 So as we start, I just want us to look at one verse, which is pretty familiar. It's Proverbs 16 and verse 3. Proverbs 16, verse 3 talks about committing our works to the Lord. It says commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established. So what does this commit mean? Commit means to surrender. Commit means to hand over your works to the Lord. So not in terms of whatever I need to do, I'm committing to you and now it's on you. I'm not going to do anything. It's not that. It's like the burden, the weight you hand over to the Lord. And the second part of the verse says that your thoughts will be established. So we know that we need to have clear thoughts to have clear action. We need to have clear plans in order to have clear action. Clarity of thought leads to clarity of action. Because if we are not sure, then that will show in our action what we are doing. Maybe in our speech also. So here the promise is that when we commit to the Lord, when we are handing it over to the Lord and saying, Lord, I need help with this or I need wisdom. Or you're saying, Lord, I need your anointing, your approval, everything. Then the fact is that the thoughts will be established. Right down to the thought level. Establish means what? It means to make strong, right? Make stable. So our thoughts can go here, but he'll make it stable. He'll make it strong. He'll make it steady. So that what comes out of our thought, which is speech and action, will also be of the same manner. It's such a beautiful promise and something that we can put to practice. When we look at, you know, challenged by huge tasks. When we are challenged by, you know, like overwhelming or impossible deadlines or overwhelming responsibilities or when we're challenged by the complexity of the things. You know, it's so complex to solve the problem. Where do I start? So when we commit to the Lord, he establishes our thoughts. You know, we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us who establishes right at the thought level so that what flows out, speech and action will be established as well. So, yeah, so this promise is for us, for us to experience daily, right? So let's do that. Let's just commit maybe, you know, maybe we have certain things that is pressing on us and, you know, the tasks to be done, responsibilities to be carried out. Let's commit that to the Lord and expect our thoughts to be established by him. Father God, this morning, as we come before you, Lord, we commit ourselves to you and commit the tasks or responsibilities that we have. Father God, a big or small God, we commit it into your mighty hands, God. We roll it off our back, Lord, as a burden and onto you, Master. And Lord, even as we do that, Lord, we thank you for this promise that you would establish our thoughts. Our thoughts will be established. And so, Master, we pray that may our thoughts be made strong. May our thoughts be made stable, Lord. And I pray that our speech and action, Lord, which is required to fulfill the responsibilities, to fulfill the roles and tasks, Lord, that will be strong as well. That will be established as well. And so, God, we thank you for this promise. And Lord, may this be a reality in each one of our lives, Lord. And we reach out in faith of Father God, knowing that this is your desire for our thoughts to be established, for our actions to be strong, because you have great plans and purposes for us, Lord. And the way that you lead us, O God, in parts of righteousness, is to fulfill, Lord, your will and your plans, O God, for our lives. And, Master, we pray that we would experience this daily at a thought level, Lord. We thank you in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, we've been looking at some practical things, right? And we looked at, like, I think we looked at different forms. Where did we stop yesterday? Sorry. About ministering as a pastor, ministering as a pastor, ministering as a visiting minister, right? Okay. So, in the appendix, which is an additional, you know, section, we have some notes. Okay. Now, these could be, these are overlaps of what we have already seen, right? Something on authoritative speaking and so on. So, I'm not going to go through everything. I'm just going to touch upon some things. Let me just share the notes here. Okay. One is about the thesis and the antithesis, or antithesis, however you want to say it. So, thesis is something that you're stating. Something that you're stating, saying that, okay, it can be a simple statement. Like, God is a good God. Okay. Now, that is a theses, right? Now, the antithesis is something that is the opposite of that, which is God is not good, right? God has, does not have your good in mind or God is not always good. That is antithesis, right? So, whenever we are, maybe in a message, it's good to have that tension or pieces and antithesis, you know, what is it that you're stating and what are the things that are opposing it? Okay. So, we can build on the theses and we can also present the antithesis. Okay. So, which means that what is the antithesis to that? Okay. For the statement, God is a good God. You know, how do you, how do you present that? It's obviously based on the nature of God, the character of God, what the word says about God, what Jesus came to represent as a father and how he lived his life, his ministry, et cetera, the redemptive work of the cross, all that goes on to prove that, you know, goes on to state that God is a good God. Now, what would be the antithesis? The antithesis could be, you know, why is there evil? Why is there suffering? Right? In the world. You know, why is, why are there wars? Why are, why is creation not perfect? Why is there corruption? You know, because of which people could come to the conclusion of the