 Good morning everyone. Can you hear me? Am I clear or audible? Yes ma'am. Okay, thank you. How are all of you this morning? Ma'am we are good fine mother grace of God. Thank you. You are in Mumbai right? Dikenu you are in Mumbai. Ma'am I am in New Delhi. Oh New Delhi. That's why it's so cold. I was wondering. I thought you were from Mumbai so you are wearing a sweater. It's very cold the last few days. Yes ma'am it was quite cold. Like this year the cold is not like before. It is more colder than last year. Yeah I know they said the next few days there is going to be a cold wave in whole of North India. So how are the rest of you? Is it totally very cold in Nagaland? Yes ma'am it's chilling out here. And one of my classmates from Nagaland, a Bible college classmate, he posted, he put up a pic on our group. One of the mountains in Nagaland he was a little snow over there. So he was pretty excited and I was too excited to see that in Nagaland. So yeah the weather conditions are really changing drastically all over the world. Okay, before we begin class can one of you lead us in prayer please? Can I ask Lubega to lead us in prayer? Father in heaven we thank you for today's morning. Again we thank you for the gift of life that you've given to us Lord. Lord we know it's not by mighty but it's by your grace Lord. Lord as we're going to study today this course in Christology. Lord please direct our teacher to be used as a vessel to communicate to us so that we can understand and be able to add to the kingdom. We do pray in the name of the Father the Son the Holy Spirit and everybody says Amen. Amen. Thank you Lubega. Okay so last week we looked at two chapters, chapter five and chapter six. In chapter five we basically tried to get an understanding of how Jesus was fully God, fully man, how he was truly God, truly man. 100% God, 100% man when he lived here on the earth. And we also saw that you know when Jesus took on humanity when he became a human being he became flesh. He did not cease to be what he eternally was. That means he did not cease to be who he was, not cease to be God. Rather we see that the eternal God took on the fullness of humanity. He became a body, soul and spirit and but he limited himself to a certain manifestations of his deity. And we looked at the seven steps of incarnation in Philippians chapter two versus six to eight. So we saw that Christ was in the form of God. He was equal with God. We saw that he did not consider it to be robbery or to be equal with God. He made himself of no reputation. He took upon himself the form of a born servant. He came in the likeness of man and he was also found in the appearance of man. And we studied each of these steps or these phrases from Philippians chapter two versus six to eight in detail. And we try to understand the whole concept of incarnation of how God became fully man. Then we moved on to chapter six where we saw the humanity of Christ. We discovered that Christ was human in all areas. So we saw all areas that he was fully human. But we also saw that he willingly restricted himself to the limitations of a human being. And hence we saw that he was truly human in every way except that he was sinless. In every way he was just like us, a human being just like us. He limited himself to all the weaknesses, to all the friendlies, to all the limitations of a human being except that he was sinless. Then we understood the importance of his incarnation. Why was it necessary for Jesus to become fully human? Today we'll dwell deeper into that. We look at chapter seven, the purpose of incarnation. So now having a basic idea about incarnation of God taking on the human form, having examined the humanity of Christ, we will now try to summarize the why of the incarnation. What was the purpose of the incarnation? Why did Christ have to become a man? Why did he have to take on the fullness of humanity? Why couldn't God bring about the plan of salvation in a different way? Why did God have to become man? Why did he have to take on the fullness of humanity? And what was God doing through the humanity of Christ that he could not do in any other means? So we look deeper into incarnation and in this chapter and in today's lesson, we'll try to understand, you know, incarnation in a deeper way by trying to answer these questions. And also we'll study a few scripture passages. So I would request all of you to have your notes opened and, you know, you can also have your bibles open. So as I read out the various scripture portions, I request you all to read the scripture portions. So we're going to answer these questions. Basically, what was the purpose of incarnation? Why did Christ have to become a man and take on the fullness of humanity? Why did God have another plan, another way? Why did he have to think of God becoming man and saving people from their sins, redeeming mankind back to himself? And another question that we will try to answer was what was God doing through the humanity of Christ that he could not do by any other means? So we look at these questions, we'll answer these questions by looking at a few scripture passages. So like one of you to read Hebrews chapter one, verses one and two, please. Hebrews chapter one, verses one and two. God who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets. As in these days spoken to us by his son, whom he has appointed, heir of all things through whom also he made the worlds. Thank you, John. So we see that God in the past through various instances has spoken through the prophets. And what he communicated to the prophets, they spoke or they