 Okay. Good morning everyone. Welcome to BC 309, our course on urban church planting. Let's get started today. May I request somebody to please pray with a glass and we will start. Anybody could pray and we'll start. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So in our course now on urban church planting, we have started a new section last week talking about the spiritual side of urban church planting. We want to understand what is what is involved, then how to go about engaging on the spiritual side. So let's quickly review a few things we mentioned last class and then we will move forward from there. So one minute seems to be a question. Srikumar. Yes sir, I have a question. Can I ask now what? Can I ask you? Go ahead please. Okay. Thank you sir. Sir, as we are discussing on this church planting, one thing I just want to know that, you know, how we should, you know, as a servant of God, how we should receive the offerings and the type and, you know, and because it's not the salary, but it is, you know, God's money. So how we should handle it with most of the people, I think that, you know, when they take it, they take it as they're in a very different way. So I just want to know that if you can also help us to understand that how we have to use it and because it's a God's offering. And especially when it is a first fruit or a tide or a seed when somebody is swaying. So how we have to receive it and how we have to handle it. Thank you sir. Okay. So the question that Srikumar just asked is about how do we handle the money, the tides of the offerings that people give to the local church? I think Paul also does this in 1 Corinthians chapter 9. He points back to the Old Testament where, you know, he says, I mean, so the Old Testament sets as a pattern and then that connects into the New Testament. See the Old Testament, the tides, the offerings were brought to the tabernacle or the temple and it was given to the priests for their use. Basically, the priests in the Levites had no inheritance among the people. That means they were dedicated to serve in the temple. And so what it was needed for them to take care of their lives and for the work of the temple came from the tides and the offerings that were provided. So basically the work of the ministry, if you want to put it in simple terms, the work of the ministry was funded by the tides and the offerings that people brought to the tabernacle or the temple. Paul points that off, you know, and then when you come to the New Testament, you read about this 1 Corinthians chapter 9 is a good reference point where Paul says, you know, God has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live off the gospel. In the New Testament, Galatians chapter 6, he says, you know, let him who was ministered to in spiritual things, ministered to them back in natural things. That means we serve the people spiritually and they give back into our lives naturally. So in the New Testament, tides and offerings, people give their tides and offerings to the local church. Whatever the form of the offerings, whether it's, you know, they just whether it's somebody says, okay, this is my first verse, whether it is a special offering, whatever people give their tides and offerings to the local church. Now, this is what I feel should be done. So the money has to be handled in a very honorable way. The way that the right thing to do is that all the expenses from that so the money would go, I mean, let's just get into the details and answer this. So the money goes into the account of the church. From there, the people who are serving in the full time people in the church, they are paid their salaries, fixed salaries. And then all the other expenses of the church, meaning, you know, whatever is needed to run the church, meaning the rent, the bills are paid from that money. So just like in the Old Testament, it was used to take care of the functioning of the tabernacle of the temple. The New Testament, the tides and offerings are basically used to take care of the people who are serving in the ministry as well as all the expenses of the ministry. Now, of course, this has to be done in a proper way. That means the pastors, the others who are working are paid a salary, reasonable salary, and then all the bills are paid. What should not happen is all the money shouldn't go to the pastor, you know, in some cases, especially in small congregations or things like that. You know, whatever my tithing comes, it just goes to the pastor or they put it directly in the pastor's account or whatever, you know, so there's no accounting of thing. And then I don't know how they manage things, but that's not, you know, it should go to the church, the local church should be an organization where money is received from their people are paid and everything is properly accounted. I know in some places they say the tithe goes to the pastor, the offerings then go to the church. I don't see that as a valid use of money. I don't think that's right. I should all go to the church and then everybody's paid a proper salary and so on because of all the tithe goes to the pastor. The pastor's getting the major part of the money and then there's nothing left for the church operation and others. So everything goes to the church from there, money is allocated and so on. I've seen other, or rather I've heard of other variations where, you know, where, like I said, the tithe goes to the pastor. Sometimes the pastor gets tithed from multiple churches and, you know, so all the churches that are supposed to under that they give their tithe to the pastor and then something offering goes to the local church and I think all of that is an unfair distribution. It has to be fair. It has to be done properly. So everything goes to the local church from there. Everybody's paid a salary. Everything is accounted for is how I would recommend doing it. The New Testament, per se, doesn't give these instructions. So the answer should be let's do what is right and fair and what is right and fair. I think it's a proper, it's just basically the organization should be run in a proper way. Did I answer your questions for tomorrow's, if you have a follow-up question or any more details, you could ask. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Okay. Christopher, please go ahead. Oh, yes, Pastor. Thank you. My question is a related question with regards to, you know, where there is surplus. Is there any provision, surplus from, you know, the expenditures of the church and the operations and the salaries? Is there any provision for, you know, I mean, as per the Bible, where, you know, the less fortunate get some percentage of the, of those, of that surplus. That is one area. And the other one would be in planning forward, just like in a, you know, in a, maybe in a corporate environment where you have some plans about, you know, how the, how the institution or, you know, a company plans forward on, you know, where they want to invest money. Is there any, again, provision for that? And what happens in that planning process where these types and offerings actually reduce for whatever reason? I mean, I'm just, I guess, assuming over here, you know, during COVID, maybe the, you know, these types of offerings are possibly could have been reduced. So what happens in that, in that planning process and how does that sort of, you know, get taken care of? That's pretty much my question. No, those are two questions. So in the Bible and in the context of the local church, we do see, and this is an, I'm thinking about First Timothy chapter five. I'm also thinking about James chapter one and two, where the instructions are that in First Timothy five, especially he talks about widows, you know, widows, orphans, James chapter one, who can be supported by the church. Of course, the first instruction there is if there is a widow and she has a family, then let the family take care of her and let her not become the responsibility of the local church. But if that situation is not there, if the widow has served well in the local church and has been serving the church, then the church is, should take care of her. That's First Timothy chapter five. And then, of course, to orphans and to orphans and the poor. So there is no, there is no, you know, like I say, there's no percentage dictated by scripture, other than the scripture saying, you know, take care of those who are in need. They're telling the local church to take care of those who are in need. Provided there's nobody else around them, the family to take care of them. That's the instruction we see in these passages. So, so the local church should, you know, in addition to the tithes and offerings come into the local church, they are paying their salaries or the people are working. They are paying off all the bills, the expenses, and then they should also use, you know, or as needed to take help, take care of the needs of the people who don't have family. They don't have people who can take care of them. So to that extent, the local church is instructed to take care. Now, again, it could vary from church to church. Some churches are able to do it. Some churches don't have the means to do it. And so now I don't think we can, you know, demand for a local church to do it. But according to whatever extent they have the capacity to, they can extend help and support and so on. So that's the first part of the question. The second question in terms of planning and so on. Yeah, so definitely like, you know, we're learning in the other course, we must, the church or the ministry must be run well as an organization must be administered well. And part of that is making sure the money is allocated for various purposes and then also planning happens for budgeting happens for the future. If, for whatever reason, the inflow of contributions go down, then obviously there has to be a pullback. Again, this is not a uniform rule, but generally I'm just speaking from a natural point of view. There would be a pullback on where, you know, what what the church is allocating for various ministries. But again, it varies from, you know, how the Lord would lead the congregation to do. So typically they would pull back on areas where they don't need to necessarily be spending money and then focus on a few areas that they need to. So that again has left to the leadership as they decide basically they want to, you know, they should administer everything properly. They don't want to get the organization into any form of debt. They don't want to, you know, fail to pay the bills that they owe. So therefore things have to be managed properly. Yeah, so and I don't see anything wrong in that. I just feel that there has to be proper stewardship of money and careful expenses, be careful of the expenses. You know, one of the things we did, I guess I'm sharing content of the other course here, but we probably repeated when we come to the finance part. But one of the things from the very early days, when we're in the smaller days, early days when things are smaller. I used to tell our person over the managing the money is to make sure that every month we have a surplus of 200,000 to lack. That's our medium to always make sure that our expenses are less than our income, you know, by so that we have a surplus of two lakh rupees every month, at least. So that, you know, we can keep that money aside. So that wasn't the early days when we were small and, you know, that and so then that that kind of discipline continued. So now we, we are able to do a lot a lot in surplus. Some months when we exceed our expenses exceed our