 Alright, welcome back. We had two questions from Jeffina during the break, both very valid. The first was, why did we ignore the passage at the end of chapter 4, which would basically be verses 43, 2 verse 54. Okay, so we saw that Jesus was on the way back to Galilee rather than confronting the Pharisees. He chooses to return back. So on the way he has the conversation with the Samaritan woman and we kind of spent time on that because this is a new community that Jesus is reaching out to and moreover he's trying to impart some very important lessons to even the Jewish people through this particular passage. He's showing, this is the way you should be treating the other communities because the Messiah has not come only for the Jews. He has even come for all of the other communities of the earth. So that becomes a very important passage and now after finishing his ministry over there with that lady, he comes back to Galilee. After returning to Galilee, he is given a slightly better welcome than earlier because now some of the people who had seen him performing miracles at the festival, those who had attended the festival earlier, they have come back and given good reports about him and so now there's more greater openness towards him here and it just talks about one miracle that was performed. As we didn't have many spiritual truths which we can gather from that, we didn't fight well on it. But there is one point I think maybe we should touch upon. It says in verse 53, you know, chapter 4 verse 53, the Father realized, okay fine, maybe we should read from the earlier verse as okay. Maybe we can have one person read out, John chapter 4 verses 51 to 54. Yeah, John chapter 4, 51 to 54 if someone could read out for us please. I hope you have got back from your break if someone could, you know, just open up to John chapter 4 if you could read out verses 51 to 54 please. John chapter 4 verses 51 to 54 and he was now going down, these servants met him and told him saying, your son lives. Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better and they said to him yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same time in which Jesus said to him, your son lives and he himself believed and his whole household. This again is the second sign Jesus did when he had come out of Judea into Galilee. Amen. Yes, so we saw that he gives a sign to the Samaritan community through that lady. And now here he's come back to Galilee where you had the first miracle being performed, the very first miracle, one of the water being turned into wine. So he's now come back to the same region and here there's a child who is extremely ill and the father requests him to please come and heal the child. And Jesus does not go back along with the man through his home rather he says, you know, just believe this child will live. He's healed. You just simply believe and the father chooses to believe that and when the slaves come and meet him, they actually tell the father at which point of time the child began to recover and was completely healed and the father realizes it is exactly during that hour when Jesus spoke those words and said he will be healed. So that helps this man and his entire household to place their faith in the Messiah. So these two signs are given to the people living in the Galilean region to indicate and tell them that this is the true Messiah. So these two signs are given to them specifically. And after this it looks like Jesus again goes back to another for another festival to Jerusalem during which time you have the pool of Bethesda event taking place. So here Jesus helps this person by telling him to take up his bed and walk and we see that the Jewish leaders are not happy to see this man carrying his bed on the Sabbath day because they consider that as work and they protest against him. We would see that in verse in chapter 5 verses 10 and 11 and the paralyzed man's reply is just basically he says in verse 12 then they asked him who is the man who said to you take up your bed and walk and so he just simply replies and says that you know the person who healed me he is the one who has done this. And in verse 14 we see that maybe we can have maybe we can read out verses 14, 15, 16 and 17. Yeah if someone can read out for us chapter 5 verses 14, 15, 16 and 17. After which Jesus found him in the temple and said to him see you have been made well sin no more blessed or worse thing come upon the man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him because he had done these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them my father has been working until now and I have been working. Yeah so the leaders consider carrying a mattress as work they consider walking beyond a certain amount of distance as work they came up with a lot of rabbinical laws. Okay now these are not part of the 613 commandments given by Moses in the 613 commandments which Yahweh divinely gave to the people those are recorded in your Torah in the first five books of the Old Testament. So those are something which have been divinely instructed by God Himself but here we see in the times of Jesus the Pharisees the rabbis they all have come up with extra rules and regulations. So according to the human rules which have been given you are not supposed to carry a sleeping mat. This is not a law that had been issued you know by Moses earlier. So when this man carried his mat he was actually not breaking any divine law. He was breaking a human rule which had been imposed by the people but it was not any divine ordinance that he was breaking. So this particular thing has been mentioned over here by John the writer to bring out the point that the people are more interested in the rules and regulations which the paralyzed man is now following or breaking rather than in his being healed after 38 years. The highlight of the entire story should have been a man was paralyzed for 38 years and now he's healed just because someone said take up your mat and follow and you know take up your mat and walk the man was able to do that. So that should have been the highlight of the entire story but what happens is the anti-climax which