 let's pray and then we'll get started. Father we come before you, we come to your presence. Lord, we do so with grateful hearts, Lord. Father, we thank you for the reassurance of your presence, Lord. Father God, we thank you for the reassurance of your presence in each and every day, Father God. We thank you, Lord. We thank you for the reassurance of your promises. We thank you for the reality of your promises and of your word, Lord. Yes, Lord, your word guides us, leads us, and sheds light on the path, God, and the step that we need to take, Lord. We thank you, Lord. Father God, even today, Master, we commit this day, this entire day into your mighty hands and especially the time that we're going to spend, Lord, looking into your word. Father, we pray that you will teach us, Lord. We pray that the things that we study, oh, God, will remain with us, Lord. I pray that it will be written upon our hearts for the work of your Holy Spirit. We thank you. And each one of us, we commit, Lord, ourselves into your mighty hands, Father God, to be led by you, Lord, to hear your voice clearly, Father God, and to be willing and able to do what you want us to do, Father God. We thank you. We thank you, Lord. We thank you. We give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Hey, good morning. Welcome back to this course. This is Discipleship and Small Groups. So, Discipleship and Small Groups Ministry. We are going to be looking at what discipleship, what does it mean to be a disciple? Who is a disciple? Now, some of those introductory thoughts are, you know, we're going to look into that and then move into about, move into a little more detail and depth about Small Groups Ministry. So, Small Groups, meaning, you know, whether it's a life group or what you call as a cell group, and how can we go about ministering in that way with that model of Small Groups? And what does it involve? What are the challenges? What is the potential of, you know, having or the vision of having such a Small Group Ministry and so on? So, we're going to go into the details of that, right? So, this course, for evaluation-wise, we will have two tests, two quizzes, and one by, I think by maybe Febend, I'm not very sure. Let me just check. And also one by the last week of April. Okay, anyway, it'll be announced and we will release the quiz around that time. So, these will be the two quizzes for assessment evaluation for the marks, right? Okay, so, yeah, so let's get into this. The notes are there. The notes has been uploaded there. But today, we're not going to get into the notes straight away. We're going to look at some concept or some thoughts about discipleship. You know, what does it mean to be a disciple? Some teachings on that. Maybe this session and the next class also, we look into that and then go into Small Groups Ministry. Okay, so let me try and share the screen with you. Yeah, just before that, I just want to read a couple of verses. Okay, let's look at Matthew chapter 28. Okay, Matthew chapter 28. The Lord Jesus says these words towards the end 18, 19, and 20. Jesus came and spoke to them saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. So the Lord Jesus here is saying, he's talking about his authority. He has his sovereignty. He's all powerful. And all authority has been given to him in heaven and on earth. And then he says, he's commissioning the disciples. And he's saying, go therefore and make disciples. Okay, so from this authority that flows from him to us as disciples, he says, go therefore and make disciples, make disciples of all the nations. So he's saying, go, make disciples. So there is a, so this making disciple involves sharing the gospel, but it's a very intentional thing. Like he says very clearly, go make disciples. Okay, and then says, of all the nations, meaning, you know, in terms of area or in terms of geographical location, says all nations, and that word used there is ethnic, which means people groups, like people groups of a certain language, of a certain culture, of a certain tradition, maybe of all such people groups make disciples. And what does it involve making disciples? Says baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit. Okay, teaching them. So baptizing them, then teaching them. So baptizing involves making a decision by the person who is getting baptized to leave all and to follow Jesus, right? To say that I am dead to sin and alive in Christ. To say that my old life is not existent anymore and I have a new life, I'm a new creation in Christ. Okay, so to declare that, even as they are being baptized, right? So baptizing them, secondly says teaching them, teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you, all things that I have commanded you. So the disciples were to go, if you look at the first commission, the great commission, disciples were to go, of course, share the good news, preach the gospel, but make disciples, they had to do this task of, they were given this task of making disciples. So we are given the task of making disciples, baptizing, making disciples and it involves teaching. It involves teaching all the things that the Lord Jesus taught and enabling them or teaching them to observe, observe meaning to look at, to look keenly, to look at something carefully with the intention of following it. Okay, it's not a casual thing. So to look at it intently, to even to