 Welcome everyone to the class on Ministers Foundation. Good to see all of you online students. Thank you for joining class. Welcome to all our in-person students as well. Thank you. And also to our e-learning students who will be listening to this lecture later on. We'll begin class. So before we begin, can one of you please lead us in prayer? Can I ask one of the online students to lead us in prayer please? Can you please unmute your mics and lead us in prayer please? Father God, we come before you this morning. We want to worship you. We want to thank and praise you for who you are and what you do for us Lord. We thank and praise you for this day. We thank you for your faithfulness Lord. Your mercies are new every day Lord. Thank you for this opportunity that you've given each one of us to come before your holy presence Lord. To come before you, to come and learn from your word. Lord, we commit the session into your hands Lord Holy Spirit. We ask your presence here. We ask that you would anoint our teacher this morning and let your words flow through her Lord. We thank and praise you for the session. We pray for everyone in the class, the in-person online students and all of us Lord. We pray that our spiritual minds would be open, that our understanding would be open to receive from what you have to teach us Lord. Thank and praise you Lord and we pray your blessings in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Thank you Sonia. Good to hear your voice. Missed seeing you two weeks at church. Good to hear your voice. Yeah, good to hear last week, Pastor. Okay, so today we'll continue with study of the Publication Code of Honor. We'll be studying chapter 5 all about preaching. How many of you like to preach? Good. Good number of you. How about that? Okay. Okay, we can see some thumbs up. So good to see some of you like to preach. Okay, why do you think we give so much of priority to teaching God's Word? Why so much of priority given to teaching God's Word or what happens when God's Word is preached? Encourage people. Okay. What happens when God's Word is preached? You all can unmute your mics and answer. People are saved. Thank you Lucy. It's a command of Jesus. Yes. Okay, anything else? Faith is increased. Yes. To correctly divide the Word of God to understand accurately. Okay, we help people understand God's Word when God's Truth is correctly thought. Yes. Okay, so people are edified. People preaching helps us transform the lives of people. Okay, and helps them to learn more about the Kingdom of God. Thank you, Andrew. Helps in salvation for the unsaved. Yes. Daniel says the character of God can be portrayed. Yes. All right. People also receive healing and also receive deliverance. People are saved. Right. And people are established in the Word of God. Okay. Deepu says giving deeper true knowledge of God. Yes, people come to a deeper truth of the knowledge of God who God is. Sanjay says God's Word is alive and active. It's the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen. Okay, so people are established in the Word of God. What happens when people are established in the Word of God? What happens when people are established? When we preach, we say people are established in the Word of God. What happens when people are established in the Word of God? They become more firm and stable in their faith, in their maturity, in their work with God. Okay, people grow deeper. Yes, deeper in their faith, in their work with God. Also, they are not, spiritual growth happens. Yes, John Resi, they spiritually grow. Akka says we are better equipped to handle day-to-day life. Yes, very true. Anything else? An important thing is people are not driven away by all false doctrines and false teachings, right? There's so much of false doctrines, false teachings, people can easily get carried away. That's why preaching of God's word is so important. Now, those of us who preach God's word, is it more a privilege or more a responsibility? What do you think? Yes, it's more a, preaching God's word is more a responsibility than just a privilege, right? It's more a responsibility. Thank you Akkil and Lucy and Daniel for your response. You know, it's not just a fancy position, but it's something that, yes, like Akka says, it's a calling. It's a higher calling and it's also a willingness to live by that higher calling, right? Because when we preach and teach, we are more accountable, right? To God and to man and people look at us and we fall short of what we preach and teach. They will point fingers at us. That's not give credibility to the word of God, what we are preaching and teaching. And people will not want to listen to any of our messages and sermons because of our lifestyle, because we are not living what we are preaching ourselves. And also, those of us who preach will be, what does the word of God says? James chapter three verse one, what does it say? Those of us who preach God's word, there will be stricter measures of judgment for us. So when God judges us, there will be stricter measures which he's going to use. So that should not stop us. Should that stop us from preaching God's word? So we say, oh, I don't want to preach God's word because God is going to judge me in most stricter ways and stricter measures. Should that stop us? No, because it's a command. Like I think John said, it's a command. Preaching is a command