antithesis. Okay. So you get these, the terms are right, you know, you get the clarity of the terms like theses and antithesis, something that you're stating, something that just the very opposite of what you're stating. So, so one way to present is to build, to state both, right? To state what the theses is and to also state what the antithesis is. So when we, so what happens when we present? Okay. This is what, you know, these are some views that we have. Why God does not exist or why God is bad? You know, these are some views. And then when you present the theses and those very arguments that, that are there to state that God is not a good God. And from the theses, when you present and reason, present reasons for why God is good, which could be, you know, and the reasons for dismantling, you know, these ideas why God is not good, then it becomes a very powerful message, right? It becomes a very clear message, right? It is not just, you know, you have to believe because I'm saying it kind of a thing, but you're actually giving those reasons, scriptural reasons and whatever reasons are there to refute that are also being handled, right? In a scriptural manner, right? So, so it's good, it's good to, you know, know this, it's good to present this in this manner, right? So that is about the theses and the antithesis. Now, if it's going to be a short message, if it's going to be a brief message, now we may not be able to present a lot of theses and antithesis, you know, it could be maybe at the most, maybe two points or three points, right? But so you need to be aware of that, you know, if it's a due to the, I mean, the time duration of whatever you're presenting. It's good to understand that and then present accordingly. Okay. Okay. I'm just skipping a few things here because it's we've already seen that developing a burden. We said, okay, earlier that you need to be, you need to have in your heart how you need to be passionate about what you are actually speaking about. You can't be detached about what you're saying, you know, this is something, the job I need to do, I better do it. And, you know, it can't be like that. So we need to have a burden and which means that you are engaged, you know, in your heart with your emotions about this particular thing that you're talking about, whatever it is that you're sharing, that your heart is engaged in it. You know, there is a burden for it. You know, if it is a, you know, if you say burden, normally we associate that with the burden for souls, right? Have a burden for souls, God got a burden for souls to be saved. That's the normal thing. You know, I also have a burden so we present that, but it's for any topic that you're sharing about, anything that you're sharing about. So where you are, you are so consumed, you are so wrapped up in the subject, right, in the truth that you're presenting. You know, certain quotes here, John Stott supposed to have said, so possess the truth that it possesses you. Like, Jeremiah 29, Jeremiah says, you know, his word is in my heart like a fire. A fire shut up in my bones. I'm weary of holding it in. Indeed, I cannot. Jeremiah 20 and verse 9. So he's saying, you know, it's, it's, I got this word, what have I got in my heart, this message of truth in my heart and it's like a fire within me. He's saying that it's just burning bright. It's burning. It's like a raging fire and I need to, I can't hold it in. I need to share it. Right. So come to that place regarding the message. Right. So which means, how do we come to that place? Right. You take it through the Lord and get revelation about it from, from God. Get to know God's heart and, you know, you be moved according to God's heart. Okay. And God, God is like, okay, I have compassion on this and you are feeling totally, you're not feeling any compassion. Okay. Sometimes you're feeling, Hey, how can I have compassion for these people? How can I have compassion for these kind of people? Right. But God says he has compassion. So the thing is to pray and ask the Lord, Lord, I want to see the way you see it. I want to see this. I want to see these people. I want to see this. I want to get your viewpoint. I want to get your heart. That's the only way that we will have the same heart that God has for it. It could be a, it could be, you know, it could be a perspective, meaning, you know, it need not be just people. It could be about something about the truth that is being stated. Right. To have the same perspective to come in agreement with God on that. Okay. So that's, so that is preparation of the heart. That is preparation of the heart. So many times it's, it's not just putting information together, but it's really come to have the same kind of emotions or feeling that God has about something. Right. Okay. Okay. Some things here, some practical things on developing a burden. Okay. How do I develop this? What is a burden? First of all, worry about, okay. See, when you say burden, it just means a weight, something that is heavy. Right. That's all. It's a bird. When you say it's a burden, you know, like we call donkeys and horses, beasts of burden. Why? Carry that load and keep going. Right. So burden is just a weight. He's a burden to me. So he's constantly worrying about something. So, but here it's used in a positive way in the sense that this is a weight that I feel about this matter, about this, you know, about this social evil, about this whatever, you know, this condition of people or, you know, the spiritual state of that particular church, you know, so you feel a weight in your heart. Right. So that's why we call it a burden. So how do we develop that? And, you know, the fact is that it is necessary at all. Right. Yes, it is because then otherwise we can be totally detached from the message