 Okay, good morning everyone. Good morning everyone. How are you all this morning? Good morning. Good morning. Did you all enjoy the morning worship time? Yes. Okay. Before we begin this morning, can somebody lead us in prayer, please? Everly Farah, we thank you, glorify your name. We bless you for this hour. Thank you for the teacher. Thank you for the students. Thank you for our family, we say, be resurrected in Jesus name. We commend this hour class into the hand for the command minister to us, yourself, through your servant. Command teachers yourself and take absolute control by the class. Thank you for answering our prayer in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Are the verses on this screen which I projected clear? Are you able to read it? Yes, Pastor. Okay, thank you. Okay, so we last week, we looked at the last bit of chapter two, where we looked at the canon of the New Testament. We looked at what were the specific tests that were used to identify which books were inspired and which were not. And hence we saw that the books that were inspired are part of the New Testament. Which is there for us today in the Bible. We also discussed that, you know, there were some, there were a lot of other writings that were prevalent during the Old and New Testament times, the inter-testamental time period. And these books were not considered to be part of the Bible. And they're called as the apocryphal writings. Sorry. They're considered as apocryphal writings. Apocrypha means hidden or something secret. And why were they not considered to be part of the Bible was because they were not inspired. They were not considered as the word of God. Because the people who wrote it, you know, were not considered as people who were spokesmen or spokeswoman of God. And hence it was not considered as the inspired word of God or the words that God had revealed to them and which they had written. It was inconsistent with the rest of biblical doctrine and biblical teachings. And hence we see that, you know, these books were not considered to be part of the canon and hence not part of the Bible. And then we ended chapter two by looking at the characteristics of God. And we moved on to chapter three and basically we answered two questions in chapter three. Does anyone remember the first question that we answered? What is the first question that we answered in chapter three? Or what did we discuss the first point that we discussed in chapter three? Yes, go ahead. Go ahead, Abu Bakr. Anyone remember? Yes. Yes. How do we know that God exists? Thank you. The first question we looked at was how do we know that God exists? Okay. So how do we know that God exists? How did we answer this question? Three things we said? Through scripture, through innocence, through creation. Thank you, John. Yes. So we said, everyone has a deep innocence that God exists. We also saw that the evidence that God exists is in his word. You know, throughout the Bible, we have evidence that there is a God and that he exists. And creation also gives us abundant evidence of God's existence. Then we looked at the traditional proofs for the existence of God. And then we went on to the second question. Anyone remembers what was the second question? We looked at? We talked about the nature of God. Okay. Thank you, John. Yes. Go ahead, Abu Bakr. Okay. We tried answering this question. What do we mean by the term nature of God? Right. So what do we mean by the nature of God? What do we mean by this term nature of God? God's characteristic attributes and qualities. Okay. Thank you, Zil-Toli. So nature of God is basically his characteristics, his attributes, and his qualities. So when we're saying his attributes, his characteristic and qualities, we're basically saying who God is and what he does. And how is God's nature revealed to us? It's revealed through his attributes and through the names of God. There are various names of God in the Bible. And so God's name and his attributes reveal his nature. We see that the word of God reveals the nature of God. Creation, all of creation reveals who God is. It reveals and speaks about the greatness, the power, and the perfection of God and his nature. And which is the best revelation of God? Or through whom do we know the exact nature of God? Through Jesus. Yes, through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the logos in flesh. The word became flesh. So Jesus Christ is the perfect expression. He's the perfect representation of the nature of God and God's true picture of who he is and what he does is revealed in the person and the work of Jesus Christ. We saw that in Hebrews chapter one, verse three. And we ended a last class by saying that God's word and his works are always consistent with his nature. That means we said that, you know, God will never say or do anything that contradicts who he is or will contradict what he has spoken or what he has done. Now, what do we mean by this? Okay. Now, for example, if I, you know, get sick with sickness, terminal sickness, say, anyone gets sick with a terminal sickness and they're a believer, you know, they can say that, you know, God is punishing them or God is, you know, using the sickness to correct them for some sin or, you know, that God does not love them. He doesn't care for them anymore. He doesn't