 Shalom and welcome everyone to class. Thank you Rai Lama and Jefina for the class. John Paul, thank you for joining class. We'll begin our study of Romans Chapter 15. We already studied verses 1 and 2 on Friday. We'll continue studying the rest of this chapter today. I'll ask one of you to lead us in prayer please. Anyone can lead us in prayer? Father we thank you for this day you have given us as we come before you. We pray God that you would speak to each one of us, help us to know your word. We bless this time of learning. We ask for your grace to surround us. Give us a Salina, just an understanding to share your word and help all of us to listen. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you John Paul. So we began our study of Romans Chapter 15. We studied verses 1 and 2. Basically in Romans Chapter 15 Paul is continuing on what he had written in Chapter 14 and how we have to bear with those who are weak. Basically when we are using the word weak is those who are new in the faith or those who are already in the faith and they are growing. That's the first half of Romans Chapter 15. In the second part of this chapter he shares his ministry plans and begins to wrap up his letter that he is writing to the church at Rome. So in verses 1 and 2 we saw how he says we need to bear with the weak and not to please ourselves and he says that each pleases neighbor for his good leading to edification. We'll begin with the verse 3. So can one of you please read verse 3 please. For even Christ did not please himself but as it is written the reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me. Amen. So here the point he's basically making is, you know, he's telling the believers, the mature believers that, you know, those who are strong in their faith, basically he's saying how they need to bear with those who are weak, you know, and he says that they need to be of one mind relate to one another in unity and oneness. And even as they relate with these kind of people are new in their faith or growing in their faith, they need to be gentle and loving and show them from the word of God what they need to do, how they need to live, how they need to conduct their lives and how God wants us to live. Okay. And, you know, he says that you need to love your neighbor. Okay. Verse 2 says, you know, everyone has to please his neighbor. Why should we please our neighbor? What does he say? In verse 2, why should we please our neighbor? Yes, for their edification. Yes. And for their good. Okay. So that they can be edified and they can be good. Now, can we always, you know, love our neighbors and can we always be good to them? Can we always do things that can edify them? Is it humanly possible? It's challenging. It's difficult, you know. But then he's telling the, you know, the believers that those are strong in their faith. He's saying, you know, he points out to them an example. In the example, who is the example he points out to? Jesus Christ. Yes. He says, this is how Jesus Christ lived, verse 3. He says, the very people he came to die were the very people who, you know, belittled him, belittled him, sorry, belittled him. And, you know, you know, brought shame and disgrace and, you know, dishonored him. But what did Jesus do? He just quietly took everything. Okay. Why did Jesus just quietly take on everything? Sometimes when he spoke to them, he, you know, he told them what needs to be told. But in a very gentle, compassionate, sometimes it was a little hard and firm with them as well. But speaking the truth in love, of course, you know. But why do you think that, you know, Jesus did not retaliate? You know, why didn't he get back, you know, eye for eye, tooth for tooth? You know, why didn't he fight against them? Or, you know, why didn't he not get back? Why, what do you think? Because like Paul says, you know, he's telling his people, these are all minor things, you know. Don't major on these minor things. You know, what kind of food to eat. What, you know, what is more special than the other and all of those things. And even if Jesus went through all these things, he knew that it did not matter to him because it's going to be very temporary, right? He's not going to be here for everlasting amen. You know, he's going to go back to his father, but he's here for a specific reason, a specific purpose that is to do the will of God. And he knew that along with fulfilling God's plan and purpose for why he came under this earth, this was part of that. And that is what Jesus says, you know, if you're, you know, part of the kingdom of God, there will be persecution. He did not, there will be difficulties, there will be challenges. He did not promise us, you know, a peaceful life, a life of prosperity and blessing and, you know, where we just speak to our enemies, we speak to our mountains and, you know, everything is just removed and moved and there is victory. Of course, that is what he has, you know, purchased for us. That is our spiritual inheritance, but we need to work that out in the natural. We need to speak to our giants, to our mountains, to our enemies. We need to, you know, be militant like in our spirit at times to take hold of the things that God has given to us. So we have to be aggressive and militant like in our spirit to fight against the enemy. And it is a fight that we fight, the good fight of faith, okay, as the word of God says. So he says, you know, why don't Jesus retaliate? Because all of these are temporary things and, you know, and it's, you know, temporary, he's just here to do the work of the Father. And, you know, he's having that greater vision, the greater plan and the purpose for which he has come and says, for even Christ did not please himself. Okay, so Jesus is the ultimate example of one who did not please himself but put others first. And, you know, a classic development of this idea, which Paul is mentioning here, is what he has written all in Philippians chapter 2 verses 5 to 11. And it's a