 New month, new quarter, new lesson. Welcome to the Teen's Cornerstone Connections lesson from the teens of the Nairobi Central Seventh Day Adventist Church. We're very happy that you could make it to be here with us today. You should have a lot to look forward to. First off, we're gonna have some wonderful music from Amy and we're going to have the lesson discussion done by our panel, which consists of Sid, Ashley, Misati and our wonderful Teen Teacher, Teacher Bridget. So we hope that you enjoy and that you feel at the feet of Jesus. Thank you. And by so fast, and we're grateful to God, the theme for our lesson for Cornerstone this quarter is Lying in the Sand. And as we shall be studying this lesson, we'll see why exactly it's entitled Lying in the Sand. But just to give a bit of context, Lying in the Sand actually means to set a limit beyond which someone cannot go without suffering serious consequences. So as you study the lesson this quarter, we're going to see why, why did they choose Lying in the Sand? Now joined here, I have three panelists with me and I'd like each one of them to introduce themselves, starting from my left. My name is Sid and I'll be taking you through the punchlines in Sabbath. And my name is Ashley and I'll be taking you through into and out of the story. I am Misati and I will be providing the lesser light that will guide us to the greater light. Let us pray. Our kind and loving Father, our Savior, our human friend, we come before a throne of mercy, grateful that you have led us this far and also asking that you may illumine our minds and remove every preconceived idea that as we read your word, you may be open to understand and to listen to the promptings of your spirit. Be with us now for this humble prayer in Jesus' name, amen. Thank you Ashley. So our lesson today is entitled The Trust Test. The Trust Test. And these are very interesting photo if you turn with me to your lessons, whether it's online or if you have a hard cookie. These are very interesting photo that has been put there and I'm sure most of us have, you know, maybe tried that trust test where there's, you know, someone behind you and you're challenged to just fall into their arms. And you know, if you're given someone to actually do that for you, you know, you'd have to look at them and see how is their physique. Like, are they tall enough? Are they strong enough to support me? If it's someone who's smaller than you, for sure you'd have your doubts. You'd be, truly, I just cannot trust that you're going to support this weight. And so we're going to have a look and see why are we being told that this is a trust test. Time and time again we've been studying about the Israelites and how they left Egypt and now they're just about to get into the promised land which is Karnan, a journey that could have taken them about two, roughly two to three weeks ends up taking them 40 years. Currently 38 years. 38 years, this is where we are today. So now we're at 38 years, but eventually it will be 40. And you wonder why should a two week journey take you 40 years? And so that's what we're going to be studying today. So I'd like to invite Sid to take us through the what do you think sections? Okay, so we're going to decide. All of us will decide whether you agree or you disagree with the statements. So the first one is God expects us to be 100% certain before we step out and choose to obey him. So I'll go first. I think I'm going to disagree with this because God always, like, he always, he's always willing to give us a second chance, a third chance, even if we, like, we commit sin, he's willing to give us more chances. Miss Fati, what do you think? I think that there's always doubt and God will never remove every single doubt, but he will give us enough evidence upon which to base our faith. And because of that, we will never be 100% certain. So we just need to understand by doing the doctrine. Yeah, and the thing is, God says, as your day, your strength shall be in measure. And I don't think you need 100% to go through one day. You may need a certain percentage, but of course God doesn't expect you to do everything all at once, all in one go. So I also disagree with this statement. So the second one says, God expects us to follow him with blind faith in his leading. I am going to agree with this one because just like the Israelites who have been traveling for 38 years in the desert, Moses has to blindly trust God to lead them through the desert and into the promised land. As Ashley has said, he gives us sufficient evidence for us to base our faith on. So it's not that he'll just call you in. You just have to follow him without any evidence at all. There's always something that he's given you for you to actually say, you know what? There's one step I can take. I may not see the entire staircase, but I have that one step. So I can actually take the first step and then other steps will just come up subsequently. Any other thoughts will be on that? I don't think I would call it blind faith because we walk by faith and not by sight. So it's more of we see, though not with our physical eyes, but with the eyes of faith. And I believe that faith or the faith that God requires of us is never blind because I see blind faith as someone just doing something without evidence, but God says, taste and know that the Lord is good. He doesn't say, eat the whole buffet or eat the whole cake. He says, you know what? Just taste, have a little bit then trust in the little bit of what you have tasted and believe that the cake or the rest of the food or the juice tastes as good as what you have really tasted. And the last