 Good morning and welcome. Thank you for connecting as we continue in our study of a few books of the Bible today We will look at The epistles written by Apostle Peter. We'll start with first Peter. Let's begin with a word of prayer Okay, anyone on the call if you could kindly Begin us start out with a word of prayer that would be really nice and then we can go into the study Thank you because you are your mighty God Thank you for your powerful resurrection Be done glorified in the name of Jesus Love commit our lecture today into your buoyancy. I will commit our lecture into your hands and the rest of our student further Let your power of always pray fellow knows the name of Jesus Thank you because you're wonderful. Let your power of resurrection follow us in the name of Jesus as we study your word Father let your world be impact in our lives in Jesus name. We pray Amen Amen. Thank you. Thank you brother success Okay, let's get into I Know there's a question comment on the chat. I will address it at the end of the class But for now, let's just get into our study So coming to the writings of Peter And first Peter the authorship of the Epistles is by Peter and that's pretty clear. There's no ambiguity as We had in the book of Hebrews where we were wondering who the writer could have been But this is quite clear that Peter has written because he begins by saying Apostle Peter and Apostle of Jesus Christ. So that was the standard way of writing letters and So Peter is the author of the book Now we can also recognize that Peter probably Took the help of Silas so Peter wrote this letter with the help of Silas. Why we may ask the reason could be that he was but a fisherman and in comparison to a Learned person like Apostle Paul. He was not so much of an author or a writer So he may have needed some support to actually write out these letters and When we look at the content, I'm giving you a very broad Summary and outline We we see that the content Contains some important doctrines It also contains some instructions for the right kind of Christian life that one must live and there is emphasis on duties as well In relationships in the settings where God has placed us. How must we behave? How how must we? Live the Christian life. So These are the themes that run through the epistles. So we have doctrines. We have Christian life and we have duties So there are two Epistles we are only talking About the first episode for now, we will go to the second episode in the second episode There is more of a warning Regarding false prophets and false ministers of God and the second book talks of Themes similar to the book of Jude. So Jude and second Peter are quite similar They carry warnings but the first episode has Teachings about doctrines Christian life and duties. Now when was This book actually written we can date it to as early as 67 to 69 AD Around the time when some of the apostles were still alive and they were being martyred So this is an early book just like Jude. It's an early book How do we know because in the Greek Present tense that the book is written in there are references to temple sacrifices and temple practices. So then we know that Destruction of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem happened in AD 70 So this has to be before because the temple still existed and you know, we we can therefore Confidently state that it's an early book and it was written before the destruction of the temple So the date would be somewhere between 67 to 69 AD Looking at the literary form of this episode. It is a letter It's a letter. So it has an introduction Salutation goes on into the body of the letter and closes off with the greetings And thanksgiving blessings towards the end of the letter. Now, who was it written to? it was written to the people that Peter ministered to and These people were spread out in the region of Asia Minor. So it was not Necessarily to one particular church but to a region That had people believers whom Peter had Ministered to earlier and the category of the believers as we saw in the book of Hebrews he was primarily addressing the persecuted Jews and therefore he Talked so much about temple practices and there were there was terminology that they were aware of that came from their understanding of the early books of the Bible, but in the writings of Peter It's easy to understand for both the Jews and the Gentiles and he addressed it to both the categories of people Who had become believers during those times? So now we could ask the question. What is the purpose of the letter? There must be some purpose why he wrote So He wanted to teach the believers just the way James also wanted to teach the believers about the right way to relate with one another and You know, how how one must manage their Speech how one must speak rightly so there are Certain instructions that James wanted to bring to the people of the congregation for Peter it was about Instructing them to live a righteous life instructing them to live Godly life in the midst of persecution because Peter knew that They were already under persecution, you know, right from the book of Acts when he made his first sermon the First few chapters we see that they were taken to stand before the council And so persecution was very much there And persecution was increasing people had spread out because of persecution Even now he's speaking to the dispersion of the believers in the Asia Minor region Persecution is there, but he anticipated a heightening of the persecution under the rule of Emperor Nero and so he