 Awesome. Welcome everybody once again. Thank you all for joining in for this praise and worship course. I hope you've been learning something during the course of this journey so far. Can I request one of us to just start us off with a word of prayer this time please? Anyone? Yes, Jeff, you may go ahead please. Thanks. Dear Heavenly Father, we come to the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day and for the beautiful morning and for the beautiful section that we are about to come. God, we ask the Holy Spirit and Jesus to guide us. We are learning a lot of things. Help us to understand it. You need to give us an understanding spirit. As the pastor teaches, help us to open our heart and open our mind and understand it. Everything that we are learning, it is everything in our heart and apply it in our life and lead a successful and enjoyable life. We will live for you each and every second in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jeffina. All right, so let's just continue with where we left off. We started off with chapter 5 in your notes, page 18, chapter 5. On this chapter we started off on our journey of understanding what is worship, which is to start diving in a little bit more deeper into the subject on the topic of worship, right? And one of the definitions that's mentioned up there in page 18 in your notes is, it says, real worship defies definition. It is the communion with God experienced by his loved ones. True worship is bowing our hearts and lives before the Lord and acknowledging his supreme lordship. Even in negative circumstances or complete emotional turmoil. As I keep saying this time and time again, and I'm sorry to sound very repetitive or redundant. Some of these words, don't just treat them as just words, but engage with them, let it minister to you. It's small things like true worship is bowing our hearts and lives before the Lord and acknowledging his supreme lordship. And we just need to pause because we are talking about an eternal being, an everlasting father, the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And just ask yourself, what does it really mean to you to bow your heart and your life and acknowledge his supreme lordship? What does it mean to you? Are these just words that gives certain definition or an explanation to worship? Is that it? Ask yourself, what more can we do with those words? Okay, so having said that, we cover two points from this chapter. The first point on what is worship, we saw that worship is the recognition of who God is. Seems like it starts at that point, isn't it? Worship is the recognition, recognizing. Okay, two things happen in the process of recognition. This is just a quick recap. We identify and acknowledge. We identify and we acknowledge. So we identify from having met or encountered before and we acknowledge that is accept and admit to be true. We saw multiple points on the importance of recognizing who God is. And one of the chapters that we read through was John chapter 21. How many of us remember that? John chapter 21. You know, when Peter and disciples, they go fishing one night, they try catching fish all night and they don't. Then Jesus is by the seashore and he says cast the net on the other side. They still don't recognize Jesus and his voice until John gives a nudge to Peter and say, hey Peter, that's the teacher. There's just a pause and see that John could recognize Jesus because he was a worshipper. A worshipper will always recognize the presence of God. The next thing we saw was worship is reverence for God. To revere is to regard or treat with adoration and utmost fearful respect. Yes, the Lord is a father. He calls us his friend. He is also the soon and coming King of Kings and the Lord of Lords whose eyes are like flames of fire and his feet like fine brass. So those are the two points that we kind of concluded with in the last section in the last class. But it may be a little too early to ask a question or insights, but are there anything else that kind of stood out to you from those two points or something that you want to add to those two points? When it comes to recognition of who God is or reverence, do you think it's important to recognize who God is? And do you think it's important to rever in his presence? Simple question. It's not tricky. Yes, very much. Yes, and very much. Okay. So that's like double confirmation. So can I ask why John? Great big God has given us that privilege to worship him and when we come to him, we find ourselves being redeemed to worship him with such a great honor. And I think for that, at least we should be grateful to give him the most respect that we can. Yeah, awesome. Thanks. Thank you for sharing. I saw you raised your hand. You want to share something? Yes, Pastor, you said we should recognize God. Actually, I was thinking when we know a cost of something that is very expensive, then only we will value it. If we know the actual recognition of the God, then only the human nature we see, we will give God the respect, the honor he should be worthy of. That's what I wanted to add. Interesting thought. Yeah, thanks for sharing that. Where our treasure is, there our heart will be shared. I mean, something happens when we recognize just the worldly materials even, isn't it? For example, when we look at a super car in just a main road somewhere, everybody recognizes a Ferrari and they don't just say, it's just a