 Okay, welcome back guys Let's pick up from where we stopped. So chapter 8 this chapter is talking about restoration of the ministry of the teacher now. It's got a lot of people from the new the early church the New Testament church and what happened after The Apostle Paul what happened to the ministry and how the The ministry of the teacher continued on past Apostle Paul and after the disciples and all of that so now there are a lot of people that who may You may it may sound new to you, but So what I thought was I'll just you know present the notes so that we can you know this be on the same page and right so chapter 8 The restoration of the ministry of the teacher, so I've just highlighted Things that are important And so let's go through this chapter, right Okay, so just to put a little bit of a background Apostle Paul has moved on Timothy has taken over the church so the next line of leadership Timothy Titus They were all there and slowly they have moved on as well So we don't have an account of what happened after that What happened to the churches, you know, there were plenty of churches in Asia Minor the church in Jerusalem and So what happened to those churches? Did they just dissolve and just go away or was there too much of persecution that everything stopped? So we'll see that God raised up men and women of God who Continued the ministry of teaching and preaching the word of God right so the Canon is our standard or the rule of faith and Christian teachers You know all through from the New Testament whose documents will have been survived for us Who wrote directly after the New Testament period are known as? Apostolic fathers, so after the New Testament period there were God raised up Christian leaders and teachers to continue writing and Teaching the word of God and they published something called as the Apostles Creed in 80 150 and I'm sure most of us may know it Says I just know potions of it. I believe in God the father I believe You know that whole creed there. I believe he was resurrected. He died. He rose again He seated in heaven and one day he will soon come again you know, but later on this Apostles Creed was tweeted and Added a lot of things were added to that creed by the Roman Catholic Church, so it was around after this the early church you came the dark ages where the Roman Catholic We did this in Revival's visitations and moves of God as well The Roman Catholic Church came into being and we saw that there was no kind of teaching There was no work of the Holy Spirit. Nothing was going on. It was just a form of religion, right? But this was written before that right right now Let's look at a few people that God raised up to continue this ministry of teaching Did okay, right? That's how his name is pronounced, but some of them say the dark Was an early church teacher and he thought about leadership about baptism about prayer The Lord supper and Christian morality Right and then Clement of Rome. I'm sure we all have heard of this Clement of Rome The epistle to the Corinthians right now Clement of Rome what he did was he he if you read about his life, he goes on to Corinth and You know after the whole time and Aquila Priscilla was there and then newly Few more leaders were raised up in Clement of Rome He felt that he should go into Corinth and he again taught a lot about Immorality and how holiness is important, right? So just like how Apostle Paul Roared epistles to the church in Corinth Clement of Rome also wrote Epistles to the church in Corinth, right now. We don't know if it's exactly the same church Most probably there may have been plenty of new churches as well that have started around Corinth But he did write to the Corinthians, right? he addressed the current using his using Clemens name, but Not, you know, not from him is what's mentioned here Christian sermons he wrote to them. He wrote to them mostly about integrity and holiness Clement of Rome again, he also was I Don't know how but he was martyred for Christ Clement of Rome and those Ignatius There are seven letters that he has written and all these letters talk about teaching And ministering of the word he you know Ignatius spent a lot of time on Teaching the attributes of God Now we must understand that new believers were added into the church many of them Were just, you know, the Holy Spirit came into them. They were changed. They became new believers But they didn't know about God about his attributes about his nature And so Ignatius was the one who you know wrote about the attributes and he wrote seven letters to different churches and What does it show the ministry of teaching continued on? It's not like Apostle Paul wrote letters and then everything was stopped. No Ministry continued. It's just that the Holy Spirit shows These letters of the Apostle Paul to be in the New Testament, right? And then Papias and Irranius UCB is these are all, you know Writers and teachers and these are wonderful men of God because you know, just like it is said that Irranius Was a wonderful apologist, right? He was a very very learned teacher Wonderful apologist he would stand and just like how Apostle Paul would you know stand how he stood at Marsville and In Aeropagus in the book of Acts when he went into Athens, he stood there and he gave a defense for