 So, on Friday, we were looking at Romans chapter 8. We came right up to verse 16. So Paul in this verses is talking about the whole dimension of the life and the work of the Holy Spirit. He's talking about the life and the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of believers. He's explaining to us the work of the Spirit in our lives. And he says that the Holy Spirit in us is the life-giving Spirit. He sets us free from the law of sin and death. And he talks about this law of sin and death in chapter 7, when he says that the law of sin is a sin that controls the members of our body. And the law of death is the by-product of the sin that is raining in our bodies. Okay, so we see that the Holy Spirit sets us free from the law of sin and death. However, Paul continues to say that we need to be spiritually minded and not carnally minded, which we looked at in the previous class, says if we are spiritually minded, it will result in life and peace. But if we are carnally minded, it will result in death. And then he mentions that the Holy Spirit in dwelling in the believer helps each one of us to put to death the sinful deeds of the body. So with the help of the Holy Spirit, we should be able to subdue sin and the sinful deeds of the body. In verse 16 and 17, he says, everyone who is a child of God, all of us who are believers, sons and daughters of God, we are children of God. So all of us who are children of God are led by the Holy Spirit. And he also says that we are not only led by the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. So if somebody asks us what our birth certificate, we show them Romans chapter 8 verse 17 where he says the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. So if we are children, we have this wonderful privilege of being hairs of God and joined hairs with Christ. Then we began looking at verse 17 and says, and it writes and says, if children then hairs, hairs of God and joined hairs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together. So here he says, and if children, you know, it's actually putting us in a very esteemed and in an honorable position that we are hairs, hairs of God and joined hairs with Christ. And he's using Kingdom terminology here that, you know, we are hairs, we are successors of this Kingdom. And this is who we are. Who are we? We are, you know, hairs of God, joined hairs with Christ. We share everything with Christ. Okay. Even as we share all of the blessings, the privileges that, you know, that Paul lists for us in Romans chapter 5, 6 and 7, you know, all that he conveyed to us in chapters 5, 6 and 7 that we have received as a result of what Christ has accomplished on the cross. I'm not going to list it out because I've been sharing it in the last few classes last week as well. But we share in all of the benefits that, you know, Christ has accomplished for us on the cross, which does not make us deity. We don't become God, but God is deity. We just benefit from what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross. And all that Christ has accomplished for us on the cross, you know, Paul lists it out or conveys it to us in chapters 5, 6 and 7. So we, you know, experience the full benefits of the cross. He says we also share in his righteousness because he has become righteousness to us. And he says we share in his authority because he raised us up and seated us with the Father. And hence we are co-heirs with Christ Jesus. We are hairs of God and co-heirs with Christ Jesus. In the latter part of verse 70 he says if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. So he says if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. So what does it mean? He says we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. So even if we suffer or we go through the sufferings in the flesh, in the world that we are living in, the fallen, corrupted world that we will look at in a few verses that Paul is writing below. He says that even if we suffer we know that we would be glorified. Because why will we be glorified? Because we are hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ Jesus. So what is the suffering that Paul is mentioning here? The suffering which, you know, he's already mentioned in verse 13 which is to put to dead the deeds of the body. And this is the suffering he's mentioning about here. What is the suffering he's mentioning here? It's something that he's already spoken of in verse 13 of the same chapter 8. He's saying that in verse 13 put to dead the deeds of the body. So we have to put to death the deeds of the body. And this is a suffering that he's mentioning about here in this verse 17 and he calls it a suffering because this is not easy. It's not easy for us to put to death the deeds of the evil deeds of our body, the sinful deeds of our body. We struggle, we find it very difficult and we suffer with it. And we are sometimes frustrated that, you know, we can't really overcome some of these sinful, you know, evil deeds. And so he's saying that, you know, the sufferings are, what he has mentioned in verse 13 is putting to death the deeds of our body. And he called this suffering because it is not easy. We also know that people suffer on this earth. They go through persecution, challenges and hardships, all of those sufferings. But the suffering in verse 13 is what he's mentioning here is in verse 17 as well is to put to death the deeds of the body. Now, just as a cross reference, I would like us to look at 1 Peter chapter 4, verses 1 and 2. 