 All right, welcome back. Before we go ahead, any questions? Any of you have any questions? Online students, any questions, if you have? Feel free to ask. You can stop me anytime in between if you have any questions. You have any thoughts? Also, you can just stop me and ask and share your thoughts as well. All right, so let's move into this chapter on the wisdom of the cross, the wisdom of the cross. So Jesus foretells the cross. All of those are the Bible verses. And basically, all these verses talk about Him going to the cross. But let's go to the next chapter, the wisdom of the cross. So we were talking about the wisdom of the cross, right? So what is that wisdom? Let's look at how God expressed His wisdom through Jesus Christ, right? Not only through His death, but through His life as well, right? Let's look at it, right? First one is substitution. I'm sure most of us, if we have played soccer or cricket, we know what a substitute does, right? He's sitting there. One person gets injured. He can't run. He's probably fractured his leg. What happens? The substitute comes. Now, the substitute who comes has the same value of the guy who was sent off the field, right? Why? Because he's playing for the same team, right? It's the same team, probably if it's India. And if the substitute come in, he, as a substitute, is still representing India. He may not know anything about the game, but he's still representing India. He's still part of the team. And the team members must value him as much as he may be a young, he may be the first time in his life he's playing an international game, but he's still valued because he's a substitute for the game, right? The moment he gets onto the field, he's no more a substitute. When he was there, outside of the field, he was a substitute. The moment he gets onto the field, the commentators are not going to say he's a substitute. No, they're going to say he's a player. He's in the team. He's no more a substitute, right? So what is substitution? It is where God died for man, and Hebrews 2, 9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned him with glory and honor that he, by grace of God, might taste death for everyone. Who created death? Did God design death? What do you think? Did God design it when he created the world? Did he say, OK, there's something called death also? Did he say that? No, right? God did not design death. But through Adam, death came into this world, right? So remember when there was only one time when Jesus cried. Jesus wept. Where? Where? Loudly. Lazarus' tomb. Why did he weep? Couple of reasons. One is because he was very close to Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, right? But I believe the main reason he wept was because when he saw a loved one dead, something which he did not create, he saw the devil, the authority of the devil working in people. Because death came in through Satan. Yes. So what did Jesus reply to that situation? He said, hey, he wept. He was sad. He was hurt. And I think what would have happened was immediately he would have said, hey, I am the resurrection and the life. So it was basically talking to the devil and saying, devil, you brought death, but I am the resurrection and the life. And he resurrected Lazarus. And they were saying, why did Jesus say Lazarus come forth? He just said, come forth. You know, if he had said that, probably all the dead bodies, those who are dead will come back to life because that's going to happen later on. So he said, Lazarus, come forth. And he came forth, right? The Lord Jesus tasted death which he did not design. He did not create it. He allowed himself to die on the cross. He allowed it. He allowed this whole thing of death to overtake him. He tasted death. He doesn't know what death is, right? As God, he doesn't know what death is, but he tasted it. So that, what does it say there? By the grace of God that he might taste death for everyone. For example, we are, you know, as believers, you know, we are here and we lose a loved one, right? When we lose a loved one, what happens? It's hurt, it's pain, it's bereavement, right? A loss of a person, a loss of a life. Can you just move this camera a little? I don't know, why is it... Move it a little back, please. Yeah, a little back. More, more, a little more. Okay, yeah. So he tasted death. When we lose a loved one, when we go to the Father, when we pray, he understands what that feeling of death is, right? Because he knows. He has also seen Lazarus, that he knows that feeling and he himself has tasted death, right? Romans 5-8, but God demonstrates his love for us, his own love towards us that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God didn't wait for us to become, to reach a certain level of holiness or a certain level of knowledge. While we were yet sinners, whether you are going to believe this or not, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And he took up, he substituted for us. God did not say, until 10 people die, let 10 holy righteous people die, then I will die on the cross. He said, no, me alone, one substitute is enough. And he did it that way. 1 Peter 3-18, for Christ also suffered for us since the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit. God, powerful, right? Now, who is this? Who's writing this? A fisherman, right? A fisherman, remember, Peter and John went to pray, acts, went to pray. And then suddenly Peter and John are speaking in such boldness, Peter speaking in such boldness. And they're asking, hey, these are unschooled fellows. They are fishermen. They're in that sea catching fish. Who taught them to speak this way? Who taught them to speak in such authority? Were you with Jesus? Yes. And then he gives us powerful sermon. We all know that, right? What does he say? You know, the stone that you have