 Hey, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new week. Everyone can hear me, okay? Is my voice audible? Yes, Pastor. We can hear you. Okay. All right, great. So Shall we start off with the word of prayer? We one of us can please read the prayer. Can I pray, Pastor? Go ahead, Afla. Dear God, thank you so much God for this day. Thank you for everything that you're doing. Thank you for everything that Lord, you are such a faithful person, you are doing good as we're about to read the book of first Corinthians. God, that we may hate it into our heart and by God, that we may understand what Paul has to say and through you, Lord, you have spoken to him, God. That we may grow stronger in your knowledge and your wisdom, God. That we are both of what we've been taught, that we may apply in our life and understand to grow stronger in your love and your Lord, thank you so much for everything. You made me pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Asha. All right, so let me just present the notes. Okay, so we've been doing first Corinthians. Last week we completed first Corinthians 11 and 12. In first Corinthians 12, we talked about the whole thing of desiring the gifts and the apostle Paul talks about how there are different kinds of gifts for different kinds of functions. So we looked at this, the picture there, the nine gifts, membership gifts and the five-fold ministry gifts and so he's basically advising the church or he's exhorting the church saying, you know, these gifts are given by the Holy Spirit and it is for every believer, yet there are also certain functions that people have. So there is the pastoral calling, there is the evangelist, there's the prophetic, there's the apostolic calling. So he's just differentiating between the ministry gifts, the membership gifts within the church. Now, why is he doing this? There could be many reasons. One, it could be because we know that there was already division within the church. There were complications, there were several issues. So Paul is basically trying to lead the church towards understanding the principles that govern church setting or the congregation, how a congregation should be. Now we know that they were spiritually quite mature, yet there were things that they were doing which were very, very immature. So he wanted them, especially the congregation to grow in every area. So he closed off chapter 12, we will move into chapter 13 and chapter 13, 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most wonderful passages in Paul's episode because we all know it, mostly preached at weddings, talking about the great passage on love. So let's begin with chapter 13 and verse one onwards. It starts off by the more excellent way. So let's look at that. Verse one, Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but not have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanking symbol. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but not have love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but not have love, it profits me nothing. And verse four onwards, Paul is characterizing what God's love is all about. He says, Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, it is not puffed up, it does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, it is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails, but whether there are prophecies, they will fail, whether there are tongues, they will seize, whether there is knowledge, it will vanish. Let's just stop here and see what is Paul talking about here. Now in 1 Corinthians 13, Paul is trying to inform the church that it's wonderful that there are a lot of gifts, there are a lot of people who are talented, and you are already flowing in the gifts of the spirit, there's a prophetic, there's a word of knowledge, you're flowing in all these gifts. But here's the problem, when we do all these things, when we exercise the gifts, when we have membership functions, when we do charitable deeds, when we even offer our body to be burned, which means even willing to martyr ourselves, and all these things, if we do without being motivated or guided by God's love, he says this so powerfully, he says all this is empty and it has no benefit. What God striked me was, even to the point of offering your own body to be burned, that means we may come to a place of saying, God, I'm willing to give my life to you, but if it is not governed out of love, it is nothing, it is of no benefit. Now this shows the importance of abiding in love when serving in ministry. So whatever we do, we must be governed by this God kind of love. Do it out of love because love for people is what will really guide us in that ministry, in the ministry. Verses 4 to 8, he's saying love is not, if we are impatient, if we are unkind, if we are jealous, if we are boastful, if we are behaving rudely, if we are self-seeking, if we are self-promoting, self-centered, irritable and all of these things, then we are not governed or motivated by love. Now why is Paul saying this? Why is love superior than all these wonderful, why is love greater than prophetic gift? Why is love greater than having the apostolic gift? Why is