 Starting the recording instruction is a mandate. Apparently we have to get, everybody's okay. Do you get a, okay, this is for the online students because we'll get a prompt if they're okay to stay or not okay to stay because it's being recorded, okay. Anyway, okay, so we'll just read from Galatians five. Okay, before we start, Galatians five and verse 16 says, I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, okay. So what does it say? Walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. So it goes on to say what is the work of the flesh, right? What is it that the flesh is capable of? What is the flesh, you know, it could be bodily desires, appetites. It could be also, we see it's an unrenewed part of us, our mind which is not renewed or which is not in agreement with God's word, okay. So it says that this is the work of the flesh and it's evident and it gives a big list there. And verse 22, but the fruit of the spirit, which means the end result of the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, in our heart. And this is what it results in, right? Love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control and again such there is no law. And those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. So there is that instruction to be influenced by or to walk, meaning, you know, when you say walk, it is to live everyday thing, right? Not just an event, but an everyday thing, right? Because we live, we move, we walk and these are used figuratively, right? Run, run the race, walk. So it's part of our life, part of our lifestyle, right? So if we walk in the spirit, says, let us also live, sorry, if we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. So coming back to verse 16, walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, okay? So that entire list that we see, right? Six, 19, 20, 21, whatever we see there, the key is this, if we walk in the spirit, we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Sometimes, you know, we think, you know, these things are too strong and it seems like a stronghold, it's too strong and how can I ever be free from these things? Okay, the key is this, walk in the spirit, right? So, you know, let's just pray today and say, Lord, you enable me to walk in the spirit. You know, you teach me to walk in the spirit. So walking in the spirit would mean to listen to the Holy Spirit would mean, you know, we are obedient to the prompting of the Holy Spirit, right? So let's pray, okay? Okay, Father, we thank you, Lord. We thank you for this exhortation, for this instruction in your word, Lord, that if we walk in the spirit, if we are sensitive to the prompting, leading, and if we are obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit, to the guiding of the Holy Spirit, we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. And Father God, we thank you that this instruction is for us as believers, God, and we know that as believers, God, Lord, there is so much of pull towards the flesh, but we thank you, praise be to God, that we have overcome, that we can overcome by the work of your spirit. Lord, we thank you for this key that you've given us, for this instruction that you've given us, God, that when we walk accordingly, we will be victorious. And so, God, this morning, we just pray for our own lives, God. Each of these things that we see, O God, that they will not be part of our lives, God. In whatever measure, God, they will not be part of our lives, Father God. And even as we learn to walk in the spirit, teach us, Lord, Lord, lead us, O God, and yes, Lord, we want to be attentive to your instructions. We want to be attentive to your leading. We thank you. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen, amen. Okay. So, yeah, so last class, we were looking at, we were just going through the book of Acts, right? We went through several scriptures. We went through the books. I think the last six or seven scriptures versus, I said, you know, you can go through on your own and, you know, learn from that. I hope you did that. Yeah, so today, we're looking at chapter six, okay, chapter six, which is the work of the Holy Spirit. So we've been looking at work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, work of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, you know, just the time before the Lord Jesus came in, the work of the Holy Spirit in his life, how he ministered, how he emptied himself of the sonship glory, we saw all that, right? So here today, we see the work of the Holy Spirit in church history, okay? So we're going to look at church history. You're going to be studying this in depth in another, you know, it's another subject about church history and you're going to be studying about the moves of God, et cetera, it's going to be in detail about certain people, God used, et cetera, right? So we won't go into the details, but overall we're going to look at the picture of how the Holy Spirit moved in church history. When you say church history, we're saying, you know, in the history of the church, right? In the life of the church, okay? So we see in Acts chapter two, that Acts chapter one and two, we see that the New Testament church starts, right? Starts to thrive, starts to flourish. If you read through book of Acts, we see that, hey, this is the kind of church that I want to be part of, right? This is the kind of church that I want to serve in, I want to minister in, you know, this thriving church, what is happening, you know, people are living such radical lives that even when they are persecuted, they are still sharing Christ. You know, that's