 Hey, good morning everyone. Welcome to a new day. Let's begin this session with a word of prayer. Can any one of us please lead us in prayer? Simran, can you lead us in prayer? I pray then. Yes, go ahead. Go ahead, Kennedy. I have any Father Jehovah. Thank you for this day that you've given unto us as a class Father Jehovah. I commit our titha. First time I'm going to fall into your hands. Jehovah says to be asked to lead us in the learning of Father Jehovah. Father, I pray for the spirit of revelation to come in us. Father, of course we are learning deeper truth about your work. I commit all the students, Father Jehovah, I pray for the spirit of revelation to come in us. Father, the only God is what we worship and do. I commit everything that we are going to learn into our hands. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Kennedy. All right. Let's just do a quick review of what we did yesterday. We went into chapter three. We looked at points from chapter three, right workplace attitudes. So we saw that attitude is a choice and in most cases our attitude will determine our attitude in life, meaning how high we reach. Kennedy, I'll just mute you and then do all for the glory of God, keep our ambition kingdom focused, which means we looked at that verse, Matthew 6, 33, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the other things shall be added unto us. And so even in workplace in the corporate sector, our ambition, our focus is not only to go up the ladder but it's also to reveal God's glory wherever we are, to build God's kingdom even in the workplace. A very important point we looked at was, you know, money is not everything in life. Money is a resource that God has given us and so God is our master, money is our slave and we have to serve God and the Lord will provide for us. And we also look at how money can be a factor to, you know, to fail in the plan that God has for us. Right. Sometimes we may put money and forget what God has called us to do. So we should be careful. How do we do that? Always walk in the fear of the Lord. We talked about how the fear of the Lord is reverence and honour to God to do even the smallest thing that has been assigned to us to do it with integrity, to do it with honour, knowing that God is watching us. And then finally we looked at the fruit of the Spirit, how God has given us the Holy Spirit and the fruit of the Holy Spirit is available, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, humility and self-control. So God has given us the fruit through the Holy Spirit. And so even in the workplace, even in ministry, we are to exhibit these attributes in our work. And when we do that, you know, we will be pleasing, not only in the side of our team and our managers, our leaders, but we will also be pleasing in the sight of God. Right. So we'll go to the next point. I'm on page 36. Do your work obediently, sincerely, willingly and cheerfully. Let's read Ephesians chapter 6, 5 to 8. As any one of us can read Ephesians 6, 5 to 8. I'll read. Go ahead. Slaves, obey your human master with fear and trembling and do it with his sincere heart as though you were serving Christ. Do this not only when they are watching you, because you want to gain their approval, but with all your heart to what God wants and as a slave of Christ. Do your work as a slave cheerfully as though you saved the Lord and not merely human being. Remember that the Lord will reward each of us with a slave of free for the good work they do. Amen. Thank you, Mangi. So Paul is writing here in terms of the slaves and masters that whole aspect was there in the olden times. But now when you look at it, you've got managers, you've got employees, you've got the whole hierarchy, presidents, CEOs and all of that. But important thing to remember is there are some key instructions that God is giving us. We know the following. Obey, be sincere, wholeheartedly or willingly and cheerfully. So God is instructing us in the workplace to be obedient, to be sincere, to work wholeheartedly and to be cheerful. Stay aligned to what God has been asked of us. Be sincere. The word sincere means to be genuine. Sometimes we can do a lot of work, but we may not be genuine in what we are doing. So for example, in the ministry, let me, here I use examples of the workplace and examples of ministry, but they're applicable for both. The reason I'm applying examples in the workplace also is because I don't want us to think that, okay, this is only for ministry. It is also for us in the corporate sector. Being sincere, even when nobody is watching, to have a genuine interest in things that you're doing in the work that we are doing. So there will be times in ministry, maybe, for example, the church is doing a conference. The pastor says, okay, you have to make sure that the chairs are arranged and the administration, you have to look after administration. So the food has been, you know, contact the vendors and also make sure that everything is clean in the church, that people are following timing, it's a three-day conference. So the pastors are busy, the leaders are busy. So the work has been entrusted to you. Now, if we work only for people to see us and appreciate us, there's