wanted to prepare the hearts of the people About the right kind of Christian life that they must live in the midst of the rising persecution so that is the purpose of him writing the letter and we see that as He talks about persecution as he talks about bearing up under the pressure of persecution Just like the writer of the Hebrews Hebrews 12 We know that the writer says looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith So Jesus is our example and our pattern Peter does the same thing He wants us to focus in on Jesus because unless we imitate the life of Christ We would not know how we must live our lives So the life of Jesus is our best example of how we must live even when we are Not Accepted even when we are mocked for our faith even when we are going through opposition and difficulties on Account of our faith. So Jesus is the example that Peter also points us to so let's begin with chapter 1 now As we've been doing lately. I would request us to please go ahead and read out the entire chapter the chapter does have 25 verses so a good thing to do would probably be To read half One person can read half the chapter and another person the remaining half so 12 verses for the first person and 13 verses for the second person. So Yeah, students on our call if you could kindly Unmute and read these two sections. We will move on from there First verse one Okay, Rosalind. Yes, you can continue and the brother Lubega you can pick up the same Peter an Apostle of Jesus Christ to the pilgrims of the dispersion in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia elect according to the full knowledge of God the Father in sanctification of the Spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ Grace to you and peace be multiplied Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy Has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away Reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation Ready to be revealed in the last time In this you greatly rejoice Though now for a little while if need be you have been grieved by various trials That the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes Though it is tested by fire may be found to praise Maybe found to praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ Whom having not seen you love Though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy Inexpressible and full of glory Receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls of this salvation The prophets have inquired and searched carefully Who prophesied of the grace that would come to you Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating When he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow to them It was revealed that not to themselves But to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you Through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven Things angels desire to look into Amen Therefore grind up the loins of your mind Be sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children not Confirming yourself to the former last as in your ignorance But as he who called you is holy you also be holy in your conduct Because it's written be holy for I am holy and if You call on the father Who without partiality judges according to each one's work Conduct yourself throughout the time of your so joining here in fear Knowing that you were not redeemed with Corruptible things like silver or gold From your aimless conduct received by traditions from your fathers But with the precious blood of Jesus Christ as of a lamp without blemish and without sport He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world But was manifest in these last times for you who through him Believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory so that your faith and hope are in God Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the script the script in sincere love of The brethren love one another free Favourently with a pure heart having been born again not of corruptible seed Seed but incorruptible through the word of God which lives and abides forever Because all fresh is as grass and the glory of man as flower of the grass The grass with us and if its flowers falls away But the word of God endures forever now This is the word which by the gospel was preached to you amen Amen. Thank you. Thank you rather Loupega Let's now go ahead and we will understand what we have read here as we could see Initially, you know, there is a greeting and then there is a definite Pointing to the identity of the believer who the believer really is and calling the believer to a heavenly perspective in the midst of what they are going through here on earth and then He goes on to emphasizing a holy living that is evident as You know in this world. So not just in in our Spiritual sense to be wholly sanctified by God but in our behavior in our lifestyle how that must actually come through and then he Reminds us about the power of the word of God. So that broadly Covers the themes the running through chapter one, but we will look at it in a little bit more of detail So the introduction the name of Peter is mentioned and his calling is mentioned. So it's nice to know that Peter had come to the understanding of what God wanted for him to do and Peter knew that he had an apostolic calling and he's boldly Declaring that and saying Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ. He was sent by Christ Jesus. That's what an apostle is One who is sent from someone else and so by Jesus Peter was sent as an Apostle and he says to the pilgrims of