love greater than being just a pastor of a church? Why is it that way? Because there will come a time, so Paul is trying to exalt the church saying, there will come a time that all of these membership gifts, the gifts of the Holy Spirit will cease. Everything will stop. It will no longer be in use, but the only thing that will be there is love. The Bible says in revelations, they will look upon the one whom they have pierced. In heaven, heaven is, God is love. So heaven is a lovely place. It's full of love and this is God kind of love, a Kape kind of love. There's no hatred, there's no jealousy, there's no pride, there's no pastors, there's no apostle, there's no prophet, nothing in heaven. There's no speaking in tongues, prophetic and word of knowledge and word of wisdom. All those gifts are not there in heaven. So there will come a time when all these gifts will cease, but love will remain. This is so powerful, right? So maybe some of us may be thinking, hey, I don't, I can't flow in the prophetic or I can't, I don't have a word of knowledge or I'm not gifted in worship. We may have these different ideas, right? We have these different thoughts that are coming into our mind. Remember this, if you have the love of God, if you are walking in the God kind of love, you have a greater, superior gift than all the other things and all the others. You can have a great man of God, a woman of God, but walking in jealousy or anger, but you can just be a believer walking in the God kind of love. You are doing something greater than what the other person is doing, because love is greater than that, right? Remember faith, Galatians 5-6, faith works through love. Without love, faith breaks down and faith does not produce when there is no love, right? Now for example, we see that the Lord Jesus, when he ministered to people that he met in his earthly ministry, in many places it says that he had compassion. He loved them and out of that love he was able to minister to them and bring healing. So the root or the basis of each of our lives, of each of our ministry, of everything that we do must be out of love. Now this is an ongoing process, right? God knows we are a work in process, we are growing, we are learning, right? But here's the beautiful thing. God has also given us the Holy Spirit to walk in that God kind of love. Is it possible to walk in the love that Jesus walked in? Yes. Why? Because of the Holy Spirit. Right? So let's just look at those characteristics. It's so beautiful. Love is patient and love is kind. Right? When we mean patient, now picture this, maybe, you know, there's a pastor or a god for, and they've been in ministry for 20 odd years. All of a sudden there's a young person who comes into the church. Now it's very easy for us to say, you know, because we know everything from the scriptures, we've gone through different seasons. It's very easy to look at them and say, hey, you know, how come you don't know this? This is so simple. How can you not understand this? You know, this is just basic word of God. How will you be able to, you know, understand the greater, bigger revelations of God's work? Now we must understand that people are from different levels in the spiritual understanding. Right? Love is patient just so much so that how God is patient with us, we are to be patient with people. Right? Now, does not mean being patient and kind means to, you know, just say, oh, you know, whatever you say I will do. No, we have to be bold, we have to be firm, we have to be confident. Right? You know, when we meet people, maybe we are sharing the gospel with them. Be bold, be firm, be confident, because you know who you are. Yet, be gentle and kind. That's the balance that we must develop. Right? Don't be harsh. Don't be rude. Right? Now, there are times the Holy Spirit will minister to us to say a word or speak about something to a person and it may be something very, you know, very stern. Even as we do that, do it with love. Right? Not with a pride saying, okay, God is telling me, you are this, this, this, this. Because eventually we want the person to come to Christ, to turn from their wrong ways and come back to Christ. For love is patient, love is kind. Right? One of the things that, for me personally, was being patient. Right? You know, personally, I'm a person who, you know, wants to get things done. If I plan, I usually plan a week or sometimes, you know, when the year starts, I do a six-month plan and then I break down that six-month plan into three months and I like to follow that plan. Right? And I, you know, I prefer that plan to be followed and then I break down those three-month plan into weekly plans and sometimes when things are not going the way that we expect, we become impatient. Right? But over time, I'm learning that, you know, it's okay. It's good to plan, but there will be times when, you know, we must understand that other, the people that we are ministering to or the people we are serving need time. Right? So we need to walk in patience. Right? Love is not jealous. Now, this is, this is, this is very, very important. Right? We did this in laying the ax to the root of jealousy in the beginning of