 Okay, good morning everyone and welcome to our students online as well Let's begin this time with a word of prayer and We get into our class. Let's pray Father, we thank you for this time. Once again, you've given us and Lord even as we continue to study your word and continue to Lord understand and Know our identity in you a God. We pray that Everything that we learn a card we will apply it in our life But we would just not just be Shearers of your word, but we will be doers of your word of God and we thank you Lord for this time We come in our hearts. We come in our lives into your hands in Jesus name. We pray Okay, so We love to pick up from chapter 33 Yes chapter 33 says Fellowship in righteousness now over all these weeks. We've been talking about You know, give me the key words that we've been talking about So even in the midnight if I wake you up and ask what is justification, you should know it Whatever what are the words we were talking about? It's three four words justification Okay, thank you good truth. Yes anybody else Redemption redemption. Yes. Thank you Salvation, okay Yeah, very good. So all of these words are Important to know because this is not for others. It's for you also, right? It's for our lives, right? so let's get into chapter 33 and Chapter 33 is fellowship in righteousness now We learned that you and I are righteous before God. We have a right standing before God. Now. What is fellowship? The meaning of fellowship is where there is two or more people gathered together Right, it's called a fellowship In church you have Fellowship lunch. They're having lunch alone. There's no fellowship there It's lonely lunch And now in the break time you I saw all of you all were standing and talking and having tea. What is that? Hopefully fellowship Right So where there's two or more people there's fellowship being in the presence of two or more people now when we are The righteousness of God we are in fellowship with God so that means we are With you know, we God is there God is in us God is around us. We're having fellowship with God Right, so anytime we can speak to God, right? We can speak to the Holy Spirit We can speak to Jesus right because we are the righteousness of God. We have fellowship right now There are three aspects as new creation that Being made righteous in God there are three aspects that we must very importantly understand right First one has to do with the right standing before God. We talked about this last week, right? When you and I have a right standing, there's no condemnation we are as If without any sin, right? Nobody can the Lord Jesus will not condemn us The Lord Jesus will not say you did these things wrong But the Holy Spirit is there to convict us of ourselves now who brings condemnation Right, and devil can use people to bring condemnation Devil can use situations bring condemnation The devil can use our own mind to bring condemnation Yes or no Right, so there's if we do something wrong. We keep telling ourselves. Hey, I'm useless. I'm a worm You know, I'm nothing God, why did you even create me? I shouldn't have been born. Now. What is that called? condemnation God has a plan God is saying I have plans for you to prosper you to give you a good hope to give good future I have created you Psalms 139 says I created you in your mother's womb And now we are saying I wish I was not born. I wish I did not live I wish I was not I didn't have these the things around me What is that we are bringing condemnation on ourself That's the mind right so in as righteous people as Righteous in the sight of God we have fellowship with God. So there's no condemnation to is the quality of having the nature and characteristics of Our Lord Jesus meaning the nature of the new creation Right now why is this important nature and character everyone say nature Character Now there's a small difference between nature and character See nature is Who we you know, it's who we are by by When you know when we are when we are growing up It's who we are right so in this in the sense for example Some of us will be very quiet people The nature right now. God didn't tell you don't talk. It's just in your nature I prefer being quiet. There are some people who Who need friends around They need to talk They if they don't talk they get nervous They have to talk That's in their nature. They are they are people people friendly Not people and then there are some of them who like Silence some of them who like people around. This is a different nature. Some of us are you know, you shouted them shouted your friends There's no response Some of them they get agitated. They respond back Right, so that is the nature inside Some of us may look at a glass, you know, there's a there's a saying right you look take a glass But it would half a glass of water Now there are two ways of looking at it Yes or no One is it's a only half a glass of water. I have the other one is here. I have half a glass of water At least better than nothing Your nature is something that God has given you Character is something that can be developed You understand what I'm saying character can change You can change your character. It can you can change for good. You can change for bad also now for example before becoming a believer characters bad bad language or Getting angry getting upset getting upset with parents not honoring your parents That's that's a character Now after becoming a believer Everything has changed. What's happened? Your character has changed, but the nature is still there. What is the nature? Hey, he's a quiet person or he's a person who is very friendly with people nature still there you get the difference Are you understanding right so character can even even so good believers Can develop bad characters over time? So character can change and it's important that we build our character Very important character is who we are when But he's watching Nobody's watching front of