 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session. Today, we're going to study on 1st and 2nd Peters. Even before we could start with our session, can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Anita, is it possible? Yes, ma'am. Yes, please. Lord God, Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, Lord. As we come before you, Lord, I ask you to bless each one of us, Lord. As we are learning from your word, Lord, help us to understand your word, Lord. I would like to give each one of us into your hand, Lord. Lead us, guide us, Lord. Thank you for your love, Lord. In Jesus' name you be. Amen. Thank you so much. Let's turn to 1st Peters. So 1st Peters has five chapters. And this book is also called as the Book of Suffering and Glory. So what do we know about the author of this book? We know who's the author of this book, isn't it? Who's the author? Peter. The author of this book? Peter, ma'am. Yes. Peter was the author of this book and Peter was a prominent figure among the disciples. So can we list out some of the remarkable events of Peter? If you could recollect from the New Testament or from the Book of Acts, what are certain instances that we could recollect about Peter? Can you list some of them from the Gospels or from the Book of Acts? It can be anything. Brother Lubigar, John and Peter. Yes, yes, please. Go ahead. We see that Simone Peter or Simon Peter is just like one of, he's just like us. He was having what we call the foot in the mouth disease. He would like to talk everything that would come to him. And we know, we have, I think, apart from Jesus Christ and Paul, we have a lot about him than any other apostle. We see is the one, he was a fisherman at Bath Shader who married in Capronown. We see that he was, his father gave him a name, Simon, which means a reed. But Jesus Christ, when he met him, gave him a name which means a rock. So he was a born reed who changed into a rock. So let me stop it there, Pastor. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Brother Lubigar. That was, you covered many points. Thanks. So the author of this book was Peter and he was addressed with three names. He has Simon and we are Simon means reed. And the second, he was named as Cephas. And third, he was named as Peter. So Cephas means an Aramaic name given to him by Jesus, which means stone, rock or pebble. And Peter is a Greek equivalent of the Aramaic name Cephas, which again means small stone. So we see some of the prominent or the remarkable events about Peter with which we could recollect about the most. He was born in a town of Bethesda on the Sea of Galilee. And he was a son of a man named Jonah. Yes. Basically he was from a fisherman's grave and his brother named Andrew. So we all know that Andrew was the disciple of John the Baptist. So maybe through Andrew, even Peter would have been the disciple of John the Baptist. So we see that he left us straight when Jesus called him to be a disciple. We also see that he was one among the 12 apostles of the Lamb. And Peter has been considered as a spokesperson for the group, even though it occasionally it got him to trouble. And we also see that he was considered to be one among the three in the inner circle with Jesus. And we also see that at the instance when Jesus was washing the feet, we see that he did not want Jesus to wash his feet when he got the revelation of what Jesus was trying to do. He said, just not my feet, you give me a complete bath. And we also see that he tried to protect Jesus from being arrested by the Roman soldiers. We also see another instance of Peter where he denied Christ after Jesus being arrested for about three times. And he was one of the first disciples to go to the empty tomb of Jesus. And we also see, despite all his windows, despite what he did, we see that Jesus come to him, Peter to feed his sheep. And we also see Jesus indicted the man in which he would die. And we also see some of the special miracles that happened through Peter. When we study the Gospels and the Book of Acts, we see that he received the miracle catcher fish twice. We read that in the Gospel of Luke and also the Gospel of John. And we also see one of the instances in this family that happened was when his mother-in-law was sick, we see that Jesus went to his home and healed. And we also see, when he saw Jesus walk on the water, he looked at Jesus and he said, can I receive the invitation? And he walked, he was the only disciple who walked on the water. And we also experience him being present. He experienced Jesus, the transfer creation of Jesus on the mountain. And yes, Peter also caught the fish with a coin in its mouth to pay the tax. So he had a lot of experience being in the inner circle with Jesus and personally witnessed many supernatural miracles. And yes, Peter was the key player in the Book of Acts and in the life of the early church. Yes, Jesus had come to him and given him the authority to become the leader. So he encouraged the rest of the apostles in the process to replace Judah. So as a leader, he took some initiatives or he was a key player. He took some decisions. He was the decision maker. And we also see that when we go through the Book of Acts, we see that on the day of Pentecost, when the disciples and the other people were present in the upper room, maybe 120 members were present in the upper room. And following that, we see that Peter reached the main message to about 3,000 less people. And later on when we read through the Book of Acts, we see that he became a man of many miracles. Some of the miracles that happened through Peter was he healed the lame man with a long with a positive job. We saw that when Peter was walking his shadow shawling on people, resulted in healing and deliverance. We see that he healed a man by the name Amos in Lider. We also see a raised darkness from death in Jobah. And also in the Book of Acts there are many