one is God expects us to use reason in facts to make our decisions about his will. I'm going to agree with this one because the Bible gives us facts and reason to make decisions about his will. We are intellectual beings and in Isaiah 1, 8, God says, come let us reason together. So he gives us the ability to reason and as much as we are currently minded and our reason may be distorted, we are not to totally depend on our reason, yeah? But if we would think, one picture says, as you listen to me, think about everything I say. Don't just follow me blindly because I thought and I said the Bible says, so as much as yes we need to think, our reason may be distorted but God also gives us the ability to discern. In Isaiah 55 where it says that his ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. So it means that our thoughts are very different from his but as Ashley had said, he gives us, you know, ability to reason with him. What is written in his word, we have the ability to go and read and think about it and say, does this actually make sense? Yeah, is this in line with God's will? So truly God has given us that ability, okay? See, thank you. So which do you think is a more effective way to learn? Learning from others, mistakes or from their good example. Choose one and explain your reasons and then think of an example. Ms. Arti, why don't you start? So I think the question is whether it's best to learn from our own mistakes or from the experiences of others. And I feel it would be, it's actually best, best, to learn from someone else's experiences. However, there are certain things that your own experience holds more weight than someone else's experience. Let me give you an example. If God has come through for you, that holds so much weight because you're like God, the High and Holy God who lives in an approachable light, decided to make his dwelling place with me and grant me pleasure in this opportunity, that is. And I think that holds a lot of weight. When it comes to something that is so intrinsically tied to what you value and what you believe, I feel that your own experience holds more weight. However, when it comes to mistakes, I believe that's why the Bible is full of so many stories. It's like you do this, this happens. You do this in this way, this happens. You try and switch up the variables, kiddo, go. If this still happens. And I think that's for mistakes, it's best to learn from others. Yeah, the one person said that the wise learn from other people's mistake, but the full weight to make his own mistakes. But you know, there are things that if you make the mistakes, you might never live long enough to make the right decision after that mistake. For instance, if you take poison, you'll die. Will you wake up and say, oh, you know what? That was poison. I will never take it again. It's not possible. So it's best to learn from other people's mistakes. Man, that's true. So in the lesson we're given a story. There's a story told of someone who's called Houdini. So Houdini was a locksmith. A locksmith is someone who is able to make and to repair any locks of doors. So it so happened that Houdini was known to be among the best locksmiths. So he could go to any jail cell and he was able to open it and he could escape. So in England, there's a certain city where they decided, you know what, we're going to make this jail cell and we're going to make sure that no one is able to escape from here. And so they said to test it, we're going to call this Houdini and see if he's able to break away or break out of it. So he says, I have two conditions. You have to give me my privacy, complete privacy, I don't want any security. And two, you let me get in with my civilian clothes. So they let him do that. Those two conditions are satisfied. So he goes in. So he goes in and he sits alone. So under his belt, he had a rod that he used to get into the hole of the lock. So he tries to unlock for hours and hours and hours on end. And he gets so tired that he eventually falls. So he falls against the door and the door just opens. And to his surprise, the door had been unlocked that whole time. And you know, he was like, oh my goodness. Why didn't I think of this before? I've spent so many hours and here the door was unlocked. And so the point of this story that I want to bring is that sometimes we always try to do things our own way before seeking God's way. So you see, like for him, the door was already unlocked but he was trying to do what he was always used to doing. So that's part of the lesson that we're going to learn from our story today. And so I'm going to invite Ashley to take us into the story as we proceed. Our story today comes from Deuteronomy chapter two verse one to 14 and how we did. Then we turned back and set out towards the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill, country of Sierra. Then the Lord said to me, you have made your way around this hill country long enough. Now turn north. Give the people these orders. You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives, the descendants of Isu who live on Sierra. They will be afraid of you but be careful. Do not provoke them to war for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have even Isu the hill country of Sierra as his own. You ought to pay them in silver for the food and the water that you drink. The Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These 40 years the Lord your God has been with you and you have not lacked anything. So we went on pastoral relatives, the descendants of Isu who live in Sierra and we turned from the Arba Road which comes up from Ilath and Ezion Gabba and traveled along the desert road of Moab. Then the Lord said to me, do not harass the Moabites nor provoke them to war for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given out the descendants of Lord as a possession. The Amites used to live there, are people strong and numerous and as tall as the Anakites. Like the Anakites they were too, they too were considered refites but the Moabites called them Amites. Horites used to live in Sierra but the descendants of Isu drove them out. They destroyed the Horites before them and settled in their place just as Israel did in the land that the Lord gave them as their possession. And the Lord said, now get up and cross the Zered Valley. So we crossed the valley. 