 because the recording has not started. Okay, okay, I think some technical issue was there. Some people actually just said some people will leave because of some technical issue. So I'm not sure, okay. You can see and hear you very much. Yeah, yeah, but I just saw that Tarun and someone else also, it just gave a prompt saying that they will, they'll be leaving the meeting because of some technical issue. So I'm not sure what that is. Anyway, okay, I hope that gets sorted. Okay, so yeah, so let's continue with the homiletics. We've been looking at biblical preaching and last class we looked at some of the qualifications. What is the qualification? We spent a lot of time looking at each of those, each of the people whom we looked at. Stephen, we looked at Philip, especially Philip. We just kind of followed through right from the time he's mentioned and then, you know, we looked at Acts chapter 21 verse eight where he's mentioned again. He's in Ciceroa and he's got a family and his daughters are there and ministry and so on. So we, you know, we looked at that as well. Then when we looked at the qualifications, right, when we looked at the qualifications of a person who's to be a preacher or to be a communicator of truth. The first time, you know, we looked at several things and the first thing was that they need to be born again. Okay, obviously they cannot be born again and if they're not born again, then they're not going to receive things of the spirit. Okay, that's another thing. You know, they need to be born again. But, you know, because of the way church kind of unfolded, you know, we know that church became a feeble entity in the dark ages and then the restorative moves of God. And we see that, you know, in certain, let's say, how do I say, in certain circles, in certain, you know, certain places where there are churches that church can be a formal thing, you know. It can still be a formal entity without the life of God, you know, because the word of God has not been given precedence. And it's just, it continues to exist as an entity. It's there as an institution and so on. I've not come to the notes yet, Charles. It's, I think, well, it should be, we are going to look at chapter five today, which will be page 15, okay. So we're still just reviewing last class. So yeah, so that is the reason for, you know, the reiterating that one, if one is to be a preacher, one is to be a preacher bearing fruit and he needs to be a born again believer. Another thing that we see is that a natural man does not receive the things of God. Okay, we see that in first Corinthians and we see that these truths are actually spiritually discerned and they have to be spiritually discerned and quickened by the spirit of God. For example, if you look at first Corinthians chapter two and verse, you know, verses 13 and 14, okay. The things that we also speak, these things, we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, but the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God for their foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned, right? Nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. So, and then we looked at the other things, right? Like a person needs to be spirit filled, spirit taught, which means knowing how to be led by the spirit of God or journeying with the spirit of God, being obedient to the spirit of God, not only just baptized and filled with the spirit and but also to be led by the spirit to make our choices or to yield and make choices based on the leading of the spirit, okay? And called commission by God, you have a clear call, okay? This is what you've called for, this is what you call to do, and we know that some of these things are progressive, but however, you know that, okay, this is in this season of life, this is where you are called and this is what you are doing right now. So that, and then a person of prayer, okay? A character and then a person of prayer, student of the word, a person using the gifts, okay? So these are some things that are overlapped by other theologians who list the same thing, right? So to sum up, it would be, and put it in simple words, it would be a man of God, a person, a student of the word, a person of character, a person of prayer, and a person of ability, ability to teach, okay? So we can also build on that. So the thing is this, that these are qualities that we can develop in ourselves, like we see that, okay, maybe I'm lacking in this, then I can look into it and say, okay, I need to develop, you know, I need to develop this, so I need to give, invest more time and develop this, and so we can do that, okay? Right, so let's look at chapter five, which is the ministry of the word, okay? The ministry of the word and the importance of it. So we see that God's word is powerful. God's word is alive. God's word is a truth, okay? And yeah, as students of the word, we refer to the Bible, we check the Bible, we see this, and we've experienced the power of the truth of God's word, right? Looking at Hebrews chapter four, very clearly describes what the word of God is like. Hebrews chapter four and verse 12, for the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. So that's Hebrews four and verse 12. This is what God's word is. It is alive, it is powerful, it's living, and therefore the minister of God or the one who's communicating the message needs to do so from the word of God, okay? Because this is what God's word is. It's alive, it's powerful, it pierces, it's sharper than a two-edged sword. So the truth of that pierces even to the division of the soul and the spirit, the thoughts and the intents of the heart. So I'm really able to know based on the word of God, because God's word is my reference, I'm able to know, okay, I'm able to make that distinction, okay, this is of my soul, this is of my thought, this is just a soulish thing, and this is of the spirit, it's much deeper. You're