other miracles that has been listed like when he had to face the persecution, he stood strong, he showed himself courage, himself very courageous so that he set an example for the other upcoming leaders. And he pronounced judgment over Ananias and Sapphira. He was imprisoned on several occasions and he just didn't stop for that and God opened many doors of faith through him. He opened a door to the house of Cornelius through him. He was a main spoke person at the Jerusalem Council and he made many military trips. And yes, and in some of them he also traveled with his wife. We see that in the Book of Corumbeans chapter 9 verse 5. First Corumbeans chapter 9 verse 5 where he says in this failing, do we have no right to take a law of believing by as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord and see this way called right. So Peter has traveled with his wife Rosa. And yes, we see Peter ministered at Samaria along with John. There are other places where he ministered. A minister was at the place of Lyda and Sharon. He ministered in Joppa, Caesarea. He may also have visited the church in Antioch where for the first the believers were called as Christians. And most likely you would have also ministered in Asia Minor. And he spent some time in Babylon. Now, when we say Babylon, which place does the New Testament, when we say Babylon refers to anyone in the class, the New Testament when Peter or any of his disciples are saying Babylon, which place does it refer to? Van Room. Yes. Thank you, Anita. Yes, some scholars say that it was believed to be a symbolic reference to Room. So Babylon was a popular code name for Roam among the victims of this oppression. Well, we also see the tradition say that Peter lived in the Roam at his later years and he was crucified upside down in Roam at the hands of Nero. So the background of this book, First Peter, we see that Peter identifies his audience as a pilgrim which is gathered abroad focusing on the areas of Asia Minor. And we also see that some people that Peter was writing to the Jews. He was writing this first Peter to the Jews. It is more likely that Peter was writing to both Jews and Gentile believers who are identified in this area. And Peter makes a number of references to the previous unsafe state of his readers and he is sure of being known in this region since many representatives from this region were present on the day of Pentecost at the upper. And on what occasion was this letter written? Anyone on what occasion do you think this letter was written? Maybe because Peter was getting some reports from the churches over which he had influenced that they were suffering a ridiculed for their fate that they had. So we see that Peter is writing this letter to come to me even to help a man by the name Silas. He was writing this letter so that they can be strong and safe even through the persecution. And this is what he has written. And the date of writing of this letter could vary from 63 to 64 Some scholars say it's 65 days. And the main message of this first Peter is to endure the suffering patiently because knowing that Christ also suffered and was glorified. So when we endure the suffering, we also will be part in Christ suffering and we will be glorified with him. So he is encouraging the believers who are going through the suffering and he is encouraging them by saying suffering for right is a part of the call of the believer. We see that in chapter 2 in 1 Peter's chapter 2 where Peter is encouraging the believers like suffering is to be patiently to endure without retaliation. He is also saying suffering can be a blessing. It demonstrates that you must be doing something right. And he also says suffering also identifies us with Christ to suffer for us. And he also goes ahead and verifies the suffering. He says our faith will lead to certain glory. Suffering must be seen from an eternal perspective. So change your perspective. Don't look at the temporary situation because Christians back then were going through persecution under the control of needles. So here we see Peter being a leader is encouraging the believers to not retaliate but then endure the suffering. And he also says suffering is part of the will of God and the nature of Christians. We see that in 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 19. You also see because of all of this we can actually rejoice in suffering. You know beautifully puts across and first week of chapter 4 verse 13. I just read but rejoice to the extent that you are taking off Christ suffering that when this glory is revealed you may also be glad with exceeding joy. So he is encouraging each and every believer through suffering. You are being part of Christ suffering and you can actually rejoice in the suffering. So not only to the believers then but he is also encouraging to each of us to live. Our area of suffering may be in different ways. No matter what type of suffering or what type of obstacle that we may face in our life as we serve Christ in our area. But then here we see from this letter of 1 Peter. We see that features in each of us that in our suffering we are part of Christ suffering and he is also encouraging us to endure it as Christ endured it. And also he is also saying there is a joy rejoice in your suffering because you will receive a reward for it. And to not set your mind on things that are temporary set your mind on the eternal things so that these little suffering that we have to endure we have to go through may not affect us may not discourage us or may not cripple us from what God wants us to do how God wants us to serve but here just like how Paul encouraged the believers they might raise his sufficient for you and set your mind on Christ set your mind on things that are about just like Paul even Peter is encouraging us rejoice in your suffering because Christ is part of you you are a part of Christ suffering and set