 Okay. Okay, let's pray and let me start. Father, we thank you. Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for this time, Lord. We thank you for all that you are to us, Lord. Father God, we thank you that you choose to reveal yourself to us. Father God, we thank you for your redemptive nature and the very names, oh God, which are redemptive. And Lord, we thank you that according to our needs, Lord, you choose to reveal yourself, Lord, with your redemptive names, oh God, and your character and nature, God, which are redemptive, Lord. We thank you, Lord. You know, at this time, we just focus on, you know, the redemptive names of God, the way he introduces himself through scripture, and throughout scripture, and the way he introduces himself as Yahweh Shalom or Yahweh Erei, and Yahweh Sidkenu, and so on, the way that he is, he is the provider, his righteousness, he's a banner of victory. He is God, the sovereign Lord, and maybe we look at our own needs and just be fully confirmed, fully assured, and fully convinced that the reason he introduced himself in that manner is because he's well able to take care of that particular need. So maybe there's a need in your life, and you can just look to God and say, okay, Lord, your life, your character, your nature, the way you introduce yourself, God, I just want to take a hold of that, and the reason you introduce yourself as Yahweh Shalom is because you're the God of peace, and I thank you that I have access to that, because you are dispensing that. It's your very nature to do that, and so come and be my Shalom, so we can invite God into that situation, into that need, and say, Lord, you be my Jehovah Shalom, God, you be my Jehovah Sid Keno, God, you be my Jehovah Nisi, this is who you are, you know, he cannot be the one opposite of that, this is who he is, this is nature, very nature, so we can invite him. Hallelujah, we thank you, Lord, thank you, God. Awesome Lord, Sovereign Lord, Omnipotent God, Omniscient God, Lord, we just invite you this morning to step into our lives, to step into those situations, God, oh God, where sometimes we don't even know that there is that kind of a need, God, but I thank you that every need is Lord covered and fulfilled and by you, Master, so I just pray and we invite you, come, take over, come, step in, come and change. Hallelujah, we thank you, in Jesus' matches, name we pray, amen, amen. Okay, okay, welcome to those who tuned in late, welcome, so we have today's speakers who are Prabhakar Rao, J. Prabhakar Rao, and then after that Sri Kumar will share, and then after that Rupa, oh before that, let me just share the feedback, this is not only shared last class, last session about being rooted and fruitful, from Jeremiah 17, blessed is a man, blessed is a man, which means that, you know, he's reaping all those benefits, he's blessed because his trust is in the Lord, whose hope is the Lord. And then we went on to see, I think four things, man is planted, he's protected, he is preserved and productive, I hope I didn't miss out anything, four things, so very well explained, very well illustrated, yeah, and thank you, really blessed by the message. I just, it's just one thing, you know, so we very clearly explained the benefits of, you know, what is the outcome of such a man, so a good way to, you know, end it would be so, you know, therefore, continue to trust in the Lord and continue trusting, or continue to hope in the Lord and continue make the Lord your hope, you know, a kind of invitation to do that would sum it up really well, so yeah, I just wanted to share that, thank you. Okay, okay, so just wanted to invite, yeah, someone, someone say something, okay. Okay, so Prabhakar, if you're ready, would you like to share please? Yes, Pastor, thank you so much. So praise Lord, dear Pastor and praise Lord, dear fellow students, greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today I'm going to present this sermon titled, Ideal Sacrifice or Ideal Sacrifice and the topic consists, Presenting Ourselves as Wholesome Sacrifice to Guard. Now, what is sacrifice? The definition of sacrifice is like giving up something that is most important or valuable to you in order to get something which is even more precious and important or in other words, we can say the act of offering something to God or something to our beloved ones. Now, the word offering came so to make an offering of the meaning of offering is to consecrate our present to a divinity by way of propitiation or at the token of acknowledgement or to emollage on the altar of God in order to atone for sin, to procure favor or to express thankfulness. Now, sacrifice are basically of two kinds. First is non-bloody, like unbloody we can say, such as first foods, tithes, meat and drink offerings incense in the Old Testament base. And the second one is, second type is the blood sacrifice, which is we can say the burn offerings of these offerings, the sin and trespass offerings, etc. So, the question today arises is ideal sacrifice or idol sacrifice. Before we talk about our sacrifice to God, I want to draw your attention towards the ideal sacrifice of Christ for humanity through the will of God. Now, the God the Father first sacrificed for humanity is most cherishable, valuable