 So, yeah, I just wanted to ask you all, like, if you have any questions or anything that you might want to add to what was shared, anything that you felt was highlighted by God to your heart, you know, as we read through all these things, what is your, I mean, what is it that you understood, what is it that you, yeah, what is it that, yeah, go ahead, Charles. Thank you, Pastor. This thing of evangelism and being an evangelist is really powerful because I'm looking at the one that we've been handling in the previous hour and the way God is using him, he's not doing the formal things of evangelism, but he's doing evangelism in a spectacular way. So, I'm seeing about a call of evangelism, though there are offices, but it's really deep to be an evangelist. It's so, so deep to be an evangelist and one needs to be, to have lived a life of surrender. You totally surrender and then you are used. Otherwise, you find yourself in a desert, another time you are in the city, another time you are here. So, I am continuing to ask the Lord that He will continue to allow me to live that life of surrender so that I remain an evangelist. Thank you. Wow, praise God. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you, Charles. Anyone else, anything that you noticed? You know, what really something that was on my mind is that, you know, yeah, Philip, the Apostle and Philip the Evangelist. So, yeah, so Philip is, you know, yes, I mean, so we read about Philip here in, in Acts chapter six. So it is the same person accept the six and accept the eight and also accept the 21. You know, it is the same person. The Philip who served tables, the Philip who went to Samaria, the Philip who met the Ethiopian eunuch. Obviously, it's in the same, you know, narrative. And then much later, accept the 21 was eight. We read about Philip who met with Paul and Paul and the team stayed within in Caesarea. So if this is the same, same Philip. That's my question is the one who was the disciple of Jesus, Paul, the, you know, Philip, the Apostle. See, Jesus appointed 12 apostles. So one of them was Philip. So is he the same? No, obviously not. So, yeah, so this is, yeah, so this is another, yeah, so, so this is Philip whom we see, who's a young man who we see, you know, coming to serve from Acts chapter. So that's the same person. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Now I get it. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Yes, Pastor, one more question I had. Yeah. Yeah, please go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. So when we read in Acts chapter eight, verse seven, six and seven, that when he was preaching, we see these unclean spirits crying with loud voice come out of many who were possessed. So now we've often, I mean, I have personally observed in churches when I went to different churches, in some, even while the worship is on, we see people manifesting. And, you know, it's not that some kind of ministry is going on, casting out demons or, you know, but we see automatically, we see during the worship, these unclean spirits, they manifest this cream, and then, you know, the pastor prays and they leave the person. But it's very rare in the churches, we don't see it often happening in the churches. So, you know, how do we understand why it happens in some churches and why we don't see this happening. For ages, you don't see anything happening in the churches like that. So why particularly in some churches, it's a regular feature, like you see this happening, but in few churches, you never see, I mean, people haven't, you ask the people, they haven't ever witnessed any such. So how to understand why does that happen in some church? In some churches, yeah. So obviously, you know, that particular region, maybe the practices of the people, you know, factors like that, you know, maybe they came under oppression because of some dedications by the ancestors, you know, so many things why a person would come under, you know, be demonized. That could be, you know, the reason. That's not to say that the other place also, you know, it's not, you know, there's no manifestation. But the fact, one reason is this, the other reason that I can think of is that, well, there it is a power encounter, right? It's an encounter by the spirit, I mean, encounter that happens there where the Holy Spirit, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, you know, there's a power encounter in the sense the spirit's manifesting and leaving. But it can also be a truth encounter in the sense a person, you know, an evil spirit need not necessarily manifest in that way, but can leave a person and it can be an encounter of truth where a person is exposed to the truth of God's word, maybe it's preached and a person makes a choice and the person makes a confession and comes out of bondage and, you know, the spirit leaves, you know, people testifying that, yes, there is, it seems to be some heaviness that has left or there's some clarity to the mind and thinking and, and whatever was heavily oppressing all these weeks, it has suddenly gone. So it can be, you know, something like that as well. It can be a truth encounter, it can be a power encounter. Yeah, so, so the reason why in certain churches, it obviously refers to, you know, the kind of people who are there and the kind of need that is there. So, yeah, so those are two things that I can think of. So one small follow up question. Is it possible that a person who is oppressed by a demon can attend a church for a long time and never manifest and probably, you know, carry on with it, despite. Yeah, yeah, so the thing is, to what degree the