 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session. I hope each one of you all had a good weekend. So as we start with a new week, and we're going to continue studying on the Gospel of John. So even before we could start with our session, can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Can I request Paul? You both too? Okay, let's pray. Father in the name of Jesus to worship you, adore you, and lift your name so high. Thank you for the gift of life of today. As we are going to learn, give us wisdom, give us knowledge, and let whatever we are going to learn multiply and bear fruit. We pray and declare this in Jesus Christ's name our Lord. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much Paul for leading us in prayer. So we're going to continue studying on the Gospel of John. So, so far, what did we study? Just to recap with whatever we studied from the last week. Can I request a few of us to share a few points that we studied from last class? What do you remember that we covered? You can go through your notes. All that we studied is from our notes. You can keep your Bible open and please share. Did you remember, do you recollect what we studied, what we covered in our last class? Did we study about Jesus' ministry? How did John portray Jesus' ministry as to the world we did cover, right? Jesus is the creator of the world and Jesus is the light of the world. And you know, John portrays about Jesus. Jesus takes away the sins of the world. So, his message, his ministry is for the world. We also covered the purpose. It would be the purpose for writing this book. So, where is the purpose and which verse scripture was it mentioned? Did any of you all make a note on which scripture is the purpose of this book recorded? Can I request one of us to turn to John chapter 20 verse 30 to 31? Please make a note. The purpose of this book, the Gospel of John is recorded, is found in John chapter 20 verse 30 to 31. Can I request one of you all to please turn to chapter 20 verse 30 to 31? Zellie, would you like to read? Okay, sure. And truly, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book. But this are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing you may have life in his name. Amen. Amen. So, it is very clearly John puts a purpose saying that John's primary intention is very evangelical in nature. We see that, you know, and he also makes clear that the deity of Jesus, he clearly says that Jesus is the Son of God and believing you may have life in his name. You know, he clearly shares the deity of Jesus because there were Gnosticism was very common those days and to challenge Gnosticism, he clearly portrays that Jesus is the Son of God. The deity of Jesus clearly revealed and he clearly says it. Jesus is the Son of God and John's gospel would be in very important denial of this heresy and so John refers to the signs that he has recorded so that any common man can believe that yes, he is the Son of God, how he is recorded by putting, listing some of the miracles that Jesus did. Yes, the very verse in this book, the last verse in John chapter 21, last verse says Jesus did many miracles, not everything has been recorded. That's what verse 25 says that, sorry, from 24 I'll read. This is the disciple who testifies of these things and wrote these things and we know that this testimony is true. Verse 25. And there are also many other things that Jesus did which is they were written one by one, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen. So Jesus has done many, many, many miracles but then not all of them have been recorded or listed. But then John very carefully, he has chosen the miracles that Jesus did so that it won't be a repeat from the synoptic gospels, but very few. But here we see the turning water into wine. He listed the very first miracle. So in this miracle, we see that how John demonstrates, I mean, Jesus demonstrates that, John demonstrates that Jesus has the authority over the elements. So unlike like this, he listed other miracles like the healing of the nobleman's son, healing of the paralyzed man, feeding the 5,000 and walking on water or healing the man who was born blind and also raising Lazarus from death and calling forth a miracle to catch the fish which we see in John chapter 21. We saw that. So as we study the purpose, let's move on to the next. Let's move on to the things which this book talks about, the Son of God. It reveals the Son of God, the very first verse, chapter 1 verse 1. So unlike the other gospels, we don't see a genealogy here. In the Gospel of Matthew, we see the genealogy of Jesus. It was recorded from genealogy. Okay. Matthew recorded the genealogy of Jesus to David and then till Abraham. And in the book of Mark, there's no genealogy recorded because Mark was portraying Jesus as the servant. So genealogy was not required for a servant. No one will ask your background with a servant from which family background have you come from. But then Matthew was portraying Jesus as a king. So even in the Old Testament, when we studied the book of Chronicles or the book of Samuel or the kings, we see every king's genealogy was recorded so and so began so and so, isn't it? So there is a history shown that this person was the son of so and so. In the same way, for Jesus, when Matthew