 Some 46 verse 10 says, be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth. Verse 11, the Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Be still and know that I am God. So this being still is seizing from all action or all activity and knowing is experiencing the truth that he is God. Be still and know that I am God. So it means to comprehend. It is to know certainly and more importantly experience. It's not just knowledge, but it's experience. Experience the truth that I am God. So that's what the Lord says, be still and know that I am God. And if you read the verses before that, verse 8, verse 9 says, come behold the works of the Lord. He has made desolations on the earth. He talks about what God can do. And therefore it seems to be like an exhortation for someone who is worrying, for someone who is agitated, for someone who is constantly fretting and being anxious and thinking, okay, what shall I do? What shall I do now? Just in worry and anxiety. Say that be still, calm down, be still, don't be agitated and don't be in a flurry of activity. Be still and experience the truth that I am God. So that's the instruction and exhortation. So whenever we calm down, whenever we seize from anxiety and worry and activities related to that and activities as an outcome of that, many times the source of our activity is not really a good source. It's because of fear, it's because of anxiety and we are doing certain things or we are stirred up to do certain things. So when we seize from that and come to a place of being still, acknowledging who God is and the Lord says that and experience the truth, which means experience, meaning maybe the love, the joy, the peace, the power and His voice which calms everything, calms the storm. Be still and know that I am God. So let's pray. Father, we just want to thank you Lord for this day. We thank you for the exhortation from your word in Psalm 4610 to be still and know that Lord that you are God. Yes, Master, we just quieten ourselves today. Lord, we bring all the frantic activity, your frantic thoughts, everything that we might be not meditating on in the wrong way God, we bring that to a close, we bring that to an end. Yes Lord, so that we might know that you are God, that you might experience that you are God in all these circumstances that are causing us to react in certain ways in all these circumstances that are causing us to, drawing us Lord to behave in certain ways to respond in certain ways, to react in things God, whether in thought, word or action, God we pray maybe experience the truth of who you are in all these circumstances even as we Lord continue to be still and continue to know that you are God. We thank you. We give you all praise and glory in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Okay, so, oh, okay, I just thought we'll have a quick quiz. Okay, not on the subject, but just a general quiz. Okay, so I think most of you know, so if you can just, you can type in the answer in the chat. Okay, so this is who said to whom? Okay, ready? Who said these words? So, I'm just asking you to type in, okay. The first answer which I get will be, so prophetically you can even type in the answer even before I pose the question. Okay, so here's the question. Who said to whom? Okay, who said this and to whom? You can put it in the chat. Who said this and to whom? Okay, the quick thing is when? Okay, no answers yet. Okay, king to Daniel. Okay, which king? David, okay, the king to Daniel. Yes, so John Paul is the first response, so that's good. So just, you know what I'm saying, Nebuchadnezzar, no, sorry, it's not Nebuchadnezzar. Yeah, it's actually King Darius, the mead, and he tells Daniel, okay. So the question is, who said to whom? Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you, right? So King Darius tells Daniel, and just before they seal Daniel in the tent with the lions. Okay, one more. Okay, ready? This is an easy one. Okay, so who said to whom? Indeed, now I know, it's a testimony. No, there is no, sorry, I think there's no God. One second, just correct that. No, there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. Wow, Naaman to Elisha. Divya, fantastic. Okay, so Naaman, commander of the king's army. So King of Syria, so he says, please take a gift from your servant after he's healed of leprosy, right? Okay, that's in 2 Kings 5. Okay, here's, this also should be fairly easy. Last one, okay, ready? Okay, there we go. Men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what you intend to do regarding these men. But some time ago Theodos rose up claiming to be somebody, et cetera, et cetera. So, Gamaliel to the council, yeah, excellent. So that's Gamaliel the Pharisee was part of the council, so this is regarding Peter and John, right? So they are in the temple. Like they've been imprisoned, now they've come out, the angel has set them free, they have come out. So, yeah, Divya is actually very fast typing. Good, good. Okay, I think that those are the only three questions I have. So maybe next class I can have some more. Yeah, that's very interesting. I just thought you guys are now in the third hour. So, I don't know, instead of diving right in, let's have some quiz. Okay, so last class we were looking at the conquest of the mine. And finally, we were looking at how our perspective is very important. We were looking at developing a positive mindset despite challenges, despite trials, despite problems, which will always be there. So to develop a positive mindset despite all that, to look at problems as opportunities. So, like a classic example is that of the 12 spies and they saw the same thing. They saw the same giants. They saw that they were, it's not like any different. They saw, you know, how powerful they were and how big and tall and strong