 Thank you, everyone, to our second lecture today. We see two on two Christian apologetics. We started talking about the third reason for suffering. We're talking about satanic oppression, though things are the devil does. And we were just looking at the Old Testament incident of Joe and what happened there. That it was Satan who did everything to Joe. But there was also a problem from Job's side, which was he had great fear, great dread, that these very kinds of these same things would happen to him. So the question is, one question came up during the break time, did God allow Satan to do this? And says, yeah. But why did he allow it? Well, the same reason you and I here on the earth, the devil is, God has allowed the devil to be around. There are demons around. So has God allowed the devil to be around? Has he allowed the demons to be around? Yeah. But he's given us something, the shield of faith. He's given us weapons to use. In Job's case, Job could have also had faith in God. But he didn't have the Bible that we have. So we have a big advantage. We have the Bible, we can read, we understand things now. We are in a much better place of revelation than Job. But faith today, faith in God works the same way all the time, meaning in Bible times or now, same way. It has the same effect. Faith is our shield. But if you don't have faith and you have fear, fear is an open door to the devil. Faith is a shield against the devil. Unless the door is closed, fear is the opposite. The door is open. There's no shield, there's no defense. That was what was happening in Job's case. But anyway, we know in Job's case everything worked out, meaning at the end of that time of trouble, Job turned to God. God taught Job how to forgive his friends, how to pray for his friends. And God turned everything around for Job. So God did good things, even though the devil did bad things. He turned everything around. In Paul's case, now we come into the New Testament, 2 Corinthians 12, verse 1 to 10. And we will just look at a part of that scripture, 2 Corinthians 12. And I think it's important for us to understand this, that because many people use Paul and Paul was, again, an apostle of Jesus, a devout follower of Jesus. And yet he had what he refers to as a thorn in the flesh. But what was this thorn in the flesh? What was it actually? So 2 Corinthians 12, Paul says, unless I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me. Lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly, I will rather boast in my infirmities or weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities and reproaches and needs in persecutions and distresses. For Christ's sake, for when I'm weak, then I am strong. Now, what is this thorn in the flesh? So some people read this passage, see, Paul had a thorn in the flesh. What was it? Then they will cross reference other place. In Galatians, he said, I have written this letter with big letters so maybe he had eye problem. Another place they say, he said, I know you Galatians, you would have gladly given your hand for me. Oh, maybe one of his hand was problem. But he's just using phrases. Like we say pain in the neck. Or we say, you would have done this for me. I'll die for you. Not really going to die. This is expression of saying something that, you know, you mean so much to me kind of thing. So people take those things and say, okay, maybe Paul had an eye problem. He had a hand problem or some sickness or something. But actually, right here in verse seven, he says what his problem was. He says, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh. What was it? A messenger of Satan. A messenger, the word messenger is the Greek word, angelos, which is a neutral word. It means angel. So when we say that word angel, angelos, angel, angelos is a Greek word. It can mean God's angel. Angelos is also used for demons, that means devil's angels. Angelos is also used for preachers of the gospel. Messengers of the gospel. It's a neutral word. Depends on the context. Whether it's Satan's angel, God's angel, or a messenger, a preacher, angelos, a bringer of news. It's a neutral word. So he has an angelos of Satan. Clearly he said, okay. So that thorn in the flesh is a phrase. It's also found in the Old Testament where it says the Old Testament, I figure the exact reference, but in the Old Testament, the phrase thorn in the flesh is used. And it's talking about the tribes, the enemies of Israel will be a thorn in your flesh. Your enemies will be a thorn in the flesh. He's talking about, in that case, in the Old Testament, he's referring to people. These people will be a thorn in your flesh. So it's not like some sickness in your body. In the Old Testament case, it's the enemies, people are going to be thorn in the flesh. Here, what was the thorn in the flesh? It was an angelic being of Satan. An angelos of Satan, a messenger of Satan. That was that angelic being was like a thorn in the flesh, causing trouble. What kind of trouble he mentions right here? Verse 10, it is coming with weakness, with the reproach, with needs, with persecutions, with distress. That means this angel is trying to attack Paul with everything he's got, trying to put sickness, trying to put reproach, shame, bring need, persecution, trouble, and all kinds of things. But what was the thorn in the flesh? It was actually a demonic being, an angelic being, trying to bring all this thing against Paul. Okay, so people have said so many things about this thorn in the flesh, but it is right there. Whether he had a problem or didn't have a problem, nobody knows. See, either way, we can't prove or disprove it. We don't know. Which