 Right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the session. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer and let me get to our teaching. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you so much for this time. Once again, you've given us to study and learn your word of God. Pray that you will continue to minister and even as we learn the deep fruits of your word of our identity and you pray God that we will truly live out this identity in our lives. Thank you. We with us through this session Lord Holy Spirit minister to us. In Jesus' name we pray. I hope my audio is fine. Just let me know. Thank you. Last class we did quite a few topics. Good morning question. Good morning. Good morning. So we did chapter 38. We talked about being sanctified. We were sanctified once. We are being sanctified every day of our life. We talked about that. When we believe in Jesus, we become the sanctification of God. But over time, every day, we are being sanctified. So it is a daily process. It is not a one-time event. Then we looked at two important or prominent ways that you and I as believers are sanctified. One is by the word of God and two is the working of His Holy Spirit. So of course we renew our thinking. We renew our mind through the word of God. The word of God is able to change our lives, help us to walk in obedience to the word of God. And the Holy Spirit is there to help us. Whenever we try to do something on our own, we may not be able to do it. We may not be able to overcome certain things that are happening in our life. But the Holy Spirit is there to help us overcome. And the Holy Spirit enables us to walk in this sanctification. To walk in holiness. So let's get into chapter 41. Now that we are sanctified, let me just present the notes so that we can all be together. So chapter 41. Living sanctified in Christ. So how does this identity of being sanctified affect our life? How is it for you and I as believers, what must change? Or what are the things that we must do in living the sanctified life? Let's read 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 through 7. Anyone like to read? 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 through 7. Pastor, can I read? Please go ahead. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 to 7. I finally den brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more just as you repeat from us how you ought to walk and to please God for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification that you should abstain from sexual immorality that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor. Not in passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God that no man should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter because the Lord is the Avenger of all such as we also forewarned you and testified for God did not call us to uncleanliness but in holiness. Yes. Sorry, thank you Gautrude. I just need to stop the presentation for a moment. Let's do it again. Okay, so Paul is writing here to the Thessalonians. He's saying, since you are sanctified, we must learn to possess our vessel meaning we must learn to live in holiness. We must also hold one another in honor. We need to stay away from things that can defile us. So it says here, stay away from things that violates us. So how can we do this? How can you and I as believers do this? It is through the Word of God. So we tell ourselves, okay, God, I don't want to do things that will defile myself. I know that I'm a child of God. This is my identity and I'm the sanctification of God. We need to stay away if there are things in our life or areas in our life where we feel that, okay, this is a weakness. We need to ask God to help us and to try and stay away from it. So let's look at a few points how we can continue to walk in holiness. We walk in love to walk in holiness. First Thessalonians 3, 12 and 13, and the Lord, may the Lord make you increase in abundant love to one another and to all just as we do to you so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness. Here's the interesting part. We cannot walk in holiness if we don't walk in love. The more we walk in holiness, the more we will be able to love one another. And this is also vice of ourselves. The more we walk in love, the more we love God, the more we will want to walk in holiness. We will not want to be disobedient to God. So they both are two sides of a coin. If we walk in love, we will also walk in holiness. The love that we're talking about here where Paul is writing, it's not the love that we... It's the agape love. It's the God kind of love that Paul is talking about here. And so when we walk in love, we will walk in holiness. So another way to continue to walk this sanctified life is to have sanctified standards and values. Now each one of us as believers, we are not only believers, but if you look around all of us as human beings, we have certain standards, we have certain values. Now this has come over time. If you look at a five-year-old boy, they may not have any standards. They don't have any values. They're too small. They don't understand. But the moment this little boy becomes a teen, he begins to understand values. He begins to understand that I need to have certain standards. Now the standards could be good or bad. The values could be good or bad. But they begin to understand that there's something called a standard. Now values and life. Now as the child or the teen becomes a youth, those standards and those values keep changing. And then once they grow up, they probably get married, have children. All of us have certain standards and values. Now Paul is writing to the Romans here and he's saying Romans 12, 1 and 2, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And this is a standard which he's placing. And look what he says after that. Do not be conformed to this world. Again, a standard. Don't do what the world is doing. You have your own standards. You have your own values. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is good and acceptable will of God. Now, as we live in a manner that is pleasing to God, it is important that we transform our lifestyle. So what is lifestyle? Lifestyle is our standards, our values, our morals. You can have good standards. You can have holy standards, unholy standards. So for example, there could be somebody who, a person, a believer, can be somebody who has a certain standard of saying, okay, wherever I go in the workplace, the corporate place, wherever I go, I will make sure that I will not use bad words. I'm just giving an example. I will not use bad words. Now that's a standard. It's a value he's set in place. So wherever he is, whether he's at home, whether he's in the workplace, whether he's with his friends, everyone else may be using bad words. But for this person, hey, I'm not going to use bad words because it's a certain standard that I'm into. There are certain values that I hold on to. Now, on the other side, you can have somebody who has no standards or no values. They can be whatever they want to be. They can say whatever they want to say, and nothing affects them. Now remember, Paul is saying, Paul is writing here Romans 12, too, especially, do not be conformed to this world and be transformed by the renewing of your mind. When we renew our mind, we may be able to do what is good, pleasing, and the perfect will of God. I've heard the same. They say that India is a safe place, or not a safe place. Iran, Iraq may not be safe places. China may not be a safe place, or different countries have different standards, and people think this is a safe place and that is not a safe place. I read this article once, and it said that the safest place to be is to be in the will of God. That is the safest place you can be. Because life is uncertain, future is uncertain, but the safest place, it's not a country, it's not a locality in a country, but the safest place you and I can be is to be in the will of God. How do I know I'm in the will of God? As a child of God, daily to transform yourself by the renewing of your mind, trying our best, working our best to live a holy life, obeying God's word. When we do these things, we are in the will of God. That's the safest place that we can be in. Now when I say safest place, it doesn't mean nothing, no harm is going to come. It doesn't mean that life is going to be very easy and simple. What did Jesus say? I've come to do the will of the Father. What is the will of the Father? He had to be crucified. He had to die on the cross, but it brought joy to the Lord Jesus. So as believers, always remember this. Safe is the place we can be, to be in the will of God. The moment we tell ourselves, hey, I'm not going to do what the world is doing. I want to live a holy life. I want to be obedient to God's word. You are in the will of God. Another way we continue to live out our sanctification is, a sanctified life reveals his virtues. When you say virtues, virtues are basically our attributes or our character. So a kingly priesthood, the Lord Jesus has chosen us as a chosen generation, a loyal priesthood, a chosen nation, a holy people to himself. And we are to proclaim these virtues to people. So for example, how can I say I'm a chosen generation? How can I be a kingly priesthood? How can people know that I am a believer by our virtues? The beauty of God, the holiness of God is revealed by our virtues. And the way we are, the way we portray ourselves, the way we look at others, the way we talk, it is all the virtues of the Lord Jesus. It begins to, people will notice it. So imagine the Lord Jesus saying wherever Jesus went, he spoke in love, he spoke, he brought life in dead situations. You and I, as holy ones, as sanctified ones, are to reveal his virtues, his life, his character must be revealed in us. And interestingly, or the most encouraging part for us is we don't have to do it on our own strength. God has given us the Holy Spirit to do that. Next one, we are sanctified vessels in Christ. Now look at this, Paul is writing the Timothy here and this is his last letter, Second Timothy. He's writing something very important. Second Timothy 219-20, Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands having this seal. The Lord knows those who are His. Let everyone whose name is the name of Christ, let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also wooden clay, some of honor and some for this honor. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself with a letter meaning cleanses himself with the gold and silver, he will be a vessel of honor sanctified and useful for the master prepared for every good work. Paul is bringing the example out for the church in Ephesus. Paul is writing Timothy and Timothy is the pastor in Ephesus. In Ephesus we know that there was a lot of idol worship and during those days when there was idol worship they would usually take these vessels and they would pour out their offerings on these idols. So these vessels are very important and we see some of it in the Old Testament as well. But these vessels they would either be of whatever things, but they were vessels, they would they would pour it out on those idols. So these vessels were like an honorable thing for the idol worshippers. So Paul is writing here and he is saying you and I are to be vessels of honor, vessels of gold and silver. Now what is the thing with a vessel? I read this little article quite a few years back many years back and this article was about it's just an allegory. It's a made up story, it's an allegory. It's