 Okay, welcome back to our second lecture on BC 106. So there was a question in the class about the exam for this course. So for this course, we'll just have one exam at the very end, which will be cumulative. It will be 8 to 6, start to finish, cover all the content. It'll be multiple choice questions. So those of you who are studying online in class or online, you will do your exam in Google Classroom. Those who are studying on the eLearning, you will do your exam in the eLearning. It'll be the same questions both places. Now, don't go copy from here to there. Whichever place you're doing your exam, you do the exam only once. Just either on Google Classroom or for those of you who are doing it on eLearning, you do your exam only on eLearning. It'll be the same set of questions, same grade, everything same. One final exam, 100 marks, covers everything. And it will be open book, open Bible exam. So you don't have to memorize anything. You just keep your notes open in front of you. Keep your Bible open in front of you and answer the questions. Only condition is, no discussion. Do it independently by yourself. Okay, any questions? What was your question? Answered your question, Sean. Oh, so the second year starts in August. Yeah, so we have... So your exams will happen last week of April. Last week of April is exam. And so everything is automatically graded. So you'll get your grade as soon as you click submit. You'll get your grade. So, yeah, exams happen last week of August. Sorry, April. And then May, June, July. May, June, July. Three months. I mean, there's no semester. But what we actually run is we run a short term Bible course. That is for those students who just want to do a few courses who come here or online. So we run a short two months Bible course. It's like a mini version of just a certain number of topics, not the whole three years. So that happens during May 15th to July 15th, two months. And then the actual Bible college classes will resume from August 1st. Shiran, I was thinking of doing... I mean, we haven't... So far we haven't done it online, but I was thinking of putting it online so that those who cannot come here... So usually we used to have it in North India. So we run these courses in Varanasi. This is the first time we're going to do it in Bangalore here, two months. And I was thinking of putting it online also so that those who cannot come here can do it. The only thing is... I'm not decided whether we should give them a certificate or not, because there's no way to verify. They've actually attended all the classes and so on. We'll see. I'm just thinking about it. But initially, we've never done it online, the short term Bible college. We'll announce it. Okay. Getting back to our class. Okay. Let's go now to... We'll continue where we paused. So we just introduced this aspect of types and shadows. I want us to think about these three different ways of looking at scripture. One is type. Another one is illustration. And third one is allegorizing. And we need to understand the difference. The most important thing is... The major difference is that the type and the anti-type of fulfillment, it's clearly given in scripture. Okay. So there is a type. There is an anti-type. That means some... Like example, the shadow, you see the shadow of the tree. You come in and you estimate, you see the tree. Okay. The actual. And very important for the type is it is designed by God, point number five. And the illustration is a comparison. It is, again, you also see it in scripture as an illustration. It's given. So type is the most important thing when we're talking about type and illustration. Now, we're talking from a scriptural point of view. The type and the illustration are both found in the Bible. Okay. That means the Bible itself is saying, you know, this is a type. I may not use the word type, but it's pointing to something in the Old Testament and says that was speaking about this. So the Bible itself draws that connection. Okay. So very important type and illustration. What we're talking about. It must be found in the Bible. The Bible must draw that connection. Okay. The Bible is telling us there is a direct connection. The difference between the type and the illustration is one is the illustration is only is communicating. It's like a figure, a message. It's communicating a message example as Jonah was in the belly of the whale. So the son of man will be dead for three days. So this is an illustration. Neither Jonah nor the whale is pointing to Jesus. Okay. Jonah is not pointing to Jesus. Whale also definitely not pointing. But this illustration as Jonah was in the belly of the fish. I'm saying whales, I shouldn't say whale. Fish is the illustration. It's illustrating something. It's illustrating that Jesus would be dead, but it and then he would rise up. It's illustrating the dead body and resurrection. But this is not a type. There is not a direct comparison. Whereas when we said we mentioned Melchizedek earlier. Melchizedek is a direct comparison to Jesus Christ. What aspect of Melchizedek compares him to Christ? One, two things. One is he was a high priest. Jesus is our great high priest. Again, there is no record of his ancestry, his past or his future. So the writer of Hebrews is using that to say Christ was eternal. Past, eternal, future, eternal. Now, the point is Melchizedek was a man. We know he was born and we know he died. But because the scripture doesn't give us anything about his past or anything about his future, he just appears. So the writer of Hebrews is using that to say like that Christ is eternal. So two points of comparison, the priesthood and past as a future, eternal. Now, this is a direct