 Yes. So we have looked at verses 1, 2 and 3 of chapter 6. We are not quite finished with the whole parent-children relationships because there is just one more verse and that would be verse 4. If someone could please read out verse 4. Fathers, do not provoke your children's anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Yeah. So here, the advice that is given, of course, you know, the Greek word over there is literally fathers. In the same way, the Greek uses the word man all over the place but it's talking more about, you know, wherever man is used, we know it's not talking about only men, it's talking about humans. In the same way over here when it says fathers, it is true that it is specifically speaking to fathers. But then in the way we run our homes, we can think of it more as parents. So not just fathers but both parents. We need to bring up our children in the word of God, teaching them that this is what God says in his word and we need to live in obedience to the word. So we teach them that, we tell them what the word says, we inform them about it, we educate them on all that the Bible says, you know, that's something that we must do, cannot just leave it to, you know, Sunday school teachers to do that. We are expected, the parents are expected to teach the children all that the word of God says and then so that they can start living their lives in accordance with this word of God. So we teach that but how we teach it makes a big difference. If it is taught in a loving manner, then, you know, the child is more willing to accept it. On the other hand, if it is imposed on the child like a, like a kind of bitter rule to follow or there's, you know, always threat of punishment, when the child grows up hating the word of God, you know, because of the wrong attitude of the parent. So how we do the impartation, how we do this training and instruction of the Lord is very, very important because if we do it in the wrong way, the child could actually grow up hating the things of God and hating the parents and all of that. So it says over here, you know, don't provoke them to anger. So that's regarding the parent-children relationships and then it next moves on to slave and master relationships. Now, in our modern context, you know, there's not supposed to be any slavery. I mean, and in some parts of the world, you still find, you know, slavery and bonded labor and all of that going on, including in our country. So that is there. But, you know, here we will have to think in terms of, you know, employers and employees because most of us are not in that system of slavery. But over here, when he is still writing, you know, these words is talking to literal slaves who are still within the slave system. And by then slavery, of course, had become more evil. In Old Testament times, it was a respectable tradition of a man would choose voluntarily, you know, he would say from now on, I and my family will be under your covering. We will be your slaves. And, you know, you have to take full responsibility for us. And so when the man would purchase, you know, when the owner would purchase a slave and his entire household, he would literally become responsible for them, you know, to provide for them, to take care of them. And in turn, the slave and his family would serve these people in every way. It's a very, very different system by the time of, you know, the New Testament with all these Roman practices and Greek practices coming in. Yes, slavery had deteriorated. You know, it was no longer a noble tradition. It was more oppressive, more evil. So in that kind of a setup, this is what Paul is, you know, writing, and he says, slaves obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. I mean, the slaves sitting over there in that congregation would be shocked that they're expected to be nice to their masters, you know. So, because things were not really as wonderful now, you know, as they had been in older times, in ancient times, and yet this is the, you know, instruction that Paul gives. So they are supposed to be respectful. They're supposed to be sincere in as if they are obeying Christ himself. That's the command that he gives. And so if that is the command that he gave slaves, you know, how much more seriously we should take that command now because, you know, we are not actually slaves. In fact, we get paid for our services and, you know, in fact, in some of our jobs, we have, you know, additional perks and this and that. So we are not really being ill treated, you know, like the ancient day slaves or anything like that. So if they were being asked to obey as if they're obeying Christ, we also should be having that same honourable attitude, you know, in the way we serve in our workplaces. Now over here, it does not mean that you cannot go to the Lord and cry out to him if injustice is being done to you. So all of that is there. You know, the employer, the boss may not be a good person. He may be completely self-centred and only care about his own interests. And so, you know, we go to the Lord and we pray that the Lord will show us fairness. The Lord will grant us justice. We do all of that. When it comes to the actual work that we do, we do it sincerely. So yes, we can go to the Lord and ask him for recompense. We can ask him to, you know, back us up when the boss is ill-treating us. So all of that is there. You know, that aspect of justice and that aspect of fairness, all that is there, we can go to the Lord with those matters. But when it comes to the actual doing the work, getting the work done, we give a hundred percent. You know, we do that because we are doing it as if we are obeying Christ himself. And so it says in verse 7, serve wholeheartedly as if you were serving the Lord, not people. And it explains why we need to have this kind of an attitude. Verse 8 it says, because you know, you know, we are supposed to really know this, not just wish your hope, but we are supposed to know this because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good they do. So irrespective of what kind of a person that employer is, we choose from our side to remain faithful, to