 Okay. So biblical preaching will start from where we left off last class. We looked at the different ways by which we can study the Word of God. Okay. So in each method has its purpose and achieves a certain purpose. We looked at that. We also said there was a small work to be done over the weekend, but I don't see any submissions. I saw, like, Jeffine had actually given me the hard copy. She showed me what she has done, Word Study. Well, what we do is we take some more time maybe today and you can post it on the classwork. Okay. You can upload it on the classwork section. So the assignment was that you would do a Word Study. Can pick any word. No worries. Yeah. So it's not great. It just wanted us to, you know, get into the habit of doing it. I mean, just to try it out so that all of us will be aware, okay, this is something that we can do. So to do a study of the Word, to find out the meaning of the Word, to find out where it applies or where it comes, you know, in Scripture. And so you can look into the, you know, if it's in the Old Testament, we can look into the Hebrew, the New Testament, you can look into the Greek. And also a few verses, maybe not, maybe too vast if you want to consider all the Scripture. So just for us to learn, okay, this is the application. And if it's something that you knew that you've learned, you know, to be able to share that as well, right? So that's the thing. We said we'll do that. Okay, so take some time. And, you know, maybe in our next class Thursday, when we meet, we can look at that. I'd like to just go through some of your things. So Jeffine has done on Cornerstone. Okay, so Cornerstone is already taken. It doesn't matter if you're thinking of, you know, such words, it's fine. So like we said, it can be, you know, when we're looking at these words, it can be, it can be a word study. It can be a topical study also. The word study can be a topic. For example, it can be, you know, like love of faith. It's a topic also, right? Faith is a topic by itself. So it can be that. So that is what it is, right? So word study, it does take time because you're looking at the meaning. You're looking at the original language. You can consider all that. And some of the tools that we can use, you know, like what I shared last class, you can use Esword, you can use, you know, any other commentaries. Well, there's something called the Bluet and Letter Bible by David Guzik, which is again a good commentary to have. You can use that as well. Okay, so we looked at different kinds. Let me just share the notes here. Okay, so we looked at all that, the word study, the topical study, the character study. Then we looked at the book study, and also the inductive study method, right? So all this, you know, really enriches the way we can study the Word of God. And it really helps us, right? So when we do, you know, we looked at the book study. The book study really, you know, if you're a minister of God who is, you know, you're pastoring a church and you are, you know, doing a book study, it really, you know, helps the congregation come to a place of being well-read and also having a firm grounding on the Word of God, right? So you could consider, you know, doing a book study for the congregation. It's really good. So the congregation is enriched, they are built up, you know, it's not just, they're looking at the verse per se, you know, out of context, but they're actually, they come to a place of understanding the context, totally being enriched, and also it'll result in a well-read congregation. Of course, depends on individuals, how they, you know, receive the Word and so on. So as ministers of God, you know, it's good to do a book study, you know, or do a book study ourselves and leave the congregation in a book study, right? Now, that's again going to take some time. It's going to take a few Sundays or maybe a few months, right, to go through these books, but it will really result, it'll have its benefits, right? Okay. So then we looked at inductive, right, inductive study. So let me, let me just, I know we looked at the questions. Let me just look at, you know, maybe a couple of steps that we can take. So I'm just backing up a little bit just to share, you know, what are those steps that we can take? Okay. One is observation. Okay. If we are studying the passage, we will observe what is in the text even before we ask these, you know, questions. We'll observe. And then the second step would be to ask those questions, right, which is to, to interpret the question leads to interpretation. So we ask those questions and, and, and, and very interesting questions, you know, what, and what we shared, what is there in the notes is, is a representation of that. Okay. Just a sample size of some of the questions that we can ask, and then close it results in application. Okay. Now, I just wanted to say that, you know, all these methods of studying, you know, we are, you know, just like how we looked at the rules and hermeneutics or interpretation. We are, of course, relying on, on God, you know, relying on the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit, to lead us, to give us light, to give us elimination, to give us revelation, and he will do that. Okay. And, and, and that's the best part, you know, it could be scripture that we have read so many times, but he gives us a fresh understanding of fresh revelation of it. And, and, and I think that the beautiful thing is this, even as we, you know, if