what we saw about Philip, about Stephen, you know, they're not just, they're not worrying about themselves, but they're saying, okay, this is the cause of the gospel and I just want to live, right? And we also see that they are so in touch with the heart of God, right? So they are so sensitive that whatever instructions they receive, they obey, like as in case of Philip, you know? Again, just quoting that example, because we see that there's great revival in Samaria and the angel of the Lord tells him, you know, you need to move immediately, he does that. And then the spirit of God tells him, okay, you need to go and overtake that chariot and he does that, right? And so also with Paul, Paul, he writes about how, in the book of Acts again, later you see that they want to go into Asia, they want to go into the territory and then the Holy Spirit constrained, said not now and he obeyed, right? So we see all those things happening in these years, but later when we study the history of the church, we see that the church slips into or it really reaches a stage which is unrecognizable, right? It is nowhere close to book of Acts, okay? So what happens is that there is this empire Constantine around 312 AD or 315 AD. So he, in his one of his conquests, he has a vision of the cross, okay? In one of his, he has a vision of the cross and then he decides to become a Christian. Now we don't know to what extent he did, right? He decides to become a Christian and he also enforces his soldiers, his army, his, you know, wherever, whichever land he conquered, he also forces them to become Christians. He says, you have to do this, you have to worship Jesus only. So it was by force. And also it became, you know, just to please the king. He's the king, he's the emperor. To please the king, I'm sure there'd be many people who would, okay? He's saying, I'll become a Christian and that is what he wants, I will. So there was no heart transformation, right? It is not like they wanted to follow Christ or they found that, okay, this is the gospel and yes, I found the truth. They just became nominal Christians. So we see that the church going into a lot of things like they built, you know, they built places of worship, they built churches and church became a, church worship became a ceremony. Okay, it became a ceremony. There was a lot of wrong theology, heresies which crept into the church. Okay, so they started to worship or pray to the saints. We read about that. We see that they had a practice eventually, you know, they had a practice of indulgences, meaning an indulgence is, okay, if I want to commit sin, okay, might seem funny now but then the fact is this is what, if I want to commit sin, I pay a certain price, okay, to the church, to the priest. So the priest would actually give me a license saying, okay, you can. And then the priest also would be able to absolve or grant forgiveness for that particular sin. Okay, so it had come to that level, okay. So you see the church where, which was preaching the gospel even though they were persecuted, they were running for their lives and wherever they went, they preached the gospel. The church had come to such a ceremonial ritual, you know, nominal kind of a Christianity, okay. So it had come to that level. So this is what the church, historian, theologians call, you know, the dark ages. It's about 480 to 1400 AD, dark ages. So in your notes, you know, you can follow chapter six. So church becomes spiritually, you know, what was thriving becomes very, very feeble. It's not, the gospel is not preached. Everything is ritual. Everything is nominal, okay. Sunday I need to go, I'll go. And it's all, you know, things are being done. A lot of liturgy has come in and I'm sure it had its place, you know, a good place to start off. They were sincere when they put in those prayers and they wrote down those things. But then it became more of a repetition. Okay, I read it out, I say it out. And of course, a lot of wrong teaching, praying to the saints and, you know, certain theology like purgatory, okay. What is purgatory, you know, if I die or go to that place and those who are living, my relatives, maybe they do some good deeds, okay. And that affects my standing in purgatory and because of which, you know, I go, whether I go to heaven or hell is decided. Okay, this mid-level space. So all these kinds of teachings kept into the church, okay. And the, in fact, it came to a stage where the Bible, it was in Latin and it was actually kept chained, physically chained so that the common man could not read. Okay, so the common people did not have access to the word of God. So it had come to that kind of a stage. So the Bible scholars call it, it was a dark ages, 480 to 1400 AD. Here and there, of course, there were people doing the work of ministry, here and there, you know, there were people who were, you know, sincerely seeking God, but by and large, this is what it was. It was a whole millennium, okay. So we see that towards the end of that, you know, end of that age, if you want to call it that, end of the dark age, then God raises up, God starts, the Lord starts restoring through the work of the Holy Spirit. God starts bringing back some of those things which were lost, okay. So one of the first things is that the church had come to a salvation of works. If you do these good deeds, you'll be saved. Or you, you know, pay this kind of money, then you will be saved from the consequence of sin, and all kinds of erroneous teachings, right. So the first thing that came back that the Holy Spirit restored, so we call these the restorative work