 All right. Okay, welcome back everyone. I know this is a little less than 10 minutes, but We will resume. I've just done on the recording and I'm just I see that there are questions in the chat All right, so we answered all the questions till till Galatians 216. Okay, next question What if we are surrounded by people who forbid eating pork? Because it's mentioned the old covenant All right, so How do we deal with the situation? Okay Right, so, you know, and there are like I like was saying there are people in different parts of the Christian world who Hold on to certain Ideas and they would back it up. It's like typically scriptures from the Old Testament So in this case There will be people so you shouldn't eat pork because it's what said there in the Old Testament Well, two things one is, you know, if that's what they feel that's what they're convinced about it's good for them But it doesn't have to apply to me right so but Well, I am with them. I will be respectful of them, you know, so we're gonna we'll talk about that a little later So so if they don't want to eat that's good for them I will eat but when I'm with them, I will be respectful of them and I won't eat So, you know, when I'm with them and moving with them Fine, let's eat what they eat But when I'm on my own like, you know, when I'm back in my own Home you can you know, you can eat whatever you want in your home So you eat but when you're with them, you just be respectful of them and You know, they go with it doesn't matter But you're doing it not because you're submitting to the law. You're doing it more out of honor or respect for them That's there. That's what they feel. It's okay. You know, while I'm with them. I just Honor them. That's it. Yeah, I hope that answers that question. Yes, John So one more scripture, which I also get many times from fellow believers is Acts 15 was 19 and 20 So I'll just quickly read that therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles But that we write to them as they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood So they mention it is also mentioned in the New Testament. So How how do we interpret this? So this is Yeah, so okay that so it says Things abstain from things polluted by idols, okay fine Paul also writes about that later on You don't eat things offered to idols and He gives us reasons and we will look at that. So things offered to idols Sexual immorality, okay, but has to do with the life from things strangled and from blood. So But things strangle and from blood, but then There are two things two ways we address this, right? So they said this in Acts 15 But what do we read later on? So we go with the the most Recent revelation. So later on Paul writes right in First Timothy chapter 4 He says whatever is sold in the marketplace you eat. So First Timothy, yeah for and there was Three was yeah was for first of the four Four and five. So what is the later revelation? So remember revelation the Bible is progressive So Old Testament was given Subsequently revelation came acts of tea. They were trying to sort things out with what do you do when? Gentiles become believers. That's acts 15 the council in Jerusalem But it didn't stop there after The birth of the early church came the epistles Right, so that's progressive revelation and in the epistles. What does Paul say first Timothy 4 4 and 5 he says whatever is sold in the marketplace. So when you go to the market, we don't know exactly unless they specifically state We don't know the whole how they process the animal, you know but you just buy the meat and You eat it. We don't know whether the person was sacrificing of you know, the butcher You know, maybe he did some You know, whatever his faith was he may have prayed to his gods and blessed his shop and blessed his business and Blessed all the animals before he slaughtered them. We don't know that, right? It's you know, all of that is unknown to us. All we know is you go to the store We pick up the food we buy it. So we don't know whether it was strangled whether it was, you know What what how it was processed? So basically what Paul writes is first of the four three and four is hey However, it was processed doesn't matter You pray and you eat So that's how we can respond to that right and it's here it's specifically not talking about hoofed animals. He's just talking about how it was processed And more so in the context of things offered to idols. So it doesn't Say don't eat pork. It just talks about how the animal was processed So was thanks. Yeah, okay, let's see the other questions Isaac is it because of the law of the law Liberty that when Jesus was asked about the greatest command, he said love your neighbor as yourself as a greatest commandment. Yes Yes, Isaac. So then law perfect law of liberty places love Walking in the spirit and love, right? So that's what when somebody asked if you don't mark 12 Now, what is the greatest commandment mark 12 29 30 31? He said here are two commandments. Love the Lord your God But all your heart all your soul all your mind all your strength. Love your neighbor as yourself So that's just the commandment of love the perfect law for liberty. Okay, so we walk in that All right, let's take the other question. This is from Divya So the law is given so the sinfulness of mind can't be exposed with why but the Jews trying to insist on circumcision for the Galatian believers, yeah so These were the you know, so we could so there we ask question was why did the Jews insist on circumcision for The believers in Galatia. So you see what was happening at that time, especially in the early church is Lot of things were