermon before the Sanhedrin in Acts chapter seven and they kill him because they loved his sermon so much. He faces stoning because of the reaction to it. Same message, completely different response. Then we get in Acts chapter eight, Philip, we noted him briefly this morning. He goes to Samaria and he preaches. Later on in the book of Acts, this guy is so passionate for the gospel, he gets the name Philip, the evangelist. An evangelist is not some guy who has a fifth -wheel trailer who goes from church to church and does special meetings. An evangelist is somebody who preaches the gospel. By the way, nothing wrong with people going from church to church doing special meetings. I've got friends who do that. But the term evangelist refers to those who evangelize. And so Philip gets that label. But look in verse 26, Acts chapter eight. So he's preached the gospel to all the villages of the Samaritans and the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip. This is one of the rare instances in Acts where we see special divine guidance regarding ministry. Arise and go toward the south under the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. So down to the Gaza Strip, going down towards Egypt. And he arose and went and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning and sitting in his chariot and read Isaiah the prophet. Then the spirit said unto Philip, go near and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah and said, understandest thou what thou readest? He said, how can I accept some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he should come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture, which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth. It's from Isaiah 53, which Brian read this morning. And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophet this, of himself or some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, Jesus. Here we get this other end of the spectrum. This is not preaching to a crowd of thousands, but this is a one -on -one conversation. You see, you may say I'm not comfortable doing public speaking. I'll never stand up before a crowd of people and declare the gospel. Great, well, we have this example of a one -on -one conversation, a divine appointment. God orchestrates this encounter as you read the text. It's very obvious that God is making sure that Philip crosses the path of the eunuch so that he can get the gospel and he meets him just when he happens to be reading Isaiah 53. And occasionally at various points in your life, God will bring those kinds of situations across your path where you bump into a complete stranger. The spirit of God's been working on them. Other people have been witnessing to them. They've been under conviction and you get to witness to them. I remember a time when I was a kid, my dad was cleaning the church where we were at and a Sri Lankan guy just came and knocked on the door. He'd kind of grown up in Sri Lanka. I think he had grown up as a Hindu and was like, I'm looking for a priest. I want to figure out how to become a Christian. Like never met the guy before, never had encountered the guy before and dad brought him home, sat down with him, explained the gospel, the guy got saved. Like, praise God. I'll be honest, those situations are pretty rare that you get someone and you just cross their paths and boom, there they are, they're ready to be converted. Philip is in the right place at the right time with the right message. And notice what his message is, it's Jesus. He starts at the same scripture and gets to Jesus. Beloved, we need to be so fluent with the gospel that we can sort of jump into any place in the storyline of the Bible and be able to get to Jesus. I was talking to Clay this morning on the way out. He was letting me know he was going to preach about David at Ahepa and I just gave him the encouragement. I said, as you preach about David, don't forget to talk about the son of David, right? Anywhere in the Bible we want to get to Christ because he is the heart of the gospel. So the Ethiopian is ripe for the picking. The soil is ready for the planting. And these encounters are not encounters that you and I can manufacture. We can't sort of, you know, we try to strategize and make sure I'm at the right place at the right time. This is the working of God. Indeed, I would say that trying to plant the seed when God has not yet plowed the soil can actually be unhelpful because it's going to push people away when they're not ready. But think about the things that God could use to awaken someone's heart to where they're in a place like this guy who's just ready for this. Maybe someone has gotten to the end of their rope and realized, man, this religion I've grown up in does not give me answers. Or some personal tragedy has happened where all of a sudden they didn't think about eternity yesterday, but now they are thinking about eternity. A loved one passes away, and all of a sudden they're realizing, one day I'm going to die. And they're beginning to think about these things. Sometimes tragedy will be the megaphone that God will use to awaken a lost world to their need for him. Sometimes a divorce has thrown someone back on a faith they long ago rejected. You see, in every tragedy in the midst of all brokenness, when questions arise, that is where the Gospel can slip in. So God uses Christians. Sometimes it's the preaching to the huge crowds, Peter on Pentecost. Other times it's the divine appointment, Philip in the Ethiopian eunuch. Another way we see God using Christians are just individuals who are scattered. We looked at Acts 8 this morning how the church is scattered and everybody went everywhere giving the Gospel. Let me give you another example of this happening in Acts because it seems to suggest this is a way that God works. Acts 11, picking up in verse 19. Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen. All right, so same persecution. We would look at persecution and be like it's a real negative, it's a real downer. People are getting killed, hauled into prison. God's using it to scatter Christians. Those who were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenice and Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. That's all they knew is this is for Israel. And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene. Cyrene is in North Africa, Cyprus is an island out in the Mediterranean, which when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. Same message, right? That Jesus and he's the Lord, he's the resurrected king. And the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. So here's these people who are scattered. They weren't planning to go to Cyprus or to Cyrene. They were planning to stay in Jerusalem and hang out with the Christians there. But circumstances have happened and all of a sudden they're in a place where there's a bunch of people who don't know about Jesus. And so what do they do? They open their mouths and give the gospel. Now here's the interesting thing. It says, you know, preaching the words, none of the Jews, but the Jews only, but notice the verb that's used in verse 20. Some of them, they come, they were come to Antioch, they spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. The word preaching here is not the word keruso standing up and heralding, but simply the word for speaking. One -on -one conversations. I think you can envision them moving into town and having one -on -one conversations over meals, having in -home discussions with their new neighbors, robust back and forth with their coworkers. You see, every week we scatter dozens of different ways, interacting with hundreds of people every week. Other times through circumstances there is a, you know, a downsizing at work and you lose your job and all of a sudden you have to move to take a job out in Seattle. You're like, I didn't want to go live in Seattle. I liked living in Alabama. We got better football down here. Well, the weather's probably better up there. But then all of a sudden you're off moving to Seattle. You can look at that as, man, what a rotten circumstance or it could be God has moved me here. What is the strategic gospel purpose that he might have in making me change jobs or move houses or go to a new location? I often think this when I taught at PCC, have these students who are in the classroom who are nursing and engineering and all of these other majors. Man, what if people deployed their careers in a way that is strategic for the cause of the gospel? You say, okay, I can go be a nurse anywhere, right? Everywhere needs nurses. How about I go be a nurse where there's a church plant that's happening so I can come in and be part of that on the front lines as opposed to just going wherever and not thinking strategically. What if we thought strategically about our moves, about our job changes? What if we thought that all these changes that come our way that we don't expect could be the providential hand of God, putting us into contact with people that we would not have been in contact with otherwise? Now, one of the things that I think is really beautiful in the book of Acts is that we don't get the sense that there are these organized structured programs for evangelism. Rather, we get the sense that Christians just went around telling people about Jesus. It wasn't like, hey, this is on Saturday at 10 o 'clock, we're meeting at the church, but this was just a, I'm going around and of course I would tell people about what is important to me. You see, my goal, my desire, my prayer for our church is not that we have a bunch of evangelistic programs, but rather that we have a culture of evangelism. Like, think about how awesome this would be if we had a church full of people who in the normal course of their daily lives were just telling people about Jesus. We're just like, hey, I'm going to start a Bible study in my apartment complex. Hey, I'm just going to figure out a way to reach my neighbors with the gospel.
