 a moment to pray together, and then we will get the class started. So just wait for the recording to come on. It's a little slow, I think. I got a message that Airtel's having some problems to decide, so maybe, okay, fine. All right, so can somebody please pray with the class, and then we will get started. Can somebody pray, and you will start. Okay, Samuel, would you like to pray, please? It's okay. Sure, Pastor. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this time that you've given us, and this opportunity to gather together in your name, and study from your scriptures, prepare ourselves. We prepare ourselves. We prepare our hearts. We commit ourselves to you, and we commit Pastor Ashish into your hands. May your spirit be amongst us, and teach us, guide us, give us wisdom and understanding, and everything that we learn today. May we be able to use that in our lives for ourselves, and for the calling that you've called us for. This and everything we ask in your name. In the precious name of Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Amen. Okay, so welcome everybody to the class BC 209 with learning about holiness. So what we've done is we broke this course into three sections. First section was just to understand the holiness of God, or at least to get some insight on the holiness of God, and the fact that he's made us holy to himself. Second section, we spent a little time on discussing repentance, recovery, and restoration, where we just emphasize the importance of repentance in the life of a believer. Now we're in the last section. We were talking about overcoming. Just trying to understand practically how to overcome. We're talking about overcoming the flesh, our own flesh, the world, the influence of the world, the pressures, the cares, the world, and then the last part you are going to talk about is overcoming the devil. So as we were discussing overcoming the world, I think we had some questions from last class, which I would request Christopher to ask, and I'm not sure if anybody else had some questions towards the end of the class, which we didn't have time to pick up. So let's answer those addresses. Let's listen to the questions first, then we will try to answer them, and then we will move forward. So Christopher, please go ahead and share your question with us. Yes, thank you, Pastor. So this question is really to the point that you talked about being spiritually minded and earthly wise, and this specifically in the area of being or becoming prosperous and pertains to the aspirations and prayers of both the leadership in a church as well as the congregation. So we do live in times where some churches are in survival mode, face financial pressures, and some of them even may close down, and I know that the EPC church provided quite a large sum of money to support churches and pastors doing COVID to help out in that particular area. So there are also churches somewhere in the mid range, and if we sort of go to the other end of the spectrum, there are these mega churches, and some of these churches even preach this prosperity theology, there's the prosperity Bible, where they sort of align towards financial blessings that are always kind of the will of God and that faith, pastor's speech, donations to religious causes will increase once material wealth. Likewise, the congregation also may link the donations to their continued prosperity of getting them to become rich. So I just wanted to kind of understand, you know, how do we sort of strike a balance of being prosperous, or still being in the state of not being prosperous, both on the spiritual lives of the church leadership as well as the congregation. So like how much is enough, and maybe you could also touch upon this Bible verse, you know, which I think sometimes has been a bit of a guilt trip in some in some denominational churches, right? You know, Jesus had said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. So yeah, that's basically the question that I had. Yeah, so, yeah, let's see, you know, how to put this in a very concise and a concise manner, because oh yeah, it is a big subject. There are a lot of, you know, a lot of aspects that need to be addressed and covered, but let's put it like this. God blesses his people, right? Let's throw out the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. God is a good God, and he does bless his people, and we all pray, oh God bless us, or you know, that means let good come to us, let good happen. When you say God bless me, you're saying God let good things happen to me, you know, whether it's physical, emotional, financial, social, what are so many things. So God is the source of all good things, of blessing. Second, God is not against wealth or money or healing, or he's not against it, he provides for his people. So, and practically we need money to, you know, to live and to just go about life and, you know, do these things. So money is needed and God provides, so that's again very clear. And the normal way is that God is ordained for all of us to work, and then beyond, you know, God gives us the power, you know, to make wealth, that means