 So, did you have a question you were about to say something at the end of the last session? No, Buster. No, okay. Thank you. Right, okay. So I just want to kind of encourage us as believers. You know, this is God's desire. The, you know, the exhortation that we started with, you know, as we prayed. Honestly, desire the best gifts. Desire to prophesy. And first you love and desire spiritual gifts. That's God's will for us. And the reason that he, over and over again, that exhortation is there, right? You know, in those three chapters is because God, that's what God desires to do. Okay, God wants to show himself strong on our behalf. So, you know, we do what he has declared in the word and we go ahead and just do it, right? Just be there and do it and see God move on our behalf. And I think that's the greatest joy and contentment to watch God to see that we are just being expected as to what God does through us in us, right? So this one encourages us to grow strong in the Lord, really, you know, be nurtured in words of faith and step out and do what he has called us to do. And we can start small, you know, we can start small, maybe with family, maybe with friends and somebody says, okay, you know, I have this thing. I've been going to the doctor, I've been doing this, you know. Just say, hey, can I just pray? And it may be a long lengthy one, but just say, can we pray? And as you're praying, you know, you lean into the Holy Spirit and lean in and see what does God wanting to do. You know, you lean in and be sensitive in your spirit, man. And what is God saying? What is God doing? And make it, you know, make it second nature, right? So every time you do that, you know, just lean in and say, okay, God, what is it that you're putting in my heart? What is it that you want done? And what are the inputs in your heart? And, you know, you just go ahead and release that, stand and faith, release that. And it can be a blessing for those around us, right? Okay, so just want to encourage you to do that, right? Okay, let's move on. You know, we, so we looked at all these gifts, okay? And we looked at these gifts in operation. Some of them, you know, very clearly mentioned in both the old and the New Testament, especially tongues. We don't see that much in the Old Testament. We see some indirect references. We see that. And also interpretation of tongues. We don't see, we see some references. We don't see any operation. But then, you know, we see, of course, plenty of references in the New Testament, right? So for us to be developing, you know, just like how we develop our spirit sense of hearing and seeing and so on, we need to be developing, walking in the gifts of the spirit and developing the gifts of the spirit in our lives. Paul writes and Timothy and he says, you know, do not neglect the gift that was given to you by laying out of hand, by prophecy or by laying out of hands. Don't neglect it. It means don't, you know, don't let it be there without use. That's neglect. So not only are we to desire honestly, but we are told not to neglect these gifts. The Holy Spirit comes and he comes with all these gifts within us. We're not neglect walking in these gifts or the use of these gifts and pay the opportunity. So how do we develop, you know, which is going back to the chapter which we said that we will look at, which is the chapter on love, you know, Acts chapter 13. Sorry, 1 Corinthians chapter 13. And we looked at that chapter on love, which is there. So when it comes to the exercise of these gifts, we see that it is to be with love. Love has to undergird this. It has to be motivated out of love. Okay, so let's just look at that. I just want to share the notes. It's a chapter. Let me just put it up. It's coming up. So we see that 1 Corinthians 13. This whole chapter on love. We see the context in which 1 Corinthians 13 is written and it's in the context of the spiritual gifts. Chapter 12, the listing of spiritual gifts, and it also talks about the body of Christ and how we should minister to one another. Chapter 14, some more about the gifts. Chapter 13, we see love being mentioned there and without love, how everything else is. It's vain. It's empty. So, firstly, we see that love is patient. The characteristic of this God kind of love is that love is patient and it's kind. So, while ministering these gifts, we need to be bold. We need to be firm. We need to be confident in God. At the same time, we are called to be gentle and kind when ministering in these gifts. When ministering in the power of God. Because love is patient and love is kind. People may sometimes test that very thing. Test your kindness. Test your patience. But the love of God overcomes and the love of God is patient and it's kind. The second thing that we see is that the love is not jealous. It is not jealous. That's what we see. Love does not envy looking at verse 4, which means that it's not jealous. It does not look at someone and say, okay, envy that person, jealous of that person. So, which means that even while working together as a community of believers and when we see God doing something through a fellow believer and God doing something wonderful that we don't envy that, we don't become jealous of that. But we praise God for that. Praise God and honor what God is doing through that person and celebrate really what God does through that person. And of course, it's a wonderful opportunity to observe, wonderful opportunity to learn how he's working and what he's doing through others. So, love is not jealous. In the same verse, we see that love is not proud. It is not proud. It is not arrogant. It does not parade itself. So, it's not proud, arrogant, boastful. So, while we are