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A highlight from Spirit-Empowered Evangelism (Part 1)
"To speak the good news to those who are around us. These things we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. We're going to be in Acts Chapter 8 this morning, and I wanted to say a word of welcome. Those of you who are visiting with us, we're so glad that you could be here today. It's such a joy to have you here at Cloverleaf Baptist. And our desire is to be a church that makes much of... And we've been doing a study through, not so much verse by verse through the book of Acts, but hitting some high points as we think about, over a few weeks, what our church should look like, what our church should be. We'll read the first few verses of Acts Chapter 8, just to set the stage here, and we'll be sort of all over the book of Acts this morning as we think about this topic of evangelism. Begin in Acts Chapter 8, verse 1. ...hailing men and women committed them to prison. Therefore, they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them. And many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city. Recent days, we've seen a number of headlines in the news, and I waited till this morning to kind of take a quick look again to see what has been going on. We've sort of watched in horror as we have seen the results in the climbing death toll from the wildfires in Hawaii. We've seen these horrifying images of entire towns reduced to ash. It's just hard to fathom what has happened down there. This morning, the headlines were about a hurricane bearing down on Southern California, which is very, very unusual. They don't get hurricanes over there. It's kind of normal for us here on the Gulf Coast. But it is quite scary if you're in Southern California where this never happens, and we want to be praying for them. But as you look at the news, it's very rare to have headlines in the news that are really positive and uplifting. A few of us log on every day to the news, wherever you get your news from or on whatever channel you go to, to sort of be encouraged. We're not like, man, I'm feeling kind of down. Let me turn on Channel 5 to see what can lift my spirits. Instead, you'll turn on the news and you'll hear about more shootings in Mobile. You'll hear about more scandals in Washington. You'll hear about an ongoing war in Ukraine, the death toll that's been reported to half a million, or a casualty rate of half a million combined. Mind boggling. I've heard about a coup in Niger. Depending on who you read, you'll hear dire warnings about climate change or government overreach, or pollution on one hand and corruption on the other. If you were to base your worldview on what you get in the news, which I don't recommend doing, you would conclude that we are undoubtedly living in the worst time in human history, and we ought to try to roll the clocks back to the good old days when life expectancy was like 35, air conditioning didn't exist, and you could have your teeth extracted without Novocain. Just a little bit of perspective for you. But here's my point. We are living in a world that is drowning in a deep pool of bad news, bad news, bad news. We're in a world that is in desperate need of good news, and I don't just read another human interest story about someone rescuing puppies. I mean, good news that is more than just the fact that life expectancies have increased from 30 to north of 70 or that child mortality has dropped from 35 % at one point to less than 1%. You see, even though we get those sort of like snippets of good news, we all have a deep sense that in spite of the great improvements in our living standards, praise God for air conditioning, something is deeply amiss with our world that one more air conditioning unit won't fix. You see, after all, no matter how good we have it, death rates are going to stay steady at 100 % no matter how long life expectancy increases to. No matter what improvements are made in governance in the world, human nature is obviously fundamentally flawed. I think it was G .K. Chesterton who quipped that original sin is the one doctrine of Christianity that can be empirically proven. You see, we are naturally selfish. We are naturally violent. We are naturally deceptive and lustful. No amount of education, no amount of culture, no amount of entertainment or medicine or therapy can change what is fundamentally broken in human nature, though it may restrain it. So in this world that is awash in bad news comes the gospel of Jesus Christ. The word gospel translates the Greek word euangelion, eu means good, angolos, message. It's a good message. It is good news, literally what the word is. It's the gloriously good news, the desperately needed news that God has acted decisively in history to solve our sin problem, the malady that underlies all of the other pathologies in society. He's acted to solve that sin problem, to change our hearts, to alter our eternities, and ultimately one day to remake this world.
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"If you would find a copy of God's word and turn to Acts chapter 8, would you turn there? I want to thank you for hosting the seminar this weekend, for all the financial outlay that it takes, all of the work that's been involved. You've done something where your kindness is going to end up being a benefit to congregations other than your own. The only thing I can do is ask the Lord to bless you as you've been a blessing to others and to thank you for what you've done. Also I am always thankful for the opportunity to be here and worship with you. I love worshiping with you in psalm, worshiping with you in prayer, and I want us to remember that the declaration of God's word is also an act of worship. And so I'd like to ask Brother Lewis Kiger if he would to ask the blessing on the proclamation of the word. Yes, Lord. Before Amen. getting into this story, Luke is about to tell us. I want to remind some of y 'all, y 'all who have been here for the seminar, that one of the things we've noted is some of what Luke has already recorded. It's Luke's purpose in the book of Acts to show the continuation of the ministry and message of Jesus. He says in chapter 1 verse 1 to his friend Theophilus to whom he writes this, I wrote to you the former treatise, the Gospel of Luke, of all that Jesus began to do and teach. And so now this book of Acts is the continuation of what Jesus will do and teach. To prove this, Luke frequently brings in accounts from Jesus in the Gospels and shows essentially a mirror image of those accounts in the book of Acts. So for example, Peter and John healing a lame man at the gate of the temple by simply telling him rise up and walk exactly the way that Jesus healed a man. Or if you remember, it's Luke's Gospel that records for us Christ's prayer as he was nailed to the cross. And he said, Father, forgive them. And then we see that mirrored in the martyr Stephen's death who prays loudly, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Well, Luke is about to do that again here in chapter 8. Back in Luke's Gospel in chapter 24 after the death of Jesus and his resurrection, Luke tells the story of two disciples walking down the road away from Jerusalem toward a place called Emmaus. And as they're walking and they're talking, they are confused, right, about what has just happened to Jesus. And a stranger to them appears, walks closer with them, asks them about their conversation. You look sad and confused. What are you talking about? And we know that stranger is Jesus, but they didn't know that at the moment. And when they tell the story about the death of Jesus, that stranger asks them, well, shouldn't the Messiah have suffered these things? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them the scriptures, in the scriptures, the things concerning himself. And so, traveling down this road with them, he explains the scriptures. He gives them understanding and peace and joy. And then finally, at the end of that account, Luke says, he vanished out of their sight. Now in Acts, we're going to see a mirror image in many ways of that story. This is what I want to talk about tonight. Acts chapter 8, starting at verse 26, and we'll read through verse 40. The angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip, saying, arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went, and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem for to worship, and was returning, and sitting in his chariot in red, Isaiah the prophet. Then the spirit said unto Philip, go near, join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, how can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place in the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and like a, or as a sheep to the slaughter, like a lamb dumb before his shearers, so opened he not his mouth. In his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaks the prophet this, of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came into a certain water, and the eunuch said, see, here is water, what does hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, if thou believeth with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still. And they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. As we walk through this sacred text tonight, I want to draw our attention to three essentials for evangelism. successful Three essentials for successful evangelism. Although, let me say up front, I don't want the title to confuse you. All evangelism is successful. Telling a lost person about the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ is never a failed effort. But if we're looking for some case and some significance where we see a sinner be saved, that kind of success in evangelism, we see in this text three essential elements for evangelism. Basically, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch shows us basic biblical patterns for evangelism. So let's see three things. First, successful evangelism requires the sovereign initiative of God. The very first words of verse 26 show us that initiating the work of salvation is part of the work of God himself. It is the will of God himself who initiates this saving evangelism. Verse 26 says, the angel of the Lord spoke unto Philip saying, arise and go toward the south unto the way that goes from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And everything that follows this command from the angel of the Lord happens because God did it. It's not Philip's design. It's not the Ethiopian's desire. God did it. God puts the ball into play. He starts the wheels in motion. He gives the message to Philip to go down that road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza. Now so that you can picture this, Gaza is the southernmost city in Palestine, just on the edge of the desert, leading towards Egypt and then from Egypt on into inner Africa. So Philip is commanded by the messenger of God to go to the south to the road that's leading from Jerusalem toward the African continent, toward Gaza. And Luke adds, he says that this road is desert, or that it is deserted. There are actually two ways at this point in time to get from Jerusalem to Gaza. One road is through villages and cities, and the other is more of a bypass route. You may have experienced something like this before. The government decides to build a new road that's quicker and more direct, and the old road gets abandoned, right? So in the U .S. for many years, Route 66 was the most famous highway in the country. There were songs about it, there were TV shows about it. Route 66 ran from Chicago to Los Angeles, but when the government started building interstate highways, most of Route 66 ended up being decommissioned, and once thriving communities turned into ghost towns, but even today there are some secluded sections that you can still drive down. This is what God's calling Philip to do. Go down the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, but not the big highway that everybody uses, not the one that's got the Bucky's gas station and a nice rest area at every exit. You go down that old dilapidated road that hardly anybody uses anymore because I've got something planned for you along the way.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IP#493 Fr. Brice Higginbotham Remaining with Jesus on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcasts
"Hi, this is Chris McGregor of Discerning Hearts. Can you please help support this vital ministry? Discerning Hearts is a 100 % listeners -supported Catholic apostolate. Now through the end of August, please prayerfully consider making a sacrificial gift to help us raise $30 ,000 to fund truly life -changing Catholic programming and prayer. The financial contributions of listeners like you enables us to continue this important ministry. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your donations are fully tax -deductible. As an independent, non -for -profit lay organization that is not affiliated financially with any diocese, our apostolate is fully listener -supported. Again, between now and the end of August, please visit DiscerningHearts .com to make your donation. Thank you and God bless you from all of us at Discerning Hearts. DiscerningHearts .com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors. I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I am delighted to be joined by Father Bryce Higginbotham, who is the author of Daily Lessons from the Saints and author of numerous articles and homilies in homiletic and pastoral review. He has more than 60 catechetical videos, which can be found on his YouTube channel as well as on his Facebook page. With Father Bryce Higginbotham, we go inside the pages of Remaining with Jesus, Discipleship and the Gospel of John, published by Loyola Press. Father Bryce, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you, Chris. It's great to be here with you. I've been looking forward to talking to you about Remaining with Jesus, Discipleship and the Gospel of John. It's such a lovely work. It's my favorite gospel. I mean, first I got to say, how can you have a favorite gospel? And yet for the Gospel of John, there's something so tender and special about this particular work that I'm just so grateful that you chose this as something to explore. Well, the Lord is good. He gives us four gospels to give us various perspectives on Jesus and not differences, but like God, there's a line that I love. I think it's in 1 Corinthians, which talks about how the Lord reveals to us the many sided wisdom of God. As if we look at Jesus from the perspective of St. Mark, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and we see a particular shade or a particular side of his glory and of who he is. And then from the perspective of St. Luke, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and we see a particular revelation, a way that God has revealed himself to us. So I think it's really beautiful and a gift that the Lord has given us these four gospels. We can see him more clearly through looking at him from these four different directions. I think it's a gift. But yeah, I mean, I think John is my favorite too, because, well, I don't know, it's just a particular way that that way that God reveals himself or the parts about himself that he chose to reveal through John, like speaks to me, at least in a particular way. He is the beloved disciple, isn't he? I mean, the one who was able to rest his head on the heart of Jesus and to listen very deeply, even so much that the Lord would give his mother to his care while on the cross. And so can you imagine what it must have been like for the woman who knew our Lord so intimately and this beloved disciple as they shared and they pondered and they ruminated over all the events that had occurred in their lifetime and their experience of Jesus? And you have to think sometimes, don't you, Father, that Marian dimension is very evident in the Gospel of John? Yeah, I think of what John says after Jesus gives marriage to him from the cross and he took her into his own. I think John Paul II makes a big deal out of that because it's right, like it doesn't just mean that he took her to his house, though he did, but it means like that he took her, so to speak, into his heart and learn, learn from Mary how to be a disciple, learn from Mary how to be a priest, how to be a bishop. So, yeah, it's John gives us an example of learning from Mary. And he did that clearly. He did that because he clearly learned from her how to ponder all these things in his heart. I think that's why part of the reason, at least John's Gospel is so different from Matthew's, Mark's and Luke's, because John had more time and he wrote his Gospel last after the others had been written. He probably read the others and he had spent all this time with Mary and with the rest of the scriptures pondering these things in her heart so that he could then give us this particularly deep look into the life of Jesus. And even at the beginning, in the first 18 verses, John gives us the look into the life of Jesus with the Father before creation and after creation, before the incarnation. It so is fitting then to have the Gospel of John, the beloved disciple, the apostle who knew him so well, to help give us a guide in that discipleship. And that's what you really bring forward. It is so penetrating. It's just how you've led us into that opportunity to become that type of disciple. Yeah, well, I mean, we're really blessed that John led us. The Holy