 Okay, so let's continue. We'll continue with chapter 5. So we see, you know, it's amazing wisdom that we see here, Paul and the kind of, if you just look at Paul's life, right, who he was and how much he has changed, right, how much his life has been transformed. Is he the same person you think? Is he the same person who was persecuting, who was, you know, persecuting the way, entering, it says, no, Acts chapter 6 and 7 and all, we read about how they used to enter the household of people. It says in Acts 8, entering every house, dragging off men and women, committing them to prison. And so, is it the same person, you know, who's got such high values, right, and you think, you know, he's saying, you know, don't consider us as anyone, you know, we consider us as servants of Christ. The extent to which, right, walking with God closely can transform a life, you know, you see it in us. He's totally, you know, of course, we know that there's work in progress, but, you know, dying to the flesh, dying to the things of the flesh and being so available for the work of the Holy Spirit, you know, so available and so much so hungry for God. Because he says, you know, oh, that I might know him and the power of the resurrection, you know, and so hungry for God and God using him to really establish doctrine, establish scripture, right, which is really mind-blowing. So, so we see that, you know, God can do amazing things and in us and through us. So, yeah, so it's a thing as like we, as long as we choose to walk with him, as long as we choose to serve him and, and give ourselves to him, right, there's no limit to what God can do in us and through us. Yeah, so we see Paul's life and we see this, oh wow, so much has changed in Paul, right. Okay, so let's look at verse, verse one from chapter five. Okay, let me just open the notes. Sorry. So we go to chapter five and so he's addressing a few other things. He's talking, he's been talking about division. Now he's talking about a really serious matter there and he also, you know, gives a very serious solution. Okay, so let's look at that. Okay, chapter five, verse one, it is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles that a man has his father's wife. And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned that he who has done this deed might be taken away from you. For I indeed as absent in the body but present in spirit have already judged as though I were present him who has so done this deed in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you are gathered together along with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorifying is not good. Do you not know that a little living livens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old 11 that you might be a new lump since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast not with old live in nor with the 11 of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. So he is addressing something which is again in the eyes of God, in the eyes of God's people we see that it is a serious issue. So he is addressing this is the report that I have received that there is sexual immorality. And the word used there is for sexual immorality is pornia. We get the word pornography. I think it's derived from that. So it refers to all kinds of sexual relationships or activity which is not ordained by God. Now we need to understand that God is not against this whole concept of sex. He only designed it. He designed marriage. So the thing is that it should be enjoyed within marriage and not outside of it. Within marriage and not before marriage and in a marriage relationship. So any other sexual activity which is sex before marriage or sex outside of marriage adultery or any other perversions, homosexuality, your lesbianism and all that is it comes as a sexual perversion not designed by God, not ordained by God. And it has its consequences. It has its consequences. We read about adultery and we see that one who is committing adultery. He destroys his own soul, meaning that his thoughts, his imaginations, his mind, the ability to function well, the ability to do things well. All that is destroyed. It is getting perverted. It is getting changed. So it's like a war against oneself when a person commits adultery. He's sinning against this body. So Paul is saying, I hear that there is sexual immorality and such sexual immorality that is not there even among the Gentiles. What is it? It's that a man has his wife's, sorry, father's wife in the sense that he's having sexual relationship with his father's wife. So obviously maybe the father's remarried or whatever, you know, whatever be the situation. But this is something that's happening and it will not be so. This is not even there and the people are not doing like this. Now here is a church of God, a temple of God, among whom the spirit of God dwells and such a thing is happening. And we see that he uses the word, you know, that a man has, which means that it is something ongoing, something continual, something that's happening that is common knowledge, you know, which is even worse, right? Like, excuse me, sorry, which is even worse because people have come to know, right? People have come to know. People are talking about it. And it's so serious that it's common knowledge, but nothing has been done about it. Everybody's talking about it. Everybody's talking behind that person's back, but they're not doing anything. They're not talking to the person to change that. Or maybe they have, maybe they told that person, you know, you need to change and he is independent and they're just leaving it. What can we do? So he's, you