 Shalom and praise the Lord, everyone. Thank you for joining class. Esther, Daniel, Nedel, Jennifer, Sam, Daniel and Sanjay. Thank you for joining class. We'll begin class. Also, thank you for thanks to all the in-person students for being part of this course. For your enthusiasm, it's good to look at faces and teach rather than just an empty screen. And also welcome to our e-learning students who will be listening to this lecture later on. We'll begin with the word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you. Thank you for this day. Thank you for this morning, O Lord. And thank you for all that you gave us alive and for your love, your mercy, O Lord. How we are going to study, O Lord, teachers, your leaders, you guide us, O Lord. Help us to understand. We wish for knowledge and understanding so that we can understand and we can apply this in our life, O Lord. You help us, O Lord. You help us, O Lord. You help us, O Lord, so that we can teach us and we can grab that word, O Lord. Thank you, O Lord, that you are going to help us, O Lord. And ask this prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Good morning, Lucy. Welcome to class. Thank you, others, for joining class. Welcome, all of you. Last week, we began looking at chapter 8. We began studying chapter 8 fellowship. And we looked at this whole idea of how we are actually kingdom builders. Right. Thank you. We are kingdom builders. And what do we mean when we say kingdom builders? All of us are kingdom builders. What do we mean? Can you pass the mic so that people can answer? In-person students can also answer. What do we mean when we say that we are kingdom builders? Any answers? We studied this last week. What is our understanding of this word kingdom builders? In-person students, online students, what are the answers? Come on, can you have some answers? What do we mean when we say we are kingdom builders? Okay, we are doing everything according to God's will. Okay, mistake the mic and speak so that our online students can hear. What do we mean when we say kingdom builders? We studied this last week. We are a co-worker with God and we are helping to build the kingdom of God. Okay, we are co-workers. We co-work partner with others to build God's kingdom. Okay, yes, we are co-workers with God. What else? What comes to your mind when you think about kingdom building? Kingdom building is not just building our own visions, what God has called us to. But it is also how we can build what God has given and trusted to us, our vision, the calling that is placed in our life and how we can partner with others in extending God's kingdom through the vision that he has given to us. Okay, it's not about promoting my name. It's not about promoting my church. It's not about my rule, my dominion, but it's about God's rule dominion and it is about his kingdom. Okay, so sometimes when God entrusts to us a church or a ministry, we think that, you know, it's like our business. You know, we guard it, we protect it and we are only doing that. That's important. But it's also important that we use what God has entrusted to us to see how we can partner with others, partner with the local church or other local churches and how we can transform the city, how we can extend God's kingdom in the city and in the nation. Okay, Sanjay says it's strengthening the body of Christ. Yes. Also, what is kingdom building? Kingdom building is looking beyond our vision, our church and ministry and how we can use what God has given to us to bless others. Right? How we can use what God has given to us, the vision, the gifts, the resources. How we can use that to strengthen and build others and extend God's rule and reign in the lives of people. Also, kingdom building is co-working with others, partnering with others. Okay. And when we partner with others, what should be our mindset? What should be your mindset, kingdom mindset? Can we have some answers? What should be your kingdom mindset when you partner with others? Online students, any answers? Yes, it should be about, thank you Sanjay. It should be about us and not just I and me. It's not about what I will get, what I will receive, how my ministry can be strengthened, how my ministry can grow, what is the benefits for me. But it is how I can be a blessing to others, how I can be strengthened myself and how I can strengthen others, how I can encourage and build others. Okay. So that should be our mindset when we do ministry or even when God is interested, his own vision or his own calling in our lives, a ministry that he is given to us, we need to always see that in a bigger framework. What is a bigger framework? What is a bigger framework that we need to work in? How do we work in a bigger framework? How do we look at it? Good morning, everyone. Please wakey-wakey. Can we have some answers? So when God gives us a vision, God gives us our own ministry, we need to look at it in a bigger framework. So what is a bigger framework? What is a bigger framework? How we can use what God has given to me to build his kingdom, to extend his kingdom. That's why Jesus said, you know, thy kingdom come that will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay. Sorry. Okay. So John blesses his kingdom building looks