 Okay. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today's session. We'll pray and begin. Can somebody from the online batch pray please? Are you able to hear me? Yes. Yes, Nina. We can hear you. A gracious loving father. Thank you for this day and time that you have given us Lord to come to your presence and to learn from your word. We thank you Lord for all that you have been speaking to us and teaching us Lord about our authority in you, Master. We pray that even as today's lesson we come with Pastor Nancy and each one of us that our hearts would be open to receive what you are teaching us Lord and that we would grow in the grace and knowledge of you and be able to use our authority in every sphere. But we ask in Jesus precious name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Nina. Thank you for leading us in prayer. In the last class we started this discussion about the strategies of a defeated enemy and we said that Satan has already defeated but he works strategically with a couple of, what can I say, methods and he tries to take down the believer first is mind games and we talked about how the mind is so important, our thoughts, our imaginations and if we can conquer this area of the mind and we can consecrate it to the Lord then it is very difficult for Satan to affect us in our mind. So that we discussed thoroughly and we said we have to put on our armor, we should not allow any foothold or any opportunity for the devil to enter in. Then today we will talk about open doors. I know that I introduced it in the last class. I said open doors are another way in which Satan can influence. So how do open doors actually, how can doors be opened in a believer's life? So there are three main things. One is sin. If a believer continues in sin, now the, okay let me enlist it and then I will explain. Sin, second one would be wrong words which we use or it can be certain situations. So when we talk about sin, even as believers now that we are justified in Christ, we are righteous in Christ, that is the positional truth of what Jesus has done. But can a believer sin? What do you think? Can a believer commit sin? Yeah, so a believer can commit sin either in thought or in word, in deed. But does the Word of God provide an option for us to experience God's forgiveness if we make a mistake? Yes, that is also there because the Bible says we can repent, we can confess our sins and we can receive the forgiveness which God gives us. So when we talk about sin as an open door, it's referring to unrepentant sin. Okay, because conviction in the heart of a believer that is normal. How the Holy Spirit works, you know, he convicts us and we read about that in John chapter 16. That's the work of the Holy Spirit. He convicts us. Now when the Holy Spirit convicts us, we should respond. When we are sensitive, we respond. If we are not sensitive and if we don't respond again and again and again, if we engage in sin, that is when this open door is applicable. Okay, it's somewhat like Samson situation where he knows right and wrong. He knows the grace that God has given him through his Nazarite vow of God had told him to grow the hair and his strength was in the hair. He knew everything but he's playing around with the grace of God. He's playing around with his relationship with God and that's very dangerous. And we know what happened. He risked it and, you know, he experienced like he went away from God's best for his life and that is what we are talking about over here. So when a believer does that, we are not repenting. Even when the Holy Spirit is convicting us, we continue, continue, continue. Then that becomes an open door. Now Satan can use it and he can influence us. And what should we do then? We must overcome it. We must recognize that the blood of Jesus offers cleansing for us. Okay, so the blood of Jesus will cleanse us from our sin. It's already provided. As a believer, I should be humble enough to say, I made a mistake. I'm sorry. I will change. Lord, wash me with your blood. Make me new. Okay, so when I do that, it's fine. I can shut the door on the devil. Otherwise, the door remains open. So there are two things which have been listed here in our notes. One is fleshly weakness, which is internal. Okay, when we talk about sin, fleshly weakness, which is internal. Then temptations, which are external. So for a believer, Satan tries to influence from outside. That we know. He will give us options to go after the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. So that work he does. But in our flesh, as James writes, he says that God doesn't tempt us, but we are tempted because of our own desires. So we ourselves, when we don't overcome our flesh, when we don't walk in the spirit, these sinful influences can come from within us. So as a believer, we have to get rid of that. Okay, so both of this are fleshly weakness. That's why the word used there is weakness. If we see any weakness in ourselves, it can be, let's say weakness for greed or a weakness of greed, weakness of pride, weakness of lust, weakness of jealousy, weakness of envy. Okay, so those are all fleshly, but we have to overcome that and of course know how to go against the temptations that we have already discussed. So sin, this is how open doors through sin works. So what are the strategies to overcome? We must submit to the Word of