Spirit led John, John led us. And, you know, all that I had to do and praise God, I was able to do it and was just bring out what John himself was saying, because he talks about discipleship more than any other than any other book in the New Testament or the Old Testament, any other book in the whole Bible. The discipleship is more pronounced in the Gospel of John than anywhere else. And you also point out that in the Gospel of John, that there are two words. Now they're popping more than ever for me as I go back and I read the Gospel of John, which I try to do very often during the week, actually. And it's the two words believe and remain. Where I started with the research, I just want to know what it meant to be a disciple, because clearly we're supposed to be disciples. There are lots of good books about discipleship, but there were none that I found that sufficiently engaged the Bible. It's like, what does the Bible tell us about discipleship? So I found out that I looked at where discipleship was used in the Bible and I found out that John talks about discipleship more than anybody else. And so I said, well, I guess the best thing to do is to open up the concordance, the thing that has all the words from the Bible and where you can find them. And then just look at every time the word disciple is used in John, all 72 times. So I found, I found John eight 31, where Jesus says to the Jews who had believed in him, there's the people who already believed in him. He says, if you remain in my word, you are truly my disciples. I said, Oh, so first you have to believe, then you have to remain. And that makes a true disciple. Then I just went back through the Gospel and found all the times where believe and remain and discipleship are used kind of in some way together by John to bring out what it means to be a disciple. Well, I found really surprising. It was kind of an epiphany for me when you broke open the, was it the Greek word for believe the CEO? Thank you for pronouncing it for me. Say it one more time. Will you, father? It's yellow because it has another meaning as well that will pop for us. I think, yeah, it's the same word ingredient for believe and for trust. The reason I think that's so important is because when you think about those church approved apparitions of our Lord, or really there are only a few of them, but almost in every instance, he's imploring us to trust him, you know, in the sacred heart, in the revelation to St. Faustina, the message he has is trust me. And when so you connect those two words, believe, trust, they are more than married, aren't they? Yeah. It seems to me that in English, when we say believe, we mean like something we do with our minds. And when we say trust, we mean something that we do with our hearts, more or less. But when Jesus says, believe, when he tells us to believe, or when he tells us to trust, I think it means both. I think it's an integrated and I know I know that it's an integrated expression that Jesus invites us into to believe in our heads, yes, and to trust in our hearts. And those things need to be has to be together. This is just some of what is containing your book, Remaining with Jesus, Discipleship in the Gospel of John. I want to say it over and over again, because this book, we're going to dive more into it, but it's just so perfect for the study of the Gospel of John. I really is. I mean, even the layout that you have, as far as the encouragement of times of reflection, even as opportunities to have group study. And when we talk about group study, the family is still a group. I mean, this is good for families to get together and to break open. And I think you could probably do this just about any age, couldn't you? Just about. Yeah, I think so. For that, I just again, I want to encourage folks to to check out Remaining with Jesus Discipleship in the Gospel of John, because in it, you also talk about the dynamics of discipleship and you point out four very important signposts, I think, on this journey. And it could be a little bit more. I mean, each has so much contained in it. But there are four basic elements, aren't there? Yeah. So we see at the very beginning of the Gospel, John the Baptist, he paints out that Jesus is there, he says, he says, Behold, the Lamb of God. And notice that that actually happens twice. I found that that a little interesting that he says it one day. Behold, the Lamb of God and kind of nobody does anything. Then the next day, Jesus passes by again and he says, Behold, the Lamb of God. And it's at that point that Andrew and John said, oh, well, we we we need to go follow. So there's a most of the time there's a witness, somebody somebody has got to tell us about Jesus, and then after somebody tells us about Jesus, like John the Baptist told Andrew and John, like Philip went and told Nathaniel just a couple of verses later at the beginning in John chapter one, somebody tells us about Jesus and then we go and we meet Jesus for ourselves. And when we encounter Jesus for ourselves, we begin to we begin to believe in him. I believe in those two ways that we talked about earlier to believe in the intellect and to trust in the heart. But believing, believing isn't enough because believing has to, or rather relationships need time and relationships need to persevere. And almost always on this side of heaven, right in this valley of tears in which we live, almost always there are challenges and tests and trials to do, do I really trust, like how deeply do I trust? And we have to remain with Jesus in those trials. And oftentimes remaining looks like standing there and not going anywhere like John and Mary and Mary Magdalene and the other holy women at the further cross. And just being there and not moving in the midst of, in the midst of the trial and the suffering. And when we are remaining with Jesus, like the branch that remains on the vine, then we bear fruit and that fruit looks like practically loving people. We build up the church. We, in other words, we encourage people in the community by our prayer, by our mortifications, by our practical efforts. And it becomes a cycle because the best way, the biggest way, the most important way that we love people who are outside of the church is we witnessed to them about Jesus. We tell them, Hey, behold the lamb of God. Hey, this is what Jesus did in my life. This is what we do. So the witness moves us to meet Jesus, where we believe, believing in him. We begin to remain with him by believing through time, especially through struggles, trials, tests, difficulties. And then that remaining bears fruit in practical love. Yeah, you hear so often. I am the vine. You're the branches remain in me. That's, I can recall in the words of a little Carmelite who became a Saint, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. That's one of the first things she implores in her great retreats that she offers us is to remember, remain in me. And I think sometimes that's very difficult to stay in that place because of those types of trials. If you're not anchored again in that belief, that trust, and that can only grow in a relationship within an encounter with Christ, can it? Yes, exactly. So Father, when you were exploring this in the gospel of John, it hits me that, as you said in the beginning, Andrew and Philip heard it first, but they didn't respond immediately.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Max Keiser Makes Jimmy Dore a Bitcoiner | EP 801