you look at a simple text like Psalm 23, right, there's so much that good God can actually, the Holy Spirit can actually eliminate to our hearts. For example, you know, certain emphasis that he can bring. Yeah. Like if you look at Psalm 23, saying the first one says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not lack any good king. That's what it means. So the, the Lord can really, the Holy Spirit can really illuminate to our hearts and lay an emphasis about the first part of it, you know, just the first two words, the Lord. Okay. So bringing a focus to the fact that he is the shepherd. The Lord is the shepherd and, and no one else. Okay. So the focus on the Lord himself. And, and if you just break it down, you know, he can, there's so many possibilities, right? Just in that one verse. And then the third word there is, is the Lord is, meaning it's, it's not in some time in the past or somewhere, you know, or it's going to be in the future. But the Lord is present tense. He is my shepherd. And if you look at the fourth word, you know, it says mine, which means it's, it's not someone else's all the time. It's not, you know, my neighbor. It's, it's my, he's my shepherd. You're personalizing. So the Lord can give so much for our human minds, you know, we, we see this, right? So when we're doing an inductive study, when we're saying, what does this passage say? What does this passage mean? And you look at that verse, there's so much we can glean, we can take out of that just that one verse, right? And, and, and to top it all, the God, the Holy Spirit can bring illumination for each and every aspect of it, each and every part of that, just that one verse, right? So there's so much that can happen through each of these studies. But all these studies also have their limitations. We need to understand that, right? Right? Because you are asking, you know, some questions, and you're focusing on the text and you're limiting yourself to the text here when you're looking at an inductive study. So they have their limitations, right? We need to understand that. They have their, maybe the better way to say it has its scope. Okay, it has its scope, you know, this is what a word study will do, which a topical study can do, maybe go further. And a word study can be part of a topical study. Or, you know, this is what a character study will do. But character study also has its scope has, which means it has its sphere of what it can actually do. And it also means that it cannot do certain other things, you know, that is also there. Okay, so we need to just be mindful of that, that is all. But each has its purpose. And it's great if we can do that. You know, okay, so just touch upon just one aspect of, you know, again, hermeneutics, as we are studying, maybe we're doing a book study, maybe we're doing an inductive study, you know, what if there is a passage, and there seems to be, you know, conflicting ideas in that passage. Or we see this verse and seems to have conflicting, you know, ideas. And, and then what do, how do we deal with that, right? How do we, how do we interpret that? Okay, so here are some few thoughts, you know, we're not going to take a passage and actually go through it, but we're just going to go through, you know, some of these things. Okay, one is you identify the problem in the passage. Okay, and what is that opposing view, which makes it a problem? Okay, so, and an example could be, you know, something that we see in one Corinthians, what we learned in, you know, one Corinthians, what we learned in the Holy Spirit class, one Corinthians, let's say, look at 14. And then Paul is talking about the gifts of the Spirit, how you need to use the gifts and all that, one Corinthians 14. And then it's, verse 34 is, let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but they are to be a submissive, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands in church, I'm sorry, at home for it is shameful for women to speak in church. Okay, now that's a, I mean, that's a, right there, you know, that's another problem there, right? So even before that, he says, you can all prophesy one by one. And he says, you know, he's talking about praying in tongues, he's taking about, you know, if verse 24, he says, if all prophesy and an unbeliever comes and, and so on, so, you know, what does it mean here? I'd let you women keep silent in the church. So obviously it's talking about something very specific, right? So, so if that will help us, you know, to say, okay, what is the opposing view? Opposing view is that he wants everybody to pray, wants everybody to prophesy, wants everybody to, you know, learn. And so which means that I cannot jump to the conclusion and say, if you're a woman, then you have to keep quiet in church. No, I can't come to that conclusion. Right? So why? Because I'm looking at the opposing view. Okay. And, and well, there's a problem because of the opposing view. So I can't come to the immediate conclusion and say, okay, and build a, you know, a doctrine on this, build a teaching on this, right? Okay. So list the realistic alternative interpretations, omitting the observation, obviously, unrealistic interpretations. Okay. So what are the alternatives? Maybe he's talking about, well, the unrealistic alternative could be, well, women have to keep, you know, keep silent. But what are the other options? Option is, okay, maybe at a particular time they are supposed to keep silent. Maybe he's, he's talking