 So over to, so over to Jeffina. Jeffina, why don't you start off then? Then we'll come back. Please sir, can I do, because I'm going to office, can I be able to do first so that I can be able to move to the office, please? Yeah, you can, definitely. All right, thank you, good morning. I want to appreciate the girl for the privilege to give it to me, to present my presentation this morning. I'm going to talk about, I'm going to talk about wasted life, it's a wasted, wasted grace is a wasted life. Wasted grace, it's a wasted life. My question is coming from the second contract of the 6th, verse one and two. Second commentator, chapter six, verse one and two. I read verse one, we then as a workers together with A, beseeching also that year receive not the grace of God in vain, verse two. For instead, I have heard thee, in the time accepted, and in the days of salvation, as I call thee, behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation. What we're talking about wasted life, wasted grace, waste is a sinful in every realm. It never will be the circular, be in the ministry, be in the office, waste is a sinful in every realm. The more precious the commodity be wasted, the more sinful is wasted. The waste of energy has become more serious because of the energy shortage. The waste of the food has taken a new moral implication in an angry world. Can we imagine someone wasting a new meditation that gives permission to cure cancer? Now, I'm not related to the things of God because we, as I've said, God has given us grace to do his will. The most precious thing known to man is the grace of God. This is a term used to present the generosity of God that brings salvation. When God trusts us with his grace, and however, we misuse the grace of God, there is a danger. Praise the Lord. This is obvious, a rather serious matter. For whom is the apostle directing this appeal? The grace of God. The grace of God. When God gave us the power to heal the sick, when God gave us the power to heal the sick, and we have the power and be looking for medication, going to the hospital to go and cure cancer, when God has given us the grace to heal others, and we, that God has given the grace to heal others, we are not going about looking for medication from one hospital to another, whereas the grace has been destroyed on us. How do we maintain this grace? Christen can waste the grace of God. I'm saying today, Mary Christen today, we have wasted the grace of God. And why do we waste the grace of God? What the Bible said, it has given us the grace. The Christen is what acquitted with the grace of God. For by grace are ye saved. He is the family of God because of God's loving generosity. But even though he knows the person of God saving grace, this is not guaranteed that the purpose of God's grace will be fulfilled in his life. Any child of God that wasted the grace of God is heading to hell. Any child of God that wasted the grace of God is heading to hell, and the life that he had to have is a wasted life. We saw in the story, let me use Judas Kavius as a case study, there is a grace upon him to become the chief accountant of God. There is a grace upon him to keep the treasure, to keep the money of God, but he betrayed, he sold just like that. When he hanged himself on the tree, the grace of God upon his life ended when he hanged himself on the cross. He hanged himself on the tree. A wasted grace of God is a wasted life. Oh God, praise God. Why do we not allow the purpose of God's grace to be accomplished in us? We have wasted his grace. We don't need to be in doubt about the purpose of God's grace. The holy life is the one of the busy purpose of his grace. Pour out the titles for the grace of God that brings salvation as a plea to all men, teaching us that deny ungodliness and worldly loss. We should live soberly, rapturously, and godlyly in the presence of God. When you look at the titles, it starts at two, verse 11 to 12. The grace of God. Why are these graces? Number one, when you go close to God, which He has given to you from the day you were born, there is a grace upon every life, both the high brothers, both the native daughters, both the politicians, both the child of God, the grace of God has been bestowed. But why did they allow the devil to take over that grace and use it negatively? Because of the grace. The grace of God. I've got to say something. He said, I have run away. I have crazed my cross. Because of that grace, He used it. I want to give you three keys this morning to know not to allow the grace of God to be out of our life. For example, number one, when you are told things you are told with grace and that grace will be wasted. Number two, when your grace given to you are never used, you are wasting your life. Number three, when you are supposed to do great for Jesus and you find yourself in the midst of your godly. You know, we are still in grace of God. How then will I maintain the grace of God? So that my grace, the great God has given to me will not be wasted one. So that my life will not be wasted. Number one, you must love the law with all your heart. Number two, you must have God with that grace. Number three, you must study the love of God. There, when the Bible says in the book of Joshua chapter 1, it says, I mean, in the book of Joshua, it says, this book of the law will not depart from me. Number two, I shall meditate day and night that I may have good success. The strategy