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going up forever more. Welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live, your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution. We cover breaking news called traumatic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state and make no mistake, that's exactly what we're living through these days. We talk a lot about the concept of breaking the Bitcoin echo chamber because what a lot of, I mean, I think a lot of people have realized by now, but essentially Bitcoin content creators are making content for other Bitcoin content creators. And the way that you change that is by getting the mainstream broadcasters, the mainstream content creators talking about Bitcoin. We yesterday's episode, we dedicated to Joe Rogan and we, you know, we read you guys a tweet by Jimmy song and Jimmy song was making the case as to why Joe Rogan has avoided bringing on a Bitcoin or onto his show. Well, there's this, there's this clip of Max Keiser, I know Opti covered on a previous show. We're going to cover another portion today and it's Max Keiser, orange pilling, Jimmy door. Jimmy door is another very popular broadcaster. He has 1 .7 million subscribers on YouTube and he's, he's a progressive, so that's good. This is what we mean. Bitcoin is the great unifier. It brings everybody together that despite their ideological leanings, right. And you know, Max Keiser was making the case to Jimmy door and I think everyone include whether it's Joe Rogan, whether it's Jimmy door, anyone who's, you know, not benefiting from the Fiat money spigot, anyone that's not part of the establishment, so to speak, they see what the problems are with money. You know, they're woken up to the dangers of potentially introducing a CBDC into society. But again, you could talk about the dangers, you could talk about the problem, but unless you present a solution, you're not really making any progress. So shout out to Max Keiser for once again, breaking the Bitcoin echo chamber. This guy's orange pilled Tucker Carlson. He's he's orange pilled. You know, you can make the cases. He orange pilled the president of a country. He's orange pill. Now he is. He's orange filling Jimmy door and I know he had a big play in orange pilling temple as well. Right. And Tim Pool is also a very, very popular mainstream broadcaster. And there's been multiple occurrences where Tim Pool is referencing, you know, the absolute disaster that is happening in the financial system. He's like, I don't know what you guys are going to do, but I'm just going to buy Bitcoin. This is what we mean. And as clown world continues to accelerate, as the money continues to break, all roads lead to Bitcoin. So shout out to Max for once again, pushing the envelope. But this is what we mean about breaking the Bitcoin echo chamber. And I hope this trend continues anyway. Anyways, no more delay. Let's let's bring up my legendary co -hosts. No smile today. So is it Nylas Fields Day today? No, no, I feel good. I feel great. I mean, look, I had this thought this morning. You know, Normie Jobs, they have like a casual Friday. So I hear so, you know, it's a casual Friday today. We're having fun. It's going to be a great day. And honestly, I'm super excited for today's guests because we had the conversation before. And I think this is part of the conversation we always talk about. There's so many overlapping circles, different areas around the world, different people that are interested in different things. And all of them are soon to be Bitcoiners. And there's so much overlap between Bitcoin and every other area around the world. And it's part of this breaking the echo chamber. So let's bring in Philip from the Carnivore Bar. He was kind of a Carnivore Bar pilling us earlier. And we were like, yo, OK, this is going to be fun. There's going to be fun. So, you know, we're going to we're going to dive into, as Safedino, he says, you know, the fiat standard in regards to food. And I think you guys are going to really enjoy this one. But, Philip, how are you doing today? I'm good. Thanks for having me on. Let's go. Thanks for joining us, man. I appreciate you joining us. And why don't you tell everybody before we jump into the culture? Why don't you tell everybody in a quick elevator pitch, what is the Carnivore Bar? So I was a combat medic in Afghanistan. I got really sick eating MREs, crap food and antibiotics following the plan. And I was like, gosh, I really wish there was something nutritious, you know, that was not going to make me sick. So I said, if I get back, I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to fix this problem. So I did some research, found this Native American tradition tradition called pemmican. This is rawhide leather and they would pack this high fat meat product that was just dried, sun dried meat and rendered beef tallow mixed together. It was naturally shelf stable because it didn't have any moisture in it. And with that, they would break camp and it didn't matter if their hunt was successful at the first, you know, they could survive of just pemmican for weeks at a time. And so I was like, oh, my gosh, this is the perfect meal ready to eat for soldiers. It's like this is the food that I needed. And I was like, but you can't live off of it. So the carnivore movement happened and then I found that you could live off of it. And there's a lot of carnivore Bitcoiners who are like pioneering. It's like, yeah, you don't need all this filler. You don't need all this roughage. You could just have concentrated value.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Gospel Professed Pt. 2
"I'm going to continue tonight in our study that I've entitled, The Evangelism Revolution. If you have your Bibles, you can turn to the book of Acts. Just briefly, I'll just summarize where we're at so far. From last week, we just began a brief introduction, but as you go through the book of Acts and I guess you could call it, called The Gospel in Acts, I believe it's going to be on our website and it might be in the Yahoo groups as well. It is on the website. You can get that. I'll be referring to that in the next week or two, but it just kind of gives you some of the results of the survey of going through almost every place in the book of Acts where the Gospel is being presented. Sometimes it's only summarized, sometimes it's given explicitly, and it shows what aspects of the Gospel were presented in each presentation. Some were emphasized, the response, the audience, and it gives just an overall view of how the Gospel was advanced throughout the book of Acts. And I think it's beneficial. It's certainly been really what has caused me to see some of these things that I have been sharing with you throughout this series. Last week, though, we began with the subject of baptism, and we saw that baptism was an integral part of evangelism in the first century. When they heard the Gospel and when they received the Gospel, they didn't say a prayer to receive the Gospel. Instead, throughout these examples, they were baptized, having given evidence of believing in the Gospel. That baptism really became the profession or the confession of their faith, so that they believed, and then the text says they were baptized. That's very important, as I hope by the end you will agree with me, that baptism in the book of Acts is primarily, if not exclusively, portrayed as a confession of faith, a profession of acceptance of faith, a believing. Implicit, I think, throughout the book of Acts is that belief was necessary for baptism. They wouldn't just baptize anybody. You'll see that there is this implicit undercurrent throughout the book that belief in the Lord Jesus Christ was necessary for baptism. And this comes out very strongly in a couple of places. I would invite you, first of all, to turn to Acts chapter 8. In Acts chapter 8, it is the story of the Ethiopian who is reading through the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 53 to be exact, and Philip comes along and Gospels him, tells him the good news about Jesus, it says in verse 35, he opened his mouth and he began from the Scripture, he preached Jesus. What's interesting is I'd like to read verses 36 through verse 38, and as they went along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, Look, water, what prevents me from being baptized? And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him. Clearly this particular passage of Scripture shows that belief in the Lord Jesus Christ was for necessary baptism. I'll share with you just a bit of... I want to be honest with you, verse 37 there is in my Greek Bible, it's not even there. It goes from verse 36 and it goes straight to verse 38, because verse 37 isn't in most of the earliest manuscripts, Greek manuscripts we have of the New Testament. They appear much later in some of the older, newer versions or newer copies of the New Testament. That's why my New American Standard Bible has it in brackets. How do we answer that? Well, I think the answer that I heard Alistair Begg share was probably one of the most helpful analogies for me. If verse 37 isn't there, clearly we still see that baptism is a very significant part evangelism of the that's going on here. Verse 36 is in all the earliest manuscripts and, look, water, what prevents me from being baptized? Verse 38, and he ordered the chariot to stop and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him. Whether that verse 37 is in the earliest or the original manuscript, I'm not sure, but I think one thing it shows is that even the copyist, even the scribes at a very early year in the development of the church understood that this would be an important aspect and very likely could have made a comment on the side of a text or whatever, but it represents a very early belief in the church that, as a matter of fact, belief was required for baptism. Now, where there might be a textual variant here that may cast some shadow on it, if you turn over just a few chapters to Acts chapter 10, there is no textual variant