God. We must submit to what the Spirit of God is convicting us and doing in our hearts regarding that matter of sin. We can use the Word. Remember Jesus said, it is written in Ephesians 6, we are told, use the Word, the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. So to battle against whether it is fleshly weakness or it is temptations from the enemy, we can use the Word, we can use the power of the Holy Spirit and overcome it. So these doors can be shut and we must always remain on guard as believers. Always check and ask ourselves, hey, am I walking in love? Am I walking in submission before the Lord? Is there anything? Is there a habit, a behavior, an attitude which God has convicted me about and I have already dealt with it? These are questions that one can ask so that we keep the door shut on the devil. The second one is of course the words that we speak. Words carry authority. God created the heavens and the earth. How? By the words that he spoke. He said, let there be light and there was light. So we recognize that our words carry authority, they carry power and which is why in Proverbs 18 verse 21 we read, death and life is in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. So God is reminding us and telling us that the tongue, the ability to speak, use words, he has given it to us as a means to exercise our authority and use power as well. Not just to communicate but we can use authority and release power through our words. So the words we speak can also open the doors for the devil to work in our lives. How does that work? Remember when we first said that spiritual can influence the natural and in that we had listed, we said some practices, some dedication, some sacrifices. There are commitments that people make through their words. All that brings us in bondage to the enemy, to Satan and demons. So our words in that sense can put us in bondage. For example, if you take somebody who has dedicated themselves to a certain God or a goddess, you already created that bond with your words. With that demon. Now if things are happening in our lives because of that bond or whatever you want to call it, that contract or that promise, that dedication, God wants us to walk in abundant life but our word has put us in this bondage. So we have to be careful. So through our words, we usually say things like renounce, revoke, use our words to proclaim the opposite. So instead of dedication to certain Gods, what we can say is, I belong to Jesus. I'm washed by the blood of Jesus. I am a child of God. I am redeemed. So what am I doing? I am proclaiming my freedom. I'm proclaiming my position in Christ. Is it powerful? Yeah, because I'm telling Satan, I'm telling demons, you have no authority over my life. So our words are very powerful. If we don't affirm that I am now a child of God, I am no longer a slave of the devil, I don't belong to the kingdom of darkness, what will Satan do? He knows how to manipulate because we're not standing aligned to what God has done. So our words are important, dedications that one could have made. Or think about this. With our words, we say something like nothing good will happen in my life or I am not blessed. It happens, isn't it? Sometimes, maybe if you're going through a low or difficult situation, we make some statements and all this is very dangerous because what's it doing? It's giving the devil ammunition. It's giving the enemy an opportunity. So with my own words, I say that I'm not blessed or nothing good will happen to me. I won't get any good opportunities. Nobody likes me. What's happening? It's in contrast to God's word, but I'm using the power of words. What did that verse in proverb say? Death and life. So I can choose, I can speak life or I can speak death, isn't it? So that's the danger. When we speak such things upon ourselves or do you remember when we talked about prayer, we said we have influence on family members. So husband and wife, they have influence in the spiritual over one another. Parents over their children, they have influence. All family members, siblings, we have influence, spiritual influence over each other. So when we speak life and parents bless their children, it happens. Then let's say husband and wife, they bless each other. Things happen in a positive way because what are we doing? We are using the capacity of authority and power in our words to declare it on our own family or any other authority figure, a pastor. What do we usually do during benediction? The Lord bless you, keep you, make his face shine. We are pronouncing, declaring blessing because that's what God told the priests to do for the people. He said bless them. They are my people. They are a holy people. They are like in the book of Peter, we again read that now we are priests, we are a holy nation, they are peculiar people. So we pronounce blessings. We use our tongue for blessing. But if we do the opposite, for example, let's say a parent speaks over their child and says, oh, this child will not do well in their lives. Or there's no hope for this child. That's an open door because the authority is not being used by the parent to bless the child. You understand? So this is the way in which Satan can use our words. And so we have to be very careful about what we speak about ourselves, what we speak into other people's lives. Use it in the right way because the