able to even make that distinction because of the word of God. If the word of God is in us, and our mind is renewed to the word of God. So, powerful, alive, and we minister. And God works by the word of God, by his word, right? So he operates through the word. You say, okay, why do you say that, right? Again, if you look at, you know, Hebrews two, and let's say we see read verses three and four, Hebrews two, verses three and four. I'm sorry, these are not in the notes, okay? So we see, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him? God also bearing witness, both with signs and wonders, with varying various miracles and gifts of the spirit, according to his own will, okay? So, what is he bearing witness to? He's bearing witness to the message that was preached, the what is spoken, he's bearing witness, testifying to it with the power. The message is born witness, or we testify to with the demonstration of the power of God. So God works, he testifies to the word that is spoken, the word that is preached. He's careful to watch over the word to perform it as we see in another place, right? So, the onus is on us to again come back, or if we have wandered off to come back to the word of God, to make the word of God a reference point to share the truth that is in the word of God. Of course, we might do it in a very creative ways. We might do it in as per the audience, how young or how old they are, we might present it in different ways, but the essence of it, right? The content needs to be the truth of God's word and the God's word itself, right? How it is. Yeah, so let's look at a few scriptures here. Let's say if you look at Isaiah 55 and verse 10 and 11, talks about the word of God, right? Isaiah 55. Okay, verse 10. For as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and do not return there, but water the earth and make it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater. Okay, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it or the purpose for which I release that word, whether it's a creative word, whether it's a healing word, whether it's a delivering word, whether it's, you know, God is saying that this is how my word, this is the nature of my word, right? It goes forth. It brings change and the purpose for which that word I release, it God says. It will not return void. It will not return without fulfilling that. Okay, so I was talking about the word. Ephesians, like Hebrews four, you know, we saw it's alive and powerful and so on. Let's look at one more verse, which is 1st Thessalonians 7, verse 13. 1st Thessalonians 2 and verse 13. Let me just look at it. Okay. Thess, for this reason, we also thank God without seizing because when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effective works in you who believe. So the word of God working effectively and there's another ingredient, which is faith, right? Which effectively working in you who believe, but the basic substance or the basic material is the word of God. The word of God, you know, released or spoken and the power of it and the transformative power of the word of God being experienced by the person who believes, who receives and who believes because God works, God performs, he watches over his word to perform it, right? And the beautiful thing is that, you know, God has chosen us human beings to be communicators of the word, right? So it comes out through human personality, right? It comes out through human personality and it's delivered creatively. Nevertheless, when it's God's word and the spirit of God confirms it with the power of God, then, you know, the end result is fruitfulness or end result is that this is effectiveness, right? And the objective is that we share the word so that there will be, you know, it's not that, oh, I shared it, oh, let me get it done and over with but it's shared with the intention as purposed by God that he wants to see change, you know, in people's lives and it wants to add to people's lives. It could be, the purpose could be, you know, manifold. It could be add something. It could be remove something, you know, because the word of God is that, you know, it can to break down something, very interesting, right? I'm sure you would have seen this verse, Jeremiah 23 and verse 29, okay, Jeremiah 23. And the verse 29. To God describing how his word is, right? He's saying, it's not my word like a fire, says the Lord. And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces. So he's saying, it's not my word like a fire. A fire, you know, there's immediately there is change. You see it, very visible. It's burning and burning away something, maybe purifying something. And that's how God's word is. So God is saying, it's not my word like fire that burns. And he's also saying, you know, it's and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces. So God's word is like a hammer. And when the hammer hits the rock, a rock is hard, but the hammer is harder. When the hammer hits the rock, it breaks down into pieces. But, you know, there's a difference, right? In the way the hammer works and the way the fire works, the end result is different. And also we see that a hammer maybe, maybe we have to swing the hammer a couple of times, right? You might have to wheel the hammer and swing it a couple of times, right? And not give up and persist on using the hammer. But we can be sure that it could be the highest of the mountain, but you know, if you're going to swing at it, if you're not going to give up, and it's going to be a rub, okay? So God is saying that his word is like this. It's like a hammer. It's like a fire, okay? So, and the beautiful thing is that he has chosen us to wheel the hammer. He has chosen us to like the fire, to spread the fire through his word, right? And through the foolishness of preaching, God chooses to, God is just kind of established that this is how the gospel will be preached, right? Through