you, we all do whatever we work, we have, the farmer does his farming, the, you know, people are all involved in various things, and God blesses each one of us in our work, so that we can have enough for ourselves and to give into his kingdom. So that is also part of what we see in scripture. Now, how much is enough is something, you know, I think it's variable, you know, it's, it all boils down to the heart of the person, the heart of the person. So you think of a farmer, he plows his field, sometimes, you know, he may have a 30-fold harvest, sometimes he may have a 60-fold, sometimes he may have a 100-fold. It varies. And in all things, he blesses God. Same thing in the life of God's people. There are some who, you know, have enough for their lives, and they have some extra which they can bless others with. There are some who are very prosperous. Now, they are, they love God, they all love God, but some, you know, have a huge surplus, huge amounts. And so it's not their fault, maybe they're successful in business, maybe, you know, maybe they started a business that's really successful, and so they have huge amounts of surplus. And so then what do they do with that? And of course, they can give, they give it to the kingdom of God, they give to help other people, but you know, they may buy three cars and three houses. Okay. I mean, you can't fault them for it. They're just doing well. I mean, they may have been very successful in whatever they're doing, so they're doing well. So, and what are believers? You know, the person who is getting by month to month, the person who is very prosperous, what are believers? You know, so we can't fault either person. We can encourage the person who is just getting by saying, look, God can take you to better places, give you more. And of course, each one of us has our responsibility in that. So we do. So, you know, I think that is all variable, but it all boils down to the heart, right? But the scripture is teaching, especially for Timothy chapter six tells us, you know, to avoid the love of money. You know, there's nothing wrong in having money. Just don't love it. Don't let it control you. You use it wisely to use it to bless people, all of that. But I think where we could go wrong, and where the, you know, like you mentioned in the whole prosperity teaching. So there's nothing wrong in telling people or teaching people, God will bless you. And teaching people what God has told us to do with money, which is to give into his kingdom, to give to help others, to give to the poor and needy. I mean, those are things the Bible teaches us. So we teach people. There's nothing wrong with that. But I think where the church has gone wrong in the past and probably continues is that when we, when we do certain things, like one, equate money, how, how wealthy you are to how rich you are. Now that equation is wrong, right? And James chapter two very clearly tells us, you know, there are those who may be poor in this world, but they are rich in faith. So we don't equate that, right? That's not a linear equation that you're greater faith, you're greater more money. No, of course, we can have faith and believe God to meet our needs. But it is not always true that if you have more faith, you will have more money or that having more money is some equate equals to greater faith or better quality of faith or whatever. You know, so that equation is wrong. Secondly, I think the motivation in giving, you know, our motivation in giving should be out of love for God and love for people, right? Of course, we know that God has said that if we honor him with our tides, he will open the windows of heaven. Yes, we know the scripture says give and it will be given to you. The scripture does say that you know, he is bound to believe and rebound to believe. I mean, we know all those things, but still our motivation to give is not purely to get, but our motivation to give is love and to bless others. That's it. So that's another area where we could go wrong. So first area, the church has gone wrong and could go wrong is when we somehow equate faith and money, we know we can use faith to have our needs met, but that does not, we can extrapolate that to say that having more money means you have better faith. No. The second is the motivation in giving. Our motivation in giving should be pure. I just want to glorify God. I just want to bless people and of course I know God will provide and God will multiply the seeds I sow and all of that. And so the motivation in giving is not just to get, the motivation in giving is to bless. And I think somehow the third area where we could go wrong, especially from a ministerial side, is when ministers have an affinity to the wealthy. And that is actually, James writes about this, don't do that. Don't give preferential treatment to those who are wealthy and no, no, no. Ask people where to treat everybody equally, not on the basis of money. So that's again a problem that you see in the church that ministers are somehow, of course, it's connected back to, okay, if I have more money, I can do more things. So I need to befriend those who can