 We are all doing well, but to know even the online students and we hope to have all of you on the call today. Let's pray and begin. We will continue learning about Believer's authority. I want to request anybody either online or here in the class to please begin with the word of prayer. Let's pray. I want to request everybody to please begin with the word of prayer. Amen. Let's get back into our notes and I want to give some time to ask questions. I think we just wrapped up the lesson and probably didn't have enough time to ask questions. So last time we saw how Satan is completely defeated and we are victorious because of the cross. We have complete mastery over the evil one. We have complete protection. And we also said that there are some schools of thought that say that each time Satan will bring a case against us in heaven. And then that has to be fought but those kind of things are not true because Jesus has already paid the price in full. And so we stand justified in our position in Christ. So those things we have seen and there are no more legal rights. Satan does not have any legal right in the life of a believer. So we are completely like we fully belong to Jesus and Satan cannot interfere in our lives. That is what we have understood. And then we also said that sometimes believers are worried about backlash. Backlash means if something is done the enemy will attack you back. So we don't have to worry about that also because Jesus said that nothing by any means shall harm you. And the evil one cannot touch you. It's only when we open doors for example Joe he said whatever I feared has come upon me. He was fearing it that this might happen, this might happen and it actually happened because when we fear it's the opposite of faith. It has the effect like faith but in the opposite direction. So fear is like that and we have to get rid of unhealthy, ungodly fear from our lives. Is fear healthy? Is fear good or bad? Bad. Okay what about some of our online students what do you think? Is fear okay? Good if it is in the right things. So we understand that emotions are kind of neutral. It's not good or bad. See sometimes fear is good. When we are crossing the road do we need some fear? We need. If we don't have any fear we just cross the road. That shows that we are lacking the ability of discernment. So fear in itself is not bad. Sometimes we need fear. If you have an exam, we have a presentation, we have something to do. We feel scared like oh I have to do well. I have to study better. If we don't get that feeling then something is wrong. So fear in itself is a good thing. All emotions that way are neutral. It depends on the situation. But if I have unhealthy fear where I feel God will not help me. Something evil will happen. Every time this happens I don't know why this and that. It's not aligned to the word of God. That is ungodly. That is unhealthy. Isn't it? So that's how it works. Fear in general it's not a bad emotion. No emotion is bad or good. Even anger. It's not like anger is bad. Sometimes we have to get angry because those things. If you remember Jesus when the money changes came to the temple and they're trying to do business there. It's a place of worship. It's the place to host the presence of God. He got so upset. You know we read Jesus turn the tables like you can imagine Jesus is getting very angry. He turned the tables made a rope to with those guys. So Jesus got angry. You know God gets angry with the wicked the Bible says. So anger is a good emotion when we use the right emotion at the right time. When it is used in the wrong time. In the wrong way then any emotion can become a bad one. Similarly fear. So unhealthy fear or ungodly fear is an open door for the enemy. We are not saying don't fear at all. We can fear the Lord. We can fear you know things that are challenging for us. It's a good thing. It will help us to become better. Okay so in this way. I don't know why I'm teaching about emotions. I'm supposed to teach about believers authority. Okay fine so anyway. So no back lashes but it happens because of open doors. And we should not allow open doors of any sort. Then we also saw about no more higher levels higher devils. What is that scripture passage we looked at and said that we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. Ephesians correct Ephesians chapter 2 verses 4 to 6. So now that we are in that place of authority we can be bold. Because no devil is higher than the heavens. Only God is in the highest place which is in the heavens. And the Bible tells us our positional authority is from that place of heaven. We are seated with Christ in the heavenly places. So we don't have to worry especially when we take responsibility. Maybe in ministry our responsibility is increasing. And the ordinary way of thinking is the more closer you draw to God the more difficulties will come. Satan will attack you. Satan will you know do this he will do that. But don't have to worry let him do whatever he wants. We already know that Jesus has taken complete mastery over the devil. So we don't have to be afraid. So this is what we touched upon. Any questions thoughts before we move on to the next. I think you might need to use the mic. We have discussed in depth what no Satan being defeated as in being crushed, expelled, condemned, disarmed and destroyed. But having said that we know the ultimate thing that's actually happened or which will eventually happen. So when we are in our Christian walk of faith in our journey why is it that we as