income, which we are very aware of, because sometimes you may do a huge event, a huge conference or we may do something very big. And so then it doesn't really matter. It doesn't affect us because there's always a big surplus from which we pull out and it just evens out in the next month, the following months. So we are not afraid when in certain months, even if we go over by a lot, it doesn't matter. Usually that happens when we do a huge printing, you know, suppose we print for five titles, which is what is happening right now. Since, you know, we've resumed the printing of our books, there are huge volume of books being printed. So obviously the expense will be huge, but then it doesn't affect the overall bottom line because there's this surplus that is being put towards this. I hope I answered your question, Christopher. Okay. All right. So let's get to this. Now the spiritual side of church planting, which we were just looking at. So we were talking about the spiritual aspects. Last week we started this. We said the real battle of souls is a spiritual battle. We were saying, okay, that we understand what the devil is doing is blinding the minds of people. We went through these scriptures where so the real battle is we are bringing people out of his influence over their minds. And Satan can use, you know, various kinds of deceptions over their minds of people. So in urban centers, usually it is a lot of ideas, ideologies. You know, the Bible talks about doctrines of demons. That means these are philosophies and ideas that are inspired and motivated and supported by demonic powers. So these are things that blind the minds of people and we have to deal with that. We will talk about prayer coming in, you know, and dealing with this, but we're just talking about what's happening. So the other way the enemy hinders is by just intensely holding people in bondage in various forms of, you know, we can use the term spiritual prisons or you can call it strongholds. This usually is seen or is expressed in that center, urban center through various, you know, evils that can be seen, immoral sinful deeds, addictions, social evils and so on. So there are spirits of disobedience that are at work. So Ephesians 2 verse 2, the Apostle Paul writes about this and he mentions that, you know, yeah, of course he's talking about believers before they got saved. And he says, you know, we had the spirits of disobedience at work. Ephesians 2 verse 2, we walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit would now works in the sons of disobedience. So notice there is the course of this world of fashions, the patterns of this world that held us. Secondly, there was a prince of the power of the air talking about Satan and his influence. And thirdly, he's talking about spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, the spirit of disobedience, just working in the lives of people. So this is the second part, holding people in bondage, specifically to various forms that we can see in a city. So we'll have to deal with this. And first round 519 he says, the whole world lies in the crepe or in the under darkness. So darkness is covering holding people in bondage. Another important, another area the enemy works is in actually hindering the proclamation of the gospel through various ways, you know, in numerous ways. And can we just read these scriptures very quickly? So we get an idea, we get the idea of what Paul is writing to us about. Somebody could read this Romans 15 3031, then we'll go to 1st Thessalonians 2. Somebody could read these for us please. Pastor, can I read? Go ahead please. Now I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake and for the love of the Spirit that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me. That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea. And that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints. That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God and may with you be refreshed. Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. Thank you. So Paul is asking for prayer. He's asking the believers at Rome to pray with them. He says, strive together with me in prayers. And he's saying, you know, you pray with me for what? Verse 31, to be delivered from those who are in Judea. Here there are people in Jerusalem specifically who are against him, who are waiting to, you know, to do harm, arrest him, so on. As he's praying, he said, join me in prayer for this because he's planning to go into Jerusalem. And we will see. Let's go to 1st Thessalonians 2, 18. Somebody could read that. Shall I read faster? Please go ahead. Because we wanted to come to you, I, Paul, again and again. But Satan hindered us. Thank you. Thank you. And 2nd Thessalonians 3, 1, 2, 3. Can I read faster? Yes, go ahead. 2nd Thessalonians 3, 1, 2, 3. Finally, brothers pray for us that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored as happened among you and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men for not all have faith, but the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one. Amen. So in all of these scriptures, we see, you know, Paul facing opposition from the Jews. Second, he mentions directly Satan hindered us. Thirdly, 2nd Thessalonians 3 talks about, you know, unreasonable and wicked men. So there is opposition to the work he's doing coming in different ways. People who don't understand what's happening, people who want to hinder the work and then Satan himself trying to do things to hinder the proclamation. So in different parts of the world, this can be expressed in different ways. How the hindrance to the furtherance of the gospel comes, you know, and so we need to be aware of it. We don't need to be intimidated by it. We don't need to stop the work just because there is