was portraying Jesus as the king, he had to record the genealogy of Jesus. But whereas Mark, because he was portraying Jesus as the servant. So your servant's genealogy was not much needed. So Mark had not recorded, but then Luke, what did Luke portray Jesus as? Please unmute and y'all can answer so that we keep our class interactive. Yes, please go ahead. Mum as man. Yes, yes. Thank you. Yes, Mark portrayed Jesus as man. Sorry, Luke portrayed Jesus as man. So as a human, he had to get the genealogy. So we see Luke gets the genealogy not from David or from Abraham, but then he goes to the very existence of man, that is to add him so that we get to know like how Jesus was connected to Adam, the very existence of man. And now John. What is John trying to tell us? Is there a genealogy in John? I think John is trying to show us that Jesus is good. There is no need of his genealogy because he comes from the evilest past. Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you so much for that. Yes, John is revealing Jesus as the son of God. So there is no genealogy required there because he is the creator. That's what we see in John chapter 1 verse 1 to 5. Can I request one of us to please read? Sid, can you please? Mum, can you please repeat the chapter? Okay, John chapter 1 verse 1 to 5. John chapter 1 verses 1 to 5. Yes. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Though through him all things were made, without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life that life was the light of man. The light shines in the darkness but the darkness what not understood it. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. So what we see from this passage, we see that Jesus was in the beginning and Jesus was God and Jesus was involved in the creation of everything. So Jesus was in the beginning, Jesus was with God and Jesus was involved in the creation of everything. And we also see that in later passages when we study the later chapters we see that Jesus been continually referring God as his Father. So when God is referred to as Father in the whole Gospel we see more than 120 times but then here in the Gospel of John he emphasised that Jesus refers God as his Father more over 35 times. This is much more than any of the other Gospels. For example in John chapter 10 verse 30, John chapter 10 verse 30, see as we discuss on each scripture I would request all to please highlight Mark so that you know when we refer through a scripture we can remember what we studied in the class. So we see that in John chapter 10 verse 30 Jesus referring God to his Father he says I and my Father are one. I and my Father are one. We see how John focuses in the later scripture in chapter 8. Can I request all to please turn to chapter 8 so that we can take turn and read for you scriptures. Okay and we read chapter 8 verse 54 to 59. 54 to 59. Can I request one of us to turn and read? If I glorify myself my glory means nothing. My Father whom you claim as your God is the one who glorifies me. Though you do not know him I know him. If I said I did not I would be a liar like you but I do know him and keep his word. Your Father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day. He saw it and was glad. Till 58 or till 59 please. Okay verse 57 you are not yet 50 years old the Jews said to him and you have seen Abraham 50 verse 58. I tell you the truth Jesus answered before Abraham was born I am. At this they picked up stones to stone him but Jesus hid himself sleeping away from the temple grounds. Thank you thank you. So what we see in some of the scriptures Jesus addressing himself as I am which is a very which is a most powerful powerful scripture saying I am is referring to God. In fact Jews were very scared even to write the name of God to write God or to write I am. So here Jesus been continuously referring himself that I am but can I request some of the I ams that we have we can see that John is recorded in this scripture in this Gospel of John. Yes there are seven I ams that John is recorded we can go through each one. So can I request y'all to turn to John chapter 635 and the other person John chapter 8 verse 12. Let me make a note of these scriptures so that we have a record of it. Let me post it for y'all. John 635 that the person take John 8 verse 12. Next person take John 10 verse 7. Next person John 10 verse 11. Next person John 11 25. The sixth I am is John 14 verse 6. The seventh is John 15 verse 1. So can we quickly take out these scriptures and we can follow one after the other one after the other we can read these so that we know what the scripture talks about. Okay the first person who was ready with John chapter 6 verse 35 please go ahead. John chapter 6 verses 35. Then Jesus declared I am the bread of life he who comes to me will never go hungry and he who lives in me will never be thirsty. Amen. So here we see Jesus addressing himself as I am the bread of life. So John is recorded about seven I ams in this gospel and we are going to study each of them. So the first one John chapter 6 verse 35 we see that Jesus addressing that I am the bread of life. The next person John chapter 8 verse 12 please. When Jesus spoke again to the people he said I am the light of the world whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. Amen. What we see