they were. They saw the same thing. But with regard to Caleb and Joshua, the only thing that was different was that the word of God, the promise of God, that was fresh in their minds. So that seemed to have painted a bigger picture. That seemed to have a bearing on what reality was for them. So they were not moved by or intimidated by the situation, by the circumstance. Rather, they saw the same things, but their mindset was actually framed or formed by the word of God, the promise of God, which far overshadowed the reality of the circumstance, like what was actually happening. For them, it was like, you know, the others were saying, we are like grasshoppers. But then they said, you know, they are like bread in the sense, you know, we can eat them up. Now we consume them. So that's it. So we saw that last class. That's what we ended with. Okay, so today, let's look at, let's just continue to look at, that is, I mean, the eighth topic in the same subject about conquest of the mind. Let me just share the screen. Okay, so that's about crucifying the flesh. Okay, crucifying the flesh in the sense that we know as new creations, we have been crucified with Christ. Okay, so that is what we see, that as part of our identity, as new creations, this is also part of our identity. Okay, so woman six verse three, do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Okay, we look at verse six, Roman six verse six, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. Okay, so this is what had happened. Then he goes on to say in verse 11, of course, you can read through the entire chapter verse 11, likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin. But alive to God in Christ Jesus. And it goes on to say, do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, right, for sin shall not happen. So the truth is that this is what happened to us that our body of sin, figuratively called as the old man, right, the old Adam or the old, you know, whoever you are, your name, you know, just saying. The old man was crucified. When Jesus was crucified on the cross, you know, that's the identification that happened, right, the substitute as part of the substitution in our place he died, but the identification is that our old man was crucified with him. Okay, so when we say crucifying the flesh, we're talking about the evil desires or the inappropriate desires of the body, and also the unrenewed part of our mind, right. So this is which is referred to as a flesh over and over again in the New Testament. So we see that that flesh which is already crucified on the cross. Now, it needs to be a continuous thing. Okay, it needs to be, we need to reckon ourselves dead to sin. We need to reckon ourselves, which means come to that conclusion. And that needs to be fresh in our mind. Because, you know, in James, we saw that we were drawn away by our desires. And these desires are desires of the flesh, which are unchecked, right, which are not kept or which are not put to death. We think about them, we give life to them by meditating on them, and they take over. So James was very clear that we are drawn away by our sinful desires, these desires of the flesh. So what is the answer in order to walk in wholesomeness, in to walk in healing and health for our emotions? We need to reckon these desires to be dead. Okay, we need to come to that conclusion. So, you know, this is what we see in 1 Peter 2 and verse 11 says, Bethlehem says that, Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts. Abstain, stay away from fleshly lusts. Or in other words, don't give in to the draw of a fleshly lusts. Okay, don't give in. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. Okay, there's a battle and it's a war and it's a tick on your soul. So it's good to look at it that way. This fleshly lust, which seems very fascinating. Okay, if our mind is not renewed, that's how it's going to be. Because otherwise for a renewed mind, it will seem, you know, it will seem unactive because you don't want to displease God, right? But for a renewed mind, it's seem active. And so, consider that this drawing of the flesh, this fleshly lust is actually an attack. It's an internal attack. It's an attack on our mind. So whatever, you know, faculties that you have in our as part of our soul, where it could be thinking, it could be analysis, it could be reasoning, it could be creativity, imagination and all those things, it's an attack on that. So we need to understand that. It's an attack. Where without our knowing, this fleshly lust, when we give into, it attacks and it destroys. And there is definitely, since it's a war, there is definitely some kind of casualty in all those areas. It attacks our soul. So when our attack, when the attack is on our soul and when our soul is damaged, right? When our actions are also damaged, right? Because actions follow through, our actions are also damaged, which means that, you know, our response to people, even our work, our relationships, our relationship with God, relationships with people, relationships with people, relationships with God, everything, you know, gets tainted because of this attack, because of the damage of this attack. So fleshly lust war against the soul. So it enabled us to, you know, have a very different perspective of everything that seems to be drawing us, right? So it's an attack. Then, so giving in to these desires, damages, harms, our mind, our emotions, everything. Galatians talks, gives a list, you know, Galatians 5 all gives a list of the works of the flesh, or the fruit or the end result of the work of the flesh, right? Now this is what it is. Now the works or acts or deeds of the flesh are evident, which are adultery, fornication, sexual impurity or sex before the covenant of marriage, uncleanness, lewdness, you