 Good morning, everyone, to BC214, our course on developing the human spirit. Thank you for joining the class today. Let's pray and we will get started. Somebody could pray. We thank you for this time and we thank you for this class as we are entering into this class. You give us the understanding and we tend to learn from your work. We send this class into your hand. We send all the students and faculty in your hand. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Alright, so I just few minutes back posted the class course overview PDF and course notes. I will request Vasanand see also does it ox them and give it to you so you can have a print version of it. But today we will use the PDF for the class. Let me just go ahead and share the online. So you can watch it. So this course on developing the human spirit. What are we going to try and learn? So if you, if example, if we want to, you know, take part in athletics example, we go to a coach example. Just think about somebody who wants to compete in say 400 meters race. And they want to compete at state level, national level or even international level. What will they do? They join usually a sports academy, go to the, there'll be a coach. And the coach is going to train them on how they can develop their physical body. And to some extent their mind so that they can perform well in that event. Right. So he's going to train them. So this will train your body to build your muscle. You do these exercises. You keep practicing like this. You do all these things so that you can do well in your particular race. Whatever, whatever athletic event. So they're training their body and to some extent their mind. Or if you think of somebody who wants to be a doctor or whatever profession, go to engineering college or whatever college you spend three years, four years. Sometimes if you're going to do PhD, it'll be four plus another five, nine years in studying. What are they doing? They are developing their minds in a particular field. You know, whatever field of choice they are made, they are training themselves over many years so that they can do well. Right. Now, how far, how high they want to go is up to them, right? How much they train, how much they, you can do a bachelor's, you can do a master's, you can do a PhD, you can whatever you can do, research, whatever. Similarly, for us, what's important is how we train our spirit. Right. Because our goal is to walk with God and to serve God. Right. Our goal is to walk with God and to serve God. For that, most important part of us is our spirit. Right. Of course, we use our mind. Of course, we have to live in this body. Those are important. But we want to focus on how do you train the spirit. How do you train it? It's a journey. Right. Nobody becomes a doctor in one year. You, you have to study for maybe nine years. And even after that, you have to practice. And the more you practice, the more you become better and the people also come to you. You go to that doctor, he's very knowledgeable, he's very experienced. Why? Because of many years of practice. Right. It doesn't happen fresh out of college. It doesn't happen that there's so many years of practice. Then they say, yeah, he's very good or sports class and athlete, everything in every area. That's how it is. Right. We have to train. And the training happens over a period of time. And then you become good in what you're doing. And then you can really serve people or, you know, whatever you're called to. So that's what we want to learn in this course. How some things about the human spirit, right? We need to understand. So for example, you're training your body. You need to understand some things about the physical body. Okay. The body is made like this. The body needs this kind of food. The body needs this kind of rest, et cetera. I want to train your mind. You need to understand some things on that. So here we are goal in this course is to understand how some things about the spirit, the spirit part of us and what are some things that are taught given to us in the Bible. That can help us, you know, develop our spirit spiritually. And so we want to discuss that. And the goal is we can walk with God and we can serve God well. Walk with God spiritually. God is a spirit. So I can't go and say good morning, shake hands with God. I can't do that. I may want to, but I can't because God is a spirit. It's not physical emotion. Yeah, some among you love the Lord, your God, all your heart, mind. I love God and my motion, of course, my body. I consecrate, but most important is the spiritual part of us. How do I connect with God? God is spirit. That means my first way to relate to God is spiritual. In my spirit. And so how do we do that? Then how do we serve God out of our spirit? Okay, so that's the focus thing. So what we're going to do is we're going to understand the human spirit. We want to understand what are the functions of the spirit and how some practical is how do we develop the human spirit. So you begin to apply these things in your life starting from this semester. You start applying it, start practicing it. And of course, you know, you don't stop after you graduate. You have to continue. I learned it in that course, finished one semester over. No, no, no. This is not for one semester. This is for the rest of your life. We have to practice these things and keep on practicing, keep on doing. Okay. We'll be only having one lecture a week because we don't need that much time to cover the content. Just one lecture. So that means this whole semester we'll only have about 