 Yeah, let's pray and then we'll start and I just want to look at that scripture that we saw last session where the Lord Jesus talks about refuting the temptation of the army. The Lord Jesus talks about the word and He says, Man shall not live by, live alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, that for us to truly live, for us to truly flourish and thrive, we need the reyma word of God and the word, the quickened word of God does something to our spirit. The quickened word of God brings faith to our hearts and it's the word of God, quickened word of God, which is a sword of the spirit for us to fight the battles against all kinds of anxieties and fears and unbelief and so on, right? So we as human beings, as new creations, we need the word of God, we need the quickened word of God. So let's just, you know, even as we pray, let's just say Lord, I want to intentionally, Lord, bring myself and, you know, as an actor for obedience, place myself, God, before you to receive your quickened word and do that consistently to enable me to live, to enable me to walk in faith and increase in faith, to enable me to, you know, live those spiritual battles or fight those spiritual battles, those fight of faith. I want to be able to do that. So I want a rich deficit of your word in my spirit, rich deficit of your word in my heart. You know, can we just pray and ask the Lord for that in your own words? Just go ahead and just pray that. Father, we thank you. Well, thank you, Lord. For these words, Lord, you made it very clear that we cannot live apart from you, God. As new creations with the Spirit which is born again, Lord, we cannot sustain ourselves, Lord, on anything else except, Lord, the living, the powerful, the word of God. And Lord, we need your quickened word. And this morning, God, we again come before you and we ask, oh God, let there be a rich supply of your word. Lord, may we pay the price that needs to be paid in terms of sitting aside at the time and making that necessary adjustments and sacrifice and be intentional, Lord, about seeking you, about pursuing you, Father God. And yes, Lord, and I just pray that even as you speak your word, Lord, may we believe, may we receive it, Lord, and let your word do its work in us, Lord. Let faith rise up, Lord. Let there be, Lord, disintegration and dismantling of all strongholds in our minds even now, Lord. Lord, let there be, Lord, replacement of all the lies, Lord. And let our minds be renewed to the truth of your word, Father God. And I pray that everything will change about us, Father God. Not only will we be strengthened, but also, Father God, our very imaginations, our thoughts, our conversations, our behavior, Lord, and lifestyle, everything, Lord. Let it change, Father God, even as we receive your quickened word for us, Lord. We thank you. We thank you, Master. We thank you. We give you all the praise and glory at this time. In Jesus' matchless name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. Okay. So, last class, we looked at the Word of God and the importance of ministering the Word. So, we looked at many aspects of the Word of God, how it brings growth and maturity to the life of the believer, and how it carries the Word, the power of God, the presence of God. And importantly, we also saw that, you know, it's a Word which the Father, that God looks over or he watches over his Word to perform it, right? So, while there cannot be any other substitutes and accept the Word of God, it's so important. Okay. And the beautiful thing is this, that God has chosen us as human vessels with all our limitations, with all our, you know, with all our skills and abilities and natural abilities and the lack of it also, he has chosen us in order to communicate, you know, to share the Word of God. Right. Okay. So, some, you know, some objectives of ministering the Word, of course, you know, all that the Word does and accomplishes in the lives of the hearer, in the hearts of the hearer. So, all that would be, you know, would be the objective or objectives for ministering the Word. Okay. So, again, I just want to say that when we minister the Word, it doesn't mean that we're just talking in chapters and verses, right? We are exounding the Word. We are communicating the truth of God's Word. And it need not be just shooting, you know, scripture. But the fact is that what we share should be based on scripture. And it also helps for the audience to know where we are, you know, where we are preaching from or from which part of the Word of scriptures that we are speaking from so that they can go back, they can, you know, check, refer to it, much like what the Barians did, right? They went back, they searched the scriptures to see if it was really so. And then they continued, right? So, we could, it would be really helpful if we would say, hey, this is, this is what the Word of God says. And then there is a lot of, I'm sorry, and then there is a lot of reassurance. Now, there's suddenly there's such a faith, oh, yeah, I see it in the Word. This is what it says. So, you're backing everything, your reference point and your plumb line is the Word of God, right? So, we, so people look at it and say, okay, this is what it is there in the Word. But