here and it is a very clear, implicit reference that belief was necessary for baptism. Peter is speaking to the house of Cornelius and it says, verse 46, For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered, verse 47, Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did. And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days. Peter raises a question, I mean, who could prevent us from baptizing? These people have obviously displayed that they are born again, that they believe. How could we withhold baptism from that? I mean, the other side of the coin would be, well, if they weren't sincere believers or they didn't believe, then we could prevent them from being baptized, but who could prevent us now? Now these people obviously believe the Holy Spirit, we've seen this gift of tongues upon them and so he had them ordered to be baptized. As we look at baptism in the book of Acts, I really do believe that it is a radical, if not revolutionary discovery of not only the gospel, but baptism itself. Jesus ended His earthly ministry commanding His disciples, go and make disciples, baptizing them. And the way that's set up in Matthew 28 is the command is make disciples and baptizing them is telling you how to do it. It's a participle that comes underneath there, go make disciples by baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son. So we have that command in Jesus. The book of Acts follows it in many ways, I think it tells us how then we baptize. So I do believe that what we find in the book of Acts is authoritative. And what we find in the book of Acts is that when the gospel is preached, it's not received by saying a prayer. In the book of Acts, it is believed and then it is professed by baptism. And that is radical, that is revolutionary today. We had an elder meeting a week or so ago, and as the elders were talking, there was the confession, the admission, that as we look at what the gospel is, as we look at the contents, as we look at how the gospel is preached and how it is received and how baptism plays all this, it was said in our meeting, this is challenging us, that we're having to work through a bunch of things. What is this going to mean in the life of our church? What does it mean in our theology? It's challenging us in the traditions that many of us, most of us, have inherited from our evangelical heritage. Well, I've marked three areas in particular that this model that we get from the book of Acts really challenges us. Two of them challenges us as a church very directly. So let me just begin with the first area where I think this teaching on baptism really challenges our church. Very clearly in the book of Acts, number one, we see that there is an emphasis on baptism that is not present today in the church. In the first century, there was a very strong emphasis on baptism. It was commanded by Jesus all throughout the book of Acts, time and time again. Again, they believed and they were baptized. Mass baptisms, 3 ,000 were baptized, then 2 ,000 were baptized. It was repeated time and again. It would be a complete anomaly, a total departure of the norm to have a person in the first century profess to be a Christian and not get baptized. That would have been unheard of, impossible. I don't know if I'm quoting anyone, I've read so much on this, or I've just formatted this opinion. I put it in quotation marks, but I don't know who to credit it to, so here it goes, but I believe there are more unbaptized, professing Christians in the church today than any other time in history. Many people professing, oh yeah, I got saved at Billy Graham Crusader, I walked the aisle, never been baptized. Today, even in Baptist churches, there's no emphasis upon baptism. John MacArthur and I alluded to it last week, and I think we have a few handouts there in the back, preached a sermon in 1998. I think we put that on our website today. I just want to quote a paragraph from his observation, baptism is not a particularly popular subject today, it's not of great interest in the evangelical community. It's been years since I've seen any new book written on baptism or any book emphasizing baptism or any series of messages or any preacher or any teacher emphasizing baptism. I never hear about it on the radio, I never hear about it on Christian radio, I never see a baptism on Christian television programs. Though you have a lot of services, you rarely, if ever, see a baptismal service. The interest in baptism has sort of gone away, sad to say in many cases. 1998, six years ago, John MacArthur had already said, there's a problem in the church today. There's no identity with baptism. It's been relegated to something that we may do or may not do, and it's kind of in the back. Totally opposite of the first century. In the first century, Christianity was all about baptism. That's how you made your profession of faith. What has happened today? In the last fifty to a hundred years, we have substituted the prayer for baptism. That's what has happened in the church today. The prayer has taken the place of baptism. You know, the messages that I've been preaching, particularly on the gospel, if I were to preach those in a majority of churches today, I'd be ran out on my ear. They wouldn't want to hear that. If I said the things that I've been saying about the sinner's prayer, not saving anyone, and it not being the gospel, you would see people's blood pressure rise. You would see them get flushed in the face. You wouldn't be invited back. This would be a very controversial topic in the church today, in Baptist churches today, in Bible -believing, preaching churches today. It would be extremely controversial. And yet, in most of those churches, rarely do they ever do baptisms, and rarely is anything ever said about baptism. We have lost the connection between a profession of faith in Christ, and following Christ, and baptism. We've lost that. There's no longer that link there. Jesus Christ said, unless you take up your cross and follow Me, you cannot be My disciples. And yet, how many professing Christians haven't even taken the first order of obedience and I had a relative once who professed to be a Christian, but she didn't want to get baptized because she didn't want to get her hair wet in front of everyone. Can a person's heart be born again and raptured with the Lord Jesus Christ and say, I don't want to get baptized because I don't want to get my hair wet? There's something wrong there. In the nine years of ministry that I've been involved with, and I've seen the Lord work in people's lives, and I've seen them, it seems, to start responding to the gospel, and I get excited, and I can think of at least, on the top of my head, three or four, that as we begin to move towards baptism and press baptism and encourage them to baptism, they either drastically fell away before they could ever get baptized, or Satan dropped some of the most oppressive burdens on them or trials on them and they just walked away. I've seen that happen and I know Dad has said he's seen it happen in his own ministry. There is something about baptism being associated with one's salvation, and anybody can make a profession of faith, but I have seen it time and again where when that person that's made a profession of faith tries to make the commitment, says, oh yeah, I want to get baptized, things happen and they fall, they leave, they don't get baptized. It's happened on a number of occasions.
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A highlight from 19. When God Says Go!
"A eunuch of great authority under Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Isaiah the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said, Understandest thou what thy read is? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. In his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and who shall declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speakest the prophet this, of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way they came unto a certain water. And the eunuch said, See, here is water. What doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believeth with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azodah, and passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. Amen, we'll end our reading there at verse 40. When God says, Go. You know, so often when we come to this passage of scripture, most people, and I've preached off this passage before, some of you very kindly told me one time that you mark your Bibles where I have preached just to make sure I don't repeat myself. And so I'll admit to, yes, we have preached on this passage before one time when we were thinking about believer's baptism, but there are a few verses at the start, particularly from verse 25 on.
