 Okay. Welcome back after the break. We'll continue. We were looking at verse 11 and 12 of 1 Timothy, chapter 2, and we were looking at, you know, you know, is Paul really meaning that a woman should be silent in church and, you know, be under submission and that he does not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over man. So we looked at what was Paul's own ministry practice. We saw that he had women who were part of his, you know, ministry team. We appointed them as leaders. There were women who were deacons, leaders, and apostles. We also see that when he's writing about the gifts of the spirit in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12 when he's, you know, and he's talking about the ministry gifts in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11. It's not any gender specific, but it's inclusive of all genders, male and female. He does not mention any one specific gender. We also see this in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 11 where he's talking about the ministry gifts of being apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. There again, he does not specifically mention any one gender, but he says that the ministry gifts is given to people and it can mean both male and female. Okay. Now we'll move on to see the context in which Paul's writing this 2 Timothy. Why is he writing these lines like a woman remains silent in all submission? And I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man but to remain silent. Now, when we are trying to interpret this in the context of what Paul is writing, we also need to see what Paul is writing in his previous episodes, what he addresses previously. We know that Paul, you know, when he's writing his episodes, sometimes he's addressing it specifically to just one church in a specific geographical location, or sometimes he's just talking, speaking or giving a command or speaking generally that is inclusive of all churches across all geographical locations. Now, sometimes he's speaking basically and specifically just to one particular church in one geographical location. For example, you know, the whole thing about the head covering where he's talking about this in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, he says he wants women to cover the head. There in that situation, it's clearly he's mentioning in the same chapter in verse 16 that this sort of custom is not among other churches. Okay, so this that custom was specifically for the church at Corinth and he was addressing it specifically for that church doesn't mean that today that women have to cover their head. Similarly, you know, when he's talking about and is encouraging everyone male and female to exercise the gifts of the spirit, you know, in prophesying teaching tongues interpreting of tongues in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 26. He also gives some specific instruction on these things of prophesying teaching, speaking in tongues interpreting in tongues is specifically gives specific instruction to women to prophets, and to those speaking in tongues. He says that those speaking in tongues, you know, they should remain silent. When should they remain silent. He says when there is no interpreter remains silent. So that you know those who are unbelievers when they come to gathering they don't think you know that you'll have possessed or this total chaos and confusion in the church and they don't want to go there again. And in this context he also gives specific instruction to the prophets the church at Corinth. He's saying prophets when you prophesy, you know, each of you have a prophecy to say that's okay that's good but take turns one by one. So when one finishes the other keeps silent. And in the same context he's he's giving an instruction to women. He says women keep silent and you know ask their husbands at home if they have any doubts now why is he saying women keep silent so that there is a proper order in the church. Now we should know that many of these churches comprise of Gentile believers who came from their pagan culture. And you know, there they were quite loud and talking and laughing and discussing, but Paul is trying to say that in the church there is a specific order that we follow. We'll talk about this later on, you know, and he says we need to honour that government that structure that order that is bought about in the House of God and we need to maintain it. Okay, so that is what he's saying there. Okay, and similarly, you know when he's writing to Timothy, he's writing in the context of the local church there at Ephesus. And he's asking women to keep silent in the church. Why is he asking women to the to keep silent in the church now we look at the cultural and the historical setting that we looked at the and we heard in the introduction the background to this whole episode this whole letter. We knew that we learned that Ephesus was a city which was very famous for what just very famous for something what was it famous for anyone remembers. Yeah, it was famous for the temple of the goddess Diana. Okay. And we see that everything in that city was centered around this so called goddess Diana and who are the priests in this in this temple. There were basically women priests who ran the show there. And Paul is saying that he does not want to replicate the same structure that was going on in that