guard something, right? To guard it from loss or to guard it from it being stolen away, to take away, being taken away. So to intently look at it, to keenly observe. So the Lord is saying, you know, this is what I want you to do, that you will teach them to observe with the intention of following, with the intention of obeying the teachings, observe all the things that I have commanded you. And then, of course, the promise that he is with us, he says, I am with you, even to the end of the age. So this is the great commission. So it's important for us to understand, first of all, what is this, who is this disciple? You know, can all believers be called disciples? Right? Who is this disciple? If I'm calling myself a Christian, can I call myself a disciple? Okay, so who is this disciple? So when we look at, when we go to the book of Acts, we read about, and I'm sure you would have read this before, it talks about how and where the people were called Christians, right? Who were called Christians in the first place? Okay, so if you look at Acts chapter 11, and we go to verse 26, let me put that reference here, Acts 11 and 26, Acts 11 and verse 26, it says, and when he had found him, it's talking about Barnabas, seeking Saul, finding him, etc. The last part of that verse, the last line of that verse, it says, and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. So it's a very important verse, very significant verse, because it tells us who were called Christians. The disciples were called Christians. Okay, not a person who says, okay, I believe, I believe in someone, I believe in Jesus. This is a disciple, one who is following, one who wants to follow wholeheartedly. So the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. So the Lord's commission is really to go, commission to the disciples is to go and make disciples. Okay, is to go and make disciples. And who are called Christians, the disciples were called Christians. So these are important things that we need to understand. So even in our ministering, we are called to be disciples, we are called to make disciples. So let me just share the screen and look at a couple of things. I'll share these notes. I just want to put it together and then share it. Okay, so what do we see here? The verse that we just read now. So first of all, we see that we are called to be disciples. Okay, we are not just called to be believers, you know, casual believers. Okay, I believe in this teaching. I believe in this God. I believe in the Bible or whatever. It's not just, it doesn't stop there. Okay, it doesn't talk about attending some church or attending something. No, it goes beyond that. Right, goes beyond that and says that we are called to be disciples when you look at the Great Commission. The second thing we see is that we're called to make disciples. So the Lord says, go therefore and make disciples, which means that you need to do something in order to in order to have this fruit or in order to have this result. So disciples are made. So that's the second thing that we understand, which means that there is a process. There are a series of things that we need to do in order to make a disciple, in order for a person to become a disciple. Right, so that is the thing. So it is not just to sharing the gospel is definitely a very important aspect of it. We need to understand that, but we are called to make disciples. So disciples are made. And thirdly, the desire of the Lord is that disciples will go and disciple. The disciples will go and make more disciples. So that's, if I call myself a disciple, then disciple of the Lord Jesus, then the Lord Jesus' desire for me, expectation from me, is that I would go out and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe that all that He has taught me. So that's something that we need to understand. So who's a disciple? A disciple is a learner, one who follows another's teaching. One who follows another, one who follows closely, one who follows the life, we're going to look at that when we look at what scripture says about being a disciple. But when we look at the dictionary, it says a disciple is not only a pupil or a student, but an adherent, meaning, I can be a student and not really follow something, like I'm studying it intellectually and not necessarily follow or agree with it. I can be a student and not really follow in those steps. But a disciple, not only is a disciple a student, one who is learning, but also one who is following. It's very important. So it involves a disciple's life, involves learning and following. And following to be imitators, imitators of the teacher, following closely to imitate the teacher, following closely to obey the teaching, to put the teaching to practice in their own lives. So when you say a disciple is a fully devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, who wants to be like Jesus, that's the disciple. So what are the marks of a disciple or what is the, how would you identify? Sometimes we have this identifying marks. I don't know if you've had that kind of thing when you fill in some forms. These days I don't see too many of those, but those days when you used to fill in some application form, maybe for school or or something, they would ask, any physical identifying marks, is there a scar? Is there a mole? Is there any identifying marks by which you can say, okay, yes, I have this