 Okay, welcome back. Got a good breather. All right, let's continue where we left off. So in the last class, in the last session, we covered the origins of the church and how church is Jesus' idea, God's idea. It belongs to Him and He is the head and the church is His body. And because He is eternal, the church is also eternal because we are part of His body, right? We started looking at the spiritual dimension of the church, which is the church is the Christ's body. We'll continue from there on, okay? The section says the church is Christ's instrument to execute His purposes. The church is Christ's instrument to execute His purposes here, okay? So the notes, it says the body executes what the head commands, isn't it? So, you know, push this, hit someone, okay? So the body executes what the head commands, isn't it? So both here in the present age and in the millennium. So when you look at Daniel chapter 7, verse 18, it says forever and ever and ever. Okay, so it's pointing towards millennium. So you can look at the verse a little later. But here's the thing. And the section says the church is His instrument to execute His purposes, okay? So remember, we are His instrument. Now I just want to play us something which kind of will give you a nice idea of what I'm talking about. So let's see. I hope you can all hear this, okay? Or it would have been nice for you all to see it, but it's okay. I'll share the link. This is on YouTube, okay? So he's giving a demonstration or something. Hey, James, back on the sound board guy. Is this guitar on? Turn this guitar. What I want to do, I want this guitar to be very loud in the house. And I want my voice. You don't want the guitar real loud in that monitor, of course, because you'll get some feedback. I want my voice very loud in this monitor. Okay, guitar loud in the house, voice loud in the monitor. Hallelujah. Oops, sorry, moved too close. Hallelujah. Holy Lord. Holy Lord. See, that guitar is responding to the sound of my voice. Holy, holy, holy. Okay, very quickly. Can you all hear how the guitar is responding to the sound of his voice? Okay, let's continue. See what it's doing. It's hearing the sound of my voice and it's saying, I agree. And the Lord is speaking to a generation that is waiting for us to hear this sound of his voice and become instruments of worship. Did you know what I was talking about last night or this morning? When I was talking about the enemy Satan himself, he didn't have to leave worship with a guitar. He was a guitar. And then we got his place. And now we become instruments of worship unto a holy God. Because we hear the sound of his voice come into agreement with it. Holy, holy, holy. Okay, so yeah, we can... That whole teaching is amazing. I'll share that link with us when we can, when I can. But the point I wanted to make was that it's here. It says that we are God's instrument to execute his purpose. Just like what was happening as an example there as a demonstration is that if we have the year to hear the things of heaven, what he is saying, like the guitar will come in agreement and say amen and release that sound of heaven here on earth. Isn't it? You see how praise and worship is still linked with the local church. Even we are called as God's instrument. And so of everything what God could have done, he is all powerful, all mighty, all knowing, everlasting. He could have used the angels or any creation for that matter, isn't it? To accomplish his purpose, but he chooses to co-partner with us. One of the points that we learned in healing and deliverance class is that he's just looking for that opportunity to join hands with us, to partner with us and to establish his will here on earth. You know, just like the word says, Joel's prophesies, in the last days I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. He's looking for a human being to accomplish what he wants to do. He's looking for someone who will say amen and come in agreement with him. So that is another spiritual dimension to the fact that we are called as the local church, is that we are called to execute his purposes. As it says in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 23, we are called to be the complete representation or representation of Jesus, of Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1.23, I'll read the message Bible version in your notes. It says, the church you see is not peripheral to the world. The world is peripheral to the church. Now what is the meaning of peripheral? We say peripheral vision. What does that mean? I'm looking at you, but with my peripheral vision, I can see it in, that's called the peripheral vision, like towards the thing, isn't it? So that's what it is. So here is saying, see the church is not peripheral to the world, but the world is peripheral to the church. That means our eyes is fixed on church, not on the world. But like Peter, my eyes is not fixed on the waves, on the storm. It's fixed on Jesus. I'm sorry, I'm pointing my finger at you too because... So it says, the church you see is not peripheral to the world. The world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body in which he speaks. Look at that, that's amazing. The church is Christ's body. He's not just saying that, in which he speaks and acts. If he wanted to, he can just show up to the world and say, stop having these debates, guys. You see who the real God is. If he wanted to, he can do that, isn't it? But he wants to co-partner with us and through the church, his body, he wants to speak. That means he wants the church to be his voice. And he's saying if he