 Good morning everyone. Good to see three of you join class today. Not sure what happened to the rest. Do you think we should wait a couple more minutes for the others to join or should we begin class? Should we wait for now four of you are here, five, okay? We just wait for one or two more minutes so more of them can join and then we'll begin class. Is it fine with all of you if you can wait for a couple more minutes or do you think I should begin class? No answers? I think we can start first. Okay, we'll start. Okay. Okay, let's begin. Can I ask Rosalind to just lead us in prayer please? Rosalind? Yes. Thank you. Let's pray. Thank you Lord Jesus. Hallelujah Father God. Wonderful Lord Jesus. We thank you Lord. We thank you for this day. Thank you for this beautiful morning Lord. Even as we have gathered here to learn from your word Father God, we ask you to please help us Lord, help us through your Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit Father God. Please guide us as we go through your word. Please give us the understanding. Let the spirit of revelation be released in this place for each and every one of us to grasp what we learn and to study it and apply it in our daily lives. Thank you Lord Jesus. So we'll be able to teach others also. Father God I also pray for our dear pastor. I thank her Lord this morning as she teaches us Lord it's not her but the Holy Spirit through her. Thank you Lord God. Bless all the children who have joined and those who are yet to join. Thank you Lord. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you Rosalind. So last week, remember what we were studying about? Last Wednesday and Friday, what did we study on? Which doctrine did we study? Justification and sanctification. Thank you. Yes we studied about justification and sanctification. So what is justification? For those of you who can't unmute your mics and answer, please feel free to type your answers in the chat section. So what does justification mean? The term justification or what does the doctrine of justification mean? Justification means God makes us just as we have never seen through the work of the cross. Thank you Paul. John, justification is because of Christ's work, the finished work of Christ on the cross. God the Father sees us just as if we have never sinned. It's because of Christ's work on the cross that we are acquitted. We are declared as not guilty. We are completely forgiven by the Father. We are seen by Him just as if we have never sinned and we are made in no sin. So that happens the moment we ask Jesus to forgive our sins and be the Lord and Savior of our lives. So it's an instantaneous legal act when God considers us as forgiven because of Christ's righteousness that belongs to us, that has been imputed upon us or put into our account. And we are declared righteous in God's sight. Then we looked at some of the practical implications of justification and then we looked at the doctrine of sanctification. So what is sanctification? It's a progressive work of God in our life. Okay, it's the progressive work of God in our life. What is the work? What is the progressive work? So progressive work, so what is God's work in our life? Is there any work to be done because Christ has already made the full sufficient sacrifice for our sins? He has, you know, and we are declared not guilty, we are declared forgiven. We are seen just as if we have never sinned. Everything is completed. There's no more, you know, work of salvation that needs to be done. It's all completed by Jesus. Then what is this progressive work? According to my understanding, like we have a born-again spirit, but our flesh is not born-again. So we need to align our flesh according to the spirit by walking in the spirit and God's spirit working us to become just like Him. So it's a progressive work. Thank you. Yes, Silatoli. So when we are born-again, we are made new in our spirit man, but, you know, we live in the same body and our soul is the same. And of course, when we are born-again, the power of sin is rendered to be broken, has no control over our lives. But then, you know, we can tend to, you know, to give in to our carnal fleshly nature and Paul writes about this and says, you know, there's a war that's rages in us between the flesh and the spirit. And, you know, we can, our soul and our bodies can tend to incline to give in to our old sinful habits, sinful lustful passions. And hence, we, you know, we need to work out our salvation daily. And, you know, so, it's a continuous work compared to justification where it is, you know, a one-time thing that happens the moment we've accepted Jesus. But sanctification is something progressive. It happens throughout our lifetime. So, we see that sanctification requires both, you know, the work of God in our life and even our participation, okay? So, it's Christ's work in us, the work of the Holy Spirit in us, but also requires our participation. So, what is, how can we, you know, the two aspects we saw about sanctification, about our role in sanctification, about us being active and passive. So, what is a passive role? What is a passive role of sanctification? Because Jesus has finished the work for us in sanctification. We live out of that revelation. Okay. Thank you. We live out of that revelation. We also trust God for, and thank God for what He has done, what He has purchased for us, you know, and we pray and ask Him to sanctify us. So, it's, you know, it's a prayer that we offer daily, asking Him to sanctify us, okay? And also, what is the active role? Active role is how we work out our salvation in daily life. Yes. Thank you, John. So, here we take an active part