of the world of God is to not be sad. It's not too much to do. That's what I mean. It says, strategy can show that self abuse. The ocean grates in every life. The grace of healing. The grace of walking miracle. The grace of preaching. And the grace of evangelism. The grace of study. And every child of God and that find that grace. Are you listening? What do I do to prevent wasted life? What do I do to prevent wasted life? Now, you must, it's a must. The Bible commanded and said, go here into the world. Go here into the world for your grace to the hand. You must go into the world. I'm not a pride. I'm a pretty gospel. I believe next night, the center of the first year, we are pastors. How many souls have we prayed to God in the month? How many souls have we preached to in the week? How many souls have we talked to about Christ in the day? The grace of God. For you to prevent wasted life, wasted grace, you must preach the gospel. Not gospel. What do I do to prevent wasted life? There must be a connection with you and your maker. The world we are in is a sinful world. The world we are living in is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. Your connectivity with your maker is a sure. It should be every day. Not a threat. How do I do to prevent this? You must engage in prayer in your life. When you don't pray, you become a prey to the enemy. When you don't pray, you become a witness. I ran up to this. I ran up to this. I feel grace of God. That's not utilized. We end up in this grace in the camp of the enemy. And I pray that God will help us so that our grace will not be wasted and our life will not be wasted life in Jesus name. Thank you. Thank you, success. Thank you for sharing that message with us. The grace of God wasted grace and wasted life. Okay, so next we have Jeffina. Jeffina, if you're ready, we can start right away. If you have a PowerPoint or something, you can just share that. Yes, Pastor. Can you just let me know after presenting whether my video is visible? Yeah, sure. Am I visible, Pastor? Yeah, we can see both. Yeah, sure. Go ahead, please. Shall I start with this thing? Yeah, I have a timer with myself too. Oh, you have? Okay. Yeah, sir, I don't go out of time. I'll start. Okay. Good morning to everyone. I welcome you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I'm so happy that we all have gathered here to know your special purpose. So in a generation where we ask to every teenager and people, like, how are you doing? They always say, I'm fine. I'm good. But in today's generation, people are like, bro, I'm just going with the flow of life. I'm just going wherever life takes me. I really want to start this sermon, this message by saying this, because we all lost our purpose and we have decided to go wherever life takes us. You're like, I'll just go with the flow of life. And that's enough. But we forgot that we got a purpose, but we forgot that when God created us, he got a million ideas, a million things for us to do on this life. So I just want to retitle this, like, what is the purpose of my life? I know we got only 10 minutes. When you go back after listening to this sermon, to this message, I want you to have this deep feeling inside your heart that there is a purpose in my life. And I have to work for it. And I have to chase God each and every day. And I have to do great things in this life. And I have to achieve my purpose. So we're going to look into a verse in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 20 to 21. In a wealthy home, some utensils are made of gold and silver. Some of them wouldn't click. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions. And the cheap ones are for everyday use. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the master to use you for every good word. So this is a letter written by Paul, the Timothy. And I am really standing in awe whenever I read this verse, because a whole life is in this verse. From this part until the end, what is the purpose? It's completely in this 2 verse. And when I got this revelation from God for the first time, I'm like, God, I have to live an awesome life for you. So we'll start with the very first line that says, in a wealthy home. I want to stop here. I want to pause here, because this foreword has great and deep meaning in this. In a wealthy home. Paul tells the Timothy like, Timothy, it's on your mind. You are in a wealthy home. I just want all of you to know that your purpose starts when you know your identity, when you know who you are, when you know where you belong to, and when you know where you are and what you have to do, who you are in Christ, you cannot live the life that he has got for you. You cannot achieve the purpose that he has got for you. So he says to Timothy, Timothy, you are in a wealthy home. You are the son of the most high God, your daughter of the king, a son of the king. This is your identity and this is how you will start living the life that he has got for you. This is where the purpose starts. You come to know what you have to do, how you have to live, what you have to speak, what you should be doing on this life, and you understand your identity, that I'm saved, called, I'm redeemed, I'm chosen, I'm a minister for a channel of blessing, I'm victorious, I'm prosperous, I'm triumphant. When you know who you are in Christ, that's when your purpose starts. So purpose starts when you know your identity. It all starts with