everyone Jay Masi key, but in the room There is no Masi There is no Jesus. Where is Jesus? He's not there Right now that is true character and as Fellowship with God I mean as righteousness as the righteous People as we stand righteous with God remember whether we are In an open setting or whether we are in the room alone God is there we have fellowship with him so it is our choice to See things say things do things. It is our choice So we need to tell ourselves. Hey, I'm in fellowship with God So if God is with me God is in me. How can I watch this? How can I say this? How can I speak this way? You get what I'm saying, right? Now, of course, there will be times we will make mistakes But then you come back into that. So for example, this is you know, this stand here is a You're standing with God, right? Sometimes we step out. We do something wrong We realize, oh man, I shouldn't have done this wrong Lord, please forgive me. Come back to your position Don't be there and the devil will keep pushing us away See now you're you've done one wrong two wrongs three wrongs. Sorry guys Come back Why because you have a right standing before God You get what I'm saying, right? Third is to do with action and behavior being a person who does Righteously and just sleep and to walk in righteously before God So putting it into action. Just knowing is not enough Imagine there's all of us are here and we say hey, let's all how many of you play instruments here? One two three, right? So you play instruments imagine it's time for worship half an hour worship Anybody knows how to play an instrument? Are you saying no, I don't play I Know but I don't want to play Why you don't play? No, I don't want to play But you know the instrument and does that make sense? You know, but you don't want to do it. It's like that over here God is saying you know, you are righteous. You know, you are justified. You know, you're holy Showed in your actions showed in your behavior, right? The soul and the body need to be brought into Subjection to the new creation. Okay, let's read this Romans chapter 12 and verse 2 Romans chapter 12 verse 2 very very important words Okay, this is your homework. You got to learn this verse by heart Next class Randomly pick somebody and say say this was whether it's in Hindi Telugu, Malayalam Japanese Chinese doesn't matter. You got to know that was Romans 12 to And be not confirmed to this world But he be transformed by the renewing of your mind that he may prove What is that good and acceptable and perfect will occur? Paul is writing to believers Everyone say Paul is writing to me What is he saying? Do not conform to this world anymore. Now, they're all believers. The Holy Spirit is inside them They are new creation already. Are you saying do not conform to this to the patterns of this world? That means whatever people are doing in this world, you don't conform to that, but you be Transformed by the renewing of your mind. Hey, everyone are going to the you know party Saturday night parties Saturday night drinking enjoying That's the world Everyone are you know making money By cheating one another Everyone are doing things, you know, they're enjoying their life That's okay. What does it say here? Do not conform. That means Do not you know, how many of you've seen a puzzle you've seen a puzzle, right? You you put the puzzle together and you get a picture So don't become one of the pieces of that puzzle Don't conform to it But you transform by the renewing of your mind. So you tell your mind Tell your mind. Hey, I know that this temptation is coming But I have to change my thinking But you know what the devil will say but hundreds of people are doing that nothing is happening to them You also can do That is the world Do not be conformed to this world, but we transform by the renewing of your mind. You have to tell your mind You know, there's a saying the mind is what our mind will emotions. It's our soul, right? The moment you win a battle over here in your mind 90% of the battle is one Not 90 95% I would say 95% Temptation comes the moment you tell your mind. No, I'm not going to fall into this temptation and your mind is strong 95% of the battle is one already All you have to do is next step say hey devil get out That's it. Use the word of God First place the devil attacks is the mind That's like Paul is saying you don't conform you change your mind change your thinking Change the way you look at things And you look at yourself You look at yourself standing with Jesus front of the father seated in heavenly places Right, so what does it say here? We need to tune ourselves. We need to tell our mind Okay, no, I want to go through God's word and then there's a body All of us feel hungry thirsty sleepy body pain headache stomach pain leg pain all the pains will come Have a body and the body has desires We need to tell our body Imagine this 21 days of fasting you tell yourself I'm going to start 21 days of fasting Next day Somebody will come with biryani What you'll do? Okay, God, I'll start two days later It will happen because it's happened to me Everyone will say hey today's my birthday take some more sauce today is my Father's brother's birthday today is my mother's sister's birthday All the birthdays anniversaries will come in the 21 days Your friends will say I will treat you I'll take you to KFC Okay, come now The body has desires But you got to tell yourself Right, you're a tell yourself. No, I'm going to do this for the glory of God Right, I'm going to do this now all of you are supposed to wake up at 5 a.m. Right. It's not easy I am But some of us struggle and get up there and you tell your mind hey Be transformed the devil will say cover and sleep. It's okay But you tell your mind hey no I'm a child of God I'm gonna think of what God is telling me I'm gonna hear what the Holy Spirit is telling me and you learn to control and you learn to direct your body To the