 Recording is on. Good morning and welcome everybody to BT309, our class on Urban Church Planting. Thanks for connecting to the class today. I take a moment to suppress and get started. I'm sure the others will come in very soon. Somebody pray to us and we will get started. Who would like to pray? Okay, I'm sure I can. Oh, thank you. Go ahead and pray. Okay, first. Holy Father, we thank you this morning. We pray so that your Holy Spirit will guide us to open our heart. And so keep our Lord awake so that we may hear what you're about to be taught today. And we pray, Father, that you will be your Master Lord. And whatever you did to us today, Lord, may be useful for the ministry up ahead. And you might name Lord Jesus to pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. All right. Good morning, once again, and welcome to the class here on Urban Church Planting. I'm going to go ahead and share the PDF, do a quick review of what we've covered last week and go forward from there. So, lastly, as we were continuing our journey in learning some practical things on Urban Church Planting, we emphasize the importance of trying to understand the natural dynamics of urban center, or the place where you're going to be planting the charts or starting the work. And some of the things that we should try and do a little research and become familiar with, you know, some background of the city and understand the political, the economic, the demographic, the social economic education, and other things that would be important in relation to the city. And we also, you know, said that in trying to, in understanding this, it gives us a feel for the city so that we can pray for the city. And also, you know, God will help us give us ideas. He will also guide us. And some of it we can just arrive, we will arrive at through our interactions and prayer and discussion with people on specific areas that we are going to be reaching or ministering towards as we serve the people in our city. So that comes out of this whole homework that we do in trying to understand what's going on in the city. And we also emphasize that, you know, the city is dynamic. It's not static. In fact, it changes very rapidly. So we need to keep our pulse on the pulse of the city that means stay in touch with what is happening. Be very open. You know, just as you're moving around the city, you know, stay in touch with what's going on, be very aware of what's happening in the city, the needs that are coming up in the city and so on, so that we can respond very quickly to the needs of the people and those will become areas of ministry in the city. Now, as opposed to the city, a smaller town or a village may develop or change much slower. So, you know, in a village, things may move quite slowly. It may not be that drastic or dramatic a change that we see. So, you know, the whole approach may be a little different. But as in the city, we need to be in touch because things can change very quickly. So we talked about that and then we are going to go into chapter 6 today where we want to look at, in a similar way, we want to look at the spiritual dynamic of urban centers. So just as we are constantly in touch with and we have to be constantly aware of the natural things happening in our city, we also have to be in touch with the spiritual side of things over the place, the city, where we are going to plant the work and start out the ministry. Again, here we need to, you know, it's a constant thing. It's an ongoing thing, right? That we are constantly aware, constantly being sensitive to what is happening in the spiritual side of things over our city. Now, from a biblical perspective, we look at the scripture. Revelation chapter 2 is very interesting. In Revelation chapter 2, we read about chapters 2 and 3. We read about the seven churches that the Lord Jesus is speaking to. So just imagine your mind, you know, way back in time. So this is just, you know, towards that first 100 years of the church. So let's say the church was started in 1830. We are now, you know, less than 100 years. So we are now somewhere around 80, 80 to 80, you know, around 80, 80, you know, so on. Before 80, 90, but before John wrote this. So we are in that time frame. So we are approximately 50 to 60 years after the birth of the church in Jerusalem. So it's probably a short time, 50 to 60 years after the start of the church in Jerusalem. So now the gospel has spread and there are several churches all across the region. And the Lord Jesus is speaking very specifically in Revelation chapter 2 and 3 to seven churches that were all located in and around the church at Ephesus. So this is really in modern day situation, our time, this would be on the west coast of the nation of Turkey. So, you know, if you imagine in your mind the map, the world map, Turkey and the country. If you go to the west coast, it is just, you know, along the Mediterranean agency on the coast, there is a port city called Ephesus. And not too far from Ephesus within just, you know, about less than 50 kilometers from Ephesus in different directions. You've got six other churches. So they're not very far away. They're all kind of going to cluster in that area. And you've got these totally Ephesians plus six other seven churches. What is interesting is, you know, as Jesus speaks to these seven churches, he is pointing out spiritual things that are happening in their city. So to the church in Smyrna, in Revelation chapter 2 and verse 10, Jesus is telling them, you know, do not fear any of those things which you're about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison that you may be tested and you will have tribulation in 10 days. But be faithful unto that, I will give you the crown of length. So he's telling them, so the devil is operating in your city. This is the Lord Jesus speaking. And he's speaking to these believers in that city of Smyrna. And he's saying, you know, the devil is at work there