 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session. Trust that each one of y'all had a great weekend. So even before we could begin the session, request one of y'all to start the session with the word of prayer, please. Jefina, would you like to pray? Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you under the name of Jesus. I thank you for this beautiful, beautiful, beautiful class that we are about to have. God, we invite the Holy Spirit to lead us. We ask you to fill us with your knowledge, with your strength and with your wisdom. As we learn a lot of things, let us put that in our life. Let us apply it on our life and be a blessing to the nation. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Jefina. It was a wonderful prayer. Well, what is expected from this class is I request all the students to keep your Bible ready so that we can take turns to read the scripture as we quote, because we're going to study on the word. And second is I need active, you know, response. I request all to please unmute and, you know, ask questions or answer when if asked any question. It would be, you know, good interactive session. Okay, so before we could start with our session, I just want to post which I received, which I came across yesterday, a small comic on the four Gospels. I'll just share, just for love, as others log in. Here we see a teacher. Can anyone just read that? Matthew Mark and Luke, see me after the class Y. Your book reports are surprisingly similar. Just, I thought I'd just share this comic with you all. Okay, so as, okay, as our students are joining in, I hope everyone have received the notes and I request each one of you all to please go through your notes. Go through your notes so that when we study through the notes, I would, you all can share about, you know, who's the author, the writing, the purpose, the keywords, the outline. I request you all to give those information and then we can go through the chapters, the main incident, what does book talk about, the background of the book, of each book. So, so before I could start, so the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew Hemseth and it is one of the earliest official accounts about Jesus of Nazareth, which talks about his life, death and his resurrection and we also see the history tells us that, tells us for about 30 to 40 years, the Apostles orally thought had passed on the eyewitness account about Jesus, about the teaching that he thought when he was there and most of all were shared like the memory, whatever they memorized, you know, they started sharing with each other. And we also see that Matthew has collected all this information and arranged them accordingly and he designed this book. And in this class, we will specifically discuss about the Gospel of Matthew to show that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy. And the biblical story talks about God in the Israelites and the three things we focus on that Jesus is the Messiah who came from the line of David and that he is a new authoritative teacher like Moses. That's what the Gospel of Matthew portrays Jesus as, that he is the new Moses. And not only that, the third point we see in the book of the Gospel of Matthew is that God with us, the Hebrew name is Emmanuel, which makes us believe and claim even today that God is with us. So Matthew designed this book with an introduction and we see a very beautiful introduction he gives with start with a genealogy and then he also concludes and this act like a very good framework that concludes the teaching of Jesus. And now we see different sections in the Gospel of Matthew. We see how the whole chapter from Matthew chapter one till Matthew chapter 28. Okay, there are about seven section that talks about certain topics that covers certain topics. Well, Matthew chapter one to three. Please make a note in your Bible. Okay, Matthew chapter one to three talks about the introduction to Jesus. So they set a stage by attaching Jesus story right from the storyline of the Old Testament scriptures. With that we can move on to the next set that is next section that is from chapter four till chapter seven where Matthew announces. He announced about the God's kingdom, the kingdom of God and then the next section, the third section from chapter eight to chapter 10. We see Jesus brings kingdom into people's life where he starts sharing the message of the kingdom of God. And also we see people accepting that message, receiving it with all their art. Now who are these people? When we study the book of Matthew, we see that wherever Jesus passed by, there was a huge crowd following him. There was a crowd following him. So wherever Jesus was there was crowd following. Now why did this crowd follow Jesus? Open to class, can you all share? Why did there was a huge crowd following Jesus and what type of people were there? What were the different mindset of people who were following Jesus? Yes, I think people who wanted healing. Yes, people who wanted healing, miracles. Next, they want to hear Jesus teaching the good news. Yes, brother. Anyone else? Some for food, okay. Interesting. Yes. Some to find out. Some to just watch his words to trap him down. Yes. Yes, like the Pharisees of those days. Yes. Anyone else? So yes, there was a huge crowd following Jesus. There were different type of people. Some were just spectators. They just want to watch what Jesus is doing. They didn't receive anything, but they just watched. Some follow Jesus to judge him. Some follow Jesus to find fault in him, to accuse him, to kill him, to