 Okay. Good morning, everyone. It's good to connect with you. Today we will have our class online. Let's pray and we'll get started. I just want to request someone from the class to please go ahead and lead in prayer. Tandy, unmute and pray please. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for this time, Lord Jesus Father. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for this morning. Lord Jesus Father, thank you for helping us to have this class. Thank you for giving us this opportunity and Lord Jesus Father as we go through this session of Father Lord, Holy Spirit, teachers, leaders and guidance of Father help us to have more faith in you, Lord Jesus and Lord Jesus Father. I pray for Nancy Ma'am also Lord, give her wisdom, give her knowledge and strength. Lord Holy Spirit, speak through us, minister through us. Let this session, Lord Jesus Father, teach us more of Father. In Jesus' mighty name we ask and pray. Amen. Well, thank you. Thank you for that prayer. Okay. Good morning, everyone. I see your message is on the chat. All right. Today we will continue to discuss about faith but before we get into what we have for today, we'll talk about some very key concepts like faith, what is faith and what is hope, what is love. But before that, maybe we can just share a little bit regarding the life of Abraham and how you've learned something from the life of Abraham and his journey of faith, the steps of faith that we discussed in the last class. So if there's anything that has really impacted you from Abraham's journey, maybe you can share that and then I'll get into the subject for today. So Abraham's journey of faith. Okay. Feel free. I mean, anyone can just speak up. You can either unmute your mics and talk or post your comments on the chat. I'll read it out. Any takeaways from the last class? Sister, can I say something about Abraham? Sure, sure. Sister Katruth, please go ahead. Abraham, he got his son Isaac at the age of 100 and when Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing and God wanted to test his faith and asked him to sacrifice his only son. And Abraham did not hesitate. He prepared and he took his servant and Isaac and he went on Mount Moriah to sacrifice his son. But God knew that his heart, that he is very faithful and he provided a lamb instead of his son and that shows that Abraham did not waver in his faith. Okay. So the testimony of Abraham where he was strong in his faith and that he didn't waver, that's something that you have taken away. So thank you for sharing that. Lucy also has a comment here. She says, just obey God. His plans are great. How Abraham moved on obeying God. So obedience to God is something that she has noted. Anything else that stood out for you because when we talk about someone or let's say a truth from God's word, hopefully that has gone registered in our hearts and we can apply that in our own lives because if we don't understand it, we can't apply it. So that's why I'm asking you so that I know what you have understood from the last class. So Sanjay has a comment. He says Abraham wasn't perfect in his faith. We had God was understanding and he continued to guide him even though he went against God's will at times. God will never leave us now forsake us. Yeah, that's true because we saw how there were times when Abraham made mistakes. But there were also times when Abraham was not maybe a little bit of doubt came into his heart, but we know how God called him and reassured him with a vision. He refreshed the vision so that Abraham could hold on to the promise of God. So in that sense, it's true what Sanjay is sharing here that God is so kind and so merciful that we can keep following after him. So he helps us even in our moments of weaknesses. That's good Sanjay. Anything else that others have picked up? Even though Abraham, yeah, Jennifer, just coming to you a moment. I'll read out Paramita's comment here. She says even though Abraham didn't know about celestial bodies, he believed God. Okay, all right. Yeah, I guess we know more now than Abraham did back then. Okay, Jennifer, your turn. Please go ahead. You can unmute and speak. Yeah, ma'am. When God called him, Abraham came out of his comfort zone from his place, land people, from his churches, everything. And he followed God's word and he went out of his nation, travelled him. He put his complete trust and obedience unto God so that God made a blessing for us all over the nations. Yeah, so when God called, he just stepped out by faith and that has become a blessing for all of us. Yes, Jennifer, thank you so much for sharing that key point. I'll move on to the chat. Okay, Sunny Moses, though Abraham didn't see the results at his present times, yet still he had faith in God and his promises. We also saw certain steps of faith, such as he believed God against all hope he still believed. All right, yeah, that's fine. That's good. Daniel Abraham had full faith that even though God was saying to sacrifice his son, he is faithful to fulfill his promise without Isaac also. Okay, well, we do have an insight of what Abraham thought when he was sacrificing Isaac. So I know Daniel has mentioned that he had the faith in God to move on even without Isaac, but the scriptures tell us that he believed that God could raise up Isaac from the dead. That you know, even if God is asking him to sacrifice Isaac, God is able to resurrect him. So Abraham had faith even for the resurrection of his sacrifice son. Okay, right, let's move on. So the life of Abraham, the journey of Abraham, it's an inspiration for us. That is why Abraham is known as the father of faith. So some very important things that we must remember from Abraham's steps of faith are that God