rejected has become the honor stone. And, you know, he gives us great sermon. He goes back to Moses and Abraham and all of that. What brings out the whole gospel there? It says here that he might bring us to God putting to death in the flesh. Now in the flesh, you and I will die, right? One, we will pass on that shore, right? It's natural, but in the spirit, we are made alive, right? So right now, this flesh is nothing, right? Yes, God has given us, you know, things that we can enjoy, right? In the flesh and in the things that we can enjoy and see. And, you know, in terms of eating, drinking, the nature, the wonderful things that we see. You know, God has called us to enjoy all of that, but he is calling us to be alive in Christ. So when you look at it, when we become believers, immediately we're alive in Christ. And then there'll come a time we will be dead. Our body is gone, right? But the spirit is alive in Christ. Paul says to be absent in the body is to be as unto the Lord. That moment, imagine, you picture this as believers, when we pass on, this flesh will go. That moment, in a twinkling of an eye, we will be with the Lord. Now, who's one? Who's victorious? Jesus or the devil? The devil can say, ah, I brought death. I brought death. Now, where is Paul? Where's his body? Who cares about the body? The body, the worms are gonna eat and go. It's the soul and the spirit that matters. So the devil can't say, ah, I brought death. No, I'm victorious. Paul is saying, hey, for me to live is Christ, death is a gain for me. So you think the devil went to Apostle Paul and said, hey, tomorrow you will die. Oh, he would have been praising God. Oh, thank God, finally I can meet the Lord. Paul then Satan is thinking, hey, how do I get this fellow? He's not scared of anything. He's not scared of death. Okay, I'll bring a shipwreck. I'll get a snake to bite him. I'll get, you know, a famine or without, let him be without food. Let him be beaten. Let him be scourged. Anything happen? The Apostle Paul is saying, live is Christ to die is gain. How do I break this fellow? So who's victorious? Physically, he will pass on. It'll go. But the real Paul, the spirit, what matters will be with the Lord. The devil can't come and say, hey, I brought death to know. So the spirit also belongs to me. And Jesus will say, hey, you know the cross. Why you want to come? Why do you want to even talk about this? Because you are a defeated foe to be absent in the body, to be present with the Lord. The Greek word for the word Hooper, which is translated in all these verses, it says in four different ways. One, instead of in place of, on behalf of, as a substitute for. So if we put the first one, the Lord Jesus, instead of me, he went on the cross. The Lord Jesus, in place of me, took up the suffering. The Lord Jesus, on behalf of me, took up the cross, paid my shame and sin. And the Lord Jesus, as a substitute for me on the cross, he took it up. When you say, hey, but I was not there that time. No, I was not there 2,000 years ago, but he was a substitute. He took it up. Substitution means he became what we were. He took our place. When we were supposed to be on the cross, he took it. He became sin for us. So that we might be called the righteousness of God. You understand this whole thing of super, you know, substitution, right? Substitution. Now, these are things that every time we come into a place of worship, we're reading the Word, we are praying. These are points that we need to keep in our heart. Some says, no, I hid your Word in my heart. So, the devil is going to say, how can you pray today? How can you pray? You've done, you've got angry, you shouted at this person, this morning you did something wrong. How can you pray? What is your response? Oh yeah, how can I pray? It's something wrong today. It's okay, tomorrow I'll pray. Now, what will happen? The enemies, you're letting the enemy win. But if we know this, devil, instead of me, Jesus took up my pain. On behalf of me, he took it in place of me. He's a substitute for me. So, when I stand, when I go to Jesus, when I go to the cross, or when I pray, I'm going with boldness because he did it for me. So, if you have a problem, you'll have to talk to Jesus. You understand what I'm saying, right? If the devil has a problem, he'll have to talk to Jesus. But he will accuse, right? That's his, the word Satan means accuser. That's his job. But what is our understanding? Our job is to go to the Word, go back and say, hey, but Jesus did it for me. All I have to do, go to the cross, go to him and say, Lord Jesus, forgive me, cleanse me. I should not have got angry. I should not have sin. Help me, right? And the moment we do that, he's faithful and just to forgive our sins. And when he looks at us, he looks at us as holy and righteous. He was a substitute for us, right? One man's sin, this is the first Adam. Only a perfect man can become a substitute for the sinful man, right? Man who was already a sinner could not become a substitute for other men because he would have to die for his own sins, right? So picture this. Adam, the first Adam, there was no sin in him, right? He was born without sin. God created him in his own hands. And there's this Adam there. He's walking around with his wife in the garden. They don't know anything. It's looking after the garden. God has imagined this. The Bible says that in the cool of the day as God would come and meet with them, no need veil, no need covering face, nothing. God is probably sitting and telling them, see, when you dig, you have to dig in certain way. When you put the seed, you put it in, obviously God would have told them, right? You put the seed in and then leave it for a while. There's something called rain. Rain will come, right? And when the rain comes, that seed will