 Okay. Okay. So how was that list? It's good to look at, be aware of. And that's what it should actually help us with. Okay. So it's not that we, you know, it becomes part of our identity or anything. And if it troubles us, it's good. But we do something about it. Right. So we don't, we don't dwell on it. We immediately take action and the action that we take is repentance. Right. We say, okay, God, I want to, I want, I want this to change. I'm willing to change. And, you know, I don't want to continue doing this. Okay. The second thing is to ask God for forgiveness. Okay. So, so we say, you know, sometimes we confuse repentance and, you know, confession and asking for forgiveness as, I mean, it can be the same thing. Right. It can be happened at the same time. But repentance, like we said, is change of mind. And here we are asking the Lord for His forgiveness for, for the way we have, you know, acted on our thought patterns for the way we have actually behaved because of our wrong beliefs. You know, these are wrong things that we believe. Right. These are wrong things that we've been harboring. So what happens when our thoughts are full of this? Right. What happens when our thoughts are, when we believe something to be true, when we believe a lie, when we believe that this is what we can be and nothing more. What happens is that our life, our behavior, our emotions and everything, you know, it follows that. Right. We begin to live what we, what we believe, we begin to live out what we believe, our behavior, everything is, it becomes part of what we deeply believe. That's true. You know, that's, that's, that's why repentance has to be the first step. Okay. Because if we don't stop, change the way we believe, then there can be no change. Okay. Because change comes when we change the way or change what we believe about ourselves. Okay. So, so some of these beliefs or some of these lies are so deeply entrenched. Okay. And it's a good exercise just to ask you know, what lies do I believe about myself? What lies do I believe about myself? Okay. Maybe, you know, you don't have to lift your hands or anything, but you know, maybe, you know, are you believing that I'll always be a failure? Francis is saying no chance. But they know, maybe you're not in all areas of your life, but then some areas are saying, you know, I will always be like this, right? Or my ministry will never, I'll never have a ministry or my ministry will never thrive or flourish. I will always be a failure in this area of my life. Okay. How many of us have thought that I will never have enough money? All of us have thought, I will never have enough money to do the things that maybe God wants me to do, or I'll always be like this. I've thought I'll always be poor. I will always have a, I'll know, I'll never have my needs met. Okay. Is that true or false? That's false. So, so the thing is, you know, we know that we are in a, we're on a journey. Okay. We know that God is doing something in us. God is, you know, like putting certain things in us, strengthening us, he's taking us to a destination. So our current place or our current, what should I say, you know, the way we are right now is not our final destination. Okay, we need to understand that. Okay. And, you know, frankly, speaking, there was a time when I thought that, okay, I'll never have enough money to, you know, buy a four wheeler. I'll never have enough money to, you know, it was at a time when, when, you know, I think my wife was expecting the baby. And I remember going to Baptist hospital, we went on a bike and coming back, it was raining, pouring. You know, both of us were drenched completely wet and she's, you know, expecting, I think maybe seven months carrying whatever. And I felt so sad, you know, I don't have enough money to, you know, just take you in a, you know, in a taxi or in those days, no taxis like, like all are nothing like that. So getting a taxi would be like, you had to buy that, you know, get that four hours lab. That is, I didn't have enough money for that. And then so, you know, I'm thinking like, I don't have enough money to buy a car. So I'm feeling so bad about myself. I'm feeling so angry with myself. And here's my wife who's fully soaked and, you know, expect and she's not comfortable. And I'm just, God, I just hate it. I just hate my life. I'll never, you know, I'm just telling myself, what is this? You know, what kind of a life am I living? So unsuccessful. I can't even provide all these things. And at that point, I just felt that I'll never have a four wheeler. I could never even think of that. And then they came a point when, okay, the company that I was working for, you know, they folded up in the sense they wound up. So they gave all the employees a severance package, right? They were, they were quitting. So they're saying, okay, all the employees who've been there for some time, I know we are, we are closing down. So for you, it'll be a severance package, meaning okay, maybe five months of pay or six months of pay. So from this point, the company is closing from this date, you are no longer employed. So we will give you with this salary, we will give you this five months salary also six months salary. So I said, okay, you know, it