wants to act, that means he wants the church to be his hands and his feet, like do what I want you to do. Go where I want you to go. Are you with me? And by which he fills everything with his presence. Let's read the amplified classic edition as well, Efficiency 123. It says, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all for in that body lives the full measure of him who makes everything complete and who fills everything everywhere with himself. It's a very good version to say, wow. Okay. Right? Yeah. So the church is a complete representation or the re-presentation of Jesus Christ. Okay. And then again, it goes on to say another spiritual dimension to it is that every believer is a member of Christ's body. As it says in 1 Corinthians 12 27. Now you are the body of Christ and members individually. So individually and as a collective, we are the body of Christ. Okay. Now we've looked at the spiritual dimension. So let's look at some of the natural dimensions of the church. Natural dimensions. It simply means the tangibles. Okay. Anything that is natural means okay. Anything that you can see, touch, feel is what we would call it as natural, right? Everything that is off the other kingdom, we call it a supernatural, which is natural in that kingdom. Okay. But the natural dimensions of the church, that means the tangibles, the things that you can see and hear and feel. Okay. So let's look at those dimensions of the church. So first Timothy chapter three was 14 and 15. Paul is writing to Timothy who is the overseer of the church Ephesus, right? Timothy is overseeing. He's one of the leaders at this time before he becomes an elder and a pastor. In other words, Paul is writing to Timothy in first Timothy chapter three was 14 and 15. These things are right to you that I hope to come to you shortly. Now this chapter, you know, if you go to any church website, if you go to their employment page, if they have an employment page, or if they are hiring a pastor and whatnot. Let's just say, for example, so-and-so church is looking for an associate pastor. The requirements are he should have a heart according to first Timothy chapter three. So all of this will be mentioned. Okay. So it's like, yeah, guys. He's saying when verse 14, these things are right to you, though I hope to come to you shortly. But if I'm delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth. Now eventually we're going to look and focus on all those words separately. But you see the choice of words that Apostle Paul is choosing to say to refer to the house of God church is the house of God. Okay. And hence the publication. Okay. The name is titled house of God, household of God, household of faith is all used as synonyms. It's, you know, as alternative to the local church basics. So when you say the local church, I'm saying it's the house of God. I'm saying it's the household of God. It's house of God means that means that's where God kind of dwells. Yes. No, maybe. Okay. Okay. So look at Ephesians chapter 2 verse 19 and Galatians chapter 6 verse 10. They're all in the notes. Let's just give a quick glance at it. Ephesians 2 19 it says, now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners. Okay. I've said this many times. Anytime you see the word there for you need to ask yourself, why is it there for? Okay. That means you have to go into chapter 2 from verse 1 to 18. Okay. We're not going to do that, but we'll come. So now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and the members of the household of God. In other words, the local church, in other words, the house of God. Okay. So in chapter 16, it says, once again, therefore, as we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are off the household of faith. Wow. Okay. There's so many titles to the house of God, right? To the local church, the household of faith. Okay. So the notes that says the term house or household refers to a family. Okay. It simply refers to a family. Now we'll discuss about this in second section. Maybe talk about God's blueprint in detail and whatnot. Okay. So let me just ask this question. Is it important for us to be part of a local church? What would be some of the reasons some individuals are not part of the local church? What would be some of the reasons? Why is a few individuals who claim to be Christians, borderline Christians, Christians, borderline Christians, agnostics, atheists, atheists forget it. But what would be some of the reasons why a few individuals choose not to be part of the local church? They don't like rules and regulations. So they don't like to come under the supervision or in other words, they don't like to come under the leadership or they don't like to come under the authority. All the words I'm thinking. Okay. Supervision leadership. They don't like to submit submission. All of that. Denominations. Okay. Clean shave, white and white. Okay. The doctrine, the doctrine might not be right for them. Okay. Of a local church. Okay. Sorry. Lazy. The nail on the head. Who's going to get a brush? One day leave. I get six days. I work for 18 hours. I work. Some of them go to the evening chat, but they go. No. My point is my question is, okay, why do they do want to be part of a local church? The challenge is the lifetime. They want. Isn't it? You don't have a lot for Jesus. You can't even go for work on Sunday. Work on Sunday. Okay. Nina says the significance or the importance of is lost of being part of his body. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Some of them, let's say experience. Some of them might be offended or hurt by the church. Yeah. Like, okay. Because I don't like the way that this church treated me. So I'm not going to believe in Christianity. It's a possibility. That is the reason why some of them would not want to be part of a local church. It's like hypocrites or hypocrites, you know, Christians. Christians are supposed to be known for their unconditional love and extravagant love. But no, they're not a bunch of judgmental people. University Christians are not known for that. Isn't it? They should be. If we are, if we are the exact representation of how Jesus is called us to be, the whole world will be evangelized. Isn't it? Some of our church names are bigger than and longer than, you know, I don't know. Okay. The church also, some more names to the church and full India will be evangelized, you know. So, but yeah, so what are some of the reasons that can you think of that? Everything that you've said, yeah. Okay. Fear. Yeah. Okay. Fear. They'll judge me because how I look and what I do, etc. Okay. All right. Let's talk about, sorry. Right. He has something like anything like anything. So he is doing like this and what he teaches. So some local people used to think like this. Okay. If he's like, he's doing this and he's teaching us and he's not able to apply these things and what he will teach us, what he will, so. So not leading by example, in other words. Okay. The leader of the church is not leading by example. Okay. So you're, you're not walking the talk. In other words, as I say, right? They're just talking. Practice what you practice, what you preach. There used to be on older Sunday school song. I'm not sure if you know this, but your walk talks and your talk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks. Have you heard of it? Yes. Your walk, not in darkness. Okay. But it's a lovely song. I sung this in like my Sunday school and I still remember it. Your walk talks and your talk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks. And so one of, I forget this person, but the name of this person because a very complicated name. He said the greatest form of influence is example. It's not one of the form of influence. It is the only form of influence that the greatest form of influence is example. So you say you want influence as leaders as church. We want to influence people as a father, as a son, daughter, whatever. Or let's just say as a parent, for example, when I read the quote that my first thought went, that's the thing. It's like the only, the greatest form of influence is example. And so it's so dangerous living with my son because I will do 99 good things. I will do one wrong thing. And he'll happen to notice only that. And so is this, is this crazy, isn't it? So we are called to represent Jesus as a local church and whatnot. So the notes, it says, why should you be part of a local church? A couple of points, I just don't want to go through the whole thing. It says it is within the local church that you and I live out of membership in Christ's spiritual body, which is the church, right? It is in the church that we grow spiritually in our maturity and whatnot. So that way you look at it is very important to be part of a local church, like to be part of a community where you are strengthened and equipped and empowered where God's word is taught without compromise, isn't it? Right? So it's important that way to be part of a local church. I mean your motivations and your intentions can be questioned, will be questioned. Are you going to be part of a local church simply because you want a space in the burial ground when you pass away or you can have access to the church when you get married? You know, sometimes that's exactly what happens. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, there can be certain benefits of being part of the local church. Now, are you part of a local church for the benefits you get from them? Or you are just part of the local church because you love Jesus and because you are growing spiritually, right? So that's where we grow spiritually and in our maturity example, right? And so when we say that we are the body of Christ, parts of our body is not flying around floating somewhere, you know, it's like the head is somewhere, the hand is somewhere, the leg is somewhere. It's a very weird image, isn't it? Yeah, it's not a very pleasant. So, but we all function together. He is the head, he speaks, we obey. And that's why it's very important for us to come together. And I think God made that point very clear when he said that it is not good for man to be alone, right? In his intention. So, and from the beginning, and I've said this so many times from Genesis to Revelation, one of the things that he keeps saying, you're repeating book after book after book is that I will be your God and you will be my individual. You will be my people, you will be my people, you will be my people. And the last chapter, why does last chapter of the Bible in Revelation 22, it finishes with the city, God talking about a city. It's a collective thing, isn't it? Right? And even about when you talk about the life of Jonah, the only thing we think about is the whale, fish, whatever, and three days that he was in the belly. But the last verse of the chapter says, should I not have compassion on this great city? And city is made of what? All of you are listening and awake. Okay, so the city is made of people. Exactly. So his heart is always for the people. And that's why it's important for us as a church to come together in unity and understand all this truth about the beauty of the church and the wonder of the