remain sincere because we know our Master's eyes, you know, our Heavenly Master's eyes are upon us and He will take care. He will, you know, reward us. He will, you know, provide the justice when the time comes. So we cannot use the excuse of a, you know, of a bad boss to shirk work or be lazy in the way we do things. We choose to continue honouring the Lord, you know, in our work. So that's regarding the attitude of the employee towards the employer. And then in verses 9, yeah, verse 9 you have Paul addressing those who are the employers, who are the bosses. And this is what he says to them. If someone could read out, Efficient 6 verse 9. And Masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is bought, he who is bought their Master and yours is in heaven. And there is no favouritism with him. So here the, just because, you know, the slaves have been informed and told that they should really serve, that they should really be respectful, that they should really, you know, do their job well. This does not mean that, you know, God is taking the side of the employers. It's not, it's not that God is taking the side of the boss. God is equally saying to the boss as well, you know, be careful how you treat your employee. He says over here, do not threaten them. You know, do not do anything that will harm them or hurt them. You must keep even the employee's interests in mind when you are a Master. Why? Because both of you, your employee and you, you are under the control of a higher authority. He will not show any favouritism. If the employer is the one who is doing wrong, God will take action. To the employee who is doing wrong, God will take action. So we both are under the heavenly Master. So we should be aware of that, whether we're employer or employee, we do our work carefully, knowing that the all-knowing one who can see the motives of our heart, who can see the attitude of our heart, he is watching, he is listening and so we need to be careful how we, you know, do our work. So that's regarding the employers and the employees and so having finished that section, which talks about, you know, which talks about interpersonal relationships using the way of love. In the same way Christ used the way of love in the same way he walked in the way of love, we also are supposed to walk in the way of love in all of our relationships. Having concluded that section, now Paul moves into a new section and that would be verse 10 onwards and this is the instruction, the opening line with which he begins verse 10. So if someone could read out verse 10. Finally, be strong in the Lord and he is mighty power. Okay, so everything that's going to follow now, you know, in the rest of this particular portion, this particular passage, it's all going to be flowing out of this opening line. So the opening line over here is finally be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. The word used over here, it's, you know, the Greek word is finally be endu namu. Okay, that's the Greek word that is used over there. I'm sure I killed the pronunciation, but anyway, that's the word. E-N-D-U-N-A-M-O-O. Okay, so you're supposed to be endu namu, which basically means something of extremely great power. You're supposed to be that powerful. Okay, that's the command that, you know, is being given over here to be very, very powerful. You know, we all are very familiar with this, you know, Alfred Noble. When he invented something very powerful, he wanted to give it a name which will kind of bring out the great power of this thing which he has invented. And so he hunted around for a good term for it, and then he thought this would be the perfect word for it. So this is the word that he chose, you know, because endu namu is based, is from your root word, you know, du namu. That's the word that he used for his invention to show how powerful his invention is. And so du namu is basically the word which talks about great power, and Alfred Noble used that word for his dynamite which he invented. Okay, so we are supposed to be full of du namu. We are supposed to be very, very powerful. How on earth are we normal human beings, you know, everyday people? How are we supposed to be that powerful? We are endu namu. You know, we literally have great power. How in the Lord, when we are united to him, when we are abiding in him, his power flows into us. What kind of a power is it? It says be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. You know, over here, it's talking about your resurrection power because he's already explained what kind of a power it is. He's already explained that earlier, so he does not go back into that entire teaching, but we are supposed to remember that that is the kind of power that he's talking about in this entire letter. So he says, be very, very powerful. How? By being united in Christ, you know, by abiding in him, because the stronger your connection is with him, the more strongly you are abiding and connected to him, the more easily his power, his resurrection power, will flow into you and then you will really be very, very powerful. It's the advice. So the basic concept over here is that if you're in the Lord, if your connection to him is strong, if you are really abiding in him, submitting to him, walking according to his leading, then his power will keep flowing into you and you'll be very, very, greatly powerful. You'll be the most powerful. You'll be that powerful. So that is step one. You need to be powerful by maintaining your union with the Lord. But second, it's not just enough to be powerful. You must also guard and protect yourself. So he starts off by saying, be strong in the Lord, be powerful in the Lord and one way of retaining your power is guarding yourself so that Satan does not come because you see Satan is very, very scared of powerful Christians. So if you have a believer walking around with this kind of dunamos power in him, Satan is not going to be very happy with the idea because powerful believers bring down the gates of hell. So such people will automatically come under attack. Satan will try to diffuse the power. He'll try to make them powerless in some way or