and he's going to cause some problems. In fact, some of you are going to be put in prison because of what the devil is about to do. So there is a spiritual dynamic happening in that city which the Lord Jesus is very aware of and which he's speaking about to the church. Think about the church and put them on in Revelation 2 verses 13 and 14. He's telling them, you know, they can come to read that in Revelation chapter 2 verses 13 and 14, please. Go ahead. The Lord Jesus is very good. He is very strong. And he holds fast to me and did not commit. My faith, even in the days in which the devil was in his faithful heart, he also did not want to wear types of clothes. But I have faith in some things. Because we're afraid those who hold the devil can't bother without the power to look out. Stembering love for the children of Israel. To eat, take sacrifice to idols and to come in special and all that. Yeah. So Jesus speaking to the church and put them on. What's he telling them? He's saying, you know, you are in a place where Satan's thrown it and where Satan dwells. Right? So he's looking at that city and he's saying, hey, in your city, Satan has got a throne. I mean, the people of the city have been involved in, you know, whatever kind of activity. And they've actually built a throne for Satan. I mean, Satan is king in that city. That's what Jesus is saying. And he is saying that, you know, he also knows that there's been a martyr and to pass, there's been a martyr in that city. So Satan is dwelling in that city. Satan has a throne in that city. And then he's also, he's just pointing out even the false doctrine. See, the Lord Jesus is very aware of what's going on in the city. He's saying in verse 14, there are those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, the teaching of Balaam, meaning there is teaching going on that is prevalent in the city. But Jesus, as a teaching of Balaam, meaning, you know, what Balaam in the old times taught Balak and how to make the people of Israel sent. So, you know, when Balak wanted Balaam to curse the people, he said, look, I can't curse and God is glad, but I can tell you of how to get them into a place of, you know, into a place where they can miss God, which is he basically got them all into immorality. So that was the doctrine of Balaam, the teaching of Balaam. And so he's saying, yeah, you know, that same kind of teaching is prevalent in the city and it's actually coming into the church and people in the church are being, you know, seduced to commit immorality and to worship and idolatry to worship. So Jesus is watching over the city and he's pointing out the spiritual dynamic Satan is enthroned, Satan is dwelling in our city, and also there is this false teaching that is trying to creep into the church, the teaching where it is causing people to commit immorality and idolatry. The church in Tahrir chapter 2, Revelation 220, similarly Jesus points out Revelation 220, he's calling out a prophet death. Her name happens to be Jezebel, but this prophet death is at work in the church. She's somehow gotten into the church and she is teaching them the same thing. She is teaching the people to commit immorality and idolatry. And the Lord Jesus says, no, I've been patient, given her time to repent, but she and those who are with her, you know, who embraced her doctrine, they're going to be judged. And in chapter 3 and verse 9, Jesus is speaking to the church in Philadelphia and he tells them, very interestingly, he says, you know, you are in a city, in Philippians 3 verse 9, where there is the synagogue of Satan. The synagogue really means the assembly. So there are these people who are really people of the devil, you know, the synagogue of Satan. There's a group that belongs to Satan. And Jesus is telling them, I'm going to cause this group to come and bow before the church. They will worship at your feet and they will know that I have loved you. You know, definitely we'd all love to be like a church in Philadelphia, you know, where this group that belongs to the devil, they come and bow before the church and they bow down and they worship at our feet and they acknowledge that the one who is in us is greater than the one who is over them. But think about all these churches. So these are believers in different cities. And to each city Jesus is detailing what is going on in the spiritual realm in the city where the church is. So would the Lord Jesus speak to you and me today about similar things concerning the cities in which we live? Just think about it. What do you think? Do you think the Lord can speak to us? Do you think the Lord can reveal to us certain things of what's going on in the spiritual realm in our cities? Or was that only for revelations after two and three? What do you think? Anyone? Okay. I see two yeses, three yeses. Okay. All right. So I just want to impress on our heart that what we're seeing in Revelation two and three as the Lord is speaking to these seven churches, He is pointing out the spiritual condition in which that community of believers exist. He's very aware and he's telling them this is what is going on spiritually in your city. Now, today's cities are many times bigger than the cities in the Bible. Of course, the cities in the Bible times had maybe a few hundred, maybe a few thousand, a few thousands of people. Today our cities have millions of people. It's very complex, like they said. And so the spiritual dynamic over our cities is also considerably complex because there are various factors that are at work. There are people who are engaging in all kinds of practices. There may be a multiplicity of religions being practiced, multiplicity of ideology that are being embraced in the city, multiplicity of thought and things that are people follow, philosophies that people follow. So today's cities are very complex, which also means that spiritually there's a lot of different kinds of activity going on in the