happened soon after that. So I said, okay, now we'll go on to buy a second hand. And I was thinking those days second and feet. And I was not even thinking of Marathi second hand feet car. Okay, we'll buy that. Yes. So I wasn't thinking of maintenance. I wasn't thinking of, you know, all that in my short, whatever short term thing, let's get a car because that I'm sure that'll be some 15,000 or 20,000 is get that car. How to make it run how much petrol I have to put how much I'll have to pay for repairs. I was thinking of nothing. Right. So I said, okay, I'll use that money. So, you know, all these things all the while I'm thinking I'll never have enough. I'll never have enough. And so like that, we let this experiences define ourselves. So the those times, who I am and Christ is who I am and all is not coming to our mind. Even if it's coming, it's like, you know, we don't feel like saying it, we don't feel like identifying, we don't believe it, right? Things like that. So, so maybe we are believing, you know, such such things about ourselves. I'll never be successful. I'll never be victorious in these things. Right. So those are things that we need to repent as a first step. Okay. You know, I remember watching one hilarious sermon, where this guy, you know, he's talking about, he's talking about rejecting lies, you know, so he will, he will say every time I, you know, I tell a lie, you have to say ha ha ha, you know, because I'm just laughing at that lie, laughing at Satan and laughing at that. So at the end of it, you know, he's just going on some 10 things, he's, you know, going on and on and at the end of it, everybody's laughing. Everybody's like, yeah, it's hilarious. But the thing is, it showed us that the extent to which we can believe certain things based on experience. And the thing is, we can be, we can be Christian atheists, Christian, Christian name, Christian belief, church going, but who's an atheist who doesn't believe in God? We can be atheistic. And it comes to the promise of God, we can be atheistic when it comes to the, you know, some of the things that we, yeah, I've heard it so much, but then, you know, it's, I don't really believe it. Right. And that we can believe only when we repent of our wrong ideas, wrong beliefs. Okay, so it's very important. Okay. So second thing, you know, saying we're asking God for forgiveness, asking God for forgiveness for some of the things we have done, some of the things we believe, some of the things that, you know, we've repeatedly walked in. They're also, you know, we know that, you know, one John 19, maybe we can read that one John one, and verse nine says, if we confess, if we confess our sins, he is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, he is, is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So, so what we actually believe is that, okay, this happens five times. And I exhausted those five times. Now this is the sixth time. How can I go back to this verse? Okay, anybody thinking like that, right? See, okay, God, you know, your love and all has some limits. Your mercy has some limits. Because because we put limits on others, right? I can't just tolerate this forever. How many times have you come back with the same thing? Right? So, sorry. Right? But God's love and God's mercy. God's love is unconditional, which is something that we are still discovering, trying to understand, how can it be unconditional? That's the agape love. Agape love of God is unconditional meaning that it is a love that says, I love you despite, in spite of, okay? So it doesn't say, I love you because you are, is this, and the conditional love is, I love you because, because you look like this, because you, you know, you have these things, you have this, that's the human, or, you know, not the God kind of love, it's the conditional love. And that's, and that's the love that we have. You know, we, whether we like it or not, we sometimes, you know, this is what we have. I love you because, hey, you respecting me. I love you because you're so humble. I love you because you're so funny. I love you because you're so good looking. I love you because you, you know, you're so skillful. You say all this, you know, it's a conditional love. But God's love is unconditional. You think despite, which means like, despite of the wrongs, despite the way you cannot, you know, you're not doing certain things, I, I still love you, right? So which is, which is very difficult for us to sometimes wrap our minds around and, and, you know, grasp. And so, and so we, we, you know, when it comes to forgiveness, we say, okay, God's love is limited, God's God's love is conditional. So how can I ask for forgiveness? And repeatedly, how can I ask, especially when it's about the same thing? And this is not the first time, this is the nth time, which means you've lost count. I've lost count. How many times I've lost count. So how can I ask for forgiveness? But the fact is that what, what comes, you know, when we ask, when we confess, then there is forgiveness, there is cleansing. So it happens, doesn't happen automatically now. Right? It's not gonna happen automatically. I'm just continuing to walk in rebellion, continuing to walk in, you know, sin, it's not God is