about something else altogether. Maybe he's talking about women asking questions, interrupting this church service, maybe to something that was only for those women at that time, in Corinth, right, something that we cannot apply today, you know, all these options are there. Right. So we look at that. Okay. The third thing is to write out the thought development of the entire book. Okay. If it's a short book, the entire book, or if it is a long book, then you look at that thought development of the passage. Okay. So what is he saying? From 1 Corinthians 12, 13, 14, he's addressing something very important in the church. And he's talking about spiritual gifts. While he's talking about, you know, several things he's addressed already about idolatry. He's already addressed about, you know, how we cannot be carnal. He's talked about marriage. It's all these things. And he's talking about spiritual gifts. He's saying, I don't want you to be ignorant. And he's, you know, talking about how one should use these gifts. Right. So we see this. Oh, it applies to everybody who is in the church. So it's something that he's talking about. So this is the thing. Whatever he's putting down is for all believers in the church. Okay. So we look at that. We come to that conclusion. Yeah. You know, well, this verse seems to be a little problematic, but then we see that this is the thought pattern. He's addressing the entire church in all this, how the gifts should be used. And also, we come to one very interesting conclusion. Okay. This is not the only place where he's saying keep silent. Right. There are other places where he's keeping silent. Right. He says, you know, about prophesying also. He's saying you, you know, if you don't have anything with you, then you just keep silent. There are the other things, other places where he's saying, you know, let him be silent in the church. So it's, we look at that also. We consider that also. Okay. What are the other instances where he's saying, you know, keep silent. So we study that. Okay. Like for example, you know, verse 28, he says, you know, if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church. Okay. So there also, he's saying, let him, let them keep silent. Okay. Verse 30 also is saying, if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first one keep silent. Okay. That's another place. And here he's saying, let them keep silent. So we see that it's, okay. There are other places where he's instructing the very same passage. Okay. 12, 13, 14, very same passage. He's addressing other things. So you'll study that. Okay. Then check the historical background of the book. Okay. What is, what is the history of that place? What was actually happening during that time? Was this particular group that he's addressing, were they prone to certain things, were they prone, prone to doing things culturally in a gathering that Paul had to write this? Right. Those are some things that you can look at. And the historical background clarifies it. Okay. So you see that it's a Gentile church, non-Jewish church, un-churched, which means that they did not have, they did not, they did not grow up, grew up, you know, they did not grow up in a particular, that kind of a setting. They're all adults and then they just, they've come to know the Lord. That's it. That is it. And so he is, he has to tell them a little more how it should be. And you see that he's going to be writing about, he's already written about, you know, head covering. That's another thing. Right. So, so you see that you understand that from the historical background. Okay. This is this kind of church. And then, oh, the women, they wear this temple, temple of, you know, there was temple prostitutes. The prostitutes of that day, they actually shaved their heads, even the temple priests or the temple prostitutes, they shaved their head. And so, you know, he's, he's, when it comes to head covering, he's talking about that. And this is the kind of audience that is the original audience to whom he's writing. Okay. So then that helps in the interpretation. Okay. Then identify keywords and perform, perform word studies on them. Okay. So find out what the keywords are. Hey, we can maybe study, what does this keep silent mean? Okay. Or is there something about words that he's using there that I can understand, you know, about speaking? Is there a difference? Okay. There are, there seem to be different words. There are words like Lego, which means you, you're speaking or you're saying some things, you know, line upon line logical thing. And then there's another word called lello lello lello, which means that it's just a random thing that you're speaking. You're just talking about the weather, you're talking about the, you know, the price of the produce and the market. So what is he referring to? Is he talking about Lego or was he talking about Leo? Right. So you find those keywords and we can do word studies. And And then we can use a concordance. We can use, okay, check the words, uses of words in the same book. Check the use of the words in another book and how it is used by the other authors in the New Testament, right? So all this will be helpful, okay? I'm not going into much detail because you've already dealt with this in hermeneutics class, okay? So list the pro and con of evidence for each interpretation. Evaluate the weight of each interpretation and evidence, okay? Spell out the application. Now, the thing is, okay, you have