confident in who we are in Christ, that does not mean that we cross over and become arrogant. We continue to be, just because God is powerfully using us or the pits are being manifested in and through us, does not have to make us or we should not become proud and arrogant. Because the warning is, again, that God resists the proud, which you've seen James, but gives grace to the humble. All these gifts are gifts of grace. Something that we don't deserve, it's enabled by God. So, these are gifts of grace. That is why these are called Charisma. Charis means a gift of grace. So, these are gifts of grace. So, when we minister the gifts of grace, we don't do the opposite. We don't become proud. But God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Love is also not rude or ill mannered. We need to be Christlike. We are reflecting the love and the nature of God. So, we should not be discourteous or rude, because sometimes people do that. They forget their manners because they are under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. But this is what love is. The love of God is not ill mannered. It's not rude. So, also in our ministering, we don't become that. It's not self-centered, self-seeking, or self-promoting, which is what we see. That verse five does not seek its own. It's not provoked. Things no evil. So, it does not promote ourselves. We don't need to promote ourselves. We don't need to focus on ourselves. And we don't minister the gifts in order to turn the spotlight on ourselves or to get some favors done or to... nothing of that sort. Nothing of that sort, because it is from God. It is through Him. And we are just vessels. We are privileged to be vessels in His hands. And the love of God, this is the quality that it's not self-seeking. So, therefore, when we minister the gifts, we are not seeking our self to be on display. We are seeking God to be exalted, to Lord Jesus to be exalted. So, these are really foundational things, but we need to remember that. We need to not lose this. Always keep this in front of us. Love is not irritable. It says it's not provoked. Things no evil. It does not rejoice in iniquity. So, it's not angered. It's not irritable. It doesn't get provoked. So, we realize that when it comes to ministering and we are dealing with people. We are dealing with people. And there could be every opportunity that things go the opposite way. That people can provoke us. People can do things to kind of maybe anger us or whatever. But do not get provoked. Stay in the love of God. Stay in the peace of God. Don't get provoked to react. We see that love has no evil intention. So, we don't use the gifts to manipulate. We don't use the gifts to talk down and take revenge. You don't use the pulpit of time to do that or minister and say, Okay, now's my chance. I'll get back. And we hear so many horrors stories of ministers of God doing that. Something happens and they use the church. They use the pulpit to talk down on people and use them as illustrations to cut them down to size. But do not do that because love is opposite of that. Love is truthful, honest and holy. Therefore, the gifts of God must be handled in a similar way. Love hopes, believes, endures and love never fails. So, do that in the same manner. A classic example is the Lord Jesus. When ministering to the woman at the well, the Lord knew what kind of person she was. During the course of the conversation, I think when we see that it could be a word of knowledge. The Lord knew how many times she was married and the fact that she was in a living relationship. But the Lord conveyed that information very objectively so much so that the woman, having heard about her life, she went and she testified to the entire village. He brought them to Jesus such were the manner in which the Lord ministered. Well, he had harsh words for those who were hypocrites, those who were religious leaders. But we see that when he was ministering, he was ministering in compassion and he did expose the sin of this person, the sinful lifestyle. But there was no condemnation with it. There was a conviction for her to change and she brought the entire village. She said, come eat a man who told me all that I ever did. And love never fails in the sense love never comes to an end. There's no limit on love. It doesn't have an expiry date. This is something that's going to live on in eternity. So let's continue to walk in love with something that's going to be eternal, that is eternal. And so we continue to walk in love. The other thing that we see is that when we look at the word love, we see that love never fails. It means to become inefficient, to come to an end, to become inefficient and has the understanding that to fall from a place. So it means that love, as long as we walk in love and humility, as long as we walk in love and minister in love, that we will not fall or we will not be without effect or things won't come to an end. We will continue to have influence and impact when we walk in love and minister in love. So these are some things that we need to keep in mind when we minister. And it is minister in the gifts and it is tempered with love. I just want to move to developing the spiritual gifts. So we see that love has to be a foundation. So never forget that because we can sometimes get excited with the fact that, hey, God is using me. These things are happening. God is speaking to me and God is using me as a spokesperson. And the thing is that we might get puffed up. There's every tendency to get puffed up, but we need to stay grounded in love. So developing the gifts of the spirit, first always motivated by love, do things out of love. Second one is what we saw when we started the