 this time, just waiting on him, just asking him to fill our minds with his thoughts, scripture declares that those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. So I don't know how your weekend was, maybe it was well rested, or maybe it was just like any other day, and we could be physically, we could be fine, but maybe mentally, emotionally, we are weary, certain things can, challenges, certain repeated difficulties can actually make us weary. So scripture talks about in Isaiah, we see that those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, and they will mount up with wings like eagles, Isaiah 40, and those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. This is for each one of us, and maybe you're feeling a little weary this morning, but let's just wait on the Lord, let's just ask him to renew our strength, let's do that, and you can go ahead and maybe just worship him, you can go ahead and just thank him, or just be in silence in the presence of God and have him renew your strength, but our focus is on him, our focus is on the one who gave us this promise that he will renew our strength when we wait on him, so let's do that, thank you Lord, thank you Father, thank you Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah, thank you Lord, yes Lord, our hearts, our turn towards you, God, hallelujah, our hearts are yielded to you, thank you, thank you Lord, strengthening our walk with you Lord, you will cause us to walk, you will cause us to run, yes, some tasks require walking and some tasks require running and the urgency of it, for both, oh God, you are sufficient, for both those things, oh Father God, you will renew our strength, hallelujah, thank you Lord, I don't know what your environment is, wherever you are, maybe you are alone or maybe there are people around, so you may or may not be able to do this, but I just want you to go ahead and sing out in tongues, this Bible says that Paul writes and he says, I will pray with the Spirit, I will also sing with the Spirit, I will sing with the Spirit, I will sing with the understanding, so this morning I just want you to, maybe you've done this before, maybe you do it regularly, but maybe for some of us it's a first time, just take a step of faith and sing out in tongues, tune to whatever you're praying out and sing out in tongues, when you add a melody it adds that extra dimension of opening up certain things in our lives, emotionally there are things that come crashing down when we add the melody and that's how God instituted singing and we can sing to him, come before his presence with singing, with thanksgiving and so this morning we're just going to come before his presence singing in tongues, singing in the Spirit, let's do that, Hey, we come before you God, we come before you God, the God of heaven and earth, the God of heaven and earth, we sing out out of the overflow of our hearts, those who have your reach shall renew their strength those who cannot run will begin to walk again and run again Yes Lord, you have designed us to walk and run and soar and you have called us to mount up with wings like eagles and soar about the storm because there you are and where you are there we will be also Thank you Lord, you're welcome Hey, I believe that the Lord is really taking out it's like just taking out the rough exterior of some of our souls you know souls meaning under our feet and you know he's giving us a walk whereby we will be sensitive right sensitive sometimes the souls become calloused and and he helps in our walking yes no doubt but the Lord wants us to be sensitive to where we put our feet and you know really as a figure of speech to sensitive in our be sensitive in our walking with him be sensitive on the kind of terrain that we walk be sensitive to the to where we put our feet and you know really our choices our decisions and as we walk with him right so the Lord is just peeling off the rough exterior and giving us a new sensitivity even as we walk with him Hallelujah bless your name Lord bless your name Lord bless your name Lord bless your name Lord we praise you Jesus we thank you thank you Lord you're the living God thank you Lord you've called us Father God thank you you're preparing us Father God thank you Lord you're emptying us oh Father God thank you you're filling us oh Father God thank you Lord you're establishing us of Father God and thank you Father your Lord you're refining us oh God in your fire oh God we thank you Father you're identifying us oh God for that we thank you Lord because you're building us oh God line upon line and precept upon precept oh Father God we thank you oh Father you're preparing us oh God for a glorious future and the Lord ever glorious present of Father God we thank you Lord you that you've given us the privilege to walk with you Father God, to walk with you every moment, every day of Father God. What a privilege, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. We thank you. We bless your name. We bless your name. And we believe, O Father God, even as you filled us, Lord, this morning, Father God, we don't have any reason to be weary in our spirit. We don't have any reason to be weary in our emotions, Father God. Hallelujah. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless this holy name. Bless this holy name. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. We praise you. We come at this time into your mighty hands. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. Praise the Lord. I hope you guys had a good weekend. I hope you were able to share Christ with someone. Encourage someone with the word of the Lord. You know, encourage someone just being there with your presence, maybe someone in your family. Yeah. Okay. So here we go. We, yeah, I remember we were just talking about how we can actually do some kind of a research to find out how the gospel came to our, you know, our land, our city, or, you know, the city that you live in, the town that you live in, right? So I wonder how many of you were able to do that? If you were able to do that, maybe you can just post it in the stream, right? You can post it in the stream so that all of us can read it. I know sharing would be great, but if you can post it in the stream, I know there'll be names, dates, and places and so on. So it'll be good for us to read it. So I just want to encourage you to go ahead and post it. If you were able to do that, that kind of research over the weekend, how the gospel came to your city, your town, or, you know, village, whatever, right? Who brought it and how did it happen? Was it a ministry? Was it a, you know, individual? So just put it in the stream. I'm sure it'll be helpful for all of us. Okay. So let's continue with, yeah, we're good to hear that Rupa revived in the spirit, amen. Yeah. So every time, you know, I was just thinking this morning, every time we feel, feel, you know, it's, yeah, I know, we will feel weary in our walk with God and, you know, we might feel weary because of circumstances, because of challenges. And the thing is to just go back and get revived, because Bible talks about how seasons of refreshing come from His presence, right? So, and we, we, we are privileged to be recipients of that refreshing. And it's our, it's our privilege to be revived by the Lord and to be strengthened by Him, right? And to receive that joy, which is really a resource of the kingdom. And He will release that into our hearts. And the joy of the Lord is our strength. So whatever be the circumstances, whatever be the mountains, we will face it with that strength. Right. Okay. So we've been, so last class, we looked at some practical lessons to doing the work of an evangelist. And we finished by saying the evangelist needs to be connected to the local church, be part of the body. And even though the work, the ministry work of the evangelist would require, you know, covering territory, whether physically or, you know, nowadays, you know, digitally and so on. So it might require travel. And in most cases, but to be connected to a local church, irrespective of that, right? So that would be, that would be the scriptural thing to do, because we see in scripture that they were connected to a local church. They went on their missionary journeys and these were long journeys, but they came back and they would always come back and share and the others would rejoice. The others would be praying for them as well. And they would rejoice having heard the good report, right? So, yeah, so let's remember that. And maybe, you know, even as we were going through those, through the work of the evangelist, and maybe there was a stirring in, you know, some of our hearts, there's a stirring up saying, okay, what you would, okay, Tiresha, okay, let me just put it on the stream. I'm not sure if it's there on the stream. I'll put it on the stream so that it can be clear. And so there won't be any doubt, right? I'll do that after the class. Okay. So, yeah, so if there was a stirring on any of you on the inside, you know, regarding the ministry of the evangelist, so pray along those lines and say, Lord, you make me. And the beautiful thing that we see in the gospels is that this making happens as we follow. And as we follow the Lord, there is the making that is happening. So the Lord says, you know, follow me and I will make you. Follow me and I will make you. So this making, Matthew 4 verse 19, follow, make fit of men. So, so yeah, the thing is to follow him, to stay connected with him, to follow him. And he will make us fishers of men. He will make us into the ministers that he wants us to be, and the plan that he has for us, the calling that he has for us as a minister of God, right? So, specifically as an evangelist, you know, there is that making that happens in the following, right? Follow me and I will make you, the Lord says. So let's do that. Follow him closely, mimic him. The scripture also talks about the imitators of God. So that's the reason we are studying, you know, this is how he ministered. So let me also minister in his footsteps the same way he ministered. I want to minister the same way, right? So be imitators of God as dear children. The scripture talks about that. Okay, so