believers are times backslide and how is it that you actually overcome backsliding? Okay we know that Satan is defeated but why does the believer still backslide you are asking? How do you overcome it? So when we study the book of Hebrews, Hebrews was written to a bunch of believers who were going through a very rough journey. Reason being once the Hebrew believers or the Jewish believers, Jewish people who were following Judaism they accepted Christ. They faced a lot of persecution. See in that society they had a lot of rights and like property rights and accepted more in high positions of authority. So they had many rights and privileges but once they started believing in Jesus it was like a black mark. So they lost connections with their family members. They lost property. They did not have any more favor. Then what happens is we see that they were very discouraged and so the book of Hebrews is written to such people. Going through great discouragement and in that book the writer he tells them again and again don't let go. Don't push the limits with God and because there are dangers. Sometimes we become discouraged or something happens and we are going away from God little but we come back. That's a normal journey of all the believers that's okay. But what we are talking about is beyond that when we let our discouragement. I think discouragement is one of the major reasons or disappointment when we think that this will happen in my life but that will happen. And then something else happens. We are not able to deal with it. So discouragement, disappointment and in that he says how to overcome. See these are one of the main two reasons but other than this they can do many other reasons like not overcoming the flesh. So when I'm not overcoming my flesh I'm living by the flesh not by the spirit. And that will also cause me to go away from God and not experience God fully. So those kind of reasons are also there ignorance. Ignorance is also a very big reason when you know believers don't understand. So we see I think it's in the book of Hosea. It says that my people perish for lack of knowledge. We don't have knowledge. We don't have knowledge about who we are in Christ believers authority. How Christ has redeemed us. What is our purpose. Then what happens the believer just lives without any meaning. Okay. That also takes us away that relationship with God is not abundant. These are all the reasons how to overcome it in the book of Hebrews the writer talks about faith. That's why you have Hebrews chapter 11. He lists out see there are so many people they have completed the journey how they had faith in God. So they had faith in God. They possessed the promises they had faith in God. They defeated their enemies. They had faith in God. You know they brought the walls down. They had faith in God. So he just goes on and on. Faith is a big thing. So for us to overcome faith is important. Second he says patience. Faith and patience because we can have faith. But sometimes we are like urgent God do it right now. I can't wait. We are in that situation. Both are needed. If we have faith and we have patience. Then we can overcome. About the first point that you think disappointment. So that could also be as a factor that we as a believer have wrong expectations of God or you know we have limited God to function in a way that we wanted. And if it hasn't turned out in our way then we tend to be discouraged and slowly backs right. Possible. Sometimes we have wrong expectations of God. Sometimes we have right expectations. But it doesn't happen. Okay. Or a crisis happens. Like you were never prepared for something. You know like now I think there are people they are losing their jobs. That's happening right. Globally people are being what do you call that. Laid off. Yeah. People are being laid off. So or something some financial crisis in the family. You lose a loved one sickness. So when these things happen. It's it's like you were expecting some you were at the right expectations with God. But then these are the circumstances. Now how do you deal with it. So I think even there we have there is that whole thing of overcoming disappointment. Right. How can we if we are very strong in God. If I understand the character of God. If I have a strong relationship in prayer in the word in worship. Like we say right the storms can come the winds can blow but the house will still remain. So yeah. The question of saying like you know why me Lord why it has happened to me is also kind of wrong. In the sense like you know we always think only good should actually eventually God will work out. All things for the good but anything hits us hard. The instinctive thing like you know why me why did this. That's kind of wrong. Yeah. See is it wrong. I don't know because it's human nature. Like if you look at some of the Psalms of David. He's rambling away. Okay. He's just speaking out his thoughts. Not that it's the like theology. But in the Bible God has given place for man to emote express. Okay. So I think God understands. But thank God we notice like how David know initially he'll say why this why are my enemies thriving all. But then he'll come back and he'll say but my God when my he will lift me up. He's great and he'll do this. He'll do that. As long as we settle those rambling thoughts and align them to God's word we are good. But if the rambling keeps going on and on and on even when God's word is speaking to us that has a tendency to derail us. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Thank you. Those are good questions. Let's just look at the chat here. Okay. Yes. So students here also were answering the question I asked about emotions. All right. Let's then go to chapter six. So here we will study about the authority and dominion of the believer. And then we consider our authority on earth. There is a basis for it. So that is what we are going to look at. So what is the basis for our authority on earth? We are going to look at four different reasons given here in our notes which forms the foundation of our authority. We have authority that is settled. Okay. But you could also call this as dimensions of authority basis of our authority foundation of our authority also the different dimensions of where our authority comes from. So the first one is what we call as redemptive authority. Okay. Redemptive authority. Could somebody please read Revelation 12 and verse 11. Revelation chapter 12 verse 11 and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they did not love their lives to death. Man. Thank you for that scripture. So it teaches us about one of the things. It states is the overcoming power of the blood of the Lamb. The blood of the Lamb. When we study about this picture of the Lamb in Christology, we may all have learned about atonement. Okay. So Jesus came to atone for us in the Old Testament. God had instituted certain practices of worship in which a lamb had to be sacrificed. There was a need for the shedding of blood for the forgiveness of sins. Okay. And we look at all those practices and we get an understanding of this concept of atonement. But there is a need for somebody to shed the blood. And in the Old Covenant, usually they used to, I mean the Old Testament, they used to usually have a lamb. Whose blood would be shed like a sinless lamb, spotless, blemishless lamb. And that was like the ultimate sacrifice whose blood will make atonement. But we know that the blood of animals was not helpful. It had the capacity to some extent to take away the sins or rather we call it power. Okay. They could only cover the sins of the people. Each time a person needed to go into the presence of God, they would shed blood. And that blood, it will cover the sin. Then they would have the opportunity to go in, go into the tabernacle, go into the temple and worship God. So that's how it was being practiced. But when Jesus came, what did John the Baptist say? Looking at Jesus, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. So Jesus became that ultimate lamb of sacrifice. And the way he did the work is he did not just cover our sins, he took it away. So the point is the blood of Jesus is very powerful. Okay, the work that the blood of Jesus has done is like tremendous. And we need to understand the power of the blood of Jesus. We need to understand how the blood of Jesus helps us overcome. In this scripture, what did we read? We said, they overcame him by the blood of the lamb. How overcame by the blood of the lamb? There is a meaning in what the blood has done. And yes, that work, the blood has already done. You see, understanding what the blood has done, it's very powerful. If you don't understand, yeah, blood of Jesus was shed for us. Okay, that's it. When we don't have understanding of the work of the blood, even then we kind of lose out. But when we are aware and we understand, it becomes very, very powerful. So when we learn about the work of Jesus on the cross, we know that we have been redeemed. Okay, and we've seen in the last class, certain scriptures that tell us that Jesus Christ has conquered Satan. He has conquered Satan, he has destroyed Satan. Scripture passages like Colossians chapter 2 verses 14 to 15, Hebrews 2 verse 14. Now, these passages tell us that Jesus conquered Satan and he completed the redemptive work on the cross. Completing the redemptive work on the cross is what has given us the authority over demonic powers. Okay, so now, when we look at the, when we refer to the work of the cross or the shedding of the blood. Okay, or we refer to the power of the blood. It's a reminder for Satan of what Jesus did on the cross. Okay, and obviously as our enemy who is defeated, Satan won't like it. Whenever we refer to the blood of Jesus, what we are saying is, I am redeemed. Jesus has done the work. Satan is defeated. The blood is already shed. The blood is powerful and I am victorious. Okay, that is what it means when I say I stand by the blood of Jesus. I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus and Satan never likes it. He doesn't like it because the blood talks about redemptive authority. So the blood is upon our lives right now. Okay, we can even look at it in this way that the blood has redeemed us and we study about how we are now part of the kingdom of light. We are now part of the kingdom of Christ. Okay, so we are the redeemed of the Lord. Jesus bought us back. The blood put us into a new kingdom. The blood is speaking that we no longer belong to Satan and that is very frustrating for him. When I say I am redeemed, I'm saying Satan, I don't belong to your kingdom. Jesus paid for me. He bought me into his kingdom. I now belong to Jesus. When I say I'm redeemed, it also means that every part of who I am belongs to Jesus. So that we can break that down further and say things like, you know, my life belongs to Jesus. Excuse me. My future belongs to Jesus. My destiny belongs to Jesus. My health belongs to Jesus. My family belongs to Jesus. My finances belong to Jesus. Everything is under the blood