here we see that Jesus addressing himself as I am the light of the world. The first one was I am the bread of life. The second is I am the light of the world and can we move on with the next scripture John 10 verse 7. Therefore Jesus said again I tell you the truth I am the gate for the she. So what we see here the other version says I am the door. I am the door. The next one John 10 verse 11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gave his life for the sheep. Amen. Yo Jesus is saying I am the good shepherd. I am the good shepherd. Can I request the next person to read John chapter 11 verse 25. John 11 verse 25 Jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even though he dies. So here we see Jesus saying I am the resurrection and the life. I am the resurrection and the life and he who believes in me though he may die but yet he shall live. So here he is saying that I am the resurrection and life. If you believe in me you will live. You will have eternal life. Can we move on to the next verse John chapter 14 verse 6. Jesus answered I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Very clearly Jesus saying there's no other way. I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me except through me. So Jesus is very clearly saying that I am the way the truth and the life. Can we move on to the next verse chapter 15 verse 1 please. I am the true wine and my father is the wine dresser. Amen. Thanks Nikki. So what we see here I am the true wine. Jesus again addressing the seven I ams we see that the first one was I am the bread of life. Second can I request one of you all to say what was the second I am. These are the very important points that we need to remember recollect what are the seven I ams that has been recorded in the Gospel of John. We just discussed. Okay Sid we'll go ahead with Sid. I am the bread of life. That was the first second one. I am the light. Yes yes I am the light of the well good the third one. Jesus is a door gate for the sheep. I am the door yes third one. I am the good shepherd. Good next fourth one. I have given out the scriptures. Let me write 10 type and send it here on so that it is very important. Which is the fourth one. Resurrection and life. Oh yes that's the fifth one. I am the resurrection and the life. Fourth one was good shepherd. Fifth one was the resurrection and life. Which is the sixth one. I am the three points. I am the way the truth and life. Very good. Seventh one the last one. I am the true wine. Exactly. Exactly. I have listed all the seven there for our reference. Okay with the scriptures I want y'all to remember. Okay so these are the seven I ams that we have studied from the Book of John. And also there's we can also see that in John chapter 18 there's one more I am. John chapter 18 verse 3 to 8 when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus and they asked who is Jesus here? And we see Jesus identifying himself. He comes forward and he says I am. The minute he said I am. Okay we see in verse 5. Okay chapter 18 verse 5 or verse 4 onwards I'll say Jesus therefore knowing all things that would come upon him went forward and said to them umayu seeking and verse 5 says they answered him Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus said to them I am he and Judas who betrayed him also stood with them. Now when he said to them I am he what happened to the soldiers we see here? They drew back and fell to the ground. So what do we understand from this scripture? What do we understand? What happened there that all the soldiers who came to arrest Jesus they stepped back and they fell down. What happened? Anyone from the class? What do you think would have happened there? I think there is power in the name I am. Yes yes thank you brother for sharing that yes there is a power in the name I am. The minute Jesus said I am there's a reverence to that name and people knew it. The minute they said I am Jesus had the power in him the minute he said I am the soldiers stepped back and they all fell to the ground that's what the scripture says and we see in verse 7 then he asked them again umayu seeking and they said Jesus of Nazareth and verse 8 Jesus answered I have told you that I am he therefore if you seek me let these go their way that means if you're looking out for me leave my disciples whoever was around him he said let them go their way and that the saying might be fulfilled which he spoke of those who gave me I have lost none. Then Simon Peter having a sword we know what happened he put the sword back and he fixed his ears and and then what happened Jesus said arrest me he gave himself to arrest them you see there so there is a power in that word I am and we also see the seven fold affirmation of his deity in this book okay can we turn to John chapter one verse 34 there are some scriptures which I would request each one of you all to take turns and read John chapter one let me type those scriptures so that we can keep it ready John chapter one verse 34 the next I have seen and I have I testify that this is the Son of God okay one one second John I'll just give out the scriptures then we can start reading John chapter one verse 40 49 the next scripture will see John 6 69 meanwhile please each one take turn and read John 10 36 John 11 27 John 20 verse 28 on 20 