 All right, welcome back. Let me just post present the notes. All right, so just a side note here to conclude what we've been talking about. The apostle Paul is not forbidding us to marry. He's simply presenting that there will be challenges, real life challenges that comes with marriage. But he also says that marriage is good because of God's design. First of all, the four, one, two, three. Paul wrote that forbidding to marry is a doctrine of demons. I'll just read that, right? Four, one, two, three. The Spirit clearly says, first of all, the four, one, two, three. The Spirit clearly says that in later times, some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons, doctrine of demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods. You see that? He's saying the teachings Paul is writing to the same writer, right? To the call. He's putting it across in a different way. So that is why it's so important to interpret scriptures in light with other scriptures. And we did that in normality, right? We can't take one scripture and say, okay, this is why I'm forbidding or I'm doing this or I'm doing that. Paul is saying, when you read the whole of this, he's saying, it's good that you're single just as I am, but why is he saying it? So that the focus is on the blood. He's not saying marriage is wrong because he knows that marriage is God's design. Here he's saying to Timothy, he's saying, there will come a time when there will be hypocritical liars deceiving spirits who are teaching the doctrine of demons, saying that you should not get married. So what does it say? Paul is just putting forth his thoughts and saying, God has called you and given you the gift of the grace of being single, go ahead with it. If not, get married. So that's the end of it. That's the end of your marriage. There are certain things that you have to do. We just talked about all of that, right? Now, verse 39 and verse 40, Paul is, he's giving a final word to those, to a wife whose husband has died. And so we can also reverse it the other way, right? Maybe even a husband whose wife has died. So verse 39 and 40, a wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives. But if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes only in the Lord. But she's happier if she remains as she is according to my judgment. And I think I also have the spirit of God. So basically Paul is saying, the woman is a man who has lost their spouse, right? They no longer are living. The man or the woman can think about getting married again. Only in the Lord, again, only to a believer. But Paul is saying it's good even if they don't marry. And later on he also says, he's trying to bring the whole context. Again, if he says I don't want, he or she says I don't want to get married and continue in sexual desires and passion. It's better for them to get married, right? So he ends with this. He says the choice is yours. But the whole objective of chapter 7 was whether we are married, whether we are single, whether we are divorced and remarried again, sexual fulfilment, affection, care is something that we must all have for our spouse. But our focus in all of this must be to serve the Lord. That must be our focus. So maybe some of us may feel highly cold, like I feel one day, for example, maybe a young man, a young woman, their early 20s feel that God has called them for ministry and God has already spoken to them. They're going to start an international ministry and bless thousands of life. How does a young man has a choice? A man over a better case. A young person has a choice. One, if he or she feels that God's grace gift of being single is upon them, they can continue on single. But later on, if this person is consumed with passion or sexual desire, it's better for him to get married. Two, the second way is personated as a youth may feel this calling of God and a high calling ministry or whatever. They can get married, they can have children and still do the ministry. And if you look around us, there are, I think, millions of people who are leaders and great people who have had children, went through all the challenges, yet they continue to focus on God into the ministry as well. So we'll end with that chapter. Let's move into chapter 8. Okay. It looks like at each chapter, the Apostle Paul is bringing one problem after the other. It's quite disheartening, but it's wonderful to see the way Paul is just, it's so much of love and so much of grace. He's bringing connection. So what is he doing in chapter 8? Paul turns his attention to another matter of question and a problem in the Corinthian Church, which was food offered to idols. Right now, we did look at the background of call, right? Temple of Aphrodite is there, got thousands of prostitutes. And when there's a temple, there was sacrifice. The sacrifice could have been anything, right? It could have been eatables, it could have been food, it could have been, you know, herbs and plants, anything. It could have been anything, right? And so whatever it is, the question that came up is, now, just for us to get into context to what's happening there, probably some of the believers said, hey, I've become a believer now. And my neighbor is an unbeliever. He still goes to the Temple of Aphrodite, he or she. But I'm a believer, but I'm good friends with that person. We've been living together for, my neighbor for the past 10 years. So during their feasts, they come and give food to us. And we know this food is sacrificed to the idols. So should we eat it or not? I'm sure all of us are able to bring the context now. So this is a question that raised up, should we eat food offered to idols? What do we do? It was common in current, it's common even right now, maybe now. So let's see what the Apostle Paul teaches us here. Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge buffs up, but love edifies. If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. So you see Paul, he's trying to, he's not directly talking about it, but he's going to address the problem later on. He's saying idols, just for us to understand, there are two kinds of idols. Idols are objects, when we see the Old Testament. Idols were regular physical idols that people worshipped. Remember when Moses went up the mountain and they made an idol that looked like a calf, and they worshipped that. So that was a physical idol. Then we've got idols of the heart. These are things we hold in our heart, which give more importance, but take a higher place than God himself. So this is just a side note. There are two kinds of idols. One is a physical idol, which none of us, I'm sure, bowed out before. But then there are idols in the heart, which we must be careful of. A simple idol that could be in our heart is our phone. I always ask people, you wake up in the morning, what is the first thing you do? First thing, search for your phone or check your WhatsApp. I was not wrong, I'm not bringing condemnation here. But it's just that priorities change. That was the time I wake up and search for my phone. What are the emails? It's good. I want to check my emails. I want to know what's going on for the day, what I must do, my plans and everything. But I realize that, hey, I'm not giving importance to God. The first thing that I do when I wake up must be God. I want to thank you for this day that I can open my eyes. It is because of your grace. Anything that takes prominence over God becomes an idol. So now Paul is addressing idols that are not idols of the heart, but physical idols. I mean, all that Aphrodite was a physical idol. Things offered to idols refers to anything offered in sacrifice to idols. And specifically to the flesh, leftover sacrifices that were either needed in the temples or they are sold in the market. So there are two scenarios that need to be addressed here. One is if the believer happened to be near a temple and was offered meat that was offered to an idol, shouldn't we eat this? So the believer, he happened to be in or near the temple and there was food offered to the idol. Should I eat it? The second scenario has to do with the believers in the market where the meat is sold in general. There are also meats that have been previously offered to idols. And so these meats were often not marked as specific symbols that indicate that they were offered to idols. They're just sold generally. So to those who worship idols, this was a special meeting. Now, the question is, should a believer who went to the market now buy and eat such a meat that was offered as a sacrifice to idols? Two scenarios. One, the believer is staying near or next to a temple and he knows that this food is sacrificed to an idol. Should I eat it? And two, if there was, for example, as an animal sacrifice that was made in the temple and it was made. So what they would do is they would take that, go to the market place and set it there. Now, this was a special meat, considered a special meat. Now, if a believer buys such a meat that was offered to idols, should we eat it? So let's see what Paul goes on to say here. I'm just putting context for these two scenarios. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. The people had knowledge because they had been taught about idols. But what happened in Corinth was their knowledge was puffed up. They became so proud that even knowing the truth instead of walking in love, they were walking with arrogance. They were saying that, see, your knowledge is good, but it puffs you up. It makes you proud. You look at a balloon, right? It's small, right? But you keep blowing at what happens, it becomes big, big, big. It puffs up. But what does love do? It edifies people. Knowledge is important, but knowledge of the truth must be held together with love. So we don't go condemning people who worship idols because they don't know the truth. They don't know the truth about idols, but we must walk in love. Now what's happening here? The believers, there were people who were mature, there were people who were still growing, and the people who were maybe just become believers, they had no idea what to do. But all they know is they prayed and they feel that God has changed them. They become new in their heart and they want to know more about God. And they're coming to church. Just simple believers, maybe one week or two days old in the Lord. They don't know anything. Now what is happening here? People who are saying, hey, I know about this. I've been taught, I know about idols, they are nothing. Their knowledge is puffed up. They're not walking in love. They're not saying, the love of Christ is not compelling them. It's not like they want to walk in love to teach the fellow believers. They're being after. So Paul is looking at it and saying, hey, that's why he, before answering the question, he's saying, your knowledge is puffing you up. You're supposed to walk in love, right? Then he says, worse, four onwards. Therefore, loving, like before that he says, loving God and loving people is prime importance. So don't, you know, puff up your, the way you are. Stay humble, be humble, love people, love God and do what God wants you to do as a person. Then he goes to the problem. Therefore concerning eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing of his work and that there is no other God but one, right? Now, the idol itself is nothing, right? And we know it, right? The idol is a lifeless object with no power of its own. There may be many demonic works or things, so-called gods and many objects that represent things in heaven and earth that are worship. Now, for example, if you look at the Roman culture and Greco-Roman Greek and Roman century, it was more of the stars and the planets and the moon and the god of Ra, which is the half, you know, the half moon god and all kinds of things, right? Now, we know that there is no other God but God the Father, the Lord Jesus through whom all things were created