son, the only son, the begotten son. God sacrificed him for humanity for the sake of atonement of sins of the whole world. As we can read this in the book of John chapter 3 verse 16, it says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only, one and only son, a begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. We can read the word, he gave, he gave his begotten son, only son. So that gave, that word means sacrifices only the most cherishable, the most valuable and precious thing for God was Jesus and he gave him for us. Now, coming to the son's point of view, the Christ sacrificed for humanity. God did his part by sending his son. Now, Christ did as we read in the book of Romans chapter 3 verse 24, 25, 26. Shortly, I'll read it for you like it says, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through the shedding of his blood to be received by faith. So Christ sacrificed by God, like Christ sacrificed himself to the will of God for the atonement of our sin through the shedding of his precious blood. And if you believe in him as our Savior, we receive it by faith. It also mentioned in the first episode of Peter chapter 3 verse 18 it says, for Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous in order to bring you to God. So there is no curtain now between God and us because Christ cheered the curtain between God and us by shedding his blood, he sacrificed his young and holy life for us, for the righteous and unrighteous. So another question arises, God sacrificed his only son and son sacrificed himself for the atonement of our sin. Prabhakar, I think we just kind of lost you for a minute. Yeah, I think maybe there's some bandwidth issue. I'm back. Okay, okay. Yeah, we can hear you now. So the question arises is our ideal sacrifice, what should be our ideal sacrifice for God? God, Father and Son has given himself. Now in the Roman, in the book of Roman chapter 12 verse 1 it says, therefore I urge you brothers and sister in view of the God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. Here, three points came into my mind. First is living sacrifice, second is holy sacrifice and third the sacrifice which is pleasing to God. And if we give these three sacrifices, that would be our true and proper worship. Now, coming to the point living sacrifice, living sacrifice, I can say it is a loving sacrifice as we can read in the book of Ephesians chapter 5 verse 2 it says, and walk in the way of love just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. The living sacrifice is the love of Christ who himself completely dedicated and completely sacrificed and even shed his last drop of blood for our atonement of sin. So that is the living sacrifice and the loving sacrifice. As mentioned in the Old Testament, Jesus is a burnt offering. Burnt offering is something we can relate it to the living sacrifice. Leviticus chapter 1 verse 4, chapter 6 verse 8 to 39, chapter 8 verse 11 to 18 to 21 mentioned like earlier a bull or ram or bird was accepted. It was a voluntarily act of worship or serve for atonement of unintentional sin in general. But the animal's death used to offer as a sacrifice. In the New Testament, it typifies the death of Christ and the bloodshed points to the atonement and the smoke ascending typifies the resurrection of Christ and the burnt sacrifice we can call it as an ascending offering which is called as hula which means that means which ascends. Now the point is Jesus fulfilled everything the burnt offering under Levi's system which was required to be. What are the points that Jesus fulfilled to submit himself as a living sacrifice? He was male. Leviticus 1 3 Matthew 1 21. He was without blemish. In Jesus was no sin. He knew no sin. He did not sin. He was without sin. He offered himself voluntarily and his offering was a substitution for his God. So in this way we can say Jesus himself sacrificed living as a living sacrifice. So we have to be act according to the love of Christ and if we offer ourselves completely to God it would be a pleasing sacrifice. The second point is the holy sacrifice. It mentions in the first epistle of Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7 it says, get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new unleavened batch as you really are. For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed therefore let us keep the feast not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. This sacrifice focused on the perfection of God and declaration devotion commitment and complete surrender to God. We have to be a new unleavened batch. So the old yeast of sin has to be removed from us and we have to be completely filled with the sincerity and truth and holiness of God as Christ says, be holy as I am holy. So that would be holiness is a sacrifice which Christ wants us to be. And the third point is acceptable sacrifice. As it mentioned in the book of Peter, first epistle of Peter chapter 2 verse 5 it says, you also like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. As Apostle Paul says, we are the living stones and built together built into a spiritual house to be holy priesthood and we have to continuously offering spiritual sacrifices which should be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. And