 Right? We all had a good break. Can you all hear me? Okay. Great. So yeah, let's get started from where we left off. So we looked at the throne room of God and everything that goes on there and that this continuous worship and an intercession happening in the very throne room of God and a note from there is how our churches here on earth should kind of emulate the same. So let's worship and intercession to be on earth as it is in heaven. Let's look at some of the movements of prayer and worship that's happened in history. One is at the bottom of page 93, we see we read about Alexander Archimedes and the sleepless ones. That's what his team was known as. So around 400 AD, a monk named Alexander Archimedes gathered between 300 and 400 monks in Constantinople where he established La Peronis, which simply means a continual prayer. He did that to fulfill Paul's exhortation to pray without seizing in 1 Thessalonians 5 or 17. So they were driven from Constantinople, the monks established a monastery at Gorman at the mouth of the Black Sea. This became the founding monastery for the order of Archimedes, literally the sleepless ones. So this is again going around the clock prayer 24 hours, 7 days a week. That is one of the moments and the other one which is the most prominent and very famous movement in history is the moment of the Moravians in 1727 founded by Zinzendorf. It happened in a small village kind of sitting in Germany, which are known as a herring hut. So basically he gathered together 24 women and 24 men to pray around the clock just to have that cycle of prayer as what we would call it. The prayer chain as I've seen some of the churches kind of follow that now. So he had it back then in the 17th century and what amazed me is that that movement went on for 100 years. This prayer meeting would go on for non-stop, non-stop 24 hours. Day after day, week after week, for 100 years. That must have been an amazing move of God, isn't it, in history. And then we've all read about or learnt a little bit about David Jong-il Cho and he did the same thing, established something called the prayer mountain in Seoul, South Korea with night and day prayer. Prayer mountain was soon attracting over a million visitors per year as people would spend retreats in the prayer cells provided on the mountain. And so that kind of led to his church growing exponentially. This is again in the 70s and the 80s. It became a huge talk, isn't it, how this church in South Korea is growing at an exponential rate. And all of that at the root of it was going after the heart of God, pressing in for more and his house being a house of prayer and intercession. And that led to the growth of the church. Now growth is always, it could be more Christians being added or it could be so many non-Christians who've given their lives and they are being added to the church. So that's another movement and one of, in the present days, one of the most popular moments is the International House of Prayer that is located in Kansas City, the United States. Also known as IHOP, International House of Prayer. So let me just share of what I'm sure most of you have already seen it or know what IHOP is, but then I thought we'll just take a look at it. That was just a quick snippet of the International House of Prayer, what goes on there. And I mean, your notes, you'd see it was started in September 19th of 1999. 1999, 2009, 2019. And worship and prayer and intercession has been going on and on since that day, September 19th. And it still goes on. So what I played for us is a live feed of what is happening at the House of Prayer. So started off in a small room with a few people and just turned out to be this incredible movement in the 2000s. And yeah, and I've been blessed immensely by that ministry. Just immensely, immensely by their worship, challenged by their lifestyle, et cetera. And also, there's another ministry here in Bangalore called Face to Face Foundations. They started in 2010, 2011. So we've had a couple of moments of not throughout, but then we used to do this 24 hours of worship. We did that for one week and we did it for two weeks. We did it for three weeks. And let me tell you, it might sound great. I said, wow, one week of just prayer and worship. It is great. Trust me, it's awesome. But it's also very physically tasking, very, very tasking. Especially if you don't have enough people to roster and just go down the clock. You can't go, you can't go approach a set in House of Prayer or something like that with a set of four set song list. I have four songs or five songs. We can't because some of the worship sets will go on for three hours or four hours. And so what are you going to do? But then it is challenging. It can get tiring, but then it's just a beautiful experience to just be part of it. I can only imagine how David Tabernacle would have looked like and seemed like, isn't it? Right. Day and night is another, we see in Isaiah chapter 62, 6 and 7. I have said to watch men on your walls or Jerusalem. They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent. I give him no rest till he establishes and till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Look 18 verse 1 and verse 7 says, Then he spoke a parable to them that men always ought to pray and not lose heart. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him. I like this Psalm 134 verse 1 to 3. Psalm 134, I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, is the conclusion concluding Psalm of a series of 14 Psalms from Psalm 120 to Psalm 134. If you see, there will be titled as Songs of Ascent. So I'm sure there were more songs, but Psalm 120 to Psalm 134 will be titled as Songs of Ascent. That means they would sing those songs as they were ascending up the hill of the Lord to reach the sanctuary. Right. So in Psalm 34 is like the conclusion of it, the series of Psalms. And then it says, Bless the Lord all you servants of the Lord who by night stand in the house of the Lord. That means day and night there's worship happening. So lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord. The Lord who made the heavens and the earth bless you from the side. Right. So then the notes goes on to say, Let us become a people who will cry out to God day and night. Night and day. I'm sure most of you have been part of say all night prayers sometime at least in your life. There's something different and beautiful about it, isn't it? It's challenging. But then it's just something about it. Right. So establishing a house of prayer and worship. All ministry that flows out such a lifestyle of intimacy with God through prayer and worship will be powerful. Right. So how can we implement this in our local churches? Simple teach people to understand the importance of prayer and worship. We need to talk more about prayer. We need to teach our people more about prayer and worship worship. I think we speak about it in the last 20 years. We have spoken a lot about worship than on prayer. It's what it seems like. But then we need to teach and help people understand the importance of prayer and worship. Develop the local church and prophetic worship and powerful strategic prayer and intercession. Like strategic prayers. So in the previous chapter last week's class, we learned that the local church is the army. And the army is always strategic. Right. They have a strategic plan or when to attack, when not to attack, where to go and what do etc. Right. And we saw that how David constantly, the scripture says he inquired of the Lord. He inquired of the Lord. He inquired of the Lord what to do next. And right. So we need to be strategic, you know, about, about taking ground to collecting strategic information of things. For example, social problems, demonic strongholds are happening in your city or community and make these your prayer targets. Right. So there are practical ways of how a local church can implement this. Right. Challenges. Progress step by step. Start where people are. Do not try to jump immediately into something 24 bar seven house of prayer. Okay. Don't try to do that if you don't have, if you do have not planned properly or if you do not have sufficient people. Immediately into something like that. Before we did this 24 hours for seven days, we, we waited for 10, 11 months to put together a team to plan a facility until we got a place where we could meet until all the equipments were there. The finances, the funds funds will come but then, you know, you need to have people in a plan. Right. Give people time to rest physically as well, engaging in extended hours of worship and intercession can be physically tiring for those who are involved in leading in worship and intercession. Okay. So those are the couple of challenges that you will come across. You know, when, when you want to do something like this for like a 24 hours prayer and worship thing, but then that's, nevertheless, that is something that we ought to push for aim for reach for, you know, teach and in our, in our churches. So that our churches are the local church will be known as the church of prayer and worship. Right. Hey, are you guys doing well? Yeah. Okay. There's one thumbs up that I can see. Right. Isaac. Everybody doing all right. Okay. Any thoughts, any questions so far on this chapter that we've covered? Are you learning something? I hope you are. And I hope it's not just information. I'm just this morning, I was, as I was preparing for today's sessions, I was, I was just feeling very grateful. I was like, you know, wow, I'm getting to learn all these things as in, it's just so awesome. So I'm grateful that I'm learning, getting to learn as I'm teaching. And so it's the same with you guys. I hope you are learning as well as you are growing. Okay. Cool. So let's move on to the next chapter, chapter 14. The other aspect of the local church is the temple of God, the local church is the temple of God. Right. So everything that you've covered so far, the local church is the body of Christ. The local church is the family of God. The local church is the pillar of truth. The local church is the army. The local church is the bride. The local church is a house of prayer and worship. And now we are at the local church is a temple of God. Okay. First Corinthians, chapter three verse 16 and 17. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone defies the temple of God, God will destroy him for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. Right. Very often this verse is being used to challenge someone to live a holy life as individually. Right. If anyone is suffering with sin or whatnot, you just kind of remind them is like, hey, you're the temple of the living God. So don't drink. Don't smoke. Don't watch pornography. So at least that's what I know of. Okay. Maybe it's used in different, in a context in your life, but in my life it was not used. Okay. But so, yes, it is, it is for, you know, it is true when it comes for individual application. But Paul is also writing to a local community of believers, believers. Right. So that's his audience. Right. Paul is addressing here not to an individual, but to a community of believers. Right. It's a collective. Right. So hence the context addresses a collective body of believers. Right. So we are the temple of God, the place where God dwells. Okay. So we are not the temple of God for the sake of, you know, okay, it's a temple of God. But the whole thing changes, the perspective changes when we realize that God dwells. There. Right. We are a habitation of God. We must be filled with his presence because we are his temple. And so when we look at the tabernacle of Moses once again, so we look at it quite extensively. God instructed Moses to build a tabernacle. Right. Exodus chapter 25. He says, let them make me a sanctuary for what? Let them make me a sanctuary for what? Exodus 25 verse 8. Sorry, what? The dwell among them. The dwell among them. Open book exam days. Okay. Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Okay. So I'm not sure again if I mentioned this, but then from the time of the fall. Okay. In the early chapters of Genesis, chapter one and two, when we see from the time of creation and God creates Adam and Eve, we see that he walked with them in the cool of the garden. He dwelt among them. There was fellowship. There was oneness. As soon as after the fall, when sin came in, there was a separation. Right. So from that point on, from that point on, all the way to Exodus 25, I mean, there's a lot of things happening from Genesis, from Genesis three to Exodus 25. Right. You read about Cain and Abel and Adam and Eve and Noah, his family and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, right? That's Exodus and Joseph and whatnot. So a lot has happened from Genesis three to Exodus 25. So the timeline, the gap between that is approximately 2,500 years. So for 2,500 odd years, there was no resting place or a dwelling place for God. And time and time again, you see God, there was visitations. Right. God would speak to Abraham, you know, and all of that. The visitations was there, but there was no resting place on earth like it was before the fall. And so 2,500 years or later, he tells them. Finally, let them build me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. So the tabernacle of Moses was the meeting place. It was the bridge between heaven and earth where divinity met with humanity. Okay. So it was just, it was just must have been glorious, right? Just to learn, just to have that picture. Right. See all about it in Exodus 25, 21, 22. It says the tabernacle was a place where the glory of God would be visible from time to time. It was the glory of God that sanctified the tabernacle. In Exodus 29 was 43, it says, and there I will meet with the children of Israel. And the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory. And then in Exodus 40 was 34, 35, it says, then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. The cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting because the cloud rested above it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Right. And so we see that time and time again, even in Israel's journey through the wilderness, you read about it in Leviticus numbers and all these chapters mentioned there that the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. One of the things of the tabernacle of Moses is, I mean, there's the outer courts, the inner courts and the holy place, isn't it? It was divided into three sections, right? The outer courts, in the outer courts, there was natural light, the light of the sun and the moonlight by night. And then in the inner courts, there's the light of the candle lampstand, the golden lampstand. There was a golden lampstand in the inner courts, also known as the holy place. But in the most holy place, also known as the holy of holies, there was divine light. It was the glory of God that was resting there, right? And it's what it says in the Bible, Exodus 25, right? I will meet with you there between the cherubs, right? So the Ark of the Covenant was God's throne on earth. Okay. And so it is possible for us to lose the significance of the tabernacle of Moses because, yes, we are one, we are true, we are living in the new covenant. That's one thing. And second, we speak about it so much, the tabernacle of Moses and whatnot. But when we understand, we pause and just take time to understand, okay, this is, that was like the most significant place on earth at that time. That's where humanity is meeting with divinity. That's the bridge between heaven and earth. And all the nations surrounding Israel, the people of Israel knew that their God was with them because of the cloud that rested on the tabernacle, right? Every nation surrounding the camp of Israel, I knew was like, you're not to mess with them because of his presence, because of his glory that was present there. So it was a beautiful sight. I'm sure it was a beautiful sight to behold, right? So the Old Testament tabernacle of Moses was a place where God met with his people and where his glory was revealed, right? And why is it again significant to these people is, I mean, I say these people is people of Israel because for 400 odd years, they were in the land of Egypt, right? For 400 years, 400 years is equivalent to 10 generations, okay? How many people? We are 12 of us in this class. So imagine 10 generations of not hearing the voice of God, not knowing who he is or not being able to see what he's done. And 10 generations goes by 400 odd years and they are just surrounded by the idols of Egyptians. And so their idea of God is this, the gods of Egyptians, right? And for them to behold such an awesome sight and