spoke the very words or they communicated the message from God to the people. So the prophets communicated to the people, the words of the Lord. But we see that at the appointed time, the fullest of time, the right time, you know, God sent the word. Okay, the word here is the logos, which is referring to Jesus Christ. And we see that God spoke through his son, everything that God wanted to reveal to communicate to say to man, he revealed, he communicated through the person of Jesus Christ. So he said it in the person of Jesus Christ. So the incarnation of Jesus, therefore, is God's final and complete word to man. Okay, the incarnation is basically God speaking to man through the man, Jesus Christ. So incarnation is basically God speaking to us, to mankind through the man, Jesus Christ. Okay, in your notes, there is a quote given there. I'd like to read that Jesus Christ is the self manifestation of God, the final culmination of all the acts of revelation of the Old Covenant and their fulfillment. The highest person, sorry, the highest personal peculiar word of God. Now, what do we understand from this quote? You know, we've already learned quite a bit about incarnation. So, you know, we basically understand that Jesus is the image of God's person. He is the perfect and complete copy or the complete representation of God, the nature of God and who God really is or who God really is like. Okay, so in the incarnation, we have the complete revelation of the living God and we begin to understand or we know or understand who God is, what he does, what God is like. Okay, and the word is the word we're talking about the logos. Okay, Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ is God himself speaking to man, God himself revealing himself to man and the word is God manifested. Okay, so Jesus Christ is a God in the manifest form. So the acts and revelation of God in the Old Testament are completed and fulfilled in the coming of Jesus Christ in his incarnation. And the acts and the revelation of God are completed and fulfilled in the highest and personal way in Jesus. So that is what this quote means and all what I just said is what we have studied in the previous chapters. Okay, we look at, you know, how Jesus, the incarnate one is very intimate with the Father, the only one in the bosom of the Father. We know that no one has seen God. No one can ever see him because he lives in unapproachable light. We've already studied about this. And hence we as human beings could, you know, never fully understand or fully know God. And the only way we could fully understand, the only way we could fully know God was when he became one like us, when he became fully man. So it was only when God became fully man that we were able to, and when he revealed God to us, it was only then we could fully have a full understanding of who God is. We were able to understand the nature of God. We were able to understand the way he works, the way he does things. And we were able to know him just as he is. Okay. And we were people who were living in darkness. Darkness means we were living in sin. We were living under the bondage of slavery under Satan. We were slaves of Satan. We were also living in darkness because, you know, we could not fully understand God. And that is why people at different points in time were trying to know who God is, what he is like, and they came up with their different forms of God, different images of God. And so we see that we were living in total darkness. But 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 6 tells us, can somebody read that please? 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 6, for it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Thank you. So here we see that Jesus Christ is the light. He was the light. He brought us knowledge. He gave us understanding of and revealed the glory of God to us. Basically we talk about God's glory, you know, if talking about who God is and what he does. So Jesus Christ is the light. He was the light. He is the one who brought the light into our darkness, into our dark world, into our sinful estate, our sinful position in our dark, dull minds, you know, in our dark understanding about who God is. He brought about the light and we were able to understand God. We were able to understand and have received a knowledge, a revelation of who God is, his nature and also understand his glory. So in the incarnation, the Son of God, who is intimately one with the Father, which means that he was in the bosom of the Father. Basically we looked at this phrase in the earlier chapters and we saw that the bosom of the Father means that Jesus and the Father were very close. They had a very close intimate relationship. So they were intimately one with each other. So that is what the meaning of this phrase, bosom of the Father. So it reveals or declares, and Jesus who was in the bosom of the Father reveals, he declares the Father's glory to us as we read in John chapter one verse 18. Can one of you read John chapter one verse 18 please? No one has seen God at any times. The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. Yes, so we see, thank you Silatoli. We see that no one has seen God at any time, but it's only the Son who got the Son Jesus Christ, who became man, who is very intimate with the Father. He is the one who has revealed God to us, so there is no one who is qualified to reveal the Father other than the Son. Okay, because there is no one who is more intimately one or intimately connected with the Father. There's no angelic being who has this honor of being in the bosom