no honor in that. When we work, we are to work with sincerity and genuine interest. Whether it be cleaning the chairs, whether it be, you know, setting up the church, setting up the speakers, whether it would be a menial task of, you know, just serving food, we have to do it with genuine interest and sincerity. I love what in the book of Acts, you know, that problem happened where they were, you know, the widows felt neglected. And the Bible says that they search for people who are full of wisdom. What is the work to serve food to widows? If we think to ourselves, you know, why do you need wisdom? You don't need wisdom, full of grace and wisdom to serve food. Just choose like five people or 10 people come, you know, give them the work you assign and, you know, put the food for the widows. No, but they chose seven men full of wisdom, which means what? It was even though a menial task, but they wanted to make sure that there were sincere, genuine people serving with all their heart. And so Philippians 2.14 says, do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may be as innocent and pure as God's children. So this is something that, this is a character that we develop over time to be obedient, to be sincere, to be genuine. Here's what I've noticed, you know, many times we join an office or join a company or join a ministry. Initially, we are very sincere, very genuine. We want to do everything, we go beyond, you know, what was asked for. But the real test is, as time passes by, after two years, after three years of working in the same company, what is our attitude? Are we still alive? Are we still sincere? Are we still genuine? Are we still giving our best for what God has called us for? That is the real test. So this is a very important, you know, aspect that God is teaching us here, be sincere, even when nobody is watching. And there are plenty of examples that I'll give, maybe I'll go on and later on we'll give some examples. Next point, loyalty is essential, be faithful. Let's read Proverbs chapter 3 verse 3 and 4. Anyone can please read Proverbs 3, 3 and 4. Okay, let's read Proverbs 3, 3 to 4. Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness, tie them around your neck, write them on your heart. If you do this, both God and people will be pleased with you. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Abhinav. So loyalty is very important. Faithful is being faithful, being committed to the company or the organization that you're working for is very important. Now, there will be times, you know, for example, you're working, you join a new company, right? Be faithful to your work that is given to you. Be faithful to be loyal to your team leaders, your managers, but there will come a time, right? You know, you will have to change. Not saying that, you know, you have to stay, be loyal to your company means you have to be in that same company until retirement. No, for different reasons. We will change companies. We will change, move out for different higher positions or higher roles and different reasons. But as long as you are in the company that you're working with, be loyal to that company. Now, one of the things that I hear from a lot of young people is, you know, for example, they're working for a company. And after three years of working in the company, they begin to mock the company. No, the company is like this, like that. What is that? That's being, that's not being loyal to the company. Yes, there are teams, maybe there are people around who are jealous, angry and the work environment may not be good. But God is teaching us and saying, you be loyal to what, you know, to where I have placed you at. Perfect example would be that of, you know, Nehemiah, Daniel. They are Jews. They are sitting in Babylon. They didn't, you know, make plans to make Jerusalem a better city. They were working in Babylon and Daniel was in charge of making things in Babylon better. So he was loyal to that nation. Was that nation a good nation towards Israel? No. But since God placed him there, he was loyal. He was faithful to the work that he had, that was given to him. Never do we see that Daniel said, okay, you know what, now I am here, but I will put all my efforts in, you know, blessing the people of Israel than here. No. God had placed him there. He was doing good for the benefit of that nation. Same thing with Joseph. Joseph gave us, you know, the story, he came. And what did he do? He made the nation such a powerful nation. He blessed, because he was the leader, the nation was blessed. He was faithful. He was diligent in everything he was doing there. Loyalty is something that is not found easy in these days. But God is calling us, he's saying, be loyal to the company or to the ministry that you are in. Be faithful, right? Well, the Lord Jesus narrated the story of the irresponsible manager, you know, who ran his owner's business into a loss because of misleading people. Whoever is faithful and small, they will be faithful in bigger things. And this is the verse that we always use. Be faithful in small things. God will give you bigger things. And this is one sentence that I always keep telling myself from the time, from 2010, 2011, I always tell