that we need to obey. So look at what Paul says to Titus. He leaves Titus, a very young man in the island of Crete, and to look oversee the churches there at Crete. And look at what he says to Titus, or writes to Titus in Titus chapter two verse seven and eight. Can somebody read that please? Titus chapter two verse seven and eight. Intermediate sister. Yes, go ahead sister, get rude. Yeah. In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works in doctrine showing integrity, reverence and incorruptibility. Sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing able to say of you. Yes. So here Paul is telling Timothy that the standard we maintain in the ministry of teaching God's word. So this is standard, a high standard that we have to maintain and how we teach God's word. So the first thing what he says is, what is he saying showing? What should we show? Good work. First one is integrity. Yes, we need to show integrity. What does the meaning of integrity? Which means we need to teach God's word in truth without any error, without any mistakes. Okay, and we need to teach the pure word of God, not mix God's word with some philosophies with some, you know, stories and fables and myths and philosophies. But we need to teach the pure word of God in its pure sense. Okay. The next one is integrity. Next one, reverence. How do you teach God's word in reverence? Reverence is the fear of God. Sorry, sister. Reverence is fear of God. Yeah, the fear of God. So when we are preaching and teaching God's word, we don't use it very lightly, very cheaply. In a sense, we just don't say, you know, we don't read a scripture passage. And sometimes we see, you know, some people when they preach, they read a scripture passage, but nothing will come out of that scripture passage. It will just be about where they went, what ministry they did, what they, how they ministered, what happened or some stories or some things that happened. You know, they will just use some kind of philosophy, some poems, some illustrations, you know, and there will be nothing from the word of God. Okay, so what we need to do is we need to, when we teach God's word, not just teach it very lightly, casually, you know, just to feel, be cool in front of people, just to feel, look nice in front of people, just to feel accepted. And sometimes we can use, you know, big, big words, you know, styles that we use, and all of those things, all of those are important, illustrations are important. Also the style that we speak, everything adds to our preaching is all very important, but we should not, you know, get carried away in that where people are not given reverence to God's word. Okay, so when we teach, we need to give them a reverence and all that God's word is a truth, we need to uphold God's word with truth and with reverence. The next one, what's the next one? In the list, incorruptibility, okay? Incorruptibility means we don't corrupt the word of God, how can we corrupt the word of God? When we preach, how can we corrupt God's word? With false doctrines. False doctrines, yes. And when we preach and we are not working according to what we preach. Yes, when we preach and teach and we don't practice it in our own lives, okay? So we can, we can preach messages which make people very excited, you know, feel good, feel comfortable, feel happy, you know, all of that and they will just enjoy the message but ask them what they learn from God's word, there'll be nothing. They'll tell you the stories you told them, they'll tell you, you know, all the nice things you said, they'll be very excited but has any transformation change happened? No. So when we preach God's word, we can use all of these stories, illustrations and all of those to enhance the truth in God's word but the main message, the main need, the center of it should be God's word and that should be you and you can use illustrations to explain the truth from God's word but always going back to the word of God, okay? So, and then the last one is, what is the last one? Paul tells Titus, it sounds speech. Yes, you know, means in the way that we speak, we must be blameless when we preach and teach so that people don't find fault in what we are preaching and teaching and even in our own lives, okay? Now, what should motivate us to preach and teach God's word? What motivates us to preach and teach God's word? What is a motivation? What should be our motivation in preaching and teaching God's word? Should be to impart the truths and revelations in God's word and what should be our motivation even as we preach and teach, what should we look for? Yeah, but people's lives will be transformed, life transformation, okay? So a motivation should not be to impress people. A motivation should be that people's life, that yes, to impact the life of people. Thank you, Daniel. Okay. And so we should make sure that we don't dilute the word of God with just philosophies, nice popular thoughts, you know, and all of those things, but stay true to ministering the uncompromised and the undiluted word of God, okay? Okay. Now, when you teach God's word, sometimes it's easy to talk about, you know, specific topics like love, faith, grace, you know, hope, what are the some of the famous easy topics that we always choose? Forgiveness, love, yes. Sorry. Blessings, prosperity, healing, okay, yes. All of those things are something that we