 Okay, here we go. Okay, let's pray and today, why don't you go ahead and pray for your city? You know, maybe you're passing through, you're there for a season, maybe God has just planted you there and you are rooted there and you know that, you know, that's the place of your mission and you call to that place, call to the people. So whatever it might be, you know, it's not by happenstance or by chance that you are there. God has a plan and purpose and so let's pray. You go ahead and you pray for the people there. Pray that the city would, that the people would know God, that the gospel, the church would rise up and take the gospel to the cause of the city and there will be more of God in that place. Let's call upon the Lord. Let's just pray for the Holy Spirit. Just pray that there'll be an outpouring of the Spirit in that place. Let's lift our voices and pray. Father, we thank you. We thank you, Lord, for the cities that we are from of Father God. Yes, Lord, we thank you that you have placed us there. Oh, God, it could be for a season. It could be for our lifetime, Lord. Whatever it is, God, we know that it is good and it is for your glory. Oh, God, and the fact that, Lord, that you have given us salvation and the fact that, oh, God, that you have changed our destinies and you've given us the message of reconciliation and you've called us to be ambassadors of Christ. Oh, God, you called us to be spokesperson of the kingdom. Oh, God, communicators of the gospel. Oh, God, what an awesome privilege, Lord, to be co-labourers with you, to be co-heirs with you, God. And so, Lord, we thank you, Lord, that you placed us there. Yes, we know that the city or the place that you placed us, Lord, need not be the most pleasant of places. The people need not be pleasant and welcoming, God. There could be many ills. There could be many limitations, many challenges, Lord. But the fact that we are there, oh, God, as instruments of righteousness, Father God, through whom, oh, God, you can work for Father God. And thank you, Lord, for the dreams that you placed in each of us. Thank you for the plans that you placed in each of us, oh, Father God, and plans to prosper, not to harm, oh, Father God, and plans of reconciliation. I just pray, oh, God, that whatever plans thought the small, big, a large, oh, God, that you placed in us, Father God, that we will be diligent to pray through, that we will be diligent to take those steps of faith. And I also pray for those things that have been put aside or blocked by the enemy and I come against it in the mighty name of Jesus, whatever fear or intimidation of the enemy that has caused delay in the name of Jesus, let it be removed and whatever complacency on our side or the work of the flesh on our side that has caused it, let it be removed in the mighty name of Jesus, let it be burnt away by the fire of the Spirit of God. And right now, let there be, Lord, I pray that you would, we welcome you, God. We welcome your move, we welcome your plans, Father God, and we just welcome you, Lord, have your way in us. Have your way in our lives, have your way in our cities, have your way in our homes, Lord, our streets, our neighborhoods, oh, God, Lord, you have your way, Father God. Yes, Lord, Father, we thank you. We just want to declare greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. Father, we thank you. We thank you, Lord. Have your way in our cities. We lift up, oh, God, the people in our cities, Lord, to you. And Lord, we pray that they might be saved, that they will have opportunities. Each one of them will have opportunities to hear the gospel and decide for themselves, God. Hallelujah. We thank you. We give you praise. We give you all the glory. In Jesus' match, his name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, okay. Biblical preaching. Yeah. What happens is like maybe, you know, handle multiple subjects for each class. It's like, yeah, especially with, you know, ministry of the pastor evangelist teacher and, you know, preaching so much overlap, right? Okay. Okay. So we've been looking at chapter seven, like how the Lord Jesus ministered the word. And the reason we are studying that is because he is our example when it comes to preaching, when it comes to communicating the gospel. So we've been looking at that. He is our example. And so we've been studying several things, the fact that he spoke with wisdom, with authority. He was continuously in communion with the Father and he heard what the Father speak and he spoke it. And he was giving a word in season, a timely word, the right word that could change people's hearts and so on. So we also saw at the end of the class that we saw that he ministered with a meek heart, right? His attitude was not that, yeah, here's something. You know, he's a son of God. He knew it. He's eternal word, but he ministered with a meek heart, right? And we know that that is not a weakness, but that it's a great strength and with humility he ministered. And his words were words of truth and grace. And those who heard it could not refute the wisdom with which it was coming. And of course, he had harsh words. He had strong words for those, for the religious leaders who knew the truth, but were not willing to, you know, humble themselves to accept the truth. Who were afraid that they would lose their position. So he had strong words for them as well, right? So we saw that he used Old Testament scriptures. And in fact, that's a great test for us about the canon of scripture, you know, the kind of books that he quoted from and he quoted extensively from the Old Testament. He used illustrations, parables that the common man could relate to and identify with and so