know, so he's saying, you are puffed up, meaning you are being proud and you have not moaned. So look at this, you know, so he's saying, here's a person who's living in sin and he's part of your fellowship. You have not moaned. You have not grieved, you know, because, so that's something for us to learn. Understand that, you know, when you see God's people sinning, when we see God's people, you know, going out of God's will, going out of God's plan, living their own life, fleshly and so on. So does that, do we, you know, is our heart grieved because that's the heart of God? When God sees that, he is grieved. That's the heart of God. So Paul here is saying, you know, you have not moaned, but you've just been arrogant and proud. You should have deeply moaned that kind of sin and done something about it, act on it and not just let it be. Okay, so Paul, the next thing is something very, very important, but we also need to understand it correctly. Okay, so he says here that, you know, I indeed absent in body but present in spirit have already judged as though I were present. Him who has done this deed, you know, as if I was present there in person, I have judged this. That in the name of the Lord, when you gather together along with my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. So several things we learn and understand, you know, when we gather together, you know, the spirit of the Lord is present and the power of the Lord is present. You know, so something happens when we gather together as a church. Not that it does not happen when we are alone, right? When we go together or when we just worshiping God by ourselves. But the fact is that God's spirit, God's presence is there, God's power is present, right? So in a corporate body for things to happen, God wants things to happen, God wants things to change. So that is something that he mentions here that, you know, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. So he's judging based on the spiritual authority that God has given him. Okay, so what is that kind of authority he writes in the second contains? He writes that this authority has been given for edification for building up the church and not for a building up the person and not for destruction. That is the kind of authority that has been given. It's for edification, not for destruction. And he says, you know, the authorities is never to destroy a life, but always to build a life. So, you know, as leaders, that is also something that we need to understand. God has given us authority and he's given a spiritual authority, right? As we do spiritual ministry is given a spiritual authority and that authority is not to control people's lives, not to boss over people, but it is to build up people. Okay, in using it in correction, using it in, you know, for edification to build people's lives, right? To instruct people in order to build them to instruct people in order to lead them to freedom, not to bondage, right? Not to slavery and definitely not to bondage to ourselves, right? Okay, so he condemned or sentenced, he judged this person who was living in sin, continuing in sin, in the name of God, according to the authority that God had given him. And this is something he did. He said that he delivered this person to Satan. Okay, so and something that we need to understand, because we understand that particular statement based on what he writes after this. Okay, so let's not jump to any conclusions, you know, saying, okay, he's got Satan also with him. And, you know, he's saying, okay, Satan, now you come take control, you know, destroy that person. You know, is he doing that? Because at first, when you look at the verse, that's what it says, you know, deliver such a person to such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord, or at least his spirit is saved. Let his body be destroyed. Okay, so and it's as if Satan is just waiting, we know that he's a destroyer. So, you know, you just hand over the person. Is that it? You know, when you read through the rest of the chapter, we see that he is actually talking about separating that person, putting that person away from the fellowship of the church. Okay, so such an act he's referring to is as handing over. What is happening? The person is not in fellowship. The person is walking in sin, first of all, and no sexual sin of this nature. By that itself, he's opening up his life to the work of the enemy. And now, Paul is saying, you need to separate him from the church. Okay, because that person, in other words, you know, if you read the rest of the thing, he cannot influence, I don't want him to change influence others so that others also follow the similar kind of lifestyle, you know, a little leaven is what it takes to, you know, leaven the full batch of dough. So he's talking about leaven, he's talking about yeast, you know, like a baker will use in that flower, in that dough, so that it will make the dough rise, when the bread is baked, it rises up. Something like baking soda or something that we use. So he's saying, this will be the effect of that person's sinful lifestyle to the entire church. It's just one person, but it's going to spread, so you need to keep that person out. So when you actually keep person out who's unwilling to repent continuing in this sinful lifestyle, then it is, you know, he's brought out of that protection of the fellowship of the church. You know, there's no more, he's no more having access to people's inputs in his life, he's no more having access, that kind of protection that God has over the people, over a particular church even, he's coming out of that. And that