hindrance to the work of the gospel. But then we engage in prayer that we'll talk about that later. How do we counteract this prayer? You can see that Paul asked for prayer, you know, in Romans 15, 2nd Thessalonians 3, he asked for prayer. So pray with us or pray for us in view of this opposition that we are facing. You pray. Fourthly, the way the enemy would work is by just seeking to infiltrate. This is like, okay, he's trying to get in to and disturb what's happening in the work itself, in the local church. And we see this, especially in Revelation 2, when the Lord Jesus is speaking to these seven churches, you can see that the Lord is very aware of demonic presence in those cities. You know, he says there is to the church of Smyrna, he says there is the synagogue of Satan. Synagogue means assembly, a group, a gathering of people who belong to Satan and they are going to do harm to the church in Pergamos. He says, you know, you're in a city where Satan's throne is Satan is dwelling there and there is, you know, wrong doctrine that's coming into the church, the doctrine of Balaam. The church has, you know, unknowingly welcomed this doctrine. It's causing people to go away into idolatry, into immorality. And the church in Pergamos has, you know, allowed this thing to come in. The church in Thyatira, there was another problem. There are false prophetess, Jezebel has gotten to the church and she's again doing the same thing, convincing people into immorality and idolatry. The church in Philadelphia, the Lord recognizes that there is a group that belongs to Satan. That means there's people, they're actually, they belong to Satan, they call the synagogue of Satan. But he says to the church in Philadelphia, I will cause them to come and bow before the church. It's very powerful. The point is, in every city where the local church was, there was also Satan doing things. In Smyrna, they were facing physical persecution. Pergamos and Thyatira, false doctrine had infiltrated the church and is disrupting the church. Now, of course, it was the responsibility of the church and the leaders to protect the church. That's why they have, they're called shepherds or overseers. They're supposed to protect, they're supposed to guard the church and prevent this from happening. But in these two cases, it had already infiltrated the church and it already, you know, affected people, causing people to go astray. The church in Philadelphia, I think it's beautiful. The Lord recognizes that there is a group of Satan there in that city. But he says they're going to come and bow before the church. That means the church is going to exercise dominion over these people who are actually backed by demonic powers. And so that's, I mean, that's a great place to be. That's the type of church we should be. You know, it's okay if in the city there are, there is demonic activity going on, but that will come and bow before the church. And the church will exercise dominion over those things. So just to quickly review the enemy is at work. How is what's he doing? He's blinding the minds of people, holding people in bondage. He attempts to hinder the proclamation of the gospel, Satan and his demons. And sometimes the demonic powers attempt to weaken the church by infiltration that already come in, cause things happening. So we have, you know, when you're pioneering a church, the spiritual side is we are in spiritual battle. Yes, you know, we have talked about all the natural things, the planning, the organizing, all of that is important. You know, people need to have a proper place to come and worship and fellowship and learn and grow and worship all those things. All that is there, but we must not forget we are involved in a spiritual work and there is spiritual battle involved. So we have to be ready spiritually. We will make a big mistake if we only focus on the natural preparation and natural engagement and forget and neglect the spiritual side. So as especially as leaders, you know, as people are pioneering the work, you and I should give ourselves to a lot of prayer and, you know, be aware of this and we will talk about how to go about doing this. So the church is called, you know, our responsibility is to basically be like to the Gentiles, to open prison doors, to bring those out of darkness, out of the prison house. Let's read these verses because I think they're just beautiful. Isaiah 42 verse 1 and verse 7, then. Go ahead. To open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. Now it's very interesting. Isaiah is prophesying about Jesus, the Messiah. So as a 42 one, when he says my servant, my elect one, that's referring to Jesus Christ. So he says I put my spirit upon him so the Lord is anointed. He's going to bring for justice to the Gentiles. So Isaiah himself prophesied that Jesus was going to be a light to the Gentiles. So, you know, this is amazing because 700 years before Christ came, Isaiah is pointing to the Messiah, the servant of the Lord. And says he's going to be a light, not just to the Jews, not just to the Jewish people, but he's going to be a light to the Gentiles. He's going to bring for justice to the Gentiles. And in verse six, he says, you know, going to be a light to the Gentiles. But then in verse seven, as part of being light to the Gentiles. Okay, let me say this. So Jesus reaching the Gentiles is being fulfilled through the church. Because remember in his earthly ministry, he was, he came only to the house of Israel. So how is Jesus fulfilling Isaiah 42? Now he's fulfilling it through the church. The church is his body that is being a light to the Gentiles. Jesus is not here physically, but through his church, the body, he's being a light to the Gentiles. He's fulfilling Isaiah 42 through the church. And as part of that fulfillment in verse