16 lectures approximately. So it's going to be a light, not very heavy to be light. But at the same time, it is also a very important course. It's also a new course, meaning as this is also a new course in the sense that we have. I think it's only about the last three years or so we've been teaching this course. Yeah, maybe three years. So it's something that we introduced a little later in our journey as a Bible college. It's felt that we need to emphasize on this, explain this to students so that they can understand how to develop the human spirit. So some of these things you would have heard in other courses like there is an overlap of some of the content. You would hear it and understand the prophetic or when you're learning about the gifts, the spirit, we touch on these things. But here we will take those same things and go a little deeper in all of those areas. Okay. So let's get started. Lesson number one. The first thing we want to emphasize is that we are pride part beings, right? And I want us to focus in on the spirit. So let's read some scripture. First Thessalonians. Again, these are familiar scriptures. They're not all new to us, but it's good to open and go through them. Read the scriptures together. First Thessalonians. We look at chapter five. First Thessalonians 523. And then Hebrews four verse 12 and also first Peter chapter three verse four. So first Peter first Thessalonians 523. Paul writes, now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless. Are the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So the Bible teaches us and this verse puts it very clearly. But of course you can see it throughout scripture. There are people. There are three parts to us, right? There is spirit, soul, body. Three parts to us and we can see throughout scripture. Now, sometimes the spirit and soul may be referred to in combination as together. When you say inner man, you're referring to both spirit and soul. So it's in combination sometimes. But we need to be clear in our minds. We are tri-part beings. There is spirit, soul, body. Each part of us has a primary function, right? The body connects us to the natural world. Here in the body, others can see you. You can see others. The soul is our mind, our emotions, our will, the psychological part of us, the emotional part of us. Doctors will study the brain. That's the physical organ. They'll study that. They'll work on it. They understand it. They understand the chemistry of it. The brain. Psychologists will study the function, the emotions part, right? Which you cannot see under a microscope. You can't. Brain you can see. Oh yeah, you can check. You can do x-ray, this, that and all. But the mind is something very abstract. You can't see it. But you know it's there. Yeah. Okay. This is how you're feeling. This is what your emotions are. This is how you're thinking, et cetera. So mind is there, but it is a little abstract. But psychologists study that part. That's the soul-ish part, the mind, the emotions. Then there is the spirit part. The spirit, our spirit is what connects us with God. The human spirit has a starting point. That means the human spirit is created by God. And that's when we are born. God creates us. We all had a beginning. But God as a spirit is eternal. He never had a beginning. God is spirit. But as a spirit being, he never had a beginning. He's eternal. You and I, we are spirit beings, but we had a beginning when God created us. But the spirit is that part of us that can connect with God. That is what in our spirit we connect with God. It connects to the, or I should say, it connects to the spiritual realm with God or some people connect to the dark side, to evil spirits and other things. That's also possible. Now, the interesting is, in the Hebrew and in the Greek, the Greek word for spirit is numa. Hebrew word ruwa, the equivalent. They actually simply mean wind or breath, air. So holy, and it's the same word. It's used either for God as spirit, holy spirit, human spirit, evil spirit. That word spirit is same, numa. Same word, numa. So we have to understand from the context. Is he talking about human spirit? Is he talking about holy spirit, evil spirit? But the word itself is numa. It just means like air, breath. So air or breath or wind. We can't see it, but you feel it. You know it's there and you know when it's not there. If it's not there, we all die. So if it is not there, we know. If it is there, we know, but we can't see it. But you can feel it. So the spirit is like that. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. It is there. Just because you can't see doesn't mean it's not very important. It's very important. And you can recognize it. You know, like when the wind is blowing, but sometimes it can blow very hard. It can be even destructive. It can cause things to happen. But sometimes it's almost like it's not there. Like in this room, right? Right now, it's almost like there is no air. I mean, it's very calm. But there is air. That's how you and I are here. We're breathing. But it's here. But it's almost like it's not here. Because you can't feel it. There's no, nothing's blowing. Nothing's very calm. But sometimes it can be very forceful. So the spirit. I'm talking about human spirit. It's like that. We can't... Generally, you don't feel it. But you are a spirit. But sometimes the spirit part of you becomes very... You know, hey, I'm feeling something in my spirit. I'm feeling God's presence. I am hearing God's voice. Your spirit becomes very active. You know it's at work. Because you can't explain any other way. If you're not touching it, you're not thinking it. But in your spirit, you know. Okay? So spirit, soul, body, we talked about. Now, let's go to Hebrews 4 verse 12, please. Hebrews 4 and verse 12. Somebody could read it. Who else, Mike? Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit. Joins and marbles. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. So, I want to respond to a few things. First of all, this verse is telling us, it's very clearly telling us the spirit and soul are different. Okay? Because it's saying the word of God penetrates and separates spirit and soul. That means they are two separate parts, spirit and soul. Sometimes, because they're inside us, it seems so, but they function so close together. Because what you feel in your spirit, you will pick up in your soul. So, it seems so close to each other. The way they function. What you feel in your spirit immediately comes into your soul, your consciousness that you recognize, I'm feeling like this or I'm hearing this or God is putting this thought in my spirit. So, in reality, in experience, it seems like they are one spirit and soul. But just like the joints and the marrow, for example, you take the bone and the marrow. It is one, actually, you take any bone. The marrow means the things that are inside the bone. It's one, very close, but they are two different parts. But they're together. So, like that, spirit and soul, in the way they function, they may seem so close to each other. But they are distinct, separate parts. The second thing is it is the word of God that can go inside and give clarity. What is from the spirit? What is from the soul? It is the word of God. And it is the word of God that discerns. It not only distinguishes, it also discerns the thoughts and the intents of the heart. That means it's the word of God that can tell you what is coming from the heart. So, the more we saturate our spirit and soul with the word of God, the clearer it is going to become for us to distinguish what is from the spirit and what is from the soul. Because it is the word of God that helps us distinguish that. So, many times, as believers, we have problems. Is that me thinking or is that God saying? Yeah, problem. Common. It's not uncommon. Almost all of us. Is that from the Holy Spirit or is it my own mind? My own imagination. How are we going to be in a place where we can distinguish what is from the spirit, what is from the soul and how can we discern, test and validate the thoughts and the intents of the heart? How? By the word of God. It is the word of God that has that kind of effect. So, that is why we have to just constantly saturate our inner person with the word of God. The more we are able to just keep filling yourself with the word, read it, listen to it, meditate in it, we will talk about how to do it. The more you put that word of God in, you're able to distinguish that this is from the Holy Spirit. This is my own thought. And you're also able to test and validate the thoughts and the motivations that come. Hey, this is a good thought. No, no, this is a bad thought. This motivation, yeah, it's good. This motivation is not good. You're able to do that. And the more easily we can do it, we're able to walk with God. We can leave out the unnecessary thing. Walk with God peacefully. You're walking in step with God. Otherwise, many times there's a lot of confusion. Is it God? Is it not God? Is it right or is it not right? Is that thought good? Is that motivation? Is that good or not? Is it pleasing to God, not pleasing to God? Little confusion is there. And the way to address it is saturate yourself with the word of God. Because it is the word of God that can go down to that level to distinguish spirit and to discern the thoughts and the intents of the heart. So Hebrews 4.12 is telling us that. Now let's go to 1 Peter chapter 3. 1 Peter chapter 3. And verse 4, very interesting verse here. Peter is actually in this chapter, he's actually writing to women. And he's giving instruction on how wives must conduct themselves, etc. and how they must adorn themselves, etc. But while he's talking about that, he's teaching us something about the human spirit. So that's what we want to focus on. So let's read verse 1 Peter chapter 3, verses 3 and 4. Verse 3 and 4, somebody can read it. 1 Peter chapter 3, verses 3 and 4. 1 Peter chapter 3 and 4. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is of great worth in God's sight. So look at verse 4 very closely. Peter says, so he's saying, okay, don't focus on the outside. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have bath and comb your hair and all. Of course, you have bath, comb your hair and keep yourself neat and tidy and all that. That is all fine. You're not saying don't do all that. But he's saying don't focus on that. Instead, focus on this. Verse 4, rather, and I'm reading from the new King James. He says, rather, let it be the hidden person of the heart. So first thing to think about the hidden person. That means the outside is the outward person. You're seeing me outside. This is the outer person, the heart. So I forgot to say in the beginning, spirit and heart are used synonymously, meaning interchangeably. Heart in the normal natural refers to the physical organ, but that same term is also used for the spirit. So heart and spirit is used interchangeably in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, when it uses the word heart, many times it is talking about the inner man, spirit and soul together. Old Testament. So just have to keep that in mind. Old