in another verse it says in the book of Hebrews chapter 13 verse 15 and 16 it says, through Jesus therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise the fruit of lips that openly profess his name and do not forget to do good and to share with others for such sacrifices God is pleased with God. So my dear, my dear brethren, God is saying that we have to sacrifice such sacrifices which is acceptable to God and that is that should do in a continual way. It should not be a periodical way or once in a week or once in a while it should continually offer to God and that is the praise and fruit of our lips. We should openly profess his name, always acknowledge his name, always adore his name, always worship him, praise him wherever, whichever position we are in. We have to confess that Jesus is our salvationer. We have to accept that he is a master and we have to serve him through the till the last breath of our lives. No, that is the acceptable sacrifice to God. No, these are the three sacrifices which God wants us to have living sacrifice, holy sacrifice and acceptable sacrifice. So now the last point is idol sacrifice. We have talked about ideal sacrifice. Now the idol sacrifice, the meaning of idol means lazy, unwanted, half-hearted and unacceptable. So we can read this in the example of Keynes and Abel's offering. We can get the idea of ideal and idol sacrifice. Genesis chapter 4, 3 and 4 says, in the course of time, Keynes brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering and Abel also brought and offering fat portions from some of the first born of his father. Clearly mentioned, Keynes brought some of the fruits which was unwanted, half-hearted, unacceptable sacrifice to God. But Abel bring the fat portions and the healthy portion of the first born and the best offerings to God because he is the best and he deserves the best. So I think this is the way we should keep all the glory and adoration to God by presenting our bodies, wholesome sacrifice to God through a living, loving and acceptable way. And thank you for listening to this sermon. God bless you. Praise be to God. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much, Prabhakar. That was good. Praise God. Yeah, it was quite a good. I actually wrote down the title as idol, you know, IDOL. I didn't, only towards the end, when you explained the word, I got the meaning of it and I changed it. Yeah, so ideal and idol. Okay, right. So it was good, very practical explanation and quite an in-depth one actually about sacrifices and the nature of sacrifice and how Christ sacrificed himself and so on. So beautifully explained and a lot of scripture. I think, yeah, so maybe 12 minutes was not enough to go into all the scripture and explain. Because I think each one of those scripture references are worth going into and reading and really soaking in that word. Because the whole subject of sacrifice, there's so much to understand. There's so much to also, there's some things that we can transfer. There's some things which we cannot. For example, the nature of Christ's sacrifice, well, he did it for us. It's a substitutionary act and we just enjoy the benefits of it. There's no requirement of us to go the same path to do that and we would be erring and going into a kind of a performance or doing things in the place. If you were to do the same thing in our acceptance or towards acceptance. So the whole thing of sacrifices, we have already been accepted, we have already received. So we just enjoy the blessings of it. So that's so much to, but still so much to learn the motive with which the sacrifice was done, the way in which it was done. So beautifully explained as well. Thank you. Thank you so much. And also about idol sacrifice. I guess spending more time would really, some practical things also would have drawn out that aspect also if you had more time. So I think Kennedy has a question, what is hula brother? I missed that. So Prabhakar, you want to answer that question, Kennedy's question, what is hula? I think it was about sacrifice and the smoke rising up, that is what you refer to. But yeah, you can just go ahead and explain. Thank you. Thank you for the question, brother. Hula is the word that the meaning of burned offering, if we do like earlier it was a bull or a ram or bird, which was sacrificed for God and then it was burned. So the smoke ascended and it was acceptable to God as an incense. So it was the ascending offering or the burn offering is called as hula and the exact meaning of hula is that which ascends. So we can say the incense or the burnt offering. I hope you get the answer. Any feedback, anything from the class, anything that you'd like to share with Prabhakar or maybe any questions that you might have? Okay, I have a question about Harrison, you could not register. Harrison, you can still do that. You can go ahead and enter in that Google Sheet and I'll add you to the schedule. You can still do that. Not a problem. You could not register in the sense you were not able to. You're not able to register. Is that what you're saying? Harrison? Yes. Yes, I was not able. As in, you're not able to access the sheet? Yes, I was not able to access the sheet. Oh, is it? Okay. So if you go to classwork