give more money, et cetera, et cetera. You know, it's kind of like a sad and vicious circle that people, sometimes preachers and ministers get trapped into, which we must avoid. So it's your question in a very, you know, short and simple and concise way. Yes, God is a good God. Yes, he blesses people. And we must realize that as believers, there's this wide spectrum that are believers of people in terms of finances. There are those who have just enough, those who have surplus and some who have abundance, overflowing. Okay. And they're all believers. They love Jesus. We don't, you know, we just thank God for their lives, what God is doing. And and then there's nothing wrong in believing God to meet our needs, to give us what we need, or to give us more than what we need so that we could give extra to others. Nothing wrong with that. We must have faith in God. But we have to avoid these pitfalls. So these very obvious dangers when it comes to money. And I, like I said, if that single thing, if you say, what is the most important, well, just guard your heart, right? Jesus put it like this. He said, and this is look 12, he says, a man's life does not consist of the abundance of things he possesses. You know, I'll give you the, I think it's look 12, 15. Let me just check that. Yeah, look 12, 15. So, you know, I think Jesus has summed it up. He said, you know, beware of covetousness because one's life does not consist and the abundance of things he possesses. I mean, you don't measure your life by your wealth. You know, basically. So keeping our heart pure and you know, understanding things clearly is, I think, very important here. Hope I addressed your question. Christopher, if I left anything out, you could please. Yes. Just that's upon that Bible reference, Pastor, about the camel, the rich man. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, you know, so the context there is this rich, this rich young ruler who comes to Jesus who says, you know, Master, you know, I've, you know, he lived a good life, meaning in the sense, a godly, I would say, a righteous life, a good life, a decent life, you know, he kept the commandments. But then the Lord said, okay, you know, give your wealth away and come follow me. Now that's the acid test for him. Right. For others, it might be easy to do. They don't have a whole lot to give away. So it's easy. You can just give away. But this man had a whole lot, but not only did he have a whole lot, but he was attached to it. So that's the issue. So that's one thing he couldn't do. He did all the other things. He followed the commandments. He treated people well, etc., etc. But there's one thing he was attached to his wealth, to the point where his wealth controlled him. So Jesus said, you know, you keep what you have and come follow me. I mean, that's the test. Let me see if you can release it. And he couldn't release it. And that's when he said, Jesus said, you know, it's so difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, giving us a comparison. So the point is, we should not let our wealth control us. And the best, the real test for us to know that wealth doesn't control us is seen in our ability to give it away. That means we're holding on to it loosely. We are holding on to it more from a point of stewardship. That means, God, this money is stewards. For example, you know, the way we work in church, I am very strict with all our stuff and it comes to spending money. Now, sometimes our staff can, you know, get the idea that, okay, we have a lot of money, we can spend. But I'm very strict. And then, you know, even if it's a small thing, we want to buy it. So, you know, we have to ask questions. And why do we need to, do we really need to buy it? Is there another way to do it? Yeah. And then, yeah, okay. So basically, I want everybody on the team to understand that we don't, we can't waste money, right? Even if it's in the name of God, even if it's in the name of ministry, don't waste it, right? You ask questions, be a good steward. So from that perspective, we are holding on to it very tightly. Why we want to be good stewards. But when it comes to giving, we hold on to it very loosely. That means, when God tells us, you know, give to help somebody, of course give, don't hold on to it. And don't worry about, you know, don't make a big deal about it, just give. So there is that balance, right? I hold on to it tightly because I want to be a good steward, but I hold on to it loosely because I don't want it to let money control me or control us so that we can just give it away. So that's the real test. And this man, this rich young ruler failed that test. And that's what prompted Jesus to state that it's so difficult for the rich people. Why? Because it's very likely that it's the wealth that's controlling them, you know, rather than them controlling the wealth. Yes, thank you. You're welcome. All right, Abinas, let's see. Can you explain a little more about engaging with the world as a believer? How we can conduct ourselves there? And when we should draw the line to maintain a Christian life in the areas, the corporate sector, arts, etc. Yeah. So