 declaration, right, to make a declaration about what God has done for us in Christ and specifically about the area of finances, the area of prosperity, the area of success, the area of promotion and provision, right, what the Lord has done for us and just one of us to, you know, to make that part of us speaking, right, Joshua 1-8, we see the instruction that God gives Joshua and says, let this book of the law not depart from your mouth, but you shall, you know, you shall meditate on a day and night and you shall be careful to observe to do everything according to what is written in this, then you will make your way prosperous and you will have good success. So that's the instruction we see the Lord giving, God giving Joshua at a very crucial point in his life, right, it's a very, at a point when he was probably intimidated by the by the magnitude of, you know, the responsibilities that he was about to carry, about to shoulder, so how he had already, you know, taken on and the Lord gives this very important principle and he says, you know, I will be with you wherever you go, I will be with you as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. So the presence of God and the principle of God, the principle that he gives Joshua, you know, both are important. So we need to consider both the presence of God and the principle. So even as we make this, you know, proclamation or confession of God's word, again, I want to reiterate, you know, the presence of God in our lives, the relationship that we as branches have with the wine, that's of paramount importance, and our identity and our intimacy with God and everything, you know, everything flows out of that. And then, you know, we look at these principles, right? So it's like, it's not either this or that, but it's both, both the presence and the precepts, presence and the, the person and the principles, right? So, okay, so let's do this. I'm actually using the church app, APC church app, if, you know, if some of you don't, if you've not downloaded that, I would recommend you can go to Google Play Store and, you know, download the app, has a lot of very useful resources. Okay, so let's, let's do this. It's about prosperity and success. So, you know, I know you have your mics muted, but you could, you know, repeat this after me, right? I am like a tree planted by rivers of water. I bring forth my fruit in its season. My leaf does not wither. And whatever I do, prosperous, I am blessed in all the works of my hands. I follow the Lord, His Word and His ways. And He causes me to prosper and gives me good success. As I walk humbly and in the fear of God, He blesses me with prosperity, honor and long life. Man, let's, let's make another proclamation. This is about promotion. You know, my promotion growth and increase comes from God. It is God who makes room for my promotion. As I submit to the Lord, He exalts me in His time. It is God who sets me in places of leadership, authority and influence. Okay. Here's one more about provision and supply. My God provides for all of my needs according to His riches through Jesus Christ. The Lord is my shepherd and I will not be in want. The Lord is a Son and shield to me. He does not withhold any good thing from me. God gives me more than what I need so that I always, all I need for myself, plenty to bless others with. It is God who gives me the ability to make wealth. Amen. Amen. Let's, let's pray. Father, we thank you Lord in line with this proclamation, in line with this confession. Lord of your word, your promises. God, we, yes Lord, even as we've declared, we believe that we will walk in the fullness of all that we have declared. We believe that we will experience the power of the truth. Lord, that we have just spoken out loud, that we have declared. Oh God, we thank you. We thank you for your presence in our lives. We thank you for your power. Great is your power. That is at work in us Lord, the resurrection power. And Lord, we thank you for the power of your spirit, that you will bring things Lord into existence, that even those things which are not there Lord. Lord, some of the things that we have proclaimed by faith. Oh God, you will bring it to existence. And I pray that over each and every person Lord in class who just declared these truths. And I just pray that they will experience, that we will experience the fullness of what we proclaimed even as we walk, continue to walk in faith. We thank you Lord. We give you all the praise. We give you all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, awesome. Let's just pick up from where we passed last class. We've been looking at the principles, like principles for God ordained prosperity. And we've been looking at some very interesting things, right? We looked at how we need to, what is the first one? Yeah, putting God first, right? We need to put God first. And then we looked at how we need to do what God wants us to be doing. Then we looked at how we need to practice righteousness, because that's the, that's the very nature of God. So we cannot, you know, have, and we cannot say that, okay, this is what God has for me. God has the best for me. And then, you know, do something that is opposite of God's nature and expect to see fruit or expect to see his hand of approval on it, right? So we looked at that very important principle of practicing righteousness. Then after that, we looked at work. Work itself is a vehicle. Work itself is a channel through which God provides for us supernaturally. So there's no reason to, you know, to look at work as something unspiritual. There's no reason to look at work as something that is off the devil and something that is cursed and so on. We see right in creation that