person is, you know, demonized in the sense like what, to what degree do they have that person given place for the influence of the, you know, of the evil spirit in their lives. It could be a spirit of uncleanness, it could be a spirit of deception, you know, to what degree they have. So, obviously, you know, they might be coming and in one area of their lives, probably they, they are believers in one area of their lives, they have probably given, you know, place for a foothold, right? So they are, they're not possessed, they cannot be, but they are, you know, demonized to a certain degree in the sense in that particular area, you know, they have a given influence and control to the evil spirit. So, yes, it is possible for a person to come like that, and maybe that, that area they have not given surrender to the Lord. And every time they come to, you know, they come to church or, you know, they might be, you know, there is a drawing, there is a pulling, there is also a tension where they are saying that, you know, maybe, you know, this far and no more. This is obviously some kind of struggle, it could be. Yeah. Like, I remember at one of the youth meetings, like, yeah, I had come to know the Lord, and then we were part of the organizing of the youth meetings, and I remember my, taking my cousin there, and my cousin, he, after a meeting, you know, after the camp, it was three days, at the end of the meeting, and people were making decisions and so on, and then so we had a chat, you know, I asked him, would you make any decision? Then he said, yeah, I was actually trying, I was planning to, but then I had a, I heard a voice saying, you know, you will never be able to keep up this decision, or keep up this, maintain this decision. So, so I did not. And then we kind of spoke to him and encouraged him, and, you know, he was actually into a lot of, you know, dancing in temples, you know, that kind of thing, he was interested in the classical Indian classical dance, and he had actually gone very deep in that, and so he would, so obviously he had this experience, you know, after hearing the gospel, and so it took him some time to come out of those things. Yeah, so, so there is a struggle, he wasn't manifesting anything, but he didn't make the choice, you know, so it could be like that. Yeah. Yes, Pastor, thank you so much. Yeah, welcome. Anyone else? Any questions or something that that was really highlighted to you? Okay, you know, what I was, what I was really thinking about is that maybe, you know, some of us in this class, you are pastors already, or maybe you are leading a congregation, or maybe you're called to be pastors, right? You will be maybe in future leading a church or leading a congregation. So, so the importance of sharing or giving clarity about the call of God to the, you know, to the believer is felt that, you know, that was, that was really important, because sometimes we, we don't do that, and we, we want people, let's say, you know, I have a certain call of God in my life, and God wants to use me in a certain way. And then I think that every believer needs to do the same thing, you know, because this is what I'm doing. So I just say, okay, this is what you do, you know, you got us called you to ministry, you better leave your job. Okay, you better resign, and you better do this. And, you know, I'm, of course, I'm, I'm modeling it for the person, but I'm also not really teaching the whole thing, right? That there are differences in ministries, and when it comes to evangelism and being an evangelist, so to really, you know, not control the person and not really, it's an important responsibility, you know, as a pastor to help them help people discover the call, and point them to the word and, and to the dependence on the Holy Spirit and saying that these are the options before you, and you are free to choose and to follow the Spirit of God in carrying them out. And even as an evangelist, you know, there could be, you could be maybe having a profession, having a business, maybe God has called you to do something, and then, you know, and be an evangelist in the corporate world, maybe, and have access to people, have access to lives, which, which a pastor may not, where a typical evangelist may not have access, right? So it could be, you know, several of those things. So to really the, to teach the congregation the importance of that, right? So maybe for those of us who are, you know, pastors and who are called to, you know, in that, maybe you'll remember this, you know, when you are mentoring people, leading people to, to, you know, stir up the gift to point them to the call of God, help them discover the call of God in their lives, but also, you know, show them the distinction and release them to the calling that God has for them. Okay. So Sam, it is amazing to learn about Philip and how he pioneered evangelism to the point where all his foyer, you know, that's something obviously he modeled his life, you know, example. Well, and also it so happened that all four were prophesying. Yeah. So it could be different, I guess. Rose, what was the revelation from the Lord that made, okay, made me, made you go into full-time ministry? Was it supernatural or the Lord opened the way for you? Okay. Yeah. So for me, I think it was a growing desire. You know, it was a growing desire to, to really serve the Lord in the full-time capacity. So, you know, I think I shared that I used to work. I was in corporate sales. So for about eight years. And so every time weekends were, you know, obviously, weekends were spent in church. It was a busy time for us. We used to help