 the recording of this, it just started, the recording of this lecture. This is our second lecture today on who we are in Christ, BC110. We'll come back everyone. Any questions before we start off a new section? We're gonna go into a new section now. Any questions on the old thing? Okay. All right. So let me go ahead and share my screen. We're gonna look at the PDF. So this PDF has been shared with you in the Classwork section in the Google Classroom. So we're moving into a new section. So what we're going to do as we journey through the course now is to kind of drill down into various aspects of our identity in Christ, right? So in the second section, when we talked about the new creation, we looked at in general, okay, this is what we see about the new creation, and we are supposed to live out of that identity and inheritance and life that we have in Christ. So in general, the new creation is a term that covers every aspect of who we are in Christ. But what we want to do now is kind of drill down into specific individual aspects of who we are in Christ and try to understand it and see how that, you know, how we apply that in our personal lives. That's what we're going to do as we journey in. And there is a lot, there is a lot that the Bible tells us. So the first thing we're going to look at is the fact that we have been justified and made righteous in the eyes of God. Now, you know, many believers, many believers struggle with the sense of guilt, shame and condemnation and unworthiness before God. That means when we come to God, we always say, God, I'm such an unworthy sinner. I'm so useless. Now, it is true that God is infinitely greater than us. But we must relate to God how he wants us to relate to him. And what has he said? And we go to discover from the scriptures that God is saying, look, you were unworthy, you were guilty, you were full of shame and condemnation. That's how you were. But now in Christ, I have made you righteous to be righteous means I've made you in right standing before me. So I want you to relate to me to relate to God on the basis of who God himself has made us to be in Christ. So what God is saying is don't come and talk to me as though you're an unworthy guilty person. Talk to me as who I made you to be in Christ. Relate to me on that basis. And so when we understand that as we go through the scriptures and understand that, you know, God wants us to come to him without any sense of guilt, shame and condemnation and and and relate to him freely, it's going to change how we pray. It's going to change how we think of think of who God is and how what is our relationship with him. It's going to change that completely. So let's get into the scriptures. What we must understand. And we have seen this earlier in Ephesians. We'll read it again. Can somebody read Ephesians chapter one verse four for us, please? It's there in the PDF. Ephesians chapter one verse four. Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Thank you. So he's telling us that God chose us in him. So in him, that's in Christ. That's what we've been, what we are looking at in Christ. So God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. That means even before he created anything, God decided, you know, I'm going to have all of these people in in Christ. So he's, God decided, I'm going to have all these people in Christ. At in Christ, these people are going to be holy. And we will talk about that in the next section. But we're going to focus on this. And without blame before him, without blame before him. So God decided, even before he created everything, he said, I'm going to have a people who are going to be in Christ, which is you and me, we are in Christ. And we are going to be without blame before him in love. That means covered because of his love. So this is the truth. You are without blame before him, without blame. You know, the word without blame, if you want to use some synonyms for that, it simply means you are alt-less. God doesn't look at you and say, ah, you've got all these falls in your life. You are blameless or unblameable, without blemish, without spot. This is how God sees us. So when you stand before God, how does God see you? He sees you without blame. So who said that? Well, the scripture said that. Ephesians 1-4. The scripture said that that's what God intended to do even before the foundation of the world. That everyone who is in Christ will stand before him without blame. So right now, when God looks at you, because you are in Christ, you are without blame before him. So we must understand this is how God sees me. Now, we may be very accustomed to having been told that God sees you as a filthy sinner. That God sees you with all your flaws and faults. But we need to change that thinking and say, hey, the scriptures are telling me that because I am in Christ, I am without blame before him. Now, this is not to say that, you know, we don't sin. We will be dealing with that a little later. Of course, when we do sin, we have to say, God, I'm sorry, what I did is wrong. I'm not condoning sin. What I'm saying is, because we are in Christ, we are without blame. And that's how God sees us. Or how we could also, the same truth is repeated again in Colossians chapter 1, verses 20 to 22. Could somebody read this for us please? Colossians 1, 20 to 22. Okay, what happened to the class? And by him to reconcile all things to himself, by him with the things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of his cross. And you once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his sight. So thank you. So it's