myself, be faithful and small, then the bigger doors will come. There are many times that, you know, as students, as Bible call students, nobody really knew, you know, what we were doing, meaning we would do the most menial tasks. But a few of us in Bible calls, we would do it with all faithfulness, with all joy in knowing that, you know, we're doing it for God. We're doing it for God's kingdom and God will bless the work of our hands. You know, there would be so menial to the point of, you know, carrying water to the restrooms or cleaning up and mopping the floors. Now, nobody's going to come take pictures of us, you know, sweeping and mopping the floors and say, okay, this is Paul and the Bible college team who is, you know, sweeping and mopping. Nobody's going to do that. It's done in secret. But when you do it faithfully, and you do it knowing that you're being loyal to what God has, where God has placed you, you're faithful and small, God will give us bigger things. And so let's look at a few key principles in relation to faithfulness and loyalty. Faithfulness in small matters demonstrates your ability to be faithful in bigger matters. It is very unlikely that, you know, it does happen, but it's very unlikely that God gives us something big immediately. It does happen, but usually God takes us through smaller openings. He takes us through that season of training. So for example, you know, if you want to worship leader, it's very unlikely God will take us and put us in front of 10,000 people immediately. Very unlikely. If you get opportunities like that, wonderful. But he will look at how faithful we are in the small. And there are 10 people. What is your attitude towards the worship? Is it like, oh, only 10 people? Let me just choose five songs. You know, just sing something. Finish it off. Half an hour or 40 minutes. Okay, just choose something, sing it. Is that the attitude? And if there are 500 people, I have to do this. You know, this is a good song. These are the things that we need to include in the song. Is that how we look at things? You know, even if it's a supernatural hour that we have online, what I do is, if I know I'm dating on Friday, three days before I come up with the songs, I prepare myself and say, okay, five songs, four or five songs, or three days before we sit, think about the songs. Think about what God is placing in my heart. What kind of songs is it? Is the songs more about grace, about God's goodness, about God's power? And then we begin to, you know, make the set list. And we think about the songs. So there's a lot of preparation. Just those songs and just come and sing. No, there's a lot of preparation. There's a lot of preparation involved. Now, we may think, why, you know, we've done it for about 10, 15 years now. Why do you want to prepare so much? Because we are being faithful in small. But the small, whether big, be faithful. Faithfulness in handling money and positions that have been entrusted to you. Now, we know of many, many, many people who were not faithful in handling money and positions given to them. And they have fallen. I've heard of many senior managers who were, you know, because of mishandling of money. Many ministries who went through turmoil and they were dragged to court. Not in our nation, but across nations. And they were dragged to court. Why? Because of misleading people. Because of the finances were not kept in place. So being faithful in money, being faithful in the positions that God has given us, is very important. So if any one of us are planning to start your own ministry, oh, we need to be extra, extra careful in terms of money and in terms of people, how we handle situations. We need to be very faithful in all of that. Three, faithfulness in what belongs to someone else will position you to have what is your own. You know, maybe some of us in our heart feel that I want to start my own business or I want to start my own ministry. But now you're working under somebody. Now, there is your, you know, place where God has put you and he's given you that position. And if we are faithful in that, what we are doing is we're aligning ourselves and saying, God, if you give me whether it's ministry or a business, just like how I'm faithful working under somebody, I will continue to be faithful, even in my own business or ministry that you give to me. So we are aligning ourselves to what God has for us. Here's the point. We are to be faithful to our organization, to the people, to our leaders and to the ministry, to the pastors, to people that we are working for. Be faithful, be loyal. Next. I think this is a very, again, very important point. Be accountable at all times. Sometimes, you know, our bosses or our leaders will be busy. So they may not ask us for the reports and all of it. Be accountable at all times. Even when not asked for. Send reports. Now, one of the things that we do in APC is all of us as staff, we send reports. We send weekly reports, we send monthly reports. And not every time it's asked for, but we just send it. Okay. So these are the events that we did from January 2021 to July, June 2021. That's a six-month report. Or there are times we can, you know, we send a three-month report