Testament heart, spirit and soul, New Testament heart, spirit. So here I'm saying the hidden person of the heart. That means your spirit is your hidden person. That is the real person. The outward man is the physical person. People see, but the outward man is, let me put it like this. The spirit, the hidden person, that is the real person. That is the real person. And he says the hidden person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. That means the things of the heart are incorruptible. Whereas the things of the physical are corruptible. They will decay. So think of an athlete. Same example. He's good. He becomes very good athlete after a few years. Why are you not running so fast? What happened? I was 10 or 20 years old. Now I'm 40. I can't. So that strength, that energy, it reaches a peak. And then, God, but that's not true about the spirit. The things of the spirit can be maintained. I mean, of course we can lose it if somebody doesn't want to pay attention. But it is incorruptible. It doesn't have to decay. The incorruptible beauty. So that's the second thing. The third thing is he's saying beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. That means the spirit has characteristics. Here he's mentioned to gentle, quiet. So in the natural, we use the word personality. Each one, each person, each individual has a certain personality. And we say, oh, that person talks a lot. That person very cheerful. That person very quiet. That person, whatever it is coming through. And that is the outward expression. But the real, your real personality, who you are is from your spirit. It is in your spirit. Here he's mentioned two things only, gentleness, quietness. But there can be other things. There can be pride. There can be humility. There can be endurance. There can be weakness. There can be a lot of zeal. There can be nothing. No interest, no passion. But where is it coming from? It is coming from the hidden person of the heart. So our, what other people call as personality, quiet, gentle, whatever they may say. They may use different language to say, describe us. That is coming from where? From your heart, from your spirit. So who you are in the spirit is going to emanate. It's going to be become visible through who you are, who are the people. So your spirit has, I would say, I use your spirit has your true personality. Your spirit has your true character, character and characteristics. And those things can be developed in the spirit. You develop it in the spirit. Spiritually you develop, you know, strength, courage, confidence, boldness, perseverance, whatever. You build that in your spirit to the word of God. Then it will come out. People see that person is very courageous. He's very determined. He has endurance. He's very strong. He's kind or compassionate or generous or whatever. Different, different, different things. But it's come built up in your spirit. And Peter is saying, that is the hidden person. So focus on doing that. Outside you can, yeah, comb your hair. Okay, you're doing the outward. Like that you add on your spirit. You develop those, they put those things on your spirit. And then he also says, in the sight of God, this, which is very precious in the sight of God. You think about this. God is looking at our spirit. And he is finding these things as very precious in his sight. What qualities we have in our spirit. That is very precious to God. God is very interested in that. Sometimes we think, does God even care? You know, what is happening in my spirit? And Peter is saying, you focus on the hidden person of the heart. Which has incorruptible beauty. It has character, you know, gentleness and quietness. And what you're developing in your spirit? What are you putting in your spirit? That is in the sight of God, very precious. So human beings will appreciate what they see outside. Oh, look how pink partially is God. They're looking on the outside. They appreciate those things. God is appreciating something different. He's appreciating what we are putting into our spirit. How are you developing your spirit? The qualities, the character, those things that you're adorning your spirit with. He's saying, yeah, that is very good. So keep these thoughts in mind. The human spirit, what you're doing in your spirit. How important it is. And not only for you and for us to live here, but also how it is in the sight of God. In the sight of God, it is very precious. So some other thoughts here on page four about the inner man. So there's a term called inner man. You'll see it in the New Testament. I've given some references. 2 Corinthians 4, 16, Ephesians 3, 16. So generally when we say inner man or inner person, we're talking about both spirit and soul together. Inner person, spirit and soul together. And just as a side note about what happens when a person dies. When a person dies, the body decays. It goes to the ground. It's gone. Physical is gone. But the inner man, that is spirit and soul leave. Now what I must say, of course, we know that the physical expression of the soul, which is the brain, the physical organ decays. But there is the soul part, which is connected to the spirit, because the spirit is not without feeling and emotion. Spirit also has that feeling. So that we say the soul part. So spirit and soul will go either to heaven or hell. So it is not floating around somewhere here. It is not in the graveyard above. Start floating. So when a believer dies, obviously his spirit and soul go to heaven. He's there. Believers there. When a believer, they go to hell, separated. And we