today let's look at the ministry gift of the teacher. Okay, so again, we will study the life of the Lord Jesus and the ministry that he did as a teacher. So what are your thoughts about the teachers? Maybe you can share about, you know, an inspiring teacher that you had maybe in school, anything that you can remember about your teachers. That will be great, you know, about our earthly teachers. Who is it? Who is your favorite and the reason for that? Anyone? I know it was a long time ago, when you were in school, but your favorite teacher and why? Anyone? Well, the one that stood out to me the most that I always wondered if she's okay. It was my great two teacher, that's ages ago, but she was kind and loving. I remember there was an earthquake around that time, you know, and she stood out to me like great two teachers. Okay, kind and loving. Okay, nice. Yeah, anyone else? Thank you, Teja. Thank you. Anyone else? First of all, I would like to say my high school during my high school, I am my principal, also a class teacher, because I studied, you know, convent, you know, and nuns. Along with subject, there was always a class on moral values, Bible principles. Even though he was very strict on moral values, helping, serving the needy, helping the poor, you wish to, during that time, we used to clean the whole campus, we used to serve nearby village, so that I really learned, I really inspired her to all the moral values, which is more important. Right. Thank you, Dinesh. Thank you so much. Okay, for me, my school teacher, I remember this one particular instance when she was my history teacher. Actually, she was a geography teacher, but for some reason, she taught history. And I remember she was talking about Indian mythology and thought about the story of Rama and Sita. I don't know if you guys have read. And the way she explained it was amazing. I wasn't there in class, I was right there, I could visualize, she was brilliant. And I remember going back very excited, wow, you know, as if I was part of, you know, this whole scene scenario. So, yeah, so I remember about, I remember her, her name was Mrs. Leela Maskerness, Mrs. Maskerness. And then we got to be friends, I used to visit her at home, and she was also a great cook. She would make some very nice dishes and so on. So, a very huge family, a Mangalurian family, they had goats. And so, I have really fond memories of the entire household. Yes, yeah, Chris, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, Chris. I'm sorry, I'm not able to hear you, Chris. I don't know about the others. I'm sorry, Chris, Chris, I think we're not able to hear because it's I'm getting some high frequency kind of sound, not able to hear. Maybe you can put it on the chat, if you don't mind. I'm so sorry, yeah. It was some high frequency, like, I don't know, others, could you hear what Chris was sharing? I don't know if it's just me. No, sorry. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, it seemed like a chipmunk kind of thing. So, maybe something to do with the thing, Chris, maybe if it's plugged in all the way in, that would help, I think. I'm not sure if that'll solve it. Yeah, you can put it in the chat. Sorry about that. Yeah. Okay, anyone else? Can you hear me now, Pashto? Teachers. Yeah, yeah, now it's clear. Go ahead. Yeah, I was just saying that my teacher, the teacher I remember, who was very encouraging, was my fourth standard teacher. And she was the one who made me the class monitor. So that was my, the first time that I was given a position of responsibility. I was very proud to be a class monitor here. And she, I had actually asked her, if I told her, I said, I want to become the class monitor. And she agreed. So I remember that and she was a very kind person, a very, you know, and a very encouraging person. So, yes, I remember her as my, as actually the best teacher I ever had. Well, yeah. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks, Chris. Thanks for sharing that. Charles, you want to say something? Thank you, Pashto. My favorite teacher, the one that I will not forget is Ter Miriam. She taught me in the P1C. P1C, this is the class that is below primary one. And we were writing in the ground and we were using the sand. Sand and that's why we're writing. And I had issues with figure seven and figure nine. And she came and held my finger, the pointer finger, and showed me how to write seven because I was writing it the other way around. And nine was like a letter P. So, and now after I had written all those, she went and she came back and she found I had written them by myself because in the sand, you are free to erase. Very quickly you can erase, you don't require anything but your fingers and your hands. So, when she came back and she found I had written them, she made me stand in front of other children and she organized me and said, yes, Charles has written. I think by that time I was not even appraised. They are calling me by my name. The one you see, that's the long name of Ahid Zubge. And now from that day, I was made the class monitor. You don't know what it