 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the class. I have just started the recording, so we've caught that going. I'll just pray together and then we will get started. Thank you for connecting to the class early and well in time so we can get started. Could I please ask somebody to just pray and then we will get started. I would like to pray today somebody. Aaron, would you like to pray? Sure. Lord, thank you for this new day again. Lord, as we join you with the book of Romans, Lord, the early days, Lord, fill us with this spirit, help us to be holy and righteous. Lord, as we join you with this book, help us, Lord, to serve you with spirit and truth. Lord, let your spirit manifest in our lives. Lord, we will serve you with spirit and truth. So, Lord, fill us more each and every single day. So, I submit a bit of the time and do everything. Amen. Alright. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. Good morning, everyone, once again. Alright, so last week we gave a little introduction to the book of Paul's episode to the Romans. We gave a little bit of background, a little history, how we know when this book was written, from where it was written, what were the reasons behind Paul's writing and so on, just a little background. And then we got started with chapter one. And what I would like us to do is just read through right from the start of the chapter, just read through. We've already read, I think we covered till about verse nine, ten, some of you are there and looking at it. But let's just read through verses one through twelve, and then we pick up from verse nine and move forward from there. But just a little, you know, get the context together. Somebody could read for us Romans chapter one, verses one through twelve, just read all twelve verses and then we will pick up from verse nine and move forward. Can somebody just read that for us, please? Sure. Can I go? Please go ahead. Okay. Romans chapter one, verse 12, reading from the NIV version. Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God. The gospel he promised beforehand, through his prophets in the holy scriptures, regarding his son, who has to his human nature was a descendant of David, and who through the spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the son of God. By his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord. Through him and for his name's sake, we received grace and apostleship to call people from among all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ. To all in Rome, who are loved by God and called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. God whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the gospel of his son is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers at all times. And I pray that now at last by God's will, the way may be open for me to come to you. I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong. That is that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith. Amen. Thank you. So, you know, we've commented on the first eight, nine verses. We were somewhere, it was nine, ten, eleven. So we're going to pick up from there just to remind us of some of the things we highlighted there from verse nine. Paul was saying, you know, for God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit or in my spirit or with my heart. No, on my heart, we heard it from the NIV. I serve with my spirit. So one of the things we said there was really the ministry, the serving God is a matter of the heart. It's a matter of the spirit that you have to emphasize or focus on that first. And then, you know, okay, the outside, the methods and the mannerisms and all of those other things come later. But most importantly, we serve God in the spirit. We saw how Paul was praying for these believers and he was giving thanks to God for them. And he was, for their faith, you know, how their faith has been spoken of. Of course, they were in Rome. So Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire. So things that happened there would easily spread throughout the empire. And so news believers in Jerusalem was spreading. Hey, so, you know, you can imagine that and obviously it's a good, good news or good report about them. So you can imagine that people in different parts of the empire, the Roman Empire are speaking about what's believers in Rome. Good things about them. And so Paul is grateful, is thankful that their faith is being spoken of in many other places. And he's praying for them. And he says, you know, I'm praying that I will be able to come to you. Then he came to verse 11. And why does he want to go there? Why does he want to come to them? So remember that by this time, by this time, Paul is writing around 57 AD from Corinth. The day of Pentecost, approximately AD 30. So we have about 27 years have elapsed. What we said is, you know, the church in Rome, most likely happened because there were Jews from Rome who came to Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. Their lives were impacted. And then eventually they went back to Rome. So it's about seven years since those early believers, of course, new people would have new believers would have come into the church. But what I want to impress here is that this is not a, you know, a two year old congregation. This is a church that has been there for a good amount of