that the truth would be made clear and simple. And every time, you know, it will remain, right? They will remember. So he ministered in that manner. And we also see that whenever he ministered that the power of the Holy Spirit, that the power of God was present, right? It was not just words, it was not just speaking, but also it was a demonstration. There was the power of God present to demonstrate in terms of, and the demonstrations were manifested like healings and deliverances and miracles and so on. So in your notes, I noticed that page 19, it says, Luke 5.7, actually it should be Luke 5.17, right? The end of page 19, Luke 5.17. There's an error there. So Luke 5.17 talks about how the power of God was present to heal them all, right? And we also saw that he ministered out of compassion. He saw the people, he saw that they were like sheep without shepherd. He had compassion on them. And Mark chapter 6, I think Mark chapter 6 in verse 30, it says, So he taught them. So he taught them. So he just wanted them to be strong. He wanted them to have a sense of purpose and direction. It says the first part of the verse says that they were like sheep without shepherd. And so he had compassion on them and so he taught them. Okay, so let's go to chapter 8. And how does this apply to us? As a New Testament believer, minister called to carry this truth and communicate this truth. How does this apply to me as a New Testament minister? Okay, so now I know that the Lord Jesus being the eternal word, the living word, he became flesh and he was a deity wrapped in human flesh with emotions, with feelings. And he was in constant communion with the Father. And of course he had emotions, he had feelings, but he declared the word, spoke the word. So how does that apply to me as a New Testament minister? So we're going to look at a few things. Some things are very practical and most of these things that we can immediately, maybe some of these things that we are walking in already, but it's a reiteration that going back to some of the basics. It's like sometimes you play a game and you play that, let's say badminton, you play for a while and then you leave it. And then you get back to it after a season. And then sometimes these basic things you have to remind yourself. I remember I used to play tennis when I was young, when I was in school. And then I remember the coach telling me, you hit the ball and then you come back. Come back immediately after hitting. Don't just meditate or just look at how wonderful the ball went and how wonderful I hit it. Don't just think about that, hit it, it's gone. And now you come back to your position, be alert, be ready. And some of these things came back to me when I was playing badminton, not tennis, but badminton with my daughter. Come back to that ready position. These things, basic things just came back to me. So it could be looking at some of these basic things, that reiteration of that. For some of us maybe it's new and we can just put it in the practice. So let's look at a few of these things. I'm on page 20. If you're following in the notes. So as New Testament ministers, one of the things is that we need to understand that, yes, God knows that we have emotions, that we have feelings, that we have limitations. But God entrusts us with his word and for us to be communicators of the word. So he has no problems. Like right from the Old Testament, we see that he put his word in mouths of people, in the hearts of people, that they will speak it out, that they will declare it. And things would happen because of it, because his word carries power. Now, what about a human being who's frail? What about a human being who's flawed? And is still a work in progress, is not perfect. So does that mean that the word cannot be ministered through such a person? Well, the Lord does not think so. We are works in progress. We are being shaped and being refined by him as we yield to him each and every day. And the Lord entrusts us with this word to communicate the word. But we need to understand that we are people who have unrenewed thinking, who have the appetites of the flesh. So these need to be worked upon or these need to be addressed, so that we become better vessels who would communicate the word. That God uses our natural talent. He created us. We are in the image of God. And we could be intellectual. We could be clever. We could be funny. Our personalities are different. So no two people are alike. A person might speak it out and that's the most authentic way in which that person communicates. The other person might add a little bit of humor and maybe the other person thinks a little differently. The way the person wants to illustrate it could be maybe connect that with science and the bigness of it and the bigness of the universe and so on. I don't know if you heard Louis Giglio. He talks about how great is our God is one of his messages. He talks about the bigness of the universe and the greatness of the universe. He talks about the stars and goes into great details to talk about them and then talks about the human body also and the wonders of it all and talks about and relates that to God. So will people have different ways of communicating the way they are created, the way they are wired, the way they think but our flesh has to be worked upon in order to communicate clearly in order to not contaminate the word. So our flesh, our unrenewed thinking, our motives, that needs to be worked upon that we need to take responsibility for that. God will convict us, God will speak to us but that needs to be worked upon. We are works in progress and these things need to be worked upon. Am I sharing this so that there will be