 Good morning everyone. Good to see you all. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer. Prabhakar Rao, is it okay if you can lead us in prayer please? Sure pastor, thank you. Do you have any father? We praise you, acknowledge you for the name. At this moment, we come unto your throne of praise, Father. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity and a learning experience, Father. I dedicate this class and our whole students and pastor Paul as well, Father. Lead us all into your way. Teachers, guide us, Father. Give us that intellect to understand the insights of your worst father so that we can prepare ourselves to be your kingdom builders, Father. Thank you Father. Each and every minute of this class should be blessed and wonderful executed. I ask this prayer in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Prabhakar. Alright, so yesterday we completed chapter 16. We looked at challenges and tough times, right? And I'm sure that all of us, no matter what challenge or tough times that we go through, the Bible teaches us that every mountain can be conquered, every challenge, every difficult season. Be assured that God is with us. He will take us through, right? And we looked at so many wonderful, you know, passages. We looked at so many wonderful verses and I want to encourage you to probably, if you maintain a notebook or if you have your Bibles as well, make note of these verses because these will really help, you know, along the way as you are in the workplace or in the ministry. There will be tough times. Even family, right? Family life. There will be tough times. There will be challenges and these are verses, scriptures that can help us to overcome those seasons of challenges and tough times. So do make a note of them. Write them down. Meditate on them and I'm sure it's going to help you and bless you as you continued in God's will. All right, we'll get into chapter 17, which is stewardship. Now, we have heard the Lord Jesus also talk about stewardship in many places. He used a lot of parables talking about stewardship and the Bible has a lot of principles relevant to stewardship. Now, what is stewardship? You know, we've heard the Bible, you know, in the Bible we see that Jesus says, you're a good steward or he was a bad steward. So what is what is stewardship? Stewardship is basically taking care of something that has been put into our hands, right? A responsibility to manage whatever God has given us, to manage it effectively, to use it wisely, to multiply it or and to, you know, pass it on to succeeding generations. Now, all of us in our life will be stewards to something or the other, right? Example, if we have children, we need to be good stewards. We need to be good parents. We need to teach our children, you know, the right ways. Proverbs 22, 15 says, train up a child with the way he should go so that when he grows old, he shall not depart from it. Being good stewards is a very important responsibility that God is giving us. You know, God blesses us with many things in our lives, right? But how well are we using what God blesses us with? And that is called stewardship, right? It could be our children, it could be a family, it could be finances, it could be our workplace, the material things that God blesses us with, everything. We must be good stewards of it, right? So let's look at scriptural principles relevant to stewardship, right? So I'm on chapter 17, stewardship. Let's look at a few points here. First one, honor God with your personal finances. Let's read, Proverbs chapter 3, verse 9 and 10. Proverbs 3, 9 and 10. Yes, any one of us can read. Verse 3, 9 and 10, honor the Lord your possessions and with the first foods, all your increase. So your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine. Amen. Thank you, Christopher. Now, we also read First Chronicles. In First Chronicles, we see that he writes, First Chronicles 29. God, you are great, you are glorious, you're splendid, you're majestic. Everything in heaven and earth is yours. You are king, you are ruler of all, all riches and wealth come from you. This is a very common verse that we all say. You rule everything by your strength and power. You are able to make everyone, anyone great and strong. Now, God, we give thanks and we praise your glorious name. Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything because everything is a gift from you and we have only given back what is already yours. This is such a powerful verse. One of the most important principles that we must live by and understand is that God owns everything in this world. God owns everything. When we have this in our mind, when that's our mindset, so for example, God blesses us. He blesses us probably with a house or a car or any material blessing. Everything belongs to God. Yes, God has taught us, God has blessed us. He has given us. He blesses the work of our hands. We work hard. He blesses us. But we must remember that everything belongs to God. Sometimes we can come to a place where we say, okay, no, five years before I was nothing and then I picked up myself. I worked hard and now I'm here and it's my hard work. Yes, this is our hard work. But who gave you that life? Who gave you that strength? Who gave you the ability to work that hard? It was God. The wealth we have, the possessions we have, everything belongs to God. And it's very important to know that, okay, God has given us so we must give back to God. Now, it's very easy to receive. God, I receive. I receive. It's wonderful. God blesses us. We take it with open hands. But what about when we give? When we give