class, what we looked at, the earnestly desire. Have a strong desire, earnestly desire now. I just want to say that there are several things to put out that fire out of our lives. They could be discouragements, they could be challenges in our own personal lives. Maybe people pointing fingers at us, accusing, blaming, several things that could happen to put out that fire. Or it could be some sin that creeps up. Maybe we have not been careful and fallen and that definitely tries to extinguish the fire. You don't have that same zeal. You don't have the same zeal for God or the things of God. We need to really look in introspect and see what is causing that. See, what is it? So that God can put a finger on it and say, okay, this is what it is. You've been harboring bitterness or you've been harboring unforgiveness. You've really been caught up. You've been speaking some loose words. The Lord might say several things. The Lord might say you've been compromising on things that you're watching. You used to be very sensitive but now that sensitivity is losing its edge because you've been compromising on what you are watching. And therefore, because of that, you're losing that fire. So it could be that. So it's time to introspect and say, what is it that is killing the appetite? What is it that is reducing the appetite? So come back to it and earnestly desire. The other thing that we see is to stir up the gift of God, which means we keep the flame burning. It's like killing that coal to keep the flame alive. Stir up the gift of God. Walk in it. Let there be the time interval between the last time we moved in the gifts and present what we're doing. Let it be short. And sometimes we might have to intentionally step out and say, okay, it's been a while now. I need to pray and just do it. Get out of that complacency and say, okay, I want to move in it. Stir up the gift of God. So Paul's instruction to Timothy, do not neglect the gift of God, a gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, laying on our hands of the hellish. And second Timothy again, he tells, he reminds Timothy and he says, I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. Stir it up. Use it. Don't let it, don't let the dust settle on it. Stir it up. But seven, for God has not given us a spirit of fear. And we see that one of the reasons was fear, maybe fear of man, maybe fear of getting it wrong, maybe fear of what will people say, whatever. So God has not given us a spirit of fear. So this verse again is in the context of the use of spiritual gifts. So God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. He's given us a disciplined mind. He's not given us a spirit of fear. Therefore, you stir up the gift. So the fear is not from God. You stir up the gift. Let it not be dormant. The other instruction we see in Galatians 5, if you live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. What does it mean to walk in the spirit? It means to be led by the spirit, to stay in step with the spirit, listening to the Holy Spirit. Let him lead us, let him guide us, be aware of the Holy Spirit's presence in our lives. Don't shut out. So we can never switch off that way. Sometimes people say, I need a break, I need a vacation, I need a thing. Brilliant. But don't switch off the presence of God. We can don't intentionally stay away from God even during these times of moments of leisure or entertainment. Always be aware of God's presence. Don't cut off, don't switch off. God's spirit speaking to you and ministering to you. Some practical things is to stay calm and rested. The word rest means to rest, remain quiet, be quiet, settle down. The thing is that for us in our minds to really stay in that place of peace and calm and not be agitated, agitated or being fearful or anxious. Initially, yes, we will be. Maybe we are praying and then we kind of anxious, oh God, I want you to speak and we are anxiously waiting and saying, what if God does not speak? What if I get this wrong? But then relax. When God speaks, if God speaks, you receive it. All that is required of us is to be in that place of peace, to be in that place of rest and to stay alert, to be sensitive. So don't be agitated, stay calm in the spirit. There could be a lot of things happening out there which really cause us to be agitated in the natural when you see that there could be things happening. But you stay calm in the inner man. You stay calm in the spirit. The other thing, practical, some more practical thing is to step out boldly when prompted by God. When you know, the thing is when we continue to walk with God, when we continue to be obedient to His leading, it's like we build a history with God. We know that God has spoken because that's how we did. We are becoming more and more sensitive, not familiar to the point of being, not esteeming His presence, but familiar to the point of being welcoming His presence and honestly desiring more of Him. So we become familiar in that aspect. So when we do that, we do it boldly. Whatever God is putting in your heart, you know, you do that. You step out and do it. It could be to do something. It could be to speak something. It could be to pray something out, whatever it is. Be faithful, be obedient. And when we step out and do it, it requires some boldness. Maybe it requires doing things which we are not temperamentally, you know, temperamentally it seems outside of our comfort zone, right? So, but it requires us to do that, right? See, I'm not the person temperamentally who would go and speak to strangers. But the fact is that, you know, just the fact that God loves people and God wants to, you know, deal in people's lives has encouraged me so much to go ahead and do certain