when the Bible says when Moses bought them out of the land of Egypt on the way to their first encounter, they saw the whole mountain is on fire and trembling and you can imagine their anxiety levels just shooting through the roof. It's like, what is this? Is this really our God? And that's why they say it's like, okay, Moses, you talk with him yourself. We will just listen to you everything we will do everything what you tell us to do, right? Everything is there in Exodus 19 and 20 guys, you should read it. It's quite fascinating. And so the tabernacle of Moses was quite a happening place on earth at that time. I can say, right? And then we see the same thing happening in Solomon's temple. And you can read all about it in 2 Chronicles 513 and 14 where the glory of the Lord filled the house of God time and time again when there was worship happening, right? All the musicians and the singers, they sang together in unity and they sang for He is good. His mercy endures forever and the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud. And then the temple of Solomon is destroyed by the Babylonians. They go into 70 years of captivity and after they are released, they come back and they start rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. And they build it continuously for about 16 years before they were interrupted. And then Haggai, prophet Haggai, he prophesies in chapter 2 verse 7 and 9. Let's come down to page 99. He says, I will shake all nations and they shall come to the desire of all nations. I will fill this temple with glory. Says the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine. The gold is mine. Says the Lord of hosts. Let's pause there. The silver is mine. The gold is mine. Now, that is something, those were the precious stones that was referred to show off a riches of those land, isn't it? And then we rewind back to the Revelation in chapter 5. We see that word being used, all honor, power, riches. And here we see that God is saying the silver is mine. The gold is mine. It says the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former. We got to read that again. The glory of this latter temple. That means the temple that's being rebuilt after the captivity shall be greater than the former. Says the Lord of hosts. And in this place, I will give peace. Says the Lord of hosts. And so here God is promising his people that if they would build the temple, he would fill it with his glory. And so the glory of God is an expression of who he is and what he does. That's simply what the glory of God is in a simple definition. If you were to explain what is the glory of God, right? We talk about the weight of his glory, right? The Hebrew word when we say shakaina glory, it simply means the weight of his glory. And so when there was, I'm not sure if you remember from a praise and worship course, we learned about the presence of God. There are two kinds of presence. One is his manifest presence and his omnipresence, right? That means God is present everywhere. Like right now in my room, he's there with you. He's present with you in your part of the world, wherever you are from. He's omnipresent. He's everywhere. And then there are times where he decides to show up. That's his manifest presence, right? And so that's what the glory of God is. A glory of God is a manifestation of who God is and what he does, right? So at the tabernacle of Moses and in the dedication of Solomon's temple, the glory of God was manifested as a cloud. But God's glory can become tangible not only through what we see, but sometimes his glory is revealed through what we sense or feel. Or when a word is spoken, when a prophetic word is released, a prophetic song is being sung, when there's healing that happens, when there's a deliverance that happens, all of that is revealing the glory of God, of who he is. Isn't it? God is good when there is a healing that happens. There's a revelation of his goodness, there's a revelation of him as a healer. And that is revealing his glory, right? And so the glory of God is an expression of who he is and what he does, right? And God desires in page 100, God desires a people who will manifest his glory, right? And Numbers chapter 14 verse 20 and 21 says, then the Lord said, I have pardoned according to your word, right? This is the context is, Moses has just interceded for the people of Israel. God wanted to destroy them all. Moses said, please don't. And then, okay, God says, I have pardoned according to your word. But truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, right? So at this point, God reiterated his heart's intent that he would fulfill his original plan to have people through whom the whole earth will be filled with his glory, right? His heart is to fill the whole earth with his glory and he can do that through his people, right? So the church and therefore every local church body today is part of this great purpose of God to see the earth filled with the glory of God. We declare his goodness, we declare his glory, right? Every local church, wherever it's placed, right? When we declare and when we worship and we praise, you know, for who he is, what are we doing? We are declaring the glory of God on earth, right? All right, the next section talks about a people among whom God dwells. Psalm 132 was 13 to 18. Now can I request someone to read Psalm 132 verse 13 to 18, please, in the notes. Psalm 132 was 13 to 18. For the Lord has chosen him, he has decided to fulfill his glory. This is my request to you all today. Here I have a verse for I have decided I have