the foolishness of preaching, the gospel will be spread. So as human vessels, as frail as we are, as with all the limitations of personality and so on, God still chooses to use us as his mouthpiece, right? The scripture talks about how we are the spokesperson. We are the ambassadors of God and called for the ministry of reconciliation. We are ambassadors of Christ, right? And that's who we are. Literally, you know, if you look at, since we are in Jeremiah, we can just come back to chapter one. Jeremiah chapter one, and God's saying to his encouraging Jeremiah verse four says, Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I ordained you a prophet to the nations and Jeremiah's response is, Our Lord God, behold, I cannot speak for I am a youth. I'm a young person, I cannot speak. Obviously he's comparing himself to someone who can and so on. But the Lord said to me, do not say I'm a youth, but you shall go to all to whom I send you and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Okay. And do not be afraid of their faces. Therefore I'm with you to deliver you. So he's saying, don't be afraid of their faces. Don't be afraid of their expressions. Don't be intimidated by any of that. I'm here to deliver you. Verse nine and 10, very interesting. Then the Lord put forth his hand, touched my mouth and the Lord said to me, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant, to root out, to pull down, to destroy, throw down, to build and to plant. Literally, you know, what the hammer, what he was talking about the hammer and the fire and also to establish and to build, right? Not just to pull down, but to establish and to build. And he's saying, I have put my words in your mouth. So he's looking to us be people who would speak his word, like who will communicate his truth, okay? So we receive it from the throne of God, we receive it from the heart of God and we share it. And sometimes it doesn't make sense to us and this ends, okay, you know, do I share this now? I see these people and they're so happy and Lord you're saying that, you know, somebody is sad and then, you know, somebody needs to be revived and Lord, do I say that? But he knows the hearts of people and he gives us the word, he puts the word in our hearts, in our mouths so that we might speak that, right? And we will see things happen and things change. So praise God for that, right? So he uses us as human mouth pieces to be communicators of his word. And the word does many things to a person, to the life of a believer. So this thought will take some time to look at, I'm not sure if you've written, I mean, we've read that the publication, the book called God's Word, the Miracle Seed, right? And you can actually check that out on the website and probably download it. I'll, you know, maybe I'll put it in the classwork section also. But the thing is that just describes the word of God, how God's Word is the foundation. And the reason we are looking at it is because, you know, we can preach on many things. We can preach on many things which catch our fancy. We can preach, you know, we can communicate many things. We can share many things, interesting things. And, but if you're not led by the spirit and if the truth of God's Word, I'm just saying that because it's not just we go and shoot down people with scripture, you know, okay, John 3.16, and then just, you know, it's not that, but it's the conveying the truth of scripture. If you're not doing that, then there is really no transformative power, right? So for us to be word-based, okay, for our worldview to be shaped by word so that it's a word view, right? A worldview is the word view, okay? Really, that's a journey that all of us would need to make. Yeah, and, you know, that's a journey that would really result in greater maturity. That's a journey that will result in, you know, a life of victory even, that we are not spiritually up and down, up and down, because our life is centered around the Word of God, right? And of course I'm talking about the written scriptures and our life is centered around it. Our choices revolve around that, right? So we greatly esteem the Word of God that it takes that precedence in our lives. And that's something that, you know, that's a journey that all of us need to make and that's something that will really, you know, you know, when you meet a believer who is word-based or whose word is centric, right, whose worldview is really the word view and you can actually spot that very easily, very quickly, right? So let's look at some of the other truths that are there about the Word, okay? Just to reiterate the fact that the importance of that, okay? So, you know, look chapter 24, verse 27, we see a very interesting, all that I'm sharing is from a little bit of, you know, some of it I'm just sharing from the book so you can, you know, check that out. It's called God's Word, the Miracle Seed, right? So, God's Word, the Miracle Seed. So you can look it up and download it. Look 24, 27, it refers to the conversation Lord Jesus has with the disciples. It's, you know, they're walking from Emmaus, right? They're just going towards, from Jerusalem they're going to Emmaus and then he's walking with them. I looked ready for 27 and says, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Okay, something wonderful, you know, Jesus, the eternal Word, who is now the, you know, because John chapter one says, you know, in the beginning was the Word, referring to the eternal past, right? The eternal Word, being the incarnate Word, becoming flesh and walking with people, with them, and quoting the written Word, right? He's just opened up the scriptures and he's expounded to them all these things concerning himself. I just, you know, I always, I'd love to listen to that, you know, if in heaven there's a podcast, if in heaven, you know, that's one thing that I'd love to hear, you know, listen, so here we