of the Father. No angelic being had the privilege of being intimate and very close to the Father other than Jesus Christ. And so it was quite relevant for the one who was very close to the Father, very intimate with the Father to reveal the Father heart to us, to reveal the nature of the Father God to us, the one to reveal God's glory to us. And so Jesus was the only one who was qualified and why was he the only one who was qualified because he was intimate with the Father, very close to the Father and no other angelic being had this honor, no other angelic being had this privilege, this position other than Jesus Christ. And hence it was only Jesus who could become man and hence reveal the Father heart to us or reveal God to us. Okay, we look at sufferings in the flesh, how Jesus suffered in the flesh and we'll try to understand again and understanding about the why of the Incarnation. Okay, he suffered in the flesh. We read in 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 18, can somebody read that please? 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 18. For Christ also suffered once for sin, the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but met alive by the spirit. Thank you Silatoli. So in this verse in 1 Peter it tells us that Christ was put to death in the flesh that means he was put to death in his human body. Therefore the human body provided a means for Christ to die. Okay, no one can put God to death but you know, hence the human body provided a means for Christ to die. And the purpose of his death was so that he might bring us back to God. He can reconcile us back to God. So it is through this death that we have been made blameless. We have been made free from guilt. Okay, and it is through his death that we are also presented holy and blameless without any accusation, without any fault before the Most High God, before God the Father. And don't you think that is so wonderful that you know Jesus through his death, you know, has made us set us free from the penalty for sin, the power of sin, the consequences of sin. He has also made us to be blameless, free from guilt and shame. And also it is by his death that we are presented holy and blameless without accusation before God the Father. So can we say an amen to that? So wonderful to just, you know, know how wonderful this God is, you know, in our darkness, in our lowly state, in our sinful state, you know, he's rescued us. And he's not just rescued us from sin and left us on our own, you know, and he has not made us slaves but given us the position of being his children, his sons and his daughters. Be part of his family. And also it's so wonderful that he has began the sanctifying work in us. And through the sanctification process, you know, he is making us blameless, holy, and, you know, so that we can be presented blameless and holy without any accusations before God the Father. Okay. And so this is so wonderful to know about the God we serve, the God we worship, such a wonderful, loving and such a gracious and merciful God. Okay. So it is even through his death that he has reconciled, you know, man back to God. And we read about this in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 18 and 19. So can somebody read 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verses 18 and 19 please. Now, for Christ's authors of words, once for sins, just for the unjust, that is might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by spirit. Now, all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and has given his ministry of reconciliation. That is the God was in the Christ, reconciling the word to himself, not inputting the three passes to them and has committed towards the word of reconciliation. Thank you. So here we see the reconciliation work of Jesus Christ. It tells us that it was God through Christ Jesus was reconciling the world back to himself. So we see that, you know, God the Father even planned and he was the one who initiated or took the step to reconcile us back to himself. And God reconciled the world back to himself through Jesus Christ and God was not holding the sins of the people against them. Okay, but he was, you know, willing to forgive. He was willing to reconcile himself back to man and get back back to himself. So Christ has reconciled God and man. Now God and man are both together are made one through Christ through his death on the cross. Okay, we look at another two more aspects of his sufferings in the flesh. Okay, and what is the consequences of that Colossians chapter one was 21 and 22. Can somebody read that please? Colossians chapter one was 21 and 22. And you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight. Okay, so once again in Colossians chapter one was 21 and 22. We see how we were enemies with God. And, you know, because we had, you know, given ourselves to Satan, we were under his control under his rule, and we became enemies of God. But, you know, through Christ's death, through Christ's physical death on the cross. Okay, we are no longer enemies with God, but we have, you know, he has reconciled us back to God. So we now have a new status, a new relationship. We are friends of God. We have been reconciled back to him. We are part of his family and we are children of God, we are sons and daughters of God. So the purpose of the incarnation was to provide a body, you know, which facilitated Christ's physical death. And through Christ's physical death, you know, all of these things could happen. We could be reconciled back to God. You know, we could also, you know, be presented holy, blameless, without