things. And I look back and I see that, oh, wow. That's not me at all. But the fact is that God is, even those ingrained temperaments and fears, God deals with us. And God changes that as well as we continue to walk with Him, right? So faith, you know, somebody defined faith this way. I'm sure you've heard that faith equals risk. Or faith is spelled as R-I-S-K, right? So we will need to take some risks when we are ministering. We need to take some risks. We need to, probably, it's not something that we are used to doing. And we need to take some risks. But when we take those risks, when we take those steps of faith, then we see that God, you know, we walk in the plan and purpose of God. We see God step in and do things that He's already prepared. You know, one beautiful thing that we see is when we read Ephesians 2, we see that Ephesians 2 and verse 10, for we are this workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them, okay? So we are His workmanship. We are His works of art created in Christ Jesus. We know what that means. We are in Christ, new creations in Christ. And what have we created? Why have we created in Christ? We are created for good works. Okay, so these are the good works. We know that the Lord Jesus, He was anointed by the Holy Spirit, and He went about doing good, right? So these, we've been in Christ, we are created in Christ Jesus, anointed by the Holy Spirit in a similar manner to do good. So we are created for the good works, which God has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. He's designed these good works. I just want to share one instance which happened. I think John Paul was also, you know, John Paul and I, we were going for one of our, let me just put this down, okay? So we were going for this prayer walk. It was in, you know, Jai Nagar South. So we went and then, I think that was the only time both of us went together. So we went and then, so we saw this person who was walking in, you know, was trying to walk. He was actually kind of, I think he was walking with us. I'm not sure. But anyway, we went and we told him about Jesus, and we asked him if he would, if we can pray for him. And we were believing God for healing, and we just wanted him to be completely okay. That didn't happen. I think, I don't know if he sat down, you know, on the side of the payment and then we prayed and over him, he was being held by one other person. But the thing is that I managed to get his phone number and he kind of invited, I spoke to him on the phone, he kind of invited me home. He said, why don't you come? So I went to his house. There again, got to share the gospel. So they come from a completely, you know, non-Christian home, you know, from, I could see, very small. Just one room house went and prayed, shared the gospel, taught from the word. Then got to hear that his mother was actually a believer. So his mother knew the Lord. And it was amazing. The way they said, they believed in Jesus the way you do. And she believed in Jesus the way. And she was also, you know, she was, I heard that, he said that the mother also, she died a believer and also was, you know, the funeral was done according to your ways and some things he said. But the fact is that the mother, God had touched the mother and we were walking that, you know, that day and we got to, you know, we just took a, we didn't know, you know, how it will respond or whatever. But we just took a chance and said, okay, let's talk to them about Jesus, talk to them about Jesus, ask him if he would like us to pray. And he said, okay, we prayed, got invited home and prayed again, shared the gospel and told him, you know, this is what you need to do. And then he opens up and says, my mother used to believe the way you believe and so on. So it means the seat of the gospel was already there and you see the whole thing, you know, playing out. So then I realized that many things like that, God has already prepared beforehand, right? God has prepared beforehand. All we need to do is take that risk. Well, we might look stupid, we might look foolish, you know, if they respond negatively. Well, but the thing is that since it's already prepared beforehand, why not take the risk? Why not take that step of faith and move with Christ's confidence and say, okay, God, you are sufficient to do this. So just want to step out and do it. And I'm sure many of you are already doing that, but just want to encourage us to continue if you're doing that. And those of us who have yet to step out, step out. Because you'd be amazed to see what God has planned and how God connects these things. Yeah, at the other time, I remember, you know, it was at the airport and I was just asking a lot, Lord, you know, where should I sit? Okay, I just felt okay, maybe I should just sit there. So I sat next to this guy and then so he got talking and asked him, I was carrying my guitar. So he asked, you know, are you a musician? Are you listening? So I told him, you know, just got to share with him about what we do and then about the Lord. And so on my personal listening testimony of how I, you know, used to work in a corporate thing. Now I work with church and YA and all that. So then got to know that his grandmother, you know, was a believer, right? So he shared, you know, I know my grandmother and also another uncle. So they believe in Jesus like you. So then I just shared, it's so simple. You know, Jesus didn't come to, you know, start a religion or the thing. He wants a relationship with you. And this is the reason, you know, that we are heading towards a destiny without God, but God wants to step in. And so, yeah, so he said, hey, I'm glad I met you. You know, his flight was earlier, the flight