changing You know, so Till now the Jews were following, you know, the law and the prophets that means they had all the scriptures From Genesis to Genesis to Malachi. They that was the revealed scriptures word of God and they were following that and now comes Jesus who introduces the kingdom and Then the church is born and The gospel initially was preached only to the Jews. So they were Jewish who are Moving making this transition from Judaism to embracing The message of Jesus Christ. So that it's a big change for them Right for them to realize Jesus Christ is the Messiah and come into faith in Jesus Christ. So this is a big transition Not everybody's embracing that. So these Jewish people who are moving from Judaism to Following Jesus are being persecuted by the Judazers that means the people who are very strong, you know and Saul was one of them as we know Now the church itself is going through transition meaning not only have Jews become followers of Christ But now the gospel is being preached to Gentiles And Gentiles that is non-Jewish people are now coming to faith in Christ So there is another big transition happening, which is hey Not only are Jews coming to Christ, but Gentiles are coming to Christ and Traditionally a Jew would never sit together with a Gentile You know that that fellowship would never happen But now in Christ the gospel is we're all made one in Christ. So it's a big transition so The church itself is struggling with What should we do? Should we tell Gentiles to become like us That's one question the church itself is struggling and that's why they had the first council in Jerusalem in Acts 15 Which John just read from so all the elders got together in Jerusalem to decide what do we do? There are Gentiles who are becoming believers should we tell them to follow Judaism the way we used to or Although they only just need to believe in Jesus Christ. That was one thing, but then they were at the the non-believing Jews Who were also persecuting the church, right? So there are these two, you know, what to say challenges there the Jews who have become Believers in Jesus are trying to figure out. Okay, what do we tell? Gentiles who become believers in Jesus That's because it's everything is new the revelation God is Expanding the gospel is going forth to the Gentiles and they're also trying to understand the mind of God So that's one thing and then there is the the traditional Jews are completely against The Christian faith so in the middle of all this, you know, there is this confusion that resulted from The Jewish people telling the Gentile believers they have to keep the law That was the confusion Yeah, oh, did I did I explain that? Yes. Yes faster. Thank you so much Okay Let's see now Okay, so we've answered all the questions. Okay. Good. Good. Let's move forward I'm gonna go ahead and share the PDF All right, so in connection with what we just spoke about the second aspect is We're also free from meaningless rituals, which are part of the law Right. Let's read Galatians 4 6 through 11. Please somebody could read this for us Galatians chapter 4 verses 6 through 11. Yeah, go ahead Galatians chapter 4 6 to 11 and Because you are sons God has sent for the spirit of his son into your hearts crying out Abba father Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son and if a son then an heir of God through Christ But then indeed when you did not know God you served those which by nature are not gods But now after you have known God or rather unknown by God How is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I'm afraid for you lest I have labored for you in vain Mm-hmm. Thank you So again in the context here Paul is telling, you know, these these believers look You know, we have become children of God You know because God has sent his Holy Spirit into our hearts. We are no longer slaves We are children of God. We are heirs of God through Christ. So look, it's through Christ that's what we are talking about and Before that we you know, we were in bondage to all kinds of things that were not God is they were not worthy of that So he says now After you're known by God and you know God and known by God Why are you going back to those weak and beggarly elements? So you know, he's referring to them as weak and beggarly elements when these are things that are weak and useless And you're making yourself bondage to them and what's he referring to? He's referring to all these rituals You're observing days and months and seasons and years, you know So that those observances which they you know, whether Jews or Gentiles They used to practice now in this context, he's of course addressing the things that were Under the law, you know the days and months and seasons and years all the The things that they had to observe under the law. He said, why are you going back to those things? He refers to them as weak and beggarly elements And he says, you know, I'm afraid less of labor for you I mean I've come and preached Jesus to you and I've told you you're free from all these things and You've become children of God and God has given you a spirit and you don't have to behave like slaves And you're actually children of God you behave like the heirs of God and you know, you behave like that But now you're going back and you're putting yourself in bondage to all those weak and beggarly elements Which is you're you know, you're trying to practice observance of these rituals these days or these special months Or these special seasons. You're trying to follow all that right, so Later on in Philippians, you know, Philippians 3 3 policies look we are the circumcision we worship God