the dispersion in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and with India. So these regions are in Asia Minor and the dispersion simply means Those are those who are spread out. They are spread out and the pilgrims is usually a term Referred to a stranger who comes from a foreign land or a city seeking a religious encounter, you know or They have a religious agenda in mind where they want to go and worship. So they are strangers Who have come to worship And he's calling the believers as pilgrims In keeping with the reality that though we are here on earth though We are in the world. We are not off the world and with that Concept in his mind. He says you are pilgrims. We know that Apostle Paul talks about it He says we are truly citizens of heaven. We are citizens of heaven and there are other terms we find in the writings of Paul where The believer is seen as an ambassador of Christ. We are representatives of a heavenly kingdom and That is why even Peter is calling the believers as pilgrims. He's saying this is not our permanent place we are from heaven we are born of God and There is also what we call as Sojourning or journeying here on earth and that's what pilgrims do. They are journeying With their with their spiritual agenda in mind and that is who we are as believers We need to have a Greater heavenly perspective now This does not mean that we should be earthly unwise There is an APC publication as well that talks about being spiritually minded and earthly wise and Jesus told us that You know, we must be sharp as Serpents but harmless as dumb so wisdom in our earthly living is equally important But we recognize our identity. We are born of God and therefore that must take precedence That we are actually Of the kingdom of God we belong to a spiritual kingdom more than anything else now verse 2 He says elect according to the fore knowledge of God the father in sanctification of the spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ grace to you and peace be multiplied So he is Proclaiming the position of the believer again. He earlier said you are pilgrims now He's saying you are elect. What does elect mean elect comes from the Greek term Eclectos which means chosen or picked up we have been picked up by God now I know we can go into the argument of you know pre Predestination and all of that but we have already established that predestination doesn't mean that God has Chosen some and eliminated the others from being part of his family That's not what predestination means because the same Bible also talks about whosoever Shall believe whosoever will will come and so it's a choice That has been given salvation is a choice and then one makes that choice, you know, we we Can come into this category of the elect, but then the choice is open to everyone. So the elect meaning the chosen are The you the believers they are called by the Lord. Why are they being called as chosen because it's a special calling it's a special calling and We must recognize it. It's a privilege To be part of the family of God and the kingdom of God So we are the elect and he again talks about for knowledge of God the father simply means that God already knew Who would make that choice? Not that, you know, God Intentionally pushed some people into the choice and some outside. That's that's not what it means So God knew who would make that choice to come into his family in sanctification of the spirit It shows us that there is a work of purification that the Holy Spirit does in us, you know, when we read about The baptism in the Holy Spirit, we know This John the Baptist, you know, he refers to it as the There is one who who is coming after me who's greater than me who will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire. He says so spirit Sanctification of the spirit and John the Baptist said Holy Spirit and fire so there is a connection of the Holy Spirit baptism and fire and we know that the The work of fire is purification and fire will burn up the chaff So there is a work of cleansing that the Holy Spirit does in the life of a believer when we heal to the Holy Spirit and Much more when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit that the Fleshly parts of us will be burnt up Which is why, you know, we also Encourage to pray in the spirit to be filled with the spirit to walk in the spirit because there is a sanctification that We will experience as we are yielding ourselves to the work of the spirit. So he's talking about what The position of the believer and the work of God in the life of a believer and in this case through the spirit of God sanctification takes place in us by the spirit of God and he says for the obedience and Sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. So he simply is talking about Believers consecrating themselves Walking in the ways of the Lord committing themselves to what God calls them to do and he is talking about Sprinkling of blood. What is the meaning of that? You know, sprinkling of blood is also a term That was closely associated with cleansing. It was closely associated with dedication Consecration because we know sprinkling was usually done at the time of establishing covenants in the Old Testament sprinkling was done at the time of Dedicating someone for a godly purpose such as Aaron and his sons They were dedicated to be high priests and at that time sprinkling was done. So they were ordained ordination is You know another process in which we see the sprinkling of the blood and Basically purification and even in some of the rituals