comparison. That is a type pointing to the anti-type or the fulfillment which is Jesus Christ. Whereas Jonah in the belly of the fish is an illustration. You're getting the difference between, but both are pointed to us in scripture. I'm not making it up. It is stated in scripture that you can use it like this. Or example, as in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man. So the Bible itself is saying like that, that it will be like this as in the days of illustration. Doesn't mean Noah is pointing to Jesus. No, but it's as it was in those days. It will be before Jesus comes illustration. You're getting the difference. A type means there is a direct comparison connection between something or someone in the Old Testament with something or someone in the New Testament, direct connection. Illustration means there is some message being given from something in the Old Testament, but both these are actually stated in scripture. That's how we can use it. Not an allegory is something I make up. If I make up something and it is not stated in scripture, then I am allegorizing. That means I am assigning a meaning to the Bible, to anything in the Bible, which God never intended. And that is, that is something we should not do. Like I said an example. David represents the church. Goliath represents Satan. So the church must go and defeat Satan. Is that stated in scripture? Anyway, I'm not sure. It's not stated. So if somebody is preaching that message, they're allegorizing. That means they're assigning a meaning to something in the Bible, which God never intended, the Holy Spirit never intended. And that is a wrong thing to do. So I'm just highlighting, don't do it. Don't do it. Okay. Questions from? Sir, suppose I say that David is like us as believers, no matter how big an obstacle is like Goliath, we should have faith that God will get us through it. Is that allegorizing? If we say David is like a representing believer, that will be allegorizing. What we should say is, so if I want to use the story of David and Goliath, I should say, just as David was so courageous to find Goliath, he had faith in God. We must do like that. That is not allegorizing. That is, I am drawing a lesson from Old Testament scripture. I'm drawing a meaning. That is perfectly fine. Because the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 15 and also in 1 Corinthians 10, that the things that have been written in the Old Testament have been written for our learning and for our identification. So if I say, look at David, how he went and fought Goliath and how he had faith in God, and he depended on the covenant that he had with God. So we also must be like that. We must have faith in God. We must depend on our covenant with God. We must face whatever giants we are facing in life. So that is not an allegorizing. That is, I'm drawing lesson. I'm drawing spiritual truths from something in the Bible and I'm applying it to my life. That is good. But the moment I say, David represents the believer or David represents Christ or David represents the church and Goliath represents the devil, that is allegorizing. That means I am assigning to this character, David, or to Goliath something that the Bible is not a sin. I'm just using David and Goliath, but that people do it for so many other things and we shouldn't do it. So let's look at this. So you understood type illustration allegorizing. You understood it. We go to the details. So the type and the anti-type. So in a type, the type and the anti-type have natural correspondence resemblance. Melchizedek, Jesus, one to one, priest, priest. No beginning, no ending. No beginning, no ending. There is a correspondence. I'm sorry. Melchizedek was also a king, king of Salem. Yeah. So you could use that also. But the writer of Hebrews was highlighting his priesthood. He's comparing the priesthood. So stay with that. But king is fine. But king is not highlighted in Hebrews. So we don't highlight that. But Hebrews is highlighting his priesthood. He's a priest forever as Melchizedek. So you highlight that aspect. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I forgot to plug it in. Illustration example, we mentioned some. There is truth. There is correspondence. There is resemblance. For example, Noah in the belly of the fish or whatever you say. As in the days of Noah. So there's some illustrating is conveying a truth. In allegorizing what's happening is there is no natural correspondence, but a forced or hidden meaning is given to the text. I am putting some meaning into the text. Okay. Number two, the type has historical reality. Yeah, there was Melchizedek. You know, that actually happened. The illustration truth relationship depends on the historical reality of the illustration. I mean, again, in illustration that actually happens. It was there. In allegorizing the literal meaning is left out. They're not looking at the literal meaning. It's disregarded. Allegorizing. Yeah. Okay. So Prince question is, how do I put it? So you're saying we get some meaning out of our passage, but it's not what the actual passage is saying. Is that revelation? So I will mention, I mentioned this a little later in the bottom of this page. Sorry, not here. There's one more, one lesson that we do. I think it's lesson number 10 on avoiding allegorizing. So we'll explain that there. But over there, I did put a note on prophetic inspiration where in the case of giving a prophetic message, for example, suppose I'm ministering prophetically to somebody. At that moment, the Lord reminds me about Joseph and says, hey, this man is going through what Joseph went through. He's been falsely accused. So then in that prophetic message, I might say