beyond his own individual vision. Yes. You look beyond your own individual vision and you see how you can extend God's school kingdom here on earth. Okay. So even as we are thinking about kingdom building, we look at what are some of the important things to keep in mind. Okay. Now, if you are building your own ministry, then your view is very, very narrow. It's about I me my self, but we're not looking about how we can just, you know, build our own visions, our own calling, but how we can build, use what God has entrusted to us to build God's kingdom here on earth. Okay. So we look at a few important things. What are some of the things that we need to keep in mind even as we go about kingdom building? Like he said, we need to co-work or co-partner with others. Right. So we need to relate to other men and women of God. Okay. Other women of God in our own city. Why is it important to relate with other women and women of God in our city? Because all of us are doing the same work. What is the same work? We are building the kingdom of God. Yes. What else? We're sharing your vision. We're sharing your vision with others. Okay. Why is it important to relate with other men and women in the ministry so that we can complement each other? We can help each other. We can share our resources. We can share our gifts. Are online students there? No answers today. What's happened? Can we have some answers from the online students as well? Please unmute your mics and speak. It will be nice to hear your voices. And in-person students, please take the mic and speak. Can we have some ideas and some, you know, answers here? Okay. We also need to build friendships and relationships. Okay. How do, why is it important for us to build relationships and friendships with other ministers in our city, with other men and women of God? Can you take the mic please and speak, Moses? Because we can clear misunderstandings and we can heal broken relationships. Yes. We can clear the misunderstandings that are there between leaders. We can heal broken relationships. Okay. When you relate with other men and women in the ministry, usually when pastors and other ministers, other leaders of Christian organizations, when they relate with each other, how do they relate? What is their level of relationship? Or what are they basically talking about? Only their ministry. Yes. Yes. They're only talking about their ministry, right? But is there only something that we need to talk about? How is your ministry? How is everything going? What you should do? What you shouldn't do? What else should we, how else should we relate to each other? They should relate in unity. Sorry, get rude. They should relate with each other in unity, in oneness. Yes. They should relate in unity and in oneness. Okay. Yeah, you were telling something. Sorry to interrupt you. No, no, please say it. I can speak. What you were saying is very important. Yes. It's like when most of the time when two pastors are all observant of Christ, most of the time they discuss about their ministry. But a minister of God in his personal life also, like too much struggle is there, too many things are there. So most of them. And we did not discuss it. If two persons are meeting, if they discuss it, each one can pray for each other, for their ministry, what is happening in their personal life. So like everything will go. Yes, it's important for us to share our lives, share our successes, share our problems, share our difficulties. They might have gone through what we are going through. They can share their experiences, their learning experience. They can give us tips. They can encourage us. Like Lucy says, they can encourage us. We can talk about our goals. You know, sometimes we have a vision and a calling that God has given. We don't know how to go about it. We can go to other men and women of God who are already established themselves in the ministry. We can discuss with them. We can learn from their lives. They will tell us, hey, you can go about doing it like this. Avoid these things. Don't do these things. So when we hear and learn from them, you know, it actually encourages us as like Lucy says, you know, we also compliment each other and we encourage each other. We can learn and you know, it will save so much of our time and energy, it will save so much of us going in the wrong part, in the wrong direction because they've already gone. We can learn from their lives. You can also share your experience. Hey, I went through this. This is exactly what I did. This is how God helped me. So it's good to relate with each other. It's good to build bonds and relationships. Sanjay says, a collective goal or vision as members of the body of Christ to serve in the great commission. Yes, you know, we are all having one purpose that is to extend and build God's kingdom and how we can encourage strength, share our resources, what we can do, what we shouldn't do, all is very, very important. So, you know, we can also pray for each other. Like he said, you know, we can have other men and women of God in the, leaders, ministers in the city, leading organizations, they can pray for us. What happens when there is unity and oneness among leaders of various Christian organizations and pastors in a city? What