so we are in the world. And as believers, we have to interact with the world. But we, so as we interact with the world, our goal is to bring kingdom influence into the world. That means, excuse me, we live by the values and the principles of the kingdom of God. We cannot compromise that. And we bring those values and principles into the kingdom, into the world. And we don't let the world influence us. Right? So this applies to, you know, all walks of life. So if, for instance, if a businessman, right, you know, if a person is engaging in the world, and like I think one example we said, you know, even in, if he's a salesperson or whatever, in different things, there could be situations where, you know, this conflict, you know, between the standards, the values, what the world wants you to do, that's when you have to hold on to kingdom values, kingdom standards and say, no, I'm not going to compromise. I'm not going to do things that are dishonest, unethical, you know, those kinds of things. And then in other areas, other industries, especially you think about entertainment, you think about arts, you know, you think about those other areas, okay, fashion design and clothing design, fashion design and so many other things where, you know, you're really close to a fine crossing the line, where you could go from decency to indecency, right? In, say, example, clothing design, fashion design, or in entertainment or those areas. So that's where the believer has to say, look, if a believer is called to, you know, work in those industries, okay, I'm in this industry, I'm going to be salt and light. I am going to make a difference here. But how? I'm going to live by kingdom values and principles. And I'm not going to cross the line in these areas, right? And I know some of this is very subjective, meaning, you know, we can't, we can't just make a law that it's from situation to situation. And every believer has to be careful. The goal is, you know, to express the kingdom of God in those situations. Okay, did I, is there anything I left out? Do you want me to just address? Okay. All right, I see your response in the chat. All right, any other questions on overcoming the world before we move to the next chapter on overcoming the devil? That'll be our last part that we need to address. As far as, you know, engaging the world and overcoming the world, the challenges, any other questions on that? Okay. So let's move now to the next chapter. I'm going to share PDF. All right. So we're going to talk about overcoming the devil, right? So we dealt with overcoming the flesh, which is our own evil desires. We talk about overcoming the world because, you know, we have to interact with the world now as long as we're here on earth. And this is the last section, overcoming the devil. And what, how do we deal? Or how do we live victorious for the devil? Now, we all know, and these scriptures are very familiar to us that we have an adversary, the devil. And, you know, he has one intent to destroy our faith, to get us away from our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. So he's against that. That's his main intent, get us out of faith in God. But then the Bible tells us to resist the devil, right? So he's going to come against us, but our, we've been equipped by God, empowered by God to resist the devil and he's going to run from us, right? So both James and Pete are teaching us, you know, resist him, resist the devil, right? You stand against, you oppose. Now he's coming to, the devil is trying to devour, you know, he's trying to see how he can get us out from the faith, but we stand against him, resist him. So what we must understand in this whole conflict against the devil is, you know, it's good to understand some of his tactics. You know, how does he operate? What are his, you know, what are his most common tactics so that, you know, we can just recognize, hey, that's the devil and I don't have to give into it, right? So how does he try to destroy our faith or devour us? Well, just by looking at his names or titles and scripture, it gives us some idea of how he operates. So he's called the tempter. So obviously that means he's going to present us with temptations. He's going to draw us out in areas of weaknesses and draw us into sin and go against God. He's an accuser. So accuser means he's going to rail against us with all kinds of false accusations, slanderous, demean us, devalue us, condemn us, make us feel bad and terrible about ourselves and before God. You know, that's his job, accuse, make us feel condemned. He's also a deceiver. That means he's going to tell us untruths. He's going to tell us lies and try to get us to stop believing the word and believe his lies. Now, obviously, in his attempts to deceive us, he's going to, he's not going, let me say, he's going to package the lie as it was a truth. So that's deception. What is deception? Lie comes packaged as truth. So it looks like truth. Yeah. See, if a lie came to you as a lie, it's very easy for all of us to recognize it and reject it. So that's, that's very easy, but that's not how we operate. The deceiver packages the