one? Yeah, like from 2 Corinthians 12, 7, we cannot say he had a problem. That is only an assumption. Only assumptions. Or head problem, hand problem, what problem? None of these things, right? He says very clearly, it was a messenger of, say it, an angelic being, to do what? To buffet him, buffet means to keep on coming after him. Buffet means like the wave of the seed, the little picture there is like the wave of the seed keeps on coming, keeps on coming, keeps on coming. So this messenger of Satan kept on coming against Paul to hinder him in his work, in his ministry. That is what he is saying. And Paul realized, hey, the troubles I am facing, it is because there is a demonic angel coming against me again, again, again, trying to hurt, disturb, cause trouble, cause distress. And Paul writes all his troubles. So when he was shipwrecked, he was beaten. These were not things God was putting on him. There was a messenger of Satan coming against him over and over and over again, just doing all these things to prevent him from preaching the gospel. So about this demonic being, he prayed three times. God, take this fellow away. Why is this demonic being coming against me, troubling me? God, why can't you do something about it? It's like, how if you and I pray, God, take the devil away or take this demonic demon, demonic being that's causing this, take it away. God will give us the same answer. There's a time that's coming when Satan and his angels will be cast into a lake of fire. But until that time, they are going to be here on the earth. So what is God's response to you and me? My grace is enough for you. My grace is given to you. My power is given to you. What more you need? God is not going to take that messenger of Satan away. You and I also face messengers of Satan today. We can't pray, God, take this devil away. Send this devil to hell. No, my grace and my power is enough for you. That time will come. It's already written in Revelation. And Satan and his demons will be cast into the lake of fire. God, that time will come. But till then, we have to depend on his grace and on his power. Knowing that in the middle of our weaknesses, his strength is made perfect. That is when his strength shines through beautifully, when we feel weak. The other thing we must understand in verse 12, verse seven is, why did God allow this messenger of Satan? Why did he? So in this case, it is a very targeted attack. And as a, maybe this, we don't know what level. So we know that in Satan's kingdom, there are levels of demons. It could be that this was a very powerful demon, troubling Paul. We don't know. He just said messenger of Satan. We don't know what degree or what level. But why did God allow this? And why was this targeted? It says here, lest I should be exalted above measure, verse seven, by the abundance of the revelations. That means God had given Paul so much of revelation. He had been taken into the third heavens, you know, caught up into the heaven. He described it earlier in the beginning of chapter 12. He says, you know, I was caught up, verse two, 14 years ago, I was caught up into the third heaven. And I went into the paradise of God, verse four, and I heard things that I cannot, I'm not even allowed to speak. So can you imagine, Paul must have gone into the heaven. He must have gone to the throne room. He must have seen so much, heard so much. He said, I can't even tell you all these things. And he says, because God gave me such abundance of revelations, this messenger of Satan was troubling me. What would the messenger of Satan gone after? Saying, we don't want Paul to release the revelation he's given. Because Satan comes for the word. He comes for the truth, to try to stop it, right? We know from the parable of the soul. Satan comes quickly to steal the, why does he come? More word. He'll say, oh, I should go and take it out. It's coming. God had given abundance of revelations to Paul. This messenger of Satan wants to stop that revelation from going forth. But God is turning that around saying, Paul, just hang in there. It'll keep you humble. The enemy is coming to do evil. God is saying something good will happen in you, in this battle. It'll keep you humble. See? So that answers the question, why is God loving the devil today in the world? Why can't he just take the devil off? Because something good is coming in us. The devil is trying to do bad. Good things are being accomplished in us. We are being changed from glory to glory. We are being strengthened. We are being refined. If there was no devil, no battle, no battle, no strength. So devil is saying, I'm going to go after them. I'm going to destroy them. I'm going after what God is. They're only becoming stronger. So we are being prepared for greatness, for greater things through these battles and things that the devil has caused. So you see how things are working out, right? God has given abundance of revelations to Paul. This messenger of Satan is coming to try and stop that. But God is saying, Paul, my grace is there for you. My power is there for you to stay there. And one good thing is coming out. You will keep being humble. You will stay humble, keep going. And this messenger did not succeed because in his final episode, Paul writes, I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. I finished this messenger of Satan, did not stop Paul. I finished my course. Others here have said, hey, I still have something to finish that messenger stopped me. Now, you're writing to Timothy. I fought a good fight. I finished my course. I've kept the faith. Now I am ready to be offered up to God. That means this messenger of Satan