the gospel Irranius was a man who was a great apologist. He had a very high learning Again If I'm not wrong Irranius also was martyred for Christ and UCB is then came Barnabas And he attacks Judaism and he was heavy on the Old Testament prophecies episode of Diognetus argues about paganism and Judaism. Now, what is paganism? Now we must understand that there were Gentiles who believed and worshiped other idols and other gods and There were Jews who still followed the law, right? So they were still doing sacrifices as for the Old Testament Old Covenant and the requirements to the Old Covenant, but what epistle of Diognetus says is he says anything that has taken Priority to the Lord Jesus Christ becomes a pagan thing, right? So he talks about paganism Judaism and he talks about Forgiveness of sins redemption So now it's not like he's you know, these people are not just preaching a sermon They have written about it. They've Extended common trees written about it. So for example They would write a Bible verse and they would explain it in the writing Right and and this history proves that they have all of these material, right? They they probably verses on water baptism or you know, we know that Apostle Paul's writings are very high And so people like Iranious were you know, they would write it and then interpret it and Try to teach the people through their writing Right. And so we see the ministry of teaching continuing on then Polycarp of Smyrna Now he wrote the epistle to the Philippians it is said that During this time the Philippians were going through a lot of persecution right Philippi being Asia Minor was you know part of the Roman colony They were going through a lot of persecution right and poor and polycarp. He writes to them Now I'm not talking about one letter. Okay, like how Apostle Paul wrote right be strong even through no He's writing to them about the word the teaching of the word Right and if you go online go to Google, there's a lot of material that you can you know see about them, you know polycarp wrote a lot about you know redemption of sins and You know the after life, what do we how how as believers what happens to us? Right, we are no we're not at the flesh, but we're of the spirit So there's a lot of emphasis on that right And polycarp again was martyred for Christ right and then Many many many other writings right recognized apostles and their writings Became the rule of faith for Christians in the New Testament So we see that you know this whole aspect of the ministry of teaching did not stop And it will not stop Till the end of times Teaching is a ministry that will continue right God will raise up leaders right and and And the wonderful part is these were people who were highly intellectual So this is a very important thing that we must learn that It's not that we choose ministry because okay, I just want to be a teacher No, the there is a lot of effort Involved in being in the ministry We need to be able to teach people and if we have to Teach people we must be ready To go through that season of learning we need to spend time and God When we need to hear from God And next class we'll talk about you know some of the ways that practical tips on doing a ministry of a teacher Uh, so we see here God used even tertulium and origin Uh, here these two here market, but tertulium and origin were great great writers wonderful writers that they said that Um, uh, tertulium and origin had such a high understanding that they were compared to apostle paul in his in their oratory and writing skills very brilliant in their material Right and iranias again grew up in smirna. He was an asia minor disciple of paulic up He he he becomes later on people of apostle john uh, and he was a People of apostle john and he what did he write here? He writes two important works demonstration of the apostolic faith against heresies And uh, and he wrote You know god is a loving creator Against gnosticism Now we know that Greece was asia minors full of the gnostic beliefs. What is gnostic? Uh, gnostic is simply uh, you know some some random belief systems believing in the stars believing in the moon believing in nature In uh all kinds of things right gnostic Belief systems, so he wrote against it right He thought about pasturing shepherding the flock um incarnation Angels the devil the word the holy spirit humana humanity incarnation redemption church growth spiritual growth and Irenaeus again did a wonderful work of writing all these Now why are we learning this? Why why must I know about all these people? I know that I have to teach so I will prepare and teach Now the reason we're learning about this is because we we want to see that god Can use people And will use people to continue what he has started Right now even now when we look around us, right? There are so many probably bible colleges and universities christian universities and um, you know Ministries that have their own bible colleges. It's wonderful, right? But here's the thing we must make sure that the doctrine is right Right make sure that the word of god is the foundation And so if we go on i'm trying not to spend too much time on this It's just for us to know that you know god is working right even through the dark ages. He was working You know clement of alexandria born