know, you see the list and this is the works or this is the end result or a maturity of the works of the flesh, right? Idolatry, because it's about the self. Idolatry could be in different forms. Sorcery, because there is the drawing to the dark side. You know, there is a spiritual hunger, but it's giving vent to different avenues, like sorcery, witchcraft, magic, hatred and, you know, contentions. So it's not something that's holy and pure, hatred, contingent, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, right? Verse 21 talks about envy and murders and drunkenness, revelries and the like, of which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in time past, that those who practice these things or such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. And then he talks about the fruit of the spirit. Okay, so this is the manifestation of the flesh, a result of the work of the flesh. And then he talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is just totally contradictory to what we see there. You know, this is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. And against such, there is no law. Okay, so this fruit and fruit of the spirit, those fruits of the flesh, it's an outcome of something that's happening within. And that is what the next topic is about. It's an outcome of seeds. It's an outcome of where our roots are. And as a result of the seed and the root, it forms the fruit. It's an outcome of giving in to the desires of the flesh. And like we said earlier, these damage us personally, and that damage just continues to erode on everything that we might have built up. We train the spirit, we edify ourselves, we read the Word of God, and renew our mind to the Word of God. And so many good things happen to the believer as a result of engaging, encountering with God, engaging with the Holy Spirit and with the Word. So many good things happen. So many things are built up that we don't even realize it. And we realize it only when these things are eroding, or when these things have been taken away by damage. So the thing is that there is a damage that happens when we give in to the loss of the flesh. So the importance of these we reckon, we need to reckon ourselves dead to these things. So the minute we face some kind of a suggestion or there is some kind of an invitation where we sense that there is a drawing to this thing. I know that it's not of God. I know that it's a thing of flesh. We need to be alert and say, okay, this is damaging to me now. This is unhealthy, this is damaging. This is going to, for my mental health, it's not going to help. It's not going to help in any way. So that's why when we see addictions, people who are in various forms of addictions and hardcore addictions, what is the thing that is messed up? Of course, their body. Of course, the body is messed up because as a result of abuse of whatever, chemical or whatever, the body is messed up. But you will also see that the mind is really messed up. The mind is damaged, not able to think clearly and not able to say a definite no because the will is broken. No to things that are, that you know for very sure are damaging to yourself. The mind gets so damaged to that extent where it's just like clay, just in the hands of the enemy. We say whatever the enemy wants to. So it's, you know, that's the end result of it. So we know that, you know, giving into the flesh damages, it destroys. So we need to understand, okay, am I sowing seeds? Am I sowing seeds which actually result, will result in these kinds of fruit? By my actions, by my, whatever, my attitude, my motives, am I sowing these kinds of seeds? Okay, if you look at the list again, right, Galatians 5, what kind of seeds am I sowing which might lead to this fruit? It's a good thing to reflect and see. It's not a, you know, that verse 19, 20, 21, it's a, you know, it's an ugly list. It's not a pretty list, right? And when we look at these things, we are like, oh wow, I'll never do that. No, I'm not doing it. I'll never end up in those kind of things. But to the best of us, you know, even for the best of us, even though we might have the best of intentions, right? If you're not actually careful what kinds of seeds that we are sowing, right? What kinds of desires are we entertaining? Then, you know, it is, it is possible that these kinds of fruits are what we actually bear, right? So we need to, we need to ask ourselves, am I sowing to the spirit or am I sowing to the flesh? Because if I sow to the spirit, I will reap life. But if I sow to the flesh, then I will reap death. I will reap death. I will reap the consequence of it and that's the, it's a matter of time, right? If I'm continuing to sow to the things of the flesh, then it's just a matter of time before things get out of hand. And, you know, nobody will say, you know, none of the, like somebody was saying, like, after talking to prisoners who were there who had committed, you know, great crimes and, you know, how did crimes, you know, they were just normal people. They didn't think that, that they will end up like this. They didn't, they definitely didn't want life like that. But the fact is that they continue to harbour these kinds of seeds. They continue to harbour these kinds of seeds and in a split moment, they made that decision because, you know, it was the seeds that born fruit and things went out of hand. So, yeah, so we see that the seeds, the roots result in fruit. Okay. So, what, okay. So this refers to whatever things that are there in the present. So we can be, we can be alert to those things and we can actually alert to those sowing of those kinds of seeds. So what we mean is, like, those kind of desires, those kind of thoughts, those kind of temptations that we don't entertain that, knowing fully well