the semester. Right? Jealousy is something that is, you know, just, it can just turn us away from God in a matter of moments. Right? So we must guard our hearts against jealousy. I mean, look at somebody else and say, hey, they are doing, maybe they are, you know, the worship team or they're, they're singing prophetic songs or there's a man of God, woman of God, you know, there's healings and miracles. They're manifesting these wonderful signs and we think, hey, why is it not happening to me? How come God is using them? It's very easy for jealousy to come into our heart. Right? So when God is working, the best way is when God is working through people around you. Right? Celebrate what is happening in their life. Right? If you see somebody else's, you know, God is blessing them and you see that, hey, nothing's happening to me. Celebrate what's happening in their life by saying, God, thank you that you have blessed them. One day you will do that for me as well. So what are you doing? You're guarding your heart. You're saying, you're not allowing the enemy to bring jealousy into our heart. Right? And the perfect, perfect example would be, you know, Saul and King Saul and David. Right? It's a perfect example. David killed the mighty Goliath. The people of Israel started singing, Saul killed thousands. David killed tens of thousands. That moment jealousy came into his heart. The Bible says from that moment he tried to pursue David, to kill him, just because of that jealousy. But what could have Saul done? Saul could have said, God, I thank you that you have taught me that I should not, you know, look at people through their appearance and you've taught me that you're still God. You know, you've used a small boy to defeat this giant. And if it's your, you know, he could have done it the nice way. He could have just said, okay, David, you can be the next king. And I'm sure God would have allowed him to be the king for the rest of his life. And David would have just come into the throne. It would have just gone in smoothly. But jealousy leads to unhealthy competition. That is strife. All of his life, Saul lost his peace. All he was doing was instead of running and chasing after the enemies and defeating enemies, he was fighting battles that was not worth. He was just running and trying to catch David. Right? So love is not jealous. We are to guard our hearts against jealousy. Third one, love is not proud, arrogant or boastful. Right? What is being proud, thinking high, more highly of yourself than you ought to think of. Right? Now, we must be strong. We must be confident in our identity in Christ, but we must also walk in humility. Right? So for example, you know, we can, God may give us opportunities to preach in many, many places. Right? So we must go with confidence. Right? We should prepare, you know, prepare the word prayer, you know, go with confidence and trusting God to work miracles and do wonders in those meetings. But the moment we say, you know, we don't walk in humility and we become arrogant or boastful or proud about it. There was a time I was not doing anything. Now, now see how I am here. They have these pastors calling me, this ministry is calling me. These people still want me. They ping me so much. They do this. They do that for me. You know, they, what's happening? They are losing focus. Right? Always, always walk with a humble heart. You know, here's the thing I've noticed, right? But we start off small. Right? So for example, somebody is starting a business or you're starting your own ministry. When you start small, there's nothing to be proud about. But if all of a sudden that ministry grows to thousands of people or the business becomes really big all of a sudden, what happens? Pride gets into our heart. Now, look at this Lucifer. He was the second in command in heaven. He was so beautiful that he had angels under him and they would all be in awe of Lucifer. And the thought just came to him, hey, I just, everyone out, so in awe of me, what happened there? He thought more highly of himself than what he had to think of. He should have thought that, hey, God is God and I'm just his creator being. Right? Be watchful over our words. When we speak, we are not to draw attention to ourselves or the work done through us, but the work done through God. Right? So be very careful. These are weeds that can come into our life. Love is not rude or ill-mannered. While ministering to people in the anointing of the Holy Spirit, be gentle, be loving, be courteous. Show them that you love them in a time that we are in. I've seen this. I've seen many videos that people have sent me over the past years. And I see it in my heart breaks because there were many, many of these, you know, wonderful men and women of God, but they have, I don't know who they've ill-treated the believers. Now, there will be times when God will, the Holy Spirit will ask us to, you know, do strange things or unusual things. That's okay. But then, if it's something from our own imagination, the outcome or the fruit will speak of itself. If it's from the Holy Spirit, it will bear fruit in the other person's life. If it's from our own imagination, we're