 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to New York and hope you had a great weekend. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer. One of us can please lead the prayer. Charles, Kennedy, anyone? Okay, let's pray. David and Father, we thank you so much for a new day. We thank you so much for a new morning prayer. So a new week. Lord, this is our day two for most of us who are near the east. Lord, we thank you that we are set to study. And Lord, I pray that you will connect the three of us. You, us, and our teacher, that will be able to learn, for we are going to purposefully give our lives, our time, and our intentions to study your word from the book of Corinthians. Lord, I pray that you will give our lecturer the right words. That is the vocabulary that will be able to learn it and that even the gadgets, the computers, the phones will be charged and the internet connection will also be available. That all in all will be able to get what your purpose is to learn so that we shall establish our kingdom on earth. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Charles. Alright, so last class, we looked at something very important from 1 Corinthians, we read chapter five and then we also started chapter six. Now, chapter five was a hard chapter, right? Paul is, you know, writing to the church and the leaders and saying, look, there's a person in the church who's living a sexually immoral life, but as leaders in the church, you are tolerating it, right? And then he goes on to say, expel that immoral person out of the church. Why? So that there would be reconciliation, right? And in a way that he's taken out of, you know, we looked at that verse where he says, hand him over to Satan. And so we looked at what that really means. It means Paul is not saying, you know, let him just die and go to hell or condemning the person that he's condemning the act of sexual immorality. And he's saying, take him out of the church, out of the covering, the spiritual protection of the church leaders and the church. Yet Paul says so that he will come to his senses and he will change and his soul will be saved, right? So he also says why to expel that immoral brother, right? Because we looked at that, right? One person who is living in continual sin and without a heart of repentance, that person can affect the entire church. So the apostle Paul is looking at the bigger picture. He's saying, okay, the church is more important. And so I have to protect the church rather than, you know, let this man or woman continue in that sin and we are not seeing any change in that person. So it is a hard chapter. Yet we also saw that, you know, the apostle Paul was the one who spoke mostly about the grace of God, right? It looks like he is very stern here. But we know that apostle Paul was a gracious man. He talked about the grace of God, but the grace of God is not to be used loosely. And so he says to the church leaders, expel him out so that the church is not affected. And then finally the person must be saved and the Lord will work in his life in a different way. And then we looked at chapter six. Chapter six, he goes to the third problem. What is the third problem? Believers within the church, they have misunderstandings and fighting with each other, right? Now, we must understand that we all are people with different temperaments, different lifestyles, different cultures. When we come together, we have, we are people, right? We are different. But here, what's happening is, you know, we will have misunderstandings between us, right? I'm sure as believers, we all have misunderstandings with other believers, right? But in the church in Corinth, when these misunderstandings are happening and quarrels between believers, they are taking it to the court. And so Paul is sternly, you know, talking to the church and he's saying, isn't there anyone, any leader in the church who's able to handle your problems? Why is it that you're taking your misunderstandings and your problems to the court? And then we also look at why Paul was so serious about what he said. See, you're going to stand in front of the court, the Bema seat, the judgment seat, which is in the open place. And it is a place where people come because, you know, two individuals are quarrelling or fighting with each other. And it's an entertainment, right? And everyone are looking, everyone are watching, maybe people are mocking and criticizing. So the apostle Paul is saying, because of this, the testimony of the believers, the testimony of the church is being affected. So in chapter six, he's listing out why these, you know, these misunderstandings must be, you know, resolved within the church and not to be taken out into the court, right? So let me just project the notes, right? So we stopped at verse 15 and we'll begin from there, right? Verse 14 is where we stop. So verse 15, okay. So do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not. So Paul is, now he's moving in from the lawsuit. He's gone into sexual immorality, right? So from verse 12, he talks about sexual immorality. And so he says, do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Now you see how Paul is again dealing with this problem. See in verse five, he talked about the sexually immoral brother. He says, get him out of the church because this is what it is. And then he's talking about sexual immorality and he's informing the church. Why is it wrong, right? Because remember for the Corinthians, it was a natural thing, right? It was common to be married and to, you know, have a prostitute as well. So it was common. It was not a big, you know, right now it's a big deal. But during those days, it wasn't a big deal. So now Paul is trying to, you know, encourage and exhort the believers to understand why this sexual immorality is wrong, right? And he says, the word members, your bodies are members of Christ. So the Greek word is may loss, which means meaning a limb or a part of the body. The word harlot is for me, meaning prostitute. So Paul is saying, can I, as a child of God, I am the temple of God. Can I involve myself with a prostitute? No, because if I do, then I am emotionally joined with that person and I become sexually immoral, right? And so you and I must see our bodies as holy because of what Christ did for us, right? Because of Christ's work on the cross and our bodies are for Christ and Christ for our body, right? It goes on verse 16 and 17. Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her for the two he says shall become one flesh, but he who is joined to the Lord is in one spirit with him, right? So in some way or the other, there is a joining together of two people in any sexual relationship, right? Now this joining together can be, will be a spiritual, emotional and moral in nature, right? So when a married couple are sexually involved, it's under God's, you know, blessings. It's under God's jurisdiction. But when a man or a woman involved in sexual immorality outside of the marriage, this is serious because you're partaking in something which is not involved with the body of Christ, right? And what happens? They are under the judgment of God. So Paul is saying if you involve them that not only is your body and your emotion, your nature destroyed, but more than that, you are under God's judgment. God is serious about this, right? Now, maybe some of us or, you know, as Christians, we may not be involved in sexual immorality, right? Or, you know, in prostitution or anything else. But the Lord Jesus, he says this. When a man or a woman looks at the other person in a lustful way, they've already committed sin in their heart. So the Old Testament had certain guidelines that weren't involved in it. But the Lord Jesus, he raised the standard and he said, it's not only about the act, but it's also about thinking and looking at it. You have already committed immorality. Verse 17, he says, but he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit, one spirit with him, right? So think of these ramifications of being spiritually one with the Lord, right? We are in him and he is in us. Our spiritual identity is in him and his life is in us, right? One John 4.17 says, as he is so are we in this world. As he is so are we in this world. So remember your identity. We are in him, he is in us and his life is in us. So the Apostle Paul is trying to say, if his life is in us, how can we take this life that he has given us, the members of the body of Christ and use it for sexual immorality. It cannot be done. He says, it's like saying, Jesus, I don't want you in my life, but I'd rather choose the things of the flesh. It's a willful sin. And so the Lord says Paul is saying, you come under God's judgment, right? God's grace is there, but there's also God's judgment. In verse 18 he says, free sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does outside of the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. I like the word flee, the Greek word there, fugo. But what does it say, flee is to escape, to vanish, to fly away, right? To flee. Which also says that, right? Remember, he says, resist the devil and he will flee from it. Flee means to run away in haste, right? Escape quickly. So if you'll picture this, right? If there's a thief and he sees the police coming. He's not going to linger around there. He's not going to say, okay, let them come. I still have some time. He's going to flee from that scene right away. And Paul is saying, flee from all sexual immorality. When we have the slightest inclination or temptation, which could be of sexual sin, run away. Don't stop, think, ponder, but first run, then think. And that is what Joseph did, right? Remember Joseph? He just ran away. He did not want to defile his body because he knew that he belonged to God. He knew he had to keep himself holy because he's God's child. And this must be the stance that you and I also must take, right? It could be something very small. It could be, you know, watching something on the phone or, you know, even, you know, there are times when, as friends, you may be talking and people may be talking things that are not pleasing in God's eyes. Just flee from them, just move away, step away from it. It may look weird and they may ask you, why did you go? But what you're doing is you're saying, you know, I'm going to protect myself from things of the enemy, right? And sex outside of marriage, it might appear exciting, but it's enslaving, it's destructing, it's troubling, right? And over the course of many years, I have met with many people who had all they had, all they need as a family. Beautiful children, right? Wonderful home, good parents, good schools the children are going to. Children are very good in their studies. Everything looks right, but there's this problem. And there are times marriages have broken, families have broken, and so serious that we must turn away from it. Verse 19 and 20, how do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God and you are not your own? For you are born through the prize, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods. I'm sure all of us know these words, right? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? Now, for the Jews, the temple is a holy place. The Jews, they know the temple of God, in their mind would be the outer court, the inner court, the most holy place, the place of offering, the place in the most holy place where God himself, the presence of God himself is there. And what about the Gentiles, maybe the local Corinthians who are living there? For them, the temple also, for them, they must have taught a place of worship, right? It may not have been holy, but it's a place of worship. So Paul is trying to get all of them to understand by saying that where you as a person inside you, you are a temple of the Holy Spirit, right? So you're not your own. The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. God is dwelling inside us. And if God is dwelling inside us, how can we define and desecrate or dirty God's hand? We can't do that, right? So you see how wonderfully the Apostle Paul is painting a picture for the believers in the church of God, right? He's saying, you are a temple. The Holy Spirit is in you. So how can you involve in that? So he's telling them, we're no longer our own. We've been purchased by God and we cannot give ourselves away to any other. So how can we overcome sexual sin? Maybe some of us may say, I'm not overcome by it. I'm not familiar with sexual sin. It doesn't matter to praise God for that. But if there are some of us who are still struggling with this, here are some truths on how we can overcome sexual sin. And here it's all here in these verses, right? In verse chapter 6 verse 11, he says, I've been washed, sanctified and justified. That is made righteous in Jesus' name by the Spirit of God. So we tell ourselves, hey, I'm washed. I'm made holy. I'm sanctified by the Spirit of God. So I cannot fall into this. I live by what pleases God and not my popular opinion. What was the popular opinion in Scotland? It's all right to involve in prostitution. But here all are saying, we live by what pleases God. People may do it. People may be involved in it, but you do what is right and God's right. And we tell ourselves that my body is not for sexual sin, but my body is the Lord's and the Lord is for my body. So we as believers can consecrate our body to God. And we can say, I am spiritually one with Jesus. He is in me. I am in Him. Now, this is powerful. Imagine, we are spiritually one with Jesus. Jesus is in me. I am in Jesus. Remember what Jesus said to the disciples? I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So basically Jesus is saying, if I'm one with Jesus, Jesus is living inside me. So I don't live out of my own, just like how Jesus did not live out of his own. He said, I always do what my Father reveals and asks me to do. Same way, we always do what the Lord Jesus through the Holy Spirit wants us to do. Then we run away, we flee from sexual sin. We say, God, my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and I'm not going to fall into this trap. My body is not my spirit, soul and body has been brought by the blood of Jesus. And when the more we declare all of these, the more we will be able to overcome these temptations. So I want to encourage you, each one of you, if it's not only sexual and morality, it could be different kinds of temptations. All of these are declarations that we can make. I'm sure none of us can say we've not been tempted. But here's an encouraging part. The Holy Spirit inside us helps us to overcome the temptations of the flesh. Our flesh is weak. We are weak as human beings. The Holy Spirit Jesus inside us will enable us to overcome all of this. So Paul is writing all of this. You see here, he's talking out of grace. You don't see condemnation here. He's talking out of grace. He's saying, remember who you are. It's more of a plea. It's more of a request and exhortation. And he's telling the church, this is who you are. This is your identity. So walk with this identity. He's giving them these practical tips on how they can overcome sexual, the morality and sins of the flesh. So with that, we conclude with chapter 6. In chapter 7, Paul addresses questions that were already sent to him. Regarding, again, he's talking about sexual fulfillment within the marriage, singleness in this whole chapter. He talks about what it is to be married. What it is for two believers to be married. What it is when one person is a believer and the other person is an unbeliever in a marriage and what it is to be single. And no matter what we are, whether we are married, whether we are single, whether we are widowed, whether we are divorced, whatever it is, our primary objective is to serve God with focus. So in this chapter, I'm going to briefly summarize, and you'll be learning more on all of this in marriage and family and you have learned it already. So we'll briefly look at a couple of verses, the important verses. We'll talk about that and we'll see if we can move on quickly as well. So he starts off with the importance of sex within the marriage. So he's talking about sexual relationship. He says, verse two, he says, nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman have a whole husband. So to put it in a shorter, succinct way, policing in order to avoid sexual immorality, get married. He's telling the believers to avoid all of this. You get married, bam! He goes on later to say, just because you're married, that's not me. The enemy is going to say, OK, you're married, so I'm not going to bring temptations now. This does not mean that sex is the only reason to get married as well. So we know that marriage is an institution. It's for affection. To render and to give him or her what