I remember when we were, you know, studying about worship and doing a series on worship some years back in church. And it was really, you know, an eye-opener for many of us. We have done, I think, like bits and pieces, but this was like, like four, four Sundays or five Sundays, we had taken just to look at worship and many aspects of worship because a lot of things were, you know, like traditional or a lot of things were like, we say, we think that, okay, I don't know, you know, like, for example, you know, there's one person who came to church and this person was actually seeking and was not a believer yet. So, she had come to church and she was asking, her friend who had invited us, why are they lifting hands and singing? Why are they lifting hands and, you know, why are they doing that? And so, you see that, hey, so you might ask the same, why am I doing that? Is it like, you know, good gesture? Is it like shaking hands? Why am I doing it? And then you look into the Word and then you see that, you know, scripture and verse for the lifting of hands in prayer, for the clapping of hands, for, you know, the shout of praise, for the kneeling down, everything, you know, you have, you see that these are postures in worship and Psalm 95 talks about a whole lot of them. So, you see it in the Word and then you see, oh, it's not just like a Pentecostal thing or a charismatic thing, but it's actually something that is in the Word. It's a scriptural thing. It's a Bible thing, right? This is how God ordained. It's not like I can worship however I want. I'm worshiping as based on scripture. So, I can do this. Well, God wants me to or God has instituted this. He has placed it here so that, you know, there's a purpose for this, right? For a purpose, for a shout, purpose for a clap, purpose for a dance, purpose for a new song, purpose for everything. So, you see it in scripture. So, it was an eye-opener, right? For many of us where we did that study, about property worship and so on. So, also on any other topic, you know, you're talking about things from scripture. So, it's good for people to know this is what it is in the Word. So, you bring that attention back to the Word. You're bringing that, the reference point back to the Word, you know. And so, there is that reassurance. Yeah, this is Word-based. It's not something out of the Word of God. And of course, if it's our opinion, we always, you know, make it a point to say, okay, this is just my opinion. This is just my observation. We make that difference, right? It all says, yet it is, it is I and not the Lord, right? And of course, he says, you know, this is, this is something that I'm saying. This is not like the inspired word or something. But then I believe that the Lord would, as someone in the God has used, I believe that this has weight, right? So, he very clearly makes that difference. Okay. Okay. So, let's look at Jeremiah chapter 3 in verse 15. We see that, let me just quickly go there, okay. Jeremiah chapter 3. Okay. Verse 15, it says, the Lord says, and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Okay. So, shepherds according to my heart. And of course, the Lord here is talking about people who rule over this nation of Israel. And then the Lord is saying, you know, that you will, I will give you people who will guide, who will lead you and who will be shepherds after my heart, according to my heart, meaning that they would know me that, that they would also be in line with what I desire, what I want, right? What I like. So, according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. Okay. So, the ministry of the word, when we are, the objective is to feed, is to, you know, why do we feed? It is to strengthen. Why do we feed? It is to nurture. So, the objective is to feed with knowledge and understanding, knowledge of God, understanding of God, knowledge of his word, because the word talks about his ways, what he likes, what he dislikes. So, we get an understanding, we get a better picture of who God is and what he wants. And we get a bigger picture of the hope that we have, you know, it's wonderful, right? The hope that we have in God, and the future that we have in God, the destiny that we have in God and all that. So, to feed with knowledge and understanding. So, it's not just a time filler. Okay. It's not just a ritualistic thing that you come and, okay, we read something and then we, oh, we get something, you know, entourage and then we go. It's something that the Lord specifically wants to do, like he's saying, shepherds after my own heart. So, if they are shepherds according to my heart, they will understand me, who will know me intimately, and they will feed with knowledge and understanding. Okay. So, the thing is this, in Hosea and also in Isaiah chapter five, the Lord says, maybe we can look at Isaiah chapter five since we are closer to Isaiah. Isaiah five and verse 13. My people, the Lord says, therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. Okay. So, lack of knowledge, you know, leads people into captivity. So, unknowingly, we do certain things. Unknowingly, we make certain choices and which lead us, which place ourselves under captivity. So, when we say captivity, you know, as New Testament believers, we