Our Cross to Bear If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. -Matthew 16:25 The cross today is a symbol for many. When we see a cross on top of a building, we conclude that it must be a church, because to us, the cross is a symbol of the Christian faith. But for others, it is a fashion accessory. It means a variety of things for a variety of people. In the first century, however, even the word cross was offensive and bothersome because the cross represented a painful death. The Romans didn’t invent the cross, but they took crucifixion to another level. They designed it to cause pain and torture. There were more efficient ways to execute someone, but for the worst criminals, the Romans used crucifixion. They nailed them to crosses, which resulted in a slow death. This served as a warning to anyone who dared to revolt against the power of Rome. It wasn’t uncommon to see crucified men on the roads leading into Roman cities. So, when Jesus told the disciples that He would die on a cross, it meant something to them. But then He made it even more personal. He said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it” (Matthew 16:24-25) Jesus wasn’t merely addressing these words to the disciples in the first century. He was addressing them to disciples in every century. To “give up your own way” means to put God’s will and desires above your own. Selfish people will find this outrageous, even offensive. Narcissists need not apply. In day-to-day living, “take up your cross” means to die to yourself. Sometimes people describe whatever difficulty they have in life as their cross to bear. A mother might say, “My children are really trouble. But that is my cross to bear in life.” And the mother’s children no doubt will say, “Our mother? Well, that is our cross to bear.” You might have a difficulty you’re facing, so you say, “Well, we all have our crosses to bear, and I guess this is mine.” And while we will have our challenges and problems in life, that is not what Jesus meant. In the first century, if you saw someone walking through the city carrying a cross, it meant only one thing: that person was about to die. Therefore, when we read that we are to take up the cross and follow Jesus, it means that we are to die to ourselves. We don’t hear messages about this very often. And maybe the reason the church today is so weak and anemic is that we don’t know that much about cross-bearing. Maybe if we stopped trying to be so much like the world, the world would start wanting to be more like us. Are we really carrying the cross today? Are we really dying to ourselves? This is what Jesus is calling us to do.
@@zarkane6990 i mean, factually its not that rare. Holos were like 1 out of every 3 packs. 16 total holos. 1 out of 48 chance to pull a Charizard from a random pack, 1 out of 16 from a heavy pack. The chance to open a sealed base set pack in itself is whats rare. Its valuable because of nostalgia and how its not super common to find old cards in pristine condition. There are several modern cards that are more rare. Specific Special illustration rare pull rates are like 1:800. The difference in value is that everyone wants a base Charizard from 26 years ago when they were kids, comparatively no one cares about Iron Leaves ex from 2024.
@@JinxTheLegend ye but they always go OMG i pulled... out of this pack worth 1000 dollar.. wen i check EU market they far from that price.. also the zards they pull you can buy pretty cheap nowdays and not talking about 50 dollar more like 100 or 150
I really miss the days when having Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh card battles were fun. Now it's all about collecting for a bigger profit later. Pokémon is literally the next bitcoin😢.
Tcg is absolutely still widely played. None of these cards or legal or at all viable so it really doesn't affect players that people collect these old cards
tcg is alive and well, but yes collecting is a big part too, most cards shop host pokemon tcg nights and other tcgs as well, if TCG was ded so would the reason to keep printing them....
As usual people ruin the hobbies with eyes on money. They’ll ruin it and jump onto whatever is big after that. People doing these ruined card collecting as a whole. Money poisons the minds.
I’ll be that guy. This is definitely an awesome pull from our back in the day but saying pulled a 4k card is a bit misleading. Let’s say this thing was flawless which though in great condition it isn’t you’d be talking around $350-500 tops in raw form. When/if you send this away they will consider the print lines on the holo and it being off centered from top to bottom. Not sure what the back looks like with just that it brings you down to a 9 which is a great grade. If you go with PSA which in this cards case gets the highest value between PSA and BGS. I’ve recently sold both. My BGS went for 850 and I was able to get $1100 for my PSA 9. PSA 10s are out there but crazy rare and difficult to get.Hope this helps anyone that may consider collecting before sinking money into anything thinking these are the margins as a base set pack can cost $360-$500 EACH. An awesome hobby but an expensive one.