church and be his instrument. Are you with me? Yeah, okay. So now let's move on to the next chapter. I'm skipping a lot of things because it's all, go through it when you can. The second chapter talks about the purpose of the local church, its mission, message, and methods. In chapter one, we looked at the origin and its spiritual and the natural dimensions of it. So here in this chapter, we look at the purpose of the local church. It has three purposes, three simple basic purposes. Now remember, again, when we started off the session, I did not say that I'm going to give you a bunch of steps. This course is not about giving you a bunch of methods, ten methods, or techniques, or skills, but it's about the heart of God, what the Bible has to say about it, isn't it? So according to the word of God, the purpose of the local church, one is its mission. So what is its mission? We look at Matthew chapter 28, verse 18 to 20. It says, and Jesus came and spoke to them and saying, all authority has been given to me. You see from Matthew 16 to Matthew 28 how the language changes now, when it comes to authority, right? Has been given to me in heaven and on earth. So now it says, go therefore and make the disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe, another translation would say obey, teaching them to obey all things that I have commanded you. I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Now all he is saying is now, okay Jesus has won the victory. He is saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth, okay? And now then he says, therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them. The key point here is, he says go and make disciples, basically he is saying go preach and teach, but he is not saying how to preach or how to teach. He is not giving them any methods or techniques. He just says go preach and teach. Are you with me? And he tends to do this a lot across the Bible when you read even Joshua chapter 1, Joshua chapter 1 between verse 6 and verse 9. Okay, you can read it later. Joshua chapter 1 verse 6 and verse 9, he is telling Joshua, don't be discouraged, don't be dismayed. He is saying, but instead be encouraged. Sorry? I will never leave you in office. Let us be encouraged. Don't be dismayed. Be strong, be encouraged. Be very strong, be encouraged. So between verse 6 and verse 9, he is saying that at least three times. He is saying don't be discouraged or you are saying be encouraged and be strong. Be encouraged, be strong, be very encouraged, be very strong. Not once does he say how to be strong and how to be encouraged. But in verse 8, between verse 7 and verse 9, he gives a small hint. Don't let the word, don't let my word depart your heart. Meditate on the word. You know, he is kind of giving you a clue. Okay, so similarly here, he is saying go and baptize them, you know, and make disciples of all the nations and whatnot. It doesn't exactly give the exact methods. Okay, start one, step one, etc. This is how you are to preach and teach and whatnot. So the mission of the local church is very simple. What is it? We just looked at it. The great commission. Yeah, go make disciples. Yeah, baptize them, preach the gospel, teach the gospel. That's the mission. So and how is that connected with the local church is now the great commission help establish the local churches and the local church helps in accomplishing the great commission. You see how that goes hand in hand, right? The great commission helps establishing the local church and the local church helps accomplish. It's like a cycle. Is that clear? Right? So that is the mission, you know, and the purpose when it comes to the local church. And so when Jesus says preach and teach or make disciples, so that means what is the message? What should be the message? The gospel. It's as simple as that, right? The gospel is the message of the church. Okay? So we are to preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Right? The work that he completed on the cross, the healing, the salvation, the deliverance that he's made available to all of us. Okay? Hey, just a side note. Are you not feeling warm? I mean, you can put on the fan if you want to. Guys, ask and you shall receive. The Bible says you have not because you ask not. Hey, how's everybody online doing? All okay? Samuel, Lovely, Prabhu, Nina. Awesome. Okay. Okay. So what should be the message of the local church as we are at is the gospel of Jesus declaring what he has done, the message of the cross. That was pretty much the only message of the first century church. Right? They preached Christ crucified and that he rose again from the dead. Right? That was the only message. Like now somewhere along the way, we've kind of seemed to have lost the wonder of it, of that message of the gospel. But as again, Paul says, and you know, time and time again he says, this is the gospel of power. We don't need to add anything to it or subtract anything from it. Right? It is powerful enough. So he's encouraging us to preach the gospel and that is the purpose of the local church. And then he also says that preach the whole council of God. So it's in your notes and if you're looking at PDF or in your hard copy, where are we? Page 16. At the bottom, it says as ministers, we are to preach, teach and proclaim the whole council of God. So that means that the whole council simply refers to the sound doctrine. Nickel. Doctrine. Right? So we said some of the reasons can be the doctrine of the church and whatnot. So he is saying, preach the whole council of God. Preach and teach the whole council of God. So