germinate, it will grow. After that, what you have to do is you tend the garden. You look after it. Make sure that no, you know, there are a lot of insects and you look after it. Okay, God, as you say, obviously they would have learned it. God met with them, spoke to them. But after sin came in, there was a separation. The first Adam, he sinned. Now there was a separation. Who told you you were naked? Who told you? Why are you hiding from me? Who told you you were naked? No, the serpent sin came. Separation, right? But what happened? If in the later on, in the second Adam, this second Adam came not by sin, is born without sin, same as the first Adam, tempted in every way, same as the first Adam, yet he was without sin. So only he was able to take the punishment for the others, because he was born of no sin. And he was the substitute for the first Adam. The one man's obedience, which is the second Adam, yes, the only way there could be a perfect man was if God would become man, if deity put on humanity. Because after Adam, everyone was born in sin. Yes? There was a sin nature. We don't teach a child how to sin or how to lie. They learn it. We don't teach a child how to fight. See, this is how you fight. He will say yes, you say no fight. That's not how we teach. They know it. You don't have to teach them. How do you do your exam? You see the answer paper, something else is written. It's a sin nature. But here, only if God had become man, there is no sin nature. Here's the big problem, who will God become man? How can God become man? God is there in heaven. First Adam sinned. Now we need a person who is without sin. Everyone born is born in sin. How to deal with this problem? The only thing was God had to become man. So probably there was a meeting in heaven, in that meeting. Okay, the last prophet has come Malachi over. Let's send John the Baptist. And then all of a sudden the father says Jesus, son on Jesus, but son okay, I'm painting a picture, okay. When I say I'm painting a picture, I'm just trying to make it like for you for us to really picture what happened. The father waited. Father saying, okay son it's 4,000 years now. You want to go? The son says I'm ready. Okay, so let's choose somebody who knew no sin initially, who is a virgin and through the Holy Spirit you will go there but you will go in this kind of a way, humble ways. All that is later, right. All the whole thing of being pregnant, nine months and no place, all that is secondary. But what happened 4,000 years, the father says son you're ready to go? He says yes. And he comes and he was born without sin, lived a sinless life and he took up the sacrifice. I'm sure the father would have, just a picture again, right, just making you understand. The father saying, I'll come a time son, there'll be a cross. Are you ready for the cross? The Bible says that he was glad to take up the cross. He looked forward to the cross. Maybe the father saying, the prophet the Isaiah wrote about you. It's time. The only picture that the son coming into this world living this perfect life doing these wonderful miracles this gruesome death this resurrection going back to the father is just a perfect, perfect way of restoring humanity. It says that the real work was a spiritual work although it appeared like a man was dying on the cross it was spiritual though he destroyed the powers of darkness the devil was destroyed and at the name of Jesus every demon every work of the devil is destroyed the real work was a spiritual work and he endured all of that physical humiliation and torture even though he endured it for perfect holiness to come in contact with sin was far worse than that right? Perfect holy God getting to understand what the first Adam did that sin and he became that sin imagine feeling guilty does it feel good is it a good feeling to feel guilty or to feel condemned and feeling like a sinner it's not a good feeling now God being Jesus being God he went through it imagine how he will be feeling we as human beings we are so used to sin we feel guilty sometimes we feel condemned at times imagine the sun perfect holiness taking on sin for us taking Corinthians 521 for he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in him he who knew no sin to be sin for us let's get to the next one substitution brings the blessings of divine exchange everyone you know you know this whole thing of exchange have you done this when you were small when you were small you say hey I'll give you my sharpener you give me your ruler no when you're small if you've not done that you had a weird childhood you should have done it you take my sharpener every time my son comes home sometimes he comes with no pencil box there's your pencil box I gave it to my friend what did he give you he gave me a toy what kind of exchange is that he'll come back sometimes there'll be 10 pencils in his pencil box whose pencils are these my friend gave me what did you give him I gave him 2 books are you gonna get it back it's an exchange what is the exchange what is the substitution that Jesus did what happened in that divine exchange one he died so that you and I can live what if Jesus did not die there's no point of the cross there's no point the devil will say hey you didn't die you only suffered anyone can do that anybody can do that but he had to go through what the devil ordered of so he died but when he resurrected he destroyed the devil so he died so you and I can live 2 he was thrown away from God so that we can be brought near to God he's our exchange he became sin so that we might be righteous what does the word righteous mean righteous means standing before God right he became poor so that we could be made rich he took our place here on earth to give us a place in heaven what a powerful exchange that is he left heaven