is like handing over to Satan, Satan already will have inroads in his life, but now even more so, so that it comes to a destruction or some damage to his life. So destruction of the flesh. What is that word flesh? So you understood this? Any doubts here? So let's finish this and then we can discuss further. So he uses the word destruction of the flesh. So what is that word flesh? The word flesh in Greek is sars, which means it refers to people. Okay, in general, you know, right. Let's look at some scriptures, Acts chapter 2 verse 17. Okay, I accepted to verse 17 and it shall come to pass that God will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Okay, referring to Joel, Joel 2 28, God will pour out the spirit on all flesh. So it's referring to people because they're following verses talk about what will happen when the spirit is on all flesh. He's talking about sons and daughters, young men and old men and maid servants and so on. So it refers to people, people of God, people on whom God will pour out a spirit. So flesh, you know, general, it also refers to the physical body, you know, our body. And it is also referred to something which is carnal, which is, which is earthly and not spiritual opposite of spiritual flesh. And flesh also in natural terms, you know, it means like, you know, food or some nourishment. Like when we look at John chapter six, where I think this is John six, and yeah, John six and verse 51. Okay, verse 51 is referring to himself, you know, he says, I am the living which came from heaven. Anyone eats of the bread, he will live forever. The bread that I shall give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world and the same word is used there. So it's, you know, figuratively, he's referring to his flesh as the nourishment, you know, because he's referring to himself as the living bread. So in all these contexts, this word is used, the word flesh. But here, when we, when we, so when we look at it, you're saying trouble will, you know, destruction of the flesh. So it means that the individual, this person, when he's put out of fellowship of the church, then he will have trouble in his natural life. Okay, in his physical life, it could be anything. It could be, you know, lack of peace. It could be opening up this, you know, opening up the doorway for Satan to come and steal, kill and destroy, really create damage, create confusion. So, so destruction of, of the natural. So, so that is the thing, right? So, so this is something that we see. So, so we also need to understand that Paul, praise a similar thing, you know, this delivering to Satan happens to in 1 Timothy chapter one, also, we read about this. Okay, so let's read that 1 Timothy chapter one, and verse 20 1 Timothy one. Okay, so it says about people who actually, because of their conscience, they were their faith. You know, it says their faith have suffered, you know, concerning the faith have suffered, suffered shipwreck, meaning they're, they no more believe the way you, they used to believe, you know, their journey with Christ, their spiritual life has, has come to a standstill. You know, it's like, it's like shipwreck. So he's talking about two people, Hymenes and Alexander, verse 20, of whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. So these people, they were with them. But something happened, because they didn't maintain a good conscience before God and man. So something happened. And they're now, they've started blaspheming. Okay, talking bad about the, about the word of God, about Jesus, talking ill and, and blaspheming, saying things that are blasphemous, like without any reverence, heresies. So they are blaspheming. So, so he's saying, you know, so it's such an extreme case where they are creating damage to the temple of God. So here also, we see that Paul saying that this person is going to be creating damage to the body. Right. So he says, you know, this, this extreme, extreme decision of putting out, putting a person out of fellowship from the body, you know, so it seems very, very paradoxical or very, the very opposite of why, you know, why a church exists. Of course, it exists to shine light, so that people might come, and it's shine light, people might know the truth, people might grow, people might be planted. But in these extreme cases, there needs to be some decision taken to, to protect the body. Okay, it's always this extreme case. Okay, which is, which is the man, either, you know, heresies or wrong doctors, which are destroying people's lives, if, you know, the person is doing that, or if there is an open, brazen, unrepentant, sinful lifestyle. Okay, so, so, so the thing is this, so this is what Paul says, you know, I handed it over for the destruction of the flesh. Okay. But before that, you know, you see that, you see the heart, you know, is saying, you know, I, you have not moaned, you see the sin, and you're not puffed up, you have not moaned this particular act or what is happening. Okay, so we learn something about the feast as well, you know, the feast of the Passover and the feast of the unleavened bread. So in verse six, he says, your glorifying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? So this is what it is, which just takes a small amount of leaven to actually influence and change the whole batch of dough. So you truly, therefore, purge out the old leaven. What is he saying, you know, that old leaven needs to be separated, needs to be cleared out so that you might be unleavened. Purge out so that you might be a new lump or a fresh lump without leaven. Since you truly are unleavened, for indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. So