telling us, you know, through what Jesus did for us on the cross, what has been now, what is possible? We are holy. We will talk about it in the next section. And we are blameless and above reproach in his sight. Just think, look at that. Blameless. It's matching here, you know, what he told us in Ephesians. We are blameless. He's repeating here again. We are blameless and above reproach. That means beyond even any fault in God's sight. That's happened because of the cross, because of what Jesus did to the blood of his cross, because Jesus paid for every sin. The outcome is today you and I are blameless and above reproach in the eyes of God. That means to be above reproach simply means to be unaccused, to be innocent, to be unimpeachable, without anything that would make us guilty before God, without charge. So begin to see yourself like that. You know, this is how I am in God's eyes. Not because I achieved this. No. It's because Jesus through the blood of his cross has made it possible for me. And because I am in Christ, this is how I am in the eyes of God. Now, to add to this, Ephesians chapter one verse six, somebody could read this please. To the praise of the glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in the beloved. Thank you. He says he has made us accepted. We are accepted in the beloved. The beloved, of course, is Jesus Christ himself. So in Christ, who are you? You are accepted. You are already. He made us accepted. He made us accepted. That means he's already done this for us and he's the one who did it for us. We are not trying to achieve it through some way of light. No. He's already made us accepted in Christ. So the word accepted simply means to grant special honor, to be highly favored, to be covered with grace, to be surrounded with favor, to be honored with blessings. So when God is saying, look, I have accepted you in Christ. He's saying, look, I have given you honor. I've said you're highly favored. I've said you're covered with my grace. You're surrounded with my favor. You're honored with my blessings. And the Bible is saying, you're accepted in the beloved. And so if we are accepted, then we are not striving for acceptance. So some believers, they're always striving to be accepted by God. Or today, I have to pray two hours and I have to read my Bible so much only then God will be happy with me. They're having that kind of a mentality. They are striving to be accepted. But the Bible is saying he has made us accepted in Christ. He's already done it. So we must learn to live out of that. God has already accepted me. I am accepted by God. And if I read my Bible, I'm doing it not in order to gain acceptance, but just to know that I have been accepted. I enjoy reading the Bible. If I pray for two hours, I'm not praying in order to be accepted. I am praying from a place of having been accepted. I'm just enjoying the fact that I can spend two hours in prayer with God. So the whole approach to prayer, the whole approach to the word of God has changed. I'm not doing any of these things to be accepted, but I'm doing it because I have been accepted. I enjoy it now. I'm in a place of honor, favor, grace, blessing, and hey, I'm just enjoying the word of God, enjoying spending time with God. You will always go back to a place where you are accepted. It will draw you back and you know that you are so welcomed in God's presence. So that's why you do it. So understand you are accepted in Christ. You're already accepted by God and it's perfectly fine. From time to time, you just need to affirm boldly before God and for yourself. Father, I thank you that in Christ I have special honor. I'm highly favored. Now I'm covered with your grace. I'm surrounded with favor. I'm honored with your blessings. I'm an object of your grace to say that often, just to affirm that because that's the truth. That's the word of God. So we need to move from the thinking that we are hated to knowing that we are loved by God in Christ. Move from thinking you're accused to embracing the truth that you are accepted by God in Christ. From being shamed to knowing that in Christ you're honored. So you don't have to feel ashamed before God. You go before God as someone who has been honored by God. You don't have to feel condemned before God. You go before Him because in Christ you're favored. So you go before Him. Father, thank you. I'm loved and accepted. I'm honored and favored in your eyes as your son, as your daughter. So you begin to pray. You begin to engage with God like that. So now, you see, many of us have been because of religion. So religion or religion means that just the way things have been done. It thrives on self-condemnation. It thrives on putting a sense of guilt, shame and condemnation on people because then that makes us feel like we are in need. The moment you tell somebody, hey, you are forgiven. You are righteous. You are accepted. There's no more need there. So then why should people come to church? Why people don't need that? But because of religion, there's the sense of strong, a sense of self-condemnation, guilt and shame. So we need to just come out of it and say, God, today I'm accepting what your word says. I am loved. I'm favored. I'm honored. I am accepted. And I've been graced by God. I've been blessed by God. And in this place of knowing that we are accepted by God, we find our sense of significance, security and self-worth. So psychologists will tell us, these are the three big needs, emotional needs of a human person. A sense of significance, security and self-worth. So the three big emotional needs, everyone, all