I was just sitting there and they said, I'm glad we, I'm glad I got to speak to you. And I said, just continue, you know, don't give up on Jesus, just continue, just get to know Jesus. He said, yeah, yeah, I will. So you see that it's a risk, right? It's a small risk, you know, and also personality was I'm not the person to take those things, but I'm learning. And having seen God move in these ways, I know that when God says something that he's already planned it, he's already this, you know, maybe some network, something that he's already put in place, all we have to do, even though I may not be able to see it then and there, but if I do it, then it sets things in motion, right? Open this up and then you get to see, oh, wow, this is why I'm glad I did it. I'm glad I stepped on. So, yeah. So just want to encourage, you know, it is definitely risk. Not saying that you will get it right all the time. You know, I made it a point that I pray for, you know, the people who are begging and first I pray for them, you know, just first pray and then pay. So still I'm going to pray and then I'll give you the money. Okay, so just pray for whatever condition there is. And, you know, there have been really heart-warming stories, you know, there's one lady that has, I said, hey, I'm going to pray and I'll give you the money, but I'm praying. So I just put my hand on her and she just, you know, closed her eyes and put her hand over mine and she was so moved, you know, she said, oh, you know, completely moved, completely touched and an old lady, you know. So they've been very heart-moving, heart, you know, really moving moments when you step out and do that as well, right? Okay. So, yeah, so take this, the other thing is, let me just, wherever we, okay, the other thing is to practice in the sense we need to, you know, when we learn about these gifts, you know, there's always a sharpening which comes through walking in it. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14, he says, 14 and verse 31, for you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged. Okay, so every time we step out and use the gifts, you know, it is, of course, a practice, we are learning something, maybe reflect and say, okay, I made that mistake and now I can avoid it. I can do this, I learned something, so, you know, I can do it in this way. So we learn, right, there is a learning that comes and in 2 Timothy 221, if anyone cleanses himself from the laptop, that it's talking about, you know, the works of the flesh, if there's a cleansing, then he will be useful in the master's head. So we become even more useful and be accurate in the master's head. So it's talking about, you know, cleansing oneself, you know, so when we learn, when we discard certain things, when we take on, there is a cleansing, there is a sharpening that's happening. Okay, learn from every experience. Okay, learn from the experience, both from things that happened for the better and also things that we did turn out so good and turn out so well, you know, we learn from those experiences and learn not to step out in the flesh, learn not to overextend ourselves, you know, several things that we learn. Okay, this is something that I can do, this is something, you know, I should not do. We learn from every experience. Okay, Romans 12-6, having been gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith. Okay, so faith is involved here. You know, faith is stepping out, faith is taking a risk. But we can increase in our faith. We can grow in our faith. We build ourselves up in faith. We meditate on the Word of God. We listen to the Word of God. We declare the Word of God. We pray in tongues, we worship God. We grow in faith. And Galatians 3-5 talks about, you know, how are these gifts released? How are these miracles worked among you? Is it not by the hearing of faith? It's not by the works of the Lord, it's by the hearing of faith. So faith is involved there. So it's good for us to grow in faith so that we can step out in proportion to our faith and minister. Of course, that word is about prophecy specifically. So we can step out and minister in the prophetic in proportion to our faith. Fasting, again, helps us. We put it at some of the things of the flesh. We sharpen our hearing. And, you know, we pray and fast and prepare ourselves to do this. Receiving impartation. Okay, now, God is the source. God is the one who manifests himself in all these wonderful ways, right? So the gifts of God are from him. It's not man-made, right? But the thing is, he uses his people, his servants, to activate, which means to get us started and absolutely impart more, right? People who are walking in it to a certain degree. Let's say, maybe certain prophets of God are pastors or God uses them to impart into our lives and add another dimension of the same thing, right? And impartation comes in different ways, you know, maybe through laying on our hands and prayer, through, you know, through association in the ministry by actively, you know, receiving their ministry of teaching and preaching and all that and so on. So we receive that. And Paul here says in Romans 111, for I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be established. Okay, again, in 1 Timothy 4, 414 talks about the gift that was given, how by prophecy, by laying on our hands of the worship. So God, you know, we should not mistake, we should not make a mistake and say, okay, you know, this man of God gave this gift or this woman of God prayed and therefore I have this gift. No, the gift belong to the Holy Spirit. He is the source. God is the source. He's the giver of gifts, right? Never, never forget that. However, God uses His servants, right? His ministers