scar on my hand or I have this mole on my forehead or something like that. So here we're going to see what are these identifying marks or identifying characteristics or traits by which we can say that, okay, these are the disciples of the Lord. How can we actually, how can we decide, how can we distinguish between a disciple and one who is not? So what do the Bibles talk about that? Okay, so first thing is that when we look at John chapter 8 verses 31 and 32, then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him, if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Okay, so the Lord Jesus shares a very important truth here. What does he say? He says, if you abide in my truth, so he's sharing the truth, he's teaching them the truth, and he's saying, if you abide in my truth, which means if you continue, the word that is used there is to continue. It's like dwelling or continuing. If you're going to continue without departing in my truth, then you are my disciples. If you continue in this, then you are my disciples. Okay, so that's, that's one thing. So one thing that we see that the, so a disciple, as a disciple, I need to continue, I need to obey, I need to follow, I need to continue. It's not that I do it for a season and then, you know, I leave it, no, I continue. Okay, another thing that we see is, the Lord Jesus again in the commission, great commission verse 20, teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you. So one who is observing, one who is following all the teachings and the life of the Lord. So that's a disciple. Okay, second one that we see is in John chapter 13, verses 34 and 35, a new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this, all will know that you are my disciples. If you have love for one another, okay, by this, all will know. By what, by this love, by this love that you have for one another, all will know that you are disciples, disciples of the Lord Jesus. So as we are loved by the Lord, as we are received by Him and loved by Him unconditionally, the disciple is also supposed to display this love in his own life. This love is to be found. Right? So not, I, so I, which means that I, I cannot say that, okay, I'm, I'm teaching, or I'm following the Lord. But my life does not reflect that love, the love of God. Because the Bible says that God is love. Right? So if I'm saying that I'm a disciple of the Lord then, you know, and that, that love for people, love for God, and the love of God, which has been poured out by the Holy Spirit into my heart, that needs to be seen, that needs to be displayed, that needs to be seen. So I walk in love, even as I am love. Okay. So as a disciple, there's something else that I do. Okay. John 15 and verse eight. Okay. John 15 and verse eight says, by this my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples, that you bear much fruit. So the father is glorified, you know, the father is glorified in this, you know, when, when one person has love for one another, they all will know that we are disciples of the Lord. And here the Lord says that the father is glorified, and when you, when we bear much fruit, or sorry, when, when you, when we bear much fruit, okay, the father is glorified. And that is also an indication of us being disciples. So this whole thing of fruitfulness or effectiveness in our lives. Right. So that is also an indicator or indicate some, a distinguishing mark of a disciple. You know, if you look at John chapter 15, he's talking about, like, if you read from verse one, says, I am the true wine. Jesus, the Lord is saying, I'm the true wine, and my father is a wine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. So what is he, you know, what is he saying verse two, he's pruning so that it might become even more fruitful, something that is bearing fruit, because even more fruitful is something that is effective, something that someone who's productive, effective, they become even more fruitful or productive, because they are connected to the wine. And the father is pruning, pruning, removing the things that are not, are not productive, they're doing the dead things, so that we can be even more fruitful. Okay, so, so what is a desire? So why does the father prune for greater fruitfulness, so that the one who is bearing fruit will bear even more fruit, right? So that's the desire, that's the will of the father. So we see that, you know, he's looking for fruit, he's pruning so that our life becomes even more fruitful, and that is also a mark of the disciple. Okay, right. Then as a disciple, one endeavors, or one tries to be like Jesus. Matthew 10, verses 24 and 25, a disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. Verse 25, it is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house, Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household? Okay, excuse me. So here he's saying, yeah, it is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher. So a disciple to be like his teacher. So the Lord is saying it is enough, right? The disciple is not above the teacher. Now this is in relation to the Lord and ourselves, right? The Lord and ourselves, so he's saying that we are called to be like him. Same thing we see in Luke chapter six and verse 14. A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher. So what is the Lord's desire that we be trained to be like him? He's the teacher, we are the