an applause for myself? Am I sharing this so that I will appear clever in order to appear clever and intellectual? Am I sharing this particular illustration? What is the motive behind that? You just asked a lot and the Lord convicts about something and you know. Otherwise you just go ahead and you are clear, you are free. So don't anything limit you, your personality. You don't have to be like someone else and God has created you maybe to be funny, to be clever, whatever but go ahead and share the word. Just that our flesh needs to be worked on. One of the things that we see is that God wants us to receive the word first personally. Yes, he is using us as mouthpiece, as an ambassador, as a spokesperson. But God's desire is that the word first goes in, becomes part of us, changes us, works in us and we obey the word. We carry out what it says and make it part of our life, our living, before we release it. So it is not as if here's a message for you and it's not applicable to me. That's never the case. The word cuts us first, the sword cuts us first and deals with us. And we grapple with the word, we receive the word and make it part of us. The word becomes flesh in us, a reality in us and then we speak it out or we release it or communicate it. And we see that in the Gospel of Matthew. I think we saw it earlier also in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 19. The Lord says, Matthew 5 and verse 19, whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. So the principle is to do and teach. I do and teach, make the word part of my life. I walk in it, I apply it, I grapple with it and I engage with God with the word, with the revelation and then make it part of my life, I obey and I share that. And even as I am sharing, I understand that it's applicable to me. Even as we communicate the truth, we realize, we understand, we acknowledge that it's applicable to us. So we include ourselves in the application of the word, the accountability for the word that is being preached. We include ourselves, we come under that covering. It's never just for the audience. And therefore our language also will change when we communicate the word. It's not just you and yes, sometimes we need to share that and speak that and say, God is asking you to do this, God is asking you to do that. But at the same time, you understand or you acknowledge that God is calling you that you include you as well. So it's us. So God's desire is that the word becomes part of our, we receive the revelation in our spirit. We receive his word in our spirit. It's part of our thinking. It's part of our meditation. We think over and over it. We dwell on it, let the word abide in us. It's part of our speaking. It's part of our confession and it's part of our obeying and living. And he calls us to deliver it. The word becomes flesh in us and then it flows out to others. Sometimes what happens is we place ourselves under unnecessary pressure to bring something new every time we speak. Every time we are called to share, we place ourselves under unnecessary pressure and say, I need to bring something new. Well, it's a good desire to share something new, to share something that the Lord has taught and the Lord wants to teach. It's a good desire. But also we need to understand that whatever the Lord has already spoken to us, whatever the Lord has already taught us, maybe it could be about various things about faith, about prayer, about worship. The Lord adds new light or he adds those lines, line upon line and priest upon priest. He adds those layers to what is already taught us. I'm sure in our own lives, maybe three years ago, whatever we understood about prayer and worship, we have grown in our understanding. The Lord has taught us and it has added, those layers have been added to our understanding. So this increased light upon what he has already revealed is also something that we need to share. So it doesn't have to be something that's absolutely new to you and it doesn't have to be. Well, if it is, that's great. But it is also what he has already spoken. What he has already spoken and sometimes it's what he has already spoken to you but it's something maybe new to the audience. What he has already spoken to you and something fresh to the congregation, to the audience, to the listener. And the Lord knows the hearts of the listener. The Lord knows the needs of the listener better than us. We see the outside. And I remember hearing a testimony of this person who was sharing to this particular audience, I think it was somewhere in Eastern Europe, somewhere. And he's sharing and then the people are all kind of very upbeat and sing their amen and praise the Lord and they are totally with the message. And the Lord asks him to, at that moment, this kind of a turning, this transition. And the Lord asks him to address some issues about mental health and about depression and so on. And he's like struggling within saying, God, these people seem to be totally free and liberated and enjoying the freedom and the spirit and your addressing, you're asking me to speak something. But then he cannot shake that prompting and he goes ahead and addresses that and then he finds that majority of them are struggling in that area. So the Lord knows the needs of the audience. The Lord knows the hearts of the audience. So when he prompts us to share something, maybe it could be something that we know already or we have spoken already or something that we think according to our natural abilities, we think that I don't see that. It doesn't seem to make sense. Another example is we have a guest speaker and a prophet. And every time he comes, of course, he teaches on the prophetic and teaches