God, you know, put Adam and Eve and said, you know, ask them to tend to God, to take care, give them a responsibility. So we see that work is spiritual, work is God ordained, and yes, after the fall, it is out of the toil and sweat of the brow and everything. But, you know, as redeemed creations, we see that, you know, God will use our work. We see several instructions that to bless others with it, right? It's a way by which God provides for our needs through the work that we do, right? To be gainfully employed. Nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to say that, you know, it's not a lack of faith to work. It's not unspiritual to work. So work itself. And then we looked at our faith in God, you know, using the principles of faith. So we looked at that last class. Okay, so today, let's look at in line with, you know, using the principles of faith. When we study the principles of faith, we saw that, you know, many examples of the Lord reaching out and healing. And we saw that people were, you know, saying, God, if you are willing, right? So there was no doubt, you know, in some of their minds about the ability of God to heal. But certainly, there was something about the willingness of God to heal. And every time the Lord Jesus, he said, I am willing, right? And what he did on the cross talks about his willingness to change things in our lives, physically, materially, emotionally, et cetera, especially in all realms, like to bring about change, to break down the outcome of the curse, and so bring in the finished work, the outcome of the finished work of the cross in our lives. So, you know, so we don't have to have any doubt about the willingness of God, because we studied the character, we've studied the nature of God that he's good, he's willing, and he is able, right? So the ability of God is something that, you know, all believers, you know, we know God can. But will God do it? You know, is he willing? That's something that we sometimes grapple with. And we saw through scripture that, yes, he is willing. It's a willing, he's there with both willingness and ability. So we can stand in faith. Because if we do not know the willingness of God, then we cannot actually stand in faith. So, yeah, to be assured of the willingness of God as well. So the next thing that we're going to see, let me just share the notes with you. So the next thing that we see is, again, flowing out of that principle of faith is to speak God's word of prosperity over your life. Okay. Maybe it's something new for some of us. Maybe we think sometimes, you know, how can I do that? It seems as if, you know, it seems presumptuous, etc. How can I assume this? And can I speak that God wants to prosper? Now, just like how we did this, you know, before the start of class, we look at scripture in all the declaration that we did this morning, out of for provision, for promotion, and about, you know, God bringing about prosperity in our lives. We see that it is, you know, it is based on scripture. Like the first one, I'm just, you know, for example, Acts 20, 28, Ephesians 1, 7, I'm sorry, Psalm 1, sorry, we start talked about, you know, the tree planted by rivers of water, right? Psalm 1, 1, 2, 3, Deuteronomy 28, 8, Joshua 1, 8, and so on. So we see that, you know, it's based on the word of God. So our confession is ceases to be an assumption when it's based on the word of God. Okay, so that's the thing. It is based on the word of God. It is truth that is covered by the word of God that is proclaimed by the word of God. So we are saying what God is saying or what God says. We say what God continues to say about us or about our situation, about our circumstance. And that's a confession, that's a faith confession. Okay, and like we said, it is not isolated from the relationship. It's not a mantra, it's not a formula, you know, that will work outside of the relationship. It is based on the word of God. It's based on the will of God for our lives. It's based on relationship, right? So it's a principle and it goes with the person and the presence of the Lord, right? So we declare, we proclaim what God says about prospering us over our lives, right? So we say that. Okay, so we look at Proverbs 18 and you know, I think some of us are very familiar with that, Proverbs 18 versus 20 and 21, death and life, the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit, right? So Proverbs 18, that's 21. 20 is, a man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth and the produce of his lips he shall be filled. So there's a direct connection between what happens in the physical with what happens in the spiritual, right? Verse 21, death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. So it's a two very different outcomes, happening the same source, having the same source in common, but it depends on what we actually declare, what we actually proclaim. You know, we can either speak death, we can speak some negative outcome, or we can speak life, something that is positive, something that is good, something that is intended by God, and we can speak that out. And it says that those who love it will eat its fruit, meaning that, okay, what is the outcome that you want? What is the outcome that you desire? You will eat its fruit, meaning you will experience that outcome, okay, the fullness of that, the experience of what you will experience, or you will have the manifestation of what you are declaring, what you are proclaiming, okay? So, you know, many examples that we see in scripture, where God says, you know, you speak it out, you speak thus, you know, we see it in, let's say, if we go to Jeremiah chapter one, let's turn there. Okay, Jeremiah chapter one, and the Lord's dealing with Jeremiah, and