city. Satan is operating in many different ways in the city. And so God is going to call. And also in the city, we need to mention this, also in the city, there are many different churches and many different ministries. And therefore churches and ministries will be assigned by God, will be mandated by God to address specific areas of the spiritual condition over that city. And collectively the city-wide church can engage in the city-wide spiritual walk. So individually churches and Christian churches and ministries will be anointed and gifted and mandated by God, called by God to address specific spiritual conditions of the city. Now we all have a common goal, which is to preach the gospel and get people saved. But in the process of doing that, God is going to work through various churches, various ministries that are in the city to address various problems. And collectively we should be engaged in the battle for our city. So modern-day cities are complicated, there are diverse kinds of operations with the enemy over the city. And as you begin to go in there, you need to be aware, you know, what are you going to encounter based on where you're going to be positioned, based on the group of people that you're going to try to reach. You know, what are the demonic kinds of demonic things you're going to battle, you're going to come again, depending on where you engage in the city and whom you're trying to minister to in the city, we need to be prepared. So that's kind of the trust of what we are saying in this chapter is, just like we prepare ourselves to understand the natural dynamic of the city, we must also be aware of the spiritual dynamic in the city in which we are going to start. Now, we can also see some of these things in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, we read about a spiritual being that is demonic powers or influencing leaders over the city. In 1 Chronicles 21 and verse 1, we see that Satan moved or instigated David. David was king. He instigated, he moved David, provoked David to do something against God. Now, the enemy was the point I want to bring up from the 1 Chronicles 21. One is the enemy was provoking or instigating or influencing a leader and the leader's decision eventually impacted the people under him. So would the enemy do something similar today? Very possible. We see about what happened as far as Babylon is concerned that you can take time to go through these passages where we see demonic powers influencing leaders, the king over Tyre and Sidon in Ezekiel 26 from the age. Again, there is the natural king and there is the spiritual power operating over that region. That means even natural leaders over cities, over territories can come under influence, demonic influence to cause something bad or evil or wicked to be done in that city. So how are we going to recognize spiritual demonic influence and what kind of demonic activity is taking place in the city? We can get to learn some of this. Of course, one is by revelation. Holy God will reveal to us God's open eyes concerning certain things. But also, we can recognize the spiritual dynamics over the city if we are careful to observe how they are being expressed in the city. Some of the ways you would find it expressed, one is through culture. Through cultural forms, which is the music, the dance, other cultural expressions. Through that, what is coming forth? What are the words? What are the music? What are the expressions? What is the effect on the people? You can see. So the culture only becomes a conduit or a vehicle, but through that certain parts, certain ideas, certain emotions are being expressed and released to the people. And we can be sensitive to that and recognize that there is a spiritual influence that is coming through. So by looking at culture, but also looking at the social geography. As you find, you will find certain religious groups located in certain areas or certain areas of the city having dominant ideologies and philosophies there. And it's okay. I'm seeing a lot of people in this part of the city who are given to this kind of ideology or this kind of religious system or this kind of belief system. So in certain parts of the city, that's the influence, the dominant influence over there. We can also see in a demonic influence being expressed to the moral values. Through other expressions like addiction and trafficking and suicide and crime. And so when you look at these things, you can see, it seems like this is the kind of influence over the city. And this is where demonic powers are engaging and trying to influence the people and push upon the people. And sometimes they're using these ideologies to blind the people from the receptive to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, in time part, especially back in the 80s and 90s, 1980s, 1990s especially, there was a big movement in the Christian church on spiritual mapping in relation to spiritual warfare. People used to go and do very detailed studies about cities and regions and they look at every little thing and they say, okay, therefore, this is the spiritual influence over the city. Now, this is my take on that and we're free to disagree. But I felt when those books were written, and these are by respectable people, I've read a few of those books and all of that. And so I'm not against the individual, the godly men of God, men and women of God. But what I felt was it was a very narrow view of spiritual mapping, it was actually a very narrow view of trying to understand what's happening in the city. Because usually when you read some of those books, it would be like, oh, in this city there is one ashram, so therefore there is one Maharishi who is influencing the city. Or in this city there is one temple or one mosque or something and therefore there is that kind of influence in the city. But that would be a joke when compared to what you would find in India. If you come to a city in India, you'd find probably