value what they have done or they have put their trust in him. And some of them can get very angry with God. Okay. So is this true? No, that's not. Why is it not true? Because it doesn't stand consistent with the word of God. What word of God says he is, his love is everlasting. He loves us from eternity. Okay. Thank you, John. Yes. Yes. When people say such things or think such things, they always need to interpret it in the light of the word of God, and which reveals the nature of God. Now, God's nature is not to put sickness and disease. You know, God is a healer. He says, I am the God who heals you. That is his covenant name Jehovah Rafa. The Lord our healer, God our healer. So God cannot give us something that he does not really have. So is there sickness in heaven? No, there's no sickness in heaven. So God can not basically give us something that he does not have. So we can't say that God has given us the sickness, you know, maybe or got us into this accident where we broke our leg or fractured our leg and, you know, we have to rest. So God is telling me that, you know, I need to take time, take a break and just rest because I've been so busy with work or ministry or whatever. That's a wrong interpretation because God cannot do that. It's against his nature. And we can't say that God does not love me. Or, you know, he's angry with me. And so he's punishing me. You know, God's love is always consistent. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He loves us. God is love. And because God is love, it says in Van John, you know, he cannot hate. Okay. And, yeah, the different part of punishment and why we fall sick, you can, you know, you can, you will learn more about that in healing and deliverance class. But what I'm trying to say is that, you know, we, this is contradicting God's nature and we cannot speak like this. We cannot think like this. And these are lies that we believe for our self. And let me give you another example. Now, for example, we see a person who's greatly anointed by God just flowing in the gifts and when the person he or she is preaching or teaching, there's revelation just, you know, in their sermons and there's so much of in-depth revelation and deep truth that they reveal the way they teach, the mighty anointing that flows through them, that people are healed and delivered. Now, we can say that God is, you know, has chosen them, it's, you know, has anointed them with a lot of gifts than compared to me or, you know, God is very partial. Okay. Is that the right way of thinking or the right way of understanding or judging God? What do you think? No response? Well, that's not because we know that scripture tells us that it's not God's nature to be partial. Right? It's not God's nature to be partial. God bestows His gifts on everyone. When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit, each one of us receive all the nine gifts. Yes, it says that the Holy Spirit determines which gift, but does not mean that he will give five gifts to one person and he will give, you know, one or two gifts to another person. No, it's, it means that in that particular situation, when we are praying or ministering to somebody, which is the best gift that is effective to minister that the Holy Spirit will release to us. But if you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, all of us can manifest all the nine gifts of the Spirit. And we know that God is not partial. You know, He loves everybody, He'll just move. But the anointing, the level of anointing depends upon our choices and how much we choose to spend time with God, spend time in the presence of God. You know, that is the extent that, you know, the anointing and the presence of God will be released through our life. Or some people can say, you know, God is very unfair or He's very partial. He's chosen some people, you know, to know Him and they've received salvation and some people are destined to go to hell. Now, is that the truth? What do you think? Does God choose some of us to know Him and to receive salvation? Okay, no, why do you say no, John? John 316 says, God so loved the world which says He loved the entire human being, entire mankind, human race. And whosoever believed in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. So that's God's intent for us all of us to believe with Him. Yes, thank you. So first Timothy also says that it's God's good, pleasing and perfect will that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Christ Jesus. Okay, so what is God's good, pleasing and perfect will that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ? So you know, it's not that God chooses few of us for salvation, few of us, you know, to be destined to hell. No, He wants everybody to be saved. He did not create hell for us, but He created hell only for Satan, for our enemy and not for mankind. And God wants everyone to be saved. So now when we are making such statements, it's contradicting God's nature. And that is why it's so important for us to know the nature of God and whatever God does is always consistent with what He has already revealed in His Word and, you know, what He's revealed through His works. And also it is important for us to know the nature of God so that we can also know God's will in a specific situation. Sometimes we're praying on