just like how Joseph was falsely accused. You are being falsely accused. So I'm drawing a point of comparison between a Bible character and this person. So in that sense, I am allegorizing because I'm assigning a meaning. It was not assigned in Scripture, but I'm doing it in order to bring a prophetic message. So that is okay, but that is very specific to that individual. I'm not preaching and teaching the Word of God. So in the preaching and teaching the Word of God, you must not allegorize because then anybody will bring any meaning. They will say anything out of the Bible. So in the preaching and teaching the Word of God, don't allegorize. But if I'm giving a message to personal prophecy or a message like that, that's okay. The Lord is telling me something about his life by using something in the Scriptures. So that's okay. So in chapter 10, we'll explain that. That's okay. That happens often. Okay. Going back to your actual question. If somebody claims a revelation and actually the fact is in the church, you hear a lot of messages that are actually allegorized. People are assigning meaning to things that are actually not in the Bible. And lots of sermons are being preached. Technically, it's wrong. It's wrong to do that. But nobody, at least for the most part, nobody allegorizes and says, tell some people go and do something wrong. They don't allegorize a text and tell people to commit sin. Generally, they don't do that. So that's why people still accept it. But technically, it's not the right way to handle God's works. But then there are a lot of people who preach those kinds of sermons. It's fine. People just take it. Nobody questions. There's nobody thinking, hey, actually, what he's doing is wrong in handling the word of God. But he doesn't tell anybody to go and commit sin. So nobody questions. But if, for example, and I have preached sermons which are allegorized, but then I tell people, this is not the actual meaning of the text. I'm just doing this to illustrate something to you. I'll tell them. For example, one message that I commonly preach is about the Mary miracle. So there are about seven or eight points from, and it's in the imprint, it's in a couple of books as well, where we look at how Mary gave birth to Jesus. We bring out eight points from there. Now that is not in Scripture. That is not the correct way to interpret the birth of Jesus. But I received it by inspiration in a moment. That means I remember this was way back. I think in 2001, December 2001, I had a preacher Christmas message. I didn't have a message. I was standing there in front. The church was small. You had only about, I don't know, 20 people in the church. I didn't have a Christmas message. And then I was standing in front. By the time the worship was over, by the time I could go from there to here, the whole message came into my spirit. Then I preached it. And then after that, I went and wrote the notes. And then it's in print. But it was not, if I look at it technically, it's not the right way to handle the Word of God. It's allegorizing. I was taking how Jesus was born and saying, this is what we must do. But it is okay because the eight points that I mentioned are not telling people to go and do something wrong. I can just say, okay, this is how God births His work through us, giving birth to the works of God. But it's an allegory, allegorizing. And we shouldn't do, other than that, I tried to avoid doing it because it's not handling God's work correctly. So suppose when you're giving a message and doing that time, you feel like God reveals to you that you should like use this example, use the example like for example, it's actually saying to not commit, to not steal, to not do allegory. But that you get an example from the Bible or like you have your own example, an allegorized example. Is that fine? Suppose you use an example of what, Sean? Let's say he talks about not committing an allegory to not steal and all those 10 commandments. But you get an allegorized point of view and you say it in the sermon, is that... You get an allegorized meaning. Like if you get an example, you say an example. Example is fine. Like suddenly an example comes to your mind, you use it. That's okay. But what I'm saying is we shouldn't take the word of God and allegorize it. Like I shouldn't say, you know, some story in the Bible and give it a different meaning. Then I'm allegorizing it. That's wrong to do. Technically it's wrong. But in many cases, nobody questions, you know, so people just take it. But I would say avoid doing it. Or if you are doing it, tell the people you're doing it. Like whenever I talk about the merry miracle, I tell them straight, hey, what I'm about to tell you is not the right way to preach. But I want you to get the main points. And I tell people, then I share that message. So that means I'm allegorizing. I'm saying something that's not in the original text, but it's in keeping with the essence of scripture. It's not violating scripture. But avoid doing that too much. Yeah. Can we take a lesson from? Yeah, yeah. So that's illustration. You're taking a message. You're taking a meaning out of the passage. That's correct. That's fine. But when we are assigning a meaning to the characters or things in there, that's wrong. Sorry. Yeah, we take the meaning and we apply to ourselves or apply to the people. That's fine. That's normal. Yeah, that's fine. So in the allegories, in the allegory, the literal meaning is rendered unimportant. So for example, you know, take this story of the good Samaritan. There was this man going from Jericho on Jericho Road. He was going and he was attacked by thieves. He was beaten and wounded and they stole all his