now. So if you recall, just in the earlier chapter, we said no legal rights. So redeemed means that legally, we now belong to Jesus. So if Satan tries to intervene, interfere, it's illegal. He cannot enter because the blood is upon our lives. We belong to another kingdom. All of us is in another kingdom. He can't touch us. Legally, he cannot touch us. So where does our authority flow from? This place of redemption. And we call it as the redemptive authority. Redemptive authority. So especially when it comes to spiritual warfare, speaking of the work of the blood of Jesus is very powerful. Because every time we are saying, Satan, you are defeated. I'm victorious because of what Jesus did. We are saying that you have no legal rights. Only Christ has legal rights over me and everything that belongs to me. So it's warfare. Whenever we speak about what the blood has done, we are raising up. You could say a war cry against Satan because we are speaking of our redemptive authority. Now Satan may ask, how did you get that authority? Christ Jesus redeemed me. So we call it redemptive authority. Have you all understood redemptive authority? Because Jesus has redeemed us, we now have authority. That's what it is. And the blood speaks about it. Let's move on to the next section here, which is inherited authority. I told us, this is the basis for our authority. How did you get the authority? I have redeemed. So I have been given the authority. How did we get the authority? We are the children of God. So we have inherited authority. Inherited authority, we all understand. We'll get into it. But there are two passages in the notes for us. Could someone please pick it up and read? Colossians chapter 1 verse 12 and then Romans chapter 8 verses 16 and 17. Colossians 1 help. Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. Romans 8 16 17. The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And if we children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. Amen. So as we can see here, we now are partakers of the inheritance of the saints. Colossians 1 verse 12. We are partakers of the inheritance of the saints. If you want to look it up in a, you know, a more convenient language for you, you can do that so that you get the understanding. That means we have a share in the inheritance that God has given the believers. Who are the saints? We are the saints. Believers are called as saints. Okay. Because Jesus has now redeemed us and, you know, made us holy and put us in his kingdom. So we are the saints of God. We now are partakers or we share in the inheritance of the saints. Now tell me who gets an inheritance usually? Who gets an inheritance? Sons and daughters, isn't it? From the parents, usually it's the sons and daughters. Now it may happen that, you know, there are people serving in that household. They may have like, you know, in King's palaces also you have, you have servants, you have many, many people working together to, you know, keep that palace in order. Do you think the king will give the rights to everyone? No. Whom will he share the inheritance with? His sons, his daughters. Okay. So similarly, look at this passage. The father has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. Okay. So we could speak so much about the inheritance. What is this inheritance? What did we get from God? You know, but one of the, one of the things that we have received as sons and daughters is authority. We have inherited authority because we are sons and daughters. In that other passage also, we have seen how the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, you know, many times when we are born again. Okay. Yes, we may struggle to get an assurance whether we are born again or not. Okay. But invariably, we have a witness in our spirit that something has changed from today. After I have accepted Christ in my life, something has changed. You know, I remember my own thing when I used to go to church. Like I was already born again, but every time the pastor gives an altar call, I'll go because I didn't know. I didn't know from the scriptures that, you know, you're already born again. Like once you have made that decision, but every nearly every Sunday, I'll be like, Okay, God, I give my life to you. I don't know how many times I gave my life to Christ. You know, but it's because lack of understanding of the word. I didn't understand. Like once you have become a child of God, what is this passage say the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God somewhere inside. I knew the deal is done, but because of the lack of the word in my life, I didn't have an understanding. Got it? But here's the reality. The moment we are born again, how Jesus talks, Jesus speaks to Nicodemus and says, How to enter the kingdom of God? You must be born again. You must be born again. Once we are born again, we become children of God. And what does the Holy Spirit do? He gives us the assurance. Okay. Anyone who's truly born again somewhere deep within, we know something changed. Right? My relationship with God, something has changed. Something has happened to me. Right? It's very real. It's very real. The spiritual transformation is very real. And one of the results of being born again is that, you know, God now accepts us as children. And look at that continuity continuation. Children of God verse 17. And if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. What a privilege. That means that what the Father gives to Jesus as an inheritance. We are joint heirs. Because who is