disciples, and definitely we are not above the Lord Jesus. But the thing is, when we submit to the training of the Lord, that we will be like him, like the teacher. And that's something that I need to be, something that I need to do as a disciple. As a disciple, I need to have the desire to be like my master, because that's his desire. And as a disciple, I need to be perfectly trained or I need to give in to this training. The Lord wants to teach me and train me. The Lord wants to do that to us. So as disciples, if we say we are disciples, we need to yield ourselves to be taught by him, to be trained by him, so that we can be like him. So then that's another mark of the disciple. Then we see, fifthly, the disciple, as a disciple, I carry my cross. Matthew 16 and verse 24, Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. This is something that he's addressing his disciples. So if you and I are saying that we are disciples of the Lord, so the Lord is addressing to us as well. This is applicable to us as well. So what is it saying? If anyone desires to come after me, if anyone desires to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. The same thing that we see in Luke chapter 14 also. So what is this cross taking up the cross? We know that the cross is a place of sacrifice. The cross is a place of separation from the world. The Lord Jesus, when he was, he was that perfect sacrifice on the cross. The cross depicts that. It is also a place of separation, separation from the world. And it also talks about suffering for the sake of the kingdom. Hardships for the sake of the kingdom. He talks about all that. So in Luke chapter 14 is a little more detailed in verse 26. It says, if anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also he cannot be my disciple. So what does it mean? That does that mean that I should not love others? That's not, when we take it out of context, it means we should hate our relatives, hate our family. The Lord doesn't say that. If we don't have love, then we cannot be his disciples. If we don't love others the way he loves us, we cannot be his disciples. So we just saw that a little earlier. I need to walk in love. If you have love for one another, then so it's not. So does this contradict that? No. So which means that in comparison to the love that I have for the Lord, and everything else seems less in comparison. Like everything was less than that love. It seems almost like hate. So everything else becomes a second place when compared to my love for the Lord and his place of prominence in my life, everything else comes a second place. So that's what it means. It does not mean that we treat them, treat our loved ones shabbily or not extend love to them. It doesn't mean that. Verse 27, And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Again, the cross, the place of sacrifice, the place of separation from the world, the place of suffering. Verse 33, So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple. So there is this place of giving up and not holding on if the Lord would desire for us to do that. So that is that place of. So that is referred to as taking up the cross. So as a disciple, we take up the cross. So sometimes it's different. It's different for different people. For some people, it's maybe putting up with ridicule and constant ridicule and shame. For some people living in certain parts of the world, there's a lot of physical suffering. And even to be able to open the Bible and read or have fellowship, it's a great struggle. It's a great challenge. Now, being a disciple, being a follower of the Lord, it means that despite this, I take it up and still continue to follow the Lord. So we looked at five things. We looked at, as a disciple, we as disciples, we call to obey or remain in the world. As disciples, we are called to walk in love, just as we are also, we are also loved by him. And as disciples, we need to go after fruitfulness or be productive and make sure that our life is fruitful, as the Lord enables us and empowers us. And that's his desire. And as a believer, as a disciple, I endeavor or I need to make it, put in all my effort in order to be like him. That means I need to make that my desire, make that my purpose to be like my Lord. Christlikeness should be my endeavor as a disciple. And fifthly, we saw that it involves sacrifice, it involves certain separation from the ways of the world, definitely. And it involves suffering. And all these things are also something that actually distinguishes me or identifies me, identifying Mark. It becomes an identify Mark for me as a disciple. Okay. Right. So let's look at something else. Any questions here? Anything that, any questions before we move on? Okay. No questions, sir. Yeah. Yeah, Kiran. You said something. No question. Clear, sir. Thank you. Okay. So this is something that we need to kind of be strong in. This is kind of foundational for discipleship. Sometimes what happens is we focus on the other things in the sense, okay, we need to reach people, we need to, we need to get them to know Christ. Yes, that's a very, very important thing. But, you know, the second part of it is once they hear of the Gospel or once they know Christ, there is this aspect of discipleship, continuing, walking, continuing to walk with the Lord. Right. So that is also part of the Great Commission. We need to understand that. Okay. Okay. So let's look at, you know, some of the things about, again, discipleship. How do we go about making disciples? How does one make disciples? Right. So let's look at that. We look at the life of Jesus and the kind of example that he said. And from there, we can learn quite a bit. Right. So let's look at Matthew chapter 4, 18 to 22. Okay, Matthew 4, 18. And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea. For they were fishermen. Then he said to them, follow me and I will make you fishers of men. They immediately left their nets and followed him. Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee and John, his brother, in the boat with Zebedee, their father, mending their nets. He called them and immediately, they left the boat and their father and followed him. Excuse me. So something very significant that we see is in verse 19 where he says, follow me and I will make you. Okay. And I will make you fishers of men. So he said something in the language that they understand because they were fishermen and they were actually in the act of, you know, they were actually catching fish. They were in the sea, putting out the net into the sea. And the Lord says, follow me and I will make you. So in following the Lord as disciples, a disciple follows the Lord. So in following the Lord as a disciple, the Lord Jesus is saying that, no, I'm going to make you. There is a change. There is a transformation. There is a making that is happening. You are being made into a disciple. As a disciple, as I follow the Lord, I myself am being made into someone who will reach out and make disciples. And I will make you fishers of men. So this following him is very important. So let's look at some of the things that the Lord Jesus did. What can we learn from the Lord? How did he make his disciples? What did he do? Mark chapter 3 verses 13 to 15, we see this is what we see. And he went up on the mountain and called to him those he himself wanted. And they came to him. Then he chose, then he appointed 12 that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons. So he chose 12. He appointed 12. We see in verse 14 that they might be with him and that he might send them out. So both are important that they might be with them. So there is this regular contact or regular standing time with the ones who we are called to disciple. So which means that it does not happen. Discipleship does not happen if we are not spending time or teaching others personally. So this is because he said the way he made his disciples or any appointed them, he called them and with this intention, with this purpose, that they might be with him. So the same applies for us that whoever we are making into disciples, whomever we are teaching and whomever we are teaching and others to follow the Lord or principles and precepts and truths from the word, whomever we are, the Lord is interested to us. So this is another important aspect that we should never forget, that they might be with us, that they might spend time, that there is this time for fellowship, there is this time for teaching and that the sending out is also the other aspect of it. So with them, they travel with him, they travel, they pray together, they minister together, this is verse 12, they spend time with him. So when, if you look at these verses in Mark chapter 3 in verse 7, it says, but Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. Now they are ministering. If you look at the verses before that, they've been ministering. Let's look at that. Let's go to Mark chapter 3 and this is what has happened. He has gone to the synagogue and he has healed a man who had a withered hand, which could not function. So he healed them and after that, there were the Pharisees, they were talking ill of him and they were plotting to kill him, etc. Planning to do that. In verse 7, we see that Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. So he was with the disciples, the disciples were with him and together they withdrew to the seaside and it says that a great multitude followed and he was ministering. So they were with him even in the ministering. They saw what he was doing. They saw how he was teaching. Mark chapter 6, 30 and 32, then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught. And he said to them, come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile. For there were many coming and going and they did not even have time to eat. Excuse me. So they departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves. So all this, we see that in the ministering, they ministered together and they were traveling together and the Lord was mindful of all that. They were quite busy doing what they were doing. And he was also mindful of the times that they need to rest and eat and so on, physical rest and physical nourishment. We see that. If you read Acts chapter 4, we see the testimony of those who looked at the disciples who heard Peter and John and they saw their minister. They saw them heal the man who had been lame. So when they heard Peter and John, they came to a conclusion. This is what we see, Acts chapter 4 and verse 13. Now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. Now, these were, Acts chapter 4, if you see, they actually call Peter and John and make them in the temple and they're surrounded by all these people and then they question them. And Peter answers