very important scripture, something that we read most often during the Christmas season, Philippians chapter 2 verses 5 to 11. Can one of you read that please? This might be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider the drop rate to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a born servant and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God has also has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name. At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of those in heaven, of those on earth and of those under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Amen. Thank you, John Paul. So I think it's the NIV, it says, in your relationship with Paul begins like this in verse 5. In your relationship with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus, who being in the very nature of God did not consider it equality with God. So we see that, you know, Paul is here giving us an example of Jesus who did not come to please himself and set us an example of how we need to relate with one another, having the same mindset that is in Christ Jesus, who being God did not consider it equality with God and made himself as nothing. And he took on the nature of a servant, came in human likeness. He humbled himself, even being obedient to the death on the cross. And that is how we need to be. That is the example that we need to follow. And he says it here in verse 3, but as it is written, okay. So as Jesus took abuse and suffered wrong for God's glory, he was basically fulfilling what was written in God's word, what was prophesied, what was spoken before about him. So Jesus showed us by his own life example that, you know, for most part, we are entirely, you know, very quick to vindicate ourselves most often, instead of letting God vindicate us. And, you know, Jesus showed us how the Father is able, well able, actually well able to vindicate us. There are times when we need to take those steps, you know, but also most often we need to just, you know, let God vindicate us just like Jesus did and follow his example. And he says, the reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me, okay. This commandment, Jesus fulfilled, which was written in Psalms, chapter 69 verse 7. Now, you know, how does it apply to us in our present day context? You know, it says in this verse that it was written, you know, which means it's written for our learning that we might have hope, knowing that, you know, even when we do all things that are right, when it is difficult, when it's challenging, you know, we have the hope. So everything that is written in Scripture, you know, all of these life examples of Old Testament characters, all of these are not just there in the Bible because, you know, it had to be there. But all of this is actually speaking to us, ministering to us, teaching us and helping us learn how we need to live our lives that we might have hope and also for us to know that when we do what is righteous in God's eyes, even when it's difficult, there is hope. God vindicates us and God will see us through, okay. We'll move on to verse 4. Can one of you please read verse 4 please? Anyone can read verse 4? For whatever things were written before, were written for our learning that we through the patience and comfort of Scriptures might have hope. Amen. So it says whatever things were written in the past in the Old Testament, you know, were written for our learning. In this context, it's the Old Testament because the New Testament was not yet in print like we have the Old and New, but for us it's both the Old and New, okay. So whatever things were written in the past in the Old Testament were written for our learning. So Paul is telling the church is written for our learning so that we can learn from Scripture. And he's going to point out to us, you know, what are those few Scriptures he's going to point out those verses to us. And he says even as we look at these Scriptures, you know, that is written for us, you know, we receive comfort and patience through these Scriptures. So for us, when you look at both Old and New Testament, we learn from various characters in the Bible from various, all of the writings of Paul, all of the experiences what Jesus thought and everything, you know, we receive comfort and patience through Scripture, okay. And there is an ability, you know, to have endurance, patience and comfort, strength, consolation and encouragement that can be brought into our lives even as we read Scripture, even as we meditate and dwell on Scripture. And even as we look at various people who have journeyed through life as it is written for us about their life journey in Scripture, okay. So when we look at Old Testament characters and how they journey with God, you know, through their lives, we receive or we learn, you know, perseverance, ability to endure, we receive comfort, strength, encouragement, consolation, and we have this hope or the ability to look forward with expectation, with hope, that, you know, what we are going through now, you know, is just momentary that there is hope in the future that God will see us through. God will bring about deliverance. God will make things beautiful. He will redeem things in our life. And, you know, He's a God of breakthroughs, okay. So that is what is verse four. So some of us, you know, believe only in the New Testament, you know, being part of the church today, most of them just read the New Testament. They think the Old Testament is not needed, but, you know, we need to see Scripture as an entire whole, old and new. And both old and new, you know, teach us because what is written in the new is a fulfillment of what is written in the old. So we need to have the forward and backward look, even when we are studying Scripture just enhances our whole, enhances the truth and brings alive the truth and helps us to interpret the truth in context, even as we look at the truth in one verse, we need to look at it the entirety of Scripture, what Scripture is talking about, the whole truth about this verse in the entire sense of this. We can come to a place where we are misinterpreting Scripture and it can lead to false doctrines and misunderstanding of God's words. So we need the entire Scripture, old and new Testament, okay. We'll move on to verses five to verse seven. Before that anyone has any questions, anything that you'd like to say about verses one to four. Okay. If there's no queries, no comments, we'll move on. Can somebody please read verses five to verse seven please. Verse five. Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore receive one another just as Christ also received us to the glory of God. Thank you Rosalind. So he begins verse five says, sorry, yeah, verse five says now may the God of patience and comfort now may the God. So he says the fact that Paul puts these words into the form of a prayer demonstrates that he's actually recognizing that it is the work of the Holy Spirit that must be done inside us. Okay. So for us to not retaliate and to be like Jesus for us to, you know, be patient with others for us to please our neighbors and not to please ourselves. You know, he says, you know, this is only possible through the work of the Holy Spirit or the work of the Holy Spirit that is done inside us. This is the God of patience. Our God is a God who is patient with us. It's a God of patience. You know, often we are in such a hurry and, you know, and God often seems to sometimes work too slowly for us, you know, and we lose out on our patients with God as well. Often, you know, we, we think the purposes of God or we assume or we seem to think that the purposes of God are delayed. You know, but even if God takes his own time to do things beautifully in his own time, you know, he always fulfills what he has planned and his purpose for us. And the promises that he has spoken over our lives. So we know that God's delays where we see it as delays is not delay on God's part, but we see it as delay or we see God as being slow. It's not actually his denials. He has a purpose for each one of us. His purpose is loving his loving purposes for each one of us. And he's never delayed in doing what he does. He always does it on time. But if there is a delay, there is nothing wrong on God's part. The problem is always with us, right? So the delay is from our part when we have not done what God wants us or we are not positioned ourselves in the right place, the right time doing the right thing that God wants us to be doing. We often love God's patience because he's very patient with us when we pray or when we look at our own lives and say, God, thank you for being so patient with us. He's so patient with his people and we need him to be patient with us. Sometimes we can also say, God, can you please be patient with me? I'm struggling in this area. God, please be patient. Thank you that you're a God of patience and I can expect you to be patient. We need God to be patient with us. But often we are not patient when God does not respond to us with his plan, with his purposes, answers to our prayer. We are not patient about why he's not fulfilling certain things in our life and we think that God should hurry up. He's being so delayed on what he's doing in this area of my life, we think like that. But whatever our circumstances, wherever we find ourselves, God is patient both with his people and with his plan and fulfilling his plan and purpose for our lives. So he says here that in verse 5, sorry, verse 6, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He says that you may. So the goal here is basically to glorify God, the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. And how do we accomplish that goal? He says we accomplish this goal by having one mind and one mouth. Which means one mind and one mouth means being united in the way we think and we speak. In our thinking, not judging others, condemning others in our speech, not condemning and putting down others, judging about others, telling them what they should be doing, what they shouldn't be doing. But being one in mind and mouth, that is one in our thinking and speech. He says when we are one in these areas, we glorify God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. So verse 6, basically what if we do what Paul has been instructing us in Romans chapter 14 and in Romans chapter 15 verses 1 and 2. He says we can be of one mind and one mouth glorifying the Lord together. So he says whatever you, if you follow my instructions that I've given in Romans, what I've written previously in my letter, the previous paragraphs for us, it's in chapter 14. And the beginning of chapter 15, 1 and 2, he says when you follow those instructions, you can be of one mind and one mouth. When you do that, you will be glorifying, or we will be glorifying the Lord together as a church. So in verses 5, 6 and 7, the apostle Paul, he basically wants the believers to be like-minded of one mouth, means one voice. And this is so important because as believers, we try our best to be like-minded and having one voice, we can glorify God again. And is this possible and easy in today's world on the church today being of one mind and one voice? Is it difficult? It is difficult. Yes, it is difficult for God's people to be like this, but it is something that we need to all pursue to do, to maintain the unity of the Spirit. Like Paul has already mentioned in chapter 14 where he says, don't let the non-essential things divide us. Don't judge another brother regarding the food he eats, the observance of certain days, but be patient, build each other up. So when we are working towards being like-minded, being one mind, one voice that we can glorify God together, sadly, these non-essential things become so big in our lives, in the church, among believers that people are arguing, fighting and they even get divided. So instead of fighting and arguing and getting divided on these things, let us please and edify one another