takes place is that you have people protesting and saying oh you carried a mattress which is the bigger thing that a man who was paralyzed for 38 years is now standing and walking and carrying the mattress you know the healing should be and should have received prominence but rather the Jewish leaders they place the highlight on his having broken a human rule. It shows the attitude the hardened hearts of these Jewish people. So this particular portion was probably written by John the writer to highlight the complete lack of empathy and you know kindness from the on the side of the leaders towards those who are injured towards those who are hurting towards those who need help you know they do not care at all and in contrast in verse 14 you have Jesus looking for this man to follow up on him. It says here later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him so it's like as if Jesus had been looking for him you know searching for him because there's something more that Jesus wishes to convey to him. So on one side you have leaders who do not care at all about this man who has you know received such a miraculous wonderful gift after such a long time they don't care at all. On the other side you have Jesus who is now looking for him because there's something more that the Holy Spirit has revealed you know to him to convey and so when Jesus finds him finally at the temple this is what the Lord says see you are well again stop sinning or something worse may happen to you. So this is when we get to know that the earlier you know sickness that had come upon him was probably a direct result of his sin and so now Jesus has is telling him that he needs to give up this sinful lifestyle which he had led earlier otherwise something worse may happen. So the contrast here is between the leaders who do not care at all and Jesus on the other hand who is searching out this person to convey the information which the Holy Spirit you know wanted him to convey and so from here we see them moving into a new passage where Jesus starts explaining you know why they should accept him and not oppose him when he's doing these signs. He's performing these signs with a purpose to establish his identity to reveal to them who he is and so instead of condemning him and instead of opposing him they should instead accept who he is because if you remember all these things which are written down over here but they were written down for the people of John's day you know when people were still coming into the faith they were still wondering should we believe in this Jesus who is being talked about or not. So this written record has been given for people to know that Jesus is the one who has been expected in the Old Testament and so they must place their faith in him. So John is writing these things. He gives us these episodes of healing you know these miracles which take place. He writes that down and then he moves into a passage of teaching where Jesus is explaining see this is who I am. So first the works are shown. The signs are recorded. These are the things which Jesus did. These are the almost impossible miracles you know which would have which could not have been possible without the help of God. These were performed by Jesus. So that is established and now John moves into the explanation part where Jesus is saying I have been able to do all these things because of who I am. So we see that in verse 17 the last verse you know which Rosalind read out for us where it says in his defense Jesus said to them my father is always at his work to this very day and I too am working. So why did I ask that person to carry his mattress? It's because my father is at work. He asked me to say this to this person that he should carry his mattress and walk and that's the reason I have given this instruction and then he goes on to explain in greater detail what exactly is his relationship with the father. He talks about dependency but he also talks about full complete divinity. Both aspects are presented in the next few verses and we will see that. So maybe if we could read out from verse 19 maybe up to verse 27 from verse 19 up to verse 27 if someone can read out please. John chapter 5 19 to 27. Then Jesus answered and said to them wash shortly I said to you the son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the father do for whatever he does the son also does in life manner. What the father loves the son and shows him all things that he himself does and he will show him greater works that this that this that you may marvel for as the father raises the dead and gives life to them even so the son gives life to whom he does for the father judges no one but has committed all judgment to the son that all should honor the father honor the son just as they honor the father he who does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him. Most assuredly I say to you he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into judgment into judgment but has passed from that from that to that into life. Most assuredly I said to you the hour is coming and now is when the dead will hear the voice of the son of God and those who hear will leave for as the father has life in himself so he has granted the sound to have life in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the son of man. Yeah many points many important points are there in this passage so why did Jesus ask the person to you know pick up his mattress and walk it is because the father the heavenly father is at work and there are many things of the heavenly father is doing and Jesus is directly partnering with the heavenly father in accomplishing these things so he goes on to say in the next verse he says in verse 19 he says the son can do nothing by himself he can do only what he sees his father doing because whatever the father does the son also does so why is Jesus breaking human rules why is Jesus breaking man-made rules because he has received direct authority from the father to you know to do these things to give instructions to people to carry their mats to heal people on the Sabbath day all of these things are things which the father has authorized him to