came into this world as a human being so that we when we die can leave this place and go to him and be with him in heaven see that exchange right he became what we were so that we could share in who he is plenty of verses Christ in me the hope of glory talks about Christ being in us and finally the son of God became the son of man so that the sons of men could become son of God nowhere in the Old Testament were people considered son of God meaning that that whole sonship father-son relationship it's not that right even Moses who saw God who saw the glory of God he could not say he's my father even though Moses was there he seen God he not walked with God that's all wonderful what does the book of Hebrews say the book of Hebrews talks about what Moses even when Moses he came down from that mountain and the Israelites said Moses cover your face we can't see because the glory of God is on your face so he covered his face that was just being in God's presence for some time right not in a relationship of father and son you and I have the glory of God inside us and so Hebrews says we are in a greater covenant than that old covenant greater than that but Moses saw God face to face like he heard God he saw the back of God he saw the glory of God but in the new covenant the glory of God is already inside us far greater than that of the old right what love is this substitution teaches us that God loves us immensely so that he would take my place for himself right he would take my place and the most important point is for us each one of us as believers remember in our walk in life, in the things that we have to do there will be times we will fail there will be times when we will fall right but never let that be a reason for us to stay down on the ground Isaiah again says look at the weary and he will rise you up with wings like eagles shall run and not be weary you shall walk and not faint right so yes there will be times we feel weak, we feel tired we feel broken we just feel like giving up look at this what Jesus did look at what he did for you and me there are times we will have to press on for him right I remember times when I was much younger before getting married there were times I would just be pressing on for him I would feel God I am not able to do this no strength but Lord I know that you are there with me we can always go back sometimes we feel we get into ministry we are doing this or even if it is in the workplace over time we feel tired we feel weary we feel like giving up right it is a natural thing there is nothing unnatural in it but when you go back to the substitution I am sure Jesus is sitting in that prison cell that night why do I have to go through all this he would not have thought that way but why do I have to go through all this what did I do I healed people I delivered people I spoke some I spoke such good things I preached I didn't do any wrong I didn't hurt anybody but here now I am in this cell he didn't give up on us the next day they beat him scourged him and then now he is standing in front of the pilot he didn't say whatever it is who wants to go let him go I didn't sign up for this he didn't say that I am sure he was if he had sweated blood it would have been intense stress but he never gave up on us he had you and me in mind during those times of difficulties during those times when we feel weary and feel like giving up just think about what Jesus did and personally it has helped me it's not wrong to feel like giving up it's a natural thing feel tired I don't want to do this or I want to do something else I want to do that I want to do this it's a natural thing but you look at the substitution and see the love and see what Jesus did for us God you never gave up on me not to give up on you and it really encourages us to press on so do that each one of us there will be these seasons we overcome through the help of the Holy Spirit right atonement atonement means that Jesus met the demands of God's justice for sin towards the sinner Christ became our atonement in order to turn away God's anger towards sin and complete the requirements of God's judgment towards sin right remember the day of atonement in the Old Testament what happens in the day of atonement they go once a year sprinkle that blood on the altar and come away looks easy as easy you know day of atonement even though it was a fearful thing easy but the others in Israel are just sitting there God be with him if he dies then we are in trouble if he is alive then you have forgiven us since all of Israel will be dies will be on this one person right what this high priest is going to do if God is not happy if God decides no I'm not going to enough then that person will die and there will be judgment on the nation of Israel but on the day of atonement when that person comes out later on this rejoicing God has accepted our our failures and he has forgiven our sins but here in this substitutionary work the barrier between man and God was removed the veil was stoned from top to bottom so you and I can enter his presence the cross put to death the enmity man had with God Ephesians 2 14 through 16 can any one of us read that? Ephesians 2 14 through 16 contain in ordinances so as to create in himself one new man from the two thus making peace and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross thereby putting to death the enmity thank you so it says there verse 14 and he has broken the middle wall of separation now in the Old Testament a wall was mostly referred to as sin and then we can also look at it as sin this wall of separation sometimes we use this allegory or this illustration at times when we are preaching I am praying and praying God is not answering maybe because we have built a wall why? there is pride there is anger, there is jealousy there is