to God, we honor him and we recognize his ownership on everything. And giving back, like, you know, when we give tithe, when we give our offerings, when we give to the poor, to the needy, it's like honoring God. We're saying, God, whatever you've given me, I'm giving back to you. It's not that I'm setting aside and saying, okay, oh, no, I have to give tithe. Can I give next month? Or can I give, you know, do I have to do this this month? He said, okay, God, if I give you, it's not about all of that. You know, God is not a hard task master. He says, oh, you didn't give tithe this month, so nothing is going to come your way. No. We give to God because we recognize that he has given us, right? And whatever we have, when we give, we are honoring him and saying, God, this is all yours. And when we do that, we are being good stewards, right? You know, many people have asked me, what about, you know, we have students in our church and, you know, they do all these internships and a lot of medical students. So they do internships and they get paid a certain amount. And so some of the students came and asked me, it's like a stipend, right? They get every month. And so the students came and asked me, should we be tithing with this? My response was, is it something that God has blessed you with? They said, yes. So don't you want to honor God with what God has blessed you with? He said, yes. So give to God, right? And sometimes it's very hard, you know, in some seasons we feel, oh, you know, we make a budget, we say, okay, this, this, this, this. But here's the thing, when we put God as first priority, he will make sure that every need of us is met. Yes, go ahead, Sri Kumar. Thank you, Pastor. Pastor, I just want to know, is it okay using in case, if there is a financial problem and in case, like, because this is a commitment, but as we learn that it is honoring God and is it okay using credit card and even though we don't have money, but is it okay that we can use the credit card and we can give the type offering or whatever God puts in our card, is it okay? Okay, right. That's a very good question, Sri Kumar. Now, credit card is something that, you know, it's available, right? There's nothing wrong in having a credit card, right? There's nothing wrong in having a credit card. Now, it is how we use it. We must use it responsibly. So imagine I, you know, I'll answer your question, but I just want to bring context, Sri Kumar. So imagine I take a credit card, right? I know, okay, this is my budget for a month. So for example, 10,000 a month is what I can, you know, use the credit card for, and then only if it's 10,000 a month, I can make payments for it. This is an example. Now, what if I go ahead and use it every now and then just to meet, you know, just to, for the luxuries and I keep swiping my credit card and then all of a sudden I realize, hey, I'm in debt, right? Now, what has happened? The credit card is not wrong. That's just a card, right? We were wrong in using the credit card, right? So I hope you get what I'm saying. So it's not like you have a credit card, it's a sin. No, it's not a sin. It's how we use it, right? Whether we use it the right way, and that's important. So to answer your question, if you, you know, even now at a time and age that we are in, if you are using a credit card on a regular basis, you can. There's nothing wrong in paying your tithes through credit card, but don't make it in a way. Now, don't use that as an option to say, okay, I'll keep swiping, I'll keep using my credit card every month, paying tithe, and then no, I'm knowing that, okay, I'm not able to pay this back, or, or, or, you know, I, I, you know that, okay, this is, this is a difficult, you know, I can't pay this back if I keep using my credit card, then I'm not being a good steward. I can't say, okay, God, I paid all the tithe through my credit card, so please help me clear my credit card debt. Now we must be responsible, right? God has given us a mind. So we must plan out, we must think, okay, this month, okay, I, you know, due to some restrictions, I'll use my credit card, but next month, I will, you know, try and get the cash flow and try to make the payments for that, and then make sure that, you know, I don't go over the budget of my credit card. So to answer your question, yes, it's all right to pay your tithes to credit card, but only make sure that, you know, you, you be good stewards of the credit card, because now there are a lot of folks that who I have met, where they've, you know, just probably got a new job, and you know, you know, in our nation, we immediately, you get a job, a couple of months later, you have the credit card company is calling you saying, why don't you apply? So we need to be wise, right? Not just saying, okay, I got a job, so I can just do whatever I want. So I hope that answers your question, Shree Kumar. Yes, Christopher, go ahead. No, I just wanted to, I guess, give my, my sort of view on this. My understanding is that the credit card is really just a convenient way of, you know, being able to spend money. And it is, it is, it has to be paid in full, actually, you know, you know, in a month's time. So I, I personally think that, you know, you know, we type from what we receive from God. And it's, I don't think the credit card itself is, is what we are receiving from God. I think what I would think is that, you know, if I get X amount, you know, in income, out of that, I would, you know, type them. Using the credit card and saying that, you know, he's actually income, is, I don't, I personally think he's not, is not the right way to go about it. Yeah, we get, we base it on what, what is the income that we receive. And credit card transactions are actually just a convenient way. And sometimes it's like a trap, you know, you know, not even particularly when you don't pay the, pay the full amount, you know, in a month's time. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So thank you, Christopher, for sharing your thoughts. So what, I think the question that Shreya Kumar posed was if his, you know, if he gets a certain income, is it okay to pay one-tenth of that income through credit card? So that was his question. I hope that was your question, Shreya Kumar. Yeah, that, that is also there. But there's a scripture where the Bible says in the Second Corinthians that they supported the ministry beyond their ability. So I just want to know that in today's case, when I'm in the ministry, maybe I don't have a regular income, but I have a heart to support the church, but I am paying my credit card on time. Somehow God is making that, but whenever I feel that there is a need in the kingdom, is it okay that because that is a need for the kingdom and when I feel that, yes, I know that it's not, it's something beyond my ability, but this is something which we have to do because this is a mission of God. So in that way, is it okay for honoring God, believing that, yes, I can use this and God will, yes, I'm careful in using credit card. So very careful. Yeah, so, thank you. Yes, Shreya Kumar. So, so like I will, what Christopher was saying also is also true because he was saying that, you know, you can't just use a credit card and say, okay, if it's from your type, right, if it's something that, okay, this is your salary, I'm paying the type and I'm paying it through credit card, I believe this is my opinion, right, I believe it's all right. But as you said, if you're not getting a regular income, now that will go into offerings, right, something like an additional offering, it's not that one-tenth that you get every month. So that will go into offerings. Now, yeah, as Christopher said, you've got to be wise, right, you can't just be spending it and you have to pay the whole thing back. So we know that people are in need. So it really needs, I believe that if it's something that God is pressing you towards and you feel that you have to do this and you feel that God is going to come through for you, I would say go ahead, but then be wise because you need to, nobody is going to come and make the payment for you. You have to make the payment back to the card. So you can't say that, okay, I had to do this because this missionary or this mission was going to just break down if I didn't pay it. No, God has his days. Yes, God can impress on our hearts also to help others, but we need to be wise, right. But to answer the question of paying your salary, the one-tenth of your salary by credit card, I believe it's okay, but anything additional to that offerings and all of it, think about it, right, whether it's really necessary to use a credit card because you know there's interest to be paid and there are things that you know you don't want to pile up on your credit card. So just be wise, right. I hope that answers your question. Thank you Christopher for sharing your thoughts. In terms of stewardship, Kennedy is put in terms of stewardship is in order to finance a political party. Kennedy, is it okay if you can unmute and ask your question? Is it okay to finance a political party? Is it in order to contribute or finance a political party in terms of theory? Okay, a political party. Now we know that God has placed in, you know, have set in place that we must give, but when we must also give to, you know, most importantly when the scripture teaches us, give to the poor, give to the needy, give to the widows, doesn't really teach us, you know, on giving to any political, like kind of government body as such. But once again, Kennedy, see these are personal things. These are personal priorities. Now if I say no, it shouldn't be like, okay, you know, so, you know, I should not give. If I say yes, it shouldn't be like I should, you have to give, right. So it's all a personal priority. If the Lord is leading you towards it, go ahead, but make sure that you're, you know, whatever you're, you're contributing is contributed to a good cause, right. So there's a political party that is, you know, helping out children and widows, give to them. But if you know that there's a political party that is, you know, financing or helping, you know, build, you know, other faiths, people of other faiths or, you know, helping these other faiths, you would try to avoid it because you want to bless your own people, right. So again, just being wise is very important, Kennedy. I hope that answers your question. I think, I think, yeah, all right. Yes. So as we learned, honor God with your personal finances. Okay, Prabhakar Rao, many people feel it's better to use tight or uplift for upliftment or for widows rather than give it to ministry. Now, now Prabhakar, I want to be careful in this, right. So one term of our income goes to the church, to the ministry, to God, right. And the other things, right, like for the poor, for the needy, that becomes an additional thing that you are doing, right. But God has instructed us to give one tenth to the church, to the ministry, just like how, now remember, you know, the ministry may be well off and doing all, you know, has enough income. Sometimes I had this question, right, why should I give to a ministry when they already have so much and they are, you know, blessing others. Why don't