it simply means don't just preach grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace, grace. Now if you preach just about grace and miss out and you don't preach about truth, you're missing out on the whole council. Right? And if you don't teach about, say if you're only teaching about the truth and you just leave, you don't talk about the holiness of God or you don't talk about any other different aspects of God. How about he's faithful? He's merciful. So many other things, isn't it? So what we are encouraged here to do is to preach and teach the whole council of God. Everything about who he is needs to be taught. Don't get caught up in just one thing. And that's what people need to hear. Everything about who he is, isn't it? So I mean, I let y'all go through the Bible verses there that is mentioned in your notes. I don't want to go through it. And so what that will do is when you're preaching and teaching the whole council of God, that will guard you from every false doctrine. Now because, let's say you focus on just one topic. Like, you know, it is, it's like the horse, you know, like you're just fixed on one thing and you might leave out everything else, isn't it? Why is that important? Because another attribute or another aspect can validate another aspect. Right? Now the truth can validate what the, what the grace of God is. Now when you're speaking only about grace of God, you might miss out some of the truth that can support this. So it's very important to go back and forth. And so that will protect you from all the other false doctrine, isn't it? So when people understand the truth, they will be able to identify the error and stay away from it. So you all know how people identify fake currencies, right? How do they identify fake currencies? By being in touch with the real. By being in touch with the real. Yeah, thanks. So what they do is the person study the authentic note really well. They don't, because they can be any number of fake notes, fake currencies, isn't it? Like, there can be so many things. So they study the real, authentic, credible currency really well. And so when they know the truth really well, okay, so this is how it feels. This is how everything should be. When they look at a fake one, they're not wasting time. It's like, yeah, this is fake. Are you with me? So when you understand the whole counsel of God really well, and you let the Holy Spirit teach and reveal the things of God to you really well, you will know it. You will know when a doctrine is false. Yeah, so yeah, that's that we are to preach and teach the gospel. We are to preach and teach the whole counsel of God. And that will help us identify false doctrines and whatnot. Okay, so we have the mission. We have the message. And then finally we'll talk about the methods. Okay, so the methods we must be, when we use must be aligned to the standards and the directives set forth in the word of God. You know, you might be like, okay, hey, Roshan, I thought we're not going to discuss about methods. You know, we are not. We're simply looking at what the word of God has to say. Okay, the word of God says our methods must be pure. In other words, it shouldn't be impure or we shouldn't deceive or manipulate God's word for our own benefit. Okay, we must not use deceit or manipulation to achieve our objectives. Now the objectives can be anything. I want to be all knowing or all powerful in the South, you know, Karnataka, I want to be the richest pastor or my ministry should be famous. So I will do whatever I have to do to make it rich and famous. I was taking a class for the final years on worship ministry and I was just telling them how worship ministry is a priesthood and how worship ministry is now become an industry. And so ministry in general, in a sense, it's lost that essence that it's a priesthood, guys. It's only about serving. It's not about fame or gain or to make your name known, your name famous. It's not about that. But somewhere along the way, we have lost, right? The blueprint of God has become peripheral for us and the world has become the main focus. Isn't it? The who? The K-love awards, okay. I've heard of it, yeah. Essentially. Right, right. Yeah, as in we learn more about that in worship ministry next year about what do you think about awards and whatnot. We won't discuss about it now. But in general, the point here is that our intentions and motives should be pure. That's the point here, right? Methods, it doesn't say what methods you should be using but whatever you choose to do, that should be pure. Right, is it acceptable unto God? That should be the question. Isn't it? I mean, it's so important all the time for us to get the question right. We need to know how to ask the right questions, okay? Because there was a time, so I was helping out a ministry called Face to Face along back and I mean, still friends with them. But in 2011, we started doing the leader of the ministry wanted to do like a seven day nonstop, you know, praise, worship and word intercession and whatnot, right? So seven days, when we started doing that, one week, one seven days, I think it has 166 hours. I'm not sure. 24 times seven, you can calculate and tell me. So we were spreading the word across the city. We were inviting people, you know, it's like, hey, we're going to have this 24 seven prayer word and worship and whatnot come and join us. I think in 2011, it had not happened a lot. So it was, I think, happening for the first time for seven days. So the question, these were the questions that kept coming up. Hey, why are you all doing it? Are you all