or a monthly report. Now these reports vary. Some talk about finances. Some talk about events. Some talk about, you know, spiritual progress of how the church is going and functioning. And some talk about our personal progress in the ministry. So be accountable at all times. Let's read this big passage here from Luke chapter 12, 42 to 48. Yes, could any one of us? Sorry, Luke 12, 42 to 48. I can read it. The Lord answered, Who then is the faithful and wise servant? He is the one that his master will put in charge to run the household and give the other servants their share of food at the proper time. How happy that servant is if his master finds him doing this when he comes home. Indeed, I tell you, the master will put that servant in charge of all his property. But if that servant says to himself that his master is taking a long time to come back and if he begins to beat the other servants, both the men and the women, and eats and drinks and gets drunk, then the master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know. The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the disobedient. The servant who knows what his master wants him to do but does not get himself ready and do it will be punished with a heavy whipping. But the servant who does not know what his master wants and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given. Much more is required from the person to whom much more is given. Amen. I like that verse. Much is required from the person to whom much is given. Much more is required to the person whom much more is given. An organization or a ministry that we work for provides us with time, with tools, with training equipment, with money, infrastructure and it is our responsibility to take and use these facilities that the organization is providing and do the work that God, that has been assigned to us. Now there are many companies that have one week timelines. Some have two weeks, some have monthly reports meaning in a month they need to have targets or some have weekly targets and so accountability is using the resources that the organization and the company is giving us to accomplish whatever they have been asking us to do the goal that has been assigned to us. Now when we use that in an effective manner that is when we are saying being accountable. Being accountable is firstly to your, you know, to your leaders, to your superiors, but then most importantly being accountable to God. And I believe that when we are accountable to God all that depends upon this. Because we are saying God, if this something is wrong, we are saying God, you know, this is wrong, I should not do this. You know that you are accountable to God. And so when we are accountable to God, whatever we do, you know, will be in line and we will not fall into any problem. I am reminded of this thing that happened when at a young age I joined a call center and you know, so we were working in the call center and call centers are really, I think some of us may know, it's like in 9-hour shift, 8 hours of talking, continuously 8 hours. So you have a 15-minute break, 15-minute break and a half-hour lunch break, right? So 9-hour shift, 8 hours of talking to customers and it's not easy. You got calls after calls, some customers are angry, some customers are sad and sometimes they are upset that we have called them, they may be at work in meetings and then we ask them for their personal information, they get even more upset. And so there are different kinds of, you know, days that we face. And call centers can be very, very serious. And I remember, me and my friend, a friend of mine in the workplace, he was an excellent communicator, right? He would really communicate with the Savile AOL call center, not so good old, good of days, yes, yes. And so he would really communicate very well, right? He had the knack of speaking to people. But here's the thing, he was not diligent, right? I used to keep telling him, you know, you're very good at your calls, why don't you teach me? And he said, hey, just talk freely, don't worry about it being recorded. So he used to give me some tips. And then he would, you know, he would do very well, but he was not diligent, right? He would come, he would place the customers on hold for, you know, 15, 20 minutes, he'll go out, he'll have a juice, he'll have snacks, he'll come back. So I would tell him, hey, don't do that, because, you know, you're being monitored, you can't put a customer on hold for 10 minutes, go have juice, and it's not right. And he said, no, nothing happened, don't worry. I'm a performer here and all of that. And he kept doing it month after month and to many customers. And so, since he was a good performer, nobody really, you know, looked at what he's doing. But eventually, about four months down the line, there was some kind of discrepancies. They checked the overall hold time for the team. It was way above what it should be. And so the team leader went into details. He saw, okay, in our team, how many people are placing their customers on hold? And so he pulled up our list. And when he pulled up the list, he saw that the best performer in the team who got the team, who gets the team to a good place, who gets the