38 years had passed from the time we left Kadesh-Baner until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp as the Lord has sold to them. Amen. Thank you Ashley for taking us through that. So that was from Deutronomy chapter two verse one to 14. However I'd encourage you to read the entire of chapter two and chapter three as well so that you get more context into this story. Now it's interesting that God told us in the Bible that there are only two people who left Egypt who are going to make it to the promised land. And that's Joshua and Caleb which means that everyone else who left Egypt died in the wilderness. And that's what we are seeing. So basically these people who are seeing here it's a new generation of people. All the others have died. So these people are just about to take over or to inherit the promised land which is Canaan. And so there are some people that they have to pass through their land. And as we had seen even from last week's lesson, for example the land of Edom where the descendants of Isau lived they had to pass through their land but remember how the descendants of Isau told them, you know we wouldn't let you pass through this land. And so they had to go around which even took them more time. And we can see in today's story they are going through the land of other people and God tells them, you know these people don't fight with them. I will let them give you the chance to go through this land. But there are some people if you read chapter three whom they had to fight and they had to conquer the land. And so we'll see how God used them. God promises them that they're going to conquer despite them not even having the warfare, despite them not having prepared for battle but it's just a show of trust. So God is testing their faith to see if they believe him. Are they ready to inherit this promised land? There's just so much that God can do for you but there's also that bit that you need to do to show that indeed you trust God. So there's a part there in the did you know section that says maybe said you could read for us the did you know part? Okay. Did you know that the several groups of big people are referred to in the Bible? Nephilim existed very early in human history. Raphim occupied the land prior to the Canaanites. Anakim lived in the south near Hebron and were defeated by the Israelites under Joshua. Amim, a warrior tribe of giants that were defeated by Chedolamere and his allies around the time of Abraham. Yes, so we can see that these Israelites actually it's like they were taken back to where the ancestors or let me say the predecessors had been before. So it's like they're being given the same test that the ancestors had been given before. And so it goes on to say how big were the giants the Israelites faced. Moses says we were given the same test that the ancestors had been given before. Moses says we saw the Nephilim there. The descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim. We seemed like grasshopers, can you imagine? You know when we were small we used to catch grasshopers and put them in boxes and feed them with grass. And you can imagine someone being compared to grasshopers. Oh my, so he says that we seemed like grasshopers in our own eyes and we looked the same to them. Why might the 10 spies have said this? In any case, the enemy was unmistakably large making the miracle of God's victory equally large. So to me what I'm seeing here is that God made them go through the same same experience that the predecessors had gone through to test them and see did they learn from what the ancestors went through? Are they ready? Are they prepared to occupy this promised land? So we can do out of the story Ashley. Just before we do out of the story I'd like to add on to what you said and I'd say that this happens to us in our lives. We go through the same temptations until we are able to overcome them. And if we fail, the Lord has to make us pass through that road again. So the faster we pass the test the better for all. The better for all of us, yeah. Before entering the promised land is the question. Why do you think God made the Israelite wander and wait 38 years before coming back to this pivotal point? So I think the thing is, okay, the first aspect, though it was slightly cruel, is I think God wanted to kill off just enough of them. Or he wanted to ensure that the generation that had partaken in that scene was eliminated that is. Or in other words, he wanted to make sure that the ones who had muscle memory in committing muscle memory and committing the scene were not there, that's one aspect. The other aspect would be, of course God says that he punishes three to four generations and then they are hereditary sins. And I think God just wanted to give them enough time to prepare for the supplementary. That is, if you're given a test and you fail it, you're not given another test the following day, so to speak, you're given some