 All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the session on Urban Church Planting. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this time. Once again, Lord, you've given us to come together and study your word. Pray God that even as we learn about church planting and the things that are involved in starting a church, Lord, I pray God that you will give us wisdom, direction, guidance, that Lord, everything that we study, Lord, it will be like seeds in our heart, which were bare fruit in our lives. We thank you. We thank you for this opportunity, Lord. We open our hearts. We just received from you this morning. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right. So last class, we looked at quite a few aspects, right? We looked at growth and consolidation, right? Even as we grow, we look at the pioneering stage. The different stages involve pioneering stage, administrative stage, that is organizational and structural stage. Then you got the pastoral stage and the equipping, the building stage, apostolic function stage, and then becoming a self-sustaining church, right? So we also looked at multiplication and branching. So as time goes on, as a ministry, you can always multiply. You can start new churches. You can start new branches in different cities and different towns, right? And envision your congregation, meaning you share the vision with them, send them out, get them to be involved in your church planting, right? So initially, when you're starting for the first time, you will need to be involved, at least 100%. But as you begin to plan a church plant, get your people, your congregation involved, get church planting teams involved, right? But you're always there to be a support and a strength, right? So today we get into spiritual aspects, right? So we've been talking about some of the practical things, right? Involved in the church, when a church started, what happens, how the church grows, church growth, multiplication. Now, let's look at spiritual aspects. We looked at it initially. We looked at some of the natural aspects and spiritual aspects. But now let's go deeper into the spiritual aspects because this is what lays the foundation to a strong church, right? So chapter 17, the real battle for souls is a spiritual battle, right? Now, we know that God is at work in our cities, but we also know that Satan is working, right? We also know that Satan has his place in the spiritual realms, right? So you have the different realms in the spirit. So Satan is there, he's working. Satan and his demons are working. There's a lot of demonic activities in the heavenly places, right? We see that there are spiritual beings influencing leaders, influencing cities, right? Remember when Daniel prayed, right? He did not receive answers to the prayers because he the angel says there was demonic activity in the spiritual, in the heavenly, that was stopping the prayers from reaching heaven, right? And what are these spiritual influences, right? Now, we have many kinds of spiritual demonic influences that the enemy can use, right? But let's look at some of the ways that Satan hinders people from receiving the Gospel, right? Now, that's the whole point of churches about people, right? It's not about administration being a pastor and all of that. Ministry, the church ministry is about people. Only if you have people come into church, it becomes a church. It becomes like a ministry, right? If you only, if for some reason we are the only pastors, we have a couple of associate pastors and there is two people in the church, it's not going to be of any help, right? We need people. People are the church, right? So how does Satan hinder people from receiving the Gospel and getting people to, you know, be saved? So let's look at a few points here, right? First one is he blinds the minds of people. There are a couple of verses there. Let's read a few of them, right? Second Corinthians, chapter four, verse three and four, maybe one of us can open to even Matthew chapter four and verse 16. Somebody else can open to Acts 26, 14 through 18. Right? So if we can just read these verses, so we get a context on how the devil can hinder the work of the ministry. Now, all of us, right, in ministry, we want the church to grow. We want our ministries to grow, but the devil has strategies. He has ways of stopping this growth, right? So one is by blinding the minds of people. Second Corinthians four, three to four. Yes, go ahead. But even if our Gospel is wailed, it is wailed to those who are perishing, whose minds the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God should shine on them. Let's read Matthew four, 16. Matthew four, 16. The people, the people, we start in darkness so, so good light. And to them, we start in the regions and shadows of death, light is hung up. Yes, let's also read Acts 26, 14 through 18. Acts 26, 14 through 18. Acts 26, 14 through 18. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard. It is hard for you to kick against the goats. So I said, who are you Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but rise and stand on your feet for I have appeared to you for this purpose to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. I will deliver you from the Jewish people as well as from the Gentiles to whom I now send you to open their eyes in order to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Amen. Now we see here in all of these passages, we have the aspect of darkness and light. The devil's number one way of hindering people from receiving the gospel is by blinding people's minds. So what does he say? He has various forms of deception. He says, hey, this is not true. Jesus died on the cross. That may be true, but how can you receive forgiveness? How can you receive healing? How can you stand holy? He blinds the minds of people. That's one way. Or another way is he brings deception. He says there is no Jesus. There is no person named Jesus. There is no what there's he's not in the Messiah. He's not the Messiah. There is no Messiah. All of this is man made things. These are all ideologies, all thoughts of people. He blinds the minds of people. Remember, I know you're learning Corinthians. What did he do? What were the people in Corinth saying? They were blinded when he go even to Athens and Greece and then Akhaya and then he goes later on in the Second Missionary journey. We see that they were all blinded. They had great understanding. The Athens had great understanding. Even in Aeropagus, they had great understanding, but their minds were blinded. These deceptions, these lies that the enemy put into people's minds becomes a hindrance for the gospel. Now these deceptions is not always on individuals. It can be over groups of people, over societies, over religious leaders, over institutions. You can have it. Blindness. Number one way where the devil works. We'll talk about what is the responsibility of the church. We're just trying to understand what the enemy can use as we God has called us to plant a church, do the ministry. God is working, but on the other side, the enemy is doing this as well, blinding people's eyes. So he can use a group of society, group of people, religious leaders. He can use institutions to stop the work of the gospel. And he can also use our own failures, our own weaknesses to break the work of the ministry. We talk about that in the coming chapters as well. So number one, blinding the minds of people. Don't believe this. It's not true. You have prayed as you're healing. It's not happened yet. So he has many ways. Two, is holding the people in bondage. Now remember, when you start a ministry, you start a church. You've got people coming into the church. People may come in from different faiths. And not always they will accept. There will be people who will say, okay, I don't believe in this or I don't believe in anything that you're doing. And I just believe it's a waste of time. I don't know if it's happened to you, but we had a couple of youth who came up to me straight and said, this is all nonsense. What are you speaking? I was taken aback because they sat for the whole service. But they said, it's all nonsense. You don't believe all of this? He holds people in bondage. Spiritual prisons. If you look at a natural prison, you see a natural prison, but there are spiritual prisons where he holds them in that. Right. Efficiency to two. Let's read that. And also one John 5 19. Efficiency chapter two and verse two. Efficiency chapter two. In which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. Yes. Let's also read one John 5 19. We know that we are of God and the whole world lies under this way of the wicked one. Yes. So the devil has ways of holding people in bondage, right? And the reason he does this is because he does not want people to come to Christ. He does not want people to know about the truth of the gospel. Now these spiritual bondages, the demonic domination of this demonic force that we see is usually through immoral deeds, sinful natures, addictions, social evils, prostitution, corruption, drug addictions, trafficking. These are the spirits that the devil uses to keep people in bondage. Right. So for example, just look at somebody maybe who's been living a sexually immoral life. Right. Now, why is it that they're continuing to live in that sexual immorality? Because the desires of the flesh and there are demons who agitate or encourage those sexual desires. So what happens? They are continuing to be in prison and the more they are in that, the more deeper and deeper and deeper they go. Look at drug addictions. People who are addicted to drugs, right? They say, hey, even if they want to get out, they're not able to. Why? Because there are demonic forces that are putting them in bondage. I know of many young people, genuine heart, they want to overcome drug addiction. They come and I speak to them over, just talking to them, ministering to them. Young guys, early, maybe 28, 29, that age, almost early 30s as well, they want to give up. They don't want to live with this addiction in their life. But they are unable to. Why? Because the demons are still working so strongly over their life. There are few of them who have shared with me that they're still addicted to pornography, that they are unable to look at their own mother. They're unable to look at their own sister in the right way. Now what can you say for that? These are young boys, early 20s, addicted to pornography when they can't talk to girls, they can't talk to women. If they talk, there's something happening here. Why? It's a demonic work. The devil is holding them in bondage. These are spirits that are working. Now remember, when people come into church and come