of the Holy Spirit. Now in the New Testament church, we see that salvation, you know, gospel was the thing that was preached, right. That was what was preached through our people when preaching the gospel. There were prophets and teachers in the church, right. People were prophesying, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. So there was understanding about the gospel. There was understanding about water baptism, right. There was understanding about being filled with the Holy Spirit. There was understanding about the gifts of the Spirit. It was all there. And people were thriving. There was understanding about the five-fold ministry, you know, about evangelism and apostles and prophets and teachers and pastors. So it was all there, but the church had come to this place, right. So the Lord was raising up people who would be spokespersons, you know, we see that. In hindsight, we see that. Okay, when we look back, we see that God raising up people, God bringing back the teaching that was there, right there in scripture, bringing it back to the body of Christ. Okay, we call these the restorative moves of God or restorative acts of the Holy Spirit. Okay, so for the first, the very first thing is that the restoration of the truth or the theology that salvation is by grace through faith. It's not by good works. It's not by earning, performing something and earning a credit. It is by grace. It's a work of God. Man cannot earn it. It's a work of the Lord on the cross. It is by grace and through faith, meaning I receive it, I walk in it. I experience the reality of salvation and I receive it by faith. Okay, so I need to extend faith in what the Lord has done and I receive it. So Martin Luther, he was a priest in the Catholic church in Germany and he got a revelation. He was looking at everything that was happening around and the kind of teaching that was going on and something stood up in him and he began to start reading the scriptures and he began to look into the scriptures, study the scriptures, pray and ask the Lord and he got this revelation. You know, God showed him that salvation. He was reading through the book of Romans and he realized, hey, what we're doing is wrong. All these things I see are wrong about the church, you know, how we are doing ministry and this is all wrong. So he actually nailed 99 points, CCs to the door of that particular church he was serving in and he nailed it there for everybody to see. It was an act of rebellion. And so his life was in danger. You know, everybody, you know, he was hunted down. He had to run for safety. He was hunted down by the leaders of the church again. Right? And so he did a lot of work. He translated, he wrote songs, he wrote hymns like when he was in safety, you know. I don't know if you've heard that old hymn, a mighty fortress is our God. You know, that is something that he, he wrote a mighty fortress is our God. And also apparently that first line of that hymn was actually used on his tombstone. It was written on his tombstone, it was great. So he did all that. And so we call it the reformation, like reformation of theology, reformation. So, you know, he was insistent. He had, he was convinced, convicted by the Holy Spirit and said, no matter what, this needs to go out. So we see the restorative moves of God. So we, so first thing we see from the 1500s onwards, salvation by grace through faith then, from the 1600s, the understanding of what a baptism. Yes, it is symbolic, but the understanding of it, the significance of it, right? You're proclaiming that you're dead to the world. You're proclaiming that you belong to Jesus. You're proclaiming that you are a new creation, right? So the whole understanding of what a baptism and also the separation of church from the state. Now what had happened to us? Church had become very political. It reached a place where the leaders of the church, you know, like in the New Testament church, who are the leaders? Yeah, Peter, we read about Peter in the Jerusalem church, Peter, John, right? There was James. So we read about all these people who were, you know, the leaders there. Then in the church in Antioch, of course we read about Paul, Barnabas and others, you know? So we see these were the leaders and what kind of leaders were they? You know, they're willing to put their life in danger. They're willing to go out and serve the people, you know, endure hardships. Now the leaders of the church during the dark ages, they wielded great power, right? Now, because one thing was, because Emperor Constantine, you know, he became or he enforced Christianity and he was very vehement about it. So, you know, the people who were associated with them, the so-called priests were also people of great power. So they had power. They had armies and they also conquered. So they fought wars, and which you read about later as the Crusades. They fought wars in the name of Christ. There was nothing Christian about it, right? They were conquering land and they fought wars. So they were armies and they became very political, right? So, you know, by the way, politics is not a bad word, but you know, the thing is they were ruling the land, they were ruling it, you know, not in the right way, and they were using religion to gain power, okay? So it had become very political. So in the 1600s, with the revelation of the truth of water baptisms, also there was a separation of church from the state, since, hey, this what we're doing, you know, this, all these armies and politics and conquering and fighting wars, that's not the church. We are the people of God, we are the body of