Bible teaches us that we can choose, choose life, speak life and the enemy will not be able to enter in. But when there are words of unbelief, words of cursing, words of fear, all this is very helpful for the enemy to come in. So our words are so important. For example, I remember as a kid, when we become sick and we are small, right? In some ways it's nice because you don't get to go to school, you sit at home and everybody takes care of you, everybody is worried about you. So I remember as a little kid I thought, hey, this is so nice. I want to be sick often. And I mean, somewhere once I was born again and much older and all I realized, I was falling sick very often as a kid. But then I recognized, maybe because it's a pact that I made and I told myself, I want to be sick often. But once I came to know that, hey, I shouldn't be saying such things about myself, I renounced it, I revoked it. I said, I canceled that in the name of Jesus. Now I'm healed by the stripes of Jesus. I no longer need to be sick often, all the time. So it's even simple things like that, right? That if the Holy Spirit reminds you of anything like that that we have spoken, then immediately it's as simple as by faith, you cancel it. And instead of that, you speak the blessing upon yourself. Are you all following me? Okay, great. So this is how we must take care of ourselves. Then the next thing is situations. So the enemy will try to use some situations to enter and create trouble, either for us as individuals or for us as a church community. For example, remember in the last class, we said only we know ourselves. And so we must have standards and restrictions based on our weaknesses. Now, if I don't take that seriously. Now, very simple example, if I have a weakness for biryani. Okay, and I know if I go, if I see biryani, if it's put in front of me, I am going to eat like anything. I will have to just tell myself, okay, don't go there. Just don't go there. You know, go somewhere else where you won't find what you like and you won't make that, you know, gluttonous mistake again. So situations, the enemy can use it. I'm just giving you a silly sort of an example. In other instances, if we are not on guard, right, Satan can use that situation. It's unnecessary to interact, maybe a certain person is causing us to sin, they're influencing us. Maybe it's a good thing not to interact with them, right? Because scriptures say that bad company corrupts good character or go to a certain place which will make me sin. So I should be careful to guard myself, I have to guard myself, right? So as individuals, that's how we do it. Then as a church community and a family, again, go by the instruction of God. So there is one incident in the book of Corinthians. So to the Corinthian church, you know, Paul gives them an instruction, one brother, he has fallen into sin. So in the beginning, to correct that brother, it is a, you know, a sexual kind of a sin that he gets into. And to correct that brother, he says, okay, put him away, don't have anything to do with him. Don't interact with him like that so that he will come to the understanding that what I did is wrong. Okay, so initially Paul tells them that and then he says another thing. Once the brother repents, he says, okay, now don't treat him the same way. Now you can affirm your love to that brother, less the devil, you know, find an opportunity to sort of create trouble for us. So what is he saying? He's saying, let's not have an environment of bitterness, accusation, unforgiveness for that brother anymore. Okay, that was not the original intention also. It was more in love that the brother will repent. But now that he has changed, he's telling the believers there should be no opportunity for the devil. If we keep unforgiveness in our heart toward him or something like that, what will Satan do? He'll find that this community is not walking in love so he can do something. Okay, in our midst. So even as a community, he's encouraging them and saying, we should not have any open door for the enemy like walk in love, walk according to the word of God, walk in submission to God, right? So as individuals, Satan can use situations. Even as a community, Satan can use situations. So we must be careful to manage those situations early enough. So that's the way we look at it. So think strategically always. I don't know how to pronounce it. Strategically or strategically, whichever way. But that's the point. See, a good enemy will think how effectively he can attack, isn't it? So when we play those games, board games and all, we'll think, Ah, okay, this is how I should go here. Yes, you think here there's no protection. Let me go this way and attack, you know, checkmate. So Satan thinks strategically when he thinks about us. He sees everywhere this person is guarded. Where is the unguarded part? Okay, and that's where we should not give him access. And so we can pray and ask the Lord and say, God, please help me to identify. How can I be strategic? How can I guard myself in a strategic way? Okay, so I mean, I don't want to get into examples. There are so many examples that we can think of where people are so good in ministry, so this and that, but somewhere in a small situation, they slipped, right? And it created so much trouble for them, for everyone who's following them. So such things have also happened