of the cleansing of the leper Sprinkling was was done. And so the understanding is a cleansing again cleansing of the believer So here we are we understand our identity in Christ and we understand what God is doing in us So he's doing a work of cleansing. He's doing a work of preparing us as the chosen of the Lord We are being sanctified. We are being cleansed for the Lord we are being set apart for the Lord and Peter is reminding the people that look you're not you're in the world You're definitely not off the world as a different life that God is calling us to do and a life that he himself is Empowering us to live and then he begins with the blessing He says grace to you and peace be multiplied. I mean tell me who doesn't want grace Who doesn't want peace, you know, we we want more of it all the time because grace enables to do what God calls us to do And every day, you know, as a believer as a person in the ministry, I'm sure, you know We are praying these prayers and saying Lord, please give me more grace You know to do what you're calling me to do a more peace who doesn't want more peace We want Shalom wholeness a spirit soul and body the abundance of Christ in our lives So he's blessing the people the believers and he's saying come on May you have more grace may you have more peace and we can make that a prayer and say yes, Lord We want more grace more peace in our lives And why is he using this a form of salutation because we see those in the Greek culture and You know, you would notice that even towards the end of his writing He'll say increase in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ So that that was cultural in the Greek and Jewish culture And so in the Greek more of grace they would talk about grace in the Jewish They would talk more about Shalom and so he's combining the two and he is blessing the believers And then he goes on to talk about the greatness of our God and you know This is blessed be the garden father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an Inheritance incorruptible undefiled and that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time so You see we mentioned that he's going to talk about persecution and how to be ready for persecution but there is something about being rooted in our identity being rooted in who we are in Christ and Seems like even Peter understood the value of that where he's reminding the believer time and again Don't you know you are of God? Don't you know you are cleansed and now he's saying Don't you know you are born of God you're begotten God has begotten us and he's also bringing a spark of hope Okay, because he's talking about resurrection and we've just we've just worshiped the Lord Easter Sunday or resurrection Sunday as many of us call it and you know it's it's such great hope to know that our God is alive and It's all about hope resurrection is about life. It's about hope and Even before he talks about persecution. He's reminding the believer. Hey, don't you know that Jesus rose from the dead and Have hope in in our hearts the struggles that we are going through the deadness that Jesus Experience was not the end he rose from the dead and that shows us that No matter what struggles we were we are going to face There is hope at the end of a dark tunnel and that is our calling No, that is the hope with which every believer lives. He says living hope Through the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. So it's a it's a positive note on which the letter is starting and and You know every reason for the believers to be excited because our gospel is about life Our gospel is about hope and our gospel is about the victory that our God has won over Every destruction of the enemy and again another note a high note to Causes to rejoice. He says don't you know, there is an inheritance waiting for you Even when we go through all these struggles in in our lives, don't worry There is something ahead of us, which is so beautiful. Remember even in the book of Hebrews. That's what we were told Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith We are looking forward to something and because we are looking forward to something and during what we are going through right now becomes You know, it makes it makes sense to to not Be grumbling to not give up Because there's something I had of us, which is much more beautiful. So again a note of hope He gave us hope by talking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ now He's saying there is an inheritance and what kind of inheritance so beautiful. He says incorruptible undefiled which means that it is it is You know incorruptible stands for something which will not be destroyed undefiled stands for something which is pure and God is giving us that kind of an inheritance and he also says it will not fade away and to Add to our joy reserved in heaven for you, which means nobody else will take it away So these are all things that should make us happy as believers Resurrection of Christ. There is something I can look forward to the reward of God waiting for me And so, you know, God is keeping us God is helping us So keep your faith in God. That's the point that he's trying to drive home here now in the following section again, there's encouragement because he knows that trouble times Are happening right now more trouble times to come So he encourages them to hold on to their faith and let's see what he says about that faith No, he says You greatly rejoice though now for a little while if need be you have been grieved by various trials That