temple in the church. But he's saying in the church Paul is saying he wants God's government to be in place and God's order to be established. And in he's saying in the church we need to honor God's government. Okay, now there in the notes you can see there is a mention of a book I suffer not a woman. And it's talking about certain cultic practices involving the female priests of the goddess Diana and you know these women, you know to who perform these rituals, they pronounce curses on men to declare their female superiority. Okay, they performed rituals and they pronounce curses on men to declare their female superiority. And Paul is saying that, you know, that you know he does not allow women to teach these cultic heresies. And he does not want them and he will not allow the women to take authority from men by performing the same pagan rituals in the church. Okay. And by saying that he's saying that you know there's a government there's an odd God given government God given order or God given structure in the church. And we need to follow that and he's not saying as some Christians assume that, you know, I do not allow godly Christian women to teach the Bible that is not what Paul is saying. But he's saying that he won't allow women to teach these cultic heresies or bring about these cultic practices in the church to take authority over men by performing this pagan rituals. Okay, so the, the whole issue here is about submission and yielding to men when it comes to leadership and teaching. So these women might not be accepting it because some of them might have seen this leadership of women in the church, the superiority of women, sorry, leadership and superiority of women in the temple. And women had maybe had an upper hand in the in the society as well they had to say, maybe they were also acting superior to men in the in the social setting in also the structure at home. And Paul is saying that that will not happen here in the church in the church here, you know, there should be submission and yielding of women to men when it comes to leadership and what they are teaching. And Paul reminds them of, you know, man's headship in God's government, and by stating that Adam was formed first. So in God's government in his order in his structure for the church, you know, man is the head. Okay. And hence, you know, women have to be in submission to men leaders and their authority and their teaching and he's not prohibiting women from ministering or serving God but they need to do it in humility in submission to men and following a proper code of conduct in the local church setting. Compared to what they follow in their own cultural context. So in the light of this cultural context Paul is bringing about this rule here in the church, so that there is no chaos there is no confusion there's God's government and order that this followed of man being the head of the rest of them, you know, falling in place with the authority and coming under his submission and leadership and teaching. Okay. So that is in the context of why Paul is writing this to the church at Ephesus. The third thing is the light of rest of the scripture. Now throughout scripture we see in the Old and New Testament we see women who are I have already mentioned this that they were anointed by the Holy Spirit and they were used by God. And some of them are examples are like Miriam, Deborah, Esther, Ruth, Anna the prophetess, Philips daughters. And we also read that in Acts chapter two was the 17 and 18 that the outpouring or the promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is for your sons and daughters as well and both of them will prophesy. Okay, we'll move ahead now to verse 14 Paul says an Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. Now when reading this verse many people say that you know it implies that women can be more easily deceived that men. Now Apostle Paul is not mentioning that he's simply stating what had happened in Genesis chapter three verses one to seven. We see in Genesis chapter three verses one to seven that Satan directly spoke to Eve or the serpent therapy spoke to Eve and lied to her twisted what God had said, and he was easily deceived. Okay, and she takes the first bite and the serpent did not have to speak to Adam, because when Eve gave the fruit to Adam, he ate it without questioning, without asking any questions, without doubting. And so we see that both sin and both fell short of the glory of God and, you know, away from the standards of God. So here Paul is not meaning to say that women are more easily deceived than men. Okay, verse 15 Paul is saying, Nevertheless, she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love and holiness with self control. Here she is referring to women, women will be saved in childbearing. Okay, saved means the word here is preserved. Okay, saved, the Greek word for the word saved is sozo. And we know that sozo is a very comprehensive word or very full word in terms of its meaning. It does not mean only sozo does not just mean forgiveness of sins or this being saved from our sins. It also means healing from our sicknesses. It means wholeness. It means deliverance from every demonic bondage and stronghold. It also means preservation from every kind of harm and danger. So it's a very holistic, comprehensive word with different meanings. And so here the word saved sozo means