that we are sharing, that we are preaching. Right. A few things here, carefully focus on your own life. You know, how has God changed my life in understanding this truth, etc. Right. And of course, engaging with the word of God. What does the word of God say? Because the word of God is alive. The Holy Spirit lights up the word. Holy Spirit reveals the word, speaks, writes the word upon our hearts. So, so when we pray and when we allow the word to get into our hearts, right, so in our hearts, and that's the wonderful, you know, that changes everything. Right. It's like switching on a light in a dark room. Right. Okay. You know, some other practical things is ask God for a vision. Okay. Ask God for a vision. Okay, God, you know, these are some practical things, right? So, Lord, if they actually receive the truth, this particular truth, how will their life change? If they receive it, if they walk in it, how is their life going to change? Right. So, and obviously when you, when you actually visualize it, you see that, wow, this is it. You know, their life is going to be totally transformed. They're going to be walking in victory. You know, they're going to be passionate about, about the Lord and so on. So, we, we think of that. We ask God, God, you know, how can this, how, when they change, how will it be? So, when you, when you see that, when you realize that, then that gives you that burden. Okay. I need to really share this. You know, this is God's heart. I need to share that. And this is how their life can totally change. Okay. Okay. So, the other thing, we talked about the theses and antithesis. We can also, you know, how, we can also think about and pray about, you know, how people's lives in our culture are totally changed because of the the opposite of what you're actually going to be sharing, the truth that you're going to be sharing, how people's lives have changed, or how people's lives have been deceived, how people's lives have been destroyed. Now, that also gives us a burden. Right. Okay. So, these are some things that we can work on. Okay. Okay. The, I think major points, illustrations, applications, we, you know, we looked at that earlier. So, I'm not going to go into that. I just want to, you know, go into this section on different ways of presentation, like the methods of presentation. Just point number seven, right? Steps number seven. Methods of presentation. Okay. So, your your message can be structured. Like, we looked at word study. We looked at topical study. We looked at inductive kind of a, you know, sermon. So, it can be that, but within that, you know, overall picture could be that, that could be the overall direction, but within that, you know, how else can I present to be effective? Okay. The first one can be an argument in the sense. Let's say, let's say, you know, create like, for example, a topic like creation or evolution. God or science. Right. So, you can actually preempt or anticipate. These are some of the arguments that people can present. Okay. So, just like the thesis and antithesis, but you've got, so you're saying, okay, these are 10 things or 10 things that people state, why, you know, reasons people have for science, why people believe in science or evolution and so on. So, it's a, it's an argument. So, you present that argument. These are the arguments people have and you, you know, you kind of address that argument from the truth of God's Word. Okay. So, you know, this kind of a topic is great for that. Right. Things like God or science or evolution or creation and what else do you think, what else do you think can be good for this kind of a, this kind of an approach? What do you think? Is social drinking okay? Like a glass of wine. You know, these kind of things, right? So, these are, you know, which anything else that you can think of? No, no, what other topics do you think can have this kind of an approach? Like an argument, presenting an argument which has against the topic and then from the scripture stating what do you think? What else? Head covering. Head covering. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Right. So, it may not be very, very apparent, right? So, but it's still there. It's not like it's not there, but you know, maybe so things like entertainment, social norms, like these are things that can actually be very effectively presented, very effectively reached. Rather than saying, okay, this is what God says and then you go through various things, you know, to really bring it out and say, you know, an argument, you know, this is an argument from, you know, can I, can a pastor go to a movie theater? Can I, you know, uh... Yeah, so, so that's, you know, can a pastor act in a movie? Oh, even more scandalous. So, you know, things like that. Right? Is it okay for a Christian to be in politics? Right? Can a Christian be a politician? Mm-hmm. Can we do? Can pastors be businessmen? Yeah, so those kind of things. But I think that kind of is there, you know, like because in, I think sometimes in villages I've seen pastors have like catering business, you know. All weddings come here. You know, those kind of things. Shalom caterer. So, yeah. So these kind of things are, you know, it's good to have, you know, this method of preaching where you anticipate, you know, and you bring out all those objections that could be there from society, from, you know, all the questions maybe, and you answer it, right? And, and if you look at, you know, some, go through Corinthians, Paul actually uses some of this, right? This is what about head covering and about this matter, about that matter, and then he addresses each of these topics like that. Okay. The second one could be an admonition. What is an admonition? You know, warning, rebuke, right? Consequences, you're