not going to, you know, cleanse me and restore me. It happens when I ask, it happens when I come to that place of humility and recognizing God, I want to ask. And I'm asking the Bible, 1 John 1 9 says he is faithful. He is just to forgive. He is faithful. He is just to cleanse. Okay, so and you know, John is writing to the believers writing to the church and he's saying, you know, this is this is something that this is God's nature. So you need to do this, we need to come back to the place of confessing, right? Okay, so, so his love is unconditional is forgiveness and mercy is there without limits. And therefore, we can, we can always go to him and ask, right? Romans five verse eight, God demonstrates his love towards us. In that while we were still sinners or while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Okay, so, you know, while we went to him, while we were, while we didn't know the love of Christ, while we were sinners, we went to him, he forgave us. And then we forget that, hey, I was in that state, when I asked him for forgiveness, and he forgave, and he says that he died for us while we were yet sinners. Okay, so that's, that's so great his that that is his unconditional love. He didn't say, okay, you wash up, you know, clean up, and then I will let you in my presence. We wouldn't listen to you. He didn't say that while we were yet sinners. So his love is unconditional, his forgiveness and mercy is available for us. So we can ask for forgiveness. All right. Okay, the third thing is, or maybe the third step, you know, so when we think of repentance, you know, we're saying, I'm making a choice, I'm making all this, but, you know, we're still distancing ourselves from God. Right. So we can ask for forgiveness, ask for that cleansing. Okay. Third one is believe and receive the completed work of Christ on the cross. Okay. So the love of God, like we saw that verse, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God demonstrates his own love, which means this is a definition and a demonstration of his love. He's saying, okay, you know, how do I know that you, you know, like God, it's as if the Lord is saying, you know, this is how I can show you that I love, love you. And this is the kind of love that I have for you. What I did on the cross. Okay, so it says demonstration. Demonstration is something that you explain something that you do to show, right. His demonstration is this, right, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So the work on the cross is the basis for forgiveness. Right. Is the basis for freedom is the basis for liberty. Okay. So let's look at another scripture. Isaac 53 versus four and five. Okay. So we looked at that he carried our pain, he carried our sickness. We looked at that was right. So let's just read through again. As I have 53. And versus four and five. Yeah, maybe you can read. Okay, I got it. Surely he is born our griefs is carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our inequities, the chastisement for our peace was upon him. And by his stripes, we are healed. Okay, so the great transaction, the great exchange has happened on the cross. And that's the basis for our healing and deliverance. And so which means that we receive the completed work. It is a complete work. It is not an incomplete work. So we receive forgiveness as part of it, healing for our emotions, damaged emotions as part of it. So we receive that, right? So, so what are we receiving? We are receiving restoration, right? So we're receiving whatever he carried on our behalf, so that we he can undo that, change that, that is what we receive. Okay, so, you know, our prayer can be like this, I believe that God, I believe that you died for me on the cross, shed your blood for me. And I'm washed and redeemed by your blood. I'm made whole, right, to the price you paid for me. I believe that you suffered so that I could be healed and made whole. So in doing that, we can be specific. We don't need to gloss over. We can, we can be very specific. Lord, I, and I receive healing and wholeness for this particular thing. Right? This area that I'm struggling, this thing that I'm, you know, I need your healing and wholeness, I receive that because the cross covers that area. Okay, so, so we can even make a list of, you know, symptoms, we can even make a list of, you know, the things that's the challenges or the areas that we struggle in. And I'm talking about, you know, physically, emotionally, right? Maybe unable to focus, maybe, you know, overcome by fear, maybe unable to think through, analyze, right? Those kind of things, right? And saying that the cross covers this, the completed work of the cross covers this. So I receive what the, what, what the Lord has done for me on the cross, I receive it. Okay. So, so who was the cross? Who's the cross for? Why did he do it? It's for, you know, they say, okay, God so love the world that he gave. It's for the world, it's for the world. But we forget that we are part of it, that you are part of it, right? And I, you know, personally, he did it for me. Okay, so every time we take part in the communion, it's a powerful thing, you know, it's a declaration of the cross. And that's why the Lord says, you know, do it, you know, as