 Okay, I just want to read from Luke 5. Okay, there's something that we know, an incident that happened in the life of Jesus as he's ministering, Luke chapter 5 and verses 4 and 5. Okay, so when he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. But Simon answered and said to him, Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net. Okay, so we all know the back story to all this that Simon Peter and his friends, they're fishing all night, they catch nothing. They come to, you know, the Lord Jesus is there and he's been preaching, ministering and he says, he uses Simon's boat to get into the water and then speak and then he gives this instruction again. He asked him to do something which Simon had done before but it was, which means he had toiled all night, he had done something out of his experience, out of his ability and the Lord is asking him to do the same thing again, but this time it's coming from him. And then the difference is that here there is a boatload of catch and it says here in verse 6, they caught a great number of fish and then it was breaking. So for us, something to take back is that maybe the Lord is, I don't know, the Lord is instructing us or leading us to do something that maybe we didn't fail. We didn't fail earlier we did it in our own strength, in our own ability, maybe we did it, maybe without including the Lord in it, without his wisdom, without his leading, but maybe the Lord is leading us to do something and our natural reasoning and logic is just resisting it completely because our experience says this is not working, this will not work or you've done it before and I failed in it so I don't think I should ever get into it. But here's the Lord and it is coming from him, the instruction. So for us to discern, is the Lord leading me? Is the Lord leading me to do certain things that I was involved in but without much success and effort because the Lord was not in it, maybe out of my good intention I got into it but then I was not successful. So to ask ourselves what is the Lord leading us into? What is the Lord taking us into and instructing us saying you do those things but this time it's different because he is with us, this time it's different because his word has come, a quickened word has come. So it's good to ask us what is the Lord leading us into, taking us into where my mind is rejecting that because of my experience, my mind is saying I had a failure in that, it could be ministry, it could be maybe an area of ministry, it could be preaching, teaching, it could be ministering in prayer and healing, whatever. We're saying that I did it but I was not successful in it, I was not fruitful in it so I'm never ever going to do that again, maybe you just said I'm not going to do that again, I'm tired, I don't want to get to that again but the Lord is leading in this time, it is the Lord's leading. His word which is coming to us and maybe the Lord is leading us into it. So like Peter if we would say yes Lord, I've done it, I was very unsuccessful but since you are asking me, so which means that we discern, we hear His voice, we discern and we obey and say Lord, since you are asking, so to make sure is the Lord asking, is the Lord leading, since you are asking I will do it. So let's just pray and ask the Lord, what is it that you are, if there is something in our life like that, to really discern and say Lord, if it is you, yeah I will do it and I know that it will be a good thing and for your glory because it will be fruitful. So let's pray. Father we thank you for this day Lord, even as we come to this day into your mighty hands, we thank you that you are the Lord of heaven and earth. Lord we thank you that you know our past, our present and our future God. We know that Lord you want us to live our lives and not tied down to our past Lord, our past failures or past experiences Lord which didn't work out. So Lord you don't want us to take that into the future and Lord even as you are in the future, even as you are the one who's leading us Lord, we pray and ask for sensitivity in our spirit right now. Lord we pray and ask that our years will be open Lord to the voice of the shepherd. Lord we ask that even as you lead us Lord, Lord even as you instruct us and specific things to sometimes go back and do those things which we did earlier, but Lord this time it's different because it's your word, it's your instruction which is leading us and Lord we pray that maybe experience the power, maybe experience the power of the truth of your instruction God and yes Lord and I just pray that even as you lead us into those things God we pray that it'll be wonderful, it'll be glorious and bringing glory and honor to your name Lord. Yes Master we thank you in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay let's do a quick thing. So last class we were talking about communication and how important it is to know our audience like the life orientation to whatever extent possible. So if we do that then we are going to be even more well prepared and also it's going to be a little more effective than when you go in totally unprepared or when you go in not knowing who the audience is like especially when it comes to maybe their age group maybe their life orientation etc. Okay so let's continue with that and let's I think we're looking at the last one right. Yeah so about communication. So communication what it does is it evokes something evokes means it draws out something like in us okay what is it evoke it evokes certain reactions right that's for sure okay because I'm sure you've heard of you know now with social media there's a lot of motivational talks inspiring talks right and you hear those clips and it's you know all these words evoke certain emotions out of us like draw out or stir up certain emotions right. So words are powerful words inspire words also break down right word can discourage break down completely so words are powerful and we need to understand that right and when we use words rightly when we use a language rightly it it will actually it'll be a powerful instrument right but we can misuse words also right like some of the people did in the past you know like some world leaders so they misused words in order to stir up they can