do so he makes it very clear first of all and says the son can do nothing by himself he can do only what he sees his father doing the point that Jesus is bringing across over here is that he is a most reliable and faithful agent of the father now in the Jewish times a messenger would be respected if he is a messenger who will really convey exactly what his master had told him to you know convey if a messenger comes to a place and starts speaking on his own and doing whatever he wishes he would not really be a very faithful agent so Jesus is saying I only do what I see the father doing I only act when I receive permission from the father to do certain things so he is bringing out the point that he is utterly reliable he only does what he sees his father doing when he sees the father in the spiritual realm healing someone he acts it out here in the earthly realm when he sees the father in the spiritual realm releasing a word saying that something must be done an instruction is given Jesus speaks out that instruction you know physically over here on the earth through his mouth so there's a direct relationship there's a direct connection between what the father is doing in the spiritual realm and what Jesus is enacting over here in the spiritual realm so therefore he says you know you must respect and accept what I am doing so the readers who would have been reading this gospel for the very first time would read these instructions these words of Jesus and and connect the miracles that they read about earlier and the instructions given over here and they would they would think to themselves yes all the Jesus is saying in these words we must accept because the signs which he did they were recorded earlier and now the explanation for those signs is being given over here so the readers would have read this and said yes whatever Jesus is saying over here as authority because we saw that he was not only spoke empty words but he spoke words that he could actually back up with divine authority okay so they would have been reading each of these sentences keeping the miracles in mind so Jesus next goes on to say it is true that I don't do anything on my own but this doesn't mean that I'm just some dependent helpless messenger I'm also divine there are two sides to who I am I choose to place myself under the father and do only what the father what I see the father doing but on the other side the other side of the coin is that I am able to give life in the same way the father gives life so I only heal when I receive instruction from the father to heal but the life and the healing which is coming out is not something that you know I'm depending on the father to provide I myself have the power in me to provide the healing and the life you see is what he's saying over here so he says just as the father raises the dead and gives them life even so the son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it so on the one side you have complete submission to the father but on the other side Jesus is fully divine and able and capable to give life and healing on his own so both these sides of who he is are being presented over here to the readers where they fully understand that Jesus is also totally divine and so in the next sentence in verse 22 he goes on to say the father judges no one but has entrusted all judgment to the son so on judgment day it's not the father who will be doing the judging it's in fact Jesus Christ who will be doing the judging so that is the level of authority which Jesus carries and so therefore he says in verse 23 the son should be honored in the same way the father is honored and he goes on to clarify and he says whoever does not honor the son does not honor the father who sent him so if you people think that you can you know reject me and still claim that you belong to god the father it doesn't work that way if you really honor the father then you must honor the agent the messenger whom he has sent and this is not just a human agent because this agent can actually give life can bring healing on his own to the people that he wishes to give it to so this is not just a human agent this is a divine messenger who is on an equal footing with the father so these are all very strong important doctrinal truths which are being recorded in these verses so for the first time readers who would have been reading these things they would accept all these things which are written in these verses because the signs to prove them have already been given in the earlier verses the miracles have already been recorded in the earlier verses so they would you know accept these words as authoritative then we we also looked at we read up to verse 27 right so okay fine so Jesus says in verse 26 as the father has life in himself so he has granted the son also to have life in himself what does it mean here it's talking about how father father always had life in himself nobody gave him life nobody created him and brought him into existence he always had life in himself and he always existed in the same way even the son always had life in himself it's here the father didn't create him and breathe life into him no so Jesus is establishing the fact that he is as divine as the father and that is why he again repeats in verse 27 he has given the father has given him authority to judge because he is the son of man so here of course the son of man is a reference to Daniel chapter 7 we've already looked at that so this entire passage is bringing out the fact that the father and son are separate beings they are not one single person the father is separate the son is separate but they are equally divine and both of them equally have life in themselves nobody made them nobody created them so this you know goes against the that the modern group of Pentecostals who say that you know they have this Jesus only doctrine where they say that Jesus is the one who is fully divine but that would be a wrong doctrine because the father and the son are equally God then we also have the other the Jehovah Witnesses I mean who also say that you know Jesus is not equal with the father so this passage these verses can be used to show