he says, Jeremiah one and verse nine, then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant. Okay, so we see this, God saying, you know, I put my words and I've set you over the nations and to root out, to pull down, to destroy, to throw down, to build and to plant. So, the outcome of God's words, the words of God, of eternal God, in the mouth of Jeremiah, a finite person, but this is what God's word brings about. This is what God's word will result in, right, to either build or even to pull down, throw down strongholds, et cetera. Right, so we see that. Another place where we see God instructing the word be spoken is in Ezekiel 37, right, where the Prophet has an experience and encounter with God and a prophetic experience that he has, and we see that in Ezekiel 37, where it says, the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley, which is full of bones. So, the Lord shows Ezekiel this valley, you know, it's something that he, you know, he's brought there and he's shown this valley. There were many bones, there were dry bones, and the Lord asks the question, can these bones live? And obviously, Ezekiel knows better than to answer that question. So, he knows it's a trick question. Whatever response he gives, he's going to get caught. So, he says, Lord, you know, right, and the Lord says, okay, this is what I want you to do, right, speak or prophesy, prophesy means to speak forth, prophesy to these bones and say to them, okay, what is he saying? Oh, bones hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones, surely I will cause breath to enter into you and you shall live. Okay, so this is the instruction prophesy to these bones prophesy to this situation where it seems as if everything is lost, it seems as if nothing will, nothing can come out of it. It's a, it's a dead situation, right. It's a foregone lost cause. So, God is saying, you know, prophesy, say, say to these bones. So, he's giving his instruction, he's giving his words, and he's prompting Ezekiel to do something. So, Ezekiel does that and and then something happens, you know, he says verse seven, if you read Ezekiel 37, sorry, verse seven, so I prophesied as I was commanded. Okay, so, so I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, then he talks about the supernatural work of God. He talks about the noise, the rattling, the bones coming together and so on. And then he's also, you know, instructed to prophesy to the breath to come in and then they and then it talks about how the rises up a great army. And so, so he has this whole experience and this symbolically represented the the house of Israel and how God is going to revive them and so on, right. So, so the thing is this that what we learn is that we need to learn to speak God's word. What God wants for us, what God intends for us, you know, there's no point in saying, you know, you know, I'm poor, I will be poor, I will continue to be poor, right. God wants to raise you up so that you can be a blessing, right. Not to be in an arrogant way, not to be in a proud way to show off your wealth and riches, no. God wants us to have enough and more for our needs and enough and more so that we can be a blessing to others, right. So, this is what God desires. He wants to step in and do that supernatural work and this is one of the principles that we see that we need to speak his word. What does God want you to speak, you know, about your finances? What is God saying that he will do, you know, find out the will of God, find out the plan and purpose of God. What does the word of God say? So, our confession is not something that is based on, you know, our own thinking. It's not like a positive, positive, you know, positive thinking or a positive affirmation that's just, you know, out of nowhere, no. It has its roots, it has its foundation, very firm and secure in the word of God, right. And again, I want to say that it's not devoid of, it's not separated from the person, the presence of the Lord, right. So, that's something that we see here, right. Speak God's word of prosperity, prosperity of your life. So, that's a principle. Then, we also see that we need to honor God in our finances, right. Given to the work of God and the giving to God's people and so on. So, we see several scriptures on that. Let's say, let's look at Luke 6 and 38. Okay, where the Lord Jesus says, give and it will be given to you. A good measure, press down, shaken together and running over, will it, will be put into your bosom for with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. So, we're talking about generosity in giving and the way in which we need to give and the way in which it will be, you know, given back. So, we see that when we do that, when we give, we are actually being like him, right. We are imitating our generous God. We are imitating the greatest giver in the universe that John 3.16 talks about how God so loved the world that he gave. He gave his best. He gave without withholding anything. And so, we are called to imitate or mimic God as his dear children and God has put this principle there and that we, as we give, it is given back to us. So, we see that it's running over, right. You see the way in which it's given back says, good measure, press down, shaken together and running over, God brings into our lives, right. So, this is something that we see. So, while we're talking about giving, we just wanted to kind of digress and talk about a couple of other things, right. So, why do we need to give? So, we see that giving itself is an act of worship unto God, right. We saw that, you know, everything that we have actually comes from him. He's the source, right. So, God talks about how the Catalan a thousand hills, the gold is his, the silver is his. It's his, basically. And we have been given this to steward it as overseers and, I mean, overseers of what he puts into our lives. So, when we give back to God, it's from a heart of gratitude. It's from a heart of worship to him and we do this. It's not grudgingly. It's not because it says something bad will happen if I don't give. So, you don't give it grudgingly. You don't give it out of fear or compulsion. But you give it whole heartedly as a work of, as an act of worship to him, right. So, if we just read a couple of scriptures here. First Chronicles 16 and it was 27, 29. Okay. Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. Give to the Lord of families of the peoples. Give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him or worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Okay. So, this act of bringing an offering and coming before the Lord is an act of worship, right. To see that it's not that he needs it, but we do it as an act of worship unto God, right. So, we are recognizing when we give to God, we're going to look into deep in a little bit of detail about, you know, about tides offerings and also about arms that is giving, you know, to help people to help them in times of need, etc. So, just want to mention that giving is an act of worship, right. We honor, we honor him. We're saying, God, you know, this belongs, everything belongs to you. It's an act of surrender. Just look at it. So, it's an act of worship to God. Okay. Also, it is, you know, when we give to others, it fulfills our covenant relationship with others. You know, we are in the body of Christ and we are called to be a blessing to those in the body. We are called to be a blessing to those outside of the body of Christ, you know, with the gospel and so on. So, we are actually, you know, it's an act of, it's a covenant relationship primarily to those in the body of Christ. We are, we can be a source of blessing to those outside as well. Okay. And Second Corinthians 9 and verse Second Corinthians 9, I'll share these notes with you as well. You can take a look at that. Second Corinthians 9 talks about how should a person give. Okay. Second Corinthians 9 and let's look at verse six onwards, right. But this I say that he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, but he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So, let each one give as he purposes in his heart. Not drudgingly or of necessity for God loves a cheerful giver. For God is able to make all grace abound towards you that you having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work. And the rest of the chapter also talks about a few other things about that. But, you know, it says here that if you give or when you give, you give as you purpose in your heart. Okay. So, God's not putting an amount, that's not putting a figure there saying, okay, this is how it must be. But he's saying, as you purpose in your heart, so you don't do it drudgingly or in response to somebody's manipulation or out of fear, none of that. Right. So, you see, you know, this truth is so liberating. Right. So, it's not like an oppressive hand, you know, coming up on you and saying, okay, you better give now. No, you give as you purpose in your heart. And it says that God, you know, not drudgingly or of necessity. For God loves a cheerful giver. Okay. So, this is who God loves. So, it's in response to God, it is towards him. So, you give as you purpose in your heart. So, and here is the assurance or the reassurance that God is able to make all grace abound towards you. Okay. His divine virtues, his unmerited favor, he's able to make it all abound. Abound meaning, not in a little measure, but in a great measure, he's able to do that, that you having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work. So, this is God's intention, this is God's desire. Right. So, a cheerful, when we give cheerfully, we give, you know, as he would give, as God would give. And this is what he says, you know. And Malachi 3, verses 9 and 10 talks about tithing, Philippians 4, 15, 16. Let's look at those verses. We are going to look at Malachi 3 a little later. Okay. So, Philippians 4 and verse 15, right, talks about when the Philippine church, which was, which was not really a very wealthy bunch of people, but they had their own needs, they had, they were actually in poverty, but they still partnered with Paul in the ministry. It talks about, now you Philippians know that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving, but you only, for even in Thessalonica, you sent aid once again for my necessities. Not that I, you know, seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account. And verse 19, and my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Okay. So that's Paul's exhortation saying, you know, according to his riches in glory. So from that account or from that vast pool of resources is what God is going to supply. He's not going to pull from, you know, scrape from somewhere and give, but no, according to his riches in glory, he's going to give. So some thoughts here on giving, you know, give totally, give the first and best, give in recognition of the law of sowing and reaping, and give the heart of love. Okay. So sometimes, you know, when it comes to giving, it can, it can be tough, you know, especially when you know that I don't have much. But you also understand that God is not really, you know, saying that you need to, you know, do this. So you don't have to do it out of necessity. But you do it as you purpose in your heart. You do it from understanding Father's heart. You do it understanding that he is a giver. You do it understanding that God has this in, you