 Okay. All right. Yeah. So, so I was asking what has been since most of us are adults in this room, what have been your experience with your parents? And Rin had said that after we've grown up, we don't really like to listen to what she doesn't like to listen to what her parents say she'd like to do things on her own. That was her opinion. Okay. What about the rest? Francis? So, I got totally opposite from what Rin said for me. So, my parents know which way I'm going, what I'm going to do and all. So, they will guide me, but if I don't obey, they will leave me. So, it's a good thing I found them. Okay. So, you feel they guide you into things that you need to do. Okay. All right. Any other experiences? I'm sure some of us have elderly parents. I suppose I have elderly parents. Growing up or now? No, no, no. As adult children, how do we relate to, how do parents treat us and how do we treat them? I feel now it's really good. Dad and all become mellowed out. So, it's easy to talk to him and he's like very friendly mom also. Yeah. That was much better. It's much better now. Okay. The relationships are much better. Okay. Anybody else? Shiv Kumar said majority of the time I used to listen. Sorry, I lost that one minute. I used to listen to them, but sometimes I wouldn't listen to them. Okay. All right. Okay. So, you know, even as maybe some of us are married and have children, it's true that after a point of time, children are growing up, they become bigger, they become older, and then they leave home. Right. And then yet they still are your children. Right. And you still need to relate, need to connect with them, to understand them, to help them. Maybe not like how they were when they were teenagers or small children, but the way that you relate to them is a lot different right now. Okay. So, we'll just, as we just look at some scripture, maybe we'll just read Deutronomy chapter 32 verses 11 and 12. Can someone just read that? He was like an eagle hovering over its nest, overshadowing its young, then spreading its wings, lifting them into the air, teaching them to fly. God alone led him. There was not a foreign God inside. Okay. So, you know, it just kind of gives you an understanding of how when in time, as children become adults, they will leave the home. Right. They will leave the home and you may not be actively nurturing or caring for them. But nevertheless, you continue to relate with them. How do you relate to them? You relate to them more as a friend, more as someone who, how you would deal with an adult. All right. And so, this relationship also changes. If you remember when we spoke about nurturing children, we said the way that parents engage with their children, when they are teens or when they're, you know, younger adult, younger children or when they're adults, becomes different. So, you're relating to them also becomes very different. It's more like a friend, more like a mentor, more like a coach, more like a guide. Right. So, all of that changes. And that's exactly what that scripture talks about, you know, how they will have to leave your home one day. And once they leave your home, who leads them? God is the one who leads them. Right. So, whatever we've done in our initial years of grooming, of nurturing, of building them, it comes to test now. Right. So, all many of you are young people here. You take your own decisions. Right. You take, you decide many things for yourself. Maybe there are times you may ask for their opinion. So, it's the role of the parents to continue to guide, to help, to advise at that point of time. Okay. Now, moving on, let's look at Genesis chapter 26, verses 18 to 23, verse 32 and 33. Can someone just read that? It just brings about some interesting ways of how we look at the life of Isaac. And you know what lessons we can take from that. Yeah, go ahead. And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called them by the names which his father had called them. Also, Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a well of running water there. But the herdsmen of Gerrard quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen saying the water is ours. So, he called the name of the well Ezek because they quarreled with them. Then they dug another well and they quarreled over that one also. So, he called its name Sitna. And he moved from there and dug another well and they did not quarrel over it. So, he called its name Rehoboth. Because he said, for now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land. Then he went out from there to Beersheba. He came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug and said to him, we have found water. So, he called the Sheba. Therefore, the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. Okay, so what do you notice over here? I know it's all about digging wells and all of that. And you're wondering, you know, what lesson can we learn out of that? But what this passage shows is you see that Isaac had dug many wells in his time. Yes, okay. And what you also see is that if you look at the first verse, Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. So, maybe those wells were closed. What did Isaac go and do? He reopened it or he dug them again. Okay, so as they kept doing that, he kept doing that. But you also notice that he dug wells of his own. In verse 24 it says, then they dug another well, they quarreled over that one also and he called its name Sitna, moved from there, dug another well. So, what is the lesson that we learn from here? That as children, you can enjoy the blessings of your parents, things that they have done for you, whether it be spiritual, whether it be something that's more in the natural sense, you enjoy a lot of the blessings of your parents, right? Or parents ensure that whatever they have invested or whatever they have had blessings they've had, they share it with their children. But you also give the young people or the young children the opportunities to dig wells on their own to find things on their own, right? And you see that over there where Isaac did that. So, as parents, we continue to encourage them to find new parts of their own, like again, whether it be spiritual or whether it be anything in the natural sense of living, allowing them to do that because that helps them to establish themselves. So, even when they face opposition, to allow them to find a way through that, to go past that. So, we enjoy as children, we enjoy what our parents have accumulated either spiritually or naturally, but we also go forth and create our own spaces, our own establish our own wells or our own pathways. Okay? All right. Now, as adult children, what are we also called to do is, I mean, as parents, what do we help our children do is to ensure that they have their own understanding of God. They meet God on their own, have their own encounter, learn to build up their spiritual growth, their spiritual maturity. Just read Genesis chapter 26 verses 24 and 25. Genesis chapter 26 was 24 and 25. That night the Lord appeared to him and said, I am the God of your Father Abraham. Do not be afraid. I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my promise to my servant Abraham. Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. Then he set up his camp there and his servants dug another well. Okay. So, you know, this is the follow through of what we just saw in the previous verses. Now, as he was digging, as Isaac was digging, what happens? The Lord appears to him. He actually has an encounter with God and he builds his own altar. He comes to God. He builds his own altar, builds that relationship with God. Okay. So, he was not in care of Abraham, spiritual care of Abraham. It is not. He had his own relationship with God. So, similarly, what do as parents we seek to have is to ensure that our children have that personal encounter with God, that they are not taking on from us. I mean, our faith as parents is not going to save our children. They have to establish their own encounter. So, encouraging them to do that because if they have that, it's the best thing that they can have. Right. So, I think most of you all are people who left homes, right? None of you are living with your families here. Are you? Not with your parents. You're not living now, right? In the sense of here in Bangalore, like there's maybe in some other city or so. Yeah. Except for, I know that. Yeah. So, but you know, what is your personal responsibility? Your personal responsibility is to establish your relationship with God, right? And we can never be saved because of our parents' faith. It has to be a personal experience and a personal encounter that each of us need to have, right? So, how do we encourage them as children to make their own spiritual journey, to walk with God, to walk in the fear of the Lord, to walk in the ways of God, making that journey for them. So, because you see that in the way, you know, Isaac, he built an altar, he worshiped the Lord, they set camp there. And so, he began to establish himself in the Lord. So, that's something that as parents, we hope and we gear our children towards that time that they have their own encounter. So, any testimonies of how your parents did it for you? How did they encourage you to establish yourself in the faith and in your relationship with God? And in this thinking deeply. Nikhil? First, when I started ministry with my pastor. So, like, first, I had vision and other things like, I will do that things only. So, after that, what happens? So, they all accepted Jesus Christ, as I say, we are all, first, I only accepted Jesus. So, after that, for that things, I left two, three days home. So, I just went somewhere and after that, I came back and I prayed and they accepted Jesus Christ. And after that, what happens? Sometimes, after some days, so, my father just, he came and he said to me, like, what do you want to do? Or, like, for God, like as you chose. So, I just said, I want to do ministry. I just want to serve God. I don't want to do other anything. So, after that, my father encouraged me. So, he said, like, okay, you do whatever you want for God and I will support you. Like, from financial, from all things, like before he said, I won't support you. If you will do for God, I won't support you anything or you can leave this home also. I won't give you anything from this, like, from whatever I have. If you will leave God, then I will give you. But after that, he encouraged me, he came and he said, okay, you do what you want. I will support you in every areas. Nice. Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, so just, I'm sure all of us have those kind of stories where, you know, something that helps us have our own personal encounters with God. Okay. The last thing that we look at even as we deal with adult children is the impact that as people we have, even not just to our children, but to our children's children, to our grandchildren. So, our work is never over, right? With children, our work is never over. You still continue to have an influence to that, to your grandchildren. Okay. Let's read two verses, Isaiah 59-21 and 2 Timothy 1 verse 5. Isaiah 59-21, 2 Timothy 1 verse 5. As for me, says the Lord, this is my covenant with them. My spirit who is upon you and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants. From the mouth of your descendants. Descendants says the Lord from this time and forevermore. 2 Timothy 1 verse 5. When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in you, your grandmother, Lois and your mother. Ulyss. Ulyss. And I am persuaded is in you also. Okay. So, there are examples and I'm sure y'all may have examples. Anyone bought up by grandparents? Nobody here? No one? Anyone in the call, anyone among the... Right. So, you know, there are so many stories of how grandparents have nurtured faith in grandchildren. Right. I remember my father's father and I have a picture of my father's father and my father's mother on their knees praying for each of their children and each of their grandchildren name by name. You know, they take names and they pray for them. And some of them I lost my grandfather when I was four years old. I don't remember him at all. But nevertheless, you know, the way that he prayed, I believe has something that I can see today. So, what are we to be doing as grandparents is to continue to do and impact them in the Word of God, impact them in faith, impact them through wisdom, through your experience. Right. You'll have a lot of things to tell your grandchildren about life and what you've seen. So, keep doing that. In the Bible, we see Timothy, he was his grandmother's faith, as I said, no, grandmother's faith. Lewis and his mother, they were the ones who were instrumental in bringing him up, right, in the faith. So, our work is never done. Our work continues till the time God calls us. So, to be able to pass on to our children's children the faith. Again, it's not to interfere with what the parents are doing. You don't interfere with that. But walk alongside with your children to work with your grandchildren. Okay. Amen. Any questions? Small chapters, but any questions? Okay. If there aren't any questions from the other students online? Okay. If there aren't, we'll move to the last chapter. I will, I'm just going to switch off the recording so that I can start afresh. So, just give me two minutes.