did not succeed in stopping Paul from doing what God wanted him to do in his life. It was there, troubled him, but good things came. Paul was kept humble. He continued and he gave the revelation. Whatever we needed to hear, Paul wrote for us, right? Where did Paul get all this revelation? God showed it to him. He wrote it down for us. He finished his work. So we understand both these passages, Job and Paul as, look, there is a devil doing bad things. We acknowledge. Even believers will face bad things from the devil. Job did, Paul did, Paul did. We'll face the Bible tells us that, But God has given us what we need to stand. And even in every attack of the devil, God is working something good in us. He's working something good for us. We are being developed. We are being strengthened. Our faith is being encouraged. So that's what we must pursue. But it may be frustrating. It may be disturbing for us, of course. It's not easy. Like Paul, he also said, God, please take this thing away. And Paul prayed. And God didn't take it away. So I'm giving you the grace. I'm giving you the power. Keep going. So we will face this. We may feel the pressure of what's being done. But we keep moving forward. Yes, go ahead with the questions. As the believers, how unbelievers face the problems and how in their lives Satan will work and how they overcome the problems, how the work actually happened in non-believers' lives. They also face problems. They also overcome. So how all these works happens, how the problems will come to them and how it will get resolved. Because people will say, like, we are also facing problems. We also, because of our faith, we will also overcome them. Okay, interesting question. So the Bible is not telling us everything. But I'm trying to just think about what scriptures we can look at. One is the Bible says, first on 5, verse 18, the whole world was 18, I was 19. First on 5, verse 19, what did I say? First on 5, verse 19, the whole world is under the control of the devil. So first on 5, verse 19 says, the whole world is under the control, the influence of the devil. So we're talking about the non-believers. They are also affected by what the devil does. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 1 and 2, it says, the spirit of disobedience is at work in them. So it's moving them to do bad things and so on. Anyway, so they also face the consequences of sin, the temptations of the enemy. They can come in bondage to demonic power, so on. Now, there are general principles that everyone can benefit from. The general principle is, light removes darkness. Truth removes error. Good overcomes evil. These principles, just like gravity. Gravity is for everybody. You're a believer, non-believer. Gravity works for you. See, these principles apply. Good overcomes evil. That's a principle everyone can use. So, I'll just give you an example. Even non-believer faces some evil. Let's say he's being troubled by some people and he goes and does good to them. What is the principle that will work in their situation? Good overcomes evil. He doesn't have to be a believer to apply that principle because these are principles. We could say moral principles or spiritual principles that apply for everybody. So if that non-believer does good when evil is done to him, good will overcome evil. If the non-believer speaks truths when people are accusing him of evil, he will overcome because truth overcomes error, evil, untruth. Just as light overcomes darkness. There's a principle applies to everyone, right? So even non-believers, when they do these right things, they are going to get the benefit of these principles. It applies to everybody. On the other hand, believers, they go do wrong things and then they try to overcome evil with evil. It doesn't work because they're not applying the principle. The principle is overcome evil with good. So that do non-believer's face problems. Yeah, they will all face problems. Same principles apply for them. The only thing they cannot do is take the revelation of the Bible to fight against the devil because they don't have that. They don't. In that space, there is a disadvantage. What they may do is go to witchcraft. Some people, right? So that's where they turn to witchcraft. So when they turn to witchcraft to get free from evil powers or they turn to the occult to get free from evil powers or they turn to gods and goddesses to get free from evil powers. What are they doing actually? They're tapping into degrees of demonic powers. So there are higher degrees of demonic powers that can override what lower levels of demonic powers do. That's what Jesus said. If Satan casts of Satan, then his kingdom will fall. And that's exactly what's happening. Satan is self-destruct, destroying, right? So in this process of witchcraft and occult, it's act, there is a demonstration of demonic power but it's also very self-destructive. It is Satan destroying himself, but people tapped into that. So that's how they'll go to do these things, whether pilgrimages or sacrifices or occult or all these things. They're tapping into the levels of demonic power that can override, but eventually it'll be self-destruct. Yeah. I don't know anything. When we're seeing all this suffering in the context of this, can we see this wealth or rich? Maybe in the perspective of suffering, like some of the people will be in rich families, will burn in rich families, some of the people are in poor families. Can we, anyway, can we talk anyway in the perspective of suffering? Like we can overcome it, the poor. Yeah. So about rich wealth and poverty, what we can say is, we can say clearly that God blesses us