 I just want to read from Galatians 5, verse 1, and also Galatians 5 verse 1 says, In the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. So the context is about the law where to the Galatian church he's writing, you started off in the spirit now, why are you going back to the law? Why are you going back to circumcision and all that? Because some of the false brethren had come and started spreading that kind of a teaching and so they were slowly going back to in order to be saved you needed to be circumcised to keep the law etc. So you're saying in that context but then this can be applied in other areas as well. We've been given the liberty Christ has made us free. So do not go back and be entangled in the very same thing that Christ has set us free from. Do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. So stand fast and that word stand fast means stand firm and persevere and continue to persist in standing firm and keep that freedom or keep that standing which has been given to you. And then if we go down to verse 13 says for you brethren have been called to liberty. Now we've been called to freedom, liberty. Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh. You've been given this freedom, you've been called to this freedom but do not use this freedom as an opportunity, as a provision for the flesh. But through love serve one another. So this opportunity which means that this freedom, this liberty that we have in Christ, this grace that has been extended to us do not use that as an opportunity. You know we've been delivered, I mean we've been set free from the consequence of the law. So we don't, you know, the ritualistic things of the law. And so do not be entangled again with the things that we've been set free from. And the other thing is this, this liberty is something that you've been invited to. This is this liberty that we have and because the grace of God is something that has been given to us but do not use this as an opportunity, which means that there is a tendency, there is a potential to use it as an opportunity for the things of the flesh, right? Because the spirit of God, you know, the flesh lusts against things of the spirit, right? There is that constant struggle. So the flesh needs to be crucified, the mind needs to be renewed. So do not use this freedom as an opportunity, as a provision to plan to sin or to give in to the appetites of the flesh but stand firm in the freedom and through love, so one another. So this is a reminder for us to continue to live in freedom, right? To not be entangled again, to not to take things for granted the things that we have been delivered from, right? So let's pray. Father, we thank you for this reminder, Lord, not to be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Yes, Lord, we thank you for the privilege, we thank you for the freedom, Lord, that we are experiencing today because of the finished work of the cross, Lord, because of what you did for us, Lord, because of the grace that you extended for us, we thank you for the freedom. Lord, many times we try to, we tend to take it for granted. The very things that we've been delivered from, oh God, the things that we were oppressed with, Father God, we've been delivered from it, Lord, and we knew what it was, God, to be delivered from it, God, the freedom that we experienced, the joy that we experienced, the peace that we experienced, God. And so Lord, Lord, maybe be careful not to go back, not to be entangled in those very things again, Lord. Father, we thank you for this exhortation and warning, God. And also, God, we thank you, Lord, for this exhortation, Lord, that we've been called for that freedom, that we've been invited, we've been called for this freedom, to live in that freedom, God. And so maybe be careful not to use that freedom as an opportunity, as a thing to plan, to fulfil the desires of the flesh, God. We thank you, Lord. We give you all the praise and the glory. We pray all this in the powerful and precious name of our Lord and Saviour. Jesus. Amen. Okay, so last class, yesterday we looked at, we just went through those steps, the path of restoration for emotional wholeness. And that is something that we can do personally, from time to time, just to recalibrate ourselves and to see, you know, are we living in that freedom or have we gone back into some kind of, you know, maybe because of some challenge, maybe because of something, have we kind of gone back to live under that weight again? So sometimes the things are so subtle, right? The drift is so subtle that we don't realise it. And we've given into maybe some kind of a fear, we've given into some kind of a deception. And pretty soon we just see that, you know, we're just living under the weight of that whole thing, right? So from time to time, we can actually recalibrate and see, re-evaluate and recalibrate, right? And take a spiritual inventory, take stock of how things are, and, you know, actually use this method in a very detailed manner to submit, to surrender, to renounce, to repent, to release forgiveness and so on, and continue on. So having looked at that, there are some things that we need to have. Now, this is an ongoing thing, of course, and, you know, from, well, maybe we can do it whenever we feel prompted, or maybe, you know, on a monthly basis even, just a suggestion. But there are certain things that need to be part of our lives as an on an ongoing basis, okay? On an ongoing as part of a lifestyle, okay? Now, you know, when we, probably when we have some kind of a sickness and we ask, we go and visit the doctor and say, you know, doctor, this is what I'm sensing, this is what I'm feeling, maybe, you know, it's something to do with your weight or something to do with some other health parameter. And, you know, the expectation is that the doctor will check and say, okay, maybe you need to take this pill, maybe you need to take this medicine, you know, take it for, maybe