Christ. So there was a separation from the state and the church. Okay, 1700s. So the Lord, so who gives the revelation about the truth? It's a Holy Spirit, right? We read, he's the spirit of revelation and wisdom and understanding he brings. So he was actually raising up people, one man, a woman, man of God, woman of God, maybe a bunch of people and who were sincerely seeking and with them came, you know, through them came the revelation, came the truth to the body of Christ, whoever would dare to listen, right? And even, you know, Bible translations happened with the Reformation, like translation into several languages. And can you believe it? People were actually killed for translating the Bible, right? Just for translating the Bible into their own language, they were actually hunted down and killed. So this translations, you know, the Bible that we have has come at a great cost to us, right? It's something very precious. People have actually given up or martyred their lives for the sake of translating the gospel, right? Translating the Bible actually. So a lot of hard work, right? So anyway, so the holiness movement, which is the next one of church being separated from the world. Okay, so that's the, so 1700s, you see that, people began to get an understanding of the fact that, okay, the Lord said, be holy for I am holy. He's a holy God. So if I'm a follower of Christ, then I need to live a holy life, right? I need to live a life that is separate from the world. A sanctified life. If there are a lot of good things in the world, good, you know, you know, maybe some culture traditions, good things, but there are also things that are whose values in the world are opposite contradictory to the word of God, right? So I can't be part of that. So people began to get an understanding. I can't call myself a believer or a follower of Christ and still be part of that. And so a move of God where there was a separation, call it the holiness movement, okay? Then 1800s brought about divine healing movement where they got again raised up teachers who would stand and proclaim the truth of the healing that has been purchased for us on the cross. Okay, so Isaiah 53 versus four and five. And, you know, the fact that Galatians in the book of Galatians also we see that Galatians three and versus 13, 14, right? The what we have been redeemed from and the fact that healing for the body, for the mind has been purchased for us on the cross through the blood of Jesus, right? So divine healing movement. So where the Lord gave the commission saying you will go, believe us, you will go lay hands on those who are sick, right? And the whole understanding of the outworking of sin, the consequence of sin, right? So how sin affects the world, physical world, how sin affects the body, how sin affects the mind and how the Lord has redeemed us, no, redeem meaning. What does redeem mean? Taking back, taking us back, restored us from where we had fallen, right? Even taken us further than that, higher than that, right? So that's redemption and what we got redeemed from on the cross. So there's a, you know, so you can imagine the excitement, right? So you think about those times when, you know gospel itself was not preached. You go to church, it's all, you know, you don't even understand what's happening because you don't understand the language. It's in a different language. Everything is read in a different language. You don't understand it. You know, you don't understand your purpose. You don't know if you have a call, right? And everything is done by the priest. He's the central figure. So you need to go to him to, you know, for everything, each and everything, right? You know, from that stage, now, you know, there is this revelation that there is salvation, salvation is free. You don't have to do anything. It's already been done. You receive it by faith. It's a work of grace, right? You receive that. Then about holiness, about water baptism, about separation of church, you know, from the state and, you know, divine healing. You mean I don't have to, you know, endure the sickness? I don't have to tolerate this, right? So people began to embrace that truth and people began to experience freedom, looking at the life, studying the life and ministry of Jesus. So there was a restoration of that also. Okay, then in the 1900s, the Pentecostal Movement, bringing a revelation of the Holy Spirit, infilling the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, all the gifts of the Spirit and so on. So what had happened is slowly, people had lost touch with this, these truths. These were foundational. You know, this was a given in the New Testament church, right, in the early church. It was, these were the basics. Like if you look at it, this is how it started, right? Peter preached the gospel. They asked, what was me do to be saved? He told them, they were baptized, right? All this, and he also gave them the instruction, you know, this gift of the Holy Spirit is for you, your children and to also, there was that knowledge and understanding, right from the beginning, but that was somehow lost because the church had lost that fire and zeal and it become a very formal, nominal kind of a church. Okay, so in the 1900s, a revelation of that truth, right? So people began to understand. And it was again a very exciting time because, you know, even in the so-called, let's say, denominational churches, okay? Which had a lot of formality in worship. I come from a church where I grew up. It was a Anglican church, like in the sense, we had hymns, hymn book, golden bells. We sang it, sang from