see, you know, this kind of a, the living Word himself, the incarnate Word himself used the written Word, and that wasn't the only place we see that as he's baptized and, you know, as he's led by the Spirit to the wilderness to face the enemy and overcome the temptation, in doing so also, the eternal Word who became the incarnate Word is referring to the written Word and he's refuting every temptation, right? So we see that. So that is how the Lord esteem, okay, the Word, and that is the power of God's Word, okay? And again, I just want to say, you know, it's not that the pages are, you know, sometimes we, you know, we drop it and then we take it and kiss it and all that as a ritual thing as, okay, but the thing is it's not like a cross which you, you know, used to fend off Dracula, you know, just like in the movies, but really it's the Word, the truth which is there which is life-changing and God witnesses, testifies to this Word and he testifies witnesses with the demonstration of power. Okay, so let's look at a few other words. People who wear an awe, you know, there's like the Psalmis, Psalm 119 and verse 18 says, open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law. Okay, open my eyes. So the Word of God, it's really like several windows, you know, if you look at it every book, every chapter, you know, you open that window and it gives us revelation from revelation about the author, revelation about God, about his heart. So it's really a window into God, you know, to look at him and go, wow, and say, God, this is who you are, this is what you are, right? So he says, open my eyes that I wanna see, you know, open my eyes, I see it, I read it, but really open my spiritual eyes. I want to see it for what it is. I wanna see you for who you are that I may see wondrous things from your law. So, you know, it leads to a relationship with God, right? So scripture really, you know, need not be a dull, boring exercise that we read, but really it connects us and with God, with the heart of God, because we see who God is. We see the revelation of, you know, the beauty of his character and nature and immediately, you know, in your heart, there is praise, right? You see something and it's like, the Lord is my shepherd, the Lord is my shepherd and immediately, you know, something stirs within and you just begin to worship and thank God, Lord, I thank you, that you're the Lord and you're my shepherd and you're my shepherd, Lord, leading me, guiding me, nurturing me, feeding me, you're my shepherd, protecting me and you are mine, Lord, personally, you're mine, right? So it leads to a relationship, like the word of God, it's not just dry theology or something that's there, it leads to a relationship and the word of God, of course, is our pattern, it's our standard, okay? Psalm says, again, Psalm 119, the whole chapter, Psalm 119, is about the word, right? Several, it talks about the precepts, the principles, the law and several words he uses referring to the word of God, right? Psalm 119 and verse 133, direct steps by your word and let no iniquity have dominion over me, direct my steps, let your word be my guide, let your word be my standard, let your word be the pattern of my life, right? Direct my steps. Another thing that we see, exhortation in scripture is Colossians 3 and verse 16, okay? So we're just going through different scripture today and looking at all this and how, first of all, there are so many verses about the word, exorting the believer, encouraging the believer, I mean, warning the believer, et cetera, right? We see, okay, Colossians 3, 16, I let the word of God, word of Christ dwell in you, Richie, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord. Let the word of Christ dwell in you, abide in you, stay in you, Richie, right? So we have to abide in Christ and the word of Christ is to dwell in us and the Lord Jesus also say the same thing, if my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it will be given. So the importance of the word abiding in us. So the thing is that this is something that is for all believers to hunger after, to thirst after and really to allow the word of God, to allow a rich deficit of God's word in our hearts and not to hold back, to allow a rich deficit so that we can teach and of course, this is the overflow of that teaching and admonishing and also songs coming out, right? Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace to our God when there's a rich deficit of God's word. So some of the other things that we see is that God's word is a carrier of God's power. So why is this so much insistence on ministering the word of God? And the thing is that God's word carries His power. It's His word. Let's look at a few scriptures here. Hebrews 11.3 says by faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, okay? So that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. So he's referring to the creative work of God right there in Genesis one where God spoke, thank you Dinesh, yeah, that's the word, that's a link. So God spoke and things happened. God spoke, things came into being. So Hebrews 11, the right of Hebrews in verse three is testifying to that, pointing to that and saying, by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that the things which were seen, all that I touch and see, something these are tangible, these were made by things which were invisible, right? So spiritual matter or something that is supernatural, how was it framed? Was framed by the word of God? Just imagine, so the same God who spoke those words, he gives Jeremiah the words to speak. He puts those words in his mouth and he's saying, by this you will root out, by this you will build, by this you will pull down. That's the power of God's word. Sometimes we wonder, the most powerful thing is some idea which is stuck in our head, thoughts, strongholds, because outside things we can somehow, in the