and all things exist. We know that truth and that truth is established in our heart. Idol is nothing. Jeremiah, the book of Jeremiah is wonderful to read. Read the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah gives a whole account of, you know, what is an idol? Forget that chapter. But he goes on with Jeremiah, maybe I'll look at the chapter then later on. He explains to the, he's talking to the Jews. He's saying, okay, you people are worshiping these idols. You know what it is? They go into the forest. They cut a tree. They take the wood. They shape it into something. They put ornaments on it. They carry it over their shoulders. They move it everywhere because it cannot be moved. It has eyes but cannot see ears. It cannot hear mouth but cannot speak. It can't do anything. And so, Jeremiah is so passionate and he's so aggressive in that chapter. And he says, this is what you're not worshiping. He can't even move and walk about because he needs to be carried around. And this is what you're not worshiping. So we are not fearful of an idol or things offered to an idol. But in chapter 10 later on we see that there are demonic spirits behind an idol. And so we look at that later on but here continues. However, there is not everyone, however, there is not in everyone that knowledge for some with the consciousness of the idol until now, eat it as a thing offered to an idol. And their conscience being weak is defined. So let's look at that. Some people, they know the truth. For them, the Lord Jesus is God. God is God. He is greater. Nothing is greater than Him. But some people do not know the truth. For them, the idol is their God and it's an object of their worship. So if they eat what is offered to the idol with consciousness of the idol, it is their act of worship to the idol. And so Paul is addressing here and he's saying, later on also we'll see that when we are, when we know the truth, it is above anything else, above what is happening around us. So he's saying the truth is important. But food does not commend us to God for neither if we eat, are we better, nor if we do not eat, are we worse. So let's look at that. Neither if we eat, are we better. So he's saying here, the food that we eat does not bring us close to God or bring us away from God. So basically Paul is saying, now I know that this is an issue, this is a problem. Before I get to solving your problem, let me tell you that maybe some of you are eating, some of you are not eating. But to those who are eating, food does not bring you closer to God. For those who are not eating, food does not, because you're not eating, it does not bring you closer to God. So basically he's trying to say, hey, there's a relationship that's important. Verse 9 almost, he says, they're talking about our liberty and our knowledge should not cause another to stumble. So verse 9, but be aware that somehow this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak. For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will know the conscious of him who is weak, be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols. And because of your knowledge, shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ died. But when you do sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore if food makes my brother stumble, I'll never eat meat lest I make my brother stumble. So let's look at that first scenario here. What if we are near an idol's temple and there's food or sacrifice to an idol? What should we do? We know that food is sacrificed to idol and maybe in your office. We know there's a food sacrifice to idols. There are a few believers and unbelievers, you all are sitting together. Now the important thing is that the freedom we have is because we know the truth that God is above all of this. But this freedom should not cause another person a weak believer who's maybe new in the faith who still does not understand these things. It must not cause this person to stumble. So for example, I may be 10 years in the Lord, for example, and I'm in office with my friends and I know that there's another person who's just a believer for maybe one year in the Lord and he does not understand these things. For the sake of that person, I will not eat it. But I know the truth that it is nothing. Because the truth is, the idol is just an idol. And worse, then we'll talk more about this. So here he goes on. If he sees who is strong in the Lord Jesus, the person who sees who's strong, each food offered to idols, the weak brother will mistakenly think that we are also reverencing the idol that has been worshiped. So the weak brother will think, hey, this person is eating the food offered to idols. So that means he is honoring that God. He may think that. Now we may not be doing so. We may be just, okay, hey, it's all done. But because of their ignorance and observing, and by observing what we do, they are encouraged to do something wrong. Remember, our actions speak louder than words in anything, not only in this matter. Our actions speak louder than words. So here Paul is saying, I know the truth. I know that an idol is an idol. It's nothing. It's life. This has no power. Now that God is inside me and a temple of God and a strong God has made me. I believe in God. But for the weak brother, so that the wrong starts being taken. We mustn't say, no, let him learn or let her learn that even if you eat nothing will happen. Now we do want a weak brother involving in something that he's not fully convinced of. And our action in such a situation can cause the weak brother to sin. So what is it in such a situation? It is best not to eat food offered to the idol, right? It is best not to do that so that we can stay away from it. Is it because we are fearful? Is it because I'm saying, okay, what if something happens later on? It's not because of that because we know the truth. But for the weak brother, so that he may not sin. Now picture this. See if there's somebody