that the son and the father have equal authority they have equal life in them on their own without having been given it by anyone so these things are established through these verses these are good verses to use when we are talking to you know people who try to make to bring out these wrong teachings so you know regarding the other question which Jeffina had asked she had referred to John chapter four verse two where it John gives a small clarification you know he says that actually Jesus did not do the baptizing of the people who came you know to become followers it's the disciples who stood there and did it because earlier in chapter three verse 23 you know it says that Jesus was baptizing and a lot of people were coming to him but the actual act of doing it was being done by the disciples yes the baptism was being authorized by Jesus but the actual physical standing in the water and immersing them inside and all of that was being done by the disciples so in the same way in his humanness Jesus you know submitted to the father and only did what the father gave him permission to do here we see the disciples adopting that same attitude whatever Jesus gave them permission to do that they would do so in a way Jesus was showing them how authority works you know and how submission works so Jesus never needed to be under authority he's equally divine with the father but through his lifestyle through his actions he's showing his disciples how authority and submission work so even though Jesus had full authority he chose to place himself under the father and only do things in line with the father and now the disciples are learning that only what Jesus permits them to do they enact it out and it applies the same thing principle would apply even to us today so only what we are being guided and led by the Holy Spirit you know to do because this Holy Spirit you know is the Spirit of God so whatever he is asking us to do we only do we only do those things in line with his will okay fine well let's move on to the next thing versus 28 to 30 yeah can be one section if we can have someone read out for us chapter 5 versus 28 to 30 please but you do not have this word abiding in you do not marvel at this for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and comfort those who have done good to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation I can I can offer myself to nothing as I hear I judge and my commandment and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me he's continuing the theme about how there is a one side where you see his submission to the Lord to the father where he says only when the father gives me permission to the to judge I will judge so we see that but we also see the authority that he carries on the other side where these people are when he calls out the dead are going to rise up that's the you know point that is being made in versus 28 and 29 it says do not be amazed at this for a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out those who have done what is good will rise to life and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned the physical bodies of both the righteous and the unrighteous will be restored if a person has been burnt and you don't have the intact dead body even though that that person who died is now ashes the ashes will get restored back into a resurrected body so Jesus is going to carry the power to do that where dead people whether they have become ashes or whether they have been the flesh has decayed and turned into bones and soil whatever the condition may be the physical bodies of all the dead will be restored and resurrected but the sad thing is that the unrighteous unable to exercise and unable to enjoy the benefits of having a restored body once again will end up in hell where they will only experience pain whereas on the other hand a righteous person when they receive they are resurrected and restored body they will be able to stay in heaven and be able to enjoy the benefits of having a resurrected body so even though the unrighteous people also will receive resurrected bodies they're not able to enjoy the benefits of it when they are thrown into the fire they will only experience pain they're not able to enjoy the benefits of resurrection and it's Jesus the judge who will make all of this happen so that point is brought out over here in verses 28 to 30 and then in verses 31 to 38 Jesus talks about how all these things that he is saying are based on testimony which is backed up by others maybe we can actually read it yeah wait just a minute because let's see how much more has to be covered fine yeah let's let's read this if someone can read out for us verses 31 to 38 yeah verse 31 up to verse 38 if I bear witnesses of myself my witnesses is not true there is another who bears witnesses of me and I know that the witnesses which I which he witnesses of me is true you have sent to John and he has born witnesses to the truth yet I do not receive testimony from men but I say these things that you may be saved he was the burning and shining lamb and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his life but I have a greater witness than John's for the works which the father has given me to finish the very works that I do bear witnesses of me that the father has sent me and the father himself who sent me has testified of me you have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form but you do not have his word abiding in you because whom he sent him you do not believe yeah here he's talking about who are the others who are testifying about him because in Deuteronomy 1915 it says that a matter is established by the mouth of two or three witnesses so if a person is just testifying about himself and saying okay I did not commit this crime I'm innocent it will not be accepted you would need another two three witnesses who come forward and say yes we testify about that what this man is saying you know is true only then what that man has said about himself will be accepted as the truth this was part of their legal system so Deuteronomy chapter 19 talks about their legal system talks about testimony which is acceptable