 we thank you for this time Lord, we thank you for Lord just being with each one of us and even Lord as we continue to study and learn, we pray God that we will be sensitive to your leading, that we will understand your word, we will Lord walk in obedience to your word of God. We thank you for this wonderful opportunity to learn together and I pray God that you will minister to us even as we study Lord. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. All right. Okay, so last class we did up to chapter 29. 29 was, sorry, we did up to 28, right? Just justified and righteous by the blood. Now I did give you all a little bit of assignment. Anybody remember what the homework was? Only Moses remembers. I know that Elizabeth remembers online. Thank you Elizabeth for I'm not sure if it's Esther, Esther, Esther, right? Esther online for it. So I had, you know, asked you to write down the words and what the meaning of the words are, but it went like this and then it went up and went away. Okay, do that this week. Okay. That's why I say make notes. You know, I still have my notes of Bible college. You want to see it? You want me to bring it and come? It's 16 years, 17 years old. I still have it. Still have it. The notes, my notebooks, all my, all the books that we study still have it. Okay. So that's why when you write, no, you'll remember. Right. So write it down. Write it down in Hindi or whatever language that you feel like, right? So that you remember what you have to do. Okay. So let's get into chapter 29. So online students, I was just talking to the students here, I was saying that, you know, we're going to pick up a little more pace because we have quite a lot of content to cover. And, and so if there are places I'm going fast, it's only because I want to try and complete the portions on time. Right. So let's go to chapter 29. No condemnation. Let's read Romans chapter eight and verse one. Now these are verses that we must know by heart. You shouldn't even look at the notes. Second Corinthians by 17, Romans eight, one. These are the common verses. So it says, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Now this is such a joy, right? Now there is no condemnation. We talked about this. What is condemnation? When somebody does something bad, right? There's condemnation on that person, right? So if a person has, is a thief, and the thief has been caught. What happens? You see it? The locals will catch him, beat him up, and he's condemned, right? And not only is he physically condemned, he's in inwardly also he's condemned. Hey, I'm a thief. And feeling condemned is not a good feeling. Is it a good feeling? Would you see a murderer or a thief smiling and saying, hi, how are you? It's a good day. No, they are feeling condemned. They want to cover their face. They want to hide. They want to run away. There's condemnation. Hey, what do people think of me? Right? Now the Bible says, now there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Are we in Christ Jesus? Yes. So I like the second part of the verse, who do not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. So sometimes we just take that first verse and hold on to that. The first portion of the verse says, therefore, now there is no condemnation. But there is no condemnation for who? For those who walk according to the Spirit. For them, there's no condemnation, right? The word condemnation means a sentence, a guilty verdict, and a guilty conviction in our heart. That's how condemnation. Now in the national, do you and I just feel condemnation? Yes. It's a natural thing, right? So for example, we may have sinned, right? We have done something wrong. We said something, got angry and we shouted to a friend or a relative or your parents. And then sometimes you feel, hey, what kind of a person I am? I shouldn't have. That's called condemnation. Hey, I shouldn't have. And then there is conviction. Conviction of the Holy Spirit brings us to repentance, right? So conviction is the Holy Spirit will tell us, see, what you did was wrong. You shouldn't have got angry. You should have just stayed quiet, right? But now what you do is you go back, ask forgiveness, make things right and continue your walk with life, right? That's called conviction of the Holy Spirit. But condemnation, oh, I did this. I did this. I did this so nobody can help me. Nobody can change me. This is the way I am. I was born like this or my friends called me this. That's called condemnation, guilty, right? But when God looks at us, right, he looks at us as justified. Look, Satan is the accuser of the brethren. He brings condemnation, right? Let's look there. One of his strategies is to bring thoughts of accusation and condemnation against the believer. And remember that Satan is a liar and he's the father of lies. So imagine you're getting into supernatural hour today. You're ready to worship God and suddenly Satan, you know, the thought comes, you're ready to worship God. You know what you did yesterday? You did all these mistakes. He'll write down one list and show