trying to do something, it's not going to bear fruit. Right? So why minister to people? Remember, people lied. Jesus was not rude. He was not ill-mannered. He did not say, you know, you people are like this itself. No. He walked in that love. But was he stern? Yes, he was stern. But he was never rude or ill-mannered. Right? So even be as believers when we are ministering. Minister has to be as courteous as possible. One of the things we follow in APC is, you know, when we preach, we don't say you should do this. You should do that. It's applying even for us. So we say us. We say we. We should do it. It's for all of us. When we are preaching, it's not that we know everything and we're preaching to the congregation. No, as we are preaching, we are learning. Right? So we come into that submission under the Holy Spirit so that we know that, hey, you know, we're just walking. We're all growing together. Right? Then love is not self-sector, self-seeking, self or self-promoting. Now, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to us not to make us look good, not to make us look famous, not to make us look like we are holier than thou or we are the holiest of all people. No, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given so that we can serve people wherever we are and serve effectively to build people and to glorify Christ. Right? So the gifts of the Holy Spirit is given so that we can serve people powerfully, effectively, so that they will see a change in their lives and the Lord Jesus will be glorified. Right? Now, we are not to use the gifts of the Spirit to promote ourselves or to draw people to ourselves. The moment somebody walks out of a service saying and drawn towards the person who is preaching, more than the word, I have failed in my preaching. Right? Yes, of course, there will be people who will say, you know, thank you for sharing the word or you share the word well. That's okay. You could just say, okay, please God, thank you. But if people are drawn to you as a person, what I spoke or the way I spoke, the the intonation and all of those things, then it's of no use because I've drawn people to myself and I am nothing. Right? So we must draw people not to ourselves but to Jesus. Right? This is not about us. The more people have been used by God, the greater impact we will have and more people to be ministered to. There's a joy just seeing people's lives changed and there's a greater joy knowing that their life is changed not because of my preaching or teaching but because of the love of God on their lives. That's a greater joy. Right? So then I'm in freedom. Okay, I could say, hey, it's not me. It's God. God has just used me as a vessel. So it's not about me. God can use anybody. But the important point is that they have received and they have heard from you and they're glorifying Jesus Christ. And so very important, right? Even as all of us are ministering, look to draw people to Christ and not to us. Right? Next point. Love is not irritable or easily angered. Right? Now this is again something that I've been really walking in and I want to grow in this area. Sometimes, you know, there are things that may go wrong. You know, maybe we plan something and there are things that may go wrong. You know, some of the things that for me personally, right? If I plan to be at a place, if I have to meet somebody at 10 o'clock, I'll be there at 9.45. Right? And if they don't come at 10 o'clock, I start getting frustrated. I get irritated. 10 o'clock is the meeting. I've got to be there much before that. Or unless, you know, they're going through some challenge or something, you know, devastating has happened. Right? So sometimes I get irritated or easily angered. Right? I remember there were times and, you know, people would say, hey, you know, I don't have, I would, I would share with people, just talk to them. They'd say, hey, I don't have time at all. Work, the office from 9 to 5. I don't have time to feed or I don't have time for prayer. And I used to get really irritated initially, you know. I'm just being frank. I really used to get very irritated because I used to work in the IT company. I know it's tiring. You go to 9 to 5, you're a job, you get back home, you're tired. Yes. But if you really want to make time, you can make time. It's not, you know, there's a saying, right? Time flies. But the good news is you're the pilot. So I used to get really frustrated. So many times I used to tell my friends, you know, hey, if you really want to do something, you can do it. You don't have to give any excuse. And I said, you know, say that. But then over time I realized that, hey, is it right by me talking this way? Because I see that I am getting irritated because they are not doing something. Or I am getting easily angry because I expect them to read the word for one hour or to pray for maybe half an hour, spend time, they are not doing it. So I'm getting upset. Then I realized that, hey, it's affecting my life. I'm not working in the God kind of love. So I had to really make that conscious effort to change. And I started saying, okay, my responsibility is to minister to them, give them advice, give them