 Okay, there we go. Before we start, I just want to look at one scripture. That is, if you can turn to Hebrews 2, Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 1, therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. The context, if you read the next few verses, talks about salvation, talks about the whole aspect of not falling away, not neglecting salvation and so on, which God has witnessed, which signs one does miracles. So the exhortation, verse 1, is this, give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. So this scripture talks about the possibility of drifting away, drifting away from all that we could be strong in, all that we could be established in. And if you look at the word drifting, it's not something that happens overnight. It's something that happens over a period of time because we've been negligent, because we have not looked into certain things, we've not been alert about certain things. And this drifting happens. It's like putting on weight. You don't realize it. You just maybe overeating and not exercising and all that. You don't put on weight overnight. You don't suddenly get up one Monday morning and say, oh, I'm overweight. No, it happens over a period of time. It's in small increments. So the Rite of Hebrews is warning us, give the earnest heed to the things that you have already heard, the things that you have already received, the truth that you're walking in. Be careful, be alert with those things that you've already received, that you already have. And what you think to be your strength right now, if you're not alert, we will drift away. So drifting away happens over a period of time. It happens in small increments or small compromises. But it's possible to drift far. Suddenly we realize that, hey, I used to be so strong, but now I've gone so far away. I used to be so close to the Lord, to the Word. I used to be strong in these things, but now I realize that I've actually gone far away. Why did that happen? How did that happen? Probably certain decisions we made, certain reasonings we made about the very things that we were strong in. And we let go of some things. We made some compromises, and it happened over a period of time. So the scripture warns against that, you know, as real as that drifting away is, I just want to say that so also our being rooted in, being established in something, or something, I should not say something, being established in the Word of God, in the truth, and walking strong in it. As real as drifting away is, so also our being rooted and our being strong in the truth of God's Word and walking in it. So that's the good news that when we give honest heed to the things that we have heard, the opposite of that happens. Instead of drifting away, we are strong. Instead of making compromises, we are actually making strong decisions, good decisions, not poor choices. The opposite of that is very, very true. And if you read through Hebrews, the writer is saying, we expect these things, we expect these good things to happen. We expect better things to happen rather than you compromising and giving up and walking in defeat. We expect you to walk. We expect those things to happen, like the good things to happen. So that's the exhortation. So why don't we just pray and say, Lord, I choose to give the earnest heed to those things that I have heard. There's all things that you have brought into my life, to the truths that you are establishing me in. Lord, I choose to give earnest heed. I choose to be alert. I choose to be obedient. I choose not to be deceived, just to be a hearer of the Word, just to be an analyzer of the Word, not to be just an appreciator of the Word, but I'd be a doer of the Word. Father, we commit ourselves into your mighty hands. Lord, we thank you for this exhortation, God, that even as the reality of drifting away is there in our lives, God, for the believer, but so also the reality of being established, continually being established in your Word, continually being built up and rooted up in your Word of Father, God. Lord, we thank you that those are the better things, Lord, that you desire from each one of us, and we choose to do that, God. We choose to walk in it, Father, God. We choose to be attentive and diligent, Lord, in the things that you have, Lord, established in us, Father. We thank you. We give you all the praise and glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. Right. So, yeah, we've been studying about the principles, right? The principles for walking in prosperity, right? Walking in Godly financial stewardship, walking in Godly prosperity. The principles, right? The Godly principles, things that actually work. We've been talking about the hindrances, so we need to give away those things, and then about the principles that we can actually put to practice. And one of the things that we said was, last thing we looked at was honoring God in our finances, honoring God in our finances. So, today, let's look at, when we come to think of, you know, honoring God with our finances, there is this aspect of three things that we can look at, okay? One is what God has laid down in Scripture about tithing, what God says about giving, and what God says about arms or helping others, right? So, let's look at those three things, okay? So, what do we understand about, you know, tithing? What does that word mean, okay? Tithe. What does that word mean, okay? It's ten percent, one tenth, okay? So, it's a Hebrew word which is mahasaya, which actually means this one tenth, a tenth of what we have to give it. I mean, it just means a tenth, okay? So, in Scripture, we see that God establishes