you. One, two, three, four, five mistakes you have done. Now you're ready to worship God with the same mouth you're going to sing. Now what is that called? Accuser. He's accusing you of something. Is it true? Maybe true. Now there are times it's true. There are times it's not true, right? But even if it's true, the Bible says now we are not in condemnation. So like what I said last class, if the devil keeps telling you, okay, you did this wrong, this wrong, this wrong, what is the response for you and I as a believer? One, we can speak God's word. Two, you tell the devil, hey, I don't have to answer you. Do we have an account to give to the devil? Do we have an account? He has an account of us, but do we have an account with him? So we don't have to keep giving him, no, actually devil, you know what happened? He's very tired that day. He doesn't know, he'll sit and listen. The devil is ready to just keep on putting accusations, but you and I as believers don't have to do that. You can step away and say, hey, I'll give an account, but not to you. I'll give an account to God. I'll go back to God, ask God to forgive me. Okay, everyone say now, no condemnation. Now, not tomorrow, not next week, now. Right? Okay, so sometimes what the devil makes us feel is God is angry with you. How many of you have felt that? You're going to pray God is upset with you. God is angry with you. God is angry with what you did. God will bring fire upon you. The fire of God will burn you out. He'll make you scared. No, God will never use you in the ministry. Nothing you can do. Nothing. You don't know Genesis, you don't know New Testament. You don't know Old Testament, nothing you know. How you'll stand in front of people and preach. Now, listen, all these things are true, right? It may sound silly, but it's true. He can make us feel that way and He can make us feel that we are useless. If we are not careful, we'll think it's true. Oh, yeah, God cannot use me. I am from a village. How can God use me? Maybe, you know, 20, 30 people sell group I can do. But starting a church, blessing people in this entire nation, how can I do it? Now, if we say that, that's what will happen. But God is, God is not somebody who can, who, who looks at all of these other things, right? The enemy can bring these thoughts. So you say, no, God has called me. I will do it. Let's read this verse Romans 8 33 and 34. Is that a mic here? Okay. Romans 8 33 and 34. Interaction for us. Yeah, thank you. So there is no one, not even Satan, who can bring an accusation against us. Now, it's like this. What is the name? What does the word Satan means? Accuser, right? Will he bring accusation? He can. But even when he brings those accusations, that's what he does. He accuses us. He tells us, you didn't do this, you didn't do that. You are like this, you are like that, right? And even if he does that, what does the word say? Who is he who condemns us? It is Christ who died and furthermore has risen, is even at the right hand, who makes intercession for us. That means what? Now Jesus is not sitting in heaven saying, oh man, I've finished the work. I've done my job on the cross. He said, what? It is finished. Now he's not in vacation mode now. Jesus is not in holiday. He's on the right hand of the Father making intercession. Can you believe this? So, if I am being tempted, right? If Satan is tempting me and I'm saying, oh God, please help me. You know what Jesus is doing? Jesus is standing next to the Father and saying, Father, I know how that feels because I was also tempted by the devil. So, he is making intercession for us, you and me. How many people, millions of millions of people in this world, he's making it. He's doing it. He's standing. He's on our behalf. He's standing. So, when the devil comes, all you have to do is make Jesus come and stand in front. You handle with Jesus. Don't talk to me. That's all we have to do because he's making intercession for us and we can overcome the works of the devil. Right? Are you understanding what I'm trying to say? In heaven, Jesus is making intercession for us. He's saying, please help this boy. Please help this girl. You know, he's going through so much pain, so much difficulty, physical challenges, emotional pain. Help him. It's not like Jesus cannot do it. He's standing on our behalf. Right? It's not like he's asking the Father, you only should do it. No, he's standing on our behalf. He's praying for us, interceding for us. So, what more do we need? Do we need somebody greater than Jesus to pray for us? We have the greatest person praying for us. So, now we don't have any condemnation when we can reject. Everyone say, reject. The devil will come and say, you are like this. You reject. I reject that in Jesus' name. Right? I cancel those words in Jesus' name. He will come and tell you, you know, you can, you are useless. You can do nothing in life. You say, I cancel that word in Jesus' name. Remember what Jesus said to Peter in the Garden of Gethsemane? Right? No, not in the Garden of Gethsemane. Before that. Right? Peter says, before