happens? What happens when there's unity in relationship between pastors in various churches in the city and also among Christian organizations? Sorry, Sonia. Yeah, there's strength. This built up and there's unity, which is very important for Christians to be united, even though there are slight differences in doctrine. Yes, very true. Yes, there is strength. There is unity that was there and all. Sorry, Lucy. Yes, go ahead. We are unshakable. Yes, we are unshakable against the enemy. The kingdom of God grows in a faster way. Yes, and we will also see a greater release of God's power and anointing. Do we have an example of this in the Bible? Example of how people were united in one and what was the result? Do we have an example of this in the Bible? Sister at the Pentecost. Yes, at the Pentecost. Also, together there was a strong power of God release. There was anointing, there were different tongues were released to the people and so many miracles took place. Yes, thank you. Yes. Okay, when an in-person student saying when Peter was in prison and all the people gathered and they were praying together, you know, the angel of God comes and releases them out of prison. The great example is about the early church, right? The early church, they were all one. They were even selling all their property, everything coming, giving it to the church. There was unity and oneness and that is why we see great science miracles and wonders and people think, why isn't there such move of God in our city or in our present day situation? And they think it all happened, was only meant for the early church and not for our time and age, but it's not true. Why is it not happening today? Because there's no unity. There's no unity among the leaders and churches. Just imagine if all the churches come together, the power and the anointing of God will just flow in such a powerful way that, you know, even our city can be transformed. It is reality, you know. We've seen when people in our city have prayed, there has been changed. You know, there is no criminal cases, no people, you know, no addictions in that city. There wasn't a city like this. There was so much of alcoholism there. Crime was so high. Christians in that city prayed and there was a change and it was amazing because the crime had stopped. There were no people who were addicted to alcohol and the shops even closed. It was such a powerful witness and such a powerful testimony. So that is what is important for us, you know, to come together and build unity and oneness. Is it possible for us with all our different denominations, doctrines, the way and style of worship? Is it easy for us to come together and worship God? In unity and oneness? What do you all think? Give it to Nelson. Mike, quickly you have to pass the mic. Yes. So my question is, there are so many different denominations. There are so many different, you know, doctrines, styles of worship. Is it easy in spite of all these denominations for us to come together in a city? All the local churches coming together? Yes, and we can. Why Nelson? Why do you say yes? Because we all are born again Christians. We all are with the Holy Spirit. So that case. We are all born again Christians. Okay. Any other answers? Sorry. Yeah. Some churches, they don't believe in the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Science gives in miracles. Okay. But in respect of all that, how can we still come together? Lucy says we are all members of Christ. Yes. Who is our head? Not doctrines, right? It's Jesus. We have one head, right? We have God, Christ, the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit. Who is the head? Right? We have one Holy Spirit. How many Bibles? I mean, different versions of the Bible, but how many? We have just one Bible, right? And we have, these are all common denominators, right? Just only one cross, only one full sufficient, perfect sacrifice that was made on the cross and that was done by Jesus. We are all saved by the same blood. Whose blood? The blood of Jesus. Okay. And all of these are common factors. We have the same foundation. Our foundation is we come together on the foundation of faith and not on doctrines. Our faith is we believe in one God, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe in one Holy Spirit. We believe in one cross. We are all saved by the same blood of Jesus. We have the same Bible. All these are common, basic factors that are of our faith. And so it is, we can come together irrespective of our various doctrines, our various styles of worship. Okay. So we belong and we are all part of one body. We're all members of Christ. Okay. We have one head. We're all part of the same body. We're just different parts of the same body, but we belong to one body. Yes, it is possible for us to come and meet on these common grounds and see how we can work together. Okay. So when we come together, we need to learn from other ministers. Okay. Men and women of God build fellowships, build strong relationships. You know, the word of God says, you know, like iron sharpens iron one man sharpens the countenance of another man. So, you know, when we come together, fellowship, we can learn from each other, we can grow. Okay. And we've, we've stated all the