something or there is this practice of tithing which is there in Scripture, right? So, let's look at a few Scriptures which talk about that. Okay, the notes for this I'll upload it a little later, right? Okay, so, every time you think of tithe, what Scripture comes to your mind? Yeah, so, you know, that's the answer, you know, most times when we think of tithing, we go to Malachi 3, okay, the last book of the Old Testament, and it seems like a warning, it's a harsh word, it's a rebuke, and that's our association with tithing, okay? So, it's like, oh, I better do it. If I don't do it, I'm actually robbing God, and God takes this seriously, so I better do it. So, tithing is never looked at as something joyful, as an act of worship, right? As a part of a covenant, right? So, you look at, okay, I need to do it, something bad will happen if I don't do it, and so I better do it, okay? That's most of it, okay? So, anyway, since we said Malachi 3, let's look at it, okay? Malachi 3 and verse 8, okay, will a man rob God? Yet, you have robbed me, but you say in what way have we robbed you in tithes and offerings? You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Try me now, in this says the Lord of hosts. If I will not open to you the windows of heaven, and pour out to you such blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it, and I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the wine fail to bear fruit for you in the field, says the Lord of hosts, and all the nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land, says the Lord of hosts, okay? So, we read this, I think, as ministers, maybe we preach it, you know, we ask before the offering time and say, hey, you don't want to rob God, you better do it, and then put the fear of God in, you know. But actually, when you look at it, it is worshipping the Lord out of the plenty that he's given us. Everything belongs to him, right? Even if we are earning lax and lax, either through our business or salary or whatever, we realize that if you look at it, you know, it's the grace of God, right? The fact that you're living, the fact that you have the skills and abilities, the fact that the grace of God has enabled you and placed you in these circumstances and the favor of God has surrounded you and, you know, brought you into that environment, maybe it's the grace of God, okay? And so, everything, all that we are, actually belongs to him, actually belongs to him. So, willingly, you know, we look at these things and it's actually an act of worship, okay? So some people say, okay, this is the Old Testament. It's there as a law, you know, as some principle that was established in the Old Testament. But actually, if you look at it, tithing goes beyond, or even before, the time the law was established. When was the law given through Moses, right? From that time, we see the precepts and the principles and the law being given to Moses. But if you look at scripture, we see that even before the law was given, okay? And historians say, you know, at least four centuries or so before the law was given, you know, when you look at Genesis 14, okay? Genesis 14, and let's turn there. Genesis 14 and verse, okay? 14 and verse, yeah, verses 18 onwards. Then Melchizedek, a king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was the priest of God Most High. And he blessed him and said, blessed be Abraham of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand, and he gave him a tithe of all. This is during Abraham's time. And we see this whole incident that happens with Melchizedek. He's a priest of God. And Melchizedek, you know, about Melchizedek, well, it's a mystery because we understand that he doesn't have a beginning or the end. We read in Hebrews about Melchizedek, right? And we see that Abraham, even before he was called Abraham, he gave a tithe of all to Melchizedek. He was a priest, okay? So we see that there was this understanding of tithe even before the law was given, right? Just as we see during the time of Cain and Abel that there was this understanding of bringing what was grown, you know, what was cultivated, what was, you know, bringing it to God as an offering. So that understanding was there even before the Lord said, okay, this shall be so. This is what you must do. This is what you do on certain days, okay? So it was, we could say, it was as part of a covenant relationship, okay? As part of, you know, as part of us relating to God as our provider, as our Father. And as, tithing is something that we do in order to honor him, okay? So let's, so that's it, okay? It's one-tenth, okay? Matthew 22 also talks about it. Let's look at that and look at some of the reasons why, you know, what people have against the tithe, okay? Okay, Matthew 22 and 2221, okay? Where the Lord says, sorry, is this a render to Caesar? The things that are Caesar's and to God, the things that are God's. Okay, so the Lord is saying, okay, this is, you give to man what belongs to man or the government, what belongs to the government, what is rightfully laid out as per the law of the land maybe. And you give to God what belongs to God, what is rightfully his, okay? And we see in Malachi that God says that bring this, do this with regard to the tithe, bring it into the storehouse, okay? So people have, you know, maybe some reasonings about tithe, okay? One of the things could be, okay, let's look at some of the reasons why people have something against the tithe, okay? Maybe one reason could be lack of knowledge or lack of right understanding of tithe, okay? So maybe there's no, maybe the concept of tithe, okay? We all, maybe you become a believer