so that we can be of one mind and one voice and glorify God again. Verse 7 he says, receive one another, just as Christ also has received us. So it says when we meet believers who are different from us, instead of allowing those differences to divide us, Paul is basically saying, receive them as believers as brothers, sisters in the faith. Be welcoming, be kind, just receiving and embracing them just like Christ has received us and welcomed us and embraced us and loved us again. So I think we can begin to do this and we can try to do this with other believers who may not believe everything we do will come from different denominations, different doctrines, different styles of worship, different ways of worship, different patterns, thought processes. Even though they come from different denominations, let's come to a place where we can actually love them, believe, just receive them, welcome them because even though they are from different denominations, we should come together. Is it possible for us to come together in unity even if they are from different denominations? What do you all think? Yes? No? Is it possible for us to come together even if we are from different denominations? Can we have some answers in the chat? You can just write yes, no? Yes? Okay, thank you, Zalutoli. Jevinah says yes. Thank you, John Paul. Why do you think we can come together even though our doctrines, styles of worship are different, liturgies are different? You know, what can bring us together? Okay, Jevinah says the love of Christ, yes? Very good. But I still have a doubt like some people they don't, like in some denominations even they don't consider Christ like when we go to this Roman Catholics. So I think it might be hard for us to be together in there but because their doctrine is totally wrong in some ways, I think that may cause so much damage in the unity. Yes, so when we talk about coming together as believers, we're talking in the context of believers in terms of, you know, those who are believing the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit only. Yeah, so Rosalind says yes, we can come together because of our faith in Jesus as the Son of God. So we're coming together, not on the grounds of doctrine but we're coming together on the basis of our faith. That is our foundation. Okay, so what is the basis of our faith? We believe in one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. What else is the basis of our faith? We believe in the, very good, the cross of Christ, the death, the resurrection, ascension, the seated of Christ, the right hand of God, the Father, yes? We are all cleansed by one blood, the blood of Jesus Christ. We all have, there's only one Holy Spirit that we believe in. There's one scripture, the Word of God, the Bible that we have. So these are all common basis, foundation for our faith. And on this foundation, you know, people have built up their own doctrine. So we can, yes, come together on the basis of our faith. And all of these are the foundations, are the important foundations of our faith. And that we are one body in Christ and even though we are different parts, and who is the head? Christ. Christ is the head. We have one head and we all belong to the same kingdom. We are all sons and daughters of the same of one Father and we belong to the kingdom of God. Okay. So these are some of the things that is the foundations of our faith. And so we all, we all agree on this. So we can all come together, you know, and join hands, partner, and together in unity and in oneness so that we can bring about city transformation. And together as a city white church, as a body of Christ, all the local churches coming together, we can transform our city. It's just some of the things that we studied, if you remember, in Kingdom Builders, the book Kingdom Builders. Okay. So, you know, what seven says we need to, hence we need to receive and accommodate one another. Okay. What seven therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us the glory of God, therefore receive one and other. Okay. And he says above all of these things, you know, you know, we need to receive and accommodate one another. But when we receive and accommodate one another, does it mean that we do not correct each other or we overlook sin or we don't address sin? We do, right? Yes, we address sin. We do correct thing, but we do it lovingly. Because Paul has already written to us that the goodness of God leads to repentance, that God himself, you know, four news who are vessels of wrath and vessels for glory, you know, and those are vessels of judgment. And he says he's going to bring the wrath upon them, but he is long suffering. He's patient with them, not wanting anyone to perish. Okay. So yes, the same way we need to be patient, long suffering, you know, let the goodness of God through our lives lead them to repentance. But we do correct people. We do lovingly call out sin as sin. And we do all this in a way that honors God and his word. Okay. So any questions on verses five to seven? If not, we'll move on to verses eight to 13. Can somebody read verses eight to 13, please? Romans chapter 15 verses eight to 13. Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, for this reason, I will confess to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name. And again, he says, the joys of Gentiles with his people, and again, praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, love him, all your people. And again, Isaiah says, there shall be a root of Jesse and he who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles in him the Gentiles shall hope. Now, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Thank you, Jeffina. In verses eight to 13, Paul points, you know, to Old Testament scriptures quoting a lot of Old Testament scripture here. He says, even though God was, and through these Old Testament scriptures, he's saying that even though God was working through the Jewish people, through them, you know, through the Jews, there was so much that was spoken of that the Gentiles would be blessed. So even though God was working his plans and purposes were for the Jews, but even through those Jewish people, you know, so much was spoken for the Gentiles, that the Gentiles would also be blessed. In verse nine, Paul is quoting from Psalm 18, verse 49, where he says, for this reason I will confess to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name. In verse 10, he's quoting from Deuteronomy chapter 32, verse 43, the joys of Gentiles with his people. In verse 11, he's quoting from Psalm 117, verse 1, praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, Lord him, all you peoples. And verse 12, he's quoting from Isaiah chapter 11, verses 1 and verse 10. So basically all these scriptures are saying that the Gentiles will praise God and they will give glory to God. So even there or even in these scripture passages, you know, we learned that while God was working with the Jews, he was giving them the promises. It was all being done so that the Gentiles would also glorify God. So this is what God has been working towards, not just for the Jews, but also that the Gentiles will glorify God. So Paul is reminding us here once again that he's a God of both the Jews and the Gentiles. And his promises that were spoken towards the Jews was ultimately also to bless the Gentiles. So verse 13 is almost like a benediction. And you know, verse five, he says, may the God of patience and comfort and here he says, the God of hope, you know. He says, the God of patience fill us with endurance. Here he says, God of comfort fill us with, you know, he says, may the God of, sorry, one minute. Verse 13. Can somebody read verse 13 please for us? We didn't read that. What did we read that? Okay. It says, may the God of hope fill you with all joint peace and believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So there in verse five, he says, God of patience fill us with endurance. You know, here he says in verse 13, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace. So, you know, he says, God of comfort means God of strength, God of consolation, you know, may the God of comfort fill us with hope. And he says, now may the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing that, you know, we may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So when we, you know, believe in hope, you know, with all joy and peace, you know, we can abound in hope. And, you know, the power of the Holy Spirit will be manifested in our lives. Okay. So in these verses, you know, till verse 13, Paul has basically been talking about the believers. He's been instructing the believers and how they should, you know, live towards others, how they should relate with others. Now in verses 14 onwards, he speaks about his plans, his travel plans. So we'll read about that in verses 14 to verse 21. Any questions so far? Till verse 13, anyone has any questions? Okay. If there are no questions, can somebody please read verses 14 to 21, please. Now I myself, I'm confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you because of the grace given to me by God, that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in the things which pertain to God. But I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, to make the Gentiles obedient in mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and roundabout to Lyrichem, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation. But as it is written, to whom he was not announced, they shall see. And those who have not heard shall understand. Iman, thank you. So in verses 14 to 21, Paul is basically shifting his whole thought to sharing some of his personal thoughts, and then he goes on to speak about his personal plans. So verse 14, he's confident that the believers at Rome are full of goodness, full of knowledge, they're able to admonish one another, and hence he's asking them to be there to encourage, motivate, inspire each other to do the things that he has spoken or he has admonished or he has asked them to do so far in the letter that he has written to them. And then in verses 15 to verse 21, basically the things that he's already stated, Paul is saying that it would be challenging for some of their thinking, especially on how they relate to each other and how they treat and serve each other. But Paul says, you know, I've been bold in telling you, you know, all of these things. And I have told you, even though, you know, you might question my authority, I've not established a church there, I've not visited you, I've not imparted into your lives, I've not taught you and all of those things. You might think that I don't have any right, but he's saying I have the boldness in telling you because I know the grace of God over my life. So he's saying this boldness is coming, not because, you know, I have the authority because I'm your spiritual father or, you know, I have led you to Christ or I have built up the church at Rome or I have, you know, come there imparted and taught to you. He knows that he's not done any of these things, but he's saying he has the boldness in telling them because he knows the grace of God over his life. So what do we learn from this, you know, when we know the grace of God over our life or in our life, we can move boldly in this grace, you know, or we can operate powerfully or boldly in the grace of God over our life or in our life. It does not mean that, you know, we can be arrogant, proud or think that, you know, we are better than others. It means that, you know, when we serve God, we're called to serve God in a certain area. We have a certain function that God has given to us. You know, when we know the grace of God in that area, you know, we can move boldly in that grace. We can operate powerfully and boldly in that grace. We can serve people boldly and, you know, whatever area of function that God has called us to, whether it's the ministry of the word or praying for