 So we saw all these wonderful ways in which the Holy Spirit has been moving across the Old Testament right from creation, very interesting. We wouldn't have thought that, okay, this is the Spirit of God who is doing this. You know, many times we think, okay, the Holy Spirit, He releases the gifts, He gives us inspiration, He enables us to put together a message, He fills somebody, baptizes, you know, fills somebody with power for witnessing. Yes, He does all that and so much more and so much more. So by the end of it, we see that, you know, we as believers, as disciples of the Lord, are more and more dependent on the person and the power of the Holy Spirit, without which you can't do anything, without whom you can't do anything, right? So we are more and more dependent on Him. Okay, let's, we're going to look at a few more. Okay, so where did we stop? We stopped where Joshua was prepared for leadership as a leader. He's empowered as a leader by the Holy Spirit. So the thing that we understand is this, you know, many times the whole, the task of leadership could seem very daunting in the sense, in the sense, it seems like, it seems very intimidating. Okay, and so many times we, we shrink back saying, I don't want to do this. Even the call of God, right? Maybe, you know, it seems exciting. Oh, God has called me to do this. God wants me to do this. But many times we look at the task and then we say, I don't think so. Let God choose someone else. I don't want to do it. Like Gideon, like what did Gideon say? Gideon said, God, you know, I'm the weakest. Our clan is the weakest. Our tribe is the weakest. And, you know, I don't have all these abilities to choose someone else. Moses, despite all the thing that he learned in Pharaoh's court or the King's court, right, Pharaoh's court, he says, you know, I can't, you know, I don't have the ability. So while in the natural, that may be true. In the natural, that may be true. Saying, okay, God, I don't have any, you know, educational background. I don't have any, you know, all this, you know, I don't come from a family that's like four generations of pastors or, you know, or whatever, right, whatever thing that you're looking at. They're not business people. And now you're asking me to get into business. I don't have all that, God. But the fact is that because he is called, the Lord can and the Lord will empower, right, because he is called the Lord will empower. And that's what he did with Joshua. Joshua was empowered by the Holy Spirit. He chose, he prepared, he selected Joshua and he empowered him. Okay, so also in all our, you know, leadership positions or leadership roles, God will do that. Okay, okay, let's look at one more. We see judges, right, we see judges like Othniel. I'm not going to go into the verses, but we see that the same God, the same Holy Spirit empowers them to relieve the people. Okay, now this was at a time when Israel did not, when Israel did not have a king, it was surrounded by all these nations and God raises up these judges and God raises them up so that they would lead the nation, so that they would speak the will of God, the mind of God to these people. Okay, let's move on to first and second Samuel, right? Okay, let's see first Samuel 3, okay, chapter 3, okay, and verse 1, right? Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli and the word of the Lord was rare in those days. There was no widespread revelation. Okay, verse 19, so Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Be'er Sheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the Lord. Then the Lord appeared again in Shiloh for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord. Okay, now of course we don't explicitly see the work of the Holy Spirit, okay, or the term Holy Spirit mentioned here, right? But we know that it is God who raises up and establishes people in their roles of responsibilities. Now after a long time we see that Samuel being established as a prophet and we know that it is the work of God, God's Holy Spirit, right? So we see that he is doing it and also in first Samuel 9, if you turn to chapter 9 and verse 9, okay, formally in Israel when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus, come let us go to the seer for he who is now called a prophet was formally called a seer. Okay, so here we see that people in Israel, they went to the prophet. Why? Because he would speak the mind and heart of God to the people. Whether it was a king, whether it was, you know, when they wanted to inquire of the Lord. Now that's another thing that we see that, well, they did not have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. Now all of us, as believers, we have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. So we can personally, individually, we can talk to God and we can say, Lord, you show us, you show us, you direct us, you lead us, okay. But we see that before the cross and before the ascension of the Lord, we see that this was how it was, that the Lord would come, the