time, you know, at least or approximately 30 years. But to them, he is saying, I want to come and impart to you some spiritual gift, right? Some gift from grace. So this is, and now, you know, I just want to just remind you that these notes have been put up in the coursebook section. So I hope you've downloaded it so that you could review these things after class or, you know, whenever you have time. So Paul is saying, you know, I've, I want to come and I want to impart to you some spiritual gift. He's there, desiring to impart. Some things we can deduce from here that spiritual things can be imparted. So there is impartation and then there is training, right? Some things are taught and some things are caught. Just people use that phrase. So here Paul is talking about being, you know, coming to them and wanting to impart gift to them, something, right? So as spiritual gifts can be imparted, I mean somebody has something and they can pass it on to others. Now, of course, this impartation can take place through so many ways. One important way you have to be spiritually is shared with somebody else spiritually is through teaching, right? So you share, you speak about it, you talk about it, you teach about it. And so through the process of teaching and communicating the truth, there is an impartation of the gift. Spiritual gifts can also be imparted through association, right? So as people are together in fellowship, they're relating to each other, what happens, things pass from one person to the other person or to the other group of people or in relationship, fellowship, in association. So understand that, you know, spiritual things can be imparted. And if you look at the Greek there, it's really the same word that's used to, for impart is, it's used to share, you know, like if a man has too cold to give one to the other. So you've got something, you give it away to somebody else who's in need. And the outcome is verse 12, that there will be mutual encouragement. Paul says, you know, I also will be encouraged by our faith, the mutual faith. So Paul is desiring to impart to them, you know, he knows I can carry something I can give to you. And as ministers of God, that's part of what we want to do. We want to impart to people, right? So you know what you carry, you know the grace, you know the truth, the word of God, you know, you're carrying something and you want to give to somebody. Paul is being intentional about it, right? He's saying, I'm coming, I want to come and I want to impart. That means he's aware of this, he is intentional about it. And he's desiring to do it. I want to give, right? So impartation from our side as ministers of God is an intentional thing. You get filled up with God, with this word, with this presence. And then you say, I want to go and give to people. I want to impart that, right? So we can be intentional, just like Paul was, to impart, to pass on spiritual things to people. Now we pick up from verse 13 and go down through verse 17. Let's pick up, can we read that please? Verse 13 to 17, somebody could read that. I'll read first. Go ahead Thomas. Now I don't want you to be unaware brethren that I often plan to come to you but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles. I'm adapted both to Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to wise and unwise. So as much as in me, I'm ready to preach the gospel to you, who are in Rome also. For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. For the Jew first, and also for the Greek, for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. As it written, the just shall live by faith. Thank you. So where's the teen? Second time, Paul is telling the believers about his intent to come. He mentioned that in verse 10 earlier, that look I've been praying, I've been asking, seeking God, I want to come. He's repeating that, you know, his brothers, and you know, I want to tell you the fact, look, I really have been wanting to come to you for quite some time. But various things have kept me away in there to stop me from coming. Could be his own business in his own business in in the ministry or in other things he was going through. So he designed to go there, he was designing to go there. I just want to point out a few things there. You know, in the ministry, we need to, you know, we need to, okay, let me speak in like this. In the ministry, you know, we have a desire to do many things, right. And we know, you know, from our case of Paul, I'm sure he had a desire to serve many people. And by this time he had already finished, or he was close to the end of three missionary journeys, which means he has already planted many churches, probably traveled to, you know, close to 50 cities by that time, to the end of his third missionary journey, which means he's got things happening in so many different places, not to mention the smaller towns and villages he may have visited along his journeys. And I'm sure inside his heart that there would be this desire to go to many places. You know, he cared for the believers at Rome, which he's expressing here. I'm sure he cared for, you know, believers at Corinth, at Philippi, you know, and so many places. His heart was like, I wish he could be in 50 different places at the same time to go and minister to them. And yet, you know, what do we, and I'm sure we also would have that same desire, God, I wish I could do this for them, for them, for them. One important thing, Paul discloses in 2 Corinthians chapter one, and it's just a little side journey, you know, in 2 Corinthians chapter one, he writes to the same, you know, to the Corinthians and he says, in verse 17, 2 Corinthians one verse 17, once again, he's writing to the Corinthians, expressing a similar desire, and I want to come to you by a way of Macedonia, I want to visit you and so on. But then in verse 17, he says, could somebody read that for us, please? 