out in worship, help out in youth ministry. So normally all our Saturdays and Sundays would be, you know, doing that. And of course, week, during the week, there was obviously office and home and other things. So, so that was how it was. So it was a, it was really a growing thing, growing desire. And also, there, there came a point when there were some specific instructions. There were some specific prophetic words. There were some specific quickening of scripture from the Word of God. So, so it was like that. There was some, you know, specific guideposts. And God used that to confirm what was already in my heart and to take and opened up, opened up the right door of opportunity for me to step in. And, and even then it was not what I am doing at present. It was, it was more of an administrative administrative function, administrative task with maybe 80% of that and maybe 20% of that. The other 20% was probably spiritual ministry, you know, like leading worship and maybe sharing the word when there was no one, you know, like pastor was traveling or something like that. So it was like that when I, after I came in and so, so, so if you want to ask some specifics, what was your revelation? I would, I would just say the specific thing was a growing desire. So, you know, if maybe many of you shared, right, like you didn't know, you can't really tell the date, time, you know, when you actually accepted the Lord and for me, also, it was the same thing. And also, this was a growing desire to do something, to serve the Lord. And we just did that. So it wasn't like a very well-defined moment about, just went about serving the Lord. And I could see that more and more, God wanted me to step into that. But a couple of times, powerful moments where when I came, I think I shared this in the Holy Spirit class last year. So very well, when defining moments where when I came to APC, all people's church for the first time, and it was to lead worship for an evening meeting. So I came there, led worship, went out to answer some calls from a client. There were some missed calls from the client. So I went out to call, make those calls. And that's when my wife came and called me and said, hey, the preacher wants to talk to us, talk to you. So the meeting was still happening. So I went there. It was a guest speaker, not Pastor Ashish. And the first thing that he tells me as I went up, you know, I was feeling a little embarrassed. People will, you know, I just led worship. And I wasn't in the meeting. I had gone out, you know, feeling a little embarrassed. Everybody's looking. And so I, it was a small crowd. So, but just went up front. And the first thing the person said was, God is calling you to be a pastor. And this is what I see and so on. And at the end of the meeting, of course, he asked me, you know, did it witness to your heart? And there was no witness. I didn't know that term witnessing to your heart also. And I said, no, I mean, the first thing, first time somebody had said this to me. And so on. But I noticed that I just made a note of it. I wrote it down. But I noticed that every time this was about set in September, right? In September 2001. So every time, every September, October, there would be a quickening. It would be a prophetic word. So because I mean, I saw that pattern, I would write it down and much later realize, Hey, this is September, October, there's something, you know, which was pointing to in the direction. And I was quite happy, you know, working, doing my thing, serving God in the weekends. But there was this constant push nudge. And till I found myself walking suddenly one day in it. And yeah, so that was how it was. I know it can be different for different people. But for me, that is how it goes. Yeah, right. That's right. The desire to serve the desire to, yeah. Yeah. So as long as we are not, you know, having a pre, you know, predetermined scenario, even that could be God's desire, you know, like a big, a big vision, right? Or maybe preaching to thousands, you know, that kind of thing, it could be. But as long as, you know, we don't set that scenario, right? But if it's, if it's God given, you know, just go ahead and say, God, you have called me to this. So this is what I have in mind. Like if you see Philip, he, he didn't care. If it was going to be an audience of one to whom I was sharing, or if it was going to be an audience of 10. So as long as we serve, and as long as we are faithful, we will definitely find ourselves walking in the fullness of God's God. So, so I think we should not really be worried about, you know, that, especially, you know, when you're, like if you're in a Bible college to be trained for ministry, you know, that can be a worry. Okay, what next? You know, people are going to ask them, my neighbor's going to ask, you went to Bible college, now what are you doing? What next? Don't worry about that. You know, you could maybe after you soon after you finish, you could maybe go in for higher studies, maybe some of you, maybe some of you are just called to start a new work, and that's fine. So maybe some of you, you know, you just go back to what you're doing, right? And what you're doing right now. And, and then you will walk into the fullness of it, you know, you just begin to serve, serve from what you've learned, serve, you know, maybe even I'm sure there's these two years or three years, the way you serve is going to be different, the way you relate to God is going to be different with, you know, your, you know, the scope widened and so on. So just continue to be faithful in that. That is what I would say. And then don't, you just, you