a temple on every street and you'll find an ashram or a religious place like in every nook and corner of the city. So you're not dealing with one temple or one ashram. There are probably thousands of temples or hundreds of religious centers all across the city. So everything changes now because you can't be doing spiritual math in the way I've described in those books. Because here if you're going to map every temple and every ashram in the city, you'll be spending several decades. I mean, you're just spending a lot of time wasting time on that. So that's why I felt that when you're reading those books on spiritual mapping and so on, it kind of was not in touch with reality in terms of how things happen in cities in other parts of the world. So it was kind of a disconnect from what actually happened. But I think what we should be focused on is we recognize that there are demonic influences prevailing in every city and then across the city. And when we go into the ministry, we must prepare ourselves to confront, to engage spiritually with these demonic powers and what they may intend doing, or what they are doing in the places where we are going to engage. So I just want to open this up for a little bit of time here. And so this one side note here is that we are not necessarily leveraging and practicing spiritual mapping as you'll find in some of these books. Like I said, it's just sometimes just impractical if there's time consuming and unprofitable. Instead, listen to the Holy Spirit and move with the Spirit of God and show how to confront what the devil is doing in your specific area of work and ministry. So that would be basically the key takeaway here is listen to the Holy Spirit and then move with Him on how to deal with what needs to be addressed. Now, I will give a scriptural reference a little later on from Matthew 12, but I want us to just open up a little bit of time here. Just for people to share, have you, you know, just from your experience in the city, have you observed a natural expression which was indicative of a spiritual corresponding spiritual dynamic that was taking place? This is to correlate, this is to correlate something that was happening in the natural, in the city, which you recognized that it is connected to a spiritual movement over the city, that means demonic happening in the city and how you were able to correlate the two. I just want to open up a time for sharing. Anybody wants to share that? Okay. I just saw some comments that from Christopher. Sorry, I just saw it now. Is my voice okay? Everybody's okay? You can hear my voice. Okay. Go ahead, Charles. You put your hand up for something you want to share. All right. Thank you so much, Pastor, for the opportunity. We were in 2016, there was emotion that was aired in the parliament of the Republic of Uganda for the Islamic banking. And in the Islamic banking, they wanted to demand, they wanted to make sure that the banking sector in Uganda is governed by Muslims. And in the physical realm, the Muslims had organized, sacrificed, they had organized a prayer meeting in the southern part of Uganda on a mountain called Mount Moabula, so that they would be able to sacrifice, they sacrificed 10 cows so that they control from the south to the north, from the south to the east, from the south to the west. That's where they had decided to conduct their sacrifice. So in the spiritual realm, the Uganda sharing, the things were really going down and even the Muslims who had controlled the meat industry, they had controlled things where you would see that for sure transport sector is taken by the Muslims, the butcher ring industry is taken by Muslims, now the banking is going to be taken and they are putting the bill in parliament so that the Islamic banking should take leave. And you would find that spiritually the Christians are no longer in business, so we had to organize overnight conferences and we would be praying and we would be counseling. And at the end of six months, the bill was not allowed spiritually because we had prayed and then even the leading agencies that were running the banking sector, then their banks were also frozen. So I think that's what I can come up with in connection with the physical but also with the spiritual. Thank you. Very interesting. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that song. Anyone else you'd like to share? Thank you for sharing that. It's nice for us to hear and learn from that. I do see a brand question, which is if you recognize it, how do you deal with it? Yeah, sometimes you may be talking about if you recognize something happening in the natural, we know it's something demonic, how should we deal with it? And so I think part of the answer that Charles already shared is the churches coming together in frame, churches engaging in prayer, or for that. Sometimes you just don't bother because you know they cannot prevail, it doesn't matter. They're creating noise, it's not going to really affect anything, leave it alone. Sometimes you need to, if it's going to impact our lives, the lives of people, the citizens in that particular city or country and it's going to impact them, then of course we engage in prayer and take it up and then through prayer we deal with that. So I'm not saying every little thing you kind of want to react to it, so we pick our battles because our real goal is to get people to preach the gospel. So we choose our battles and if there's going to be an impact on the church and be an impact on the people, yeah, definitely we need to exercise our authority. Okay, so like Charles, any other questions, I mean any other, in an example that you could share, your feet love experience. Can I share? Oh, Kennedy, go ahead. In our locality there was the issue of trying to legalize same marriage and it was taken to parliament and as Christians we prayed over it and the bill never went through. And the person who was pioneering the idea he even died and it has really affected many of the youths because they targeted the young ones, they're married and they are being enticed to change that issue of same marriage and homosexuality. Yeah. And we prayed for those kids and everything stopped. They will never went through. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Okay. So let's just give a little reference point with this. We know, and Bodhisattva, the possible Matthew, in Matthew 12 verse 29, Matthew 12 verse 29, Jesus said, you know, how can you enter a strong man's house and spoil his goods unless you first bind the strong man, then you will plunder his house. So the context of course is dealing with demonic powers because in verse 28, Matthew 12 verse 28, Jesus said, if I by the spirit of God cast out demons, no doubt the kingdom of God has come to you. Then he continues verse 29, how can you enter a strong man's house and spoil his goods unless you first bind the strong man, then you will spoil his goods. What is the idea here? The idea is there's a strong man who's got goods under control, under his control. So you want to dispossess him of his goods. What must we do? First deal with a strong man. Then we can promote the goods. We can set people free. So in a spiritual sense, when we are planting a work and it's a spiritual battle, so we need to deal with that spiritual influence. But there are ways to do this. We will talk about it later. And I'm sure you've also learned in the earlier course on prayer and intercession. So there are ways to deal with the influence, the demonic influence holding people, multiple ways to deal with it. But that's the goal, to deal with a strong man so that people can be released. The second part that we're going to talk about is Matthew 16, 18 and 19, where the Lord Jesus clearly said, Matthew 16, 18 and 19, He said, I give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. So I will build my church, the gates of the Lord come against it and I'll give the keys to the kingdom of heaven and to the church, the people of God. And we have the authority to bind on earth and to lose on earth, right? And the gates of heaven will not prevail against it. But we have to confront the gates of heaven, the demonic power center. So that's another reference where the church, which is God's people. So whether in your particular area of ministry or the church together in the city confront demonic powers through prayer, through intercession and through the other reference that God has given to us, which is through praise, through the proclamation of the word, through ministering the truth into the society, into the lives of people. These are ways by which we advance the kingdom and just present the strong man, right? So prayer is one, there is praise and there's also the proclamation of God's word and there's bringing a truth into society, bringing a truth into the lives of people which will bind the strong man and just present what he isn't from. You know, one of the things that one of the personally, one of the amazing journeys or stories of experience was way back when I was in college in Manipal. That's where I was, I did my engineering in my bachelor's. Manipal is a small student community, you know, not too far from the city of Bangalore, that's where I did my bachelor's. And so in Manipal, in my third year in college, we had started this fellowship where we were teaching the word and getting people to come together. And around the same time, we also started a weekly time of prayer. A small group of us would go and we went to Manipal, it's kind of a hilly area. So we'd go to the edge of the hill, which has kind of been down and could look straight into the Arabian Sea. Yeah, the Arabian Sea. So you could look out there and look at the sea in a distance from the edge of the hill slope. So our goal was every Sunday morning, a small group of us, less than 10 people, sometimes it's five people, six people, seven, less than 10 people, would go there and 6 a.m. to about 9 a.m., sometimes till 10 a.m. So about three to four hours, we would be there in worship and prayer for Manipal. And Manipal was just a student community at that time. Today, of course, it's evolved and developed into a much more developed place. But those days, it was just all students, medical college, engineering college, dental law, all different students. That was the community there. Our prayer was we were praying for the town of Manipal. We prayed for students to come to faith. We're praying for a more of God in the town of Manipal. So we did that for almost a year. We would be doing that. And rain or shine, we were there. There were times when some of us would go on leave, but the others would continue praying. So we did that now. And then finally, a year and a half later, I graduated, I left Manipal. But what we did see happened in Manipal. So the fellowship continued. And in the following year, there was just a powerful work that took place. And from a group of, let's say about 30 students gathering together, the group just exploded to 100, 150, and it crossed 200. So I don't know what the final number was, like 200 and 250 people, students gathering together. So it just grew powerfully. So many people got saved. So many people got, and these are all students, college students. They all got filled with the Holy Spirit and a strong fellowship. Within two years from that time, a strong fellowship was established in that ministry. And it was just an amazing work. And part of what I would describe that for, too, is I would say, look, we had spent over a year or year and a half every Sunday morning praying for this town of Manipal. And now we see the outcomes of that spiritual engagement. And seeing so many people come to see and our lives being touched. So that was just an amazing experience during our college days to see God move and God work in that manner. So what we have covered so far is, as part of our preparation to