Jesus? He's our brother. Okay. The Bible teaches us that he's our brother. And so now there are many things that we must discover, which God has given to us as an inheritance as a child of God. And in this context, we are emphasizing on the fact that authority has now been given to us because we are heirs. We have inheritance. We are joint heirs with Christ. So where did we get our authority? We got it from the fact that we are children of God. Okay. And we can just exercise our authority just as a child of God. If we have that settled in our understanding, our approach will be very different for the Lord. We are able to exercise our authority. So we can think of this example of, you know, prince and princesses. So when you see prince and princesses, are they able to make bigger decisions? Are they able to make like stronger choices? Of course. Because they have the ability, they have the resources and they also have the authority. So it's very similar for us. Let's say we are children of God, then, you know, there are rights, there are privileges, there is authority. But we have to use it in the right way. So we have been given authority because we are children of God. Or if you want to look at it the same way, you know, princess and prince of the kingdom. And we can exercise our authority against Satan. So when Satan may be, you know, again, in deliverance or in spiritual warfare, identity matters. How strongly do I understand that I'm a child of God? If I'm very strong in that, I won't be afraid of any demon. Isn't it? Yes or no? Yeah, because I know, hey, I am a child of God. You may be a powerful demon, but I carry authority. I share in the inheritance of the saints. My father and so we can go against the enemy very powerfully. So we have to settle this in our hearts. One is I carry redemptive authority. Second is I carry inherited authority as a child of God. So shall we move on? Okay, great. Next would be positional authority. So positional authority. We've already discussed this earlier, but any case, we will briefly go over it again. Ephesians chapter two versus four to six. Could someone please read this? Ephesians two, four to six. But God who is rich in mercy because of this great love, which with which he loved us was five. Even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. The grace you have been saved was six and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Amen. So it talks of who we are in Christ and where we are positioned in Christ spiritually. We notice here that we have been made alive together with Christ and God has raised us up and made us sit in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So when we go back to creation, did God want to give authority to man? Did God want to give dominion in his original plan? Yes, he gave man authority. Unfortunately, sin corrupted the world. The response of Adam and Eve was that of disobedience. And so they lost their authority. Satan took that authority. But when Jesus died on the cross, that was reversed. And that is one of the reasons why Jesus came to reverse what Satan has done. So now that what Satan did is reversed, the authority that God originally wanted man to have has now been given back to the believers. Jesus has done it for all, but it is when we are in Christ that we actually receive it and we are able to walk in it. We are able to walk in the overcoming power that Christ gave us. And so now that we are in Christ Jesus, we are positioned in that place of authority. Let's remember that we saw Ephesians 2 which tells us we are seated together with Christ in the heavenly places. And there is one more passage actually Ephesians 1 verses 20 and 21 where we see that Christ has positioned us far above principality and power, might and dominion. So God has now changed our position and we carry authority. So we can always pace the devil with that assurance. That Satan, I am at a better position than you because Jesus has conquered. And I am sitting with Christ and I am exercising my positional authority on you. So as we are speaking to demons or as we are taking up authority against the work of the enemy, we speak of our positional authority. The positional authority is quite clear, isn't it? We understood. It comes from who we are in Christ and obviously we know that we have been seated with Christ in the heavenly places. That is our spiritual position. And we can speak to demons, we can speak to Satan based on this and say my position, I am seated with Christ in the heavenly places. So I am exercising my authority on you. You have no rights to do what you are doing. So positional authority. And finally over here we have what is known as delegated authority, delegated authority which is now the fourth dimension of authority. So what are the earlier dimensions? Redempted authority, inherited authority, positional authority, finally delegated authority. So let's read one or two passages and then we will explain this. We could read from Matthew 28 verses 18 and 19. So that is one passage. And another person, please read Mark 16, 17 and 18. Matthew 28, 18 and 19. Mark 16, 17 and 18. 