reasons why it is important for us to relate with other men and women of God. Okay. For us as ministers, sometimes, you know, it's, it's very difficult as leaders and ministers for us to follow someone else. Yes or no. Yes, because everybody's following us. We find it very difficult sometimes to follow others. Okay. And great leaders sometimes can be very poor followers. Okay. Why do you think they become poor followers? Why do you think leaders can become poor followers? They don't want to follow others. Why? There's a reasons. Come on. Okay. Pride. Yes. The eye concept Lucy was saying it's all about I me myself. I know people should follow me. I shouldn't be following others. Okay. What else? We're unwilling to cooperate with each other. Okay. Sometimes it can be arrogance. Okay. The true sign of greatness does not just lie in our ability to lead, but also to follow others. What happens when we also follow others as leaders? Yes, you can learn from them. Kofi says they think they know it all. Yes. Sometimes we think we know it all. We don't need to follow others. We are great. We have so many years of experience. We can be teaching us. Okay. And we notice this especially, you know, when we have crusades and meetings where other pastors and other leaders come to that crusading meeting. And how is the reaction of some of these leaders who don't want to follow others? What are their attitudes? Pride and jealousy. What is that attitude? What is their action, their reaction? They neglect them. If they don't give them the stage of seat of honor, they get angry and leave. Okay. If they don't get the front seat, what happens? They get very, very upset and angry. Okay. And they're not recognized. They're not welcomed. You know, they won't sit or stand. Or if they, you know, when they're called up on the stage, they won't go. We've seen some of these attitudes and all of this is because, hey, you did not recognize me. Okay. So when you did not recognize me, I'm not going to follow your instructions. Okay. So it's important for us to also as leaders learn to follow others. Sanjay says, we need a bit of humility. We need to respect, appreciate one another. Yes. We need to appreciate and respect one another. I don't think we need a bit of humility. We all have a little bit of humility. I think we need loads of humility for us to overcome this because it is, you know, sometimes very, very difficult. Okay. What happens when leaders are not recognized for who they are? When you don't get introduced them by the full name and you don't say a reverend doctor so-and-so, you know, or right reverend so-and-so, you know, or you don't mention all their degrees or you don't acknowledge they are in the crowd. What happens? They get upset. They get angry. Right. They don't want to do anything. They'll just walk out of the meeting. Even if you call them on stage, they won't come. If you, if they have to speak, they'll use that time to get back and talk about humility and all of those things. Okay. So what should be our, what should be our mindset when we go to places where we are not recognized or when we are just common among other believers? What should be our attitude? Huh? We should be humble. You should be humble. How do you humble yourself at that time? How do you humble yourself at that time? Sorry for the background noise. We must understand that. We are same for God. We are? Same for God. We are all equal before God. We're all same before God. Yes. Can give him the mic. He also wants to answer. Any more answers? Not to be served to serve others, ma'am. Yeah. Not to be proud, but to serve others just like Jesus. He came not to be served, but to serve. Yes. We have to be common. We have to be common. Okay. Just be like other people. Okay. What should be our mindset at that time? Not to think of others as lesser, but to think of others as greater than us. Okay. Not to think of ourselves as lesser, but others greater than us. Okay. Yes. We should know why we are gathered here. Not to, they're not here to worship me to worship, but to worship God. He gets all the reverence, glory and honor. Right. Okay. And also another important thing for us to know is our identity. Who we are in Christ. In Christ, when we all stand before God, we're all standing on the same level. Right. Before God. And also it is important for us to know that we are standing alongside with Jesus. Who are we? What have we done? But God has given us that position that we stand beside Jesus. The same level we stand beside Jesus. So all of these things should not really matter for us. The greater picture we need to see. Always look at the greater picture. Greater picture is God has made us to stand on the same level as Jesus. We are loved the same way as Jesus is loved. Okay. And that is who we are and that should become our identity. Okay. Even when we are ministering with others in fellowship, we need to respect other people's gifts anointing in the ministry. Okay. Some churches, you know, they can be very loud in their way of worship. They can be very dramatic. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Amen. People jumping, people screaming, people clapping. And some of us come from, you know, church services where we are very quiet, not even clapping. I come from a denomination where we can clap while we sing worship songs. But when somebody does something, we clap and look at us, you know, a very quiet form of worship. Nobody says, Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Amen. Nobody will lift their hands up and all that. I come from a denomination where it is a very, you know, sober kind of worship. Okay. Even you come from that. Okay. Some of us come from that. Okay. We need to, yes, things, stereotypes are breaking now. You know, people are also raising their hands and worshiping God in this kind of setup and also, you know, clapping and all of those things. But, you know, we need to understand and look at the fruit. Okay. Don't judge people on, you know, their styles of worship and think that, oh, they're more powerful because all of them are jumping, screaming. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And the hands are this one and they're shivering and all of those things. And there's a lot of noise. And you go to another congregation where there's very quiet worship. Nobody's saying Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Nobody's lifting up their hands. It doesn't mean that they are not spiritual. Okay. I come from the church where the word of God is strongly preached. Many men and women have been raised up into full-time ministry. I am also one of them from that church. And I've grown spiritually and, you know, in the church where I grew up and I thank God for the church. Okay. But don't, you know, put those denominations in boxes and think they're not spiritual enough. We need to respect others gives anointing in the ministry. Okay. Sanjay says the enemy was insecure with which breed arrogance. Unlike Christ who knew his place in position yet never made a public show of it. Yes. Christ knew who he was, what he had come to do. He did not look for power in position because he already knew who he was. His identity was so sure in who he was. He was so grounded in his love for, in the love of the Father. His intimacy with the Father. And so he knew why he came and he did what he had come to do. Okay. The next thing is don't judge another man's servant. Okay. Let's read Matthew chapter seven versus one to five, John seven, 24. And yeah. And two of you will read that please. Matthew seven, one to five and John seven, 24. Matthew seven, one to five. Judge noted that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. And with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye? But do not consider the plank in your own eye. Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove the speck from your eye and look. Plank is in your own eye. If you first remove the plank from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers. Amen. John seven, 24 and Romans 14, 4, 10 and 12. John chapter seven, 24. Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. Who are you to judge another servant? To his own master he stands for false. Indeed, he will be made to stand for God is able to make him stand. But why do you judge your brother? Why do you show contempt to your brother? But we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ for it is written. As I leave you, says the law. Every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God. So that each of us shall give account of himself to God. Amen. Thank you. So here we are asked not to judge. Okay. Condemn or criticize other women and men of God who are in the ministry. Okay. When we see them doing something wrong, should we judge them, condemn them and criticize them? No. Why shouldn't we do that? They're not supposed to judge others. Also, why should we not judge them? Who's the judge? God is the judge. They are accountable to God. So what should be our attitude? Or our reaction when we see a man or woman of God or a leader doing something wrong? What should be our attitude? Or what should be our reaction? Sorry. Treat them well. Treat them with respect. Okay. Yeah. See them and respect them as anointed men and women of God. Okay. Who are placed by God in leadership. And what did you say Nelson? Learn from their mistakes. Learn from their mistakes instead of judging and criticizing them because we can also fall in that same area. Okay. And then what else can we do? When we are asked whether they're doing right or wrong, what should we do? Should we avoid answering? Lucy says, speak to them. Yes. When we ask whether they're doing something right or wrong, what should we do? Should we avoid it? We should say, I don't know. Come on. Give me some answers. We should say, yes, what we think what they're doing is wrong. Acknowledge, but then also speak in grace and mercy with the goodness of God. Like Paul says in Romans, the goodness of God leads people to repentance. Even when you, like Kofi says, even when you confront them, confront them in love. Okay. Ephesians says, speaking the truth in love. Okay. So why should we do it in love when the goodness of God is that the person can repent. Okay. Sometimes we think even when ministers have, yeah, we need to respect anointing that is on their lives. Yes. I'll give you an example in the Bible of somebody who respected others anointing. David. Yes. David, you know, respected souls