and then maybe there's no revelation, no teaching, no concept of tithe. Therefore, okay, whenever there's this whole thing of tithe and offering and, you know, you think that it's not in the scripture maybe, okay? Secondly, it could be fear, it could be fear. Fear that I have this, I have only so much and I have this need and this has to take care of my need. Now, if I do this, if I take a tenth of this hard-earned money or, you know, in case of a farmer, it will be a crop or whatever, if I take this and give it away, okay? Give it away as an offering, as an act of worship and what about this need, right? The fact is this need has to be met and I have this much to take care of this need. It's not like the minute I put the tithe in the offering somehow this need will go away, no, right? The house owner is not going to come and say, today I'm going to, you know, clear you of your rent, no problem. Don't pay the rent, he's not going to say that, right? The electricity bill, no, the KEB will come and say, if you don't pay the thing, we're going to take the fuse out. The reality is this, so it could be fear. What if I do this and my needs go unmet? What if I suffer because of it? So it could be fear, okay? The third thing, it could be even selfishness, saying that, okay, I need it. I need it for myself, it's mine, okay? It's mine, I need it, I earned it, I have a right to it and so it could be because of the self or your selfish about it. It could also be fear mixed with deception, you know? Fear maybe because of abuse, okay? You know, even especially today's, you know, if you look at anything, any video, any social media, anything, and if you're looking about, you know, you tell evangelists, people who are doing ministry on the net and so on, there's a lot of talk about money. There's a lot of ways in which people are raising money. There's a lot of ways which are not right, right? Which are not right, which are manipulative, right? Which are, you know, people want to play on people's fears, play on people's greed, play on people's ignorance and it's sad that in the name of God, that all this is happening. It's bringing a bad name to the church at large, right? It's bringing a bad name. Christ is being dishonored because of that, right? And people are saying, okay, these guys are always out to get money for some of their funding, some of their projects and they are, you know, they are doing this at our expense, okay? So it could be that. I'm never ever going to be cheated again. You know, these guys are doing this, so I'm not going to give to any ministry, anything. And, you know, that's... So it could be because of that, right? A bad experience. It could be fear mixed with, you know, a bad experience. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. Then it could be things that we believe about scripture, right? It could be things that we believe. Like one of the things is that we could believe is that it's part of the Old Testament. It's part of the Old Testament loss, right? Now I am in the new dispensation. I'm born again. I'm in the new dispensation and, you know, I don't go and sacrifice an animal. I don't go and keep all these religious things which are actually laid out in the Old Testament. So I don't have to do this one thing which is again listed. This one thing which is listed as a type. So that's a very strong argument, right? What if, you know, all those things which are listed as the law, as the rituals of the law. Well, I don't keep it because Christ has come as the end of the law. So I don't have to keep the law. Right? Righteousness comes not from the law by grace and Christ. So I don't have to do it. Okay? So we, you know, it could be that. But we understand that, you know, this, then you'll read Genesis 14 and 20. We see that it is actually something that was established and understanding that was there in relating to God even before the law came into being. Okay? So we can't go by that argument. It is there even before. Okay? So it's part of a, you know, covenant, it's part of how we are relating to God. Okay? And of course, the thing is that tithing ended at the cross. Till the cross. Yeah, it's okay to give the tithe, but tithing ended at the cross. Now we need to understand, there's a lot of things that ended at the cross. Okay? Things that were ritualistic in the Old Testament which ended at the cross. Right? What are some of those? The blood sacrifice, the sacrifice of animals. Right? Why did it end at the cross? Because the Lord Jesus was that sacrificial lamb, that perfect sacrifice, that one sacrifice through which we are all made perfect and being sanctified. Right? So it's very clear that that was that final and scripture talks about that, that this is, he was that final sacrifice. So there's no more requirement for any more sacrifices. Okay? So where do we find that? Hebrews, the book of Hebrews, 9, verse 11, Hebrews 9 and verse 12. Okay, let's look at a couple of verses, right? Let's go to Hebrews 9. So we're just looking at these because things are a little fuzzy, very unclear when it comes to tithing and we could be in that place. Okay, so let's look at Hebrews 9 and verse 11. It says that, Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is not of this creation. Okay, verse 12. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, he entered the most holy place once for all. Okay? That phrase once for all, which means for everyone, once for all. Having obtained eternal redemption. Then we go down to verse 25. It says, not that he should offer himself often as the high priest enters the most holy place every year with the blood of another. Okay? So as we go through that whole chapter and especially from verse 11 onwards, we see that, okay, this was once for all. It was done once, one point in time, so that it need not be repeated. Okay? So the blood sacrifice ended with the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus on the cross. Okay? The next one. Who had access to the Father? Who had access to the Holy of Holies? It was the high priest once a year. Right? He had access. Now that also ended with the cross, while all of us were made as priests, as the royal priesthoods, priests and kings unto God. Right? And then we read, if you look at Hebrews 4, verse 16, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. Right? Let us come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain. So who, what is that exhortation for? What is that invitation for? For all of us. Right? People who are bloodbought, bloodwashed. Right? So we also see that we are kings and priests unto God. We are the royal priesthood. Okay? So no more is it, no more it is the priest or the high priest who goes once a year on behalf of the people. It is no more that, but each one of us have access to God the Father. Okay? So this whole thing of the high priest representing the people going to the presence of God on behalf of the people, going to the people on behalf of God, that ended. Right? Where each one of us, we have access 24-7 to the Father. So we can hear the voice of God. We have access to God's presence and so on. The one more thing is about, you know, praise and worship with musical references. So, you know, things like that. You know, here it didn't end, but actually it continues in the sense that, yeah. 23 point. Okay. So Arnold's question is, or statement is that, but I think it's not just 10% but it can be more than 10%. It can be 20% or 23.3. Okay. 3% and so on. So do you have scriptural reference for these things? Okay. You just tell me, I'll repeat it here. Just tell me the scriptural reference. Please. Okay. Numbers 18-20. Okay. Let's look at that. Just one second. 20? 20-20. Okay. Numbers 20-20. 20-20, is it? Numbers 20. Oh, 18-20. Okay. Sorry. 18-20. Okay. Then the Lord said to Aaron, you shall have no inheritance in the land, nor shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel. Okay. Then verse 21. Behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tides in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work which they perform, the work of the tabernacle of meeting. Okay. So that doesn't give any indication of what percentage. Right? Okay. Second one? Yeah. Yeah. Deuteronomy 12. 12-6. Okay. Okay. So there you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tides, the heave offerings of your hand, your warped offerings, your free will offerings and the first one of your herds and flocks. And there you shall eat before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice in all which you have put your hand and you and your households in which the Lord your God has blessed you. Yeah. So along with the tides, there are other things that they are actually taking and offering unto the Lord. Yeah. So yeah. So we are looking at how can we consider this in our time, in our day and time. We have to follow the 23% so I don't know how we are arriving at the 23. Okay. We can discuss that later. But the thing is this, you know, first of all, it's something that is not stopped to the Old Testament that we understand that we carried on into the New Testament also because the Lord Jesus also talks about it. We look at that verse a little while. But the fact is that the fact is that tithes, when you look at it, it's a minimum. See, the reality is that everything that I have belongs to God. Okay. Everything that I have belongs to God and what the Lord has established this thing that, okay, you do it as an act of worship. Okay. So when you look at it, you are actually free to give more and beyond this one-tenth. You are free to give. And, you know, this history is full of people who have actually given who we say, you know, they do a reverse tithing in the sense they keep 10% and they give away 90%, I mean 90% of it. You know, or they live on 20% and then they, yeah, sorry, give away 80% of it. There are people who have done that. You know, so for them it's like this is what I require actually. Okay, this will take care of my needs and God has blessed me with plenty. So I, what do I do with it? You know, I, so I give in to the work of ministry and so there are people who do that. They really challenge your, you know, thinking in that way. So, yeah, so, you know, even the tithe, they're saying that you give it freely, you give it out of your heart, but it's something that God desires to, you know, what happens when we actually give, right? We are saying, Lord, I honor you with this, you are my provider. Because you're saying, you know, if you look at it, it is, you have needs and maybe, you know, you have needs that this is exactly fitting in. You know, this is exactly taking care of, but despite that you're taking a step of faith and you're honoring God and you're saying, God, you are my provider. Right? So you're doing that. And also we're saying that, okay, God, this, I'm, you know, whatever I'm giving is for the work of your kingdom. It's for, you know, blessing other people, maybe. And so, you know, you're, you're saying, okay, I'm blessed in order to bless others. You're fulfilling that part also. You know, not only just honoring God, but, you know, taking that small step in blessing other people. Okay. So, yeah. So that's the thing. You know, we don't have to come hard and fast and say 10% only, but 10% is really a suggestion. It's a minimum. When you look at New Testament, it's because everything actually belongs to Him. Right? So this 23% you probably can come back with more details. We can look at that. But actually if you look at it, everything belongs to Him. So it's, we go with this, you know, we are, we can, in our hearts, we can give beyond, you know, more above and beyond the 10. Right? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Would we say it's a trite? I'm not sure because it's not mentioned there, but it was definitely an act of worship. I'm not sure whether it was something because it doesn't say they just went and offered it to the Lord. It says, yeah, I'm not sure. It could be, I don't know. But you see that concept of the material being offered to God. You know, does He need it? Absolutely not. But then us saying that I'm, you know, out of gratitude and bringing it and saying, okay, this is the plenty that I've got that I've received and I'm offering it to you. So that concept is there when we see that. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions online? Yes. Any references in the New Testament for tithing? Okay. So this is what we see. Okay. Let's look at, you know, Matthew 23, 23. Okay, 23, 23. So this is the Lord, the Rebuke, to the scribes and Pharisees. Okay. So he who swears by heaven and swears by, sorry, 23. What do you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites? For you pay tithe of mint and enemies and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith. And he says, these you ought to have done without leaving the others undone. Okay. So what is he saying? He's saying these you ought to have done without leaving the others undone in the sense the weightier matters of law and justice and mercy, you ought to have done without leaving the others undone. You know, he's talking about the tithing. So a reference to that. Of course, it was during the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus. So, you know, he's talking about that. It was before he went to the cross. That also we need to keep in mind. But, you know, he's, he's talking about that. Okay. Then we see. One more reference is. Okay. Matthew 517. Okay. So 517 is an indirect reference. He says, do not think I came to destroy the law of the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. So in the, when we come to the New Testament, we look at it. Right. We'll just look at a couple of more verses and it's not specific to type, but also involves giving. We'll look at that in a little while. But before that, let's look at Hebrews 7. Okay. So, Hebrews 7 referring to Melchizedek and what Abraham did. Right. It says to whom Abraham gave a 10th part, 10th part of all. And then it's talking about Melchizedek without genealogy, et cetera. And then he says, here mortal men receive tithes. Okay. So which means that there was something that was happening in the New Testament times. Right. So writer of Hebrews saying here, mortal men receive tithes in the sense if you, if you're going to give maybe as an act of worship, or maybe in a gathering, mortal men receive tithes. What he says, but there, he receives them of whom it is witnessed that he lives. So there's a, of course we don't understand all of it, but we see the spiritual aspect of it. Right. So the writer of Hebrews is writing to the present day church of that times after the cross, after the resurrection ascension, and he's referring to the tithes and he's saying here, mortal men receive the tithes that you bring, but there he receives them. Something that it's as if, what we are doing here has a spiritual connotation as we received, what we're giving here is received by God. So, you know, these are some things, references that we have. Okay. Any, yeah. Yeah. She gave those, yeah, those two coins and then, yeah, she, that's all that she had, and she gave it, yeah. Your question is, yeah, New Testament, yeah, but she was asking about a reference in the New Testament, of course, but beyond the cross, you know, that was the earthly ministry, right? Yeah, that's what, when we look at Hebrews 7, so that's an indicator that, yes, it was actually something that was being done there during, in the churches, and the writer of Hebrews is writing to them. No, no, no. At the cross, there are certain things which meant ended, the blood sacrifice ended, so those are certain things. Okay, if I said like that, please delete, it was a mistake. I was saying that I think did not end at the cross, you know? You're looking at some of the things that actually ended, which is blood sacrifice and the other things, right? Some things ended at the cross. Oh, I mentioned tithing also, is it? No, I didn't. Okay, okay, okay. Anyway, yeah, see, access to the Father, like all that changed, right? At the cross. Okay, so that's about, you know, that's what we see about tithing. So if we look at, let's go to, yeah, just one second. Let's look at a couple of verses. 2 Corinthians 9. 