I give to the poor, to the needy. Now, here's the thing, God has an order, right. Remember that when we are giving, we're not giving to the ministry, right. And we're giving one tenth. The one tenth is not giving it to the ministry, we're giving it to God. We're honoring God, right. But also, but there's another aspect where God has instructed that, you know, this whole order, this order and there's, there's church that is, you know, something that we must do is one tenth, give it to our local church, wherever God has placed us. Whether they are 100 people, whether they are 10,000 people, give to the church. And then apart from that, what we do is offerings and contributions. Those are additional blessings that we can, you know, give to the poor and the upliftment of widows and all of that. So Prabhakar, I hope that is okay. Yes, Pastor, that's what I'll do with my question. Because I just asked this question, because we do follow this, you know, in our churches and we preach about it, give the guide to the God we do because it is God's for God's ministry purpose. But some of the people who like, wants to use it in such a way, many pastors in, you know, nowadays in YouTube and Facebook and all that, they're preaching, don't give it to ministries and don't even rather utilize it for, you know, dragging people into the false teachings. And those people come up with that reference, like before that YouTube link that pastor is saying something else, he's also a pastor. And why you are, you know, misquoting it or something like that. So in that context, Pastor, I'm asking, so how to deal with that? Yeah, yeah. So Prabhakar, see, there will be a lot of, you know, erroneous teachings, which, but we must do what the Bible teaches us. And the Bible teaches us one tenth of our income goes to the Lord, right? So that cannot be changed. So a lot of teachings will come, there'll be teachings like, you know, even now, there are, there are not only in, you know, finances, but in ministry as a whole. When you look at the global church, there are, there are so many teachings that are not in line with the scriptures, right? So we must be careful. Of course, YouTube is YouTube, social media is a platform where everyone have their opportunity to, you know, express their opinions, but we must be careful, right? You know, there's, there's, there are some wonderful teachers, but there are times when, you know, somewhere the teaching has gone astray, right? But our responsibility is, what does the Bible teach us? Test everything through the word of prophecy, through the word of God. Test it, right? And then we will know, okay, what does the Bible say? Now, this person or this pastor or this preacher is saying this, but what does the Bible say, right? Even now, there are people who don't believe in the rapture. They don't believe in it. The wonderful men of God, wonderful women of God, wonderful ministries, but they don't believe in the rapture. Now, just because it's a wonderful ministry doing very well, world famous does not mean that the rapture is not going to happen, right? What does the Bible teach us? It teaches us that there will be a rapture, right? So we must be careful on what we watch online, you know, whatever we watch, test it with the word of God. So that would be a good thing to do, right? Yes. Abirah says, raised his hand. Yeah, thank you pastor. Actually, my question is pastor, what if I'm going to the church, but I'm giving, we are giving tithes and the offering, but when it comes to the transparent, they don't want to say and say that, like, where money is going, what they are doing, and it's like little suspension, they're making suspension, and it's to the congregation, it's little concern about the money and the church. So what if pastor, like, what, how to do, either we should give or not. So that's my question. Yeah. So what we studied last class will make perfect sense here, because see, God is our boss, right? God is our leader. God is the one who has given us, right? So when we are giving, we're giving it to God. Now, you be assured that you are a good steward of your income, right? You say, God, I don't know what is happening here. There's no transparency or whatever that is what's happening. But as you have planted me in this place, I am giving one tent to this, to where you have planted me. Now, once it's given, your responsibility is over, right? Now it's the responsibility of the pastors and the leaders, because they will be held accountable for God, right? So yes, there will be times that you would want to know, but there are times you can't know, right? Not every time are they, you know, transparent, not all ministries are transparent. They don't want everyone to know. But you as a member of that church, you're doing your part of giving one tent to the church. What they do with that money or that whatever tithe has given, they will be held accountable before God, right? And so remember last class, we talked about how, you know, when we do our work sincerely, the Lord will reward us, right? Focus on the Lord and expect God to intervene. So when we give to God, out of a cheerful heart saying, God, I'm giving to the ministry. Now what the ministry does with this that the leaders, the pastors are accountable before God, right? But God will bless you, because you have done your part, right? There will be times you would want to know, maybe there's no transparency. But what you can do is you'll be assured, okay, I'm obedient to what God is telling me to do. That is to give unto the Lord. So as I said, we can't know everything that the ministry is