accusation before God the Father. We could also be redeemed back to God. We can become now friends of God, and we are no longer enemies of God. So it is through Christ's death that God and man are reconciled. We look at another scripture passage in Hebrews chapter 10 verses 19 and 20 that talks about, you know, Christ's suffering in his flesh and what was the result or the consequences of it for us as, you know, as human beings. Okay, so can somebody read Hebrews 10 19 and 20 please. Hebrews 10 19 and 20, therefore brothers, since we have confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus by a new living via new and living way way opened for us through the curtain that is in his body. Okay, so here the writer of Hebrews is basically talking about the whole concept of, you know, the temple and, you know, the way we could approach God. You know, we were limited in our approach to God. We could only go through the priests and the priests would take our petitions back to God. The priests would hear from God and would, you know, reveal to us what God's will or plan is, and the priests would lead us into doing all the sacrifices that would make a torment for our sins or the forgiveness for our sins. And, you know, once in a year, the high priests would make the atonement for our sins and enter the holy of holies and, you know, you know, make the sacrifice for the atonement of the sins of all of the Israelites for that year and receive mercy and grace from and forgiveness of sins from God. But we see that when Jesus died, you know, the curtain of the temple that separated the holy place from the holy of holies, the curtain tore into two, which means that now, you know, there's nothing that separates God and man. There is no, you know, one that we need to go through. We have direct access to God the Father. We can enter the holy of holies. We have direct access to God the Father. We can go directly to him. And it says here in this verse that we can go before him with boldness. Now, if you look at this verse, word, go before him with boldness, it's very relevant there and very aptly put there because in the Old Testament, you know, the people used to really be afraid to approach, even go near, you know, the holy place or the place where the priests had to go. They would just be limited to the outer courts of the Gentiles, where the Gentiles had to be there or the outer court where it was meant for them. Even the priests would literally shudder and shiver to go even, you know, once in a year into the holy of holies because of the fear of this, you know, of this holy and mighty God. And so here we see that, you know, when Jesus died and we have access to go into the holy of holies, yes, it's the same God. He hasn't changed in his nature, in his characters, in his characteristics, in his attributes. He is the same God, but, you know, sinful as we are in our sinful estate, even though we have been reconciled back to God, even though we have been redeemed from sin, even though we have accepted Jesus, we still have our sinful nature. We still, you know, given to sin and we still are living in our sinful ways from time to time. But here we see that we have boldness to go before the most high God. This boldness is that introspective of our human failures, our sinfulness in spite of us, you know, tasting and experiencing the salvation of God, you know, continue to give into our carnal nature at times, you know, in spite of all that we can still go with boldness before the most high God that, you know, that we will not perish or we will not be struck down dead. But this boldness that we have to go and boldness of the access that we have to go before the most high God is not because of who we are, it's because only through the blood of Christ that we can enter, you know, or go to the Father with boldness and we can go before him by a new and living way and we can receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need. And just the last words in this section about the sufferings of Christ and what we have received as a result of it, we can also read in 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 1. Can somebody read 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 1 please? 1 Peter chapter 4 verses 1. Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. Thank you. So here we see that Christ suffered for us in his body, in his flesh. And why did he suffer? It's not because he was sinful, but he was a sinless one, but he suffered for our sins in the flesh. So we just looked at why did Jesus Christ have to take on incarnation? It's because of the sufferings in the flesh. He's the only one who could take on the sufferings in the flesh because he was sinless. And through his death, we see what and all we have received. We looked at 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 18. We said through his death, his human body provided a means for him to die and the purpose for which he died was so that he can bring us back to God. And through his death, we have been reconciled back to God. We are no longer enemies with God. We are friends with God. Through his death, we have been made blameless and free from guilt. And because of his death, we are presented holy and blameless without accusations before God the Father. And we saw that we are reconciled to God in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 18 and 19. And then we also looked at Hebrews 10 verses 19 and 20 where we see that because of Christ death, we have the boldness, we have the access to go before God the Father, to bring before him petitions, our