know, don't worry, and then say God, you know, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? You know, let that not be a worry or anxiety. Just continue to serve. Yeah. Okay, so let's, let's, let's move forward. Okay, if you have other questions, you can ask later as well. Okay, so let's, let's move forward. So we see this about Philip and, you know, he, Philip actually preached in different locations, different people, different crowds and, and this is what he did, right? So we also read about people who, along with Philip, who, who were actually running for their lives, who were persecuted, who went about preaching the gospel. And, and one such group is what, you know, planted the church in Antioch, right? We read about that. Let me just go back to Acts. And so, yeah, accept, yeah, accept 11. Okay, Acts after 11, verse 19. Now, those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen, so he's referring to Acts after seven, right? Now, those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as, you know, these are the places, Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but Jews only. Okay, but some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene. And the hand of the Lord was with them, verse 20, 21, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord. So we see that. So in Antioch, obviously, you know, when people responded, the work started, the church, so we don't even know the names of the people, right, who traveled, who shared Philip, of course, is recorded, but who did this work and a great church, Antioch, a missionary church that we read, Acts after 13 talks about Antioch, church in Antioch, there were prophets, there were teachers, people like Barnabas, Simeon and others and Saul, who became Paul, he was also there. And Paul does, you know, his missionary journey actually starts from there. We are ministering to the Holy Spirit, God gives them directions and starts from there. So you see that there were people whom we do not know names, don't know their names, but in the New Testament, in the Epistles, in the Book of Acts, we see that they went about doing this. They obviously didn't care about titles or whatever, but they just did the work of ministry. So we understand that, we learn from that. Okay, another place where we can see, learn about what was really happening at that time is the third episode of John, so that's three John. And this is an instruction that John gives to the church, to the elder of the church, Gaius. So three John and verse, okay, which is yeah, verse five. Okay, verse five, three John and verse five. Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers who have borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well, because they went forth for his namesake, taking nothing from the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such that we may become fellow workers for the truth. Okay, so he's talking about whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers. Okay, so he's talking about brethren and people whom they knew, who were believers and so on, and also talks about strangers who were obviously traveling, visiting. And he says, you know, they have borne witness of your love before the church, you know, before the body of believers. So send them forward, is the instruction. I think just help them, send them forward, meaning take care of their expenses as they go from this place to the other place, maybe travel, whatever they might need for, you know, accommodation and everything. So involving money. So send them forward in a manner worthy of God, right? So he's saying send them forward in a manner that's worthy of God. They're doing, they're doing good work. So help them and you will do well if you do that. And then he says, because they are staying, you know, they went for the sake, when they're traveling, they're doing this for the sake of the Lord. And they're not taking anything from the Gentiles, you know, the non-Jewish people, so they're not taking anything from them. But because they just want to share and minister and so we can help them. They're saying that we ought to receive such, okay, be hospitable for such kind of traveling ministers, heightened ministers, receive such that we may become fellow workers for the truth, so that we are part of this team, that we might partner in this great work for the sake of the truth that we might partner for the cause of the kingdom, right? So that's the instruction which John gives and then we see that, you know, that is something that, so we understand that, yes, people traveling, they were, and from many of Paul's epistles, when we read First Corinthians, when we read Second Corinthians and especially Second Corinthians, he writes about the false apostles or he writes about ministers who were actually taking care of their own things or their own needs and who were abusing the hospitality, they were manipulating people. So we know that, well, even from that negative example, we see that this was happening, right? So people were preaching with wrong motives, right? So we see that as well and we see where Paul writes and he says, you know, people were speaking or ministering with, preaching the gospel with wrong motivations and another place where he says is, I think in Philippians where, yeah, Philippians also, he talks about that. The former verse 16, Philippians 1 and verse 16, he says, the former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, okay? So this is also, so even from the negatives, the thing we see that, well, there were people who were traveling, who were preaching, who were sharing the gospel, right? So