your mind on eternal things so that these things that are temporary may not affect him with that we will move on to the unique features of this book we see that Peter makes some references of me I have witnessed to that which he proclaims we see in 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 11 sorry verse 1 he says the elder who are among you I absorb I am I who have a fellow elder I am the witness of the sufferings of Christ and also the partaker of the glory that will be revealed so here we see that Peter was an eyewitness of the suffering of Christ as we know Peter was in the inner circle of the three James, John and Peter were the three members in the circle the part of most of the things that Thys did Jesus trained Peter by keeping him along with him so as Peter you know as he watched and learned how to endure the suffering how to walk according to God's will and God's plan despite your weakness and here Peter saying I am being the eyewitness of the suffering of Christ we also see in chapter 1 verse 16 yeah chapter 1 verse 16 to 18 we see that because it is written be holy for I am holy and if you call on the Father who without partiality judges according to each one's work contact yourself throughout the time of your state here in fear knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold for your aimless contact received by tradition from your Father so what we see he was an eyewitness again at the transgression and we also see the other scriptures in chapter 5 we see that it charges the elder to feed the flock just like how Jesus commissioned Peter to feed the flock we see Peter from a good leader is trying to become a great leader great leader are those who raises good leaders we see Peter being the leader is raising other leaders and he is also commissioning them to feed the flock just like how Jesus gave that responsibility to Peter and we see Peter being the elder in his later days we see him growing to become a great model of a leader despite his weakness though they were other disciples where much we learned or better than him but we see Jesus choosing Peter a simple fisherman to be the head to lead the church Jesus chose Peter despite his weakness even despite him betraying Jesus three times and we also see that Jesus knew ahead that Peter will betray him that's why he tells Peter even before the flock would grow you will be betrayed but in spite of all that after the resurrection of Jesus we see Jesus come back again and Peter returned back to his fishing trade and Jesus commissions Peter friend of other disciples saying feed my flock and we see Peter giving himself completely to the ministry to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth Jesus gave them the understanding of greater revelation when he refused to carry this gospel to the gentiles Jesus didn't forsake him Jesus just didn't leave him off but then he chosen to be the leader and yes despite his weakness Jesus we see how Jesus ministered Peter in the way that he could understand so in the same way each of us may go through different weakness in our ministry we may consider ourselves as not fit for the gospel or sometimes we may feel like God you have called me yes but I'm not able to give the best of what is expected of me but when we look at Peter we can get ourselves engrossed like Jesus never makes a mistake he calls us for a purpose and he desires to work in and through each of us in the area of weakness we need to glorify God we need to rejoice because those are the areas where Christ can be glorified in and through us just the way that how Christ was present with Peter and he raised him to be a strong leader he gave him the revelation he enabled him to speak that's what happened when he was on the day of Pentecost when he was preaching to the 3000 like there were some of the learned men and the group said who is this man who can speak so well isn't he a fisherman so being a fisherman they know how is language the knowledge that they carry the understanding that they have would be limited but then who can limit the power of God that can work in and through us when we allow God when we allow his Holy Spirit to move in us God can do greater things in and through us just like how it's been said in Acts 1 when the power of the Holy Spirit comes in us he makes each of us a witness to him so this is one of the things that we can be encouraged as God used Peter God can use each of us in different ways and we see some of the words that is present in 1 Peter Peter uses the word eight times in both 1 Peter and 2 Peter to refer five precious things so what are these five precious things that he refers to in 1 and 2 Peter he says that a fail is more precious than going first one what is that fail is more precious than gold we need to have fail and how does this fail come how does this fail come just ask me you know all of us know the answer just to keep the session interactive just asking simple questions anyone can unmute answer faith comes by hearing the word of God yes Romans 10 17 or 1010 which is the verse 17 yeah 17 faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God why does it why does Paul repeats two times hearing and hearing because it is very important it is very important for us to hear and to keep hearing the word of God and here we see Peter says fail is more precious than going fail is something that is very important we need to treasure that and the second point he calls precious is the blood of Jesus Christ in 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 19 he says precious blood of Jesus Christ is precious third we see in 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 4 Christ precious chosen constant and in 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 4 we see that the fourth point he says is precious gentle and quiet spirit is precious gentle and quiet spirit is precious so these are some of the