in saying no to the deeds of the flesh putting to death the deeds of the flesh, like Paul writes in Romans chapter 8 verse 13, those choices we need to make, you know, that God is sovereign, but in His sovereignty He's given us, you know, free will to choose. So, we can choose whether we want to do what is right or whether we want to do what is wrong, you know. So, every minute or, you know, every hour we're making so many choices, whether we need to say that, we need to react in the same way, we need to think in the same way, you know, our attitudes, our actions, our reactions, our behavior, our choices that we make, that we need to watch something or not. So, there's constant choices that we make and we need to constantly put to death the deeds of the flesh, even if times when, you know, when we are, you know, we are hurt and we want to retaliate, but we need to make a choice that, you know, we don't give in to anger and hatred and bitterness, we don't let that fool in our hearts, we just, you know, let go, forgive the person, we don't do it for that, we don't take revenge. So, all of these things are choices that we make on a day-to-day basis and it is continually putting to death the deeds of the flesh and, you know, choosing to follow, you know, what God has asked us to live according to the spirit-filled nature, put on the spirit man that is put on the fruits of the spirit or let the fruit of the spirit be activated in our lives consciously, you know, loving people, you know, being kind, gentle, patient, you know, exercising self-control. So, these are the things that will, you know, we can bear this fruit only when we allow the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives to extend that we are sanctified to that extent that we can, you know, bear the fruit of the spirit or the fruit of the spirit will be seen in our lives will just be manifested. So, we don't have to work on basically, you know, you know, manifesting the fruits, it will just be automatic once we are abiding in the vine, once we have a constant communion and fellowship with Jesus Christ and we allow, we're sanctifying ourselves every day, we're consecrating the members of our body every day. To that extent, we are being sanctified, made holy and, you know, we will bear the fruits of the spirit, okay? So, it's putting to death the deeds of the flesh Romans 8.13 and also we need to renew our minds daily, be transformed by the renewing of our minds because the battle is in our minds and, you know, the word of God says that we have the mind of Christ and we can, you know, pray and ask God for the mind of Christ but we need to also work in the area of our mental faculties, you know, the word of God says whatever is true, whatever is right, noble, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy, think about such things, okay? So, God cannot think for us, we need to think of all of these things, so we need to choose if this thought is right or wrong. If it's wrong, we just throw it out and we dwell on what is right, whatever is true, whatever is noble, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy, we dwell on such kind of thoughts. So, it's constantly at choices that we make even in the area of our mind. So, we're being renewed in our minds and that is also something that requires our active participation. So, it's not just praying and say, okay, God, I just consecrate this whole day, I consecrate my whole life, my mind, my spirit, my body, do as you will and please, you know, we can pray that but when it comes to actually being in a position where we need to make the choice, we need to ask the Holy Spirit, you know, what choice do I need to make? But times when we know what is the right choice we need to make, you know, we need to, you know, choose that irrespective of how we feel, putting away our emotions, our anger, our bitterness, our, you know, our thoughts that are going against what God wants us to do and choose to do what is right in the eyes of God and honor him and that's when the sanctification process, we are helping the Holy Spirit and also working along with him in the sanctification process, okay? We looked at the three stages of sanctification. We saw that sanctification has a definite beginning. It happens the moment that we are born again. It also happens throughout our lifetime. I don't know if you read 2 Corinthians chapter 3 was 18 and Philippians chapter 3 was 13 and 14. So can one of you please read 2 Corinthians chapter 3 was 18 please and someone else can read Philippians chapter 3 was 13 and 14. 2 Corinthians 3. But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror of the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as by the spirit of the Lord. Thank you. So here we see that, you know, why is sanctification the process of sanctification happening throughout our life? It's because we're being transformed into the same image of Christ from glory to glory. You know, God created us to manifest his glory here on earth and that was smart because of sin. And so here is the process that is, you know, transforming us into his image into his likeness being like Christ in our attitude. We are being changed into his image from glory to glory and that is why it happens throughout our life. And it also says a sanctification increases throughout our life. So it does not automatically increase, but it depends upon us to the extent that we are loving the Holy Spirit is that extent will be increasing and we will just be moving from glory to glory. Philippians chapter 3 was 13 and 14. Can one of you read that please? Philippians chapter 3 versus 13 and 14. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do for getting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead, 14. I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me, heavenward in Christ Jesus. Thank you. So, you know, Paul is talking about his experience here and he's saying that, you know, he's just forgetting about everything that has happened in the past. But, you know, he's moving towards reaching towards the things that are ahead of him that Christ has, you know, has purposed for him. And, you know, he's looking forward to the goal that he has and not looking behind. So even as, you know, we might all of us have a past, you know, but as we are born again, new creation in Christ Jesus, Satan will always keep reminding us of our past, which will make us feel guilty, shameful, sinful. But we need to, you know, let go of our past and look ahead. And that's why Paul says, you know, running with perseverance, the race that is marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author, perfecter and the finisher of our race. So you can't run your race, you know, when you look back because it will cut your speed, but you need to be focused on your goal. So the goal of our existence is not only just to fulfill the purpose of God, but in the process of fulfilling God's purpose, you know, we are here to manifest his glory and we can manifest his glory in a greater way, in a good way, in the way that will make God known is when we are, our lives show forth Christ's likeness in the way that we live, in the way that we talk, in the way that we move. So that is what Paul is saying, you know, that but be more like Christ. And that's why he says, he writes, he says, imitate me as I imitate Christ. And that has been his goal to be like Christ. Okay. And that can happen to the only when the work of sanctification, the work of the Holy Spirit is active in our lives. And it can be only active when we are willing to consecrate every area, you know, hand over our weaknesses, our frailties, our areas of temptation, and just work along with God to honor him in everything that we do. Okay. So sanctification increases throughout our life. Colossians chapter 3 says, 3 verse 10 says, and have put on the new man who is renewed. Okay. So it says, who is renewed? So it is in the knowledge according according to the image of him who created him. Okay. So it says, we put on the new man who is renewed. Okay. So the new man is being renewed. Once people think that we've, you know, received salvation, you know, it's a great thing because we have a place in heaven. We're going there and we can live as we want. And so sad to see many Christians who say they are born again, but their lives not reflect, you know, Christ's likeness or they are no way different from, you know, a common worldly person, a person who is an unbeliever. So here it says that our new man needs to be renewed. Renewed is not, is something made new. It's a process that happens. It's being made new every moment, every minute, every hour, every day. So we need to be renewed in our inner man. Okay. And the third step of sanctification is that sanctification is completed when the Lord returns or when we go to be with the Lord. So there are three, two references there. Philippians chapter three. Can one of you please read Philippians chapter three verse 20 and 21 and first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 23 and 49 please. Philippians chapter three verses 20 and 21, but our citizenship in heaven and we eagerly await a Savior from there the Lord Jesus Christ, 21, who by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like glorious bodies. Thank you. So we have this hope that our lowly bodies will be transformed into glorious bodies. That is a future eschatological hope that we have. But here Paul says that our citizenship is in heaven. So we are not a permanent earthly citizens. Our citizenship is in heaven. Once we've accepted Jesus Christ, we're citizens of heaven. And hence we need to live here on earth, like citizens of heaven. And we can only do that, you know, when we allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives and sanctify us and make us holy. First Corinthians 15, 23 and 49. First Corinthians chapter 15 verse 23 and 49. But each one in his own order cries the first fruits, afterward those who are cries at his coming. Verse 49. And as we have borne the image of man of dust, we shall also bear the image of heavenly man. Thank you. So we see that, you know, just like Christ, you know, when he rose up from the dead, you know, he had a glorified body. It was not a body with weaknesses, frailties. We looked at it in the Christology class on Monday. But it's new glorified bodies. And we also have that hope that we who are having bodies that are corruptible will be raised in corruptible bodies that are perishable will be raised in perishable bodies that are weak will be raised in glory. Okay, so that is a hope that we have. And because Christ who is the first fruit of those who have resurrected from the dead. Okay. And so also, you know, when we those of us who believe in Christ, you know, when we rise again, we will be risen in this new glorious spiritual bodies. And that's no, there's no need for the work of sanctification. The sanctification work is completed. Because when the Lord returns, we will be with him. We will go to be with him in our glorified bodies in our spiritual bodies and no longer in our natural bodies. Okay. So we see that the process of sanctification is the Lord begins to work. But it also has man's role. Okay. So this was what we looked at on Friday in our class, just going, I was going, just thought I'll do a recap of