we understand that about the early church. There were itinerant traveling ministers, right? Okay, so then we, about Paul himself, Paul testifies, he's talking about his own ministry and of course, when we read the book of Acts, when we read about the first missionary journey, the second missionary journey and the third missionary journey, we see the kind of work that he did and he's referring to himself as the apostle, you know, he writes and he says, Paul an apostle, right? Apostolos sent out one, a commissioned one, okay? And he also, again, reminds himself, you know, several episodes, not from man or through man, but through Jesus Christ. So he referred to him as the apostle, but if you look at the ministry, he did preach the gospel in different locations to different people, right? Let's look at Romans 15 and verse 17. Okay, Romans 15 and verse 17, where he says, therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God, for I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me in work and deed to make the Gentiles obedient in mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God. So that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyrican, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ and so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation. Okay, so the thing is that, sorry, I'll let me read the other words also, but as it is written to whom he was not announced, they shall see and those who have not heard shall understand. And so that was Paul's ministry. So, and also his, you know, something that he held his value that he wanted to preach where the gospel had not, which was the non-Jewish world, you know, even in the Jewish world, where he would go to the synagogues and preach and so on. So, but he made it his aim to preach where the gospel was not preached and he didn't, he, that does not mean that he looked down on, you know, places where it was already preached. No, he, of course, he went to Ephesus and they were already believers there, you know, when we read the book of Acts, we see that in Ephesus, Acts chapter nine, I think, right, we read about, yeah, his, him going to Ephesus, probably it's something else, not Acts nine, just one minute, sorry. Yeah, not Acts nine, sorry, I think it's Acts 19, sorry, not Acts nine, Acts 19. So, so he comes to Ephesus. So, so he did preach there, but his main thing was to do a pioneering work. So he was apostolic in that way, right, to do a pioneering work, to open up new territories, to take the gospel where it was not heard. But he fully preached the gospel of Christ. He was a bearer of glad tidings. He preached the gospel, the message, and as a person, the bearer, and the one who preached, he, he did the work of preaching the gospel, the work of an evangelist, right. So, so we see this in the early church and I'm sure that when we read through, we will, we will see different, we will see other things as well, like other people who, who are doing the work of the gospel, work of the evangelist and who are ministering, but maybe we can, you know, notice some of these people who are specifically doing the work of the evangelist also, right. So that is what we see in the early church. Now for us to again, understand, so this is the work of ministry. So not everybody who becomes a believer and calls or has a calling for ministry need not be referred to an evangelist, referred to as an evangelist, right, or call the pastor. And we see that this was a specific call of God. And, and this is how the person worked. And some of the things that we notice is that a passion to share the gospel, like, even if I, my life is in danger, you know, the passion to share the gospel, that Christ must be made known. Okay, so we see that. And we see that that passion also drove the person drove the evangelist to several other places where Christ's name was, was not preached, or was not heard, or where the person was led by the Spirit of God, right. That is also another very important thing, where the ministry gift, you know, generally, if you look at the ministry gift, it's partnering with God. Okay, so which means that God is the one who is sending God is the one who's who's designing everything. And in he's the one who is actually sending us out, right, like, what we see Paul writing to the Corinthian Church saying that verse nine acts, I'm sorry, one Corinthians chapter three, and verse nine. Okay. Can somebody read that, please? It's very important verse acts, I'm sorry, one Corinthian chapter three, and verse nine. For we are God's fellow workers, you are God's field, you are God's building. Thank you, Sam. So, so this is what, you know, he's telling the Corinthian Church, which has so much of confusion because of comparison and so on, saying you are God's fellow workers, or we are God's fellow workers. Okay, we are God's fellow workers. So what does that mean? Fellow workers, co workers, co laborers. So in other words, saying we are partners with God in this mission. But he is the one who's who has the heart who has commissioned us. But we are partners with him. Sorry, we are partners with him, we are partnering with him. But we are in other words, in modern day, modern terms, you can say that he's saying that we are God's leaves. Absolutely changes, right? So with the passion, with the desire to serve, to preach, because of the way circumstances are, as in the case of, you know, how it was for Philip. What are the circumstances? Not the ideal of circumstances, most difficult. Life was in danger. But the stirring and the passion and the reality of change destinies, which he was already, you