the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes Though it is tested by fire may be found to praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ Okay, so he is reminding the believer and he's saying look Though we go through all kinds of trials there is Something precious that we carry and that is our faith and he's saying Genuineness of our faith, you know that real faith that trusts in God that hopes in God he is Reminding us that it is more precious than gold and He says that perishes because in the culmination of things We know that gold is a precious metal and it doesn't get corroded right like we depend on gold like yeah Okay, it's one of those precious metals that we can rely on It's it's way better than all the other metals that exist But we know that at the end of time the whole earth will be Reformed as we saw in the book of Hebrews where God will just even the heavens God is just gonna roll it away Like a cloak so even when those things disappear the so-called precious things of the world There is something That remains and we carry that. What is that our faith? Genuine faith in God. He says it's more precious More precious than the precious gold Which may not even last right and when when we are tested when we go through all kinds of trials now Let's be clear when we talk about tests in scripture. We are not talking about God putting us through sickness Okay, we're not talking about you know God intentionally putting us through Some form of oppression does sickness happen to believe as it does it does You know oppression of the evil one happened to believe as it does But God is not intentionally putting it on us and we have to be very clear about that So when he says trials Tests trials there there are there are Things that we go through where you know our faith gets proved So one classic test that we can go back to is of course the test that Abraham went through when you know He was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac the only son He had waited for him his his his life is about waiting for that that promise child and here He's going through a test where God is saying okay. Come on How about you sacrifice your son Isaac and look at the the faith of Abraham? We lead in the book of Romans that he he had faith in God, right? He was a man of faith We read in the book of Hebrews that he even believed that God could raise him from the dead and the promise of God will never be Lost and so that is the precious faith and God commended it way You know hundreds of years after Abraham lived and died. He's gone But God is talking about the faith of Abraham because that's how much God, you know Loves faith faith pleases God and the genuineness of our faith is what the Lord wants So if we can if we can have faith in our difficult times in our tests trials Mostly to do with you know oppositions that come our way Persecutions that come our way We know how can we go through all this and he still keep our faith because we have a heavenly perspective all the things in the world yet today we are going through it, but Ultimately, you know, our faith will remain ultimately. There is a reward. We are waiting for and God himself will Preserve us and in that last portion there of verse 8 He says Though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory Receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls So there will come a time where no we are going to walk into the fullness of these things right now We may not See Jesus face-to-face, but with the hope of all these things which are yet to come We are rejoicing a joy inexpressible and full of glory. Sometimes we've got to ask ourselves, you know, I do do we really Experience that right now and we carry that joy that rejoicing in our hearts Today it's there and tomorrow it'll be greater when we see our Lord Jesus Christ face-to-face So he's basically we could say giving perspective to the believer. Come on believer You're actually not of this earth. So don't worry. These trials are temporary now moving on to verse 10 here He says of this salvation. He's talking about salvation, which the believers are experiencing But he's saying the prophets have inquired and searched carefully who prophesied of the grace that would come to you So he's reminding the believers look right now. We are carrying something precious But do we understand that even those who spoke about these things? We have all these mighty prophets of God Jeremiah Isaiah, you know Ezekiel You have the Micah Zechariah talk about all the prophets of God and even in their writings in their prophetic words. No, we can see the the Direction they're pointing to Christ. They're pointing to the ultimate fulfillment, which would be the Lord Jesus Christ We've talked about this in the book of Hebrews, right that Everything that happened before was just a shadow of the actual fulfillment that happened in and through our Lord Jesus Christ. So even when these prophets were speaking They had no idea of the fullness of the salvation that you and I would taste Right now and we right now are so blessed because they only knew bits and pieces Right, but the actual things were revealed in the New Testament So there are a couple of references Ephesians 3 verses 4 to 6 and 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 10 It also Tell us that the prophets did not fully understand the work of the gospel as revealed to us right now in the New Testament, so it's a privilege. We now have a privilege with us and You know, they talk they talked about the sufferings of