not a real story but it portrays a thought or an idea. So Jesus is walking through a house and in that house there were beautiful pots some of gold and silver and precious stones and emeralds and Jesus is walking and the gold vessel is saying oh Jesus you take me look at me I look so beautiful then the silver is saying look at me I also look so beautiful and the emerald and the jasper and all these vessels are saying Lord Jesus you should choose me I'll be so beautiful for your kingdom but Jesus kept walking without saying a word and right at the back there was a broken mud pot almost all cracked up very bad condition and so Jesus sticks and the broken mud pot was thinking to himself now I'm useless I cannot be used for anything because I'm broken I'm just a mud pot look at the others they are gold, silver precious stones I'm a mud pot I'm of no use at all but Jesus takes that broken mud pot and says all of those other pots are ready to be used but this pot I can make it the way I want I can turn this mud pot into something beautiful and it's such an important lesson for us you know we may have brokenness in our life we may have areas where we are not as strong as we ought to be we may have you know things in our life that is making us feel unworthy the Lord Jesus says I will make you a vessel of honour all we need to do is surrender that brokenness surrender it to God and say God this is what I am this is my brokenness and the Lord Jesus will turn us into a vessel of honour prepared for every good work useful for the Master right so don't let your brokenness or your it was just a mud pot nothing fancy about it right but Jesus is not looking for that looking for people who are broken but people who are willing obedient and He uses us as His vessels now another important point to remember is as sanctified people we are persecuted and ridiculed people hate us like John chapter 17 I'll just read a few potions verse 14 I have given them your word as hated them because they are not of the world just as I am not of the Lord I do not pray that you take them out of the world but you should keep them from the evil one they are not of the world just as I am not of the world sanctify them by your truth your truth is your word as you sent me into the world I also have sent them into the world so Jesus is talking to the Father about His disciples for this sake I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified by the truth 2 Timothy 3 12 yes and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution so as believers if we are living a holy life nobody is going to put a red cup and clap for you nobody is going to do that if you are a great man of God there is going to be persecution now I am talking about outside outside of the church the body of Christ there is going to be persecution nobody is going to say you are very good you are talking about Jesus there is going to be persecution if you look at what is happening in our nation itself in north of India and it is only a small percentage of persecution that is going to come ahead there is so much more that is going to come but remember this if we live a godly life if we are living in holiness now persecution need not always be the thought that we have is some people coming breaking the chairs beating us, putting us in prison we can also be in the office in a workplace hey this person is always talking about Jesus that is also a persecution because you are bearing the name of Jesus people may ridicule you people may mock at you you are believing somebody who died so many years back that you have not even seen him foolishness everyone are enjoying everyone are living their life drinking living enjoying life and you are here always with the Bible saying this is what Jesus said that is what Jesus said people will ridicule but that is how it is as sanctified children of God you will suffer persecution but the world will not understand remember we just read that verse in the book of John Jesus is sending out his disciples saying when they go out and preach some of them will reject the world because they are not of the world they are not of God they are living in the world they don't understand the things of God so when we are living this life don't worry about what people are thinking about you what will he think what will he think if I say I am going to church on Sunday what will she think if I am going to sell group on Thursday what will she think if I am going for worship practice what will he think don't worry about what people think worry about what God thinks about you God is saying you are holy, you are sanctified and set you apart then we are sanctified and preserved, blameless 1 Thessalonians 523 now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely we talked about these three aspects spirit, soul and body your spirit is who you are your soul is your emotions your mind will and emotions and your body that is your body your physical body it says there may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved, blameless interesting right Paul is not saying anyway the body is going to become ashes so you do what you want with your body but make sure your spirit and soul is right before God no it doesn't work that way being tripod we must understand that what we do with our flesh is also important because God made this the Lord Jesus himself had to die in the flesh Jesus didn't come and stay for he could have done could have just come and said next week I am getting crucified and you believe in me and all of them will have everlasting lives one week on earth I go through the whole process he did it to set the example for us he overcame temptations to set the example for us he had a body just like you and me just like you and me and he had to go through those