 Yeah, we will begin with 2nd Samuel today. Yesterday, of course, we were looking at Samuel, Saul and David who are discussed in three sections of Samuel. So now we are moving into 2nd Samuel, which is mainly all about King David and his 40 year rule. So here in 2nd Samuel, you have two genres, two types of writing mentioned. Of course, most of it is narrative history because it's giving the history of King David. But you also have two psalms of praise around the ending of the book where they are written in the form of a poem, a hymn, a song. So you have two genres of writing. You have the narrative history and you also have two psalms or two songs of praise. Who are the key personalities? Of course, we have David, his commander Joab, then of course Nathan and Bathsheba because of the sin which he commits. There's also Absalom who rebels against his father. So these would be the main characters. Coming to the structure of 2nd Samuel, we could say that the book can be divided into three portions. The first section will be about all the victories and the triumphs which he had, all the things which went well for him. The second section would be his failures, the things in which he did badly. And the third section can be said to be the consequences of his bad actions. So if we are looking at it in this way, chapters 1-10, we'll talk about his victories, we'll talk about his triumphs. Chapter 11 is basically where David commits a sin which has very terrible consequences. So all the problems which start after chapter 12 onwards, 12-24, describes all the bad things which happened to him and many of those things are actually connected to his sinful act. So he brings it upon his own head by doing that sinful deed. So chapters 1-10, we see how he was king only of Judah in the beginning. So for seven and a half years, he's only the king of Judah and what about the rest of the nation? The rest of the Israelites, they have Ishbosheth who is Saul's son. He is the king over the rest of the kingdom. And then of course after seven and a half years, they come and request him to be their king also. So he becomes the king over the entire nation. And he is the one who chooses to make Jerusalem the capital because still then Jerusalem was not considered very important. But now he makes it his capital and he also brings the ark into the capital. So those are the things we see in chapters 1-10 and then chapters 11-24 is where you have the act of adultery and then the murder which he commits and Nathan confronting him and correcting him. You also have the rebellion of his son Absalom who wants to ascend the throne and so that all of that would be found in chapters 11-24. So coming to his kingship, how he is made king. We see that he is very humble in the beginning. He asks for God's permission. He says, Lord, shall I go and be king over Judah? And then God says, go ahead. And that is how he chooses to become king over just Judah and the capital is Hebron. So the rest of the tribes they all choose to be under Ishbosheth. So the commander of Saul's army Abner, Abner is the man who was the commander of Saul's army. He appoints Saul's son Ishbosheth as the new king and everyone celebrates his kingship. But Abner was not just acting out of loyalty towards his master Saul. He actually had his own agenda. He was hoping to somehow one day displace Ishbosheth and climb on the throne himself. So he did not appoint Saul's son because he had any good heart. He had other ulterior motives because we see that shortly afterwards he chooses to sleep with Saul's concubine. Saul would have had many concubines. So he chooses to sleep with one of the concubines. So that it's like an indication, a public declaration that I have taken the king's wife. So if I have taken the king's wife, it's like I'm making a claim to the throne and I'm declaring that I'm one of the contenders for the throne because that's basically how it was done in their culture. If anyone who is powerful enough, strong enough, is able to take hold of the king's wife then it's like as if he's declaring, I am the new king. I am the one who has a right to the throne and I'm willing to go to battle for it. So it's rather sad in those days women were not considered important at all. They had all completely forgotten Genesis 1 where it very clearly says that both man and woman was created in the image of God but somehow along the way, especially in their culture, women lost the status of being created in God's image. They were not given the value which they deserved. So they basically were used like pawns. So when it came to political circles, marriages were purely for political alliances for what power they can gain by marrying some particular person and so even over here, we see the concubines usually are the ones who get attacked when someone wants to take over the throne because they go and they take the concubines first because to declare that I am now trying to go for the throne. So we see that happening over here. So when Ishpo shit is very upset and he says, why have you done this? Why have you taken my father's concubine? He says, no, no, I've not done that. So we're not very sure whether he really did it or he was planning on doing it. We are not very sure but one thing is clear. Ishpo shit is very unhappy about it and he says, why have you done that? And then Abner is very offended and he says, no, no, no, you're wrongly accusing me because you have done this. I will now make David King instead. So he switches sides and in fact, he goes to David to talk about it but when Abner comes over here to talk to David about making him King over all of Israel there's a lot of conspiracy going on. This is what we see in 2 Samuel and Kings and Chronicles. A lot of political conspiracies going on. Everyone very desperate for power. Very similar to the kind