that. We also had a Book of Common Worship. Okay, that is still there. Now whenever I go home, you know, that's go home church, in my hometown, sorry. So that is a Book of Common. So all the prayers were read out, okay? So you read out, the pastor reads out, and then you respond, okay? And what you need to respond is written in black highlighted, okay? So that you know, okay, it's black, oh, it's my turn, I need to say. So everything is written down, everything is formal. So those churches, these kind of churches also began to experience the freedom, the liberty of the Holy Spirit. So I saw this firsthand, okay? Because my church, that church was the CSI church, Anglican Book of Common Worship, everything. But they were a group of people, students, you know, who had come from another city, engineering students who would come and pray. Okay, every Saturday they would come and pray, saying, God, you know, you saved us, Lord, save the people in this church. Okay, let many youngsters come to the saving knowledge of Christ. Lord, let, you know, the adults, Lord, let them come to know you God. They're just coming and going and, but Lord, let them, you know, let them become saved. So what happened was, you know, a few guys joined, they were curious, what are you guys doing? Then this group asked the pastor of the church, saying, pastor, can we meet after service, after this Sunday morning service? Can we use that space, that hall, the back of the church? Can we meet and can we pray? Can we invite the young people? The pastor said, okay, yeah, go ahead, do it. So they were doing that. So slowly there were people who were getting saved, coming there and being filled with the spirit, getting the understanding. So it's, you know, what, what kind of a church was it? What kind of a service was being there followed? You know, traditional, very, very traditional. In fact, in the morning service, you know, you won't hear the gospel being preached. It'll be preached maybe once or twice in a year when some guest speaker would come and then some special meeting. Otherwise, there won't be any altar call. There won't be any sharing of the gospel throughout the year, 350 to Sundays, you won't see that, right? But because of this group that was praying and, you know, and which had this understanding, the Holy Spirit was just using them to just bring people. And at one point, this youth group was about 50 to 16 number, okay, 50 to 60. And it was not just people from that church, but it'll be people from other churches. Now you must understand this is the day before mobile phones. This is these are the days before social media. Word would just get around by word of mouth. Okay, so you're saying, hey, they're meeting there and it's nice, why don't you try? Why don't you go? So they would come, okay. So this was happening. And I was one of the guys who got saved because of that group. They were praying for me for many months, many years actually, somehow get this guy. We want him to save, right? So they used to have these youth camps and all that. Every time I used to rebel, I used to say, no, I don't, I found you, I don't want to come. But then they persisted, you know, they were just encouraging, they persist. And it happened. So this move of God, of the Holy Spirit, of the revelation, understanding of the truth in God's word, I could literally see that in action, right in front of my eyes, right? Outside, you would say, oh, this is a dead church. Thing will happen here. But inside there was something happening because of the work of the Holy Spirit. So we read, you know, about many churches, like even in England, I think it was called, it's called the Holy Trinity, Brampton, HDB. These are all very formal churches. Even the physical structure you would see, you know, like cathedrals, a lot of carvings and paintings and all that. But you see that God began a move, the Holy Spirit began a move, okay? Yeah. I see some of the comments, okay. About redemption, I guess, okay. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Nina. Thank you, Surya. Right, so this happened. The 2000, you know, following the Pentecostal movement, you know, clear moves of God about the apostolic, the prophetic, the pastor and evangelists, people had an understanding, but really the move of God to restore the apostolic ministry, to restore the prophetic to the church and the understanding that each one of us as believers, we are ministers, we are called for ministry. Now, do you believe that? Do you believe that only few of us are called for ministry or everybody's called for ministry? What do you think? What do you think? Okay. Online students, you can put it on the chat and others. What do you think? Everybody's called? Only some are called or everybody's called? Everybody's called now? Okay, I'm coming out with a follow-up question. Okay. Who are all saying everybody's called? Put your hands up. Okay, I can see you overwhelming. Okay, every believer, wonderful. Clarify that, Krisha, everybody's called. Okay, okay. So who's saying only some? What is your name, sorry? Francis saying only some are called. Ministry again. Everybody's called. Not everybody. Only some, okay. Then what about you, Shiran? Everybody's called you? Anand, right? Only some are called. Okay. Okay. Okay, Nina is like, all are called, but not everybody responds. True, true, true. Many are called, but only few are chosen. Okay, the thing is, okay, I think that is based on what Nina is, more in line with what Nina shared, that everybody's invited, but not everybody responds. But when you respond to that invitation, to