That’s correct, the value depends on what grade it gets. “This could be worth $10,00”, isn’t the same thing as “This is worth $10,000”. It should be back from PSA soon, hoping for a 10, expecting a 9.
This newer generation will never understand how hard it was to attain pokemon cards in the 90s especially when it came to charizard blastoise and venasaur
I was gonna comment “if this was pokerev it’s gonna be a holo charizard” before I even spent one second viewing this short, only to not be disappointed with the same result every single one of these pack opening channels have. These guys must have the same successful pull percentage rating as Nancy pelosi with her investments. People would rather watch 50 packs be opened and just a couple crap V or Ex’s and finally that one big big hitter that’s a profit maker card of 4$ then this over and over but hey I was here for the comments and I’m glad vast majority of viewers for these videos are fed up with it
Yo those arent the ones worth money. The ones that are have "1st edition" printed to the left of the pokemon description below the art. I have several first edition cards. Your yellow cheeked pikachu is a nice find though, but the charizard woulsnt have been worth anything if you found it.
“Oh look the pack is ripping already.” 😂 I mean you kind of set yourself up for the skeptics. That seemed to rip a little too easy, almost like, dare I say it, the pack was resealed. 🤷♂️
@@SukunaAnimeArtist You are brainwashed. What makes him so bad? He was chonky, mischievous, and cute. Anime chu was better OG too and I'm not even a Genwunner
My grandmaw: You should leave one pack unopened Everytime you open a pack because in the future they may be worth more unopened. Me: opens all packs Me 20 years later: 😐😖😭
I had roughly 3 copies of almost every single of the original 150 back in the 90s. I had at least 1 of all of them plus the promotional Mew from the movie. I had a friend who got bored of Pokémon and gave me his whole set. He had almost everything and I had the rest. So I had multiples of the starters final evolution. I know, because a holographic Venusaur with a scratch in the text box was my prize possession as a child, and then basically overnight I had several more with no scratches and blastoise and Charizard. My mom gave them away. It is basically her only flaw as a mother so I'm not too upset, but wvery now and then I will tell her how much any of the original 150 are going for and express my frustration that she gave them away even though I told her not to give them away. In her defense it was years between when I had last told her and when she finally gabe them away.
I love how you 2 base set unlimited. Then flash a shadowless venusaur, like you could pull either or from the same pack lol... Same set but different print runs
Hello, I bought a 1999 Pokémon card pack, 50 cards and I won a Charizard and others like Pikachu, Venossaur, Onix, Eevee and some evolutions, Charmander, Rapidash and Mewtwo.
I was like 9 years old i wanted a charizard so badly to complete my collection when i bought an exact pack like that one at an airport. I told myself id open it on the plane n i couldnt believe that the charizard pack supplied me a charizard i was exstatic! My cards were my prized collection until my parents gave them away because bad parenting 😢
Hands down THE BEST Set of Pokémon cards Ever!!! I am biased because I grew up with these cards and to be honest, I don’t give a damn! These are The OG cards of Pokemon! This is what started it all! Prove me wrong! 😂
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Still have the charizard and blastoise
Our Cross to Bear
If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
-Matthew 16:25
The cross today is a symbol for many. When we see a cross on top of a building, we conclude that it must be a church, because to us, the cross is a symbol of the Christian faith. But for others, it is a fashion accessory. It means a variety of things for a variety of people.
In the first century, however, even the word cross was offensive and bothersome because the cross represented a painful death. The Romans didn’t invent the cross, but they took crucifixion to another level. They designed it to cause pain and torture.
There were more efficient ways to execute someone, but for the worst criminals, the Romans used crucifixion. They nailed them to crosses, which resulted in a slow death. This served as a warning to anyone who dared to revolt against the power of Rome. It wasn’t uncommon to see crucified men on the roads leading into Roman cities.
So, when Jesus told the disciples that He would die on a cross, it meant something to them. But then He made it even more personal.
He said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it”
(Matthew 16:24-25)
Jesus wasn’t merely addressing these words to the disciples in the first century. He was addressing them to disciples in every century.