in the spirit So of course, he was Jewish and then he fall became a believer's but so he refers to his Jewish heritage We are circumcision. They were circumcised before but now they're worshiping God in the spirit Not by the, you know, the what they did By the law they worship God the spirit and they're rejoicing in Christ Jesus And there's no confidence in the flesh that means what whatever we used to do in the flesh All the laws and things religious rituals and all that we're not we're not we're not confident in that we are now worshiping God in the spirit Right, so we do not worship God through the practice of religious rituals. We worship God in the spirit We don't put any confidence in the flesh in these, you know, these things that we do right, so That's the second thing that in Christ Jesus We are free from observing these days and months and so on now if you want to take a day and Keep that as a special day for you to, you know, pray for you to spend that day in Worship of God or if you want to do it, it's up to you That's perfectly fine But you're not doing it Oh, because you know, everybody else has to call me to do it and I have to do it and only then I will be Accepted by God. No if you want to take a day and pray you want to take a couple of days and seek God or Just any time you can do it and you do it you worship God in the spirit It's not about the days. It's about worshiping God in the spirit in Jesus Christ Right, so like I mentioned, you know, there's no need for us to go and practice today is In observing certain days, you know, there are seven main feasts Uh, there are actually more more than seven feasts That a typical Jew would observe every year Now we don't have to go and observe those feasts. We don't have to observe days and months and seasons and years We don't have to do that Because we worship God in the spirit We rejoice in Christ Jesus Another aspect of our being freedom. I'll try to try to finish this lesson Is we are free from man-made ideas. That means things that people will try to put off on us Right, so Paul brings us out in Colossians chapter two Was 16 to 23. It's a a little long passage, but let's read it somebody could read this for us, please Colossians to 16 to 23 Colossians chapter two was 16 to 23 So let no one judge you and food or in drink or regarding a festival or a new moon or Shabbats, which are a shadow of things to come but the substance is of Christ Let no one cheat you of your reward taking delight in false humility and worship of angels Intruding into those things which he has not seen when we puffed up by his fleshly mind And not holding fast to the head from whom all the body Nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments Gross with increase that is from God Therefore if you die with Christ from the basic principles of the world Why as through living in the world do you subject your souls to regulations? Do not touch do not taste do not handle which all concern things which perish with the using According to the commandments and doctrines of men These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion false humility and neglect of the body But are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh Amen, thank you So look at these things right paul is telling he's writing to the believers in class He says you know don't let anybody judge you or dictate to you You know in what you should eat your food your drink or uh regarding a festival Or a new moon or Sabbath see from you're free from all this Because he says you know these things are a shadow. They're not the reality. They are the shadow of things But the reality is Christ and we are in Christ so in Christ we don't have to try to Think that we are going to gain anything spiritual Or gain anything in the eyes of God Because of you know, what I eat or don't eat or drink or don't drink or Keeping festivals or new moons or observing or even the Sabbaths Okay, because the Jewish people had different Sabbaths The other weekly Sabbath and they had other kinds of Sabbaths that they used to follow and he's he used He said all of that we're free from all of those things Because for us the substance the reality is what we have experience and that's in Jesus Right, so these two verses make it very clear. You know, we don't have to follow these things and Now not only that But he extends the thought to saying Don't let anybody cheat you of your reward. I mean, what is our reward? It is righteousness by faith. It's You know, we have been justified by simple faith in Christ So don't let somebody rob you of that reward and You know now he's talking about something else he's talking about false humility, you know, you're trying to do things that kind of Make your make a show of humility like oh, I'm so humble. I'm not whatever however that expression would be You know in different cultures and different practices people do different things to just pretend or show I'm so being so humble before God And he also says worship of angels and including things which he has not seen that means Getting into some spiritual things here Right, so they would say like oh an angel came and appeared to me and gave me this message Or I had you know the spiritual experience or supernatural encounter So on and so forth So he says don't bring yourself under some Somebody else's spiritual experience which they claim to have had Whether an angelic visitation so on So here's another thing we need to be careful of Right don't come don't come into bondage To these kinds of things So for example, you know, some person may stand up and say well an angel came and told me This this this or