of politics that we see today. Only of course our politicians don't use swords and go into battle. They're more cunning. They're more subtle. They have their own weapons which are secret weapons but in those days they were more innocent, let us say. They would just honestly use their swords and go into battle. So when Abner comes to David to talk about how he's going to make David King and they're having discussions regarding that his commander, David's commander Joab. Joab in fact, I think was a nephew, one of the nephews of David. So obviously a nephew of Saul. I can't remember my facts. Sorry, so sorry but he's somebody's nephew. Kind of slips my mind right now. Joab, so Joab is the commander of David and Joab has got a personal grudge against Abner because in an earlier battle which took place at Gibyan Abner had killed his brother, Asahel and so Joab does not like Abner. So when Abner comes over here to have talks with David he doesn't like it and so he uses some trickery, calls him aside acts like as if he's about to talk to him but instead he stabs him. And you know just to clear the record Abner did not want to kill his brother because he says why are you following me? Why are you pursuing me? You know you leave me alone because I don't want to hurt you I don't want to harm you but Asahel wants to pursue him and so at that time Abner is actually forced to kill Asahel but Joab is holding on to that grudge. One thing that we see about Joab is Joab is a man of a lot of anger and there's a lot of grudges inside him again and again we see him doing things which are crooked not a very nice person so in this case he kills Abner and David is very displeased he says you know this was not the correct way for you to act and so in fact he has a public mourning held for Abner so that it's very clear to everyone that he was not involved in any kind of conspiracy and it was Joab who on his own acted and so he holds a kind of public mourning ceremony for Abner and then in the meantime what happens is that two of Saul's army captains they go to Ishbosheth and again they use trickery to kill Ishbosheth so now Ishbosheth is dead Abner is dead so now there are no other contenders to the throne and also when Ishbosheth dies again David does not rejoice again he says that what was done this assassination of Ishbosheth is a wrong thing and he condemns it, he publicly condemns it so maybe the tribes who are looking at David's attitude in all of these things maybe they realize that this man is a man of integrity he's not rejoicing that just because for him things have worked out well but rather he is condemning the wrong that was done so maybe because of that the rest of the tribes they come to him and they say you know we would like you to be king over all of us and not just the tribe of Judah and that's basically how David becomes the king of the entire nation and once David becomes king of the entire nation any survivors from Saul's family would be very very scared because when you have a new king who has come to the throne and he is from a different lineage then all the sons of the previous king would be very afraid because the new king would generally want to finish off the competition so he would kill off all the remaining survivors and so Mefibosheth who is still alive Mefibosheth who is the son of Jonathan actually so he is still alive and so when David says call Mefibosheth to my presence Mefibosheth comes over there really thinking that he is going to be killed now and so when he comes into the king's presence it says he literally prostrates himself on the floor in front of David and he says I know your servant something like that he is trying to get back his life because he is so worried about what is going to be done to him but David did not call him to kill him or to take any kind of action against him rather David has called him to show him kindness because one thing we learn about Mefibosheth is that when that battle took place at Jezreel where Saul killed himself and his sons also died in the battlefield when all that was going on Mefibosheth was still a young child and when his nurse the lady who was looking after him gets to know that all the other sons have been killed by the Philistines she is worried that they will come even for this little child and so she takes up the child and she is running from that place and accidentally she drops him so Mefibosheth becomes lame in both feet he is a cripple he cannot walk properly so David shows him great kindness he says now onwards you will be like part of the royal family and you will sit at my royal table and eat along with me it's a privilege which is given only to very few so that privilege is given to Mefibosheth and in fact all the property which belongs to the personal property of Saul he puts it all now in the name of Mefibosheth so he does not take any of Saul's personal fields and buildings and all of that all of these things David displays great integrity he conducts himself in a honourable manner but you know he too has his failings and one of his first failings that we see is when he is trying to bring in the Ark of the Covenant he wanted to do a good thing but the way he went about doing that good thing was displeasing in the eyesight of God so you and I who have come to Bible college who want to do something good for the Lord we need to be careful on how we are conducting ourselves and how we are making our choices just because we chose to come to Bible college God is not going to say ok I am going to overlook all their defects no for him the motives of the heart are important the way we conduct ourselves is important the choices that we make is important because you know he is a honourable God and he expects us also to be very honourable in our conduct and so over here even though David had a good intention in