in Athens was a philosopher supreme In alexandria in egypt. He was an intellectual man Uh was a thinker. He was a scholar. He used greek philosophy To make the point of christ Now who did that? Who brought out these kind of things, you know greek philosophical Understanding pagan intellectuals to talk to them the great apostle paul So we see this You know, it's like a cycle One leader then another teacher teachers teachers and it's it's just continuing on We see a rapid effect And that's why we saw right very important in chapter seven raise up other leaders Who can do the same thing or better than what we have done? And clement of alexandria very intellectual was able to use greek philosophy to bring out the scriptures and with this It is historical proof That many people came to christ through these teachings and preaching Now it's important to understand that yes, the holy spirit was working But god is not a god who we can put you know We can put him in a box and say only if people are healed They will become believers or only if people You know hear a prophetic word word of knowledge about their lives. They become believer. No A proper effective teaching of the word of god From god's word Can touch people's lives and change And now look at look at us right we every time we go to the scripture we read it. There's something inside us Right, the holy spirit ministers to us Right, so so we must come out of that mindset. Okay. I have to see dreams visions or I have to see healing miracles only then No, uh, I'm growing in the lord. No It is the word Right and so we see here all these leaders Did they not emphasize on healings and miracles? We don't know But what was their main intention? We need to see people Growing in the word of god And protecting them against heresies against Gnosticism against the works of the devil So we have to teach them How to live a holy life How to overcome the things of the enemy and so they write So teaching is very very very powerful You know when we teach people And you're teaching from the word of god that word can really grip their hearts. It can change all to the course of their life So that is why when you and I get opportunities we never take it lightly Prepare well Plan well Practice well Right, uh, when when you get an opportunity to teach Maybe in places and you know it one week ahead Prepare well Prepare points prepare things. You know, you know, we saw how jesus set the example, right? He had Taken put in parables told these You know, when you put your heart and your soul into something that you'll want to do It will minister to people's lives Right, uh, so if you know that you're going to teach and preach somewhere Prepare well be well prepared Now it's not like these people, you know Iranious and Clement of Alexandria were like, okay, I have nothing to do So let me just go and uh, you know stand and talk about jesus. No, they were learned scholars Right, so how much more we must also, you know pursue that Now all of us may not be be scholars or become scholars But we all can teach the word Same word, right? We can teach the word Look at this to thulian and from cartage north africa converted in rome when he was 40 years old Wrote in defense of christianity Uh in the rhetoric of a lawyer So he wrote a case You know like a lawyer, no totalian was a lawyer. He wrote a case Okay, this is you know, if you see these lawyers how they write cases. It's it's really interesting. They'll put the whole uh The case study they put What is the wrong? What is the event? What is the place? Well, what was wrong? What should have been done and what can be done? And so it's like a thesis So thulian does that he writes a complete defense for christianity for example Right, he's writing now in africa. We know that During those times it was more of gnostic gnostic beliefs and uh, uh, there was there was belief on you know, uh The stars they they believed in the moon as a god and so all of those things So picture this thulian sitting there and he's writing a thesis And he's writing and saying you people believe in all of these diseases Okay, this is what jesus is. This is what god is. This is what jesus did for us and so Through this we can find salvation and when we are saved these are the things that happen So he's writing it as a thesis like a case So now it's up to you. What do you want to do? Do you want to Choose this or do you want to choose this? Right and so there was again the ministry of teaching and He wrote against the heretics of the roman catholic church Right now. This is the 16 almost the 16th century Uh, the roman catholic church was taken has taken You know prominence. They they said no only one bible It should be in the church Everyone come and listen to them Right and the pope is higher authority than the bible is also So there was a lot of heresies in the church The thulian again writes against all of this he defends and he says this is not right Right, uh, we all have faith. We all need to be willing to you know The holy spirit is for all of us and all of us must be willing to uh No, uh, read the word and grow in the word of god and one of the main Topics that he also wrote about was trinity Because trinity was something was a debatable question during those times not only for the catholics