been blessed with the provision to satisfy his purpose and all folks are pleased with the salvation of the righteous and the mature. There I will perform a Jesuit group. I will prepare an app for my announcement because any me, I will close it soon but I can't answer this question. Thanks, Stefano. Can I also request another person to read that scripture once again, please? Psalm 132 was 13 to 18 in another translation. Maybe NLD or NIV, maybe. Or any version that you have right now. Yes, go ahead, please. Psalm 132, 13 to 18. For the Lord has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his dwelling place. This is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provisions. I will satisfy her pure, poor with bread. Her priests, I will clothe with salvation and her saints will shout for joy. There I will make a horn to sprout for David. I have prepared a lamp for my anointed. His enemies I will clothe with shame but on him his crown will shine. Thanks, Anita. So God is making his intentions very clear. He's right there saying that here I will dwell for I have desired it. Another word for dwelling place is tabernacle. When we say he tabernacled means he dwelt among us. And so he's making it very clear that here I will dwell for I have desired it. And so in the next section we see that what happens when we become a people among whom God dwells. So if you're the local church, you're the people among whom God is dwelling. Here are seven things that God says that he will do. I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. So there is supernatural provision, prosperity and blessing verse 16. I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. There is salvation which includes forgiveness, healing, deliverance, victory and more. There is joy of salvation that resounds continually among us. Verse 17. There I will make the horn of David grow. I will prepare a lamp for my anointed. There is a continual increase of strength and dominion. That's a horn symbolizes strength and dominion. I will remember that next time when you read the horns. Once again, if you read how all the altars in the tabernacle of Moses was designed, you would read about there has to be four horns, that kind of symbolizing strength and dominion. There is continual revelation. I will prepare a lamp for my anointed. As his anointed people will see continual increase in strength, dominion and revelation. Verse 18. His enemies I will clothe with shame, but upon himself his crown shall flourish. We triumph over our enemies and continue to increase, flourish and blossom as his people. So there are seven I will promises in that Psalm 132 verse 13 to 18 alone. And that is his desire. He desires to be among us. As if that was not good enough. He says, I will do all these things, not maybe, not I can, not I could, not I would. I will do all these things. So that's the beauty of God dwelling among his people. And we are called to be a people where among whom God will dwell. And there are so much more. In Isaiah chapter 60 verse 1 and 2, popular scripture says, Rise shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold the darkness shall cover the earth and the deep darkness the people, but the Lord will arise over you and his glory will be seen upon you. Right. And in that same chapter, if we go down to verse 7 verse 9, he goes on to say, I will glorify the house of my glory because he has glorified you. You know, I will glorify you. I will make the place of my feet glorious in verse 13. The Lord will be to you an everlasting light and your glory for, and your glory, your glory. Right. So, and as a result of God's glory being present with his people, and, you know, he's said that I will do all these things. And then we also see signs and wonders and miracles following, you know, that reveals the glory of God. Right. And when we talk about it, we remember what, you see what it says in John chapter 1 verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. Right. So this is what we call it as a sonship glory. Right. So the signs, wonders, healings and miracles that Jesus did revealed the glory of God. Right. And John chapter 2 verse 11 it says, this beginning of signs Jesus did in the canna of Galilee and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him. So something about the sonship glory and doing all of these signs and wonders makes people believe in who this God is. Right. Matthew 1531 says, so the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed made whole and the lame walking and the blind seeing they glorified the God of Israel. Right. So in the revelation of God's glory and the manifestation of God's glory, the response is for us to glorify the God of Israel. Right. So the sonship glory that the Lord Jesus walked in was released to the body of Christ. So the same sonship glory that Jesus walked in is released now to us. And we've spoke on this extensively if you remember and healing and deliverance course. Right. So and each time we hear from the Holy Spirit and then follow through on what he speaks to us, we reveal his glory. Okay. Each time we hear from the Holy Spirit and then follow through on what he speaks to us, we reveal his glory. Right. And so what in all of this, what happens, what's the importance of glory as in why is it also important? Why are we talking so much about the glory of God in the church? Right. For that we need to understand what happens when we don't have the glory. It's like saying, okay, we feel the importance of one person in their absence, isn't it? Only after they're gone kind of a thing. But there are a couple of episodes that happens in the Old Testament when the glory departs. The first thing is in 1 Samuel chapter 4, verse 21. Right. 