and if you go down to, you know, if you see that topic class activity, you know, there's a list there. Okay, let me just show that to you just a minute. Okay, so you go to this section. I don't know. This is what my screen looks like, but yours could be a little different. So you have the stream where, you know, the link is there. So then you have the classwork. So under class activity, there is this list, sermon topic, right? And there's a Google sheet listed there. So all you have to do is click on that and it will, it should take you to the sheet here. Are you able to see this? Yes. Yeah, so that's it. So you just enter it here and you can, yeah, 30 names are already there. You can enter it here. And then you have the second tab which is here, which gives you the schedule, presentation schedule. So we have Prabhakar here who's just completed. So we have that. So, yeah, so you can check on your schedule next. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Okay. So, okay, so who's next? Next we have Prabhakar Srikumar. Yeah, Srikumar, go ahead, please. Thank you, master. Sorry, Srikumar, your mic is muted. I don't know if you started already. No, sir. I'm just trying to share the. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, sure. Okay. Okay. Okay. In the meantime, Rupa says that she will present next time. So if anyone else is ready, you can do that. Let's see if we have the time. Yeah. If anyone else is ready, you can present in Rupa's place. Here's Srikumar's presentation. Srikumar, I think there's some issue. It's kind of, yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Oh, no, I think you should avoid doing that. So this is okay. You may not be able to see the class, I think, if you make it full screen, but that's fine. Okay, let's wait for Srikumar to come in. He's come back. Sorry, sir. Yeah. I know what he's doing. No problem. No, is it okay? Yeah, it's fine. Perfect. Go ahead, please. Thank you. Thank you. Very good morning. Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus. Today my topic is who are we in Christ? This is one of the important topics which I always felt that this thing, which it's not just a topic. It should be our identity. It should be our image, which we always carry in our life. Because it is something which is it is something which we always should know. This is the only reason God has sent Jesus in our life. God has sent Jesus in our life. The Bible, through this message, through this message, I want to just present something very important. The expectation with this message is we should know. I just want to tell you about the image in Christ, position in Christ, authority in Christ. The identity is our vital need in our day-to-day life. It's so important that how we should have the confidence on our identity. Many of us use our passport, we use our identity card to get access to our day-to-day needs. It should be given from the government authority and it should be authorized from the government authority. It should not be a fake authority. If you have a fake authority, you may face the consequences of that. You may be legally you may face the consequences. But if you have the authenticate authority or the true authority which is from the government, which proves that this is your name, this is who you are, you can get easily access into any organization, if you want to travel to any town or a city. Like I said, that it is a passport is an identity card and it's a day-to-day life, our authority card for our college admission, for to take a telephone connection. You need the identity card. It is in the same way in our spiritual walk with Jesus. On the spiritual walk with Jesus, we need an identity. We need to know our identity which comes from the government of the kingdom of God or the government of God and it's very important. It's very important that this knowledge will keep you in a safe zone. This knowledge will always enable you to win over your enemy. Many of us are in a dangerous zone because even though we are going to church, we are doing so many things, but we lack this one thing that who we are in Christ, who we are in Christ, who we are in Christ. The enemy take the advantage of the ignorance that who we are in Christ. If you don't, if you don't sure, if you are not sure about that who you are in Christ, you are in a dangerous zone. Enemy have an access. I want to take you to Genesis chapter 3-4 where it clearly says that the Satan tempted the woman and said that if you eat this fruit, you shall be as God. You shall be as God. But if you read the Genesis chapter 127, the Bible very clearly says that God has created them in the image of God because of the ignorance of who they are in God. That was the reason which tempted them to fall into sin, which tempted them to eat the fruit, which was forbidden them to eat. Hallelujah. And this is the reason with even we believers also that we don't know who we are. And that's where we just mess up our life and we just because of the lack of knowledge, because of the lack of the truth of this one thing that who we are in Christ, that may bring problems in our life. Even if you read the Luke chapter 4-3, Satan always tried to attack our identity. Even if you read how he tried to tempt Jesus, how