find some reason so that they can put him to death. Some genuinely follow Jesus for the kingdom of God, for the message that he was sharing. See, those are the people who received the healing. Now, who are these people who received healing, who followed, who received the teaching of Jesus? Who do you think? These were not the religious people. These were not the religious people. They were not from that background. So these were the people who genuinely, you know, they were waiting for Messiah. The minute they heard from people, hey, he's the Messiah, he's the one that John the Baptist was sharing or talking about, immediately these people followed Jesus. And wherever Jesus went, wherever Jesus went, there was huge people following him. You know, there was no social media those days to share the message and pass on the message about the meeting scheduled here. But then they did their best to pass on the message, but then more or more often the message passed by the word of mouth. And we see how people traveled with their children, with everything that they had just to listen to his word. And that's the reason we see that Jesus, you know, Matthew 14, 14 says that Jesus moved with compassion. And whenever he moved with compassion over people, we see signs, wonders, miracles happen genuinely. People just followed. They were many. They know they will not get food. They know that they have to sacrifice a lot, but still they followed Jesus. And these are the ones who actually had an encounter with Jesus. They received Jesus as the Messiah. Well, as we cover that in Matthew 8 to 10, chapter 8 to 10, chapter 11 to 13, we see the different responses to Jesus from the people and from the religious leaders around, as we talked about, somewhere genuine and somewhere to find fault, to trap him and to kill him. Well, with this, we will move on to the next section that is Matthew chapter 14 to 20, which talks about the different expectation about the Messiah from people. They had a different expectation. They expected him to be born as a king and need to be rich and royal power, or the one who's come to abolish the Roman kingdom. You know, they had different expectations, but then Jesus says, I've not come here to set you free from the Romans, but then I have come here to give you, to announce the kingdom of God, set you free from the bondage of sin and slavery. With that, we will move on to the next section that is section 6, chapter 21 to 25, which talks about the clash of kingdoms. There are two different kingdom, kingdom of light and kingdom of darkness and Jesus comes to Jerusalem. And we also see Jesus coming to Jerusalem for the Passover, writing on a donkey and how his action speaks louder than words. How the way he cleared the tables in the market, where the people had set up a marketplace in the temple and Jesus was, he was filled with so much of anger because they have made the house of God as the place of dance. So he just moved the tables. He just took a whip and whipped certain people because this is the place of worship and not a marketplace. And why did Jesus do like that? Was it right? Why did Jesus' action was like this? Is it okay to be angry to whip people? What do you think? Yeah, I think he was right because basically they were more focused on the business than on the religion, selling in the place of worship. So they were more focused on the business than the religion. And he wanted them to focus on the religion. Brother, anyone else? Brother Subashish, Brother Lubega, anyone from the class? Niki? Why did Jesus react so bad? Anyone? That's okay. Please feel free to share. Jeffina, anyone from the class? Zellie, Tholi? I think it is also to fulfill one of the prophecies, which I don't remember the reference exactly. Seal for your house will consume me. I think it's in Sam, but I don't remember the reference exactly. Okay. Anyone else? I think it's in Sam, 69, 9. Seal for your house will consume me and the mockeries of those insult you fall on me. Okay. Anyone else? Thanks, John. Anyone else would like to add to it? Simple because Jesus, you know, simply to make it as a house of God once again, it was a place of worship, not a place to, you know, where they were focused to make money. And that to these money exchangers were not, were not dealing with people rightly because people used to travel from very far off places to come to the temple of Jerusalem and make sacrifice and actually these money lenders were looting money from people. And they used to sell the animals or the offering, you know, because they used to not carry it from very far off. They used to buy the sheep's, the sheep's and all the sacrificial like the turtle doves and or any kind of animal for the sacrifice. And they used to sell at a very high price, maybe two times or three times higher than what it used to be. And they were hard was only for the money and not for the people or not for God. So Jesus cleansed the temple as it meant to be the house of God and not a house of men or for the merchants or for money. So here and if Jesus had to tell in a very peaceful manner and these people were not in a position to hear to him because they are hard, the hearts were hardened. So he had to literally take a whip, throw the tables down and chase them out of the temple because he had the authority. He had the authority and he did that and people listened and this is what happened and it was good to have an holy anger to do something to set some things right in place. Well, Matthew 26 to 28 we see the conclusion where Jesus celebrating the