time just to compose yourself and take the test. So God wanted to be fair because he's a just and fair God. Amen. And also just to say that their unbelief in God just made them waste so much time because any time they did not believe, then God would take them through a test to make them think about their lives again. And so it really took them so, so long for them to get to Canon. And how is this applicable in our lives today? Are we going around in circles? Are we delaying the coming of the Lord? Peter says that God does not delay his promise as many count him slack, but he's not willing that any of us should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Are we delaying the work by not asking God for forgiveness of our sins and working daily, moment by moment to overcome the things that easily beset us? And the next question would be, how do you think the Israelites felt when faced with the challenge that their forefathers had failed 40 years before? Sid, what do you think? What do you think? How would you feel if you were to be put under the same circumstances your grandfather was? If you were to apply this today, a lot of people would say, uh-uh, why are you putting me through this? I mean, my ancestors already go through this. But see the Israelites, like if I was one of them, I would feel like, you know, the our ancestors have gone through it. We are going through it. Will our, will the next generation go through it? And like that, like that. I think that because your ancestors went through it and they did not pass this test, and after listening to history and all that happened, you'd be more eager to go through this and have a breakthrough and you'd be thinking of it as, if I can go through this, that my child and my generations after me did not go through this, I will brave myself out and pass this test. So to our parents and to us as well, one person once said that there's things that you do now, your children will, you do now moderately, your children will do in excess. To be magnified. Yeah. So what is it that we, what are the things that we cultivate in our day-to-day lives that are going to be passed on to the next generation? And how can we, by our habits and show that the next generation does not fight with the sins that we are fighting with now? Amen. I remember when I was in high school, there was a topic in chemistry, so I did chemistry. So when we went from two, we were told that, when you get to from three, there's a topic called molds. Yeah, I'm sure if you did it for four and you did chemistry, there's a topic called molds. And we're told molds is a very hard topic. In fact, just prepare yourself to fill that topic because many people had failed it before. Of course, they chosen few who had passed it. So by the time we went from two and almost transitioning to from three, we were just thinking, oh my God, are we going to make it through this? So we said, you know, we're going to put in a lot of effort just to make sure that when we get there, we don't fail like those who have failed before. So I'm thinking maybe even this Israelites, having heard that in our fathers failed this test, you know, then why don't we ask God to guide us through this test that he's subjecting us to again, yeah, so that they can be able to overcome it. And even as we said in the what do you think section, it's important and it is wise for us to learn from others mistakes. Yeah, so that's it. So what is the central point, the central lesson taught in this story? I guess following God's command would save us a lot. And following his command, like keeping God's commandments benefits us. And the difficulties that fill us with dread will vanish as soon as you move forward in the path of obedience, humbly trusting God. So God knows that it's not easy. He sympathizes with our difficulties as much as he does give us strength to obey him as we walk this road, yeah. Amen. Just before I invite Misati to take us through the flashlight, I want us to turn to Deutronomy chapter two verse seven, which is the key text for our lesson today. Deutronomy chapter two verse seven, which says, the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These 40 years, the Lord your God has been with you and you have not lacked anything. To me it is a mystery that when the Israelites were starting their journey from Egypt, all they had was, remember they had borrowed jewels of gold and silver from the Egyptians and they had just eaten the Passover. And of course they had just some few clothes that would take them for, you know, the prospective two to three weeks that they were supposed to go on. Now you know if I was to ask you when you're traveling, you always, the first question you ask is, where are we going and how many days are we going for? So that you know, okay, I need to pack X amount of clothes. But these people, thinking that the journey would be short, probably didn't even have as many clothes, for example. They were like, okay, we're going for two to three weeks, so we just need X amount of clothes, for example. But here they are roaming for 40 years. And it's a mystery how their sandals didn't wear off. Their clothes were not torn. Whenever they would complain that they're lacking water or food, God would always provide. When it was cold at night, as it tends to get really cold in the wilderness, God had, you know, the fire. During the day, he would have the cloud to shelter them from all this heat. And it's just a mystery and it's amazing how through all these 40 years, God worked with them. And you know, it's for us to think about and wonder, if God worked with them all these 40 years, what