that if I'm going to, you know, give in to the act or given in to the deed but I'm somewhere in the corner I'm still entertaining that thought. You know, entertaining that suggestion. Then we need to be aware that that is going to lead, you know, to some action. So don't entertain that. You know, don't actually nurture that seed. So that is fine. Okay. In the present, we're alert. We do that. Okay. And also, you know, Matthew chapter 7, the Lord Jesus talking about identifying false prophets and about their about their life, right? Saying, a good tree bears the fruit, but a bad tree bears that fruit. So it depends on what kinds of seed is sown. It kind of depends on what kind, where the roots are, right? So, so that's, that's a thing. By their fruits, you will know them. So that we can do in the present, but what about some seeds that were already sown in the past? Like, in a sense, these were some things that even before you, you know, came to Christ, these were some things that were already there in your life. Okay. And, you know, it was part of your life. It was part of your lifestyle. It was part of your life. That also, you know, we need to be aware of saying, this is what I used to do. And I know that it's, if I leave that unchecked, it could lead to what we see in Galatians 5, 19, 20, 21. So, even though, you know, I was not a believer. I wasn't aware of this truth. It happened in the past. So I need to be, you know, equally or doubly careful about these things, right? Okay. Okay. Hebrews 12 talks about a root. Okay. Hebrews 12, 14 and 14 to 17. Yeah, let's read through. First you peace with all people and holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Looking carefully, lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up cause, trouble and by this many become defiled. So, and of course, I'll talk about other things, but it's talking about the root or something that is causing a fruit. We looked at the seeds and we looked at, you know, the seed causing the fruit to happen. But we see a root here. Okay. So he's saying ensure that no root of bitterness goes up cause, trouble and affect others. Okay. So the root is something that we need to be aware of as well. You know, what is it? So the root talks about where is it that we draw our nutrition from? Where is it? You know, when you look at the root system of a plant, that's what it is. It's drawing its strength, drawing its nutrition through the root system. And also, the root system stabilizes the plant. It just establishes the plant. It makes firm. So, some of these roots are very, very strong. Did this go deep into the ground? So, it's almost impossible to pull it up to pull up or uproot the plant because the roots are so, so strong. So, in Matthew 3, when John the Baptist was talking or introducing the Lord Jesus, he talks about this is what he would do. Okay. He says, I indeed baptize you with Oh, sorry, before that. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree which does not bear fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I therefore baptize you with water which is what he who is coming after me is mightier than I, who sandals I'm not worried to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. And also, verse 12, he's knowing fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor and gather what weeds into the barn. But he will burn up the shaft with unquenchable fire. Referring to the refining, work of the Holy Spirit. Okay. Whom the Lord Jesus is ushering in, he will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire. So, the axe is need to be laid to the root. Okay. Because the more we are rooted in the wrong things and if we just leave it unchecked, it is causing problems in the emotional brain which is leading up to wrong behavior and wrong thought patterns and wrong thought patterns first and then wrong behavior which is leading to wrong action. Okay. So, the root needs to be cut so that it does not affect. So, figuratively when we're saying, you know, root so this is what it is, you know, where are we drawing our strength from? Where are we drawing our strength from? You know, whatever is keeping us going and what are we established in? Right. Just, we need to maybe think about it. What am I established in? Am I established in certain ideas, certain philosophies? Am I basing my life on certain things which are not the word of God but the truth of the word of God? Am I, is my life rooted in the culture of the day? Right. The values of the day, the superstitions of the day is my, am I rooted in that? Or do I, do my roots go there? So, it's, and when the Holy Spirit enlightens us, when he actually, you know, when we when he exposes these things, it can be a surprise to us. You know, why am I rooted in these things? Oh yes, the problem with my behavior or the problem with some of my thought patterns is because I'm rooted in this. My roots are going there and in other words these are some lies that I'm believing. These are some lies that I'm holding on to. So, when the Holy Spirit exposes and God, the Holy Spirit exposes us, exposes these lies, which are part of our lives, where we are rooted in then these need to be cut. You know, these need to be removed. So, figuratively we are saying cut, but what we're saying is that these need to end these things need to end. We need to bring these two things when these things should not be part of our life and they should not be our support system. They cannot be where we are drawing life from. So, some of these outcomes are about our self, where our life just involves around our self, about our needs and so on. Then also jealousy and pride and lust. So, laying back to the root, I think all of us have gone through that in the initial period, but it's going and looking at it