anointing. Okay. And a good lesson to learn from David. Okay. So we see that, you know, sometimes we wonder why God uses a minister, even though they are in sin, why do you think God still uses them? Even though they have their own weaknesses, sin or weaknesses, right? Why does God still use them? Grace. Okay. Lucy says, because of the grace of God, the same very reason that God is still using me. The same very reason that God is still using you. We are not perfect, but God still uses us and it is His grace. Okay. So when we look at the faults of other ministers, should we gossip about it? No. What should we do? We should talk about the good things about them. Okay. Be quiet about their failures. Okay. When we use their lives as an example, don't mention their names. Okay. Suppose you're talking about a minister, you're giving an example. You know, a man or woman of God has done such thing, has fallen into sin. You want to give that as an example. Don't use their names. Don't give the details, but just mention. Okay. But also you can still help them, pray for them. Okay. Help them to come back to restoration. Okay. At the same time we need to, when we do this, we need to preserve our friendship and the well-being of the person and not gossip about that person. Okay. And restore them back to, you know, take the steps, take the initiative to restore them, pray for them. Okay. Sanjay also says pray for them. Yes. You know, and help them to get back on their feet. It's important that, you know, we help each other. What happens when we help other fellow ministers who have fallen in sin, who are going in the wrong? What happens when we help them? Instead of laughing at them, criticizing them, mocking them, you know, gossiping about them, what happens if we take the time and initiative to restore them? What happens? They can come back and minister. What else? They're actually saving the body of Christ, right? We are also saving the body of Christ from bad name, from being defamed, from people pointing mistakes, a word pointing fingers at the church, making us as a laughing stock and also protecting the sheep. You know, they are looking after sheep. So we need to also consider the sheep. Imagine if the shepherd falls away, what happens to sheep? Sheep are really broken. They're very sad and they can be led astray. Okay. So instead of gossiping, making fun, pray about it, get other men and women of God together so that you can restore them. Okay. And an important thing is even as we fellowship with each other in the body of Christ, it is important that we don't do things that will bring about strife and disunity and quarrel. Okay. Look at what proverb chapter six verse 16 says, very, very powerful says these six things the Lord hates. Yes. And seven are an abomination to him. And what is that? One of them is a person who devices wicked plans and also a false witness, somebody who speaks lies and one who shows discord among brothers. So if you're somebody who is bringing showing discord, that means you are gossiping, talking bad about one person to another. You are trying to bring about disunity in the body of Christ, whether it's in a ministry in the church, in your, your part of a team in the church is serving the church. And you're trying to bring about discord. You know what the word of God says? God hates it. And it's an abomination to him in something that is very detestable. God cannot stand it. And can you imagine how much we are going against God? Okay. You don't so discord among brothers and sisters in the body of Christ, even in the family, even in your workplace, that is something that God hates and is an abomination to him. So what should we do when there is a discord? When you have an issue with another brother, what should you do? Talk about it with others. Gossip about it with others. Tell how bad they are. How unfit they are. What should you do? Come on, what should we do? Can we have some solvents speaking to them? Thank you, Lucy. What else? Resolve the matter with them. Okay. What else? If they're not listening, what should you do? Reconcile with them. Yes, if they're not listening, what should you do? Get other people involved so that others can speak to them. Okay. And another important to keep in mind is when you are gossiping about others, who is also listening to us? Huh? God. Okay. Paul tells, I think Paul tells Titus or Timothy, you know, be very careful because Paul is writing to Timothy. He's saying be very careful how you speak about others because Jesus, the Lord Jesus and the angels are listening to your conversation. Okay. The Lord Jesus and the angels are your witnesses to what you are speaking. So I think it is very, very important for us what we are speaking, what we are talking about others behind that, because God himself is listening to us and the angels are also listening to us. He's a silent listener to every conversation. Okay. So as people in the body of Christ is important for us to fellowship with others, build strong relationship, you know, commune with others, sharing our lives with each other so that we can bring about transformation. Okay. Now, God is not interested in or impressed by the size of your ministry. How many places you preach? How many books