exhort them, teach them, now encourage them and lead them to Christ. Also, there's another example here. For example, if you've been invited to a place to minister, there were several things that can go wrong. You know, and I've been through so many times, so many kinds of meetings where the mic stopped working, or there's a jarring on the mic, the guitar cable or the musical instrument cable just stopped working, or the drummer missed the timing to the song, or suddenly there was a power failure. All these things can get us irritated or angered. Now, remember, if the enemy is attempting to interfere with something that is, you know that it's a spiritual thing, spiritual battle, then you can deal with it and you pray against it. But in general, we are to keep our heart full of love towards people. So even when we go to different states in our nation of India, there are many states where the facilities are not very good. They could have some old speakers, or the mic system may not be as good as the ones in the cities. Sometimes they don't have a mic system, or sometimes they don't have fans, there's no AC, the food may not be good, the food does not suit our body, things are not set in place, there's no order. So these things can cause us to become irritable. But we must say to ourselves, hey, I've come here to minister to them. I want to love them. Now, if I get angry and irritated by the things that they're doing, I will not be able to minister out of love. And if I don't minister out of love, this whole meeting is of no use at all. So we must make that effort, conscious effort, to walk in love, to avoid being irritable. And there could be many things. It could be within the family, it could be traffic on the road, it could be the city, could be our leaders, so many things. There was this one season where there were a couple of these roads that were being fixed and it's maximum takes about a month, but it's been years, but that the road has not fixed. Sometimes you get school, irritated and angry about it. But many times I had to say, God pray for good leadership, that they were good leaders who can get these things sorted. This is you have given us the authority, you have given us the rule and reign in our nation. Help us to have good leaders, raise up good leaders. And so then what am I doing? Freeing my heart from being irritated or easily angry. So it could be anything, but we must guard our heart. Next one, love has no evil intent. Now what does it mean, evil intent? Now when we are ministering on the gifts of the Spirit, we must keep our heart free from desire to control, to manipulate or take revenge. So for example, if somebody has done something wrong to you, it's very easy when we are ministering to manipulate and to control or to take revenge on them. Right? Never try to use the gift of prophecy or the gift of word of knowledge or word of wisdom to get back at an individual. Motives should be clean. What is the motive to be pure, be genuine and seek to glorify the Lord alone? Right? Now what is it to control? Love does not control. Now there will be times when people, you know, so for example, there are the members of our church and they want to attend a conference that's happening in the city. Many times, many leaders have said, no, don't go to that. Right? Trying to control people. Many times, leaders have pastors and leaders have manipulated. You do this, you know, if you sell your property and give that money to the church, God, then the prophetic word comes, God is going to give you seven times more than what you have given. That is called annihilating. If you, you know, give so much time and offerings to the church, God will give you seven times more. I think there's a question. Yes, Shri Kumar, go ahead. Thank you, sir. I just want to know, as you said now, is it how we will be able to know that if a man of God is saying that give your, you know, the potion and this is something God is saying and how we can able to know that he's doing it in that street or, you know, what I'm saying? Yes, yes. Because Elijah, when he asked that woman when she was, when he was, she was only half her little, but that was directed by God. So and she, I believe she also understood because she is a man of God. So how in today's circumstances, because now you can find everywhere prophets and apostles. So how we can understand that, yes, this man of God is genuine and this is not from God. Thank you, Pastor. That's my question. Yes, that's a wonderful, wonderful question, Shri Kumar. And now I think this is a challenge that all of us have, but I'll just, I'll just sum up some of the ways that we can understand, right? One is we all have this spirit of discernment, right? Now, the problem is sometimes, you know, we think, okay, the Holy Spirit is in and we switch off our mind. We only think of the spiritual and we switch off. We don't think, is this something that God would want me to do? Right? Now, for example, yes, you brought up the whole thing of Elisha. Now, when somebody is, especially when it comes to giving unto God, right? We must always see in the sense that like, are they pushing us to do it? Is there a force? The