1 Samuel chapter 4 was 21. It says in the notes, then she named the child Iqabod, saying the glory has departed from Israel because the Ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. Now, the priest Eli was old. He was the high priest at the time. And then his two sons were living an immoral life. They were sleeping around with women who were coming to the sanctuary. They were just living an immoral sinful life. There was no intimacy with God. There was no reverence for God. There was no fear of God. That's the context behind 1 Samuel chapter 4. But then Philistines attacked and they said, what are we going to do? The Ark of God is in Shiloh. Let's go bring the Ark of God from Shiloh because somewhere in history they read, okay, if they take the Ark of the Covenant and put it in the front and then go, they will win the war or the battle. To their surprise, they didn't. They lost miserably. They lost 30,000 men that day. Israel lost 30,000 men that day and the Ark of the Covenant was captured. One of the darkest history in the history of Israel. And that news was so much, it was so shocking that Eli, the high priest, who was hefty and quite big, when he heard that news that the Ark of the Covenant had been captured, he fell off his chair. He breaks his neck and he dies. And hearing this news, his daughter-in-law goes into labor, gives both, and she names her son, Echobor. That means the glory has departed. And she also dies. The tragedy of glory departing. And that's why the significance behind the story of David bringing the Ark back is because after this happened, Saul comes into the picture as a king. But Saul is the king who's a person after position and not presence. But David was a person after presence and not just position. And so then he goes after the Ark and brings it back. And so when glory departs, it's not a great sight. And in the next section we see when God stands outside the temple, it talks about Israel's 70-year Babylonian captivity. Now, in 1 Samuel chapter 4, we read about the Ark of the Covenant being captured. And then much later, in the book of Nehemiah, Ezra, Ezekiel, all these prophets, contemporary prophets, we talk about the people of the Covenant taken into captivity. So for Samuel 4, it's about Ark of the Covenant taken into captivity. And the letter books talks about the people of the Covenant taken into captivity for 70 odd years, right? And then Ezekiel chapter 8, let's see, Ezekiel chapter 8 verse 6, it says, furthermore he said to me, son of man, do you see what they are doing? The great abominations that the house of Israel commits here to make me go far away from my sanctuary. Now turn again and you will see great abominations. And Ezekiel 10, 18 to 19 says, then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim. And the cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were beside them and they stood out the door of the east gate of the Lord's house. And the glory of God of Israel was about them. And so, I mean, I'll just conclude here. God is talking about these people because they had, again, the people of Israel, the priests, okay? I want to highlight that the priests who were responsible to minister unto the Lord, who were in charge of worship, who were in charge of leading people into worship, they gave themselves into idolatry, right? Idolatry in the spiritual is what idolatry in the natural is. And that's how dangerous idolatry is and that's how much God detests idolatry. But then he doesn't stop there. Ezekiel 43 onwards, 4 and 7, God says to prophet Ezekiel that in detail is showing what the new city will look like, what the new temple will look like. And that's what Ezekiel 43 verse 4 to 7 is all about. Let me just read from verse 6 and 7 in Ezekiel 43. It says, Then I heard him speaking to me from the temple while a man stood beside me. And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the souls of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile my holy name. They know their kings by their harlotry or with their carcasses of their kings on their high places. Ezekiel 44, 4. Also he brought me by the way of the north gate to the front of the temple. So I looked and behold the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord and I fell on my face. The local church, the body of believers referred to as the temple of God in the New Testament is the place of his throne among a community. It is the place where his kingdom is manifested. The local church, a community of his believers, the body of his believers. It's a place where his kingdom is manifested. It's a place of the souls of his feet that is the place of his dominion. It's almost like us planting flags. Why do we use flags in worship? Flags are always used to point out a territory. This is my territory. And so it's like us planting a flag saying this is God's kingdom, this is God's territory and that's the duty and responsibility of us as priests and of us as the local church. God rules in and through his people. It is the place where God dwells among his people. The local church is the house filled with his glory. Okay. So we pause here guys and we'll continue from next week. All right. So any thoughts or any questions? Okay. Great. Thank you all for joining for today's session. You have a great day. Blessed weekend ahead. God bless you all. See you all again next week. See you guys. Thank you, pastor. Thank you.