physical weaknesses as well Jesus imagine Jesus fasting 40 days do you think he was full of strength physically very weak he and the disciples were on the board Jesus was sleeping he was tired physically tired walking so remember that this spirit soul and body all three are important and we keep them holy and blameless till the coming of our Lord so what can we do we tell our spirit Holy spirit help me to be in line let my spirit you be tune our spirit to be in line with the Holy spirit we tell our soul that is our mind our will our emotions so the mind devil is attacking our mind we say we tell our mind no I am not going to listen to this there is the will comes into place we tell your will God help me to obey I want to overcome this then there is emotion sometimes we feel like giving up God I know you are with me I know that you will strengthen me our body we have weaknesses there are urges in our bodies we tell our body I tune it I tune my body to the things of God and so that way we are preserving ourselves blameless before God these are some of the ways that we continue to walk in holiness there are some common questions that have arised attire contemporary preachers attire now sometimes when we look at the new pastors the contemporary churches the new churches that are there you have these pastors these things jackets and chain with a cross and all of it now people have questions is it okay to do that right because we look at veneration like India you look it's always very it's always been you know formals but listen we need to understand that it's things have changed things have evolved you can't expect people to be the same how they were so even if they are wearing a sweatshirt they are wearing a chain doesn't mean that they are not holy but it's good for a preacher to dress up so clearly they are being an example carriers entertainment fashion design this is another as believers you are in the entertainment business or fashion design we can work there there is nothing wrong working in these places but set priorities set standards set certain values right now in the entertainment business there is there could be bribe there could be lot of parties right drugs alcohol all of this will be easily available right so you must have certain values you must say no to certain things so again we must be willing to overcome that right now for example you are working in the entertainment section and I think every week there will be a party there is all kinds of things happening in those parties now you have the choice if it's possible you can request that you be exempted from attending those events but if you are part of you have to be part of it you can go but you don't have you have certain values you can tell yourself no no matter what people say I am not going to do what everyone else are doing here right then you have church stage decor people have a lot of questions about this is it right is it holy to have this kind of a stage decor now there is nothing wrong right but make sure that the decor is not no it doesn't portray anything that is you know evil or portray something that is not right it should be something that is nothing wrong in having good stage decor nothing wrong about it then questions about drinking alcohol now if I drink alcohol is it okay no it's not okay because Jesus said you are the temple of the Holy Spirit what about food offered to idols no it's not okay because Paul says to the Corinthians he says how can you partake in the Lord's table and also partake on food with food sacrifice to idols right can you be part can you partake in the Lord's table and also the devil's table together so he's talking about that in Corinthians so so he talks a lot in detail about that so now you learn more in the epistle of Corinthians as well so there will be times when people will you know that is sacrifice to idols they come and offer it very politely we can say no thank you nothing wrong and I have done done it many times they have festivals they have programs and I was in the corporate sector working in the corporate office they have so they would come and say hey why don't you have some I would say no I would say oh why Jesus Jesus won't get angry so I don't I don't care what you think about it but for me my God is more important so I would say to them no thank you it doesn't matter what they speak about me it doesn't matter I'm keeping I'm preserving my body my spirit my soul for God right ok so some of the other points jewelry nothing wrong please wear jewelry right there's nothing wrong right you have to wear wear movies now again movies is a constant topic where people have a lot of questions like will I become unholy if I watch a movie will the devil come and sit in my house right now what kind of movie right if you are watching a movie and you know this movie has actual content right now remember this what we see affects our mind right if I keep seeing things you know my teacher used to say this it's called Gigo G-I-G-O garbage in garbage out you keep watching garbage garbage will come perfume won't come out right if you keep thinking of the word of God keep thinking about God all things of God will come so when it comes to movies now I won't say that if you watch a movie you know you go to hell that's not it right but make sure that as a believer there are certain things that you can watch certain things you can just avoid now personally for me I'm not interested in movies not very interested from small never been really interested but I know people who are really interested in movies they love to watch movies yeah but you just got to be careful what we are seeing again music secular music okay so a lot of people have asked me this question right they like to listen to a lot of songs and these songs are