actually stir up rebellion stir up hatred enmity right they can misuse that manipulate people's emotions with words right so that is very possible unfortunately in ministry also you know people use words in order to either to force intimidate create fear or manipulate you know draw on people's emotions and cause them to do certain things right we need to be mindful of that you know am I my words have power and and I'm communicating something so you know to be mindful of that one scripture that we can look at which talks about that Ephesians 4 right Ephesians 4 and verse is it 28 or 29 okay Ephesians 4 29 okay it says let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth but what is good for necessary edification that it may impart grace to the hearers oh we've we've seen this verse before right let know unedifying talk unwholesome word or corrupt word proceed out of your mouth but what is good for edification necessary edification okay so what is necessary edification something that builds up the hearer right so something that is constructive something that builds and that it may impart grace to the hearer what is grace unmerited favor what else okay but okay I think that's unmerited favor okay but grace also means enablement yeah strength strength or empowerment it's divine enablement right we say you know about the gifts of the spirit these are gifts of grace here is right so gifts of grace so they are it's divine enablement divine empowerment so what you know what Paul is saying is that when you use the right words it's going to bring an impartation of grace at divine enablement right especially when you're handling scripture and when you're communicating the truth of God's word God confirms it and there is a divine enablement empowerment strength that comes to the hearer okay and that's why you know the declaration of God's word right when we're declaring the truth of God's word right these are wholesome words this is the truth and it brings an impartation of grace to the hearer okay so the opposite can happen you hear negative words over and over and over again you're speaking negative words over you know over ourselves over others there's an there's a the opposite of that that's happening right it's breaking down it's tearing down people's self-esteem it's bringing fear it's breaking people's confidence all that can happen right so the thing is this when we communicate it evokes or draws out one thing can be you know effective meanings or cognitive meanings others which means that effective means modes and feelings and emotions cognitive you know people are informed there's learning there's wisdom so it produces that in people so communication is powerful right communication is powerful so especially when you are handling the word of God and speaking the word of God you know it brings about so much hope so much and and it's not wishful thinking right it's not just hope for the sake of okay now I'm feeling good and tomorrow I'll feel bad I'll come back again and feel good no it's not like that right it's it's it's something powerful that will change the circumstance right we go and do certain things in line with the word just like how we read in look chapter 5 that it changes when we act on when we obey it's we see the power or experience the miraculous power of the truth of God's word okay so we so we looked at communication we looked at it being it's two ways it's send and we look at some of the elements of communication so it's good for us to have this understanding okay even as you are you know if some of us are going to be maybe doing this you know preaching etc so so for us to understand this okay so we won't make the same let's say mistakes that you know when we we heard those you know things yesterday right in last class about how those people are just saying okay we're just going to spread the words because you know sow the seed or throw the seed if it falls on good ground it's fine otherwise it's okay so we won't make that mistake you know we'll be intentional and remove all the unnecessary things which are which act like barriers right so why are we doing it so that we can be more eloquent and articulate that's not the point right we're doing it so that we can remove every hindrance from people or hindrance you know barriers that hinder people from actually receiving the word of God so that's the intent of you know understanding this it's not to make us look good or make us you know sound eloquent and articulate and all that it is so that we can remove all barriers so people can receive the word that is preached clearly without any you know as it is there are so many things cultural barriers you know the way it's perceived you say something it produces different meaning in people they understand things all that is there so why should we add to the barriers why should we add to the hindrance right okay so let's look at the functions of language I'll just present the notes right okay so functions of language one it's in it informs okay when you when you use language when you either in written whatever form it informs people okay so people are you know taken from a place of maybe ignorance to being informed you know that's what happens when you read something read a newspaper or read an article you are informed okay so with the use of language we are informing people secondly it is it can be interrogative what does that mean interrogation you get information right you ask questions and maybe in the form of an interview you ask questions in the form of surveys you can get information thirdly it's directive meaning giving instruction giving orders so you see you know these are different things but it's the same language or the same words or same words in the sense the words are being used for the same purpose our different purposes right so either report something we get information we can give instructions and of course it's very expressive you know language enables us to express our emotions our feelings right in other words give vent to our feelings right so what is what you are feeling inside you're able to express or what you are excited about you're able to express what you are sad about you're able to express right so these are some basic things