18 and 19. Yes. And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Okay, great. So Jesus is commissioning the disciples and he says, go everywhere and make disciples in my name. Okay, baptize them in my name. All right. So let's see, let's see Mark 16. What does it say? Mark 16, chapter, oh sorry, Mark chapter 16 verse 17. And these signs will follow those who believe. In my name they will cast out demons, they will speak with the new tongues. Verse 18, they will take up serpents and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. Amen. Okay. So in my name, Jesus says, those who believe in me, in my name they will do all these powerful things, supernatural things. So what is this in my name? How do we understand? You know when we say, go baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. In my name you will cast out demons. What is Jesus trying to say? Why are we using the name of Jesus? If we look at Philippians chapter 2, there we learn that because Jesus humbled himself, though he was God, he became man. And you know he lived that life of obedience before the Lord and he did the redeeming work. We see that he has been given the name above every other name. So which is the greatest name? The name of Jesus. Okay, the name of Jesus is the greatest name that could ever be there. And what is God telling his disciples? What is God telling his believers? In my name, so he is giving us the permission to use the greatest name of all, the name of Jesus. Now look at it like this, just imagine we work in some multinational company and the CEO of the company has incredible resources and they own whatever, billions of dollars and all that. Now for whatever reason they trust you, you may be one of the lower-rung workers, but they trust you and maybe they are going through sickness or something like that and then they authorize you to go to the bank and do the operations on their behalf. Okay, so we all know about power of attorney, like a letter can be written stating that so and so is my representative and they will come, they will do the operation, they will make the deals. So don't you think it will be a privilege if that happens and if you go to the bank, will they accept us? They will because we are coming with a letter, they will ask in whose name are you coming? So we will say in the name of and maybe the name of our CEO and then show them the letter of authorization or the power of attorney and they will say in the name of so and so come. Okay, let's get this done, whatever is allowed, they will manage to get those tasks completed. So it's just a simple example today when we say I'm going in the name of Jesus, Satan I'm coming to you in the name of Jesus, what we are saying is the name which is so powerful, he sent me, he sent me and so Satan has no chance. Are you all understanding what we are trying to say? So we are going with the authority which has been given to me. So who I am, yes it does matter, you know I'm a believer and hopefully I'm walking in righteousness and all those other things are also there. But then when I go in the name of Jesus, it's already speaking of authority. I'm going with great authority and we've seen earlier how we have authority, exusia and dunamis, the power of God. We go with this against the enemy and the enemy obviously has to, he has to give in it because we come from somebody who's so great is backing us up in the name of Jesus. We are going against the enemy. So it's like saying, it's also, we can look at it like this also that when let's say that CEO is not there and we go on their behalf, isn't it as if the CEO is there because the work still gets done? You've been authorized by that person and the work still gets done. It's as if that person is there. In the same way, when we go in the name of Jesus, though Jesus is in heaven right now, at the right hand of the Father, it is like Jesus is doing it. When we speak, we command a demon, we say I cast you out in the name of Jesus. I am speaking but it's as if Jesus is speaking. Did you understand? We're not trying to replace, I'm not saying, you know, that we become Jesus. No, no, all that's wrong theology. That's not what we are saying. We're saying that the power of delegation is so real that though we do the work, it is like Jesus doing the work. So Satan has to listen. Okay, so that is the understanding. So when we use the name of Jesus, whenever we say in the name of Jesus, we need to understand what we are doing. It's very, very powerful. You know, the greatest name that ever exists in that name, the authority of that name. You know, with that delegated authority, I am casting out demons. I'm, you know, speaking, healing over people. I'm doing the works that God has called me to do. So it's, it's delegated authority that we are exercising when we use the name of Jesus and we are functioning as representatives of Christ. So on the basis of these four dimensions or four foundations of authority, we can conquer in life, whether it is sin, whether it is sickness, whether they are demons, whether it is some sort of a circumstance situation, whatever it is, we can conquer, we can exercise our authority and we can overcome. Okay, and a believer needs to have the understanding. Have the understanding is one. Second is exercise, exercise. So that's what this chapter is all about. If there are any questions, we can talk about it. Otherwise we can move on to the next chapter. Oh, okay. Yes, Shani, I see your hand raised. Yeah, I just have, I think maybe I'll... Shani, please, can't hear you. We'll fix this. Sister, I would like to ask this question. We have, we go in the name of Jesus. Please hold on. Please hold on. Alright, let's do this because we're almost at the end. Maybe we can take a break and then we can begin with Shani and Kofi's questions. So let's go ahead with a break and then we'll come back. I hope that's fine. Okay, excellent. Thank you everyone for this.