requests, our supplications. And we can receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need. It is so wonderful to know all of these things that we have received as a result of us being in Christ as a result of Christ becoming man suffering in the flesh so that we can receive all of these blessings. Then we move on to looking at some scripture passages will help us to answer the questions that we asked in the beginning of this class, basically looking at the why of incarnation. We see that Jesus also in his body bore our sins. So he bore our sins in his own body. So in the incarnation, we see that Jesus took on the human body, which was prepared for him, like we read in John chapter 1 verse 29. We also read about this in Hebrews chapter 10 verses 5 and 6. One of you read John 129 and somebody else can read Hebrews 10, 5 and 6 and one more can read 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 24. So that's John 129, Hebrews 10, 5 and 6, 1 Peter 2, 24. John 129, the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, we hold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Thank you Zillatoli. Can somebody read Hebrews 10, 5 and 6? Hebrews 10, 5 and 6. Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering. You did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. In the one offering and sacrifices for sin, you had no pleasure. Thank you Sita Kenu. One more can read 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 24. Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we have having died to sins, might live for righteousness by whose stripes you are healed. Thank you. We just look at these three scripture passages that we just read. So in the incarnation, we see Christ took on a human body, which was prepared just for him like we read in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 5. Sacrifice and offerings you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. So he took on the body that was prepared for him and in this body he became the Lamb of God. So what do we understand by this phrase Lamb of God? What do you understand by this phrase Lamb of God? How did Jesus become the Lamb of God? Or why did John the Baptist have to say when he saw Jesus that behold the Lamb of God? It takes away the sins of the world. Yes, please share your thoughts. Yes, go ahead Lubega. I think it is because he came to take away, when we look in the Hebrew culture, they used, they were using a lamb to cover up sins. So I think this is why he was taken to be a Lamb of God because he was going to take away the sins of mankind. Thank you. Good explanation. Yes, he was the Lamb of God because he was going to take away the sins of the world and goes back to the Old Testament concept or the sacrifices that was made in the Old Testament. Anyone else? What do you understand by this phrase Lamb of God? How Jesus is the Lamb of God? Why is he mentioned as a Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world? Yes, Jeffina. I think because there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. So Jesus was the Lamb of God because he shed his blood for us so that he can forgive us. Okay, there's no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood, without the sacrifice. Yes. And so Jesus had to become that sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. Thank you, Jeffina. Anyone else? Okay, so we've seen the Old Testament whole chapters that are attributed to sacrifice and what sacrifice they had to make for witch sin, for witch cleansing. So the whole so-called religious system of the Old Testament was based on sacrifice. It's basically that the sacrifice that they made atone for their sins are covered, their sins and hence a holy God could come and speak to them, to minister to them, could lead them, guide them to the promised land and also be their God. So the sacrifice or the sacrificial system played a great vital importance in the whole understanding of the Israelites to God, the whole understanding of God was based on the sacrificial system. And also we see that God had taken a lot of steps to explain the sacrifices that had to be made and why it had to be made and the whole importance and the relevance of the sacrifice that had to be made so that it would cover the sins of the people and God could relate to them, God could minister to them and God could lead them and be very present among them. So we see one of the important sacrifices they had to make for us on the day of atonement. This atonement sacrifice was done yearly for the sins of the people and it was on that day that one of the priests were chosen to go into the Holy of Holies. So they used to basically make three sacrifices, take two goats, one goat that was sacrificed and the blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat. The mercy seat that was the Ark of the Covenant, the mercy seat which was placed in the Holy of Holies. And then the other goat which the priests would lay hands on basically signifying the laying the sins of the entire Israelite people on this goat and this goat was released or sent off into the wilderness. And we also see that before the, we also read that before the priest went into the Holy of Holies, he would make a sacrifice for himself basically. You know, because he's entering the Holy of Holies, a ram he would sacrifice for himself for his sins and washes clothes and enter into the Holy of Holies. Basically making atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world, receiving mercy, grace and forgiveness for all the sins that they had done. So, you know, we see that the