they will be preserved, preserved from all trouble, harm and danger. In the context of childbirth. Now why is Paul mentioning and talking about women and childbirth at this time in his letter? Because again, we need to see this in the context of the biblical context as well as in the local context. In the biblical context we see in Genesis chapter 3 verse 16 that consequences of sin, the curse that came upon women is that they will have pain during childbirth. Okay, and also we look at the cultural context. The cultural context to understand why Paul is writing it is in the cultural context, we see that the God is Diana. In the Greek this word Diana is Artemis. So God is Diana or Artemis used interchangeably. It's a God of the opposites. She's a God of the opposites, which means she's a divinity of healing. But also she is a divinity that can bring about or spread diseases like leprosy, rabies and even gout. So this God is Diana is known to protect or preserve or help women when they give birth to children. But when this God is Diana gets angry, which is also known to even cause death to people who are giving birth. So in this context Paul is bringing about the truth that the God who has redeemed them, the one mediator between God and man, the one man who has paid the full redemption price will also preserve them during childbirth, will protect them and they do not have to fear any harm and danger. So Paul is addressing this in the cultural influence of the worship of Diana. It is assuring believers that because they believe in Jesus Christ they will be preserved in childbirth. So Paul is saying just like men, women are also to continue in faith, love, holiness and self-control. So that brings us to the end of the chapter. Now what is our key takeaway is that our focus here is that Paul wants everyone everywhere at any time to pray with all kinds of prayers, supplication, intercession, requests and to make our thanks known to God so that we can live a peaceful, quiet life and we can live with all godliness and reverence so that people will be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth in Christ Jesus. So that is the key takeaway of this chapter. Any doubts, any questions in chapter 2? No, if not we will move to chapter 3. Let us look at chapter 3. Can somebody read verses 1 to 7 of chapter 3 please? Quickly can somebody read verses 1 to 7? This is basically saying if from as the position of the bishop he desired a good work, the bishop then must be a blameless, a husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of a good behavior, hospitable, able to teach, not to give wine, not violent, greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelism, cover chest, not who rules his own house, his children in submission with all reverence. In bracket 4 if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will take care of his, care of the children of God. Not a novice, blessed being puffed up with pride, he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. He must have a good system, have a good system from those who are outside, least he fall into the approach there, stare of the devil. Okay, thank you Thomas. So here Paul begins a continuous writing his letter. We are looking at it as chapter 3 where he is saying this is a faithful saying. So it's a faithful saying means Paul has just written to women saying that in God's house there is a proper order, that men are the head and women are to walk in submission to men, but this does not deprive women of operating in the gifts of the Spirit or operating in their calling that God has placed on their life. So having said that, he now moves on to address other things in the, sorry, he moves on to address other things in the local church. Now if we read Philippians chapter 1, we see that in the early church people were in three different categories. One is saints, the other is bishops, and the third is deacons. So in the church, we see three categories of people, saints, bishops, and deacons. Who are the saints? Any of you who are saints? Saints are everyone, all believers, you and I are also called saints. And then there are bishops. Now what do we mean by this word bishop? If you look at it in today's world, bishop means somebody who is the spiritual head, the authority, the supreme authority in different churches like we have in the, I don't know if in the Baptist, but in the CSI church, we have the Methodist church, we have bishop, and everybody else are under this main leader who is the bishop. But in the early church, in the early Paul's time, bishop had a totally different understanding and a meaning. The Greek word for bishop is episcope, which means a spiritual leader, someone who's involved in spiritual ministry, someone who's giving basically spiritual inputs into the lives of God's people. And in Acts chapter 20 verse 28, we read bishops as spiritual overseers who are to shepherd the people of God and take care of them. And they're basically people who are a spiritual leader. So if you look at it in the present context of our church, if you interpret this in the present context of our church, a bishop can be anyone who is a worship leader, a youth pastor, children's church pastor, life group pastors, etc. And deacons, now who are deacons? Deacons are people who are responsible for any administrative, organizational work, which involves