can, you know, very easy to teach. But what are some of the difficult topics that we find challenging or difficult to teach and preach in church? Or to, you know, people, something that brings correction, yes. Very, very difficult, like sexual purity, you know, infidelity in marriage, you know, forgiving others can be also very challenging. How to make sacrifices, obedience, you know, personal character, and all of these are some challenging topics. So should we speak about these things? Holiness, yes. Angeline says holiness, Akhil says salvation and repentance. Should we speak these topics? Yes. Okay. When we speak these topics, how should we speak these topics? Or how should we preach these topics? With love, okay. What else? In a gentle way, right, yes. How can we be gentle? Not being judgmental, not condemning people, not putting down people, you know. But we need to teach them with the goodness of God. Paul says in Romans, the goodness of God leads to repentance, okay. Akhil says we need to preach and teach with boldness and clarity and give reference, not just reference, but references to God's word. Thank you, Akhil. And Daniel says first we must experience these topics. That means we must live it out, yes, important. Okay. And also we need to teach it in a non-condemning, non-judgmental way, but in love. Okay. And also with the goodness of God, because Romans Paul says the goodness of God leads to repentance. Okay. So that must be very, very important. And also when we are teaching these topics, we don't portray ourselves as preaching down on people. That means I am perfect. I have done all of these things. Hey, you people, you listen, you'll need to do it. No. We need to come to a level ground. We're saying, hey, even I used to struggle with these things. I went through these challenges. I also found these difficult. But, you know, we are here with God's grace to, you know, learn and to help each other. Okay. Now, Paul writing to Timothy in second Timothy chapter two was 15. Can somebody read that, please? Second Timothy chapter two was 15. Second Timothy chapter two was 15. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Yes. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that Paul is writing to Timothy and he says that you should rightly divide the word of truth. What does it mean to rightly divide the word of truth? What it means to rightly divide the word of truth? Does it mean divide the word of truth? It means look at what it says in the Old Testament and New Testament. What God says or what Jesus says. What does it mean to rightly divide the word of truth? It means we need to break it down. Yeah, Akhil says we need to put it in context. Yes. Thank you. Also, we need to, you know, break it down, make it simpler. You know, simplify the truth, interpret it, make it understandable for people. You know, without diluting it or mixing it with other things. Okay, the philosophies of this world or, you know, some things that, you know, generally we just know, but not diluting it. Okay. And also we need to not be very careful that we don't, you know, preach based on our own understanding and our own imaginations when we are preaching and teaching. It's important when we read the word of God that we use the tools of biblical interpretation and we just don't take one verse and preach it from that. But we need to look at that verse in context. Who wrote it? To whom was it written? Why was it written? What culture? What context? What is the reason? You know, which kind of audience, where, which place? Okay. So the conflicts we need, yes, like Akhil says, we need to put things in the context. We need to read, understand. And also we need to interpret that scripture in the light of the rest of scripture, the whole of scripture. So for example, people have taken various verses from the Bible and they have misinterpreted it. So one can be, you know, that, you know, where it says Paul says various prophecies they will seize. So people say now there is only the early church, there was the gifts of the spirit were manifest nowadays. You know, we don't have to think about manifesting the gifts of the baptism of the Holy Spirit because it sees, but that is misinterpretation. Okay. Also, women have to be supposed as women have to be silent in church. They cannot preach or teach. No, women cannot, you know, come with braided hair and expensive, you know, jewelry and all. So we need to understand those verses in context. So we need to be very careful when we are interpreting scripture. We need to interpret that scripture in the rest of on the light of the rest of other scripture, the whole word of God. What does this word mean? What is Jesus saying here? What is God saying here in the light of the rest of scripture? Okay. So when you are invited to preach and teach, or you are many of you, some of you must be pastors, when you are in, you know, wanting to preach and teach, how do you choose the topics? Suppose you're a pastor and you're preaching and teaching in your church, how do you choose your topic for that month or for the year, or you're invited somewhere and you want to preach and teach how do you choose which passage what you have to preach. Any thoughts? First, you will pray. Ask God what to very good. Ask God what you have to preach. Okay. Why is it important to ask God what you have to preach? Why can't you just