about a deeper life in the spirit and so on. So he had come a couple of times with the team and shared and addressed that. But that one time that he came, it was a very totally different message. It was about volunteering, serving in church. So he shared and as leaders, as pastors and leaders, we were all going wow because that month or from the following Sunday, we were going to talk about serving in church and volunteering and we had planned all that. And so none of this was communicated to the church yet. It was just planned. So I remember a pastor coming and asking me, hey, Jay, did you share any of this with him? I said, no. So he said, me neither. And then we were really impressed. We went and asked him, why did you share this? And then he said he was really struggling with God because it was not his usual message. But he felt that he felt strongly that this was the message God had given him to share and he had to share it. And so he was really struggling with God. He was really asking God, God, why not something on prayer? Why not something in the prophetic and demonstration of the prophetic and so on? But this is it. And that was a clear demonstration of the prophetic right there. And even though it was a very unusual message, something that he would not normally share. So we saw that right before us in action. So the Lord knows the need. The Lord knows the needs of the hearts of the people. And sometimes it's a message that you've heard. Sometimes it's a very simple thing like, okay, God is love. And you're like, oh man, this is so basic. How can I, you know, I want something more, something more meaty. But the Lord says, just speak about my love. And when you share that, then you know the fruit of it. You believe it and then you take it and you share it and you know the fruit of it. So that's the thing. So every time we share the word, sometimes it's something that's already been shared. But it comes with a new and a fresh anointing. And the Lord could highlight a different facet of the same truth. Okay, for example, you know, let's say, I'll just type out a statement. Okay, the Lord is my shepherd. Okay, Psalm 23, and all of us have heard this Psalm over and over again. And this verse, the Lord is my shepherd. The first part of that verse, I do not lack anything. The Lord is my shepherd, I do not want. Now, you know, let's say the Lord asks you to share this word. Or this is the message that he wants you to share. And sometimes he's struggling a lot. You know, I've shared this before and why should I share this again? But the thing is that, yeah, it's a truth that we know. It's a truth that we've shared. But that day, maybe the Spirit of God wants us to highlight one aspect of this, a different facet of this message of the truth. It could be about the Lord. He just wants to highlight that. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. And he just wants to highlight that part. Or it could be the Lord is my... It's just that word, you know, for me. I mean, of course, for the entire world, but he's mine, the reality that he's so personal, the reality that he is there to lead me. The Lord is my shepherd. Or it could be the focus on shepherd itself. The Lord is my and highlighting shepherd. Or it could be all three. Like, you see, you know, it is a simple statement, the Lord is my shepherd and a revelation that maybe we received many years ago. The Lord is my shepherd, maybe you've experienced that. But the Lord wants us to share with the fresh anointing and the breath of the Holy Spirit is on various aspects of it. Okay? So, as a New Testament minister, as a believer, as a communicator of the gospel or of the truth, it's our privilege, it's our joy to just engage with God, to commune with God and say, God, I want to know your heart. What is it? Yeah, this is stuff that I've heard that you've taught me. But God, you know, where is the emphasis? What do you want me to lean on? Right? And maybe some of you are, you know, lead in worship and it's the same thing, right? When you lead in worship, maybe this is an old song and you're saying, God, you know, oh, God, this is a song we've done before, but the Lord wants to breathe something fresh and emphasize something, some truth in that song, maybe in one word, in one line. Oh, yeah. Right, Charles? Is, right? Yeah, let's just put that. That's wonderful. The Lord is, you know, the present thing. So it's not just three, but it's four. I'm sure there's many facets to that. So the thing is this, that the Lord wants to, you know, emphasize something new, right? And that comes out of us engaging with Him, out of us walking with Him and talking to Him and hearing from Him. And we have this privilege. So it does not just, so you see that it's, when it comes to communication of the truth and, you know, it's not just, you know, it's not just information that we are sharing, but along with that information, along with that message, the Spirit of God is engaging and He's highlighting and is, you know, picking up something and He's saying, okay, now this is what I want you to emphasize and this is where the need is and so on. And sometimes we do not even know. Like, we don't know that, we don't know our audience and we don't know that something like, for example, that prophet who came and spoke and he was struggling with God is, why God, why? He didn't know anything about, you know, the need of the church or the plans of the church, but the Lord knew and the Lord was interested and therefore the Lord was willing as long as this person was willing to, you know, give the message. And so we have an amazing privilege of communicating this way, of sharing the truth in this way. So