who's a big brother or a sister in Christ and they see you eating this food, right? And they say, hey, okay, because you're eating, I will eat because I know that God is... Now he eats this and then one week later he falls ill or something happens, right? Just naturally he just falls ill or something happens in office, something goes wrong. That he may attribute that problem to what happened in me. Because last week or two weeks back I had this food offered to idols and now I'm going through this problem. That is the weakness, right? But those were strong who know the truth. You know that to every season God is with me, God has strengthened me, right? So the first scenario about food sacrifice to idols when there is a new believer or somebody who's still, you know, maybe you're sharing the gospel with somebody and this person, right, offers you some food that was sacrificed to idols. What would be our response? Now the wrong thing to do is to say, okay, now see, I'll have your food offered to your idol. Your idol is nothing. Let me eat it. I'll show you how, you know, nothing's going to happen to me. See, because my God is greater than your God, that would be the wrong thing to do. The best thing to do in that situation is say, hey, you know, I just want to talk to you about what is our body and how we can honor God. Just talking to them about the importance of being the temple of the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit is. You can bring out these points because you know you're trying to bring this person into Christ. You don't want to bring condemnation because now, for example, if he becomes a believer, you ate this food, he becomes a believer after one month, he will go back and continually eat that food because this guy also ate, or this person also ate. He shared the gospel with me. He is mature and he ate something I ate, so we must be very careful, right? Our intention is not to puff ourselves up because of knowledge, but he says, love edifies one another. For the love of this person, the love of God that he has put inside me, for the love that I have for this person, I don't want to see the sweet brother or sister falling, so I am willing to not eat, to sacrifice this, meaning I'm willing to let go of this. Even though I know that it's nothing that is going to affect me for the sake of the other person, I don't need it. So he ends there with chapter 8 saying that, right? Let's move on to chapter 9. Before that, any questions? Let me just get to the chat. Any questions? Yes, Shree Kumar, please go ahead. Thank you, Pastor. I need a clarification. I know what you explain, but then also sometimes to explain others, I need a little bit more clarification. Go ahead. So I just want to know that there are, as you said, like this, but even I know that the Bible very clearly says that the witchcraft and the divination does not work against, you know. But even though I have seen something which around me, where the believers are attacked because of the witchcraft and other things, and by unknowingly, I just want to know that even though the Scripture says those things, is it because of the lack of their faith on the Gospel, is it happening or something else? Because when we praise many things comes out and they vomit it out and so many things. Is it because they have the open doors or they know that they are not completely willing in this truth? I just want to know that. So that is one of the reasons people just avoid to eat anything which comes from the idol or anything to keep themselves. So I just need a clarification from that. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Yes, Shree Kumar. So again, in chapter 10, we will discuss a little more about idols and feasts and what Paul said. But to answer your question, Shree Kumar, see, when you look at bondage, there is a process, but there are stages when it comes to bondage. So for example, the Bible says that, do not give the enemy a foothold, lest he takes a die on place. So many times, believers are going through probably problems of witchcraft or there is constant failure, there is constant diseases or sicknesses, there is constant troubles in their life. Now, two reasons. One could be a generational bondage that has been continued over years and years and years and nobody has taken authority and broken that bondage. That's one. It's just a generational curse or bondage that has continued. Many a times, there are people who, every first bond is dying from generational. So they know, okay, the first one will die. The second one will live. The first one will live. So it's going on. So it's a bondage. It's a generational curse which has to be broken. The believer must take the authority and break that bondage. Now, the same way, there are many things or many circumstances or many challenges that we face and we make wrong decisions and we get into, we let the enemy take a foothold. So for example, a believer, how can a believer be in depression? The joy of the Lord is our strength, the God is with us, the Holy Spirit is with us. How can a believer be in depression? And it happens and it's sad. Now, we don't condemn them of being a believer, how can you? But what happens is we let the enemy, we give them a foothold. We're saying, we're allowing the enemy to take that one place. We're giving that small space. We're saying, okay, it could be anything. It could be like any wing. So we're giving the enemy that small area in our life. And what is he going to do? He's going to try and take the whole room because he's got one step in that room. And if we are not careful, if we do not resist the devil, that's why Paul, Peter writes, submit to God, resist the devil and evil free viewer. And I like that because first we have to submit to God. Right? So, Shree Kumar, there will be believers who are going through all of these witchcraft and all these, you know, the enemy is just playing around with them. And it's sad to see