but language enables us to do that right what is the last one last one evocative meaning that it like we saw earlier it creates emotions in people and that's why you know when you combine words with melody or lyrics with melody it's very powerful in the form of a song right in the form of a tune it's powerful to the extent that yeah you know it goes slips beyond your conscious thinking or mind where you know sometimes you just find yourself humming a tune you're not able to get that out of your mind that you heard it somewhere or somebody just hummed it or you heard it on the you know on the bus or something it was being played and you're trying so hard to get it out but it's there you know just going repeating over and over again so it's it's so powerful when you create words with melody right okay let's move on let's look at homolytics in the bible okay so now all this thing of preparing delivering a message right so was is it there in the bible you know is it there in scripture does it have a scriptural backing or is it something that you know the seminaries you know came up with yet another subject to add you know homolytics we see that in the bible when we read through the the Old Testament and the New Testament we see that people actually they were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write but because of their experience or learnings we see that the use of language the use of picturesque language or illustrations and metaphors right they use that in the in in the pages of scripture we see that right especially in the prophetic books and also when we look at books like Proverbs Ecclesiastes we see a lot of that lot of the tools of the language right for example we see metaphors we see idioms and phrases let's let's look at a few you know certain certain usages are there in scripture okay let's look at Proverbs 2 and verse 7 7 and 8 so 7 probably okay he stores up sound wisdom for the upright okay he's talking about the Lord he stores up strong sound wisdom for the upright he is a shield to those who walk uprightly okay now what does that mean he is a shield it's a yeah but how so the usage is that it is you know it is a metaphor like is the Lord is he like a shield no so we you know it's the little thing is that right but the because we're using a figure of speech so he is a shield so whatever the shield does the functions of the shield the Lord does that's all it means so but you see that in Proverbs you see that okay another place you know this is a usage let's say Proverbs 6 and verse 16 these six things the Lord hates yes seven are an abomination to him okay so they list down seven things proud look lying tongue hands that etc but it starts by it's a usage you know it's just a the manner of speaking like these six things the Lord hates the seven are an abomination okay so we see things like that right through scripture Proverbs and also in Ecclesiastes where the words are used to literally paint a picture like in Ecclesiastes what we read actually is four I think where we say yeah four and verse 12 right though one may be oped by another two can withstand him and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken right so immediately creates that picture of a cord a rope with those three strands right it's not quickly broken etc so we see that this kind of usage is there in scripture we see it in the in Proverbs and Proverbs 25 11 like apples of gold in settings of silver okay can you just picture that right apples of gold in settings of silver golden apples in a silver like a platter right is a word spoken in right circumstances etc right so so well yes they were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write it but we see all this all these figures of speech and all these tools of language in use there okay and yesterday we were looking at like the stories the power of stories and how stories can really communicate and the Lord Jesus when he taught he uses you know the parables very powerfully and we after you know like two millennia or so it is still making sense to us we are still teaching it right we are still studying it and its source of strength to us of course it is eternal word of God but you see those stories so simple earthly in nature practical in nature but conveying you know very deep spiritual truth very significant spiritual truth right so the Lord uses you know so much of you know these tools of language you know for example if you look at point three in the notes it talks about defense okay so using reasons and using you know statements to defend one's point argument what is an argument our understanding of argument could be you know you're angrily fighting about something right that's that is it that's part of it but then argument is also reasonings or you know a list of reasonings which you present in order to prove something right like for example advocate would argue for the case right what does that mean that is going to present you know one two three four five things why this person is innocent or why this person is you know guilty right so an argument it just means a list of you know statements or reasonings right logic we understand that you know something practical something that makes sense explanation illustrations what are illustrations examples so it could be a story it could be a you know it could be something that you use in order to explain a point right you want to explain salvation and you use an illustration explain faith how faith works you use an illustration okay parables we saw what are metaphors really see metaphor you see we just read just now yeah we read just now no the Lord is a shield in battle he's a shield to all those who so which means that it is a it is an expression which describes the attribute of a person right so he was a lion in battle what does that mean he was fierce and brave and in battle it was lion in battle right yeah so and and other things like sorry what are you saying Anand it's like tag yeah maybe you can use it as a tag but yeah it actually describes the character of a person right okay so so the Lord used all that and and then people when they heard it even the ones the you know the the guards who have sent the temple guards were sent to arrest him they said