means, Charles. Everything changed. I became a superstar. So, you can read your mind. I can't forget her. Wow. Thank you. Thanks, Charles. I know we all have fond memories, right? Yeah. So, that's, it's not, okay, I saw you through tenth and twelfth. A very gifted teacher, funny, related well with teenagers. Okay. You also had to put in the hard work. Amazing. So, we all have, you know, these fond memories. You know, it's been many years. Okay, Susan has put one more person. It was a non strict kind. Okay, daily studies corrected every error. Wonderful. Right. So, they were really, you know, if you look back, they were really fathers and mothers, right? They took the kind of concern they had and the kind of compassion and love and the way they inspired us, motivated us. And we were also, you know, at that stage, we were also young and moldable and impressionable, right? And praise God for these teachers. Yes, I know it can go either ways, right? Some, I'm sure that there have been, there would have been bad experiences, abusive experiences and so on. But praise God for these. We can still remember and, you know, and praise God for Chris. Did you put up your hands? Sorry. Okay. Oh, okay. So, so we see, you know, teachers can actually make such a lasting impression. They take us from a place of ignorance, right? From, they make, take us from ignorance to knowledge and understanding, right? From immaturity to maturity, right? You know, if you, as a figure of speech, we can say, take us from darkness to light. It's so also the ministry, right? The ministry gift of the teacher, right? The ministry gift of the teacher to take a person or a group of people from ignorance to understanding, from immaturity to maturity, or it could be from a level of maturity to an even greater level of maturity, from darkness to light. And really, it is a very important, you know, as important as all the ministry gifts are, the Holy Spirit has played, I mean, the Lord has placed this ministry gift in the body so that the, again, when we look at Ephesians 4 and 4, 11 and 12, we see that it is for the equipping of the saint for the work of ministry, right? The end objective is that, but in the process, we get grounded in the knowledge and the understanding of the word of God, in the very character, the nature of God, and the heart of God, right? So, it is not just the intellectual understanding, but really the whole, the entire thing of the character, the nature of God, the heart of God, the power of God. So, we see that the teacher does that there because of the revelation, because of the teachers unable to, the teaching gift operates in such a way where there are deep revelations, you know, they're able to receive deep revelations from the Spirit of God. The teacher persists in going after, you know, asking those questions, why, where, who, when, what, and really engaging with God, and the Lord leading in this way to reveal, to open up the mysteries, to give deep and wonderful revelation from the word of God, and the teacher making it simple, you know, having the ability to communicate that. It does no good if the revelation is locked up on the inside and it, of course, it helps us, you know, as individuals, but then if the revelation flows out in simple words, so that it, you know, the other person is also able to receive it and be grounded in it, and experience the power of it, then it is a blessing to others. Okay, Maxon has shared here. Okay, interesting. Thank you. Thank you, Maxon. Yeah, so, so we see that the teacher does, does these things. So today we let's look at the Lord Jesus, how he ministered as the teacher, some of the characteristics, some of the elements of the teaching gift flowing through him, right, as he ministered as the teacher. So if you're following in your notes is chapter six and page 16, the Lord Jesus as our example for the ministry gift. Okay, so we need to understand that yes, the teacher has a revelation and knowledge and understanding which flows out, you know, that's in a very natural manner, but it's not to puff up, you know, puff us up. If, if we do that, then we're kind of, we're not really following in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus, you know, if it does not come from a place of, you know, I know everything and I'm here to teach you something that you do not know, it doesn't come from that, it comes from a place of edifying the other person to build up the other person, and to also let the other person overtake and go beyond, you know, that's the heart of the teacher, right, to overtake and go beyond the level of the teacher. And, and that's the beautiful thing because, you know, if you look at the Lord Jesus, John 14 12, he says, you know, the one who he who believes in me, these things he will do and greater things, greater things he will do also. So, you know, you see the heart of the Father, right, saying that, you know, you do this and greater things. So, there's no insecurity in that, you know, because he's the one who's empowering and saying, do greater things in my name, right. So, excuse me. So, we see that. So, we just need to, you know, have that understanding that that's the heart of the teacher. Okay. So, let's look at some of the examples, some of the scriptures where we see the Lord Jesus, where it specifically mentions that the Lord Jesus taught. Okay. Matthew 4 23, of course, these are in the notes. So, I'm just requesting you to follow that. So, Matthew 4 23. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of diseases among the people. And we see several other references, similar to this one in the gospel of Matthew, right. Mark chapter 1 verses 21-22. And they went into Kappanam. And immediately on the Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at his teaching. For he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. So, here, there's a comparison between the teaching of the Lord Jesus and the teaching of the scribes who normally taught and says that they were, they were astonished at his teaching, right. A characteristic of his teaching. And similarly, we see several other references that you can go through in Mark. Okay. Luke chapter 4 verse 15. And he taught in their synagogue, being glorified by all and verse 31. Then he went to Kappanam, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. So, this was a regular feature of the Lord's ministry that he would teach from, you know, obviously the scriptures, the Old Testament, he would teach them. And they were astonished at his insight and the way he taught and the wisdom with which he taught, the authority with which he taught. Yeah. So, if you were to list down the kind of, you know, the characteristics with which he taught, here are some things that are noticed in these verses, right. Matthew 7 and verse 29. For he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. And so, the authority with which he taught, the mastery, the competence with which he taught, right. And we know that this authority came because the Lord himself said, you know, what I hear the Father speak that I speak, you know. So, it comes with that authority and out of, and flowing out of that place of intimacy. You know, I know that the Father has spoken, and that has given me the authority to speak this. I see the Father do and I do this, right. So, the authority with which he spoke, the authority, the word, you know, used there talks about mastery and competence and so on. The same word exusia is used there. The word that we use for, you know, delegated authority, right. Exusia. So, the authority with which he spoke, and it was not like the scribes, you know, that is what we see here recorded. So, which means there is a comparison and they did not teach with that kind of an authority that the Lord had and which came out of intimacy, right. And so, that is something that we see. The second thing we see is that the Lord Jesus obviously had compassion and love for the people. You know, he was moved with compassion when he saw the people were lost, you know, as sheep without a shepherd. We see that he was moved with compassion. He, and he reached out and touched them and healed them and so on. And even in his interaction with, you know, several people, with the woman caught at adultery, you know, we see that, the kind of compassion that he had, right. He says to her, neither do I condemn you, but go and sin no more, right. And the kind of love and compassion that he had. So, something for us to learn, something for us to understand, which means that, you know, we can teach without love and compassion, right. We can teach, I don't know, as a sense of, maybe a duty, as a sense of something. I'm just thinking about Jonah, you know, Jonah, when he went and preached to Nineveh, first of all, he didn't want to go. He ran away from, went in the opposite direction. And then he went there. And, you know, he, he preached, of course, and then there was great repentance and sorrowing and fasting and, but he still waited for, he sat there and he wanted to see the kind of destruction that would come upon the city. You know, really, he didn't have the father's heart, God's heart, as he went and, you know, preached. So, when we minister to have that love and compassion, to ask God, you know, that's something that, that we see in the Lord Jesus in his ministry, right. The love with which he ministered, right. The other thing we see is that the wisdom, the wisdom, because people saw that and he said, you know, where did he get his wisdom? Matthew 13 and verse 54, when he had come to his own country, he taught them in their synagogue so that they were astonished and said, where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? So, they saw the demonstration of power. They heard his teaching and they were astonished. They said, where did he get this wisdom? Right. And John chapter 745 and 46 talks about the reaction, the response of the officers who had actually come, who were sent by the chief priests and the Pharisees, you know. So, they came back saying, you know, no one ever spoke like this man. No one ever spoke like this man, which means that they were kind of, they were drawn to the content of what you were