2 Corinthians one verse 17, keep your hand at Romans one, we'll come back. Yes sir. Therefore, when I was planting this, planning this, did I do it lightly? All the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh that with me? There should be yes, yes, and no, no. So Paul is asking a question here, let me see, there's some alert here. So Paul is, you know, to the Corinthians, he's saying, look, I really was planning to come to you, and then he says, you know, the things I plan, do I plan it according to the flesh? So he's asked the question. The answer is giving us the insight that Paul is driving. The answer, obviously, you know, you're not planning according to the flesh, you're planning according to the spirit, right? So even in his plans, we can be sure the things that Paul was planning and is going to visit different churches and, you know, people that he was ministering to a responsible for, he was not planning according to the flesh, sorry, but he's depending on the Holy Spirit. So going back to Romans one 13, you know, even as Paul is saying, look, you know, I was very desirous that I should come to you. And of course, there are practical things that kept him away. There's also this whole element or aspect of and that's something we also should learn in the ministry that the plan according to the spirit, you know, who to go to, when to minister to them, and so on. If you, if we study what happened to Paul, so Paul is writing this from Corinth around 1857 and just, you know, subsequently, as soon as he goes to Jerusalem or that he's apprehended by the Jews, he's arrested and then they hold him in Caesarea for two years waiting for trial. And he appears before, you know, three different leaders, Kings, Felix and Festus and Agrippa. He appears before them and eventually he appeals to Caesar. So they say, okay, you've, you've appealed to Caesar, then you've got to go to Rome. So they send him, you know, with an escort of soldiers along with others by ship from Caesarea all the way traveling to Rome. And that takes about about a year. And by the time they eventually reach this, you know, they have shipwreck and other things on the way. So by the time he reaches Rome, it's about three years. So from the time of this writing, and it has not been a very comfortable journey. It has been in circumstances by which he reaches Rome. So on one hand, his, you know, his desire to be with the believers in Rome is being fulfilled. He gets there. But how he arrives there will be difficult journey. I don't want to read too much into it, because it is, you know, a life experience. But what we can take away is, you know, sometimes as we, in the ministry, as we're serving God, there are desires in our hearts. And, you know, how we, God will get us there. But how we get there, maybe through ways we really didn't expect or necessarily un, you know, anticipated. When God eventually got Paul was there in Rome, and he spent two years in Rome while waiting to come before Caesar. He was under what we would call as house arrest, meaning it wasn't in a prison cell, but he was able to have his own home and meet with people there. And, and so he was actually able to ensure that, you know, the believers in Rome came, he ministered to them and so on. So he got that distinct desire fulfilled. But it just took place in some unexpected, in an unexpected manner. Okay, just to keep that in mind, I don't want to build a theology around it, but you know, there, this is what happens. Now, verse 14 and 15, verse 14, Paul says, I am a data to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, to the wise and to the unwise. He says, I am a data. Now, that means I owe something to these people. Now, what did he mean by that? You know, how can we understand this? I owe these people something. I owe them something, the Greeks, the Barbarians, meaning Paul, little cross-reference, we go to Galatians chapter two. There are several verses on this, but let's just look at one Galatians two and verse eight, please. And what's Galatians chapter two verses eight and nine? Somebody could read that for us. Galatians two, eight and nine. Sure. For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. Verse nine, okay. James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the Jews. Okay. So, very, very interesting. Paul was a Jew and the Lord made him an apostle to the Gentiles. Peter, James and John were Jews. The Lord made them apostle to the Jews. Now, so they knew there, you know, so you see how God appoints us to serve certain people. And in Paul's case, he was appointed as an apostle to the Gentiles. So the Gentiles, at least in those days in that context immediately, the major part of the Gentiles were the Greeks. The Greeks were everywhere. The Greeks were in power. The Greeks