the other using some strategy or the other. And so to maintain our power, we need to stay on guard. We need to protect ourselves. So what Paul is saying is, you are no ordinary people. You are people who are united with the Lord. And so if you stay in the Lord, then you are actually extremely powerful because you literally have resurrection power flowing into you on a daily basis to help you in all aspects of your Christian walk, whether it is attending to the needs of your family, whether it is you fulfilling your responsibilities in the community where you're staying, whatever it is that you're putting your hands to, whatever it is that you're taking up, the resurrection power of Christ flows into those areas of your activities. Why? Because you are abiding in him. You're connected with him. Your connection with him is strong. So because you are that strong, there's going to be attacks against you. It's what Paul is saying over here. Therefore, he says, you need to put on the full armor of God. It's not enough to just put on one or two pieces of armor. You know, the ones which are more convenient and easy to put on. No. He says put on the full armor of God because only then you see you will be able to take your stand against the devil's schemes. So the reason that we are putting on the armor, the reason that we are guarding ourselves and protecting ourselves is because we are actually not ordinary people. We are connected to the wine. We are connected to Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ is the one who has this resurrection power. And he's releasing that into our lives. And there are many amazing things that he wants to accomplish through us in partnership with us. And because we are that powerful, we need to stay on God because we can be quite dangerous to the kingdom of hell. And so we need to protect ourselves with the full armor of God. So it's rather sad, right? We see a whole bunch of believers who are going around living such defeated, helpless lives. Their own families are in a mess and they're not able to take care of their families because they are not really connected to the Lord. They're not abiding in him. They're not able to hear his instructions on how they can help their family come out of the mess that it is in. They're not able to use this resurrection power of Christ that is in them to speak life into their situations. And so you have a whole bunch of very defeated people walking around even though they are supposed to be very, very powerful. Why? Because they have not been wearing the armor. They have not been shielding and guarding themselves by putting on the full armor. And so because they are armor less, they have no covering. They are exposed to danger. The devil is taking full advantage and is attacking them and he's seeing to it that power which is in them will never be put to use. It will just stay there, dormant power. Not being utilized for the things that God had meant for that person to accomplish using that power. So this is a scheme of the devil. He will make sure that we don't put on the armor so that he can continue to attack us in all of those areas. And so we need to put on the full armor so that we can use this great power that is in us to accomplish the things of God. So here the analogy that Paul uses is of the Roman soldier and his armor. So there are entire books written on this or not just this one passage. So we are all very, very familiar already with what is discussed over here. But just for us to maybe touch upon a few details that we kind of maybe sometimes miss when we are doing our reading on the subject. So it says put on the full armor. Again, we know which we already looked at. One or two pieces of armor will not do. We need to put on all of it, put on the full armor. And then it says full armor of God. So you see this is a divine armor. It's not just something that humans have created by their own strength. This is a divine armor with divine power to actually guard us completely. Okay, so in that context if we can look at 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4 if someone could read out 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 4. So the weapons also are said are not cardinal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Okay, so these you know the armor and the weapons and all of that which God has given they are divine. So they actually contain the divine power to bring down the schemes of Satan. So if we actually cover ourselves in this divine armor we are protected and not only are we protected we can also attack the evil one and destroy his schemes in our own lives and in the ministry that we are trying to do the service that we are trying to offer. So we can actually even attack Satan and defeat him when we are fully clothed in this divine armor. And it says put on the full armor of God. So because it is a divine armor which is given by the Lord it only functions best when we have a right relationship with him. So if we are having the wrong attitude and if we are not properly in sync not synchronized with the Lord then the armor will not really be able to accomplish its powerful purpose which is why it says in James 4.7 that someone could read out James chapter 4 verse 7. So the first thing is we have to submit ourselves to the Lord only when we are living in submission only when we are in right relationship with him then we will be able to resist the devil so the armor is not going to work if we are not in a right relationship with the Lord so we first have to obey we first have to trust we have to submit and out of this right standing that we have with the Lord then we will be able to resist the devil and then he has no other choice but to flee and so then in verse 11 it goes on to explain verse 12 if someone could read out verse 12 please For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principality against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this cage against spiritual pose of wickedness in the heavenly places Yeah So in the NIV it uses the word struggle our struggle is not against flesh and blood in the NKJV it says we are not wrestling