lie as it was the truth. You know, so we think it's the truth. We are convinced we are believing the truth, but actually we're believing a lie. And that's when that's what deception is all about. And so we have to be very careful. And lastly, another one of his names is adversary, meaning opponent. He hinders, he opposes, he obstructs, he puts roadblocks, he tries to, you know, either tries to derail us, he tries to distract us, he tries to, you know, get us off track and destroy us. That's, that's his work as adversary. So if you look at these four titles, it kind of, these four titles kind of captured the the gamut, the range of operations of the enemy. This is how he works. He either he's tempting us, accusing us, deceiving us or opposing us. Right. Any point in time, this is what he's up to. So our first strategy in living victorious over the devil is to recognize what he's up to. Because if you recognize it's hey, I know that thing is the devil, you know, half the battle is over. Right. The moment you recognize something coming your way as a temptation is, oh, that's, that's the old devil coming, presenting temptation. Or that's just an accusation of the enemy. That's an untruth from the enemy, a lie. Or that's the enemy trying to oppose me. I'm not going to let that happen. Right. So just thinking very strategically, thinking like a soldier, you know, thinking that way is you will identify, okay, that's the devil. He's up to something. I'm not going to let him win. Right. Because the moment we recognize any one of these things, we know how to overcome. You know, God has given us this word to overcome each of these things, whether it's a temptation, accusation, a deception, or an opposition, we can overcome. Right. God's given us. He's shown us in His word how to overcome. So part of us, part of our responsibility is just recognizing what the devil is doing. Okay. So here's what I want to share with us when we are standing up against what the enemy is doing. First and foremost, is we must be absolutely convinced in our hearts that the devil has been defeated. Okay. The devil is defeated. As far as you are concerned, as a New Testament believer, whenever you think about the devil, always think of him as a defeated enemy. You know, sometimes believers, you know, we talk about the devil as he's so big, he's so great, or he's doing this, he's doing that. And you know, I feel sad. So like, why, why are we magnifying the devil? He's a defeated enemy. Jesus Christ defeated him. And if Jesus defeated him, that's it. He's been defeated. And I'm going to look at him as a defeated enemy. I'm going to deal with him as a defeated enemy. I don't need to magnify the devil. I know that he has these tactics he has these strategies. And that's what makes him look very powerful or very strong. But if you look at it, all these are very petty, petty things, temptations, accusations, deceptions, and these oppositions are more like, you know, intimidation rather than actual strength. Okay. So his, his opposition is more of an intimidation rather than actual strength. So when we look at all these things, like, look, these are petty things. But, you know, he just appears to be very strong. But the truth is, Jesus Christ defeated Satan on our behalf. So if you go through the scriptures, he's literally look at the, the, the, what the text that the scriptures say, you know, he's been crushed. He's been expelled. He's condemned. That means in the court of law, the case, the verdict was announced 2000 years ago. And the verdict is the devil's condemned, you and I are justified. So there's no more court cases, you know, there's no need to go to the court to fight the devil that took place 2000 years ago. God dealt with it. He's disarmed. As far as the believer is concerned, he's destroyed. He's rendered powerless. So this is the enemy. This is the truth about the enemy. Right. Now, if you don't know this, he's going to make himself appear much bigger, much more stronger, much more powerful than he really is. But this is the truth. And we must be established in the truth. Right. So God delivered us from the powers of darkness. He's delivered us from the authority, the dominion of darkness. We are in the kingdom of his son, which is much greater than the kingdom of darkness. Jesus is armed with principalities and powers. Jesus destroyed him who had the power of death. And he's given us authority to trample on serpents and scorpions. This is absolute mastery, absolute authority, trample on. And over all the power of the enemy, over all the power of the enemy. And Romans 16, 20, the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. He's going to crush Satan under our feet. Jesus crushed the devil. And now he's saying it's our turn to crush the devil. Right. So these are the scriptures that show us this is how we must perceive, look at the devil. And this is how we deal with them. So never, never brag about what the devil is doing. You know, recently we were sitting and listening to one person. And this person was talking about like, Oh, you know, this thing happened and that thing happened. And I was