preaching, it's not just a download or, you know, of something that we just unload or unload, I think that's the word. We don't unload anything on people, but really we are engaging with God, getting his heart, his heart of compassion and getting his heart of what he wants to be done. Okay, so that's the thing, okay. The other thing is that we are privileged to receive, you know, revelation from God. Things that we are ignorant of, a truth that comes alive to us personally so that, you know, in our spirit, so that we know, that we know, that we know that, you know, this is something, you know, and he does that in amazing ways. He does that in ways that you and I understand. I think that's the beauty of, you know, when we meditate on the word of God, when we meditate on the word of God and he makes this truth come alive and it's not that the word of God is not alive, but he come alive to us, right, and highlighted to us that we don't forget, that we always remember that, right, and that privilege we have of receiving revelation about things that we do not know, things that are mysteries of God, that are hidden for us to discover, right, hidden so that it will be revealed to us by the spirit. I, maybe I, my natural senses have not seen it. I has not here seen or hear us not heard, not have entered in the heart of man. The things that God has prepared for those who love him, but the spirit of God reveals these to us, to our heart, to our inner man, right. So we receive revelation from God. You know, if you read Galatians 1, we read about Paul and how he received the revelation in, you know, it was revealed to him about Jesus, right, revelation, I'm sorry, Galatians 1 and verse 15, verse 15, verse 16 actually, verse 15 and 16, but when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace, he revealed his son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles. I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, and then he talks about all his experiences. But the fact is that God revealed, you know, God opened his eyes. He, in that encounter, he revealed who Jesus was. He, God revealed his son and through Paul in his spirit. And Paul writes about that and he says, please God, who separated me, called me to reveal his son in me. I received a revelation about Jesus. I received a revelation. And you see that when you receive that revelation, no one can actually put you down, right. When you receive that revelation, no one can stop you because you know that it's beyond just human understanding. You know that there is deep conviction and it goes, even bypasses our intellect sometimes and it's deep down in our spirit, right. And that's why you see the people, you know, you read about Stephen and all the others, you're saying, this is it. This is it. This is the truth. I'm willing to die for it. Why? Because this is the truth. And Paul's saying, you know, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain, right. Why? This is the truth. And we read through Paul's epistles and the kind of things that he went through and he's saying, it's okay. It's okay, I know. I can do all things through Christ. I know how to live. I know how to be a base. I know how to be content. I can do all these things through Christ who strengthens me. And history is proved over and over again when we see the lives of people with that conviction. So here's an opportunity for us to get the revelation, receive the revelation from his word to our spirit or the Holy Spirit and walk in that boldness and courage. And, you know, we see Peter and John who had something that happened and the two we read that they were filled with a spirit. The Supernatural Encounter actually up to three. They go to the temple. They perform this miracle on this man who's been sitting there for many years. And then we read about how they were preaching in the temple and people seeing and the Pharisees and the scribes seeing them and wondering, you know, they are illiterate men now uneducated, untrained, sorry, not illiterate, untrained men. How do they speak in this manner? And then they realized that they had been with Jesus. This encounter, something had happened. They had received something in their spirit because of this encounter, right? Of course, I'm just paraphrasing that, but they came to that realization. So when we walk and when we share something out of a personal walk with God, it's with so much authority. It's with so much conviction. It's authentic. It's real. And especially when we've allowed the Spirit of God to work on our flesh. It's not for the limelight. It's not for the applause of man. It's not for anything else. And even though people might say things, it's just going off your back, right? Because you've already made a decision. You know that all glory is to Him. You know who you are. You know who God is. And you know that you can't do anything. You can't transform people's lives. And so even when people share stuff or say something about you, you know that it's actually God. So it just goes off. It just bounces off. And you give the glory to God and your flesh is worked on, right? And we become a vessel useful for the Master. Okay, so we speak out of personal walk. So that's the thing. We receive revelation. We engage with God. We speak out of personal walk with God. And it results in boldness and courage. And I just pray that all of us, we will minister out of that kind of an experience, that walk with God, right? So it will, whatever you share will be with conviction. Whatever you share will be authentic, real. Because the world, you know, what I've realized is that the world is really looking for authenticity. You know, what is real. Yeah, they might