2 Corinthians 9 and it's a 6 to 8. Okay, 2 Corinthians 9 and verse 6. So this is also in the context of giving. Okay, so we talked about tithes. We talked about offerings, which is beyond, you know, above and beyond what we are tithing, right? So here, 2 Corinthians 9, Paul is actually writing to the Corinthian church and he's telling them, he's reminding them about giving and he's also comparing another church, the Macedonians, who are actually not well-off, right? But we're very, very rich in the sense with their generosity, right? These were people who were actually in poverty, but they opened their hearts to the gospel and they wanted to support the ministry of Paul during that time. So he's referencing them, you know? So he says, I know of your willingness about which I boast of you to the Macedonians and so on. And he's saying, you know, if the Macedonians come and find you unprepared, you know, I don't want that kind of a situation, right? So he says in verse 6, but this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Now that's the agricultural principle, right? So he's saying, so let each give as he purposes in his heart, okay? So it's the attitude of giving as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity for God loves a cheerful giver, okay? So as you purpose in your heart, so he's talking about giving, he's giving towards the work of God, okay? We're not talking about tithing anymore. He's talking about giving. And he's saying, God, you know, he sows bountifully will reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart. So what does that mean as you decide in your heart? Okay, so maybe you're there and you know, maybe it's a church service or whatever and you purpose in your heart, you decide you in participation or in conversation with the Father, with God, you decide, okay? You purpose in your heart. And he says, not grudgingly or of necessity, what does grudgingly mean? Hesitatingly. Or of necessity, you know, as a sense of obligation or offering time, I need to do something, I need to give. You don't have to be under necessity, you know? It's so liberating, you know? Contrary to how sometimes offerings are taken or offerings are collected, right? It's so liberating. He's saying, Paul is saying, hey, not grudgingly or out of necessity. You know, there's no obligation now. And he says, God loves a cheerful giver. God loves a cheerful giver. And there is this principle of when you sow, you are leaping. Okay? And he says, God was eight. And God is able to make all grace abound towards you. That you having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work. Okay? That you have all sufficiency, all things that you may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written, he has dispersed abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. Now, may he who supplies seed to the sower. Okay, this is a very important verse, by the way. There's so much in it. He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. Okay? So he's saying, may he, you know, he's just praising, may he who supplies seed to the sower. Okay? Which means that, you know, seed, it is sown, there's thyme, and there's harvest. And then with the harvest, you prepare whatever the food and everything. So he's saying, God is the one who prepares seed, who gives seed to the sower. Right? So you can actually do that entire process. And he gives the finished product also. He gives the bread for food. Okay? So God can supply our needs in, you know, these ways. And he's saying, you know, God who gives seed to the sower and bread for food, may he supply and multiply the seed that you have sown. So may he supply the seed to you so that you can sow it and you can, you know, go through the entire process of having a good harvest. May he supply the seed and multiply the seed that you have sown. Okay? That you, having all sufficiently in all things, you know, that's verse eight, right? Increase the fruits of your, multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness while you are enriched in everything for all liberality. So the, so you see the objective of God providing that he wants to enrich us in everything for all liberality. What does that mean? What does that mean? What does being liberal mean? He's very liberal with this. Liberal, liberal, liberality is freedom, right? Liberality is freedom. So that you are enriched for all liberality, meaning that you are free to do, free to give, you know. So he's saying you are enriched for this purpose, right? That's what we see enriched in everything for all liberality which causes thanksgiving through us to God. Okay? So we see that it is actually very free. It's not out of grudgingly. It's not out of necessity or obligation. Oh God is going to punish me now. It is with a heart. Lord is inviting us for a blessing. He's saying, okay, I want to bless you. You know, this is the principle that you have. In fact, if you, you look at it as something that is sown, something that you will reap and something that you will reap abundantly. Okay? So now this can be twisted and manipulated. You know, saying, okay, you need to sow. Only then you will reap. Or, you know, if you're sowing less, that is what you will reap. You know, it can, and we are, you know, that if you look at the church, church is guilty of doing all this to put fear in people, to manipulate people emotionally, blackmail rather, into giving, right? But when we see, when you look at tithing, when we look at giving, when we look at helping people, you know, it's actually out of the fullness of our heart. It is an act of worship. You know, when we worship God, like we've been doing, we do it joyfully, right? You don't do it hesitating. Maybe, you know, one day you're having a bad mood. Maybe you're feeling tired. Yeah, you might be, you know, but then your, you know, your heart is to worship Him, right? When we understand, you know, this is how we worship. In freedom, spirit and in truth, without pretence. So also, you know, you look at giving and tithing in that manner, right? I'm going to do this as an act of worship to God, not out of fear, not drudgingly, not out of necessity, okay? We'll stop here and then we'll continue in our next class. Thank you for watching us online. We'll catch up next class. Bye-bye.