because they were not careful about the areas of weakness. But that's how Satan works. He's happy to see the smallest weakness, smallest weakness he can get in. And so that's what we are learning about. Don't give him any place, shut the door on the devil. That's how we can stand strong and continue strong. Okay, so the next way in which he tries to affect the believer is violation and intrusion. This simply means that he knows what is legal in the spiritual realm. Okay, so he knows that God's people now, they no longer come under his slavery. They no longer are meant for, you know, if you say oppression, they no longer are meant for, you know, discouragement, so many things that we know. Jesus has come to set us free. He has come to give us an abundant life. We know that. But what will Satan do? Forcefully he'll come, okay? And he will violate or he will intrude. Even though legally he has no right, he'll come and crash outside of his boundary to create trouble for us. So those are the times when, you know, we keep saying, rebuke the devil, rebuke the devil. Because what are we saying? We are saying, hey, you don't have any right, you have to leave. So in matters where, let's say a believer, we have dealt with open doors. We have confessed our sins. Okay, everything is closed. Legally everything is fine. And even then if the enemy is putting oppression, what is he doing? He's trying to violate. He's trying to intrude. Intrude is barging in. Imagine you're sitting in your room. Okay? And maybe you have even latched the room. Somebody breaks the door and comes inside. That's what is intrusion. He has no right, but he still does it. So when Satan tries to do oneness, enter easily. That is through the open door. Or enter forcefully. That is violation, intrusion. If the believer doesn't stand up and say, stop. I rebuke you. Then he can continue to do whatever he wants to do. Alright, so that's how it works. So in a forceful way also, sometimes the enemy can come. And when we look at our family, when we look at our circumstances, situations, sometimes we can recognize, hey, Satan is doing this. Simply to trouble me. He's trying to do all this. We can recognize it. And when we recognize it, we should not tolerate it. Instead we should say, no, you don't have any right. I want you to leave in the name of Jesus. That's where the whole rebuking, the casting out and all that comes in. And so identify, identify the enemy coming in. You know, in John 10, Jesus said the thief does come, does not come except to do what? Steal, kill and destroy. That's his plan. He wants to come into steal, kill and destroy. So identify it and ask the enemy to leave. Now that we have recognized that we already have the victory through Jesus, through the cross. We studied, right? So many things we studied. We studied that the enemy is destroyed. He is expelled. He is crushed. He is condemned. He is defeated. We've already studied that. We've also studied the dimensions of our authority. We have been given the authority. So what is the position that a believer should take? The position that a believer should take is enforce the victory. Okay? So it is now my right and my responsibility to enforce the victory. I can enforce the victory on my own life. Or if I notice whether my church members or family members, something they are going through and it's not right what the devil is doing. What should I do? I should enforce the victory. I should command the enemy. You leave in the name of Jesus. And then we will see the victory over there. Right? So that is how I want us to recognize what we are learning right now. So each one of us try to enforce the victory over different situations. Maybe let's say sickness. We've talked about it. We go against it. Or if Satan through some situations in our personal life, if he's trying to trouble us again, we can command and say hey devil take your hands off. You have no authority over my family members or our finances. Right? Or maybe some issue of protection that you feel like he's trying to intimidate bring fear. So we can say no, we are already protected. In this manner, we can battle for our loved ones and the extent of authority. This we have already talked in James chapter 4 and verse 7. It says therefore submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. We talked about enforcing victory. Isn't it? So that is resist the devil, resist the devil. But before resist the devil comes, submit to God. So our level of authority will depend on our level of submission. That also we have recognized. So the more we are submitted to God, the greater authority that we can walk in. So let us enforce Christ's victory. We can enforce it in the area of marriage. People are married. You as a believer, maybe your family members don't understand these truths right now. But as you pray, as you make declarations, as you take charge, even spiritual warfare, taking authority, binding, losing, you can do all that for your spouse. You can pray for the children. Maybe right now they don't understand, but you understand. Take that position to pray for them. Maybe somebody is far away from God. So we can pray for them. We can pray for finances, work. We can pray for our future ministry and all that. And we can also minister to others. So when you come across a situation where people are affected, we can actually pray for