his heart he wanted to bring the Ark into Jerusalem but the way he did it was very displeasing to the Lord because he was using procedures which God had not told so let's actually look at that incident and we will look at a few details some of you of course may already be familiar with this but then for those of us who are not very familiar with the details it would be good for us to look at this so we would maybe read out 2 Samuel chapter 6 so over here if we can have one somebody read out 2 Samuel chapter 6 verses 6 to 8 and the rest of us will just follow even as the person reads verse 8 and then did you talk about the Peresuza part what did you do? ok fine so over here we see that they are bringing the Ark in a new cart which is drawn by oxen and the cart stumbles a little bit because maybe the cart went over a few stones or something and so when the cart is wobbling the Ark which is inside looks like as if it may fall out so Uzza is concerned so he reaches out to support the Ark so that it doesn't fall down to the ground and God is very displeased that he touched the Ark because the instructions were very clear that nobody should touch the Ark and so when he does that you know the anger of the Lord burns against him and he drops down dead and it says in verse 8 that David became angry about it he didn't like it that the Lord did this and so he gives the name that place a name he calls it Peresuza which means God's outburst against Uzza he is like you know he is saying why did God release his anger against Uzza so he is very upset about it so why was God angry? was it I mean what was the reason so for that we would have to you know kind of look at what was the correct procedure and what exactly was the wrong thing which these people were doing so if somebody could read out Exodus chapter 25 verses 14 and 15 Exodus 25 14 and 15 and 16 yeah ok so the correct procedure was that when the ark was originally made they had this large rings attached to the sides so that you can put a pole through the through the rings and lift it up so nobody would actually touch the ark they would only put the poles through the sides and they would lift up the poles and then they would literally carry it on their shoulders and it's only the Levites who are permitted to do that not just about anyone who feels like it only the Levites who have been consecrated and sanctified for this particular task they would carry it upon their shoulders that was the correct way for them to do it but what actually happens over here in the way David plans the whole thing so let's look at 2nd Samuel chapter 6 verse 3 and verse 4 yes so it did not follow this procedure of carrying it on their shoulders using the poles rather they put it in a cart why did they put it on a cart why could not they have thought of some other way of transportation that's the way the Philistines used to honor their gods if you remember even when the Philistines were trying to return the ark to the Israelites they send it in a cart that's the way they used to honor their gods and now when David is using that kind of transportation he is almost equating Yahweh with all these other gods and the Lord is not just another god he is the one who has made everything and he is the one who has always delivered the Israelites and been there for them he expects higher loyalty he expects more reverence out of them so maybe you could say that David being a king what would he know about the procedures and all that but in the Levites what was their main job they were not asked to go and fight in battle it was very clearly told to them the Levites will not participate in the battle as soldiers they will go to the field to gather instructions from god and convey it to the army but they will not do any fighting regarding army and they don't have any work regarding farming because the others are doing all the farming and then they bring their tithes to the temple and these people just sit there and they eat their only main work is taking care of all the religious spiritual matters and they are being given free land for that they are being given free food for that it is their only task to educate themselves in the scriptures to teach it to the people so whether or not David knew about how the correct procedure should be undertaken they would have had more brains Uzzah would have known about it Ahayyo the other person the other brother he also would have known about these things so why didn't they take it seriously why did they allow this Ark to be transported on a cart following the Philistine example of doing things which would be like a slap in the face for Yahweh because he is being equated with just some man-made God and the Lord would not have liked that so after doing that the cart it stumbled and now Uzzah is suddenly acting all very concerned and is reaching out to support it God is not able to contain his anger anymore and he unleashes it these Levites Uzzah and Ahayyo should have known better in case they have not bothered to open the scriptures of Moses and read through what has been commanded it's their fault they should have actually done that they should have opened their scriptures their scrolls and looked through whatever had been taught so they failed to do that and then we saw that David's first reaction was that he was angry and he named that place Perez Uzzah now we see another response in the following verses verses 9 to 11 2 Samuel 6 9 to 11 if we could have one person read out please verse 11 first reaction David was angry then later on someone must have explained to him why those people died there is a correct procedure to do it and they have not followed the correct procedure so once he must have realized what his mistake is he is no longer angry now he is scared he is thinking my goodness this God is too holy when he says something