But also for those who are out of the faith right from gentile believers uh, you know What is what is the trinity? How it came into being how the trinity is portrayed in the word in the gospels um one nature in three persons Uh, right and and we see that this ministry continued And then finally origin a disciple of clement of alexandria, right? North african born north North africa of christian parents His father was killed during a period of persecution when he was a teenager He wanted to offer himself as a martyr, but his mom stopped him He trained under the bishop of alexandria started a school of christian philosophy Right, uh, and he was also Racious writer. He wrote a lot large amount of literature large amount of commentaries, right? So If you go to google right now, right? Uh, even the time that we are in right now I'm going to stop presenting If you go to google There are plenty of commentaries that we see around us Right? Let's go to google you have so much information right some of the you know david gizik's Uh commentaries and all these commentaries so much of information available But remember that time there was nothing There's no google no internet nothing And so they the believers would use their commentaries Their learnings and their writings Most probably what would have happened was Churches would get copies of these writings And they would study it and the leaders of the church would study it And they would teach it in the church So we see that in this way The ministry of teaching was restored Right now did it completely die away? No But god restored it to fullness And then if you see after this as well Slowly the ministry of the teaching comes lesser But then in the early You know 16 1960s 50s and 60s the teaching ministry again begins to rise With a lot of wonderful men and women of god starting universities bible colleges Uh And then the 70s the 80s the whole You know there was at one place there was a lot of the prophetic and healing that was happening But on the other side there was also the teaching of the word of god Wonderful universities were you know well established and raised up With one sole purpose to teach people the word of god Right, so it's wonderful to see that uh, you know when the holy spirit gives us this gift It's not going to be withdrawn just like that because god has given to us So you just want to encourage all of us, right? Um You may if you're getting opportunities to teach Do it with all your heart Prepare well If you haven't got opportunities yet and you're waiting for your opportunities It's all right become A student of the word of god Like just keep reading keep learning And I always tell uh, you know people Yeah, especially the uh Those who are you know younger and Uh, I tell them, you know when when we were growing up We didn't have access to google and all of that it was not easy. Of course google was there, but We would have to go to an internet parlor, which was very You know who's going to do all of that, right? uh, but now it's all At our fingertips, right? It's all at our fingertips. You just Even if you go on to the phone You have so much available online and thank god praise god for all that is available online, right? Some of the materials that I use is eastward Uh, let's go there. They have plenty of uh commentaries there in eastward, um, you it's a paid subscription, but then uh, let's put that in eastward It's a paid subscription. Then we also have uh, uh free even then there is Yeah, I'm just putting a few that I remember uh, and there's there's lots. There's lots online. There's Um There's a nice, uh, I don't know if the app is there, but it is a paid Service again where you can you know see a lot of material preach at dot com So these are all wonderful places where we can just learn so much Right, uh, so I want to encourage each one of us. Uh, Don't be satisfied. Okay three hours of bible college. Oh, finally i'm done today Now, uh, don't don't don't have that attitude, right? So we just continue to learn Ask questions continue to you know ask questions to yourself Uh, you know go through sermons read sermons listen to sermons You know, one of the things I do is even at when I go to We just put that thing here This is again another wonderful Is where we get a lot of good material So you can download their pdf's and there's a lot of uh, you know There are sermons, but there are also teachings on topics right topical sermons and word studies character studies Now all these things these studies as you study it it will help you right Now Let me give you this example, right? I was reading the book of acts After becoming a believer and all of that Reading the book of acts and nothing was going into my head So what is this, you know, suddenly there's somewhere suddenly there's somewhere everything is like It's like a story, but where where is what like I think was a lining Now as a student of the word of god, I had to do something I'm just giving this example right you can think of other things that Come to your mind I said, okay, I want to learn possible polls missionary journeys How am I gonna do that Now I didn't have uh, you know, I didn't go to google and I could not do that But what I did was Like this is just an example, right? Not saying you have to do the