the trial, before Jesus was going through the trial, Peter said, Jesus, we will not let you die. We will not let you die. We are there. We will take care of you. What does Jesus say? Get behind me, Satan. Why? Because he was, it was not, Peter was, you know, trying to help Jesus saying, oh, you know, Jesus, we have to protect you. But Jesus kept saying, I've come here for a reason to die on the cross. Right? So, sometimes the enemy can knows how to bring things and twist God's word. First, he says to Jesus, you take this stone, make it into bread. He said, man shall not live by bread. What is the second temptation? What did the devil do? Have you, have you thought about it? He used God's word. He said, Psalms 91 says, if you throw yourself down, he will set his angels charge over you. The devil quoted Psalms 91. What did Jesus say? But it is also written, don't test the Lord your God. So, the devil can use scriptures and twist things and manipulate and make us fall into sin. God's grace is there, no? God is a gracious God. You, you can sin now. Later on, God will forgive you. Later, you go back to Jesus. He'll forgive you. Will he forgive? Yes. Is it true? Yes. But you see how he's manipulating the word of God. Right? So, it's very important as believers to understand your stand of victory that you are in. Your stand. Hey, I am standing in a place of victory. Now, there is no condemnation. People will condemn. People will mock. Persecution will happen. Most of you are from North India. You have seen persecution that will continue to happen. But you're not in condemnation. In God's presence, you're not in condemnation. Okay. So, because of no condemnation, we can enter God's presence in boldness, chapter 30. Boldness to enter God's presence. Now, if you look at this in the natural, if a person who is a murderer or a thief, he's caught by the police. Right? Now, he's put in the prison, but now he has to come to the courtroom because in the courtroom, the judge will sentence him five years, 10 years or for life. Whatever the judgment should happen. Have you seen any, any murderer or a thief smiling, walking in, saying hi to everyone, enjoying his, I think, smiling. Oh, this is a good place. Nice AC. Is he, is he thinking of all that? Oh, there's no boldness there. He may be bold in the prison. Why? Because that's his territory. But oh, is the video gone off? Yeah, it's better now. Okay. So, when he is in going into the court, there's no boldness there because he knows he's going to get convicted. Now, you and I, because there is no conviction, we have boldness to go into the presence of God. We don't have to say, God, can I talk to you for five minutes? No, you can just enter. I can just go into his presence with boldness. So, every morning, you'll, you know, you wake up in the morning, you pray. Go on boldness. God is not going to judge you by how you look, what you pray, what words you use. Did you use the word justification, sanctification, redemption? If you use those words, he's not going to look at all that. Enter his presence through boldness, in boldness, confidence, right? Let's read this Ephesians 2, 13 and verse 18. Yes, anybody can read? But now, we first go ahead. Jesus, Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought here by the blood of Christ, meeting, but through him, we both have access by one spirit to the body. Through him, we have access to the, by one spirit to the Father. Now, let me give you another example. Imagine you're, you know, you're going for a political meeting. Just an example, right? You're going to a political meeting and in the political meeting, you're standing, you're there and then there's a backstage where all of these delegates are there, high delegates. Can you just walk in there? Can you just walk into the backstage? Hey, my name is Paul. They'll say, so what? What should I do if your name is Paul? Go from here. They'll say, right? But if you have the access, you know, you get a backstage access, one card backstage VIP pass, right? So you go there and you say, Hey, my name is Paul. They'll say, so what? What should I do? See this? I have access, VIP access. So what do they say? Okay, go ahead. Now, to enter into God's presence, what does it say? For through him, you and I, we both have access by one spirit, no ID card, but the Holy Spirit inside us gives us the access to the Father. You understood, right? So in the morning, whenever you're praying, you're praying, you're just maybe you're just saying a simple prayer or you're praying in the spirit. You have access to the Father. Have you thought about that? You have access to the Father. Jesus, you can talk to Jesus. His presence is there. He will speak to us. We have access to him. In the Old Testament, before they go into the Most Holy Place, they cannot go. Only the High Priest has access into that place. All of them could not go, but in the New Testament, we all have access. You can be driving, praying in tongues. You're right. You have access to the Father. Many a times, you know, while praying in tongues, I