and Barbarians were getting a message here that my connection was interrupted. So in case you lost me, let me just repeat that. So Paul is saying, you know, so we see a Paul as an apostle to the Gentiles. The Gentiles, broadly speaking, had the Greeks who are the intellectuals, the highly, you know, the people who think, who reason, and then there are the Barbarians, meaning them. There's a genetic word for, you know, people who may not be highly educated and so on. But Paul says, I am a data to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, to the wise, that is, once again, the Greeks, and the unwise, meaning not very scholarly, not very educated, the Barbarians. But why is Paul saying, I am a data? Because he was appointed by the Lord, which we just read in Galatians 289, as an apostle to the Greeks and the Barbarians, to the Gentiles. So Paul is saying, I am a data to them. So here's a thought I want us to keep in mind. The call of God makes us indicted to science. That means we owe them something. Why do you owe them something? Because God has appointed you for them. And you've got to go and fulfill the call to serve them. And the only way you can pay that debt, so to speak, is by you going and serving. Because that's the call of God. The call of God makes us indicted to the people. God has assigned us to. And that's what Paul is expressing. He says, I am a data to the Gentiles, the Greeks and the Barbarians, whether they're educated or uneducated, they're Gentiles. I am a data to them. Because the Lord may be an apostle to them, send me to them, I owe them something. And that's why he's writing to the believers in Rome. He says, you know, I'm a debtor. In fact, I owe you something. I feel I owe you something. So I need to come and, you know, in some way pay this debt. And that's why he says in verse 15, so as much as it may, I'm ready to come to you who are in Rome. Because I owe something to the Gentiles, to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians, to the wise, and I owe something. So I want to come to you and preach the gospel to you who are in Rome. So, you know, there's that sense of indebtedness that the call of God places on our hearts. And sometimes you may feel it, even if you want to preach the gospel. And the gospel again, it's made a thing, like you said, last week. All right. Am I back now? Can you hear me? Yes, Pastor Noyes, but we just lost you for a moment there. Sorry. That's the last part. Can you hear me? Oh, okay. I just realized that. Okay. Yeah. So Paul, as he says, you know, I'm ready to come and preach the gospel to you who are in Rome, to the Gentiles. I'm ready to come. And I was just highlighting the gospel. Now, we saw that the gospel is a major theme here, right? He starts off by saying it's the gospel of the Son of God, right? The gospel of God. And so he says, I'm bringing that good news. I want to proclaim the gospel. That doesn't mean he wants to get them saved again. No, they are saved. But the gospel is not only the message of salvation, but it is the message of the kingdom. Everything about the kingdom has to do with the gospel. And when we see what actually happened, when Paul got to Rome, if you go with me to Acts 28, if you just turn one or two pages in your Bible, Acts 28, and you look at verse 30 and 31. Can somebody read that, please? Acts 28, 30, and 31. Acts 28, 30, and 31. Paul built two whole years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those these things which concerned the Lord Jesus Christ with all continents, no man forbidding him. Okay, thank you. So verse 13, 31, I'm just telling us what Paul did at Rome. So he had said in Romans 1, I want to come bring the gospel to you who are in Rome. Acts 28, 30, and 31. He is in Rome. He is in his own rented house for two years. What is he doing? He is teaching them about the kingdom of God and about the Lord Jesus Christ. So that's what he was wanting to pour out unto them, right? And that's what he's getting to do right there. He's teaching them. He says, I want to bring you the gospel. What's the gospel? It's not just, you know, the message of salvation, but the good news of the Son of God is about the kingdom of God. And it's about the Lord Jesus Christ and who he is and all he came to do for us and all that God has given to us in the person of Christ. And so for two years, he was there teaching them these things. Verse 16, he says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, the message of Christ. This message is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes for the Jew first and also for the Greek. So I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Powerful statement. You and I must not be ashamed of the message of Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Not be ashamed of the gospel. Why? Because everything we preach and teach about Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God, it is the power of God for salvation, power of God for salvation. So think about the message is the power of God for salvation. What we preach and teach is really administering God's power into people's lives that will result in salvation. Now understand that in the New Testament, the word salvation is a comprehensive word. It includes forgiveness from sin and everything else, healing, deliverance, preservation of life, safety and