into and they ask for prayer, they share with us, right? Because as pastors, they will come and share, right? Remember, you're not dealing with the natural. You can't just tell them, hey, just go lock yourself and just pray to God, God will help you. That's not going to work. Why? Because they are in, the devil is holding them in bondage. They are still in the devil's trap. They can't just come out of it just like that. They got to believe in Jesus, trust in his work and then there's a work that has to happen after that. So these spirits are working, hindering people, keeping them in bondage. No, you cannot stay without pornography. You cannot stay without the drugs. You cannot stay without, you know, trafficking or all these addictions that are there. You cannot stay without it. Now the enemy is using subtle ways and during the last mentoring hour, we looked at media and technology and subtle ways. You know, there's this mother who came up to me and said, please pray for my daughter. She's 13 years old and she watches, she's on social media for over six hours in a day and I'm not able to handle her. If I take the phone away, if I take the tab, the gadgets away, she's willing to bring down the whole house. She's willing to burn down the house. She gets violent. She starts breaking things in the house. She starts hurting herself and so I'm very scared. You see how the enemy is working? He's not worried about weightlifting and then I'll bring these problems now. He's starting small. And these are all the ways, the tactics that devil is using to hold people in that bondage. Three, he hinders the proclamation of the gospel. So as a church, so for example, you've planted your church, right? And as a church, we talked about how God wants to multiply us. He wants us to reach out. He wants us to touch and permeate and penetrate all seven spheres of influence in the society. What will he do? He will hinder the proclamation of the gospel. The devil will have ways to, you know, he may close those. He may bring in situations in your personal life. He may bring in situations among people within the church. He may bring in challenges within the church. Well, you know, he may disrupt our mind, our thinking, right? He may just cause confusions within the church, people within the congregation. There's so much that he can do. And he hinders the proclamation of the gospel. When we come to a place, say, okay, let's not do this now. Of course, we ask God to open the right doors. You step in at the right time. But he, the devil has to hinder the gospel because he knows the power of the gospel. He knows that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation for those who believe. He knows that those bondages can break if you believe. He knows it. So he knows the power of the gospel, so he hinders it. Let's look at a few verses here. Romans chapter 15 and verse 30 and 31. Romans 15, 30 and 31. Maybe someone else, anyone else can open to 1 Thessalonians to 18 and 2 Thessalonians 3, 1 to 3. Let's start with Romans 15, 30 and 31. Yes, would anyone like to read? Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me, that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints. Right, so the context here is, before we read the next passage, the context here is not everyone accepted Apostle Paul especially in Jerusalem because God had called him for the Gentiles. Now here in this passage, Romans 15, Paul is planning his last visit, like he's going to his visit to Rome. He's going to Rome and he's saying, pray for me that when I go to Rome and I proclaim the gospel that there will be no hindrance and that there will be no one who will stop me from preaching the gospel. 1 Thessalonians 2, 18. 1 Thessalonians 2, 18. Therefore we wanted to come to you even I, Paul, time and again but Satan hindered us. So very clearly Paul is saying, we wanted to come to you but there was a hindrance from Satan and so Satan hinders the work of the ministry. He hinders the gospel. Now these methods of hindering the gospel can be, again, as I mentioned, different ways. So as pastors, as ministers, we got to always be on our guard. Know that, you know, this is what God has called me to do. This is what I must do. Go back to God, pray, seek His face, continue to go strong. These are things that we must do. 4th one, very important. He hinders, the devil hinders the work of the gospel by weakening the local church. He can cause confusions. He can cause problems. He can cause divisions within the church. Now if we read the entire episode of Corinthians, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, plenty of problems. One, division. Two, there was groupism. Three, there was no, there was, you know, people were having the Lord's table as if it was food and there was divisions caused there. Then there were people saying, hey, I follow Paul, I follow Paulus, I follow Cephas. So he can bring in weakness in a local church by infiltrating his own thoughts and plans. So that is why Paul writes this beautiful episode of Corinthians and he says, this is how a church should be and he emphasizes about love. He emphasizes about the gifts of the Spirit and the unity in the gifts and all of that. So let's look at a few examples from revelations. Revelations too, in the church of Smyrna, a group that belongs to Satan, devil is going to cause some of them to