what is your will, what is your will. And God is saying, my will is so evident. This is not the person you marry. Why this is not the person you marry because this is not the person who's a believer. My word clearly states that you cannot be, you know, yoked with an unbeliever. So sometimes, you know, we are waiting to know God's will, but God's will is already revealed in His Word. And so it's important for us to know God's Word and it's important to know the nature of God so we can understand who God is and interpret things, see things in our life and also understand His will, understand the part that He's opening for us, where we need to go, what we need to do when we understand His nature. Okay, so we're going to look at some of the attributes of God and then we will look at God's names that reveal His nature. But before we look at God's names, we will look at God's attributes that reveal His nature. Now there are a lot of, if you look at your notes, course notes, there are a lot of references that I've given. We don't have time to go through all those references. So I've just put up the references on the screen. As I just mentioned, I would request you to quickly just read those references or even please take time to, you know, after class to spend time, sometimes just reading the notes and looking at all the scripture references because it's not just important for us to attend class but also for us to get a deeper knowledge of the nature of God because it's going to benefit us in our daily life to understand God, His ways, His works, and what He's doing in our lives and His will for our lives. Okay, so the first attribute of God that reveals His nature that we're going to look at is God is a creator and that He is eternal. Genesis chapter 21 verse 33 says that He is the everlasting God. Psalm 90 verse 2 says that from eternity to eternity, He is God. And so we've, you know, I've already mentioned this in the previous class that, you know, no one made God. He always existed in the previous class. We looked at it. He's self-sufficient. He's self-existent. He does not depend on anyone or anything for His existence and hence He is eternal. That means there is no beginning and there is no end. There was never a time when He was not, there never be a time when He will not be. He was always, He always is and He will always be. And unlike God, you know, we are all created beings. We have a beginning and we also have an end. Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 and 15 to 17 says that all things were created through Him, sorry, all things were created by Him, through Him and for Him. So we see that, you know, everything has its life in Jesus Christ. He created everything. Everything has life in Him and everything is sustained through Him and by Him. He's one who sustains life. He's the one who sustains everything in that we see in creation. Okay? That is Colossians chapter 1 verses 15 to 17. The next attribute of God that reveals His nature is that God is spirit. Okay? Now, when we say God is spirit, what do we mean? What do you understand by this God is spirit? Yes, go ahead. God does not have a mortal body. Okay. Thank you, John. God does not have a mortal body. Yes, go ahead, Abu Bakr. He is divine person without human body. Can you say that again, please? He's a divine, divine person without human body. He's a divine person? Yes. Okay. He's a divine person. I didn't get the latter half of it. He's a divine person without human body. Oh, thank you. Okay. He's a divine being or a divine person without a human body. Yes. Thank you. Now, how do we know that God is spirit? How do we know that? It's revealed to us in scripture. John chapter 4 verse 24 says that God is spirit and all those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Psalm 139 verses 7 to 10 says, where can I go from your spirit? So when we say that God is spirit, we mean that he does not have a natural mortal physical body like us. However, when we say that he does not have a natural mortal physical body like us, he's not some formless, jelly-like, impersonal, emotionless spirit force. He's not formless. He's not jelly-like. He's not impersonal. He's not even emotionless and he's not a spirit force. But the Bible reveals to us that God has a form that is similar to us. So the Bible says God has hands, He has eyes, He has feet. And the Bible also reveals that God has emotions. So we look at the various scripture passages that talk about this. I just picked up one. So how do we know that God has a form that He has a human body like us? He reveals Himself to us as a person. As the Bible says, He has eyes, Genesis chapter 1. It says, this phrase is repeated, again and again through this entire passage in Genesis chapter 1 where it says, and God saw all that He had made and it was very good. So God saw that means He has eyes. God also has ears. The Psalm says, the ears of the Lord are always attentive to the cry of the afflicted one. God also has feet. You know, Nahum chapter 1 verses 3 to 4. It says, the clouds are the dust of His feet. I'm just saying the latter half, the last phrase of verse 4 where it says, the clouds are the dust of His feet. And also we know that God has hands. This verse says, God has engraved us on the palm of His hands. Isaiah chapter 49 verse 16 says, see, I have engraved you on the palm of my hands. So we know that God has, as a form, that means He reveals Himself to us as a person and thus when He speaks to us, He speaks to us so that in a way that we can understand because we are all personal beings, we are all people, we have a personality, we have a form and God also reveals Himself to us in a way that we can understand Him. Okay, the Bible reveals to us that God also has feelings and emotions just like us. He loves us. 1 John chapter 4 verse 16 says that God is love. He also cares for us. 