Passover meal with his disciples and here we see in that class chapter 28 verse 19 we see the great commission that Jesus giving to his disciples. And there are a few questions that I would like to check and ask and share with you. So what do we know about the author of this book, Matthew? These are the certain questions that we would be asking and as we study each and every book. So I request you all to please go through the background. Please know certain details about the author of each book so that we can share and learn together in the class and keep it more interactive. So what do we know about the author of the book of Matthew? What is the Gospel of Matthew says? Yes, please go ahead. He was a tax collector. Yes. Good. Thank you. He was a tax collector. Anyone else? Hated by the Jews. Yes, because he was a tax collector. He was also hated by the Jews. True. Anyone else? Brother Isaac, Brother Lubega, Brother Subashish. Anyone else? Jeffina? He was a tax collector. He was working on behalf of the Roman government as an agent. Yes. Yes. Yes. Right. Thank you. So he is known in Matthew chapter 9 verse 9. Can I request one of us to please turn to Matthew chapter 9 verse 9 please. Matthew 9. Yes. Jesus was walking along. He saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector's booth. Follow me and be my disciple. Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Very nice. And we also, can I request one of you all to read Luke chapter 5 verse 27 to 32 or just the verse 27. Luke 5, 27. Luke 5, 27. After these things, he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office and he said to him, follow me. Thank you. Thank you, Rosalind. So what do we see from these two scriptures? We see that Matthew was known by two names. Certain people called him as Matthew and certain people called him as Levi because he was from that tribe. And the second point we see that in Mark 2 chapter 14, Mark chapter 2 verse 14. Can I also request another person to turn to? Okay. I think we already read Matthew 9, 9 and Luke 5, 27. If anyone has taken our turn to Mark chapter 2 verse 14, please go ahead. As he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax office and he said to him, follow me so he arose and followed him. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Rosalind. So what we see here is that Matthew had two names. One was Matthew and the other was Levi and he was a Jew and son of Alphaeus. And we also see the third point here that he was a tax collector by occupation. When we say tax collector by occupation, what is the background? So as a tax collector, he worked for the Roman government, which was hated by the Jews being a Jew that he served for Romans. That means you're against your own people collecting the tax from your own community. So usually the Jews hated the tax collectors and Levi being a Jew, he was hated by his own community people. Have anyone watched the show of Chosen? You all can just raise your hand. Good. We have one person to Rosalind. Okay, I would request you all to just go. There are about two seasons. Each season has about eight episodes. Request you all to please watch so that when we study on the gospel about the disciples, we'll have a background picture where we can relate to it. One more thing, we need to remember these are creative. Okay, so they would have added certain things that may not be in the Bible, but to form a storyline. But not all that has been shown maybe in the scripture, but then yes, they have tried to focus on the scripture to narrate the story and bring a greater understanding for us in this for our generation. So request everyone to please watch Chosen. It is nice. Yes, I'm not promoting, but then it's good for us to watch where we will be blessed with that. So it is an app we need to download and watch. So as I teach, even I'm relating to the story where how the Jewish people hated Matthew. Sorry, I'm just clearing my throat. He hated Matthew for being the tax collector. He was also, you know, he could not be a common man who can live among them. You need to be guarded by the Roman soldiers because people hated him. They used to stone him. You know, they ill treated this person, but then as a tax collector, he was illiterate. He was well educated. He was bilingual and a Roman sympathizer. And third point we see about the tax collectors are they were the ones who had kept the detailed records. So what happened because of his work nature, it helped Matthew to to note down all the details of Jesus as he was following Jesus. He could note on all most of the incidents that took place during the time when he was with Jesus. So it helped Matthew to prepare this document on the Gospel of Matthew. Give me a minute please. And as a tax collector, they were usually very rich tax collectors were considered the traitors by the people and they were also despised. And you know, they were despised to certain extent that they were not allowed to enter the temple and the high priest would not even pray for them. They were hated by people. So the tax collectors or the publicans were considered lower than thieves and prostitutes on the Jewish social register. With this background, we will move on to the next point as a tax collector. He was known to have been there were many tax collectors. So they were known to be killed by the zealots. There were certain set of people who were revolting against these tax or the Roman government. So many of the tax collectors were killed by these zealots and we also should remember that one of Jesus' disciples was Simon the