often as you meet together, you do it, the lighter turn. So it's a declaration of what the cross did, what cross accomplished for us, right? Okay, so we receive from the finished work of the cross. Okay, any questions here? Any doubts till now? We look at another scripture Ephesians one and verse seven. Okay. In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Okay. According to the riches of his grace. So, I mean, that's a great. And when you look at grace, and you look at the riches of his grace and the grace itself, like, I'm sure we have different ideas about grace. Because of which we, you know, the finish where the cross is made available for us. Mostly our idea about grace is the grace mark or the past mark that we receive, right? I scored 38. The teacher gave me plus two. And now I've got 40% and I passed. Right. Now I can, I can go and show my report card, which is all passed. At least now, you know, there's no red. I don't know. Have you, have you guys had report cards in school or was it all online? We had, okay, so every failed subject will have a red underline, right? So I didn't have it for a long time. But then suddenly I failed. I failed in my, I failed in Tamil. So, so the, I got the Tamil paper, and I was like, Oh, my God, my heart was like, sinking, you know, how will I show this to my father? How can I, you know, and by then I knew my father's signature, right? I actually practiced it and I knew it and all, but then still, you know, I was just thinking, should I take that path? Or should I, you know, and then I went to the teacher and I said, I passed and all the, you know, I've got good marks on all the subjects, but this thing I failed. Can you, you know, can you just give me some marks? So she said, okay, plus two, pass. Okay. And I went home very happy. So sometimes we have that in mind. That's a great thing. I got, you know, I passed. And, you know, this plus two, it's a good, it's a great thing. But just imagine instead of plus two, okay, if she 38, you know, instead of plus two, if she said plus 60, 98, right? They say, you know, I don't deserve it. I'll say, you know, I don't deserve this. There were guys who actually worked very hard and you know, day and night they've studied and they've done plus 90 plus 60, I don't deserve it. Plus two, okay, plus 60, I don't deserve. Now that's our usual thing, right? I don't want to be, you know, class first because of your grace mark. But the riches of his grace is like that. You know, the riches of grace is like that. It's not that you can crawl into heaven. Like it's not that we can just say, okay, God, you know, I was sinking, you lifted me up, I put my hand up and now, you know, I'll, in one corner, I'll just stay in one corner of heaven. No, God is saying, you know, I'm lifting you up. I'm making you to sit with me in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I'm giving you that authority, right? So that is, what is that? That is something, we're saying, God, I don't deserve that. But God is saying, okay, I'm giving you that plus 60, right? Or maybe it's plus 62, right? You crawl, you know, you score a perfect hundred and it's like that. So he's saying, you are justified, just as if you're never sinned, you know, you're sanctified, right? If you look at the list of things that, you know, in the Roman church, right, that Paul is writing, you know, to the Romans and he's saying, you know, these were, you know, some of you, right? This is how you were, but then you have been justified and, and also to the Corinthian church, right? This is what you were, this is who, this is what your lifestyle was, but then you have been justified, right? So, so that's the religious office grace and he's giving forgiveness, he's forgiving us and he's releasing the completed work of cross based on his grace, okay? And not based on our performance, right? But one thing is, so even when, when we say unconditional love that he can forgive us, you know, and the finished work of the cross is made available for us unconditionally, right? But what is that one thing that is required? Yeah, it is to repent and it is to believe, right? Believe in the finished work and to receive, right? And to receive, right? And say, Lord, I, I receive it, you know, it's like, you know, you have a picture of someone extending, you know, when you go shopping, you go to some of these places, they are giving these pamphlets, handouts, you know, it's about your phone, air tell, it's about something and they're giving these pamphlets and sometimes you don't feel like, you know, you just like boss, just leave it. I don't want, I don't want to take any more, you know, of these trash home carried with me. Please, you don't want to receive it. But that other hand is extended, he's saying, please take, so the finished work of the cross is like that, you know, he's saying, I've done it and I'm extending, right? So it depends upon me to, one thing that is required of us is that we receive. And that receiving is by believing, which means faith. And I, and I, and that's how I receive it into my life. Okay. Whatever the finished work is. So believe and receive the finished work of Christ on the cross, which is made available not because of our performance, but