know, okay, it's to bring ourselves under the, you know, the captivity of the works of the enemy. Right. So, it's very clear. My people, the Lord says, have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. So, there's, if, you know, the audience or congregation continue to live, continue to come and go, but then if they are not receiving knowledge and understanding, which is from the heart of God. Okay. So, that the potential is that they're going to live their lives because they're going to place themselves in a place of captivity. Okay. So, Hosea chapter four also conveys the same thing, Hosea four and verse six conveys the same thing, where my people, the Lord says, have gone into captivity for the lack of knowledge. Okay. So, let me just quickly read that verse also. Hosea four and verse six, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because we have rejected knowledge. I also will reject you from being preached for me because you have forgotten the law of your God. I also will forget your children. So, harsh words there. But the thing is the reality is this, that people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. So, you know, practically, if you, if you look at it, it holds good. You know, we, when we, you know, there is this common saying that ignorance is bliss. Okay. So, what does that mean that, oh, I don't, I'm ignorant of certain things and therefore I'm happy. You know, I don't have to worry about it, etc. But the fact is that, you know, ignorance also is something that just because we are ignorant of certain truths or certain facts, it doesn't mean that we will have a good life, right? Because we are ignorant of certain laws, ignorant of how things would happen. For example, if a person is ignorant of the fact that, okay, this is how traffic functions, you know, you drive on the left side of the, in this particular country, you drive on the left side of the road. And, you know, you stop at a certain signal. And, you know, if the signal is this color, you stop at this color, it go, you know, if we are ignorant, then it is not bliss. You know, if you're ignorant of these things, it results in damage, damage to life, damage to property. Okay. As simple as that. Practically, you know, when we look at that, this is how it is. So, the Lord is saying, my people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Okay. So, there's, there is destruction happening if you look out, if you look at the body of Christ into the, in the church, well, because of lack of maturity or lack of, you know, people moving towards Christ's likeness, because of their lives not being word-centric. Okay. The word of the truth not being applied in their lives. There's a lot of damage. The enemy takes the ignorance and uses the ignorance and comes in, spreads lies, deception, a lot of things, a lot of damage. Okay. The enemy comes to steal, kill them, destroy it. Right. So, the enemy does that and in fact, as believers, instead of walking in authority, we kind of, you know, let down our God and allow the enemy to have full reign in our lives. So, you see the importance of ministering the word. The word is truth. The word is something that sets people free. The word, you know, is something that the God watches to perform it. So, it sets people at such a place of advantage and to walk in freedom, to walk into progressive freedom and experience the truth of God's word. So, it does a wonderful thing to minister the word. Okay. So, when we say the word, it's not just the principles, but, you know, the word anointed to quicken by the Holy Spirit. So, that's the thing. Okay. So, we are studying all this because we are looking at preaching and we are looking at how as communicators or preachers, proclaimers of the truth, we need to proclaim the truth. Okay. Truth with liberates. Truth with brings comfort. Truth with wants. Right. So, all that. Okay. So, let's go on to the next chapter, which is to study the word of God. Okay. So, as a person who's preparing, as a person who's preparing to learn or learning or understanding, you know, how can I study the word of God? You know, how can I, of course, studying means there's a difference between studying and just reading, right? We know that studying is to focus, studying is to go deeper and to learn. So, how can I study the word of God? Okay. So, there are several ways that we can study the word of God. Okay. So, we're going to look at a few of them. And if you look at the notes, it's in chapter six. And it's, okay, what is the page number? Jeff, any idea? 1616. Okay. So, it's page number one, 1616. How to study the word. Okay. So, first one is word study. Okay. So, which is, I think most of these study methods of study are self-explanatory. They describe themselves. So, first thing is word study, which means that you pick a word and you study the meaning of the word and you study where the word occurs and what context in the rest of scripture, in all of scripture. Okay. So, you take a word, you pick a word and you study the meaning of that word, maybe go into the root word, how it is used. And this is important because, and very, very illuminating because, for example, the common example in English, the word love is used. But then we know