zealot also was there. So was one among the disciples of Jesus. So Matthew seemed to have an obsession with money. I can't say obsession with money. Yes, he was good in handling the money and it is interesting that he makes two accounts that that is only present in the Gospel of Matthew. That is Jesus paying the temple tax from the coin of a fish's mouth, which we read in Matthew 17. And we also see that it is interesting that we also see one of the record that is bribing of the Roman guard to say that the disciples had stolen the body of Jesus. That is in the last chapter in Matthew 28, we see that he brings a note on that. So what we see here is he makes keen attention towards the money or towards how people spoke about money. So he records even the small simple things that may have missed by the other apostles, but then Matthew pays attention because he would have been familiar with the corruption among the Roman soldiers those days. So he being there among them serving and working among them. So you know, you knew the mindset of people. So he brings this to our notice. And with that we will move on to the next point. We see that he was also called by Jesus when we read Mark chapter 214. He was called by Jesus himself. That is when he was sitting in the receipt of the tax office, Jesus looks at him and says, Matthew, follow me. Now why did Jesus do to Matthew when there were so many other people? Why did Jesus choose a tax collector? That was one of the questions raised by Pharisees. When you sit and dine with the tax collectors, you have conversation with them. Then Matthew immediately, the minute Jesus called him, follow me, Matthew left his office immediately without even a second thought and he followed Jesus. And as he followed Jesus, we also see that, you know, Jesus said, I'm going to come to your house and dine with you. And the minute that happened, Matthew, you know, he welcomes Jesus to his house and he also invites the other tax collectors to have dinner and meet with Jesus. We see that has been recorded in the Gospel of Luke chapter 5 verse 27 to 32. So as we studied this about the tax collector, the background, what they are and how Matthew was open to receive Jesus and follow him without any question. And he also invited the other tax collectors to meet with Jesus. With that, we also should see, when was this book of Matthew written? You'll have your notes. Can you all tell me when was this book of Matthew written? It was between 50 to 60 AD. Yes. Thank you, Rosalind. Rosalind, I also see your hand been raised. Sorry, I didn't notice it before. That was for some, you asked who saw chosen. Okay. No worries. Okay. Yes. Our notes says about 50 to 60 AD. Yes. While the date of writing, as you know, even in the Old Testament, as I kept telling the date of the writing may not be accurate, perfect. But then yes, just for the record sake, we can approximately consider this year as 50 to 60. Some of the records says 50 to 69 AD. That most scholars place a date for this book. So we see that in Matthew 27, verse eight, that use of phrase until this day. That means suggest that he wrote something after certain events that are been already recorded or occurred. So therefore, we see that in Matthew, chapter 27, verse eight, therefore the fields had been called the fields of blood to this day. That means all these events had taken place. All these events had taken place and with the money that whatever they received from Judas, they bought that place and it has been called the field of blood to this day. So certain incidents were already occurred and he wrote this book much later. However, we see later in later chapters, we see that it was likely written before the destruction of Jerusalem. In 70 AD, because he refers to the city of Jerusalem has the city of a great king. He writes about the temple, the impending trouble and the holy city. That means this book was written before the destruction of Jerusalem. That is before the 70 AD. As we covered the date of writing, can we look into whom was this book addressed to? Whom did the Gospel of Matthew was written for? I think it was written for all of us, but particularly it was written for the Jews. Yes, thank you. The Gospel of Matthew was written to the Jewish people and it is also referred as the Gospel to the Jews. It is believed that this intended audience was Jewish people for a couple of reasons. There are a few reasons why the scholars say that the Gospel of Matthew was written to the Jews. The first point was that it is very clear that he was writing to the people who were very familiar with the prophecies of the Old Testament. Matthew makes over 60 references to the Old Testament in his 28 chapters. The second point we see is that it is also clear that he was writing to a people who had an expectation of the coming of the Messiah. Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy, there was a great expectancy for the Messiah to appear during this time frame. So the Jews were actually expecting for the Messiah to manifest himself as a king and deliver the Jewish people from the Roman rule or from the Roman bondage. So the signs of the true Messiah would be fulfillment of the promise and the prophecies in the Old Testament. So as we spoke about this, what was the purpose of this book? Can anyone say the purpose of this book? The purpose would be to show the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah that they were waiting for? Yes, exactly. Thank you. Thank you, Rosalind. Yes, the purpose of this book is just to show the Jewish people that Jesus is the Messiah that you are waiting for. In a couple of ways, Matthew demonstrates this. First, he demonstrates that Jesus has the correct bloodline to qualify as the Messiah. That's why he goes back to the royal descendant and links the other covenant men in the Old Covenant from Abraham to David and then till Jesus. He brings in the 14th generation when we calculate 14 and 14. So he proves conclusively that Jesus' life was a succession of one fulfilled prophecy after another. First, he proves the royal descendant and second, he proves the prophecy has been fulfilled in Jesus. So he is the Messiah. So that's the reason that Matthew quotes about 60 promises of the Old Testament quotes in the New Testament. And then the third we see before that. Yeah, I see Lubega been raised. Yes, brother. Yes, brother. I see your hand been raised to Brother Lubega. You would like to share something? Okay, yes, there's no answer. Okay, there's some problem. Okay, well, we'll continue. So the third point we see here is Matthew intentionally shows that the coming of Messiah is the coming to reign over the spiritual kingdom and not the natural kingdom because the Jewish people were expecting the Messiah to come and deliver them from the hands of the Roman government. But here Matthew is showing that Jesus is the Messiah and he is not here to deliver you from the natural kingdom. But then Jesus is here to deliver you from the kingdom of darkness, the spiritual kingdom. He's talking about the spiritual kingdom and Matthew is the only gospel that uses the phrase kingdom of heaven and whereas Luke and Mark uses the phrase as kingdom of God. So Matthew uses the kingdom of heaven so that it shows that Jesus came here to set the kingdom of heaven among us. And there are many phrases we can see between when we compare the book of Matthew and the book of Mark and Luke. Many places Matthew addressed the kingdom of God as kingdom of heaven and whereas Mark and Luke addresses as the kingdom of God. So with that we will move on to the next point. What are the things that Mark this book as the book of the kings? Book of the kings, there are several elements in the gospel of Matthew that shows that this is the book of kings. Well the Old Testament prophets declared that the Messiah would indeed come as a king which was prophesied by Isaiah in chapter 9 saying for unto us a child is born and unto us a son has been given and the government will be upon his shoulder and his name will be called the wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father prince of peace. And there are other prophecies also where Matthew brings and highlight in his book about prophecy from Jeremiah Zechariah and also he shows that Jesus kingly genealogy in Matthew chapter 1 and Matthew chapter 2 he shows that Jesus kingly visit and in Matthew chapter 2-2 he shows that Jesus kingly titled and in Matthew chapter 2 verse 6 we see that Jesus kingly function and again in Matthew 3 we see that Jesus kingly for runner and Jesus kingly laws and Matthew 5 verse 22 you know it goes on in many chapters how Matthew portrays that Jesus is the true king is from the royal descendant. What is the other things that we can take a note from the book or from the gospel of Matthew? That Jesus demonstrating the authority of the kingdom of God from this book. So we see that Jesus is been seen in this book of Matthew as having all power and all authority. He portrays Jesus is the one who is the king who has the power and authority and this power of the king is been demonstrated in several ways. So as a king of kingdom Jesus is the supreme over everything. Over Matthew portrays like Jesus is the supreme over the people over the sickness and disease. We see how Jesus healed the paralysis of the sufferings. We see many miracles that Matthew has noted in this gospel. We also see that Jesus has the power over the illness and over disease where he can also bring the sight to the blind heal the leprosy and he also has the power over the weather condition. He stops the wind and the waves. He had the power over the atmosphere. He had power over the temple. He had power over the sin where he could forgive the paralytic man and he was healed immediately. Your sins are forgiven, take your bed and walk, he says. He had power over the demons. Demons fled at the very presence of Jesus. We see Jesus has the power over the nature. He had the power over the history and many other things. I request you all to study this book in detail so that we know how Jesus moved and taught during the time. And this account has been recorded. We need to make a note that this has been recorded by Matthew who was the eyewitness Jesus. He moved. He lived with Jesus. He saw. He has seen every miracle with his own eyes and year. He is writing. He is writing for you and me for us to know the impact that Jesus created. Even after a thousand years, it is the same. These are the account that is written for you and me for us to read, know, understand the true Messiah. And this God is living and is living among us. So here we see that the book ends with a surprising twist. The last chapter says the disciples, they discover after the death of Jesus, the tomb is empty. That means what? Jesus has been risen from the dead just as what he's been saying. They didn't have an understanding before, but now they understand what Jesus was talking about. And here Jesus is alive. And the book concludes that the risen Jesus, risen Jesus, you know, showing, appearing to his people. And Jesus is giving a great commission to people and