with wealth. That's a blessing from God. You can, Deuteronomy 18, God gives you the power to get wealth and so many other scriptures. So wealth is a blessing from God. Poverty, as we can see from Deuteronomy 28, it's a part of the curse. So when we help somebody come out of poverty, we're actually blessing their lives. That's the work of God. When we help somebody come out of poverty. So God brings the poor out of there. So we are actually doing the work of God. We're actually helping them come into a place of blessing. And so we can expect God to work in people's lives to bring them out of poverty. But remember that wealth and poverty is no indicator of the level of faith because James said, you know that there are those who are poor in this world, but they are rich in faith. So we should not make that mistake. Oh, you have so much wealth because you're so great faith. No, it may be some other reasons, like you said, they were born into that family or something else, right? So we should not equate wealth or poverty to faith, no. Faith is something you have in God. We know that God can bless people with wealth or provision and all that. We know that God wants us to bring people out of poverty. So they have enough for their needs and for their living and live well. But we want God wants us to do that to take care of the poor and help them out. But don't make the mistake of equating faith with this wealth. Is there any reason for poverty, like how you said in Deuteronomy 28? It's because of course. But we are, I mean, we are not under the curse, right? Because of Jesus Christ. Then how come people are living in poverty? I mean, when we see this verse, it's because of course. But because of Jesus Christ, we are not in poverty out of the curse. So how come people are still... Believers, you're saying believers? Believers or non-believers. Okay, believers will take believers. How come they are still in poverty or the people who are about to come now, they are in poverty, burning in poverty? Like if we take these, these things are in the context. See, one is, let's say, people are, there are people who are living in different conditions, right? So people are born, they're automatically born into that immediate environment into which they are born. So it's not their fault, anything. They're born into that. But once they become believers, they can expect God to lift them out of that place. How God works, He'll work differently in different people's lives. But we need to help people saying, see, we have a practical responsibility also. That means God said, you go and work and you, you know, you do those things. Let's do the practical responsibilities. We have to do that. We have to earn belt, we have to do the right thing. But we can believe God to bring us out of that place. But that truth has to be given to the people, including believers. Sometimes believers are given the wrong information that poverty is a sign of spirituality. Stay like this. God wants you to be like this. That's wrong information. Actually, if you read the Bible, poverty is given under the curse, not under the blessing. Under the blessing, he said, I will bless your basket and your store. I'll bless you when you come and I'll bless you when you go out. You'll have more than enough. You will lend to others. You will not borrow. That is the blessing. So we have to teach people, hey, God can bring you out of this. He can put you in a good place. You believe God. You work, you do your part. Trust God and come out. And then generation after generation will become better and better. Yeah. Just like any other probation we have to. If somebody wants to stay like that, that is their choice. If somebody wants to stay like that, that is their choice. It's not like any other person can do something like that. Because I don't have any possibility. That's right. Now there is four families and they work as my parents. I don't have any sort of relation with them. So I'm just working with my mother. So after that, it doesn't mean when they're going to come to the decision, I'm going to come to the decision. Right. I'll become this. Because I know the Word of God. But if we see practically, maybe we can sit and discuss all these things. If it comes to the practicality things and all, it won't be happened, right? Why? That is a faith comes in. No, seriously. Seriously. God can do something unusual. I'm not saying how God works. He can work in so many ways. So you can imagine this person, he becomes a believer, he looks to God and then God sends somebody there to his life. They say, hey, I will provide free education. Then he goes to get educated. Then he gets a good job. And then he does, and there's so many stories we hear like this, no? God can give an idea. They do something. So so many things happen. And there's so many stories like this. I can tell you, like at APC, now this is about, how many? About 17 years ago, one young man, I mean, he just, young men sitting here just got married. This early stage in life. He came at that time, he was broke. Very sad state. Without a job, bro. He used to come and sit in church, the back. Sit in the last row, quietly listen and go. God started working. He got a job in a kind of like a very small, like small company. I knew all the people there who started that company. And the 17 years ago, I think to all four of them, you should visit APC. Two of them were commit to like part of APC and other two were in other churches. He started the work. Today, the company's become so big. Three of them are living, two of them are living overseas. Two of them are living overseas. Companies become very big, all of