Holy Spirit would come upon a prophet, upon a seer, and the people would go to inquire and say, please tell us, what does the Lord think about this? Is this a good decision? The kings would go, and is this a good decision? Is this a good choice? So that is what we see, the Holy Spirit coming upon the prophets, coming upon these people at these specific times and for the specific assignments so that the people can go and receive counsel. Okay, then we read about Saul, King Saul, 1 Samuel chapter 10, and we read verse, yeah, let's read verse 5, verse 6, and then verse 10, okay. 1 Samuel chapter 10 and verse 5 says, after that you shall come to the hill of God, where the Philistine garrison is, and it will happen when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a stringed instrument, a tambourine, a flute, and a harp before them, and they will be prophesying. Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. Now who's saying these words and to whom? Okay, who's saying these words? Samuel, to whom is he saying these words? To Saul, right? He's directing Saul, he's saying, this is what will happen. You go, there will be a group of company of prophets coming down the mountain from the high place and they will be prophesying, they'll have the instruments, and he says, the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you and you will also prophesy. To prophesy is to speak forth, to speak forth the heart and the mind of God. Okay, that's all. It might involve foretelling something about the future, it may not also, but it's to speak forth. So it happens, the Prophet Samuel is saying, this will happen to you Saul. You go, you do this and the Lord wants to do this for you. He wants to come upon you and he wants so that you will speak the heart and mind of God. And then let's look at verse, let's go down to chapter 11 and verse 6. Well, before that, sorry, before that, let's just go down to verse 11, verse 9, sorry, verse 9. So it was, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, that God gave him another heart and all those signs came to pass that day. When they came there to the hill, there was a group of prophets to meet him, then the Spirit of God came upon him and he prophesied among them. And it happened when all who knew him formally saw that he indeed prophesied among the prophets, that the people said to one another, what is this that has come upon the Son of Kish is Saul also among the prophets and so on. So we see something supernatural happening when the Spirit of God comes upon the people. When the Spirit of God came upon the people, it was a random person like Saul who was to lead the people of Israel. At the same time, we see that, yeah, he was supposedly the people of Israel as a king. He was not a prophet, like he was not a prophet, but then the Lord came upon him and something supernatural happened. He spoke the heart and mind of God, he prophesied so that the people themselves were amazed saying, what is this happening? So God can do, the Spirit of God can do supernatural things. And one among them is the ability to speak, giving man the ability to speak the heart and mind of God. We're going to be learning about the gifts of the Spirit in detail. We're going to be spending a lot of time into each of these gifts, which are listed in 1 Corinthians 12. One of which is again, prophecy, the prophetic gift, and we're going to be learning about that also. So it's nothing new or it's nothing great for the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is who he is and this naturally comes out. This is an expression of the Holy Spirit through a finite man. So if we are thinking, it's prophesying, speaking for the heart and mind of God, it's for special people, it's not for me. Well, God can do that through you, God can do that through each one of us. It's by the Spirit of God. Let's move on. And then we see something very sad, something very unfortunate happening in 1 Samuel 16. 1 Samuel 16 verse 13. Verses 13 to 16. And again, we go down to verse 23. I'm sorry, I said 1 Samuel 16. Yeah, 1 Samuel 16, 13. 13 we see then saw, so sorry, Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah. I was actually referring to another verse, which is 1 Samuel 15 and verse 35. 1 Samuel 15 and verse 35. It says, and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. It's after that whole incident of Samuel, sorry, Saul not worshiping or not obeying the Lord. And this is what the Lord says. He regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. And here we see that David is being anointed. Samuel anoints David and anoints him in the midst of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord came upon David and from that day forward. Then we see that if you read verse 13 to 16, we see a very kind of a difficult passage there. It says, the Spirit of the Lord was 14 departed from Saul. A very sad state, Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. Now Saul was someone who was anointed. He was chosen to be