you need to take the shot injection, and you'll be fine. You know, just wait it out, rest it out, you'll be fine in a couple of days. You'll be fine, you'll be back to normal. But instead, when the doctor says, you know, you need to make some drastic changes to your lifestyle. You know, you can't eat this stuff ever again, or you need to, you know, get moving. You need to be active, you need to do this as part of your lifestyle, which means it's, it's, it needs to become part of you every day, every week, every month, every year. It's for life, you need to make those changes. Now that's a, that's a difficult thing. And then we, we sometimes want, you know, I wish we had, you know, some kind of a, you know, a fast track remedy. But then the doctor says, no, this is what it is. It needs to be part of you, and it needs to be part of your life. And you need to make these changes for things to get better. And for things to, or the things that have, you know, maybe the changes that are happening in you, in your body. For it to stick, you know, for it to become like a permanent thing, you need to make these changes. So similarly, you know, when it comes to emotional health and emotional wholeness, inner wholeness, see that there are some things that need to be part of our lifestyle. Okay, which means that these things need to become part of our, you know, our lifestyle change. And when we say lifestyle, we're talking about, you know, the picture that we have is that of a marathon, you know, runner. It's not a hundred meters dash where you finish. And then, you know, you're resting. It's a long-term thing, right? So when we look at that, we see that certain things need to be long-term, right? It needs to be a long-term change. Okay, so what are some of these? First thing is to sever, which means to cut off all sinful things, all ties that hold you back, that drag you back. That trouble your soul, trouble or bring a weight. Bring us under oppression. Create a stronghold. Now, that needs to be severed. That needs to be cut. Okay, what is it that's causing you, that's dragging you back to your sinful pattern? What is it that's dragging you back to that downward spiral of maybe fear or oppression or sadness? And what is it that is dragging you back? Now, that is something that we need to understand. What is that trigger? And how can I avoid it? Like, how can I cut it off? If you look at Matthew chapter 5, the Lord Jesus says something very, very harsh, it seems. It's like a surgical cutting away, a surgical action. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 27 onwards, it says, You have heard that it was said to those of old, you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you, for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perished than for the whole body to be casted to hell. So, he's talking about taking action and taking action in a very surgical manner, in a very strict, decisive manner, and describes that cutting away. So, he's saying that if this is a surgical action, in a very surgical manner, in a very strict, decisive manner, and describes that cutting away. So, he's saying that if this is causing you, you know that this is what is causing you to go back. This is what is causing you to live in that place. This is what is dragging you back. You need to cut it off. You need to cut that tie. By that, we mean that let it not be part of your life. When we cut off, maybe a tumor or something, it's not part of the body. It's not part of the body in order to cause further damage and pain and maybe grow. So, the Lord is saying that it needs to be cut away. Look at a couple of other scriptures, 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 33 and also 2 Corinthians 6. So, this is what we see. Let me read 15 and verse 33 where it says, Evil company corrupts good habits. Do not be deceived. Evil company corrupts good habits. So, maybe you've got something good going on in your life. There's something healthy going on in your life and there is this possibility that the kind of fellowship that you have, the kind of company that you keep, well, that influences your habits or the worse, not for the better, but for the worse. So, whatever conversations you're having in that kind of friendship, whatever that company that you keep, whatever you're discussing, whatever you're enjoying together, maybe that is corrupting. That is corroding the values, corrupting whatever good that has been established, that whatever good schedule, whatever good routine, whatever discipline, that is corrupting. So, evil company corrupts good habits. So, that's another thing. So, which means that that needs to be, in order for us to be set right, well, what is corrupting needs to be removed. And again, it's not an easy thing to distance away from maybe friends or certain kinds of people influencing us for the worse, but it needs to be done. And in the words of the Lord Jesus, it is like, you cut away what is causing you to sin. And so, it is painful to cut away a limb, to cut away an eye. It is painful. So, in a similar manner, as a figure of speech, if that habit of that company is what is causing us to sin, then we need to cut away. And it can be painful. That's the reality. It can be painful, but it needs to be done in order for us to actually get back to health. Second Corinthians 6, verses 14 to 18. So, Paul is actually talking about the company that the Corinthians were actually keeping. The association, the kind of association that they had with those who were unbelievers, those who were not believing Christ. So, he's saying, verse 12, you are restricted by your own affections. And then he goes on to say in verse 14, do not be unequally yoked. So, yok is a tie. It's a close association because you're yoked together to go in the same direction. You're yoked together to carry the same load and purpose and direction and all that. You're yoked together. You're tied together. He's