verse 31 there are seven affirmations we see in this book and it is very important so I would request all to please make a note as we study on those yes John please go ahead John chapter one verse 34 I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God thank you so what we see here I see and I testify I have seen and I testify that this is the Son of God so who's saying this John the Baptist is testifying that Jesus is the Son of God the second verse can I request one of you all to read John chapter one verse 49 John chapter was 49 then Nathaniel declared ruby you are the Son of God you are the king of Israel so what is Nathaniel testifying you are the Son of God you are the king of Israel wow can we also turn to the next scripture 669 John chapter 669 John chapter 6 verses 69 we believe and know that you are the Holy One of God so Peter is testifying that we have come to believe and know that you are the Christ the Son of the Living God so there's a revelation in a spirit he's saying that you are the Christ the Son of the Living God can I request the other person to turn to John chapter 10 verse 36 like everyone take turn we have ruby cheffina aradna brother super shish please take turn John 10 36 yes please do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world you are blessed for me because I said I'm the Son of God Jesus himself saying that I am the Son of God John chapter 11 verse 27 John chapter 11 verses 27 yes Lord she told him I believe that you are the Christ the Son of God who was to come into the world so we see a Martha testifying that Jesus as the Son of God you are the Christ the Son of God who is to come into the world and then we see in John 20 28 what do we see in John chapter 20 verse 28 Thomas said to him my Lord and my God Thomas said to him my Lord and my God what a wonderful what a realization that Thomas received and he looked at Jesus and he says my Lord and my God and let's turn to chapter 20 verse 31 please John 20 verses 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that by believing you may have life in his name amen which is the very purpose of this whole book we see that John declaring the author of this gospel is declaring that Jesus is Christ and he is the Son of God from the very beginning of the book till the end he continuously declares it again and again and again that Jesus is Christ and he is the Son of God this is something that we need to know that Jesus yes and we see Jesus as human but at the same time we need to see Jesus as Christ he is the Son of God that is the essence the very purpose of this book so as we studied on the seventh witnesses testifying that Jesus as the Son of God we also see Jesus as human in the same gospel portrayed at through the miracles through the signs well the other gospels the other synoptic gospels addresses the miracles as miracles okay but then in the gospel of John John addresses these as the signs okay he mentioned it as signs signs which Jesus did well what are the signs that we see has a human that Jesus did that is the wedding at canna what Jesus do at the wedding of canna he held out the need that was there he held out so as a human he understood the problem what was going on then he stepped in and he held out some of the human nature some of the human character we see in Jesus in this book of in the gospel of John and we also see near the psych are well that he he was very tired so he rested there and he asked the women the Samaritan women for some water because he was thirsty and we also see because of the time I'm not going into the scriptures but I'm just giving out we also see at the grave of Lazarus he was deeply moved and what happened the shortest to us what did Jesus do near the grave of the Lazarus yes Jesus wept so as a human we see that Jesus had emotions he wept and in the upper room we see that Jesus washes the the the feet of the disciples Jesus washing the feet of the disciples and wiping them and we all just see on the cross what happened what did Jesus said on the cross one of the seven words that Jesus expressed as a human Jesus was thirsty he said I thirst at the cross he said I thirst so human nature you know before dying there's a thirsty within him so more of the inner consciousness of Jesus is also revealed in the gospels as in when we read we also see in one of the chapter in chapter 17 that Jesus prayed loud even in the voice you know he prayed loud it says so again that's one more emotion as a human has been recorded so some of the distinct features from the book of John we can see is Jesus been constantly been focused Jesus was focused on the word that the father assigned to him you see in John 4 34 he says my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work again in some of the scriptures he says that he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him and again in some of the other scriptures in chapter 5 we see that he's confirming I have come in my father's name and in John chapter 18 verse 18 John chapter 8 sorry John chapter 8 verse 18 he says I am one who bears witness of myself and the father who sent me bears witness of me we see how Jesus bearing the witness of the father and he's relating to God as his father and also in John chapter 8 verse 38 the first half of verse 38 we see that I speak what