preach what you have been learning, what God has been teaching you, or what you think is going to be really a good, your good message. Pull out one good message of yours and preach and teach that. Or something on love because you're very confident of preaching that topic. Why is it important for you to listen to what God is saying? Akhil says God's message to God's people is better and effective when we do what God says. Yes. Because actually God knows what is the need of that congregation or that group that you are ministering or preaching to. So God will even if you're a pastor, God knows what is the need of your people in that season. Okay. So God will tell you the topic. He will lead you to the scripture passage. Okay. John bless. He says he knows about people at the right time what they want. Yes. What they need. What so when we are sensitive to what God is leading us, you know, and we preach what people need, then people are going to listen to you. Okay. So when we are teaching or teaching people what they felt need is people will connect with you. They won't eat. They won't just walk away from church, but they'll listen because hey, this person is teaching or teaching me what I really am going through what I really need. So it's important to listen to the Holy Spirit. So even in your Bible college when you are, you know, some of you get turns to preach here in the morning in your devotion, ask God, you know, what you want to what he wants to impart to the rest of the other students. Okay. So when you do that, you know, you can preach to two people's hearts and they can receive God's word, even as you are a pastor, can pray and ask God for, you know, what he wants you to preach the next two months, three months and he will lead you to guide you. Okay. Now, we are all excited to, you know, receive new revelations and truths from God's word. Yes or no, you know, when we receive new revelations and truths from God's word is very important for us. You know, to, it's very nice for us to preach and teach that as well and to share it with others. But when you receive new revelations, what do, how do we act on it before we preach and teach that what should we do? We learned right about when you receive prophecies when you hear from God's word. Remember inner witness voice of the Holy Spirit stirring in your heart. What are some of the things that we need to do when you receive a new revelation? Yeah, you need to validate it. Thank you, Lucy. You need to validate it. How do you validate it? What are the two primary ways you validate? You check with the word of God. Thank you, Lucy. Sorry, get rude. We need confirmation. Confirmation from whom? Confirmation from the Holy Spirit. Yes, thank you. And thank you, Lucy. Yes, you need to go back to the word of God, see what revelation truth you're receiving is correct with the rest of the whole scripture. And also with the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to impart the truth for you. Because when a Holy Spirit is actually revealing God's word. He's a teacher, right? He's the one who's inspired all the authors in the Bible to write everything that they have written. So we have a great teacher living inside us. And who is that? The Holy Spirit. Yes. So he teaches us the truth. So, you know, when he reveals the truth to us, you know, when he reveals something to us, he will reveal according to God's word and not and also that is in line with what God wants us to know. So we need to sometimes we can even think what we are receiving mentally or emotionally. We think it's the Holy Spirit speaking. So we need to validate it with God's word and also with the manifest word of God. Who is the manifest word of God? Who is the manifest word of God? Who became flesh? Who became flesh? Jesus. A lot of Jesus. Yes. Thank you, God. Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lucy. It's Jesus, the word that became flesh. So we should also look at it in the, you know, in the light of what Jesus has preached and taught and how he has lived his life. Okay. Now, sometimes when you find something is incorrect or you're not sure, you can always go to, you know, men and women of God who are strong in the word of God and receive from them and ask them to, help you with the revelation that you've received is correct. Okay. We also need to stay current and avoid theological digressions when preaching and teaching. You know, we need to stay with the present current move of God. Okay. For example, in the 1900s, when there was the Azusa street revival, you know, there was a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which gave rise to the Pentecostal movement. Okay. And when the Pentecostal movement started, many people for hours, you know, they would just press in just to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and to flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So nowadays, do we have to carry or press in for a long time to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? What do you think? No, you know, sometimes when we just have the baptism of Holy Spirit after church service, we just pray for people. They just, you know, flow in, they start speaking in tongues. They just baptize. And also people just flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Right. But earlier they had to press. Okay. But nowadays, you know, we don't have to do