saying, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. And then he says, what fellowship, what communion, what coenonia has righteousness with unrighteousness. And he gives several scenarios, what coenonia has liked with darkness, Christ with Belayal and so on. What part has the believer, the unbeliever? And then what agreement has the temple of God with idols? You are the temple of the living God and so on. So, kind of describing this kind of fellowship, this kind of... So, when we think of this, say, okay, actually, there cannot be any communion, there cannot be any fellowship. There cannot be a yok of these kind of scenarios, like with darkness, temple of God with the powers of darkness. No, there cannot be any communion and fellowship. So, in similar manner, since there cannot be, it has to be cut away. So, save it all times. So, it has to be an ongoing, it has to be a lifestyle. So, it can't be an event, it can't be this one-time thing and then we go back. No, it has to be something that we cut. The second one is, again, something that we know, but to renew our mind with the word of God. To make new our thinking and our thinking pattern. See, all of us have some thinking patterns, whether we are conscious of it or not. So, whenever we face, let's say, fear, there is a thinking pattern which leads us to action. Whenever we are in a particular situation, we find ourselves in a challenging situation or any circumstance, there is a thinking pattern. And that thinking pattern has come because of maybe years and years of thinking on those same lines. And that changes, that shifts and changes according to what we consciously allow our mind to be influenced with. Maybe we read a book, maybe we read, watch something and be inspired, motivated and that changes our pattern of thinking. So, here, the word of God is very clear that there will be transformation when there is change in thinking. The key to transformation is thinking differently or renovating our thinking. So, Romans chapter 12 verse 1 to 3, we know that, be transformed. But first of all, he says, do not be conformed with the things of the world, but be transformed. Conform is to fit in with the pattern or be, you know, forced into a certain pattern. So, do not be conformed to the world's way of doing things, but be transformed. Let there be a change, metamorphic, let there be a drastic change. And that drastic change can only happen when there is a change in thinking. When our mind is renewed, when our thinking pattern shifts and changes according to what? According to the word of God. When we renew our mind to the truth of God's word, when we renew our mind to the values in God's word. So, which means that, okay, you know, whenever I need to do certain things and what does the word of God say about it? When we spend time reading the word of God, when we spend time, we are actually being exposed to the truth. We are exposed to the values in God's word and how God values things. What does he esteem? What does he do? Not esteem, right? What is truth? What is a lie? What is good? What is not good? So, we are exposing our minds to it. And when we expose and we expose, you know, and when we take in, we are actually changing our thinking. And it's a conscious act, right? And some of it can be, you know, need not be a conscious thing. Continue to read and without our knowing, you know, our desires are changing, right? Because we are actually exposed to the truth of God's word, the beauty of God's word, the holiness and the power of God's word. It's changing our emotions, changing our appetites, right? And some of it just happens, right? And in the presence of God as well. We are in the presence of God, we are worshipping and there is a change that's happening to our thinking, right? But some of it has to be intentional. Some of it has to be what we see in Romans chapter 8, right? Romans chapter 8 was 13, right? If you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So there is this putting to death. If you put to death, which means you think you take action and you put to death, you decide not to do, you decide that this has to end, right? So there is that conscious, intentional change in thinking, change in a decision, right? So you decide, if by the spirit you decide, right? And then things are changing. Let's look at 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 22 as well. Okay, 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 22. Since you have purified your souls, you know, obeying the truth through the spirit, right? And since you're a love of the brethren, love and as a fervor to the pure heart, since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth. So in obeying the truth of God's word and God's principles and precepts and instructions, there is a purifying that happens. There is a changing that's happened to the thinking. It's like our brain is being washed. And I think it's, you can say it's brainwashing that's happening in a good way, brainwash by the word of God. Many times brainwash is actually used in a negative sense, right? But it's brainwash in a very positive way by the word of God and intentionally, consciously, consciously, you know? Not against your will, but with, you know, the participation fully of your will, of your thoughts, right? And that needs to happen. Now that's a lifestyle change as well. You say that, okay, first lifestyle change, cutting away of things that are dragging, not going back to it, not indulging in it, second lifestyle change, renewing of my mind. The word of God says that this is it, this is how things are, this is how things ought to be. Then we change our thinking accordingly. Okay, the sooner we do that, the sooner we will see that transformation in our lives. Okay, the moment we hesitate and we reason out and we kind of argue, then it's going to take time, right? So that's the second thing. Thirdly, you know, developing a godly lifestyle, growing into Christ's