gifts that we need to be gentle and quiet spirit and in 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 4 we see that Peter addresses gray and precious promises these are the promises of God the precious so five things that we get to study fail is precious than going second point we see in this letter is the precious blood of Jesus Christ the third we see that Christ is precious who is the chosen corner stone the fourth is gentle and quiet spirit is precious and the fifth point is the precious promise the gray and precious promise are the precious and with that we will move on to 2 Peter so 2 Peter is also known as the book of true knowledge 2 Peter is known as the book of true knowledge so what is the background of 2 Peter we see that while there is much dispute the background of 2 Peter was Peter wrote this gospel at a latter age you know when he was very old just like how Apostle Paul wrote 2 Timothy it's similar to that like Peter is writing his second death in a letter we see that he is the author and he made some reference the same way where of his death in this letter we also see that this letter was written at the end of his life just before he could experience the persecution and he was concerned about and he was concerned about the false teachers that are rising and increasing in the church and these teachers were out of balance in the area of the law and so he had to address certain issues in the church regarding the sexual sin and lawlessness deeds and he was concerned about the temptations to fall away from the faith the believers because of false teachings so he was concerned about the believers where the believers will give heed to their teaching and fall off from their faith and we also see that he was concerned about the infiltration of the doctrine that these false teachers were spreading so he was encouraging the believers to be faithful to the mind then to be established in Christ we also see that he wrote this book from Rome and this was he had written this book from Rome and it was between 64 to 66 AD the main message of this book that is the second Peter was on the true knowledge so some form of the word like known or knowledge occurs about 16 times in this short book proper knowledge of him is a key to inheriting the promises of God here is addressing some of the letter in this letter saying that this is a knowledge of Christ this is true knowledge and we also see him acknowledging it again and again reminding that the true and the true knowledge of God of Christ in this chapter we also see that he realized that the source of knowledge is God himself and so that he can resist any kind of heresies that was holding on holding on the truth so he is encouraging the believers by saying that the true knowledge will be a safeguard against the heresy that is for you some of the unique features of this book we see is Peter's guarantee Peter gives an unusual guarantee in this book where he indicates that if we do certain things right we will be fruitful and we will never fall and he lists few things in the verse chapter 2 Peter chapter 1 verse just give me a minute please so just turning turning to 1 Peter chapter 5 sorry chapter 1 verse 5 to 11 I will just go through it 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 5 to 11 but also for this very reason giving all diligence and to your faith virtue to virtue knowledge to knowledge self control to self control perseverance to perseverance godliness to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love for if these things are yours and above you may need a Baron nor unflopful in the knowledge of a Lord Jesus Christ for he who lacks these things in short sighted even to blindness that he was cleansed from his old sins therefore brethren be even more diligent to make your call and election sure for if you know these things you will never stumble for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so what we see here Peter gives an unusual guarantee indicates that if we do certain things we will not be unfurlful we will never fall and he lists few things that includes like virtue knowledge self control perseverance and patience and godliness and brotherly kindness and he also says in verse 10 doing this helps us to make our calling and election sure for what it is and he also says he also gives a doctrine of inspiration in this book in chapter 1 verse 20 and 21 where he says knowing this first that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation a prophecy never came by the will of man but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the police and he also described and Peter describes about the false teachers in chapter 2 second Peter chapter 2 he describes them as teachers of destructive heresy you know he says those who were deceptive worlds and he also tells them they are the natural brute beast to be caught and destroyed and you know he calls them in different names depending on the nature the character the way where he says they were cursed children they were lover of money they are wells without water again in chapter 2 at the end of it we say speaking swelling words of emptiness and he also tells them slaves of corruption so he is warning the believers about these false teachers be careful stay away from all these people stay away from the doctrine of their kind of spread or stay away from their preaching and with that he also says in chapter 3 second Peter chapter 3 he gives a description of the day of the run he says this present earth will be renovated with fire at Christ with it he also says they ungodly will be judged after Christ with it he is giving them the mindful to stay or to hold on to what they have with them under Christ with it so he is encouraging them the little of Christ is here so hold on to it and he also says even though there is a delay in Christ coming but surely he is giving them the assurance because Christ said he is coming he will come even there is delay but Christ is coming the day of the Lord will come as a freeze in the night you see again he shares to the believers in the day of the Lord will involve the destruction present heaven and earth and it will give place to new heavens and new earth and he is also encouraging the believers and nothing to fear but then they can look forward to this day if they conduct themselves in godliness so importance of character importance of how they lead their life how they can lead themselves in the daily life but having to share mindful of Christ hold on to the gospel which is the truth is encouraging and just look how Paul encouraged the believers in different churches we see Peter also been encouraging and we also see more or less two of them teaching is the same they were not different than teaching they were teaching and encouraging the believers to hold on to their faith hold on to the gospel of Christ and lastly when we come to the final can I request one of us to turn to 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 14 to 16 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 14 to 16 therefore beloved looking forward to these things be diligent to be found in by him in peace without sport and blameless and consider that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation as also our beloved brother Paul according to the wisdom given to him has written to you as also in all his epistles seeking in them of these things in which are some things hard to understand which untold and unstable people twist to their own destruction as they do also the rest of the scriptures thank you so much so what we see here Peter makes references to Paul to his writing we can see that as he was in Rome at the same time as Paul and I've given him a new closeness with Paul in his latter days of his life and you know there was a high in persecution we also see that as Peter was persecuted even Paul was persecuted and the tradition says that Peter was crucified on the cross upside down he never allowed the Roman soldiers to crucify him just like how Christ was crucified he said I'm not worthy to be crucified that way you crucify the upside down so what is a reflection that we can have from these two letters while we see the first Peter deals with the problem from the outside outsiders there were a lot of persecution and you know they were troubled all you know they were troubled because of the faith that they were holding and in the second Peter you see that Peter is dealing with the problem inside the church with the false teachers so Peter encourages the believers to keep close watch on their personal lives and he also warns them about false teachers around guard yourself guard the truth guard the faith that you have in Christ the love that you have for Christ we need to guard that so just like how Peter and the believers today this letter is also encouraging each of us as a leader as a follower as a disciple of Christ we need to also have a close watch for our personal life we need to see our character because character is something that holds your life we need to have a good we need to watch our life we may not be perfect watch our life let's put in that effort that is needed to build a life that is pleasing Christ if God if Jesus could raise Peter to be a leader who was effective in the ministry in spreading the gospel despite his weakness God can do that even through you and me all that we need to do is depend on him hold on to him hold on to the Holy Spirit who can do great and mighty things and who can do us and just like how Paul Peter warned the disciples about the false teachers or false teaching that we are crippling into the church in those days even in our times false teachings and false teachers who are growing our church has been infected our believers have been affected so we need to guard put through we need to guard the love that we have and Christ then as a leader we need to protect our church we need to protect our members from these false teachings or false teachers or from the false doctrine that is trying to spread hold on to them hold on to your members protect your children because as Jesus said to Peter feed my flock and the same way Peter is instructing to the leaders in the church feed my flock today as we read this letter we are encouraged as the leaders in the church where God has raised us to be we need to feed the flock the truth with the gospel of Christ with the true word and we need just not see but then we need to nurture protect them because we are accountable for their lives we are accountable to them to Christ because God has assigned these souls in one hand that we make sure that we feed them with the right word the right teaching the right interpretation with the right doctrine and as we teach we need to nurture and protect them so that they grow in Christ's likeness in this and in this world and so that they can stand the test they can stand the time in times of persecution they can endure just like how Christ endured just like how Peter and other disciples endure the suffering through Christ for the eternal call them each of us eternal reward so with that we end this letter and I leave an open question for us to ponder is how are we guarding our spiritual life in today's time okay I leave this to each of us to ponder our own life and see are we guarding ourselves from the from the false teaching that are spreading are we teaching the right word are we teaching others how they can protect their faith are we building ourselves and faith and others also in faith and make them rely on Christ make them focus on Christ are we doing that we can ponder on it as we study these two letters I know there is much to cover these two letters but I would encourage each of us to go back and read first and second pages so that we can get the complete understanding complete learning