would have been riding the bike, just sitting, just doing some work. Suddenly, even an idea comes. Suddenly, you know, a problem was there in the work, and then suddenly there's a solution. Right? Nothing I'm doing. I'm not even praying for that problem. I'm not even praying for probably the person, but when I'm praying in tongues, we have access to the Father. Father, God gives us the wisdom how to deal with the problem. I'll give you an example. I think I've given this example before. Have I given the example of my son when he was playing those games? No? Have I not? Okay. So my son was about five years old. He used to play this game on the phone called, it's a war game. Right? So there was swords and killing and bloodshed and all of that. I used to keep telling him, no, playing that game. Because after some time, he stopped going into the room alone. The room is dark. So I got to know the, so I keep telling him, don't play that game. So I stopped giving him the phone, everything. But what he would do is he will download the game, play the game and delete the game. Because I could make, I could see the latest downloads. So he did that for many. So I took, you know, I sternly warned him lovingly. I told him no change. I said, God, what should I do with this boy? He's only five years old. I can't do much. If I tell him, he's not listening. So one day I was praying. I said, I was not praying for him. I was just praying. Suddenly I got an idea. It was like the Holy Spirit gave me a thought. When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, Peter took the sword and cut the soldier's ear. What did Jesus say after that? Jesus said, those who live by the sword will. I called my son. I told him, made him sit. I opened, you know, the movie Passion of the Christ, right? Because if we show cartoon, he won't believe. That is cartoon he'll say. So I opened Passion of the Christ. I went to that portion, said, see, the soldier is cutting. Jesus is here. See what the soldier, what Jesus said. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword. Then I made him read that verse in the Bible. He read it from that day till now. He doesn't use a phone. He doesn't use. Forget about games. He doesn't see the phone. He doesn't see TV. He's not interested in it from that day till now. Three years over. He doesn't see phone. He doesn't see TV. I was struggling for six months on my own. But it's gone inside. It was like the Word of God has gone deep inside him. He doesn't even want a phone. He doesn't even want games. Nothing he wants. No, no, I don't. Want to watch TV? No. Good for me. But it's gone inside. That's the Word of God. Now, why did I give this example? The reason is when you and I understand that this conviction that God brings is from the Holy Spirit, it will change our life. We cannot live the same. It doesn't matter about age or standing in society. All of that doesn't matter. Look at this. Hebrews 4 16. Let us therefore come boldly through the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the times of need. Remember the last couple of chapters we saw. We are not coming by our own works. We are coming by the blood of Jesus. Works are there, but we don't come in by works. Right? One John 3 was 20 and 21. For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Verse 21. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence towards God. So what does it say here? John is teaching us in these two verses. He's teaching us to live free of condemnation. Now, the condemnation will come. It's a choice whether we receive it or not. Yes or no? It's our choice. If I want to receive it, I'll receive it. If people say something wrong, say something bad about me, if I receive it, I receive it. If I reject it, it's good. It is my choice. So John is saying here that if our heart condemns us, remember that God is greater than our heart. He knows everything that's happening in our heart. Right? And if our heart is not condemned, then we have confidence towards God. So you and I must maintain a hard attitude that does not get condemned very easily. Now this condemnation can also come through people, people in your own family, your close friends may condemn you and say, Hey, you are like this. So you must be able to have the right hard attitude. It's developed over time. Say, okay, you know, even my best friend, my loved ones may say this, but I know that God loves me. I know that God cares for me. Now, is it hurtful when our friends, family, you know, condemn us? Very hurtful. But we maintain that heart and say, God, I know, I know you love me. This is a painful season I'm going through, but you help me. Right? So we must maintain that hard attitude. Our heart, however, if our heart is still condemned, we must remember that God is greater than our heart and knows all things. That is, God knows the truth. So we must look at things through God's perspective. That means the word perspective means now we have one way of looking at certain things. God has another way of looking at certain things. I always wonder, why