things. They left him there. Then the priest came. The priest didn't help. He went away. The Levite came. He didn't help. He went away. Then the Samaritan came. He saw him. Then he took care of him. And then he, you know, he put his bandage on the wounds and everything. Then he took him to the inn. What do I could say? A place of like maybe a hospital or a hotel or whatever. He put him there. He said, take care of him. I will pay all the money and so on. So Jesus gave that story to illustrate something. Somebody asked the question, who is my brother? And then Jesus gave this story to answer the question, who is my brother? Now, suppose I take that story and I say the robbers who came, they are evil spirits. They are attacking people in the world today and people in the world today are lying, you know, beaten and the devil has stolen, killed from them and they are lying, hurting and dying on the road. The priest represents somebody who graduated from seminary. He doesn't do anything. The Levite represents somebody who is a priest in the church. He doesn't do anything. The good Samaritan is the ordinary believer. The you must go and help the people in the world and the in represents the church and you must bring those people to the church and you must pay the money to the church to take care of these people just as how the goods. What am I doing? I am. Allegra. Because was that the meaning Jesus intended in the story? No. He was just giving a story. Answering a question, who is my brother? What was the real meaning? The real meaning was a Samaritan helping a Jew. That means you're going across your cultural, social constraints to care for somebody, to love somebody. That's the person who's your brother, who's a real brother. That's the meaning of the story. He never intended for the in to represent the church and etc. Like all that we made up in the story. Okay. That was not what he meant. He was giving a story to illustrate, answer a question. So the correct way to interpret that story is in its context. But the moment I begin to assign this means this, this means that, that means that, then I'm giving something. That's allegorizing. Now, you and I may hear some sermons like that. Everybody will clap. Nice sermon. But actually it's not the correct way to handle the word of God. It's not a good sermon. Technically it's a bad sermon. But general people don't understand. They will clap, say amen and go. They don't understand. But that's actually wrong. Bad sermon because you're allegorized. You assign meanings to things that Jesus never intended. Or think, for example, when David went to fight Goliath, he took five stones. First stone represents the word of God. Second stone represents the name of Jesus. Third stone represents Holy Spirit. Fourth stone, the blood of Jesus. Fifth stone, the church. So when you go to face the devil, you have to take these five stones with you. Now some people preach sermons like that. What is it? It's allegorizing. Because that is not in the Bible. That was never intended by the Holy Spirit. It is not intended by the Holy Spirit. But people preach, oh, what revelation? I didn't know five stones are presented these things. What revelation? Fantastic revelation. Five stones. But technically it's a bad sermon. Because it is not what according to the scripture. Holy Spirit never meant that. But what we have done is, point number three, the allegory is conjuring up hidden ideas foreign beyond the text. The allegory is making up these ideas. Like when you say five stones, oh, it means these things. It's just made up. Oh, it's you're making up the ideas behind that text and preach it. But in the type, when you're looking at a type, in the type, there is clear points of comparison. It's there. It's in the text. And the scripture text is highlighting that point. Example, the rock that was struck is Christ. So clear point of comparison. What? The rock was struck. Christ was crucified. Clear points. We're not making it up. The scripture is telling us, right? Or as Moses raised up the serpent in the wilderness, so also Christ, I will be lifted up. Jesus said. So clear point of comparison. You know, the Moses raised up this brass serpent. He put in the middle of things. Whoever looked on it was saved. So Christ raised up on the cross. Whoever looks to him will be saved. Clear points. We're not making it up. Jesus said it. Okay. Number four, there's a fulfillment. So the anti-type fulfills it in the illustration. The truth fulfills it. In the allegory, it does not fulfill anything. It's simply made up. Okay. Five and six. Yeah. So it is designed. You find it in scripture. The allegory is the interpreter's own imagination. He's just imagining something. He's saying something. And the scriptures are designating it as such. So example, another illustration is, you know, God told Jeremiah 18. He says, Jeremiah, go to the porter's house. She goes to the porter's house. He sees the porter working on a vessel. Now, God himself is telling Jeremiah, as the clay is in the porter's hands. So are you, meaning Israel, in my hand? So that is, God himself is telling it. He's not making it up. So that means it's a very clear word from God. There is a comparison there as the clay potter. Okay. So some examples here. This is not a full list. Like Melchizedek Christ, Aaron Christ, please sleep ministry, Passover Feast, Christ, our sacrifice, Feast of Unleavened Bread, believers' holy walk. So this is actually mentioned in scripture. So you'll find scripture references here. Right? So in 1 Corinthians 5, Paul is comparing unleavened bread. And he says, just like they made bread without yeast. He says, we also should keep our lives like that. And he's using yeast to represent evil and sin. So Biblically it's stated. So you can use that. That is correct. So these are examples where it's stated in scripture. So you can preach it. You can teach it. You can explain it. And it's correct. Similarly, some examples of illustrations. Adam and Christ. So you find this comparison in Romans 5, also in 1 Corinthians 15. Through one man, Adam, sin came in. Through one man Christ, there was grace coming in. Through his disobedience, we were all put under judgment. Adam's disobedience. To Christ's obedience, we were all made righteous in the eyes of God. So he's comparing. So this we can compare. Biblical comparison. But I can't take an example. I can't take Noah and compare Noah to Jesus. Because it's not something the Bible assigns. It is true. Noah was a man who worked with God. He was a very righteous man. God used him to bring his own family and the animals into the ark. All that is true. We may like to make him compare him to Jesus. We may like to do it, but it's not stated in scripture. Noah brought everybody into the ark rapture. So Jesus will bring all of us in. No, no, no. Don't do that. It's not stated. We may feel like doing it. Don't do it. This is the thing. The question is, is it stated in scripture? So for something to be a type, something to be an illustration, it has to be stated. Now we can learn lessons. Yeah. Noah was an righteous man. He worked with God. He obeyed God. He built an ark even when there was no rain. All those lessons we can learn. And Hebrews 11 points to that. He says he was a man of faith like that. Those are lessons we can learn. But don't make it compare him to Jesus. Jonah and Christ said that is in scripture, brass up and raised. That's in scripture. So these are illustrations that are given to us in scripture. Matthew 24, you know, Jesus compares Jonah and his coming. Okay. So you've understood so far. Types and shadows. I've made it very simple. But you understood. Questions. Yes. Preached. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So good question. So the question is what the princess asked is in Philippians one, Paul says that some preach Christ out of envy and out of jealousy. But Paul is saying, Hey, as long as Jesus is being preached, I'm not, you know, I'm not but it. So the question is, is it okay if people are actually allegorizing scripture texts and is it okay? And people are being blessed. Is it okay? Or should we go and correct them? I think it depends on the relationship you have with that person. For example, if any one of our pastors stand up and preach like that, I'll call them. I'll say, Hey, don't do this again. Because I have a relationship with them. I can correct them. Right. And I correct them. Now, even, even if it's not for other things, like even how they communicate and all that, I give them feedback and I'm not doing it to put them down. I'm doing it to make them better. Right. But I have that relationship with all our pastors. So they know that when I correct them, I'm not doing it to hurt them. I'm doing it to make them better. So that kind of relationship I have, but I will never do that with some pastor somewhere there because I don't have that relationship. I can't speak like that to that person. And so I won't do it. You know, I'll just leave it. So to answer your question, it really depends on the relationship you have with that person, whether you can go and give them feedback. But the fact is there are lots of preachers and lots of sermons like that today. People are just, they'll take anything, say anything and you're listening to it and you say like, I know this is technically must not be doing this. But you know, everybody's happy. Everybody's clapping. People are being blessed. So you can't do anything about it because, you know, you don't have a relationship with that preacher to go and tell him or her that this is not the way to handle the word or interpret the word. Yeah. So lots of strange sermons. That part is when certain ideas actually put people into bondage. You see, there are some sermons people preach. People feel very free, happy and all. Okay. But there are certain sermons where they come out of misinterpreting scripture that actually puts people into bondage. It puts them into, you know, certain forms of legalism and all those things. And that's very sad, you know, because that congregation or those people who are listening to that message feel they have to do follow certain things and it brings them in bondage. So that's a difficult thing. But only if you have a relationship with that person that you can go and correct them. Otherwise it's difficult. They won't even receive, you know, they'll slap you back. So. All right. Any questions from from the online class, any questions on types and shadows? I hope it was clear and how to use types, illustrations and avoid allegorizing. Right. So I hope that was clear. Any questions? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We have two questions here. Let's take it. Yeah. After you. Yeah. How to study the Bible? No. See, if we use, I guess there's nothing wrong with there's nothing wrong in using stories and illustrations from everyday life. There's nothing wrong. Next chapter, next lesson we're going to learn is about parables. Right. So what are parables? Parables are stories from everyday life. So even Jesus took, you know, things from everyday life, farmer, fishing, this, that. He used those stories to talk to his audience. Right. So to answer your question, there is nothing wrong. If we use stories from our world today to explain to people, have them understand. There's nothing wrong with it. So it's fine. Only thing is make sure the story brings the message across correctly. And it's a clean story. Like I don't know what movies are all about. But generally, you know, keep a user clean story to communicate spirits to that's fine. It is used story. So example, if I might say, I might use some experience in life to talk about this is how God works. It's okay. But ultimately for me, most important is people must be established in the word of God. They cannot see the problem is people remember the story. They don't remember the word of God. That's the problem. So we ask them, what did pastor preach today? They'll tell the story. They won't tell what was the Bible. What did the Bible say? They won't remember. So that's the sad part. So personally for me, I avoid using too many stories. Even my own personal testimonies. I avoid doing it in certain contexts. I might say, but I want people to understand the scriptures. I want them to know chapter and verse. I want them to know this is what the Bible says. Otherwise, they will remember the story. They may even remember some catchy phrase I used, you know, but you can't fight the devil with the catchy phrase. You can't fight the devil with the story. You have to fight the devil with the word of God. Right. So what's the point? Yes, I like to establish people in God's word. So I think there's a balance in doing things. But to answer the question, there's nothing wrong in using a story. Sean. So what I wanted to ask is like similar to women's connecting to women's thing. Like, for example, can I like, like, is it okay to take like certain examples like from a series that I used to, what I watch is that they showed a scene where a lady that goes to church every day. You know, she's, she's very involved in the church. She's a good person. She handles almost everything church wise and she's very has good relationship with the pastor. So the thing is that this lady's son unfortunately had a child outside marriage with another woman. But later next day when she went to church, since it's a small town, everyone knew about what happened and they started to think bad about the lady about she raised a child right and all that. But, you know, the attitude completely changed towards her in the church when she entered the church. And something like, like holding hands during prayer. They wouldn't even hold her because they think that she's impure, you know, unholy because look what a child has done. Like that is in like, I want to say is that just because like her child did that, they mainly like put, I mean, they put blame on her and they mainly keep her out of all things. Out of the church, they're not involving anything else. In fact, even the pastor whom she handles accounts and everything, all the church duties, like revealed her out of her duty because, you know, this happened so and so happened. And he's trying to keep face because all the believers of all the members of the church are saying, look what this lady has done. So he doesn't want her to work in the church anymore. So, you know, if it's a true story or whatever, like there's no harm in sharing the story and using that as an illustration of what we should not do. This is like this story is like shown a series. It's not a true story. Sorry. This story was shown a series like a season episode like that. Oh, okay. Yeah. Anyway, I mean, you can just give an egg. I mean, you don't have to tell them, okay, I saw this in this series or whatever you just say, okay, see this happens in real life for example, think for example, there was a woman like this and this happens and you can use that and then you can use that to illustrate like this is what we should not do. Right. We can't put the blame on this woman. We should still love them. We must welcome them. They need to be part of the community and so on. So you can use, I mean, the answer is it's perfectly fine to use illustrations, stories from real life or whatever that communicate a point. Right. And then you back it up in scripture, like for example, we can say this, you know, the Bible tells us to love even as Christ loved us, right? Ephesians 5. So would Christ love this woman? Of course, he would love this woman in spite of what has happened in her life. Would he love her? Yes. Would he welcome her? Yes. And so we also as God's people must, you know, be loving and so on. So I think you can use a story, nothing wrong with the story and bring the scripture in to establish people in the Word of God. That's fine. So then. Okay. Fine. So let's pause here. Next. The next lessons that are coming up one is on parables, how to interpret parables. Then we're going to talk about our avoiding allegorizing. We'll get into a little bit more detail on that. Then we'll talk about prophetic scripture, how to interpret prophetic scripture. So piece by piece. Okay. So we're doing all this separately, but really all this must come together. Right. When you are studying the Word of God, you must study about all these, you must keep all these things in mind, grammar, figure of speech, types and shadows and put it all together. Right. Before that last week we talked about being cultural, what's permanent, what's temporary and so on. Okay. Let's close. Let's close in prayer and we'll continue this. So I think next week, because of exams, there may not be class. Let's see. I'll figure it out and I'll keep you informed. Let's pray. Thank you for the discussions. Thank you for the learning. And we pray that each one of us, God, will learn how to handle your word correctly and be a blessing to people and to strengthen people in you and in your word, in your truth. Thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Okay. Thank you, Ravan.