in order to strengthen, in order to maybe enhance certain things in us. And that's how He does it. That's why we are the body of Christ, right? So He does that, which is against Scripture. So, but the focus is on God, right? Our focus is on Him and not on man. Because when we turn our focus on man, that's when all the problem happens, right? When we elevate man beyond, you know, beyond the place of honor, then we bring division to the body of Christ, like we see in the Quentin Church, right? Quentin Church. All have to write to the Quentin Church about these gifts for them to rightly use it. But what was happening was that they were elevating man. I'm of Paul. I'm of Olos. I'm of Sifas, whatever. And because of which they were, you know, there were strivings and, you know, different factions. The body of Christ was divided there. So He had to write and give them these instructions. He did this for the edification of the body and so on, right? So, yes, God does use man. God does use other believers to impart into our life. But our focus is on God. So let's continue to grow in our function and our anointing. God has placed us in the body of Christ to carry out a particular function. But we need to grow in it. We need to, you know, add also in the anointing, right? We can expect to increase in the anointing, which means the presence and the power of the Spirit of God, and grow in it. And as we increase in the anointing, then we can expect to increase in the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit in our, in and through our lives as well. Okay. So we have some more time. I just want to address these things. Foundation for the release of the gifts. Proper foundation. So the gifts are from the person. The gifts are a manifestation of the person. I'll never forget that. Right? So it's not about technique. It's not about a method. It's about a relationship with this person who longs to display himself. Okay. Because the Lord says, you know, I am divine. You are the branches. The branch is connected. The branch has a relationship with the wine. It's a close relationship where the life of the wine flows through the branch. So we should never forget that. We should never forget that. It's based on relationship. It's based on intimacy. So it's never on, you know, method. We will learn, you know, the Holy Spirit will teach us about, okay, you know, like we've been learning, you know, we've been looking at these gifts and we'll be looking at, you know, some of the nuts and bolts of these gifts, how to operate in it, you know, how to discern or how to identify in the spirit man or what is a prompting, you know, what is something visual. These are the nuts and bolts of it, right? But never forget that we are looking at these nuts and bolts, but the bigger picture is that it flows from a place of relationship, from a place of intimacy. Okay, so we minister out of that relationship with the Lord. So that's of paramount importance. Never forget that. The second thing is to be strong in our identity in Christ. So in many times, what happens is people get their identity from the gift. Oh, I'm a prophet. So I'm a prophet so-and-so. Always understand that our identity is who we are in Christ. We are children of God, sons and daughters of the most high God. And, you know, he loves us. He, you know, he indwells us. He empowers us. He strengthens us. He has justified us. He sanctifies us. So, you know, our identity needs to be strong and not on the gifts. Because sometimes we could go wrong, like in the mystery of the gifts, right? We get it wrong and then our identity suffers. Why? Because we placed our identity in the gift. You know, you preached a great message and nobody came and told you that it was wonderful and your identity suffers, you know, you're rocked in your identity. Or, you know, maybe I should stop. Or, you know, nobody told me that it was a great message. Maybe something's wrong. No, he's strong in our identity as people of God. And we are who we are because of what God has said about what God has, you know, cares about us. And it's not in the gift. It's not in the fact that we are prophesying. It's not in the fact that God uses us to heal people. It's not in the fact that God uses us to, you know, minister in different ways. Our identity is not based on that. It's never based on that. Okay. So always remember that. Okay. Okay, quickly. A couple of other things. Demonstrate Christ as a character. Okay. Ephesians 4.15, speaking the truth and love, that you may grow up in all things unto him who is the head of Christ. That we mature in Christ, that we mature in Christ's likeness. In 1.14 also Paul says, plus you love. Okay. What is that love? That agape which is Christ like character. Right. So, plus you love, grow in that love, display that love, demonstrate Christ's likeness. Okay. So, which means our motives, our attitudes and everything are, you know, we grow in Christ's likeness. We are Christ-like in all that. And never focusing on the self, or promoting our self, or putting ourselves on a pedestal. Okay. Just because someone else does, you and I don't have to do it. Right. Because this is scriptural. This is what God has told us. Right. Okay. So, we'll stop here. I think there are a couple of other things, but yeah, we'll just stop here and look forward to the next class. We'll, you know, we'll try and kind of finish the rest of the portions. You know, there will always also be, you know, some tests which we'll, you know, we'll put it up this week, maybe over the weekend. Yeah. So, we've looked at quizzes. Okay. So, you can finish those as well. Okay. Okay. God bless. Have a great day and a great weekend. God bless you. Bye-bye.