he means it and if we contradict what he is saying and we do our own thing then he cannot just ignore it or settle for it because he is too holy so now David is afraid it says that he was unwilling now to bring the Ark into the Jerusalem because he is scared if he brings the Ark into Jerusalem what will happen to the whole of Jerusalem because if they do something foolish because suddenly David is now realizing that this Yahweh is not just another God like the Philistine Gods he is all all knowing the one and only and his holiness level is completely perfect so God will not tolerate recklessness and carelessness once he realizes that he is so afraid he thinks no no no all these days the Ark was sitting in the house of Abinadab when whose house was it if I can remember my facts no that is the next person into whose house it goes but earlier when they were they were bringing it out it was in the house of can't seem to get the exact verse anyway it was in Abinadab's house it was there with them it was Abinadab is the dad of Usa and Ahayo so he says he cannot bring it into Jerusalem he is scared obviously he doesn't want to put it back in Abinadab's house because God already struck down those two sons so he takes it into a new house he goes to obey the Edom and says now onwards this Ark is going to be in your house so can you just imagine how Obed would have felt when he got this good news that now the Ark is going to be in his household so I can just imagine how careful that entire family would have lived from that moment because they are now aware that a very holy God is right there in their presence and that is how we should actually be living we have the Holy Spirit within us and we tend to take him lightly sometimes because we forget like David we forget how holy this God is and we think we can just get away with the words we speak and the wrong attitudes we have and we don't realize that we are in the presence of someone extremely holy so holy that he literally had to sacrifice his son to make a tournament for us nothing else would have worked so he is that holy so Obed Edom discovers that now he is going to have to live with the Ark and they must have lived in a way that really honored God they must have been really careful in their lifestyle and so when God sees their sincerity he begins to bless Obed Edom's house a lot and when David hears about it how wonderfully Obed Edom's home is being blessed now he wants the blessing in that case if God is blessing them Ark into Jerusalem so now this time he is very careful how he does it the explanation is actually given in 1 Chronicles we don't exactly have the wording over here in 2 Samuel but let's read out that because when we are covering 1 Chronicles we will not touch upon this story once again we will be talking about other things so let's just look at 1 Chronicles chapter 15 and if we could have one person read out verses 12 to 15 1 Chronicles chapter 15 verses 12 to 15 so now he says to them sanctify yourselves and follow the correct procedure because he says in verse 13 you did not do it correctly the first time and so the Lord our God broke out against us in anger so he says do it correctly and so they are very careful in how they sanctify themselves and in verse 15 it says they bore the Ark of God on their shoulders by its poles just as Moses had commanded and so now this time the Lord is pleased with the you know repentance that they are showing and with the honor that they are showing towards him so in the little things that we do in our everyday life the way we talk to people the you know choices that we make if we make an extra effort to truly honor him he notices people may notice or not notice they may praise you or they may not praise you because humans are limited you know we cant observe everything and praise everything but God notices he notices every attitude of your heart and if you are doing something truly wanting to please him wanting to follow his instructions he will reward you for it in his time you know because God notices these things alright coming to the covenant that God makes with David we would find that in 2 Samuel chapter 7 verses 12 to 16 it's a very important passage generally referred to as the Davidic covenant so 2 Samuel chapter 7 verses 12 to 16 if we can have someone read out and then we will look at the different layers which are mentioned in that particular passage yes so this is the promise that God is giving to David and his descendants and just like many of the things that the Lord says we see many layers to this because some of the wording over here applies directly to Solomon and some wording applies to his descendants but some of the wording is applying to the Messiah alone so usually in prophecies that God gives regarding the future and over here in this case in this covenant where God is talking about what will happen we tend to see layers ok so it's the same even with the passage in Isaiah where it talks about the virgin birth if you look at that passage over there there's one layer which was fulfilled in the time of Isaiah but there was another additional layer which only was fulfilled when Jesus was born in the New Testament so we have to realize this about the writings in the Old Testament sometimes when God speaks he's just talking about that particular situation at that time but sometimes there will be many layers to what he is saying which will be fulfilled at that time but there will be other parts of it which will be fulfilled later on so this is something that we need to take note of so when we are looking at this passage you know you try to assess which portion is applying to David's human sons and which portions are applying only to the Messiah it says in verse 16 when your days are over and you rest with your ancestors it will raise up your offspring to