it, because we didn't have time to read a couple of scripture passages. So I thought I'll just, you know, do a recap and also get us to see those scripture passages. Today, we'll be looking at the doctrine of Christ and the Holy Spirit. The doctrine of Christ is something that, you know, we'll be looking at, okay, when we're studying the doctrine of Christ, what will we be basically studying about? When we're studying the doctrine of Christ, what do you think we'll be studying about? Ma'am, about Jesus Christ, his nature of working is characteristics. You said his nature of working and his characteristics. Okay. Anyone else has any idea about what we'll be studying with the doctrine of Christ? We'll be basically studying about the person of Jesus Christ. So when we're studying about the person of Jesus Christ, you know, we're basically looking at him as a person, how he was fully God and fully man, or how deity and humanity co-existed in perfect unity in the person of Jesus Christ. Okay. So we have already studied about this. So maybe you all have to teach or maybe you all have to, you know, share the points, because we've studied quite in depth about this in Christology when we studied about the deity of Christ in the pre-incarnation, incarnation, the virginal conception of Christ. We looked at the humanity of Christ. So we spent quite, I think, two months almost looking at, you know, how Jesus was fully God and how he's fully man. Okay. So I think all of you need to share now on the humanity of Christ and the deity of Christ. Is that fine? Yeah. Because we've already studied about it. You had your first assessment on the first three or four chapters. So are you ready to share your inputs on the humanity of Christ, what we learned in the incarnation of Christ, the virginal conception? We studied also about how he was fully God and fully man in Christology, right? The same thing that we will be looking at here in Doctoral Foundations. So yes, I'll open this time up to all of you to share what you have been learning about the incarnation of Christ, how Christ was fully God and fully man and how he co-existed in one person, Jesus Christ. No one wants to share? Well, we've been studying quite in depth about this. So quite a lot of repetition that we've been seeing. Can I share something? Sure, Isaac. Okay. We learned that Christ was the Word and he was with God before even he came to earth as human. He was God and he was with God, that is he existed before time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Isaac. Anyone else? Yes, go ahead, Rebecca. Pastor, we discussed about Christ being the Logos and when I was doing a research on the Word Logos in one of the Bible dictionaries, I really found out that the Word Logos is like an expressed idea of God in a human being. I realized that Christ, as our Savior, he was a person who came on earth through a virgin birth, that is in his humanity, but he existed before the universe started because he is in the deadless past and is in the deadless future. He has always been here and he will be here even after we are gone because even in Hebrews 13, 8, it says Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today and forever. So he is our Savior. He was sinless. He was here and he was born through a virgin birth and he died for sins on the cross and he also resurrected to go and be a mediator on our part and he is sitting on the right hand of the Father. That's what I can say, Pastor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lou Bega. Anyone else would like to share what we learned in Christology? Christology, we had looked at the previous existence of Christ. We looked at this role in creation. We understood the creation. We looked at the humanity of Christ, the virginal conception. So you'll remember anything about Christ, how he was fully God and fully man. We looked at the deity of Christ and we saw that we looked at John chapter 1 verses 1 to 4. The beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. He was in the beginning with God and all things were made through him without him. Nothing was made that has been made in him was life and the life was the light of men. So we saw that this Word is the logos and that refers to Jesus Christ who existed not only before he came into this world but he was before all time. He was not just in the beginning but also in the beginning and before the beginning. Hence he was, you know, there was never a time when he was not. There will never be a time when he will cease to exist. He was with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. We also saw that Jesus is God because he has the same essence. So he possessed the essence which means he had the, you know, the substance of all that make God God. So hence he is God himself and in him was life. So the Greek word we spoke about there was about the Zooey life which means the God kind of life which is God is self-existent, self-sustaining, you know, and eternal. He has eternal life and we see the same life in Jesus Christ and he has the Zooey life. He is not just having the Zooey life or the life of God but he is his life himself. That's what he says in John chapter 14 verse 6. Jesus declares that I am the way, the truth and the life. Okay. So we looked at also the nature and the attributes of Jesus. We saw that, you know, he was having the very nature of God. The word nature or being is the word form of God, substance. He had the divine qualities, the divine substance, all that makes God God. We also saw that Jesus declaring that, you know, in John chapter 8 verse 58 he says before Abraham was I am. Okay. So he uses that word I am and we know