sharing. They were drawn to him as a person and they were drawn by the wisdom which characterized his teaching. And they said, no one ever spoke like this, right. So, there was so much wisdom, practical wisdom coming out of his teaching, which they could not refute, which they were drawn to. Okay. So, I'm just, you know, when we read through all this we see, you know, just imagine the presence of the Lord Jesus, you know. He's all apostle, all evangelist, all pastor, all teacher, you know, all prophet, and he is God. And this kind of ministry just flows out of him. Just imagine the, you know, the presence of the Lord Jesus. It's amazing, right. The way, just when you, when you get a glimpse of his personality, when you get a glimpse of how he ministered, you know, we get so excited, right. And our heart is like, the resource stirred up and his presence is amazing, right. And one day we're going to see him face to face and it's going to be amazing. And that's, that's worth looking forward to, right. Like Paul says, you know, to be absent here, to be with the Lord is better for me, right. He says, but then for the sake of others, he's like, you know, what is better for you is that I remain here and teach and so on. So his presence is amazing. His presence is, you know, something that you cannot describe, indescribable beyond words, right. Okay. So, so we see that the other thing that we see, the fourth thing that we see is that his teaching was combined with supernatural ministry. Okay. So it was not merely academic. It was also not merely going beyond the knowledge and with the revelation that comes from the Holy Spirit was not just that, but also combined with the demonstration. Okay. Because people said, you know, where did he find, you know, where did he get this wisdom and these mighty works? Okay. And these mighty works. So it, there was demonstration confirming all that he was teaching. There was demonstration. And that's an example for us as well that, that in our teaching, we can expect and receive and flow in the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit, right. It could be in the gifts of the spirit and, you know, in whatever way that the Lord leads to expect that to grow in that, to develop ourselves in that, that we, you know, whether we take those steps and develop ourselves in that, whether in the prophetic or whether it's something to do with faith and healing or, you know, word of knowledge and wisdom that we develop ourselves in that and ask God to, like Paul says, desire spiritual gifts. So we desire that and not really cool down in our desire for the spiritual gifts, right. Because that's how he ministered. And that is who we who need to walk in his footsteps. We can do the same thing. And he, you know, very gave that blanket statement that those who believe in me will do these works. Right. So, so praise God, we have this opportunity, we have this privilege, we have the Holy Spirit and who will lead us in such ways. Okay. So another scripture is Matthew 4, verse 23 and 24. Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all kinds of sicknesses, all kinds of disease among the people. Then his fame went throughout all Syria, verse 24 says, and they brought to him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments and those who were demon possessed, epileptics and paralytics and he healed them. So, so the thing is that, you know, if the Lord is called some of us to be teachers, so we don't have to limit our ministry or two mere words or understanding to pass on understanding and revelation, which is, of course, a very crucial and important aspect of the teaching ministry, but also expand and say, God come, make it real, let people have an encounter with the presence and the power of the Lord Jesus, with the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. And that's a privilege that so we are, we are not only are we unlocking, you know, there's a certain unlocking that happens. I remember, you know, sitting under the teaching of LTJ Chandran, a person by name LTJ Chandran who used to work with in the ministry of Apologetics and so on. So, this was right in my, I think college days. So there was unlocking happening, you know, as he was teaching and as he was there's an unlocking happening, you know, solutions coming in and a lot of questions, questions which I had for many years, answers coming in and it was as if these doors were being unlocked. I don't know if you've had that experience, you know, it was as if these locks were being, you know, opened and, and, you know, you're just being guided into a truth and greater truth and so on. So, I don't remember having that kind of an unlocking experience, right. So there, the teaching ministry would involve that unlocking kind of experience where people are led into truth and with an encounter with the person who is, is them itself, right. And that's the, that's the beautiful thing and prayer, you know, and encounter with the power of the Lord Jesus in doing those good works, like in all the whatever be the oppression of the enemy, whatever be the works of the