this interpretation. What would the application be? Now, if I go with this, okay, we would have to keep silent. How would it apply to the original audience? Okay, how would it apply for churches everywhere? How would it apply, for example, you have a church where the five-fold ministry, we know that it's not limited to just men, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers. We know that it's the word that he uses there that he and he gave gifts to men. We know it's for mankind. We know it's not talking about the gender men, right? So how would it apply there? How can they fulfill their calling by being silent in the church? Right? So you spell out that application. And maybe for your own personal life and ministry, you know, for a sure that God has called you to, you know, to be a, you know, whatever, prophet or evangelist, and then, and you're saying, okay, we don't have to be silent. How do I do that, right? So you know that, okay, it's something more, okay? And then we come to the conclusion. Of course, you know, for those of us who are wondering, okay, can women, finally, what are you saying? Can they speak or not? You know, we've dealt with this in detail, our women in ministry. So you can, you know, look at that, consider that. And I think you will be also looking at it in the ministry of the pastor, evangelist teacher. You'll be studying that in detail, right? About women in ministry. So, yeah, so we leave it at that, right? So to come to that conclusion, when we are studying, when we are coming to interpreting the word, it's very, it's crucial. Why is it crucial? Because right believing or right interpretation, Paul says, no, rightly divide the word of God, okay? He tells Timothy, rightly divide the word of God, because if you're going to divide the word of God, meaning going to, you know, understand, go further, deeper, and you know, derive this meaning from the word of God. Paul also says, give yourself entirely to them, to it, right? So when you give yourself entirely, there's going to be change. You're going to be, you know, right believing leads to right action or right living, right? Because when you believe something, then your mind is renewed to it, right? When your mind is renewed to it or aligned to it, then your thoughts, then your choices, then your actions and everything is in line with that. So it's very important. So if I'm just using this example, if as a believer, if I'm going to believe that, okay, women cannot be used in ministry or women cannot be used, women should not speak in church, then I'm going to be enforcing that, I'm going to be teaching that, you know, as a minister, right? And not only is my life impacted by it, by this particular thing that I'm speaking, that I'm teaching as a truth, but others' lives are also going to be greatly impacted, right? God places me as an overseer, as a shepherd, and to feed people with knowledge and understanding, but with this kind of deficient understanding, I'm, you know, I'm feeding, I'm nurturing, and people' lives are impacted by it. Instead of, well, instead of discovering the fullness of call, discovering God's purpose, then I'm really stunting, I'm limiting, you know, people from stepping into the fullness of the call that God has for them, right? So, right-believing is very important, and even before that, you know, rightly dividing the word of God is very important. That's why Paul writes over and over again, actually, to Timothy, and he's saying, you know, reject fables, reject what is being falsely called knowledge, you know, that's the first thing he writes, right? In verse three, he said, I charge that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine, he says, you know, that you may charge some in the sense, it's a charge, it's a command, saying, you know, don't, you have to tell people that they should not teach any other thing. What are the other things they were teaching? Verse four talks about that, fables, genealogies, and some other things, which had this, you know, which had this, what trappings of what is called truth, but it was not, and because of that, they were endless disputes, which was what was supposed to liberate people was actually bringing people into bondage and causing a lot of disputes. So Paul very clearly says, oh, this is what you must do. The purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, you know, good conscience, sincere faith, and you know, you stray from it, then you get into idle talk and, you know, it's not good, it's not constructive at all, okay? Right, so let's look at the next chapter, where we're just gonna look at how did the Lord Jesus minister the word, okay? So the Lord Jesus is our example. How did he minister the word? In what manner did he minister the word? He was, he is the living word, and when he walked or ministered on the earth during his earthly ministry, like how did he minister the word? So from that also, now I looked at some of the practical aspects of, okay, these are the ways by which I can study the word of God. Okay, so now when it comes to ministering the word of God, we also looked at, you know, what should we look at when it comes to the objectives of ministering the word, okay? So that's how we started, right? The importance of ministering the word, the objectives of the word, ministering the word and all that. What is the word of God? You know, when we minister the word of God, how important it is to minister the word of God, right? So