I have seen with my father I speak what I've seen of my father so I don't do anything out of my own but I do what my father is asking me to do so continuously we see that how Jesus was focused on the work that his father sent him for and at the end of this gospel chapter 20 verse 21 chapter 20 verse 21 we see that again Jesus saying that peace be to you this is after the death of Jesus after his ascension he's saying as father has sent me I also send you so what is Jesus trying to say here so now I am with the father okay and he's also assuring that I am sending you a comforter you'll be comforted and he will be with you will never leave you we also see that affirmation in John chapter 14 verse 16 16 saying that I will pray the father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever who's this helper he's the Holy Spirit who will abide with us forever will never leave us and here with that helper Jesus is saying as father has sent me I also send you why to proclaim the gospel to the world we see the great commission again which Matthew had recorded we also see here Jesus sending out the disciples and this message can also be taken personally to each one of us Jesus sending us to go share the good news to go share the gospel so the gospel of John concludes with a very interesting claim from an eyewitness that is John himself in John chapter 21 can we turn to 21 verse 25 very very important and there are also many other things that Jesus did which if they were written one by one I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written amen so he's saying Jesus did many miracles in three and half years of ministry Jesus did many miracles but if everything needs to be recorded or if everything needs to be written one by one I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the book that it would be written so very very important that Jesus assuring all the disciples and us that the spirit the Holy Spirit will be with us he will abide with us and he will teach us all things recalling to our mind what Jesus has said that he will be the witness to Christ which will be his main function that he will teach us he will lead us and he will guide us we need to have this fellowship we need to have this relationship with Jesus so that he can teach us as the scripture says that my sheep hears my voice his voice becomes very clear the more and more we seek him our spirit gets tuned to his voice we can still hear that still small voice talking within us leading us guiding us because he is the light he is the way the truth and the life so with that we end the gospel of john but at the same time we will just go through all the four gospels today before we could end so what how do we compare all these four gospels what do we learn from these four gospel because this is very important for us to know the the message from each and every gospel we have only four gospels what are these four gospels stands for and what are our learning from these four gospels that should be the essence of our class of we studying in last five class we have been studying on the gospel of matthew mark luke and john what is our learning class it's open yes please brother lubega go ahead i think it is very important for us in our apologetic studies to know what we do actually believe in and not to be just taken away by just to win or dogmatically to know the real instance where does it start from and where does it take us i think that's the one of the mega reasons thank you pastor thank you thank you for sharing that thank you i'm just sharing a presentation that i prepared let me know if everyone can see it it is visible yes okay thank you so what is the difference between each gospel can we see this i've tried to put it at all on one so we see matthew mark luke and john matthew portrays jesus has the king mark as a servant and luke as the man and john as son of god we also see the cherubin the jesus portray they they portrayed jesus has the lion the king and mark as ox servant and luke as man the son of man and john as eagan what are these figures remind us when we studied the whole testament do we remember this that we covered the tabernacle in between all the twelve tribes around and each one carrying the banner the banner in front of their tribe and also in the book of ezekiel ezekiel writes about the four living creatures and it is the same it is from the very beginning we see that you know god relating to these four features and the tabernacle we see that in the north was eagle and then we see the son of man here in the south and east is lion and west is the ox and accordingly the tribes were arranged like this we see here the lion was the tribe of juda and then we have if rime in the west if rime in the west and then dan and ruben in the north and south we see it here and this is our ezekiel portrays and also in the book of revelation we see below the throne of god there are four cherubims with the features of the man the lion the eagle and the ox that's the tabernacle okay we will come to it soon we also see okay so what do we see in the tabernacle we studied about the outer court and then the inner court and the holy of holies there are three parts the outer court the inner court and the holy of holy so there was a veil that covered there was a veil that was between