1 Peter chapter 4, verses 1 and 2 says, therefore since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourself also with the same might. For he who has suffered in the flesh has seized from sin that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. So here Paul is referring, Peter, sorry, is referring to a different kind of suffering. He's talking about suffering in the flesh that causes us to seize from sin. And he says, you know, look at Jesus, how he suffered. So you must also be willing to suffer. So in this case, in verse Peter chapter 4, verse 1 and 2 is talking about suffering because you are seizing from sin. So but in Romans chapter 8 verse 17, you know, one of the aspects of suffering is putting to death the deeds of the flesh so that we can seize from sin. But Paul adds that if we suffer, we know that we will also be glorified together. So this putting to death the deeds of the body is going to only cause us to be glorified together to walk in the glory of being in the hair of God and joint hairs with Christ Jesus. Okay, so how do we walk in this glory? You know, okay, we are hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ. And this is a very glorious position. But how do we walk in this glory? He says if we suffer, we will be glorified together. So saying this in this immediate context, of course, you know, there is, there is future glory that we will all enjoy. But here we see that if we suffer, we will also be glorified together. So for us, you know, we are, we have a future hope, we have a future glory, which will be, you know, be explaining in a little bit. But here he's saying, you know, even if we suffer, we are going to be glorified together. We are going to experience that glory in a small way, in part now, even as we experience the full extent of the glory in the future, which we will enjoy in the future. So for us, you know, to walk in the glory of being hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ, what do we need to do? We need to put to death the sinful deeds of the body. And Paul is saying, you know, we cannot do it on our own, because if we had done it on our own, the law was more than sufficient. But you know, but because the law was not, had not enabled us to do it, you know, we have the Holy Spirit. So Holy Spirit is the key, is the one that helps us to put to death the sinful deeds of the body. So we can ask this question, you know, why are believers, you know, not able to live as hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ, even though we have this glorious position, we have this glorious privilege, this glorious honor we have of being hairs of God and co-heirs with Christ Jesus. Why aren't we as believers able to live as hairs of God and co-and joint hairs with Christ? It's because we are not willing to put to death the sinful deeds of the body, which means we are not willing to suffer. Okay, we don't want to suffer, which means we don't want to put to death the sinful deeds of the body. And hence, you know, we are not able to live the life as hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ. So it's the Holy Spirit, you know, who lives in us, who is the spirit of adoption, who, you know, attests to us or informs to us that, you know, we are children of God in the spiritual realm. He is the one who makes us hairs of God and joint hairs of Jesus Christ. He is the Holy Spirit that helps us to overcome the law of sin and death. He is helping us to overcome the sinful deeds of the body. He's the one who's leading us because Paul says that, you know, those who are children of God are led by the spirit of God. He's also the spirit of adoption who has brought us into the family and, you know, he's, and gives us this affirmation that we are sons and daughters of God. And he's the Holy Spirit is also the one who's bearing witness with our spirit. Because of all of this, what the Holy Spirit does, you know, we are hairs of God and joint hairs with Jesus. And this was, is, is basically talking about, you know, the work, the question and the work of the Holy Spirit. Okay. And he's also, you know, revealing to us the different, you know, different names of the spirit here. He's the different titles of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of light, the spirit of Christ, the spirit of adoption. So, you know, beautiful verses which just reveal to us who the Holy Spirit is and what does his work in our lives. Okay. So in the spiritual realm, our standing, what is, you know, this, what is our standing? Our standing is that we are hairs of God and co-hairs with Jesus. And God wants us to conduct our lives, you know, the way we live, the way we think, the way we act, our lives, our lifestyles as hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ in the spiritual realm. Okay. So that is verse 17. We will move on to verses 18 to verse 23. So can somebody please read verses 18 to verse 23? Before that, anyone has any questions? Okay. Four questions. Can somebody please read Romans 8 verses 18 to 23 please? Can you read, Pastor? Yes. Go ahead, Asha. For I consider that the suffering of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revelation of the Son of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willing, but because of him who subjected it in hope that the creation itself will be suffering from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom and the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first group of the Spirit grown in worthy as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. Thank you, Asha. Okay. So this passage is quite unique, you know, because what Paul shares here, he does not share anywhere else in any other episode. So it's very unique, you know, passage of scripture. And so it's quite important for us to look at these verses and to understand these verses. So verse 18, he says, For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth or worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us. So says, For I consider the sufferings of this present time, which he's actually here not referring to the evil deeds of the body, but here he's referring to the corruption and the bondage of creation, which he is, you know, talking about in the following verses in verse 19 to verse, you know, 23. Okay, so here the suffering that he's talking about the suffering of this present time, he's referring to the corruption and the bondage of creation. So he's pointing also to our future glory. He's saying we are going through earthly suffering, you know, now part of it is a suffering that he has already mentioned for us in the preceding verses which has