because of the riches of his grace, right? Not because of the marks that we scored, but because of the riches of his grace. So which means that he's saying, you are eligible because of grace. Okay. This thing comes to you because of grace. This thing is available to you because of grace. Why don't you believe and receive? Okay. Any, any thoughts on this? Okay. So, so this is, you know, this is why you know, when Romans, in Romans, Paul talks about several things about, this is why the grace is scandalous. Now, this is why the, the people who are off the law, they said, you know, how can this be? How can there be something apart from the law? You know, you mean to say that, you know, there is, there is righteousness apart from the law? How can this be? Right? We found it to be very scandalous. That is why, you know, they're saying, you know, we need to stone this guy. We need to kill this. We need to finish him off. Right? It is a very scandalous, you know, kind of message saying that it has already been done. You receive and you walk in it. You don't have to do anything. Right? Okay. Fourth thing, now this is a big challenge. Release forgiveness. Okay. It's all very quiet. Release forgiveness. Right? And release forgiveness again to those who have hurt us. Okay. Those who have hurt us. And when I say hurt, you know, each of our lives, you know, each of us, we have a different story. You know, we have certain things that we have, you know, maybe we have shared with others. And there are certain things that we have never shared with any other human being. Yeah. Any other human being. And the closest ones we've not shared. Because it's maybe shameful. We think it's shameful. We think, you know, it's hurtful. It's still hurting. And so it is so deep within. Okay. Maybe it's, you know, maybe it's abuse of physical nature. Maybe it's abuse of verbal abuse. You know, people saying things repeatedly over and over again. There's so much of trauma that has happened because of it. And so we are in a place where, you know, the very mention of the person associated with it or people associated with it causes so much hurt. Just thinking about it, BP goes up. And we are replaying those accounts, those events. It just messes up your mind. You're having a, you know, it just spoils your day. Right? So how can I release forgiveness for all that they've done? Right? And at least if somebody repents, then they have a chance. But if they have not repented, if they're just living, you know, how can I release forgiveness? You know, is there a question that we have, right? How can I release forgiveness? You know, they have not repented. They have not realized that what they've done is wrong. They're not, you know, they're clearly this very happy doing their lives, you know, living their lives doing what they want to do. Now the question is how can I release forgiveness? So many times when we have a, you know, maybe it's your spouse, maybe it's, you know, a close friend, whatever, we want to see some remorse. Right? The person comes and says, I'm sorry. But we want to see in their face, you know, are you really sorry? That was too quick. You know, you said something and then suddenly you're saying you're sorry. No, no, give me some time. We want to see that person really maybe suffer. You want to give them the silent treatment. You want to see some kind of something that you need to go through and realize, you know, some painful thing and then you come to a place of saying, I'm sorry, and only then we are satisfied, right? So releasing forgiveness, forgiving others, right? Those who may have hurt us, who may have wronged us, we are holding back, releasing. You're not, you're not forgiving. So the thing is this, you know, what happens when we don't forgive? In what way? When someone has done something to us and when we don't give them, we've been constantly thinking of it and we like, you know, it's like we hurting ourselves, thinking like they have done this to me or they have done and but when we forgive, there is a release and also we feel so peaceful from my experience. So actually unforgiveness puts us in a prison, right? It limits us emotionally, stunts us, cripples us emotionally and we're not able to, you know, experience that freedom that we would have when, you know, when we actually forgive others, right? You know, yeah, yeah. So with unforgiveness, how is the relationship with that person, other person, you know, it is definitely strained, right? We're not, there's always that, you know, we might say something but there's always a parallel thing, you know, we are, we are guarded, we don't, at best we want to avoid, we want to avoid that person, we don't want to see that person, if we see that person in public, we just want to avoid it, you know, avoid that person, we don't want anything to do with that person, right? So we're not, in a way, we are literally not free again, right? Yeah, yeah, so, so, so, yeah, so let's say the, the situation is that the person has not changed, they are still going, you know, doing what they're doing and they have not changed, they have not asked for forgiveness, right? To you, they have not repented in any way and you release, you're releasing forgiveness, right? You're