Jesus appeared to me and told me this this this therefore I want everybody to do this Well, you don't have to Maybe an angel did appear to him. Maybe the Lord did appear to him but That's good for him But for us we have to follow the written word of God so Don't bring yourself in subjection to what somebody else claimed As their spiritual experience, of course, we can listen to it. We can discern if that is right or wrong If there is something good in it and if it's a genuine experience and there's something good in it We can be attention to it But we are not subjected to it. I don't have to obey or listen to somebody else's spiritual experience We live by the written word of God live by God's word and live by what the Holy Spirit is leading you to do Okay, so uh, he says sometimes people could just be puffed up by their own minds But instead what should we do? We should hold fast to the head. That means, you know, you you just hold on to Jesus Don't give yourself over to these kinds of things. You just hold on to Jesus. He's the head there And from him we're all receiving increase that's from God So, you know your source of increase Your source of growth comes by holding on to Jesus Doesn't come by all these kinds of practices that he has mentioned, you know, whether it's observing food or drink or festival or You know, uh, false humility or you know worship coming under or somebody else's spiritual experience No, none of those things are going to bring increase. Where are we going to get increased from when we hold fast to Jesus? And we are nourished from what comes from God that will give increase So he says now he's continuing. So in when we died with Christ We also died from the basic principles of this world that means, you know All the things that the world says don't do and don't do right All these regulations and and we we would call them superstitions Ideas, you know, don't do this. Don't do that, you know So so that these basic principles of the world or regulations these man-made rituals man-made ideas superstitions You know, she says look when we died with Christ, we were separated from all these things And all these things are just the doctrines of men the commandments and doctrines When the man says don't do this man says do this, you know, so don't you're not subject to that Because you know, they appear religious There's you know, some form of self-imposed religion and false humility neglect of the body But there is no value in getting rid of the things of the flesh Right. So the essence of what he's saying here in this whole passage is Look, we are free From all these man-made things We just have to hold on to Jesus and we receive the increase that comes from God And don't come into bondage or in subjection to all these man-made things You know, um Many of these things are repeated elsewhere in Titus. He says You know, uh, rebuke the believer sharply so that they could be sound to the faith and don't give E to Jewish fables and commandments of men You know, so there again is telling them don't get into all these Jewish Fables and stories and commandments of men, right? So Uh, this is summoning what I said, you know, we are free from all these festivals new moon sabbots Don't bring yourself into bondage to somebody else's spiritual encounters. Don't come under cultural superstitions So what should we do? Well, like we read in Galatians 5 1 we must stand fast in the liberty Which we have in jesus. So don't bring yourself in subjection to these things unnecessary. It's just a bondage right, whether it's the law whether it's these man-made rituals Or whether it's the observances of feasts and other things, you know, don't bring yourself in bondage to that Many christians unnecessarily put themselves there. Oh, I'm going to do this from now on from now on every year. I'll observe this Um, you know this particular festival or observe this thing and they put themselves in bondage Don't do that be free You can worship God in the spirit. You can worship God anytime anywhere If you want to take a few days and make it special between you and God that's up to you But don't put yourself in bondage But at the same time in that same episode to the Galatians Paul also gives instructions and I just want to spend a few moments on that Let's please read Galatians 5 13 and 14. Can somebody read that for us, please Galatians chapter 5 13 and 14 for you brethren have been called to liberty Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh But through love serve one another For all the law is fulfilled in one word even in this you shall love your neighbor as yourself Thank you So now what Paul is saying says now he says brethren Look, we have liberty All right, we've been called to liberty. So in Jesus We have liberty. We're free from all these things But he says be careful Don't use your liberty As an opportunity for the flesh that means for your own indulgences To just to satisfy the flesh meaning your own Cravings and desires that are not wrong that are wrong Don't use your freedom to satisfy your own flesh So the flesh would give rise to you know Hatred it would give rise to strife and competition and jealousy and apollists all these things later on So he says, you know Don't do those things. So we have freedom But this freedom doesn't mean I can just go and do whatever my flesh wants How will I know it's a work of the flesh see the fruit Is it Causing strife? Is it causing hatred? Is it causing Jealousy or what have all those things? So We have liberty but our liberty is not to be used to Do the things of the flesh instead. He says you walk and laugh So through love self so