sacrifice paid was the center of the whole community of Israelites, their whole living, everything centered on the sacrifices that they had to make. And we see that Jesus became the sacrificial lamb. We read in Hebrews that he became, he was the full sufficient and the perfect sacrifice that he made for the sins of all humanity. And because he became and made this complete sufficient and final sacrifice for the sins of all humanity, you know, there's no more sacrifices that has to be made, no more burnt offerings that has to be made. And we have to be very thankful for that. And imagine the amount of sacrifices that we would have to make in a year for all the cleansing that we have to offer to God, the sacrifices for our cleansing, sacrifices for our sicknesses, sacrifices for the sins that we do and the temple that, you know, we would have would be just a place of sacrifice and blood and animals, just like was in the Old Testament. But thank God we don't have this whole aspect of making sacrifice. Jesus had become the full sufficient and the perfect sacrifice for our sins. And because of his sacrifice, you know, we don't receive the wrath of God, but we receive mercy and grace. We receive forgiveness of sins. We receive compassion and we experience the blessing of God. Okay, so no more sacrifice for sins is required because Jesus made that full sufficient and perfect sacrifice. Okay. So the offering of this lamb had to be complete, sufficient sacrifice. It had to be had to be made. And if you notice in the Old Testament, Jesus, God was very particular with the kind of animal. You had to sacrifice. It had to be a male lamb, one year old, and it had to have no blemish, no sickness, no weakness, no frailty in it. And we see that, you know, we read in Malachi and Haggai, you know, Jesus says, God says, sorry, God says, you know, look at the sacrifices you're bringing to me. You know, you're bringing sick animals, lame animals, and you want me to accept those sacrifices. And so if Jesus had to make that once for all and be that full sufficient, perfect sacrifice, then he had to be perfect in every way. And if he had to be perfect in every way, then no human being could make this sacrifice because we are all born in sin. And hence it was, you know, it was very needed that, you know, that a human being who was sinless could make this full sufficient and perfect sacrifice once for all for the sins of the whole mankind. And hence it was in God's plan for God himself to become man because it was only God who was sinless, God was pure and holy. And him becoming a man, being a sinless man could make that full sufficient and perfect sacrifice. So through the incarnation, this was made possible. We look at, you know, the sacrifice of Jesus, the full sufficient, perfect sacrifice atonement. We look at it in a little more detail as we move ahead in this chapter. Okay. And then we'll move ahead to the next point that he conquered sin in the flesh. Romans chapter 8 verse 3 and 4. Can somebody read that please? For what the law could not do in that it was we through the flesh, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin. He condemns sin in the flesh that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to his will. Okay. Thank you. Here it says in Romans, you know, Paul writing to the church at Rome and he's talking about how these Jews were holding on to, you know, that they were descendants of Abraham. They were taking pride in their, them being descendants of Abraham. They were taking pride that they had the law. They had the covenants. They had the prophets. And hence they were kind of bringing in different rituals into the church, basically bringing in the Old Testament ritual or circumcision. There was a lot of heretical teaching that they were spreading. It was basically these Jews who had accepted Christ were bringing this heretical teachings of Jewish fables and Jewish genealogies. You know, which was unnecessarily unnecessary and they were kind of, you know, taking people away from the truth from the doctrine of Jesus Christ that Paul was teaching. And hence Paul is here, you know, writing to the church at Rome and talking about, you know, that the, that Abraham was justified, not just by keeping the law because he had not received the law by then, but he was justified by his faith in his righteousness because of his right, his right living, his right ways, the ways of the Lord. And also he was justified by faith. And so he says that those who believe in Jesus Christ, they are also justified by faith, just like Abraham was justified by faith and they become children of God. And they receive the blessings of Abraham, not because they kept the law, not by keeping the law. So Paul is saying it's irrelevant to keep the law now because, you know, we are justified by faith in Jesus Christ. We look and we'll study about the law in, you know, and what Paul is trying to say as we move ahead and progress in this chapter. But we see that, you know, the law could, what the law could not do, the law could not, you know, make the people righteous. The law could not get them into a holy standing with God, a right standing with God in a right relationship with God. And so because what the law could not do, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh. Okay, we'll go for a break and we'll come back and we'll look more into what the law could not do, what Paul is trying to say and what Jesus accomplished in his body that the law could not do for us. Okay, so we'll go for a break now and we'll come back after that break. Thank you everyone.