them are. Like your own houses, cars, this, that, everything. And literally I saw how God worked in their lives, lifted them up. So it's amazing story. And like there's so many, so many examples where people come and I was actually thinking about this the other day where how important education is because, and I again, I've seen other people, their immediate family is still living in the village. They are here in the city, having owning a home and a car and all of that. So they have really made that change, the transition. And some of them are believers have seen God do this in their lives. It's amazing that they have made that shift. So can God do it? Yeah, you can. Now, just to clarify, we're not differentiating people. We're not deciding on their faith or spirituality based on wealth and I think we should not do that. But we know that God can bring us out or bring people out of that place. How about you? Bless them. All right, Chaya has a question. When one suffers because of their humble and meek, even they're doing what is right in the eyes of God, then is this suffering from Satan? Well, not always. Sometimes it could be, sometimes it could be suffering from Satan, but like we're gonna see in the next point, it could be suffering caused by other people, by the wickedness of man itself, right? So we may walk in humility and kindness and goodness, but people can be evil to us. So there's the enemy that does bad things to us, but there are also people who are evil. So inherently people could be evil, wicked. So some suffering happens because people are being wicked to us. All right, so let's go on to the next point. Do you have a question, Prince? Yes, go ahead. Like we have seen about Job and Paul. And from Paul, like we have seen like enemy is after us, like he wants to attack us or he wants to oppress us, but like he is after us. And in Job case, we have seen that it's like we have, we've seen that it's because of his fears, it happened to him. But like, but in the Paul case, but it was not mentioned like he was, he had any fears. So in Job chapter one, it also gives us like the conversation happens between Jesus and Satan. So like, is it because of fears something happens or is it normally like, can we like, can we say in the Job case, like it's because of fears of Job, it was happened or can we also say like, it's because he was prospering. That's why David has attacked or did everything. So kind of understand the question. Can we say that the devil attacked Job because he was doing well? I mean, if you read chapter one, Job chapter one, God commends Job's devotion. He says, he tells the devil, and I haven't just seen myself in Job, you know, how he is, he's working with righteousness. But what actually prompted Satan to go after Job? Why didn't he go after Job's neighbor? Why didn't he go after some other person? Why did he go after Job? What prompted Satan to go after? I don't, I mean, it doesn't tell us necessarily what prompted that. Maybe, and we can only, I know, I would say I call this speculation that means you're only imagining, we don't know for sure. Maybe it was Job because of Job's devotion to God. Maybe because God brought it up and said, hey, look at one of my people, you know, there could have been many people like Job who loved God but God didn't say it instead, okay, let's test and see if this is really, is he serving you for nothing or is he serving you because you're blessing him with all these things. Let's really test it out. So maybe that led to, I mean, these are all just imagination, right? I'm not saying this is the exact way it happened. But this information you have in chapter one, but this was the kind of conversation that went on and then Satan went in trouble, Job. What really caused that, we don't know. But we know that Job had fear, which allowed these things to happen in his life, which kept an open door. Not because of being here, it happened, but it's kind of opened a door for a little job. Work in his life. Yes, go ahead. I think there is a word like, which is... Yeah, verse 10. I delight in my greatness. Yeah. Yes. There are times or there are some people who are literally like, applies it like, we actually don't know what Paul is telling about the weakness that he is mentioning. He tells about weakness, but there are some people like, they literally take the weaknesses of their flesh for the desires of the flesh and they use it in that context Oh, you're saying they apply this to weakness of the flesh. So if the weakness of flesh is drinking, okay, I will drink a lot of alcohol. I take pleasure in this. Yeah, something like with everything, if they are greedy or if they are angry, if they want to do some smoking or drinking all these weaknesses of the flesh, they used to tell like, his grace will be sufficient and people used to apply it and used to quote it. They are very smart. And also in the first year we have learned that like, this was specially for Paul's case because he was given with more revelation. Yes. So it was only but we can't take it and apply it to a... like God was giving me a ton of flesh and we can't tell it. Yeah. So that application that you just shared, right? Like somebody taking this second Corinthians 12, 10, and maybe this whole incident and saying, oh, therefore I will take pleasure in my weakness, my weakness is drinking, my weakness is this, this, all the wrong things because God is giving me more grace like that. That is a misapplication of Scripture, right? So what we should do all Scripture must be interpreted in the light of the rest of Scripture. We cannot take this one passage or one verse and... No. What