supporting and help, or the function that they have to support and help in the church. And it all began in Acts chapter 6, where they had to find out seven men who were full of the wisdom, full of wisdom and full of the Holy Spirit. And when they chose these seven men, what was their role? Their role was to serve food every day to all the poor people and widows. Now the deacons grew out of that context. And since deacons were involved in more administrative, organizational work in a setting or in a support and help function, it does not mean that they were not or should not be involved in spiritual aspects or in spiritual ministry. We see one of the deacons, Philip, who was involved in spiritual ministry. He went to Samaria. He taught the word. He did mighty science, miracles, and wonders. For Samaria accepted Jesus. They were baptized and then also later on baptized in the Holy Spirit. So that is the meaning of the word of bishops and also deacons. Paul says if a man desires a position of a bishop, he desires a good work. So he's saying that, you know, Paul is saying it's a good thing to desire, desire to help others in the church, desire to do good work in the church. Now, if you think about this word deacon and interpreted in our present day context, can be people who are in the ushering team, welcome team, you know, offering team or first time visitors team. All of these people are called as deacons. So Paul is saying it's good to desire to help in the church, to do good work in the church and don't quench that desire. But he's saying, but there is some standard that God expects of us as leaders. Okay. God expects some basic standard. And he goes on to list it out in verses two to five. He's talking about a bishop. When he says a bishop must be blameless. That means he must live a life that people cannot find fault with. He must live the right kind of life in the presence of God in the presence of man in the church and the world at large. He must be a husband of one wife temperate. That means he must be self controlled. He must be sober minded means that he must be emotionally stable. He must have a good behavior, which means he should not, you know, be having a childish kind of a behavior, hospitable, able to entertain people in his home, take care of people, help them, and he's able to teach. Okay. Now, if you notice in this list that Paul enlists about who a leader should be, the qualities, what are the ingredients, so to say, of a leader. We see in this list that only once does he mention or say anything to do with gifts. Okay. And that is teaching. Okay. So only one thing that he is mentioning here about your gifting is teaching. But the rest of it is dealing with you or who you are as a person. So, you know, the kind of life that we live is very, very important. It's God's standard, and it's God's requirement to be a spiritual leader. Now, you know, in the churches, we may mostly churches look or emphasize at the gift things of a people, of a person, of a leader. Okay. It's important to give things are important for them to for them to work effectively minister effectively in their leadership position. And it's important for God as well. Okay. And for but God is saying that for spiritual leadership is not just gifting. It's also about who you are as a person. Okay. So we need to hold people accountable to this, and we need to hold ourselves accountable to all of these things that are listed here. You might think it's, you know, not very necessary, you know, give things as more necessary, but this is this is very, very important because it's important to God. It's listed here in scripture. It's mentioned here in scripture. And if it's mentioned, it's important for spiritual leadership, and people need to hold themselves accountable. We need to hold ourselves accountable to this. You know, and we just cannot put our gifts on display, but we need to hold ourselves accountable to God's standard to minister. Okay. And he said that we'll move on to the other things that Paul mentions here or lists out. He says not given to wine. Some people say it's okay to drink a little wine, but you know, at APC, our standard is no wine, not violent. Violent means, you know, just a person who's very gentle, not greedy for money, you know, but gentle, not quarrelsome and not covetous. Okay. So we should not overlook all of these standards. We need to uphold this standards in the house of God. So if you're a leader in your church, you need to ensure that all of them who are leading or all of them who are serving, even all of those who are helping, whether it's just serving a cup of tea or, you know, the welcome team, you know, they should uphold to this standards that I mentioned in the scripture that has been listed out to us by Paul. And God requires this and he requires us to uphold this in his house. Okay. In verse four, he says that one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence. Now it's important that, you know, a leader, you know, has his own family in order. Because when our own family is in order, then we are in a place of strength to minister to others. Now if our own family is not in order, there's chaos, there's confusion, there's strife, there's brokenness, you know, we are not in a place of strength, we are in a place of weakness, we are in a place of disappointment, frustration, bitterness, anger. And