sales done, he is the one who's been placing customers on hold for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and eventually he was called and eventually he was terminated for this act because he was not faithful. Being accountable is to use what God has given us in a right way that is pleasing to God. And so being accountable to God will make put everything in place. Now it looks like a small thing. You know, this guy, the person that I, his friend of mine, so wonderful, you know, he's the guy who would get the sales in the teams. Always, every month, he's a performer of the team. Even though he places people on call for 15, 20 minutes, he would get the most number of sales. He was so, you know, talented. I believe that if he had just continued on, he would have got promotions and, you know, gone up the ladder very fast. But he was so disappointed and he looked back and he said, I wish I didn't do that. I wish I didn't take advantage of my skills and abilities. So it's good that skills, talents, but it is also right usage of that. Being accountable of those gifts and talents, right? Next point, be passionate. If your heart is not in it, get in or get out. Let's read Proverbs 11-8. Proverbs 11-8, yes. Yes, anyone can read Proverbs 11-8? Proverbs 11-8, yes. But no. Proverbs 11-8. Okay, I don't have it. I don't have it, sorry. Proverbs 11-8, bad work gets paid with a bad check. Good work gets solid pay, right? Now, when we look at a job as a job and if there is lack of passion in it, it's very easy to find that out. It's not very difficult, right? When we're passionate about something, we are willing to go the extra mile. But when we're not passionate about it, it just becomes, okay, a routine that we have to do. Then we have to get in or get out. In the sense, we either have to be passionate about it or move on. Move on and do something that you're passionate about because if we are half-hearted about doing something, whether ministry or in the workplace, we will not be fruitful. I remember when I was working in the IT company, I so much wanted to join the Bible College and do something in ministry. I would go with a half-hearted heart to office. The office was just a few minutes away. It was probably about five minutes away and not really had to travel a lot. But I would go with a half-hearted heart. It was a day job. It was not even a night job. Everything was convenient. But I would go with a half-hearted heart. I wish I didn't have to go. I wish I could do something in the ministry. Later on, I realized that, hey, this is wrong because what I'm doing is I'm just trying to I'm just waiting for the day to get done and just go back home. Days are going, months are going. I remember talking to my parents and saying, I don't want to do this. I'm not very passionate about this. I don't want to enjoy this. I want to join the ministry. I want to do something. I want to study the word. My parents were gracious enough to say, okay, leave the job, join the Bible College. But I had to make that decision because my heart was not in it. But the moment I joined the Bible College, I put 110% to Bible College. I did everything, whatever was given, whatever task, whatever responsibility, whatever subject, just sit, study, learn, did my best, gave my 100%. And that's what we all should do. If you feel that this is something that is not interesting, your heart is not in it, plan and move. I want to be careful because there are times when we say, okay, I'm not interested in this, quit a job and go on. I remember the point we said that birds, sometimes if you don't settle down, they keep flying all over the place. So it's also important to plan now. So when I spoke to my parents, they said, okay, you can quit and go. I didn't quit immediately. I knew that I need to... The Bible College is not... I need to pay a fees. I need to get books. I need to get material. And I'm not going to be working for about two years. So I want to be self-sufficient. I want to have some funds with me to help me. And so I saved up. I didn't quit immediately. I worked for about a month or so. And then planned accordingly. So even if you feel that you want to make a transition, plan accordingly. Don't be in a hurry to make decisions. Next point. Maintain integrity and truthfulness always in all things. I'll just go a little quick. I want to finish up these points. Maintain integrity. Proverbs 10-9. He who walks with integrity walks securely. But he who perverts his ways will become known. The word integrity means to stand right. Stand with your head held high. Where you know that, hey, I've not done anything this easy or evil in the eyes of God or evil in the eyes of people. I've done my work. I've done my ministry. I've done everything that I have with integrity. The wonderful most wonderful example would be of Apostle Paul. He's writing his last letter to Timothy. In 2 Timothy he says, Paul, Timothy, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race with integrity. He's saying, I fought the good fight. I didn't just fight a fight. I fought the good fight in integrity. Every area of my life in the ministry I've done it with integrity. And here, what is integrity? He's writing more