is a promise giver. So in all of our lives, we must hear from God. What is God speaking to me in my journey? Or it could be more specific to the situation that we find ourselves in. So what is the word of God for that situation, the promise of God for that situation? Then after we hear the word of God, the intention or the promise of God, then starts the journey. So in the case of Abraham, we saw that he began, it wasn't perfect, right? It's not like he was so strong in what God called him to do that he did not have doubt or he did not sort of go away from what God had told him to do. These things happened even in Abraham's life. But the fact is that he became stronger and stronger. And that is what the steps of Abraham are all about. We saw those steps, how he believed God. That's the first thing. Okay, God said it, I believe it. Against all hope, he hoped in God. So he had an expectation from God that God would do it. And then we saw how he went on, he thanked God, he gave glory to God. His faith became unwavering or his faith came to a place where it was not shaking anymore. He was firm in his faith. And then he went ahead and he received the promise of God. So it's like stages or steps as we see the fulfillment of God's promises for our lives. So we must be ready and willing to make this journey ourselves. So here's the last comment from Deepu. She says, Abraham believed that who gives life to dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. Okay, sure. So this is again, you know, with regard to the scripture from Romans chapter 4 verse 17. Now, we can move on. Let's move on to the next topic here. This is regarding faith, hope and love. So we'll discuss what these terms mean. Now, each of them has a separate or a distinct understanding for us. So that's what we want to grasp so that we are able to walk in what these terms mean. So I'll try and explain them to us. And if you have any, you know, questions or clarifications regarding this, we can talk about it. So faith, hope and love, we know that in 1st Corinthians chapter 13, we are encouraged that these are the three things that ultimately remain. And they're so essential for the lives of believers. But what is faith? What is hope? And what is love? You know, that's the question we are asking. So when we talk about faith, we've seen that faith is in the now a few points that we understood. Faith is in the now adding faith. Now, when we talked about faith, we also mentioned that faith is a substance of things which we hope for. So what is this hope? And I will share with us earlier that the word hope in English may not give us an idea of certainty. So whenever we say something like, I hope the internet is strong throughout the session, it doesn't necessarily mean that the internet is going to be strong. You know, it could remain strong or, you know, something could happen to it. But the biblical understanding of the word hope is that when you say I am hoping that God will do something, it is certain it will happen. So my hope is that God will provide for my need. When I'm saying that in a biblical sense, I mean that God will provide or I hope that God will grant me wisdom and understanding. The actual biblical understanding would be that, yes, God will do it for us. So hope is very certain as far as the biblical understanding is concerned. So hope, okay, what else can we understand about hope? I just shared that hope is a certainty. It has an element of certainty. And hope is also an expectation. An expectation or we may want to call that it is a positive expectation from God or a confident expectation from God where we are steady and optimistic that something is going to take place and something good is going to happen. So the best example as far as hope is concerned is I think I shared with us some classes ago that, you know, when you look at little children and, you know, they have their birthdays coming up. They have a very positive expectation that, yes, you know, my birthday is going to come. It's going to be a great time. So they keep expecting it, you know, maybe months ahead, they have a positive expectation. So hope is that hope is a positive or a confident or an optimistic expectation from God. Now, when we say that we have faith and we lack hope, then there is a disconnect. For example, if I say that, you know, I trust that God will bless my ministry or maybe, you know, I'm called to be a pastor and I've planted a church. And my faith is that, yeah, God will bless my ministry. My work will grow, that I will be blessing to many people. But if I lack hope, what is hope? I just share it's a positive expectation within my heart. So the positive expectation will keep me excited. It will keep me strong. It will keep me, you know, rejoicing in God. Now, it may not necessarily be in my emotions. I may not be all cheerful and bubbly outside, but somewhere in the depths of my heart, I am positive. Okay, I am rejoicing. I know, yeah, it's going to come. I have a sense of expectation like that little child that surely the Lord will do this in my life. But if I lack that expectation, that's when I'm saying that I'm lacking hope. Okay, so that's how we understand hope. So hope says that, yes, at the right time, God will do it. Someday, I'm going to see a manifestation of this. I'm waiting, but there will be a fulfillment. So it's a joyful expectation of our hearts. When we lack expectation, it can be quite challenging to make our journey that way. Also, the Bible has something more to say about hope. So if someone can turn to Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 19, can somebody read that? You can open up to Hebrews 619. Can unmute and read. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast and which enters the presence behind the evil. Okay, thank you so much. So here we see this term, this hope we have as the anchor of the soul. And I've described earlier about how we are a tripartite being. We have spirit, we have soul, we have body. So in a soulish man, or the place which is the seat of our will, our emotions, our thoughts. That is the soul, that's the soul part of us. Now in my soul, if I lack hope, then I am like a ship which has no anchor. Maybe we might have seen some place, maybe in some pictures or let's say some visuals that a boat which is not anchored at the shore, it can just move with the waves and be so unstable or even be beaten up by the winds and the waves and be destroyed. But when there is an anchor, there is a stability. So even in our lives, when we check our own souls, if we lack hope in God, there's no expectation. God, if you do it's okay, if you don't do it's okay. You know, I will still be faithful, that kind of state of mind. Well, it sounds very godly, but the Bible says the hope is the anchor of the soul. So the soul needs an anchor in God where we have a positive expectation from God. And we are saying, I am expecting God said in his word and he will do it for me. So there is this positive expectation that we maintain in God. So hope is the anchor of the soul and we see that both faith and hope exist together. They can't really exist separately. I can't say that I have faith in God, but I have no expectation. Okay, so that shows a lack of faith because what does the scripture say? That faith is the substance of the things that we hope for. So if I'm hoping for something, then I have faith about it. But if I'm saying that I have faith, but I don't have any hope, I don't have any expectation, then my faith is not really in the manner that it should be. So my soul is lacking the anchor of hope, which is also essential for my journey. So paint a picture of hope in your mind based on the promises of God. So how do we do this? See, we are not talking about some worldly concept because these days we have concepts where people say, imagine yourself, whatever you want, you imagine yourself doing that. So I remember back in our school days, some of the students in my batch days to say, oh, if you expect to get the top ranks in school, then just take a few moments to imagine yourself getting that rank or getting the award, getting the medal. Of course, you have to work hard. It's just not going to come because you're imagining it and you're assuming and painting pictures in your mind. But the difference here that we are talking about today is that when God says something, that's the truth. And so it is okay for us to paint a picture in line with the promise of God. Don't just paint the picture based on imagination and whatever we want and we like. That is not the right kind of hoping. But when we paint a picture in line with God's promise, that is helpful. So in Genesis 15, if you recall, in the journey of Abraham, the steps of Abraham, we said that God showed him the stars and God showed him the sand. What is the picture there? The sand, the stars, these were all pictures to Abraham. So as a desert man, every time he would see the stars, he would hope in God and say, God has promised it will happen. And every time he would touch the sand, he would say, I know it's going to happen. It'll happen. So God gives us these pictures based on his word. And that is something that you and I can take advantage of. So based on the promise of God, we can picture ourselves. So if God has promised a blessing in our lives, as we pray, we can say, God, give me a picture, give me an image in my mind that I can look at and say that, yeah, it's going to be like this. I'm waiting, but God is going to do it. It'll look like this. I will, you know, my family will look like this, or my ministry will look like this, or my future will look like this. So what is that? It's like Genesis 15, where there is a picture. So like even in the corporate world, I think they have this new concept. It's called as the vision board. So what they tell people to do is you have a board and on that board you put pictures of whatever you want to see happen. Okay, something like, okay, I want to go for a holiday to a certain place. They take a picture and then they put it there. What are they doing? It's somewhat like what we are talking about. But the only difference is that what people do outside of God and outside of the scriptures. We don't know whether those things will happen or not happen because God never said that. But for us, we are sure that if God has promised, he will do it for us. So I hope that you have understood the meaning of hope. We will now move on as we talk about faith, a little bit about faith. So faith, we've explained it. In the now, faith is the substance of things hoped for or in other words, it's like a sixth sense in our spirit, where we have a knowing that this is what God is going to do. Now, while this is what faith is, what about feelings? What about emotions? Now for Abraham, think of Abraham, God promised him a son, but he was so old. His wife was so old. So would there have been days when he felt his feelings in our emotions? In our soulish man, he felt sad or he felt discouraged or he felt like dejected. He felt hopeless. What about all these feelings? How does that affect the faith which is in his heart? So the point we want to make is that our feelings can change. So we have the promise of God, one day we feel happy, one day we feel sad. When things are going good, we feel like, yes, God is doing it. On the days when we're just not able to do it right, we feel that, hey, nothing is happening. I don't feel good. So