that. Timothy, understand that you are in a wealthy home. And next he says, some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wooden clay. So let's say the utensil is us. We are the vessel. So we are already made. So the purpose is within us. When God created us, he had a purpose in his mind. And he created me. He was like, okay, this is Jefina, and this is what I want her to do on this life. So he made me like that. He gave all the qualities and everything that I need for that. So now all I have to do is to discover who I am in Christ. What am I in Christ? I have to go take my Bible, read it each and every day, and know, okay, this is who I am in Christ, and this is what I'm gonna do with my life. And we also should know that someone made of gold, someone made of silver, someone made of wood, and someone made of clay. So we are all unique. We are not the same. And we should never compare us with anyone on this life. Think of if someone is called to be a teacher, and suddenly one morning she wakes up and thinks, why am I not a doctor? Her whole day will be spoiled, right? Because her whole purpose is to be a teacher. She has to go reach people, teach them, and accuse them in the word of God and tell them that she's teaching. And she should never compare her like, why am I not a doctor? We should understand that somewhere gold, somewhere silver, somewhere wood, somewhere clay, and it's okay. When Jesus did his first miracle in Ghana, he didn't say, go bring the most precious utensil here. Go, I need something that is made of gold, diamond and silver. No. He said, go bring the clay jars that are used for washing the feet and fill it with water. I'm gonna use it. So it's all about you having this desire to do something for God. Not about what other people say to you. What do you think of yourself? You are different. You are unique. Don't compare yourself with anyone so that you can achieve your purpose on this life. And the next thing is, if you keep yourself pure, you'll be a special utensil for Honda for use. So when some people will be like, okay, here comes Christian topic. Finally about purity. Finally about being holy. But I just want you to know that as we were growing up on this life, we actually filled ourselves with so many other things that we should not fill ourselves with. It's all about what's inside the vessel that gives value to the vessel. What's inside it? Is it your trauma? Is it your fear? Is it your anxiety? Is it your depression? What is inside of you? Because what's inside is what's actually gonna give the value for the vessel. So sometimes we actually filled ourselves with a lot of trash. Fear, anxiety, depression, all the things that happened 10 years ago and 15 years ago, and we are still thinking about it. And this makes you to stop following your purpose. So each and every morning, you have to go as God, God. Fill me with your mind. Fill me with your words so that I can follow my purpose. So how can you be pure if you have all this trash inside? And that's why Jesus took the cross for you. And that's why he took all the trash on himself and he gave beauty for all the ashes. And that is his love. And that is the purpose of your life. So remember, the purpose of your life is all about understanding the one who gave you that purpose. You may not know what you have to do with your life. It's okay. It's okay if you don't know. Just go and know about Jesus. And as you come to know about him, you will really understand what you have to do with life because he will let you know. He will give you that wisdom. He will give you that understanding. But never, ever feel like, I don't have a purpose. You do have a purpose. And you have to chase it. And the next thing says, you will be ready. I want to pause it here. I know it's not a complete sentence, but it says you will be ready. So look to be ready, it takes time and it takes a cross and it takes a process to go through. You can't just be ready. After hearing this message, you can go back home and you cannot be overnight Obama. No. You have to go, read your Bible, meditate on His Word, do something for God, meet people and all the other things that he wants you to do. There is a process and there is a timing. I want to take the life of David as an example before I end this whole sermon. Look, David, he understood who he is in Christ. And he fought against Goliath. He said, I'm coming in the name of the Lord, not because of who I am. He understood his value. And he never compared himself with anyone. Even when Saul said, go, veer all these army clothes that you can veer, he said, no, that's not me. I just won stones. He never compared himself with anyone. And he was pure. Even after he sinned on his life, he's like, he went to God. He understood that only God can make me pure. Only God can tell me what I have to do with my life after this, because this world is full of sin. So he understood it. It's only God. I'm going to understand about God, no matter what I did, no matter how bad I feel about myself sometimes, no matter sometimes I feel like life is throwing all the stones at me, I'm going to go back to God. And remember, he was ready after going through a process and the timing. He was not the, he didn't become a king on the day he got anointed. He was a shepherd. And then he got anointed. And then he was so humble, even after knowing he couldn't be the next thing, he still went to the king and he was a musician in