to do with crucifying the flesh, the suffering that he has spoken about in the preceding verses about putting to death the deeds of our body. But he's saying, you know, yes, we will experience a glory, some of the glory in part right now, but there is something more glorious coming up. Okay, and in verse 19 he says, For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. So just like, you know, each one of us as children of God are waiting for, you know, and looking forward for that glorious destruction of our bodies from being mortal to be changed to immortality, you know, just fleeing all the, you know, the sufferings of the evil desires of our flesh and the sickness and corruption that is caused and decay and corruption that is caused in our body because of sin, because the law of sin, the law of death is at work in our body. And so what is the law of death? You know, death brings decay and corruption and, you know, degeneration of our body. And, you know, as human beings who are waiting for that, and looking up for that glorious hope, the glorious time when our bodies will be, you know, be changed from mortality to being immortal to be set free from the power of sin and death, and, you know, to be in this, the glorious presence of the king of kings. So he says, even creation, you know, is eagerly waiting for the unveiling of the sons of God. So we are already sons of God, we are already hairs, and they're already joint hairs. That is something that is already completes is done, but there is something more that is coming up and even creation is looking forward for that. I'll explain more in detail. I'm just looking at these verses and then we'll come to what all of these verses really mean. Verse 20 says, for the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope. So all creation because of the fall because when Adam and Eve sin, you know, was subjected to futility means to the way in futile things that are destructive. And that is why if you look at creation now, you know, it's in a total rampage, total destruction because of not only that creation was subjected to futility, or to destruction because of the Adam sin because of the fall, but also because we have not been good stewards of God's creation. Hence we're seeing cloudbursts and we're seeing, you know, flooding in various parts of the world and there is earthquakes. Just in the last couple of days, we've seen so much of mass destruction in the world around us and all because of the environmental changes and the climate changes. And now people are very concerned about it because of the amount of destruction, the mass scale of destruction that it's spinning about. And so one of the reasons is also because, you know, creation was subject to futility when Adam and Eve sinned. Even, you know, creation was had moved from its original design intent purpose that God created it to be it went on a downward spiral. Okay. So, and we see here that, you know, it's, it says here for the creation was subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who was subjected it in hope, which means that him here is a capital H and it's talking about God and God let it be subjected to futility to the vain things. Why? Because this was a choice of man and, you know, it not willingly means this was not God's will. This was not God's original intent. It was not his original plan. It was not his original purpose. But, you know, for this to happen, but note here that God did it willingly. He, sorry, it's not do it willingly. But, you know, he allowed creation to be subject to subject to be subjected to vain things to destruction to futility. Why did they allow it, you know, he allowed it in the hope that one day he's going to restore all things back to its original purpose and design to what he had intended it to be. And so Paul says that God allowed creation to be subject to futility to this vain things that are destructive. Why did he allow it? He allowed it because it was not willingly that he did it. It was not his will, but he allowed it because this was man's choice. Okay. So we can ask the question. So if it was man's choice God is sovereign. He does what he will. So why did he even willing to give into man's choice, you know, given to man's choice is because, you know, when God created Adam and Eve, he gave them dominion over the earth. He gave them dominion over the earth. They were rulers of the earth. They were supposed to have dominion and subdue the evil one. But when Adam and Eve sinned, they gave over the authority to Satan. And hence we see that everything went, you know, it was a downfall. Everything went downwards and everything lost its purpose and design. Not only man and not only sin and death came, but even creation, you know, I was subjected to the fall in terms of, you know, being vain and futile and things that were destructive. Okay. But God is saying here that he subjected it in hope. You know, he's saying that I'm letting go of this, you know, I'm letting go of this creation that I created with such purpose, with such, you know, with order and with such design and such fine tuning, you know, I'm letting it go in the hope, in the anticipation of the future hope that, you know, I will restore all things back to its original state. I will reinstate everything that has been corrupted that has gone through degradation. Okay. So all of us, you know, we are redeemed. We are the redeemed people of God. We are the children of God, we are the heirs of God. So we are redeemed, but we are redeemed in parts. Okay. We're just experiencing part of the eternal life. Like I said, it's an eschatological hope. Eternal life is something that we will experience in the full in the future. But it's also a realized eschatology in the sense that we will be realizing the eternal life, the zoe life, the God kind of life, the fullness of life in part here and now. Okay. So we are redeemed in part, but there will be a time when we will experience the full redemption when our bodies will experience the full redemption, you know, when Jesus comes again. Okay. What's 