king, but in everything, he seemed to have departed from leading as king. He disobeyed. He put up an appearance of wanting to please the people more than wanting to please God. His disobedience was partial obedience and all that we see. So we see that God, the Spirit of God departing from Saul. So the question for us is this, will the Spirit of God depart from us? What do you think? We'll ask the online class also, will the Spirit of God, will the Holy Spirit depart from us? If so, under what circumstances will He depart? And what time does He normally take to depart and come back, etc.? So what's your name? Charisma says, the Holy Spirit won't depart unless we, until or if we deny the Lord Jesus and totally reject Jesus. Anyone else? A blasphemy. If we blaspheme God, if we blaspheme the Holy Spirit. I just want to mention just one verse and we're going to go back to it a little later, but I'll just mention that here. So we are studying the Old Testament, the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. Never forget that. So this is all in the Old Testament. A lot of things that he did in the Old Testament, he will do today. He is not changed. He will do today in our day and time. There's a lot of things that he then prophesying, leadership, creativity, strategies for the nation, etc., everything he does today as well and he will do it today. But the way in which he moved in the Old Testament we saw is different because he would come upon people for a season, empower them, maybe even to complete their assignment and then he would depart. Let's turn to John chapter 14 and verses 15 onwards. Okay, 15 to 18. Okay, what does the Lord say? This is the Lord Jesus and he's describing, pointing to something that will happen once he's gone. He says, if you love me keep my commandments and I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever. The Spirit of God whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you often. I will come to you. Okay, so turn your attention to verse 16 says, and I will pray the Father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you. What does the word abide mean? Stay, dwell, right? And it's a long term, you know, thing. It's not a very short term thing. So that he may abide with you. What is the word there? Forever. Okay, forever, right? How long is forever? It's quite a long time I think. Right? Forever. So this is the promise of the Lord Jesus saying the Holy Spirit, he will come and he will abide with you forever. Right? So that's the time frame, he's saying he's going to stay with you and he's going to be doing all these wonderful things. Yeah, but yeah, he will not depart like the way we see in Saul's case. He will not depart. He will stay. And like Charisma pointed out, well, if there should there come a time where for some reason, you know, it's going to be very difficult, but for some reason the person just rejects the Lord Jesus and say, I want nothing to do with Jesus. I completely reject, renounce Jesus and insults, you know, what we see in Hebrews 10, insults the spirit of grace. Well, we don't know. And we can't say, you know, hey, that person, spirit of God has left that person. We can't say, we can't judge, right? So only God would know, we don't know, right? There is a possibility, right? But for all of us who love the Lord and want to please the Lord, you know, and in the course of doing that, maybe knowingly, unknowingly, willingly, unwillingly, you know, we come at acts of sin and we, I mean, we mess up, we go through maybe a season of, you know, just ignoring the Lord, neglecting the Lord, he will not depart because he is here to change us from the inside out. He is here to convict us of sin. He is here to empower us, empower us to fight against sin, right? He is here to fight again, to make us fight against, win the victory against the works of the flesh. He's here to lead us into all truth, into freedom. That's the work of the spirit. So he will abide with us. I just thought we should mention that because like even, you know, in the Psalm, Psalm 51, I think, you know, it says, where the Psalmist says, you know, take note to your spirit from me, right? The Psalmist is actually repenting. He's coming back. Is it 51? I just want to get that, right? Sorry. Let's just get that. Yeah, Psalm 51, right? Psalm 51, and verses 10 and 11, right? He's repenting after his sin of adultery and murder and all that. And he's saying, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. You know, so he kind of, he knows the value of God staying with him. Psalm 51, thank you, Prabhu. So yeah, so yeah, so we see that. I just see another question by Sury Kamara. What is blasphemy? How can one blaspheme, the Holy Ghost, for which such sin isn't forgiven? Yeah. So when we read about blasphemy, I think we looked at it earlier. Okay, so when we look at blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, so blaspheme is to say that something that is done by God, they're attributing that work to the