moment a preacher or a pastor is forcing the believers, you do this only then you will be blessed. Only then God will give you double fold or seven fold. I personally will not give, right? Because God is a God, the Bible teaches us everywhere. God loves a cheerful giver, right? And when people were, especially when pastors and leaders put a call, put a, you know, a statement like if you do this, only then God will do it. God will bless you. If you sell your house or if you sell your car, only then God will give God will bless you. Then it's like putting a, you know, they're putting a, how do I say this? Like, you know, they're putting a condition. Yes. Thank you for that. They're putting a condition that only if you do this, God will bless you. Now, that's not what Jesus said. That's not what Jesus did. I mean, when you look at ministry, that's not what it is, right? We, let me give you this example. There was this old woman that I knew of. She was going to a church and it was a rural church, very small church. But the leader of the church, they manipulated her because they knew that she had a couple of, you know, land in the city and they said, you know, if you do this, God will bless your children. You will have a two-floor, three-floor house and all of that. And in her innocence, she sold it, gave it to the church. And now the children came back from work or from different parts of the city saying, okay, let's, you know, they had saved up money to build a house. They came to the mother and said, okay, let's start building. We have saved up money. And the mother says, no, I sold, I gave the property away, gave the money to the church. And the children were so heartbroken. They had saved up and done so much. Now, the moment somebody forces, if there's a force, if there's a push, then I would say that it is not from God. Because God is not in it for the money. And we know that, you know, it's the heart that God sees. So, in terms of this giving, always leave it open. Now, there will be times the Holy Spirit will say, tell this person, this is what he has to do. He has to go, you know, probably take half his income from the business and give it to this ministry. And this is, and this is how God will bless. Now, there's a way of putting that across, right? There's a way. Hey, if I'm ministering to somebody, a businessman or a businessman, I would say, brother, sister, this is what I sense the Lord telling me, but I leave the decision up to you. You have a business and I sense the Lord saying that if you give 50% of it to the ministry, you can give it to any ministry. If you give it to the minister, give it unto the Lord, I sense that God is saying that he will bless you even more. He will increase you from every side. Why don't you go home, think about it, pray about it, see if this is what God is leading to you towards. And then you can feel free to make your decision. The decision is yours. That's how I would do it. Now, how does this sound and how does this sound? Brother, God is saying, you have a business, you have to give 50% of it. When you give it, God will bless you and you have to give it. Only then God is going to bless you. You see, there's a difference on it. It's the same message put across in two different ways. Right? So again, it's all about how we also, you know, we speak, we speak with kindness and gentleness. We get put across the same message in a gentle kind of way, honouring, respecting the person. But the problem is, Shri Kumar is right now, pastors and ministers of God have become so great that they feel they are, they have the right to do it. They have the right to ask and to say it and nobody can question them. And especially in our nation, nobody's going to question. Right? And it's wonderful how the Apostle Paul, we did in chapter, in the previous chapter, I think in chapter nine, the rights of an Apostle and Paul says, I did not ask anything from you. So you always leave that option open. The moment there are conditions, I would think about it. But yes, you can always put it across the right. Right? I hope that helps you, Shri Kumar. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Everyone can see the screen. I think I'll have to stop. Just a moment. Okay. Next one. Love is truthful, honest and holy. So handle the gifts of the Holy Spirit with honesty, with purity and holiness. Right? And these are the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. So it's, it's not that, oh, I am the greatest, I can promise, I know, but there's a sense of all, there's a sense of holiness, God, the God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, His Spirit, reciting in me, just a regular person and His gifts expressed in and through me. It's not a place of boasting, but it's a place of just being in awe of the God's presence. The Holy Spirit is making, you know, ministering through us. Now, here's the thing. If God is speaking, do it in sincerity and truthfulness. If God is silent, do not make up something that is fake. Do not be pressurized by faking things or the gifts of the Holy Spirit. God does not anoint invitations or invitations. Now, for example, every Sunday, you're getting