they came back seven saying that no one spoke like this you've never heard anyone speak like this before right so so so powerful was this communication must have been simple so everybody heard everybody could you know recall but it must have been very very powerful they said nobody spoke like him right okay then we also see some some sermons in the Bible right the first one we can look at Acts chapter 2 okay Acts chapter 2 the New Testament church is born right the people are filled with the Holy Spirit and Acts chapter 2 and verse 14 Peter's delivering the message right he stands up a racist voice and he says men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem let this be known to you and heed my words okay and he gives a defense first of all you know the reasonings these are not drunk and then he goes on to refer to some of the scriptures that they were familiar with this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel okay and then he goes on and and then he ends with a for the with an altar call right repent let every one of you be baptized we see that in verse 38 for this promises to you and to your children and all who are far off as long as as as many as are Lord our God will call okay so what are some observations that you can you can make from this from this message what are some things when you when you read through maybe you as you read through we can take some time to read read through this and what are some things that you can just observe you know learn from reading this right we are looking at Acts chapter 2 okay online students also accepted to 14 to 39 right let me just put it on the chat are your questioners in what way whatever whatever you're observing from this message so this is a message this is sermon so what do we learn what do we learn from this you can think in terms of okay his speaking style maybe about Peter what do you what do you learn from this sermon okay he was very bold scriptures right so we understand something about Peter that he was bold he stood up he took the initiative and yeah he was very timid he didn't want to confront he ran away and now we see he's filled with the Holy Spirit okay maybe that's first thing that we can you know he was filled with the Holy Spirit empowered by the Spirit of God and he stands up bold and he makes this declaration okay that's one thing yeah he's yeah so that's a yeah he's defending actually what is happening he's giving an explanation right he's giving a defense of okay this is not it but this is it okay but we also learn yeah Sean the people are not drunk as you suppose that means that most people might assume since it's nine o'clock there might be some drunkards who are doing this and all because the actions might be similar but he says not the case so he's relating to them and that's scenario two yeah so that's the first thing he starts off with right kind of explains the situation what is happening and then because that is what has drawn the people that is what the court is well that is what has caught their attention you know they're like you know what's happening all kinds of emotions they are amazed, perplexed, confused etc they're making fun so he just kind of calms them and and like Jack in is saying he's fully convinced and knows what he's speaking we kind of get to understand his understanding of the scriptures right he's directly of course the Holy Spirit is lighting everything up the Holy Spirit is giving the connection right and I'm sure that Peter himself must have been surprised wow you know I'm quoting from Joel and this is it and he must have taken notes after it but whatever you know so he just quotes from scripture you know so he's just quoting and you know he stands up and talks and he's just you know scripture is coming out right he's quoting from scripture and he's saying you know hear these ways making the connection hear these words Jesus of Nazareth a man attested by God and then goes on to explain what he did the life of Jesus and he connects with the Psalms and and then you know so his understanding his knowledge yes he was a fisherman yes he was a fish he was in the fishing business but with you know those those three years with the Lord as you know as there's been such an impartation of scripture the words and ways of God you know the Lord has been teaching he's been listening and it is the Holy Spirit is now drawing out everything that has been put in his heart right and and then he says okay verse 37 it says that when they heard this they were cut to the heart which means that they were you know fully convinced convicted and something was happening deep inside they were cut to the heart and they said you know what shall we do so you see you know we looked at you know how language produces or draws out a reaction right yeah Nina is saying it has a powerful impact on the listeners and it caused them to act it moves them to act so that's what we see in verse 37 we see they say you know men and brethren what shall we do what do you want us to do and then he goes on to tell them this is what needs to be done you know you believe and that is a great commission you know it's basically the great commission which the Lord Jesus gave you know go reach the gospel baptize them in the name of the Father Son Holy Spirit and etc and that is exactly what he says let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit the great commission and also the Lord's instruction about waiting in Jerusalem to be filled with the Holy Spirit he just puts it together and then says okay this is what you need to do okay and and then they go on and it says here that verse 42 they continued steadfastly in the apostles apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers and so on so people were added people were meeting in homes and there was some kind of preaching that is happening in the smaller or small group settings as well okay but you know this is something that we learn from or what we observe from anything else that you noticed that was expressive yeah so he was he was fully convinced convicted he was very clear about what he believed in and then so he just narrated everything you know once and for all and if you see it's very beautiful right he starts from the Old