all kinds of negative emotions, how do we deal with this? We have to understand that faith and emotional feelings, there is an association, yes, but they can be separate. So even on days when we don't feel great that God's promise will be fulfilled, we can still have faith in our hearts. So don't go by feelings. If we go by feelings, we won't do anything, isn't it? So sometimes, let's say even in ministry, we have to minister. We have to go and pray for someone or we have to stand up and preach on Sunday. The fact is sometimes you don't feel like it. Sometimes you feel like, oh, I'm so tired or I'm so this or that and something else is going on. If we go by feelings, we won't do anything, right? But if we go by faith, you just stand up, you just go ahead, you just do it because you're supposed to do it. Because God told you to do it, right? So we move by faith, not by feelings. Feelings are like the weather, morning it's cold, afternoon it's hot, evening it's pleasant. We'll keep changing. So don't base your journey of faith on the basis of feelings because it'll never work out. So yes, feelings can change but our faith is not dependent on feelings and God wants us to be beyond it. Sometimes there are good feelings associated with our faith and that's wonderful because it makes our journey easy. But don't depend on it. Do you know anyone in the Bible who wanted to first check the promise of God and feel positive about it and only then believe? So was there anyone who didn't believe first and first wanted to check? Gideon. Gideon. Okay. Yeah, he didn't believe yes, but he didn't really ask for a test to check the promise. But you're right, one part is correct that he didn't believe initially. He was thinking that, you know, maybe I'm not the right person that God called. But thank you Brother Biju for sharing that. Sister, can I say Jonah? Okay, right. Fine. He didn't believe that's true. But he didn't necessarily test. He didn't say, okay, show me. I want to feel and touch. Then I'll confirm he didn't do that. So but yeah, Jonah, you're right. He disobeyed God. He wanted to do his own thing. Okay, I can see a lot of answers here in the chat. Akhil, since you raised your hand, please go ahead. Thomas. Okay, I think Brother Biju answered that. Yeah, Thomas, Thomas of course, because he wanted to put his, he wanted to touch the wounds of Jesus before he could believe. Right? But what did Jesus say after that? Akhil, any idea? Do you want to answer that? What did Jesus say after he touched and then he confirmed? Yeah, yeah, you are. Yeah, sorry. So it was, you know, for the proof or evidence that Thomas was seeking for. And Jesus said, what are the ones who don't see and yet believe? That's right. Yeah. So see Thomas was, he wanted evidence first, then believe. Okay, a little different from Abraham, Abraham. But what did Jesus tell him? Blessed are those who believe, right? Without seeing as even though he has answered here. So faith journey is like that. First God calls us to believe. And then in the right time, we will see the promise of God fulfilled. But blessed are those who believe. You've got to believe first. Don't go by feelings. If we go by feelings, we will not really be able to believe now. I hope that's okay. Is there any follow up questions to that thought? Or are we clear about that? Faith and feelings. Okay, great. So, yeah, and I think it's applicable in everything. You know, we say that I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Some days we just don't feel like it. Or we say, I'm blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. But we don't feel very blessed in our emotions. Don't worry about it. Live by faith, not by feelings. Okay, keep moving ahead because that's what God's word says. And it is true. Now coming to faith versus doubt. What about doubt? We saw faith and feelings, faith and doubt. There are instances in scripture and it's there in our notes also. Times when the disciples doubted and did not take a step. For example, when there was a storm, they feared that the storm would destroy them. And Jesus rebukes them. We saw that. He said, hey, where is your faith? And similarly, when the disciples are not able to cast out a demon, Jesus again rebukes them. He says, how long shall I be with you? Unbelievable perverse generation. So he rebukes them for the lack of faith. And he talks about how it is true faith that many of these miracles are possible or God's intervention is possible. So how do we deal with doubt? You see, doubt is something that we can have in our hearts. But what did Jesus tell us? No doubt interferes with faith. In Mark 11, 23, remember, Jesus taught us. He said, have faith in God. If you say to this mountain, you know, be a prudent cast into the sea. And if you do not doubt in your heart, so when there is doubt, faith cannot operate. So it's either faith or doubt. So when there is doubt, doubt will extinguish faith or doubt will make faith inoperable. So we must not have any place for doubt in our hearts. See, it's like replacement. I can either have faith or I remove that. I can either have doubt. But both of these will bring some results. So when I have faith, it will bring the fulfillment of God's promise. But when I have doubt, what will that bring? It will bring whatever is associated with it or attached to it. Things like fear, things like discouragement, things like lack of peace in our hearts or, you know, it's connected to torment. Torment is, you know, it's like there's no peace. There's just disturbance inside our hearts. So doubt is connected to that. When we doubt God and God's promises, we will experience all of these things in our spirit, in our mind, in our emotions. But the