things of God So some things some things that I do if I feel tired and there are times right see I'm also human being so There are times I feel very tired in the morning. I feel like just oh, man I don't I tell myself no I won't prove to the devil that I Can overcome this? So make sure that I do Sometimes head will be aching very badly. You know we use laptop the whole day headaches What can we do and Sleep No What I do is I put my hand on my head. I pray in Jesus name every headache be gone I'll purposely do something that is going to cause more You know Make the devil get more angry. So I'll take out the Bible start reading the Bible Listen to worship songs So what is happening? I'm not conforming to the world now I'm not saying if you get fever if you get headache, you know, don't rest you need to rest Right, but what I'm saying is sometimes the enemy can use all of these excuses in our life The enemy is the enemy is not afraid when we do all this, you know Singing songs all of that is good, but the moment you start you decide to pray The moment you tell yourself, hey, I want to pray and I want to fast and pray The devil will come He will stop you in every way Do not be conformed to this world But be Tell me the word Transformed What is transformed in Hindi? Pari vartan. Yeah, he transformed right so Sin is sin and we must acknowledge it We cannot say this I did because even Jesus, you know, he threw all the tables so when I threw all the tables here No Sin is sin Right and we must call it out We must make sure that we confess our sins and we receive forgiveness through the blood of Jesus, right? One John 1 7 and 9 says but if we walk in the light as he is in the light We have fellowship with one another and the blood of Christ his son Cleanses us of all sins if we say that we have no sin We deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and he cleanses us from all unrighteousness You know look at this verse verse 8 if we say to ourselves we have no sin We deceive ourselves You know what is deceiving ourselves We try to prove ourselves right That's what who that's what Adam did Right Adam said no no no the woman you gave me I didn't ask for anybody you gave Eve She told she it she gave me also do it. I ate You gave me deceiving ourselves Now the devil can use the same see the devil has the same technique Same thing right deceiving lying cheating killing. That's all his thing same thing But there are different ways he tries all of that Right. So here we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us Right. So one good practice is every morning when you wake up ask God for Just confess your sins. Say God I May have got angry. There are sins that I have may have done knowingly sins that I have committed unknowingly forgive me cleanse me with your blood and Get me back get me back into a right standing with you and What does it say here? He cleanses us of all sins We can go and ask God for forgiveness Right. So let's go to the next chapter which is Christ our sanctification. Okay. What is sanctification? Yes Okay, you want to use the mic so that the students also can hear After sanctification is that the part Yes, thank you. Thank you. Go through. We have a question here from Akhil. Yes. Go ahead. Okay, so for Matthew 26 Chapter 26 was 41 Hold on. Let me get there Matthew 26 was 41 Mm-hmm says a watch and pray lest you enter into temptation The spirit indeed is willing for the flesh is weak. Yes So in some scenarios of life, you know when there is a battle between the flesh and the spirit for any decision-making So is this was only confined only towards prayer or? How do you elaborate that in the context that we just discussed the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak Yes, so so what we discuss right now, so Here's the thing this the spirit In our hearts now we know that okay, let's take an example of An alcoholic right 20 years He's been drinking Morning, he wakes up first thing he drinks no breakfast then he does everything else now suddenly he's become a believer After becoming a believer it's a week now He knows that hey my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and It is wrong to drink. It is something that God has said don't do now the spirit is willing But he's been doing this for 20 years His body has become physically his body has become immune to it. He cannot function Right physically he cannot function if he has to start his day for 20 years He's been having a drink and then starting his day Now he's become a believer He knows it's wrong. He knows that I should not be drinking my body, but he's not able to function because His body has been got immune to it Now the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak So that's where he or she will have to stick take ground Meaning he will have to say no God. There'll be a phase Right and that's where the Holy Spirit can help us, right? But he may have to go to see there are two things sometimes God just Delivers us completely but no more of the previous no physical You know residues of what we were there before but there are times God allows us to Go through those physical Challenges those that strenuous time and and that could be like a training for us Right, so I know a lot of people who have been drug addicts They've come they've become believers some of them, you know Even if they you know, even if there's a smell They they cannot take it for 20 years They've been you know into all of that but now with the smell they cannot They feel, you know, like nauseous. They feel like vomiting But there are some people who I know They had to go through a very difficult time Right, so in that case what I would say is The spirit is always remember we talked about it. The our old spirit has gone away. We get a new spirit So we know Right, we may not know everything in the Bible, but we know hey drinking is wrong Watching pornography is wrong. We know it But our flesh