didn't God do this way? Look at the example of David, right? King David, God told him, you will become a king 13 years old, 13 or 14 years old. Now, he could have, Saul knew it. The small boy is going to become king of his life. Now, what could have Saul done? And God could have told Saul, okay, Saul, get ready. You train the small boy, right? Train him up, teach him everything on how to be a king, right? How to raise up an army, how to attack, how to, you know, build a kingdom, how to have an administration, structure, how to develop the country, how to bring up people in the economy of the country, all of those things. You train David. Why didn't God do it that way? Simply all this, no? What's the second time you see David is running here, David is running there, then 300 people are coming. Why all of this? Instead of that, the story could have been David went, sat in the palace, 9 to 5, he trained in the palace, went back home and slept. Come back 9 to 5, for 5 years, he did that and he became king. So is it a better story? It is very simple, simple story, like how we become pastors. Father is a pastor, son is a pastor, son is born. By the time he's 5, he's already singing. By the time he's 10, he's already preaching. By the time he's 18, he's already youth leader, 20 years pastor. Why? Because whole year, all his life he's seen his father. Simple. Not the same thing, but no. It was not done that way. Because sometimes we feel this is the right way, but God's perspective is different. God wants it in a different way. So we must think of God's way in our life. I always say all right, there's a clock. We can read time on our way or we can read time God's way. So we should learn to read time on God's clock. God, is it time for me to do this? Is it time for me to go here? Is it time for me to start a ministry? Is it time for me to do this? Read from God's clock. Understand to hear from him. He will speak. So in this chapter, we looked at, okay, let's read this portion, Hebrews 10, 19 to 22. It's important passage. Therefore brethren, having boldest to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he consecrated for us through the whale, that is his flesh, and having a high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Right? So it's wonderful. The book of Hebrews talks a lot about, you know, all of this, entering God's presence. We must draw with full assurance of faith. We cannot go into God's presence and say, God, are you there? Are you there, God? No, I know I made a mistake. Are you there? No, he's there. Full assurance, full faith. God is there, right? With boldness and confidence, our hearts must be sprinkled and washed of evil conscience. That means what? The word of God and the work of the Holy Spirit that cleanses our heart and our inner person. We must keep washing ourselves in the natural. All of us, after wearing a shirt, or if you know that the shirt is dirty, what do we do? Wash it, right? We can't keep saying, no, no, no. I washed it in 2020. 2020, I washed this shirt. So from 2020 till now, I will not wash it because it's still good. No. Every time you constantly wash it, you keep using it, right? Now, if you look at clothes, clothes can last for 10 years, 12 years, right? But in the 10 and 12 years, you have looked after that properly. Yes or no, right? You have washed it on time. You have made sure it dries in the sun or whatever that has to be done, right? And made sure that you looked after your clothes well. It's washed. How many of you can say how many, you know, in three years, how many times you washed a shirt? Can you do you have a count? No, because you have kept washing it, kept wearing it, and it'll continue till it wears out. The same day, our spirit needs to be sprinkled with water, meaning the Holy Spirit keeps washing us. We keep going back. I cannot say, Lord, 2018, I became pastor. So now from 2018 till now, I will not keep cleansing myself and praying to the Holy Spirit. No, I have to keep doing it constantly, right? So the Holy Spirit washes our heart. He, from self condemnation, He lets our heart, you know, just into a place of confidence, assurance that God loves us. How many of you know that God loves you this morning? You must know that. You must know that His mercy is there. Think of the cross. Think of what Jesus did. You know, today, this morning, before coming, somebody sent me a clip, right, of, you know, how Jesus fed the 5000. Did you ever think about it? You know, sometimes we read it, Jesus fed 5000. How? Five loaves of bread and two fish. Can ten people eat five loaves of bread and two fish? For how many people? You have 50 people in Bible college. We order so much food. Five thousand people, five loaves of bread and two fish. What did Jesus do? He prayed and He said, go and give it. You see, you see the God, you see how God, how powerful He is. He's able to do such wonderful things. He's able to do such great miracles. And sometimes we limit God, no? We think, okay, God cannot do this. Or we'll ask everyone else, then we'll ask God. No. I have this assurance. Go back to God and God will answer us. Let's go to chapter 31. Is there any questions? Feel free to ask. Those who are online, feel free to ask. Okay. I'm just going to keep going. 