know, well acquainted with, which already knew, saw that, was, you know, was just propelling him to share, right? And even with ministerial success and fruitfulness to be sensitive to such a degree, to the leading of God, that he would even obey to reach out to one person, right? So we see that happening. So, and we see in the role of evangelists that, well, healing, deliverance, right? It is part and parcel of the ministry of God. No need to shy away from it, but really to pursue it. You know, maybe he didn't see it, we prayed. Well, just pursue, hunger, go after, because we studied 1 Corinthians 14, Paul writes and he says, pursue love and desire, spiritual gifts, desire, spiritual gifts, right? And all the gifts of the spirit. Obviously, we see healing and miracles and deliverance, being a big part of the ministry of the evangelists, but we pursue all, we desire all, pursue love, desire all, the gifts of the spirit. Why do you desire the gifts of the spirit? Obviously, the instruction is there because God desires, his desire is for us to desire, so that we got desire being the manifestation of the spirit in our ministry, right? So that's God's desire, that he wants to see the manifestation of the spirit in our serving, in our ministering, right? So for us to hunger for that, and not to shy away from that, and to look for opportunities for that, and to believe God and be expectant of that, you know? And we can look for opportunities, we can look for, you know, especially, you know, there are needs everywhere. And people, obviously, maybe sharing, saying, I have this problem, I have this thing, and, and yeah, we, we can ask God to intervene in those circumstances. And I remember, you know, like, people who are needy, you know, people begging on streets, you know, I sometimes, you know, we have the time to talk, just tell them that I just tell them, like, okay, I'll give you this, but I want to pray for you. And I want to pray for you in the name of the Lord Jesus, and, and this is what Jesus did. Of course, if they understand the language, you know, take the time to share and say, this is what Jesus did on the cross, I'm praying, that's why I'm praying in the name of Jesus, and I'm going to pray, right? So taking that, you know, taking those opportunities to see, to do that, and expecting God to manifest in those moments, right? Right. So, so we see this happening in the ministry of the evangelist. So it's much bigger than, than just taking a message. It's, it's much bigger than that. You realize that you're actually partnering with God, you realize that it's, it's a team. You are in God's team, and he's the one who's releasing the gifts. He's the one who's putting you into that. You realize that, okay, all other role models, you know, sometimes, here's the thing, sometimes we, we go by, maybe flawed models of ministry, right, flawed models of ministry, and maybe it worked for a season, maybe, you know, there are, there are people who are exploiting those kinds of methods for their own ends. And so wrong models really being wrong, wrong role models really being set in ministry, right? So the thing is to, to go be led by the Spirit of God, not to be swayed by any of that, and to stay true to the call, stay true to the call, to serve, and that's the most important thing. Okay. Okay. So let's look at the next topic, which is the historical, the restoration, historical aspect of the evangelist, which is actually the restoration of the ministry of the evangelist. So probably we'll, we'll talk about that for some time, and then we'll, we'll continue in our next session, right? So, so we see that in your previous class with church history, right? So, so you would have learned that, you know, this church, this Book of Acts, the Church and the Book of Acts, we see so vibrant for, you know, for four, for centuries and, and, or, you know, for that time for hundreds of years, and then we see that something come in a sense of a lukewarmness and a sense of, you know, a formal religion sitting in after around 480, right? We see, we see that happening. And what followed that was almost a millennia of, of a dark season of what is called the dark ages by the theologians and, and historians following the church, where the, this kind of vibrancy was not there in the church, although they were, you know, they were individuals, they were groups of people. But predominantly, we see that church had become more about rituals, more about outside form, and it would become a, you know, like what the Lord Jesus wanted, right? Become a form denying the power, denying the transformative power. So, the word itself had come to be chained, you know, literally, right? The word was only, of course, the Bible was only in a, in a, in a language like Latin and others, the common man could not understand. Common man was not allowed to understand. No translation was allowed. It had come to such a place, you know, such, and it's, it's sad that you see that, right? The state of the church is very difficult to understand. Okay, is, is this the church? But we also see from 1400 AD, you know, definitive, definitive moves of God, whether the God is restoring or God starts to bring back to the church what was lost in terms of theology, in terms of structure, and a lot of that theology, a lot of the doctrine and the ministry offices and so on. So, we see that being restored, right? So, so we're going to talk about the ministry aspect, restoration of the ministry of the evangelists. Now, it, with regard to the time period, it cuts across, it goes, you know, even touches during those times before the