them. So as I've been saying, one is we can take the authority and enforce victory in people's lives. That is one method. But a better method is you teach them about who they are in Christ. Teach them about the promises of God's word. Teach them what is the meaning of believer's authority, how to use the authority. Then what happens? They need not depend on us. They can continually practice having authority in Christ. So that's the manner in which we can enforce. Okay, so I'll stop here and I'm just looking at a question from Jacken. She says, Pastor, can this forceful entry of the devil happen in a believer's life amidst closed doors? I mean when we are watchful, not to give in to our fleshly weakness and remain in word and prayer. So yes, Jacken, that's what I'm saying. In amidst closed doors, sometimes he barges in. Okay, so that's how the term is there, forceful entry. So he can try to create situations that can directly or indirectly affect you. For example, like let's take the workplace. Okay, now you're walking with the Lord, you're walking in victory, you're walking righteously. But what if two or three colleagues, they come up with a plot against you? So what's happening? There's something cooking like a weapon of the enemy. He's trying to forge it against you. It's happening, right? He's trying to intrude. How does he try to influence? It's affecting my peace. It's affecting my joy. It's affecting my hope, right? What is going on in the office setting? So this is the way Jacken, he knows directly or indirectly. And generally it's through closed circles that he may try to intrude. Or let's say in a moment of weakness. Okay, in a moment of weakness. But then it won't be closed doors anymore because in those moments of weakness, just momentarily we let our guard down and he puts the attack on us. So that's how it works. Does it help? Do you have something more to ask along those lines? Okay, great. Yes, so Jacken is okay with that. Any other queries? I think it's the exam week, no? Questions are not coming today. So, okay. Basu regarding our words. So if our words are like so powerful and like life and death are in the power of the tongue, I mean not everything that we say is that powerful or not everything that we say comes to pass, right? So how do we say about that? Yeah, so not everything we say comes to pass. Well, what we say should be aligned to the truth, you know, Rin. So that is one thing. So if we say something like for example, okay, if I say that I can be prosperous by ungodly means, that's not the truth, isn't it? The blessing, the real blessing comes from God and he does not add any sorrow to it. So the real blessing comes by walking in the path of righteousness. So when I say things which are untrue as far as God's word is concerned, then it won't happen. Okay, that is one way of looking at it. And there are many things, okay, like for example, even believing in Mark 11-23, that famous scripture where Jesus, he rebukes the fig tree and he says, whatever you believe and you speak, right? If you ask the mountain to be uprooted and cast into the sea, it will happen. So sometimes we lack faith. We say it, but there's no faith. Then it doesn't happen. You understand? So the lack of faith also can make our words ineffective. So these are all some things. And if it is a prophetic word, then it better be what God has spoken. I am saying something else, God is saying something else, then it doesn't happen. So there are reasons why it doesn't happen. But if we are aligned to the truth of God, so it's got to happen. Like I'm referring to the example that you said when you were small, you said, I like being sick. And that's something that's contrary to what God would want, but that's not aligning. But then it still happened. That's true. That's true. So you see the, it's an open door basically. What I did is I'm giving an open door to the devil. Because I'm speaking contrary to what God wants. And Satan usually likes these open doors, these open situations. That's how he got in and he was able to cause havoc. You understood? So while we were talking about the right things not happening, sometimes the wrong things happen because Satan takes advantage of the wrong words. Is it making sense or you seem like there's a question inside you. And so our words are not so, I mean, there's a limit to the power of our words, right? The limit is the boundary of our authority. For example, you may not be able to, for example, let's say, or let me put it this way. A parent speaks words of blessing over their child or words of rebuke. Now that is very powerful. But then if some third person, let's say, some random person for no reason, nothing that the child has done is bringing a curse on the child or something like that. It may not work because they are outside the boundary of influence. You got it? So the greater influences the parents, they are in the boundary. So it's like that. So sometimes our words don't carry the authority because we are stepping out of our boundary. And if you try to make it work like that, it won't work. Yeah, so there's a limitation. That's the limitation to stay within the boundary. So let's say I am the pastor of this church. Then I have responsibility for this church. So let me speak, let me instruct. That will carry authority. If I try to go and create trouble for another pastor