follow, right? We see that, okay, you begin to experience salvation, right? So many are called, but few are chosen. Why? Because they don't respond to the invitation. So, okay. So the thing, we are talking about ministry, right? Specifically about those who have already decided to follow Christ, already become disciples. So we're talking about that, about those kind of people. So, is everybody called to do ministry? Okay, so let's look at Ephesians 4. Okay, so that's the place. If anybody asks, you know, how do you know you're called to ministry? This is it. Ephesians 4 verse 11, okay? And he himself, it's talking about the Lord, gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers. You know, this is what we call as the five-fold ministry, right? Apostles, pastors, evangelists, prophets, teachers, okay? For, look at verse 12. For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. So there are three things mentioned there. You see that? Verse 12, Ephesians 4, 12. What is the first thing? For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Now, this is why we have the, what is called as the five-fold ministry. And now this five-fold ministry is for some, okay? Not all are called to be an apostle, to be a prophet, to be a pastor. Five-fold, you know? Because it is mentioned here. And he gave some to be apostles. You see that, right? Ephesians 4, 11. He gave some to be this. But you look at verse 12. For the equipping of the saints, who are the saints? Who's a saint? What's in Hindi? Saint. Prarti is believer, no? Saint, is it? Saint, okay. So who is the saint? What is the meaning of saint? Who died? Who are already dead? Sorry, sorry, Inder? Ah, okay, okay, okay. Saint Joseph's. Who are? Holy people. Okay, I wonder, somebody use holy. Saint there. Okay, that's the Hindi word. Saint. Is it same as Prarti, no? No, okay, saint. Apostle, okay, okay, okay. Good, good. Thank you. Okay, so saint, okay, the way word saint actually means one who is sanctified, consecrated. Sanctified, set apart. Okay, so that's the thing. So that's the meaning, actual meaning of the word. And that's the intent with which it was used in scripture. Okay, for the equipping of the saints, which means these are believers. They are sanctified ones. They set themselves apart to live for Christ for the equipping of the saints. So every believer is a saint of God. If he truly walks in consecration, in sanctification, okay. So you are a saint. Okay, can you say that I'm a saint? Yeah, Saint Francis is here. See you're a saint. And yeah, I see all your comments here. Thank you. So that's the thing. So look at this verse. It says equipping of the saints for the work of, for the work of, look at that verse. What does it say? Verse 12, for the work of ministry, right? So saints equipped for ministry. Saints equipped for ministry. Saints, believers, consecrated ones equipped for ministry. So all of us, every believer is to be equipped for ministry. Now, our understanding of ministry, every time we think of ministry is like, I need to be preaching. I need to be standing behind a podium, pulpit. That's our understanding. But ministry literally means to serve, serve people in various ways, right? So of course, every ministry, our first and foremost priority is that we need to take the message of the gospel, right? That's the great commission for all believers, for all disciples, right? Now as a saint, I'm equipped by this five-fold ministers in the church for ministry. So every believer, every believer is to be equipped for ministry because every believer is called for ministry. Now, some might be called for the five-fold because that's what it says. He gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, right? But every believer is called for ministry, right? So that is the thing. So if anybody asks, you know, is every believer, is every Christian called to be minister? Yes, they are. But the ministry might differ, right? Some might be called to lead, some might be called to show compassion. We look at this, you know, Romans 12 has a list, there are many other gifts that are listed and ways in which we serve the people of God, ways in which we serve God himself, right? Some are called to maybe start a school, maybe start an orphanage, maybe run a business, right? And run it well and do it well. Some are called just like Joseph and Daniel, you know, to politics. Like when I say politics, I'm seeing it in a good way. Politics meaning to give leadership to rule the land. Like Joseph, like even Esther, you know, to counsel. So that's the thing. So everybody's called. To serve God, to represent God, to serve Him and we need to be equipped. So this knowledge and understanding, the Holy Spirit brought back to the church in the 2000s. Because otherwise people did not have a clue. They said, okay, you're a member, you come, attend church, go back. I'm the pastor, I will teach because I've been called to the five fold. I will call, I will teach you. You attend, you just come, attend, receive here, go back. Then this whole understanding, hey, I need to be equipping you. The pastor needs to be equipping. The church needs to be equipping the believer to discover the call, to discover the gifts, to walk in it, to be empowered to walk in it, right? And to be equipped to do ministry. So every church, literally every, you know, so there was this whole movement of, yeah, we need to be doing that. We need to be training people in evangelism. We need to be training about various things. So yeah, so the Holy Spirit brought back. So you see these restorative moves of God and this happened, you know, starting