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 6 to 7 says, cast all your anxieties on Him for He cares for you. God also loves just like any other human being. Psalm 2 verse 4 says, He who sits in the heaven laughs. He weeps. Jeremiah chapter 9 verse 10 says, God said that He will weep and wail for the mountains. He's basically talking about the devastation of the land and the unfaithfulness of the people of Judah and God says He will weep and wail. We also see in a Bible that God is angered or He gets angry. Exodus chapter 32 verse 10 to 11, God says, tells Moses, now let me be alone. Let me, let then, now then let me alone that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. And we also see that He's a forgiving God where, you know, we have various scripture verses that says, you know, that God is a forgiving God. He forgives all us since He is all our diseases, His gracious and compassionate, merciful and forgiving God. Okay. So we see that God, you know, has a personality or a form. He reveals Himself to us as a person. He also has emotions. And so the Bible reveals to us that God as a spirit being, He loves and He cherishes a relationship with us. And as a spirit being, He's not somebody who's formless or He's not somebody who's emotional-less, but it's just the opposite. He's somebody who has a form and He has feelings. He has emotions. And because He has feelings and emotions, we know that He's not just some spirit being or some force that is not able to relate to us, but He loves us and He cherishes to have a relationship with each one of us. He desires to have a relationship with us. And hence, we know that this God who's a spirit being is also a very personal God. Okay. And He's described to us as our Father, as our Savior, as our friend. And the Bible also reveals to us that those who believe in Him, you know, He considers us as His sons, as His daughters, as part of His family. So here we see that God cherishes or He desires to have a relationship with us. Okay. So Bible also records at times that, you know, when God takes on physical appearance in order to communicate to man. And theologians call this as epiphany. Or also another word that is used is theophany. Okay. Now, what is epiphany? Epiphany comes from the Greek word, which means appearing or revealing. Okay. So basically, epiphany focuses on God's self-revelation in Christ. The other word that is also used is theophany. And theos, the Greek word means God. And phiny means to appear. So historically, it's been seen or been taken to refer to as the appearance of Christ in the Old Testament. So if you look at Exodus chapter, chapters 33 to 34, we see, you know, God revealing Himself, theophany, you know, where we see Christ appearing, revealing Himself, manifesting Himself. And it says there that the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. And there are various other scripture passages, you know, when the people of Israel were moving or journeying in the desert, in the wilderness, to go to the promised land, you know, God's very presence was there by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. That's the very presence of God. And that is theophany that is Jesus Christ Himself being with His people. Okay. So we see that, you know, God manifesting Himself or is the physical appearance of God in order to communicate to man something which we see in the Old Testament. And this is referred to as epiphany or theophany where God self-revelation through Jesus Christ revealed in the Old Testament. Okay. Any doubts so far? Any questions? If not, we will move on to the next attribute of God that reveals His nature. We will look at that God is omnipotent. He is omniscient and He is omnipresent. Okay. Omni means all. So omnipotent means all powerful. Omniscient means all seeing or all knowing and omnipresent means all, you know, present everywhere. Okay. So God is all powerful. He is omnipotent. Luke chapter one verse 37 is there on your screen. It says, for with God, nothing is impossible or with for God, nothing shall be impossible. We know that God is powerful all the time. God's power is limitless. It's absolutely limitless. There's nothing that He cannot do yet. He has declared that there are certain things He will not do. Now, what are the certain things He will not do? For example, He cannot be unfaithful. You know, if He's unfaithful that contradicts His nature and it cannot contradict His nature because He is God. He's a perfect being. Okay. Another thing that God said He will never do, He said He will never lie. Okay. If He lies, that contradicts His very basic nature. And another example is that He can never stop loving us. And if He stops loving us, if He hates us, that means, you know, it's, it's hitting at