the holy of holies and the inner court can we see this this is inside the inner court so what do we see inside the inner court on the left hand side we see a menorah a seven lamp stand and then on our right we see the table of showbread there's a 12 showbread according to the tribe and in the middle we see the altar of the altar of incense and then we see the veil can we see can we all see the veil class can we see the veil yes first okay yeah okay so we see the veil that is separating the inner court and the most holy of holies so the veil can we turn to Hebrews chapter 10 verse 18 to 20 Hebrews chapter 10 we are running out of time so I request you all to please turn to chapter 10 verse 18 to 20 can one of you all please read and where these have been for given there is no longer a sacrifice for sin therefore brothers since we have a confidence to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus go into your class quickly go in class by a new and living way open for us through the curtain that is his body and since we have a great priest over the house of God let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith having a heart sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water amen till 20 you read 21 also 22 also read 22 you read okay okay thanks okay so what we read here is in verse 20 by a new and a living way which he consecrated for us through the veil that is his flesh so what we see here we see in the scripture through the book of Hebrews we see that in verse 20 is comparing the Hebrew the author of Hebrew saying through the veil that is his flesh so here we see the veil represents the flesh of Jesus so what does this veil that separates the holy of holies and the inner court stands on it stands on the four pillars what is that Matthew Mark Luke and John can you see the representation of each book in the figurative here can we see that the four figures yes can we see Matthew as the figure of lion Mark as ox Luke as man and John as eagle can we see that so these four gospels talks about his flesh is life in the flesh so the flesh is the only thing that separates the holy god from this sinful man so what happened on the cross what happened on the cross when Jesus died on the cross what happened what happened to this veil it's going to be a stone the veil was stone thank you yes was it torn from the bottom to top or how is it from top to bottom yes the veil was torn from top to bottom and this veil was very thick it was not very thin the veil is very the veil is very thick that no man can tear it no man it was only God so on the cross the flesh of Jesus was stone and here in the tabernacle the veil that separated the man and God was stone from top to bottom by God himself and we also see the colors the representation of the colors on this let me go to that so that we know okay Matthew represents the king the purple color and Mark the servant that is the scarlet which is a red and Luke find linen which is white man and John the blue color so all these four colors are on these curtain can you see it blue purple white and the red and also when we read the yeah that is it I had to share from this okay let it be yeah so when we read the genealogy so what happened are there genealogies in the in the book gospel of Matthew we're having a quest time please tell me the genealogy yes till where it went to till where they addressed the Matthew the author of the gospel of Matthew addressed the genealogy of Jesus till whom is it from King David King David and then till Abraham Mark did we have genealogy in Mark no no good because as a as he was representing Jesus has a servant so gene genealogy was not required and how about in the book of Luke till where the genealogy was represented and why anyone from the class please I think it starts from Adam yes because it was representing Jesus as a man so the very beginning of human so he went up till Adam and in the book of John there's no genealogy because John was representing Jesus has God he existed in the creation that's the reason he starts the book at saying in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God he directly went up to the beginning and he says that he was in the beginning with God and all things were made through him and without him nothing was made that was made and in him was life and the life was the light of them he also said in verse 14 he says that the word became flesh and dwelt among us the same word that which was in the beginning existed at the beginning it was there and now the same word became flesh and he dwelt among us and he relates to Jesus this son of God whom you see now was the same person who was in the beginning as he's relating Jesus as a son of God and we also see as Matthew was writing the genealogy can we turn to Matthew chapter one can we all turn to Matthew chapter one how many women have been listed in the genealogy year how many women have been listed in the genealogy year anyone in the class I know we are running out of time so quickly we're almost ending nothing too okay anyone else the number is not I'm not sure either now but I think he if John says twice I think I can add on a 31 okay okay okay there are two genealogies one from Joseph and one from Mary's side but then the women that Matthew mentions are four women okay one