with the Reformation and it's just continuing, right? So there is a, you know, wherever you go, there is a restoration. I mean, there is an understanding, okay, this is what it is. So I see that, you know, when we go around, we see that, yes, there are some churches where that understanding is not there. Okay, maybe even, you know, about the gospel, about salvation, sadly, you know, it's like, but we see that by and large, and people know, okay, this is the gospel. This is what we need to be saved. This is the teaching of the Holy Spirit. You know, because God is bringing back, God is restoring back to the church. Now, in the, let's say, in the dark ages, people who were living in the 400s to 1400s, if we were to tell people, you know, there would come a time when the gospel will be preached. There would come a time when people would be prophesying. There would come a time when people would be filled with the Spirit. You know, they would say, you know, what are you talking about? How can that ever happen? How can that ever happen? The Bible is locked. We are, you know, the church is wielding so much power. They are doing so much of, you know, corrupt things and all that. How can that day ever happen? The day ever, you know, come to pass. But the fact is God did it. God did it. He restored the Holy Spirit, restored these teachings. People received it. People received the revelation and walked in the truth of it. Okay, so this restorative move is by the Holy Spirit. So we see that this is the move of God, the work of the Holy Spirit in the church, okay? In the history of the church. Okay, any questions or anything that you might want to add to this before we go further? Any questions? Yeah, I think we have to, yeah, okay. Okay, Sean. Okay, go ahead Sean. Sights and offerings, okay. Nice read. Okay, this is not in line with the topic, but fine. Okay, but okay, but we will, I think you will be learning about it, but yeah, it is scriptural. It is in the scripture about tithes and offerings. If you need some references, you can look at Corinthians. Okay, second Corinthians, I think it's nine. Let me just, okay, second Corinthians nine. Talks about that, okay? And also, that is one reference, you can look at that. Then in Malachi, we see that, okay? So if it's the Old Testament, of course, you know, I'm just giving these references, but there's a lot more we need to talk about when it comes to tithes and, you know, can this continue in the New Testament in this new and age? So, you know, Malachi chapter three verse eight talks about that. Then in the Gospels also, the Lord Jesus, I forget that reference, but the Lord Jesus talks about, you know, tithing and also some of these other things. He says, and in which he says, you know, you need to, you ought to have done this without leading the other undone, referring to tithing and something else about taking care of, you know, of people. I forget the reference. I'll share that with you. Okay, so we see that there is scriptural backing for that. And yeah, okay, so Prince Dark Ages, worship. Thank you. Yeah, so Saint worship, the belief came in during that time, yeah, in the sense, they still have those beliefs, right? Even relics, meaning, you know, some artifacts, something they say, okay, this was blessed. So, you know, that is also worshiped or this belonged to someone. So that is also, you know, someone holy, whatever. So artifacts, relics, these are also worshiped. So, yes, they have those beliefs, but the good thing is, the best part is that God is bringing revival even in such environments. Okay, I think we just have a minute, but you know, I'll just quickly share this. You know, in my wife and I, we went to a meeting and this was my wife's colleagues. She was working somewhere at that time. My wife's colleagues, I think father passed away or something and then we went for, you know, after 21 days or something, she belonged to the Catholic Church. So they had some meeting, we went there. The prayer meeting, okay, I was very surprised. In the prayer meeting, somebody preached, somebody was giving a message. He preached the gospel, uncompromised, undiluted. He said, you know, you need Jesus. There's nothing else, no other way to heaven. I was shocked. I was like, wow, in such a meeting, such a message, so happy. Then he said, this is what Jesus said. He's gone to heaven so that he can give the comforter and all of you, I want to pray so that you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit. Okay, you receive Jesus. So he gave an altar call to receive Christ. He prayed that people will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Then we were like, wow, this is amazing. This is not even happening in the church where we used to worship that time. He was so happy. Then he said, okay, now, who wants to testify? No, for a full package, just testimony time, he said, okay. And then suddenly we thought, okay, nobody's going to stand up. We saw people, one by one, some old gentleman standing and saying, this today was something changed in my life for the first time, I prayed this prayer. For the first time, I was just lifted my hands and I said, hallelujah, praise the Lord. And I just felt, I was filled. He was finding words to say, we can say filled. He said something, I felt so warm and I was so happy. I feel so much of peace and I was literally in tears. I was saying, wow, God, you are doing this among this people. Yeah, they go there and this environment, this is what they are, but then God is doing it. So that's the best part. Okay, we'll stop here, take a break and come back. Okay.