talking about a, admonition is like, it's a strict word. You're actually rebuking someone, rebuking a particular or bringing a kind of a you're bringing a remedy to the situation, but at the same time, you're addressing the person or the group of people who are indulging in certain things, right? So you're bringing in correction rather. That's an admonition, right? So you know, it could be about serious things, right? Serious matters which maybe the Lord has put in your heart to bring, right? It could be about sexual immorality. It could be about something that people are still continuing in. Maybe it's about look, warmness, you know, about their spirituality and so on, right? Some practices which are detrimental to the faith, right? To the church, to their own spiritual life, things like that. So you know, the thing is this, it has to be approached, you know, admonition is necessary, right? Paul finishes, right? He talks about, he used some strong words, right? Galatian church, what does he say to the church and to the Galatians? He said, you foolish Galatians, right? Who bewitched you, right? Who cast a spell on you? And he, why is he saying that? Because they were saying that, yeah, Jesus saves, but you need to keep the law in order to do the work of the spirit or, you know, or you need to be circumcised, etc. So, you know, he comes in very strongly, but we need to understand that it has to be from the perspective of grace, okay? So it cannot be, you know, of course we give the consequence, we give the warning, this will happen, but we also need to present the way out. You can't lock the person in a room, you know, and throw the key away, right? It's like saying, hey, now I'm stuck. What do I do now? We need to say, hey, this is the key. I'm giving you the key. The door is locked, but you need to use the key open, and that's the way of grace, that there is a way out, which is repentance, which is coming back to, you know, restoration. It is possible, but this is the way, you've been given, you've been offered a way out, just Christ Himself, right? So while we give, you know, we need to admonish, we need to be direct, and certain messages are, and we can, but it needs to come from a place of grace. It needs to come from a place of humility, right? So sometimes it's just that it doesn't come from, it comes from a place of arrogance and pride and anger. Anger, not about the issue, but about the person, right? And it completely breaks, destroys, right? While we need to be stirred up, you know, with righteous anger about what is happening, but it has to come from a place of humility, right? It cannot be from pride and arrogance, okay? Another way to bring in conviction is an indirect conviction, like we see in Scripture about how a prophet made then in this conversation with King David, right? King David. So he brings in conviction. So that can be, you know, an approach as well, where we see that, hey, this is the evil in society, or this is the condition of the church, you know, there's, maybe there's prayerlessness, maybe there is, you know, great, you know, very passionate on Sundays, they come worship, but then during the week, there's absolutely no difference in their lives to the way other people live, no difference in their lifestyle, no difference in their values. So they can be an indirect conviction, right? So how will you do that? Story. Yeah. So you would say, okay, about some person, about some, this thing, and then about this man, this woman, this church, not you, but someone else. Some people say that, no? I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about someone else, and then continue with the message. Yeah. So I've heard this, you know, where a person talked about the prodigal son, right? And then, you know, he just went through that whole thing, but we realize the focal was actually on the older brother, right? So he said, hey, some of us are like the older brother. The church sometimes is like the older brother, right? The person is repented, the person is gone away, but we are not taking them, you know, we're not reaching out to them. We say, hey, this person let him stay condemned, he's cornered, let him never come back to the father's house, you know, but the father's heart is that the younger son comes back. So he said, hey, some of us are like that. We're like the older brother, right? Yes, we know the condition. Yes, that person has made some terrible mistakes, but what does the father do? What is the older brother doing? And are we not like the older brother, right? So it was a very indirect way of convicting the attitude of people's hearts. So that was the thing. Okay. Then an appeal to God's love, concern for their well-being and needs of others. It can be an exhortation. So it can be, you know, it can be with a lot of statistics and an appeal for change. Then another one is vision casting. The possibilities of what can happen when people gather together to pray, to do things, you know, together in unity. So you cast a vision, right? This is the possibility. This is where we can go. This is what God wants us to do. Okay. So give the big picture. And so vision is about possibility. It's very positive. It's very encouraging. And it really lifts individuals and collectively also, you know, it just stirs up people to say that, hey, this is a possibility. This is something that I can become in Christ. This is something that, you know, our family can become. This is something that our marriage can experience. This is something that, you know, I can be as a father, as a mother, as an individual, you know, this is possible in life, right? So it's a casting of a vision. So we're not talk, we're not presuming something. We're not just giving some positive talk, right? The sake of