that I am was the word that was, you know, God, the Old Testament, God the Father ascribed to himself. We also saw the meaning of the word I am and we also looked at, you know, we saw the humanity of Jesus Christ as well. Anyone remembers about what we learned about the humanity of Jesus Christ or his incarnation? Okay. Somebody had their hand up. No. Okay. What did we learn about the incarnation of Jesus Christ? We remember we learned the seven steps in the incarnation. Anyone remembers which chapter at least in the Bible or which book and which chapter in the Bible we looked at the seven steps of incarnation? Philippians chapter 2. Thank you, John. Yes, it's Philippians chapter 2. Sorry, Zillutoli. Yes, go ahead, please. Christ was in the form of God and his soul type was equal with God. Like he met himself of no reputation. The three things I remember. Very good. Thank you both of you. Yes, we looked at seven steps of incarnation. Philippians chapter 2 was 6 and 8. We saw that Christ was in the form of God. He was equal with God. He did not consider it to be robbery to be equal with God. He made himself of no reputation. He took upon himself the form of a bond servant. He came in the likeness of man and he also found, he was found in the appearance as man. So we saw that he had the form of God. He was equal with God. We saw that even though Jesus was co-equal with God, he gave up his right to be honored, to be worshiped as God. He did not hold on to that glorious estate and that privilege. He made himself of no reputation. We saw that he refrained from exercising or expressing of his divine attributes that was his omnipotence, omniscience and that he was omnipresence, his omnipresence. He did not give up but he refrained, willingly refrained from exercising these divine attributes and he laid aside his position of being equal with God and we also learned that he took upon the glory of the sonship glory. So he had no glory that was he had held on fire to him becoming a human being that was the glory of God. He gave up that glory. He had took on himself the sonship glory but we see that after he rose again and he ascended back to the Father, he was restored back to his former glory of what he had even before the his incarnation or even before the creation of this of the world. Then we see that he took on the form of a born servant. He left his place of equality with the Father and took on the state of a servant that means humbling himself, willing to do the will of the Father, willing to do what his Father wanted him to do and we see Jesus continually saying in the Gospels that he came to do the will of the Father. We read this in John chapter 5 verse 30 and we see that he came in the likeness of men. He was like us. He limited himself to human frailties or weaknesses and he was found as the appearance as man. We looked at all of this in Christology. We looked at his humanity as well. In your notes here we are going to look at the virgin birth, two points, the virgin birth of Christ and human weaknesses and limitations. Of course, this is a very concise notes here. It's because we've already studied about this in detail in Christology. All of the points are not being mentioned here. Like you all to think about what we had learned in Christology, maybe you can go back and refer to those notes but it's important for us to know about how deity and humanity co-existed in perfect unity and perfect oneness in the person of Jesus Christ. Here in your notes in Doctrine of Foundations we look at the humanity of Christ, two points. One is this virgin birth and the second thing is human weaknesses and limitations. Can one of you please read Matthew chapter one verse 18 verse 20 and 24 to 25 that is Matthew chapter one verses 18 verse 20 and verses 24 to 25. Matthew chapter one verses 20 but after I was 18. Can you please read 18 first then 20 and then 24 to 25 please. Okay ma'am. Thank you. Chapter one verses 18. This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about his mother. Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph but before they came together she was found to be with the child through the Holy Spirit. 20 but after he had considered this an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife because what is conceived in her womb is from Holy Spirit. 21 she will give birth to a son and you are to give him name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins. 24 when Joseph woke up he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. 25 yes please. But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son and he gave and he gave him the name Jesus. Thank you. So in these verses that were read you know we need to note these important phrases or statements you know Mary was to Joseph but before they came together before they were united as husband and wife before they came together Mary was found with child by the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. So the first phrase we need to send is before they came together second one is of the Holy Spirit we read that in Matthew chapter one was 18 and then we read in Matthew chapter one was 20 for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit so this is what the angel is telling Joseph what is conceived in Mary is by the Holy Spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit and we read in verse 24 and 25 that even though Joseph took Mary as his wife but he did not know her until she had born a son and they called his name Jesus. Okay so the doctrinal importance of the virgin birth we've learned a lot about the virginal conception but we look at three important points here in the doctrinal importance