that in the Greek, that different kinds of words are used to convey different kinds of meaning about love. Like, there is helio, there is eros, there is agape and so on. So, when you do a word study, maybe we look at the English and then we see that, okay, there are these three or four ways by which, you know, this same word love is explained in scripture, like the fourth word, stoge, right? So, we see that, okay, I can do a study and see what is the difference, right? What is the difference? How is this used? In 1 Corinthians 13, what is that word used? Is it filio? No, it is actually agape. So, what does it convey? So, we do a word study. Okay. So, in the, of course, we may look at the Bible. We see that, okay, the New Testament is in Greek. So, all these Greek words are used. So, if it is in the Hebrew, then, you know, what are those words which are used there? Like, to describe affection, to describe love and so on. So, a word study. Okay. So, that's one way to study the word of God. So, you look at a word, you look at a word like faith, you look at a word like maybe anointing, right? And you do a word study, okay? The second way to study the word, study the Bible, is to do a topic study, okay? So, as the word, again, describes, is to study a topic, okay? So, what is the difference? Word and topic, you know, could be the same. Like, let's say for example, if you're, the word study that you want to do is faith, and the topic also is faith, right? How does faith come? And what is faith? How do you, you know, how do you express your faith? And how do you increase in faith? All that, you know, it's a topic by itself. But also, it could be different in the sense, you know, it could be a different topic like, let's say, it could be a topic like maybe gifts of the spirit, okay? Now, that's a topic. Now, it's not a word study, where you might do a word study in a topic, we study also. For example, when you're looking at this topic, gifts of this Holy Spirit, we might do a word study to find out, what does that word gift mean? Like, the word carous, right? It means something that's given free, a gift of grace, right? So, we might do a word study in a topical study also, you know, inside a topical study. But it's basically to talk about, study about these gifts of the Spirit, what is it, gifts of the Holy Spirit, what does it mean? You know, why, why is it given? And to whom is it given? Like, what happens? You know, how do I use these gifts? Are these for everybody? All those things, right? So, we study about them. And within that, we might also do a word study, a study of certain words which are there. So, whatever, you know, study we do, I think we'll come back to that, you know, we will do a study of that word, in a sense, the meaning of that word, the root of that word. It's good to do that. Okay. Okay. Now, word study, topical study. Okay. Another way to study the word of God is to do a character study. Okay. So, what does that mean? Again, as the word describes, as this, you know, the study itself is self-explanatory. It means that you study the character, a person in the Bible, and to learn about their life and their journey, and maybe the way they lived their life, the way they ended their life, and to learn the positives, the good things, many things that we can learn, like how they interacted with God, how they came to know about God, their life of this, their accomplishments, their success, their failures, everything. Right? So, we get to learn a lot about, we can, our learnings can be some of those positive things, and our learnings can also be things that we should not, that what we should avoid, some of those negatives also. Right? So, that is, these are some things that we can learn from a character study. And a character study is also, you know, a kind of very helpful because it, we're able to relate to some of those, you know, the temperaments, maybe some of those successes, some of those failures, some of those fears, right? We're able to play, we say, okay, I'm also like Peter, you know, at times, so sometimes we're impulsive, and I decide like that, and then I say some things, and I think about it later, regret it later, you know, all those things we can, you know, we can relate to, right? But while doing a character study, there's one important thing that we need to understand that when we study about the characters that not everything is applicable to us, you know, so what do we mean by that in the sense as a believer, you know, as a New Testament believer living in this new dispensation of the cross, right? Where I have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, where, you know, we're on the other side of this cross in the sense, you're not looking towards the cross, but from the work of the cross I've received, right? So it's something that I'm looking behind what has happened. So as a believer living in that dispensation, certain things are applicable to me, certain things are not, right? Common example is, I mean, simple example is this, that, you know, in Psalm 51, where David prays and he says, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. He said, creating me a clean heart, renew a steadfast spirit within me. And then in verse 11 he says, please