we cannot minister out of that kind of an attitude or a mindset or an emotional, you know, state that we are in, you know, God's presence cannot flow mightily in and through us. So it's important that our houses in order so that we are in a place of strength to minister to others. Verse six, Paul says, he should that the leader or a bishop should not be a novice, less being puffed up with pride, he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. A novice means a new, novice is a new believer in Christ Jesus. So when a new believer comes to church, now don't be too quick to put him into a position of spiritual leadership. Okay, give him or her time to grow, observe them, you know, give them time to grow and mature. Give them a little responsibility, see how they do, see their attitude, train them, groom them, mold them. And, you know, when they're mature enough, then give them, you know, important leadership roles. Why should we do that policy? Because when we give them a leadership role or a position, when they are a new believer, when they are novice in Christ, they will be filled up with pride. Okay, now why is pride so dangerous or why it's important for us to note it here because Satan fen because of his pride. Okay, so this person will come under the same condemnation when Satan was filled with pride, we know that, you know, God threw him out of his presence. And so here, this person will also be condemned, they will be cast out of God's presence. We know that scripture says that God resists the proud and, you know, he will be totally disconnected from the presence of God. So to avoid all of these things, you know, train, groom, help the person mature and then give him some specific leadership roles and responsibilities. Okay. And then Paul goes on to say more ever he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into the approach and the snare of the devil. Okay, now was seven in the ERB that is the easy to read version says an elder must also have the respect of people who are not part of the church. Then he will not be criticized by others and be caught in the devil's trap. Now for us to understand this and reading the ERB that is easy to read version. I read that again and elder must also have respect of people who are not part of the church, then he will not be criticized by others and be caught in the devil's trap. Now, an important part of being a spiritual leader is having a good relationship, not only with God, not only with people in the church with other fellow believers but also with people around us people of the world. Okay, so a way a spiritual leader must live, they must live for this before the world. Why? Because if he is disgraced before the world, you know, then the devil can use it as a trap to bring them down. Now we see, you know, men and women of God in history, they fell, you know, from the ministry positions, their leadership, their ministries fell because they did something wrong. The world has noticed it and they have portrayed it in the and reported their wrongdoing in the news and the whole ministry comes crashing, the whole church breaks and it's has been a very sad state of affairs. So it's important for us to live right in the sight of God in the church and before the world. Any questions or doubts so far? No, if there are no questions, we'll move on to verses 8 to 13. In 8 to 13 he's talking to deacons, anyone who serves or helps in the function as a helper, as the administrative role, organizational role. Okay, so we look at what Paul lists out of who a deacon should be. So if you look at it in our present day context, deacons are basically those who are part of the connect team, the greeters team, those who are, you know, the part of the first time visitors team, etc. Okay, so can somebody read verses 8 to 13, please? Faithful in all things, let deacons be the husband of one wife, ruling their children and their own household, for those who have served well as the deacons obtained for themselves are good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Jesus Christ. Thank you Kiran. So here Paul is beginning by saying that likewise, that means just like what he has mentioned for bishops, the same way deacons must be reverent, that means they must hold or have reverence to the house of God or the things of God, everything that they do, they should do reverently with reverence. So they need to go about doing things in reverence, the things of God and the house of God. And then he lists out the same things that he lists out for, you know, the requirements, the kind of life they need to live as leaders in the church that he lists out for bishops. In verse 9, it's really interesting to note that he talks about faith with a pure conscience. And as I said in the last class, you know, he keeps repeating this. He's again repeating it here and, you know, by repeating it, he's giving us or showing the importance of holding on to our faith with a good conscience. So even if your spiritual leaders are not watching over you, you know, you might not have your senior pastor who's always watching you or, you know, whoever you're working under, your spiritual leaders not watching over you, but your conscience holds you accountable. Okay, your conscience holds you accountable. So Paul is saying here that even if the spiritual leaders are not constantly watching over you, seeing