about us in our daily lives? Do we start to question God in the simplest of things? You know, why is this thing going like this and why not like this person? We look at others and they're doing better than us and we're like, why is person X doing better than me? So our lesson today is encouraging us that God truly works with us. And if we look at how he has led us in the past, then we should be careful to truly trust him, even in future events. So I'd like to invite Smisati to give us more insights on this lesson. So patriarchs and prophets chips in and I shall read in your hearing. It says that everyone who seeks to follow the path of duty will at times be assailed by doubt and unbelief. They will sometimes be so barred by obstacles, apparently insurmountable as to the certain those who will yield to discouragement. But God is saying to such, go forward. Do your duty at any cost. The difficulties that seem so formidable that fill your soul with the dread will vanish as you move forward in the path of obedience, humbly trusting in God. And I see right here that it has struck me that the Israelites asked for what they needed in the wrong way. God instructs us to ask him in faith. So instead of the Israelites, for example, when they reached a place where they ended water, instead of complaining like, hey, God, monomer to Tuaukko, like, why have you taken us from there? And why have you come, why have you brought us to the desert where there's no water and there's no food and we are starving? I think they could have asked in faith, how that have sounded like. They would have asked, when will we stop to get a water break? Where or when are we going to eat our supper? I mean, so I mean, in essence, they're asking in faith, you see. And I think that's how we should begin asking God that even when we face difficulties, instead of saying like, God, why me? It's like, when will this end? Or I am ready to endure this for I know the plans that you have for me and the thoughts you think toward me. Amen. Yeah. And to tie this in, does the presents us with an interesting idea? We have had the adage that the devil is in the details, but God is also in the details. That is, because God is there in the smallest things. Often the things that God does for us aren't like humongous things or he does small things in big ways because if you were ever to be critical with ourselves and ask ourselves, what made that experience, what made an experience exceedingly amazing for you? It would be that something small, maybe someone complimented something you were wearing or someone was there for you or someone was there to hear you out, those small things. And I see that's where God usually comes in and that's how God is in the details, even though the devil may try and pass into the details, you know, God is there and that is where he originally is. You know, we kind of have this thought that God is superficial and he only deals with the big things of life. He doesn't care about our convenience or whether we like things or not, but we forget the fact that God is the one who created us, the personalities. We have the specific, the fact that we specify the little bit of details. Say, I can't wear that color, there's nothing wrong with it, but you just can't, that's just not me, yeah? So as much as yes, God is a God of big things, he's also a God of details and he also loves to dwell on the small things. Look at the petals of the flower. There are some petals that are different color, who made them in those very details? So we can trust God even with the tiny, bittiest details of our lives. Amen, amen, what a beautiful insight. So I'd like to invite maybe Misati to read for us Psalms chapter 22 verse four. And even as he's preparing to read that for us, I just like us to brainstorm. You know, the Bible is a book that is filled with so many characters who have shown leaps of faith. For example, if you remember the story of Neyman, Neyman had leprosy. Now, if you study the science of leprosy, it's not a disease that any of us would want to have. And remember the treatment quote and quote that he was told is to go and dip yourself seven times in the River Jordan. Now, you know, I'm thinking he went in the first step and he was like, no, no, no, no, no, I cannot do this any, please, one is enough. It was Monday. It's too much. So he didn't, he said, okay, fine. I need to get better. So I'll go in the second time. And it was even worse than the first. But anyway, eventually he got to the seventh and he was cleansed and we're told that, you know, his skin was like that of a baby. Yeah, and so we have so many characters. Take for example, the time when the Israelites were beaten by the fiery serpents. Now, also being beaten by a serpent, you know, there's all that science that happens where your coagulation cascade is activated and eventually you're going to start bleeding. You'll start bleeding really profusely and your blood pressure will go really low. So I'm thinking that, you know, they were told that you need to look upon that bronze serpent and maybe they didn't even have that energy. They were like, you know, maybe their eyes were closed and they were so weak and so tired and they're being told, look at that bronze serpent and you'll be saved. So it wasn't an easy task. It had to be a look of faith. And so maybe Misati, you can read for us Psalms 22 verse four so that we get what insight they have for us there. So Psalms 22, four tells us, our fathers trusted in you. They trusted and you deliver them. And for those two stories you gave, something that struck me as quite interesting, taking the example of the