he turned to Adam and the woman, the same way he tempted Jesus also. If you read Luke chapter 4-3, that was his question that are you the Son of God? If you are the Son of God, then tell the stone, command the stone to become bread. Hallelujah. So Jesus got the victory because he was knowing that who he is. He was knowing that he is Christ. He's knowing that he is the Son of God. If you read Luke 2267, before his crucifixion, the priest asked, are you the Christ? Are you the Christ? At the point of death, at the point of death, Jesus was confident on his image, on his identity. Yes, I am the Son of God. I am the image of God. I am the Christ. Hallelujah. Many times when we go through the trials and the temptations, we used to think that, oh God, you have you have forsaken me. You have just left me. No, God has never. We are connected with God and that confession should always be there in our mind, in our spirit, that our image is in God and God has a purpose in our life. I just when before we came to Christ, we were in the image of Adam and as an image of Adam, we were sinners. What was our condition? What was our image? In the Isaiah chapter 59, 2, separated from God. We were separated from God. If you read John chapter 34, we were slaves to sin. If you read Ephesians chapter 2, 12 says, we lived without hope. We were enmity with God according to Romans 5, 7. We were enmity with God. We were destined to death. That was our condition before we came to Christ. But once we came to Christ, our image in Christ is changed. Identity changed. We became a child of God, not with the human will, but this is the will of God. Hallelujah. And we became the hair of God. We became a new creation. The righteousness of God was given unto us. We became the temple of the Holy Spirit. Once we came to Christ, our image is changed. Our identity is changed. Hallelujah. And the Bible says our position changed. We were once separated from God. Now we are seated with Him. Ephesians chapter 2, 6 says that we are seated with Him. We are one with Him. And Pollution chapter 1, 13 says, He delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom, into His kingdom. Our position is shifted. And the Hebrew chapter 4, 16 says we are having access to the throne of grace. In the past, as I said, we were without God. We were separated from God. But once we receive Jesus as our Savior, our image and our position is changed. We are having access to the throne of grace. That's the Bible says. Hallelujah. Now our relationship with Christ, because of the image of Christ, once we receive Jesus, our image is changed. Our position is changed. Our relationship with God is changed. We are one with Him in the Spirit. The Bible says in the 1st Corinthians chapter 6, 17 says we are one with Him in Spirit. Pollution chapter 3, 4 says Christ become our life. Hallelujah. Christ become our life. Hallelujah. Once we were subject to death, death was our destiny. But once we receive Jesus as our Savior, as the Brother Prabhakar said, He became a sacrifice for us and we receive that sacrifice. He became our life. Because of His death, we receive the life and we became one with Him. How we function with the, how we become a steward in Christ Jesus. See, once we become, once we have this identity, it's not just to go into the church and coming back, no. We have to function in that identity. We are called to be the steward in that identity. And we are called to function in faith. We are called to function in faith. It's not just once you receive Jesus taking baptism, you can leave your life how you want. No. Now we are connected. Now we are one with Christ. There is a function in faith. There is a position God has given to us. First position, as per 1 Peter 2 9, you are called to function in faith as a royal priest and a peculiar people. You are the master of the whole estate. You operate as a son of God. You are seated with Christ and ruled or you are like an overcomer over every circumstances. You are not called to walk in timidity. You are called to walk in boldness. You are called to walk in strength to strength, glory to glory because God says in the Romans chapter 8 37, God has made you more than overcomer. You are over covered in every circumstances because you are one with Christ Jesus and you are a hair of God. You are a hair of God. You have the access to enjoy every glorious riches which God has kept for us. Hallelujah. And the authority in Christ, the God has given us authority. As I said, we are having the function in Christ when you are in function. Now we use the authority in Christ in our image. Now we are having the authority in Christ. What is that authority? The Bible says he has given us authority to trample on snakes and the scorpions to overcome all the power, all the power of the enemy and nothing will harm you. This scripture I really like. You know this prescription, you always meditate when you obey, every day you meditate this scripture. It always says that you can overcome all the power of the enemy. There is none can overcome you. When the God made you an overcomeer, the authority which God has given to you, it is from the kingdom, it is from the government of God. You can trample every plan of the devil, every power of the scorpion, every power of the snakes and nothing can harm you. And Matthew 28, 16, 20 says the God has given us the authority to baptize the people, to preach the gospel, make them the disciples. This is too important authority which God has given to us. Then we know the true identity in Christ Jesus. This is our authority and the end I want to encourage you. Don't leave like an ordinary Christian. Leave in Christ. Know your identity. Use your position, function as a good steward and use the full advantage what the God has given into your life. Thank you. May God bless you. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, Shrikma. Wow. It was very nice. Quite a fiery preaching and reiteration of the truth. Thank you so much. Wonderful. Wonderful. Such a blessing. Yeah. Yeah. So image, position, authority, function, all wonderful, wonderful things. And yeah, for me, personal takeaway, what you mentioned earlier on, for me personally, like the authority, authentic authority, I think that was a good phrase, authentic authority, something that's real, genuine, right? It's not fake. An authentic authority gives you access. That's brilliant, right? Just like an ID card. If it's real, if it's authentic, it was, you know, it gives you access to the God to give you access to everything, authority and influence and all that amazing, right? Yeah. I kind of lost, I totally enjoyed the message. There's nothing, you know, there's not a point for us, but I was just wondering about the, you know, the arrangement of it. So that is all, that's just me, my mind immediately go, okay, what is the second thing? What is the third thing? So I was just trying to do this thing, but then absolutely no issues at all. Were you walking around and preaching? Were you sitting? I could imagine you just walking around the room, pacing around the room and preaching. Maybe we should cut you loose and let you do that. It's good. It's like, you know, it's like a powerful, you know, rain of truth, right? And that's what God's word, God's truth does, you know, just, yeah, so very, very inspiring and very nice. Thank you. So of course, again, mindful of time and also arrangement. So those are the two things that I would say, which would make it even better. But it's like, I think something like TDJX, you know, sometimes you just lose the plot, you know, it's like, okay, but no, no problem, just keep going, keep going preacher. I'm just receiving the truth. It is like that. So good, wonderful. Thank you. Okay, so we, yeah. Okay. Right. Nice. Okay, so Rupa is, Rupa says that she will do it next time. So is there anyone else who wants to share? Otherwise, like I really don't have anything else planned. So if there's anyone else who would like to share, that's fine. Otherwise, I think we can close. We have 10 more minutes left, but we can wind up. We can just, so is there anyone who wants to share? No. Okay, maybe we can just play one preaching game. Okay. So what I'll do is, okay, let's do this. Maybe we can just, we can have time for two people. We have 10 minutes, right? So, so just five minutes for each message. Okay. So I'm just going to pick anyone randomly. And I'm just going to give you a scripture verse. Okay. So you take five minutes. Maybe you can take a minute to read the scripture, but you just start preaching off. You know, it's just like, just off the bat. Right. So you read the scripture and you just start preaching from it. Maybe just read it to understand it. Maybe take a few seconds to do that, but take five minutes to that. Okay. Ready? Okay. I can, can I see some hands? Go up. Just to say that you're ready. Okay. Two hands have gone up. Okay. Wonderful. Rupa's hand has also gone up. Okay. So these are the three people we have. Okay. Let's, okay. So what we can do is also, anyone wants to suggest a scripture? Okay. A scripture verse. Just put it on the chat. Okay. The first one that comes up. Okay. But we will also read it. We will also read and see if it's, you know, kind of suitable. So somebody can put a scripture, just one verse. Okay. Not very, okay. I was expecting John 316. Okay. So John 316, Tarun's hand is still up. So I'll ask Tarun to share. Okay. Tarun, your time starts now. John 316, we like to share. Go ahead. Okay. So John 316 says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Now, this is the core verse of evangelizing and in fact, presenting Jesus as the Savior. And it is the love of Christ that is presented in one verse, totally packed and straight to the point. So if we read a verse, it says, okay. I just wanted to read the verses before. John 315 says that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. And verse 17 says, for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of Christ, son of God. Now, the entire Gospel of John that has been presented is a presentation of the love of Christ. And this is one of the core verses which presents to a non-believer the love of Christ. So the core of this message is the belief in the Son of God. So it's only through believing in him that we can be saved. I just wanted to think through an illustration. Now, if you generally, let's say, you wanted to make a bird a friend of you. So it's very difficult for the bird to trust you because you are