the very core of who He is. It says that God is love, that is who He basically is His core being, His core substance, His core essence. And so there are, you know, God is all powerful. He can do anything and everything. But He will not, you know, there are certain things that He will not do. He cannot be unfaithful. He can never lie. He can never stop loving. The things that He will not do are things that will contradict His nature. Okay. And when He does not do certain things, it's because He's contradicting or contrary to His characteristic and to His nature. Now, an important thing to note is that God's power is released through His. How is God's power released? Anyone? Is that on your screen? Hebrews chapter 4 was 12. How is God's power released? Through His Word. Yes, through His Word. Thank you. God's power is released through His Word. We know that God's Word is active and powerful and living. And God's Word that He spoke is powerful. So even when we declare the spoken Word of God in Scripture, whether it is His promises, what He said He will do, or we declare His covenant names over our lives, you know, it is powerful and God will bring it about. It will be an yes and amen because God cannot go back on His Word. You know, God is not a man that He can lie. God is not a man that He would, you know, He would change His mind. And what He has said, He will surely do. Okay. So the first aspect we looked at is, you know, in the attribute of God, which comes to the third one, but in the omnipotent part of it is that He is all powerful. He is omnipotent. The next one is He is omniscient. That means He sees everything. He knows everything. Let me just put up the next. Psalms chapter 147 verse 5 says His understanding is infinite. It has no limit. Isaiah chapter 46 verse 9 and 10 says, you know, He declares, God declares the end from the beginning. That means He knows everything. He knows the beginning. He knows what's going to happen. And He knows what is going to happen in the end. So He knows everything. That means He's omniscient. He knows everything. He sees everything. There's nothing that that's happening in your life that God does not know, that God does not see. Okay. He's also omnipresent. That means He is present everywhere. Jeremiah chapter 23 verses 23 to 24. It's there on your screen. The latter half of it in verse 24, God says, the Lord says, can anyone hide Himself in secret places so I shall not see Him, says the Lord? Do I not fill heaven and earth, says the Lord? So, you know, He's there everywhere. The psalmist also declares that in Psalm 139 verse 7 says, where can I go from your spirit? You know, where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I go down to the, make my depth, bed in the depths of the earth, even there, your presence is there. And if I settle on the far end of the sea, even there your hand will guide me and lead me. Okay. So wherever we are, whether the bottom of the ocean or on top of the highest peak, you know, mountain peak in the world, you know, the furthest part of the world, you know, even there God is with us. He's present everywhere. Okay. That means God is omnipresent. So the three things that we saw was God is omnipotent. He's all powerful. He's omnicent. He knows everything. He sees everything. He's omnipresent. He's present everywhere. Now, the sixth attribute of God that reveals His nature is that He is triune. He's a triune God. What do we mean by saying that He's a triune God? Triune God? Three persons in one. Okay. One God in three persons. Thank you, Joy. So, how did God reveal Himself in three persons? Who are the three persons of the Trinity? Okay. Go ahead, Joy. The Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Thank you. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Where do we see Trinity? Is Trinity mentioned in Scripture? Yes, no. Is Trinity mentioned in Scripture? Yes, ma'am. Yes. Thank you. Where is it mentioned in Scripture? At the time of creation. Genesis. Okay. What does it say there? It says, let us make man in our image. If it was just a singular, it would say, let me make man in my image. But it says, let us make man in our image. We also see Trinity in action or Trinity mentioned at the baptism of Jesus. Yes. Matthew chapter 3 verses 16 to 17. Let me just project that. Matthew chapter 3 verses 16 to 17. Where it says, as soon as Jesus was baptized and He came out of the water, at that moment heaven opened and they saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and a lighting on Him and a voice from heaven said, this is my Son whom I love, with Him I am well pleased. So here we see Jesus. We see, you know, God the Holy Spirit and we see or we hear the voice of God, the Father. Okay. And there are the places also where Trinity is mentioned. Jesus says, baptized in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We look at Trinity in detail. It's a whole chapter. So we'll be studying that in detail. We'll just move on. So we see that God the Father, we know that God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are eternal. They're co-equal and all three are to be worshiped because all three are God and they are one. Okay. So the Bible presents this fact about this triune God and does not give us any systematic explanation about how, you know, one