is still desiring it So the flesh is very weak Look at Jesus In the Garden of Gethsemane actually that then you see that Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane He's saying that now Jesus's spirit was willing But his flesh was definitely, you know, feeling tired. How am I going to take on this whole thing? Right, because he was not afraid of it, but there was this physical You know intense stress You sweat in blood Jesus sweat sweat was like in blood So physically he had to go through some kind of pain. It was not like Jesus said, okay, when is the cross? Tomorrow afternoon, what time? 3 o'clock, so we started 12 o'clock And then we go up the mountain. Okay done. No There's so much of physical torture that he had to go through So there are times When we may have to go through those physical pains. There are times when God just delivers us completely But even after we become believers, there are those natural physical urges Right that we have As human beings we will have when we look at You know teens and youth the hormones are high up and so They go through these hormonal changes. So it's very important to keep a track You know Paul says I keep my body in check And the apostle Paul says I I crucify my body I'm crucified with Christ Right, it's not I but Christ who lives in me Yeah, so that's a fight we have to go through Right, so it's not like always God can deliver us completely So in this context again, yeah, the the spirit is willing For each one of us the spirit will definitely be willing Right, I'm sure all of us like to worship and pray But if I say 3 o'clock 3 a.m. Get up, let's worship and pray Oh, I like it but physically I want to sleep Right, so that's when we push ourselves, right? I'm just giving these examples Um, so that's Okay, um chapter 34 Christ our sanctification Sanctification Lucy saying set apart Right. Thank you set apart made holy Consecrated separated from sin set apart for God right when we Just bought a guitar for the bible college. It is sanctified for the bible college Set apart for the bible college Nobody else can come and say hey, I want this Set apart I'm trying to make you understand Uh, yeah in the natural itself, right? We are set apart. We're made holy Um, and we have the noun the adjective there Hagia samos which is translated holiness and sanctification which means Uh, here the first one is Haggios, which means sanctified And the next word is the noun Haggios samos, which is we are the holiness of God or we are the sanctification of God And then the adjective Haggioi, which translates sanctified ones or holy ones so You and I are saints In God's eyes Right We are saints first Corinthians 130 But of him You are in Christ Jesus Who became for us the wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption Ephesians 1 4 Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be Holy And without blame before him in love This verse is very interesting. He chose us before the foundation of the world He chose us And now in Christ we are holy And we are without blame Right, uh, so if we go on we see that we've already talked about it righteousness no condemnation Holiness means there is no wickedness in us Right, that's what holiness is. Are we the holiness of God? Sometimes we feel like holes. We don't feel holy Right, we feel we have a hole in ourselves But being the holiness we being God being holy and his character his nature going coming into us You and I are holy So when God is seeing us he's saying you're a holy person Nowadays we make fun. No. Hey, don't be such a holy person. We say that right? Friends say that to each other don't be so holy Right, you say yes, I am holy Because by saying that Yes, God truth you raise your hands First I have a question Before the foundation of the world Yeah Faster Uh, so your question is sorry Gertrude does your voice is echoing. Can you repeat that again? So we are saved before that God chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blame Yes in his love. So why some people are chosen and not the others Yeah, so that's a good question Gertrude. See we must take text and put it into context, right? Now, what is the context of Ephesians chapter one? Ephesians chapter one the apostle Paul is talking to the believers and he's saying this is your identity You're seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So if you look at that first chapter everything is in christ jesus Right. So to answer Gertrude when See jesus paid the price when we believe in jesus Right, he has Basically, he's saying yeah, he he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, which means Before the foundation of the world Jesus god decided there's going to be the cross And before the foundation of the world god decided that those who believe In the blood of jesus those who believe in jesus christ will have all these blessings So paul is writing to the believers and saying hey, you know The cross is not an afterthought. It was not a second idea Before the foundation of the world god has seen you God has And now when you believe all these blessings will come if I don't believe what will happen Okay, nothing will happen Yeah, but there are some people who believe pastor, but they're not saved Sorry, there are some who believe but they're not saved. Yeah Yeah, no, so believe is No, so here's the thing Gertrude You can know about god but you There's a difference about knowing about god and knowing god So there are many people from different faiths. We're learning in lifestyle evangelism There are many people you have to have a relationship with the lord Yes, yes, that is the key right so If I just know about jesus, I know about all you know, all of us know about other religions Right, but we believe in jesus There's a relationship there Right, so just because people know about jesus doesn't mean they are believers Okay, right, so So if you look at it, I know what you're trying to