you've written? What is your repetition? Your achievements? You know, what is a fan following you have? How many likes you have on YouTube for your messages? You know, how many followers you have? All that is not what is going to impress God. Okay. All of these are important. He's also not impressed by your titles, your degrees, all the, you know, appreciation that you receive from men and women. Nothing is going to impress God. But what is going to really impress him is whether what is going to impress the heart of God? What is going to impress the heart of God? Sorry. What is going to really please the heart of God? It's not all of these things which I mentioned, but what is really going to please the heart of God? Come on. What is going to please the heart of God? For being him. Thank you, Nelson. What else? Humility, faithful, enduring, righteous, faithful. What else? Doing the will of God and above all, unity. You know, in the high priestly prayer in John chapter 17, Jesus prayed, Father, let them be one as we are one. He didn't say, Father, let them flow in the power that we have. Father, let them be mighty like we are mighty. Let them be all powerful like we are all powerful. But what does he say? Father, let them be one as you know, we are one because Jesus knew that in unity lies anointing strength, power and breakthrough in ministry. Okay. So that is very, very important. So please keep this in mind. Unity is very, very important in the body of Christ. And they're all earthen vessels. Okay. And his grace and his anointing will flow through our lives when we are in one mind in unity and when our mindset is God, I want to build your kingdom. I want to obey you. I want to do your will. I want to let down my pride and willing to forgive that brother or sister, and work with them. I'm willing to partner with them to see your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay. So keep this in mind always. Unity is very, very important when you try to maintain unity in your team, the power of God will flow and God can do great and mighty things with you. Otherwise it will be a downfall of your life, your ministry and your calling. Okay. Any questions on this chapter? No. Okay. In-person students, any questions? Online students, any questions? Okay. There are no questions. We'll move on to chapter nine. Money. Okay. Is money an important part of Christian ministry? Yes. Oh, that's a loud answer. Okay. Why is money important in Christian ministry? Okay. Why is money important in Christian ministry? We thought money you can't do anything. Okay. We can help other churches to build. We can help other churches. Will you really help other churches? Yes, ma'am. That's a big question. When you get all the money, what happens? Pride. Pride? What happens when you have pride? When you have your own church, you have your own building, your own building, everything is set in your church and you're getting more money. What happens? Lucy says greed. So do you think, hey, I can give this money for somebody else to build the church? Come on. Honestly, tell me. What will you think? I will think, let's build another floor so that we can have children's church there, another floor to have youth ministry there. Parking lot based that, right? I can use this money to put a good LED screen to enhance my church. There's a lot of noise coming from outside. Let's make it fully AC. So we can think of all this. We can hardly think of, hey, let me give this money to other people. Okay. So what should be our focus? Sometimes it can get to greed. Mr. Getrud says to build the kingdom of God. Yes. We need to use our money to even build the kingdom of God. I like what APC does. We don't have our own church. We don't have our own property, our own land. But we invest into other churches. We give them to enhance a church. They build a church to buy property. I think it's so wonderful because Pastor's mindset is to build the kingdom of God, not just to build APC. Okay. Now, so our focus should be on the Lord and his call and take our attention of money. Okay. Now Paul tells Timothy the love of money is the root of all evil. Okay. The love for money is the root of all evil. Okay. How do you know that you have love for money? How do you know that you have love for money? And you're always thinking about money. Yes. Well, how else you think that? How else you know you have love for money? As a minister of God. Hey, if I go there and preaching that church, they'll give me good offering. If I go to this church, a small church, poor church, they might not give me. So I'll tell them I'm busy. I can't come. But I can't miss this big church. You know, big offering will come. Let me go and preach. Okay. We'll stop here. Deepu says, you know, Sanjay says you trust in money more than trusting in God. Get to says when you are holding money. Yes. Keeping the money for yourself. Deepu says ready to do anything for money. Yes. That's so true. We're ready to do anything for money that can be very, very dangerous. That's one way we know that we have love for money or we're holding back money is another way. And when we trust in money, then trusting in God. Okay. We'll take a break now. We'll come back and we'll talk about money. Thank you.