is needed in the marriage. It's not just to give. Just because I don't want to live a sexually immoral life, let me get married. That's the wrong intention. We need to get married with the intention that God is designed in firstly that marriage is good. And three, it is to love, to cherish, to show affection. And so it's not just that one reason, right? If you look at the times that we are living in now, we see marriage as a means of just getting... I know of this couple many, many years back and they wanted to get married because one of them was traveling to another nation or another country. And for the visa, they wanted to get married and then they decided to get married and after going to the other country, they would just part ways. And maybe there are plenty of other reasons why people get married. May not be for love. Maybe it's property issues. Maybe it's for just to be known that you're married just for the protection. And sometimes just for companionship. Just because I want to know some, just want to be with that person. There's no love, there's no affection. And these are wrong intentions of getting married. And then he goes on verse six. He says, do not deprive one another except with consent for a time. So what does it mean as husband and wife? They need to together as husband and wife, they must live in oneness with unity, with love, showing affection, care to one another. But there will be times Paul is saying, don't deprive one another, but there will be times you will have to take a step back in the sense you may abstain from physical intimacy. Why? Because maybe talking about it, maybe because of fasting and prayer, maybe you decided to care for 40 days of fasting and prayer. So you can abstain from physical intimacy from that time and during that period. Now it's not dishonoring in the eyes of God. We must see it as a way that you are saying, God, I'm dedicating this time for you. But after that time, it was very important as married people to be intimate with one another. Now this topic may be quite intimidating or some of us may feel it's not comfortable, but it's true. The reason we talk about this is because many, many, many times, maybe some of us are youth here, eventually you will get married. And there are many times you've spoken to people, they've got married and they have lost the concept of marriage. That's why in APC what we do is, when a couple wants to get married, they have six months of training, any picture, then six months. They need to let us know in six months' trial that they want to get married and then there's a pre-marital course. Maybe talk about these things. India as a nation, when you think about sex and all of these things, it's very cliche. People don't want to talk about it. But here Paul is openly talking about it. He's not one married. And through the wisdom of God he's writing in, he's saying it's married people, this is what's right for God. So remember marriage is good. Sexual relationships within marriage is good with the eyes of God. It's not wrong. Because sometimes people say, think that hey I'm defiling my body, no you're not. It's not. If you're within the design of marriage, it is pleasing in God's eyes. So these are important things. There are many times, there are couples who come up to us. These are the problems we are facing. We don't feel affection for one another. We don't speak to each other. There are couples who have said, we don't want to talk to each other. It's just there together. Just because we got married, we are there together. And the father is busy looking after the work and providing for the house. The wife is busy looking after the children and making sure the things are there in the house. And there's an emptiness. That's not what God is designing marriage for. It's a marriage for joy and happiness, fulfillment, care, affection. So Paul is writing that to the believers here. Now he goes on from verse 7, he says about the gift of singleness. Now we know that Apostle Paul himself was not married. So let's see what he says about this. Some of them think, being single is the best thing we can do. We can serve God. No problem of all these husband or wife and children and looking after them, sending them to school and going through all these difficulties. Just be single, be happy, do God's work. God will be pleased. Sounds good, but let's see what Apostle Paul says. For I wish that all men were even as myself, but each one has his own gift from God. One in this manner and another in that. But I say to you, to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I have. But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Very clearly the Apostle Paul is saying. I wish that everyone were like me. He's saying it's a gift given by God to certain people. It's not something given to everyone. It's a gift. Now when we say gift is the Greek word charisma, which means the gift of grace. See Paul is, he wishes, he's saying, I wish all of them were single and could do the work of the ministry and spend all their effort and time in the ministry. But why is he saying this? Because in ancient Jewish tradition, it was considered a sin for a man to be unmarried. Now he was not carrying, saying that right, he was not carrying out the intent of God to be fruitful and to multiply. So Paul is definitely breaking away from tradition here. And the reason as explained is so that the personal single can focus fully on the Lord. Now I want to be careful if some of us really feel that God has called me to be single all my life. Good. If God has called you for that, if you feel that you