What is uh, what is a guiding principle here We have freedom but Our love towards others overrides our the exercise of freedom Right, so I like to say it like this our freedom ends where love begins That means I have freedom. Of course. I can do what I want but My love for the other person for people around me Overrides the exercise of my Freedom which means I'm willing to restrain the exercise of my freedom In order to love somebody Because of love for somebody So that's the first guiding truth of principle We have freedom, but we don't misuse our freedom we let love Overwrite The exercise of freedom and and when you walk in love. He says, you know what? You will fulfill the whole of the law For all the law the entire law that is the 10 commandments and Everything Moses gave the entirety the law is fulfilled in one word It's just love your neighbor Right, so that's the essence of what God wants us to walk in you know, so similarly We must you know obey civic authority Right, so we all have freedom But our freedom ends when there is God appointed authority that we have to listen to You know and we we are familiar with these scriptures here in Romans 13 You know, could somebody just read this for us? We will just get a picture Romans 13 was one to seven Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities For there is no authority except from God and the authorities that are appointed by God Therefore whoever rests the authority rests the ordinance of God and those who rests will bring judgment on themselves For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same for he is God's minister to you for good But if you do evil be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain For he is God's minister and avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil Therefore you must be subject not only because of wrath but also for conscience sake For because of this you also pay taxes for they are God's ministers attending Continuously to this very thing Render therefore to all their due taxes to whom taxes are due customs to whom customs Fear to whom fear honor to whom honor Thank you. So We have freedom But the bible is telling us. Okay. You've got to obey governing authorities Now he didn't say, you know obey governing authorities only if they are Good people or bad people in fact, you know Romans, you know Paul is writing to the believers at Rome and at that time Rome was governed by these Roman authorities who were totally What is a hidden meaning they'd had no concern about God or any of that they were You know, you would just say Terrible people But they were the ones who are ruling and Paul is writing to the believers in Rome and he says look you be subject to the authority there right, so That's it. You know whoever is is an authority government civil authority. We're talking about As believers, we just subjected we submit to them honoring them as honoring God And you know, we do whatever whatever we're supposed to do as citizens of the country We pay taxes and we give honor to him honor is due Uh, so so my freedom takes us my freedom ends when it comes to you know, very very very The law of the land begins. So I have to submit to the law of the land similarly We we have to honor all people. So first Peter 2 17 He says honor all people love the brotherhood fear God honor the king So here again, he's saying, you know those days, of course they had kings And people in those those kinds of authority and he says you honor the king And you honor all people. So that means I do have freedom but The exercise of my freedom Is subject to my honoring the people so I put them ahead of me Right. So of course, I'm free But we honor the same thing in in talking about, you know Working or in employment. So, you know, we those days they had what revered was born servants today We will we will talk about employees versus managers or employers and here again you know We We do whatever, you know, we have to do as Employees in wherever we are working in the organizations we are working and We do it as to the lord And as knowing that, you know, we will receive our reward from God. So again the honor our Employees or managers, right? So Or what I want to emphasize is that here I'm just talking about here is that we shouldn't misuse our freedom But our freedom is governed by love It's governed by honor. Like we said it's also governed by our respect for other people and Just one more thought here on on the exercise of our freedom is Paul writes about this in Romans 14 1 through 9 I think it's a nice passage to read it read Romans 14 1 through 9 can somebody just it's a long passage but just If you read it, if you can read it for us, then I will just try to sum things up Romans 14 1 to 9 Romans 14 1 to 9 receive one who is weak in the faith But not to dispute over doubting things For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat And let not him who does not eat judge him who eats For God has received him Who are you to judge another servant to his own master? He stands or falls indeed. He will be made to stand For God is able to make him stand One person esteems one day above another another esteems every day alike Let each be fully convinced in his own mind He who observes the day observes it to the Lord and he who does not observe the day to the Lord He does not observe it He who eats eats to the Lord for he gives God thanks and he who does not eat To the Lord he does not eat and gives God thanks For none of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself For if we live we live to the Lord and if we die we die to the Lord therefore Whether we live or die we