we're looking at today, okay, how did the Lord Jesus, how did he minister? Okay, so some very interesting insights we can get from that. The first thing that we see is that, well, from Isaiah 50, verse four and five, we see that it was a word and season, right? He ministered a word and season. It is a prophetic verse here. It talks about how he will, the Messiah will speak a word and season, okay? As it says here, there was four. The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who was weary. He awakens me morning by morning. He awakens my ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious, not a day, turn away, okay? So a timely word or a word in season, okay? I'm sure that many times in our own lives where we have received a timely word, where you say, I don't know how this happened, but that was just for me, okay? It was a timely word. It was just for me. It did something. It warned me and the word of God maybe prevented me or just liberated me. It was a timely word, right? And when I think about it, I'm just reminded of this particular service where, I don't know if I shared it before, but I just want to repeat it. This service where we were leading in worship, it was at APC Central, it was meeting at an older location. So we were singing some of these songs and one of the songs was God is fighting for us, that song, God is fighting for us. And in that, there's a bridge which says, God is fighting at the chorus, which goes always, I will live and not die and declare and so on, right? So I will not do and not die. So we kind of repeated that chorus a few times. I remember during that time, that service and after the service, actually the following week, that Monday or a Tuesday, we get an email saying that this person who had actually attended the service, she wanted to take her own life. She wanted to end it all, okay? So she came to the service, she just thought, okay, there's too many problems in life. I don't know where to begin to solve them. I don't know where to start. So she just came to the conclusion, I'm going to take my life, right? I'm going to end it all. But before that, let me just attend the service. So I don't know how she came there and we don't know that, but then she came and the words of this song, in the scripture, I will live and declare the glory of God in the land of the living, from the Psalms. So this minister to her did and after the service, she went back, a changed person. She went back with hope, with faith and her will being strengthened that, yes, with God, she can face it. Like God is fighting for her, she can face it. So she came back and wrote that, hey, the problems have not changed. The problems are still there, but there's something in me. I went with this particular thing that I came with this mindset, but I went out of the service knowing fully well that I don't want to end it all, but God is fighting for me and I will live. I will declare the glory of God in the land of the living. Okay, so, well, we see that it was a timely word for her. Okay, a timely word. A timely word actually is sometimes life and death. It's a matter of life and death in the lives of people. So, here it says, the Lord has given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. So the Lord will give a timely word and the Lord Jesus spoke a timely word to those who are weary. Okay, and you see the process, like he gives the tongue of the learned and it applies to us as well, right? That we should know how to speak a word in season and the process is this, he awakens us. He awakens our year to hear as the learned. So, if we are willing, like if we are willing, if we are sensitive, the Lord wants to speak that word. So, the beautiful thing is this and he knows what is the need. He knows what is the need, right? He knows who are the people. He knows what their needs are. So, we don't have to put ourselves under a lot of pressure, right? All we have to do is be sensitive, be willing, be obedient, even as he speaks to us and makes us sensitive to speak a timely word. Okay, and sometimes the thing is this, we wonder, God, this is so simple. Give me something more complex. I wanna speak something which is complex. I wanna speak something which is deep. So, there's nothing wrong wanting to share some deep revelation. But sometimes, God gives that word and we are just blown away by the simplicity of it. And at the same time, we think, okay, will this actually do the job, right? Will this do the job? But the thing is this, God who knows the needs of the people, God who knows the hearts of the people, God who knows the thoughts of the people, right? When he gives us the word, you can be sure, you know, and yes, it involves taking that step of faith. It involves taking that risk, administering that word, right? But a timely word is something that is required for someone who is weary. It is a word in season. It can be a matter of life and death for that person, right? Okay, so the Lord Jesus spoke a timely word. Second thing that we see is that he spoke what he heard the Father speak, okay? John chapter eight, verses 26 to 28, okay? The Lord's saying this, I have many things to say, I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world, those things which I heard from him, okay? So the Son is hearing what the Father has to say, and he is speaking, okay? So they did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father, then Jesus said to them, when you lift