he's referring to the feast of the Passover, the peace of the unleavened bread, where there would be a feast of the Passover would happen on the 14th day of that particular Hebrew month and leavened bread was not eaten. Okay, so all those days on the 14th day, sorry, on the 14th day, the bread with yeast or bread with that leaven was not eaten. Okay, and from the 15th day, then for the next seven days from the 15th day, it was the feast of the unleavened bread where there was no yeast kept in the household. The household was cleaned and in preparation for these two feasts. Okay, so he's referring to that because that yeast or the sin, the yeast referred to sin and the old life and old life of slavery in Egypt. It's coming out of that, right? So Paul is referring to that and he's saying that this is what it is, the feast of Passover. You won't know what it refers to, the evidence of the Lord, the Lamb of God's lane and the feast of the unleavened bread referring to the sin, the old life, everything being taken out and being separated. We are lives being separated. So he's saying, you know, do you not know that our little leavened leavens, the whole lump and you truly are unleavened for indeed Christ, our Passover was sacrificed for us. So he's saying, let us keep the feast. Let us keep the feast of the Passover and the feast of the unleavened bread. He's referring to, primarily referring to the unleavened bread and saying, let us keep the feast. How will you keep the feast? You will eat unleavened bread, a bread that does not contain yeast. A bread does not happen, have that leavened. So let's continue with that feast. What is he actually referring to? He's referring to sin. He's referring to the old life. He's referring to a sinful lifestyle. He's saying, let's not keep that. Let that not be part of our life. So he's saying, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. So referring to that feast. Now, any questions based on what we saw just now? So we've seen a very important or extreme decision that Paul has taken in the church at Corinth. The church which he established and this extreme reaction or decision is based on something which is very seriously wrong, which is happening there. And that was a continuing lifestyle, sexual sin. And in response to that, he takes this decision. And it talks about handing over to Satan for destruction of the flesh. So this is what it is. It was a separation of that person from the fellowship, a decision to keep that person out of fellowship. And we see that example in Hymenias and Alexander as well. They were blaspheming the Lord. There also Paul says, I handed them over to Satan. So we know, we can infer that this is what it is. They were put out of fellowship from that body of Christ so that they will be suffering because Satan will come in and Satan will open the door. I mean, they've already opened their door to Satan. So there will be destruction of the flesh in the sense their natural way of living. Maybe it will be affected in some way or the other because they're not under the protection. In fact, they themselves walked out of protection by their actions. Now, as a second level or added thing, they are now out of protection of the church as well. So something that we also learn is that when we are in fellowship as a body of Christ, it does not matter with church. Of course, it has to be a Bible-believing church. So there is a certain protection that comes upon us as people of God. And we need to value that. We are coming under the protection, under the covering of the Lord, of the Lord God when we live in fellowship with other believers. And it's not just living in fellowship. You're truly being part of the body of Christ, serving and helping and receiving help and so on. So any questions here? Or anything that you want to add? Clear? Fine. No questions for Kiran. For Aaron also, no questions. So what if you were in Paul's shoes? So what would you do if such a thing is happening in the church that you're leading in the fellowship? It's something that we need to think about and say, okay, is my heart for people? Or is my concern for people? Is that coming in the way of taking some certain strong decisions for the sake of the kingdom? Because obviously this is of importance because you're protecting the work of God. You're protecting this thing from spreading to other believers in the church. So you're obviously doing something good, doing something right. But it needs to be done in a manner that's careful, in a manner that's sensitive, in a manner that's only for you need to be very, very, very sure. Sure of the facts, sure of what's happening and sure of this particular decision. And this doesn't end here. We're going to read in 2 Corinthians when we study what happens. This man who was put out of fellowship, he is now back. He writes to the believers and says, okay, looks like there is change. Now taking back. So it's not like, okay, we've sent this person out, sent this family out. They stay forever and ever. It's not that. Their lives are changed. And so welcome back into fellowship. Restoration. So this decision is actually for restoration. So that there will be repentance and that there will be restoration. Even though, you know, it seems so severe now for the destruction of the flesh that it's spirit might be saved. Right. But this is the intention. Okay. Right. Okay. So let's look at verse nine. Chapter five verse nine. Okay. So we're going to talk about the sexual immoral people, not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world or with covatures or extortioners or