from these two letters of what God wanted to teach each of us now Omeria so with that I end this letter and I request I keep this time open to our class to share your learning, your insight from this letter anyone from the class can unmute and share your learning from this letter can I ask you a question yes brother Peter we know from his background we know that he was a fisherman before Jesus was called him for Paul we know that he was learned because he was trained under a very learned person what do we know about the background of Peter as a fisherman and later on he became a pre-efficient apostle and a writer he didn't have any formal education that's my question what we see is being a fisherman not much of qualification he would have had that's why on the day he was under cost when he was preaching to the 3000 there were people who said isn't he a fisherman and how he could speak in this manner with so much of boldness or maybe his teaching was so much of a learned that so he surprised each of them and that is what God can do when the power of the Holy Spirit comes so that's what we see Acts 1-8 where it says when the Holy Spirit comes upon you you will receive the power and you will be a witness to the ends of the earth so there is a boldness there is an understanding that we will see because when we receive the Holy Spirit we will start teaching in the wisdom of God and not in the wisdom of men and yes Peter was a man of boldness he had the courage to witness and I'm just going to the scripture what was the comment that people gave about Peter that he sounded like a learned man that means though he was not learned isn't he a fisherman so they know the trade that he came from and the knowledge that they would carry but then they were surprised and amazed about the wisdom that he was preaching and teaching and guessing the 3000 was not easy they need a special boldness even to add a certain number of audiences but here you see Peter was bold he was courageous and the Spirit of the Lord in fact this was not the trade of Peter to be courageous to be bold we see that he was timid we see that he was fearful that's why after the death of Jesus Christ he went back to the trade what he was from thinking that he cannot preach the gospel he cannot have the commission that Jesus gave him but then Jesus went back again and called Peter and commissioned him we see that whatever he was preaching sharing and preaching was not with his ability but not with the knowledge that he could write from position and background nothing of course but then with the ability of Christ to which he could stand as a leader and teach other learned men the other Gentiles the other Jewish people who have much learned he could teach and witness and bring the understanding of gospel to them did that answer your question brother I will say yes by the inspiration like you said by the inspiration and the power that was released at Pentecost maybe most have had some little bit of learning but this learning was increased by the power of the Holy Spirit thank you brother yes yes that's great thank you anyone else would like to add to what brother Isaac asked from the class you have if there's any other perspective in speaking free yes brother Rebecca please go ahead another thing that we can supplement is that we first of all need to understand their culture and historical background all these guys were Judaizers they were in Judaism and when you study about Judaism these kids as early as three they are being told how God got their grandfathers from Egypt and the 10 commandments as a matter of fact they are not even 10 they are 316 and 13 as you told us so they knew a bit a very big portion of the OT because this was not even a religion this was a culture everything depended on their OT on the Tanakh or the Torah they were not literally ignorant ignorance would literally mean that they had no lunch trade number two the Holy Spirit also has a very big part to play after their conversion and after the ascension of Jesus Christ you can also see that when Paul got converted he went in Arabia so these very people also were having some more time in meditation and calling upon the Holy Spirit to guide them, to teach them lastly but not least they were not writing their letters as we see that the biggest part the contributor of the Gospel of Mark was Peter they were having people they were calling so they would talk and people were putting it in a polished language in writing, thank you pastor yes, yes, thank you thank you for adding and we also see that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist so maybe even Peter was along with Andrew and he would have also learning of Torah from the Old Testament from John the Baptist you would have learned some things from there also so yes anyone else who would like to add and share before we could end the session I see that everyone is silent okay, we can end the session with a word of prayer can I request rather Isaac to dismiss us with a word of prayer please yes, let us pray Lord we thank you for this session we thank you for every other session that we will be going through we thank you for our tutors especially for our admin tutor we want to thank you Lord and we want to ask that your world take root in our hearts that your world transform us let us go through the transformation that was embedded on the apostles at the time let us be worthy receivers of your world and worthy deliverers of your world so that we can use your world to edify and enlighten and teach and lead other people so that they will know and come to the saving knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ this and all other masses we ask in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen thank you thank you so much thank you each one for joining in today's session see you all tomorrow God bless, have a blessed day thank you God bless thank you