doing. One of the things that we do at APC intentionally is we have everything up on the website. We have everything on wire transfer, right? So everything, even a coffee payment, monthly coffee payment, we have it on wire transfer. So everything is documented, right? And the church also can ask for details. They can just download it and check all the details. What was the offerings that came? Everything is available and freely accessible. So not all ministries work that way. But be assured that you're giving unto God, and God will bless you. So Rupa, I'll just get to you. There's a question from Prabhakar here. What if a person has prayed to sow the entire first month's salary, but when he does, he's going to be suffering for his daily needs? So in that case, what should he do, please? Okay. Prabhakar, it's simple. Now, God has made us goods to work. God has given us a responsibility, right? Now, God has also given us wisdom. Now, for example, I'm just using this example. I married, I have a child. And for example, I get 20,000 rupees a month. Now, if I put the whole 20,000 rupees into height, it may sound very nice. I would love to do it. What about my needs? What about my monthly needs? What about, you know, looking after my family? What about looking after my child? What about food for them? It doesn't make sense if I'm putting the whole salary into God's kingdom, right? It sounds nice. I go, wow, I've given everything to God. And then I sit and pray and say, God, please provide for me. God is going to say, I provided for you. All you needed to do is be a good steward of it. Plan it out well, right? Yes, there will be times God can ask, you know, put in your heart to give extra to God's kingdom. So there was, there was a season in 2019, but we as a family just found it, okay, God placed in our hearts, we must sow into the building fund. So we say, okay, let's just sow. That is something extra. But we also made sure that, okay, you know, I had two kids, so I had to make sure, okay, I have what I need for my monthly, you know, expenditure. So if I don't do that, Prabhakar, I'll be a bad steward. It may sound very nice. Hey, I gave all my salary. But then the Bible also teaches Paul said, if you don't, if you can't look after your family, how can you look after the church which God has placed in our hands? So we must be very discerning, very, we must learn, you know, to rightly divide the word of God and to make sure that we, you know, we should look after our family also given to God. So I hope that answers your question Prabhakar. Okay. Rupa, yes, go ahead. Sir, thank you, sir. I just wanted to share in line with what the Prabhakar asked. I think many times God led us to sow the whole month's salary into the gift as a gift. But we never told anyone that only because the question has arised. I just telling that like first fruits, giving the first fruits to the Lord, first salary we gave to the Lord. But we never worried about it and God has miraculously provided that month that was glory to God alone. We did not have any savings to fall back on. The salary was very little in those days in mission hospitals. But God led us to do it and also he was faithful to provide for us. I think when it is in direct obedience to God's leading, God will take care of that. And one more thing, I just wanted to add to a discussion about giving it on to the Lord. A small understanding God has given me because so many people are very upset that the church is not using what they are sowing into the kingdom properly. Most of the churches, they are not transparent and few are very transparent. So this is the thought Holy Spirit was put into my heart. Jesus knew that Judas Iscariot was stealing from the purse. But he was silent. I don't know because I am not Jesus. I don't know why. But I think every penny we gave to the Lord is counted for in His presence. And sometimes we love the children and we also give them so many gifts, expensive gifts. We know that sometimes they are not in a position to use them properly because out of love we want to lavish gifts on our children. So when we love the Lord, we are giving it on to the Lord. How they use, it is up to them. We can pray that money would be used properly for the glory of the Lord. But we are giving it on to the Lord as you said, Sir. Thank you. I just wanted to add these two things. Thank you so much Rupa for sharing. Yes, it's wonderful. Right. Thank you so much for your thoughts. Yeah, Christopher, go ahead, Christopher. Yeah, just something else, just my thought on this is that I'm not sure, and that's something that you can just validate faster is, I'm not sure whether Jesus wanted to be very opulent, very big as far as very big buildings and make it very ornate and spend a lot of money. I think it's also about the simplicity of the Church and having some of the fundamentals actually happening in the Church, which is about having a pitch in the God's message, the healing ministry, driving away the evil one. So again, in other denominations, and I do come from a denomination church earlier, you have these very, very big churches. A lot of money has been spent, a lot of money is used also for maintaining the churches. And I just find that at the end of the day, the only reason the Church is able to spend that money is because of primary, because of the offerings and the typing. So some ways, I just think that maybe some of that, some of that, what Jesus actually wanted the churches to provide, what they had to stand for, something that's somewhere it has been lost out here. Yeah, yeah, very