forgiving them anyway from your heart. So in that case, yes, we don't have to, you know, go after them, pursue them and, you know, and yeah, we can actually, we can actually initially talk about it and say, okay, you know, I, I know this has happened, if it is possible, I know this has happened and I'm willing to just forgive and I know this was, I was done wrong, but I'm willing to forgive and overlook that, if the person is capable of, you know, talking about it and receiving it and then the relationship is restored, right? But if the person is unwilling, still wants to go their own way and then we can just leave it at that, yeah. Yeah, one second, one second, I think there's a question here. While forgiveness is mandatory, I think that's the question we were looking, is reconciliation a must and a mandate for us knowing it differs from each relationship? So I think, yeah, that's what Arun also asked, Jack Henshaw, saying that, you know, is reconciliation is something, do I need to go after and do this? So, so the Bible says whatever is possible from our side, you know, be at peace, whatever is possible from our side. So we make that attempt and if, you know, reconciliation depends on the response of the other person also, right? So if the person does not respond positively, does not want to have anything to do with the reconciliation, though you've done your best, then we just have to leave it at that, right? But from our heart, we have forgiven, we have released forgiveness, right? So, yeah, that is what we are talking about, yeah. And also, you know, it differs into each relationship, in the sense, you know, there are formal work related or maybe even a campus, you know, like a school-related relationship. It can be family, which is not so close, but then, you know, extended family, you know, but then it can be a spouse and, you know, so this changes, right, with each relationship, you're right. Yeah, you were saying, you could use the mic. Is that okay to forgive but won't forget? Yeah, so the and the reason for that, why do you want to, you know, I'm just asking, like, yeah, they say, okay, don't forget what they've done, but what is the motive behind that? Be careful, no? Okay, forgive but don't forget. So what does that actually mean? See, as a human being, you know, we are made in such a way that we cannot forget the things that we have, unless it's, I don't know, you know, there are certain times when we forget. Oh, did you say that? Really? There's some things, some events we forget, right, but most of the things we remember, our mind, you know, our soul is created in such a way that we remember. But the beautiful thing is this, you know, when we release forgiveness and, you know, just like how God and Christ forgave us, we can actually go back to that same event, the same things that have happened, but without feeling the hurt, without feeling the hurt, right, without, we can actually go over the same thing without feeling the hurt. That's because we were able to release the forgiveness, we did not have any bitterness and God has done, you know, the Lord is able to cleanse us and heal us of that hurt, to that extent. But even thinking about it, or even speaking about it, yeah, you're saying it takes a lot of, it need not be time, it need not be. So that's the thing, you know, we see all we have that famous thing, you know, time, time heals, time will heal, time doesn't heal, time will go years after, you know, people say, you know, you've heard of, you know, even married couples saying, you know, that day your father said that, it'd be some 30 years, 40 years, saying yeah, you know, on the, some of my relatives, you know, that wedding day, I just cannot, you know, this, what they said and what they did, I'll never be able to, you know, it is not a pleasant day for me. There are some relatives who are talking like that, you understand? So when you say forgiving is easy, okay, let's say we forgive, coming to the place of forgiveness is difficult based on, you know, what is the nature of the thing that you have, you know, whatever wrong, how we were wrong, yeah. So a question is, okay, I forgive, even coming to that place is difficult, but after extending forgiveness, yeah, taking over the situation, yeah. So it can happen, it is a possibility, but also the problem is this, you know, we forgive, we release forgiveness. The next day, this thing comes to our mind, the event, it comes to our mind. So what do you do then? So that's the thing, what do we do? Let's say somebody is wrong, we are forgiven, we say, God, you know, I forgive them, I bless them, Lord, you prosper them, Lord, you know, you release the blessing instead of whatever hurt they have said, I've said that, you're feeling very good, you go have a nice meal, you eat, you sleep, you get up in the morning, I think I was, hey, what did he say? Sometimes it could be our own unrenewed flesh, sometimes it could be even Satan dropping it. So what do you do in that moment? So that's the key. Yeah, yeah. So the thing is, if you're vehement, if you're saying, God, you forgive me, I've forgiven, so I choose not to meditate on that, I choose not to meditate on that, I choose not to, you know, give my mind space for