same thing. You can just do it on excel and word document all that So I bought a chart Read a big chart And I divided it I said Paul's missionary journeys one two three four And so I began to read the book of acts. I said, okay first missionary journey He went into galesia What are the churches in galesia? So I wrote down. Okay, this one two three four five church is okay So what he does after that he comes back to Jerusalem. Okay And then in each column also Uh, when did he go with whom did he go and what was the result of that missionary journey? Right. So each column has its own first missionary journey second third finally the Visitor room And after doing that things became clearer Right and and there came a point where I just knew first he went here with these people. These are the two second he went here These are the places these are the churches So what happens when we put these extra efforts as a teacher? Right When you begin to teach people, you'll know, okay, this This is it. This is how I thank, you know, even now I'm just picturing that chart and I still have it with me Oh, and it's really helpful because now who told me to do it? Nobody Right. It was something that I thought to myself. What if I get an opportunity to teach? Right in the future, right? What if I get an opportunity to teach? So I should know this and then Even the levitical offerings go back to the level. Okay, all the offerings I put there why Those offerings are for the sin offering the guilt offering the peace offering the crane offering All those offerings for it Just study about what if I get an opportunity to teach Right, so I must be ready right and I can always go back and refer to it and So we must have that desire As students of the word of God Only when we are a student we'll be able to teach it to others right And so next class we'll talk about the practical keys of doing the Doing the ministry of a teacher, but I want to ask you Maybe some of you here are already teachers What are some of the challenges you face as a teacher? Maybe some of you can share. What do you think are, you know, some of the challenges That you have faced and How do you feel that you can you know improve just for us to I can share with mine. Okay. I'll start with mine. One of the challenges I faced was As a teacher I had to always, you know I could not just stay around What what what I'm talking like the topic, right? So if I'm talking about Worship right if I'm teaching about worship, so I can't just say okay worship is this and then there's always good to Like one of the challenges I faced was I had to go to different materials from different sources and You know going into the Greek and the Hebrew and all of it Uh, it was a challenge initially Initially, I thought oh man, this is like how am I gonna remember the words and You know, so it was quite a challenge and and so I had to overcome it by understanding that Unless I know the background of something I've not be able to effectively deliver it So what what are some of the challenges that you may have faced? Or you are facing right now In terms of the teaching ministry Any of you would like to share I know that john is a his fostering our church at APC mangrove John you want to share something? any any anything that you went through or you feel that Especially I also know that you take the Wednesday bible studies. So you're teaching there. So you want to share your thoughts I'll come back. Okay Now it is thinking. Yeah. Yeah. No, it is anybody else Anybody else? Maybe you're yes lubega. Go ahead In years pastor and the class I've been a teacher since 2000 But um, number one if you want to make it as a teacher Number one know your audience Know your audience is very important Uh, when you know what level what are the expect what your audience are number one is to know your audience number two Just as you said you must know your content. Yep Know your content very well because you might be talking in front of people who actually know more than you know, yeah, because Because you're standing on the pulpit does not really mean that you're the fountain of knowledge Yeah Some people when they are uh, they are conducting lessons or when they are in church They think that they know almost everything yet If this is just a privilege good has given you you are the one standing today But it doesn't really mean that you know more than everybody there. Yes, so you must You must talk what you you know, you must make research In a nutshell, I can say that being a teacher Can be concluded in one word. You must prepare There is nothing that replaces reparation reparation. Yes, so Yes, Lubega, I wanted to ask you this Uh, are you can you hear me? I'm hearing you pastor. Yeah. Yeah. So in 20 years I'm sure over the years you have grown as a teacher. You have learned from your mistakes What were some of the challenges that you faced like? Uh, you know, uh, you felt that hey, I I can do better in this or uh, what were some of the challenges that you faced? Uh, and when you know communication just like any other form of communication teaching Uh, I mean the you know part of I think 33 percent of communication is wide from 67 percent are known towards our gestures How you move your how you dress? How you move your body language? How