do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Now, that thing, you know, when you study David, when you study the life of David, now we cannot apply that in our lives and say, okay, this is what David prayed, so you need to pray the same thing and say, don't take your Holy Spirit from me. Okay, while, yeah, we can grieve the Holy Spirit, we can quench the Holy Spirit and all that, but we understand that the Holy Spirit has been given to us in order to live a holy life, right? In order to live an overcoming life and with all our faults and limitations. So he has come to stay with us forever. That is what the Lord Jesus promised, right? Well, yeah, like according to Hebrews 10, there could be a, there could be a, you know, time and place where I can, I might reject, reject the work of the Holy Spirit, reject the Savior and, and, you know, insult the spirit of grace and all that. I could, I could do that. But then as a life of a believer, as a believing Christian and wanting to please God, wanting to pursue the presence of God, now if I'm doing a character study, I can't apply those things directly in my life. Okay, so I need to know the dispensation and then go accordingly. Okay, maybe even about the gifts of the spirit. Well, if you're going to be learning about prophecy and so on, so we, we see there's a difference, like how the Old Testament prophets were used by God and how the New Testament church, where all of us are designed to hear the voice of God, we, we have to test the prophecies. And that's, that's a given, you know, that's, that's something that, that's a principle that is there in scripture for the New Testament church. And so, you know, these differences we need to understand, right, when we're doing a character study. Okay. Again, we might do when you're studying character, we might encounter certain words, we might be doing what we might do in the word study, you know, going into meaning the root of the word to find out what means and so on. Right. Okay, then the fourth one is to do a book study. Okay, so now that's, that's interesting, because I think you know, you, you're also exposed to that, right. So we, we do several books, you know, 39, 27, so only 66 books, you know, doing a study of the book, meaning when was it written, all those questions, when was it written, who was the author? Well, unsure. Okay. But, you know, to whom was it written, what do the historians say the timeframe and to whom was it written under what circumstances. So you begin to understand all that. And we go through the, the book, right, we go through chapter and verse, and, and we find out that the context in which it was written. So it clarifies a whole lot of things where we see that, okay, certain verses, I can't really take it out of context and then, you know, build something on it. So we begin to understand the context in which it was written. So this is how it applies. Okay. And, and, and it's a very rich experience. Right. We see several topics are covered in, in going through a book, several topics are covered. It's, it's, it's as much a topical study, as much a word study as well. And there are characters as well. Right. So, so it's, it's a slow journey. Again, when we do a word, when you do a book study, right, it's a slow journey. It's a process. But when we commit to it, and we, when we do that, it's a very rich and rewarding experience. Right. We begin to understand, learn so much about, about God's word. Right. Well, we might many times, we might, we might be used, you know, used to picking certain verses, maybe underlining certain verses. And immediately, you know, we open the word, you know, let's say, I'm just hoping to Romans, and I see all these underlying scriptures, and that's where I go. And I read that and I say, Oh, thank you, God. And then this is worship God, but there is nothing wrong. But the fact is that when we, when we do a study, we begin to understand, okay, this is what the book of Romans is about. And this is what he addresses in chapter one, this is what he addresses in chapter two and chapter seven, eight, so on. Right. So we stand here and we also see, Oh, certain topics are spanning across chapters. Right. It doesn't end with a particular chapter. It's, it's across, it's spanning across the theme continues. So we begin to learn all that as well. Okay. Then then the fifth kind of study is the inductive study. Okay. So it's an inductive study, meaning it is an, it is a immersive and in-depth study, but it also asks certain questions. And it's a question. And the study, this particular study would involve passages. Okay. So it might be across, it might be several verses, it could be several, several chapters. Right. So that's the, that's the inductive study. Okay. So let's look at some of these questions that we can look at. Okay. Some of these questions that are, we need to ask when we are doing an inductive study. Okay. So, okay. Just a minute, please. Oops. My cursor is stuck. Okay. Sorry about that. Okay. It's still stuck. Okay. So questions like, what does this passage say? Okay. So let's say we, we take a particular passage. What does this passage say? Maybe we could probably take a simple passage like, okay, let's say we take Psalm 