not gospel songs they're not bad songs right they don't have bad words they don't have bad meaning but they are secular songs right what do I do about it now here's the thing does it this is the question I always ask people what does it do to you when you listen to a secular music what does it do to you it brings you some happiness but what benefit has it done is it to help you in any way you see I'm not saying don't listen to secular music secular music if you want to listen to you listen to it but for me I don't it just doesn't interest me is it helpful for me is it going to make me more is it going to make me go closer to Christ now when I was not a believer I listened only to secular music even as I became a believer I would still listen to secular music but it took time for me to come out of it and now we've got contemporary church music a lot of questions about that I don't know is this song right some songs are theologically they are wrong or they don't sound right or the contemporary church music has a lot of keyboard sound a lot of synthesizers and all these ads and lightings and all of it is it okay so a lot of questions about all of this but the question that we must ask ourselves are you growing closer to God through all of this are you growing closer to God again participation in religious festivals when there are religious festivals should I participate are there some guidelines that I should have say if you are in a corporate sector and you have to be part of a religious festival I remember this few of them from our church they came up to me and said you know my family are not saved they are unsaved and so they have these yearly festivals that they have to follow and so they have to be part of it because the entire family is coming the children are believers parents are unbelievers so they go and the question they ask me is what should I do and they say as the eldest son you have to do this certain ritual so what should I do so somehow there was this young two brothers who are who are from a Hindu faith and they had to go and be part of these festivals that they are home to but I remember the elder one coming and saying my parents told me to do this but I declined doing it I know they may have felt bad I know they may have felt hurt I love my parents but I have to obey God as well and to see that kind of maturity it's not easy it's not something very easily somebody can do but the level of maturity that they walked knowing that God is priority out of all these things so what about science and genetics now we have all kinds of people coming up with all kinds of male female transgender binary all these things coming up and then they say genetics genetically I'm born like this now we must be able to give good response to all of these things now even as again tattoos as well is it okay to tattoo your body will you become unholy if you tattoo your body now remember again the same concept my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit why would I want to now just because I write Jesus Christ on my hand doesn't mean Jesus Christ is coming and sitting on the tattoo this is the life that we live I can have Jesus all the 12 disciples on my tattooed on my body doesn't make a difference it's not like the devil will say Jesus Christ is tattooed on his body so I will not come you can put 100 crosses on your body and the tattoo it's not going to help because the sanctification of life is what is going to matter is it something that is going to the answers is it something that is going to sanctify me to be closer with God that's the question we must ask ourselves okay I think we'll stop here because I wanted to start with section 5 we'll start with from next class so that we can spend more time but what I like you to do is if you have questions you can write it down Sanjay N says most music and movies and social media today are full of subliminal little programming it leaves us yes very true very true thank you Sanjay for sharing a lot of I grew up in the early 90s so a lot of music was there corporate music it was okay we were talking about all these other things about the world but now it's different because every kind of music is somewhere turning us away from God it will either say there are some songs right now that we see around us talking about secular songs where they are openly mocking Jesus openly they are probably saying Satan is better, Satan is all of these things so be careful what you watch now even here is another interesting thing one of the parents in our church was talking to us they were saying even cartoons which children watch are programmed towards either there was this recently one of the family one of our family members in church was saying children have been watching this series where it talks about nature and about different gods on the earth and so each god has certain power what should this god do and this is 6 years old, 7 year old children we have two questions here Del says can a servant of God be an artist or an actor yes, yes definitely they can be if that's one of their gifts and talents, yes nothing wrong right so there are many who profess to be believers now if you are saying servant of God meaning like a pastor or a preacher yes, if that's something that he wants to do make sure that it's not you know, it's not a it's not something that will the movie or the the series doesn't take them away from God it is not defiling the person if someone is in Christ but they listen and watch secular movie and so on and say nothing is wrong in this we say okay, this here's the thing, when we when we talk to people sometimes you know, they could be believers unbelievers, when we say they may not be in a place to receive correction right, now there could be many reasons, because they need