Christ the glories that would follow and Not in wholeness. They did not know everything fully, but they gave us some Pointers towards that Okay, great. So that's like the essence of those scriptures still was 12 and Because of this because of what we have because of the great hope that we have because of the inheritance that we have that We are looking forward to the fact that we can rejoice right now in all these things He says therefore therefore therefore what you know, whenever there is a word therefore we have to look at the previous parts of Scripture what has been written and Then we continue from there. That's why the word therefore So because we are so blessed He says gird up the loyals of your mind So that also tells us like make up your mind because when we go through challenges when we go through struggles delays when we go through Disappointments discouragements of some sort the tendency is to lose hope Which is why we saw the writer to the Hebrews. He encourages them so much And and tells them look We were we only had the shadow now you have the real deal and though you're going through persecution You need to realize that what you have is too great. It's too mighty Okay, so encouragement why and remember he kept saying again and again like don't give up Don't give up. I know you're not of those who will give up so When we go through trials, it has a tendency to bring us down and In our minds we have to be clear in our minds We need this established that you know our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ and we are not going to lose hope because of all the things that we just saw our identity our future our you know current You know access to God and and the status that we have in Christ right now We we can rejoice in those things and be settled be very very clear in our minds not to give up and He also right now we will see that there is a call to holy living in the scriptures that follow You know from from verse 14 He says as obedient children not conforming yourselves to the former lust as in your ignorance But as he who called you is holy you also be holy in all your conduct because it is written be holy for I am holy So he says look now we spoke about all these grand things that our identity is in Christ and all But how do we live it out? There is a life that must show it which is where a Sanctified life comes into the picture holiness comes into the picture We know even in the moves of God we we've seen the restorative moves of God from the 1400s and There is a period where you know God The holiness movement that we talked about the holiness movement where God restored I think it's the 1700s where sanctification became the theme in the church where people understood Yeah, God has done so much for us. We are in Christ now But there's also got to be a life which is an evidence of this inner transformation that has taken place so holy living is a Requirement for the believers and he charges us by What has been stated? You know by God that be holy for I am holy God wants us to be holy Why did Jesus come? Jesus came To give to empower us the sin of the power of sin over our lives is broken So now we are empowered to live holy. You know God never asks us to do I heard someone say this God never asks us to do anything that he does not empower us to do because if he does You know that that would be quite heartbreaking that he's asking us to do something which we can never attain Isn't it? But that's not how God works God always gives us a means He makes it possible for us to live that life and so when there is an instruction of God For example over here be holy We as believers shouldn't say oh, it's too high a call. I can't do it if we couldn't do it God would never tell us to do that It's because we can that there is that instruction be holy for I am holy we are empowered We are empowered by the sacrifice of Jesus. We are empowered by the Holy Spirit on our lives We can live holy and he also know here. He's stating are not conforming yourselves to formalists So you see there is has to be a distinction between who we were to who we are in our lifestyle in the Outflow of our life today that there isn't a change then, you know, that's that's Really sad that we are professing Christ But there's no difference between how we used to live When we were in the world and now that we are in Christ Jesus so even later on we'll see Peter talk referring to this and saying How can we Have the formalists how can we so to the flesh, you know and reply if it can't happen how can we Have a lifestyle that is yielded to the flesh and you know, we are saying we are godly people No, the life has to show the inward transformation must show from the out working So that is something that he is calling us to holy living holy living Yeah, we are in Christ But let that show in our lives and the same thing continues in The following section here He says and if you call on the father who without partiality judges according to each one's work Conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your aimless Conduct received by tradition from your fathers But where the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot So what is these emphasis conduct yourselves like that conduct yourselves in a way? that you now belong to Christ and also there's a nice Point we can take from here. He says what did the blood of Jesus do for us? You know, we must speak of what the blood of Jesus did for us, isn't it? So here we understand that the blood of Jesus it Redeemed us from aimless conduct