and testimony which is rejected so here Jesus is basically referring to that he's basically referring to Deuteronomy 19 and he's saying I'm not just simply testifying about myself just like that without any backing I'm saying that I have other people testifying about me and in this regard he refers to the testimony given by John the Baptist and he also refers to the testimony which is being given to him by the father directly and he also talks about so there are two people that he refers to you know if you can refer to God the father is people so John testifies about John the Baptist testifies about Jesus God the father testifies about Jesus saying that both of them say that he is divine and then he refers to two things he talks about the works which he is doing they are testifying about me he says and in verse 39 he goes on to talk about the scriptures which are also testifying about me he says so technically you can say that Jesus gives four person okay two things and two persons as his backing so the John the Baptist and God the father are testifying about him the signs and wonders that he's doing and the scriptures are also testifying about him so these are the these are the backing which he uses to build his case now again all of this would have sounded very legal and appropriate to the first time readers because you see these are people from that background so then they would see yes Jesus is not just simply talking about the works that he is doing he's also bringing other factors you know here to show to us that what he is speaking he's speaking with authority and legally he is proving to us that yes he is to be believed in okay so when we read certain passages and they don't really make sense to us it would be good to ask ourselves how would it have sounded to them at that time because all these things were originally written so that it would make full sense to those people and they would be able to place their faith in Jesus now we take so many things for granted because we also have all the other epistels you know and we look to them as well to understand our doctrines but at that time at the time of the early church they did not have the entire New Testament was not with them so whenever they would be reading a particular gospel they would maybe some churches would only have that one gospel to rely upon so whatever was placed whatever was written in that gospel every sentence would have mattered it would have counted it was meant to help them to build their faith in this Jesus who is now being preached as the fulfillment of the Messiah promise so here Jesus uses the legal principles which they were familiar with to build a case and say see based on this I am saying that I am the Messiah to be accepted and then Jesus criticizes you know those who have not what doubting him and who are condemning him and he says this is what he says and it's a good point which he makes if someone can read out for us versus 45 to 47 I suppose yeah versus 45 to 47 if we can have yeah someone read out the last few verses of chapter 5 versus 45 to 47 do not think that I shall come accuse you to the father there is one who accused you most is in whom you trust for if you believe most is you would believe me for he wrote about me but if you do not believe his writings how will you believe my words so after having said all that he wishes to say now Jesus says you know when the time comes I will not accuse you before the father Moses whom you say that you know you are descendants of and whom you consider as your prophet as your leader he himself will accuse you because he has always talked about me he has pointed towards me and you say that you know you have learned his teachings that you have by hearted you know the Torah and all of that so on that day when you stand before the judgment seat I don't have to accuse you Moses himself will accuse you because you failed to believe in what he wrote about me and we know that right that Jesus constantly on many occasions refers to the Torah the first five books and also the other Old Testament scriptures to talk about himself to explain that all of those passages are actually pointing towards him we see that we mentioned we have mentioned this earlier this was on the you know occasion when the when you had a couple of people going down the emos road the road to emos and then Jesus catches up with them starts talking to them and he says to them this would be Luke chapter 24 verses 25 to 27 and he says to these people who are walking down the road to emos he says to them in verse 26 he says how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory and beginning with Moses and all the prophets he explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself some of the main passages which talk about Jesus from the Old Testament that would be Deuteronomy 1815 which talks about in which Moses says there will be another prophet like me and you shall hear him is what he says so that refers to Jesus then you have of course the bronze serpent that is referred to in numbers 21 so in the Jesus says in the same way the bronze serpent was lifted up I too will be lifted up so that also was directly pointing towards Jesus the bronze serpent of the Old Testament was pointing towards Jesus he is also compared to the rock you know in 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 so we know that Jesus uses God the Father okay we would not be speaking about the triune God in the Old Testament we just simply refer to him as Yahweh but Yahweh was made up of Father, Son and Holy Spirit okay so the Yahweh of the Old Testament he uses a rock to bring bring out water from because that will point towards Jesus so that again is something which points towards Jesus all the seven sacrifices which are mentioned in your you know in your Leviticus they all point towards Jesus the blueprint of the tabernacle you know the way that it was made you know you had the open courtyard in the front where you had that that bronze container with the water in it and then the altar over there and then you walk towards the actual building where you first have the holy place and then finally you