that, but the truth is, maybe one, it's a generational bondage which they can break. God will break it. Two, they have open doors in their life to let the enemy work so powerfully in their life. Yet, God is able to restore it. So it's not always a lack of faith from their side. It's more of their own mistakes or their own things that they have done. And, you know, sometimes it's also this, you know, we have the authority, but we don't use it. And that's a sad thing too, for us, right, as believers. You know, we limit God and we say, okay, God only for this or only for that, only on Sundays. No, but God has given us the authority. Is there anything that God cannot do? So there are many times, right, we go to missions and to different places in our nation. We see wonderful believers, but they are trapped in, you know, probably witchcraft or they are possessed or oppressed by the devil. Why is that? Because we have opened and given the door to the enemy, right? What can we do in such a situation? Continue to pray, continue to ask God to bring healing and deliverance and ask God to bring restoration. And a lot of Jesus said, these kind of situations need fasting and prayers, right? So you need people praying for them. They must be praying. They must be careful to overcome things that the enemy is doing. So these are the two reasons that I can think of right now. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Kennedy says, so in order to eat meat that is slaughtered by a Muslim, because they normally perform a large prayer. So is it in order to eat meat that is slaughtered by a Muslim? Because they normally perform halal prayer before the slaughtering. Okay. So to answer your question, Kennedy, if it is sold in the market, right? And you're buying it in the sense that you're just buying it to eat in your family. And there's no questions raised up. Hey, is this offered to idols? Or is it offered to the same? I would say if you're buying it in the market, it's not marked as or you're buying it in the market, you can just buy it and eat it. But it is not going to affect you. But if it's something that people ask you, so for example, you have a life group, right? You're sitting in the life group and you say, okay, we're going to buy meat and this is what it is. And if somebody in that life group is a believer, who is a new believer and says, but isn't this meat offered to by prayer to the gods of Islam or offered to idol? And isn't it prayed over by the other gods? Isn't it going to be a problem? Now, as a leader, what would I do? I would say, if you feel not comfortable with this, then we can do something else. We can avoid it. Why? Because of that person, that one person. But if everyone are okay with it, we'd say, okay, eventually we will all buy it from the market. So Paul was addressing the first issue. So that's just that example, right? One person out of the 15 people is not comfortable with it. For that one person, I will not buy it. Because I don't want that one person who may be weak in the Lord who's still growing. I don't want him to follow this. And just because I feel I know that I'm really right. Right? And later on Paul gave a certain title in chapter 10, he talks a little bit about idols and what is the believer's freedom. What is the freedom that we have and how we must use the freedom of God and freedom that God has given us in the right way. Right? Before we go, I just wanted to, you know, I know that some of us have come from, you know, the different faiths. And I just thought, Tarun is here, Tarun is here. So I just thought we can hear from each of us. What are your thoughts about this? Anybody else here you have, you know, come from a, probably a background where there was, you know, food offered to idols. And what do you think it is? What do you believe in your heart regarding this whole thing of food sacrifice to idols? And maybe you can share some examples or some things that happened. Is there anyone here? I know that Tarun and I have had many discussions on this. Anybody else here have any, nobody, nobody has had. Okay, I can share a couple of, there's this one time in office. Well, when I was working in office, which is the ID company that I was working in. And I forget what festival it was. And, you know, during that time, we had a small prayer group that was happening in the office setting. So I started a small prayer fellowship and we were about 10, 15 years just coming together. We would spend about half an hour worship and reading the word and we would pray in just half an hour, 45 minutes. And so many times, you know, these festival times, they would come and they would offer it to me. Now, I was very strong in the sense that I knew, okay, this is nothing, doesn't matter to me. Personally, you know, when I was alone, I'd have. But in the office setting, when they've come and offered it to me, I've said no. The reason being, because there are people who are part of my prayer group or the prayer group that we have started. And they may have a lot of questions. I knew that there are some of them there who are just new believers. They have a lot of questions. There were some who were atheists. There were some who were, you know, not doing believers, they were from other faiths, but they were coming for that time of fellowship. Now, if I had eaten it, it would have raised many questions and it would have, you know, even though I didn't eat it, there were questions raised. But you know, it stood as a testimony. And so I believe that whatever setting we are in, our intention must be that the brother and sister around us, the weaker brother or sister, must not be affected. They must not come to a place of, you know, of just saying, okay, just because this wasn't it, I will do it. And he or she may fall and may even turn to a place where they may go away from Christ, may fall into the trap of the devil just because of this one incident that happened. Right? So we