so different and you are so huge and the way you move around and it's so scary for a simple bird. But if the bird can actually understand and it's a matter of trust and a matter of faith for the bird for it to understand that you are okay. So if you become a bird for a minute, you can always interact with the bird and say that, okay, it's okay, it's just me. Even though I am big, it is okay to interact with me. So it's an analogy like that. God is so big in the Old Testament. We know that when God really appeared and he wanted to interact with people, people actually run away and they say, Moses, you go and talk to God because God is so big. But God sending his Son is into the world and allowing him to become human is something like a man becoming bird and interacting with the bird and telling the bird it's okay. So you have the bird, there is a relationship that is established when you come into the same level. There is a relationship that's established when you humble yourself into the same level. And it's an amazing expression of love because if I have to speak to my son, I stoop down and sometimes I literally get onto the floor, go to him face to face and I interact. And that's exactly what the father is doing here. He has presented his love through his son, sending him. Although there are so many other reasons like he paying for the sins and the ultimate sacrifice, if we take it as the expression of he humbling down being so mighty, we know that the God's love is an amazing love which could reach out to you at whatever level you are in so that you go and get it to the same level and understand him. So this verse actually packs up the entire message of the gospel in one. Thank you. Thank you, Dharan. That was wonderful. Good. That was a completely different take from what one would expect. That was good. Yeah, about becoming reaching out to the one by relating to that person and reaching out. Wow, wonderful. Okay. Next, okay, Matthew 5.8 was there for a long time. So I don't want to give the next person the benefit of that advantage of that. Okay. So who's the next person? Is it Mangi? Okay. So can you put some other verse please? Say maybe you can put another verse. Yes, we won't go with Matthew 5. We have Genesis 1.1. Okay, Mangi. Genesis 1.1. Is Mangi there? Yes, I am. Okay, go ahead. Genesis 1.1. Okay, we find it. Reach it. Come on. Okay. Well, thank you so much. Well done. Yeah, this is a good verse but also had to reach at the same time. Genesis 1.1 says, in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. This is an interesting verse in the age we are living in because scientists argues that there was a big bang and the earth was created by chance and there's no way that there was someone in an intelligent being who designed and ordained everything to happen. And us as believers believe that there is a God, there is one person who before and thought everything in his head, in his mind and through his word and through the power of the Holy Spirit, he created heaven and the earth. So I know this is a subject that can take 10 hours to explain, but explaining it in 5 minutes, it's a challenge to itself. So let's begin. In the beginning, the issue that we find and we get as believers is trying to to box God, to imagine how God did it. And if we try to think of the ways and how God made everything to be impossible to come to conclusion, so we must try to look things in God's own perspective. Like Brother Thalom said, he is so big and we cannot try to think of him or we cannot imagine how big he is because we are limited to our perspective of him. So he gave us only this word here in the beginning, he created heaven and the earth. So we must believe because he said his word is true and we believe in him. So we must believe that he created heaven and the earth. And he is the sustainer of the heaven and the earth. And as believers, he gave us this word, his word is Bible, so that we can understand him. And there's no way to be in the bush or to go to the left or the right and try to find answers that will prove the answers we don't have. We can look at the dinosaurs, we can look at at the fossils that say they are millions of years old, but there's no evidence that suggests that the things are millions of years old. But one thing we assure often, one thing we know is that he said that in the beginning, God himself created heaven and the earth. And we must rest assured and stand on that truth that he and himself created it. If we try to find answers outside, we'll only go astray, unless if we find answers to support what he said and walk in obedience to his word. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Okay, good effort, Maggie. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that. Yeah, it's an interesting verse not to preach from in the beginning. So Bible just assumes that God created in the beginning God created. So there was a beginning and actually the Hebrew says in the eternal past, you know, God created and good references for Christian apologetics. Absolutely. Yeah. So thank you. It was fun. You guys have a great weekend and we'll catch up on Monday, right? Yeah. Okay. God bless. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you, Pastor. Yeah, see you guys. Bye.