Testament scriptures about the about what has happened so about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and then he goes on to talk about okay this is why Jesus came this is what Jesus came to do and ends with you know what can happen to you right so the audience when we start when you look at so this is obviously an audience who who knew the this is a Jewish audience who knew the Jewish scriptures right so for them it it immediately makes sense right this is what is written already there in scripture this is what the psalmist this is what David said and this is what it is so for them it was easy to relate as well okay so we need to kind of understand that right okay okay so like this we see that Acts chapter 7 also there's a you know very extensive in-depth preaching and I'm quite surprised when Stephen spoke that people were actually listening right we read about Stephen we see that he was a man full of faith you know when you look at Acts chapter 6 and verse 5 a man full of faith etc and you know he went there and the Holy Spirit did many things through them right so Acts chapter 7 verse 2 it starts that he gives a very very long sermon you know they're all ready to kill him but you know he gives a they listen to the sermon and it's it starts from where does it start from starts from Abraham right what happened to Abraham and then he goes on and and talks about the Lord and and so on right so and it resulted here whatever he said it resulted in him being martyred right quite different from Peter's message right and who are the audience again the Jewish leaders right people who wanted to persecute the high priest was there and so on the others so we can say people who understood scripture again but here it's it evokes a different reaction okay so which means that yes you know the decision of the people or decision of the hearer can be you know it's their free will right they can be influenced by anything they can and but he did he conveyed what he had to convey he conveyed the truth in in all fullness right he conveyed the truth and and this was the reaction okay this was the response and they he was martyred okay so similarly we see that yes when it comes to preaching in the Bible we see that well they they had this habit of preaching either to a big audience or you know like we saw at homes they continue to you know so preaching has a place in scripture as well right and Paul also Paul Paul's ministry we look at the epistles okay let's look at a few scriptures here where Paul you know we know that Paul's emphasis was on the character of the person on the messenger okay rather than the messenger's ability but he also mentions about the ability of the person to communicate okay where do we see that you know we look at these verses 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 2 okay 1st Timothy chapter 3 and verse 2 you know these scriptures which are there in the notes page 9 I think okay so he says a bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife temperate sober minded of good behavior hospitable you know till there it's all about character but he also mentions able to teach okay so which means that that person has needs to be able to teach convey the truth teach the truth right to others okay chapter 4 verse 13 his instruction to Timothy 13 onwards give attention to reading to exhortation to doctrine okay so we can say this is actually preparation for Timothy to teach or to exhort meaning to encourage right to preach this is preparation right so you say give attention to it be intentional about it verse 14 do not neglect the gift which is given to you by laying out of hands etc verse 15 meditate on these things give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all verse 16 again take heed to yourself and to the doctrine continue in them for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you so he's talking about the teaching which means he's drawing Timothy back to the the the most important thing which is the word of God right saying you you better give attention to it right so yeah in your zeal you may want to preach minister etc but just be you know give attention to what you are from where that his whole thing is coming right what is the what is the fuel or what is the firewood that is coming you know that is based on that so he's bringing saying give attention to doctrine give attention to doctrine because again the same thing you know if you give attention to it if you give give yourself fully to it your progress there which means that you are going to you know there is there is going to be visible progress and he's saying it will be evident to all okay so everybody is going to notice that and it's going to save people your progress may be evident to all you will save both yourself and those who hear you okay so so which means that Paul had I mean Timothy had to study read prepare right all that is there which is part of preaching and preparing ones so you does it rule out spontaneous preaching no right we know that you know when you say preparation a lot goes into it it is times of sitting and you know intentionally preparing which Paul is instructing Timothy it also means you know grabbing a hold of whatever the Holy Spirit puts in your heart a revelation of maybe a word or a truth that the Holy Spirit puts in your heart you know just getting a hold of it right and it can come at a moment it can come when you are listening it can come when you are just walking can come when you are you know doing other things other mundane things maybe you're setting up cables and suddenly you know there is an inspiration that comes and you you latch on to that right so so preparation actually comes okay I'm just reading Nina Jones the place was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit because of what Peter spoke and how he had presented it acts yeah so the place was shaken actually that references when when they start praying right praying together yeah right okay so let's look at a few more scriptures first Timothy 5 verse 17 let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor especially those who labor in the word and doctrine okay what does labor mean yeah it's hard work right it's hard work which means that