like, you know, just talking about all the bad things that were happening in their house and in circumstances. And the devil did this and the devil did that. I know it's a devil attacking, and I know the devil is using that person. And I know the devil is using that person to trouble me and using that person to trouble me. And now I did not rebuke the person because, you know, this person is much older. I did listen quietly. I can't just say, Hey, please don't talk like that. Sorry. But it was very sad, you know, and this was an elder person couldn't, you know, had to just be polite. But, but really, it's very sad that as believers, we would talk like that and make the devil look so big. No, as believers, so the devil is defeated. And he may come against me with temptation, accusation with intimidation or that's opposition. Or he may come against me. We said that trying to deceive me with all our untruths and lies. But we know the strategy, you know, he's defeated. And we're going to walk in victory. Right. So secondly, be aware of the tactics. How does he operate? Right. So Paul wrote about this in Second Corinthians 211. He says, let Satan should take advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices, his operations, how he works, what are his tactics? And if you in 611 talks about the violence, the tactics, the strategies of the devil. Right. So we must be aware of him. How the devil operates. You know, what are his strategies? What are his tactics so that we can preempt what he would attempt to do? Right. So as believers, we don't have to be ignorant. Now, if we are ignorant, that gives the devil an advantage. And that's part of the problem with many believers. Right. They're ignorant. So the devil has an advantage. But when we know what his devices are, when we know his tactics and his strategies, then he no longer has an advantage over us. Right. So if you try to understand, you know, how he operates or how he could possibly operate in the life of a believer, we said the four things he tries to do. Right. He tries temptations, accusations, deceptions and intimidation or opposition. He tries these four things. How does he try to operate or how does he work? First of all, he plays mind games. Secondly, he looks for open doors. And thirdly, he tries to intrude. That means forcibly try to come in. Right. So either in any of these, you know, four ways he thinks he's doing, he sometimes he plays mind games. That means he's just throwing these things in our mind, mind games, the parts, imaginations, arguments, reasonings. He comes in the mind. So that's where he tries to make his way. So how do temptations come? How do accusations come? How does deceptions come? How does intimidation come? Mind. He puts thoughts of fear, accusations. He plays mind games. So first thing, be discerning about what comes into your mind. Don't fall for anything and everything that comes to your mind. Be discerning. Hey, that thought, that's not from God. That accusation is not from God or that intimidating thought is not from God. That thought, that imagination, that instilling fear in me, that's not from God. So it's the devil playing mind games. So that's the first thing, his first wave operation. Now again, here many believers don't recognize it. They keep falling for these thoughts, these ideas, these imaginations, these arguments, these reasonings. They come into their mind and that's the first step to being trapped by the devil. Second is open doors. That means if we give an open door, the devil will come in. Right? So how do we provide open doors? Usually it's through our continued sin. Right? So the moment we do something wrong, the moment there is sin, turn away from it, repent and renounce it. That's why repentance is so important, the previous section that we talked about, because repentance keeps the door closed to the enemy. If I don't repent and I continue in sin, it's like I'm slowly opening the door and so the door is wide enough for the enemy to come in. That's why Paul wrote in Ephesians 4 verse, I think verse 27, he said, give no place to the devil. Give no place. I mean, don't give him a foothold. Don't give him a point of entry. Don't give him any way that he can get in. Right? So we must be careful. Right? Through our sin, through our wrong believing, we open up the doors and he looks for open doors. And lastly, he will try to intrude. That means he's going to try, he's a trespasser. He's going to try to trespass. He's going to try to violate knowingly. So when you know the truth, he's still going to try to violate that. Come against. That's why he's got to stand firm on the truth we know. So recognize his strategies, where he's operating and beyond guard. So that brings us to point number three, which is we have to be vigilant and give the enemy no opportunity. I'm going to stop here and see if we have any questions. We will take a point three from next class, because that might take up time. So let's pause here. Let me just see if there are any questions in the chat. Okay. I run with me so far. So what are we saying? We're saying we need to know how the enemy operates. What