succeed you your own flesh and blood and he says I will establish his kingdom so whose kingdom is God talking about over here if you look in your verse 13 he is the one who will build a house for my name so very obviously over here it is talking about Solomon and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever it's talking about Solomon's throne he will be established forever but Solomon won't be alive forever to enjoy it his descendants would be alive and then of course it says I will be his father and he will be my son and then it says when he does wrong I will punish him with a rod wielded by men so over here it's referring to the human descendants of David when they sin against the Lord they will have judgment upon you so be warned just because a great promise is being given to you it doesn't mean that you know you can get away with whatever sinful attitude you want you will be judged if you fail to follow what has been commanded by me and so he says next in verse 16 your house and your kingdom will end your forever before me your throne will be established forever and we find very similar wording to this regarding Jesus Christ so that would be Luke chapter 1 verses 31 to 33 Luke chapter 1 verses 31 to 33 if we can have one person read out please and 33 okay so these wordings the last portion of this Davidic covenant where it says your house and your kingdom will end your forever before me your throne will be established forever those words are fulfilled in the Messiah so we see that but many of the Israelites fail to understand that and which is why they went into such terrible sin in the generations which followed and we will see that in 1st kings 2nd kings chronicles how terribly they lived and they were under the impression that God has said no no the throne will be established forever so it doesn't matter how sinful we are what we do how we live the throne will be established forever so when Jeremiah comes along and says you know watch out Jerusalem is going to fall they say how can Jerusalem fall the throne will be established forever and throughout his lifetime Jeremiah is persecuted because they are saying this man is speaking lies even though Jeremiah was prophesying what God wanted so they had a wrong understanding of this covenant which has been made and so it was not in the human kings that it was finally fulfilled but rather in the Messiah who came through the Davidic lineage it was finally fulfilled through Jesus Christ alright we now almost at 1140 1137 actually anyone has doubts if you do not have doubts my I will continue giving a lecture anyone has doubts no okay at the premiere we can just use a few more minutes talk about another aspect David had two high priests rather strange I mean generally you are supposed to have one high priest but over here in David's case he had two high priests one was Zadok and the other was Abyatar now Zadok belonged to the Aaron lineage he was one of the descendants of Aaron Abyatar on the other hand was a descendant from Eli the one against whom God speaks if we go back to our first Samuel and we have to look at chapter 2 where God is speaking to Eli through a man it does not give the name of the prophet but if you go back from the Bible to first Samuel chapter 2 the second portion of chapter 2 where you have a man coming and making a prophesy and telling Eli what is going to happen to his lineage over there God speaks and God says you know because of the way your sons have been dishonoring me your priestly line will be cut off no longer will your family continue to serve as high priests so he talks about how the lineage is going to come to an end if we can have one person read out the last two verses first Samuel chapter 2 I think it would be verses 35 and 36 I think are the last two verses if we could have one person read out go ahead so the prophecy given over there is that you will no longer have this honorable position of being in the high priestly line and so your descendants those who are left many of them will die because of God's judgment but those who are left they will literally be begging for any kind of job so they will come to the new person whom I am appointing and they will say please give us some kind of priestly jobs so that we can support our family so that we can continue to live so the Lord says that will happen to you and even after that man comes and makes that prophecy Eli really does not correct his sons he just simply scolds them once but then he doesn't really take any action Eli was the high priest he could have publicly removed them from their position he could have said you will no longer be occupying this position and you are disqualified and he could have appointed new people but he doesn't do that he just simply scolds them and leaves it like that and they don't change their behavior yes the question raised over here is that the observation made over here in the class is that Job's sons and daughters also committed sins and when they did that Job does not correct them but rather he just makes sacrifices on their behalf and one thing that we can notice that all of us also commit sins but none of us actually have gone to the extent where we have gone to the temple of God and used our position to commit immorality publicly everyone knows what they are doing because they were sleeping with the ladies who have been appointed over there to take care of the temple and they are publicly taking pieces of meat which was supposed to be offered as sacrifices they are saying if you boil the meat we won't fry we don't want to boil so they say please give us the sacrifice before you boil it and the poor people who come over there to make their sacrifices to the Lord they are saying at least allow us to complete the sacrifice then you take the meat they are saying no you will spoil it by boiling