positive, you know, thinking. Sometimes it's like that, you know, like you see on the Internet, a lot of things, you know, positive affirmation, right? Just being positive for the sake of being positive. But this has a root in Scripture and you're painting the possibility, the bigger picture of what Scripture, of what God's heart is, right? So we can present that, right? Okay. Then it can also be a dilemma resolution. This is similar to the argument, but it's more like questions, okay? This is what is the problem in society, okay? This is what the issue is, you know, maybe something like gender confusion, right? This is the problem. There's an issue, right, at the school level, college level, you know, people are having confusion and it's more and more, you know, increasing and then the answer from Scripture. So it's more of a questions, right? Question and answer, which is the next thing as well, right? So the dilemma truth is more of an issue, but here it can be a question about any topic, you know, what is something and then you answer it. You know, what is born again, being born again or who is Jesus? You know, questions like that, right? And then you answer that. Okay. Okay, you can go through some of these things. I'm not going to repeat it, right? Stating the thesis, justifying teaching methods and so on. Okay, yes, we have three more minutes. Let's look at some of the laws of dynamic Bible teaching. Okay, so we are on page 55 in our notes. Okay. Some laws or it just gives us a focus or emphasis what we should focus on, what we can emphasis on. Okay, first thing is to be learner oriented. Okay, meaning that you are actually thinking about the audience first. What is it that they need to know and understand and you're focusing on that, your whole teaching. We're not talking about preaching now, we're just talking about teaching a bit. So your whole approach is to meet that need to be learner oriented. What is it that they need to learn? So, which means that the pace of which you do things can change, right? Or you can even change the intensity or whatever you had planned. Maybe you plan to talk about 10 things but then you just focus on maybe 2 because that you realize that that is where people are at. You've changed it according to the need of the congregation or need of the audience. And it's always that needs to be the approach because that is what is going to be beneficial to the hearer. So because what is the use if you've presented wonderful facts, if you've presented beautiful things but it's not really benefited the hearer. So they might say he spoke good things but I didn't understand. He spoke very wonderful things, complex things beautiful but then what is your take home, I didn't understand it. So, learner oriented. The second one is expectation oriented. So, have an expectation about the audience that you expect people to come to this by the end of the message. Expect fruit. Sometimes we can be very negative like we are thinking about it and I don't know what will happen. It's natural to think that way. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know I don't know people will understand me or not. Because we are having all those fears maybe we are focusing on ourselves but then have that expectation which comes from a place of faith saying this is what it is that people, God is moving it's not just me yes I'm going to be speaking but then the Holy Spirit is going to be speaking these words Holy Spirit is going to convict their hearts so you have that expectation that it's going to be changed. The third thing is application oriented. So meaning you know when we explain things and then if there is no application, we talked about application. Application is really taking the truth and living it. Taking it back and living it so have that let the teaching be application oriented. What is that one thing? At least one thing that I can take back and do in my life right? Retention oriented. What is retention oriented? When they go and they leave can they remember the message? What is it that you are doing to enable people to remember? See I still remember the message that was reached during my wedding. So the pastor talked about forces. He talked about communication he talked about care, he talked about concern and then there was one more. I always have trouble with the fourth one. There were forces. So I remember that. So when you are communicating when you are sharing help people retain it and some people are so good at it like some acronym maybe you are preaching on love L O V each point maybe four points you presented start with so it is easy for them to recollect. Need oriented and equipping oriented the next couple of things based on the need based on what you want to equip them for okay. So we will stop here. There are some practical things about what to do with the teaching. It might seem a little extreme. It talks about practicing, it talks about sharing it with another person who is experienced etc. So you can go through that. So we will stop here and then like we were discussing next class which is next Tuesday we will have two hours online students so 9 to 950 and then 10 to 1050 as well and during this each one of you will present so come prepared all of you come prepared it is going to be randomly picked up it is not according to alphabetical order it is not going to be reverse alphabetical order also okay. So it is going to be a lottery so online students also so online students just make sure that you can switch on your camera switch on your mic and then you can present. It is going to be only for 10 minutes right. If you want the question was do we have to have a PPT to present it if you want, if you think it will help you can otherwise you don't have to. Thank you. God bless.