have the gift to stay single and do God's work for the rest of your life, it's a wonderful gift that God has given us. But verse nine is very, very important. If they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. Now there's no point in saying, you know, I want to do ministry focus fully on the Lord so I don't get married, have children. But while you're living this single life, being consumed with passion, being consumed with this feeling of want to be with a man or a woman or the person with the opposite sex. So here are some examples of misapplications, meaning how we must not interpret this verse. We must not use this text to condone sexual sins and uncleanness. So I cannot say, I cannot exercise self-control and burning with sexual desires. I'm not married. Therefore I can indulge. Now there's a word for that that's called formication. I can't say, okay, I'm not married. I'm not accountable to anybody. I'm not involved with... I'm not one with another person yet. So I can do whatever I want. That's wrong. Paul doesn't do that. He's saying, be single to focus on the Lord, but this is not the excuse that we can use. Second is how we must not interpret the scripture. A person who is in bondage to sexual sin should not think of getting married so that they will get away from this, or they can come away from these bondages just by getting married. Marriage is not a solution for sexual immorality or sexual desires. Marriage is not the solution. So for example, if somebody is living a sinful life, maybe a single person always living a sinful life and there's some kind of guilt, the person cannot say, okay, let me get married so I will avoid all these sexual sins. Because even after getting married, that can continue on. But what the person must do is, must say, God, forgive me for my sins, change me, make me a new person, help me to overcome these temptations, and then look at marriage. Because this is very serious. We cannot look at marriage as a solution to avoid our sexual problems and desires. It's not a solution. We need to straighten ourselves up. We need to ask God for repentance. Make sure that we know our identity, that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is in us and we are in Him. And then we can go ahead. Because what we're doing is, we're just going to have a failed marriage. We're going to put the other person in shame and probably even destroy the other person's life. So singleness is a gift from God. Yet we must be assured that even if we are trying to live a single life, that our focus must be the Lord and we don't make these excuses while we live a single life. So any questions in this, it's important that we understand this. Any questions? Anybody has any questions? Okay, no questions. All right. So let's continue. Sorry. Is there a question? Sorry, I didn't check mine. Oh, okay. Sorry, I didn't see those questions. How do I preach these to polygams, family or consent? Okay. Kennedy, I do understand that the government of Africa has a lot of these questions that are coming and now one of the things that we can do is just straight preach from this, these two verses five, six, seven, we can talk about these. Maybe you can just like what we've been discussing, we can talk to them and tell them, see this is what God has designed marriage for. So you'll talk to them about marriage first. What is a marriage? What is God's design for marriage? And then you can talk to them about sexual morality. So it will take time, but you need to go in detail. So firstly, if it's a married couple, you talk to them about the God's design for marriage. You go back to the Old Testament. You show them from the scripture that God is pleased with marriage. There's nothing wrong. And you talk to them about how sex within the marriage is all right and how all that we've been talking about, if we go away from that or we defile this whole sanctity of marriage, this three-fold chord, if we break it, it is going to defile us. It's going to cause us to fall at the eyes of God. Maybe Kennedy will speak to people who have already committed that. Now remember that God's hand is long enough to bring restoration. Yes, he or she may have to go through the consequences of their wrong decisions, but God is a God who's heart is in restoring people. So you can always tell them, hey, it looks like your actions have consequences, but you can always go back and ask God for forgiveness. God is willing to forgive you and also ask forgiveness to your partner and see if there can be a reconciliation done. You can openly tell them that having two husbands or two wives of polygamy is completely out of God's design because God himself said, a man and a woman together in marriage. It is God's design. So we can't take God's design and alter it to meet our own needs. So Kennedy, this is a sensitive topic, but it's a powerful topic and it's an important topic. So you can just boldly bring out the truths of what is marriage and what is God's design for marriage. You probably can continue to read these verses, chapter 5, chapter 6, chapter 7. Also Paul is talking later on in the book of Timothy. Also he briefly shares the importance of marriage and all of that. So you can just bring it out in the right way without condemning them. They may be already living in a polygamous relationship, but you speak to them without condemnation, but you bring out the truth of God's work. So the next question is, what is your take when one weaponizes sex in a marriage? Okay, yes, that is completely wrong. We cannot use it as a weapon. So for those who just want to make this