To “give up your own way” means to put God’s will and desires above your own. Selfish people will find this outrageous, even offensive. Narcissists need not apply.
In day-to-day living, “take up your cross” means to die to yourself. Sometimes people describe whatever difficulty they have in life as their cross to bear. A mother might say, “My children are really trouble. But that is my cross to bear in life.” And the mother’s children no doubt will say, “Our mother? Well, that is our cross to bear.”
You might have a difficulty you’re facing, so you say, “Well, we all have our crosses to bear, and I guess this is mine.” And while we will have our challenges and problems in life, that is not what Jesus meant.
In the first century, if you saw someone walking through the city carrying a cross, it meant only one thing: that person was about to die. Therefore, when we read that we are to take up the cross and follow Jesus, it means that we are to die to ourselves.
We don’t hear messages about this very often. And maybe the reason the church today is so weak and anemic is that we don’t know that much about cross-bearing.
Maybe if we stopped trying to be so much like the world, the world would start wanting to be more like us. Are we really carrying the cross today? Are we really dying to ourselves? This is what Jesus is calling us to do.
"Should I open it or should I keep it sealed"
Wrong guy bud
@@22marioyj19 can not not hear it at this point
@@manuelcheeser8935 true it is very catchy
Love that guys shorts
To all those wondering this was opened live on stream. Video was only cut for the short
Opening that Charizard in '99 at 10 years old made my life, its a core memory I will never forget still have it to this day.
I pulled two in a row in back to back booster packs. I think I used up all the luck for the rest of my life on that one lol
The first pack of cards I ever bought I got a Zapdos and to this day he is still my favorite😂
Funny how everyone who opens these old packs always gets charizard...as if it was planned
Or because nobody wants to watch the bad packs. Therefore nobody posts the bad ones.
@@RoyaltyGamingPokemonthen it's not so rare at all. It has become so overrated it should just go down in value.🤨🙄
@@zarkane6990 i mean, factually its not that rare. Holos were like 1 out of every 3 packs. 16 total holos. 1 out of 48 chance to pull a Charizard from a random pack, 1 out of 16 from a heavy pack.
The chance to open a sealed base set pack in itself is whats rare. Its valuable because of nostalgia and how its not super common to find old cards in pristine condition.
There are several modern cards that are more rare. Specific Special illustration rare pull rates are like 1:800. The difference in value is that everyone wants a base Charizard from 26 years ago when they were kids, comparatively no one cares about Iron Leaves ex from 2024.
@@JoeGameVideosI thought the same thing but turns out they made soooo many of them that tons could still be in storage
@@JinxTheLegend ye but they always go OMG i pulled... out of this pack worth 1000 dollar.. wen i check EU market they far from that price.. also the zards they pull you can buy pretty cheap nowdays and not talking about 50 dollar more like 100 or 150
I really miss the days when having Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh card battles were fun. Now it's all about collecting for a bigger profit later. Pokémon is literally the next bitcoin😢.
Same thing happened to LEGO sets and minifigures. Frustrating AF.
Tcg is absolutely still widely played. None of these cards or legal or at all viable so it really doesn't affect players that people collect these old cards
tcg is alive and well, but yes collecting is a big part too, most cards shop host pokemon tcg nights and other tcgs as well, if TCG was ded so would the reason to keep printing them....
As usual people ruin the hobbies with eyes on money. They’ll ruin it and jump onto whatever is big after that. People doing these ruined card collecting as a whole. Money poisons the minds.
Bro put that in there
I’ll be that guy. This is definitely an awesome pull from our back in the day but saying pulled a 4k card is a bit misleading. Let’s say this thing was flawless which though in great condition it isn’t you’d be talking around $350-500 tops in raw form. When/if you send this away they will consider the print lines on the holo and it being off centered from top to bottom. Not sure what the back looks like with just that it brings you down to a 9 which is a great grade. If you go with PSA which in this cards case gets the highest value between PSA and BGS. I’ve recently sold both. My BGS went for 850 and I was able to get $1100 for my PSA 9. PSA 10s are out there but crazy rare and difficult to get.Hope this helps anyone that may consider collecting before sinking money into anything thinking these are the margins as a base set pack can cost $360-$500 EACH. An awesome hobby but an expensive one.