up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I speak these things. The previous chapter, it says now about the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple and taught and the Jews marvel, how does this man know letters having never studied? Jesus answered them and said, my doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me, okay? So he was always watching, he was always listening, and he spent extended times in the presence of the Father. Like we know, like the times of prayer, he left, he woke up early before everyone else could, and he went up to those mountain and went up to the mountain and he prayed. Sometimes he spent whole nights in prayer on the mountain. So we see that the whole ministry unfolding, it was a very busy day. I think we looked at some of those scriptures in a very busy day of ministry, but we see that he has heard the Father, he has spoken to the Father, and he ministered what he heard the Father speak. So an lesson for us over there, that for us to be sensitive, for us to lean not in our own understanding, but to lean, to depend on the Holy Spirit, to hear what he is speaking, okay? Okay, the third thing, John chapter seven again says, now some of them wanted to take him, but no one laid hands on him, he's talking about the people who were sent to arrest the officers, the security, the soldiers were sent. They wanted to, but they did not lay hands. Verse 45, then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees who said to them, why have you not brought him? Verse 46, the officers answered, no one ever spoke like this man. Okay, so they, whatever he shared, they were astonished, they marveled at some of the things that he spoke. And when, you know, they were watching, they were watching the exchange, the question and the answers that he gave, and they said, no one ever spoke like this man. Okay, Matthew 13, when he had come to his own country, he taught them their signal God, so that they were astonished and said, where did this man get his wisdom? And these mighty works, okay? So you see that combination of wisdom and mighty works. Wisdom, supernatural wisdom, supernatural works. And so wisdom, whatever he shared, whatever he, the word that he ministered was characterized by wisdom, okay? So not earthly wisdom, but, you know, heavenly wisdom. So we see that, okay. Then the other thing that what they observed was that he spoke with authority, okay? Look for 31 or 32. Then he went down to Kapanam, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. And they were astonished at his teaching for his word was with authority, okay? So what does that mean? So that it did something to them as they heard. They noticed that something was very, very different. It was real, it was authentic, and it came with authority as if, it was as if, you know, they, whenever he said, hey, this is what it is, they, it came with so much authority and power that they knew that it was the truth. They couldn't refute it, right? So it says that they were astonished at his teaching. So that is something that we see in Luke chapter four, okay? He spoke with authority, right? So even in Luke chapter four, verse 22 also talks about how they bore witness to him and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. Gracious words. Words of authority, you know, verse 32 talks about the fact that his word was with authority. Verse 22 says that they were gracious words. So it was a, it was an amazing mix of authority and, you know, words being gracious and it was something that cannot be refuted, okay? And it was with authority because, you know, you read further after verse 32, it says, now in the synagogue, there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon and he cried out with a loud voice, let us alone, what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth, did you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God, but Jesus rebuked him saying, be quiet and come out of him. And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him and did not hurt him. Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves saying, what a word this is, okay? What a word this is, for with authority and power, he commands the unclean spirits and they come out. And the report about him went out into every place in the surrounding region, okay? So we see that, yeah, he spoke with authority. He knew what he was talking about. It was the truth. It was something that he could testify to. He had heard the father speak and it was with authority and that authority, which they could see themselves, it's not just something that they heard, okay, somebody was eloquent, somebody was speaking a lot of nice things. It was demonstrated, okay? So we saw that it was demonstrated. And they said, what a word is this that he commands the demons, unclean spirits and they come out, okay? So he spoke with authority. And this is, again, in the words of the Lord Jesus, we see that he ministered with humility. He ministered with a meek heart, right? So Matthew 11, 28, 29, the Lord says, come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn from me. For I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls, okay? So saying, okay, I will give you rest, take my yoke upon you, which means just come into agreement with me, choose to walk with me, choose to learn, take my yoke and learn from me, okay? And he describes, okay, for I am gentle and I am lowly in heart, okay? So his ministering, his teaching, we could say it was