enemy, whatever be the deception of the enemy, right, whatever be the fears and deception and lies of the enemy that people have an encounter with the presence of Jesus. People have an encounter with the power of the Holy Spirit and all these inroads that the enemy has made in their lives are, you know, are nullified and neutralized and that's territory taken back for the kingdom of God, right. So, so, so we have the privilege of doing that, right. Excuse me, sorry. The other thing that the Lord Jesus used was the use of figurative language. Of course, he, we see many other things like he quoted extensively from the Old Testament scriptures, right. And the he was, of course, the eternal word, the living word. And, you know, he was, in a way, he was authorizing all these scriptures. He quoted extensively from that. And, and then, you know, he the, the method that he used in teaching, one of the things was, of course, parables, right. He used figurative language like metaphors and hyperboles and parables. So, let's look at, like, what are those things that he used? What are those tools that he used when he was sharing, right. He used metaphors, we see in Matthew 16 and verse 11, I think, Matthew 16, yeah. Matthew 16 and verse 11. So, here, you're saying, how is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees, okay. So, in verse six, if you just back up to verse six, of verse five, now when his disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said to them, take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, it is because we have taken no bread. You know, we didn't, we forgot to bring the lunch. And it is because of that that the Lord is saying, you know, beware of the leaven of the, and then Lord goes on to explain, you know, do you not remember, you know, how there was multiplication of the loaves and the, you know, and you had so many leftover. How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. So, to beware of the influence of the leaven or the east of the Pharisees. And then they understood, verse 12, that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees, which could, you know, which could corrupt, which could influence the entire batch of dough. Okay. And of course, they understood that because they would have the feast of the unleavened bread, right? All the Jews did that feast of the unleavened bread where the entire household was cleansed of all east and, you know, they would, and for seven, five days or seven days, I think they would eat unleavened bread from that time. So they understood that, of course, and so they knew the effect of leaven on the dough and why, you know, leaven referring to, again, what they were set free from the bondage of Egypt, right? So, so they, they, they understood that. So here they made that connection. It was about the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees when he said the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. So he used these metaphors, which they could relate to. And, and one of the reasons being that they would never forget it, right? I'm sure every time they were eating bread, they would remember the, the multiplication, they would, of the, you know, the supernatural power of the Lord, the miracle that they experienced in their own hands rather, and the provision, the heart of God to provide for their needs. And, and they would also understand about the leaven, about the teaching and everything, you know, just coming together in that, you know, you know, whenever they were eating a meal probably at different times, you know, all these things just coming home, you know, becoming real to them. So he used metaphors. He also used hyperbolic. You know, Matthew seven, we talk about where he says when it comes to forgiveness and correcting and judging. So Matthew seven and verse three says, how can you say to your, sorry, how, why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye. Okay, so stick in your one's eye, we can, we can understand, but, you know, there's a plank, you know, plank is of course, a big wooden piece. So you're saying, how is it that, you know, you want to correct or take out that speck, that small piece from your brother's eye, but we hope there is a huge wooden plank in your own eye. So it was an exaggeration, a hyperbole, an exaggeration to drive home the point that there is something that bigger, there's a bigger issue with yourself, which is actually preventing you from, you know, correcting the other person or setting right the other person. So there's a bigger issue that you need to deal with. Okay, so that was the truth that he was sharing. And he used this hyperbole, this exaggeration, you know, there's a plank in your eye, where you're looking at the speck in the other person. So, you know, so judging unjustly, right. So that is what something that we see here. And of course, he used parables. He used parables, a parable. So we look at that when we come back from the big break, we look at the kind of parables that he used and taught, and we look at some of them. Okay, so we'll take a break right now. Thank you.