a prophetic word in your ministry. There's word of knowledge that is, you know, word of wisdom, there is prophetic word, there's gifts of healing. Every Sunday, you're ministering to people. Now, maybe one Sunday, you're not getting anything. I'm saying, God, speak to me, but there's nothing. No, you can't say, oh, how will I close this church service now? They all are waiting for a prophetic word or they're all waiting for a word of knowledge. What do I do? What you have to do is pray and close. No need to be pressurized to making up things. It's okay. Remember that, you know, it's the gift. It's the Holy Spirit that is speaking to us. I'll tell you one shocking thing that I had got to know. It really surprised me to the levels that people can go to. This happened in our nation, the city of Bangalore, South of India. There was this big conference or a meeting that was happening and this man was, you know, supposedly a man who was very prophetic in nature and he would call out people through their names and just minister to them and, you know, everyone knew about it. Many people from many churches would come for that two days meeting. Now, a friend of mine was a volunteer for one of his conferences and he came up to me and we were speaking and he was talking to me about the gifts of the Spirit about word of knowledge prophecy and I knew that he had some questions but he was not willing to ask. He was just, something was holding him back, but here's what he asked me. At the end, he could not hold on. He asked me this. He said, do you think people can get words of knowledge through, you know, their name and date of birth? I said, yes, God can do it. God can call people from their name, use the date of birth. I said, why do you ask me? I said, no, because in these conferences of this man, whoever enters into the conference writes their name, number, date of birth and the place they're coming from and that all that book before the conference starts, half an hour before the conference, that, that the details written down goes to the green room where the preacher is sitting and many times I have seen him read through all the people's names, make notes on the four or just write down a few, just memorize a few and then he would go on to the stage to read everything and at the end of the service, you know, just begin to call the names, what he has heard. Is there a David and you're from, you know, this city, this is your full name, this is your date of birth and when I heard that, I was really surprised. So what is it? There is, it is a cooked up word of knowledge which the Lord is not going to anoint. He does not anoint invitations. He does not anoint things that are fake and made up. He anoints that which is expressed by the Holy Spirit. So just be faithful, serve faithful, no need to put up a show. Last couple, few more, love holds up beliefs and hopes and then yours. So when ministering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, when dealing with difficult situations, sin, failure or wrong intentions, our intention must be that we are bringing that individual to God for God to do the best in his or her life. Look at how Jesus exposed the sin and problem of the Samaritan woman. She was hopeless, she was sad, she was burdened, but after meeting Jesus, the Lord Jesus exposed her sin, said, Hey, you're not really married, so dance with the one who you're living with is not with your husband. But through the end of that whole thing, what happened? She goes back and she says, I have found the one who is the Messiah. The end result was she was in awe of the Messiah and she became the tool to reach out to the entire village. Jesus exposed this person, exposed her problem, but he also let them know that in your hopeless situation, in your feeling of rejection, God can change things for you. So when we are ministering to people, don't bring people down. Our goal is to bring people to Christ, lead them to Christ. And love never fails. Okay, this is the last one, then we'll take a break. Love never fails. The Greek word fails means ekkipto, which means to be driven out of one's cause or to become inefficient. Now, if we put all this together, we get the understanding that when we walk in love, we will walk the course, we will run the race, the race that God wants us to run. We'll run it the right way. Walking in love helps us to walk the right path. When we walk in love, we will not be powerless, we will not be dishonored, we will not become useless, but we will have impact and we will have effect upon people that we meet. People will recognize the anointing of God when we walk in love because love never fails us. The God kind of love will bring honor, glory, and make us walk the right path in every area of our life. So this is so wonderful. So when we are ministered or governed by the love of God, we know that we are in the right path and nothing can go wrong because God is with us. So these are so powerful. Paul is exhorting the church and he brings this chapter to a close. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back in 10 minutes. Let's come back at 10.5 and then we'll continue with the class. Thank you.