with such humility and it was not about the self, it was not with pride, it was with humility, okay? So we learned that as well, okay? And say, okay, the Lord Jesus ministered in such a manner and when we look at John chapter 14, it says, okay, the things that I do, the others will do also. We have him whom we can follow, we can imitate and so also we have his ministry as a template for us, okay? As an example, as a pattern for us. Many times we look at the world around, what is the current trend? In what way are they ministering? In what way are they teaching? Okay, I just find, but then this supersedes all that, right? He ministered with a meek heart, okay? Proverbs 16, 21, the wise in heart would be called prudent, the sweetness of lips increases learning, okay? A few other things that we see is that, well, he used the Old Testament scriptures, he used the scripture of that day, which was from the Old Testament and we use several references, you know? If you just look, if you just read through, you know, if you have maybe a red letter version where the words of the Lord Jesus aren't read, you know, you see that kind of verses that he quoted and he quotes, he quotes from Isaiah, he quotes from everywhere and you see his, you see the references there, right there. He quoted scripture from the Old Testament, he quoted over and over again, okay? Then he used parables and illustrations, okay? So that's another thing, he made things simple, okay? But he knew a lot of things, he had seen, he had heard from the Father the truth, but he communicated the truth in a very simple way. He communicated the truth with parables, let's say Matthew 13 or Mark chapter four talks about the parable of the Sower, he was communicating something very, very significant about the word of God, but he communicated that with the parable and, you know, they could not, or I'm sure that they would not forget that lesson ever. Every time they looked at the fields, every time they looked at the Sower, they were reminded of this teaching of the Lord Jesus because for them it was an everyday thing, right? The sowing and everything would happen so they could see it right before their eyes, right? And every time they saw that, it was an object lesson for them, it was a life lesson, they saw it and they could not forget this lesson about sowing the word of God being sown, the kind of thing that was coming against the word and to take away the word and what our responsibility is and the kind of increase that the word brings, fruitfulness the word brings, okay? We also see that the power of God was present. So it was not theory, it was not some nice things, nice ideas, but it was in demonstration of power, okay? That passage that we saw just now, we saw that, well, he spoke with authority and with the word he commanded. Luke chapter five talks about, you know, how he, let's say five and verse 17, says that the power of the Lord was present to heal them, okay? The first part of the verse talks about on a certain day, he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers sitting by and it says that the power of the Lord was present to heal them. Okay, if you look at the very next verse was 18, and behold, men brought on a bed, a man who was paralyzed, whom they sought to bring in and lay before him. And then that whole miracle, right? The Lord saying, since I've forgiven you and everything that happened after that, right? So the power of the Lord was present, the power of God was present in his life, in his ministry, and this is how we minister the word. So listen for us, power of God, the supernatural works of God need not be or should not be separated from the ministry of the word. Okay, so from our preaching, from our pulpit ministry, from our maybe small group ministry, maybe even one-on-one Bible lessons, just in might, just expect the power of God, right? It can be in very different ways. It can be in physical change. It can be in emotional change. It can be in, you know, character change, whatever life transformation, but expect the power of God, right? To work and move in faith. He ministered out of compassion. The last one, Mark 6, verse 34, he ministered out of compassion. He was moved with compassion. So what does that mean? He was, he ministered out of compassion. He came out, let me just read that verse. Jesus, when he came out, saw a great multitude. He was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep, not having a shepherd. So he began to teach them many things. Okay, so what does that show us really? What does that show us? That he was engaged, he was involved, right? He was not aloof. He was not disengaged from his audience. He was involved, he was engaged. He was moved with compassion. He saw them, he saw how they were. He was moved with, he saw their spiritual condition really. They were like sheep without shepherd. He was moved with compassion and he spent time with them, teaching them. So that's something that's very important lesson for us because we can actually preach, we can actually minister without compassion. We can actually preach and minister saying, okay, I need to finish this. We can do things with very, very different motives, right? But this was the Lord's posture towards his people to whom we were ministering. Okay, fine, we'll stop here. I just wanna remind you again, Thursday, before that just upload the bird study. Let's take a look at what you've done, okay? Thank you, God bless, see you again, bye.