with so much boldness. We see this. Let's accept the four this once again. Let's go to that. So, who were all there? The rulers, the elders, the scribes, Acts chapter 4 and verse 5, Annas the High Priest, Cephas, John, and Alexander as many of the family of the High Priest. All of them were there. Peter and John were surrounded by these people. These were powerful people, they could do anything they wanted or surrounding. And then Peter is filled with the Holy Spirit and he declares in verse 12, we see, nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Verse 13, now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceive that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled and they realized that they had been with Jesus. So, spending time with Jesus was a very important criteria. So, in making disciples, now, yes, we need to lead people to the Lord so that they spend time with the Lord, not just with maybe us as teachers or us as ministers or spiritual leaders. We need to lead people to the Lord. But also, we see that an important aspect of it is that people would learn, when we look at the example of Paul and Timothy and Titus and so on. Paul actually writes and he says, be imitators of God. So, he obviously imitated the pattern, the life and teachings of the Lord Jesus. So, the important thing is that even as us as leaders, there is that element of, or there is that important aspect of being with the people and letting people, allowing people to see our life, our struggles, everything and as, be part of that discipleship making process. So, we see that. He was with them, he taught them personally. Secondly, they went together with the team as a team. They learned from each other. They, of course, had conflicts with each other. They had to deal with those conflicts. When the disciples' mother came and said, let two Jesus and said, Lord, James and John's mother, Matthew 20, Lord, let my sons be with you. When you come and when you come as a king, let them be with you on the left and the right. So, now all the other disciples felt, how can she do this? How can the James and John allow their mother to give such a request? Everybody was feeling upset about that. So, as they ministered together as a team, all this happened. It wasn't like everything was fun. Everything was smooth. No, there were some conflicts. There were some differences. They didn't have much. I guess especially when it came to feeding the multitude, feeding the thousands of people. In John chapter 6, we see that. The Lord Jesus says, okay, you do it. And then you see the different responses. Let's look at that. John chapter 6, feeding the 5,000. And 6 and verse 5. Jesus lifted up his eyes, seeing a great multitude coming towards him. He said to Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat? But this he said to test him for. He himself knew what he would do. Philip answered, 200 denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may have a little. So, and one of his disciples, Andrew, that is the Lord's disciple, Andrew, 7 Peter's brother said to him, there is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many? So, these were kind of the responses. So, Philip was saying, okay, probably he's a very analytical person. He took stock of what money they had. And then he saw the number of people. He says, even with 200 denarii, probably that's what we have right now. Even with this money, we cannot buy bread enough so that each person can have a little. We cannot do it. And Andrew, he says, okay, Philip is talking about money. Andrew said, okay, this is what we have. We have this bread. We have this two fish. But what are they? How can we, what do we do with those? Right? We say all these reactions. They went through a storm. They saw challenges. They saw persecutions. And, you know, so they, they were together as a team. So one learns a lot as people, as believers, as we journey together. Okay? So that's, that's something that we see in the life of the Lord Jesus that we put together this team. They, they did life together. Okay. Then he sent them out to do whatever he taught them. Okay. So first of all, they were with him. They journeyed with him as a team. They had differences. They learned through that. They navigated all their conflicts and everything. Then we see that he sent them out to do whatever he taught them. It looks after nine versus one to six. We see that. Okay. Then he called his 12 disciples together, gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And he said to them, take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bread, sorry, nor bag, nor bread nor money and do not have to tunics a piece, whatever house you enter, stay there and from their depart. And whoever will not receive you when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your dust from your feet as a testimony against them. So they departed and went through the towns preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. Okay. So the Lord actually sent them out. He empowered them and he sent them out to do whatever he taught them. Now, he has been teaching them. They've been traveling with them. They've been seeing how he was actually teaching and ministering. So they went and did the same thing because they had been with them and then he sent them out. Okay. So we'll stop here, take a break and then come back and continue.