idolaters. Since then, you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother. or an idolator, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But those who are outside, God judges, therefore put away from yourself the evil person. So this is the decision that he is saying, put away from yourself, yourself is the evil person. So he goes on to say, he starts by saying, I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company. So which means there was another letter which was obviously written, which is not there as part of scripture. Maybe it was a short letter, maybe it was, we don't know. So we don't know any details about that. So it says an earlier letter that he had written. So he's referring to that. I wrote to you in my epistle. So of course we call this first Corinthians because that's the one we have and it is there as part of scripture, as a canon of scripture. But Paul is referring to another letter that he had wrote, he had written earlier. So what is he saying? In that letter he had written saying, don't keep company with sexually model people. People who are sexually model, don't encourage, don't be part of that, don't be part of their whatever. Don't keep company with those people. So here he's clarifying. So obviously they misunderstood his instruction. So he's clarifying that instruction. So he's saying in verse 10, yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually model people of this world. So he's saying when I said you should not keep company, then you would have to go out of the world. Because knowing Corinth, it was a very immoral place. Even the worship had to do with sexual immorality. The temple of Aphrodite was a goddess of love. There were a lot of temple prostitutes that people would, even men and women would be there. And people would go and as an act of worship it would be a sexual immoral act. So such a place. So he's writing to them, don't keep company with sexually model people. Which means that I have to go out of Corinth or even go out of the world. Because the world there are such people. So Paul is clarifying and saying I did not mean sexually model people of the world. But I'm referring to people who are in the church. So the word that he uses there again is a Greek word. Which means do not mingle with or mix up together. Don't be intimate with such people. Then you might again have a question. Didn't Jesus come to save such people? He ate with sinners. So should I not, how can I stay away? How can I reach out to them? How can I share Christ with them? We might have those questions. So Paul is referring to something which he's not referring to that. Because obviously he was travelling, he was meeting all kinds of people. And in fact the church in Corinth itself was established by Paul. Which means that all these people, he writes later, you were like this. Like you were idolaters, you were sexually model people. He writes to them. So he's saying you were some of you, you were, in the next chapter actually he talks about that. But you were washed, you were sanctified. So for Paul to share the gospel, to meet with them, talk to them, share the gospel. These were the kind of people. But they heard, they changed. So what is Paul saying? It's not like that, we should not reach out. We should not talk to people who are living such. In fact we must, we should. But he's talking about a different level of relationship. Where you're mingling, you're intimate with them. So it's like you're associating with them day in and day out. And you're being a very close associate with them. So what is going to happen that then that company, if you're going to be having that kind of a thing, it's going to influence you. It's going to affect you. So that is why he's saying don't keep company with sexually immoral people. And he lists on other people also. He says, covetous, extortionous, idolaters. He said, I do not mean this kind of people of this world, but of course, if a believer. So he's saying, what is he saying? If anyone named a brother, verse 11. This person is named a brother, meaning that person is a believer in church. He's a brother in Christ, or she's a sister in Christ. And they are continuing to live this kind of a life, which is unrepentant. They're not repenting. So people have told, maybe pastors addressed, maybe other believers have told, they're not bothered. They're saying, it's okay. But they're continuing to come and have fellowship. And they are living such a life. So what Paul is saying is that don't keep company. Don't be mingling with them. Don't associate with them closely. So that's the thing. When you say mingle, it means to mix. So mix where one is mixed with the other. So he's saying, don't mingle. Don't associate closely with them or intimate with them. A few other verses that talk about is that we can see it also. Second Thessalonians 3 verses 14 and 15, where he says, if anyone does not obey our word in the epistle, note that person and do not keep company with them that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. You see the difference? Now it's a walk of grace. It is something that needs to be done with wisdom. So he's saying, see they're not obeying. They are unrepentant. Don't keep company with them. But don't count them as an enemy. Don't look at them as an enemy, but admonish them, which means instruct them sharply or correct them sharply. That's admonition. Correct them sharply as you would do a brother. Admonish him as a brother. So the thing is that that person sees that, I can't relate anymore. I don't have the same kind of relationship because that has changed. Now I've been