not agree with the message, but they're willing to give a listening here. You know, whenever we did, you know, Street Evangelism and shared with people, oh yeah, they did not agree with everything that we shared, everything, you know, with the gospel. They did not, but they were willing, because they saw that, okay, here it was real. He's not out to manipulate me, sell me something, sign up for something, but here's a person who's real. Okay, so the Lord is looking to us to have that characteristic when we minister, when we share, right? Okay, so Charles says a testimony about, yeah, we'll come to that, Charles. I just want to share a few more things, and then we'll come to before we end the class. Okay, so the other thing is continuous revelation gives birth to continuous ministry, so which means that the Lord, we go to God, we don't plateau off on whatever subject, on whatever subject that we have learned, or the Lord has taught us, there's always more. There's always more, so we don't plateau off, and this is continuous revelation. The Lord puts in our hearts so that, of course, we are impacted, we are changed, and that impacts others also. It overflows to others' lives also. So there is this continuity of receiving from Him, having our lives changed, having our lives impacted, and that flowing out of us, that river of the Spirit of God flowing out and impacting and changing others as well. So without this, then it's not really the ministry of the word. Without this, it becomes dry, it becomes... It's not something that is transformative. Well, God will even use that, but this is what God really wants to receive the revelation and to minister out of that. So quickly, let's just look at 2 Corinthians 3 and verses 1 to 12, and it talks about certain emphasis as a New Testament minister. Paul talks about his experience, and he's saying, this is how I view you and the people who to whom he was ministering, and this is what does in our hearts, in your hearts and so on. Excuse me. So 2 Corinthians and chapter 3, let's go through... Verse 1, do we begin again to commend ourselves or do we need as some others epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you verse 2, you are our epistle written in our hearts known and read by all men. So Paul is saying that, talking to the Quentin Church and saying, you are our epistle, like a letter written, you are our epistle, and you are an epistle written in our hearts and known and read by all men. So in other words, you're saying you are in our hearts. As people to whom God sent to minister, you are in our hearts. So there is this engagement, there is this connection, which God set up, which God set up and he's saying you are in our hearts. So there's no disconnect in that way. So we say that, another word to use is burden. That we are burdened for certain location, certain people who grew up and so Paul is saying you are in our hearts. So that is again set up. That connect is brought about by the Holy Spirit. So then verse 3, clearly you are an epistle of Christ. Paul is saying that you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh. So saying that you are an epistle. Now the author, the one who wrote that epistle is Christ and of course he used us to minister. He used us to speak to you, to minister to you, to serve you. But that service also, it was written that whatever we did and whatever we shared, that what Christ wrote as an epistle, it was written not with ink, not with natural means, but by the Spirit of the living God. Not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh and of the heart. So he is saying that, book of the Spirit, of course he ministered through us, not with ink, but by the Spirit of the living God. And in our, in your hearts. So we look at this next class in detail. So Charles you just want to share about relations 1, 15, very quickly if you can please. Charles here. Charles here. Charles has gone. Let's share when we meet. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Maybe you can even put it in this stream. So we can, you can share then. Fine. You can put it on the stream also so we can read it. Okay. Right. So next class when we come, we will look at it in detail. Second Corinthians 3 and, and you know, Charles says, you know, how God used him and his team to minister, but it was actually the ministry of the Holy Spirit and how he wrote on people's heart. And, and, and so we understand that, that the Spirit of God is the one who does the work of transformation. And it's, it's not human manipulation. It's not, it's not what I do, but it's, it's the Spirit of God working on, on writing on people's lives, the transformative work. And so to really, I love God to do that. Right. And so despite us, in spite of us to, I love God to do that. And so, and so, and so the beautiful thing that, you know, and also the liberating thing is this, that it takes the pressure off us. Right. So we are not like achieving or trying to do something and bring about all that we're doing is, communicating, of course, engaging with God. There is an engaging in the hearts of people. There is that using those, you know, our minds and, and natural means to illustrate at, at, but, you know, we understand that the Spirit of God is the one who's having a conversation while we do that. And he's the one who is bringing about transformation. Right. And that's so liberating. That takes the pressure off. And so you're free to do, free to engage with God and free to, you know, minister. Right. With the liberty that the Spirit of God gives. Okay. So we'll stop here and we'll meet again on Friday. The same topic. Okay. Thank you so much. God bless. Thank you, Pastor. Okay.