that, I don't want to give time, I don't want to give space to think about it, I've done it, it's a done thing, I'm not going back there again, because you're going to, maybe you're going to see that person every day, maybe you're going to, you know, whatever, you need to do that. Then, you know, that is when healing comes, or healing is complete, whatever started. So where you are saying that, it's like, you know, I'm going to possess the healing, I'm not going to let anyone take away this thing. God has started, God has done it, and this is what it is. So if you're going to be militant about it, then yes, so it doesn't have to be a long process. Yeah, okay, so let's just go through some of these things that we can, you know, how we can go about releasing forgiveness. Okay, the first thing, you know, Heavenly Father in Jesus' name, I receive healing for the trauma and the adverse or unexpected experiences I have gone through, but have hurt me, left me in pain. Okay, so now you can actually mention those events. Okay, I've gone through this, I've gone through the disappointment, I've gone through this abuse, I've gone through this traumatic thing. Right, then the next thing is to say that I release forgiveness to those who have hurt me, maybe knowingly, maybe unknowingly, and specifically mention those names. Okay, so that's the thing. Okay, so mention those names because they are real people. So now you're being very specific, you're really meaning business. Like you're saying, okay, I'm serious about this. You're mentioning the names, you're mentioning the event and who are you talking to, you're talking to the Lord who already knows it, but then you're saying it because you want to do something, you want to release forgiveness. Okay, then I receive healing for the disappointments and rejections, I've felt through unmet expectations, so you can, you know, you can mention that. No, this is the different thing that we're talking about, right? Disappointments, healing, the disappointment may be rejected, etc. So you talk about it, tell the Lord that. Again, releasing forgiveness for you, for the people who are held responsible for those disappointments, right, for those rejections, forgive them, take my eyes off them, I look to you because you meet all my needs and expectations. Right, so see the thing is we've never prayed, prayed like prayers like this, right, or maybe we have, I'm just saying, you know, we don't normally pray, pray like this, you might pray a general prayer, Lord, I forgive all that who have wronged me, just forgive them all. But then when you actually mentioned the names of the person, then it actually talks about your real intent, are you really wanting to do it, right, because you're talking about specific events, you're talking about specific people and you're releasing forgiveness, right. Third thing is, yeah. It's more than that, this idea of he being a place of forgiving, that's for him to forgive that person, but what we do is, we are in a part of the church, we are asking for forgiveness but if they are not forgiving. Yeah, yeah. How do we face that thing? Okay, yeah. So the firstly, we ask forgiveness from God, okay, so whatever, from the Lord, for whatever we have done because we have actually done it against him, right. So we ask his forgiveness and we receive by faith the forgiveness and healing from him first and foremost, okay. Then whoever we have wronged, maybe intentionally, we have wronged them, we ask their forgiveness and we say, you know, this is what I've done is horrible, terrible, you know, I've asked God for forgiveness, I'm asking you to forgive. So chances are that person may, person may not say no chance. So our only thing is you've made an attempt because you cannot control their will, okay, where you have you have repented, you have expressed your remorse and if there's anything that you can do to make up for it, maybe, you know, something was wronged financially, you restore that, you know, certain things, maybe we can't, right. Maybe they, you said something and because of which publicly they were shamed, whatever, you know, or anything else, you know, some things we cannot undo in that sense, right. So whatever you can, whatever is your ability, extend that, but if you cannot, that's, you know, but at least you've made that attempt, right, say, okay, this, maybe you can, you know, maybe you'll shame someone and you want to, you know, tell others that I made something wrong. So you think about it, how else can I restore what was broken, restore the damages, what was done. If you exhausted those options and still that person is saying that I cannot forgive, then we just have to leave it, we cannot. Of course, having that person say, I forgive you, would be great, but we need to understand something that is greater, that is the Lord saying, I forgive you. It starts there first and foremost, right. Yeah, okay, so actually the third part is a very interesting, important part. It's about forgiving yourself. Okay, so we'll look at it next class. Okay, we'll stop here and thank you so much. So maybe you can just go through these, you know, these four steps in your own life, take personal inventory and see what is it that I need to do. Okay.