victory and triumph over enemies. All of that is in that word salvation. It's a comprehensive word. Everything that delivers us from sin and Satan is included in that word. Sin, sickness and Satan is included in that word. So the message is the power of God. It brings God's power for salvation. As Paul says, I'm not ashamed because I know when I talk about Jesus, when I talk about his kingdom, the power of God is being made available for people to be saved, for people to be delivered, for the salvation of God to take place in their lives. And he says to the Jews and also to the Greeks, verse 17 is a very, very important verse. This verse gave birth to what we refer to today as the Reformation or the Protestant movement, Martin Luther. And everything he did, he drew inspiration from Romans 1, verse 17. So Romans 1, 17 is actually a monumental verse, as far as the Protestant movement. We call it the Protestant movement, but it's a monumental verse for the Protestant faith. It says here, for in it that is in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. So in the gospel, God's righteousness is revealed, the fact that God is righteous and just from faith to faith. That means throughout the generations of faith, of people of faith, that God's righteousness is revealed from faith to faith. And he says the just, and he's quoting from Habakkuk, chapter 2, verse 4, he says, the just shall live by faith. So God being righteous, God is a God who's righteous. The word righteous, so in the New Testament, the word righteous and just are righteousness, justification. They both come from the same Greek word. So they're actually synonymous, can be used explicitly, righteous, just, righteousness, justification. So the righteousness of God, the fact that God is right, the God is blameless, the righteousness of God is revealed, is unveiled from faith to faith, as we journey through faith to faith. So as in the gospel, we see that God is just to see that that righteousness is imparted to people of faith. And that is how we become just, how we become righteous. And he calls us therefore to live by faith. So this is what triggered Martin Luther's thinking when he read this verse. He said, hey, the gospel, which is a message of grace, the gospel is unveiling God's righteousness. And that righteousness is given to people who have faith. He's not calling us to do works. And that righteousness is given to people of faith, those who have faith. And then he's just calling us to live by faith, the just. Now, how does a man become just? It's because the righteousness of God is given to the man through the gospel. So he's become just. And he's going to live by faith, not by, you know, and in those times, the church was so steeped in tradition and they had all kinds of rituals and all kinds of things happening. And Martin Luther realizes that's not it. The gospel makes provision for the righteousness of God to be given to man, the just. And then what God calls us is to live by faith. And that's what prompted him to say, hey, we need to stop doing all these things and live by faith because we are justified by faith and we live thereafter, we live by faith. So this Romans 117, as Martin Luther, you know, ponder through on it and as Rebekah said to him, through Romans 117, he understood it. In the gospel, God's righteousness is revealed. God's righteousness is imparted to the man who has faith. That man is declared to be just. And thereafter that man is going to live by faith. He's going to walk by faith. So it's grace, righteousness and faith. There is no aspect of being, you know, buying my buying my forgiveness through any other means. No, it's all grace, righteousness and faith. Romans 117, really, really important scripture. So having, you know, having introduced, so you could consider it like verses one through 17 as, you know, Paul's the general introduction. And now from verse 18, he gets down to some serious things. He starts talking about God, God's wrath and then the proof of God's existence. And how man has denied the existence of God or denies the existence of God and therefore continues on in sin. But then there is the judgment for sin. Okay. So let's read Romans 18 and we will read verse one to 23, please. Romans chapter one verse 18 to 23. So I say Romans 18 to 23. Somebody could read it. Any questions so far? You're following with me now, have been following with me so far? Yes, Pastor. So I mean, if I may just recap verse 17, understood it correctly. So we see that God's righteousness is revealed in his gospel. And through that word, we are made righteous by faith and which empowers us to live by faith. And we don't live by deeds. We don't believe, we don't put our faith in deeds or our actions that makes us righteous. Is that correct, Pastor? Yes, that's correct. Yeah. Right. Sorry, go ahead. Sorry, Pastor. So the other thing is, I mean, in Acts, I think 22 or really that Paul is the citizen of Rome. Is that correct, Pastor? Yes. So the only reason that he took time for him to get to Rome was not necessarily, I mean, he could have gotten there early, but then just that he, like we read in verse 14, and he had the heart for other nations, other people surrounding nations also. That is the only reason why it delayed him to getting to Rome. You said three years, it took him three years, right? Yeah, that