enemy, right? So which is what the Pharisees did, right? When right after the Lord Jesus cast out that spirit, and all the Pharisees and all the way around them, the religious leaders, they said he casts out the cause of the, because he's empowered by Beelzebub, who's the prince of the power there, and he's doing it by that power. So the thing is this, immediately after that the Lord says, you know, every sin will be forgiven, but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. Because the thing is that they knew, they had seen, they knew all the wonderful works, the ministry of the Lord Jesus, and they came to a point where they knowingly and willfully, knowing that, you know, he's doing all this because of, you know, not wanting to lose their position because of pride, whatever, they maintained that position of, you know, saying that this is because of the enemy. They were attributing the work that he did by the Spirit to the work of the, an evil spirit or Satan himself. So the Lord says, you know, that is the blasphemy. So it is not out of ignorance, but it is out of, you know, knowing fully well that this is the work of God and turning around and attributing that to the enemy. So, yeah, so maybe, you know, in our ignorance, you know, that's a fear, you know, people have, hey, I said something about against the Holy Spirit, you know, maybe I've committed that unpardonable sin, maybe that's it. There's nothing, you know, nothing in it for me anymore. But the very fact that you feel that, hey, something is wrong and I need to get right with God, that's, that's the work of the Holy Spirit. Just think about it. Right? The fact that you have that conviction of sin and you're not, you know, you're not just saying, okay, I'm just continuing to go in that direction. The fact that you are sensitive to sin itself is, is because of the work of the Holy Spirit. It's because of the conviction of the Holy Spirit. So therefore, you know, you don't have to come to the base or condemning yourself of, you know, being in that place of fear, saying, okay, maybe I will not be forgiven. We do a lot of things out of ignorance, but the fact is, you know, like the Pharisees, if we would continue to attribute things knowingfully well that something is of God, and then we attribute that to the enemy, that is blasphemy. Right? Okay, so that is, yeah, I just, I hope that clarifies, sorry. Any doubts here? I think they're putting the questions. Yeah, Karen. Yeah. A distressing spirit from the Lord. Yeah. So Karen is asking this question for Samuel 16 and verse 14. Right? But the spirit of the Lord departed from, from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him. So how can an evil, evil spirit, you know, come from the Lord, where he is holy, and there is no shadow of turning at all, you know, that's, so these are some exceptions or some difficult passages that we see, you know, again, you know, the fact is that the psalmist, he would play the harp, and then the spirit would leave. Right? That's what we see in verse 23. A distressing spirit would leave. And so why would that happen even? Right? So that's a, that's a, that's a thing. But the thing is, you know, when we look at the rest of scripture, okay, this is a verse that we see here, one, one verse, and I think there's another verse where it talks about a lying spirit, okay, in the mouth of the prophets. Okay. So we see these two exceptions, but we know that God is holy. In him, there is no darkness at all. So the only thing that we can conclude is that because, you know, Saul was rejected by God and Saul had moved into a place of disobedience that he opened up his life for this distressing spirit to come in, you know, that's, that's the only thing that we can say. So it's not like the Lord is sending, you know, the evil spirit or it's, the spirit is coming from the presence of the Lord. So in the English language, yeah, that's how it is, it comes, you know, that's how the thing is. So, so we can't build a doctrine on it and saying that the Lord sends the Holy Spirit and the evil spirit, you know, that would be wrong. Yeah. Yeah. But I agree. It's one of the, you know, some of these passages are kind of difficult. Any other questions? Yeah. So he regretted. Yeah. Lord regretted. Why did he even anoint him as king? Yeah. Yeah. So the Lord, yeah, that's a great question. So Rinchen is asking this question. You know, see, we read that the Lord actually asked Samuel to anoint Solace King and so Samuel is the only one who does that. And after that, the Lord, you know, after all those things that happened, the Lord says, okay, I regret making Samuel king. So if the Lord knew why did this happen, why did he even allow this, right? So the thing is that the Lord knows the end. The Lord knows the outcome. But as human beings, he has given us free will as well. Right? So he has given us free will to, to follow after him, to obey him fully is given us free will. So we choose to do that, either to obey or to disobey. But