front of him. And then even after a soul was died, he still didn't go to the throne immediately. He waited for the perfect time of God. So in the end, it's all about living the life for his glory. I just want you to know this. You got a purpose. So the purpose of my life is something that I'm created for. And I've got to discover it by understanding who I am in Christ. Then I will be used for every good work of my master happily in his wealthy home. So I hope this message was a blessing to you. Go back to your home, think about it and live the best life that he has got for you. You got a purpose. There is no doubt on that. You are created for it. And you will glorify God when you just go and ask him God what I have to do and understand who you are in him. You are special. You are precious. And you're amazing. Have a great day, everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Jeffrey. Now, you still have some time left. Okay. That's a little early. That's fine. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for that word. And purpose. Okay. Next, we have Anita. Is it? Yeah. Anita, if you're ready. Yes, Pastor. Yeah. I'd like to share my screen. Just give me a minute. Sure. Pastor, you just have to tell me that my video and audio is clear after sharing my screen. Yeah. Sure. Pastor, is it visible? Yes, it is. Yes. Okay. My video and audio, Pastor. Yes. I can see you as well. Yeah. Please go ahead. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Can you start the timer, Pastor? Yeah, start it. So before starting the message, let's pray and start today's message. Father, thank you for this time, Lord, as we are getting into learning from your word, Lord, help us to understand and help us to live that message into our lives, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. So today I'm going to share about being salt and light to the word. The only way to live. And every believer has been called to live a life that God has called us to live. We have to be an influence on this world. And every time we are living in this world, we have to remember that we are the part of this world, but we are not of this world. We have to live a life that pleasing to God. And God has called us to live a life that being salt and light to this world. So let's look at it. So we all know the familiar passage from Matthew 5.13 to 16, which says that you are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing, but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Not do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand. It gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. So we all know this passage that Jesus is teaching his disciples that they are teaching them their role on this earth. So let's look at the first part of the verse being salt to this world. So Jesus is saying that you are the salt of the earth. And let's look at it briefly. So salt had two purposes in the time when Jesus was doing his earthly ministry. So salt was used to preserve the food. Because of lack of refrigeration, salt was used to preserve the meat, which would quickly spoil in the desert environment. So believers can Christ our preservatives to the world, preserving it from the evil inherent in the society of ungodly men whose unredeemed natures are corrupted by sin. So we all know that we are living in a world which is corrupted by sin. So even Psalm 143 says that they have all turned aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one. So today we are here to preserve this world from evil and sin. And second verse, salt was used then as now as a flavor enhancer in the same way that salt enhances the flavor of the food it seasons. The follower of Christ stand out as those who are enhanced the flavor of life in this world. So it has a positive influence on the flavor of the food it seasons. Same way we have to have a positive influence on the people around us. Where there is stripe, we have to be the peacemakers. Where there is sorrow, we have to be the ministers of Christ binding up the wounds. And where there is hatred, we are to exemplify the love of God in Christ, returning good for evil. So we are here to be the people to bring flavor in people's life and influence the world around us. Even Luke 635 to 36 says that we have to love our enemies, do good to them hoping nothing in written because our reward will be great. So our father is also kind to people same way we have to be merciful just as our father. So the first part of the verse says that what we are and the second part of the verse says that but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled under food by men. So we are here in this world, not of this world. We should not adjust to the cultures of this world but we are here to transform the culture. We are here to season this world. We are here to bring influence in people's life and we should not lose our flavor. We should not adjust to this culture around us. We are here to live a life that pleasing to God. We are here to live a life that God wants us to live. The life of salt. Let's look at it. How to be the salt in the world or how to live a life of salt? First thing we have to do is to grow in saltiness or live a life of salt. We must be different because we are different. We know salt is different from the medium it's placed on. We don't put veggies or meat on meat but we add salt in that and then it brings the flavor and it brings the seasoning in that. So same