time one, two is you know, they may say hey how come you are telling me they may feel that way now if somebody is listening to secular movies and listening to secular songs always remember this right, the truth remember what Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free the more you tell somebody don't do this it is natural that they'll want to do it but the more you tell somebody this is what Jesus says, this is what Jesus can do in your life this is what the Lord says this is what the Bible teaches us so we're not telling people what not to do but we're telling people what to do there's power in that like for me when I became, before I was a believer everyone would say don't do this don't do that, don't do this I'll get really upset why, why are you all telling me don't do everything but once I became a believer when people are telling me I realized okay yes I have to change these areas but then there was I thank God for people who told me what to do rather than what not to do so as I mentioned after I became a believer I was still listening to secular songs because I've been listening to them for like 10-15 years but by people telling me what to do hey why don't you spend more time reading the word or praying so when I spent time doing more of this listening to secular songs took the second place and slowly it went away so the best thing to do is to tell people what to do I know it's very upsetting sometimes see I told him don't listen to this don't listen to secular songs he's listening we get angry we get upset but it's not going to solve the problem what you can do is focus on what Jesus can do in his life all the other things will go before becoming a believer I used to wear a lot of chains these triangles a lot of rings and all that after I became a believer I still had it on stick chain people used to say hey you have to take it out I didn't take it out but the more I spent time on God now I'm not saying it's wrong the more I spent time on God's presence and looking at what God there's all these other things took second place what's the point of this chain it's just heavy, it's poking me look at that through it away so you see the mind changes, everything changes the way we look at things changes so what I would say is you tell people what to do eventually those other things will automatically go away Gertrude says how do you preach to the same gender persons getting married you tell them the truth the truth is the truth that is God made Adam and Eve man and woman and that's God's design anything in the book of Romans in Romans chapter 1, 2 and 3 this is the problem that was happening people were of same gender were getting married and what was worse in Rome was brothers and sisters were getting married sons and their own mother were getting married could be stepmother as well so it was complete abomination so what you can say to them is if they are way beyond understanding something that you can do is you can just tell them about God's design you can tell them that see this is what God has said and they can likely that initially they will believe it but these are strongholds and these strongholds need to be prayed over and need to be broken but to encourage us Gertrude remember that across the world people who are gay and lesbian have come out and they become believers many of them got married living happy life so the first thing that we can say you know that you may have these desires but these desires are out of their own flesh it is not something that we are born with not at all it is desires of our own flesh so you can tell them that this is wrong in God's eyes again we cannot force people to believe we cannot force them to you know to say hey you have to listen to me their response may be different but we are doing our part by saying this nowadays when you tell these children they think it is normal you know but it is not normal we know so the thing is here Gertrude is we must understand that this generation is changing so for example you talk about cassette tape for us it is normal I have so many cassettes that we listen to now you ask our children they don't even know what a cassette is so growing up in the 90s we had this concept of media and this concept of internet and mobile phones was not even there so as the generations keep going all of these things there will come a time when even in India people will it will be so open right now it is not a topic that many people talk about very openly but maybe 5 years, 10 years, 1 decade down the line tell me managers happening in the church this is a way that the enemy is working so yeah so we need to again speak the truth of God's word let them be ministered through that okay John welcome Gertrude John is saying many pastors say the music came from heaven started in heaven there is nothing wrong to listen to other songs is it correct music started in heaven but even pride started in heaven so it's okay to walk in pride definitely not Lucifer what happened to Lucifer right so that's what is very important next semester you will learn hermeneutics hermeneutics is taking scripture and putting it into context so taking text putting it into context so when pastors say that music came from heaven music is God God created music right so when God created something it is always good music is good but what the enemy has done he has defiled that music see when God when God sent Lucifer was condemned he went down God didn't take away his gifts God didn't say okay now give back the gift of music all the gifts that I gave we give it back just condemn him so like all other things that the devil does music and he has used music to come up with all kinds of things take people over you know when you get into rock and roll heavy all these other music rock music