God, you know, revealed Himself in three persons or how three persons are in one. Okay. So there is no systematic explanation. It's just revealed to us and so we accept it and believe it by faith and we see them, you know, working in unity, in oneness. And the important truth for us to know is all three are God. There are no three gods, but they are one who revealed in three persons. And all of them have the same essence, the same being, the nature, the characteristic of what makes God God. So they are all eternal. They're co-equal and all of all three are to be worshiped. Now, if we understand, we want to understand Trinity. We can understand it in this way that each person of the Godhead work as one in unity and harmony. But, you know, they have different roles in terms of the Father represents the wisdom of the Godhead. He conceives things. He plans things. The Son represents the authority of the Godhead. That means He commands. He speaks. He said, let there be and there was. And the Spirit, the Holy Spirit represents the power of the Godhead. That means He creates. He brings about the spoken word of God. So God the Father conceives. God, the Son is somebody who is the authority of the Godhead. He commands things. And God, the Holy Spirit is the one who represents the power of the Godhead. And He brings things about. He creates. Okay. So that is about the Triune God. We'll study Trinity in detail in a few chapters or in a few classes to come. Okay. Now, I think last week somebody asked us a question, you know, when Jesus said the Father is greater than I and asked if we say that all three of them are equal and all three are God, then why did Jesus say the Father is greater than I? Now, the Father is greater than the Son in position. Okay. Especially in regard to the incarnation. But the Father is not greater than the Son when it comes to the essence of the very nature or the being. Okay. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are all equal. But when it comes to position in with regard to incarnation, the Father is greater than the Son. But all three are equal. Okay, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are all all God and all of them are equal. So here we understand that the Father and the Son are equal. But the Father is greater than the Son in terms of position, especially with regard to the incarnation. Any questions? Any questions? If not, we will move on to another attribute of God that reveals his nature. God is infinite. You know, we read this in Psalms chapter 147 and Psalms chapter 147. And Romans chapter one was 20, where it says that, you know, he is limitless. That means because he's God, he cannot be measured. He cannot be fully grasped. He's supreme. Supreme means he's not somebody who's a superior being. When we say that he's a superior being, it means that there is someone greater than him. He's not a superior being, but he's a supreme being. There is no one greater than him. There is no one superior to him. So he's superior. He's great. He's almighty. He's all powerful. And he's eternal. We already saw this that he always existed. He always was. He always is and he will always be. He will always exist. There is no beginning to him. There's no beginning and there is no end to his existence, which means that he is infinite. The next attribute of God that reveals his nature is that he is holy and righteous. Holy means that God is untouched by anything that is evil or any sin. He cannot be and he's unstained. He cannot be stained by anything that is sinful, dirty or any form of evil. The Hebrew word for holy is kadesh. Kadesh means something that is withheld from ordinary use and it's treated with special care. So God is holy. And since the God we serve and the God we worship is holy, it means that holiness is God's perfection. And pursuing holiness should be our standard for our moral character and the motivation for our lifestyle. Everything that we do, everything that we think, our standard should be holy, which means that it should not be stained by anything that is sinful, that is evil. It should not be touched by anything that is evil. And we should live lives holy in God's sight, which means that we dedicate or consecrate our minds, our bodies, our wills totally for the special use of God. And so we treat ourselves, our faculties to be holy, consider ourselves to walk in holiness because it's written in 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 16 that, you know, be holy for I am holy. God says that even the Old Testament, that is his standard, he is laid for us. The standard that he's laid for us is be holy for I am holy or be holy as I am holy. So that is God's perfection, that is God's pursuit or that's God's purpose for which he created us. And that should be something that we pursue for, you know, for our moral character and the motivation for our lifestyle. Okay, he's not only holy, but he's always he's also righteous. That means he's right in what he does. Jeremiah chapter nine was 24. Let me just look at where Jeremiah chapter nine verse 24 is. Okay, Jeremiah chapter nine verse 24. Sorry. Jeremiah chapter nine verse 24 says that I am the Lord exercising loving kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these I delight says the Lord. So the Lord delights in righteousness. Okay, he's