of us have, as human beings, we want significance. We desire for significance. My life counts, means count something here or not. Security, that I know I'm going to be secure and self-worth. That means I am worth something. But the best place to find our sense of significance, security and self-worth, find it in God, because you are accepted in the beloved. God, I am accepted, completely accepted in Christ. So all my significance, all my security, all my self-worth is right there in the beloved, in Christ. And so I don't have to look for it in other places. Now, in the natural, you may achieve a lot and it gives you some amount of significance. That is fine, but you're not dependent on it. Or you may be very successful and have a lot of money. That's good. It's not nothing wrong with it. But money doesn't become our security. Our security is always in God. Or people may say a lot of good things about us and it makes us, we have a lot of self-worth, but that is not the basis of our self-worth. Our self-worth is deeply rooted in Christ. So then these externals, they are there, if you're not living by it, we enjoy it, but we're not dependent on those things. Now, again, here's a very, very, we are adding to this truth about, let me see, I think maybe there's a question on the chat. Okay, Shani, you have a question. Please go ahead. Oh yeah, I have a question. I know you're saying when you're a new creation Christ, you don't have to worry about any kind of shame. But what if you do something and you feel shame? How do you kind of get over that? Since you're a new creation now and there's no more shame. Does that make sense? Yes. So all of us will do something wrong. You know, maybe we're still living in this world and we're still struggling with our soul and our body and, you know, we will do things wrong. So what do we do at that moment? The Bible tells us, and I am referencing 1st John chapter 1 verses 7 through 9. 1st John chapter 1 verses 7 through 9. And we will look at this a little later as well. When I do something wrong, I shouldn't pretend that I haven't done it. I should accept it. And the Bible tells us if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So all he tells us to do is look. Just come and confess it to God. Just say, Father, I know I did something or I said something or I behaved in some way that is not right. I'm sorry about it. Please forgive me. That moment, just that simple prayer. I've confessed, the Bible says, if we confess our sins, if we confess our sins, he will cleanse us from all. So he says, yeah. Now, why can God do that? Because, you know, John goes on 1st John chapter 2 verse 12, he says, my little children, your sins are forgiven you because of his name's sake. That means in 1st John to 12, he says, your sins are forgiven you because of Jesus, right? So the moment we confess, and say, Father, we are sorry. I'm sorry for whatever I did. I know it's wrong. Our sins are forgiven. Why? Because of Jesus. Jesus paid for it and he already addressed it. So this is how we do it. And then we ask the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, help me to overcome that. You know, maybe it was my short temper, my irritability or my prejudice or whatever, you know, we all have, we all struggled with all these things in life. Holy Spirit, please help me overcome that. Help me to get over that flaw so that I can reveal Christ through my life. And he will do that. And then we are being changed from glory to glory. We begin to reveal Jesus. So in areas where, you know, people would see us make mistakes and do things wrong. I said, wow, no, that person is not doing that. You know, there's a change. What has happened? The new man is being put on. People are seeing that on the outside. Okay. Thank you. Let's take Divya's question. There's a phrase, put all the new man in Ephesians 4-24, refer to this blamelessness before God. So actually, Divya, the putting on of the new man, we can look at it as express outwardly who you are inside. Right? It means you are a new person on the inside, express it outside. And it is for the benefit of people, people around us, for them to see. God already knows we are a new man. God already knows we are new. And of course, he wants us to walk in that new creation. We are. But when he says put on the new man, every aspect of the new man, including righteousness, including this aspect of being blameless before God. And every other aspect of who we are in Christ, he's saying express it on the outside so people can see how we live. So put on the new man is every aspect of it, including blameless before God, being the fact that we are righteousness before God. And we'll talk about later, you know, what that means in everyday life. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that inward knowledge and revelation of my position in Jesus Christ enables me to express outwardly. Yes. Yeah. As you live by it, you know, people will see people see the new creation. Welcome. So I'm going to go back to the PDF and we will move forward in that. Right. So here's a very interesting passage. Could somebody read this for us, please? 1st Corinthians chapter 6, 9 through 11. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, did not be deceived, neither fornicators nor idolaters, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor curaches, nor drunkards, nor violence, nor extortionists will inherit the kingdom of God. In such ways some of you, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God. Thank you. So Paul is writing to the Corinthians, the believers at this place called Corinth. Now Corinth, and this was around, you know, around 80, 50s, 50s, 80, 60, that's around that time. So Corinth at that time was, you know, what we would call as a sin city. It is very, very sinful city. But a lot of these people, when Paul had gone and preached and Paul and his team and they'd gone and preached, a lot of these people came to faith in Christ. So they came from very, you know, sinful backgrounds. So Paul is addressing that. He says, you know, of, you know, we know the unrighteous will not inherit God's kingdom. And he says, yeah, they were fornicators and dollars. He gives all this full list. And he says, such were some of you. So he says, look, some of you, I know, I know that some of the people there, the believers there at Corinth, they came from this kind of background, because, you know, obviously people there, they had all kinds of things going on. So such were some of you. So that is your past. You were in that. But something has happened. You were washed. You were sanctified. And you were justified. So look at that. He's saying, that was your past, but something happened. You were washed. So the washing means all the dirt. You can imagine, you know, all the dirt in the field is gone, it's taken off. You were sanctified. And we will look at this in the next section when we study, sanctified means to be made holy, to set up, be set apart for God. So you were sanctified. But you were justified. That's what we are studying now. The word justified simply means to be, the word justified in the word of righteous, they come from the same Greek word. So they're actually synonymous. So in English, we have two different words justified and righteous, or justification and righteousness. In English, these are different words. But in the Greek, it's the same exact same word. The, you know, it's the noun or the verb or adjective, but the same word that is translated justified or righteous. So to be justified simply means to be made righteous. Righteous means to be right, to have right standing, to be in right standing, to be justified in the name. That means, see, you were like this, you know, you had all these things in the past going on, but now you are justified. Now you're in right standing with God. You are right in his sight. You are just as if you never sinned. Somebody came up with that a long time ago. Justified means to be made just as if you never sinned. You're justified. You are made right in God's eyes. You are righteous in God's eyes. How? In the name of our Lord Jesus and Mother Spirit of God. God did it for you. So as a believer, you know, we all come from different backgrounds and we all would have done all kinds of things in the past, but that's past. That's how we were. But something happened to us. What happened to us? We were washed. We were sanctified. We were justified. And we are focusing on this justified part. We have been justified. We have been made right in the eyes of God. We have been made just as if we never sinned. So none of this has any bearing on who I am today. You know, it doesn't say, well, if I, you know, well, I'm still one, you know, an idolater or whatever. No, I'm not that justified. That's no longer has any bearing on my life today. Right? So I'm justified. We're being made just as if we're never sinned. And I can just explain, you know, this, this whole fact that justified and made righteous, it means the same thing. We are made right in the eyes of God. And this truth is repeated for us in many places that we are the righteousness of God, the righteousness of God. We are the righteousness of God. So let's read some scriptures and we will discuss them. Right? So could somebody read Romans 322 for us please? It's on the PDF. Romans 322, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe, for there is no difference. Thank you. So think about this. The righteousness of God, what are we talking about? We're talking about the righteousness of God through faith. So this is through faith in Jesus. It's to all, let me put it, it is to all and it is on all who believe. So if you imagine this, if you think about God there and God, if you just imagine your mind using our imagination, if you see God having a white robe, pure white, righteous, that means he's blameless. We can't find any fault because he's a righteous God. He's pure white robe. Now that white robe he takes and he puts it, gives it to you and he puts it on you. Why? Because you have faith in Jesus Christ and you believe. There is no difference. That means regardless of who we are, you know, which part of the world we are from, regardless of our background, regardless of anything, there's no difference. For everyone who has faith in Jesus, who believes, God has given his white robe of righteousness to every person and he's put it on every person. So you think about this, the same white robe that God is wearing, he says the righteousness of God, the blamelessness of God, the absolute perfection of God, the righteousness of God. Has been given to every believer and it's on every believer. So what are you wearing? You are clothed right now, right now, you are clothed with the righteousness of God because the scripture is saying that the righteousness of God has been given to every person, is on every person who believes in Jesus Christ. There's no difference. Let's look at 1 Corinthians 1 and verse 30, please. Somebody could read that for us. But of him you are in Christ Jesus who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Amen. Thank you. So we're talking about righteousness. Righteousness means to