true. Christopher, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Yes, in a time and age, especially now, like if you look at the early 1990s, I remember as a small kid going to church, there's nothing, you know, you just probably had those projectors with those, you know, those sheets, I don't know what's that called, but you put that in and then you can see the lyrics up and that was the most that you have and probably a guitar and a piano. But now, when we look at church and we look at how it's grown and how things have changed so much, look at contemporary worship and the way that things are changing in the church, sometimes it's very, very easy to lose focus. Oh, thanks, overhead projectors, yes. It was very easy, especially, you know, you got these ambient lightings. Now, as a worship leader, I'm just talking about, right? You got ambient lightings, you got lightings all over, you got a nice projection, you got a nice keyboard, you got good sound. Now, all this is very important as church. It's not that it's not important. Now, you know, sound systems and projections and, you know, lightings, all this is important, especially if you're going live and you know the whole world is watching you, all this is important. But if all this becomes priority, we lose focus on what and we lose focus on what God wants us to do, then it all becomes, you know, a gimmick, a show and we wouldn't want that, right? But there's also this responsibility of, you know, doing well, doing the best that we can, right? We use the resources. I can't say, okay, you know, LED lightings on stage is evil, because of that, I'm not able to, you know, worship the Lord and it's all distracting. I can say that because we have come to a time, things have changed, right? And so we must be also able to make changes, but not diluting the Word of God, not diluting the work of the Spirit. So we must maintain that balance and it's very difficult, I completely understand because as a worship leader, I understand there are times it's just, you know, just feel like going on into worship and you feel like doing things, but we must make sure that it's not something of the flesh, but it's the Spirit that is leading us to do it. And that's where we will see the fruit, right? So thank you so much, Christopher. Maxon says, is it sound accountable and helped when a pastor collect type from a church members and use it for his personal issues? Then he reports to the church committee that he collects type and uses it. Okay, Maxon, the type that is given is given to the church. Now, as if the pastor is the senior pastor of the church and he is working, it would be good if he takes a salary from the complete monthly salary, like what his staff would be taking, you know, probably if it's a church that is 300, 400 people, he would have staff, right? So as a senior pastor, even though he's a founder, it'll be good if he takes a salary, so that way he's keeping himself safe. So, right. All right, let's go ahead and try to finish this good questions. Second point, always tight from your individual income. And we just talked about all of that. Be generous. Give to help others in need. Let's read Proverbs 11, 24 and 25. I just quickly read that. The world of the generous gets larger and larger. The world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed. Those who help others are helped, right? So, we work, we earn money, but money is not everything in life, right? Money does not control us. We must control it. And we can do our best to give people. Be generous. The Lord himself said, it's more blessed to give than to receive, right? And so have this heart of giving. Know that when you give, God is going to multiply it, right? It's not only for church, okay? Only if I give to church, God is more. Yes, we give one tenth to the church, but we can also be generous to others, right? We can help the poor. We can help those who are destitute. We can help those, you know, there are a lot of organizations which are working towards, you know, helping blind children. They've been born blind, right? And they help these children with education. So these are additional things we can do. And maybe nobody knows about it. But remember, God is watching you and God will bless it in small ways. It could be the smallest thing that God will bless it, right? But here's the thing. When you give, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. If I give to the poor, the needy, and I, you know, just make a big announcement out of it, the whole value of it is gone, right? It's more like a show. And that's why the Lord Jesus teaches us so many things. It's more blessed to give than to receive, but it's also, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. So do it in a silent way. Do it in a way that will please God. Again, give to poor, give to widows, give to orphans. See what you can do. It could be a small amount. It's all right. Give. You know, maybe when you're on the street, then if the Lord is leading you towards giving some poor people on the road, it could be food or it could be some money or some clothes. Now go ahead, do it. You know, one of the things as Christians we are known for is to give, you know, we give to society and missions and we learned in missions, right? They built schools, they built orphanages. It was all, you know, why? Because God had put that in their hearts. It was all about giving to others, right? And so it's very important when we give, God will bless us, right? And then there's corporate typing, right? So for example, owners of organizations and businesses, they can, you know, if you're a businessman