Ferrari. It's not the reaction that you would get when you see a Maruti 800 or something. I mean, thank God for all those. But a response to the recognition of a car like Ferrari, for example, or any other super car, or whatever it is, is very different, isn't it? So something happens, it triggers something. You know, when we recognize who God is, when we recognize his presence, something needs to shift, something shifts as well. Anybody else would want to share the importance of recognizing his presence and giving reverence? Okay. All right, then we will move on. Okay, from the second point, we move on to the third point, which is worship. It is communion with God. Okay, communion with God. Communion is not a result of cosmetic. It is a result of intimacy with him. It is a result of intimate relationship with God. Communion is the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and innermost feelings. Okay, I want to read that one more time just so we all absorb it. Communion is the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts. Okay, look at those words, exchanging or sharing of intimate thoughts and innermost feelings. Okay, some of you might have heard me say this, but the word intimacy, if you break it down, it simply means into me, you see, because I show you. Right? Intimacy simply, if you break it down, it simply means into me, you see, because I show you. I share an intimate relationship with my wife or with my best friend or whoever it is, because I trust them and I open up my heart to that individual and they get to see into me and I into them. And so when I say that we develop communion is just building an intimate relationship with the Lord is that he opens up his heart to you and you open up your heart to him. And that is just being transparent, isn't it? So that is the third point of worship. Worship is going beyond the surface and getting real with God. No masks, no veil, no fakeness, you cannot hide. You're just absolutely vulnerable before him. No hiding, you know, you just know, there's no pretending anymore in his presence. That's what the Hebrew word Shah means, isn't it? It's like, it's a place where you cannot defend yourself. It's nothing you can do, you know, you are exposed completely. And that is the kind of place that we are getting invited to, like, hey, come to a place, you know, without covering yourself without masks or don't try to be something else or someone else. Let's have an intimate relationship. I want to see into you and you into me, right? That is communion. It's a sharing. It's an exchange. It's not a one way traffic, isn't it? What Jesus says in the notes, sharing intimate thoughts and feelings requires a close relationship, right? Not everybody here knows the deepest and the darkest secrets of each other. And I'm sure what, how many of us, so there are 19 individuals, including me, I think. We don't know the deepest and the darkest secrets of each other, isn't it? We know each other by names and where we come from to a certain extent, but that's pretty much it. So you cannot say that you, you know, we really have an intimate relationship, right? But the story would be different if I were to meet your best friend or if I would just spend time with you, you know, over the years, spend time with you, knowing, knowing what you like, knowing what makes you angry, knowing what's your favorite color, knowing what's your favorite number, your favorite cuisine, et cetera, et cetera, and the list can go on, right? So when we get to know each other in that level, we start developing this close relationship. And that's the kind of relationship, you know, you, we share with our best friend, with our family, with our spouse, et cetera, et cetera, right? So the third point is worship, it is a communion with God. You can, you can lead all the worship you want to lead in church wherever or whatever it is, preach, teach on the subject of worship or whatever. But God knows that if you share an intimate relationship with him, and you know it, there's this one statement that my friend made. I will never forget. And again, once again, please forgive me if I mentioned this before. He said, with intimacy, God will use you. Without intimacy, you will be using God. He shared this in 2011, and it's 10 years later, and it's, it still amazes me, motivates me, encourages me to develop an intimate relationship with the Lord. Okay, he says, you know, with intimacy, Russian, God will use you. He will use you to do great things for his kingdom, you know, through you, touch many lives and whatnot. But without intimacy, I will be using him. How so? I had to think about it. It's like, okay, without, let's just take a week, okay, Monday to Saturday. I have not read the Bible. I have not spent time in prayer. I have not really, you know, I've been doing things that I shouldn't be doing. I've been watching things that I shouldn't be watching, saying things that I shouldn't say, et cetera, et cetera. And but Saturday, this is worship in practice. I just, you know, put a song list together, five songs, just put it together and go lead worship on a Sunday. God will still show up. God will show up on a Sunday morning, not because of what I did during the week, not because I shared an intimate relationship with him, but he will show up because he is good and he loves the people. And so everybody will think is like, oh, Russian is leading. Oh, what an