with flesh and blood so the word that is used to whether the Greek word is actually a word that is related to I know ancient Greek violent sports boxing and wrestling and all of that that's the kind of struggle that's the kind of word that is used over there where you would have two opponents literally fighting it out in a struggle to the death almost there would be many occasions where that other person the weaker opponent is not good enough he could either sustain actual permanent damage or even die during the entire wrestling or boxing match so it was not a not a light hearted kind of a struggle so that's the word that Paul uses over here because to show that this is no ordinary attack that's going to come against us it's going to be very intense because we are filled with such great power because we have the potential to accomplish such great things just by through simple faith and simple submission to the Lord because of that the attack against us will be great the struggle will be intense and therefore we need to be on our guard it's not normal people that we are engaged in battle with we are in a life and death struggle it's like a struggle between evil and good and the kingdom of hell will not very easily give up so we are engaged in a battle with that kind of with those kind of forces and he goes on to describe what are the four levels of demonic forces which are at work against us so he talks about four levels of hierarchical authority that prevail in the kingdom of darkness so at the highest level the Greek word that is used over there is arkas that's the word out of which we have the English word archaic, ancient we talk about archives old records so the word arkas is talking about something very ancient so at the highest level you have this ancient ones so they are probably the top most angels that supported Satan in his rebellion against the Lord so maybe it's actually referring to those these are like the ancient ones they are the most powerful angels who chose to side with Satan and they fell, they were all thrown out of heaven so it's talking about at the highest level it's talking about this chief highest ranking demonic powers so those are your arkas next under them they delegate their power to a whole bunch of exusia the word exusia literally means authorities so these ancient ones are the ones which hold all the power they were the ones who probably were created originally with amazing giftings, great power supernatural skills, so they have it all and so they delegate their authority to a whole bunch of exusia a whole bunch of authorities, this is delegated authorities which these delegated powers hold that's the second level of authorities hold delegated power in their hands under them you have a whole bunch of what the greek word says kosmo, we are familiar with that kosmo basically means world, kosmo kratos kratos basically are rulers so kosmo kratos is basically world rulers so at the highest level you have the ancient ones the arkas, under them you have the exusia the authorities who are holding delegated power and under them you have a whole bunch of world rulers they've probably kind of been assigned different sections of the world and said you're going to have authority over this portion of the world and then you're going to have authority over that portion so you basically have all of these kosmo kratos the world rulers and under them you have a whole bunch of underlings these are just your average evil spirits they go around doing the bidding of the higher powers so you have these four stages of authority in the kingdom of darkness and they are up against you they are up against you because they recognize the damage that you can do if you realize the kind of power that you have in the lord and how you can use that power through simple trust in him through simple submission and obedience to him on a daily basis just by having that you can actually accomplish great things and so they do not want you to achieve that you need to access that power that is there in you and so they are up in battle against you and you need to guard yourself against them by putting on the full divine armor that has been provided by the lord okay so yes brother shei go ahead with your question yeah just to gain clarity ma'am so what you're saying is the highest of this group of demonics or let's say the spiritual forces in heavenly places and then so that means they exist in the spiritual realm and then you have the rulers and the powers on the earth on the terrestrial realm am I mistaken to say that is there two groups is there hierarchy here that says the first two they operate in the air and then the another two which is powers and authorities sorry rulers and authorities operate more on the terrestrial which is the earth would that be correct to say if you look at the Greek there's nothing mentioned for the first two you just simply have the word and then you have the word those are your rulers and your authorities then the third one it calls them Cosmo Kratos so you know Cosmo world rulers so are they terrestrial are they functioning here on the earth they're all in a way functioning on the earth because they got kicked out of heaven and you know they were flung down below so in a sense they're all of the air in the sense they're all functioning in the spiritual realm and we can't physically see them but at the same time they're all operating in the world because they are no longer in heaven so in that sense they're all terrestrial they're all of the air of the spiritual realm yeah I mean does it really matter whether they're physically standing on the earth or whether they're up in the air their operation their functioning is happening here in the earth because the enemy is here on the earth we believers we are the enemy and their basic battle is with us so it's all happening here on the earth in that sense but it's happening in the spiritual realm and so we can't see it with our physical eyes does that help at all yes pastor that helps yeah so yeah it just talks about the powers of this dark world this Kratos which is dark and then it just talks about all the spiritual