That’s correct, the value depends on what grade it gets. “This could be worth $10,00”, isn’t the same thing as “This is worth $10,000”. It should be back from PSA soon, hoping for a 10, expecting a 9.
That would be cool to have one of those I can remember when they were worth $100
150 at my flea market 😂
I got a whole stack off those old cards from when i was a kid... gonna look for them😊
I have like a 1000 of those...
👀👀
This newer generation will never understand how hard it was to attain pokemon cards in the 90s especially when it came to charizard blastoise and venasaur
It wasn't difficult whatsoever... lol
@@FullSend25 ikr i still.
Remember getting my first halo charizard in 97
I was gonna comment “if this was pokerev it’s gonna be a holo charizard” before I even spent one second viewing this short, only to not be disappointed with the same result every single one of these pack opening channels have. These guys must have the same successful pull percentage rating as Nancy pelosi with her investments. People would rather watch 50 packs be opened and just a couple crap V or Ex’s and finally that one big big hitter that’s a profit maker card of 4$ then this over and over but hey I was here for the comments and I’m glad vast majority of viewers for these videos are fed up with it
Sir, this is a short. I can’t fit 50 packs, just the hi lights. But if you want to see the bad packs too check out my full length video.
Unreal. Too bad it's not 1st edition
How can you not tell they’re pre opened packs that he’s created
HE HEARTED IT
Yes because when people see the truth they love the truth
He wasnt really excited as you can tell
It is not pre opened. He opens packs live every night. He’s live right now LOL
@Savvisblue wrong
That voice is brutal
Wow another one, You're really doing your part to help the world
When did Matpat start doing Pokémon cards
At the same time a bunch of other people started glomming on to it out of desperation.
I was 7 in 1999 and loving Pokemon. I had many of these cards. Awesome times.
Base set ONLY had yellow cheek pikas. 1st ed and shadowless had red cheeks
Not even shadowless. Garbage
The laugh at the end is wild
Nice, I have an uncut sheet of the Japanese base set, I have it in a glass frame. My father said it was a defect but it looks flawless.
No way you wanna sell it?? Lol
Lmk if you ever in the market to sell!
The Og was the 96 but still what a hit
Wow just seeing that pack took me back to 9 years old
The bottom was opened and he inserted the charizard to get hits on his video.
Guy is a fraud
😢😂😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Opened so many of these back in the day.
Og? The original ganger pack? Cause thats wtf OG stands for
Can you do froggy deer
What a frickin gem dude I’m so jealous. Congrats
You are delusional
Wowww… he really didn’t do too bad 🎵
i have these cards .. use to collect them as a kid
Oh coincidence....or Streamer luck...mhhh how do they manage these pulls repeadly without having a clue what's in the packs...oh well they know
Openings 1000s of packs is how, quantity is key.
Seeing these pulled live is so much fun, Monday Tuesday Thursday and Fridays evenings he's always live
Pokemon Gamer and the us
This reminds me of Sauce Mcgavin when he’s doing the shiny hunting on Pokémon Leaf Green.
Yo those arent the ones worth money. The ones that are have "1st edition" printed to the left of the pokemon description below the art. I have several first edition cards. Your yellow cheeked pikachu is a nice find though, but the charizard woulsnt have been worth anything if you found it.
I have a blastoise
Yellow cheeks
Its only me or his ripping is strangely smooth?
Eris : nobody disrespects my wife
Ooh my God, coloured pieces of card! Wow!
Congrats
Can't believe Pokémon is still a thing 25 later!!
I had one of these that got stolen when I was 10
chonkachu is crazy
That is not the reaction someone would have
“Oh look the pack is ripping already.” 😂 I mean you kind of set yourself up for the skeptics. That seemed to rip a little too easy, almost like, dare I say it, the pack was resealed. 🤷♂️
I tricked my dad in buying me a few of these packs one day at the register. Ended up with a
I have that Charizard, just need to find a buyer
These better be real
This could be worth $100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!!??!
Wow there is a huge difference in a PSA 9 vs a PSA 10
Right! No one really mentions that or spends a lot of time on it. Chances of finding a gem mint 10 are very low in reality.