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A highlight from Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time A Time of Lectio Divina for the Discerning Heart Podcast
"A time of Lectio Divina for the discerning heart. Saturday, 17th week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You, take over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew chapter 14 verses 1 through 12. Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his court, this is John the Baptist himself. He has risen from the dead and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him. Now it was Herod who had arrested John, chained him up and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For John had told him, it is against the law for you to have her. He had wanted to kill him but was afraid of the people who regarded John as a prophet. Then during the celebrations for Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and so delighted Herod that he promised an oath to give her anything she asked. Prompted by her mother she said, give me John the Baptist's head here on a dish. The king was distressed but thinking of the oaths he had sworn and of his guests, he ordered it to be given her and sent and had John beheaded in prison. The head was brought in on a dish and given to the girl who took it to her mother. John's disciples came and took the body and buried it, then they went off to tell Jesus. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you. Herod the tetrarch heard about the reputation of Jesus and said to his court, this is John the Baptist himself. He has risen from the dead and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him. That was Herod who had arrested John, chained him up and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For John had told him, it is against the law for you to have her. He had wanted to kill him but was afraid of the people who regarded John as a prophet. Then during the celebrations for Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and so delighted Herod that he promised on oath to give her anything she asked. Prompted by her mother, she said, give me John the Baptist's head here on a dish. The king was distressed but thinking of the oath he had sworn and of his guests, he ordered it to be given her and sent and had John beheaded in the prison. The head was brought in on a dish and given to the girl who took it to her mother. John's disciples came and took the body and buried it. Then they went off to tell Jesus. What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him, and in him, listen to the word. Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his court, this is John the Baptist himself. He has risen from the dead and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him. Now it was Herod who had arrested John, chained him up and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For John had told him, it is against the law for you to have her. He had wanted to kill him but was afraid of the people who regarded John as a prophet. Then during the celebrations for Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and so delighted Herod that he promised an oath to give her anything she asked. Prompted by her mother she said, give me John the Baptist's head here on a dish. The king was distressed but thinking of the oaths he had sworn and of his guests, he ordered it to be given her and sent and had John beheaded in prison. The head was brought in on a dish and given to the girl who took it to her mother. John's disciples came and took the body and buried it, then they went off to tell Jesus. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the Lord? Let us now close with a prayer to the Father that Jesus gave us. As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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"Positively true in the eighties. I was the only full time programmer of the most massively parallel supercomputer ever built. I discovered how to compute a faster speeds and computer while solve the toughest mathematical problems and computer across a new internet. I buy new internet. As a new global network of sixty five thousand five hundred thirty six off the shelf processors and standard batts those processes we identical coupled at equality stands apart. So i was the first specimen to understand the new supercomputing as fast as computed across a media processes..
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"Apology <Speech_Female> might <Speech_Female> not want to make a decision <Speech_Female> whether or not <Speech_Female> should be added to a summit <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> and therefore. The <Speech_Female> internet computer facilitates <Speech_Female> liquid <Silence> democracy. <Speech_Female> So <Speech_Female> what this means is stat. <Speech_Female> Anuron <Speech_Female> can specify <Speech_Female> that it would like <Speech_Female> to follow some <Speech_Female> other neurons <Speech_Female> which are called the followers <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> and the governance <Speech_Female> canister notice <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> whenever a majority <Speech_Female> of to follow <Speech_Female> would send the <Speech_Female> same vote. The governance <Speech_Female> canister would <Speech_Female> automatically also <Speech_Female> send this vote <Speech_Female> for the follower <Speech_Female> neuron <Speech_Female> so two <Speech_Female> cds on an example <Speech_Female> here. The orange <Speech_Female> user specifies <Speech_Female> that she would like <Speech_Female> to follow the yellow <Speech_Female> to pink and <Speech_Female> the purple neuron <Speech_Female> so <Speech_Female> whenever at least <Speech_Female> two of these neurons <Speech_Female> for example <Speech_Female> vote on a proposal <Speech_Female> the <Speech_Female> governance canister <Speech_Female> would automatically also <Speech_Female> send a yes vote <Silence> for the orange user <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> and by this <Speech_Female> the orange user can <Speech_Female> accumulate maturity <Speech_Female> to get <Speech_Female> voting reports <Speech_Female> even if she <Speech_Female> doesn't actively <Speech_Female> participating in governance <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> as detail following <Speech_Female> can actually <Speech_Female> be set per proposal <Speech_Female> topic <Speech_Female> so if the <Speech_Female> orange user has <Speech_Female> a friend that <Speech_Female> knows network <Speech_Female> to very <Speech_Female> well she can <Speech_Female> for example. Follow <Speech_Female> this friend <Speech_Female> for such <Speech_Female> proposals but <Speech_Female> follow another friend <Speech_Female> for economic <Speech_Female> questions <Speech_Female> so individual <Speech_Female> beginning. I said <Speech_Female> that besides governance <Speech_Female> participation <Speech_Female> and voting rewards <Speech_Female> tokens <Speech_Female> can also be used <Speech_Female> to pay for cycles <Speech_Female> and this <Speech_Female> is the last use case <Speech_Female> we will now look at <Speech_Female> so cycles <Speech_Female> are the fuel <Speech_Female> for computation <Speech_Female> and storage <Speech_Female> and actually <Speech_Female> each canister <Speech_Female> on the internet computer <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> except for those on <Speech_Female> the ns <Speech_Female> has some cycles <Speech_Female> stored with it and <Speech_Female> will use up two cycles <Speech_Female> for <Speech_Female> example when it performs <Speech_Female> computations <Speech_Female> so the idea. <Speech_Female> Why we you cycles <Speech_Female> for. This is <Speech_Female> that while the <Speech_Female> tokens price <Speech_Female> may vary <Speech_Female> a lot of time. <Speech_Female> The goal of two cycles <Speech_Female> is to keep <Speech_Female> the price of to computation <Speech_Female> power. Roughly <Speech_Female> the same over <Speech_Female> time. <Speech_Female> So let's consider <Speech_Female> a user that runs <Speech_Female> a canister on the internet <Speech_Female> computer <Speech_Female> and would like to top <Speech_Female> the cycles of <Speech_Female> this canister so <Speech_Female> he can perform <Speech_Female> even more computations <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> so in this example <Speech_Female> the canister <Speech_Female> carnally has seven <Speech_Female> hundred trillion cycles <Speech_Female> and the <Speech_Female> pink user would like <Speech_Female> to talk this number <Speech_Female> up so to do <Speech_Female> so the user <Speech_Female> would send a command <Silence> to the s <Speech_Female> that <Speech_Female> specifies <Speech_Female> this and upon <Speech_Female> receiving this command <Speech_Female> a transaction <Speech_Female> is made from <Speech_Female> the user's account <Speech_Female> to so called <Speech_Female> cycles. Meeting <Speech_Female> canister <Speech_Female> is yet another <Speech_Female> canister. On the <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> and as a result <Speech_Female> of this transaction <Speech_Female> the cycles <Speech_Female> maintain canister would <Speech_Female> actually burn the <Speech_Female> tokens and <Speech_Female> meant new cycles <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> and send these freshly <Speech_Female> minted cycles <Speech_Female> to the users <Speech_Female> canister <Speech_Female> so we can <Speech_Female> see that <Speech_Female> now users <Speech_Female> canister has nine <Speech_Female> hundred trillion <Speech_Female> cycles <Speech_Female> and the has <Speech_Female> even more cycles <Speech_Female> to consume <Speech_Female> for example in computations <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> so in summary <Speech_Female> the <Speech_Female> network nervous system <Speech_Female> of internet computer <Speech_Female> is a token <Speech_Female> iced over government <Speech_Female> system that <Speech_Female> manages the internet <Speech_Female> computer. <Speech_Female> Everyone <Speech_Female> who has spoken <Speech_Female> can lock <Speech_Female> them. In europe's to <Speech_Female> participate in governance <Speech_Female> and contribute <Speech_Female> to decisions <Speech_Female> for example <Speech_Female> whether new southern <Silence> it should be added <Speech_Female> and <Speech_Female> participating <Speech_Female> in voting <Speech_Female> even if this <Speech_Female> is done automatically <Speech_Female> by following <Speech_Female> voters get <Speech_Female> rewards <Speech_Female> and they can <Speech_Female> then spend their reports <Speech_Female> or other <Speech_Female> tokens to pay <Speech_Female> for cycles <Speech_Female> which they can use <Speech_Female> to fuel. The computations <Speech_Female> canisters <Speech_Female> <Speech_Female> and this is <Speech_Female> basically how <Speech_Female> the network nervous system <Speech_Female> manages <SpeakerChange> the whole <Speech_Music_Male> internet computer. <Music>