and all it is always associated with sex and drugs oh sorry Lucy did I miss your question oh sorry I just finished this and come to you Lucy sorry I didn't notice that okay okay brother so so when pastors say that their understanding is wrong right it is wrong to say that remember that listening to to these like what I said listen to things that are happening songs that are talking about which could really talk about Christ or about things against Jesus killing each other what's happening it's not from heaven of course it's wrong to listen to them because it's going into our mind it's going into our spirit music transcends our physical music doesn't give us physical happiness it goes into our spirit our soul you know when we have supernatural love when we are singing what is happening it goes into our spirit to our soul okay is it okay I take this five minutes more quite a few questions here but those would like to have other things to do feel free to okay let me look at Lucy is studying about psychology good I've heard people saying it's not good reading in minds of Lucy psychology is very important it's good to study psychology it's just like any other subject right now psychology is not only about reading minds but it's also about helping people overcome emotional failures emotional challenges psychology also has you know counseling in them so there's very topics in psychology and it's good you know it's very good and then there's also Christian psychology Christian based psychologists who help so there's nothing wrong but we shouldn't go overboard by if you're a believer and you want to study psychology take psychology take the scriptures put it together and you know you can it's really helpful for people you can give people good suggestions and all that okay okay I'll just take this last question in different countries if they give wine or alcohol in church and say it's good for health then can we say that they don't know the truth okay so there is two things here right that's a very good question so number one is there's culture and there's God's word right the truth of God's word now in culture is something that so for example covering women cover their head and especially not only women cover their head we take out our footwear and go into church this is what culture now if you come to Bangalore we don't cover our head we don't take out our shoes right now when we travel to North India for ministry we the women we purposely we ask them to cover their hair we take out our footwear and get into church why because we are respecting the culture of the place right now when culture is there are certain cultures which can which are there which can defile us which can take us away from God which can bring an unholiness in us for example these two mentioned it doesn't affect our relationship with God but there are certain cultures which affect our relationship with God so for example if for 20 years you've been an unbeliever and you've got this habit of you know reciting some some of these old of the other faith reciting or doing certain things and you feel that it's not right it's again it's taking you you need to change that now yes certain countries have a lot of wine they have a lot of alcohol right now is alcohol good the question is it may be a culture that is alcohol good answers no because what is superior the word of God which says what I am the body of Christ now this culture of going to I go to weddings I go to plenty of weddings right and sometimes they offer alcohol I say no I don't want it it's a culture there right but what I say is I say no so it's not like they don't know the truth of God's word it's just that they need to get a revelation in that area they need to understand this that hey you know they may be good, they may be believers they know Jesus they love Jesus but there are certain areas that they have to grow what we can do is help them to understand right again we cannot be condemning although what the verse says therefore now there is no condemnation for those of Christ Jesus so we cannot be in a place of condemning but we can encourage, we can teach them sometimes they don't know right they don't know oh this is wrong I don't know it all this while okay I'll take steps to change um yeah so so one thing that we can do is remember that if they are from different countries like for example when you go to I remember going to a couple of countries and there you know it was just so common right they don't have water they just don't have water they have alcohol with every food and they are very good believers right but it's a culture it's how they've set their mindset is that way but then I know some of them who have come out of it now they drink water or some juice with food so I think the more we speak to them the more we because I know that you're talking about people from different countries but we cannot say that they don't know the truth just because somebody is failing in one area doesn't mean they know they don't know the truth of God at all now we may not know many things because we may not know one or two things doesn't mean we don't know the truth meaning we know the truth of God we know that we should not get angry but sometimes we do get angry we know that we shouldn't walk in pride sometimes we walk in pride so it doesn't mean we don't know the truth we know it's just that we have made that mistake so we learn from all of this yeah so we'll stop here but it's good to have these questions if you have more questions you know we can take it up maybe next class on Wednesday we can answer these questions so if you have questions regarding all of this you can just write it down and ask next week thank you so much for being in this class and we'll catch up next week yeah, good weekend God bless