a righteous God. He delights in doing things that are righteous that is right. He only does and only commands others to do what is right according to his own law. We read this in Genesis chapter nine. Genesis chapter nine versus sorry Genesis chapter 18 verse 25 where it says but let him who glories glory in this that he understands and knows me that I am the Lord exercising loving kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these I delight says the Lord. Sorry that I read Jeremiah nine 24. You know, sorry about that. He delights in righteousness, but he not only does and not only commands others to do what is right according to his law which is given to us in Genesis chapter 18 verse 25 the latter half of the last phrase says shall not the judge of the earth do what is right shall not the judge of all the earth do right. So, you know, whenever we understand God's ways or we think is God doing anything that's right in my life, everything is going wrong. We need to understand that God is righteous. He always does what is right. If there are things that are happening in our life that is not right, you know, then it's something that we have fallen short. We have gone away from God that sin that is, you know, that we are facing the consequences for but we know that God is always right. He will do what is right for us and also he's a righteous God and he requires a righteous standard that means he requires us to live right in his eyes right in the eyes of the world as well and right in his own presence and in his own in his in his sight. Okay. So, he's holy and righteous. He's also sovereign. Okay. Now, what do we understand that he's sovereign sovereignty of God means that he's absolute. He's the master. He's the Lord. He's a ruler over everything. Everything yields to him and everything bows down to him. We read this in 1st Timothy chapter 1 verse 17. Now, in his sovereignty, God has chosen, you know, an entrusted or determined to give man a free will. Okay. That means we have the free will to choose whatever we want and whatever we choose, God respects man's choice. So, in his sovereignty, he has given us the free will to choose. Okay. The free moral will he's given us so we can choose and whatever we choose whether it's right or wrong, God respects man's choices that does not mean that he likes the wrong choices or he appreciates the wrong choices that we make. No, he just respects the choice that we make. And God is so secure in his sovereignty that he's not afraid in giving up or releasing his control as far as, you know, us human beings in us choosing, depending on our free will that he's given to us. Now, when God has given us a free will, we can choose things and we can choose things that are contrary to his purposes that will go against his purposes, that will go against his will. Now, even if it goes against his purpose and his will that he has planned for us or planned, the plans that he has for humanity as a whole, or for his purposes to come into being can be trotted by man making the wrong choices. But even though man makes those wrong choices, God is still secure in his sovereignty. He's not afraid that he's given up his control to man and everything is going chaotic and, you know, there's no order. There is total confusion. No, no, he's not afraid of that. He respects man's choices. For example, in the Garden of Eden, when, you know, God created Adam and he told him not to eat from the fruit of the tree, of the knowledge of good and evil. But did God know that they're going to eat? Yes. Then, you know, all the questions, why did he make that tree? Why did he tell them? You know, why did he put it in the Garden of Eden? Well, God has given us the free will to choose. And people said, you know, people say God could have stopped Adam and Eve, but God has given us the free will to choose and he respects our choices. So he respected Adam and Eve's choice. He knows everything is going to be chaotic from then, but God already had a plan in place where he's already planned of sending his son to save the world. So whatever man does, and even though it trots God's plan goes against his plan and purposes, God still is in control. He's still sovereign. He will still bring about and fulfill the plan and the purposes that he's already planned and willed for us and for the world. But man has to face the consequences of his choices. Man has to face the consequences of their sins. So man's freedom to choose and the choices he makes, even though it opposes the purposes of God, it no way undermines, no way lessens, no way weakens God's sovereignty. God is still sovereign. He's still authoritative. He's still in authority and he will still bring about his plans and he will fulfill his purposes. Okay. So that is the nine attributes of God that reveal his nature. We will look at more them in the next class. Anyone has any questions? No. Sorry, it took two minutes extra time. Okay. We'll stop class here. If you don't have any questions, I would request you to please go through your notes and if you have any doubts, please ask next class. Okay. Okay. I'll see you all next week. Have a good weekend, a good refreshing restful weekend and see you next week. God bless you, everyone. Bye. Bye. Good day. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.