Philip Emeagwali
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"Summit so the incentive for voters to lock their neurons is actually not only so they can participate in decisions but on top of that participation in governance is also rewarded. So this brings us to the second use. Case of tokens rewards depend on different parameters. But one of the most important ones is in how many of the possible decisions and urine has participated in and to enable rewards and urine actually calls so called majority which roughly depicts. How many rewards this neuron has already gained so this slide only depicts this for the pink neuron but actually all of the neurons would have such a majority associated with them and to collect reports a user can do the following he can send a command to governance canister to spawn new. Neuron and effect of this will be that new neuron with a new associated account on the letter will be created and this new letter account now contains the rewards so recall that before majority said that. The user has already collected rewards. Worth two tokens. And these two tokens are now contained in the new letter account. And technically. What happens if this is done. Is that new. Tokens are actually minted and transferred to the new account. And this is also recorded in the letter canister as can be seen here and this new neuron actually has a small solve delay. Which means that very soon. The uterus able to unlock the tokens and houston freely for any purpose. That he wants so actually. This is not the only place where rewards are paid. So i already mentioned that. The providers of note machines are also paid in tokens. But i will not show this in more detail and talk now recall that voters want to participate in voting because they get voting reports however it could be that a user does not have time to participate in all the decisions and also users might not feel comfortable to make certain decisions for example a user that is unfamiliar with network. Apology might not want to make a decision whether or not should be added to a summit and therefore..
Philip Emeagwali
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"The amount of tokens is the voting power. So let's next. Look at how you user that has an account can lock. Some of his tokens in anuron. And specifically we assume that the pink user would like to lock hundred of his tokens in anuron and to do so. He sends a command to the ns specifying a number of tokens and also his account. The effect of this will be that transaction is recorded on the lecture which specifies that some tokens are sent from this original account of user to anew account with this. A new account is also created so this new account now holds. The looked tokens and together with this also. Anuron is created in the governance canister that specifies that the pink user is the one controlling this neuron and that specifies. That amount of luck tokens defined by this new lettera count. Note that from the outside. It's not actually visible that. This new account holds. Looked tokens or that. It is in some way related to the original account. Nevertheless this account is in fact controlled by the neuron which means that. The tokens are not liquid and pink user can for example not just transferred to someone in controlling urine enables users to submit and vote on proposals and to understand how works in detail. Let's first look at what proposals actually look like. So this is best done on a concrete example. So let's consider the example of a proposal where it is suggested that a new supplement is created that initially consists of two notes the note with. Id one id to so proposal. Specifies first a proposal type and basically just describes what this proposal is all about but technically this type describes a method in a canister that used to be called if the proposal is accepted so in this example if this proposal is accepted the create summit method of the registry canister will be called and to call this method. We also need to know it's parameters and this is what is described in the second line..
Philip Emeagwali
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"Ones now sub net management proposals consider to policy changes so for example proposals that we already seen whether a new southern it should be added falls in this category next exchange rate proposals. Concern real. time information about the value of tokens. So this is important to determine. How many tokens have to be paid for computations and we will see that in more detail later node. Admin proposals concerned the administration of note machines. So they could. For example specified that all the notes in supplement should be updated and finally network economic proposals concerned the change of economic parameters of internet computer for example. How many rewards should be paid to those that provide the not machines so we have now seen why we need the ns and how it conceptually works to make decisions on the internet computer next. Look more detail. What the canisters on the ns store and how they work and i and also as a prerequisite to understand what these neurons are. We will now look at tokens which are currency of governance. System tokens are managed by yet another canister on the ns to so-called letcher canister and the letcher canister stores two things. I eight stores accounts and then it stores transactions and account direct. Kurt keeps track of. How many tokens are in the possession of a given principle and it also denotes an account address so by principal in this context. I just mean an identity. By which a user is authenticated on the internet. Computer tokens can then be sent from one account to another and this is recorded in the transactions of the ledger canister s can be seen here on top now as already mentioned. The tokens are the currency of the governance system. Any particular. they can be used for three different things first. The tokens facilitate participation in governance. So this is what we have already seen on a high level and we will shortly see in more detail. How the neurons are connected with the tokens second..
Philip Emeagwali
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"At today. I'm going to present you the network nervous system off the internet computer a so on a high level. The internet computer is a distributor protocol run by multiple notes and denotes are depicted on this slide s green and blue dots. So these notes can for example be physically located in different centers and they then talk to each other over the internet to achieve consensus on. What the state of the internet computer should be and we call such a collection of notes a summit now how this communication and consensus works in detail. We'll be covered in other talks for the purpose of this talk. We are just interested in the high level idea. On top of this underlying communication and consensus protocol internet computer hosts so called canisters which are stateful programs that can also communicate with each other. The state of these canisters has to be replicated in all of the notes and therefore to achieve that internet computer can nevertheless scale indefinitely. It actually consists not only of one of many supplements so in this example we have three sub nets which are cold s one to s three and consensus than actually happens within each sub net but nevertheless the summits can also talk to each other and in particular this enables that also the canisters hosted on the different sub nets can communicate with each other so for the internet computer to scale on demand if we for example need to compute capacity over time it is required that new sub-units can be added so in this example a new sub net s for is added moreover one might wants to improve the robustness of some of the supplements. I adding new notes to them. So in this example a new orange note is added to discern s three over time to compute power from the internet computer will stem from millions of notes so we somehow have to organize them and for example keep track of which notes are in which summit also we have to make such decisions when you sudden it should be added or removed and on top of that we start with initial feature set and we also might want to add other features overtime so for all of these reasons. The internet computer needs to be able to make decisions how to evolve the protocol and it needs to make such decisions in a distributed manner and the internet computer solution to this problem is what i will present today. The network nervous system is a token is open.