ethically and legally. I'm sure you've heard about this ministry, Mars Hill Church. Mark Driscoll, he's a wonderful, wonderful man of God. Many years ago, the early 90s, he's still around, but in the early 90s, God really used him powerfully. And after he started his ministry, thousands of people started coming in, and then new locations were planted. His ministry began to grow really, really big. At one point, he had about 15,000 feet in the church. Here's what happened. Mark Driscoll, Pastor Mark Driscoll, he was known for his way of, you know, angrily speaking. He would mock other people. He would, you know, you know, shouted people on the pulpit. And, you know, it was not going too well. That was not the way to handle yourself. But then the integrity issues came up. Issues with, you know, marriage and then all kinds of things. The entire ministry collapsed. 15,000 odd people. It's nothing. So, I would always say this. Our skills and talents take us up the ladder. But it is character and integrity that keeps us there. We can rise up the ladder with our skills, talents. Oh, I know how to use this. I know how to do that. We go up the ladder. But once you're up the ladder to stay there, we need integrity and good character. If not, we couldn't just fall off that ladder. What is, what is it being right morally? Are we doing the right things? And legally do the right things. Put away, I just read a few verses here from problems. It's got plenty of verses on maintaining integrity and truthfulness. 424, Proverbs 424. Put away from you a deceitful mouth and put perverse lips far from you. Proverbs 12, 22, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. But those who deal truthfully are his delight. Proverbs 11, 5, the righteousness of the blameless direct his right, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness. So in our workplace, maintain integrity, maintain truthfulness. Where we can say, God, I've done this with integrity, done this assignment given to me with integrity with truthfulness. And I know that when we do it that way, you will bless the work of our hands. You lift us. Next point. Work hard because there is no place for laziness. Work hard. Now the Bible has plenty of verses that talks about work and how we are called to work hard. Look at the ant you sluggered. How they work hard. That was in Proverbs 12, 27. If you are lazy, you will never get what you are after. But if you work hard, you will get a fortune. Now diligence is thoroughness, working carefully and attentiveness. When we work hard, when we are not lazy, that is when we will achieve what God wants us to achieve. Laziness procrastinates. When we are lazy, we will say, OK, I'll do this tomorrow. No, I'll do this day after tomorrow. Let me do it next week. Let me do it next month. Why is that? It can be done today itself. But sometimes you say, OK, let me do it tomorrow. Procrastination is laziness. Laziness is also doing a job incomplete or half done. On Sundays, after church, we clean up the whole church and sweep and mop the whole place. We have a team and I always tell them, let's do it neatly. If we're doing it, we'll do it neatly because it's church. So they all give their best. I'll give you this other example. There's this elderly woman. She's got a daughter and the daughter is an MBA. She's done her master's and she completed a couple of years ago. But from then on, she's been applying for job after job after job, but she's not getting any job. And then she would always tell me, her mother also would say, she's been applying for jobs. She's not getting jobs. Then one day, I really asked her, what happened? Why is it that you're not getting jobs? I'm sure there are jobs. And then I got to know, then the mother told that she applies for jobs and they give her the interview dates. She'll say, I'm not comfortable on this date. I can't go so far. This company is too far or the salary is too little. They don't have benefits. They don't have this. So the whole thing was for two years, she was getting many offers. But she kept procrastinating and procrastinating saying, okay, I don't want this. I don't want this. I don't want this. And now it's very difficult for her to get a job because there's almost a three or a four year break between her studies and for about four years now, she's at home still applying for job, still applying even for marriage proposals, laziness, procrastinates. We will end up, you know, if we are lazy, we will end up with nothing. So as we apply, as we do things, let us avoid laziness. Don't just be busy. Be productive. Don't just do many things, but be productive in what you're doing. Right. What we do at work is important to God as much as what we do in the church. Right. It's not like, okay, we're working in the church. God will bless us more. And because I'm walking in the corporate sector, God will look at us secondary. No, no, no. God is with us both in the church and in the workplace. He's interested in the ministry. He's interested even at your work. Right. So just because, you know, we are busy does not mean we are productive. So we need to see, are we setting goals? Are we achieving those goals? You know, are we giving results? You