Jesus say that he is now the true king of the world. And so he sends his disciples out to all the nation, go to all the nation and share the good news that Jesus is Lord. And that anyone can join this kingdom by being baptized and by following his teaching. And also this confirms the Hebrew name, the covenant name that Emmanuel, God with us, that he is a God who will be with us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. So from chapter one, what you say is that Jesus last word in the book of his disciples are that I will be with you. God with us. So it is a promise that Jesus presents until this day that he finally returns that he will be with us. Lastly, we need to pay attention to the types of people who accepted Jesus and followed him. And we will see that it's most often people who, you know, for whom it was very easy to accept him, who actually received many miracles and signs and wonders that Jesus could do among them is the people who were hated by others, who were left out, the people who were very unimportant, who were not religious. These are the people to whom Jesus ministered to because Jesus very clearly says, yes, he says that only the sick needs a doctor. And for the other people, the religious community for them, they could not accept Jesus as the Messiah for many reasons. From the knowledge what they learned or they could not accept his teaching, which was different. But the people who were unimportant were irreligious, who were hated by others, who were very poor. They didn't have any money to put a foot on their table. Well, these people followed Jesus very easily. They could receive him as the Messiah. They could receive the good news that has been shared. They could receive the news of the kingdom of heaven. And these are the people who were transformed by their trust and faith in Jesus and they followed him. Now, when we look at the set of disciples of Jesus, each one were very different. Each one were very different. They were different in their mindset, different in their nature. They were not very holy people that Jesus selected them. No, they were just common men and women who were like us and Jesus chose them. And even when they walked with Jesus, it was not that they were perfect. They failed in many areas, but still Jesus did not give up on them or Jesus did not point out. This is what you're doing or put them down, but then he embraced them with love and care. So this is what the Gospel of Matthew is. I will leave open discussion to the class for five minutes. You all can share something if there's anything you can add on. With that, we end the Gospel of Matthew. And yeah, if there's anything that you would like to share, add on, ask question, please feel free to go ahead. Or is there something that you learned, something new from this book? Or what are the points that we learned from this book if we can recap? Can I request each one to share one point, just one point from what was unique or what you learned, what got your attention? Jefina, we'll go with you. Can you share what you learned from this section? Yeah, I see Brother Subashish saying that holy anger sometimes needed to bring a change. Yes, yes, brother. Jefina, Lima, Lama, sorry, Aradna, John Paul, Niki, Zeltholi, please go ahead, one point. Either you can chat or you can unmute and speak. Learning was like Jesus came to this role to not only rule the physical world but more of a spiritual kingdom to establish the Kingdom of God. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Zeltholi. Yes, that is very important. That's what Matthew is portraying to establish the kingdom of heaven and not the natural kingdom. Yes, Brother Isaac, you would like to add or what is the one point that you would like to share from the book of Matthew? Overall, Matthew is portraying Jesus as the King and some people recognizing the King and some people rejecting the King, which actually gives us an insight of how people used to see Jesus in that age. Yes, yes. Thank you, John. Yes, Jesus is the King, the Messiah, the Jews were waiting for. There was a good portrayal of how Matthew portrayed in this Gospel. We also see Brother Subashish saying that we should never use ministry for our profit. That is for money making, but then it is to serve. Yes, we see how Jesus served people by giving to people. He never took from people and made the people poor, but then here Jesus blessed them. He blessed the poor with food and healing and deliverance. Yes, he moved in compassion for the people and we see a lot of miracles been recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. So with that, we will end the session, time's up. So can I request one of us to dismiss us with a word of prayer, please? Father, we pray that we would continue to dwell in your word. Yes, Lord. As we heard today, God help us to walk more closely with you and keeping you as our priority, Lord Jesus. We pray that we would continue to have that awe in our hearts that when you came to this world and you've been revealed as the Father's heart of God, we pray that we would also continue to walk in that reverence of knowing who you are and what you have done for us, Lord. We thank you for enabling Pastor Diana to share your word and we also submit all of us as a class to your presence and we pray to God that we would walk more closely with you and understanding what you have in store for us, God. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining in today's session. See you all tomorrow. God bless. Have a good day. Bye for now. Thank you. Thank you. God bless.