are his operations and how, what are his tactics? So his only strengths are temptation, accusation, deception, and opposition. That's the four things he tries to do, main things against the believer. How does he operate? He plays mind games. He looks for open doors. And then sometimes he tries to intrude in our lives. That's how he works. How do we approach him? First and foremost, know the devil's defeated. Okay. You are defeated. Jesus Christ defeated you. Second, be pre-emptive. That means you think one step ahead of the devil. And hey, I know this is my area of weakness. My area of weakness doesn't have to pull me down. I'll be on guard in my area of weakness. I'll be watchful. I will recognize when the enemy is trying something. I mean, and my recognition of the enemy is not to magnify the enemy, but to defeat him. I don't have to brag about him. I just like, oh, that's the devil. All right. I know how to deal with that. I know what to do. I know that if I put up a shield of faith and use the sword of the spirit, he has to go back. He has to flee. So I am watchful. We are watchful. We recognize not to magnify the devil, but to put him down. Right? So we'll go forward on this on Monday. Any questions so far? You're all with me so far. Go ahead, Samuel, please. Thank you, Barsha. Barsha, I don't know if this is a topic that we'll be covering in the coming days, but something around spiritual warfare. And I'm looking at Efficient 612, where, you know, that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but I can spin spiders against powers. So on this topic, would you be spending some time on this and how does this happen and what does it look like? I actually didn't plan to, you know, like deal with it in a comprehensive way, but we can definitely talk about it. So let me say a few things here and then maybe we'll continue it on Monday. You know, spiritual warfare basically is conflict against the powers of darkness. And for every believer, what we just spoke about, that's about 80 to 90 percent of our spiritual warfare, right? That is, dealing with these things, the temptations, the accusations, the deceptions, and the oppositions. That's about 80 to 90 percent of spiritual warfare for every believer. Okay, this is what we're always in, all the time engaged in, right? So it's not really complicated. This is what it is and every believer is facing this day in, day out, day in and day out. It's a spiritual warfare. We're dealing with powers of darkness. These are the evil spirits, powers of the air that are doing this against us. And they are looking at these three things. They're playing mind games. They're looking for open doors, and sometimes they try to intrude. So that's 80 to 90 percent. Then there is the other aspect, I would say, you know, the remaining 10 to 20 percent, which we do when we're engaged in ministry. That means while we're ministering to others. So that's the other aspect, the other dimension. And in that 10 to 20 percent, we may need to minister deliverance to people, meaning that we're helping people who are troubled by wicked spirits, evil spirits. So that's part of our conflict with demonic powers, right? Helping others dealing with overcoming evil spirits. And also through prayer and intercessions. That's another aspect where I might be praying for people. And in the process of praying for them, I'm actually dealing with what the devil is doing, whether it's at an individual level or a group level. But I put that down as 10 to 20 percent because we are not doing that all the time. You know, what we are mostly involved in is this at a very personal level, what we just spoke about. So 80 to 90 percent somewhere. And then depending on how much of ministry somebody is doing, to that extent, we're actually in conflict with demonic powers as we are ministering to people and so on. So we can talk a little bit about that next week and any specific questions in that area. All right, let's pause for now. It's going to be a break time and then you need to get ready for your next class. So we'll pause here. Somebody could please close in prayer and we will continue this next week. Could somebody please close in prayer now? Okay. Why is there such a quiet? Who wants to pray? Thank you, Father, for your heart. Thank you, Lord, for your Christ, Lord, that you've given us, Lord, so that we may walk in your ways, Lord. And as we live in this world, Lord, even though we are not of the world, Lord, we know there are challenges, there are attacks, Lord. There are things that are in our ways, Lord, that try to stop us from worshiping you and following you in a way that pleases you, Lord. We pray for that you continue to empower us, Lord, and guide us, Lord, so that you will be maybe fulfilled on this planet, Lord, through us, Jesus. We pray for that you be with us again until we meet again next week. In your mighty name, Lord Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone. Have a quick break. Please enjoy your remaining classes today. Have a good day. See you all again next week. God bless. Bye now. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.