anointing powerful time. Amazing. I was like, thank you for leading in worship today. It was such a blessed time. Thank you for choosing the song. But in all reality, I know God knows that I did not really have an intimate relationship with him through the week. What happened? I used him and I don't think I don't, I don't, I don't need to say that it's, it's not the right thing to do. Using someone for their goodness, using someone for just their skill and then, you know, forget about them. You know, you don't want to feel used. Like, have you ever been in a place where you felt used and not, not really cared about? Yes, no, maybe. Yeah. Okay. One person. All right. It's not a very pleasant place to be in, isn't it? To feel used. Okay. You know, they just want to use me for my, you know, and they just don't really care about my well-being and whatnot. And I think God is also emotional that way as an, and he's just so good and he's just so gracious and he's just so merciful that even though there has been multiple times where I have used him, he never gave up on me. Right. He would always pursue. He will always chase me down with his love. You know, it's like a gravity that there is no escaping. And reminded of the song is one song that has his lines. He loves like a lion, fierce like no other. He violently chased me down to embrace me. And, you know, and so from those dark days where there has been times where I have used God to make me look good. And that's also exactly. I'm also reminded of this Bible passage of Saul and Samuel when so Samuel confronts saw saying you have disobeyed the Lord. You have and he's displeased with you. The response of Saul is fascinating. He says, okay, just walk walk with me. You know, so that the people still know that the Lord is with me. And it's easy for us to just read the passage. It's like, oh, Saul was such a bad guy. Look at him. Such a hypocrite, you know, but I have been Saul in my life so many times. Okay, Lord, I'm leading worship. You know, just come and do something that the people will know that, you know, you are still with me and I'm still anointed. Are you with me guys? That is not communion with the Lord. That is not worship. That is not sharing an intimate relationship with the Lord. But worship that is birthed out of this intimate relationship with him is something else. It's just an overflow of this well that wants to explore that wants to erupt in praise. Right. So that is that is the third point is it is communion with the Lord. Okay, intimacy is not a result of cosmetics. Okay, you cannot think Jesus did not die on the cross so that we can have a dress code and tell each other that we are intimate with the Lord. White and white doesn't mean you're intimate with the Lord. It's not it's not the result of holiness. You know, holiness is a result of communion with the Lord. It's a result of intimate relationship with Jesus. Okay. And we will be looking at this scripture that is mentioned in the North from John chapter 4 verse 24 that God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit and in truth. We will be looking at that verse in just more detail in the next section to come. All right. Yeah, everybody good so far. Okay. Good. So just pause and wherever you are and ask yourself this question. How is your how is your relationship with the Lord? Is it intimate? Is there something more you can do to develop to go into another to another level to deeper levels to deeper depths of intimacy with him? Okay, or is ministry keeping you too busy? I'll leave that point right there and move on. The fourth point now. Worship is our response to an encounter with the Lord. Worship is our response to an encounter with the Lord. Okay. Can I request someone to read the scripture that's mentioned in the notes? That's Revelation chapter 112 to 17. Just read it from the notes. Anybody please. Can I read? Yes, please. Revelation chapter 12 to 17. Then I turn to see the voice that's talked with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lambstands and in the midst of the seven lambstands, one like the son of man. Clothed with garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. His beard and hair were white like moon as white as snow and his eyes like a flame of fire. His feet were like fine brass as if refined in a furnace and his voice as a sound of many waters. He had in his right hand seven stars out of his mouth when the shark to its world and his countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw him, I felt his feet as dead but he laid his right hand on me saying to me to not be afraid. I am the first and the last. Thank you, Priya. This is an awesome response here by John, isn't it? To his encounter with the Lord. So this point again, Rian states that worship is a response to an encounter with God. So John is having this incredible encounter in the island of Patmos. He's over 90 years of age. And then he's having this encounter. He's like, this is not the Jesus I remember from the time I walked with him, you know, on whom I could lay and rest my head on. And when he sees this Jesus in all his glory, you know, his responses, when I saw him, verse 17, I fell at his feet as dead. Remember that worship is a place where you cannot defend yourself. There is no hiding. You are completely exposed and that's the place John was in. His response was fell down, face down in worship before him. Can I request somebody else to read the next section of scripture, please? Revelation chapter 4. Actually, can I request someone to read Revelation chapter 4, verse 6 to 11, if you don't mind, please? Revelation 4, verse 11, someone, please? Revelation chapter 4, verses 6 to 11. Also before the throne, there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center around the throne were four living creatures and they were covered with eyes in front and in black. The first living creature was like a lion. The second was like an ox. The third had a face like a man and the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had a six wings and was covered with eyes all around. Even under his wings day and night, they never stopped saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was at his and is to come. Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever. The 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say, You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power. You created all things and by your will, they were created and have their being. Thank you, Sikand. I appreciate it. So one of the key things that happens in an encounter is there is a revelation that is taking place. Probably in the next hour, I'll just take us through a deeper study of encounter. I was not sure if I wanted to do that or not, but then thinking we'll do that. But just coming back to this verse with this scripture. There is a revelation that is happening in our encounter with the Lord. That's what happened in chapter one with John is that he is having this revelation of Jesus Christ. That is the encounter and then the response is fall down in worship. And similarly here in Revelation 4 is that all of heaven seems to be having this amazing encounter with the Lord. And the response is in worship. They are crying out, Holy, Holy, Holy. The living creatures full of eyes and the 24 elders casting their royal crowns down and fall down in worship. When we look at the living creatures that cover with eyes inside out, it's one thing to know that these creatures are hard to imagine. It also means that full of eyes just simply speaks of unlimited perspective. Unlimited perspective, unlimited revelation. From every side, from every angle, there is this constant revelation of who this God is. There is no angle that they could turn to and not have a revelation of this God. And they cried out day and night without rest. Simply means that there was ongoing revelation. Now if in every angle you get to see him and again this is God we are talking about. The Alpha, the Omega, the Eternal Being, the Great I Am. So these creatures are having this unlimited perspective of this God which leads to ongoing revelation. And then which is the result of just ongoing worship day and night, you know, like Psalm 19 says, the poor forth's speech, the heavenly hosts. Okay, I wanted to share this scripture. Psalm 120, sorry, I'll put it in the chat for us. These two verses are from Psalm 145. Psalm 145, this is the amplified version, amplified classic version. Okay, so there's just the amplified version. Then there's the amplified classic edition. Okay, so these two verses are from Psalm 145, it's two and three. It says, every day with its new reasons will I bless you affectionately and gratefully praise you. Can I read that one more time? Okay, it's in the chat section just in case you're not sure. Every day with its new reasons will I bless you affectionately and gratefully praise you. Yes, I will praise your name forever. Verse three, great is the Lord and highly to be praised. And his greatness, okay, pay attention and his greatness is so vast and deep as to be unsearchable. Okay, unsearchable. So what does it mean? You know, why this scripture? So every day with its new reasons, okay, speaks of fresh revelation. What's new reasons? Every day there's a new reason. Simply means there's a new revelation of who this God is. And so you're going to break forth and praise and in worship. You're going to affectionately and gratefully praise. Right? And then you see this word there in verse three, great is the Lord and highly to be praised. And his greatness is unsearchable. It simply speaks of you cannot exhaust the revelation of his greatness. Like there is no end. Right? You can keep searching and keep searching and keep searching. You will find something and then you will find something else and then you will keep finding and then you'll keep finding. Like there is no end where you can say it's like, okay, I have arrived. I know everything about the greatness of the Lord. Just when you think you've arrived at that point, then there's like, you know, hey, there's more to me. There's more to me and there's more to me. Right? You know, one of the key things in the walk of our Christian life for this continuous revelation of his greatness of who this God is. One of the key things that that kind of keeps pushing us to the next level is obedience. You know, first time Moses has this encounter with the Lord. He's about 80 years old. He has his first encounter you and I know is a burning bush. Right? At that encounter, you know, he again, he encounters and God says, remove your sandals for you are standing on holy ground. Encounter, revelation, worship, he falls down. But at every encounter, there's a mandate and Moses gets this mandate, you know, so to go and go back to Egypt, bring back the Israelites. Okay. Moses