in his church, then words are not happening like it's not getting accomplished. I'm trespassing. You got it? So there are boundaries which we have to respect. And sometimes believers know we step on the boundaries and we expect things to happen. It won't happen. Those are the limitations. Yeah. Yes. Does it apply to the enemy? We should respect boundaries. So you're asking should we respect the enemy's boundaries? Like what example anything you have? Okay. So the enemy's boundaries. First of all, he doesn't respect our boundaries. So I'm just thinking. Well, see, I wouldn't put it as respect the boundaries of the enemy, but it's more like don't take him lightly. Okay. Because it's like if you have an angry, like an angry lion or something, you don't want to be playing a game, right? Because you don't know when it'll charge at you. So it's somewhat like that. So I won't say I'm respecting the boundary of that lion. It's more like I'm protecting myself. But I don't take it lightly. Like I just stay within my zone and yeah, protect myself. And yeah. So it should not be taken lightly. Another reason why I'm saying it is, remember Jude verse nine, I think where the angel says the Lord rebuke you. So there are boundaries of authority. We can't play outside of that. See the angels, they have a boundary. They cannot say or do anything outside their boundary. Like that as humans, we cannot say or do anything outside our boundary. Everyone stay within your own boundary which God has given. Then things work. Yeah. Okay. All right. So no further questions, I suppose. Okay, Nina has something. Yes, Nina. Yeah, this is regarding like a friend of mine who has a special child. Okay, there has been kind of prayer in a way like in a on and off where when we have our prayer times and all that for him. But more recently, some situations have come up and when, you know, my friend's husband said that, okay, we need to put, he's quite still six and a half want to put him in a school or, you know, that kind of a thing because it might, maybe that he'll be difficult to handle and all as he grows up. So then we thought that we would really spend some targeted times just for his name is Sam, the boy. So we've been doing that for maybe about two weeks or so. Yeah. So is it anything else? And so while in the midst of, I mean, praying specifically in the spirit and praying using our authority and all that there has been some small improvements here and there. But is it anything else that we need to do? And in the meanwhile, somehow I feel that probably it's because of our consistent prayer that they have been led to go to certain people who are especially specific in this area, the deliverance ministry like that. So probably they would be going, taking Sam there also hoping and the same time there's some functional medicine treatment also is going on, which is quite specific. Like, you know, it deals with so many things. So is there anything else that needs to be, I mean, that needs to be kept in mind while we do this? Yes. It's persistent. I mean, we just continue and like how is there anything else that we need to do? Yeah. Yes. Yes, Nina. Thank you for that question. So what we could do is see, we always stand on the promise of God and we always content and Jude, he says content for the faith. So what is our faith? Our faith is that Jesus has done it all and that our body our soul, our spirit, everything is redeemed. Okay. So having that in mind, what we would say is you continue to pray for wholeness in his body, wholeness in his mind because we can speak declarations over him. We have scriptures that say that I have not received a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind. We can speak that, you know, my mind, I have the mind of Christ. We can continue to speak declarations in line with God's word. So what is our expectation that the child will be made well completely? So we are expecting a hundred percent change for the child and we should never stop praying for that because we serve a God of miracles. We serve a God of the supernatural. So these things happen and even as we trust God for revivals, right? These breakthroughs happen. So our faith should be in that place. Then whatever you said, you know, you're praying for the child, you're speaking protection over the child. So that is the spiritual way in which you're addressing enough and two things to do spiritual, natural and in the natural, everything that you know to do, which is therapy, approach a special child in a, in a different manner. So we'll keep doing the natural and the praying while we content for his wholeness. So that's how we would approach it, Nina. And I do get the struggle that many of us, especially in the area of healing, we trust God and then, you know, we are, we are waiting and waiting for the hundred percent improvements. But while we are waiting, another thing that we can do is see what is the current circumstance? There is a sick child, a sick parent, a sick, you know, family member who has been entrusted to us as a believer. Take good care of them. Right? Yeah, we are trusting God for healing. It'll manifest in this way. But right now, they need care. They need love. They need, you know, us to serve them. So I think that is something we can continue to do, offer our love, offer our care, work hard, you know, to keep them comfortable