21 says, because the creation itself also will be delivered from bondage of corruption into the lawless liberty of the children of God. So the future time, your creation will be also released from the bondage of corruption. So in the present moment, creation now is under bondage of corruption, under destruction, degradation. But even as, you know, that we have this hope where he says, you know, the great liberty or redemption that the children of God will experience when our bodies will be redeemed from being mortal to being immortal. In the same way, creation will also be brought back or he and stated to its original position, design and perfectness with God created it. Okay. Amen to that. Okay. So we have this glorious liberty as children of God that we will experience full redemption when our bodies will be redeemed from being mortal to being immortal. And in the same way, you know, creation will also be brought back or he and stated to its original perfection and design. And I mean, it's just going to be something glorious that we see. We will see an experience, you know, creation in all its beauty and all its design, even now when we look at, you know, creation when we see pictures of, you know, landscapes of mountain regions, waterfalls, you know, such beauty and grandeur of God's, of God's wisdom and his creativity and his imagination, you know, just, just we stand in awe of it. But just imagine when everything comes to its perfection, how much more of God's perfection of his creation that we will see and that we will enjoy. Like, you know, when, when we, when I go from India to visit my sisters who live abroad, you know, just, you can just feel the change in the atmosphere itself, the air that we breathe is so fresh, it's so refreshing. And, you know, just thinking of how it will be when Jesus comes and shows in the Millennium Kingdom and how it will be in heaven. I mean, what a glorious place, you know, what a glorious experience just to have. Even as now we go and see some breathtaking views of God's creation, just breathe that fresh air into our lungs, you know, moving away from a city with concrete, a concrete jungle city to, you know, places with such beauty, just breathing the freshness of the air and seeing the beauty of God's creation. Just, you know, enlightens us, it just makes us feel so good, refreshes us, you know, just imagine how it will be when, when all of creation will be reinstated to its original position. And what's 22, you see that for, we know that the whole creation groans and labors with bird fans together until now. So even as we are suffering, even creation because of the fall is going through such pain and, you know, compared to that pain of a woman in labor. It is intense pain, but, you know, but the woman in labor knows that even as she goes through this intense pain, it is going to give birth to something beautiful, someone beautiful, to someone that is going to just a very look at that little baby's face will just kind of, you know, just diminish all the struggle, the pain, the suffering the mother has gone through, just to hold the baby, just to see the baby in our arms, to see the face of the baby. In the same way, you know, even as creation is going through all this pain and the suffering, you know, but it also has, is looking for that future hope. It's anticipating, it is expecting something wonderful to happen. Prosthetically, not only that, but we also will have to have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves grown within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. So it says not only that, but we who are the first fruits of the spirit. So here are the first fruits of the spirit. He's talking about believers. Sorry. He's talking about believers in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, the first fruits of the spirit. Here, if you see, it's a capital S, so it's not talking about human spirit, but talking about the Holy Spirit. And the first fruits are, you know, he's talking about believers, those who have accepted the Lord Jesus, in whom the Holy Spirit dwells. He says, even we who are believers, we are groaning. Why are we groaning? Because we are suffering. What are we suffering with? He's already mentioned in verse 13, you know, the sinful deeds of our body. And here he's also mentioning in verse 18, he's mentioned to us the sufferings of, you know, because we are living in a fallen world, because there is, we're living in a world where there is decay, there's corruption, you know, where everything is not perfect. So he says, we too are groaning, we too are suffering, and we too are eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. So in verse 21, Paul mentions the glorious liberty of the children of God. And he's referring to the time of the redemption of our bodies, when our body will be fully and completely redeemed in the sense that mortal will put on immortality. And we will no longer be subjected to physical death and to sin. So what is Paul basically telling us in this passage from verses 18, right up to verse 23, is that when Adam sinned, you know, not only did Adam come into the subjection of sin and Satan, and as a consequence of that death, but the whole world, all of creation came into the subjection of sin, Satan and degradation or death, corruption, decay. So all of creation at the fall, you know, came into bondage into corruption. It came into a subjection of the working of the law of death, which is decay. There was, there was a downward decline. There was a deviation from its original design. And this is not, you know, this was not God's original design. Or this is not how he created the world. We see tornadoes, hurricanes, we see mass flooding that is happening. We see volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, unusual phenomenon like, you know, countries in Europe are having summers which are high soaring temperatures, which they have never experienced, you know, rainfall, cloudbursts that is causing landslides, mass destruction of places. And this was not all what God