bring out you're trying to say, okay predestination In the same chapter of the apostle Paul talked about predestination as well, but no once we are in christ All of these blessings comes what if I don't Accept jesus Blessings won't be there Very simple All right, I will be living outside the covenant of god the moment I come in covenant with god All these blessings are given to me Free of course They come they this is They'll also get this blessings Yes, okay. Thank you pastor. Yes. Yes. All right. Welcome okay, so God brought us into christ. He made us righteous And christ now is our sanctification now. Here's the thing I want to just emphasize Do you believe that you are holy? Do you look at yourself? As a holy person as a child of god Very important to do that Now, where did you get this holiness from? Is it by reading the bible? Is it because you did bth or m masters in theology? Is it because you are a worship leader? Is it because you have a you're a pastor? Is it because you're born in a christian home? Where did you get this holiness from? Is it because you're rich? Where did this holiness come from? So it's like god is saying once you believe in me you are holy Now you don't keep telling yourself. I don't know. I'm not holy You are holy You keep declaring What you are You say what you are you are holy you are sanctified But I feel like I've done so many sins Go back to Jesus ask forgiveness. You're holy again I It's like this, you know you I'm just going to use this example, right? Imagine you're riding the cycle or a bike And you fall into the drainage I don't know how but you fall into the drainage And somebody picks you up. Hey come they make you stand here They fix a pipe And then they spray water all over you And all that drainage water comes off and now you are Washed Picture it that way Hey Living in sin Come back to Jesus. Jesus will wash by the blood clean Your identity has been restored Right Right, so 35 we are sanctified in christ jesus Right the same thing We are not sanctified on our own. We are not holy because of our background because we are You know english speaking canada speaking hindi speaking Doesn't matter. We are not sanctified by anything of this world Right, we are not sanctified because every month we do five days of fasting and prayer All of that is important, but we are sanctified Because of what jesus did The bible also says we are sanctified by the word of god His word cleans us, sanctifies us Removes of all the dirt All the things of the flesh is removed by the word of god Right god completes the work and then he invites us To live out what he has done for us right Second corinthians seven and verse one says Therefore having these promises Beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit Perfecting holiness in the fear of god Right look at that verse therefore having these promises before that he talks about the promises and he says beloved Let us cleanse ourselves. Who's going to do the cleansing? Who has to go to the place to get cleansed? We have to go And jesus will cleanse us. There is there is never a time jesus will say this sin is too much Can jesus say that or will jesus say that? This is the biggest sin you have done. I will come back after Five days of fasting and prayer Will jesus say that? It doesn't matter what sin it is When you come to the to the lord jesus He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness Says here He let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit meaning There are things that we allow spirits demonic works That enter into our lives that allow us to walk in the things of the flesh If we open doors to the devil The devil is not going to say hey this door is open closed. You're a believer He will run into that door So it's that cleansing is what we have to go to Romans 8 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die But if by the spirit you will put to death the deeds of the body Right so akhil it answers a portion of your question But if you live by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body All those things of the flesh You will be able to overcome by the spirit You know every time I read the book of acts It just blows my mind You think of this the apostle peter and all the other Apostles the disciples of jesus all are scared All are crying Where is jesus or they killed jesus Some of them are hiding same People are filled with the holy spirit What are they doing they are standing in front of people Front of everyone front of the Pharisees Front of the You know roman gods everyone and they are preaching the gospel Same person fill you with the holy spirit If you live by the flesh We will be weak and we will die But if we live by the spirit We will overcome Our weaknesses we will overcome the deeds of the flesh. Do we have weaknesses? Yes So you ask god god help me to live by the spirit Help me to look at you know always ask the holy spirit for help jesus knew That if these people these disciples Have to stand for my name. They can't do it on their own They need the holy spirit That even when stefan was dying. Can you think of that stefan? They're taking stones throwing it on stefan. What is stefan saying? Oh, no, don't kill me. I'm still young I will need to get married. I need to have children There's so much to do Did he say that what he's saying? I see the heavens open And the son of man standing on the right hand of the father He says father forgive them Now who can do that you can't do it in the flesh Not possible In church history, I'll show you tell you this example in church history. There was a man named john height They wanted to kill him because he was a christian so the romans said If you don't if you don't deny Jesus We will tie up your wife and your children and we will burn them in front of you This man said okay You have one last choice You either do this or we'll kill your entire family. What he said He said to his