hatred, there is unforgiveness and we built a wall we are praying and praying and praying and nobody can hear us on the other side because the wall is there there is the separation we have built the wall God has not built the wall so we have to break down the wall and we are able to relate to God here for he himself has broken the middle wall of separation of separation between God and man he has broken it verse 16 that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross therefore putting death sorry putting to death the enmity God and sin are enemies we must understand that God loves us but he hates the sin yes God loves the people of Israel but he hated their sin now sin had to be judged and here it says that this enmity between God and sin was destroyed at the cross no longer that are they enemies because of what Jesus did through the cross he reconciled when we were small have you fought with your friends or even now you fight with friends and when we after fighting with friends next day you will not talk look the other side and then the next day you will just talk for 2-3 minutes yeah what is it and then the third day I will talk for a longer time and the fourth day without saying sorry everything is back to normal that is one kind of friendship that's a beautiful friendship and there is this other kind of friendship we both fight he goes hey I am sorry especially with guys no guys can't say sorry we must learn to say sorry right so sometimes he is going to say hey you know I am sorry I shouldn't have got angry let's be friends again what is that call reconciling right especially you know when I remember when I was small I had a lot of friends the whole time we would the place that I grew up in friends and my dad was he was not like you should study you should study we were 3 boys in my house so my mom would say study you know one day before the board exam we were playing football and my mom was like where is this boy tomorrow is his final exams and my dad said he is going to play football and it is so boys don't expect 90-95% dude I do well it's okay leave them let them enjoy so we had a lot of friends and I really understood this whole thing of friendship I had some really good friends even now we talk about it especially during these summer vacations there is no home home is only to sleep the morning we are not there from morning to evening when did you eat we ate something where are you my parents would wonder where are my 3 boys I think only night we would come and sleep the whole day outside playing with friends I had a wonderful childhood playing and playing but there were times we would have these football matches cricket matches and we would fight has that happened hey that's a goal no that's not a goal the next day we will not play we will all be at home looking at the wall there is no youtube at that time sitting at home sitting at home the parents will give work take the cycle and go out then you will see one of your friends you will remember the fight after 2 days you are back to normal the same fight the same thing why is reconciliation in fact it becomes stronger the bond becomes stronger and stronger God reconciled us through the cross so God is saying no I am not talking to this guy he is going on sinning and I have to judge this sin the Lord Jesus comes and says hey become friends become friends now because I paid the price of the cross reconciled now we are both our friends I am happy you are happy everyone is happy no enmity that's called reconciliation no more is God enemy with us no more is he angry with us right because we have reconciled through the cross one person in between the Lord Jesus did it for us because of the cross God could pardon the sinner freely and still remain just he could pardon the sinner still remain just there are two legal imputations which has occurred what is the word imputation to impute for example you get married to a child everything of yours is imputed to that boy or that girl automatically that child gets your name it's not like the father is saying you become 10 years old let me see how you behave then you become 20 years old let me see what kind of life you are living then you will get my name no a moment they are born maybe dedication happens they get the name it's imputed the baby only doesn't know what his name is the same thing here on the cross there is a legal imputation the sins of the world was imputed in the perfect impeccable humanity of Jesus Christ imputed it was it was just given the sins of the world was put it was already it was given on him now what is the second legal imputation the perfect righteousness of God is imputed on us as believers can you picture that for example there is a person who is from another faith he has been on another faith for all his life now he is an old man maybe 60 years old somebody comes and shares about Jesus and his heart is open he becomes a believer there is nothing about the bible but he doesn't know righteousness justification, holiness genesis to revelation nothing he knows all he knows so this person came and told about Jesus I believe that if I pray to Jesus my sins are forgiven so I pray now I believe in Jesus he doesn't know anything Moses, Abraham nothing he knows but at that moment the righteousness of God is imputed on him that moment he has a right standing before God right now he doesn't know what is righteousness he doesn't know what is imputation but it's given to him the moment you are there right the moment you are a bible college student some things are imputed on you bible course, PC student and I remember during our time we had these when we had these conferences a bc student this is for them this is whole thing bc student that's for the bc students nobody else can enter that van it was there during those