question as a context, Paul writes about it later on as well. We can't say, you know what, only if you work or for example a husband telling a wife, only if you work and earn money and provide for the home as well, we can be intimate with each other. Or only if you do this or only if you provide so much or putting what you call conditions, using it as a weapon is completely wrong in marriage. It is two people coming together in union in agreement with one another. So if any of the individuals are using it as a weapon, they need to stand connected. They need to stand connected. The scriptures teach us that it is a union of two individuals in unity, in affection, care and love for one another. So Kennedy, this using weaponizing it, is wrong in the eyes of God. And it has to be brought forth. And it needs to be shared with the person. I hope it answers your question. Okay, let's just go back. So now Paul is talking about verse 10 onwards. He's talking about those who are staying in the marriage. Verse 10 he says, now to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord. A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. So when we look at Old Testament scriptures, we know that divorce is not God's design. And Malachi writes, I hate divorce. But during the time of Moses, God permitted divorce. Now these commands are both for man and woman, husband and wife. Remember, God permitted. He did not command it. He did not agree and say it is good. No, God said marriage is good. But here, in the time of Moses, he permitted it. Why? Because people were, you know, during the time, during the time when the people of Israel came out of Egypt, they were living in immorality, sexual immorality. The husband was probably, you know, involved with another woman. And here the woman, the wife is, what should I do? No, there's no, there's nothing that this person is doing. My husband is not changing. He's just continuing to do the same thing as, so what should I do? Right. And so Moses says to the people, if it is something that is section immorality, if it is something that is involved with sexual immorality, a husband can divorce a wife, a wife can divorce a husband. Now, this is not God's design. Right. Because it says that, you know, in Matthew 19, he's quoting, Jesus is quoting and he's saying, for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. So this is the original intent of marriage. From the beginning, the two shall become one flesh. But because of the hardness of heart of the people of Israel, they said, no, I will do things my way. This man or woman has to deal with the way I am. This is how I am. I cannot change. I can't get along with that person. I found somebody who can make me happy if she wants to be with me or if he wants to be with me, but I need to move on. Now, in these kinds of situations, God is saying, it's okay. I permitted that marriage to end in a divorce, but God's desire is that that marriage be restored. Remember, God permitted it, divorce is permitted, but it's a violation and abandonment of a marriage covenant. Right. Marriage is a covenant, you know, as pastors we get to go to these wedding ceremonies and we are there, solemnizing these weddings. It's a marriage covenant. It's such a beautiful time when two people commit to each other to spend the rest of their life with each other. There's a saying, right, in sickness and health, in trials and difficulties and challenges and the good times and the bad times to be together. That's what marriage is. Paul is saying, you know, I permitted only on these grounds. Right. Now, here it's interesting, Paul is saying, I am not the Lord. So, he's saying, okay, this is not under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but this is what I'm saying now. It's out of the wisdom and understanding of what God is and his nature. So, I'm writing from my own mind, from my own heart. You see, the humility and the responsibility in which Paul is communicating, he's making it clear that it's a recommendation and it's not from the Holy Spirit himself, right? Yet, it is, you know, the Holy Spirit in his great wisdom has a lot of these scriptures to be here, right? Even in situations where the spouse is not a believer, the goal is to keep the battles together and seeing the life of the other spouse, of the believer, the other, you know, the spouse can accept Jesus. They become believers and this has happened many, many times, right? Where, you know, husband and wife, maybe the husband or the wife, one of them is an unbeliever. But just because of the life of, the seeing the life of the believer, the spouse changes there. They give their life to Christ. Now, this is again very important, right? Just because this is a possibility. Now, I should not say, okay, I like this boy or I like this girl, but he or she is an unbeliever, so I'll get married and then I live this life. I live like Jesus of me and not get angry. I will, you know, I will go to church and really do everything. And then when this person, the spouse sees my life, they will accept God. Now, this is wrong, right? You know, it does not mean that the other person automatically receives salvation. No. We know that the Bible teaches us that we are not to be unequally yoked with one another, right? So we must be careful. We can't say that, okay, I'm a busy work, but I like this person, even though he or she is an unbeliever, I'll get married and my life will speak. What is happening? Initially itself, we are breaking the covenant and the design of God. Okay, let's take a break. Ten minutes will come back and continue from here.