Received through tradition that simply means if there are patterns of evil if there are Patterns of the flesh if there are ungodly patterns in our in our, you know, like our fathers our traditions and We say that hey, I can't change because that's how we've always been that's how my family is That's what we are known for but when we are in Christ There is something that the blood of Jesus has done. We are being told we are redeemed from our aimless conduct passed on through tradition So let's say for example if there is Anger right in in the family line Now I don't have to be that kind of an angry person full of rage Anymore because yeah, maybe all my forefathers had it Aimless conduct. They had it Everyone has received it. So, you know, so they speak But what's the difference for me? The blood of Jesus has redeemed me from every aimless conduct received by tradition from my father's Okay, so that's good news. So then is holy living possible? Very much because we are saying even the blood of Jesus has empowered us to live that holy life in Christ Jesus All this God has done for us and then you know, he just goes on we see he goes on to talk about the the word of God which end yours which lasts and You know something that we must hold on to so what I'll do is I think I'll just stop here. Maybe I'll revisit From verse 20 and we will pick up tomorrow For right now, I will just have a couple of minutes for discussion if there is In relation to the subject and then we'll pray and close I'll take up this question after the call. Please. Yes. Yes, brother. No, baby I I'm sorry to disturb. I have a problem. I don't know whether it is with my computer for a while now every time I send my my assignment using Google doc it doesn't accept I have to write it in a In a word It's the rule different ways and then when I try to paste it again in a word It really comes when they have they are together. So that's why I for lately I have been sending PDF but when I was Trying to answer the other statement I saw it is reading that I should only send it to me in a word Okay, yeah, so if you've already done it, it's fine because I know today I think the online students we have it as did the deadline so it's fine if you've already gone ahead and Submitted the PDF or going to submit the PDF for this time But in the future if you have a problem like this, please write us and write me a note I will re-send the assignment to you. So sometimes that works. I don't know why You know, this this issue happens on Google Classroom, but the solution to that is I Can re-send the assignment to you with a fresh Google doc and you can write into that This happens has happened since like now it is two years. It has But you madam it is happening to me Sure, so we'll check that up bigger if it's happening only to you and Consistently in all courses and there must be some problem the settings So we'll find out because one of it happens once in a while it happens to some students Thank you. Okay fine. So no problem for now Yes, yes, brother success I'm having a My last semester there's some courses that Which And I was when they posted the results I Was the thing that I did not do the course I did not write the exam which I wrote the exam So I don't know how is that it's going to be possible So I even after that I still went back to E-Leni and registered the course and He mailed me that I should take my exam I went there clicked on the right exam. The team was taking me back. It was not displaying exam as exam Page for me to be able to write the exam because artist nothing That is only about two courses there, which I have done before I didn't know why they did see but I registered on E-Leni so that I can be able to do my Graduates I can be able to graduate both is T. It's not display. So what do I do in such case? Yeah, so see the Success I will mute you if you don't mind because my voice is echoing Yeah, it's just for ease of hearing Yeah, so on Elon One needs to complete the previous sections and only then Elon will unlock the Next section. So if it's not opening for us It's likely that some portion is left out in the previous video lectures or You know knowledge Knowledge checks or some of the assessments that were given for us. So that could be the issue so you will have to go and review a success and Once you have gone over all the sections thoroughly But Elon will automatically unlock the assignment to you. So this is what you would need to do Please take time to review if something is left out. So that might be the the Issue over there. So what we'll do is let's just close off with the word of prayer and then You know, I can address the question that Subashish has here on the call I just want to request one of us in the class to please pray Let's pray Father in heaven, we thank you for this wonderful day for the gift of life You've given us and the gift of salvation that you've given us Lord. We thank you We know that Lord who you code us for a purpose and we are also at ABC Bible college for a purpose Lord as we are in the eve of our Lectures and the eve of our classes Lord we call upon your blessing to bless both those who are In the faculty as our lecturers and all those of us who are students Lord Together energy the zeal and the will to complete what has to be completed so that we can graduate in peace not in pieces And if we happen to be graduating tears, let them be tears of joy. I do pray in the name of the Father It's on the Holy Spirit. Amen Amen. Thank you brother Lupega. Thank you appreciate you praying for us