opposite of that is faith. So if you replace doubt with faith, you'll experience what is associated with it. Things like peace, joy, hope, all of that will come into our hearts when we have faith. So it's one or the other, right? So get rid of any doubt in our hearts. And how much faith do we need? How much faith do we need? How much faith is God asking us to have? Faith just as a master's team. A little bit, right? So little. And that's enough to actually defeat doubt, which we may be carrying in our hearts. So let me quickly look at the chat here because Deeksha is asking, doubt and lack of hope, can we say it's the same? Doubt and lack of hope. Okay. Doubt and lack of hope. I mean, I would, my answer would be that it's not because see doubt is, doubt is your, there's no faith only. Okay, there's no faith. When you say doubt, doubt is overcome. Then you're saying that the portion that must be occupied by faith is now occupied by doubt. Okay. But when you say that there is no hope, it could be that one has faith, but they are not actively hoping. Okay. So faith can be there, but something within them is, you know, that something needs to be awakened so that they can also start to hope. So lack of hope could be that, you know, there is faith, but we are not, we're not allowing that hope to be alive in us. I really don't know if I explained myself clearly to you, Deeksha. I can only hope that you're not confused and you got something from what I said. Did it make sense? Okay. Sure. Thank you. All right. Coming to Jennifer. Yeah. So Jesus told that if we say to the mountain, move the mountain, it should move. He wants us to have such kind of faith. Okay. Right. So to have strong faith. So when we say faith, the quality in itself, right? When we say I have faith, it already possesses the ability to do what God wants done. So yeah, even if it's a little bit of faith, it has that ability or the quality or the characteristic to do what God wants us to do. And just a little bit of faith must see faith is what God is asking us for. So this is how we, we, you know, consider faith and doubt. And one more thing about doubt is that remember we said faith is of the heart. So we can have faith in our heart, but in the mind, okay, in the mind, we can have questions. Where do these questions come from? Questions in the mind. Where do they come from? With our insecurities and doubts. Okay. Okay. Insecurities and doubts our own. Okay. So they are our own. It's coming from within us. Okay. Great. So doubts come from us. We could say that. Where else do they come from? From Satan. That's right. Very good. So there are two sources, two primary sources from where lies or untruth comes to us. One is our own hearts. Because we are not grounded in the truth of God's word. So what happens? We then start to think untruth. That, you know, the same examples that I gave earlier. Oh, I'm not the righteousness of God or I am not blessed. Why? Because we are not anchored in the word. We don't know the word or we are not, we have not settled the word in our hearts. So where is doubt coming from? From our own heart. It's coming from our own heart. Okay. So then there's work to do within our, in our minds, in our hearts to settle the word of God. That's where Romans 12, where Paul wrote. He said, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. The mind is very, very important for a believer. Okay. That's the place where you win the battles, the mind, renewed mind with the word of God. And the second thing that came through right now is that these doubts come from Satan. Remember, how did he deal with Eve? God told them, don't eat from the street, you know, of the knowledge of good and evil. And he comes to Eve and he puts a doubt. Did God really say? Did God really say to do this? Then she was in doubt. Adam was in doubt. They're like, oh, did God really say? Because they were not firm. But where did this thought come from? Just one thought, right? Did God really say? And then he goes on to tell more lies. He says, no, if you eat from this, you will become like God. And they believed who? They didn't believe God. They believed the devil. They believed Satan. So Satan brings lies in our minds. And if, again, I'm not, my mind is not renewed by the word of God, what will happen? I'll agree. Okay, I'll agree. Yeah, whatever Satan is saying. Maybe that is the truth. But if I know the truth, what can I do as a believer? I say, I rebuke you Satan. I reject that in the name of Jesus. So I can battle against every doubt that comes in my mind. But the point that I'm trying to make is, you see, we can have faith in our heart. Okay, we can have 100% faith in our heart. But that doesn't mean that we won't have questions in our minds. Because sometimes through our own thinking, we end up having questions. Or Satan will put doubts. No demons will put doubts in our minds. They'll make us question. But don't worry about it. Because even though there are all these things going on in the mind, faith is still there in the heart. Okay, that doesn't mean we are doubting. Having questions doesn't mean that we are doubting God. We just need to know how to deal with it. If it is a sincere question that we must find answers to, then we've got to know how to study the word of God and find answers in it. But if it's not a sincere question, if it's just the lies of the devil, or if it's just my wrong concept about something, then I have to learn how to demolish that. Remember Paul wrote to the Corinthians and he said taking every thought captive, even one thought which is not of God, we don't want that in our head. We have to demolish that thought and I love the word of God to rule and reign in our hearts. So yes, there