way believers are different from the world and in the world where there is dishonesty we have to bring integrity where there is people are cursing, people are swearing, we have to speak edifying words where there is people are enjoying ungodly things. We are here to... We have to bring... We have to do such things which is pleasing to God so we must be different from the world. So this morning we have to ask ourselves are we different from the world or are we same as the world? So we should know the difference between us and the world. So we must be different. Second thing we have to know is we must allow ourselves to be sprinkled into ungodly places. We must know that we are living in a world that is corrupted. We have to allow ourselves and wherever we are working in companies, school, colleges around us which is everything is corrupted we have to bring righteousness. Being righteous is difficult sometimes. It leads us to loneliness. We are the only faithful ones in that place but in that place we have to bring righteousness because we have to remember that even Jesus Christ has gone through loneliness in his life in the time where everyone left him. So such negative experiences bring positive change in our lives. So second, third thing we have to live a life of salt will be we must commune with Christ. We must abide in Christ because the nature that we have today the salt that we have because of Christ nature. So we have to abide in Christ and as verse says that we know that we have to abide in him to bear much fruit in life. So if we have to bring people to Christ or we have to be influenced in other people's life we have to commune with Christ. So next part of the verse is light. Being light to the world. Christ Jesus is referring us to the light of the world. We are a city that is set on hill cannot be hidden. Not do they light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lamp stand and it gives light to all who are in the house. So same way we have to shine before men and that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. So we know that difference between light and darkness we should know that we are here to shine in this world. We are here to shine as God wants us to shine. We are here for a purpose that God has called us to do. So we should know the difference between salt and light salt relates to our character and salt relates to our conduct. So salt deals with what we are and light deals with what we do. So God has commanded so we can see in different verses God has commanded us to be the light walk is the children of light so we have to be the light around us around the world wherever we are living we have to shine as light but how to do that how to be the light to the world. First we have to recognize the open doors in the sense we have to recognize the opportunities that we are getting every time wherever we are going in the bus stop school colleges wherever we are we should know that opportunity to be the light in someone's person be the light in someone's life that they should understand the love of God understand they should know Christ. So second thing is act in these moments means whenever we are getting the opportunity we should take that opportunity to share God's word share God's love and bring it into action because those are the moments we get only once we can get it whenever we can get those moments we have to be there and share the love of God share the good news of God to them and last thing is point them to Jesus we have to point these people whoever we are sharing the gospel or whoever sharing the love of God with we should know that we have to point them to Jesus because Jesus is the only reason that we are doing being light in their life we should know that the source of our light is Jesus and we have to point them to Jesus so I would like to conclude this whole message with a small story being salt and light to the world the only way to live is because small story I would like to share this share a small story with you all so I have heard this story of a duck which was flying and it got injured and it fell down in farmers field and farmer picked it up and went home it was alive and farmer took care of the duck and it was injured and farmers children took care of the duck and same year one year passed and the duck went to see other ducks were flying and it tried to fly but it couldn't fly because of the injury and after that year passed away and one more year, second year came and second year also ducked it was enjoying everything enjoying the environment which it was living in and everything was going well the second year it tried to go back and fly but it couldn't fly because of the injury and same third year came and third year it was completely healed and it was ready to fly but it went to see other ducks those were there but it couldn't fly because the farmer's children fed the duck so much that it became fat and it was very happy with the environment it was living in the farmer's children playing with the duck everything was well and it was very comfortable it was very comfortable with the environment around it so and it couldn't fly it started to live with the farmer family the same way God has not called us to be the fat ducks and satisfied with the world what is going going to go up and smoke God has called us to be the eagles soaring through the clouds of holiness shaking out the salt salt of a godly life shining out the