know, example, look chapter 16, Jesus talked about the rich man and Lazarus. So the rich man, after he died, he was in hell. He was in torment. I mean, he could feel. He said, oh, if Lazarus can at least dip his finger in some water and come and touch the tip of my tongue. So there is that whole. So of course, his body has decayed on earth. It's gone. But in hell, he can still feel. He's tormented. There is agony, anguish. So there is a lot of feeling. He's also remembering his brothers. Oh, Father Abraham, please send somebody to talk to my brothers. Tell them not to. So they don't come here. So he's aware of those kinds of things. There's consciousness there. So that's why we say the spirit and soul are able to heaven or to hell. Okay. Now, another aspect, as I mentioned earlier, why this is so also important is because for us, the primary way to contact or commune with God is in the spirit. So let's go to John chapter four. John four. And we know these verses, but it's good to read John four versus 23 and 24. You can read the whole passage. John chapter four, 23, 24. But the hour is coming. And now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. So this woman is talking about cheese, talking to cheese. They're saying, okay, which mountain must we go? You know, all those kinds of things. Meaning she's focusing on the natural, which mountain to climb, what sacrifice to make, all that. They're saying, okay, God is spirit and those who worship must worship in spirit and in truth. So he's not looking on which mountain you're climbing, how high you're climbing, what you're doing physically in the natural. That is not the main thing. The main thing is you're looking at your spirit, looking what is going on in your heart. So that our worship of God is coming from our spirits. That is what God is looking at. God is spirit. Those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. He's looking at the earnestness, the sincerity, the truthfulness with which we are worshiping. The genuine. Simply anybody can climb the mountain. Anybody can go here, there. That is not what God is looking at. He's looking at your spirit and looking at the gentleness with which you're calling up to Him. And that we can do from anywhere. You don't have to be upon that mountain or this place. You can do from anywhere. Wherever you are from your spirit and gentleness, you can call on God. And Jesus is saying the Father is looking for such kind of worship. Worship that's coming from your spirit and that is coming with genuine sincerity and truth. He's looking for such to worship Him. Philippians 3 verse 3. Paul himself repeats this. Philippians 3 verse 3. We'll look at two more verses and then we'll close. Somebody can read it. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus and have not confidence in the flesh. Yeah. So he's saying we worship God in the spirit. So the worship is a spiritual activity. It is what we do from our spirit. So Paul is saying it's not about the circumcision. It's not about things that you're doing in the flesh. If we are worshiping in the spirit, we worship God in the spirit. Now, of course, when you're worshiping in the spirit, it will affect our mind, our emotion. We will feel joyful. He says we rejoice in Christ Jesus. So we will feel joyful. We will feel happy. We will feel the presence of God. It will touch our emotions and of course it will be expressed through our body. We may lift hands. We may kneel down. We may clap. We may all the expressions will happen. That's fine. But where does it actually happen? It happens in the spirit. We worship God in the spirit. And so it's not the outward form. Right? One last verse we look at. Romans 1 verse 9. Romans 1 verse 9. What does Paul say in Romans 1? Romans chapter 1 verse 9. For God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without seizing I make mention of you always in my prayers. So he's saying I serve God with my spirit. So serving ministry is a spiritual thing. It is actually starting in the spirit. I serve God with my spirit. He didn't say I serve God with my mind or I serve God with my body. No, I serve God with my spirit. Of course we will use our mind. Of course we'll use our body. But really it's starting in the spirit. And that is where God is watching. Right? When we worship, he's looking at the spirit and truth. When we serve, he's looking at the spirit and truth. Serve with my spirit. And then he goes on. He says, he tells what kind of service he's doing. He's saying I'm praying for you. Right? Whom I pray, I'm praying and I'm making mention of you always in my prayers. That means, okay, you're praying. So when you're praying, you can imagine maybe he's walking and praying up and down or kneeling and praying or standing and praying, sitting and praying or no. But we have different postures. It's okay. Whatever posture you want you take. You can walk, sit, stand, kneel, fine. And while praying, you're saying words. And maybe praying in tongues, maybe he's praying in his language. Whatever. He's saying words. Okay, good. All that is happening. But he's saying that work that I'm doing, that prayer or that ministry that I'm doing, I'm serving God with my spirit. It's actually a spiritual work. It is coming from my spirit. So in the natural, people may hear words. He's praying. They may hear some things he's saying. They may see him kneeling down, whatever. That is fine that you're seeing it in the natural, but really it's a spiritual work. We're serving God with our spirit. So the condition of our spirit is so important. When you want