seven, he's saying, you're going to open blind eyes. You're going to bring prisoners from the prison and those who are sitting in darkness from the prison house. So what is the picture here? People who are imprisoned are going to be brought out, are going to be set free. Who's going to do it? The church. Jesus is going to do it through his church. So the church has this responsibility to bring prisoners out of the prison to open blind eyes. And obviously he's talking about spiritual things here. He's not talking about literal physical prisons. All the God may use some to do something like that. But he's essentially talking about the spiritual dimension, opening blind eyes and bringing people out of demonic control. Isaiah 49 repeats that. Can somebody read it? 8 and 9. Isaiah 49, 8 and 9. That says the Lord, in a time of favor, I have answered you. In a day of salvation, I have helped you. I'll keep you and give you as a covenant to the people to establish their land or portion that resolute heritages. Saying to the prisoners, come out to those who are in darkness up here. They shall feed along the ways. On all their heights shall be their pasture. Thank you. So here God is saying, tell the prisoners, come. Those who are in darkness, come into the light. So that is our call today as the church. So the church is therefore now commissioned to do the work of bringing people out of darkness into the light of the gospel, of bringing people out of the prison, setting the captives free. Like we said, the devil is holding them in bondage. The church has to bring them out, liberating them, setting them free. And then Jesus made it very clear. Let's jump now, sorry, to Matthew 12. We'll read these two passages because it's interesting to put them side by side. Matthew 12, 28 and 29 and also Luke 11, please. Matthew 12, 20 and 29, somebody could read it. Sir, Matthew 28 and 29. Yes, please. But if it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. How can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his boots unless he first binds the strong man? And indeed, he may plunder his house. Thank you. Thank you. And Luke 11, 21, 22. Sir, can I? Go ahead. When a strong man armed, keep at his place, keep at his palace, his goods are in peace. But when is stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him. He take it for him, all his armor, wherein he trusted and divided his points. Thank you. Thank you. So in both these passages, Jesus is dealing with the subject of deliverance. Matthew 12, 28. He says, if I by the spirit of God cast out devils, then the kingdom of God has come to you. So he's talking about casting out devils. He's talking about deliverance work. Same thing in Luke 11, 20. He's talking about casting out demons with a finger of God. So we're just talking about the Holy Spirit. So he's talking about deliverance, casting out demons. And in that context, he's saying, we have to bind the strong man or we have to overcome the strong man, then we can spoil his goods. So basically in delivering people and bringing deliverance to people from Satan's hold on their lives, what we're doing is we are dealing with a strong man. We're dealing with the demonic power that's controlling them. We are overpowering it. We are binding it or we are subduing it so that people can be delivered. So Jesus demonstrated that for us by the spirit of God and then you and I today continue that same work in bringing deliverance to people by the Holy Spirit. And we see several more scriptures here, Matthew 16, 18 to 19. We are familiar with that, which Jesus said, I will build my church. And the gates of hell will not prevail against it. So he says, I will build my church. He's talking about you and me. He's going to build his church. The very next line is talking about spiritual conflict. And the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Now, I'm sure you've studied this, but I just want to just remind ourselves about it. Jesus said, Matthew 16, 18 to 19. He says, I will build my church referring to establishing the church on this revelation that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Then he talks about the gates of hell. So he's using a picture from the Old Testament or from the Bible times about the city gates, where the elders of the city sat, they administered justice and so on. They controlled who came and who went out of the city gates. So the gates represent control. And here Jesus is talking about the gates of hell, meaning gates controlled by hell, areas of demonic domination. And remember, we go to the gates. The gates don't attack us. The gates are stationary, but we advance to the gates. So when Jesus says, I will build my church and the gates of hell, meaning the areas of demonic domination, the church must advance to these areas of demonic domination and they will not be able to stop the church. So that's the message. So the church has been authorized by heaven. He said, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. The church has been given kingdom authority to advance to the gates of hell. And the gates of hell, those areas of demonic domination will not stop the church. So that is vested. We can see it from the Old Testament from Isaiah 40. We can see it in the New Testament for the ministry of Jesus. And through what Jesus said about the church, that the church has been commissioned to bring deliverance, to bring people spiritually, to bring prisoners out of the prison, to bring people out of darkness. So we have to engage in doing that, to be involved in that kind of work. So we are thinking about pioneering a church. We think about a local church. This is an important aspect of what we are entering into. We are entering into the spiritual conflict. We are entering, stepping into our responsibility of