23. Okay. So, so what does this passage say? What is the basic message or the thought of this entire passage? What does it say? Right. What does it communicate? And then, and then the question is, like, what does it mean? Okay. What, what does it say? What does it mean? For example, in Psalm 23, it says the Lord is my shepherd. Okay. This is what it says, that Lord is my shepherd. But you know, how does it, you know, obviously you know that you're not sheep, literally. So what does it mean? Right. So how does it apply? What does it mean to me? If I say, if I read the Lord is my shepherd, what is, what does it mean to the psalmist who's written it? He's saying the Lord is my shepherd. So what does it mean? Okay. We understand it. Fine. Oh, he was a shepherd once. Right. He used to lead the sheep. So, I mean, he's writing out of that understanding. But, you know, so what does it mean? What, what all that would have meant to him as a shepherd? Right. So he, the sheep were led, the sheep were nurtured, the sheep were protected, the sheep were, you know, and all the verses following that talks about, talk about that. So, so to answer that question, to look at that question, what does this passage mean? Okay. A few other questions. What is God telling me now? Okay. So, yeah, I read this and I, okay, I get this information, but is God telling me anything through this? Is he quickening any word to me in this? Right. So is he, is he pointing out certain things to me? So we begin to interact or we begin to, you know, with the word, we begin to fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We begin to fellowship with God and we're having this conversation with God. Lord, you know, are you saying anything? Are you telling me anything through this? You know, even as I read, are you pointing out certain things to me? So what is God telling me? The other thing is also, how am I encouraged and strengthened? Like, how am I encouraged through this? Is there any encouragement that I'm receiving? Oh, you know, I says, the Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want may not lack anything. So is there any encouragement that I'm receiving from that revelation about all the testimony of the Psalmist? He's saying that I shall not lack anything. So is there any encouragement for me? Right. Am I strengthened by that? Right. Maybe I'm going through a season where, you know, it's all ups and downs and maybe I'm just, you know, maybe it's something that I'm fearing some lack or some need that could be in future. So what is God showing? Am I encouraged? Am I strengthened? Another question, you know, these are some basic questions, but, you know, you could add to it. We could add to it. So is there sin in my life for which confession and repentance is needed? How can I be changed so I can learn and grow? What is the way of these, what is, you know, what is in the way of these pieces affecting me in a sense? What is really like a barrier from these precepts, these principles, this truth to work in my life? What is, is there a barrier? Is there something in the way? Or what is blocking me from listening to God or believing this? It says, the Lord is my shepherd. I will not be in lack and He leads me. He restores me and, you know, He makes me to lie down and, you know, I will fear no evil. But then, you know, what is, what is really coming in the way when I read this? It seems as if I'm not able to connect, right? It seems as if there's something that is there between me and this, you know, whatever I'm reading. So what is it? What is it that's blocking me from, from receiving this, from what is blocking me from listening to God, etc. Okay, question number eight, what, how does this apply to me? What, what will I do about it? You know, how can I, how can I apply this in my life? You know, I'm, well, I'm, I'm living in this age. I'm maybe, you know, I'm having my own business or I'm doing ministry or I'm, you know, I'm a homemaker, you know, whatever it could be, you know, this is where this is what I'm doing. I'm a student and, you know, I'm a working professional. How does this apply to me? Right? You know, the truth of God is eternal and transcends time, culture, everything. So how does this truth of God's word, how does it apply to me right now? So these are things that, questions that I, we can ask and I love the Holy Spirit to speak to us. That's the beauty of it. It's not that I would just come to our conclusion in our own mind, but I love God to speak to us. I love the Holy Spirit to speak to us and eliminate our thinking. Okay. So what can I model and teach, you know, in my application, you know, what, how can I live and how can I teach this to others? How can my life be a life example with the application of this truth? How can I model these truths and in my life? Okay. Then what does God want me to share with someone, you know, and, and such questions? Okay. So, so we go into this and we see that it can be a very, again, a rich and rewarding experience. And, and, you know, some of these Bible studies that we can do, maybe at home, maybe with friends, it can be an inductive Bible study. It can really be very helpful because we can do it in a short span of time, maybe, you know, one hour or two hours