to worship, you want to serve the condition of our human spirit. What is the condition of the spirit? That's important because you're going to serve God. You're going to serve God with your spirit. It's not just a physical or a mental work. First of all, it's a spiritual work. You want to worship God very good. You worship from your spirit. So the condition of your spirit is important. Of course, you can sing. You can lift hands. You may play instruments. You may do all that thing in the natural. Good, good, good. But first of all, it is a spiritual work. So condition of our spirit is important. So we'll pause here for today. Let me see any questions. Any questions from those here? Those are online. Any questions? I see Nina. Raise your hand. Okay. We'll take that. Go ahead and answer questions first. Is it okay to unmute us? Are you able to hear me? Worship is from our spirit. We worship God in the spirit. And it outflows with actions. Actions of physical and emotional. And how we can know... And sometimes it can be also from the place of our emotions. Yes. We can worship from the place of emotions, but not actually we have that in the spirit. But how we can differentiate... Because the outward result is always the emotions flowing out. People see that. Yeah. So how we can differentiate that? What we are seeing or what we are expressing our worship is actually from a place of worshiping God in the spirit or just getting emotionally involved, emotionally getting high and worshiping. Yeah. How we can differentiate. So one fun is... That's a good question. One, I think most important is we can judge ourselves. Right? Normally, I should not be judging other people. Right? Okay. So for our own selves, I just ask myself, is my heart in it? Is my heart in this? Sometimes we go, Man, chumma clap hands. Everybody is clapping. I also clap. But my heart is not in it. Then I know I'm not worshiping. I'm just doing a ritual, a form. Chumma clapping or lifting hands or whatever. But my heart is not in it. Why? I know. Right? We will learn as we go along. First contents 2, Paul says, For what man, for what man knows the things that are within the man except that the spirit of man which is in him, that means your spirit that is in you actually knows you. That is the real you. So you ask your spirit, ask yourself, Am I, is my heart in this? And you answer, My heart is not here. Okay. Either I get in with my heart first or I don't. Sometimes it's also very difficult because it's difficult to get into it in worship examples with your heart because sometimes maybe it's too noisy or something, whatever it's, you know, you can't get it. Then okay, fine. But I'm not going to just put on a show. You know, just simply clapping hands or making something. My heart's not in it. Okay, I'll just be quiet, calm and talk to God in my heart, in my spirit, at least pray or just engage with God in a different way. But the goal is I must engage with God in my spirit. So I may not be clapping because I don't want to simply clap. I'm going to be raising hands. But I try to engage God, engage with God in my spirit. So I have to ask myself that question. It's my heart and this. If it's not, then pause. Don't simply, you know, do something. Pause. Start from there, from your heart because he says spirit and truth, it should be genuine. You know, otherwise it's no use. Father's seeing if such. I'll just take one more question here. Nina says after that the body continues to exist as a spiritual body as in the case of Rich Manifold Tom who spoke about his tongue. So after that, the physical body decays disintegrates. It doesn't exist. Right. The body is gone. But the spirit and soul continue. And what we will learn as we see is that for the spirit being language that is used is very similar to the physical. That means the spiritual has eyes. It can see. It has ears. It can hear. It can feel and so on. So the similar language is used and that's why you also say, you know, we also see in Luke 19 and Luke 16, the rich man says, come and touch my tongue. Where's his tongue? It already decayed and gone in the grave. Physical tongue we're talking about. So it's not just talking about. He's not talking about his physical tongue, but he's talking about an expression. Like, like we say, you know, the eyes of our heart. Spirit can see. But doesn't mean it literally has a physical, you know, eye like that, but it's talking about the faculty of your spirit that is able to see. So that's what he's talking about the tongue, meaning the faculty of his being, spirit and soul being, that is able to experience some sort of relief similar to a tongue being a thirsty tongue being quenched by water. So we have to understand it in that sense. And we'll explain it as we go along in this course. We'll see the parallel, you know, between spirit and the body. The language that is used the same, but doesn't mean there is a, there's a spiritual, let me say, there's a spiritual equivalent to, you know, physical eyes, ears, nose tastes, and so Bible says taste and see that the Lord is good. How are you going to taste, you know? It's not a physical taste and sing. No, taste and see the Lord is good. Meaning is a spiritual expression that God is, you know, has the dear plans for the water so long as my soul after you. Doesn't mean I'm going to, you know, drink water like that. No, it's an expression. That's how we understand it. Okay. Okay. Time's up. I need to get into the other class. Very close. Thank you for being on the class. We'll continue this next week. And God bless. Bye now.