saying, we're going to open blind eyes. We're going to bring prisoners out of the prison house. We're going to say to the prisoners, come forth, to those who are sitting in darkness, show yourselves. That's what we are getting ready to do. This is a spiritual side. And the spiritual side is something we must engage in. And like I said, initially the church planting team probably are the only ones who are aware of it. Or sometimes they themselves may not be aware of it, that hey, in order to start a church, in order to start a Christian ministry, there's actually a spiritual side that you and I have to engage. And so we need to train our people. And that's one thing that you've been here at APC. I really wanted to, to some extent, maybe people understand, but to a large extent, maybe not. Because the fact is, most believers are thinking about, okay, you know, there are needs in their lives. They think, okay, how do I address this need? How do I take care of my wife, my children, my family? You know, all just the practical things of life. Now to get them to think in terms of, okay, we got to share the gospel. We got to engage in spiritual warfare. It's like, you know, three or four steps away from their immediate life, the things that they're dealing with. So we must equip them to overcome their own personal struggles and personal challenges. But the goal is also to equip the church to be able to come into this place where we begin to engage spiritually. And if the church can engage spiritually, you know, the way they're supposed to engage, then we can do the spiritual work of opening blind eyes, opening prison doors, of bringing people out of darkness and doing those kinds of things. But then we have to prepare the people. You know, you can't take a civilian and say, hey, run into battle. He won't know what to do and it's also dangerous. He won't know which way is the enemy firing and, you know, how likely he'll get shot. So what do you do with the civilians? Well, you've got to train them. You've got to equip them. You've got to show them how to use the weapons of war and then be moved together as an army into battle. So part of pioneering the church and as we are developing the church, as we spoke about earlier, taking the church through its stages of growth and development along the journey is to equip them for this kind of spiritual battle and then getting them to engage because that's the spiritual dimension, the spiritual side of planting a church in a city. Are you with me so far? Thank you, sir. Sir, I just want to know, so is it possible that, as you said, if the church is not prepared with the spiritual side, can it also influence the believers who are attending the church? Irrespective of the church growth, maybe the church, it seems to be like church is growing. But if the church is, the individuals are under oppression or depressions or they are in bondage and the church is not aware about that or church is not focusing also apparently on this side. So just my question is that, is it possible that the spirits can, even though they are coming to church, there is a huge crowd but they are still in the oppression and discouragement, is it possible, I just want to know that, if the church is not prepared for this thing? Thank you, sir. Yeah, so this doesn't obviously have, the size of the church and the number of people in the congregation, it's not important at this time, like if people are not equipped, they won't know how to resist the devil. They won't know how to fight spiritual battles, not only for themselves but to win people in the city. So basically we need to equip people in for spiritual warfare for their own good, to overcome the enemy in their own lives, to walk in victory in their own lives and then extend that to fighting for the lost, battling for people who are held in the prisons, enforcing Christ's victory there. So to answer your question, yeah, if believers are not equipped for spiritual warfare, then definitely the enemy gains an advantage of them. Paul writes about it in 2 Corinthians 2.11, he says, lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices. So when people are ignorant of his devices, Satan has an undue advantage over them. And then definitely they will not be able to engage in spiritual battle for the unsaved. Yeah. Thank you, sir. So our next topic now is to understand how do we engage in spiritual battle, which we will pick up tomorrow. But any questions till what we have covered today? Any other questions? Okay. All right. So let's wrap up for today. And we will pick this up tomorrow. We'll talk about, you know, how do you engage in spiritual battle? Well, how do we equip the people to engage? Okay. Good. Somebody please pray with us and we can dismiss. Anyone can pray. Precious Father, we thank you and praise you, Father God, for this wonderful time and for this wonderful revelation and teachings of Father God. We pray that Father, let it be rooted in us and Father God and let it lead us, guide us and let it increase our faith, let it enlighten our understanding of Father. Thank you, Father, for using your servant of Father God. Thank you, Father God, for God preparing our heart. Thank you, Father God, you are covering everything under your precious blood of Father God. Thank you once again, Father God, for this opportunity to learn from you and which is strengthening us of Father God to know you more and Father God to move ahead, to plan the churches, to establish Lord Master, your plans in our life. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you, sir. Amen. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Enjoy the rest of your day. I will see you all tomorrow. God bless. Bye now. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you the best. Thank you. God bless. Bye now.