31. Raining in life because of the gift of righteousness. Romans 5.17. Yes, anyone can read? For if by the one man of death. Go ahead. I think Lucy, your internet is breaking off. Your voice is breaking off. I think so the internet. Can you start again, please? Romans 5.17. Yes, brother. For if by the one man's offense, death rained through the one, much more than those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. By one man's offense, death rained. How much more those who received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness through the one Jesus Christ. One man's offense. What did Adam do? Don't eat, eat. Sin came into the world. Did God design death? When God created the heavens and the earth, did He say man will live and die? He just created man. He didn't say death is there. But through Adam's sin, death came into this world. Now because death came, Satan had victory. Did Adam raise from the dead? Is he living now? No. So death had victory. So who had victory that time? Satan. Satan had victory. He had dominion. He had power. He had authority. Now all the way till Jesus, even though God was doing great, wonderful miracles and we read all about it happening in the Old Testament, but still Satan has his dominion, his authority. It was there because there was death. And Satan had not been defeated. See, Satan was thrown from heaven down and he was working and his demons are working. They were not defeated. But on the cross, when Jesus died, what did he do? He defeated the devil. That means he said, devil, no, he died. He rose again from the dead. He said, devil, now you brought death into this world. You brought sin into this world. So what have I done? I have taken up the sins of the world and I have overcome death. What you brought, you brought death into this world. I've overcome it. Now I'm alive. Now can you kill me again? You cannot because you're defeated. And so what this one Adam did, he brought sin into this world. How much more Jesus through one act has brought us into a place of righteousness, one act. Now physically will we die? Yes. But spiritually we will live with him. It's victory. Right? So Satan has been defeated. Satan has, you know, through Christ we have been justified and brought out of subjection to sin, Satan and death. The gift of righteousness qualifies us to reign in life. Okay, what is the meaning of reign in life? The word reign in life means to be victorious at all times. Right? If you look at, you know, a sport for example, hey, this runner was reigning from the year 1990 to 2010. That means for the 20 years no one was as good as him. Wherever he went he won. Whichever tournament he participated in he won because he's the best 20 years. He reigned in the running field for 20 years. Jesus is saying reigned not for life, not for 20 years but reign for life. He's calling us to be walk in victory for our entire life, not for three years Bible college, for our entire life. Right? Romans 5 18, therefore as through one man's offense, judgment came into this world and to all men resulting in condemnation, even so through one man's righteousness, righteous act, the free gift came to all resulting in justification of life. So now you and I can say, hey, I'm reigning victorious for the rest of my life. Why? Because Jesus is calling me victorious because I believe in Jesus. Now India won the World Cup. They're not, you know, reigning forever. Right? Next World Cup they lost, gone also. You never know what's going to happen next. Those victories are going to keep changing but this victory is forever. Everyone say forever. Till the end of your life even in the death bed we can smile and say, oh man, I'm waiting to meet with Jesus. Why? Then the devil will come and say, hey, you're not scared of dying. What is that to be scared? Why scared? I'm going to meet Jesus. Who's victory? Who's won? You know, I had this wonderful opportunity to, well, I was not yet a believer but I will never forget this. My grandmother was a wonderful woman of prayer, every time praying, whole day she's praying, whole night she's praying. I asked her, why do you pray so much? I'm praying for all of you. How can you pray so much? Whole night you're praying. You don't have anything else to do. I remember being so rude to her but one thing was I was at work, I was in office and we got the call that, you know, I was in the corporate sector that she's unwell and she's going to pass away anytime and we all went to the house and my grandmother was lying there on the bed. I will never forget this. Right? She was singing songs. Okay? And then we would say, grandma, we've come to, how are you feeling? Oh, it's a beautiful place. Oh, how I can see my master's face. All that she's saying. So I didn't understand. So but everyone else understood that she's already almost there. She's halfway into heaven. Oh, what