be put into prison. Now persecution is not, it's not a nice feeling. Now many of us may be in urban settings. Being in urban settings, we may not have faced persecution but if you're in the eye of persecution, it's not a good place to be. I was doing a study on the persecutions on Khandemal a couple of years back and what we have heard of or what the news shows is only maybe 10% of what happened at Khandemal in Orissa, 2008, 2010. A presence of a group of people that belongs to Satan, devil is going to bring persecution. Persecution can really break the strength of a church. It's not easy, it's really not easy because yes, we do see that persecution and this persecution we see that churches have become stronger, greater, more powerful, greater annoying thing but there's also the fact that it causes a lot of damage. Lives being lost. People have lost their loved ones in persecution. What happens? It's a painful thing. Many times, believers who've lost their loved ones through persecution, they're unable to digest the fact that maybe my brother, my sister, my parents have died because they believed in Jesus. It's not easy to accept it. Sometimes the devil can use this persecution to bring a weakness into the church. Two, the church in Purgamos, a place where Satan's throne is and Satan dwells, the doctrine of Balaam infiltrating the church. Again, here, a second way where the enemy comes in, the devil comes in to bring weakness in a congregation is by wrong doctrines, by false doctrines. Was it happening in the early church? Plenty. Paul writes to Timothy. In 1 Timothy, he says, stick to sound doctrines. 2 Timothy says, reach the word in season and out of season. And there's an emphasis on doctrine. Paul is very certain, he's very direct. He says, make sure as ministers of God, 1 Timothy 3, he says, make sure that what you are entrusted with, the gospel is preached in sound doctrine. That's what also happened to the Thessalonians. Remember, in Thessalonica, we see that people came into the church and started to choose. And the others came in and said, hey, Jesus has already come and gone. And you all are still here. And then Paul had to sit down and write and say, hey, if you don't know that during the rapture, these are the things that are going to happen. And so it's very easy for the devil to come up with false doctrines. What about what we see now? Right now, around us globally as a church, are there doctrines that are not aligned with Scripture? Plenty of them. Now, these are churches which have maybe 10,000, 20,000 people in their congregation, 20,000 people, 10, 15, 20,000 people, huge churches, right? But the doctrine wrong teachings, wrong doctrines coming into the church, right? So you and I must be very careful. Social media, we can watch so much, test the word of God. And we look at the church's responsibility as well. So the devil can use wrong doctrines. He can come and say, hey, the Holy Spirit doesn't work anymore. When Jesus went, he went with the Holy Spirit. Or there's no such thing as healing that stopped in the book of Acts. He can bring in in a very subtle way. The cross is only for the Jews. You're not part of it. Or if you've sinned, you're no longer holy. You don't have a right standing before God. You're not righteous. You're not justified. These are ways he brings in false doctrines. What happens when there are false doctrines in a church? The church becomes weak. Because some people are believing in one thing. There's another group of people believing in another thing. Third one, the church in Pietyra. False prophetess Jezebel at work in the church. The false prophetess Jezebel is basically the characteristics of Jezebel we see in the Old Testament and Kings, Ahab's wife Jezebel. Same attributes, pride, arrogance, or knowing all attitude. These are ways that the devil can infiltrate. Pride is the number one way that the devil can infiltrate a church. Make a church weak. Fourth one, the church in Philadelphia. A presence of a group that belongs to Satan will cause them to bow before the church. This is a dangerous place. Imagine, there's a presence of a group of people that belong to Satan who are in the church. And they will cause them to bow down before them. So the letter here that John is writing here, he's saying, these are ways that the devil can infiltrate a church. Now, it may not be in big ways, but it can start small. It can start really small. So as pastors, you've got to be aware, especially when the church is growing, it's just small, you've got 50, 100 people in your church. Be aware of what is happening in the church. Of course, you cannot control your congregation because they'll be listening to a lot of things online. A lot of preachers, they may go to other meetings and seminars. We are in no place to stop them from going. But you and I can reach the Word, let the light of the Gospel, let the truth of God's Word minister to them. Remember that truth is stronger. Light is greater than darkness. So what is the church's responsibility? The church is to be the light to the Gentiles, opening prison's doors and bringing those who are in darkness into His light. Now, the church has to be a light to the Gentiles. Jesus talks about this in many places, right? Especially in the book of Matthew, he talks about it, right? He's preaching on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapter 5. He says, you are the light of the world. Matthew 5.14, you are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on a stand and it gives light to the whole house. So God is calling us as a church to be a light to the Gentiles. So wherever we go, as a church, when I say church, it could be singular as a person, as an individual, or as a body of Christ. You know, when you plant a church in a city or in a locality, you are bringing light to that place. You are a light. There may be hundreds and thousands of Gentiles around. You, the church, are going to be the light to that place. You will impact that area. You will impact that city. That's the mindset that we must have. We may be 10 people in a church, planted a new church, 10 people. And there are hundreds and maybe thousands of people around you. You are the light, which is greater, light or darkness. So remember that, stand by that. The odds may be one percent to 90 percent, but still you're greater. In the natural, you're just 10 people. And then there's 1000 people who are, you know, not for the gospel, but you are the light, a light to the Gentiles. That's what Jesus says. So you are able to impact those 1000 people, more than them trying to impact you. The church has been given kingdom, authority, and spiritual weapons to overthrow the work of the devil. Kingdom, authority. Can you picture this? Jesus is saying, I have given you the authority to trample over snakes and scorpions. The church has given you authority, each one of us. As pastors, as leaders, you've got to stand by that. Hey, I have the authority over the devil. It's not that we have to wait till we have 1000 people in the church, and then I have authority over the devil in that area now. The church has been already given kingdom authority. And we use that authority. As pastors, as leaders, you show the authority. Let your congregation see that you are standing in authority. Let them see the work of God in your life. Let them see it. They grasp it. As a congregation, they grasp that, hey, pastor said this. Pastor is saying, we have the authority. God has given us the authority. So we can pray for people. We can pray for sickness. We can pray for God to open doors, for God to open blind eyes. We can do that. We don't have to wait till we have 100 people. We can do it now. What happens? The mindset changes. Everything changes. You and I have been given authority. I remember this one time. We went to... I was visiting another city. And we went to... I don't know if I've used this example before, but if I have, forgive me, but I've just reminded of this, we went to this other city. And I was very young. I didn't know much of God's word and all of those, all the wonderful promises of God. But as ministering there, probably just 22, 23 years old. And as we were ministering, we finished. We were doing something like a supernatural time. I didn't know the word supernatural. So it was just time of worship and seeking the Lord, praying in tongues and all of that. So we were praying and all of a sudden, this young boy, probably about 15 or 17 years, 15 to 16 years old, he began to manifest. And he was talking in a loud, gruff voice and really shook me because I never got that... I've never seen something like it before. And I got really afraid right now. It's okay to get afraid, but I got really afraid. I said, God, the first thing that came to my mind is, God, you have given me authority. I don't feel like I have the authority right now because this force that is coming against me is so strong. I remember saying, God, your word says greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. And all of a sudden, I just felt like somebody is coming and putting on like an armor. I felt like I was in the army. I had these spiritual machine guns, so to speak. I suddenly felt powerful from being just very powerless. Not only I felt this power, and I felt like God just saying, hey, I've given you the authority. You just use my name. I'm there for you. And long story short, we just prayed over him, said in Jesus' name, I command you to come out. And I think it was just 10, 15 minutes. He was completely delivered and young boy, completely delivered. God just delivered him. And I thought to myself, God has given us the church, the authority. He has given us the spiritual weapons to overthrow the work of the devil. Here's what's interesting. Ephesians 6. Paul is writing the letter in Ephesus and he says, Ephesians 6, put on the armor of God. He's trying to bring the whole aspect of the Roman soldier. He's looking at that and trying to translate that into the armor of God here. And he says, put on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shield of faith, the feet with the readiness of the gospel. And he's saying, put on the armor of God. But he's also saying, he doesn't say, take it off after some time. He says, put it on, leave it on. So God has given us the authority to overthrow the works of the devil. As pastors and leaders, how can we stand with this authority? How can we be firm in this understanding? The more we go into God's presence, the more we spend time with God, learn his word, ask for a greater measure of his anointing. People will recognize it in our lives. Your congregation will recognize, hey, the pastor, they've begun to catch that vision. God has given us