know, in mind for you, that the place where you are right now, maybe in lack, maybe not having all sufficiency in all things is not the place where it's not your final resting place. God wants you to take you from this place. And as, as you walk with him, as you journey with him, he wants to take you to a place where you having all sufficiency in all things will have an abundance for every good work. Right. So, so you give from that place with that understanding. So you see that either giving to the work of ministry, either giving to people or even, you know, tights and offerings, really an act of faith. It's comes from a place of relationship with God. So when we look at it that way, many times, you know, giving becomes very mechanical, right? Putting in one of the offer tree becomes something mechanical, and, but it need not be so. It can be our act of worship, be such a meaningful act of worship to God, it can be something that we are completely surrendered to, completely yielding to and bringing ourselves and submission to God. And it can actually put a lot of things to death, you know, the things of the flesh to death when we do that. Right. Okay. So three areas of giving. Okay. So what is the tight? Okay. So what is, what is the tight? Okay, we are in scripture. There is this principle of the tight, a 10% one 10th of all that we receive, we give unto God. Okay. So we see this principle being established by God. Of course, it was, we see it in the Old Testament, it is to where we see in Malachi chapter three. Let's read that. It's more of a rebuke, but we see this instruction, bring all the tights into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And try me now. And this says, the Lord, of course, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. And he goes on to say what he will do on behalf of us was 11. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor should the wine fail to bear fruit for you in the field says the Lord of hosts on all the nations will call you blessed for you will be a delightful land says the Lord of hosts. So even before this, before verse, verse 10, you know, it talks about how people have not done that. And, and then God says, you know, it is an act of robbing him. Right. So, so God has established this whole principle of tithing we see in scripture. Okay, and storehouse, of course. And in those days, we know that there was one place where people went to and offered their, you know, the table in Jerusalem, and they brought their tithes, all these kinds of different kinds of offerings, they came in and brought it. But, but practically speaking, whichever, you know, local church that you are part of where, and I would, you know, of course, this is just a, you know, opinion where you are spiritually fed, where you are part of where you are connected where you are spiritually fed is where you give your tithe to. Right. So a tithe, then, so we can say it's a, it's a, you know, it's, it's a debt to God, something that we owe God. It's a 10th of what God puts into our lives, brings into our lives. Right. And the second thing is the offering. Okay, it's something that again, it's for the work of ministry, or for the, to the local church, it's something that we are, it's like a seed that we're privileged to sow. Right. So is it beyond, you know, the tithe? Yes. So we, it's a free will. It's out of our free will again, you know, the same principles that we give it without any sense of necessity or out of a grudge, I mean, out of grudgingly, but we give it as unto God an offering. Right. And the third area we see is the arm, or something that we help the poor with, if we give arms to the poor, it's something, certain amount of money that we give to the poor in order to help, in order to assist, so we see these three areas of giving. Okay. So let's look at the tithe. Okay. So by definition, it means one 10th. Okay. Let's look at Genesis 14 and 20. Genesis 14 and verse 20, we, okay. Yeah. So we see that, sorry, 18 onwards, if you read, actually, Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was the priest to God, Most High, and he blessed him and said, blessed be, blessed be Abraham of God, Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be God, Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him. So Abraham gave him a tithe off. Also, we see the reference to the tithe here in Genesis. And then, of course, we read Malachi 3. And also, if we turn to Matthew 22, okay, Matthew 22 and verse 21, the Lord Jesus saying, this is, you know, when the Pharisees were plotting and how can we bring him down and they tested him and they, you know, and they asked the question, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? And the Lord answers with all wisdom, show me the tax money. And then he says, render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God. So when you look at tithe, it's something that we render unto God, that we bring unto God, right? Probs 3 talks about the first fruit of all our increase. So something that we have, the income that we have received, things that we have received into our lives, financially, we give a tenth of that unto God. Okay. So now, there might be certain reasons why, you know, when it comes to tithe again, a lot of, a lot of reasonings, a lot of questions, you know, why should we continue to tithe as people in the New Testament, you know, and so on. So let's look at some of the, some of the objections or some of the reasons why people do not tithe. Okay. First of all, it could be just lack of knowledge. Okay. I do not know this in scripture. So this would, you know, this, this is something that maybe as a spiritual leader or maybe as pastors, it is our responsibility