a beautiful place. What a joy it is. She's singing songs, hymns, loudly she's singing. Right? And she's in so much pain but she's singing. Oh, what a joy it is. And she's smiling and in joy, she died. None of us in the house cried. None of them cried. I said, if I die, you know, when I die, I want death like this. None of them cried. They want children. Nobody cried. And I was looking at everyone. How come nobody's crying? Nobody cried. Why? Because we know she's in a better place. But now I understand after becoming a believer. I wasn't a believer, but I knew, hey, this is victory. Nobody's crying. Nobody cried. We went home. We had biryani. We ate and slept. Was the hurt there? Yes. But nobody cried. Nobody mourned for the death. Oh, well, no. What a beautiful death. Now, you and I are reigning in life. Physically, we may go. We will go someday. But the devil has been defeated. The devil has no claim over our life. Maybe we'll come and say, oh, you're going to die now. Okay, so what are you going to do? Yeah, I'm going to go to heaven. I'm going to be with the Lord Jesus. To be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord. Story closed. The devil is going to run away. That conviction should be there for us. We must reign victorious. We must reign in life. Right? Chapter 32. Quickly, we have five minutes. Let's look. We can try and finish this chapter. The armor of righteousness, Ephesians 6. Now, Ephesians 6 is Paul talks about the armor of God. He's talking to the believers. He's saying, therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, stand, therefore, burden your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness. Right now, Paul is painting a picture of a Roman God. How many of you have seen a picture of a Roman God? Romans, have you seen the Roman soldiers? What do they wear? They have those big helmets and the guard here, the chest guard and the belt and they have a sword and they're ready. Now he's painting a picture. He's saying to the believers, therefore, take up, the NIV says, put on the armor of God. Right? So that means we have to put it on. The armor is there. Put it on. You put it on. Paul is saying, put on. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God so that when the enemy comes, you'll be able to withstand him. Nowhere in the Bible later on does Paul say, take out the armor for some time. Just put it on at all times. What is that armor? Having burdened your waist with the truth and the breastplate of righteousness. This portion of our body, the breastplate, the breast area, this area is the most important area. Yes or no? If a sword comes and goes right into you or an arrow, what will happen? We will die. But if a sword goes into our leg or arrow goes into leg, we can still survive. Yeah. If it goes on my shoulder, can we survive? Yes. But this portion, if it goes into our neck, what will happen? Gone. Right? This portion is important. So Paul is saying, this is the breastplate of righteousness, the most important part. Right? You cover yourself so that you can stand. Imagine a soldier, if he's going for war. Okay. And he's not worn the breastplate. Hey, I forgot it's at home. I've come for war. What is he going to do? He's going to stand sideways. Why? Because arrows are going to come or what's he going to do? He can't do anything. He has to cover himself. He's not going to be effective in the war at all. They'll say, you go back home, wear your equipment and come back. So Paul is saying here, put on the righteousness, the breastplate of righteousness. Don't forget it because the devil will come shooting his arrows. That time you can just stand. Okay, shoot. The breastplate is there. Nothing will happen. You are a failure, one arrow. It's falling to the ground. It's not gone inside. You are a loser. You can never be successful. All of these arrows of the devil, but it's hitting the breastplate of righteousness. The breastplate is saying, Hey, I have a right standing before God. Arrows are not doing anything to him. Right? Second Corinthians 6-7. Did you understand that? Everyone are looking at me like, what is he saying? Are you understanding? Right? Second Corinthians 6-7. By the word of truth and by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. So we talked about righteousness, right? That no matter what happens, no matter what the devil says, you and I, when we go back, even if we have sinned, we go back, ask Jesus to forgive us. You and I have a right standing before God. That does not change. That will not change. If we've asked for forgiveness, we have a right standing before God. The devil will throw arrows, but you say, Hey, I have the armor of righteousness and this is who I am. Right? So we'll pick up from chapter 33, next class Fellowship and Righteousness. And also going forward, if there are questions, you can feel free to, you know, those online can put it on the chat, but we can also take some time to, you know, to answer some questions if you have. All right. Have a great week. We can go. Bless you all. I'll see you next week.