days we used to have these small 12 seater 15 seater vans that would come and take us bc van that is this is different van there is something imputed on you and during those days the bc bc students are coming for prayer right in front bc students will stand because you know you are going to do the ministry some things are imputed you have to do it right there is no choice so two things happen one the sins of the world was imputed on Jesus two the righteousness of God was imputed on us just give and take it and over time we learn about it and we need to walk in that way everyone understood these two things that happened right and because of that we are reconciled with God atonement teaches me that God wants to have a relationship with me so much that he himself paid great price to make it possible now here is the key words atonement teaches me that God first one is God wants to have a relationship with me it is not me wanting to have a relationship with God right right from Adam and Eve God made Adam and Eve he didn't say write one letter to them and say do like this no he had a relationship with them we talked about it he went he met them he spoke to them the cool of the day the Bible says what he normally did so maybe he came and he taught them see this is tiger this is elephant this is giraffe this is the animal the fish in the sea this is what they do you can catch it you can eat it this is the how you you sow your seeds how you look after the garden this is one fruit this is called mango this is called apple God would have taught everything there was a relationship that relationship was broken right and then later on here it ceases us that probably God taught to himself I love the time when I walked into that garden I spoke to Adam and Eve remember we used to sit and speak together made a campfire right and we used to speak together for I love that time I miss those times I wish things could go back that way right sometimes we say right my little one always ask me did you do this in school did you do this in school and I always think of my school and I think oh man I wish I could get back to school for a couple of years maybe God had that same feeling God the Father I miss talking to Adam and Eve and the cool of the night we used to sit around and talk I wish we could do that but they could not because of sin but now because God wanted to have a relationship he said okay I miss those days so I'll send my son Jesus he will finish look and now we can sit and have a relationship again only thing we're not sitting in a garden and it may not be physical but we have a relationship with him you and I with the Holy Spirit inside us can have a relationship with him all of us I'm sure all of us God speaks to us if God doesn't speak to us then what I'm trying to say is why does God speak to us because he has a relationship with us if I go to the road and if I see some random person I may talk to him but I don't have a relationship with him or her your God is saying I will have a relationship with you you ask me I'll tell you you tell me I'll ask you both ways a relationship now this relationship here's the important thing we have to build on that relationship right how many of you came here to Bible college maybe the online students as well you came here to Bible college and the first day you went and spoke to everyone did you you came sat and you looked left and right and you were waiting when to run away from this place yes or no if not then very good because I remember my first day I came and some 20 people were there in the class I came late because I was working in the corporate sector and I had come for the after the interview they had a test and all that so I remember I finished in the middle of my work I just rushed and I came I couldn't find the Bible college somehow I found a place all of them were sitting in these tables and writing some exam so I came and what's happening here so I came and everyone were there and I was waiting for this exam and all that to write I said let me go see I have to go because I have come from work but over time initially I thought hey what all of them here are you know they all are teams all are sitting in teams what is this I have come from the corporate sector and there are guys talking Hindi there are guys talking Telugu there are guys talking Kannada and I don't know any of those languages I feel lonely I said what is this but over time relationships were built first thing I did is I separated everyone I made one Kannada and Hindi fellows sit together I separated everyone no teams and all so being a class who is the class leader Francis use your authority in the right way but that's the thing but relationships were built even yesterday I was speaking to one of the guys in my classmate in bible college we were talking about oh man the times just to talk to him and hear with him I remember we used to walk from the college to the hostel every time we would go so it was about a one kilometer walk so we had to be quick because the girls hostel was very close by they would just walk in five minutes we had to walk one kilometer so we would rush eat your food they would have packed a big box you take that box and go to the girls hostel and give so they are all waiting for the food there we couldn't relax and this is a one hour break so we would walk and that whole walk going and coming two sermons we would preach and this guy would translate I will preach in English he will translate in Telugu the whole thing every day without fail the relationships are built and we were talking about it yesterday it was so wonderful so God wants to have a relationship with us you and I can build it sorry I didn't notice the time thank you everyone for joining have a great week ahead I will see you next Thursday God bless