know, like, like, you know, most companies say most bosses, you know, you can be a very good person, you know, working hard, but it is the numbers that count. It is the results that matter. Right. You can't sell your boss, you know, what I did my best and then, you know, you know me, I'm a good person. I, you know, I follow all the rules. I never cheated and can explain all of that. But at the end, numbers or results is what people will look at. Right. So Psalms one, three, they are like trees that grow beside a stream and bear fruit at the right time. Next point. What you do with your time is very important. Learn how to manage time. All of us have 24 hours. All of us have to use that 24 hours to do what we are doing, whether in the corporate, whether in ministry, learn how to use time effectively. There will be projects that can be put, you know, done secondly, see what is important, do what is important first. Right. And as you're doing that, have a passion for excellence. Keep, you know, striving for excellence. Now, excellence does not just come. Excellence is hard to have the endurance to push for it. Right. Don't have that, you know, it's this much is enough attitude. Right. Now, for example, you know, you want to be a preacher or a worship leader. Right. You learn the instrument, you learn how to sing and then you practice, practice and then eventually you audition. You get into the worship team. Now it's not like, okay, target achieved. I got into the worship team. No. It should be in a sense that we are to grow more and more and more. It's not like, okay, I'll study the word. Once I become a pastor, target achieved. No. To become a pastor, we need to grow even more. We need to spend more time in the word. Keep learning. Keep on knowledge. Keep studying. Right. A good student is a continual learner. Right. Keep learning. We are all students just because we are teaching does not mean that, you know, we are not learning. We are all learning. So never stop learning. Proverbs 15. Sorry. Proverbs one fight. A wise man will hear an increased learning and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. Right. How do we learn? Can we, you know, nowadays we have Google, you have YouTube, you have apps, you have, you know, different ways of acquiring new skills, listen to people, talk to people who are growing in that grow your knowledge, watch people, ask a lot of questions, ask genuine questions, experiment, learn from people's success, learn from people's failures. And the more we do all this, right, watching others observing, we will learn. We will never stop learning. And learning is something that will happen till the end of our life. Whether it is ministry, whether it is, you know, anything in life, we will learn. Right. The other couple of months back, we have an older couple who are 90 years old. She is 90 and she and his wife is 85. The other couple of months back when I went, I was teaching them how to use, you know, zoom because they wanted to join the zoom press that we have in the church. So they were so interested to learn that. He's 90 years old. I was teaching them how you can log in on your phone. Then I was also teaching them what Google classroom because, you know, they were interested in the Bible college to join a few courses. 90 years old. Never stop learning. And it keeps growing. It keeps growing. And so stay focused, stay calm. Even when unexpected thing happens, you know, in the workplace, ministry, when everything's going smooth, it's all right. Suddenly, there's something unexpected that can happen that can, you know, really bring us down. We have to stay focused. We have to stay calm, maintain the ability of calm spirit, calm mind and continue to focus on what God has, you know, set for you. And so with this, we complete the chapter, right workplace attitudes. And we will stop here. And then from next week, we will pick up from section two, chapter four, talking about vision and corporate vision and how to work towards that. Right. Any questions, any thoughts? Thought we can close in prayer. Everybody okay? No questions? All right. Okay. Could one of us please close us in prayer? Okay. Shrikumar raised your hand. It's already 950. Okay. Can we, can we do this next, next? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you Shrikumar. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for that. Let's pray. Although we thank you. We thank you for learning with just heart, Lord. We pray for that. Moving forward, Lord, we'll be diligent and we'll be helpful in whatever you have given us, Lord. Maybe our families, maybe our health, maybe our workplace, Lord. We pray for that. We will do everything, Lord, with the heart of glorifying you. We'll bear in mind that everything we do, Jesus, we give glory to you. We pray, Jesus, that your Holy Spirit will empower us and he will treat us even further so that everything we do, Jesus, according to your will, and gives glory to you. We pray all this, Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mangi. Thank you, everyone, for joining. Have a great week ahead. I'll see you next Monday. God bless. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. God bless. Thank you, Pastor.