Saul chose to, you know, hold back, chose to disobey. Well, did God know that? Obviously, he would have known because otherwise he won't be God. But still, God, you know, gave that, you know, he chose him as king. You know, you look at our lives, right? So, well, God has, maybe he releases us into ministry and, you know, you're all here. God knows that the outcome of certain things, you know, certain choices that we would make in life, but still he would, yes, given us that free will. God knows that, okay, because of this free will, we would, you know, we can have the potential, we have the potential to make some choices, some unlawful choices, unrighteous choices. But God has still given us that free will, right? So, so then, you know, we, coming back to specifically about the Holy Spirit, as it says, do not grieve the Spirit of God. So the Spirit is the same thing which is happening here. He regrets. And here in our case, maybe he's grieved by some of the things that we do. So, so we can say, God, you know that he knew that, you know, I'll end up doing this. So why did he give you that freedom? Why did he give you that choice? But the fact is, he's given it, you know, in his sovereignty, he's given us free will. And it's up to us to make those choices. So Saul also had a choice. He could either follow him fully or, you know, disobey him. But he disobeyed and the Lord, Lord was grieved. God says, I regret making it. So that's, that's the thing. Does that answer? Okay. Okay. So any other questions before we move on? Right. Okay, let's move on to David. We go to, we saw that he, you know, for Samuel 16, verse 13, the Spirit of God came upon David and from that day onward, let's move on to second Samuel and verse 23. And we see that Spirit of God moves him and he's inspired to write all these Psalms. Okay. Now these are the last words of David, Psalm 23, sorry, second Samuel 23 and verse 1. Now these are the last words of David. Thus says David, the son of Jesse. Thus says the man raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob and the sweet psalmist of Israel. Okay, verse 2. The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me and his word was on my tongue. The God of Israel said, the rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men must be just ruling in the fear of the Lord and so on. Right. So the psalmist, King David, he's known as the psalmist of Israel, the sweet psalmist of Israel. And we know that he wrote, you know, a lot of these Psalms that we see out of that 150. We see a lot of Psalms written by him and others also. But we see that as the Spirit of God, you know, he's anointed by the Spirit of God and he testifies here in verse 2, the Spirit of the Lord spoke by me. And when we read about the Psalms, I'm sure you'll be learning in praise and worship also. You see that a lot of these Psalms were prophetic in nature, like are prophetic in nature, you know, these Psalms, which means the Spirit of God moved the psalmist to write certain things. Some of the things that he did not even understand at that, he would not have, that he's writing about how the Messiah would die, would suffer and die and so on. You know, we read about that in the Psalms. So we see that he may not have had a complete understanding of it at that time, but he sang, he prophesied. So a lot of this is prophetic in nature. Right. So the Psalms were birthed out of the Spirit of, by the Spirit of God, even as he moved on David to write these things. Okay. Another interesting thing that we see is 2 Samuel 7. Okay. Let's just move back to chapter 7. Okay. 2 Samuel 7 and verse 1 to 17. Maybe I'll just pick a few here. Okay. And it came to pass when the King was dwelling in his house, that the Lord, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies, that the King said to Nathan the prophet, saying, See now I dwell in a house of seder, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains. The Nathan said to the King, Go do all that is in your heart for the Lord is with you. But it happened that night that the word of the Lord came to Nathan saying, Go and tell my servant David, thus says the Lord, would you build a house for me to dwell in? For I have not dwelt in a house since the time that I brought the children of Israel up from Egypt, even to this day, but I've moved about in a tent and so on. Right. And then he talks about David verse 8. Now therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel. Okay. Let's go down. Verses 12 and 13. When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father and he will shall be my son and so on. Okay. So according to these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David. Okay. Then when we go to verse 12, verse 12. No. Sorry. Let's just move to the last, let's forget that reference. Okay. I'll just get that reference in a bit. Okay. So we see that the Lord is actually putting that desire or instructing David through the prophet Nathan to build the house, build the temple. But actually