light the light of the truth of Jesus Christ and bring as many men as we can to glorify our father in heaven so thank you everyone God bless each one of you thank you Anita thank you for that word thank you for sharing that I think you just needed just in time I think you are able to back in quite a bit in those 12 minutes thank you okay next we have Lyndon Phillip Martin if you are ready you can start very small faster very small do you have a presentation sorry can you be a little more louder please okay I will now yeah that's better okay I am free can you see my presentation by the way yeah it says coming up yeah we can see it are you ready yeah okay good morning all good evening wherever you are greetings to you all again so it's been very nice subject and we've been preparing our sermons and personally this is my first sermon maybe if I can say so but while Pastor was announcing about this activity or exercise that we need to prepare a sermon and I was reading my Bible at that time during the class and I was reading John chapter 14 where I was exactly reading through the words about loving Jesus and I thought okay why not prepare the chapter on love loving Jesus and it's one of those basic basic qualities or basic traits that every Christian will you know accept yeah and acknowledge that yes we need to love Jesus but I would like to take this time to introspect and I would expect the same from all of you as well to introspect do we love Jesus if you see the presentation do we love Jesus it could be provocative maybe so let me change the title do we love Jesus yeah so if so how, when, why do we love Jesus so that's exactly what we are going to look into now if you think if any of you think it's very basic well if everything goes all guns blazing like no one would question about the basics but even if you are such a tender Christian and if you're out of form out of your league then you know people would come back to the next practice grounds where they are to prepare themselves practice and then all guns blazing so it's about introspecting a time to introspect and see how we are where we are so let's quickly move forward do we love Jesus and why and how and when do you love Jesus so it sounds obvious I'm not going to say anything out of the box so it's all there in the Bible and you're all aware of it but there are two things that I can separate or you know split this sermon if the target audience are you know newly accepted accepting Christ as their lord and savior of Jesus Christ then understanding who Jesus is is important but if the target audience are already Christians by we call it students pastors believers that what Jesus means to us so these are something that I will request you all to consider think about it for yourself what Jesus means to me so that's exactly what we are going to look for and that's what's possible as well okay so firstly who Jesus is okay now the Bible talks about Jesus right from the Old Testament until the Revelation so I'm going to quickly go into the topic who Jesus is okay and why Jesus is important to us why do we love Jesus right so we love Jesus just a one liner okay so he was the propitiation for our sins right so firstly we will acknowledge and accept the fact that we were all sinners and yet Christ chose to die for us and he was a redemption and we could be called the sons and hears and bullies with Christ yeah so it's very important that because of which we love Jesus so why do we love Jesus when we talk about you know how the father represented Jesus Christ okay he acknowledges Jesus as this is my beloved son with whom I'm well pleased so it was you know that the father we love the son so much yet he had to you know give up you know all the pain and they know the trials and tribulations that Jesus had to go through it's just to you know save so was so it's just to save us from our sins and from the death as well okay so which is why we love Jesus in return what we have to do is love Jesus to start with anything and everything that you have to do in Christianity starts with loving Jesus because that's the basic right loving Jesus so and Jesus as well acknowledges that he loves the father and that's shown in several references as well which I would like to highlight you know John chapter 17 verses 23 and 23 and 24 and 25 I'm not going to go into the scripture sleep but it's just you know there for us to you know read for ourselves so several instances where we see the life of Jesus that you know the prayerful life that we it was exemplary it was tough for us to you know replicate the kind of spiritual life which Jesus lived on this world but one thing which we can take from Jesus is he walked with the father and the father was there with Jesus how and why and when well it's because of you know the connection the connectivity which Jesus had with the father the time at which he prayed early in the morning I know midnight midday and even for any deliverance prayer you know when he's looking for I mean at the Garden of Gethsemane he had to cry out to the father and even when someone's hurting him you know poking him with a spear still had to still just cry out but forgive them so that's the kind of relationship which Jesus had why have you forsaken me he says the day before and on the day when he was he was crucified he says Father forgive them yeah so that's the connectivity with Jesus had with his father so what I'm trying to tell you is okay