that. Okay. Another example we can look from God's word is a man called Apollos. Apollos was, you know, a very learned man, a man who was very mighty in scripture. You knew God's word. Scripture means I'm talking about Old Testament. Okay. He was very well versed in the Old Testament. He was very eloquent in his speaking. He was to preach and teach in the synagogues, but he only used to preach and teach from the Old Testament scripture right up to the baptism of John. But he was very powerful in his teaching and he loved God very much. So you know this couple, Aquila and Priscilla. Yes. You know, people, this couple was very, very powerful in building churches and ministry. You know, they heard Apollos and they realized that, hey, he knows only Pash to an extent the truth right up to John the Baptist. So they called him and they spoke to him about Jesus, his teaching and about the baptism on the Holy Spirit. And we see that, you know, Apollos received it and he again started mighty preaching and teaching. So sometimes, you know, we can look in the past, move of God, but we also need to be, we need to know what is the present of God where God is. Yes, Paul, you have a question. I think Paul is in the wrong class. He's not supposed to be in this class. Okay. So, you know, we see that we need to be current with the move of God, knowing what God is releasing in the world today. So what is the move of God in the world today? What do you think is the move of God in our world today? What do you think God is doing? What is the move of God? Online students, what's the move of God, the current move of God? Salvation, sister, repentance, reconciliation, encountering, having encounter with God. Yes. Salvation has always been there, but I think it's more a revival. Yes. Thank you, Sanjay. Yes, an encountering. Thank you, Lucy. Yes, being filled with the Holy Spirit, you know, moving in signs and wonders because nowadays there's so much of a rise of religions and their teaching and their philosophies. So people want to know the truth from, which is the truth? Who's the true and living God? So, you know, our preaching and teaching should be attested with science, miracles and wonders. And we are in the last days. Yes, Andrew says Joel 228. So, you know, time when there's an outpouring of God's Spirit, there'll be dreams and visions and, you know, the move of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, mightily moving so that people can operate in these gifts. Okay. So, also it's important for us when we're teaching God's word that we teach it in light of the rest of the truth in God's word in scripture. Now, sometimes if we overemphasize the truth, you know, it gives more importance than what God or scripture wants us to give importance to. So, what do I mean by that? Okay, for example, if we overemphasize blessing and prosperity. Okay, we're talking only blessing and prosperity without balancing it with sacrifice, giving and contentment. Then that is overemphasizing blessing and prosperity. Now, if we emphasize grace, we are in a grace period, not like Old Testament where, you know, people are just falling down dead, God punishes them, the earth opens and they're swallowed or plague or whatever. We overemphasize grace without emphasizing Godly living purity and responsibility. That means our response that we need to also be pure, though we have the grace of God, we need to live in holiness and purity, which means we are not dividing the word of God correctly. Okay, also when we dilute the word of God by saying that salvation is not just to grace by faith but also through other ways is meeting people astray. Okay, you know, when we are just focusing on, you know, on the science miracles and wonders without telling people that, hey, science miracles and wonders will follow when, when will science miracles and wonders follow or when can we flow in mighty science miracles and wonders or when can we flow in the gifts of the Spirit? When can we flow in the gifts of the Spirit or when can the gifts of the Spirit be manifested in our lives? Hello, when can the gifts of the Spirit be manifested in our lives? Or when can we see a great move of the gifts of the Spirit being? Yes, Sanjay says, when we seek his kingdom first and his righteousness, yes, when we seek intimacy with God. Remember chapter one, we talked about our personal life. We said that our ministry is an overflow with our time in the secret place with God. The more we are intimate with God in the secret place seeking God, you know, pursuing him more, that's when we can flow mightily. The anointing is greater, the power is greater, there's life transformation, there's a move of God we can flow mightily in science gifts and wonders. Also, sometimes we overemphasize prophecy. Remember we study the chapter on prophecy in receiving God's guidance. All of you, yes. Andrew says personal relationship with God our teacher, yes. Okay, so we learned about prophecy, right? So sometimes prophetic words can also be tainted with, you know, the person's own knowledge because of their own weaknesses or whatever. So it's important we test prophecies. Okay, we learned that. So sometimes we can get so caught up in just prophesying without teaching people the right way of prophesying is clearly hearing from God and we hear from God when we are very close and intimate with him. Okay, so all