have a choice. That's why Paul begins the chapter so beautifully. He says, knowledge of freedom. I think we know everything, but it is love that edifies us, that builds each other. So I want to leave us with that. We will close for today. We'll pick up next week. We'll go from chapter 10. Sorry, chapter nine. We'll talk about how the apostle Paul is after explaining all this. He says, why am I saying all he's saying is he's portraying his right as an apostle of Christ. He's saying, the reason I'm sharing all this because I'm an apostle who has been sent to you and as a spiritual leader as a father, this is what I am. I am free to speak my mind out because you are my children. Yes, Christopher, go ahead. Yes, Pastor. I just wanted to check there are some people who will always pray before they eat anything or before a meal. And sometimes they even do it in an environment which is outside of the house. So I just want to understand is that a good practice? Is that something that one should do regularly as a practice? I just wanted to get your view on that. Okay, so you're talking about believers just maybe going to a restaurant and it's good to pray and eat. Is that a good question? Is that a good practice? Yes. And there are times I mean it's happened in front of me sometimes where a believer will look at certain food or sometimes it's just something that maybe I've gone out and it happened to be once in my office and I went and bought some juice for someone and that person said, where did you buy this juice from? Because I'm not going to have it at all and they were quite... It just felt that it was not something that was something that they could actually drink. Yes, that's a good question, Christopher. So if you look at it practically, for example, I go out. I have the habit whether I'm at home and I'm sure most of us have this habit, right? Whether we're at home, whether we're outside, we just pray and eat. So why do we do that? We're praying that the food that we eat will nourish us, will strengthen us. It will be a blessing to our body and we're also saying God, thank you for this food because it is you who provided this food. It has been there from the Old Testament where the priest would take the offering before he distributes the offering. He takes a portion of the offering and he leave the rest for the temple foods when they're going to cook and all of that. So the one that was what they were doing is they would before offering it, they would pray to God. So it's even now, we pray to God, we say God bless the food, let it nourish our body, let it strengthen our body. And we're just being kind for God, right? So it's not that we are trying to say that okay, this food I'm sitting at a restaurant which doesn't look like a Christian restaurant. So I have to pray double, it's not about that. So what we're doing is we're just praying for the food that we eat just like how we pray for everything else. We say God, thank you for this food, bless the food and let it be an nourishment to our bodies. And when I'm outside, I just do that simple prayer, right? So we go, thank you for this food, bless it nourish to my body and help me to be strong and healthy to do your work. Simple prayer, that's it, right? So it's nothing wrong, nothing wrong. And anywhere, even there are times we can have a tea outside, we can pray a blessing over it. It's not wrong at all, it's not at all. We're called to pray for everything, give thanks and everything that we do. Yeah, we can pray. There are people who are, you know, believers maybe who are weak and say they don't want to eat or drink from this hotel or they feel that it's not right. You know, personally, I know of a couple of friends who said, you know, they didn't want to go to this restaurant because they know that early morning at 7am in the morning, they have some kind of, you know, the whole prayer thing, you know, what they call like a worship that's happened to their idols and he does all that. He takes those, you know, those incense sticks and he walks around the whole, you know, the hotel and that whole, the entire hotel is, you know, restaurant places filled with that incense sticks. So there are a couple of them, friends who said, no, I don't want to go there because this is what they do. So it's okay. You say, okay, let's choose another place. I don't have to say, hey, nothing will happen. They are nothing, you know, if they feel weak in that area, they will leave at once. So wherever, whether I go here to this place or that place, even if I go to a Christian restaurant, which are playing Christian songs, I will pray over my feet. Right. Yeah. So, all right. Okay, so let's close in prayer. And now we'll catch up next week. Maybe one of us can close. Anybody? Krikumar, can you close in prayer? Or anybody else? Kennedy. First of all, anyone can close in prayer. Yes. Awfully silent. Anyone, please close in prayer. Father, we thank you for this beautiful time of God, just learning and Lord, we thank you for the wisdom of God in your word. God, thank you for your grace and your mercy. Thank you, Lord, that even as we come together and learn, Lord, your word is true. Your word is faithful and pray God that even as we learn that you will continue to empower and strengthen us. Lord, Lord, I pray that you will help us, Lord, not just to grow in knowledge and wisdom, but to walk in love. Because love is what edifies our another. Pray God that the love of God will fill our hearts. And even as we walk this life, Lord, that the love that you have put in our hearts will be an overflow in everything that we do. Lord, we speak your blessing over each and every student. May your grace, your anointing and your wisdom rest upon each one of them. Thank you, Father. We pray God that you will continue to teach us throughout the entire week. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Thank you so much, everyone. God bless. Have a great week. See you next week.