start the work, to plan the work in a city, it's good for us to engage both in understanding, let me just go back and share the PDF, in understanding the natural dynamics and also the spiritual dynamics over a city. Be aware of this and be constantly in touch because things are going to change. Now, before we transition to the next section, just a quick overview of what we see in the Book of Acts, as far as urban church planting. You see that in the Book of Acts, when you start off with chapter one, the apostles were all waiting in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was a major city. And at that time, the Holy Spirit was poured out at a time when there were lots of people gathering in the city of Jerusalem. This was the time of the feasts. There were feasts with Pentecost. A lot of people gathered. So the church was first strengthened as strong work was established in Jerusalem. But also because of the fact that there were so many visitors in Jerusalem at that time, there were people definitely who gathered that to many other parts of Asia from where they came. Now, what we see from Acts chapter two is, in Acts chapter eight, when there was persecution, the gospel was forced out of Jerusalem into neighboring cities, towns and villages. So we see in Acts eight, they go to Sumerian. We know in Acts 11, they go all the way to the city of Antioch in Syriac, Antioch North. And so the gospel is being spread city by city. It's just going across it. In Acts 13, Paul and Barnas begin their first mission journey. They cross the sea. They go to the island of Crete. They come to the city of Paphos. So here again, they're targeting cities. And so as the apostles were moving, of course, they would have stopped in smaller villages and towns. But in the book of Acts of the Coons, cities being reached to the gospel. In Acts 17, they go to Thessalonica. They go on into Athens. Then they go on into Berea. They go on into several different cities. Acts 18, they come into Corinth. And they come also into Ephesians. All these are major cities, Athens, Corinth and Ephesians. All these are major cities in and around that area. And so under Acts 24, Paul himself goes over to Caesarea and then on to Rome. So by the time we come to the end of the book of Acts, at least 50 major cities in and around the Mediterranean have been reached for the gospel. So at least 50 major cities, definitely lots of towns, lots of villages, many, many places. But the major cities in and around the Mediterranean have been reached with the gospel. So what are we saying? That the great commission Jesus gave in Acts 1-8, Corugerus-Lum-Judeusim area, to the most part of the earth, definitely involved taking the gospel to the major urban centers in the attack. And the big advantage is when something happens in a city, it immediately spreads everywhere else because in the city, people are coming and going, coming and going, coming and going. And if they are impacted, they're going to carry it to wherever village or town they came from. Now, the closing thought, I want to leave us with this. Today, the scale of that dynamic has become global. In Bible times, people moved from neighboring villages and towns that came into the city for transaction purposes, and they came to sell their products, they came to buy things. They went back. Today, the dynamic is global. People are moving in and out of cities on a global scale. So most cities, most urban centers are like that. There are people, for instance, in one city. There could be people coming from almost all other cities in that country. They could be coming to that one city. So if you're doing ministry in one city, you are most likely going to impact all the other major cities in that country. Most likely, because there are going to be people coming in from so many other cities into that one city. And not only that, if the city where you're going to do ministry has some global influence, people are going to likely move globally. So you may be impacting, you may be planning a work in a city, but the impact of what you do can be felt in many other parts of the world today. So what we see happen in the book of Acts is it's scaled up many times over. The possibility is scaled up many times over in what can happen today. So the fulfilling of Acts 1A is happening over and over again as people engage in urban church planting in different parts of the world. So that's the tremendous potential that is there in doing missions of planting work, starting a work in an urban center. You're most likely going to impact your entire nation and possibly many other nations of what you start to do. So I'll leave us with that thought in the pause here. Next week we'll start talking about all the practical steps and getting into all the practical things and going to urban church planting ministry. So we close in prayer. Can I request somebody to pray with us at the class and then just miss us please. I see a bit of comments. There are 20 people, but they are from four countries. They're in four countries. Okay, go ahead Abraham or somebody put this close in prayer. I will pick up next week. Okay pastor, thank you. Precious Father we thank you for this moment. We thank you for all that we have learned. We thank you for the understanding about our cities and our nation. Father we pray that you grant us the wisdom to deal wisely with all these principalities and powers and darkness Father that at the end of it all you will reign and rule in righteousness. Father we pray that the grace that came with your work today will be part of us that will work in the consciousness knowing that you are with us and everything we are doing for your glory and your honor. Father we thank you. In Jesus' name we are prayed. Amen. Thank you everyone for being in the class today. And the proto thing again on Thursday. I'm blessed right now again. Thank you. Thank you everybody. I'm blessed here. Thank you. I'm blessed.