is Tamar can we see Tamar verse three Tamar was a woman chosen by God but her life was messed she was also involved in adulterous but then God chose her Matthew chose to write a name because she was chosen by God we also see Rahab's name in verse five can we see Rahab's name in verse five we all know the story of Joshua the 10 spies or the 12 spies what happened so do we know the background of Rahab was it good she was a prostitute yes but why was her name been written here because she carried a blessing God chose her that's why her name has also been written we also see Ruth name we also see Ruth name been recorded so do we know who's Ruth when we studied the Old Testament who was Ruth yes she she was with a lady they call Naomi and she married I think Boaz yes right so on what was the background she was from which tribe she was a Moabite she was a Moabite she was not from the tribe of Jewish tribe she was not from this tribe but she was from a Moabite tribe which was hated by others but then God chose Ruth despite a background and God chose her to bring David from her generation through Boaz and Ruth and Boaz was the kinsman Redeemer and we also see Betsheba do we know the story of Betsheba who's Betsheba a woman married to to Eurea who was taken over by David and there's a mother of Solomon thank you thank you yes so was all these four women from a very good background on the contrary no yes so here is the life story of yours and mine though we may have a different background that sometimes we would don't like to look back or talk about we wish a background could be erased but then God is saying do not worry we don't have to hide anything of that or let that not hold us back from what God has a future for us purposefully God has mentioned you know all these four women name in the Gospel of Matthew in the genealogy saying we don't have to hide because we have been born new all the old things have gone and we are new in them so God chose you and me for a purpose despite of a sinful nature every man and women who are born on this earth are not perfect being except for Jesus but then Jesus has redeemed us he has paid a price for us on the cross this is what all the four gospel talks about even the twelve disciples whom Jesus chose were not the perfect being even when Jesus was with them they went astray they betrayed Jesus they were sinful it's not that if we are chosen and we are called for the ministry we may be the pastors ministry leaders so that we are perfect no there will be a time when we fall there will be a time when we are mocked we are ridiculed there will be a time when we have sinned miserably do at times but then do not give up because God never gives up on us God never gives up we need to carry ourselves back look up to the cross believe on the redemption work that Jesus died on the cross stay strong the path that we are walking or we are journey may not be easy and Jesus never promised that our path will be easy but then he says but I will never leave you know forsake you I am I will hold your right hand and walk with you and you are with me and you are seated with me at the right hand of the Father through Jesus so we need to believe in what Jesus said and he did and this is the finished work of the cross that we believe our redemption is in and we need to believe and we need to carry on let nothing stop us from serving God let nothing stop us from turning back from the call that Jesus has called us this is the message that we get from all the four gospels of what Jesus what he said what he did and we boys and we is so that we can look at him and hold on to him because our strength comes from him okay so with that we end the session on all the four gospels okay and I leave Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with the screenshot y'all can take and you know keep it handy so that we know what these four gospels stands for and also I would like to it was one last thing what Oral Robert said you know once as he was praying he was seeking God and he sends God tell him that if he wants more revelation of God God asked him to read the gospels again and again so I leave that with you and I also learned that personally learned that from me for me as well that you know if we want a greater revelation of who God is who Jesus is that we need to read the four gospels again and again and again so that we get the revelation of who Jesus is and who we who we is personally to you and personally to and me okay so can I request one of us to end this class with a word of prayer and dismiss us gracious Lord sorry go ahead Livega come on John it was your gospel let's continue all right Father we want to thank you for this time we praise you Lord that for the revelations that you have poured out we pray our God that we would continue to learn more about you through the gospels thank you for revealing so much to us through your scriptures of God we thank you for Pasadena to explain these mysteries to us Lord Jesus we bless each one of us as a class and we pray your God that we would walk in the authority that you have provided us Lord Jesus we thank you in Jesus precious name we pray amen amen and thank you so much for joining in today's session see you all tomorrow with the next book on the book of Acts God bless see you all thank you