created. You know, we can't blame this on God. This was not his original design. This is not how he created the world. This was not his purpose. But why do we see all of this happening is partly is because of sin, sin that, you know, sin and the fall that brought corruption and deviation from the original design and purpose and the perfect state that God had created it to be. Also, we can't, you know, say everything is happening because of sin and the fall of Adam and Eve, but also it's because we're not being good stewards of the things that God has entrusted to us, good stewards of the earth, good stewards of plants and trees and how we use the natural resources that we have. So why is there the suffering the world today? You know, not only do we see that there is suffering in this world today in terms of all of these natural calamities, but we also see there's a lot of other sufferings in terms of, you know, children born with, you know, birth defects, partly because of genes that they inherited also because, you know, we live in a world that is corrupted. There's so much of sickness and disease and everything is because creation is under corruption and bondage and God allowed this, you know, not willingly, but he allowed this because it was a choice that man had made, but he allowed it also with the future hope of the glorious redemption. It's a time when he will, you know, bring back, reinstate everything back to its glorious position, to the perfection that he created, just as all of us will be redeemed into the glorious body that he created us to be. He created us to be like him without sin, without, you know, God created us never to die, God created us never to sin. He gave us a mind to understand him, to comprehend, to perceive the mind of God, and we will all be redeemed back to that original position. How do we sustain the hope of the future glorious redemption in a believer? We will look at it in the following verses. So we'll answer that. If not, if you are not happy with the answer, then I will add in something more. Is that okay, Laisha? Okay. So let's look at a few cross references. Colossians chapter one was 20. Can somebody please read Colossians chapter one was 20 and someone else can turn to Ephesians chapter one was 14, please. And can any one of you read Colossians 120 and anyone else can read Ephesians chapter one was 14, please. I can read Colossians 120. Yes. Thank you. Colossians 120. And through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth by means of Christ's blood on the cross. Thank you. So here we see that what is, you know, God working towards what is the hope of the glorious hope that he has which he subjected creation to its futility, but what is the hope that he has. And what is he working towards is through Christ, he's going to reconcile all things to himself. Okay. So he's going to bring everything all back to himself. But now he let it go not willingly as we read in Romans eight. So that, you know, what Jesus did on the cross, you know, he will reconcile all things back to him. So God had this future hope that, you know, when Jesus dies on the cross, he will reconcile everything things on earth, things in heaven. Will be made peace to the blood of his cross. Okay. Ephesians chapter one was 14. Can I read faster? Yes, please Sasha. Who is a guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire position of it to the praise of his glory. Thank you. So here we see that the Holy Spirit has been given to us as a deposit as a guarantee until, okay, which means that there is more to come. Okay. You know, he's the guarantee of inheritance that we are the redeemed possession of the purchase possession of God. And it's the Holy Spirit that has been given to us as a deposit as a guarantee reminding us of our inheritance that we are, you know, the purchase possession of God because we have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. You know, there is more to come. This is not just what it is for us, but there is more to come. You know, it says until the redemption of the purchase possession. So we are partly redeemed, but we will be fully redeemed. Like, you know, I said when our mortal bodies will be changed to immortal ones. So the redemption, you know, until the redemption of the purchased position. So there is more to come. And that is what the Holy Spirit is, you know, testifying to us is assuring us that he, you know, and he's a deposit. He's a guarantee and he's saying, you know, we have received this, but there is something more to come. And what is that? You know, we are partly redeemed now, but we will be fully redeemed. So coming back to Romans chapter eight, you know, looking at these verses from 18 to 23. It says we suffer in this world and we wonder, you know, why it's because of all of creation is subject to corruption and decay. But there is a hope. There is this glorious liberty of the children of God that even as we have experienced redemption in our body in part now, we will experience it in full in the future. And also this hope that God will redeem all things, all things in creation and all things in each one of us, you know, he will redeem it back to himself to its original position, to its original glory and grandeur and the way that he purposed and designed it. Okay. So we'll just move ahead. Looking at verses 24 to 28. So can somebody read that please 24 to 28. Master, can I read? Yes, sure. Thank you. And this hope is what we say, what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping. However, we hope for something we have not yet seen and we patiently wait for it. In certain ways we are weak, but the spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for the spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words. All of our thoughts are known to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the spirit as a spirit prays for God's people. We know that God is always at work for the good, for the good of everyone who loves him. They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose. Thank you, Master. Thank