what picture comes to your mind when you say labor field daily wages somebody who's lifting heavy heavy stuff right yeah that's what yeah like construction Sean saying and then you know for me it comes like somebody you know I've seen people you know loading these big rice sacks or something or unloading off a truck you know big glory and they just you know holding on to this and they're fully bare-bodied they're sweating you know they there's a hook and you put there with that hook you you know hold on to that sack and then they're rolling it off it's it's heavy work it's involved sweat so what I'm saying you know let those who be counted a double honor worthy who labor in the word and doctrine so living in the word and doctrine what does it mean is it memorizing sitting and scriptures you have the word of God it means they are actually studying yeah sorry yeah carrying the load of ministry but they're also intentionally preparing learning for themselves and to minister to others right the minister to the church yeah so when they are preaching they've already prepared and come to message will be changed and then they share something else okay fine that's okay but the thing is you know I'm just pointing to the fact that about the labor that is involved you know laboring in prayer it talks about epiphrotic right they're laboring in prayer so the work that is involved preparation that is involved Bible also talks about you know the preparation of the heart belongs to man but the answer of the tongue comes from God right so there is the responsibility for me to prepare for me to you know be in the word giving attention which leads us back to you know the intent of homiletics which is preparation and the method of reaching you know so yeah just to rule out that it's it's not just always okay I just go a lot speak I open my mouth you feel it you know there is that intentionality involved right yeah yeah is there okay how does one find one style okay yeah a difference okay this is today it's this person okay what happened your tooth is okay okay so um yeah I mean easy to find a style is just be yourself see that's because if you're trying to be like someone else um yeah I mean you're going to be so we can always learn from different styles of what people preach and teach and so on we can always learn from that and so therefore we can be effective but I think God has created us uniquely and with certain ability so just you'll be comfortable right I don't know it's more conversational than um and God said you know I can do that but I can't do it for a whole you know like 30 minutes so maybe yeah so I think it's like that right so whatever you're comfortable with I mean I'm not saying there's there's nothing wrong in saying you know like going like PDJs or someone you know full sweating it out and speaking and and some people are like very just like the old time old testament prophets you know very very uh they have that preaching voice right preaching voice is different from speaking voice yeah that's fine that's fine the story itself is the point right it's a it's a truth that is conveyed that's fine that's fine while you're preaching if you feel like you're devising into something that's it might be out of the preaching line yeah I mean I'm just asking practically when you had that experience how did you you know come back and yeah it's difficult to make people think I mean you know listen to what you're saying I know God there's all that thing but you know to make them engaged to secure you know say okay and if you're diverting is there also be diverted correct so how do you bring them back yeah so so we look at that when we when we you know further on we look at that but I think yeah yeah we just need to be intense be little careful because you know sometimes you know some there are some things that you want to share that you have the story you have this experience something happened and you just we just want to share it you know and in no matter what the message is and it's something that's totally different and you feel so strongly because you like it then you want to share it and then you start sharing it and then you realize that hey this is a no way connection to the message and it's it's difficult then because you led them somewhere and then again you're saying hey come back now I'm going back and people are saying no we want to stay here right so it becomes yeah it becomes a difficult thing yeah okay so just one more scripture and then I think we'll have time for that okay so second Timothy chapter 2 and verse 2 also Paul again you know I'm sorry is it verse 2 I think it's verse 15 right verse 2 also yeah second Timothy chapter 2 verse 2 and these things you have heard from me among many witnesses commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also and I think 15 he talks about rightly dividing the word of truth so over and over again in both these episodes to Timothy who's pastoring this gathering of people so he's again drawing him back to the the word of God which is the content right and so and also the importance of spending time importance of engaging our heart filling out you know later on he says right be filled or let the word of God fill your heart etc so he the importance of being filled with the word or being rooted in the word right okay so so we'll we'll stop here and the next class we'll get into you know it's an interesting thing to to consider that the fact that one second let me just I think the relevance of preaching is what we're looking at you know is that what your note says the relevance of preaching okay now it's again something for us to consider because the glory and the relevance of preaching like in today's world where there is a lot of information there's a lot of information either through social media either through billboards so where you begin to even question you know is this really relevant today because the way people are consuming information has changed okay more and more people are shifting to digital means of you know consuming where books where there people are using maybe Kindle and ebooks and so on so so we'll just consider a few of those thoughts right next okay we'll finish here thank you thank you so much God bless