it's, we know that it's actually Solomon who, you know, builds it and the Lord confirms that also. Right. So it gives that message also. Other share that reference a little later. Okay. Let's move down. Let's go down to prophet Elijah. Right. Let's go down to 1 Kings 18 and verse 12. Okay. 1 Kings 18 and verse 12. Okay. 1 Kings 18. So we read, you know, when it comes to Elijah, when it comes to the prophet Elijah, we see the Lord doing a lot of supernatural work through these, you know, ordinary men of God. Right. When I say ordinary, they were all human beings just like us. But then God did some supernatural things through their lives. Okay. And when we read through King, the book of Kings, when we read through Elijah, Elisha, and also the other prophets like Ezekiel, we see that, you know, some, they, they experienced and encountered God in some amazing ways, some supernatural ways, which actually beats any other, you know, human logic, reasoning goes beyond that. Right. But we see that it is possible. Okay. The reason I'm just mentioning that is because, you know, many times in our day and age, right, with science and technology and so on, which again, we know that it's from God and all this understanding and knowledge. But in, because of these advances, we sometimes, you know, play down the supernatural. Right. We see anything that we do not understand or anything that cannot be controlled in a, in a lab or any kind of experience, you know, experiment, we push it aside. We tend to push it aside and say, okay, you know, that is not valid. But we, when we look at scripture, we see that the Spirit of God does some things that we would probably, you know, in our day and time, you know, because it beats human logic and reasoning, you would say, okay, that doesn't make sense. So it cannot be valid. Right. But we see that God does amazing supernatural things through these people. Okay. So let's, let's read this. Chapter 18, right, chapter 18. And this is a conversation that Elijah has with Ahab, sorry, with Obadiah, right. So, and verse five, I'm reading from verse five, and Ahab had said to Obadiah, go into the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks, perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses so that we will not have to kill any livestock. So they divided the land between them to explore. Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah another way by himself. Now as Obadiah was on his way, suddenly Elijah met him and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, is that you, my Lord Elijah? And he answered him, it is I go tell your master Elijah is here. So he said, how have I sinned that you are delivering your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me? As the Lord, your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to hunt for you. And when they said he is not here, he took an oath from the nation, kingdom of the nation, that they could not find you. And now you say, go tell your master Elijah is here. Okay, verse 12. And it shall come to pass as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to a place I do not know. So when I go and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord from the youth. So what is he saying here? Elijah is saying, go tell Ahab that you found me, right? That we had this conversation. You just go and tell that he's here. So Obadiah is saying, you know, this is what will happen. The Spirit of the Lord will, you know, I'll go tell Ahab. I saw Elijah here and I'll bring him here. But the Spirit of the Lord will take you to some other place, you know, will transport you to some other place. And then my life will be in danger because you know how Ahab is and how he has dealt with people of other kingdoms when he could not find you there. So, which means that it seems to be a common understanding that the Spirit of the Lord would do this, right? Would take, would supernaturally transport people. You know, did it happen in the Book of Acts? We see that in the Book of Acts also, right? We'll just, do you remember to whom it happened in the Book of Acts? The Spirit of the Lord would take someone from one place and take that person to another place to Philip, right? So we see Philip is actually in Samaria. He is, you know, there's a lot of revival that's happening there. And from there, you know, he's supernaturally transported by the Spirit of God to another place, right? So, okay, let's, let's, okay, I know we're just diverting here, but let's read that, okay? Okay, let's go to Acts chapter, immediately after, okay, Acts chapter 8, right? Acts chapter 8. And we are going down to verse 20. Okay, did anyone get that verse? Verse 39, right? Verse 39. So from verse 26 onwards, like the angel of the Lord tells Philip, arise and go to this place. And then he goes, he meets that Ethiopian eunuch and then shares the gospel and etc. baptizes him. And then verse 39, now when they had come out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away so