and you know that, okay, you know, there's no set income every month, you can think about doing, you know, one 10% of what you get as a net profit in your organization. You can think about giving that unto the Lord as well. Or, and then you can also use it to help support the poor, the orphan, all of that. Addressing poverty, standing up against injustice and other causes. There are many social evils around us, right? Child labor, child trafficking, prostitution, you know, child trafficking, natural disasters, epidemics, all kinds of things. Now, as believers, we can do our part. And we can do our part to not only give, but to be available and to stand against all these things. There are a lot of some of our students who come to our church, young students, you know, they're part of these social causes. And it was so wonderful to listen to a couple of students where they were saying that they go in and rescue people who are children who are being trafficked, right? Children who are 16, 15, up to even 13 years old who are trafficked into prostitution, all of that they go. And there's this young woman who's leading this whole she's a believer. And what she does is with the help of the police, she, you know, has a couple of contacts and God has given her this wonderful ministry where, you know, and favor upon her. So the police also help her and, you know, they go and they snatch out children who are being trafficked and literally from the hands of those who are trafficking them. So, and she's been, she's been going all across our nation and the nations talking about these social injustices. So if you get an opportunity, go ahead, stand for it, talk about it, be good stewards of what the gospel of Jesus Christ is. And one of the things we do is we go to a lot of colleges. And we have these, or, you know, sometimes it's a two hour session or life skills. And sometimes it is on a regular weekly basis, we go to a couple of colleges. And we talk about these social evils and we talk about how God has, you know, called us to stand against it, right? And how we can, in small ways, make a difference. One of the main topics we talk about is these suicidal tendencies, right? Drug addiction, how drug abuse among the youth. And so these are all social injustices and these are things that we can address. And as believers, we can, you know, stand and support these things. And finally, the last point, we're all responsible for our creation care. Psalms 115, 16 says, the heavens, the heavens are the Lord, but the earth, He has given to the children of men. So the earth, God has entrusted us with the earth. So we must be, we must manage it well. Remember what God told Adam? I put you in the garden, now you tend it, you cultivate the garden, you guard it. So we must also, you know, in whatever ways possible, learn to, you know, keep our cities clean, take care of it as much as we can. You know, we may think, okay, I'm just a minority here, but you can make a difference, a small difference at least. And that is being a good steward to God, being a good steward to what God has entrusted us with. So yes, we'll bring, this chapter has come to a close. So just want to encourage us that in everything that we have in our life, we must be good stewards. Remember that everything is from God. Every season, every challenge we can overcome. What God has blessed us with, let us learn to be good stewards and let us also learn to be a blessing to the church, to the ministries, to poor people, to the people around us. And stewardship, good stewards is what God is looking at for us. So right. So let's bring this session to a close. Yes, could one of us please close in prayer or any one of us? Rupa. Rupa, we thank you for today. We bless you because you are God. There is none like you. You are the giver of life. You are the giver of all good things. We thank you for life in abundance. We thank you for favours. We thank you for the beautiful things you have enabled us to enjoy even as we are alive. Thank you because you're going to use us for your glory. You're going to use us to do great and mighty things which we would not expect. Lord, thank you because you're resting the weight of your glory upon each and every one of us. Thank you for the word we have received to this morning. Lord, we ask that you shall help us to put it into good use, shall help us to implement everything that we have had. None shall go null and void in the name of Jesus. Thank you because you're protecting our families. Thank you because you're strengthening us to continue to run the race of life that we shall not get weary. Thank you because we are casting our bodies onto you because we know you truly care. Thank you because our hearts are open for you to continue to do great and mighty things, to walk through us, to help us, Lord. Thank you because we are sanctified, we are purified, and we are sustained only in you. Thank you because you're helping us even in our infirmities that we shall not go wrong. Thank you because you're guiding our decisions. Thank you because you're the driver of our life. You shall not allow us to go the wrong path. You shall not allow us to go the wrong places. You shall not allow us to meet the wrong people. Thank you because our destinies are preserved in you. Thank you because at the end, even at the end, we shall not be found wanting for in Jesus' most precious name we have prayed. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, blessing. Thank you everyone for joining us. Have a wonderful week ahead. We'll catch up next week. God bless. Thank you, sir. Yes, thank you. God bless.