and safe. So that is the approach. I hope that answers your question. No, how is it? Okay. Sure. Sure. So Nina is fine with that. All right. So Jacken has another comment. For example, when there is confusion at home, it is our choice to speak peace according to God's word or we can also give into our fleshly weakness and fear. We speak discouraging words against faith so that that allows the devil to operate. I mean, gives him an open door to operate and take control. In fact, makes the situation. Yeah, that's that's perfect. Jacken, in fact, he'll be waiting for those times when people are fighting because people don't think too much right to say the right words when they're angry or they are upset. So yes, we must truly watch out for those open doors which we create for the devil. All right. So I think with that, let's close for today. Oh, you have just one minute. Yeah. So Pastor here talking about sin, unconfused sin and unrepentant sin. So as a believer, like the sin maybe happens every other day. So what happens when we something happened to us like death without this unconfused sins, because I learned like just we are justified, but sanctification is an ongoing process. So how it happens? Yes. Yeah. So see if it is a it is a like a one-off sin, meaning I did something and I got convicted by the Holy Spirit, but I did not have a chance to confess it. Maybe that person passed away. Some accident, something you rightly put it. We're already in Christ. Right. We've been justified. We have received from what Jesus has done. That's all right. You don't have to worry about it. So Jesus has already paid for us since, but in the case of repeated, when we say unrepentant, it is most likely repeated sinning in that area. So that is what we are talking about. So that person knows that they are not dealing with it and they are that is God will hold them accountable for that. Okay. So yes. Let's let's deal with it. Yeah. Same thing regarding the words. So you said like if it's within your family and let's say your kid is sick and all that, and it has small power because you have more influence over them. So I mean the thing is. So let's say I mean your own child is sick and then you're praying for healing and you hear that the person is healed and but the thing is your child does not get any better. It gets worse. But then when a man of God whom like you don't know, maybe you go for a conference with your child and the man of God prays and the person's your child gets healed. I mean, but then he does not have any influence with the child. So how do you say it? Okay. So see I'm not saying that others don't have any influence. I'm saying the people who are in that close circle have the greatest influence. Okay. Now when you talk about a minister of God, they have influence on the body of Christ. Isn't it? So see when I am a teacher of God's word, I teach in my church, but if somebody else calls me and they ask me to teach, it will still have influence and I pray for those people. Some influence is there, but I'm saying the primary influence lies with the pastor of the church. You understood? So similarly for this situation, the primary influence lies with the parents. Now if they go for prayer to a minister of God, it will work. Because they may be carrying a certain authority because of the grace that God has given them as a pastor or a prophet or something else. So it will work. The influence of the parents worked to whatever extent and the influence of that minister is also working. So good for the child, right? It's not that it won't work. And I was just trying to point out primary influence lies with the authority figure in that structure. So that could be a parent or the father of the family, the husband, the pastor, the leader or the employer, the boss or the prime minister. So there is a particular authority figure that God has placed over each setting and a primary influence lies with them. That's how it is in scripture. Alright, so we'll pray and we'll close then. Can I again ask our online batch to lead in prayer, please? Nice to hear your voices once in a while. Nice to hear your voices as well. I'm just saying because we don't hear theirs. Shall I pray, Pastor? Yes, Jack, please. Father God, thank you, Lord. Thank you for helping us to understand from your word, Lord. What is the authority that we have as your children, Father God? Father God, help us to always remain in faith in you, Lord, and also, Lord, when we give in to those momentary weakness, Lord God, look up to your face, Lord, for help and refuge, Father God, turn to your word immediately, Lord, in that moment, Lord. So that, Father God, we will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, Lord, that it will not have any control over us as your children. Father, we come at each of us, Lord, to obey your word and stand by it so that we can live victoriously, Lord, day after day, Lord, every day in your presence, Father God, so that we can overcome all the tactics of the devil and live a fruitful life, Lord God, wherever that you have called us to love, Father God, for your glory. In Jesus' mighty matchless name, we pray. Amen. Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you, Jack, and thank you, everyone. God bless you and have a blessed weekend, all the best with your assignments. Do well in them. Thank you. Bye now.