that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing, right? So for us, it's like, you know, how could that that thing happen? But, you know, you read that, you know, it's happened. It happened, you know, it seemed to be in common place during Elijah's time. And we see that happening in the book of Acts as well. We see this being mentioned here. And verse 40 it says, but Philip was found at Azotus and passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. So Philip is also like, you know, he's not sitting here and wondering, wow, you know, from there I came here, how did it happen? He just goes about preaching. That's what we see. Okay, I'm here, might as well preach. I'm preaching, the Lord did this, I can't explain it, but I'm, you know, I'm doing this. So we see that, you know, just to tell us that, just to point to the fact that the Holy Spirit does some amazing supernatural work, and as he did in the Old Testament through the lives of these prophets, he will do so in our day and time as well. Okay. Okay. We have four more minutes. Let's look at a few more examples. Let's look at the life of David. Okay. First Chronicles 12 and verses 17 and 18. Okay. Would somebody like to read? So David received and made them captains of the truth, right? So here, you know, we see a very unusual thing happening. Well, David needs this army, and the Spirit of God is doing something to MSI, and he says this, and the work of, you know, increasing the army happens, right? It's again a supernatural work. What is it? What is recorded here is that the Spirit of God came upon the chief of the captains who's MSI, and he gives us allegiance, allegiance meaning, he gives us support, right? Wholehearted support. He and his men, they give their support. He speaking on behalf of the, you know, of the of the troops, and he gives us support. He says, we are yours, oh David, we are on your side, oh son of Jesse, peace to you, and peace to your helpers for your God helps you. In fact, that message itself, it seems to be like a prophetic utterance, at least, is giving that assurance to David, you know, peace to you and your God helps you. Now, just think about it, how this prophetic word and this prophetic act, okay, or the spirit-inspired words and spirit-inspired act would have, you know, sounded to David, okay? Here he is, and he he needs people, he needs help, and then, you know, his army needs to grow, and here is this person saying, this is what it is, okay? Spirit of God comes upon him and he says, we are yours, we are on your side, peace to you, your God helps you, okay? Must have been very reassuring, right? Must have been very reassuring, and also it's like an answered prayer, right? Out of some, out of nowhere, here's this person coming and saying that he and the troops, you know, for him, and must have, as a leader, it must have been very, very encouraging, right? Can you think of any other instance where, there are many, but, you know, one particular thing where for a leader, he hears these words from the people, you know, these words of assurance from the people. Can you think of, he's a new leader, and then he hears it. Can you think of any instance like that where he, where they hear, in fact, he hears the words which God just, maybe in, you know, in just, just that conversation, God has spoken those words, and he hears those same words repeated to him, okay? That's a big hint, sorry? Gideon, okay, I'm not sure if it's Gideon, but definitely Joshua, right? And Joshua is up to one, he has this conversation, and with God, and God says, be strong and courageous. For the Lord your God is with you, wherever you go, be strong and courageous. And when he goes and instructs the people, the people tell him the same thing, he's saying, only you be strong and very courageous, the very words that he heard from God, the people echo it, and, you know, they speak that word. So, when the Spirit of God leads, when the Spirit of God brings, you know, this orchestrates these things divinely, supernaturally, it brings great assurance to the heart of the leader, right? And it must have been very reassuring for David when he sees these people, and there's this divine connection brought about by the work of the Spirit. So, you know, in our day and time, you know, how would that translate? Okay, or how would that work out? How would that apply? Well, divine connections are people whom we did not know, you know, connecting to the work that you're doing. Okay, maybe it's a work of ministry, maybe it's a work of even equipping for ministry, okay, or training for ministry, and there is the Spirit of God bringing about divinely, supernaturally, these connections, and because of which, you know, you are moved into the plan and purpose of God, right? Spirit of God does that. Okay, okay, so, oh, we have gone beyond our time. Okay, we'll stop here. Thank you. We'll stop right here, and then we'll pick it up in our next class. Online students, thank you, God bless. We'll stop right here.