Reformation, and, and, and, and talks about, you know, different people who were involved and so on. So, it's very interesting and we're not going into the details of each of these movements or each of these personalities. Just going to name a few, but I really like to, you know, encourage us to, to read some of these names, some of these people and what they did. It was not like they were the perfect people or they taught the perfect thing, but, you know, they had a passion for God, right? It was not like they were, I mean, they did not have limitations and, and it's not like they, you know, there's nothing, everything was perfect about them, right? They have their limitations, they have their failings, but God used them and, and we see that, right? So, let's look at a few of them. So, some of the historians, like Eusebius, one of the earliest of the church historians, so he talks about how after the apostles and this is, of course, information that's outside of, you know, from, of the scriptures, which, where, you know, which we also see in scripture that there were people who were traveling and who were sharing, preaching the word, the, the, the fellowships or the body of believers helping them to do this, right? Helping them so that they could go from place to place so that they could carry the gospel and, and they could share, okay? So, we, we see that happening. Some of the names mentioned there are, you know, Panteneas of Alexandria, who is, who supposedly traveled as close to India, you know, and, and then we read about several of the movements or the groups, which, which were, which actually gathered around, you know, just like, I'm sure you would have studied about the denominations, right? Because of the restorative move of God, there was a person or people who taught that particular truth and they were, you know, people or denominations, which were formed because of that truth, which was proclaimed, right? And, and, and we see the same thing. There were some movements and they were, of course, recognized by the name of the leaders or, or some other name, but we see that, you know, several names like the Bogo Mills. We read about the Hussites and Hussites actually, you know, about, his name is, his name is spelled J-A-N, but he's called Jan, Jan Huss, and, and how he, they were, they were a group of people who, who were actually reforming, you know, the church or, Jan Huss was much before Luther, Martin Luther, but saw the kind of excesses, they were there, the controls that were there, the things that were not in accordance with godliness, not in accordance with the church and then, you know, being about a kind of a reformation to that, trying to bring in change to that. So you read about the Hussites, you read about the, the low lords. Okay, so the low lords again, were who gathered around the message of John Wycliffe, Wycliffe and who was, who did a lot of Bible translation, and that term itself, low lard, means to mutter from the, from the medieval Dutch trans, it's a Dutch word, right, which means to mutter and probably it, it was referring to the style of worship, you know, they, they would read scriptures, they were meditating, just like the Hebrew way of, you know, muttering, meditating on the word. So, so probably it's referred to that. So they were called low lards, a small group, again, you know, wanting to reform the church, so they would travel, they would minister, they would share the gospels, which took them away from their own homelands to other shores, right, so they would go travel, share. Then there were other movements like the Puritans, the Methodists, Presbyterian Baptists, which sent out missionary, which sent out people saying that, hey, this is a message which is worth sharing, this needs to go to other lands as well, right. So we read about, you know, people like John Wesley, people like the Wesleyan brothers, Charles and John Wesley, and interesting how they, in England, from the Church of England, and who are kind of, Charles John actually, he founded two coal, two, you know, ritualistic, and, and both of them had a change of heart in, in what is called the Aldersgate meeting, Aldersgate Society, the meeting, the message that was preached, touched them, it was someone, the speaker there was reading about a preface to, what Martin, preface to, preface which was, a preface to that message, which was Martin Luther's, something to do with Martin Luther's, his writing, and all his testimony, and then, you know, the message was about Romans, the Book of Romans, Salvation by Faith, Salvation by Grace through the Faith, so, so that was, that really touched their hearts, and so we read about these people who travel, who move from place to place, who, and especially the Wesley brothers, you see that they moved from, from England to America, and both continents, you know, they, they shared, they ministered, and others like John, George with Whitefield, and others are there, so we'll stop here, we'll look at the other people also, but you know, if you're going through the notes, you see these names, you can, you can, you can just read about it, maybe check on the internet, and it's interesting, right, to see the kind of work they did, the kind of evangelism they did, and from that also we see, not only do we see the restoration of the ministry of evangelists, but we also see the methods, some of the methods they used, okay, okay, so we'll stop here, and we'll meet again in our next class, thank you so much, God bless, have a great day, yeah, okay. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, see you, bye-bye. Thank you, Pastor. See you, guys.