have the most holy place every one of those things actually refers to Jesus for you to have get a detailed teaching of that I mean you would probably have to go on google and if you type how does the tabernacle structure point towards Jesus you would find articles which explain that so every single article item and the very structure of that tabernacle all of it actually is pointing towards Jesus so that also speaks about him and then there are certain passages which talk about the bond servant even some of those passages also refer to Jesus Exodus chapter 21 verses 5 to 6 where it talks about the law of the bond servant that also actually points towards Jesus so in fact there are many many scriptures in the Old Testament all of which talk about the Messiah who will come one day even though they are not direct references they all actually are pointing towards Jesus which is why Philip in John chapter 1 he say you know Philip says to Nathaniel we have found the one Moses wrote about in the law and about whom the prophets also wrote so Philip, Nathaniel and other people like him even though they were not the they were not Pharisees they loved the scriptures enough that they had studied these things you know they talked about what Moses wrote and what the prophets wrote because those are things which they had been actually learning on a regular basis and you know we have people who very casually dismissed them as fishermen and you know things like that but these were people who actually had been studying the writings of Moses they had been studying the writings of the prophets in other words they had actually been studying the Old Testament even though they were fishermen okay so we are not we are not dealing with an ignorant bunch of people these were people who had prepared their hearts to become disciples long ago and so Jesus picks them you know to be his followers so the Old Testament did point towards Jesus and talk about him just one oh my we we are out of time as usual okay just one thing that I wanted to talk about you know verse 43 verse 44 Jesus makes a comment it's a good comment he says I have come in my father's name and you do not accept me but if someone else comes in his own name you will accept him how can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God main point being made over here you know people are so interested in the opinion of others in getting their praise in getting glory from them that they value what people say but they don't value what God says so we should be more concerned with God's opinion because when we are more concerned with God's opinion we add weight to his words we value them we trust them we obey them we follow them all of that we do because we for us his opinion matters more on the other hand when people's opinion matters more we immediately start prioritizing our priorities according to what they will find favorable so one main thing that Jesus says about over here about why they were finding it difficult to become his followers is because they they gave greater weightage to what people thought and what people stated as being important so these things which Jesus is writing out over here he says if you really valued the father's phrase then you would you know focus more on these words than on what people are teaching so you know even as we are going through these chapters in which again and again Jesus establishes his divinity he talks about authority and submission and all of that if we actually value what the father thinks more than what people think then we will give greater weightage to these words and try to understand them and practice them and follow them and because all of you know who are online and watching this and even those who later watch this on on the e-platform the reason that you people are doing that is because somewhere in your heart you value him you value what he thinks finally in the end when you stand in front of the judgment seat you want the words of praise to come from his mouth and that is the only reason why you have joined this course so that you can learn what is being taught in these verses grasp those truths and apply them in your lives so that on that day the words of praise will come from his mouth and he will say yes you have followed what I taught and you actually trusted those words and practiced them in your life so you want that that shows that your priorities are right so you know may you continue to walk on this path which you have chosen just the way those fishermen made the choice you know long back and so yes we'll close with the word of prayer if there were any course questions you know I would have answered but I think no one has any questions because no one has posted anything and nobody raised a hand so fine you know we'll just close with the word of prayer there's so much that we covered today oh lord from your scriptures and lord we we briefly touched upon some truths but I pray oh lord that you would imprint these truths on our hearts in the days to come lord I pray that in the same way uh you interacted with that Samaritan woman we too will learn to minister to our own communities respecting them treating them with dignity but at the same time emphasizing the truths Jesus never said it was all right for her to continue living in sin he never said that but lord at the same time he showed respect and dignity help us a lot to reach out to our communities in the same way I pray oh lord that we will point out the sin in their lives we will ask them to change their ways but we will do it with love showing them respect so that lord the work that we do will be effective and bear eternal fruit and I pray that we would be guided by the Holy Spirit in everything in the way that Jesus was guided oh lord so that we would always do our work in a way which will bear the greatest fruit and the greatest results we just commit ourselves into your hands oh lord you guide us you lead us thank you lord in Jesus name amen amen thank you so much for listening and I had multiple people reading out for us today we just thank you so much for that yeah see you again next week thank you ma'am thank you so much