physical, in the natural, we can somehow change, we can do it, but if it is inside a thought pattern, a stronghold, that is what really drives the action, right? Now, and for a believer, a believer is born again, the Roman 6 says that the body of sin has been done away with, there's no more, his body is not, he's not empowered by sin anymore, but he's a slave of righteousness and all that reality is there, but in his mind he is still carnal. Right? If the thoughts there are still carnal, then the behavior is going to be carnal. But on the other hand, right? If the mind is going to be renewed, made new, renovated by the word of God, then there's going to be change and not just change but transformation, right? Metamorpho, meaning the Lara has become a butterfly. There's no, absolutely no, there's no comparison to how it was and what it has become, comparison to how it started and the finished product, no change. I mean, there's no comparison, drastic change, transformation. So that's the power of God's word. Even those most stubborn things in our minds, those stubborn fears, the most stubborn of strongholds which keep us in bondage to addictive patterns of sinful behavior or patterns of thought which lead to behavior that we are not, but the word of God can change, transform that. This can change, transform that, right? So the word of God is really a carrier of his power and if it is, the word of God is received, believed upon. You know, first, this is in the verse that we saw just now. It works effectively in those who believe, meaning it's going to be operative. It's going to be effective. It's going to be operative. It's begin to, it's going to start working in those who believe, right? So that's the thing. So go back to the word, you know, use the word of God and let our content, let the preaching be centered around the word of God. And well, you can make it as creative as possible, but don't dilute that. Don't compromise on the word of God because this is what it is, right? Yeah, and we can talk about everything that's around us. We can talk about, you know, what's happening and but tie it back to the word of God, come back to the word of God and let the word of God be that shape our worldview, you know, and that's so very important. Okay, the other thing that we see is this parable, which is in Mark chapter four, that the word of God is a seed. The word of God is a seed. And that's the title of the book, the word of God is the miracle seed, meaning the word of God is powerful, it's supernatural, it's God power, is a carrier of God's power and the word of God is a seed, which means that the word of God, when it's a planted, when it's rooted, when it's nurtured, then it bears, it bears what it's supposed to bear, brings about change, right? So it can be, it's 30, 60 and 100. So we look at the parable, so we see that the sower goes out to sow, I think all of us have read that and some seed fall by the wayside and the birds come and take it, some fall on tarnished ground. There's not much earth to it, there's not much soil, so it springs up and then when the sun comes out, it's scorched again, scorched and then dries out withered and some seed fall among thorns and the seed, the thorns grow up, they choke it and it yields no crop and the other seed fall on good ground and yield crop and giving an increase manyfold, like 30, 60 and 100. So and the Lord taught this parable and gave the explanation of the parable and then he says, and he gives something before he explained, he says, do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the other parables? He's saying, this parable is key to unlock all the parables because it's about the word and the work of the word in a person's life, if a person will receive it and if it's on good ground and so he's saying, this is key, this is like a key which will unlock all the other parables, you need to understand this. So he begins to explain and he says, the sower sows the word, which means the seed is the word, the seed is the word and look at this, the seed of the word is so precious, the seed of the word is so, or in other words, the birds of the air, they are referred to Satan, right? Satan immediately comes, immediately comes and takes away because Satan knows the value of God's word. Sometimes I think it's, knows the value of God's word more than the believer, right? Satan comes, takes away, knowing fully well that if a believer is going to receive the seed of God's word in his or her heart and if it's going to be nurtured, then that person is going to wreak havoc in Satan's kingdom, in the kingdom of darkness. Their lives are going to be set free, the believer himself, herself is going to be full of faith and power and unstoppable, no matter what is happening, they're going to be focused on the word of God, the promises of God, what he has spoken. So, they're going to keep going, just like how we see the early church and how, you know, like Paul saying, for me to live with Christ and to die his gain, you know, that kind of a person is unstoppable, right? What will you do? To live with Christ to die his gain and people testify and saying that these guys who turned the world upside down, they have come here also. And who are these people? Well, not some great people, some everyday folks who gave themselves undeservedly. So, yeah, so we see that word is received, comes out of the word, it's in the value of the word, right? But when it is sown on stony ground, there's a glad as well, that's God's word, fantastic, wonderful, I just see it and then there is persecution and there is no endurance and it just becomes effective because you just let go of it, right? And sometimes there are things like the lusts of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, pride of life. It talks about the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches and desires for other things. They also choke the word