and depending on the passage, of course, and we can spend a lot of time also. Right. So it can be very, we can allow, you know, the, the scripture itself, the pages of the verses from the text to really speak to us. Right. So it can be a very useful thing. Right. So we saw a word study, a topical study, character study, book study, and vector study. So these are ways by which we can study the word of God. Okay. So, yeah. So maybe if we have not explored these ways of studying the word, we can, we can do that. Okay. So, for those of us, maybe, who might be, you know, watching the e-learning course, you can probably pick, you know, this week, you can take a word and do a word study. Okay. And you can put it in the discussion. How it went. You can pick any word and like, just like how we described it, you can go into the meaning of the word, the English meaning of the word, and maybe you can find out the Hebrew and the Greek and where the word occurs. And you can do a study and present your findings. It may not be a, you know, a very lengthy one, but it can be a very simple way just to get us started. Right. So those of us who are watching the e-learning or doing the e-learning course, you could do a simple word study this week and put it on the discussion and I'll go through that. Okay. Those of us online, you can do the same. Right. And you can upload on in our, in the Classwork section. Okay. You can upload it this week in the Classwork section. So over the weekend, you can do that. So it wouldn't be very lengthy. It can be, you know, maybe, you know, the word length can be maybe 100, 100 words or even less, but you can choose one word and you can do a word study and choose something that, you know, you've never studied before. Right. It'll always help. You pick a word that you've never studied before and you say, okay, I've always wanted to, you know, study this and heard this word being used. Maybe something like glory, something like, you know, something which use, but within, we've not really studied. So use that, you know, do that this week. Okay. So, yeah. And I want to encourage us, you know, this, to do this, I know we, we might be reading the word. We might be doing, you know, meditating on the word, having a personal time of, you know, devotion, a personal time, devotion time with the Lord praying, etc. Maybe some of us have not considered doing a personal study. Okay. Like you might say, okay, anyway, I'm a college student and, you know, I'm learning these things and, you know, I'm being taught these things, but how about a personal time where we personally take time to study using any of these methods and try it out. I'm sure it'll be great and rewarding. Okay. Any questions? Yeah. Any questions? Any questions? Anything that you might want to share? Jafina, any questions? Jafina sitting right opposite. So Topical study. Okay. So Jafina asking, okay, topical study, just a quick explanation about that. So topical study is, you know, like we said, it's like it's, I mean, it explains, it's a study of a topic. So now how is it different from a word? You know, it can be a word like faith. It can be, faith is a topic by itself. Faith, you can also do a word study, right? It can be a topic like anointing or anoint. Now, it can be both a word as well as a topic. But the topic is more than the word because you're going to be studying about a certain idea. You're going to be studying about a certain, maybe a doctrine. Let's say laying on of hands. You know, that's a topic. Now, within that topic, there could be other things that you could be looking at like a word. So that's the thing. So it's, it's more, much more expanded, much more comprehensive than a word study. So that's it, right? Okay. Okay. Anything. I'm not really understood the weekend exercise. Okay. So this weekend, what you can do is do a word study. Okay. Like how we, how we described it. You pick a word, any word, which is there in the, in the Bible, any word. And maybe it's a word that you always wanted to study, want to know more about, pick a word and do a word study, find out what it means. You know, it could be maybe a word like love, for example, right? Love in what you see in the New Testament. So you pick that word, you do a study of it. Okay. Where does it occur? You know, what is the meaning of it? What are the different words that are used to describe that word love and so on. Right. So you could use certain tools, like you could use commentaries, you can use, you know, like maybe ESO, free Bible application, you know, study, download, download that on your system. Like it's, it's available for free. You can use that and you can study that. Right. So I hope that, that helps. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Thank you. Okay. I guess we'll stop here because the next topic is, is about, you know, just an example about interpretation and how we can go about interpreting it. It's, it's actually, you know, a continuation of what we saw earlier, a review of hermeneutics, right? So it's kind of a continuation of that, but it's a more of a practical one. So we'll, we'll look at that in our next class. Okay. So I guess we'll, we'll stop here. Right. Thank you all for joining and God bless. Bye-bye.