likeness, what we see in Second Timothy 2, that we will grow into the image of Christ, do grow into to be like Christ. Let's look at that verse, Second Timothy 2 and verse 20 onwards, talking about the vessels. Verse 21, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honour, sanctified and useful for the master, prepared for every good work. And verse 22, flee also youthful lust, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. So this is again pursuing righteousness and faith and love and peace and everything. It's an ongoing thing. Sorry, I think I read Second Timothy 2. So it's an ongoing thing. So it's something that we make a change where it becomes part of our life. So with all those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart, saying, OK, this is what I'm going after, this is what I'm pursuing. So that's the third thing. The fourth thing is that we develop skills in areas that we might consider to be non-spiritual. And that actually impacts us, impacts us in our spiritual life, impacts us when we look at our overall emotional health and stress levels and so on. What are some of those skills? Communication. Communication, poor communication. If you struggle with communication, it creates a lot of stress. I'm trying to do something. I'm trying to communicate. I'm not being understood. And we are struggling to communicate in a clear manner. So it's good to develop skills in those areas, in the area of communication. So maybe it's written, maybe it's verbal to develop that. So when we are able to understand others, we are being understood, then it reduces a lot of stress and affects us positively in the realm of our emotions. Then relationships gets. How we relate to others, again, that comes naturally, of course, based on our personality and based on our temperament, we relate to others in a certain way. But if we would intentionally develop some skills in this manner, how we relate to people, how we can relate to people, how not to take offence, how not to do certain things, how to respect one another, and so on. So that also helps us. And it's, again, a lifestyle change. When we manage our time well, when we manage our money well, our physical health, exercise and eating habits, and all that unhealthy things like late night binges and all those things. Turning to eating to fulfill an emotional need. That's something we want to, because eating definitely, it's nutritious food, creates an emotional response. There is a, your body feels pleasurable, receives a certain kind of pleasure when we eat food. So if we kind of feeling low, and in order to feel good, we start to eat. That becomes a problem. Every time we feel low, we want to reward ourselves with a chocolate or an ice cream, or some kind of favorite food, and we keep it there in our house, and it's all there, or some snack, something. So it's not that we are hungry, it's not that your body needs it, but our emotion, our love, our emotion need is there. So when we eat out of our emotional need, then there's a problem. Because every time we feel low, every time we feel stressed, we want to fill that with food, and that affects us physically. So our physical health goes for a toss, and to compound it if we don't have any physical exercise. Physical exercise, we don't move around much, and then our life side becomes pre-sidentry. The nature of work could be like that, where maybe we need to sit for hours together, maybe to study certain things, maybe to work on certain things, maybe to work on some reports or whatever. So it becomes very sedentary. So we need to intentionally work at moving. Moving our body, making sure our muscles are healthy and strong, so which means we need to exercise our muscles, maybe our legs, leg muscles, our hand muscles, different areas of our muscles, which really affect our joints. When our muscles are strong, then they are able to carry our body weight better. Our joints are actually not impacted so much. There is less stress in our joints, like knee and ankles and so on, and back muscles. So the muscles are stronger in our back and all that. So we realize if the muscles are strong, then all those nagging pains and everything kind of disappear. So eating, cutting off emotional eating and also indulging actively in some kind of an exercise, maybe for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, making sure our heart rate is good and all that. It really helps. And this is again a lifestyle change. I can't do it for one week and then just leave it. We see the benefit of it only when we are consistent in it over a period of time. So to look at it, to make that thing, okay, I'm going to do this long term. And the benefit is again, long term. So we're not looking for quick fixes. We have to do it for a week and then say, okay, is there a change? And then if there is a change, I'll continue, otherwise I will not. That's the wrong mindset to have when you're going in for these things. If it's a lifestyle change, it's a long term thing. So the thing is to tell ourselves, I'm going to do it because it's good for me. And I'm not going to look for, I'm going to evaluate things in a short term period. I'm not going to look for short term rewards. Whether there is a reward in a week, in a month, six months, in a year or not, I'm going to do it. That's the mindset to have. And then we will reap the reward. So these are things that we ought to do in addition to those evaluations and then just sitting before God, sitting before the Lord and allowing him to kind of let his light pierce the darkness. Let his light pierce the darkness in our soul. We're not talking about the area of our soul again. And cleanse and make whole. And sometimes we don't realize it. Some things are so deep rooted. So we love the light of his truth to pierce that, to destroy those things. And we can do it however at times we want to do. So we can do it from time to time. So we'll just pause here for a