authority. The pastor is saying, he's preaching, but he's also showing it in his actions. People will grasp that. People may not understand all your sermons as a pastor. They may not understand anything sometimes, but they see your life. They see what you're able to do. I remember right now, what we do is, we have some outreach teams that we have made. And these outreach teams are teams of tools. I said, okay, let's all go out and we will reach out to people right now. I know it may sound old school, right? But the gospel is still powerful. The gospel still works. It will still work. And so I, you know, we had like a small training said, okay, this is how you do it. This is how we just minister to people. And also when people are, you know, probably not happy and angry, you just walk out in peace. So we went out as teams. We went out. They were noticing. And so after that whole outreach, some of them from church said, how come you spoke like that? How come you were not, you didn't flinch when they said anything? I said, because God has given me the authority. God has given us the weapons to overcome the work of the devil. And they caught the vision. They caught that, right? So now they all go out on outreach teams, reaching out. Of course, I keep telling them, be careful with all the things that are happening. We must be wise as well, right? But they caught that vision. They caught that, hey, God is able to bring people. God is able to administer to people, right? So as pastors, we lead the way. We set the example, right? 12, 28 and 29. Let's read that, Matthew. 12, 28 and 29. Matthew chapter 12, 28 and 29. But if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder his house? So here the Lord Jesus is talking about binding, right? And I'm sure that all of us use this, right? In our prayers, we bind the work of the devil. Meaning we control, we overdo, we subdue the work of the devil, right? And so as a church's responsibility, we can bind the works of the devil. You're putting a hold to the work of the devil. So for example, there are too many suicidal cases, suicide cases in and around your neighborhood. You bind the spirit of suicide. Now, we may think how can I bind? I'm so small and we are only five people in church. See, it's not about the numbers. It's about you know, never think about the natural. Look at it in the spiritual. In the spiritual, when you pray, right? What's happening? The works of the devil is being bound. In the spiritual just maybe three or four or five people, but in the spiritual it's a war. It is not something very simple. People may say, hey, what five people are praying? That's okay. In the spiritual, it's a mighty thing to do. Look at the cross. When people saw Jesus dying on the cross, what was it? Complete failure. Thousands were following him. In the end, there was 120 people who still believed in him. Where are the thousands going? Oh, he died on the cross. It's shameful. In the natural, they saw. But what does Paul say? To the Colossians, he said having disarmed every principalities, every power of darkness on the cross. He made a public spectacle of the devil. Where did he make it in the spirituals? In the natural, a poor man who's dying on the cross. But in the spiritual, he disarmed principalities. He disarmed the powers of darkness. Right? So we have to bind the works of the devil. We have to say, God, I pray, Holy Spirit, you will bind. Right? If the enemy is trying to infiltrate your church, he's trying to infiltrate people's lives, bind the work of the devil. Right? You use your authority as a leader. Right? And Luke 11 21 and 22 talks about overcoming. Let's read that last verse and let me close. Luke 11, 21 and 22. When a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoils. So here again, God is saying, God is calling us to overcome the works of the devil. To destroy the strongholds, destroy those spiritual prisons. And the best part is, for us as believers, is that the price has already been paid. The cross has already gained victory. All we are doing is to walk in that authority. Right? So that we can minister to people, bless people, bring people to Christ. And even as we do this now, we need patience. We need to be patient. We need to be wise. All of this is very important aspects. So we don't overdo things saying, don't just go into a certain place and say, come to church or this is what Jesus did. Things have changed. We need to be wise. We see the Lord Jesus also very wise. He knew his life was a threat in Jerusalem. He moved away. He went to Judea. He didn't say, I will stay in Jerusalem itself because I am the son of God. He came back when things were okay. So we also need to even as pastors, as leaders, we need to develop the ability to be wise in the way we handle our ministries. So I want to encourage all of us. If God is calling you to start, launch a ministry or you are already in full-time ministry, remember these things. There is a devil that is working but God has given us the authority over the devil. You and I are already victorious. So we will stop here and next class we will look at praying and exercising authority and what prayer does to a ministry which is basically the backbone to every fruitful ministry. Thank you so much for joining this class. I will see you next class. Have a great day ahead. God bless. Thank you. Thank you.