I will bet you a charzard that pack was resealed
Can you just print more of these or are there proprietary tricks like with currency?
❤❤❤
Gloves my dude, gloves gloves gloves o.o
I had that set in 90s
They did Pikachu dirty back then
Nah OG chu was so much better ong
@@neonmangozyou are blind
@@SukunaAnimeArtist You are brainwashed. What makes him so bad? He was chonky, mischievous, and cute. Anime chu was better OG too and I'm not even a Genwunner
@@neonmangoz he was ugly
My grandmaw: You should leave one pack unopened Everytime you open a pack because in the future they may be worth more unopened.
Me: opens all packs
Me 20 years later: 😐😖😭
I had roughly 3 copies of almost every single of the original 150 back in the 90s. I had at least 1 of all of them plus the promotional Mew from the movie. I had a friend who got bored of Pokémon and gave me his whole set. He had almost everything and I had the rest. So I had multiples of the starters final evolution. I know, because a holographic Venusaur with a scratch in the text box was my prize possession as a child, and then basically overnight I had several more with no scratches and blastoise and Charizard.
My mom gave them away. It is basically her only flaw as a mother so I'm not too upset, but wvery now and then I will tell her how much any of the original 150 are going for and express my frustration that she gave them away even though I told her not to give them away. In her defense it was years between when I had last told her and when she finally gabe them away.
Nothing Is worth more than a mother Remember that She gave you life...
"Yellow cheeks"
Yellow cheeks is crazy
Hehe u can see, one cut when he yells Kakuna;)
Charizard 1999 không có phản quang thì phải
So.. pikachus cheeks are red.. unless he was talking about different cheeks..
4k lol. Cost me 2.50 a pop. Used to throw away the commons too funny how things change.
The camera cut right before he pulled the charizard 😂 bro is lying to yall for views and likes
I used to have a charizard when I was a kid. I have absolutely no idea where it’s gone. It kills me…
Finally a pack i recognize
I have Ash and greninja 💀💀
I love how you 2 base set unlimited. Then flash a shadowless venusaur, like you could pull either or from the same pack lol... Same set but different print runs
Love these heavy bases. Maybe someday I'll have one. Awesome pack!
I have a holo base set venusaur that I’m really happy to have
I miss fat Pikachu
Hello, I bought a 1999 Pokémon card pack, 50 cards and I won a Charizard and others like Pikachu, Venossaur, Onix, Eevee and some evolutions, Charmander, Rapidash and Mewtwo.
I was like 9 years old i wanted a charizard so badly to complete my collection when i bought an exact pack like that one at an airport. I told myself id open it on the plane n i couldnt believe that the charizard pack supplied me a charizard i was exstatic! My cards were my prized collection until my parents gave them away because bad parenting 😢
Bro donde las compras
Hands down THE BEST Set of Pokémon cards Ever!!! I am biased because I grew up with these cards and to be honest, I don’t give a damn! These are The OG cards of Pokemon! This is what started it all! Prove me wrong! 😂
I have 4 of these and 1 Blaine's holographic charizard
$10k, $20k, $30k by Christmas??
I have that charizard and the golden one
Bro said rgartatata
No gloves amature
There's a cut in the video right after Ponyta
Nice but no 1st Edition ;)
I opened 50 packs in 99 and the most i got was a Zapados Holo. I saw CAP.
It's the only card I couldn't find
Ainda bem q esse vídeo ainda n chegou no capitão hunter 😮💨
If ur favouriting every comment can u favourite this comment
Why so much price gap between a 9 and 10 grade?
Hard to grade. Even right out of the pack they usually grade 9s.
Psa 10 first edition go for 320.000 euro 😅
Can I get it and what is the cost
Never got the chance to pull this card but I did pull a dark charizard from a Japanese booster pack from a flea market. Sort of made up for it.
I have like 30 non 1st editions charizards they only worth a few hundred bucks non graded. Only 1st editions graded 9-10 would go for that 10k price
😅
Yeah.. sure!
It’s not a first edition so no it won’t be worth that much even with a PSA 10 grade
How much is the first edition one
Theres no a chance this was real. That reaction was terribkem