must be thinking, okay, you know, I'm going back to Egypt and then when he comes back to the place where he first encountered God. Now it's not just a burning bush. The whole mountain is on fire. Okay. You know, it's like, okay, first time he must have when he encountered God is like, okay, this is awesome. He is great. The second time he comes back, the whole mountain is on fire is like, okay, no, he's bigger than I thought he is. Right? So God will always show himself bigger than the first time you encountered him after every time you've obeyed him. Are you guys with me? Okay, so his greatness is unsearchable. It simply means that, you know, there's no end to it. It's, it's just not possible to exhaust his greatness. Okay. So, and I want you to just remember this point on revelation. You know, we, we worship to the degree of our revelation. Okay. You can write it down. You know, we worship to the degree of our revelation. Psalm 47 verse seven. Okay. Psalm chapter 47 verse seven says, for God is the king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. Okay. Sing praises with understanding. What leads to understanding is the revelation of who he is. Okay. All right guys, are you all with me? Okay. Yes. Awesome. With, from that section, you know, we go into the next page, page 20, which talks about worship defying definition. Okay. So what does it really mean? So let me just do a quick recap of the four points we started off. So first one, worship is a recognition of who God is. Second worship is a reverence for God. Third, it is communion with God. Fourth worship is our response to an encounter with God. Okay. And now we go to page 20. True worshipers and spirit and truth worship. True worshipers, spirit and truth worship. John chapter four, 23, 24, it says, but the hour is coming. And now is when the true worshipers 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 in truth. Okay. So in spirit, what does that mean? We worship him by the power of the Holy Spirit that abides in us. True worshipper worships from his heart and from his innermost being from the core of his being with everything with him within him, not half heartedly, not lacking in zeal. Okay. True worshipper worships from his heart by the power of the Holy Spirit that abides in us. Okay. True worship is a true worship is a spirit corresponding with God's spirit. And one of the reasons why Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit together with a gift of speaking in tongues is that we might be released in the greater measure in our worship. So we read this scripture in the last class first Corinthians 1415 where Paul says, you know, I pray and I also pray in the spirit. I sing and I also sing in the spirit. Okay. So it is the Holy Spirit that empowers us that enables us to worship him to worship God in spirit. It is his spirit in us that cries out to God's spirit for him. Okay. Sibomai, which is the Greek word, it means a devout religious worship, having the right form, words, actions, but no heart and therefore empty and useless in God's eye. You know, if, if I worship, if the worship is not in spirit and in truth, it is, it is empty. It just doesn't really mean anything. So you want to ask something faster? Can you repeat that word again? Yeah, it's Sibomai. It's in the notes in page 20. Okay, which is a Greek word S E B O M A I it's in the notes. So good. S E B O M A I. Okay, so we worship him in spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit that abides in us and in truth. So Father is seeking true worshipers who will worship him in spirit and in truth. And in truth simply means we worship him according to the revealed word of God. Okay, let's quickly, let's go to Psalm 119. Okay, I was going to turn with me to Psalm 119. Let's go to one of verse 169. Psalm 119 verse 169. Okay, I hope you're there. It says. Yes, you can go ahead. You want to read Psalm 169. So 119 verse 169 to 172. Sam's 119 versus 169. May my cry come before you, Oh Lord, give me understanding according to your word. May my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your promise. 171 may my lips overflow with praise for you. Teach me your decree. 172 may my tongue sing of your word for all your commands are righteous. Thank you. Okay, so see the progression of it. Okay, it starts off by saying give me understanding according to your word. Okay, that means let me have a revelation of your word. May my supplications come before you. Deliver me according to your promise. Then it's taking a shift. May my lips overflow with praise. Okay, so once I have the understanding of your truth, God's word is truth, isn't it? Once I have a revelation of your word and understanding, which leads to understanding, then I will praise verse 172. May my tongue sing of your word for all your commands are righteous. Okay, so we worship according to the revealed word of God. And as actually a side note, this Psalm, right, Psalm 119, it says that it's a love poem to God's law. God's law is God's word, right? Many years ago, my mentor asked me to do this exercise. He said in Psalm 119, there is 176 verses. And in all these 176 verses, you will find these words, which is a word you'll find. I mean, depending on the translation that your Bible is, word, law, decrees, precepts, what is law? Law is ways, commands, promise, testimony. Okay, you said every verse of this Psalm will have these words. I mean, your translation might have different words, but this is from NIV. And all of these means just one thing, God's word. All of these words only point to just one word. That's God's word, right? How can a young man live his life pure by living according to the word of God? Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a lamp unto my path. All of that, all of those scriptures is from this Psalm. So when you have the time, if you have the time, sometime today, go ahead and underline all these words in your Bible and not just to underline sake, but meditate on them. Okay, so that is in truth. We worship according to the revealed word of God. Okay, another couple of interesting thing that happens is let's quickly go to Matthew chapter 22. Let's go to Matthew chapter 22. Okay, Matthew chapter 22 verse 36, I think, yeah, 36. I'll read from verse 34 to 40. Matthew chapter 22 verse 34 to 40. It says, hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them an expert in the law. Okay, expert in the law. It simply means expert in the word of God, expert in the law, tested him with this question. Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Or which is the greatest commandment in your word? Jesus replied in verse 37. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and prophets hang on these two commandments. Okay, the same is repeated in Mark chapter 12 verse 28 to 31. It's also mentioned in Luke chapter 10. Oops, 25, 28. In Luke, it's a slightly different context, but then it's the same thing. Okay. But the point is, you know, Jesus is being questioned about the greatest commandment in his word, in the law. And Jesus' response is the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And he's saying from the word, all of that points towards just one thing, that is worship. Loving the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. That's revelation and understanding and with all your strength. Okay, so that is in truth worship. Okay. John chapter 17 verse 17 says, sanctify them by your truth for your word is truth. Okay. Let's go to the next page, page number 21. It's pretty much to conclude this section is our expression of worship could keep varying from being very formal to being more spontaneous with creative arts, dance, et cetera, et cetera. Could have huge queries and what not. But one thing that must remain constant and unchanging in our worship is that it has to be in spirit and in truth. Okay. So when our worship is birthed out of spirit and in truth, we will never lose the wonder of who Jesus is. Okay. Because like I mentioned, all of us who are in this class, praise and worship is not a new subject or a new topic to all of us. You've already been exposed to it. You've heard, I'm sure all of us have been taught on. So at least in the last 20, 25 years, the topic of praise and worship has been more famous than the topic of prayer. And it is easy for us to become all familiar and get bored. And like, you know, okay, praise and worship. Okay, worship. You know, this is what it is. Yadda, yadda, yadda. We, you know, put together some definitions. Oh, no, we understand praise and worship. But when our worship is birthed in spirit and in truth, when Holy Spirit empowers us to worship Him in spirit and when we worship Him according to His word, Colossians chapter 3 verse 16 says, Let the word of Christ, rich in us dwell, you know, deeply. Let us dwell in us deeply. Okay, something is happening to me. So when those two happens, we will never lose the wonder of who this Jesus is. We will never lose the wonder and the beauty of Jesus. And so it's like this constant revelation, like Psalm 145 we saw, you know, every day with its new reason, with its new revelation, we will worship Him, you know, affectionately, et cetera. All right. We always tend to read that scripture from 20, that's John chapter 4 verse 23 onwards. But when we look at the previous verse, John chapter 4 was 22. Okay, we're not going to read that right now, but I've just mentioned something in the notes in page 21. I realize we're almost done, but this is the last section and we'll stop here. In truth, we fail to worship when we don't have a revelation of what we are singing. Okay, we fail to worship when we don't have a revelation of what we are singing. That leads to the points, ignorant worship versus intelligent worship. Ignorant worship versus intelligent worship. Okay, we need to involve our minds in worship. The more we exert our minds in worship, the more meaningful our worship is likely to be. Because in verse 22, Jesus says, you Samaritans do not know. That means you do not understand. There is no revelation. You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping. You worship what you do not comprehend. We know what we are worshiping. We worship what we have the knowledge of and understand. That's what Jesus is saying. We know what we are worshiping. If we have the knowledge of what we are worshiping, we understand what we are worshiping. Okay, so that speaks of relationship between worship and revelation, which ties back to the fourth point in what is worship. Okay, worship is a response to an encounter with God. And in that encounter, there is a revelation of who God is. And finally, we worship him according to his word. Okay, so we'll stop here. Apologies for going two minutes overboard. We'll take a break and then we'll continue on from the next session. Okay, have a good one.