you. So here he is for saying we have this hope of the redemption of all things in creation and also our bodies which he has spoken about. And he says, but hope that is seen is not hope. We cannot see hope and that is why it is hope. If we see it, then there is no need for us to hope for it. But because we cannot see, that is why we have hope. Now hope is something we look for and something that's going to happen in the future. And all we can do for it is wait patiently in endurance and perseverance. So like Elijah asked, how do we sustain the hope of the glorious redemption in the believer? One of the things is we just put our faith and trust and the hope of what we have already received. Like what he already has listed out to us in Romans 5, 6, and 7, the full benefits of the cross that we have received because of what Jesus has done on the cross. He has enlisted so many blessings, spiritual blessings that we will receive, the physical blessings. We also have the Holy Spirit that dwells in us and we've also seen the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. So how do we sustain ourselves in hope is we look at what God has given to us and why Paul is writing out all of these things and enlisting all of these things. Because he's basically telling the Jews, don't look just at the law and the circumcision ritual. Keeping that is not going to actually do anything much to you because he talks about what is the role of the law and how it's just kind of highlights sin for us, but it's not something that empowers us to keep the law. And also he talks about circumcision. He says you look at Abraham. He talks about Abraham in chapter 4 and he says Abraham was not justified by faith because he did the circumcision ritual before the circumcision ritual. The sign of the covenant was given to him. He was justified or he was called righteous by faith because he believed in Jesus Christ. So it's your faith. So what do we do to sustain the hope of the structure, glory, redemption and the believer is to put our faith in all that God has done for us on the cross, what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross. We need to live by that. We need to establish the student by that we are dead to sin. Because we are dead to sin, we can't sin anymore. And sin has no longer dominion. So all of these truths are not supposed to just be in the Word of God, but these truths need to enlighten us. We need to live these truths. These need to become a reality. And also we need to recognize the role and the work of the Holy Spirit, fellowship with him because he is the one who testifies to us. He's the one who reminds us. He's the one who enables us. He's the key to help us to overcome the sinful deeds of our body. And here Paul is saying, how can we wait in anticipation for this future hope? He says, all we can do is wait for it in patient endurance and perseverance. So we go through sufferings and he's talked about different kinds of sufferings, sufferings which he mentions about the evil deeds of our body. The second suffering is because of his mention here in these verses, verse 18 onwards to 23 is talking about the corruption and the destruction in this world. Okay, we all go through suffering. But what do we do? We don't give up. We fight. We stand. We put on the armor of God. We stand and we fight because he's given us everything we need for life and godliness. And the Holy Spirit is there in us enabling us and helping us. He's the key. And all we need to do is to be patient and endure and persevere and to live conscious of what Christ has called us to, who we are. Like I just mentioned that the hairs of God co-hairs, which means that we are seated in heavenly places on the right hand of the Father. Remember, we talked about our position in Christ Jesus. We are dead. We are crucified in Christ. We are buried. We are resurrected with him. We ascended with him and we're also seated with him on the right hand of the Father. So this is our position. So we take hold of our position. We speak to our situations. We speak to our authority because we're living in the spiritual dimension of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is in us and through us, the power and the authority that God has given to us, it permeates. It penetrates into the situation and the places that we go through. So we are not dominated by situations, but we dominate situations that happen in our life. How do we do it by speaking God's word? By using the authority that he has given to us and we stand our ground and fight. And that is why Paul even says, you know, sometimes we need to be like childlike in our faith where we just trust God and receive everything. But sometimes Satan withholds the blessings that Christ has accomplished for us on the cross. And what do we do at those times? We don't just remain childlike and wait for God to. We need to be militant in our spirit. We need to be aggressive in our spirit. We need to take back what is ours. And for that we need to be militant and aggressive and violent in our spirit because the kingdom of God suffers violent and the violent violence and the violent take it by force. So some of the things that God has already given to us, we need to know what it is and we need to take it because it is ours. And sometimes we need to press in, fight in the demonic forces and God has given us every weapon that we need. And, you know, and that is how we can sustain this hope that we have the future glorious redemption of our body and also put our hope and trust. Yes, there is a future hope, you know, all our present sufferings is going to do away with and we have this future hope. Okay, so in verse 26, interestingly, you know, Paul transitions into prayer and we will talk about this in our class on Friday. Okay, so did I help answer your question, Elisha? Yes, no, anyone has any questions? Any questions anyone has? Okay, if not, we'll end class. Thank you all for joining and yes, Elisha. Sorry, we do not hear you. Thank you. Thank you, Asha. Thank you. Thank you, Siddhant. Thank you so much.