can be questions in the mind, but that doesn't take away the faith in our hearts. Now moving on to the last concept here, which is about love. So what is love? Love is a characteristic of God. It comes from God. God is love. The scriptures tell us. So how do we understand this love? There's a lot in our notes, but I'll just touch on the key points and maybe you can go back and study more about what kind of love the Bible is talking about. The Bible teaches us that we must be motivated by love. Whatever we do, it must come from a place of love. Even our faith work, must come from a place of love. Otherwise what happens, we want to show off our faith and all the mighty things that our faith can do, but we don't have sincere love in our hearts, whether it's towards God, towards people, towards God's work and that is problematic because what we are saying is, faith and love are disconnected. I can be a person full of faith, but zero love. But what does the Bible have to say about that? In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, Paul, he wrote, he said that even if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but I have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging symbol. So later on he goes on to say, I can do great things, like I can have the gift of prophecy, understand mysteries, all knowledge, though I have faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. So I am nothing. If we look at that in the scriptures, in the Greek, when that term nothing is used, it simply means not even one or in other words, that word nothing there which Paul wrote in the Greek means zero. So what Paul was saying is, see we can try to be great ministers of God, we can try to be great believers, we can do many things through our faith, but ultimately everything should be based in love. If there is no love, if there is no sincere love in our hearts which motivates us. Because of the love of God, we love God, we love people. So that's why we do all this. But if that is not there, and we are doing everything else, then what does Paul say? He says we are a big zero. So, faith, hope, and love. Paul ends by saying that the greatest of these is love. So love must be our motivation. Now what kind of love are we talking about? When we study the word love again which is given here in 1st Corinthians 13, like in English, we use the same word love, isn't it? We say things like I love God or we could say I love the weather or you could say I love my food. But we are using the same word love to express our delight in something. But in the Greek language it's not like that. Love has different words and so we have to look at what love Paul is talking about. So when we examine the word love, there are words like stargay. Stargay means love for the family or there is a term known as philia. Philia is love between friends or there's a word called eros. Eros is love between sexual love between husband and wife. So there are different terms for love. Which love is Paul using in 1st Corinthians 13? He is using the word agape. Agape. So he is talking about faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. Love is agape or the meaning of the word agape means God kind of love. So what love do we need to motivate us? What love do we need to be grounded in? It is God kind of love. So what is God's kind of love? We can see the kind of love that God had for us. Jesus had for us. It's a self-sacrificial love. Which means that God put us first and he sacrificed us all. Or in other words, you can also describe it as unconditional love. Which has no conditions. God didn't say you do this, then I'll do this. You become then I'll die for you on the cross. That is transactional. Give and take. You do this, I'll do that. That's not God kind of love. Maybe the world preaches that kind of love today. Where people are just trying to meet each other's needs and calling that love. But that's not the God kind of love. The Bible talks about Agape. Agape is the unconditional love of God. Where God did while we were stills in us, Christ Jesus died for us. What manner of love is this that we should be called the children of God. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever should believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. So that is the kind of love that God is talking about and he's asking every believer as much as we talked about faith God is saying have faith but there's something called as love also which should be the foundation. What love are we communicating about again? Agape. God kind of love. Motivated by that kind of love to live our life as a believer to live to do the work of the ministry as a child of God or as a minister of God. So being motivated by Agape or the God kind of love. Now just one last thing I'll say and it's time to sort of close off. But sometimes we may feel that yeah it sounds so good that we must have love for everyone but maybe as a person as a personality we feel like I don't have that kind of love in my heart right? But there is a scripture again Romans 5.5 it says the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit in other words it says the love of God is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit and so even if we don't have we feel like we don't have love we can depend on the love of God in our hearts. So you can use his love to love people, you can use his love to be motivated to live for God. So with that I'm going to stop here it's 9.50 we'll take a 10 minute break let's come back I see a question on the chat so we'll talk about that and maybe a few more thoughts about love and continue on into the next chapter ok? So let's go for a break everyone see you all soon in 10 minutes. Thank you