to teach the congregation, right? Not to force, not to manipulate, but to teach on scripture. Hey, this is what, what God says. Okay. This is something that is scripturally laid down and to, it's not done as a, you know, as a way of just extracting from people. But it's something that is for their good and for their blessing. And, and above all, it's, it's from God, it's an act of worship to God. So it's our responsibility to share that. So when they're with the knowledge comes obedience to the instruction. So maybe it's lack of knowledge. And personally, maybe people do not, you know, I mean, bring their tithes of, and give their tithes because of lack of knowledge. So sometimes it could be fear. What if God does not hold up, you know, his end of the bargain, his end of the promise. Okay, this is what he says that he will rebuke the devourer and, you know, he will make sure that the wine on the field, you know, everything will bear fruit and, and all that. And, but what if, you know, I do this and God does not? Well, the Lord says, try me, test me in this. Sometimes it's fear that keeping that is keeping people from obeying, obeying God. Sometimes it's selfishness, you know, I want this, I need it. I need it for myself. Sometimes it's deception and also deception coming maybe from a place of abuse also, right? Abuse in the church where, you know, sometimes you see a lot of these videos now with the social media, you see that, you know, when it talks about ministry, people are talking about a lot, a lot of about money and about how you need to give in order to receive and, and so on. And sometimes there is a lot of abuse of it. And so, you know, we might have that thought, okay, these preachers, these churches, these ministries, they just want your money. So I'm not going to give. So I'm just, I'm just not going to give to any of these people. And so you do think that, okay, you know, it will not be used well, it will be abuse of it, and they are constantly manipulating. Well, partly true. There is that abuse in the kingdom of God. We see that. But also we need to understand that, well, this is there in the word as well. So you find a place, find a place where there is good stewardship of it. And, and so the Lord lead you, you know, you'll be part of that place. Be planted in that place, be established there and, you know, make sure the tithes are given. Okay. There could be some religious license, there could be, you know, a wrong understanding of scripture. Okay. So the thing is, okay, very common thing is this, you know, tithing is part of the Old Testament. It was an Old Testament law, Old Testament principle. Therefore, for us as new covenant people, it's not, you know, it's not relevant. You know, we could, we could say that, you know, it's part of the Old Testament law. So, you know, Genesis 1420, the verse that we read just now, we see that Abraham brought about a tithe of all that he had, and he paid to Elkizet it. But we see that this happened much before. 400 years before the law was given. Right. So this was actually done before the law was given. And even Isaac tithed, you know, we see that in Genesis, let's read that verse again, Genesis 29. Sorry, Genesis 29 and verse 22 says that, okay, say one second. It's 22. I'm sorry, there's a, I think that's a wrong reference. Okay. Let me, let me recheck that. I'm sorry about that. So we see that, you know, tithing is, it was much before the law came into existence. Right. So, and we see that, so this rationale of tithing is part of the Old Testament law. So, it doesn't hold good. Okay. The second thing is also tithing ended at the cross. Okay. So that's the Old Dispensation. We are in the New Dispensation. Tithing ended at the cross. Now we are people living on this side of the cross. Therefore, tithe is not applicable to us. You know, there could be an understanding like that. Okay. So the thing is that in scripture, we see that certain things are specifically discontinued. Right. And scripture very clearly specifically points that out. For example, we know, we see the blood sacrifice. Right. The Old Testament, we know that there was a shedding of blood from the animals, and which was an atonement for our sins. We see that. And the Lord Jesus dying on the cross, He was that perfect sacrifice, and His blood was shed as a final sacrifice. Therefore, you know, this whole thing of blood sacrifice ended at the cross. Right. So it is specifically mentioned in Hebrews when we go there. Let's look at Hebrews 9.11. Okay. Hebrews 9.11. And it says that every, every priest, sorry, nine and verse 11. But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands. That is not of this creation. And then we look at verse 12, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, he entered the most holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Okay. So and verse 25 says, not that he should offer himself often as the high priest enters the most holy place every year with the blood of another. Right. He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Okay. And the next chapter verse 12 says that this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down at the right hand of God. So we see that, you know, there was no need for any other sacrifice because he was that final sacrifice and the shedding of blood. Right. So the animal sacrifices ended with the cross. Okay. So I think we've run out of time. So we'll stop here. We'll continue again. We'll just review again tides. And then we'll look at some of this reasoning. It's very interesting. And hopefully it'll be very liberating as well. We'll look at this again next class. Okay. So right. Thank you. You guys have a good weekend. God bless. Bye bye.