serpents, for example. Someone's beaten by a snake and then you tell them, oh, look at that, look at another snake. And this other snake will stop your blood from coagulating. And someone just sits down and asks, like, God, are you serious? Are you serious here? I'm supposed to look at a piece of metal shaped like a snake and I'll be okay. And then the case of Naaman, River Jordan, we know was a very dirty river. So the man had leprosy, but he also had his own pride, his own ego. And then I'm considering that if River Jordan was like the Nairobi River we see here, then I'm like, hey Naaman, Naaman had to have a lot of morale because it's like, he's told that if you do this, you become clean. But it's like, why should I throw myself in dirty water? For me to be clean. I could have been told, go back home, get like a nice clean lake and just go deep, deep, deep. I think even Naaman would have gone swimming because he's like, this is nice. In fact, he raised on that and he said, I mean, I come all the way from Damascus and he tells me to dip myself in this muddy river. Don't I have good, beautiful rivers back at home? So as much as yes, we are supposed to reason out. Sometimes we cannot reason out and it sounds foolish. Look at us, we believe in a Christ we've never seen. It sounds foolish, but because we have the evidence of faith that everyone who meets Christ works in the same way. In the same way, you encounter Christ, you all can't shut your answer, but you encounter Christ, your life changes and we conform to the similitude of heaven. That is evidence enough to base our faith as much as it might seem ridiculous in the eyes of men. Yeah. Men. So I'd like to invite Sid to take us through the punchlines for today. So for the punchlines, we'll each pick a punchline that speaks to us. Maybe you have a friend who, you know, that faces a challenge that seems impossible. So for me, I would pick, I can do all this through him who gives me strength. That's Philippians 413. And someone that I know that faces a challenge is my sister. She has challenged with physics. Physics is very difficult for her. And she always, she's, every, before each physics exam, she's always like, oh God is going to help me pass this exam. God is going to help me pass this exam. So yeah. Amen. I stick with Psalms 22 verse four, which we've just read that says, in you, our ancestors put their trust. They trusted and you deliver them. And it's just an assurance to me that from times past, God has been faithful and he does not change. To this day, he will still be faithful no matter what obstacle you're going through, no matter what challenge it is that he's taking you through, he's taking you through that challenge for your tests, for your faith to be tested. Though you have not seen him, you love him. And even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious joy for you. You are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. That is 1st Peter 1, 8 and 9. And it is true that obedience brings joy. So we are already receiving the end result, which is inexpressible joy and glorious joy for the end result of our faith and the salvation of our souls. So I'd encourage every one of us, it might be difficult to start on the path of obedience, but to once you experience the joy, I think a year or so ago, I was going through challenges and I was thinking, where do I have to bear? I mean, get lost, I'll enjoy life for a season and then get lost at the end. And then I came across this quote in mind character and personality that says, once you taste the goodness of the Lord, nothing else will satisfy you in life until you go back to Christ. So you will never really find satisfaction after you have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, unless you keep yourself stayed in God. So for the joy that is in the fulfillment of God's promises, I'd encourage us to keep up being. And some may trust in chariots, some may trust in horses, some may trust in nuclear weaponry, but we will trust in the name of the Lord. Amen. And that is, yeah. Amen. So just to wind up, Ashley, if you don't mind, you could read for us some further insights. The further insight. Faith is trusting God, believing that He loves us and knows what is best for our good. In order to strengthen faith, we must often bring it in contact with the Word. Amen. We must often bring our faith in contact with the Word of God. And that's why we are here, studying the Word of God. You know, sometimes we forget, but when you go back to the Word of God, it reminds you that He has done it before for so many others. Why shouldn't He do it for you? And just to conclude, at the start, we sang, a song was played by one of our teens, Amy, that was entitled Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise. In light inaccessible, hid from our eyes. Most blessed, most glorious, the ancient of days. Almighty victorious, thy great name we praise. And so just in line with our title of the lesson, the trust test, I want to challenge you to try God's way first before you try your own way. Try that even in the simplest of things. Try God's way first before you try your own way, and you will see a difference. So I'd like to invite Sid to close for us with prayer. Let's pray. Oh Heavenly Father, we can be filled with this beautiful Sabbath morning. We thank you for this wonderful day that you have given unto us. We pray that all the people watching have understood the lesson and that they may glorify Your name for this and by praying in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Join us next Sabbath, as we shall be studying about Greed, the Bottomless Pete.