bit. And then if there are any questions that you might have before we go into our next topic, any questions, anything that you might want to add, you can feel free to ask or share. Anything at all? Yeah, Jeff. We talk about developing lifestyle. So it comes under a schedule, right? But if you ask me, I mean, it's very hard to follow some schedules to make something happen. Even though you think like, okay, this is what I'm going to do by 7 o'clock in the morning. You may do it on the first day. But not on the second days. Sometimes you may do it for the next three to four days. But not on the seven to eight days. And automatically if you're suffering emotionally, I think it is somehow, even though we decide on one day, how about these thoughts comes up and the whole schedule actually messes up. And you just have to start from again, okay, let's make a new schedule or something. So I just want to know what is your purpose to make something happen. What helps you in that? What helps you make it more effective too? Yeah. So the thing is to understand that we are not alone in this. So the Lord is there to mend his indwelling presence to really help us with this. So we can ask for, ask him to remind, ask him to prompt, ask him to just help us along the way. And so that's a big thing. It's not that we are not depending on our own resources to do this because actually we are leaning on him, his strength to enable us. But having said that, we make that choice. He will remind, he will prompt, he will help. But ultimately we need to, our will needs to come to that place of strength to design. So that's the first thing. And the second thing is, no matter what setback to really get up and start doing it again. So many times we say, okay, let's say you have a diet or something. You slip up and then you say, okay, I slipped up, so let me just give up. So that's not the thing. You might slip up once, maybe twice. But the thing is to get back and get going again. So it will not be perfect. So there might be setbacks. There might be times when we give in, there might be times when we fall. But the thing is to rise up again. So that's the thing to say, I'm going to rise up. I'm going to make these things stick. So that's the second thing. The third thing is to do it in the context of community. And maybe there is to enable or to have an accountability person, like a close friend, confidant, who can hold you accountable. And that's a great way to do it. Maybe it's a group of people or just one other person with whom you can actually share in confidence and whom is reliable, whom you can trust and do that. So with these three things, there could be more. With these three things in place, we will actually get stronger and stronger. And normally people who study human behavior, they say in 21 days a habit actually can actually stick. So the thing is that if we can stick for 21 days, if we can go for 21 days, then it becomes a muscle memory as they say. So where your thought patterns, it's like if you look at a field and you see certain places where the plow has gone, it has made a mark and it's gone over and over again. So there are these ridges that are formed and so also in our thoughts and emotions. So we've done this over and over and we slip into that. And it's a good thing. We slip into that in a good way. So it is reinforced and we are strengthened. So that happens. It becomes consistent and becomes a strong thought pattern for us. Thank you. So we have a question from Divya. Is the main purpose of communication in a relationship for one to understand the other and be understood? How can that be effectively done? So the main purpose of communication. So you're asking that in the context of communication skills to develop a communication skill. So the main purpose of communication in a relationship to understand. So how can that be done effectively done? The thing is language, of course. There's a basic thing. The way the language is used, that's a basic thing. The words that I choose, the words that I use, am I communicating clearly? So it will have my language skills. Do they need to be improved upon? So that is one thing. The other thing is also, which means that when I'm verbally or maybe written correspondence, am I using language in the right way? Am I being specific clear or am I using a lot of words but then it just comes out as something very, very vague? How can I be more specific? How can I be more concise and to the point? It could be writing, it could be verbal. The other thing is also, when it comes to relationship and communication, especially verbal communication, am I understanding this? Am I a good listener? So listening skill is also very important. I could be there physically but the person could be sharing something but if my mind is preoccupied and the other person gets irritated because nothing has gone in. The person asks, what did I say just now? You've not taken anything in and the person feels disrespected. So that is also another thing. Am I hearing or am I just imposing my thoughts, imposing whatever, is that the agenda? Or when the person is saying, I'm thinking of solutions, I'm thinking of how to respond to this, then it becomes an issue. So these are some ways by which we can actually effectively communicate. So communication is two ways. So when we improve our listening skills, we'll be able to communicate. We'll be better communicators. Thank you. Thank you first. Any other thoughts? Any other questions? Okay. I just want to ask about a situation. She is a Christian but she was going well in the Lord so these traumas were really different for me when I came to know that she's having a trauma and it's very different for her also. So she's like, I'm in Christ. Why am I having a trauma about something that happened years ago? So it's putting her into a guilt like I'm suffering but I know Christ is me. So she's like, it's making her feeling guilty. I couldn't live the