was one. And also, I mean, one is he was busy with the ministry already. He was on his third missionary journey in that region. But the second one was when he was arrested in Jerusalem. So what happened from Corinth, where he was writing this letter, he travels back to Jerusalem to, you know, deliver the collections, the offerings to the saints in Jerusalem. And he's there. And there in Jerusalem, he is arrested by the Jews. And then they actually keep him arrested for two years in Caesarea. Because, you know, the different leaders were sent kind of north, right, but they were sending Paul, you know, across to each other. So there was Festus, Felix, and a gripper who, you know, were, okay, you decide, you decide, you decide what, you know, so he was kind of held up there in Caesarea because they had accused him of creating a riot and causing problems. And finally, Paul says, hey, I'm appealing to Caesar, you know, so then they send him, okay, they send him to Caesar. So it kind of is why he was delayed. Thank you, Pastor. Yeah, I just saw some highlights in the acts from 23. I think it mentions the same thing that you just said. Yeah, thank you, Pastor. Okay. All right, so, yeah, so Karen just wants us to repeat verse 17. So Paul says, in it, it is in the gospel. God's righteousness is revealed. So the righteousness of God, the fact that God is right. That's one aspect of righteousness, but that he also gives that righteousness to people. The righteousness of God is revealed. How is it revealed or how is it given? God gives that righteousness to people who have faith. And one, and that's what makes us just. So for example, that land of pathos, the just shall live by faith. You can also, we can also translate it, the righteous will live by faith. It's the same root word. So for in the gospel, the righteousness of God has been revealed from faith to faith. Just as it is written, the righteous shall live by faith. So the gospel through grace makes the righteousness of God available to those who have faith. And these people who have been made righteous just live by faith. Okay. So basically he's saying, hey, righteousness, which is made available through the gospel by grace is received by faith. And those who receive that righteousness, they will have to live by, they continue to live by faith. So the deeds doesn't earn us the righteousness. It's only an expression that God has made us right. And we are in right relationship with God. And therefore we do the works, we do the deeds that God wants us to do. Okay. So Paul now gets into, you know, talking about God. And now, you know, this is now he's getting into the teaching part of Romans, right? And he starts with a very basics. He starts with God, sin, creation, existence of God, and, you know, what has happened, how man is responding to that. Okay. So Romans 1, 18 to 23, somebody can read that passage, then we'll go for a break. Anyone can read it. Romans 1 verse 18 onwards, the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppresses the truth by their wickedness. Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, his eternal power, and divine nature have been clearly seen being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, there became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal men and birds and animals and reptiles. Right. So, I mean, this passage is very powerful. Paul is saying, hey, God is not just ignoring the sins that are going on. He says, the wrath of God, God is angry, God is opposed to all the sin and the wickedness that's going on. But how did man end up like that? He says, you see, men have suppressed the truth instead of acknowledging the truth. And he says, verse 19, God has made it plain. God has revealed things to us. And what does he point to? Verse 20, he points to creation. He says, the invisible attributes of God are clearly seen in the things that are made. So he's pointing to creation. And he says, you know what? We have no excuse because look at creation. Look at everything around us. And he said, the attributes of God are actually put on display in creation. So, you know, many of us are saying, well, if God reveals himself to me, I'll believe that he's there. But Paul is saying, hey, God is staring you in the face through his creation because the invisible attributes of God are being revealed to us in the things he made in his creation. So for example, God is infinite. That's an invisible attribute. The universe or nowadays they use the term metaverse because it's like many universes. And we don't know if there could be other universes other than us, beyond us. We don't know how big, how great, it's infinite for us. So the infiniteness of God, the infinite attribute of God is seen right there. How many stars are there? It's like billions. We don't know. It's just billions. It's just that many. Have we counted all the stars? No. We just know they're just infinite number almost. Yeah. I mean, we don't know just that many. So the infinite attribute of God is revealed in his creation. Creation is infinite. So like that, there are other attributes of God seen in his creation, is what Paul is saying. Okay. So let's pause here for a quick break. We'll take our we'll take our tournament break and come back and continue from here. Feel free to, you know, bring up your questions as we go.