there's so many things But number one the problem I faced as a teacher from the onset Because I was not here to graduate by then I was just conquered in my my senior six but um one of the greatest challenge is When you're standing in front of the audience is there is audibility you have a problem over of talking when people are not hearing you or the There is also stereotyping in communication whereby as you stand in front of people The the first two three days when you talk to them, they will now Stereotype you whenever you stand up people will say is going to mention this and this and this This is where nicknaming comes in They make name you they will call you different names when you don't you know So you must avoid manualism when you're in front of people Like so many people when they're in front of people they like to Speak a sentence and then they go over they go above us. Uh, they say uh, they get a given word That people will always know that when he has posted is going to do this. So Those are some of the challenges. Yeah But basically if you want to make it is prepare number two listen to all the to all to To other guys who communicated before you Look at how others prepared before don't think that you know everything Me this is what I use. I always know that I don't you know anything. I just prepare every day in Uganda In rwanda and Uganda we usually say that You are best You are best Someone is the one you are going to preach So you should not always use experience saying that these are people I'm used to them Prepare prepare Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I think that was spot on Um, you know, I'd like what you said the bigger, you know, sometimes we as leaders and teachers We may take it for granted in the sense that hey, I've I've taught this for Five years 10 years and I know my audience. I know that they're gonna listen. I know that they're not going to come up with questions So I know that you know, uh, they're level of understanding if they're so Let me just go above their level of understanding and this I know that no questions now That's uh, the heart is not right there, right? So we must prepare Even if we have done it Or you thought that same chapter a hundred times you still prepare because god can Our preparation is always very very important and uh, no, and I like what you said the bigger, you know Just because we are there teaching doesn't mean that we know everything but You know, and and I've always Felt that also because as a teacher, I know that there are many of them In our church who are way ahead Uh, in terms of their understanding like in the sense that they're all, you know, heads of i.t. companies divisional heads Way above, you know in terms of uh, you know, uh Management administration administrative plans, but What le biga said was it is because the grace of god that you are there standing in front of them It's not something that we must take pride in say hey, but when you say god You give me the opportunity to teach people Your word and the other side of the and the congregation of the heroes may be way ahead In terms of their speaking in terms of the eloquence in terms of their english or the the language proficiency In terms of their understanding capability. They may be way ahead But it's the grace of god God has chosen you to stand before them So how much more We must take this as an honor and prepare well The more we don't prepare and we try to go do something it We're taking it for granted Okay. Thank you so much le biga. You know good to hear from Someone who's been a teacher since 20 years. Yeah Okay, uh Anyone else would like to share yeah, john go ahead. Yeah, so I remember when I started Teaching or preaching One of the feedbacks I got in 2009 that time One of the feedbacks I got was my rate of speech was very high okay, so so And my body language was not very great. So my pastor's uh pastor and my pastor's wife told about this and I Look, so I started working on it. So how did I do it? I stood in front of a mirror and started seeing Um, uh and worked on the body language. How do I move my hands? How do my how do I lift my eyebrows? All those things I started working looking in the mirror and uh rate of speech I started recording in phones and Just go back listen to it and see how How well I'm communicating. So still improving still working. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm not saying I'm I've reached there, but still doing the same Yeah, thank you john. Yeah, that's that's again very important. Thank you john you know, I did that when And I still do it at times, you know last week was we were talking about faith and science and it had a lot of You know the sermon and sunday here at apc faith and science so so I remember just you know praying and tently and then just Just reading about all those people who are scientists and those who are who don't believe in god and those scientists Who believe in god their thoughts and videos kept listening to them on youtube And then you know added material to what was already there and began to preach it in front of the mirror and It was more of a teaching sermon. It was not a preaching sermon So we thought right so I prepared the whole thing and I stood and I think about two or three times I you know