again, playing the ax to the root of self, to the root of jealousy, to the root of pride and lust. I can download this book. So, even as we think about these things, the crucifying the flesh, bringing an end to the invitation, the drawing, the things of the flesh, knowing fully well that these are damaging to our soul, our thoughts, our emotions, everything to do with our mind. These actually damage us. We think of maybe some traumatic events. We think of maybe some upheavals which cause damage to our souls and we forget that the lust of the flesh actually war and create damage to our soul as well. So, we need to be mindful of that. Then we look at the seeds. What are the seeds which were sown earlier? What are the seeds that we are sowing intentionally in our lives? So, the seeds cause fruits to happen. They bear fruits and Galatians 519 talks about certain fruits of the outcome of the flesh or the work of the flesh. Whereas, we need to be bearing the fruit of the spirit to be rooted in the things of the spirit. So, the third thing we looked at was the root. What are we rooted in? What are we established in? What are we basing our life upon? So, those things. The thing is that we need to move forward. We need to walk in the spirit, live in the spirit. And again, Galatians 5, the entire chapter talks about how we can walk in the spirit. And that word walk simply means to order our lives, to conduct our lives, to walk in like almost like a soldier and it's a military term, like a soldier would walk in formation, would march in formation without breaking the row or rank or file or rank. Right? So, to keep in step with the Holy Spirit, to order our lives with the Holy Spirit. So, that's the picture. So, for our minds, you know, for us to walk in we walk in the spirit or live in the spirit. So, as prompted by, as guided by the Holy Spirit as invited by, guided to all these films that we use to the Holy Spirit. So, we are called to that kind of a life. We are called, we are designed for that kind of a life. Sometimes we think, oh, am I really designed for that? Am I designed to live that way? The thing is that as human beings we were born and sinned. So, we were cut off from life itself. Life as in the way God kind of life. And then we came to Christ. We came to Christ, we were born again. And for the first time, we could actually pray and be heard and hear the voice of God, hear or be sensitive to what God is doing in our lives. And we come to a position of being sheep who can hear the voice of the shepherd. Right? So, we are exposed to the life of God. Right? We are so used to living in the flesh. We are so used to living as dictated by the flesh or only, you know, with our reason, our mind and so on. That for us to live or walk in the Spirit, that is something that we need to learn again. But if you look at how we are designed for the Spirit of God to dwell in us and for the Spirit to be drawing on the wisdom the life of the life of Jesus, so that is what we are designed to be. Right? So, this walking in the Spirit is what we, as children of God, this is what we are designed to be. This is something that should be natural for us. Okay? So, even as we learn to walk in the Spirit and there could be some thoughts, you know, is this even natural? You know, is this even something that we should be thinking of? Is it making me weird? Right? I'm not like anyone else or like the majority. Like, is it it's even, it's weird. Right? Is it weird? But the fact is that this is what we are designed to walk as. Right? As new creation to leave us. So, we must walk in the Spirit. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Okay? So, the walk is not just one step. It's a series of steps. It's not just a one step and pause, but a series of continuous steps. Right? So, it's not I, you know, it's not something that we do as an event and then stop, but it's something that we do in union with Christ and it's a journey. So, Galatians 5 16, very important as we walk in this way, as you live in this way, as you walk those series of steps in this way, the assurance is that you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Okay? Again, why are we studying all this? Why are we looking into this the conquest of the mind so that we can stay in that place of wholeness? We can stay in that place of emotional health and wholeness. Right? So that it can be part of us. It doesn't have to be something that comes and goes and we constantly fight for. It can be part of us. Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. I just want to add that these lusts of the flesh would damage things of the soul. So, you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. You will not fulfill your soul if you walk in the Spirit. But the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you wish to do. Because the flesh is contrary to the Spirit and even though you might have desires, okay, I want to do this but then the flesh is unwilling there's not less, let us. So, when we walk in the Spirit the fruits are in the Spirit. When we sow to the Holy Spirit we will reap. Our walk will be back as ordained as designed by the Spirit of God. Okay. Right. So, when we walk in the Spirit so it just goes on to make some of these things visible when we walk in the Spirit we can expect to see the fruit of the Spirit. Fruit of the Spirit being love, joy, peace long-suffering kindness, goodness, faithfulness relations 5, 22, 23 gentleness, self-control so we can expect to see the fruit of the Spirit because the Spirit of God is against or is contrary to the things of the flesh. So, we can expect to see the fruit of the Spirit 24 and 25 since those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires so if we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit. Okay. So, we produce this kind of fruit. Romans 8 also talks about the same thing. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God but you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ look at verse 10. If Christ in you, the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. The Spirit gives life to our mortal bodies. That is what we see in verse 11 and if you live according to the flesh verse 13, you will die but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live relations Romans 5, 13. If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you bring to an end these desires of the flesh which means that there is a will involved, there is a decision involved, there is our choice involved. So, if by the Spirit which means by the leading, empowering warning of the Holy Spirit you bring to an end you put to death the deeds of the body you will live and that is nothing but walking in the Spirit So, walking in the Spirit as exciting as that is is also putting to death things of the flesh and then this is life this is life even as we even as the Spirit of God leads us. So Colossians 2 verses 6 and 7 talks about something that we consciously need to do. We talked about the root, we talked about where we are established where we are drawing our strength from drawing our identity from and all that Colossians 2, as you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him rooted and built up in him established in the faith as you have been taught a bounding in it with Thanksgiving. Okay. Rooted and built up in him the Amplified Bible says have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted have the roots of your being firmly and deeply planted in him fixed and founded in him. So again when we say rooted it's again a figure of speech but you know it's referring to something our lives becoming stable. Okay. Being rooted in him brings stability to our lives being established in him brings stability to our emotions. So our roots need to go deep in the person of Jesus. So what do we mean by that? You know it's nice to say I'm rooted in him. So what do we mean by that? Practically. How do I apply that? Which means that my strength the source of my strength, the source of my identity, the source of my life should be Christ. Our life should be Christ. Right. So we there's no plan B there's no you know a different agenda if we want to experience this to be rooted and built up in him. Just read that verse again. Rooted and built up in him established in the faith abounding in it with Thanksgiving. So this is an exhortation for all of us as believers. Let's just look at the verses prior to that. Okay. So Colossians 2 and so if you look at verse you know verse 6 is saying okay therefore having received Christ walk in him. Look at verse 8 is talking about being swayed by empty deceit or philosophy according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ. Okay. So this being rooted in him, being firmly established in him is very important because then we will not be swayed right. One thing is walking in him, walking in Christ is going to definitely put an end to the things of the flesh right. We will not fulfill or we will not give in to that invitation. Okay. But also we will not be swayed by empty deceit okay. Or philosophy of man according to the traditions of men, according to the principles of the world. Now these are equally you know equally important or we need to be discerning about because these also sway us. These also take our life in a different direction. Okay. Slowly and steadily. And so Paul is reminding you know in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead body. So there is no you know there is no question of nurturing another Aedal and a philosophy can be an Aedal you know tradition can be an Aedal which is contrary to the word of course right. So he is saying you are complete in him with the head of all principality and power. So he is saying you know you don't have to doubt dacing your life on Christ because everything flows out of him you don't have to doubt whether it will be beneficial for us. It will be a blessing for us or not. Will that result in me somehow not experiencing life in its fullness? No. Because you are complete in him. Who is the head of all principality and power? In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead body. Okay so we don't lose out we don't. We are not short changed if we base our life on Christ who is the fullness of the Godhead body. So let our roots be deep established in Christ. So we see that these things don't happen automatically. These things don't happen automatically. Okay I mean it can. It can it just depends but these things definitely don't happen automatically. There is our intention involved and there is our it's not the one time thing there is there some of us are like okay just once we just grab on to it hold on to the truth and our mind could be like and that's it. But some of us we need that reminder we need that reminder we need that read and it's fine like how Peter writes and he says by way of reminder I'm just writing this to you that you already know this that you're already walking in the truth but I want to tell you this right. So that is also fine as believers if we are reminded over again we need to be reminded that's fine but the fact is this that we know that this being established, being rooted, being walking in the spirit is something that we need to pursue intentionally and this is something that we need to walk in daily and it needs to become a part of us. So yeah we'll stop here and then we'll talk about as we are talking about rooted in Christ also severing something you know uprooting certain things. Let's we look at that in the next class. Okay so yeah thank you have a great weekend God bless. Bye bye.