of these teachings which we are doing, we should not overemphasize while missing out the truth that is there. So even as we preach and teach grace and prophecy and flowing and gifts and performing mighty science miracles and wonders, there needs to be a balanced view, which means we need to speak that in the light of the rest of scripture and what is our responsibility. Okay. And there is, you know, sometimes when there is a wrong doctrine that is happening in our city and people in our church or Bible study group and you're the leader and they're only talking about this. What do you do as a leader or as a pastor or as a Bible study group in the Bible study group of the Bible study people are just talking about this prayer fellowship you know they're just talking about the false teaching the doctrine that is happening and they are rushing to this place that place or as a pastor you're hearing this. So how do you handle this? Should you preach the false teaching from the doctrine from the pulpit? Why? Why shouldn't you preach it? Some people what they do is they start preaching and teaching about the false teaching and doctrine. They said, Hey, we are I'm hearing all this from you people. Some of you are going to that preacher that place that crusade. You're listening to the messages from this man of God was teaching all these wrong doctrines. What happens when you preach and teach the wrong doctrine that is happening in your city or town and the nation from the pulpit. What happens? Is it important for us to teach those wrong doctrines or talk about those wrong doctrines? Can we have some answers? Yes or no? Some of you are unsure. We shouldn't preach and teach. Sanjay says it's like the blind leading the blind. No, no, it's wrong. Why is it wrong? Okay, you need to preach and teach according to the word of God. Because when you preach and teach the false doctrine, you're giving people more excitement. Some of them who don't know will go and listen or they will go and they will want to find out. And some of them who are weak in their faith, what will happen? They will get carried away. So you unnecessarily given publicity advertisements. You know, so what should you do instead? Yes, we have called to preach and preach the truth as Jesus did. Andrew says, Andrew not disciple Andrew, but student Andrew from online class. We call to preach and teach the truth that Jesus did. Yes. So when you hear false doctrines and false teachings and you're listening to that, what should you do is you should look at the false doctrines and you should look at what is the corresponding truth in the word of God and you need to teach the truth. So what happens when you teach people the truth? They will be able to apply the truth when they are faced with the wrong. Okay, that's a pastor said this in the Bible study, we start study this. So this teacher saying this, the word of God is saying this, that means what they are saying is wrong. So don't publicize about by talking about the false doctrine, teach the truth. Okay, so should we also when we preach and teach should we use the pulpit and God given time to preach and teach God's word to flatter people to get money or to sell promotion. No, but we see some of them do this right. Some of them preach and teach prosperity and blessings that you know and we tell them that they have to give more into the church put more money. You know, as tides as offering. And then after your preaching, you take a special offering and you know you tell people that you have to give according to what God's word as you have received. And if people don't give next Sunday, your preaching will be about God's wrath, God's judgment, not heeding to God's word. Okay, so that is wrong. Don't use the pulpit, you know, to get more money to promote yourself how great how good how nice you are, but you need to teach God's word, even if you are sharing from the pulpit as an example as a personal example of what God did through your life. You need to be careful on how you're saying it so that God can receive the glory and not saying it in a way that you know you're promoting yourself. Okay, so everything what we do, not just what we see we think how we live, even our preaching even our teaching should be out of a pure motive out of a clean heart to glorify God, and to actually preach and teach what God is doing. So that we can encourage people, and even as you share your life stories with people do it in a way that will give God the glory and people will want to say hey, this pastor was able to do she was able to do he was able to do why not me. So it should motivate people. Okay, the next thing is don't give the devil the pulpit time. What does it mean. Okay, before that Daniel says ma'am what can we do if someone uses a pulpit for preaching wrong word of God. What we can do is, you know, we can go to that preacher and maybe, you know, maybe take two or three along others along with you would testify to the fact, you know, and tell them, you know, tell them what they have spoken, and don't do it in a way that you're going to judge them or condemn them, but tell them, you know, this is what God's word says the rest of scripture says so what do you think what do you think is the truth, you know, and, you know, if the person is willing to accept it's good if they're not willing to accept. Don't argue, don't fight with them, you