does the rest of Scripture say? The rest of Scripture says, you must crucify the flesh. The rest of Scripture says, we must walk in holiness. The rest of Scripture says, there are things that God does not approve, right? So I can't take second Corinthians 12, 10, and say, oh, I will take pleasure in my weakness. And whatever your weakness is, no. There are some weaknesses that have to be crucified that have to be dealt with, you know. So we have to interpret Scripture with the rest of Scripture and then apply it in our lives. Okay. So let's try to just do one more, see a few more minutes and then... So the other reason why, which we were considered now, why there is suffering is it's due to other people's actions, including persecution, right? So Peter's episode, Peter wrote this episode, first and second Peter, he wrote this episode to the Jewish Christians who had been scattered outside of Jerusalem. They had been scattered all over that region, but they were believers. And a lot of what he writes in 1 Peter, really he's trying to encourage them and if you read throughout, he's trying to encourage them to be firm in their faith in spite of all the sufferings that they are enduring, right? So they had problems in their workplace. They had problems trying to get good jobs. They were suffering persecution by people they were working for, all kinds of things they were suffering. So they were Jewish Christians, but they had been scattered out of Jerusalem and he's encouraging them. And so if you look at 1 Peter, we can identify at least six situations where the believer is facing hardship. One is if you look at the context here, there is injustice in the workplace. That was unfairness. Second, they are being falsely accused for good conduct. They are suffering against sin. That is like in relation to what we just talked about, the suffering against sin. They are suffering as a Christian because they are Christians. They are being persecuted. They are being mocked at, laughed at. Sometimes they are suffering because of their own actions, meaning not doing bad, but they're doing good, but people don't like it. Why are you speaking the truth? Why are you doing good, but people are attacking their good actions and they are suffering due to the adversary, that is the devil. So in 1 Peter itself, you can see six different reasons why Christians are suffering in this world. Believers are suffering in this world. There is injustice, all's accusation against sin because you're a Christian, because you're doing good and because of the devil. All believers are facing hardships because of these reasons and three out of these six are because of other people's actions. The injustice, the false accusation, the suffering because of a Christian, actually maybe even four of these are suffering due to our own actions, but doing good, we are suffering wrongfully. So Peter, this is a good study. Peter, what do you do when you suffer wrongfully? That means you have not done anything wrong, but you're still suffering because other people are against you, whatever reason. In that situation, Peter says, you commit yourself to God who judges righteously. Don't fight, don't punch them in the face. You don't retaliate. You don't try to defend yourself. He says be like Jesus. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. He never opened his mouth. He said as an example that we should follow in his steps and you just commit your situation to the Lord and let God judge on your behalf. That's what he says. So the fact is we will be suffering for various situations, but we need to understand that we commit ourselves to God. But at the same time, from a practical standpoint, we must protect ourselves. That means don't, as far as possible, don't let people abuse you, misuse you. So don't stay in that situation and say, oh, I'm suffering from God. No, get out of that situation. Protect yourself. Jesus himself said, if they persecute you in Bangalore, go to Hyderabad. You didn't use the names of cities, but he said if they persecute you in one city, go to the other. That means you protect yourself. Don't sit down and say, oh, they're hitting me, hitting me. They're hitting you, you go there. Go to a place where you can be safe. Jesus himself said that. The point is there's nothing wrong if when you are being persecuted or you're being mistreated, you move to a place of safety. Take care of yourself as far as possible. There's nothing wrong with that, and that's being wise. It's not a sign of fear. It's not a sign of why don't suffer from Christ. No, just take care of yourself because you're more useful to God when you're alive than when you're dead on earth. When you're dead, you go to heaven. You can't serve God here on earth. So just take care of yourself and protect yourself. So we'll pause here. We'll have a few more to do. I thought we'll finish this chapter today, but we'll finish tomorrow. Not tomorrow, next week. Sorry, what am I saying? Next week, we'll finish it up next week. So next couple of weeks, actually next two weeks, I'll be doing my classes from home. I need to stay home because I have to take care of my dad. He needs to be there. So I'll do my classes from home. So I will be present in the spirit. Absent in the flesh. I'll be talking like this. You ask us, really. But we should finish soon. We have four lectures. So I think we should finish. We will definitely finish this chapter next week and then we have some social issues that just topics I've mentioned about those social issues. And they are set up in assignment for you to do. I'll cover it. Thank you, everyone. God bless. See you next week.