you, but you are accountable to God and your conscience holds you accountable. And then he says, but let these also first be tested, then let them serve as deacons being found blameless. So first we need to, you know, test those we're putting into leadership. We need to examine those positions, examine those desiring to serve. Give them, you know, some simple small things to do. And when you, when, when they're doing it, watch their attitude, see their commitment, see they're doing it well, see they're doing it sincerely, faithfully. And then if you notice, yes, they're having a consistent commitment and right attitude of serving, being sincere, being faithful, then you can put them into a place of higher leadership position and responsibility. So he says, let, let these also be tested, then put them in the position as deacons when they are found to be blameless. And was this 11 to 12 for this out the same requirements as for deacons, as he mentioned for bishops are not going to go through that again. But in verse 13 he says for those who have served well as deacons obtained for themselves a good standing and a great boldness in the faith, which is in Christ Jesus. So Paul is saying when somebody serves well as a deacon, there are two things they obtain. The first thing is a good standing, which means that they are in a place of stature of strength before God and man. And the second thing is that they have great boldness in their faith, which is in Christ Jesus. Okay, which means that they can be bold. They can be confident about their faith about who they are as believers, who they are in Christ. And they have this confidence that they're able to provide leadership and they're in their place of strength to serve. Why can they think that they are in a good standing and great boldness because of their track record because of how they have served thus far. And here Paul says, those who have served well obtain, the other word for obtain is earn. So it's not something that you just receive a good standing and great boldness in the faith, but you earn it. It's by keeping a good track record of being committed, sincere, faithful. When you do that, you earn a good standing, a good stature and strength before God and man. And also you have great boldness and faith in Christ Jesus. Okay, for those who have served well as deacons, so Paul is saying God remembers their faithful service, even in their menial task. Something as simple is considered as menial as just standing in the main gate or the main entrance to the building of the church and just greeting people or just serving tea or serving coffee. Paul is saying that when you serve well, even though people consider this as a very small menial job, you're doing just set up or you're doing pack up or you're just setting up the chairs or you're washing the communion cups. Whatever you're doing might be a menial small job, but God remembers that and he sees their faithful service. He remembers your faithful service. The faith which is in Christ Jesus as all workers of all servant leaders in God's family. They point their life, their leadership towards building God's people in faith which is in Christ Jesus. So when we serve with the servant leadership attitude, we're automatically pointing people to Christ through our attitude, our life, the way that we are serving. And then Paul goes on to talk about proper conduct in God's house. Can somebody read verses 14 and 15 please? Go ahead Siddharth. Although I hope to come to you soon. I'm writing you this instruction so that if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. Thank you. So here Paul is, you know, writing his desire, his hope to come and meet Timothy. But it's just a desire, you know, and he longs to see him personally, but he knows that it might not be possible as soon as he's wishing that he could come and see him. But Paul makes sure that he's writing this letter and mentioning everything that he wants Timothy and the church to know. He says, he writes and says, how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God. Now Paul's purpose for writing this letter was to give Timothy, you know, who is a leader, practical information on how to run, you know, things in the church, how to establish God's government order in the church. And then he calls the church as the house of God. Okay. Now we know that the church is a place where we experience God's presence where God is very much present. And so we know the church is a place that people desire to go to just experience the presence of God. And the house of God, or the church is God's house because, you know, he is the architect, he is the builder, his presence is very much there. He provides for his people. He's honored there and we see his kingdom reign, his kingdom rule, his kingdom activity is very, very, and the kingdom presents very much present in the church. And Paul goes on to say that the church is not only the house of God, but it's also the church of the living God. Okay. The church of the living God. So it means that the living God has called his people together for his purpose. Now in the ancient Greek language, the word church was a non-religious word for a group of people were called together for a specific purpose. You know, it can be any purpose they want to clean the city or they want to, you know, do something for the city or they want