forces of evil in the spiritual realm or it just differs I mean the translation differs from version to version in English but these are the actual basic Greek words so the last category is just called you know evil they are the evil spirits so evil spirits operating in the you know spiritual realm in the heavenly realm so these are the powers which are up against us and okay yeah we have brother Christopher yeah please go ahead oh yes thank you pastor now I was actually just referring to the James 4-7 or I'm referring to that where you know this mentioned they said therefore submit to God this is the devil and he will flee from you and I'm also trying to understand you know in another kind of scenario where you know Joseph in the Old Testament tell when he you know he flew he actually fleed away from temptation from sin from Potiphar's wife so in that sense there was also a devil or demonic power involved there and he sort of you know he fleed away from it so my point is there are times when you know he stands strong and you know the devil is fleeing from us but there are also some maybe circumstances where we need to flee away you know not out of fear but basically we just need to get out of the situation and you know just get away basically from that situation which is which is you know a demonic environment so I just wanted to you know get your get your you on that I never thought about it but I guess I would call it a flight of victory and strength and a flight of defeat you know I would say I would use those two terms so Joseph when he fled that was a flight of strength a show of power a demonstration of victory it was totally a flight of victory he is fleeing and showing look I'm going to serve my lord I'm not going to bend no matter what the pressure is no matter what the consequences are you know I mean I know that these this can have you know repercussions on my job I may in fact lose my job I may end up in prison but I'm going to serve my lord and so I'm going to flee from this temptation in victory in authority in honour you know honouring my lord and my god so that's a godly kind of flight on the other hand when Satan flees from us after being defeated nicely that's a flight of complete shame and humiliation and you know the parts who are watching him you know his underlings would think he got a bashing this time so there's a great difference this is flight of victory where you're honouring the lord and God glorifies you for that and this is very shameful and humiliating flight where you're fleeing because you got nicely batched by the believers and now you you'll have to now go and you know think of some new strategy to come back and attack so there's a great difference in the kind of fleeing that we do we can do it in the power and authority of God to honour him and or we know we can be we can flee in defeat that should never happen to us that's something that should happen to Satan again and again but not to us so yeah I guess that's that that would be my thought on that yeah yes thank you yeah so so yeah going back to that verse the I just put on the full armor of God you can take your stand against the devil's schemes so over here it's talking about taking a stand and not fleeing in shame not fleeing in defeat so over here when it says so that you may take your stand against the devil's schemes yes yes here it is saying don't you know flee in shame and defeat that's something that should happen to Satan not to us so we are supposed to take a stand in victory and sometimes taking that stand may involve fleeing from temptation something like that so so it says take your stand against the devil's schemes and the word used over here for schemes is supposed to be literally the word methods over the centuries Satan you know he has experience when it comes to this whole thing of you know crippling believers and you know undermining them and making them ineffective he's tried out a whole bunch of things I guess over the years and it's kind of you know polished his methods so he has certain methodologies you know that's the word over there that's used schemes that word schemes means certain methods has come up with certain methodologies which work really really well they are effective 99% of the time and so he basically uses those but main methods to attack believers you know which is why if we were to look at first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 it kind of touches upon that concept if someone could read out for us first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 yeah so we see over here in the first portion of first Corinthians 10 13 it says no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind so there are certain fixed methods methodologies that Satan has found effective he uses them again and again and so over here in first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 Paul is assuring the believers and saying what's happening to you right now this you know this these temptations and trials that you're undergoing it's not something new something that has never happened to anyone before these are all things which Satan has been trying out for centuries these are all very normal normal things but Jesus Christ now God also has got certain escaped plans for us he has come up with divine strategies on how to overcome each of these methods and methodologies so he says it's nothing to be worried about God is in charge God is in control he will only allow you to be attacked to the extent that you can bear at this particular you know level of your spiritual growth so the stronger you grow the more experienced you grow in the Lord you know maybe the attacks you know God would allow greater levels of attack but he knows where you are at spiritually so he will only you know give you something that you will be able to bear he will not allow any attack upon you that you will be unable to handle okay so he you know Paul gives the assurance that each of us will be attacked or only to the extent that God allows that God permits and God permits it to a certain extent to help us develop our wings to learn how to fly to learn how to deal