are the Lord's For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again that he might be Lord of both The dead and the living Thank you So, you know in Romans 14 all is saying look Uh, there may be somebody who's weak in the faith, you know, they just come and you newly Uh, and and you receive them, but don't get into dispute or debates with them over doubtful things That means these things don't matter at all. They're doubtful things. They are unimportant things And what does he talk about? He's really talking about what you're eating And he's talking about observing days you know So He says look all these things are doubtful things. Don't don't waste your time. They don't matter at all Some people eat everything Some people eat only vegetables Okay, that's you know, if you want to eat you eat if you don't want to eat You know meats and all that's okay Some people for them every day is the same And there are others who you know, they want to observe a certain day and do something special Okay, it's up to them Right. The basic thing is let each one be fully convinced in his own mind. You make up your mind How you want to you know about what you want to eat and not eat or Which day is special for you? It's up to you Right. And whatever you do Do it to the lord. You say lord, I'm doing this for you. I'm doing this to honor you and so on But don't judge somebody else right, so This is in uh, roman's the 14th chapter. So the we are free right what you want to eat How you want to you know worship god of which day you want to worship god? It's up to you and then in the same Romans 14 Later on in the same chapter He then says look If something i'm going to eat causes this weaker brother to stumble Then for his sake, I won't eat That means I have the freedom to eat whatever I want But I am more concerned about the well-being of my brother right if Me eating meat is going to keep that brother away from Coming to the lord Then I'm willing to give up My eating meat in order that he may come to the lord Right. This is later in Romans 14 So basically what paul is saying is For me the well-being of the other brother I mean if such a situation would arise the well-being of that brother is more important to me exercising my freedom In what I can eat So he's putting that As as an indicator and the same thing here in first Corinthians eight In talking about things offered to idols. He says, you know We're not afraid of eating food offered to an idol Right It's just food food doesn't come in dust god, you know So just because you eat a food offered to idol doesn't make you better or worse. That's nothing But he says I won't eat it When I know that it's been offered to an idol. I won't eat it Because I don't want somebody else especially a weak brother I'm just summarizing this passage. I don't want a weak brother to think that i'm worshiping the idol Right. So, you know, if a food has gone inside a temple and come out and they've done some whatever, you know thing over that food You know paul's the prospectivist. Look, it's just food It doesn't matter to me, but I'm not going to eat it why Because I don't want somebody else to think that I'm worshiping that idol I'm not worshiping the idol right, so He says So I don't want to offend The other brother, right? So food makes my brother stumble. I never eat meat. Let's make my brother stumble So while we have freedom to eat whatever we Put the well-being of the other person More important than the exercise of our freedom and lastly paul says, you know, though I am in the first quarantine is nine 19 to 23 He says though I am free from all men I make myself a servant to all that I might win people to christ. So here's another aspect We are all we all have freedom But there are times when we choose to refrain the exercise of our freedom or even you know Get into situations that make us What to say What not so free In order to we be able to win people to christ So that's what paul says in first quarantine is nine 19 to 23 says though. I'm free from all I make myself a servant to all that I might win the more Okay, so just to sum up what I wanted to get across here is this Look, we have freedom in christ We are free like we said. I'm just going back to the top of this these notes here Just to quickly review We are free from bondage to the law We are free from these meaningless rituals that were proposed that were put forward by the law We are also free from man-made ideas You don't have to keep any of those What we do is we worship god and the spirit And we need to stand firm in our freedom But at the same time we don't misuse our freedom We let love overwrite our freedom We let honor Towards others We honor people we honor civil authority and so on We place the well-being of others More important than our freedom And uh Sometimes we let go of our liberty so that we can touch other people We can bless other people with the gospel So we willingly sacrifice our personal freedom For the benefit of somebody else So that they too can be free in christ But when we sacrifice our freedom remember We are free in our spirits We are now never in bondage, we are completely free So that's uh this lesson lesson number eight Uh uh we can take up any questions on this Yes, sanny, please go ahead Um so I just want to know, I know it says in terms of the Sabbath that says under the law But what about on Sundays? I know a lot of people go to church on Sundays And they kind of have it like a day of rest Is that kind of under a law? But I also want to let you are saying that you can choose Aided, she wants, I'm kind of confused Yeah, so, so when we come to that, I just