life that God had got for me because of what she's going through. So she actually wants to come out and she's trying her level best to come out but she still feels like she's struggling with it. She couldn't move forward in life. So for something like that, what we could actually do? What could I actually tell her? Because I mean, it's not like she's an unbeliever. I can go and tell her like, do you believe that? She has believed in the Lord. She knows the Bible. What are the things over there? She used to tell me like, I know I should cast off my burdens to God but I just couldn't. The things are really very hard. So what should I actually tell her? Yeah, so that's a tough thing. A person is a believer and that can be very, very frustrating as well. I know that this is the truth but I'm not able to make certain changes. So actually the next thing that we are going to look at will really help strengthen that part. So some of the things to really ask is, has she forgiven herself? Maybe it's something to do with forgiveness. So has she forgiven herself? You say this thing comes back over and over again. Or, yeah, forgiven herself or maybe forgiven someone else. Whoever caused this trauma, maybe it was self-inflicted, maybe it was... So has she forgiven herself? So this is a big thing because if you're still holding on to that guilt or holding on to that shame, it's a very subtle thing. And then it's actually affecting our relationship, relationship with others, relationship with God, our own relationship. Like for a long time I suffered with guilt and shame because I didn't do well in my 12th standard. And the thing was a lot of... I did extremely well in my 10th. I got district first in certain subjects and all that. So for me, the guilt was this, good opportunities were given. Potential was there. It wasn't like, but I messed it up. So that thing is really leading me up and so every time I would just shrink and I see successful people, I would just shrink and a lot of things. But I had to come to a place where I said, okay, I need to move on. It is affecting my present. I need to move on. I need to take some steps. I cannot let this affect. So I had to take those steps. And what really helped was knowing that God loves me. And these things that we're going to look at, my identity in Christ, what has been done on the cross, it's not some theory, it's truth. And I need to really embrace this truth. I need to really make it part of me daily, intentionally. Initially it's going to be difficult, but then this truth changes. It sets me free. It's going to strengthen me in the end. And so this thing is something that maybe your friend has to come to terms with and maybe some kind of counseling would also help. Where the counselor can just ask some questions, pointed questions, and this person is able to realize, okay, this is where the problem is. This is where the problem is. I seem to be going back to this and I need to do that. So the Lord will kind of empower her to make that choice. And once she makes that choice, then she will experience freedom. So I don't know the specifics of it, so that's why I'm just sharing. Thank you first. So I guess we'll stop here, but we're just going to look at, when we're journeying, we're using that word journey because it can be an encounter and it can be done with emotional wholeness can happen, but it is also a journey. It is also a process. And we should not minimize that saying that, okay, this is better. That is not better. No, it is. So it is a journey. It's a process. It means that it's a series of steps. Sometimes it's just one step and sometimes it's a series of steps. It's a path where a path is made of many steps. So a series of steps. So it's a journey into emotional wholeness and this journey into wholeness, into emotional healing and healing for our emotions and all that. There are certain things which really help build strength, help even sustain that healing and wholeness that we have received through Christ. And first of all, and the first one is the love of God. You know, this love of God, we've heard so many times that God loves us, John 3.16. We've learned it and we were probably growing up as kids and this love of God is something that is so powerful. It can, if a person receives, understands or receives experience, it can change, revolutionize a person's life. Second one, our identity. Identity is something which is, you know, the shaping of identity, our self-worth, where we draw our self-worth and importance and everything from so very important again and also closely tied to the love of God and receiving that love. Third one is, you know, what has happened in the past, what we cannot change, what we cannot address, we need to release. We need to release, consciously release and say, make peace with ourselves and say, okay, that is done. Now I can't do anything more about it. I'm moving on. Paul says, right, forgetting those things that are behind, I press on, I press on to what's ahead and these are powerful words coming from, you know, Paul, because he had seen much, he had experienced much as a person who persecuted the church. He must have seen lives. Yeah, he actually first time saw Stephen Big Martyr. He was there in agreement with what was happening and like that, I'm sure many lives would have been, you know, killed, separated parents, separated from children, so many families, you know, lives destroyed. Now he can't do anything about it, right? And maybe even in ministry, he experienced some challenges, some failures, et cetera. But then he says, you know, I press on, forgetting those things, I press on to what's ahead for the upward call of God in Christ. So, you know, that's something that we need to resolve and as we journey into emotional wholeness, releasing the past. Yeah, so we look at these things and, you know, next class, right? Okay. Right, thank you. God bless. Have a great weekend. Bye-bye. Thank you, Pastor.