be in right standing, to be blameless. And the Bible says here, but of him, it is because of God, you are in Christ Jesus. So we are in Christ. We're talking about that. You are in Christ. Because you're in Christ, what has happened? Christ has become for us. So Christ has become to us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption. We will see these things later. We focus on just one righteousness. So God has brought us into Christ and Christ has become for us righteousness. So who is your righteousness? Jesus. Be our standing before God is the same standing that Christ has because Christ is our righteousness. Think about it. Christ is our righteousness. So when you stand before God, you have the same standing before the throne, before the Father, as the Son of God himself. Because the Son of God, Christ Jesus, is our righteousness. So same standing. Now it's like, whoa, this is too much for my mind to grasp. But that's what the scriptures are saying. And so we say, okay, God, I accept it. And I'm going to begin to live out of this blessing you've given to me. I didn't deserve it. None of us deserved it. It happened because Jesus paid for it on the cross. And we just believed. That's all. So second Corinthians 5 verse 21. So we could read this verse for us, please. Second Corinthians 5, 21. For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Thank you. So the one who knew your sin, Jesus, became sin for us on the cross. Now, why did he do that? Of course, he paid for the penalty for our sin, but there's a whole lot more. This verse is saying, he became sin for us so that we might become something. So you have become something. What is it? We have become the righteousness of God. We have become the righteousness of God in him. That means in Christ. So once again, this is talking about who we are in him, in Christ. So in Christ, what has happened? We have become, it's already done. We have become the righteousness of God. Now, what is the scripture saying? We have become the righteousness of God. Like we said earlier, God is absolutely righteous, meaning blameless. And the Bible is saying, in Christ, that same righteousness has been imparted to us, to us and on us. You see, God is righteous, absolutely blameless. The only way he can have relationship with another being is that if that other being is also absolutely blameless, he can't, God is light. He can't have relationship with darkness. And so for God to have relationship with us, the only way he can have relationship with us is if we are as blameless as he. And the only way we can become as blameless as he is by God doing it for us. God made us to become the righteousness of God in Christ. So now God is saying, look, I'll put upon you my blamelessness, my righteousness, I'm giving it to you. So we'll have fellowship. You can be my son and daughter. And you don't have to worry because I've given you my righteousness. So this is what we must understand, that we are sharing the righteousness of God. That means what's on God is on you. We are sharing that same righteousness, not some second hand, not some lower righteousness, nothing. Same, the righteousness of God is giving it to us. So that's who you are in the spirit. Spiritually, you are the righteousness of God. You are blameless in the eyes of God. You are accepted, you are without blame. Right. So this is what qualifies us to have fellowship with God. Say, God cannot have communion or intimate friendship with anything that's not on par with his own righteousness. So the only reason we can have fellowship with God is because he gave us his righteousness and we can come in freely before his presence. So righteousness, now the word righteousness, you know, it includes these three things, which is right standing before God, the right nature, God's righteous nature, the nature that tends to do what is blameless or what is right, and also right behavior. So righteousness in the New Testament includes all this right standing, right nature, right behavior, and we will see, you know, how to live out of it. So the righteousness of God eventually results also in right behavior. We will talk about that. So righteousness doesn't mean I can go and do anything sinful and just keep on doing things sinful. No, righteousness leads me to right behavior. We will, we will look at that later. All right, so this happened through faith. So like we have emphasized, it was a simple faith that we had in God, the Lord Jesus Christ, through which we became justified and righteous. Let me already read this verse, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, through faith, right. So just we just believed and God said, I'll make you righteous, right. And we see this once again in Romans 5, 1 and 2. Could somebody read this for us, please? Romans 5, 1, 2, 2. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we also have the access by faith into his grace, in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Thank you. So it says we have been justified or made righteous. So remember the word justified and made righteous. They're the same words in the Greek. So it says we have been made righteous or we have been justified. How? By faith. By faith. Or here we saw it was through faith. That means all we did was belief. That was the only thing we did. And God said, I'll justify you. And what is the outcome? We have peace with God. So because we are righteous, we have peace with God. That means we are not fighting with God. God is not angry with us. God is not mad at us. We have peace. So what's your relationship with God? Very peaceful. We are on good terms. We are on talking terms. We are friends. In fact, it's a very close relationship. Why? Because we have been justified by faith and God made us righteous by faith. So we can have peace with God. God is not looking at my faults or I'm not afraid that God is going to look at my faults. No, we have a good relationship. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So that's our relationship with God. We have peace with God. And it also says that through Jesus, we have access or we come into this by faith. We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And so because we have been justified by faith and through Jesus by faith, we are in a place of grace in this grace in which we stand. You are standing or you are positioned before God in a place of grace. That means God's favor. So because we've been made righteous or justified, we have peace with God, good relationship, and not only that, we are highly favored. We are in position in a place of grace. We are highly favored of God. And because of that, we can rejoice in hope of the glory of God. We rejoice. We are joyful. We are really, you know, we're joyful because we have hope of the glory of God, even more of what God is going to give us. But right now, we have been justified, made righteous. Therefore, we have peace with God and we are in this grace in which we stand. We are in a place of grace. We are standing in a place of grace because we've been justified. And all happened just through faith. And, you know, Paul is telling us that this righteousness is not his own, but it's not from the law. It's not by keeping the law, but it is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. So, you know, Paul affirms once again that, you know, his righteousness, the righteousness he has is what God has given to us through faith. And that's how we live. We live out of that. So, we are righteous. We have been justified and made righteous by his, by faith. It's been, it's given to us freely by grace. Right. So, Romans 3.24 says, we are justified freely by his grace. So, we have been justified or made righteous freely by his grace because of the redemption, the work of redemption that Jesus has done that's in Christ Jesus. So, it's by faith. It's freely by grace. So, I don't have to work for it. I don't have to earn it. I don't have to prove myself for it. I don't have to pay for it. No, it's freely by grace. It says, you're freely by his grace. So, this justification is freely by grace. Okay. So, I'm going to pause here and I know it's been a lot. I will pick this up next week and I will complete this whole aspect of righteousness and talk about how, you know, we have to live out of that and what it means for us. Right. So, understand this is your first and, you know, your position before God. You are justified and you are righteous. You're accepted, Jesus. So, you're completely welcome in God's presence. I know, you know, we just have four more minutes. Let me try to answer some questions here in the chat. Elisha is, God made him share our sin. Is it the sinful nature of all nature that Christ was made to share with? Okay. So, Elisha, when Jesus died on the cross, a lot was put upon him. So, our sin was put upon him. That's what Second Corinthians 521 says. He was without sin, yet our sin was put upon him. But the Bible also says, and we will see this in Romans chapter 6 and verse 6, that our old man, which is the sinful nature, the old Adamic nature, the old sinful nature, was crucified with him. So, when Christ was crucified, that old sinful nature was also crucified. So, to answer your question, both happened. Our sins, and it's the wrongdoings, that was put upon Christ. So, he became our sin better. Our sinful nature was also crucified with Christ. So, that also was nailed to the cross. Now, that didn't change who Jesus was. Jesus on the cross was still the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. It didn't change his nature. His nature was divine. He was deity all the time. But deity was bearing the sins of humanity. So, in what sense did he become sin? It doesn't mean deity became evil. No, he was deity. While he was crucified on the cross, he was still deity. But deity was carrying the sins of humanity. Deity was, when deity was being nailed, the Adamic nature, the sinful nature, was nailed with him. But he was always deity. His nature didn't change. He was bearing our sin, and our sinful nature was being crucified with him. Is that okay, Elisha? I hope I made it clear. Thank you. Divya's question, my last question. So, through Jesus Christ, we have been restored to the same status as Adam and the Eve, and they were first created. Or is the restoration through Jesus Christ? Is it more than that? So, Divya, the answer to your question is, it is more than what Adam and Eve had. Why do I say that? Because Adam and Eve were created as children of God. We see that Luke chapter 3 verse 38, just Adam was a son of God. He was created as a child of God. But nowhere does it say that Adam was seated at the right hand of God. We don't see that. But when we come to the new creation, we see not only are we born again into God's family to become his sons and daughters, which Adam and Eve were in the beginning, but he takes us and he makes us sit with him in Christ, which puts us in a place far higher than what Adam had. So, the answer to your question is, it's much more than what Adam had. Okay, thank you. All right, our time is up. We have to all hurry to our next class. But what I want to just request is somebody could just say a line or two.