trying to set a record, a world record of some sort? You know, the questions were very different when the question should have actually been this. Is Jesus worthy? Is Jesus worthy of your seven days of 24 hours worship and intercession? Is he worthy? He is worthy, isn't it? So that is the question. So when you ask, when you look from that perspective, everything changes. It's like, yeah, he is worthy. And that's why we're going to do this, not because to make our name famous, right? Not to create a record or whatever, whatever, right? And so, I think as leaders and everything that we do, we need to keep our hearts pure and, you know, very transparent. Make that prayer like the psalmist cries, or search me and know me and see if there's any wicked ways in me. Constantly be before him. Lord, search me and know me. The audacity of that prayer is so profound. Search me, Lord, and know me. I want to do this. Is it aligning with your will? Is this what I'm hearing, right? Because we were called to be instruments and whatnot. So methods ought to be pure. And another important point there is not offensive yet without compromise. Let's go to page 19 at the bottom. Because I'm leaving out a lot of scriptures so that you can just read by yourselves, okay? Not offensive yet without compromise. That simply means you have to speak the truth and you speak it in love, okay? You speak the truth but you speak it in love. Now, let's take an example of LGBTQ or homosexuality, you know, homosexuals. There's only two response to that community from the world. The response one is they are hated on other responses that they are accepted or they are affirmed. They are hated or accepted. Now, as a Christian, I cannot hate them because of the Word of God. I cannot hate them because of the Word of God. I cannot affirm them also because of the Word of God. Yes or no? I cannot hate them because of the Word of God. I also cannot affirm them because of the Word of God. But that does that mean do I compromise or dilute the truth of what the Word of God says? I cannot change the Word of God or add to the Word of God. It's not my book for me to change anything. If I was the author of the book, I will go back, re-edited, okay, version 2.0. I can't do that to the Word of God. Isn't it? Just to accommodate a community. I speak the truth. This is what it says. But I do it in love. I'm not hated. Isn't it? So that's the method it says, don't be offensive. And yet there are times when you speak the truth in love and you don't mean to offend someone. People will still get offended. But you cannot help. But what is your intention? Is your intention going up the pulpit just to offend people? Again, it comes down to the purity and the intentions of your heart. Isn't it? Everything kind of flows from the abundance of your heart. Isn't it? You speak. So you don't compromise yet. You speak the truth in love. You demonstrate spirit and power. Be spirit-led. That's the point of all of this. Be spirit-led. The methods or the methodology has changed over the years. It will change. The worship that happened in the Tabernacle of Moses was not the same methods used in the Tabernacle of David. The methods changed, but the principle remained the same. The methods of giving 2,000 years ago could be very different from the methods we give. But the principle is what? Giving. It's the same. It doesn't change. And so we are constantly inclined to the Holy Spirit, to His leading, to His guiding. What He has to say, what He has to teach, what He wants to do in and through us. So that's basically chapter 2, guys, is that we remain sensitive to the voice of God, to the leading of His voice. That we remain a sheep of flock that knows the Master and hears the Master's voice and knows His voice. Are you with me? Right? We know the Master's voice and hear His voice. And one of the things that I'm concluding with this, one of the things that God wanted to instill into the people of Israel when He was bringing them out of the land of Egypt, is that for 400 years that they were in Egypt, 400 years is equivalent to 10 generations. For 10 generations they are used to seeing the gods of Egypt. They are used to seeing and the land where they come from called Goshen, land of Goshen where you read in Exodus, isn't it? It's a plain. That means you could see for 10 kilometers of what is ahead, who is coming, who is going. They could see. So they were used to being a people of what they saw, the tangible, the natural. But when they came out of Egypt, now they are suddenly in the wilderness. They are these mountains and hills. They don't, they can't see around 10 meters and they panic. They cannot see. They don't know where exactly they are going. And so what God wanted to teach them was to become the people who will hear His voice and follow His voice, that He is the shepherd. Now you read the Scriptures time and time again in Deuteronomy. It says that He led them like a shepherd in the wilderness. And the sheep will only follow by the leading of the shepherd's voice. And so we as a church in John 1010, I mean John, not 1010, but in John chapter 10, He says He is the good shepherd. He is the good shepherd. And time and time again in Scripture says He is the great shepherd. He is the chief shepherd. And so as a local church, we ought to live life or live according to what we hear, what He has to say continuously. Okay. So that's chapter one and chapter two. Thank you all for joining. We'll conclude today's session and I'll see you all again next week. Okay. Thanks for joining everybody. God bless you. See you.