people or whatever, you know, we can be powerful and bold in the grace that God has given to us. And what is the grace of God that was given to Paul? He talks about this in verses 16 onwards. He says that the grace of God has made him a minister to the Gentiles. Yes. And he says he can minister the gospel of God to the Gentiles. And he says that even as he does this, you know, the gospel is brought with great power because it is a power of the Holy Spirit that is working in and through him. And he says because he has the grace of God over his life, you know, to minister the gospel, he says therefore he can speak boldly about the things of God that God has worked in and through him. And he can speak about what God has spoken through him. Okay. Then he begins to talk about how God has brought the Gentiles to faith in Christ Jesus through faith and through deeds that is through science miracles and wonders. And he says, you know, because the grace of God that is over his life, he can fully preach the gospel from Jerusalem to Elkrim, you know, Elkrim. Elkrim is the modern day Albena. And, you know, he says that he has proclaimed the gospel from Jerusalem to Elkrim through the power of the Holy Spirit. And he says he has been able to do this because of the grace of God that was given to him. Okay. So God's grace on Paul's life is to preach the gospel in the places where the gospel has not been preached before, you know, so that he can establish the work of God. So he's basically an apostle. So he's preaching the gospel where the gospel has not been preached before, and he can establish to work there. And he says, you know, because of the grace of God, he can preach the gospel where the gospel has not been preached. And he says, and hence he does not have to build on someone else's foundation. So Paul is describing the grace of God in his life. And he says that whatever he's doing, he's doing it boldly because of the grace of God that is there in his life. And how does he know that? Because, you know, he has proved it through his ministry and all the things that he has done. He's saying all the things that have accomplished, all that he mentions about is because he says it's the grace of God over his life. Okay. Another thing we can learn is that as we move in the grace of God in our life, you know, you're exercising it, you're practicing it in your living. That is your life, your ministry, you know, the way you're living, the way you're teaching, the way you're preaching. You are basically proving the grace of God in your life. And we studied this when God calls us to a specific function in the body of Christ, you know, he gives us the grace. You know, grace is the divine enablement, the divine character, the divine favor. He enables us, you know, gives us the divine favor, the divine enablement, the divine character that we need to fulfill the function that he has given us. So he gives us the grace and the gifts that we need to fulfill the function that he has called us to. So, you know, when we exercise, practice, you know, God's calling and we fulfill it, we live it out. You know, we do go about doing our ministry. All of this is basically proving the grace of God over our lives. And when you prove the grace of God over your life and when you show people to your ministry and you're proving the grace of God that is functional in and through you, you know, he says you can move boldly. Okay. So in Paul's case, the grace of God was to minister the gospel to the Gentiles from Jerusalem to Illicrim very boldly, unashamedly, which signs miracles and wonders and basically to bring the Gentiles in this area to the obedience to Jesus Christ and to establish the work there, which was not done before. There was no work done, but he had established God's work there and led the Gentiles to the faith, to the obedience to Christ Jesus. And, you know, and he says that he's, he has pired near the ministry here in these places, you know, and he has not worked on other people's foundation, but he has done what, you know, God has called him to do. So he says that he's speaking of things that Christ has established in his own life. So two things, you know, know the grace of God in your life by proving it, by showing it through the way you live, through your ministry, the way you're exercising it, the way you're practicing, living it in your own life. And secondly, you know, when you know the grace of God over your life, you can move in it very, very boldly. So this is what he's talking about in these verses, you know, verses 15 to verse 21. He's talking about the grace of God over his life and what the grace of God has accomplished him to do. And because of this, you know, he can boldly speak and write and admonish and tell other believers how they need to live their lives, how they need to fulfill their calling and their function that God has given to them. And then in verses 22, verse 33, he talks about or shares about his travel plans. Okay. Any questions? Any questions? So even as we end class here, you know, God has called us to specific functions, know your function, what the grace of God over your life is, you know, and live out that grace. Even as you fulfill God's function, the grace of God is operative, His gifts are operative. And even as you go about doing the ministry and living and exercising and practicing it through your life, you would, you know, show the grace of God that is over your life and people can see it. And also, you know, you can also move boldly because of the grace of God that is over your lives. Okay. We'll stop here. I will post the last assessment, assessment for tomorrow. Is that fine? Okay. And I'll give you a week's time to do the last assessment so maybe you can, you know, post it, submit it, sorry, next Tuesday or Wednesday. Okay. And I think we'll finish class by Friday. Yeah. Okay. Thank you everyone for joining class and see you on Friday. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, Roselyne.