want to say that So when we came into the new testament Uh, we were free from keeping the Sabbaths So what happened is the church, the early church, you will find this As the church, uh, so initially they, you know, the The Jews were used to keeping Sabbath. I once the church was started They began to do it on the first day of the week Now when exactly they made the shift, we don't know But we do see it in Paul's writings That he says, you know, on the first day of the week when you all come together So they started doing it and Also May probably because that was the resurrection day the day the lord Rows up. So the first day of the week someday became The day when believers would come together And uh and and and uh, let me just give you this verse here Um When they would all gather together for worship and so on. Okay Um, I can currentians after I'm trying to recall this verse here. Um, just can't get it to my mind right now Um Eight then he says when I come So there be no offerings Yeah Okay 27 Let me just go there Yeah, I know he writes about this in currentians. I was looking for that passage in currentians um acts 27 Which verse was this That's the 20th chapter 7th verse Oh x 20 and we're sorry. Okay. Good. Good. Yeah. So acts 20 and verse 7 is an example Where it says here on the first day of the week The disciples came together to break bread. All right, so Thank you so We see that you know at some point and then also in First Corinthians chapter 16 and verse 2 First Corinthians 16 verse 2 pulses on the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside So this practice of you know, they moved to keeping the Sunday the first day of the week So now in different parts of the world people gather differently. For instance, even here In India Certain congregation like the Nepali church Our our Nepali church used to meet on Tuesdays They still have the service on Tuesday simply because that was the day many of the people got off from work So church happened for them on Tuesdays in the Middle East My church happens on Fridays Because that's the day they get off from work So, you know, so, you know different parts of the world you will see that Many people meet on Sundays, but Some places they meet on Tuesdays some people they play meet on Fridays But the point is that's when you know, believers have the day off from work So that's when they gather together for worship and it doesn't matter You know, whatever it works. The point is for us to come together to worship God Okay, so what about if you just want to just rest and not Do anything is that kind of because that's what weren't they kind of doing that? under the federal law like sabbath not doing anything is that kind of like being under the law too No, that's a good thing I mean that was the whole purpose of the Sabbath meaning for you for us to rest and focus on God Right, so the day the Sabbath was given so that people could rest and then focus on God So, you know, which were the other week somebody wants to keep it as their Sabbath is fine And they take that day to rest And focus on God and worship God and you know, father believers are gathering together together with believers and worship God So it's fine. Which were day of the week and you do it to rest Yeah Okay, thank you Okay, let's take one last timer's up already had to get That's what I was asking was to follow that even if you don't believe in honor, should we do it? Think one family strikes the witchcraft not so sure they'll tell us not to eat anything from there You gotta be kind of refused food. So to honor our parents and those we shouldn't eat or to honor the family We can eat Yeah Yeah, so The question here is whom do you want to honor? Do you want to honor? Uh, family members, so do you want to honor? Do you honor Parents so to honor our parents and us from honor the fan we can eat Yeah, I think this is you see so my my response would be do whatever you're comfortable Yeah Do whatever you're comfortable There is no restriction in eating the food. Just bless it and eat it And there is no fear. So don't do anything out of fear, you know To do whatever you're comfortable do it out of faith. Don't do it out of fear And you know, whoever you feel you should honor honor them Walk and love Okay All right Okay We could maybe pick it up again next week. I know we really run out of time. So I'm not You know, we can take up more questions next week. Okay. So john if you want to bring this question up again next week We will do it. Okay, please Sure. Thank you. Let's close in prayer. I don't want to delay the next class But somebody just just say a quick word of prayer and then dismiss us, please Can I pray go ahead go ahead? Thank you lord Thank you for this wonderful session father lord to help us understand all the freedom that you have A purchase for us father lord. So you help us father that we do not get entangled in Regulations father lord that people try to impose on us father lord as well as as we are Learned father lord let our freedom father lord Help us exercise our freedom In a manner that we consider others as well father lord that we Honor and obey and respect father the authorities father lord the other person higher Lord with a high regard father lord I pray that you help us to walk in love and be led by the spirit lord in all these things We pray in the name of our lord and see you Jesus christ Amen, thank you All right, everyone. Thank you Think about this if you have any questions that come up. We will definitely take it up next week. Okay God bless you all take a quick break and we'll head to our next classes. Thank you. Bye now Thank you