with you know this these kind of attacks so it's like as if we are under training and God already has got it says provide a way out of it so that you can endure it so for each of these situations that come God has already you know given strategies which we can use godly divine strategies which we can use to endure that temptation and not given to endure the temptation and hold on with the right attitude and you know not give up so the Lord will give that to us but for that you know we would have to wait upon him in prayer we would have to learn how to hear from him and so even as our bond with him grows stronger even as we are more and more connected to the wine we will be able to hear his instructions on how to escape what is the best you know approach to use when you're under attack in that particular way so God will give us these things but even if the connection with God is very very weak when that attack comes we will only be able to hear the attack feel the attack we will not even be able to sense God because we are our connection is so weak so in times of peace it's better to you know keep our connection strong and develop and nurture that connection because when the time of attack comes at that time we already would have gained some experience on hearing from him you know learning how to hold on to scripture you would have had some experience in all of that then we will be able to you know apply these divine strategies that God is giving so during times of peace and calm rather than being spiritually lazy we need to nurture our bond and connection with him so that when the time of attack comes we will be ready you know to handle whatever comes to us now we could not really touch upon the armor of God you know which it talks about the belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness and all of that yes yes brother Christopher go ahead I guess fast as well you know you're touched upon an interesting point you know where the intensity of the attack is more and as we grow spiritually and mature we are we are we are given you know the strength to be able to withstand that those that attack so just to understand you know the if you have some kind of example of that you know that may have that you yourself may have gone through if that's possible or otherwise you know if you've heard of you know how that how the intensity of the attack has you know increased and you know over time you know with a believer who has you know matured and then been able to withstand that yeah I just wanted to ask if you could give us an example I mean attacks are so varied and so wide in variety um you know something as simple as unanswered prayer I remember in the early days if then if God would not answer something then I would immediately have all these thoughts attacking me you know saying oh see God does not really care and then you start feeling angry and you feel betrayed and you know there's a lot of battle going on inside your mind where Satan is attacking you from many directions to kind of make you stop trusting in God to make you feel bitter against God and maybe to even lose hope that you know things are ever going to work for you in your life and all of that and the issues actually that were being dealt with at that time were not even that major but you know all these thoughts would come against God against the ever having you know victory over the situations of my life and all of that so gradually over time I began to know the character of God better I grew stronger in him I renewed my mind I began to be able to hear him better so now there are much bigger unanswered prayers I mean this affects not just me you know it affects my entire family these are big things that we are praying for and I do not yet see the answer to some of those but now when I look at myself there is so much peace on the inside there's so much confidence and security on the inside because now even though the attack is greater I can hear him better my goodness when you know in times of despair when things are really bad I can literally bombarded with scriptures on Feb 3rd that was some tough day for me and I literally had I think 7-8 scriptures come to me and God said see look I am for you I am going to deal with this and so you know I did not go into despair I did not allow that bitterness to rise up and say ha see look what God has I mean after all the service that I have done look what God did all that did not happen because I was able to hit those things you know which Satan was ending immediately with the scriptures and say no God is standing for me and so I can see a great difference the level of intensity of the situations will increase but you also would have now increased more in your ability to stand on scripture so you are able to have greater victory so I just used one example it can happen in all areas different areas where just Satan is trying to draw you away from God and draw you into despair draw you into failure draw you into sin all of that yeah I don't know whether that helped but I meant intensity in that sense the situations get more intense there is more to be lost but at the same time God's equipping is also greater yeah thank you for sharing to our pastor yeah yes yeah alright yeah we are out of time maybe we will touch upon the armor you know it is kind of wrong to not touch upon the armor so we will do that next class you know and we will also start off with our Philippians but you know right now let's just conclude with the word of prayer Lord we just thank you so much that you have taught us so many truths today help us a lot to imitate you to follow your example and to walk in the way of love in all of our relationships because Lord when we do that Lord because we are honouring you you will take care of all the details you will help us a lot in the situations that we face also we pray that Lord understanding who we are in you we would guard ourselves so that we can accomplish what you have you know set before us and we would experience victory rather than defeat thank you Lord in Jesus name Amen thank you so much for holding on till the end we will meet again next class