so it's not when everything is happy and I know Sonny that we love Jesus but even through trials and tribulations are we loving Jesus are we loving God as much as we would want us to okay and why we love Jesus remember the disciples and you know the 70 odd disciples you know they went on a field trip on a mission trip you know shared the gospel healed the sick cast out demons they came back you know they were very happy it was a pride moment but Jesus asks our informed Simon Peter and he calls Simon okay so that's that's one alarming sign where he says Simon behold Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat and even then Jesus says EES prayed for all those disciples that they will not fall afraid to the temptations and the trials around so first to talk about what love is okay now we're talking about love we're talking about Jesus's love but to understand more about what love is in Greek Bible there are four types of love that you know is being demonstrated but what Jesus's love what God's love is is demonstrated or you know meant with the term agape okay so it's the unconditional love or the purest form of love or the windfall or you know sacrificial love that one can exhibit towards another and it can only be called God's love it cannot be called another way okay so and the Bible says in Matthew chapter 22 verse 37 to 40 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind and this is the first and greatest commandment okay so why do we love Jesus because it's a commandment from God and in John chapter 14 there are more than three verses I mean there are three verses as well in 1 John chapter 2 verse 5 where you know the Bible says it's a commandment that you follow and only when you follow this commandment you know that you love Jesus and Jesus will know God will know that you love and respond to that so obeying a commandment is what is why we love Jesus first we acknowledge we are sinners we acknowledge the redemption that Christ gave us on the cross and it's the commandment that we have that we need to love Jesus and because of which we love Jesus and it also goes on to say in John 13 34 and 35 new commandment I give you that love one another as I have loved you that you also love one another so it's because Jesus loved us we ought to love him back that's the response that we got we have to deliver and I also think often that both love and respect are reciprocative okay so if someone says I love you you say in response I love you too someone respects you you respect them back in return so and who I mean there's no one who's more worthy than loving Jesus because he has given us so much more way more than we could ask or expect and in first John chapter 4 10 11 and verses 19 it says in this is love that not that we love God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the perpetuation for our sins and beloved if God so loved us we also ought to love one another we love him because he first loved us and there's a Bible verse in Romans verses why we were yet sinners Christ chose to died for us and you know that's the greatest of all why we love Jesus and some says in Psalm 63 verse 3 because your steadfast love is better than life my lips will praise you so it's a knowledge the first thing what even God would expect from us because I've loved my son and daughter so much will not my son and daughter love me back yet so if that is the case are we loving Jesus that's the first question and why we love Jesus it's because he chose to die for us he chose to redeem us he chose us as his sons and daughters his co-heirs one more minute Linda okay okay so I was just halfway done with myself with the topic so I will quickly run through so how and when we love Jesus how we love Jesus so by our actions and deeds we could love Jesus so I have a reference for this how we love Jesus when I say actions first John 318 says let us not love Jesus or speech but with actions and the truth we are to love others first okay and if if you love those who love you what reward do you have do not even the tax collectors do the same it's what is mentioned in Matthews 546 so how we love Jesus is through our prayers regular prayers reading the Bible scriptures study and learn the scriptures that includes memorizing some prayers okay I'm sorry I'm not done yet but yeah thanks all just no thank you thank you Lyndon thank you now I just want to remind all of us who presented today to upload the outline and the presentation please so we can go through that thank you all for presenting success Jeffina then we had Anita and Lyndon Aradhana is also here Aradhana do you have that are you ready to present today we can Aradhana I'm sorry sorry I couldn't hear you did anyone catch what Aradhana was saying I'm sorry I couldn't hear okay okay I see okay you're not ready yet fine Aradhana so you know coming Thursday that will be our last session so we have a few people who are already lined up for presenting and I will add Aradhana also so we have Paul Lia Lama, Habobakar Lubega, Ribika and Aradhana so six right so it will definitely be more than the sessions duration for all six to present if all six are presenting so Jeff want to request us to stay on for some more time beyond our 50 minutes for our next session on Thursday right okay so thank you all for presenting and all the best to those who are preparing to present next on Thursday looking forward to that as well okay God bless thank you bye bye