wife and children don't be afraid. I'll see you in heaven Is it a natural thing in the natural? Can we do it? possible Even saying it I We feel so Hurt and we see feel so overwhelmed, but he said that He said don't be afraid. I will never deny Jesus Do what you have to do Was there pain was there grief? Yes, but he says I'll see you in heaven There are plenty of stories and old testament Oh, sorry, not in the old plenty of stories in the early church where people have given their life Why because they're not living in the flesh. They're living in the spirit spirit of god When the spirit of god is in us, we will overcome all these temptations of the world Right So we are saints in christ jesus chapter 36 First quarentians one and two To the church which is at cordon to those who are sanctified in christ jesus Called to be saints with all who are in every place Call on the name of the lord jesus Name of jesus christ our lord both dears and ours now It's interesting. You see that paul addresses the believers as saints What is the hindi word for saints? saints saints but But can I see Sorry Son pastor Okay, okay. I'm not sure what it is. So some of them out here are saying Santh, right So jesus paul is saying you're a saint You don't have to go do Higher studies and you know do hundreds of things to become a saint In christ jesus, you are a saint Stories over People call you. Hey, don't be a saint You know, you can do this one thing. No, nothing will happen. Hey, you said, you know, I am a saint Bible saying Forget romans 1 7 to all who are in room Beloved of god call to be saints Efficiency 1 1 paul an apostle of christ jesus by the will of god to the saints in Ephesus Philippians 4 29 21 greet every saint in christ jesus Colossians 1 2 to the saints and faithful brethren in church who are in colossi So a believer is a saint. The word saint is, you know, if you look at The catholic church They have a certain way of saying, okay, you have reached this place of holiness So now you become a saint saint paul saint peter We have that Now everyone says saint and put your name to it Some of you are not saying it Don't be afraid to say it Right, that's what you are Say it loud. Come on Yeah Right, you tell the devil. Hey, I'm a saint Right, just as saint apostle saint paul and saint peter and all those disciples all those great men and women have got You and I also are saints Right as a believer He has imparted to us the attributes and the nature of god and You and I have the holiness of god Second Timothy 1 9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling not according to works But according to his own purpose Right, this lucy says practically speaking at home We pray Study gods will be good to our family members when we have get-together relations There are gossips Talking movies. How do we adapt ourselves in the midst of such situations? Right Yeah, that's a good question lucy. See as believers. So lucy's question Is now we're all believers We want to you know do everything that we do we want to honor god But what if you know you have a good you have a family get together Or you have friends coming together, you know, you just have a small family function Right And there everyone are talking about movies About gossiping about people people are you know, your friends or your relatives and family members are talking about wrong things or Things that are not right How would you as believers react? Right So lucy also has commented here. He's saying How do we adapt to such situations? To you know, just keep quiet Smile and be quiet. Yeah, so what we can do is what I do is intentionally if there are times when Um, it's happened, right? There are times when people especially when I was working in the corporate sector Uh before joining There were friends that I had and they would suddenly start talking about you know Hey, this person did this or his wife did this his And talking bad about the managers, you know, he's like this or she's like this and This company is like this. So there are times I've just walked out I've just walked out Why Because that is not important to me. I want to make sure That what I hear what I I I am in fellowship with the right things right But when it's a family setting, you know, we may not always have to walk out But what we can do is as you said lucy, we can just keep quiet And you know politely we can say just excuse me and you can just walk out of that situation Uh, or you can just say, hey, can we change the topic? You know, can we talk about something else? And if there are times when people are watching, you know movies and Uh, and you feel that you don't want to be part of the movie. You can just politely step out say No, it's okay. Uh, so yes lucy. The good thing is to politely tell them, right? Now the wrong thing to do is to start Is to go front of the tv and open the bible Okay off the tv and this is what the bible says, right? Uh, obviously we don't want to do that But we can politely just say So even sometimes my my old friends and in the corporate sector where I was working they used to have parties They used to say come let's go for movies. Let's go for resorts and we'll stay there for two three days But I too felt okay. I want to be with them. They're my friends But I knew what is more important and we must understand what is more important. What is more important being in the resort with all of them Or is my holiness and uh my standing with god more important I also like to enjoy with my friends. I like to This is more takes priority. I said no, it's okay. I won't come you guys carry on Hey, why don't you come? Sorry So you take a stand on certain things All right, all right, so we'll stop here. We'll pick up from Uh chapter 37 next class We'll try to do our best everyone understanding right everyone are able to follow. Okay. All right. Thank you so much everyone those who are online Thank you. Have a good week God bless