to speak again something that's happening in the city. So it's a group of people coming. So it's basically looked at in a very non-religious term and but here Paul is saying that the church is the church of the living God. That means it's, it's his people, the people of the living God, you know, who he calls together to fulfill his purpose. So the church is group of people coming together because they belong to the living God and they are called or gathered by the living God to fulfill his purpose. So church is not to fulfill our purpose to run our agenda to do our will to bring in our kingdom, but it is to do the will of the living God to fulfill his purpose. And then he goes on to also say that the church is a pillar and a ground of truth. Okay, the pillar and ground means the church is a foundation of the truth. And, you know, very sadly today's churches don't value the truth as they should, and therefore the pillars or their foundation is very, very shaky. Now Paul's intent in writing this is to show us that there is a proper way to conduct ourselves in the house of God. And while he specifically addresses about bishops and deacons, this also applies to us. Why does it applies to us? Because the local church is a house of God, you know, it's a family of God. The church is also called the living God and we are part of this church, the living God, because we are the community of called out ones. We are called out. That means church is ecclesia. We're called out for a specific purpose. Okay, and also the church is a pillar and ground of truth. That means we are the upholders of this truth, this truth that is in God's word, the established truth in God's word. Okay, we won't be able to. Okay, can I just finish the last few verses and then we can end class. We just have two more minutes, but it will take a little longer. I hope it's okay. Is that fine? Yes, no. Okay, thank you. So we look at the last few, the last verse, verse 16. Can somebody read that please? Quickly. And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, sinned by endless bliss among the dentist, beloved in the world, received up in glory. Okay, thank you, Dave. So here Paul is quoting and him to express the foundation of the Christian truth. So he says that as a church, we belong in the church, we are people who are upholders of this foundation of the truth in God's word. And so he's quoting him here. And he's saying without controversy. Okay, which means that the wonderful summary of this Christian truth should be without controversy among believers. But it's sad that some of them, you know, debate on these and deny these fundamental truths, but these truths should be held and believe without any controversies. Then he says God was manifested in the flesh and he's talking about the very basic essence of the incarnation that God, the son, the second person of the Trinity added to his deity, humanity. And he manifested himself in the flesh. And then he goes on to say that he was justified in the spirit. Okay, we can say that Jesus was justified in the spirit, not in the sense that he was once a sinner, or once he was sinful and made righteous. We're not saying it in that sense, but in the sense that he was declared to be just righteous and holy by the Holy Spirit, and that he was always completely justified before the Father. Okay, so we can't say that it's mentioned in the sense that he was sinful at one time and he needed to be justified and be made righteous. No. We're looking at it in this sense that he was declared to be always completely justified before the Father by the Holy Spirit. And Paul also goes on to say that he was seen by angels. There were many instances when Jesus was seen by angels. Mark chapter one was 13. Luke chapter 22 was 41 to 43. And especially at the resurrection, we see that in the tomb there was an angel in Matthew chapter 28 was 227. Then Paul goes on to mention that he was preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world. And so we see that Jesus was preached to the Gentiles and Paul himself does this faithfully and sincerely. He's fulfilling the statement which is mentioning he was always busy preaching to about Jesus among the Gentiles and bringing the Gentile world to believing in Jesus Christ. And so he says, we need to preach and teach this foundational truth to the world. And then he ends by saying that, you know, he was received up in glory. He was taken up in glory. Okay, so he's reminding his readers that Jesus was taken up. Jesus's ascension, Luke chapter 24 was 51. And he's reminding his readers and reminding Timothy that Jesus finished the work he had to do on our behalf. We read this in Hebrews chapter one was three and presently he's interceding on behalf of us in one John chapter two was one. And so he's, you know, encouraging us that we need to pray for everyone at all times for those in authority, civil authority, and those who are in the leadership authority in the church. Okay, so that is the end of chapter three. Anyone has any questions, doubts? Any comments to make? Was it clear? Anything you did not understand? Okay, if there is no comments, no questions. We'll end class. Thank you, everyone. Have a good day and a good week ahead. I'll see you soon for our next class. Thank you. Thank you, Thomas. Bye everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Kiran. Thank you.