know, just pray for them that the Holy Spirit would reveal the truth to them. Also, another thing we can do is we can pray before we go and ask the Holy Spirit to minister to them. Does that help Daniel? Thank you. Good question. Okay, what do we mean by don't give the devil pulpit time. Does the devil want pulpit time? Does the devil want to preach and preach? Yeah, so one is saying yes. Yes. So how do we give the devil pulpit time? Andrew says to boast about ourselves, keeping ourselves high then doing the work which God has given us. Instead of lifting up God, we try to put ourselves higher. Yes, yes, Nelson, you want to say something? Maybe if you're giving someone time to preach and pulpit and instead of talking God's word is going in personal life means maybe he's promoting his business and other things than word. Yes, promoting their own business. Lucy says, you know, don't use your pulpit for other things than God's word. Sometimes, you know, people have used the pulpit and the word of God to teach and get against people who are talking about them. They were gossip or there's a division. There's one group talking against the pastor or against the leader and they are wanting to tell them all that you have kept in your mind what you want to give them and you don't have an occasion to do it. You use a pulpit time. Do you think that is right? No, that is wrong, right? You know, you want people to give more money in the offering. You use the pulpit time. You know, you want to speak ill of others. You know, that's not the right time to do it. You want to get back to people not using the pulpit time for that. Sometimes we want to, you know, promote some business or some group or some politician or some political, you know, group. We use the pulpit which is wrong. Okay, pulpit is a place where God's word is to be taught in holiness and reverence and in awe. Okay, look at what the people did when, you know, when Nehemiah went to build the walls of Jerusalem. After building the walls of Jerusalem, you know, the Ezra, you know, he opens the book of the law and when he opens the book of the law, you know, what do the people do? Yes, they bow down. They all stood up. They lifted their hands. They bowed their heads and even some of them even felt prostrate. That was the awe and reverence for God's word and it's important for us as teachers, whether you're Sunday school teacher, youth teacher, you know, reading a Bible study, prayer group, a pastor, it's important for us to hold God's word in deep reverence and to draw people when you're preaching and teaching, not to yourself, but to the to God, the nature of God, the attributes of God, to his truth, you know, so that people can fall in love with God's word. You know why people don't read God's word most often? Because they find God's word boring. Some of them don't read it because they don't understand the mysteries, the revelations, the prophecies. So use the perfect time to preach and teach and, you know, help them to fall in love with God's word. A true minister says just above the point, do not cause division and offense in the body. The true minister of God is one who desires that the Lord alone be glorified and nothing of self be promoted. Okay, so even as some of you have said that you love to preach and teach, even as all of us are called to preach and teach, it's important that, you know, we follow these guidelines that we have just heard, and use the perfect time to, you know, preach and teach the truth and the revelations from God's word. Any questions before we go for our break? Yes, can you pass the mic to him please? We just have one minute, so. I saw this matter on Twitter. Actually what Sam Baba, some Hindu Baba, he said something about Christians. So when Pastor is there, particularly from his last six, seven meetings on Sunday, he's continuously giving reply from the scripture to that Baba. And that debate is going from both sides. So is it right or wrong? I think instead of highlighting what the Baba is saying, so that people, then people will think, oh, what the Baba is saying is also the son, so this preacher is teaching about him. So he might be having some food. So let's listen to what the Baba is saying. And some of them are weak in their faith or immature or still growing in their faith. They can be led away by the Baba because, you know, even one has, you know, can overpower them in their thinking. So what the preacher should do instead of retaliating and fighting and arguing what the Baba is saying, he can just talk the truth from God's word. Instead of focusing and saying, this is what Baba said, this is what God's word is saying, you can just teach the truth. People are very smart. They can apply the truth for themselves and understand the truth for themselves. So mainly what we should do? We just ignore them or what? So we're not ignoring them, right? We're not ignoring the Baba. We're listening to what the wrong things that he's saying. But we are talking about the truth from God's word and we're teaching the truth and we are educating the people on the truth in God's word. So that when they are, the song with the error, you know, when they face error or the wrong teaching, they know how to apply the truth. That is what we need to do when we preach and preach. Okay, thank you everyone for joining class. Have a good break. See you after the break.