advised that person is not moving with me as they used to and so on. And hopefully that will lead to that person changing. So he's saying, let that person so that he may be ashamed and that do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. So the entire list, we see extortion, coverages, all that is mentioned there and he's saying, if a person is a reviler and one is constantly criticizing, cursing people, one is a drunkard, don't keep company. Now verse 12, he says, what have I to do with judging also who are those who are outside? Who am I to judge? God will judge them. But when it comes to people in the church, in fellowship, I need to discern, I need to discern and I need to judge. And therefore you come to this decision, put away from yourselves the evil person. So then we might ask the question, what about the grace of God? Doesn't grace of God mean, God tolerated so much of my life. And yet he came down and he died for me. Yes, he did. He died for our sins and he rose again for our justification. So that is what he did. So what about the, should I not extend the same grace to others? Yes, definitely. But grace cannot be without referring to the truth. Sometimes what happens is we don't address the truth. Because we are afraid, what will other person think? Or maybe they'll stop coming to church if I address the truth. Or maybe they will, you know, maybe our relationship will change if I address the truth, if I tell them it is wrong, what you're doing is wrong. It needs to change. But grace is always with truth. And you know, scripture talks about that we speak the truth in love. We speak the truth, communicate the truth in love. So that's the standard, that's the instruction. So Psalm 57 verse 10, for your mercy reaches unto the heavens and your truth unto the clouds. You know, you see mercy and there is also truth. Psalm 85 verse 10, mercy and truth have met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed. So righteousness, peace, mercy, truth. So it's not isolated. It's not either mercy or truth. It's with the truth. John 1 and verse 17, John writes, Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. The Lord Himself, when He extended grace to us, to the entire world, something that we did not deserve, it was with truth. He did not say, okay, you're fine as you are, but here I'm extending grace. He said, no, this is what it is. You are in sin. You need a Saviour. If not, you'll be condemned. That is the truth. And it came with grace. I'm extending grace and mercy that you do not deserve. But this is your condition. If you do not change, this is the place where you're heading to. So in this whole scenario, this extension of grace should be with truth. And like Paul says in 2 Thessalonians, he says that admonition as a brother. So why? Because we understand, we esteem the word of God and the truth of God's word. We esteem the people of God because they are, in fact, His building, His flock, His field, His temple. So we do this in love, but at the same time, we do it with being very sensitive. So the fellowship, a person wanting to be part of a fellowship, being part of a church, is based on the word of God. Based on the standards of the word of God. It's not like a club where I do what I want and I still want to be part of what is happening. It's based on the word of God. So which means that they are coming to a place of, it is a process. Again, they're coming to a place of being obedient to the word of God, receiving the word of God, willing to be changed by the word of God. And being repentant for things that are not in line with the word of God. So that is the thing. So if somebody is unwilling to submit to the word of God, that's the important thing. Not submit to a person, but submit to the word of God and unwilling to remove sin. Okay, this is there, the word of God clearly points out and people have pointed out. And if such a person is unwilling to remove sin, then there needs to be a very tough decision to, you know, change or stop such people from attending the fellowship. If not for a long time, maybe for a short time so that they learn. It is with the intention of restoration. It is the intention that people will repent and come back to fellowship. Okay, right. Okay, so we'll stop here. And yeah, if you have any questions, any doubts, any clarifications on what we... You know, it's a pretty important topic and also quite a difficult thing. But it's there in the word and difficult to implement in some cases. But it's there for us and we need to obey and we need to do it in the right way. Because people do it in the wrong way, the right thing. This is God's standard, but you do it in the wrong way or do it with the wrong spirit, then we destroy people. We completely destroy people's lives. And there's no, you know, they're just completely destroyed. There's no restoration. But God, you know, whenever he issues a command, whenever he gives an instruction, it is always redemptive in nature. It is so that we might be prevented. And it is so that we might come back, there will be restoration. And it always is a redeemer, it's a redemptive. So we need to have the same heart while we carry this out. So it's going to hurt us and it's going to hurt others, definitely. But it's going to hurt us as a minister of God, right? So are you willing to be hurt? Are you willing to mourn that sin or that person who's caught in that sin? Because that's the heart of God, that's the heart of the Father. Okay. Okay, so we'll stop here and you guys have a good weekend. Today's Friday. God bless. We'll catch up next week. Okay. Thank you. Take care. Bye-bye.