because we take our eyes off, life does not become word-centric. Instead it has become maybe centered around lust, centered around something else that is feeding us, right? So the desire, the appetite for the word is way down because there's some other appetite which we are nurturing and which we are trying to fulfill, right? Trying to satiate. So we're going after that and then obviously these thorns, these things, they choke the word. But those on good ground hear the word, accept it and bear fruit, okay? So the word of God really is a miracle seed. It's sown and it bears fruit and if you look at the book, it talks about what kinds of seed can be sown. It's wonderful if you can just read through it, right? Personally you'd be edified and of course it's something that you can apply in your own lives also. But the reason just sharing that is that it's, it talks about, it really helps us to change the way we minister, okay? Change the way we minister. There's another section on meditating of God's word, okay? How do you meditate on it? How do we spend time thinking deeply about it and how the word of God needs to have place in our mind? We need to have that mind space for the word of God and how we can visualize it and like how we studied in faith, how we need to speak it, think about it, speak it, declare it and so on. So there's a section on meditation and it's great if you can just go through that. But yeah, so I just want to just mention that. Just wanted to just mention that so that we know the importance of God's word in the way we minister. So we esteem God's word, we receive God's word, we minister the word of God because that has power to change people's lives, right? So the ideas that you're communicating, the ideas that you're sharing that when it's sown in people's hearts, then it bears fruit, right? So just a few thoughts on meditation, right? Meditating God's word. The question we need to ask is, does my mind, do I have mind space for the word of God? Do I retain God's word outside of class or outside of church or outside of the time that I spend? Do I retain God's word in my mind? Do I make space for the word of God in my mind? It's very, very important because now that's going to change the way we live our lives, okay? So we look at Joshua chapter one and again, a very familiar place. Joshua chapter one and verse eight. God giving instruction to Joshua and the reason for his instruction is that it's of course, again, leadership. It's a great task responsibility and God speaks to him. Moses is not there now. It's after the death of Moses, God is, you know, and the thing that he instills in him is this, the word, right? He's a great responsibility. It's a, they've grown to be a big nation, no? And there are people who grumble, who complain and Joshua has seen it first-hand, right? But he cannot turn back and look at Moses anymore because Moses is not there. And the Lord wants him to be strong. He says, you be strong. You don't be afraid. Be of good courage. And he gives him this instruction. This book of law shall not depart from your mouth. Make it part of your speaking. You shall meditate on a day and night. Make it part of your thinking. Let your mind have space for the truth of scripture. Just think about it. Think about what I've spoken. Think about what I've read. What I've written. Think about it. Let it be part of your thinking, okay? And that's very important because what you think as a man thinks in his heart, so he shall be, so shall he be. So it's going to change, revolutionize our thinking. You know, when it's going to be part of our thinking, it's going to completely revolutionize our thinking. The way we look at ourselves changes, right? No more insecurity, no more fear. It's going to completely change the way we look at ourselves. The way we relate to God is going to change. And we've been studying all that in Christ promises. It changes completely. Why? Because my mind has the space to retain what I've got. It's become part of my thinking now. It's become part of my thinking. It's just cleansing my thinking, cleansing my imaginations. I remember Sam, last class, you were asking about some of these things, childhood things that, how can we change and how can we come out of that? Sam here, Sam is, okay, I'm not sure. Sam asked that question. So this is one of the things, right? The very important things that we love the truth, retain the truth in our thoughts so that it changes our imagination and what we think it's going to change our speaking, it's going to change our behavior and everything, right? So he says, meditate in it day and night, okay? And okay, it's not enough to just speak it or meditating on it. But he says, you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. Now you obey it, carry it out, carry out the instruction. It may not always be comfortable. It may not always be convenient, but you carry it out, observe, be careful to observe to do according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success. Now this is, again, I just want to say that, it's based on relationship. It's not something that is detached from relationship with God, right? It's based on relationship. We were journey with God. He quickens the word. He, you know, he pointed out certain things to us. He highlights certain things to us and then we make it part of thinking. We make it part of our speaking and doing, right? So it is in, you know, relationship and it is in a walk of intimacy with God that we do this. It's not just a detached formula, right? So when we minister, we minister the word of God. That is our content. That is our message, okay? And God will give the creativity to present it in different ways and but we, this is the essence of it. Like this is the foundation, right? Okay, so we'll stop here. You guys have a great weekend and we'll catch up on Monday, okay? God bless. Thank you. Thank you, boss.