tried to share the whole sermon In front of the mirror and it's really helpful Now sometimes we may feel okay. I've got content. That's more than enough Right. Yes, that's priority, but it's also Are the way of communicating imagine I have like really good content, but I don't communicate it the right way Right I lose the essence of this of the teaching right so content Communicating it in the right way body language again important I can't go there and just say okay today. We're going to be talking Nobody's gonna listen. They'll say hey, what happened? No pastor or teacher has become very tired and it's better. We all go home So we don't want that feeling right? So yeah, thank you john for sharing that Isaac says I have not yet started teaching, but I will I would like to engage myself and you cause how can I go about it? Yeah, so I'll just give you a couple of Instructions and we will also look at it next week practical keys to doing ministry One is Isaac um if you're talking about teaching the word of god just just get into the word Just keep reading keep Diving into things go Go the extra mile of learning the history the background Right, uh, what kind of audience? Just go deeper right just keep reading you have to be a good reader If you're not a reader then ask god to give you that interest to read He will he will definitely give it to you right and I always say this to people You know, I was never a reader But now I just love to read right so god puts that it's not about me, but god puts that into people uh So so ask god to give you that ability and that interest to read so get into the word now with online You can just go all the commentaries. I've mentioned here go and you can you know research study Uh, you spend more time in god's word two is even as you're doing that ask the holy spirit to You know, he's your guide. He's your teacher. So to bring the revelation Uh, when he does it's it's powerful, right? Uh, you know, sometimes sermons teachings you may understand and we forget about it But a revelation stays inside right even to the end of life it stays inside us, right? Uh so Do that and then eventually stay faithful Wherever you are Ask god for opportunities. It may be small opportunities. Maybe in a small group or with a couple of friends Uh, so do your best even in the in the little as the bible word says be faithful and small and he'll give you bigger things So start small Look for opportunities be willing and then eventually god will even as you're faithful and small god will give you bigger opportunities, but remember that And the bigger opportunities comes The higher the responsibilities, right? Uh, so you need to push your game up even more, right? So so it's basically like this, right? We were initially we had only Dth course Then we came up with a bth course. So the moment I knew okay, I'm going to be teaching third years I knew that I have to spend more time Right, I have to spend more time in the world and these this is for third year And there's this whole feeling now imagine we start masters praise god Hope we start but if you start masters, I gotta get back into the word and there's so much, right? Uh, so just continue learning Isaac. I think I start off small. It's okay I remember initially we started off. We were about Maybe nine ten students less than that as well. So It's okay to start small God will give you opportunities as well as you grow I hope that helps I said, thank you. Lou Bega says prayer and fasting Yeah, thank you pastor. Thank you most welcome Isaac Lou Bega says prayer and fasting for your teaching ministry is also very important. Yes. Yes prayer and fasting. Yes Okay, so it was a good class good questions and we continue to do this even as we Continue our Sessions in the coming weeks as well. We open to questions. Let's leave time for questions as well uh Yeah Lou Bega's comment again says stay humble always be honest During your teaching session if a question comes out of your knowledge or experience Tell them the true don't cook answers in front of the audience. Yeah Don't basically Lou Bega saying if you don't know something be okay to say no, I don't know Uh, and a very important aspect of a teacher is to be teachable, right? So you can always say I don't know I'll come back with you for the answers so Right, so it's wonderful. It's wonderful praise god that god has given all of us Uh, this opportunity to teach this word of god freely given we all must use it Uh to build people's lives, right? Let's close in prayer. Maybe one of us can close Anybody can close Please go ahead Father in the name of jesus we want to praise and thank you this moment We appreciate the opportunity that you have granted us To gather here and learn in your word Father, we pray Lord committing ourselves into your hands once more We ask for your grace in the name of jesus That will be great teachers Not in word, but in deed. Oh god as jesus talks with his life Made what we teach be also matched with our lives in the name of jesus Help us to let our teaching ministry pattern that of jesus christ That men will follow us Just to hear your word of truth in jesus mighty name. We pray amen Amen. Amen. Thank you lisha. Thank you everybody. Have a great week ahead. I'll see you next thursday. God bless Thank you