it give it to us first because we want to have fry like as if it is some kind of cafe or a hotel I mean this is the presence of God is there in that temple and God is allowing all these rituals with the idea that he will you know be able to continue living in their presence because he will look at those sacrifices and he will remember what Christ is going to do in the future and he will put up with them so what God is doing is something very gracious and these people are taking it so light so you and I sin and Job's sons and daughters also were sinning but this was completely sin on a different scale so you know so this could not be taken lightly Eli could not have just simply offered some sacrifices and the Lord pardon them no if you notice even today you know we are supposed to be repentant so repentance is one of the conditions yes the sacrifice has been made but God expects repentance and change and transformation that is important so we cannot just say sacrifices made now I can do what I want so getting back to what we were talking about where were we oh yeah yeah okay okay so Eli's descendants would be in that pathetic position where they would literally beg for any kind of position so that they can feed their families and be able to live so so what happens next is what we see in first Samuel chapter 22 verses 16 to 19 where you have a different story going on David for David you know he's running for his life he's trying to hide everywhere that he can think of and or you have the spice who managed to find out where he is and they go and give the report to the king saying you know this guy is hiding over here he's hiding over there so over here in this particular instance if you look I think in the previous chapter which was Samuel chapter 21 David he comes to the temple I think to meet with Samuel and is asking for help and so at that time when David comes over there to ask for help for protection you have Saul's chief herdsman okay Saul's chief herdsman named Doig or however you pronounce his name Doig that guy is also present over there at that time and he sees David asking for help so he knows where David is hiding now and so he goes and reports about it to Saul and Saul becomes really angry that the priests and the leaders over there in the temple are taking David's side and protecting him so when Saul gets to know that he is very angry and he has a commandment saying that all the priests of the Lord be killed I mean it's a very terrible thing imagine he's ordering that the priests of God be killed just murder just like that and so Doig is the one who carries out the orders that would be in verse 18 first Samuel chapter 22 verse 18 Doig he kills 85 people who are there at the temple and then he goes to Knob a place named Knob which is a place where many of the priests are living he goes over there and it says he kills the men and the women and the children and the infants and even the animals which the priests possess it's like really sad a complete large scale massacre and the one person who survives this massacre is this guy Ibiathar so David kind of takes him under his wing Ibiathar is the one person who is able to survive and he is a descendant of Eli so David is sorry for him and so he kind of starts looking after him so that's basically how you have Ibiathar coming under the shelter of David so later on when David becomes king you obviously have Zadok who belongs to the lineage of Aaron he is the high priest but he also gives a priestly position to Ibiathar so that Ibiathar also will be able to have some kind of position and livelihood so throughout the lifetime of David Ibiathar is very loyal to him but in the time of Solomon for some reason Ibiathar decides not to be faithful to Solomon he helps he tries to get involved in some kind of conspiracy against Solomon and so at that time Solomon he completely disqualifies him and so from that point on Ibiathar is no longer in the priestly line and that's how God's judgment upon that family is finally fulfilled so after Ibiathar there is nobody left in the priestly line from the house of Eli so it's Ibiathar who makes that mistake he chooses to join in some kind of conspiracy against Solomon and that's basically how those things work out so from that time onwards Zadok becomes the high priest and he belongs to the lineage of Aaron so there are many many other stories many other conspiracies many other schemes and plans which the people make because this book is filled with politics alright so we cannot get into all of those details but we try to look at some of the spiritual implications of these things which were occurring at that time anyone has a question otherwise we can close with the word of prayer alright so we'll close alright Lord we just thank you so much for today's class we thank you for the things that we could learn from the lives of these people you put in these stories so Lord in your words so that we can learn from them so we pray O Lord that we would stand warned Lord we pray that we would have an attitude of respect and reverence towards you these people O Lord some of the people that we have talked about today treated you with very very lightly with in a very dishonorable manner and Lord that was very displeasing in your sight but Lord today we are in a more serious position in the sense we have the Holy Spirit literally living inside of us so Lord we need to be so much more careful in the way we live and the choices that we make so we pray O Lord that you would continually remind us of these truths and help us to live lives that truly honor you O Lord Lord we pray that you would strengthen us and guide us and cause us to grow in our spiritual walk with you thank you Lord in Jesus name amen thank you thanks online students and also thank you for paying attention we will close the recording