of virgin birth three areas if first of all we see that salvation is not the work of man man cannot do anything to save himself cannot pay the penalty for his sins there's no way he can pay the debt for sin or do anything to take away the punishment for sin so salvation is not the work of man but it's also not can no way be any human effort but it is completely the work of God it is his doing his complete work his complete act and we see that God brought it about by his own power and it's not by any human effort not by any human will or you know human beings having to do anything hand in it as well so it's a reminder that salvation can never come through human effort but it is purely the work of God himself so the virgin birth shows us or proves this to us the second thing is that because of the virgin birth you know a full humanity and full deity could coexist in the person of Jesus Christ and the third thing is that the virgin birth made it possible that that even though Christ was born through a woman but not in you know through human union of a man and a woman and hence he inherited no sin all of us you know are sinful from the time that we are conceived in our mother's womb with the time we are born is because of the union that is there between a man and a woman but here we see there was no union and hence Christ had inherited no sin but all of us have inherited sin of our fathers of our forefathers right up to Adam and since Jesus did not descend you know from the lineage of Adam in the way that we or the way that rest of the human mankind came into being he inherited no sin okay though he the genealogy yes you know Joseph first in the line was you know in the line of Adam but we see that because they did not have any union there was no sin that was inherited that Jesus did not inherit any sin and hence he was fully human but fully sinless as well so it was through the miraculous work and the power of the Holy Spirit that prevented him you know being sinless even though he was born just like any other I mean he went through the whole nine month period of being in the in the mother's womb and being born as a baby but you know the the part because he was conceived by the part of the Holy Spirit it prevented the transmission of sin from Mary to the Lord Jesus okay and so here we see that the virginal conception brought shows us that you know salvation is the work of God and it was also possible that full humanity and full deity could coexist in the person of Jesus Christ and also it made possible that Christ though he was fully human he did not inherit sin okay the second thing is that he had human weaknesses and limitations we see that Jesus was you know full term in the mother's womb nine months he was born he's born as a baby he grew up he was a child he grew into adult world and we read in the gospels instances which talk about his birth is being a baby and being a child and also numerous you know narratives that we read about his adult would we also see that Jesus became you know you know he had human frailties weaknesses he was tired he was hungry he was thirsty we read about him being tired at in John chapter four was 40 John chapter four was six you know when he came to Jacobs well just before he met the Samaritan woman it says that Jesus therefore being weary from his journey or you know Jesus sat at Jacobs well as he was very tired from his journey we also read in the gospels that Jesus was hungry Mark chapter 11 we see that you know the next day as they were leaving to Bethany Jesus and his disciples Jesus was hungry and he saw a fig tree with leaf on it if I'm a distance and when he went near it he found no food and we know what happened he was the fig tree we read about him being hungry even in Matthew chapter four what do we read about in Matthew chapter four what is the narrative in Matthew chapter four the temptation of Jesus thank you Sinatholi temptation of Jesus yes Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights and it says that he was hungry we also see that he died he died on the cross he ceased his human body ceased to have life and it ceased to function we read about this in Matthew chapter 27 was 50 it says again Jesus cried out loudly and then he died okay and we also know that Jesus rose again from the dead in a physical human body but we know that though he had a physical human body it was a body not subject to weaknesses and frailties and sicknesses and pain but it was one that was perfect and no longer subject to weaknesses disease or death Luke chapter 24 was 39 or we look at it in the next class but remember I spoke about this on Monday that even though Jesus had was resurrected in a physical human body but his resurrection was different from that of Lazarus or Jerius whom he had resurrected from the Jerius's daughter whom he had resurrected from the dead but they slipped in the same bodies that were weak and frail and they died again but Jesus is the first fruit so those who has risen from the dead in terms of you know I did not have that natural human body but now he had a glorified spiritual body we did bear the marks and the scars of the wounds that he paid for us on the cross and I also said it does not mean that when we are given that glorified bodies when we will rise up from the dead we will bear no marks or scars just like Jesus did but Jesus chose to have that on his body okay so we look at it further on Friday we'll stop now anyone has any questions any doubts okay if there are no questions no doubts so if you have any we can answer them on class and on Friday thank you all for joining class have a good day ahead and I'll see you on Friday thank you